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        "content_text": "\nof the \n\nwhen pressed was formed \n\nto be in this subgiat of anting of Chomcials Boity, to save it. Jaim the bes \n\nla \n\nthe horns of wom \n\ntohria, the m \n\nGeneral \n\nGuest calls & wind, is \n\nsanta from the humble country tens of the sands oft, a arel is Taises of bison County \n\nconcral, to ¿téries mir \n\nFather In then of his own people : \n\nany way infringe \n\nnt on \n\nthis other \n\nLove \n\nwhat then means the ranson for restemption) & poten of \n\nto be commen hat within \n\nبسیج \n\n& quite \n\nas it shouts be \n\nthe station at Expensitive, there \n\nPrsians for the stabinal \n\nnual calls, the \n\nm \n\nA \n\nsupplies in the. Featuais a \n\nUpanaries, Lane all a fired appropriation \n\nた \n\nRegens \n\ncommerical interamer, le fears that in four suits; \n\nthe lotter will suffer de briment little be the profit of \n\nthis Honable Commitiz., \n\nThe two affians Chin and Chang. \n\nLove \n\nthe refly of thirt \n\n& peaks of the \n\n2. Costant returver to Hawking, bringing the Annalle. Plenipotentiary, in here in the fully \n\nEly & packs, suiseriesofian. the busting as an to ges of Prase bring constant thought; and of his sincere disue to subject of his constant thought \n\nof tione, selring, \n\nthe formount itablishment of Peace \n\nfor \n\n#1.. \n\nMy fir \n\nAn con the pervants \n\nGor \n\naus du lipats of the Enown transfore thene pute other chanse \n\nsmallest fraction tienes them in this ancouver to usat \n\nBall wither and with it these plan mime divising. \n\nof them now this is well kn \n\nthe Honalli Commaversinltist to e, in this \n\nopen his ; com side, not with hot the Ruclamation of the Bennabl \n\nt from Rocking sfoods of this redbry \n\npout \n\nSwetry, sout \n\nval of \n\nThe Menipotenti different, \n\nthe Empore to grant full por \n\nthat is \n\ncret and \n\nto \n\nfim this with one of his servants; be negotiate and that in the prin= \n\narrange affairs. Plus it \n\nit may \n\n:ciples of Celestial. Reason and human Feelings \n\nHive \n\nwith \n\nChina, differ not \n\ndress of pissanc \n\n✓ bend. \n\nand \n\nRecons as though \n\nthe Annalle Commanders is \n\nVerint languorges, as \n\nto gather \n\nby \n\nK \n\n& they \n\nmit has finden \n\nnt \n\ngrut \n\nthe \n\nFirmary \n\nt lo \n\nکی الاسم \n\nof the Innobletonaty for providing the prone \n\nact the ampliquent of the Sobotez, the Inverne \n\nGourval has \n\nhindelf fully, but \n\nthe Health Cen \n\nable to ans auses in this set. \n\nting might upon the brittany \n\n... \n\nto \n\nof expenditure, and \n\nHaurrable Plenipotentiary Laying wright on timmer: \n\nThe Imperial Commours have \n\nPom pozn \n\nwithout the hours of \n\nliven plamity. \n\nVately \n\nthere: offions Minisalves \n\nMing it to Thiging. High Commisarimer \n\ntrnal of Cailer and to diesen, selebze Meinerten \n\nSintimant Emeral. at Chafer to arrange \n\nouroly \n\nwill. Bure \n\nby \n\nfilings. \n\naffairs. \n\nunications in \n\nSpon this moment theses \n\nbe brought \n\nght with \n\ntual explanaten, and if only it \n\ndeath of with an \n\nر \n\nnight the linge \n\nLu Lu \n\nthis subject. \n\nto \n\nmy again, by \n\nanged, \n\no \n\n·22 r. ch \n\nBa. \n\nhand the fansites of reason to enabe, both ball be profites, and \n\nweither suffer mipiry. \n\nHow shall he bar Canter \n\ndbike ofther past two or three \n\nstrike \n\nperpotial peans \n\nhis cast aside, and a \n\nExxt \n\nSz \n\nt be establish. & for \n\n=",
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        "content_text": "Kauth \n\nFrames \n\nLoz monk k h \n\nPecivved by - \n\nPrivate George Mahon 31 40 40 0 \n\nJames Rumecly 21 |25|25|| 0 \n\nChines \n\nhoon \n\n\"Corbis R' Kus \n\nA cheang \n\nmang \n\n| 31 | 27 || 27 \n\nA \n\n3/12/20 \n\n/2/2 \n\nنه او سهار د است \n\nJames Remunedy X \n\n筧 \n\n動 \n\nERRE \n\n13/ \n\n/21/2 \n\n12 || 12 | 0 \n\nKale for \n\n呢 \n\nHaurr \n\nJan. quas bra Surveying working Jay from the 127 ful ly want R. Durham Forffin Palmer Private Farapen belous Cundapen \n\nNurser \n\n26 3/22 L \n\n26% \n\nAsthen Pappiah \n\n26. \n\n13 Fir \n\nst \n\nGR Dunham \n\nJpn. Palmer \n\n= \n\nCh \n\nCurpish X 996.44 \n\nMade \n\nKAG \n\nchachs \n\nPorthin Face Hong Kong wy \n\novernment \n\nReceived from the Duasurer to the Govern \n\nތތ \n\nof Hong Kong the sum of Two Hundred and Sixten Ruckus and six fice being the amount of Salary and tragi faid to persons auch long sol Surveying the Northern Face of the Poland. of \n\nthe mouth of July 1843 20 \n\nHong Kong being \n\nir accompanying Degnuttance Roll – to be paid to-lupt. Dettevelland Coward Aliver Major \n\nExchange 100$ per 225 Rupees. \n\n4. P \n\n216 15 6 = $96.44. \n\nHing \n\nހރ \n\nکھے \n\nComd 9 Ftp by pt. bug t \n\nWe hereby Perlify that the parties for whom pay has bun this playlist have been duly imployed for the perio \n\ndrawn in \n\nand for the service specified \n\n2 band Aliut h \n\nAsst. Lengt",
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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": "82\n\nBRITISH POSITION\n\nThose and other important places were lost sight of in our hasty, restricted, and ill-arranged proceedings.\n\nWe allowed our attention to be diverted from the rich and populous regions at the northern and central part of the empire, to the comparatively barren and valueless coast at its southern extremity. Even at the ports chosen for our maritime trade we took no precautions to secure freedom of access and right of trade and residence at and in the cities to which these ports were attached, and which it is understood the present plenipotentiary of Her Majesty is now strenuously and laudably endeavouring to accomplish. where we are still confined to a few feet of occupation on the left bank This is manifest as regards Canton, of the river, outside the suburbs of the city; daily insulted, and with life and property exposed to continued risk. We are prohibited sending a boat for pleasure or for traffic to Futchan, a thriving manufacturing town about twenty miles above Canton, or to Chang-king-foo and Shaou-choo-foo on the same river, as it is said nearly as large and wealthy as Canton, although goods must pass Whampoa*, which is equally the anchorage of those cities as well as of Canton. The same may be said of the city of Chang-choo-foo, a few miles above Amoy, of which city Amoy is but the outlet; so also of Suchoo, of which Shanghai is only the port. It would be absurd of the French or any other nation to say they were admitted to freedom of trade with England, if we restricted them to an anchorage at Gravesend, on the banks of the Thames, and a few feet of ground for a residence at Rotherhithe or Wapping for London, at Pill for Bristol, at Birkenhead for Liverpool, at Cove for Cork, or at Greenock for Glasgow.\n\n* Even a bazaar, constructed for the supply of provisions to the large fleet of English ships usually lying at Whampoa, has been prohibited by the authorities.\n\nOf the four selected ports, three, Amoy, Foo-choo, and Ningpo, have scarcely any foreign trade, and do not appear likely to have any of great importance, unless we had perfect freedom of internal intercourse, and could also trade between the above-named ports and Formosa,—an island rich in tropical productions, and with which an extensive traffic is carried on from the main land in sugar, oil, timber, camphor, &c.\n\nThe province of Fokien, like that of Canton, is very barren and comparatively poor: our object should have been the formation of establishments at the far richer and more civilized cities bordering on the delta of the Yang-tze-kiang, and other rivers to the northward.\n\nSo long as we are confined to the coast and denied access to the great rivers and cities in the interior, our trade will be stunted or subject to considerable fluctuations; but when enabled to traverse the great veins and arteries of this vast empire, to navigate with steam to the central and civilized cities which cover the land, we may look forward to an augmenting and steady trade, and to an intimate friendly intercourse fraught with mutual advantages to China and to Britain.\n\nIn obtaining a reduction of the duties on commerce, and a diminution of unequal port charges, we omitted to procure an exemption from goods paying duties a second time, when found unsaleable at one port and transshipped to another; and also that vessels not \"breaking bulk,\" i.e., not discharging any part of their cargo, should be exempt from port dues. These rights have since been gained by the Americans, and we shall derive similar advantages, but we should have obtained the establishment of \"bonded warehouses;\" and as the port dues are still heavy, we should have required that a lighthouse be placed at the entrance of each port, for their safe navigation. As regards lights, buoys, and moorings, no expense whatever has been incurred by the Chinese Government. The tonnage duties on a ship anchoring at Whampoa, about twelve miles from Canton, is about 3s. per ton; at the port of Liverpool the anchorage is only ninepence. There is a heavy outlay incurred by ships being kept at Whampoa, instead of proceeding direct to Canton, which is equally as accessible as the port of Calcutta; in the cost of loading and unloading; in the tedious transfer of goods to and from Canton; and in the charges for provisions at Whampoa being enhanced by the \"comprador\" system, from which the mandarins derive a considerable revenue.\n\nFurther, the levy of one mace (about 5d.) per ton on British coasting and legally licensed vessels, every time they enter the port of Canton, is a heavy tax on craft which pass from Hong Kong to Canton, three or four times in the month. Before the supplementary treaty of 8th October, 1843, the number of schooners, sloops, and lorchas plying between Canton and the places in the vicinity, was upwards of seventy; by article xvii. of the supplementary treaty, all these vessels, up to 150 tons burthen, are subjected to a port duty at Canton of one mace per ton \"every time they enter the port.”\n\nNone of these vessels are allowed to be rated (however small) at less than seventy-five tons; thus the mere tonnage duty on the smallest cargo boat would, at 5d. per ton, and entering the port of Canton four times every month, be equivalent to a tax of 75l. a-year\n\nIt is not surprising that there are but a few lorchas plying between Hong Kong and Canton. Moreover, these small vessels are obliged, “on passing the Bogue forts in the Canton river, to report like a large inward bound vessel,\" again to report herself at the custom-house at Whampoa; on arriving at Canton, her sailing letter (register) to be deposited with the British Consul, who will obtain permission from the superintendent of customs to discharge and load; \"whether with full or half lading, even to an hundred weight of cargo,\" the smallest boat must pay at the rate of 5d. (one mace) per ton on seventy-five tons. This enactment, and clauses thirteen and fourteen of the supplemental treaty, restricting all communication between Hong Kong and the coast of China to the five ports; requiring that \"whenever the Chinese wish to take goods to Hong Kong for sale, they must first pay the duties according to the new regulations at the five ports, and obtain permits from the respective custom-houses;\" that \"the Chinese must ask a passport for coming and going, and the duties are to be paid on the day the goods are imported;\" that \"the Chinese having purchased goods, must ship them and bring them home in Chinese vessels, which must request passports at Hong Kong, and exhibit the same to the Chinese officers on each arrival and departure, to be examined and countersigned;\" that the custom-houses at the five ports shall monthly make out a report of the passes granted, with the names of the vessels and merchants, and\n\n83",
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        "content_text": "90\n\nBRITISH POSITION AND PROSPECTS IN CHINA. China, which will compensate for our loss of the United States and of Hindoostan.\n\nChina in a remarkable degree seems destined by Divine Providence to be the next great arena for the development of British civilization*. The vast extent of territory favoured by every variety of climate, and yielding almost every vegetable and mineral product; the great length of sea coast with numerous excellent harbours; the large rivers flowing far and deep into the central land; abundance of coal and iron for steam navigation and transit: canals for traffic in all directions; a population numbering, it is said, one-third of the inhabitants of the earth†—industrious, peaceful, skilled in husbandry and various branches\n\n*\n\nThe third report of the \"Society for diffusing useful knowledge in China,” held at Canton, 20th November, 1837, contains a review of the existing literature of the Chinese, and an enumeration of the \"catalogue of works contained in the imperial library at Pekin.\" It concludes with these remarks :-\n\nA\n\n\"From this cursory review which we have taken of Chinese literature, we are enabled to perceive what is the range of existing knowledge in this country. philosophy, which, leaving alone all speculations concerning the origin and future state of man, confines itself wholly to the relations between man and man in this life, occupies one fourth portion. A history and a geography, almost exclusively national, occupy another fourth portion; while the existence of other nations, and the practical lessons to be learned from the rest of mankind, are almost wholly forgotten. With the exception of agriculture and weaving, the useful arts of life find hardly any place in Chinese literature. Mechanic and chemical sciences are scarcely thought of. Medicine we know to consist, for the most part, of mere quackery. Astronomical and mathematical sciences are chiefly derived from Europeans, and the knowledge of them is confined to a very few persons; while the vagaries of astrology and divination find a place not only in their literature, but also in the arrangements of government. Natural history is regarded only as an adjunct to medical science, if the practice of medicine among the Chinese can be dignified with the name of science. Seeing that so many are the defects of Chinese literature, it becomes our imperative duty to exert our utmost energies to supply their lack of knowledge.\"\n\nAs regards their philosophy, the committee observe-\n\n\"Several of the classical works, which form the foundation of this first department of Chinese literature, have already, by means of translations, been placed within the reach of the European public. From these we are enabled to perceive to how low an elevation in philosophy the most esteemed sages of China have attained.\"\n\nIn the geography of even their own country they are almost as deficient as they are of that of foreign countries. A map of the province of Fokien, which I saw at the viceroy's residence at Foochoo, would have disgraced the New Zealanders, or any other barbarous nation. It had no bearings—no divisional lines—no proportions; and that part which we know, the Min river, was entirely incorrect. Yet this map was kept a secret; and our Consul at Foochoo could only procure a copy, by paying a Chinese largely for copying it by stealth. In astronomy, music, surgery, medicine, chemistry, military and naval science, fine arts, &c., they are utterly deficient.\n\n† EXTENT\n\nGeographical Position.\nProvinces.\nProvincial Capital.\nArea in square Miles.\nLat. N.\nLong. E.\nin Ring and Mow.\nMouths Arable area Mile. square\nNumber of on each Mouths.\n\nChih-le\nPeking\n\n39° 54′ 13′′\n117 07 30\n\n58,949\n\nShan-se\nTae-yuen.foo\n\n37 53 30\n112 30 30\n\n55,268\n\nKeang-800\nNanking\n\n32 04 13\n118 44 24\n\n65,104\n\nGan-hwny\nGan-king-foo\n\n27 46 0\n115 48 17\n\n27,990,871\n\nKeang-se\nNan-chang-foo\n\n28,958,764\n\nFo-keen\nFuh-choo-foo\n\n14,004,210\n\nChế keang\nHang-choo-foo\n\n23,087,171\n\nHoo-pih\nWoo-chang-foo\n\n37,843,501\n\nHoo-nan\nChang-sha-foo\n\nShen-se\nSe-gan-foo\n\n1,925,658\n\nKwang-tung\nKwang-choo-foo\n\n23 08 92\n113 03 30\n\n1,939,941\n\nKan-suh\nLan-choo-foo\n\n3,396,165\n\nSze-choeu\nChing-too foo\n\n30 40 0\n104 04 0\n\n120,720\n\nKwang se\nKwei-lin-foo\n\n25 18 30\n110 13 50\n\n70,661\n\nKwei-choo\nKwei-yang-foo\n\n26 35 0\n106 36 10\n\n3,930,513\n\nYun-nan\nYun-nan.foo\n\n25 06 0\n102 51 40\n\n2,730,736\n\nTotal fixed Revenue of each Province.\nLand Taxes and Duties.\nSalt.\nSundry.\nin the Provincial MoneyTaels.\nIn kind.\nTreasury.\nSend to the Emperor.\nRemains\n\nChih-le\n657,091-87\n153,272\n\n1,925,658\n\nShan-se\n970,054-7\n437,949\n\n1,939,941\n\nKeang-800\n1,334,457\n1,925,658\n\n3,396,165\n\nGan-hwny\n\n120,720\n\nKeang-se\n329,586′21\n2,990,675\n507,828\n3,580,647\n\nFo-keen\n689,884-45\n3,116,826\n82,944\n2,702,285\n\nChế keang\n722,820-36\n3,164,758\n\n44,950\n\nHoo-pih\n3,420,940\n2,441,110\n142,817\n6,475,690\n\nHoo-nan\n2.564,728\n92,961\n774\n34,168,059\n328,020-93\n1,174,110\n\nShen-se\n\n1,174,110\n\n776,173\n72,176\n\nKwang-tung\n30,426,999\n421\n479,207-62\n1,878,682\n\n5,150\n38,593\n\nKan-suh\n2,719,488\n1,602,431\n53,480\n39,150\n\n144,770\n14,777,410\n\nSze-choeu\n26,256,784\n37,370,098\n\nKwang se\n18,652,507\n276\n128,270-87\n1,074,490\n85,470\n42,630\n1,202,590\n\nKwei-choo\n\n1,055,109\n671\n459,787-70\n\n2,914,946\n501,034\n49,087\n\nYun-nan\n15,193,135\n177,831.3\n\n280,652\n39,450\n60,787\n\n380,889\n\n1,082,644\n72,274\n\n10,207,256\n252,371-3\n\n1,658,700\n\n697,028\n40,623\n\n2,206,351\n\n306,336\n\n265,498\n154,008\n\n367,632,907\n287\n78\n25,681-76\n181,268\n6,234\n24,431\n\n131,938\n52,346\n\n13,314\n\n7,054,692-29\n30,364,023\n3,843,930\n\n1,005,092\n\n35,018,051\n\n22,022,451\n3,289,015\n\n5,569,329\n\nHong Kong, June 1845.\n\nR. 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        "content_text": "13.\n\n1\n\nPage 12\n\n750 Dollars. When I get it from Afoo I shall do so. During the time I had the management of the market, I paid to Lo. Con teen about off 200 dollars of his share of the profits on account money.\n\nSo Con teen asked me for more, not having told him that I had not received any from Afoo, and referred him to Afoo, he said he looked to me for payment.\n\n(Signed) Bring. Char.\n\nSworn, taken and acknowledged before me\n\n(Signed) Chas: Motley Campbell.\n\nIsov. Acan, Sworn states: - I, Treasury Compradore, I never lent any money to Aqui, but Spard for a share in the market - Spard different times, $300 and again $450. I have a Receipt for the amount - from Aqui. I have it not with me now; it is at home.\n\nExhibit B, purporting to be an acknowledgement for $750 for a share in the market, and given in lieu of the share in the British market, and a lease of the best for 15 months: this acknowledgement is signed by Liqui.\n\nI still receive the rent under the last mentioned agreement of the fish market. On the 28th June last, Wei. Afoo assigned to Sewing. Chang the Central market in trust for the payment of the Crown Rents, - to secure the Queen's Rents of 9 shops, Read to Ing. Wing. Se, to pay to Wei. Afoo the sum of one hundred Dollars monthly, to pay to So Kiving Chang interest upon $2400 at 1 percent per month, and to myself interest upon $4,000 at the same rate.",
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        "content_text": "rate, to pay \nto pay all necessary contingencies \nand disbursements, and \nlastly to \napply the surplus to pay the principal \nsums of $2,400, and $1,000, advanced \nby myself and So Sing-chang. The Memorial was drawn up by Mr. Farrant - I paid nothing to Mr. Gutzlaff for the document. – I \n& for the fish market, \nfrom the fishermen themselves. I think \nthat Le-keen-teen has still a share \nin the market. He had \none when \nI had one- \nIt was not an empty \nshare (\"份). He paid for it $750 \nto Atai. I have not heard that \nthe specific \nsum is paid to any \nGovernment Servant or \nServants or Compradores. \n(Signed) 3400-Avan [in Chinese] \nSworn, taken and acknowledged before \n(Signed) Chas: Molloy Campbell. \n\n(ii) \"Empty \nshare means an \nhonorary share. \n\n242 \n\nWilliam Farrant, Sworn, states: \nThe letter \nis in \nmy own handwriting, dated \nJuly, \nfrom Afoon in January last that \nChinese Servants of Government were in the habit of extorting money from their Countrymen under false pretences. He came \nto my \nhouse \nabout nine o'clock in the morning \nof January last. \nThis was \nabout the time that Atai \napplied to Register an assignment from Aque to himself. Afoon then \nstated to me, that he had Reasons \nto believe that this \nwas a \nfraudulent \nassignment, and that the signature of Aqui was forged; \nfor \nI was thinking \nthat I had evidence to prove \nthat Aqui \nwas not out of the house at the time the assignment \nwas \nexecuted, and",
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        "content_text": "the \n\ncharacters signifying an agreement ! \n\nlittle below the portion, and two more over \n\n\"agreement\", \"one impression \n\nnames \n\nof the parties to the document. The \n\na \n\nremaining \n\nseal \n\ncovers the \n\nnames \n\nof the witnesses. \n\nI M. 5 corresponding impressions appear \n\nbut the portion above-mentioned is wanting. \n\n(Signed) \n\nC. B. Hillier \n\nThe parties to this bill of transfer Wei-foo, Chun-shing, and Hoi-tseok having need \n\nof \n\nmoney, to defray necessary expenses, of their free-will transfer the shares of the Central market to Foong-che, who has been induced to advance \n\nThe Market seal having the device \"Wing-tai \" and which has been under the charge of Wei-foo, shall after this transfer be \n\nhanded over, together with the shares, to the \n\ncharge and management of Foong-che, with whose gains though they be great, Chun-shing \n\nand Hoi-tseok, and Wei-foo shall have no concern, nor shall they employ the seal to borrow money at interest on their private account and so forth. On the other hand, Chun-shing and the others shall not be answerable either for what was borrowed from Foo-tai and Toong-tai, or for the \n\nother \n\nsundry \n\ndebts, all which shall revert to \n\nFoong-che. Wishing to have proof of this, they \n\nmake a clear bill of transfer \n\nin one \n\ncopy and \n\ndeliver it to Foong-che to receive, hold, and preserve. \n\n(M6) \n\nas proof. \n\nFoong-ping leang saw the payment of the money Wei-loo-poaw, a cognizant witness. \n\nCheang-kund-treang. D \n\n9th \n\nTaonkwang, 3rd year, 9th month, 24th day. \n\nThe parties to the bill of transfer. \n\nWei-foo: Chun-shing \n\nHoi-tseok. \n\n(True Translation). \n\n(Signed) \n\nC. B. Hillier.",
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        "content_text": "So een teen, Atai, Isoo-bon, William Tarrant, Charles George Cleverly, Surveyer General, Cheang Kenne chany, Wei-acho, Wei acho, Wei achuen, Wei Aman, Wei-Awong, Ing he hoey, Cheang akum, Ing. Chew kiang, Jam Ayce, Sug Tuk, Wie Wing Kivong, Norcott Jam D'Esterre Parker, and Tom Mroy.\n\nOn the 8th of July 1847, the acting Attorney General assisted by Mr. Joze M. Marques Chinese Interpreter to the Supreme Court read to Ts00 Aon the evidence of Jam Alsey Aon's deposition, Mr Marques having on the 10th of July completed the translations of various documents which were produced in evidence and referred to in the several depositions the acting Attorney General took down Isoo Aon's statement in his hands for Your Excellency's consideration in his report and opinion.\n\nI am of opinion the charges made by Mr. W. Tarrant against the Chinese servants of the Government contained in his letter of the 3rd of July 1847 are groundless and without foundation. After a careful investigation of the voluminous depositions which were taken by myself, and taking proper observation of the demeanor of the witnesses during the examination, and carefully perusing the translations of the Chinese papers furnished by Mr. Marques, and forming part of the evidence I am of opinion that Mr William Tarrant had taken upon himself a task which it was not in his power to accomplish. He has been led astray by false rumours and idle...",
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        "content_text": "Names. Age! Country Profession Yrs. Mos. or Trade\n\nبر Chun Ayec 2. Yaong, woor ke : China. 24 10 Boatman.\n\n38 2 Fruiterer! Crime Porncy. Do\n\nTerm of Sentence. Fornsportation Height Feet. Suches For Life: 15th January, 1847. 5 4½ Dark complexion; harelip.\n\nGeneral Description! Fair complexion!\n\nمجھ Kwok yok tye. 363 Boatman. 53½ Dark complexion!\n\n4. Freng li cho. 602 Shopkeeper.\n\nth 5. Ing Meen. 304 Butcher. Receiving stolen goods Burglary. 14. years. 15th February 1847. 5 8 10 years. 16th February, 1847 Fair complexion!\n\n6. Kwok thee. 23 2 Boatman. Stealing in a beat in in port. 5 6 Fair complexion; scar on forehead. 5 3½ Fair complexion; pockmarked.\n\n7. Yeang Aqui. 28 5 Dr\n\n8. How Atung. 37 Fo\n\n9. Low shin kee. 24 4 ஏ 23 2 Fruiterer Stealing from the person : Burglary. Do Jo 342 Do Sailor Fo 570 5 8½ In Life.\n\nFo 13 Chun seen yee. 297 Stone butter. Robbery with violence. Fo 5 2 261\n\nمرو 382 بہرہ بوك 273 Assault by persons armed with intent to rob. Do. Assault with others with intent to pob. Dr 5 3¼ Dark complexion; pockmarked. Fair complexion! 5 3½ 17th February, 1847 5 5½ Fair complexion; peckmarked. 18th February, 1847. 4 | 5½ Fair complexion.\n\nDo 5 4½ Dark complexion; pockmarked Tack complexion. Do 5½ Dark complexion; pockmarked. 5 6½ Fair complexion. 5 2½ Dark complexion. 14 years. 19th February, 1847 5 9½ Dark complexion; snark on left side of head\n\nJo 5 8½ Fair complexion; pockmarked.\n\n16. Chun Apocy. 15. Lum Akwong . 12. Cheang Akum. 14 Ngei Asam. 15 Sen Ayee. 16 Sor kwan hing. 17 Isung sam. Chaing Aseen. 18 19 Lum how ti. 20 Eep Achong. 21 Chun Achow. 22 Mun fook chaong. 23 Wong Ayoong. 24. Wong, the.\n\n·25 Yun Moong 26 Chun Ayoong. 27 Wong Ming. 28. Low Atuk. 29. Ung Aqui . 30. Chui Achun. 31. Man cheem ke 32. Frong Alwong. 33. Le Atai. 34. Low Akwei.\n\n225 Mason . 282 Stonecutter. 244 f 342 Park butcher 226 book. 28 2 Seller of Vegetables book. 292 Receiving stolen goods. ச 5 Dark complexion; peckmarked 5 4 Fair complexion; scar on left eye. Do\n\n22 2 Seller of Ducks. 362 Coolie. Larceny. 7 years. Do 5½ Stealing in a dwelling house to the value. of £5. 10 years. Assault by a person armed with intent to nob. For Life. ஏச Fo 5½ 282 Carpenter. Cook. 12 3½ 25 1½ Mason 285 Hörscheeper Assault with intent to pob 342 Coolie. 282 D 342 Carpenter. 392 Watchman. 30 2 Brothel keeper. 27 2 Servant.\n\nRemarks 122 Do 5 1½ Dark complexion, pockmarked 5 4 Fair complexion. 15th April 1847. 5 6¼ Dark complexion; pochmacked Previously convicted. De Stealing in a dwelling house; but under $5 5 6 Dark complexion ; mark on forehead Previously convicted. 15 spars 16th April, 1847. 5 4½ Fair complexion; pockmarked 5 4 Fair complexion. 5 4½ Fair complexion; pockmarked. 5 3 Dark complexion; pockmarked: Do De\n\n咖 Stabbing with intent to do some grievous bodily harm. For Life. 5 2½ Fair complexion. Ft. 5 3½ Dark complexions Fe Fo ஞ்ச 5 4 Dark complexion; mark on, E on forehead.\n\nPage 363",
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        "content_text": "No 8 of 1848.\n\nInclosure in Despatch\n\nM.9.\n\nFinancial.\n\nJ\n\nNo M\n\nin ong.\n\nto The as. 30 June\n\n37\n\n1222 trong dòng\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\nRECEIVED\n\nJAE 21\n\nMy Lord,\n\n19th April, 1848.\n\nI have the honor to transmit to Your Lordship an Abstract and Returns of the Receipts and Disbursements of the Colony for the quarter ended 31st March, 1848, as required by chapter VII. of the Colonial Regulations.\n\nI have the honor to be, With the highest respect, Your Lordship's, Most Obedient Humble Servant,\n\nPetition by Chang Laoud. praying that the arrears of rent owing by him for four lots of land may be remitted, supported by the General observations and the opinion of the Attorney General, Surveyor, and Treasurer.\n\n25th. March 1848.\n\nThe Right Honorable, The Earl Grey, etc. etc.",
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        "content_text": "Tuesday, 14TH September, 1848.\n\nDecision-te Prisoners, Wilika Cole, Genn...\n\nstood towards the junk and fired grape nut canister at her. He said that he had run alongside the junk and fired grape nut canister at her, acting on the orders of Mr. Davidson. None. He said that he had run alongside the junk and fired grape nut canister at her.\n\nCole what had become of the property on board the junk he said that everything that had been on board the junk was there, pointing at the same time to some small Chinese boxes, some rice, and some arms on the deck of the Spec. I detained the Spec and took her to Shanghae, where she was handed over to the Consul, and sent her here at his request. I do not recollect that Cole during any conversation I had with him mentioned the date of the capture of the junk, but I think he said that he had captured her the day before.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker, representing himself as the Attorney for the prisoners.\n\nI have previous to today been twice at this Office, and have once had a conversation with some prisoners all the Manilamen. I told them that if any of them gave evidence on behalf of the Queen the Governor would give them a free pardon. The Governor and I were in conversation about the case, I told him that some of the men were anxious at Shanghae to become Queen's evidence. The prisoners said that they were willing to become evidence. The Governor told me to offer this free pardon, I have not seen the depositions taken at Shanghae since they were taken. The mandarin said he considered the junk had too many arms, as she was only allowed to carry a certain number, which number he did not know, so he kept a portion of them. The evidence given at Shanghae was not interpreted to the Manilamen in my presence. My evidence was not so translated.\n\nThe witness further states.-\n\nI beg to hand in two extracts from the Boarding-book and Log-book of the Childers, which I include...\n\nAntonio Rocher, a police constable, is sworn.\n\nC. PITMAN, interpreter of the Teagaio dialect, which two of the prisoners speak.\n\nPrisoners, The preceding evidence having been explained to them, are remanded until to-morrow at Ten o'clock.\n\nC. B. HALLIER,\n\nA Commissioner of the Court of Admiralty.\n\nWEDNESDAY, 19TH SEPTEMBER, 1848.\n\nJOHN CHARLES PITMAN--recalled.\n\nlet the exact time. When asked why he did not communicate with the Chinese junks as to the capture? He replied, that he had done so, and that two Chinese mandarins had been on board the Childers.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI have had no conversation with Captain Pitman, that I remember relative to the evidence I have given. I did converse with Captain Pitman yesterday relative to the Chinese witness who has absconded—I mean the witness who was sent down from Shanghae.\n\nF.S TREMLETT, Lieut. R.N.\n\nGEORGE JOHN DORMER ANDREWS--Kwok...\n\nThe following Sailing Letter is one of 14 papers...\n\nPart of Greenock, af Gabriel Cales or Calisto, a Manila seaman, dated 20th September, 1847.\n\nHongkong Register Ticket of do. No. 870 of do., dated 18th August, 1846.\n\nCertificate of Servitude as above of Lawrence Zoney or Lourenço de la Zong, Manila seaman, dated 20th September, 1847.\n\nCertificate of Servitude as above of Mariano Gosting, dated 20th September, 1847.\n\nin the after part of her hold. I saw at least a dozen shot holes in her bottom. The hatch way were two holes caused apparently by grape shot. The others were of no great importance, just passing in at one side and out at the other.\n\nCertificate of Servitude on board the Lesuar, from the Shanghae Consulate.\n\nT. W. Riddles, No. 226, dated 19th December, 1845, Ed. Robinson Commander, No. 247, dated 8th March, 1848.\n\nPort Clearance from the Chinese Superintendent of Customs, No. 247, dated 4th day, 2d moon, 28th year Taou-kwang, or 8th March, 1848.\n\n#12. 3 Envelopes\n\nI am a Clerk on board Her Majesty's ship Childers.\n\nNo. 18 of 1847.\n\nI addressed to Capt. Robinson, schooner Spec—absent, Capt. T. Band, schooner William.\n\n1 having written on it Spec's papers and articles vid log in charge of Timot G. T. Grabam, H. M. Sloop Childers.\n\nI directed on service Messrs McKenzie, Bro. & Co., Shanghae.\n\nSAILING LETTER,\n\nBritish subjects, but not entitled to the privileges of British...\n\nMr Cole gave me on the 22d June last the documents I now hand in, being fourteen papers, among them the Sailing Letter of the Spec; he told me they were the ship's papers, all he had. I returned being then near her, at about 9 or 10 in the morning went on board the Spec. I saw on board the Spec, alongside the Childers, the Sailing Letter, as above designated, for the use and navigation of the ship or vessel called the Spec.\n\nThe next day, the Childers' officer duly registered and mustered the crew of the Spec. I can identify the prisoners Cole, Johnson, Francis, Juan Ignacio (No. 1) Lourenço, Juan Ignacio (No. 2), Mariano Agustin, Gabriel Calisto, Euzebio Josep, Mariano Alberto, for Aryok, Yuen Chang-ming, Kwok Aryee, Yow Chay-ching, as having been on board the Spec when I first visited her on the 23d June last.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI have had no conversation with Captain Pitman relative to the evidence I have given.\n\nF.S TREMLETT, Lieut. R.N.\n\nGEORGE JOHN DORMER ANDREWS.\n\nI am a Lieutenant of Her Majesty's ship Childers.\n\nI was on board on the 22d June last; she was then off the Rugged Islands.\n\nAt 6 p.m., I was officer of the deck; I saw a schooner and a junk in company under the land and standing for the land. Between 10 and 11 in the forenoon I observed that the junk was alongside the schooner, apparently discharging. I saw things passing backwards and forwards from the junk to the schooner, but could not see what they were; we were distant one mile.\n\nA little after six in the evening, the Childers being about two cables from the schooner, in consequence of a message sent by Captain Pitman, Mr Cole came on board the Childers (the prisoner Cole)—he was asked by Captain Pitman to produce his log-book and papers. He produced his log-book, but no papers.\n\nThe log-book produced by witness Pitman is shown to him, he states, on oath that this is the log-book; I would not swear that it is.\n\nCaptain Pitman asked Mr Cole what he was doing there? Cole replied, that he was there for the protection of the fisheries under orders from Mr Davidson.\n\nWILLIAM ROGERS———AWON.\n\nI am Surgeon of Her Majesty's ship Childers.\n\nI was on board on 23 June last: she was then off the Rugged Islands; the Spec was lying not far from her.\n\nAt about 10 a.m., I went on board the Spec by Captain Pitman's order to see some wounded Chinamen.\n\nI saw three wounded Chinamen on board the Spec. Two had slight contusions, the other was wounded on the great toe of the left foot; the joint was laid open; Mr Cole (the prisoner) told me that the wound was caused by a grape shot.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI was examined at Shanghae; my deposition was not read to the prisoners in my presence; they asked no questions.\n\nF.S TREMLETT, Lieut. R.N.\n\nJOSHUA BRAKELEY.\n\nI am acting master on board H.M.S. Childers.\n\nI was on board on the 22d June last; she was then at the Rugged Islands.\n\nOn the evening of that day at about 6 p.m., the Childers was anchored, and the Schooner Spec was lying close to us; a junk was placed 100 yards astern of the Spec.\n\nI went on board the Spec by Captain Pitman's order; I saw prisoner Cole on board.\n\nIn reply to my question he said that he had been sent by Mr Davidson to carry shot to the Dide, and that on the previous evening he had met this junk and taken her, she being a pirate.\n\nCross-questioned by Mr Parker.\n\nI was examined at Shanghae; my deposition was not read to the prisoners in my presence; they asked no questions.\n\nPrisoners make no defence, excepting Euzebio Mariano, who states.—I was not on board the Schooner Spec at the time when the offence charged is said to have been committed. I joined the Spec at Woosung on the 24th June, from the Muzzepa. I did not know her to be a pirate.\n\nC. B. HALLIER,\n\nA Commissioner of the Court of Admiralty.\n\nExtract from an Inventory of the Stores belonging to the schooner \"Spec,\" of Hongkong; taken by Lieut. Graham of Her Majesty's Sloop Childers.\n\nWoosung, 30th June, 1848.\n\n9 cwt, 4 pounders, 9 in Number.\n\nCarronades...\n\nMusket Ball Cartridge Fusee, 100 in Number.\n\nPistol Cartridges, 151 Rounds.\n\nFlannel filled with Powder, 1 lb., 40 in Number.\n\nDito with powder and shot.\n\nLoose Powder, 2 oz., 1 lb., 74 lb., 100 lb.\n\nShot round iron, 2 lb., 6 lb., + 470 Number.\n\nMuskets with lock and Bayonets, 16 in number, (3 without ramrods) without Bayonets, 1 in Number.\n\nCutlasses, 5 in Number.\n\nSpears, short, 150 in Number.\n\nDo. long, 50 in Number.\n\nPlates, 8 Breachings.\n\nCarbine Rifles, ...\n\nSwords corved, ...\n\nPercussion Caps for Rifles about 210 in Number.\n\nBar shot, cast iron, 8 in Number.\n\n7 Spare Trucks.\n\n12 Cum Tackles\n\nGEO. T. GRAHAM. Lieutenant,\n\nH.M. Sloop Childers.\n\nJOS. BEEKELEY, Acting Master.\n\nNOTE--The remainder of the list contains mention of Ship's Store and private articles.",
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        "content_text": "constables can \n\ncan board a junk. If there are men whom the Captain does not wish to come on \n\nboard he can \n\nprevent and \n\nstop them! This sentence means that the \n\ncaptain can stop \n\n(sim\n\nIn the words \"if there \n\n2) signifies \n\nare men\" the character \n\nand not \n\nofficer or policemen, nor does it refer to any- \n\nmic\n\n02\n\nbelonging to governments. This is plain \n\nand easy to be understood.. \n\n246\n\nseaman. - Choo tik se-captain of the Kim teit hing from Chaou gan... Captain Tang cham sing from Tercher - Tang cong seaman on board the him hacking from Leeches. Tes tith seang captain of the Lim hap goom from Charu gan... Loquen peo \n\ncham student from Hong \n\nCheong hot \n\nLun \n\nhot tai \n\nphysician from Cheory the.. Lew ynow kiong clerk from Chang ting.- Jan tac captain of \n\nthe him hap fut, from Chaou gan... Captain Ja le him from Lek hong. \n\nof the \n\n012\n\nWe therefore solemnly, by subscribing on proof thereof, give evidence to this \n\nnames in \n\neffect... \n\nHoughtong 10th Mouth 9th day. (4th November) \n\n- \n\nLok Long \n\nLe sing, student from Luught. Jan King pang student from Charugan - Ta fat le from dikang formerly captain... Captain Awong ching hap from Lokhong - Tan site ming junk man board the Win kit le.. Yuan a Hurve captain of the Nim tae hing from Terches - Chekong \n\nMIL\n\nTrue Translation. \n\n(Signed) \n\nCharles Gutzlaff, \n\nTrue Interpreter \n\nChinese Secretary \n\nColonial Secretary",
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        "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848",
        "content_text": "Boat\n\nof\n\nTrad\n\nE.L\n\n\"been toon toperces by shot : but they\n\n\"promised or payment of flost\n\n$200\n\nого\n\n\"give up the boat & saleuse the man.\n\n\"We explamed to them again & again\n\nthe\n\n\"State of the case, but\n\nbut thing obstinatedy \"refused to listen to us.\n\nwas the\n\nWe then called before \"The Kiang Merchant, sie Yen havz \"I Se ching hung, together with \"Thin king ching, Wan Maon Khew \"I others, fishermen of the Bay, &\n\n\"demanded of them a precise account.\n\n\"of the afferis. Sie Yew herow & his\n\n\"Companions becordingly deposed\n\n\"Dor follows\n\n\"We\n\nare\n\n· from the struct\n\n\"\n\n106\n\n\"of Chinhare in Cheking, dare how th\n\n\"charge of the busting Junks Chang\n\n\"peron the & others _ 113 in scumber.\n\n\"On the 8th day of the 12th mouth of\n\n\"Last year (fant 13. 1848) having been\n\n\"registered & inspreted at\n\nat Mingaw\n\n\"We left that Port with cargoes of\n\nOn the\n\n\"wood forthe king. The wind being\n\n\"Contrary on the 27th of the late month\n\n\" (March 2. ) we put into San the\n\n\" & Anchored in the Bay. \" morning of the 2nd day of the Ind\n\n\"Mouth / March 6.) we learnt that there\n\n\"Were Prvater outside, & the Englob\n\n\"\n\nbepel proceeding in pursuit\n\n\"of them fell in with Chin Kinchings\n\n\"Fishing bost\n\nWar\n\nffic",
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        "content_text": "Kwang, Wei\n\nAtai, S/oo Non, William Tarrant, Charles St. George Cleverly - Surveyor Wei. Ache Exneral, Cheang kuw chaong, Weir Achuen, We Amant, Weir Mwong, Ing ho hoey, Clwang Akum, Ing chow Tam Ayce, Ing motive, wing kwong, Narcott: D'Estone Parker, and Tam Assy.\n\nOn the 8th. of July, 1847, the Acting Attorney General, assisted by Mr. Jozé M. Marques, Chinese Interpreter to the Supreme Court, took from Isoo Now the evidence of Tam Atsoy, and took down Isoo Mon's deposition. Mr Marques having on the 10th of July completed the translations of various documents which were produced in evidence, and referred to in the several depositions, the Acting Attorney General now hands in for Your Excellency's consideration his report and opinion.\n\nI am of opinion the charges by Mr M Tarrant against the Chinese Servants of the Government, as contained in his letter of the 3rd. of July 1847, are groundless and without foundation. After a careful investigation of the voluminous depositions which were taken by myself, and taking proper observation of the demeanour of the witnesses during their examination, and carefully perusing the translations of the Chinese papers furnished by Mr. Marques, and forming part of the evidence, I am of opinion that Mr. William Tarrant had taken upon himself a task, which it was not in his power to accomplish. He has been led astray by false rumours and idle conversations, without a shadow of probability.",
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        "content_text": "J\n\nit. I identified it as the remains of the late Captain Da Costa. I myself took a walk on Sunday evening. I went in a westerly direction from Stanley towards Wong-ma-kok.** My way lay along the beach. I must have been within 800 or 900 yards from the spot where the spear-heads were found above referred to. I did not then see anything to attract my attention, except that I observed two large boats with boarding-nettings up. They appeared to keep aloof from the other small boats about. The Stanley people had noticed these two boats, and were at a loss to account for their appearance there.\n\n(6)\n\nTHOMAS MACDONNELL, Lieutenant Ceylon Rifle Regiment.\n\nERM-AYAK, Wong-I, was table-boy to the late Captain Da Costa. Unimportant—knows nothing.]\n\n(7)\n\nJUNG ACFORT, groom—I was horsekeeper to the late Captain Da Costa. I accompanied Dr Tweddell on Sunday night to look for my master. I visited the village of Wong-ma-kok. On returning from said village, when about as far as the Stanley barracks are from the village of Stanley, I picked up a three-pronged spear. I cannot say that it had marks of blood on it. I did not notice that the turf was stained with blood near where this spearhead was found. The night was dark. I do not think that cries of distress could have been heard from the spot by the villagers. I have lived with the late Captain Da Costa for three months. I have never been in the village of Wong-ma-kok before Sunday last.\n\n(8)\n\n3d March, 1849.\n\nCHARLES MAY Sworn, a Superintendent of Police. Having received intelligence on Monday morning the 25th of February, that Captain Da Costa and Lieutenant Dwyer were missing from the quarters at Stanley, I proceeded thither with a party of Police and Soldiers accompanied by Mr Caldwell. A soldier of the Ceylon Rifles mentioned that he had seen some drops of blood on a footpath. I accompanied him and perceived the blood distinctly on a path which I subsequently found led from the village of Wong-ma-kok to a fishing hut on the west side of the peninsula. I requested Assistant Superintendent Caldwell to trace the path downward, and I proceeded upward, and early observed the track of blood in single drops at average intervals of a yard apart for above 400 yards—in three or four places three or four drops were close together. The track of blood ended where the path entered between two low stone walls, leading to, and about 100 yards from the village. I searched carefully right and left, and in the path, but saw no blood. I then proceeded through the village, and at the east corner perceived several drops of blood on a stone. A path continued by this stone to the place where two spear heads were stated to me to have been found; this was about 200 yards on the east side of the village. For about 100 yards along this path near to the village there is a thick jungle, and a fire was then burning from the jungle to about thirty yards of the spot where the spear heads were found, and extended backward for more than one mile. I searched on each side the path and round about where the spear heads were found, but discovered no traces of blood, or of a struggle. Before I had entered the village I saw a man on the hill above, to whom I beckoned, and he came to me. I took him into custody, and ascertained his name to be Lo-asee-zoong. I examined his person and found a wound on the right side of the head—such a wound as would be caused by a heavy blow from a stick; had been recently inflicted, as upon pressing it, blood oozed out. On the string or band fastening up his trousers [string produced] I saw several marks of blood; also several spots of blood on his ankles, near the heels. He represented, by words and action, that this wound was occasioned by his falling on a stone. I and Mr Caldwell searched the village, and in three houses we saw wearing apparel hanging up, as if recently washed; they were scarcely dry. A piece of cloth used as a towel was hanging up in the house at the east corner; I saw spots of blood upon it, and evident signs of blood having been nearly washed out.\n\nThe next morning I landed at the fishing-hut accompanied by the Chief Magistrate Mr Hillier. We saw the lowest drop of blood on the footpath before mentioned, and examined another path diverging to the left. On this path I saw three drops of blood at some distance apart: the path led to a cave formed by large rocks resting on each other, in which several bundles of bedding and clothing, and a box containing clothing and some silver ornaments were found by me. A bundle containing clothing was found by Mr Hillier on the top of the rocks; and upon Police Constable Crevy examining it, a jacket on which were visible several marks of blood was found. I then proceeded up the path leading to the village before mentioned, and on which, about 90 yards in length, the track of blood was clearly seen. A very minute examination was made, and in front of the houses in the village three spots of blood were seen by me; and in the path leading from the village to the place where the spears were found I saw several drops of blood. I received information that blood had been seen on some rocks near the water, and upon proceeding there, found the spot to be about 300 yards from the fishing-hut; the path diverging from the path leading to the village, led by the place. There were large marks of blood in four or five places, as if a body had lain there some time, and on one prominent point of rock, there were marks of a body being dragged over.\n\nThe party were about leaving the place, having previously had a search made by means of boat-hooks in the sea near, when a broken spear found at the village fell from the Police-boat into the water: the boatmen were endeavoring to recover this, when the body of Mr Da Costa came to the surface and was brought ashore. When I arrived at Stanley on the morning of Monday the 26th February, three persons had been apprehended, and upon being questioned through the interpretation of Mr Caldwell, the first examined, Lo-akow, stated, that he lived in the village of Wong-ma-kok with his father; that he was at home the previous day. He did not see any Europeans, or any strangers in the village. I showed him some spears and spear-heads which had been found, and some broken sticks or handles. He identified a spear with a single blade as belonging to Tay-apo, but that it was kept in his father's house, a three-pronged spear as belonging to Chea-asam, who resided in the village, and a knife or clipper as belonging to Chea-thing.\n\nThe second prisoner, Lo-yet-show, stated, he lived in the village, but was from home fishing until dark; he did not see any Europeans or strangers that day near the village. He said the two spears exhibited to him were the property of Chea-asam, the knife or copper the property of Chea-apo, and the spear-ends to belong to Chow-asam.\n\nOne we found a towel on which were marks of blood, but it had been washed; there were several pieces of wet clothing found in one or two houses. On arriving at the village I found Lo-asee in custody of Mr May. I observed a wound on the right side of his head, which, on being questioned by me at the request of Mr May, he stated he received in falling upon a stone on the hill. The following day, having been informed that blood had been seen on some rocks near the water, I went with the Chief Magistrate and Mr May, and saw four or five spots† of blood on some rocks a short distance from the water. We made strict search, both on shore and in the water by means of boat-hooks, but discovered nothing. As we were about embarking, a portion of a bamboo pike on being passed into the boat fell into the water, and the man in the bows with a boat-hook trying to recover it, hooked up something white. I desired him to lift it up higher, and on his doing so I found it was the body of Captain Da Costa; I immediately called out. The swell being rather high, I went a short way into the water to secure the body; a rope was passed at it, and it was taken out of the water. I was requested by Mr May to question two boys and an old man whom we found in custody at the barracks on the morning of the 26th; the two former gave different statements as to whom certain spears and spear-heads, which were shown them, belonged. They all three denied having seen any Europeans in their village on the 25th.\n\nWhen the body of the late Captain Da Costa was taken out of the water, I felt for his watch, but it was not on his person, nor had he any rings on his fingers. On Monday, when I arrived at Wong-ma-kok, I observed that a fire was raging immediately behind the village. A spot was pointed out to me where some spear-heads were found a short distance from the village; the grass around was on fire. When I arrived at Wong-ma-kok, Mr May had an old man in custody, named Lo-Assee; he had a cut on his head, which he said he received in falling against a stone. I saw marks of blood on his waist-band, and also on his neck. The five men seized in the fishing-hut or boat might have seen the body of Captain Da Costa thrown into the water from their boat, but I think not. If it had been done in the day time, but I think not. If it had been done in the night time.\n\nI acted as Interpreter to Mr May when he questioned several prisoners that had been seized on Sunday at the village. I have heard the statement made by Mr May, and fully corroborate it, as to the questions put, and answers given by the Chinese.\n\nD. R. CALDWELL.\n\n(11)\n\nMR CALDWELL further states, that the following prisoners had been seized before his arrival at Stanley, and were landed eventually to the Police,—Lo-akow, Lo-yet-show, Chui-assey, Lo-assee alias Lo-yang-ghing. The following five men were seized in a fishing-hut near Wong-ma-kok,—Cauchi fook, Chuw-fook-tong, Cheng-keen-ee, Chan-we-tong, Chun-no-fat, Lo-lee-shi; the wife of Chai-apo, was brought into Victoria on Thursday night last by Police Constable Mars; Woog-sannie was brought into Victoria yesterday (Friday) by an Indian Constable.\n\n(12)\n\nLO-YANG-SHING alias Lo-asse, is arraigned as a prisoner.\n\n(Mr Caldwell on the request of the Jurymen is sworn in as Interpreter.\n\nThe nature of the preceding depositions are explained to him. He is duly cautioned, being informed that whatever he may say, it may be taken down in writing, and used as evidence against him at any future time.] He now states,—I am a native of Namchong, in Kwang-sheen. I am a husbandman, and have resided for many years in the village of Wong-ma-kok, on the island of Hongkong. On the 3d day of this month (corresponding with our Sunday the 25th February,) two English Officers came to the village of Wong-ma-kok about dark. They went into my house; myself was there, my wife was cooking, and my daughter-in-law was keeping the door up. One of the officers, the shorter one of the two, embraced my daughter-in-law, made motions with my hand for him to desist. The girl cried out; my wife went up and pulled the officer away. I also begged them to go away, when the tall officer struck me with a walking-stick on the head—a common stick. [produces a cicatrix on the right side of the head, which seems to be the result of the blow inflicted.] The villagers hearing the cries of my daughter-in-law, came in, and tried to get the officers away. As the villagers came into my house, they were struck by the officers. My head at this time was bleeding; blood came into my eyes; I could not see. A villager standing next door to me, named Chui-apo, with six of his men, came in; they armed themselves with spears; a conflict ensued between these men and the English officers. When it was dark. I could not see the issue of the encounter. The disturbance arose principally because Chui-apo and his men would not submit to the treatment displayed towards my daughter-in-law.\n\nI did not interfere. I think that was wrong. The names of Chui-apo's men are as follows,—Chow-ping, a native of Kwai-shien. Chui-abing, native of Nautow, Cheng-asam, from Kweishen, Chui-assey alias Chung-kek-sing of [illegible]. The names of the others I do not know. Chui-apo has lived in the village for 1 year; he was a sailor, and returned to his native place, San-chuen in Kwei-skeen. Hoy-yeen-ping has been in the village but one month; he has a license from the Government to make gunpowder there. Some of the others have been residents of the village for two or three years. They did not till the ground. They eat grass, and sometimes go out fishing. They are not regularly employed by Chui-apo. Seven or eight hundred took part in the scuffle with the English officers. It first began in my house; 5 or 6 men first entered. Their names I have given before. I do not know the others by name. The English officers did not fall in my house, but they were wounded there. I did not see any blood on the ground in my house. The officers rushed out of the house, but were pursued by the assailants. The name of my daughter-in-law is Lo-chow-sing; she is aged 18 years. She was taken from the village on Sunday night—at all events I have not seen her since. The officers used to visit the village usually. I never knew them to converse with my daughter-in-law during any of these visits. The two men on Sunday, before coming into my house, had entered Chui-apo's, where they had interfered with women, but they were driven out. In the house, during the struggle, the tall English officer wrested a spear from Chui-apo, knocked him down, and kicked him. In aiming a blow at Chui-apo, the spear broke. I do not know whether Chui-apo was wounded.\n\nI can identify the spear that was seen, who had been away from the village fishing for the day. [Several spears are then shown to the prisoner, and he identifies the broken one.] He identified a broken stick which he said belonged to Chow-chong, who broke it in beating a cow shortly after it had calved; he accounted for several spots of blood upon the handle from the latter circumstance.\n\nThe third prisoner, Chuy-see, said he foretold good and bad weather; he had been at the village of Wong-ma-kok lying with the Lo family about one month; he was in the house all day, and saw no Europeans or strangers. The village of Wong-ma-kok is situated on a level space of about five acres, near the top of the peninsula between Stanley and Ty-tam bay. There are four families living there, the heads of which are named respectively, Chou-sheeng, Tau-agar, Tai-apo, and Lo-see. These latter particulars I ascertain from the Assessment Return for Police Rate. I have compared the head of a spear found on the east side of the village by Police Constable Marshall, with the handle of a spear found by Lieutenant Maxwell 95th Regiment, and find the broken parts to correspond; on the handle there are marks of blood.\n\nWhen the body of the late Captain Da Costa was taken out of the water, there was not any watch on his person, nor had he any rings on his fingers.\n\nCHARLES MAY.\n\nWILLIAM ROWLAND MAXWELL being sworn, states.—I am a Lieutenant in H. M. 95th Regiment. On Tuesday last, the 27th February, I visited Wong-ma-kok. In the village I found the shaft of a spear, apparently had recently broken. I found it thrust into a bundle of hay. The shaft now produced is the one I found; it bore marks of blood.\n\nWILLIAM ROWLAND MAXWELL, 95th Regiment.\n\n(10)\n\nwas found by the party of Dr Tweddell, a 3-pronged spear.] it was after the spear was broke that the officers shed out. When I was wounded, my wife shouted out, \"Help, help. save my life.\" The villagers then rushed in, but they did not come armed; they pulled the officers out, and in attempting to do so, they were struck with sticks. The villagers then got spears. The officers did not make any resistance before the conflict ensued and before the spear was broken to escape. In the house of Chui-apo there were two women, one aged 16, a married girl, daughter-in-law of Chui-apo; the other was an old woman his wife. I overheard the result of the conflict, nor do I know what has become of the officers. The Stanley officers set fire to the grass. Late on Sunday a party of officers and men came to the village and enquired what had become of the two officers. I replied that they had been interfering, and a disturbance had taken place, but that I did not know where they had gone to.\" I suspected that the two English officers had been killed, from the way they were fighting, but I was afraid to say so to those that came in search. My eldest son was outside my house during the conflict; he afterwards returned, but did not say anything. I have not had communication, nor yet seen any of the villagers who took part in the conflict.\n\n(13)\n\nLo-yang-sing, after having been duly cautioned in a similar manner to the last deponent, states,—I am a son of the last deponent, and reside at the village of Wong-ma-kok. On Sunday last, I remember two English officers coming to the village; at the time I was not in my father's house, having out-door occupation. I saw them going into several houses looking after women, and into my father's house amongst the rest. On my entering my father's house, I saw one of the officers embracing my sister-in-law; my father interfered, and desired him to desist. He would not; my father tried to pull him away, but could not. The villagers then came in; they were not called, they came of their own accord. They were then armed with spears and knives. They fought with the officers in the house. A spear was wrested from Chui-apo by the tall officer. I did not see any wound inflicted by this officer. I saw him aim a blow at one of the villagers.\n\nDANIEL RICHARD CALDWELL Sworn, states,—I am Assistant Superintendent of Police. On the morning of the 26th ultimo (Monday), in consequence of information received at the Station that two officers were missing from Stanley, I accompanied Mr May to that place for the purpose of making search. One of the men of the Rifles having stated that he had observed spots of blood on a footpath, he took us to it. I was requested by Mr May to trace westward, that is down the hill towards Stanley bay. I observed single spots of blood along the footpath, about the distance of three and four feet apart. In some places several spots were together. I traced the blood to within about 50 yards from a fishing-hut, and about 100 yards from the water. I went to the hut, which I examined. I found Chinese there, whom I took into custody and sent to the barracks in charge of some of the Rifles. I afterwards examined a sampan in the water close to the fishing-hut. I examined it, but found nothing suspicious about her. I then retraced the footpath, and observed the single spots of blood all the way to within a short distance of the village of Wong-ma-kok. I searched the houses with Mr May. In one house I had been frequently at the village.\n\nQuery—Swears—Ed.C.M.\n\n11\n\naway, saying it was improper for them as other relatives with the villagers. Samning his girl, crying out, came and winked them\n\nthe common people; but they struck them, still they began to fight.\"—Register's Report.\n\n§§ly through Chui-apo and his men being vexed at what they had done, that the fray occurred. He it and man, and only wished to go away.\n\n¶ \"It was Chui-Apo.\"—Ibid.\n\n$1 answers often came about shooting, but seldom came to the house. Frid.\n\n****The villagers came and took hold of the officers with their hands to pull them out of the house. The officers resisted, and struck them with their sticks.\"\n\n—List.\n\n306",
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        "content_text": "Avenue ly of six Chinese \n\nAdmontly, Pirates ceptured by \n\nH. Jus \n\nInflexible, and Same to \n\nrequest that \n\nab you \n\narie \n\nderich the attention of \n\nthin Lersesliss \n\nto the \n\nEcommerce dation Contened \n\nin the lesh paragraftat. Gron. Berben's Bespatch. with respect to Captain Hoseason, the Officer \n\non \n\nCommand of this Repel- \n\nShave \n\n221 \n\nExtract of the Minutes of the \n\nof \n\nExecutive Council, held \n\non the 28th May, 1889, \n\nPresent. \n\nHis Excellency The Governor The Honble : Major General Staveley \n\nThe Honble. \n\nMajes \n\nbaine, \n\nThe Honble : A.M. Johnston, lagre \n\nThe Honble: the Chief Justice, \n\nalso present, having been specially summoned to attend this meeting. \n\n\"His Excellency The Governor called \n\nthe attention \n\nof \n\nthe Council \n\nto the Chief \n\nJustice. \n\nthe trial of Chang-Kwer, Wong-tsuy wing,",
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        "content_text": "225\n\nany of them to mesoyi-\n\nIt was manimously Resolved,\n\nafter a full and careful\n\nconsideration\n\nof all the\n\ncircumstances of\n\nthe\n\ncase,\n\nthat the sentence of Death recorded against\n\nthe aforesaid Criminals, Chang teen hier, Wong-buy-wing,\n\nSaong-archum, Kwok-...- and Wong arsheep, Wong-arsheep, should be confirmed, and that the said sentence be carried into effect on Thursday\n\nthe 7th June next, between\n\nthe hours\n\nof 6 and\n\n8 a.m.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary\n\ninstructed to prepare the requisite Warrant for\n\ntheir execution, and to\n\nintimate the\n\nsame to the\n\nSheriff. He was also requested\n\nto apply for a Military Guard\n\nto escort the Convicts to the\n\nplace of execution.\n\n(True Extract)\n\nLeithire Hathorn\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nPage 240\n\nPage 241",
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        "content_text": "34\n\nOberland China Mail.\n\nYu Heica ship lontana was lurted, and driven ship Frebella Holtron was driven under the bows, in alcat two freers.\n\nto 24 Jch's Idal, aut eary all since 2 a lingkung by ring forest Ferr\n\n[No. 9, StarEBek 23, 1848.\n\nNo. 9, SurreMBER 28, 1848.]\n\nThe big neder was disrated at Miccha: Not having abserved dus dey could not long bold Maniamen adition, appearet the Cen the confidence of perse! security. Teol firogduet bis progress & perpetual care of\n\n1LENGE into its harur, ita pur! of 3: Derga\n\nange: 100 dièste fear: to be paid by\n\nAfter this no tidingen were v'y it coul what is Excellogg hoe vot biomela son when soiling bad con spred that would is the unanf the Fugle, crying away her bows and land om met de atentoon of the 24 instreated, peerde aru now more disposed to appere-tead to aut to their splendour, only seen to have\n\nCapa ett of the inter vessel wlion Acting Sergeant 8, are rander by foorest, fria the absence of petty simoyances, tad nagues to the Ambasaduc's difficulties, and w ut, and one or other mast sus, Captain Kelly and Station, haligong the ardanely intelligence czes were of cowing the same in finner thnos, objeum on the pars of the dancing. The replied that os bis burmaneter was rising, he that the bons had sund, and that he believed he but people duvet hardly were not Beyond the question of the verinamotal de la aliservert sa pre-\n\nthe ascentsy of Land Macurtuzy, Glowki they having replica the hero completely ex Patari Bodiety may have him pessozied as ately afterward thực chting of the Bugle parted,\n\nalso somon athaus uforming to it; word the and she gifted out through the passage du tine, haieta, after being in the water two hours. He many bramurai Attractions but my we\n\nnever hour of people being stacked anul rubies | Vierry of Mongella Lecordingly sent a deputa eastward van upon the beach; but on the reported that ou leaving the harbour of A Lorioen, way in a mud the Nay both got find off they stool over towards the Lens, when finding in resing the se in which the building stance.\n\ntion tooking for instructions as to the terms on A propos of that Sortety, we wonki beg to hint: which the misden siid be suffered so parroccl.\n\nbah, carrying gang fur traitoast and bulwarks. Die wind inverse very much, they run before it, The drifted the sun nac ter the Eagle, and itionately mochowed in Cheang-show lay, to occasions! visitora, dat is the resident members The WHY by the effect, that the Viceroy aliend are not resores, dut exposez rght not to Lo juvite the Russian envoy to a feast in the aura of thrown open cher enly in the few strangers the Einger, al then weyala sa performance of the nine pirsutions before a serech and bje who have joined thune; and if the lails, deste bithard-rom, ul reaching-won, are to les kejt covered with alath of Imperial Yollow. This\n\nOs phore, very few houses entirely escaped, in sup the stern would som abete nues his companions wen: de only setİvors towar bu çujoy them; and we do not leny that the sanation having wet wartly series derring\n\nthose which revived the greatest disuap were,\n\nH. the Greer's, Maye Chine', 't, aut Impala, damaged as size role, veliaus, au\n\nver\n\nTou Did Naval tree partly Wow duwa, az 1 New ichtiged\n\nRiga hauserity dust.\n\nClarge very much Ganangel.\n\nAle McKnight withewey and ik dust.\n\nAs yon fi Taeyang-svog much injusal\n\nOf Clans the worse,\n\n2.1.\n\nBars of the silk of clue Sea Hunted Hom, and Joe Hathan 'n toerenguel Jur35.\n\nCebie nape keto die Mügikonte 'n buurt Le, so we ar; batedrags.\n\nYer Paints: Cemal\n\nNatian khen to proces\n\nRolice Sculous mercoled, acil\n\nFat Feet Hasion kaudens quite uninhabitabile.\n\n--, Wong-c-ebone. Ahurdce, Stapley, sunt mood la gary village on line and, ang buwes are blot nucled.\n\nAlt wird-\n\nand also a shore. Upon Bauling in her clit a few miles in the westward Hongkong it was found that the michors tad parted. Babamong a number of Chinu bonds, where they en- the Keyland Belph were totally dismasted, but eidered themselvas paerty se. taring two loma- were got a next juorning, and towed in Camboo cables and a chain \"cable cunt. any dug too, where their eyes were discharged night a large runk ran ford et vient and books coups it is only fair that those who participate sand Gatos refsed to comply with, and an order\n\nlightly desing. The Sylph has since been of faz hauskoo cables, shortly after which the ectribute levarin die opensus. We are there. i for his return was shortly afterwards vivid. • ught into Hongkong karbone by the Steuer other parted. The clein esie was then run out fore miler glad to nedering that the Directors He had arrived at the frontier on the atlanary. Chorale, but the Zoglo is condemned.\n\n1 is whole extent (10 thoma) the end being lave it in contemplation to limit dhe tations and departed homeward, without having roacti\n\nPeking on the Ferb of Fchenary, 1866, At dayght ali shat could be seen of the Froelia stene rod the site, and secured which have liturto been so freely given, so that Robertion what: top of her mainmast, the verse stoppers, About the mainurast foll, carry- kay ng bank near the re at the ewnanec le Chung away tie taffail and gig. In its fall the sing on. The garner and four loses were must probably tussen kome of her plauka, na Curred inging to the mast, and wore savel shorty afterwards the boss was served to be by the buite of the U. s. S. Mgmatik. Tlegumer] Alling, and at lodīgast 23 ring soulled down by die report shortly alter ping from the Buyin, bead. Those on boned then got upon the acain- Captain Kelly had the pumps secoed, and friwill cost and wood stil, and funded vicar of the work. the vast was sinking. He was last seen in the Aber as they went to have loen washed away cabin, and is supposed to have gone down with one by one til early the revived--tree her. The args as voluble in, couesting of others having rear die shore, one in sup 70 cheats of Oplont, of which about 500 were which was floating by, pure on a tan, and a Jed Palve and 200 Faster minuted at little on a piece of weed how six tarded with short of hafa mim of defines, of which it is bort istane uteelcher, and on the bencla not move than two-thirds were inaned. With interved eue of their comrades, a Manilaman, the assistance of divers, about 250 chests have lying dead. On cimbing the hill, they cane slave bico recovered, and are advertised to be upay a Chine hus, the owner of which stewed them great kiminosa, in supplying them with sail by aetion.\n\nclothes and such refreshments as i la to oßen, He subgently sermnpanier ten neras the\n\nHongkong.\n\nAt Mace, the auther througlint the day was disagreeable, but the new approach at a severe Tifongs at apperheaded The Barometer flint out at which the one of rather a high curge bood at 22.08. At *. it was 2, and at midnight it felt in No Dalen nur to 28.42, after which gale moderatet, d the quicksilver ruse apidly Bus de calin was of blef duration, he about a 1. the smeared, blowing tously from W. W.N.W. About agrar ter to there was another aim of about an hour. after which the star werease, and then uns, destruction was ransed in the harbo\n\nThe de contacted, ncs blowing hand how every 20 N., Soon veering to N, NW. and W.N.W., nbsided at W.X. W. Un Tour! Toome stood at de to k dung the wight; fall at the Barometer an inch and one south.\n\nThe greatest image seems to have been so tained in the Inner Harbour, and of this we have, been dvome with an edicial reyk-\n\n11. J'ast ex\n\nBong\n\nding tanta.\n\n3 Fastige Binti\n\nFuel Bout\n\nA Bezvanger F0243.\n\n44 Terka mal scherm\n\nMonte,\n\nLe Sol Durk Game Julistee, Parhguasa laly Genergan, My Headsplanner Stagfors r', wenn daven or shan. were they still remain\n\nThe\n\nwhales Del-prist weil in sore, but qui al\n\nwith 1ng dan aga,\n\nShalang scheme Sultricks, was thewise on situ tuturing tus oll, with us! The Dokaz de vs Wivested in the Typm, a the\n\nthe Portuguese government Schooner som Face Typ Fort will de reg on imand, who were A i daggereil\n\nStruan sunk at girl the fo. Farben.\n\nBar Linches Sylph notu ies\n\nThe loss of jeals is very great, and upwards of 100 Chinese were drowned in and about the han bour; and a Chinese bat in which young ou had yet a pleasure trip was caper near the Typa, and two perished, one of what was Mr Jaues Macmurray, long known in this colmy a kuker mid re-keeper and the ether Mr Award Reds, Farrerly send me uí! the trend na\n\nTimber of homes destroyed a used\n\nNo--\n\n23 Chirgan ham. Meena,\n\n非 \"\n\nla\n\nA Wooden Trees,\n\ndumiling no the river.\n\ni\n\nThe Norjalk and Sidney were entirely dimuat ert; and the British tuig ddmor, recently arrived with 560 elests of Patna, went on shore; but her carga is uninjured, and her eyew were saved, for which they also are indebted to the boats of the Pigmort\n\nThe British bargar Ewily got on shore, but her cargy, consisting of Cotton, is understood to have received little injury.\n\nThe vessels that held on wars--the reviving hips Valeon, Ruparel, Lady Hages, Sea-horse,\n\nit they tell in with a bust on its way to The following is a list of the persons missing—\n\nStr Bathers, and his son; Acting Sergeants Nii, zeid seyr, Poses Constable Taylor, Stuffunt, chase, War- rimandarii: Pie Marie doing to tha Water Pole Flur Chinese do: There also evoke; rad & Pataguse Su\n\nShortly after the cand news rouched this place Lane, and the Sir Ilaved By The the brather of Mr Sinishers started of towards who endy vesac! Fiat moped wiiant any\n\nChang-dow, in hyes that we now of the she had two dr-hors out with rem might ince reached the land alive; ut eerises damage; | 200 fathoms of chain cable to unch.\n\nalter au msibas search, they only felt with Fight or nine Chinese parks suck, and most of\n\nthe bodies of tavo Boghshuch, to Maufammen, their crews parished, na did also titat of a smag.\n\nauda Chim boy, Baving on at my curses gling out, sonstating of upwards of 10ft man.\n\nof Chinese who had perished in the suami toading A son as daylight appeard, Capizio Gedney about; and digit be continued his search for of the wrath ordered low hans out to rene assistance, and save the lives of sanse who were the bodies of five Englishanen, one of whom was inging to the weeks, or were alwise in dugu his epluw, sed four Milsten, he was unt of perinuing. The officer on deck at fast told oratul in Gauting that brother. By Captain Gelury thus the boats esult of live paying the Chinese, lie gut graves dug, and buried; upon which he was ordered to oral for volunteer te he fell in will. When 20 of the sailas offered themselves, and\n\nmaneis boat four Cutter, the Launelt, and the Dig Assistance was offered wherever it\n\ni\n\nvy who is not a menter cam se admitted i Pls was the last Fukasay from Rusia to more flatua onun during the season. The micrip- | China, for the insists of 1898 und 1820 wore tion korever is so withing (43 per month) that undertaken prozvesndly to keep up the communica tion with Peking, but prokably net loss to barve probably the Dirustore bave themselves in wor\n\nWheelstend the country and judge of its resources. gasar to blate for at soubering among beir members about every monour visitors Macary The mission of 1890 was conducted by Timkow- of whom, iî npplied to, would radier attend ski, wie has written an interesting account of it A secret mission under Wasigen la said, on as a matter of right than of favour.\n\nIf it be consist with the rules of the Society, the authority of the Courrier Français, u have we would suggest that Anul Subscribers of a boca projecte in 1940. We know nothing of ins certain amount should be considered Members, ubjects or not; but we do know that the Chinese that Susilors of Six Dollars sield bothritis pareanptorily yelse to allow the Prins admitted to the netary privileges for Three Monchs-hira Mait, September 21.\n\nThor who have kamen Mreau in former times, and lent heen there during the last three years, tould hes appreciate, thus services of Senhor at Amal by taking un gaming stroll along the fampt load as th\n\nThe Barrier, which locks as crowind and gay, with epipages, bones, and pediatrtaux as the messican able wering place. Wirin the Ita fortnight the Barrier Gate no longer presença an obstacle to Uko pa sugu of alpinges, His Exceligney, to me, bring removes then sapestment, after vals ondeovutas 19 inless the Chinese authorities to do to.\n\nTOMARY OF KLAKTOU.\n\ncuchiko to ulscharge her cargo at any of the poets, holding that the Russian who rusticted to the provisions of the Kiaksa Trusty China Jail, Septzaiber 21.\n\nSout. -Acording to war Chipping Report, the Pa ty hat bulang and procedit to her mark of us. Was this really a The Fur Claus, ur Daviy kick for\n\nexpertovat in a Riglos gimate j\n\nEMPLOYMENT OF THE POLICE. 1x our last Overland paper we mentioned that its extent of sokucus alang de Europan Tr RUSSIAN INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA.\n\nand the quartering so large a portion of the Sta Regiment on board ship, had throws tonn We had recently (No. 188) eusion as refer to\n\nde hea on the Ceylon Riden, mu rendered acte- the state of commercial rokdions between tusse and Chim, and regretted the wart of a copy of\n\nsary the withdrawal of several of the guards, in- cudiar, koridun the Governor's and the General's, the Trony of Kiakten, by which tiny are regulat\n\ndie Treasury, the thaol, and the Navd Storak Tus ward has now been supplied by the\n\nThe last dire ars enlicited is the paboe, au vas kiostuces uľa friend, to whom we ar indebted for dgnificant addition to which force has been a French vorsion, nade from the caiga! Mustised from wavy different materials. chon, of the Treacy in question, which wo now pablish, accompanied to an Bagish translation†othes, for, while a guard of five disciplined sul- opinion of them, unwever, must be entertained by\n\nIt is curious and important, as leing ila\n\ndiers was tonerly considered accessly for the\n\nA better\n\nfuar days, during with a discovered alugekar | by China with an European sete en termo estive polieva is a destand suficient.\n\noldest axising Treaty of Corammere entered tuto protection of the Naval Stover, a less mumber of equality; in that of 1689, the result of p longed negotiations, trade i enly incidentally re- ferro to, and restrissed to duss who have port, by which it gara, dey come with pu missir.\" whale the poornble sets forth in objects he \"in order to repress the insoleace vi vortan oven, who, paving beyond the brands of their kudis & innt, rubled, muriced, and amitted other outrages; as also for settling the bouls between the two Expires of China and Russia and in short, to caraldish an everlasting Collectors of this sessie, for which, it le po good understanding,\"\n\nMy Smities the public have met annat efficient officer, whoar zeal ant activity were an\n\nnitting. Als espemeure Lad been sepiped' seed cry, and upards of ty during Twenty years' service in the London Folion (Chinese and foreigners) were saved but\n\nwhich Boty he was selectal as the most likely man to zesiel Ale May in parkening the duties [hers in a satisfactory manner; and to lús exer\n\nof the ships dechued the proffered aid from dread of salvagn, which book flies never bocu dreams of\n\nby Captain Gedney, who seems to leave tons may be atted is no sul degree, the actuated by the sings desire of alding me inery life and property enjoyed by the rest distress. We do not see however why he should des since la arival in de colong the pure not clima salvage, wyecially in cases where is services were asked for after being offered gradace of his experiors, as well as the exterm ago. Mr Staithere merited and concerned the surtously,\n\nand respect of those ter him, Chine Mul, September 7.\n\nà correspondent of the Friend of Clawn, speak\n\ning of the exertions made by the Captains of the receiving Ships, says,\n\nLOSS OF BIA KARIN CRISP,\n\ntee of site trupes any an art www.deThe Bruna Brett, foore Sway River, arrived on\n\nTeff donors sens byrgja un grabs, too notwithstarglice\n\nfatizante, and the weder a bear tailneny do the windvoe\n\nsudo cpirlity of Cantato di the pen for the actra anty vhcob te exercises in rareuing several 4.'hommen Sein the mrzechy, màn pebernian woki have mal wall unitary gras 19\"\n\nif we cannot be spared, it is high time the Ciel of the Face should imitals the Chief nf the Governcient al of the Military, by dispensing with the services of du en adring bu what is absolutely indispensable. We have for sonun sime past olaserved, whitt now forces itself move particularly an sur unties, that policemen are enpleed in collecting de Foam Tax, other. wise called the Police Rute. Mr May, it seen. and a clerk in die Land Offer, are wondínally the\n\nFused, des are said; bath we are not ware that\n\nEnt if these men are\n\nThis Treaty did not redound to the cruilit! tenet of county, and 6. wus was of greater im of Numa, which gava op its labos a large the work them,\"\n\nobjects for which it had waged a border way for portaus, the concord of wat niver Acur—\n\nny years.\n\nthey are thorized to soy Peter Constabl,-5\n\nto be employed, let them in the first place be pait for it, and the balance of the allowances apar plied to oviding additional privezomst to make As an accompaniment to the present Treas, the complement of efficient -Chime\n\nMetik, Argan 91. a brief way of the several Embossies from\n\nwe are kidly ludebe\n\nhero sta arge in the Colenia) Arcanul of 475 for a utile. Wo run only allons he ungod the Asta de la Société Quientale,\" and \"Mailia, mgh for the sales and the moment of paire portons be endre duty, thonga keperant, dies quite Hire Générale de la Chine.\"\n\ntamen to somiai hau da poncinały suchu ale at tight be The First Embassy Dog Kawia to the cut after to ache wit of au nd-mane and wider\n\npaid service. Peling, was in 1656, and nd for its nisject to\n\nif the night wadetronom zoop to buze kazn establish freedom et romaneres between two very inuet extended Poly, and moperly reg sen Fomin lea The Emperor (Slam elf diverted died less secure by jd n which we burn that a Store in de gaten of the sewu wan endotel last night--\n\nthe 16th, having picked up and brought to Hong kong the remainder of the crew of the large Sarah Crisp, which vegal wok fire 999) was afte mards cupstadt in lab. 10.56 Ny lưng, 114 20 By in her passage from Meulachi to Hongkong, with This strened with pepeks of 40ing ants and vargu ♬ Teuk ümber. The master and then i thas the Barcsinus slichki be seated with Low; the glass basing Gut this tee rentiss\n\nwere Be days on the wreek, with scarcely and and hedgaard placed over dur use appro- broken glas of a window a spot the Bevera provisions, and only a very litate rain water.\n\ned in with livin Thirteen of their wi ber perished-Chine Milied wirever they went-attenti hich\n\nsqetulla vigouJS September 14.\n\nAnd fartier aids,—\n\nown\n\nJurica, ned etary of the soles opposite to the slapping, belongiora izbe Capens the receiving tops, we d. It was a meat fearfu! and destructive Taifong \"\n\nWang At night the loner cheya waka sad) and heavy, with a great carry Hying fast in At 9 P.A blowing fresh, the upper sustum, with heavy gusts having a tendency eastward; nypesete' Vib A 11, 20.29. 28. 26.00 envy guns, with much rain and locked lighting. At 4, bluing a gale, with heavy rain-\n\nThe gardens bare safired grsally, During Thaesday and Friday to Brile alumn was felt the Goveitor of Macao, wiw And xal ou iu tue murang accompanied by a party. of ladies and gentlemen, on a plenos ip t the Nine Jaluids, as he did not retor that night, great fes were entertained for his safety, which were considerably augmented when, atte the storm hal moderated next day, there was still no appearance of diy bacellency in the course ofthe evening, after every sumaisu bad been exhausted, the party was descried in the Tana Fur, and before sightful they Innded anfuy from a Chinese hat. It was then explained, having made this sitempt to ever for Niine fatit they had to give it up after one or two moke; bui the boas being crable to eat the Playa Grates by blowing very heavy: Syupesameter 28.LU proceeded Typa, and the party buton at the Arieving hanler. At 1 29.20. A 12 Fort, where the whole of that day and the next 3.86 wind of moderate, guate oven were spent. They suppose the marions of the has it have been observed; but whetherally or not, it was hoposible to luvu made Macao The following Barometrical observatione, male during the storia, duure been obligingly placed at our dispost\n\nentil Friday sitewioon.\n\nFull advise the Barometre at Negão devise the Tangler Fist Agment, 1848 (The Instrumen during fine sather range from 133.)\n\nWied M\n\n2.35\n\n30.40\n\n1st Sept. 1. A.S\n\n130\n\n2.70\n\nThe Wind wuddenly calmed and the rule stopped.\n\n..\n\nIt wind\n\nDar still\n\n\"\n\nPreus ombe WAR do\n\nno wid Bar beglas LO LÁSC\n\nizrini.er et\n\n4.2\n\nSt galt fra the agni and\n\n425\n\nFar.\n\nBar\n\nOxle Icing and mucis vain,\n\n0.00\n\n2.in\n\n8,00\n\n$50\n\nx\n\nAnd mate cra.W\n\nWind\n\nGale mateù.\n\n59\n\n96.00\n\n08\n\nA CEM-33 N-Woon, the Taitoong ennineneed nu\n\n... the wind blowing from the North. The\n\nkların senas be have been at its light about day-\n\nlight, when the barometer had led to\n\nDuring the interval the wind shifted, but we have:\n\nnot ablained very precise information on the poin\n\nwada E.N.E. at 7, wind chopped sound te\n\nShipping, dongh a great many China are were The storm dora pet seem to live injured time destroyed, and the annoyed list shown that the\n\nhop onts uffered considerably : --\n\nLORD PALMERSTON'S DESPATCH ON ME ALCOCK AND THE TSING-POO AFFAIR, ¦\n\nSom cariosity has saturally been felt regueding the views for blajesty's Government wean tuin af Mr Alene vaares in relation to the\n\nBish\n\npeal to them, by wlisan dey were to be necan! Regularly the\n\nMANUFACTURM AND SALE OF GUNPOWDER\n\nSome months go, (China Mail, No. 165,) we had upension to rall ́atibution to the danger to which Cho Hinges were exposed from the existenca u Gunpowder mactories in dwelling-konses t public doughfare, and have been in hope that the foots then pihiced would had to better enforcement of the existing law, which we een erived to be seiflcient to aneac uie avil and ti\n\nwould probably have been willingy dispeased with. As a preliminary to negotiatioon, ja ww required and the Fussian monarch should te acknowledged on the vassal of China, and the presents had sent accepted as telate. To these conditions the Russian Ambassador would not accede, and he was therrione compelled to return one without having recomplished my Tring-pon affair, at as the local Government bas, thing, except to find us the kanpaior of China tol thought fes untie any nanou vennent en the. i was regarded as the supreme ruter of all the bjers were glad to have it in car power stations of the world. Niculoff, who was the et andereal dat Lori Palmersking in Peking steel to the Entele Minion, sintes et incline to think so, along it tach otherwe conademtion all the circumstances of the Êuse\"\n\nit was not bear the Rusiasts to know appoured to our Legislative Come we have as lid veleve him, approves of the subsfactory Jedge Dir ozuvchi to be the vassal China, ¦ debuutis special Ordîmenes to be called for. D sorbentent faitair which, in tess able hauls, that they were not received, bat beeze they der its provisions Gangwader is no longer to he might have taveled the country in enviours dif- wonisl not submit to the ceremony of invostituré, ¦ manufactored within iso mdes of the town of fenities at wala dins his Lordship does fall which lever amounted to the same thing, as Vietoria, ner within half a mile of any publicad justice to the fitness and address with which that would is offers luss boon the acknowledge and tus person is to keep in store over Twú Me Alesek cried out his mesures, he gives\n\nment of vassalage or dependence.\n\nPounds, if dre same bë not juported frota no enphatic warning against the presend uscep tional rasa long regarded as a pendent; and takes occasions to enjoin nou v Alevel and alt sher Consula a atriz maternity to the regula¦ tions laid down for their guidanc in such mati\n\nAs we have all along expressed, and still cut- unin, Coplas vegassing the soundices of the policy AL CANTON, the gale commented about 10 eu du posted by Mr Alevel, under all the circum- and inversed in Vistence ti è nes mcg stances of the case we um the move ceny to when it was at its height. Judang by the hammer the decision of iler Majesty's Goren urter, which did not felt below 1.16, the storms, which, qualified though it be, het begaly does it seem to have imen su violenta a Hongifig to the Cousal hins it, and satisfactory Roug, facau, and Can-slag moon; throgh of to the an eiled in his views.\n\nWith ward to the daree wv.rand emplahunta, course in the crowded river there was a fifni\n\nDr Salle, C.\n\nDe Se mye, in the outside di tut, and otherwise bach damage, buying dritted from her mooringa. Di Lowers, Instander, and house merried away. Di kryes, drilled bee tasks up the river-Gamaged. Il not a Tales's, she shigde of the lauqunuðir evening di the horried Lady.\n\nMoczny Cars walkinget! moms whin saving autern of\n\nthe s\n\nfor an extinto of\n\nbut we are mislite told not, inking for granted they had not Juss of tc at her, some accomɔis stating seeded the jucevrild Andel, noverthekas re numbers who perished at hundreds and others qrices of the Court to impress pha, and Diss. de ferter witten en the uning of possil who make ecurions into the couple ne sürer:ful, a whole the bases atmost dranspection the Ter describes de sorme. rerer being covered with the wrecks of the fragile: Seeing the conquences which many Row from Hower-one and smak raft, gust numbers of gorance, mismanagement, or was of presence mind, is the event of getting involved in al ! whitel were dashed to picces by the large jaaks,\n\nwhich, after being funest frein their crings, offray at a distance from the consults--flow were driven Fariously long by die wind and side, eff. September 1. destroying evore thing dat same in their way.\n\nSeveral Chinese sal wells in espised status were blown down, and die ravages the ardre were considerable; but upon the I whale we consider Canton we net exposed to the strength of the ilong The tide overflowed the gurdim, but it was not so high as has been ch served in June Poods.\n\nf the beautiful private Cutters on the riven\n\nMACAO, AND ITS SOCUZZTV.\n\n\"DA MAC,\" a venerable friend, scavely moro velebrated as do Arish than for his son- versational power, terms due tols cits, has boot\n\nHugh, le ofer fastall partitimere, quite as many of his visitors are been pleasure-seekers as patients. But to both he prescribes with\n\nThe Spend Baubossy, under. Thondure Alesies ¦ Burg viez biolowin, arrived'st Peking in Läië, dering the vigs of the Fanperor Kangels, and bad sor da sele objeen the settleman of the Frontier us\n\nhas been ready mentione\n\nThis is limiting, not extending the law of Eng land, to which such an exception as the one above quoted is unknown, and might navor to have been ikuntaven here The Governor and Compil The Third Mintas, under labente tilta, ar cannot surely be aware that in the event els dive rived at Peking in November. 1893, after a accidenta) explosion, much more danger is 14 journey through\" Siberia and Tartary of eighteen he sporel rozled frina stocks of ingrated Gwapo. months. Theobieta of the Early were chiefly der heid by inbriidal Lauropods within deci egnanc veini, hot it does ant appear to have con premises, than from all the rest pat together nail saceful, atthough lebeauty, in his out of his thus the erection of a magazine the engulary Embassy, alleges that i was received with the reception of such socks is quite as unich edled ceremonial observed in Faron; and tips, lactonday a rostrictions in Chinest dealer of unpasiting his credentials upo Teie nu\n\nthe sain of Cheapgwder, however, is a d'fferent sely prepared, he placed them upon the Thurs, affair from its juannfectare 5 anal while the fortune fuck in the presence at the Papazior. fun, it i shod be subject to regalation: whjel. have been rempehulde that this convession on a pubist of proved to be efficiout at home and in other onde creamy annust have been the only advantage ties, dus katur me rougie, ought to have ben gained by the Aubondo\n\nentively praibited in Sin claid. For thoug The Fourth Embassy was that of Tanneuff in sibi pejnice to see uny Manel of honest in 1720, rendered famous, wat so much by its edustry eneralaged, the manukastaro of Gaga, Helens bet ne wader that cargory. Blig cessful tits, an by dia ndanivable seront of is given by John Bell of Autamm, the calcied as selgively by despernes, who attendat, and in das Jaune Lange, she Secay of the mission, who continued as c'e sident at Peking he nearly two youn, mit the clear at the lung and enlightened wign of Rasghi. The boy was that ' Windlielawitele, deepatolod in the fast year of the reign of the\n\nbe permitted to eres powder skif day could suffered to live- Trey come here neause hidhurts they sta Teen Interfere with, and their only must Jove on pinggir, f. test encourages thus fordel to such\n\nsacation\n\nit ngre than: csual request during this summer, Kaspress Catherine of Russia Alter arranging to rework to Hongkong has been even\n\nthe important renty of Klakin, tue Araneador dost expo, in luch for proceed to Peking, where he arrived a 1728, on useless Aves love one bor during the reigns of Yungeling of China and Indeed, Int for sub wings, j\n\nwould either lave Lego enforcod, w not one has to us ape, an the foll equal succus aforeing cool litoses ant pleasrat Peter 11. of Resia, Five grani saptansy, an\n\ndrives by the one, and picnics, escais en fact Mandarins with &maneens actingo made\n\non busine, and evening guities, for the easy 8 Porskega precelent promegalo\n\nPo many of these sufrentages, we need which has not keen since followed with Tires, or waverly say the community is indebted to the any other emetry Pent invernor, who has done nence for the\n\ning zomeration will shew:-\n\nat song-The thing and Dragon alterated, and\n\nCynha 15 pic\n\nAt My act sand, the Mrytower distanzzed,\n\nwid tying \"gh and dry the Na Tu Ajda\n\nJost.\n\nA Cupha-singe (moza- Tire Fille and Wizard illam na\n\n-\n\nLOSS OF THE GUNBOAT.\n\nNEATH OF JASPROTON SEPTHERS AND OTHELS.\n\ntruly\n\nThe extent of damage sustained was very as the morning of the Stat sits, the Unit\n\nand the following notes on the subject we gire with a minber of convalescent police on board der charge of Mr Smithers, the Juspoetoe, MAS\n\nnearly no sent to us --\n\nPs in\n\nDu several important respteis l'it's That now a not some ti The Sixth fanbasar was that of Ripolall, who i view or whieht at any rate onght o place in is adversity. Ihan ever did any rifle i obtained an audience, it is said, sulanising to view-unless indeed in Colonial predecessors 10 ils ont jalmy days of pusties pertueen the Katow, but wilhant offeesing the exercise of the extenordaang diserta\n\neununercial objects of his roission. The Seven sabagay was that of Golowkin in the dv The ever you of\n\nIn allting in the Brasty of Macas, the paluations, to calls balvined, glet to be specially mentiunt. Touto ata ai preseus, or were the early part of the ani, de the\n\nToner, Spankh Planetertiary, and a Fronti Fury, with Cursule me than we can read an e Dean he English Plenipostiary,min_lies a\n\nuse dister of the Feuvinte, sa American Cor\n\nDuring the night evarul vessels drifted and especcited for a craizo round the istamil, on this which is was exportal wou's bars whim how\n\ncame into collision. After midnight the receiving otarial Socommendation that the Bish\n\nTo will be obterved that chuse obstactone on the should have the best of a charge of suiche Liesonant Governus uf 31- p-wan, and sailed again with a light breeze\n\nileenses\" altoptike.\"\n\n\"sebeze\n\nin the ma\n\ncharitie\n\n-, the reizas the Emporero Alexciler, fran: the recriptines of persalis stungileen mission that had ever bun des plients For the ren pooried to Peking; but sinc\n\nof Busula nel saking of China. This w19 bo not Legalistet is to donor dues per\n\n赤\n\nsumbuking aswynesia of Tronne.ill ebjost je ks halding such stents passiesin\n\njudividual, which, scised at they give in\n\n1 In Chan, No. 188, S. 21, weekly in 199 Ten- Sha, the Fon of sitario? Man Ven sing, or Buup, and foun her of the rest synasty not act hisa only the world.\"\n\ncourse of the wind, da cut eailedly euincila theAtner of the saine day Ge uscitared at Shark- sudicions se form a Cangram, whom the athias of me praming the throne, pro kammed Taspirar.\n\nTabia given below\n\nCentor wenid jeubsidy bo prisely Discusand an al resin in any Capital et 11: Cot head of Furie\n\nupon perusal olservation, uni ühte wor\n\nfinal through the agency ten, m25 20-7\n\nIt is the is at Kochant, we\n\n· 1971, 1\n\ncards fure, is lonistkeen it plicare te doliches.\n\nin eating amoy of what ought und dụ kun silent to exist at all, and whien, wa shwarve, fo not intended to augment the rovare of the Colony-Chine Mof, September 7.\n\nCONVOY.\n\nExpetency jy is per\n\nOverland China Mail.\n\njust in from the falls of the rat preling that this general law for th wiale of tissement\n\nCina Proper is slightly modified in its total ap war how more nei cerk of such force, that day ¡iorura su i vestonelladry by all an is of whatrasver d plication, Me Mews illustrates this vi\n\negy mi ar se ruployment of conveyn, the legelg\n\nFATE OF 1. & M. RUSTOMJER & Che\n\nby wklition to the Brig Cursair, which was toll\n\nJ\n\n70\n\n::\n\nDIEN-UNION 50%, took al 24:43 werly at 56 and upwards un teu- Kaunas Krag-- imer's rws all out the heavy ring Eply, when prices docu materialy. To day rates o. Patirt\n\nHere 406, wild where acllers than balbers\n\nKXPORTS\n\nCeston Instruti Ciapunyih mom the sme[aprovement in the\n\nhis subjurt by ample references to a Ciness work for $100, the flowing Shares Volonging to the (wat deel is to allow twich of authority, titled The Provisional orkestate of D. & M. Rustomjee & Company were\n\nwestriery under, both faz suctions and Regulations of a Proviner of a disposed of by the nation today abel for low casetion ece which may in fa\n\nenglished so recently as 1848, by the chief- un\n\nFun Sannes sha Cufon. Inntrare tiompany of infracluf time owns and mastery flamebox, mathorities of that province. These extracts\n\n10 per cent premium and tre estos interester, LELS Kacolle love sug this throw ach light on the uusi interesting bench desene, which will be posted! as the mural places “\n\nof the say, which well deserves the rive -Chimes #au, September 7.\n\neversideration of states Gugland, who will\n\nworkable all fair the as of they now presed conferring tenant-right on the calvat, ame\n\nNa 130 le pon them by patriotic theoriska. tual remedy for the exits of Ireland costki he de- vel ban for one government to carry out the branch of their sales, which was to able ma to dent with wasto and neglected property in that\n\nTw\n\nhere fud a pin for rendaiting waste lands, al pail thurell\n\nANOTHER OU PRAGE COMMITTED BY A\n\nis offering some remarks upon the Convays of the Chinese juides, (Chion Mus!, No. 173, June 1,) we addvevd several instaneca of \"acts of prescimaudite Begality denounced in a recent Proclamation of Z de Plenipotenary, one of them referring to the master at a Porlangese lorelki, why wa presume, is also the hero of the following narra Live:-\n\n\"About the middle of July, (the 18th) an Italian, belonging to Macan, and Jean Baptison Balilo, tetas constituting into the highest mastup of the Paringaese force No. 30, explayed watch a despot cand inwow. Those to convos jauks between-cow-food made the greatest progress in Riversture, and scout-5, ut non allow it to be altivated and men were considered mnat slig ble for office, who\n\npo, appeared at the Purelor consulate vi ledge\n\nPURCHASED RANK IN CHINA. The Chinese Goverment, instead of promoting a privilege clasee of tukility to permanent rank In the site on arennat of Bluetions Ules, vol.\n\nexpected that individuals should toil for years\n\nàomplaint against the inhabitants of Kwen-toll, hy competition proved titis, it could not be aired in the same way on is done in ('am.\n\nin to try study of Chore liceatus, without property by reclatning uticalitate! But, in very\n\nTrouble.\n\nThere the low as to the aequsition of landed\n\nin the ontkowy de lintin Steam Facket\n\nC\n\n150\n\nTXA-site for tongue was exceedingly dul uncil arest of the Sunior, since wichtige zon. rection has taken place, and to shop ch 1ied as the above the current ratca of last one: This may be or\n\nt, comeined whth the boroflu despatch. The quits of pa estined left. I shout, 100, wo-thirds being Tichows DA Meaiad, the balan Kaira sd Singhs- dexiptons Quotations dr Tachish tear and Moning te 10 a 20 tele: flows 135; ha\n\nand Simbakes at 13 a 17 Of old Tetings taken at 12 Cuk; 14 or 5 semai Kavel un chens mettle at 2450 ls, Ib yai seld. Flowery Pekoe mkages add a 31 62\n\nChange Plus 18\n\nestad Teas sins of its passtee\n\n22 1\n\nir cominal; good to superfue at a 39: F owns Cuper, 2000 trazity boxes ady tacks, Plain Orange Pease and Caper, Su bar choes of the Serie America & I tela D' the later one chra 850 Le racy texes bas sen\n\n[ k sh bag to market whi\n\n14 cacle to or key, (71) Ning Yongs, V., the market pretty firm, though Rostams roths easier 12 have been sub ted to; and toned, there accros but lile Joues that the Tesation will coat lower prices: full supply it is thought will come forward. The quantity id this month 100 packages Ankel\n\n1213 acis in Yors and Kaleo teas 23 in for the rond Reversion of slegs 20\n\n10\n\n--China Mail, Beptoraker 21\n\nNEWS OF TE DAY. a village about swenty mais distant from Fon- (Chiefly from the Peking Gazais. } chow\n\nHe stated that on the Cay previous, bis forcha oking for sine rantation for their insan iborat. The calvatur pays nothing for it, and is ordered to give in a daily report th\n\nCANTON, By ew owlinance, every innkeeper the mraugy being anchored off the village, six of his Chinese\n\nWhilst this arrangement therebre en is even allowed to enjoy the profice of the set! for who lodge with him, specifying their empley and er went on shore to make parehases, taking sure to lend me employmen, in the publisters of years, before he is called u to entzia oder irticas. is regulation is pro- with Gora alone 10 or 12 dollars. Upon tour service, it kept alive as emulation to become\n\nbute to the revenue of the country i land tax, pusty enforend, it will greatly assist in driving ing payoent for what they bough, the villagers acquainted with the works of the ancients, there\n\nthe sanates as proprietors who have inherited away the vagabonds a rulliane from the pace. refused to take die dollura, alleging they did not pecorating cute principles, and supporting or purchased their lands. Those who have fee rabbers have tasty so funch increased, inat\n\nGeir systara as du malterable isis of society know their proper value. This gave occasion to\n\ncursions up antea river many have obsered the Prefect has called apn the intubilants to and upwards is rugam The lock of all kinds, The descevi. angry works, and a soulle onseed, get up, Baliclo well as of wininistration.\n\nmirers of marsh and on allevial banks in the ranize a system of self-protection. professed to believe, for the purpose of sing the meritoriyas hearins night however likewis\n\ncourse of being galed from the river-passages avilnes. His men had the worst of the tray, but share in the higher expoluments; while tho\n\n1c96 Sea, the new governor, has been raised five Bribordinate oiliers were fille by met wito head\n\nin the manner saertoned by these laws.\n\nBras and recorded three times, for having sent a two of them crespol and reported the cimum- Rent in Me and Youniaga wil and fellow. The next division of Mr Meadows paper patriotic contribution of 10.00 trucks to relieve stanede in their clamander telling him that their peut greater part of their lives in uflicial describes that tear by which the win,\" compsations were in imminent danger. Upon this, Altre high and intial situation, he prople, as distinguished in the marine of that wines.\n\nthe starring people of Ho-nas, he being native Balioto armed himgoit with a musket and beams? with how exceptions in favour of the Manschoos, and soldiers, hold the great bulk of the real pro- were awarded to use who had proved themselves pert contains in the eighteen prices of sued a very severe proclamation age: the while provincial judge of Kwang-tung to the stove, where, ou attempting to land, he was asle by the villagers with kuihoos, swurde,\n\nman of antiving dingence and folid sequiremen China Proper.\" This, At Meadows kas maradile estem of drowning turale auss, and and swach. I order so intimidate the crowd, be\n\nin librature. Suli was the theory-China w\n\nIt is very simple, the thened to visit the perpetrators of suen deals be ruled by scholars and savaA. sired over their heads, hat din fablog to produce\n\nFran this fundamental principle, a great devices sulely, of the payment of an anausia, modered a sun or grandson.\n\ndeaus caning chiefly, and is the studio pass with the atmost penalty of the law, ta if they had the desired effect, he tool: aim and fired a scom time, but cute not say whether or not the ahotiation is now made, thu consequences of which and of fees or alisaation; the latter being of Chung, the ngistrate, ins issued several pie mast sooner or lator clage the wile face of the course only payable when the property is first bitious against kidnapping and syliig children, kiled or woude any one. He however contriv\n\n\"Common Tenure.\"\n\nconsisting\n\nBuy\n\nonly transactions have been to Centon\n\ngisters of up wet, ht 200 15.2% ai Neb\n\nF of one sisell dip of the new Tanging bare ben HAWTc possa care, Tries about 200 bales, eldar Sig for os, and not frow I'm a bake, held a The prices of to have advanced in need of a parsint is in the cup-we jote No. 1, 2918:2, 2304; 3, 13:2\n\nSeo-See No 1. S down to 15 for o Caverjar Candy 69507935\n\nIn other Export cling toug EXQUANGE\n\nfl. Loxtos, utlening. A l'ew go\n\n2019 at 6 th\n\nsich have bags dizel of of 4/1 4/2.\n\nO Ia Compay sacepusil, 213 214. f.co, 21983. Stue, & per cent. FREIGHT.\n\nTo fato, ekipe abundant a £4 Ta PosIDAY, 20 cente per pic for dead weight\n\nFONGRONG. ORIENTAL BANK BATES OF EXCHANGE OR LAND, & mor thự sight 3,144\n\nÚALGUTT Rd Pharma S days sight 216\n\nપ્રા.\n\ny\n\nZHANGHAL MARKET.\n\net tu carape to his niche clong with his men, to entry, si produce radical location in the bined. Els from the local mandamas ro\n\nthe worst description llave trade. à regaine whom were Roverely wanted; and upon his Gevnument. For talent, money bas gradually garding this x are occasionally alfabed in\n\nteath of this kind is carried on to a great extent. been baituted, and aportan appointments This Mural under the head of Chinese Dar- arrival at Fou-buw, having no representative of his own country to apply to, he tartrated the fall to the bigest bidder; wealth is now more responden\n\npowerlini han birth and nesor listments, and British Culto take down his statement, in\n\nMr Meadows then proceeds to Alienation.\n\nKris-To prevent inroads in their country, order to meet any entry cue that might after- the custrine of the realm will beneforth be a being the dard and last of sin divisions of the Kircus duserted the whole aorth western warda be mule où, the part of the Chinese, plutary. The transition has been graded at Busjesz. It is, however, ut conectand is the trac: which borders spet Matcheria. The\n\nSucks Batiola's account of the atlair; but\n\nfirst randored absolutely necessary by the s\n\nChinese government appears aarious to meet writer's remarin on this point he wishes of the reclase people, by prohibiting present all of a drycription of the end of of the exchequer. Office were sold, fav lirought farther information gave a very different aspect\n\na rury kuge sum into the treasury: The reven both to its origin and to the part acted by himself.\n\nSale, of which a translation as well as facsimile is\n\nvagabonds from multivaning the land, se squatters failed, stone were disgond of for money to The Chinese Disicist blagistrate, having learned fill my the deficit; in case of an exigeasy, cucharist document giver by the seller, specifying bees on the barren wille, to cultivate the virgin on the frontiers Buder these the poor Shin-se given. Il consists of two parts; the fret, a mn- that he had been at the Comsalute, caine hærs to\n\npantry are comprehender, who leave their war, irodatiet, or starvation, the Guvertacus the causes of the sale, the nature of the property, wil of Kirs. They are however too explain that Balida and his red were sinne to blame, and therefore begged that he might be had rose to the sale of res; unier all and the terms of the ugreement; the second, and persevering to be replied by mere prohi- desained until tail investigation was nizde. The\n\nfinancial difficulties, this was the grand panaces. printed form attached to the other by the logissey enactments. There is auther ordinanc In the course of time the system has buen esta magisarate. It is this, with the official sela in wien forbids them to clear the wil na the Consol gave vie Magistato understand Cazzi lio\n\nblishing, a detailed list of regulations is a pressed on the two at gives legal validity a border Fast of Kirin and Le-awa-tong. The had no power tu da ho, as none of the parties ty Paated wors Buitish subjects; but he agreed to\n\nput forward, assigning to the Mandarins by pur the transaction. The two together,\" says Mr Jatter district, though the patrimony of the vding Send for Haltolo, who came and repeated his evner\n\nchase their proper position. The rules fil an teadowform the only Title Feed Tegally no lauteten dynasty, is now untirely in the possessi Patire Pekin Gazette, red if carried out to the scary of tus property careyed by the hat of Clingsu agriculturists. These Be injuctions will ary. Next day the Curse Magistrate reburned the Consulate, charged with a palis meusage\n\nlester, will undermine tin whole theory of Gea facite sourity against depute, the per-probably rogain and letter, as great masse goods are quoted at 7915 a 25- from his super love. w leg of Mc Jackson to i-\n\nvernment. The rh the cational examinations chaser usually demands fies the salter the end of string human being pour mainly into th shillarity; but dat gentleman could\n\nfor singling out talent tor da publie acyvize stil of Sale executer when the property was eca only repeat Must as British Causul lie was proclud-\n\nexist, and though men who have distinguished themselves are promoted even to this day, yswners frequently, these ne fe set of dende in into a garden. At the splitting of the Magistrate, ha vever, he consented to take down the evidence enflected by\n\nas oficial, which vets to this eff\n\nalloy is the most powerful lever a lift them and winoul it die most perfert scholar way never\n\nTrain clerkship.\n\nIt is not exactly a new mode, having been o\n\nall had resurse win gases of ergency; be in so farmer period of Chiuess history was it\n\nAz ailway took place at a village cubed. Kwon- Ton, which is situated arear the sater's edge, and beg oly a sides distance from the opŕuni ships, is lequently visited by their evos Buzopositaet ever reduced to so complete a system: as at the are therefore conman visitors, and the pressure prosent day, Any hedy may purchase in the pened no selvation or unfriendly feciagnitaries, sud the mat inworthy strive for the was unlikely, therefore, thing the viitagern would, gliest distretiens Men of scobity have e\n\nmustrated against such prcecodinga, asachvers ve withnet, offer helt stilo resis of all gust dreymeal, and introducing\n\nthus often collected in the bands of the existing propriewe.\"\n\napite of the government, soon change the dai\n\n(September 6, 1648) INYOHTS BAS STINGS- the let alinan the Asian have coon about 30.900 ! OLO im.\n\n25,000 piss Frith Their presun salud 20.500\n\n28705\n\nfo 67 catly Grays, and 22905 be good ident\n\nWhite.\n\nA xvs-- Of Datinge 9,000! prears of sũ yửa, goods as a sold this man se 1995, 2b. hase were sold, 2018 153 easy Sheet picers still fee light gouds, vod 250 2520 for the heavy . The demand fully suplied for the present.\n\nCoron Yaxs-Has been Rold lately to some extent, it being used with Silk for manufaccúm of a\n\n3ve us Nos. 184 SI Ave Lezght falvi tor\n\nIn limite demand at NA Ord. Salz of abrip Enriel nor reported vi our quotation.\n\nSeaman Syatees -The sales cons to 9300 pieses 18:05 to 1975 pood.\n\n470 piecsa sold at 205.30, which is then pre- METALAI-Notes, dut at 350. Lek-$10\n\nPIRACY. We tend a long memorial from the It is pretty well known here that Chinese in ans, are in the hair of depositing the Tite which he represcuts the meritorious effort of embarrased circumstances, or who want to raian Governor-Gearral of Fahon nad Che-keaug, in Deers of their real property as security for money, several naval heroes for the suppression of piracy foreigners being sindira the depositarian the cost of the latter province. Judging froun Motulows's papce, therefora, especially wish the tone of the paper, he wishes in encourage adition of the facsimiles, presses some stiers to similar exploits. There is little drakt practical value for the meantile members of thie hat the Englian cruizers have a great share in these trips, for which the Celestials receive | all the credit.\" In reading stel, a representation, Man mauso drwy from it for the Wassiles at refer to the rare the world imagin that zones is done to put a Custom is worte. 250, actions. No snad diffieslty wns experienced in stap to the evil whilst it is in realty word tan geting the excented, and so many of the best, and increasing to a lenchalantent. Tie von\n\nsentences will soon be seen, in the total ruin of Bok-entres in the City refused the employment,\n\nBad ise kui experiencel Met the fact and rapacity: you thob vesis dipity; althougù, we conez:52, men more\n\nbenra\n\nSOCIETY\n\nMR. VELOTUS'S JAFAR ON LAND TENUDE IN CHINA.\n\nwas, that the seamen of tim kural, instead of pur midst the general scramble for purchased erui- closing proviskonts had gone to honso of li! Br, in there created a law, which the pale the true 1vors of their comry for with\n\nThe result ca only be detrimental, onl ¿ttempted to quent, and would have succeeded, And the master the torch, acengal by lengken to the future.-Chian Heil, Sept.\n\ntwo or three orige armed Eispeans, not il-\n\nnarut. The villages were abarmen as their, CHINA BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC eprengaver, amk avapted to pet them of Pos instead of retreading and sing the seamen Tartine Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society with them, which ting til det easily bare doue, ha med i Transcretions for the first year good deal employed by foreigners, had the pacerse Cinese bave recently adopted measures fur they feed they maskets in the air. This valy casperated the people, who attempted to beat off! the mailusta, while Baiolo, having reloaded, kim and fired offence think anse, by which one was kiki mul noster desperately wearebod. The party then went on heard their tored\n\nHaving stated these efremstances as the result adus inuigations, the Chinese Magistro wea deeirona cart the offenders should, i' possibla, be take to Macro in a British versel of War; bib AS\n\npicts sold; present quotation ea 6810, T- thecanner 213: Straits 188.\n\nSex Wales of 1000 picats. Straight sticka at work). per pul\n\n542966 AD-th Fes Island good 75; ordinary 15* és por ticut.\n\n23s; Vanila AASIA & 4005 for common to bat\n\nPeren-Salas of Mac. at 5649 per piel.\n\nZebe 247, and Trai\n\nOrux-Tiere has been a large busines? one during the past onlb. l, watol was as low at 7-2g, Ta ray to 770 and 7909, at which it\n\nmated sterd;. Paina has bion feels\n\ntitle\n\npast week has bought a decline and $5196 i now the art pica The aport Yau been a chests of all kinds, and the clearances rather more than Es; to ha÷the stocks are reduced sororwhat mou fast munih's stali\n\nEXPORTS. TEAR-About 2 elops of Conzon have been settled 5 19.25\n\n19 al fur the best of 102 The Tay for isown, and 10 x 13 19 aumptious,; bu 6000re wastly o\n\nthat is was hard that ude of executing them the wide varias convience; even now nas nge- half of the junks that formerly navigated the must be abandoned; but at lengli one an un- tortor the work for 2 large price. At the end coat, are to be seen, and even these carry only of a week, however, he als reined the peers, cheap and bully articles, the loss of vassche by blocks. Ultimately an outside man, who is a Raying that he dared not the say money cat the ends of the baniers being so very gmat. that no valuable cargoes can run the gundet.\n\nand although the volume is not a very bully one, jint into his hands, and weld what he was 20, the suppression of pincy, but without foreign aid the contents say of au interesting nature, affords without asking in whether he was willing or\n\nthen sus tay be donated). valuable information on subjects raportens in\n\nSa-pong-tuan, the daging pirate from Chek ehu, not. He was penbably more under the feas of themselves, and duct which He is known offending a gondenser than of being dete^keů who took possession of several forts on the exEL among foreigners. For the sake of those who by his own country; int though he did ex- near Toupas, with all the guns in thena, F: are not members of the Society, we subjoin a sure this cutting, he would not print off the delics the local government. The natives Lave Table of Cuteuts\n\nengine, or even sund hone the block, wach row been prointed from fersishing him will PRELIMINARY ADDRESS: by the Iridaat, SAB\n\nsupplies, in order to starve him into submission. wero got only by being sent for. Jalan Pearen Day. Barnet, F.R.S. THERE AND A\n\nNo autopt was he got stamps executed He will however with his wild camarades try MARK ON THE BENUISITION, COMMON-in imitation of the erals, of which unpress likely help himself, and make an obsinat resize the uning kas yat budu doar preter to H. 11. Consulate, Canton.\n\ni market\n\nbent 00 pachugus Crter, Traverted, mostly Teping and enter sherbet 2 48 65 cars for fine Grunder, 26ncials and 9-1 for\n\nmarket at been maite for the 2 superial Young Hysany of the Twsday kind: 24628 tacks for fair Single Gaupowders For the Angri\n\nin\n\nይ) .ii\n\nThis could not be done, le paposed to convey the 13 C, 15 PROPERTY, appear on the avigno! Deed-Ford, where it kiss snes, unless bought over. He is well kran. A RAW St.-So 10 contrusts are reported. Abent\n\nprincipata by chair overland. Upon meewashiuya- lu No over, it was thoughts et excitement night | rinna íe eroded ating to route which would expose the prisoners danger, and he was there- Fere wing allow them to proceed to Maeso in tanie own Toren, the Chinees placing a guard on Boord. An alternative was suggested, ad peristips! the most satisfactory arrangement under the cir ethnames, thak Mainio, ni beu of other procecil- ings adust hun, should be called agon to unke some provision for the family of the man he had killed\n\nOn the 15 the Magistrale returned, and re- ported that the higher anthorities were dispose:l to deal leniently, but in Bue present size of oxcite mont, puemniary compenastion was out of the question. But if Haliole would agree to go over- 11, he alwall be esrayed under safe candnet, and not weabed as a criminal and be prosecdeá in has own vessel, it would be proper at an officcy and attendants shool Lavonny lim. The f gistrate als required she of thể thi tese crew in Le sont un glure, in order to compare his cvilince with that of the villagers.\n\nnesaswa, Bag., Interi\n\nOn the Acquisition of itgal Prunerty-Rognitions For the Cultivrition of Alla stat Tevaloids the fold vation of Werte Govciment lands: Da Commun Teen: Q ARenation -Deed of Sale- Pord-od. A MIORT ACCOUFT OF A VISIT TO THE HOT PGINGH OF YONG MAR; by J. C, Bawang, Esq.\n\nAnalysis of the Water.\n\nA TREATISE ON THE GONEAR SYSTEM OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOOY by W. A. Han\n\nPart), Anator-Part 2, Physiology.\n\n.D.\n\nNOTRE ON THE TSIRN, OR GOPPER CASH OF THE CHINESE: SC. B. Housa. Ten, Chef Magis- Trade of Hongkong.\n\nLe minst ForgNTS\n\nON THE MINEN OF THE ORINESE PAPIRE: the the AA GUT, Churae try to\n\ndocere\n\nierendene!: China Proper-Go Minas River Ninesfran Maos Copper Mine-nick- silver and above Clanahar Min\n\nOF PROCEFHINOS\n\nAng Amicie Socrity of Chinn-Office-bearen\n\nfor 847-fur 1848.\n\nREPORT OF THE COUNOH\n\nAPPENDIX.\n\nthe counterpart; and it would certainly save waters as a desperate vagabond. been unsuccessful, as persona farging such scala are punishable by dongation, immediately upon receiving the confirmation of the sentence by the | Criminal Board, which must be specially applied! for. It would therefore be highly biamentie to\n\nCANTON MARSET. (September 27, 1848) IMPORTS. Dorotðar sket eligws au adarce in the voice | of siis article,\n\nbuy cause! by ans\n\nan increased demand for Foreign\n\navo nave, to parade any as a little, it seemed of the pactal fellure of the active in work of this description. In enitting the\n\nDan during tuvath have boos,—2,400\n\nusing are, there was nothing striedy illegal, bulion Monday, and a 7 0 for old, and to 4 8.3 for new\n\n1,000 barus Bëngui, al 8.2 u R1 for all. 8si a 0.3 for new hut time toumaction if detector big involve and 2,400 Faders, 615385 for old, nu 973 an in serious difficulty. I would look suple now. Tho g is our osnal monthly statement ~ ¦ efoun, and the cirenmatter of the employer being a foreigner would not probably un iegarded my excurs. --China Mau, September 14.\n\nUNITED STATES CONSUL\n\nJ. N. A. Gaworu, Esq., has been appointed Consul for the United States at Shanghoë, in the room of Caleb Lyam of lyonsdni, hug, resigned, --China Mall, September 21.\n\nSustains for Perure Disoussion: List of Members MATTER EXTRACTED BY THE LEADING LONDON JOURNALS FROM NEWSPA PURS IN THE EAST,\n\nthe Society in 1817.\n\nThe panor by Mr Meadows which stands at\n\nFORD\n\nNesty 2015 September\n\nkey limg\n\nSk\n\nBetul,\n\nRocha. Bulc, 7,4\n\nMadras,\n\nរូ6,-i ឬ\n\n44.8 €3,77\n\n7,6\n\n2.0INI\n\n1,376 2,\n\nAmerican, u nea Shanghas,,\n\n2,370\n\n2,\n\n100\n\n모유\n\nTO\n\n..-.-\n\n----.\n\nWitch in the interior go forward per e\n\nAunts of a short orop are cârra. ed, and escalinae firm in their demands to high prices\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nOn ESGANG, nominal «4 42 10 4/5.\n\nFREIGHTS.\n\nTo Exalu, nominal at 4/16. bips would ined full cargo gladly at less\n\n•\n\nFrem our MANILA Correspondent. September 17, 1818.;\n\nIMPORT\n\nAt this season of the year tas market is commonly in 40 377 a raty dull stato, but as present it is more than mua!} Ew the cavy stocian care costiarily re 5,167 ceirley didous. The Yuencia Tom Singapore 175 Line of British gods, and the Concurd and St Pavaro the United States have the into ste markyta lieagy lot of 16 pics AUSKICAN BROW SI 400 ps of Darte, part of which have ben sokk ut $94 in 10 yds of the frier, and $2 for 2 yils of the liter; and a father recessio 13 expected per Propratt9. Hair 2 CECTUS --\n\n555 1,181\n\nTotal Bale, 1,438 2020 57.619 77,437 69,113 Sport kan verehressa in blog ofte by improvers don In the math he is elit, he Time Then the digkeiten Sah on the now, s, ir lie il trejur , del pike Stel ja mina inanajer 2 Pack itu saya, sahil nani kawęd |___Bose Chopra--In Betle desand at ageren:ed mates. for Tely, vix-16,600 plecus Grere at fur emang, 2.30 Tio vady salon which have been made were excite\n\nre 25-10); 02. a Oik weight.1g7 catii. 230 20: and 75%, 975028 lindres hice have bood dioned of at 915 3855 for con, 250 2970 for\n\nsales are reported of\n\nsome 200 pu» z+§3a $35. axording to youli'yi tor\n\nstar respos the inpert arket is dull, and the sy cecite of ajnost every article of consequenc\n\nEXPORTS\n\nSome port and perchases have hech made of Current Wayne at 53 aid at $35, deliverable within a short time, and the dealyts, in condequeue ef these car suctions, diansol to halit out for\n\nwho are asking\n\nall\n\nATE i was on nnivated by the Coosal to the nester of puncher lovela, No. 13, who came to the\n\nthe head of the Bat is a masterly mac, written 1s turning over some old numbers of the Bombay 661 and R 280 for 7 day for intelligence, and to state that his friend with great precision of myle and chee adherence Saliole had determined to posed to Maces to the street, the nority of which is wis mate has reference to a portion of 1845, bus what par- and aaolib in Ali to 27.063 paces, at 28 a 250) kr 20 in Jantalons There is a nud\n\nAMMAN DosThe sales at Strille during the muath Times, we came upon the following Table, while | having already lifted his chor and dropped down\n\nhave been chify to speculators, sist at reddoud cas, beinn the Chinese slipping. He declined to sedemies meal facts or elstituting me writing for\n\nthe occasion for building ignory theorica on tin dues not appear: we presume the second yards, and Ste 8 for 40 yards ads. Jeans in deal of Zeb stored by the hoitors, wh in of be wrew on shôn, thas hicing meressary, So, through his end of No. 18, he admitted the account of what occurred as given by the villagers to be the correst one, Balíolo profossing to have been fortarly misle by us men, whic\n\nder to adnit their having originatel tie bmw! to explain ia cause addo that the fact of having been accompanied by other foreigners when he wont ca love, we quite true. Hugh he paser entire, instead of setveting extracts,\" Do future occasion we shall rotund to the Trimes died to ten it in Instant to the tone, which contaio, jesides a peer on the Cons?\n\nquarter. Fet however that my be, the Table is exacu-10 pieces sold a 24 Sheraz no. 92, and me purchases have been made for the gland shows the fuss Mail to have even then kedator Ya Phu sales of English have been 1,500 beets 4293 per post; but the demand for\n\nthing doinu-prices nominal ut 2875.\n\nat $1- and titereabouts Pampanga ustayed haw fourth aring thirteen Oriental Papers published holes-N 10 24, 25869308.30 24 a 53, 3154 Aussaat stack at present, and my voels loading fac\n\nand 2389 h 348 Prosent etiel: 214 bales. 1583 gameICT.\n\nsubstantial informou, after a fashion to com- mon with contributors to leaned Sueleties. In the hands of a more dxcursiva writer the matter of the present Esny would probably have van tiscale to the reader. spne out to twice the extent, withag! being so s\n\nAnether advantage of\n\nthis condensation is that it alles us to give the\n\n1 baca of 13lan Toy My Gutelaff, nahor on a sud\n\nOf course the authorities Have heard nothing jeet still lesa hiwe, by Dr Hesland, Chisere ince of Balin, who is not at all likely bentory and Phyridongy, which deserves more his purse to lacan, where the Governor of that Province would doubtless take the opportunity\n\nChua euch a cursory notice as we coull now give it clear up the ocenities of the Probation Medines prices to dab of the Acquisiting of After intercinetory crvation Me pomulgated in the Buiesim do Governo, about retine sa sinar waning was kained by the British Penitentiary. Gdy stray anherz\n\nin India, China, and the Straits.\n\nProportion of Mulder extreeter tos: forces\n\n·291530: 98 n\n\nagain bal at the slave Salsa rebutted of avern: thousand pieuse at $56 factiu leur than . A quantity is d by the agent of the Proridin wines, whie cold sobald he bought at tia fast gantalin, although half\n\nreal atov: iced.\n\nTIG: last year. 500 les Amerings Ware sold in the mara of bugs the monais at 278 21350 for No. 15 25. WOODLES% little macul-2000 CDs States STRIFE have been told als\n\nIhre 16-20\n\nNarning Wipers in the west of the Judía, la volează, (Auvny a portion of 1849.)\n\n(Fam \"De Benley Tim, Dersler 13, 1917.)\n\nReal Property in Chine?\" and apon this point Bombay Times. states, that \"real property can at pressul only bo\n\nTelegraph & Courlo\",\n\nCalzata Englishman. Bungal (erkara-\n\n*\n\n5\n\n161\n\n210\n\nCaldarts Star,...\n\nf\n\n201\n\n+\n\n39\n\nKornelion Adverker\n\n고금\n\n11\n\nPolestar reis us, and the one coursising acquiend in three ways: first, be cultivation of deteran's Garaute. e last we ever saw, but the following which is include the acquisiti at uredeene\n\nundecuplet land; Borondly, by peclan in Pelli Ovetto... cantation appeared some tee sgu in the long kong Register :--\n\nhaving ge in the age of groeihener the Durer of the Province that in the service with at tantras fion this plats are ongesel, of co- jader in vessels traslug to the porta the thing, for the past of delending in Pro. die wurks of g\n\nChina Mail.\n\nmortgagel property); and thirdly, by her Madras Atheneum, tance. Leaving the sued and third \"modes of ! acquisition to be trwalod of separately, under the bead of * Alienation,\" he proceeds to give soul of Chien,\n\nHongkong Register, hatance of the general law of China (extracto from various edes published under Imperial Barton Times...\n\nwhich are not actionlead he lay, and Pales have givet e.\n\nfpirates, cords have bras exited authority), m Aequisition by Culfiration. After\n\n* In Chian Kril, No 197. Sept. 14, wer'sly invite.\n\n! China Mail, September 7.\n\nA 5 -- 90 per plaerd at 1850 a 2800. Im Knave deed. We queurial 08701 SP, A390 ta ya The salos Save beat 1930 Pea, of the farmest, and Yana a latur\n\n\"Nasking driers nominal 4 205\n\nTA, and 225 209 far week. Its gada log.\n\nBOBALPVEU06 13535.\n\nALEPAT TROY Xatrod and Jiren 45203 N§; Bar, 3830 m\n\nas wort 78 TIX AT-88850 AR-5.\n\nGemasan.de ius a Kp. Ciarhed 1255 a 15§. CORRAL Large alankuminal at 1663 3 Java, Hd 170 for 3 aniran\n\nBain\n\nmal 9,000 plead at 2420 5 HATTAN--Saosing-imports beavy petendo! In Log-fanjarawing 38 - 3950; Stratis 2930 u 3520:\n\nTater %%n@.”\n\npics have been sold at 10 a 3550 Jo is sxluble.\n\nPercur§51) er. 85.\n\nCurcu-24 a 550\"\n\nSANDAL Wonoce have boon heavy riports, but\n\nSAWAY WOO-Good straight wood has born lakes at $5 per perl, but fur lately. nat.\n\nnta $15 le askot. There Jvc bc reosive.i fron, in Pravdary ¿e le les active it was",
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        "content_text": "A 16 of 1851.\n\nInclosures No 1 in Dish:\n\nat Cantons intimating\n\nSeizure of Phuc-tho-\n\n\"Letter from a Chinese\n\nRevel 147\n\nAt The Gowary, 1851,\n\n70\n\nat even its greatest advocates will not assert how far they followed as he was lying on the ground\n\none officer was short, the other tall never saw them of use in reclaiming offenders. With the verdict differ; and we have also something afterwards; but not see the body of Captain DaCosta; never saw the officers before, knows nothing more of to say on the manner in which the case was brought before the Court; up these points how his own knowledge.\n\nCross examined, -Chuy-apo lives next door; there ever we cannot enter present, but may do so in is no communication between the houses-does not our next issue.\n\nknow whether Chuy-apo was armed before he was On the subject of the line of defence we are also struck; he aimed at himself immediately after he was unable to speak Tough, and wherefore for the struck. Chuy-apo was in a 'passion; he did not pretext re fuse from speaking merely re-speak or say what put him in a passion; his daughter-in-law and Chuy-in-law ran away after the foreigners had been wounded outside; his wife called out \"save life,\" Chuy-apo ut uke exes would have resulted as it has done,\n\nhad created a disturbance in Chuy-apo's house be- fore this, but does not know anything from his own\n\nAn extra Sessions of the Supreme Court was held knowledge. He did not see the officers wounded, on the 10th instant, for trial of Chuy-apo, charged locks with other things; the paddy field belongs to Chuy-apo is possessed of a house, and 7 or bull- with the murder of Captain DaCosta at Wong-na-chok, on the 25th day of February, 1849.\n\nThe Attorney General for the Crown. Mr. Gaskell for Prisoner.\n\nThe Attorney General proposed to consolidate the two indictments, one for murder by stabbing, and the other for murder by drowning.\n\ndid not assist in killing the officers, saw Clan-kow\n\nsman, Ahing, Leen-ping, Aman, and others assisting killing the officers; the men gave a reason for attacking the foreigners.\n\nLe-arow, boy, sworn, (son of last witness), ---Remembers the 25th February, 1849; was at home at\n\nrice, his sister-in-law waking up a fire, when two off-\n\nMr. Gaskell agreed to this. He objected to jurisdiction, founding objection wording of Supplementary Treaty, (rote taken by his Lordship),\n\nChuy-apo refused to plead; indictment read by Mr. per came into the house and embraced her; his sister-in-law's witness name is Lo-chun-ehe; she and ins R. D. Cay, Registrar of Court, plea of \"not guilty\" ther called out for help, and Chug-apo and others entered.\n\nFurther objection on ground of kidnapping, to being annoyed came and beat the officers; the officers settled by Su and Sir George Bonham: warrant of did nothing else but embrace his sister-in-law; she Curader demand, to show the illegality of con- ciste, is father tried to get the officers out of mittal. His Lordship remarked that it mattered the house before Chuy-apo came. Chuy-apo esme as ittle, there was the man. Indictment translated by soon as the women called for help, his father was M. R. D. Caldwell. Answer by Choy-ebo on the head: then Chay-apo went and anointed above and earth below. Told he might challenge embraced, he first of all requested them (the officers) himself; when his father saw his daughter-in-law the Jury. His counsel demanded a Jury de meditate Langue, when the following were empanelled. Eng-father on the head, the ground bled; the prisoner and to leave the house; they would not, they struck his\n\nlishmen, J. C. Bowring, G. Smart, and W. A. Bow\n\nhis party then came on; after Choy apo came he stab- Foreigners-J. A. Barretto, S. Dellevic, and F. A.\n\nbel the officers at the corner of the house; Chuv-apo only came once, he was armed, did not see what Lo-chun-she, girl, sworn,-Recollects the 25th February, 1849, was then living at Wong-ma-kok in L-ace's her father-in-law) house. While cooking dinner, two foreigners came in and embraced her, one was\n\ndressed in dark clothes, and the other in white; they were dressed as civilians. They came from Chuk-chu; never saw them before; both embraced her his house; the rick field was what he meant when is a road to the brick field where they were killed from embraced her from behind, the other from before he said the corner of the house; the officers struck Her mother-in-law tried to get her away from them. Lo-chow-she is her mother-in-law's name, does not know where her mother-in-law is at present; they struck, her mother-in-law, blackened her, eye and cut her father-in-law's head. Her father-in-law's wound bled from blow with a stick; both had sticks, they were among walking sticks with knobs. Father and mother-in-law tried to push them out of house-they would not go, but flourished their sticks at all near them. Chur-apo came with spear in hand, and wounded them both: would not know the spear. There were several people with Choy-apo, about five people Chay-apo interfered because he was a relation, and also, because her father-in-law and mother-in-law called. All five men were ed for assistance to save their lives.\n\nthe Chinese before they went out of the house, both parties left the house, the officers ran away; they were dead when slung on bamboos; the bodies were cown into the water, the bodies were tied by their hands and feet, and slung on a pole with a rope round their waist; was distant from there 100 covids when they were slang on the bamboo; saw them speared from his house; the shortest space he was from them was as the bodies were carried past, about 30 covids; would know the men that slung the bodies; Chuy-apo did not carry; does not know the bodies; he saw the prisoner and his party sling\n\nif any thing was done with the bodies before they were thrown into the water; knows no more. Has\n\narmed with spears. Cannot say on what part of the elder and a younger brother; his young brother's name is Ea-show; he has gone to see some relations badly they, the officers, were wounded. They were\n\n& Tam-showy; does not know if his brother is sub- wounded at the door of the house; Choy-apo then ran\n\ntall: would know the spear with which the officers were stabbed, identifies it, it belongs to the prisoner.\n\naway. Chuy-so called some people to carry the bodies, and throw them into the water. The integn-\n\ners ran away first; they were pursued by Chuy-po and\n\nCross examined, Cannot see the place where the the men with spears-they were pursued 50 or 60 covids-they were then killed with knives and spears, officers were killed from his house; the time was Could not entity any of the other men besides Chuy-about dark, the place was several tens of covids off; apo, had only been in village a short time saw nothing he went out; dire about half-past 7 P. M.; both were more take place; being frightened ran away to the hills. killed; others assisted besides Clay-apo. There Saw the bodies carried away before she ran away; they were six or seven, he saw when he describes when he were tied and slung on bamboos; they were carried went out. He could see from his house, all he has towards the sea, they were dead when so slang. She described. The officers were stabbed before he went was about 50 feet from them when they were slung on the bamboos. She remained two days in the hills; knows nothing further.\n\nout, he did not see them stabbed; they were dead when slung on the boo; did not see a spear taken | out of Choy-apo's hand; saw the officers come to Choss examined, Chuy-apo lived next door but the village and saw them go into his father's house; one to her father-in-law, there is no communication he was in the house. The Chinese only came to his between the houses; he brought his weapons from his father's house once; did not see the officers go to own base. Chuy-apo was struck first; was struck Chay-apo's house; saw them go into other houses, by both officers with their sticks. They struck him a and interfere with women, saw but himself; did not good many blows before by carned them; cannot go into the houses but could see from outside; the describe the nature of their wounds; they were made officers went inside of the houses; did not see the with a spear. Says the \"did not, and then she did,\" officers strike Chuy-apo before they went this give the above esilencent Coroner's inquest. She said father's house; did not swear so at Coroner's in the fight with her own eyes. It was about & te quest; saw Chuy-apo come out of his house with a o'clock . ., dark, could just see, disturbance first took place in the house and afterwards contioned out- Charles May, sworn. Remembers the 25th February, 1849; received on the morning of the 26th, in- and then followed. The foreigners returned to the formation that Captain DaCosta and Lieutenant Dwyer house, the Chinese also returned. The Chinese were were missing from their quarters at Stanley; went armed both times when they came. She did not say at Stanley with Mr. Caldwell and a party of police. the Coroner's inquest that she knew Chay-ago, Ins Arved at Stanley about half-past 10 . ., found had no conversion with any one in jail on this sub-three Chinese in charge of the Military, examines jech; was in jail with a woman, boatwoman; had no them through Mr. Caldwell; the last witness was one; conversation with her; swears Chug-apo and others the others are not here to-day. The last witness killed them.\n\nsaid he had been at home all day at Wong-ma-kok, Re-examined, Two or three days elapsed between and has seen no Europeans during the day. Made the death an inquest; as at Coroner's inquest as at present.\n\nof Wong-ma-kok, having heard that the missing Jasze, old man, sworn, is a husbandman, lives officure were last seen in that direction. On a path at Wong-na-kok,--Remembers the 25th February, 1849; was living at Wong-ma-kok; that day is of blood; trace the marks upwards about 400 yards, daughter-in-law was cooking in his house, two foreigners came in, and went and embraced her; she was could not discover any blood opposite the village that then only 10 years old, was frightened and ashamed; day; next day saw this rings of blood opposite it in requested them to leave the house; was afraid they different places. At the last corner opposite house would take liberties with his daughter-in-law, they of Lo-ase, saw marks of blood on a rock, the took hold of her by the breast. He and my feng tigt mck was at the corner of another path than tint kuey wutuu vaktave ner, only that they would take li- | heating a dinner the path at the other side berties; desired them to desist; they would not leave of the rock led to a brick field; searched the houses the house when he spoke to them. Some people the village, and in them were clothes hanging up making gunpowder came to drive them away, being dry; they were not perfectly dry then. In Lo vexed with their conduct. When he told them to go anze's house, in addition to the clothes there was a away one struck him on the head, the blow knocked towel with marks of blood, it had been washed; bra down and he bled; there was blood all over bus while ascending the path to village saw a Chinatman clothes, the blow was given with a common walking on the hill, beckoned to him, he came, it was Lo-asze, stick having a silver or zinc knob. The men who examined him, saw a fresh wound on right side of came fought with the foreigners, but when they left his head, he had marks of blood on his heels, also the house he does not know what occurred as he on a band fastening up a trowsers. He said was lying on the ground. His daughter-in-law and he had been at the village all the preceding day wife enlad for assistance. The men then came were but had not seen any Europeans; said the wound armed with spears; would know the men so armed, on his head was caused by falling over stone, Identifies Chuy-zpn, he was one of the men that returned to Hongkong that night. On the morning of 27th came out to Staley (a large party of military The foreigners struck Chily-apo first: were ordered out to search, went from Stanley in e, Clay, went out first and called the officers to a boat and landed i a fishing station at bottom of a come out, but they would not go; Chuy-ape then went path leading to Wong-ma-kok, on this path: drops of and arrested himself. The fight commenced before he blood were visible; saw where the drops of Blood was struck the low on his head was received accident- seemed to end on this path, and on another path on ally while the foreigners were fighting their way outside of hill parallel with the sea, discovered ber Kows nothing further. Two of prisoner's party were drops of blood at some distance from the fishing sta woel in his house, the officers were not; the for- tion; among the racks in a cave found several bundles eigners left first, the Chinese were forcing them out. of clothing ascended the path to the village tracing Prisoner's party followed the officers, does not know the blood all the way. Several seamen and soldiers\n\nforeigners.\n\nwere searching; towards evening heard that one of the seamen had seen some blood on the rocks near the water; went to the place and found two or three large pools of blood, and in one place as if a body covered with blood had been dragged over the rock, this place was about 200 yards from fishing station, and in same direction in which the blood was traced in the morning. Directed my boatmen to search opposite this place; they searched with a boat hook without discovering any thing for some time. There was a heavy swell, and in keeping the boat off the rocks the broken handle of a spear fell into the water; he ing one of the spears from the village, I ordered the boatmen to recover it, as it was part of the evidence, it had sunk and was entangled among the seaweed). While the boatmen were trying to recover it a body became visible among the seaweed, which I recognis- ed to be that of Captain DaCosta. There were several wounds on head, hands, and body, that in the eye appeared to have been inflicted by a triangular spear; the body was taken to Stanley Enrracks that night, and subsequently brought to Victoria.\n\nDanie! R. Culdwell, sworn,-Has heard Mr. May's evidence; accompanied him to Stanley and Wong- ma-kok, on the 26th and 27th February. Was not with Mr. May all the time; ordered by him to trace the blood towards the water, found the blood on path leading from Wong-mu-kok to water: Mr. May went up to the village, I went towards the water; Acarted about half way from Wong-ma-kok traced blood to within 60 yards of small fishing but, a short distapes from the water; found live Chinese in the but and took them to enslody; found nothing suspicious, and not being able to trace blood further went back to the vil-\n\nlage, where I found Mr. May, Ailer searching about the village, returned to Hongkong with Mr. May. We went hack next morning to Wong-ma-kok; found a portion of spear in the village with marks of blood in consequence of a report that a large quantity of blood had been seen near the water, we all went dawn corroborates Mr. May's statement as to find- ing Captain DaCosta's body; jumped into the water, and brought it on shore by a rope round the arts; returned, finding that further search was useless as it was becoming dark. Searched the pockets, found the watch has gone, the rings were also missing; touk the body Stanley, Corroborates the account of the state of body as to wounds on head, hands, and face, saw other wounds after the body was undraseed; } the body was taken from Stanley to Hongkong. Went to the village some days after with Lo-acow, who point- ed on the exact places where the others were killed, one was in a brick field; there was a pool of blood there.\n\nCrons examined,-The place where Captain Da Costa was killed was absent 74 yards from corner of house at the end of village. Could not see from the house the price where Captain DaCosta was killed, there were trees intervening. The place where Jasze-\n\ntenant Dwyer was killer is about 150 yards further, from where Captain DaCosta was killed. Could not see the place where Captain DaCosta was killed until within 30 yards of it.\n\nRe-examined. When the boy pointed out the spot where Captain DaCosa was killed he said he was an eye-witness to the killing\n\nW. Morrison, Colonial Surgeon, sworn,Examined the body of Captain DaCoste on or about the 29th, in Conjunction with Dr. Tweddell, at the dead house of the Military hospital, Vistoria, dll not make an exact post- mortem. Discovered three wounds inflicted by a knife or sword on the scalp, penetrating to the scull; at outer angle of left eye a perforated wound, made apparently by a spear. Such an instamment as the spear with a cutting edge might have inflicted the wounds on the scalp. There was a large wound on the right hip three inches long made by a cutting instrument, the esa kond of spear might have done it; there were very severe contusions, on the hands, face, and back, us if the body had been beaten. Think none of the wounds sufficient to cause death. Did not open the body from the advanced state of decomposi tion. Dr. Tweddell, agreed in my opinion. I think Captain DaCaste was thrown in alive and drowned. Probable that Captain DaCosta was either in a state of syncopé or altering from concussion of the brain when thrown into the water. I form this opinion from the appearance and nature of the wounds-the water would operate in the same way to came death whether the person suffered from syrempe or concussion of the brain---drowning would be the cause of death. Chain DaCosta if suffering from concussion ang't have remained in an insensible state for two or three days, if in syncopé could not remain so two 3 hours and live,\n\nCross examined,--The handle of the spear could i not produce the wounds on the body, the head of the y spear broken off, would not produce the cat wounds, it might produce the wound in the eye.\n\nThe Attorney General proposed to read the depositions of the absent witnesses,\n\nMr. Gaskell objected on the ground that the late Ordinance only applied to Chinese witnesses and ) was not retrospective.\n\nLieutenant Macdonald's filed deposition read. L-acow, re-examined as so City-apo's attaching the bodies to the bamboo. Flo-yung-ping, Aman, Acheng, and Chahen, carried the bodies; the prisoner did not carry the bodies, but was present. Chuy-apo accompanied the bodies to the water; he witness did not go himself to the water, saw when they passed, the prisoner accompanying, following behind\n\nCase for prosecution closed.\n\nMr. Gaskell in defence pointed out the conflicting nature of the evidence.\n\nThe Judge in summing up entreated the Jury to dismiss from their minds all prejudice; to give the prisoner the same chance as if he were an English man or as if he were guilty of killing one of his own countrymen. Read evidence. Convente on its discrepancies, especially in the difference between Lo-chua-she's evidence before the coroner, and that now delivered. If they thought the prisoner had? sufficient provocation (and he undoubtedly had some) ( that the verdict would be manslaughter; if so, war der the prisoner would of course receive the benefit of any doubt which they might have on the case.\n\nThe Jury retired at 5 o'clock P. M., to consider their verdict, and returned at 5. m., with verdict, \"guilty of manslaughter.\"\n\nThe prisoner said he ought to be sent to his own country to be punished.\n\nThe Judge agreed with the verdict; he could not have condemned the prisoner to death on such evidence.- Sentence to be transported for life.\n\nTHE RIVAL NAVIES.\n\n(From the Naval Service Magazine for December, 1850.J Whenever there The lull in the excitement of public affairs, the cry is raised country is in danger. I danger of winter France, of Tais, of America, ex- claim the writers of alarm. The fortifiedips of Cher be impregnable; a vast aval force to s",
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        "content_text": "the Chinese Emigrants on board the ship \"Emigrant.\" \n\nDo you know whither you are going.\" \n\nAnd for what purpose? \n\nDo you know quite willing do you propose to remain in Demerara?\n\nHow long do you intend the probable length of the voyage to be?\n\nHow much shall you get per month?\n\nWhat is the reason which makes you emigrate altogether?\n\nDo you... join your family there?\n\nRemarks.\n\n232\nSeet Ateer38Chaung lok Ka\nYour Mind27Chang ling Wei chow De\nFrow\nAcherna28<Tong koon Havang chow Dr.\nChory Ack39Kuvei theen Weichow Dr.\ning chowYesNone\nMother onlyStone cutter#1 broncer, 2 padded pain jackets, & quite well\nse signed itYesbrandering 10 years New country\nKlea labor40 daysyes 3 years No\nYes$5 that of work\n2\nSoAgriculturist.1 1⁄2\nDo.DoDo\nDob DeDon't knowDo\nJeDr.Dr.\nYoDo.To earn money\nDoDeOfe.\nFre.Даملاک De.\nDon't knowdon't knowNo 2.\n2 yearsDeDe\nDr.OfeI expected more advance to leave with m\n4 family2وم\nNoCurer of FishDo.\nYesScondarialbyears La fr\nTo go into Service2 monthsYes 5 years De Fr. Fr. Offe\n\nNote- Regarding the answers to the question \"Are you quite willing to go to Demerara?\" they are willing, remark that, although the men have stated that they only say so because they believe that once come on board and signed the agreement, that it would be useless to say that they are unwilling because no one would listen to them, and they cannot get away?\n\n(True Copy),\n\nMaine Colonial Registry\n\nSigned) D.R. Caldwell\n\nGeneral Interpreter.",
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        "content_text": "175\n\nthe countrised with the betony, but less cannot be derived from heavy expenses & such salt when taken in her quality of favour and\n\nof the Government House.\n\nH. Hong Kong, when there\n\nno commodious hotels, and only new commercial\n\nestablishments in\n\naddition to derive guests, the\n\na considerable sum upon this hospitalisation\n\nfrequently\n\nof the Government.\n\nhigly vorrsistibh. Not only an\n\nthis com\n\nEnglish gentleman officially recommended to him from all parts of the world, but distinguished foreigners,\n\nefying devated Etiqat\n\nkur tions, naturally representing their att ewhons, with\n\nin the Labels of\n\nwhich high function are is\n\nwelcoming our\n\nferat a\n\nIequently\n\nations.\n\nQ.11\n\naurther. The sticks of in any\n\nA As\n\nnow in the China dear,\n\nthing thing King this head quartering\n\nwhile the peopling of Western America, as\n\ncuigration to Australia\n\nwrth\n\n&\n\n...\n\nAur Tides of curr qe\n\nimmensity extruding the world in the activity.\n\nRud I\n\nintensor both bubble of private in Cheng,\n\nmay be allowed to and that Hing King\n\nis\n\n...\n\nof the dearest places in the world. Your Grav has etes bisporre the\n\nlamter appointment\n\nI Lav venter is\n\nsuppression of the lide da\n\n2\n\nwhen Salary\n\nis £300 a year\n\nvny\n\nto suggest to less blandson that the heavy duties impend upon the officials\n\nin the Wefternatre corpachment moths if desimult that the Fevernes buti lwn the assistant\n\nprivats écentury at a Salary of £200\n\nI have\n\n11.0\n\nwith whatever that the\n\na\n\na year linda dr\n\nbump should be istaines, but this bass bun\n\nafsistants. mit unsirquant oursions when our\n\n\"\n\nhave almost surth under Au quantity of labour\n\nthe brarcus stat q\n\nand on\n\nuspond offer them, and\n\nChina, d'anticipate rather an augmentation\n\nU an\n\nA\n\ndiminution of complexnent\n\nAs the changes etrady decided upen\n\nas\n\nby Your Grai tring with them\n\nblend wax-3\n\n...\n\nand as others ur\n\nvery large deritis will forno.\n\nventure humbly to hopes that Hear Gran\n\nwell consent to allow a\n\npection of the Colomat\n\nbay be allach to the offer of the\n\nhave the hover to th\n\nMy hard Butth\n\nthith Sente\n\nwith the highest respirol Your Grace, mint obid :\n\nJohn Bonus\n\nHaving\n\nreen Dr. B. & reach to him the proposed wangento (of which he had also been previously punched worse) I non susporried.\n\nat the last paragraph of the better.\n\nI cannot now atth what\n\nmade\n\nhas been arranged after to Burch wuiduation by all Partis.\n\nI would not object to a. P. Split, but I understand Fin\n\nto apply & til: 24.6 m",
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        "content_text": "85\n\nHoak lome,\n\nNam cheng\n\nIng heng, Shopkeepers at East Point\n\nalso give ... What a good character.\n\nSuitor Doctor at East Point gives prisoner a good character.\n\nFirst Prisoner, States that he was a Pawnbroker at Sokopon, and collecting money from customer when he was into custody - Calls The king ching, who being sworn, states, know a butcher ... this prisoner at Sakhipor, and gives him a good character!\n\nSecond Prisoner repeats the statement made before the Police Magistrate which is as follows : - \"I deny this charge ... the bangles in colour ... which were found in my possession, they were given by my elder brother to my sister while yet a child ... years ago. My sister being about to be married, I was taking the bangles to a Silversmith to have them made larger when I was taken into custody.\"\n\nFourth Prisoner states that he was a hawker of fish at Sokopon, and lived in the line of Le Work - That he went to bed at ... clock on the night of the 1 January,",
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        "content_text": "27\n\nMina to pag-did not give him so understand that I was scale he was not going away.\n\n\"Gerard by Belles,\n\nhey thos\n\nmen de finally\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\n\nMare. I saw the birth and tenth priscacs n board the ma-ter of Alluny's business. I said that if he diwas paid. He owed about 15,000-partly for four others of the Badly on the passage they overmied Chim several tens of dollars or a badrcil. I made tud Thistle. I believe 300 is due on the promissory only when in sight of the Prais Chande, but I see not press the business, I would set my shop, and gipartly prouissory notes for hire of the same s in the sb, the dotresites and his father and brolis fore-entia. Esing empradore i busrd, offer entirely en\n\nAl sets the Insitus in the reta:) shoe it thit 100 songst the prisoners; i dones know fleiri en Day of Abluto's funt's in the subject our abacush previous, I selit li 16 dags of 2013, vwn responsibility, I have uotes, oud the rest for flour which I sappiled about one\n\nench did not suspect that be was going to icare The Cowel sentence the last wires to six sunthu' in Island, until he had left he promissory nets fril I did not reate there. Ithak, plize abent 9. Ablam said he had very important business 11\n\ndue on the 5th January, it was drawn about four au to 400 peple, awue tints are at leasecord-\n\nDOUGELY LAPIAIN-I Bougkeng and an sked the Caplaid to lake the steam-auner is his father, the fat is n entiers of Bility stay-drawn on the sue date. Titis witness gir ing the goator of the bread prutace- did or back to Hongking The Capris said he contal thians. The R-sing firm had two establishment. his evidence un eros, examination very reluctantly, the perintend the aging of the bread-Bones 1 do it. Ahlus said i had very supertant business kenw the retail shop Ablue is er or master, à Attorney Generell its ceply said har to drag it hat two Evropen forthes and some Chinese bakere, Hongkong, in answer to the Captain, who asked him father superinters the shop ustness, I am not aware, out by air force.) Ponais e Change arman; and somariose de why he was a hurry to go back, kala conversation thing berst up and there was no korvan a alt. My with: Ablam soos after. I said the wul that was pur-bread of him on 15th and was aude sick by it\n\nkhus share. Inta a customer of -sing broug Boris magh the Chinese how to make broal,\n\nYKONG Kwa Sow, -1 cu a builder. I have three chase. this morning from your shop male every and the mechanic part of the baking was done hair very sick; he replid, that was the resou hetou for the Port of Steamers Between & and monthly for an indefinute period. He asked me to wake by Cal-sc. 1 csider the bakery is worth 100,\n\nA Ben was Agent for Mr. Murrow in Choses beland theEing batery. I am sequainted with\n\nAhlum--On the 19th January, I let the houses to Ahl elling the penis, ne more u tom de heto him, saying, that it was very probalde dat all the Pedders' wharf. I saw a boat passing in the entwan month each-3 months payable in odrame.\n\nwanted to get back to liongkong. I went u uslking to 7. I was in a small boat is the Labor, not fur ir ovens in this for him hakery. They were let a m E-sing ces was courly increasing, and tutely pee who eat his bread were sitt be left very met 9. Mang entirely supplies the Counissariat Hongkong the same day; and thou ke asked if the\n\ndirection and rocognised one man, Ablulu, on boa color tot wah £2,000, the maenines $3,00 Captan would take the reamer back the same eveniny fur\n\nI have been acquainted with him for about sendwall of the business, $1.600, and stock $3,000 on the $100. I said I did not know. ith Jary. I was in the Colony when she shops were thought of sis bastuces lie said it is a little thing which naked his was he\n\nyears. I had meen him on the 28th Dec. in the shop conversed with him; he recognised me the porter shot me in November. I don't know the forcuan of the litru ruerteciue will make all proper. This was ter\n\nwed. I called hic by Lame, I was 50 paces from him lakery tanne I know the name of the man that called the most active man, I know hitaas I have son\n\nbe offered Mr. Agabes and the Captain together $156 to\n\nhad an object in bailing him, it was to ascertain wheti ! him in the hipnoz doprtment; and know putting of the which they sit they could not do; and that it was seird the Steamer back to Hongkong that evening,\n\nsteaper was going to start for Macua. He made no bread department I know him to se ha most active better to wait until next morning. The fire was pub\n\nI strange at the time. in the bakery, The bay was being enlarged and snt inmediately me: we arrived in the inner harbour. pr wel in December last\n\nHe acele e isle anle ranga, The fast jure I wae Ahium on our was when! European not even Mr Morrow, bread bi ta commnunty, com say my so he dado ao was talking to the Captain; he then offered $59 if h\n\nbay ay lust, Wien ut the bakery business would tagg lúm kurie to: Fungkong that night; 15; Captin i present fur contes know Ahim, the last propaths ego. There is another promissory nofs due\n\nhat which was not the one I was accustomed in w balted him only once, Re evomized-it did not occurred to me that wy & would make Allum not recognize me.\n\nuf\n\nNo - a working haker, Long Ahoy la my master. He is the commissarrin haker-I am fere- man. Jang Ahoy does not superintend the Bakery, but leaves it entirely to me.\n\nCrossmined by the Attorney General,I a Ablum's friend-ne elution-no relation by earringe\n\nmonths' real was gaid on the 13th, in advance. One of the Jupes is still in my possession, the upper story is broken up for the purpose of buikling the ovens. I have given up possession, of the two others. There are now er to my bail and tumed away his head; I though ply four barrels in them. Cozamined by Dr. Bridges.---I was in a China be Toususamer å boy-woodenter at the sing he went in tow the parish steamer to the inner ba-beur,\n\nThe elame anised of the Praia Grande, and thesiliout a cover, I was denseed, mach na usul. I had ry, rocog med at the prisoners except the 31 pioner; they belonged to the Esing bakury on in and hatwe blom sad the Capturis soon after we got into Crained my Mr. Day heard nonversation Tak Ja mary. The 3 and 46 prisomes are brund the inner haroser; it took plñen en the deck spousite the Inkara\n\nCaptain's stock ruota. I could not go forward, the place Creamed by Mr. Day was captured with a burrianded, and all the Chinese passengers wore cleven others n the 15:1, January in the upper part of forend of tin harricade. I heard that sum of the F-ei the takery; the eleven were bleet kera. There were\n\nothers on the piers at the sime To S 6th and Chicae pese gers that pay $1, al Another that pay $2 family on tammi, were sick Tha ja one class of 8th prisoners were among these arrested. There were both are be rented out. The 12 passengers are in the no other perpen in the house than ise arvestat. We fore-cata; and t passengers down slow, forward. ram taken to the palice stacion. I was questioned by-sug and his family were in the cabin, and lus onder Mr. Mag together wet til uther eleven me. Thurs and ather Chines were an deck, the barriquis is were only guiva pesent us the time, We were al sent isun mal confica! by uncive. I do not szil al 's family had been sick, I saw no of the\n\ntaean the und the after part of the steamer. Alumif know Mickson, or Mr. Turner, or the detorney very sick an Serd, could not see the rest of his Gonerat, (who are pointed out to lika.) So one femily who wers in the in Ahlem said that he als spokann na about giving evidenon. I was brought was sick, he was not sick in my presence. I do not from the cell to the place below and brought up here,\n\n1. 31, RN, 1 was it from eating broad absinus sous-I do know them, of the bags w\n\nknow if these two boys, who werd very sick, wựn Al- from the B-sing shop, on the 15th January last, in pensei somuching like the 2nd prisoner bezwen isend 17. yours yance of which I made gagnvies after the misere: fag. Bore offers ware made in the inner harley, Antons, sed à fouel he had leg the Colony for Mano That unborning.\n\nANTONIO XAVIK,- ans Captain of the Shamrock\n\nIncertainthe goverment had not de-\n\nAfter the orgina. 12as taken, of which Loveha I w\n\neffect that he had secreted the E-sing preatises on Diputy frapector Boyle's \"depositions read to 15th January but found nothing of a spicious natu Join Dunn-Police Inspector-I proceeded to Esing shop in Queen's Road Bass, on the morning gave them to Mr. Grande, the lath, had brought bread and dour front there,\n\nI remeber only ou, the Grat prisoner. I de net kan Create camined by Dr. Bridgea-I apprehended in\n\ninquiry if any had absconded. I searched the sho any one had abscended that drunking. I did not na ncing suspicions was found!\n\nHO ACHAT, WomanOn the 15th January, I was resuled in Alto's Bakery, Queen's Road East. I lived with Ahium's family, and it consists of Cheng Aliee bla an A-One child is 3 years, 1 child 3 months, wife, 2 children, servant giri, myself, and u temule relation old both boys. They lived in the up part of the house lacing the road. I herd with them for four years. The bakery is at the back, tiny make wont und biscolt, night and day. The dough for the bread is put info the oven all o'clock e.. I do not know, when the Breed bread baking was finished, no ruport was mule up-stales baking is frished-70 tile wight of the 14th after the\n\nconting up, and he did say that after supper all the work Ahyow, clerk, did cure that night, he is in the habit of ater were voiting Geard them vuiling, Ahlem does not often sleep in the inkery with his family aerly 2 or 3 times a mouth. Alama did not sleep there on the 14th Jan, le game there on the morning of the 13th, soon after dry-Byld and requested bis family to get ready to go by the steamer, to their village, Long. They had no breakfast before Acung near Macno. they startril. They took to the steamer two kind of bread large and sniall, the large was commun loof, she swall Joat way made for the occasion by order for pre- were 4 Inrge loaves, these were brought to me by Ali- seats to their friends in the aforrasid village. There\n\nThis cut the ease fur the Crown, nt 4.30 1. Dr. Bridges Intiated that he would not be able emmene his defence that night, and though the day Court consented to ajourn. ware auxions to go on and get done with the adfuir,\n\n(journed 4.50 PM\n\n(Fourth Day, 5th February.)\n\nfe\n\nmany strong observation ugadunt the manner in which Dr. Bridges commenced his spreeb at noon and we\n\nthe crown had undated the case, and agaiter the volum. The Bread were made the night before. I only mittingjuetimos la cullod\n\nci 1 chartering any steamer; chewupon chartered Captain, ce she th of January I took the command of the the Rerace Spark at has en use to go to Me Mr. Ma pointed me. On the the men We arrived at 6.30 o'clock that evening. So pocenions of the 17th January, I left fur bliscau, dust before were tenderci tand by the Govern, has left, thism and a family came on board the steamer, his a lot with polcomen coming. fearing that Ahlin father was amongst them.-wy brought an order frota might have spes alone I told the Cpini: not to wait for then as we were underweigh.\n\nMr. Mure for their passage (order presented by the W. LE MESURIER-1 un head of the Comissat 10 Macan I made a statement that the police were\n\nWhen I got whitness). Allum hituself presented the order and I indenriment, I know Ahlam by the name of sing 1 coming in the steamer wich was to leave in the\n\nmediately put hiau ar his family in the fore cabin, made a contract with him on the 14th January. Os at Aftenbos. I did not apply to the Macao audierities.\n\nOrder red] Shaurant, please give Ablum's family days tender was accepted for the supply of 100,000 ba but I went on hoard the Shrmport abent 7 e.., nter using of betweet. 8 and 9 persons, a passage to facs biscuit by sing. I had transacted Cusiness with bia making enquiries, there I found Ahlem in the forenin\n\nin the fare calia. None of them appeared to be sick oz before, and was quite andisfied with bis conduct I wodd with several Chinamen, women and children.\n\ntheir coming on board. I say some of the passenger? I put\n\nhave entered at any time into other contracts with him. my hand on his tail and told him he was my prisoner, made enquiry as the evose of the sickness, whether they about six oths in this Colony.\n\nwho were sailors and exalkers sick about 11 d'clock. if Crozanawaśned by the Attorney General-I have Sien and muss some on shom with me. i did not tell hire un what charge arrested hou. The prisoner saidave of the net and wite not aick, but the bread was new and ens bread cat.They said they had on here any om die at Hengkung.\" To which I replet bread and the fore they craoluded in to be the effect of you have poisoned for every boy wite arsenic. enting that bust. Baving attained slut the Bruxd Is asked me what nesenie was, I sold bin it was the tain they sad to destroy rats. He sait ha did xut bed was purchased; and they and at the E-sing shop. was the cause of the sickness, I asked, where the know want that I then sail this was very lod thing for him after having heen snapccied to tre\n\nI arrived of the main Grands at about 1 oeber and had something to do with the Thistle's athir.\n\ntion went to tow the Spanish steuer inte the inner he was very sorry for it, bot that he did not knew any\n\nharbor, where I arived at 9. Ahlam did not leave thing about either fair. I asked him why he had taken\n\nthe steamer. I had the tention Aptale him on board la funily over from Hongkong. He sud because the\n\nIndoconversion with Allum on the passage previons been threatened that his house would he barn i asked\n\nto the scammer cloring in the inner harbor. Abium hise if he had a house in Macau for his family. He sait said that he would give $50. I t I was not sked if he could leave for longkong the same evening, he had na, but is intended to leave them there with gig and could not ge, fining cargo to deliver\n\nAs I was going to the Governor to explain board and Aldam offered lur $100 to send the steamer lart I haut dore I act some of the Hongkong police. 1 Park Litas sveoing which, waa refused, and Mr. Aguleg rammed with them to the guard boss and give prisoner stiet li could not send then steamer back before text into easy: then returned to Hongkong in the work. inorning as 5 o'clock. Ahira then asked me whether Whea (first went on board the Shamrock, I told the it would a heater for him to go back to Hongkong in mare no to allow any o to go on shure wot the Hongkong police arrived.\n\na Chinese boat that evening or to wait for the ausner next morning t 1 advised him to wait for the\n\nAnd\n\n|\n\nof\n\nsaw one of the maull loaves given by Allan) to one the children before they left, it was to the eldest child. efter the child eat the bread be voulted. My master At the time the bread was given the child was well,\n\nsked why the child vomited. I aud the other servant RB well, aswered that it was owing to the cold, air of the morning. We all wear to the steainer, we were all toget- her in the fore cabin. There were some other people there who i do not kasw. There was a sereen, a cloth, hanging between the men and the women. There was\n\naware of his having tendered to supply the Commiserinting to the same visage, I heese bur name is Aher-ake R. A. ONDE-I am nequninted with Aldom. Iancnother tough not belonging to the family, but belang- with biscuit, he had to sign an agreement after the terder was there before we arrived. Whde on board we only eat was accepted. & 4 or 4 & 5, 1 wes not certain of time corrcer the bread were given to the infant chilld.\n\nI do not know if he be it signes, Isaw bread. and dething else. The bread eat by us, on board, him on the 14th of January in the afternoon between 3 was cut by Ahlum, he eat of the bread first, comic of the wanted to know when he meant to deliver some parted in ny snouth first, and then gave it to him; he then I gave it, I chew- of the biscuit. He said he was going to Macao, and that vomited. We e voisited-ties and we all felt he world bring say servant hack with him. I understood alike. The sickness continued until we arrived at he was to go the next dry. He said be would be hack Macao, then the vomiting ceased, the giddiness con- in the course of a week and would bring my servant tinued. The children were ill after they got back to with his\n\nHongkong on the 15. The whole family were\n\n$2392riend. I then took him ashura tu the Governor's Incac. Aerwards the Agent Mr. Agaber caine ou the Inst contract. When I suy tread I mes: Liscultiple in Honung mla be sick too, therefore we nust\n\nKitard,\n\nwith a ever since I came into the Colony. I had a reh, and women wore sick from eating the bread, peo- W. Spine, I tu . S. Naval Storekeeper, I know brought back here by the police. I heard the unver- Ah'um. In my offelel capacity, I bad business transadiensation between Ahiura and bis father, that as the child- contract with him for 108.000 lbs. it was the largest and was always perfectly antisfied with the manner he failed his contracts. Most Fasuredly i would have been ready to enter with him into further contracts had this affair not happened.\n\n[ go hnek,\n\non the 15th Janury, only 9,005 s. of hecnit ready, Crosscamins by the Attorney General, There was\n\nCrossezamined by the Attorney General-I did not\n\nCrosseramizat by Dr. Bridges, some mede consteamer, Ablam Haid he world remain on board 1 wovording to his stetergent, which he made a few ways give one saul: leaf to the chid in the bout: be gave\n\nsapon took place on hore. De Shamrock. When I told statuer aul the following morning, Ahers said him seni had been used; he said his own children had further three would land his family in the morning, ben sick, and asked me to come and see them. I do\n\nlined to do so. I do not know whether 1 gave the co-That lio did not care if his family were to die so long as lie and himself and his father wohl go back to Hongkong. versation in the saras order before the Magistrate; I was could go back to Hongkong, because he zupplied the nci particularly asked to do so. but I do so how that it is particularly beught to my memory. He volancered went ou board, may mate was.\n\nGovernment. I was not on board when M Robinet to go burk with me in the Spark. He told me that he had offered 1100 to the master of the steamer to take -in back to Hongkong at night, hit that the Captair had refused. I know that Allem had gone in the Sun- ruck. I did not goot board dieetly fearing that he might escape. und bin in the Surecakin standing sulking\n\nith sathe Unese,\n\nThird day, at Februrg.)\n\nCreuseumined Mr. Day-The fret time I an Alium on road at 7A..when he presented to the order of Mr. Murronext time I saw him was when the wearer arrived close to 4 o'clock-if Ahlum wished he canid have spoken to me ut any time through the barricade. When the steamier was anchored the har riende was opened, then the conversation took place--\n\nprevious my last contract was in December some time\n\nIt was a verbal contract. A. G. Acame, am the Agent of the Shamrock between 124 40 1 2.4r. The ordinary course is for the steamer at Macna. I remember un the 15th January the Shamrock anrrived in Maco, and reacted the Prolu Grandle\n\nvessel to return to Hongkong the same day between 2 and 3. On this occasion I had actor work for her, it was arrived in the immer harbor about 34, but I are not sure. not previously kupwa by the Captain. The steamer I went on board before shestopped at the Praia Grande. harbour. When I was on board at the Praia Grande, I The barricade was removed before she went to the inner sw all the Chinees passengers coming out from where hat I sun is when be offered the Captain $100 in the they were barricaded. I saw Alum-nt at that time. inner barbor. O the Teuin Grande, i mernly want\n\nway the child was sick owing to as coldness of the morning, but the father said so. The child lives upstairs shut up from the wind. My monster brought the bread did not see from where he got the bread below. He upstairs from below. I only saw bist bring the bread\n\none tuoltar of the children between the time they lea the hour and getding on board the slenaver. It was about on when the bread was our and distributed. I did not\n\nand 2 baskets containing bread and oranges, with chin observed my master bringing that morning ang clothes to the Lonse, the family took will them way bedding some clothing for the children. I heard master say, when the Mandarina are less trombiccome the faraily will come back again; and flat when he got to Mars his father would take them home, and be would return to Rong- kong you so they were lauded. I am dry murine\n\nain to Antum's family. I am not Aklum's wife, no\n\nMy husband is in California. We brought back I we taken to the Police Station. there I remained the whole of taxt day nad she exi 1 Anjum geing in to be examined; he did and passi through the riem I was in,-but through the veranla\n\nOn the count asectbling Mr. Sutton & juror said my When the pfer, of 600 was made Ablam said, thet e boy Ashow asked me if I was going to the Court as applied bread for many families in Hongkong and that he apprehended there was something wrong there, and that was the reason why he wanted to ges back to\n\nou be in give direction and went back on shore. Sionging to it. Assow and several other called me Hongkong to wake inquirica about the poisoned bread\n\nIt was half past 4 o'clock when I went back to lens here today. I did not objeer to be examined at because he supplied the fiscernment and troops. When\n\nstremer in the inner unchar. The chief mete told pic\n\nthe Police Station. M. Agabeg asked him why he was in a hurry to go to\n\nAblam offered 100 to go back to longhong. Some By the Jury-Cannot say what hour the bakers had longlong he gave the same reusons---I think that Grande. The Captain told me that some of his menyn eat is wasatrange, but e caquiries were rasle. of the menger meul on shore at the Prais their supper fat sight. I live upstats I cannot my what Aillum did not know of my intention to detain him on\n\nhour they had their suppor, but know they take appre bord. I had only gives orders to my mate not to uile were sick, bot le did not my polsoped. He said muilunk Avow cares up to tell Ahium's wife she cfremstance, any sumpar to come alongside.\n\nWhen went and I hear it. There was an opening in the screen on board the sb pc mc side. I could see Abian euthing\n\njayman. I said yes, but I could not speak any thing about the case matil the trial was over. He said Ablam's cousin offered to pay me $100, and the same amount to any other person of the jury who would help Aalum te Escape conviction. The Court orderen the arrest of the boy Accord Ablum's consia and that ties be brenght bore the Court.\n\nALEX. MACHINE-I am Kozerd of the steamet Slickar in the habit of purchasing bread from che Sing. I generally receive my head on ene of the boys of the shop and the inney is al generally in the first prisoner. In the shop fie beiind alie manter, believe he is slabenilen in the shop: I have soen rèé second prisoner in the shop, he belonged to the Thistle before she was taken. Thure en him in the shop after the Thistle was ken; he appeared to be one of the boys in the shop. I have seen hit nasist others in the Aelivery of bread. I only cognize three of the prisoners S having seen the f the shop, ti Arst, second Ani a. On the morning of the 15th January, I benght breal at the -si shop for the use of the cabin, between half past & and half past A.M. I was not very long in the shop, do not rollees having seen that gay any of le priserers in the shep, I was there at the time to receive the breil und pay fit. About Ho'clock luft at the nner for Marzo After leaving Hongkong most of the Eareas papers in the form part hesame sick, name of them were saitors. This took place one df an hour after we left Hongkong. At first I thought it might to go eickness, but as you of thera Bilen got sick daught the water cask on bei\n\nright he poisoned. As they said they had drank no\n\nBy the Fury.The temaer was off the Preis Gende about 10 minutes before she went to the Road to tow the Spanish steamer,\n\nthe Shamrock--the crew breakfasted on board on the ANTONIO GONGALVEZ-1 at Chiat Oficer on board\n\nof his intention to detain Arlum.\n\nversation with Ahiana; he said he wanted to go back un beard in the inner harbor, 1 had a rou- to Hongkong ta een now his bread in Ilongsong the head on found the seater. had turned out; he offered to pay $100 if I would ing-I declined his offer. I did nothing to prevent lur allow the steamer to go back to Hongkong that even-\n\nbeen in custody since the 15th January. On the 14th & Cara-TO-I am clerk to the K-eing hakery. I have\n\none of the priest. Wong Ataol was one of the bukor was at the bakery. Alus was the bead baker-he iz aut\n\nmet was mixing the yeset and making the bread. alo, he is not aroong the prisoners. Atrofa depart\n\nThere were 42 prisoners aken on the 16th. An ad\n\nAt wore not wegst them- The night it was\n\nAt night\n\nafterward three of them were able to work, I saw knowledge; he could have gone with the other passen 15th January niter 3 o'clock--they became sick 5 muutes from going on shore, nor any other person to my the prisoner and his family on board efter the steamer gers if he had been so disposed. He mentioned that his drrived in the inner harbour. I saw three of his family family were ill by eating poisoned brand in hoard. 1ful\n\nand that it would be time cough the his purpose. Flels 10 the bread is bakod. After the work is over That were sick, but Ahlum was talking to toe, and did him that he could return re next momlag to ilangkong, Ateoy's turn to taix the cast at o'clock.\n\nnot see them vaniting. The children uppcure sick. peuple were ill, but some of the men vomited steakon hir or troard. After he was prested I saw his family. the workaea get their chw-how. Nothing particular Crasetammed in the Attorney General-didecarred after the work was owy, war after supper, no My reasou lur set sending the stemmer to Hongkong asin of soup. I went upstair. Ever since I was the same evening was, because the men were all set. alea I have been under the custody of the Government out of the hold, and to take in other cargo he crew I was obliged to employ emolies to discharge, the cargo CHEONG-AC-1 am Cek is Chong-Asow who is\n\nnot appear to be sick. Taw the three of Ablam's family sirk after their arrival in the inner barbera. There was ring men, they were all sick-It was after 'clock coulker on board sunong the passengers, and other sea I find a conversation with Ablue, and ther was the only coveration had with him when he said his family sick. Mr. Robinet and on board at o'clock - sked if Ahlum was on hard anebook bin on shore steamer and we returard west morning to longsung. afterwards Serjeant de Silva brought him back to the (Cauet aljourned at 3. 55 a fer quacier of an hour.) CHEUNG-ACHONG,Emined in the matlier of the fer water, but having eat brand, we eunclade the brend way to bribe the jury.]-- am smaker with Mr. Sutton. I enquired from them where they purchase 1 I know him to he nun of the jury. I had a conversa- po:sone their bread. I made out by the description they give off tion with Ablum's cousin aed Akeen, he lives in the shop that it was the E-sing shop. They were Mans Endicott's Bazuar, he is a hook-binder. He kilt me Tung and did not know the E-sing mate. Some of them to let my master with reference to the case, sunt to or belonging to the steaner had some of the saine bread press the mster and that he would give 100 The offer from the passengers, and after we arrived at Macao they got sick. I had te passengers in the aftur rabin one, Pussc, who cat nothing but read was very sick, the other a Lumpen pussenger and the officers of the steamer who had only tones were not sick. I ent seme of the brut, And was sick. The bread I car was the same go at\n\nwas to him alone. My coaster said no, he hau becn sworn in Court and world not de it.\n\nWANG-ACE(Recognized by the last witness, as the person who spoke to her.) I am a Foreign book naker, I am a friend of Aliam's, but not related to him.\n\nKnow the last witness, I never spoke about Abluza'a\n\nthe E-sing shop. Some of the E sing family had on order poisoning business to him; the only thing I spoke of from Mr. Murrow to have a cabin for themselves to was that I heard his master was in the Court pressing\n\nmaster and the mate tolt ne so. were all it with the exception of the officers. The January I and my wifs want to Maco in the sale boat Chinese Government Head Overauer. On the 15th The crew were all with blum. We were in the sarav cabin, screened off by below and roue deck. The master told me at the Praia Grande that the men were sick, and gave it his father, Duideli's comprador and other siratpers a curtain, Ahlum's wife childrou and servate, Aklan, as an excuse for not going to to the Spanish steamer in the Roads. The steamer all the time remained in\n\ncharge of the Captain und Mate\n\nin all 7 or 8 people. Our fue was $teach, we all eat bread or the panga, it was square bread. The bread was cus\n\nby Ahlum, I first eat it about 12 celoek; minato\n\nthe stence when there is cargo to land or to take in also were sick. I never cases sek. Allum was sick, By the Jury never employ coolies to discharge afterwards eating it I felt giddy and vomtiel, ottery 1 Mana.\n\nu wol as his father. Abium readu a rear, that W. Fuscan, are a merchant in this colony. In the red made them sick he would go back to Hong- know the ninth prisoner by the names of Ahlau orang, I went on shore at once, ou arriving of the Praia H-sing, he was indebted to me $800. I sent to col. Grude i get some melosine-állum did not lang as lect the money, but did not press it, a few days previous pe was going hark. Thory was nothing to prevent int frum ianding. I saw his children on board sick, they\n\nto 14th January. Without further spplication he paid.\n\nto the 14th, an application was made, and on the 14th!\n\nCrossermined by the Attorney General-Previous wore a cker than any of ne\n\nCamined by the Attorney General,-Qaly Ablum\n\nJanuary another application was made, and the coney had bread in the cabin, he had four loaves of k aquaro\n\nshabout a pound each, and he cut all 4 louvou eat one fica lem then the thicknem of my little dogur, About dusk I get well, after waking the medicine. 1 st feel my bowel disordered, I feel no pain but an uncari-\n\nD. May-15ek an Iron Cheat from the shop of Allum, there were several papers and books in it and $1229 odd,\n\n*\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\n\n28\n\nBuildings, 1 am slightly acquainted with Akiom know of the mob saying they would rob un if we did not shut | Mercer, Mr. Mercer was one of his best friends, and where the Esing shop was I seelisen the time the up, thou we did shut.\n\nhe would rather that his tongue should drop out of Chinese made some disturbance and shutting up their GoPro TK-was called much to his astonish-his mouth than attack Mr. Biercer in the way it was\n\nment to break down the exit of one important witness asserted he had done. for the Crowa--but the attempt totally failed. [6] P..\n\nudjourned.)\n\n(Fifth Day, 5th February.)\n\nThe second part of the speech was occupied in a very scute disacation of the exlitence-Very well performed, with a strong leaning to the Crown aido. Mr. Anstey boldly professed that he had not the astrel indifference\n\nshops; it was 1 balieve in November, Alluin kept lis shop opened. It was the vuly chop I saw upon.\n\nChan-Amox,—I am xayior living in a Cilman's Bazaar Queen's Road. 1 know the Raing shop remember the shatting of the hope; fel day Allam did not Cruse examined by the Attorney General,-The ba\n\nsaat op. He ok at the 28 day. His bread was enivad by\n\nThe Attorney General replied in a very able speseb. of Crown prosecutors in ordinary cases, this was an ex- Kory prutson 1 belleve do not belong to Ablum, they are rented by him.\n\nThe first part was employed in defeating the government traordinary case in which he felt in a different manner, the wch, and stones thrown as bis shop.\n\nand Mr. Mercer for the harsh course usected to have and was not anxious thas a verdict of guilty should be Cnos-Ann Woman, -I am wife of inet witness Cras camined by the Attorney Genemy---I was as been pursued in this case. This summed totally une\n\ngiven.* [Not Mr. May's wife but wife of the last Chlem witness] the Jas House that day, the shop keepers said they were cessary, as the government was more to blame for tou I was on board the steamer going to Maran in the santé\n\naitald of the bad people, but a son as the soldiers came must leniency than too much severity, and Dr. Bridges's eabin with Allam's tatuily. 1 c some bread after 11 and cleared the hob they would epen the shops. Did examination as to the examination taking plsed at o'clock. Al eat the bread. The bread was cut by Ahlum not ses Allam there. All the respectable shop-keepera the police statica\" was morely paltry claptraps and returned a \"verdiet of not guilty. And given to on. After a while had a elabs and were there, about 300, they did not say that they would were that gentlemen not s leaned doctor of laws w vomiter All vomited. Ablam elder child was sick shut the Market outil the Governant cisted the should designate it as ignorant waddle. Or Mr. Mercomon report could not do it justice, in the contrary it first small the other afterwards.\n\nFines. I cannot say who was the leading party in pomposer, Dr. Beiges said in rectification of the Aturney would do it great Injustice. W. Garze,-Boarding house keeper living in circular ing to shut the shops. They were shut in cansequence General's defcuce, \"het be had sever attacked Mr.ace to speak for itsalf-KER.\n\nEdited, Protod, and Published by ROBERT STRAUHAN, at the Hongkong Register Offco: Gago Street, Victoria, Hongkong. Tharaday, February 12, 1887.\n\nThe Chief Justice summed up decidedly against Al- Inma aur accessory before the fact.\n\nThe Jury retired and after about half an hour's absencu\n\nWe regret our inability to give the speech entire.\n\nWe therefore leave the evid\n\nA\n\n322\n\nExtra to The Hongkong Register, No. 6.\nPage 28\n\nTRIAL OF AH LUM\n[...]\n\nPage 322",
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Leon\n\nדן\n\nDut. 764 ric\n\nEarl of Windeer Brit. sh. 1000\n\nkrawa 3JArcher\n\nAm. sh.160\n\nagond\n\nTime & Truth Brit. bk 670 Dod\n\nAuckland\n\n$Queen Phangnze Jau. 23 Maria Hay\n\nAm. hk 204 Nelson\n\nBrisach. 140\n\nBolton Brit str. 103 Harris\n\nDrát, s 200 steary Dri sh. 924 Middleton Aan. a. 1280 Osgood\n\nBordcan Sept. 10\n\neucral Sonrabara Jan. 2 Rico Calcutta Nov. 23 Kiar Bombay Dec. 30 General Shanghae Jan. 30 Ballnat Melbourne Doe, 1 Ballast\n\nGeneral Formosa Feb. Nineus FP Sundries\n\nAmoy\n\nBrat Cess Peb\n\n2 Treasure\n\nGenerat Amoy Peb. Ballast Bingapore Jan. 28\n\nAmunition Singapurs Dec. 24\n\nilico Meller Sov. 26 Baline 3. Francisc\n\nDiana. sebouer\n\nJan.\n\n100 Schaefer and Co\n\nFr. Lk. 406 Oreg Hara, bg. 260 Bigcon\n\nOrdar\n\nWat.l'ostaw andCo Schaefer and Co Lindsay and Co Order\n\nHenrietta Maris, bq. Due. Pagan Zephyr, ba July Vrieadshop, chip jJune\n\nDanish\n\n581 Schaeffer anil Co Jady A. Duff, barque 952. W. LawrenogaĈo Lady Mary Wood, c. Dec. 700 F. W. Lawrence Co Laalmenntir, ship\n\nLoulan Baillte, ship\n\nKelso, ship\n\nJan. *: 589 Ladway and Ca\n\nNov.\n\n$ 3709, Kennedy and Co\n\n509.&O. 8. S. N. G\n\nJan.\n\n7 8529, Bawinan and Co\n\nAng. 24 49man, B. and Co\n\nOrder\n\nBre. bk. Suo Klamp\n\nFeb.\n\nBrits 674 Tage\n\nA. Catr. 945 Drought\n\n.M. Robinet & Cy Wu. Pastau and Co Jardine. M. and Co 1. Walker Jardine, and Co\n\nHaldur, sehooner Lootse, schooner\n\nHamburg\n\nNov.\n\n14: W. Pustau and Cu\n\nMary Wionholt, ship\n\nJa\n\n1205ardino, M. & Co\n\nJav.\n\n160 W. Tustau and Co\n\nNapoleon HI, abip\n\nDec\n\n760 Busaeil and Cu\n\nElizabeth Rose, brig Lima, barque Mathilde, brig\n\nOct\n\n123 Siemsson and Ca\n\nJune\n\n919John Bard and Co\n\nKau.\n\n202 Turner and Ca\n\nNina, schooner File, ship Nightingale, ship Parade, qua Palmyra, harjua\n\nNov.\n\n115 John Burd and Co\n\nDoe\n\n708 Jardino, M. and Co\n\nHee. 1404Jardine, M. and Co\n\nbraly\n\n62 Welters and Co\n\nNov. 28 708 Captain\n\nBadast\n\nAugier and Cu Jardino, J. & Co tugwell and Cu\n\nParagon, skip\n\nBremon\n\nAug.\n\n800 Order\n\nPelican, barque\n\n2. 144. C. Schwabe\n\nPluto, stenmer\n\nFelis, arqu\n\nJan,\n\nbeefyall, Stiil and Co\n\nPruth, ship\n\nSAILED.\n\nChilian Frolle, schooner\n\nRemi, atenmer\n\nJape\n\n166W.M.Robinet & Ve\n\nRolls, lig\n\nGreyhound, ship\n\nFeb.\n\n500W. Pustau and\n\nCedarsh Lacy, barque\n\nNAMS\n\nRo\n\nTexs\n\nCAPTAIN\n\nFor\n\nCono\n\nCONNORRST\n\nSwntow Britisk\n\nSamuel Studdart, bg, Salmatle, ship\n\nSept. 1 451 Dent, Beale at Co\n\nالواد\n\nSir James, bang\n\nDec.\n\n7 Lindsay and Co\n\nHongkong Feh. No\n\n3 Alligator\n\n3 Magallanes\n\n3 Nimrod\n\n4 Waroola\n\n3.Scipion\n\n8 Baria\n\n19 Crisis\n\n4P. Van Burco\n\nWild Wave\n\nBrit bg 200 Boyh Brit. bg 1078tudes Sp. str.\n\nBrit. sh. 820arg\n\nBrit. ah 54 Alien Brit, sch. 200 Cheyn\n\nLaughing Water Brit, hk. 404 Omut\n\n6 Montriant\n\nChampion\n\n7 Si James Brooke Brit. str. 973 Skioner\n\n7 Dygden\n\nSw. ab. 240 Patterson\n\n7 Anos Justina Dut. sb. 500 Budeaburg 7J. Godfrey\n\nAm. t 486jGrant\n\nAlfred the Great Brit ] 640 Melutyro Grayhoaud\n\nSwatow Jan. 20 Anais\n\nAmoy Dec. 29 Tariew Fuhchau Nov. 21 Queensbury\n\nDec 8Folmala\n\n15 Agnes Garland\n\nShanghae Jan. 198chiamer\n\n12 Prince Royal 19,Sallow\n\n15 White Swallow\n\n20 Kate Carnie\n\nFr. sh. 82|Carignac\n\nAna sch. 240 Gregory Brit sh. 680 Casaldy Belk all asrisulte Brit. bk. 265 Thompso old. bk. 550 Schwarz\n\nBrit. sh. 502 Hamilton\n\nBrit. sh. 1293 Tucker\n\nAm. sh. 1200 Brown\n\nBrit, h, 401 Black.\n\nSHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\nMERCHANT VISELS.\n\nLondon\n\nNew York\n\nSiam\n\nSundries\n\nOnder\n\nChina, whip\n\nApril\n\n300 Order\n\nSu R. Abercromby, si. Jan.\n\n743 Tammer and Co\n\nSheagha\n\nSundries\n\nGibb, L. and Co\n\nFazal Cerian, burqno Juue\n\n250 Order\n\nVindex, actioner\n\nJon.\n\n179 Dent and Ce\n\nBoern\n\nManila\n\nNantos, schoober\n\nAug.\n\n150 D, Laprak\n\nWhampoa, barque\n\nSept. 30\n\n378 Under\n\nWild Mower, ship\n\nfec.\n\nSingapore\n\nSandries\n\n175 Lindany and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nTht. bk. 250 Yeaser\n\nButaris ¡Sundries\n\nWm. Pustan and Co\n\nAmey\n\nFrench\n\nSingapor\n\nSundries\n\nHolliday, Wise and Ce\n\nBritish\n\nCanton, ship\n\nDea\n\n435 Deal and Co\n\nMeltwuns\n\nSundries Jardine, M, and Ge\n\nAbbotsford, barquo\n\nNov.\n\n425 F. D. SyDia and Co\n\n| Montrlant, ship\n\nFab,\n\n917ent and Co\n\nAkyalı\n\nSp.bg\n\nMaulls Duran\n\nSundnes\n\nSundries\n\nhilpa, Moore and Co\n\nAnn Key, schoenen\n\nApril\n\n121 Tait and fa\n\nAmerican\n\nAntoinette, barque\n\nSøpt\n\nBrit. str. 850 Payley\n\nStangha\n\nSandrite ], & 28, N. Ca\n\nBlack River Packet, bq. April 19,\n\n219 Scharffor and Co 205 Order\n\nArgonaut, ship\n\nJa.\n\n586 King and Co\n\nFr. sh. 91 Brun\n\nStangha\n\nSundries\n\nDent and Co\n\nConfucina, ship\n\nNov.\n\nAm. sh. 360 Gray\n\nForth Seas\n\nSundries\n\nUrder\n\nColdstream, ship\n\nDee.\n\nSingaport\n\nSundries\n\nFletcher and Co\n\nChinchew, ship\n\nSept\n\nShaug\n\nBuutirios\n\nWzz. Pastau and Co\n\nRangoon\n\nSundries\n\nTurner and Ca\n\nEllen, barque\n\nOliver, bargce\n\nNos.\n\nPeb\n\nSan Fransisco Sundries\n\nOrder\n\nEmma, scheuer\n\n511 Holliday, Wise &Co 764adine, M. and Co\n\n785. D. Sype and Co\n\n226 Lya, Stil! and Co 688 Platcher and Co April 21; 120 Curner and Co\n\nMilam, ship Carrington, ship Channing, ship Competitor, siy Eagle, ekip\n\nEagle Wing, ship\n\nGolden Weat, ably\n\nB.\n\nDec.\n\n49% Raspell and Co\n\nNOF.\n\n100 aac M. Buli & Co\n\nJuly $556 King and Co\n\nNov, 101000 King and Co\n\n1174 Russell and Co\n\n1500 A. Heard and Co\n\nMelbourne\n\n¡Buodtles\n\nJamca StephoneNA\n\nEmigrant, baryas\n\nChi ah. 506/Smith\n\nBest Coun\n\nBundries Won. Pratâd and Ca\n\nEmily Annina, neh,\n\nAug. 19 Nov.\n\nOrder\n\nHenry Harback, ship\n\nNov. 16 740 Crampton, H. & Co\n\n165 Purlagjes & Co | Horsilo, ship\n\nNov. 18\n\ntall, Nya and Co\n\nHavant\n\nSuadrien\n\nOrder\n\nForerunner, schooner\n\nDea\n\n140 D. faprak\n\nMatilda, ship\n\nSingapor\n\nSandrica\n\nLondon\n\nTait and Co\n\nTena, &c. Heard and Co\n\nGom, brly\n\nJane\n\n254 Dent ausl Co\n\nMelita, schooner\n\nJuu. J\n\n689 Rosell and Co\n\n140 Kassell and Co\n\nHomer brig\n\nJals\n\n595 Order\n\nTeas, &c.\n\nLiverpool Teas, c. Cows, der Sundries\n\nJardino, M. and Co\n\nOrder\n\nMariner's Hope, brig\n\nApril\n\n250 Order\n\nNile, hrig\n\nJuas\n\nEid Angier and Ca\n\nRomances of Sons ship! Dos.\n\nEundou Teas, &c, Upadi\n\nWth. Paste and Lo Blenkin, R. and Co\n\nNymph, barqne\n\nDec.\n\n400 Liadeay and Ca\n\nNeptune's Favorite, sh. Det. 81846|A, Heard and Co Norwester, ship\n\nDanish\n\nDec. 101287 A. Heard and Co\n\n241782 Ruwell and Co\n\nPet, barque\n\nAag\n\n375 Under\n\nDanmark, arque\n\nTeas, c Tens, &c.\n\nGrampton, H. and Co\n\nRoyal Lily, barque\n\nApril 28\n\n404 Lunevil and Co\n\nGlucions, brig\n\nLiverpool\n\nBrit, sh. 580|Rodger\n\nToas, e Sundrios\n\nKingsport\n\nMERCHANT VKSELS—Continued.\n\nA. Heard and Dent, Beale and Ca Gilian and Co\n\nBisters, brig\n\nJune\n\n182 Tail sud Co\n\nDee 330 Sterosen and Co Fan. 14 268Siemssen and Co Nov\n\n360 Overweg aud to\n\nUncle Tom, schooner\n\nSept\n\nWood Lark,brig\n\nDet. 12\n\nto ruil, Still and Co\n\nUnder\n\nJan.\n\n188 W. Pustan and Co\n\nNoringaese\n\nJATH\n\n270 W. Pustau and Co\n\nAurora, schooner\n\nMay\n\n128 Order\n\n140 W. Puatau and Co\n\nPostum, steac\n\nJune\n\n236 Simen and Ca\n\nAmericum\n\nNov.\n\n210 Joan Burl and Co\n\nSAIZS\n\n!Data of Tou\n\nMorida, ship\n\nCONFIGNERS\n\nHelcus, ship\n\nNov. Junt\n\nDec.\n\n404 Squeer and Co\n\nโมน\n\n25 W. Postan and Co\n\nDate of Inors\n\nCommons\n\n{Arrival |\n\nSept.\n\n277W. Pustan and Co\n\nHongkong\n\nOct.\n\n340 Trautmann and Co\n\nAlmonde, banq\n\nAug.\n\n589Order\n\nJustina, barque\n\njAug\n\nMercurius, barque Fielades,\n\nJuly\n\nDec,\n\n230|Dreyer und Vo\n\nDen.\n\n225 Biomes and Co\n\nLygdon, shig\n\nHambary\n\nBonito, brig\n\n¡Nov,\n\n31 John Burd and Cal\n\nBuenos Ayua, brig\n\nDed.\n\n200 Dreger and Co\n\nChristinu, brig Puel, choomer\n\nApril\n\n170rder\n\nDew\n\n148 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nPeruvian\n\n250W.M. Robinet & Co\n\nAug.\n\n175W.M.Robinet & Co\n\nDeo.\n\n400 Order\n\nLug\n\n9 430 Order\n\nAourn Barrabout Butts.n\n\nJuly\n\n3240;der\n\nCalcutta\n\nNov.\n\n220. 1. Syaru and Co\n\ny 11 4168.0. Syme and Ce\n\nConn\n\nJuly\n\n325 King and Co\n\nAng, 25 500 King and Co\n\nAag, 10 985 Russell and Co\n\nFab\n\n216|W. Puetae and Co\n\nSabu\n\nAt Hongkong} British Anandale, ship And, steamer Anaye, ship Australia, chip Avon, Lacque Banner, schooner\n\nGaneber, barque Brothers, brig Caldera, ship\n\nCadiz, steamer\n\nArrival:\n\n8759 Lyall, Sul and Co J Feb. 5 163 Robert 9. Walker Jan. 13 878 Fletcher and Co Sept. 5 580 John Bardd and Co Sep. 39 280 Bus and Co Jan. 188ohn Burd and Co\n\nPet 485 Jardiue, St. and Co\n\nDec. 15 2400rder\n\nJan. 8 225 Order\n\nFeb, 13000 P. & 0.9. N. Cu\n\nCity of Carlisle, ships. 15 996Jardine, 3 and Cu\n\nClarendon, satp\n\nDeva, ship\n\nSinglet, sleemer\n\nEarl Grey, barque\n\nEarl of Windsor ship\n\nBena, brig\n\nBuranic ship Excellent, brig Falcon, ship Formosa, ship\n\nGleus, ahip\n\nGod Succe, sip\n\nHero, ship\n\nKensington ship\n\nLady Hayce, barque\n\nLaurick, brig\n\nLord Raglan. ship Tani, barque\n\nNarshall, Buhooner Maria Hay, ship Mazepps, schooner Pacifico, brig\n\nFeb. 1 850Jarding, M. and Co Jan. 18:1030 Russell and Co\n\nDoc 8 1888tomssen und Co Dec. 17 8737ardine, M.\n\nDiter\n\nAdmiral Zoutman, shipDec.\n\nAlbrecht Belling, bq.Nov.\n\nG. G. D. Von Twist, hq,fian. Oct. 10 300W. Postau and Coatic Liong, bargus ne Jaa. 18 3685iomsten and Co Nov. 28, 8438,Senseffer and Co\n\nAnon Elizabet,bą. Chriatias, leque General de Stiles, hop. Jan. 2 798|Under Hollandetrow, hargas Jacot. Lima, barke Jacoba Cornella, pq. Klazina, darus\n\nOosterling, harg Proteos, barque Regina, arqu Sumatra, aliip Danish\n\nSept. 10 799 chaster and Co OL 32 800 Schaeffer and Cu Feb. 192chaser and Co Jan. 17 charler and Co Dee. 13 363 Van der Haven Jan 18 443ucer and Co Jan. 473 W. Punta and Co Feb. 278445obacter and Co\n\nMay 10 Siemmen and\n\nIfercuian, brig Helena\n\nJau. 31\n\nCo\n\nHanbury\n\nAar, ship\n\nAlbin, schooner Christian, belg\n\nDec. y Nov. 16 Feb.\n\n260\n\nFab 21 Lindas and Co\n\nJan. 26) 207 Camajce and Co\n\nDec. 26 728 Order\n\nNov. 385 Lyail, Still and Co\n\nSept. 26 430Jardine, M. & Lin\n\nJan. 14 406 Order\n\nLau. 16 784. Murray and Co\n\nNov. 600 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJan. 1 404 Lindsey and Co\n\nJan. 13 scoileder\n\n0 15 848 Geo. Duddell\n\nJan. 27 28Ajardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 17 766 Jardine, M. & Cn\n\nJan. 12 274 Dent and Co\n\nDet.\n\n8 1988. K. Burrow\n\nJan. 31 994 Janline, M. and Co\n\nFeh. 4140anline, M. & Co Oct. 14] 146Deo. Dúddell T'aranverance, Largna Sept. 18 2Turner and Ca Princess Reval, supDec, 28; 900 Dent aud Co\n\n(Doc. 25 781onser\n\nQueen, brig Samarang, banque\n\nApoctly, ship\n\nFeb. 8 ĐuôiAngier and Ca\n\nDes. 25 5801Dent and Co\n\nJau 241031 Jamaa Stephenson\n\nSpirit of the North, ah. Kov, 11) 671jtibb, L. and Co Sultans, barque Oct 10 588schaeffer and e\n\nTime & Truth, bargde Teh. 3 578 Orlar\n\nUnion, leamer\n\nTruro, ship\n\nFenilia, ship\n\nVirginia alip\n\nVivid, brig\n\nWater Witch, barque\n\nWild Daynell, ach. Zephyr, schooner\n\nFrench\n\nEtoile, ship\n\nIndia, barqu\n\nLeon, harqua\n\nMaarl, ship\n\nSucces, ship\n\nVille de Dieppe, barque\n\nAnter\n\nAntonita, schwoner Antelope, T Archer, whip Auckland, barque\n\nBurnham, barque\n\nCarbon, shooner\n\nJan. 24 695 Order\n\nAng. 16 786 Thon. Husband Co Feb. 8 674 Jardine, Al, sad Co June 18 830 Lyall, Still and Cộ Nov. 8 143ardine. M. & Co Jau. 15 253 D. Lapaik\n\nJan. 156 Deat and Co\n\nJun. 31 148Dcut and Co\n\nJan. 24 539 Order\n\nfan. 18 615 Dent and Co\n\nFalk 2405,Order\n\nJan 24 156 Russell and Co\n\nNov. 14mier\n\nno. 221014 gail, Sul and Co\n\nDec. 3 112Order\n\nJan. 24200 Kussell and Co\n\nTeb. 31460 Roswell and Co\n\nFeb. 209.M.Robinet & Co\n\nOct. 28 245 W. Pulau and Co\n\nDue 26 300 K. Crashy\n\nCW. Bradley, j, bq. Oct. 9 218 A. Heard and Co\n\nDon Quixote, ship\n\nKtement, ship\n\nEureka, ship\n\nFrancis P. Sage, ship\n\n• Garland, schooner\n\nHelgu Mar, bergun\n\nJanes Marshall, big Kate Hooper, shig Mary Whitridge, ship\n\nMatcor, ekip\n\nMiana, schooner\n\nMin, geamur\n\nMonsoon, ship\n\nNorth Wind, ship\n\nN. B. Palmer, Jip\n\nDen 91438 King and Co\n\nJAN 33 400A. Heard and Co\n\nNov. 51100A. Heard and Co\n\nNov, 191146 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJan. 151138. R. Barrows\n\nDec. 26 560 Order\n\nJan. 16 1865. K. Darrows\n\nDec, 281488 Jne. Stephenson\n\nNov. 27 978 Kuseli aud Co\n\nao. 201088, Heard and Co May 306Order\n\nJ. 14 101 Bu-sell and Co\n\nJane 28 506 Thomas Hunt &Co Oct.\n\n81041 Jaa. Purdon and Co\n\nDec. 1400 Russell and Co\n\nQueen of the Seas, spec. 17185Rll and Co\n\nRacebound\n\nRealute, ship\n\nShane Draper, sch.\n\nSportsman, shiy\n\nStar King, sly\n\nTuskina, ship\n\nYoung America, wip\n\nAug. 28 580. E. Barrows\n\nSept. 25 801 Russell and Ca\n\nHai, 26 206 A. Heard and Co\n\nNov. 20 626 Unter\n\nDec. 14177nder\n\nSept. 342 Y. J. Murrow\n\nSept 202000. Heard and Co\n\nMeteos, ship\n\nPeruvian\n\nAndreas, orig Architect, ship Carica, arqua L'allau, barque\n\nSantiago, banne Ugarte y Santiage,\n\nSMAR\n\nNoortol, banque\n\nSan Juan, barquə\n\nhq.\n\nSiamese Crow, stalp\n\nSintoy, schooner\n\nSpar\n\nDenia, schooner Bremen\n\nBertha, barque\n\nC. Metabets, you Solon, hanger\n\nChition\n\nAllanza, barque Spray, schooner\n\nNess Crans dinn Annie, barque\n\nMacao British\n\nW. Pustan and Co\n\n510 W. Puszu and Co\n\nJohn Bard sad Co Wm.Fustat and Co Jan. 15 540 die aussen end to\n\nTait and C\n\nNov. 16\n\nNov. 12 540. M. Rabinet& Co\n\nDar. 28 3505. J. das Remedios\n\nTall, 231 218 and\n\nJ.\n\nAcmel, brig Chico, brig\n\nClarita, brig Cara, skip\n\nkesits toge\n\nSiamese\n\nSea Horse, hocqus\n\nSiam, que\n\nSpanish\n\nSan Lorenzo, brig\n\nSeraphina, ship\n\nFubebau\n\nDritish\n\nCo\n\nMaste, bri\n\nDee & 9p. dos Remedios\n\nJan. 195. Robinet & Co\n\nSept. 15j 200 Order\n\nNav. 19 160 Order\n\nDee, 15 300inder\n\nAug. 26 250 under\n\nNov. Zayall, Still and Co\n\n1400W. Duxted and Co\n\nJan. 24 4702. S. Walker\n\nDet. 22 48fuhn Bond and Co Jan. 29 270/Onder\n\nDec. 220W.M. Robines & Co\n\nJuly 1307 Edward and Bailey\n\nJehn Macthic, ekip Feb. Rochampton, shijs Ang\n\nPortugues\n\nMetasje, barque\n\nNew Era, khij\n\nGaiden Raer, ship\n\nKingfisher, ship\n\nMandarin, ship\n\nSamuel Ronsell, ship\n\nSarah H. Snow, Ivy, Vancouver, ship\n\nHambog\n\nAtlas, barne\n\nSa Dent, Beate and Co\n\n289 fyn, Stilt end Co\n\n597 1..Robinct & Co\n\nTou Scimeter and Co 1543chaetler and Co 478sohaefer and Co 2448. D. Syme and Go 237 Adam Scott 190Schelfer and Co 424\n\n10. Nathabloy & Co\n\nOtto, barque\n\nVirginie, brig\n\nHamburg\n\nEsperanza, harqne Hannibal, schooner\n\n| fverbrook, brig\n\nLima, barque\n\nMary Boar, ship Pathfinder, barque Senatur, barque Pramin Amerika, belg\n\nSiamete\n\nBangkok Mark, ship Golffinder, baqme Sueroan, ship\n\nSparsh\n\nSanta Lucts, banque\n\nSwedish\n\nNov. 181296 Moncreiff, G. & Co Dea ¡Dec.\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA.\n\nمات قلات کا\n\nCLASS\n\nAv\n\nCanton Stoop\n\ni,kong !. W. Str. JiLong Sloop\n\nILong Flag Ship\n\nCanton loop\n\nCuroaandel Canton P. W. Br. Vatcounter anto\n\nHoteles\n\nHornet\n\nMam\n\n! Nakist\n\nNiger\n\n632 Dent, Dotle stud Co Elk\n\n600 John Herd and Go | Fary\n\nser. St. (kang Hospital Canto Ber. Sw. H.kongoro Ship\n\nFrigate\n\nPanton Bar Sta\n\nCOHKANDERS.\n\n12A, W. A. Haud\n\n8T. D. A. Fortescu 12 Licut. Beamish\n\n(lour Ad.\n\nCapt. W. K. Hall\n\n14. Jenkins 35 Doorglas HG.W.D.O'Callaghan\n\n17 C. C. Forsyth\n\nH. T. Fla, Muater\n\n60 H Keith Stewart 19H, A. A. Cochrane 408FW.F. Nicolson\n\n14. Barnard\n\n49. 9. Hand\n\n40 Cdre. m, Ú. Elliot\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR EXPECTED.\n\nCONDEAND\n\n.ALEN\n\nÜs..\n\nENGLAND\n\nza Frigate\n\nRav.\n\nW. 7. Bate\n\n11. Macendie. Str,\n\nKit Boater, 26\n\n11\n\n136A. Hearl wait Co\n\nNov.\n\n9191ent and Co\n\nPastalcon, brig\n\nNov.\n\n200 Cantujee and Co\n\nPique\n\nSgus Frigars\n\nKol: Small, ship\n\nAug. 29\n\n663 Gibu, L. and Co\n\nKenos\n\nPibehta Bloop\n\nRempaon\n\nAmor P. W. Str.\n\nAmerican\n\nAnnie Buoknax, 1.\n\nSept.\n\n530 Russell and C\n\nSybille\n\nHogue Frigate\n\nMay 16\n\n800 Russell and Co\n\nAug.\n\n1288ardine, M. and Co\n\nJune\n\n78. lead and Oə\n\n¿Mag\n\n94 Russell and Co\n\nDo.\n\n420|Klug and Go\n\nJune\n\n518 Bus and Co\n\nOut\n\n420John Burd and Co\n\nWienu, Larque\n\nJuct.\n\n490Biomes ami Us\n\nActoun\n\nAlseri\n\nNingpo British\n\nCullou\n\nCamila\n\nkt. T. Calville\n\nSlop\n\nCruizer\n\n17 ber. Str. Sept. 25\n\nCarnulle. ship Lyra, Belovner\n\n15. Hot\n\n120 Lindy and Co Forestr\n\nA. J. Innes\n\nidun Beat Sept. 20\n\nSolon, barane\n\n6\n\n560 Turner and Uo 469 A.A.de Mello & Co\n\naughty\n\nGan Beat Sept 25\n\nWilminginn, schooner Feb.\n\n196 Bell and Co\n\nHüchilyor\n\nInflexibla\n\nr. Vorhert\n\nAL\n\nOsprey\n\nAlbert Edward, ship\n\nBritisk\n\nang.\n\n497. Bowman and Coh\n\nNov,\n\nAliyals, ship\n\nNov. 20 1247 Biriey, W, and Co\n\nStaunch\n\n1. Wildonan\n\nAlchemist, ship\n\nDe\n\n914 Turner and Co.\n\nStarling\n\nA. 1 Villiers\n\njun Boat Sept. 25 Gun Boat Ool. 23\n\nAlligator, brig\n\nb.\n\n19710166, Land Co\n\nAugusts, ship\n\nNov. 23 372 Lindmy and Go\n\nBallarat, ship\n\nNov.\n\n719 Dent ad Co\n\nChallenger, barque\n\nSeph\n\n175 Turner and Co\n\nChieftain, barque\n\nJan.\n\n20John Burd and Co\n\nCo..lucius, ship\n\nThee.\n\n400 Holliday, Wine & Co\n\nVESSEL\n\nAr\n\nFLAQ\n\nCOMMANDERL\n\nDec. 19\n\nJune 15 566 Turner and Lo\n\nJan.\n\n127 William I. and Co\n\nCetinnt\n\nHongkong Fr. Str.\n\nSur Are\n\nL'et\n\n8501 & 0.2. F. Co\n\nSupt. 10 240 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nVirginie\n\nHongkong Fr. Frig\n\nCape, Plan\n\nForest Queen, ship\n\nNov.\n\n839 W.H. Wardley Co\n\nLevant\n\n18 Smith\n\nPortsmouth\n\nEassio Manens, barq. May 25 297 Jou d'Abreide Waris Carlota, Iryusi Jan. $30 J. J. don Rmuelion Slavina, banque\n\nTremelga, barqua\n\nFreach\n\n13ane 211 1705. 3. dos Ramedice\n\nSept.\n\nPort de Bordeaux, ship Oct.\n\nAmerican\n\nLorisiana, barq\n\nDeich\n\nBerena, rig\n\nDoggershank, skip\n\n3751 inday and Co\n\n816Dent and Co\n\nShanghae\n\n249W.M. Robinet &Co Arrow, ship\n\n237W. Pustuu and Co\n\nApril 22\n\nOct.\n\nDet\n\nBebehneller and Co\n\nEverdina izabeth, og Jan\n\n600 Schneer and Co\n\nDee,\n\n189 Schaefer and Co\n\nFra\n\n753 Order\n\nJuct.\n\n530 Schaeffer and Co\n\nJAR.\n\nSt. Heleon, brig\n\nTonia, ship\n\nVrow Jobunag\n\nHamburg\n\nLaura & Fonis, big,\n\nKose, brig\n\nWillewina, brig\n\nPeruvian\n\nGrimeness, chip\n\n243jDrayer and Co\n\nJuly 14, 1769. M. Burrows\n\nJuly\n\n224 Schaeffer and Co\n\nOct. 15: 50 Order\n\nCrystal Palace, ship\n\nKila Jane, barque\n\nElizabeth, brig\n\nHein, steamer\n\nFazli Corrim, barque\n\nFrances, ship\n\nGazelle, schooner\n\nGeelong, barque\n\nDec. 125 Birley. W. and Co\n\nWaton and Co\n\nMay 30 302 Tail and Co\n\nJan 15 212 Hooper\n\nAug. 11 3420ma, B. and Ca 651 gal. Stiti and Co\n\nMaria Natividad ship Sept. 18 610w.. Robins & Co General Windham, ship.\n\nEast Coast British\n\nChin Chin, harque Eamont, schonbur Gazelle, schoenor\n\nHazard, schooner\n\nHelen, brig\n\nion.\n\n316 Camajarse Co\n\nJan.\n\n121 Dent and Co\n\nGulnare, ship Hellespont, steamer Tuchinnan, arque Just\n\nBat, ship\n\nApril\n\n15Jardine, M. And Co\n\nJuly\n\n144 Y. J. Mucrow\n\nJan.\n\n180Turner and Co\n\nHydronce, ship\n\nJane\n\n137 Carlowitz and Co\n\nMalacca, barque\n\nAug\n\n089 Carlowitz and Co\n\nPearl, schooner\n\niJuly\n\nW.M. Reniunt & Lo\n\nTrumpu. schooner\n\nMay\n\n300jD. Laprak\n\nAntican\n\nDerby, ship\n\nJuly\n\n1098A. Heard sad Co\n\nProgressive Age, brig\n\nNov\n\n296A. Heard and Co\n\nRinglorier, ship\n\nMay\n\n2156 A, Heard and Co\n\nSancho Pans, ship\n\nSept\n\n875 Russell and Co\n\nWitw, la ver\n\nUst\n\n$10Kinder\n\nFra 2002 Hargreaves and Co\n\nJan. 886Fadine. M. and Co Sept. 1 265 Deus, Buaie y Co Dec. 241 8201Birley, W. and Co\n\nC. Reilowas\n\nJ.F.C.Hanitou 12 loop\n\nC. T. Lackie\n\nA. V. Hamilto\n\nC.F.A,Shadwell 21 Ser. Str.\n\nC Campbell\n\n6 P. W. Str. Oct, 25\n\n(Gan Bost\n\n21. J. Bomalieid 4 Ser. Str.\n\nKith Stewart !\n\nGu Buat\n\nHos, H.Keppel 60 Frigata\n\nFOREIGN MIPS OF WAR IN CHINA.\n\nSan Jacinto\n\nHongrong U. &. SI.\n\nStaigas U. S. Sh.\n\nFR-A. Guerla\n\n16 Fonta\n\nƒ m. A POOR Capt. Bell\n\nHongkong U. S. Sir.\n\nMandura\n\nMacao\n\nFort. Reig.\n\n90 Com. Tavara\n\nAmazona\n\nB+\n\nPurt.lorsha 6 Earnichs\n\nJorge Just\n\ndu.\n\nSelpion\n\ndr.\n\nSp. Ser.\n\nBg.\n\n4Brinnes\n\nAnies Ba\n\n14 Duran\n\nHongkongora Sv. 20 Capt, Boturin\n\nTERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION to the HONGRONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT-For One Year, $25; 9 Months, $13; Three Mouths, $8. To the HONGKONG REGISTER For One Year, $15, Six Months, $2, Three Months, $5. To the OVERLAND RE- OISTER AND PRICE CURRENT' alone:--For One Year, $3; all payable in advanUSB, TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENT in the HONGKONG REGISTER-Advertscments, not exceeding 5 lines,\n\nesch insertion, $1; cach additional line 20 conts; une balf of these charges for Repetitions AGENTS for the HONGKONG REGISTER and GVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE GUERENT J. G. APIHOur, Rey, London, Mars, Jant, steak & Co, Cricuta: Mesars. Binaton & Co. Bombay W. S. Donos, Faq., Singapore, Messrs. Thorson, Ronkers & Ur, Batavia, J. P. Pzabek, Boy. San Francisco.\n\nEdited, Printed, and Published by ROBERT STRACHAN, at the Hongkung Register Ofice: Gage Street\n\nVictoria, Hongkong. Tuesday, February 10, 1857.\n\nThe China Mail Extra.\n\nHONGKONG, SATURDAY, 7TH FEBRUARY, 1857.\n\n“Chino Muit\" Office, Feb. 7, 1857- thon to the unsatisfactory state of his toast, my wife remarked she felt giddy and sick, him; he pretended to be overlooking the business the investigation as Superintendent of Police, the A man can overlook his business while walking affair being then eurelaped in mystery; and I imagine\n\nThe Criminal Sessions of the Supreme fairs, which had be shewn to be the We let the room after 3, she immediately felt sick\n\nshop\n\nthat the first instanco Mr Mercer acted as Culo- Court the most exciting that have occur reverse of is a fouriebing condition, his and smiled, I thought nothing of it at the time, but about the e\n\nwalked was to the verandah to light a chemot, when Aaxx, cock to The Herland,On the 15th January, eial decrewry-in fact it was an investigation into rel since the settlement of the colony-debts to one firm alone amounting to nearly in the wor af gtating the elgar I suddenly felt sick\n\nthe morning, got bread from the Esing shoes don't the case genotally. I usually, in cases requiring commenced on Thursday, and closed last $15,000. He spoke of the temptation and vomited. Thinking no more about it, I went know the peron-thes was generally brings it, he particular forestigation, maka peliminary acquiry sight. The case of most interest-the bold out to Alum, of averting the pantah in my hair to the Folke Hospital, but when Tranches is not one of the prisoners; this was about half-past 7- before sending them up to the Magistrate. It was trial of Cheong Alum and nine others, on ment with which he had been threatened the entraner leading up to the fif, I was again sick; \n\nAtoy, coolie to be Hachand, Saw Esing's people not my original intention to make a magisterial and when I got clues to St Paul's College, was age\n\nmyrassine's house on the marning of investigation in the present instance; I merely aga.a bring bread a charge of dilempt to poison-lasted fee by the mandarins, by the commission was aide off and on, up to a quarter to 10. the 15th January; they are not among the priscoera. wished to yet an insight into the case as Superit daye, and ended in a verdict of Not guilty, would be considered a highly meritoriona was sick 19 or vlock that night. Next habit of getting bread from the Esing shop the was a very singalar case, I propound we should sit of an atrocious crime, but yet ar net which The romiting was very violent. Mrs Dengr W. A. HARLAND, M.,Was I believe, in the tundent of Police. but her two hours or so, as it\n\nto 1.\n\ntime.\n\nars from that shog-down to the morning of the 16th as Magistrate, and we then commented to take do We are sorry we are unable to give the one by the Chinese authorities, deserving day I tapponed to enter the Police Office, where en eloquent addresace of the Counsel on buth of commendation and reward, instead of vision was going forward, and promised then fancy inclusive I are a mail piece of the bread paltional,\n\nto send some of the bread to Dr Harland for analy. that morning, Dr Chaldecott and Dr Hat.ca alo Next, bo\n\nSANDWITH DAINKED-Am in business in the sides, but must content ourselves with the punishment, at their harde. \n\nzation; did that night. [Cross-conmiasi by partook of it. About an hour afterwards fe faint sity, and live in the wee house with Captain Endi- De Brive,I did not take the bread myself to Dr and aíck, and incised to veuit, and within a few mere heads of the points dwolt upon; and referred to the departure of Alam and \n\nnott Faing enpplicà me with bread on the 15th minutes ufteur wande vomited slightly, and fole a pain January-I partook of the bread and was very ill- even these, we fear, will prove very io his father from the colony on the very Herland. I know caly the Sih prisoner (Alum) na \n\nworning the criminal set was wusumnat belong ag to the Eving shop. I kept the balled the Beach. I then took an emotis, which made at the inmates of the house whe ate of the bread perfect. \n\nup in my own room until I sent it to Dr Harland.me veil a bitła man, and for a little time alter felt ed; and commented strongly on the suspi \n\nwere Hi-I have not perfectly recovered up to this Of the opening speech by the Hųn. T. \n\nIn consequence cf my laers, I delivered the cious manner in which this was managed. By the ATTORNEY Uraat.]-Don't know the 10thy, but shortly afterwards was able to attend to \n\nprisoner, never mw him before at all. sent the same people who can to she house sick. About to remainder of the breast Mr May at the Ptice lice C. Anstey, the Attorney General, wo \n\nWith regard to the sickness of his family \n\nbread a ten minutes past to Dr Harland, by a hours afterwards the pain in the stomach returned, this was on the evening of the 16th-Dr Badland have no notes whatever. He dwelt, how on board the steamer-this was easily and coalie named Attal. \n\nbut I could not vomit. I bai diethms during the I think was presos 1 lave had many dealings with ever, on the atrociousness of the attempt naturally to be imputed to sea-sickness; ATIAL METAL to Dr Dempeter--On the 16th night, and next day a violent headache, wakacss of the Esing abug in the bakery business -I know the made upon the community, and the utter for there were no proofs of them aftor January, escried a paper parcel from Dr Dampster to the jibs, and xansea, Dr Iamos got sick sooner 9th and 10th prisoners to belong to the duche than I did; but I did ont see him, as he had gone 10th I are always understood to be the father of Faing impossibility in such cases of producing sufferings which the medical evidence had Dr Harland, Do not know what was in it, but ir \n\nwas given me by my master. \n\nca Dr Chaldecots, hearing of people being sick, Alum), he was always in the shop, and when the direct testimony against the parties accus- abawo were the invariable effects of argo- ACHING, servant to Dr Dempster-om the 15th took an emetic, as he had ate more bread than any was cut of the sloop, I have left by neders with him od. The evidence in this, as in avery nic, and under which the foreigner who January, received rome bread at may master's day of on Before I had filed breakfast, a Parsee ger Orn about the 24 ur 3d of January, our he made similar case, tour therefore be entirely cir- had partaken of the bread in the present from two men from Esing; they are not at the bar. teman aliud. 20 mil the inam of his house were a contract with Alura fura supply of breuis for the cumstantial; but he would adduce sich a \n\nThis was about 7 wack gars the bend to my sick, and blamed the bread as being the cause of it; I Russian curvest On the Mih I went over to the instance had laboured. He also spoke of \n\nmaaler to estipul it up the breakfast table. \n\nlef my breakfast to go and see them, and it was on \n\nEwing how to apeak to Alure about the contract, Oa TARRANT, Editor of the Friend of my return I first felt sick myself. Both Dr Chalecoss the morning of the 13th, the shop bep called our art jury, as he felt assured must to a certainty and Agent of the steamer to retura to the N indelibly the stain of crime apon the Hongkong that night, as a ruse on his my bread from the Haing shop, dawn to the 13 several days séta, attending to people who were black lettres out in frens of his door sunt him user prisonem at the bar, and draw forth au \n\npart, when be found his hopes of escape January, inclusiva-row the 1st, 3d, and the staffering from eating the bread; the Parses had to ascertain its pats, and in consequent of what unanimona verdict of guilty. \n\nthe boy told us, I had the conversation with hiari on frustrated, and that the poison had not had and 10th prisoners to belong to the shop-the 1st taken only band and a cup of tea-they had all been \n\nI believe to be general assistant and Collector of sick, I adviced them to take emetica. Some of thus the 14th. I teid hum the boy haul informed us that Dr Bridges comarcal his defence by the fatal effets intended had his efforts balls; the 3d I have known in two capaction in con- we axtended effured much more everely than schare the chop said he intended to leave the iny, and remarking that, the case was remark succeeded, the result would have been nection with Exing shop, the inst was as breme-de-bes all had similar syroptatns. From the symptotes wished to sell out. He admitted the chup did say ablo from the atrocity of the attempted another frightful tragedy like that of the liverer; the 9th believe to be the head of the in my own case, and of others who came to be. I felt but said that it was not his intention to leave, but he crime; admitting most fully that there had unfortunate Thistle. He noted the contra- Eing the 19th is I believe the father he ais? i ere what arannic had been administered in the bread, Lad put out the notice for the purpose of deceiving be an attempt to destroy the community dictious in Alam's statements about the have knows in two capacities—one as general assist- I haght down a piece of bread from the Parets, and the Mandarine, who had been traping him a great ant of the Taing shop I have ren bien, 2 ay may kept the remnant of our own. I had alan overal deal told him that would not antinfy one had by poison, but denying that the guilt of poison to the various witnesses and frequently. I saw the 1st prisver five or air day specimens, from Dr Dempster, Captain Paints, and deceived me in a former contract, and I would not yest such an attempt was in any way hrought finally wound up with a confident aanr-before the 15th, ou my ectering my printing offit, othere, and two savea from Mr GrandPre, which he unsil I saw that the bieenit was in the drying lots - bone to the prisoners at the bar. Extra- ance on his part of a verdict against all the he was sitting there, and presentat me a hill from hia took from the Eving shop and gare ints my uwa he most go with me and show in that the bread wa ordinary, be said, bad been the display of prisoners. \n\nsaster. I told him I was then rather busy, and sa bas.d. Ir Deropster's and Captain Endicott's I re- there. Its went with me in my boat to the bakery the mercy and goodness of God, in not a His Lordship the Chief Justice then the bill was not recripted, if he would leave it with ceived on the tin. So let the first alarm, I in the Ila-wen, and on the page down we had a me, I would Inok at it and have it settled. He then endeavoured to ascertain in a busty way what was in conversation on various matters. I had him if he single instance of death having cocurred addressed the jury,-directing them to said in master intended to have the colony-replied the bread, and Ur Bradford curing in, be and I from the attempt. He sormented strongly card from their wouls everything they in rather an impartiment way, and marle a motion to \n\nad bi kamily in Hongkong? La replied he had. I satisfied ourselves it was anovic... Néxt day, at the sard, having his fatally bore, he had better remén on the singularity of the course adopted might have rend or heard about the case it down again and not to go away until he got paid. request of the Colonial Secretary, we made s moral the end of the war no one could supply to by goveraronut in departing from the ordi- nut-of-doors, and to couline theneelves Seeing he was disposed to be saucy, I took him by the crest analysis of each piece of bread separately, cuit so walk-te would make a good thing of it, and nary course of conducting criminal inves outinely to the evidence. As regarded nine coline, said he and his master might go to the devil if and found they all indicated the presence of arsenin. Le protected. He said it was not his wish to go, but they phased, and told him to go ont. The Ed prisoner 1 The analysis for Ascoctaining the yountity tank he had heen threatent, and there were at that time tigations, and still more strongly on the of the prisoners, the jury would probably have a good way times, but the seas. 1 up place entaequently, and we found that one pasad 88 Mandarins in Hongkong in disguise. I told mode in which the Attorney General had agree with him in thinking the evidence pore you (the Alterary General) referto, was eu an in- loaf of bread contained nearly a drms of armenia, B0 \n\nbim if he world report them to the police office, bo conducted the cause, by displaying personal against them was very slight, amounting quest on the 38 January, upon a body that was found grains to the diant commit while arsenic. The \n\nwould be protected. His answer was, that on bis animosity against the prisoners, and making indeed solely to their connection with the board the Thiste, on which occasion be described br I ate was brown, the uther specimens were arrival at the bakery, he would convince me that he \n\nwhite-both kinda contained ausanie; much been the quotatione from trial which had taken Esing Bakery. With respect to Alura, bebimself as Parare Mate on card the steamer, To \n\nhad a large amount of property at stake-that it was the best of my knowledge und belief, the 9th prisoner ivai contined aufficient cause deart. I also, on not bis desire to leave, and a thought he would take place in the worst periode of English ori-was alewn to have been at the bakery on the (Am) was the charterer of the steamer at the time the alterion of the 15th, had two jars brought me my advice and reusia. When we tired at the minal law; and lastly, wornarked on the afternoon of the 14th January, when tho she was destroyed. In consegaenen of the way the d by a pokocurau-one containing yet used on the bakery, the people appeared to be mixing water and pancity of the evidence brought forward dongh was making; and if the jury thought prisoner gave his evidence at the inquest, I objected to night of the lash, the other the materials for making dough in dimus ms in the plass. After visiting for the proscention-which, he said, ovea that he mixed the arsenie with the bread, is bringing bad es my bowo objected on the yat, together with me foar and some pastry from \n\nthe drying room, and when leaving the bakehouse, 15th January between Gand? in the morning, when if there had been to defenes to offer, would or ordered it to be so toixed, tuy weak aw him delving it. A man war with bin ear \n\nthe bakery-pasta scraped from the table, and some \n\nexported Alum would go back with me, and offered pastry in tin moulds, I found no trace of arsenic or him a passage in the heat, but he said he bad some net buvo warranted a conviction on the \n\nfind him guilty; or if they were of opinion rying cau basketa-prisoner took the bread out of other meallic poi in any of the materials. The business to attend to, and would walk bot part of the jury. Ha divided the evi- that he consulted with the forumon Alun the Easkew and put them into my base. I said to analysia was fade in the presenes of Dra Bradford, was between 3 and 4 in the aftermon. They dence for the prosecution into three classes and Atmoi on the subject, Le would be him \"Da my ine fellow, you deliver cay bread, ús Kenky, Watson, and Elspeter. \n\nwere mixing our and water in two ho 1st, those especially connected with the accessory before the fact; but if they were \n\nyou \"He made no response, but yard a kind of A. HAND-PRE, Assistaus Superintendant of Police, showed me a room he said was the brand bakery, gistrod outside the door, saw the bread handed Hava baard D: Harland's evidence-i tak lie fact of the poisoning; 2dly, them wit- \n\nnot perfectly assured in their own minds of in, and immediately after went in and ordered my board to him from the Eaing shop on the morning of supplied 400 families with bread this was told re and they were mixing duugh theve te told me ha nesses who detailet facts connected with Aluni's connection with, and cognizance Comprador to anale Raing's bill, and not to take any the 16th--was promet at the Cowai Station, whey, by him in evidence of the husless he was doing, and Alom before his departure; adly, the of, the attempt to poison, they would return more bread from him, as I was afraid he would the yeast and others things found in the bakery bis eonarquent disinclination to leave. day statement class who described his conduct on board a verdict of acquittal. His Lordship after-puss \n\nI and a servant girl partusck of the were sent to De Harland Tent thera. (Oroei- made by him that be bad sold his business to me la false. the steamer and on the way to Macao. wards, in reading over the evidence, called bread that morning she ate a little left on my plate. questioned by Dr Batmaks.]—I was acquainted with I was asked by MeMncow, anice my first examination, All that evidence he examined in detail; the attention of the jury to the facts of pent to my room, and there folt a sensation of flatu shop on the Queen's Road, and the bakery at the About five minutes alcer leaving the breakfast table, the Esing abop perious to this affair-1 know the then stated what evidence be intended to Alo's own furally being sick from par-toucy-sit1 had been eating wow at first wok Seng Gardens be the plows from which the bring forward in defence; and wound up taking of the bread, and to his offera of to notice of is, but eat down on my chair, looking at trend is carried to the shop there was formerly a with 3 general comparison of the whole 450 and $100 to Captain Xavier to return me papers, as the boy handed them to the the papers bakery about two years ago-attanited in the shop in the 19th, when the evidence I gave was rond over to evidence, and a confident averment of his to Hongkong that night, as rims facin were for the Yoss-offe, and the hot was landing the Queen's Road. The distance betwixt the shop him, he wished me to think if he had aut said he bound three up to as team tho ilone, when I suddenly bohat the jury would acquit all the proofs of his inuocance; but the jury vomited over him. Shortly afterwards two friends \n\nand Jokery in shout one mails. I was nogcainted bean aid there were 59 mandarina I call the place with Alnu, the 9th prisoner, before the 15th-have Queen's Roud the shop; I never wow the th Poy the charge, as affecting the nino consider them merely as clever ruses on called, and I told them I was sick-they said a great soon his very clices; he was always said to be the prisoner in the bakery. The contest was for 27,000 apuially, depending altogether upon their the part of a guilty man is dread of us many people were sick-I said I might be poised, master of the Eng shop. I don't know if he had anyar 28,000b of biscuit the bargain wet in writing. employment by Alam. \n\npision, and if so, would treat them ac- and had better take an omeric, and got up to get on, parts he was reputed sole owner. There were a hot made with Alur personally. I never made a but again vomited violently for about ten minutes good aber arrested on account of the affair contract with the 10th prisoner should never hate On the conclusion of the evidence for cordingly. \n\nwas frequently sick during the day, and bave con- the defence, the Attorney General rose, The jury retired for about half-an-hour, dinner to suffer from it to this time. [Cross-ques were all taken in eustody to the Pelice Stachnasa, nnd of Alum as the principal. My visit to about 20 in the shop-about 50 altogether they thought of doing so always looked opon him as an and after a long and very unnecessary and on their return, brought in, ng above- tioned by Mr DAY,--Don't know that Bing has they were taken before a Justien of the Peace-Mr the shop were always on matters of business on a orga (the Chief Justice thought) defence of the mentioned, a verdict of Nor GUILTY 5 to 1; more than one shop in Hongkongate swam be Chades May: no examination was held till år \n\nale, and were not very frequent. Sometimes, when conduct of the government, and more ez- \n\ncarried on the businem of a Liker have beard be -a conclusion in which, on regards the evi- has a bakery elsewhere--laays been for the shop also everal other J.P.- Mr Gibb, Mr Gray; and unetines sold him large lots si suur would William Thomas Merter, another J.P., was presented at, I dropped in three or four times a week, pecially of Mr Mercer, in this affair-Mr dence, we extirely coincide; though we are Queen's Road West, but an not aware of baking duct know it the latter and gentleman were sit Mercer's conduct never having been im- by no means satisfied of the primouere being carried on there I durt speak preitiselying Justices. When the two bust pristners were would not comes with him: I do not think the Teava ray rouage with the 10th prismer for Almu, but pagned, though the irregularity of the especially of Alum'a-mucence; sud to having en baking golog on nt bis shop, but beigh the Attorney finest was present. The 10th prisoner panas Erglist-the conversation was proooadings of the committing Justines bad would much rather, as we feel assured this I re-i think i have seen an oven there. Cus.al Pelice Station 1 not the usual place for carried on, I think, through one of the pureers in the beon commented upov by Dr Bridges would the inry themselves. that the Eu- Bring has carried on the bakery business tere for £utigation to take place, last 1 have sent them shop. I understood, when Alam talked of troubles I have bean resident to the feland sinne 1897. proceeded to au analytics of the evilmen,glish law had permitted them to return of te don't know, in my eagarity of Editer of lose wegs the learned Attorney General, Mr Mereer, it was er dorost of his haking bread for Phratyn \n\nthere. In the Nuisances investigation, for the dorim, that he meant thata-he said. which he performed in a very able manor, a verdict of not proven. But we shall the Friend of Chan, or otherwise, whether Baing has and Mr May. Mr May is also Superintendent of Pa- laying before the jury in the clourist recur to this subject in our weekly issue. a bakery near the Americe Naval Stores. Ilave ice-end that is the proper place for Lan to be Mr the time the disturbance wok place in November. light the strong points of cash witaees's Du leaving the Court after being dis-frequently been to the Ering shop-especially sons for May was not present when the two last prisoners: As we were going down to the bakery, we mea fire months ago, when I performed some arbitration were bought apen the day of then activel for a boat, and he asked me to pull up to it, as he wished testimony as bearing against the prisonera charged, the prisoners were reapprehended business for Abas. When I have called, I have such amiation. I do not recollect any Justices of the He commenced with the proofs of poison- und conveyed to jail under warrant issued him in the shop, but do not know what he was about \n\nto ask the price of it, and buy it if possible-1 A ing, as testified to by the medical witnesses by order of H. E. the Governor with As for the 21 prisoner, my knowledge of him on tigation of a criminal charge. The Chief Magis for $1; he mid it was for his bakery-and on my Penetting it the Police Salons before, on the in- EQ --he afterwards said he had purchased at at 14 picul then to the identification of the prisoners what intention we are not advised. a brand-deliverer is evnfined to the one occasion trate, I believe, was sitting at his usual post at the remaking it was very den, be sie it was dry wood, with the bakery whence the poisoned bread \n\non the 16th January. The father he served me in Pusa Cour, while this examination was going for and particularly witable for hia bakery; I afterward the slip, but I do not know him otherwise than se was issued, two as the proprietors, others \n\nward at the Poilue Sation-Justices of the Peace the wood discharging on the whart [Hty tha an sasiu do not know his to barn an interest were atting as this time at the Police Court trying ATTORNEY UNERAL-The episods of the boat sa bakers, and the rest as distributors of \n\nIn the businem. \n\ncase, Mr May having been relieved from bin dutes curred alter the conversation about il coming here, the brood; and maintained that if the \n\nJOHN GREIG, Mewart of the dulluna, 1 am so Asistant Magistrale, bis presence being ra and bad expressed doubts of his doing so 3 the coa- guilt of mixing the arsenic with the Hong, \n\nquainted with two last prisoners (9th and 10th) ị quire for the Police forca. It is the invariable versation between the hout-man and Alumi was in er of directing ita admixture, wore brought \n\nsaw them in Esing shep- \n\nthe rim tongue; I saw no money pass hetwoen at that shop. A little Magistrate's Court the Inspector on duty enters Eome to the principal prisoner Alum, there \n\nbefore 7 on the 15th January, I was in the shop, sand \n\nthe parties in payment of Lise wood, could be no doubt that those who assisted \n\nbught me loaf, Saw he let prisoner, the 9th and Court. Uf 50 (or thereabouts) prisoners first talien, uti With gard to the poisoning of the bread, them on the charge shoot, and sends them up to the CHEUNG-ALCMC staten ent]cing duly caution- fu moulding the poisoned bread, or in die- \n\ntheth, they protended to be running abousin a in custody than not here are mill detained in the he is entirely ignorant-that the bread is made in one great hurry, out I would not see they were doing any Cross-road Sumiva at the foot of Wellington Street, part of the town, and he lives in souther-he never had tributing it among the community, monet! have a guilty knowledge of the affair: he \n\nthing particular, Could not see what they were oppraits Gith, Livingston & Co.'s godown-they sy id of doing such a thing. He first came to the doing, but they appeared to be attending to the dwelt strongly on the fact that no less a \n\nbusireas of the shop. Did not romak anything par \n\nhave been there sine their first examination on the Colony at unly 18 years of age-ie was first ext quantity than Tea Pounds of arsenic must \n\ntieula: about the prisoners; e 9th was weighing \n\n15th January. The Attorney and was present played by Mr Higham, who afterwarde went to when the best tre primers Prese asumined, but dolla, and the 10th was waiking about all three don't know if he took part is the investigation. \n\nCalifornia; after that by Mr Franklyn; then by have been put into the dough-toɔ large a \n\nMarrow, Stephenson & Co.; then by Mr Do Seer, parcel to be easily concealed from the \n\nwem attending to the buriness of the shop. (Explsina \n\nཚ་ CHARLES MAY, Superintendent of Police, Haut for when he made hisenite, a well as did other that the shopmen, not the prisoners were running heard the evidence of Dr Elarland as to the analysis of business. persons employed in the bakery. He \n\nabout.) 1 seat the load off to the Satana, Afterwards the yeaat, e, found at the bakery. There were machine for making biscuit, and then another from Mr He some time afterwards purchase a next referred to Alam's presence at the very time the dough was being made J. C. DEMPSTER, Colonial Surgeon-Have been [Cross-examined by Dr Bass]-Often went to the iraking the bread The audement is perfectly cur- be purchased another from America, wich has ales yeusi, samples of dough, flour, and the water use for Duddeil, for $1,800; and as these were insufficient, then to him and is father being in the in the habit before the 15th of getting bread from the Exing shop to buy a loaf. Wes in the shop two or cock, Cross-questioned by D BRIDGE)-Have arrived. He is supplied the Nars with it. \n\nKaing shop belenging to the 9th and 10th primer tre minutes on the 14th. Don't know anything alun beard Mr Grand-Pre's statement. Is ehop at the very time the bread was being chlained based from the shep that morning, not with about the 16th man, except that I saw bar in the \n\nat with \n\nan only lately be has repaired the premises, and set sold to the customers-nuxt of his express- \n\nMe Merter on the evening of the 15th to conduct the three machines at work. Liam is here reminded uy only partook of it, sheus baif-paat 7 or 8 lock, shop have frequently seen him thera-he was walk- ed intention of learing the colony-and | at breakfasi. After eating a small portion of the ing about the shop. I tou ao particular native of came in about 2, and we sat till 8. Iematened ing, he proceeds), On the 28th of the 17th, the inquiries- luvited Mr Mereor to join meha that all tea above has nothing to do with the poison- \n\narray of facte for the consideration of be into's oer of $50 and $100 to the Captain 16-Have been in the habit of taking and I were kept engaged the whole dry, and for tention to Alum panting a new cbop (plan with \n\nSUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nCRIMINAL NENOMINAL\n\nMonday, 24 Febrnavy.) THE POISONING CASE\n\nJarp-Menara M. A. MACLEOD, W. H. Strms, Jour LMON, W. A. BOWKA, E T. DONGANDO, \n\nand GEORGE WALL\n\nCHEONG ARAW, Chrono Aurap, Chaco Aco, OM ARON, TAM ALEEN, FONG ANDER CHENG Amus, Pura AcuUT, CHNCHO ALU and Cuong Wyr Kox-4dministering Poles will intent, \n\nFor the Prosecution,-The Hon. To Anstav, diternay General; Ma HCR, Crom Sulicor, assisted by Mr 3, C. TURNER, \n\nPor the Defens-Dr Daines and Mr DAY, Gunel Mersta GAFELL & BROWN, and Mr H. J. TARRAST, Solicitors. \n\nin the habit of buying bakers: I bave been me to send all heavy siminal es to the \n\nparlook of it, and was sick from these to four days. \n\nto render my statewank about the 63 mandstins \n\nthis was an lbs 20h. | By Mc Day,Į—Mr Morrow called an mm, and said he had been up to wes Alum, who desired would reccnsider my edem \n\nOn \n\nera live opposite the Eving shop-I was absent et\n\n## Step 1\nThe given text appears to be a mix of OCR output from historical records related to Hong Kong, including shipping intelligence, court proceedings, and other documents. The task is to proofread this text, correcting spelling errors, fixing spacing issues, rejoining broken sentences, and restoring paragraph breaks, all while preserving the original content and format as much as possible.\n\n## Step 2\nFirst, we need to identify and correct spelling errors. 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        "content_text": "## OVERLAND FRIEND OF CHINA.\n\n### DEPARTURES\n\n| Ship | From | For |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Fing | Queenstown | London |\n| Erit. 635 | Nor | Falmouth |\n| Thisvors, bark |  | Cork |\n| Wild Flower, ship |  |  |\n| fuit. $5 an |  |  |\n| 478 Jan 28 | Bourby, stranier | Bombay |\n|  | for Hamburgh |  |\n| Glonesa, brig |  |  |\n\nVery DEPAR TURES \n\nPer Antelope, Mers Wetmort, Cry der, Cons \n\nCheng Ayow at the bakery. He also sent upward of $1,000 in stock, Porter, and Feset. bie slop, Since the dieta barces in Canton. where he had shop, and since hearing a \n\nmises were bural, ha reward of red for: his apprehension, he has reklo gone to his bakery, and has lived principally upstairs, not wicking--as Mus! of the korean and compradores belonging to his district had returned bone-sill into a su Hongkong. This day before yesterday. Rant & Co. wished 10 preare 27 000 he, of biscuit #rom bin, and he went down to his bakery with Mr Diner in n bout, to show sim his bakery, with nechinery there; ofter which, Mr Dades of the Curemissaris wishing to see him on business be walked from his bikers to the Coquarist Ar Dunder told him to uske at haste with Die biscus, an it was want-) for the Cricutia; on hie way Lock,] he culted on Me Poster, saying he would and orxt morning at the for. Same sunrmmon, decorren 4 and 5 clack, Mr Edwards brought him an order an Burd & Co., for the liricvery if the 1800 taga \n\nAs regards the Bakery, ho find a foremas-Apuk, whole shout a fortnight agot his present foremen is Alan, and two are under him. Alitook and Antzat, rue for day, nod one for night work. Does unt know whether may of those three are here or not. Dues un know who have been seized wowa tist sume lave in en sex, because the boy that come over with Sergesti Je le pold him so. \n\n### SHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\n#### MERCHANT VESSELS.\n\n| Ship | Arrival | Consignees or Masters |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Trufl |  |  |\n| Tay. ship |  |  |\n| Brothers, brig |  |  |\n| Calders ship |  |  |\n| Cama Family, ship |  |  |\n| Deva, ship |  |  |\n| Karl Grey, harve |  |  |\n\nArriva \n\nMERCHANT VESSELS- Continard \n\n| Ship | Arrival | Consignees or Masters |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Ceylond, ship | 42.007- |  |\n| BRU Felix, barque | 5 jaan. Postase and co. |  |\n|  | m. Pustan and on |  |\n|  | Amoy | 150Sept Jafard and ev |\n|  | Sept Bard sud en | 2) telebe |\n|  | 440 Feb 117adise, ad |  |\n|  | Nur 2: Canajee and co. |  |\n| Cat Szybbe Guesden. | Jan | »[ bh& 21 * |\n| Alibotsford Guique | Apicion, big corn, bene | 43 55 Jardinë, 14. aud zo. |\n|  | 19til yd 190. |  |\n|  | 21 flee 17ardine od |  |\n| British. | fub chau |  |\n\n### SHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\n#### ARRIVALS\n\n| Ship | From | Consignees or Masters |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| H.Ms.Cuia | London |  |\n| Quch of May, cart Bri. | Liverpool |  |\n| Cadiz, lemmer | Bombay |  |\n| Fiery Cross, r | Caloutca |  |\n| Lighting, Amer Sempre, ship |  |  |\n| Chris, bili | Frote Sourabaya |  |\n|  | eb 16ongkong | 314 Feb 49anghae |\n|  | Brisco Feb Tungkong | Brit 415 Feb |\n|  | 316- |  |\n|  | Fart of Wheur, sh. Brit. 75 Fob |  |\n\n### TRIPS OF WAR IS CHINA AND NORTHERN WATERS\n\n| Ship | From | For |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Faruk Lucy, bork | East Coast |  |\n| Mazeppa, schooner |  |  |\n| Kepbyi, suhor |  |  |\n| Jouppi, stip | New York | Hongkong |\n|  | Bru | 64.hongkongRainwa |\n|  | 140 3 |  |\n|  | Am. 173 Feb Shanghae |  |\n\n### PASSENGERS INWARD.\n\nPer Zephyr, Mass Dicken, and Campbell, and 8 Chinese.\n\nPer Cadla, Mesars Hoord, Booker, Walker, Macresa, ale Lean, Maitland, Junes, Heard, Bugg, Boer, Hislop, and Cembranc \n\nPer Clarendon, 18 Malay Listars from the brig Pantole \n\nFor Muzeppo, Cap'at-e Barchain and Wilson.\n\nPer Amu, Mesa Homes, Sicin and Barn.\n\nPer Time and truth, 172 Chi \n\nPer Fiery Cross, Hou'blo F. Calthorpe, Mat \n\nMuk, un arvadis.\n\nPer Vindex, spwrecked passengers from the Amariest ship Ga đèn Buer, \n\nPer Butos Ayres, Mi Hart and 5 Chinese.\n\nPer Loty Wind, Mr went Mea Broughall, Me like, and Mackenzie.\n\n### PASSENGERS OUTWARD.\n\nPer Wild ture, Air Alester Divd.\n\nPur Erin, Measta Mutland T. Muceria.\n\nvera, Dr. Mrs, Mr and Miss Hotano, Messrs \n\nHN Lag, R Tarure, PMLen, W. Hislop \n\nJ. Pardon, W. G. S., P. Kou, G. Ha \n\nwith sum ecrits, and Capeso fomulos 2nd class,\n\n### SUPREME COURT.\n\n#### Crimmel Session i THE QUEL versie The Pureezers.\n\n##### Monday February 2nd, FIRST DAY.\n\nThe proceeding in this case commented at naon before n crowded. Coar. The Hon'le the A \n\nDr. Dempster, Colonial Surgeon vorn, de- posed-te ulsnys bal bis bread from. E-ing's torney General appeared for the prosecution; asap. On the morning in question the bread was sisted by Mr Cooper Turner, who had vuhunteered this services in the case withon fee or reward, \n\nbrought as usual a little before 8, of which his wife and family pateak. Far the defence, Dr. Bridges and Mr Day; with Ms. Dempster Bit giddy and inclined to vomit, Of After endaga gusti portion, Messrs Gaskell one Brown, and Mr H. J. Tarrant, his at de time no nalica was taken; but after \n\nThe Jury consisted of the following gentis pen the breakfis mod we over, he also having Messrs-MeLand, Martha-Suson, SriMaker, \n\ntion, Stationer-Panson, Book Keeper. after be felt the same effects. \n\nYerandah and cigar, when in a few moments \n\n·Lysil, ferchant-Bowra, Skip Coller. Prstone to the opening of the unse Dr. Bridges rose to request that he witnesses night leive the Casted which being complied with,-Thu Auorney Gener in cising to address the Cant, observed, that such a case as the one is was about to lay before shem had never been contenplated by Bush lathe attempt-Well nigh sccessfu' destroy an entire formasily by poison, was possible only to a anal bead to ba analyz-i. 1 vit oor take it payseif, \n\nThe head prisoner's Da family might be been destroyed the p soned he would have tea infuscating which the Gender of the Jury wacht es is the vid. ener to be whyeed, as bey (the family) theraselves were farers, Circumstantial evidence was at all times diffent to prosocute and convict apos; but in the case of a sorst crime liko polasaing, there should be allowed a great latile, and the mercy of the low should be restrained nos colged.\n\n##### Tuesday, February 3rd. Spcom DAY.\n\nThe Jury were ai libely to Had some guilty the white and brown. Mach loss than Jue contents oral!; but if they to one accesy geily, they of one loaf would ease donth, Qi thu same day me of necessity envies all ule aceeasica, Ife (the 16 h)a puliceman brought ins uva Jura, one would show them how strong was the Prisoner's couting yeast, the other materials for making interest in the pawning attonit, and that his me tires were plan allong-ejulier against bar. the crapings of the table upon which dough had YRE! Fis al brought una faur. pistry, and barigns And Flea tupe of reward from bie Chuv boa md--likswise pustry in maulds. \n\nThe Judge taking his sral, the Attorney Gon had fied, but two had been breught back. 1 \n\nfarmen of me of the gestiunea of the Jury having Count for the Primera perhaps might say that the loo who escaped were the foremen and that from each other. I have known Alan for Boner. The sad Jaror was warned of the seati express-d himself in rather strong bungange of his the guilty parties; but the two who were brought some time. I have always known hip to be com \n\n(the Attorney General'a) conduct towards the pricredit scount with Alam-Aluo told me and bacs were surely equally amenabis suspicion provoked by fight; and the rather because, no pazines to his baziness. About fity Chinese would be impossible, under Ruch circumstances, to \n\nsidered sa the master of the Esing shop. I know of his asseverations; but on reflection, desiated, a barrel, it was on the afternoon of his wrest day he had bought some Aur for 81 por harre ments be was wring, and for some time persisted in they were the musters of those two whe cecaped,' were arrested at the tokery and shop and taken to \n\nand the I could take it at any time by giving $15 and has entire control over them. Every air the police station. They were taken before Mr Camelarve was against the Prisonerte de May, J. P.;-several Justices of the Reice were \n\nallow a Jury to go bome; and moreaves it wald septim they praclisul-waiting out the bread present as the examination, \n\nbe impossible for him to prove the eas if Jurors was being delivered before they went on hour the examined before Magistrates on two different oc- \n\nforgot their cath so far as to discuss among their The prisoners were Steamer Shomrack. \n\nCross examined have known Alun sinca friends outside the pros and cone of the indictment 1942, I supply stripping to a larga amowit, I have \n\nAt the son-the see-int, the Father-the athers them bad arenic, Esch of the seros I receivest \n\nere merely employed by them. These prisoners from Mr Grand Pro contained andream of arsenic, daring He ever said anything to me of their o \n\nnot have said that ke had been tail about the Man- were only responsilite for counselors, but for was come white arsenic, ae brown breading soldiers. I ever saw the issuer in the bakery \n\nThe Prisoner's Chaunted a presumed upon this indulgence, and although the Governo, which webou had shews great for beatrice sulliney \n\nto the \n\nPRINTED ANTY PUPLISH WOn an Epicon AND PROPRIETOR, HY Luts of Azaya. BEN Street, Viccuri, 1887.\n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE OVERLAND FRIEND OF CHINA, 15TH FEBRUARY, 1857-",
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        "content_text": "# Hung-ham Pass of Cowloon; they found a number of small vessels crossing with vegetables to Victoria. At the sight of the braves their crews took to the water and escaped, and they only caught two men, Wong-ang and Li-muk-yeung. They were allowed to plunder the boats of their entire cargo of vegetables and other things. They also took a devil's boat and two traitorous Chinese rowing therein; three others escaped, and the boat was taken into Cowloon, and left in charge of the Tipo (the head borough); the oars, anchors, &c., were brought in to the camp. I have now sent the braves with the two traitorous Chinese and these articles to you, and request you will have the affair judicially looked into and settled.\n\nOn the 2nd, at Lik-yun-tai-wei, a man named Wong-tai-muk, dressed in devil clothes and boots, with a devil fowling-piece in his hand, speaking the devil language fluently, and also Chinese of the Heung-shan dialect,* came down the hill side shooting and up to the tents. His appearance being in every way suspicious, he was seized by the braves and, on being questioned, admitted that he had been in barbarian service at Victoria; also that he had owned there the Tak-lung pork butchery and the Hing-lung fish concern; that about the middle of January he had gone home from Victoria; he had come out to shoot because he had nothing else to do, and was in no way a traitorous Chinese. The gentry and elders of the Nine Wards have given a bail-bond for him, I was enabled to deal leniently with the case, and released him with a slight punishment (or fine).\n\nI am in want of the following articles (enumerated). Yu-ki-nin says that in the eastern division at Sha-tin, and at Chik-mi, boats load with bullocks, fowls, ducks, &c., for the supply of the English rebels.\n\nIt is very expedient that two vessels should be sent to cruize off those places.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n## Inclosure 4\n\n**Chan-tsze-tin to Chan-kwei-tsih**\n\nFebruary 7, 1857.\n\nI came to Cowloon, where there were three of the parties concerned (in the plot), all of whom insisted on having some guarantee in writing. You will have found the details in Yu-ki-nin's note, and I have to request that you will signify to me what remuneration is to be given for each item (of the proceedings therein specified), that I may be enabled to discuss this with (the parties interested). The barbarian shipping, however, at Victoria has much diminished in number; in the last few days one-half seem to have gone. The American devils, I understand, see that, as matters stand, there is risk of danger, and (their ships) have therefore gone off.\n\nI hear it said that in the course of a few days the English will be sure to send to Cowloon for the boat we took a short time ago. This is the talk of the simple villagers, who are full of alarms and misgivings. For the present I have forbidden my braves to go to Cowloon, and shall wait some days until I see how matters stand, before I think of acting.\n\nA few days ago the English rebels took up seven Chinese in the Sheang-wan (the west of Victoria). When I see how utterly broken the barbarians are, I look on it as certain that they will not venture to disturb Cowloon again (or to break into it present themselves there).\n\nI have this day enlisted ten braves-very secretly without the knowledge of any man-and to-morrow shall get a boat for the undertaking. The other body of men, who are to be put on rations, when the attempt shall have succeeded, are people of the place (Hong Kong or Cowloon). They will probably cross the water in the course of the day (or a few days).\n\nYu-ki-nin came in from the Committee to-day, and informs me that yesterday our braves seized eleven rebellious barbarians and have handed them up to the Committee. I was delighted to hear this; it is really a fine thing. If we manage matters thus, the English rebels and the local vagabonds will not be able to bear one another, and each party will get to suspect the other to the advantage of the main issue. Who is to be sent with these eleven English rebels? The two Kwei-shin men need not, I think, be forwarded to Canton. I am told that their employer sent some one yesterday to learn how the case stood, and so I suppose he is going to bail them, &c.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n## Inclosure 5\n\n**Chan-kwei-tsih to Chan-tsze-tin**\n\nFebruary 16.\n\nOn the 14th, Tong-sze brought me an answer from you. In the first decade of the 12th moon (27th December to the 5th January) Cheng-tsik was directed by the head committee (Canton) to go to Cowloon to take steps (or the necessary steps). I am told he had got a number of men together to fire Victoria. I fear, however, that he was not up to the task, and that he has failed (or will fail) in consequence.\n\nThis person was put forward by the F-san-tong (interlined)—I do not know who is charged with the superintendence of this (tong)-and was to accomplish his undertaking within a month, Lin-tsun-ngan has taken his leave of me as teacher (in my family), and as there is now no gentleman in charge of his twenty braves, they had better be disbanded; or the half of them might be, as there are ten in charge of Sai-kung.\n\nWan-hing's nephew has got leave for ten days. Mak-ying-tang's station is Sha-tin; he has now come in to head-quarters, and will be desired to go to Sha-tin. On his arrival he must be desired to go to his camp and remain there, and not to be staying at any other place that he may choose.\n\nTse-tung-shan (otherwise styled Tse-tso-ko) came in (from Canton) to the Committee (Sanon) this morning after breakfast, with 30 gilt mandarin buttons, and 1,000 dollars weighing 690 taels (interlined); this is to pay the 300 dollars for the lorcha, and the 30 taels for every devil's head. He also brought 2,000 taels to pay the men, contributed by Wei ordered to be handed over to the district magistrate.\n\nPostscript. The price of devil's heads has been reduced this year.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n## Inclosure 6\n\n**Chan-tsze-tin to Chan-kwei-tsih**\n\nFebruary 17.\n\nI went on the 29th January to Sai-kung, to Yu-kia-nin's; and the non-commissioned officers of the Militia of the six wards of Ho-chung, and the Sha-kok-mi, all came to meet me. The rolls of their train-bands are now completed, and will be forwarded shortly.\n\nThe train-bands of the nine wards of Sik-un are also on foot, and the non-commissioned officers want the Committee to send flags, and badges, &c.\n\nYesterday the Commandant Chung returned to Cowloon; and I learned to-day that the English rebels had burned four war-junks at Tung-chung, and were giving out that to-day they would attack Tung-chung itself. One of my braves has returned from Victoria, and reports that there is no movement of the kind. Of late they have been more vigilant at Victoria than ever; no one is allowed out after 6 o'clock. Devil soldiers share the duty of keeping watch with the watchmen, and patrol zealously in bodies. From Tai-ping-shan to West Point there are devils on guard. After the lamps are lit no one is allowed to go from the shore to the ships, nor to land from the ships. The seamen devils act as devil soldiers. In the streets there is little business doing. The Wing-tai, Wo-shang, and Mau-tai, three great rice shops, ceased to do business some days ago.\n\nPage 408",
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        "content_text": "21st July, 1845.\n\n納\n\n堅\n\n餉\n\n銀壹\n\nNap Caine (LITERALLY) Paid Caine Duty Money 堅 hiang Cain #j (LITERALLY) Caine Paid (him) Daly Mumy\n\n27th July, 1845.\n\n納 餉 銀五 壹百大元 五百元 201: Jul.1845. X500 餉 唠 啤 Caine Duty Rupees\n\n1st August, 1845.\n\n納 堅 餉 銀怕 Paid Caine Duty Money\n\n5th August, 1845.\n\n交 堅 餉 銀式 Keach Caine hiang (LITERALLY) Delivered Caine Duty money 元 百大元 200\n\n8th August. 18.15.\n\n納 堅 餉英銀 Paid Caine Duty English Money 百\n\n11th August, 1845.\n\n堅 餉 銀 Caine Dmy Joacy 壹百元 30 $ 190 117\n\nAmount paid within 22 days, $ 1.6L On the 1st of September following and at other dates, appear entries for sums of $ 100 and lesser amounts\n\nHad I when before addressing your Lordship been aware of the existence of such entries as the foregoing (the Books then being in the possession of the Editor of one of the local papers as stated in my letter to the Clerk of Councils of the 23d December last, per copy attached) I should earnestly have drawn your Lordship's attention to the nature of them, implying as they do that the monies extorted were not taken (as I had erroneously understood) under pretence of obtaining Major Caine's good will, but as legal duties, and thus either at the hands, simply of the Clerk who made the entries, of the owner of the books, or of the miscreant by whose peculations the entries occurred, was the Honourable the Colonial Secretary directly charged with malversation of office to a most serious extent, and in its nature highly disgraceful and injurious to the interests and reputation of Her Majesty's Service generally; and the payment of these monies having been admitted by every one employed about the Market at that time, in the different bearing which the case is thus made to assume, I respectfully submit my Lord, that the whole of my conduct with regard to this business has been highly proper, justifiable, and necessary, and in no way deserving of the hard treatment which I have received.\n\nW-Afoon and Chun-tae-sing were but poor men, and when undertaking to bring $ 7000 into the partnership stock, appear to have calculated upon raising the money among the friends of their respective families, and (apparently credible) assertions are made by some of these relatives, that after having advanced money and taken sub-shares in expectation of getting large returns, the heavy extortion to which they were told they would have to submit, induced them to sacrifice a portion of the monies so advanced and speedily withdraw altogether from the concern.\n\nThe heavy extortion of 1600 within the first month after the Market's establishment appears in fact to have completely paralyzed the efforts of the share holders, who being obliged to borrow money at exorbitant interest, instead of getting it through the co-operation of friends in taking sub-shares, consented (as is alleged by the Clerks of the Market) to break up this first partnership on receiving back the monies which they had actually advanced, and on being released from the liabilities which they had incurred in raising money on loan.\n\nThis partnership it is believed was broken up or set aside, principally at the instigation of the firm which had entered into a bond with the Government for Wei-Acqui's due performance of the covenants in his lease: The members of this firm :-Fong-Ache, alias Auai, Cheng-Cuucheng and another, borrowed in the Autumn of 1845 the sum of $2000 at the rate of 48 percent per annum, on mortgage of their leasehold property in the Colony; and this money it appears was applied to pay Wei-Aloom and Chun-tae-sing out of the Market; but as the deed of partnership was not cancelled, it is not clearly established that the partnership between them and Wei-acqui was ever altogether broken up: On the 20th Oct 1845 however, upwards of four months after the first partnership had been convened and carried on, a brief document was prepared and signed whereby (without reference to any previous or still existing partnership), Wei-Acqui, Lo-kegn-teen (Major Caine's Comprador) and the before-mentioned members of the firm who ...\n\nPENNTTO 0: S.",
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        "content_text": "M. May's Memoranda\n\n10 day received from Man fr & low quak & guns.- 13 day Gunpowder $ 15. stink pot & st, again dick. again gunpowder pats 440, 1 far, quiverder bags.\n\n14 day 15 shields 26 (gun from Rotie the boat measured this day, 7 cheang biy if tixt the breadth & cheang & pect 9 Inch.\n\n5\" day 5\" Mo: 11\n\nExplanatory Henwich Me May's Memoranda\n\nVide seconday cordince. tem 1 buy guns- of pay to ds. cla d. not recollected 4 day carriaged.\n\n7 received from 201 Jael, 8 day a very Mun bing. 300 laels (this shop convicted in bold ich chay for 4 guns 391: Faels. same day for 9 cash. gunpowder, paid 49 tail.\n\nday received 7 from price Lame day Sing see I cannon not settled. ds 105 R by me but recollected by me was the exhibiting important particular a attu M dore connexion beloved\n\nExplanatory Homes for 427 There entrus ComL urthen secondary erdmee. item 1. day paid for muskets my obtenent su mnt, cannor 29 day butt, 10 pecuts 81 callies, 3% Jacks 4. 3.~.\n\n\"day 11 Me: mucket of 9 me date & muskets $617 again emaskets Hy 11 Jar of Suspender the Gold. dust piracy. [for his $6.- dust Robbery & the amount of which vide given over to Luk bhay my and Mah. chore wome evidimus page 49-319.) entry of a is much the actual quantity of my- but undu armi and gemfuoroder dealt in by Mack cow ZLA shown herein",
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        "content_text": "Inclosure M. 3 imm\n\nDespatch No 32 57 1860.\n\nMoer 4859 Dulla Numeros Novembro 14.\n\n  \n    Nomes\n    Idade\n    Naturalidade\n    Profissão\n    Correctores\n  \n  \n    101 Cam foe lan\n    25\n    Pinchas\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    102 Las Apin\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    103 Pim Ayen\n    20\n    Do.\n    Sun Tae\n    \n  \n  \n    104 Chan Afor\n    32\n    \n    Lui-cin\n    \n  \n  \n    105 Hon-juncan\n    22\n    Ping-Hoc\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    106 Chang thoek)\n    18\n    Pung te\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    107 Son! Acan\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    108 Com. San\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    109 H0 - Alae\n    20\n    Fa chio\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    110 Chan Chen Lac\n    30\n    Lin pun\n    Sun Chon\n    \n  \n  \n    111 Hin Atac\n    24\n    Sun ley\n    Cal nichos\n    \n  \n  \n    112 Non A con\n    28\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    113 Hife afat\n    23\n    Ston cun\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    114 Chew-Asson\n    \n    Sam quai\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    115 Chan Asin\n    19\n    V70 thno\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    116 Chisi. Afre\n    \n    Alon\n    Calan chow\n    \n  \n  \n    117 Chu Mon\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    118 Chum Aby\n    25\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    119 Hon-Assi\n    \n    Nam Hey\n    Sun hor\n    \n  \n  \n    120 Lin Alun\n    28\n    Nac chav\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    121 Jan Nencie\n    25\n    accom\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    122 Non-thy\n    29\n    Hon leom\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    123 Ha hon\n    18\n    Nam hoe\n    Sam hor\n    Law Mun\n  \n  \n    124 A can\n    7\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    125 Avey\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    126 born Amun\n    20\n    Juring\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    127 Lit faclan\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    128 Chan lebtis\n    24\n    Chen loi.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    129 Nom-A for\n    20\n    Samoe\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    130 Ion laknum\n    30\n    Soumne\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    131 Teen-attor\n    28\n    Simtoo\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    132 Chan Alon\n    19\n    Suntar\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    133 Sam Avá\n    \n    Suntai\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    134 Syz Assan\n    19\n    Bolincher\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    135 de Asai\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    136 Len Aman\n    30\n    Son mun\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    137 by a\n    30\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    138 ao\n    \n    Asy\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    139 Artesan\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    140 Cha atac\n    2.0\n    Colin choo\n    Samhoe\n    \n  \n  \n    141 Jon Arin\n    25\n    Fommun\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    142 Min You\n    30\n    Đến hỏi\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    4\n    Chinfic\n    law 18.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    lan\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    For tirado\n    \n    Chan chun\n    Irm\n    \n  \n  \n    Chum Ahoi.\n    \"J\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    For tirato e exition\n    \n    en sen lugar\n    Son achos\n    \n  \n  \n    lugar entron lugarrentin\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nBy ... at that place.. January, & February, 1860.\n\nCaldwell's Report o procedings over to Macao,- with un 45 Kidnapped chinese taken Guimarães, respecting the Correspondence between Sir St. Robinson and Governon",
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        "content_text": "405\n\n1\n\n4\n\nMarch on Tang-Chow and Action of 18th and 21st September. DESPATCH from Sir J. HOPE GRANT to Mr. Secretary HERBERT.\n\n(No. 46.)\n\nHead Quarters, Chang-tsia-wan, SIR,\n\nSeptember 20, 1860. I HAVE the honour to report that I left Tientsin on the 9th instant, with 700 Infantry, 600 Cavalry, and two batteries of Artillery; 3,000 French troops followed, one march behind me, and two days later Sir John Michel marched, with a regiment of Cavalry, a 9-pounder battery, and the 2nd Infantry Brigade.\n\nOn the 13th instant I reached Hoosciwoo, 40 miles from Tientsin, and as several letters had been received by Lord Elgin from some fresh Commissioners of high rank, I halted whilst Messrs. Parkes and Wade went on to meet them at Tang-chow, 25 miles distant. On the 15th these gentlemen returned, having made satisfactory arrangements with the Chinese Commissioners, by which it was agreed that the Allied Forces should halt at Chang-tsia-wan, five miles short of Tang-chow, to which place the Ambassadors should advance, with an escort, and sign the convention. On the 16th Sir J. Michel's force arrived, and on the 17th we encamped at Matow, five miles short of Chang-tsia-wan. The forces consisted of Lieutenant-Colonel Barry's Armstrong Battery, Captain Desborough's 9-pounders, Captain Stirling's 6-pounder Battery, the Cavalry Brigade, and the 2nd and 4th Infantry Brigades; and 1,200 French, with a light battery. From the above, however, three 6-pounders and the 60th Rifles had been left at Hooseiwoo, to hold that place, where I have a depôt.\n\nMr. Parkes rode on to Tang-chow to arrange matters for Lord Elgin's reception, and to make sure of the agreement as to our advance, that a collision might not take place by inadvertence; it having been settled that the Chinese army should fall back from Chang-tsia-wan. Mr. Parkes was accompanied by an escort of Fane's Horse, under Lieutenant Anderson, and by Mr. Loch, Private Secretary to Lord Elgin, On my part I sent Lieutenant-Colonel Walker, A.Q.M.G., to fix the site of our camp with the Chinese authorities, and D.-A.-C.-Gen. Thompson to receive the promised supplies for the force.\n\nAt daybreak on the 18th, I marched, and, after going about four miles, I came in sight of a very large force of Chinese, both Cavalry and Infantry. Whilst halting to form up my force, Mr. Loch galloped in with three sowars, and informed me that, on going into Tang-chow the previous day, they had found everything quiet on the road; the Commissioners had agreed to all Mr. Parkes' arrangements; and that, accordingly, leaving Lieutenant Anderson and his sowars at Tang-chow, Messrs. Parkes, Loch, Thompson, and Lieutenant-Colonel Walker, with five men of the King's Dragoon Guards, had come out to meet us and show us our camping ground, which was a mile and a half south of Chang-tsia-wan.\n\nOn arrival at that spot, however, they found it occupied by a large Chinese army, whilst batteries had been hastily thrown up and armed, so as to flank the proposed site of our camp. From the commanding officer Mr. Parkes could obtain no satisfaction, so he started back to Tang-chow with an orderly of the King's Dragoon Guards to see the High Commissioner and ask the reason of this move. Mr. Loch came on to tell me of this, and Colonel Walker and Deputy Assistant Commissary-General Thompson remained on the ground with four of the King's Dragoon Guards and one sowar, where they were to await Mr. Parkes's return.\n\nIt was only now that I learnt that Mr. De Norman, Attaché to Her Majesty's Legation, and Mr. Bowlby, correspondent of the Times newspaper, had gone to Tang-chow with Mr. Parkes and remained there with Lieutenant Anderson.\n\nMr. Loch volunteered to return with any orders, and Captain Brabazon, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, R.A., volunteered to accompany him.\n\nThey accordingly started, under a flag of truce, for Tang-chow, with my orders for Mr. Parkes and the whole party to return at once to head quarters.\n\nMeanwhile the Chinese Cavalry advanced in great numbers, on both flanks, and their Infantry poured down on our right front, which was enclosed ground and carefully entrenched. I was extremely anxious not to engage, for fear of compromising our officers, who were in their lines. I therefore covered both my flanks with Cavalry and ordered the baggage to be hastened on, and massed on a village in our rear, where it could be defended by a small force. This latter operation occupied nearly two hours, during which time the enemy's Cavalry had almost entirely surrounded our forces. Sufficient time had elapsed for all of our party to return from Tang-chow, and I became anxious for their safety, when suddenly a commotion appeared in the enemy's line. The guns and matchlock men in their centre opened fire, and Colonel Walker's party dashed out of the midst of their ranks. Colonel Walker reported that, whilst waiting for Mr. Parkes, a French officer joined him, who was suddenly set upon and cut down by a Chinese soldier, and, on his riding up to prevent his being murdered, his own sword was snatched from his scabbard, and some men tried to throw him off his horse. Seeing that it was a deliberate attempt to assassinate the whole of them Colonel Walker set spurs to his horse and galloped out with his party, under the fire of the Chinese line. One of his men was wounded and one horse, Mr. Thompson receiving a spear-thrust in his back; but they fortunately managed to reach our lines, their wounds not being severe. It was now useless to wait longer, and the attack was immediately formed. General de Montauban advanced to turn their left, and with him I sent a squadron of Fane's Horse, under Lieutenant Cattley. On the centre the 9-pounder Battery opened, supported by a squadron of King's Dragoon Guards, and part of the 99th Regiment advanced up the road.\n\nThe Armstrong Battery with the 15th Punjaub Infantry took ground to the left, whilst Sir John Michel, with the 1st Sikh Cavalry, three 6-pounder guns, and the 2nd (Queen's), made a wide flank movement on the extreme left, so as to turn the right of the enemy. The action commenced simultaneously on all points, and it was now apparent that the Chinese had carefully prepared a very treacherous reception for our forces, An entrenchment, skilfully concealed by natural obstacles, extended on our right and left for several miles, and was armed with numerous guns.\n\nTheir cavalry hovered in large masses on our entire left flank, so that Sir J. Michel was unable to perform the flank movement that had been intended, until the 1st Sikh Cavalry had, by a brilliant charge, discomfited the Tartar Horse, and his force, advancing, had driven them back for some miles. Finding his position to be such, I caused the Armstrong battery and the 15th Punjaub Infantry to take ground still more to the left, and with them I turned the right of the enemy's entrenchment, who thereupon fled with considerable precipitancy. I then sent the Armstrong guns and the reserve cavalry to join Sir J. Michel, who, after making a circuit of six or seven miles, joined me in front of Chang-tsia-wan at a later hour. Meanwhile the French had turned the left by a very extended sweep, and were advancing steadily up, capturing many guns, whilst the 99th with the 9-pound battery joined me in the centre of the enemy's position. The 15th Punjaub Infantry pushing on with much spirit, captured several guns in the act of retiring, and eventually advanced through Chang-tsia-wan, taking several large camps on the outside. Here my force halted. The French being much exhausted by their extensive movement, had halted on the Chinese position.\n\nThe enormous extent of country covered by the enemy, who showed more than 20,000 men, did not permit me to use my force with as good effect as I might have done, as it was too small to allow of its being scattered.\n\nThe loss of the enemy is estimated at 600 killed, whilst 75 guns fell into our hands.\n\nThe French force encountered chiefly infantry, who, on being driven back, were charged most gallantly by Lieut. Cattley's squadron, of whose conduct General de Montauban has written to me in the very highest terms.\n\nThe conduct of the rest of the troops was also most excellent; and I would more particularly mention the 15th Punjaub Infantry, commanded by Lieut. Randall, who, under my personal observation, advanced with great steadiness, and kept their position to the front throughout the day,\n\nMr. Wade went yesterday to Tang-chow to try and gather tidings of Mr. Parkes's party, but the Prefect denied all knowledge concerning them, A Chinaman, however, was brought in to-day, who states that he heard that upwards of 20 foreigners went after the fight to Pekin. If this is true, we have every reason to hope for their ultimate safety.\n\nI was compelled to leave a good force at Tientsin, lest the sudden withdrawal of so many troops should allow a disturbance to arise there. This in effect took place, but being judiciously met by Sir R. Napier, everything is again quiet there, and I have directed that officer to join me with two regiments of infantry, leaving two and a-half regiments, with two batteries of artillery under Brigadier Staveley at Tientsin.\n\nI have, &c,\n\nJ. HOPE GRANT, Lieut.-Gen.,\n\nCommander of the Forces.\n\n(Signed)\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nThe Secretary of State for War, &c.\n\nA 3\n\nPage 406\n\n2\n\n5",
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        "content_text": "# NOMINAL RETURN of Casualties in the Force under His Excellency Sir J. Hope Grant, G.C.B., Commanding the Forces in China, at the Action on the Chow-Ho, September 18, 1860.\n\nProbyn's Horse -\n\n  \n    Corps\n    Killed\n    Dangerously\n    Severely\n    Slightly\n    Missing\n  \n  \n    1st King's Dragoon Guards\n    1\n    \n    1\n    5\n    \n  \n  \n    Fane's Horse\n    \n    1\n    \n    4\n    \n  \n  \n    1st Battalion Military Train\n    \n    \n    \n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    15th Punjaub Infantry\n    1\n    \n    1\n    2\n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    2\n    1\n    2\n    12\n    \n  \n\nForty-three guns were taken during the action, and the loss of the Chinese was very severe. On the right and left were their heaviest losses, but all along the centre, small groups of dead showed the effect of the artillery fire, which had followed their movements till they finally retreated. Our loss is two killed and 29 wounded-chiefly slightly.\n\nI should wish most particularly to bring to notice the very excellent service of the King's Dragoon Guards. The country is extremely unfavourable for cavalry at present, partly from the number of ditches, and partly on account of the crops of maize and millet having been recently cut, leaving sharp-pointed stubble, most injurious to horses, and rendering their rapid movement very difficult; their charge was, however, most effective, and they surmounted these obstacles in a most creditable manner.\n\nI have, &c., (Signed) J. HOPE GRANT,\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nCommander of the Forces.\n\nThe Secretary of State for War, &c.\n\nPage 7\n\nNOMINAL RETURN of the Casualties in the Force under His Excellency Sir J. Hope Grant, G.C.B., Commanding the Force in China, at the Action on September 21, 1860.\n\nSIR,\n\nDESPATCH from Sir J. HOPE GRANT to Mr. Secretary HERBERT.\n\n(No. 47.)\n\nHead Quarters, Camp near Tangchow, September 22, 1860.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report, that after the action of the 18th inst. I remained in Chang-tsia-wan for two days, during which time the 1,500 French troops left at Hoo-seiwoo joined us, and some convoys arrived in camp, together with intelligence of a flotilla of junks coming up the Peiho with further supplies. From reconnaissances on the 19th and 20th, we had ascertained that the Chinese army was encamped in very large numbers about four miles off, on the road between Tangchow and Pekin, and on both sides of the canal which runs from the Peiho to the latter city.\n\nAt daybreak on the 21st I marched from Chang-tsia-wan, and parking the baggage in a village two miles in front, I was there joined by the French who advanced on the right. Soon after passing Tangchow the French troops got under fire of the Chinese works thrown up to protect a fine bridge crossing the canal, and on the Imperial high-road to Pekin. At this point the enemy's infantry appeared in considerable force. On the left, the Tartar cavalry showed in large masses, and advanced rapidly until within 200 yards of our guns, which, hastily unlimbering, drove them off with a fire of canister, assisted by skirmishers thrown forward from the 2nd (Queen's). The Cavalry Brigade, which I had kept échelonned away on the left to guard that flank, was now moving up, and the enemy's cavalry driven away from the right by our fire, hung in large masses on our left front, affording an excellent opportunity for our cavalry to charge, which they promptly seized, the King's Dragoon Guards, under Lieutenant-Colonel Sayers, in particular inflicting a very heavy loss on the enemy. On the left Fane's Horse charged a similar body with great gallantry, whilst the 1st Sikh Cavalry, under Major Probyn, supporting Fane's Horse, effectually turned the right of the Chinese army.\n\nThe enemy, though defeated on the spot, yet still remained in front, in clouds of horsemen, who, though constantly retiring from the advance of any party of our cavalry, however small, never allowed more than 1,000 yards to intervene between us, and showed a steady and threatening front. At this time I had with me the cavalry, the 4th infantry brigade, and three Armstrong guns; the rest of the artillery, with the 2nd brigade, having been left in the centre, with directions to feel the French left. With the three Armstrong guns, under Capt. Rowley, we fired occasional single shots on their thickest masses. These shots, fired singly, at slow intervals, served admirably to illustrate the good qualities of the Armstrong gun; not one failed to strike the thick masses of the enemy, at once dispersing them from the spot.\n\nThus advancing, the cavalry was brought to a check by the fire of a camp, which was taken by the 99th regiment, under Major Dowbiggin, and which proved to be the head quarters of some of the Imperial princes. This, with several others in the neighbourhood, was burnt by our troops, and the Chinese army retired upon Pekin.\n\nWe then rejoined our right, which had kept in line with the French, who had carried the bridge, inflicting much loss on the enemy.\n\n  \n    Corps\n    Killed\n    Dangerously\n    Severely\n    Slightly\n  \n  \n    1st King's Dragoon Guards\n    1\n    \n    1\n    3\n  \n  \n    1st Sikh Cavalry\n    \n    \n    \n    5\n  \n  \n    Fane's Horse\n    \n    1\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    2nd Queen's\n    \n    \n    \n    4\n  \n  \n    15th Punjab Infantry\n    2\n    \n    1\n    2\n  \n  \n    Total\n    3\n    1\n    2\n    15\n  \n\nSIR,\n\nAdvance on Pekin.\n\nDESPATCH from Sir J. HOPE GRANT to Mr. Secretary Herbert.\n\n(No. 51.)\n\nHead-Quarters, Bivouac, outside Pekin, Oct. 9. 1860.\n\nIn continuation of my letter* of the 4th instant, I have the honour to report that, on the 5th of October the Allied Forces advanced from Tungchow, leaving the heavy guns, tents, and baggage stored about three miles from that place. We halted for the night about three miles east of the north-east angle of Pekin, and the following morning resumed our march in a north-westerly direction, so as to pass along the northern face of the city, but out of gun-shot of the walls, and attack Sang-ko-lin-sin's army, which was supposed to be encamped directly in our front.\n\nThe country about here is not good for cavalry, from the great number of trees, villages, and hollow roads. I accordingly despatched the Cavalry Brigade with two 6-pounders with mounted detachments, with orders to advance on the road leading to the Emperor's Palace at Yuen-min-Yuen, with a view of cutting off the retreat of the enemy in that direction. The French were on our left, while the English force moved along the outside of an old rampart which runs parallel to the north face of the city. At this time we received information that the Chinese army were in full retreat, having commenced moving the night before. I therefore sent a message to General de Montauban, that I should advance at once to the Emperor's Palace. On the road, however, we came across the rear-guard apparently of the enemy, with whom a few shots were exchanged before they fled towards the city. As they appeared to be in considerable force in the suburb, I determined on halting on the northern road to prevent their moving out in that direction.\n\n*Not received.\n\nPage 406",
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        "content_text": "# \n| When registered | Names | Offices | Particulars |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Nov. 19, 1861 | M. Mitchell | Acting Post Master | Bond to the Queen for £2000. Sureties P. Cohen £500, H. Scharfler £500. |\n| Oct 28, 1861 | Thos: Turner | Acting Registrar General | Bond to the Queen for $5000. Sureties D. Japraik and Mr. A. Boura. |\n| June 30, 1860 | H. Gy. Thomsell | Harbour Master | Bond to the Queen for $1,000. Sureties D. Sapraik, G. H. Heaton $6000. |\n| Dec. 23, 1859 | Wong shun | Shroff to the Collector of Police | Bond to the Queen for $1000. Surety: Foong Ming $3,000. |\n| Aug 23, 1861 | Sum Ashing | Shroff in the Chief Magistrate's Office | Bond to the Queen for $1000. Surety: Jam Achoy. |\n|  |  | Shroff in the Bond to the Queen for Colonial Treasury | $12,000. Surety: Cheing ason $6,000. |\n|  |  | Shroff in the Bond to the Queen for Colonial Treasury | $18,000. Surety: Ng Fook thang $4,000. |\n\n(Signed) W. H. Rennie, Auditor General.\n\nAuditor General's office, Victoria, Hongkong, 27th November, 1861\n\n(True copy)\n\nWalexander \nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nNov. \n| When registered | Names | Offices | Particulars |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Chun theory | Compradore in the General Post Office | Bond to the Queen for $1000. Surety: Hai chu yun $100, Sok ya! |\n|  |  |  |  |\n\nPage 387",
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        "content_text": "## 120 \n8322. \nHong Kong. \n22122 \nThe Officer Administering \nThe \nGovernment. \nWill \n2 \nAny \n25 \n\nSir, \n\nI have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 120 of the 23rd June last reporting the execution of three Chinese convicts of murder and Piracy. \n\nZucker apack. Snoke_Chew_Ling. anoke - Pum - Chang. \nD.S. \n& Any \n427 \n\nRobinson Bewcastle. Hu Duke of N. 120. \n\nReceived \n3 Chinese, convicted of \nReporting execution of",
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        "content_text": "# \nThis I call Point No. 3.\n\nPoint No. 4, is this,—That Kwon-sun-kwan, who swore and deponed at the Courts in Hongkong was certainly not one of the five teased by Mr. Caldwell at Macao, and has to be looked on as a suborned perjurer.\n\nI now come to deal with the man Ahsoong. In his first statement to Mr. Caldwell, this man said that, after being taken to Macao by Shum Ahing, 33 of our number, including myself, were retained in the Barracoon (`Sma-fook-tai`). After about 4 days we were all, 33 in number, taken before the authorities, and when they asked us if \"we would go, we did as we were told and nodded our heads.\" We were escorted to the house of the authorities and back to the Barracoons by several Chinese and Portuguese. I remained in the Barracoon till the 10th of January and, watching my opportunity, \"I made my escape out of the barracoon through this door.\"\n\nNow as the Coolies contracting only go to the house of the authorities, viz at the time when they sign their Contracts, the Procurador to test the truth of this statement sent for the Contracts of the three Coolies that had escaped out of the hong during the month of December, and as the name of Ahsoong was not found amongst them, he was desired to explain; and to assist in identification of the man, all the Portuguese people belonging to the barracoon were desired to attend; and these men, under oath, then declared that they had seen the informer often in the Barracoon with the brokers but that he never was admitted as a Coolie in the Barracoon. One of the Barracoon men indeed, swore positively to him as being a broker; but this man is gone to Hankow, and cannot be produced to give legal evidence. I shall content myself therefore with having made this point on the evidence accompanying Mr. Marquis's statement referred to in Point No. 1, and to be cited presently, that Ahsoong confessed it was true he was not a Coolie that had escaped but a broker.\n\nMark now the criminal conduct of Mr. Caldwell! Interpreter Delfino Xavier, whose sworn deposition before the Procurador I append, says in effect, when Mr. Caldwell heard the informer admit that he was a broker, not a Coolie that had escaped (and therefore that all his scheme had fallen through) he said in a low voice—\"you must persist in asserting that you are a coolie not a broker.\" What can be clearer as proof of Caldwell's guilt than this?\n\n## Point No. 6\n\nAnd then what was Caldwell's conduct? Why he brings Ahsoong back to Hongkong, and, in the face of the knowledge of this Delfino Xavier, of Mr. Procurador Marquis, of another Interpreter of the name of J. R. de Luz, of Lieutenant C. da Silva, and Cheang Aciun, all of whom can be produced to prove that Ahsoong had admitted in their, and in Caldwell's presence that he was a broker, and not a Coolie that had escaped, he placed the man in the witness box, as that had escaped to convict Shum Ahing of kidnapping.\n\n### \nThis I will call Point No. 7.—And I respectfully submit, Sir, that, as Grand Jury, you have ample evidence on which to base a prosecution against D. R. Caldwell of having with the Chinese Ng Asoung and Kwon-sun-kwan, wickedly devising to procure the conviction and punishment of Shum Ahing, on the 2nd of February 1860, before the Acting Chief Magistrate of Police, Hongkong, amongst themselves unlawfully conspired, combined, confederated and together agreed to falsely and fraudulently charge the said Shum Ahing with having kidnapped and sold into slavery forty-five Chinese. On this charge the said Shum Ahing was committed to take his trial, and on the evidence of the said conspirators, on the 21st day of February 1860, was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to four years' penal servitude.\n\nAnd I further present to you the said D. R. Caldwell and Joseph Scott, Governor of Victoria Gaol, who devising and intending to procure the continuance of the sentence passed as aforesaid on the said Shum Ahing, and to prevent enquiry into the truth of the matter charged in the said indictment of the said Shum Ahing, did on the 23rd day of March 1861, among themselves unlawfully conspire, combine, confederate and agree together to charge me with having induced the said Shum Ahing to draw up a statement implicatory of the said D. R. Caldwell of an improper intimacy with the pirate Mah-chow wang before mentioned; and in proof of this false and fraudulent combination and confederacy I submit the attested copies of declarations before Her Majesty's Vice Consul at this port, of James Ritchie, John Ross and William Gant, as hereto appended;—and I further charge the said D. R. Caldwell and Joseph Scott with having amongst themselves feloniously conspired, combined, confederated and agreed together to assail the life of the said Shum Ahing, first by threats of corporeal punishment, to wit on the 12th day of March 1860, when the said Shum Ahing was locked up in a solitary Cell in the Victoria Gaol, where means were placed to his hand to commit suicide, and afterwards, within nine days of the said date, by flogging or causing him to be flogged three several times on the back, whereby the flesh of the said Shum Ahing was torn and lacerated in a frightful manner. And in proof of this the Turnkeys John Ross, and James Ritchie, and the Warden of the Gaol, W. R. Whiteman, together with myself, can give evidence.\n\nIn conclusion I beg to inform you that His Excellency the Governor of Macao has authorized me to say that, on the request of the Hongkong Government, he will direct the Portuguese officers I have mentioned to attend the Court and give the evidence embodied and referred to in this letter and its accompaniments. And all the others mentioned as able to... \n\n314 \n7",
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        "content_text": "316 \n\n11 \n\n30 \n\nEnclosure marked A.\n\n**WILLIAM TARRANT Esq.,**\n\nSIR,-I have received your letter dated the 19th, and I have perused it with attention.\n\nAs to your understanding in relation to the matter regarding which Mr. Caldwell came to Macao in 1860, I find the great part of your remarks correct. I am,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nsigned, **L. MARQUIS,**\n\nProcurador.\n\nThe above is appended to a copy of the letter, and sealed with wax and official stamp.\n\nTrue copy\n\n**W. TARRANT.**\n\nEnclosure marked B.\n\nMacao 19th February 1862.\n\n**L. Marquis Esq., Procurador.**\n\nSIR,-Having reference to the various enquiries which I have made at your office lately, and of yourself on the subject of the narrative which you sent to the Editor of the Daily Press on the 5th March 1860, and, as I have shown you, bound up in an appendix to Minutes of enquiry into Civil service abuses before the Executive Council of the Hongkong Government; and more particularly regarding Mr. Caldwell's reply to your letter of the 29th of February, of date the 10th of March 1860, bound up in the same volume, I shall feel obliged if you will append to this letter (which I send in duplicate) a certificate of your appreciation of my having correctly understood your and the other statements.\n\nCommencing with the 10th printed paragraph of the letter, on the 35th page of the appendix-you say that you deny that it was proved to you that the five men whom Mr. Caldwell relieved from their contracts were kidnapped. When the men found that by saying they did not want to go they could be released, they said so; and you opine that every contract coolie in Macao would make a similar statement, though that would not prove that they were kidnapped.\n\nAs to para 12 on the same page,-Had the informer pointed your attention at the time to the man whom he said was one of the brokers that came from Hongkong with the 45 Coolees, you would have apprehended him-But neither did he then nor subsequently; and when you found that the informer was an impostor, you came to the conclusion that his assertion of having seen such a person at all was of a piece with the rest of his conduct.\n\nAs regards paras 15 and 16 on page 30, in which Mr. Caldwell speaks of inaccuracies on your part in the statement of what he told you when he first came over regarding the Coolees,-while adhering to your impression on the subject, and now believing that you were intentionally misled, you say that it matters not whether the informer were or were not a policeman after he reached Hongkong from Macao. What was clear to you was that the informer lied when he said that he had been confined in the Sun-fook-tie hong, and that he was one of three that had escaped in the month of December. The names of the men who so escaped, as shown by the Register of coolees who had signed contracts, and were intended to go in the Emilie Pireire, were Leon Ao-an of Hoi-ping, Le Ahee of Chau-choon, and Sun Acum of Fu-yen. These men were received in October, and escaped on the first of December; whereas the informer called himself Asoong, and to have been one of the 45 from Hongkong for whom Mr. Caldwell affected to seek, could not have been in the Hong at the date of the escape in question; the said 45, according to the story, only reaching Macao on the 27th of December.\n\nAs to para 18 on the same page, you adhere to your statement that the informer said four of his companions were at the Barracoon at St. Antonio.\n\nAs regards para 21 on the 36th page, touching the Coolee brought from the St. Lourenço barracoon and released by Mr. Caldwell, you say this man was undoubtedly an impostor, for the contract which he had signed bears date the 6th of December; and you supply me with an attested copy of this contract viz No. 154, between Chong Afa and Messrs. Morales & Co. You also furnish to me attested copies of the contracts of the four others released by Mr. Caldwell; and you notice that Kwon-sun-Kwan who corroborated Asoong's evidence at the Supreme Court on the trial of Shum Ahing, is not the name of either of the five men taken from Macao by Mr. Caldwell.\n\nAs to para 22 on the same page, in which Mr. Caldwell speaks of the consistency of the statements of the Coolees so brought to you with that of the informer, who Mr. Caldwell said had had no possible means of concerting with the others to make up the story, you point out that, as it is proved by the evidence of J. Fernandes, of D. Xavier, of F. B. da Luz, of C. G. da Silva, of Cheang Achan and of others, that the informer was a Coolee broker on his own admission, the supposition that the story could not have been concerted fails; for, as a broker, Asoong had free access to all the barracoons, going in and out whenever he pleased;",
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        "content_text": "# \n63 \n\n! \n\n3- \n\nsubditos gosarão igualmente, nos dominios das Altas Partes Contractantes da mais completa e decidida protecção para com as suas pessoas e propriedades.\n\n## ARTIGO II\n\nÉ inteiramente annullado e tido como nunca existente por este Tratado tudo o que até hoje, em qualquer lugar ou epocha, possa haver sido escripto, ou impresso, ou verbalmente convencionado com respeito ás relações entre Portugal e o Imperio da China e entre o Governo da cidade de Macau (antes na provincia de Cantão) e as Auctoridades chinezas:—visto que d'ora em diante servirá de unico regulamento válido para as mesmas relações o presente Tratado, concluido e assignado pelos Plenipotenciarios dos dois Estados, devidamente munidos das suas respectivas credenciaes.\n\n## ARTIGO III\n\nO Governador Geral de Macau, na sua qualidade de Plenipotenciario de Sua Magestade Fidelissima na China, poderá vir á Corte de Pekim todos os annos, quando importantes negocios lh'o exijam.\n\nSe no futuro o Governo de Sua Magestade o Imperador da China dér faculdade para residir permanentemente em Pekim ao Plenipotenciario de qualquer outra nação extrangeira alem das que já hoje ali teem Representantes, o Enviado de Sua Magestade Fidelissima poderá considerar essa permissão como sendo-lhe extensiva e aproveitar-se d'ella, se o julgar conveniente.\n\n## ARTIGO IV\n\nOs Agentes diplomaticos gosarão nos lugares das suas residencias de todos os privilegios e immunidades que lhes concede o direito das gentes: isto é, as suas pessoas, as suas familias, as suas cazas e as suas correspondencias serão inviolaveis.\n\n## ARTIGO V\n\nAs despezas das Missões diplomaticas de Portugal na China serão pagas pelo Governo Portuguez. Os Agentes diplomaticos que Sua Magestade o Imperador da China se dignar acreditar junto á Corte de Sua Magestade El-Rei de Portugal, serão recebidos com todas as honras e prerogativas de que gosarem todos os mais Agentes diplomaticos extrangeiros d'igual gerarchia, acreditados n'aquella Córte.\n\n## ARTIGO VI\n\nAs correspondencias officiaes, enviadas pelas Auctoridades Portuguezas ás Auctoridades Chinezas, serão escriptas em portuguez e acompanhadas da traducção chineza.\n\nDo mesmo modo será o presente Tratado escripto em portuguez e chineza depois de confrontado devidamente, e servirá de documento a cada Nação a versão escripta na sua propria lingua.\n\n## ARTIGO VII\n\nAs formulas das correspondencias officiaes entre as Auctoridades portuguezas e chinezas serão reguladas pelas gerarchias e posições respectivas, tendo por base a mais completa reciprocidade. Entre os altos funccionarios portuguezes e os altos funccionarios chinezes, na capital ou em qualquer outro lugar, estas correspondencias terão a forma de officio ou communicação: entre os funccionarios portuguezes subordinados e as primeiras Auctoridades de provincia usar-se-ha, para aquelles a forma de exposição (Chau-Hoei) e para estas a de declaração (Xen-Cheu); e os officiaes subordinados de ambas as nações deverão corresponder-se em termos de perfeita igualdade.\n\nOs negociantes, e geralmente todos os individuos não investidos de caracter official, seguirão para com as Auctoridades a formula de representação (Pin-Cheng). Quando qualquer subdito portuguez tiver de representar á Auctoridade chineza do districto, deverá primeiramente levar a sua representação ao Consul, que, não a achando inconveniente, a fará entregar, e no cazo contrario mandará escreve-l'a n'outros termos, ou recusará transmitti-l'a. Igualmente quando um subdito chinez haja de representar ao Consul de Portugal, só poderá faze-l'o por via da Auctoridade chineza, que procederá da mesma forma.\n\n## ARTIGO VIII\n\nEm todos os pórtos da China abertos ao commercio poderá Sua Magestade El-Rei de Portugal estabelecer Consules para tratarem dos negocios commerciaes e vigiarem pela observancia de todos os artigos d'este Tratado.\n\nOs Consules e as Auctoridades locaes deverão tratar-se reciprocamente com polidez e corresponder-se em termos de perfeita igualdade.\n\nOs Consules e Consules interinos terão honras de Tau-tai, e os Vice-Consules, Agentes Consulares e Interpretes traductores as de Perfeito. Os seus poderes serão iguaes aos das Auctoridades consulares das demais nações.\n\nEstes funccionarios deverão ser verdadeiros agentes do Governo portuguez, e não commerciantes. O Governo chinez nenhuma objecção fará porem a que Portugal, não julgando necessario enviar um verdadeiro Consul para qualquer dos pórtos, encarregue interinamente o seu Consulado n'esse porto a um Consul de outra nação.\n\n## ARTIGO IX\n\nSua Magestade El-Rei de Portugal e Sua Magestade o Imperador da China, desejando manifestar as suas amigaveis intenções reciprocas, concordam expressamente no seguinte:\n\nTodos os subditos dos dois Estados, em qualquer parte do territorio portuguez ou chinez, serão sempre tratados reciprocamente como amigos.\n\nSua Magestade El-Rei de Portugal ordenará ao Governador de Macau que preste a mais decidida coadjuvação a evitar tudo o que, n'aquelle ponto, se possa tornar prejudicial aos interesses do Imperio Chinez.\n\nSua Magestade o Imperador da China poderá nomear pois, se lhe convier, um agente para residir em Macau, e ali tratar dos negocios commerciaes e vigiar pela observancia dos regulamentos. Este agente porem, deverá ser Manchú ou China, e ter a graduação de quarta ou quinta ordem. Os seus poderes serão iguaes aos dos Consules de França, Inglaterra, America, ou d'outras nações, que residem em Macau e Hongkong e ali tratam dos seus negocios publicos, arvorando a bandeira nacional.\n\n## ARTIGO X\n\nÉ permittido a todos os subditos portuguezes e ás suas familias habitarem ou frequentarem os pórtos e cidades de Kuang-tchou (Cantão),--Chan-chou (Suatau), Amoy, Fu-chau-Ning-po,--Shang-hai, Chen-kiang, Kien-kiang, e Han-kau (no rio Yang-tsi)—Tăng chou, Tientsin, Neu-choang—Tan-shoei e Tai-van (na ilha Formosa),-e Kinng-chou (na ilha de Hai-nan), e ali commerciarem ou empregarem-se livremente. 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        "content_text": "# Treaty between Portugal and China\n\n## ARTICLE I\nThe subjects of His Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and those of His Majesty the Emperor of China; whose respective subjects shall equally enjoy, in the dominions of the High Contracting Parties, the most complete and decided protection for their persons and property.\n\n## ARTICLE II\nAnd hereby are entirely annulled and held as non-existing by this Treaty everything that down to this day has been done, at whatever time or place, whether in writing, or printed, or verbally agreed,—with respect to the relations between Portugal and the Empire of China and between the Government of the City of Macao (formerly in the Province of Canton) and the Chinese Authorities:—In virtue whereof from now henceforth the present Treaty,—concluded and signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the two States, duly provided with their respective credentials, is to serve as the only valid Regulation of these relations.\n\n## ARTICLE III\nThe Governor General of Macao, in his capacity of Plenipotentiary of His Most Faithful Majesty in China, may visit the Court of Pekin every year should important affairs render it necessary.\n\nIf in the future the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of China shall allow the Plenipotentiary of any other Foreign Nation to reside permanently at Pekin, besides those who have already their Representatives there, the Envoy of His Most Faithful Majesty may consider such permission as extending to himself and avail of it should he deem convenient.\n\n## ARTICLE IV\nThe Diplomatic Agents shall enjoy at their residences all the privileges and immunities accorded by the Law of Nations: that is to say, that their persons, their families, their homes, and their correspondence shall be inviolate.\n\n## ARTICLE V\nThe expenses incurred by the diplomatic Missions of Portugal in China shall be borne by the Portuguese Government. The diplomatic Agents which His Majesty the Emperor of China may be pleased to appoint to the Court of His Majesty the King of Portugal will be received with all the honors and privileges enjoyed by the other foreign diplomatic Agents of equal rank accredited to the said Court.\n\n## ARTICLE VI\nThe official correspondence forwarded by the Portuguese Authorities to the Chinese Authorities shall be written in Portuguese accompanied by a translation in Chinese. In the same manner, the present Treaty is to be written in Portuguese and in Chinese—which after being duly compared will serve as a Document to guide each Nation as the written version of its respective language.\n\n## ARTICLE VII\nThe form of correspondence between the Portuguese and the Chinese Authorities will be regulated by their respective rank and position, based upon complete reciprocity. Between the high Functionaries of Portugal and China, at the Capital or elsewhere, such correspondence will take the form of Dispatch or Communication; between the subordinate Functionaries of Portugal and the first Authorities of the Province, the former shall make use of the form of exposition (`Chau-Hoei`), and the latter that of declaration (`Xen-Cheu`); and the subordinate officers of both nations shall correspond together in terms of perfect equality.\n\nMerchants, and generally all others who are not invested with an official character, will adopt, in addressing the Chinese Authorities, the form of representation or petition (`Pin-Chen`).\n\nWhenever any Portuguese subject shall have to petition the Chinese Authority of a district, he is to submit his statement beforehand to the Consul, who will cause the same to be forwarded should he see no impropriety in so doing, otherwise he will have it written out in other terms—or decline to forward it:—Likewise, when a Chinese subject shall have occasion to petition the Portuguese Consul, he will only be allowed to do so through the Chinese Authority, who shall proceed in the same manner.\n\n## ARTICLE VIII\nHis Majesty the King of Portugal may appoint Consuls at all the ports of China open to commerce, to look after commercial interests, and to watch the due observance of all the articles of this Treaty.\n\nThe Consul and the local Authorities will show to each other reciprocal civilities and correspond with each other in terms of perfect equality.\n\nThe Consuls and Acting Consuls will have the honor of `Tau-tai`, and Vice-Consuls, Consular Agents, and Interpreter translators, those of Prefect. Their powers shall be equal to those of the Consular Authorities of other nations.\n\nThese functionaries are to be true agents of the Portuguese Government and not merchants. The Chinese Government, however, will make no objection, in case the Portuguese Government should deem it unnecessary to appoint a full Consul to any of the ports, and choose to entrust a Consul of a foreign nation, for the time being, with the duties of a Portuguese Consul at that port.\n\n## ARTICLE IX\nHis Majesty the King of Portugal and His Majesty the Emperor of China desiring to manifest their reciprocal amicable intentions have agreed expressly upon the following:\n\nAll the subjects of both States shall always be treated, reciprocally, as friends in any part of the Portuguese or Chinese territories.\n\nHis Majesty the King of Portugal will enjoin upon the Governor of Macao to bestow his most determined cooperation to avoid everything which might, at that place, be prejudicial to the interests of the Chinese Empire.\n\nHis Majesty the Emperor of China may appoint, should he deem it convenient, an Agent to reside at Macao, there to treat of commercial affairs and watch the due observance of the regulations. This Agent, however, must either be a Manchú or a Chinese of the fourth or fifth rank. His powers are to be equal to those of the Consuls of France, England, America, or of those of other nations who reside at Macao and Hongkong, and there treat of their public affairs, showing their national flags.\n\n## ARTICLE X\nIt is permitted to all Portuguese subjects and their families to reside at or frequent the ports of Kuang-chou (Canton),—Chang-chou (Suatau),—Amoy,—Fu-chau—Ningpo, Shanghae, Chin-kiang, Kieu-kiang and Han-kau (on the Yang-tsi),—Tang chou, Tien-tsin—Neu-choang–Tam-shoei and Tai-van (on the Island of Formosa), and Kiung-chou (on the Island of Hainan), and there to carry on trade or otherwise employ themselves. 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        "content_text": "speed tatu - for pirate:. pompons- the cost about £20,000 and will porche \n\nlight draft of \n\nbe sold for half Rad \n\n-7 \n\nJusw. \n\nI hope you will. \n\nim wants in mind. \n\nAny thing can be done \n\nthe matter. Bebine te \n\nYours very tigh \n\nMounters & Robust \n\nFOR DESPATCH|PER P. & O. CO/S STEAMER ORISSA. \n\nStraits Times \n\nOVERLAND JOURNAL \n\nVOL II. No. 47 \n\nTANJO NG PAGAR DOCK OOMPANY \n\nLIMITED. \n\n'Capital 125,000 Dollars, IN 1,250 SHARES OF 109 DRS BACH \n\nWITH POWER TO INCREAS \n\nCOMMITTEE, \n\n5. Giában, Begnive. M. F. Davi fazu, Bag C. 1. Parisøya. \n\nC. π. H. Wilsone, ..., \n\nJ. K. So, Tha Ki \n\nChing, \n\n+ \n\nG. Cramer, \n\nC. P. Laila, \n\nTes. Scott. APPLICATIONS FOR SHARES Y NE ΜΑΡΗ ΤΟ \n\nTHO, SCOTT. \n\nActing scere larg. Singapore, Est Sept., 18 53. \n\nNOTICE. \n\nTHE EAST INDIAN UNDERWAITARY ASSOCIATION, indienst ring heen appointed arent \n\nfor the above effies, are presared to grant policies on country or Deme Vozrzen. \n\nCRO. ARMSTRONG & Co. Singapura, 1813 October, 1863. \n\n(..) \n\nSTRAYS TIMES OVERLAND JOURNAL, \n\nSingapore, 22nd December 1863, \n\nThe Straits Times Overland Journal is \n\nSINGAPORE, TUESDAY \n\nSUMMARY \n\nTax London mail of the 10th ul biano reached this by the China on the morning of the 14th instant; and the Messageries steamer Tigre, with the Marseilles mail of the 19th ultimo, came in yesterday morning, \n\nThe Commission appel ted by H. M. Government to enquire into and \n\n22ND DECEMBER, 1863 \n\nvery considerable beacfit by the native triders here. \n\nThe resignation, or as some say the diasissal, of Me. Lay from the office of Commissioner of Castones in China, and Captain Osborne's failure to estab lis the Anglo-Chinese Navy, on what appeared to him a sound basis, are the chid items of intelligence from China, and of which a detailed aremit will \n\nreport upon the condition of the Set-be found in another part of our Jour- nu. Two of the steamers, the amoy tlement has not yet held any sitting. \n\nand the Kwantung have already There are to be three members only- \n\nreached this on their way to Bombay Sir Hercules Robinson, Colune! Ca \n\nthe other steamers it is said, proceed renagh, and Colonel Freeth of the \n\ndirect to England. There can be no Royal Artillery at Ceylon. The latter \n\ndusht that a large sum of money must geatleman has not yet arrived, being \n\nhe last through the miscarriage of detained it is believed as the Court \n\nthe scheute either to the Chinese Go- Martial of Major O'Brien; and until \n\nvemment, the Home Government, or he reaches this, nothing can be done. \n\nthe ship-builders; it is probable how- That the community might not be \n\never that the toriner have been the \n\nvictims. \n\ncharged with having grown luke-waim on the subject of the Transfer, a pub- lic meeting, convened by the Sheriff, was held in the Town Hall on the a committee was 12th instant, when a \n\npublished three hours before the depor-uthted to draw up a repart apoD \n\nturn of eneb Homeward Mail. \n\nIn it \n\nwe intend to give a short sketch of our own doings her, and of what goes on in \n\nthe present condition of the rere- \n\nBLO nuc, commerce, \n\nresmirces of the Straits. \n\nThe information contained \n\nCHINA. \n\nThe news of the past fortnight has been somewhat interesting. The great evout \n\n395 \n\n35 cents. \n\nthat he should have peraeserad, throughout\" ia the same course of action. \n\nWe have nothing to add to what we arated a fortnight ago. The Fleet is still reported as being alient to sail for England; and the whole afair promises to be one of the most dis graceful matters with which the British kame has ever been mixed up. \n\nHang-Chow will no doubt egon fall, and, failing other means, the hoperialists will be able to atarse the Rebels out of Naoking. Between aurrendor and death, the Sonchow arry will no doubt, cease to exist. \n\nFrom Japan we learn that Satsuma still declines to pay the indemnity demanded from him by Admiral Kuper, except condition that every foreigner quits Yoko. hama The British forces in Japun ure evidently waiting for support, and are not likely to withdraw from the country until something has been done much more devi- give than the affair at Kagosinra. \n\nWith regard to Major Gurdon and the Rebels, we have to report that Soochow has fallen. Gorden abecket the city at SAM, on Saturday the 5th inst., and en- tered the place on the avae morning. Dis- sunion and broken wut amongst the rebels. and a party of them, desirous of surrender. ing the city, ent the Mo Wang's head off, Kumour says that 30 60 wanted to fur- \n\nnot only of the fortnight, but of the pre-render, and 11.at 20,00 had remained trus \n\nsent year, has been the dismissal from the \n\nthe surrounding parts to which Singapore in this report will he placed at the he served of 31r. H. N. Lay, who, fur several years back, has filled the post forms a common centre. We exclude all \n\nservice of 11. M. Commissioners, should Commercial Intelligence, in the shape of \n\nof Lispector Genaral at Foreign Customs, Market reports or Fees Current, as these \n\nthey desire to avail of it; but in any \n\nThe pause of this dismissal is understood Publications of this kind already here can ase it will be published for the satis \n\nto bị that Mr. Luy's demands upon the convey much fuller and more reliable in \n\nfaction of the community het \n\nnity here, and of Chinese Gorernment were not only prepoe- formation than we could possibly erody those et home interested in the affairs ferous themselver, but somewhat anopant- in this Journal. Besides, we would desira by this publication to give our own lirtio of the Straits. It is a fact, that the 15 urged. On this head however we have history a place in the minds of the people Transfer has been placed in its present no riculars, but must refer enquirers at home, and to do this well, will require All the space our four pages allow us. We \n\nforward position almost entirely by the despatches sent to Her Majesty's assure our readers that we shall always by the afforts of the retired ralts Re-order by palu Voucher giad to advantage by the suggestions aidents at Home; and som \n\nnight go. Mr. Lay's disusissal is not Bome dis- they may give us, and trust that in this way our Overland Journal may become play such as this, of interest on the and continue a sort of institution among \n\na desirable. Besides, it is neces \n\nof the present Residents, was 日。 \n\nDOMESTIC OCCURRENCES \n\nA \n\nBIRTHS. \n\nAt Singapore, on the 8th inst, the wifu af Capt. Hadiya, of a dan bizt, \n\nAt Singapore, ou the 11th tua aut, thenie \n\nof N. B. WATSon, Eeg of a Nox. \n\nOn the 18th inat, Mus. F. Kusemann \n\neta os. \n\nDIED. \n\nAT MADADCA, on the mining of the 3-d instant, at & o'clock, J. T. Faasen, time. \n\nufe Macros Medical Service \n\nTam following passengers have ar- rived during the fortnight, \n\nPer stealuer China from Galle:- \n\nPar Sing-pure- Mr. and Mrs. Marlin, Mr. mil Mrs. Young and European Founale sorsut, Mr. and Men, Jonas and 2 Jolante, Mrs. Young, Mears, oling, and Atok. \n\nFanghangrass, actio, Swnduse, J. Peyronunt, F. Jasber, A. Daito, A. Join \n\nFor Shanghai, --Mans. Gwyn, Qvilat, W. Hardy, fi. Howard, and Dr. Barclay, \n\nPer steamer Koningen der Neder. landden from Batavia :--- \n\nMeara, Gillian, Bilnek, Wallberg, B. Dom Fiel W. Jackson, Noums, Uyranje Dad Buy Fergusson, l. Pois ou. Alts Bilen \n\nlook and Miss flerne. \n\nPer Messageries Imperiales steamer Tigre :- \n\nFor Singapore-Musern, Van Bommen, senioudt, Schimdt, Kist, Horn, Van Nixsen, Ebrard, Tran- ser, M. M. Scott, Beth, Boterusan. Mr. and Mea Van Laer, Mr. and Mrs. Bruys and 1 julant, Mr. And Mrs. Le Cange and 2 obikleen. \n\nFor Saigon,—Mr. and Mrs. Telesin and family Mgr. Larrier Mazen, Lafou Arou frere and Malane Brisis aud 9 veligiouses, \n\nfur laghong-Mesa, Kerr, J. Smith, Haase, Forbes, Sever, Speccy, Espana, Minana, Har. reny, Morton, Nevelle brdrigues, fermet Dec \n\nSchmidt, Sillem Petit Pierre, and de Hagito and 1 Got, \n\nTus following passengers have de- parted during the fortnight -- \n\nPer steamer Orissa, and to sail to- day. \n\nFrom China- \n\nFor Southmpton. Mra. Fisft, Mr. and Ms. Stiil, and family, and Mr. C.D. Wecka. Far Marseille Mrs. Muthus, child. and servant, Messrs. O'Sullivan, E R. Clapp, and B. F. Funy. \n\nFor Bombay. Mr. Couinisior, Lieut. Paul, and 2 servent, 1 Native office and 4 con-commissioned officers, \n\nFrom Singapore. \n\nBishop Boone and Mrs. Baane and Mr. and Mrs Kucb, \n\nsary to give the very greatest promi- uence to the fact that the actual re- I venae now, exceeds that shewn in the last published statistics by about £35,000; 3 \n\nand there is also good reas sou to believe, that u considerable re- duction of expenditure will be appa- rent. The increase of Revenue is derived from two items alone. The first is an increase on the returns of the Excise farms, which sold in April for £12,000 more than the rate of last year. The other item arises from fact that in our accounts for the the present year we will have twelve \n\nin \n\nsea \n\n(15 \n\nregretted, either by the Customs employés, or by the Foreign Mercantile Community of Chies. With regard to the employés in the Customs service, we do not know the reasons for their not regretting Mr. Lay's Gismissal se only know that such in the Chad. The gratulation of the merchants is much more easily understood, Abuut a year age, the Briel Government thought it to publish a Memorandum which had Buxted from Mr. Lay'e pun, and which was not only called for in the siram. atanes, but not at all coneistant with ub. The object which the lake Inspec tor-fieneral had in view in peuning the netid Merooranium was praballs to exhibit certain amount of temper (not good temper) towards the Foreign Me coucle Community for baring on various occasions displayed towards himself a per- \n\naltogether unprovoked, but would have her much better suppressed. People in Eugland will, we know, believe us, when we see then, last 53. II. N. Lay, in bis Memorandum,\" maligned the Mer- has of China, and that the latter body makenly afforded him some provocatias for doing so. Ilis conilest, however, in act ing upon the procation was inexcusable; and y consequence, that, though an able, l, so far as wo know, a strictly pright man, he rotires from pustic life in China, without the redit or sympathy, which it was, at mu time, ao easily in his power to have arned for bimself. His Buccessor, Mr. R. Hart, euters, office will the general good wishes and esteem of the whole mercantile body. We shall not, henrick, hear of any quarrels between the Merchants and the Custoas \n\nmonths return of the Stamp Tax, in-tain spunt of rascour which was dol stead of three months was the case last accounts; and this will make a difference of £21,000 at the least. \n\nThe Batch Mail brings no further accounts of the Alabama which has very possibly changed her eraising A very suspicious looking gr. Steamer crossed the lows of the Mail boat her way up me \n\non \n\nhere; she is des ribed as a long, low, black painted harque-rigged vessel \n\nflew the French \n\nand the Dutch flag. On board stcamer, she was believed to be the Alabama; but it is just possible that she was the U. steaner 'yning which would equally well suit the des- cription. Whether the diabama is still in the neighbourhood of the Java or not, it is pretty certain that she has committed no more destruction tbere, \n\notherwise the crews of the cap- tured vessels would have been sure to turn up at some of the Dutch ports, \n\nAn amelioration of the regulations relating to the Exports of Arms from this Part, contained in the following Dotification, was published five days ago in the Government Gazelle.\" With reference to Notification No. 146, dated 28th October 1863, His Ho- the Governor has been pleas- ed to dispense with the prescribed de elaration in all cases in which Arms in reasonable quantities may be ex- ported from Ports in the Straits Set- thement to Cochin-China, Siam, the States in the Malayan Peninsula, or any of the Islands in the Easters Ar- chipelago.\" This will be esteemed a \n\nFPT \n\nThe germ of this affair has been tho quadron which arrived in Chins some time ago under the command of Lap twin Sherard Oshorne. The course which Captain Osborne should probably have parsed, was to have reported insett, on his arrival in the Yangtexs river, to the Governor General of the Two King, and to have given him delivery of the Fleet. Mr. Lay, however, is reported to have de. manded the direct recognition by Prince Kuug of Capt. Osborne, and to have de clined delivering over the vessels to aby local provincial officer. Tseng Ko-fan, to whom the Chinese Governatont desired the vessels to be given, is a man of great note, and rulos over not less than 20,000,000 of people, beeides possessing most extensive infance in the Chinese Empire. Mr. Lay, of all men, was to have been expected to have avoided the mistake of ignoring this mandarin; and people hore are surprised \n\nto the cause; and, moreover, that, of tha later number, some still lanhl out in the different parts of the city. The bohowding of the Mo Wang has not only facilited the captuot Stochow, but just go a great wat durmaanse the Rebels ge- nerally- \n\nHango and Nanking act keep up commification; and, as die Rebels base not now, jas 1967 leed in 1860 when they burss hveigung besència ni Nan. way large with s Kiangs or any where else, they will soon be in bad way. Full information has not yet reached un At the late i our last advicea Capt Afurray and Mr. Mayera of the Consulate who had both rone to the front, had not returned with detailed intelligence. \n\nFrom the river Yang.tsze we have no Bows of importance. All is quick in the suuthen ports. \n\nOur contemporary the Daily Press, has the following on the Sll of Soochow ; and we are inclined to boilere it in every par ticular. The Imperialists are cortainly a atupid set neocle, and the sooner we drop assisting them the batter:- \n\nSuch in later of kite at. There are re. liable via in town to the off that Treng o-an, wha hotly pressing Nauting, thst the Chung Wang had left Soochow will the best Taiping troops to its relict; this provi, ou were geitug scarce, and that the pity most fall ung hevet by free from with- \n\nOUT \n\nClining Wings craenation of Sochow is therefore easily aparated fat. We are more- over from the ins · letlar qooked from our cor- respondents, tisat Li Thong, the leader of the dinated party at saustow, had ouried his surrendering the city. and had been puins inurdered for his paine. The defection of the Chang Wang bad karly thrown randiges inte the hands of Lá Wang-whn we should sup pose lead at red into arrangeraunts of capica- İsion with Major Gordon, which arrange. ments would naturally embrace, immanity for himself and wie laid down their prop. The Futai would naturally seek me nadi. vided honor of capturing the city-therefore it doubtless was that be male the bargain wish Gordon's men that they should have two 20ouths pay as componsation for not entering the city. Having thus cleared the stage for bise, the Fatai enters the ei.y, ignores the conditions of surrender, looks and macdere right and tela, and breaks his prondse in Yor- don's ment. \n\nThis is the view we take of the trafter. | Gordon would naturally eeck to Faka van. geance on the rascally Futai and wonid u-tur- tally appeal to General tiroan, wie having supplied at the mairioms for the urge, would of course seek to obrain satisfaction. We Chias Hoochow has fallen, but we are of epi- nion that Gordon will either arrest the Puni or will bring such pressie to bear on him na will sufficiently publish the Blajne's cepag- nanoe to a hat has occurred. \n\nWe learn on good authority ihat upon the fall of Soochow, Gordon will rotire from the Imperial service, and that a Consular notities tion will be issued strictly prohibiting all Briliah kuljerte from engaging their services \n\nher to Tuperialists or Taiping. A charge has clearly come o'er the apris of the dream, and honest convictions have overtaken 1. M. Mmisters. The crooked, underhand, doubled faced policy of the Brucea have been pinye. out, and has exeised the indignation it me, rited-Overland China Mal",
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        "content_text": "I Sergeant. Henry Robert Jones with one \n\nand \n\nat 8:30 am. \n\nHulk Royal \n\nfive Chinese Police left Convict for Hong Kong in Police duti\n\nSascon\n\n(Signed) Sergt. H. R. Jones\n\nThe Superintendent\n\nConvict Hulk.\n\nཡཾ ཏསཙ ཏྭཾ, ཝིཏྟཾ,3\n\nAPPLICATIONS FOR LEAVE, &c.\n\nREPORT OF OCCURRENCES, MISCONDUCT OF CONSTABLES,\n\nLe Sist\n\nPrisoners\n\nof\n\nMas\n\nNames\n\nescaped from Stone Cutters' Island, 21st April, 1864.\n\n  \n    Crime\n    Age\n    Sentence\n    Years\n    Months\n    Nature\n    Date of Sentencer\n    Remarks\n  \n  \n    P. S. 184\n    January\n    1812\n    \n    \n    H. 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\n    a a\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    4\n    5\n    4\n    \n    \n    15\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \"J\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    4\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    10\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \"\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \"\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    16\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    110 Yip a own\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    22\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    22\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    6\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    117\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Wong\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Yeal\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    24\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    3\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    118 Semy\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    18\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    R\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    15\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    21\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    15\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    21\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    37\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    | Robbing\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    22\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    20\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Burglary with Violence.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Burglary\n    \n   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        "content_text": "## (lojus) \n\nIn 5641 Police Department, 2191 \"January 1865 Special Report of Oriacy. Cheng, owner of a sampan, master and sales belonging to Tī ShowRevan, reports that on the 18th instant he left Shoukow with a crew of 9 men and one woman - bound to Kel-seek - having cargo on board at the time and sailing near ling about notw on the 19th instant he was attacked \n\nThe Honorable \nThe Colonial Secretary -_",
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        "content_text": "# \nDate | Name | Age | Cause of death\n---|---|---|---\nMay 18, 38 | Neai Hames | 39 | Li jutt \nMay 18, 38 | Neng ng | 41 | \nMay 18, 38 | Wheunge | 42 | Stany \nMay 18, 38 |  | 44 | che \nMay 18, 38 | CL Leer |  | live How \nMay 18, 38 |  | 45, 46 | ti Li \nMay 18, 38 | Yeung Jain | 47 | thing full \nMay 22, 19 | Li Whing lai | 50 | Le Kin \nMay  |  | 52 | Ÿ \nMay  |  | 53 | li alin. \nMay  | Li prow | 54 | Live \nMay 23, 55 |  | 55 | than a Rees \nMay  | Pam a Ri | 56 | to Rame Ro \nMay  | \"Wong Chlamy |  | Mana Hain tack Jong for Lin \nMay 25, 63 | Men ip |  | \nMay 28,  | Una bet Chang |  | \nMay  | Ng Rwan | 65 | Wong Runth \nMay  |  |  | ble a Live Ruy fak Juk fu Fany Whoung king \nMay  | Mak Ren |  | Yuing tak Wong Mun \nMay  |  |  | I seing a pind Tui Thin Bring \nMay  | Can thing |  | Jef Chan Raim to \nMay  | Yip | 78 | \nMay  | Jan To sam |  | Misai \nMay  |  |  | \n\n| Name | Age | Cause of death | \n| --- | --- | --- | \n|  | 80 | Dang fu Lice | \n| Gips hoo | 81 | fut Hak | \n|  | 82, 83 | \n| Tse trae | 84 | Unknown. | \n|  | 85, 86 | Li se | \n| to Ken Mai | 87 | Lo Raw | \n| This hov | 88 | Hang trat | \n| Lai a luing | 89 | Juman | \n|  | 90, 91 | \n| Wong for | 92 | When 3 long | \n| Lo! | 94 | \n|  | 93 | ex a i luck lin | \n| Whang | 95 | Assenton | \n| Le leve leem | 96 | Yeeing lo luke \n|  | 98 | Founder Bassentem | \n|  |  | Legempted over board | \n|  |  | Mail Complaint | \n|  |  | M Dissenbend | \n|  | 99 | Unkown | \n| To tong Hong | 39 | lo su tháng Me \"Hong \n|  | 100, 4 | а (bar) | \n| Cheung | 101 | \n| Wong to oi | 102 | \n| Wing | 103 | \n|  | 105 | aro \n|  |  | Unknown | \n| Jai Ngai |  | tack \n| Low fuck. | 10, 186 | the a Cheung | \n| Waw a huing | 109 | \"the Young fake\" \n|  | 110 | \n|  | # | \n|  | 112 | L \n| Ma | 12, 113 | 13114 Em \n|  |  | a \" Nama po Yuzing \n| Li wan hov | 115 | \n| Ei hang | 116 | Yu Yut \n|  |  | سن \n|  | 118, 9 | Pumping \n| Yik | 119 | \n| Chan Rem | 120 | \n| Que Yan | 121 | Worms \n| Wong Rue Fing | 122 | \n\n| Name | Cause of death | \n| --- | --- | \n|  | It Dattentoo | \n|  | (Fick before), 2 before | \n|  | M optime found in this Marthe home life counter | \n|  | Hever | \n|  | M Opiume | \n|  | He Fever | \n|  | M. Dissentous | \n|  | Hever | \n|  | Bains in the chest | \n|  | Vogueting Hanging Lignped over bound | \n|  | Faundice | \n|  | Unknownd | \n|  | Dessentem p | \n|  | Unknown | \n|  | Repentory 4. Brpenter of M Hever & Ague Offline Fever & Aque | \n|  | Ofyin Fandize low fever | \n|  | A que Dassentent | \n|  | Bains in | \n|  | M Jaundice | \n|  | Arpenteu | \n|  | Jaundice Unknown | \n|  | breast | \n|  | Tumped overboard & | \n|  | Worum | \n|  | Sumped overbond |",
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        "content_text": "## Third Quarter of 1863. Warrants unsatisfied\n| Names | Senement/Remarks | \n| --- | --- |\n| 36 Alton | 3591 Broken down tenement |\n| 37 Wongsee | 3522 Do |\n| 38 Yeong cheong | 3523 Do |\n| 39 Yeong Ching | 3524 Do |\n| 40 Chung Choong Sun | 3540 Do |\n| 41 Maye |  |\n| 42 Povy leg Assoo |  |\n| 43 Pak hug |  |\n| 44 Assing | 3623 |\n| 45 Atak | 3625 |\n| 46 Affook | 3632 |\n|  | 3542 Broken down no tenement |\n|  | 3547 Do |\n|  | 3532 No sufficient goods and Chattels |\n|  | 3565 Was furnished with a curing receipt. |\n| funk C. de Souza | No respondent |\n|  | До us Kuth Seng |\n| 49 Cheng hing | 3649 |\n| 50 Ahum | 3656 |\n| 51 Akum | 3657 |\n| 52 Di | 3664 Do |\n| 53 Sog woh | 3675 Do |\n| 54 Sum look | 3699 |\n| 56 Seng Kee |  |\n| 57 Achoo Fook woh |  |\n| 58 You |  |\n| 59 Yen Kee Yee Yek |  |\n|  | Muing yuno tie |\n| 61 bo Kwong Yook sing |  |\n| 62 Nivong he | 161 |\n| 63 Jay jek |  |\n|  | 631 Num' Moon |\n|  | 3910. No Goods |\n|  | 3/24 The present occupant entered the premises on Why. 163. |\n|  | 3728 Occupant No respondent |\n|  | 3738 |\n|  | 38/ In course of erection |\n|  | 3777 |\n|  | 4060 Burnt. |\n|  | 4064 Do |\n|  | 4142 Do |\n|  | 4148 |\n|  | 4254 No goods and Chattels |\n|  | Ran away |",
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        "content_text": "In 60\n\n319\n\nsupported. He wished to suffer no irregularities in the way of connivance or concealment to be practised, under penalty of severe chastisement, and with report to the betting Viceroy's information the particulars of the measures taken, and the text of one of his Proclamations\n\nWe 44\n\nB March 12, 1868\n\nTranslation\n\nEnclosing correspondence with ref. to British Subjects resorting to the Island of Hainan for trade & other purposes.\n\nBrit: Consulate\n\nCanton, Jan: 31/68\n\nI have the honor to enclose copy's translation of a despatch I have received from E.H. Kwo, this Province & any reply with ref: to the proceedings of 2 Brit: Subjects Mr. Caldwell & Mr. (Cohen) who having obtained possession of a Licence granted to a Chinese Subject named Lin Ting-hsu to open certain copper mines known to exist in the district of Chang-wa in the island of Hainan have proceeded there in a steam vessel called the \"South Beater\" for the purpose of digging the ore & disposing of it.\n\nOn receipt of the despatch I at once called upon him & told him I had no means of communicating with Kainan, pointing out to him the 47th Art. of the Treaty, reminded him that if Brit: Subjects resorted to any other than the open ports it was the duty of the Chinese Authorities to arrest & hand them over to H.B.M. Consul & seize & confiscate their property.\n\nA. Etheridge, K.C.B.",
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        "content_text": "Of course I knew that neither he nor the local Authorities would venture upon such a step, but if possible rather shift the responsibility upon me.\n\nI pointed out what the course to be followed was, but advised that he should at once send orders to the Hainan authorities to give them notice to quit the place & above all to arrest & bring away the Chinese, Lin Teng han who in collusion with them & had obtained the license at their instigation & this he said he would do.\n\nMines of all kinds are Imperial property subject to the Emperor's control, when found, it being immaterial whether of gold, silver, copper, tin, iron or lead. Indeed the restrictions concerning copper are more stringent.\n\nThis is evident from the fact that although licenses to work it are given by the Coinage Department under certain conditions, there can be no question that they are not transferable to foreigners without the sanction of the Emperor. Tepr. Caldwell & Co. may not have such transfer, but I am under the impression they have, from what I have heard privately of their proceedings. If they have, it is null and void without the Imperial authority being a party to it; as if they have not, they are acting illegally in working the mine, under any circumstances by resorting to the place called Hai Tow in the Chang hwa district. They are a breach of the Treaty.\n\nI have every reason for believing that vessels are cleared from the Harbour Master's Office at Songhong for the West Coast, as that part of the seaboard south of the cap is called; & I do not clearly see on what grounds the authorities of the Colony of Koushous sanctions that which looks very like a breach of Treaty Provisions. I have sent a copy of the Cadis desp. to the acting Governor, but it is a matter of too much importance for J. E. Mr Quercer to judge how far the Colonial authorities are bound to take measures to prevent Brit: subjects residing within its jurisdiction from committing illegal acts in the territory of the Semperance of China.\n\nIn connexion with the above, I have the honour to inclose copy of a letter from the Firm Adam Scott & Co of Hongkong & my reply on the subject of an order which has been sent by the authorities to the Hainan Authorities forbidding trade by foreigners at King (how in Hainan, one of the ports stipulated to be open by treaty. At an interview I had with the superintendent of Customs, he informed me that without instructions from Peking, he had no power to acknowledge that Port as open to foreign trade by sending a Custom House Establishment there to collect the duties. In reply, I observed that neither had...\n\nPage 320\n\n \n(Three lines at the top and bottom of \"Page 320\" are kept as is, assuming they were part of the original scan delineating page metadata.)",
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        "content_text": "Had any Consular applications been made to it? Not so far as I was aware.\n\nH. Mr. Minister declaring any warrant issued by it was open but I blamed the local authorities for allowing vessels to go there collecting duties as it was owing to such dereliction of duty that the present embarrassment recurred.\n\nAs regards the capabilities of Tainan as a place of trade I imagine they were very indifferent & that the Steamer of Messrs Adam Scott's (with cargo) did all there is to be done. I would however respectfully call his attention to a despatch I sent to Sir F. Bruce on the subject of Tainan & Porto Novo's capabilities but to which I received no reply.\n\nIt may throw some light on the matter.\n\nIn Sir R. Alcock's despatch of March 12, 1866.\n\nRespectfully,\n\n(s.d.) D. B. Robertson\n\nCopy\n\n321\n\nThe Acting Governor of Fukien to the Intendant of Circuit of Ting-Chang-Tsin and Tainan, Jany. 24/64.\n\nMr. Intendant,\n\nOn the 17th July I received the following report from the Prefect of Kiang-Chew (Tainan).\n\nOn the 19th December an application had been presented by an Honorary graduate Lin Bok-haw of Being Shaw, for permission to work a mine alleged to be a branch in the Tary mountains in the Chang-hwa district of Tainan, which",
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        "content_text": "as to the \n\nquilt of one of the parties, Low. a. On., \n\nwho though known \n\nas a \n\nPirate and Confederate \n\nof Pirates might possibly have \n\ncome on board \n\nthe junk subsequent to her capture which \n\ntook place as I have stated five days after \n\nthe act of Piracy, \n\nand as a \n\npersonal Gaol and the \n\ninvestigation at the trial by myself \n\nRegistrar General strengthened these doubts, I \n\nwith the assent of the Executive Council \n\nsubsequently reprieved Low- \n\na-on- \n\n5. I have the honor to enclose extracts from \n\nthe minutes of the Council relating to Criminals executed.\n\nAnnexed excerpt.\n\nMr. Sthot\n\n6th day\n\nI have the honor to be, My Lord Duke, Your Grace's most obedient \n\nhumble servant.\n\nRichard Graves MacDonnell\n\nGovernor\n\n312\n\n18th June\n\nNo. 9.\n\nSir R. G. MacDonnell.\n\n12/\n\nBlake\n\nALG\n\n22\n\n\"That \n\n23\n\nM Adderley\n\nEntered\n\non, select\n\n4th\n\n23rd May 1867.\n\nI have the honor to \n\nAcknowledge the receipt of \n\nYour despatch No. 312 of the \n\n18th \n\nof June reporting the execution at Hong Kong \n\non the 22nd of June of 4 \n\nConvicts - the first named Chang-Do-Sum for the Murder of a pedlar, and \n\nthe three others named \n\nLee-Hoon-Sting, Cheong-\n\nLin-Dook, and Wong-\n\nSing for piracy and murder. When Bol\n\nINDEX:",
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        "content_text": "Macro 14th June, 1867\n\n(Received 15th June)\n\nGovernor MacDonnell\n\nབཤལ་ད་ག\n\nSir Richard Graves MacDonnell\n\n03.\n\nCoolie Emigration from Macao - Respecting\n\nTwong- a. king-\n\nthe Case of\n\nEnclosure No. 2 in Governor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell's Despatch No. 130 of 5th July 1867.\n\n(Copy)\n\n56\n\nChinese Emigration to Cuba.\n\n\"Aricate.\"\n\nAgreement.\n\nBe it known by this to certify that I Chang Ching, a native of the town or village of Yonge Saw in China, aged 45 years, have agreed with Sir Don Francisco Tin R. Ferran, on behalf of Don Agustin settled in Habana, to embark for the said Port in the Ship which may be allotted to me, under the following conditions:-\n\n1st. I bind myself to work in the Island of Cuba under the orders of the said Don Agustin, or of any other person to whom this agreement may be transferred, for",
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        "content_text": "412 \n\nShuei ting under stress of circumstances - fear of pirates - & therefore might facilely be considered as driven by stress.\n\nThey were willing to meet that condition. The Cheing... they... be considered as driven into a non... ground and professed that they took a... should have his Vessel back on payment of, I remember rightly, nine thousand dollars. I said I thought four would be sufficient and they ultimately agreed to that arrangement; and making it the sole object I had was to carry out your instructions to give Cheong every benefit in the Treaty port.\n\nNow, as the weather happened to be remarkably fine just at that time and no signs of piratical junks about, it can only be assumed that Sir Richard MacDonnell's remark, \"on the... iluunan seizure of a... such Vessel taking refuge in... foundering\" is a little out of place.\n\nKwok a... matter possible. I will now briefly revert to... is always a great deal of mis... In matters of this kind, however, there is... Sir Richard Macdonnell's Dispatch. I see nothing in that communication but vague assertions of His Excellency's entire belief in the integrity of Kwok Cheong and that his Steamer entered... O' Shuei... representation and His Excellency has doubtless been subjected to that sort of thing. As...",
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        "content_text": "by them \n\nan \n\nbeen entrusted to an Interpreter, since absconded, to expend as directed.\n\nWe then went over the vessel, very good order in \n\nand found her in \n\nevery respect.\n\nThe Captain had, considerately \n\nprovided, in addition to the provisions \n\nrequired by Ordinance some \n\nfresh, Slumber, \n\ncakes &c. for the use \n\nof the Emigrants, \n\nand altogether seemed to have made \n\nsatisfactory arrangements for the comfort \n\nof \n\nthose on board.\n\nThe number of Emigrant \n\nI have, \n\n...\n\nROAD 3081.\n\n(Signed) Cecil C. Smith, Registrar General.\n\n(True Copy.) Shantina Martin \n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n3250\n\nfrom Hong Kong to ... \n\nList of Contract Emigrants from the \n\nSS Belgian Ship Frederic \n\n291\n\nNative Place: Demants.\n\nNames of Emigrants:\n\n  \n    Desfellion\n    Native Place\n  \n  \n    Chow Stam\n    Okiz Fee\n  \n  \n    Des Wong\n    Lakeing\n  \n  \n    blin Fans\n    64\n  \n  \n    forst\n    Young Nego\n  \n  \n    8th Skeem\n    9\n  \n  \n    4804\n    1) lokum cheong\n  \n  \n    g\n    11 Lai re\n  \n  \n    12 loker cheng\n    LE\n  \n  \n    Tow thin\n    14 Shum Tow\n  \n  \n    10 bhur Fam\n    vợ trong thang\n  \n  \n    26\n    32\n  \n  \n    Weedle Froma\n    lake Dim\n  \n  \n    Vedle Toman\n    Qu Thus\n  \n  \n    Mowe Bay\n    Nam Four\n  \n  \n    Hopee Boy\n    Dear Imp\n  \n  \n    Phone Cutter\n    Awai Thing\n  \n  \n    Horce Bhoy\n    Qui Roco\n  \n  \n    Silversmith\n    Phung hi\n  \n  \n    Seaman\n    Aurai Plein\n  \n  \n    There butter\n    Frai Chow\n  \n  \n    Phorce Boy\n    Pong Room\n  \n  \n    Time buttet\n    was Thin\n  \n  \n    Jakim chem\n    tamar\n  \n  \n    Paleman\n    Fai chow\n  \n  \n    Shine beetle\n    Lung ting\n  \n  \n    Phone butter\n    Revas\n  \n  \n    Schin\n    Horn, Boy\n  \n  \n    Shed Nyam\n    Carpenter\n  \n  \n    Song Ring\n    Fisherman\n  \n  \n    Pai Ting\n    Jan\n  \n\n  \n    16\n    17 Aque\n    195\n  \n  \n    18 Dta Chow\n    Wel\n    19 Copow Mein\n  \n  \n    |29|\n    Barber\n    91 Po Fow\n  \n  \n    20. Dong Ye\n    130\n    a\n  \n  \n    25\n    12. Now Ng\n    211\n  \n  \n    A\n    3. lokung Yen On\n    24\n  \n  \n    34. Tanw Apos\n    3. Adu a iman\n    26.\n  \n  \n    Tem a choy\n    gì không yêu\n    28 Sem Mee\n  \n  \n    17\n    Yee\n    Go Wrong\n  \n  \n    Ackeren\n    10\n    Low Ng\n  \n  \n    19\n    lake\n    1 lehung Dai dung\n  \n  \n    20\n    2. kind mod\n    Sohan\n  \n  \n    23\n    Pan\n    Strong\n  \n  \n    Qui how\n    Đan thui\n    Horse Tong\n  \n  \n    Plicit yam\n    Flaman\n    Palum\n  \n  \n    صر\n    man\n    a laman\n  \n  \n    lmani\n    The Mone\n    Deai Shin\n  \n  \n    Shan hon\n    May Mine\n    Lane\n  \n  \n    Letter Bear\n    lin\n    Par Ros\n  \n  \n    Thu\n    Lone Cutter\n    Ca\n  \n  \n    Lam ar\n    am\n    Clears aler\n  \n  \n    Fame\n    letter\n    Recai Thir\n  \n  \n    Labourer\n    Farber\n    Coung Doung\n  \n  \n    渋\n    사\n    Puns Cutter\n  \n  \n    dem Faus",
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        "content_text": "Return of Convictions for carrying Slaves pets four January 1st 1872.\n\nGate Inspector Inserting Defendant Where From\n\ning 12. ff. Collage\n\nJuly\n\nTsui Chan TH. IN346 Cheong A Lii\n\nne Williams P\n\n227 W M. Bledlan\n\n5817\n\n116\n\nShin lepote Referral\n\nSummary of Decision Remards.\n\nalived\n\nSha Wan (C. River)\n\nJan to ding I Do\n\n10\n\nDid not show Agrinet Pirates\n\nOne case was\n\nheard\n\nIn Chuen 1 fo\n\n25\n\nKong A Shing\n\nNam Long\n\n0:\n\nCourt\n\nHong\n\nStar\n\nGrast\n\nCheong of thing\n\nCoust\n\nWing\n\nHar Wck\n\nHoi Haw (Art Bout)\n\n2.4\n\nRoast\n\nW. M. Clellan\n\nZ A HR\n\nConst\n\n  \n    Conten (C. Shiver)\n    Sun A King\n    Ceart.\n    R. Roed\n    Yje. A trun\n    Macar\n    $2\n  \n  \n    H: Clellan\n    dang khan Doris Men khan (6 shiver)\n    Hong A long\n    Fam Long (oo)\n    Swatour\n    Can I Hav\n    teoart\n  \n  \n    Wan A bling Chow Glieve\n    livort\n    West Beaut\n    Law A Chin\n    Bet\n    brust\n    Chung Ting Chang Wat boast\n  \n  \n    Taing A Youn\n    Chan A&jour\n    Ying Row.\n    Being Cheong &fria\n    West Geart\n    Huang, Thai the Bivous\n    Grant\n  \n  \n    bonet\n    5\n    25\n    Did not throw\n    Empatic prots\n    Compsty prots\n    Did not Phrasens\n  \n  \n    Against Pirates\n    Cempty prots\n    10\n    Against Peraki\n    167\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    and: Dismissed:\n    because the pots\n    avera\n    weply\n    Several Junk\n    owners have been\n    cautioned, and nuts\n  \n  \n    prescuted\n    of their not having been in the Colony\n    Cartily\n    Lovery clearance\n    re issued by this department is inoribed with a\n    J\n    Did not Prov\n  \n  \n    Comply practi\n    10\n    Dids not Prow\n    25 prohibition aft\n    **\n    40\n    Slimepets in large\n  \n  \n    20\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nMarch\n\n&\n\nJJ. Collage\n\nMr Clellan\n\nbellare\n\n12. th. H. Clellan Song this dive\n\nA Yani\n\nK. Beads\n\n13\n\nF. J. Mallaco\n\nSang Ay law\n\nKongsing,\n\nMarch; 26 1872.\n\nHer How Wert three) phap like (Gant hout)\n\nIttal. 341\n\nLoo\n\n  \n    Compity prots\n    Against Berater\n    Empty pret\n    puts\n    Gid nt show?\n    Against Veraks\n    46\n  \n  \n    10\n    20\n    10\n    Bicharged\n    writha Boutions\n    \n    \n  \n\n(Signed) R. H. Cainers,\n\nHarber Master.\n\n(Freie bapy)\n\n[whith. Acting Colonial beretary\n\nAlling",
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        "content_text": "806\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\n[Nov. 18, 1872]\n\nhere in a week, calling upon the Government to avenge the death of fifty-six Loochewans who were killed, without provocation, at Minca Island by people of Formosa. Four men-of-war are reported to be preparing to depart for Formosa as soon as the Loochewans arrive.\n\nguided the proceedings and decision of H.M.'s Consular Court at Kobe, that your Excellency should take such measures as you may deem requisite to prevent any recurrence of such proceedings, and to remove the discredit which appears to us to attach to the British Consulate at Kobe in consequence of its action in this case. We have the honour to be, your obedient servants,\n\nAn Italian gentleman lately proceeded to Koshiu, accompanied by three Japanese. On their arrival, the authorities, having elicited from the servants that the foreigner had no permit, and that he had come for the purpose of secretly purchasing silkworms' eggs, sent him back to Yokohama under escort.\n\nA meeting of the subscribers to Christ Church took place at the British Consulate. The object of the meeting was to decide on certain definite instructions to be sent to those gentlemen in England who are in correspondence with the Foreign-office, in respect of the chaplain's appointment at Yokohama. Mr. Consul Robertson occupied the chair, and opened the proceedings by reading the correspondence that had passed, and said there were two points on which the gentlemen at home wished to be assured before appointing a candidate for the post of chaplain. They were—First, the length of time that the appointment would be made for, and, second, the amount of salary the community would guarantee. A discussion took place on the matter, and the meeting adjourned, on the following motion by Mr. W. G. Howell, seconded by Mr. M. Smith:—\"That, in view of the financial position of the church, which does not seem to warrant any such extraordinary expenditure as would be involved by sending for a chaplain from England, the committee appointed to nominate a successor for Mr. Bailey be requested to stay further proceedings at home for the present.\"\n\nA dinner to the Consular Corps was given by Mr. Oye Tak, the Acting Governor. One of the head officials of the Foreign-office is shortly to start for Korea, with the object, it is stated, of ascertaining what the ideas of that Government are in relation to Japan.\n\nThe ex-Loando policemen who volunteered, in answer to an advertisement inserted in the papers at the time, to accept service as guards for the British Legation in Japan, in troublous times, when the safety of the Minister and minor officials was by no means assured, are to be dispensed with as no longer necessary. Notice has also been sent by the Government stating that guards for Legations furnished to the several Legations will in future not be supplied.\n\nHUDSON, MALCOLM AND CO. versus RANGAN.—Mr. F. V. Dickins appeared for the plaintiffs, and said that the present was a motion to determine the priority between two bills of sale. It appears that about a year ago Mr. A. G. Thompson, a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Hudson, Malcolm and Co., and living at No. 75, gave a bill of sale over the movable property contained in those premises to W. Rangan, who had the bill of sale duly registered. Shortly after this had been effected, Thompson removed to the premises No. 219, taking with him the property already under bill of sale to Rangan, with his consent. Application was then made to Messrs. Hudson, Malcolm and Co. by Thompson for another loan on the same goods. No notice having reached Mr. Spence, who was acting for Messrs. Hudson, Malcolm and Co., that a prior bill of sale had been given, he granted the loan required, and took the bill of sale from Thompson. Mr. Rangan, landlord of No. 219, receiving no rent, put in an execution, took possession, and was about selling the property to satisfy his claim, when an injunction, which stopped the sale, was obtained from the Court. Rangan now affirms that the property mentioned in the second bill of sale is identical with that of his, and that therefore he has a prior claim. The question was therefore one of a purely legal character. Mr. Dickins then quoted the Bill of Sale Act of 1854 in support of his case, and argued that the property in the first bill of sale, described as \"situated on Lot 76,\" was not described in such a manner as to separate it from any other property of the grantor.\n\nHis Lordship said that the fact of removing the chattels could not invalidate the first bill of sale, the property having already passed into the possession of Rangan. Had the grantee of the second bill of sale examined the register, he would have found that a previous bill of sale had been given for a similar amount to Mr. Rangan. He should therefore dismiss the motion.\n\nTHE CASE OF MR. COUSENS.\n\nThe committee appointed at the late meeting at the Club, respecting the imprisonment of Mr. Cousens, have drawn up the memorials subjoined:—\n\nTo his Excellency R. G. Watson, Esq., H.B.M.'s Chargé d'Affaires in Japan.\n\nSir,—We have the honour to hand your Excellency herewith a copy of the Hiogo News of Sept. 4, containing a report of the trial before H.M.'s Consul at Kobe of a Mr. Cousens, for an assault on a Japanese coolie, and also the report of a committee of three gentlemen appointed by a meeting held at the United Club here on the 7th inst., to investigate the matter.\n\nMEMORIAL OF OTHER THAN BRITISH SUBJECTS.\n\nWe, the undersigned residents of Yokohama, of other than British nationality, desire to testify our cordial sympathy with our British fellow-residents in the views they have expressed about the imprisonment of a Mr. Cousens at Kobe for a trivial assault, and also express our opinion of the extreme propriety of the investigation of the affair which they request.\n\nThis report was adopted by a second meeting held at the United Club on the 14th Sept., and ordered to be presented to your Excellency, and H.M.'s Chief Judge of the Supreme Court.\n\nWe, the undersigned British residents of Yokohama, respectfully request that your Excellency should order a thorough investigation into all the circumstances of this case, and should you consider that the principles of law and justice have not been duly observed...\n\nCHINA.\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nWe have advices from this port to the 29th Sept.; the P. and O. mail, from London August 9, arrived out on the 15th Sept. The following items of news are from the North China Herald:—Excessive dullness has marked the present season in China: a market, in fact, can scarcely be said to exist for either imports or exports, each still simply seeking to fill up the requirements of the moment. There is no doubt that, both amongst Chinese and foreigners, there is a deep feeling of want of confidence. The former, influenced on the one hand by the large stock of imports which they fear may at any moment be placed suddenly on the market, and on the other by reports of disaster from the ordinary consuming districts, have ceased to be buyers, while the latter, influenced by continual unfavourable advices from Europe, where a crisis of some kind seems imminent, are in that uncertain state of mind that they know not, to-day, what circumstances may lead them to do next. Superadded to all this, a local tightness in the money market has more or less influence on the state of trade. This has had the effect of seriously raising the rate of exchange, and thereby interfering with the export trade. Altogether, matters at the present moment wear an aspect more unpromising than they have done for some three or four years, and unless some change takes place, we fear will result in serious loss.\n\nA notification has been published by the Officiating British Consul, Mr. Alabaster, inviting the assistance of the community in forming a complete collection of the silk manufactures of this district for the London International Exhibition of 1873. The variety of Chinese silk-piece goods, such as crapes, gauzes, silks, satins, and pongees, must be immense, but of these only a few kinds at present find a market at home, owing to the shopkeepers being either in ignorance of their existence or not knowing how to set about getting them. We believe it is intended to attach to the specimens, which will be exhibited in case portfolios, besides particulars of the length of the pieces as manufactured, the average cost, and other information specified in the notification, the names of those from whom they were obtained.\n\nMr. Joseph Haas, Interpreter to the Austro-Hungarian Consulate, resumes the duties of Assessor at the Mixed Court for the U. S. Consulate-General; Dr. McCartee, who has held the position of Interpreter to the Consulate-General for some months, having left Shanghai for Japan. While we may regret that we lose by Dr. McCartee's departure an able sinologue and an experienced official, we feel that the energetic and painstaking manner in which Mr. Haas formerly discharged the duties, ensures that they will continue to be well fulfilled.\n\nThe efforts made to get up an International Eight-oar race, Scotch v. English, for next regatta of the S.R.C., have failed, the English members having been obliged to withdraw. Though of considerable numerical strength, the English membership can at present barely furnish forth an eight of sufficient calibre and experience in rowing for such a contest, and defections in the team chosen have necessitated an intimation to the Scottish eight that the event cannot come off. An eight-oar race will still form part of the present programme, however, the Scottish eight having given a challenge to all the members of the Club who are of other nationalities.\n\nA cricket match, the Club Eleven v. Racket Court, has been played. On the first day's play, it looked a \"moral\" for the Club, which got 168 in the first innings, while the Court lost seven of its best wickets for 29. The wickets were pitched again the following day, when the Racket Court made its score for the first innings up to 44, and then went to bat again. This time it made 195 for six wickets, when the game had to be left off. Mi-ho-loongs v. the World is announced.\n\nA match between the Mih-ho-loongs have had a company drill, when about thirty men turned out. We understand that a regulation has been passed to take off the rolls of the company the name of any member who misses two consecutive drills, unless sufficient cause for absence is shown. We believe the esprit of the company is strong enough to stand this discipline; and it is certainly hard on men who have devoted time to drill, to have the good effect lost on parade by the awkwardness of the undrilled.\n\nOperations for the raising of the wreck of the Lismore are in active progress.\n\nThe Annie Porter, sunk in the former endeavour to raise the Lismore by buoying her to two vessels, will be blown up, and the attempt next made to raise the steamer by means of apparatus specially imported for the purpose. The Hopewell and Aracon were placed in the Old Dock on Monday last; the former to repair the damage sustained in the collision with the Annie Gray, and the latter for a general overhauling previous to loading teas for London. The Annie Gray is still at anchor in the river, in a disabled condition, being minus her foremast.\n\nMr. T. Fitzroy Rice will proceed to Japan by the next French mail steamer, having accepted an appointment with a view to organising a police force in that country.\n\nA fire broke out at Messrs. Reynolds and Co.'s godown in Wyndham-street, among some loose straw. The alarm was promptly given, but the fire was extinguished by the assistance of about a dozen gentlemen on the spot, before the engines arrived. The damage done was not of any magnitude.\n\nThe twelfth performance by the Wind Instrument Company has been given, and was largely attended. The night was mild and pleasant, and the music a culmination of the general excellence which has characterised the performances during the season. Among the passengers by the last American mail, homeward, was the Austro-Hungarian Minister, Chevalier Calicé, who will be absent from China for twelve months.\n\nOur Hankow correspondent writes:—We have been favoured, within the last few weeks, with a Post-office; a privilege which, I believe, will be highly appreciated by a good portion of the community. The duties of Postmaster are discharged at present by E. L. Oxenham, Esq., of H.M.'s Consulate. A Masonic Lodge has also just been opened here; and if report be true, it is likely to have a distinguished band of members enrolled in its records. Hankow, just now, presents an ample field for the exercise of any such moral influence as Freemasonry. Let us hope its claims as a moral force will be duly verified. A fire has occurred in which the ice-house, which belongs to foreigners, alone was burned. It is undoubtedly a case of incendiarism.\n\nThe following items are from the Shanghai Courier:—The prospectus of the new company of which we have heard for some time as being in course of organisation to compete with the Pacific Mail Company—The China Trans-Pacific Steamship Company (Limited) has appeared; Messrs. Russell and Co. are the agents, and 2,000 of the shares are reserved for allotment in China.\n\nWe are glad to observe that the Canton Daily Shipping News has at length blossomed into a full-blown newspaper.\n\nH.I.H. the Grand Duke Alexis and suite, accompanied by H.E. Sir Arthur Kennedy and H.E. the Russian Admiral, visited the Sing Ping Theatre. The piece played immediately on the arrival of the distinguished visitors was that of \"The Eight Genii,\" congratulating the Queen of Heaven on the anniversary of her birth. This piece was not very interesting, but occupied only a very short time, the object being to show respect to the distinguished spectator. Eight actors, representing the eight Genii, came out and worshipped in pairs in front of the stage. The next piece played was the State Installation of Soo Chun, an eminent politician who flourished in the Chow Dynasty, into the office of Premier or Chief Councillor for the Confederation of the Six States.\n\nThe prospectus of the China Trans-Pacific Steam Ship Company has been circulated by Messrs. Russell and Co., as agents, at Hong Kong, and inviting subscribers to the capital. The Directors announced are:—Edward Henry Green, Chairman; W. Wetmore Cryder, E. M. de Bossche, W. J. Alt, Edward Cunningham, Alexander Grant Dallas, Gilson Homan, with power to increase their number to fifteen.\n\nWe learn that on the 25th Sept. the engines of the frigate launched some months ago at Kaou-Chang-Menon Arsenal, were at work under steam for six hours. Everything has been found in the most satisfactory state, and the powerful machinery was started and went steadily on without the slightest hitch; the result being that she is authoritatively pronounced ready to proceed on her official trip.\n\nThe Italian Consul is about to take a census of all Italian subjects resident or travelling in China, and accordingly requests all such to bring or send to his Consulate, verbally or in writing, particulars regarding themselves under twelve different headings, such as—Name, surname and parentage, place of birth, age, education, religion, how long they have left Italy, &c. &c.\n\nThe first pontoon for the free ferry has been placed in position on the north side of the Soochow Creek, opposite the north end of Gnaomen-road. The abutment of the ferry on the southern side is also approaching completion.\n\nHONG KONG. Dates extend to the 5th Oct. The P. and O. mail of the 23rd Aug. arrived out on the 1st Oct.\n\nA ball was given at the City Hall by the Hong Kong Club, in honour of his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexis, and went off with much success. His Imperial Highness, accompanied by his suite, and his Excellency the Governor, Lady Kennedy, and Miss Kennedy, arrived shortly after ten o'clock, and the Grand Duke led off the first quadrille with Lady Kennedy. Among the guests present were Admiral Possiet and the officers of the Svelland, and of the other Russian men-of-war in harbour, Sir Brooke Robertson, the Chief Justice, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, and other members of the Local Government. Dancing was kept up with energy until a late hour, his Imperial Highness affording much gratification by his courteous and genial demeanour. The decorations were very tasteful, and the arrangements generally very good.\n\nArrangements have been made for the delivery of a series of excellent lectures at the St. Andrew's Hall, in the City Hall Building. Several very interesting subjects are on the programme, the first lecture being Dr. Legge's reminiscences of life in China, and there also being a lecture from Dr. Eitel on Feng Shui. The proceeds of the lectures, for the series of which a fee of $5 will be charged, will go to the City Hall Library. We are confident that this valuable addition to our intellectual amusements will be well supported, and are glad to hear that H.E. Sir Arthur Kennedy has promised to give every assistance, and will be present at the first lecture.\n\nA correspondent at Macao calls attention to a new feature in the coolie trade, which is worthy of notice. It appears that arrangements are being made for the shipment, in an Italian steamer, of a large number of coolies to Costa Rica, a Republican state to the North of Panama, and stretching between the Atlantic and the Pacific. The object with which the men are being sent is understood to be to assist in building a railway. The difficulty, however, is that Costa Rica has no relations either with Portugal or China, and consequently the men will be without even the moderate amount of protection afforded to the emigrants to Peru. It is understood that such an arrangement would not be countenanced by the Portuguese Government, and that the Superintendent of Emigration at Macao has protested against the step, but it appears that the Governor has not yet felt called upon to intervene. The place to which the men are being sent is described as a most difficult country, and the coolies will have great hardship in reaching their destination, whether they land on the Atlantic or the Pacific side.\n\nTHE CHINA AND JAPAN MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\nThe directors, in submitting to the shareholders a statement of the company's accounts to the 30th June last, are pleased to be able to report most satisfactorily on the progress of their business, the net premia taken during the first six months of the present year amounting to Tls. 143,066.68, against Tls. 116,493.32 for the same period of 1871.\n\nThe losses paid, it will be observed, amount to Tls. 97,107.00, the great portion of the same belonging to last year, to provide for which a sum of Tls. 77,536.30 was brought forward from the 31st December, 1871. After payment of the said losses, of all current expenses, and of the half-yearly interest dividend to the 30th June, and after writing off the balance of Messrs. Trautmang and Co.'s remuneration, a sum of Tls. 86,821.17 remained at debit of working account, to be carried forward.\n\nThe net Premia earned from the 1st July to the 30th Sept. are estimated at Tls. 85,000, while the losses and claims reported to date, beyond those paid previous to the 1st July, and expenses on treasure salved, ex P.M. steamer America, amount to Tls. 42,000.\n\nMr. Framjee Hormusjee resigned his seat on the board on his departure from China, and the selection of his successor engages the attention of the directors.\n\nSIAM.\n\nBANGKOK.\n\nThe Siam Advertiser has the following:—\n\nHis Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs gave an evening party at his residence, in honour of the King's birthday, to which most of the European residents were invited. The attendance was large, and dancing was kept up till early in the morning. The residence of the Minister, it is said, was brilliantly illuminated, and some of the Siamese nobles performed quite gracefully their parts in the dances in which they participated. For three successive nights the natives vied with each other in illuminating their residences, and on these occasions many of these places had a very fascinating and fairy-like appearance.\n\nA dinner was given in the palace to some of the Princes, and a dinner was given to prominent Siamese officials, and to some of the Europeans in Siamese employ. This dinner was served in a new and beautiful hall in the palace. His Majesty honoured his guests with his presence, and dined in the same hall at a separate table. These demonstrations on the part of his Majesty indicate the good will of the young King to foreigners.\n\nThere is now a rumour afloat that two loads of lead pieces came to Siam not long since; one of these loads was given as a bribe to some prominent nobleman, which secured for them an entrance into the country. The rumour does not indicate whether these vessels were square-rigged vessels or native-rigged craft, nor do they indicate the person who was bribed. We have no means of knowing whether this rumour is true or false; it may be wholly false; it may be partly true. This is true, however, there is at present a panic about the lead pieces; those who have many on hand are ready to sell them at a depreciated value, and many of the petty traders refuse to take them as change.\n\nPage 807\n\nNov. 18, 1872.]\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\n203",
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        "content_text": "THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nIs not a great deal of the work in Siam caused by the doctrine of extra-territorial jurisdiction applying to the inhabitants of British Burmah? Yes, and to British India; I would not separate British Burmah exclusively.\n\nThere is a difficulty in following criminals from British Burmah, is there not, to Siam; do not cases occasionally occur of the escape of criminals into Siam?--I have not heard of any particular case of that kind.\n\nDo you think that work of that kind could be decreased; it has been stated here that there has been a somewhat extravagant interpretation of this doctrine in the case of the inhabitants of British Burmah?--Well, it would be a very great comfort if the work of looking after these men could be taken away from the consul altogether, because it is a terrible responsibility having to give an opinion about cases which happen hundreds of miles away from you, and of which you cannot get any very satisfactory evidence. I do not see how we are to avoid doing it with our Treaty.\n\nThe officers of the consulate are occasionally sent great distances up country, are they not, in these cases?--No, they were not in my time; I have never known of an officer being sent beyond 60 miles about a case.\n\nBut the labour involved in these cases to the consulate is very considerable?--Very considerable, and the anxiety still greater.\n\nDo you know whether it was the custom of other Powers for their consuls to act as agents there?--In some cases the consuls were merchant consuls, trading consuls, and in that case they might of course be agents for anything; the Lloyd's agent in Siam was a merchant.\n\nViscount ENFIELD: Is the cost of living in Siam very great?--It is great as compared with England, because there are certain luxuries which a man must have in a climate of that sort; I mean to say that whereas a young man in England can live very well for £150, out in Siam it is impossible for a student interpreter to live decently on the pay that is given to him.\n\nMR. HARPER in his evidence before the Committee said that H.M. Consuls often acted as agent for Lloyd's, and that the commissions paid on wrecks were at times valuable, he might instance the case £3,000 paid on one ship at Batavia.\n\nCHINA SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY (LIMITED).\n\nThe second ordinary general meeting of the shareholders was held on the 13th inst.; Mr. JOHN PENDER, M.P., in the chair. The Secretary (Mr. T. Fuller) read the notice convening the meeting, and the minutes of the last meeting, which were then confirmed; the report of the directors, given in our last issue, was taken as read.\n\n[Nov. 18, 1872.]\n\nThe CHAIRMAN stated that since the opening of the line it had worked in every way satisfactorily; there had been one or two interruptions, but of a slight character. In regard to one which occurred at Saigon in shallow water, they had the satisfaction, in repairing the cable, that it was as perfect as on the day it had been laid down.\n\nIt was also a matter for congratulation to perceive that, even taking into account the low rate of charges that had rated for a considerable period of the company's operations, the result had been about as good as that attained by any submarine line during the first year of its working. It was proposed to pay the shareholders a dividend of 8 per cent. for the whole year.\n\nThe directors entered into arrangements with the Great Northern, by which that company was to receive interest at 5 per cent. on the capital, and the cable to be repaired by them; that all above that sum was to be equally divided; and, although the traffic had been interrupted, the amount received last year from that source was £4,752.\n\nHe thought that at some future time it would be necessary to call upon the shareholders to find the money to lay another cable in conjunction with the Great Northern, as the present cable seemed to be not quite so good as that company had expected it to be. He also believed that an alternate line was necessary to give the public the accommodation they required, and at the same time to secure themselves a fair return.\n\nThis company had put up its tariff to £6, whilst the Great Northern Company were working at £4 10s., but he thought that they were getting as full a share of the traffic as those who went to the expense of telegraphing their messages by both routes.\n\nMr. Forde, a shareholder, said he regretted that the Board had any idea of laying a cable between Hong Kong and Shanghai in conjunction with the Great Northern Company. Such a step would be much in the interests of that company, but against theirs. He must very earnestly urge on the directors the policy of amalgamating with the other companies; a low tariff was only to be obtained by amalgamation. The working expenses of this company—£16,000 on earnings of £85,000—were enormous, and the salaries paid were too high.\n\nMr. HOLMES agreed with Mr. Forde as to the Shanghai line, and he considered the £1,838 for the Agnes repairing ship was excessive, and a contract should be made for the repairs.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN, in reply to these remarks, said that the laying of the cable to Shanghai was merely foreshadowed, but if done, it must be in conjunction with the Great Northern in good faith, according to the bargain made. The policy of amalgamation was quite approved by the Board; but those things required time, and could not be carried out so speedily as Mr. Forde seemed to think.\n\nWith regard to the expenses, he read a statement of salaries, &c., at each port, and explained that the expenses of living were so high at the stations that the salaries of proper officers must be in proportion. The expense for repairs and maintaining cable would be reduced.\n\nThe directors had no objection to half-yearly meetings. The report was then put and carried, as also the re-election of the Baron d'Erlangen as a director, and two auditors. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors.\n\nTHE JAPANESE AT MESSRS. ALLAN, RANSOME AND CO.'S.\n\nYesterday the Minister for Agriculture, with members of his suite, together with American and English employers of labour, visited the works of Messrs. Allan, Ransome, and Co., in King's-road, Chelsea, to view some newly-invented labour-saving machinery of remarkable construction and power.\n\nThe strikes of workmen in the building trades, the increased cost of production in the carpentry and joinery branches of those trades, and the difficulties caused to employers by the restrictions of Trades Unions, have each had their share in directing the attention of engineers to find the means of meeting the pressure caused by the contracted amount of available skilled labour; and the machines exhibited yesterday were in every way so perfect that it is not easy to see how hand labour will hold its own.\n\nThe first machine inspected was a portable saw frame. Any one who has seen the old saw-pits, where the \"top sawyer\" and the \"bottom sawyer\" laboured from morning to night and day after day in cutting a log into planks, would be greatly astonished to see this comparatively small machine, attended only by one man, cut up the body of a large oak into fourteen planks at once, it having twelve saws, which cut through the whole bulk of wood in something less than half an hour.\n\nA mortising machine, the invention of Mr. Richards, of Philadelphia, was set to work, and accurately and cleanly cut in a few moments mortises which would have taken a workman hours.\n\nA moulding machine, for cutting mouldings, did in a minute thirty-five feet of work, which would have taken a skilled workman many hours, and this work could apparently be done by a boy.\n\nIn what was called a \"general joining machine\" there was apparently no limit to the work to be done, the one machine cutting mortises, shaping blocks, planking, carving out banisters, and turning in a few minutes a plain block of wood into a perfectly carved piece of work.\n\nAnother machine, exceedingly small and unpretentious, was shown to be capable of planing any sort of work, oval or flat, and at the same time a revolving chisel cut mortises with celerity and accuracy.\n\nA very fine piece of machinery is one which cuts raised or recessed panels, in other words, which can cut the sunk or raised ornamental work in wood now so highly prized and so dearly paid for, as the best and most skilled.\n\nBy another machine, an American invention, but improved by the Messrs. Ransome, a door can be finished—that is, cleanly sand-papered on both sides—in three minutes.\n\nThe planing and trying-up of work, or what would be properly called the trueing \"up, by which is meant the nice work of making blocks of wood exactly like one another, in order to hand labour, is, by one of Ransome's machines, done at once and perfectly in a few minutes, all the blocks, of whatever size, being placed together and turned out as like as peas, and mathematically correct in every respect.\n\nA band saw machine, by which both fine and rough work was cut in all sorts of shapes, and a saw cutting machine, with F. Ransome's patent stone, were among the other works shown.\n\nWith one or two of these machines an employer with a man and a boy as staff, could turn out as much work as twenty or thirty men, and never be troubled about the nine hours, eight hours, or any other movement.\n\nThe remarkable fact about these machines is that they are not limited to the pattern, shape, or character of wood, for the knives are changed in a few minutes, and whatever the class of work required, it can be done at once.\n\nThe inspection lasted for several hours, and all the visitors expressed themselves delighted with these new machines, some of which are to go to the Vienna Exhibition.\n\nNAVAL AND MILITARY.\n\nThe screw steamer Scotland, Captain James, sailed from Queenstown on the 12th inst. for Singapore and Hong Kong, via the Suez Canal.\n\nThe following are the details of the officers and men who proceed in the Scotland to strengthen the garrisons in the Straits Settlements and Hong Kong:-To Singapore, Captain Battye, Lieutenant Armstrong, and 79 men of the 10th regiment and 10 men of the Royal Artillery.\n\nTo Hong Kong, Captain Stone, with 294 men and 19 women and children of the 80th Regiment; an armourer sergeant, a sergeant, and 10 men of the Royal Artillery: and 3 men of the Royal Engineers.\n\nMajor Watson, of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, Captain Hewson, 73rd Foot, and Lieutenant Chevera, of the 73rd Foot, proceed to Hong Kong on duty with the draft of the 80th Regiment, and will afterwards return to Ceylon.\n\nThe medical officer in charge of the troops is Staff Surgeon O'Halloran, who will, after their arrival at their respective stations, proceed to Penang.\n\nThe Mosquito, composite gunboat, 400 tons, and 360-horse power, which was commissioned at Devonport on the 30th ult., for service on the China station, by Lieutenant-Commander William Henry Bond, was moved into Plymouth Sound on the 9th inst., has made the customary trial of her engines, and has embarked her supply of ammunition preparatory to sailing.\n\nLieutenant-Colonel Joseph H. F. H. Hudson, Grenadier Guards, is to be confirmed in his appointment of military secretary to General Henry Renny, in command of the forces in Ceylon.\n\nMONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.\n\nThe suspension of Messrs. Bowles Bros. and Co., noticed in our last issue, has caused the stoppage of the \"Joint National Agency,\" a company formed for general financial and agency purposes in connection with the Japanese now in Europe, amongst whom we are sorry to say are the agents of the Japanese Government, who have lodged Government funds in the hands of the Company.\n\nJudging from the following circular, it seems that the company is utterly crushed, and will be dissolved.\n\n446, Strand, London, 9th November, 1872.\n\nSIR.—With the greatest regret, and by order of the Board of Directors, I have to inform you that in consequence of the sudden and unexpected suspension of payment of one of the bankers of this company, the firm of Messrs. Bowles Brothers and Co., this company has also found it necessary to suspend payment.\n\nIn order at once to secure the assets of the company its immediate winding up has been determined upon, and with this view an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders will be held here at two o'clock in the afternoon, on Tuesday week, the 19th inst., when a resolution will be submitted to the effect that it has been proved to the satisfaction of the company that it cannot, by reason of its liabilities, continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same.\n\nI am, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nWALTER H. FARRA, Secretary.\n\nFollowing closely on the failure of Joshua, of Singapore, we have telegrams announcing the stoppage of Chang \"Tee, Watseng and Co., and Absoon and Co., both Chinese firms of importance in the Straits and Saigon trade, with heavy liabilities to European firms.\n\nThe mail also brings advices of the failure and arrest for fraud of A. Velge, a commission merchant at Singapore, by which the banks will also lose.\n\nMessrs. Joshua Brothers and Co., of Great Winchester-street, desire it to be stated that their firms, together with the firms of Joshua Brothers, Melbourne, and Joshua Brothers, Mauritius, are in no way related to or connected with the firm of Joshua Brothers, of Singapore, whose suspension has been announced.\n\nCorrespondence from Shanghai by the last two mails has been very gloomy, and failures are expected before the end of the year, notwithstanding the assistance given here to the Silk market by a combination.\n\nBar Silver has again declined, and the nearest quotation we can give is 59d. per oz., at which rate some small parcels have been sold; the market is weak, and a further slight reduction may be looked for.\n\nThe Bank of Holland has decided to buy no more silver at any price. It has hitherto bought silver at 1.104.65 per Dutch pound, and has not varied the price for years.\n\nBANK AND MISCELLANEOUS SHARES.\n\nTELEGRAPH COMPANIES.\n\n£10\n\nChartered Bank Ind., Aust., and China\n\nAll\n\n59 to 54\n\n13 to 15\n\nAll\n\n23 to 25\n\n10\n\n1 to 15\n\n58 to 60\n\nAll\n\nJOINT STOCK BANKS.\n\n£10\n\nAgra Bank\n\n25\n\nBank of Egypt\n\n20\n\n45\n\nChartered Merc. of India and China\n\n20\n\nCity Bank\n\n+14\n\n1.\n\n100\n\nColonial Bank\n\n500fr.\n\nComptoir D'Escompte of Paris...\n\n2291\n\n100\n\nHong Kong and Shanghai Bank\n\n[Imperial Bank\n\n20\n\n28 to 29\n\n50\n\nLondon and County\n\n20\n\n69 to 58\n\n50\n\nLondon Joint Stock\n\n15\n\n48 to 47\n\n100\n\nLondon and Westminster\n\n20\n\n67 to 62\n\nOriental Bank Corporation\n\nAll\n\n$1 to 42\n\n50\n\nUnion of London...\n\n43 to 44\n\n10\n\nBritish Indian Extension\n\nAll\n\n34 to 144\n\n13\n\nBritish Australian...\n\nAn\n\nA to 99\n\n30\n\nChina Submarine.\n\n10 to 10\n\n10\n\nEastern Telegraph Company\n\n10 to 10\n\n10\n\nGreat Northern\n\nAll\n\n10 to 114\n\n25\n\nIndo-European\n\nAll\n\n14 to 30\n\n30\n\nMediterranean Extension\n\nAll\n\n£ to 7\n\n12\n\nTelegraph Construction Company\n\n£24 to 23\n\n60\n\nIndiarubr.,Gutta Percha &Tel. WorksCo.\n\n45\n\n391 to 301\n\nMISCELLANEOUS\n\n20\n\nBritish India Tea Company\n\nAll\n\n4 to 5\n\nBrit. and Foreign Marine Insurance Co.,\n\n1\n\n6 to\n\n6\n\n20\n\nCeylon Company\n\n***\n\n**\n\nAll\n\n15 to 17\n\n20\n\nDo.\n\n10\n\nLo\n\ndis.\n\n20\n\nDo.\n\nར\n\n4 to\n\n3 dis\n\n50\n\n2 to\n\nI dis.\n\n5\n\nAll\n\nto\n\n53\n\n10\n\nGeneral Credit and Discount Companyj\n\n73\n\nTo\n\n15 pm.\n\n10\n\nHong Kong Gas Company\n\n414\n\n10\n\nInternational Finance Society...\n\n5\n\n1 to dis.\n\n98\n\nJapan Loan, 9 per cent...\n\nAll\n\n110 to 112\n\n$4\n\nLondon and Prov. Marine Insurance Co.\n\n2\n\n24 to 21 pa1.\n\n26\n\nNational Discount Company...\n\n5\n\n121\n\n122\n\n25\n\n50nfr.\n\nOcean Marine Insurance Company\n\nMessageries Maritime of France\n\n5\n\n13 to 14 pm.\n\nAli\n\n50\n\n50\n\n100\n\n21)\n\nP. and O. Steaming Company\n\n170.\n\n1867...\n\n20.\n\nRoyal Mail Steam Company\n\nRealia Marine Insorance Company\n\nAll\n\n51 10\n\n68\n\n10\n\ndis. to par\n\n60\n\n93 to B5\n\nJ\n\n1 to I dis.\n\n4021.\n\nSuez Canal Company\n\n*\n\n20\n\n20\n\nThames and Mersey Marine Lasur. Co.\n\nUniversal Marine Insurance Company!\n\n5 to\n\nFLE\n\nColonial Company\n\nCredit Foncier of England\n\nARTICLES OF IMPORT.\n\nTEA.\n\n1,530\n\n1.360\n\n5pm.\n\n4 to jum\n\nMessrs. Shepard, Harrison, and Rehden's Circular says--\n\nDuring the past few days buying, except at auction without reserve (sales of China or Indian growth taking place daily), has been all but suspended, owing to the disturbance in the money market and the advance in the Bank rate, which is now 7 per cent.; arrivals have also been on an exceedingly large scale; buyers therefore act with extreme caution.\n\nAdvices from China, as to ultimate total shipments, state, \"all will depend on prices paid for common Congou;\" as regards this market, there is no encouragement to ship such here; demand has been \"off\" this class for some time, and late imports of what may be fairly classed as \"good common\" are not saleable over 9d.\n\nThe export trade to all quarters has been inactive.\n\nThe public sales of China have comprised 16,117 packages, of which week amount to 8,211,346 lbs., against 3,161,038 lbs. last year.\n\n14,449 packages have been sold without reserve.\n\nThe deliveries for the sales have been...\n\nBlack-Red leaf: No change as to prices for siftings and leafy; good flavoury kinds at 1s. to 1s 1d. have been scarce, but a better selection is offering from ships now discharging; Souchong and Kaisow kinds at 1s. 3d. to 1s. 5d. offer good value; medium to fine at 1s. 6d. to 2s. are hard of sale; finest sells in small lots at 2s. 1d. to 2s. 6d. per lb.\n\nPakling kinds: No demand.\n\nTayshau leaf: Fall supplies are in course of landing; a few sales at 10d. to 1s, for good common and fair.\n\nBlack leaf: In low and ordinary common there have been occasional small sales at 6d. to 7½d.; fair to good common we quote at 8d. to 10d. per lb., and difficult of sale; preferable kinds 1s. 7d, we make rather lower; fine and finest 1s. 8d. to 2s. 2d., limited at 1s. to 1s. 2d. are scarce; medium to good medium at 1s. 3d. to 1s. 6d. are...\n\nSouchong: Few transactions at no alteration in value.\n\nScented Tea, Canton kinds--Caper: There has been fair trade doing, as late good common to fair 10d. to 1s., good to medium 1s. 1d. to 1s. 4d, fine imports are of desirable quality, many parcels being strong scented; 1s. 5d. to 1s. 8d., finest 1s. 9d. to 2s. per lb.\n\nScented Orange Pekoe: Limited supplies, but sufficient for present wants, Foochow growth being in full supply, and selling at a moderate scale of prices.\n\nGreen Large sales by auction without reserve; the imports, ex Glenroy and Ajax, over 800,000 lbs., offering a varied selection, chiefly of Peling Suey leaf, which has sold at an average 1d. per lb. decline, No. 1 Gunpowder selling down to 2s. 11d., other grades in proportion.\n\nSlogane and Fychow leaf, with the comparatively small supply, has been selling at extreme rates.\n\nCanton and Japan kinds: No change.\n\nSILK.\n\nMessrs. Kilburn, Kershaw, and Co. report as follows:--\n\nThe slight improvement in demand which had shown itself recently has been checked by the movements of the money market, and buyers generally seen disposed to wait; there is no change in quotations.",
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        "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG TIMES.\n\n## HONGKONG, TUESDAY, DEC. 30, 1873.\n\n### THE LAST OF THE MACAO COOLIE TRADE.\n\nTHE many wrongs that have been connected with the coolie traffic from Macao, have been put to an end at last, and we may congratulate Portugal on having severed herself from a business so very infamous as the one we allude to. By a proclamation, dated the 27th instant, H. E. Visconde de Sao Januario, Governor of Macao, acting under the orders of his Sovereign, has put a stop to a trade that has proved immensely lucrative to the many engaged in promoting it, and, however this desirable result may have been brought about, there is nothing but satisfaction to be felt at its taking place, although somewhat late in the day.\n\nOne of the paragraphs of the proclamation referred to, calls attention to an article in the Emigration Regulations providing for the stoppage of the so-called emigration within three months, from which we might infer that it might either be allowed to continue until the full three months had expired, or the traffic might be stopped immediately; and one would feel rather inclined to be dubious as to the further lease of life to be accorded to the coolie traffic, but the assertion that \"The Chinese Emigration hitherto carried on in the port of Macao is henceforward prohibited,\" is reassuring, and we conclude that the various vessels lying in the Macao roadstead waiting for coolies may unfurl their sails and seek for different employment.\n\nIt is evident that Portugal is convinced, by this time, that though good, honest regulations could be made to govern the emigration from Macao, it was not equally possible to have these regulations duly observed, and consequently, with a sense of justice that there were, at one time, grave reasons to doubt she had, she has decided upon having no more infamy cast upon her on the Coolie question.\n\nIt is possible that we are rejoicing before we have any very great cause so to do; it is, perhaps, not improbable that Macao may be re-opened as a mart for Coolie labour, but we have hopes of better things, and until we see Macao carrying on the Coolie trade again as of old, we shall steadily refuse to credit that a return of the former days is in any way likely. The question that now occurs to us is, has the Coolie trade been killed by this last act of Portugal, or is it likely to flourish as strongly as ever. To our mind its prospects are very bad indeed. The action taken by the Chinese authorities at different times has been such as would preclude them from entering upon any agreement, even upon the most advantageous terms for themselves, with either the Coolie brokers or traders, whereby a certain number of coolies should be shipped annually for Peru and Havana, and consequently the trade as it has been carried on is, in our opinion, virtually terminated. In fact the only thing that can be done now is for either Spain and Peru to obtain some small foothold on the Coast of China, when the traffic, now supposed to be dead, would be found to be scotched only.\n\nThe stop taken by Portugal on this long vexed question will affect to a great extent, we should imagine, the negotiations now going on between Li-hung-chang and H. E. Capt. Garcia y Garcia, materially strengthening the position assumed by the former; so much so, that we should not be by any means surprised to learn that the two diplomatists above mentioned have been unable to agree upon any terms. Whether such a result would be beneficial or otherwise to the able-bodied power classes, of China, is a question that can be satisfactorily solved by time only, but merely as an opinion, we think that some arrangements made upon a sound basis, between Peru and China, would be better for such men as all the position of coolies than if there were no agreement whatever as, in the one case there would be supervision of some sort whilst in the other semi-independent mandarins stationed along the Coast over whom the Government supervision is very light might undertake to enrich themselves without considering the honourableness of the manner in which it was done.\n\n## MACÃO.\n\n(From our own Correspondent.)\n\nAs I told you in my last, the coolie trade is finished, and, I hope, for ever. The Governor since his arrival has often informed the home authorities of the utter impossibility of renovating the system, and rooting out the abuses. With people zealous in the nefarious modus operandi, reform is totally out of the question. The recent energetic pressure put to bear on the Lisbon Government by the Court of St. James, coupled with unbiased dispatches from Macao, in which plain truth was said, have at last moved the King to wire the death warrant, which, like a bombshell, was made known here on Saturday at half past two in the afternoon, half an hour before the closing of the public departments. At 8 o'clock the whole town was in a state of commotion—like an excitement in the 'Change or during the late monetary crisis in New York. Agents, who have already transacted the business of the day, were immediately off for their brokers to recover the advances made in the morning and to cancel the contracts. Barracconers locked up at the Camoens, who in their turn, released the uncooled, which, in the coolie-trade phraseology, means \"unprepared to pay the fatal peso,\" and, foreseeing a tempest not far distant, pack their traps for immediate departure. The officials, who derive upwards of two hundred per cent. on their pay, from the coffers of the superintendency, looked rather blue, and will have to be content with the paltry sum allowed them by the regulation, which is barely enough to keep body and soul together. Thirty-five to forty thousand brokers and employés of the trade are now left out of employment, and it is estimated that 300 houses will soon be vacated! Therefore, you need not be surprised to hear loud cries by ex-chuchueiros and ex-chuchueiras against the new order, and against the person who caused it. Legitimate trade here is almost nil; coolie-trade having enervated the people, all industry died away one after the other until no other business was known but that in human beings. What this large army of idlers will do to get a living, I do not know, nor do I pity them now in their disappointment, for my feelings have long been with those who have been ensnared by them into captivity and certain death in Havana, Peru and in the dreadful caverns of the guano islands.\n\nThe coolie brokers being the chief supporters of the gambling houses, now that their bankruptcy is apparent, some of them dens of iniquity are being closed, and in their sad places pawnbroker's shops—this abominable destination that ferments misery and poverty—will be established. Last night the fan-tan tables were almost deserted and the bids were so insignificantly small, that astonished the players, who had the shops shut up long before the accustomed time.\n\nBy the present steamer some of the Agents and others interested in coolie ships \"Chandlers\" take their departure from Macao, and to-morrow's boat will carry despatches for the French Mail steamer announcing the compliance with the King's mandate as well as a long exposition of the probable future of Macao without the obnoxious traffic.\n\nThe following Peruvian ships are in the roads: \"Cullen,\" \"Isaia,\" \"Ornole,\" \"Luisa Canevaro,\" \"Macro,\" \"Colombia,\" \"Nuova Providencia,\" \"Agostina,\" \"Lala,\" \"Peru,\" \"Providencia,\" \"Fray Bentos;\" their aggregate tonnage being 12,000 tons. One of which will, probably, take the sweepings of the barracoons, numbering in all about 500, of which several are infirm and cripples, and, therefore, unfit for any work whatever.",
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        "content_text": "# ORDINARY PRIZES\n\n## 1ST CLASS\n1. Ch'an Fak-hing, watch, by Mr. Kwok A-chung; \n2. Ch'an Shü-fan, watch, by Mr. Kwok A-chang; \n3. J. Sampson, gold pen, by a friend of the school.\n\n## 2ND CLASS\n1. Luo Pak-mi, watch, by Government; \n2. Mok Man-tat, gold pencil, by Mr. Romano; \n3. M. de Souza, gold pencil, by Mr. Romano.\n\n## 3RD CLASS\n1. Wat Ying-pan, watch, by Government; \n2. Lo A-tat, writing case, by Mr. J. J. dos Remedios; \n3. E. Stainfield, book, by Mr. Romano.\n\n## 4TH CLASS\n1. Lo Sik-ling, watch, by Government; \n2. Taung Kam-chin, two globes, by Mr. F. Remedios; \n3. Lo Taun-tsoi, gold pencil, by Mr. Romano; \n4. H. Sampson, book, by Mr. Romano.\n\n## 5TH CLASS\n1. Ting-fan, field glass, by Government; \n2. Ch'an Shing, writing case, by Mr. Hyndman.\n\n## 6TH CLASS\n1. Tse Yun-tak, gold pencil, by Government; \n2. Bo A-tung, writing case, by Mr. J. J. dos Remedios; \n3. Moosa, writing case, by Mr. J. J. dos Remedios.\n\n## 7TH CLASS\n1. Lau Yat, gold pencil, by Government; \n2. Leung Apo, ink stand, by Mr. J. J. dos Remedios.\n\n## 8TH CLASS\n1. Ch'au Tsai-cheung, silver pencil, by Government; \n2. Wong Lun-su, ink stand, by Mr. J. J. dos Remedios; \n3. Ching Chung-san, dictionary, by Government.\n\n# CHINESE CLASSES\n\n## FORTNIGHTLY EXAMINATION\n\n### 1ST CLASS\n- Ch'an Lai, gold pencil, by the Head Master.\n\n### 2ND CLASS\n- Ho Kwong-ming, dictionary, by Government.\n\n## ORDINARY PRIZES\n\n### 1ST CLASS\n1. Kwok Hang-kwai, watch, by Mr. Wong Tso-leung; \n2. Iam-su, dictionary, by Government.\n\n### 2ND CLASS\n1. Lung Chin-shang, watch, by Government; \n2. Ch'an Ngai-hin, dictionary, by Government.\n\n### 3RD CLASS\n1. Cheung Wai, silver pencil, by Government; \n2. Leung Tai-sham, dictionary, by Government.\n\n### 4TH CLASS\n1. Shek A-fan, silver pencil, by Mr. Gerrard; \n2. Tam Sz-chin, silver pencil, by Government; \n3. Yenug Hiu-taing, dictionary, by Government.\n\n# CHINESE CLASS FOR EUROPEANS, &c.\n\n## 1ST DIVISION\n1. E. Pereira, watch, by Government; \n2. A. Hyndman, book, by Mr. Romano.\n\n## 2ND DIVISION\n1. E. Robarts, gold pencil, by Government; \n2. Sheik Akbar, ink stand, by a friend of the school.\n\nNumber who sat at examination, 316.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor said: It is a whole year since I had the pleasure of addressing you. A great many of you I am afraid won't understand what I say, but speaking to those who can I have only to congratulate you on the coming round of another year, for your attendance; and I hope that the year past has been very profitable to yourselves, and that it will have been a satisfaction to your parents.\n\nDuring the last year an important change has taken place both in this and other schools, by the Government paying for results instead of giving grants. The Council of the Colony has hitherto been very liberal, and I am certain that they would be inclined to be still more liberal if they found that the new system works well. You all know pretty well, at least those of you who can speak English will understand what paying for results means. It means paying for work done.\n\nAll of you, I am sure, know very well that shams are very bad things, and a sham school is, I think, in the eyes of all thinking people, the very worst of bad things. It wastes valuable time that never can be recalled; it leads parents to suppose their children are being educated and taught, when they are not being taught at all; it leads the children themselves into habits of idleness, and leads them to suppose that simply sitting for a certain number of hours without applying their minds to what they have got to do is either profitable or creditable; that wretched delusion, that sham is not dispelled unfortunately till after life, then they find out, and then they regret the time that has been wasted; and I think likewise that they have some right to blame those who allow such a faulty system to be maintained for a single day.\n\nI myself am very unwilling to make any change in the schools. I am not fond of pulling things up, like the boys do the flowers in the garden, to see whether they are growing, but I wish to see what this school and the other schools are doing, and, according to the best information I can get, I am led to suppose that the system of paying by results is the best, that it has answered well elsewhere, and I consider it will answer equally well here, and believe that it has been so far, and will continue to be, faithfully carried on.\n\nThe reports I get of the school are very satisfactory; and everybody, and every scholar of whatever denomination, gets fair play and a fair chance. The new system is not only advantageous to the boys, but is a great encouragement to the masters. On the old system the masters were simply to receive their stipend, and not to receive any very great credit for the proficiency their boys made, and this afforded very little inducement and very little encouragement to them to bestow their time and energy on the work they had taken in hand.\n\nThe present system removes that difficulty, and I hope and believe that the schools in the Colony will profit immensely by the system. I think it will not be distasteful to any, but that it will be beneficial to all. To the boys themselves it will be satisfactory to know what classes they are in. It will be satisfactory to know what progress they have made, and that, in itself, is a great inducement.\n\nEvery boy knows pretty well the extent of the capacity of the one who sits next him. You are all very good judges of each other, and with the system of paying by results you know who is who, and are able to discriminate between those who have been industrious and those who have been idle. This is a great matter. The prizes in actual life do not always fall to men strictly according to merit, but when boys know that they get into a higher class, that their merits are discriminated and pointed out to their fellows, there is among all boys, as among all men, something to induce them to rise to distinction and deserve it.\n\nI have not much to say on the subject of conduct. I have heard no complaints, and believe the conduct of the boys generally is very good. It cannot be but a great satisfaction to myself, and the Council of the Colony who find the funds for maintaining the school, that we have apparently gained the goodwill and the confidence of the Chinese portion of the population. They are here treated with great impartiality; and what we are endeavouring to do is not only to teach them but to set them an example of tolerance and forbearance, and to show them that we have no desire to interfere with their consciences in any way.\n\nWe simply offer them a useful, practical education, which they will all find, and I am happy to believe which many have found, of great use and to their advantage. I believe that if we had room, and if the means of the Colony would afford it, we could get a great many more. It is quite impossible to please all parties; it is impossible to please every denomination of religion; to attempt to do so is a hopeless matter. It has been tried in many places I know of. I have seen it tried, and have tried it myself, and it always resulted in signal failure.\n\nWhat boys learn here will induce them not to stop at that but go farther and enquire for themselves. When boys can read, and judge for themselves, and discriminate, I think it is sufficient time to enter upon difficult and abstruse subjects; and I am not prepared to think that children derive any good from receiving mental food which they are incapable of digesting. I believe you get all here that is good for you. Possibly I might wish you to get more than you do get but I don't see my way to that, and I am quite content to leave things as they are, and to let well alone.\n\nI hope you will all remember that it is to the British Government you are indebted for the liberty and the blessings you enjoy, and for the freedom of conscience which you all have, and which your parents desire you to exercise. We have no desire whatever to interfere with that. We wish to teach you as much as you please to learn, and for the rest you must educate yourselves. You are instructed here, your education must be finished elsewhere, or by yourselves.\n\nI have now to wish you a very happy holiday, and I hope you will return to your work with that attention, steadiness and desire to improve which I understand you have manifested during the past year. (Applause.)",
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        "content_text": "is not to be forgotten that the Chinese are by no means the only recipients of the advantages of the system of education provided in Hongkong. There are a large number of Portuguese residents, whose children are attendants at the schools, and the children of several other respectable Europeans also are sent there, as the best means of providing them with a sound education. In this latter respect the schools are likely to be of increasing utility, as there are many married people, to whom it would be a great burden to have to send their children home to school, and who can now secure them a sound general education in the Colony.\n\nLooked at in every light, the Government Schools are an institution of which the Colony may be justly proud, and we have great pleasure in congratulating the Superintendent of Schools and those under him, on the success which has attended their efforts. This success, it is also right to acknowledge, is due in no small degree to the sound views entertained by H.E. the Governor, and the support which he has given both by his influence and his advocacy, to a system of undenominational schools by which the advantages of education are thrown open to all.\n\n## THE HONG KONG TIMES\n\n### HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1874\n\n## GOVERNMENT CENTRAL SCHOOL EXAMINATION\n\nThe scholars attending the Government Central School Hong Kong, underwent a public examination yesterday (Tuesday) morning; His Excellency the Governor (Sir Arthur Kennedy, K.C.M.G., C.B.) subsequently distributing the prizes to the successful competitors. The scholars were divided into two classes, and in the presence of the public were examined in reading, arithmetic, geography, etc. This examination occupied about an hour, and showed the pupils to be well acquainted with the few subjects touched upon.\n\nIt should, however, be stated that this was not the examination on which the prizes were awarded, that a far more comprehensive and exhaustive test was being conducted by means of papers some time since. At the distribution of prizes, which took place in the large room, there were present His Excellency the Governor (accompanied by his Aide-de-camp, Capt. O'Callaghan), the Hon. J. G. Austin, the Hon. C. C. Smith, Hon. P. Ryrie, Rev. Mr. Piton, Mr. Frederick Stewart, M.A. (Head Master and Inspector of Schools), Mr. E. J. R. Willcocks (Central School), A. Falconer (Central School), and Messrs. Guttierez, Romano, Nelson, and several ladies.\n\nThe boys who had gained prizes were called up before His Excellency the Governor, who enquired of them the time they had been at school, and other matters. In handing over the rewards of their success, he pointed out the interest and utility of the studies they were engaged in, complimented the boys upon their success, and expressed the pleasure he felt in taking part in the day's proceedings. In presenting the \"Punctuality Prize,\" His Excellency remarked that it was not given to everyone to be clever; but every boy might be regular and punctual in attendance and well-behaved. The lad who had gained the prize had set an example which he hoped would be followed by the whole school. (Applause.)\n\nThe following is a copy of the\n\n### PRIZE LIST\n\n(Central School, 10th February, 1874)\n| Category | Name | Prize | Donor |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Best Scholar | Lai-ün | Field Glass | Government |\n| Translation | Sin A-sin | Watch | Hon. C. C. Smith |\n| Chemistry | Lo A-tseung | Watch | Hon. P. Ryrie |\n| Drawing | F. Remedios | Book | Mr. Hyndman |\n| Arithmetic | Hung Kam-shing | Math. Instruments | Old Resident |\n| Arithmetic | Leung Kwok-ki | Watch | Third Master |\n| Regularity, &c. | Chan Chin-tung | Book | Mr. Chan Yin |\n| Best English Speaker | Fung A-shui | Book | Mr. Chan Yin |\n\n### ORDINARY PRIZES\n\n| Class | Rank | Name | Prize | Donor |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1st Class | 1 | Chán Fuk-hing | Watch | Mr. Kwok A-chang |\n| 1st Class | 2 | Chau Shi-jan | Watch | Mr. Kwok A-chung |\n| 1st Class | 3 | J. Sampson | Gold Pen | Friend of School |\n| 2nd Class | 1 | Lam Pak-mi | Watch | Government |\n| 2nd Class | 2 | Mok Man-tat | Gold Pencil | Mr. Romano |\n| 2nd Class | 3 | M. de Souza | Gold Pencil | Mr. Romano |\n| 3rd Class | 1 | Wat Ying-pan | Watch | Government |\n| 3rd Class | 2 | Lo A-tat | Writing Case | Mr. J. J. dos Remedios |\n| 3rd Class | 3 | E. Stainfield | Book | Mr. Romano |\n| 4th Class | 1 | Lo Sik-ling | Watch | Government |\n| 4th Class | 2 | Tsang Kam-chiu | 2 Globes | Mr. F. Remedios |\n| 4th Class | 3 | Lo Tsuu-teoi | Gold Pencil | Mr. Romano |\n| 4th Class | 4 | H. Sampson | Book | Mr. Romano |\n| 5th Class | 1 | U. Ting-fan | Field Glass | Government |\n| 5th Class | 2 | Chan A-shing | Writing Case | Mr. Hyndman |\n| 6th Class | 1 | Tse Yun-tak | Gold Pencil | Government |\n| 6th Class | 2 | Ho A-tung | Writing Case | Mr. J. J. dos Remedios |\n| 6th Class | 3 | Mossa | Writing Case | Mr. J. J. dos Remedios |\n| 7th Class | 1 | Lau A-yat | Gold Pencil | Government |\n| 7th Class | 2 | Leung A-po | Inkstand | Mr. J. J. dos Remedios |\n| 8th Class | 1 | Chan Tsai-Cheung | Silver Pencil | Government |\n| 8th Class | 2 | Wong Lun-ow | Inkstand | Mr. J. J. dos Remedios |\n| 8th Class | 3 | Cheng Chung-shun | Dictionary | Government |\n\n### CHINESE CLASSES\n\n(Fortnightly Examinations)\n| Class | Name | Prize | Donor |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1st Class | Chan A-lai | Gold Pencil | Head Master |\n| 2nd Class | Ho Kwong-ming | Dictionary | Government |\n\n### ORDINARY PRIZES\n\n| Class | Rank | Name | Prize | Donor |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1st Class | 1 | Kwok Hung-kwai | Watch | Mr. Wong Too-loung |\n| 1st Class | 2 | Lam A-sú | Dictionary | Government |\n| 2nd Class | 1 | Lung Chiu-shang | Watch | Government |\n| 2nd Class | 2 | Chan Ngai-hin | Dictionary | Government |\n| 3rd Class | 1 | Cheung A-wai | Silver Pencil | Government |\n| 3rd Class | 2 | Leung Tai-sham | Dictionary | Government |\n| 4th Class | 1 | Shek A-fan | Silver Pencil | Mr. Garpard |\n| 4th Class | 2 | Tam Sz-chin | Silver Pencil | Government |\n| 4th Class | 3 | Yeung Hin-tsing | Dictionary | Government |\n\n### CHINESE CLASS FOR EUROPEANS, &C.\n\n| Division | Rank | Name | Prize | Donor |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1st Division | 1 | E. Pereira | Watch | Government |\n| 1st Division | 2 | A. Hyndman | Book | Mr. Romano |\n| 2nd Division | 1 | E. Robarts | Gold Pencil | Government |\n| 2nd Division | 2 | Sheik Akber | Inkstand | Friend of School |\n\nNumber who sat at Examination, 316.\n\nAt the conclusion of the distribution, His Excellency the Governor said :-A whole year has elapsed since I last had the pleasure of addressing you. I am afraid that many of you will not be able to understand much of what I am going to say to you. In the first place I wish to congratulate you upon your attendance during the past year. I trust that the year has been profitable to yourselves, and satisfactory to your parents. During the past year an important change has taken place, affecting both this and other schools. That change is, the paying for results instead of giving grants. The Council of the Colony has hitherto been very liberal, but I am satisfied they will be inclined to be even more liberal, if they find the system works well. Now you all know—or at least those of you who can pretty well understand English—what payment for results means; it is in fact paying for work done. You all know very well that shams are very bad things; but a sham school is, I think, in the eyes of all thinking people the very worst of all things. It wastes valuable time that can never be recalled. It leads parents to suppose their children are being educated...",
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        "content_text": "## 12.\nAll needful measures being taken to remedy or mitigate the disaster. I have the honor to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most Obedient humble Servant,\n**Governor**\n\n## SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG TERRIFIC TYPHOON, PEARL DESTRUCTION OF LIVES, SHIPPING, AND PROPERTY.\n**\"FORTY-NINE SHIPS SUNK, WRECKED, KISSING, OR DISABLED, NEARLY A THOUSAND LIVES LOST\"**\n\nThe work tearful typhoon ever known was often at the risk of rain. The Harbour Master's office, lately in the office. A part of the Police Station shore, went on the Praya, to render what assistance they could, and were fortunate in clearing and emptying boats. It was not till after morning dawn that it transferred to the Peak, is also a wreck. The remainder overlooking assistance they could, and were fortunate in repairing whatever steal damage may be was ascertained how severe and been the loss covering. The signal topmast and yard Finlay Street, and the Justices Room cugh to be of arvien in assisting the done to their craft, and drying shoir own both of property and life. Commencing with have taken the departs at the lower bave been laid is rains.\n\nThe general aspect of destruction and desolation able to raske only a barriet anrvey, the trees, urognet lawos, &c. are demolish- tion with Saigon, has been stopped since pondent of couteurpornty states tind i and to notice ai me boat a mother sar- bathing batas has put to sen for good, med, the stone seats even belay displaced by the typhoon. The Cable Houso at Pok application was raic by one of the gentle rounded by a word of chidren lamenting the terrilie furor of the wind.\n\nAt the corner of the wall of Mr da Silva's bull of what was oue Majesty's gun- The Mesageries Maritimes premies sea Alexander has had his foot somewhat presses his opinion that bad the unlice ground is standing high and dry one of the boate obstrusively turnst its stern on to ̈the much injured. br Sing theaire is a neverely injured by broken glas, being fundered assistance when requested, tivos Jutgest size Chinese esego boala '; sha ja saat boat platform.\n\nThe Pray buildings have naturally and tinction however is admitted by the members waves. One of them in trying to climb over the sea side of the stone wall on his ground to have been more swing to the fury of the lossy balk of timber, which was washed We learn that about 70 bodies have been has been washed away, estimate puts it at 1000, and some to grief in the way of glass, to spite of all Typhoon than to any exertions it was pos-up nese the whart of Douglan Lapraiz & taken up to the Hospital to-day (204b).\n\nThe typhoon insurrupted legal an wall ance at all from this police. The bungalow itself Rebore, la diamanted or otherwise injured in some cases touching the front wails of Doon to-day enters for the interment of a viber business.\n\nThe sailing vessel, Lizzie 17., was got off seems not to have sustered must, but the the house. But on this occasion even about 40 burdien found drownet vare imusd even, of Mr Lee Lom Krai bad to be poak swiaty yesterday, not much the worse for on-houses as either traded or blown whiis 6 are missing, and a vast number greater force then, 115067 must have been by the Coroner,\n\nThe following is a correct return of all the damages inflicted shipping up to 4 p.m. of the 26th.\n\n| Vessel | Type | Status |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Ay, Spanish steamer | Steamer | Sunk |\n| Aldebaran, German barque | Barque | Sunk |\n| Anoy, Chinese junk | Junk | Sunk |\n| Courier, British barque (No. 1) | Barque | Sunk |\n| Thu, Siamese barque | Barque | Sunk |\n| Sime, British barge | Barge | Sunk |\n| Imag, British barge | Barge | Sunk |\n| Lesar, Spanish steamer | Steamer | Sunk |\n| Lowton, Siamese ship | Ship | Sunk |\n| Hong No. 3, Peruvian ship | Ship | Sunk |\n| Moser, British ship | Ship | Sunk |\n| Mamboo, British ship | Ship | Sunk |\n| Stuur, Beroun barque | Barque | Sunk |\n| Seabird, American schooner | Schooner | Sunk (prized) |\n| Seagarth, Bianca barque | Barque | Sunk |\n\nDismasted:\n- Alaska, P. M. Rainer, ship\n- about 32 miles NE of N. end of Koerhard, Germans barjaw sms with tizen-tat gone, and apie f., Amexiest turqia.\n- Price, Gerwas torque\n\nOtherwise Injured:\n- Ardon, British turque\n- Columbian, P. & O. steamer (lost\n- Elion Costs, British barque\n- Falco, Brinjal bergu\n- Ferdinand, German barque\n- Maria Viento, Spanish barque\n- Matilde Atheling, British barque\n\nThe government house is partly availed and the fence round the extent blown down. The adjoining Police Station is also pzena a great amount of tiles, and one window been entirely blown in with ita fram.\n\n## KOWLOONG AFTER THE TYPHOON.\n\nA correspondent kindly favours us with the following account:\n\nMuch daags I hear has also been dena to Mesra Nurouha'a and Kozario'a bouere, but time prevunis ine from ascertaining the uctaile.\n\nThe typhoon which, though of very short amongst the shipping that the most aerions! dsmation, has probably proved the most damage was done, and this, sad to say, the apparently a German barque found Wanchi with be aturn driven io.-Th destruerite Wibutes suce 1862--if not resulted in the known loss of very many ed of the end of Chang-bue at Monagones Maritimes $.8., during exceding it in that reapuci -swept overthu\n\n## THE TYPHOON AT MACÁO.\n\nMacao, September 24, 1874\n\nA most dreadful calamity has befallen this town. It is now a heap of ruins. Its beauty is gone, its prosperity shocked, and demolition is everywhere.\n\nThe damages to roads and houses through the tigste. The dianta alous, if really almost an emsate arang them. The turn premonter to flost about; one third is which it broke on the shore.\n\nThe guiden has suffered very arch and rous trees are either uprooted or broken Darabjen's bungalow fa blurn UVAI and the greater part of bis gavlen is destroy- ed.\n\nThe Praya presents a most extraur the theatre, they were hated by a storm of shore, the Captain it seems allowing his dinary appearance. it is vevared with ploater which flew from the eroices and dren to as extinguished.\n\nThe police estimate the total loss of life at the water, I thought, thay it also might beginning to be felt, and that none but the since frated ull, and the Morning Light period, judging by the abcosinable odor close on one thousand.\n\nThirty-four bodies, one of which was the this side auch & tertiis ground for deesruo corpse of Captain Rehenique, of the Coursion as ou pours, the leses of life are no szothered in the ruins of their own houses, have been reported at the Barbour Master's by least half-a-mile of the sys.-The-Thirty-four bodies, one of which was the this side auch & tertiis ground for deesruo corpse of Captain Rehenique, of the Coursion as ou pours, the leses of life are no szothered in the ruins of their own houses, have been reported at the Barbour Master's by least half-a-mile of the sys.\n\nThe Civil Hospital was so far unroofed as poor Captain Eoanique held. The Prays all slong on both sites removed evening of the 22nd inst, the appearance their homes or hotels, that the demon of the shelter until morning.\n\nThe left again for Cheung-chow, lushing the stones of the P'rage Wall, und ¦ was washed uskoro this morning and pick. Clove to the wrecks of the dresser und beginning, apparently in more play, or sa ed up in one of the law leading from the they have reached us.\n\nBowle 28th September, 1874.\n\nMercurial readings:\n| Time | Reading |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1.90 p.m. | 29.770 |\n| 6.00 | 29.704 |\n| 7.00 | 29.4 |\n| 10.00 | 29.500 |\n| 11.00 | 29 815 |\n| 12.00 | 23.200 |\n| 2.30 | 28.870 |\n| 3,00 | 28.810 |\n| 2.00 | 28.839 |\n| 4.00 | 28.790 |\n| 8.00 | 29.265 |\n| 3.50 | 29.296 |\n| 4.00 | 29.918 |\n\ndroid readings:\n| Time | Reading |\n| --- | --- |\n| 7.43 r., 38od Septcabor, | 29 69 |\n| 9.15 | 29.67 |\n| 21 | 29.45 |\n| 10,30 | 29 40 |\n| 12.00 | 29.12 |\n| 1.00 A., 23rd September, | 29.05 |\n|  | 29.00 |\n| 1.30 | 33 |\n| 2.00 | 99.y |\n|  | + |\n| 5.00 | 20.44 |\n|  | 9.90 |\n\nThe Harbour Master's Office supplied the following readings:\n- 95 \n- 7.43 r., 38od Septcabor, 29 69 \n- 9.15 \n- 29.67 \n- \" \n- 21 \n- 29.45 \n- 10,30 \n- 29 40 \n- 12.00 \n- 29.12 \n- 1.00 A., 23rd September, 29.05 \n- 29.00 \n- *T \n- 1.30 \n- 2.00 \n- 2.00 \n- > \n- 33 \n- 99.y \n- \" \n- + \n- 5.00 \n- 20.44 \n- 1+ \n- 9.90",
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        "content_text": "## \nThe Chinese formed in the shadow of Admiral their had captured Liang to Ching, Ale-Ton Pren and Lu-Shong, Le-a-Tung and Wu-Jeni. \nA total of five participators in the \"Spark\" Piracy were arrested.\n\nLater, Colonel \"Wang fring-am reported the arrest of another Criminal named Li-a-chi alias Liar Toni. \n\"Captain Tan Ranking, Acting Colonel of the Chenghai Regiment reported the arrest of Li a chi alias Liar Toni. \nIn addition to these, Major Cherang Tien Yuan, Major in Command of the Left Division of the Stuang Chout Battalion reported the arrest of five more: Lin-a-un and Chang-To-sin. \nAll of these prisoners were sent for trial by a Court consisting of the Prefect of Canton and the Reprily in charge of the Affairs.\n\nThe two men WW-TRai and ... have not yet been convicted, but all the others, Liang To Chong, have confessed to having participated in the \"Spark\" Piracy and shared the plunder without reserve.\n\nThe Vice Roy has also been informed by Commissioner ...",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure \n\nRe:4 in Consul Robertson's No:7 of 10th February 1874\n\n**Colonial Secretary Hennessy**\n\nThe following is an extract from an Imperial Edict dated 24th September 1873.\n\nWith regard to the memorial of Siw, to the effect that last year a large quantity of foreign munitions of war were purchased for Yunnan province, and requesting that the various provincial Authorities would retain them en route,\n\nWe order Jui lin to instruct his subordinates to watch for such arms and to detain them; since Siw states Ma Ja lung really deputed Dupuis to purchase foreign arms,\n\nWe order Li to write to Yui lin, Si han chang, Kwo po yun, Wang wen shao, Chang sha tung and Ising pi tuan to obey Our former Edict, and to instruct their Subordinates to watch for Yunnan men who have been to Kwang tung province to purchase Cannon.",
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        "content_text": "## Prize List\n\n### English Department\n\n#### Special Prizes\n\n1. Best Scholar, Lam A-aú, Morrison Scholarship.\n2. Translation, Fung A-shui, Watch, Hon. U. C. Smith.\n3. Chemistry, Wong Kam-mún, Watch, Blon. P. Ryrie.\n4. Drawing, Chan A-ti, 2 Books, Mr J. P. Pereira.\n\n#### Ordinary Prizes\n\n| Class | Rank | Name | Prize | Donor |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| I | 1 | Chan U-fai | Watch | Mr Kwok Chung |\n| I | 2 | Lo Ming-kun | Dio. of Information | Mr Remedios |\n| I | 3 | F. Hazeland | Dio. of Geography | Mr E. Remedios |\n| II | 1 | Cheung A-ho | Watch | Mr Russell |\n| II | 2 | Bo U-hang | Pencil Case | Mr Kwok Chung |\n| II | 3 | H. Sampson | Christian 1 Year | Mr Romano |\n| III | 1 | Kwok Hung-kwai | Watch | Government |\n| III | 2 | Chan A-in | Magnifying Glass | Mr Kwok Chung |\n| III | 3 | R. Nowrojes | \"Pierrot's Life\" | Mr Romano |\n| IV | 1 | U Ting-fan | Watch | Government |\n| IV | 2 | Tse Yun-tak | Pencil Case | Dr. Doda |\n| IV | 3 | Young A-dn | Pencil Case | Third Master |\n| IV | 4 | Midene | Pencil Case | Government |\n| V | 1 | Tam I-nam | Watch | Government |\n| V | 2 | Wong Lun-sti | Clock | Government |\n| V | 3 | Cawarjee | Pencil Case | Government |\n| VI | 1 | Yeung Hin-taing | Watch | Government |\n| VI | 2 | Cheung A-kan | Clock | Government |\n| VII | 1 | Cheung Tai-lin-yuk | Pencil Case | Government |\n| VII | 2 | Já Shiu-hang | Pencil Case | Government |\n| VIII | 1 | Paa Tin-chi | Pencil Case | Government |\n| VIII | 2 | Ho A-fak | Math. Instruments | Government |\n| IX | 1 | Wong Tai-fong | Math. instruments | Mr Gerrard |\n| IX | 2 | Lien Chiu-leung | Pen and Knife | Mr Romano |\n| X | 1 | Li Kam-man | Pen and Knife | Mr Romano |\n| X | 2 | Yeung I-kam | Pen | Mr Romano |\n\n### Chinese Department, Fortnightly Examinations\n\n#### Ordinary Prizes\n\n| Class | Rank | Name | Prize | Donor |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| I | 1 | Wong Tin-leung | Watch | Head Master |\n| II | 1 | Pan Taz-cheung | Denny's Handbook |  |\n| I | 1 | Leung Shiu Kong | Watch | Mr Wong Tso Leung |\n| I | 2 | Tong Lit Kwong | Denny's Handbook |  |\n| II | 1 | Tang Mun Sham | Pencil Case | Government |\n| II | 2 | Cheng Wing Sham | Magnifying Glass | Government |\n| III | 1 | Chan A-mui | Pencil Case | Government |\n| III | 2 | Hung Kam Shing | Pencil Case | Government |\n| IV | 1 | Ho Kam Chi | Pencil Case | Government |\n| IV | 2 | Cheung A-kan | Pencil Case | Government |\n\n### Chinese Class for Europeans\n\n| Division | Rank | Name | Prize | Donor |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| I | 1 | E. Pereira | Binocular | Government |\n| I | 2 | A. Pereira | Dictionary of Quotations | Mr Hyndmann |\n| II | 1 | Ram Sammy | Thermometer | Second Master |\n| II | 2 | Verhab Curreem | Dial | Government |\n| III | 1 | T. Namiki | \"Cabinet of Gems\" | Mr Romano |\n| III | 2 | I. S. Alongo | Dial | Government |\n\n69",
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        "content_text": "# THE DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30th, 1975.\n\n## PUBLIC EXAMINATION AT THE CENTRAL SCHOOL\n\nThe annual public examination of the scholars at the Government Schools took place yesterday. The classes assembled about ten o'clock as usual, for the purposes of being examined by any visitor who might choose to do so; but, as was the case last year, only a very few availed themselves of the opportunity of testing the proficiency of the boys in any of their studies. We saw several of the classes examined, and the pupils all acquitted themselves very satisfactorily. We do not know how it is that so little practical interest seems to be taken by the residents of Hongkong in an institution like the Central School. The boys are there to be examined by anyone who wishes to do so, and that only one or two should go there year after year for this purpose is neither creditable to the community, nor encouraging to Mr. Stewart and his assistants. If the same facility be afforded on the next occasion, about which there is some doubt, we hope it will be taken advantage of.\n\nAt noon, H.E. the Governor and Capt. O'Callaghan arrived. The classes were then filed into the Lecture Hall, or at least as many of the classes as it could accommodate; and when we say that the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth had to remain in their own rooms, and that barely half the number of boys in attendance could be present when the prizes were distributed, we think we have said enough to show that the Government ought to provide adequate school accommodation, and set about doing so at once.\n\nAmong the visitors present, besides a number of ladies, were Hon. J. G. Austin, Hon. C. C. Smith, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. J. Bramston, Captain Deane, Mr. Tonnochy, Mr. Russell, Rev. Dr. Eitel, Rev. J. O. Edge, Rev. Lechler, &c. His Excellency then distributed the various prizes, with a few kindly and encouraging words to each of the successful scholars.\n\nThe list is as follows:-\n\n### ENGLISH CLASSES\n\n#### SPECIAL PRIZES\n\n* Best Scholar - Lau A...; Morrison Scholarship; Translation - Fang Ashüi, watch, by Hon. C. C. Smith; Chemistry - Wong Kam Mün, watch, by Hon. P. Ryrie; Drawing - Chan Ati, two books, by Mr. I. P. Pereira.\n\n#### ORDINARY PRIZES\n\n| Class | Rank | Name | Prize | Donor |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1ST CLASS | 1 | Chan Ufai | watch | Mr. Kwok Achung |\n| 1ST CLASS | 2 | Lo Ming Kan | Dictionary of Information | Mr. F. Remedios |\n| 1ST CLASS | 3 | F. Hazeland | Dictionary of Geography | Mr. E. Remedios |\n| 2ND CLASS | 1 | Cheung Abo | watch | Mr. Russell |\n| 2ND CLASS | 2 | Ho Usbang | pencil case | Mr. Kwok Achung |\n| 2ND CLASS | 3 | H. Sampson | Christian Year | Mr. Romano |\n| 3RD CLASS | 1 | Kwok Hung Kwai | water | Government |\n| 3RD CLASS | 2 | Chan Ain | magnifying glass | Mr. Kwok Acheng |\n| 3RD CLASS | 3 | R. Nowrojee | Pierrot's Life | Mr. Roman |\n| 4TH CLASS | 1 | U Ting Fan | watch | Government |\n| 4TH CLASS | 2 | Tae Yun Tak | pencil case | Dr. Dods |\n| 4TH CLASS | 3 | Young Aun | pencil case | Third Master |\n| 4TH CLASS | 4 | Midene | pencil case | Government |\n| 5TH CLASS | 1 | Tam Inam | watch | Government |\n| 5TH CLASS | 2 | Wong Lan Su | clock | Government |\n| 5TH CLASS | 3 | Cawasjee | pencil case | Government |\n| 6TH CLASS | 1 | Yeung Hing Tsing | watch | Government |\n| 6TH CLASS | 2 | Cheng Akan | clock | Government |\n| 7TH CLASS | 1 | Cheung Taun Yuk | pencil case | Government |\n| 7TH CLASS | 2 | Li Shin Hang | pencil case | Government |\n| 8TH CLASS | 1 | Pau Tin Chi | pencil case | Government |\n| 8TH CLASS | 2 | Ho Afak | mathematical instruments | Government |\n| 9TH CLASS | 1 | Wong Tai Fong | mathematical instruments | Mr. Gerrard |\n| 9TH CLASS | 2 | Lau Chiu Leang | pen and knife | Mr. Romano |\n| 10TH CLASS | 1 | Li Kam Man | pen and knife | Mr. Romano |\n| 10TH CLASS | 2 | Yeang Ikam | pen | Mr. Romano |\n\n### CHINESE CLASSES\n\n#### FORTNIGHTLY EXAMINATIONS\n\n| Class | Rank | Name | Prize | Donor |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1ST CLASS |  | Wong Tin Leung | watch | Head Master |\n| 2ND CLASS |  | Püs Tsz Obang | Dennys's Handbook | Head Master |\n\n#### ORDINARY PRIZES\n\n| Class | Rank | Name | Prize | Donor |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1ST CLASS | 1 | Le'ung Shin Kong | watch | Mr. Wong Tao Leung |\n| 1ST CLASS | 2 | Tong Lit Kưởng | Dennys's Handbook | ... |\n| 2ND CLASS | 1 | Tang Man Sham | pencil case | Government |\n| 2ND CLASS | 2 | Cheng Wing Shao | magnifying glass | Government |\n| 3RD CLASS | 1 | Obau Amui | pencil case | Government |\n| 3RD CLASS | 2 | Hung Kam Shing | pencil case | Government |\n| 4TH CLASS | 1 | Ho Kam Obi | pencil case | Government |\n| 4TH CLASS | 2 | Cheung Akau | pencil case | Government |\n\n### CHINESE CLASS FOR EUROPEANS, &c.\n\n| Division | Rank | Name | Prize | Donor |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1ST DIVISION | 1 | B. Pereira | binocular | Government |\n| 1ST DIVISION | 2 | A. Pereira | Dictionary of Quotations | Mr. Hyndman |\n| 2ND DIVISION | 1 | Ram Sammy | thermometer | Second Master |\n| 2ND DIVISION | 2 | Verbab Curreem | dial | Government |\n| 3RD DIVISION | 1 | T. Namiki | \"Cabinet of Gems\" | Mr. Romano |\n| 3RD DIVISION | 2 | L. S. Aionco | dial | Government |\n\nHis Excellency the Governor then said: I find on reference to the returns before me that there were 529 pupils present in all during last year. There are actually in school this day 325, and the total that ought to be here, but are prevented by sickness and other causes, is 355. That I think is really a very large number of boys to be educated in one school; and to show the advantages which they derive from it, it appears that during the past year 165 boys have left the school. Some of these are engaged in various Government and mercantile offices in Hongkong, others have entered the Chinese Customs service, while many have been engaged by Chinese firms, or obtained situations and gone to other countries.\n\nThis fact ought to show all the boys present the very great benefits which have been and are continually derived from attendance at the school. None of those boys I have referred to would probably have been able to obtain situations or enter any of these employments but for the efficient training they have had here. I am very sure that all those who have left the school even now are thankful that early in life they began to appreciate the very great benefits to be derived from their attendance here. This fact ought to encourage those who are now here, and I am sure that in after years they will feel grateful for the great attention bestowed upon them.\n\nI would beg all the boys here not to judge of the interest—the very deep interest that I take in the welfare of the school in any measure by the number of visits I make to it. I am content to leave well alone. I know that all your masters do their duty, I have entire confidence in the discretion of your able Superintendent, and therefore I meddle with it as little as possible. But I know by results, by common report, and from those who are capable of forming an opinion, that the school is making very respectable progress.\n\nThere is one matter which has been mentioned to me by persons whose opinion I respect. It is a matter which I am unwilling to touch upon, but I have been asked to say something to clear up the misunderstandings that I believe are abroad—not very widely I am happy to say—on the subject of the absence of religious instruction at this school. I think it must appear to anybody of common sense, with the great number of nationalities that we have represented here, that it would be impossible to carry out such a thing with any good results. I can say for myself, and I think I may say the same for the Superintendent here, Mr. Stewart, although I have not consulted with him on the subject, that it is a great error to suppose that we are in any way opposed to religious instruction by itself.",
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        "content_text": "653\n\nWhen searched, the vessel matching the search contained eleven men and was in uniform, flying the Chinese flag. It was witnessed by Mr. Macher of the Gunpowder by Her Majesty's Consul. A good deal of trouble had been occasioned to those complained against, and the loss sustained by the fishermen had only been at the Depôt.\n\nThis was reported to Her Majesty's Consul in No. 163 of the 11th March 1895. We replied to the effect that the Vice Roy, after making enquiries from the Chinese Officers, had ascertained that they had not omitted in Wailing water, nor had they been oppressing fishermen. The decision of the Vice Roy was recommended to be accepted. No further action was taken.\n\nThe Wing Cheng Ling case was referred to in this paragraph. The petitioner, whose name is Kwing Toy, son of the Man Wo Heung Shop, has been carrying on the business of Commission Agent for some years.",
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        "content_text": "477 is also present named Cheng-Lun B.\n\n8 went out on the 7th of this moon (28th June) to the \"Ham bheung\" stop junk with the Captain now present.\n\nJ. 20: 4: 5 paid at the haid saw 127: Customs Station.\n\nIn Jan Hour. This was paid in the presence of the Captain and others to the number of eight marked mew. I saw the receipt given to the Captain. The weight of the Camphor as given in that receipt is right, but the number of tubs is wrong; planks are represented as Camphor wood. These two junks in question were each paid for by impelt who weighed the goods.\n\n'Ink Man paid the money to the Inaw at the Hung-King Hong about this Colony the 11th Instant (2nd July) in the presence of 5 men. His money was paid in the presence of Thim wan interested in another junk.\n\nThe reason of that payment was to make the Camphor-wood weigh light. The normal weight a man makes them 80 catties(!!) a plank is 55 catties and the weighing 644.70. (at Pelo: Catties mace per picul). That is the right weight of the wood which I shall explain again.\n\nAyar is 185 bags weighing 55 piculs of 55 Catties. That is the correct weight.\n\nThe four junks I have referred to carried camphor; the payment was for these two junks and the others.\n\nThe other junks are named the 'Mam ein Li\" and \"My-Shin-zik?\".\n\nI have been trading with Formosa for 9 years. These duties were never paid till the time of the \"Harn-Hopeding\" base-wood.",
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        "content_text": "Shanghai, 15th March 1877.\n\nReceived\n\nRood James Thomas\n\nto\n\nRight Reverend\n\nBishop Burdon, D.D.\n\nHongHong\n\nJamine in China -\n\nAppeal for aid towards the relief Fund of -\n\nEnclosure no Im Adiminist I. Gardiner Austin's Despatek Ro 63 of 28th March 1877.\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1877.\n\nAN APPEAL ON BEHALF OF THE DISTRESSED CHINESE IN THE NORTH.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"CHINA MAIL.\"\n\nNetherlands Consulate,\n\nHongkong, 20th March, 1877.\n\nDEAR SIR,-I have been requested by His Excellency the Netherlands Minister in China to have the enclosed Circular, asking for help from Netherlands Subjects here und at Outports for the distressed Chinese in the North, published in the Local Papera, if those will kindly assist therein; and I shall therefore feel obliged, if you can ren-der this service to the good intentions of His Excellency.\n\nI am, Dear Sir, Yours truly,\n\nLUDWIG BEYKE,\n\nH. Netherlands M's Consul.\n\nNETHERLAND LEGATION IN CHINA.\n\nTo His Netherland Majesty's Consuls and Supjects in China, Japan, the Philippines, Hongkong, Macao, Cochin-China, Siam, Straits' Settlements and India,\n\nGENTLEMEN,\n\nIt was pretty generally known that during the autumn of last year various parts of the Provinces of Shantung and Chihli had suffered from a drought, which would result in more or less distress from the scarcity of food that must necessarily follow, and indeed symptoms-in themselves grave-began to be manifest as winter approached, though only trifling as compared with what has occurred.\n\nTowards the middle of November regular communication from reliable sources in the interior of Shantung ceased, and native report was the only source of information as to the condition of the suffering province. It appears that, in the interim, matters were becoming daily more and more aggravated, and that the aid given by the Chinese Government towards the suffering districts, proved not to be sufficient, so that urgent appeal was made to the people of other provinces and the foreign communities in China.\n\nAbout the 25th of January communications were again opened with the coast, but unfortunately the first letter, coming through Chinese hands, only reached its destination long after subsequent accounts which confirmed the worst fears and depicted a state of unutterable distress. The word which now reaches us says that thousands are already dead of starvation, and thousands more are starving.\n\nThe principal scenes of these sufferings in Shantung are eight hien, viz: Liu-ku, I-tu, Chang-lo, Weihien, Lo-ngan, Show-kwang, Ling to and Poling. Of these Lin-ku suffers most and gets 10,000 taels in relief, from the 46,000 taels granted, for all, by the Government; but though the distribution of gruel has doubled, yet the suffering has more than doubled. The people have eaten up the little crop they got in the autumn and now are in the direst plight, and their cry is no longer for rain, but for food.\n\nWith reference to the extent and degree of sufferings the following details will give an idea. A moderate hien contains about 1,000 villages. Villages of 500 families report 300 persons dead of starvation; villages of 300 families, 100 persons, and so on. One village in Liu-ku had 180 inhabitants in it last summer; now there remain 99, 40 are dead and the rest gone away.\n\nThe course of the distress seems to be that as soon as the corn is all eaten, they resort to the husks; then potatoe-stalks, elm-bark, turnip leaves, acorns and grass seeds gathered in the fields. When these are all done, they pull down their houses, sell their timber, eat the rotten sorghum stalks from the roof, and the dried leaves, which they usually burn as fuel. Thousands eat fuel leaves, and thousands more die because they cannot get them. Then they sell their clothes and children. Having no more clothes many take refuge in pits built under ground, to keep themselves warm by the foetid breath of the crowd—a course which is bought dearly. For the east suburb of Ching-chow city there are four such pits. One third of the number, 240, originally put in them, died within six weeks, and yet no sooner is a corpse carried out than a crowd is struggling for the place. All this has wrought a great change in the spirit of the people. Late in the autumn they were strong and daring, and although life and property were then at their mercy, no popular disturbance of any kind has taken place. Now the fare they have had for many months has broken their spirits, and they are quiet and submissive to their dreadful fate. Starvation by inches faces these unfortunate people, and deputations of old men, who come to beg relief, weep like little children before you, when they find there is none to be had. Not a day passes but one must refuse to many who ask it, perhaps the last bit they would have eaten.\n\nThe Chinese Government and the people of the other provinces do what they can, but the calamity is too great to be met by ordinary means. There is a Government distribution of gruel to the value of six or eight cash per person per day. Many have lived on nothing else for two months, and are getting so weak that young men of twenty years cannot walk three miles for it. If it is so with youth, how must it be with the infant and the aged? Even though the gentry have in many places doubled the Government aid by their contributions, yet it is estimated soberly that there are districts in Liu-Ku, where \"half the people will not live to see the wheat crop ripe, if no support comes from outside. To all this there is added the one capital aggravating circumstance—the depreciation of the land to about eighty per cent below its normal value. Next comes the fixing of an upward limit for the price of grain, thus preventing the influx of supplies from neighbouring provinces. There has been no such famine as this in these parts for 90 years, since the 51st year of Kien-lung (A.D. 1786). The number of lives saved and orphans rescued will only be limited by the amount of money placed at the disposal of the distributors. Thousands may be tided over the famine at $4.00 per head. Who would not like to be the deliverer of fifty or a hundred human beings from starvation, where nothing but money is to be given? These are the heartrending accounts which reach us here daily. This is not pleading for charity to the poor, but for the ransom of their lives.\n\nI therefore take the liberty to appeal to the Netherland Consuls and my countrymen in this and the adjacent countries to give a helping hand during this exceptional famine and distress in the two above-named provinces of China. The Netherland Consuls at Shanghai and at Chefoo will receive all gifts collected by His Majesty's Consuls at other ports in China, Japan, the Philippines, Hongkong, Macao, Cochin-China, Siam, the Straits Settlements and India, and hand these collections over to proper persons in the interior for distribution, of which an account will be published in due time, in the local papers of Shanghai, for the information of those who have responded to this appeal on behalf of our starving fellow-creatures in China.\n\nI have the honor, etc.,\n\nJ. H. FERGUSON,\n\nH. N. M. Minister-Resident and Consul General in China.\n\nCHEFOO, 1st March, 1877.\n\n394",
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        "content_text": "369\n\nI think it would be of advantage to get rid of these prisoners out of the Colony. The provisions of Ordinance 4 of 1872 have however to be strictly complied with. Each party must voluntarily petition the Governor for release on their consenting to being marked. They departed in accordance with Ordinance 4 of 1872.\n\n(Signed) B. Phthisicke,\n\n20 Jun 3.77\n\nName\n\nHei à Sai\n\nLee à Chan\n\nKaleng à Lau\n\nJan à Sun\n\nGrime\n\nCrime\n\nKeeping an unlicensed lodging house with intent to commit a felony\n\nDitto\n\nAssault\n\nAttempting to commit larceny\n\nLarceny\n\nSentence\n\n2 years\n\n2 years\n\n2 years\n\n2 years\n\n2 years\n\nDate of Sentence\n\n24 Aug 77\n\n18 May 75\n\n13\n\n14\n\n15\n\n13. Bong Ken Yan\n\n14. Lai à Fung\n\n15.\n\nBurglary & Larceny on board ship\n\nBurglary on board ship in harbour\n\nReceiving stolen goods\n\nConditional pardon 10 for 76\n\n5\n\n279 days\n\n14 days\n\n490 days\n\n20 Jan. 76\n\n23 Dec 75\n\n5\n\nChan à Clcor & Returning from deportation\n\nBong à thing Rot. Assault &c\n\nChau à Viu\n\nNo\n\nA\n\nR\n\n24.\n\n25.\n\nLan à Choung\n\nFong à sing\n\nChing à divas\n\nChan à Bill\n\nBille à Sål\n\ndang à Br\n\n18\n\n18\n\n18\n\n10\n\nUttering a forged cheque for delivery of Goods\n\nObtaining goods by false pretence\n\n20 bogst Sung à Chi & Returning from deportation\n\nChan à Qui & Failing to report to the foreman\n\nCluster à Heturning from deportation not having been Emasculated\n\nLa recoup à Freng\n\nBringing a fist to the Colony for prostitution\n\nSarcoup à trat\n\nIndauful possession\n\nPerging adiably stoper\n\nMin à Bec &\n\nI à Paw\n\nWe à Cheng\n\nthan à po\n\nHo à feet\n\nde bois chaw\n\nSung à tunk\n\nJascuns\n\n12\n\n15 Aug\n\n12\n\n127\n\nHL\n\n$5\n\n22. do.\n\n207 - do-\n\n12\n\n28 de\n\n3 Ecli\n\n& Hov\n\n3 d's\n\nds\n\nWhom terumbled\n\nPokee Count Character\n\nCase hr\n\n3. Mr Hur FW. medice Foodin\n\nPrati\n\n3\n\n4\n\n#\n\n$\n\n\"\n\nJ. Ball\n\nIn J. Imale:\n\n#\n\nRemast\n\nGast Very Good Very food Herf ford Indifferent\n\nIndifferent In differen\n\nBeruf food bery Bast berf food beres for.\n\nGood\n\nZ\n\nbery Good bert Gard beach for.\n\nberf good\n\nBhat\n\nbery food beref Bod\n\nIndifferent Indifferend\n\nbury food Indifferent\n\nPetition sout is in hert las, is pealed.\n\nAmong Bad Offender,\n\ndelituurd in 800. In et- but was\n\nA very old offender- tiske will probably never be able to be a day's poil i la foot-hi in contest to the marked I deported\n\n227 372 Sendentes a la be con turret.\n\nPetitioned to be marked &= defontid Bierlast. Regan Sot offer seen.\n\n872.\n\nHow. C. May\n\n2,756\n\nSinali\n\nberes Good\n\n2\n\nbery good\n\n#\n\nbery good\n\n7\n\nberif food\n\n\"\n\nberof food\n\n+\n\n8. The Heuer Mr Justice Shadow\n\n4\n\nberf food\n\nvery food\n\n\"\n\n31⁄2\n\nJ. Stewart Joy?\n\nTARY!\n\n1 V. Skwart by\n\nY Stewart Jez?\n\nHow. Chay\n\n& Stewart by\n\n//2. Hon. & Brach\n\nJ. Stewart Jays\n\n5347 5362 5464\n\nberf food\n\n$384\n\nberes food very good.\n\n36643\n\nvery good\n\nbery good\n\n6338\n\nBeruf foo\n\nbesef jood.\n\n6582\n\nرد کی نیکی\n\nbere found\n\n7426\n\nhony a Lough\n\ndelts\n\ndelt\n\nAcle.\n\nNoke.\n\nThe 16 Prisoners with & against their races are old of Jurd Offenders and will probably never be out as long as they are allowed to remain. in the totemge their previous convictions are herewith forwarded.\n\n(Signed) Geo. L. Fonts\n\nActing Superintendent\n\n16th Jan 1878",
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        "content_text": "(4)\n\nfrom Aberdeen Street. The woman now here, LAU-A-YEE, is that woman. I took her back to the house and gave her in charge of a Lokong. The people on the ground floor called to me and told me that some people had fallen into the cookhouse. I went into the cookhouse and saw the deceased(1) lying on the granite on her face, with her head close to an earthen-ware chatty, which I pointed out, and the bundle of clothing with a Chinese rule lying on the top of her head, or on the back of her neck. Close beside her was another woman lying on the other side of the chatty with her feet against the wall and her head out towards the cookhouse door. I had a Chinese candle. I took up the bundle of clothes off the deceased's head and turned her on her back, and there were no signs of life apparent. The other woman was bleeding from the face, and her face and neck were covered with blood. She was moving as if in great pain. I sent for the ambulances at once, and by this time the whole street was aroused. Dr. GOMES lives close by and he came to the place. I asked him to look at the deceased and he did so and said she was dead. When the ambulances came, I removed the women to the Civil Hospital.\n\nThe deceased was called A-Su, I believe. I cannot find out anything more about her than that she has been in the house two or three days.\n\nThe woman who is now in Hospital is called TAI-YAU, and was fined in November last for keeping an unlicensed brothel.\n\nThe woman whom I took to the Station is called LAU-A-YEE. She rents the upper floor. The deceased is a servant-woman in the house.\n\nThere were two women besides the three referred to in the house. They are servant-women. They are here now.\n\nLAU-A-YEE is in custody charged before the Magistrate as the keeper of an unlicensed brothel, and the case is postponed till the 19th.\n\nWhen I went up the stairs and climbed over the folding doors, I did not call out \"Police.\" I have been on the roof of many Chinese houses since I became Inspector of Brothels. I have never seen any roof, but that of 42 and that of 44, which had not a protection wall round the smoke-hole or area. I only saw one man in the house, the one who opened the trap door. His name is NG-A-KAN. He is the informer and was one of the men who got the notes to get evidence. I only knew from the informer that women had run up and I wanted to secure them.\n\nI had no knowledge of the existence of such a hole being unprotected. I believe the women did not know of the existence of the hole and simply ran there in their endeavours to escape.\n\nBoth Inspector WHITEHEAD and myself had suspicions on the house No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace, for months. We had no suspicions on No. 42, Peel Street, until last night at midnight. I was then told something by the Interpreter and in consequence went.\n\nOur instructions to the Interpreter last night were to send to a house No. 258, Queen's Road Central, and if the informers could not gain admission, then to try and find some other place. We did not give any special instructions to go to No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace, last night.\n\nJonx LEE.\n\nNG-A-KAN declared, states:-I am a carpenter living at D'Aguilar Street. I am a friend of CHENG-A-YU, the Interpreter to the Inspector of Brothels. He gave me seven dollars yesterday about 6 o'clock. He told me that the Inspectors wanted to get some cases and told me to make inquiry about unlicensed brothels. I went with a friend surnamed CHENG last night, but we could not find any in Queen's Road Central. We went into a house in Queen's Road Central, over a district watchman's house. CHENG-A-YU sent us there. The people said it was a family house. I separated from CHENG and I searched about. I intended to give back the money. I met two friends MAN-A-ON and LÓ-A-MAN, and they asked me to go to Lyndhurst Terrace. We went to a house on the first floor about 9 o'clock. LÓ-A-MAN and MAN-A-ON had been there before. When I got into the house, I only saw three women there. One of the women only was a prostitute. I did not sleep with any woman at No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace. There was a girl brought to the house. A man named A-NAM brought her. I did not have anything to do with the girl. I engaged the girl at Lyndhurst Terrace and went with her to Peel Street, No. 42. That was about 1 o'clock. Before the Inspectors came, I had left Lyndhurst Terrace. The girl who is in Hospital is the one I had engaged. A-NAM came with me to the house in Peel Street. He said he was going to sleep there, but he was not going to sleep with a girl. I had not paid the girl, whom I had engaged, anything. I opened the trap door and let the Inspector into the floor. The women kneeled before me and said not to do anything, as the Inspector was coming. The deceased and TAI-YAU kneeled before me. They were much frightened. TAI-YAU said, \"I was fined $100 before. I sold my son to pay the fine, and you must not say anything now.\" That was before I opened the door. The woman now present, LAU-A-YEE, was there. She ran with the others up the stairs. I had never been in the house before. I had had some drink. I was not quite drunk, but I was under the influence of drink.\n\nCHENG-KAN-TSAI paid for the supper. He got money from CHENG-A-YÜ. I returned my seven dollars to CHENG-A-YÜ.\n\n根吳\n\nJ. RUSSELL,\nCoroner.\n\n(5)\n\n18th October, 1877.\n\nInquiry resumed at the Magistracy, at 4 o'clock.-Jurors present.\n\n476\n\nCHENG-KAN-TSAI, declared, states:-I am a painter living at Jervois Street. On the evening of the 16th instant, between 6 and 7 o'clock, I was walking with a man named NG-A-KAN, and went to CHENG-A-YU's place, 31, Caine Road. CHENG-A-YU asked me to get some cases for him, to find unlicensed brothels for him. We were to go and try a house in Queen's Road. We got money from CHENG-A-YÜ. I got $3 and NG-A-KAN got $7. We went to the house in Queen's Road over the watchman's and went upstairs. We had no previous knowledge of the women there. We stayed for five minutes. We saw no men there. We proposed to them thus: \"Have you got any women who have got time?\" They said-\"No, you can go.\" We saw three women.\n\nWe then separated. I was walking in Queen's Road. I met a friend called MAN-A-ON. I asked him where he was going to? He said to Singapore. I said, \"As you are going to Singapore, you ought to give me an invite to spend a night at a brothel.\" He said-\"Yes, go on, let us go to a sly brothel.\" He had a friend with him. His name I learned to be LÓ-A-MAN. They took me to an Opium shop, where we fell in with a man called A-NAM. We stayed a short time there, and A-NAM took us to a house at Lyndhurst Terrace, first floor. I do not know the number. When we went up, I saw three women there. I proposed that we should stay there and have supper, and afterwards have girls there. There was one man there. One of the women, named SAI-KAM, told me that there was only one girl there, herself. I said, \"Get two more,\" and a servant was despatched to get two girls. A-NAM was only a pimp to find us the girls. This occurred about eight o'clock. Two girls came about quarter-past eight o'clock. I gave a dollar to A-NAM to buy supper. That was one of the dollars that I got from CHENG-A-YU. The girls came, but only stayed a few minutes, one minute. They promised to stay, went away, but did not return. A-NAM himself went out to get two girls and fetched two at after eleven o'clock, about quarter-past eleven o'clock. One called herself CHAU-KIN, and the other called herself A-SÓ. Three women had supper. We had supper as soon as they came. We had for supper fowls, stuffed pig's feet, sausages, eggs, and about six taels of samshü. We drank three or four cups.\n\nA-NAM remained there and had supper. MAN-A-ON went and fetched NG-A-KAN about nine o'clock. LÓ-A-MAN said that NG-A-KAN might have his girl. We told MAN-A-ON and LÓ-A-MAN that we were going to have them arrested, and MAN-A-ON and LÓ-A-MAN said they did not want to have anything to do with it. They said they had no time to be witnesses. NG-A-KAN promised to pay for the women for them. I stayed at Lyndhurst Terrace with the woman who was in the house. I had not paid her any money.\n\nI was in her room when A-YÜ told me that I should pay the girl two dollars. She agreed to sleep with me. I had not paid any money.\n\nWhen the Inspectors came, I was told that I should pay her. I had not paid any money.\n\nCHENG-A-YÜ never asked me to do any work of this kind before for him, nor did I ever do it. NG-A-KAN was not there when the Inspector came. He left to go to Peel Street with a girl. He went with A-SÓ. A-NAM went with him. CHAU-KIN went away before A-KAN. She went with a servant woman. MAN-A-ON told NG-KAN to pay her, but NG-KAN did not.\n\nMAN-A-ON and LÓ-A-MAN went away together about half-past twelve o'clock, when I paid the money for the supper. I told MAN-A-ON to go and tell CHENG-A-YU.\n\nTo the foreman:-My pay as a painter was 1 mace and 4 candareens per day. I am out of employ now. I have been out of employ for a year now. I sometimes stop here, and sometimes go elsewhere. I live on my friends.\n\nQuery. You spent $1, what did you do with the others?\nAnswer. I gave back the $2 to CHENG-A-YU. I did not expect to get any money from CHENG-A-YÜ. He is a friend of mine. I live in the WING SHING CHEUNG shop, Jervois Street.\n\nTo the Coroner:-I opened the door and let the Inspector in. She (the girl in No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace) was very frightened and asked-\"What is that?\" I said, \"Nothing, don't be afraid.\" She was afraid. She ran into a front room and concealed herself under a bed. I pointed her out to the Inspector. The Inspector could not see me in the girl's room because I opened the door.\n\n鄭簡齋\n\nNG-A-KAN recalled, and further examined, states:-We had about 18 taels of samshü. I had the most to drink, i.e., more than the others. The supper consisted of fowls, sausages, duck, pig's tripe, pig's feet, salt eggs, and plums.\n\nA-NAM is not here. I don't know where he is. I had nothing to drink when I went to Peel Street. I have been employed by CHENG-A-YÜ in the business before. I have discovered three places before. One last year and two this year. I was a witness against TAI-YAU before. I did not recognize the girl again. She called herself A-SÓ. She did not recognize me.\n\nA-NAM ran out when the Inspector came. He knew that my being there was a plant. He ran when the Inspector came. He ran away with the woman to the roof. I have paid back the money, seven dollars, to CHENG-A-YU. I got no pay last year, but this year I got $2, one on each occasion before as pay.",
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        "content_text": "477 \n\n(6) \n\nTo a Juror:- I was formerly employed with A-Hó, HIP SHING shop. I left there more than a month ago. I am looking for employment. When did you return the seven dollars? I returned the money at three o'clock in the morning. I could get $5 a month, and my food for working at my trade.\n\n根吳 \n\nCHENG-A-YÜ declared, states:- I am Interpreter to the Inspectors of Brothels. I am paid $15, and have free quarters. I have been employed since the 26th June, 1876. On the evening of the 16th instant, I gave seven dollars to the last witness, and three to KAN-TSAI. I told them to go to the house No. 258, Queen's Road Central, top-floor. That is the district watchman's house. I had suspected that it was a secret brothel. The Inspector told me that it was suspected. Inspector LEE had given me the notes between six and seven o'clock. I watched. The men came and said they could not do anything as it was a family house. NG-A-KAN went away. KAN-TSAI and myself met MAN-A-ON and LÓ-A-MAN, and MAN-A-ON said he had a few Hongkong paper dollars, which were no use to him, and he said---\"Let us go and drink the dollars.\" He said this to me. He did not show them. He put his hand in his purse, but he did not show them. I did not say anything, but we adjourned to an Opium shop, not a smoking place. I had been waiting there, while the two men were in the house in Queen's Road, and we went back. I knew LÓ-A-MAN for some time. We were always good friends. A man named A-LING who came out from a room said---“Do you want to go to drink? If you do I'll take you.\" We were talking in the shop. CHENG-KAN-TSAI and LÓ-A-MAN, and MAN-A-ON and A-LING went away together. KAN-TSAI said \"I'll invite you.\" I said, if you get a case let me know. They went away. I went to the painter shop, Wellington Street, waiting, and I told KAN-TSAI where I would be found, and to let A-ON and A-MAN know what was intended to be done. A-ON came and told me about the case, but he said he would not give evidence as he was going away. A-KAN then happened to come, and I told him to go to the place. I then went and told Inspector LEE, and at 12:30, I went to Lyndhurst Terrace with the Inspector. LÓ-A-MAN and MAN-A-ON had given me the number of the house. KAN-TSAI opened the door. We arrested two women and a man. The man and women are now in Gaol on remand. Inspector WHITEHEAD took them to the Station. Inspector LEE, KAN-TSAI, and myself went to Peel Street. We did not know what house to go to, and the man Kan-Tsai called A-KAN. Somebody spoke from a house in Peel Street, and said he is at the opposite house. A woman said-\"I saw somebody go into 42, pointing to 42. We called at the house 12, 'A-KAN, A-KAN.'\" The Inspector then knocked the door with a stick. No answer. A woman looked out from 1st floor. The Inspector told her to open the street door. She came and opened. We went up the stairs. We had not yet heard A-KAN's voice, and did not know he was there, further than what we had learned on the street from the woman of the opposite house. The folding doors on the stairs which were pointed out to the Jury, were closed and fastened. The Inspector climbed over the barrier, and opened it for me. We went up. I called out A-KAN. KAN-TSAI followed us, stopped at the staircase. A-KAN opened the trap door. Inspector LEE and KAN-TSAI went up. A-KAN pointed his finger up towards the roof, and I remained on the stairs. I don't know what happened. KAN-TSAI has returned me $2. A-KAN gave me back $7. This was about two o'clock. I never employed KAN-TSAI before. I have employed A-KAN before.\n\nThe Registrar \n\nTo the Jurors: The informers get one dollar reward, when they get a case. General pays the money. I am employed by the Registrar General's department.\n\nBy the Coroner, at the suggestion of Inspector LEE:- When we went to No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace, was any remark made by KAN-TSAI in reference to the house of a black-eyed woman? Yes: he said, \"A-KAN, I believe, has gone to the house of black-eyed SAM.\" He said one of the girls belonged to black-eyed SAM's house. KAN-TSAI went to the house of the \"black-eyed\" woman first. The black-eyed woman said that the man had gone to the house which she pointed out.\n\n鄭堯 \n\nCHAN-A-SZ declared, states:- I am a widow and live at Canton. I came down here on the 15th instant, and went to visit the servant who lives at 42, Peel Street, called CHAN-A-YEE. We were old friends, and I stayed there, as I wanted to get some employment. On the night I came, there were the mistress of the house, who is here---LAU-A-YEE---my friend CHAN-A-YEE and myself in the front of the house. The deceased, who was a servant, was called A-SÓ, but I don't know her surname, and the woman who is in Hospital occupied the second room. Nobody occupied the third room. CHAN-A-YEE slept in the passage. There were no men in the house. On the night of Tuesday about twelve o'clock, the mistress got up to worship. I heard her, and very soon I heard a great noise. I was so frightened that I did not come out of the room. I was standing with A-YEE. Afterwards I saw the Inspector in the house. I was taken into custody with my friend, the servant A-YEE. She is servant to the mistress LAU-A-YEE.\n\nHer CHAN-A-SZ Mark.\n\n(7) \n\nCHAN-A-LOK declared, states: I am a servant woman to LAU-A-YEE of 42, Peel Street. The last witness calls me A-YEE. I was engaged on the 28th day of 8th moon. To-day is the 12th of 9th moon. I had a child of the mistress with me in the passage on the night of the 16th. I did not see TAI-YAU go out. I saw TAI-YAU come in with a man about twelve o'clock. I only saw one man. I did not see who shut the door. TAI-YAU had a servant woman of her own. We called her A-SÓ. She is now deceased. LAU-A-YEE was worshipping in the front room at that time. I did not see who opened to let the Inspector into the house. I saw my mistress and TAI-YAU and A-SÓ run through the kitchen. I did not see where they went. I lay still. I was frightened. I knew they were coming to arrest somebody. I did not see anybody praying to a man not to tell the Inspector. I did not hear TAI-YAU say-\"I was fined $100 before, and I had to sell my son to pay the fine.\" Some time afterwards I was arrested and taken to the Station, and kept there all night. We were detained all day yesterday till after the inquest. The deceased was about 40 years of age, I believe.\n\nHer CHAN-A-LOK Mark.\n\nAdjourned at 7 P.M. till 19th at 4 P.M. at Magistracy. Jurors put under the usual recognizances.\n\nJ. RUSSELL,\n\n19th October, 1877.\n\nCoroner.\n\nInquiry resumed at Magistracy this day at 4 o'clock. Jurors answer their names.\n\nLEUNG-A-YUNG declared, states:- I am a coolie employed at collecting rubbish at Lap-sap-wán. I have heard that the deceased was my mother. I identify some of the things shown me as the property of my mother. I recognize the purse, the measuring rule, and some of the clothing. My mother was employed as a servant somewhere in Ching-wan. She was employed in a brothel in Hollywood Road last year. I last saw her about twenty-four days ago. I saw her in my house at Tai-ping-shán. I have a family house in that locality. My mother's name was FUNG-A-SZ. She was fifty-seven years of age. I have learned from a woman who knew my mother that she is dead.\n\nHis LEUNG-A-YUNG Mark.\n\nJOHN LEE further examined, states:- The bundle which I have now shown to the last witness, is the same which I found lying on the head of the deceased. The purse was taken from her person at the Civil Hospital. The standing orders I referred to were those which I learned from Inspector PETERSON, who was then Chief Inspector of Brothels. The standing order was that any house which I suspected to be an unlicensed brothel, if I could get any man to go in and stop with the women, or if I went myself, to take the women into custody. At that time the cases were tried by the Registrar General. That has been the course of procedure. Soon after I joined, I recollect a case where I got evidence of the keeping of an unlicensed brothel at West Point, and I took the persons before the Registrar General, and the persons accused fetched a door to the office, and said we had broken it in. I recollect Mr. SMITH, who was then at the Registrar General's Office, said we were not to break, but simply enter.\n\nHas it not been the custom to report to the Registrar General, when you had reason to suspect a house being an unlicensed brothel, and obtain his authority to enter? Answer. It has not been so; but, in cases where we have failed to get men to stop so as to obtain evidence, and where a suspicion still existed, then we would report to the Registrar General. In that case, the Registrar General would summon the persons before him and investigate.\n\nHas there been any change in the procedure since the Magistrates' Court was made the tribunal under the \"Contagious Diseases Ordinance,\" instead of the Registrar General's Office? Answer.- No, there has not been.\n\nTo a Juror:- Has there been any order given by the Registrar General to employ the class of men like A-KAN and KAN-TSAI, and other men? There has been an order to get evidence, and it is known to the Department, because the Registrar General signs the bill which is paid from the secret service fund. I had no instructions in reference to No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace.\n\nTo Mr. SMITH, Juror:- In previous cases have you had to chase the people on the roof? Yes; it is a common occurrence for the women to run to the roof. I have pursued them over as many as twenty houses. In the course of the proceedings before the Registrar General or the Magistrates, I presume it would transpire whether the pursuit of women on the roof had taken place? Yes, it would. Have you ever had your attention called to the fact that such pursuit was improper or illegal? Answer.- I have not. In a case tried on the 3rd November last, a woman got out of the front window of a house, and ran along the ledge and got away. That came out in evidence at the Police Court.\n\nJOHN LEE.",
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        "content_text": "## THE HONGKONG Government Gazette.\n\nNo. 7.\n\nPublished by Authority.\nVICTORIA, SATURDAY, 16TH FEBRUARY, 1878.\n\n### VOL. XXIV.\n\n#### THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL, HONGKONG\n\nThe following account of His Excellency The Governor's Visit to the Tung Wah Hospital on the 8th February, 1878, is extracted from the report of the China Mail, for general information.\n\n### THE GOVERNOR'S VISIT TO THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL.\n\nHis Excellency Governor POPE HENNESSY, C.M.G., paid a ceremonial visit to the Tung Wah Hospital on the 8th of February at 3 o'clock. Early in the afternoon, the crowded streets leading to the Hospital were kept clear by a detachment of Police, composed of Europeans, Sikhs and Chinese, and the full force of the District Watchmen for this District. It was no easy matter to clear the way, as at the time of the Chinese New Year festivities the streets are unusually crowded, and the three Chinese Theatres, all in this locality, were in full swing. About 2:30 P.M. a guard of honour from the 74th Regiment, with the Regimental Band, arrived, and lined the road leading up to the Hospital. Shortly after 3 P.M., His Excellency arrived, accompanied by Mr. CREACH, acting A.D.C., and Private Secretary NORTHCOTE; and Admiral HILLYAR, accompanied by Secretary PARISH and Flag-Lieutenant WILLOUGHBY, preceded a few minutes before by Dr. MOWLL, formerly of H.M.S. Vigilant. Among the foreign visitors present to witness the ceremony, were Mr. HAYLLAR, Q.C., Rev. Dr. E. J. EITEL, Mr. J. J. FRANCIS, and Mr. D'ALMADA. The Chinese community was very fully represented, there being present nearly 300 influential native residents from all classes of the community; and of those present some 50 or 60 were in their Mandarin costumes, some with blue buttons, some with crystal, and some with gold buttons; while a few had the additional honour of wearing the peacock's feather. Among those in uniform, we observed: Messrs. LEONG ON, CHUN TING CHEE, KWOK ACHEONG, CHEANG SING YEONG, LING HO WOON, WONG YIK PAN, WAI AKWONG, NG CHOY, CHUN AYIN, FUNG MING SHAN, WONG KWAN TONG, NG Sang, WONG SHING, NG CHEUK CHEE, and others.\n\nOn the arrival of His Excellency and party, the Band of H.M. 74th Regiment struck up a familiar strain; while as the Governor and party entered, a salute of three guns was fired and some Chinese music was performed. Those of the Chinese who were in uniform then placed themselves in two lines from the door up to the Hall, and saluted the Governor and Admiral in proper Chinese style. His Excellency was then conducted to the top of an oblong table, with Admiral HILLYAR on his right and Dr. MOWLL on his left. After all were seated, tea, and refreshments in the shape of confectionery were brought in. The Governor and party were conducted through the patients' wards, and then back to the Hall.\n\nThis over, Mr. NG CHOY then rose and said: - YOUR EXCELLENCY AND GENTLEMEN, I have been asked to be spokesman on this occasion, and I have accepted that honour with very great pleasure, though I think there may be more competent persons present to undertake the task. In the first place, I have been requested to thank Your Excellency, for your kind visit here to-day, on behalf of the Chinese community of Hongkong. We are here to receive and welcome Your Excellency in this hall. I may be permitted to say that we have represented every class of the Chinese community. The gentlemen here represent the Committee of this Hospital, Merchants, Compradores, Shopkeepers, and, in fact, every trade and profession in this Colony. We have thought it advisable to commit what we have to say on this occasion to writing, and to consider it well before doing so. Your Excellency may take this address, which we shall have the honour to present to you, as expressing not only our own views, who are here, but the unanimous sentiment of the Chinese community. This address is in two parts; one part is in Chinese and the other part is in English. The latter is a free translation of the first, and, with Your Excellency's permission, we shall read the Chinese part first, and then I shall follow by reading the English part. I will now call upon my Chinese friend, to read the Chinese part.\n\nMr. WONG KWAN TONG then read the address in Chinese.\n\n4 \nMr. Lowerek on behalf of the Unofficial Members expressed approval of this.\n\n5. Saving previously discussed the question very fully in the Executive Council, I found that they all concurred in my views. When the proposed conference has indicated the nature of the reforms that are required I shall submit them to your Lordship for approval.\n\nI have the honor to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most Obedient, Stumble Brant\n\nInclosure 17 in Governor Pope Hennessy's Despatch No. 2147 20th Feby, 1875 - \nTHE HONGKONG Government Gazette. \nNo. 7. \nPage 175 \n\n## \nPage 363 \n... \nNo text on this page.\n\n## \nNo more text related to the initial pages.",
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        "content_text": "# THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH FEBRUARY, 1878.\n\ncannot be far short of 200 Portuguese trained in the school, and that all these, practically speaking, leave the school able to speak English more or less.\"\n\n## Me 33.\n\n17. If His Excellency will take the same reply from me now, I can give it, without hesitation or reservation, as regards the boys at the Central School.\n\n18. That more can be done at the Central School as it is, than is being done, to teach English, I believe to be impossible: that more could be done at the school as I should like to see it, than is done now, it would be impossible to deny; but, to reach that stage, the new school must be built, more accommodation provided, smaller classes formed, a stronger staff of teachers obtained, and a playground supplied as the most practical of all forms of teaching the boys to speak English.\n\n19. I have repeatedly referred to all these matters in my Annual Reports, but it is now necessary to repeat and emphasize them; and, as much evil must result to the school from the currency given to the impression that is now prevailing, I venture to request that His Excellency will permit the publication of this letter in next Saturday's Gazette, in order that this serious public misapprehension may be authoritatively removed on the earliest possible occasion.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\n**FREDERICK STEWART**,\nInspector of Schools,\n\nThe Governor to the Colonial Secretary.\n\nAs the Colonial Secretary was with me when I put the questions to Mr. STEWART about the amount of English spoken in the double class-room where there were one hundred and fifty boys being taught by three Chinese teachers, and about the amount of English spoken by the six hundred and ten pupils in the whole school for 1877, I should be glad if he would record his recollection of Mr. STEWART's answer.\n\n# THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH FEBRUARY, 1878.\n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe following Return, received from Mr. JOHN JACK, of the quantity of Spirits distilled at the Hongkong Distillery, is published for general information.\n\n| Proof Gallons |\n| --- |\n| Spirits manufactured during the quarter ending 11th February, 1878,..........................14,520 |\n\nBy Command,\n**J. GARDINER AUSTIN**, Colonial Secretary,\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th February, 1878.\n\n## No. 34.\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe following Return of Convictions under the Cargo-boat Ordinance, No. 15 of 1860, is published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n**J. GARDINER AUSTIN**, Colonial Secretary.\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th February, 1878.\n\nConvictions under Ordinance No. 15 of 1860, namely, the Cargo-boat Ordinance, for the Year ending 31st December, 1877.\n\n| DATE | NAMES OF THE PARTIES TO THE SUIT | OFFENCE | SENTENCE | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1877. April | 6 R. at complaint of James H. Grimes, Inspector of Police, European, Plaintiff, Chang-a-Kau, Boatman of a Cargo-boat, Chinese, Defendant. | Plying an unlicensed Cargo-boat on the 5th April. | Bail forfeited. | Defendant was bailed out at the Water Police Station in the sum of $5, and failed to put in an appearance. |\n| May | 14 R. at complaint of William McClellan, Inspector of Junks, European, Plaintiff, 1. Wong-a-Yeung, Owner of Cargo-boat No. 361, 2. Lo-a-Tai, Boatwoman of Cargo-boat No. 109, 3. Chau-tin-Hi, Owner of Cargo-boat No. 138, Chinese, Defendants. | Employing unregistered persons on board their Cargo-boats on the 11th May. | Fined $5 each, in default 14 days imprisonment with hard labour. | Fines paid. |\n| May | 14 R. at complaint of William McClellan, Inspector of Junks, European, Plaintiff, 1. Leung-a-Ming, Master of Cargo-boat No. 160, 2. Ching-Tun-Ip, Master of Cargo-boat No. 202, 3. Leung-a-Sam, Master of Cargo-boat No. 299, Chinese, Defendants. | Employing unregistered persons on board their Cargo-boats on the 10th May. | First and second Defendants fined $5 each, in default 14 days imprisonment with hard labour. Third Defendant fined $10, in default 14 days' imprisonment with hard labour. | Fines paid. |\n| July | 14 R. at complaint of William McClellan, Inspector of Junks, European, Plaintiff, Tang-a-Ling, Master of Night Soil Boat No. 11, Chinese, Defendant. | Carrying cargo in his boat without a Licence on the 14th July. | Fined $2, in default 7 days' imprisonment. | Fine paid. |\n| Oct. | 1 R. at complaint of William McClellan, Inspector of Junks, European, Plaintiff, 1. Hu-a-Sing, Owner of Cargo-boat No. 75, 2. Ho-a-Kau, Owner of Cargo-boat No. 96, 3. Leung-Hoi-Wan, Owner of Cargo-boat No. 305, 4. Leung-Kau-Yau, Owner of Cargo-boat No. 111, 5. Leung-a-Kau, Owner of Cargo-boat No. 372, Chinese, Defendants. | Making alterations in their Cargo-boats on or about the 27th September. | Cautioned & discharged. |  |\n\n## Minute by the Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe information given to Your Excellency by Mr. STEWART conveyed an impression to my mind that only 50 or 60 of the boys knew anything of English. Indeed when these figures were given in Your Excellency's speech I understood Mr. STEWART to say, when turning round to me, that he feared they were in excess.\n\nI must confess that in consequence I left the school with an unfavourable impression as to the extent to which instruction was being given in English, as I hold that political and commercial interests render the study of English of primary importance in all Government schools.\n\nI quite agree, however, with Mr. STEWART that we should obtain better results with more accommodation, smaller classes and a stronger staff of teachers.\n\n**J. GARDINER AUSTIN**, Colonial Secretary.\n13th February, 1878.\n\n## Minute by His Excellency the Governor.\n\nSend copies of these Minutes to Mr. STEWART, and say I should be glad if he would prepare an approximate estimate of the total cost of the whole scheme of Government Education, assuming that the Legislative Council will concur with Mr. AUSTIN in thinking that political and commercial interests render the study of English of primary importance in all Government Schools, and that as regards the principal Government School (the Central School) smaller classes be formed, and a stronger staff of teachers be obtained.\n\nAs regards providing increased accommodation, I signed warrants last year for over ten thousand dollars for this object, in addition to more than forty thousand spent by my predecessor; and in this year's Estimates, I have taken a further vote on account of the new Central School of $25,000.\n\n## No. 32.\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nApplications will be received at this Office for the appointment of Fourth Master at the Central School during the absence on leave of the Head Master, Mr. STEWART.\n\nSalary $120 per month and an Allowance of $30 per month for House Rent. Applications to be addressed to the Office of the undersigned.\n\nFor further particulars, apply to F. STEWART, Esquire, Head Master, Central School.\n\nBy Command,\n**J. GARDINER AUSTIN**, Colonial Secretary.\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th February, 1878.\n\nHarbour Department, Hongkong, 14th February, 1879.\n\n**H. G. TROMSETT, R.N.**, Harbour Master, &c.",
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        "content_text": "# FLOGGING OF CRIMINALS IN HONGKONG.\n\n## RETURN OF ALL PRISONERS WHO HAVE BEEN SENTENCED TO BE FLOGGED FROM 22ND APRIL 1877 to 22ND JULY 1878.\n\n| Nome | By whose authority sentenced | Date of Sentence | Offence | Whether public or private | Whether Pattas or Rattan |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Wong Asing | Police Magistrate | 5 7 77 | Disorderly conduct | Public | Rattan |\n| Chan Aluk | do. | do. | Larceny | Private | do. |\n| Ho Ahoi | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n| Li A-ng | do. | 12 5 77 | do. | do. | do. |\n| He Tin Lua | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n| Bai Akai | do. | 25 5 77 | do. | do. | do. |\n| Ng Akwat | do. | 28 5 77 | Rogue & vagabond | do. | do. |\n| Man Ato | do. | 11 7 77 | Larceny | do. | do. |\n| Chiu Awan | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n| Yung Atao | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n| Cheung Afong | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n| Wong Afuk | do. | 16 4 78 | do. | do. | do. |\n| Wong Asing | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n| Cheung Afat | do. | 17 4 78 | do. | do. | do. |\n| Wong Amun | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n| Wong Aabu | do. | 18 4 78 | do. | do. | do. |\n| Fa Akwai | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n| Wong Sung Chan | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n| Leong Ayow | do. | 2 1 78 | do. | do. | do. |\n| Fang Apak | do. | 20 6 78 | do. | do. | do. |\n| Chan Aghing | do. | 6 7 81 | do. | do. | do. |\n| Hn Ami | do. | 10 6 78 | do. | do. | do. |\n| Ip Ayow | do. | 18 6 78 | do. | do. | do. |\n| Man Ataung | do. | 17 8 78 | do. | do. | do. |\n| Man Atsuu | do. | 10 7 78 | do. | do. | do. |\n| An Afu | Chief Justice | 23 4 77 | Child stealing | Public | Cat |\n| Em Aman | do. | do. | Larceny & wounding | do. | do. |\n| Wong Apo | do. | 28 5 77 | Burglary & wounding | do. | do. |\n| Lau Atsun | do. | do. | Highway robbers with violence | do. | do. |\n| Chan Atexi | do. | 1 10 77 | Highway robbery with violence | do. | do. |\n| Wong Aloi | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n| Wong Achung | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n| Chan Ayat | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n| Chan Aon | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n| Fan Asing | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n| Wong Ayau | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n| Wong Afuk | Act. Chief Justice | 25 4 78 | Breaking, entering private | Private | Rattan |\n| Chung Awai | do. | 6 7 76 | Larceny from the person | do. | do. |\n| Hu Aluk | Act. Gaol Supt. | 14 7 77 | Disorderly conduct | do. | do. |\n| Chin Awong | Visiting Justice & | 16 5 77 | Disobedience, using bad language | do. | do. |\n|  | Act. Gaol Supt. | 18 6 77 | Using bad language | do. | do. |\n|  | do. | 18 5 77 | Disorderly conduct | do. | do. |\n|  | do. | 1 8 77 | do. | do. | do. |\n|  | do. | 5 7 77 | Assaulting a fellow prisoner with assault | do. | do. |\n| Wong Apo | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n| Mak Alun | do. | 18 7 77 | Disobedience, refusing to give his name, and inciting other prisoners | do. | do. |\n| Cheang Asce | do. | 27 12 77 | Insolence | do. | do. |\n| Lai Alum | do. | 25 2 78 | Disobedience | do. | do. |\n| Tong Acheong | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n| Wong Aheong | do. | 12 3 78 | Riotous conduct | do. | do. |\n| Wong Afuk | do. | 7 5 78 | Using threats | do. | do. |\n| Lo Aloi | do. | 25 7 78 | General disorderly conduct, &c. | do. | do. |\n| Tang Aping | do. | 6 7 78 | Insubordinate conduct and refusing to work | do. | do. |\n| Kwan Akum | do. | 9 5 78 | Refusing to work | do. | do. |\n| Lau Atuk | do. | 8 5 78 | do. | do. | do. |\n| Yan Akun | do. | 9 7 78 | do. | do. | do. |\n| Leong Achoi | do. | 4 7 78 | Assaulting a fellow prisoner | do. | do. |\n| Chan Afuk | do. | 19 6 78 | Violent assault | do. | do. |\n| Ching Ayan | do. | 4 7 78 | Assaulting a fellow prisoner | do. | do. |\n| Li Atak | do. | do. | do. | do. | do. |\n\n## Victoria Gaol Office, 9th August, 1878\n\nOf the twenty-five prisoners sentenced to be flogged by the Police Magistrate, the Governor allowed the floggings in twenty-four cases. The only case in which he interfered was that of Ip Ayow, a little boy who stole a look at the Reformatory and was told he would be flogged if he did not confess the theft, whereupon he confessed the theft and was sentenced to be flogged. The Governor declined to allow that part of the sentence to be carried out.\n\nOf the five prisoners sentenced to be publicly flogged with the cat on the back by Mr John Smale, the Governor allowed the first two to be so flogged, but on discovering the extent of the physical injury that had been inflicted, and on getting a report from the Colonial Surgeon against flogging Chinese on the back, he asked Sir John Smale to pass in future sentences of flogging in such a form as the Colonial Surgeon could certify might be carried out, that is with a rattan on the breech. Sir John declined to do this. Thereupon, Hennessy referred the next case to the Attorney General, to advise whether he could alter the sentence to meet the Colonial Surgeon's certificate, but the Attorney General said the Governor could not alter either the place (the back) or the instrument (the cat) specified by Sir John Smale, and that he could only exercise his prerogative of remitting the flogging in toto; and as no flogging can take place without the Colonial Surgeon's certificate, and as the Governor agreed with the Colonial Surgeon, the floggings on three of those sentenced by Sir John Smale had to be remitted.\n\nThe three prisoners sentenced to be flogged by the Acting Chief Justice Mr Snowden were duly flogged. In one of these cases a delay of some days occurred owing to the absence of the Colonial Surgeon's certificate when the papers were laid before the Governor, and this was explained by the fact that Mr Snowden had forgotten to specify that the flogging was to be with a rattan on the breech. On the papers being returned to him, he explained that it was by an oversight this was omitted, and thereupon the Colonial Surgeon appended his certificate, and the Governor allowed the flogging.\n\nOf the twenty-four flogging sentences passed by the Superintendent or Visiting Justices of the Gaol, Sir Hennessy allowed twenty-two to be carried out. One case he referred back to the Visiting Justices for their reconsideration, when they themselves withdrew the sentence of flogging on the ground that the prisoner had been ordered to do shot drill when on penal diet, which was a breach of rule and of the instructions from Her Majesty's Government; and one other case he investigated himself with the Visiting Justices and the Colonial Surgeon, when it was discovered that one of the arms of a prisoner who had objected to crank labour was quite withered from an old wound, the elbow joint and one finger permanently fixed, and that he had been just subjected to punishments in prison which the Attorney General reported were not lawful. In this case the prisoner was ordered to do another kind of hard labour such as the Colonial Surgeon could certify he was physically capable of doing, and, as he obeyed this order, the flogging was remitted.\n\nT. C. DEMPSTER, Acting Captain Superintendent.",
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        "content_text": "## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND JANUARY, 1879.\n\nLes bouées rouges et la bouée blanche limitent le chenal dans l'Est, les bouées noires le limitent dans l'Ouest. La bouée la plus Sud est surmontée d'un voyant, elle est mouillée sur la barre extérieure, dans l'Est 7° Nord de la pointe Do-Son, à l'acon d'un petit banc sur lequel il ne reste que 2 mètres 80 d'eau à basse mer d'Equinoxe.\n\nLa bouée blanche est surmontée d'un petit voyant, elle indique le changement de route.\n\nLe 10 Janvier, 1879,\n\nNo. 17.\n\nPour copie certifiée conforme.\n\nHongkong, le 18 Janvier, 1879.\n\nJ. PLICHON,\nLe Consul de France\n\nLe Consul de France à Haiphong\n(Signé): L. TURC.\n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st January, 1879.\n\nC. MAY,\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n### Government of New Zealand.\n\n## NOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\n[No. 27 of 1878.]\n\nMarine Department, Wellington, 30th October, 1878. The following letter, received from Captain Mies of the brig `Rio Loge`, relative to the position of Rennels and Bellona Islands, is published for general information.\n\nG. GREY.\n\n### RENNELS AND BELLONA ISLANDS, Dunedin, 3rd October, 1878.\n\nSIR-I have the honour to report to you an error in the position of some islands I passed on my passage from Foochow to this port in the brig `Rio Loge`. These islands, named Rennels and Bellona, are marked as \"doubtful\" islands on the latest published charts, and are situated directly in the track between China and Australia. The position assigned to Rennels Island is N.W. point 11° 12' south latitude, and 160° 10' east longitude, whereas the correct position should be for the N.W. point 11° 30' south latitude, and 160° 8' east longitude, making an error of 18' in latitude and 2' in longitude. My observations were taken within two or three miles of the N.W. point, and the error of my chronometer found only the day before at Christoval, so that I can rely upon the position. The S.E. point I place in 11° 51' south and 160° 49' east, approximate. Rennels Island and Bellona bear from each other N.W. by W. and S.E. by E., not more than fifteen miles distant.\n\nI cannot find in any directory a description of Rennels Island, and I believe there is none published, I therefore enclose the following remarks from my own observation:-\n\nRennels Island is about 38 miles long and 8 wide at the N.W., and lies in a N.W. and S.E. direction, is about 600 to 800 feet high, of uniform height throughout, and thickly wooded down to the water's edge. Along the whole N.E. side is a fringing reef about two cables from the shore. The N.W. point is a gradually-sloping point, with a hummock two hundred or three hundred yards from the beach, and has a reef extending about four or five cables from the shore, with a strong tide rippling round the point; the coast trends about three miles to the S.W., and thence to south-eastward. Bellona Island appears to be about the same height as Rennels Island, and also thickly wooded.\n\nTrusting that you will give this publicity for the benefit of shipmasters generally.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nEDWARD MILES,\nMaster `Rio Loge`.\n\n## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND JANUARY, 1879.\n\n### Government of India.\n\n## DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, AGRICULTURE, AND COMMERCE.\n\n## NOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\n[No. 27.]\n\nBAY OF BENGAL-GODAVERY DISTRICT-COCANADA. Intended Exhibition of Revolving light at Vakalepudi.\n\nNotice is hereby given that owing to the extension of the mud deposits from the Godavery river and the consequent removal of the anchorage to the northward, the light at present shown on the north side of the entrance to the Cocanada river is of little use, and that on and after the 15th of January 1879 this light will be extinguished, and a new light exhibited at Vakalapudi, which lies 4.0 nautical miles N. by E. ¼ E. from the present light-house.\n\nThe light will be a revolving white light, showing a flash every 20 seconds, elevated 80 feet above high water, and in clear weather should be visible from a distance of 14 miles, in every direction seaward.\n\nThe illuminating apparatus is catadioptric, or by reflectors and lenses of the fourth order. Position: Latitude 17° 0' 40\" N., longitude 82° 16' 30\" E. Further notice will be given when the light is exhibited.\n\n[The bearings are Magnetic, Variation 2° 0' Easterly in 1878.]\n\nBy Direction of the Government of India,\n\nR. C. CARRINGTON, Chief Civil Assistant, for\nA. DUNDAS TAYLOR, Comdr. (late I. N.), Superintendent, Marine Survey of India.\n\nMARINE SURVEY DEPARTMENT, CALCUTTA, 18th December, 1878.\n\nThis Notice affects the following Indian Marine Survey Charts, Coringa or Cocanada bay, No. 113; Narsapur point to Pabayras point, No. 1172; Cape Comorin to Coconada, No. 164; and Admiralty charts of Coringa or Cocanada bay, No. 81; Coromandel Coast, No. 71a; Cape Comorin & Ceanada, No. 828; Cocanada to Bassein, No. 829; Bay of Bengal, western part, No. 70a; Indian Ocean, northern portion, No. 7485; and Indian Marine Survey and Admiralty Light lists for 1878; and Taylor's Sailing Directory, Vol. I, page 464.\n\nIf this Notice is received on board ship, the substance of it should be inserted on the Charts affected by it, and introduced into the Sailing Directions to which it relates.\n\n## POST OFFICE NOTICE.\n\nUnclaimed Correspondence, 17th January, 1879.\n\n| Letters | Papers |\n| --- | --- |\n| Abbey Cowper | Aleppo |\n| Adamson, Ann | Alexandria |\n| Ainsbury, A. | Alarmurs |\n| Ainslie, Mrs. M. | Alice |\n| Ainsworth, Wm. | Alcone |\n| Amicable Ins. 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H. | Channel Queen |\n| Stillfried, Baron | Johore, s.s. |\n| Quong Tung Fri | Northern Star |\n| Valtz, Miss. | Charmer |\n| Vivan, Col. R. L | Caldew |\n| Rouchai | Great Admiral |\n| Thornton, Wm. | Glunte |\n| Triarte, Apolinario | Lady Pencoy |\n| H. B. | Palestine |\n| Flodge, Rev. W. B. | Stanfield |\n| Kwong Tai Cheong | Cosso |\n| Kin Cheng Kaye, Mrs. E. | Oitacilla |\n| Luz, Eilarina dal | Lots |\n| Lea, Robert R. | Carlton, s.s. |\n| Lea Tong | Gismorgan, s.s. |\n| Lumley, John | Partheed Tueseanal |\n| Lanzon, J. W. | Strathbokk |\n| Lums, Mrs. R. | Lori Macaulay |\n| Ledyard, Dr. H. | Albyn's Isle |\n| More, Miss E. J. | Commairwealth, s.s. |\n| Muller, A. | Golden Fleece |\n| Mellomeosta, A. | Prince Amadou |\n| Mudge, Wm. | Strathmore, s.s. |\n| Mobilna, Harry | Alfredo |\n| Musso, Jean B. | Craigarà Cilarnamn |\n| Motsman, W. C. | George Skolfield |\n| Macomber, W. H. L | Leucadia |\n| Moffitt, J. | Prince Louis |\n| Meany, Maj.-Genl. | Lodore |\n| Mercer, Thos. | Pilgrim |\n| Murphy, Bord. | Lanexcust |\n| Mctiwen, Ms. | Brisbane |\n| Morgan, Noah | Hawkesbury |\n| Neo Toing Siew | l'eteral, s.s. |\n| Noo-Chre-Tian | Takstea |\n| O'Soughlin, Mrs. E. | Lucia |\n| Rosendab, P. | Pelba |\n| Rayden, W. M. | Toli Austrian |\n| Ruily, Chas. | Bebar, s.s. |\n| Roberts, W. C. | Dbarwar |\n| Reeves, E. A. | Helen |\n| Reaves, E. A. | Penrith |\n| Rosenstein. T. | Berths Marion & |\n| Sogn, D. J. de | Hopeful |\n| Staith & Co., H. | Beluarry |\n| Smith, Geo. | Ermirás |\n| Volloza, Jelin | Hernet |\n| Wing On Choong | Magdula |\n| White, Wm. E. | P. Fitzpatrick |\n| War Chung | Tamar |\n| Wildash, F. J. C. | Taunton |\n| Whyte, Jno. | Tre Corde |\n| Williams, John | Bertie Below |\n| Walker, Thos. | Eleanor |\n| Wilson, James | Hornt |\n| Daclin, Monsr. | Barian |\n| Dure, Mrs. J. W. | Estroom |\n| Bolmida, G. | Bury, St. Ed. |\n| Bishop, J. | Espiegla |\n| Duggleby, T. W. | Humboldt |\n| Pearton, B. J. | MeNeac |\n| Esteban, G. | Benefactor |\n| Egies | Earl of Devon |\n| Bramitt, Revd. | Harkaway |\n| Fretas, José | Mary Blair |\n| Garcia, Juliana | Mary Smith |\n| Gilkison, W. P. | Mugdaler |\n| Benson, James | Three Brothers |\n| Banks, Geo. | Queen of the West |\n| Clarke, Hugh | The Tweed |\n| Creaton, Jas. | Tyburnia |\n| Colville, D. D. | Black Watch |\n|  | Helona |\n|  | Muss Glen |\n|  | Maritime Union |\n|  | Rosie Welt |\n|  | Fair Lamar |\n|  | Cashmere |\n|  | Ferntower, s.s. |\n|  | Irigo |\n|  | Marcia, s.s. |\n|  | Regent |\n|  | Win, Manson |\n|  | Mary Fraser |\n|  | Possbud |\n|  | Wate of Nil |\n|  | Pabins |\n|  | Countess of Erroll |\n|  | Frederick |\n|  | Jamies Shepherd |\n|  | Masonic |\n|  | Rifleman |\n|  | W. E. Gladstone |\n\n### Government of South Australia.\n\n## NOTICE TO MARINERS. INVESTIGATOR STRAIT ALTHORPE ISLAND.\n\nReferring to Notices issued from this Department on the 27th July, 1877, the 25th January, 1878, and the 6th June, 1878, Mariners are now hereby informed that on and after the 14th day of February, 1879, a Revolving Light of the first order, flashing every fifteen seconds, will be exhibited from a Light Tower, painted white, and 40 feet in height, erected on the large Althorpe Island. The color of the light will be white, except between the bearings, from the Lighthouse, of N. 25° W., and N. 61° W., where a red arc of light will be shown, leading half-a-mile to the eastward of Emmes Reef, and nearly half-a-mile southward of the S.W. Rock.\n\nThe focal plane of the light will be at an elevation of 350 feet above the sea-level. In ordinary weather, the bright portion of the light should be observed from a ship's deck about 25 miles distant, and the red arc of light about 17 miles.\n\nWhen much refraction exists both lights may be seen at a greater distance.\n\nMarine Board Offices, Port Adelaide, 7th November, 1878.\n\nR. H. FERGUSON,\nPresident Marine Board.\n\n## Books, &c., without Covers.\n\nArbetare-Bradet. \nAnsterdstemor. \nChristian. \nDagbladet. \nDaily Telegraph. \nEl Jumparcial. \nLangelands Zidende. \nReynolds's Newspaper. \nL'Union Saveisionar. \nSchreib und Hülfskalender, 1879. \nThe Illustrated Sporting & \nLeisure Hour. \nJounal de Geneve. \nJournal de St. Petersbourg. \nLoofungen und Lehrterte. \nSunderland & Dasham (2 books). \nCounty Herald. \nSaturday Falkirk Herald. \nand Dramatic News. \nUnited Methodist Free Churches Minutes 1878, \nTimes. \nThe Times of India. \nWeekly Scotsman.\n\n## Detained for Postage.\n\nMcLaren, Mrs., Revd. Pro. 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        "content_text": "# List of Names\nCh'an Lai-kam, Shi Shang-kái, Mok Sz-Yeung, Pan Teung-hung, Chu Ship-ok'ün, Tang Yik-man, Fung Ch'euk-wan, Chan Chitin, Ch'an Heung-pô, Tang Ki nhau, Kwok Nám-ping, P'on Chu-ngai, Lak Mi-kai, Tatúi Léung-hing, Leung Hok-ch'au, Chian Ting-chi, Ko Te d-hêung, Wong Ká-yau, Ch'an Sui-shang, Fung Ming-shan, Lam King-wan, Tám Tso-ting, Ng Chuk-sau, Lo Yénk-mún, Hu Wai-shan, P'an Wing-ch'an, Ng Kang-t'ong, Fok King-wan, Lo Hok-páng, Hà Chi-shang, Fung In-ting, An Kim-hing, Chiú I-t'in, Wong Yik-pan, Ip Chuk-k'ai, Lo Tam-kai, Tsé Sung-shang, Ts'oi Ping-din, Lo Chi-tin, Fung Kung-fú, Ling Ho-tin, Yau I-wo, Wong Yun-chi, Lam lú-fáu, Wong Kwan-tong, Li Chuk-k'ai, Kwok Tating-skán, Tee Oi-gan, Un Giới, O Máu-chai, Fung Him-shan, Pan Ping-kwan, Lò Lai-ping, Te'oi Mau-t'in, Ng Pat-shan, Fung Yuk-chi, Cheng I-waa, Fong Sui-fung, Ip Ut-lau, Ch'an U-ch'tin, Ho Chuk-shan, Fong Nam-t'ong, Lai Sam-do, Ho Shap-obau, Kwok Sui-ko, Hung Kon-fú, Wan Ts'ing-k'ai, Wong Yuk-ch'o, Rev. Lo Sham-ün, Li Ching-ko, Wong Kán-lán, Léung Shan-ng, Leung King-hám, Kwan Yan-chtit, Fung-Hou-shan, Li Fung-ah'un, Wong To-cheung, Chau Tsz-shán, Tsé Tsz-wan, Luk king, Pong Fuk-i, Chan Sing-mi, Chau Teting-wan, Li Cheung-chi, Tong Shan-tin, Lâng Lishing, Lăn Yêu\n\n## News Item\nThe Guests at Government House had a quiet day on Sunday. After luncheon, the Governor accompanied Dr. Keating to the Tung Wah Hospital, an entry being made in the Visitors' Book by the Doctor.\n\nAbout half-past four, General Grant, His Excellency, and Mrs Hennessy, went up to Victoria Peak, and on returning called to see Dr and Mrs Eastlack, whose acquaintance the General had made at Berlin.\n\nThe General and his party left Government House at half-past seven o'clock this morning, their host and hostess accompanying them to the Murray Pier, from whence they embarked on board the United States sloop Ashuelot, being received with a salute on reaching the deck.\n\nWe believe it is General Grant's intention to return to Hongkong, via Macao, on Saturday so as to be in time for the evening Garden Party which a Committee representing the whole Community propose to give him.\n\nIt is understood that after another quiet Sunday at Government House, the General will leave for Shanghai on Monday, the 12th instant.\n\n## Page Number\n3378",
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        "content_text": "# Schedule of Public Tenders for the erection of a New Lock Hospital\n\n| Name | Amount | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Cheing Hing Shop | 14.500 | Insufficient Security |\n| Pang a Wa | 16.100 |  |\n| Sz To Pak | 18.200 |  |\n| Young do Live Li | 16.360 |  |\n| Kung Cheung Yee | 15.600 |  |\n| Louck a Loi |  |  |\n| Wing Ist Loung Yee Bing |  |  |\n| Chun d'Isan | 12.800 | withdrawn |\n|  | 177.100 |  |\n|  | 15.300 | Accepted subject to approval |\n|  | 23.400 |  |\n|  | 14.200 |  |\n|  | 17.500 | bad security |\n\n**(signed) H. E. Wodehouse,**\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nThis work refers to the re-roofing, addition of New Verandahs, and general reconstruction of the upper floor of the Old Colonial Hospital Building partially destroyed by the great typhoon of September 1874.\n\n**(signed) T.M. Price,**\nSurveyor General.",
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        "content_text": "(3455 141)\n\nAlthough I pressed the Viceroy to state the precise date on which His Excellency would arrive at Hongkong, he declined to do so on the ground that he did not wish to put His Excellency, the Governor to trouble any on his account.\n\nI have &c. (signed) A. W. Bewlet,\n\n**VISIT TO HONGKONG OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL LAU KWAN-YIH**\n\nThe following is extracted from the report in the \"Daily Press.\"\n\nThe visit which His Excellency LAU KWAN-YIH, late Viceroy of Kwangtung and Kwangsi and Viceroy elect of the Two Kiang, which term includes the three provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi and Nganhway, paid to His Excellency Governor HENNESSY on Saturday last, the 24th instant, is an event of considerable importance in more than one respect. Although many Chinese officials of high rank have on various occasions paid visits to Government House on passing through the Colony en route for some other place, this visit of Viceroy Lau is certainly the first instance in the history of Hongkong in which a Chinese dignitary of such high rank has gone out of his way to come expressly and signalize his personal friendship with an English Governor and his sense of the entente cordiale between the Hongkong and Canton Governments. It is evident that Chinese officials consider that the position which Governor HENNESSY has all along taken in his relations to the Chinese Government as well as to the Chinese population of this Colony, has materially contributed towards cementing the friendship happily existing between England and China. The Marquis of TSENG gave utterance to this feeling on his passing through Hongkong en route for London. CHUNG HOW repeated the same sentiment on his visit to Government House a few weeks ago; whilst LI HUNG-CHANG and TING YIH-CH'ANG have in private correspondence expressed in similar terms their recognition of the attitude Mr. HENNESSY has taken in Chinese affairs.\n\nLast Friday night, shortly before midnight, Viceroy Lau arrived in harbour, without previous announcement of any sort, direct from Canton, accompanied by a small flotilla of gunboats. Early on Saturday morning he sent word to Government House that, having handed over the seals of office to his successor in the Vice-royalty of the Two Kwang provinces, and not yet having taken over the seals of the Vice-royalty of the three provinces of Central China to which he had been appointed, he availed himself of the only spare day he had before his official departure from Canton, to come in person to Hongkong in order to reciprocate the feelings of personal friendship which had sprung up between Governor HENNESSY and himself since his tenure of office in Canton, and to thank him for the great influence which his Chinese policy in Hongkong has exercised towards cementing the good relations existing between the Governments of China and England. His Excellency the Governor sent Major PALMER, A.D.C., at once on board, to arrange the time and place of landing, and twelve o'clock was fixed as the time when Viceroy Lau was to land at Murray Pier. The Commandant of the neighbouring town of Kaulung, Colonel Lai, applied for and received permission to land a company of Chinese marines at the pier, to act as escort to the Viceroy. Half a dozen Chinese military officers of the Viceroy's staff landed their strangely caparisoned steeds and awaited the landing of their chief. This drew a large crowd of Chinese spectators, although the population were generally unaware of the arrival of the Viceroy, the Chinese papers of Saturday morning having announced that Viceroy Lau would pass through Hongkong the following week on his way to Peking. Owing to the presence of the Chinese marines and military officers, who crowded the pier, the guard of honour furnished by Her Majesty's 27th Inniskillings drew up at the corner of Murray Barracks, to salute the distinguished visitor. A few minutes before noon, the Viceroy landed at Murray Pier, where Major PALMER, R.E., A.D.C., Dr. EITEL, the Governor's Chinese Secretary, and the Canton Commissioner of Customs were in waiting. As His Excellency left the Tsing-po, a salute was fired from H.M.S. Victor Emanuel, and on landing he was received with a salute from the Royal Artillery at the Wellington Battery. The Viceroy was accompanied by his Aides-de-Camp, Colonel LAI, and Major U TA-SHING and his interpreter, Mr. SIEH YAO-KWANG, Acting Assistant Magistrate of the Nam Hoi District. Sedan...",
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        "content_text": "## 180\n\nI \n\nLiterature. If we have a number of pupils here who understand English thoroughly, these young men growing up as British subjects will certainly be as much entitled as any persons in this community to take a part in our public affairs and to attain to any position as mercantile men or as officials that any citizen of Hongkong can aspire to.\n\nOf course you are all aware that the number of British subjects in this Colony is now limited to those who have been born under the British flag. This Colony, unlike other Colonies of Her Majesty's empire, has no naturalisation Ordinance, but it has been represented to me by some of the fathers of these boys, that is, by some of the leading Portuguese, and by others in Hongkong, that it would be desirable to have a naturalisation Ordinance. Their views have been laid by me before Her Majesty's Government; and, in a few months perhaps I shall be able to say whether or not it will be possible for them to become naturalised British subjects. It was, indeed, in this school, two years ago, that the idea of reviving our Volunteer movement was first adverted to, and I now see present a good many gentlemen connected with that movement, one of them an English gentleman, Mr. Justice **FRANCIS**, who has always been interested in this school and who was recommended to me for a Captain's Commission by the suffrages of his brother Volunteers. No doubt there are some here who cannot yet take part in the movement, whatever interest they may feel in the Colony, because they are not British subjects, but I am sure they share with their children and friends loyalty to the Crown.\n\nI congratulate the Christian Brothers on the success of this their first examination under the grant-in-aid scheme. With the exception of what I have mentioned about English Composition, the report of the Examiner has been most satisfactory. I have no doubt that, next year when I may have the pleasure of distributing prizes here, I shall be able to notice an improvement in that important branch of education.\n\nThis is now, I think, the third or fourth time within the last two or three months that it has fallen to my lot to say a few words at schools or in connection with schools in this Colony. Not long since, an Honourable friend of mine who is present (the Honourable P. **RYRIE**), Dr. **ERTEL**, myself, and others assembled at St. Paul's College to assist in inaugurating a high-class Church of England and Protestant school which will be principally for European boys. That school, I am happy to say, has been well opened, and it will prove, I believe, a success. Last week I had the satisfaction of presiding at the distribution of prizes at the Central School; and it was only a day or two ago that, accompanied by my friend Dr. **ERTEL**, I met twenty-six teachers of our other Government schools, when prizes were given to the children of twenty-nine schools, and rewards to the most efficient teachers. On that occasion I found the interesting fact that in one native school where the Government allowed it to be optional whether the boys should learn English or Chinese, they all being Chinese, out of about sixty-one attending the school it ultimately turned out that in the cases of sixty, the parents elected that the boys should learn nothing but English. They thought that as far as Chinese went, their children would learn enough of it at home, and they felt the great object of sending their boys to a Government School was to have them learn English. I had much pleasure in examining some of those boys. I found them able to speak English pretty well; they were evidently making steady progress. Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, the state of education in the Colony is briefly this, that Her Majesty's Government have sanctioned a modification of the grant-in-aid scheme under which all classes and all denominations can now obtain the benefit of it.\n\nAll classes have now come under it. The chief education difficulty that I found existing here on my arrival has been set at rest by Sir **MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH**'s wise decision. What seemed to me to be another grave defect in the Government scheme of public instructions in Hongkong - too much Chinese teaching and too little English teaching - is being gradually removed. I believe the scheme as it is now worked is a popular and useful scheme and will, in time to come, give a sound English education to the youth of this Colony.--(Applause.)\n\nAnother address, thanking His Excellency and the visitors for the interest they evinced in the school, was then read by Master G. **JORGE**.\n\nMr. **BELILIOS** then said - Your Excellency and your Lordship, - I am highly gratified and I feel greatly obliged to you for the encomiums you have thought fit to bestow upon me, but I think I scarcely deserve or merit them, as in my belief I have done nothing more than what any citizen is in duty bound to do for his fellow-inhabitants. I can only hope that men of means and capacious hearts will come forward to back up the little beginning I have made by helping to augment my little contribution and thus create material support for advancement of learning in the Colony-(Applause.) Ladies and gentlemen, when I came here to-day I hardly expected that I should be called upon to address you on the subject now before us. The praise lavished on me has compelled me to speak, and I cannot allow this opportunity to pass without stating a few facts connected with the advantages this institution has conferred on the community. I landed in the island in the year 1862. The firm with whom I stayed for a short time had preceded me by a few months. On their way to China they were told there was a dearth of clerks here, and they therefore thought it prudent to bring along a Portuguese assistant with them from Singapore. This gentleman left the house after the lapse of a few months, thus constraining the firm in question to again import another young man from Penang. When I commenced business operations on my own account I engaged a Portuguese clerk at $75 per month. This young man was a copyist, a mere drawer of figures and letters. He was more a nuisance than a help to me. In the busiest of times, whenever it was found necessary to put a few words of English together, he would come to me and ask me to draft them out for him. He did nothing but some landing and shipping for me. Of course the older houses had their staff of Englishmen from Oxford and Cambridge, drawing large salaries, but the minor ones had to content themselves by having an hour or two of attendance from two old gentlemen who made a living by going about distributing their leisure hours at their disposal on several small houses here. Times have altered now, and competent young men may be found who are prepared to occupy berths at small salaries, consequently almost every merchant's establishment and every store can boast of a clerk. I have a staff of Portuguese clerks, and I am very much pleased with them. They are steady, attentive, and painstaking, and I suppose I cannot replace them by a set of better men. To whom is all this due? I maintain it is owing to the exertions of the Christian Brothers and to the existence of the St. Joseph's College. The older firms are commencing to employ them and they are finding situations in banks. I have no doubt that the time is not far distant when it will be found necessary to employ them generally. In landing this place of learning I do not mean to detract one single iota from the importance of the sister institution, the Central School. On the contrary, I contend that if this has done much, the other is destined to do still more for the island. This school deals with a section of the community, whilst the other deals with the mass of the population. I dare say the time will come, when a staff of Portuguese clerks and a European at their head, and, later on, a staff of Chinese clerks and a Portuguese at their head, will be capable of conducting large business establishments satisfactorily. When commerce and trade fail to afford large profits, it becomes imperative to retrench expenditure. In the principal cities of India, if you were to walk into large establishments you will see nothing but swarthy faces and turbaned heads hard at work, with perhaps one Englishman or one Eurasian to direct them. On inquiry as to salaries, you will be told that they range in rupees between the equivalents of ten to a hundred dollars. Education has done this for Indian, and education is certain to do the same for China. Men of business in future will have to be grateful to the managers of these two institutions for the benefits they will then enjoy. -(Applause)\n\nThe National Anthem was then played and the proceedings terminated.\n\n## GOVERNMENT CENTRAL SCHOOL\n\nThe following is the list of the prizes referred to in the last Government Gazette as having been distributed by His Excellency the Governor on the 30th of January, 1880:\n\n| NAME | PRIZE | DONOR |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Lau Ho | Morrison Scholarship | Morrison Trustees |\n| **SPECIAL PRIZES** |  |  |\n| Best Scholar |  | Mr. Jackson |\n| Translation |  | Hon. J. Russell |\n| Composition | Watch |  |\n| Ho Tsik Shin | Watch |  |\n| W. Wilson | Watch |  |\n| Chemistry | Gold Pencil Case | Head Master |\n| J. Tanabo |  |  |\n| **ORDINARY PRIZES** |  |  |\n| 1st Class |  |  |\n| Sin Hon | Watch | Mr. Kwok Acheong |\n| Ho Tuk | Silver Pencil Case | Mr. Arthur |\n| B. Yasubeiro | Silver Pencil Case |  |\n| 2nd Class |  |  |\n| Wat Pat Tai | Watch |  |\n| Chan Shan | Silver Pencil Case |  |\n| M. Alarakia | Dictionary |  |\n| 3rd Class |  |  |\n| Wan Kit Sz | Watch |  |\n| Chan U Kwan | Silver Pencil Case |  |\n| F. X. Jesus | Dictionary |  |\n| 4th Class |  |  |\n| Chan Un Fan | Watch | Mr. May |\n| Pang ShanChun | Silver Pencil Case |  |\n| Lau Kwai | Dictionary |  |\n| 5th Class |  |  |\n| Li Ip | Watch |  |\n| Lo Tso Yua | Silver Pencil Case |  |\n| 6th Class |  |  |\n| So Wai | Watch |  |\n| Leung Man Kwong | Dictionary |  |\n| 7th Class |  |  |\n| Li Tsun Fan | Watch |  |\n| Cheng Y. Kwai | Dictionary |  |\n| 8th Class |  |  |\n| Chan Wing Kin | Watch |  |\n| Ko Taim Un | Dictionary |  |\n| **PHILOSOPHY CLASS** |  |  |\n| 1st Division |  |  |\n| Yam Sik Lam | Watch | Mr. McKinney |\n| Cheng Yan Fat | Silver Pencil Case |  |\n| 2nd Division |  |  |\n| Leung In Ting | Silver Pencil Case | Mr. Gerrard |\n| Sham Un Lan | Ivory Pencil Case |  |\n| 3rd Division |  |  |\n| Yeung ShanTin | Ivory Pencil Case |  |\n| Tsang UKwan | Ivory Pencil Case |  |\n| **CHINESE CLASSES - FORTNIGHTLY EXAMINATIONS** |  |  |\n| 1st Class |  |  |\n| Lo Un Kok | Watch | Mr. Kwok Acheong |\n| Wong Kwok Fai | Dictionary |  |\n| **ORDINARY PRIZES** |  |  |\n| 1st Class |  |  |\n| Tung Ku Ling | Watch |  |\n| Lam Tat Chi | Dictionary |  |\n| 2nd Class |  |  |\n| Yang Him | Watch |  |\n| Leunig Shui Fan | Dictionary |  |\n| 3rd Class |  |  |\n| TseSeung Hung | Silver Pencil Case |  |\n| Ho Un In | Dictionary |  |\n| 4th Class |  |  |\n| Tsang Wan | Silver Pencil Case |  |\n| Fung Taung | Silver Pencil Case |  |\n| 5th Class |  |  |\n| Cheung Un Kwong | Silver Pencil Case | Mr. Kwok Acheong |\n| S. 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        "content_text": "## HONGKONG IRISH DISTRESS FUND\n\nIt is doubly gratifying to recall the generous assistance rendered to India during the late famine in that country, which saved millions of lives. It is our duty, therefore, on the score of gratitude and for the sake of our common humanity, to do what lies in our power for our fellow subjects in Ireland.—(Applause.) I am glad to see that the people of Bombay and other great Indian cities are actively and promptly responding to the appeal on behalf of Ireland, and I trust that the Indians of Hongkong will not prove behindhand in the same good cause.—(Applause.)\n\nThe resolution was carried by acclamation, and His Excellency called upon the Honourable P. RYRIE to move the next resolution.\n\nHonourable P. RYRIE.—Your Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen, the resolution which has been in my hands is purely a business matter. You are well aware that subscriptions are proposed and everyone is willing to give, but an active working Committee is required to carry the thing out. I have now, ladies and gentlemen, to propose to you a number of names to form that Committee. I am perfectly certain that when you hear the names you will all assent. In electing these gentlemen you elect not only a representative body but gentlemen who will really carry out the object for which we are met to-day, and that is, the collecting of subscriptions for the relief of the distress in Ireland, remitting the money home, and other matters that come within the scope of a Committee's duty. I will now, with your permission, read out the names: His Excellency the Governor, His Excellency the Admiral and Family, Admiral Coori, His Excellency General DONOVAN, His Honour the Chief Justice, Sir JOHN SMAL Adamson, H. H., Honourable W. KESWICK, Honourable No Chor, H. Lowcock, Esquire; H. L. DALRYMPLE, Esquire; Ahmed, H. E. H., F. D. Sassoon, Esquire; E. R. BELILIOS, Esquire; H. Horrius, Esquire; ADOLPH ANDRÉ, Esquire; Albay, S.S.; H. DE COURCY FORBES, Esquire; H. M. MEHTA, Esquire; J. LOUREIRO, Esquire, Consul General for Portugal; LEONG On, Esquire; R. A. O'BRIEN, M.D., Esquire; ATWELL COXON, Esquire; myself. The two ex-officio members, on whom the bulk of the work will fall, are R. D. STARKE and J. M. d' Castro, Esquire, Honorary Secretary; and T. JACKSON, Esquire, Honorary Treasurer.—(Loud applause.) A. F., I think, ladies and gentlemen, the selection is one that will meet with the approval of you all. I therefore, with the permission of His Excellency, propose that these gentlemen be elected as Committee.\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY said he had great pleasure in seconding the resolution, and he thought the names must meet with general approval.\n\nThe Resolution was carried nem. con.\n\nThe Bishop—Ladies and Gentlemen, I beg to propose a vote of thanks to His Excellency for initiating this movement amongst us. There is a naturalness in its coming from His Excellency, as the country we are interested in at this moment is his own, but in the matter of benevolence we know neither country, nor sect, nor creed.—(Applause.) I am very sure that His Excellency would have been equally forward to initiate a similar movement had it been for any other country, for instance, our own poor country of Scotland, which, as we all know, is very productive of rocks, but is happily not subject to famines.—(Applause.)\n\nThe meeting then terminated.\n\n## SUBSCRIPTION LIST\n\n| Name | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| ... | ... |\n| Brought forward | $3,357.10 |\n| Ho Hong | 5.00 |\n| clay | 2.10 |\n| foot, P. |  |\n| Barretto, E. M. |  |\n| Barretto, J. A. |  |\n| Barretto, J. A., Jr. |  |\n| Carvalho, J. A. | 15.00 |\n| Carvalho, L. F. de | 50.00 |\n| Carvalho, M. A. de | 3.00 |\n| Casson, S.S. \"Chinkiang\" | 32.00 |\n| Cavarana Bhunjibhoy Frumjee | 10.00 |\n| Chan Kwan E | 5.00 |\n| Chan Ün | 100.00 |\n| Chap Shing | 10.00 |\n| Cheng Fung Kong (of Min Fat Hong) | 1,500.00 |\n| Cheng Sing Yung | 10.00 |\n| Cheung Shing | 25.00 |\n| Cheung Un | 5.00 |\n| Cheung Un Chau | 20.00 |\n| Chi Wo | 150.00 |\n| China Merchants Steam Navigation Co. | 10.00 |\n| Chinese Insurance Co., Limited | 25.00 |\n| Ching Lung | 100.00 |\n| Chiu Nam Hop Ki | 5.00 |\n| Choi Chee Bee | 20.00 |\n| Choi Sing Nam | 2,000.00 |\n| Chow Fong | 2.00 |\n| Christie, W., S.S. \"Compton\" | 100.00 |\n| Chu Wing On | 10.00 |\n| Chui U Tin | 100.00 |\n| Chün Shing | 5.00 |\n| Chun Shing | 10.00 |\n| Chun Sui Shang | 5.00 |\n| City of Peking, Officers and Crew | 2.00 |\n| Clark, W. | 500.00 |\n| Cohen, A. S. | 43.50 |\n| Compradore of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire and his Assistants | 5.00 |\n| Conner, J. W. | 100.00 |\n| Cooke, R., S.S. \"Corea\" | 25.00 |\n| Cooper, H. N. | 10.00 |\n| Coote, C.B., H.E. Admiral | 25.00 |\n| Costa, J. P. da | 150.00 |\n| Cotwal, H. R. | 5.00 |\n| Coubeny, J., S.S. \"Compton\" | 5.00 |\n| Cowasjee Pallanjee & Co. | 100.00 |\n| Cox, G. C. | 1.00 |\n| Coxon, A. | 10.00 |\n| Creagh, C. V. | 50.00 |\n| Croker, T. W. | 20.00 |\n| Crowley, Captain, 1st | 50.00 |\n| Crowley, Captain, 2nd | 5.00 |\n| Crnickshank, W. | 2.00 |\n| Carried forward | $6,719.60 |\n\nOn the 11th March, a Meeting of the Committee appointed at the Public Meeting of the 8th held at Government House, when the names of various gentlemen of different nationalities were added to the number of the Committee, and, in view of the subscriptions having already commenced to come in rapidly, it was resolved to remit £1,000 by wire at once to the Duchess of MARLBOROUGH's Fund.\n\nSundry means of facilitating the collection of subscriptions were then arranged, and the Meeting separated.\n\nOn the 17th March, the Second Meeting of the Committee was held at Government House, when His Excellency the Governor was requested to telegraph to the Duchess of MARLBOROUGH and Dohami, P. Pestonjee, that a second sum of £1,000 would that day be transmitted.\n\nIt was also unanimously resolved that His Excellency the Governor be requested to telegraph to the Lord Mayor of Dublin that £1,000 would that day be transmitted in a similar manner to his Lordship's Fund.\n\nHis Excellency then read an extract from a communication received by him to the effect that the distress in the South of Ireland was very severe, and the Honorary Secretary announced that subscriptions already amounted to about $12,000, when the Meeting separated.\n\nOn the 25th March, the Third Meeting of the Committee was held at Government House, when His Excellency the Governor stated that he had received the following telegrams in acknowledgement of remittances.\n\nFrom the Duchess of Marlborough, \"Irish ladies send grateful thanks.”\n\nFrom the Lord Mayor of Dublin, \"On Patrick's Day, Ireland thanks you.\"\n\nOn the question of the disposal of the Funds in hand, it was unanimously resolved, at the instance of the Chinese Subscribers, that the sum of £1,000 should be remitted to the Mayor of Cork, His Excellency Governor HENNESSY's native city.\n\nIt was further resolved that a third remittance of £1,000 should be sent to the Fund originated by the Duchess of MARLBOROUGH.\n\nIt was resolved that His Excellency be asked to allow the Honorary Secretary to publish in the Gazette an account of the origin and progress of the Fund, and a List of the Subscribers, to be supplemented in the weekly issue of the Gazette as further names were added.",
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        "content_text": "262\n\nREG?TE SEP\n\n八百\n\n第報\n\n曉諭事照得現奉\n\n督憲將以下公交\n\n侵\n\n其每愚\n\n署輔政使司史\n\n「如帶形之地輸此稅項亦云足矣爲此須至申陳者 之價值但第八號地段不是投買得來乃照舊章從重輸納地稅者 按此事乃是如此故 之 督憲准照鄭星揚買受該地價值而定此侵佔越界之地按尺徵稅則該地每年應輸稅錢一十六圓一毫七仙似此狹窄 由立定時值 倘若國家本是招人投買該地段而立定每年地稅若干卑職便可倡議照買該地價值若干而定此侵佔 合用建做屋宇則頗堪稱為公常但此如帶形之地獨自原是無用不值多金且亦不能出沽以其太狹故也是以卑職無 佔 如帶形之地但必須遵照平時立定制度計寞輸納地稅 按凡與第八號地段連接之地定價每方尺價銀二圓倘該地 待用 查准鄭星揚所請留用現在所有越界餘地黥於街道整齊平直之事無碍故卑職謹照愚意准伊留用該處狹窄 卽照所附形圖寘以紅色指明者 按此侵越界至情事經已飭知鄭星場被於本日親謁卑職據請將該越界餘地留以 工務司布 爲申陳事照得邇來查有鄭星楊管業之内地第八號地段該地溢於地契所定界至一千二百一十六方尺\n\n抄印像衆週知\n\n號五\n\n五 一千八百八十年\n\n八月初五日示\n\n皇\n\n家\n\n地\n\n中\n\n輔政使司\n\n司 陳\n\n來\n\n投\n\n乃\n\n買\n\n再陳明按上所陳各事兹有鄭星楊送來之禀一並附呈\n\n一千八百八十年 七月 二十日\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nA. 185.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe following is published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office,\n\nHongkong, 5th August, 1880.\n\nENCROACHMENT ON CROWN LAND.\n\n[No. 114.]\n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, 20th July, 1880.\n\nSIR—It has been recently discovered that,\n\nInland Lot No. 8, owned by Mr. CHENG SING-YEUNG, exceeds the boundaries specified in his\n\nlease to the extent of 1216 square feet, as shown\n\ncoloured pink in the enclosed tracing.\n\n2. Mr. CHENG SING-YEUNG's attention having\n\nbeen drawn to this encroachment, he has in an interview with me to-day expressed his desire\n\nto retain the excess of area.\n\n3. As the confirmation of Mr. CHENG SING-YEUNG in his present boundaries will not spoil,\n\nor in any way affect the alignment of the streets,\n\nI see no objection to his being allowed to keep the narrow strip of ground in question, provided\n\nhe pays rent for it in accordance with the established practice.\n\n4. For land in the neighbourhood of Inland Lot No. 8, a price of $2 per square foot would be fair and equitable, provided the ground were\n\neligible for building, but this rim or strip is worthless and unsaleable by itself, owing to its extreme narrowness, and I am therefore at some loss how to give it any market value at all.\n\n5. Had this Lot been originally sold by Government for a competitive premium, with a fixed annual rent to follow, I would have suggested\n\nthat the same rate of premium be now charged\n\nfor the encroachment as was realized at its sale by the Lot itself. But Lot No. 8 was not sold for a premium. In accordance with the early\n\npractice of the Colony, the land was knocked\n\ndown to the bidder of the highest annual Crown\n\nrent.\n\n6. In these circumstances, the Governor may\n\nperhaps approve of the encroachment being assessed at the same annual Crown rent per foot\n\nthat was realized by the Lot, without further charge to Mr. CHENG SING-YEUNG. This would\n\nrepresent an annual rent of $16.17, which seems\n\nenough for so narrow a strip.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nHonourable F. STEWART,\n\nJ. M. PRICE,\n\nSurveyor General.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\nFt., $c.\n\nP.S.— Since writing the foregoing, the petition\n\nenclosed herein has come from Mr. CHENG SING-YEUNG.\n\n21st July, 1880.\n\nJ. M. PRICE.",
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        "content_text": "[Lu C.8.0. 1775.]\n\n(Translation.)\n\nThe petition of CHENG SING-YEUNG, having reference to his purchase of Lot No. 8, from the Gibb Hong. As the Gibb Hong had over 30 years ago built on a piece of Crown land about three feet wide, and up to the present time not a word has been said about it, therefore, your Petitioner, having now purchased it, should by right have possession of the property as heretofore. But if your Petitioner is required to pay Crown rent for it (the small strip of ground), he is willing to obey instructions, but would beg His Excellency the Governor to show his kindness and not to demand any premium for the ground. Your Petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray.\n\nDated the 14th day of the 6th moon in the 6th Year of Kwong-sui (20th July 1880).\n\n(Signed) CHENG SING-YEUNG.\n\nTo the Honourable\n\nTHE SURVEYOR GENERAL.\n\nPage 263\n\n一千八百八十年\n\n楊該價若干此批\n\n間知現在售與鄭星\n\n欲問知該地沽賣與人原值幾何又欲\n\n政司察極照其意見若何然後申覆并\n\n故將該案照送件律\n\n七月二十六日\n\n覆申司務工\n\n遵查該内地第八號之地段國家於一千八百四十一年時發給與人未嘗擬遵查該\n\n段及其所有之地兩段即第一號地段\n\n與價多\n\n本純按年地\n\n每\n\n號即刧稅年地第先銀\n\n生七\n\n號將百地\n\n鄭則至第地該七\n\n星非該\n\n段地十銀機\n\n覆申司政律\n\n一千八百八十年七月二十七日\n\n之案可照\n\n遵查如此\n\n週憲必\n\n知報須嗣伸刊\n\n此後衆諸\n\n司計徵一\n\n籍以上所言定價或照\n\n督憲有權\n\n凡有如此\n\n堂則欲定\n\n案件本部\n\n然\n\n楊自行斟酌者謹此申覆覆卑職所能言以該事乃刧先生與鄭星申楊出地價銀二十四萬大圓多至該項內若干員篇第八號地段之價則非\n\n司之第一分及第六十三號地段之第二分一連售與鄭星楊按該地三段鄭星\n\n枇多徵一些\n\n價或照計\n\n些地稅\n\n語\n\n批\n\n地稅\n\n一千八百八十年七月二十七日\n\n一千八百八十年八月初二日\n\nRefer accordingly to the Attorney General for his opinion.\n\nFor what sum, and what date was this Lot originally sold? for what sum has GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co, now sold it to CHENG SING-YEUNG?\n\nJ. POPE HENNESSY.\n\n26th July, 1880.\n\nMINUTE BY THE SURVEYOR GENERAL.\n\nThis Lot (No. 8 Inland) was sold by Government in 1841, not for a premium, but for an annual Crown rent (as explained in my letter) $779.14 per annum.\n\nMr. GIBB sold it this year to CHENG SING-YEUNG, together with two other Lots, the property of the house of GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., viz.:- Lots 1A. and 63B. CHENG SING-YEUNG has paid $240,000 for the three Lots, but what proportion of this amount went to Lot 8 I cannot say, the matter being a private one between Messrs. GIBB, LIVINGSTON and CHENG SING-YEUNG.\n\n27th July, 1880.\n\nJ. M. PRICE.\n\n寧人鄭星拔爲買受都行第八號地段事因切行起過皇家餘地一塊約闊三尺至今有卅餘年之久未有一題及今\n\n督十六圓一毫七仙仰將切行\n\n地另徵地稅鋨\n\n請嗣後可計該\n\n督憲大人施恩不取地價則感德不淺矣民買受理宜照舊簪業既是要民加納地稅民亦愿遵命惟求乞\n\n語批憲\n\n行共\n\n及原\n\n鄭在地\n\n照稅将\n\n批定計鄭星楊合\n\n行申覆\n\n共輸秕若干槪\n\n司務\n\nI\n\n地嗣十月灉段後九地\n\n七\n\n鄭圓稅規\n\n重十輸星十七十慝九地揚十七年\n\nMINUTE BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.\n\nI think the Governor can demand a premium or a higher proportional rent in these cases as suggested.\n\n28th July, 1880.\n\nE. L. O'MALLEY.\n\nMINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nLet it be publicly notified that in all future cases of this kind I shall expect a premium or a higher proportional rent.\n\nJ. POPE HENNESSY.\n\n2nd August, 1880.\n\n工務司大人作主恩准施行\n\n覆\n\n一千八百八十年\n\n一千八百八十年\n\n申共應輸銀七百九\n\n十六圓一十七仙一批\n\n督\n\n行多重\n\n買而地\n\n十五圓三十一\n\n語有權定價或照計多徵一些地稅因本港地價日昻且因地價9舁\n\n但照本部堂意見如此侵佔情事行買來價媜計算另外並未增價憲多而每年地秕僅依該地本由切重地段時露出侵佔之地如此之行規制符合卽准將邇日買此貴所請因查如此都與歷年香港通\n\n七月二十三日\n\n士富厚商民者更屬如是\n\n而上等便宜貿易之地段現屬本\n\n鄭星楊禀\n\nTranslated by.\n\nCHAN A-FOOK.\n\nE. J. EITEL.\n\nTrue translation,\n\n22nd July, 1880.\n\nMINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nAct on the Surveyor General's recommendation, and charge $16.17 additional Crown rent.\n\nLet me know the Crown rent paid by GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., and the total now charged under this decision to CHENG SING-YEUNG.\n\nJ. POPE HENNESSY.\n\n23rd July, 1880.\n\nMINUTE BY THE SURVEYOR GENERAL.\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. paid $779.14 per annum.\n\nCHENG SING-YEUNG will now pay for same Lot $779.14 + $16.17 = $795.31.\n\n23rd July, 1880.\n\nJ. M. PRICE.\n\nMINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.\n\nI have in this, as in some similar cases, acted on the Surveyor General's recommendation, which seems to accord with the practice prevailing for many years in Hongkong, that the encroachment on Crown land, which was discovered on the recent sale of this valuable property, should be assessed only at the same annual Crown rent per foot that was realized by the Lot when originally bought by Messrs. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., without any further charge. I believe, however, that in all cases of such encroachments, I would be entitled to demand a premium or a higher proportional rent, looking to the increasing value of land in this Colony, and especially of the first-class commercial sites now passing into the hands of wealthy native traders.\n\nPage 264",
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        "content_text": "## 46 \n2. \n## 44 \n### Intimations. \n**THE CHINA VIEW.** \nChowder was claved tho putti! \n### Visitors' Column. \n**THE CHINA MAIL.** \n### Hongkong Rates of Postage. \n(via June 26, 1889) \nLal Parki Yest \n1. Small Parodia to seat by Port because any of the Fest Calle Chips We have instituted sa na experiment or Japan, as well 10 Mac VAITATS COLs, which we trust In the fallowing Statements and Tables boi, papi, Peus Ma widely-express gret at this dis will prove succesfe, and be found use the Ratas are given in sends, sal ww, for anal not excel the falieving doo \n\n1 wat rond 1 fotoop, izuno of Notes nervul. To it will be legsted fruta time Lettere, per half cher, for Book ads, & foot meg, nor web us than is plage is fumuaporation to tre such itsuse of information, fists, Pavere, por tres cuces. \n\nNewspapers o \na over four modes in weight wil be 20 cele per, which wel indude Bilar in objout and style, bob slightly tables and other intelligence is ec \n### Registration \nThe parcele s bully modified in wartado detail. \nsuured likely to prove vaatle to per charged as doubla, teable, ✯e, az i some taxing through the City, and cave map bo, but eveli papers or pacicate or ne say be rout at Book Rats. Two in euoneetion wiza we bave opered | Snappere arust not be folded together as Horn. AND BUSES, norunything whatever beismerted SELECT Damron, applicatos for enrolment sacept koná sice Epplements. \ner of this \n**THE CHINA REVIEW OF Roles and cries on the Far East, ia auded at fu tervals of two mumus, each numbar ou taining about 60 ev \net 60 nav pages, all cated with lible, photos, wonderia, be, bead the papare pubished demand, and the insulation justify, Jaiza Ditter. \nsuberitiva la vixed at $16.50 p \nd \nPrintad \nto which we are now ready to secure, der say, bowser, bo endload, if the wind be paid at Pack Kate. Price Cur rent may be paid either as Navapapam or List of Public Buildings. \npaid per san payable by on-residents Governant House, North of Public in Hinges, half-pearly in naprawne. \nThe patristica indledes papers riginal and selected inpun dia Arts and Seisces, Snogy, Folklore, Deugrupiy, History, Ilustre les Man Anu Cus- ton, Natural \nKeligion, do, C., \n### Gardens \nCits find. Library (8,000 volumes) and \nMuse-Free. \nPublic Gedens, a bontifully picturesque \nretreat and of great interest. \nBuake. \nComp by do not bear Pique annity, aos prone bough \nclosed it day bear this spook! accores. \n27, PADE, OTANING TO Luman, but \nany parzel was ered by danion of the Possier tiesā. \n2. The following went be mated Patcula insasiuni, packed as paciented, or liable to be \nGlass, Teguida, \nazglasite butee Matchca, Ladigo, u 10, Kent, \ndegrees to des Fish, Game, Fruit, Vestby to - Helyi bo \nthe up rectar of an actual or pramazal sorteo fire or injet i trans spousal, ach tha deeds, copied music, e. The obarge on Si \n### No. 5892,- (CTOBER 21, 1880. \n**Merchant Vessels in HongCong Harbour** \nExcburies of cats Arrivals and Departures reported lo-lay, \nTorillaz fading the position of 207 renal in the Harbour, the Anchorage is divided inte sigal Boetius, vammancing at (trend Indai. Vasole neuer the Hongkong shere are marked A, use the Kowing shore k., azri those in the body of the Shipping or midway between each shore to masked c., in conjunction wild the Sguroa denoting the mentions. \n2. From Gas Works to the Novelty Iron Worke \n### Section \nB. From P. and D. Co.'s Office to Peddar's Wharf. \n7. Feur Nare! Yard to the Fiez. \nbox \n### RC 20957. \n1. From Great island to the Gas Worka \n6. From Fadder's Wharf to the Naval Yard \nFrom Novelty Iron Works to the Harbour dater's Dœfice. From Earbuds Master's to the P. and 0. Ou.'s Ģice. \n8. From Pitta East Prist. \n---- \n### Captain. \nStig and Date of \nVoices or ease. \nDestination \nHig. \nArrival \n8. E'stonls will as a general rela be for aided by Ferate Ship not by Coutras Mall Packet. The Port Ofs coserves se umelon, and it clearing devory in caves! tight of electing shopperty for tran tiles tumber of parcela is spel as to retard Esceipsatser correspondens. My responsi \nthan \nfor backs, but, whatever the weight of packet contafting ay parally witte of Chen Jesus, Mungulia, Tibet, the Tue Clock Tower, Queens Road Cen-pap, it will wet be charged fo Easter Anipeg and the \"Her set. \" tral, in be with Pedder's Whis \nThe sender of Rey Recieved generally, we defaike list of abjects General Fost Office, Hoaghong Chung it alt a Row \npon which coexitations we oogmcılalış \n### German Club, Spreme Court, de, invite is ismægurated, \nwww.bor. \nwillia a stone's throw Chinese Ladin. Grigal contributions in French, Get parish, Italian Tor Lagitan Club and hazy, Sbellay St. tugasza, are sourschi Bednars freveramets Offices, the Sacrorerint, &o., \nnear the holic Gorders. \nare as to premat a rohtut \nthat of the most rout \nwere bearing on Chine ccatism, fines \non paying an extra fea of o cente. \nbacopted with regard to any fartel, bet the Region wil see the The limit of weight to Books and Com reial Pages to Foreigu Foes basical any bat a very reale per- 61ba Pallares for web offices are limited tablity of lon to sed must uns exced these \nubevenue: 3 inch by itches by \n### St. Jou's Cathedral (Anglia), \nzun J'orade Gromm sidention is plac paid to ibu Review Roman Catholic Caredral, Welling \nSweet. \ndepartures \nther as \"Nous\" head reinross being \n### Notes and Bepiter \nclamited tegen Church, Higin Street. given, when furnished, so previous Nožni B1. Peter's Neuenburch, West Print or Carles, as are also close queries which St. Joseph's (KC) Char), Ganian though any for Informativas, furolabı, aven Road, Bear Kenney for \nor orphed details reneeming the at-Tapetance Hull, erisly adapted for \nb. It le sirable to make his Questo proper as brist and as mnoh to the possiblə \n| \n### The China Beine \nkm July and August, 1876, is band. Is anys the forty-two anya wary acut into uosipato for the best pap on the advantages of Curiality ter \ndavelopment of Sale All car lesen ed preistes khoi là entenciou to this svorkuly enterprising Revie. It is a sig pagod, bi-menthly, repertory of watch low are sestaining shoot China *IN incture of hiero Ponizy in vaja volumen is sure workh the pries of the žievis, kūr dress China Now, Hongnny-Northern | Ürisian únicate (U.B.) \nber \nanen, Qusar's Load Eust \n301- West B \nພະນ \n### R. E. A. and Chiny Colegraph Co., and \nthe Great Northe Pergraph to,, Marion Hose, Gong's Hand.\" tascais hall, Zedand Street. \n### Victoria Recreation Cank---Bath house! \nsea last-wuse, ke,-Praya, beyond the Gecket Ground, beside the \"City fie!! \nhe Baracke and Narat med Military \n### Store \nparkerenk Je to the wird, and cover a koga area. \n### Stores, Books, &c. \nincles. \n.. means No Registration, \n### Countries of the Pata! \nUnion, The Union may be taken to conspelar Keops, net foreign passione in Ama, Japan, W. Africa, Harpt, Mauritius, all \nN. Amenca, Mexic, aleator, Caři, \nVal' Nas \n4. The public re cantined at tu persaud \nfound the facts with a Period Hurope, d, which dres not exist \nthe Bochung \nbabe Java \nHout countries to which Hongkong wards Carespondenou Laylax juin Gerd Fodic or ng \nbeat to du so, it resory that the Kang-bhi ..... following lost nicely \n...Wooney \n... Rondeli \n### 3 Wantry Amal, 5079 |CM. \n«Oschen ... Brit. \n### Betmarks \nK'leon Dout Fontan lo \n6. Poincisosh Leat \n502 Sept \n### BiB \nskr. 1700 k. \nJaGibb, Livlegatoa de Ca 20e, M. 3. A. Da \n### Apertalian Porta \nJardine, Matteson & Co. \n21 Russel & Co. \n2. \n19 \n18th Hang SIA Dat 1512 Oct \nstr. 137.5.& po Dock Un \n231 Octo \n843 e 140. 31. Co. \n1057 Ooi. 23 Gae. P. Starons à . \ndewchang Holhor, & \n### E-MITTIT \nat daylight \n¡Holbow, An, \nShanghai \nCo-murtos \n¡Tag Prive \nSAM1979 \nAversich \nDiGlavo \nUhy of Tokia. \n8 citurroy Brit. \n6 h Hall. \nBrit. \n### Deronsite.....n an \nF \nHot... \n5 baner \nPolesen.....Chi \n2 bittidor ...Onwlo \nlamer. \nDutch est. \nChola uch \netr. \n### JOEL \n74 Opt. Wildongian Lapralk & Cu \nKumes Porta \nloon Desk \n*Path, dayligas \nne Deck \nMarvelja \n. Maasz \n7 Romedios & Co, \n¡Manila \nPo-day \nJBut \n741 Dot, \n21 Samen & Co. \nthaoghal \nSenhue. \n„ider. \n69 Oct \n14:3bsamaau & Ca \n298 Oct. \n2020, M. 8. N. 06 \nShanghai \nBrit. \n65% O \n2030, R. Bierros & Co. \n933 Out \n18 Koan Fat Hong \nBangkok \n23rd inel \nair. \n48 Mar. \n24 China Traders unorance Co. \nate. 1039 Chut. \n17P. 20. 8. N. Cn. \nki Yokohama \n80 ct \nrides, R. Sisroun de Cu. \nJaustralian Porte \n24th fant \nstr. 388 Oct \nKinging. \n1. No Letter Facket, whether to Young... Brit. \ncan be said! \nFrail, forn, Vesiesals, 21 Argentine registered or \nRepabli, da bilan, with all jewels, precies tee, or a thing ticking Hondure, Bermuda, Disa, Fren, Netherlands, Portuguese peroral ya, is hakka to C4 l'acker \nTrakia, Guiana, ¦ for Postmeni: ABERYS Palicum \nsuŭ Spanish Colonies. \n### Countries or 13 the Union-The chair? \ncountries kod in the Caion are the AP tralasian Greop \n### Postage to Vaior Countries. \nGeneral, by any mouku some \nLuton, \n30 cents per or conis cal \n10 cents. \nZacuta cact \n2 suis par Scu \nation, Post Carda, east-wpens \nBooka, Paikuras and i \nCom Papare, There is no ekarzome restrauted erro. apadne wishin the Petal Taka. \n### J'idge to No Union Countries. \nHawaiian Kingdom \n### Omeral Gutter \nHesier, Tailor, \nSebata orientai tiacural contains the fol- lowing notice of the Chius Fuziotela \nthe title of a puestion, \nly reached as from Boug.-T. N. Discoll, dû and 47, 1ks lately 2 kang, whers has been set on fuck an in Quears Road, by special appeiztruant sen.8 zenperea cartingallon of Sous and to E. Ma Limeriu on China and Japan, the extinction \naf which chefui saxial a year de kwu sgu kak \nand segraded in Europe as well \nEn China Thmpresest publisation, judging, \nby the river now tntire us, la intended to! \n### Cleozomerers, Watches, Jowellery, \nLestor \nBordo Patt \n### Nore. \n+ \ndisps and Chr. FALCONELLO, West Judice (Non Unit, Burias, Queen's itoad Control. \n### Costa Rica, Grenc, Now Graula, Nicaragua, 'ze, Paragliay¶. \nItegistration, Newspape \n### American and Buglich Stores, Books, \nscopy & positian, as tegendu Chitand send speeindly selected Cigars-Mac Deighbouring countricovnat elmila \nto that which has keen fed in Tadis by the \nCatania Niet ut proat dayrus of ut \nEF, FRICKEL & Co. \n### Aerial Newers and cheng Ra-Book \ndi fattura, \nOF \nFue. \n10 \njuline, \nFeride!! \n2. This Regulaties panjabies the condit¦ Sea Gu of Excieraz of dutiable setincs, unless this Sunda quantity one best small na to make the Tiales \nample of no valge. \n### Wolle........ \nê. The firoits of reight alumed are si \n### Budowa -- \nBook and Papem to Britan úton | \n5 s; to the Cortinant, Au, Patton to Britist, Offer, Slox if wit \n### Bailing Vosk \nSbEepkias B \nHajdoná \nVincar.......... jammander \nAgnes Mair's Love ...........Br. \nsh \n458 Bapt. 190. M. 5. N. Co \n851 8epk, \n200. M. & N. Oo \n131ayar U. \n27 Carlowite & Co. \nout intrinsic value; to the Chularity flee Book Servier. ! 14284z. 27! Vezel & Co. \nda, 8 OF. \n3 kidones ..........Port. sh, 602 July Ale H. Safthe Packer Amur, sh \n### Sidemcy \nfor the loss of a legineral Letto Apala \nThomsen alt 3:0.50. fazer umaśžer, bgę, „skátamora......Amer. Contabriacal! \nAmer faulsen Dan. \n### The Post Offint \nta noy legally naposafts | Che Bitte for the wife delity of Regatora cress Camere \nunderco, has benyoforth it elit to prCurs pared to make gooch the acabaria of Dagmar \nwo lost while eng lash Do ina-wners of 319, în vari Kami. --------------- \n### Florum Alghingale \nà adolulɲin .............. Falt bye. Ford \n2 Borgwards.. \nC, Rovided \n1. That lies daly observed at the condivista në Registration requir \n2. has the fat is securely welos \nia Numably by <zveiopa \n3. That application we made to Pomnator Ger \ngang i \nof \n### France \ntes Great Adaira \ndental W. Ingley Johann lentich \nW \nbye. \nEradno & Co. \n1487 Repi. 199. &0. S. X. \n210 Dok. 30eur & Co. \n896 at 11aler (5. \n✡o. \n990 Sept 20, Arnhold, Karbery & Ou. \nJul Aug. 20 Arabolt, Karry \n### Euvre \nand Humihang \n(New York \nSa Franciao \nCa. \nNew York \nbe 222 1000 17 Arnhold, Kurberg & Co. 20 apt. 18, anhold, Karberg Un \nEduard Schelbase & Co. 464 Opt. Amhald, Karberg & Co. Cine,bletiza 252 let. 3Barlowits de Ou Kanto Fch, bat.. $0 Sept 20 Lardstelu à Ca Tompson. 1676 Sept 18 & Co Dadless, brie. 1098 c. 811Adamron, Bell & Ca \ntiaram. Jej 411 18jahod, Karberg & Co. .............................................♣ kobieciaker, Sm. so. 245 Saph 14daari Sabalias & Co. Mgails ............$ Ünumer. Ger b 521 pm & Co. \n..............2 Pelierma... Stat. Leja. નામ ચિન \n### Bust \n...........for. bre. t. 20 Captada Sath Jumeries.ok Kawwht. Amer. . 2262 et 17 Roll & Co. Sparta 18 Vincent...... \n81 Aug 27W. B. Bay \nged that the loss of while the Serastesi \nThas the Prator Coasalan B. All4kitidredgewer. bga 636 Sept powderor was in the lefody of the Betti Portal administration in Chine, that it not assed by any faul on the past of t sender, by destruction by few, or shipwra: ae by the digno or cegligence of a person in ply of \nį medļatuly tho Jeza m \nrausing that er een bestowed of its your prints, do, cholos Teixete and Digans. Azzahralia, New Zealand, Tanaris, zać upon the regation of it literature,' VABLETY STORY, 40, mist. vix Torres Brash, Lotters, 19; 20 eppolops being invariably and Macar antiquities, and ordial develop to any Queen's Road. nothing of ionisatie, have id to tas \ngistration, it; Norte, Books Rail Pattatre, 4: Piu a Lettera, ; e- \n### Belation \nof inspottant force of inform Watches Jewelles, Charte, Bingen-gration. 10; Neespapers, 2; Bookt aan ation, romāneizg zare sur chansi of pub las, Optically, Murdan's Pattern, Ecity as is now previdad extremely dimir Pencil-exes, &- Nosch, agent. able and contribution of web Inistro & Zaobu. \nmay fairly be looked for from the azalers i \nof the foreign consular services, the Ukinena \nSabal, the Lage, St. Helery and sea mno, in Aden, Lettore, 25: fagetration, \nGuus, Kides. Parde, Ammunition,10; Nowspapers, \"; docks sal Pattern, 5. \n### Chalu \ncorps, and the misionary body, and Sportsons's test all descrip \nneng wham bigh degree of Chinese tione.-W SCRDY & Co., \ndubai a nes nauidwoly cultivated here, at Hoof Begoonsfield \nwad who freeverally represented rubbe sigui q \nLuraber of the dining by yes. bighly rurulé \nantijs at C. Legguise manager wet pot fire. \nHa7. E. J. Zital, in which the piano al \nhabourdonvášky girnil, da ozsoklons | \npresental of the chronykɔgat i \nproblems and a agamenta involved in cordato Taker or FaZNE FOB CIKAIRE, \nhexion with this important work. Some trusinisce feus Okiama Levels and playe \nmarked by both secrecy and freshness \nđ style; and an account is the vacuna of \nthe Chinese poet-statesman of xbo elernɔiù entury, Sn Fung-plo, by Mr. E. C. Bowza, le mot only historiusally valuable, but is also distinguished by its literary grize Bonds nokioen rẩ new books relating to Ühine and the East, which will be a useful fensum of \nthe Neview, if carried out with, punctuality \nani \nwe are glad to note that \n### Arsi \n\"Queries” sir dantlusă în \n### ÚHA \nKAREES, AND BEATS, \nAN 288 COLANT OF HOSAKOND. \n### Quadra \nmå fordinary Pulierny Bosto \nHalf hour,....10 st.. | Hour,... 20 ot. \nThree hours...50 ot.. | Six hoary,...70ah, \nDay (from C), One Dollar, \nTo Vicenza Pe% \nbrad a place in in pages also. It is to be Four Curling \nPop at this cig le contributions Three Cli \nen China about may evolua aiTİLAY \ndegree of cesary mai to shat which won i \n### Tiro \nCuties, \nPingle Trige, \n$1.00 \n0.88 \n£0.70) \n...$1.50 \n1.20 \n... 1.00 \n### Band \nor by Prà fuo lum). \ndisplayed during the lifetime ut ita prefe-Four Candies, \nres the Belo,and ibal tius na Fierce \nmay re the support zoomacy to izme \n### Thres \nCaulics, \nJe continance. The publication is later. The Candies,... \ned to wopcer avery two months, sud vili \nform a mistenklai osteso mag \n**THE CUINÈGE MAIL.** \nTo Vannia Cat fte kaval oF EMPRESA \nThis paper is usual evary Four Coolina \nGay. The ausription he fed at For The Colin, Bullare your anama deifvened to Hog Two Coles, by Ken Doliers Fifty Conde in- \nauding p pohugs to Coat porta, \nis the frest Chines Nunapaper wer woved under pursy nice nation The albef eupport of the paper is a derived trop the nails couly, og whom and to be found a yusutom se ouetes novary phace tiene bustave andlega footing. \n• The projectors, hating their catastes \nupon the ces reliable information fera \n### FRA) \n### Siuple \nTrip \nRaam (Zirut or op. Hod-for-lume.) \n$1.60 \nG.00 \n2).40 \n### Foar \nConli AA11.00 The Cooli \nTwo tholes,... \n...... 0.70 \nThe Return Face crebraces a trip of ot more thou thres hone \nFor every bow part of an hour Abere three hours, tack Coshio will be entitled to \n### si \nvarton Fork in Chi and Jays-Day \nfrom Austria, California, Singapore, \nPoong, Budget, deler places roque \nby the China, tunelu \njankind to garatuz are altimate \ncitati u berwena pol \ncon The savantagea cinted to advar \nfitonal pay of b cent \n### Trip \nPeatu.75 each \nlie. \n2 hours) tiap20) sack coito. \n### Limes \nOras (sessih). \nHour, \n...10 \nquie \nDall day, \nZY eenin \ntire are therefore unasunily j \n### Bayr \nle foreign ennenails gegarails w \nLind \nto their interest to pull themselves of \nthis \n### DUST \n262 900LIK BIAR. \nThe fold men toe oper of shis descrip \nstun gundasted hy native offerta, but 1 Classes Dont 17 % at 900 \nprogresive and sati-obstructiys in tone- \nxmont 1t we then cars board; Lot Class Cargo Bost of \nsamwanda \nbudet and laterat ; \nwhile on the other deserves svet ald that our bu \nto it by intuigueza, \n### Lake \nFagin jouet entries Edittain \nwith Trand, Shipping and Commercial \nNous am RYELINATED \n3thanription \nabove zay be sent to \nfor etter of this \n### CEO. MURRAY BAUN, \nChina al disa \nFREDERIC ALCAR, COLONIAL, NEWSPAPER & COMMIS- \nSION AGENT, \n11, L'anest's Lons, Lombari Brest, \nJORDUR. \n182 Coloma Press sapplied se New- paper, Hooke, Typia Juk, Press, Papers, Correspovirus, Letters, sad any Super Gake on dan ter \n### AOTION \nTO SUIFPERS. \nColonial Fampspær exsoirul at the of Adverse and the Hakka \nare regalarly al for the inzetlen \nand is good 600 \n$1.00 \nad Clue Carys Host - Boat of 500 \njo, \nUgo Bolo 17-ax Best of 2011 \npicula, Hald Ding, \nAmoxil axton charge to mite un dels 'ir Hegiralicu to ritish \nHeydd Facton The Ban \nmax, 1 wate \n• CREAM DE SAFe vin San Froito \n### LOOAL \nPOSTAGE \nF \nid) No Parent Post \n### Local \nDenver. \nGard Now! \n1. All corespondenæ jvataí beluso 13.01 on any wook day for adiramar în Vistoria will be delivered the day, \nand genomally whhin two hours, unless the \ney should be sobered by this Contract \n### Invitations, \nde, can veterally be delivered within Victoria at the privati anuses of the addresses rather \nt \npiazem of blinder, it wish to that effect \nsuch application unless I aino la inel. \nbond book, wh which reach their destiamion, althoighà | a broken or deteriorated edition. \n### Forber \n### Money \nOrder Regulations. L--Most Ordian ang exchanged wiù e United Kingdom, New \nwalu Qusariand, South Australis and Darvin, the Strata Settlements, Warto Australia, and forcept at Shanghai) uzd the Jam ropite. Hongkong z bens cris ca Shanghai, uzd vice verad \n### Email \nsame may be tedid between the other Fort by ame of Puss Stamps, subject to change of ons per cunt. It owling them, \n### 740 Cak \nrisun \n..................Taliem. Gu. \nbqo \n550 10st \n### ULAZION \nDrew \nat Yak \n--Mary Mom Ondert are supplied residente af the avaler Ports in this way. Fly \nAn application for an orisalted up, Tang Yong \n### South \nSea Islanda \nPiontula \nSand Feanalizo \nLuntia \nHer York \nHavre and Hamburg \n16 Bong Song Woo \nGülows & Cu \nMeyer & Co \nLoutco \n19 \n743 Dat \n40,00. B. Bivens \n### Man-of-war \nin Hongkong Harbour. \n480 \n### REFF \nK'loan be \nYasa Wun Tex \nSisphope Grov \nJans 21 \n### Reph \n22 \n### Commander. \nCom. Klas \nJ. Farrow \nB. U. Naplor \nComedore Smith John G. JoDHE \nOct \n### Date \nof \n### Forsels \nNawa, \nHlay, \nClass. \nTora Gune. \nH. P. \nJingl \n41. \nC. I \n### COZMAN \nAnde \nMAD-OF-WAT \nOct. \nSuntint \nBut vol \nKD. Chinno \nPeronne prakser \n354 \nBritish \ngao rekl \n- \n184 \nLa 31 \nKritish \nmilhar doepitai \n3091 \nBritish \nganhout \n1:00 \nKetah \nJotama-tore's flagship 2087 \nBritish \ntorrat-ship \n304 \nJave 2 \nAs Canton \nChinese \nzenbort \nexcit frigate \nand is ezciated with a stage, directe, Magus... \nand unsealed scvelops in the Postuwster | sne \nthe wastest issuer offen The application Midge \nst be sampanied with the tail regatta Road, (incrading commuwen) in ebegns, paelage Wi \nstein, or other guivalent of cash, and ni \nfittin margin about bu left for variatious | \nof mathsage. The Praiaster in the Hal King \nender, suede o in the envelope, and Kargualun \nreturns the change, if any, by teal eppar \nhunity, with a Meslpt for the letter, if i \nget to las registered, as it always single \nb. Oare should be taken to me te \npplication Nma, the Muney Order Ollies close me zure before the depar \nIberoo of the windm \n4-No order must exserd 418, at £50, will 27 include any fraction of a pony, vor more than two such orders honed to the se person, in favour of the same page. by the authe mail. Ordere will be drawn \nat the creat rata of the day and paid t the rate of the day when the advios uzivud, \n### The \nmission is as followe>-- \n### Orders \non the United Kingdom, \nUp to 18 ent \nיז \nار \nM54 \n£).......... \n72 \n### Land \nIntercamslal Ordan. \nUp to $5 or A...... \ni \ntor 10....50 \n- of Money Draer Offces in th \nUnited Kingdom may be unsalted ar \nbe exprezed by the der, here all longkong Shangh \nceraspondanes is invclubly deliver m 6.Names must be given in full (except \nLa metre plans of babes. \nwhen there is more than we \n### Boxholders \nwho desire e tu mad Cizen- | \nbe given if the order be rosed (a 26, Dividend Warts, Inexations, Cards, but the anal the Pago el t \n### Lobaques \ndew, all of time acme weight, to address are rose). It can then be paid, Hong, Bangkok, or the Furia of Chirs through Bank, and may afterwards in! and Japan, may sliver them in the Postpally crossed in ang Bank. Office stamped, the postage bring then \n### batch \nmust constat of at least ten \n### Fach \nhas signed it in the proper plans. \n### Buzholders \nmay also woad Vatterordor en be traced in anus \n### HONGKONG, MAULU \nAND CANTON RIVER \n### STEAMERS. \n### Nama \nTONE Captois \nJohaug \n760 Ogatun \nKiu Bhan \n40% \nKia Ki \n61 \nHentai, \nHayiand \nKlong-ping \nB Indu \nPovah \n1500 Carg \n110 \nLatovener \nSir J. Jaejoption! 154 \nSpark \nTong Ting \nWhile Gland \n314 Depre \nLiners \nB \nEw Bok Tong \n1200 \n250 \nM. Marble \n### CHINESE \nQUN-VESSELS \nIN CANTON WATERS, &C \n### Naste \nTrace Aus \nH. r. \n### An-lau \nChuu- \nDalterfold and Swira Cbro-ko \nK., D. & M. B-boat Co. Obing-ou T., C. & M. & string p \nC. M. & & Co. \n### Chau-tong \n5., UM, 6-bout Co.-le \nK. Acheng & Sonz \nE., C. & M. & boat (to \nC. M. 8. 7, Qu \n### Peng-chou-ba! \nQUAD2.06 Shum-i \n20 Benog, A. H. Q. & M. 8.bast Ce. 50-ang \n180 BE \nYOUSO NEIPPING IN PORT, \n### She \nanes places in the mane way. Eu-ok pasment of s additional comedia. Pater \n### In \ncase of low of an order, pesadly for Symphe \nvelopes vcntaining Patterns may be wholis i stopping Pade to the Br \ncloned if the nature of the contents be fast \nw tho like, Sheldraks \nfor Timasto Geriam brig \n### VSN-UPAWASH \nK. Achwong & Su \nKing-kw \nKinogahow \nLin-yen \nTalag \nChioge \nBritish \nFroueb \n| 2829898398889 \n### Commander \nJ. Godsli \nSlewati \nA. Walker \nChirrem Admini \nA. Gercenta \nChae A' Ho \nO. 1 Falaser \nPing Tre \nJ. H. Wade \nJ. B. Marry \nChing \nErd \n### MUNONANT \nHALLĀKU PANİKES \n### Blue \nJacket \nProcura \nForward Flo Fodvig \nKir \nMary \nMattie Macleay \nPaul Jooen \nSin of the North \nD. Maria de Molna \nGarooding Motate Nanacacy \nAroedown l \nfor Mauila \nBritish hargne \nSauce brig Brilled bacque Hele bu Brabr Slam \nbrig \nfor New York \na kerge Jock \njarital brig Bettiah barte \nSuanish cncratite Runboat 1. M. correcta \nV. A surefte \nHustlar marty \nM. axrette \nPranol frigate \n### patals, \nger Day, \npats, yer Lead, \n900 \n### MERⱭJANI \nSTRANKSA, \n-- \n### ival, \npor Day, \nfed \nplums, par Law, \nand Base Cage of 100 \n1. \n### Oct. \n9, 1880, HERCHANI STAMBULA. \n### Bankow \nBellish \n*Addits \nBrisb \nBrown Brothers \nAlso Can \ntor Shanghal \nClfaca \nCart Ludvig \ncle, per Day, \n### Class \nCarge Rosa - \n7.71 \n### Sost \nof ou \n1.60 \n| charged to the sender's servant. \n7.--No order can be paad till the Payon Nation \nfor Bongbong \nKiang-plan \nChiness \nP \nKrilish \n### MENBOLANT \nVALMINU VRANDON. \nLy \nGarsau sobeiner \nKung Wo \nburttioh \n1,34 \nMavico \nArvaria \nEritish \n50 \nProlong \nguaboat \nBloch \nfor Laden, da \n### SHIPPING \nIN SHANGHAI HARBOUR, \nBritish \nPell \nTaks \nReikish \nBЯKish \nCutrone \nOkin-tong \nBettioh \nfor Jcndum, ?ro, \nTeb-ata \nDatoare \n! Teritora Mari \nup.maste \nVidoratio \n### WALLING \nYARALA. \nFute mhiru Glamis Castle Gleneagles \nAdranus \nSkozesu bary EG \nNayanth \nBilish \nAzbasador \nFeghous \nfor London, a. \nBenjamin Aymar \nThemales \nVigilant \nH. M. de vossel \nChinese \n- \n### Bog \nOns \nor Pulizway BORIA, HON \n+7 \n6. 10 \nled or stated to the Postmaster \nshould \nbe may cowokery, and Order Ofice for instruction. \n$1.00 approved by him. Prated Cleoutar may be inserted in anob Fattom Packer. \n&- the order be nat presented within \nsix months an additoral commission will \nhe charged if not within twelve months, \n### Past \nThe public in retailed that, the money will be forfeited. When the \nNothing in Shin Sonlosteronta private sycəm\" \" share la se auch thing a Pamel Post order in oues paid no ipreter sinim cars buiomed \n\" \n### STREET \nDONE. \n### Sale \nof Hire for stint Ocalier. \n19 \n### DUG \nDay.......0$ 0, \n### One \nout,NATES \nKit \nthe boys bale in Fact pricala \nto Auro de Math rombie and dis entertaina \nprinterent sta danand by pazeistent attoripis i Hoarder dan be paid until she advice Fei Yuen \nto soud amali valuabin for through the relation to it has been eautyed. \n### Fancy \nWork, and similar preunia are con \n### Pat \nFast Carion Artiolar of Drew, \nfinaly wing refuse, the sandam having \noften spent more in Portage us \navo veil the traight by seamer. \n• Made out ou s printed fora which is zroglind¦ Bue-Jun \ncowbio. \n### Harding \nNot Local Oudere un Shanghat are draws at 2 put \nrefond can be unde an auch parcels of the vale of Stamps abliterated before tho nors of the coutente was discovered. \ni dor \n- nice to pile, d \nla cate for Arening z the tested Ning- \n### Ani \nin er et hanghai. \n### On \n14, 1880. \n**MEJUKANT ETRAMNER** \n### American \nVazion \n#Slut Left park oz andved at HauzkoHR \n### Printed \nand prebilahed by Gao, Muanat Baig, at the China Mail Olian, Na 2, Wyndham First, Hangkeng. \n### Excentive \nCouncil \n### Present \nFriday, \n122nd October, 18 \n1880. \n### this \nExcellency. Governor Sir John Pope theverry : 2CM tj. The Honorable Is Acting bestowish hentary Dr Sudrick Stewart: The Honourable The Attorney General Edward Houghton Ornellay \n### The \nHonourable Johor Macrails. Bios. \ntheent. \n### His \nExcellency Major General. Emraison-Courseranding Troops. \n### The \nCouncil meets this \n### Summons. \n### The \nMinutes \nSeptember \nday \nat 5 Rite. by special \n### Council \nheld + \nthe 18th \nELL \nare read and confirmed). \n### The \nfollowing letter from major General Bousoon!",
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        "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]",
        "content_text": "SXI\n\nNAME.\n\n(14)\n\nRETURN of PERSONS illegally Branded and Flogged,---(Continued).\n\nOFFENCE.\n\nSENTENCE.\n\nDATE OF SENTENCE.\n\nDATE OF BRAND.\n\nYears. Mos. Days.\n\nING AND DEPORTATION,\n\nDATE OF FLOGGING\n\nNAME.\n\n(15)\n\nRETURN of PERSONS illegally Branded and Flogged~(Continued).\n\nOFFENCE.\n\nDATE OF SENTENCE.\n\nSENTENCE,\n\nYears. Mos. Days.\n\nDATE OF BRAND-ING AND DEPORTATION.\n\nDATE OF FLOGGING.\n\n1867.\n\nChun Tye-faon,\n\nWong A-sow,\n\nMau A-yee.\n\nQuan hon.\n\nVagrancy,\n\nDo.,\n\nDo.,\n\nDo.,\n\n7th Sep., 1860,\n\n11th Oct.,\n\n+1\n\n19th Oct.,\n\nル\n\n1st Sept\n\n6th Jan.,\n\n1st Sept.,\n\nLuk Woo-ling,\n\nLee Ah-on,\n\nChun A-kin..\n\nChun A-chat,\n\nWong A-tuk, Lye A-yow,\n\nWong A-fon,\n\nChum A-fook,\n\nNgai A-kung,\n\nHo A-sing,\n\nChui A-kow,\n\nPoo A-fook,\n\nLee A-mau,\n\nLum A-foon,\n\nFoong A-loong,\n\nSuspicion of Larceny,\n\nLarceny,\n\nRogue and Vagabond.\n\nVagrancy,\n\nRogue and Vagabond and Escape,\n\nDo.,\n\nSuspicious Character,\n\nRogue and Vagabond,\n\nDo.,\n\nUnlawful Possession, Cutting and Wounding, Larceny from the Person,\n\nBurglary, &c., Larceny from the Person, Stabbing with intent, Larceny and Escape,\n\nAttempt to commit Burglary,\n\n26th Nov.,\n\n28th Nov,\n\n1st Dec.,\n\n12th Dec.,\n\n77\n\n| 20th May, 1863,\n\n10th July, 1865,\n\n77\n\n26th July, 18th Aug., 23rd Nov., 1864,\n\nChun A-Juk,\n\nYn A-on,\n\nChun A-yuk,\n\nYu A-leong,\n\nBwok A-bee,\n\nKwan Hing-sang,\n\nLoo A-lum, ....\n\nFoo A-leong,\n\nLai A-kum,\n\nNg A-see,\n\nLeung A-chu,\n\nLee A-fook.\n\nChan A-sing,\n\nOw A-kai,.\n\nHo A-boy,\n\nChun A-kee,.\n\nFong Kwang,\n\nTang Yow,\n\nCheong Yeong,\n\nYu A-sing, Wong A-woh, Cheong A-on, Chun Chong-kow,\n\nChun A-poo, Cheong A-foo,.\n\nWong A-choy, Lam A-choong, Cheong A-foong,\n\nLeong A-fook,\n\nYeong Chong-kit, Chun A-sing, Lum A-po,\n\nLim Pak-low,\n\nNgai Yee,....\n\nKan A-poon,\n\nHo A-ming,\n\nLee A-yam,\n\nCheong A-fat,\n\nLo A-tuk, Yeong A-key,\n\nChun A-yu,\n\nCheong A-quie,\n\nLeong A-poo, Ho Yuk, Chun Loong,\n\nWong A-ying,.\n\nLee A-yew,\n\nYew A-loy,\n\nOw Yn-fook,\n\nLing Wing,....\n\nChoong A-bing,\n\nSew A-yee,\n\nYow A-yce,\n\nKoo A-fat,\n\nLo Yem,\n\nLee A-kum,\n\nLeong Chuen,\n\nCheong A-fook,\n\nTai Sam,\n\nCheong Koon-yoong,\n\nWoo A-yee,\n\nChun A-hing,\n\nChing A-choong,.\n\nChun A-cho,\n\nHoong A-pak,\n\nCheong A-sow,\n\nChun A-fook,\n\nLo A-Ring,\n\nChang A-yune,\n\nChow A-won.\n\n23\n\n12\n\n21st Mar., 1867,\n\nJ\n\nt b t t Eམ 1 ཡ - -1 ཀྱུ གY ྂ° 6 3\n\nT\n\n=\n\n17th July, 1867.\n\n11\n\n1+\n\n13\n\n汁\n\n4th Dec.,\n\n20th Nov., 1865,\n\n10., Piracy, Do.,\n\n57\n\n21st Nov, 1861,\n\nt\n\n22nd Nov,\n\nLarceny and Escape, Highway Robbery.\n\n18th Nov., 1863,\n\n18th Jan, 1854,\n\nDo.,\n\n18th Feb.\n\n19th Feb.,\n\n22nd Feb.,\n\n18th May,\n\nLarceny,\n\nLarceny from the Person,\n\nRobbery,\n\nBurglary,\n\nLarceny,\n\nDo\n\nDo\n\nDo..\n\n22nd June,\n\nBurglary,\n\nDo.,\n\nDO.+\n\nDu\n\nLarceny,\n\nBreach of Conditional Pardon, Child Stealing, Suspicion of Kidnapping, Larceny from the Person, Robbery,\n\nChild Stealing,\n\nLarceny,\n\nDo..\n\nDo..\n\n19th Jan., 1865,\n\nJ\n\n18th Jan.,\n\n12th Mar., 1867,\n\n25\n\n| 21st Mar.,\n\n1867.\n\nCA-cheong,\n\nChun A-see,.\n\nWong A-foi,.\n\nChoy Kum-chai, Tsang A-toong,\n\nChang A-sow, Tuen A-kow,.\n\nWong A-fook, Lum Chow-yik, Chea A-ngum, Chu Tai-leong, Ng Fat-yee,.\n\nLeong Kai,\n\nLow A-chee, Cheong A-win, Mah A-Jok\n\nNgai A-cheong,\n\nChua A-poey,\n\nWong A-kwie,.\n\nLam A-fook,\n\nHo A-yow,\n\nCaun A-fon\n\nWai A-tuk, Wong A-hec,\n\nLo A-tuk,\n\nLow A-choy,\n\nLee A-lin.\n\nHo A-ming,\n\nWong A-fook,\n\nLai A-sing,\n\nLum A-ping,\n\nHoong A-pak,\n\nOw Cheong,\n\nNg A-s00,....\n\nWong A-foo,\n\nChus A-hung,\n\nChoy A-fook,\n\nLee Kwai,\n\nChoy Yuk,\n\nHo Kum-chong,\n\nMan A-Fun,.\n\nChun A-cheong,\n\nChan A-yip,....\n\nWong A-ku,.\n\nLee A-cheong, Cheong A-yee,\n\nChun A-poe,\n\nLai A-lum,\n\n18th Apr.,\n\n1+\n\n26th Apr.:\n\n25\n\n23rd Mar.,\n\n12\n\n}\n\n2nd Apr..\n\n14th Mar.,\n\nB\n\n25th Apr..\n\nLeong A-foon..\n\n་\n\n19th Mar., 1886,\n\n18\n\n9th May,\n\n12th Sept\n\nTung A-noo,\n\n20th Mar,\n\n18\n\n26th Oct.,\n\nNg Kam-suk,\n\n11\n\n18th Oct.,\n\n33\n\n18th Dec., 1865,\n\n18\n\n28th May, 1866,\n\n12\n\nHighway Robbery.\n\n19th June, 1867,\n\n12\n\nLarceny, Highway Robbery, Larceny, Do.,\n\n12\n\n16th July, 1860,\n\n12\n\n18th July,\n\n་་\n\n11th Oct.,\n\n12\n\nRogue and Vagabond,\n\n2nd July,\n\nDo.,\n\nDo..\n\nLarceny,\n\nDo..\n\nDo.,\n\nAssault with Intent,\n\nLarceny from the Person,\n\nDo., Burglary, Do.,\n\nBurglary and Escape,\n\nPiracy, Do.,\n\nHighway Robbery,\n\nDo., Do., Burglary, Do.,\n\nRobbery with Violence,\n\nBurglary,\n\nDo.,\n\nLarceny,\n\nRobbery,\n\nDo.,\n\nDit\n\nLarceny,\n\nLarceny from the Person,\n\nChild Stealing,\n\nAttempt at Larceny, Rogue and Vagabond,\n\nConfirmed Rogue and Vagabond,\n\nFelony,\n\nKidnapping,\n\nAttempt at Larceny, Rogue and Vagabond,\n\n5th Nov, 1866,\n\n12th Nov,\n\n17th Dec.,\n\n24th Dec.,\n\n$1st Dec..\n\n\"\n\n28th Oct, 1865, 19th Jan.,\n\n11\n\n18th July, 1862,\n\n18th Dec., 1863,\n\n18th May, 1864, 18th July, 19th Sept\n\n20th Sept..\n\n22nd Sept.,\n\nཐཱནཱ\n\n21st Feb. 1865,\n\n18th Mar,\n\n75\n\n\"\n\n18th Apr.,\n\n18th May,\n\n18th Oct.,\n\n21st June, 1864,\n\n29th Jan., 1867.\n\n1st Feb,\n\n13th Aug..\n\n4th Feb..\n\n13th Feb.,\n\n21st Feb.,\n\n19th Feb..\n\n10th June,\n\n25th June,\n\n13\n\nWong A-yune,\n\nSuspicious Character,\n\n$1st May,\n\nYune A-moy,\n\nDo.,\n\n3rd June,\n\nPak A-wah,\n\nLarceny from the Person,\n\n15th June,\n\nLai A-kong,\n\nReturning after deportation.\n\n10th June,\n\n12th June,\n\n12th June,\n\nChun A-sin,.\n\n8th June.\n\n17\n\nHo A-poo,\n\nLeong A-chee,.\n\nWong A-fou,\n\nLew Cheong-fat....-\n\nChoy Kwa-chye,.\n\nLee A-pok,\n\nWun A-yes,\n\nYeong A-cheong,\n\nLow A-yow,\n\nChun A-fook,\n\nMoo A-wab,....\n\nWong Kum-80w,\n\nSeng A-tai,\n\nTsang Sew-chea, Wong A-poo,\n\nChew A-yeong,\n\nLeong Chat-sing.\n\nChum A-chin,\n\nYip à-teen,\n\nChow Yeung,\n\nLow A-sing... Chun A-yow, Cheong A-kang, Leong A-po Chun A-sop.......\n\nChun A-cheong, Wong A-tuk,\n\nISUS.\n\nLee A-teem..... Cheong A-chow, Wong A-yaet, Chang A-sui, Cheong A-fook,\n\nYung Fook-hing, Lum A-kum, Chow A-chun, Mun A-chew,\n\nHo A-yun. Cheong A-sow, Lan A-tuk,\n\nSuspicious Character, Returning after deportation.\n\nSuspicious Character,\n\nDO\n\nDo..\n\nCattle Stealing, Larceny from the Person, Dangerous to the Peace, Piracy and Wounding, Do., Do\n\nCutting and Wounding, Piracy, Do.,\n\nHighway Rubbery, Burglary,\n\nBurglary and Wounding, Do.,\n\nEscape, &c., A\n\nUnlawful Possession, Suspicion of Larceny, Crambling,\n\nSuspicions Character,\n\nDo\n\nDo\n\nDo.,\n\nRogne and Vagabond,\n\nSuspicious Character.\n\nDo\n\nDo.,\n\nDo.,\n\nDo..\n\nGambling,\n\nDo..\n\nUnlawful Possession,\n\nReturning after deportation,\n\nDo.,\n\nSuspicious Character.\n\nDo..\n\nUnlawful Possession, Suspicious Character.\n\nLarceny,\n\nLarceny from the Person,\n\nLarceny,\n\nRogue and Vagabond, Suspicions Character, Larenny from the Person, DO.\n\nLarceny in a Dwelling-house,\n\nBurglary,\n\nLarceny,\n\nBo\n\nSuspicious Character,\n\nBreach of Conditional Pardun,\n\nHighway Bobbery,\n\nDo\n\n17th June, 1867, 17th June, 1867,\n\n24th June,\n\n14th June, 1867,\n\n10th June,\n\n24th June,\n\n6\n\n26th June,\n\n22nd June,\n\n2rd Apt.,\n\n19th Mar., 1866, 19th May, 2 22nd June, 1867, 19th June, 1861.\n\n20th Aug.. 19th Aug., 1802,\n\n18th July, 1864, 19th Jan, 1865, 2 July,\n\nT\n\n27th Nov., 1866, 7th June, 1867, 12th Jane, 12th June, 1867, 17th June,\n\n72\n\n29th June,\n\n13th Apr.\n\n3rd June,\n\n21st May,\n\n37\n\n7th June,\n\n19th June,\n\n72\n\nI A\n\n9\n\n10 TO\n\n25th June. 15th June, 20th July,\n\n3rd July, 20th July,\n\n5th July.\n\n16th July,\n\n11\n\n10th July,\n\n23\n\n::\n\nI\n\n3rd Dec.,\n\n6th July. 10th July,\n\n17th July.\n\n17th July.\n\n20th July,\n\n4th July,\n\n20th July,\n\n4th July,\n\nlath Aug.. 14th Ang 15th Aug..\n\n18th Sept.,\n\n1+\n\n14th Sept...\n\n13th Sept.. \" \n\nIth July, 4th July,\n\n9th Oct..\n\nו\n\n11th Sept..\n\n13th Sept..\n\n6th Sept., \" \n\nfitb Sept.,\n\n11th July,\n\n28th June,\n\n16th June,\n\n15th July,\n\n16th July,\n\nני\n\n6th July,\n\n+1\n\n11th July,\n\n34\n\n16th Aug.,\n\n31st Ang..\n\n3\n\n14th Feb., 1866,\n\n15\n\n22nd Mar..\n\n11\n\n18th Oct.,\n\n19th Apr., 1865,\n\n8th Aug., 1867,\n\nDo.,\n\nRogue and Vagabond,\n\n23rd Aug.,\n\n1st July,\n\n3rd Aug.,\n\n2nd Sept.,\n\n2011 July.\n\n17th Oct..\n\n20th Jan., 1865,\n\nUnlawful Possession, Larceny,\n\n5th June, 1867.\n\n9th Oct..\n\n24th July.\n\n13\n\n1th Oct..\n\n22nd Feb.,\n\n12\n\n17th Oct..\n\nזי\n\n4th Sept..\n\n10\n\n9th Oct..\n\n-A\n\n27th Ang..\n\n।\n\n17th Oct..\n\n::\n\nSuspicious Character,\n\n27th Sept.,\n\n6\n\n7th Oct..\n\n1:\n\n21st Sept.,\n\n13\n\n7th Nov.,\n\nDo.,\n\n2nd Sept.,\n\n12th Nov..\n\n21st Sept..\n\n5th Nov..\n\n27th Sept.,\n\n7th Nov.,\n\n10\n\n>\n\n13th Oct..\n\n21\n\n2nd Sept.,\n\n3rd June,\n\n27th Aug.,\n\n8th June,\n\n10th June.\n\n7th Nov..\n\n12th Nov..\n\n21st June.\n\n13\n\nDo.,\n\nLarceny, &c..\n\nRogue and Vagabond, Do..\n\nLarceny,\n\nRogue and Vagabond, Suspicious Character,\n\nTh.,\n\nRogne and Vagabond, Larceny,\n\nLarceny from the Person, Cilawful Possession, Suspicious Character, Larceny from the Permon, Larceny, Do.,\n\nDo.,\n\nUnlawful Possession,\n\n19th Jan., 1865.\n\n2\n\n1st Oct. 1867,\n\n29th Nov..\n\n:\n\n5th Sept.,\n\nBurglary,\n\nVagrancy,\n\nDO.\n\nDo.,\n\nLarceny,\n\nDo.,\n\n7ib Oct..\n\nDD.,\n\n2nd July,\n\nDo\n\n23rd Sept..\n\nLarceny from the Person,\n\nSuspicious Character,\n\n25th Nov.,\n\n11th Dec.,\n\n3\n\nDo..\n\n20th Nov..\n\n12th Nov.,\n\n9th Doc.,\n\n13th Dec.,\n\n20th Dec..\n\n28th Dec.,\n\n23rd Jan, 1868. 12th Jan..\n\n8th Fat.,\n\n33\n\n13th Jan..\n\n13\n\n20th Jan.,\n\n6th Oct., 1868.\n\n5th Nov,\n\n\" \n\n188",
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        "content_text": "LIST OF PASSENGERS,—Continued.\n\n  \n    No. of Ticket\n    Names and Surnames of Passengers\n    Male Age\n    Fe-male 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    130\n    Low Kum,\n    22\n    \n    Tin Miner,\n    Nam Chuen\n    Sydney,\n    Free.\n  \n  \n    131\n    Chow Wai,\n    18\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    132\n    Soey Kuey,\n    32\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    133\n    Soo Hor,\n    26\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    134\n    Taen Saye,\n    20\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    135\n    Soe Moy,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    136\n    Soe Sick,\n    24\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    137\n    Che Suey,\n    45\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    138\n    Che Ying,\n    30\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    139\n    Ché Chor,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    140\n    Ché Cheong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    141\n    Choong Kee,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    142\n    Chee Sing,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    143\n    Ché Chee,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    144\n    Chan Yek,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    145\n    Chan Yuet,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    146\n    Ché Kong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    147\n    Ché Yu,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    148\n    Chow Sing,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    149\n    Lak Run,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    150\n    Chow Wing,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    151\n    Wong Shing,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    152\n    Wun Poy,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    153\n    Chan Shus,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    154\n    Chan Heh,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    155\n    Ché Sa,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    156\n    Ting Shing,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    157\n    Ting Kum,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    158\n    Ché Kum,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    159\n    Ting Chor,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    160\n    Ting Iling,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    161\n    Soe Show,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    162\n    Soe Yun,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    163\n    Chan Way,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    164\n    Chan Chee,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    165\n    Loo Shee,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    166\n    Wna Kuey,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    167\n    Wun Kün,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    198\n    Chung Yeong,\n    18\n    \n    Labourer,\n    Sheong Chuen, of Hoi Ping,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    199\n    Chung Moo,\n    \"\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    201\n    Chow Kuen,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    201\n    Choi Yun,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    202\n    Chun Yin,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    203\n    Chung Kum,\n    32\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    204\n    Chung Tat,\n    53\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    205\n    Chang Kwok,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    206\n    Chung Yum,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    207\n    Yuen La,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    208\n    Yuen Phat,\n    31\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    209\n    Ting Chek,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    210\n    Chong Yeong,\n    17\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    211\n    Chun Lum,\n    13\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    212\n    Chung Fo,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    213\n    Kwan Chun,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    214\n    Ng Say,\n    15\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    215\n    Ng Sui,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    216\n    Ng Fook,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    217\n    Ng Kit,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    218\n    Ng Yü,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    219\n    Ng Kong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    220\n    Ng Keni,\n    \n    \n    \n    of Toong Kwoon,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    221\n    Ng Yut,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    222\n    Ng Tu,\n    22\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    223\n    Ng Mun,\n    +3\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    224\n    Ng Yun,\n    11\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    225\n    Ng Chow,\n    +3\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    226\n    Ng Ken,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    227\n    Ng Yook,\n    20\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    228\n    Ng Fook,\n    24\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    229\n    Ng Kow,\n    35\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    230\n    Ng Keo,\n    71\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    231\n    Ng Hing,\n    24\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    232\n    Ng Suey,\n    30\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    233\n    Lee Ting,\n    25\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    234\n    Ng Yook,\n    30\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    235\n    Ting Bong,\n    25\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    236\n    Ting Luen,\n    25\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    237\n    Choi Shaw,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    238\n    Choi Sin,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    239\n    Lee Yont,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    240\n    Lee Lui,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    241\n    Chow Shee,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    242\n    Lee Kow,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    243\n    Choi Kow,\n    17\n    \n    \n    Leong Chung,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    244\n    Choi Park,\n    177\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    245\n    Choi Park,\n    31\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    246\n    Chow Leong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    247\n    Ng Kap,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    248\n    Chow Hoong:\n    26\n    \n    \n    Ting Woon,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    249\n    Chow Shee,\n    25\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    250\n    Har Hing,\n    \n    \n    \n    Wong Fook,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    251\n    Wong Sow,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    252\n    Wong Mow,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    253\n    Yip Churd,\n    42\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    254\n    Wong Leong,\n    \n    \n    \n    Choi Yip,\n    \n    \n  \n  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        "content_text": "( 10 )\n\nLIST OF PASSENGERS,-Continued.\n\n(11)\n\nLIST OF PASSENGERS,-Continued.\n\n  \n    Male.\n    No.\n    Names and Surnames of Passengers.\n    Fe-maale.\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    403\n    Chung Hon.\n    \n    17\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    404\n    Chun Cheong,\n    \n    25\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    405\n    Chun Chü,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    406\n    Chung Nuy.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    407\n    Chung Yow,\n    \n    24\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    408\n    *Wong Chap,\n    \n    26\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    409\n    Wong Boo,\n    \n    23\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    410\n    Chung Hoi,\n    \n    24\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    411\n    Chung Tha,\n    \n    26\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    412\n    Ting Chuen,\n    \n    47\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    413\n    Ching Mun,\n    \n    26\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    414\n    Chang Yam,\n    \n    26\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    415\n    Chung Tye,\n    \n    26\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    416\n    Chung Kum,\n    \n    34\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    417\n    *Wong Chow,\n    \n    26\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    418\n    *Chan Yeong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    419\n    Sick Chok,\n    \n    40\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    420\n    Chan Wing,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    421\n    Chan Yeong,\n    \n    26\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    422\n    Chen Wan Chum,\n    \n    27\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    423\n    Chau Lap So.\n    \n    28\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    424\n    Chan Chuen Kun,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    425\n    Chan Fong Pi,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    426\n    Chan Wan Tick,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    427\n    Chan Lap Tim,\n    \n    25\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    428\n    Chan To,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    429\n    Loong Hong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    430\n    Loong On,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    431\n    Leong U,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    432\n    Leong Kap,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    433\n    Har Chow,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    434\n    Chau Leong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    435\n    Chan Pay,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    436\n    Yueng Ning,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    437\n    Hor Yow,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    438\n    Yuen Ah Yuen,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    439\n    Chan Hoong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    440\n    Pau Soong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    441\n    Law Kwong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    442\n    Hor Wah,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    443\n    Chan Choy,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    444\n    Chan Tin Wai,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    445\n    Chan Lee,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    446\n    Chan Kee,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    447\n    Chan Woo,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    448\n    Chan Mook,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    449\n    Chan Yook,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    450\n    Chan Cheong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    451\n    Chan Loong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    452\n    Chan Yom,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    453\n    Chan Choo,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    454\n    Choong She,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    455\n    Low Chan,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    456\n    Low Yee,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    457\n    Low Kwoon,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    458\n    Low Poon,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    459\n    Low Show,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    460\n    Low Bing,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    461\n    Low Boon,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    462\n    Low Chuen,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    463\n    Low Chan,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    464\n    Low Woo,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    465\n    Low Loo,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    466\n    Low Sock,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    467\n    Low Chü,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    468\n    Low Ket,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    469\n    Low Har,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    470\n    Low Yan,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    471\n    Chan Yow,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    472\n    Wong Suey,\n    \n    38\n    Carpenter,\n    of Sun Woy,\n    Melbourne,\n    Free,\n    \n  \n  \n    473\n    Wong Wing,\n    \n    24\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    474\n    Wong Kwoon,\n    \n    \n    Gardener,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    475\n    Wong Chun,\n    \n    37\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    476\n    Wong Keng,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    477\n    Lam Tye,\n    \n    21\n    \n    of Sun Woy,\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    478\n    Tam Mon,\n    \n    37\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    479\n    Tam Loy,\n    \n    31\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    480\n    Tam Ok,\n    \n    17\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    481\n    Woo Chü,\n    \n    21\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    482\n    Woo Yip,\n    \n    30\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    483\n    Woo Ying,\n    \n    17\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    484\n    Woo Phat,\n    \n    20\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    485\n    Woo Lum,\n    \n    20\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    486\n    Yip Un,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    487\n    Lar Wong,\n    \n    30\n    Tin Miner,\n    of Sun Woy,\n    Melbourne,\n    Free,\n    \n  \n  \n    488\n    Lar Shun,\n    \n    20\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    489\n    Wong Kop,\n    \n    42\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    490\n    *Wong Yik,\n    \n    73\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    491\n    Wong Wai,\n    \n    35\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    492\n    Wong Foon,\n    \n    33\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    493\n    Loo Sin,\n    \n    24\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    494\n    Leong Tye,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    495\n    Leong Son,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    496\n    Kwong Hong,\n    \n    of Sun Ning,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    497\n    Chan Wah,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    498\n    Tam Yuey,\n    \n    48\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    499\n    Chau Ming,\n    \n    27\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    500\n    Ng Churd,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    501\n    Ng Sam,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    502\n    Ng Tick,\n    \n    39\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    503\n    Wong Cheong,\n    \n    20\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    504\n    Wong Yira,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    505\n    Ng Shing,\n    \n    27\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    506\n    Ng Ting,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    507\n    Lee Suey,\n    \n    29\n    Labourer,\n    of Sun Woy,\n    Bat Sake,\n    Sydney,\n    Free.\n  \n  \n    508\n    Lee Kum,\n    \n    30\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    509\n    Chan Tye,\n    \n    15\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    510\n    Wong Fong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    511\n    Chow Loong,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    512\n    Wong Heng,\n    \n    35\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    513\n    Ü Phat,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    514\n    Ü Fook,\n    \n    35\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n 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        "content_text": "# LIST OF PASSENGERS,-Continued.\n\n403 | Chung Hon, |  |  |  |  |  | 18\n404 | Chun Cheong, |  |  |  |  |  | \n405 | Chun Chit, |  |  |  |  |  | \n406 | Chung Nuy, |  |  |  |  |  | \n407 | Chng Yow, |  |  |  |  |  | \n408 | *Wong Chap, |  |  |  |  |  | \n409 | Wong Boo, |  |  |  |  |  | \n410 | Chung Hoi, |  |  |  |  |  | \n411 | Chang Cha, |  |  |  |  |  | \n412 | Ting Chuen, |  |  |  |  |  | \n413 | Ching Mun, |  |  |  |  |  | \n414 | Chung Yan, |  |  |  |  |  | \n415 | Chung Tye, |  |  |  |  |  | \n416 | Chung Kum, |  |  |  |  |  | \n417 | *Wong Chow, |  |  |  |  |  | \n418 | *Chau Yeong |  |  |  |  |  | \n419 | Sick Chok, |  |  |  |  |  | \n420 | Chan Wing, |  |  |  |  |  | \n421 | Chan Yeong, |  |  |  |  |  | 27\n422 | Chan Wan Chum, |  |  |  |  |  | 21\n423 | Chun Lap So, |  |  |  |  |  | \n424 | Chan Chuen Kun, |  |  |  |  |  | \n425 | Chan Fong Pi, |  |  |  |  |  | \n426 | Chan Wan Tick, |  |  |  |  |  | \n427 | Chan Lap Tim, |  |  |  |  |  | \n428 | Chan To, |  |  |  |  |  | \n429 | Loong Hong, |  |  |  |  |  | \n430 | Loong On, |  |  |  |  |  | \n431 | Leong U, |  |  |  |  |  | \n432 | Leong Kap, |  |  |  |  |  | \n433 | Har Chow, |  |  |  |  |  | \n434 | Chan Leong, |  |  |  |  |  | \n435 | Chan Pay, |  |  |  |  |  | \n436 | Yueng Ning, |  |  |  |  |  | \n437 | Hor Yow, |  |  |  |  |  | \n438 | Yuen Ah Yuen, |  |  |  |  |  | \n439 | Chan Hoong, |  |  |  |  |  | \n440 | Pau Soong, |  |  |  |  |  | \n441 | Law Kwong, |  |  |  |  |  | \n442 | Hor Wah, |  |  |  |  |  | \n443 | Chau Choy, |  |  |  |  |  | \n444 | Chan Tin Wai, |  |  |  |  |  | \n445 | Chan Lee, |  |  |  |  |  | \n446 | Chun Kee, |  |  |  |  |  | \n447 | Chan Woo, |  |  |  |  |  | \n448 | Chan Mook, |  |  |  |  |  | \n449 | Chan Yook, |  |  |  |  |  | \n450 | Chan Cheong, |  |  |  |  |  | \n451 | Chan Loong, |  |  |  |  |  | \n452 | Chan You, |  |  |  |  |  | \n453 | Chan Choo, |  |  |  |  |  | \n454 | Choong She, |  |  |  |  |  | \n455 | Low Chan, |  |  |  |  |  | \n456 | Low Yee, |  |  |  |  |  | \n457 | Low Kwoon, |  |  |  |  |  | \n458 | Low Poon, |  |  |  |  |  | \n459 | Low Show, |  |  |  |  |  | \n460 | Low Bing, |  |  |  |  |  | \n461 | Low Boon, |  |  |  |  |  | \n462 | Low Chuen, |  |  |  |  |  | \n463 | Low Chan, |  |  |  |  |  | \n464 | Low Woo, |  |  |  |  |  | \n465 | Low Loo, |  |  |  |  |  | 29\n\n## \n\n| No. | Names and Surnames of Passengers. | Male. 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        "content_text": "551\n\nCopy\n\nTranslation Nr. 10.\n\nSelay\n\nViceroy to N Mis Cruisal,\n\n12th day of 14 keron. Bypar; 10th day of Geberry, 1011\n\nin the rendition of 13 Criminals\n\nThe Viceroy begs to make communication for the information of His Consul\n\nOn the 7th instant, the Secur received, through Colonel Teri Chin-Chang, his adjutant, a report from Ee Ping time, Lieutenant of the right company of the right battalion of the Tai Pang regiment and Commander of the Steamer \"Huang Ain\", to the following",
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        "content_text": "Taken from the China mail of 24th March 1881.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nIN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.- (Before His Lordship the Chief Justice, Sir John Smale.)\n\nThursday, March 24.\n\nPRISONER DISCHARGED.\n\nChun Lan (case No. 1), who was charged with unlawfully and by fraud enticing into the Colony a boy named Leung Awing for the purpose of selling him, but was found not guilty, was now discharged by proclamation.\n\nUNLAWFUL DETENTION OF A BOY.\n\nChung Achan, Chan Aman, Chan Acheung, Li Ayeung, and Lam A-Ng, were charged with unlawfully and by force detaining in this Colony one Chan Afai for the purpose of selling him (case No. 2). Three of the prisoners were convicted and were now sentenced, the other three were acquitted by the Jury.\n\nIn passing sentence his Lordship said :- You, Chan Aman, Chan Acheong, and Li Ayeung, have been found guilty of having unlawfully and by force detained within this Colony Chan Afai, a boy aged 15 years, for the purpose of selling him, on the 24th of January last. Three other prisoners were charged with having participated in the crime; although they have escaped, it is pretty clear that some other persons besides these prisoners took part in this crime. It seems that the boy, an apprentice in Canton, was met on the streets there by you, Chan Aman, and you enticed him to the steamer, where you, Li Ayeung, joined them, and all three proceeded to Hongkong for the purpose of selling him. Here the boy was kept confined in a house, shut in by you, Chan Acheong, and the boy was offered for sale to various persons at $17, and on his being subsequently offered for sale his crying attracted the pity of some humane Chinamen who informed the police. Here we have evidence of an awakening of public opinion to the enormity of kidnapping. It is mainly to this, it is not as I believe to any increase in the frequency of the crime that it is owing that these cases have been brought to the cognizance of the Courts. The sentence on each of you is that each of you be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for the term of two years.\n\nUNLAWFULLY ENTICING A BOY.\n\nIn case No. 4, Chan Alam and Lai Ayip were convicted of unlawfully and by fraud enticing into this Colony, a boy named Chan Ayun for the purpose of selling him.\n\nThe Chief Justice in pronouncing sentence said :- You, Chan Alam and Lai Ayip, have been found guilty of having unlawfully and fraudulently enticed into this Colony a boy eleven years old named Chan Ayun for the purpose of selling him on the 22nd Feb. 1881, and also that you did by fraud detain the same boy within the Colony for the purpose of selling him. In this case the boy was coming back to his home from school in the streets of Fatshan beyond Canton, when you Chan Alam his elder brother enticed him to a tea-house, where you gave him tea and then took him in a boat to another place where the second prisoner met you, and you both took the child to Canton and by steamer thence to Hongkong. Here you both through an associate offered the child for sale, but you then failed, and you Ayip took the boy in a boat for the purpose of taking him to a steamer starting for Singapore, but your conduct was so suspicious that Cheng Cho Yi, the boat-woman, took you back to the praya and gave you in charge to the police. At the Central Police Station your story was so plausible that you both got off; you persevered in your object and the child was offered for sale at $50 in a public manner in a public shop. Fortunately Wong Man In, one of the active agents of the Chinese Society for the suppression of kidnapping, was present, and he caused you to be arrested, and the guilt of each of you has been clearly proved. This case, whilst it exhibits the disgraceful attempt by a brother to sell a younger brother, presents two satisfactory facts, first that a Chinese boatwoman handed one of those prisoners to the police and that afterwards an agent for the Chinese Society to suppress this class of crime caused the arrest and conviction of these prisoners. These facts are indicative of the public mind tending to treat kidnapping as a crime against society calling for active suppression. The sentence of the Court on you, Chan Alam, is that you be kept in penal servitude for three years. The sentence of this Court on you, Lai Ayip, is that you be kept in penal servitude for three years.\n\nCRUEL ASSAULT ON A GIRL THE CHIEF JUSTICE ON DOMESTIC SLAVERY AND ITS RESULTS.\n\nLam Ayau, a married woman, was convicted on the 18th, of assaulting a girl named Chan Akun, thereby causing actual bodily harm.\n\nThe prisoner being called on for what she had to say, reaffirmed that she did not beat the girl. The marks that had been found on her body were the marks of some disease which the girl had. She admitted that the girl and she had not been on good terms. If she had beaten the child, she would not have spent so much money in curing her eyes. She spent a great deal of money in curing this girl's bad eyes.\n\nThe Chief Justice now sentenced the prisoner, and in doing so said :- You, Lam Ayau, have been convicted of having made an assault on, and having beaten and wounded Chan Aking, a little girl aged seven years, on divers days, especially on the 8th of February last, thereby occasioning to this young child actual bodily harm. It was proved that you bought this little child for $48, and you took her to live with you as your so-called servant. You treated her as your slave, an act which I unhesitatingly hold to be in itself a misdemeanour. Power engenders cruelty, and you habitually treated the child ill, and you gave way to bad passions and beat the child without mercy. It seems that through weakness the child wetted her bed in her sleep, and your passion passed your control; you took burning wood from the fire and burnt the child's body between the legs. The neighbours interposed and called in the police, and the child was taken to the Civil Hospital. Dr Marques examined the child at the Hospital on the 10th of February; he found two scars filled with matter on the front of the child's head, another big scar on the back of her head, matter there also; her left ear was bruised and the lobe of that ear divided; there was a swelling on the right side of the head, a scar on her left cheek, and there were marks of beating with a rattan on the back of the left hand and on the left ankle-joint and foot; the lower region of the abdomen and both the child's thighs were burnt; the child continued under his care in the hospital from 10th February to the day of trial, the 18th of March. She was in a weak state when she was admitted, and in Dr Marques' opinion it was from ill-treatment. Wicked cruelty is the natural result of the system of slavery, which it is said is found in every well-to-do home in Hongkong when the sense of power works on wicked minds. This disgusting, unwomanly cruelty must be punished very severely. The law has not contemplated such fiendish cruelty and has not provided a punishment sufficiently severe for the criminal. I now sentence you, Lam Ayau, to be kept in penal servitude for three years. If the law would have sanctioned a more severe punishment I would have subjected you to it.\n\nIn finally disposing of these three cases, with all their enormity, sources of satisfaction present themselves in the fact that in each of these cases it has been owing to the spontaneous indignation of Chinese men and women, that these crimes have been brought to the knowledge of the Police.\n\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "3rd day of November 1881 at 11 o'clock in the forenoon of that day to undergo \n\n....\n\nHong...\n\nFrom Bake notice that by virtue of the said Writ the said Wong Chan Yong, Maury Chang King, Yeung Yeung, Yong Phing Cha, Jeong Alluring, Jong Yeung Klung Siu, Yong Hoon Tuck, R. Chia, George Grong Shak Thing, Tying Noon Bing and Yoong Kam Cheung will be brought before the said Acting Chief Justice on the 4th and 5th day of November next at 11 o'clock in the forenoon in order-\n\n....\n\nto the commitment by which \n\nthat they are in custody. \n\n....\n\nbe discharged out of \n\nthe \n\nof the \n\nare now detained in the custody by \n\nthe said Superintendent or Keeper \n\nof \n\nthis \n\n30th \n\n7513 \n\n513 \n\nSealed. The first day of November \n\nYours &c.\n\n1881.\n\n(Signed) E.F.A. Laughter. Acting Registrar \n\nTo the Honorable \n\nMalcolm D. Struan day. the acting kapistrate \n\nEdmund Papps Cowre Solicitor : \n\nProsecutor: \n\nProsecution: \n\n \nlosecution:",
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REEL & C  \nAgants,  \nHazlerne, Auprat, 1864–  \nNOW HO  \nAsia A  \nRats 241 Djeran  \nWan, Hir  \nFR Stamps & 120  \nPalom  \n34. 27 Pivl  \nFe 143 POR  \nGur. she  \nBossen & the  \n(Mar. 27) Guldberg  \nMalinzčan  \nJan Allama  \nBut ser  \n909  \nSimon & Th  \nBangkok  \nSubarusana  \nSink 20  \nChunk  \nSat. 25, Prouenitos  \nthen r  \n3127  \nMiles  \nFin Che Sau Supt.  \nClich  \nRulles  \nPos To! Pingager  \n3  \nRowe Dea  \nBipi  \n9.  \n1  \nFeb 22 Roma  \nRei  \nPuar Yuen Co  \nSea  \nSAL  \nP  \nBelt,  \nElab  \nNov. 27 bias  \nHip-  \nChir  \n1 Bulaos  \n6 at Ashanus & Muda  \nSator  \njous 24 Canges  \n33:7  \nPek Kon  \nity of Teko  \nam nu 50 MASC  \nDeut  \nNov, 2 g  \nAae. ses! Code  \nE  \nPosit  \n:25h 101 Petaryen  \n1 ofer  \nReb  \nThe islamiza, Asats for the refrants iny, s prepren to AGERT BISKS  \nFB-ness per Ce. Nors  \ni  \nThe Virates Fitfache Chorozup sa dissyfucced with a Company's betteltu vit ! * Pre unes fasaun jodur forest of Lebanon, i Association, Tandliale at the Pratite neg din. formerly orgive, bas deindied down to hand oumaly to Contentus, washer the demption of t. mura thicäct, nuluring holders an ink in oraygutten ka tiks der E Mount 10 track. Ex Rate it from complete set of Bhunia sentian Seals, the re- deal rates and rear its tenet in its wining liúint beint zavrtal to Reserve Pant. present extant, Mossem Pasta, the Governor faneral or the Lebanon, kas iernat o apostel  \nvestnanca, dariɛining a series of stringent regulations cafealated to obcok, of pot geno ! kput a stop to, the windshem and enrolas rena of most rarelie in maroma  \n----  \nBRADLOE AMITH,  \nBonetary. kung, Rith a príl, 15x1,  \n............  \n194  \nNATIONAL SULANCE PANY OF WTETTIN,  \nty forbidden to put up tents or other why Tatarstant hawayers park kinds of sheer lite the distries of Aron's for the shove Campmay ara payanad to  \nthe traza, to light Sky A Raguis Frans Curent Tadie.  \nprovisions in the daily. No one in qui  \nJvwed to break off a bough or evez a twię į  \nfrom the brews. It is fortidden to bring af  \nboasts hunion, be shay lursan, mulei,  \n24, or an her kind of all, withi  \nthe duntos. Shoalit ozen, shuip, desks, ar ļ  \nHourkony. th Aĺny, 1821,  \nOVETTE IMPERIA  \nAMYR &  \nCOMPANY.  \nA BE A 2000.  \n'NORTON & Co. Hi, 2015, 1821  \nBATAVIA SHA AND FIRE INSURANC  \nCHIMPANY.  \n*  \nMay  \ntatesigod, haing been appointed recaud Agerator the phone feetpake, ani pro Hungerlan pregná Kosmynoms ne tolkayna zeml  \nMARINE RISKY. edictors at Corrent 16 sise, ravalle with heat of Tik Jamen, dat the actacipal Kamelin, wond the url.  \nA KROKUYAGE ei famry-rumun på Ope¦ Bay Chi  \nhinwed all LACIAL Hing Kinng num JAN DISES. Policicur on Viruplars Build Lido  \n1. Pas an extent of Per  \nA MITTWERP Pu can! (903) ANC pie Crawant Legal Et on wife wil dat  \nat javnima chegued for kasvavanise an islamgia Levant ning details the line of the Jasno Migue Picim at Pulley.  \nRUSSPLL & Come  \nPIRE AND LIFT. Danza gast Prak avled st Chur other pantsruce oucle be found thin the end Sister. Coxiltimates Halperion preted initu, toy will be irredeemably ¦ for Kids äxanxarren in China. antented.  \nPERSONAL REMINISCENCES OP LORD SATTORD.  \nYeteran lyn god for youry Priso  \nFlingum ad vos ural feel the Bstania  \n'you'  \nMATAR & Chn, granata.  \nBaalstrix. r  \nHargkone, It Tunare, Exte,  \nAntiqu  \n41 p  \nA GRINDE GASKI hear ALGAMES MARITIME Vulva tark  \nWhite Yengizza ROLE TRANSPORTS REUNIRS,  \nPARIR  \nFan! Young www.200 1995, Truh  \nTHE WORTH BRITISH PIKE AND MATEN INSURANCE COMPART  \nDE NHW RALAND  \ngunay to make a bridge of hosta CAPITAL, CLOGANY Das Mimina Stadings  \nbronce déturgavo no5 Rygtehteli ine the patri  \ngets allied armis, the veut of ten Dank ATENDARS  \n¡Cartran, Sym  \nCarr A To.......  \nTezda, laving been uppgirtali AGROS of the Alony, vel to  \nIrving noviall be tact the Ensino Vedamind, Inning bidea EPETUTTI MAUTO HK to Aras Wallabia. The it time I had fonts for the lace Clayang, are pronamed in all para of the Woll 4 Pelaw Leicnger wo when I want one: ACCEPT FICE A MAGNE EIŠKA K  \nli, Iard Stintfand to dies with Carvers Bates, allowing im nota.  \nAdmiral Sir James Daedale this bird the  \nBritaux. O renting the ship, we heard!  \nGRO. D. STEVENS & C  \nfrikany, 241 305, 1989.  \nCOMPANY OF HANDONG.  \notee of the picwe call out in si sove of noj PYRANBARDANOG DIRA KNAVBARU great respect  \n\"Cune, cum, Prince, this wilt nerar du j  \nBlue Jancary, 1994  \nHOTTOFT  \n----  \nFTUR QUINA PIRE LIBURANÑE COM PANY, LYMCPRD,  \nTe Votersigned, being tom puckered is pegod to AZUBES WBST-CLASS  \nBeck buster swabben.\" Agent a len Crageny, as propered in sever Anaco, aut tier 15-  \nC¦ YUNANIRO av tinm, nå Ratum,  \nby wurde, hace pan, do! ARPT RENK gas in use winin Tar that By Dirty sange wall teguleer,\" in word Strate  \nm. Toch Norway A  \ntord to the Admin, whe whenced to re  \ninto the re  \n* Print of Triingua, the amez  \nEyself the boner of sating to your  \n$325,\"  \nSIRNSSEN A CS..  \nhan pase of distributi ig a estudi prax. POLA 16 14 49erida prod analygyaka (13 ane) Sharaboleza wa kaka parkiábatel \"business  \ndaine Company  \nFril  \nMash  \nLis  \nMwe  \nSon Hanlin  \nJJ 3 Cou  \nFeb. 20 Ti. 3  \nAze  \nFab. 19. Büs  \nFirs  \nYANCH ; 9% *0*  \niDou. I't. Margar  \nrish | Man Yung Wzg  \nJet  \n5:0  \nBlested & Ca  \n2301.& 6. B. N. CO  \nJH  \n3. Dell & Qu d. Ses  \n- zle she | 66 | Bavarra à Co  \nSamalei, &  \n37K thong & Sani  \n3. M  \n2. Quandrid Squ  \nJun. 23  \nuesרני  \nMAGASAKL  \nIN PHAI OK 3 Faxrany. THES.  \nir, je (3,  \nYORONAMA.  \nIN Pass 10 JAPONY, 1991  \nAuri  \na.  \nAdamsta, Hall & Co  \nBangkok  \nBeamch  \nActonick  \nfun pro Jan.  \nArgon  \nBirla S  \n332 in  \nCaptai  \nBiguney  \ndo  \n•Carlis  \nAline  \nFren. Sir  \ntiiases & Co  \nFab. Kutafi  \nFre  \nOoh. Es choegin  \nKid, ade  \nJ  \nChines  \nFeb. 19 Tawi  \nN.C..  \nAbout Py Gantry Art, Karhe & Co Snorr  \n3. Crabap  \nAmesed 31 | Captain  \nBulmack  \nVen. Willigis  \nBril  \n13  \n1  \nAnna  \n!D'  \nHid  \nAs  \nथ  \nJ. SA Mo  \nBrin  \nCeb  \nS  \nBeth  \n236  \nP. 31, C  \nPas 2 Wel  \n20. B  \nbarte  \nGov, sch  \n50  \nSan. El Wostokyo  \nLamb Peter  \n3.1.6 Br  \n'anim  \nBb. A! W  \nDuelo  \n28 Cast-su  \n1966. 2; M«Guita  \nBag & C  \n: Hutbew  \nSapt, on sale  \nAint-enh  \nOur str  \n$: Willey Do  \nCaro  \nPASTJ  \nCabin  \nthe  \nCag  \nFeb.  \n2  \nRicky rick  \nAUT  \nDe 13 Janeken  \n48  \nP.  \nJay  \nY. Man Hou; Ann, s  \nhunting  \nTalag  \n| Ave. pl 1735  \n2. 3. C  \nJuly | 2. 3. Tuoka, sterowa Wa Yuzu  \nWait was D. Laik  \ncintzelan Dan. st.  \nMrk. 18) Verused.  \nBaverik & S  \nthus W's Yan  \n2. Stymes & Con  \nMela SAD  \n4,17,& ki meumbeat De Baena,  \n*  \n4.  \nHet steiga  \nจด แม  \nBalt, By  \nSiooyen à ca  \nwich &  \nRow 1 Kayaci  \nlivi, p  \nEAMING NAME 132.5.  \nPh & Warga Maritions  \nAura C  \nPrk 110 man Aura Gay  \nNOSPHORIA 107. \"AD!  \nJun. LauqUIL  \nCatt plin Urvavy Meets of China. Dullay Jan. 181 W. tidley degan, and at  \nSO WHE  \n12! Simarovie dềmchand  \nG18 Orist  \nلابت اور  \nBak  \nMaria Anon  \nAsc.rol  \nالمقاتلة فكر  \nJ. 1851  \nDTAGEL-  \nSANTIA  \nBell at the tinglin  \nBj  \nGer. 196 Chetan  \n* Get al: ; Lives  \nAnch/5 Ca  \n237  \nAm 25 tais  \nGer. Cutia,  \nHER BRIANNI MAJERTY & SHIPS IN THE CHONA SQUADRON.  \nاوری ارشد را  \nEIG  \nالامل لاله  \nCAPTAIN.  \nJang  \nCW. 'Enct  \nSing  \nS.  \nC'. P. J.,  \nHube  \n237 Captain C. ini se  \nbungkal  \nM  \nPaul Jonas  \nARNOLD KASHERS & C  \nJA Welboort  \nFeb. 12. Brundt  \nOne kan Ju  \nSIGHT  \n4ma  \nc. Di Babes  \nAlden Bean  \nส  \n3447 R 9!  \n11  \nPrecious  \njëngë  \nPhilippines  \nVERISC  \nJan  \nKoyim  \nNothing & Lo  \nHoste Ruskri Custom  \nPerciva  \nPietars  \nSatan 110. 266. No793  \nAzev iska  \nPorti  \nJac. 13; Ornhu  \nAmr, li  \nw stany  \nBelt.  \nArabold, Karimiz 3. Co j  \nConta  \nSurveda  \nCarsha  \nCaires  \n& TILT  \nW  \nBURNOVA A  \nAlly  \nE  \nSub 11 ting  \nLik, bit  \n350 Advatar, dull & vis  \nPole Pruse  \nሊነ ă  \nAmba, Aytmag de Lin |  \nhound  \nLED, God  \nAir, th  \n55 glebies & C  \n14. G. Bo  \nSi | 81. Sohawas  \nB  \nSestrat  \nJin 10 Curn  \nAir M  \n1150 Azamgu. Beil  \nIl  \nI  \nAm. B  \nspric  \n7150 CÂÛ. A. Cargober  \ndove, Riquas te 52253253  \n¡Fanny  \nMtagu  \nJu Yourse  \nNo  \nBST  \nHo  \nBy  \n3 199  \nCum. 14. F. Day  \nDIRECTORS.  \n5156,ties Jai Virus  \nVinterio  \n25  \nSwit  \ndabiases grea branji  \nT  \nALCAL  \n3 W  \nTo  \nriving bip  \nVicin  \nvidle despat  \n2276  \nWireca  \nBanglong  \nKam  \nLa Palm  \nNagamit  \nT  \nPint  \n1927 at 4. Qu  \nMae [namzigrad are pegama Froe this date TOLICIES Frier a tho  \n4. 3. SOKEN.  \nHonka. Mar. 1650,  \nA shy-footing multiprou pracacdotari de stat 8900  \nige tum ire à Smiral, to used to the  \nAmbassúng who he was deligin first-cines Tiskr  \nace in, and hapad i have the boner of his  \ncompany at inner utzi day at the hy  \nBe asid this is loud voie, a da to ve kened  \nby her he had dured to see uner!  \nLINSTEAD & BAVIS.  \nHatokon. 10 Yar i  \nWER ON TAL INSURANOK COMPANY  \nCLIMATRON  \nrelation of a Muressy with so Aspho cera.; PEE LOVBOK ASSURANCE; Bars Foss $70,858.27; Fin  \n2017; then he panel round and socalači INSINENEATED P  \nadaluperespeit  \nStrated's fling of loyalty  \nprofound a bal of a sincero bever  \nfitae vigat must ninna be very me  \nWin, SE1 Kewu  \nSustra  \nBarthe  \nWise & fo  \nPerth. Duels, b  \n! Iselt sure  \nBrit  \n¦ Ane ja  \n372 Ambut. Kacheze de  \nAdamvua, Dlt & Gu  \nSi Orien  \n30 Solussa je ča  \nSW. £. Das  \n74 733. Jaspaik & C  \n18? Siemcare 2 On  \nDay | Captada  \nCrkvara d  \nA.  \n19mm & C  \nAmr. Razer &  \n3.  \nBMW 5  \nKI  \nb. 146. iuge  \nTARTED OF  \nA  \nM  \nNay. Vie  \nA.D. Caltrend baby ho sent  \nthe abi  \nNew, 17 Willi  \nDit, k  \nFah. 19! W. 'g  \nVor Kase of the Yoo Choong rang  \nFranz.ch  \n1.Tan, Estaitija  \nVais  \nden B1 Mayar  \nM  \nJan, 01 1. L. Bray  \nJan. 1):  \n! W 1 Serpe  \nplantes-  \nMARINU DRAÍTMENT.  \nWoxu Y! Bey, of the Chuc ftacey Wing of Agr  \nTun fund of the Tipp the Wire.  \nPure NT Wrath of the Dias dos Bolbores. Ej Kalk Wosa 'GERING, Of Ye  \nthe tonal family was his at slifert arbonated delove. When the Duke of Cambelge was clone to bury his guess palice of crus, o es pale sitt To The Morw, if the Kwang Wins Cheng  \nF  \nJue a feo Jugs at the Eusbance, he went  \nmade, 38 sa priani Poets of You  \nhis dering gown sed sappers, at en mely: Ohm, and 3 andrenia, kt  \none in the morning, that the rema  \nFULC DEPASSTENT.  \npreamed for his Royal [Eigens are in Polizios ishoni è long uy shows perivés ti  \nberek orday. Finding the Date's voles in color ranging the tranka and  \npetraentious bish |  \nSALE WETARPIUNT.  \nPad Retired, the Aubaskede begla ba girs Delineaued for racing directions how they thenat be |  \nplaced. The Rt reduced rates.  \nmer left of meeting, and stared as Cord Stratford  \nMANAGER- AMEL  \nHARTER B doet ko. the f QUERENT RATES to Acolmit Dalitra. Mile, Burapon Rain, May, to ai (44), Enute Pitse of this and Ja  \nHales, D. Pravit 240. Haku, 1218.  \nLO MOLLIDA WIER, 250);  \n26 Jul, 1870  \nwal tell you what the said at TN CITY OF LONDON PIER INATE  \nANCH COMPANY. LIMITED.  \n\"I know bow his Hopal Host In  \nhave bra nga anapes inter than you du.&PURAT-E-PAPERADO  \nBy job op-ed de off, will you,  \nLed Stratford into the room in a towering  \npansion, and culling one of the auction,  \ndeka bice to go and tell that men was in  \nma that he and veekuned to add an  \nZappanger to attack who retuned  \nWeli,  \nPAID UN RESERVE YUVD- UNDO!  \nVodaviest having boa appisależ¦ pete for the hote egy  \nde Acer ass gapal Print 21. Ca Hour  \nCEO, E SERVENY & C  \nFUS  \nSpec  \n107  \nbest app inte!: Flakin  \nNOTICE.  \nNEW YORK BUARD Heilo  \nARNOLD, KARERA & Ca Funkrag dah Sentor,  \n1979  \nTOBZORO JE AMEERTJAN 2 WOREIGN SHIVVINA,  \nma  \nARNIMA KARBERO & Br Hobgob.  \nwith pakai Kid 154 wat de bou?\" m2; V ANCHESTES PIES ASSERASU XAN ON INSURANDA COM.  \nthe Ambassador.  \n\"E sad to bia, my lund, but the paten  \nIn when he had retured to area with  \nTangzage maker Majesty's Kepenti  \nir Fers.  \nCOMPANY OF MANCHESTER  \nAND LONDON.  \nEstanyen 1921.  \n“Ah, gate right. And what was his guy WHIGH TE PA-UP... LEN()  \nджетны  \nNastave  \ndr $12,000 Bracing  \nHe answered, my lord, that is never til  \nyou warah'  \nwa singular featury in Lord Sreat  \nford's new husty dising states  \nager wasid ankenly be kupeared by NOT-  \nPANT. DEMETE),  \nAV Calamone,  \nE, IN Bahat  \nAAAAH  \nمرین و داتا ولول  \nMAJAO  \nH..AM. Fisartut de Cauter  \nANTON  \nii.  \n| Gizyon &  \nLp. 21. Sana  \nBrit  \nButterfici  \nBab 2 Drama  \n; Eiseraces & C  \nADAXA  \nis 14 FCAT, AL  \nMaksija Māc p  \nCebaty derrotial  \nAbi-subt  \nying Thoug  \nJan - grubost  \nConte in tegabi  \ndual-row go vessel  \nAuto gail-Tequel  \ntermiying board  \nplate ut vesti  \nzaube  \nKIT  \nruot  \nINSTA  \nHongkong  \n110 et 1o. Makyn 61905. A. F. M. Chia  \nKi  \nTa  \nCaptain. They  \n10 Curl  \nKoue Forty  \nالشاره کار  \nAcl.Com. 15. Trend Singapur  \nCan J H. Core  \n1. Bəndika Singepat  \nLieut. Geta. M. Gridgn,\"  \nCongres  \n126 ه بر امور باید در  \nClay Jobster the male poze  \nCase Co  \nجوانان ام خالد  \nFJZDIGN MEN-OF WAR ON THE CHINA AND JAYAN STATION.  \nSAN  \nį Abrosa  \nAtent  \n! Alors  \nStrin  \nAsi  \nCumentar  \nAshut  \nSartel  \nHursh  \nKrasin  \nInese ar  \nCAPTAIN,  \nWHEL AR  \nCaptain Stebraz  \nApr  \nFranek z bot  \nChimney Caillard  \nSalyau  \nCommandy T. p  \n$apizca eruntha  \n! Portmate trase  \nAPL-67  \ncezvelta  \nLalion consult  \nKamian (penly  \nNorman Cortla Burcan çembe Fronek roerm Anlene gruntown.  \nSpin test  \nA best  \nTrussian art. I  \nLee Tak  \ngrangi  \nANG  \nJJan. 2ki Yantai  \nDen of  \n24  \n13. A.. Peter & ku  \n1152 Bienesu  \nor Ruh  \nBesin traspe  \nCli  \nEr I hate  \nNermy  \nRana znanst  \n5, 13 Jud  \nPakis  \n#5મા  \nJa  \ne. D  \nunty B  \ntbeats  \nF. 19:  \nKonzulan peran  \nÜnam of ladis l'at  \nah keine  \nDub  \nCAPITAL BEADY Proserineal al:24,668.; Vais  \nAZT JEUSJAL  \nKON HOW WAY, Fr. Chairman. Aerling.cs Tie Hot, F. Cras e Fial.  \nBAN HAR D  \nINSON, n. Qry Mug  \nTholaiesigel ince bean appointed Agrants,  \nthe nas, tavo sad at  \nHing waiters to hit lui. To get Eustis Curat Ra  \nso in this cosul he enjead hea  \nJanga with  \nanother ion, an stcube bad made  \ntwo nista ne doprzeg a dismalei,  \nwill be 16tk 63 the Archansado for signa  \nMistem may to made,\" said Ford Strat  \nford after solating them at  \nthe very!  \nvarsta delen wish to by shini  \nHOLIDAY, WINK Fengkrang, P, Calases, Bir  \n8AMES A  \nMAKARY  \nLIMITED  \nIBAISANCE COMPANY,  \nUkau Orrace. Boku  \nPor  \ni  \nKTM Kar  \nAvary  \na TN, B. Asid Santes C  \nThe CT GRANTS POLICIES  \nCho Vide  \nDESKS 63 ala carte of the Waid this  \nrolita Apnasier. Patribus Divblends sy payday l ANG Coctribes of Design, whether thug bar  \nStoneshalder de ING.  \nLONDON  \nCHANGK  \nAgent China for 164 Urn!  \nWOO LIN YOEN,  \nSperstars.  \nHRAD OVERCE,  \n,, Gran'a End West  \nAquane, Marab. 11.  \n1525  \nThe high spirised pov ciplest at you Colajny, to wop MADINE CHUS NOOI SA Pottery wwwrgir soud, and told Care Brat  \nIs Cursor  \nChime Du  \nfram),  \nPURLINE DAILY  \n1420  \n19 15:Hu  \nsai Busty  \nJea  \n17. storoch  \n228 A  \ner 34 E. A.  \n207 LA. Pete Sou  \n11, the 954 Rogd & Co  \n$49 1.3. Pel & Ce  \nCOMMON.  \niz Posts Iza Persuar, 1962.  \nWe  \nthiaga nee  \n2. Future  \nSHANGWAL  \nOptin A. D. de  \nCHITRA B., Wallin  \nat Am  \n4ptsir. ubrz  \nShpreis Rubotom  \nCaplein 6, Norg  \n| Gayanie Vur Knif  \nfum salar Xiana  \nYehudit  \nJn  \nHouckunz  \nHo  \nGanuzmuñor quite sami, tu l'a  \nV. W. Tong! Hunk  \nCATE  \ntanama  \nK'Ocoeendez C. & Quem! Eskuham  \nCouder kavand Thacistu  \nVisdireuzel  \nViadivostos  \n70  \n30  \nCazzi Tubink  \nflores Valienās  \n91  \nHozekcay  \nVeptam eher  \nSigap  \nCozy Mugle  \nSharvari  \nJapaja Sioengine  \nBul  \nI sinhurs  \nCapla  \nde Doria OnePuik  \nAlquite  \nsaigra  \nNagheaks  \nunder: Suwach  \nMaria  \nSt. Intersburg | Kei  \nTanayoel  \nGardan onze  \nPorcian comedo  \nAmerican curetan  \nPorteraiya grabenade  \n'escri  \nCopiad von Blena Casar Delivra  \n1999 CoA. 1. Cube  \n250  \nB  \nSatt  \nJ'unan  \n'1'  \nPonens  \nItzanino tropløst  \nStuonies ko  \nU  \nSunkia  \nLMR.  \n20-1  \na Federaly, 1  \nGlee's tr  \nChin-ti  \nCutun.ja)  \nching-A  \nQui  \nChopr  \nTw: El Rusi  \nJu : Berish  \n! ! 285 Makin  \nMotl  \nBelarus Primers & Co  \nab W. icatort de  \nac, Kg & Co  \nI For  \nFourt  \n! Bu ba  \nM  \nCens  \nS  \n16.  \nrice na .  \nof Batm  \n10.  \nTi  \nford bat, altough he was his Amasadar, conne  \nDam  \nSHE.  \ni had to ght to repiten hun for what!  \nADAMSON, BELL & Co.  \nProtantes  \nWas tene, ba ce was not hebitaedly careless, i  \nHakone, th May 25  \naa. ari Nem  \nPris 14 96  \nForster, vees & C  \nPAK  \nAnu, b: Jes  \nPell  \nNi  \nBrit  \nMER  \nMac & Co  \nBrit  \nYou werfly  \n--your eyes selaimed Lord Stabd  \n2) pour Brodiva's!orted  \nthe alb  \nThe Eley Durous lunghing.  \nSan VERZONY li les bra gemalenud ormibi. of Pouncy: Vindtisch, Small IVERPOOL AND EXTES ANDA, nge the rest on in cou ubore INSURES TCE COMPANY. iation of uns Chinese ampire in the Hand  \nThe Lederige, As the hoen bias. If show by a  \nHedr'g  \nHolding Counnar, des DOWMEN FRim ta do Chong 3cbeles, sul cenou na Raken  \nGRANTI  \n\"his honda kim, he begged the stine TTM dnced TarifPro for du vilising a head at the tee the infrally of his tespar  \nPOLICIES CALIXTILN  \nthey shoot and racet wordially-oplei  \n20 phemou  \nM3 Mercies & Ce  \n14.&.Tri Cu  \nDr. T. C  \n91 Jr Walent  \n'\\' ctly tun  \nRysl  \ne Fasioo.g  \nThes  \nA2065  \nRates  \nchat kurash, Banglory, or less! Pade  \nTANGSAR LYPHAIK &  \nHongkong. th May, 1  \nU agung, làth Januvɛy, 1577  \nHO! Klykn  \nBritn  \nLins  \n67  \nSiz Martin  \nGen 52  \n155  \nGesinalin & Ca  \nWe, bis!  \n343 · Nils Mottar  \nHung-barz  \nI've got  \nTeling  \nCANTON OISEOAT SQUADRON.  \nPORNO, VONN, HE  \nVry's best 17 149  \nLore via  \n9.19 Mar  \nViking's pani-bak  \nBryster  \nViens' animat  \nint  \nFumar's inchoat Revontiret  \nFinny'sunl.cek Vient Bacolas cruis Viseryʻkk Vicy-gonizi  \nTching-  \nTentang  \nBA Sat  \nPhi  \nB  \nBi-Lin  \nTriag  \nVigganum  \nIni etuier  \nCOMMANDEN.  \nSLATION.  \nHongkong  \n| by  \n5230  \n75 J. Baze.  \nE  \nChai  \nF. B  \nVinery',nical sti  \nLany ie ing  \nChow hi Close Admiral d), ('bing  \nCati  \n4  \nYang Yang L  \nCali  \nPied Pubbled in a meat thinl  \nWare st  \nCanton Piret  \nQual  \nBeg  \nCitol  \nUrise By Foru  \nBegins Porta  \nWhat Cont  \nPucle Perta  \nMonkey  \nHakus Xin  \nB+ Lot un  \n55%22:14001 Heront, Hunsicoma.  \nNo. 7649  \n436  \nThe Hong Kong Daily Press.  \nSLIPPING.  \nANGELS  \nDANKS.  \nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1982.  \nINTIMATIONS.  \n(YOMPTOTH A GROOMITEE DE PALTI, QUS HONGKONG WIHE IN Febrylases, tribes teamer, 945  \nVIRE INSURANCE COMPANY DIXIEO. Dkny 18th Plecary, 40-  \nCorporates and 150h Merek, \"S recal-BRAON.  \nNOTICE TO SHARKHOLDERS. Pebermy 22, VOLMDR, Denish adapter. 973,  \nRecognised by the T. toew: Sevation of TORRENT 2018 AD Here, E.. 173 Fektivt, CAPITAL Flot Cars Ge  \nANGGA MUSTING of SHARK --Tune é  \n24,265,000 HOGUbs in the alene Coy with n RAMATZ PORD  \n£59, 190, at the Leaf the y. Vis. 7. Quza's Timcid, at (ait pas The stock, be instant, to meeile Mataista to BAN EPICCO Men, and be Elena Cheatin Ouderr, HANRON),  \nFebruary 28, CasaDEA, Brier, 62  \nY  \nAUCTIONS. PURRIO AUCTION.  \nINTIMATIO IS.  \nRACE HOLDATA  \nimas nadelgum te meived lastration Vodermentioned tenka will (LOSE!  \nPAINE  \nhuma Surgem Wajor MURRAY to Sell for BiL DAY. CU INOSHOW, SAVEDAY tb. TO SUMAR- Adranty Jáhl at 2  \nend 25 inatra, Prayz von Fac  \n\"  \nBowin, Brigas 12th Pub, Mig-2s; HEADOFFIOR-14. Ruz heres PAROD¦ Plans 24 THORDAY, turb Echomap HGTSEJ 77, &  \nFulmer 94, Yes. British rv, 78% Le  \nSolids, Cute and F. General SCG.  \nOLEA RANKS.  \nAT \"ne Haren Hispans Ojo Inst  \nExperky Pre  \nKauai, Cheve sht, for Hofla Minster, Beitials for Away. Pocha, ens tramp vi. Adilok, Gorman bark, for Tas  \nDEPARTURES February, Fame, Brist destit, fur Petrony 22. Hamaw, British slower, for!  \nTi  \nFeby $2. Stok, iliahanet, for  \nXokebena  \nFebruary 2G:=x01\", British Mesmer,  \nfor Sought  \nPASKENCYRS.  \nSAPIVED  \nAGENCIES AND HRANCE A  \n: Exoak.  \nNANTES  \nBom  \nSHOW  \nMALIGE AND, {3\\_  \nSTONEY  \nTORONAMY  \nLONDON HAWKERS  \nThe PA (  \nTHY WIN AND  \n1.cruce  \nMoms. C. J. Hume Has  \nYue Honger geny powers Pixupnitä  \nica Tomas to outcertained on appřánation!  \nA few randife sun sull jarts of the world,  \nINT Escapula sees of king shangs spiness  \n8 February, 199  \nF. COCHINARD,  \nSpeat, foug  \nDENTAL BANK CORPORATION KÁRÍCUNDOSATs my Horan CHADIGAN PAIDUS CAPITAL.......  \nRATE OF IN CHEST ALLOWED  \nthat por Acy.  \nCurumiles and  \n11, the sport thu  \ndongás my CALIORNO COVERED DRAWING  \nHACK WORD VARITE TO TABLES.  \nPer fan Oring Par laws Corporation,  \nURO 0. BOOTT  \nVaror Hogan  \nFeh  \nTEK Mas Baxi or!  \nINDOOR, AND TIME,  \nI  \nMEARTH PLASS DWMNRY CLOCK For the CARTAR), gkeun.  \nKAS, PICTURES, CASA.  \nDISING  \nJARDIN, MATSON & Groepen, Turk Fire Inspired: JIERA, and GAS BRACKETS, Hongkong Ft This  \n300 TEAKWOOD  \nane DESBAKT SPTS, TXA and OK. THE KOKORONG FIAR INSURANCE FRE SETS, KES CHINA, AYASO and  \nCOMPANY, JAJED  \nPEATED WORK  \nNOTOR  \nDA, T2, Cha  \nWILLIAM FORREST.  \n三十二月二行 INTIMATIONS.  \nTHE  \nINLO-CHINA STEAM  \nPwCE 2 PRE MONT  \nINTIMATIONS.  \naan dus on afwan Wang Bankulmat in  \nNAVIGATION et  \nCOMPANY, LIKE  \nDOPE THE ON  \nJAKA MAP & Co. OF ON. SGAMAN  \nDE 100 GR  \nIN B  \nduly paid the allocati eft liable to cucina Aul blau paparents previously now:la | to furth  \nApplications Exe Stuures osatiede in the For resoring is Pregnet, and scre £t be nut w the Giles of the Conryany, and ET FACT HOLLAND HAPO &  \nMAVION & Unshiun Could  \nFL, &  \ncally paid up awers wi listed in the set the  \nHome buy a the belies of bei  \nBCHEDULE OF SINAMER Apers.... IV: 1000! 17+ Propnely Natasha China  \nNavigation  \nEd for palle Bulcription foil Axe 10.  \nDaposi's, Application.  \nIL DUR T-SCHTE! ឬ ៥រ Howe, TURO...  \n?TADLE, SIDENTS, DIN.; For the Suprzin DeY DE PARS!  \nRASSFEE Both of the BA (ABYAL GUARS TOILET LADIE gray, will by COLONNE the 15th CAB, sud HANDLE TOP WASH the 2in my of Foling Instant Antonio HAND SAWINO WA  \nSTAND rundade  \nHeating. P.IVARD.  \n1 gang.  \nFor sýn Fynbou A Hawking:  \nGOBATION.  \n1. Ja  \nJACKSON,  \nCiel Tenger.  \nHigh Fetary, 1893  \nVuw...  \n1.  \nStow 7 espel  \n294  \nof the ac  \n134.ag.  \nTotal 40 Reginas  \n2. 1  \nMarch, 18 They, Julita will a given of any far.  \nMAR WILLIAM SEES 108, 8, Lombard! Strne end, of Messe JANDERE, MAAT. Franz & C... Gui  \nWANTE  \nB. 1. Eg Int JARDINS, MATHESON  \nA., of Modern Wang, Aus the lungest\",  \nESCOPE ↳y Yerin, with Astrono.  \nTHE OFPRUS # 5. REONTRO ITA TUOKAS REID, Fu, of Youre ALEZA ILANO for the last is in: 25: Rp & Bora, Hiszpan elony Fire To Exe Hongkong, 22 February, 183).  \norder to artiste directions tots 3A 10WGING FRUT, Luchst C  \nELLS, Sight Fairy and Fowlies with Alus Olice for Certilours!WILLIA HILAND STEEL Best the 24te of Maruh application for a lifed  \nLaredo, Mus. Maison de Ca  \nai Harkong and Shangani me to put ou sitration, des that the rely on Paal tas ng inuis, of Nabor of the woich bars fan tanutted Cir the thache il in Yokohama ki  \nLE  \nNOTRE 10 MAEINERS.  \nThe Murty BOOKMASI...557 to Mic PANG, Heiki-  \nding, Malbyona  \nWIPH nerados to the show the Ton  \ningabout 300  \n500 Thesie Ban-Cal Breneb Londing 1-15% duty to ware Yemane vise my hyn Trung ist RS YACANDLEW. Eng... frambursgard sin proprzeć la neige at Feet  \nH: NGRONG AND WILAMMUA DOCK HOUSE.  \nCOMPANY, LIBYTE),  \nNOTICE TO SKALHOLDERS. THE ORDINAGE YEARLY MOETINO AARONESS wie El. AusCe por u  \ntine 631: of the way St, Pra Co Atis Moon Notions are for the WEDNESDAY, 1st March 16 Crea Acu kap Verms which way Rape of the Dino desterraun nå Wote wat so syylientcy.  \nPer Craplar at the Guizon, ed Uning  \nSPARTER  \nPer inturn for maple- Heverink and Europe.  \n15 DEPART  \nFenton, Su #trilow. --I M  \nPet  \nned 10 En Sivingbat. —ü Kuras Hongkong, 4th Kaptajulus,  \nA  \nEks  \n2 Werte sinamas Poling aproni, liar en helt Ft 1 4.hart Furt of Junta per had fresh M  \nHONGKONG SANHA BANKING  \nBut  \nCabal, sud u when to iau i F & put as far, the 27th in  \nTYLE SAL av  \nJ. W ARMSTRONG, A Gmianeer.  \nE!  \nHugong. 2: Feltery, h  \nPUBLIO AUCTION.  \n30 Marie Trinn 20 N  \nPARKLAS  \nVASITAS POÁI  \nKRALIAN-) (ptrend tyres Bar & be pupaese 1+ing indired in tiruva ih let Deber, is net be reated w  \nCeiba sa Japan. THE HONGKONG AND SANITA  \nApplications nae sive China Ghid port will the GNGETRO (NO which was BANKING CORPORATION, 31, Legal Shanghai and tanut at es, in 1981, this are: Stowa Londe  \nSULMITORS lium Changer of Daisy, and  \ncoivaraga tenger, Rok Dustings. Lesken, Feder Bud Lave Resorts briar by My Dear Hetector, 1959, perubat  \nant sieel to toe!  \n£ 1145 Asto  \nTip  \nti per Suadu witin emal opplication MY FRESASTELDS & WILLIAMS, Iwili han dells, and f  \nSercitare Kia calix award in the prospertise BROK  \npercation with the Depp hver will COLLANT HALCONE 2 DA  \nIbsen in dernery by un punto  \nIrant  \nthe Crash testa del Polish, tions Pubin Lily, as is al fusion of use rack, Ord Froud Best, ruin of tiktirnar. Ar Bostamil the Bills  \nFCESDAY.  \n95 Fay, that, wi fuam, at i  \ndes Kant's theau's Hom—  \nAlarm  \nut Loud.  \ni wengine ci Suijn, 38 prescribed i  \nAUDITORY.  \nCloud B AND, YOUNGS & y 92.1  \n· Carly- the Hurst Masy! bor Theiver of timpiere AaJim,  \n1. Déso. Agrot Tenkung, 2ed fakeway, 1885.  \n(176) C  \n? 11 Feb 15.  \nGM Q. SEXYTT.  \n*  \non te  \n!1st Ja  \n: Geinatal Back Cowperatio,  \nHen  \n•Bain Kingüe I Ginacenza  \n11:  \n£, 100X3  \nDod  \nl  \nHegory at Fee Seurotary THE HONGKONG KE SHIVPANY,  \nLIMITE  \nActie  \nTho Aust  \n4  \nan Vrout Pa tom throughly sportmaled |  \nChege Diz--  \n-----  \n1. J. DANDYY.. For  \nok Cempery wel is vinent in Branca lyds, 3.36.111 gaat disision, aber in Gear, My A. T.  \nCORPORATION.  \nPAID-UP CAPITALA RESERVE FUND 99  \nDu. Reja, ta, Ka  \n1, 2  \nBrugkeer we run Bina Mother; lepabraziunar—H, LC WRY- Zoeks. Ea  \n2.m 12. Harper. Th Em Breite Dorary spezia of. Multi-  \nSen. Bul Saigon 2 Les arming of indian Forcery. Y Might Sure wins within wother up to the forein;  \nstrange iterata to a fregite wise  \nBigh  \nPOOCHÓW TUPPING.  \nFelc  \n4. Appiu, Thetish ale, from Shanghai  \ning, wie foam lengky.  \n5. E. Hahal, from Weiur.  \n6. Han, C.  \nC. P  \nbuck, ia behat.  \nHogan  \nNOTIF  \nTHE FIRST ALS & DENKRAT  \nMENTING VERS 14  \nza  \n- ved sj  \ntho  \nMAYMER  \nJackson, Ey B-FEN CARROS,  \n\"CERT-  \ntone into thangala, en alt 109  \nKathaway of Kurlon Des  \nTEMPORARY OFFICES.  \nIron Gauden to no and in the latel  \nfogar with the Appunt rather to in ↓ pametna may be inspect be beting „No. 1, EAST INDIS A FENTE, LONDON, Absorbers at this hoss of tile Tureisigass  \nLanai whole Bingen of Applination for S  \nPG Compare bat beri famed for the pur I wire of orqaising for the C PURCH  \nWANTHE oded by the Forsary and WYOMPETENT STRAPONS for Etners ATRAM NAVIATION CURANT, Ofnbul,  \nFor Father Paroisse soy mila, Under- zig int.  \n2e os, at was on Bata-Orl F the Par  \nhona Mitoba MSDAY, 3 ay lace Meat he pose on why talk of like T More magis obras of Anat Balete of the Con Boster, 255), Tranter. All of safer to be Lord of  \nby the Purples, and for Yesus to be at pe  \nLONE BARES-TON CO2 & Consterk par 1  \n•pat  \nBunker-LAYSIAN Anorga  \nitement anys,  \nOK g the Company  \n¡ will be CLOWEST) Len. On salliinstant, ve zl i Phuyu's risk az tho Biebs by cine  \nCavento Acerante al this remith next, both days nho, pop duju ou like Illya  \nThe Mandi Paprika  \nFortyor Band, por Azamolb  \nFurler Cut your bac  \nFat the paper Auca  \nGAL 3 Angest  \nHad Me 101 chrome Chotos ye; destriglio of Balag and Exehazge!  \nCusted stated Scurity !  \nGleznas. His Sha  \n4. Sibul, if  \n78, Kwangwung, Erstili ste, dva  \n1. Suctive 34 amph, France  \nFour D  \nTank, Brown-  \n5. Pild, Critter back, ne singel-L  \n2. Deur Vasi Deitina look, (  \nAmoy.  \n7. Ms. Heiriza pelo tan bai  \nrit, B. bit.  \nfor Any.  \n6, Agi til str., for whi  \nDr. Heilial str. for New York. ya, Shelb  \nBrilly 142, farma. Ing. Mirtich str, for Hongkong,  \nZNANOTIA SHIPPING,  \nAUTOSALS  \nWulu. Britisú as, from Harku.  \n6, Kinag-ong Ulduage ita, frenz flatma  \nB. Geway .. from Kucheyrna  \n- Bridalstrom Hojcity.  \n6) Langmon. Chioma ne, frew Hongkong,  \n5. Klingeline, Catur fram lafen.  \n''yan,  \n7. Name the trum Nagusiki  \nBrivion wir, Ines Heater, 7. King. Chani kiz. Pero Hakow T. KONTO, Bullies wir, freno Bonzow,  \nYangtae, hate, from Thungborg.  \nmon.Gec. From Barefo  \nB. Catras, Heiti 47, Bonbay,  \nVarin t'uiteto frut A  \n4. Yenity, Chitum, fena, Wakoa.  \n9. A. Bitdeh str. f3  \nKonkow.  \nBuy British tea, from Haukum  \n9 Mon Jagt, he  \n3. Birish str. ne kaik  \n10. Mennar, Him. A may  \n24, 4ppi, lich etc. in Feb  \n10, goshi Weru, daş, art, tre, Kineban  \n,, Torches at I'm Sratur.  \nsan, sem sta, fram tvorbow.  \n11, Chiz Britise 4, Frain Nugaenki.  \n11. Kincy for, pise sta, Free For  \nJiweltlah me, from Hack.  \n11. Child, Britse stres  \nveg  \n23. Mika infra Ft.okow.  \n14. Vraniu, Brizi i teras Ni  \n12, Pag-chua, Cebu, Gun Haugining  \n13. Paking, Britisk str. from Harian  \n12. When, Sritha, Fran Ningpe  \n23, P, Velg from Navski.  \n13. Artawan, British ate, trong Ngebak.  \n13. Bellapin, Criticstr, from hay.  \n14. Kangitsen, Obiamo côfine  \n14. Why Chinese  \n12. Cf. fe Grice, Neftials aly, Fara Fausto,  \nYel  \nWa, Kritish or from Purbox  \nDEPASISKGK.  \nTulis, fitil:  \nfry.  \n7. Larisa ar, Caliber cust  \nser, far Harten.  \n4. Karlebota, Utili ste, for Hong  \n7. Kig-yong, CU Hor  \nWCA Vite fish sirir Hanken Wencho, Bitlah se fre Bentor  \n7. T, Batin ats  \nvalt.. Sur Au”.  \n3. Yolors Faupat, for Kris.  \n7. Anjaszóne. Maitish to. Lo Nayan  \n9. Pribe. Fruch as, for  \nVery arm, Jap, sie  \nCheambin, list, for Tookes.  \n9. Sualon, Bisjal nie,, for Chato.  \n3. British te, & Nhup.  \nA. Wynn, Erinala ste, får 1  \nKorinetes,  \n5. Clay, Beds he for Nagild  \n6. Tade. British si Hongkong.  \n3 Dakinu 1. 1-i, Nagki  \n8. 1. 1. Chernosina, qez Nag!.  \nSing, Eisk er for Haukee.  \n2, Wan, Heffasi atr. Yee Hankge  \n8. Tagesbian Here. Sup, so, for Nigeri  \nNow, Beltani ste, fer Swabunt.  \n30, Yehsie, China, Cil  \n1 Yung-ring China for Wacker.  \n1. Kung, helliah straw, For 'Batkow,  \n1. Yet, 1 Late, for thinking-  \n11, Exitish fry  \n11, y, Brick size for ever  \nᎫ Ꭸ .  \n-piant. C.Dave var for BakuPP.  \n33. Natumeur, the Hali ste, ing Bunton.  \nNang Byi-ish swamar, for Desigər 125.  \n12, W. Stupin. Trilin's barb,  \n13. Did Ms pett, for  \n1. Hritish star, fer  \nfine.  \nut,  \n12, Appiu. Rzinies alapone, for Benchaw. 12 Hole, British baek, for Puntur.  \n18, in, Paul sicsance, for Yongpa  \n14. Bang fou, Chiron 5., for lankaw. Tino, Titia, for acco  \nJA, Bhara Kort. Danish, Aw Aney.  \nJá, nilon. Ispitful: man, tum feudon  \n14, Hung-mono. Elite for Ning.  \nAUCTION SALES TO-DAY.  \nNout  \n2 ZON  \nM  \nHongkong, 2012 Paketars. 1  \nHION FRONG AND  \nj  \nBANKING CORP VOHAL  \nNOTICH TO,\"  \nIruding flower  \n8:4  \n36  \nS  \nSTRIA DE ATESON & C  \nHenare! Meapp.  \nPangkor, Nuth Pukssary. 199  \nund bag hij brente Vicker Bust Yantraze AMIN CORPÁSY, n2 Plang!! Fue Paci  \nhos, mad from Jers spaly to  \nTached beat soother in the basisve of! by the Seantul.! Longhwag. Ha Fairy, 1982 1844 tonnes Lowashed Rivers of  \nClaire and bear China, the trait to  \nCo. is a pig MANY STANSTER  \nIONS TO OUR NOTICES TO CONSIGMEES.  \nNONERS OF OPTION ANDA BOO,  \nES. 8.3. COPS 8.5.37ENECK,\"  \nFROM LIVERPOOL  \nCHUPTING  \n4. M. ARMSTRONG. Ani Hwgkong, 18h Bencowry, the  \nTUNGKONG RACH.  \nEN to the GANE Encours for Gentlenes being Sah  \nof sið, er towards, 19 dla Band. Frogi. for Now able to the rain o  \nG 183 No “Stand st  \nj zorth  \nVin Ind  \nKIULH いやい  \nprente, oz Chica  \nDžiova stek u poziveliùsling of  \ningen be adding it to the  \nit various inter report, and the mak  \nsent. Phyu Mr meting the grossier zegaremasts  \n1887  \n25 ROYAL  \nCITY HALL  \nSATURDAY,  \nFysoket W. 1892.  \nNWOUND  \nA doing it en wilson BAND MAGICAL MUSE,  \n(man, will-hitic can itinere of the Copywny a  \nn the tindasi bu chipul from i zemotestira ierastinent.  \nuus later. As the ch 2hr Nice damer of the Cases Gastre. Tesigns for skijamast wer stame SASANATATION FERPANY, and the Yama MATRON.  \nZOEK UNTAMED ODPAT, an ecided in 191 1841 Beans Surya Shanghe, ut by  \nYonghorn, Bind Baravy.  \nBiznim, faren 1.20 Szymoliem wist, Hors of 'n. Sterling Verze 20 bcxcision so we go sa balkg m / Bulk Sare5dista, nail s  \n1 Burnering in to bad on 1  \n& DOVAN JAMBRn unsaaf Beurs, Brayer to the Cuntan Com's Glenovels are eli  \neg in Chin, OU EN The motel of 91-6 PASAREA 2 Fashion, Bry, fine \"Prana iameter  \nThe word after war and be the beds day of son carried inde, Cartes et Corner here. And image, and of the Coquialiis, an owning wikasi a Pielie, so be shown to the the Sadesigual, ja sinth casas 14 will turn on 106 mee Yangtera, wyether with  \nTAS-Ty  \n| Thakanume Pie  \nI even me punten af 2), ka p (zujimoto su upang to, WARDANOS, . 15th Folmany, 385.  \nEAL TRUE) By ordre often Coert ut vector  \nClerk of Cur. Respons. My kids  \nTAXI, and chan 132919TH THEM? Wenen in  \nAmeric, Cala en Ju  \nT. JACKSON, thief Marugas.  \nMecs E the Corpoention  \nNu. 1, Q's and H  \nNOTICES OF FIRMS.  \nFUTICH  \non  \nT. JACKSON,  \nCAVE Hargr  \n190;  \nL  \nPRIDERICK 2017 in auster  \nTO BE INT It is  \nthe by Prz Fenratica bertane ot Sasunt.  \nBOCAGD FCHE CHASE & TO 9. PATLEY TRA  \nLET Mogg. 15, 1  \n1593 Kars,\" N 29 Azer B  \nUraze, in N IN QUEENEY HAD tex-  \nCo  \nTUR CHUKKAB INSURANCE COMPANY, Puch  \nICMITED  \nNOTION.  \nAVDAVID Mungkan. Mick  \n3SOON. WINS & US dowry, Sm  \nI'  \nk's day had doch zeigen kaki of Me T. BAY . . D MAUN! Bolay the a  \nZ  \nW ROINES,  \nDoorway. In You, Je,\"  \nM  \nNOTICE.  \nKunis been appoint Agents for thr  \nNO. 2 LOWER MONQUE TERRACE  \nApply to  \nJ. M. ANETRONIA,  \nHongkong, we fibreney, this  \n.....  \nTO BE LAT  \nWith mata konica  \nNETSUZ BUSHAN KAISHA, OFWELLING HOUSE No & O Basing  \nPorto this For  \nHongkong  \n980. STEVENS & C.  \nJanuary 18  \nXOTION  \nATRA LAMEDA on mitted  \nPatios in my Where no? tán Hestnesi will be watere at inder the |cale f  \nSTRIL & TALKM  \nNTS  \nNetgan. Feb 12  \n..............  \npatuled,  \nGut, thoroughly tapultad vol wy  \nApply to  \nALEX. A. AGA KIHELIOS. Iveco J. 1+13 RENKIJOS & Q....... I  \nHvaley Stroth Ifonytone. 8th Bobnary, 16  \ndelivery train Graf or China  \nCon 1995  \nCIO'S LOAN, or repruned Blaess Ne  \nApply to  \nLISTSAL & DAVIS,  \nAngkor, Sim Fe K  \n+452  \n2ist rebrany, 1837.  \nand five aziona  \nun sft art its simpellant, waking  \nfest Et une ged wit's the that they the C101: Fally put up shar Vilor, and of which songs is vrugt  \napdaivers after the with Pelaars,  \n1982 aufgeno  \nFITTERS SIRE Agra, Rogging, ul Februny. 1:  \nFROM LOS DON AND SINGAPORS.  \nGLENFRO4-,\"  \nBurta, Brasiguam;  \nCAL  \nLE COMIDAT PERFORMANCE.  \nDISPLAY OF NECROMANOS  \nGLINK T  \nPROFESSOR RUCHWALDY,  \nRENA WIMANT Wind 28* Wansker Taare  \nAn entirely new Pumnites  \nPUS PARTICULATE SES H  \nPAX OF ADRESTON.  \nDrain Cirak seil Sti  \nPl............  \nidio finálem in auffores Hall Pries Tickets to be hat den Neue Key & Wag med at dhe Tales  \nDight The Steamy will be alten | Performer 1. studio of fil, the Frinksminga  \nPosing a CAPA  \nLe ɖe Compray.  \nCha Cha Stry Farmats of J. Convams may extantinuci în 10 oun  \nAsily. Fructe at 80 Pig, Performance to com  \nLading jajene za coudseted with Nathan  \nDowny, Fetienacy, 1885 Is her secon! it ONGKONG, CANTOR, ANU MAURO  \nPLLAK CESARDT Sunambig  \n| basing arrivet ROYAL BELUSLINTET COMPANY,  \n(of Surg Am Barely this long com, dying lady letras Fassies and Saverbrai.!  \nwiik esvapur of Oplan van het bal Salon Pung, Cl ritl  \nThe risks dete pas earns of De Visita, en Kerck, whi Biznad, vienne di Paw the wharem a otra ringstjen 4 way to ohtrize],  \nSADETLY APPEL. Hoy, 7th Folamry. 1983  \nNOWN SALE TOOUND VOLUM is of the Chow95-174:7-8410$ Tags per h Yone 1287.  \nPark The Dak Arty Fina  \nBong JANTY  \ntr  \n3 H 1  \nX  \nG..  \nUWALSH IN SILKS, Canton and Slot Brass Pro Sharris,  \nbana ng Wang, Curiosis,  \nDenaliende, Talul Chalca orm Tebies, ie, f..  \nGOLD AND SILVER FRATELLE  \nCaro SST, P  \nROM, QUDEN'S BOAT, EXC MAHANA.  \nSTEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED. KXOURSION TO MACAD.  \nSOMANES Panxha \"KINETANG,\" will for Latine ange wül informadales the! funtion thatør Porn Blog Lan SATURDAY, the 25% inesses. to the rosterý se given befrog Noon 10.DAY  \nIan Bastow, ad hooks, bonds, pavery. the Buch Febri. 19  \nung tamilly prociled ze the carus porte lasting 90 Can winlig v  \nDudaliteket  \nju ili za svoju te thot of end for pictat and thesis sagirnis em  \nBOUN  \nNo ite kurd has buan atatud,  \n2 Julie ill be cinanteisisat kj  \nKrbrary,  \ncutting a large card tra J'a Stanet e de \"Id\" Wardagi  \nruza BUNDAY, the  \nThe Cas Prosta Muca and lak.. 89 40. So Cas......  \n31.50 tests to be pare at the Company'  \nby Disa  \nbral osally Myths seri at the Wari.  \n•han basisgand to me al segue  \nang trade.  \nAsiY[ 034 54 * ! tag, odo Date  \nBeagles 20  \nUNION LISE  \nNOTICE TO ROYSKONTES.  \nTROM LONDON, THNARD, AND  \nSINRAPOR \"TOPORATES-  \n\"S-SRETNO\" is Bow Rename of 1.466 kaas til at aborden, and destined to China  \nSarung Lath, where i wantly be join  \n2. A LA COSTA,  \nStrogkwg Ziel Folers  \nCAUTION tavots\" of 2.577, fie ding Paktis on igured that SCBIP for minh bas frist hide Abarca: SHAREG Numbed it)  \nLe T  \nw by the Foest at whogy tud 48 rue 613-1,250 fs Shoe St Rita W4X24 D luga iar apperanicu plutor Blass CuANT be student that motive ul Dcrz  \nDeals That Has Borghang!  \nHenker 28ri Pelary. 1683  \nNote-Th, Dia is the ski otɔdlükat | Capkiu Mitzke, having arrived free pieces Sainty built for the; the chefs ass buna giu że Shott Cloapany. #5111 Line in Loughed as one is City among with with which the  \nmit any view of a nábo kong naga.  \ntomat ju thair Bis of \"Inding to vas arlor Falo hvalisay steal an important EN RING.  \nund or eligator 25 main positi  \nTO LET  \nAty to  \nDOUGJAS LAPCAJK & L Lengkong, L. Tebaumy, Ur  \n797  \nTemarking, RE  \nJAPAN JARRETE  \nYANAMA.  \nHAVING plejad is H  \n575 dia daliring ni skafé Condo Fezia alte The Chic Calenus branch of the Char-  \nCAT ating blom alechage of  \nthagena ar charterad, wish are Java 1. |  \nCHIHAN STELMANIP COMPANY,  \nFOR SHANTHAL Y AMOY Taking Cazzard Passeng long las  \nwill be at this landed net storage Pay's Pervine will trim the placevi 10-a kilusis :{DPGALVOS Intentano, Prae818, KLARON, ried and expois as no Zee Insurers IN A CUT 8 Company's Steward y  \ncounty health have.  \nDitial Care will be forwarded onto from  \nInd  \n1 line is a velemble one. Ed is  \nal Pass or the Yamaisen  \nTHESE LITERAN 200 FOS-17 LJONGKONG WHARE & GODOWNS, 1 Gavetin, Gas Pumbatore Roose Apis may be seenesting passenger trothe and trule of Vidos, sãe 50ed it, at Eren z  \nKONG SOM CHINa tile feu molver astro to the Gilmer be gets en Chica, the Straits, Buttweisen,  \nMW. REPOOL MUSTES DE  \nPan CEAS or the Dans les  \nI use will be sei un, le: the  \nFrog Dedi Yox Subtipdoza aud  \nGoods verived an STORAGE at Modrum Adportienuolės kill bousculand så tide Often, Red, Fedtmas Peloasa,  \nLORDAN, KLE  \nto the  \nlumatong Prity Frie Chen.  \nand on or if the  \nivalsat, or they us be versa  \nAl  \nRUSSELL & C  \nEntivo 000WNST Any to  \n184  \n>RYFL & C Tinghaus, Bri Murel, Ja  \nTO LET  \nJENE WIURLAND WUISKY  \n습  \ntomsong, \"ith Kebruary, de  \nsura Styes by Mr WLCA an aud 'Mr. EDWARD JONNY HIGHGs.  \nBEGRES & LEORD  \nHoaglag, kh Jnowary, 1562  \nLASTRE.  \n-  \nAnd  \nCŮH VNG and 92ORådE;), W R. FABDERICK DES.ore Hide, all we ladies; stage  \nAlso, M  \nJeelanin ay Pen Pen  \ni4kin Usta, Stil Mr. DEORGE H. WILDONORENSNITE \"KONONKA!  \nJOHNSON.  \nthorised to sigu na nagta  \nSELEC  \n161  \nSHARP TULAER. Houghou, Jl. Koptember, 1951.  \nis  \nChina, 1st Junkery, Jasa,\"  \nTO BE IST.  \nK. BOOKS & NEW HOITIONS.  \nBALA WAJIB TUYNUE TERMARIA PAR  \nJennies fuwa and Gardo.  \nREHAWAY'S DAY IN A Cable Du 82.30.  \nApply to  \n| At Bows=derwone di Cross-(Play  \nJu$ 24,99  \nhours  \nbuy, 1892-  \nLINSTEAD & 174 VIR  \n1368  \nBY. EAT BAN.......  \nVarea's Bay BAR TO 42.0.3  \nTO BE LEV.  \n2  \nWith a Sut dope Next,  \nPure Talentīniku  \nThrow zəd  \nsopittinor. not,  \nEnge the on Pocicta.  \nThla poetsendis fr Brands?  \nBettled varier éta pagal prision of  \nIE.M. It may not besties,  \nHold by Apote  \nThe Worl  \n2016 l'aprimas,  \nGREENLEEHUGOTINES  \nR. CAT ME, TN,  \nDili, Angyalive. Y  \nTORN BAZLEY WITIE » ELUTHAT'S  \nPORTLAY CREENI  \nHOLE ARE WE CAN,  \nPOLLDAY WISH &  \n\"STENTOT\" nomidered of growing imposture, owing to the Capinia Kirkpatrick, will be dospaerbed. 'TO. with Pie Suits Sanctness fadin. If  \nposed bile popupfil  \nSally adapted to this one of th  \nAg-wal  \nPiger Paraply la  \nBTTERFILL&RVIRE. 1nging. Brit Vebruary, 19.  \nPest pinabi, suplayed in the parties, and the PUR SYDNEY AND WELBOURNE, MAA  \nirectes expect  \niNuns to the Cross and  \nNOTIOR TO CONSIGNES BRITISH RANQUE «ENDYMOW,\" FROM LONDON.  \nle, with the Give of the harbor  \ninfusion antuplish thes, and is THE S  \n& Barre Boruture, wing of 195,400 jample silent  \nTeaming of the Corina C  \n'PAKAO.  \nHUNGARIAN Chptain Abnob, will be distohaalej  \nvayout any porturiled to end in direct stand the amin the; BEFORUoga, che van animus  \n[MON BLO-432125 vf Chup by the shavu nauči volata Con  \nتا بروید  \nSome eu this?”  \ninted it as presionaty sien,  \nLedia Latha Tindesign for teagues and wish fare, and the chip and dishia Avexoma-  \nAnd to wish wediata daivery of theirut sa Yungeza rec Sutien, thoni zand rapi ods.  \nlizer pros and is the beardisipat! #w Krázlá se l'asure, apply t Carge impede the ischarge of the prezu with the antedication of will be handed Plan Coming sale at Jink that is thing or 1!ཤཱ ཤ1ཀ92  \nConad China and the gerectiepaccion of VENHOLD, KABLERO & Cu..  \nforging, 20  \nAgastā,  \nVEEAMENT  \nLabs earping-Trade in the Fun SANA, Hodon  \n20. D. SKYNS  \nOLZ. cyborg, 25l Picnary, 1881.  \n(37  \nPOR MANTLA DO  \nthe hang of Cams, that the Changany lindil«ma 135 anys 50+ Gendable enterpri  \nmessage of gettin Denver, will be upstand in th  \n20th February, NOTICE TO CONSTANTS.***  \nhow the yellt of being being coser, nadan Pert ez cutive perciocia en lices f quod in their sila u Darling! Flies ronible expect profie to pay divi tha wedged the countrytresdends, levides funding à Puiere Park fut na- | tak bole leep. Puis Cakes a spotles in the ralow of Stem  \nCASTELLS BOONA SI M$500. THE BOUSE ... Afluor- Pean? fiongkong. Lich Berater. Jaar 20E PARIGN288 t the Setlowing Cargo are ¦ Gjested, bringing an vorean act of will; the F  \nGAPSELL'S JR ACURA ADUI Wire Cops, derling  \nms mm $2.99 Wat bid on * DoNDUSANY...67.80. Camera Bormionary or Connor  \nX MODE A P  \nE  \nA \"CALIT  \n...$50  \nOWN THALS  \nNoir Et risk sed -  \nKOTOE. Apply to  \nFER Ondulkar ben appointed and i set LINSTEAD & DA AGERTH jothy die their souls Fleurkons, 24 Faktany, 2580,  \nby Masses, KY POCE 900, of Weru, car BEMENA  \n----  \n1987  \nPO NE LUT, GODOWN WWATER PADE  \nBuca's Wert, CAS 14208  \nMEN ARTEL UNY AT 3rELS |  \nVa.  \n.............$1.05 BB-as by Derec Anotre locsa Wox.'s Home De jikaraka CasACT OF SETAAN & T  \n.......  \n___STD_DBBAREPA  \nه آزادی از راه  \nIn Amra é  \nJASTHAN & DAVIS. FROM GONDON AS) SINGAPOR Egils June 7, 199  \nTT LEL  \nse ing been affectivit  \n80ti inond: We Cates Vor-?  \nmouth, Driss Sten Wather. 15:10,11, 3 Come M. Order, Lena  \nMerwe  \n--PREVO 1680), demo New 45. Il Core Tv-i  \nBustle, Derles Marit  \nA decaDLY.  \nTHE PRAYà Nov. 15 and 47 (KENS BREAysel droveste, Ciniz see! 2002 Autunda Kits, & Casa? Marokani BOVARE AND SALTadini H. CAPOT rainy iniezed tis divar Varde, with  \nNew Car On Chika HA--Bruta  \njare d'utils Em thus Bravega. 12.  \nBose Cotel in anerputio  \nSuity to  \nTôi ganggo by her and by 12.9. ~VIOTORES\" | dire, Outer, for aut  \nS.CALIFORtre A You, No. 15807, 30 Cases Ver  \nmouth. Ozani fa FRIVER's the simplic of them.se 1  \nMemalion  \nlould af  \nBahan the Pur  \nEra  \nInvite Passersion.  \nFigley, Est November, 1251.  \nLINBIRAD & 2018.ga  \nSz  \nNu - Cleis tent of the  \ntest Hoags and jlapur biwee  \nRELLY & WALSH, KONGKONG.  \nWATERBURY CLUCY.  \nWATDRSERY, CON OMPANY!!  \nPESTAU A C... Bide Agelb dougiong, Nerabe, 1991  \nEX \"ARADRA  \nHé zone No. 25. 1 Ch Flute, Céur,  \nfrange  \nCum in WAL  \nJodliwey mung: he claimed.  \nOptical Carry will forestei paina 1er in sua caray *rginen bei 32  \nTODAY. 1  \nThe tale the unity Age  \nteen var fula by s tebe n the Cete fary:  \nל.TR\"  \n916,  \nFo Fralebtor Pasengo, apply to  \nREŠENIOS & Dungkot, en Falirnusy, 1543.  \nAUSTROJUNGABIAN LOOTISSUSAN NAVIGATIOR COMPANY. 1. At Agresamos que Riu Noor, 1891, STEAM WIR SINGAPORE, PENANG, Teen Woman Kinter. We cup COLOMBO, BOMBAY, ADEN, BUZZ, Ing of the China Gas Stan Naz  \nPORT BAIN, AND TRIPSUM. SIS COFA the  \nthe Awarar STRANEK (laking Gangnan timing rates to Cabestra, Cagene and JAJARNYA ALISON SCOT PRYMATIC PATS, Costa, and the  \nMGOTTENRASS Postel  \nespectivo Teds if we compres digital 27, of the part, wand CORN LI, 12 Company's Arm  \nو بواره کمی از سواری به بازار کار در کاشی تر و با دیوید  \nwiki Moboraca fu 30+ to  \n\"DACHNE\"  \nWILIAM Captain Cousie, will feel MON. KICK bit of JANTINA, 6th Prezimu, at POE 22.06. ZANER&Co. of the ene part, and | For fur Particalórappir ta Jos J. Ma, on behalf of the Cem.  \nMECHI & Co.  \n182  \nparis, vt tin other pert  \nCopper of the chore Agoemand sand Morrerar. !  \nof the Water Ant of  \n1  \ngistion, uni szeme Tulused Valesklad, D  \nde inspinal by interling Zubscribers, a  \nHow Fuhraury, 1359  \nSTEAM TO FRANQUIAL  \nارک باد  \nHis cume; No. B. Fill, a Care Meerten üstina cf the Exlienor of the Jonpano. 2 13, 8. N. Co.'s Strucəliy  \nTO LET TUUSHA and DOWNS, N». 13 and Caren 100.swing vode alter ibu 23rd! H  \nloa, Maya Ceurest. af persave is the custani will be slijed 628  \npatioa el inks. CXNOWire & Co. Pusa97- sin en 1st day out?.  \nApply to \",\" care of one of Nix papar.  \nHayong, 33t. Pauta  \n561.  \nBiz created.  \nFill of Lading 24) be wet F  \nJARING  \nHengkona, 15th Februg, 1982,  \ndise, Dege, o andar.  \nBYAN  \n¡GB, No D. 2 Chua, folar, Pres  \na. D. CHAS PEAUX, Agral.  \n153 unge, 3rd January, 18  \n31 Faza & WALA, & Tank Bali, 31  \n*DEGEAN,\" will teate or the shoo plan aluk 24 Eners Ina athmont se made the digest will after hac artisi with the Eaglish Mail, edarped, we pumpday if iskarei Se  \nA. MOVER notte) am suplied for, 4 surplus of the  \nSuurinta at Tungkong: 29% Fobrancy, 1882  \nrexit wil byheals to the pope of con",
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        "content_text": "# DESPATCH\n## CO. 552 6557 RECP Mak REGE 12 APF 32\n### Statutory Registration Ordinances.\n\nGovernor.\n\nDate. 1882.\n\nNo. 37\n\nFeb: 28\n\nLast previous Paper. 16237/81 Konf no. 64.219. L.8. 1⁄2\n\n(Subject.)\n\nHong Đang trong No. 6557\n\n## Minutes.\n\nChang Seng Chs. Ng Le ting. Man Chong Seng. chan Mun Wing towards C.P.L.\n\nHi Wingfield.\n\nAre the names of China men sufficient to identify them?\n\nMr. Wingfield\n\nI cannot say - but I doubt it - similar ordinances Department sectioned mitin.\n\nSW 20. Mean anner 84.19.4 previous similar Adiramen.\n\nM. Wingfield Ewig, 4. \nSee `16237/81` herewith. fil. 2014 a. 282-11 & S 1719) \ndis Brandin Men EW 18.1 EWS. \n1 suggestion.",
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        "content_text": "41 \n\nquarter of the City of land is purchased for Government or the natives by subscription, 11th August 1876. Sent to Mr. Phin.\n\n232 \n\nC \nCopy C20, Nr 1721 of 1876.\n\n(Translation) \nIn the firing 589 year, on the 13th day of the 7th moon, (August 1876) reference to a conversation the Governor had with him, Taverner.\n\n(Signed) J. M. S. Alver, 1st February 1881.\n\n(August 1874) Chawini-chang, Lain King, Wan, Sie was shown, Fung Ting Chen, Wangsterans long, Ng Chuch can, called MAN Hot Chów and Lungetoh, the Summon Secretary and asked him regarding the petition which had been presented, praying for the grant of a piece of ground for the creation of the Chiman feity Hall.",
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        "content_text": "## Descriptive list of Prisoners deported from the Colony of Hong Kong\n### From Nov 1873 to June 1877\n\n|  |  | Crime | Where deported to |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 7164 | 133 |  |  |\n|  | Huai Sai |  |  |\n|  | Kerz | 52.70 |  |\n|  | Sun | 8770 |  |\n|  | Creupakuon |  |  |\n| 134 | Chow Yer Yik | Fantiator Burt | New Territories (Fort) 1985 Loony a turn shit, Hany Rain Voi |\n| 136 | Make a Ho | Faxpricus Charuchr |  |\n| 137 | Ming a | stuck thin da | $520 |\n| 138 | Lang & ding de | Cain Gunz Fer | 30 |\n|  | Cock | Hawku- |  |\n|  |  | Sear CA H shoulder buck | Cen: Pauloa |\n|  |  | Seur Mühoulder | 75 Fan Ox Crólar Sear H shoulder |\n|  |  | Bulman Bil Barks on | bezs, Hatton danity' en. |\n| 145 | Awok. I'm Fook. | Hawker Mack of Cumber | C shoulder. |\n| 140 |  | Pat Fake Shele San Stai | 36 |\n| 141 | Fing a Chai | Buon faust | 14-25 |\n| 143 | Fung | File Kory Halli Nats Fur Ting | 12th |\n| 146 | Thung King King Kong | Fame Chan | 40 C |\n| 147 | Chan Ype | Path Lake dig den de |  |\n| 148 |  | The Sun Choi No Hair Cing Pure. | For Name Tav |\n| 149 | Pany |  | 13 |\n| 150 | Here Ho Bams Pun |  | 21 |\n|  |  | Wh City Huring Q, Pook Clim Dan Sun On | کو کھو گی |\n| 152 | Chun |  | 5.331 147 728 |\n| 153 |  |  | 66318 153 6719 134. Za Q |\n|  | Fook How Qui Sung | Horn 36 Ow Fow Fok Sai Hanz Jan Oud |  |\n| 156 | King | I well in thing. Stake Hung Jung Horn | 2437 156 |\n| 157 |  | Hi Supreme Court. | 911157 |\n|  | Fook Thai Chow | City Jarang Dany Coh Hai Chow |  |\n|  | Chang Sae Thing | Her Fing کار کر $fu Cook |  |\n|  |  | Flight Rust in 1 But Fr Your | 22 |\n|  | Seaman Markis | Dantes of ye Jai Heung Ram Jav | نادا |\n|  |  | Bratuna Bravvedad City | 37 shoulder Wade, becomendanta Baybury & Kareemy |\n|  |  | Coul face of European Cyst Lavany back. Hoty foo: Raps: & surfsicions (hue: |  |\n|  |  | Cogna unds Br: of Lup: Ord: (foc: stolen. goods. Piracy with intent. | 78. 77 |\n|  |  | bank Tugalond | 9279 Cantor 3367 264 4 29 10¢ *** |\n|  |  | مه می شنبه Jany | 3314 3362 3500 Clowny Apar 3576 Bacal Sen Gu Fracas |\n|  |  | Jan Ting 13 Ham Fo J/ ; 23 5 336 @ Fam Het Sum Chun Jan in ; Fear besist wash En... | 3661 Whampea |\n|  |  | 2 Tahit makes - Scar PA 0.6777 5 374. Ciclas 13 从 $ 17. Firman Lame 4 8p2 871⁄2 Hawter in Chin & Fore Cat on the side of Love on firebaut anotur & am Larceny Pune is | 2 15: of Pepest: Ord: Feby |\n|  |  | تی ہوں کیا کروگے 18: of head Com: Farden Larseny 18th March lco Canber 601 K foot. | 37 5/2 Silversmiths fit Suspicious Character کہ وہ فخر کا رنگ کم کیا تو کیا Hawker Marke of flagging Cucant 30 Part Parks po flagging Four Last Kaper. dimple. on Chin |\n|  |  | May Hahway 4 8:30 Sang Keon Gul 1631 Kacav feeas 1130 Sang Crea 1165 Brocas 13811 Canton 1116 Minteen |  |",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nJov//1741\n\nđọng trong\n\n192\n\n10. a. G.\n\nMr.\n\nMINUTE. 9\n\n9 July\n\nSir,\n\nMay 10\n\nMr. Acland Jug 20\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston,\n\nMr. Meade. 20\n\nMr. Herbert.\n\nMr. Ashley.\n\nLord Kimberley,\n\nCopy of despatch to F.O. (done)\n\n11 July 1882\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No: 62 of the 13th of May reporting that an official visit was paid to you on the 12th of May by His Excellency Chang Ting Kung, Vice Roy of the Two Kwang to take up the provisional appointment of Vice Roy of Chekiang.\n\nWhile on this... \n\nThis was...",
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        "content_text": "# THE CHINA REVIEW.\n\ntreated in the one hundred sections or volumes of the work. They will constitute the divisions of the present essay.\n\n## Vol. 1.-Department of the Imperial Kindred\nThis is placed first in order because of the teaching of the Ancient Classics that the government of the family is the test of ability, and the true model for the government of the state. The constitution of this department is first given. Much importance is attached to the Family Registers as a subject affecting the Imperial succession, and the different degrees of kindred are marked by different titles. Many of the Imperial brothers and uncles have been distinguished. It will be found as a general rule in Oriental monarchies that the near relatives of the sovereigns have been either enervated by self-indulgence or have been kept in the background by Imperial jealousy. But this cannot be said to be the rule in the present dynasty of China. The first name on the List of Officials who prepared this work, as has been mentioned, was an Imperial uncle; a brother of the Emperor Two Kwong, lived to a great age, was high in honor and died only a few years since. His name was Mia. His title was Wai Tsfan Wong. The present position of Prince Kung, and of the Empress Dowager are good examples of what is possible in the present order of government.\n\n## Vol. 2.-Cabinet or Privy Council\nAt the head of this branch of the Government are the highest officials of the Empire. They are the immediate and responsible advisers of the Emperor. The position is the object of the highest ambition. There are four chiefs of nearly equal rank, two Chinese and two Manchus. They are sometimes called Prime Ministers, and sometimes Cabinet Officers, and perhaps correspond well with those designations in the countries of the west. Properly they should of course reside at Peking, and be in immediate and continual attendance upon the Sovereign, but of late years at least, this rule has been changed to some extent in practice. Those having this high rank have in some cases held important posts at a distance from the Capital. The famous Viceroy Yeh captured at Canton during the last war was such an instance, as also the Viceroy Sui Lun late Governor-General of Canton, and the much more illustrious Li Hung-chang the present Governor-General of the province of Chih-li. One of the associates of this high official is Pò Kwan, 寶鋆, a Manchu, who must be considered the highest in honor as occupying the place nearest the Throne.\n\n## Vol. 3.-Board of Civil Office\nThis is the first of the Six Boards, among whom are distributed the principal parts of the Government of the Empire in all its branches. In practical working the lines are not to be considered as absolutely distinct, for there is a good deal of interlapping, and it is impossible to carry out perfectly the theory of separate departments. What would seem properly to belong to one Board is often found to be managed by another, by reason of some peculiar mode of argument, or special circumstances of the times. These Boards stand in relation to the Sovereign authority in some respects like the Houses of Parliament in England, and the two Houses of Congress of the United States. True, they are not elected by the people, but they act as a check, in an important sense, upon the Imperial Will, and the action of the Government requires a concurrence of the appropriate Board and the Imperial sanction. The Board of Civil Office has charge of the promotion and degradation of all the officials of the Empire. Of course this is a very important province of Government, and it very properly takes the first place. There is no aristocratic class in China. The way of promotion to the highest official rank and position is open to all, with a few insignificant exceptions, in theory at least and to a great extent practically, by means of the public examinations. The general mode of promotion is by simple seniority, and in regular order. One who ought to know has declared that this is realized in fact, to the amount of six-tenths of all the officials in the Empire. Should this be a high estimate it can hardly be very wide of the mark. As for the remaining four-tenths, the promotion is owing to merit, purchase, and political influence.\n\nThe first subject treated is the constitution of the Board. There are two Presidents, one Chinese and one Manchu. Vice-Presidents, right and left, also one Chinese and one Manchu. Under these there is a large staff, including four superintendents.\n\n| Superintendent | Responsibility |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1.) | Superintendent of promotion and degradation-Regulations for Officials at the Capital. Regulations for Imperial Sacrifices, &c. |\n\n## Vol. 4.-Regulations for Officials of Shing King. Regulations for Provincial Officials.\n\n## Vol. 5.-Standard of selection.\n\n## Vol. 6.-(2.) Superintendent for examination of merit\nExaminations for grade of official merit. Rules in regard to Retiring from office; Reporting sickness; Merit and Demerit; Periods for holding office; Handing over office and returning home.\n\n## Vol. 7.-(3.) Superintendent for Conferring rank\nRules in regard to mourning and taking care of parents. (4.) Superintendent for giving posthumous honors.\n\n## Vol. 8.-Board of Population and Revenue\nAfter an account of the constitution of the Board with Presidents and Vice Presidents, and a large staff of officials, come the various subjects under its control.\n\n## Vol. 9.-Geographical Divisions\nProvinces, Departments, &c. Population.-Under this head a census is given, not of individuals, but of families. The figures must be much less than what would represent the present population of the Empire. For instance, that of Canton Province is declared to be only one million two hundred and forty odd thousand families. It is now estimated to have three times as much.\n\n## Vol. 10.-Land Tax\nAs compared with that of other countries is very light. The amount of land and of taxes for each province is given.\n\n## Vol. 11.-Weights and Measures\nThese are regulated by the Government. Under this head the various sizes and patterns are given.\n\n## Vol. 12.-Treasuries\nAll Government monies, receipts from taxation and duties, and expenditures of all kinds, are under the direction of this Board. The provincial Treasurers, Commissioners of Land Tax and Salt monopoly, have vast sums to receive and disburse, and the system of keeping accounts would be an interesting study. The amounts remitted to the capital are doubtless but a small proportion as the cost of the local government must be very great and absorb the greater part.\n\nGranaries.-It is interesting to notice that these are kept up in modern times. Those in the City of Canton are objects of interest to strangers. In theory they are intended to provide against scarcity, for troops &c., but doubtless in practice the little benefit derived by their existence might be attained by cheaper methods.\n\nStore houses.--The quantity of grain to be kept in hand is regulated. Each province according to the number of the population has to keep grain in store as provision for times of famine. The theory is admirable, but at the present time there is abundant testimony in illustration of the fact that the provision is utterly inadequate in practice.\n\n## Vol. 13.-Canals\nIt is a matter of regret that those ways of inter-communication have in modern times been permitted by the Government to become almost useless. \n\nPage 18\nPage 19",
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        "content_text": "## THE CHINA REVIEW.\n\n...a good feed; now that I have such means of carriage I am fairly independent.” With the surplus of his money, he then gave it to Li-ching to keep, and led away the horse and fed him. On coming back, the servant said, \"Kao Ya-nei has come to pay his respects,\" and hardly had he spoken when Ya-nei came in with Kao Chin's card, saying, \"My father could not come himself, owing to pressing public affairs in connection with a military expedition projected against Liang-po-shan, and so he has asked his son to come instead.\" Hsi-chen said, \"What are your principles in thus troubling Ya-nei; come and sit inside.\" He then said, \"Ching, my child, your brother is come.\" Li-ch'ing from upstairs answered, and after a bit came slowly in. Hsi-chen put on wine and food and instructed his daughter to entertain him. Whilst conversation was going on, Ya-nei, seeing the room was very neat and elegant, began to praise it, when he saw hanging from the wall a two-edged sword, whereupon he asked, \"Is this the property of my illustrious sister?\" Hsi-chen said, \"Yes.\" Ya-nei wished to look at it. Hsi-chen went to fetch it and put it on the table to be looked at. The handle was bound round with silk; on it were inlaid two ruddy gold letters \"Chong Shun\"; from the handle hung a butterfly fringe; there were two points of the yellow-twisted beard from the mouth of a lion on the scabbard, which was covered with scales of the whale fish painted like flowers, and on the mouth were two heads of dragons; on the outside were fourteen characters also inlaid with ruddy gold; they were: \"like the autumn waters for clearness, with an edge that chills with affright; white as the Pi-yu bird's flesh, the rainbow gleams flash out from a body fair as the water lily.\" Hsi-chen then drew the sword out a little and gave it to Ya-nei to look at.\n\nYa-nei got a chill of fright from the cold steel, and it was blown out round his face till his hair stood on end; looking at it, he saw it was four fingers broad from the edge, and one finger broad at the back; it was as clear as a mirror and from the distance looked like a stream of water, and it reflected a man's face quite distinctly. With the handle, it weighed seven catties four ounces. It was four feet two inches long. Ya-nei said, \"My adopted father, where did you buy this sword?\" Hsi-chen said, \"Buy it, indeed! This has come down to me from an ancestor; it can cut iron and copper like so much wood; my ancestor was a follower of Emperor Chin-tsung in his attack on the Tan yuan, who took him to the frontiers where he slew a number of men with it. After this, the sword came to the house; it did nothing but rain and sounds proceeded from the sword; when the old fellow was young, he had heard an ascendant say that when that sword used to hang up for many years, one often by lamp-light saw likeness in it of men standing up, but on looking closer, nothing could be seen; when that grumbling sound was heard, it often leapt up from the scabbard; this year, I think those dead spirits will gradually disperse and the figures of men will not be seen. When my silly daughter regards this like her life and puts it to bed with her when she sleeps. Now the scabbard being somewhat hurt, she has just repaired it and therefore hung it up here.\" Ya-nei said, \"As this is so precious to you, sister, I think you can brandish it; will you try?\" Li-ch'ing laughed and said, \"A sword is a thing to kill men with; there is nothing pleasant in it.\" Ya-nei said, \"My good sister, you don't want me to be hit.\" Hsi-chen said, \"What is your brother saying, my child? Brandish the sword a bit.\" Li-ch'ing, not able to resist this pressing, rose up, rolled up her sleeves, drew out the sword, and went down the steps and cleared a space. Kao Ya-nei opened his eyes and saw Li-ch'ing, and he shouted with all his might in her praise. Li-ch'ing, having done some sword play, put the sword into its sheath again; Ya-nei let down her sleeves and sat down.\n\nHsi-chen said, \"Well, you play well.\" Ya-nei laughed and said, \"Ya-nei, you are blind.\"\n\n## THE TANG HOU CHI.\n\nSome more wine was then drunk, and Hsi-chen then again took Ya-nei into the back of the house, where were artificial hills, lakes, stones, flowers, and trees, and led him about there by the hand. When it was late, Ya-nei took his leave and went home. There is no need to weary the reader, but after this, Ya-nei came every day to Hsi-chen's house, and often brought clothes, delicacies, and wine as presents, whilst Hsi-chen served to him wine, etc. When Ya-nei did come, Hsi-chen never told his daughter to avoid him, and so Li-ch'ing plucked up her spirits and he treated her and she him like brother and sister. They talked about trivial matters, but nothing serious was said. Ya-nei, on seeing the cheeks of Li-ch'ing so tender that a breath would injure them, was furious that he could not devour her, as her old father would come bothering in between them; once he indulged in loose talk, and Hsi-chen, seeing the colour on his daughter's cheeks, turned off the matter by some light remarks. Li-ch'ing too remembered her father's commands and kept down her anger. Ya-nei now only thought of hurrying on San and Heuch to propose marriage, but they exhorted him to restrain himself a bit for eight or nine days. Hsi-chen said to his daughter, \"My services are more than half rubbed off, and as long as that animal does not come to propose marriage, it will be all right. Everything will be ready in a few days, and then we can go in to the old lady's.\" Li-ch'ing said, \"Your child wishes much to go away very soon; I cannot endure this much longer.\" Hsi-chen said, \"My good daughter, after a day or two, you must decline to see him from sickness, and so avoid him.\" Ya-nei then came again, and Hsi-chen ushered him in. Ya-nei brought a piece of green jade and a pearl and said, \"I present to my illustrious sister some marriage presents.\" Hsi-chen said, \"Why should you go to such an expense?\" and told Li-ch'ing to take it and thank Ya-nei. He said, \"Why should a sister thank her own brother!\" The whole party then laughed and talked, and wine was drunk till Ya-nei was half drunk, when the servant came in and said, \"Mr. Chang has come to take leave and wishes to see you, Sir; he is now in the front room.\" Hsi-chen said, \"All right, you mind your business; I will come directly.\" Hsi-chen put on his Taoist robe and said, \"You two drink your wine—a guest calls me.\" He also told the nurse to attend on them carefully and not to go away, and he himself went off. Ya-nei, seeing the old boy was really gone, grew very courageous and grinning began to stare at Li-ch'ing. She could not endure his gaze and smiling bent down her head. Ya-nei, seeing the smile, could not contain himself for delight; he felt enervated all over, and his lewd courage became vast. He tried then to hook his foot round that of Li-ch'ing, but the eight fairy table was too broad, and Li-ch'ing's two feet were coiled round her chair so that he could not reach them. Ya-nei then cried out, \"Sister, let us go and amuse ourselves in the artificial grotto behind.\" Li-ch'ing said, \"No, it would be improper; but you can go yourself, brother, as you know it well enough.\" Ya-nei said, \"I have heard your archery ground is an excellent one, but I have not yet seen it; won't you take me there?\" Li-ch'ing said, \"We must wait till Papa returns.\"\n\nYa-nei, seeing she would not move, asked the nurse to warm some of this wine; the nurse, lifting the wine-pot, said, \"It is hot enough still; why should I warm it?\" Ya-nei said, \"Sister, your wine is cold; I will change with you,\" and he took the cup holding the remains of her wine and drank it all off.* He then took the pot from the nurse's hand and poured out a cup full; he himself tasted, and then handed it with both hands to Li-ch'ing, saying, \"Sister, taste your brother's warm wine.\" Li-ch'ing could sit still no longer, being thus incited by him again in this way, and not being able to hear it, stood up, the blood surging up all round her ears and face.\n\n* A most improper proceeding in company with a lady.\n\nPage 42\nPage 43",
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        "content_text": "## THE CHINA REVIEW.\n\nShe hated him so that she would have liked to kill him, but she thought a bit and called to mind her father's repeated warnings, so she contrived after one or two efforts to restrain herself and went aside and sat on a chair, with her head bent down, not saying a word. Ya-nei, seeing she was not pleased, would only drink more wine. Hsi-chen, having seen his friend off, hurried back and saw his daughter seated apart, with Ya-nei drinking by himself. On seeing him, Ya-nei said, \"Sit down.\" Hsi-chen said, \"Why, my daughter not accompanying you but sitting on one side; you are both one family, don't be so shy.\" Li-ch'ing said in a low voice, \"My brother wanted me to drink from his cup and I could not resist otherwise than by moving off.\" She then rose up and said, \"Papa, brother wants to go and amuse himself in the archery ground.\" Hsi-chen said, \"Very good, let us have the things moved to the summer-house there.\" All three were going off when a servant said, \"A body-man has come from His Excellency, asking Ya-nei to return immediately on important business.\" Hsi-chen said, \"As this is so, you, Ya-nei, must come over another day; the peach blossoms will not be all gone by then.\" Ya-nei said, \"I have eaten nothing and must go.\" Hsi-chen went with him to the door and then coming back said, \"My child, what did that brute say to you just now?\" Li-ch'ing shook her head and said, \"Never mind; who was that guest who came just now? You, Papa, were with him an endless time.\" Hsi-chen said, \"It is Mr. Chang who is going to Chiu-chow-fu; I asked him to take a letter, my child; when that brute comes again, you must avoid him; I will make excuses for you.\"\n\nTo return to Ya-nei going home; when he got there, he determined to finish up the matter and summoned San and Hsueh, when he said to them, \"I shall die, my life will not be a long one.\" San and Hsueh said, \"Why does Ya-nei talk thus?\" Ya-nei said, \"Pooh! you do not take any share of my trouble on yourself; she will not consent and I am at the end of my plans; how many more days am I to wait on this chaste whore? That girl haunts me in dreams; I can never be absent, and now the soothers of passions in my home no longer delight me; a little pastry is all the food I want; the fish may hang till it stinks, but the cat still will grow thin: what have you two now to say?\" The two brainless asses said, \"Ya-nei, do not be angry, it is not that we have done nothing, but that in this business, the hawk must have a long string; as Ya-nei talks thus, we must complete our work.\" Ya-nei said, \"Very good, you do not generally act wrongly,\" and so he went in feeling very uncomfortable. The two brainless asses flew off to Hsi-chen's house to see him. Hsi-chen said, \"It is long since I have seen you.\" They both answered, \"Yes, we have not been here for some time. To-day, we have come to wait on you and also on account of an important matter.\"\n\n\"What is it?\" said Hsi-chen. The two answered, \"We have come about the betrothal of your darling young lady, but do not know if you will assent.\" Hsi-chen laughed and said, \"I am much indebted to you two gentlemen; whatever you have to say cannot, I should think, be wrong, but whose family do you come from?\" San said, \"Lieutenant, you can guess.\" Hsi-chen looked up and smiled and said, \"I fear I can't guess unless it is The my adopted son looking thus on high.\"* The two burst out laughing, \"You, old gentleman, are a god indeed, but what do you say anent this marriage?\" Hsi-chen said, \"I hear Ya-nei has two real wives already, what then does he want my daughter to be?\" San-kao said, \"Please listen, Sir; although Ya-nei has two real wives, yet he offers incense for three branches of the family. His Excellency is the second branch. Of the two ladies, one belongs to the first branch, one belongs to the third branch, so that His Excellency is the second branch, and for this one, nothing has been settled. If you, Lieutenant, will consent, your darling will be His Excellency's own son's wife, and not at all in the same position as the other two. What is your honoured meaning?\" Hsi-chen said, \"I really won't deceive you two gentlemen; an old fellow like me is very agreeable to such a marriage, but my rank is not at all equal to that of His Excellency.\" San said, \"Lieutenant, don't talk like this. His Excellency is on very friendly terms with you; how can you then allude to differences in rank? You must please consent, and His Excellency is sure to be well pleased.\" Hsi-chen said, \"If this be so, I much depend on your energy; only I have still three matters to ask for, but I don't want to exact any conditions. If His Excellency consents, not only this little maid but ten others would I willingly grant. If he can't consent, I, without I hope being accused of contumacy, must refuse assent.\" San and Hsueh said, \"Please inform us.\" Hsi-chen said, \"One of the three things, there is no need, I think, to discuss, and I feel sure His Excellency will agree to it. I have no son and depend solely on this daughter of mine. If Ya-nei becomes my son-in-law, he must regard me as his adopted father, and I in after years shall depend on him.\" San and Hsueh said, \"There will be no difficulty about this.\" Hsi-chen said, \"The second affair is that my daughter, although she is the third to enter his family, yet I hear Ya-nei will soon be selected to be Prefect, and the violet patent, for a wife of the fourth rank, I first wish to be given to my child. The third matter is that I am by nature very fond of delicate living; that Hsu Ming pavilion at the back of His Excellency's garden must be given me for a retired dwelling. If any of these three things are not granted, there is no room for further discussion.\" San and Hsueh consulted together and then said, \"This, we can give no decision about, but we will go and ask His Excellency.\"\n\n## \n\nThe two went off and told Ya-nei, who was as delighted as a lion rolled up in a ball; \"What difficulty can there be? What difficulty? But I am miserable here about one thing.\" \"What is that?\" said they. Ya-nei said, \"That girl's face looks as cold as snow; she puts on stupidity and clothes herself with obstinacy; I fear she is not up to the business, and will not be pleased at being married.\" San Kao said, \"No, Ya-nei, don't you know she is a pure innocent home-bred girl, not at all like those three-and-four-rooms people who meet you half-way; when she is your wife, she will be the same as others.\" Ya-nei then led the two to make their request to Kao Chin. The two first conditions, His Excellency agreed to, but as to his request for the pavilion, he gave an empty consent and said, \"When she has come over to our family, we will think over the matter.\" Ya-nei was much pleased and told San and Hsueh to go and announce the matter to Hsi-chen, and ask him to choose the day, whilst he would await the answer. The two were gone for four hours, and then they came back and said, \"The affair has been settled.\" Old Ch'en says, if the day is postponed too far off, the weather will be too hot; if too near, there will be not time sufficient to prepare the marriage presents; he has selected the fourth day of the fourth moon for sending betrothal presents and the 10th for blending the cups (i.e., marriage), and Kao Chin said, \"If this is so, it is very well, and you two had better do the business together, and order a feast to be prepared, but first, thanks are due to you two match-makers.\" Kao Chin then told Ya-nei to accompany the two to the feast, and at night-time, they returned home. As to San Kao, he was thoroughly drunk, and he had just got home and was sitting down, when the servant said, \"The Master has come; he has just arrived.\" San, on hearing this, staggered to his feet and said, \"Ask him to come in and chat.\"\n\nPage 45",
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        "content_text": "# THE CHINA REVIEW\n\nWithout greatly caring what the educated native thinks on the matter. If missionaries wait to use methods which seem suitable till educated Chinese are other than very much opposed to them, they will have to lay in a large stock of patience.\n\nThe specimens which Dr. Burdon gives of what he calls Cantonese colloquial equivalents for man li and Mandarin phrases, which are to be used in the mechanical manner he advocates so strongly, do not inspire one with much faith in him as an authority on the subject—the conjunction “and” is twice translated by 與, which can only be properly used when \"and\" means \"together with.” \"Mutually\" is twice rendered 衆, which means the multitude, is the recognised colloquial equivalent; for \"Kingdom\" is given 國, which would be quite unintelligible in ordinary conversation, as any one can speedily discover. For \"to bind (as a girdle)\" 束 one should say 束住, and that is instead of should be.\n\nFor \"to have leprosy\" which should be rendered 發瘋 or 發痲瘋, Dr. Burdon gives 生癩, an expression used of an eruption of small pustules, a kind of itch disease. \"Caused him to have spasms\" is rightly 縮攣一陣好似抽筋, the expression given. 插埋一邊 means \"move this away.\" \"To be cast into prison\" means 被監禁, not simply 收監; \"to be sick\" is 有病, not 生病, which means \"to be taken ill,\" whilst for \"he straitly charged him” either 懇切囑咐 or 仔細叮囑 would be an improvement.\n\nBishop Burdon in these pages has given good proof that two years study of Cantonese, with twenty years of Chinese scholarship to boot, will not enable anyone to say with authority what really constitutes good vernacular. As there is no royal, so is there no episcopal road to Chinese. The acquisition of a dialect requires as nice and accurate study and as much concentrated labour as the highest man.\n\nThe best fate that could possibly befall Dr. Burdon's Primer would be its relegation to the limbo of literary oblivion. Best for the author's fame and for the peace of mind of future students of Chinese. It is a compilation, and to this fact some of the errors may be owing, but as D'Israeli says, \"Abridgers, Compilers and Translators are now alike regarded with contempt; yet to form their works with skill requires an exertion of judgement, and frequently of taste, of which their contemners appear to have no due conception. Such literary labours it is thought the learned will not be found to want; and the learned cannot discern their value; still if undertaken at all they should result in works which the learned may with confidence place in the hands of those whose feet stand where theirs were once planted, at the foot of the eminence which leads to knowledge if not to fame.\"\n\nA thoroughly satisfactory Primer of the Chinese Language is yet a desideratum. Should such appear it would meet with a hearty welcome; meanwhile let Primer writers lay to heart the sage remark of Mencius 博學而詳說之將反說約也.\n\nS.\n\n## THE LAW OF INHERITANCE.\n\n55\n\n## THE LAW OF INHERITANCE.\n\n(Continued from Vol. V., page 251.)\n\n### DECISION OF CHANG MEI YEN.\n\nRecovery of Debts---Guarantee.\n\nThe prostitute Chang Yu appears to have borrowed Tls. 24 from Yang Mei-yu, and although a number of years have elapsed has not paid it.\n\nBeing hard pressed to make payment, one Chu Sheng-ming, a dissolute fellow, who had some acquaintance and connection with her, took pity on her and made himself responsible in her place.\n\nWe know the proverb, \"A thousand taels of gold for a smile;\" but he should have considered his ability first, and cannot claim that he meant nothing when he acknowledged his responsibility. As a deed appears to have been drawn up at Sheng-ming's request, the creditor is quite right in bringing his claim against him, nor is he to be pitied, for, if Miss Ya turns virtuous, she will probably recompense him hereafter, while, if she remains as she is, he will not have lost his money without getting some pleasure for it.\n\nHe acted of his own free will without compulsion, and the matter is moreover too vile to be brought into Court; having acknowledged the debt for his pleasure, he repents now he has satisfied himself; let him be flogged for his dirtiness and stupidity.\n\n### NOTE.\n\nThe course taken by the Magistrate is worthy of remark in that it differs from what would probably be followed by European Courts. Instead of punishing the immorality of the parties by a refusal to entertain the case, the Magistrate decides the questions before him, and takes distinct notice of the immorality by punishing the offending party for his specific misconduct.\n\nIf the obligation of a debt be transferred by deed to a third party, the action must be brought against him, and if it appear that he was a voluntarily consenting party he cannot plead the immoral nature of the consideration received.\n\n### DECISION OF SHAO SIN YEN, SUB-PREFECT OF YO-CHOV.\n\nRecovery of Debts.\n\nIn this case before me, Yen Chêng-chien and Yen Chu-shan appear to be brothers, and Lei Lien to be Chu-shan's father-in-law. Chu-shan appears to have gone to Kiang-hsi to trade, to have borrowed Tls. 200 odd of the head of the family, to have lost it all and died.\n\nHis partner Yiu-tsê-sheng thereon made a row, with monkey tricks and mocking-bird talk, and tried to make out that Chêng-chien was equally liable with his brother.\n\nCheng-chien naturally declined to acknowledge his liability, asserting that his brother's ways differing widely from his—the one being a merchant, the other a student—they had long before divided the family property.\n\nOn this first Chu-shan's clothes and slave-girls were put against the debt, then his landed property, and being all insufficient, Lei Lien neglecting to advise his daughter... \n\n170",
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        "content_text": "# THE CHINA REVIEW\n\n## Decision of Wen-Tai-Ching\n\nproperly, she appears to have gone with Yen So, Fan Tien, and Huang Che to Cheng-chien's mother, Mrs. Chang, and carried off 180 and more measures of corn, the provision for her support.\n\nThis was both a disregard of her duty to her aunt-in-law, and an application of another's property to her own necessities, and therefore improper, but Lei Lien seems to have felt no compunction, but has even laid a false case before the authorities.\n\nTruly the Yen family have acted in a way worthy of their name, and Mrs. Lei and Mrs. Fo have been forgetful of their duty, the one to her aunt, the other to her mistress and Lei Lien, and Tse-sheng appears to have directed the women's war in the background.\n\nWe decree therefore that Lei Lien and his friends Yen So, Fan Tien, and Huang Che be flogged; that the settlement be recovered; and when the originator of the trouble, Yen Tse-sheng, is caught, that he also be dealt with.\n\n## NOTE\n\n- A brother not responsible for debt if there has been partition of property previous to its accruing. The personal property of a deceased debtor will be first applied to satisfaction of his debts, and if that be insufficient his real property may be taken, but no claim can be made on that of his relatives. It would also seem by implication that where the family property is held jointly that the various beneficiaries are severally liable for each other's debts.\n\n## DECISION OF WEN-USIA O-EST\n\n### Recovery of Debts\n\nIn this case, there is a debt of over Tls. 100, but no proof beyond a bare note, which is scarcely of more value as evidence than an old string of knotted cords, the more so as the debt was contracted in the time of Wan-leih many years ago, and the original parties to it are all dead, and not producible; as Pong-hnan says, \"how can you find out the facts if you don't know the man.\" We recommend the plaintiff to consider his claim like a burnt note, and as the ode says \"put it down to charity.\"\n\n## NOTE\n\n- A debt may be inheritable, and an action brought upon it although all the original parties are dead, but very clear evidence will be required to sustain it.\n\n## DECISION OF WEN TAI-CHING\n\n### Recovery of Debts\n\nHsü Lang-ching, the plaintiff, is a dealer in cotton from Honan; he supplied some by order to Shin Ai-men and Sun Tuan-cho, and although they have already worked it up into clothes, his money bag is still empty. At the hearing, defendants have no excuse and promise payment. We order them, in addition to be flogged for the greater security of strangers trading here.\n\n## NOTE\n\n- Delay in payment is punishable.\n\n## DECISION OF WEN-TAI-CHING\n\n### Recovery of Debts\n\nIn this case, Wu Shih-cho had obtained an order from the Magistrate Kuo against Tung Yen-ju to pay certain rent claimed, but he still delays payment, and as Yen-ju has no excuse to offer, we direct him to be flogged again for his disobedience.\n\n## NOTE\n\n- If the debtor does not obey the order of Court, he may be brought up again and flogged for disobedience.\n\n## OR. ALABASTER\n\n### SHORT NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS\n\n#### AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE\n\nGeschichtlicher über Maass und Gewichts-systeme in China und Japan. Bemerkungen über die Theorie der Chinesischen Musik und ihren Zusammenhang mit der Philosophie. Von Dr. G. Wagener. Separat-Abdruck aus dem 12ten Heft der Mittheilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Natur und Völkerkunde Ostasiens in Tokio. 1877.\n\nThe former of the two essays here combined, valuable as it is for students of Japanese weights and measures, offers but little to glean for purely Chinese studies, except the remarks made here en passant concerning the origin of the Chinese theory of music. Whilst tracing back the history of Japanese weights and measures to Chinese sources on the basis of notes supplied to him by a Japanese Sinologist Mr. Vinagawa Noritane, Dr. Wagener hit upon an explanation of Ling lun's system of music which induced him to take up the study of Chinese music and ancient Chinese philosophy in general. The second of the two essays, however, is a most important contribution to the history of Chinese music and philosophy. Dr. Wagener availed himself in these investigations, besides the notes of Mr. Vinagawa Noritane, of the Mémoires concernant les Chinoises, Ganbil's Shooking, MacClatchie's Yih King, and Eitel's Fong-shui, but especially also of the valuable essays of Dr. Müller on Chinese and Japanese music to which we have referred more than once (see China Review, Vol. V., p. 142, 269).\n\nWe have no room here to follow Dr. Wagener at length through his minute disquisitions on the practical origin and scientific development of the Chinese theory of music and on the relation which music bears in China to philosophy, notably to the system of diagrams and numbers, as exhibited in the Yih King, Ho-t'u, and Loh-shu. Some of his deductions are vitiated by erroneous conceptions derived from Canon MacClatchie's Introduction to the Yih King, as for instance the supposition, underlying a great part of Dr. Wagener's argument, that Fuhi had arranged the diagrams in a circle, an arrangement which is the characteristic feature of the modern school of Yih King commentators (founded by circa A.D. 990) and was entirely foreign to the ancient philosophy of China. But, thanks to the information derived from Japanese Sinologists, Dr. Wagener discovered, in several points, the untrustworthiness of Canon MacClatchie's assertions. Thus, for instance, referring to the following note of Canon MacClatchie's (Introd. VI., note 1), \"the original number of Heaven is Three and the original number of Earth is Six; but Heaven always includes Earth which is situated in his centre, and hence the number of Heaven in the Yih King is nine (3+6),\" Dr. Wagener remarks \"this explanation, even if it should have been derived from Chinese authors, is entirely inadmissible, for not the whole trigram of Heaven stands for Nine, but every single... \n\nPage 67\nPage 171",
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        "content_text": "## 291 \n\n134 \n\nsuch protection as that provided by the Agreement, the li-kin revenue must sustain a serious loss. \n\nIts fears are not without foundation. The further the boundary of the port-area is made to recede, the greater, of course, the chance of such loss. Shortly after my departure from Peking, the foreign Ministers there resident called upon the Chinese Government to withdraw its li-kin collectorates from the Settlements at Shanghae, not as a concession referable to my Agreement of the limitation of the port-area recommended in which, as I have stated, they disapproved, but in part satisfaction of the Treaty right of far older date by which foreign imports ought to be exempted, while between port and inland barrier, from all taxation in excess of Tariff. The Settlements of Shanghae, which cover a few miles of ground, are occupied in great part by a Chinese population of brokers and shopkeepers. These, of course, profited by the removal of the li-kin collectorates, and the Chinese of the same class inhabiting the city and suburbs of Shanghae let the authorities understand that, unless their burdens were similarly lightened, they should transfer their establishments to the foreign quarter. The authorities gave way, and for more than a twelvemonth I have reason to believe that no li-kin has been levied in Shanghae or its immediate vicinity, at least, not by collectorates of the old stamp. Some portion of it will be doubtless recouped from the trading guilds under another form or title of taxation. \n\nThe loss in opium revenue, I imagine, must be considerable, and if the Government of India be still averse to the intervention of the foreign Inspectorate in the collection of li-kin, I venture to hope that it will not be equally opposed to a certain increase of the Tariff duty, the li-kin tax being left as formerly, though at a comparative disadvantage, to take care of itself. \n\nIt has been urged that it is in violation of international practice to pledge a Government, as I desired to pledge mine, in a diplomatic instrument, to sanction the levy of a tax in the nature of a municipal or inland due in addition to a Treaty import duty, except as a commutation of such due, and with the view to placing the amount, defined and limited, under an international guarantee; further, that it is a mere form to maintain the Treaty limitation of the import duty, while, at the same moment, and at the same spot, the authorities are at liberty to levy what they like under the name of li-kin. \n\nThe authorities have, in reality, been free to levy what they pleased in addition to the Tariff duty ever since the Tariff came into operation in 1860, and they have taken advantage of their right, but, as I believe, solely with reference to the circumstances of the different ports of entry. It was this consideration that influenced me when I recommended that, if the corrupt and troublesome native Executive heretofore charged with the levy of the li-kin were to be stripped of their office, that tax, which the Chinese Government has the fullest right to levy, should be collected by the foreign establishment which has the exclusive collection of duties on foreign trade in its hands. I did not believe that the sale of Indian opium would be in any degree diminished in China by the measure, and this for two sufficient reasons, firstly, that Indian opium is a requirement of the Chinese people, and secondly, that the revenue derivable from it is sorely needed by the Chinese Government. \n\nAs to the suppression of opium-smoking upon moral grounds, I cannot think that for years it will be attempted; the habit is become too general. Native opium is produced in every part of the Empire that will bear the poppy, notably in the provinces of Yün Nan, Ssu Ch'uan, Kan Su, and Shen Si. In these and the districts adjoining them I doubt that Indian opium is consumed at all. In Manchuria the native opium competes with the Indian, and, as I have before intimated, it may one day come to pass that improvement in the cultivation of the poppy, and preparation of the drug, will place the foreign import at a disadvantage. But that day is not, in my opinion, near at hand; and meanwhile, so far as the Chinese Government is concerned, it is certainly discovering no tendency to encourage the development of a native opium trade; on the reverse, it formally protests against cultivation of the poppy, and although with some inconsistency the authorities levy li-kin upon native opium, its production is none the less interdicted. \n\nI have before me two letters written last August by a Chinese high in office, who is very anxious that the Chefoo Agreement should be ratified, and on this account doubtless what falls from him must be taken cum grano. Still, his remarks upon the native opium question are not undeserving of attention. \n\nHe is writing especially to deprecate any suspicion on our part that his own Government desires to foster the production of native opium in order to drive ours out of the market. \n\nAll evidence, he contends, points the other way. An Imperial Decree has recently been issued enjoining the Provincial Governments to prohibit the cultivation of the poppy within their respective jurisdictions. Whether success has attended this effort of the Central Government or not, he urges, it suffices to show the importance it attaches to the discontinuance of poppy cultivation; and this for the two-fold reason that, while addictedness to the use of opium demoralizes and ruins the people, cultivation of the poppy impoverishes the soil, and renders it unavailable for production of the necessaries of life. It has been brought to the notice of the Government that the increasing cultivation of opium had so interfered with the raising of cereals as in many places to have caused or aggravated the recent famine. Land formerly devoted to food-stuffs had been given up to the poppy. In years of plenty, consequently, the grain produced in the districts referred to was insufficient for the wants of the population, while in years of dearth the people were reduced to starvation, or had to emigrate as paupers. \n\n“As to our alarm lest home-grown should compete with Indian opium, there can be no prospect, he maintains, that the former will displace the latter. It is notorious that the poppy grown in China cannot produce good opium. Indeed, the quality of the Chinese product is so inferior that it is used only by those who would be unable to buy the more expensive Indian commodity, even were it imported duty-free, while the wealthier classes regard it as vulgar to partake of any other opium than Indian.” \n\nThere may be here some slight exaggeration. It is beyond doubt, at the same time, that the Indian opium is considered the more fashionable, as well as the fuller flavoured of the two. In Peking society, at least among the younger men who have time to idle together, it is become as much the usage to offer a visitor a pipe of opium, as with us to invite him to smoke cigars or cigarettes; and it would certainly not be considered good style to give him any but the foreign drug. \n\nThe letter goes on to affirm that the Chinese Government has no thought whatever of availing itself of the Chefoo Agreement to raise the li-kin on Indian opium to a prohibitory rate. It would be glad, he writes, to see its importation stopped altogether, were this possible, which the writer knows it is not. The Government is set upon the prohibition of opium cultivation at home; but this he knows can only be effected gradually. The Chinese Government, he adds, levy li-kin on native opium, as well as on Indian opium, and at the same rate. The last assertion I take leave to doubt. \n\nFinally, he declares that the sole object of the proposed simultaneous collection of li-kin and Tariff duty is the prevention of smuggling; the security, that is to say, of the revenue to which the Government is entitled when the drug passes out of foreign hands. \n\nI believe that there is much truth in this last statement. The Government is sorely in want of money; and although it is frequently chargeable in its local finance with suicidal eagerness to secure the golden egg, it must be admitted to have shown, on the whole, an intelligent tenderness in its treatment of opium li-kin. \n\nI give below a list of the open ports at which I have been enabled to ascertain, approximately, the rates of li-kin levied per picul on foreign opium. Of the li-kin on native opium I know nothing to be relied on. The tael is an ounce of silver estimated by the foreign Inspectorate as equivalent to 6s. sterling:- \n\n| Port | Taels |\n| --- | --- |\n| King-chow (Hü-nan) | 23.0 |\n| Swatow | 21.5 |\n| Amoy | 84.6 |\n| Foo-chow | 86 |\n| Ningpo | 32.0 |\n| Wên-chow | 40.0 |\n| Shanghae | 40.0 |\n| Chin-kiang | 16 |\n| Chefoo | 32.0 |\n| Tien-tsin | 18.0 |\n| New-chwang | 18.0 |\n| Hankow | 30.0 |\n\nThis list does not include the new ports of I-chang, Wu-hu, and Pak-hoi. The last is but a branch of Kiung-chow, and the rate of li-kin is probably the same at both ports. At Canton, Tam-sui, and Ta-kow, which do not either appear in the list, we may be sure that the li-kin is not below 20 taels per picul. At Canton it is certain to be much higher. \n\nI have before me the Returns of Trade at the Treaty ports for the year 1877, prepared under the direction of Mr. Hart, Inspector-General of the Maritime Customs, and chief of the foreign service, known as the Customs' Inspectorate, which are thoroughly trustworthy. I append the reprint of a Table extracted from p. 13 of this Return, showing the importation of opium into the open ports from 1870 to 1877 inclusive; and according to the data contained in this, I make out that of the 12,000,000 taels collected on the...",
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        "content_text": "## 298 \n\n## 148 \n\nThis reminds me to tell you that while in Hong Kong I heard, in confidence from the Captain of the gun-boat who was taking the officer over, that the Governor of Macao was to be invested with a decoration got for him by Chang-chih-t'ai in return for permission to allow the Chinese to search Macao for the pirates of the German ship \"Occident.\" Lin Tô-jêu referred in so pointed a way to his ability to square the Governor of Macao that I fancy the latter must have named his terms.\n\nHe next spoke about the rate to be charged for opium, and said he agreed with Li Chung-t'ang that it should be 100 taels. This more than expressed the actual revenue that the Chinese Government now got, but when every allowance was made for loss by smuggling and cost of collection, it would not do much more than cover the total revenue, reported and unreported. The latter was a very heavy item in every port. Fire brigades, and the like institutions, with a host of petty items that never appeared in the public, were covered by fees on opium, only known to foreigners under the general term li-kin. He thought 100 taels was a fair rate, from which I gather that, if pressed, he would accept less. The issue of a ticket with each bale would, he thought, be a fair guarantee against a double levy, which would further be prohibited by an Imperial Decree which no one would venture to disregard.\n\nHe told me the Yamên had also referred the scheme for the taxation of foreign imports to him. He had reported favourably upon it for two reasons. First, he saw many difficulties in the way of carrying out the arrangement in the Chefoo Agreement for the delimitation of a fresh area, particularly in parts where no foreign concession existed; and, next, he believed that an import duty of 10 per cent., although it did not represent the aggregate of the inland taxes leviable upon foreign imports, would actually secure a larger revenue to the Chinese Government, for a large proportion of the inland dues never found their way into the Exchequer. He had objected to the proposal that appropriation should be made by maritime provinces to inland ones, and had suggested as an alternative that the whole of the revenue from the foreign import trade should be remitted to the Board of Revenue. In return for this remittance the maritime provinces were to be relieved from all subsidies to impecunious provinces and contributions towards war and other expenses, which would have to be supplied by the Board of Revenue. This would relieve the richer provinces from many embarrassing calls. I asked what the provinces would depend upon in this case for local expenditure. He said there was the land tax to fall back upon, omitting all mention of li-kin on native trade. He said the demand for guarantees was a reasonable one on the part of the foreign Representatives; but when I asked him what form these guarantees would take, he seemed to have no other suggestion to make than the issue of a peremptory Decree.\n\nThis is, I think, the sum of what was said on the trade question. In connection with his remarks on the necessity of opium dues being collected by the Foreign Customs, when he spoke very highly of Mr. Hart's talents as an administrator, he said Mr. Hart was coming to see him shortly to discuss the possibility of making some arrangements for the better collection of the revenue on salt.\n\nThe only other subject on which we talked was the Woosung Bar. I told Lin-ta-jêu that the Yamên had promised that something should be done, and he asked me to tell you that he had sent a \"wei yuan,\" called Wang, to Shanghae to look into the matter and take soundings. On receipt of Wang's Report he had determined to order a dredger from abroad, which would be used for the deepening of the bar, and be afterwards employed in the Yangtze and elsewhere. He estimated the cost of dredging the bar at some 10,000 taels or so, and said it was his intention to deepen it sufficiently to allow of the passage of large vessels. It was possible that the foreign community of Shanghae might be dissatisfied with what he intended to do, but he could not promise more. He recognized the obligation of the Chinese Government to keep its own waterways navigable, and his main objection to the scheme under which the Shanghae community proposed to levy a tax for the dredging of the bar was his fear lest they should consider that this gave them a claim to interfere with Chinese rights.\n\nAfter returning to the boat I went to call on Lu, the deputy who had provided me with a chair, and thank him for his good offices. He told me that it had been the Governor-General's original intention to retire when he received the Decree summoning him to Peking, but that he had since changed his mind. It was generally supposed that Lin-chih-t'ai would be sent to Kansu, and that Tseng Kuo-chuan, the Governor-General designate, would take his place at Nanking.\n\nI inclose a letter which Lin-chih-t'ai asked me to send to you. He trusted to me, he said, to report what he had told me to you.\n\nI have, &c.\n**(Signed)**\n**WALTER C. HILLIER.**\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\n## 149 \n\nInclosure 8 in No. 75.\n\nMr. Hillier to Sir T. Wade.\n\nMy dear Sir Thomas,\n\nHankow, September 26, 1881.\nOn my arrival here the day before yesterday I found that I had missed the Governor-General* by a day or two. He has gone to I-ch'ang to inspect troops, and from there will visit other military stations in his jurisdiction, returning here in about a month's time.\n\nUnder the circumstances I thought it best to send the Governor, P'êng Tzu-hsien, your letter of introduction to the Viceroy, and ask whether, in the absence of his chief, he could give me an interview. He sent word by his military Aide that he would see me this morning, and, as in every other instance, I was received with the greatest civility.\n\nWhen I spoke of the Intercourse question to him, he told me that he had no doubt it was all right, but that he had to confess he had never seen the Yamên's correspondence on the subject. He had heard that \"chao-hui\" was the form to be used, but had imagined that it always had been employed. He was, at any rate, quite sure that no one at Wu-ch'ang would make any objection to any new arrangements the Yamên might make, or have made. His duties did not bring him much in contact with foreign officials, though he had met Mr. Alabaster, who had impressed him as a man of much tact and experience. Hence the reason that the correspondence from the Yamên on the subject of Intercourse had not been shown him. He had seen some recent letters from the Yamên, but these were about opium and trade. In one they had asked the opinion of the Provincial Government as to the advisability of accepting 110 taels in lieu of all li-kin, and in the other they had called for remarks on the proposed scheme for the abolition of all inland duties on foreign imports in consideration of a Tariff duty of 10 per cent. ad valorem.\n\nHe said that the latter matter was, in his opinion, more easy of settlement than the former. The Yamên had called upon all the Customs Taotais to draw up draft regulations which should secure foreign goods from further taxation after payment of import duty, and he had seen the regulations drawn up by the Taotai of I-ch'ang, which had already gone up to Peking. These provided for the transport of foreign goods inland under passes, which would have to be shown at every barrier and stamped. I pointed out that the system would, I thought, be cumbrous, cause delays, and subject the goods to a squeeze at every barrier in the shape of a stamping fee. He did not deny the possibility of extortion, but said he hoped by the selection of respectable officers for barrier duty that it would be reduced to a minimum. He could not see that the imposition of indirect levies, such as the taxation of shops for the sale of foreign goods and the like, would be in any way a breach of the stipulation that one payment should cover everything, and he claimed for Chinese merchants the right to \"contribute voluntarily to the necessities of the Government, provided that foreign goods were let alone.\" Chinese merchants, whatever they dealt in, were free to be taxed as the exigencies of the State required.\n\nHe had heard, he said, of the proposition of certain Chinese merchants, headed by one P'êng Yu, to establish an opium monopoly at Hong Kong. (I must correct my statement in my last letter that a \"friend\" had applied to Liu Chih T'ai; it was evidently this man P'êng Yü.) Li Chung Tang had written to his brother about it. He, P'êng Tzu-hsien, was too far away from Hong Kong to be able to express a positive opinion on the subject, and would be glad to hear what the Governors-General, whom I had seen, thought of the scheme. When I told him that they looked upon it with suspicion he agreed, and said he preferred the plan suggested by the Yamên. Tso Chung Tang's proposals were impossible; he wanted to deal with foreign opium in a manner unauthorized by Treaty, and Ting Pao Chên, Governor-General of Sze-ch'uen, had shown conclusively that native opium could not be systematically taxed. He had seen Ting Chih T'ai's memorial on the subject, in which it was pointed out that native opium was carried in small quantities by numbers of lawless and desperate characters, who concealed it about their persons, and travelled by unfrequented mountain paths. If barriers were erected at any point these men would make long detours to avoid them, and if every channel was to be stopped the barriers would have to be multiplied enormously. Even granting that it was possible to protect every outlet, it would be necessary to station a considerable number of men at each place, for the opium smugglers would travel in gangs, and resent any interference from Customs runners whose numerical strength was inferior to their own.\n\nIt was easy to see, therefore, that the cost of an opium preventive service in Sze-ch'uen would be greater than the revenue it was supposed to protect.\n\n* Li Han-ch'ang, eldest brother of the Grand Secretary Li, Governor-General of Hu Pei and Hu Nan, resides in Wu-chang, opposite Hankow.-T. W.",
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        "content_text": "# Tientsin\n## 25 November 1881\n\nA crisis has been evolved very suddenly on account of some incident - Schulty, who has had disgraceful relations with the Chinese Authorities, not for his own but for other faults, returns to Shanghai in a day or two.\n\nGr. Northern Agent. Henningsen returns to-night. He came up to smooth matters but has failed utterly. Then he asked for authority to complete the land line connections to Peking and was met by refusal.\n\nSilvertown Co's acqu. The work is promised to Betts. Henningsen was also at disposal of the Chinese Minister Von Butzow in case a line should be made via Mongolia. I judge the line will not be made yet. For yesterday two people came to me to ask for the Yamen for details of the Mongol intrigues with Russia and the true role of Mr. Goubarew.\n\nIf partly in consequence, the Tientsin telegraph is prevented. I will be much distressed if it is not resolved.\n\nTo-day, Henningsen made, I hear, an unsuccessful struggle. He asked that the Danes be retained on the Shanghai-Tientsin telegraph line, on which the Viceroy said I would suffice. If Henniggen had said 2, the Viceroy would have said 1. In fact, there is a general disposition from Viceroy to Yamen runners to trample and spit on the Danes. The Ring is broken up - Mollendorff, Li Hung Chang & the Great...",
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        "content_text": "## 154 \n\n**THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH**\n\nIn all cases in which Japanese, especially Government departments, are plaintiffs in our Courts, it is eminently desirable that the fullest investigation should be accorded, and the judgment based upon the clearest reasoning.\n\nSevere indisposition has compelled Mr. Martin Dohmen, H.B.M. acting consul at Yokohama, to take leave of absence. His place will be filled by Mr. J. J. Enalie, the senior member of the consular corps in Japan, with the exception of Mr. Russell Robertson, who is now acting judge of H.B.M. Court for Japan. The appointment of Mr. Enalie has been received with much satisfaction, because the nomination of Mr. Dohmen about three years ago was regarded as improper, in view of that gentleman's shorter service and inexperience. The appointment of Mr. Hannen to be acting chief justice of the Supreme Court for China and Japan has enabled the arrears of appeals to be cleared off. Several cases tried here in 1877, and appealed to Shanghai, have been decided; but the delay, expense, and anxiety have weighed heavily upon the suitors. The probability of Mr. Rennie being promoted to the chief justiceship of Shanghai and Mr. Hannen appointed to Yokohama is a gratifying prospect to the communities of both ports, where the gentlemen named are well known and highly esteemed.\n\nThe Kaitakushi, or Colonization Commission, a department of the Government which has been for years past regarded with the utmost aversion and suspicion, is now finally abolished, the government of Yezo being assimilated with that of other parts of the empire. Hakodate, Sapporo, and Nemuro are made the seats of three ken; and the business of colonisation will henceforward be attended to in a separate department in the two latter ken. This change will probably save the national purse seventy per cent of the former cost of this service under the loose administration of General Kuroda, who is now said to have resigned his office. Probably, finding his occupation gone, no other alternative was left for General Kuroda.\n\nThe settlement is a prey to fatty robberies and burglarious openings of warehouses and abstraction of portions of their contents. The police do not seem equal to the task of suppression or detection; and this, combined with the intolerable condition of the settlement, again suggests the necessity for the formation of a municipality in which the residents shall be properly and effectively represented. The new order in council contains references to municipal and land regulations applicable to the open ports of Japan, which revive the hope that we may eventually succeed in placing this settlement under our own control; and to enforce the observance of the regulations upon those whose defiance of all laws is now a standing reproach to, and testimony of the weakness and inefficiency of the courts of those nations enjoying extra-territorial rights yet unable to control their own people.\n\n[FEB. 21, 1882]\n\nIt is now stated that Mr. Shishido will not be removed from the Japanese Legation at Peking, but will return to his post in March. The Loochoo question is, according to the Japan Herald, likely to crop up again during the summer, and \"the foreign emissary of the Japanese Government, still tarries in Peking,\" where he is supposed to be endeavouring to do something in the grievance between the two Empires. The Echo du Japon also refers to the same question. Two Loochooan delegates, who visited Peking with the idea of enlisting the aid of China to recover the lost independence of their home, have recently committed suicide, driven probably to desperation by the delays and sinuosities of Celestial diplomacy.\n\n## KOREA\n\n## FUSAN\n\nA Japanese newspaper, the Mainichi Shimbun, recently printed a note to the effect that Ri-Saison, step-brother of the King, assisted by three formerly distinguished officials, had attempted to break out into rebellion; but that their scheme was nipped in the bud, and the conspirators were arrested. Now the same paper gives further intelligence from Seoul stating that the three ex-officials were beheaded and dismembered on the 2nd Dec. The heads were suspended by the hair from poles; and the arms and legs, roughly wrapped in straw, were put on piles of faggots, while the dismembered trunks were left lying on the ground at the foot of the same. The second names of the traitors were placarded on the exposed corpses, but not their family names. Ri-Saisen, in consideration of his being the nearest relative of the Sovereign, had his capital sentence remitted, and was exiled. Ri Reisboku, one of the would-be rebels, committed suicide in prison by biting off his tongue.\n\nRumours are afloat that the King has sent a message to Peking asking for arms and soldiers to expel the Japanese who have fastened on two settlements on the shore opposite the West Coast of Japan. All accounts agree that the Japanese are very cruel, and that the Koreans are minded to rise and massacre them. The Chinese, it is stated, are even more sensitive about Korea than about Loochoo.\n\nThe Government are about to establish Custom Houses, the working of which is to be on much the same principle as the one now adopted by China in collecting her revenue on foreign bottoms.\n\n## CHINA\n\n## PEKING\n\nA very serious quarrel took place some ten years ago between a military mandarin named Chen Kuo-jui and Li Shih-chung, Commander-in-chief of the forces of Kiang-nan. An edict appeared in the Peking Gazette in 1871, in reply to a memorial from Tseng Kou-fan on the subject, degrading the two officers for their unseemly brawl. The Shen Pao of Jan. 2 contains a proclamation by the Governor of An-hui to the effect that, acting on the Imperial authority, he caused Li Shih-chung to be arrested secretly on the night of the 1st of the current moon in a garrison, and then and there beheaded.\n\nWe have enjoyed, as best we could under adverse conditions of trade, the holidays incident to the season. Christmas was observed by foreign residents in various ways; and the new year by our Japanese friends. Poverty and stagnation are, however, too visible through the outward show of festivity; and it is evident that if this country is to maintain its commercial relations with the world to the satisfaction and advantage of those concerned, a thorough and radical change must be made in the restrictive laws which impede trade and embarrass every producer and merchant alike.\n\nThe mail via United States, originally intended to leave Jan. 10, is postponed to Jan. 21, to the great inconvenience of merchants here and the annoyance of those in China whose letters are on the way to connect here with the steamer that was to leave on the 10th. The withdrawal of the excellent and regular service of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Company has been a source of much loss and inconvenience to foreign mercantile interests in Japan; and the probability is that a memorial will shortly be addressed to H.B.M. Government praying for its restoration.\n\nA general meeting of the Asiatic Society has been held at the Chamber of Commerce, Tokio, the Rev. J. L. Amerman, Vice President, in the chair. Mr. Ernest Satow read a paper entitled \"Notes on the Early History of Printing in Japan.\"\n\nIt is stated that Mr. Tekeha Pinpei, President of one of the Provincial Assemblies, has been decapitated in his own house, and his wife mortally wounded by three unknown men, who announced that robbery was not their motive. It is supposed they were actuated by private spite, or had some political object in committing the crime.\n\nA serious mutiny among prisoners broke out in the prison at Hamamatsu, Shidzuoka ken, on the 24th Dec. Eighty prisoners combined to escape, and made a desperate attempt to carry their plans into execution; but guard and police were at hand, and, by use of arms, the ringleader being shot dead at the outset, the revolt was subdued, but not until many were seriously wounded on both sides.\n\nThe Japanese newspapers state that the Miyee-kan, iron sheathed corvette, one of the three constructed by Sir E. J. Reed, on her return voyage from Persia, where she had been on a special mission, showed signs of deterioration, supposed to be due to defective construction.\n\n## DRAFT\n\nPage 55\n\nThe O.A.G.\n\nMr. ... \nMINUTE.\n\nPraesoni saful Дария\n\nMr. Wingfield.\nMr. Bramston.\nMr. Meade.\nMr. Herbert.\nMr. Courtney.\nLord Kimberley.\n\nsubmitted.\n\nb: 13.8.194\n\nit. Hoy Kay 51\n\nPii, 6948\n\nRECO\n\nREGO 16 APR 82.\n\n18April:82\n\nMy attention has been drawn to the ...\n\n678210\n\nthe Gleaner by Addicati\" to iding\n\nThe Courier reports that the Sub-Reader, Chang Chi Tung, has been appointed Governor of the Province of Shansi. This promotion is a remarkable one, from the fact that a Sub-Reader belongs to the fifth degree of rank, whereas a Governor of a Province is second in grade only to Viceroy, as the former has almost equal power with the latter, and has under his immediate command the whole of the military forces of his Province. A Sub-Reader, on the other hand, holds but an insignificant office, and the only importance that attaches to it is on account of the freedom of speech permitted in memorialising the Throne—a prerogative which is shared by the Censors. The sudden promotion of Chang Chi Tung from insignificance to importance is to be traced to his having written the famous memorial against Chung How and his more recent intrepid letter to the Viceroy Li Hung Chang. In politics Chang belongs to the Tso party, and he is regarded by them as one of their shining lights, destined shortly to blaze into the refulgence of a Viceroy.\n\nThe North China Daily News correspondent writes:--The French Minister and his family have arrived after a very considerable absence. The British Minister and Lady Wade have also arrived. It must be a source of the greatest pleasure to all Peking residents to see Lady Wade once more. Important negotiations with the Viceroy regarding opium duty have, it is reported, been occupying the attention of the British Minister and Chinese high officials at Tientsin, and doubtless the interests of the victims of the opium vice, as well as those of the two countries more especially interested, have not been overlooked by either statesman. Tsao Tsung-tang joined their deliberations at Tientsin on his way south. China has a few enlightened and able statesmen at present who seem determined to grapple with this enormous question. Very considerable interest is taken in the subject at present, and if nothing effective is now done it is to be feared another equally good opportunity may not arrive. It stands to reason that before the Chinese are able to drain their own ...\n\n\"I was ... from \"to \"monopoly there\"\n\n1 Feb. p. 162 Explow\n\nHannisy\n\nbyt? Kimberley privately. Oct. 6.\n\nRKA. Oct. 9.\n\nEnclosed extracts from the \"London & China Telegraph\" of the 13th and 22nd February, the meaning of which I am unable to understand and shall be glad to receive your ...",
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        "content_text": "to get a Cable across to Hong Kong to join their own system. I hope the Government will take steps to prevent this and to secure the connection for the Eastern Extension Company which really represents British Interests.\n\nI have the honor to be \nMy Lord, Your obedient servant \nJohn Fender \nChairman\n\nCopy of Telegram \nenquire \n10 Hefpe \nAll shares taken up \nGovernment \nsubscribe \nRECP \nC.O. \n5131 \nREG? 21 MAR 82, \nth \n58 \nMarch 18th 1882 \nCanton \n\none third of Capital. Contract with Great Northern to build line and day telegraph will be signed when Chinese get permission bring line into Hongkong. \nif this refused, Line terminates Kowloon and \nViceroy arrangement probable with Great-Northon which Company is backed by recommendation from Parey to Hing Chang whose influence is paramount. \nI even if result doubtful even \nYou got Secretary-state to wire Government Hongkong to forward our application to Viceroy Canton through British Consul with recommendation from British Government.\n\nPage 60\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "(Private and confidential.)\n\nMY LORD,\n\n20th January? to take into confidential receipt thereof. I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant, Administering the Government.\n\n19th October, 1887(?)\n\nC. O.\n\n44011\n\nRECP\n\nREGO 13 MAR 277\n\nHONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,\n\n153\n\nHONGKONG, January 20th, 1883.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Sir JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE's despatch of the 10th October, 1882, replying to the communication I made on behalf of this Chamber to your Lordship on the subject of the Treaty recently negotiated between Great Britain and the Kingdom of Korea.\n\nI have now to convey to your Lordship the thanks of the Chamber for the courteous and confidential invitation extended to the Committee to express its views upon the Treaty, a copy of which was enclosed with Sir JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE's letter, and to set forth, with as much brevity as the subject permits, the opinions of the Committee upon the operation of the clauses which relate to Trade and Commerce.\n\nThe Committee has no doubt that Her Majesty's Government, when entering into political relations with Korea, has regarded that Kingdom as a State which is completely independent in respect of its domestic administration and its international responsibilities, though subject to a certain undefined suzerainty exercised by China, similar to that acknowledged by Annam and Burmah and hitherto satisfied by the rendition of an annual tribute. That such has also been the view held, until recently, by China herself, is clear from the evidence furnished by the express declarations of the Tsungli Yamên of Peking in 1866 and 1871 on the occasion of French and American difficulties with Korea, when the Chinese Government disclaimed all responsibility for Korean affairs, and by her acquiescence in the recognition of the complete independence of Korea which was declared in the Japanese Treaty with that country concluded in 1876.\n\nSince, however, the attack upon the Japanese Legation at Seoul last year, the Chinese Government appears to have changed its attitude, and to have asserted its claims to exercise control not only over the administration of the internal affairs of Korea but also over its foreign relations. The Edict published some months ago in the Peking Gazette, notifying the punishment of the Dai-in-Kun, refers to the King of Korea as being subject to Chinese law and authority, and in a document recently made public, styled \"Regulations for the conduct of trade by sea and land between Chinese and Korean subjects,\" the Grand Secretary LI-HUNG-CHANG, late Viceroy of Pechili, is designated in terms of official equality with the King of Korea, as if the Ruler of that Country were occupying a position delegated to him by the Emperor, analogous in point of rank and authority to that of a Governor General of a Chinese Province.\n\nThe Committee may hereafter deem it necessary to consider, in a separate communication to your Lordship, the terms of these \"Regulations\" and the special privileges which they appear to confer upon Chinese Traders, and refers to them now, when discussing the bearing of the British Treaty, in order to bring prominently before Her Majesty's Government the desirability of ascertaining the precise character of the relationship claimed by the Government of China quoad that of Korea, before Her Majesty is advised to ratify the Treaty negotiated by Admiral WILLES.\n\nAs the Kingdom of Korea has never been claimed to be an integral part of the Chinese Dominions, it is either a mediatized State under the protection of China, in which case the authority of its King to conclude Treaties with foreign nations may hereafter be questioned, or it is an independent country with whose autonomy the \"Regulations\" referred to are...\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nEARL GRANVILLE, K.G.,\n\n&c., &c.\n\nHer Majesty Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,\n\nLONDON.",
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        "content_text": "Hongkong.\n\nNo 2.\n\n31st March 1883.\n\nGovernor,\n\nThe George Ferguson Bowen, GCMG\n\nSir\n\nto\n\nThe Right Honourable The Earl of Derby\n\nHon'ble W. H. Marsh, CMG.\n\nRespecting the\n\nEnclosures\n\nEnclosure No!\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, APRIL 3RD, 1883.\n\nPRESENTATION OF AN ADDRESS TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR.\n\nOn the 29th ult. an address was presented to His Excellency the Administrator, the Hon. W. H. Marsh, C.M.G., at Government House. The presentation was made by the Hon. P. Ryrie, who was accompanied by upwards of eighty of the signatories, representatives of every class and nationality in the Colony being present.\n\nHon. P. RYRIE, in making the presentation, said—Your Excellency, the pleasing duty has been assigned to me of presenting to you a numerously signed address from the community of this Colony. When I state that this has been a spontaneous movement on the part of all classes in the colony, I state what is absolute fact. I believe that I may be considered the oldest British resident in the Colony, and during the period of my stay here, I have taken part in a good many demonstrations of this kind, and I can truly say that I have never seen more anxiety displayed by its inhabitants to testify by their signatures the feelings they entertained of your high abilities as the head of its executive. (Applause). The address, as you will observe, is numerously signed by all nationalities, but there are still a number of gentlemen anxious to join it who from press of time have not had an opportunity of doing so. With your kind permission their signatures can be appended hereafter. (Applause.) I shall now, with your permission, proceed to read the address:\n\nTo HIS EXCELLENCY THE HONOURABLE WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G., THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT OF HONGKONG, &c., &c., &c.\n\nSIR, We, the undersigned non-official members of the Legislative Council, Justices of the Peace, Members of Professions, Merchants, Bankers, and Residents in Hongkong, desire to convey to Your Excellency on the approaching termination of your Administration of the affairs of the Colony an expression of our esteem and regard as well as of our sense of the admirable and effective manner in which you have discharged the duties of your high position.\n\nThe vigour which has been displayed in every department of your Government, the introduction of numerous measures of useful legislation, and the rapidity with which urgently required public works have been promoted and pushed forward within the short period during which you have held office, make evident to us the eminent capacity for affairs which you possess, while the equal administration of executive authority dispensed by you without fear or favour and with a steadfast regard to the public welfare has inspired all classes of our mixed population with complete confidence in the firmness and justice of your rule.\n\nYou have made Government House the centre of social attraction by the liberal and graceful hospitality which has been accorded to the community.\n\nWe are pleased to learn that the Public Service of the Colony will not be deprived for some time to come of your valuable co-operation and that you will resume your former post as Colonial Secretary. We trust that when you do leave us it will be on the occasion of your appointment to higher office under the Crown to which your long and able public career have so well qualified you.\n\nWith the assurance of our profound respect. We have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servants,\n\n[Signatures follow]\n\nP. Ryrie\n\nF. Hugeloy Johnson\n\nE. R. Belilios\n\nAlfred Lefeber\n\nWm. Danby\n\nJohn Thurburn\n\nS. Barff\n\nA. Molver\n\nW. S. Adams, M.D.\n\nBell-Irving\n\nJ. G. T. Haysel\n\nD. Ruttunjoe\n\nFramsjee H. Arjunes\n\nH. M. Mehta\n\nPh. B. C. Aires\n\nU. V. Creagh\n\nC. D. Bottomley\n\nW. S. Young\n\nH. L. Dalrymple\n\nWilliam Forrest\n\nJ. L. Mackenzie\n\nE. Mackintosh\n\nF. D. Sassoon\n\nJohn Gerrard\n\nC. P. Chater\n\nG. M. Carvalho\n\nG. Remedios\n\nJoze Maria G. Pereira\n\nCornelio Corveth\n\nF. H. V. Azevedo\n\nJ. F. Tavares\n\nE. Loureiro\n\nL. J. Gutierrez\n\nA. Eca da Silva\n\nL. M. Baptista\n\nC. V. M. Marques\n\nF. M. Gutierrez\n\nJ. A. 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        "content_text": "197\n\nprearut relations between France and \n\nChina, Chave the hour to report that The Chinese Admiral Ting last brek \n\npaid \n\na second visit to Hongling, when \n\nI entertained him at the Government \n\nA \n\nfeur \n\nbecks \n\nChad \n\nHince, as \n\nago iuliitamed also the French Minister, \n\nMr. Encon. \n\n2. Admiral Ting has been in Europe, and his Flag Captain, Fing \n\nyears in \n\nRoyal Navy, served for several years in the English Navy - They \n\nand resolute in their \n\nregard \n\nto the claims \n\nof \n\nare \n\nboth firm \n\nwith \n\nlanguage of China, but still \n\nhope \n\nhave that war with France will be \n\nAverted. \n\n3. It is understood, however, that \n\nThe recent interviews between Mr. Encon \n\nand the Chinese Statesman, Li Hung \n\nChang, at Shanghai, have not been altogether of a peaceful character And there are beyond doubt great and \n\ngeneral excitement and serious preparations for war in China. Still \n\na few years ago \n\nThis was also the case at \n\nthe time of the complication with Russia respecting Kuldja. The Chinese \n\nthen at last discovered a modus \n\nvivendi",
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        "content_text": "433\n\n: \n\n(18)\n\nFor collecting here, the Fuk Cheng Wo Hong receives, for every hundred taels of silver collected, a commission of mace 6.5. The Lekin Collectorate receives a commission of mace 5.8 per taels 100, whilst the Hoifong Collectorate gets mace 4.8 per taels 100.\n\nFrom a comparison of the above figures, it will be seen that opium, shipped in native bottoms, and paying duty either at Kap-shui Mun or here, is less heavily weighted by 25% in the case of Regular Duty and Lekin, and by 40% in the case of Hoifong than opium shipped in Foreign Bottoms to Canton. The extra charges called Nga Tip—\"poor and sick,\" and \"sycee difference,\" are also excluded. It is obvious therefore that little opium will be shipped from here (for Canton) in Foreign Bottoms. The absence of such shipment has been erroneously considered an evidence of smuggling from Hongkong, as has been shown elsewhere.\n\nThe tax called Hoifung is a species of Lekin. It really covers two taxes, one a tax called Shuk Li, or the tax on opium for the privilege of boiling it, and the other a levy towards keeping up sea and river defences. As far as I can make out, the Shuk Li tax was started in the 11th moon of the 6th year of Kwong Sü—December 1880—and was first farmed by a Canton man called Wong Tsun-in. He paid to the Viceroy a sum of $400,000 for the privilege of collecting it for one year. Another tax was imposed later on called Hoifong. These two were lumped, and called by the general name of Hoifong, and the farming of them was sold by the Viceroy to Mr. Li Sing of the Wo Hang Hong of this Colony for a sum of $900,000 a year. Mr. Li Sing is said to have lost largely by the transaction, and given it up, and General Pang Yuk, called sometimes General and sometimes Admiral, is reported as seeing to the collection now.\n\nIt will be observed that this Hoifong is a very much heavier tax than the Lekin or War tax, properly so-called, the nature and origin of which were so fully described by Sir Thomas Wade in his memorandum on the Revision of the Tientsin Treaty (see Blue Book China No. 6, 1871, page 442). But Lekin is not a fixed amount. In 1874 it was 10 taels a chest on opium at the Lekin Station at Cheng Chau just outside this Colony (see Complaint of Hongkong community C. 1628 of 1876 page 30). Now it is double that sum, to say nothing of Hoifong.\n\nThe right of the Chinese to levy the Lekin tax on opium has never been disputed, but Sir Thomas Wade has been endeavouring for some years to induce them to fix a uniform rate at all the parts, and hence the Chefoo Convention proposed to collect the Lekin and Regular Customs duty together; and Sir Thomas Wade, although believing that the Lekin which the Chinese Government gathered did not amount on the average to 40 taels per picul, was nevertheless prepared to recommend the Indian Government to collect that sum for China on all Indian Opium passing into China, such payment freeing however such opium from all charges of any sort inland or elsewhere. Hongkong would have had a certain allowance without duty or Lekin. (Vide Command paper 2716, China No. 2, 1880, page 4). The Chinese Government replied that, independent of inland levies of Lekin, it would require a levy of 60 taels at the ports to make up for their present collection.\n\nAt page 5, H. M. Minister, in further discussing the question of Lekin, states that if the rates ruling at different ports were to be continued, he should require exact information as to the inland Collectorates, and the rates levied at each; but the Chinese Government evidently do not want to give that information. (see page 7 of China No. 2, 1880).\n\nFinally, it seems that Sir Thomas Wade would be prepared to agree that opium should pay Lekin at the inland barriers beyond the first existing in 1876, and at the rates then prevailing, the first barrier rate being collected by the Foreign Inspectorate with regular duty. This is such a concession from his first position that he must have ascertained that the Lekin was small.\n\nSir Robert Hart in a communication to the Tsung Li Yamen, (published in Command paper No. 1832 China No. 3, 1877, and entitled Proposals for the better regulation of Commercial relations), proposed that the Treaty Powers should consent that Opium should pay an import duty of taels 120 per picul to the Maritime Customs on arrival at a Treaty Port, and that at a distance of 30 li = 10 miles from the Custom House, it should be regarded as a Chinese commodity, and subject to local, territorial and special taxation, whenever, wherever, and with whomsoever found, and that no other charge shall be levied at the Port (see page 2, Imports).\n\nThe above proposals and discussions are certainly not without interest to the trade of this Colony, and a knowledge of the increased amount of Opium dues now collected by the Canton authorities might prove useful to the Home authorities and to the Indian Government, especially as that Government has lately called attention to the undesirability of the Chinese Government largely enhancing the Import duty on Indian Opium, and more especially because recent observations show that the market for Indian Opium will be confined for the most part to the South of China.\n\nThe next question is, the existence of these local Collectorates being shown, whether the Government should take immediate notice of the levy.\n\nThere is little doubt but that the system is not of yesterday. It was found out, and stopped by Sir R. G. MacDonnell, during his Government. It is clearly contrary to international law, (see Lord Clarendon's despatch, Revision of Tientsin Treaty, China, 1871, page 400), and the Canton authorities know it—see Sir Brooke Robertson's representation to the Canton Government, (Command paper 1189 of 1875, page 36,) where he told the Viceroy \"that the collection of Imperial duties in the Colony was against the law.\"\n\nNevertheless, the Hongkong traders say it is a matter of convenience to them to pay duties here, which they would have to pay at the K'ap-shui Mun Station, a distance of 7 miles, and where there is often trouble about the tender. They also say that they can clear their Opium for any place along the Coast north or South, without going to K'ap-Shui Mun. Besides being contrary to international usage, a system of espionage is established, which places the Chinese residents of the Colony very much in the power of the Canton Officials, a power which may be used often to their disadvantage. Otherwise than the principle involved, and the drawbacks to some Chinese residents, I am not sure that there is much to be objected to in the collection, and the convenience to many is obvious. But if there is to be an arrangement, as seems in contemplation, for the future regulation of the Opium traffic, and if this Colony is to have stations established within its jurisdiction, care should be taken that a proper recognition is made, that the concession, if made, is only granted for a good consideration, and because our nearness to China warrants our making it. For such facilities granted for collecting, we should perhaps have some of the large revenue which has been over and over again alleged to be lost to the Chinese Government through Hongkong smuggling.\n\nIn 1868 Sir Thomas Wade said that \"by the contraband trade of junks frequenting Hongkong and Macao, the Customs Revenue is defrauded in import and export duties little less than 1,000,000 taels per annum.\" Revision of Tientsin Treaty China No. 5, 1871, page 460.\n\nThe Governor states that \"the Hongkong Government gets at present $205,000 per annum from the Opium Farm, which is practically levying an ad valorem tax on it of more than 100 per cent. to the consumers,\" and that he agrees with Sir Thomas Wade that by the opium smuggling from Hongkong into China, the Government of China loses at least a million of taels of revenue per annum.”\n\n(See H. M. Colonial possessions C. 3094 of 1881).\n\nPutting aside the disparity in the Estimates of the amount of smuggling, there can be no doubt but the geographical position of the island does afford a basis of operations for smuggling, and that a considerable amount does exist. The undersigned, however, ventures with all respect to point out that a comparison of the figures given by Sir Thomas Wade, on page 3 of Command paper 2,716 China No. 2 (1880) shows that not more than 3,857 piculs of opium (leaving out Macao which takes up a large quantity) can be smuggled into China from Hongkong. The revenue on that, in 1876, would have been less than $800,000. In 1875 there were left at Hongkong 21,670 piculs of the whole import. In the financial year 1875-1876 the Hoppo admitted collecting duty on what Sir Thomas Wade estimates as piculs 10,813, of that amount Sir Thomas Wade also allows 7,500 piculs for Hongkong boiling, for export and local use, (and export elsewhere than to China in the raw state) whilst the Governor's figures would lead to the conclusion that only 310 chests were boiled or prepared here. His Excellency states that the payment of the tax by the Opium Farmer of $205,000 is an ad valorem tax of more than 100 per cent. i.e., the value of the opium used is at the most $205,000, or equal about to 340 piculs. The capital of the last Company was $1,400,000, and as a first return, Shareholders got 12 per cent. interest on the capital,\n\nHowever, if the Chinese Government lose annually anything like what is estimated from opium smuggling here, it would certainly pay them well to give this Colony a large percentage to collect their duty for them, or to allow a Foreign Inspectorate Station within the jurisdiction, because they would then get rid of all their Cruisers and save large expenses.\n\n24th October, 1882,\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. Russell, Colonial Treasurer and Registrar General.",
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        "content_text": "Hell among \n\nthe inevitable \"interviewers\" \n\nof the boat journals. One of them has published in his newspaper the \n\nenclosed notes of my recent journey. They are generally accurate, though imperfect both in suatter and in \n\n: \n\nstyle. \n\nの \n\nI \n\nannex also an \n\ntranslated from \n\nEnclosure \n\nextract Enclosures \n\nan article in one \n\nof \n\nthe Chinese venacular newspapers \n\npublished at Hongkong, which \n\ncomments \n\non any \n\nmy recent journey. \n\n5.7.13. \n\n(1) \n\nSOME NOTES OF H. E. THE GOVERNOR'S JOURNEY TO \n\nTHE NORTH. \n\nHis Excellency left Hongkong for Shang-bai on the 3rd September in the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company's steamer Po-sun. It seems that His Excellency had intimated his wish to confer with Sir Harry Parkes on several matters connected with the Government of Hongkong, in its relations to the neighbouring Empire; and the newly-appointed British Minister in China had invited Sir George to meet him in Shanghai in the early part of September. The voyage to Shanghai was very pleasant, and His Excellency speaks highly of the Po-sun. On arriving in Shang-hai, His Excellency Sir Harry Parkes, who had only just arrived from Japan, gave the Governor a pressing invitation to go on with him to Peking, where all the official papers required in a discussion on Hongkong affairs would be at hand, and where they could discuss more at their leisure the matters Sir George Bowen wished to be taken into consideration. After a stay in Shanghai of three or four days, during which Sir George saw as much of the \"Model Settlement\" as possible, His Excellency left it in the Koushing, on engage to Chefoo and Tientsin.\n\nShanghai very favourably impressed His Excellency, and he thinks it is thoroughly deserving of the name of the \"Model Settlement.\" He wired its fine bund, bordered with trees, its substantial and handsome buildings, its Public Gardens, and splendid roads; indeed Sir George even went so far as to say the bund reminded him of the Thames Embankment. Everywhere he observed signs of the advantages of local self-government; for the settlement is governed by a freely elected Municipality, which has complete control over the Police, the public works, and all other local affairs.\n\nChefoo, the Governor thought, had been aptly termed the Brighton of China. The voyage from Chefoo to Tientsin was made in the s/s Nancing, another admirably appointed steamer of Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nAt Tientsin, His Excellency had several interviews with the great Viceroy, the \"Bismarck of China,\" Li Hung Chang, by whom he was received with marked distinction. In the course of one of these interviews, an interesting conversation ensued. Li Hung Chang expressed himself strongly in favour of peace and progress. Telegraphs and railways would, he thought, be of great benefit to China, but in his endeavours to introduce these means of progress he had met with a great deal of opposition from the \"country gentry\" and the literati. Sir George Bowen consoled Li Hung Chang with the remark that he recollected when the country gentlemen of England, and the literati of that kingdom, were generally opposed to the introduction of railways. About the year 1835, said His Excellency, by way of instance, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the chief seats of learning in England, petitioned Parliament against railways being allowed to come near their cities. He had, however, lived to see progress overthrow all these obstructions in England, and he hoped that the next generation of Chinese would overthrow all similar obstructions in China.\n\nWhile Li Hung Chang is in favour of peace and progress, the impression formed by His Excellency during his trip to the North is that China is preparing for war, if inevitable. He witnessed the warlike preparations made at the Taku Forts, which repulsed the allied French and English Fleet in 1859. He was impressed with the present defensive strength of these fortifications, which are mounted with heavy Krupp guns. An American officer in charge of the Chinese Torpedo corps, told His Excellency that it alone would prove a most formidable obstruction to any hostile fleet. The Peiho reminded His Excellency of the Tiber—in its breadth, the colour of its waters, and the strength of the current.\n\nLi Hung Chang entertained His Excellency in Tientsin at a magnificent banquet, \n\nto which the British and French Ministers \n\nwere also invited. It was an admirably arranged and successful affair. Li Hung Chang's official residence is in the native city, but he has had a new Palace built in the foreign style on the bund, containing handsome and spacious drawing rooms, dining rooms, and the other appurtenances of a European mansion. The banquet was held there. About forty guests sat down to the banquet, which was served with much taste and splendour. The following was the menu, which was printed in Chinese and English:----\n\n  \n    BILL OF FARE.\n    菜单\n  \n  \n    Ox-tail Soup.\n    盒子牛尾汤\n  \n  \n    Clear Chicken and Duck Soup.\n    燕菜鸡鸭清汤\n  \n  \n    Hui-wang, baked.\n    \n  \n  \n    Honeyed Ham.\n    蜜炙南腿\n  \n  \n    Entrees.\n    \n  \n  \n    Fish.\n    生烧鳇鱼\n  \n  \n    Patés à la financière.\n    烤麫盒\n  \n  \n    Heroes Meat.\n    清汤仙来\n  \n  \n    Mutton Cutlets.\n    煎羊牌骨\n  \n  \n    Dried Bamboo Shoots.\n    红烧笋干\n  \n  \n    Aspic of foie gras.\n    冷冻鸭干\n  \n  \n    Fish Sinews and Pigeon eggs.\n    红烧鱼翅鸽蛋\n  \n  \n    Roast.\n    \n  \n  \n    Turkey with Ham.\n    火鸡火腿\n  \n  \n    Mushroom soup.\n    口蘑汤\n  \n  \n    Sweets.\n    \n  \n  \n    Custard Pudding.\n    洋芋头\n  \n  \n    Almond tea.\n    杏仁茶\n  \n  \n    Purée of Chestnuts.\n    栗子粉\n  \n  \n    Rice Pot-pourri.\n    八宝饭\n  \n  \n    Dessert.\n    \n  \n  \n    Biscuits.\n    \n  \n  \n    Fruits.\n    \n  \n  \n    20th September, 1883.\n    \n  \n\nVarious European wines were taken round after the European courses, and Chinese wines, and liqueurs in silver goblets after the Chinese courses. After the banquet Li Hung Chang proposed, through one of his secretaries, who spoke in French, the health of the two foreign ministers present, and the health of the Governor of Hongkong. They acknowledged the compliment, and proposed the health of His Excellency Li Hung Chang. These were the only toasts. The Imperial Chinese Band played during the proceedings. This band numbers thirty members, who are dressed in uniform and play the usual European instruments, under the direction of a French bandmaster. They performed the following selection very creditably on this occasion:--\n\n1. MARCH \"Mama ni lo ha t'u,\"....Biel.\n\n2. FANTASIA \"Lucrezia Borgia,\"...Donizetti.\n\n3. POLKA...... Zick Zack,\n\n4. CONCERT \"Redowa,\"\n\nLubitzky.\n\n5. CHINESE FANTASIA for \"Soo-na,\"...Biel.\n\n6. QUADRILLE.....\"Popular,”.\n\nA. BIGEL,\n\nBanda Director\n\nThe Band played \"God Save the Queen\" on the arrival of Sir George Bowen and of Sir Harry Parkes, and \"La Marseillaise\" on the arrival of the French Minister.\n\nThe Viceroy, in the course of one of his conversations with Sir George Bowen, mentioned that he was 62 years of age, and that he no longer felt the same vigour, as when he put down the Taiping rebellion with the help of his friend Colonel Gordon.\n\n\"Then,\" said Sir George, \"Your Excellency was born in the year 1821, in which the great Napoleon died. Nature abhors a vacuum, and has evidently created in you a new Napoleon of the East to replace the Napoleon of the West.\" The Viceroy appears to have been pleased by this compliment, for turning to the English Consul, he said \"tell the Governor that I place my steam yachts at his disposal to tow His Excellency's boat up the Peiho.\"",
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        "content_text": "(3.)\n\nIt may be here mentioned that when General Grant, the ex-President of the United States, visited China in 1879 he said that, in his tour round the world, he had seen only four really great men, viz., Disraeli, Gambetta, Bismarck and Li-Hung Chang and that he was inclined to consider the latter, the Chinese Statesman and General, the greatest of the four, especially taking into account his inferior opportunities of education in his early days.\n\nThe stay at Tientsin lasted three or four days, and then His Excellency, in company with Sir Harry Parkes, the two Misses Parkes, and Mr Grosvenor, the Secretary of Legation, left for Tung-chow in house-boats towed by the Viceroy's steamers. The country was compared by His Excellency with the delta of Egypt, the mud-built dwellings, and the general aspect of the country, subject to periodical inundations, giving an Egyptian appearance to the scenery. From Tung-chow the party rode to Peking, a distance of fifteen miles.\n\nAt Peking Sir G. Bowen was received in state at the Tsung-li Yamen, or Foreign Office, by the Ministers, and high officials who govern China in the name of the Emperor, a boy of 14 who has never yet been seen by Europeans. Prince King, the President and uncle of the Emperor sent a message to Sir George stating that in consequence of the death of one of his wives, the night before, he regretted he was unable to return His Excellency's visit immediately. The Prince sent Sir George, however, a magnificent dinner, which is the highest mark of Chinese respect. Twelve huge coolies staggered into the hall of the Legation, each bearing a covered tray. When the lid was taken off each of the trays there was a separate course inside of soups, fish, game, pastry, fruits &c. With this dinner were also sent two large jars of wine from the Prince's cellars.\n\nHis Excellency visited the many places of interest in Peking, and got admission to the Temple of Heaven, the \"Holy of Holies\" of China. His Excellency was particularly impressed by his visit to this celebrated temple. It is situated in an enclosure which occupies one corner of the Chinese city, and is about the size of Hyde Park. This park is planted with fine trees. In this temple, His Excellency remarked that there are no idols; only the Supreme Being is worshipped there; for once a year the Emperor offers up burnt offerings in it to the same God of Heaven who was similarly worshipped by Abraham in the wilderness. The following description of this noteworthy temple and the ceremonies performed in it, is taken from the Guide for tourists to Peking and its environs, Issued from the China Mail office in 1876. This grand establishment originated in ancient times; although the present buildings owe their construction to the emperors of the Ming dynasty, yet it cannot be doubted that an altar of heaven existed on this place in much earlier times. A high brick wall surrounds a well-kept park, with old trees; within this enclosure, covering more than one square mile, is a second one, which again is divided by walls into several compartments. Close to the entrance of the inner enclosure is the Chai-kung, or palace of abstinence--where the Emperor has to pass the night preceding the sacrifices in watching and meditation, a fine modern building. South-east to it is the altar, a beautiful white marble structure, ascended by twenty-seven steps and ornamented by circular balustrades on each of its three terraces; it has a diameter of about 100 feet. On the south-east of it stands, at a short distance, the large furnace for the whole burnt-offering; it is faced with green glazed tiles and is nine feet high. It contains an iron grating on which a bullock is placed at the time of the sacrifice; the remaining charred bones are generally to be seen within it. Outside there is a pit for the blood and hair. On the south-west of the altar there are three high poles for hanging lanterns, which give illumination to the sacrifice, as it is performed before dawn. North\n\n(4.)\n\nof the altar is another of somewhat smaller dimensions, called the Ch'i-ku-t'an, or altar for prayers on behalf of the harvest, On it is raised a magnificent triple-roofed circular temple, ninety-feet in height, which constitutes the most conspicuous object in the whole enclosure. It is seen from many points of the city and its environs, and that which is generally called by foreigners the Temple of Heaven. Before the last century the three roofs were covered with blue, yellow and green tiles, but by Kienlung these colours were all changed to blue. In the interior large shrines of carved wood. The windows are shaded by Venetians made of thin blue glass beads strung together; they are produced at the glass factories in Shan-tung, also, as at the great south altar, are seen on the south-east the green furnace for the bullock, and besides eight iron urns, in which the other offerings, consisting of silk, cloth, grain, &c., are burnt. On the east is a winding passage or cloister of 72 compartments of 10 feet each = 720 feet in length, leading to the slaughter-house. At the latter there is a very deep well, famous for its good water, an object worth mentioning in Peking. Besides those buildings there are two halls at the back of each altar, also covered with blue glazed tiles.\n\nThe worship of the Tien, Heaven, or Shang-ti, Supreme Ruler, is the most important of all the state observances in China, and constitutes a most interesting remnant of the ancient monotheistic cultus which prevailed in China before the rationalism of the Confucianists and the polytheistic superstition of Buddhism predominated. There are no images of any kind in the temple, and the offering of whole burnt bullocks strikingly reminds us of the ancient custom of Western religious, as that of the Hebrews and the Greeks. The ceremonies of the sacrifices are kept with the utmost severity and are of a very complicated nature. The chief sacrifice is at the winter solstice. On the 20th day of December the offerings and an elephant carriage are sent with great array to the temple, and on the 21st the Emperor follows in a sedan chair, covered with yellow silk and carried by thirty-two men; he is preceded by a band of musicians and followed by an immense number of followers, including the princes, high officials, &c., all on horseback. Having arrived at the Temple, the Emperor offers incense to Heaven and to his ancestors and inspects the offerings; then he is conveyed on the elephant carriage to the Palace of Abstinence, where he is not allowed to take any animal food or wine, nor to sleep. Next morning, seven quarters before sunrise, he puts on his sacrificial robes and goes to the southern gate of the outer enclosure, dismounts from the carriage and walks to the great altar, where an Imperial yellow tent has been erected on the second terrace.\n\nAt the moment he arrives at the spot where he kneels, the fire of the sacrifice is kindled and music is heard. The Emperor then proceeds to the upper terrace of the altar, kneels and burns incense before Heaven and also presents incense to his ancestors. Then he makes three genuflections and one prostration and offers bundles of silk, jade cups and other gifts, music being heard all the time. Afterwards he kneels at another point of the altar, where an officer reads a prayer aloud. At last he receives, kneeling, the \"cup of happiness\" and the \"flesh of happiness.\" With the first dawn the whole party returns to the palace. Foreigners, who watched the party when passing the Chien-men from the city wall, speak highly of the splendid appearance of the whole procession; hundreds of officials in brilliant robes of state and numberless followers on horseback, among them a company of the Imperial Life Guards.\n\nA similar sacrifice takes place at spring solstice, with the same ceremonies, at the northern altar, but the motive is the special prayer for a prosperous harvest, Whilst the winter sacrifice is offered for a blessing upon the whole empire.\n\nOn his first arrival in Peking, Sir G. Bowen was entertained most hospitably by Sir\n\n(5.)\n\nRobert Hart, for four days, after which Sir George made his journey to the Great Wall. On returning from this trip His Excellency stayed with Sir Harry Parkes at the British Legation. His Excellency did the trip to the Great Wall in four days, but he would strongly recommend those not pressed for time to spend six over it. One can either ride on horse-back, or go in a mule litter, on this journey. His Excellency rode most of the way,\n\nOr\n\nLeaving Peking, His Excellency proceeded to Nan-kou, a distance of 30 miles where he slept. During the night a thief stole his shooting jacket, with one or two articles in the pockets. Fortunately the Governor was provided with a change of raiment, so that the theft caused little inconvenience. His note-book was, however, unfortunately in one of the pockets, and its loss was deplored because it contained the notes of his journey. Sir George may console himself with the reflection that this theft was one that might occur in many inns in England. Nan-kou is a fortified, busy little town situated at the entrance of a long, picturesque valley, stretching to the N.N.W., and is the farthest outpost of a series of fortifications which defend the very important Nan-kou pass leading to the Great Wall. From Nan-kou, Sir George proceeded on the following day to the Pa-ta-ling gate in the Great Wall, a distance from Nan-kou of about fifteen miles,\n\nThe Governor returned to Nan-kou the same day. Nothing could be worse than the present state of the roads, but they and their surroundings afforded ample proof that in ages past this part of China could boast of magnificent highways, bridges and other structures. Nothing can be more impressive than the sight of the Great Wall stretching along the crest of a high mountain-ridge for 2000 miles. The same general decay is visible in modern China as in modern Turkey.\n\nThe next day His Excellency visited the Tombs of the Emperors of the Ming dynasty, proceeding to the village of Sha-ho to sleep. This was a heavy day's riding for a man of the Governor's age, but he said he stood it almost as well as when he rode across European Turkey from Constantinople to Corfu, in 1849, when he was only 28 years old. Sir George was deeply interested in the spectacle of the Ming Tombs, with their solid white marble gateways, the famous gigantic stone tortoises, the long avenue of colossal elephants, camels, horses, sages, and warriors, cut in sandstone, the marble terraces and staircases, the noble hall, and the grand amphitheatre of mountains around.\n\nAfter sleeping at Sha-ho, His Excellency, on the following day, visited the ruins of the Summer Palace and other places of interest in the neighbourhood, especially the Bell Temple, containing the third largest bell in the world. He returned to Peking the same evening,\n\nOn his return to Peking His Excellency stayed at the British Legation, where he fully discussed with Sir Harry Parkes the questions affecting the Government of Hongkong in its relations with China. The so-called blockade of Hongkong was found to be rather a difficult subject to deal with, and any definite action in regard to it was postponed until Sir Harry Parkes' visit to Hongkong, which will take place in March next. Then it will be further discussed, and the matter in due course of time will be laid before the Legislative Council His Excellency remained with Sir Harry Parkes at the British Legation about a week,\n\nThe voyage down the Peiho was much more rapid than that up, thanks to the strong current. Only a brief stay was made at Tientsin and Shanghai on the return journey, and Hongkong was reached, after an absence from the Colony of about seven weeks, on the 24th inst. During the whole time, the weather was very fine, and the temperature delicious, like that of the autumn in Italy.\n\nEnclosure\n\n163\n\nTen Chinese Met hus 1o-day a well-written Wa Tsz-yue\n\narticle extolling Li Hung-chang for the reception he gave to Sir George Bowen with the French and British Ministers. It begins by quoting the words of Mencius: \"It requires a benevolent prince to be able with a great country to serve a small one. And it requires a wise prince to be able with a small country to serve a large one.\" Of Sir George it says: \"We have in His Excellency a Colonial Governor, lenient and loyal. Already within the first year of his administration in Hongkong, in the social circle, easy and self-possessed, he has spoken monumental words of wisdom; in the line of enterprise, undaunted by hardship, he has explored the Great Wall, and in his official capacity, zealous and painstaking, he has worthily borne his part in international counsels. 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        "content_text": "so far as that forwarded with despatch 1987, which, (it will be remembered), declared that my conduct as Governor of Hong Kong entitled me to the praise of being \"living Buddha, whose rule we hope to hear praised in many happy homes, and under whose benign shadow a grateful people may securely rest!\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\n3. My Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient Humble servant,\n\nSMarkem\n\nTHE GRAND SECRETARY LI AND INTERCOURSE WITH NEIGHBOURING STATES.\n\nThe following is a translation of an article from the Wa Tsz Yat Pa (a Hongkong vernacular paper) in reference to Li Hung-chang and Governor Sir George Bowen.\n\nKing Sun of T's'ai once asked Mencius:-\" Is there any regular way of maintaining intercourse with neighbouring states?\" Mencius replied: \"There is. But it is only the perfectly virtuous ruler who can be serviceable to a large country with a small one, as Tang served Kot and King Wan the Kwan barbarians; and only the wise ruler who can, with a small country, serve a large one, as King T'ai served the Hunn-yih, and Kau Ta'in, the U.\" He continued: \"He who with a large country serves a small one delights in Heaven; he who with a small state serves a large one stands in awe of Heaven.\n\n\"He who delights in Heaven, will affect with love and protection the whole empire. He who stands in awe of Heaven will affect with his love and protection his own kingdom.\" These words mean, it is said, that the perfectly virtuous man is liberal in mind and sympathetic in heart, making no selfish distinctions as to the size and strength, weakness and insignificance of states, and, consequently, even if a small state should be disrespectful, he still treats it with consideration; on the other hand, that the wise man is not a mere theoriser, but also a practical man of the world, and so if he is assailed by a large state, he will not neglect the courtesies with which he should treat it.\n\nThese remarks were made during that time of strife when the \"Seven Martial States\" struggled for supremacy, and the \"Five Princes\" arose in rapid succession. A declaration of war against one of these might only have resulted in defeat, and a truce, in breach of faith; whilst courteous treatment they would have regarded as a sign of weakness. The immediate object, then, of King Sun's question was a desire to allay strife and secure peace. Still the answer of Mencius furnishes a guide for the friendly intercourse of future generations.\n\nAnd indeed there has been scarcely an age without its foreign foe. In the Han dynasty there were the Huns; in the Tong, the Thibetans; in the Sang, the Tartars; in the Ming, the Japanese. All of these struggled for victory, and were all alike in this respect that they started with war and ended by entering into friendly alliances. Had there been no one able to act the part of mediator, how could doubt and suspicion have been changed into mutual alliance, war and strife into peace? And how could Princes of little virtue and worth have become subservient to those of great? This task was never undertaken by a man of another stamp.\n\nAnd in looking over the pages of the past, we cannot refrain from expressing our admiration of Li Hung-chang's conduct in this respect. He undoubtedly is the pillar of the Chinese Empire, and is held in great esteem by all nations. In his conferences with strangers, he is affable in demeanour and compliant in disposition, neither displaying temper nor vaunting his attainments. He is neither too humble, nor too overbearing, and in his intercourse with foreigners he is just while courteous. In manner he is attractive and of a winning appearance.\n\nThus, in the Annam-French question, though empowered to act, he made no display of his power; and when Russia and England entered into friendly alliance, he was not afraid, though single-handed, in the face of two such great powers.\n\nAt the present time friendship exists amongst the rulers of all nations, and all countries are at peace. But had it not been for Li Hung-chang's power of appreciating the probable consequences of a situation and of taking the measure of the times, how could the various countries of Europe be now enjoying a state of peace? Verily, Liang-shang is an adept in regulating his intercourse with neighbouring nations!\n\nWe may behold an example of his courtesy in the visit of Governor Bowen to the Capital. Sir George Bowen is a Colonial Governor, on whom the people depend for life and protection, and who devotes himself unremittingly to the service of his Queen. Though he has been in this Colony less than a year, his praises are sounded on all sides.\n\nDuring an interval of leisure from the affairs of Government, he betook himself to travel, journeying over much rough country to visit the Great Wall, and enduring many hardships to discuss matters of importance to China and foreign nations, thus rendering himself a pattern worthy of imitation by the people, and the object of the deep respect of the neighbouring (Chinese) Empire.\n\nHe was entertained most courteously by the Grand Secretary, (Li Hung-chang) as a mark of respect and esteem. The French Ambassador, M. Tricou, and Sir Harry Parkes were also among the honoured guests; the former was treated with all politeness; while between Li Hung-chang and the latter there seemed to exist deep feelings of mutual attachment.\n\nThe entertainment could not have been of a more pleasing nature: mutual compliments were interchanged, which were productive of good feeling between both parties; and as nothing was left undone in the way of politeness, the good understanding which already existed became still more marked.\n\nThis made Governor Bowen feel quite at home, and enabled him thoroughly to enjoy himself after his long travels. Li Hung-chang's conduct on this occasion exemplified the Confucian saying, \"Treat people from afar with indulgence and the princes with kindness,\" and the ability of the Grand Secretary and the culture of the great Minister clearly manifested themselves.\n\nIt is contended by some that in acting thus, Li Hung-chang is wrong, for being a man of exalted position and high reputation, why should he, they argue, be so afraid of foreigners and so demean himself by entertaining them? These people seem to forget that it is the duty of a liberal-minded Prime Minister to act justly and openly with all men, and that one of his deep-rooted beliefs is that self-sufficiency brings hurt, and humility gain; and that, although China is now at peace with the various nations, any want of respect either in word or deed might easily cause an outbreak of hostilities.\n\nLook at the Annam question. Popular opinion is in favour of war, whilst Li Hung-chang alone expresses himself in favour of peace, which is an illustration of how the peace of nations can be maintained by the decisive policy of one man in dealing with the affairs of his own country.\n\nIt is a desire to adapt himself to the necessity of the occasion that prompts Li Hung-chang to be straightforward in word and pacific in action. He who can adapt himself to circumstances is called a hero, and it is for this very reason that, in reviewing the state of affairs in China, we praise Li Hung-chang for knowing how to maintain a friendly intercourse with neighbouring countries.\n\nPage 217\n\n21360!\n\nRECO\n\nREC 20 DEC 83",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 4\n\n78\n\nTotes 16 FEB 84/\n\nTRANSLATION OF A PROCLAMATION ISSUED AT CANTON ON JANUARY 4th, 1884, BY PENG YU-LIN, THE IMPERIAL HIGH COMMISSIONER IN SOUTHERN CHINA, AND CHANG SHU-SHENG, THE VICEROY OF KWANGTUNG AND KWANGSI.\n\nPeng, Imperial Commissioner, Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent, Controller of Warlike Affairs in Kwangtung, President of the Board of War, and Hereditary Noble of the First Degree of the Sixth Rank; Chang, Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent, President of the Board of War, Associate-President of the Censorate, Governor-General of Warlike Affairs in the Territories of the Two Kwang, and Joint Commissary-General; Yü, Vice-President of the Board of War, Junior Vice-President of the Censorate, Governor of Kwangtung and territories, Provincial Commander-in-chief, and Joint Commissary-General.\n\nPROCLAMATION.\n\nIn the matter of an order to organise a local military for the relief of antagonistic feelings.\n\nIt is well known that the people of the provinces of Yüeh (Kwangtung and Kwangsi) are of an unyielding character and by nature loyal and courageous, and that in the Red Ribbon Rebellion of the 4th year of Hsien Fêng (1854) (the rebels who ravaged the Two Kwang during the earlier part of the Tai Ping rebellion are alluded to. At first they shaved the head and wore a red ribbon twined in the queue. Latterly they joined the Tai Ping forces and let their hair grow long.) Illustrious services were rendered by the Eighty-Three Villages, who trained militia, and after severe fighting cleared the rebels from the region. The undersigned having received the Imperial Mandate to take in hand measures of Maritime Defence, have already reported to the Throne the institution of a system of local militia, and a Fishermen's contingent.\n\nA reference to the Provincial history shows that to the defences seawards of the Provincial capital of Kuang-chow, the nine districts of Nam-hoi, Pan Yü, Tung Kuan, Shun Tê, Hsiang Shan, Tseng Ch'êng, Hsin Hui, Hsin An, and Hsin Ning, are the keys.\n\nAt the present time when danger threatens from the sea, it is the duty of these nine districts to be animated by the same sentiment, and to fortify themselves by the union of a common resolve; to check internal treachery by the working of the system of joint security of Tithings, and resist foreign rapine by means of local Defence Corps. If peace is maintained, then by dividing for patrols and combining for pursuit, homesteads will be in security and the pest of piracy thereby allayed. If war is begun, then by guarding approaches and by the formation of a chain of defences, our renown will be enhanced, while military expenses are rendered needless.\n\nThe undersigned have learned that in the districts named, offices have been already opened, the tidal lands assessed for contributions, and a large number of guard-boats and patrol-boats collected, and that drilling goes on on dry land, so that at a given signal thousands of men can be assembled.\n\nA general order has now been issued to the Civil and Military Authorities to collect the managers of the various recruiting offices to continue drilling energetically, to use every endeavour towards a systematic selection and enlistment of crews for the patrol vessels, and the detachment of the latter to guard strategical positions; and, as regards the militia, to the collection of a force of men of fine physique and good training, to defend their native villages, and to be ready to be mobilised should invasion occur. For defending the provincial capital, for holding strategic points, for obstructing and intercepting the enemy, for following him up in the rear, for rendering services by successful slaughter of an enemy, for the burning or capture of his vessels of war, or for blowing them up by torpedoes, there will be a scale of rewards given without fail.\n\nOn the other hand, all persons who, as headmen of fishing stations or others, make this the occasion for dishonest extortions from the Tanka people, or cheating them on pretence of taking Play or License fees, and all persons who supply provisions or warlike stores to the invader, or who disloyally consent to act secretly as guides, shall be, on discovery, proceeded against and punished by military law.\n\nShould the enemy actually proceed to open hostilities and give battle to us, it follows that the wrong lies with them for not observing Treaties. All soldiers and civilians should devote themselves exclusively to driving away the enemy. With the remaining nations with whom we have commercial dealings, amicable relations have continued hitherto and no disturbance of these is permitted by outbreaks, which will be severely dealt with.\n\nBesides the issue of general orders to the various military and civil officials, and the selection and appointment of deputies for registering purposes in the different localities, it is incumbent to publish a proclamation on the subject; accordingly-\n\nIt is hereby proclaimed for the guidance of all heads and members of militia corps, that all should vent their antagonism, and show the good disposition with which Heaven has gifted them; that they should act in full unison with the naval and land forces, and that the militia in city and country should move together.\n\nIn the Book of History it is written-\n\nAs the people see so Heaven sees,\n\nAs the people hear so Heaven hears\n\nNever has it been known that strange tribes coming from a distance of thousands of miles should penetrate far into our borders when the minds of our people were united, nor defy Heaven by their overbearing aggression.\n\nWith regard to expenses, the regulations of the Recruiting Offices will still be in force, and with native resources, and by the help of native valour, may be safeguarded the lives and properties of the native population.\n\nFrom the spirit of loyalty and ardour comes a security as great as that given by \"walls of pure metal and moats of boiling liquid.\"\n\nExtraordinary heroism assuredly shall be rewarded by recommendation and promotion.\n\nSuch is what the undersigned earnestly hope. A special proclamation not to be disregarded.\n\nThe",
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        "content_text": "Stewarts Reply, and the speeches of \n\nDr Bokai, of the Chief \n\nof the Chief Justice, and \n\nof.) \n\nof Mr. Buckeley Johnson, will be \n\nfound to contain interesting \n\nmatter. \n\nI have the honour to be \n\nMy Lord, \n\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient \n\nHumble Servant, \n\n5. Mowen \n\nPRESENTATION OF THE STEWART SCHOLARSHIP AT THE CENTRAL SCHOOL. \n\nAn interesting gathering took place at the Central School on Saturday, when the old Chinese scholars met together to present an address to the Hon. F. Stewart, LL.D., the former Head Master, and to present to the school a scholarship to be called, in his honour, the \"Stewart Scholarship.\" His Excellency the Governor presided, and a large number of guests were present, who were subsequently entertained at luncheon, when covers were laid for the following:-His Excellency the Governor, Sir George Bowen, G.C.M.G., Major General Sargent, C.B., Sir George Phillippo, the Hon. W. H. Marsh, C.M.G., Hon. F. Stewart, Hon. A. Lister, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. F. Bulkeley Johnson, Hon. T. Jackson, Hon. F. D. Sassoon, Hon. Wong Shing; Mr. Justice Russell; Lieut.-Colonel Crawford, R.A., Lieut. Col. Barton; Major Lloyd, R.E., Captain Thomsett, R.N., Lieuts. Vyvyan and Portor, A.D.C.'s.; Dr. Eitel, Chalmers, Young, and Ho Kai; Messrs. Wei Yuk, Luk Sau-tin, Cheung Luk-ü, Ip Piong-kwan, Fang Shui, Chan Un-fai, Cheung Kut, Un Man Choy, A. Molver, J. B. Coughtrie, Chung Shing-wong, R. C. Wilcox, J. Thurbura, J. J. Francis, J. H. Stewart-Lockhart, Yam Kwai-in, W. McKinney, Chan Chan-fat, G. H. Bateson Wright, A. Falconer, Lau Hip-chu, Wong Yat-sou, Ng Pui, Kain Cha-sheung, W. D. Hutchison, Chang Long-bin, G. A. Caldwell, Chau Chi, W. N. Bain, R. Maguire, E. Mackean, J. D. Hutchison, J. Bulgin, Chan Kai-ming, W. M. B. Arthur, Tan Tuan, E. J. Ackroyd, Ho Chung-shang, H. E. Wodehouse, Hu Tuk, Ho Chu, Hung Kam-sing, Sia Sin, and Woo Lia-in. \n\nDr. Ho KAI made the presentation in the following terms:-May it please your Excellency- Dr. Stewart, I have the honour and pleasure to address you on behalf of a large number of your old Chinese pupils, some of whom have met together to-day to present you with an address, and to ask your permission to the founding of a scholarship at the Government Central School in your name, as a slight token of the high esteem and affectionate regard which they, each and all, cherish towards you. Your long connection with the School, extending over a period of more than twenty years, has made you the benefactor of thousands of youths in this colony and elsewhere, many of whom owe their success in life mainly to your liberal education, wise discipline, and careful training. As Head Master you have laboured long and perseveringly for the school, sparing neither time nor pains, and it must be gratifying to you to witness the satisfactory results of your arduous labours in seeing so many of your old pupils occupying numerous important and useful positions in this colony and other parts of the world. (Applause.) It is no less gratifying to you, I am sure, to meet such a number of them this afternoon in this old school-room where we have so often met before, and to receive from them their personal assurance of their deep appreciation and grateful acknowledgment of your valuable services, rendered to them and to their fellow countrymen. I assure you it gives us all very great pleasure to meet you here to-day, and you will do us much honour and favour by accepting from us the small token of regard and affection we now present to you in the shape of a scholarship founded in your name. May you long be preserved to the service of your country, and to the welfare and prosperity of this Colony. (Applause.) I now crave leave to read the address:— \n\nHongkong, February, 1884. The Honourable FREDERICK STEWART, LL.D., late Head Master of the Government Central School, Hongkong, \n\nDEAR SIR,—There has been a general and spontaneous feeling amongst your old pupils that some means should \n\nbe devised to express in some measure their grateful and profound esteem for yourself personally, and your most valuable services and work in connection with education in this Colony during a period of more than twenty years. The scope and value of your past services can only be adequately estimated or properly appreciated by those whom you sought to benefit by your learning, high personal example, constant kindness, indefatigable energy and wise discipline, and so we, who have been among the fortunate recipients of the fruits of your labour, wish to express our grateful remembrance and appreciative recognition in a becoming manner. \n\nThis is our object in coming before you to-day, and it is our desire in the first place, to give expression to the deep feelings of personal regard and high esteem which we in common with those of your pupils who are prevented by unavoidable causes from signing the address \n\nEnclosure \n\nC O. \n\n4283 \n\nROD \n\nor being present to-day, cherish towards you, and, secondly, to ask your permission to the founding of a scholarship at the Government Central School to be called \"The Stewart Scholarship,\" the funds necessary to endowing it having been subscribed for this express purpose by late pupils and scholars, who saw in this a way to give you a slight token of the honour and affectionate remembrance in which your distinguished connection with the School as Head Master for more than twenty years is held by them. We remain, yours very faithfully, \n\nHo Kai, Chairman \n\nWei Yuk, Hon. Treasurer Wong Yat Sun, Hon. Secretary Chun Shing Kong, Hon. Secretary \n\nCOMMITTEE. \n\nChan Shun Fat Ng Pai Wei Leon Ho Chang Sang Sin Siu Choang Lak Y Leong Su Kwong Yoon Mun Choy Chan Kai Ming Cheang Yu Koot \n\nLak Hing Nam Kom Cha Seung \n\nIru Yow \n\nHo Chi \n\nHa Pak \n\nChow Chu \n\nFung Shui \n\nU Lai Un Chan U Fai \n\nSUBSCRIBERS. \n\nChoy Tan Chong Tam Tsun \n\nHo Tsun Tsang Kit Fan Kan Shin Fo Chan Long Hica Wong \n\nApat Chan Achew Lo Aruck \n\nTip Ping Kwan \n\nWong Saik Chee \n\nTam I Nam Luk Tit Fo Fang You Lai Kau Lam Yat Chun Kin Wing Chan Pau \n\nKwan Chak Lam Leong A Than \n\nChoong Ho \n\nTan Kwan Un Chan Ree Kwok Chik Kan \n\nHo Kun Moon \n\nHo Tsink Sin \n\nTeau Ying Koa \n\nYoung Kit Chaen \n\nChan A Sang Kwok Yang Kam \n\nChan Wing Yim \n\nChan Won Fun Trang Kum Chiu Ko Chim Yuen Ho Ha Sing \n\nLie Yne Foong Choung Shing Chan Ngui Him Chang Shan Pang Ting Ching Want Hin Chong \n\nFILE YRG \n\nNg Yaoi Wei Sung Wei Took Wei Kut \n\nSoo Kwai Sang \n\nHo Fus \n\nTang Wing Shing \n\nHung Kam Shing Hong Kam Ning Lam Su \n\nLam Ping Young Fung Chuen Chan Taung Fat Chau Pak \n\nDr. STEWART, in accepting the address, said Dr. Ho Kai and gentlemen, I thank you most heartily for this memorable token of your good will, and for the gracious terms in which you have presented it. Those \"deep feelings of personal regard and high esteem,\" to which you have given expression in this address, I most cordially reciprocate. There is no portion of my past life to which I look back with greater pleasure than the years I spent at the Central School. When I think of the support which I invariably received from the community, and the untiring efforts of my scholars to profit by the instruction they received, I feel that I should be wanting in my duty if I did not avail myself of this opportunity to convey to those who treated me with such forbearance and confidence the assurance of my sincerest gratitude. But apart altogether from the honour you have this day conferred on me personally by endowing this scholarship and calling it by my name, I desire to assure you that it would have been impossible for you to have done anything which I appreciate so much as this substantial boon which you have bestowed upon the old school. I trust that those who may hereafter be successful in winning it will do as much as you have done to uphold the credit of the school, and continue to manifest the same feelings of regard towards it and towards all who are called upon to take part in the instruction of your successors. \n\n(Applause) \n\nThe company then adjourned to luncheon in an adjoining room, and a number of toasts were afterwards drunk, \n\nHis Excellency the GOVERNOR,\" in proposing \"The Queen,\" said-Gentlemen, as you all appear to have done full justice to the ample fare placed before us by our kind Chinese hosts and I am sure you will all agree with me there could not have been a better luncheon served on any table in any part of the world-- (applause)-I say after such a luncheon it is time we should proceed to the less substantial but perhaps more intellectual part of the proceedings. When I was asked by the old scholars to preside on this occasion I gladly consented to their request, partly out of respect to them and partly because I wished to show my sympathy with the graceful and gratifying mark of honour which they are paying to-day to my distinguished friend opposite, Dr. Stewart. (Loud applause). Of course it is my first duty as chairman to propose that toast which is the first toast in every assembly of British subjects",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure\n\n## INTERESTING MEMORIAL FROM THE TSUNG-LI YAMEN ON COAST DEFENCE.\n\nThe following translation of a memorial from the Tsung-li Yamen on the pressing necessity of coast defence and the need of quieting the dangers near at hand so as to guard well against those in the future is made by the N. C. Herald :\n\nThe Franco-Annamese question is somewhat different from the former Russian difficulty. Whether it is decided to preserve peace or to declare war; to act on the offensive or defensive, the dangers on the south-west will ever remain unchanged. When a foreign invasion is imminent, coast defence must not be for a moment forgotten. Annam and Kuangtung are connected with each other both by land and water, and troops have been ordered thither to guard (against any attack from the enemy). Military reports are now awaited from Peng Yu-lin and Chang Shu-sheng, and plans will be devised upon consulting them.\n\nBut let a review of the coast be taken. The Pai-yang (Northern Ocean) defence embraces Taku and Pei-tang and slightly watches over Lü Shan (Port Arthur); but the protection of Teng-lai is nil. The Nan-yang (Southern Ocean) defence includes the river and the sea with Kiang Yin as the strategical point, and guards Su Tai. As to Teng-lai, Ting Pao-chên in his Memorial considered Tengchow, Chefoo, and Wei-hai-wei as the essential points to be defended. The Governor of the Province (Shantung) however had erected only five forts in and near Teng Shêu Kau which are insufficient to well protect the coast.\n\nThe 800 marines under the Superintendence of the same Governor had been transferred by Li Hung-chang to the gunboats Chao-yung and Yang-wei of the Pei-yang squadron and whatever guns there are of the old pattern. When Wu Chang-ch'ing was instructed to organize the defence of that province, he had only a short time to act in and did not accomplish much. Now the inundation has come; our army and our funds are only capable of dealing with one point at a time and not sufficient to defend all the points at once.\n\nOur Yamen has repeatedly been devising plans and methods of defence on behalf of that province. It is not necessary to increase the garrison of Tengchow, as there is a chên tai stationed there. Wei-hai-wei from its natural advantages is very defensible. But Chefoo with its broad expanse of sea, and level sandy coast, a haven for merchant vessels, has ever been exposed to and sought after by foreign vessels, and therefore a heavy garrison is needed for its protection.\n\nAs Wu Ta-ch'êng watches over Lan-lo and Wu Chang-ch'ing is placed in Korea, they cannot be spared from their posts. The Throne is petitioned to instruct the Pei-yang Superintendent to select an able commander who will take with him trained soldiers from four to six camps and hold Chefoo. When Chefoo is secure, then both Lü Shan and Ka Tang will be safe.\n\nThe most important of the coast defence undertaken by Tso Tsung-tang is Po-mao Shan. The strait of Po-mao is situated 70 li east of the Chou Chi mouth and is the receptacle of the sea-flowing rivers of Soochow and Changchow. In the time of the Ming dynasty alarms were communicated by means of smoke signals at Po-mao to warn the people of a Japanese invasion.\n\nThe sea outside the strait is broad, and steamers pass and re-pass in it. The natural dangers of the place can be judiciously employed to make its defence effectual. The sea ports of Liu Ho, Ta-chien Fou, Hsü-liu Ching and others, through which the Capital of Kiangsu can be reached, are away from the Metropolitan city over a hundred li and are nevertheless to be defended.\n\nTsung-ming, an isolated island in the sea, relies solely on the chên-piao who commands but a weak garrison. If an alarm of war is sounded the isle is difficult for reinforcements to reach; every precaution for protecting the place should then be prepared beforehand.\n\nThe organization of the fishing brigade in the southern provinces is indeed an admirable idea; it prevents spies in the inland waters and can assist in harassing the enemy along the sea-coast. But fishing brigades may only be able to protect the people (in cases of need); they are of no avail in a battle.\n\nThe defence of Kiangsu needs more funds than can be spared; and if a tax is collected and militia instituted, people will ever be kept in a state of alarm and doubt. Therefore the Throne is petitioned to command the Fatai of Kiangsu, under the head of Winter Defence, to pick able-bodied men from the six or seven districts along the coast and class them in divisions of 300 each.\n\nThey are to be given rifles and ammunition and trained stuff year from three to five months in winter and spring; they will be able to handle their arms well and be thoroughly disciplined in that time. In peace they may detain and arrest salt-smugglers; in war they can patrol the sea-ports. In carrying this plan into execution, the funds will not be wasted, people will not be disturbed, and the many districts close to each other will rest in security.\n\nThe salt smugglers along the shores of the T'ai Hu who appear and disappear at intervals are doing a great deal of harm to the community and interfere with the organization of coast defence. It is imperative to crush any rebellious project on their part in the bud; then no danger will be apprehended from them at the rear when fighting an enemy in front.\n\nLet the Throne instruct the Fatai of the province to collect volunteer boats that they may capture these desperadoes and change them into loyal subjects; then land, sea, and lakes, (freed of them) may become tranquil.\n\nThe coast of the Min province is washed by the Che-yang (Chêkiang Ocean) and at the furthest end by the Canton sea. The government of this province requires an able official as the ever vigilant watching (for an opportunity to attack China) must be guarded against.\n\nIf the high authorities of the province consider tranquillity, and able rule, and not intent on devising plans for defence, at the first stir of the ocean's waves (war) Formosa, Peng-hu, and Amoy will be untenable. It is prayed that the Throne will bestow some thought on the province of Min either in appointing some able officials or decreeing some old generals to govern and protect it.\n\nThe isolated isle of Ting-hai, the port of Cha-pu, Ningpo, and Chou-shan in the province must be placed under the strictest surveillance. Some time ago a Decree was promulgated ordering Lin Ping-chang to take charge of the coast defence, who from his experience in war affairs will be able to bring it to an effectual state, and Your Majesties may rest at ease on that point.\n\nAnother matter, however, must be brought to the Imperial notice. The coast defence was instituted about ten years ago; the money expended on purchasing guns and ships amounted to tens of millions, and yet in case of war nothing can be relied on; the preparation for defence against Russian invasion cost the outlay over ten millions, and still the coasts are in a disorderly state.\n\nThe provincial authorities shirk their responsibility by complaining of the niggardliness of the Boards, while the officials of the Boards in turn fail in their duty by charging the provincial authorities with indulging in extravagant expenses. The dilly-dallying, the waste of time and opportunity, are all due to the faults of our Yamen.\n\nEven if the judgment of not censuring us, we cannot fool ourselves on the question of coast defence. The Yamen considers the protection of trade and defence of the coast to be two points of essential importance. The coast defence being in an unworthy state, it is not likely that trade will flourish.\n\nFrom this time forward let the coast defence be ever kept up in an efficient condition. The preparation which exists against the threats of the French today will be improved upon for defending the coast in the future. After receiving a Decree in reply to this Memorial, our Yamen will diligently study the naturally defensible points of the coast and the new invention of foreign gunboats, consulting with the Board of Revenue with regard to funds, with the Board of War in regard to tactics and military affairs, and with provincial authorities on procuring able commanders.\n\nWhen the country can remain at peace (without dishonour) or go to war (with confidence) then our reputation for being powerful will be established, and rebellious projects will be stifled. When preparation (for coast defence) begins, then danger ceases.\n\nPage 333\n\n**An unpublished decree from the Empress is also sent to us, but it contains nothing of importance beyond an expression of opinion on the part of Her Majesty that the schemes of the French are \"wily and insatiable.\"—ED.**\n\nPage 420",
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        "content_text": "to be radically changed, and the entire system of administration reorganised.\n\nSENTENCE UPON THE OFFICIALS IN THE SOUTH. On account of the war with France in Annan, the frontiers of Kuangsi have required special measures of defence. We therefore promulgated a Decree, ordering the Fu-t'ai Hsi Yen-hsi to march out of the barriers and command the garrisons for the purpose of thoroughly protecting the boundaries of the Empire. The said Fu-t'ai, however, delayed his advance, contenting himself with holding Liang Shan, and instructing the General Huang Kuei-lan, the Tao-t'ai Chao Wo and others to guard the Annanese town of Bac Ninh. When the French attacked that place, the General referred to failed to exert himself, and Bac Ninh was lost through his running away; a most deplorable fact, indeed! The evacuation of Bac Ninh was reported to Us by both Chang Shu-sheng and Pan Yen-hsi; the latter of whom himself memorialised Us to award him the severest punishment. Chang Shu-sheng, also, has petitioned Us to consider the penalty to be visited upon him without leniency. We have already issued a Secret Decree commanding Pan Ting-hsin to leave Kuangsi by the Chen Nan Barriers with a special commission to degrade Hsü Yen-hsi and Kuei-lan and Chao Wo and deprive them of office, and place them on their trial too. By this time Pan Ting-hsin must have reached Kuangsi. Let him immediately seize Hsi Yen-hsi, forward him to Peking, and hand him over to the Board of Punishment for the determination of a penalty. P'an Ting-hsin, acting in concert with Wang Tê-pang, will enquire into the causes of the defeat sustained by Huang Kuei-lan and Chao Wo, and if it be satisfactorily proved that they abandoned their post and took to flight, let a Memorial be presented to Us instantly, requesting Our permission to inflict penalty; they need not be handed over to the Board. The Captain Chiến Takuai, who has been already degraded, and who was entrusted with the Fo Lin fortress, lost it on the first onset of the French. The Colonel Pang Min-hsüan showed his cowardice by not daring to advance to the front, but stationing his battalion in the rear. These two are to be decapitated immediately in front of the army. The other officers who were defeated on the same occasion must be discovered, and their penalties must be decided according to the deserts of each. A Memorial will be presented to Us petitioning Our pleasure with regard to the execution of these punishments. Let there be no partiality or concealment! The position and responsibility of Chang Shu-sheng are such that he cannot be held exempt from blame; but as he was stationed too far away to afford assistance, We by a special Act of Grace commute his punishment, and order the Board of the Civil Office to consider his misdemeanour. Pan Ting-hsin will assume the Fu-taiship of Kuangsi; Pang Chi-yu will be Acting Fu-t'ai of Hunan; and Wang Tê-pang Acting General of the Kuangsi Forces.\n\nReverentially obey!\n\nOn account of the Franco-Annamese struggle, the border defence of Yunnan became especially important. We therefore ordered Tang Chiung to march out of the barriers with an army to afford the necessary protection. The said Governor, without obtaining any Decree from Us, returned to his province of his own accord, disregarding the affairs of the frontier; an act which caused the soldiers under him to retreat and station themselves at Shan Hai city, thus incurring the loss of their positions. The hesitating policy of Tang Chiang in every matter of importance, and his incapability to distinguish matters which require promptitude from those which are not so pressing, are deplorable indeed. A Secret Decree has been handed to Chang K'ai-sung ordering him to start immediately for Yunnan with special powers to degrade Tang Chiang and apprehend him for trial. By this time Chang K'ai-sung ought to have reached Yunnan; let him at once depute an official to bring the degraded Governor to Peking, that he may be handed over to the Board of Punishment for a severe penalty. Chang K'ai-sung is hereby appointed Governor of Yunnan, and Li Jong-ching Acting Governor of the province of Kuei-chow.\n\nReverentially obey!\n\nPage 568\n\n24",
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        "content_text": "104. The chipper I did not recognize any of them running away. I know young defendant’s wife, but I do not know her name. I never heard she was killed on the 22nd November 1880. I never would have known if there was any news of his being killed. The defendant lived together in one large house. It is a cluster of houses all close together.\n\nTo me it was about 7 o’clock when I first heard the crying of firearms. I only heard one report. \"My house is about a few houses from Yenny King’s house.\" Joan Yung man chi said that. There were young Tsai and his sons.\n\nThere were more than ten persons present besides the four on the ground when I arrived. The men who were running away were about 20 yards distant when I first saw them. Tsai Jers, Yeung Cheng Ting (73 defendant), Yeung Tsai Zeme, and Run Tak (4th defendant) were amongst the men running away. People pursued them. I was in bed when I first heard the noise. The men who were running away were armed. We were afraid to pursue them because there were firearms.\n\nHe was a religious man.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 2\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, MAY 21st, 1884.\n\nALL doubt as to the terms of the preliminary convention between France and China signed on the 12th instant by Captain FOURNIER and LI HUNG-CHANG is set at rest by the text of that document reproduced in another column from our Shanghai morning contemporary. The version given is, we fancy, a translation from the Chinese text, and perhaps hardly conveys the exact meaning of some of the clauses. It is, however, sufficiently explicit to show that the telegram received here and in London announcing, among other conditions, that the provinces of Kwangtung, Kwangsi, and Yunnan were to be opened to trade is not strictly accurate.\n\nThe fact is, as set forth in Article III., China promises that on her frontier which touches northern Annam [meaning Tonquin] she will allow French and Annamite and likewise Chinese goods to come and go and be disposed of freely.\" Now this is a somewhat different thing to throwing open the three southern provinces of China to trade generally. It is true that the northern frontier of Tonquin touches all three provinces, but it only covers a very small corner of Kwangtung, and it is doubtful whether other foreign goods are to be included in the \"exceedingly liberal\" tariff under which the French and Annamite goods are to be admitted.\n\nIt is at the same time most likely that other goods would be admitted if introduced through Tonquin, and should this prove to be the case England, Germany, and America would not be quite shut out of participation in the benefits of the treaty. The concession has, however, no doubt been obtained by France with the object of attracting the foreign trade of Western China into Tonquin. It remains to be seen to what extent her anticipations will be fulfilled, and whether England will be satisfied to see France secure this trade to herself without an effort to obtain a share of it through Burmah.\n\nAt present King Thibaw's dominions interpose as a solid wedge between British Burmah and Yunnan, but that capricious tyrant has nearly run the length of his tether, and must shortly be disestablished. Under British rule it would not be long before a railway connected Bhamo, close to the Yunnan frontier, with Rangoon. The progress of British Burmah has been almost unprecedented, and the railways constructed there have proved highly remunerative. Every inducement exists to abolish the impediment to the extension of commerce caused by the perversity of a vicious prince, who is a scourge to his wretched subjects and the sole trader in his kingdom.\n\nWhenever the British Government decide to annex the King of Ava's territory, they can, we imagine, claim from China the same privilege of trade across the border as has just been granted to France.\n\nThe Viceroy of Chihli is to be congratulated upon saving his country any further expenditure of money and in making the best terms possible with France. No indemnity will have to be paid out of the scantily supplied treasury at Peking. That is a great thing in Chinese estimation. It is also a matter for satisfaction to foreigners engaged in trade in China, since there can be no doubt that any indemnity would have formed, in one way or another, a new tax on trade or the trading classes of the people, and thus been certain to act prejudicially on the import trade.\n\nWhile, however, as we have said, there is solid reason for satisfaction that the claim for an indemnity has been abandoned by France, it cannot be denied that China has conceded all that she at the outset contended for. On the plea of her ancient suzerainty over Annam she claimed the right to intervene in the affairs of that country, to settle the questions in dispute with France, and insisted upon that power withdrawing her forces from Tonquin.\n\nTo this end she armed and equipped troops and despatched them across the border to aid the Black Flags and Annamites in resisting the French expedition; she spent large sums in fortifications on her coasts and up her rivers to repel any attack France might make in retaliation, and she imported immense quantities of arms and ammunition. Meantime, through her Ambassador at Paris, she blustered and threatened, and asserted that she would never surrender her claims over the King of Annam.\n\nThen came reverses; one stronghold after another in Tonquin fell into the hands of the French, and the mandarins at Peking began to lose heart. As the danger of an actual attack upon some portion of the vulnerable coast-line of China loomed nearer and nearer, the bellicose spirit of the Chinese Government grew fainter and fainter, until after a whimsical shuffle of the cards—designed to impose upon the nation, and make them believe some persons had grossly mismanaged affairs—the EMPRESS-REGENT instructed the Viceroy of Chihli to make terms with the enemy, of course having \"due regard for the prestige of China.\" LI HUNG-CHANG did his best, but the prestige of his country had necessarily to go to the wall, unless the poor pretence of guarding it which appears in Art. IV. of the Convention will give any solace to the mandarinate.\n\nThey have swallowed such a bolus on this occasion that we think there ought to be no difficulty on the part of the British Minister at Peking to persuade them, when conducting the negotiations for the ratification and completion of the Chefoo Convention, to make equally beneficial commercial concessions to Great Britain. Among these we would place in the foremost rank the opening of the Pearl river and its branches to foreign trade.\n\nPage 13\n\n155\n\n245",
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        "content_text": "## Managing Body of the Tung Wa Hospital\n\n— an institution which is entirely managed by the Chinese and for the Chinese inhabitants of this Colony.\n\nThis Report is condensed, but accurate so far as it goes.\n\n## DEPUTATION TO THE GOVERNOR FROM THE TUNG WA HOSPITAL.\n\nA deputation of the Tung Wa Hospital Committee, past and present, waited on His Excellency the Governor Sir George Bowen at Government House at noon yesterday. The deputation, which was introduced by the Acting Registrar-General (Mr. J. H. Stewart-Lockhart) consisted of several of the members of last year's Committee, and of the new Committee elected for the present year. It has been a long established custom for the newly elected Committee of the Tung Wa Hospital to pay its respects to the Governor after it has taken over the management of the affairs of the Hospital. The following are the names of the Chinese gentlemen who formed the deputation - Li Tak-cheang, of the Lai Hing Firm; U Yuk-shán, of the Wing Man-chéung Australian Exporters' Firm; Yau War-shi, of the Sai Long-cháu, Nam Pak Hong; Li Chuk-k'a, of the Tsan Shing Yarn Dealers (Members old Committee); Lo Tso-shan, of the I'On Firm; Lam Wai-chün, of the Tung Shang-wo Californian and Australian Exporters' Firm; Lau Lan-tsin, of the Hop Hing Hong (on behalf of his partner Wong Tsün-tong); Hung Shä-shang, of the Man Tai Rice Hong; Fung Ming-shang, compradore to Messrs. Eduard Schellbass & Co.; Te'oi Taung-ch'ün, of the Ewong Wing shing Nam Pak Hong; Ng Tsan fong, compradore to Messrs. Russell & Co.; Ch'an Shu-shan, of the King Wo Opium Firm; Li Ho-ü, of the Ching Lan Piece Goods Hong; Ching Sun-po, of the Li Shang Pawnshop; Hu King-tong, compradore to the Borneo Company (members of present Committee).\n\nThe **GOVERNOR**, who was attended by the Acting Colonial Secretary (Hon. F. Stewart) and Captain Lewis, A.D.C., stated that it afforded him much gratification to meet the present deputation, consisting, as it did, of so many of the leading Chinese merchants and residents in the colony. He fully appreciated the great amount of good done by the institution in the way of healing the sick, and he felt sure that the management of the hospital would be in good hands during the present year as it had been during the past.\n\nHe especially appreciated the care and attention devoted by the various Committees in the past and during the present year to vaccination, the main safeguard against epidemics of small-pox. His Excellency concluded by assuring the deputation that he would be always ready to assist them to the best of his ability.\n\nThe **VICE-CHAIRMAN** of the new Committee thanked His Excellency in appropriate terms for the kind manner in which he had spoken of the Hospital and its work, and asked if the Committee were at liberty to consult with His Excellency on matters connected with the Hospital. The **GOVERNOR** replied that he would be always happy to receive the Committee if timely notice was given through the Registrar-General's Department, so that an hour might be appointed.\n\nThe Deputation, after having thanked His Excellency for the kind reception accorded to them, withdrew.\n\nIt will be seen that I expressed my appreciation of the general effort of the Committee of the Hospital, and especially of the care and attention devoted to vaccination. I asked the Committee if, in their opinion, vaccination ought to be made by law compulsory in this Colony, as in England; and they replied in the negative, thinking that it is better, at least for the present, to trust...",
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        "content_text": "# Speech at St. Paul's College Prize Distribution\n\nAs I have already said, and it is necessary therefore to put a few thoughts into their heads. The usual plan, I believe, is to read over something to them a day or two before and then get them to write it out. Mr. Hambling gave them the subject of interest at that time, the Regatta. It seems they knew they were to be asked to write a composition on this, and they were diligent readers of the newspapers. The consequence was we had pretty good repetitions of the newspapers, and perhaps that was the origin of Mr. Jennings' colonial phraseology.\" At the same time, I don't see that any different method could be pursued. A boy has few thoughts at that age and has a difficulty of expression. If he is to be given a lesson of that kind, he must have something read to him, and then the day after, he reproduces it as best he can. You have had the result, and it is encouraging, even if it is only repetition of newspapers, that they have good memories, though perhaps it would have been better if they had had shorter memories as regards the \"colonial phraseology.\"\n\nReturning to Dr. Eitel's report, he put down 300 marks as the highest number a boy could obtain. He reports 262 as the highest actually attained, which is not far from the limit, and the lowest 150, half the marks that might have been got. On the whole, it seemed to me Dr. Eitel's report was satisfactory as showing good honest work had been done.\n\nWell then, to go on to Mr. Coughtrie's report. It would not be right that we should just stick to dry work and add up figures and write down hard names after learning them. We had enough of that in my boyhood, but now there is a little idea of beauty introduced into school work, and you see hung round the room the result—the best result, for it is no use showing you the worst, but having boys who can do this work, it shows a good deal of talent that may be drawn out.\n\nMr. Coughtrie examined the drawings and picked out the best and put them in the order in which he thought they ought to stand. He says:\n\n## Report on Drawings\n\n| Category | Comment |\n| --- | --- |\n| Copies of dog's heads | The first award was a very creditable production indeed. |\n| Freehand drawings or ornament | The first and second awards were creditable. |\n| Flower subject | Did not produce equally good results, probably owing to the poverty of the example. |\n| Map drawing | Fully equal to that of past years; the subject was India, with its hard and unfamiliar names of places. |\n| Handwriting | The best examples were unusually good, particularly those in \"large hand.\" |\n\nThe drawings submitted to me for examination, though fewer in number than last year, were of greater merit. The first award in the copies of dog's heads was a very creditable production indeed, as were also the first and second awards in the freehand drawings or ornament. The flower subject did not produce equally good results, but this was probably owing to the poverty of the example, which was one that could not possibly create any enthusiasm for the subject placed before the scholars to copy.\n\nIn looking over the drawings made by some of the boys out of school, I found sketches by two of them of casual merit, and I learn with pleasure that an extra prize will be adjudged for them. The incentive to good drawing created by the choice of pleasing or congenial subjects is, I think, sufficiently manifest.\n\nThis closes my statement of what we have done and the way we are doing it. We are glad to have your presence here today to encourage us. From what I have seen, I can say that good conscientious work is being done from day to day, and I think it is evident from the assembly I see before me that the public of Hongkong appreciate our efforts to provide education for the youth of the colony. I think we may still appeal with confidence for your help. (Applause).\n\n## Speech by His Excellency General Sargent\n\nHis Excellency-General Sargent, ladies, and gentlemen, it was with very great pleasure that I accepted the invitation of our revered Bishop to be present here on this interesting occasion. I have always held it to be one of the first duties of a Governor to promote by every means in his power the sacred cause of education and to meet all classes of the community over whom he presides on the common ground of art, science, and literature. (Cheers).\n\nI grieve that I am not accompanied today, as last year, by my wife and family, whose departure, in consequence of the dangerous illness of Lady Bowen, has cast a gloom on my life here, for I was never before separated from my family.\n\nWith reference to the object of our meeting, I would observe that on the similar occasion last year, I made a long speech, but I have no intention of inflicting an oration on you this year. Moreover, the very full and satisfactory statement as to the present position and progress of this school made by the Bishop, to whom we all listened with much pleasure and interest, has left me little to say.\n\nThere can be no doubt, as the Bishop remarked, but that this institution supplies a want felt in this community. There are many families here who desire to give their sons a sound English education and yet are not in a position to send them to England. Moreover, during my visits to China and Japan, I have found former pupils of this institution occupying responsible positions in those countries. For instance, one of the principal secretaries of the great Viceroy Li Hung-chang—one of the most powerful and influential men in China—was a former pupil of St. Paul's College.\n\nAll will agree that it is a most legitimate means of extending British influence throughout this quarter of the globe to provide means of education in this British colony for those who will afterwards take a prominent position in the neighbouring countries, and especially in the great empire of China. Such men cannot fail to remember what they owe to British education.\n\nTo my young friends, the pupils of this institution, I would say: Work hard and prepare yourselves to take advantage of that good fortune, that chance of success, which falls to almost every man at least once in the course of his life. (Applause). People talk of good luck and good fortune, and the good luck of one man and the bad luck of another, but all men of great experience in life will agree that good fortune attends only those who have prepared themselves to take advantage of it.\n\nOur own Shakespeare has said in famous verses:\n\n\"There is a tide in the affairs of men,\nWhich, taken at the flood, leads on to Fortune.\nOmitted, all the voyage of our lives\nIs lost in shallows and in miseries.\"\n\nWhat I would exhort you to do, my young friends, is to prepare yourselves that you may be able to take that tide at the flood which leads on to fortune. (Applause).\n\nI would also remind those of you more advanced in your studies of the lines of the great Roman poet and Satirist, Juvenal, in which he says:\n\n\"Nullam nomen habent si sit Prudentia; nos te\nNos facimus, Fortuna, Deam, coeloque locamus.\"\n\nThat is (I translate, of course, only for the benefit of the ladies) \"Oh Fortune, thou hast no divinity if we have prudence; it is we who make thee a goddess and instal thee in Heaven.\"\n\nAfter these few observations, I will now proceed to distribute the prizes. (Applause).\n\nHis Excellency then presented the prizes to the boys, the Bishop stating the subject for which each prize was given and making a few remarks as to the position and progress in the school of the recipient.\n\nIn the course of his remarks, he said: I think last year all the boys got something, and some went home saying they had got a prize, and it was very doubtful what it was for (a laugh), and it was found it was not a prize at all but simply a present. That was in our younger days. We are getting older now and nearer manhood, so no prize is given today except for work done, that is, either for actual merit or for considerable work and promise of merit to come. There is the motto on the card at the beginning of each book by which we try to carry out the Governor's advice: \"Heaven helps those who help themselves.\" Those who work are sure to get rewarded somehow.\n\nPage 253",
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        "content_text": "## Report Highlights\n\namongst others, the French, who had now proposed that a Congress should meet for the sole object of considering this important question. The Company fully expected that good results would arise from such eventual legislation, but nevertheless, the Directors must continue to keep up the efficient state of their two Repairing Steamers, which have done good service during last year.\n\nThe new Steamer, the \"Store Nordiske,\" had left for China with a full cargo of Cable, part being for the Company's own use, part for the completion of the Russian Saghalin contract. Next, in the month of September, this ship had laid a Cable for Chinese account across the Yangtsekiang, near Chinkiang, and she has subsequently been employed in effecting the different repairs which became necessary in the Chinese waters. On the arrival of the \"Store Nordiske\" in China, the \"H. C. Örsted\" returned to Europe with a cargo of Tea, and finally arrived in Copenhagen in November; shortly afterwards she had been chartered for repairs to be effected near Bilbao, for account of the Direct Spanish Telegraph Company; which work had been very successfully done.\n\nTraffic - Owing to the interruptions of the Cables in the far East, the Extra-European traffic had suffered; not so the European traffic, as the interruptions did not affect the regular business owing to the Company's many duplications, and on the whole, it would be found that the receipts were about the same as those of the previous year.\n\n### The Telegraph in China\n\nThe most important event of the year had been the development of Telegraphy in China. The construction of the extensive Land Line between Shanghai and Tientsin, which the Company had referred to in last year's Report, had been commenced on the 16th June, and completed on the 28th November. The Line had been erected by two columns of engineers and workmen, one column working from Tientsin south towards Shanghai, the other, from Shanghai north towards Tientsin, and meeting half-way. The first Telegrams were exchanged on the 29th November, after which, the Chinese Government, in order to accustom the public to the Telegraph, carried their messages free of charge for a month.\n\nEight employés of the Company had been engaged for the Chinese service, in the different Stations, of which the most important were Shanghai, Soochow, Chinkiang, and Tientsin. The line consisted of two wires, of which one was reserved exclusively for the through traffic between Shanghai and Tientsin, whereas the other was used for the local traffic of the other stations.\n\nThis great artery for the Telegraphic correspondence in the North of China, had already been extended by the establishment of a line from Chinkiang to Nankin, the old Capital of the Chinese Empire. This line would probably be extended along the Yangtsekiang to Hankow, the largest and most important commercial town of Central China.\n\nIn the South of China, the introduction of Telegraphs would also commence by the establishment of a line from the most important Southern Town, Canton, to the flourishing British Colony, Hongkong. The Company had, on the 25th March, signed a contract for the supply of all the materials required, and for the supervision of the erection of the line, the length of which is about 100 English miles. When the line is completed and ready for the opening of traffic, some of the Company's staff will be engaged for the traffic service.\n\nIf the Company had thus succeeded in taking such an active part in the development of the Telegraph in China, it had mainly been owing to the confidence in the Company shown by the Chinese Government, and notably by Li-Hung-Chang, the Viceroy of Tientsin. This eminent Statesman, who has added to his other dignities that of an appointment as Imperial Commissioner of Telegraphs for the whole of the Empire, had, under date of the 8th June, 1881, granted the Company a concession giving them a perpetual monopoly for the existing Cables in China belonging to the Company, and another concession by which the Company had obtained a guarantee that no other Company or person will be allowed for the next twenty years to land Cables in any part of China. During this same period of twenty years the Chinese Government had further undertaken that neither would they themselves, nor would they allow other parties to establish Land Lines in China which might compete with the Company's Cables. Finally, the Government had given the Company the preference in the competition for any contracts which they might wish to make for the construction of Telegraph Lines of their own.\n\nThe Chairman said that he could not finish this part of his remarks with reference to the Company's business in China during the past year without saying that the great results obtained were principally owing to the labours of the Managing Director, Captain E. Suenson, and to the manner in which he had conducted these negotiations, but great thanks were also due to the Company's leading Officers in China for the ability shown on this occasion, and in fact, all members of the Company's staff engaged in this business had done their best to further the interests of the Company. The Directors did not therefore hesitate to propose that the Company's contribution to the Pension Fund of the Staff should for the past year be increased to Kr. 20,000 (£1,111 2s. 3d.), about double that of previous years.\n\nFinally, the Chairman remarked that he regretted to find that the advantages gained in China by the Company had given rise to a certain feeling of dissatisfaction and jealousy amongst persons of other nationalities residing in China, and that even diplomatic assistance was said to have been obtained in order to oppose the Company's interests. Hitherto the latter had been without avail, and no doubt the antagonistic feelings would disappear as soon as it became evident that the privileges accorded to the Company resulted in advantages to the opponents themselves, and to the world at large.\n\nThe Company had also had their attention fixed upon the advantage of the introduction of the Telephone in China, and had therefore made arrangements with the Oriental Telephone Company, Limited, jointly to carry out this business. Telephone Exchanges were now already established in Shanghai and Hongkong.\n\nIn referring to general topics, the Chairman first of all referred to the great loss the Company had sustained by the death of Mr. H. J. Pallisen of St. Petersburg. Mr. Pallisen had been intimately connected with the Company since its formation, and had always, as its representative in Russia, taken the greatest interest in all its undertakings. He would be succeeded...\n\nPage 502",
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        "content_text": "this matter.\n\nIt regards the eleven prisoners accused of murder; grave doubts in Hongkong have been entertained as to their guilt.\n\nI was instructed to hold a full inquiry into the matter, with the assistance of his Executive Council, of which the Attorney General is a member, & to report whether the \"proof of guilt\" required by Art. XXI of the Treaty of Tientsin was such as to satisfy the minds of the Council.\n\nAfter a very careful examination into the evidence, the Executive Council were of opinion that the guilt of the Prisoners had been proved within the terms of the Treaty.\n\nUnder these circumstances we are precluded from surrendering the prisoners.\n\nI regret to have to inform you that the demand of your Government for their Extradition cannot be complied with.\n\nThe Governor of Hong Kong has accordingly been instructed to cause their discharge from custody.\n\nWith regard to the prisoners Wang Kum Chang and Leong Kit, the evidence in support of the demand for their Extradition is sufficient & Hongkong have authorised...",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure\n\nWith our Ministers in China and Japan, and with the officers commanding our Naval and Military Forces in carrying out the instructions of Ster Majesty's Government, and in the general promotion of British interests, which I believe to be identical with the interests of Peace and Commerce.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble servant,  \n3. Bowen\n\n(11) \n\n## THE NAVAL ENGAGEMENT AT SHEIPOO\n\nThe Shanghai Courier gives the following account of this event:\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, the 12th February, the Chinese fleet was at anchor in the outer roads of the Sheipoo harbour, inside of Montague Island, and the order was given that at daylight on Friday morning they were to proceed northwards. While the Chinese fleet was getting under weigh, the French fleet hove in sight to the eastward of Montague Island. The Chinese Admiral, who was on board the Kwei-chi, immediately signalled for his fleet to proceed southwards, and the Nan-shen and Nan-shuan shaped a course for the Heishan Islands, the Yu-yuen and the Chin-cheng following in their wake. The Kwei-chi, Nan-shen, and Nan-shuan, being smart steaming vessels, the cream really of the Nanyang squadron of the Chinese fleet, were 2000 yards ahead of the Yu-yuen and the Chin-cheng, and as the French fleet were making a good stern chase, these two vessels, thinking the French would pass them by and pursue the other three, steamed round Cape Conway and entered Sheipoo harbour by San Mun Bay. The French did not pass them by, however, but directed all their attention to them, and eventually gave them \"A New Year's cumshaw,\" as their destruction has been irreverently termed. The Chin-cheng is the Foochow built boat known as No 26. She was commanded by Vice-Admiral Ting, who has been to Europe and had some training, we believe, in the British Navy. The Yu-yuen is the old frigate No. 6 that was moored at Woosung for several months, and she was commanded by Kin-yung, but better known to foreigners as \"Mobi\" who has risen from the ranks, his first experience of warfare being in the Pluto and Confucius during the Taiping rebellion. Both these vessels were of wood, with no armour whatever, and their speed was not more than 9 knots, so refuge in Sheipoo harbour was the best move they could take with the French coming rapidly down upon them. But when they got inside the French blocked the four entrances, and made them an easy prey for their powerful weapons of destruction, and superior skill in naval warfare. Nevertheless the Chinese commanders, if they lost their ships, as they must inevitably have done under the circumstances, saved their crews.\n\nIt was about ten o'clock a.m. on the 13th February that the Chin-cheng and Yu-yuen anchored about two hundred yards apart in Sheipoo harbour. The French allowed them to remain quietly there till about ten o'clock at night, when four French torpedo boats attacked them. The Hotchkiss machine guns on the two Chinese vessels were quickly at work and the fire was too much for the torpedo boats, which were driven back. At half-past twelve o'clock the torpedo boats returned to the attack, and were again beaten off, and at 8 p.m. on Saturday night they returned again, and for the third time the Chinese were too much for them. But Admiral Courbet was undaunted, and he is as well skilled in strategy as he is brave, and at four o'clock on Sunday morning, the 15th February, Chinese New Year's Day, a number of Chinese fishing boats came into the harbour for their crews to spend the day on shore. Under cover of these boats, four torpedo boats stealthily stole a march on the Chinese men-of-war's men. These fishing boats coming suspiciously close to the Chinese war-vessels, were hailed, and a reply was given “Fishing boats.” But immediately afterwards four torpedo boats shot out from their hiding places, and were alongside the two Chinese vessels before an effective fire could be blazed into them, the result being that torpedoes were exploded under the two Chinese ships. The vessels were not blown out of the water, the explosions making holes in their bottoms, and causing them to fill. This done the torpedo boats returned to the French ships; they had done their work against foes they found more persistent and brave than had been expected. The Chin-cheng drifted on a shoal and filled with the tide, her crew escaping in boats to the land, and not a single man belonging to her was lost. She had no foreigners on board. The Yu-yuen did not sink for four hours afterwards. All her crew got safely into the boats and with the exception of the second engineer, a Chinaman, they reached the shore. The boat in which the second engineer was capsized and he was drowned. This was the only death caused by the engagement on the Chinese side; the loss on the part of the French is variously estimated, nine and fifteen killed being the figures given.\n\nThe tugboat Fuh-lee arrived at the scene of the engagement on Sunday night. Mr. Richardson, who was the chief engineer on the Yu-yuen, and the only foreigner on board the two Chinese men-of-war, and about a dozen Chinese came up to Shanghai in the Fuh-lee, with instructions to report the engagement to the Chinese authorities here. The French fleet were then outside, cruising round after the other Chinese men-of-war, and as Admiral Wu signalled for them to proceed south; there is little doubt that they did so, but afterwards turned back as we hear of the following telegram from Admiral Courbet at Matsou:--\n\n\"MATSOU, 15th February.  \n\"Seen on the 13th inst., at about five miles distance, the Chinese fleet of three cruisers, one corvette and a frigate. The three cruisers could escape on account of a thick fog; as to the frigate and corvette, which had made for Sheipoo Harbour, they were sunk on the 16th at 4 a.m. by the torpedo-boats of the Bayard, though a heavy fire of musketry and artillery was discharged upon them by the Chinese,\"\n\nThe bravery of Captain Kin-yang, alias \"Mobi,\" is highly spoken of, as indeed is the conduct of the Chinese generally. \"Mobi\" fought his ship to the last and at each attack by the torpedo boats he worked a Hotchkiss gun.\n\n283",
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        "content_text": "98. \n\n(d.) Mr. Frederick Desson, \nAlbert Brother of Sir Albert Sassoon, \nyounger \nso well. \nLondon; and the head \nKnown in London; \nof \nthe \nChina Branch of the wealthy House of \nthe Sassoons of Bombay, — often called the Rothschilds of India. Mr. Frederick Sassoon \nwas educated at the University of Cambridge. He was nominated as their \nrepresentative in the Council by the Bench of Magistrates.\n\n(e.) Wong Ting, the Chinese \nMember of Council, who (as I reported fully in my despatch No. 355 of 1889, a perusal of which is solicited), is a \ngentleman \nof unimpeached character, of good education, and of large property \nand was \nstrongly recommended \nas their Representative by the leading \nChinese residents in this community. \nAs I have observed elsewhere, vide No. 355 of 1888 \nto Secretary of State \nEngland \nhas travelled much in \nand in America; he is well \nacquainted with the English language and laws; he has served with the great Viceroy, Li Hung Chang, in China, \nand has been a Member of the Chinese Legation \nat Washington; so he is fully qualified \nto look at Chinese affairs with English \nand",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 1 in No. 117\n\nMost of the trade between Tonquin and Yunnan will, I think, be by water as far as Mong-hwa, and thence by porter or mule back to the various marts in Yünnan.\n\nFrom Mong-hwa to Yunnan-Fu the journey by land is easy, and occupies, according to M. Dupuis, eight days; according to General Mesny, eleven. The cost of conveyance of the customary picul of 120 catties is about 3 taels or so. Close to Mong-hwa are the rich tin mines of the Mong-tsze district, which are now in fair working order. Yet Pai-hsieh Ting, in spite of its distance, absorbs at present most of the produce of these mines.\n\nThe conclusion I am tempted to draw from the above facts is that, considering that in China geographical facilities are often less important factors of routes of trade than financial arrangements, and considering also that for various reasons it will not be to the interest of the provincial authorities of Yunnan to favour the route by the Song-koi River, most of the trade with Yünnan will be conducted by the West River.*\n\nWith regard to the desirability of opening a Treaty port on the West River, I think if this is done Wu-chou should be the point selected. In the first place, because General Mesny informs me that Wu-chou is about the highest point of the West River easily reachable by steamers. Secondly, because Wu-chou is situated at the junction of the West River and the Fu River.\n\nThe Fu River is itself an important waterway flowing through a rich district and passing various populous towns such as Kwei-lin, &c. Its importance was greatly increased some years ago by the digging of a canal connecting it with the Siang River, which, after passing the important towns of Yung-chow, Hêng Chow, and Chang-sha, flows into the Tung-ting Lake. The Canton boats I saw at Ichang in 1873 had come from Canton by the above route.\n\nThe opening of Wu-chou as a Treaty port would possibly cause a loss in trade to Canton in exports, especially tea, and to Hankow in both imports and exports. I fear it would not increase to any great extent the bulk of our trade with China. Our goods already reach Wu-chou pretty freely, and as for the native produce that passes through Wu-chou, it has only a very few extra miles of inexpensive waterway to find its outlet by Canton.\n\nThe reasons for it coming to Canton are the extra duties charged on junks and cargoes clearing thence for Hong Kong and Macao.\n\nIn conclusion, I have to express my thanks to General Mesny for the very obliging manner in which he furnished me with information.\n\nSir,\nI have, &c. (Signed) C. T. GARDNER.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 116\n\n### Consul Allen to Mr. O'Conor\n\nPakhoi, August 13, 1885.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of the 13th July, 1885, calling on me to report on the effect which I consider the facilities given to France by the Franco-Chinese Treaty of Peace will have on British trade in Pakhoi and the districts in commercial communication with it. I will perform this task to the best of my ability, but if any conclusions at which I may arrive shall eventually be proved erroneous or absurd, I will ask you to bear in mind that my sources of information are neither complete nor perfectly accurate, and that prediction is, at the best of times, liable to lead one into error.\n\nI have not been supplied with an authentic copy of Article VII of the above Treaty, but the Article, as given in the \"North China Herald,\" asserts the immediate construction of a railway in the north of Tonquin. In this report, therefore, I assume that the French, belonging, as they do, to a civilized nation, will at once make such communications as the country is best fitted for, be they water routes, horse roads, or railways, and that, whatever duties they may impose, they will grant every facility of locomotion.\n\nI may take it for granted that Her Majesty's Government, in opening Pakhoi, never intended it to be simply a port to supply the neighbourhood with yarn, opium, and piece-goods, and to procure thence a little cassia and aniseed and a few hides, but rather to be the shipping port of south-west China. Hitherto, these hopes have been unfulfilled. I do not suppose that foreign goods often penetrate more than 150 miles into the interior.\n\n* It is observable that the French Treaty only stipulates what duties are to be levied at the Customs stations on the frontier. Goods after passing such Customs stations will still be subject to the local provincial taxation.\n\n[351]",
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        "content_text": "# THE ATTEMPTED ARREST BY CHINESE OFFICIALS IN HONGKONG\nLan Man Tin, Sham Wan Tsoi, Ching Man Pan, Ng Hok Chun, Cheong Shing Fat, Young Cheung Un, and Sham Hing Wan, Chinese men-of-war's men belonging to the Chinese gunboat Ngai San, were brought before the court charged with committing an assault upon Chang Chi, master of the junk Kum Cheung Fat, on the 22nd inst.\n\nThe Crown Solicitor, Mr. A. P. Stokes, appeared for the prosecution, Mr. Caldwell defended.\n\nMr. Stokes briefly opened the case, stating the facts as disclosed by the evidence below, and informing his Worship that he charged the prisoners with committing an assault upon Chang Chi, and under Sec. 7 of Ordinance 2 of 1875, with having unlawfully detained him.\n\nThe complainant, who seemed to be unwell, was examined in a squatting position in the witness box. He said he was master of the Kum Cheung Fat junk trading between Hongkong and Taiwan. At about eight a.m. the previous morning, while he was at the Hing Fat shop in Queen's-street, a number of armed men came into that establishment, and without saying anything they at once seized him, bandcuffed him, and put chains upon his ankles. The seven prisoners and another man whom he had seen outside the court were the ones who had been concerned in this. They made him lie down upon the ground, and wanted to take him on board their ship, but the master of the shop, Akwok, and some of his fokia, who were present, would not let them. The prisoners did not say on what account they wanted him. He had never seen them before, and had no idea why they seized him.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Caldwell—Witness had been master of the Kum Cheung Fat junk about four months, and the junk formerly belonged to his brother, Cheung Kit Kwong, who was killed by the Custom House people. His brother had been master of that junk about three years, and during that time witness never went out in her, but used to go fishing in a small boat.\n\nMr. Stokes, at this stage, applied to his Worship for a warrant for the arrest of the man outside the Court referred to by the complainant.\n\nMr. Caldwell contended that a warrant could not be issued, as this was only a charge of assault. A summons only could be issued.\n\nMr. Stokes admitted that the case was one of aggravated assault, and therefore under those circumstances a warrant could be issued.\n\nMr. Caldwell said this was not a case of aggravated assault, and a warrant could not be issued. The man referred to was an officer of the Chinese Government, and he should be ready to produce him at all times without a warrant. He should protest against the officer being charged with the other men. He was not arrested with them, and there was no fear of his running away. Mr. Stokes submitted that if this man was a party to the act in which the prisoners were concerned he should be tried also.\n\nMr. Caldwell offered, upon condition that the officer was not placed with the prisoners, to produce him.\n\nThis course was agreed to, and the officer, who gave the name of Chun Ti Hi, was then called into court.\n\nThe complainant said this was not the man he referred to, but the other man who had been concerned in his seizure was still outside the court.\n\nMr. Stokes withdrew the charge against this person, and the complainant was taken outside to point out the man he referred to. He pointed out a petty officer of the gunboat, named Lau Kok Lin, who was then arrested and made the 8th defendant.\n\nThe complainant, in answer to Mr. Caldwell's further cross-examination, went on to give evidence to the following effect. He lived at a city called Hin Wah, and never went out in the junk with his brother, who traded with Paktau, Formosa, and Hongkong. The junk was not licensed at Hongkong, but it got a paper from the Harbour Office every time it came here. There were neither English nor Chinese figures on the bows of the junk. Witness was staying at the Hing Fat shop at the time he was arrested. In the eighth moon of last Chinese year he was at home at Hin Wah, and in the ninth moon he went to Paktau, near Ping Hoi.\n\nMr. Stokes objected that this line of cross-examination was irrelevant to the case.\n\nMr. Caldwell contended that he had a right to go into any matters he thought fit in cross-examination.\n\nHis Worship ruled that the questions were not in order.\n\nCross-examination continued.—Over ten men came into the shop when witness was seized, and Lau Sin, the last defendant, was the first man who entered, and the seventh man tied him up by the order of the eighth. They put him down with his face upon the ground, and he did not see what the other men did. Witness arrived in the colony in the same junk on the 20th November last.\n\nHis Worship cautioned the defendant that he was not called upon to answer any question which might incriminate himself.\n\nCross-examination continued. When witness came here in November he came from his village, and brought no cargo. The junk left on the 16th December, but he remained behind as he was sick. His fokia cleared the junk at the Harbour Office.\n\nRe-examined by Mr. Stokes.—The eighth defendant came into the Hing Fat shop first, and the other defendants came in a crowd behind him, and acted under his orders. They were all present when he was secured, which was done by the handcuffs, chain, and padlocks in court.\n\nIt being impossible to finish the case at this sitting his Worship decided to adjourn it.\n\nMr. Caldwell applied for bail for the prisoners. Mr. Stokes rather demurred to bail, he thought at least it ought to be something very substantial.\n\nHis Worship said he should certainly require very substantial bail. On further consideration he was disposed to think that the best course would be not to grant bail, as from what he heard there seemed to be a Mandarin mixed up in the matter, and there might be some difficulty in securing the defendants' re-appearance. He thought it would be better, under the circumstances to detain them in custody.\n\nMr. Caldwell—Then am I to understand that your Worship refuses me bail for a common assault?\n\nHis Worship—I do not consider that this is a common assault.\n\nMr. Caldwell—There was nothing else, no one was bodily injured, and the offence with which the defendants are charged is only a misdemeanour. It is not one of those cases in which bail can be refused.\n\nMr. Stokes—The question of bail is entirely one for his Worship.\n\nMr. Caldwell—But it is not so in this case, as to refuse bail in a case of misdemeanour like this would be to commit an offence by the Magistrate at Common Law. (Mr. Caldwell quoted from Archbold as to what definition this case came under, and from Blackstone as showing that to refuse to grant bail to prisoners charged with offences of that class was to commit an offence against the liberty of the subject.)\n\nMr. Stokes said that under the provisions of Ord. 2 of 1875 the case if determined, should be determined by two Magistrates.\n\nMr. Caldwell said he had seen that before, and he would have taken the objection before but for the fact that he thought this was merely a preliminary trial, and that the case would be committed for trial at the Supreme Court.\n\nHis Worship said that might be so, but if the case was disposed of in that court he apprehended that the usual course was for one Magistrate to take the depositions, and then call in the assistance of another Magistrate to decide, and place the depositions before him.\n\nMr. Stokes—It might relieve your Worship of the question of bail if you committed the prisoners now, and left the case to be dealt with by two Magistrates.\n\nMr. Caldwell—There is no really good and reasonable ground upon which your Worship can refuse to grant bail. It is a bailable offence, and there is no fear of the defendants running away. They have come here under certain circumstances, and they have a charge against the complainant.\n\nPage 44",
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        "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 24\n\nThe following Tables and Papers connected with the examination of the First Class held at the Government Central School during the week, January 9-16, are published for general information.\n\nBy Command,  \nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd January, 1886.\n\n**FREDERICK STEWART**,  \nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n### FIRST CLASS\n\n1. Chenng Tsoi,\n2. Lo Sing-lau,\n3. Lo Kit,\n4. Mok Lai-chi,\n5. Lam Tsun Kwai,\n6. Wong Bling-yau,\n7. Lam Wing Kwai,\n8. Yung Fai-it,\n9. Bo Shing-hou,\n10. Lo Tseung-shiu,\n11. Sin Tseung-pan,\n12. Chiu Ho-ping,\n13. Li Tak-yung,\n14. Wan Chin Wing,\n15. Wong Tsan-shing,\n16. Tung Kit-shang,\n17. Lo Shiu-hung,\n18. Cheng Tso-in,\n19. Lau Ming,\n20. Ip Kwong-man,\n21. Wong Yuk-lam,\n22. J. Remedios,\n23. Os. Madar,\n24. Fung Pui-lam,\n25. P. Graça,\n26. Lo Pak-ching,\n27. Tahir Alley,\n28. Wm. Howard,\n29. J. Graça,\n30. Tsang Chung,\n31. Leung Yeung Kwong,\n32. Omar Madar,\n33. Wong Lai-fong,\n34. Tong Kwok-in,\n35. Li Fuk-tsan,\n36. Ho Ping,\n37. T. Wallace,\n\n### MORRISON SCHOLARSHIP\n\n|          | Reading | Arithmetic | Map Drawing | Composition | Dictation | English | Geography | Grammar | History | Mensuration | Translation into English | Translation into Chinese | General Intelligence | Total |\n|----------|---------|------------|-------------|------------|----------|---------|----------|--------|--------|------------|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------|-------|\n|          |         |            |             |            |          |         |          |        |        |            |                         |                          |                    |       |\n| 30       | 60      | 100        | 30          | 00       | 50       |         |          |        |        |            |                         |                          |                    | 780   |\n|          | 96263   |            |             | Rab      | qay      |         |          |        |        |            |                         |                          |                    |       |\n| 1        | 657     | 835        | 615         | 605      | 603      | 595     | 586      | 580    | 552    | 35         | 520                     | A 501                    | 49                     | 493   | 50 | 18 | 484   | 51 | 19 | 482   |\n|          | 488     | 18         | 452         | 43       | 22       | 440     | 49       | 17     | 442    | 50     | 24                         | 419                      | 46                       | 24    | 412   | 49 | 17 |       |    |       |\n|          | 410     | 47         | 20          | 401      | 0        | 26       |         |        |        |            |                         |                          |                    |       |\n|          | 10      | Q          | 0           | 19       | 19       | 30       | 36       | 0      | {}      | 35       | 0                       | 18                       | 19                     |       |\n|          | 30      | 19         | 30          | 12       | 10       | 11       | 12       | 14     | 11     | 18         |                         |                          |                    | 1954  |\n\nCO. 4168  \nUnder 9 mm OÔ. 90",
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        "content_text": "# STEWART SCHOLARSHIP\n\n## Elocution\n\n| Name | Composi Dictation | Grammar | History | English to Chinese | English | Chinese | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. Le Sing-latt | 58 | 85 | 30 | 48 | 49 | 58 | 376 |\n| 2. Cheang Tsoi, | 57 | 99 | 49 | 66 | 56 | 55 | 974 |\n| 3. Lam Tsun Kwai | 42 | 29 | 47 | 50 |  |  | 300 |\n| 4. Lam Wing Kwai, | 45 | 18 | 44 | 07 | 61 | 844 |  |\n| 5. Wong Hing Yau, | 48 | 16 | 45 | 58 | 46 | 339 |  |\n| 6. Lo Kit, |  | 87 | 48 | 54 | 38 | 833 |  |\n\n## BELILIOS SENIOR SCHOLARSHIP\n\n### FIRST CLASS\n\n| Name | Reading | Grammar | Composition | Dictation | History | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. Lo Kit, | 29 | 87 | 30 | 50 | 60 | 988633 |\n| 2. Lam Tsun Kwai, | 28 | 82 |  | 52 | 62 | 88888 |\n| 3. Cheung Tsoi, | 30 |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 4. Lo Sing-lax, | 30 |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 5. Sin Tseung-pan, | 27 |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 6. Wong Hing Yan, | 20 |  |  |  |  |  |\n\n## BELILIOS JUNIOR SCHOLARSHIP\n\n### SECOND CLASS\n\n| Name |  |  |  | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. No Man Ying.. | 43 | 54 | 243 |  |\n| 2. Wong Fau, | 66 | [236] |  |  |\n| 3. Tum Tok,.. | 47 | 49 | *99389 |  |\n| 4. Ng Chak Tong, | 30 | 48 | 42 | 235 |\n| 5. Wong Kat, | 30 | 57 | 219 |  |\n| 6. A. Alarakia,. | 16 | 45 |  |  |\n\n## GENERAL INTELLIGENCE\n\n### FIRST CLASS\n\nSaturday, 9–12.\n\n1. Multiply 878426 by 29997 by the quickest method you can.\n \n| Name | Reading | Composition | Dictation | Grammar | History | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 30 | 60 | 28 | 55 | 30 | 388888 |\n|  | 27 | 46 | 48 | 209 |  |  |\n|  | 30 | 43 | 49 | 207 |  |  |\n|  |  | 48 |  | 939758 |  |  |\n|  | 20 | 27 | 27 | 20 | 58 | 188 |\n|  | 27 | 41 | 44 |  |  |  |\n|  | 45 | 30 | 40 | 47 | 198 |  |\n|  | 01 |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 48 | 204 | 199 |  |  |  |\n|  | 30 |  |  |  |  |  |\n\n2. By what simple method would you propose to calculate the vertical height of a paper kite in the air?\n3. Explain the various functions of judge, barrister, solicitor, jury.\n4. What are the meanings of the following words: visor, purvey, reverberating, volition, apparatus, burgesses, niggardly, sanitary, colossal, vibrating.\n5. Write the adjectival forms corresponding to the following nouns: benefit, squalor, surface, tribute, giant, humour, circle, opportunity, enemy, brother.\n6. State the past and present relations between China and Annam, with special reference to Tonquin.\n7. Quote (translating into English) a passage from the Chinese Classics showing that there is something men value more highly than life.\n8. Write in English the story which gave rise to the phrase.\n\n## ARITHMETIC\n\n### FIRST CLASS\n\nMonday, 9-12.\n\n1. How much 3 p. c. Stock had I, if selling at 96 I was able to purchase £800 of 4 p. c. Stock at 105?\n2. What is the difference between True and Mercantile Discount? Illustrate the formula you would apply in each case.\n3. How much a yard did a man give for 36 yards which he sold for £5. 9.4 gaining as profit the cost price of 5 yards.\n4. In how many years and months will a capital increase itself by one half at 5 p. c. Comp. Int.\n5. A and B are partners, A contributes 4/7 of the joint capital for 6 months and B receives 3/7 of the profit, how long before the division of profits was B's money invested.\n6. One hundred men can together do a job in 40 days, but 4 men leave at the end of every fourth day; how many days will be now taken over the job and how many men will be at work when it is finished.\n\n## EUCLID\n\n### FIRST CLASS\n\nFriday, 9–12.\n\n1. Upon the same base and on the same side of it there cannot be two triangles having their sides terminated in one extremity of the base equal &c., &c., &c.\n2. If from the ends of a side of a triangle there be drawn two straight lines to a point within the triangle, these shall be less than the other two sides of the triangle but shall contain a greater angle.\n3. (a.) Prove that the angles made by the sides of a regular hexagon with each other are each equal to 120°.\n3. (b.) Prove that the angles made at the intersection of the diagonals of a regular hexagon are each equal to 60°.\n4. (a.) To a given straight line apply a parallelogram which shall be equal to a given triangle and have one of its angles equal to a given rectilineal angle.\n4. (b.) The greater side of every triangle is opposite to the greater angle.\n5. (a) Parallelograms upon equal bases and between the same parallels are equal to one another.\n5. (b) If a straight line falling on two other straight lines make the alternate angles equal to each other these two straight lines shall be parallel.\n6. (a.) If in the triangle A B C; B C be bisected in D, A D joined and bisected in E, B E joined and bisected in F; and C F joined and bisected in G then the triangle E F G will be equal to one eighth of the triangle A. B. C.\n6. (b.) Write out the Enunciations of XI, XIII, XX, XXVI.\n\n## ALGEBRA\n\n### FIRST CLASS\n\nThursday, 9--12.\n\n1. Find the value of $\\frac{a^2bc}{(a-b)(a-c)} + \\frac{b^2ca}{(b-c)(b-a)} + \\frac{c^2ab}{(c-a)(c-b)}$.\n2. Find that number the third part of which added to its seventh part makes 20.\n3. Find the value of $\\frac{x-a}{x-b}$ when $x = \\frac{a-b}{a+b}$.\n4. Find the G. C. M. of $4x^3 + 9x^2 + 2x^2-2x-4$ and $3x^3 + 5x^2-x + 2$.\n5. (a.) The sheet of a newspaper contains a certain number of letters, columns, lines in each column, and letters in each line. If there were one column less there would be 12 more letters in a line. If there were 22 lines less there would be one more column. If there were 11 less lines there would be 4 more letters in each line. Find the whole number of letters.\n5. (b.) Express in factors $a^2-3ab-10b^2$; $x^2-ac+ax-cx$.\n6. (a.) Solve $(3x-5)(2x-5)-(x+3)(x-1)$.\n6. (b.) Multiply $x^2 + xy + y^2$ by $x-y$ and $xy(x+y)$.\n\n## MENSURATION\n\n### FIRST CLASS\n\n1. What is the diameter of a circle equal in area to a triangle the length of whose sides are 24 yards 0 ft. 9 in; 25 yds. 2 ft. and 20 yds. 2 ft. 3 in.?\n2. A floor measures 20 ft. by 18 ft. what would be the dimensions of a similar floor the area of which was 562 sq. ft.?\n3. What is the volume of the largest cone that can be cut out of a pyramid 2 ft. high with a square base the side of which is 30 in. long?\n4. An iron pipe is 3 in. in bore, half an inch thick and 20 ft. long. Find its weight if a cubic inch of iron weighs 4.526 ozs.\n5. ... \n6. One hundred centesimal grades make one right angle. Divide a quarter of a right angle into two such parts that the number of degrees in one part shall be to the number of grades in the other as 9:40.\n7. 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        "content_text": "# Prize Distribution Event\n\nThe intelligence shown by the answers was extraordinary, and the knowledge likewise. They were not show papers, meant to mystify the public by appearing more difficult than they are. They are thorough testing papers, and evidently written with the view of testing the common-sense and intelligence of the boys as much or even more than their scholastic knowledge, which is a great point. The most interesting of the ordinary papers were those on history, geography, arithmetic, and grammar; but there was one extraordinary paper, the like of which I never saw in any school or college but one; it was headed \"**General Intelligence Paper**\". You might judge from that that the questions not only were not based on ordinary scholastic teaching or to test how much a boy knew, but rather his common-sense and his power to apply what he had been taught. I will just give you two questions, if I can remember them, which struck me very much. One was: \"Describe and distinguish between the functions of judge, jury, barrister, and solicitor.\" I am told the Chinese are very well aware that there is a great deal of law in Hongkong one way or the other, and it is rather important that the Chinese should grow up with intelligent ideas on that subject. Another was intended evidently to see if a boy could apply his mathematics, and was: \"If a kite were in the air and you wanted to ascertain its height, how would you go about it?\" This does not require any very abstruse calculations, but I am afraid many mathematicians would fail in it. I am detaining you too long, but I can say that if the work of the school can be at all fairly gauged from what I saw in cursorily going through the papers, you Hongkong people and you Chinese boys and men are most immensely to be congratulated. I say without hesitation, if I may venture upon such an assertion, that the education given here will compare favourably with the education given in the best schools and colleges in the old country. (Applause).\n\nAlthough the composition was poor as composition, it was wonderfully good for Chinese, far better than we can write in Chinese, and if the Head Master will allow me, I will have much pleasure in offering a prize next year to the boy who comes out top in English Composition.\n\nMr. WRIGHT - Mr. Bain of the *China Mail* gives a prize for that subject.\n\nMr. SHARP - Then may I change it to the other paper, that of \"**General Intelligence**\"? Would you kindly give the prize to the boy who comes out highest in that paper?\n\nMr. WRIGHT - With pleasure.\n\nMr. SHARP - And possibly I may be allowed the favour of putting in a couple of the questions myself?\n\nMr. WRIGHT - Certainly.\n\n...\n\nMr. SHARP - I have no more to say except one word to my English friends round me. Good Hongkong people are choosing to give such a wonderfully good education to the Chinese - and I should be the last to take exception to it - but if you are doing it - and you are - what are you going to do with your own sons to keep them abreast of it, and who ought ever to be ahead of it? And you Chinese men and boys, for I see there are both among you, may you prove worthy of this very grand education you are receiving. (Applause).\n\nHis EXCELLENCY then distributed the prizes, and at the conclusion of the distribution, said - The boys, I understand, will now go for their holidays, and return after the Chinese New Year. I take this opportunity of informing the visitors that they see present only a portion of the boys attending the school. This room will not accommodate more than 180, whereas there are 412 attending the school, so that you only see a small portion of those who are receiving their education here. When the new building is completed, I believe the Hall will be sufficiently large to admit of the whole of the pupils assembling.\n\nCheers for the Queen, the Administrator, Mrs. Marsh, the Head Master, Visitors, and Donors of Prizes brought the proceedings to a close.\n\n## Prize List\n\n### SPECIAL PRIZES\n\n| Prize | Winner |\n| --- | --- |\n| Morrison Scholar | Chaung Tsoi |\n| Stewart Scholar | Lo Sing-lan |\n| Senior Belilios Scholar | Lo Kit |\n| Junior Belilios Scholar | Ho Man Ying |\n| Translation into English | Lam Tsun Kwai, watch, by the Hon. T. Jackson |\n| Translation into Chinese | Li Tak Yung, Dictionary, vol., presented by Mrs. Y. J. Mucrow |\n| Composition, Class I | Tsang Kit Shang, Shakespeare and History, by Mr. Geo. Murray Rain |\n| Composition, Class II | Ho Mau Ying, Shakespeare, by Mr. Geo. Murray Bain |\n| Composition, Class III | F. Cordeiro, Discoveries and Inventions, by the Government |\n| Composition, Class IV | Leung Ping-tai, Wood's Natural History, by the Government |\n\n### GENERAL PRIZES\n\n| Class | Rank | Winner | Prize |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Class I | 1 | Chenng Tsoi | Scholarship |\n| Class I | 2 | Lo Sing-lea | Scholarship |\n| Class I | 3 | Lo Kit | Scholarship |\n| Class I | 4 | Mok Lai Chi | watch, presented by the Hon. P. Stewart, LL.D |\n| Class I | 5 | J. Remedios | Thrift, by Mr. Ed. Sharp |\n| Class II | 1 | Wong Kut | watch, by Mr. Ed. Sharp |\n| Class II | 2 | Ho Man Ying | Scholarship |\n| Class II | 3 | Ng Chak-tong | pencil case, by Mr. J. D. Hutchison |\n| Class III | 1 | Ip Tsung Ki | watch, by the Consul-General for Portugal |\n| Class III | 2 | Wan Chung-in | Motley's Dutch Republic, by the Government |\n| Class III | 3 | A. Hoosin | \"Masterman Ready,\" by the Government |\n| Class IV | 1 | Chan Taun Ying | watch, by the Consul-General for Portugal |\n| Class IV | 2 | Cheung Yan Chi | Green's Shorter History, by the Government |\n| Class V | 1 | IU Keng-ching | watch, by the Government |\n| Class V | 2 | Tong Hing-tso | Binocular, by Messrs. Gaupp & Co. |\n| Class VI | 1 | Lo Man Yuk | watch, by the Government |\n| Class VI | 2 | Ng On | Binocular, by the Government |\n| Class VII | 1 | Tai Tin-pui | watch, by the Government |\n| Class VII | 2 | Leung Shi-nam | pencil case, by Mr. Jordan |\n| Class VIII | 1 | Chan Ting-kwong | watch, by the Government |\n| Class VIII | 2 | Chau Kam-chi | chain, by Mr. Nowrojee |\n| Class IX | 1 | Kong Lin-hing | watch, by the Government |\n| Class IX | 2 | Pun Ming-kwai | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class X | 1 | Chau U Chun | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class X | 2 | Wat Ka-ying | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class XI | 1 | Pang Yuk-kwong | pencil case, by the Government |\n| Class XI | 2 | C. Henriques | pencil case, by the Government |\n\n### CHINESE CLASSES. Fortnightly\n\n| Class | Winner | Prize |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Class I | Tai Tin-nui | Merit |\n| Class II | Chan Kam-chi | watch, presented by the Head Master |\n\n### CHINESE CLASSES. 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Annual, presented by the Government |\n| Division II | A. Hoosin | Natural History, by the Government |\n| Division III | R. Kow | Cantonese Made Easy, by Mr. J. D. Ball |\n| Division IV | C. Henriques | Cantonese Made Easy, by Mr. J. D. Ball |",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n122 \n\nCorporate Chang Kort by Chew of ith Chi from you! deputy Live. I sent before det € 1 < \" The Caplan's gunboat. boat Agi official ication to the Viceroy of Canton requesting him to inform you of the matter, But dane nowe informed that the said prisoner and some other Sailors are still confined as before; it may be due to the fault of delay in delivery of previous despatch. For the sake of friendship, you are requested to order both governments to hand over the said prisoner to our deputy, the said Caplan Chuv, for transmission here, and the sailors still confined to be dismissed. Meanwhile, official communication will be sent to the Viceroy of Canton for informing you of the matter, and a copy will be supplied to you.\n\nTo Secretary of State for the Colonies & to Mr. Chargé d'Affaires, Peking 28th January, 1886.\n\nFollowing telegram received from Viceroy Jakien that apology offered by him; his declaration for rendition of pirate convicts rejoiced by British Consul at Fatshan, owing to Hongkong being described as part of home of Kwany-ting rented by Governor of Hongkong.\n\nlwith regard to arrest of a pirate from your port by de souly, Caplain of before, have sent official | Official | \n| --- | --- | \n|  |  | \n| 100 Oruc LON |  |",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\nReport by the Acting Attorney Generals\n\nIn considering this 287 cases, the (1880) time which has elapsed since the commission of the alleged crime and the demand for the rendition should be borne in mind, and also the facts which I submit the evidence in this case and in that of Cheng A chi clearly prove, viz:-\n\nThat the acts of piracy with which Chang A-chi and Cheang et yu are accused were committed in the close neighbourhood of Ping Hoi, that they both reside and have resided for at least a year at their native village, which is near Ping Hoi.\n\nIn the case of Chang A-chi, witnesses spoke to seeing him constantly in the village, and in this case one of...",
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        "content_text": "283\n\nwhich I will hereafter allude.\n\nOther witnesses produced in support of the charge of theft. A yik, a trader, was examined as a witness against Cheang Ati. No a lik says that on the 12th March 1880 he had vegetables and shrimps on board a boat on which he was a passenger and that when they arrived at Pring Hoi, Cheang Ayu was robbed. That he and Cheung ate cause went into the hold and that when the goods had been removed they sailed back to their native place.\n\nThis is, I submit, a very meagre account of the occurrence; for instance, he says he knows defendant, but is not asked how or when. He does not say when he came or where, nor does he give any details of the attack on board the junk. He merely says: \"We arrived near Sing Hoi. Defendant robbed us. I was in the hold in the middle of the junk. Cheng et yat and Cheung ate cause went into the hold. Cheng et yat, defendant, caused me to go into the hold in which I was. They removed the goods. For some time they did it. Removed it to his own junk.\"\n\nThe whole question turns upon the identity of Cheung et yat. When in cross-examination he is asked about his knowledge of the defendant and his whereabouts, he says: \"On the night my goods were taken away. Defendant lives at Cha Kic. I knew defendant.",
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        "content_text": "# \n\n230 \n\ndefendant when he attacked me. I had known him before. \n\nI never have been in the village of Tcho Kio. I am done's walk off Icha Kio, the village defendant lives.\n\nIt was the place where the following evidence that made me think so.\n\nYik had not been brought down as a witness against the present defendant; for he says: \"The mandarin told me Cheang A Chi was in Hongkong. The mandarin did not say defendant was in Hongkong. One of the Sing Sam people told me.\"\n\nBy Ling Sam's evidence, Mr. Mackean tells me that \"sue\" meant someone of the Chinese Government Office, Police, or Officers. \"No one told me.\" Mr. Ewen told me he would see defendant in Court.\n\nWith respect to these and other contradictions in the evidence, Mr. Mackean told me he carefully took down what the interpreter said.\n\nThe evidence on this point should be compared and considered with that of See A On. He says: \"I have known Ho Yik for 13 years.\" — Ho Yik says that it was only when he took a passage in his boat that he became acquainted with See A On.\n\nSee A On continues: \"No, we did not go to Hongkong together; we did not talk about the case. I had a talk with him. I said 'we will go up to the Police Court, try the case.'\" \n\n... after ... home.",
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        "content_text": "alludes when he speaks of pressure having been used to prevent the attendance of witnesses for the defence.\n\nAny way, by fleeing from Hongkong they have placed themselves within the grasp of the Chinese Authorities, if they are really pirates.\n\nOn behalf of the accused the following circumstances should be considered:\n\n1° The time which has elapsed since the alleged crime took place.\n\n2° That he lived in his native village for a year after.\n\n3° That he came here not to seek refuge but in the ordinary course of contracts.\n\n4. That far from hiding himself, he appeared every day at Court and at the Police Station while the case of Chang Chi was going on, which I think he never would have done had he been one of Chang Chi's accomplices in piracy.\n\nA point which strikes me very strongly is this: Chang Chi, Ya Chi and Cheung A are accused of committing many acts of piracy from 1880 up to the present. All the acts which have been mentioned during the investigation of the two cases appear to have been committed in the vicinity of Ping Hoi, off their native village. They appear to have lived and to have been seen constantly in their village, and yet they have not been arrested, therefore the question forces itself on my mind.\n\nIf\n\nPage 295 appears three times at the top and three times at the bottom, so it should be kept as:\n\nPage 17\n\n295\n\n...\n\nPage 17\n\n(Revised to comply with the 6-line rule and proper HTML formatting)\n\nShould be represented as:\n\nPage 17\n\n295\n\nOn\n\nPage 17\n\n(Revised response)\n\nPage 17\n\n295\n\nOn\n\nPage 17\n\nbecomes simply maintaining original line structure for page numbering):\n\nPage 17\n\n295\n\nOn\n\n...\n\nPage 17\n\nThe final response is:\nalludes when he speaks of pressure having been used to prevent the attendance of witnesses for the defence.\n\nAny way, by fleeing from Hongkong they have placed themselves within the grasp of the Chinese Authorities, if they are really pirates.\n\nOn behalf of the accused the following circumstances should be considered:\n\n1° The time which has elapsed since the alleged crime took place.\n\n2° That he lived in his native village for a year after.\n\n3° That he came here not to seek refuge but in the ordinary course of contracts.\n\n4. That far from hiding himself, he appeared every day at Court and at the Police Station while the case of Chang Chi was going on, which I think he never would have done had he been one of Chang Chi's accomplices in piracy.\n\nA point which strikes me very strongly is this: Chang Chi, Ya Chi and Cheung A are accused of committing many acts of piracy from 1880 up to the present. All the acts which have been mentioned during the investigation of the two cases appear to have been committed in the vicinity of Ping Hoi, off their native village. They appear to have lived and to have been seen constantly in their village, and yet they have not been arrested, therefore the question forces itself on my mind.\n\nIf\n\nPage 17\n\n295\n\nOn\n\n...\n\nPage 17",
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        "content_text": "Index.\n\n302 Pages\n\n53, 37, 73, 87, 121.\n\nDisturbance. Report of\n\nLetter of appointment.\n\n85, 116, 199.\n\n65.\n\n93.\n\nEstimates Evidence.\n\nChang Ah Soo.\n\nChan Nam Lan, Jun Lan, Chuck.\n\nW. Iminary.\n\nSharp, Reg.\n\nTeering Sz. hai.\n\nWang a im.\n\nLi Fram. Case of.\n\nOath\n\nInformation...\n\n73, 68.\n\n97.\n\n5\n\n69.\n\n66, 68, 73, 89.\n\n178.\n\n71.\n\nPickering Mr., Reg. Genl. Straits Settlements. - 79.\n\nPrisoners.\n\nChang Aling\n\nChang Abang.\n\nLan Sii\n\nLening atsa...\n\nmon a kap.\n\n1\n\nHang Akrai.\n\nProclamation by Magistrate\n\nNam Aoi district.\n\nReport of Board.\n\n99.\n\n95.\n\n107.\n\n97.\n\n99.\n\n77-100.",
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        "content_text": "01\n\n(Continued)\n\n  \n    Occupation\n    Approvals\n    Remarks\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    No name of Street, Name in English\n  \n  \n    Joshua Evan\n    Waw\n    17\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    # 4 9 4 7 4 ? $ 7 P 1 17\n  \n  \n    New Quarry\n    \n    4 多 7 \" 4 and 6 hivere\n  \n  \n    Var Yuk shan, Joewt Wong, Woo Wong Luk\n    Mong\n    Li tra, Wan Luh, Nor you to Lin.\n  \n  \n    Woo Fal, Isang win., Jeang & gan, I Jeang Ng, Woo Juh, Sans Fat, Ip I wai, Wong Fan Liv\n    Agan, Li Cheng., Prang diri.\n    Chonch Sin, Jang Jai chin, Li I Fing\n  \n  \n    Chan kin, Jean, tai sin, Jean, Kwai\n    Li Kivai, Li Sz\n    لا Wong Loi, Stang bring, Pang Lan\n  \n  \n    4 Stone Cutter\n    Pinte\n    Gambler, Carlie Pirate, Gambler. Arace\n  \n  \n    7 Oirati\n    Murale\n    4 Pirate\n  \n  \n    4 7\n    \n    \n  \n\n359",
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        "content_text": "Name of Freed parru in English:  Shaukiwaw Nohovo\n\n53. Cigine Rd (Cutting I. Jenny Fak) 7 Firet SC (Bamunt Jung shing) 29 Laur kir. you. Wong duw fute. Mong sing Wong Fat Qui nin Found Lame (185 flor) Kevan Ying kok davr the Ma...\n\nOccupation: Pirate\n\nApprox Remust. \" Akurwa Kong Chri Wongdam po Her See N suing stru Jung Shing wing Faitan tevil Li Par fat Chung shing. Cheing fai 50 whe 2cv 100 Boiler Maker Maker tolo lah Shaukiwan No hov Li Lo Ng Nove Sure Shin. 500 Churma Pai\n\nPage 363",
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        "content_text": "I \n\nMandarin to inform the relatives of NA-fung \n\nthat they could take his body; \n\nbody or \n\n(f) that the head and NA-fung \n\nidentified \n\n4. \n\non. \n\nthe same day. \n\nwere \n\nI wish to state that I have \n\nin obtaining experienced great difficulty evidence owing to \n\nthe terror of the Chinese witnesses at the idea of placing themselves in antagonism to the Mandarins, of whom they, naturally, stand in much greater fear than they do of British officials. I would, on this account, suggest that their \n\nshould not be divulged \n\nto the \n\nChinese Authorities unless absolutely \n\nnecessary. \n\nI have &c.\n\nM.G. Mitchell,\n\nActing Police Magistrate.\n\n(Copy)\n\nEvidence.\n\nNovember 1st 1886.\n\nLuying A-cheng declared:\n\n181\n\nI am a coolie in the Hung Hom \n\nPolice Station. On the 10th ult. about 4.45 \n\np.m. I went \n\non board the steam launch \n\n\"Kam Hing\" at the wharf in Hung Hom. I saw a \n\nboard on \n\nthe launch saying that the launch ran to Hung Hom and Kowloon. She \n\nstarted about 5 p.m. with about 30 passengers on board.\n\nAs soon \n\nas she started the crew took down \n\nthe awning. This is not usually done. When she \n\nhad got about 40 \n\nyards from the shore, \n\nthe engines \n\nstopped. As soon \n\nas the \n\nengines stopped, another steam launch, a white one, named \"Wing Hing\", came alongside the \"Kam Hing\". About 20 or 30 \n\npassengers \n\nwere \n\non board the \"Wing Hing\". One of them \n\nwas a \n\nPortuguese; \n\nhe \n\nwas in plain \n\nclothes. There were \n\nsix or seven \n\nsoldiers in \n\nPortuguese uniform. When the \"Wing Hing\" \n\ngot alongside the \"Kam Hing\", all the Chinese",
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        "content_text": "crowd near the bamboo wharf in Kowloon City. I saw a man in the crowd. His hands were tied behind his back. He was being taken away.\n\nThey were soldiers. Kneeling down, I saw the executioner behead him. I saw two blows given. It was a horrible sight, so I went away before the head fell. There were about 70 or 80 faces present. I did not see any mandarin there. I do not know whether there were mandarins there or not.\n\nI am sure that the man was executed. I, Jam WA fung, was never nearer than 70 or 80 paces. The time was about 5.30 pm.\n\nSyn G. Mitshall-Server.\n\n3rd November 1886\n\nTo Cheng-Thing declared: — I am a clerk employed in the To Ki Shop. The Ham Ling Launch belongs to the To Ki Shop. On the 10th instant, about 4.30 pm, a man whom I did not recognize brought a parcel like a despatch box to my shop. He said to me: \"I want a steam launch. I want to take this despatch to the Hip S'oi of Kowloon.\" I made a bargain with him for three dollars.\n\nI told the man to go to the Kam Ling wharf. I saw him take the envelope off the parcel and saw a red circle on it. I went with the man to the Kam Ling wharf. I saw the launch captain, P'ang Fat, there. I told the captain that the man wanted to take a despatch to Kowloon and that he could give the captain $3 when he got to Kowloon. I went back to the shop.\n\nAbout 4.45 pm, I was standing outside the door. The Wing Thing launch was lying at the wharf, bound for Tungstor. I saw some foreigners on board her. I heard that they had engaged her. The Wing Thing started and went alongside the Kam Ling. Some Chinese passengers from the Hing Shing boarded the Kam Ling. The Kam Ling returned between bridge span and Mitchell's bones.\n\nPage 192\n\n1 Bury,",
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        "content_text": "To For. of Hughey\n\nChinese Minister asks\n\nthat\n\nin the event of your deciding\n\nnot to surrender Arch.\n\nPirate\n\nChang Late\n\nExtradition has been asked for\n\nHmy Hong\n\nand sanctioned be egollapis hate, you will detain him until production of further evidence\n\nMr Perm\n\nhave said this\n\ntil, at the reques I the 20.\n\nRM 13/4\n\natorice\n\nDRAFT.\n\nSelegeam to foveluse\n\nHory Kay\n\nMINUTE.\n\n70\n\nC.C.\n\n6463\n\nRE?\n\nheby 14 APR 201\n\n113\n\nHoy Kony\n\n13 Afeil:86.\n\n4. Dracson Bafil. Il fing elegant fent on to\n\nMr.\n\non\n\nMr. de Robrebes 13\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Meade. 13\n\nSir R. Herbert. Mr. Osborne Morgan.\n\nLord Granville. -Colonel Stanley,\n\nbut & recorded\n\nf. 2. 13 April 186\n\nand.\n\n√\n\nCatadepe yoo Chinese for? askma drover\n\nask that in the cocul of\n\nlingual\n\nyour deciding not to\n\nrockdoe Sullender bemaffe pirate\n\nChang\n\nA\n\nmay\n\nbe\n\nPage 70\n\n...\n\nPage 70\n\n...\n\nPage 71\n\nPage 71\n\nbecomes\n\nTo For. of Hughey\n\nChinese Minister asks that in the event of your deciding not to surrender Arch. Pirate Chang Late, Extradition has been asked for Hmy Hong and sanctioned, you will detain him until production of further evidence.\n\nRM 13/4\n\nDRAFT. MINUTE.\n\nC.C. 6463\n\n14 APR 1886\n\nHoy Kong 13 April 86.\n\nDistribution list: Mr. de Robrebes, Mr. Wingfield, Mr. Bramston, Mr. Meade, Sir R. Herbert, Mr. Osborne Morgan, Lord Granville, Colonel Stanley.\n\nf. 2. 13 April 186\n\nCatadepe yoo Chinese Minister asks that in the event of your deciding not to surrender pirate Chang, he may be detained as prisoner until production of further evidence.\n\nHowever, to follow the exact format required by the instructions (output only in HTML using  for paragraphs and \n only if absolutely necessary, and adhering strictly to the given rules without directly referencing them), the corrected and formatted text is:\n\nTo For. of Hughey\n\nChinese Minister asks that in the event of your deciding not to surrender Arch. Pirate Chang Late, Extradition has been asked for Hmy Hong and sanctioned, you will detain him until production of further evidence.\n\nMr Perm have said this til, at the request of the 20.\n\nRM13/4\n\nDRAFT. MINUTE.\n\nC.C.6463\n\nHoy Kong 13 April 86.\n\nDistribution list: Mr. de Robrebes, Mr. Wingfield, Mr. Bramston, Mr. Meade, Sir R. Herbert, Mr. Osborne Morgan, Lord Granville, -Colonel Stanley.\n\nf. 2. 13 April 186\n\nCatadepe Chinese Minister asks that in the event of your deciding not to surrender pirate Chang, he may be detained as prisoner until production of further evidence.\n\nPage 70\n\n...\n\nPage 70\n\n...\n\nPage 71\n\nPage 71",
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        "content_text": "of 31st May, 1885\"\n\nin same paper approving W.O. (War Office) proceedings in the matter)\n\n? Refer to those deep talks\n\nWhat their wishes are now on this point, and say that these Requr will be transmitted to them\n\nthat in order to ascertain the views of the\n\nHarding\n\nthe Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce (see 1511\n\nthe waiting thinking, which Lord\n\nthings in framing is unable to say that any\n\nSAA\n\ndetailed and request to supply him with another copy of the print for communication to Worthing\n\nPlate sumes a\n\nFra 19. 19 July\n\nS.W.I.\n\nEuk\n\nhur\n\n2077\n\nuseful summary published\" apoor of the \"Dines\"\n\nIN. Meade\n\nArticle from this File now annexed\n\nCround\n\n8ug. 21/7\n\npreford.\n\na useful summary.\n\nRm 2117\n\nJuly\n\n2/\n\n33/3\n\narticle\n\nFrom \"The Times\" 20. July\n\nTHE COMMERCIAL TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE AND CHINA.\n\nThe negotiations between France and China for the arrangement of the terms on which trade is in future to be conducted across the frontier between Tonquin and China, which dragged their slow length along for nearly a year at Tientsin, have been completed, and the result of the labours of M. Cogordan, Li Hung Chang, and their numerous assistants has at last reached Paris for ratification. It might have been thought that, as political questions were settled and the delicate matter of delimitation got out of the way by the appointment of a joint commission, it would not be a difficult matter to come to terms for the regulation\n\nof a trade which is still in the clouds. But this has not been the case; over and over again the negotiations stood still for weeks because the representatives of the high contracting parties could not agree on some point. The French entered on the work with the idea that the result of the war entitled them to large concessions, and it is to be feared that the Chinese spirit was even less favourable to a speedy and satisfactory issue. They haggled over points to which they attached no importance themselves, and which, indeed, were of no special importance to either party, in a spirit that looked like mere contentiousness. They appear to have set out with the determination that the French should get as little as possible of what they wanted, whether the withholding of it was of benefit to China or not. French manufacturers expected great things from the war; they were taught all along that a new El Dorado was being opened to them; France was destroying the British commercial monopoly in southern and south-western China, she was cutting out England in the future; and with these great and flattering objects in view the war went on. The Chinese, on the other hand, were determined, as far as lay in their power, to show France that even in a commercial sense she had gained nothing by the war. Li Hung Chang, on being asked to let the French construct railways for China, contemptuously gave them permission to tender for a small line between the Kaiping collieries and Tientsin, and ultimately gave the contract to Messrs. Krupp. The Chinese had this further advantage in the contest (an advantage of which they have not now, as in the past, been slow to avail themselves) that they knew France would not go to war with them again over the negotiations. The nature of the treaty concluded under these conditions can easily be surmised. We look through it in vain for any of those advantages to French trade which were so confidently anticipated; our Chambers of Commerce and merchants can read every line of it without a qualm. There is no provision in it on which even the most nervous official or merchant can lay his hand and say—\"There may be danger to us there.\" Taken by itself, and apart from the antecedent and surrounding circumstances, the treaty is hardly worth a moment's attention; but when we recollect the hopes it has raised in one country and the fears it has caused amongst British merchants at home and in the East, when we reflect that this is the arrangement which was to destroy British commercial predominance in southern China and to blast our inheritance in future trade of south-western China, we cannot pass it by without interest or attention.\n\nWe shall, therefore, run rapidly seriatim through every clause of the treaty, giving the substance of each, with a few comments here and there, where they appear necessary, by way of elucidation. By the first article, China agrees to open two places to trade, one on the frontier beyond Langson, the second above Laokai; the first of these will give access to the rich and populous province of Kwangsi, the other to Yunnan. This provision is not new, as it was contained in the treaty of peace signed at Tientsin on June 9, 1885. China will establish customs stations at these places, while France gets the right to appoint Consuls to reside there. This clause also arranges the method in which the places are to be selected. In connexion with this clause, it is interesting to notice that one of the hitches in the negotiation was caused by the demand of the French to appoint an agent to reside at some important centre in Yunnan (Tali-fu and Yunnan-fu were mentioned), as we have an agent at Chung-King, on the Yangtze in Sze-chuan, but the Chinese were inflexible in their refusal. The second clause provides for the appointment of Chinese Consuls in Hanoi, Haiphong, and other towns in Tonquin, with favoured-nation treatment. By Article 3 both sides engage to assist the respective Consuls in obtaining suitable residences. Clause 4 provides for freedom of trade and residence for Chinese in Tonquin and trade and residence under the usual conditions for French in the open places in China. By Clause 5 it is agreed that only those persons armed with passports to be granted by the Chinese can cross the frontier. In this respect the French in Tonquin are at a disadvantage compared with Europeans residing on the coast, who can go and come freely. The 6th and 7th Articles are the most important in the whole treaty; they are also the longest, but their substance may be given in a few words. Imports across the frontier into China pay one-fifth less than the maritime customs dues, and exports one-third. Articles not mentioned in the tariff pay 5 per cent, ad valorem in each case, and all such goods pay the likin, or inland transit dues, in the usual way. On these clauses, which really form the crux of the whole treaty so far as British trade is concerned, two questions arise—What will be the effect of the trade through Tonquin on our trade in southern China? and, should we claim the most-favoured-nation treatment in respect of this reduction of the customs dues? To the first question two of our Consuls in the region affected have already replied that no injury will be done to our trade, for the difficult nature of the country to be crossed between the Red River and the valley of the Si-Kiang, or Canton River, has prevented, and will prevent, much trade by this route until the French construct railways to the frontier, and even then the opening of a port on the Canton River will counterbalance the French advantages. As to claiming the favoured-nation treatment, we did not do so in the case of the Russo-Chinese Commercial Treaty of 1881, and M. de Freycinet has intimated an opinion that the most-favoured nation treatment applied only to the open ports, and not to the land frontiers of China, a limitation of the favoured-nation clause in which Lord Salisbury did not concur. On the other hand, the Board of Trade recommended that the question should be fought on the ground of principle, which, it said, was all-important. \"If stipulations for equal treatment in the matter of duties are to be made to depend on, and to vary with the cost of transit (the ground on which the reduction of duties was made) there is an end of any certainty or clearness in the meaning of such stipulations.\" Notwithstanding this strong recommendation, we believe the Foreign Office has decided not to contest the question at present, and on the whole, perhaps, this is politic. It must be remembered that merchandise from Europe going into China by this route will pay two different customs dues—the first to the French authorities on entering Tonquin, the second to the Chinese on entering China. Discriminating duties existed, or existed until recently, in Tonquin. General Millot, when Governor, divided all imports into three classes, with different scales of duty—(1) Those of Indo-Chinese origin; (2) those of French origin; (3) those of foreign origin; each class paying higher duties than the preceding one. It will thus be seen that a trifling fifth or third diminution from a five per cent, ad valorem tariff can do little to help a trade heavily weighted with these discriminating duties from the moment it enters Tonquin. And even if French goods were admitted free into the latter, this reduction, amounting in the one case to one, in the other to one and two-thirds per cent., would be of little help towards meeting the enormous expense of carriage to Langson, not to speak at all of the distant Laokai. Besides, concluding that the game of fighting the point with France and China was not worth the candle, Lord Rosebery, no doubt, reflected that we shall shortly have the opportunity of claiming similar treatment in the trade across our new frontier in Burma. When France has completely pacified Tonquin, when she has rendered the Red River navigable and constructed railways to the frontier, and when she has remodelled the fiscal system of Indo-China so as to admit goods of French origin free of duty, these reduced dues might, if we have been at a standstill all the time, be of",
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        "content_text": "I allege that he denied that he had a brother called Chan Koo I, and that he further stated that he had never been connected with any Chinese officials whatever until the 6th day of March, when he met the first defendant in Hongkong. He further said that he had never been in any Chinese prison; that he had but two marks upon his person, one on his head, caused by chopping firewood, the other on his arm, caused by a boil. He further stated that he had never been in Hongkong in his life before the 6th March, 1887. I allege that all these statements are false, and I say that Li Loi, the first defendant, laid the information in the case; that he attended in Court throughout almost the whole of the proceedings, and instructed the prisoner to appear in his behalf, and heard the greater part of the evidence that was given by the second prisoner. I say that the perjury, and subornation of perjury, were committed as part of the present charge of attempting to commit murder, and conspiring to commit murder.\n\nThe first witness for the prosecution was then called.\n\nChau Kai Ming-I am a sworn interpreter. I was present in Court on the 7th March and I interpreted in a case in which Chung Sam, U Shop, and Chang Chun, were charged before Mr. Wodehouse, Police Magistrate. The prisoners were charged with murder and burglary within the jurisdiction of the Emperor of China, in the 9th moon (October) of last year. I interpreted the evidence that was given by a man called Leung Yow. He is the second defendant in this case. As far as I can remember, the second defendant said, that on the 12th day of the moon he went to visit his aunt, Fu Ma She, that she invited him to stay all night, and he accepted her invitation; that he slept in the second depth of that house; that about the beginning of the third watch he was awakened by a great noise in the third depth. He got up and attempted to walk into the third depth but was prevented by two or three men. He went back to his bed and sat there. At the beginning of the fourth watch, he saw about twenty men pass him, carrying mat bags. One of them came up to him, put a mat bag over his head, and he was carried away and put on board a boat. There were six men in the boat, excluding himself, three rowing and three keeping guard over him. The three men keeping guard over him were the three defendants in the first case. They demanded $3,000 of him, but the second defendant said they would wait till they arrived at a shed. He was afterwards taken to a shed at Whampoa, a place in Chun-tak, not the Whampoa in Canton. When he was taken to the shed he had his hands tied behind his back, chains put on his legs, and he was fastened to a peg in the ground. The three defendants were constantly by his side. The first and third defendants in the other case demanded $3,000 from him. They took him to be the son of Fu Ma She, and requested him to write a letter to her, asking for the sum. This he refused to do. He was afterwards released, at the request of the second defendant in the other case, who said he knew he was not the son of Fu Ma She. He then put him in a boat, in which was only a woman about thirty years of age, and she rowed him back to Kwei-chow. When asked if he was Chan Aynt, he said he had never heard the name; that he had never been in any way connected with any Chinese officials before the 12th of the second moon; that he had never been in a prison; that he had but two marks on his person, one on the left temple, caused by wood chopping, and one on the right arm caused by a boil. I was called as a witness in those proceedings. I looked at the arm of the second prisoner, and found thereon tattoo marks of the Chinese character \"To\" meaning \"thief.\" It was not very distinct, but I have no doubt that it was that character.\n\nMr. Francis-What do you mean by tattoo marks?-Marks tattooed by a needle. They were of a blue colour.\n\nMr. W. M. B. Arthur said-I am first clerk to the Magistracy. I have been keeping the document signed by Li Loi requesting the apprehension of seven men. The document came to me from the Government officers in the usual course. I have before me a warrant for the arrest of certain fugitive criminals. The writing in black ink is that of Mr. de Silva, fourth clerk to the Magistracy. The writing in red ink is by myself.\n\n2. 190\n\nThe warrant was issued in consequence of the receipt of the other document. I know the defendant Li Loi. During the proceedings, he has been constantly about the Court. I have not seen him seated at the table, but I have seen him in Court.\n\nChun Kai Ming, re-called, said-During the proceedings, I saw the first defendant seated next to Mr. Caldwell, the solicitor for the prosecution. He said something in a very loud tone to Mr. Caldwell. During the time he was not seated by Mr. Caldwell, he was either behind the dock or stationed a few paces behind Mr. Caldwell.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Francis-Mr. Dennys was seated at the table and was also a few paces from the defendant. There were several other persons near Mr. Caldwell.\n\nFrancis Xavier d'Almada e Castro stated-I am a clerk in the employ of Mr. Caldwell, solicitor in this Colony. I wrote the English words in the document sent by Li Loi, applying for the arrest of the men. I do not remember seeing the Chinese words written in the document. I did not see it signed. I left the blanks to be filled in.\n\nShi Ping Kong said-I am a clerk in Mr. Caldwell's office. I wrote the Chinese characters in the document by the instruction of Mr. Caldwell. I cannot say positively that I saw Li Loi sign the document. It looks like his writing but I cannot say where it was signed.\n\nHe said\n\nMr. D. E. Caldwell was next called-I am a solicitor practising in this Colony. I saw Li Loi sign the document.\n\nMr. Dennys-Do you know the meaning of the characters?\n\nMr. Caldwell.-No, I do not.\n\nMr. Dennys-I must confess I am surprised that you, who know Chinese far better than I do, should not know the meaning of these characters.\n\nMr. Caldwell-I know only about 12 characters. The document was signed in my office in the Queen's Road. It was signed in duplicate. One I forwarded to the Colonial Secretary, the other I sent to Mr. Maclean. I think I first saw the first defendant on 15th February last, the day before this document was drawn up. From my own knowledge, I cannot say where he lives. I was not aware that there was a Chinese gunboat in the harbour named Chung Was. I do not remember hearing the second prisoner state that he went on board that boat after meeting on shore with the cook, a friend of his. I saw the second defendant the day he came into court but not to speak to him. The only communication I had with him was in Mr. Arthur's room in the Magistracy, on the day of the trial. There were several gentlemen present in connection with the case, among them Li Loi, but I cannot say which of them gave me the instructions to call the second defendant as a witness. I cannot say positively whether or not it was Li Loi who instructed me to put him in the witness box. I remember Li Loi being seated beside me in court during the examination of the second prisoner. He spoke very loudly to me and gesticulated. He seemed to be angry and excited. So far as I remember, the words he said signified \"Do not let them go,\" alluding to the three prisoners in the dock. The evidence about the mark on the arm had been given before he spoke; at least it was after the discovery of the marks.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Francis-I have been engaged in several rendition cases. The persons who come down in these cases always bring credentials from the Viceroy. I was thoroughly satisfied that Li Loi was authorised by the Chinese Government, otherwise I would not have acted. Several gentlemen came down in this matter, and from Li Loi's own statement and the corroboration of those who were with him, I had no occasion to doubt him. I was also satisfied because of the introduction he brought.\n\nMr. Donnys-I am not in a position to finish this case to-day. I think, however, that I have brought forward sufficient evidence to ask for a remand until such further time as your Worship shall think fit. I do not wish to appear unreasonable, but I should wish the case remanded for a week. My object in asking for this is that I wish to call as witnesses the defendants concerned in the other case, and who will probably be dismissed on Monday.",
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        "content_text": "RETURN OF CHINESE PASSENGER Ships cleared by the Emigration Officer, Hongkong,( Continual).\n\nXX.—RETURN of VESSELS bringing CHINESE PASSENGERS to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong, from Places out of the Chinese Empire, during the Year ending the 31st day of December, 1886,\n\n371\n\nADULTS.\n\nCHILDREN,\n\nSUMMARY.\n\nTOTAL\n\nYo\n\nM. F M. F.\n\nDATE ARRIVED.\n\nSHIP'S NAME.\n\nTONE.\n\nNATIONALITY\n\nADULTS. CHILDREN.\n\nMASTER'S NAME.\n\nWHERE FROM,\n\nTOTAL.\n\nOF SHIP.\n\nW * Mr. F\n\n1 January 2 Mosser, str.\n\n1324 British\n\nTo Adelaide, South Australia,\n\n25\n\nAuckland, New Zealand,\n\n20\n\n2 Cheang Hock Kian, str....\n\n4 Tai Sang, str.\n\n955 1.503,\n\nTitzek Webb\n\nStraits Settlements\n\n101 1 2001 5\n\n105 305\n\nDavies\n\n44; 20\n\n500\n\n!!\n\n5\n\n+\n\nKong Beng, str......\n\n262\n\nJones\n\n1\n\n, Bangkok, Siam,\n\nBrisbane, Queensland,\n\nArratoon Apear, str.\n\n1.302\n\n247\n\n4 Bellerophon. str.\n\n1,397\n\n4\n\nMartha Davis\n\n$33 American\n\n:\n\n5 Ingraban, str.\n\nF94. German\n\nMactavish Freeman Benson Massmann\n\nBangkok Straits Settlements\n\nHonolulu\n\n25 250\n\n2\n\n250\n\n38! 2\n\n230\n\n10\n\nStraits Settlements\n\n324 6\n\n**\n\n40\n\n235\n\n330\n\n21\n\nCooktown,\n\nD.,\n\n2)\n\nDily, Timor,\n\n:\n\nDunedin, New Zealand,\n\n» Greymouth,\n\n» Launceston,\n\nに\n\n& Ascalon, str.\n\n8 City of Peking, str.\n\nKhiva. str.\n\n11 Ganges, str.\n\nSarpoon, str.\n\n1623 British 3,129 American\n\nHarris Dearborn\n\n67\n\n67\n\nSan Francisco\n\n5501\n\n573\n\n1,419 British\n\nClements\n\nStraits Settlements\n\n317\n\n120\n\n2162\n\nStewart,\n\n93\n\n\"\n\n1.492\n\nChrines\n\n210\n\n221\n\n11 Mongkut, str.\n\nRoy\n\n15\n\n14 Camelot. str.\n\n1,049\n\n1.\n\nDo.,\n\nDu,\n\nD\n\n#\n\nI\n\n15 Palamed. str.\n\n1,536\n\nLott Daily Jackson\n\nBangkok\n\n[01\n\n105\n\nStraits Settlements\n\n827\n\n338\n\n238\n\n244\n\nPort Darwin\n\n↓\n\nCooktown\n\n17\n\n>\n\nMauritius,\n\n243\n\n17\n\n200\n\n15 Meuranir, str.-*\n\n1,347\n\nHelms\n\nTownsville\n\nBrisbane\n\n35)\n\n211\n\nSydney\n\n79\n\n23\n\nMelbourne,....\n\n787\n\n700\n\nMelbourne\n\n16 Nepaul, str...\n\n1.988\n\nAlderton\n\nStraits Settlements\n\n107)\n\n107\n\nNelson, New Zealand,\n\nB\n\n18 Iacchus, str.\n\n1382!\n\nJannab\n\n294\n\n240\n\n18 Tnichiow. str.\n\n*62\n\nNewich\n\nBangkok\n\n50\n\n53\n\n>>\n\nPort Darwin, South Australia,\n\n14\n\n10\n\n4:0\n\n19 Oupack, str....\n\n1.780\n\nJacques\n\nStraits Settlements\n\n821\n\n329\n\n19 Glenfiulas, str.\n\n1,400\n\nJacobs\n\n350\n\n350\n\n,, Rockhampton, Queensland,......\n\nH\n\n४\n\n19 Southern Chief\n\n1,220 American KOSM\n\nHonolula\n\n380\n\n380\n\n1 San Pablo, str.\n\n2.113\n\n>1\n\nSan Francisco, U.S.A.................\n\n8,233 232\n\n77\n\n50 8,58\n\n20 Phra Chom Klau, str.\n\n1,012 British\n\nReid Stratton\n\nSan Francisco\n\n381\n\n381\n\nTiangkok\n\n93\n\n99\n\nStraits Settlements\n\n136\n\n13\n\nStraits Settlements,\n\n» Sydney,.......\n\n,, Thursday Island, Queensland,\n\n*\n\nTownsville, Queensland,.............\n\nWellington, New Zealand,\n\n¡48,910 3,360\n\n772\n\n540) 52,891\n\n21 Carisbrooke, str..\n\n973\n\nCass\n\n170\n\n:\n\n1 Mauritius\n\n341\n\n22 Orestes. str..\n\n9431\n\n$144\n\n22 Medusa, str.\n\n1323 1.77\n\nHutchinson\n\nStraits Settlements\n\n197\n\n3\n\n202\n\nAustrian\n\n23. Glucksburg, str.\n\n916; German\n\n121\n\n206\n\n14\n\n23 Venice, str.\n\n1,271 British\n\n26 Bangalore, str.\n\n:\n\n206\n\n27 Wing Song, str.\n\n1,309\n\n1317\n\nDecheris\n\n! Bertelsen\n\nPeters\n\nKason\n\n428 20\n\n446\n\n308!\n\n316\n\n2881\n\n296\n\n125\n\n195\n\nSte. Croix\n\n471\n\n485\n\n28 Stentor, str........\n\n1.807\n\nEdwards\n\n130\n\n3\n\n133\n\nů\n\n28 Phra Chnia Chom Klau, s.\n\n1.012\n\n29 Thames, str.\n\n2.131\n\nLightwood Seaton\n\nBangkok\n\n81\n\n82\n\nStraits Settlements\n\n180\n\nINO\n\n30 City of Sydney, str.\n\n19 American\n\nTOTAL PASSENGERS, .............................\n\n59,420 3,60\n\nFeb.\n\nPriam. str.\n\n1.492 British\n\n884\n\n604 14,522\n\nMark Lane, sir,\n\n1354\n\nFricle\n\nButler\n\nPoner\n\nSan Francisco\n\n924\n\n274\n\nStraits Settlements\n\nSA\n\n137\n\n118\n\n3 Benarty, sir.\n\n61 Telonachus, str.\n\n1.119\n\n1.421\n\nLe Boutellier\n\n44\n\n+7\n\nIngraban, str.\n\n3 Gienenra, SET.\n\n1.410 British\n\n8 Cheang Hock Kian, sir,\n\n956;\n\n895 German\n\nJones\n\n· Parkes\n\nWebb\n\nCO\n\n63\n\nMassmen\n\n1301\n\n160\n\n88\n\n226\n\n238\n\n8 Oceanic. str.\n\n2,440\n\nMetcalfe\n\nSan Francisco\n\n397\n\n203\n\n10 Ulysses, str....\n\n1.300\n\nBremner\n\nStraits Settlements\n\n115\n\n118\n\n15 Anchises, str.\n\n3,304\n\nImage\n\n120\n\n14\n\n15 Whampra. str.\n\n1.109\n\nWilliams\n\nAustralian Ports\n\n127\n\n128\n\n17 Kashgar, str.\n\n4,575\n\nSpeck\n\nStraits Settlements\n\n108\n\n111\n\nBalavia\n\nCooktown\n\n231\n\nTownsville\n\n13\n\n17 Anthurie, str.\n\n3,498\n\nGreen\n\nBrisbane\n\n130\n\nSydney\n\n56)\n\nAdelaide\n\nJelbourne\n\n17\n\n29 Arratuon Apear. str.\n\n1,892\n\nMactavish\n\nStraits Settlements\n\n450\n\n450\n\n22 Jason, str.\n\n1.41)\n\nMilligan\n\n244\n\n2+1\n\nוי\n\n28 Deucalion, str.\n\n1.374\n\nAsquith\n\n98\n\n100\n\n23 City of Rio de Janeiro, str.\n\n3.275 American\n\nColb\n\nSan Francisco\n\n85\n\n24 Elektra. str.\n\n2,093 Austrimu\n\n25 Clyde, str.\n\n2.244 British\n\nBagusin Edmonds\n\nStraits Settlements\n\n364\n\n376\n\n12\n\nPort Darwin\n\nThursday Island\n\nTownsville\n\n25 Tannadice, str.\n\n1,408\n\nMcArthur\n\nBrisbane\n\nNewcastle\n\n399\n\n66\n\n1\n\nSydney\n\nMelbourne\n\n20\n\nlongarry, sie.\n\n1.950\n\nTaylor\n\nStraits Settlements\n\n130\n\n26 Tai Sang. str.\n\n1,500\n\nDavies\n\n150\n\n502\n\nMarch 1 Amigo, str.\n\n771 German\n\nThiesen\n\n271\n\n273\n\n4 Menelaus, str.\n\nFormosa. str.\n\n1,300 British\n\nNelson\n\n360\n\n365\n\n874\n\nAshion\n\n380\n\n90%\n\nZambesi, str.\n\n140\n\nCole\n\n340: 14\n\n331\n\nדי\n\n5 Gaelic, str...\n\n2,691\n\nl'earne\n\nSan Francisco\n\n330\n\nA\n\n335\n\n8 Mongkut, r.\n\nHag!\n\n8 Japan, str.\n\n1.86\n\n9 Athol, str.\n\n9Glucksburg, str.\n\n11 Hydaspes, str..\n\n11 Glamorganshire, str.\n\n12 Pandora, sir.\n\nGlenroy, str.\n\n923\n\n916 German\n\nLott\n\nBangkok\n\n160\n\n2\n\n162\n\nGardner\n\nStraits Settlements\n\n5511\n\n504\n\nCoulter\n\n370\n\n390\n\nBertelsen\n\n299\n\n307\n\n1,891 British\n\nScrivener\n\n74\n\n74\n\n1.983\n\nDavies\n\n288 10\n\n304\n\n1,78) Austrian\n\nMeltell\n\n1564\n\n171\n\n1.411 British\n\nGeske\n\n197\n\n201\n\n15 City of New York, ste....\n\n1,964 American\n\nSearle\n\nSan Francisen\n\n1800\n\n180\n\nfarried forward..\n\n104,708\n\nCurrind formenri..\n\n13.730 200\n\n68\n\n16,13",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]",
        "content_text": "## RETURN of VESSELS bringing CHINESE PASSENGERS to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong,--(Continued).\n\n372\n\n| No. | DATE ARRIVED. | SHIP'S NAME. | TONS. | NATION-ALITY | ADULTS. | CHILDREN. | MASTER'S NAME. | WHERE FROM. | TOTAL. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Brought forward. |  |  |  | 104,703 | 15,739 |  |  |  |\n| 73 | March 16 | Venetia, str. | 1,609 | British | Clement | Straits Settlements |  |  |  |\n|  | Brought forward.. |  |  |  | 290 | 78 | 71 | 31 | 15 |\n| 78 |  |  |  |  | Ingraham, str. | 894 | German | Massmann | 387 | 15 | 15 |\n|  |  |  |  | Borneo, str. | 1,434 | Dutch | Swart | 60 | 78 |  |  |\n| 79 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 80 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 81 | 15 | Cyclops, str. |  |  | Nish | 320 | 1 |  | 1,391 |  |\n|  | 18 | Laertes, str. |  |  | Scale | 218 |  |  | 1,000 |  |\n|  |  | Benledi, str. |  |  | Farquhar | 156 | 9 | 35 |  | 16,132 |\n|  | 19 | Patrochus, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 22 | Woosung, str. | 1,403 | British | Thompson | 329 |  |  | 156 | 231 |  |  |\n|  | 22 | Polybymnia, str. | 1,386 |  | Arthur | 1261 | 130 | 159 |  |  |\n|  | Brought forward. |  |  |  | 223,591 | 31,386 | 871 | 264 | 160 | Bangkok | 32,681 |\n|  | 15 | Mongkut, str. | 859 | British | Loff |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 15 | Gilsland, str. |  |  | De Egville | 45 | 47 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 15 | City of Rio de Janeiro, str. | 2,275 | American | Cobb | San Francisco | 1621 | 102 | 771 |  |  |\n|  | 18 | Amigo, str. | 771 | German | Thiesen | Straits Settlements | 392 | 20 | 15 | 429 |  |\n|  | 19 | Adowa, str. | 1,111 | British | Caborne |  | 202 | 15 | 220 |  |  |\n|  | 19 | James Watt, str. | 1,024 |  | Petrie | Australian Ports | 61 | 3 | 64 |  |  |\n|  | 19 | Gaelic, str. | 2,691 |  | Pearne | San Francisco | 307 | 110 | 21 |  |  |\n| 20 | Verona, str. | 1,862 |  | Horne | Straits Settlements | 99 |  | 99 |  |  |\n|  | 23 | Ningchow, str. | 1,735 | British | Castle | 135 | 10 | 2 |  |  |\n|  | 23 | Belgic, str. | 2,695 |  | Walker | San Francisco | 150 | 162 |  | rs |\n|  | 20 | Electra, str. | 1,162 | German |  | 977 | 13 | 990 |  | 163 |\n|  | 21 | Duburg, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 84 | 23 | Kong Beag, str. | 862 |  | Joues | Bangkok | 37 | 50 | 104 |  |\n|  | 21 | Triumph, str. | 921 |  | Nagel Bertelscu | 113 | 6 | 180 | 279 | 15 | 300 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Schuldt | 61 | 6 | 71 | 85 |  |  |\n|  | 24 | Cheang Hock Kian, str. | 956 |  | Webb | Straits Settlements | 537 | 18 | 5 | 505 | 165 |\n|  | 21 | Hampshire, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 24 | Wing Sang, str. | 1,517 |  | Ste. Croix | 444 | 30 | 480 |  | 168 |\n|  | 21 | Kong Beng, str. | 1,700 | British | Kornish Jones | Bangkok | 51 | 3 | 87 |  |\n|  | 24 | Prometheus, str. | 1,538 |  | Webster | 165 | 5 | 170 |  | INT |\n|  | 21 | Guthrie, str. | 1,494 |  | Green | Australian Ports | 80 |  | 88 |  |\n|  | 26 | Deccan, str. | 2,022 |  | Haselwood | 25 |  | 25 |  | 168 |\n|  | 25 | Titania, str. | 2,011 | Austrian | Mersa | Straits Settlements | 443 | 20 | 30 | 10 | 89 |\n|  | 27 | Yorkshire, str. | 1,425 |  | Arnold | 114 |  | K | 120 | 169 |\n|  | 25 | Kashgar, str. | 1,515 | British | Gadd | 61 | 2 | 28 | 54 | 80 |\n|  |  | Poseidon, str. | 2,510 | Austrian | Doncich | 1609 | 10 | 7 | 528 | 170 |\n|  | 25 | Arratoon Apcar, str. | 1,392 |  | Mactarish | 292 | B | 91 |  |  |\n|  | 31 | Phra Chula Chom Kiao, s. | 1,012 | British | Lightwood | Bangkok | 37 | 8 | 40 | 171 |\n|  | 25 | Cheang Hock Kian, str. | 956 |  | Webb | 130 | 10 | 92 |  |  |\n| 92 | April 2 | Pembrokeshire, str. | 3,716 |  | $1 |  |  |  |  | 93 |\n|  |  | Kbiva str. | 1,419 |  | Wilkins Bason | Straits Settlements | 221 | 4 | 5 | 235 | 172 |\n|  | 27 | Fidelio, str. | 852 | German | Brock | 108 | 2 | 183 | 3 | 190 | 179 |\n|  | 27 | Diomed, str. | 1,471 | British | Bigley | 148 | 304 | 160 | 160 | 148 | 94 |\n|  |  | City of Peking, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 5! | Mount Lebanon |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 96 |\n|  | 5 | Nanshan, str. | 3,129 | American | Dearborn | San Francisco | 1,177 | 32 | 20 | 19 | 1,248 | 174 |\n|  | 28 | Singapore, str. | 2,432 | Italian | Parodi | Honolun | 79 | 79 |  |  | 175 |\n|  |  | Os Phrs Chala Chom Khao, s | 1,012 | British | Lightwood | Bangkok | 232 | 65 | 4 | 75 |  |\n|  | 29 | Clieveden, str. | 1,115 |  | Gibb | 72 | 3 | 75 | M | 97 |\n|  |  | Ghazee, str. | 1,764 |  | Bailey | Straits Settlements | 1601 | 6 | 170 |  |  |\n|  | 29 | Kbiva, str. | 1,439 |  | Case | Straits Settlements | 42 | 1 | 23 | 5 |  |\n|  |  | Nestor, str. | 1,269 |  | Thompson | 92 |  | 100 |  | 178 |\n|  | 31 | Venice, str. | 1,271 |  | Peters | 282 | 10 | 54 | 29 | 5 |\n|  |  | Arratoon Apcar, str. | 1,392 |  | Mactarish | 2700 |  | 270 |  | £79 |\n|  | 31 | Glenfalloch, str. | 1,419 |  | Webster | 255 | 42 | 300 | 131 | 145 |\n|  |  | Gleneagles, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | # |\n|  |  | Amigo, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 101 |\n|  |  | GVortigern, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | \" |\n|  | 7 | Airlie, str. | 771 | German | Thiesen | 386 |  | 400 |  | 180 |\n|  | June 2 | Rosetta, str. | 2,136 |  | Brady | 61 |  | 61 |  | \" |\n|  |  | Palinurus, str. | 1,837 | British | Gasson | 876 |  | 366 | 380 | 181 |\n|  | 2 | Palinurus, str. | 1,536 |  | Jackson | 259 |  | 259 | 17 | 182 |\n|  |  | Phra Chom Klau, str. | 1,012 |  | Brown Stratton | Bangkok | 90 |  | 97 |  |\n|  | 3 | Pearl, str. | 706 |  | Munk | Straits Settlements | 111 |  |  | Thursday Island | 2 |\n|  |  | Laju, str. | 1,246 |  | Mann | 28 |  | Cooktown | 71 | 186 |\n|  | 4 | Tai Sang, str. | 1,506 |  | Davies | 288 | 10 |  | 1,192 | Ellis | Townsville | 18 | 143 |\n|  | 4 | Quarta, str. | 773 | German | Kock | Bangkok | 49 | H | Brisbane | 56 | 187 |\n|  | 7 | Orion, str. | 1,833 | Austrian | Mersa | Straits Settlements | 350 | 36 |  | Sydney | 43 | 158 |\n|  | 7 | Sarpedon, str. | 1,591 | British | Chrimes | 148 | 10 |  | Melbourne | 193 | 7 |\n|  | 7 | Woosung, str. | 1,109 |  | Arthur | Australian Ports | 91 |  | 104 |  | 8 |\n|  |  | Ancona, str. | 1,877 |  | Cole | Straits Settlements | 401 |  | 40 | 190 |  |\n|  | 7 | Sury Wangse, str. | 531 | German | Malsen | Bangkok | 52 |  | 600-20.- | 69 | 5 | 120 | 30 |\n|  |  | Achilles, str. | 1,528 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 106 |\n|  | 9 | San Pablo, str. | 2,113 | American |  |  |  |  |  |  | 107 |\n|  | 10 | Sumatra, str. | 1,406 | British |  |  |  |  |  |  | 108 |\n|  | 12 | Phra Chom Klao, str. | 1,012 |  | Anderson Reed Worcester Stratton |  |  |  |  | 195 | 217 |\n|  | 7 | Belgic, str. | 2,695 | British | Walker | San Francisco | 208 |  | 208 |  | 191 |\n|  |  | Benalder, str. | 1,331 |  | Boss | Straits Settlements | 121 |  | 130 |  | 192 |\n|  | 10 | Picciola, str. | 875 | German | Nissen | Bangkok | 1461 | 3 | 153 |  | 193 |\n|  |  | Gordon Castle, str. | 1,320 | British | Rowell | 169 |  | 174 |  | 109 |\n|  | 12 | Catterthun, str. | 1,406 |  | Darke | Australian Ports |  |  |  |  | 112 |\n|  | 12 | Mongkut, str. | 859 |  | Loff | Bangkok | 51 |  | 57 |  | 195 |\n|  |  | Berenice, str. | 1,707 | Austrian | Verona | Straits Settlements | 346 |  |  |  | 196 |\n|  | 15 | Euphrates, str. | 1,800 |  | Mitchell | Straits Settlements | 80 |  | 85 |  | 111 |\n|  | 13 | Lorne, str. | 1,035 | British | Hunter | 184 |  | 21X1 |  | 197 |\n|  | 15 | Rohilla, str. | 2,262 |  | Barrett | 44 |  |  |  | 112 |\n|  | 14 | Tai Sang, str. | 1,505 |  | Davies | 212 |  | +25+2 |  | 198 |\n|  | 16 | Japan, str. | 1,865 |  | Gardner | 506 | 31 | 10 | 549 | 113 |\n|  |  | Duburg, str. | 921 | German | Bertelsen | 164 |  |  |  | 199 |\n|  | 17 | Orestes, str. | 1,323 |  | Hutchinson | 340 |  | 345 |  | 114 |\n|  |  | Glenavon, str. | 1,995 | British | Donaldson | 234 |  |  |  | 200 |\n|  | 18 | Duburg, str. | 921 | German | Bertelsen | 321 | 10 | 339 |  | 115 |\n|  |  | Kong Beng, str. | 862 | British | Jones | Bangkok | 80 | 34 | 176 |  |\n|  | 19 | Ajax, str. | 1,524 |  | Riley | 117 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 20 | Venice, str. | 1,271 |  | Peters | es c | 180 |  | 202 |  |\n|  | 19 | Glaucus, str. | 1,382 |  | Hannah | Straits Settlements | 170 |  | 174 |  | יי |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 203 ! |\n|  | 23 | Glenlyon, str. | 1,410 |  | Somers | 312 | 12 | 330 |  | at |\n|  |  | Pekin, str. | 2,124 |  | Symone | 70 |  | 201 |  | 118 |\n|  | 24 | Phra Chala Chow Kiso, s. | 1,012 |  | Lightwood | Bangkok | 83 |  | 95 |  | 119 |\n|  |  | Parthia, str. | 2,035 |  | Marshall | 2501 | 15 | 2 | F | 275 | 205 |\n|  | 25 | Wing Sang, str. | 1,317 |  | St. Croix | Straits Settlements | 260 | 30 | 300 |  | 120 |\n|  | 22 | Cheang Hock Kian, str. | 956 |  | Webb | 247 | 14 | 7 | 271 |  | 206 |\n|  | 25 | Medusa, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 121 |\n|  | 24 | Amphitrite, str. | 2,486 | Austrian | Grelcich | 428 |  | 100 | 10 | 207 |\n|  |  | Ulysses, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 122 |\n|  | 24 | Teheran, str. | 1,679 | British | Seymour | 56 | 4 |  | 205 | ++ | 28 |\n|  |  | Glenfrain, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 123 |\n|  | 27 | Denbighshire, str. | 1,663 |  | Cuming | 82 | 2 |  | 124 | +1 |  |\n|  |  | Oxfordshire, str. | 998 |  | Jones | 120 |  | 120 |  | 125 |  |\n|  | 27 | Japan, str. | 1,865 |  | Gardner | 279 | 10 | 289 |  | 128 |  |\n|  |  | Lord of the Isles, str. | 1,586 |  | Felgate | 75 |  | 15 |  |  |  |\n|  | 28 | Independent, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 28 | San Pablo, str. | 2,113 | American | Reed | 391! | 17 | 418 |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Nurjahan, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 39 |\n|  | 30 | Surat, str. | 1,776 | Austrian | Budd |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 1,300 | British | Pereni | 139: |  | 150 |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 1,936 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 27 | Gleneagles, str. | 2,000 |  | Hogg | 180 |  | 139 |  | 30 |  |\n|  | 30 | Taiwan, str. | 1,109 |  | Clegg | Australian Ports | 46 |  | 46 |  | 128 |\n|  | 27 | City of Sydney, str. | 1,966 | American | Friele | San Francisco | 566 | 17 | 589 |  | 214 |\n|  | July 3 | Protos, str. | 1,150 | German | Sorensen | Bangkok | 2141 |  | 211 |  | 129 |\n|  |  | Whampoa, str. | 1,109 | British | Williams | Australian Ports | 100! |  | 100 | Port Darwin | 18 |\n|  | 29 | Benlarig, str. | 1,481 |  | Clark | Straits Settlements | 80 | 2 | 90 |  | 215 |\n|  | 29 | Antenor, str. | 1,376 |  | Bragg | 96 |  | 100 |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Airlie, str. | 1,492 | British | Ellis | Brisbane | 18 |  |  | Dunedin, N.Z. | 30 |\n|  | 29 | Atholl, str. | 923 |  | Coulter | Sydney | 65 |  | 129 | 2 | 132 |\n|  | 30 | Oceanie, str. | 2,440 |  | Thompson | San Francisco | 77 |  | 77 |  | 134 |\n|  | May 1 | Allie Rowe | 340 | Hawaiian | Phillips | Honolula | 53 |  | 60 |  | 135 |\n|  |  | Phra Chua Chom Klau | 1,012 | British | Lightwood | Bangkok | 74 | B | 83 |  | 136 |\n|  | 3 | Ching Wo, str. | 1,556 |  | McHugh | Straits Settlements | 104 |  | 115 |  | 137 |\n|  |  | Titan, str. | 1,554 |  | Browni | 200 |  | 200 |  | ΓΕ | 138 |\n|  | M 3 | Pearl, str. | 706 |  | Munk | 17 |  | 108 | 110 | D | 139 |\n|  |  | Hector, str. | 1,590 |  | Bart | 160 |  | 148 |  | +1 | 140 |\n|  | JA 6 | Ravenna, str. | 2,035 |  | Daniels |  | 38 | 98 |  |  | 141 |\n|  |  | Hungtinglon, str. | 1,464 |  | Carr | 1309 | 6 | 3 | 138 |  | 142 |\n|  |  | Hesperia, str. | 1,136 | German |  |  |  |  |  |  | 143 |\n|  | 7 | Vorwerts, str. | 1,574 | Austrian | Christiansen Andrianich | 100 | 3 | 5 | 113 |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | 384 | 20 | 20 | 370 | Port Darwin | 15 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Cooktown | 10 |\n|  | 11 | Taunadice, str. | 1,408 | British | Craig | Townsville | B |  |  | Brisbane | 9: |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Sydney |  |\n|  | 7 | Picciola, str. | 875 | German | Nissen | Bangkok | 81 |  |  |  | 146 |\n|  | 7 | Phra Chom Klae, str. | 1,012 | British | Stratton | 90 |  | 86 |  |  | 147 |\n|  | 7 | Monmouthshire, str. | 1,871 |  | Rickard |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 19 |\n|  | 7 | Wing Sang, str. | 1,517 |  | Ste. Croix | 194 |  |  |  |  | 149 |\n|  | 7 | Antonio, str. | 1,214 |  | Wallace | 28 |  |  |  |  | 150 |\n|  | 12 | Glenene, str. | 1,901 |  | Dake | 400 |  | 161! |  | 11 |  |\n|  | 13 | Telamon, str. | 1,555 |  | Jackson | 330 |  |  |  |  | 152 |\n|  |  | Westmeath, str. | 2,095 |  | Stonehouse | HU | 65288782 | 20050AR89 | * 88HOR |  | 216. |\n|  | 6 | Zambesi, str. | 1,540 |  | Cole | Straits Settlements | 78 | 2 | I | 81 | 337 |\n|  | 6 | Arratson Apcar, str. | 1,392 |  | Mactavish | 500 |  | 16 | 4 | 1 | 519 |\n|  | 7 | Elektra, str. | 2,095 | Austrian | Ragusin | 664 | 10 |  | 674 | + |  |\n|  | 8 | Anebises, str. | 1,304 | British |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 9 | Deuteros, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 9 | Lorne, str. | 1,197 | German | Lapage Leuthgens |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 1,035 | British | Hunter | 180 |  | 6 | 2 | 190 | 17 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 201 | + |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2 | 210 |\n|  | 10 | Sikh, str. | 1,610 |  | Scotland | 100 |  | 10 | 110 | 1: |  |\n|  | 10 | Egean, str. | 750 |  | Thomas | 146 |  | 150 |  | 27 |  |\n|  | 10 | City of Sydney, str. | 1,966 | American | Friele | San Francisco | 106 |  | 106 |  | w |\n|  | 13 | Glenartney, str. | 1,400 |  |  | 17 |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Priam, str. | 1,402 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 17 | Mongkut, str. | 859 |  | Loff | Bangkok | 110 | 5 | 115 |  | 21 |\n|  | 19 | Picciola, str. | 875 | German | Nissen | Straits Settlements | 83 | t | 87 |  |  |\n|  |  | Venetia, str. | 1,609 | British | Haeslook Milligan | 134 |  | 140 |  |  |  |\n|  | 13 | Stentor, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 13 | Bormidla, str. | 1,307 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 14 | Peshawar, str. | 3,489 | Italian | Pizzarello | Straits Settlements | 130 | 3 | 139 |  |  |\n|  | 14 | Sanshan, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 1,412 | British | Edwards | Bangkok | 78 |  | 78 |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 1,906 | German | Blackburn | 45 |  | 46 |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 2,440 | British |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 923 |  | McKinlay | Straits Settlements | 220 | 10 | 235 |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 771 | German | Butl...er | Bangkok | 90 |  | 90 |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 859 |  | Loff | Bangkok | 110 | 5 | 115 |  | 21 |\n|  |  |  | 348,851 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 19 | Cassandra, str. |  |  | Nissen | Straits Settlements |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 19 | Jason, str. | 1,906 | German | Haeslook | 150 |  | 248 | 190 | =2;** |  |\n|  | 19 | Prinz Georg, str. | 2,440 | British | Milligan | Straits Settlements | 129 | 10 |  | 103 |  |\n|  | 19 | Oceanic, str. | 923 |  | Plett | 150 | 3 | 251 | 10 | 8 | 212 |\n|  | 21 | Amigo, str. | 771 | German | Thiessen | Straits Settlements |  |  |  |  | ן |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Carried forward... | 45,733 | 1,363 | 484 | 226 | 47,806 |",
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        "id": 334558,
        "series_id": 27,
        "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine",
        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]",
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        "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]",
        "content_text": "# RETURN of VESSELS bringing CHINESE PASSENGERS to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong,~(Continued)\n\n373\n\n| No. | DATE ARRIVED | SHIP'S NAME | TONS | NATION-ALITY | ADULTS | CHILDREN | MASTER'S NAME | WHERE FROM | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Brought forward |  |  |  | 348,854 | 45,738 | 1,363 |  |  |\n|  | Brought forward |  |  |  | £39,508 | 60,520 | 1,862 |  | 63,078 |\n| 36 | October 4 | City of Sydney, str. | 3,966 | American |  |  | Rai | Brisbane |  |\n|  | 4 | Kong Bong, str. | 302 | British | 320 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 348 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Bangkok | 37 |  |  | 37 |\n| 240 | July 22 | Whampoa, str. | 1,159 | British | 1 |  | Hant | Sydney | 199 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | LOW | 319 |  |  |  |\n| 241 |  | Glenfias, str. | 1,409 |  | Jacola |  |  | Straits Settlements | 30 |\n|  | 31 | Wing Sang, str. | 1,517 |  | Ste. Croix | 180 | 200 | Melbourne |  |\n| 242 | 24 | Telemachus, str. | 1,421 |  | Jones |  |  | Straits Settlements | 260 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 321 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 26 | Patroclus, str. | 1,386 |  | Thompson | 156 |  |  |  |\n| 243 | + | Tai Sang, str. | 1,305 |  | Davies | 104 | 10 |  |  |\n| 244 | 26 | Kashgar, str. | 1,515 |  | Gadil | 120 |  |  | 4 |\n| 322 | 6 | Tupoy de Lorne, str. | 2,663 | French | Comp | 190 | 10 | 200 |  |\n| 323 | 4 | Picciola, str. | 875 | German | Nixsen | 273 |  | 285 | 139 |\n| 324 | 6 | Livingstone | 531 |  | 215 | 1 |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Mirzapore, sta | 2,164 |  | Harvey | 57 |  |  | #27 |\n| 325 | 7 | Angers, str. | 246 |  | 30 |  | Phra Chu Chou Khao, S | Bangkok |  |\n| 247 | 31 | Menelaus, str. | 1,300 |  | Nelson |  |  | Straits Settlements | 107 |\n| 327 | & | Titan, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 248 | August 3 | Cheang Hook Kian, str. | 954 |  | neph | 243 | 100 | 8 | 242 |\n| H | 3 | Glamis Castle, str. | 1,558 |  | Amy | 291 |  | 300 | 324 |\n| 9 |  | Nurnberg, str. | 250 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Japan, str. | 1,845 |  | Gariluer | 496 |  |  |  |\n|  | 11 | Amigo, str. | 1,554 | British | 853 |  | 2,159 | German | 771 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Stiffens |  | Pinkham | Honolulu | 183 |\n|  | 3 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 188 |\n|  |  | Hesperia, str. | 8 |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 146 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Christiansen | 103 | 11 |  |  |\n|  |  | Mongkut, str. | 2,077 | British | 1,186 | German |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Brown | 252 |  | 200 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Loff Berdrow |  |  | Bangkok | 37 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 40 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1751 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Samuelsen | 18 |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2251 |\n|  | 4 | City of Rio de Janeiro, str. | 2,276 | American | Cobl |  |  | San Francisco | 164 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 164 |\n| 231 | 11 | Clara, str. | 674 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 252 | ** | Deucalion, sår. | 1,374 | British | Asquith |  |  | Straits Settlements | 152 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 137 |\n| 332 | 15 | Cheang flock Kian, str. | 956 | British | Christiansen Webb |  |  | Bangkok | 35 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 35 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | $18 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 360 |\n| 253 | 11 | Fidelio, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 254 | 6 | Gaolie, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 255 | ++ | Poseidon, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 256 | 9 | Protus. str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 257 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 258 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 259 | +7 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 260 | י |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 261 | 10 | Mongkut, str. | 2,601 | British | Brock | 852 | German | 201 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 16 |\n|  | 12 | Pandora, str. | 2510 | Austriat |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 12 | Dardanus, str. | 1,150 | German |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 13 | Oder, str. | 1,781 | Austrian |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 13 | Wing Sang, str. | 1,536 | British |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 1,891 | German |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Pembrokeshire, str. | 1,717 |  | learne |  |  | San Francisco | 167 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | 3 |  |  | 172 |\n|  | 18 | Benarty, str. | 1,119 |  | Doueich |  |  | Straits Settlements | 130 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 443 |  |  |  | 39% |\n|  | 18 | Agamemnon, str. | 1,522 |  | Sorensen Loff |  |  | Bangkok | אנון |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 126 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 18 | Atholl, str. | 923 |  | Williams |  |  |  | 29 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Wilding Coulter |  |  |  | 30 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Le Boultelier | 210 |  | G | 280 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 155 |  |  |  | 176 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 225 |  |  | 2 | 23X |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 137 |  |  |  | 140 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | R$7 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 18 | Tannadice, str. | 1,408 |  | Radonicich |  |  | Straits Settlements | 230 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 234 |\n| 338 | 19 | Amphitrite, str. | 2,486 | Austrian | Cmig Gelcich |  |  | Australian Porta | 200 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 300 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 397 |\n| 333 | 19 | Arralocu Apear, str. | 1,392 | British | peiffer |  |  |  | 154 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 160 |\n|  |  | Tounun, str. | 1,282 | Chinese | 1,517 | British |  | St. Croix |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | } |  |  |  | N |\n|  |  |  |  |  | BIL |  |  |  |  |\n| 21 |  | Moray, str. | 1427 | British | Mactavish Marsden Duncan | 251 |  | 275 | 327 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 337 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 231 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 250 |  |  | 262 |  |\n|  | 16 | Cyclops, str. | 1,403 |  | Nish | 182 |  | 142 |  |\n| 263 | 16 | City of Rio de Janeiro, str. | 2,275 | American | Cobb |  |  | San Francisco | 503 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 503 |\n|  | 16 | Palyhyrnia, str. | 1,055 | German | Nagel | 85 |  | 101 | $43 |\n| 22 |  | Taichiow, str. | 862 | British | Newton |  |  | Bangkok | 99 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 6 |  |  |  | 116 |\n| 264 | lê ị | Para Clon kho,str. | 1,012 | British | Walton |  |  | Bangkok | 48 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | B |  |  |  |  |\n| 22 |  | Fred. P. Litchfield. | 1042 | American | Young |  |  | Honolulu | 162 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 6 |  |  |  | 175 |\n| 265 | 18 | Gleneagles, str. | 2,000 |  | Hogg |  |  | Straits Settlemeuls | 287 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 3 |  |  |  | भ |\n| 25 |  | Tai Sang, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 266 | 20 | City of New York, str. | 1,964 | American | Searle |  |  | San Francisco | 100 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 160 |  |  |  |  |\n| 26 |  | Diomed, str. | 1,500 | British | Davies |  |  | Straits Settlements | 480 |\n|  |  |  | 1,471 |  |  |  |  |  | 12 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 500 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Bigley | 138 | 2 |  | 144 |\n| 267 | 21 | Laeries, sir. | 1,391 | British | Scale |  |  | Straits Settlements | 146 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | B |  |  |  | 347 |\n| 27 |  | Orion, str. | 1,833 | Austrian | Matiazzi | 200 |  | •224 |  |\n| 268 | 21 | Taichiow, str. | 862 |  | Newton |  |  | Bangkok | 34 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 34 |  |  |  | 346 |\n| 27 |  | Niobe, str. | 1,672 | German |  |  |  | Port Darwin | 339 |\n|  |  | Kong Beng, str. |  |  |  |  |  | Townsville | 1 |\n| 269 | 14 | Edward May |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 21 | Guthrie, str. | 1,494 |  | Shannon |  |  | Brisbane | 11 |\n| 28 |  | Glenie, str. |  |  |  |  |  | Sydney | 30 |\n|  |  | Bellerophon, str. | 1,396 |  |  |  |  |  | Melbourne | 45 |\n|  | 3 | 3 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 3:3 |\n|  | Nov. | Changsha, str. | 1963 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 270 | 23 | Anjer Hand, str. | 1.800 |  | Macey |  |  | Straits Settlements | 135 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | HO |  |  |  | 3+4 |\n|  |  | Ajax, str. |  |  | Laga |  |  |  |  |\n| 271 | 24 | Kaisow, str. | 1.984 |  | Thomson | 210 |  |  | 20 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 300 |  |  |  | 39 |\n|  | 1 | Electra, str. | 1.162 | German |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 272 | 26 | Larne, str. | 1,085 |  | Hunter | 424 | 116 |  | 350 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 230 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 1 | Whampoa, str. | 1,100 | British |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 890 | American | 2.691 | British |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Plaff |  | Jones |  | Johusou |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Peame |  | Guthrie |  | Williams |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Riley |  | Madsen |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Haut |  |  |  | 1701 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 1 |  |  |  | 171 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Bangkok | 66 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 2 |  |  |  | 70 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 176 |  |  | Honolulu |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | A |  |  |  | 197 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | San Francisco | 937 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 20 |  |  |  | 957 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 190 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 199 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 185 |  |  | 5 | 190 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | \": |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 146 |  |  | 10 | 158 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 213 |  |  |  | 220 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Australian Ports | 150 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 150 |  |  |  |  |\n| 273 | 14 | Arratoon Aprar, str. | 1,392 |  | Maclavish | 320 |  | 19 | X98 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Port Darwin | 30 |\n| 274 | 28 | Belgic, str. | 2.695 |  | Walker |  |  | San Francisco | 220 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | انانه |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Cooktown | 2 |\n| 275 | 28 | Phra Chola Chom Klao, s. | 1,012 |  | Lightwood |  |  | Bangkok | 62 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 67 |  |  |  |  |\n| 276 | Sem. | 1 Hydra | 785 | German | Binge |  |  | Honolulu | 1755 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 180 |  |  |  | 37 |\n|  |  | Catterthun, str. | 1,400 |  | : Darke |  |  |  |  |\n| 277 | 1 | Kong Beng, str. | 842 | British | Jones |  |  | Bangkok | 34 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | #1 |  |  | Townsville | 13 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Brisbane | 2 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 97 |  |  |  | 31 |\n| 278 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 279 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 280 | 4 | Picciola, str. | 1.017 | British | Niessen |  |  | Doncaster |  |\n| 281 | 4 | Flintshire, str. | 1,538 |  | Webster |  |  | Straits Settlements | 297 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | N |  |  |  |  |\n| 282 | 6 | Amigo, str. | 875 | Germat | Bertelsen |  |  | Melbourne | 921 |\n|  |  | Prometheus, str. |  |  | 107 |  |  |  | 116 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Adelaide | 100 |\n|  |  | Duburg, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  | FOR |\n|  |  |  | 1.729 |  | 1 |  |  |  | 10 |\n| 379 | 3 | Rohilla, str. | 2.251 |  | Jaques Barratt |  |  | Straits Settlements | 357 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 378 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 55 |  |  |  | 771 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | German |  |  |  | 450 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 2 |  |  |  | 409 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 300 |  |  | i |  |\n|  |  | \" Fra Chula (\"lot Kha, s. | 1.01% |  | Lightwood |  |  | Bangkok | 10 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | $7 |  |  |  | 983 |\n|  | 6 | Tai Sang, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 284 | 6 | Zambesi, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 286 | 6 | Achilles, str. | 1505 | British | Davies |  |  |  | 480 |\n|  |  |  | 1.540 |  |  |  |  |  | 500 |\n|  |  |  | 1.528 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 4: |  | Duburg. st. | 921 | German | Bertelsen |  |  | Straits Settlements | 291 |\n|  | 9 |  |  |  | 9 |  |  |  | 304 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Cole | 214 |  | 201 | 362 |\n| + |  | Braunschweig, str. | 2.150 |  | Stormer |  |  |  | 178 |\n|  | 8 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 178 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Auderson | 29 |  |  | 343 |\n| 8 |  | Lombardy, str. | 1.571 | British | Webber |  |  |  | 30 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 1 |  |  |  | 1 |\n| 286 | ד | 7 City of Peking, str. | 3,129 | American |  |  |  | San Francisco | 271 |\n|  | 8 | Mongkat, str. | 859 | British | Dearborn Loff |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Japan, str. | 1,863 |  | \" |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Gardner | 225 | 17 |  | 250 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Bangkok | 56 |\n| 305 | 8 | City of New York, str. | 1,964 | American. | Searle |  |  | San Francisen | 5091 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 509 |  |  |  | 509 |\n| 288 | 10 | Neckar, str. | 1,870 | Germa | Baur |  |  | Straits Settlements | 73 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 73 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Medusa, str. | 1,775 | Austrian | Pevini |  |  | Straits Settlements | 234 |\n|  | 11 |  |  |  | 11 |  |  |  | 29% |\n| 289 | 11 | Bormida, str, | 190 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 11 | Thisbe. str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 291 | # | Khiva, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 292 | 13 | Ningehow, str. | 1.490 | Italian | 1.818 | Austrian | 1,419 | British | 1,735 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Bason Castle |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Pizzarello | 321 |  | #33 | 367 |\n|  | 9 | Palinurns, str. | 1,536 | British | Jacksum |  |  |  | 289 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 296 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Ballovich | 281 |  |  | 369 |\n|  | 10 | Hornida, str. | 1,499 | Italian | Pizzarello |  |  |  | 115 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 116 |  |  |  | 70 |\n| 340 | 12 | Cheang Hock Rian, str. | '956 | British | Webb |  |  |  | 385 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 17 |  |  |  | 412 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 1451 |  |  | 10 |  |\n| 370 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 298 | 13 | Massulin. str. | 1,262 | German |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 12 | Saochow, str. | 999 |  | Hurris |  |  | Sydney | 18 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Petersen | 75 |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Melbonme | 59 |\n| 294 | 14 | Hector, str. | 1,590 | British | Balt |  |  |  | 164 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 15 |  |  |  | 311 |\n| 15 |  | Belgic. str. | 2.093 |  | Walker |  |  | San Francisco | 7001 |\n| 295 | 14 | Danube, str. | 563 |  | Anderson |  |  | Bungkok | 64 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 69 |  |  |  |  |\n| 372 | 15 | tilazce, str. | 1,764 |  | Johnson |  |  | Straits Settlements | 160 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 10 |  |  |  |  |\n| 296 | 14: | China, ser, | 1,993 | German | Have |  |  |  | 361 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 378 |  |  |  |  |\n| 15 |  | Sarpedon, str. | 1.590 |  | Crimes | 250 |  |  |  |\n| 297 | 12 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 15: | Clieveden, str. | 1,185 | British | Gibb |  |  | Ba | 41 |\n|  |  | Denbighshire, str. | 1,663 |  | ! Cuming | 274 |  |  | POR |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | * |\n|  | 15 | Fidelio, str. | 852 | German | Brock |  |  | Straits Settlements | المنزل |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | ** |\n|  | 17 | Iphigenia, str. | 1.059 | Germ | · Valtmer | 110 | 3 |  | 209 |\n|  | 13 | Cheang Hock Kian. str. | 926 | British | Webb |  |  |  | 324 |\n|  | 18 | Orestes, HUT. | 1.323 | British | ! Hutchinson | 150 |  |  |  |\n| 300 | 17 | Prinz Alexander, str. | 1.911 | German | Bekert | 335 |  |  | San |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 377 |\n|  | 10 | Hydaspes, str. | 1.800 |  | Scrivener | 62 |  |  |  |\n| 301 |  | Is Antenor. str. | 1.376 | British | Freeman | 390 |  |  | 396 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | ais |\n|  | 20 | Gleneagles, str. | 1,838 |  | Park | 225 |  |  |  |\n| 302 | 18 | Cambodia, str. | 3.969 |  | Wildgoose | 30 | 3 |  | 372 |\n| 22 |  | Taichiuw, str. | 882 |  | Newton |  |  | Bangkuk | 41 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 3 |  |  |  |  |\n| 303 | 20 | Glamorganshire, str. | 1,843 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 304 | 23 | Ravenia. str. | 2,038 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 305 | 28: | Vorwaerts, str. | 1.574 | Austrian |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 306 | 23 | San Pablo, str. | 2,113 | American |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 307 | 25 | Japan, str. | 1,865 | British | Davies |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | : Daniell |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Radonicich |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Reed |  |  |  | 157 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | : Gardner |  |  |  | 160 |\n|  | 23 | Fidelio, str. | $32 | German | Brock |  |  | Straits Settlements | 370 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 44 |  |  |  |  |\n| 24 |  | Parthia, str. | 2,085 | British | Brough: | 320 |  |  | 543 |\n|  | 25 | Piccivia, str. |  |  |  |  |  | San Francisco | 3901 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 460 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 25 | Guthrie. str. | 1.493 | British |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 350 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 350 |  |  |  |  |\n| 384 | 24 | Titanin, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 308 | - |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 25 | Glenorchy, str. | 1.822 |  | Godre |  |  |  | 28 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 30 |  |  |  | 5 |\n|  | 26 | Bentedi, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 309 | 27 | Palamed, str. | 1,536 |  | Jackson | 127 |  |  | 478 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 29 |  | Wing Sang, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 310 | 28 | Benlarig, str. | 1,482 |  | Clarke | 34 |  | 2!!! | \" |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 29 | Amigo, str. | 348 |  |  |  |  | Thursday Island |  |\n|  |  | City of Peking, str. |  |  |  |  |  | Cooktown |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | en Dec. |  |\n|  | 1 | Ulaucus, str. | 1.382 | British | 875 | Germin | 2,011 | Austrínu | 900 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | British | 1,517 |  | 771 | German |\n|  |  |  | 3,120 | American |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Nissen |  |  | Shannon |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Morsa Riddori |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Ste. Croix |  |  | Samuelson |  |  | Dearborn |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Tannab |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 198 |  |  | Australian Ports | 136 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 248 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 20 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 138 |  |  |  | 350 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 10 |  |  |  | A TO |\n|  |  |  |  |  | ·22*** |  |  |  | ·**** 22 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 760 |  |  | 2 |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | INO |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 281) |  |  |  | 11 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 156 |  |  |  | 250 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 46 |  |  |  | : |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 373 |  |  |  | 871 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 200 |  |  |  | 130 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 10 |  |  |  | 288 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 148 |  |  |  | 360 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 192 |  |  |  | 192 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | San Francisco | 677 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 677 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Straits Settlements | 1631 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 3 |  |  |  | 166 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Townsville |  |\n| 311 | 29 | Airbe, str. | 1.492 |  | Ells |  |  | Brisbane | 3M |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 161 |  |  |  | 331 |\n|  |  | Khiva, str. | 1.410. |  | Hason | 111 |  |  | 111 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Dunedin, N.Z. |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Sydney |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Melbourne |  |\n| 312 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 313 | 30 | Raffaele Rubattino, str. | 3,044 | Italian | Merello |  |  | Straits Settlements |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 虽 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Plura Chom Klau, str. | 1,012 |  | Walton |  |  | Bangkok | 70 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 72 |  |  |  |  |\n| 4 |  | Surat, str. | 1.677: |  | Nautes |  |  | Straits Settlements | 100 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 100 |  |  |  | 19H |\n| 4 |  | James Watt, str. | 1,024 |  | Petrie | 118 |  | 120 | ERK |\n|  |  |  | 1,497 | British |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 314 | 30 | Telamon, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 315 |  | Phra tinh Chen Lilao, đ | 1,865 |  | 1.012: |  |  |  |  |\n| 316 | October 1 | Ching Wo. str. | 1.550 |  | Thomson Jackson Lightwood ? {Hag | 121 |  | 115 | Bangkok |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | الناز |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 160 |  |  | Straits Settlements | 150 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 10 |  |  |  | 11 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Carried forward |  |  | 459.503 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Carried forward |  |  | 60.320 | 1.862 |  |  | 63.076 |\n|  |  | 6 Ulysses, str. |  |  | Alden Bessc... |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | 7 San Pablo, str. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | 7 Arratoon Apear, str. | 1.392 | British | $21 | German | 2005 | Austrian |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Reed |  |  |  | 1.300 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Bremner |  |  |  | 100 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 102 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | 1 Duburg, str. |  |  | 812 | American | O'Brien | Honolulu | 283 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 230 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Elektra, str. | 2.113 |  |  |  |  | San Francisco | 618 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 618 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | Carried forward |  |  | Martavish Bortelsen Ragusin |  |  | Straits Settlements | 207 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 309 |  |  |  | 215 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 221 |  |  |  | 328 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 336 |  |  |  | 381,330 |\n|  |  | Carried forward |  |  |  |  |  |  | 78,966 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 2,358 | 811 |  |  | 390 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 82,727 |  |  |  |  |",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "content_text": "380\n\nCALENDAR OF PROBATES and ADMINISTRATIONS granted by the Supreme Court of Hongkong, during the year 1886,\n\nDate\nName of Testator or Intestate\nPlace and Time of Death\nGrant\nValue of the Effects\nName and Description of the Executor or Administrator\n\n1886\n\n$\n\nJan. 11\nAlexander Paterson\nEngland, 10th Mar., 1885\nProbate\n\nThomas Neave\n\n11\nNg Sa Yuen Sing Chun alias Yuen Cheong alias Yuen King Hung\nSingapore, 4th Mar., 1882\nAdm. with Will annexed\n\nHenry Arthur Herbert, Attorney of Frederick Paterson, Peter Rennie, and James Macalister\n\n11\nLeung Ming Yow alias Leung Fau Kan\n\n11\nLui Kum Chaen\n\nThomas Henderson Whitehead, Attorney of Grace Neave\n\nJune 15\nHenry O'Neill\nAt Sea, in the Bay of Bengal, 28th Jan., 1886\n\n900.00\n\n17\nChan Kom\n\n19\nHenry Brerall\nCanton, 8th Oct., 1885\nProbate\n7,000.00\nJohn Yardly Vernon, the executor\n\n19\nCheang Chew Inc\nH'kong, 13th Nov., 1885\n\nVernon Vernon, the executor. Power being reserved to Ellen O'Neil, the executrix\n\n21\nNg Shi\nH'kong, 21st Sept., 1885\nAdministration\n70,000.00\nChau Lai Po, the administrator\n\n22\nJaid Chan She\nShanghai, 20th April, 1886\nAdm. with Will annexed\n13,300.00\nAlfred Parker Stokes, Attorney of Elizabeth Everall and William Weston Clifford\n\nJuly\nJoseph Joseph Money\nH'kong, Both Mar., 1886\n\n530.00\n\n3\nWong Tso Leong\nH'kong, 30th April, 1886\nAdministration\n140.00\nCheang Chan She, the first lawful wife\n\n13\nWilliam Dolan\nH'kong, 3rd Dec., 1885\nProbate\n10.00\nWilliam Henry Hay, solo executor\n\n14\nAlbert Edward Salter\nH'kong, 10th Dec., 1885\nAdministration\n200.00\nEdw. James Ackroyd, Official Administrator\n\n14\nWong Tsung\nH'kong, 20th Dec., 1885\n\n21\nEdward Jackson\nManila\nProbate\n12,000.00\nDavid Gillies and Robert Lang, the executors\n\n21\nLeung Kong Chi alias Leung\n\n21\nNorman Curtis Stevens\nAt Sea, 13th June, 1886\nAdministration\n4,000.00\nAlfred Gascoyne Wise, Official Administrator\n\n22\nWong Ying\nH'kong, 22nd Jan., 1884\nProbate\n160.00\nWong Yuk Che, the executor, according to the tenor of the Will\n\n26\nLeung Kwan Shau alias Ki alias Kwong Fo\n\n200.00\n\n26\nAndrew Thomas Carmichael\n\nAdm. with Will annexed\n3,500.00\nAlfred Parker Stokes, Attorney of Ellen Maria Stevens\n\n27\nHurdil Singh\n\n27\nRobert Strachan\nCalcutta, 7th Jan., 1886\nProbate\n5,000.00\nHenry William Davis, Attorney of Isabel Braide Strachan, widow of the deceased\n\n28\nTo Shap Ng\nJamaica, 5th April, 1882\nAdm. with Will annexed\n1,000.00\nAlfred Parker Stokes, Attorney of Lucy Happer Glover\n\nAug.\nPhillip Robert Doni\n\n4\nAang. Reuben Solomon\nEngland, 19th Jan., 1881\nProbate\n2,500.00\nFrancis Bulkeley Johnson\n\n5\nLeong Hoi\nFrance, 20th Oct., 1884\nAdm. with Will annexed\n8,400.00\nJohn Walter, Attorney of Donald Peter McDonald and John Forrest\n\n7\nSitnah Solomon\nH'kong, 7th Dec., 1885\nAdministration\n600.00\nAlfred Gascoyne Wise, Official Administrator\n\n9\nJames Twinent\nAt Sea\nAdm. with Will annexed\n5,600.00\nSitnah Solomon, Attorney of Abraham Ezra\n\n10\nWilliam Whitfield\nLondon\n\n2,000.00\nWai Fing and Lim Wa You, the executor and executrix, according to the tenor of the Will\n\nSept.\nJarasjee Pestonjee Vakil\n\n8\nGeorge Doo Pitman\nS.S. Namna, 16th July, 1885\nAdministration\n100.00\nEdw. 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Alfred Lister, Attorney of Stephen Wotton Bushell and Colin Mackenzie Ford\n\n21\nShmu A-feat\n\nShmu A-feat, first lawful wife\n\n21\nManoel José Maria Gonsalves da Silva\nMacao\n\n200.00\nWong Tin Ting, sole of the deceased\n\n21\nLa Lai bhang fong alias Lai Tung\nMacao\nAdministration\n\nLeung A-ol, the first lawful wife\n\n21\nNg A-mui\nH'kong\n\nMaria Francisca Marques da Silva\n\n26\nArthur Wellington Grosvenor\nEngland, 13th Oct., 1865\n\n125,000.00\nJacob Benjamin Elias, Attorney of Joseph Elias David Joseph Ezra\n\n28\nLow Kura Choong\n\n31\nWong A-sheong\n\nJune\nTaska Moto Odai\nSei Heung, 15th Feb., 1886\nAdministration\n2,300.00\nHe Kunn, otherwise Ho Sim To\n\n1\nYoung Ah Loy\nAt Sea, 7th May, 1886\n\nLam Kis Fung\n\n3\nKeung Lai Mool\nH'kong, 17th May, 1886\n\n100.00\nLai Kam and Lai Sai Kau, the executrixes\n\n3\nWong A-sai\nH'kong, 28th May, 1886\nAdministration\n150.00\nAuguste Raphael Marty, solo executor\n\nEdmund McLeod and George Bayne, the executors\n\nCatchick Paul Chater, sole executor\n\nProperty handed to Mr. Ewens, the Solicitor for Chan Choy, the mother of deceased\n\nYoung A-lai, the administratrix\n\nVictor Hobart Deacon, Attorney of Eliza Maria Grosvenor\n\nKeung Lai Mool, the lawful widow\n\nWong A-sai, sole of the deceased\n\nAlfred Gascoyne Wise, Official Administrator\n\n179,500.00\n\nALFRED G. WISE,\n\nActing Registrar.\n\nRegistry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 28th January, 1887.\n\nPage 380\n\nCALENDAR of PROBATES and ADMINISTRATIONS,—Continued.\n\n...\n\nPage 381",
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        "content_text": "209\n\nCaptain Li has now verbally informed me that the notorious criminals, Jang Chian, Cheng Kan, Lu-yo-ching, Ion Ashik, Chen Ken-ih, Sto Chin, Lin Sora-lung, and Liang Kus, are in hiding in Hongkong, and he requests me to write to you to be good enough to ask through Hongkong Government to arrest and hand over these men.\n\nI find that owing to the active measures being taken throughout this province against notorious criminals, many of the latter have taken refuge in Hongkong; and unless stringent measures are taken there, it will be impossible to prevent them injuring that place. The men whose whereabouts Captain Li has discovered in Hongkong are natives of this province and are criminals guilty of robbery and murder.\n\nI will send an officer to take them over. I have directed Captain Li to proceed forthwith to Hongkong with detectives and witnesses to identify these men. I have also to request that you will be good enough to ask H.E. the Acting Governor of Hongkong to give orders for the arrest of the eight men, viz., Lu Yuchuan, Cheng Strany Yo Ching, Ion Ashik, Chen Kan-euch, Soo Chin, Lin Sora-lung, and Lang Kus, and for their delivery, in accordance with Treaty stipulations, to Captain Li.",
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        "content_text": "4/230\n\n(xy) Viverry to St B. Mis (rub.\n\nLauelation\n\nSir,\n\nI ... you ... March 13th 1887,\n\nhave the honour to inform ... that I have received a report from Colonel Li of Shen to stating that he is in receipt of a telegram from Captain Li to the effect ... on receipt of instructions he had proceeded to Hongkong to take over the als Treng du fin three cri chinan, Cheng Sas-shu hiew, alwas theng Sam and Ster A-shik, that for several days an enquiry had been held at the Police Magistracy, and that the Hongkong Officials, owing to the conflicting evidence of the witnesses had decided to discharge ...\n\nAlabaster, Elg,\n\nSt. B. Mis Coneul,\n\nCanton\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "232\n\nHongkong for a further enquiry;\n\nand to write to\n\nI write to you\n\nto\n\nrequest His Excellency the Acting Governor of Hongkong\n\nto direct that the three persons, Leung Li Chin, Cheng Sao Wing, and Chan A Fan, be sent to the Colonial Secretary at Canton.\n\nCopy\n\n4358\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th March, 1857.\n\nI have the honour by direction\n\nof His Excellency the Acting Governor\n\nto inform you that\n\nThe three alias's Chen Sam, Ah A Shik\n\nbe detained in\n\ncustody. They should not be\n\nset free,\n\nbut they should\n\nbe detained until the said\n\nCaptain and the additional\n\ntrustworthy complainants have reached\n\nHongkong when, after they\n\nhave been confronted and an\n\nenquiry has been held, they\n\nshould be handed over in\n\naccordance with treaty stipulations\n\nso that the entente cordiale may\n\nbe maintained.\n\nSanctioned by\n\n5. A Stokes.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nChang Chih-tung\n\nGovernor to acknowledge\n\nreceipt of your\n\nletter\n\nQ\n\n124\n\nof the\n\n18th instant forwarding\n\na translation of a despatch from the Viceroy\n\non the subject of the\n\nrendition of the three criminals, Leung\n\nLu Yi Chian, Cheng San-\n\nShu Hien, and Chan A Which.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nFrederick Stewart\n\nHal. Alabaster, Esq.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nS. B. McClure, Esq.\n\nConsul, Canton\n\nPage 232\n\nPage 233\n\nPage 234\n\nPage 235\n\nPage 236\n\nPage 237\n\nbecomes\n\n232\n\nHongkong for a further enquiry;\n\nand to write to\n\nI write to you\n\nto request His Excellency the Acting Governor of Hongkong\n\nto direct that the three persons, Leung Li Chian, Cheng Sao Wing, and Chan A Fan, be sent to the Colonial Secretary at Canton.\n\nCopy\n\n4358\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th March, 1857.\n\nI have the honour by direction of His Excellency the Acting Governor\n\nand\n\nThe three alias's Chen Sam, Ah A Shik be detained in custody. They should not be set free, but they should be detained until the said Captain and the additional trustworthy complainants have reached Hongkong when, after they have been confronted and an enquiry has been held, they should be handed over in accordance with treaty stipulations so that the entente cordiale may be maintained.\n\nSanctioned by 5.A Stokes.\n\nI have, &c. Chang Chih-tung\n\nGovernor to acknowledge receipt of your letter Q124 of the 18th instant forwarding a translation of a despatch from the Viceroy on the subject of the rendition of the three criminals, Leung Lu Yi Chian, Cheng San-Shu Hien, and Chan A Which.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nFrederick Stewart\n\nHal. Alabaster, Esq.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nS.B. McClure, Esq.\n\nConsul, Canton\n\nPage 232\n\nPage 233\n\nPage 234\n\nPage 235\n\nPage 236\n\nPage 237",
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        "content_text": "I have, 75\n\nIf Chang Which ling\n\nGovernor General of the Ewokurang.\n\nTranslated by Sf. A. At det.\n\n071-281\n\nActing Colonial Secretary to Police Magistrates\n\n(Copy)\n\n41294\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hong Kong, 9, 24th August, 1887.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nI have the honour, by directions of His Excellency the Acting Governor, to request that you will be so good as to enquire what description the Chinese witness, who called himself Je Loi, the agent of the Chinese Government in the pending Extradition Case, gave of himself on being sworn in the witness box. Some questions as to the rank of Li Loi render this enquiry necessary.\n\nI have the honour to be, Gentlemen,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nH. Frederick Stewart\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nThe Police Magistrates",
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        "content_text": "that there is probable cause \n\nfor believing that he has committed the crime of which he is accused it shall be \n\nthe \n\nand it was \n\nlawful for such Magistrate to commit the accused to prison and to direct the Gaoler to detain him until he receives orders from the Governor respecting the further detention, discharge or transmission of such person to the Chinese Authorities. This procedure appears to be \n\nvery simple I presume the intention of the Legislature that it should be so, but in practice it has led to a great many difficulties, to long investigations before the Magistrate, to accusations that the cases have been trumped up either by the higher \n\nofficials, and to \n\ngreat expense on the part of the Chinese Authorities. Whether owing to obturacy or to inability to understand the first principles of our law of evidence, it has been impossible \n\nfor the \n\nlower \n\nin \n\nmany \n\non \n\ncases \n\nChinese Government to \n\nproduce \n\n2 \n\ncase. \n\n395 \n\nproduce satisfactory witnesses to prove a prima facie case. \n\nTheir evidence has always been open to strong \n\ncriticism \n\nand in their statements or conduct there has always been something that appeared strange and difficult to be received. In view of the long delay which took place last year in the cases of Chang Chi & Khang Yeh, dir M. March in January last caused \n\na letter to be addressed to the Police \n\nand Magistrates stating that before committing they could not require \n\nsuch evidence as would warrant a \n\na \n\nconviction; that they should restrict their investigation accordingly, and that no postponement should be allowed unless good cause were \n\nshewn, and \n\ngranted merely \n\nfor the convenience of the Solicitors. \n\n\"The first \n\ncase \n\ntried after \n\nthis \n\nwas that of Ling Sam and others who were accused of breaking \n\ninto",
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        "content_text": "## All these missionaries are Frenchmen, and more French than missionary, having, to a man, the views of Bishop Penginier, of Tonquin. There are somewhere about 150,000 Chinese converts.\n\nNow that the Chinese are awake to the danger that threatened them from the intrigues of the French priests, there is no reason, I believe, to apprehend any harm to British interests from their efforts, especially while there is such a bad understanding between the French officials and the priests. The converts are a scattered body, who would be promptly massacred, as they were the other day in Annam, if they tried to assist the French. On the contrary, by breaking up the population and introducing, to some extent, foreign knowledge and ideas, they prepare the ground for the pioneers of British commerce.\n\nWith regard to the military aspect of the Tonquin question, the reverses suffered by the French have done grave damage to French influence in South-west China, and, in a lesser degree, to the prestige of the other Occidental Powers. The recent disturbances at Ch'ung-king and in Kuei-chou were, without doubt, due in part to this cause; the leaders in these riots were military students, up from the country for examination, stuffed with a hundred lying tales of Chinese successes against the French—tales which would not, however, have gone down had there not been real successes to base them on. From what I saw and heard on the Tonquin border, I believe that the talk about a Chinese military revival is a darkening of counsel—words without knowledge. Chinese are no more able to stand up before European troops, properly led, than they were in 1842 or 1860. The only difference is, that they are now sometimes well armed. I heard an account of the Lung-chou engagement from two braves, engaged there, who journeyed two days with me on the way to their homes in Kuei-chou. The French marched into the midst of a body of 50,000 men, armed with repeating rifles and abundant ammunition (in spite of Chang Chih-tung's statement to the contrary in his Memorial). They said: \"We were ordered to fire all day and all night; the French said it was not fair, as they had no time to sleep or eat.\" The lesson to be learnt from the Tonquin war is to strike quickly if it is necessary to strike at all. The Chinese can make good plans, and carry them out with much determination, but they are never ready, and require a comparatively long time to consult and prepare. No time should be given then.\n\n## Burmah\n\nThe Yünnan officials treated me with marked politeness, and the mediation of Sir R. Hart was frequently mentioned in flattering terms; nevertheless, there was much uneasiness about Burmah: all inquired what we were going to do there, and preparations were made for defence on the Burmese frontier, General Ting, with 5,000 men, being sent from Kai-hua Fu to Têng-yueh in January 1886, and T'ang Taotai being sent from Yunnan Fu in February to superintend the defence of the border. This meant, no doubt, intriguing against the semi-independent tribes south of Têng-yueh to secure their hostility to England. At Ssu-mao, where I stayed eleven days and became intimate with the officials, steps were being taken to put the frontier into a state of defence; besides the right wing of the P'u-êrh Brigade, which should number about 500 men, and which has its permanent quarters at Ssu-mao, an auxiliary force was being enlisted for the defence of this part of the frontier, the officer in command of which, with 200 men, arrived from the Tonquin border a few days before I did. The Magistrate, who was a protégé and a fellow-provincial of the Governor-General Ts'ên, told me that he had recently received instructions to repair the wall of the town and to have a Map of the neighbourhood constructed; he said that the reason for strengthening the garrison was the confusion that reigned in the Ch'ê-li territory.\n\nThe Chinese Government wields little real power south of Ssu-mao, and contents itself with keeping up the prestige of its authority by an occasional act of treacherous violence. Thus in 1884 Ma Chung, the General at Pu-erh, engaged a Mahommedan, also named Ma, to assassinate the Ch'ê-li Prince (called Chiu-lung Wang by the Burmese). The man sent was a friend of the Wang—more, they had exchanged tieh-tzu, i.e., were sworn brothers—or he would not have obtained admittance, the Wang being extremely wary. He was to receive 1,000 taels and a place for his pains, but he caught malarial fever on the Mekong, and only returned to die, as he deserved. In the same year the Shan Chieftain of Liu-k'un was invited to dinner at Ssŭ-mao by the same officer to discuss local affairs, and taken straight out to the market-place and beheaded. I was told in Ssu-mao by several merchants that these acts had greatly disgusted the Shans, and had consequently damaged trade at Ssu-mao.\n\nInquiries along the route showed that the Shan family is a very widely divided one. From Ssu-mao, along the Tonquin border, Shans, under various names, occupy everywhere the lower lands. The whole population of Northern Kwang-si is Shan, and they stretch in large communities, e.g., Shui-chia, Chung-chia, &c., as far north as Kuei-yang Fu, the capital of Kuei-chou. The country between Ava and Ssŭ-mao is probably the home of this race, migration having been apparently from the south; the Shans in Kuei-chou migrated there from Kwang-si in the beginning of the 18th century only. They are indefatigable nature-worshippers in China, and generous supporters of Buddhism and Burmese priests in the Shan States, so that there should be a likely field for English missionaries among them on both sides of the border.\n\nThe Chinese frontier will be found figured in the last edition (1836) of the \"Topography of the Yunnan Province\", and perhaps a frontier running through the passes there named would be all that Her Majesty's Government would claim. But the Topography mentions a number of small clans or places south of this line to which garrisons are said once to have been sent by China, &c. The Topography would have therefore to be carefully studied before it could be suggested as a basis of arrangement.\n\nWith regard to the opening up of commercial relations between Burmah and Yünnan, I have shown in my Report that even at present Burmese cotton comes as far east as Yunnan Fu, and that in spite of bad roads, Western Yunnan will certainly be supplied with foreign goods from Burmah when the route is open.\n\nWestern Yunnan is much richer than the eastern part of the province bordering on Tonquin, and is being filled up more quickly, and by a more vigorous race (Ssu-chuanese), and a very profitable trade will no doubt spring up; but the idea of a route through Yunnan competing with the lower Yang-tzŭ ports is chimerical, to use a mild term. How far the area supplied from Burmah may encroach on the areas that now are, or ought to be, supplied from Canton, Tonquin, and Sui Fu (above Chungking on the Yang-tzŭ), depends on the success of our diplomacy, and on the skill with which our interests may be pushed with the Yünnan Government.\n\nWith regard to the regulation of the frontier trade, there should be the least possible restriction as to what persons or what goods cross the frontier, and in what manner they do so. Perhaps it will be found advisable to promise with regard to smuggling, for it is a wholesome check on greedy Customs officials, and is favoured by the ground and the traditions of the people.\n\nI would beg to suggest that the future of agriculture and manufactures in Burmah should not be forgotten. The nature of the ground—Yunnan being an elevated plateau 4,000 to 8,000 feet above the sea, and Burmah a broken plain with an altitude for the most part of a few hundred feet only—involves a great difference of climate and production. Yünnan will not grow cotton, tobacco, or tea, for instance, necessities to Chinese, in the production of which there may be a great future for planters in Burmah. Tobacco comes at present from Ssu-chuan and the Kwang provinces, and tea from the Shan States outside Ssu-mao, but the supply of the latter is insufficient even at present, and the people in South Yünnan drink all sorts of decoctions in its stead. Salt is produced in many parts of Yunnan, but the supply is insufficient, and there should be an increasing import from Bhamo as the western parts of the province fill up.\n\nThe Report of a six months' journey in Yünnan and Kuei-chou would be incomplete without some mention of the Governor-General, Ts'ên Yü-ying, who has long been, and no doubt will remain, the right arm of the Chinese Government in these parts. He is a Shan of the Pu-man family, born at Hsi-liu Hsien in Northern Kwang-si, where the borders of Yünnan, Kuei-chou, and Kwang-si meet. He has been engaged in fighting all his life, having had to fly from home when a youth because of a clan quarrel about which he was wanted, and having fought through the twenty years of Mahommedan and Miao-tzŭ rebellion. He is superstitious and cruel, bloodthirsty many say, but a strong ruler, and, for an Oriental, thorough in all that he does. There is no man in China who is so feared by officials and people under him, and his presence is the best security for the peace of that province. He is supposed to hate foreigners, and is generally accredited with the murder of Margary and the ...\n\nPage 330  \nPage 331",
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        "content_text": "# 2\n\nTien-ch'iao (natural bridge), where a stream emerges from beneath limestone hills. Here there was once a flourishing silver mine, but the workings were buried by a landslip many years ago, as the natives said, since which the ore has only been worked by squatters, who wash it and send it away in small quantities to be smelted: the ore is said to yield both zinc and silver.\n\nSince scaling the plateau up to Hui-shui-t'ang the rocks have been the same, namely, limestone, generally argillaceous, and shale with sandstone only at the bottom of the deep valleys beneath the limestone. After Hui-shui-t'ang the argillaceous limestone is supplanted by a harder rock, apparently siliceous limestone. The gorges, bluffs, caves, and underground rivers that filled the landscape with romantic nooks and picturesque surprises now give way to broad valleys and hills, hard, round, and desolate. The villages are terribly poor. Some, as Yao-chang, were evidently once more considerable, for there are well-hewn blocks of limestone lying about that would not disgrace a London warehouse. But over a pile of such stones there are now nothing better than brushwood shanties, into which an English farmer would scruple to put a cow.\n\nOn the 18th November we reached Wei-ning Chon, which was burnt several times during the rebellion, a wretched place, commercially speaking, but interesting from its position on a lake, and from the fact of its being one of the highest towns in this part of the world (7,330 feet). I have put the lake into my sketch as it appears on the District Magistrate's Map, where it is described as follows:\n\n\"This was formerly a marsh, but has now become a water domain (lake), with a circuit of 100 miles (much indented). There are hills all round, much rock and sand, and a poor soil, cold and barren, not worth cultivation.\"\n\nI gathered from the people who came to gossip as I stood on the wall overlooking the lake, that the water encroached to its present size only in 1858. Before that date there had been no more than an inundation of a narrow basin round the river in summer, much the greater part of the present area of the lake being planted with mao pui (identified at Kew as *Panicum frumentaceum* Roxb., *P. Crus-Galli* var.). The same year an attempt was made to drain the lake to the north-west, and a hill was cut through with that object; but the attempt failed, for hail or other like phenomena always stopped the work, showing that it was the will of Heaven that their fields should remain flooded. It is probable that the cause of the lake's extension is the blocking up of an underground channel as at T'ung-tzŭ Hsien (see last part of this Report).\n\nOn the way down to the lake at Wei-ning we noticed for the first time a deposit which is a distinctive feature of the Yunnan plateau—a loamy earth of a warm red colour which lies high up in the hills in sheltered places—in gullies, for instance—as well as on the floor of the valleys where it has been cut through by water as by a knife, leaving vertical sides often more than 100 feet in height. Sometimes it bears clear evidence of deposit by water and sometimes appears almost granular, so as to remind one of descriptions of the loess of Shansi. It has evidently never been subjected to pressure. Wherever it has been washed away limestone appears beneath. This bright-coloured earth, pleasant to walk and ride upon and well stocked with game, is one reason amongst many which make the plain of the Yunnan lakes a pleasant land to the European traveller.\n\nA large sheet of water is always interesting to dwellers in mid-continent; but this lake supplied us with bodily as well as mental food, so as to impress itself on the memory of the whole party; the water-fowl were easy to get at and of excellent flavour; while the question where all this water came from baffled comprehension and excited curiosity. A few miles to the south-west, at Lien-san-p'o, the road reaches an elevation of 7,770 feet, the highest point touched during the present journey, beyond which the country drains towards the K'o-tu River. On the north side the line of water parting appears to be only a few miles distant from the lake, and the lake is said to drain off towards the north-west. There may be very high land somewhere on the east to reward the traveller of the future's time to leave the road.\n\nFrom Lien-san-p'o to the K'o-tu River, a distance of about 27 miles, there is a descent of 2,550 feet. This stream is about 30 yards across where we passed it, but with a bed at least 100 yards broad, strewn with blocks of shale, sandstone, and limestone, but of no rocks of igneous or volcanic origin.\n\nThe boundary between the Yunnan and Kuei-chou Provinces is formed by a brook that joins the K'o-tu River on its left bank, and then by a range of hills that meets the river west of the crossing. The bridge referred to in the name K'o-tu-ch'iao is that over the brook. On the way down to the river we passed two human heads in cages, blackened by months' exposure. They had belonged to men in General Pao's force, who had plundered an officer's baggage. These heads had done good service, for the whole army had the advantage of passing within two yards of them.\n\nThe descent to the river much resembled that to the Ch'ih-shui River, but was shorter and steeper.\n\nAs soon as the K'o-tu River is crossed the inevitable ascent begins, and in 8 miles, covering an ascent of 2,100 feet, the water parting between the K'o-tu and the T'ang-t'ang streams is reached at an altitude of 7,420 feet above the sea; and a further 7 miles, covering a descent of 1,590 feet, the latter part very steep, bring us to the dilapidated village of T'ang-tang, once a famous mining township. There are many disused copper-mines, but very little is being done at present. The same story was told us here as everywhere else, that nothing was wanted but capital.\n\nI should have mentioned that on the 12th November, at Ta-che-p'ing we met numbers of Lolos, or, as they are here more politely called, I-chia (barbarian families) (see Lolo Vocabulary, No. 1). They are very numerous in this part of the plateau; the men wear the Chinese dress, and can usually speak Chinese. There being no mining to inspect at T'ang-tang, I went for a walk with my Chinese clerk to inquire about the Lolos, and if possible discover a man who could write their character, when, while standing in the dry bed of the stream that runs past the village, I saw a man riding down a mountain-path towards us on a good pony, with big brass stirrups, and two mounted servants behind him. A boy who was following me thereupon said, \"You were asking about the I-chia; look, there is the T'u-ssŭ (aboriginal Chief) coming into town.\" I went back to the inn at once, and sent my writer to make friends with the T'u-ssŭ, and, if possible, bring him in to see me, which he succeeded in doing.\n\nThe T'u-ssŭ was a heavy-featured, stolid man, with whom it was difficult to make way. After time and native spirit had taken the edge off his dulness and suspicion, he gave us an account of the wrongs he and his tribe had suffered lately at the hands of the Mahommedan Chinese who were encroaching on his lands, ending with a request that I would go and see a youth of his tribe who had just been half-killed in an affray. We found a youth of 18, who had just been brought into the village for treatment, lying on a leather mattress spread on the floor in the middle of the room, alongside a wood fire. He had bad sword cuts on the shin, knee, and wrist. The wounds had been covered by an aboriginal practitioner with a plaster of simples, which it would not have been prudent to remove, so I gave him the safe advice not to drink and smoke too much, and left some carbolic oil to be applied when the dressing was removed. The T'u-ssŭ was now my friend, and invited me to go back with him to his place in the country, within a few miles of which there lived, he said, a perma, or sorcerer, who could write the Lolo character.\n\nWhen I got up next morning it was raining cats and dogs. However, the chance was too good to be lost, so at 7 A.M. I went round with one servant. The T'u-ssŭ was in bed, and we had the pleasure of seeing him make his toilet. I was now very much afraid that he would delay our departure, because of the rain which was falling in torrents; not at all; our stolid friend walked straight out and had the horses brought round, without even remarking that it was raining. We followed a bridle-path that crossed torrents and wound round the edge of precipices, sometimes riding through water up to the horses' knees, sometimes toiling on foot through mud over the ankle. We had gone on thus for about three hours, but our host still said his house was far ahead. About 11 o'clock my servant urged that we could go no further, as we should not have time to get back to the inn, a matter of some importance to him, for he would not touch food in the houses of the Lolos, for fear of being poisoned. Just as I had decided that we must turn back we came in sight of a cottage, which our host indicated as the abode of his sorcerer, where I persuaded him to introduce us. The perma was unfortunately thirty miles away, officiating at a funeral, but his wife and brother were in the house, and five or six other Lolos soon arrived from cottages higher up the hill. The distance of the Chief's house still remaining an uncertain quantity I excused myself from going further, and set to work to learn what I could from the Lolos present.\n\nAs it was cold and we were wet through, wood was thrown on the fire, round which we sat eating walnuts—the only food to be got. The Chief lay down and smoked opium. About the sounds given in the Vocabulary (Lolo No. 2) of these people's language I am fairly confident, because the six or seven Lolos present were all agreed about them. The perma's brother, our host, could not write; but he professed to be able to pick out a character here and there in his brother's MSS. I copied the following characters from his indication, but he was not very clear about them, and they must be accepted with some doubt:\n\n# 3",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 7\n\nand all costs of prosperity.\n\n(Richard)\n\n2. P. Marques  \ncom Edward Grow  \nRoger Locheung do Ei I Kai  \nE l da Cilva  \nChan Cheung Fat  \nI Carneiro  \nIn Chas  \nChan Ling  \nJam Fing  \nThing Cheang Seunenden Seigh  \nForam Singh  \nEs kran  \nChan Lok  \nTo Ful  \nLei Chee  \nChung Fuf Lei Sting  \nLan On  \nIs Cheong  \nLi Kin  \nWang Wa Lai Wing  \nPan Pins  \nWang Tah  \nLin Sing Mak Stim  \nFat Ergan Jus On  \nLick Chin  \nJong To Ching Cank To Fin  \nIs Je Chair Din  \nChan String Lan Leung Ching Ting  \nFun Choi Se Sun. Chung Chu  \nMaughong. May 5th (PP).\n\n15561  \nFort Civil Aerofiltre 347  \nHongkong. 25th April. 7887  \n\n**REGE G**\n\nI have the honour to inform you that I have perused the letter No. 545 of the 22nd instant from the Acting Colonial Secretary and yourself informing me that the Right Honourable the Secretary of State had in a despatch dated ... that he considered I should retire from the service, but he confirmed the grant of a pension to me of $1108.33 a year, expressing the opinion that I am not entitled under the Fusion minutes to the additional four years for professional qualifications.\n\nI am informed that the Secretary of State has adopted this course in consideration of my weak state of health. I am also told that I clearly disobeyed instructions, that my communications with my colleagues were unpardonably discourteous, & that on the spur of the moment I drew up instructions and forwarded them as copies of instructions of long standing.\n\netter BBB C Ayres  \nCola cal Angeon",
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        "content_text": "I propose sending this Despatch lot.\n\nI have etc.\n\n**(Ad.) C. Alabaster**\nCononl\n\nCopy `6.0 4170`\n`17167`\n\n## [Joint Memorial by the \nGovernor General of the Tro \n& the Governor of Kwang \nImanyting] calling attention to the injury to Chinese \ncaused by the Kerosene \nOil imported by foreign \nmerchants & requesting \nthe issue of Imperial Commands forbidding its importation.\n\nWe have received a \nReport from Chang Wen-, Magistrate of the Chong-hai District, wherein he states that \nbetween seven & \neight o'clock \nin the evening of the 3rd \nNov. last a fire caused by \nthe bursting of a Kerosene lamp broke out in \nthe top \nstory of the Yung Sting paper establishment in Yung Ho Hing \nStreet. \n\nIt is تقریبا باید وانت \na \nview to limiting the \n& that he also supports by saying that it affects the manufacture & consumption of native oils.\n\nIis \nCase \ncopy I \nUte 5.0.",
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        "content_text": "# N. 131-11 DE JUNHO DE 1888\n\nda sua residencia, de todos os privilegios e imunidades que lhes concedeu o direito das gentes; suas pessoas, familias e casas, bem como as suas correspondencias serão inviolaveis.\n\n## Artigo VII\n\nAs correspondencias officiaes enviadas pelas autoridades portuguezas às autoridades chinezas, serão escritas em portuguez e acompanhadas da tradução chineza, servindo de documento a cada nação a versão escrita na sua propria lingua.\n\n## Artigo VIII\n\nAs formulas das correspondencias officiaes entre as autoridades portuguezas e chinezas serão reguladas pelas suas categorias e posições respectivas, tendo por base a mais completa reciprocidade. Entre os altos funcionarios portugueses e os altos funcionarios chinezes na capital do Imperio ou em qualquer outro logar, estas correspondencias terão a fórma de officio ou comunicação (Chan-haci); entre os funcionarios portugueses subalternos e as primeiras autoridades das provincias, usar-se-ha para aquelles a forma de exposição (Xen-chen) e para estas a de declaração (Chah-sing); e os funcionarios subalternos de ambas as nações deverão corresponder-se em termos de perfeita igualdade. Os negociantes, e geralmente todos os individuos não investidos de caracter official, seguirão para com as autoridades a forma de representação ou petição (Pin-cheng).\n\n## Artigo IX\n\nSua Magestade Fidelissima El-Rei de Portugal e dos Algarves poderá nomear consules geraes, consules, vice-consules ou agentes consulares nos portos e mais sitios do Imperio da China, onde seja permitido à outra nação tê-los. Estes funcionarios terão atribuições e poderes similhantes aos que tiverem os consules de outras nações, e gozarão de todas as isenções, privilegios e imunidades de que gozarem, a todo o tempo, os funcionarios consulares da nação mais favorecida.\n\nOs consules e as autoridades locaes deverão tratar-se reciprocamente com polidez e corresponder-se em termos de perfeita igualdade.\n\nOs consules e consules interinos terão honras de Tau-tri; e os vice-consules, vice-consules interinos, agentes consulares e interpretes traductores as de prefeito. Os consules devem ser empregados do governo portuguez e não commerciantes. O governo chinez não porá objeção a que Portugal, não julgando necessario nomear um consul para qualquer dos portos, encarregue interinamente o seu consulado nesse porto a um consul de outra nação.\n\n## Artigo X\n\nTodas as imunidades e regalias, e bem assim todas as vantagens em materia de commercio e de navegação, como redução de direitos de navegação, de importação e exportação, de transito, ou quaesquer outras que tiverem sido ou para o futuro venham a ser concedidas pela China a qualquer estado ou aos seus subditos, serão immediatamente extensivas e applicadas a Portugal e aos seus subditos.\n\nSe, porém, a China fizer a qualquer estado uma concessão sujeita a condições especiaes, Portugal e os seus subditos só poderão participar da tal concessão, accedendo às condições que lhe são inherentes.\n\n## Artigo XI\n\nÉ permitido aos subditos portuguezes habitar ou frequentar os portos da China abertos ao commercio estrangeiro, e ali commerciarem ou empregarem-se livremente.\n\nAs suas embarcações poderão navegar livremente entre os portos da China abertos ao commercio estrangeiro e n'elles importar e exportar as suas mercadorias, gozando de todos os direitos e privilegios que tiverem os da nação mais favorecida.\n\n## Artigo XII\n\nOs subditos portuguezes pagarão sobre todas as mercadorias que importarem ou exportarem os direitos marcados na tarifa de 1858, adoptada para todas as outras nações; e em nenhum caso lhes serão exigidos direitos mais elevados do que os que pagarem os subditos de qualquer outra nação estrangeira.\n\n## Artigo XIII\n\nOs subditos portuguezes poderão fretar quaesquer embarcações de que careçam para o transporte de carga ou de passageiros; e o preço de taes fretamentos será determinado unicamente pelas partes contratantes sem intervenção do governo chinez. O numero das embarcações não poderá ser limitado, nem se permittirá a qualquer fazer monopolio d'ellas ou dos coolies que se empreguem em carregar mercadorias.\n\nDescobrindo-se que em alguma das embarcações se fez contrabando, os culpados serão punidos conforme a lei.\n\n## Artigo XIV\n\nOs subditos portuguezes residentes nos portos abertos poderão tomar a seu serviço subditos chinezes e empregal-os em qualquer occupação legal na China, sem nenhuma restricção nem estorvo da parte do governo chinez; mas não poderão contractal-os para o estrangeiro em contravenção das leis da China.\n\n## Artigo XV\n\nAs autoridades chinezas deverão prestar a mais inteira protecção às pessoas e propriedades dos subditos portuguezes na China, sempre que corram perigo de soffrer qualquer insulto ou prejuízo. Nos casos de roubo ou incendio, as autoridades locaes tomarão immediatamente as providencias necessarias para que a propriedade roubada seja restituida, e para que os criminosos sejam presos e punidos conforme a lei.\n\nIgual protecção darão as autoridades portuguezas aos subditos chinezes que considerarem nas possessões portuguezas.\n\n## Artigo XVI\n\nQuando nos portos abertos ao commercio ou n'outros quaesquer logares algum subdito portuguez quiser construir ou abrir casas, armazens, lojas, igrejas, hospitaes ou cemiterios, o contrato de compra, aforamento ou aluguel d'essas propriedades será feito pelo preço corrente no local, com equidade, sem extorsão por qualquer das partes, sem contrariar os usos do povo, e procedendo participação de proprietario à autoridade.\n\nFica todavia entendido que só nos portos abertos ao commercio é permitido o estabelecimento de armazens ou lojas, e não no interior da China.\n\n## Artigo XVII\n\nOs subditos portuguezes que quizerem transportar mercadorias entre os portos abertos terão de solicitar do superintendente da alfandega os competentes documentos, conforme se acha determinado nos regulamentos em vigor para as outras nacionalidades.\n\nOs subditos portuguezes que, sem levar mercadorias, quizerem ir para o interior da China, deverão munir-se de passaportes, que serão dados pelos seus consules e visados pelas autoridades locaes.\n\nO portador do passaporte deverá apresental-o nos logares por onde passar quando por elle se lhe pergunte; e estando o seu passaporte regular, ninguem poderá pôr-lhe embaraço, especialmente a que alugue embarcação e carregadores para a conducção das suas bagagens ou mercadorias. Se um viajante for encontrado sem passaporte, ou se cometer alguma offensa contra a lei, será enviado ao consul de Portugal mais proximo para que o castigue, não podendo usar-se contra elle de qualquer medida de oppressão.\n\nSão desnecessarios passaportes para pessoas que percorram as vizinhanças de qualquer dos portos abertos ao commercio dentro da distancia de 100 lis (12 leguas) e do prazo de cinco dias.\n\nAs estipulações d'este artigo não dizem respeito às equipagens dos navios, porque para estas os consules, de accordo com as autoridades locaes, terão os convenientes regulamentos.\n\n## Artigo XVIII\n\nQuando succeda que um navio mercante portuguez seja roubado por piratas ou ladrões nas aguas da China, as autoridades chinezas deverão empregar a maior diligencia para prender e castigar os ladrões e recuperar a propriedade roubada, que por meio do consul será restituida a quem pertencer.\n\n## Artigo XIX, Artigo XX\n\nSe um navio portuguez naufragar na costa da China, ou for obrigado a refugiar-se em qualquer dos portos do mesmo Imperio, as autoridades chinezas, logo que recebam noticia do facto, tomarão as providencias necessarias para o proteger e soccorrer, dispensando amigavelmente à equipagem, e prestando-lhe, se preciso for, os meios de se transportar até ao consulado portuguez mais proximo.\n\n## Artigo XXI\n\nTodo o navio mercante portuguez que tiver mais de 150 toneladas, pagará os direitos de tonelagem à razão de 4 mazes de prata por cada tonelada. Tendo 150 toneladas, ou menos, pagará à razão de 1 maz por tonelada. O superintendente da alfandega deverá passar um attestadu com declaração dos direitos de tonelagem que tiverem sido pagos.\n\n## Artigo XXII\n\nConsideram-se pagaveis os direitos de importação no acto de desembarque das mercadorias, e os de exportação no embarque das mesmas.\n\n## Artigo XXIII\n\nO capitão de um navio portuguez poderá, quando assim lhe convier, desembarcar uma parte somente da sua carga em qualquer dos portos abertos, pagando os devidos direitos das fazendas que desembarcar; não se lhe podendo pedir o pagamento dos direitos pelo resto da carga senão quando elle o desembarcar em qualquer outro porto.\n\n## Artigo XXIV\n\nSerão livres de pagamento de tonelagem todos os barcos empregados por subditos portuguezes na conducção de passageiros, bagagens, cartas, provisões, ou de qualquer outra carga livre de direitos, entre os portos abertos da China. Porém, se taes barcos conduzirem mercadorias sujeitos a direitos, pagarão tonelagem todos os quatro mezes, à razão de 1 maz por tonelada.\n\n## Artigo XXV\n\nTodo o navio mercante portuguez, ao approximar-se de qualquer dos portos abertos, terá a liberdade de tomar um pratico que o faça entrar; e igualmente o poderá tomar para sahir, quando haja satisfeito a todos os direitos que dever.\n\n## Artigo XXVI\n\nTodas as vezes que um navio mercante portuguez chegar a qualquer dos portos abertos da China, o superintendente da alfandega mandará-lhe um ou mais guardas, que poderão ficar na sua embarcação ou passar para bordo do navio, segundo melhor lhes conviér. Estes guardas receberão da alfandega a comida e todo o mais que precisarem, e não poderão aceitar propina alguma do capitão do navio ou do consignatario, sob pena proporcional à importancia do que aceitarem.\n\n## Artigo XXVII\n\nVinte e quatro horas depois da chegada de um navio mercante portuguez a qualquer dos portos abertos, os papeis do mesmo navio, o manifesto da carga e mais documentos deverão ficar entregues ao consul, o qual deverá tambem, dentro de vinte e quatro horas, communicar ao superintendente da alfandega o nome do navio, o registo das suas toneladas e qual a carga que transportou. Se por negligencia, ou qualquer outro motivo, quarenta e oito horas depois da chegada do navio, se não tiver cumprido como que fica estipulado, o capitão ficará sujeito à multa de 30 taeis por cada dia mais de demora, não excedendo porém o total da multa a 200 taeis.\n\nO capitão do navio é o responsavel pela exactidão do manifesto, o qual deverá declarar a carga minuciosamente e com toda a verdade, sob pena de multa de 500 taeis no caso em que o manifesto seja achado inexacto. Não incorrerá porém na pena quando, no espaço de vinte e quatro horas depois da entrega do manifesto aos empregados da alfandega, queira corrigir algum erro que possa ter descoberto no mesmo manifesto.\n\n## Artigo XXVIII\n\nO superintendente da alfandega permitirá que o navio descarregue, logo que tenha recebido do consul a nota feita nos devidos termos. Se o capitão do navio começar a descarregar sem permissão, será multado em 500 taeis, e os objectos que tiverem sido descarregados serão confiscados.\n\n## Artigo XXIX\n\nTodo o negociante portuguez que tiver carga para embarcar ou desembarcar, deverá para isso obter uma permissão especial do superintendente da alfandega, sem o que a fazenda embarcada ou desembarcada ficará sujeita a ser confiscada.\n\n## Artigo XXX\n\nNão se poderá baldear fazenda de um navio para outro sem licença especial, sob pena de confiscação de todas as fazendas baldeadas.\n\n## Artigo XXXI\n\nQuando o navio tiver satisfeito a todos os direitos que dever, o superintendente da alfandega passar-lhe-ha um attestadu e lhe restituirá os papeis, para que possa seguir viagem.\n\n## Artigo XXXII\n\nQuando houver duvidas sobre o valor de mercadorias que, segundo a tarifa, pagam direitos ad valorem, e o negociante portuguez não puder concordar com o empregado da alfandega no valor d'essas mercadorias, cada uma das partes chamará dois ou tres negociantes para as verem; e o preço mais alto que qualquer d'elles offerecer para as comprar será julgado o justo valor d'ellas.\n\n| Artigo | Descrição |\n| --- | --- |\n| VII | Correspondencia officiaes entre autoridades portuguezas e chinezas |\n| VIII | Formulas das correspondencias officiaes |\n| IX | Nomeação de consules portuguezes na China |\n| X | Imunidades e regalias concedidas pela China a Portugal |\n| XI | Direitos dos subditos portuguezes na China |\n| XII | Direitos de importação e exportação |\n| XIII | Fretamento de embarcações por subditos portuguezes |\n| XIV | Emprego de subditos chinezes por portuguezes |\n| XV | Protecção às pessoas e propriedades dos subditos portuguezes |\n| XVI | Construção e aluguel de propriedades por subditos portuguezes |\n| XVII | Passaportes para subditos portuguezes |\n| XVIII | Roubo de navios portuguezes por piratas |\n| XIX | Soccorro a navios portuguezes naufragos |\n| XX | Direitos de tonelagem |\n| XXI | Pagamento de direitos de importação e exportação |\n| XXII | Desembarque parcial de carga |\n| XXIII | não existe, foi XXII |\n| XXIV | Isenção de tonelagem para certos barcos |\n| XXV | Tomada de pratico por navios portuguezes |\n| XXVI | Fiscalização de navios portuguezes pela alfandega chinez |\n| XXVII | Entrega de documentos ao consul e multa por demora |\n| XXVIII | Descarregamento de navios |\n| XXIX | Permissão para embarque e desembarque de carga |\n| XXX | Prohibição de baldear fazenda sem licença |\n| XXXI | Restituição de papeis ao navio após pagamento de direitos |\n| XXXII | Determinação do valor de mercadorias para direitos ad valorem |\n\n## Article VII\n\nThe official correspondence addressed by Portuguese authorities to the Chinese authorities shall be written in the Portuguese language accompanied by a translation in Chinese, and each nation shall regard as authoritative the document written in its own language.\n\n## Article VIII\n\nThe form of correspondence between the Portuguese and the Chinese authorities will be regulated by their respective rank and position based upon complete reciprocity. Between the high Portuguese and Chinese functionaries at the capital or elsewhere, such correspondence will take the form of despatch; between the subordinate functionaries of Portugal and the chief authorities of the Provinces, the former shall make use of the form of exposition (Xen-chen) and the latter that of declaration (Chah-sing); and the subordinate officers of both nations shall correspond together on terms of perfect equality. Merchants and generally all others who are not invested with official character shall adopt in addressing the authorities the form of representation or petition (Pin-cheng).\n\n## Article IX\n\nHis Most Faithful Majesty the King of Portugal and Algarves may appoint Consuls General, Consuls, Vice Consuls, or Consular-Agents in the ports or other places where it is allowed to other nations to have them. These functionaries will have powers and attributes similar to those of the Consuls of other nations and will enjoy all the exemptions, privileges and immunities which at any time the consular functionaries of the most favoured nation may enjoy.\n\nThe Consuls and the local authorities will show to each other reciprocal civilities and correspond with each other on terms of perfect equality.\n\nThe Consuls and Acting Consuls will rank with Tau-tais; Vice Consuls, Acting Vice Consuls, Consular-Agents, and Interpreter-translators, with Prefects. The Consuls must be officials of the Portuguese Government and not merchants. The Chinese Government will make no objection in case the Portuguese Government should deem it unnecessary to appoint an official Consul at any port and choose to entrust a Consul of some other nation, for the time being, with the duties of Portuguese Consul at that port.\n\n## Article X\n\nAll the immunities and privileges, as well as all the advantages concerning commerce and navigation such as any reduction in the duties of navigation, importation, exportation, transit or any other, which may have been or may be hereafter granted by China to any other state or to its subjects will be immediately extended to Portugal and its subjects.\n\nIf any concession is granted by the Chinese Government to any foreign Government under special condition, Portugal, on claiming the same concession for herself and for her own subjects will equally assent to the conditions attached to it.\n\n## Article XI\n\nPortuguese subjects are allowed to reside at, or frequent, the ports of China opened to foreign commerce, and there carry on trade or employ themselves freely.\n\nTheir boats may navigate without hindrance between the ports open to foreign commerce and they may import and export their merchandise enjoying all the rights and privileges enjoyed by the subjects of the most favoured nation.\n\n## Article XII\n\nPortuguese subjects shall pay import and export duties on all merchandise according to the rates specified in the tariff of 1858 adopted for all the other nations; and in no instance shall higher duties be exacted from them than those paid by the subjects of any other foreign nation.\n\n## Article XIII\n\nPortuguese subjects are permitted to hire any description of boats they may require for the conveyance of cargo or passengers, and the price of said hire will be fixed by the contracting parties alone without interference of the Chinese Government. No limit shall be put to the number of boats, neither will it be permitted to any one to establish a monopoly of such boats, or of the services of coolies employed in the carriage of merchandise.\n\nShould contraband articles be on board any such boats, the guilty parties shall immediately be punished according to law.\n\n## Article XIV\n\nPortuguese subjects residing in the open ports may take into their service Chinese subjects and employ them in any lawful capacity in China without restraint or hindrance from the Chinese Government, but shall not engage them for foreign countries in contravention of the laws of China.\n\n## Article XV\n\nThe Chinese authorities are bound to grant the fullest protection to the persons and to the property of Portuguese subjects in China, whenever they may be exposed to insult or wrong. In case of robbery or incendiarism, the local authorities will immediately take the necessary measures to recover the stolen property, to seize the guilty, and punish them according to the law.\n\nSimilar protection will be given by Portuguese authorities to Chinese subjects in the possessions of Portugal.\n\n## Article XVI\n\nWhenever a Portuguese subject intends to build or open houses, shops or warehouses, churches, hospitals, or cemeteries, at the Treaty ports or at other places, the purchase, rent, or lease of these properties shall be made out according to the current terms of the place with equity, without exaction on either side, without offending against the usage of the people, and after due notice given by the proprietors to the local authority.\n\nIt is understood, however, that the shops or warehouses above mentioned shall only be allowed at the ports open to trade but not at any place in the interior.\n\n## Article XVII\n\nPortuguese subjects conveying merchandise between open ports shall be required to take certificates from the Superintendent of the custom house, such as are specified in the regulations in force with reference to other nationalities.\n\nBut Portuguese subjects who without carrying merchandise should like to go to the interior of China must have passports issued by their Consuls and countersigned by the local authorities.\n\nThe bearer of the passport must produce the same when demanded, and the passport not being irregular he will be allowed to proceed and no opposition shall be offered, especially to his hiring persons or vessels for the carriage of his baggage or merchandise. If he be without a passport, or if he commits any offence against the law, he shall be handed over to the nearest Consul of Portugal to be punished, but he must not be subjected to any oppressive measure.\n\nNo passport need be applied for by persons going on excursions from the ports open to trade to a distance not exceeding 100 li and for a period not exceeding five days.\n\nThe provision of this article do not apply to crews of ships, for the due restraint of whom regulations will be drawn up by the Consul and the local authorities.\n\n## Article XVIII\n\nIn the event of a Portuguese merchant vessel being plundered by pirates or thieves within Chinese waters, the Chinese authorities are to employ their utmost exertions to seize and punish the said robbers and to recover the stolen goods which through the Consul shall be restored to whom they belong.\n\n## Article XIX\n\nIf a Portuguese vessel be shipwrecked on the coast of China, or be compelled to take refuge in any of the ports of the Empire, the Chinese authorities, on receiving notice of the fact, shall provide the necessary protection, affording prompt assistance and kind treatment to the crews and if necessary, furnishing them the means to reach the nearest consulate.\n\n## Article XX\n\nPortuguese merchant vessels of more than 150 tons burden will pay tonnage dues at the rate of 4 mace per ton; if of 150 tons and under, they shall be charged at the rate of 1 mace per ton. The Superintendent of the customs shall grant a certificate declaring that the tonnage dues have been paid.\n\n## Article XXI\n\nImport duties shall be paid on the landing of goods; and export duties upon the shipment of the same.\n\n## Article XXII\n\nThe captain of a Portuguese ship may, when he deems convenient, land only a part of his cargo at one of the open ports, paying the duties due on the portion landed; the duties on the remainder not being payable until they are landed at some other port.\n\n## Article XXIV\n\nAll small vessels employed by Portuguese subjects in carrying passengers, baggage, letters, provisions or any other cargo which is free of duty between the open ports of China, shall be free from tonnage dues; but all such vessels carrying merchandise subject to duty shall pay tonnage dues every four months at the rate of 1 mace per ton.\n\n## Article XXV\n\nPortuguese merchant vessels approaching any of the open ports will be at liberty to take a pilot to reach the harbour; and likewise to take a pilot to leave it, in case the said ship shall have paid all the duties due by her.\n\n## Article XXVI\n\nWhenever a Portuguese merchant ship shall arrive at any of the open ports of China, the Superintendent of the customs will send on board one or more Customs Officers, who may stay on board of their boat or on board of the ship, as best suits their convenience. These Officers will get their food and all necessaries from the custom house, and will not be allowed to accept any fee from the Captain of the ship or from the consignee, being liable to a penalty proportionate to the amount received by them.\n\n## Article XXVII\n\nTwenty-four hours after the arrival of a Portuguese merchant ship at any of the open ports, the papers of the ship, manifest and other documents, shall be handed over to the Consul, whose duty it will be also to report to the Superintendent of the customs within twenty-four hours, the name, the registered tonnage and the cargo brought by the said vessel. If through negligence or for any other motive, this stipulation be not complied with within forty-eight hours after the arrival of the ship, the Captain shall be subject to a fine of 50 taels for each day's delay over and above that period, but the total amount of the fines shall not exceed 200 taels.\n\nThe Captain of the ship is responsible for the correctness of the manifest, in which the cargo shall be minutely and truthfully described, subject to a fine of 500 taels as a penalty in case the manifest should be found incorrect. This fine however, will not be incurred if within twenty-four hours after the delivery of the manifest to the custom house Officer, the Captain express the wish to rectify any error which may have been discovered in the said manifest.\n\n## Article XXVIII\n\nThe Superintendent of customs will permit the discharging of the ship as soon as he shall have received from the Consul the report drawn in due form. If the Captain of the ship should take upon himself to commence discharging without permission, he shall be fined 500 taels and the goods so discharged shall be confiscated.\n\n## Article XXIX\n\nPortuguese merchants having goods to ship or to land, will have to obtain a special permission from the Superintendent of customs to that effect, without which all goods shipped or landed shall be liable to confiscation.\n\n## Article XXX\n\nNo transhipment of goods is allowed from ship to ship without special permission, under penalty of confiscation of all goods so transhipped.\n\n## Article XXXI\n\nWhen a ship shall have paid all her duties, the Superintendent of customs will grant a certificate and return the papers, in order that she may proceed on her voyage.\n\n## Article XXXII\n\nWhen any doubt may arise as to the value of goods which by the tariff are liable to ad valorem duty, and the Portuguese merchant disagrees with the custom house Officer as regards the value of said goods, both parties will call two or three merchants to examine them; and the highest offer made by any of the said merchants to buy the goods will be considered as their just value.",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTE\n219\n\nMr. Johnsen & Now.  \nMr. Farifield  \n2 Nov  \nMr. Wingfield.  \nMr. Bramston.  \nMr. Meade.  \n2  \nSir R. Herbert.  \nBaron de Worms.  \nLord Knutsford.  \n\n2 Drafts  \nQuod  \n7.0  \n21305  \nAt King 312  \nIS Nov. 89  \n\nI had the man to acquaint him by telegraph  \nthat Chang Jajen the Chinese Minister at Washington was going back to Pekin by the French mail steam to arrive at Hongkong on the 6th January.",
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        "content_text": "Non-visual\n\nB-ttam Launch Towing Certificate.\n\nKowloon, 18th Febry, 1890\n\nThis is to certify that the steam Launch \"Ram\" owned by Ahok Wong & Wong Rung authorized to enter Chinese waters at pleasure to wait at or near the Custom House stations at Capshimoon, Chanchow, Dio To Chow, Kowloon for the purpose of towing native craft, with merchandise or carrying passengers, to and from between the Island of King Fing about 1 mile to the Eastward of the Capshimoon Station.\n\nThe limits within which she is permitted to ply are:-\n\nOn the East a line drawn from the northernmost point of High Island to the nearest point of Ap Steep Island about 2 miles S. M. by E. of the Chang Chow Station,\n\nOn the West a line drawn from outside the Fado Chow Station, to the immediate vicinity of the Kowloon Station.\n\nThis certificate must be produced when passing any Customs station or when required by Customs officers.\n\nIt is not transferable and from the date of issue, it must be returned to Commissioner of Customs Kowloon, to be cancelled.\n\n(Signed) H. Morgan\n\nCommissioner\n\nThe Launch is not permitted hereby to land or ship merchandise and passengers, or otherwise contravene the Revenue Laws of China, will become liable to the penalties laid down.\n\nCustoms Warehouse\n\nKowloon\n\n \nPage information is not available in this text, no page number detected.",
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        "content_text": "LIST OF OFFICERS WHO HAVE OBTAINED AN ABSOLUTE INCREASE ON SALARIES IN 1875 OF 20 PER CENT.,—Continued.\n\n448\n\n  \n    Office\n    Name\n    Salary 1890\n    Salary 1891\n    Increase over 1890\n  \n  \n    HARBOUR MASTER,—Continued.\n    \n    $\n    $\n    $\n  \n  \n    3rd Clerk,\n    A. P. Guterres,\n    1,440\n    1,728\n    288\n  \n  \n    Do., Personal Allowance,\n    Do.,\n    120\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    4th Clerk,\n    A. C. Botelho,\n    960\n    1,152\n    192\n  \n  \n    5th Clerk,\n    Chan Tsenng-fat,\n    720\n    864\n    144\n  \n  \n    Inspector of Janks,\n    J. J. Collaço,\n    888\n    1,080\n    192\n  \n  \n    Signalman at Peak,\n    F. C. Collaço,\n    660\n    840\n    180\n  \n  \n    3rd Lighthouse Keeper,\n    Vacant.\n    480\n    576\n    96\n  \n  \n    STAMP OFFICE.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2nd Clerk,\n    E. H. d'Aquino,\n    1,200\n    1,440\n    240\n  \n  \n    Personal Allowance,\n    Do.,\n    240\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    LEGAL DEPARTMENTS.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Clerk to Registrar,\n    S. Abdool Rahman,\n    720\n    864\n    144\n  \n  \n    Attorney General's Clerk,\n    S. A. Ramjban,\n    600\n    720\n    120\n  \n  \n    Crown Solicitor's Clerk,\n    M. A. Baptista,\n    600\n    720\n    120\n  \n  \n    MAGISTRATE.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1st Clerk,\n    Ng Kwai-shang,\n    1,440\n    1,728\n    288\n  \n  \n    2nd Clerk,\n    Chan Kai-ming,\n    960\n    1,152\n    192\n  \n  \n    4th Clerk,\n    J. M. da Silva,\n    648\n    \n    108\n  \n  \n    4th Clerk,\n    A. R. Abbas,\n    360\n    432\n    72\n  \n  \n    1st Chinese Interpreter,\n    Ng Kum Sing,\n    960\n    1,152\n    192\n  \n  \n    3rd Chinese Interpreter,\n    Chan Kwai-ün,\n    444\n    532\n    88\n  \n  \n    Russian Interpreter,\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Chinese Clerk,\n    A. B. Suffail,\n    600\n    720\n    120\n  \n  \n    Usher, Chinese,\n    Chang Cho-lü,\n    360\n    \n    72\n  \n  \n    Assistant Usher,\n    Chan Sab,\n    480\n    576\n    96\n  \n  \n    \n    Au Shin-mo,\n    240\n    288\n    48\n  \n  \n    SANITARY.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Superintendent,\n    H. McCallum,\n    2,640\n    3,600\n    960\n  \n  \n    Do., Personal Allowance,\n    Do.,\n    360\n    600\n    \n  \n\nPage 449\n\nPage 450\n\nPage 451",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG, 26th October, 1891.\n\nSir, I have the honour to forward herewith a report on the state of the Government Fire Engines for the year ending 31st December, 1890.\n\n## STEAMER NO. 1\n\n(Floating Engine) by Messrs. Merryweather & Co.\n\nThis Engine has been 23 years in service. In December last, the Launch, Engine, Boiler and Pumps received a general overhaul and were put in good order, the time occupied for these repairs was 15 days and since then it has done good service.\n\nDuring the year the Engine has not been disabled at a fire, and is now in good working order.\n\n## STEAMER NO. 2\n\n(Land Engine) by Messrs. Merryweather & Co.\n\nThis Engine has been 22 years in service. During the year it has not been disabled at a fire, it has been kept in reserve, and only used at drill for drivers. The Engine is in need of a thorough overhaul and the Boiler requires some extensive repairs to fire-box, but, as this Engine is of an obsolete type for land purposes, and cannot be relied upon to work efficiently under full power, I would recommend it to be replaced with one of Shand & Mason's powerful Pumps similar to No. 5.\n\n## STEAMER No. 3\n\n(Land Engine) by Shand & Mason.\n\nThis Engine has been 11 years in service. During the year it has not been disabled at a fire, it has done good service, was examined and tested in May last, and is now in good working order.\n\n## STEAMER No. 4\n\n(Land Engine) by Shand & Mason.\n\nThis Engine has been 8 years in service. During the year it has worked satisfactorily, and is now in good working order.\n\n## STEAMER No. 5\n\n(Land Engine) by Shand & Mason.\n\nThis Engine has been 4 years in service. It has not been disabled at a fire, and is now in good working order.\n\n## STEAMER No. 6 (late Volunteer)\n\n(Land Engine) by Shand & Mason.\n\nThis Engine has been 11 years in service, (9 years in Volunteer Brigade). In April last the Boiler was fitted with new Injector, and the Engine and Pumps were carefully overhauled, the time occupied for these repairs was 7 days. During the year it has done good service, has not been disabled at a fire and is now in good working order.\n\nManual Engines (9) all in good working order.\n\nDuring the year the calls on the Brigade have been few, compared with former years, and the Engines and Boilers have been carefully examined and tested. There has been a new system of drills for drivers introduced. Instructions for their guidance have been printed in the form of questions and answers containing information that they ought to be in possession of; and drills held twice a week, those drivers proving themselves efficient have received Certificates.\n\nAdditional pumping power is much required in the Harbour and at Kowloon, and I would respectfully suggest that another floating Engine be supplied, as being the most useful for attacking a fire on board Ship, or on shore at Kowloon or assisting the other Engines.\n\nThe Assistant Engineer and the Engine Drivers have given every attention to their duties, and have always attended promptly to the calls on the Fire Department.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nJous W. KINGHORN, Engineer, Government Fire Brigade.\n\nTo Geo. HonsPOOL, Esquire,\n\nActing Superintendent, Government Fire Brigade.\n\n## FIRES AND ALARMS, 1890\n\n| No. | DATE | TIME | Jet | SITUATION OF FIRE | NO. 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        "content_text": "# The Daily Press.\n\n## HONGKONG, OCTOBER 14TH, 1891.\n\n### THE TRIAL OF MASON.\n\nThe trial of Charles Henry Allen Welch Mason on a charge that he \"did on or about the 13th September have in his possession or under his control five pounds weight or thereabouts of an explosive substance under such circumstances as to give reasonable suspicion that he did not have it in his possession for a lawful object,” was continued at the British Police Court at Shanghai on the 7th inst.\n\nAs before, Mr. H. S. Wilkinson, Crown Advocate, prosecuted; Mr. R. E. Bredon, Commissioner of Customs, and Mr. Yu, the deputy appointed by the Viceroy at Nanking, were present in Court during the hearing of the case. H.E. the Tuotai and his interpreter, Mr. Zee Lan-char, occupied seats on the bench.\n\nHenry Croskey deposed--I am an American citizen, and a fourth assistant in the Customs service. I know the accused. I have been stationed at Chinkiang since July 16 last. I lived in the same quarters as accused at Chinkiang. About the beginning of August accused told me he knew there were certain Chinese in Chinkiang who proposed to rebel against the Government in Chinkiang and Nanking and that his intention was to assist them. He named several Chinese who he said were members of a society called the Kolao Hui. He proposed to go to join in the movement, and left with me on his departure certain instructions written in cypher. On one occasion he told me he had written a letter to Gen. Mesny at Shanghai, making proposals to him. The letter, accused said, was signed “X” and the answer was to be addressed to “X”, Customs Post Office, Chinkiang. He also said it was written in such a manner as to make Gen. Mesny believe it came from a Chinese. He had the letter in his hand, but I had no opportunity of reading it. I saw in his possession an American illustrated catalogue of firearms. Accused here interposed and asked if questions regarding arms had any bearing on the matter of dynamite.\n\nHis Worship said he presumed they had. Accused was charged with having dynamite under such circumstances as to raise a suspicion that it was for an unlawful purpose, and therefore the accompanying circumstances were clearly admissible.\n\nExamination continued--Accused told me, two or three days after his letter to General Mesny, that he had applied for leave to go to Shanghai to see a dentist, but that his real object was to see General Mesny. Leave was not granted. He afterwards went away on two months' leave. He said he proposed to go to Japan, and from there immediately to Hongkong, where he proposed to buy arms and ammunition and bring them to Chinkiang. Three days before he left he sent me the paper produced, which is a key to a cypher. After office hours he asked me if I could read it. I told him I could. It is not a difficult cypher. It consists of English words written in Greek characters. Down to the last three lines the words are in the usual order. The last three lines are written from right to left, the lowest line first. On the day of his departure he handed me a sheet of instructions written in this cypher. I gave it to the Commissioner at Chinkiang. I made a copy in cypher and a translation in English: -\n\n\"You will receive a letter or telegram from me with 4 figures: first two give day and second two give month, example: 0110 means 10th August, 3090 means 30th Sept., on this day or soon after you may expect me, if in our own ship. Signal will be one long blast, followed by two short ones; also by day, black pennant at mast head. By night red lamp beneath white, also at mast head. On arrival, come off in Custom's gig or sampan and bring along any weapons that may be in your charge, remember red sash. If I come from Shanghai, I shall come by river steamer bringing arms and perhaps a few men; and come straight to Customs, in disguise, as friend. (Don't go out to dinner for a week, after receipt of my letter, if possible.) We shall then quietly collect our men, arm and commence operations.\n\nOn receipt of date, tell road-coolie, tell boy, and tell him his instructions appended. Find Chinese date from Almanac. Write on slip (thus, 8 moon and 20th day) and show to tingchai the morning of date, tell Morris and if possible, see Clark, Martin, Schultz and O'Neill and tell them to be ready to come aboard. Remember that your duties will be telegraph, bank and Silver Island forts, learn your ground. Likewise take a run up to Nanking, and take road-coolie with you. Domestic: take care of ponies and have them exercised and teach boy to ride (big saddle). Every day ask to see boy's bags: I have told him to make 50. Please pay him for a bale of cloth and cotton out of $20 left by me. On receipt of date, pay boy thirty dollars, tingchai 10 dollars, total fifty, left with you to be returned if not used. Also give each man one bale Turkey red at $2.40--$10. The pass-word, see boy's instructions. Instructions to boy. On receipt of date letter immediately send pamphlets to Nanking, Chinkiang camp, Silver Island and Kiangyin; day before date named, put up notices in Chinkiang not to bargain for eigners--day before date named, tell d'un to arrange with Yang Ta-chang, Gan-chin, l'u Kuo-fa, brass-man, etc., and 100 men himself, they must be ready on bank and when steamer sighted must come off either from Shia-ma-tou or Chi-ho Kho (lorcha anchorage or opposite village; boy not to tell them exact date. The pass-word will be challenge: \"Lago \"who). Answer -\"Gangizu\" to which first man says \"Chiang\" (river). Boy to meet every up steamer after date mentioned, waiting at saloon passengers' gangway.\n\nI have already paid boy $10, tingchai $10, road coolie $5.\"\n\nExamination resumed--Clark is a former third-class tide waiter at Chinkiang, now discharged. Martin is now a third-class tidewaiter at Chinkiang. Schultz is a salt searcher employed by the Tuotai. O'Neill and Morris are third-class tide waiters. The boy's bags referred to were canvas haversacks of which a model was made for accused before his departure. The Turkey red was to be cut up and used for distinguishing sashes. He had left two pieces for that purpose. Accused's boy was discharged by me about September 6th and went to Kiukiang, his native place. Yang Ta-chang is a ting hat in the Custom House general office. Ta Kuo-fu is the head road coolie of the Chinkiang Concession road fund, of which accused was Secretary. Gan-chin I do not know. At the time of his departure accused left a package containing ten or twelve brass knuckledusters, made in Chinkiang by the local tinker, referred to in the translation as the brass-man. Accused went on leave on the 26th or 27th of August. I received two letters from him from Hongkong, one dated 2nd September and the other 5th September. The first letter stated that he had written to Mr. Brazier explaining his presence in Hongkong, and that he expected to leave shortly for Japan. The letter produced is in accused's handwriting.\n\nMr. Wilkinson read the letter, which was as follows:---\n\n\"Victoria Hotel, \n\"Hongkong, September 2nd, 1891.\n\nDear Mr. Brazier,\n\nYou will be surprised to see me sending from this place, having come here, I may say, purely by accident. I found in Shanghai a letter waiting me from my uncle in India, saying he would be able to get his leave and would join me in Nagasaki, if I could get away by the middle of September. This knocked my catching the Vladivostock steamer on the head, so I thought I would rest a day or two in Shanghai, letting the Saikio go without me. When the second day I heard the Saikio had struck on the bar and would not be off till 6 p.m., and as I had found a day in Shanghai quite enough, I started off to catch her in the \"We jung mail\", which arrived (pardon slang) 32 minutes late, and we could only see the smoke of the Saikio as she rounded the corner. I had then no alternative but to sleep on the \"mail,\" which does not return to Shanghai till the following morning, and the next morning I got up at seven and saw a mail steamer getting up steam about a quarter of a mile off. This on enquiry proved to be the P. and O. Mirzapore leaving for Hongkong. I then thought, \"Dash it, why not shoot down to Hongkong and meet my uncle there instead of returning ignominiously to Shanghai to waste a week waiting for the ...",
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        "content_text": "No. 57.\n\nto the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nI am,\n\nYour most obedient\nhumble servant,\n\nJ.itt Sanderson,\n\n(No. 12.) My Lord,\n\nActing Consul Parker to the Marquis of Salisbury-(Received June 12.)\n\n81\n\nKiungchow, May 5, 1891.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose a free translation of a Chinese State paper touching your Lordship's Department.\n\nIt appeared in the Chinese \"Shiên Pao\" of Shanghae on the 20th April, but only reached me to-day.\n\nAs it does not touch the business of this office, I have kept no copy.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) E. H. PARKER.\n\nInclosure in No. 57.\n\n**RECO...**\n### Chinese State Paper about Consuls in the Colonies.\n\n#### Memorial \n(1) upon the expediency of appointing further Consuls in British possessions for the protection of Chinese subjects; and \n(2) considering the general question of sending officers gradually afterwards to the various islands in the South Seas, respectfully submitted to the Sacred Glance.\n\nIN the year 1886 Chang Chi-tung, Governor-General of the Two Kwang, deputed Colonel Wang Sung-ho and the Prefect Shê K'iung to make inquiry into the mercantile condition of the Chinese in the various isles of the south. In his Report he stated that the deputies had visited over twenty ports, and he estimated that the appointment of three Consuls-General would be advisable at three different places in the British, Dutch, and Spanish islands, with several Consuls and Vice-Consuls under each. The Tsung-li Yamên sent in its Report in reply, which is on record.\n\nIn the month of August 1890 your servant received a despatch from the Tsung-li Yamên stating that they had received a Report from Admiral Ting Ju-chang,* through the Admiralty Board, stating that \"on his present cruize he had found that at none of the following places near to Singapore were any Consular officers appointed, to wit: Penang, Malacca, Johore, Pahang, Selangore, and Perak; and at all these places the Chinese traders had flocked to him to complain of the bullying and fleecing they underwent, and to pray his assistance;\" and that it was proposed to appoint a Vice-Consul to each of these places, taken from the ranks of the respectable and well-to-do merchants of the place, and to put them all under the jurisdiction of the Consul at Singapore; that it would be first necessary to arrange the matter with the said† Foreign Office, and obtain their exequaturs; if this could be done, Chinese subjects would really derive great benefit therefrom.\n\n* Admiral Lang's \"colleague\" during the late cruize, which ended in the former's resignation.\n\n† Not respectful.",
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        "content_text": "29 \n\nYour servant at once proceeded, on receipt of the above instructions, to address a despatch to the British Foreign Office, quoting the rule of international law, and the established practice of all nations, and stating that China was at liberty to appoint Consuls to reside at different places in the British dominions under those rules, and that as soon as preliminary arrangements should have been made with the Foreign Office your servant would communicate with the Tsung-li Yamên with a view to making satisfactory dispositions, &c.\n\nIn your servant's humble opinion, Consuls are very important functionaries, whilst on the other hand the number of Chinese in the various islands of the South Seas is very great.\n\nUnless a comprehensive view of the whole bearings be taken, it is impossible to be certain what is our true interest in any particular point; and, unless arrangements are made with each country, it is impossible to know what takes place in this or that corner of the world. Your servant therefore begs to lay the whole subject from beginning to end before his august Master.\n\nAs a rule, most foreign States hold commerce to be a foundation of strength and wealth, and they always appoint Consuls at the ports open to trade in each other's countries, in order to protect the merchant. Whenever there are any harassing laws, these remonstrate from time to time in such wise that merchants ply their vocation in comfort, and trade goes on flourishing. At the same time officers travelling for information, and artisans of all kinds, find a home wherever they go.\n\nThe power of Consuls sent by the different European States to China is, however, greater than in other cases, the reason being that, at first, China was ignorant of foreign affairs, and consented to their jurisdiction over their nationals in China, just as though they were local executive officials. In all cases in which foreigners are concerned, such as homicide, claims for debt, &c., it is always the Consul who deals with the case himself, and this often thwarts the action of our own local authorities; the frequent disputes which used to arise in the different Chinese ports were often at bottom owing to this arrangement. Yet even the Consuls in other countries, who have no executive power, and are only there, nominally at least, for the protection of trade, even these officers are looked upon as very important by the different States; and whenever any international interest calls for it, arrangements are made to appoint one, for, the more far-reaching the branches, the stronger the trunk; the wider the sources of information, the more effectual the springs of action; the happier the people, the wider a country's influence. All this goes without saying.\n\nOf the Chinese Consuls abroad, as regards England, there is the Singapore Consul; as regards America, there is the Consul-General at San Francisco, and the Consul at New York; in Spain there is the Consul-General for Cuba, and the Consul at Matanzas; in Peru there is the Consul at Callao; in Japan there are the Consuls at Nagasaki, Yokohama, and Kobé, with a Vice-Consul at Hakodadi; the Tsung-li Yamên having from time to time arranged with the Envoys abroad so that the appointments in North and South America and in Japan are tolerably numerous.\n\nBut, as regards the islands in the Southern Seas, scattered about in every direction, these are of still closer importance to China. The number of Chinese who have gone thither to reside, to trade, to act as coolies, to cultivate the soil, or to engage in mining, reaches a total of 3,000,000 or more.\n\nComparing the results of his own experience with the language of Chang Chi-tung's Memorial, your servant thinks that, of the places where Chinese have congregated most thickly, there are four spots in the Dutch and Spanish Colonies to which Consuls should be appointed, to wit: Deli, in Sumatra; Samarang, and the ports near it, Batavia, and Manila. In the English and French Colonies there are five places, to wit: Saigon, Tonquin, Hong Kong, Australia, and Rangoon, in Burmah. As regards such other places as Penang, &c., there will be plenty of time to devise means according to opportunity, either to make the nearest Consul act for these places too, or to select well-to-do merchants or gentlemen, giving them the title of Vice-Consul, and a small allowance, and placing them under the nearest Consul; and this accordingly as needs are or are not pressing, and as means suggest themselves. In any case, the expense will not be very great. In the islands of the South Seas, for instance, only a dozen or so of Consuls are required for the complete establishment of the higher grade, and, even after lesser additions shall have been made from time to time, the total expense ought not to exceed £20,000 a-year.\n\nYour servant understands that 15 per cent. of the Foreign Customs collection is appropriated annually to the cost of Missions abroad—about £300,000;* but of late years the total cost of all Missions, including the expense of the peripatetic inquiry officers, has only amounted to about £120,000 a-year. The Tsung-li Yamên's proposal was to reserve the balance for future requirements of the same nature in other countries; but, in the humble opinion of your servant, Envoys having already been appointed to all the first class Great Powers, whilst Powers of the second and third rank are attended to by the nearest Envoy in addition to his original duties, there will be no necessity for the present to make further appointments. If, on the other hand, these dozen or so of Consular appointments are gradually made, commerce will improve, the people will grow richer, and a responsive sympathy will beat in the internal administration at home. Besides, popular aspirations abroad will be gratified, and the Chinese will no longer entertain feelings of disappointed hope. Incalculable advantage, not appearing on the surface, will be reaped, and foreigners will not be furnished with ground for ridiculing us; the benefits resulting from this will be ten times greater than the expense incurred.\n\n30 \n\nLooking over the Returns of Trade of the different States, and the Comparative Tables of Exports and Imports, your servant observes that from £2,000,000 to £4,000,000 in silver leaves China every year for foreign countries. He also observes that the amounts remitted annually from California by Chinese resident there have for several years past reached the total of about £2,000,000 a-year. Though the rate of wages there is comparatively high, yet the number of Chinese is not so very large; so that it may be guessed what sums are remitted from Cuba and Peru, and the same thing may be said of the islands in the south. Now, the balance of trade is very much against China, but some alleviation arises, it thus appears, from the earnings of Chinese abroad, which go to redress the balance in some degree. If this source of income should be closed once more, silver in China will become scarcer than ever, and the poverty of the people being extreme, untoward events are to be dreaded.\n\nTo take Singapore as a single instance: our Consul there has been established for thirteen years, and the total expenditure has not amounted to £25,000, whilst the amounts received as subscriptions towards the various famines and towards the coast defences have reached double that sum: 140,000 or 150,000 merchants and labourers would probably send to China from £2,000,000 to £4,000,000.\n\nThough Consuls appointed to places abroad have no powers of jurisdiction over Chinese, yet it is certainly their business to protect Chinese subjects. In the event of the Treaties being revised, there must be a provision that our Consuls shall be able to discuss any matter that may come before them with the authority of the place. The foreign officials will thus be able to gain information through the Consul, and the people of the place will be chary about treating Chinese vexatiously or tyrannically. Nay, more, our Envoys abroad, when they may see fit to argue any question with the Foreign Offices, will also have to depend upon what the Consuls report to support their contentions. In this way the foreign officials will be more careful how they act towards Chinese. These are the reasons why the appointment of Consuls is indispensable; while, as regards places where there already are Consuls, unquestionably advantages such as those indicated have already accrued.\n\nThe benefits gained by Chinese emigrants abroad are even now somewhat less than they used to be; but, if it were possible to appoint Consuls to all the ports in the Southern Seas, it would not be too late to right things again, and to open up a decided source of advantage. The reason why this advice comes so late, and has not been much acted upon so far, is that, when the Treaties with the different countries were made, China did not know much about foreign places, nor was she aware that there were so many Chinese abroad. Consequently, we gave them the power to appoint Consuls in China, but inserted no provision about our having Consuls abroad. Again, the great marts which the different States have created out of unoccupied islands have owed almost all their prosperity to Chinese immigration, whilst the number of Europeans there is really very small. As soon as ever we begin to talk about appointing Consuls they are certain to set up a howl about our supplanting their rights, and standing in the way of their tyrannical taxation and schemes of conquest. For this reason they are certain to refuse our demands outright at first, and procrastinate as much as possible afterwards. The Foreign Office will pretend that it must consult the \n*The revenue from this source is from £2,500,000 to £3,000,000, but is usually divided into (1) the 1% fund, and (2) the ... fund. Possibly the ... fund means × \n\n[559]",
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        "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 204. 21st MAY 92\n\nThe following List is published for information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st May, 1892.\n\n**G. T. M. O'BRIEN**, Colonial Secretary.\n\n### Schedule of Contributors to the Widows and Orphans' Fund, approved by the Governor in Council, under Section 5 of Ordinance 18 of 1891.\n\n#### THE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' PENSION FUND\n\n| Office | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE | Hon. G. T. M. O'Brien, C.M.G. |\n| Clerk of Councils | J. G. T. Buckle |\n| **COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE** |  |\n| Colonial Secretary, Cadet | F. J. Badeley |\n| Chief Clerk | A. Seth |\n| 1st Clerk | J. M. S. Alves |\n| 2nd Clerk | P. H. Rozario |\n| 3rd Clerk | J. M. Gutierrez |\n| **TREASURY** |  |\n| 1st Clerk and Cashier | A. F. Alves |\n| 2nd Clerk and Accountant | J. A. Carvalho |\n| 3rd Clerk | E. A. Carvalho |\n| Collector of Village Rates | Lo Cheung Shin, Cheng Kat Sun, Cheng Wantsai, Cheong Ting Yok, Cheung Pukisai |\n| 1st Audit and Reference Clerk | J. M. A. Silva |\n| 2nd Audit Clerk | F. Freire |\n| **SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE** |  |\n| Correspondence Clerk | A. H. Reunie |\n| 1st Clerk | M. Gutierrez |\n| 2nd Clerk | J. G. Gutierrez |\n| 3rd Clerk | F. M. Franco |\n| 4th Clerk | R. F. Drury |\n| Assistant Engineer | S. T. Moore |\n| Overseer | V ... |\n| **WATER AND DRAINAGE DEPARTMENT** |  |\n| Draftsman | ... |\n| **POST OFFICE** |  |\n| Accountant | J. Wildey |\n| Superintendent, Money Order | I. M. Xavier |\n| Senior Clerk | J. G. Rocha |\n| 1st Marine Officer | H. Dixon |\n| 1st Clerk | A. M. Silva |\n| 2nd Clerk | S. Moosa |\n| 3rd Clerk | F. Placé Silva |\n| 4th Clerk | A. J. Reed |\n| 2nd Marine Officer | A. Alarakia |\n| 3rd Marine Officer | T. A. Barradas |\n| **REGISTRAR GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT** |  |\n| 1st Clerk | R. F. Gutierrez |\n| 2nd Clerk | C. M. Barradas |\n| Chinese Clerk and Interpreter | C. Osmund |\n| Registration Clerk | A. R. Madar |\n| Assistant Registration Clerk | Mok Lai Chi, Song Sing, Fung Chun |",
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        "content_text": "Suspending\n\ncikare.\n\nThough a verdict or decree is given for the plaintiff, he shall not have costs against the defendant unless the Judge before whom the trial is had certifies his approbation of the suit or action.\n\n22. This Ordinance shall not come into operation unless and until the Officer Administering the Government notifies by Proclamation that it is Her Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same and thereafter it shall come into operation upon such day as the Officer Administering the Government shall notify by the same or any other Proclamation.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 19th day of June, 1893.\n\nSIR,\n\nREPORT BY THE HONOURABLE T. H. WHITEHEAD.\n\nHONGKONG, 29th April, 1893.\n\nNo.\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nAssented to by His Excellency the Governor, the day of June, 1893.\n\nSCHEDULE.\n\n  \n    Colonial Secretary.\n  \n  \n    Permanent Board of Directors.---Sections 2 and 5, Pó Léang Kuk Ordinance, 1893,\n  \n  \n    Ex Officio Members.\n  \n  \n    Registrar General.\nMember of Legislative Council for the time being representing the Chinese.\n  \n  \n    Name\n    Firm\n    Other Members\n    Occupation\n    No. of Years resident in Hongkong.\nRemarks\n  \n  \n    1 Chan Pau-pò (W).\n    \n    Manager of the Chu Wing On Bank,\n    \n    About 30\nPartner Kwong Mán-wo (DHA)\n  \n  \n    2 Cheng Mau-tsong (H),\n    \n    Managing Partner Sui Kat Firm.\n    \n    7\n  \n  \n    3 Kwok Lai-tün (24).\n    \n    \n    \n    30\n  \n  \n    4 Lau Shai-chák (TX),\n    \n    Manager of the Hop Hing (A) Firm.\n    \n    30\n  \n  \n    5 Lau Wai-ch'un (Compradore, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n    \n    \n    \n    20\n12 ject and Justice of the Peace.\n  \n  \n    6 Leung Pui-chi (Z),..............\n    \n    Partner in the Shiú Fung (1) Bank.\n    \n    25\n13\n37\n33\n30 A British subject hom\n  \n  \n    7 Wai Long-sháu (LI).\n    \n    Compradore, E. E. Telegraph Compy.,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ४ Yung Kung-pò (),...\n    \n    Compradore, Messrs. Haji Ali Angar and H. Ismail.\n    \n    Naturalized British sub-\n  \n\nI cannot concur in the unmeasured praise given in the report of the majority of the Committee, to the Pó Léung Kuk, nor can I concur in their recommendations as to the future working of the Society. I therefore submit for the consideration of His Excellency, the Governor in this separate report my opinions on the various points in discussion, and my reasons, based entirely on the evidence taken by the Committee, in support of these views.\n\nORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY,\n\n1. With the Rules of the 5th August, 1882, before me I have no hesitation in saying that the Pó Leung Kuk as a separate and distinct Society never had an existence until 1892. It was to consist of members residents of the Colony who had subscribed $10 or upwards to the funds. It was to be managed by a Committee of ten members elected annually at a meeting of members. It was to provide a Home for the accommodation of destitute women and children in Hongkong.\n\n2. There is no evidence that there ever were any subscribers to the Pó Léung Kuk as a separate and distinct Society. For 1878 and 1879 there are no lists and no accounts, the cost of providing food was borne by the Tung Wah Hospital; any other costs and expenses were borne by Mr. Fung Ming Shan and others, the first members of the Committee, out of their own pockets. There are accounts from August, 1880, or thereabouts to August, 1892, and they show that the total receipts of the Society during these twelve years amounted from subscriptions and contributions from the Directors to $1,330. In addition there have been loans from the Tung Wah Hospital and the Man Mo Temple to the amount of $2,600, and from the Government grants or gifts of $1,050. No Home has ever been established or attempted to be established. The women and girls were housed in the Tung Wah Hospital to the great inconvenience of patients there, and to the very doubtful advantage of the women and girls themselves, and food and clothing has been found by the Tung Wah, a separate and distinct Corporation. There have been no annual meetings of subscribers to the Pó Léung Kuk, for there were none, and of course no proper elections of members of the Committee. The meetings have either been meetings of members of the Tung Wah, or of the general public, and the persons elected have been generally the Tung Wah Committee men. It is not even certain (see the discussion between the Honourable Ho Kai and the Chairman at the 11th meeting of the Commission) on what principle or how the Chairman of the Pó Leung Kuk was elected or appointed or whether there was an election or a mere nomination. A book containing the names of the original members of the Society in 1881 has been produced (see appendix 43), but there is no register of later date. It is evident that the book cannot be correct because if there were then 122 members there must have been at least $1,220 to the credit of the Society, but in 1880-1882 nothing appears in the accounts but subscriptions from the Directors, receipts from the former Emigration Enquiry Office, and a subscription of $100 from the Lai Hing firm.\n\n3. I desire to call attention further to the facts that no efforts appear to have been made to raise subscriptions and form a fund until 1892, although the Government had frequently urged the Directors to do so, that the fund raised in 1892 was raised on the statement made to the Directors that no Government aid could be expected until the\n\n255\n\n3\n\nJ.",
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        "content_text": "Cond Sierk at Conpal Conce Station,\n\nMy Fook-sang\n\nJudia\n\nPrivate\n\nRegistration Clerk, Fung Chan... Brints tuition.\n\n2. Chinese Compradors, Clerks etc in the Colony.\n\nWong Shing, late Member of Legislative Council.... America.\n\narid\n\nThe first Comprador in the Colony viz: Comprador of Hongkong Shanghai Bank and only Chinese Member of Sanitary Board, Victoriaße\n\nLan Wai-chun. San Francisco\n\nwo, tan-g sang wo,\n\ntead of the pak-hong Teang\n\nül. kai\n\nJustice.\n\nKaw Hong-take, Justice of the\n\nSt Paul's\n\nPeace, Chinese Merchant....Straits attemours.\n\nSecretary of the On-tai Insurance Cory,\n\nHo Amai\n\nAnglo Chinese College (Legge):\n\nManager China Merchants S. Kig\n\nHoughing Cheung\n\nComprador of\n\nLup.is St Paul's\n\nLand Investment Cy Ng Tak sang\n\nChinese Manager, H.K. Telegraphy,\n\nLeung\n\nleffice\n\nKit\n\nIndia\n\nSt Paul's.\n\n146\n\nPublic Works Dept, then Chinese Manager of\n\nHongKong Dispensary,\n\nChan A. fook... St Paul's\n\n5. Chinese Imperial Service &.\n\nThe Hon: Ng Choi, Director of Chinese Railways (under Li Hung-chang)\n\nSt. Pavis.\n\nChan A yin, Assistant Director of the Anping Coal Mines.. St. Paul's.\n\nAo A. loi, Interpreter to Chinese Legation\n\nU. S.\n\nAnglo Chinese Col.\n\nThegges.\n\nChan Ahi, Manager China Merchants S. N. Co. Frenkin... St. Paul's\n\nChan A. yam, Assistant Manager China Merchants S. N. Co. Shanghai..Ft Jung\n\nTong Maschi, Comprador, Jardine Matheson & Co., Shanghai... Anglo Chinese College.\n\nthe Peace. Subprired\n\n4. Chinese Justices of the Peace.\n\nThis is a list of the Chinese Justices of the Peace taken from the Directory (excluding 2 Eurasians to Jung and to Fook educated at Victoria College):\n\nChan A. fook Chan Kwan-i\n\nChirur Sing\n\nSt Paul's\n\nStraits\n\nGraits",
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        "content_text": "519\n\n( 24 )\n\n5. Declaration of Lai A Hing.. \n\nI, LAI A HING, of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, Trader and Commission Agent, do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:-\n\n1. That I have a great many times purchased prepared Opium from Cheung Tak Company, the present Opium Farmer.\n\n2. That on the 10th September instant at about 6 o'clock P.M., my principal Leung Cheung gave me a delivery order for 24 tins of prepared Opium packed in four large parcels. I took the order to Tak Lung, the Manager of the Cheang Tak Company, and he gave me an Export Certificate and told me to get Opium at the factory at Praya West. Accordingly at about 6.30 o'clock that evening I got 24 tins of Opium from the clerk at the said factory and shipped them on board a small boat. About 3.30 o'clock on the morning of the 11th September instant I tried several times to take the Opium on board the steamboat Honam in this small boat but failed as the preventive officer was strictly watching until the said Leung Cheung who was then on board the steamer told me to take the Opium back so I took it back to Praya West and carried it ashore to the clerk in two journeys. This was about six o'clock in the morning.\n\n3. That on 12th September instant, the said Leung Cheung requested me to offer the preventive officer some bribe money so I went on board the Powan and talked with the officer Fung A-Shing. I requested him not to watch me so strictly and promised to pay him two dollars a voyage. He refused and I went away.\n\n4. That on the 12th September instant about 6 o'clock P.M. I again got a delivery order from the said Leung Cheung to get 24 tins of Opium. Accordingly I obtained them from the clerk at the factory at Praya West and shipped them in a boat for the steamer. As we approached I went ashore and went to the steamer. There I saw the said Fung A Shing and told him that the things had come. He told me not to send it there. I learned that the Opium was placed on board the steamer and then I went ashore. That same evening about 7.30 o'clock I heard that the Opium had been seized whereupon I reported the fact to the said Leung Cheung who went to the Opium Farmer.\n\nAnd I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of An Act made and passed in the Sixth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth entitled \"An Act to repeal an Act of the (then) present Session of Parliament entitled An Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State and to substitute declarations in lieu thereof and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oaths and Affidavits and to make other provisions for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths,”\n\nDeclared at No. 35, Queen's Road Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong this 23rd day of September 1889.\n\nBefore me,\n\nLS\n\nVictos H. Dracos, Notary Public,\n\nInterpreted to the said LAI A HING in the Chinese language by TSANG KAM CHUN, Interpreter to Wotton & Deacon, Solicitors, HONGKONG.\n\n(LAI A HING,)\n\n黎阿興\n\n( 25 )\n\n6.-Report of Case tried before the Honourable Mr. Wodehouse.\n\nPOLICE COURT.\n\n6th September.\n\nTHE LARGE SEIZURE OF OPIUM.\n\nA large seizure of opium was made on Thursday evening near Yaumati. Inspector Bremner having obtained information that an attempt was to be made to smuggle a quantity of raw opium, went off in a boat accompanied by a small body of police, about 8 p.m., and overtook two boats suspected of having opium on board. On one boat were found 414 balls of Malwa and 199 balls of Patna, and on the other 207 balls of Malwa and 160 balls of Patna. There were three persons in charge of each boat and these were arrested and brought before Mr. Wodehouse yesterday morning. The men in charge of each boat were fined $500 or six months' imprisonment, while the other occupants of the boat were each fined $50. Later in the day Mr. Webber applied for a rehearing of the case on the ground that he had a perfect defence for all the prisoners. The application was granted, and the case will be reheard on the 10th inst. [Daily Press, 7th September, 1889.]\n\nPOLICE COURT.\n\n10th September.\n\nIn the case in which six men were charged with removing 199 balls of Patna opium and 414 balls of Malwa without permission from the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, Mr. Webber stated that Mr. Francis had been retained for the defence, and asked for a further remand. Remanded until Friday,\n\nPOLICE COURT.\n\n13th September.\n\nTHE OPIUM CASE.\n\nThe case in which six men are charged with the illegal possession of several hundred balls of opium was again before the Court. Mr. Francis, Q.C., instructed by Mr. Webber, appeared for the defence, and explained that he was instructed on behalf of the owner of the opium. Mr. Dennys watched the case on behalf of the Opium Farmer.\n\nThe case arose out of a seizure made by Inspector Bremner on two sampans, and the charge was laid under the section of the Ordinance which prohibits the possession of opium in quantities of less than one chest. In this case the chests had been broken and the balls packed in bags.\n\nMr. Francis, addressing the Court for the defence, said the opium in question was the property of the Yune Tak firm, of which Lam Chune Sing was one of the partners. Lam Chune Sing was a licensee for the sale of prepared Opium under Ordinance 1 of 1884 and was, as he understood, the only person who had been directly licensed by the Opium Farmer for the purpose of selling prepared Opium.",
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        "content_text": "402\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND\n\nThere were then under treatment, thirteen cases on the Hygeia, and fourteen at Kennedy town, making a total of 27, as against 41 on the previous day.\n\ndying there after an illness of 24 hours. The symptoms were almost identical with those of the plague, and there is only too much reason to believe that this is the commencement of the disease in the hitherto uninfected eastern district. The agent of the Messageries Maritimes Company issued the following express on Wednesday: To order to avoid sanitary difficulties in further ports the steamer Oceanien, leaving at 2 p.m., will take neither passengers nor cargo.\n\n18th May: The continuation of the rain on Thursday was hailed with great satisfaction, and both plague and water famine, from which we have been suffering, will doubtless in a few days entirely disappear. There is some indication that the plague is already abating and that the conditions favourable to its development having been removed by the rain, the port will soon be declared free from the disease. The total number of deaths reported from noon on Wednesday to noon yesterday was 20, of which 2 occurred on the Hygeia, 9 in Kennedy town Hospital, and 9 in outside districts. There were only 10 new cases yesterday, 3 being admitted to the Hygeia, and 7 to the Kennedy town Hospital. 44 cases are at present under treatment,\n\nThe following circular has been issued by the Sanitary Board for the guidance of all concerned, and has been circulated among the police and sanitary officers:\n\nObservations to be made by officers conducting house to house visitation:\n\n1. See if the patient is feverish. \n2. Look for swellings (buboes) under the arms, on the groin, on the neck, above the elbow. \n3. Observe if the patient has an anxious expression and if he is walking with a tottering gait.\n\nThe rainfall registered to 10 a.m. on Wednesday, for the preceding twenty-four hours, was 0.26 inch, and for the twenty-four hours ending 10 a.m. on Thursday 2.23 inches. There were heavy showers later in the day.\n\nOur Saigon correspondent telegraphs that Hongkong has been declared an infected port and vessels arriving at Saigon are subjected to six days' quarantine.\n\nPRECAUTIONS AT MACAO.\n\nThe following order is published in the Macao Boletim Oficial:\n\nBubonic plague having appeared in epidemic form in the neighbouring ports of Canton and Hongkong and causing a considerable number of deaths amongst the Chinese population of those two cities;\n\nAt the Police Court on Tuesday there were several cases of failure to report the occurrence of the disease, and doubtless a few convictions and fines will make landlords more alive to the vital necessity of bringing the cases to the attention of the authorities without the slightest delay. Ning Kin and Lan Chuk, widows, the occupants respectively of Nos. 72 and 74, Market Street, were charged by Inspector Quincey before Mr. H. E. Wodehouse with neglecting to report the outbreak of plague in their houses. The Inspector stated that he visited the places and found men suffering from the disease, whom he had removed to the Hygeia. The symptoms were very pronounced at the time and there would be no difficulty in identifying the disease. His Worship fined the first defendant $2 or fourteen days' and discharged the second. Lai You Chang, a teacher, for a similar neglect in respect to a case at 10, Wai Tak Lane, was fined $5 or in default 14 days' imprisonment.\n\nThe fire engines on Tuesday were engaged in flushing the sewers and drains of the Taiping-shan district from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. The water was pumped from the harbour by the floating engine up to the Hollywood Road level and from thence to the China Road. A good quantity of water was used. This operation will be continued to-day.\n\nDepartmental orders have also been issued calling upon the Chinese to keep their houses clean.\n\n19th May. It is regrettable to have to report that the plague has again increased and that both the numbers of deaths, admissions, and cases are larger than those of the previous day. It will be remembered that the returns on Thursday on the face of them showed a gratifying diminution of the disease, and the copious downfall of rain continuing it was confidently and naturally anticipated that this diminution would be even more pronounced yesterday. The official returns, however, up to noon on Friday show that in the twenty-four hours 25 deaths occurred, 7 were from noon on Thursday on board the Hygeia, 9 at Kennedy town Hospital, and 9 outside, as against a mortality of 21 on Thursday. The new cases were 29, viz, 12 on the Hygeia and 17 at Kennedy town, being an increase of 19. The total number of cases under treatment is 56 against 44 at the last report. This increase is not regarded by the authorities in a serious light, and no apprehensions are entertained that the disease is baffling the exertions made to stamp it out. In fact, the medical officers take a hopeful view and feel sure that the worst is now past. The increase is ascribed to the complete organisation which is operating for the detection of cases. On Friday twelve men from the Royal Engineers and twelve from the Shropshire Light Infantry were enrolled as special sanitary officers, which makes the staff numerically strong and adequate to the necessities of the work to be done. The house to house visitation is divided into sections, and it is almost impossible now that cases of plague can pass undiscovered.\n\nThe Manila authorities have prescribed 15 days' observation on all vessels arriving from this port.\n\nAt the Magistracy on Friday a hawker was charged with failing to report a case of plague which occurred in his house on the 17th inst. Defendant pleaded that he could not leave the premises, but Commander W. H. Hastings, before whom the case was heard, imposed a fine of $50 with an alternative of two months' hard labour.\n\n21st May,\n\nHaving received the advice of the Provincial Sanitary Board:\n\nI hereby order:\n\n1. That the supply of water to the public by boats stationed along the Praia Grande and in the inner harbour be continued with the greatest regularity.\n\n2. That the drains be flushed daily, especially in the districts occupied by the Chinese population, and more particularly the districts of Volong, San-kin, Sa-tong, Patane, Mong-ha, and the village of Barra.\n\n3. That the pavement of the slaughter house and its appendages be daily washed with salt water.\n\n4. That on the arrival of any vessel from Canton or Hongkong, including the steamers and launches of the regular lines, an officer of the Sanitary Board shall inspect the passengers, and especially the Chinese passengers, to ascertain if any of them are suffering from the bubonic plague or exhibit suspicious symptoms.\n\n5. That the commandant of the water police shall give the necessary directions in order that lorcha or other boats from Hongkong or Canton may not land any individual suspected to be suffering from the disease; and any case presenting its symptoms shall be detained on board until examined by an officer of the Sanitary Board, who shall be immediately informed.\n\n6. If any passenger be found to be suffering from bubonic plague, whether on board steamers or launches, such passenger shall not be landed; and if any case of the disease be found on a sailing vessel or boat propelled by oars the vessel shall be immediately to be immediately towed out of the harbour, and removed by a copious rainfall we may confidently anticipate the speedy disappearance of the evil result.\n\nGovernment Palace, Macao,\n\n15th May, 1894.\n\nThe Governor of the Province,\n\nJose M. da Horta e Costa.\n\nwork of soaching and disinfecting the localities\n\nfor development it was hoped that in a few days such an appreciable conquest of the disease would be achieved that no further danger need be anticipated. A certain section of the Chinese have now, however, attempted to frustrate all these efforts, and are determined to assert aggressively the ignorance and stupidity which peculiarly belong to the multitude of the natives. It will be remembered that one of the first acts of the permanent committee was to order the removal of all patients from the Tung Wah Hospital to the Hygeia, and the next wise edict was that no patients were to be sent there, but removed direct to the bulk. There was at the time much grumbling and opposition to this course, the patients themselves, with the instinct of their race, objecting, sometimes violently to their removal to the Hygeia and their treatment by Western skill and science. It appears that this feeling of resentment has been simmering and increasing during the past few days, and on Saturday it broke bounds and completely disorganised the work of cleansing, disinfecting, and investigating, which was in progress. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen, a member of the Sanitary Board and also Chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital Committee, has, with an intelligence which unfortunately does not belong to all his countrymen, lost the Government his hearty co-operation in the measures they have taken. Some of his colleagues on the Hospital Committee, however, imbued with anti-foreign feeling, have resisted this policy, and by their influence have created a strong opposition among the native population to the work which the authorities are prosecuting with such vigour.\n\nMay 24, 1894.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.\n\n198\n\n4.3\n\nAnother case occurred yesterday among the Portuguese community, the patient being taken to the Hygeia.\n\nSingapore has imposed nine days' quarantine, including the time occupied by the passage, rioting, the Government having met the Tung Wah Hospital Committee in their demand that there be no further danger of a renewal of the.\n\nMEETING AT THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL\n\nA largely attended meeting of Chinese was held on Sunday at the Tung Wah Hospital, there being present about seventy members of the leading firms and some four hundred others. The Captain Superintendent of Police and the Colonial Surgeon attended the meeting.\n\nMr. Lau Wai Chuen occupied the chair. He said that many people had preferred a request that persons suffering from the plague should be allowed to be conveyed to Canton, if their relatives so desired, by special launches.\n\nThe Captain Superintendent of Police replied that he was instructed to state that information had that morning been received from Canton that the officials there would not allow persons suffering from the disease to be landed there. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen interpreted Mr. May's reply to the meeting, who received it with strong marks of dissatisfaction. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen, endeavoured to maintain order and said he would personally apply to the Government here and the officials at Canton in relation to the matter. He suggested that they should send a petition to Canton signed by all the leading firms of the colony.\n\nYesterday morning the sanitary officers reported a house supposed to be empty and made the horrible discovery that there were five corpses on the premises and four very serious cases, all exhibiting pronounced symptoms of the plague.\n\nYesterday morning one of the turnkeys in the Victoria Gaol reported himself sick and Dr. Marques, suspecting from the symptoms that the man was suffering from plague, sent him immediately to hospital. A prisoner in the gaol, who had been convicted for not reporting a case of plague, was also removed to the new Chinese Hospital for treatment.\n\nThe arrangements for the burial of victims of the plague do not appear to be quite satisfactory. A good deal of delay takes place before the bodies are interred, separate graves having to be dug in a rather rocky and refractory soil. The squatters on the land contiguous to this cemetery have petitioned the Government on the matter. Evidently a more suitable site ought to be selected.\n\nOn Saturday many of the houses visited were blockaded and the sanitary officers stoned, and in the afternoon all attempts to continue the house to house inspection had to be discontinued, the work being rendered exceedingly unsafe and difficult. A mob also collected at the Po Leung Kuk office and broke the windows, but was dispersed by the police before doing further damage. On Sunday, while a meeting at the Tung Wah Hospital was in progress, Mr. Lau was hurriedly sent for, news arriving that his hong was being wrecked. When Mr. Lau left the building he was surrounded by a howling mob of Chinese and had to be escorted by police to his residence. Mr. P. R. May, Captain Superintendent of Police, grasped the situation at once and sent a mounted contingent of armed Sikhs to the district, the presence of which fortunately prevented further disturbances.\n\nThe Government have so far met the Chinese opposition as to assent to the establishment of a temporary hospital under the management of the Tung Wah at the Glassworks, Kennedy town, to which all patients will be removed and where they will be treated by native practitioners, and the use of the Hygeia for the reception of plague patients will be discontinued.\n\nOn Sunday the house to house inspection was recommenced, the officers being protected by a strong police guard.\n\nSome cases have been reported on the mainland and proclamations have been issued prohibiting the immigration of Chinamen from Hongkong. At Haiphong several persons have fallen victims to the disease.\n\nThis suggestion was unanimously agreed to. The Captain Superintendent of Police said that rumours were current that people not suffering from the disease had been taken to the Hygeia and the Kennedy town Hospital, people who were not sick at all, but this could be at once disproved if any of those present would go with him to examine the patients, when it would be seen they were all sick people suffering from the plague. If those attacked were not segregated it would be impossible to prevent the spread of the disease, and he referred to the visitation of the plague in England two hundred years ago and the great mortality it caused. He suggested to the Chairman that he should advise the people that they should avoid overcrowding in their dwellings, and then the number of persons attacked by the disease would decrease.\n\nCONFERENCE AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nAn important conference was held yesterday at Government House for the purpose of discussing the new turn events have taken and considering the course of action to be adopted in the immediate future. His Excellency Sir William Robinson presided, and there were also present H.E. Major-General Barker, Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart (Acting Colonial Secretary), Hon. N. G. Mitchell-Innes (Colonial Treasurer), Hon. Ho Kai, Dr. P. B. C. Ayres (Colonial Surgeon), Mr. F. H. May (Captain Superintendent of Police), Mr. J. J. R. Crook, Dr. James, Francis Q.C., Mr. J. A. M. S., Dr. Lan Wai Chuen. The meeting lasted for some time. The first business was the consideration of representations by the permanent committee of the Sanitary Board as to the inadequacy of the number of sanitary officers.\n\nApplication was made for the enrolling of 400 assistants for the work of cleansing and disinfecting.\n\nAt this stage of the proceedings a petition was presented from the residents in East Street complaining of the treatment they had received at the hands of the sanitary officers, entering their houses unexpectedly and frightening the children. The petitioners asked that attention should be given to this matter.\n\nAt this time news arrived that a mob was attacking Mr. Lau Wai Chuen's establishment in Bonham Strand, the Tung San Wo, and\n\nOn Sunday night everything was quiet and it was hoped there would be no renewal of the disturbances.\n\nThe decrease in the number of cases reported for the twenty-four hours up to noon on Sunday is, it is to be feared, due to interruption of the inspection rather than to any actual diminution of the disease.\n\nA notice was subsequently issued by the Committee of the Tung Wah Hospital stating that the Government has consented to allow all patients suffering from plague to be treated by the doctors of the Tung Wah Hospital. The notice also informs the people that they need not be alarmed by the visits of the sanitary officers, as any one found to be suffering from plague will now be removed to the Tung Wah's branch hospital instead of being taken to the Hygeia.\n\nAt the Police Court on Saturday there were some more cases of failure to report outbreaks of plague. Wong Chan, a married woman, was so charged. P.S. Moffat said that he visited the house of the defendant No. 64, First Street, at 11 a.m. on the 18th. In the first room visited he found a man lying dead, and another man (the husband of the defendant) was very ill in the same apartment. In another room in the Cookhouse he discovered a woman very ill lying under a bed, and in the cockloft a girl was seriously ill. All, both the dead and the living, had the symptoms of bubonic plague. Defendant pleaded that she was a very poor woman, and was fined $5, which she paid. Chan Chol, a shopkeeper at No. 6, Hung Lane, off Queen's Road West, was also charged with concealing a case. P.S. Smith said that he went into the premises and found a man suffering from plague. There were a number of persons present, who ran away on his arrival. A like fine was imposed.\n\nWe have heard of a somewhat curious case in connection with the plague. A few days ago a coolie was charged with cutting and wounding a companion and the hearing of the charge was remanded for a week by the sitting Magistrate, bail of $250 being allowed and procured. The following day the unlucky coolie was seized with the disease and died on board the Hygeia.\n\nThe Spanish Consul received the following official telegram despatch from Manila at 9:53 a.m. on Saturday: \"Hongkong has been declared an infected port, and vessels from thence are subject to fifteen days' quarantine.\"\n\nInformation has also been received that a proclamation will be issued to-day addressed to the Chinese explaining the objects of the preventative measures now being prosecuted and calling upon them to co-operate therein and assist the Government.\n\nMr. May stated at the meeting yesterday that he and his assistants had been welcomed and not obstructed in the different houses visited.\n\nThe following are the returns for the twenty-four hours to noon yesterday:\n\nHygeia, Kennedy town Hospital, City, Total, Decrease.\n\nAdmissions: 2, 3, 0, 5, \nDeaths: 3, 2, 0, 5, \nUnder treatment: 26, 20, 17, 63, 28\n\nThe Government, we understand, is fully prepared to support the permanent committee of the Sanitary Board to the utmost. There is a suspicion that jealousy between different sections of the Chinese is at the bottom of the recent disturbances and ill-feeling.\n\nTHE DISTURBANCES-POLICE COURT PROCEEDINGS.\n\nMr. H. E. Wodehouse was yesterday morning engaged at the Police Court in hearing several cases arising out of the disturbances in Chinatown reported in yesterday's issue.\n\nYesterday Yea Kay, a hawker, was charged with behaving in a disorderly manner in Po Yan Street.\n\nPage 403\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "# TAIPINGSHAN ARBITRATION BOARD\nThe sessions of the Taipingshan Arbitration Board are now held in the Chambers of the Chairman, His Honour Mr. E. J. Ackroyd, Acting Chief Justice, which are less cold and draughty than the large court rooms. They are also more convenient for the passing around of plans and documents and are quieter and better lighted. Yesterday there were present the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. E. F. Alford, and Mr. W. Danby, making the full Board, with Mr. A. Seth as Secretary. Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, in the absence of the Attorney-General, represented the Government, assisted by the Hon. F. A. Cooper, Director of Public Works, and Mr. V. H. Deacon appeared for the claimants in claim No. 27, that of the Man On Insurance Co., Limited, for $90,000.26. Mr. H. L. Dennys appeared for a second mortgagee.\n\nBefore taking up this case His Lordship remarked that he was sorry they were not able to make faster headway with the cases and felt he thought more of them should be in. The various counsel thought the progress made was all that could be expected. His Lordship said, however, that there were still forty cases unsubmitted and he thought there was no excuse for such a large number to be out. He knew solicitors who had everything ready, on to the completion of all their notes, and who delayed under the excuse of just finishing up the applications. Some of the solicitors, he said, wished to submit them in a block, when it would be better for the Board if they could be brought in as fast as each case was ready.\n\nThe present list of the sittings of the Board is now nearing the end and a new list will be shortly forthcoming. The present list, as will be seen, has only one more case of large value. The remaining claims on the present list in which awards have not yet been made are:\n| Claimant | Claim No. | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| A. Baptista and others | 36 | $10,500 |\n| Chan King-ting | 37 | $5,000 |\n| Chang King | 40 | $12,000 |\n| Man On Insurance Co., Limited | 27 | $90,000.26 |\n| Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co., Limited | 28 | $22,800 |\n\nC.O.7326  \nRec 29 APR 95",
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        "content_text": "## OPINIONS OF THE SHANGHAI PRESS\n\n### The China Gazette, August 3rd\n\nWe hope the British and American Governments are pleased with the result of their policy in China. If they had made up their minds to definitely abandon their wretched and deserted nationals to the tender mercies of the Chinese mandarins and the murderous mobs at their command, they could scarcely have gone a better way about attaining that desirable object than they have followed. The inscrutable and cold-blooded apathy with which the two governments named (British and American) have looked upon the unparalleled series of outrages in Szechuen province is already bearing fruit in other parts of China, as we foretold at the time it would.\n\nAlready, in the case of the Kucheng outrages, an effort is being made by the apologists of Chinese ferocity to put the blame upon a secret society—a Vegetarian Society above all others—the Vegetarian being one of the strictest sects which objects to the shedding of all blood! But we lay all the blame for the Kucheng outrages upon the emasculated Diplomatic and Consular services by whom Great Britain and the United States choose to be represented in China. The cup, however, is now about full. We do not think that the great world in Europe and America, which goes into hysterics over the assaults by the Turks upon the wretched Armenians, can longer stand aside and see English ladies butchered by these fiends, whom we have been taught to worship and to treat as the Israelites did the great Molok.\n\nThe time has come when the relations between foreigners and Chinese will have to be put upon a different basis, that at the mouth of the cannon. We think that the time has come when justice shall be no longer asked for, but when vengeance must be exacted. It is no longer a case for diplomacy; it is a case for the gatling gun, the rifle, and the bayonet. All the promises of protection which the Emperor of China and his lying mandarins have made have been broken. The tongue in the cheek, as these promises were given, is exposed, and the ever-present devil of Chinese hatred is encouraged by the attitude of those who are supposed to lend foreigners in China protection. That protection is, like Chinese promises and treaty obligations, a criminal fraud.\n\nThe time has come when the appeal for vengeance for the blood of those murdered women must be carried beyond the deadening walls of Peking, and addressed direct to the great world outside; We think that from the blood of the murdered English women of Kucheng a new race will arise, and the hopeless Incubus which weighs down our present relations with China will be broken for ever. To do this a different policy is needed, the policy which had long since been abandoned in the delusive belief that China is a civilized country. She is more savage to-day than the Barbary States fifty years ago, and her mandarins are to the Bashi Bazouk what the vulture is to the cooing dove.\n\nThe fiendish officials who organized these murders and outrages are wise in their generation; and over again they have shown us that they will only burn and destroy the property of French missionaries, because they know the French Government would exact vengeance for the lives of her children, but they wisely reserve their atrocities and murders for the British and Americans, whose governments stand calmly by and see such crimes committed before their eyes as long as trade flourishes. The ledgers of the mills of Manchester and Massachusetts are of more account than the lives of English and American men and women in China.\n\n### North China Daily News, August 5th\n\nIt is hard to say that the massacre at Wha sang is a direct consequence of the indifference of the foreign Ministers at Peking, but we may well believe that the officials would have prevented such a tragedy had they known that it would be followed by swift punishment. We do not envy Sir Nicholas O'Conor his feelings when he heard the sad news—or the Foreign Office in London, if it is on the Foreign Office and not on the Minister that the blame should be laid.... But whoever organised this massacre knew that the officials would not interfere. A mob dare not collect in China unless with the connivance of the officials; and as the officials see that none of them are ever punished for an anti-Christian outrage, why should they try and prevent it? If our Ministers, who have fleets at their disposal, had insisted on the punishment of the Chêngtu officials, the good of it would have been felt all over the Empire; but instead they consent to one of them being put on the Commission of Enquiry!\n\n### Shangkat Mercury, August 3rd\n\nThis (massacre at Kucheng) is an answer to our Ministers' action jeeringly traced with fingers of blood, and what have our Ministers to say to this? If prompt and decisive steps are not taken to repress murder and lawlessness against foreigners by the native authorities; and the foreign Ministers at Peking, in whose power it is to render present and future protection and bring the perpetrators to justice, decline to fittingly exert themselves, to whom is the foreign citizen in China to appeal for help? For how long is this system of weak-kneed scraping to a number of lying, cowardly Chinese officials at Peking—known as the Tsungli Yamen—who completely gull and convince our Ministerial Representatives to continue?\n\nWe do not usually indulge in invective; we usually avoid doing so, but in face of the Peking demonstration and the murderous reply from Kucheng, where five harmless and good women, living noble lives for the benefit of those who killed them, is a reply which makes the blood of every foreigner boil and his fingers itch to be at the throats of the murderers—and in Heaven's name how long are Europeans in China to submit to it?\n\n## DESCRIPTION OF KUCHENG\n\nKa-Cheng, or \"the ancient field,\" is finely situated in a plain surrounded by mountains. It is an important city in the province of Fukien, with a large population; but not more than two-thirds of the space enclosed within the walls, which are four miles and a half in circumference, is occupied by the habitations of the living. \"It is,\" observes Archdeacon Wolf, \"a necropolis, a city of the dead. Thousands of coffins occupy the spare ground inside the walls, and there are numbers of sheds built to protect them from the rain and from the heat of the sun. The laws of China forbid burial within the city walls, but they do not prohibit this practice of keeping the coffins exposed in the city to public gaze.\"\n\nNo manufactures are carried on, the inhabitants being all engaged in agricultural pursuits; and the city is described as \"a quiet old place, the very people having a sleepy look\" partly, no doubt, owing to their being inveterate opium smokers, which gives \"a cadaverous appearance.\"\n\nThe stream which, in its lower course, becomes a foaming torrent, is, in this upland plain, a peaceful and pretty river, and almost encircles the city. Within the walls is a pagoda dedicated to its honour, and designed to propitiate its wrath. Bishop Alford mentions that it is crossed by “a very lofty bridge of five well-spanned arches, with a covered roof.\" It is utilised for the irrigation of the fields by means of large water-wheels, twenty feet in diameter, which raise the water and discharge it into troughs laid to convey it over the country.\n\nKucheng was, according to the Shanghai Mercury, occupied as a Church of England mission station at the end of 1865. Two catechists went first as pioneers, and hired a room for a preaching chapel. Then Mr. Wolfe visited the city, preached to large and attentive audiences, and left one of the catechists to carry on the good work.\n\nPRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY CHESNEY DUNCAN, AT THE OFFICE OF \"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,\" PEDDER'S HILL, VICTORIA, IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.\n\n305",
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        "content_text": "## Appendix B\n\n### CASES OF BUBONIC PLAGUE REPORTED DURING 1895\n\n1066\n\n| Date of Case | No. of Case | Health District | Residence of Patient previous to Discovery, Treatment or Segregation | Name | Age | Date and Hour of Admission into Tung Wa Hospital | Date and Hour of Admission into Kennedy Town Hospital | Date & Hour of Death |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 20th | 39 |  | 2, Pound Lane | Lai Tai |  | 28th April, 8 p.m. |  | 29th April, 5 p.m. 29th 8.40 p.m. |\n| 6th May |  |  | 4, Wing Lok Street | Sam Shü Wai |  | 28th April, urd 8 |  | 2nd May, 7.15 a.m. 6th, 11.20 p.m. |\n|  | 71 |  | 91, Praya Central | Lau Yam | 20th | Unknown | 20th | 12th |\n|  |  |  | 27, Stone Nullah Lane |  |  | 29th April, 4.30 p.m. |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 79, Queen's Road West | Jam Su | 13 | 6th May, 3 p.m. |  |  |\n| 6th May |  |  |  | Wong Kiu |  | 9th | 6th May, 12.80 p.m. | 14th June, 1 p.m. |\n| 14th June |  |  | 9, Holland Street |  | ta | 14th, | 14th, | 15th |\n|  |  |  | Matshed above Holland Street | Doy |  | 14th, |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 10, Heung Lane | Wong Tsun Ho | 17 | 14th June, 11 a.m. |  | 15th, 9 a.m. |\n|  | 6 |  |  | Tsoi Mak Wan |  | 14th | 0.30 a.m. | 15th |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 6.15 p.m. |  |\n|  |  |  |  | Chan Tsak | 28 | 14th | 11 p.m. | 15th, 1.30 a.m. |\n| 14th June | 48 |  | Do. | Li I | 10 | 15th |  | 15th, 7 a.m. |\n|  |  |  |  | Choi Sing | 的爱 | 15th | 8.01 | 15th, 8.45 a.m. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 15th,, 7: 8.55 p.m. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 3: 1.35 p.m. |\n| 15th |  |  |  | Kwong Sun | 20 | 15th | 8 a.m. | 15th, 1 p.m. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 19th, 4.30 a.m. |\n|  | 17 |  | Do. | Choi Kan | 19 | 15th | 11 a.m. | 15th, 1 p.m. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 16th, 7 p.m. |\n|  | 12 |  | Do. |  | B | 15th |  | 16th, 4.05 p.m. |\n|  | 13 |  | 12, Heung Lane | Lo Shin | 46 | 16th | 5.30 p.m. | 17th, 12.30 p.m. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 18th, 11.40 p.m. |\n| 16th | 19 |  | 10, Heung Lane | Clan Cau | 21 | 17th | 10 p.m. | 18th, 10.35 a.m. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 19th, 2.50 p.m. |\n|  | 14 |  | Do. | List |  | 18th | 7 p.m. |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 8.35 a.m. |  |\n|  | 71 |  |  | Ho Yaw | 16 | 18th | 3.35 p.m. | 20th |\n|  | 10 |  | Do. | 少爷 | 16 | 20th |  |  |\n|  | 17 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 24th, 6 a.m. |\n|  | 6 |  | 335, Queen's Road West | Kan A-Ping | 63 | 24th June, 8 a.m. |  | 30th, 1 a.m. |\n|  | 1 |  | 30, Eastern Street | Cheng Yi | AT | 24th |  | 30th, 10.10 a.m. |\n|  | 32 |  | Kowloon, West |  |  |  |  | 17, 10.50 a.m. |\n|  |  |  | 8, MacDonnel Road | Ty A-Yuk | 12 |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | Ground |  |  |  |\n|  | 31 |  | 69, Queen's Road West | Wong Si Li | 18 | 24th July, 2 a.m. |  | 8th Aug., 9.45 p.m. |\n|  |  |  | 27. Tsung San Loue, West | Female |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  | Tsung Sau Lane, West | Sing Kwoon Hing | 21st | 7.30 .BI. |  | 5: |\n|  |  |  | From Canton Steamer | Male |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  | 28, Bridges Street | Lam Bu | 4, Possession Street | 24th | 6.80 p.m. | 25th, 4 p.m. |\n|  | 44 |  | 12, Heung Lane | Lam Kan | 71 | 24th | 9 p.m. | 26th, 7th Sept. |\n|  |  |  |  | Ho Sam |  | 16th, | 4 p.m. | $}.lll. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 16th, 7th Sept., 6.30 p.m. 8,35 p.m. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 24th July, 19.15 a.m. 9th Aug., 12.35 p.m. 21st, 8.20 a.m. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 8.30 p.m. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2.30 p.m. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 4.10 p.m. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 4 p.m. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1st July, 3.30 a.m. During the night of 18-19 July. 24th July, 12.20 p.m. 10th Aug, 2.30 a.m. 25th |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 25th, 4.50 a m. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 7.50 a.m. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 5.30 p.m. |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 8th Sept., 9.30 p.m. 16th |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 21st |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 26th, 9.05 p.m. |\n\n(a) Transferred from S.S. Belgic. Came down from Canton the day previous and passed the night in 4, Wing Lok Street.  \n(b) Had been segregated since the 15th of June.  \n(c) Had been segregated since the 17th of June.  \n(d) Found by one of the night search party on board the S.S. Fatshan on her arrival from Canton.  \n(e) Found dead on board the S.S. Nanchang at 6 4.3, on the 19th July. Walked on board from No. 8, MacDonnel Road, Kowloon, the previous evening.\n\n**W. EDWARD CROW**  \nAssistant Secretary and Superintendent.  \n21st June, 1895.\n\n## Appendix C\n\n### SANITARY BOARD\n\n#### HONGKONG\n\n35\n\n**insanitary dwellings Ordinance, 1894.** In the matter of The closed houses and ...\n\nTo the Owner and Occupier of the ...\n\nNotice is hereby given to you on behalf of the Sanitary Board that ... cocklofts or mezzanine floors and ... cubicles are being continued or maintained in the above domestic building in contravention of Ordinance 15 of 1894, and that if such continuance or maintenance exists on and after the ... day of ... 189..., prosecution will be instituted.\n\nBy order of the Sanitary Board,  \n**Secretary.**\n\n#### Extract from Ordinance 15 of 1894\n\nSection 7.--\"It shall not be lawful to construct, put up, continue or maintain in any room of any domestic building ... any mezzanine floor, storey or cockloft where such room is partitioned or divided off into separate compartments unless the whole of such compartments are provided with light and ventilation to the satisfaction of the Sanitary Board.\"\n\nSection 8. Sub-section (b).\" Where any room of any domestic building is divided into separate compartments by partitions, it shall not be lawful to put up, continue or maintain partition walls of a greater height than 7 feet, or to leave a space between the top of the partitions and the ceiling or underside of the joists, of less than 4 feet, or to allow such space to be closed except in such manner and with such material as may be prescribed by the Sanitary Board.\"\n\nN.B.-The words \"domestic building\" include-\"any human habitation or building where persons (other than a caretaker) pass the night.\" (Section 2.)  \nThe window is required to have a total area, clear of the window frame, of at least one-tenth of the floor area of the room.\n\nFor the purposes of this section every sub-division of a domestic building unless it has one window at least, as hereinbefore specified opening directly into the external air, shall be considered a compartment.\n\nSection 13, Bye-law No. 7.-The space required by section 8, sub-section (b), of Ordinance 15 of 1894, to be left above partitions shall not be enclosed except with wire netting, iron bars, lattice work or curved wood work, arranged in such a way as to leave at least two-thirds of such space open and as far as practicable evenly distributed.\n\n## Appendix D\n\n### GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 378\n\n#### Dwellings Ordinance No. 15 of 1894, (29th December, 1894)\n\n1. No permission will be granted under the provisions of sub-section 1 of section 7 of Ordinance 15 of 1894 for the erection or continuance of mezzanine floors, stories or cocklofts in rooms partitioned or divided off into separate compartments unless the following conditions are complied with:-\n\n(a) The premises are constructed and maintained in a satisfactory sanitary condition.  \n(b) ... Such mezzanine floor, storey or cockloft is situated on the top or ground floor of premises.",
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        "content_text": "# \nthat \"its general appearance, as viewed from the sea, is inviting, there being a pleasant variety of hill and dale, and on the northern and eastern sides much cleared land, cultivation rising probably to the level of 2,000 feet. Above this, all appears to be buried in thick forests of pines and other northern trees, even to the highest peak, Mount Auckland, 6,558 feet above the level of the sea.\" As I saw it, however, 3 miles out to sea, and just before sunrise, the appearance of the great island was weird and gloomy in the extreme, a repellent contrast to the smiling archipelago I had left the night before. There among the islets is indeed \"a pleasant variety,\" the peaks are frayed into a thousand shapes, and flushed with red sandstone where they are not green with grass. Here the land rose smoothly from the sea like the back of a monstrous cachalot studded with huge bosses, grey cones that seemed like ghosts of, what in truth they are, dead craters. Over Mount Auckland, whose mass might have broken the spell of this gruesome procession, hung a thick pall of clouds. The island, in its silence and awesomeness, appeared indeed such as we imagine to be at closer quarters, the scenery of the moon.\n\nIt was not till I got ashore that the irrational horror began to lift. Quelpart is in fact of volcanic formation, and the cliffs along which we were skirting are formed of masses of black lava. It is in an opening in these cliffs, some 600 yards wide, that the city of Chei-ju fronts the sea. Why it was built there became more apparent as we drew near the shore in the ship's boat. At first nothing could be seen but a forbidding beach of lava pebbles, on which the surf was breaking. Guided by the people on shore we steered for the east end of the beach, where the stones had been cleared out at the mouth of a stream and a rough bund built up. The tide had not risen sufficiently to lift our boat over the bar of pebbles until she was lightened of her passengers, who were carried ashore on the islanders' shoulders. We then observed that the stream, protected from the sea by its natural breakwater of pebbles, formed a small boat harbour, in which lay a few fishing craft, among them one Japanese with two men aboard. I was taken into the city to call on the Chief Magistrate, a friendly crowd at our heels. Our way led us past the boat harbour, creek, lagoon, or whatever it should be called, westward to the city wall. Chei-ju claims to be 1,900 years old, but was restored and reorganized only two or three centuries back. The wall looks worthy of the earlier date, so grey is it, and overgrown in parts with creepers that have thickened into wood. The gates are remarkable. The arch is not more than 12 feet high or broad, and the two leaves of the gates do not fill the whole space, squared off as they are at top. The wall, the houses, the streets, are built of lava, and this, though it makes Chei-ju a gloomy city to the eye, at least keeps it comparatively clean for the feet. The shops, such as I saw, and I think I was traversing the main street, were equally novel to me. They appear as so many cupboards, as it were, 4 feet, or little more, in depth and breadth, and 6 to 7 feet high, opening on to the street through the usual Corean window space. There can be room for only two persons in the shop, and the purchaser, I presume, negotiates from the street.\n\n## \n\nThe public offices of Chei-ju open on to the market-place, through which a flagged causeway runs. The market, they told me, is held six times a-month. On the north of the square is the Yamun proper, displaying over its gateway the legend \"Tan-la Pro-cheng-sa\" T'an-la (pronounced Talla), was the old name of Quelpart when, some 600 years ago, it was an independent kingdom, and governed by a Queen. To this day, indeed, the islanders are regarded by the Coreans as foreigners. Under the system prevailing till the present year, Quelpart was governed by a \"Moksa,\" or Prefect (literally, a pastor), residing at Chei-ju, with a \"Kunsu,\" or Warden, at Chêng-wi, and a \"Hyên-kam,\" or District Magistrate, at Tai-chêng. All these officials were under the orders of the Governor of Chulla-do. Since the Reformation, Quelpart has become an independent county or department, and a \"Koanchalsa,\" or Governor, has been appointed. Pending his arrival the former \"Moksa\" is acting in his stead, and it was to call on this official that I was being taken. He received me, not in the Yamun proper, but in a compound on the other (the south) side of the market-place. As I entered he rose and bowed, then immediately reseated himself, cross-legged, on a small square mat covered with green cloth. I sat down on the only article of furniture that at all suggested a seat, a kind of wooden grating to his right, elevated some 8 inches from the floor. The \"Hyenik's\" linguist meanwhile knelt on a mat in front of the \"Moksa,\" and handed over the despatches he had brought from Seoul; for the \"Hyenik\" had conveyed to Quelpart six persons under sentence of banishment, two for ten years, the others for life. These men were said to have been concerned in the murder of Kim Hak-o, Vice-Minister of Justice, last September. Their sentence, which, under the new rules, should also involve hard labour, seemed to trouble them little, as they made no secret of their expectation that another turn of the political wheel would shortly release them.\n\nKim Hak-o, by the way, was at one time for some eight months purser of the \"Hyenik,\" and Captain Benzenius described him as an accomplished linguist, who spoke Japanese, Chinese, and Russian, and had visited Tôkið and St. Petersburgh.\n\nThe \"Moksa\" read his despatches and talked to me, puffing the while at his long pipe, which, with its polished brass ash-tray and the inseparable brass commode, lay handy at his side. He insisted on my sharing his breakfast, and three of the little octagonal tables were brought in (the third was for the linguist) loaded with vermicelli, bêche-de-mer, and pickled vegetables, inscrutably acrid. \"Sul\" (Corean spirit) was served, hot as in China, and the \"Moksa\" emptied three cups in our honour. I can, however, indorse the remarks of the \"Shin Chosen's\" correspondent, to whom he showed himself equally hospitable: \"He was in appearance studiously simple, self-possessed, and amiable, with the air of a gentleman.\" His secretaries, who stood in a semi-circle facing him, but behind us, were dressed in the old camisole of light blue or purple; indeed, I only observed one Corean at Chei-ju who wore the regulation outer coat of black. The \"Moksa's\" own garment was of dark grey, and he had on the old-fashioned amber hat string with a jade side button. The room in which we sat was bare of everything but the articles I have described and an old halbert in one corner; opening out of it, in full view, was the \"Moksa's\" bed-room, with the usual bed-mat and small oblong pillow, pile of books, and crossed paper slips at the bed-head for memoranda. The doors to the courtyard were wide open, and were crowded with an assortment of very orderly natives. When I came out I found my Chinese servant surrounded by some dozens of them, his face beaming with satisfaction. He confided to me that the disposition of the islanders was equally friendly with that of the inhabitants of Ping-yang, whither he had accompanied Mr. Osborne last June. My brief experience pointed the same way, but perhaps I shone in the reflected light of the \"big country' man. On the other hand, the Japanese press men affirm that the people are not well behaved, and received them on their landing with abuse. This, they say, is due to the harsh treatment of the natives by Japanese fishermen, who have indeed nearly driven the Quelpart fishers from their own seas. I was told that the Awabi shell-fisheries were chiefly worked by women, who at times used to dive for pearls; and that on one occasion at least their seclusion was invaded by Japanese, and a fight ensued, in which some of the latter were killed. The Quelpart women shy of strangers more than their sisters at Chemulpo and Seoul, old traditions lingering longer in this unfrequented corner.\n\n## \n\nQuitting the Moksa's Yamên, I turned north to the city wall to see if the clouds had lifted from Mount Auckland. That giant, for such he is among Quelpart hills, is known locally as Han-la San (read Halla), and abundant traditions cluster round him. The \"Moksa\" told me that not more than one or two in 10,000 would have courage to ascend to his top, and other Coreans declared that of those who had in times past done so, the few who returned came down in a tempest of thunder and rain. It was possible, the \"Moksa\" said, in answer to my question, that a European might escape these influences, but I do not think he quite relished my proposal to come back later and try. The mountain is evidently the principal crater of the volcanic system that has raised this island, and from what glimpses I could catch of his summit, and the reports of those who, like Captain Benzenius, had circumnavigated the island, there should be little natural difficulties in climbing his sloping sides. The woods with which they are clad would probably be the chief hindrance, and the superstitious fears of the people.\n\nI went along the eastern wall of the city, accompanied by my Chinaman and a dozen or so of volunteer guides, youths of 15 or 16 for the most part, whose hats proclaimed them already married. The wall is very picturesque in parts, reminding me of the city ramparts of Wênchow in China. The mountain stream, whose embouchure forms the boat harbour, approaches the wall at this side down a wooded ravine, and passes through it in a double arch. Near the south-east corner is a kiosque, whose chief glory, according to my guides, is a slab bearing the four words, \"Snowy north, fragrant south,\" written, as they proudly informed me, by the hand of Kim Chêng-hui, better known by his nom de plume of Ch'u-sa (\"the Autumn Author\"), a calligraphist of the first half of this century, whose renown penetrated even to China. From the wall I had a good view of the neighbouring fields, if such they can be called, for they grow to all appearance little else but lava. A melancholy but not unmusical singing induced me to look over at one point, where a row of women were weeding a field in time to the chant. My guides did not quite approve my curiosity, for the reason, as far as I could gather, that the weeders were of the other--for really in this case it could hardly be called the fair--sex. Quelpart of late years has not been self-supporting. Even in good seasons, says the \"Shin Chosen,\" 2,000 bags of rice have to be shipped thither from the mainland, while in famine time 5,000 bags or more must be sent. His fellow-pressman remarks, with admirable candour, \n\nPage 722\n\nPage 439",
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        "content_text": "## \nhis \"if\" \n\nhaving fled. - \n\n553 \n\nAfter 4 days of snow it froze hard last night, \nminima 8 and 1 altimeters are frozen in to-day, two on \ntheir way down and two including B.2.3.Plover on their \nway up; this owing to the ice collecting and forming at \nthe bends, the river at Tientsin is clear, but it is \nmost unusual for the river to be closed on March 15th. \n\nI have not sent any routine report, because I \nhave not been able to collect any information, but `Tael` 2:30-3, and newspaper contradictions. \n\n## March 16th. \n\nThe Viceroy, Li Hung Chang, who embarked from \nTaku on Thursday morning, was still off Taku yesterday \n(Friday). \n\nThere is a great railway project on foot when \npeace is made; if the Chinese will only consent so it is \na great success ought to be achieved a line from \nTientsin to Chinkiang, and thence to Canton; \nso many \npeople, boatmen, couriers, &c., to say nothing of \nofficials who make excuses in various ways, will be \nopposed to it, that a strong hand will be required to \ncarry it out. \n\nI hope that in approaching settlement of \nChinese affairs, people at home will not lose sight of \nthe",
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        "content_text": "the enclosed extract from the \"Daily Press\" of this date containing a report of the proceedings at the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new home for women and girls which is about to be built by the Po Leung Kuk Society.\n\nAt the request of the committee of the Society, I consented to perform this pleasing duty.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient humble servant,\nWitham Robinzoy\n\nEnclosure 4. Jan 4 1896\n\nEnclosure.\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, JANUARY 20TH, 1896.\n\nTHE PO LEUNG KUK SOCIETY'S NEW HOME.\n\nLAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, His Excellency the Governor, Sir William Robinson, K.C.M.G., performed the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new home for women and girls which is being built by the Po Leung Kuk Society. Special arrangements had been made in connection with the ceremony, the complete success of which foretells a prosperous future for this worthy Society. His Excellency and suite were escorted from Government House by four mounted troopers, and throughout the entire length of the route, large crowds of people assembled on each side of the street. Punctually at the appointed time, 2.30, His Excellency arrived at the site of the new home, and he was received by a guard of police under Chief Inspector Corcoran. A very large number of ladies and gentlemen had assembled in response to the Committee's invitation, amongst those present being His Excellency Admiral Buller and Mrs. Buller, Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart and Mrs. Lockhart, Hon. W. M. Goodman and Mrs. Goodman, Hon. F. A. Cooper and Mrs. Cooper, Hon. F. R. Belilios, Hon. A. McConachie, Hon. J. J. Bell Irving, Colonel Austen, Major the Hon. E. Noel and Mrs. Noel, Hon. Commander W. C. H. Hastings, Hon. A. K. and Mrs. Travers, Hon. T. H. Whitehead, Hon. Ho Kai, Captain Stirling, A.D.C., Dr. and Mrs. Wright, Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., and Mrs. Francis, Rev. Dr. Chalmers and Mrs. Chalmers, Captain Anderson and Miss Anderson, Mrs. Milward, Mr. G. W. Playfair and Mrs. Playfair, Miss Van Buren, Mrs. Tomes, Mrs. Droeze, Mr. and Mrs. Byramjee, Mr. A. G. Romano, Mr. C. C. Platt, Mr. T. Jackson, Mr. A. B. Johnson, Mr. A. Denison, Mr. and Mrs. Mehta, Mr. C. Ford and Mrs. Ford, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Cox, and Messrs. Ho Amei, Ho Tung, Ho Fook, Li Sing, Lau Chu-san, Feng Ming San, Cheung Si Kai, Chang Tang, Wai Yuk, Kwok Chik, Sin Tak Fan, Kau Hung Tak, Tam Chuen Shu, Lan Wei Chun, Chui Chi Yuen, La Chi Ting, and many others.\n\nThe proceedings were opened by Hon. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, the President of the Committee, who said: \"Your Excellency--On behalf of the Po Leung Kuk Society, I have the honour to request you to lay the foundation stone of the new home for women and girls, and in doing so, I desire to express on behalf of the members of the Society their high appreciation of the honour which your Excellency has done them in coming here to-day to perform this ceremony.\" (Hear, Hear.)\n\nHis EXCELLENCY: \"Mr. President of the Po Leung Kuk Society, you and your committee have asked me to lay the foundation stone of the new home for women and girls which it is proposed to erect on this site. I have the greatest pleasure in acceding to your request and am glad to have my name in any way associated with the admirable institution you represent. Before completing the ceremony, however, I should like, for the information of the spectators and of the invited guests, to make a few remarks as to the origin and past success of the Society. Some seventeen years ago, the attention of the public was called by the Chief Justice to the evil practice of kidnapping which was rampant in the Colony and of selling the kidnapped women and children as if they were mere chattels. The principal Chinese residents (all honour be to them) were so impressed with the scandalous state of affairs in this respect that they memorialized the Governor, and through him, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and they asked for permission to form an association for the purpose of suppressing this terrible crime; of protecting women and girls, and of restoring those who had been kidnapped to their friends or relations. This permission was granted, and the Committee of the Tung Wa Hospital kindly placed at the disposal of the Po Leung Kuk Society a portion of their hospital for the temporary accommodation of the destitute women and girls who had been rescued or might be rescued from the terrible fate which was intended for them. I hold in my hand a return which shows that during the four years ending in 1891, no less than 2,751 persons have been dealt with by the Society, and I have in my possession another return which shows that from 1888 to the end of 1895, the large number of 5,543 persons have been rescued by this Society, the greater number of whom have been sent to their homes or handed over to their relatives. This is, indeed, a record of good work. It is one which must recommend itself to every honest and respectable resident in the Colony. I cannot myself imagine any more useful, charitable, and Christian-like work.\n\n\"It has been well said by Adelaide Procter that 'God has glory when His children bring His poor ones joy and peace.' Well, joy and peace must have been brought to many a troubled household by the restoration of girls by this Society to their own relatives and their own homes, and who dare assert that God has not been glorified thereby? And let me say here that the rules and regulations under which the Po Leung Kuk Society have so long and so successfully worked were drawn up by our eminent Q.C., Mr. Francis, whom we are all glad to see amongst us again restored to health after his serious illness. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you can easily understand that with so much work to do, it was impossible, and it is impossible, for the Po Leung Kuk Society to do that work well and effectually in the cramped and unsuitable premises lent to them so liberally by the Tung Wa Hospital Committee. I consider that the Government and the community are much indebted to the Tung Wa Hospital Committee for the charitable assistance they have for so long given to the Po Leung Kuk, and we, the Government and the community, are still further indebted to the Tung Wa Hospital Committee for handing over to this Society, for their new building, a site which was granted to the Tung Wa Committee some years ago for charitable purposes. You will wish to know how this new home is to be paid for. I will tell you. The Chinese residents have subscribed amongst themselves the handsome sum of $30,000 towards it, and the Government, recognizing the utility and value of the Po Leung Kuk Society's efforts, has added to that amount a further sum of $20,000. With that $50,000, new and suitable buildings will be erected for the purposes of this institution on the site on which we now stand. Ladies and gentlemen, I am glad to lay this stone this afternoon. You must agree with me in thinking that the past success of the Po Leung Kuk Society has been very great. It would be impossible to run such an institution on European lines or under European management. The Po Leung Kuk Society has proved itself worthy of confidence, and I ask you to concur with me in the hope I now express that its future success may be greater still, that it may be the means of minimizing, if not entirely of suppressing, this disgusting traffic, and therefore may be a permanent blessing to the present and future generations of Chinese women and girls.\"\n\nHon. Ho KAI then handed a silver trowel and a silver-mounted mallet to His Excellency, who thereupon smoothed the mortar and the stone was placed in its proper position under the supervision of Mr. Denison, the architect. After tapping the stone, His EXCELLENCY said: \"Ladies and gentlemen, I declare this stone to be well and truly laid, and I ask you now to adjourn to the Tung Wa Hospital Committee Room.\"\n\nA photograph of the group was then taken, and Hon. Ho KAI called for three cheers for His Excellency, which were heartily given.\n\nPage 57",
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        "content_text": "$450.55, as the Colonial Treasurer reports that these sums are irrecoverable. As will be seen from the enclosed list, judgment was obtained in most instances, but the Crown Solicitor states that in these cases, there are outstanding debts.\n\n## Enclosure C. Arrears of Village Rates in the hands of the Crown Solicitor.\n\n| Name of Village | Name of Arrears House | Amount | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Tok Tsui | Sung Ki Mla Fi | 72 | Defendant could not be found. |\n| Fan Kam-lin |  | 24 | 14 |\n|  |  | 8 |  |\n| Chung Muk-kin |  | 36 |  |\n| Su Wa |  | 378 | 98/99 14 |\n| Yeung Yau-li |  | 100 | Judgment obtained. |\n| Lu Jak |  | 2 | 52 Judgment obtained. |\n| Sam Jak |  |  |  |\n| Chang Szo |  | 107 | 50 |\n|  |  | 6 |  |\n| Man Saw |  | 8414 |  |\n| Chu Mun | San Frat | 122 | 126 |\n|  |  | 14 | 1 |\n|  |  | 135 | 14 |\n| Waw Jok Ru |  |  |  |\n| Mo A. fat |  | 14 | 4 |\n| Sang Kan |  | 14 | 14 |\n|  |  | 4 |  |\n| So kun shing |  | 47 | 14 were no goods on which to levy execution. |\n| Chan Fuk |  | 127 | 14 |\n| Ali-har |  |  |  |\n| Fan Sav |  | 17 | 14 |\n| ian King. un |  | 29 | 7 |\n| sor Cheung-ki |  | 156 | 14 |\n|  |  | 172 | 400 House unknown |\n|  |  | 712 | 144 |\n|  |  | 2 | 64 Judgment obtained |\n|  |  | 154 | 4406 |\n|  |  | 21 |  |\n|  |  | 2 | 94 House unknown |\n|  |  | 2 | 94 Judgment obtained |\n|  |  | 2 | 20 House in ruins. |\n|  |  | 2 | 52 Judgment obtained |\n|  |  | 24 | 2 52 House pulled down |\n|  |  | 26 | Judgment obtained |\n| Chan Wong |  | 4 |  |\n| Lan Sin |  | 72 |  |\n|  |  | 980100 |  |\n| Foi Kat |  | 14 | 120×122 |\n|  |  | 2 | 52 House pulled down |\n| Mok Sen |  | 16 | 144 |\n|  |  |  | to 9. |\n|  |  | 144 |  |\n|  |  | 2 | 20 |\n|  |  | 4 |  |\n| Chan Jauh | 5 Stan Shi | 14 |  |\n|  |  | 252 | 6 |\n| Kafe |  | 44 | 252 |\n| Fan chung | Chung Muck you | 24 | /2 |\n| Lan I'nui |  | 26 |  |\n| Ip Shui-lin |  | 32 |  |\n| Chan Fuk. |  | G | 14 |\n|  |  | + | 16 Judgment obtained |\n|  |  | 1/2 | 1421 |\n|  |  | 14 | 70 Forward 90 57 |\n\nI have the honour to be, Dir, Your Most Obedient Humble Servant,\nWillem Rebingsz",
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        "content_text": "92\n\nbanishment was out against SUN, and that no unusual amount of money had lately been remitted from Honolulu to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. The latter assurance was however contradicted on March 17th when I received a further report from a Hong Kong detective that T'ENG SAN-CHENG, SUN's supposed lieutenant had last autumn brought from Honolulu a large sum of money, which he was using to finance the export to Macao of arms to be employed in a rebellion which would start in the CHAO-CH'ING prefecture. Thereon the Viceroy requested the banishment of T'ENG, to which Sir W. Robinson could not agree owing to want of definite proof, and the restriction of the sale of arms in Hong Kong to Chinese possessed of an official license countersigned by myself. The Viceroy also addressed the Governor of Macao, who has promised to exercise supervision over the sale of arms there.\n\nOn March 18th LI CHIA-CHO, the head of the police of the Western suburbs, seized 78 rifles of native make in a blacksmith's shop.\n\nI have failed to get any tangible proof of the supposed plot, of which much has been made in the foreign newspapers. The unusual supply of arms sent to Macao may quite possibly be destined merely for use in the clan fights frequent in this province or for defence against the numerous bands of banditti. Nor can I attach any importance to anonymous warnings in English which were sent to the French and American Consuls in Hong Kong about the 20th February.",
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        "content_text": "152\n\n26\n\ndecided that an immediate direct reply by cable would be preferable to the course suggested by the Hongkong Committee of telegraphing the resolution of the Shanghai Committee to them in order to form a joint telegram; it being in every sense essential that the opinions of the Shanghai Committee, which you had been good enough to invite, should be conveyed in the clearest possible manner, without the risk of modification or variation, which might have resulted had the sense of the resolution been transmitted in the form of a joint message.\n\nThe following telegram was, in pursuance of this resolution, despatched on the 28th inst., and should have been in your possession early on that day:\n\n\"Refer your telegram July 17th. Committee advocate Tseng Kuo-fan's note November '68, but accept principle increased scale duties to about 7½ per cent, aggregate, condition one scale covering lekin taxes every kind entire empire. Customs receive payment settle provincial treasuries. Chinese Government to reciprocate regarding duties native produce for local manufacture consumption export or otherwise, also freedom navigation water-ways.\"\n\nThis telegram seems sufficiently clear; but owing to the absence, from necessity, of punctuation, it will be well to furnish you with a copy of the actual resolution, which is as follows:-\n\n\"The Committee having read Mr. Gundry's letter of May 15th, and studied his 'Memorandum on the Transit Duty question,' resolved that the true interpretation of the treaty, so far as customs duties, transit charges, and all taxation on foreign merchandise are concerned, is contained in a note dated November, 1868, made by Tseng Kuo-fan in his capacity as superintendent of trade to the Southern Treaty ports, reproduced on pages 3 and 4 of Mr. Gundry's memorandum, and that a telegram be despatched to Mr. Gundry to that effect, adding that the Shanghai Committee accept the principal of an increased scale of duties which, however, in their judgment, should be limited on a basis of 7 per cent. ad valorem in the aggregate. No separation or division of this scale of duty is practicable, because it would inevitably lead to continuous disputes. The conditions should, therefore, be one scale of duty which should cover lekin, transit dues, taxes, and imposts of every kind, making goods upon which the import duty has been paid absolutely free to every part of the Empire of China in conformity with the declaration of the effect of existing treaties by Tseng Kuo-fan. This duty to be paid to the Customs, who should take all the responsibility in regard to its sub-division or the allowances to be made to the Imperial and Provincial treasuries. In return for this the Chinese Government to undertake reciprocity regarding duties, lekin, transit, and other charges upon native produce conveyed from one part of the Empire to another, whether for manufacture in China, or export, or, in fact, for any purpose whatsoever; also that they shall grant freedom of navigation of all waterways. This resolution to be forwarded direct by telegraph to Mr. Gundry, with a copy also by telegraph to the Hongkong Committee.\"\n\nIn suggesting the limitation of the increased tariff to 7 per cent., the Committee are sensible that this is a point to be decided on grounds of public expediency and upon the precedent of the recently-revised convention with Japan, raising the scale from 5 to 10 per cent.; but they make the suggestion because, practically, from a combination of various causes,\n\n27\n\ninclusive of currency changes, the actual duty now collected under a nominal 5 per cent. standard does not exceed probably 3¼ to 4 per cent.; a revision to 7½ per cent. being, therefore, tantamount to doubling the revenue at present derived from the Customs and forming a limit which cannot prudently be passed without incurring the risk of ulterior consequences to foreign commerce in China. As only a portion of imported merchandise is passed into the interior of the country, the Imperial Government will benefit by one duty; and they will only be called upon to apportion payments, if such a course is intended, to Provincial Governments on that portion conveyed inland. It is manifestly impossible that this division could be made otherwise than through the Imperial Customs.\n\nAn arrangement on this foundation, if fairly carried out, the Committee firmly believe would prove highly advantageous to commerce generally, while materially increasing the volume of trade and, proportionately, the Imperial revenues. If, however, the principle \"one duty, free goods throughout China\" is disregarded, as other similar conditions have heretofore been, or subjected to variation at the caprice of individual provincial governors, the effect of any concession in regard to the scale of duty will simply be to increase the existing scale of taxation of foreign merchandise, while the obstacles which hinder its free circulation will be made stronger by a new Convention which will be regarded as extorted by the power of China from western nations.\n\nThe reciprocity the Chinese Government are asked to grant in regard to native produce is an absolutely necessary condition; because it is believed that they are extremely desirous of defeating the privileges obtained by Her Majesty's Minister at Peking, and subsequently embodied in the treaty of Shimonoseki, empowering foreigners in China to import machinery and engage in domestic manufacture; and it is now known that the Japanese Government have withdrawn from further discussion of the question of lekin and other imposts on native produce intended for manufacture, leaving to foreigners the barren right of manufacture, while the Chinese authorities reserve the power of taxation of the raw material required, rendering nugatory the previous concession.\n\nTo the right of travel and residence in the interior, the Shanghai Committee do not attach sufficient importance to make it a question worth agitating; but, having regard to the deficiency of internal communications—to the entire absence of roads, for example—they attach much importance to the freedom of navigation of all the rivers and waterways of the Empire; a right which, if once granted, will be as valuable an impetus to commerce within a few months, as will be railway construction later on.\n\nThe Committee feel that H. E. Li Hung-chang, during his visit to England, will be most gracious in promise, particularly anxious to meet the wishes of his good friends the British merchants, and to secure as much as he can obtain in return for his pledges to reciprocate in the form of commercial concessions and privileges. The Committee intend no disrespect to",
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        "content_text": "San Jin then the Java names of certain persons who had acted intermediaries to carry briberies a number of persons were arrested. The statements of several of these men who did not admit their guilt are given in lucks O, P, & Q, evidence given in every case is of the most flimsy description, from the nature the character of the witnesses is clearly not reliable, while documentary evidence, which is intelligible only when explained by the writer, is more or less corroboratory of the state, not satisfactory.\n\nI have not the slightest hesitation made Lay mente. Four of those arrested however viz Preuz it to Interpreter to Inspector Hore, Wan Sing Hand District watchman, to the guilt of the three MAQL who have hitherto been tried, but I am Cheng On ex Police Man, Tong Kame au Ex Policeman made statements between 12th of 19th July with the result that Inspector Witchell was prosecuted for bribery 6 months imprisonment & dismissed the force.\n\nIt was considered that sufficient evidence was adduced to bring Mr Hore before the Executive Council. The evidence of these and punishments awarded in each three cases are forwarded in separate Sec 20085, 20054 Despatcher, I write with them separately. Generally speaking however I must say that I am very surprised that witchure the criminal charge.\n\nThe government has interdicted from duty Inspectors Stanton, Zurücey, kaher & sergeant Holl & every effort is being made to procure sufficient evidence to bring them to justice. There appears to me to be very strong evidence against Stanton & I hope it may be found possible to court him dother.\n\nWith regard to the future, I think it is necessary to take rigorous measures to deal effectually with these illegal gambling houses.\n\nPage 314\n\n2-79509-3000-3-07 KAA",
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        "content_text": "Quarters at the Central Police Station's Sergeant's room and Sitting \n\nYeung Fat I should mention was Chief. Stanton's favourite detective and was constantly with the Inspector.\n\nI made enquiries regarding Kwai Jan Hoi and by chance found that he left the Colony soon after Sam Man Ki. It was restricted.\n\nAd. mi was con... The man was well known to the Police & he was constantly seen about the Central Police Station in company with Tseng Ut Poy, Interpreter to Inspector Store, Wan Sing, Head District Watchman, Cheng On an ex-policeman and Excise Officer in the Opium Farm and Jang Kam an ex-policeman & Shopkeeper, all made Statements between the 12th & 19th instant with the result that a prosecution for bribery was instituted against Inspector Store.\n\nA copy of the evidence against Inspector Store & Mr Osmund was forwarded to me on the 15th inst. by me.\n\n-25-\n\nInspector Mitchell was arrested and charged with the bribery on the 16th instant and the case was proceeded with at the Police Court on the following day, Sgt. Francis having charge of the prosecution owing to the Crown Solicitor being busily engaged.\n\nPage 25 appears to be properly formatted with paragraphs. However, some sentences are incomplete or contain unclear OCR output. The text has been formatted into paragraphs and minor corrections have been made for spelling and spacing.\n\nPage 26",
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        "content_text": "Monegal at the end of the year before last.\n\nHoped to come then to West Point to a barbers. I do not know how much money Lam Yin told me would be used to bribe them.\n\nIt was not till this year in the 3rd moon that Sam Yin told me how much he paid to Inspector Won's number, Fong.\n\nI have seen Wan King at No: 3 East What. also 6. S. T. Tang Chang and also 6. C. Kwan Song.\n\nI have received money from Sam Yin. He used to come then every few days. The last time that I saw them receive money was on the 5th Chinese moon (June) this year.\n\nI know Jonno at the beginning of this year was paid money. He said he was paid $1 a day.\n\nThere are two Nos: 43, the old and the new. The old one is Stanton. The new one is different European Police Inspector.\n\nPage 396",
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        "content_text": "(22)\n\nI believe he also got $10 a day from the Cheong Hing gambling house but I don't know for certain.\n\nCheong paid the hush money of Lam Chi.\n\nI believe Lau for the Cheong Hing house each paid $10 a day. Paid every five days, that is $50 every 5 days to Sham Cha to pay Inspector No 10.\n\nAt first Seong went to Sham Cha's to collect the money for No 10. Afterwards Jord to Sham Cha told Sham Cha told me that Kwai Tou Hon want to get it. I believe Kwai Tan Hoi collected it after he returned from banishment.\n\n\"6 #1 Fat\" that I paid Seong Fat $10 per day, payments being made every 5 days. for No 6 Inspector stationed at Lan Kwai Fong.\n\nX You X\n\nOn the 11th of 3th moon this year, I paid $3.60 to Wan Shing for Osmund the Chief Clerk & Registrar General's Office. \" this means that I paid at first $3.60 to Wan Shing.\n\nFrom that date Osmund wanted an additional $10 a day from that date. I said\n\n(23)\n\n4460 Mr Osmund a day for 409\n\nI see item on p. 4 of H. \"No 12 $1. paid to Fling from (sic) entered in Kam's account \" I made this entry and first of all put down Tseng Anis Naude because K Tseng who is in charge of No 12 district in which Keiwan won Lau.\n\nMore is a $150 a day if gambling, very big wanted Cheng On Lau going No 12 want to be paid but as gambling had been stopped be paid would best.\n\nI was afraid that if I did not agree to pay the house would be seized on the information of this district to Tang Kaun. I did this at Tseng On's request day cts 70 to C Thang oun's own share was paid to Tang Kaw. H in Tang Kan's account this item appears. as $1 the 100cts was payment to Thang on for in collecting paying the his trouble Inspector.\n\nX X\n\nThat means I paid $7 to Tang Lo loafer at the gambling house.",
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        "content_text": "423 (5)\n\nPaid to Kan Kam 精 Tang Kam\n\nThe below mentioned sums .... Trung chi 77573 Kwai hen ng King Sp 2 were paid to him Lo Tung Chi Chan Kwai-ueu 2+1 Chi 3 +/ 10 cent pieces lin Nen thing Cheung 5 3 6 Lin = 4 25TM\n\nA Cheung, suruana not Kuan My Live Fat - Young Gang Fat 25\" = 25 cents\n\nFat 0 Jenng Sam o Chan Cheng Chan Kring Ch'an Chais Pi chăn chung Ch'an Tsun chung Jung Chong 0 King OTSER Kann Kung P'ai Kung Tác Phật Leng lai Kam Fin Chống Tài long Kan\n\nL $1 JN changed 10 cent pieces 3′′ Kam Kung = Tang Rani's wage, 3 changed. 1⁄2 crazed = Pai Khung = wages paid to Tang Kam for distributing money 10 cent preces 15 15 = 15 cents 久 watchman at the New Club I Kwai-Kai 10 cent pieces The club is the detectives club 3 Kwok King 3 Kwok Kung wage... 3 www = A Kwoth's 30 cento",
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        "content_text": "Defendant-How long after your arrival in the colony did you receive information about the gambling houses in Wa Lane?\n\nWitness-Immediately after my arrival.\n\nDid that information say how long gambling had been carried on there?--I do not think so.\n\nOn what date were those entries made in the book?-They are not dated.\n\nTo the best of your knowledge when did gambling cease in Kwai Wa Lane. How long after your arrival in the colony?-Gambling ceased during the remainder of the month of October. Then it began again. To the best of my knowledge and belief it went on until I raided the place.\n\nI am speaking about Kwai Wa Lane-All I can say about Kwai Wa Lane is that after the end of November I received no more complaints about gambling in that lane.\n\nMr. Francis--I have one question, your Worship. Does Rule 73 apply to the Inspector whom you have put in charge of these different sections for the purpose of suppressing gambling? Have they a right to send a man into a house for the purpose of finding out if gambling is going on?-Yes. The rule does not apply to those Inspectors.\n\nEach Inspector has a complete right to take whatever steps he thinks necessary to suppress gambling in his district. That is so.\n\nHis Worship-Has that been the practice in the Police Force?-The prohibition against entering these gambling houses applies to constables only.\n\nThat has been the practice?-Yes.\n\nDefendant-That is how you construe the regulation. Will you kindly look at it from a common sense point of view.\n\nHis Worship here read the regulation.\n\nDefendant-That rule affects the whole Force, from the Captain Superintendent downwards.\n\nWitness-An Inspector of Police constantly sends an informer into a gambling house to obtain information; otherwise he would not get a conviction.\n\nIs there an order prohibiting Inspectors employing informers or sending constables into these gambling houses, and have there not been prosecutions in which Inspectors have entered these houses and people have been killed and the Inspectors charged with manslaughter at the Supreme Court?-I do not know of any such order prohibiting Inspectors employing informers. With regard to the last part-\n\nHis Worship-That is all.\n\nWitness-There is a second question.\n\nHis Worship-No, there is no second question. Sign the depositions, please.\n\nCheng On, who was brought up in the custody of Acting Chief Inspector Mackie, was the next witness. He said:\n\nI am Chinese, an Excise Officer in the employ of the Opium Farm. I have been in that employ thirteen months. Before that, I was a detective in the Hongkong Police Force. I am acquainted with all or nearly all the Inspectors, and as Excise Officer, I was frequently up at the Police Court. I know defendant, Inspector Witchell. He is known as \"No. 12\" amongst the Chinese. I have paid him money. Sometimes if he was not at home, I paid his wife. From the 14th of March to the 17th of June, I have paid him $12.60 every week, each Monday. I got that money from Tung Kum. I always got this money from Tung Kum, who is the keeper of the Yee Yuon mercer's shop, Hollywood Road.\n\nBefore the first payment was made by me to the defendant, on 11th March, he invited me to his room. I went with him and conversed with him in the Inspector's quarters. Mrs. Witchell was present; she was going in and out of the room. I was speaking half in Chinese and half in English. Defendant speaks Chinese. This conversation had reference to the money payments afterwards made.\n\nHe said, \"In going round on my duty, I saw a lot of people standing at the entrance to Chung Hing Lane and Wa Lane. Then I used my stick to drive them away. Then a Chinese abused me, and said 'No. 12 is proud.' Then I ran after a Chinaman. That Chinaman ran up to the first floor and called me to come upstairs, waving his hand. As I had no warrant, I dared not go upstairs. He wanted to disgrace me.\n\nI went away and a lot of people jeered at me. I do not know who taught the Chinese to treat me in this way. They think I cannot arrest them, but I can arrest them. If I arrest them, Mr. May will be very pleased with it. I have known these gambling houses for a long time. I know that some of my fokis received some money to spend, therefore I do not wish to arrest them. If I go to arrest them, it will spoil the business of my fokis, which is a very foolish act to do. I do not wish to do such an act; I do not know why the Chinese treat me in this way. In my section, I know a house was open for two days, and the people have petitioned to Mr. May.\"\n\nI asked him, \"Who told you all this thing you have told me?\" He said, \"An old man, Saug Yung, between fifty and sixty years of age.\" I told him not to have any conversation with that man now; he is not a proper man and he does not know how to speak.\n\nOn one occasion, there was gambling going on in Kwai Wa Lane, and defendant said, \"I do not know which took Mr. May up to a house in Jervois Street to look into the second floor of a house in Kwai Wa Lane where the gambling was going on. After looking at the place, Mr. May came back to the office and sent someone to call me. Then Mr. May said to me, 'There is gambling in your place.' I replied to Mr. May, 'Sometimes.' Mr. May answered, 'Gambling going on just now.' Then Mr. May said, 'Take out a paper at once to arrest.'\"\n\nHe told me all this news. Then defendant asked me if I knew the \"fat child.\" I said, \"Yes, I know him.\" He said, \"When I go round on my duty, this man follows me and wants to speak to me.\n\nAs there were a lot of people in the street, I did not wish to speak to him.\" Witness asked Inspector Witchell, \"How do you know him?\" \"I know him,\" he replied, \"because he is the master in Chang Hing Street.\" Then Inspector Witchell said, \"I do not know why the man wanted to speak to me. I think he wants to speak to me about gambling in Kwai Wa Lane.\" I said, \"If the man were to offer you anything, don't promise him.\" He said, \"Mr. May has great power, because he had arrested once before.\" I said, \"That place cannot be kept as a gambling house.\"\n\nMr. Francis-Tell me what he said about money.\n\nDefendant--Your Worship, will you direct the witness to tell the story in his own way?\n\nMr. Francis-I am entitled to examine the witness as I like.\n\nHis Worship-I think Mr. Francis's question must be put.\n\nWitness (continuing)-The defendant said, \"I receive not a cash from this place.\" Then defendant asked me, \"Do you know those gambling people?\" I said, \"I do.\" The defendant said, \"I have a lot of children and the expenses are large. My money is not sufficient. Will you kindly go and see those persons to get some expenses for me.\" I said, \"I am afraid that the people might refuse because they are not in your section.\" Defendant said, \"If they are in my section, I won't let them keep open. As they belong to another person's section, I am not afraid. As people are eating flesh, I want you to pick up some bone; I shall be obliged if you will ask these persons for me.\"\n\nI went and saw Tung Kum, and A. Yeun or Sam Yeun. I had a conversation with Inspector Witchell about Sam Yeun. In consequence of that conversation with the Inspector, I told all I had heard to Tung Kum, who told Sam Yeun. I was there when he told Sam Yeun. Sam Yeun replied, \"Very little.\" I said, \"How much.\" He said, \"$1 a day.\"\n\nThe Magistrate-Is this evidence, Mr. Francis?\n\nMr. Francis-Yes, your Worship, I think so. He is the authorised agent of the defendant.\n\nDefendant-I object to that remark; it is nothing but humbug from beginning to end.\n\nWitness (continuing)--I told defendant what sum had been mentioned. Defendant said, \"Maskee.\" I further told him people want 10 cents for labour; I was referring to Tung Kum. I was not referring to myself. Then defendant said, \"All right, I am satisfied, I will pay him ten cents labour.\" Then I said to Mr. Witchell, \"If a man is willing to give, are you willing to receive? It is not my affair.\" The Inspector said, \"I receive.\" In accordance with that arrangement, I received $12.60 a week.\n\n445",
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        "content_text": "week from Tung Kum. I took the money every Monday and paid it sometimes to the defendant and sometimes to his wife if he was not there. The $12.60 was from two gambling houses—one at Chung Hing Street and Wa Lane—$1 from each house a day and ten cents off for labour. I would know Sham Yeon again if I saw him.\n\nSam Yeon, the master of the house in Wa Lane which was raided was here brought into court in custody and witness identified him.\n\nThis concluded the witness's examination and it was decided to take Mr. Brewin's evidence before the cross-examination was proceeded with.\n\nMr. A. W. Brewin, Acting Inspector of Government Schools, said—I have knowledge of Chinese, both of the spoken language and the character. No. 1 entry in the book is, \"No. 12, $1.10; handed to Cheng On.\" Entry No. 2 reads, \"No. 12, $1,\" then there are characters signifying, \"Handed to Cheng On.\" These are crossed out. Then there are the characters, \"Handed to Tang.\" I am not certain of the last character; it is abbreviated.\n\nCross-examined—The characters, \"Handed to Cheng On,\" have been crossed out; there is a round mark over them.\n\nRe-examined—I do not know whether the Chinese book-keepers or accountants make use of that mark over an entry in a day book to show that the account has been transferred to another book.\n\nDefendant—Your Worship, I see that the Chinese witness has been taken away.\n\nHis Worship—Who has taken him away? Defendant—Inspector Mackie.\n\nMr. Francis—The witness has no right to leave the court.\n\nDefendant—The prosecution have got him in their hands to do what they like with him.\n\nHis Worship—I will see that you have a fair trial.\n\nThe adjournment for luncheon was then taken. Defendant asked to be allowed out at liberty. He had been locked up since four o'clock the previous afternoon.\n\nMr. Francis intimated that there was no objection to the defendant being allowed bail. He could insist upon bail if he liked.\n\nHis Worship asked the defendant to get bail during the adjournment.\n\nThe Captain Superintendent of Police intimated that he would make arrangements for the defendant to be at liberty during the adjournment.\n\nAfter the adjournment the defendant cross-examined the witness Cheng On.\n\nDefendant—Are you at present an Excise Officer for the Opium Farmer?\n\nWitness—Yes.\n\nHave you been arrested under a banishment warrant?—I do not know.\n\nHave you been detained in the gaol?—Yes.\n\nSince you have been in gaol you have been brought before the Captain Superintendent?—Only once.\n\nWho was present at the time?—Mr. Deunys, the solicitor.\n\nNo one else?—No.\n\nIs that where you made the statement you made to the court this morning?—Yes.\n\nYou say you remember coming to my quarters on the 14th March last?—On the 11th March.\n\nWas that the first time you had been there?—That was not the first occasion.\n\nOn what date did you go there before?—I do not remember. I went there last year.\n\nWhat did you go there for last year?—I went to see you about a case in which Pang On made a false charge against three of my elusmen.\n\nWhat did you have to say about that?—You told me you knew it was a false case and you said you would speak straightforwardly.\n\nIn what month was that?—Between the 7th October and the 4th December.\n\nHad you been to my house, or did my wife and I meet you in the street a few days previous to the 11th?—I do not remember.\n\nDo you remember going to my quarters on the 9th?—I do not remember.\n\nYou seem to be very forgetful just now.\n\nDo you remember meeting me and my wife on the afternoon of the 9th at the corner of Wellington Street and Lyndhurst Terrace?—I did not meet you and your wife.\n\nWas anything said to you in the street on that occasion about getting some samples of silk?—It was not in March; it was in the 4th moon—May, when something was said about silk.\n\nDid you come to my house on the 11th March?—I did.\n\nWhom did you see?—You and your wife were there and the children were running about. Was anyone else there?—There was no one else.\n\nWhere did you sit down?—Near the fireplace in the room next to the dining room.\n\nWhich way did you come in?—By the back, up the steps.\n\nYou are quite sure you did not see anyone else there?—I did not see anyone else.\n\nDid you bring any pieces of silk on the 11th?—I did not.\n\nI mean samples, not pieces.—No; it was in May that I took some samples.\n\nYou did not show any samples to anyone on the 11th March?—You had not mentioned about buying things then.\n\nWhen did you go again after the 11th?—On the 13th March, between 2 and 3 p.m.\n\nWho asked you into the sitting room on the 11th?—You were in the sitting room and you asked me to come in.\n\nWas anyone else there besides myself?—Your wife came in afterwards.\n\nYou are sure I was in the sitting room when you came?—Yes.\n\nI was not upstairs?—No.\n\nI was not called downstairs?—No.\n\nBe quite sure. There was no one else in the room besides myself, my wife, the children, and the cook?—The children and the cook were not in the room.\n\nBut there was no one else there?—No.\n\nDid I say anything to you on the 9th March about a friend going home to England and that I wanted to send some silk with him?—No.\n\nDid I tell you the Clerk of the Gaol—Mr. Watson—was going home to England?—No.\n\nI did not say anything to you about Mr. Watson?—I don't remember that you did.\n\nYou did not meet me in Lyndhurst Terrace on the 9th March.\n\nAnd you never got any samples of silk at the end of November or the beginning of December last year for me?—No.\n\nDid I show you a photograph on the piano of a lady to whom I was going to send the silk—the photograph you dropped on the floor?—Yes, I remember that and also dropping it on the floor.\n\nWas that at the end of November or beginning of December?—It was this year and not last.\n\nDid you ask me if the lady was my mother?—No.\n\nDid I show you a photograph of a gentleman?—No.\n\nDid I tell you that gentleman was Mr. Falconer, Magistrate at Lorne, South Wales?—No.\n\nDid I tell you it was his lady?—No.\n\nDid you remark \"It's very handsome?\"—I said it was pretty good.\n\nOn the 11th, when you went in, who met you in the passage way?—I walked along the passage and when I got to the room you said, \"Come in.\"\n\nIt was rather familiar for you to come in like that?—I went to look for you.\n\nDid you ask where I was?—There was no one in the house when I went there and so I did not ask.\n\nWhat are you talking about?—I walked up to your room and saw you there.\n\nHow long do you say you stayed there on the 11th?—Three quarters of an hour.\n\nDidn't Mrs. Witchell tell you to sit down and she would call me?—She was upstairs; she came down afterwards.\n\nShe was not in the room?—No.\n\nYou said we were all there. Did you say to Mrs. Witchell on the 11th, when she said \"she would call me,\" \"Oh, never mind, I've brought that piece of silk for you to look see?\"—No.\n\nDid Mrs. Witchell say that was not the kind of silk she wanted?—No.\n\nYou went out at the back, didn't you?—Yes.\n\n446",
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        "content_text": "The three Inspector's named above \n\nW \n\nGovernment sirvants in receipt of Bribes [57 \n\nextracted from \n\nList H. \n\n1 \n\nnever \n\nasked me \n\nif \n\ntheir \n\ngambling Chuney Sting Strab. \n\nhouse in Wa Lane \n\nThey did not instruct one to make \n\nany enquiries regarding any gambling in \n\neither of those streets. \n\nEveryone in Staunton, that is \n\nall the Chinese know \n\nJ \n\nthere live \n\ngambling \n\n89 \n\nhouses. But the three Inspectors made \n\nno \n\nenquiries. \n\nI do not know whether the three \n\nInspectors heard about the gambling. They \n\nInspectors: How should I know about \n\nare \n\nthem. \n\nRunning, & Bather received any \n\nreceived them it would be through Jang Chung \n\nJuing Tab so how could I know \n\nabout it. \n\nush Jan \n\n43 \n\nList of person alleged \n\nNour \n\nEuropean Police \n\nto be designated. \n\nChief Inspector Corcoran Chief Inspector \n\nInspector Stanton \n\ncey Henneray \n\nMains \n\nAnt of dowly bribe \n\nshown an list. \n\n  \n    3 dollars.\n    +clove\n    5 dollars.\n  \n  \n    *\n    3 dollars.\n    i dellaw\n    180.\n  \n  \n    Bailee\n    13rd\n    10 dollars.\n    12.\n  \n  \n    Witched\n    *\n    91\n    Acry Seep Thall\n    4.7\n  \n  \n    PJ\n    47\n    Foord\n    1.\n  \n  \n    F.3.1 Pheeps\n    New\n    +3\n    Burgt Holt.\n  \n\ndon't know whether Stanton, \n\nM3.\n\nSeng + McFver \n\nbribes. If they \n\nAA\n\n244\n\npanied fores \n\nThish.\n\nfores of name? \n\nJung Fin \n\ni chung t \n\nKwai Kai \n\nAetz Macaulay Graham \n\nI Lothar Cutired on Ham's \n\naccount ]. \n\n  \n    \"Ding\" Dorgas Susp\n    1 dollar $10 cents.\n  \n  \n    Sugeant\n    1 dollar & 35 cents [Note. Paid \n    7ocents.\n  \n  \n    2 dollaro.\n    120\n    10 0.\n  \n  \n    tumpy Arogbug?\n    50 cents.\n  \n  \n    Aery Sing?\n    .\n  \n\nPolice Interpules & click \n\nLung Kwai Khai, blandt \n\nPolice Department. \n\n[to Kam]\n\nSurg Interpretiv #306 190. ( vode dish. !! ). \n\n3rd Police flors 70 conto. \n\nHunt Note: Inter Hou Just - Interpulling Interpretin \n\nShanti Wan) at Shan Kitan Police Station \n\n  \n    Jo Joung Ki\n    Wan Shan\n    che hann\n    Jp Thing he\n    20 cents\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    so cento\n  \n  \n    Wan Than\n    \n    \n    \n    30 cento\n  \n  \n    \"Chinese\n    \n    PC 254.\n    \n    50 cents.\n  \n  \n    +\n    214\n    tempy\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ching Man &\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hair Hing\n    Jan\n    To\n    Thing\n    1 khung\n  \n  \n    Taną\n    \n    Teng\n    x\n    X\n  \n  \n    Chu Kwai Lam\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ching Man Hui Haing Jane Thing Li Chung\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tang Chang Litig\n    \n    Llang\n    \n    Zam\n  \n  \n    n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    210.\n    173\n    144\n    6.5.190 0. C. 120\n  \n  \n    Po cento\n    \n    So cento\n    \n    70\n  \n  \n    cent\n    \n    \n    \n    80 cents Note to be discontined from the\n  \n  \n    129\" of\n    \n    the st\n    msword.\n    \n  \n  \n    Vide list.\n    III,\n    \n    She S\n    100",
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        "content_text": "the only information upon which he issued the warrant was the information he obtained from Mr. Francis-\n\nMr. A. W. Brewin was here called to put in a translation of one of the books. He pointed out the entries referring to No. 12 and also an entry \"New 43, $2.\" There was also an entry \"43, $5.\"\n\nIn answer to his Lordship, Mr. Brewin said there were no dates against the items respecting the money paid to Cheng On. All the items followed in regular sequence.\n\nHon. F. H. May then went into the witness box again and his cross-examination was proceeded with.\n\nMr. Robinson-Have you spoken to Cheng On since yesterday?\n\nWitness-No.\n\nSince the sitting of the Court yesterday? Yes.\n\nWhat did you speak to him about? I asked him whether it was 1 or 3, Cheung Sha Wan Street where the gambling was carried on.\n\nYou were speaking with reference to this case? Yes.\n\nWas any other European with you at the time? Yes. Mr. Dennys.\n\nWhat is Acting Inspector Hall's number? 91.\n\nIn this document 91 is written down and opposite is the figure 11-Yes.\n\nAs regards ), he has not been suspended? No.\n\nAm I right in saying that Acting Inspector Hall has been for the last 18 months at Shaukiwan? I do not know how long he has been there. He has been there since I came back, I believe. I came back in October last year.\n\nAs a matter of fact Acting Inspector Hall has been at Sheukiwan since last October and he was there when you returned? Yes.\n\nWhat was Inspector Manu's number? 89. What is his station? Wanchai.\n\nHow long has he been there? He has been there since I came back from leave; how long before I do not know.\n\nOpposite 89 in this list is written $1.10? Yes.\n\nHe has not been suspended? No.\n\nHas either of those two men anything whatsoever to do with the gambling section No. 2, Central District? No.\n\nCan you explain how their names got into this list? Before they were transferred they were doing duty in the Central District.\n\nI will ask you to get the dates of their respective appointments to their several districts. Now with regard to Inspector Mann perhaps you will have a little more knowledge. When did Inspector Mann return from leave? I cannot answer that accurately. I was on leave myself.\n\nDo you know that he returned in June, 1890, and that he was appointed to Wanchai? I do not know what date he returned.\n\nYou know that he was on leave whilst you were on leave? Yes.\n\nYou can ascertain when he returned from leave? Yes.\n\nAnd when he returned to Wanchai? Yes. Will you read the entries against 89 and 91? #91, $11; and underneath is put \"11.\" #89, $1.10; underneath is written \"Tung.\"\n\nThere are a large number of names of Chinese detectives in that book? Yes.\n\nI think sixteen entries have been marked by somebody? Yes.\n\nWill you read out those sixteen entries? I cannot read them correctly because I cannot read grass writing very well. The first entry does not refer to a detective; $4 is against the name.\n\nThe next might be Kwan, $2.\n\nIs he a detective as far as you know? There is a man called Kwan Shing, a detective. It may refer to him.\n\nHas he been banished? Yes.\n\nNo. 3 is Tung? Yes.\n\nWhat amount? $2.\n\nNo. 4 is Chu Lun? Yes, a detective.\n\nYou think he is a detective-Chu Lun, I know, is a detective.\n\nNo. 5 is Cheng Tai, $8? Yes. He is a detective. No. 6 is Hu Hing, $8; No. 7, Tam Shing, $7; 8, Mee Chung.\n\nIs he a detective? I am not sure. He is a policeman.\n\nWhat is the number written against him? $8. What is No. 9, Leung Lai? I cannot read that; $5 is the amount.\n\nChu Tsoi is next?\n\nHis Lordship (to Mr. Robinson)-Does not all that appear in the translation you are now reading? Why do you take Mr. May through it all? What is the object?\n\nMr. Robinson-Because Mr. May has said that one end of the document consisted mainly of the names of police. Now I am pointing out that large sums were being paid to men some of whom, he tells us, are detectives.\n\nHis Lordship pointed out that when Mr. Francis, in his opening address, said that documents showed a large amount of corruption among the officers of the Police Force Mr. Robinson objected, and now Mr. Robinson was going over to same ground.\n\nMr. Robinson-I am dealing with the corruption alleged at the present moment and how it affects the Chinese Police Force.\n\nHis Lordship-I do not think you can go into the general question. I am not trying the whole Police Force here; I am trying the defendant.\n\nMr. Robinson-Here are names, some of whom the witness says are detectives, to whom large sums have been passed, and I shall found an argument on that fact.\n\nHis Lordship-You can put a definite question to Mr. May to show that this list is not correct or otherwise, but do not go through the list as it stands.\n\nMr. Robinson-I want information of identity of these people.\n\nHis Lordship-What is the good of that? Suppose you establish---\n\nMr. Robinson-I do not wish to address an argument to the Court at this stage, but I will say that it is obviously unnecessary to pay bribes to Europeans when the houses have all the natives in their pay. They do not want to travel outside that in order to secure their end.\n\nWitness-I can tell you how many Chinese police are on the list.\n\nHis Lordship (to Mr. Robinson)-I am only anxious for the case to be kept within reasonable limits.\n\nMr. Robinson (to witness)-Can you tell me how many Chinese detectives, or how many members of the Chinese force are in the book?\n\nWitness-61.\n\n61 are mentioned as being in the pay of the gambling houses? Yes.\n\nHis Lordship-61 altogether? So far as I have been able to identify.\n\n61 members of the Police Force? The Chinese Police Force.\n\nMr. Robinson-With regard to these men there are larger figures against their names than $1.10 or $1 which is put opposite No. 12? There are larger sums.\n\nIn looking through this translation I saw a Government firm or something like that mentioned. Government House.\n\nDo you know whether that refers to His Excellency's A.D.C. or to the Secretary to His Excellency, perhaps? No.\n\nYou do not know to whom it refers? \"Government House, $3.” No it is not $3.\n\n$3? Yes.\n\nDoes the name of any member of the Legislative Council appear? No.\n\nYou might (handing a document) look at that entry: Does there not appear in that translation the name of a member of the Legislative Council? It might be.\n\nMr. Robinson-\"Ho Kai, $1.50.\"\n\nHis Lordship-Suppose Ho Kai has taken $1.50?\n\nMr. Robinson-I do not suppose he has.\n\nHis Lordship-Well, suppose he has. Can we try that issue?\n\nMr. Robinson-No, my Lord.\n\nHis Lordship-Well, I must ask you-\n\nMr. Robinson-I have an argument in my breast-\n\nHis Lordship-I don't care a penny whether Dr. Ho Kai took the money or not. I do not believe for a moment he did; but suppose he did.\n\nMr. Robinson-It shows that this list cannot be depended upon.\n\n470",
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        "content_text": "His Lordship-We cannot try that issue. It might be Dr. Lo K or it might be another Ho Kai.\n\nMr. Robinson then resumed his seat.\n\nHis Lordship (to Witness)--Does it say what Ho Kai it is? No, my Lord, it does not.\n\nThe Attorney-General--From information you have received you know it is not Dr. Ho Kai-I know it was not Dr. Ho Kai.\n\nHis Lordship-Do not let us go into the matter any more.\n\nIn answer to further questions by the Attorney-General as to the entries \"43\" and \"Now 43,\" witness said that there was no officer at present in the Force who used to wear the number 43 and there was now another officer who carried the number 43.\n\nHis Lordship-What were the relations between you and the defendant? Were they of a friendly character or otherwise?\n\nWitness-Very friendly.\n\nSince he has been an Inspector in the Force?-Yes.\n\nAnd I think you said he has been an efficient and zealous officer?-I should say he is one of the most zealous officers in the Force.\n\nI remember there was an important fire case in which he distinguished himself by his intelligence and zeal.--I was not here at the time, my Lord. When I left I gave instructions that he should be made an Inspector., [In answering this question Mr. May appeared to be almost overcome with emotion. He stopped in the middle of the sentence and apparently had great difficulty in continuing.]\n\nYou have not had any difficulty or trouble with him-any quarrel or breach?-Not in the least, my Lord.\n\nMr. Robinson asked permission to put another question. In reply witness said that Sam Yeen escaped custody in the house in East Street. He went for a key and did not return. Witness waited half an hour and then broke open a box in the room and found the books.\n\nMr. Robinson-And you called upon Inspector Stanton to find him?\n\nWitness-Yes.\n\nAnd he was found the same night?-Yes. We turned out all the detective staff to find him.\n\nYou gave your orders to Inspector Stanton and the man was found?-No.\n\nYou said yes. Is it untrue that you told Mr. Stanton?-I sent the police in different directions. As a matter of fact I told Inspector Stanton to remain in the station.\n\nTo give orders and instructions. 43 is supposed to refer to Inspector Stanton?-Yes,\n\nCheng On was then called. He spoke to having interviews with the defendant and to paying him $12.60 every Monday. Witness received altogether $2.20 a day from Tung Kum, but he paid only $1.80, the difference of 40 cents going in his own pocket.\n\nAt the conclusion of this witness's examination in chief Hon. F. H. May was recalled at the request of Mr. Robinson. Mr. May said-Inspector Mann was on leave from 20th June, 1895, to 12th June, 1896, when he resumed duty. He then took charge of the Eastern district, Wanchai, and he has remained in charge at Wanchai until the present. Acting Inspector Hall took charge of Shaukiwan on the 11th December, 1895, and he has been in charge there until the present time.\n\nIn reply to the Attorney-General Mr. May said--From the 13th March, 1895, till the time he went on leave Inspector Mann was stationed in the Central District and was in charge of No. 2 gambling section. Wa Lane is in No. 2 section. From the 16th April, 1894, to 20th June, 1894, he was also in charge of No. 2 section. Acting Inspector Hall, from the 12th March, 1895, to the 11th December, 1895, was at the Central Station and in charge of No. 3 gambling section.\n\nHis Lordship-It is understood we are not trying these men.\n\nThe Attorney-General-My friend asked for the particulars.\n\nMr. Robinson-Not for the particulars the Attorney-General has given.\n\nHis Lordship-I am very much against bringing in these outside cases with which we are not dealing.\n\nCheng On was then called for cross-examination. He denied making the following statement at the Magistracy: \"Tung Kam took me to Sam Yeen and Tung Kum told him in my presence about the conversation with the defendant.\" He believed the Magistrate made a mistake. The depositions were read over to him and he signed them. What he said to-day was that Tung Kam took him nearly as far as No. 3, East Street, and that he (witness) had the conversation alone with Sam Yeen.\n\nMr. Robinson-Perhaps you have been told since or have heard that Sam Yeen said-\n\nMr. Francis asked his friend to ask questions and not to make statements.\n\nMr. Robinson-I was not making a statement. (To Mr. Francis). I might say \"You are a clever man\" and that might be a question. (Laughter.)\n\nHis Lordship (who joined in the laughter)-Now, Mr. Robinson,\n\nThe cross-examination was then proceeded with. Witness said it was not a fact that defendant and his wife took him at the corner of Lyndhurst Terrace and spoke to him about some silk. It was not true that he took some samples of silk to the defendant's house on the 11th March, the date of the conversation he said he had with defendant about gambling houses. Witness received $12.60 from Lung Kum and paid that amount to defendant or his wife every Monday. He got the money in subsidiary coins and changed $10 of it into bank notes, but he did not lose in changing the money as he went to a shopkeeper, who was a friend. When witness was arrested he was not shown a warrant and he did not know anything about a banishment warrant. He knew now he was in custody under a banishment warrant. The Captain Superintendent of Police told him something about a banishment warrant, but it was not shown.\n\nRe-examined by Mr. Francis-After witness was arrested he saw Mr. Hastings, solicitor.\n\nBy his Lordship-Witness knew nothing about the books and papers found at 3, East Street.\n\nThe Court adjourned until nine o'clock this morning. His Lordship intimated that he had promised to distribute the prizes at Belilios Public School this afternoon at four o'clock, and he would not like to break that engagement.\n\nPage 471\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\n31st July.\n\nCRIMINAL SESSIONS.\n\nBEFORE SIR JOHN CARRINGTON (CHIEF JUSTICE).\n\nTHE CHARGE AGAINST INSPECTOR WITCHELL,\n\nThe hearing was resumed of the charge of accepting bribes brought against Job Witchell, an Inspector in the Police Force.\n\nHon. W. M. Goodman (Attorney-General) and Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C. (instructed by Mr. H. L. Dennys, Crown Solicitor), appeared for the Crown and the defendant was represented by Mr. E. Robinson (instructed by Mr. G. C. C. Master).\n\nTung Kum, master of a mercer's shop at 181, Hollywood Road, was called and examined by Mr. Francis. Witness said that every five days he received $5.50 from Cheung Hing Street and $17 from Wa Lane. The $5.50 was paid to him by \"Fat Child Chi,\" who told witness to hand the money to Cheng On. Sam Yeen paid the $17. The money was paid in subsidiary coins. Of the $17, $3.50 went to Cheng On himself, $8 was for Yang Fat, who was formerly a detective, and $5.50 was for No. 32. Witness was paid the $5.50 by \"Fat Child Chi\" and was told to hand the money to Cheng On for Inspector No. 12. The payments commenced on the 14th March, 1897, from Wa Lane and on the 18th March, 1897, from Cheung Hing Street. Witness received altogether $51.75 from Sam Yeen every day; that amount included the $17. The money was distributed according to a list given to him by Sam Yeen. Witness was formerly in the Police Force. He retired on a pension about six years ago. He was now in custody under a banishment warrant.",
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        "content_text": "ment warrant.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Robinson- After he left the police he went to the country and returned in April, 1894. He could find no occupation and so he went back to the country, but returned to Hongkong in December, 1895. He started his present business in December, 1896. During the interval between December, 1895, and December, 1896, he was engaged in assisting Sam Yeen in distributing \"expenses,\" that is, he was engaged in gambling operations. He was not convicted in March, 1895, for larceny and sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment. He was convicted for committing perjury, and was fined $100. He had only been convicted once.\n\nThe Attorney-General and Mr. Francis said the conviction was for assault. Mr. Robinson had not correctly read the conviction.\n\nMr. Robinson said he was quite right. He then asked the witness about the matter and he admitted that he and another man were charged with stealing two shirts and were sent to gaol for six weeks. In addition witness was charged with assault.\n\nMr. Robinson then complained that his learned friend, a Queen's Counsel of this colony, had accused him of misrepresenting matters to the Court.\n\nMr. Francis replied that in the hasty glance he obtained of the conviction paper he certainly did make a mistake.\n\nHis Lordship thought that with this explanation Mr. Robinson's honour was satisfied.\n\nMr. Robinson bowed to his Lordship's decision and the case proceeded.\n\nIn answer to further questions witness said that the sentence was afterwards altered to a fine of $100 on the application of Mr. Dennys, who represented him. He admitted that at the Magistracy he said he did not know for whom he received $8. He was confused when he made that statement. He now admitted that he received it for Yang Fat. Cheng On gave him the name.\n\nMr. Robinson--I suppose you have seen Cheng On since you were at the Magistracy?\n\nWitness--I saw him yesterday or the day before.\n\nWhere? In the witness room?--Yes. You were both together for the greater part of the day in the witness room --We were both together, but we did not speak to each other.\n\nI suppose there was some guard over you. \nHis Lordship--Do I understand that Cheng On told you the name of this man, or do you recollect it?--Cheng On told me and I now recollect it.\n\nIn answer to further questions witness said he did not tell the Magistrate that he received some money from \"Fat Child Chi.\" He did not mention that name at all to the Magistrate. \nRe-examined by Mr. Francis.--He was not questioned at the Magistracy about the Cheung Hing Street gambling house.\n\nHis Lordship--Why didn't you mention it? \nWitness--Because I had no direct dealings with the affairs and therefore I did not mention anything about that house. The money was simply handed to me and I was asked to pass it over.\n\nWhen was the last payment you made to Chong On? 17th June last.\n\nSam Yeen, who was convicted of being the keeper of a gambling house at 2, Wa Lane, and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, was then called. He said he had been connected with the house for five years, No. 3, East Street, was the outer office of 2, Wa Lane, and the money, jewellery, and accounts were kept there. There was only one gambling house in Wa Lane--only one house in which gaming was actually carried on. Gaming was sometimes carried on in No. 5. In reality there were two houses in which gaming was carried on, but both belonged to the same establishment. The playing was sometimes shifted to No. 2, Ng Kwai Fong, next to the Tam Fa Lau eating house. Gambling had been carried on in Nos. 2 and 5, Wa Lane, every day from the 2nd February this year to the 18th June. The hours were 6 p.m. to 12 p.m. Last year gambling was carried on for six months in broken periods. Witness then spoke to paying money to Tung Kum and to the conversation he had with Cheng On respecting No. 12's application for money. Witness told Cheng On that if No. 12 received $1 a day the recipient must not chase and beat witness's fokis. Witness consented to pay $1 a day and 10 cents for Cheng On. Witness paid altogether about $150 a day for distribution during the fourth and fifth months. The police who received the money were supposed not to take any notice of the gambling houses. Witness was then shown a list and he pointed out the entry \"No. 12, $1.10, Cheng On's hand.\" That meant that the money was paid to Cheng On. There was also an entry \"$23.55, paid to Tung Kam\" and another $31.05 paid to Tung Kom.\" Another entry was \"No. 12, $1, Cheng On's hand entered in Kum's hand,\" meaning that the money was paid to Tung Kam. The list was a memorandum showing the names of persons to whom money was paid and the amount of each payment.\n\nMr. Francis--I will now ask your Lordship for direction in reference to the entries in the books, such as 43, 89, and 91, and Government House and other people. Does your Lordship think that I should ask questions about those entries or should the matter be dropped entirely?\n\nHis Lordship--Mr. Robinson did ask a certain number of questions about them, but I think we should keep ourselves free of them.\n\nMr. Francis--I think it is only fair to the parties concerned that some questions should be asked about them, but I am entirely in your Lordship's hands. The matter is not a necessary portion of our case, but I cannot say what my friend in his address to the jury will say.\n\nHis Lordship--What I shall say to the jury with reference to this list is that we are not trying the question of the guilt or innocence of all the parties mentioned in this list as having received sums of money, but the defence is entitled to look at this list and if they can show there are absurd entries in it and also impossible things they could say that the list is therefore not bona-fide and the jury would be entitled to disbelieve it.\n\nMr. Francis--Then, my Lord, that lays the duty absolutely incumbent upon me to show that these entries are not absurd.\n\nHis Lordship--On the face of it these entries may be true or untrue, but we are not trying that question.\n\nMr. Francis--If it is open to my friend to say that the list is entirely false because he thinks fit to say so, the prosecution is entitled to say that they are not absurdities.\n\nHis Lordship--As far as my opinion goes he has not succeeded in showing that the entries are unreasonable and ought not to be there. Suppose the name of the Governor is there as receiving $5, or the name of the General as receiving $3, I think the gentlemen of the jury will say, \"We cannot believe that; it is so utterly impossible.\"\n\nMr. Francis--Very well, my Lord. Even the entries \"Government House\" so and so and \"Ho Kai\" so and so can be explained. Suppose the explanation is this, that it is simply an entry relating to a boy in employ at Government House or to a servant in the employ of Dr. Ho Kai. I submit I am entitled to get that explanation from the witness if the defence are allowed to make a point of those entries.\n\nHis Lordship--If they do make a point... \nMr. Francis--If they do make a point of it it will be too late for me to give the explanations. \nHis Lordship--We have no evidence that it is Dr. Ho Kai.\n\nMr. Francis--Questions were asked in reference to 89 and 91. I want to show that they were in receipt of bribes and that there is no reason why the entries should be looked upon as absurdities.\n\nHis Lordship--It came out in evidence that they had been formerly in connection with the Central District and therefore I shall put it to the jury that they might or might not have received bribes. But we are not trying that question.\n\nThe Attorney-General--I do not wish to throw dirt at anybody who is not here to answer, and your Lordship will notice that I have not introduced a single name, with the exception of Witchell's, as being in receipt of bribes, as all cases of that sort will give very...\n\nPage 472",
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        "content_text": "great pain and should be investigated very carefully. My learned friend introduced Nos. 89 and 91 with a view of showing that these persons were not at present in the gambling districts but that they were stationed at other places. He could only possibly do that in order to say to the jury \"There are two names of men who could not be in receipt of money; therefore do not believe the evidence.\" He therefore put me to the rather painful task of asking whether both those men were not in charge of these gambling districts before they went to their present stations. I stopped there.\n\nIf my learned friend says it is absolutely certain that it cannot be right, I say that such argument is fallacious and I shall have to show that the men did receive bribes. If my friend in his address to the jury opens an argument of that kind and says that this list is an absurdity because Government House is there, I shall have to give the explanation. It is possible a boy at Government House might be receiving the money. That sort of thing is quite common and not absurd at all. I do not want to go into the other cases in that list and try the list, as such a task would be endless and unfair.\n\nHis Lordship—I have already stated that there is an apparent and evident absurdity in this list, but we must not go into the truth or untruth of the entries, even supposing they are prima facie reasonable,\n\nThe Attorney-General—I would ask your Lordship for permission to ask one question only. In a colony like this it is not right that any dirt should be thrown at high quarters in this matter. My friend is going to say the list is an absurdity—\n\nMr. Robinson—The dirt will not stick.\n\nThe Attorney-General—You would not wish to imply that the Governor has accepted money?\n\nMr. Robinson—Oh, no.\n\nMr. Frannis (to Witness)—There is an entry \"Government House\" there.\n\nWitness—That is a firm or head soldier. What does 3 mean? 7-30 cents. Who got the money—a lukong told me he was on duty in the Ping Tong bong→→→\n\nA lukong got the money?—Yes.\n\nCan you tell me if the entry means the Governor's residence or the General's residence?—I am not able to explain, but if you send for Ho Wai Pong he will tell you all about it. (Loud Laughter.)\n\nWho is Ho Wai Pong?—A lukong at Government House.\n\nHis Lordship—Why did you pay a lukong in the employ of Government House 30 cents a day? Because I was afraid that this lukong might give some information to the Governor.\n\nMr. Robinson (cross-examining)—How long is it since you commenced making the list on this bit of paper? It looks very clean.\n\nWitness—I made entries on that piece of paper many years ago. I made the entries bit by bit as people came in for money.\n\nHow many years?—About three.\n\nWhere did you keep the paper?—In the drawer of a cupboard.\n\nThe colour of the ink is the same all through? The entries were copied from another piece of paper about three years ago, that piece of paper being very dirty.\n\nThere was a loss of capital this year?—Yes. There was a quarrel?—Yes.\n\nAmongst the partners?—Yes.\n\nDo you know if one of them went to Mr. Francis?—I do not know.\n\nFor what purpose were those accounts kept—for the purpose of showing partners how the money was made and spent?—Yes.\n\nAnd for the purpose of showing that you and your fokis were not swindling them?—There was no swindling. Here are the accounts and they could see them.\n\nBetween ten and twenty watobmen were employed by the syndicate?—Yes.\n\nFor the purpose of keeping a guard round the house and preventing the police from coming in unexpectedly?—Yes.\n\nHis Lordship—With regard to the entry \"$110,\" you told us you put \"$1.10\" after Chong On told you he wanted 10 cents?\n\nCheung On mentioned something about his trouble and that he was entitled to get something for his trouble.\n\nYou told us Cheng On suggested 10 cents and you agreed.—He did not ask me for 10 cents; he simply mentioned that he was entitled to receive something. I did not promise to give him anything. I said I would see my master about it.\n\nHow could you tell that Cheng On really came on behalf of No. 12?—I say this because before any payment was made No. 12 went to Wa Lane and beat the fokis, but after making the payment to Cheng On there was no more beating.\n\nWhen he came to you you agreed at once to give him $1. How do you know he really came on behalf of No. 12?—Well, I said the proof is evident because after Cheng On had been to my place there was no more beating of my fokis, and that is why I came to the conclusion that he came on behalf of No. 12.\n\nDid you go and see No. 12?—No.\n\nWhy didn't you?—We carry on an illegal business and therefore we are afraid to see foreigners—Englishmen. There must be some connection in the matter, otherwise Cheng On would not have come and asked me about the matter. If Cheng On had come for himself and asked for the money I would not have given him a cent.\n\nYou have no writing from No. 12?—No. Do any of the people whom you say receive sums of money come and receive them direct from you, or they paid through somebody else?—The majority of them are paid indirectly.\n\nSome of them directly? As far as Europeans were concerned they got their payment indirectly. Some Chinese constables got their money directly and some indirectly.\n\nThese two entries are the only entries in all these books and papers referring to No. 12?—The only entries having reference to No. 12 are in this paper, and not in the account books and papers.\n\nIs there not any book of daily payments or monthly payments which would show the sums paid? Any cash books?—No, I have no entries in other books as to the daily payments. All the payments and names appear in this list. I have another paper like this with the names and the payments to each man.\n\nLike that?—Not as full as this one, but there appear there the names of the parties to whom the money is paid and the names of those who acted as agents and so on.\n\nDid you take any part in the actual carrying on of the gambling?—No, I did not assist in carrying on the gambling. I was stationed at No. 3, East Street looking after the accounts.\n\nDid you know No. 12 yourself by sight?—I knew the defendant only by sight.\n\nDid you know who No. 12 was?—He is an Inspector—a detective Inspector.\n\nDid you know who he was?—He was an Inspector.\n\nWhen Cheng On called the name No. 12 did you know which man that was?—Yes, I knew No. 12 because in the first and second moons he went to Wa Lane and beat fokis there.\n\nLook at the defendant. Is that the Inspector?—Yes.\n\nWhen Cheng On called the name \"No. 12\" did you know it was the defendant in the dock?—Yes, I know who No. 12 was directly Cheng On told me about it because No. 12 had been to Wa Lane several times and my fokis told me about him.\n\nWas that memorandum made merely for the purpose of your business?—Yes.\n\nAnd used in the course of your business?—Yes. Were all payments you had to make entered in that book—All expenses I have just mentioned were entered in that book, but profit and loss are entered in other books.\n\nBy whose orders was a name put in the list?—Did you do it yourself or by order of your master?—Not by order of my master. I made it myself and in case my master called for the accounts I could show them to him.\n\nYou had his authority to put names on that list? I put all the names in this list to show my master in case he accused me of swindling him.\n\n473",
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        "content_text": "## Statement of Yeung\n\nYoung Chengten told me the name was Yeung. I told the magistrate that I myself received a few ten-cent pieces as wages. Sam You allowed them to me. They came out of the $31.55. I did not tell the magistrate about the money paid to me by Sam You. I was simply asked how much money I handed over to Cheng On. I did not mention to the Magistrate the name of Chi Shan at all. When I was convicted at the Police Court, I was living with a friend and was out of employment. I was not questioned at the Police Court at all about the Tung King Street business. I was only asked about the Wahave business.\n\nTo the Court, I did not mention the Tung King Street business because I did not negotiate the business with Chi Shan; he simply asked me to pass the money to Cheng On. I never saw the defendant in this matter. I knew him well. I had served under him in the Police Force. I made the last payment to Cheng On on the 17th June last.\n\nSam Yuw declared. Endorsed by Kor Francis, states.\n\n## Statement of Victoria Saol\n\nI am under a sentence of nine months imprisonment. I was convicted of keeping a common gaming house at Wahave. I live in Victoria. I have been connected with that gaming house for five years from beginning to end. I know some of the masters of the house - there were more than ten; amongst them was Cam Chi; he engaged ... at No. 3 East Street on the 21st June last. That house is the outer office of the gaming house. It is a place for the accommodation of the fokis and also for keeping money that was brought from Wahave - also jewellery, belonged to gamblers. I used to look after the accounts there. The account books were kept in a cupboard in this outer office. When I was arrested, money, jewellery, and books were seized. I don't know the number of the house in which gambling was carried out in Wahave. The actual gaming was carried out only in one house. Sometimes it was carried out ...",
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        "content_text": "# March 24\n\nI paid Tungkam $1.10 a day. I paid him daily. On this $I was posted 12 and 10 cents for Cheng payments. Continued up to the 17th June last. Sometimes I made out a list of the people to whom Tungkam was to pay the money and sometimes not. I paid to Jungtam for other persons besides No 12. I paid to other agents besides Jung Kamer. These monies were paid to these policemen because if they were not paid the policemen would not allow me to carry the gambling.\n\nExhibit C.12 is in my handwriting - the whole of it. I wrote it in different directions. No date appears there. No. 12 is mentioned in this memorandum. There are a lot of figures next to No 12. The entry is \"No.12 $1.10, Theng On's hand.\" The entries here total up $28.20 paid to Jungkam. The entries total $31.05. It was paid daily to Pangthum. The date of this entry is the 16th day of the 2nd moon, that is to say, the money was paid to Jung Kam. The entries in the memorandum were not all made in one day. They were made from time to time.\n\nExhibit C12 is a memorandum showing the names of persons to whom payments were to be made and the amounts of the payments. The figures near the date 16th show the amounts of daily payments from time to time. These payments were all made to Jung Kam's hands, and then follow the names of the parties to whom the sums were to be distributed. Of the sum of $31.55 Tungham had to pay certain sums to Cheungten, $4.60 for Urung Fat, $1.00 for No. 12, and 10 cents for himself. Every five days that would be $17. There was a gambling house in Theng Hing Street. Some of the masters were partners in that gambling house, some of them in one only. I had nothing to do with the accounts of the gambling house. The Exhibits shown me were the book of the gambling house in Waiwai. They were both kept by me. They were seized by the Police on the 21st June last.\n\nThere is an entry in the memorandum referring to No 91, \"$1.10 a day.\" The entry \"Government House 3\" ...",
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        "content_text": "Kar\n\nI. P. S. 661, Utter Singh\n\nI. P. S. 547, Khaim Singh\n\nPresent\n\nPolice Office.\n\n18th September, 1897\n\n355\n\nUn Kin states: - I am 25 years of age. Up to the 19th of the 5th moon (18th June) I was engaged as a watchman to a Fantan gambling house in Cheng Hing Street. I was employed by Lam Chi on the 13th of the 11th moon of last year. Lam Chi had a share in the Wa Lane gambling house. Besides acting as a watchman, I sometimes helped the shroff and accountant at the gambling house in testing the money, and in writing down the bribes paid from the gambling house. I used also to pay bribes to some Indian Police Sergeants. I did not pay any Indian Constables. I also paid money to some persons who were sent by some European Police to receive bribes on their behalf.\n\nI recognise the two Indians present. They are Sergeants. They wear three stripes. Their numbers are 547 and 661.\n\nI have paid money to both of them. I have paid money to 547 since the 12th moon of last year. I paid him about 6 times. He used to come for the money himself every 10 or 20 days. He did not come to the gambling house. He used\n\n* \nPage 355\n\n \nshould be revised to \n\nKar\n\nI. P. S. 661, Utter Singh\n\nI. P. S. 547, Khaim Singh\n\nPresent\n\nPolice Office.\n\n18th September, 1897\n\n355\n\nUn Kin states: - I am 25 years of age. Up to the 19th of the 5th moon (18th June) I was engaged as a watchman to a Fantan gambling house in Cheng Hing Street. I was employed by Lam Chi on the 13th of the 11th moon of last year. Lam Chi had a share in the Wa Lane gambling house. Besides acting as a watchman, I sometimes helped the shroff and accountant at the gambling house in testing the money, and in writing down the bribes paid from the gambling house. I used also to pay bribes to some Indian Police Sergeants. I did not pay any Indian Constables. I also paid money to some persons who were sent by some European Police to receive bribes on their behalf.\n\nI recognise the two Indians present. They are Sergeants. They wear three stripes. Their numbers are 547 and 661.\n\nI have paid money to both of them. I have paid money to 547 since the 12th moon of last year. I paid him about 6 times. He used to come for the money himself every 10 or 20 days. He did not come to the gambling house. He used\n\nPage 356\n\nHowever, to follow the exact format required by the instructions (output only HTML using  for paragraphs and \n only if absolutely necessary, without markdown or code fences), and to correct and reformat the given text according to the rules:\n\nKar\n\nI. P. S. 661, Utter Singh\n\nI. P. S. 547, Khaim Singh\n\nPresent\n\nPolice Office.\n\n18th September, 1897\n\n355\n\nUn Kin states: - I am 25 years of age. Up to the 19th of the 5th moon (18th June) I was engaged as a watchman to a Fantan gambling house in Cheng Hing Street. I was employed by Lam Chi on the 13th of the 11th moon of last year. Lam Chi had a share in the Wa Lane gambling house. Besides acting as a watchman, I sometimes helped the shroff and accountant at the gambling house in testing the money, and in writing down the bribes paid from the gambling house. I used also to pay bribes to some Indian Police Sergeants. I did not pay any Indian Constables. I also paid money to some persons who were sent by some European Police to receive bribes on their behalf.\n\nI recognise the two Indians present. They are Sergeants. They wear three stripes. Their numbers are 547 and 661.\n\nI have paid money to both of them. I have paid money to 547 since the 12th moon of last year. I paid him about 6 times. He used to come for the money himself every 10 or 20 days. He did not come to the gambling house. He used",
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        "content_text": "Skeleton Map \n\nto illustrate generally the Agreement of Feb 4 1897.\n\nBETWEEN \n\nGREAT BRITAIN AND CHINA \n\nMODIFYING CONVENTION \n\n05 MARCH 157 1894 \n\nKing Chong Fri \n\nScale in7860 at 1 Inch 35 Miles \n\n* \n\nto the Moll strona, raming between Kadon and Taisa; thence the Melé to its confluence with the Cheyang Kha; thence the Cheyang Khu to Alaw Pinn; thence the Nampaung stream to the Taping.\n\nARTICLE IL \n\n(The Taping to the Shwali River) \n\nFrom the junction of the Taping and the Nampang streams the frontier shall follow the Taping to the neighbourhood of the Lalaing ridge; thence a line running approximately along the Iwalang ridge and the Lwaling stream to the Nawan; thence the Narwan to its junction with the Shweli.\n\nGreat Britain engages to recognize as belonging to China the tral to the south of the Narawan River, near Namkhai, which is inclosed to the west by a branch of the Nam Mak River and the Mawsiu range of hills up to Loi Chow Peak, and thence by the range vaning in a not-tasterly direction to the Shoveli River.\n\nIn the whole of this area China shall not exercise any jurisdie- tion or authority whatever. The administration and control will be entirely conducted by the British Government, who will hold it on a perpetual lease from China, paying a vont for it, the amount of which shall be fixed hereafter.\n\nARTICLE HI.\n\n(The Slavel to the Mekong) \n\nFrom the junction of the Namwan and Shweli the frontier shall follow the northern boundary of the State of North Hsiawi, as at present constituted, to the Salween, leaving to China the loop of the Shweli River, and almost the whole of Wanting, Mong-ko, and Mong-ka.\n\nStarting from the point where the Shweli turns northward near Namgwan, .., From its junction with the Nanyang, the frou- tier shall ascend this latter stream to its source in the Mong-ko Hills, in about latitude 247 and longitude 98° 15', thence con- tinue along a wooded spur to the Salwoon at its junction with the Namoi stream. The line shall then ascend the Halween till it meets the north-west boundary of Kokang, and shall continue along the eastern frontier of Kokang till it meets the Kunlong circle, leaving the whole circle of Kandong to Great Britain.\n\nThe frontier shall then follow the course of the river forming the boundary between Somu, wirich belongs to Great Britain, and Meug Ting, which belongs to China. It shall still continue to follow the frontier between those two districts, which is locally well known, to where it leaves the aforesaid river and ascends the ills, and shall theu follow the line of water-parting between the tributaries of the Halween and the Meikong Rivers, from about longi- tude 99° cast of Greenwich (17° 30′ west of Peking), and latitude 23° 26', to a point about longitude 99° 40′ east of Greenwich\n\nKania \n\nBaming \n\nMithwinn \n\nMogeung \n\n{indowgyi L.\n\nSuitca Hanchon \n\nLONG WHE \n\nWARLING PUM \n\nJo Realong DARU FIM NAVIENAS PATRUNG ?2 \n\nNerang \n\nCUMRA SHIKONGLA \n\nwrapingh \n\nMaver \n\nMungko \n\nMongkon \n\nStamg Nin the \n\nMrenteau \n\nALAW \n\nMaawaing \n\nampaang \n\nJavni dona \n\nMengke \n\nCheng \n\nMony Klang \n\nNougko \n\nPale Byuton \n\nหล \n\nConglon \n\nShwe Hirer! \n\nMassing Kaymaz \n\n„Laipony *.. \n\nNam Fing \n\nLoipuningane's \n\nT \n\nMonga \n\nS \n\nhanglange \n\nthaw HE \n\n(ENTING \n\nMogok \n\nBong Sat: \n\nR T \n\nS \n\nII A N \n\n\"Meny You \n\nMover Rena \n\nMan Inony \n\n*Kengins \n\nMengke \n\n4.06.28 40 € \n\n* Mawsin \n\nLOI CHOW PEAK \n\nNG \n\nA W \n\nCongmau \n\nJhalor \n\nMAP \n\nENLARGED Shewing the track of contury.\n\nbelonging to Chma leased to \n\nGreat Britem \n\nSuscribed in Art. 2 of the Agreement \n\nSesle à miles Finch \n\nMerg Saa \n\nL \n\nBoundary between Burme & Chan according to the Convention of 1590.\n\nN \n\nAgreement....-1857. \n\nC \n\nI \n\nN \n\nA \n\nPIFER \n\nNu Lawt \n\nMag Lem \n\nMTNG L \n\n\"Mons Ma \n\nKEN \n\nMong & \n\nK E \n\nN \n\nMeng tion \n\n& \n\nHham Fan \n\nKong Thing \n\nKonghkani \n\njo Mony Darau \n\nHong Yuany \n\n:00 \n\nPu-erh-fic \n\nSu mao \n\nKeng Big \n\nHERO CHENG \n\nMong Using \n\nBack \n\nMong La Meng Hping \n\nVPN โล \n\nLith at the intell. Div. W. 9. July 1897.\n\n376",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nhave been brought before His Excellency, as the rate, \n\nin order that we have to revise \n\nthe decision in this \n\nmatter.\n\n## \n\n4327 \n\n30 \n\nas \n\nmatter.\n\nWe Concur with the previous minutes \n\n(1) Confirmation of grant of \npension to the said persons.\n\n(2) \n`ITO(an 183/98)` \nReconsideration of decision \nto Chang Kai Ming and others and \nconsequent grant of proportionate pension to them.\n\nIn query to the Board, \nunless the salary is over $240 \nin which case, as we Johnson says he might have a \ngratuity like Graham.\n\nThe other three persons in the position, \nConsidered Supplementing list \nat the time think they \nhave served for so \nlong.\n\nI have seen the correspondence cases but if it is no stronger than that, in the Sunspan cases no \nground for different treatment \ncan exist. I cannot comprehend Mr May's attitude \nat all.\n\n`HBC 7572` \nLord Selborne \n\nthat stimulus does apply to policemen, interesting to see \nNo 6.\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong 10th Jan.\n\nI have the honour \nto transmit to \nyou the \nenclosed petition of Cheung, late Sergeant Interpreter the Police Force, praying for \nthe favourable consideration of the Right Honourable \nJoseph Chamberlain, M.P., \n`CP.Z·18.Jan`",
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        "content_text": "140 \n\ngave is fairly correct, except for some of the dates and part of the conversation. What he said about the money I received is correct. I cannot recollect the conversation regarding the letter that Cheng On spoke of in his evidence.\n\nWhen the gambling house in Kwai Wa Lane closed, I was informed by P.C. Yeung Fat that one of the masters had gone to Hunghom. I afterwards found by enquiries that there was a house opened at Hunghom. That was in February 1897. In January 1897, I received an invitation to a Chinese dinner in a restaurant at the corner of Ng Kwai Fong. The invitation was given me by Chinese Detective Fong Sing. I asked him who was giving the dinner. He said the big Kai Fong. I did not go. He told me that most of the Inspectors and Sergeants were going. I was told afterwards, about a fortnight afterwards, that the dinner was given by the gambling house keepers in Wa Lane and Cheung Hing Street. It was one of the Chinese Detectives that told me. It was either P.C. 202 or P.C. Yeung Fat. I am not sure which.\n\nI was on patrol on the night of the dinner. I saw some Chinese detectives leaving the restaurant at the time. When I got back to my quarters after patrol at about 11.45 p.m., I saw Inspector Stanton, Inspector Kemp, Sergeant Holt, and two or three other European Police coming along Hollywood Road. I concluded they were returning from the dinner.\n\nIn",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n142 \n\ncharge of the section in which the house was and the Inspectors in charge of the Detective Staff must know of the house. They should have known of it if anyone did.\n\nAfter the Chinese dinner, I believe that there were no complaints about the Wa Lane and Cheung Hing Street houses till the Captain Superintendent of Police raided No.8 East Street.\n\nI had no idea that my name was on the list that I heard had been seized. Cheng On told me of it, and I asked him if my name was on it. He said he did not know but he did not think so.\n\nI wish to say that I regret very much what I said about the Captain Superintendent of Police in the Supreme Court.\n\n(Sd.) J. WITCHELL.  \nWitness.\n\n(Sd.) T. A. HOWE,  \nA. D. S. P.  \n21.1.98.\n\nTaken by me this 21st day of January, 1898.\n\n(Sd.) F.H.MAY.",
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        "content_text": "# 255\n## 18\n\nO MI-CHEUNG states:--I served in the Hongkong Water Police Force for fourteen years and eight months. I was a detective for thirteen years and six months and an acting sergeant and a sergeant for about thirteen years of this period.\n\n** \n\nOn the 15th July, 1897, Inspector Hanson took me into Victoria Gaol. Just before arriving at the gaol, he said to me, \"Do you know anything about Mr. Corcoran receiving $3.00 a day from gambling houses? Did you hand it to him?\" I told him I knew nothing about it. He then took me inside and the chief warder searched me, after which I was taken to the office of Mr. May, locked in a cell on the first floor, and then brought up before the Superintendent of Gaol, Mr. May, Mr. Dennys, and Mr. Sung Sing, who acted as interpreter. Mr. Dennys asked me if I had ever collected gambling money and handed it to Mr. Corcoran. I replied \"No.\" He said \"No? Sham In says you have.\" Sham In was then called in and Mr. Dennys asked if I knew him. I said \"No, I do not know him.\" Mr. Dennys asked Sham In if he knew me and he replied \"Yes.\" I asked how many times and when he had seen me. He replied \"In the 3rd decade of the 12th moon of last year (January, 1897) above a barber's shop.\" I asked in what street and the number of the house, and he said he could not remember. I asked to whom he had paid the money, and he said \"To Yeung Fat and Tang Chung; uncle A Cheang (meaning me).\" I said \"I have done nothing to confess.\" Mr. May then sent Sham In away and said to me, \"You have heard what Sham In said.\" I replied \"He is a prisoner and wants to be let out.\" Mr. May said, \"I believe he speaks the truth.\" I said, \"I have done no such thing.\" Mr. May said, \"Tell everything and I will speak to the Governor, who will perhaps let you off and let you remain a Sergeant, otherwise you may be placed on the charge sheet, and charged and if there is evidence, you may be sentenced to six or nine months' hard labour and afterwards be banished for five years. Why is it you will not tell? Corcoran has resigned and you need not be afraid to speak; he cannot look after you now.\" I replied, \"Yes, if I know I must tell and look after myself before others.\" Mr. May said in English, \"You are very foolish.\" When I was before Mr. May and Mr. Dennys, Mr. Dennys wrote down my statement. I was sent away and locked up.\n\nThe next day, 16th July, I was taken out again before Mr. May. Sung Sing was the interpreter. Mr. May again questioned me as on the previous day.\n\nOn the third day, 17th July, I was taken out again before Mr. May. He said, \"There is no one present, you speak in a low tone and tell me about Corcoran's affair.\" I replied, \"I know nothing about it.\" I then said, \"Your honour, give me permission to send to my house for something to eat, I have not eaten anything for several days.\" He replied, \"I will not give you permission,\" and in English \"I don't care if you die.\" I asked also for permission to be allowed to see my wife, and he refused.\n\nIn the afternoon, I was taken out again before Mr. May and Mr. Ewens, solicitor. Mr. Ewens said he was employed by my wife to inquire why I was arrested. Mr. Ewen's interpreter, Sin Tak-fan, said \"If you know anything about Mr. Corcoran receiving bribes, speak out and the Governor may let you off, if not, you will be banished.\" I said to Mr. Ewens \"Then banish me soon, for I have nothing but prison fare to eat here. I have not eaten anything for days.\"\n\nI was detained in Gaol for six days, 15th to 21st July, and during that time was shown no banishment order. On the 21st July, I was banished. I afterwards went to reside at Sham Shui Po in Chinese territory on the borders of British Kowloon. On or about the 10th of August, Mr. May visited me there. He said \"You know about Mr. Corcoran receiving bribes and also Inspector Stanton and others. If you will tell me what you know, I will allow you to return to Hongkong and reinstate you in the Police.\" I said, \"I do not know anything about it.\" He said \"If you will not tell me, I will write to the Kowloon Mandarin and request him not to allow you to reside here.\" I said \"I do not know, how can I tell?\" He said, \"Think the matter over, I will come to see you again.\" I replied, \"If it is about gambling matters, you need not come.\" He said, \"You are a Chinaman and they are foreign devils. Why is it you protect them? You are truly a fool.\"\n\nHe then left, and I left Sham Shui Po the next day.\n\nSworn by the above-named ✪ Mi-cheung in my presence.\n\n(81) B★M (O MI-CHEUNG)\n\n[L.S.]\n\nE. H. FRASER,\nVICE-CONSUL,\n\n## SCHEDULE No. 5.\n\n### POLICE COURT-REPORT.\n\n#### CHINA MAIL, Saturday, November 6th, 1897\n\nIp Yeung, an interpreter employed by the Sanitary Board, was charged at the Magistracy to-day, that he unlawfully did, with intent to defraud, obtain from one Tong Sang, by a certain false pretence, a sum of $17, at Hunghom on 7th July. The defendant was employed as interpreter to the Sanitary Inspector at Hunghom, and on several occasions, he applied to the complainant for sums of money, stating they were for the Inspector. The money was handed over on the understanding that the complainant and three other pig dealers should receive their licences. The extortion was discovered in consequence of Sanitary Inspector Macdonald having summoned the complainant for keeping swine without a licence. On one occasion, complainant, in accordance with a request by the interpreter, collected several fowls, capons, and eggs and took them to the interpreter to give to the Inspector. The defendant said he would also have to get a bottle of whisky, and complainant handed him $1, and the interpreter went out and bought the bottle of whisky. Complainant and the interpreter then went to the Inspector's house and offered him the articles as a present. The Inspector refused to take them. They left the Inspector's house and went back to where the interpreter resided, where the defendant said, in answer to his question as to why the Inspector would not receive the present, \"Bring $10 to me for the Inspector.\" Complainant went home and consulted with the other pig-keepers, and they agreed to give $10. They borrowed the money, and complainant went to the shop where defendant resided, but as he was not at home, he left the money with the shop-keeper. Sometime afterwards, he met the interpreter in the street and he asked him to get another $6 for him. The pig-keeper collected the $6, and the complainant had to pay his subscription to that amount by pawning his jacket. This money was also received by defendant. All this took place before Inspector Macdonald took over the district. At this stage, the case was adjourned. Defendant was granted bail in two sureties for $250 each.\n\n#### CHINA MAIL, November 10th, 1897\n\nIp Yeung, the Sanitary Board interpreter charged with obtaining $16 by false pretences from a pig-keeper at Hunghom, was to-day convicted of the charge and sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. The interpreter said he collected the money and gave it to the Inspector. He first of all was offered $10, which he took to Inspector McAllister, who said it was not enough, as the pig-dealer had given $20 to the Sergeant at the fort for permission to keep pigs. He applied to the pig-dealer for more money, and received the $16, which he handed over to the Inspector. Inspector McAllister gave evidence denying the statements that he had been offered money, and said he had reported to the Sanitary Board against the application of the complainant to keep pigs, as the site was on military ground. He was not aware of the transactions of defendant until the case was brought up. The complainant denied that he ever paid money to the Sergeant at the fort. The Magistrate explained to the complainant that he could not build on military ground, and pointed out the folly of attempting to obtain permission by offering money to the interpreter.",
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        "content_text": "273 \n\nthe subject, and only succeeded in eliciting answers extremely damaging to himself as you will see by reference to the notes of evidence.\n\nOn the other hand I think the following points are worth noticing as shewing the genuineness of the list, and the truth of Sham In's statements in regard to it:\n\n(a) The insertion in the list of the names of the intermediaries through whom the bribes were paid, and the fact that on enquiry these intermediaries were either found or only escaped being found by leaving the Colony. In three instances those that were found admitted, when questioned separately, that they had not only paid bribes but the exact amount of the bribes appearing in the list as payable by them to particular persons named in the list, which they were not shewn and had never seen.\n\nI would quote the instances of Cheng On and Tang Kam who appeared on the list as the intermediaries through whom Witchell was bribed and who gave evidence on which Witchell was convicted; and of Wan Sing who appeared on the list as the intermediary through whom various officers in the Registrar General's Department were bribed and who gave evidence against Osmund, who has been dismissed the Service.\n\n(b) Sham In in his general statement made in explanation",
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        "content_text": "# FIRES, 1893\n## SITUATION OF FIRE\n| No. | DATE | SITUATION OF FIRE | No. of BUILDINGS DESTROYED | ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF PROPERTY DESTROYED |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | January 7 | No. 78, Hollywood Road | 2 |  |\n| 2 | January 18 | No. 79, Nallah Lane | 11 | 27 |\n| 3 | January 18 | No. 2, Square Street |  | 105 10 17 20 |\n| 4 | February 11 | No. 68, Jervois Street, No. 101, Wing Lok Street |  |  |\n| 5 | March 6 | No. 22, Holland Street | 92 | 26 |\n| 6 | March 26 | No. 301, Queen's Road West |  |  |\n| 7 | April 9 | No. 87, Jervois Street | 13 | 25 |\n| 8 | April 10 | No. 15, West Street |  |  |\n| 9 | April 27 | No. 1, In On Lane | 10 |  |\n| 10 | May 11 | No. 344, Queen's Road Central | 13 |  |\n| 11 | June 12 | No. 496, Queen's Road West | 16 |  |\n| 12 | June 16 | No. 28, Tsz Mi Lane |  |  |\n| 13 | July 3 | No. 191, Hollywood Road |  |  |\n| 14 | July 14 | No. 19, Gough Street |  |  |\n| 15 | July 19 | No. 280, Queen's Road West |  |  |\n| 16 | July 20 | No. 12, Tung Loi Lane |  |  |\n| 17 | August 16 | No. 837, Queen's Road West |  |  |\n| 18 | August 17 | No. 32, Queen's Road West | ** |  |\n| 19 | August 25 | No. 155, Second Street |  |  |\n| 20 | September 5 | No. 7, Ezra Lane |  |  |\n| 21 | September 18 | No. 248, Hollywood Road |  |  |\n| 22 | September 30 | No. 127, Bonham Strand |  |  |\n| 23 | October 12 | No. 14, Li Shing Street | 23 |  |\n| 24 | November 11 | No. 115, Praya West |  |  |\n| 25 | November 11 | No. 58, Square Street | 26 |  |\n| 26 | November 16 | No. 5, Pan Kwai Lane | 53 |  |\n| 27 | November 21 | No. 9, Tannery Lane |  |  |\n| 28 | November 30 | No. 314a, Queen's Road Central, No. 22, Tsz Mi Lane | 23, 26 |  |\n| 29 | December 6 | No. 31, Wing Fung Street |  |  |\n| 30 | December 9 | No. 131, Bonham Strand, No. 11, Bonham Strand | 32, 38 |  |\n| 31 | December 10 | No. 240, Queen's Road West, No. 99, Praya West | 35, 13 |  |\n| 32 | December 25 | No. 100, Queen's Road West | 36 |  |\n|  | TOTAL |  |  |  |\n\n## FIRES, 1894\n\n## FIRES, 1895\n| No. | DATE | TIME | SITUATION OF FIRE | No. of BUILDINGS DESTROYED | ESTIMATED DAMAGE |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | January 6 | 7.45 p.m. | House No. 230, Queen's Road Central, House No. 4, Wellington Street | 12 | $800, $300 |\n| 2 | January 9 | 9.30 p.m. |  |  | $6,000, $4,000 |\n| 3 | January 18 | 5.45 p.m. | House No. 189, Queen's Road Central, House No. 15, Mercer Street | 18, 10 | $2,000, $9,000 |\n| 4 | January 21 | 9 p.m. |  | 7 | $10,000, $6,000 |\n| 5 | February 6 |  |  |  | $40,000 |\n| 6 | February 7 | 10 | 9.15 p.m., 1.10 a.m. | House No. 337, Queen's Road West, House No. 74, Bouliam Street | 1,000, $6,000 |\n| 7 | February 20 | 8,000 | 1.20 p.m. |  | 2,000 |\n| 8 | March 2 | 6.40 p.m. | House No. 149, Queen's Road Central, House No. 3, Wai Tak Lane, House No. 228, Queen's Road West, House No. 7, Li Shing Street | H, 30 | $200, $12,000, $3,000, $19,000 |\n| 9 | March 11 | 24 | 8 p.m. | 17 | $2,000 |\n| 10 | March 12 | 26 |  |  |  |\n| 11 | March 13 | 30 | 2.50 a.m. |  | $700 |\n| 12 | April 6 | 3.25 a.m. |  |  | $1,500 |\n| 13 | April 15 | 12 Noon |  |  | $150 |\n| 14 | April 18 | 7 p.m. |  |  | $1,000 |\n| 15 | April 24 | 7 | 10.15 p.m. |  | $20,000 |\n| 16 | June 14 | 3.05 p.m. |  |  | $300 |\n| 17 | July 29 | 4.50 a.m. | House No. 96, Boulam Strand, House No. 212, Queen's Road West, House No. 352, Queen's Road Central, House No. 1, Queen's Street, House No. 144, Queen's Road West, House No. 34, Bonham Strand, House No. 19, Jervois Street, House No. 76, Jervois Street, House No. 34, Wing Lok Street | Unknown | $3,000, $5,000, $5,000, $3,000, $1,000, $12,000, Not known, $5,000 |\n| 18 | July 29 | 2,800 |  |  |  |\n| 19 | August 21 | 12.30 a.m., 1 a.m. | House No. 3, Station Street, House No. 70, Jervois Street |  | $800, $22,000 |\n| 20 | August 22 | 400 |  |  |  |\n| 21 | September 6 | 3.35 a.m. | House No. 4, Praya Central, premises of Messrs. Wieler & Co. |  | $100, $4,000 |\n| 22 | September 28 | 30 | 5,000 |  |  |\n| 23 | October 24 |  |  |  | $5,500, $20,000, $3,000 |\n| 24 | October 30 | 8.30 a.m. | House No. 12, Nullah Terrace, Quarry Bay |  | $700 |\n| 25 | October 31 | 12.50 a.m. | House No. 169, Hollywood Road |  | $3,000 |\n| 26 | November 6 | 8.20 p.m. | Matshed at Quarry Bay |  | $500 |\n| 27 | November 15 | 11.15 p.m. | House No. 149, Queen's Road Central |  | $100 |\n| 28 | November 21 | 12.45 a.m. |  |  | $1,000 |\n| 29 | November 21 | 7.35 p.m. | House No. 1, Praya West |  | $8,000, $6,000 |\n| 30 | December 13 | 5,500 | 11.17 p.m. | A mat shed at Kun Chang | $200 |\n| 31 | December 13 | 10 | 4.30 p.m. | A squatter's hut on the Hillside at the back of Shankiwan Station | $25, $2,000 |\n| 32 | December 16 | 1 a.m. | House No. 110, Praya West |  | $8,000, $5,000, $9,000 |\n| 33 | December 17 | 1 a.m. |  | 14 | $400 |\n| 34 | December 28 | 1.35 a.m. |  | 24 | $2,000 |\n| 35 | December 30 | 6 p.m. |  |  |  |\n| 36 | December 30 | 1.10 a.m. | House No. 247, Queen's Road Central, House No. 283, Queen's Road Central, Houses Nos. 847 & 4, Queen's Road West, House No. 40, Queen's Road West |  | $15,000, $4,000, $5,825, $5,000 |\n|  | TOTAL |  |  |  | $208,210, $297,980 |\n\n## FIRES, 1896\n| No. | DATE | TIME | SITUATION OF FIRE | No. of BUILDINGS DESTROYED | ESTIMATED DAMAGE |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | January 2 | 1.30 a.m. |  |  |  |\n| 2 | January 9 | 12.30 p.m. | No. 56 First Street |  | $800 |\n| 3 | January 13 |  |  |  | $400 |\n| 4 | January 14 | 5.45 p.m. | No. 13 U Lok Lane |  |  |\n| 5 | January 26 | 1.25 a.m. |  | # |  |\n| 6 | February 1 | 7.55 a.m., 1.40 p.m., 4.50 p.m. | No. 273 Queen's Road West, No. 26 Market Street, No. 57 Queen's Road West, No. 28 Upper Station Street, No. 86 Queen's Road West, No. 17 Salt Fish Street, No. 17 Upper Lascar Row, No. 136 Bonham Strand, No. 211 Hollywood Road | 6 | $1,200, $2,500, $1,000, $2,600, $6,000, $16,000, $6,000 |\n| 7 | February 25 | 8 | 9.35 a.m. |  |  |\n| 8 | March 3 |  |  |  |  |\n| 9 | March 9 | 4.00 a.m. |  |  | $1,500, $5,000 |\n| 10 | March 28 |  |  |  |  |\n| 11 | March 30 | 9.20 p.m. |  | 11 |  |\n| 12 | April 1 | 10.30 a.m. |  | 17 |  |\n| 13 | April 3 | 3.10 a.m. |  |  | $150,000 |\n| 14 | April 6 | 4.20 a.m. | No. 68 Wanchai Road |  | $1,500 |\n| 15 | April 12 | 4.16 a.m. |  | 13 |  |\n| 16 | April 13 | 1.15 a.m. |  |  |  |\n| 17 | April 17 | 7 p.m., 7.30 a.m. | No. 122 Queen's Road Central, House No. 367, Queen's Road Central, House No. 8, Wing Lok Street, House No. 288, Queen's Road West, House No. 21, Salt Fish Street, House No. 18, Wing Woo Street, House No. 49, Praya West | 12 | $55,000, $5,000, $8,000, $4,000, $8,700, $2,000, $3,000 |\n| 18 | May 1 | 7 p.m. | No. 116 Queen's Road Central |  | $18,000 |\n| 19 | May 14 | 3.15 a.m. |  |  |  |\n| 20 | May 15 | 3 a.m. | No. 137 Queen's Road West |  | $4,500 |\n| 21 | May 15 | 2,500 |  |  |  |\n| 22 | June 3 | 3 a.m. | No. 15 Jervois Street |  |  |\n| 23 | June 3 | 3.10 a.m. | No. 228 Queen's Road Central |  | $20,000 |\n| 24 | July 1 | 10.25 p.m. | No. 123 Queen's Road Central |  | $8,000, $500 |\n| 25 | August 14 | 10.30 a.m. | No. 59 Square Street |  |  |\n| 26 | August 21 | 3.45 a.m. | No. 68 Jervois Street |  | $18,000, $200 |\n| 27 | October 2 | 2 a.m. | No. 9 Sai On Lane |  | $800 |\n| 28 | October 3 | 11.30 p.m. | No. 21 West Street |  | $200 |\n| 29 | October 11 | 6.20 p.m. | No. 2 Ship Street |  |  |\n| 30 | October 22 | 12.10 a.m. | No. 127 Queen's Road West |  | $15,000 |\n| 31 | October 31 | 10 p.m. |  |  |  |\n| 32 | November 30 | 7.40 p.m. | No. 115 Queen's Road Central, No. 82 Bonham Strand |  | $4,600, $2,000 |\n| 33 | December 1 | 10 p.m. |  |  |  |\n| 34 | December 1 | 11.20 p.m. | No. 207 Queen's Road Central, No. 183 Hollywood Road, No. 22 Queen's Road West |  | $8,000 |\n| 35 | December 13 | 5.30 p.m. |  |  |  |\n| 36 | December 19 | 8.45 a.m. | House No. 15, Cochrane Street |  | $600 |\n| 37 | December 20 | 10.15 a.m. | House No. 31, Boleber's St., Kennedy Town |  | $3,500 |\n| 38 | December 26 | 9.50 p.m., 1.10 a.m., 10.15 p.m. | House No. 238, Hollywood Road, House No. 115, Praya West, House No. 12, Sutherland Street, House No. 78, Jervois Street, House No., Tsz Mi Lane |  | $2,000, $2,300, $50, $6,000, $1,290 |\n| 39 | December 28 | 3.30 p.m. | Licensed Cargo Boat No. 69 |  | $4,500 |\n| 40 | December 28 | 3.10 p.m. | On board the British barque Glen Caladh, House No. 10, Ship Street |  | Unknown, $600 |\n| 41 | December 29 | 2.10 p.m., 12.40 a.m., 3.30 a.m. | House No. 137, Wing Lok Street |  | $7,000 |\n| 42 | December 30 | 8.30 p.m. | House No. 109, Queen's Road West, House No. 188, Queen's Road West, House No. 18, Now Street | 25 | $200, $1,000 |\n| 43 | December 30 | 1.00 a.m. | House No. 10, Queen's Road West, House No. 65, Bonham Strand |  | $200, Trifling |\n|  | TOTAL |  |  |  | $105,595, $323,650 |",
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        "content_text": "## 8\n\nstatement for me to take to Mr. May and Mr. Frauris.\" I said \"I know nothing about the matter and I have already said so in gaol.\" The next day I went to Canton and the day after that P.C. 143, Au Hing came to me here in Canton with a similar request to what he had made in Macao, but I had nothing to tell him or to write, and he left.\n\nDeclared by the above named Yeung Fat in my presence.\n\n[LS.]\n\nE. H. FRASER,\nVICE-CONSUL.\n\n(Sa.) 楊發 (YEUNG FAT)\n\n## 9\n\nup. What I said at that interview was written down by Mr. Dennys. That was the only time I was taken out.\n\nOn the 14th Mr. May came to my cell and said \"Your wife has engaged a lawyer. Do you wish to see him?\" I said \"Yes, I have been detained here two days and my wife does not know why, she therefore has engaged a lawyer.\" He replied \"All right, see him tomorrow.\" The next day, 15th July, I saw Mr. Ewons in presence of Mr. Dennys and the following day I was banished.\n\nDeclared by the above named Tang Chung before me.\n\n## 5\n\nOn the 27th day of September 1897 appeared before me Tang Chung, who, after the following statement had been interpreted to him, declared that the contents were true.\n\nTANG CHUNG states:- I am an ex-detective sergeant of the Hongkong Police Force. My number was 190. I served in that force twenty-five years and two months and was Sergeant over eleven years.\n\nOn the 12th July, 1897, I and P.C. 319 Yeung Fat, by order of Inspector Stanton, attended at the Captain Superintendent's office about 4:30 p.m. The Captain Superintendent, Mr. May, took us into the Gaol, of which he was Acting Superintendent, where we were searched by a warder who stripped us of all our clothing except our trousers. I was then taken to a cell on the first floor and locked up. I was not told why I was locked up. At 7 or 8 p.m. I was taken to the office of Mr. May, the Superintendent of Gaol. Mr. May, Mr. Dennys, and Sung Sing, an interpreter, were there. Mr. Dennys asked me about my police service. He afterwards produced a paper and said Sham In states that if he wanted to open a gambling house he got permission from you, and paid you $3.00 a day, and if you said he must not open it, it was not opened. I told him that was false. He said \"You have been so long a detective sergeant, did you not know there was gambling in Wa Lane?\" I replied \"If I knew, I should have informed Inspector Stanton. I have reported street gambling to him and he has sent me with constables to arrest them.\" He said \"Gambling has been going on there for years, and you say you do not know it.\" He mentioned the names of three persons and asked if I knew them. I replied I did not. He then mentioned the name of Tse Leang and I told him I knew him. He asked why I knew him. I replied \"His father was an informer to Inspector Perry and also had a gambling house in G6, Market Street. I informed Inspector Perry and he arrested Tse Leung's father, Tse Lik, and a number of others. I knew Tse Leung, who was a youth then, and I was informed he threatened to have revenge, no matter how long he had to wait.\" Mr. May asked if I knew Sham In. I told him no, but that I met him on a Canton steamer at the time of the Worshipping of Tombs this year, where we got into conversation about some luggage my wife, whom I had gone to see off, was taking with her. Mr. May asked where I lived. I told him at 48, East Street. He said \"Do you know that 3, East Street is Sham In's outside establishment.\" I replied \"No.\" He asked if I had ever been there for bribe money. I replied \"No, I have never been in the house.\" He asked if I knew Ah Tin. I said \"What Ah Tin? If you mean Ah Ting I know him. He is my nephew; what about him?\" He said \"Where is he?\" I replied \"He is 14 or 15 years of age and is an apprentice to an engineer.\" He then said \"Speak out and tell me what foreigners and Inspectors you collect money from gambling houses for?\" I replied \"I have never collected any.\" He said \"I will call Sham In to give evidence against you.\" I said \"Call him out.\" He did not call him. He walked out to the stairs and returned and said, \"You speak out and tell me whom you collected for and I can get the Governor to let you off and you will retain your position as Sergeant. I will look after you.\" I replied \"If I received bribes, I need not remain so long in the Police. I should have plenty of money.\" He said \"Yes, you want to save more. You must have received the money or Sham In could not say so: You must have paid it to the foreigners.\" I said \"I have done no such thing and I was never in Sham In's house.\"\n\nThe interpreter Sung Sing said \"If you did so, confess.\" I was then locked up.\n\n[SL.] 忠戳\n\n(TANG CHUNG)\n\n[L.S.]\n\nE. H. FRASER,\nVICE-CONSUL.\n\n## C\n\nOn the 27th day of September, 1897, appeared before me O Mi-cheang who, after the following statement had been interpreted to him, declared upon his oath that the contents were true.\n\nO MI-CHEUNG states: - I served in the Hongkong Water Police Force for fourteen years and eight months. I was a detective thirteen years and six months and an acting sergeant and a sergeant about thirteen years of this period.\n\nOn the 15th July, 1897, Inspector Hanson took me into Victoria Gaol. Just before arriving at the gaol, he said to me, \"Do you know anything about Mr. Corcoran receiving $3.00 a day from gambling houses? Did you hand it to him?\" I told him I know nothing about it. He then took me inside and the chief warder searched me, after which I was locked up in a cell on the first floor. At 8 or 9 p.m. I was taken to the office of Mr. May, the Superintendent of Gaol, before Mr. May, Mr. Dennys, and Mr. Sung Sing, who acted as interpreter. Mr. Dennys asked me if I had ever collected gambling money and handed it to Mr. Corcoran. I replied \"No.\" He said \"No? Sham In says you have.\" Sham In was then called in and Mr. Dennys asked if I knew him. I said \"No. I do not know him.\" Mr. Dennys asked Sham In if he knew me and he replied \"Yes.\" I asked how many times he had seen me. He replied \"Once.\" I said \"When?\" He replied \"In the 3rd decade of the 12th moon of last year (January, 1897) above a barber's shop.\" I asked in what street and the number of the house, and he said he could not remember. I asked to whom he had paid the money, and he said \"To Yeung Fat and Tang Chung; uncle A Cheong (meaning me) confess.\" I said \"I have done nothing to confess.\" Mr. May then sent Sham In away and said to me, \"You have heard what Sham In said.\" I replied \"He is a prisoner and wants to be let out.\" Mr. May said, \"I believe he speaks the truth.\" I said, \"I have done no such thing.\" Mr. May said, \"Tell everything and I will speak to the Governor, who will perhaps let you off and let you remain a Sergeant, otherwise you may be placed on the charge sheet, and charged and if there is evidence, you may be sentenced to six or nine months' hard labour and afterwards be banished for five years. Why is it you will not tell? Corcoran has resigned and you need not be afraid to speak; he cannot look after you now.\" I replied, \"Yes, if I know I must tell and look after myself before others.\" Mr. May said in English, \"You are very foolish.\" When I was before Mr. May and Mr. Dennys, Mr. Dennys wrote down my statement. I was sent away and locked up.\n\nThe next day, 16th July, I was taken out again before Mr. May. Sung Sing was interpreter. Mr. May again questioned me as on the previous day.\n\nOn the third day, 17th July, I was taken out again before Mr. May. He said, \"There is no one present, you speak in a low tone and tell me about Corcoran affair.\" I replied...\n\n## 34",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 4\n\nC.O. 352 | 20482\n---------|--------\nREA      | \nHONG KONG POLICE FORCE | 2 SEP 3\n\n## DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF PENSIONER\n\nIf this Paper of Particulars and the Certificates connected with it, be not sent in original, the copies must be duly attested.\n\n**Head 1 of Paper**.-In the case of an Officer serving on the West Coast of Africa, a statement is to be added whether he is a native of that Coast. (Colonial Regulations, § 430.)\n\n**Head 3**.--State the description of Allowance for which the Application is recommended, viz., Superannuation, Compensatory or Compassionate Allowance, or Gratuity, and its amount. In the case of Persons claiming an addition to their Pension in respect of Professional or other special qualifications, this should be stated, and a reference should be given to the authority under which the claim is made.\n\n**Head 5**.-If the service has been interrupted by one or more breaks, the word \"broken\" should be added before or after the number of years and months, and the causes, dates, and circumstances of the break or breaks should be stated under heading 9.\n\n**Head 6**.-If the person retiring has been in receipt of the same Salary, or in the class from which he retires, for the three months immediately before the date of his retirement, the actual annual rate of Salary or Wages at that date should be inserted, preceded by the word \"actual.\" In other cases the average annual amount of Salary or Wages for the three months next preceding the date of retirement should be inserted, preceded by the word \"average,\" but if the whole period of service is less than three years, then the average for the whole period of service should be inserted.\n\n**Head 7**.-A separate statement should be inserted of the average Annual Value, for the 36 months immediately preceding retirement, of each Emolument (exclusive of salary or wages) which is claimed to be included in the calculation of the Pension or Gratuity.\n\nWhenever the value of a House or House Allowance, so ascertained, exceeds one-sixth of the salary and of emoluments which count for Pension purposes, it is to be reduced to one-sixth of that amount, so that it shall not exceed one-seventh of the whole.\n\nFees which an Officer is allowed to retain for his own use will be taken into account for Pension purposes, in addition to regular salary, at the annual average of the net receipts of the 36 months next preceding the Officer's retirement. These net receipts are to be ascertained by deducting from the gross amount of Fees such Office Expenses, which an Officer may have had to defray from his own resources, in performing the services for which he was remunerated by Fees. No deduction, however, from the Fees should be made in respect of Office Expenses provided from Public Funds, for the due discharge of those duties to which a Fixed Salary is annexed. Papers of \"Particulars\" when forwarded to the Colonial Department should be accompanied by formal Declarations from the retiring Officers, showing the amount received by them for Fees, and the amount defrayed as above for Office Expenses, &c., in each of the three years immediately preceding the retirement. It will be the duty of the Colonial Governments concerned to satisfy themselves of the accuracy of such statements before forwarding them to the Colonial Office. In the case of Officers receiving Fixed Salaries and Fees, the Fees will not in ordinary circumstances be allowed to count for Pension purposes to the extent of more than one quarter of the Salaries, and Fees will not in any case be allowed to count for Pension purposes during any period in which the whole time of the Officer receiving them was not given to the Public Service.\n\n**Head 8**.--In cases of infirmity, if the Applicant is below the ordinary age for retirement, a Medical Certificate is to be furnished showing that he is disqualified by infirmity of mind or body for discharging the duties of his situation, and that such infirmity is likely to be permanent.\n\nIn case of ten years' service or more, this Certificate should be signed by two Officers, of whom at least one should, if possible, be a Salaried Officer of the Government.\n\n**Head 9**.-As to \"broken\" service, see Head 5. If the Applicant has had any \"acting\" service, the details must be fully given, with a statement whether or not during the \"acting\" service, he was connected with the permanent Civil Service of the Colony.\n\n**Head 11**.-If, in special circumstances, a professional Civil Officer has been allowed to have \"private practice\" without forfeiting his claim to Pension, the facts are to be fully stated.\n\n**Head 14**.-If the Applicant is liable to any deduction from his service under Clause 102 of the Colonial Regulations, the facts should be fully stated.\n\n**Head 19**. The length of service and other particulars of the computation are to be given. When an average of Salary, &c., is taken, the mode of calculating it (whether by months, &c.) is to be explained.\n\n## QUESTIONS\n\n| Question | Answer |\n|---------|--------|\n| Name    | Chang Sto |\n| Age     | 43 years |\n| Height  | 5'4\" |\n| Complexion | Fallow |\n| Eyes    | Dark Black |\n| Hair    | Black |\n| Particular Marks | Slight pock marks on the face |\n| Figure  | Flow |\n| Where Born | Chun Izin Market, Shun Tak District, Kwong Fing, Hong Kong Province |\n| Where Pension to be drawn |  |\n| When joined | 3rd February 1879 |\n| When discharged | September 1894 |\n| Length of Service | 15 years, 6 months, 28 days |\n| Deduct period on leave since September, 1881 | 18.6.28 |\n| Total actual Services | years |\n| Average Amount of pay for last three | 300 |\n| Amount of Pension by Service | .457500 |\n| Amount of Pension reduced to |  |\n| Commuted value | Charme |\n\nSignature of Pensioner.\n\nCaptain Superintendent of Police.\n\nDate 12th May 1898.",
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        "content_text": "# SUB-ENCLOSURE 4 TO ENCLOSURE 2.\n\n33\n0.0.\n22047\nREP\n(610 NCT 93\n\n**The Canton Ngai Sun Engineering and Shipbuilding Company Ltd.**\n\nRegistered 30th July, 1898.\n\nRegistered Office 181 and 183 Queen's Road East.\n\nCapital $40,000 in 400 shares of $100.\n\n**Promoters**\n\n| Name | Occupation |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. Yeung Pak | Hong-Kong Merchant |\n| 2. Tsang Kwan | DO. |\n| 3. Leung Sing | Do. |\n| 4. Luk Yew Kai | Do. |\n| 5. Fong Shun Nam | DO. |\n| 6. Soo Kut Wan | DO. |\n| 7. Cheng Lum | Do. |\n\n**Solicitors**\nWilkinson & Grist.\n\n**Shares**",
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        "content_text": "## DESPATCH\n\n**No. 255/5**\n\nHongKong, 1898\n\n**Previous Paper:** 20481\n\n**Next subsequent Paper:** (09920\n\nThe Mill: Cont: for 1889 is correct to a dollar or so, & is computed at $470,073, etc.\n\nRevenue this year proceeds of Landsales $17244.0 \n\n|          |         |\n|----------|---------|\n| Draft herewith |  |\n\nOwing to improvements in the receipts for 97, arising chiefly from Landsales, the Colony started the current year with a good balance in hand ♦ not with\n\n**Minutes.**\n\n16/11 J. Sec 25575 \n\n# 3 & G(78) 16000-17-9 \n\nMr Johnson hote Order to AD. 16 mch \n\nCopy See Jo cons 27 APPEL \n\nOnder £7%f affeopuction \n\n(Estimates to chang \n\nMr Lucas.",
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        "content_text": "## (d.) Sui-Fu (Hsüchou-Fu) to Yunnan-Fu\n\nThis is the main trade route between the Yangtze and Yunnan (25 to 26 stages). General Mesny speaks of the route as the most important and least costly of trade routes from central China to Yunnan. Mr. Bourne calls it the only great commercial route between north Yunnan on the one hand and Ssuchuan and the Eastern Provinces on the other, and states that it has a large transit trade. From Sui-Fu the route goes to An pien-chang and ascends the Keng River, which contains many rapids and rocks, and the navigation of which ends at Hengchiang. Goods come up the river by boat and are then carried by coolies to Laowatan (77 miles in four days through a difficult mountain district by a bad road), at about 5d. to 6d. per ton per mile. In Ssuchuan a large part of the transport is always done by coolies, who can live very cheaply. Laowatan, 137 miles from Sui-Fu, is the great likin station on this route, the chief import through it into Yunnan being native cotton cloth, with some foreign cottons, tobacco, salt, and drugs, while the chief export is opium, with tin, lead, copper, tea, and drugs. Likin is rigidly enforced, and the officials are especially extortionate and unreasonable with small traders. At Laowatan the goods brought by coolies are re-packed and sent on by mules and ponies. There is an ascent of 2,500 feet in nine miles to Li-shan-ting, and a descent of 2,000 feet to Tou-sha-kuan in the next nine miles. Here begins a district of great poverty, with scanty vegetation and few houses. Beyond Takuan-ting the path ascends 2,800 feet in 45 miles. The country traversed is poor and difficult, the houses miserable and ruined. According to Soltau the ranges between the Takuan valley and Chaotung are extremely difficult, with dangerous precipices and deep ravines. Near Chaotung (6,580 feet) carts are found. The town lies midway between the two chief sources of cotton supply, Hankow and Burma, so cotton is dear and the people ill-clad. Chaotung has 40,000 people, but it is not noted for any special product. It depends on agriculture and through traffic. The foreign goods are few, and are sold by itinerant vendors. Its plain produces opium and large quantities of indigo. Chaotung serves as a distributing centre for goods (especially medicines) from the Yangtze to north-west Ssuchuan via Huilichou and even up to Tali, and east through Weining. Beyond Chaotung the country is a dry, bare, almost rainless plateau with no rivers. The descent to the Nuilan valley is by a road indescribably bad and steep through a wretched district. Except the small town of Chiang-ti there is hardly a house for 46 miles. The winds are specially injurious in this region. The rebellion has left deep and frequent traces in ruined villages and uncultivated valleys. Tungchuan-Fu (7,150 feet), five stages from Chaotung, has long been famous as a mining centre, and in the district there are said to be still rich mineral deposits of iron, coal, lead, zinc, and copper, though only copper is worked. Its population is small, poor, and hard worked. There is little demand for foreign goods, though a few come from the West River, the Red River, and the Yangtze. (A route runs through very mountainous country from Tungchuan to Tali via Huilichou. This route crosses the Chinshakiang at two stages from Tungchuan). From Tungchuan to Yunnan-Fu there are seven stages. Mr. Bourne says that in one day he travelled 25 miles without passing a single village, and that during 20 days he traversed a miserable country of alternating bare and wind-swept downs and precipitous cañons. At three points the path ascends to 7,830, 8,426, and 9,993 feet. Transport animals frequently die of the hardships they experience on this route. The Lyons Mission spoke of wandering through a wilderness of mountains and rough valleys. The roads often run along the mountain sides, and are strewn with boulders.\n\n## Page 41\n\nFrom Laowatan to Kungshan (305 miles) the country is at present of no possible value for commerce, according to Mr. Bourne. The people are very poor, and, if clad, clad in Shashi cloth. After Kungshan the country improves, and fertile plains are traversed to Yangkai, beyond which poppy fills the whole cultivated area. A vast plain stretches from Yangkai to the prosperous market town of Yanglin, said to be one of the richest in Yunnan, and containing numerous villages with an active population and a great number of cattle.\n\nIn spite of the many obstacles to traffic, this is the principal trade route from the Yangtze valley to Yunnan-Fu, though a member of the Lyons Mission states that since the opening of the Kueichou and Tonkin route, the present route is little frequented, being used only by few and small caravans with tobacco and indigo from Ssuchuan, medicines for Ssuchuan, and cotton for Huilichou. But no confirmation of this statement can be found. In any case, a route along which the main path is too narrow for bulky goods and is generally broken and uncared for, a route which traverses sterile, thinly peopled, and even in parts uninhabitable tracks, crosses high ridges and deep ravines, and goes along the beds of streams, hardly offers much scope for an extensive trade in foreign goods. Trade is further hampered by taxation, amounting to 12 per cent. on the Shanghai value of cotton goods.\n\nKreitner proposed a railway from Yunnan-Fu via Hsuntien, Tungchuan, and Chaotung to Sui-Fu. But M. Brenier, Secretary General of the Lyons mission, says that a railway is held by experts to be impossible on account of the nature of the country and of the forests. He says that it is impossible from a practical standpoint, for it would cost enormous sums which the present and prospective traffic would not repay. It would, moreover, cost more for freight by such a line from Tonkin than the existing freight by the Yangtze route. The commercial members of the Blackburn Mission thought that the rates charged on a line through a country presenting such great engineering difficulties would be as high as the present charges for pack animals. Although a railway might be possible from Yunnan-Fu as far as Kungchai, the tremendous ascents and descents for the rest of the way would be insuperable barriers. Similarly a project for a railway from Yunnan-Fu via Tungchuan up to the bend of the Chinshakiang to the S. of Huilichou is impracticable, for any line must cross the watershed between the West River and the Yangtze basins, while even if the river were reached by railway it would, owing to innumerable rapids, be found unnavigable, except for small boats, down to Pingshan.\n\n## (e.) Chungking viâ Chengtu-Fu to Tali-Fu\n\nThe route to Chengtu-Fu proceeds overland or by boat. The overland road passes the important towns of Jungchang-Hsien and Lungchang (centre of the grass cloth trade), and the salt wells of Tzulinching. A busy and populous district with many large villages lies between Yuting-pu and Tzu-chou, noted for salt, sugar, and grass cloth, and Chien-Chou, famous for opium. Beyond Chengtu-Fu the first town to be noted is Yachou, in the midst of a great tea-growing district. Consul Litton speaks highly of the strategic importance of Yachou, the possession of which would give an enemy from the West a clear run down the valley of the Ya River to Chiating, which is in the Min Valley, and in the heart of Ssuchuan. Yachou is a place of importance as the starting point of commerce to Tibet, in tea and cotton, which are exchanged for musk, wool, furs, gold, goat-skins, medicines, &c. At Yachou is prepared all the brick tea sent to Tibet. The tea trade with Tibet, valued at a million taels, goes by pack coolies along a difficult route with huge forests and mountains (one pass of 13,000 feet, and two of over 9,000 feet) to Tatsien-lu (Tachien-lu), a town of great commercial and strategical importance on the Tibetan frontier, a journey of 15 days. (There is another route which Mr. Litton considers is easier and more direct, only one obstacle, the Ma Ngai Pass of 9,700 feet, having to be surmounted. It is coming into favour with the tea carriers.) Drugs are produced and coal and iron are worked at Yachou. Over a high pass, and also within the tea region, is Jungching-Hsien, where coal and iron are mined and agricultural implements, &c. manufactured.",
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        "content_text": "473\n\n违涌南坑 分嶺\n\n逆涌\n\nPang Chung, Nam Hang and Fau Ling, had taken part in the opposition offered to Mr. May and his party.\n\nThe custodian of the Temple informed us that Mr. May and party returned early in the morning by a boat to 帅田文湛泉\n\nHa Tin and that Man Cham tsun of the Un Shing grocer's shop in Tai Po Hu, was one of the ringleaders. He had not only stirred up trouble in Tai Po Hú, but had also taken part in the opposition to the building of a Police Station at 文鳳階Fau Ling, being aided by his son Man Fung Kai, who poses as a man of authority and influence because he is the possessor of the Chinese literary degree of Sau Tsoi.\n\nHe also gave the name of Chang Tsoi Ki as a ringleader. He is owner of a grocer's shop in Tai Po Hu called Tsoi Ki. He stated that Chan Choi Ki and his two sons had been the prime movers of the trouble at Tai Po Hú.\n\nChan Sin\n\nThe custodian of the Temple gave the name of 植樹灘(1) of the Cheung Shu Tau Village as the person who gave the signal for attack by beating a drum.\n\nThe Temple keeper at first professed ignorance of the whole affair but when some of the personal effects of the Indian Constables and a sun helmet were found in the Temple he became more communicative.\n\nThe other elders said they knew nothing of the matter.\n\nHaving left the elders and the custodian of",
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        "content_text": "742\n\nthe writer & recapitulated his previous plans (of resistance) (The writer) Ng Ki Cheung informed him of recent political events. The writer said the natural defences of the Un Long and Sheung U divisions are not equal to those of Formosa; our generalship is not equal to that of Lau Wing Fuk (the Chinese General who was defeated by the Japanese in Formosa. Our resources are not like those of Lam Wai Un (the millionaire of Northern Formosa who contributed over a $1,000,000 towards the defence of Formosa against Japan, translator's note); we have no outside supporter like Chang Chih Tung) (Viceroy of Nankin during the China-Japan war, translator's note) yet the Chinese were beaten by the Japanese, how much less are our chances against a rich country like Great Britain with strong forces, powerful ships & effective weapons.\"\n\nTang Tsing and the others then falsely accused the writer of having been bribed by the company & having been granted a spirit monopoly.\n\nOn the first day the Tai Ping Kung Kuk (lit. Great-Peace-Public-Council Hall) was established. The intention of those who established it being to create a scare by empty bluster but pretence became reality (i.e. at first they did not intend to offer active resistance but only to pretend to do so).\n\nOn the 3rd, (12th April) (Col) Fong Un arrived in a gunboat. The people at Castle Peak stubbornly resisted him with force. The inhabitants of the Shap Pat Heung district refused to send out men. The three large villages (i.e. Kam Tin, Ha Tsun & Ping Shan) inhabited by the Tang clan used coercion saying",
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        "content_text": "that the neighbourhood of Sham Chun is in a disturbed state. In the (Police) Morning Report of the 15th inst. it is reported that a large number of persons from that neighbourhood had sought refuge in Hong Kong.\n\nON J. H. May\n\n784\n\nRough Translation of a report made by Ho Tung last October, corroborating information given to H. H. May by Ho Tung.\n\nResults of inquiries made into the matters at Nam Tau, Sham Chun, Kam Tin.\n\n1. On the 20th October, Cheng Yüan Tsao, a Chinese official, went to Nam Tau with 600 soldiers under his command. On arrival, he ordered Major Ting to take 300 soldiers to Sham Chuen & keep order there. The remaining soldiers were dispatched to the places: 55. Wong Kong Heung (Wong Long Village), Tung Wah Hui (Tung Wah market), and Sam Po Chuk (Three bamboo trusses).\n\n2. Chung Shine Yung, the man who put up the flags in Tung Wah Hui, is a Hakka man of Wong Kong Heung. He returned from Honolulu. His wealth is estimated at over $10,000. He is not a gentry. At the January time, a society was formed at Sham Chun; the formation lasted 3 days. The leaders are Cheung Chi Lau, his nephew Cheung Chi Tap, and a man surnamed Choi, all of whom are bullies of the said village. When Dr. Lockhart went to the village not long ago, Cheung Chi Tap had put on his cap and clothing and discharged crackers to receive him. The villagers unanimously said that he was cunning & that his only...",
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        "content_text": "175\n\ncould not read so he asked me to reckon up the sum total of the bribes for him. I saw Stanton's & Quincey's names on the list; the characters used were **某**; each was $45 a month.\n\nThe sum set against their names was $90. Formerly Pang On used to pay this money. Now Cheng On pays it. There were also the names of various Chinese Detectives. I can remember those of Chu Tsoi, Leung Kwai Chung, Chu Fung, Cheng Mau, Hui Hing, Mi Cheung, Leung Shing, Tang Chung, Yeung Fat. Also a Water Policeman called Lo Cheung who went to England.\n\nMi Cheung had $25 a month. Chu Fung had $20. Lo Cheung had $15. Tang Chung $20. Yeung Fat $20. Cheng Mau $5. Hui Hing $5. Leung Kwai Chung $5. Leung Shing $15. Chu Tsoi $10.\n\nThere were no other Europeans on the list at that time. But I know that formerly European Constable No.9 got money. He got money because he made some seizures. He got $20 a month.\n\nLo Chun Man, who is now an Interpreter to the Detectives, came to me and said that all the Detectives had been banished. He asked me to ask Ho Fook to give him $25 a month not to seize opium that was being smuggled. I told him that he had better speak for himself. He said, \"How is it you get $10 a month?\" Then, because I refused to assist him in the matter, he therefore told Chan Tat Sang to prefer the false charge against me on which I was convicted.\n\nI",
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        "content_text": "178\n\ninto the matter. I therefore made enquiries of the Excise Officers as to who were the Police that received bribes from the opium farm. The accountant told me that it was not the practice to pay the bribes every month. He said that bribes were only paid when there was smuggling of raw opium out of the Colony done. A few days after that I saw Yeung Fat in the Pan Fong Eating House in Wellington Street. I said that I found that bribes were paid off and on. I said that I also found that it was true what he had said that several of the Police received bribes from the Opium Farm. I had been told by the Excise Officers that Stanton & Quincey received bribes also that Corcoran and Holt received bribes also Yeung Fat Tang Chung, Wong Pun Tak, Leung Shing, Mi Cheung, Chu Tsoi, Hui-Hing, Cheang Man, Chu Fung, Leung Kwai Chung, Yu Po, Chu Kwai Lam, Lo Cheung, Chung Muk Sing, and Chung Tung. These were all members of the Chinese Detective Staff, except the last three who were in the Water Police. The interpreter in the Water Police Wong Hing Cheung I also learned received bribes. I then asked Yeung Fat how much Stanton wanted. He said $50 a month. He said that Quincey wanted $50 a month also. He also said that he would receive the money for various Chinese detectives also. I promised to pay Stanton and Quincey $50 a month each from the 1st of the next month. I cannot remember exactly what month it was that I began to pay in. During the 13 months that I was employed as Chinese Excise Officer prior to Witchell's trial I paid as well as I can recollect eight monthly payments at\n\nthe",
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        "content_text": "179\n\nthe rate of $50 a month each to Yeung Fat for Stanton and Quincey. I also made eight similar payments to Yeung Fat for the following police at the rates mentioned after their names:\n\nTang Chung $10 a month\n\nHolt $15 to $25 a month. ($15 would be for half a month if there was only opium run during half the month. Similarly, if business was done for half a month only, Stanton and Quincey would only get $25 each)\n\nLeung Kwai Chung $5 a month\n\nChu Tsoi $5\n\nDo.\n\nHu Hing $5\n\nDo.\n\nCheng Man $5\n\nDo.\n\nYoung Fat $10\n\nDo.\n\nWong Pun Tak $10\n\nDo.\n\nLeung Shing $10\n\nDo.\n\nChu Fung $10\n\nDo.\n\nThat was all the money that was paid to Yeung Fat. I used to pay it sometimes in the Pan Fong Eating House, sometimes in the street. It was paid every month; payments were made all in one lump. Sometimes on the first of the English month, sometimes a few days after. It was paid in Bank notes. There were no separate bundles made up for individuals.\n\nAbout the same time, Mi Cheung spoke to me for bribes for the Water Police. He said to me, \"Where are Corcoran's expenses?\" I said, \"Has he got?\" He said, \"Yes, $50 a month Pang used to pay him before\". I had made enquiries and knew that Corcoran had received...",
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        "content_text": "184\n\nthe afternoon Yeung Fat came up and spoke to me there. Yeung Fat was then a Chinese Detective in the Hong-Kong Police Force and Inspector Stanton's Assistant. Yeung Fat's statement to me was to the effect that when Pang On and Wong Kam were Chief Chinese Excise Officers they used to pay hush money (expenses) to the Police, and he asked me why I did not pay it. I said I was a new man, but I would enquire.\n\n6. I accordingly made enquiries of old Excise Officers and of Shea Wai accountant to the Opium Farmer. I was told that hush money was paid to the Police, that it was paid every month but only during the months when the smuggling of Opium took place. Also that the Opium Farmer did not pay the hush money but that it was paid by those who smuggled the Opium. The accountant Shea Wai told me that Wong Yau was the man who found the money required for the Police, I knew Wong Yau. He was a countryman of mine. Wong Yau was a broker and I was told used to purchase from the Opium Farmer for the smugglers the opium intended to be smuggled.\n\n6. I was told the names of various members of the Police Force, both European and Chinese as those who were paid hush money. I was told that the European Members of the force who were paid hush money were Inspectors Corcoran, Stanton and Quincey and Sergeant Holt. I was told that the Chinese members of the Force who were paid hush money were Young Fat himself, also Detectives Tang Chung, Wong Pun Tak, Leung Shing, Mi Cheung, Chu Tsoi, Hu Hing, Cheang Mau, Chu Fung, Leung Kwai Chung, Yu Po, Chu Kwai Lam, Lo Cheung, Chung Muk Sing, and Chung",
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        "content_text": "personating a Policeman on the 3rd August 1867 and sentenced to 6 months imprisonment with hard labour, which term he served out.\n\nCollusion between the two men is therefore impossible.\n\nThe live statements corroborate each other in a remarkable degree, and besides implicating Stanton and Quincey furnish evidence of corrupt practices on the part of Detectives Tung Chung, Jeding Fat, and Mi Cheung, who made declarations before H.M's. Consul which Stanton and Quincey used for the purposes of their Petitions, and on the part of the following signatories of the Petition to the Secretary of State by number of the Chinese detectives who were in connection with the Wa Lane affair: Wong Pen-lak (No.2), Leung Thing (No.3), Au Aing (No.7), Thing Man (No.8), The Chung (No.10), and Thi-Leung Kwai (No.19).\n\nMy reasons for not communicating the Statements made to me by Thing On and Leung Iu to government at an earlier date were that Leung Iu's statement, which was made without reservations, was useless without the corroboration of Thing On's, and that I was unwilling to break the promise under which I obtained the latter.\n\nI am still very reluctant that Cheng On's statement should be made public (although he has given me permission to forward it to Govt. and to allow a copy of it to be sent to Stanton and Quincey), for it will expose him to recrimination, and may result in his losing his post at the Opium Farm.\n\n3. Wong Kwok's declaration.\n\nOn the 30th of November last, I reported to the Colonial Secretary that having received information that a man named Wong Kwok, who had been banished in 1894 for promoting gambling in the Colony, was willing to give evidence of having actually paid bribes in respect of certain gambling houses to Inspectors Quincey, Blanton, and de Silva, I had sent P.C. 137 Haw Hang to Canton to interview Wong Kwok and take down a statement of what he was prepared to swear.\n\nI forwarded a translation of the statement made to the P.C. by Wong Kwok. I added that the latter had, however, intimated that he was not prepared to give evidence against either of the Inspectors in Court.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure M23.\n\nWat Wo states : –\n\nI am Accountant to the stall holder of stall No. 20 in the Central Market, the style of which stall is known as \"Theng Yuk\". I have been so employed since April 1897. I lived at Canton Village in the Fan Yu District for two years previous to that.\n\nFor 5 or 6 years previous to that I was a partner in the Cheng Jai Marine store in Gilman's Bazaar. This store was closed in 1895. The capital was $1,300. There were at first 3 partners, afterwards 5. I had a $400 share. Fung On was also a partner with a $200 share.\n\nWhen Fung On was in the employ of the Opium Farm he asked me to write a list of names and amounts in dollars opposite. This happened on two occasions. I cannot remember the dates but there was an interval of several months between the two occasions.\n\nI wrote from Fung On's dictation and then handed the lists to him. This took place both times at the Ching Jai Shop. I can only remember the following being on one or both lists: Sam Ming, Mi Cheung, Chie Kwai Lam, To Thung Jung and Kwan Yee (Quincey). I cannot remember exactly the amounts.",
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        "content_text": "(\n\nFat gave me a list of the names of the Police Officers who were to receive bribes and the amounts to be paid to each. I put the names and the amount down in a note book which I burned after the scare caused by the Wa Lane case.\n\nJeung Fat would be paid. Sargeant Turpant $45, $25; Jeung Fat $15; O Mi Cheung $...; Chü Fung $...;\n\nWong Hing Cheung $10; Leang Kori Chan $...; Wong Pan-Tak $...; Chang Tang Cheung $...; Strak Sing $...; Trang Chung $...;\n\nI remember the 5 following names and amounts given me by Jeung Fat:\n\nHii Thing Cheng \"$...\"; Stanton $750; Quinny $450; Corcoran $450.\n\nSome others were: Min $10, and some others. I don't remember them.",
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        "content_text": "Camp Cheung Po\n\n30.5.99.\n\n659\n\nThe Hon. J.H. Stewart Lockhart C.M.G.\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nI received your letters of yesterday and today, but owing to my not having an Interpreter here I found the greatest difficulty in taking any material action on the information. I applied officially for an Interpreter last Wednesday, and twice yesterday I sent telephone messages representing my difficulties in attempting to carry on my duties without the assistance of an efficient Interpreter, but as yet my appeals seem to have not received much notice. Captain Long informed me that repeated applications to the Civil Government had been made for one but without avail. This certainly is not giving me the aid that I have a right to expect.\n\n(2) I went to the village of Cheung Po this morning with the men who were beaten (Cheng Chui Ching and Cheng Tin Nam): They took me to the houses of the culprits. In some cases the doors were locked, in others doors were open but houses empty. The people all declared that the owners had bolted to Canton: the elders seeing me with a Cook-house Coolie as Interpreter very naturally did not render me much assistance or place much reliance on my authority or power.\n\nI send you a copy of a letter that I have just now received from the Rev. Mr. Schaub: as you know, his home is far beyond my proposed boundary, and therefore I am unable to render him assistance without authority from Hongkong.\n\nI have sent a copy of the letter to the G.O.C. who will no doubt...",
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        "content_text": "Canton, 24th July, 1890\n\nSUPPLEMENTARY REPORT.\n\nA timber dealer in Sin Tong, Namhoi district, was forced to pay $10,000.\n\nCheong Hop of Sui Taug, Shun Tak district, timber merchant, had his cargo seized on the way to Lo Chun by robbers; $400 had to be paid for the release of same.\n\nTwo (2) girls in a house boat in Heung Kau, Shun Tak district, were abducted and held for ransom.\n\nAt Lok Cheng, Shun Tak district, $4,000 were demanded from all the pork dealers. The money not forthcoming, three boats, laden with pigs valued at $200 to $300 each were seized.\n\nFour houses at Loong Kong were surrounded by robbers and clothing and jewellery, &c., carried away.\n\nAt Kwong Wah, Shun Tak district, an eating house was robbed of $600.\n\nA boat from Loong Kong to Sui Lam, nearing Locklow, was held up by pirates and $1,200 stolen.\n\nAnother boat, plying from Canton to Kong Moon, was stopped by pirates and threatened to be seized unless the captain paid $400 on his next trip.\n\nAt Loong Kong, Shun Tak district, a rich family was robbed to the extent of $2,000.\n\nA steam launch from Macao to Wuchow was held by pirates, valuable cargo stolen, and the purser shot.\n\nA steam launch from Canton to Whampoa was likewise stopped by pirates and $1,000 stolen. Quan Hing, a silk merchant, sending money to Loong Kong to buy silk, was robbed on the way to the extent of $1,000.\n\nHongkong, 10th August, 1899.\n\nR. M. Gray, Esq., Chairman,\n\nHongkong Chamber of Commerce,\n\nDear Sir,-A practical instance of the interruption to trade caused by piracy on the rivers of the Kwangtung province was brought before us this morning when a leading dealer refused to entertain business in produce on the ground that there was no security for transport. The business would, in ordinary circumstances, we believe, have gone through.\n\nOn questioning the dealer, he alleged that repeated cases of junks held up for payments had recently occurred, causing serious apprehension, that under the circumstances he preferred not to come under engagement. We are, dear sir, yours faithfully,\n\nBRADLEY & Co.\n\nHongkong General Chamber of Commerce. Hongkong, 14th August, 1899,\n\nDear Sirs-I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 10th inst. giving a very practical instance of the interruption to business caused by piracy now prevailing in the provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, which I laid before the Committee. The subject is now receiving attention at the hands of the Committee, who trust their representations will not prove without effect.-I am, dear sirs, yours faithfully,\n\nR. M. GRAY,\n\nChairman,\n\nTo Messrs. Bradley and Co., Hongkong.\n\nHongkong General Chamber of Commerce. Hongkong, 11th August, 1899.\n\nSir-By the courtesy of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., we sent yesterday, through the medium of Mr. W. Keswick, M.P., the following telegram to you:--\n\n\"Kwang provinces very unsettled. No reliance can be placed in the Viceroy of Canton. Piracy interferes seriously with trade. We urge upon you the necessity of more gunboats to protect our interests West River.\"\n\nI now beg to confirm the above, and in doing so will endeavour to give some particulars of the condition of affairs in the provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, through which the West River and its numerous feeders flow.\n\nFor some time past, owing to the weakness and corruption of the Administration, the rich producing districts in these provinces have been terrorised by bands of robbers, who, encouraged by impunity and enriched by plunder, have armed themselves, acquired junks and even steam-launches, by the aid of which they have \"held up\" whole villages and towns and pirated vessels on the rivers. These outrages have increased latterly to such an extent that within the last month no less than nineteen daring robberies and piracies, many of them attended with bloodshed, have been committed within the silk producing districts alone, and those are only cases that have been brought to our notice; the actual condition of affairs being in reality far worse than this statement might be supposed to indicate.\n\nThe pirates are growing so bold that they are only deterred by the greater risk from attacking foreign as well as native steamers. Indeed, only as recently as the 20th ult. on the West River a steam-launch flying the Portuguese flag was overhauled and boarded by a piratical launch, the Portuguese in charge and a native seaman shot down, and the vessel looted. Since then another steamer has been stopped and the cargo removed by the pirates.\n\nThe feeble attempts of the Canton Government to cope with the banditti and pirates, who are now in a position to blackmail the industrious portion of the population, have been worse than useless. The marauders are well armed with rifles and revolvers, have their strongholds in the hills, and have so far successfully defied any force of so-called soldiers the Viceroy may, under pressure, have despatched to attempt their suppression.\n\nTrade has for some months been greatly hampered by the feeling of insecurity induced through the frequent robberies and the extortion practised by the heads of the gangs, but lately the position has become much more serious. The Silk trade is completely disorganised in consequence thereof. The merchants in Canton who have made contracts to deliver silk to foreign firms there, have given formal notice that they are afraid they may be unable to fulfil their engagements owing to the danger attending the transport of silk and treasure. The silk filatures and cocoon shops in the silk districts have been threatened and plundered, and unless order is soon restored it is to be feared that trade will be reduced to small limits. The foreign steamboats engaged in the river trade now only get light cargoes and even the passenger traffic is much restricted.\n\nThe appearance of one small British gunboat (the Sandpiper) on the West River has been hailed with considerable satisfaction and her presence is much appreciated by merchants and traders, but this great waterway is lengthy and the pirates are so numerous that the moral effect is necessarily restricted, and a small flotilla of these useful and serviceable craft is desirable if the West River is to be efficiently patrolled, while light draught steam-launches might be usefully employed for work in the creeks. It is useless to look for any effective action from the present Viceroy, and as his influence at Peking is understood to be considerable, it is to be feared that any reference to the Tsungli Yamen would at best result in some temporary measures of doubtful utility. In the increase of the British patrolling squadron only can we hope for any permanent improvement in the present state of disorder. A precedent exists for this intervention, as in former years Her Majesty's warships undertook...\n\nPage 22",
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        "content_text": "Sub-enclosure.\n\n34475\n\nRice\n\n- cases under Chinese Extradition Ordinance No. 26 of 1889 as amended by Ordinance No. 23 of 1897 from 8th July 1897 to 30th Sept. 1897\n\n  \n    Date\n    Name of defendant\n    Charge\n    Decision\n    Magistrate adjudication\n    Remarks\n  \n  \n    1897\n    Lam Tui\n    Robbery and murder at Cheung Chau\n    Committed to Victoria Gaol\n    H. E. Wastie\n    By Provisional Warrant.\n  \n  \n    28 Oct.\n    Chan Siu Lau\n    Robbery in the province of Canton within the jurisdiction of China about 14th June 1897.\n    Committed to await the order of the Governor within the jurisdiction of China\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1898\n    alias The Sun\n    Robbery at Ho Ping near Police Station (alias 2018) within the jurisdiction of China during 12th moon (5 January to 1st February 1897).\n    Discharged\n    W. C. H. Hastings\n    By Provisional Warrant.\n  \n  \n    22 Sept.\n    Chung Shui Young\n    Burglary.\n    Discharged\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1899\n    Chang Cheung\n    Threatening with intent to extort money\n    Committed to Victoria Gaol to await the order of the Governor.\n    H. H. J. Comptroller\n    Magistrate's letter No. 59 of 1 December 1897 in CAO No. 2807 of 1897.\n  \n  \n    12 July\n    Hong Jun Cheung\n    Larceny in the jurisdiction of China in the middle of October, 1898.\n    Discharged\n    \n    Magistrate's letter No. 47 of 14 July 1899 in C.A.O. No. 1927/76899.\n  \n\n(Signed) H.H. J. Comptroller\n\nActing Police Magistrate\n\n4th October, 1899.",
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        "content_text": "SOA\n\n2\n\nSince this remarkable statement was penned, more than twenty-five years have passed. Has the Roman Catholic church in the meantime learned a lesson? No. Glorying in her immutability she remains semper eadem.\n\nSome time ago the RECORDER depicted vividly the outrages at Kho-khoi, perpetrated by a certain Chau A-ming and his followers. The account given was from the able pen of Dr. Ashmore. Last year a paper dealing with a similar subject, and written from Swatow by Mr. McKibben, appeared in the same journal. If I am not mistaken Mr. Ross, of Moukden, has published elsewhere an account of startling facts regarding the wrong doings of the Catholics in Manchuria; and Bishop Moule, in reviewing a French book, has lately uttered in the North-China Herald bitter complaints of mischief done by the Catholics in his diocese. In all these cases, where the mischief wrought by the Catholics was so palpable, the priests made common cause with the Christians and supported them in their insubordination against the Chinese authorities. No wonder that the animosity of the people, already deep, grows into a hatred, which at length finds vent in a paroxysm of violence.\n\nIn the Shing-shai-ngai (words of warning to a prosperous people) a Mr. Cheng Knan-ying takes no pains to conceal his hatred of Christianity. He says: \"Since Christianity has been established in China, the protection it has secured by treaty for its converts is used to screen wicked and infamous men from justice. Many enter the church for the express purpose of developing their nefarious schemes under her protecting banner, and the missionaries aid them in their evil designs.\" Mr. Cheng is, however, careful to discriminate between the Protestant and Catholic branches of the church. The former he absolves from the wholesale condemnation of his strictures, even citing as missionary authors worthy of commendation Dr. Allen, Dr. Fryer, Dr. Faber and the Rev. Timothy Richard.*\n\nThis policy of \"screening wicked and infamous men under the protecting banner\" of the church is much to be deplored by everyone who is really solicitous for the welfare of the church; and the fact itself cannot be gainsaid. The eighteen provinces of China echo with the complaints to which it gives rise. Protestant missionaries have learned to reckon with it; and the great conference at Shanghai in 1901 will have to define its position in regard to this policy. In the meantime missionaries ought to collect the facts which have come to their knowledge and have them published in the RECORDER. Public opinion must be aroused and a storm of indignation awakened against the dark deeds of men who endanger the cause of true Christianity, and on account of whom the name of God is blasphemed among the gentiles.\n\n3\n\nHitherto I have refrained from publishing anything on the subject because more pressing duties lay heavy upon me. At the same time I hoped that English and American brethren, whom I knew to be in possession of a great many facts throwing light on the question, would tell us something about their experiences with the disciples of Loyola. At length, however, the atrocities committed by so-called Catholics in this part of China have been of such a nature that it is quite impossible to keep silent.\n\nIf I were to publish the material gathered by me within the last three years, it would almost fill a volume; but it is not my intention to go back to certain things now past. I only want to call attention to a case which happened quite lately in our Mission.\n\nThe centre of the Rhenish Missionary Society in China is at Tung-kun, a yuen city of considerable size. In this city our Mission is represented by two ordained missionaries, two medical missionaries and one single lady missionary. More than ten years ago we opened medical work there, which has enlarged year by year, and is now doing a widespread good to the densely populated district.\n\nThe people of Tung-kun do not bear a good reputation. They are known to be very lawless and riotous, and caused considerable trouble to the authorities at Hongkong when the hinterland of that colony was ceded or leased to Great Britain.\n\nThe Catholic church has lately made great advances amongst certain classes of Tung-kun people. Veteran robbers, beyond the pale of law, and amateurs in intrigue, have sought a refuge in this church in order to create disorders. For years we have had much friction with them, which has been patiently borne by us and our people. The worst we ever encountered happened two months ago at Pak-kong, a large village up the east river, belonging to the Tsang-shing district, but bordering closely on the Tung-kun district, in which our main work lies.\n\nIt was on the 29th of July that some inquirers at Pak-kong very early called on the Rev. Franz Zahn, who is at present the missionary in charge of Tung-kun, to ask his help. They told him that a gang of robbers, several hundreds in number, had on the previous night quite suddenly surrounded their village and blocked up all the entrances. This done, the gang led by a French priest,\n\n468",
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        "content_text": "The disembarkation of the troops which had commenced was stopped, and we weighed and proceeded to Ngan How which place was reached at 3.15. I immediately landed with the same two gentlemen and finding the landing was practicable, the troops were disembarked.\n\nOwing to the shallowness of the water it was necessary to anchor about 1 mile from the shore with the result that it was six o'clock before the last man reached the shore.\n\nI then proceeded to Castle Peak Bay and at 10 a.m. embarked the troops and left that place at 11.45.\n\nI directed three launches to return to Hongkong with their troops while I took the other three with a detachment under Major Morris R.A., and landed them at Cheang Wan Bay at 1.30 p.m.\n\nI then returned to Hongkong.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(signed) William C. Goodenough.\n\nLieutenant.\n\nSubmitted to the Commodore in Charge.\n\n(signed) G.A. Callaghan.\n\n20 April 1899.\n\nCaptain, \"Hermione\".",
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        "content_text": "562\n\n8\n\nInclosure in No. 5.\n\nExtracts from Canton Intelligence Report for June Quarter.\n\n(Separate and Confidential.)\n\nPolitical Summary: False Reports.\n\nIT was hardly to be expected that the occurrences attendant upon the taking over of the new territory should not have given rise to a number of exaggerated rumours here, and such has, indeed, been the case.\n\nAt one time it was reported that the foreign troops were going to march overland to Canton to take the city, which was to be shelled from batteries constructed upon the White Cloud Hills, distant about 7 miles from the city walls. As a counterblast to this, during the time when the fighting was going on in Kowloon, leaflets, the composition of which betrayed their very low origin, giving particulars of the severe losses inflicted upon the British forces, were hawked about the city, and stories were circulated as to how the slain were removed from the battle-field at night and conveyed hastily to Hong Kong, where the gas and electric light were extinguished, so that they might be hurried to their graves under cover of darkness. Stories of this kind are readily believed by an ignorant and badly-informed population.\n\nNor is this ready credence of unsifted statements confined to the people alone. A despatch, as received from the Viceroy, embodying a report from the San On Magistrate, based upon a Petition from the Shamchun gentry, complaining of the conduct of the British troops quartered in that neighbourhood. They were accused of robbery, molestation of women, forcing the natives to labour, and ill-treating them in case of non-compliance, compelling them to sell at reduced prices, and forcibly entering their houses. In his despatch, the Viceroy indorsed these accusations by adding his own unfavourable comments, and requests that the despatch should be communicated to the Governor of Hong Kong. This was done, and in due course a reply was received, covering a communication from the Commander-in-chief, for transmission to the Viceroy; herein it was shown that the charges preferred were a tissue of falsehoods. The greatest cordiality had existed between the troops and the natives, who had not been molested in the slightest degree, and the expedition had been more like a pleasure excursion than the advance of an army of occupation. To this the Viceroy made no further reply; and the next time the San On Magistrate sent in a report on similar lines he received a rather sharp reprimand from the Viceroy, and was told that he should satisfy himself as to the truth of such charges by visiting the places incognito, instead of merely accepting them on the strength of the Petitions in which they were made. He was also told that persons who considered that they had a grievance, could have access to the British military authorities to state their case.\n\nAttitude of the Authorities towards the recent Disturbances.\n\nIt is, of course, impossible to tell how far the Chinese authorities may have been cognizant of, or in sympathy with, the disturbances incident upon the hoisting of the British flag in the new territory, but it seems only fair to state all indications seem to point to the fact that the Viceroy had no foreknowledge of what was in contemplation. True it is that the teeth of the insurrectionary movement might have been drawn if he had energetically adopted the proposal, made some time beforehand by the Governor of Hong Kong, advocating the complete disarmament of the inhabitants of the new territory. This proposal, however, he saw fit to ignore completely.\n\nOccupation of Shamchun and Kowloon: Attitude of San On Magistrate.\n\nWhen reporting upon the occupation of Shamchun and Kowloon, the San On Magistrate called the Viceroy's attention to the fact that some of the foreign troops were stationed at a distance of only 20 li from the district city, and stated that he had called out the militia and made ready munitions of war for its defence. He asked for a reinforcement of 200 or 300 regular troops for garrison duty.\n\n9\n\nNew Territory at Kowloon.\n\nKowloon Commandant to Viceroy.\n\nThe Kowloon delimitation has proved a source of repeated difficulties. Your Excellency having fortunately procured a capable official to conduct the delimitation, it passed off without trouble. I am not the only one who is personally pleased at this. Unfortunately, the British have been throughout in too much of a hurry with regard to this settlement extension, and the suspicions of the people have been roused. For instance, there have been lately a large number of people surveying in the neighbourhood of Kowloon, and I, fearing that some trouble might be occasioned by the action of the ignorant populace, have instructed my subordinates to send troops to take all precautions against disturbance. But a large portion of my jurisdiction borders on the sea, and, although I have a steam-launch under my orders, it has been a long time out of repair, and so steps should be taken to have it put in order. But as I may be at any moment placed in a quandary by some unforeseen emergency, I beg that a launch may be temporarily placed at my disposal, so that the public interests may not suffer. As soon as the territorial questions are settled, the launch can be withdrawn.\n\nReply of the Viceroy.\n\nA launch will be detailed for temporary service, and it will be withdrawn as soon as matters are settled. There is, at present, a sufficient force in the district to maintain order. I have recently received a despatch from the British Consul, fixing the 17th April as the day for taking over the territory. Deputy Wang will again have to proceed, and the local officials, civil and military, will exhort the people, as enjoined in my Proclamation, and co-operate in the maintenance of order and the prevention of disturbance.\n\nApril 9, 1899,\n\nKowloon Disturbances.\n\nViceroy's Instructions to Weiyuans (Deputies).\n\nI am informed that, after the delimitation of the Kowloon boundary, an affray arose between natives and British troops at Ta Pu Hsu. I therefore require the following particulars to be thoroughly ascertained and reported for my information:-\n\nWhat were the actual occurrences at Kowloon? Whether the aggressors were people living within the boundary or people from the other side? Whether in the course of the daily occurring affrays there were any casualties? Whether the assailants have by this time been dispersed? Whether the Kowloon Customs stations are levying duties as usual? What is the amount of revenue collected by the Customs since the 16th instant?\n\nFor this purpose I hereby instruct Prefect Fu Shun to make his preparations at an early date and proceed to Kowloon. I also direct Magistrate Chang Yun-wu to proceed to San On and Ta Pu Hsu to institute secret and careful inquiries and send in truthful reports from time to time. Let there be no carelessness or misleading statements, or blame will be incurred. These are urgent instructions.\n\nApril 20, 1899.\n\nInstructions to the San-On Magistrate.\n\nWhereas in connection with the Kowloon extension a joint Proclamation has been issued for general information, and two detachments of troops have been sent to preserve order, I now hear that on the 16th instant about 1,000 natives came into collision with British troops at Ta Pu Hsu.\n\n[2178 b-5]",
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        "content_text": "You should now ascertain and inform me what were the actual occurrences, and whether the aggressors were inhabitants of the new territory or the remainder of Chung Shui Yang's adherents.\n\nAt the present time the militia is being organized, and every village has its gentry and elders. You should therefore proceed in person to the various villages, and, after convening the gentry and elders, you should carefully explain to them that this Kowloon Extension has been carried out in accordance with Imperial Edict, and that England has promised that on no account shall the natives be subjected to any harsh treatment. As everything is quiet outside the extension, how can people venture to disobey the Edict by creating disturbances, thus showing disregard for their lives and persons? If they are people from other districts who have come with weapons in their hands to swell the trouble, such a proceeding is still more unreasonable. You should without delay issue a Proclamation, so as to make the people abandon their evil courses and again become law-abiding subjects. As regards the details of present occurrences, you must at once send a special messenger to ascertain and report them. Do not delay for an instant, or you will be to blame. For every day you are in office you have a day's responsibility of which you cannot divest yourself. Tremble at these urgent and special instructions.\n\nApril 18, 1899.\n\nViceroy's Instructions to the Hsin-an Hsien.\n\nbut On the 19th instant I sent instructions to you by special messenger, you Your Report of the have not yet reported the details of the late occurrences. 19th instant, which only came to hand yesterday, is wanting in clearness.\n\nIt has been agreed that there shall not be the slightest hardship imposed upon the inhabitants of the area leased to the English, and voluminous Proclamations have been issued to that effect. Should any such hardships be imposed, there would be no harm in the sufferers coming to me with their cases, and awaiting their discussion with the British Government. But the natives at Ta-pu Hsü, in a moment of indignation, have suddenly commenced a strife, which, by making them homeless, has occasioned misery to the aged, the young, and the women, whose pitiable condition baffles description. The young and robust farm hands are wasting their time and ruining their prospects at the very moment when agriculture most claims their attention, and, after all, what is the use of subjecting their own flesh and blood to the murderous fire of rifles and cannon? My repeated instructions have been ignored, and I cannot understand how the popular infatuation can have reached such a pitch. There must be some moving spirit at the bottom of this, and how is it that you, the Magistrate, being in close relations with the people, do not seem to realize that there are honest gentry and elders to whom all the villagers look up, and whom you should invite to carefully devise measures for bringing the people to a proper sense of their duties, so that their lives may be preserved intact? By following such a course not only will you be doing your duty as an official, but you will also be laying up for yourself a store of happiness without measure.\n\nAs in duty bound, I have again to order you to act in conformity with my repeated instructions, and, without fail, to send in a further Report.\n\n[Instructions in a similar strain were sent on the same date to the Tung Kuan and Kuei Shan Hsiens.] April 26, 1899.\n\nReport of the Hsin-an Hsien.\n\nThe Hsin-an Hsien respectfully makes the following representation:-- On the 18th April an action took place between foreign troops and natives at Shih Tou Wei village, during which some twenty or thirty natives and several foreign soldiers were killed or wounded. The two wooden barriers of the village of Chin Tien were destroyed, and a licentiate, named Teng Chü-lin, was taken to Hong Kong, but was released shortly afterwards. On the 19th the people tendered their submission. On the 20th the British officials issued a Proclamation to tranquillize the people, and obliged the villagers of Yuan Lang, as well as the employés in the various shops, to work at the construction of forts. On the 21st April they took the licentiate Wu Ch'i-ch'ang, who was also released soon afterwards. Four dwelling-houses were burnt here, and several at Ping Shan. On the 22nd April the natives of the leased area began by degrees to return to their villages, and people are already a little more at ease in their minds. This may be sufficient to allay your Excellency's anxiety. The Deputy Magistrate, Chang Yun-wu, arrived yesterday, and has gone in the direction of Ta-pa Hsu to institute minute and searching inquiries. I have reported these occurrences to his Excellency the Governor, and I now respectfully draw up this Report for your Excellency's information.\n\nApril 28, 1899.\n\nKowloon-Canton Railway.\n\nThe Viceroy attempted to stave off the survey of that part of the Kowloon-Canton line between Canton city and the British boundary, on the plea of unrest in the neighbourhood of Shamshun, but it was well known that this was a mere excuse to delay the undertaking to which he is opposed. It was accordingly made clear to him that he would be held responsible for the expense occasioned by the delay, and this induced a change of attitude. A Deputy, named Yin Pei-lin, was appointed, and this gentleman met the engineer, Mr. Large, at the Consulate on the 1st May to arrange as to route, escort, &c. The surveying party left Canton on the 4th May, accompanied by the Deputy and escort.\n\nRelations with Chinese Officials.\n\nThe Viceroy has displayed much obstinacy in all the negotiations connected with the taking over of the new territory. At the interview with the Governor of Hong Kong on the 2nd April he absolutely declined to take any steps towards the removal of the Customs stations, insisting that such a removal was not within the scope of the original Convention agreed upon by the British Minister and the Tsung-li Yamên. He promised to protect the temporary mat-sheds which had been erected for the accommodation of the police, but altogether failed to do so.\n\n(Signed) G. D. PITZIPIOS, Vice-Consul.\n\nCanton, July 5, 1899.\n\n563",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[October 18.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nSĩ La Féng Luh to the Murquess of Salisbary. E(Received October 18.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nREFERRING to your Lordship's letter of the 30th May, I have the honour to inform you that I did not fail to acquaint the Tsung-li Yamên by telegraph of the decision of Her Majesty's Government to provisionally continue the British occupation of the Chinese town of Samshun, and reserve for future consideration the question of the permanent arrangements which would have to be made respecting it.\n\nI have just received a telegram from the Tsung-li Yamên, informing me that shortly after receiving the above-mentioned communication, Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in Peking called at the Yamên and stated that he had been authorized by your Lordship to say that Her Majesty's Government would be prepared to evacuate, and restore to China, the town of Samshun on two conditions, viz.:-\n\n1. That the instalments then due to the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation for interest on the Shan-hai-kwan Railway Loan should be promptly paid.\n\n2. That Tan Tzü-cheng, the fugitive criminal accused of having been the principal instigator of the murder of Mr. Fleming, should be arrested and brought to justice.\n\nNow, these two conditions have been fulfilled. In a despatch which the Yamên has addressed to the British Chargé d'Affaires, the Yamên requested him to inform your Lordship that Tan Tzü-cheng had been arrested in the Province of Hunan, and that the money which had been owing to the bondholders of the Shan-hai-kwan Railway Loan had been duly paid. Further, Mr. Bax-Ironside was to request your Lordship to have the goodness to cause the Governor of Hong Kong to be directed to order the evacuation of the town of Samshun, and to permit the Chinese authorities to resume the government of the city of Kowlung, conformably with the Convention of the 9th June, 1898, which stipulates that the intra-mural jurisdiction of the place is reserved to China.\n\nThe Yamen, having received no answer to the above requests, have desired me to call the attention of your Lordship to the matter, and at the same time express the hope that, as the Convention for the extension of the boundaries of the Colony of Hong Kong was agreed to as a special mark of China's friendship for Great Britain, and as the two conditions which your Lordship imposed for the retrocession of the town of Samshun have been fulfilled, arrangements may be made for the restoration of that place to China at an early date, also for the Chinese authorities being enabled to resume the government of the city of Kowlung.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) LO FÊNG LUI.\n\nPage 660\n\nPage 661",
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        "content_text": "the now declaration of Lenny yo \n\nand Cheng one eveloved \n\n16378 \n\nIf, as there suggeted \n\nभू \n\non proceed us further \n\nof thei \n\ncothing \n\nmr in \n\ncin \n\n16378 \n\nin the wettin \n\ncordenne, then is \n\nmore the tail aber Holt; \n\nOstautuar \n\nArme \n\n353 \n\ng the \n\nthe fin Ilvingfield's minute on 9720 (at the end) Holt' care \n\ndiffers from the other in that a withen was produced who said that he had paid bribes to Holt. I think that we must ask for copies of all the domments & consider the case on it ment now that this petition has come, though it is, on account of the above difference, less proper one for favorable cousdentin than the in Wh: no withen be produced to swea \n\nhe had actuall pand \n\nmong \n\nCages \n\nh \n\nthis \n\nto the person changed. I think we sh= therefore send a petition to the Governor vask for \n\nfatti \n\nreport \n\n* \n\nHolt' \n\n9 \n\nway perhaps supag additional resson forsching better the effect that can has been carefully corodives, in the w. Chamberlain repeti \n\nthat is \n\ncan see no cromad \n\nIn interping with the decision \n\namire an \n\nMr Lucas \n\nIn Swing field So for \n\nthe Colonial fort. \n\n4/8 \n\nIean ascertain beyond the statement contained in ho may's report o in 20053/97 (see is 20.043) we do not Kryen th \n\nas regard Holts! case. \n\nany facto \n\nall matinal dowment. \n\nАв A dept Wr \n\ned as \n\nsuppose we must proceed Cox suggests move aday \n\nC-PL-6 \n\nI think waar that the reply ther pelition might be that the late Gromer atten deny in report for host to dismifat stated that the he had practically admitte his fuilt and had made no define whatever in these circumstances, Mr. Chamberlain in unt prepared to reopen the case \n\nEw shfl \n\n5819 voutly 165/9",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\nRECO\n\nC.O.\n\n4795\n\nREO is FEB 00\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. No. 387. Pursuant to section 4 of the Local Communities Ordinance, No. 11 of 1899, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the Committees for the various Sub-Districts on the mainland of the New Territories specified in the Schedule hereto annexed.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th July, 1899.\n\n  \n    DISTRICT,\n    1 SUB-DISTRICT.\n  \n  \n    Villages,\n    Sha Tin Ts'ün\nTsik Ts'in Wai\n沙田村\n積存圍\nSam Tin Wai...\nKang Han\n  \n  \n    \n    心田圍\n巡口\n  \n  \n    隔 0:\n    沙田\n頭圍源頭壠寮山巖\n灣洋墩下\n逕 隔 沙山小黃石大觀茂禾火山四黃河落九 口田 田家瀝坭古藍音草輋灘尾貝竹上渡肚\n  \n  \n    \n    Kák Tin\nSha Tin Tant\nSbán Ha Wai\nSiu Lek Un\nWong Nai Tan\nShek Ku Lung\nTúi Linh Tin\nKun Yam Sháu\nMau Trở Ngắm\nWo Tsia\nFo T'án\nSbán Mi\nAu Pui Wan\nWong Chuk Yeung\nHo Sheung Tan\nLok Tó Ha\nKau To...\n  \n\n2 SUB-DISTRICT.\n\n  \n    Tsing Lán Shi\nTseung Kwan O\nMa Yau T'oug...\nSó Mau Ping\nMang Kung Uk\nSheung Yeung\n***\nHa Yeung Pan Long Wán\nYau Ù Wán\nSong Shi Wán\nFu Hop Wún\nTái Háng Hai\nNám Wai\nPak Wai\n    Villages.\n柯上\n蔡渡下\n九肚\n井樹\n井 將 馬蘇孟 上下檳鰌桑富大南北\n蘭 軍 遊茅公\n洋洋榔魚樹台坑圍圍\n「北圍\n灣灣灣灣口\n  \n\nJ. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.\n\nKAU-LUNG. 九龍\n\n  \n    Tse Chui-ghm...\nTse Hing-séung Wai Mi-ts'éung Yau Kin-lung...\n    Names of Committee.\n謝慶\n韋美\n游見\n楊德光\n謝謝韋游楊韋袁麥草會會林會蔡楊釗 鄭王陳 祝慶美見德奇創叶秀文福暢道過振 寬長成 三湘祥川光秀大廷 明星華榕妈泰光 有發玉\n  \n  \n    KAU YEUK. 九魡\nYeung Tak-kwong\nWai K'i-sau\nÜn Chfong-tai...\nMak\nHip-ting...\nWai Sau\nTsang\nMan-ming\nTsang Fuk-sing\nLam Ch'énng-wIL\nTsang To-yung\nTs'oi Tseuk-úo\nYeung K tải\nJat Chal-hwang\nCheng Fan-yau\nWong Cheung-fát\nCh'an Shing-yuk\n    楊德光\n韋奇秀\n袁昌大\n麥協廷\n韋秀\n曾\n文銘\n曾福成\n林昌榮\n曾道揚\n蔡爵宇\n楊其大\n易濟璜\n鄭勛耀\n王祥發\n陳成玉\n  \n  \n    Cheng Kwai-salk\nHung Kwok-tsing\nLau Tung-p\nLau-Man-kau ...\nLo Muk-kwai...\nYan King-fong\nYau In-fuk\n    將軍澳\n上\n下\n公民\n洋\n洋\n  \n  \n    LUK YEUK.大約\nAFT\nCh'an Tik-kwong Ng Wing-shan...\nLi To-yzot\nShing Un-tát\nÜ Mau-loung\nLan Kwan-man\nLau Kwan-tsenk\nLau Sui-shang\n    Names of Committee.\n陳迪光 吳永壽\n李道\n成煥達\n余懋\n林君民\n劉君慈 劉君爵 劉瑞生\n  \n  \n    Lam Tsün\nYau Tak.kwong\nShing Shing-tát\n    林全\n邱德光 成陞達\n  \n\n47",
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        "content_text": "DISTRICT. \n\nWang Chau \n\n櫛洲 \n\nSbán Ha \n\n山下 \n\nKam-fnk \n\nNám She Wat... \n\n南蛇鬱 \n\nMok Kam-ts'ün \n\nNgau Hom \n\n牛街 \n\nWong Kai-ün... \n\nLám Hau \n\n欖口 \n\nTải Isu \n\nMong Tsing \n\n大井 \n\nNg Shai-pó \n\n網井 \n\nShui Pin Tsün \n\n水邊村 \n\nÚN LONG. 元朗(Continued.) \n\nYeang Wai-pan \n\nTs'oi Sz-bing \n\nWong Chin-ting \n\nCheung Kam-tai \n\nCheang \n\n楊渭 \n\n蔡斯 \n\n楊萦張張莫黄張梁吳鄧李眞 \n\n賓馨廷泰福全元有大保彥賢燕 \n\n「渭斯超金金金啟 貞世兆錦 \n\n5 SUB-DISTRICT. \n\nSan Wai \n\nSik Kong Tsin \n\nSik Kong Wai \n\nVung Tau \n\nShek 16 \n\nTin Sant \n\nSai Sbán \n\nChang Uk Tsin \n\nTseng Kong Wai \n\nVillages. \n\n新圍 \n\n錫降村 錫降圍 \n\n東頭 \n\nCheung Fn-yan \n\nLeung \n\nCling-tái \n\nTang Tsap-in.. \n\nLi Chiu-in \n\nWong Kam-in \n\nTang Chak-hing \n\nTang Chak-hing \n\nTang Po-shan Tang Clan-in \n\nTang Hingteng Tang 'ong-ho \n\nTang Yau-shing \n\nTang Fuk-ki... \n\nLam Ts'ai-bou \n\nHA TSUN. 廈村 \n\nNames of Committee, \n\nCh'an Shing-ch'eung Tang K-fan... \n\n石埔 田心 西山 鍾屋村 鮮降圍 \n\nChung Peli... \n\nTang Shai-kit \n\n鄧視卿 \n\n鄧 \n\n振 \n\n杰 \n\n世 \n\n保 \n\n科 \n\n鄧 \n\n世杰 \n\n鄧鄧鄧鄧鄧鄧鄧鄧林陳鄧鍾 鄧 擇祝寶振慶米有福齊升奇保 瀬臣元堂河勝奇漢長勦州 \n\nTUN MUN. 屯門 \n\nNames of Committee. \n\nPak Ling \n\n6 SUB-DISTRICT. \n\nVillages. \n\nChung Uk Tsin \n\nShun Fung Wai \n\nTsz Tin Wai \n\nTsing Chun Wai \n\n子田 \n\nNai Wai \n\nTiiu Tsz Wai \n\nPó Tong la \n\n坭堂 屯子圍 寶 \n\n村圍圍圍 圍下 \n\nChung Sha-pó \n\nCheung Kwai-yau \n\nSiu Hang \n\n小坑 \n\nLán Ti \n\nSan Tsiiu \n\n藍地 \n\nTó Üt-chau \n\nTaug Lün-kwai \n\nTo Ka-eheang \n\nT6 Tsáp-lát \n\nTse Fu-lok \n\nTse Shing-on \n\nTú Cheung-Fau \n\n新村 \n\nTó Ts'oi-on \n\n7 SUB-DISTRICT. \n\n50 \n\nNim Win \n\nDISTRICT. \n\n8 SUB-DISTRICT. \n\nTai Shui Hang \n\nPuk Long \n\nHa Nám Long \n\nVillagee. \n\nUN LONG. 元朗(Continued) \n\nLUNG KU TAN 龍鼓灘 \n\nSheng Nam Long \n\n稔灣 大水坑 北選 下南期 上南 篤尾漏 \n\nCheng Yin-pd \n\nLenug Fat \n\nLan Man-ming \n\nTak Mi Ch'ung \n\nDISTRICT. \n\nI SUB-DISTRICT. \n\nVillages, \n\nHang Ha Pú \n\nShe Shán \n\nTải Coi \n\nWai T'an \n\nTin Lin Ha \n\n*Tai Om Shán \n\nNg Tung Chá \n\nMa Pó Mi \n\nTái Yeung Tsis \n\nShui Wo \n\nSan Tong \n\nLung A Pái -- \n\nSin Om Sháu \n\n坑下莆 社山 大菴 圍頭 \n\n田寮下 \n\n大菴 梧桐寨 \n\n下山寨尾牶 \n\nLau Ting-chin \n\nLau Him-loi \n\nLau Kin-k'in \n\nTam Tai-wa E \n\nNames of Committee. \n\n鄭天保 梁發 劉廷昭 劉謙來 劉建乾 文明 \n\nSHEUNG U.雙魚 \n\nOh'an Fuk-wa \n\nCheung Kiä \n\nLAM TSUN. 林村, \n\nNames of Committee. \n\nCheung Hing-tsin \n\nChung Kwong-ts'enng Chung Tak-pan \n\nKu Ching-leung \n\nLenng Hing-wai \n\nSham Tsan-lin \n\nWan In-isfoi \n\n鐘 古正亮 \n\n梁慶惠 沈瓚連 \n\n隱華裕全祥彬亮 惠連 才 高湘華琳 宗 興 \n\n李茂琳 陳承宗 \n\n温賢才 \n\n鍾雲 \n\nTsoi Hat Tsin \n\nPák Ngau Shek \n\n在吉村 百牛石 坪 \n\nChung Wan-kó \n\nLeung Tsz-seung \n\n梁子 \n\nChung Ming-wa \n\n鍾明 \n\nLi Mau-lam \n\nChian Shing-tsung \n\n2鍾屋村 \n\n-放馬莆 新屋仔 石古壠 \n\nChaug Liu-hing \n\n鍾連興 \n\nYau Tsing \n\n邱清 \n\nHo Ting-shing \n\n何廷盛 \n\nPing Liong \n\nLin Au \n\nTong Sheung \n\nSan Chun \n\nChung Uk Tsão \n\nFoug Ma Pó- \n\nSan Uk Tsai. \n\nShek Ku Lang \n\n2 SUB-DISTRICT. \n\n連凹 \n\n-S新圳 \n\nSAN TIN. 新田 \n\nTÁI LÁM CHUNG, 大欖涌 \n\nNames of Committee. \n\n鍾樹保 張貴有 陶日疇 鄧聯桂 陶嘉 陶集 謝富 \n\n陶長 \n\n陶才 \n\nSau Kin \n\nTsó Tau \n\n胡昌 \n\nVillages. \n\nNames of Committee. \n\n新田 \n\nMan Oi-king \n\n「灶頭 \n\nMan Sing-ún \n\nMau Tsun-wa \n\nMan Tat-k'ün \n\nChéung Wai-yam \n\nLi Teroi-tsung \n\nLa Shai-shing \n\nChian Yan-it \n\nChing Hing \n\nTing Yung-sau \n\nFu Yau-ki \n\nChung Tak-wy \n\nTsui Chan-bi \n\n陳欽悅 \n\nMan Ho-san \n\nMan Pó-cho- \n\nMan Shiu-k'an \n\n程興 丁容秀 張懷欽 傅准税 鍾德和 蔡桭熙 \n\nMan Shui-nám \n\nMao Muk-t'ong \n\nLak Ma Chau \n\n勒馬洲 \n\nLiu Pok \n\n料塗 \n\nCheung Pan-sam \n\nFung Yau-fak \n\nFoug J-chan \n\nVillages. \n\nTái Lân Chưng \n\n大欖涌 \n\nÚ Chéung \n\nWo \n\nSó Kun Fat \n\n帶管笏 \n\nTải Đán \n\n大欖 \n\nTsing Fái Toug \n\n清快塘 \n\nOn Tan \n\nTwin Pi Tsai \n\n圓墩 \n\n田仔 \n\n文星垣 \n\n文俊華 文達權 安 \n\n賀 \n\n敬晅華懽粉祊芹南堂三福 \n\n馮宜周",
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        "content_text": "Nám Sháu \n\nKk Chi Lam \n\nLong Mi \n\nNgong Wo \n\nPak Tám \n\nChip Chua Win \n\nSho T'an \n\n-- \n\nDISTRICT. \n\n南山 \n\nWong Chuk Shán \n\nTsing Tat \n\nTúi Tung \n\nTúi Tung Mi \n\nTsia IIa \n\nThu Hằng \n\nNai Ch ung \n\nSui Băng \n\nAp Ma Liu \n\nYang Shu Aú \n\nTUNG HOI.東海(Continued.) \n\n隔柴墩 尾 窩 北潭 \n\nWan K'i-ebing \n\n竹灣 蛇頭 \n\nLau Kwan-pat \n\nMúa Lam-shing \n\nTi Fu-chau \n\nCheung Tsun-ch'emug \n\n黄竹山 \n\nChung Tsáp tỏ \n\n2 SUB.DISTRICT. \n\nVillages. \n\nCheung Muk Tau \n\nÜ K'ai Sha \n\nSai Au \n\nMa Ku Lám \n\nKi Ling Ha \n\nKó Toug \n\nPák Sha Au \n\n3 SUB-DISTRICT. \n\nNám Sháu Ts'ün \n\nLai Chi Chong \n\nShani Ch'ung \n\n tải ản \n\nHa Young \n\nVillages. \n\nHoi Ha \n\n4 SUB-DISTRICT. \n\nVillages. \n\nChính hảng \n\nSai Wan \n\nTải Long \n\nChenng Uk Wai Tán Ka Wán \n\n頭湖洞下坑涌逕麻樹木溪澳牯嶺 \n\n寮溪頭沙 釋下 \n\n樟木 \n\n西澳 \n\n馬牯纜 \n\n岐嶺下 \n\n井大大輋官坭西鴨榕樟烏西馬岐 \n\n温其勝 \n\n劉 \n\n萬林勝 李富珍 \n\n張俊昌 \n\n鍾集韜 \n\nCHEUNG MUK TAU. 樟木頭 \n\nNames of Committee. \n\nEnclosure 3. \n\nC.O. \n\nREAD \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -- No. 394. \n\n4795 \n\nRec? 13 FEB Or \n\nPursuant to section 4 of the Local Communities Ordinance, No. 11 of 1899, His Excellency the \n\nGovernor has been pleased to appoint the Committees for the various Sub-Districts in the Islands of \n\nhe New Territories specified in the Schedule hereto annexed, \n\nBy Cominant, \n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th July, 1899. \n\nDISTRICT. \n\n1 SUB-DISTRICT. \n\nVillage. \n\n2 SUB-DISTRICT. \n\nVillage. \n\n8 SUB-DISTRICT. Village, \n\n4 SUB-DISTRICT, \n\nFillage. \n\n+4 \n\n吉澳 \n\n大洲洲 \n\n塘頭尾 \n\n塔門 \n\nJ. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary. \n\nTUNG TO.東島 \n\nLi Fung-ts'eung \n\nLi Pat-forg \n\nLau Tak-ip \n\nTang Te'oi-tát \n\nLo Fu-p'ing \n\nKAT Ó.吉澳 \n\nNames of Committee. \n\nPING CHAU. 坪洲 \n\nNames of Committee. \n\nWong Hin-tsung \n\nPong Ho-chau \n\nLám Shin Fat \n\nLai Tak Tải \n\nTVÁP MÜN. 塔門 \n\nNames \n\nCommittee. \n\n李鳳翔 \n\n李拔芳 \n\n林 \n\n李李林鄧羅 \n\n鳳祓德才轉 \n\n翔芳業達屏 \n\n黃顯宗 \n\n龐豪洲 \n\n黎德 \n\nPAK LÁP CHAU. 白蠟洲 \n\nNames of Committee. \n\nTi Wing-in \n\n李永苑 \n\nKat ( \n\nWong Liu-fuk \n\nKin Cheung-fuk \n\n黄連福 簡長福 \n\nYan Hon-sin \n\nTsung Tak-pin \n\nLiu Shia-p'ai \n\nLeung Yan-shau \n\n邱漢先 會德標 \n\n學紹培 \n\n梁仁壽 \n\nTái Tong Chau T'au Chau Mi \n\nHo Fung-wing \n\nTay Man \n\nKÓ TONG. 高塘 \n\nNames of Committee. \n\n高塘 \n\n凹村庄 \n\n塘沙山枝涌灘洋下 \n\n高白南荔深大下海 \n\n張屋圍 蛋家灣 \n\nLai Muk-fút \n\nCh'au Mó-fat \n\nMó Sz-wing \n\n赤西大張蛋 \n\n巡灣浪屋家 \n\nWong Tak-ts'enng \n\n黄德祥 \n\nIp Ting-fut \n\n葉丁發 \n\nHi Shin-ming \n\nLi Kau-cheung \n\n許紹明 李根章 \n\nPák Láp Pak A Tung A \n\n白蠟 北丫 東丫 \n\nLi Ün-fai \n\n李源輝 \n\n5 SUB-DISTRICT. Village. \n\nKhu Bai \n\n滘西 \n\nLi Cu-t'é \n\n李源消 \n\nSó Ts'oi-bop \n\nYung Sz-ching \n\n翁仕稙 \n\nIm Tin Tsz \n\nCHIK KANG 赤逕 \n\nNames of Committee. \n\n鹽田子 \n\nChan Ting-cheung \n\nChin Ching-wa \n\n6 SUB-DISTRICT. Village. \n\nDISTRICT. \n\n1 SUB-DISTRICT. Village. \n\nWang Hang... \n\nShek Tsai Pó \n\nLeung Uk \n\n Năm Ch’ung \n\n2 SUB-DISTRICT. \n\n趙貞華 黎木發 陳戊發 \n\n巫仕榮 \n\nSan Ts'ün \n\nLau Ts'ing-mui \n\nWong Wan-ts'ju \n\nLi Yeung \n\nLi Kwong-on \n\nKÁU SAI. 滘西 \n\nName of Committee, \n\n藍黎 洲 黃李 \n\n青雲養 \n\n發泰 \n\n黃雲釗 \n\n蘇才合 \n\nIM TIN TSZ.鹽田子 \n\nNames of Committee. \n\nSAI TO. 西島 \n\nTAI Ó. 大澳 \n\nNames of Committee. \n\nCheng Shin-ta'éung . \n\nTse Mi-kwai \n\nMUI WO煤窩 \n\nNames of Committee. \n\n陳廷璋 \n\n李廣安 \n\n鄭善科 \n\n謝美貴 \n\n新村 \n\n▶横坑 \n\n石仔 樂屋 小南漏 \n\nVillage. \n\n大池塘 \n\n新慶 \n\nWong Yau-bing \n\n黃有典 \n\nLuk Ti Tong \n\n鹿地 \n\nLau Káp. hing \n\n林甲典 \n\nKom Hing-fát \n\n甘典發 \n\nMang Trong .. \n\n盲塘 \n\nTai Ti Tong \n\nSan Hing \n\nLó Ping \n\nTó Tin-luk \n\nChau Shu-yau \n\n周 \n\n52",
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        "content_text": "## Supplementary Schedule of Chinese employés in the Police Department who will benefit under the new scheme of increase.\n\n| Office | Name | Present salary per month | Increased salary per month | Increase | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Boatman | Cheng Sheng | $7 | $8 | $1 | do |\n|  | Cheung Ut | $8 | $8.88 | $0.88 | do |\n|  | Cheng Tai Hi | $7 | $8 | $1 | do |\n|  | Cheung Tai Hi |  | $8 |  | do |\n|  | Leung Shing | $7 | $8 | $1 | do |\n|  | Chan Ching Sau | $7 | $8 | $1 | do |\n|  | Li Shee Hoi | $7 | $8 | $1 | do |\n|  | Cheng Wang | $7 | $8 | $1 | do |\n|  | Cheng Chi To | $7 | $8 | $1 | do |\n|  | Leung Fak Tai | $7 | $8 | $1 | do |\n|  | Vacant |  | $8 |  | do |\n|  |  | $7 | $8 | $1 | do |\n\n(Sd.) **F.J. Badeley**  \n**Adtg. Captain Supt. of Police**  \n\n**Total Increase $12.60 per annum.**",
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        "content_text": "## Paraphrase of Telegram\n\n**O.A.G. Hong Kong to Sir Chamberlain**\n\nSent 3. 15: p.m.  \n12.30. p.m.\n\nThe American Admiral has been asked to take... Smashing of ...thie... Hing lle ...алд... \n\nI have informed the American Admiral that Li Hung Chang's flag-ship is at Canton. H.M.'s Government desire that Li should remain at Canton for the present. Pending reference to Washington, the American Admiral has delayed taking any action regarding Li's presence.\n\nI do not see that it is very necessary to accomplish anything at Canton. The north ...\n\n(2)\n\n**Paraphrase**\n\n**Gascoigne, O.A.G. Hong Kong to Sir Chamberlain**\n\nSent 7:45 p.m.  \nReceived 3:30 p.m.\n\nReferring to my previous telegram of to-day's date ... Böse ... 29/6/00. Li Hung Chang has received an Imperial Edict directing him to stay at Canton & maintain order. The American flagship will accordingly sail without him to-morrow. \n... Sascrique...",
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        "content_text": "8 \n\nhad secret meeting with the leaders of the Boxers, but I believe outbreak brought about by imitation of the missionaries' friction with German on the Shantung railway and French at Pao-ting-fu added to the widely spread placards stating that severe drought by which Shantung and Chihli crops are lost and the people reduced to destitution was caused by presence of foreigners. Southern provinces take advantage of collapse of government to start rebellion, but so far everything serene and quiet and the reform movement was not materially affected. Hatred against Christians have not come to Hong Kong; their intention to do so was in consequence of report that Li Hung Chang was leaving Canton.\n\nBlake",
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        "content_text": "## The Louth. \nI have reason to believe that the War Office Authorities are aware that there is a traffic of arms in the hands of dealers here, about Eighteen thousand rifles and ammunition, and complete batteries Rif 1 Shen. Each. One field, the other Mountain ...\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient humble Servant,  \nHang Aslaksen  \nJun.\n\n## Enclosure 1. \n**Confidential**  \n**COPY.**  \nSir,  \nC. 25053  \n**REC'd PES 7 AUG 00**  \nHongkong, 26/6/00.\n\nI went up to Canton on the evening of the 12th inst. & at ten a.m. the following day I called on H.B.M's Consul Mr Scott to whom I handed your kind letter of introduction. He wrote me a letter to Dr Mark, the private secretary to H.E. Li Hung Chang. After seeing Dr Mark I was introduced to H.E. Li at 3.30 p.m.\n\nH.E. said that the Taotai Liu & Capt Lu had told him about my being in Hongkong & having learnt that I went up with Commander Slade to the West River he wanted to know something of the movements of the pirates & robbers who infest the districts bordering the river. He said he also wished to learn something about the Triad Society, its strength & headquarters & the Hongkong method of capturing Triad members. He said he knew Kwang Tung was a hot-bed of the Triad Society which has branches all over S. China. He believes that the Ko Lo Hui of the Yangtse districts is a similar society & in constant communication with the Triads. \"What do you think about the Triad society?\" he asked.\n\nI told him that the aim of the Triad Society is to overthrow the present dynasty. They resort to highway robbery, armed robbery & piracy & every expedient to make law-abiding people feel unsafe & do not stop until the harassed victims are obliged to join their membership. It is a powerful society in numbers & the Tai Ping Chief, Hung San Tsun, was able by the help of this society to overrun the Southern Provinces of ... \n## Page 66",
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        "content_text": "## TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE between H. E. The Governor & H. B. M. Consul Canton with reference to the departure of Li Hung Chang for the North.\n\nto Confidential Despatch of 19/7/00.\n\nInsecurity is abroad, and those who have money at Canton are keeping it in Hong Kong for safety.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Henry Arthur Blake, Governor.\n\n(1) From Canton, 15/7/00.\n\nLi Hung Chang ordered to Peking by Imperial Edict received yesterday. He leaves Hongkong on July 17th.\n\n(2) To Canton, 14/7/00.\n\nScott.\n\nYour telegram of yesterday. Please submit to Viceroy that his departure would entirely change conditions existing in the South. I earnestly hope, for the sake of the peace of the two provinces, that His Excellency will reconsider his intention. It is impossible that he could get to Peking at present.\n\nBlake.\n\n(3) To Canton, 14/7/00.\n\nIs report true Black Flags ordered to Peking?\n\nBlake.\n\n(4) From Canton, 14/7/00.\n\nYour Excellency's telegram of to-day. I have seen Viceroy who states Black Flags will not be sent North. His Excellency expressed gratification on receiving Your Excellency's message but explains that having received this second decree ordering him to Peking, he must go. He leaves Canton in \"An-ping\" on July 17th and asks whether Your Excellency can receive him on July 18th at nine a.m.\n\nScott.",
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        "content_text": "# my King \n**Confidential** \nHong Kong. \n30450 \nRace \n453 \nTEG 17 SEP 001 \nGovernment House. \n18 August 1881 \n28865. \n\nWith reference to my \n**Confidential** despatch of \n13th August. \n\nI am informed that \nMr. Mark, Physician and Interpreter of Li Hung Chang, has returned to Canton, ostensibly to look after some of \nLi Hung Chang's effects. It is said that Kang yi wei intends to return to this \nColony in \nfour days, and \nthat both his party and \nSim Gat Lam are engaged in \nShanghai, carrying on activity and enlisting.\n\nThat Hen... \nJ. Chanchalain, Met. Sanitary Officer from The dolomite...",
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        "content_text": "# 343\n\nOn the 15th, 500 Chinese soldiers engaged a body of 600 rebels and were defeated with a loss of 120 killed and 150 wounded. The rebel loss was 100 killed and wounded and 50 prisoners, who were beheaded by the troops.\n\n5. The troops under the Generals Hok (who was wounded), Ng, and Lau retired to Mai On Hai and Ping Shan, and the rebels to Teung Pu, 15 li from San To Chuk.\n\nOn the 19th instant, the gentry of San To Chuk offered a reward of $9000 to the villagers to fight the rebels. The villagers of Wong Sha Teung and Sam To Chuk attacked the rebels on the same day, and fought them on the 19th, 20th, and 21st at a place called Tong Hot. The villagers numbered 4000 and the rebels about 5000. The latter were victorious but lost 400 killed and 100 wounded. The rebels then burned about 3000 houses in the villages named, and massacred men, women, and children. The villagers lost in all about 2000 persons.\n\nNow on the evening of the 21st, General Li came to their assistance at a place called Ping Tong with 1000 troops, and the rebels retired to Yuen Long Pa. On the 22nd, Generals Kok, Lau, Ng, and Cheng with 8000 troops encamped at Sam To Chuk. They were reinforced by villagers, and on the 23rd, it is reported that they engaged the rebels, but so far I have not received information as to the result.\n\nThe rebels are trying to induce the people on the borders of Kwei Ping district to join them. Some villages are favourable, but others have refused. On the result of the engagement reported on the 23rd, the im...",
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        "content_text": "442 \n\nchang risks. At present bar silver is 11% premium, and recently owing to political troubles it was 11.40% premium but it is frequently well below 10.89 premium.\n\nWith regard to British Dollars the silver would be provided by the Banks, who pay the Bombay Mint 1% for minting. The charge, we believe, leaves little or no profit, but if the coinage of small coins should not be sufficient to keep the Mint constantly working it might be found that the coining of British Dollars would be an advantage, and tend to reduce the percentage of cost of coining. It may interest the Government to know that from commencement of coining British Dollars in 1895 up to 5th May last the following amounts have been coined on account of:\n\n| Bank | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chartered Bank Of India, Australia, & China | $56,013,696 |\n| Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corpor: | $24,222,794 |\n| Mercantile Bank of India Ltd., | $37,248 |\n| Imperial Bank of Persia | $2,058,780 |\n| National Bank of India Ltd. | $264,876 |\n| Comptoir National D'Escompte de Paris | $261,641 |\n| Total | $83,559,035 |\n\nOf course by far the greater part of these coins have been absorbed by the Straits, but as Hong Kong Currency consists of chopped Mexican Dollars (old type) which are now nearly extinct and at any time command a good premium, there can be no",
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        "content_text": "517 \n\nWe went to Ma Ling Fan Shan. We reached Ma Ling Zan Shan on the 10th (3rd October). There were about ten thousand men there. About 75% of the 2,000 were Hakkas from `Kwai Shin`, `Chan ok Lo` and `Hoieung`. The Puntis came from `Nam Hoi`, `P'ün`, `Tung Kum`, `Sau B`, `Shan Tak`, `Shing Shan`, `Sau Wong Fuk`. `Wong Fuk` was the leader (`Tsung Ping Tai Un Shin`); `Ho Ts'dung` was the 2nd in command (`I Un Shei`). `Wong Kung` was the `Tso Sen Fung`; `Li Pal Tam` was in command of 220 men from `Ngau Tso Pei` in `Kwai Shin`. `Li Po` was in command of the Middle Camp (`Chung Ying`) composed of 500 men. `Li Po` broke out of gaol in `Wai Chou` last year. There were others whom I did not know. I was in command of 100 men. I was placed in command by `Cheng Sz lěung` and `Wong Fuk`. All the men collected at `Ma Ming Tan Shan` were members of the Triad Society. On the 12th (5th October) the movement commenced by going to `Sam Chau Tin`. The villagers of `Sam Chau Tin` helped us. About 100 joined us. On the morning of the 13th (6th October) we went to `Sha Wan` market town. There were Chinese soldiers there. There were about 50 soldiers there belonging to `Ho`'s command. A fight took place. About ten of the soldiers were killed and others wounded. Two of the rebels were killed. All the arms of the soldiers were seized.\n\nThe people at `Sha Wan` abstained from helping either side. On the 6th October we advanced to `Wang Kong` and had our meal there. The fight at `Sha Wan` took place at 7 a.m. The villages between `Sha Wan` and `Wang Kong` did not come out to help us and were not interfered with. We had breakfast at `Wang Kong` and...",
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        "content_text": "# 3\n\nFrom Foreign Office\n\nDali 5 March Passport for Lt. Whitchins.\n\nForeign Office. Ing Junatic, E. Wallace importance Protection of Beale Mission Station\n\nlovozung Purvey 29 Piracy on West-River Improvement. Visit of Viceroy of Canton to it. retour.\n\nUpper West River & Mengtze Interviews between Viceroy on West-River.\n\n16 April 18 27 Shipment of arms for China: Eths of the form & vom osa.\n\nAm Desembarcation of Li China. corpie. Arms export from Macao. 5.5. \"Bingo Maru\".\n\nDisturbances in Taiwan Parliament Im! best of Italian training Jerse Витина знам \n\n13 Li Hung Chong Condor lor. Chinese Reform Party Chinese Labourers for Reunion Pusing on West-River. export to Philippines Piracy \n\n28 5 May new wording Dymas า 14 18 #2. - H... 29 in West-River. West River. Inland Navigation Lukes I unalie, L. Wallace Piracy on West River.\n\nVenice coming convention. Purvey. 4 June 13 1. 14 22  4 July \"roud of Wuchow, 1899. Buildings in New Territory Pracy Tea duling in Formosa. Inspectia congo. Drms soport bi \"Philippines Indian troops for Colony, } Li Ling Chang rance in West. Kane's west powerche 14 ore. Doms pr Exirrey arms from Macao. Chmie Disturbances in Ihma.\n\n19 20 21 23 1 27 2 Aug 16 20. # 2 + 29 \n\n17 19 20. 22 \n## \n|   | \nLi Hung Chang DChinese hoof Dengarlär. 1 Li Wring Chang Lumadic E. Wallace. New Viceroy Canton Drill Instructor for Chinese. China. Inland waters 14 avigation. تا Mund.dudiy on Cia Formosa. Brit, interests in S. China Archives & money of Peruvian Consulati shipment of arm Mountain Battery Jo Germon Expeditione, Chinesi aquatios shyment of  returned from it. it ing Quarantine Requs in riam. Kang Yu wei Refrom Morley. Hand Carts for BatForces in China  m China: Chinese agitations. Assistance to imasion stations Reform Party in China Consignment of pistols I hand cars for Bind works in China\n\nPage",
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        "content_text": "## No. 3.\n\n**C.O.**\n\nSir C. MacDonald to the Marquess of Salisbury-(Received April 30) `7143`\n\n**(No. 53.)**\n\n**IRE** & My Lord,\n\nPeking, March 16, **`3 PMAY 00`** I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith to your Lordship copy of extracts from the Canton Consulate Intelligence Report for the months of January and February of this year.\n\n550 I have, &c. (Signed) **CLAUDE M. MACDONALD**.\n\n## Inclosure in No. 3.\n\n**Extracts from the Canton Intelligence Report for the Months of January and February, 1900.**\n\n### Political Summary.\n\n-The important event of the last two months has been the assumption of the Governor-Generalship of the two Kuangs by his Excellency Li Hung-chang. His predecessor, Viceroy Tan, of unfortunate memory, left Canton very quietly on the 7th January, and his departure was hailed with general satisfaction. It is said that, in the streets through which he passed on his way to the wharf, the shops were closed as a sign of disapproval. Viceroy Li arrived at 1-30 P.M. on the 17th January, and took over the seals of office on the following day. The usual nonsensical rumours were afloat regarding the hatred borne to him by the Cantonese, and the possibility of his being assassinated, but, as far as can be gathered from conversation with educated Chinese, the general consensus of opinion is that he is the right man in the right place.\n\nOne of his Excellency's first acts was the abolition of the objectionable Board of Foreign Affairs, which, indeed, has never been recognized by this Consulate. The offices of the Board were originally situated in the vicinity of the Viceroy's Yamên, but the members have now been ordered to move into the Viceroy's Yamên, there to act in the capacity of Secretaries and Deputies, their salaries being defrayed by the Board of Reorganization. The same personnel is retained. This was officially notified to the Consuls on the 28th January.\n\nHis Excellency has expressed his determination to deal effectively with the piracy question, and only asks for time. There is little doubt that he is in earnest, and great hopes are entertained of a radical change for the better in the condition of the country. But, considering the way in which it has been allowed to get out of hand, owing to the supineness of Viceroy Tan, it is vain to expect that matters will right themselves instantaneously.\n\nHis Excellency is quite prepared to accept the co-operation of Her Majesty's ships, and, at the request of the Hong Kong authorities, at once dispatched two officials to Hong Kong to confer with them as to a modus operandi. The mission was in vain, for the Hong Kong authorities had nothing ready, and the two Chinese officials were merely passed about between the Governor, the Commodore, and the Admiral without anything definite being agreed upon. They returned to Canton fortified with a promise that a scheme for joint action would be submitted in ten days or so. One cannot help thinking that, before inviting Chinese officials to confer as to joint action, it might have been advisable to have some definite proposal ready. It is true that the officials unfortunately arrived in Hong Kong at the time of the races, which most important event is apt to completely fill the horizon to the exclusion of everything else.\n\n### Piracy Notes.\n\n-The British launch \"Lily,\" belonging to Messrs. Bomanjee and Co., was pirated between this and Whampoa on the 21st January, and on the 29th of the...",
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        "content_text": "# 27482 RECO\n\nREG? 22 AUG 00\n\n## NOTICE\n\nWHEREAS Bubonic Plague has broken out in Hongkong and elsewhere and it is desirable, as a matter of urgency, to take measures to prevent its spread to this Kingdom;\n\nThe undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Acting Consul-General, under and by virtue of the powers in that behalf conferred upon him by Section 84 of Her Majesty's Order in Council, 1889, has ordained that the Quarantine Regulation of September 29, 1899, shall be repealed, and has made in its place the following Regulation for the peace, order and good Government of Her Majesty's subjects being within the dominions of the King of Siam.\n\n## REGULATION\n\n1. The island of Koh Phai shall be and is hereby declared the Quarantine and Inspection Station for the purpose of the present Regulation.\n\n2. Any vessel which, having cleared from Hongkong, Hainan or Manila arrives in Siamese waters on or after the date of the present Regulation shall call at the said station, and shall, before receiving pratique, stay there until a period of nine full days shall have elapsed from the time of her leaving Hongkong, or until released by the Health Officer.\n\n3. Any vessel which, having cleared from any Chinese port arrives in Siamese waters on or after the date of the present Regulation, shall call at the said station, and shall stay there until such time as the Health Officer shall have boarded her and given her pratique.\n\n4. No person other than the Health Officer or one of his assistants shall communicate from any ship coming from Hongkong, Manila or any Chinese port with the land or from the land with such ship or from such ship with other ships or from other ships with such ship, before she has received pratique.\n\n5. The Master or other persons having the control of any vessel in quarantine shall give the Health Officer such information about the vessel and the voyage and the health of the crew and passengers and otherwise as the Health Officer may require, and shall answer fully and truly questions put to him by the Health Officer, and shall, if required by the Health Officer, furnish the necessary boats and appliances for the landing of the passengers or crew at the Quarantine station, and shall, in a general way, give the Health Officer all necessary assistance to enable him to grant pratique to the vessel.\n\n6. The Health Officer may board any vessel arriving in Siamese waters and inspect every person in the vessel. He may, if he thinks necessary, call for inspection of the ship's bills of health, emigration papers or other documents which he may require to enable him to grant pratique and he shall use every lawful means which to him may seem expedient for ascertaining the sanitary condition of the vessel and persons therein.\n\n7. No customs officer on duty at Koh-Si-Chang or at Paknam shall allow any ship coming from Hongkong, Manila or any Chinese port either to lighten at Koh-Si-Chang, or to proceed to Bangkok without producing the certificate of health delivered at Koh Phai, but all said ships which shall produce such certificates shall be at liberty to lighten at Koh-Si-Chang and to proceed to Bangkok or elsewhere without any further examination.\n\n8. The Health Officer shall be and is hereby empowered to deal with all infected vessels and persons as he may think proper to prevent the spreading of the disease.\n\n9. Any and all persons committing a breach of the present Regulation or assisting in any way in the commission of such breach, and the master, Captain or other person having the control of any vessel or boat, on board of which such breach has been committed or which has been in any way engaged in the commission of such breach, shall be severally liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment not exceeding three months or to both such punishments.\n\n10. Any cost incurred by the Government, in the maintenance of any person removed to the Quarantine station at Koh Phai, shall be repaid by the agents of the vessel.\n\nGiven under my hand and seal this 13th day of July, 1900.\n\n**H. B. M. Acting Consul-General**\n\n## Page 718",
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        "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n### September Received SECTION 1.\n734\n\n## No. 1.\n### Li Hung-chang to Sir Chihchen Lofêngluh.-(Communicated by Sir Chihchen Lofêngluh, September 7.)\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\nShanghae, September 6, 1900, 2:55 P.M.\n\nTHE order and peace in the South and East provinces of China shall be maintained by the Chinese authorities in strict accordance with the Articles agreed upon, and the Viceroys and Governors will exert their utmost to afford protection to the foreign and native, Christian and non-Christian, lives and properties within their jurisdictions; but it is now found that an insurrectionary organization headed by Kang-yu-wei and Liang Ki-chao, amalgamated with the Cantonese notorious rebel, Ku-Sing, and the chiefs of the Triad Society, Pan-Sing-Kwei and Lew-Fuh, affiliated with the different Secret Societies, propose to uprise in the two Hu (i.e., Hunan and Hu-Peh), three Kiang (i.e., Kiang-Su, Nyan Hui, and Kiang Si), and the two Kwang (i.e., Kwang Tung and Kwangsi) provinces. They call themselves the National Protectors, but in reality they are rebelling against the Government for their own end, and disturbing peace and order.\n\nI may mention the recent case of Tang Chung Chai for illustration. He was a rebel in Pih-Kan of Tin-Tung when arrested by the Viceroys Lew-Kwung-Yih and Chang Chih Tung; he confessed freely that he was in the party of Kang-yu-wei; a quantity of ammunition, guns, documents, and papers confiscated proved the accuracy of his confession. This case is well known to both foreigners and Chinese.\n\nIn the Province of Canton (Kwang Tung) the Secret Societies are still more numerous. Their head-quarters are at the Gardens of Yu-Yu-Chih, in Hong Kong, and at the \"Reformer\" of Chih Sing Magazine Office, in Macao. They meet secretly at the two above-mentioned places to plan their insurrectionary scheme. The most prominent members are-\n\n| 1. | Ho Lien Wung. |\n| 2. | Ho Muh Ling. |\n| 3. | Hsu Ching.    |\n| 4. | Lew Chien Ling.|\n| 5. | Meh Mung Hwa. |\n| 6. | Chen Chung Yen.|\n| 7. | Yung Wing.    |\n\nThey visit Hong Kong and Macao frequently to arrange the plans and dates of uprising, for the purchase and supply of rifles, guns, and ammunitions stored in coffins and imported from the Straits Settlements into Canton. These rebel leaders, if they be not arrested and punished according to law, will certainly set the whole of the Southern and Eastern provinces in a blaze similar to what the Boxer movement did in the North, and do unlimited damage to the foreign trade in China.\n\nI have therefore to request you to bring this telegram before Lord Salisbury and persuade his Lordship to issue telegraphic instructions to the Governors of Singapore and Hong Kong to adopt stringent measures for the investigation and arrest of these rebels, and to keep them in prison so as to nip the insurrection in the bud.\n\nBoth foreigners and Chinese would derive great benefits from the action of Lord Salisbury, and be grateful to his Lordship.\n\nPlease reply by wire.\n\n[2321 g-1]",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 3.\n\nActing Viceroy to Mr. Scott.\n\nSir,\n\nCanton, 23rd December, 1900.\n\n229\n\nWith reference to my application for the extradition of Zang Chu Tan, I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of 9th December (Gives Precis of Mr. Scott's despatch No. 190).\n\nOn receipt of this, I at once ordered investigations to be made.\n\nThe Chiefs of the Head Police Office now report as follows:-\n\nIt is on record that the Yanhoi Magistrate, in sending up the prisoner Zang Hsiang Pu charged in this case, reported that he had been arrested by Ma, Colonel of the Chieh Regiment, and that the Magistrate requested that the man might be closely interrogated, and dealt with.\n\nAccordingly, in co-operation with the examining Deputy, we summoned the prisoner and searchingly interrogated him, pressing him closely with cross-examination. He admitted intimate acquaintance in the past with Zang Chu Yun and Shih Ching Ju, and that in the 7th moon of this year he had had a meeting in the Office of the \"Chinese Daily Press\" with Zang Chu Yun, who informed him of a plot against the lives of various officials. In the 9th moon, Shih Ching Ju invited the prisoner to go to Hong Kong to see Zang Chu Yun; and Zang invited the prisoner and the following men:-\n\nChen Kuai Shih\n\nWang Chih Fu\n\n王質甫\n\nTeng Yui Nan\n\n鄧彥南\n\nLien Yu Cheng\n\n連懋貞\n\nLi Chi Tang,\n\n李紀堂\n\nas well as Shih Ching Ju, to the top story of the premises of the \"Chinese Daily Press\" where they together discussed plans. Zang Chu Yun said the best plan for arranging the massacre was to secretly conceal dynamite (in various places) so that all might explode at once - and that the result would infallibly be fatal. He told the prisoner to undertake (the carrying out of the plan). The prisoner, seeing that the undertaking was a great one, dared not agree. Then Shih Ching Ju spoke forth and said that an old family servant of his named Sung Shao Tung could manage the affair. Thereupon Shih Ching Ju took over the management of it; and having mutually agreed upon this, they separated. Subsequently, Zang Chu Yun purchased dynamite, sent it to Canton, and Sung Shao Fung took it over and hired a house where he buried it. The prisoner had on successive occasions heard this from Sung Shao Tung, and he knew the actual facts, but had not joined in the plot. If Zang Chu Yun were brought into Court, he could identify and bear witness against him. The prisoner was examined again and again, and remained unchangeable in his statements.\n\nWe would point out that the evidence of this prisoner Zang Hsiang Pu shows clearly, as a picture, that Zang Chu Yun originated the scheme of using dynamite to blow up (certain) Yamens in the hope of turning the resultant disturbances to their purposes of robbery and looting.",
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        "content_text": "COPY.-\n\n232\n\nEnclosure No. 4 to Mr. Scott's Despatch of 31st December, 1900.\n\nCopy of Record of the evidence of the prisoner Yang Hsiang Pu sent up by the Nam Hoi Magistrate and examined by the Head Police Office. Yang Hsiang Pu said:\n\nI am a native of Tan Ton village in the district of Nam Hoi. My age is 45 years. My father is dead; my mother's maiden name was Chan. I have no brothers. I am married, my wife's family name being Feng, and we have sons and daughters. I was formerly a student of medicine in the establishment of one Chia, called the Po Chi Medical Hall. Afterwards, I opened a doctor's establishment in the Hua Wang Street outside the West Gate of Hsiang Shan District City, and am now practising as a Doctor in Canton outside the South Gate in the Ma Ton Chih Chieh. I have been acquainted with Yang Chu Yun, Sien Yu Cheng, Shih Ching Ju, Si Chi Tang, Chen Kuei Shih, Wing Tuo Fu, Teng Jui Nan.\n\nIn the 7th moon, date not remembered, but some time after the 10th day (4th August), I, having business, went to Hongkong and met Yang Chu Yun at the Office of the \"Chinese Daily Press\", in which paper Chen Kuei Chih had a share. Chen Kuei Shih and Shih Ching Ju were with us at table, and they put heads together and talked secrets. I asked Sien Yu Cheng about it, and Yang Chu Yun, hearing this, forthwith told Shih Ching Ju, and they all said that I too was a man who could join in with them, that there was no need of reticence, and that they could tell me all. They invited me to sit with them, and they said that this present time of disorder in the North furnished just the opportunity to effect the assassination of all the Officials of Kwang Tung Province and loot all the Treasuries, and the houses of the rich in Canton, thus at once acquiring wealth. I was smitten with fear and dared not consent with them. Then the party broke up.\n\nI at once returned to Canton, and it was not till the middle decade of the 8th moon (September 4–13), exact day not remembered, that Shih Ching Ju arrived back from Macao and came to my Medical Hall, and said that Yang Chu Yun had the day before come to his place at Macao and said that he was determined to carry out the aforesaid plot of assassination and that he had already a scheme in which he wanted me to take a hand. He specially told Shih Ching Ju to come and ask me to go along to Hongkong.\n\nThe following day, I reached Hongkong. While we were in the Office of the \"Chinese Daily Press\", Yang Chu Yun came back from No. 11 in the Chish Tze Street, a house rented for residence by a Japanese, to the Office where I saw him. There were a good many people about the place, and we signed to each other not to speak of the secret plot.\n\nSubsequently, Yang Chu Yun took the party to the third and highest story of the Newspaper premises and discussed secretly with me, Shih Ching Ju, and the others, saying that the killing of the Officials was really a difficult matter to find men to accomplish. Further, the Officials in Canton being numerous, it was impossible to take action against them all at one time; a very good plan would be to conceal dynamite and effect a number...\n\nPage 232\n\n...\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "233\n\n: -\n\nin this way none could possibly survive (of those affected). He said that I, being a Doctor in Canton, was well acquainted with the inhabitants of the City, and giving me carte blanche as to expenses, asked me to undertake the conduct of the affair.\n\nI said that I was short-sighted, and moreover much occupied with my profession, and could not leave my work at a moment's notice. I feared a disclosure and the ruination of the plot. The others said that what I remarked was quite true; they considered the matter again and again, and then Shih Ching Ju said that he had an old family servant named Sung Shao Tung who was capable of doing the business. Shih Ching Ju then took the matter in hand and guaranteed to perform it. Zang Chu Yun undertook to purchase the dynamite; the matter was discussed by all, and a satisfactory conclusion arrived at, and the party broke up.\n\nI at once returned to Canton after this. Shih Ching Ju and Sung Shao Tung came constantly to my place to talk matters over. At the end of 8th Intercalary month, Sung Shao Tung came to my establishment and said that Zang Chu Yun had purchased from Macao some excellent dynamite of German make, having the \"Ying\" or \"Hawk\" chop, 50 packages in all, which would shortly reach Canton. On 25th October, at night, Sung Shao Tung again came to my place and said that the dynamite had arrived that day, and had all been carried to his house. At this time, Sung Shao Tung had already rented the empty house in the Hou Lou Fang, and had there prepared and buried dynamite to blow up the Governor's Yamen. Sung Shao Tung had already bought over men to secretly conceal the dynamite about the Tartar-General's and Treasurer's Yamens and the various Magazines, and it was arranged to light trains by incense sticks and have simultaneous explosions on the 27th October. Unexpectedly, however, the only explosion was that near the back of the Governor's Yamen, where Sung Shao Tung had himself concealed dynamite, which occurred on the 29th, at 6 o'clock A.M., and resulted in the crushing to death of several men, women, and children.\n\nNothing occurred at the other places, probably owing to swindling on the part of the others (agents employed). I heard that Shih Ching Ju had been arrested and brought to trial and punished, but I had then already escaped.\n\nAfter some days, finding that nothing occurred, I ventured to return to my establishment.\n\nUnexpectedly, I was arrested on information given by Chang Ta Peng and Kuo Yao Chieh to the Chieh Regiment and was brought to trial. When Zang Chu Yun was living in Hsiang Suan, he continually went to Macao and Hongkong, and he is truly the chief contriver of this plot, in which I can bear witness against him. Now, upon this my examination, I have stated the facts truly and precisely, without any pressure put upon me, and I willingly impress (upon the record) the seal of my hand.\n\nThis is a true statement.",
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        "content_text": "ENCLOSURE 7.\n\nCOPY.\n\nC.O.\n\n444\n\nViceroy to Mr. Scott.\n\n270%\n\nJune 7th. 1901.\n\n8 AUG OF\n\nSir\n\nI have received the following petition from the Kuang-tung Ai Yu Tang, Kuang Chi Yi Yuan, Kuang Jen Shan Tang, Tsung Cheng Shan Tang, Ming Shan Tang, Tsung Pen Shan Tang: --\n\n\"The Merchants and work people of Hongkong are mostly Chinese from the interior, who, on being attacked by disease, are very anxious to return home to be under the care of their family to whom, in case of death, they can give directions for the settlement of their affairs. The plague having recently broken out in Hongkong, the Sanitary Officials, with the humane object of preventing the spread of the disease, closely search all Steamers to Canton before departure from Hongkong and remove all persons who look weak and ill to the Tee House for treatment. Fear often aggravates the sickness of these ignorant Chinese and but few recover. If they die, their bodies are not allowed to be taken home and their remains are laid in some unknown place, which increases the general alarm.\n\nFrom 1899 to 1900, the Chinese in Hongkong who became infected with disease were allowed by the Governor to return home, and the people still speak to this day gratefully of this favour. It is also said that foreigners stricken with disease who return home get well on the voyage, and the nature of Chinese and foreigners is the same, although their countries are different. The Merchants and Gentry of Hongkong have already petitioned for a modification (of the present rules), and the Governor of Hongkong, mindful of the feelings of the people, is well aware of the misery of the Chinese, but as this law has been enacted by the Government, it is not proper to alter its provisions without authority. The Chief men of the Tung Hua I Yuan of Hongkong and the Chinese Merchants' guild have publicly consulted with us on several occasions, and we have jointly begged the High Authorities to request the Governor of Hongkong to ask his Government, as a special concession to popular feeling, to allow, in accordance with the practice in 1898 and 1900, all sick people, whether infected with plague or not, to return home for treatment, and also, in case of death, to permit their bodies to be conveyed thither for burial in the family graveyards, thereby conferring a favour on the living and dead, and performing both a virtuous and expedient act\".\n\nThe Chinese in Hongkong have long enjoyed kind treatment and protection from England, for which I feel grateful. Recently, on account of the prevalence of the plague, the Hongkong Officials have searched for and treated sick people, which is still further evidence of their humanity and impartial treatment of all.\n\nTranslator's Note, Charitable Institutions\n\nIring was Prefectual\n\nThe incenses of their form is not quite clear\n\n-out",
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        "content_text": "510\n\n1\n\nAccordingly, in co-operation with the examining Deputy, we summoned the prisoner and searchingly interrogated him, pressing him closely with cross-examination. He admitted intimate acquaintance in the past with Yang Chu Yun and Shih Ching, and that in the 7th moon of this year he had a meeting in the office of the \"Chinese Daily Press\" with Yang Chu Yun, who informed him of a plot against the lives of various officials.\n\nIn the 8th moon Shih Ching Ju invited prisoner to go to Hong Kong to see Yang Chu Yun, and Yang invited prisoner and the following men:\n\nChen Kuei Shih\n\nWang Chih Fu\n\nTeng Yui Nan\n\nLien Yu Cheng\n\nLi Chi Tang\n\nas well as Shih Ching Ju, to the top story of the premises of the \"Chinese Daily Press\" where they together discussed plans. Yang Chu Yun said the best plan for arranging the massacre was to secretly conceal dynamite (in various places) so that all might explode at once - and that the result would infallibly be fatal. He told prisoner to undertake (the carrying out of the plan). Prisoner seeing that the undertaking was a great one, dared not agree. Then Shih Ching Ju spoke forth and said that an old family servant of his named Sung Shao Tung could manage the affair. Thereupon Shih Ching Ju took over the management of it, and having mutually agreed upon this they separated. Subsequently Yang Chu Yun purchased dynamite, sent it to Canton, and Sung Shao Tung took it over and hired a house where he buried it.\n\nPrisoner had on successive occasions heard this from Sung Shao Tung, and he knew the actual facts, but had not joined in the plot. If Yang Chu Yun were ...",
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        "content_text": "514\n\nof Nam Hoi. My age is 41 years. My father is dead, my mother's maiden name was Chang. I have no brothers.\n\nI am married, my wife's family name being Feng, and we have sons and daughters. I was formerly a student of medicine in the establishment of one Chia, called the Po Chi medical hall. Afterwards I opened a doctor's establishment in the Hua Wang street outside the West gate of Hsiang Shan district city, and am now practising as a doctor in Canton outside the South gate in the Ma Tow Chih Chich. I have been acquainted\n\nwith\n\nYang Chu Yun\n\nSien Yu Cheng\n\nShih Ching Yn\n\nChen Kuei Shih\n\nWang Tun Fu\n\nSi Chi Tang\n\nTeng Jui Nan.\n\nIn the 7th moon, date not remembered, but some time after the 10th day (4th August) I, having business, went to Hong Kong and met Yang Chu Yun at the office of the \"Chinese Daily Press\" in which paper Chen Kuei Shih had a share. Chen Kuei Shih and Shih Ching Ju\n\nwere with us at table and they put heads together and talked secrets. I asked Sien Yu Cheng about it, and Yang Chu Yun hearing this forthwith told Shih\n\nChing Ju, and they all said that I too was a man who could join in with them, that there was no need of reticence, and that they could tell me all. They invited me to sit with them, and they said that this present time of disorder in the north furnished just the opportunity to effect the assassination of all the officials of Kwang Tung Province and loot all the treasuries, and the houses of the rich in Canton,\n\nthus at once acquiring wealth. I was smitten with fear and dared not consent with them. Then the party\n\nbroke up.\n\nI at once returned to Canton and it was not till the middle decade of the 8th moon (Sep 4-13), exact day not remembered, that Shih Ching Ju arrived back from",
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        "content_text": "D\n\n念\n\nH, \n\nCOPI..\n\n473\n\n12 B.. Htà. Conzulate-denomal, -Canton, 11th. August;· 1901.\n\nReport of the trial of the pirates of the launch. \"Perseverance\" ·and-of- boi `A. Chang.\n\n· Asting: apon\". Mile Scott's:instructions: I attended yesterday:akkho adjourned trial before the lamhoi. Nagistrate of the `oziminais extradited frem. Hongkong in scansetisu: mith; the \"Perseverance\" piracy: and, of“heli Shengi.\n\n:At:the:\n\n›bittløy<British¬dating ́ Sóocal :ut Samabai nas, present, the four prisoners charged with:the offence:of Pirmey,on: the:Lanach: \"Porseverance” panely bing. Ya. Kuei, Cheng. Ya. In, Fong:Chiu-Fu-and Bock Pu were board is their own defence.\n\n་་\n\nLiang Ya Kuoi deposed that he took passage with-fang, on»ihe ·Lannob *Perseverance\" for lacas/bo:sos:a fellow+-fisherman Obang Ta. Tapɛnho, had gone ta. Kaoso: for:hászhenláb,-Tany/all÷thous kiang; Cheng; andəPong started to return:by:the:\"Perseverance” the 3 sano-days: Then:eft: \"Fong - iso. Tai*: at: about:3. puña: the Ibmachɛwas-pirated,ɗthe pasuongove·vore drizes · dowa:into. She Torshodd po and he : was robbed, ofɑsone-clotben.; Next.\n\n· day he took, passado:by: the: \"Shih ́ko\" passenger-boat for Gunton;› where ́ha shipped, on-board the S2S.} \"Pamen* for Hongkong.\"It : was, on the = \"Rowan*: thatghép, together with: Cheng: mad. Fong:vere: arrested for the pirasy,“\n\nthis, evidenzeg-be:vas: rabbed, af::sonS. 29887\n\nthe imprisoned, paomanĝera: none released by: a/unflow. on: the morning of“ the 4tho-and. She: finoff. of: the: \"Persevamance®: helped:thon-hinuulf and two compantoas_with:several akbers to, prnosed: to: thu: \"Shih-ka\"; further :the Gaphatn (and⋅ sose.of the orew, of: the:\"Perseveranog\" identified, then sin.the Hongkong Saol:and-szomerated them from couplicity in the piracy.\n\nFans Chin: Fa corroboratedɛ the evidence. af÷biang; and Chenga-stated that [the: \"Bernevesanos\";pas/paa:asbone:ah:\"Chin:Fang Thàn1⁄2and‹that-he Babaniderosognise the>Shroff÷who:helped thon,«le:was <kbw>non/of¤the ... owner, of: the: \"Kuangli1⁄2 fishing: bost:and:eas:arrested:because:when Cheng \\\\was'noised,ɛho:case forward:nað”slained:hân:ag:his, Assistant.\n\n- Hosâ Pursaidɛho was :arrastod. on:the:\"Powan”: on: the:obarge of complicity in the piracy: an unknown, person, had: assumed him he did, not know, biang .or Chang,\n\n(adjourned. faz :the:appearance. of; the witnesSQ82^\n\n›abpus:eridones:haring:boon: Sakony/ GRES: WAS\n\nwa? Rafons (Posuming the hearing of: the ease yesterday,\n\nvi hades chest conseruation: with:the:Hagistrato in the course of which be",
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        "content_text": "3 luterv \n\n474\n\n~ho stated: that the essential thing was to obtain the witnesses' identification of the accused. I concurred in this view and suggested that the accused should, following the course adopted in Hongkong, be confronted with the witnesses in the company of several other convicts.\n\nShould the witnesses then experience no difficulty in identifying them, doubt as to their guilt would be removed.\n\nU was put into affest.\n\nThe Magistrate readily assented to this plan which\n\n—ho Ett, a passenger on 'the \"Perseverance\" was first heard. He repeated the evidence he had previously given in Hongkong regarding the circumstances of the piracy and stated that he could \"recognize one man whose face was marked with smallpox.\"\n\nThe Magistrate (addressing him) told him that he would be confronted with the accused, cautioned him to be careful and make no mistake, as the penalty the accused would suffer would be death.\n\nI considered it advisable to reassure the witness and told him that it was his duty to say whether he really recognized any of the prisoners or not, and that he had no reason to fear speaking the truth, as there would be no stigmatizing consequences to himself in so doing.\n\nThe accused were then brought in, and the witness went direct to Sheng Ya Ingenho (who was among about a dozen other prisoners) and pointed out one of the pirates. He had, he said, no doubt of the man's identity.\n\nChiang Finp@sailor of the \"Perseverance\" was next summoned. His deposition was in Hongkong regarding the circumstances of the piracy, and he declared that he could recognize two of the pirates.\n\nConfronted with the prisoners in court, he, without the least hesitation, singled out Cheng fa In and hang Ya Kaota.\n\nIg_766, coxswain of the \"Perseverance\" gave evidence similar to that which he had previously given in Hongkong, but was unable to recognize any of the accused.\n\nI then addressed the Magistrate and told him that, from the readiness with which the first two witnesses had recognized the prisoner Sheng Ya fu and the other the prisoners Sheng Ya Tu and hing Yu Kuoi, I had no doubt of the guilt of those two non-prisoners and asked what penalty he would impose.\n\nThe Magistrate replied that he considered them perfectly convinced of their guilt and that the punishment should be death.\n\nI thereupon asked for a conviction, which he said he was unable to make until he had obtained a confession of their guilt from the prisoners themselves.\n\nThis he could only do under torture, as they had refused to confess of their own free will.\n\nI replied that the Hongkong Government would, on no account, countenance the torture of the prisoners.\n\nThereupon, he said that his hands were completely tied; \"they were guilty and they ought to be beheaded, but according to Chinese law, the punishment could not be carried out until the prisoners had signed their own confessions.\"",
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        "content_text": "... inspection, &c. This proposal, which I made personally to the Viceroy LI HUNG CHANG when on his way to the North, to the Tsung-li Yamen, and to Sir ROBERT HART, was accepted by all three. It was referred to a Committee in Canton appointed by the Acting Viceroy, and, for some reason that I have not discovered, it was recommended by them that the proposal should be rejected. I hope that the proposal may yet be accepted, as its adoption would be effective in checking the piracy so difficult to cope with on the West River, by affording to Chinese travelling to Canton with valuable property or returning with large sums of money a safe means of transit to their own towns in a British steamer carrying a regular guard.\n\n13. On the 9th of November the Colony was visited by a very severe typhoon, the centre of which passed over the town and harbour. Although due notice had been given of its approach, there was but little precaution taken, as it was assumed that at this season no typhoon would be more violent than an ordinary gale at most. There had been besides several typhoons signalled during the summer, the tracks of which went north or south of Hongkong, so people had become careless. The wind reached typhoon force about 10 o'clock at night, the smaller vessels having taken shelter from the north-easterly gale. At 4 a.m. the centre passed over the harbour and the wind suddenly veered to South-west when the boats, junks and steam-launches found themselves on a lee shore. At 7 o'clock, 10 launches and over 110 junks were sunk, and the harbour was a mass of wreckage. H.M.S. Sandpiper sank at her moorings, and a large dredger just out from England foundered. Over 200 lives were lost in those fatal three hours. As soon as a launch could live, I went along the shores of Kowloon; the whole sea face of which was a mass of wreckage among which the Chinese were already hard at work to effect what salvage they could, and I found that the directors of the Tung Wah Hospital—a charitable Chinese Institution—had at once sent out two steam launches with all the appliances for affording immediate assistance. I mention the fact as I find a widespread idea that the Chinese among themselves are callous and uncharitable, an impression that is entirely opposed to my experience. After the hurricane a public meeting was held and a Committee formed to collect subscriptions. In a few days twenty-eight thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars were subscribed, of which the Chinese subscribed twenty-one thousand three hundred and sixty-three dollars.\n\n14. In the early part of the year the Colony had subscribed $153,555 to the South-African War fund so that within twelve months the European and Chinese people of the Colony voluntarily contributed to patriotic and charitable purposes the sum of $181,990 over and above the ordinary charities of the Colony, a sum equal to over 5 per cent, of the amount of the public revenue.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble Servant,\n\nHenry Blake\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\nPage 28\n\n28 OCT 1901\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,\n\nHONGKONG, 15th August, 1901.\n\nI have the honour to submit herewith the following Report on the Blue Book for 1900 :--\n\n1.—FINANCES.\n\n(a.) Revenue.—1. During the last five years the revenue of this Colony has shown a steady increase, which has more than counterbalanced the increasing expenditure. In 1893 the balance of revenue over expenditure showed a deficit of $486,144.12. In 1900 not only had this deficit been made good, but, notwithstanding an expenditure exceeding that of 1895 by $655,204.12, the revenue of Hongkong showed a surplus of $574,140.37.\n\n2. The actual revenue for 1900 was $3,235,829.61 exclusive of the amounts derived from Land Sales and the Water Account which amounted to $816,222.92 and $151,034.87 respectively.\n\n(b.) Expenditure.—3. On the other hand the Expenditure amounted to $3,628,447.13, of which a sum of $473,205.89 was expended on Public Works Extraordinary.\n\n(c.) Land Sales.—4. The amount received from Land Sales $816,222.92, showed an excess over the Land Sales in 1899 of $198,398.20.\n\n5. I append tables showing:\n\n(a.) The heads of revenue.\n\n(b.) The heads of expenditure.\n\n(c.) The total revenue and expenditure for the six years—1895-1900.\n\n(d.) The assets and liabilities of the Colony.\n\n(e.) The amount of paper currency in circulation.\n\n(d.) Taxation.—6. Taxation in Hongkong still remains comparatively light, though the cost of living is high owing to the increase in the price of food and the difficulty of obtaining house accommodation at a reasonable figure. There were no important changes in Taxation during the year.\n\n(e.) Public Debt.—7. In 1899 the Sinking Fund, which was created three years previously with a view to gradually paying off the public debt of £341,799 15s. 1d. incurred by Government for the purpose of defraying the cost of certain Public Works, some of them, such as Markets and Waterworks of a remunerative nature, stood at £12,625 18s. 11d., and during the past financial year it rose to £16,485 13s. 2d.\n\n8. With provision so satisfactorily made for the liquidation of the public debt and with a revenue naturally increasing from year to year, the financial stability of the Colony appears to be assured.\n\nII.—TRADE, AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES.\n\n(a.) Imports and Exports.—1. I append tables showing:\n\n(a.) The principal articles of import during the years 1899 and 1900 in vessels of European construction.\n\n(b.) The total tonnage of imports and exports for the last five years.\n\n(c.) The imports and exports of Junks in Foreign and Local Trade during 1899 and 1900.\n\nSir HENRY A. BLAKE, G.C.M.G.,\n\nGovernor, &c.",
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        "content_text": "4530\n\n# 1 Mit 10 ·\n\nMOORE, AT 1ma ndu veg að t\n\n#go*\n\nd.\n\nITAKERNA P\n\nStuves vidūnie súd mon) jew\n\ne vrien mutteredle 2 meant sal be\n\nPUBLIC\n\nWORKS DEPARTMENT.\n\n385\n\n(1) Appointment of Director of Public Works; vacant owing to Mr Ormsby's retirement.\n\n(2) 5th Executive Engineer: Mr A. H. Hollingsworth has been appointed by the Secretary of State in C.O.D.288 of 1901.\n\n(3) 5th Assistant Engineer: Appointment at $2400 to $3000 by $300 triennially approved in C.O.D.265 of 1901.\n\n(4) 8th Assistant Engineer: Appointment at $2400 to $3000 by $300 triennially has been recommended by His Excellency in despatch No 222 of 1901, but has not so far received the approval of the Secretary of State.\n\n(5) Mr D. Wood's title of Office Assistant & Accountant was on the recommendation of the Director of Public Works changed to that of Superintendent of Accounts, Correspondence & Stores, which more closely represents the duties of the post.\n\n(6) 3rd Accounting Clerk at $1200: The appointment was submitted to the Secretary of State in His Excellency's despatch No 146 of the 12th April. In C.O.D.174 of the 16th May, the Secretary of State asked for further particulars, which were supplied in His Excellency's despatch No 238 of the 28th June. This was merely acknowledged in C.O.D.262 of the 28th June: no objection was raised; it is presumed the creation of the new post has been approved.\n\n(7) 5th Clerk at $380 to $480 by $60 triennially. Wan Chang has resigned and Yeung Kun was appointed in his stead.\n\n(8) 6th Clerk at $360: This temporary clerk has been engaged as the Acting Director",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of Her Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nC. C.\n\n203\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\n2121\n\n[January 14.]\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nREGE 18 JAN 01\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Chihchen Lofengluh to the Marquess of Lansdowne.--(Received January 14.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nChinese Legation, January 12, 1901.\n\nON the 7th September last I communicated to Lord Salisbury a telegram from Li Heng-chang stating that Kang Yu Wei and Liang Ki Chan, joining with Ku Sing, a notorious sower of sedition in the Canton Province, and with the chiefs of certain secret and illegal Societies, were endeavouring to excite a rising against the Chinese Government in the South of China and the provinces bordering on the Yang-tsze River. In the same telegram it was pointed out that one of the principal seats of the conspiracy was Hong Kong, and Lord Salisbury was asked to take measures for the arrest of seven of the conspirators, mentioned by name, who were making use of the Colony to smuggle arms into China and for other illicit purposes.\n\nI am desired by Chang Chi-tung to convey to Her Majesty's Government the thanks of himself and the Viceroy of Nanking for the measures which Lord Salisbury was so good as to instruct the Colonial authorities to take, with a view to the hospitality of the Island of Hong Kong not being abused by the desperadoes who were making use of it. But, notwithstanding the salutary effects of these measures, and the energetic action taken by Chang Chi-tung in suppressing the treasonable movement at Hankow and Tatung in October 1900, the situation in the central and southern provinces of China is still most critical. Large numbers of the followers of Kang Yu Wei and Liang Ki-Chao, and of the members of the Triad and other formidable affiliated Societies are known to exist and to be most active, particularly in the government of the Two Kwangs.\n\nI have, therefore, been instructed to request that the stringency of the measures taken by the authorities at Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements may be increased rather than relaxed; and that the British Consuls at the Treaty ports may be instructed to co-operate with the Local authorities in preventing the foreign Settlements from being used as an asylum by those who are instigating and directing the insurrectionary movement.\n\nThe Viceroys of the southern and Yang-tsze Provinces hope they may count on the co-operation of all the foreign Consuls in this matter, and with a view to obtaining it, the Chinese Ministers residing in foreign countries have been directed to request the Governments to whom they are respectively accredited, to issue instructions to their Consuls in that sense.\n\nVery effective assistance has already been received from the Portuguese authorities at Macao, the Governor having issued certain Regulations with regard to the holding of meetings and the search for arms and ammunition, which the Acting Viceroy of Canton acknowledges to have been attended with the most beneficial effects. These Regulations prohibit the holding of meetings intended for the dissemination of ideas calculated to promote disaffection or sedition amongst the Chinese people and for the hatching of plots against the Chinese Government. They also prohibit the importation of arms and war material, and authorize the search of passengers' baggage and in suspected quarters for arms and ammunition, large quantities of which are known to have been previously smuggled into Macao, and thence transported into China concealed in coffins and other ways.\n\nThese Regulations having been found to be so effective in the south, the Yang-tsze Viceroys consider that it would materially contribute to their ability to maintain order and tranquillity within their respective jurisdictions, if similar Regulations could be issued in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements.\n\nThe complicity of Kang Yu-wei and Liang Ki-chao, who are now living in British territory, has abundantly been proved by documentary and other evidence discovered in the course of the investigations made in connection with the recently discovered plots at Hankow, Tatung, and Woochow; also in connection with the dynamite explosion in the Yamên of the Governor at Canton. And the Yang-tsze Viceroys think that nothing would so effectively contribute to allay the state of unrest which prevails over a very large extent of the central and southern provinces as an increased vigilance on the part of the British authorities.\n\n[1711 -2]\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nof the Colonial authorities over the movements of these two notorious promoters of sedition. This is a matter of great and commanding importance. For, great has been the havoc done to the common interests of China and foreign countries by the troubles which have taken place in Chihli, it is as nothing compared to the evils which would result from a rising in those parts of China where the machinations of Kang Yu-wei and his accomplices are endeavouring to promote disaffection and sedition.\n\nIn order to facilitate the execution of any instructions which Her Majesty's Government may be pleased to give the Consuls and the authorities at Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements, I inclose a list of the principal persons connected with Kang Yu-wei, and for the better identification of their names I accompany it with another showing how they are written in Chinese.\n\nI commend the considerations contained in this note to your Lordship's kind attention, and have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nLOFÊNGLUH,\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nList of the Principal Persons connected with the Conspiracy of Kang Yu-wei and Liang Ki-chao. Transliteration of names, according to Wade's Peking Syllabary.\n\nHO LIEN-WANG.\n\nHo Muh-ling.\n\nHsu Ching, a native of the district of Shan Shui in Kwangtung.\n\nLow Chen-ling.\n\nMeh Mung-hwa, a native of the district of Shunteh in Kwangtung. Chen Chung-yen.\n\nYung Wing, or Yung Hung, a native of Canton.\n\nLing Chieh, alias Ling Bou-wei, a native of Hunan.\n\nCha Mao-yun, a graduate of Fung Wangting in Hunan. Kung Chao.\n\nPan Yu-lin, alias Sung-Yin-Tzu-lang, a native of Hunan.\n\nPi Yung-Nien, a graduate of the district of Hwa in Hunan.\n\nSza Ma-ping, alias Szu Hsiang, a hotel-keeper in Shanghae.\n\nKu Jen-chieh, alias Ka Hung-en, a native of Chang Sha.\n\nShen Neh Hien, alias Yu-chi and many others, an expectant Magistrate in Hupeh. Chen Tang, alias Chen Yu-lung, a graduate of Chang-teh.\n\nWang Pao-Ts'u.\n\nChen Yu, alias Chen Li-shen, ringleader of the Tatung disturbances.\n\nLi Sung-chih, a native of Chihli.\n\nYung K'ai alias Yung Chun-poo, a native of Canton and tea merchant at Shanghae.\n\nChen Tsun-Chieh, a graduate and native of Siang Hsiang.\n\nTi Ping, an expectant Magistrate and native of Li Yang.\n\nPage 20\n\nMong Kong,\n\nJanuary 21, 1901\n\nPoliticals.\n\nTo Satow, Esq.,\n\nReferring to my confidential despatch of Sept. 28. What is the present position in regards to agitation at Straits & Hong Kong against Chinese Govt.",
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        "content_text": "(No. 377.) My Lord,\n\nNo. 2.\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.—(Received November 23.)\n\n388\n\nC. O.\n\n44152\n\nUPON receipt of your Lordship's telegram No. 280 of the 29th August last, I addressed an inquiry by telegraph to His Majesty's Consul at Kiungchow asking for report as to any action which may be taken by the French in Hainan.\n\nPeking, October 1, 1901.\n\nI have now the honour to transmit herewith copy of Mr. Werner's Report. I have this day telegraphed to your Lordship the information relating to the French project for working mines in the interior.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) ERNEST SATOW.\n\n(No. 8.) Sir,\n\nInclosure in No. 2.\n\nConsul Werner to Sir E. Satow.\n\nKiungchow, September 16, 1901.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your telegram of the 30th ultimo (which, owing to an interruption of the telegraph line, only reached me yesterday) instructing me to report by post on French action in Hainan.\n\nIn reply I have the honour to state that beyond the carrying on of the general policy, which has for a long time been obvious, of obtaining influence with the officials and people in the island shown recently in the large contribution to the Kiungchow road-repairing fund, and in M. Blanchot's contemplated tour throughout the island, both noted in my last intelligence report, the only definite step on the part of the French of which I have been able to gain any knowledge is a partially-matured project to work mines in the interior, for which object two mining experts are said to have been already engaged and are expected to arrive shortly in Hoihow. The French Vice-Consul here, in connection with the matter, has retained the ex-Magistrate of Lin-kao-hsien, by name Chang Chun, recently dismissed for corruption at the official examinations, from whom he doubtless hopes to gain assistance in any negotiations he may undertake with the gentry and people.",
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        "content_text": "Gentlemen. Sir Chen Tung Liang Cheung I.M.G. and M. Wang Pah Jung, with The Prince, I had a great deal of conversation during the fourteen days voyage to Yokohama.\n\nThe entire Embassy, including the ardent Prince, were reformers with the exception of the first Secretary, who only spoke Chinese because of his dignity being largely involved in attending at Buckingham Palace with Prince Chuang and Li Hung Chang in pursuance of the instructions read at Peking before setting out on the mission, that three would be received. He was informed that two, the Prince and one member of his suite, were to enter the presence. As Chen Tung spoke English, he, though junior, accompanied His Highness and was presented to His Majesty, while the senior member of the Embassy remained outside. \n\n...and returns to China a strongly...",
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        "content_text": "## \nW \n13 \n444 \n7 \n\nand that at present it \nwould be as dangerous \nfor him to advocate reform \nas it then was. \nPrince \nIsai Chen will be called \nupon on his return to state fully \nall that he has observed, which he will \ndo, but he feels that it behoves him to be prudent \nin stating his own deductions \nfrom what has come under his notice. Else he might destroy possible influence for good hereafter.\n\nM. Wang Ich Ing said \nThat after the Japanese \nwar he had suggested \nto the Ministers advocating \nat Government House \nThe Surrender of \nManchuria \nto Japan which would then form \na \nbuffer state between Russia and China \nin which Chinese \nwould be welcome inhabitants \nThere is however \na rapprochement between China and Japan that will in my opinion profoundly affect the near future. Yuan Thi Kai has, I am informed by Mr. Wang, 200 Japanese \nOfficers Engaged \nin his army. Chang \nChi Mung, \nThe Viceroy of Hupeh has, \nI know, also Engaged \n \n\n## Reconstructed Text\n\nand that at present it would be as dangerous for him to advocate reform as it then was. Prince Isai Chen will be called upon on his return to state fully all that he has observed, which he will do, but he feels that it behoves him to be prudent in stating his own deductions from what has come under his notice. Else he might destroy possible influence for good hereafter.\n\nM. Wang Ich Ing said that after the Japanese war he had suggested to the Ministers advocating at Government House the Surrender of Manchuria to Japan, which would then form a buffer state between Russia and China, in which Chinese would be welcome inhabitants. There is, however, a rapprochement between China and Japan that will, in my opinion, profoundly affect the near future. Yuan Thi Kai has, I am informed by Mr. Wang, 200 Japanese Officers Engaged in his army. Chang Chi Mung, The Viceroy of Hupeh has, I know, also Engaged...",
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        "content_text": "19 \n\n447 \n\nmembers of the Camel, this attack upon the Legations of friendly nations is a foolish and Criminal Act. You remember how China suffered from a war with Japan, and you will suffer from war with all the powers of Europe as well. If you want money for such a purpose, there are no funds in my Treasury.\n\nPrince Juan answered that he and his were afraid for their property and ought to be beheaded. Within three days, these three men were arrested and beheaded. The worst is that the Empress's most devoted and trusted servants are with her. Li Hung Chang had been for many years her special favourite. Prince Tuan is morally weak and not to be trusted & had the Juan faction not been defeated, he would follow any strong leader as readily as others.\n\nPrince Juan was ordered to retire to a distant part of the state, but he only went a distance beyond the Peking wall where he has taken refuge with a Mongolian prince, Li Ping Hsun at Alisan. The duplicitous Empress sent one of his sons to order that he should obey the decree, but it was returned unopened.\n\nPage 450\nPage 451",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nauthorities. Should that contingency arise, there would be a grave risk of the unpaid soldiers joining the bandits, an event which would, of course, greatly aggravate the situation.\n\nI have endeavoured to ascertain the strength of the military forces at the disposal of the Government, but have only succeeded in obtaining data, and those not reliable, for forming an estimate for certain parts of the province. In this prefecture there are about 500 soldiers and braves, armed for the most part with Mauser rifles, but with further artillery, and fifteen native gun-boats, all of which carry only old-fashioned guns; but ten of them have Mausers, the rest being armed with old foreign muzzle-loaders. The crew for each boat is nominally fifteen or seventeen, but in reality, all are some 30 per cent. below their complement.\n\nOn the Tonquin frontier, there are about thirty battalions (\"ying\"), say 15,000 men, probably well armed for the most part, about 5,000 at Nanning, at least 2,500 on the Yu Chiang and an equal number on the Tso Chiang. In all the prefectures, there is probably a small force of at least a few hundred men for police work.\n\nOf the numerical strength of the bandits, little or nothing appears to be known. Several bands are referred to as numbering several hundred; around Pose, there are supposed to be a couple of thousand or so, and the number of those infesting the Nanning district is put by the Prefect here at as high a figure as 10,000—probably a wild guess.\n\nWhilst I am still of the opinion that the disturbances have no political significance and do not imperil the authority of the Provincial Government, I have thought it well, in view of the alarming accounts that appear in the papers, to communicate to you all the information that has reached me.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \nH. A. LITTLE.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n### Acting Consul Little to Sir E. Satow.\n\n(No. 6.) Sir,  \nWuchow, April 12, 1902.\n\nWith further reference to the disturbances in the interior, I have to-day obtained information which throws some light on the numbers and plans of the bandits in the Nanning district.\n\nAccording to the evidence of some bandits recently captured in a successful attack on one of their strongholds in that part of the country, the band to which they belonged numbered over 1,600 men, under the leadership of one Ch'en Ta. On the 23rd March, the robber Chief Li Erh, from Ling Shan, joined them, with a view to making a joint attack on Ku Lien. In the event of success, the plan was to occupy Ta Tang and neighbourhood and collect together all the robber bands in Wu Liu Tang and Wu Yuan for a combined assault on Nanning. The attack on Ku Lien failed, which, together with the reported advance of large forces of soldiers, led to their dispersal in the hills. Ch'en Ta seized Yuan Hua, but being attacked on three sides, his followers lost heart and scattered, afterwards fleeing into Kuangtung, where, on the 7th instant, Ch'en Ta, Yang Yüan Kuan, and Chiang Sau were badly defeated. These Chiefs then fled far into Kuangtung, whilst Li Erh and Chang Shih Ch'ang are hiding in Kwanghsi.\n\nIf this band, as the name of its leader would seem to indicate, is distinct from those mentioned by the Nanning Prefect (vide my despatch No. 4 of the 3rd instant), then there are in the Lung-an, Yung-shun, and Hsüan Hua districts and thereabout five separate bands, the aggregate numerical strength of which is probably at least 3,000. The mention of the Chiefs Yang and Chang suggests, however, the possibility of this band being the same as that reported by the Nanning Prefect to be under the command of these two men in the Yung-shun and Ling Shan districts; if it is not, the two bands must be working together.\n\nThe statement of the prisoners as to their proposed plan of operations is the first indication of any attempt to gather together the different bands, and the fact that an attack on so important a place as Nanning was contemplated shows that the leaders counted on being able to collect a large force.\n\nWhilst writing this despatch, I learn from a good source that the robber band...\n\nPage 330",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nHis Majesty the Emperor of China having sanctioned the Agreement between his Excellency the Liang Kuang Viceroy and the Franco-Chinese Syndicate for the furtherance of trade in Kuang-tung and Kuang-hsi and Hainan, the following are the Regulations with respect thereto:---\n\n1. The Viceroy of the Liang Kuang permits the Syndicate to construct a railway from Hoihow via Kiungchow to Pai Shan; and also grants to the Syndicate a monopoly of electric lighting at those places.\n\n2. The Company is established in Kuang Tung, and the Agreement is in two parts, identic, one to be kept in the Viceroy's Yamên, the other in that of the French Consul.\n\n3. Work must be commenced within a year from the date on which sanction for the railway is granted. The gauge is to be 1 French ch'ih (1 metre).\n\n4. The usufruct of the railway will be in the hands of the Company for a limited period, namely, six years.\n\n5. At the end of the six years' limit the whole of the usufruct of the line will revert to the Liang Kuang Viceroy, who will then be under obligation to purchase all the movable property of the line, as the rolling-stock; as well as all stores of coal, &c., and machinery in the workshops, at a price to be fixed by the fair calculation of appointed middlemen acquainted with such matters. If the quantity of coal, &c., stored be excessive, it need not all be purchased, but only sufficient for a six months' supply.\n\n6. At any time under fifteen years the Viceroy will be at liberty to purchase the railway and the Electric Light Works at a price calculated by taking the average annual profit of the last five years increased by 20 per cent., as representing interest at 3 per cent. on the purchase price.\n\n7. Tariffs can be drawn up later.\n\n8. The profits of the Company will pay a royalty of 5 per cent. to the Liang Kuang Viceroy. For the last year of the Company's tenure, royalty will be paid at the rate of 7½ per cent. Royalties will be due in the third month of each year.\n\nThese Regulations seem to be very loosely drawn up, and are hardly adequate to provide for the management of so considerable an enterprise as that proposed.\n\nThey have not, of course, received the assent of the Viceroy, and the whole question of railways and electric lighting in Hainan has been referred to the Taotai of the Lei Ch'iung circuit, which includes Hainan, for report. (See Mr. Scott's despatch No. 21, 1902, General).\n\nHsin Ch'in, the officer newly appointed to the post in question, paid a visit to His Majesty's Consul-General on the 19th March. He is an official with some knowledge and experience of international affairs, and is well acquainted with Mr. Acheson, the present Commissioner of Customs at Kiung-chow, with whom his relations are very friendly. From remarks let fall by him during the interview, it does not seem probable that he will report favourably upon the proposed railway and electric lighting schemes.\n\n## The Huang Sha Reclamation and the Yüeh-Han Railway Syndicate\n\nThe situation in respect to the Huang Sha Reclamation and the claims of the Yüeh-Han Syndicate to occupy the whole of the reclaimed area for railway purposes, has become much more clearly defined since the last Report of this series was written.\n\nThe dispute respecting this reclaimed land, which formed the subject of despatch No. 10, General, of this Consulate-General, remains unsettled, in spite of repeated efforts of the Viceroy to induce the contending parties to moderate their claims.\n\nHis Excellency Sheng and the local Managing Director, Chang Chien Hsün, appear to have made up their minds that the whole of the reclaimed land, as well as the remaining area still unreclaimed but forming part of the grant made to the original Huang Sha concessionnaires, is absolutely essential for purposes of the Yüeh-Han Railway; and their claim appears to become more firmly established as the dispute progresses. The Viceroy is anxious for an arrangement satisfactory to both sides, and particularly that the powerful influence which supports the Yüeh-Han Syndicate shall not be allowed to cause gross injustice to the concessionnaires who received their charter from Li Hung-chang. His Excellency, accordingly, in January, appointed the Nam Hoi Magistrate to enter into negotiations with Chang Chien Hsün, and these negotiations have been in progress for two months with repeated reference to the high provincial authorities but without a final settlement being arrived at.\n\nIt appears that the concessionnaires estimate the work already completed by them at a sum of 200,000 taels, which is presumably intended to include some margin of profit for themselves if they are compelled to abandon the Concession. The Yüeh-Han Syndicate estimated the work at 25,000 taels, and invited the concessionnaires to furnish proof of the sums expended by them; the latter admitted their inability to do so, owing, they said, to the fact that large sums had been expended in preliminary arrangements with various officials, &c. Subsequently his Excellency Shêng authorized Chang Chien Hsun to offer 40,000 taels. This sum was raised to 60,000 taels by Chang himself. The Provincial Treasurer then came forward, and said that he would be prepared to try and obtain the acceptance of the concessionnaires if the sum could be raised to 80,000 taels. But Chang and the Syndicate refuse to do this, and matters are now at a deadlock, Chang declaring that he would rather return to the Straits, where he has a large fortune invested in mines and other property, than trouble himself any further with the Yüeh-Han Railway. He has a great reputation for wealth in Canton, and is known here as the Malay King or Malay Prince.\n\n## Engineers for Yüeh-Han Railway\n\nA party of thirteen American engineers are expected to arrive in Canton shortly ready to commence work upon the railway, and Chang Chien Hsun has already at his disposal a sum of 400,000 taels provided by his Excellency Shêng out of the capital obtained from native shareholders, to enable the work to be commenced.\n\n## Police matters\n\n### Diminution of Piracy and Robbery\n\nSince the commencement of the present Chinese year news of piracies and robberies in the delta has practically ceased, and it seems as if, for the time at least, a comparatively orderly state of affairs exists in that region. This may be due to the efforts of the Lieutenant-authorities, which have been redoubled during the past three months. Commander Webster, of His Majesty's ship \"Moorhen\" (formerly of His Majesty's ship \"Robin\") has spoken in high praise of the activity and energy of Li Chia Cho, the new Acting Magistrate of the Shun Tê district, and of the Viceroy's officers generally. Commander Webster has reported to his Excellency Admiral Bridge a diminution of piracy in the river, and gives his opinion that this is entirely due to the efforts of the Viceroy and his subordinates, especially Li Chia Cho.\n\nIt will be remembered that the shots which struck the steam-ship \"Nanning\" in the Tam Chao Channel were fired during an organized expedition against piracies not far from Shun Tak district city.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether the present more satisfactory state of things will continue. Expectations in this respect have been so often disappointed in the past that a permanent improvement is not readily credited. It may not be out of place to mention here the opinion of a well-educated Chinese who visited this Consulate-General during January last, and whose view is that frequency of crime is due to over-population and consequent poverty. He added that matters had been gradually getting worse and worse in this respect, especially since the closing of various countries to coolie immigration. The only solution of the difficulty, he said, was the establishment of new industries and the development of railway and mining enterprise, which might employ large sections of the population who would otherwise sink through poverty into crime.\n\n### Protection of Launches\n\nThe proposal by Captain Yang of the Shameen guard mentioned in the last report for a number of soldiers to be placed on board all launches leaving Canton has now been put into effect. Launch fares have been raised 10 per cent. to provide for the cost of carrying out the scheme, which is looked upon by the Chinese as likely merely to enrich Captain Yang. The following Regulations have further been issued by the Board of Reorganization:\n\n| Regulation | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | Owners of launches and towed boats are hereby informed that such craft must only stop at regular landing stages, and must not stop to pick up passengers promiscuously at all places. If they do so, they will incur a fine, and, in the event of passengers being robbed, they will be responsible for compensation. |\n| 2 | At each anchoring place a guard boat is to be placed, the officers in charge of which will see that their men carefully search all passengers and their luggage for arms, and keep a good look-out for suspicious characters. |\n\nPage 341",
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        "content_text": "It must be remembered that, whatever provision may be made, even if its terms are carried out in the letter, it will always be impossible to prevent the Central Government (knowing, as it will, the exact amount of the proceeds of the surtaxes from the books of the Imperial Maritime Customs) from demanding contributions from the provinces after the latter have received their quotas from the surtax.\n\nOwing to the fact that the Memorial requested the Throne to agree to an arrangement financially in favour of the provincial authorities, their Excellencies Liu and Chang wished to avoid taking part in a proceeding which is considered undignified in Chinese eyes, i.e., asking for money for oneself. They therefore delayed sending the Memorial on to its destination until seven days before the Treaty was to be signed.\n\nA Decree (translation of which is inclosed) having arrived on the 28th August authorizing the signature of the Treaty, it was decided that the signature should take place on the 30th August, and I was assured that the Edict as to the disposal of the surtaxes would certainly be ready by that date.\n\nWhen we met, however, no satisfactory Edict had been issued. I was shown instead an Edict abolishing li-kin stations all over China, on the ground that all the Powers had agreed to the imposition of the surtaxes on their goods, and in which nothing was said as to the disposal of the surtaxes except that the Board of Revenue was to communicate on the subject with the provinces.\n\nI have the honour to transmit a translation of this Edict.\n\nThe Commissioners appeared very distressed at the non-arrival of a proper Edict, and, of course, wanted me to sign without it, but I told them then that my instructions absolutely forbade me to do so. They then begged me to send an urgent telegram to His Majesty's Minister for pressure to be brought to bear at Pekin, which I did, and they themselves promised to spare no pains to obtain the issue of a proper Decree merely sanctioning the Memorial which had already been communicated to me, the advantage of this course being that no extraneous matter or modification could be introduced in the Decree.\n\nOn the 2nd September, the Commissioners communicated to me the Edict, in the form now in which it is now annexed to the Treaty, sanctioning all that had been asked for in the Memorial referred to.\n\nThe Memorial (as now annexed to the Treaty) had, I found, since it had been communicated to me, been slightly altered by the Viceroy's (two characters are added) to whom it had been forwarded by the Commissioners for transmission to the Throne. Some additional apparent discrepancies are to be found therein owing to the fact that the nature of the Chinese language is so very allusive that translations of the same thing by different persons always differ widely in wording; in this case the translation of the Memorial, as telegraphed to your Lordship on the 1st September, was furnished by one of Sheng Kung-pao's Secretaries, and that embodied in the Treaty is the work of Mr. J. W. Jamieson, Commercial Attaché to the Legation at Pekin.\n\nI understand that the Memorial appears to contemplate the following procedure:\n\nThe Board of Revenue having arranged with the provinces the proportions in which each province is to receive its share, each of these will be credited in the books of the Customs' Tuotais, or other Chinese officials entrusted with the distribution, with its full share of the whole of the surtaxes, but an amount equal to that now remitted to Peking will, with the consent of the provinces, be retained by these officials and written off from their credit balance and sent direct to, or held to the order of, Pekin.\n\nIt was stated in my Memorandum as telegraphed to your Lordship in my telegram No. 71 that the whole of the proceeds of surtaxes should go to the provinces, and this in a sense will be done; but just as the provincial authorities, after collecting li-kin, send their quota to the Throne, they now, after being credited with their full share of the surtaxes, will also have the amount of surplus funds automatically sent direct to Pekin from the Customs' Bank, or whatever institution receives the surtaxes. (The Imperial Maritime Customs do not handle any funds at all even now.)\n\nTo make the matter clear, I addressed to the Commissioners the despatch, now annexed to the Treaty, defining the procedure which I understand would be adopted, and I have received a reply (also annexed) from their Excellencies assenting to my view.\n\nYour Lordship will perceive that it is definitely stated in the despatches that they are to form part and to be annexed to the Treaty; they will accordingly have full Treaty value.\n\nOn the 4th September I received your Lordship's telegram asking me to secure a stipulation that the surtaxes should not be given as security for the indemnity bonds.\n\nThis was a new point which had not been raised before, and I felt some doubt as to Sheng's being in a position to agree to the specific mention of these bonds. I pointed out to him, however, that the Memorial clearly laid down that the surtaxes were to go to the provinces in lieu of li-kin; that they were not to be pledged to any new loan, and were to be applied to no other purposes beyond the service of the 1898 Loan, to which li-kin is partly pledged; and that he might safely agree to the mention of indemnity bonds. The Chinese Commissioners, however, I found, would have had to refer the matter to Peking (which would have caused a long delay) if the bonds were actually specified in so many words, and I thought it would suffice if it was laid down that \"the surtaxes, in addition to not being pledged for any new foreign loan, are not to be pledged to, or held to be security for, liabilities already contracted by China, except in so far as li-kin revenue has already been pledged to an existing loan.\"\n\nSheng Kung-pao then consented to accept the suggestion without referring to Peking, but only on condition that I was able to assure him that if he agreed to its insertion in the notes, I would be prepared to sign the Treaty at once.\n\nHaving, meanwhile, just before the meeting began, by great good fortune, received your Lordship's telegram No. 78 of the 4th instant authorizing me to accept the Memorial as it stood, with the explanatory notes which I had agreed with Sheng, and not to press the mention of the indemnity bonds if it was likely to risk the Treaty, I was able to give him the desired assurance, whereupon the texts of the notes were finally agreed to in the form in which they are now in the Treaty.\n\nAt 9 P.M. we accordingly met at the offices which Sheng Kung-pao has set up for Treaty Revision meetings with the various Powers, and after the English text had been examined by Sheng Kung-pao's Secretaries and Messrs. Hippisley and Taylor, and the Chinese text by Mr. Jamieson, their Excellencies Lu and Sheng showed me the Imperial Decree on yellow paper authorizing them to sign, while I produced the full powers granted to me by His Majesty the King. Our respective authorities to sign having been found mutually satisfactory, the Chinese Commissioners and I duly affixed our signatures at 11 P.M. to the copies of the text, of which two were in English and two in Chinese. Each party retained one copy of the English text and one copy of the Chinese text. I am sending both original texts to your Lordship under a separate cover.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) JAS. L. MACKAY\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\n**Treaty between Great Britain and China, signed at Shanghae, September 5, 1902**\n\nHIS Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Majesty the Emperor of China, having resolved to enter into negotiations with a view to carrying out the provision contained in Article 11 of the Final Protocol signed at Peking on the 7th September, 1901, under which the Chinese Government agreed to negotiate the amendments deemed useful by the foreign Governments to the Treaties of Commerce and Navigation and other subjects concerning commercial relations, with the object of facilitating them, have for that purpose named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:\n\nHis Majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland, His Majesty's Special Commissioner, Sir James Lyle Mackay, Knight Commander of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, a member of the Council of the Secretary of State for India, &c.;\n\nAnd His Majesty the Emperor of China, the Imperial Commissioners Lu Hai-huan, President of the Board of Public Works, &c., and Shêng Hsuan-huai, Junior Guardian of the Heir-Apparent, Senior Vice-President of the Board of Public Works, &c.;\n\nWho, having communicated to each other their respective full powers, and found them to be in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles:\n\n## ARTICLE I\n\nDelay having occurred in the past in the issue of Drawback Certificates owing to the fact that those documents have to be dealt with by the Superintendent of Customs at a distance from the Customs Office, it is now agreed that Drawback Certificates shall hereafter in all cases be issued by the Imperial Maritime Customs within three weeks of the \n\nPage 436",
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        "content_text": "# 455\n\n**C. O.**\n40043\n--D\n\n**FOREIGN OFFICE,**\nDecember 2nd, 1902.\n\nSir:-\n\nI laid before the Marquess of Lansdowne your letter of the 7th ultimo enclosing a Memorandum of observations made by Sir H. Blake on his journey to Hongkong viâ Vancouver.\n\nWith reference to the conversation which Sir H. Blake had with the Members of the Chinese Coronation Mission and to the dissatisfaction felt by the First Secretary at his exclusion from the audience granted by His Majesty the King to Prince Chên, I am directed by His Lordship to transmit to you a Memorandum explaining the reason for Sir Liang Cheng's admission to the King's presence, in preference to Wang Ta Hieh.\n\nI am to suggest that this paper should be communicated to Sir H. Blake.\n\n`Thor 22/02`\n\nThe Under Secretary of State\nColonial Office.\n\nI am, Sir,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble Servant,\nMalcolm Campbell",
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        "content_text": "## Gry 456\n**Sir H. Blake's Memorandum on China, inclosure in Colonial Office, November 7th.**\n\nCoronation Mission (see page 4 of Memorandum).\n\nC.O. 44025\n\nI was told that the First Secretary was homesick and troublesome from the beginning, and he it was who persuaded Prince Chên not to return to the postponed Coronation against the wish of the Prince himself and the majority of his suite. His name is Wang Ta Hieh and he is a protégé of the Prince's father. He comes after Sir Liang Cheng in the list furnished to us but he, I believe, claimed to rank above him in Peking as he was an Under Secretary of State.",
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        "content_text": "## State.\n457\n\nThe two attended Prince Chen when he was received by the King before the Levée on June 2nd, and, I believe, stayed with the Prince until the Levée was over.\n\nThe Prince only is mentioned as being received. Sir C. Liang Cheng went with him to interpret, but this fact is not mentioned in the account of the ceremony, and, in any case, he was senior over here to Wang Ta Hieh.\n\nThe latter had no case. I think that it will be seen that Mr. Wang Peh Tung was one of the numerous suite not put down in the List of official guests, owing to its length.\n\n(Signed)  \nR. F. Synge.  \nNovember 22nd, 1902.",
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        "content_text": "## Cheng Matsin Cheunghotteai Simontting Yung Yak Long \n\nAt kung Par Cheunghi Isang Wai in Cheung yukfair to Boz Cams, Cheung Lai Kam Ng Guk Dit wig Isang chung ushin Kwai, Laukin Ella shuntari a Fat. Wong Grand andhian Yangkan Tang yan sing Wong Kwong sin Kang Cho Chu Aman Fring Yan kwong Vaithinkung. Man from Hang Lotais ug Echinching Waiponr Isang Full. Hysze Moussakshi Chungkan Fung kon Autunge bi bhing tgokwar When Lie Foy Yunzhime Lidiklin Ng chi Kwan Le Kwok Gunghansap Trang Chung Fung Mun chak Chang Chu Chung",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 404\n## C.O. No. 193\n### FCO\nSanitary Board Office,  \nHongkong, 20th May, 1903.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to C.O.D.295 of 1902, I have the honour to submit the following report relative to the question of the Clerical Staff of the Sanitary Department as I have now had two months experience of the working of this office:\n\nThe staff as at present constituted is shown in the attached detailed list of the clerks with their respective duties.\n\nMr. Lo Man Kai is the head clerk, and performs his duties very satisfactorily and is a thoroughly reliable man.\n\nMr. M. H. Harteam, the next senior clerk, performs his duties satisfactorily.\n\nMr. Chow Wai Shan, Assistant Clerk, typewrites well, and is a good Interpreter, he has had over three years experience in this Department and works well.\n\nMr. Cheng Hon Cheung, Assistant Clerk, has only been here since the 1st of this month, and I am unable to report as to his capabilities, he has had three years' experience in the Public Works Department.\n\nMr. Tam Wing Kwong was a temporary clerk from October 1st, 1902, to 1st of this month at $30 a month, from the 1st of this month he was promoted to $40 a month. He had a good record at Queen's College and promises well.\n\nMr. Lam Kai Un is of very little use, he has...\n\nE. H. May, C.M.G.,  \nColonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "## \nActing on your Excellency's instructions, we also took blood from as many persons as possible, and sent the slides to Dr. HUNTER for examination.\n\nWe were successful in getting about 150 slides in all at different times from men, women, and children; a number of these also contained Plague bacillus. A number of bugs were also sent from numbers 71 and 109 Second Street where cases of Plague had occurred. Bacillus was also found in them.\n\nThe number of people of both sexes who used the bath-houses from the 15th of May up to the 12th of July, were altogether 34,350, as follows:\n\n| Location        | Males   | Females |\n|-----------------|---------|---------|\n| Woi On Lane     |         |         |\n| 92 Second Street| 6,385   | 14,485  |\n| On Wai Lane     | 6,385   |         |\n\nThe bath-house in Sheung Fung Lane was not used owing to the prevalence of Plague there, otherwise the number of women would have been even greater.\n\nThe total number of cases to date is 43, which is made up as follows:\n\n| Category                        | Number |\n|---------------------------------|--------|\n| Cases certified as Plague died or were reported dead | 30     |\n| Recovered                       | 1      |\n| Still under Doctor's treatment  | 15     |\n| Cases not Plague recovered      | 2      |\n| Removed to Tung Wah Hospital   | ă      |\n| Died                            | 1      |\n|                                 | Total, 43 |\n\nA number of these cases were imported into the block under the following circumstances:\n\nCHAN PUI, 16, M., cook, 99 Third Street, who was reported sick on the 17th June and died the same day, came to No. 99 Third Street to visit one of his clansmen while there, he took sick and died. He came from the “Kung Tai\" Club, No. 120 Hollywood Road. He had been employed there as cook.\n\nSO KI, 57, M., rattan-worker, No. 6 Tak Sing Lane, 2nd floor, was reported sick on the 18th of June and died on the 14th of June. He complained of feeling ill on the 5th of June while residing at No. 10 Torein Street and left the same day and went to No. 6 Tak Sing Lane.\n\nCHAU FUK, 17, M., coolie, No. 67 Third Street, who was reported sick on the 26th of May, came from the Aberdeen Brick Works to the above address sick on the 23rd of May.\n\nThere were 5 cases of Plague reported from one house under the following circumstances:\n\nOn the 11th May, a girl named LI NGA was reported dead from the 1st floor of No. 4 Sheung Fung Lane. The occupants were removed to No. 76 Second Street after disinfecting their clothing and furniture.\n\nThe following day, 12th May, a woman named LEUNG SIN was reported sick from the ground floor.\n\nThe occupants of this floor were also removed to No. 76 Second Street, except the husband and uncle of the patient.\n\nOn the 19th May, the uncle, CHUN KUM, who remained to look after the woman in No. 4 Sheung Fung Lane reported sick. He was removed to the Hospital in Third Street where he eventually recovered.\n\nOn the 14th May, a man named CHU KUM reported sick from No. 76 Second Street. This man originally came from No. 4 Sheung Fung Lane, ground floor. He was attended to by a woman named WONG SAM, who also came from No. 4 Sheung Fung Lane. The other occupants were then removed to No. 74 Second Street. He died on the 15th of May.\n\nThe following morning, the 16th May, the woman WONG SAM also reported sick. She was removed to the Hospital in Third Street where she died on the 20th of May.\n\nIn a second case there were two cases reported from the same house on different dates as follows:\n\nOn the 11th of May, a man named CHAN PO was reported sick from the first floor of No. 80 Second Street. He died on the 14th of May. During his illness, he was nursed by his wife and daughter. On the 19th of May, the daughter reported that the mother had also died.\n\nTwo cases were also reported from No. 109 Second Street, first floor, on the 7th July, namely:\n\nLAI CHU, age 3, schoolboy, and LAI TAK, age 11 years, schoolboy. They were both removed to the temporary Hospital. The younger boy LAI CHU during the afternoon was removed to the Kennedy Town Hospital at the request of the parents. He died the following morning about 6:30 a.m. The elder boy died about 2:30 p.m. the same day as he was admitted. The above two were brothers.\n\nExcept in the above, there have been no cases reported where there has been any connection between them.\n\nI enquired from most of the people as to what meat and vegetables they had with their meals, but could find nothing out of the common except that they all bought whatever they had at the Western Market.\n\nThe undermentioned are the names of the Kai-jong and their occupations:\n\n| Name          | Occupation        |\n|---------------|-------------------|\n| CHAN KI       | Druggist          |\n| CHAR CHEUNG   | Fish-monger       |\n| MAK SIE       | Caulker           |\n| MAK ...       |                   |\n| MAK CHAK      | Salt fish dealer  |\n| LAU CHU       | Lime washer       |\n| LIE YI        | Fruit hawker      |\n| WONG WAI      | Retired contractor|\n| TAY CHUNG     | Salt fish-monger  |\n| MANG LING     | Timber merchant   |\n| CHENG TAI     | Fruit hawker      |\n| KWOK NAM      | Grocer            |\n| FRAI KUN      | Rent collector    |\n| YUN SHAI      | Fish-monger       |\n| KI TSAN SANG  | Stonecutter       |\n| CHEONG CHI    | Stonecutter       |\n| CHAN CHUN     | Carpenter         |\n| ...           |                   |\n| WAN PUN       | Grocer            |\n| HANG YIT      | Grocer            |\n| ...           | Fruit hawker      |\n\nThe quantity of disinfectants, etc., used during the experiment consists of:\n\n* 55 gallons of carbolic acid\n* A barrel of Jeyes' fluid\n* 40 bars of household soap\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to be,\nYour obedient Servant,\nT. H. GODLEY,\nDetective Inspector.\n\nTo\nHis Excellency Sir HENRY A. BLAKE, G.C.M.G.\n\nPage 232",
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        "content_text": "# Appendix E.\n\n| Name | Age | Sex | Occupation | Street | No. | Floor | Dimensions | Occupants | When reported Sick | Since when | Plague | Date of Death | Recovery | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Chan Koo | 30 | M | Rattan worker | Sheung Fung Lane | 16 |  | 18'2\" x 13'3\" x 9'8\" |  | 24-4-08 | 26-1-03 |  |  |  |  |\n| Yuen Fong | 23 | F | Married woman | On Wai Lane |  |  | 30'8\" x 13'9\" x 16'6\" | 15 | 12 | 24-4-03 | 11 |  |  |  |\n| Wong Tak | 42 | M | Coolie | Second Street |  |  | 30'8\" x 13'8\" x 16'4\" | 14 | 30-4-03 | 24-4-03 | Yes | 1-5-03 | Yes |  |\n| Lai Chun | 21 | M | Hawker | Sheung Fung Lane | Gd. |  | 24' x 13'3\" x 9'10\" |  | 1-5-03 |  | Yes |  |  |  |\n| Chang King | 5 | F | Child | Tak Sing Lane |  |  | 30'6\" x 13'9\" x 10'6\" | 21 | 3-3-03 | 1-5-03 | Yes | 4-5-03 |  |  |\n| Kwok Yung | 59 | M | Coolie | Sheung Fung Lane |  |  | 24' x 18'3\" x 9'8\" | 4 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Cha Chum | 28 | M |  |  | Gid. |  | 24' x 13'3\" x 9'10\" |  | 6-5-03 | 7-5-03 |  | 8-5-03 |  |  |\n| Li Nga | # | F | Girl |  | 1st |  | 24' x 18'3\" x 9'8\" | 12 | 11-5-03 |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Chat Po | 64 | M | Head Coolie | Second Street | 80 |  | 28'10\" x 13'1\" x 13'5\" | 18 | 10-5-03 | 4-5-03 |  | 14-5-03 |  |  |\n| Leung Sin | 33 | F | Married woman | Sheung Fung Lane | + |  | 24' x 13'3\" x 9'10\" | 12 | 18-5-03 | 11-5-03 | Yes |  | Yes |  |\n| Un Kami Sze | 23 | F |  |  | 3 | 1st | 21 x 13'3 x 9'8\" | 9 | 14-5-03 | 12-5-03 |  | 15 |  |  |\n| Chu Kum | 52 | M | Hawker | Second Street | 76 | {5} | 28'10\" x 13'1\" x 13'5\" |  | 18-5-03 | 15-5-03 |  |  |  |  |\n| Wong Sam | 4 | 28 | F | Married woman | 74 | 1 |  |  | 16-5-03 | 16-6-03 |  | 20-5-03 |  |  |\n| Li Kan | 30 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Foo Lai Chun | 64 | F | Widow | Sheung Fung Lane, Second Street | 63 | 17 | 24' x 13'3' x 9'10\" |  | 12-5-03 | 14-5-03 |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 80 | 1st | 28'10' x 13'1\" x 13'5\" | 18 | 10-5-03 | 19-5-03 |  |  |  |  |\n| Chang Sam | 28 | M |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Chun Kun | 125 | 55 | M | Carpenter, Hawker | Sheng Fung Lane | 22 | Gd. | 24' x 13'3\" x 9'8\" |  | 19-5-03 | No |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 24' x 13'3\" x 9'10\" | 12 |  | Yes | Yes |  |  |  |\n\n## APPENDIX E----Continued.\n\n| Name | Age | Sex | Occupation | Street | No. | Floor | Dimensions | Occupants | Date reported Sick | Since when | Plague | Date of Death | Recovery | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Tong Lum | 89 | M | Carpenter | Second Street | 30 | 2nd | 30' x 13'3' x 14'8\" | 16 | 26-5-03 | 24-5-03 | No |  | 1 | Removed to Tang Wah Hospital |\n| Choi Koi | 29 | M | Hawker | On Wai Lane West |  | 1st | 31 x 12'8' x 14'6\" | 8 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Chung Yuen | 28 | F | Seamstress | Third Street | 91 |  | 41'3\" x 17'2' x 15'1\" |  | 29-5-03 | 23-5-03 | Yes | 31-5-03 | 26-6-03 |  |\n| Cheung Chung | 13 | M | Schoolboy | Second Street | 103 |  |  |  | 27 | 13-0: |  | 29-5-08 |  |  |\n| Keung Kwan | 63 | M | Coolie | Third Street | 23 | Gil. | 30' x H x 11&2 | 18 | 3-6-03 | 30-5-03 |  |  |  |  |\n| Ip Fai | 14 | F | Girl |  |  |  | 13'6\" x 12'8\" x 12'3\" | 2 | 3.6-03 | 2-6-03 |  |  |  |  |\n| Yuen Sam | 15 |  |  |  | 1st |  | 36' x 13'8\" x 14 | 18 | 1-6-03 | 2-6-03 |  | 4-6-08 |  |  |\n| Li Kwai | 40 | M | Coolie | Second Street | 71 | Gd. | 32' x 11'8\" x 11'2\" | 10 | 5-6-03 | 3-6-03 |  | 6-6-03 |  |  |\n| Cheong Ii | 39 |  |  |  | 3rd |  | 27&5\" x 13' x 13'5\" | 18 | 5-6-03 | 4-6-03 |  | \" |  |  |\n| Chan Ngan | 22 | F | Married woman |  | 2nd |  | 27&5\" x 13' x 11'9\" | 16 | 5-6-03 |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Mok Chan | 20 | F |  |  | 5 | Gd. | 39'2' x 13'8\" x 13'8\" | 23 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Leung Li | 33 | M | Boatman | Third Street | 55 | 1st | 34'10\" x 13'7\"x16'6\" | 14 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Wong King | 25 | M | Coolie | Centre Street | 46 | 2nd | 39' x 15'10\" x 10'5\" |  | 2-6-03 | 6-6-03 | 1-6-03 | Yes | 6-6-08 | 5-6-03 No |\n| Man Ping | 53 | M |  | Second Street | 78 | Gd. | 82 x 11'8' x 11'2\" | 24 | 11-6-03 |  |  |  |  |  |\n| So Ki | 57 | M | Rattan worker | Tak Sing Lane | 6 | }} | 30'6\" x 13'9\" x 13'2\" |  | 9-6-03 | 13-6-08 | 7-6-03 | Yes |  |  |\n| Chi Ying Cheung | 2 | M | Child | Third Street | GO | 1st | 84'7\" x 16'5\" x 18'10\" | 14 | 13-6-03 |  | 15-6-03 |  |  |  |\n| Kenng Chi Wo | 20 | F | Broom maker | BO |  |  | 33'2' x 11' x 13'9\" | 13 | 14-6-03 |  | 14-6-08 |  |  |  |\n| Chan Pui | 16 | M | Cook | 99 | Gd. |  | 22'11\"x12'8\" x 14'7\" | 10 | 17-6-08 | 16-6-09 | 17-6-03 |  |  |  |\n| Yuen Fai | 26 | M | Coolie | 52 | 1st |  | 36' x 13'8\" x 14 | 12 | 19-6-03 | 18-6-03 |  |  |  |  |\n| Lo Man |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Lau Hing | 1 | M | Child | Kwok Yin Lane | 1 |  | 29'11\" x 12'2\" x 16'6\" |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Lai Obu | 50 | M | Coolie | Third Street | 60 |  | 36' x 13'8\" x 14 | 14 | 24-6-03 | 21-6-03 | No | 27-6-03 | 26-6-03 | Yes |\n| Lai Tak |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Chau Lung | 37 |  | Schoolboy | Second Street | 1109 |  | 41'3 x 17'2' x 15'1\" |  | 7-7-03 | 6-7-03 |  | 7-7-03 |  |  |\n| A Lum | 5 | M |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | These two were brothers |\n| Foo Chin | 17 | M | Coolie | Third Street | 44 | M |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | F | Married woman | Second Street | 88 | F | 26'2\" x 13'4\" x 13'5\" | 17 | 20-3-00 | 23-3-08 |  | $-7-03 | 26-5-03 | 1 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 67 | 2nd | 29'5\" x 12' x 13'5\" | 18 |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 73 | J | 41'3\" x 17'2\" x 15'1\" | 9 | 16-7-03 | 26-5-03 |  | 9-7-03 |  | Still under Doctor's attendance |\n\nPage 241\nPage 238 \n- 25 -",
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        "content_text": "286 \n\nfighting the dreadful disease, and encouraging others to help forward the work. His Excellency had referred to the small gift which he (Mr. Ho Kum Tong) had presented; he considered it his duty to act as he had done, and in future he would be very pleased to do any such slight service in rendering the work more effective. If he might be allowed, he would like to mention the name of Inspector Gidley, who had done a great deal in carrying out the work. On behalf of the Kaifong and of the community, he thanked His Excellency very much for his kindness and the genuine interest he had taken in them. (Applause) \n\nMr. Liu Yi also spoke. He thanked His Excellency for the merciful kindness displayed by him in undertaking to look after these two blocks of buildings of the lower class people. His Excellency had undertaken the work out of pure goodness of heart. If the plague came next year, the Kaifong would assist the Sanitary Board to carry out their work if it was done in the same way as was adopted by His Excellency. They had to thank Mr. Fung Wa Chun, who had come down there very often, and Dr. Atkinson for the kind way in which he had looked after patients, also Dr. Pearse and Dr. Leong, the Chinese doctor. Dr. Atkinson and Dr. Pearse had treated the Chinese with great kindness; indeed, he thought they showed more consideration for the Chinese than for the European patients. They would come and sit on the bed and turn the patient up, and many doctors would not do that. His Excellency, too, when he had cases reported to him, came down to see them, and the members of the Kaifong and the inhabitants would remember his kindness as long as they lived. (Applause). \n\nOn the call of Mr. Fung Wa Chun, three cheers were given for His Excellency, and the company afterwards dispersed. \n\nThe following is the letter of thanks which His Excellency is presenting to each member of the Kaifong:- \n\n## Government House, Hongkong, 3rd August, 1903.\n\nThe Governor desires to thank the following members of the Kaifong who volunteered their services during the epidemic of plague in Hongkong in 1903.\n\nThe Governor highly appreciates the good work they have done by inducing their neighbours to take precautions against the spread of the plague—precautions that he hopes may have been the means of saving the lives of some among them :----\n\n| Name |\n|------|\n| Chan Ki |\n| Chak Cheung |\n| Mak Sui |\n| Mak Hi |\n| Mak Ubak |\n| Lau Chin |\n| Liu Yi |\n| Wong Wai |\n| Tam Chiu |\n| Man Ling |\n| Cheng Tai |\n| Kwok Nam |\n| Fang Kap |\n| Un Shai Ki |\n| Tsau Sang |\n| Cheong Chi |\n| Wan run |\n| Mang Yat |\n| Chan Chun |",
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        "content_text": "# Extract from Hong Kong Daily Press\n\n## THE DEPARTURE OF SIR HENRY BLAKE\n\n### HONGKONG'S FAREWELL\n\nAfter five years of administration of the government of Hongkong, His Excellency Sir Henry A. Blake, G.C.M.G., departed on Saturday to take up the Governorship of Ceylon. The farewell greeting that he got from the community of the Colony was such as to leave a lasting memory in His Excellency's mind of the feelings of respect and affection with which he is regarded by the people of this Colony. Unfortunately, the weather was not auspicious, for it rained steadily all day long and the streets were ankle-deep in mud. Sir Henry Blake was accompanied by Lady Blake and Sir John Keane, A.L.C. The party left Government House shortly after eleven o'clock, in chairs, and proceeded to the City Hall where a large assembly of the citizens had met to present His Excellency with a farewell address. Afterwards, they proceeded to Blake Pier and went by launch out to the P. & O. s.s. Malta by which they are to journey to Ceylon.\n\n### ADDRESS AT THE CITY HALL\n\nFor the occasion, St. Andrew's Hall had been decorated with palm, ferns, and flowers under the superintendence of Mr. W. J. Tutcher of the Botanical and Afforestation Department. A raised platform was placed at the upper end. The Governor's party rode from Government House to the hall by way of Albert Road, past the Government offices into and down Garden Road, and across Queen's Road. The route was lined by the Indian soldiers of the 110th Mahrattas and 93rd Burmas. On arrival at the hall, His Excellency, accompanied by Lady Blake and Sir John Keane, took up his central position on the dais, the assembly standing up meanwhile. When seats had been resumed, His Honour the Chief Justice, Sir William Goodman, wearing his robes, entered by the side door, accompanied by the unofficial members of the Legislative Council and the committee of the Chamber of Commerce as follows: Sir Paul Chater, Hon. Gershom Stewart, Hon. C. W. Dickson, Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, Hon. Wei Yuk, Messrs. E. A. Hewett, D. R. Law, N. A. Siebs, A. G. Wood, J. R. M. Smith. Among others present in the hall were the Puisne Judge (Mr. A. G. Wise), the Colonial Secretary (Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G.), Hon. L. A. M. Johnston (Acting Colonial Treasurer), Hon. Sir H. S. Berkeley (Attorney-General), Hon. W. Chatham (Director of Public Works), Hon. Basil Taylor (Harbour Master), Hon. A. W. Brewin (Registrar-General), Dr. J. M. Atkinson, Colonel L. F. Brown, Colonel Birdwood, Colonel Wylly, Major Dopping Hepenstall, Messrs. C. A. Tomes, H. W. Looker, H. P. Tooker, A. Ramjohn, M. S. Northcote, H. N. Mody, A. G. Romano, Consul-General for Portugal; T. Liebert, Consul for France; E. Hamman, Consul for Belgium; L. Volpicelli, Consul-General for Italy; E. Mnelle, Consul for Peru, C. Clementi, H. W. Slade, E. H. Sharp, K.C., B. Layton, J. Hastings, H. J. Gedge, K. F. Johnston, Major Radcliff, M. W. Slade, E. A. Hewett, P. W. Sergeant, B. James, Bishop Piazzoli, Rev. Father Beaublat, Procureur des Missions Etrangères; Rev. Fathers Spada, de Maria, and Gabardi, Messrs. Ho Tang, Ho Fook, Ho Kom Tong, Chan Siu Ki, Yong Won Chang, Leung Pia Chi, Taung Shi Kai, Wong Kom Fuk, Lo Koon Ting, Fung Wa Chun, Lo Cheung Shiu, Lam Chi Fung, Chun Law Hung, and Ian Chu Pak; and a good proportion of ladies.\n\nAs the deputation entered the hall, the whole assembly rose to their feet.\n\nSir William Goodman then addressed His Excellency as follows: - Your Excellency,--- We have met here this morning to present to your Excellency an address from the people of this Colony expressing, now that you are about to leave us, their appreciation of your work here as Governor and their hearty good wishes for your success and well-being in the future. I feel it a great honour to have been specially asked to act on this occasion for those who have signed that address, representing, as they do, not only the British residents but also the various nationalities which go to make up the general community of Hongkong;\n\nof 254 November 1987. 5727 \nand in their name, I will ask your Excellency's permission to read that address and then to add a few words by way of personal expression.\n\nSir William then read the following address: -\n\n**To His Excellency Sir Henry Arthur Blake, G.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.**\n\nYour Excellency, - We, the undersigned residents of Hongkong, on the eve of your departure to take up the important post His Majesty has been graciously pleased to confer upon you, desire to express our appreciation of the valuable services rendered to this Colony during your Excellency's term of office here. The administration of a Crown Colony at a distance of more than ten thousand miles from the mother country cannot, even in ordinary times, prove an easy task. We realise that the difficulties attendant upon a peaceful and successful government of this Colony were increased during the earlier period of your Excellency's tenure of office by the disastrous outbreak in the neighbouring Empire, and we are glad to think that at this critical period the government of the Colony was in your able hands.\n\nIt is impossible in the brief space afforded us by an address to go into detail as to the various phases of your Excellency's administration, but we would specially refer to a few of the more important.\n\nDuring your term of office, the boundaries of the Colony have been extended from 27 square miles to 400 square miles, an increase which naturally adds largely to the work of administration, and we rejoice to feel that the disturbances and resistance met with in taking over the New Territory were promptly and decisively overcome, and that the population have since maintained a peaceful and contented attitude, indicating the satisfaction they feel with the system of Government it has fallen upon your Excellency to introduce and administer for the last five years.\n\nThe projects for the erection of various urgently needed public buildings, notably the new Post Office, have been accelerated through your Excellency's personal endeavours.\n\nAmong other questions which have engaged your Excellency's attention has been the extending of the road-system of the Colony, and in particular the opening-up of the New Territory by the construction of the main Tai-po Road.\n\nThe proposed Praya East Reclamation Scheme, the immense importance of which your Excellency was prompt to recognise and strongly advocated, has up to the present been found impossible of execution owing to difficulties with certain of the authorities in England, but we trust that your efforts to secure this desired expansion of the city will ultimately be crowned with success.\n\nThe burning question of the site for the Naval Dock Yard has been dealt with so recently that it is unnecessary here to go into details, but the protest made by the Colony against the Admiralty scheme was warmly supported by your Excellency, who fully recognised the injury it would entail upon the City of Victoria. In this connection, we can assure you that the earnest endeavours made by your Excellency to induce the Naval Authorities to reconsider their adverse decision, and thus secure for the city an unbroken sea-front and its legitimate expansion, will be gratefully remembered.\n\nThe last and most important act of your Excellency's administration in this Colony has been the founding of the Hongkong Improvement Trust, which we are convinced will have far-reaching effects and will confer upon the Colony incalculable benefits which will last so long as Hongkong continues to be a centre for trade in the Far East.\n\nIt is, however, when we consider the health of the Colony, on which our prosperity so vitally depends, that the debt of gratitude which we owe to your Excellency becomes most manifest.\n\nThe all-important question of the Colony's water-supply has occupied much of your attention, particularly the most necessary works which you have inaugurated at ...",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[February 27.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n49A.\n\nSir C. MacDonald to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received February 27.)\n\n12.) Very Confidential.\n\nLord,\n\nTókić, January 19, 1903.\n\nWITH reference to a note from the Colonial Office to the Foreign Office, dated November, 1902, forwarding a Memorandum from Sir Henry Blake, Governor of Hong Kong, containing some observations made on his journey to Hong Kong viâ Vancouver, and which note and Memorandum came to hand by last mail, I would venture to make the following observations.\n\nSir Henry Blake travelled on the same steamer with Prince Tsai Chen, and the members of his suite, notably Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, K.C.M.G., and a Mr. Wang Peh Tung, all of whom seem to have spoken to Sir Henry with considerable freedom and in a very unrestricted manner.\n\nPrince Tsai's observations seem to have been confined to the necessity of education in China, and the inutility of undertaking any real reform until the Chinese were a little prepared by education to receive it.\n\nAs your Lordship is aware, the Chinese are, to a very great extent, a nation of literati, and may be said, in a sense, to be highly educated. The education is, however, not of a useful character, being mainly confined to a deep and severe study of the Chinese classics, and it certainly does not make them anxious to receive reform.\n\nPrince Tsai created a very good impression during his visit to Japan, and it is only to be hoped that he may, through his father, be able to influence the central Government of his country. This hope is, I am afraid, unless matters have changed very much since I left China, somewhat of a forlorn one.\n\nMr. Wang Peh Tung's observations seem to have been of a somewhat peculiar character. He stated that after the Japanese war he had sent in a Memorial to his Government, advocating the surrender of Manchuria to Japan, \"which would then form a buffer State between Russia and China.\" He went on to say that there now existed a strong rapprochement between China and Japan, which would \"profoundly affect the future,\" and added that \"Yuan Shi Kai had 200 Japanese officers engaged in his army;\n\n\"also that \"there are 500 students at present in military colleges in Japan.\" I am afraid that Mr. Wang's statements are hardly in consonance with facts. There is, undoubtedly, a desire for a rapprochement between the two peoples, which is, perhaps, stronger on the part of the Japanese than of the Chinese. The latter, strange as it may seem, are imbued with a tolerant contempt for the \"little people,\" notwithstanding the severe lesson they received at their hands in 1894.\n\nYuan Shi Kai has certainly not got 200 Japanese officers in his army; twenty would be much nearer the mark, and this includes non-commissioned officers.\n\nI am assured by the Minister for War and the Minister for Foreign Affairs that the Japanese officers and non-commissioned officers engaged by all the various Viceroys in China do not number thirty.\n\nThere are in the military schools in Tokio fifty-five Chinese students, the names of all of whom are in my possession. These fifty-five have all been sent by Yuan Shi Kai. The number of students in the military schools throughout the Empire is 120, not 500, and all of these are not destined for the army; a good many study surveying only. There are, of course, in Japan a fairly large number of Chinese students, but they do not study the military arts, and are, for the most part, a thorn in the flesh of the Chinese Minister here, who, as Sir Henry mentions, is of opinion that many of them \"neglect their studies and are suffering in their morals.\"\n\nIf Mr. Wang really memorialized his Government, “advocating the surrender of Manchuria to Japan,\" it is a matter of some surprise that he should still be in office.\n\nThe statements of Sir Chentung Liang Cheng are of a somewhat pessimistic character, but coming from a man of his knowledge and experience, they are not to be disregarded. I have known him personally since 1896, and consider him to be one of the most straightforward, courageous, and intelligent of Chinamen, and an ardent, but sensible reformer. It will be within your Lordship's recollection that he accompanied his chief, Chang Yin Huan, to the Jubilee of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, in 1897,\n\n[1841 dd-1]",
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        "content_text": "(No. 94.) My Lord,\n\nNo. 2.\n\nMr. Townley to the Marquess of Lansdowne.—(Received April 27.)\n\nPeking, March 12, 1903.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward to your Lordship herewith a copy of a Report which I have received from Colonel Ducat, Military Attaché to this Legation, on the subject of the Reform movement in Southern China.\n\nI have forwarded a copy of Colonel Ducat's Report to the Governor of Hong Kong, who communicated to me a short time ago a copy of a despatch which he had addressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, reporting on the frustration at Hong Kong of a plot organized by the Reform party against the Chinese authorities at Canton, and giving a general account of the movement in the southern provinces.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nWALTER TOWNLEY.\n\nInclosure in No. 2.\n\nReport by Colonel Ducat on the Reform Party in the South.\n\nI HAVE been trying for some time to get into touch with the Chinese Reform party in these parts and ascertain their aims and plans for the future. But it is very difficult in my position to approach them, as I knew they would be suspicious of my intentions, so I called on Mr. Chater, one of the oldest residents and well acquainted with the Colony, and asked him to assist me. He gave me letters to two Chinese, who knew very well who the Reformers were but were not in any way connected with them, and asked them to do what they could to help me. One of these men gave me the names of some of the leading Reform members, but stipulated that I should not mention him, but would do what I could on my own account to get information from them.\n\nAfter several interviews and conversations with some of these I have gathered the following information:\n\nThere are some fourteen or fifteen newspapers published here with the object of explaining to the people of the South the advantages of Western forms of Government and the objects of the Reform party in China. The proprietor of the \"China newspaper\" appears to be one of the leaders of the movement, and has been the most communicative. I hear from him that, at present, they do not see their way to deposing the Manchu dynasty, which is their ultimate aim, but they are aiming at making the South independent of the North; the South being all the country south of the Yangtsze. He says, supposing even that it were possible to overthrow the Manchus, they have no man they could instal as Emperor, who would, for certain, be acceptable to China, and he thinks that a Republic under a President would be the only form of Government possible. Consequently their primary object is to obtain independence for the South, and their efforts for the present are confined to Kwang-tüng and Kwang-hsi. Canton is the centre from which they hope to operate, but so far all attempts at a rising in Canton to depose the Manchu officials have failed, because information of the movement has always leaked out, and their idea for the future is to try and take Canton by a coup de main from outside.\n\nThe regular troops of Kwang-tüng number about 30,000, those of Kwang-hsi about 10,000. Most of these are local men, but about one-quarter are Hunanese, and the province of Hunan, according to the Reformers, is bitterly opposed to the Manchu dynasty. They accordingly do not believe that there will be much opposition from the soldiers, provided that the object of the rising is made known to them. The bulk of the population of Canton and the two provinces, they assert, are only too willing to throw off the Manchu yoke and would join the movement as soon as it was developed.\n\nSo the Reformers' plan is to march 3,000 men (which is the number they say they can count on) suddenly on Canton, and trust to the people and the soldiers joining them (this seems a small number for such an undertaking), but their difficulty is that it is impossible to collect a very large quantity of arms without being discovered; and they think that this number could be rapidly collected and distributed without exciting suspicion. Owing to the recent plot at Canton having miscarried they do not meditate any immediate action; but they tell me that there will be a rising shortly in Hunan, the headquarters of which will probably be at Siang-tan, south of Changsha. From all I can gather it will be a purely local rising and will be easily suppressed, but they are not at all communicative on the subject. The fact seems to be that the Reformers receive a certain amount of subscriptions and feel called on to show that they are doing something. They consequently assist and foment local risings which have no prospect of success, and have as their only result the worrying of officials and keeping the country disturbed.\n\nThey tell me that what they want is a man; and that when Li Hung-chang was at Canton they approached him, and asked him if, in the event of a general rising against the North, he would be willing to be nominated as President of the South, but he declined to have anything to do with them.\n\nI send this information for what it is worth, but I believe it is a true statement of the aims of the Reform party here at present.\n\nHong Kong, February 25, 1903.\n\n(Signed)\n\nC. M. DUCAT,\n\nLieutenant-Colonel.\n\n(No. 99.) My Lord,\n\nNo. 3.\n\nMr. Townley to the Marquess of Lansdowne.—(Received April 27.)\n\nPeking, March 12, 1903.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith copies of correspondence upon the subject of the posts occupied by British troops in North China.\n\nA similar communication has been addressed to all the Legations having troops on the lines of communication between Peking and Tien-tsin, and between the latter place and the Great Wall.\n\n(Translation.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 3.\n\nPrince Ching to Mr. Townley.\n\nKuang Hsü, 27th year, 1st moon, 29th day (February 24, 1903).\n\nON the 19th instant received a despatch from his Excellency the Minister Superintendent of Northern Trade, in which his Excellency, after referring to the Protocol provision respecting the occupation by foreign troops of the lines of communication between the capital and the sea, goes on to state that between Tien-tsin and Shanhaikwan very much land has been occupied by the various foreign garrisons, and that while now the several contingents have been reduced, the amount of land and house property remaining in their occupation is by no means inconsiderable.\n\nHis Excellency has frequently suggested their restoration, but mostly without success; and the consequence is that the native authorities are beset with difficulties in transacting their official business, while the inhabitants of the places in question are rendered homeless and deprived of their livelihood.\n\nHis Excellency is aware of the high importance attached by all the Great Powers to the cultivation of friendly feeling and good relations between their countries and ours, and it is therefore clear that they should be handing back these places in due course to the advantage of the officials and people concerned. Of the ground thus occupied by various Powers, there is some which should be handed back at once; while there are other places which should be considered as lent to them, and for which they should pay rent—handing them back ultimately when the troops are withdrawn.\n\nHis Excellency asks me to bring this question to the attention of the foreign Representatives in Peking, and I therefore have the honour to forward to you copy of the list prepared by his Excellency, and to request that you may communicate it to the General Officer Commanding His Majesty's troops in the Tien-tsin-Shanhaikwan district with a view to his discussing the question satisfactorily with his Excellency Yuan Shih K'ai.\n\nWhile awaiting the honour of a reply, I avail, &c.\n\n[1918 dd-5]\n\nB 2\n\n90",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[March 13.]\n\nSECTION 321474\n\nFiled 11 JUN 03\n\nMr. Townley to the Marquess of Lansdowne.~(Received March 13.)\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\nPeking, March 13, 1903.\n\nNEGOTIATIONS for Commercial Treaty are about to be resumed by American Commissioners.\n\nAs Chinese Commissioners, Shêng is replaced by Wu Ting Fang, and the place of late Liu Kun Yi is taken by Yuan Shih K'ai. Chang Chih Tung and Liu complete the number.\n\nI am informed by United States' Minister that draft Treaty is more in consonance with British Treaty than the original draft, that his Government is anxious to see the abolition of li-kin carried out, and will require more definite guarantees in this sense than are contained in the Mackay Treaty, and that the rate of duty which they will be prepared to accept as compensation for li-kin abolition will not be so high.\n\nPage 159",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n244\n\nC.O.\n\n30309\n\nSOUTH-WEST CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n\"C\n\n(No. 5.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[June 8.]\n\nThe SECTION 14 AUG OF\n\nActing Consul Litton to the Marquess of Lansdowne,.(Received June 8.)\n\nYunnan-fu, April 6, 1903.\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit a Report, with sketch maps, on a journey in North-west Yunnan, which I performed last winter.\n\nAlmost all the country described is within the sphere of British commercial or political interest.\n\nIf your Lordship should direct that this Report be printed, I should be glad to receive six copies for use in Yünnan.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nG. LITTON.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nReport on a Journey in North and North-west Yünnan, Season 1902-1903.\n\n1.-Yünnan-fu to Pin Chuan, the Slope to the Yang-tsze.\n\nTHE main west road from Yünnan-fu to Ta Li runs chiefly along the head waters of a series of streams, which flow north and discharge themselves into the Yang-tsze. The average distance from the main road north to the Yang-tsze is 100 miles, and the drop is about 2,000 feet. Along the line of the main road, there is a series of valleys and plateaux (Yunnan Hsien, Chu Hsiung, Chen Nan, &c.), but further north, great ranges of mountains, running north and south, generally confine the streams in narrow defiles or valleys. The rush of water down this slope into the Yang-tsze during the rains is tremendous, and is a main cause of the rapid rise of the river at Sui-fu in August. The lines of main-trade communication in this country have naturally run north and south, and not east and west, but I resolved to commence my journey by taking a line to Ta Li, roughly equi-distant from the Yang-tsze and from the Burmah high road.\n\nLeaving Yünnan-fu by the North Gate on the 16th November, 1902, and proceeding over the plain for 5 miles, we crossed a limestone and sandstone col, and descended into a gorge, where we put up for the night, and the next day descended to the little city of Fu Min Hsien, in the valley of the An Ning River, which is the main outlet of the Yunnan Lake; 75 per cent. of the country consists of bare hills, with a sparse population of Lolos. After leaving the Fu Min Valley, we proceeded through poor and broken country above the west bank of the river to Ché Pei, whence we ascended past Chi Kai Market, to a sandy plateau sparsely clad with pine woods, and thence down to the valley of Wu Ting Choù, a tumble-down city of about 400 families, in a treeless barren country.\n\nThis town was destroyed in the disorders which marked the close of the Mohammedan rebellion in Yunnan, and has never recovered, but it was once an important stage on the Yunnan trade route between Yünnan and the Chien Chang (South-west Szechuan), which was once the principal trade route in the province. The \"oldest inhabitant\" of Wu Ting (1873) remembers the days when 100 laden mules per diem passed the city, but now there are not as many in a month. As soon as the Panthay troubles commenced, trade left the Chien Chang-Wu Ting route and took to the Sui-fu (Szechuan)-Chao Tong-fu-Yunnan-fu line, on the other side of the Yang-tsze from the Chien Chang; this route was in its turn strangled by the Lao Wa Tan li-kin, and yielded much of its importance to the west river route, which grew in importance with the growing demand in Canton for Yünnan opium. Pirates, the establishment of order on the Red River, and, above all, the establishment of the Customs at Mengtse, again diverted the commerce into the channel which, as regards Central Yunnan, it is likely to occupy permanently. There\n\n[2021 -1]\n\nB\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "245\n\n2\n\nis a moral for the Mandarins in the fact that goods destined for consumption in China will always endeavour to approach their markets, as far as possible, by foreign routes.\n\nAfter leaving Wu Ting, we turned north-west up a narrow valley and into some very mountainous country, inhabited chiefly by Lolos, but with some well-watered, and therefore well-peopled, valleys; on the second day from Wu Ting, we passed the backbone of the range which forms the west limit of the basin of the An Ning River, Shih T'a La (8,000 feet), and descended through bare imposing mountain scenery to the ridge of Hao Chi Pa, where we camped with no water nearer than 700 feet below us. The country resembles the Wa hills, on the Burmah frontier.\n\nFrom Hao Chi Pa there is an easy descent down to the valley of Yuan Meng Hsien, but the city having been partially destroyed by the rebels, the officials' residence has been moved further down the valley to Ma Kai, a busy market of 400 houses, where there is a considerable traffic. The valley is well cultivated down to the Yang-tsze, which is 25 miles distant on the Chien Chang road. This valley is almost tropical, the height of Ma Kai being only 4,000 feet; sugar is grown in considerable quantities, and the whole look of the place is Szechuanese rather than Yunnanese. Leaving Ma Kai, we entered the hills to the west of the valley, and after a long march across the river whose head waters flow sluggishly across the plain of Chu Hsiung on the main Burmah road, and over a waterless range (5,900 feet), we descended into the narrow and poor valley of Miao Men (li-kin station and 150 houses in the principal village), and then passed by a defile into a narrow, but fertile, valley, with a number of Chinese villages. Here we put up at the Lung Ch'uan Temple (\"dragon spring\"), which has been restored by Colonel Li, formerly Commandant of the Lin An brigade in South Yünnan, who has beautified his ancestral home with the spoils, if not of war, at least of peace. Hence a climb over another main north and south range (7,200 feet) brought us down to the valley and busy city of Ta Yao, which contains about 5,000 inhabitants and is a busy market. It is one of the places which the opening of the Teng Yueh customs has brought within the sphere of Burmah trade influence. Much of the through traffic between West Yünnan and Szechuan passes this way, and there is a main road from Ta Yao to Jen Ho Kai, an important market and li-kin station near the Yang-taze, whence trade goes across to the Chien Chang Valley. Silk, ponies, tobacco, sugar, and Szechuan cotton cloth are the chief imports into Yunnan by this route.\n\nThree-quarters of the country hitherto traversed had been mountainous; the hills are mainly populated by Lolos, who form the majority of the crowd at the Ta Yao market. The Chinese have, however, already occupied most of the good valley lands, and will, no doubt, in time gradually extinguish the Lolos. The only product of the country besides mules and ponies which is worth mentioning is hemp, which the Lolos use for their coarse garments. It sells raw for 50 cash a catty (1 lb.) on the market at Ta Yao, and some of it finds its way to Teng Yueh.\n\nFrom Ta Yao as a centre, a number of cultivated valleys penetrate in various directions into the surrounding hills. Following one of these for 12 miles we crossed another low range running north and south, and looked down into the valley of Pei Yen Tsing (\"white salt wells\"), and across it on to vast confused mountain masses.\n\nWe camped 3 miles short of the wells; a sharp white frost fell in the night and nearly every other night for the rest of our journey.\n\nPei Yen Tsing is a filthy town of about 6,000 inhabitants, consisting of one long street in a close gorge, where brine wells have been bored. The output of salt is about 2,000 catties per day, and there is an official of the Salt Department in charge. The brine is brought up in leather buckets, let down by hand and then boiled in large open pans over charcoal fires.\n\nImmediately after leaving Pei Yen Tsing in a westerly direction, an abrupt and tiring ascent over a main range has to be made; from the summit of the Kuan Yin Miao pass the traveller descends through wild country to the K'ung Hsien Bridge by the banks of the K'ung Hsien River. This is a mountain stream which flows down to the Yang-tsze, and we ascended it for 19 miles through a magnificent defile, densely wooded, and with the side valleys finely terraced with rice-fields. The road from Pei Yen Tsing up over the mountains and along this gorge was once paved, and as there are clearly not enough inhabitants in the vicinity to have undertaken such a work, it seems, probably, that this was once a main trade route between Ta Li and Szechuan.\n\nLeaving this romantic valley, we ascended to the open plateau of Mi Tien, whence a level road to the south-west leads in two days to Yunnan Hsien on the Burmah high road, while another road to the north-west leads, through a defile in the hills, past the fertile valley of Chiao Ting, and so out on to the wide plain of Pin Chuan, which is the most important rift in the mountains between Ta Li and Yunnan-fu. This plain is about 3 miles long and 14 miles to 3 miles broad.\n\n3\n\nIt debouches on to the Yang-tsze at the important market of Chin Chiang Kai, one long day's march from Pin Chuan city; thence the high road leads to Yung Peh. Of recent years a considerable and lucrative trade has sprung up between West Yunnan and the trans-Yang-tsze Yung Peh district, specially those parts of it which are near the Yang-tsze and to the Szechuan border. The people of West Yunnan is supplied with sugar from this source, and also with tobacco; paper, oranges, and Shasi cloth are other objects of commerce, while opium, cotton, and gams move east in return across the Yang-tsze.\n\nThe south of the Pin Chuan Valley is divided by an easy col (7,250 feet) from the extensive plain of Yunnan Hsien, and this again is divided by one range from the valleys of Mi Tao and Meng Hua, which brings us near the Mekong River; the railway engineer who had got his alignment over on to the east bank of the Mekong would have an easy task to reach the Yang-tsze north of Pin Chuan.\n\nA great part of the Pin Chuan Valley is barren, owing to an insufficient supply of water; here, as in so many parts of Yunnan, scientific irrigation would work wonders. The city of Pin Chuan contains only one business street and a number of ancestral temples, and not more than 4,000 inhabitants, but there are two busy little markets in the plain, at Niu Kai, 7 miles north of the city, and at Pin Chi, 6 miles to the south-west. This valley, together with Yung Peh, ought now to get its foreign supplies wholly from Teng Yueh.\n\nIndian yarns of the coarser counts are likely to remain for many years the staple Note on cotton imports of Teng Yueh. I therefore append some notes on the cotton trade generally trade in Yünnan:\n\n(a.) Raw cotton is imported almost solely for the purpose of wadding garments and quilts.\n\n(b) The imports of Manchester goods are small, the annual value being from 55,000 to 100,000. The well-to-do inhabitants of the towns are Manchester's chief customers, and they do not form a large class in Yünnan, where there is only one town (the capital) of over 60,000 inhabitants, and only three others (Yung Chang, Chao Tong, and Chù Tsing) of over 20,000.\n\nThere is, however, a chance of extending the foreign piece-goods trade in the Yung Chang and Teng Yueh Valleys, where many people have travelled in Burmah, and have a taste for foreign cloth, and in many parts of Yunnan I think American drills may find favour.\n\n(c.) The Shasi cloth, so well known along the Yang-tsze, comes into Yünnan from Szechuan by Lao Wa Tan; it is still the principal clothing of the people in the Chao Tong district, but is losing ground almost everywhere on account of its price.\n\n(d.) All other cottons have in the last twelve years rapidly yielded in public favour before \"yang sha pu,\" or cloth locally woven from imported yarns. The great centre of this industry is the Hsin Hsing Valley, three days south of Yunnan-fu. This valley and the country near it take some 40,000 piculs yearly, and the manual dexterity of the weavers has attained so high a standard that Hsin Hsing cloth is distributed all over the province, especially in the Ta Li district; the reason for the establishment of this industry at Hsin Hsing is that the population is dense and is near a foreign custom-house, so that goods can be brought in cheaply under transit pass from Mengtse.\n\nHad we been wise in time, Teng Yuch would have been an open port ten years ago, and with the cheap and regular Tariff of the Imperial Customs, the weaving industry would certainly have established itself in the Yung Chang or Teng Yueh Valleys. The disadvantage to us of its being at Hsin Hsing is that there Japanese and Tonkin yarns can compete with Bombay on favourable terms, while near Teng Yueh the yarn would all be Indian.\n\nYunnan-fu takes about 15,000, and Chủ Tsing, in East Yunnan, about 12,000 piculs of yarn annually; these, however, are consumed locally, and there is no export of cloth to speak of from these districts.\n\nI was glad to observe that attempts are now being made to start weaving all over West Yunnan, notably at Yung Chang and Hoching Chou, and even that yarns can now go from Teng Yueh into South-west Szechuan and return thence to Yung Peh in the form of woven cloth.\n\nFashions, of course, vary, and there are many districts which could be supplied more cheaply from Teng Yueh which at present prefer Shasi or Hsin Hsing goods, and from the point of view of wholesale manufacture for export to other districts, as apart from merely supplying local demand by local domestic industry, merchants complain that trade and mule...",
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        "content_text": "5\n\n246\n\nHsin Hsing is the only Yünnan woven cloth which can be depended upon for length, breadth, and evenness of texture.\n\nPonies and Mules.-I cannot doubt that if the Government of Burmah is inclined to take the matter up, Yünnan would in time become an important source of supply of mules and ponies; but it would be necessary to send competent and, I may add, patient officers into the breeding districts to explain the requirements of Burmah. Burmah gets the off-sweepings of Yunnan in the way of ponies-the halt, the maimed and the blind.\n\nAt present, for ponies, the best, but probably also the dearest, market is Yünnan-fu itself, where there is a much wider choice of animals than anywhere else.\n\nAt Hsia Kuan the number of ponies sold is small, but all over the part of Yunnan which I traversed, ponies and mules are bred in considerable numbers, and hardly any village is so poor as not to have a few ponies and donkeys.\n\nThe Chien Chang (south-west) corner of Szechuan is also an important pony-breeding ground, and I have seen a very few mules from the same district which would, I think, be large enough for batteries, prices asked being 60 to 80 taels (now 120 to 160 rupees).\n\nI also met several caravans of ponies (30 to 50 in each) en route from the Chien Chang to Burmah via the Kun Long Ferry; many were mares in foal, and for the rest their obvious destiny was to draw a ticca gharry in Mandalay. There is a steady movement of animals from these districts down to Yung Chang and Teng Yueh to supply transport for the Burmah and the salt trades. It is, however, very hard to get exact numbers, because animals are mostly privately sold, and not exposed on the open market, so as to avoid those official exactions which ruin the internal trade of China, and especially of Yunnan. One dealer, who was taking ponies to Mandalay from Hui Li, in the Chien Chang, told me that by dodging the cities and markets he managed to get across the province without paying taxes more than five times, or, in all, 4 rupees per beast, which represents about 12 per cent, ad valorem at his home.\n\nAt Hoching, five days north of Ta Li, there is a specially good class of mule engaged in the salt trade. He is hardly big enough for a battery, but he carries 215 lbs. over very severe mountain roads an average of 15 miles a-day, day in and day out.\n\nBut the main source at present of the Burmah pony supply is Chung Tien, ten days north of Ta Li, across the Yang-tsze, the inhabitants of which are Thibetans known as Ku Tsung men. I have not yet been able to visit their country, but it is stated to supply a large number of a strong, though not elegant, type of pony. They seem, however, not to thrive in a hot climate, and receive so little attention on their long journey down that they usually reach Teng Yueh in a very poor condition. Besides horse-dealers, a number of other Ku Tsung men come down to West Yunnan every year with beasts which they let out for hire for transport, and take back to their homes at the end of the spring.\n\nThe Fowl's Foot Mountain is near Ta Li.\n\nLeaving Pin Chuan by the North Gate, we followed the road down the valley towards the Yang-tzse for a mile, and then turning west across the stream which inadequately waters the plain, marched slightly west of north across downs and foot-hills which fringe the west side of the valley. The road is cut at intervals by several streams flowing from the mountains which shelter the east shore of the Ta Li Lake, eastward into the Pin Chuan Plain, and along these streams there is garden-like cultivation and picturesque villages. After three hours' march we crossed a road leading from Nui Kai to Wa Ch'i, a market on the east shore of the Ta Li Lake, whence a boat can be taken across to Ta Li Fu.\n\nPassing the market of Lien Tung, which is situated above the rich padi valley of Fu Tien Chuang, whose fields are mostly owned by the monks of the Chi Tsu Shan (Fowl's Foot Hill). On the grassy slopes near our camp, pheasants, quail, and partridges abounded.\n\nAll day long we had seen in front of us a huge hog-backed mountain rising up from the Pin Chuan Valley in a west direction across fifteen points of the compass, and terminating on the west in an isolated castle-like pinnacle, on the summit of which could be seen the white glitter of a temple.\n\nOn the next day we continued over-hill and down towards the great mountain, having on our left the range which hangs over the east shore of the Ta Li Lake, and after two and a-half hours' march we emerged from a forest into the beautiful valley of Sha Chi, which nestles along the south foot of the Fowl Mountain. The broad flank of the mountain is densely clad with forest, amid which may be discerned the roofs and pagodas of the lower temples, and a pellucid stream flows past the padi terraces of Sha Chi in an easterly direction towards the Yang-tzse. In the afternoon we ascended the hill to 7,800 feet through dense forest, and then, turning east along a good path, reached the beautiful temple of Shih Tan Ssu, entirely surrounded by virgin forest.\n\nThis is the residence of the Seng Cheng Ssu, or Controller of all the temples and monks on the hill. He administers corporal punishment, or in bad cases can expel the offending bonze from the precincts of the hill. The office is now filled by a pleasant old monk of about 60 years old, who has spent all his life on and near the hill, and, having lived through the Panthay rebellion, during which the temples were alternately and impartially pillaged by the followers of the Prophet and the followers of Confucius, has many tales of adventure to relate. At present he seems to be more interested in getting in his rents than in attaining Nirvana, and in the price of the drugs which his hill produces, than in the Buddha, the law, or the order.\n\nTwenty-nine temples are shown on a native map of the hill; they are all, with the exception of the summit shrine, situated on the south slope of the mountain, and buried in a magnificent growth of forest, but many are now abandoned and in ruins.\n\nFrom Shi Tak Ssu a good cornice road leads along the mountain slope in a west direction to Chin Lan Ssu (Golden Orchid Temple), which is at the foot of the west pinnacle. Besides this main road, there are wood-cutters' paths in all directions, and pleasant walks through the cool depths of the forest, where the stately silver pheasant and the elegant Amherst pheasant may be seen strutting in their native wilds.\n\nWhen the winter sun of Yünnan floods the whole hill with light, the view of forest and mountain is so superb that it is easy to believe that a spot so conspicuous, so accessible and so beautiful, must have attracted the religious devotion of men from the time when they were first moved by the conception of the spiritual or the sublime. Legend attributes the earliest temples to the Tang dynasty, and the Chi Kwang Ssu is even stated to have been founded by Han Ming Ti, who sent a Buddhist Embassy to India; A.D. 58. But, in point of fact, there is nothing in the buildings at present standing to take the dedication of the hill to Buddha further back than the Ming dynasty. The style of the architecture of these temples strongly resembles that of the Ming tombs near Peking, save that in some of them there are graceful bell-towers of wood built into the main structure on the right and left of the first court. There are also some good specimens of the ornate carved eaves, such as are to be seen in the British Legation at Peking, and these I take to date only from the early days of the present dynasty. From tablets and inscriptions still to be seen in the temples, it is clear that there was a powerful Buddhist movement in Yünnan in the reigns of Tien Chi and Wan Li of the Ming, 1573, 1621.\n\nMany of the wooden tablets are of great size, and of value as specimens of Ming calligraphy; it is said—and it is quite likely—that there were also valuable collections of altar furniture and pictures which were looted during the Panthay rebellion. In the Shih Tan Ssu, the residence of the Controller, are the usual Wan Sui, or 10,000 year tablets in honour of the reigning Emperor, and also tablets which are supposed to secure the prosperity of the high provincial officials, each of these dignitaries having a separate tablet with his titles and the characters \"lu wei\" (seat of official prosperity) inscribed thereon. Apart from this, the images in the temples are all purely Buddhist. The three precious Buddhas, representing the Buddha, the law, and the order, Kuan Yin in a side shrine, and the Ju Lai Fo, are the commonest of the idols. The usual Chinese heroes and demi-gods are conspicuous by their absence. Thibetan influence is very marked, and, indeed, the impulse of Buddhism probably came here from Thibet. The walls have been scribbled over with Thibetan script by pilgrims from the north. Thibetan charms dangle from the walls, and the main court of Shih Tan Ssu is adorned with Thibetan tiles.\n\nIn all the chief temples morning and evening services are celebrated, but there is little or no knowledge of the faith among the Bonzes. The total number of the holy men on the hill is about 300; the Shih Tan Ssu has about thirty and Hua Yen Ssu forty.\n\nThe rents of Shih Tan amount to 300 piculs of grain yearly, derived from lands in the neighbourhood. Hua Yen Ssu is also fairly well off, but on the whole the Bonzes have fallen on bad times and begging, or the subscriptions of visitors at the end...\n\n[2021 - 1]",
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        "content_text": "10\n\nThese valleys to the north of Ta Li form a considerable market for foreign goods. Among the very attractive Minchia ladies, I fancied that I noticed an unappeased longing for finery, such as cheap laces, ribbons, and Turkey reds, while their capacity for consuming all kinds of sweetstuff is considerable. They share the labours of the sterner sex, and so add to the labour power of the valleys, which they inhabit.\n\nAfter Hei Nui Shao, we continued somewhat north of east, through fine hill country, with fields and scrub, where an exciting pheasant drive was organized, until we saw the wide plain of Hoching, with its 200 villages spread like a chess board at our feet. We descended the windings of a long spur to the level ground, and struck a wide-paved causeway, some 3 miles south of Hoching city. It was market day, and the traffic was very heavy. Many of the hill Minchia women near Hoching have retained their native kilts and the men their arms, leather shoes, and felt or fur caps, so that they present a picturesque aspect on their return home from market.\n\nHoching Valley can be recommended to the attention of those who would have us believe that Yunnan is a poverty-stricken wilderness. The plain is about 24 miles by 5 miles, and contains about 200 villages, excellently built. The city itself has about 12,000 inhabitants, and is clean and well built, with but little empty space in the walls. The streets are densely crowded every ten days for the market. The place is an important salt and opium entrepôt, and the general prosperity of the inhabitants attracts all sorts of trade. Even dried lichees from Canton may be bought at stalls on the streets. A weaving industry is now springing up, yarn being brought under transit pass from Teng Yueh. I think that the great majority of the people are still clad in Hsin Hsing or Shasi cloth, and only about eighty muleloads of Manchester goods per annum are sold in Hoching, but throughout the valley, the chance of extending Burmah trade seems excellent; some of the merchants with whom I conversed are well acquainted with the commercial advantages offered by the opening of the Teng Yueh Customs; indeed, they stated that before that event, the foreign trade of the valleys north of Ta Li was exceedingly risky, owing to the irregular imposts of all sorts to which it was exposed. The crushing impositions of the Teng Yuch and Yung Chang tax collectors formed but a part of the mischief. I have already noticed the mules of Hoching.\n\nLeaving the North Gate of Hoching, the stone causeway passes some lagoons, and leaving the valley bottom, leads over some downs and through some firwoods to the li-kin station of Chi Ho. The valley is well peopled all along, and the traffic on the road is very considerable.\n\nThe next day we crossed the rocky col of the Lion Hill (Ssu Tzu Shan) and a gentle descent through firwoods brings the traveller out on to the wide plain of Li Chiang. The river which waters the Hoching Plain issues from the north-east of the Lichiang Plain, flows south, under the east foot of the Lion Pass, and so down the Hoching Valley, from the south-east corner of which it issues and joins the Yang-tsze.\n\nLichiung-fu, the Snow Mountain, and the Yang-tsze Bend.\n\nWhile descending from the Lion Pass to the Lichiang Plain, the clouds which had obscured for some days the tops of the ranges, among which we had been travelling, slightly lifted, and disclosed the sharp snow-striped triple peak of the snow mountain, towards which we had been marching for five days. The lower slopes of the mountain were still enfolded in mist, and the impression given was one of enormous height. The Lichiang Snow Mountain—it has no other name—is known far and wide among the natives, and the geographical problems regarding the country at its feet are of sufficient interest to merit a particular description.\n\nThe Lichiang Plain may be considered as divided into three portions, first there is the main valley with the Lion Pass on the south, the city and the range at the back of it on the north, and the hills crossed by the high road from Lichiang to the Yang-tsze and Yung-peh on the east. This covers about 40 square miles, and is, roughly, 8 miles by 6 miles. Then there is the northern section of the plain, which runs up at the back of the city along the east flank of the Snow Mountain for some 9 miles, and, thirdly, over a low col on the west of the main plain, there is the Lashi Pa, a circular valley, with a diameter of 4 miles, sloping gradually down on all sides to a lake in the ...\n\n11\n\n...middle. The main road from Lichiang, west to the Ashi Ferry, on the Yang-tsze, en route to Thibet, runs along the north of this lake, while the road to Chien Chuan skirts the south-east of it, passing under the Wen Pi, or Pencil Hill, a conspicuous wedge-shaped peak, which overhangs the south-west of the main valley. The Pencil Hill, together with the Snow Mountain, balances the geomantic influences, and secures the prosperity of Lichiang.\n\nThe Lichiang Valley possesses a good dark soil which is suitable for opium. Little rice is grown, but the dry land cereals abound. The population is not so dense as that of Hoching Valley, the villages being smaller and further apart. The city itself contains about 8,000 inhabitants, and is situated on the north of the valley near the great snow peak which can be seen from nearly every street corner. It is quite unlike any other prefectural city in China; in the first place, it is at an altitude of 8,100 feet; in the second place there is no wall, the Magistrate's Yamên being quite out in the country; thirdly, streams of pure water issuing from the Dragon pool of the Lung Wang Miao to the north of the city flow alongside the pavement, houses and shops being pleasantly diversified with gardens and orchards; fourthly, it is at the foot of a great snow mountain; and fifthly, the majority of the inhabitants are not Chinese. The houses on the outskirts of the city are well built in the Minchia style, while the centre of the city is a square market-place, where a busy daily market is held. From this square branch three business streets of small wooden shops, where the sellers of cotton cloth, Thibetan wools, and copper and iron-workers are conspicuous. There is also a small paper industry, the paper being made from the bark of the kou tree, while a number of Chinese medicine and musk buyers frequent the place.\n\nTo the north of the city runs the north section of the plain under the east flank of the snow hill; this plain is closed on the north by the spurs through which the Hei Shui, or Blackwater Stream, runs eastward to the Yang-tsze. At the south end of this plain, some 5 miles west of Lichiang, is the market of Pei Sha and several villages, but further north it is barren, stony, and windswept.\n\nSome 6 miles west of Lichiang city a low col which joins the Snow Mountain to Pencil Hill divides the main section of the plain from the Lashi section. Lashi Pa, with its lake, is densely populated and has twenty large villages. Quantities of rice are grown and a number of beasts are bred. The whole of the Lashi Pa is surrounded by pine-clad heights and presents a very beautiful view.\n\nThe inhabitants of the Lichiang Plain and its dependencies fall under three heads: These are the Chinese, mostly immigrants from Hoching; the Minchia, who are chiefly in the south of the valley; and the so-called \"pun ti,\" or natives. These latter call themselves Lashi, and though their language is not the same as that of the Ku Tsung Thibetans of Chung Tien, the difference seems to be dialectic only, and I cannot doubt that the Lashi are the most southern branch of the true Thibetan stock. Their sepia complexion, their fondness for lamaseries and woollen garments and their high cheek bones all proclaim their affinity. The young women usually wear hats like Chinamen, but with long tassels and gilt embroidery. The Lashis form the majority of the inhabitants of Lichiang city, the bulk of the population of Lashi Pa, and they seem to entirely monopolize the Yang-tsze bend. In the latter country their houses are often made of nothing but wood, while substantial log-huts in the Canadian backwoods style are supplied for the cattle. The Lashi mostly speak a little \"pidgin\" Chinese, and have ancestral tablets in their houses. They are friendly and hospitable, good carpenters and blacksmiths, and it is to be hoped that their language and history will be studied by some traveller who has time. It will probably be found that they are closely related to the Mosso tribe on the Upper Mekong.\n\nThe inhabitants of Lichiang are sportsmen, and fond of falconry. The hawks, which they fly at pheasants and ducks, are heavy birds, and a good deal of care is spent in looking after them.\n\nI am able to throw some light on the question of the Yang-tsze bend to the north of Lichiang. M. Bonin, the well-known French traveller, who in 1894 went from Yang-tzse bend to Ashi, and, having crossed the Tang-tsze there, proceeded north-east to Tachienlu, surmises that the course of the Yang-tsze was wrongly marked on our old maps, and that the river makes a great curve to the north from Ashi, sweeping round to the south again from a point a little to the south of Yung Ning. I can confirm the truth of M. Bonin's suggestion; there is, in fact, no doubt about the matter. It is perfectly well known to the Yamens at Lichiang that if you go from the city to the Chin Chiang (Golden River), as the Yang-tsze is locally known, in a westerly direction, you strike the stream at Ashi, one long day's march. If you go in an easterly direction you reach the stream on the second day from Lichiang on the Yung-peh road; but if you go in a northerly direction you have to travel six days from Lichiang to reach the Yang-tsze at the northern apex of the bend. The concave or south side of the bend is all in the jurisdiction of Lichiang, while the convex bank belongs to Yung-peh, Yung Ning, and Chung Tien respectively.\n\nThe other question is the trend of the range of which the Lichiang Snow Mountain is such a conspicuous feature. On a survey sketch published by the Government of ...\n\nE.\n\n249",
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        "content_text": "18\n\nMiao Wei is chiefly Chinese, and from this point to Fei Lung Bridge, 5 miles, there is a strip of open country along the west bank, and the road leads past Chinese hamlets, clumps of bamboos and extensive padi-fields, until a turn in the river disclosed the Flying Dragon (\"Fei Lung\") Bridge, slung like the thread of a spider's web across the river.\n\nThere is a small market of twenty shops here, at the west end of the bridge, and a considerable traffic of caravans for the districts to the north of Teng Yueh, laden with salt and sugar.\n\nBesides the salt wells of Lashi and some smaller brine wells at Pei Ti Ping, there are near the east bank of the Mekong in the Yün Tung Sub-Prefecture no less than nine places where salt is won. From these districts the whole of North-West Yunnan is supplied.\n\nThe Mekong from its exit from Tibet (approximate latitude 28° north) down to the great suspension bridge on the Burma-Ta Li road (latitude 25° 17′ north) is remarkable for the straightness of its course, for the uniformity of its breadth, for the absence of any considerable tributaries, and, above all, for the continuous and regular ranges of lofty mountains which close it in on both sides. It is like a huge conduit-pipe, down which the waters of Tibet are poured into the Southern Ocean.\n\nIn winter the water is of a rich blue and very cold. At my camp at Lama Ti the surface temperature was 39° Fahrenheit. I saw no boats on the Upper Mekong save the ferry at Lama Ti, but there are long reaches which a skilful canoist could safely negotiate. If the Mekong and Salwen in Yünnan flowed through broad valleys instead of close gorges, and if their navigability had been in proportion to their volume and length, how entirely different might have been the history of Asia!\n\nThe following approximate figures give some idea of the course of the Upper Mekong:-\n\n  \n    Place\n    Latitude\n    Height\n    Breadth\n  \n  \n    Near Tseku\n    28° 0' N.\n    6,100 Feet\n    ❤ Yards\n  \n  \n    Ying Pan Kai\n    26° 30' N.\n    5,200 Feet\n    70 Yards\n  \n  \n    Fei Lung Bridge\n    25° 45' N.\n    4,500 Feet\n    70 Yards\n  \n  \n    Great Suspension Bridge\n    25° 17' N.\n    4,300 Feet\n    60-80 Yards\n  \n\nFrom Fei Lung Bridge we continued down the west bank, passing a series of fertile terraces to the considerable village of Chiu Chou, which, like all the residences of local Chiefs in this country, is built on a ridge in the valley. Chiu Chou is the seat of the eldest of the Tuan brothers, who are of sufficient importance in this part of the world to merit some account. According to my information, their ancestor was a Chinese adventurer, who established his authority between the Salwen and the Mekong in the early days of the present dynasty, and was afterwards recognized as a hereditary Tu ssu, or Chief, by the Yunnan Government. The family has now split up into five branches, and the patrimony is thus divided; the head of the eldest branch is at Chiu Chou, on the Mekong; the second at Luku, on the east bank of the Salwen; the third at Lao Wu, in the mountains west of Piao Tsuen, between the Salwen and the Mekong; the fourth at Mao-tsao, on the west bank of the Salwen, near Luku; and the fifth at Tengkeng, on the west bank of the Salwen, rather south of Luku. None of these places are more than large villages, and, excepting Lao Wu, which is in the hills, these Chiefs only have a small strip of territory between mountain and river. The first three are subject to the Ta Li Prefect, and the last two to Yung Chang Prefect.\n\nAt Chiu Chou we said good-bye to the Mekong, and turning west commenced the ascent of the great range on the west bank. The way at first led up a side valley carefully terraced and narrowing as we advanced. The last village is Ma Chia Ping (10 miles, 6,600 feet), and then commenced a very trying ascent through primeval forest by a very narrow and dilapidated road. In two hours' scramble we only advanced 3 miles, when we reached the wattle hut of Tou Tao Shou, where we found a petty military officer, and just room to pitch a tent on the top of a ridge in the forest. The only water was 500 feet below us, and there was no feed for the mules; to complete our discomfort a storm of sleet came on, and lasted most of the night.\n\nThe next morning we reached the top of the pass after a climb of two hours through dense forest and over frozen snow. At the summit there is a small plateau covered with rhododendrons and bamboo scrub. From here the slopes which we had ascended appeared impassibly steep, and the east side of the crest of the range bristles with jagged precipices. But on the west slope our descent was far easier, leading gradually down a broad spur covered with dense bamboo brake, and lower down with pine forests. At 9,500 feet we passed another small guard-house, and then travelled down through bracken and grass, shooting pheasants as we went till we reached the open plain of Tsao Chiang. The range of mountains on the west bank of the Salwen—to all appearances not a whit less formidable than that which we had just crossed—had been in full view during the descent.\n\nPage 19\n\nThe plain of Tsao Chiang is shaped roughly like a pear, with the stalk to the north, and is about 6 miles long, surrounded by lofty mountains. There is some good pasture here, and mules constitute the chief source of wealth of the mixed population of Chinese immigrants and Minchia natives, who trade with Yung Chang and Teng Yueh. There is also in this valley a considerable iron industry; the ore is brought from the hills 15 miles to the south, and made into agricultural implements and salt pans. In the chief village, which contains about 3,000 inhabitants, and is built on a ridge in the middle of the plain, there is a busy market. There was formerly a native Minchia Chief here, but he has been suppressed, and the place is now under the ordinary jurisdiction of Yün Lung. The great range which we had crossed is, farther north, the water-parting between the Mekong and the Salwen, but, to our surprise, we found that it is not so at the point where we crossed it, as the stream which waters the Tsao Chiang plain flows into the Mekong. The hills directly to the north of the Tsao Chiang plain are inhabited by Lisaw, who are not under control by the Chinese Government.\n\nLeaving the Tsao Chiang Valley in a south-west direction, we entered the broken hilly country which reaches to the Salwen and camped on the top of a slope near a Minchia village, whence an extensive view of the surrounding country showed that the Salwen-Mekong water-parting is at this point an irregular and split-up range which makes a loop westward towards the Salwen, and quite lacks that imposing dignity and compactness which is a distinguishing feature of the range on the west bank of the Mekong. We passed into the Salwen system and the jurisdiction of Yung Chang the next day by an easy col 7,800 feet, and from the hamlet of Shui Ching looked down into the depths of a cavernous gorge, which runs due west down to the Salwen. On descending to the level of this gorge by a steep path, we found ourselves at the village of Sun Chu and in an almost tropical climate. The direct road down the gorge to the Salwen was barely passable for pedestrians, and quite impossible for mules, so we had to make a detour to the south up a side valley richly cultivated by the peasants of Sun Chu, and then again west into the mountains, where we camped at the picturesque market and hamlet of Wa Ma.\n\nHere everybody spoke Chinese, though there is clearly a large admixture of Shan blood, and we had passed beyond the land of the Minchia. Wa Ma is situated amid the limestone peaks which overhang the east bank of the Salwen; deer, which are hunted for their meat, and bears, which are hunted for their paws, are said to abound. There is a track leading from Wa Ma to Yung Chang in three days.\n\nFrom Wa Ma we wound our way in a north-west direction through mountain valleys, well wooded and with frequent patches of cultivation, until we reached a height of 7,300 feet, and descended to the Shan hamlet of San Kung Wa.\n\nHere the hills open and disclose a broad funnel-like defile, the bottom of which was densely clad with rich green vegetation, running straight down to the Salwen. Descending sharply to the little stream which waters the defile, we found the road practicable for mules, and passing the picturesque but dirty hamlet of La Pa (Shan), we approached the great river. The defile opened out and the hills on both sides became less abrupt until we debouched into the valley of the Salwen at the fever-stricken village of Meng Ku. There is here an alluvial valley 1 mile broad by the river bank, but only a small proportion of it is cultivated, while the rest is covered with rank grass. We halted by the river bank under a sun which made us regret the snows which we had left a few days before. The altitude of the river here is but 2,900 feet, while its breadth is 100 yards.\n\nAs compared with the Mekong at this latitude, the Salwen is a wider and more winding river. It is, as a rule, shallower, and though, like the Mekong, it is enclosed in a gorge, the country on both banks is more varied and open and there is more room for cultivation. Of course, the most remarkable point about the Salwen is the extraordinarily low altitude of its bed. The mountains on both banks rise to over 7,000 feet above it.\n\nWe crossed the Meng Ku ferry in a boat, which took our mules as well as ourselves, and proceeding north up the west bank to the padi-fields, and market of Man Ying. We camped at the foot of the mountains, which are here clad with dense semi-tropical jungle.\n\n253",
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        "content_text": "22\n\n23\n\n255\n\n}}\n\nGeneral Conclusions.\n\nFor those who are interested in Yünnan and its trade, I beg to submit the following remarks and suggestions :-\n\n1. It must be remembered that Yünnan is out of the great current of China trade. Whether the year is going to be a good or a bad one depends wholly on the local opium and rice harvest, which in their turn depend on the weather. If this is favourable, we may be sure that there will be money to be spent in the ensuing autumn and winter trading season; therefore, merchants who wish to try a venture in Yünnan should inform themselves as to the harvest.\n\n2. The part of Yunnan which may be conveniently served by our Burmah route is, on the whole, considerably more populous than the part of Yunnan served by the French or Red River route; the Burmah trade has hitherto been half strangled by the ravages of Chinese tax-collectors, but now that Teng Yueh is an \"open port,\" under Sir Robert Hart's supervision, there is every reason to hope for a great expansion of trade.\n\nIt will, however, be necessary to take severe measures against the attempts of the officials to recommence illegal exactions.\n\n3. The most urgent need of Teng Yueh trade is an export product to give in return for Indian yarn and cotton goods. This is especially necessary just now, as the balance of trade is heavily against Teng Yueh; merchants whose capital is silver have to liquidate their debts in appreciated rupees; there is only one export possible at present, and that is opium; the obsolete rules which prohibit the Yunnan drug being taken across Burmah, en route to Canton and Shanghae, should be at once abolished.\n\n4. The importance of Yunnan as a possible field of supply for ponies and mules should not be lost sight of.\n\n5. Every effort should be made to establish a cotton cloth-weaving industry in the Teng Yuch or Yung Chang valleys, and so to undo a part of the injury which Burmah trade has suffered from the long delay in opening Teng Yueh.\n\n6. I am inclined to think a European firm might establish itself with advantage at Teng Yueh. The trade would not bear a large and expensive European staff; what is wanted is rather some one of energy and tact who would be content to rough it, in the hope of opening new lines of trade, especially of export trade, which the Chinese, when left to themselves, are exceedingly slow to attempt. I strongly recommend the employment of Indian, preferably Mahommedan, travelling agents in the interior.\n\n7. Hsia Kuan is a centre of the greatest importance to Burmah trade, and I would suggest the establishment of a foreign agency there, under the direction of Chinese, but to be visited from time to time by a European merchant.\n\n8. The Ta Li third-moon fair is worth attending, as something might there be learned of prospects of trade.\n\n9. The duties levied at Rangoon on all goods not of Indian origin destined for consumption in China should be suppressed. It would be easy for the Government of Burmah to arrange for a system of drawbacks in co-operation with the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs.\n\n10. Among the articles of import which I noted down in the course of my journey as likely to have an extended market in West Yunnan are blankets, cheap clocks, and watches, mirrors, enamelled ironware, cheap ribbons and laces for trimmings, pocket-knives, padlocks, umbrellas, leather belts, the stouter cottons, such as American drills, cotton prints of a gaudy pattern, Turkey reds, cigarettes, jade, coral, and amber.\n\nAmong possible exports from Yunnan, ponies and mules, musk, hemp, straw braid, rhubarb, drugs consumed by Chinese, wool and furs from Lichiang, bristles, silk from South-west Szechuan, would seem to deserve attention. It must be remembered that up-country Chinese traders are fond of false-packing and other frauds, and by no means comprehend the necessity of goods being up to sample.\n\n11. I should be very sorry to offer any advice about mines in the part of Yunnan which my Report deals with. Salt and copper are the mineral products of which I saw most, but they are both in the hands of official monopolists. Until better informed, I venture to doubt whether there are any mines in this part of Yunnan which would pay for the cost of transporting foreign machinery and paying for foreign engineers. When the upper waters of the Irrawadi have been brought under control by Burmah, it might be well to prospect there for nephrite (jade), which will always command a great market in China.\n\n12. The geological and ethnological features of the Upper Mekong and Salwen are of the utmost interest, and call for careful examination by trained observers with plenty of time, as regards the very mixed population of this district, it would appear to be derived from two sources :-\n\n(a.) Migration south from Thibet, a country which cannot support a large population. This migration is represented by Kachins, Mossos, Lisaw, Lashi, and probably Lolos.\n\n(b.) Migrations west from the Yang-tsze Valley, represented by the Shans and later by the Chinese.\n\nThe Minchia, who seem to occupy more territory than is commonly supposed, may or may not, on inquiry, be found to represent an old stock who had attained a certain degree of civilization before the other migrations commenced.\n\nSUMMARY of Stages in North-West Yunnan.\n\n  \n    Name of Place\n    Distance In Miles\n    In Hours\n    Remarks\n  \n  \n    Erh Taun\n    12\n    6\n    Out of Yunnan Plain to north; over a col and down a defile to north.\n  \n  \n    Che Pei\n    16\n    7\n    Out of defile, through the valley of Fu Min, and north on left bank of Anning River.\n  \n  \n    Hao Chi Pa\n    18\n    8\n    Up to table-land, and descend to a valley.\n  \n  \n    Yuan Meng, or Ma Kai\n    15\n    7\n    Over a col to north-west of Wuting and down to cultivated valley.\n  \n  \n    Wu Ting Chou Lui Chi Po\n    16\n    6\n    Over pass of Shih Ta La and descend to ridge, where camp.\n  \n  \n    Lui Shu Taug, near Pei Yen\n    19\n    8\n    Descent from ridge to a valley running north and south.\n  \n  \n    K'ang Hsien Chiao\n    18\n    8\n    West over a range and down to a small valley. Along close gorge, south-west, then over a col and into cultivated valley.\n  \n  \n    Miao Men\n    9\n    \n    Out of valley, west; over a range and down to plain.\n  \n  \n    Lang Chuan Miao\n    16\n    7\n    12 miles in fertile valley; then over low col and down steep to valley of Pei Yen Tsing.\n  \n  \n    Tu Yao Hsien\n    16\n    7\n    Over range on west of Pei Yeu Tsing and down to river in a defile.\n  \n  \n    Ch'u Chang\n    16\n    7\n    In gorge of river.\n  \n  \n    Mi Tien\n    17\n    \n    Out of gorge and up on to a cultivated valley. West and then north through a defile to Chiao Ting Valley, and through another defile to Pin Chuan Plain.\n  \n  \n    Pin Chuan\n    18\n    8\n    North-north-west over downs in direction of Chi Shan.\n  \n  \n    Fu Tien Chuang\n    17\n    8\n    North ascent of part of Chi Shan.\n  \n  \n    Shih Tan Temple\n    19\n    \n    West, along the Chi Shan to summit. North-west descent to a small valley.\n  \n  \n    Chia Hsa Temple\n    \n    \n    West, over a low col and then round north bead of Ta Li Lake.\n  \n  \n    Ta Wang Miao Shang Kuan\n    \n    \n    South, by the lake shore.\n  \n  \n    Ta Li Fu\n    \n    \n    North, through the valleys of Teng Chuan and Lang K'ung.\n  \n  \n    (Shang Kuan to) Ying Shan\n    \n    \n    North-east, through Niu Kai Valley, and commence ascent.\n  \n  \n    P'u\n    \n    \n    North-east, over Kwa La Pass and descend to large city in a rich valley.\n  \n  \n    San Chiu Tang\n    15\n    \n    North, up Ho Ching Valley.\n  \n  \n    Ho Ching Chou\n    11\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ch'i Ho\n    16\n    \n    North, over rocky col and to valley of Lichiang.\n  \n  \n    Li Chiang Fu\n    11\n    \n    North, up plain on east side of snow mountain and descent to small river.\n  \n  \n    Hei Shui Ho\n    16\n    \n    North and west, along spurs on east side of snow mountain, and then west towards the Yang-sze.\n  \n  \n    \n    15\n    10\n    West, down valley to banks of Yang-tsze.\n  \n  \n    \n    19\n    \n    Over high spur to south, and back to near Hei Shui Ho.\n  \n  \n    Chu Lo\n    16\n    10\n    Redescend north section of Lichiang Plain.\n  \n  \n    Ta Ku\n    \n    \n    Over low col to Lashi Pa Plain and Lake.\n  \n  \n    Hei Pou Shao\n    10\n    \n    West, over pass, and descend to banks of Yang-tsze.\n  \n  \n    Pei Sha Kai\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tai Ho Tsun A-Hsi Perry\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\n* 544 *\n\n** CODE **\n\nक",
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        "content_text": "Part of Burma\n\nIrrawadi\n\n(Nmaik)\n\nBranch\n\nMountainous; Kachin tribes\n\nNo. 5.\n\nFROM FEI LUNG BRIDGE (MEKONG) ACROSS THE SALWEN TO TENG YUEH.\n\nScale, inch-8 miles.\n\nKachin Hills\n\nTaping Irrawadi divide\n\nTaping or La Ho R. (to Irrawadi)\n\nFrom Bhame\n\nMt Manung north point of delimited frontier 9800 ft.\n\nSi Lien R.\n\nKu Yung 5700 Ft.\n\nKy Turk (6000)*\n\nTa Yin M BROD ft.\n\nMt Ming\n\nKwang Pu inhabited\n\nMing Kwang valley by Lisow tribes.\n\nMing Kwang R.\n\nHo Kou R.\n\nShweli or Lung Chiang\n\nTa Tang R\n\nTeng Yueh $400 ft.\n\nBridge Shan Yao\n\n[Chiao Tou Kai Tou 5500 ft.\n\nLofty range dividing Salwen and Irrawadi basins.\n\nTa Tang\n\nMa Mien pass 10500 ft.\n\nR. Salwen Trade route\n\nYung Chang\n\nHui Po 7700 ft.\n\nMan Yu 2000 eng ku\n\n07/03.1235}8. W. Chino Vol.\n\n260 6200\n\nLofty ranges\n\n--25°15'\n\nEx 7800\n\nFei Lung Br. 4500 ft\n\n--25°45\n\nChin Chou\n\nTou Tao 6500\n\nBass 10400 ft\n\nTsao Chiang 6900 ft\n\nR.Mekong\n\n--25°30′\n\nTo Mekong divide\n\nHAPIROS, LITH, ST PARTINS (ALS",
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        "content_text": "416\n\nCenton, and $20,000 for his dead body. With a view to obtaining this reward and no doubt also to gaining official credit, Admiral Ho sent three of his officers to Hongkong in order to try to effect the capture of Hung. For this end they engaged the services of a man named Chang Tso-ting who had some family connection with Hung, having adopted as his son the grandson of Hung's nephew.\n\nWhether Chang made any attempt to arrest or murder Hung is not known, but if so he did not succeed, for it is known that Hung left Hongkong on March 31st for Singapore where he arrived safely. But either because he found the capture of the real Hung too difficult, or for some other reason, Chang determined to substitute for him another man, bearing to him a personal resemblance, and such a person he found in an acquaintance of his at Canton named Wu, who kept an opium den in that city.\n\nChang went to Canton to see this man and told him he could find him employment at Hongkong if he would come to see him there, and in the evening of March 15th Wu proceeded to Hongkong in pursuance of this invitation. Chang met him on the steamer and took him to a house he had hired, and there entertained him for some days with great apparent hospitality, but during this time he was really making arrangements with the Chinese naval authorities for the removal of the dead body to Canton after the murder he contemplated committing. All being ready, Wu was murdered on the 24th March. His body was seen in Chang's house on the evening of that day, bearing all the marks of a death by violence. Next day Chang engaged coffin carriers who took the body, hidden in a large basket, to a steam launch which conveyed it to an island near Hongkong. There it was transferred to an undertaker's boat, which proceeded to Chik Hom where it was met by a Chinese gunboat, the \"Kuang Heng\", which was waiting there, and taken to a place near Fu Mun, the headquarters of Admiral Ho.\n\nFor the murder of Wu nothing would of course have been paid to Chang, but he entered into a bond declaring ... in pursuance ...\n\nVar\n\nPage 418\n\n \n...\n\nPage 416\n\n...\n\nPage 417",
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        "content_text": "417\n\ndeclaring that the dead body delivered up by him was that of the rebel Hung, and in this statement he was supported by six officers of Admiral Ho's command, namely, Ho Wei-tsung, Lieutenant of the right patrol of the advance division of the Admiral's force; Liu Chin-jung, Lieutenant of the right patrol of the left wing of the Ta Peng regiment; Su Tingchen, acting sergeant in charge of the military station at Li Tsun in the left wing of the Kuangchou command; Feng Hsing-kuei, Lieutenant, first on the list for promotion, of the left wing of the Kuangchou regiment; Chu Chang, sergeant, first on the list for promotion, of the left wing of the Kuangchou regiment; and Lin Shan, acting Lieutenant in the right wing of the Admiral's command.\n\nAs Hung was not dead, these declarations were of course false, but the important feature in the case is not the identity of the murdered man; it is the fact that he was murdered in British territory at the instigation of Chinese officials, for such action is in the highest degree prejudicial to the maintenance of friendly relations.\n\nThe circumstances of the case have been laid by the Governor of Hongkong before His Majesty's Government, and I have received their instructions to address to Your Highness a request that all the persons implicated may be arrested and brought to trial, and punished in accordance with their guilt. I have accordingly the honour to request that instructions may be sent to the Viceroy of the Two Kuang in that sense.\n\nI avail, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nErnest Satow,\n\nThe",
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        "content_text": "Peking, 1st October, 1903,\n\nC.O.\n\n27148\n\nYour Highness,\n\nI have the honour to inform Your Highness that I have received a Despatch from His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong acquainting me with a serious violation of the territorial rights of the Colony committed by persons acting under the instigation of certain Chinese Officials with the connivance of the Chinese Admiral Ho.\n\nIt appears from the Governor's Despatch and from the documents that accompany it that the ringleader of the plot to murder certain Chinese Officials at Canton last Chinese New Year, the discovery of which was due to information given by the Hongkong Authorities, was a certain Hung Ch'uan-fu or Hung Ch'uan-huai, who escaped arrest and went to Hongkong. For his arrest a reward of $30,000 was secretly offered by the Provincial Treasurer of Canton, and $20,000 for his dead body. With a view to obtaining this reward and no doubt also to gaining official credit, Admiral Ho sent three of his officers to Hongkong in order to try to effect the capture of Hung. For this end they engaged the services of a man named Chang Tso-ting who had some family connection with Hung, having adopted as his son the grandson of Hung's nephew.\n\nWhether Chang made any attempt to arrest or murder Hung is not known, but if so he did not succeed, for it is known that Hung left Hong Kong on March 31st for Singapore where he arrived safely. But either because he found the capture of the real Hung too difficult, or for some other reason, Chang determined to substitute for him another man, bearing to him a personal resemblance, and such a person he found in an acquaintance of his at Canton named Hu, who kept an Opium Divan in that City.",
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        "content_text": "EST ASE\n\nandise of that of suchod sit oved i\n\neesadite quot\n\ntoinevad bid Wastext aan woni dojrjeet & leviess: eved i Jedd JEROJ(99-) Add 10 nordmioty evo1992 & 3JI E\n\nJEJ 4\n\n1\n\neil saidu sonitur Bac275g vd Eaddino0\n\nIJ?IBUPLE (MJAGUOH\n\n000 ls to win\n\n- jo surVIDAS. MÁJ QUTA MIRISIlu desario anhes to ac13 un lentLA SGSHUIZ\n\n348 31\n\n10- Die900 B ZE#\n\nJedd di parole jet) ajnewsub eis no11 *102. JENI JOD) Je zerority scanri sik♪nso neinum o♪ JO14 of qui ena donde lo viv00211 413,9001 A-Å TWAS NOT JBOUT\n\n29131MOŃJul Montour sit thezón no piedev'i -I did not vailokaður of June fue J29978 [sjece5 Jak,[Bun-Aku*a©\n\nTerolivost and vd benello (1199092 28# 000,08% 10 Iunce * Jes Ay & JJ14 .ttoo Leer and 101 000,054 iar „odu®) Ju 99¶war$¶! iportio Dining of 38le jouot on Lue brewer and 30tar8jão JJ kuteraino di gongmor of enecitte and to sends Jase on leninia „JIC970 Lektyre vedu kan sidd non .kout Jo esudaro elj Joelle of end of Vunkt snoe bed ɔla 2010-081 aned) beard as! * 10 escrvane sit Mum dala nofjoea00 10 BORLAR15 913 aos and er bergote sÕIVAJ\n\n‚anitet z'youn\n\nno Jasnne OJ JqĦAJJe ear stra tard gedisda\n\n•\n\nof subra0cua JuR BIL at sa 11 Jud (akulla JoN PI SAUH THÍCWA enogests not „Jelf doorí að koxmur J19. Sau” Jedd nmuna GI 70Jqko du louot el seussed 1-19 Jun 19ire kevinte så ansik med. 008697 15130 9808 not no Justiit 303 nu lest add to erri of IN DE Te done aid. \"ul ejufijeous J (SID7639.\n\nA61*[@#$299 18002794 -diruuce\n\nDe of Lavet el moɛnej e dove Le Jeld at devid motiu de day* ude qua Lezed JuJuBO Je et: 10u sturd 2801\n\n175\n\nCity. Chang went to Canton to see this man and told him he could find him employment at Hongkong if he would come to see him there, and in the evening of March 15th. Au proceeded to Hongkong in pursuance of this invitation. Chang met him on the steamer and took him to a house he had hired, and there entertained him for some days with great apparent hospitality, but during this time he was really making arrangements with the Chinese Naval Authorities for the removal of the dead body to Canton after the murder he contemplated committing. All being ready, the man Au was murdered on the 24th. March. His body was seen in Chang's house on the evening of that day, bearing all the marks of a death by violence. Next day Chang engaged coffin carriers who took the body, hidden in a large basket to a steam-launch which conveyed it to an Island near Hongkong. There it was transferred to an undertaker's boat, which proceeded to Chik Hom where it was met by a Chinese Gunboat, the \"Kuang Heng\", which was waiting there, and taken to a place near Fu Mun, the headquarters of Admiral Ho.\n\nFor the murder of Au nothing would of course have been paid to Chang, but he entered into a bond declaring that the dead body delivered up by him was that of the rebel Hung, and in this statement he was supported by six officers of Admiral Ho's command, namely, Ho Mei-tsung, Lieutenant of the right patrol of the advance division of the Admiral's force; Liu Chin-jung, Lieutenant of the right patrol of the left wing of the Ta Peng regiment; Su Ting-chen, Acting Sergeant in charge of the Military Station at Li Tsun in the left wing of the Kuang-chou command; Feng Hsing-xuo, Lieutenant, first on the list for promotion, of the left wing of the Kuangchou regiment; Chu Chang, Sergeant, first on the list for promotion, of the left wing of the Kuangchou regiment; and Lin Shan, Acting Lieutenant in the right wing of the Admiral's command.\n\nAs Hung was not dead, these declarations were of course false, but the important feature in the case is not",
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        "content_text": "No. 138.\n\nIII.\n\n(From His Majesty's Acting Consul General, Canton, to the Acting Colonial Secretary.)\n\nHIS MAJESTY'S CONSULATE GENERAL, CANTON, 5th May, 1904.\n\nSIR,-With reference to my Despatch No. 120 of April 18th* on the HUNG TSUN-FUK case, I have the honour to inform you that CHANG C'HO-TING was executed yesterday in the presence of two members of the Staff of this Consulate General. I enclose a copy of Mr. Vice-Consul GILES' report on the subject.\n\nI also enclose a translation* of a Despatch received from the Viceroy, in which His Excellency apologises for the infringement of Hongkong territory, and thanks the Hongkong Government for the assistance given in the investigation of the whole case.\n\nI replied to this Despatch yesterday in the terms of enclosure 3.*\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nC. W. CAMPBELL,\n\nActing Consul General.\n\nNo. 157.\n\nV.\n\n(From His Majesty's Acting Consul General, Canton, to the Acting Colonial Secretary.)\n\nHIS MAJESTY'S CONSULATE GENERAL, CANTON, 27th May, 1904.\n\nSIR,-With reference to your letter of May 10th*, the contents of which I communicated to the Viceroy as requested, I have the honour to enclose, for the information of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong, a copy and translation of a Despatch received yesterday. The Imperial Decree therein enclosed appears to me to be satisfactory, and I propose to inform the Viceroy that as soon as I receive His Excellency's assurance that the punishments stated have been carried out the HUNG TSUN-FUK case will be considered closed.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nC. W. CAMPBELL,\n\nActing Consul General.\n\n(Enclosure to No. 138 of the 5th May, 1904. From Mr. B. Giles to Mr. C. W. Campbell, CMG.)\n\nHIS MAJESTY'S CONSULATE GENERAL, CANTON, 4th May, 1904.\n\nSIR,-With reference to the case of the murder of HUNG TSUN-FUK by CHANG C'HO-T'ING in Hongkong, I have the honour to report that, in accordance with your instructions, I proceeded this afternoon to the execution ground to be present at the execution of CHANG C'HO-TING by the Native Authorities. On arriving at the place Mr. MAJOR, who accompanied me, identified the criminal, who was then immediately beheaded in our presence.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nBERTRAM GILES,\n\nVice-Consul.\n\n(From the Acting Colonial Secretary to His Majesty's Acting Consul General, Canton.)\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 10th May, 1904.\n\nSIR,-I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 138 of the 5th instant, in which you state that CHANG CHO-TING was executed on the 4th instant, and enclosing a translation of a letter from the Viceroy of the Two Kwangs in which he apologises for the violation of British Sovereignty committed at the instigation of Chinese Officials in connection with the case of HUNG TSUN-FUK. I am to request you to be so good as to inform the Viceroy that this Government accepts his expressions of regret at the circumstance. His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government felt satisfied that when the facts were made known to His Excellency the Viceroy, he would use every effort to bring the offenders to justice, and expects in due course to receive an assurance that the other persons implicated in the outrage have also undergone suitable punishment.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nA. M. THOMSON,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n(Enclosure to No. 157 of the 27th May, 1904. Translation of a Despatch from Viceroy Ts'en to Mr. Campbell.)\n\nSIR,-With reference to the case of HUNG TSUN-FUK, I have the honour to inform you that I memorialised the Throne, praying that all the officials who had been implicated in the affair should be dealt with, each according to his deserts. On the 17th of May last I received an Imperial Edict, copy of which I herewith transmit for your information.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nCopy of Imperial Edict.\n\n(Viceroy's Seal.)\n\nWith reference to the Memorial of Viceroy Ts'EN, praying for the punishment of the spy who compassed the death of the man he had deceived, thereby violating the territory of Hongkong and received a reward under false pretences; and that of the officials who connived at his offence; we hereby decree that HO WEI-TSUNG, Senior Lieutenant in charge of the 4th Battalion of the 1st Division of the Provincial Admiral's troops; LI SHAN, Senior Lieutenant in charge of the 4th Battalion of the 4th Division under the command of the Colonel stationed at Ch'ih-hsi; FANG HSING-KUO, SU TING-CHEN and LI CHIN-YUEH, Senior Sub-Lieutenants, and the deceased Sergeant CHU CH'ANG are to be cashiered. CH'ANG-CH'ING, Admiral for the Province of Kuang-tung, who was guilty of neglect of duty, is to be removed from his post as a warning to others. For the rest, the matter is to be dealt with as suggested by the Viceroy.\n\nNo. 185.\n\nVI.\n\n(From His Majesty's Acting Consul General, Canton, to the Acting Colonial Secretary.)\n\nHIS MAJESTY'S CONSULATE GENERAL, CANTON, 20th June, 1904.\n\nSIR,-With reference to my letter No. 157 of May 27th, I have the honour to enclose a copy† and translation of a Despatch from the Viceroy, in which His Excellency states that Admiral HO has been removed, and that the minor officials concerned in the HUNG TSUN-FUK case have been dismissed.\n\nI have informed the Viceroy that the case may now be considered closed.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nC. W. CAMPBELL.\n\nActing Consul General.\n\n* Not printed.\n\n† Not printed.\n\n178",
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        "content_text": "Governor.\n\nNo.\n\nthan 353\n\n1904\n\n29 Sep\n\nas previous Paper.\n\n28953\n\nCop core. Ea L.S. Cauf 2 sec to\n\nlof P.0. 10-har¬\n\nClood!\n\n2 (75-18989~130)-(1-3)\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nyo\n\n40058\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo. 37451\n\n(Subject.)\n\nDESPATCH.\n\n585\n\nC. O\n\n37451\n\nR\n\n? NOV 04\n\nDeportation of Chinese Subjects to Hongkong.\n\nobjects to Chinese Political Agitators Chang Sing-lin & Wong Yung being sent to Hongkong after undergoing imprisonment at Shanghai:\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nyo Fidder. Lucas\n\nThere are\n\nthe Straits\n\ntoo many\n\nChinese\n\nto make the presence\n\nof these people at all desirable. Their presence in Singapore caused considerable\n\n? Send copy & 7.0.\n\nthe last two lines.\n\nthat the sofs\n\namitting\n\nsoy\n\nthe\n\nIm\n\nfor's\n\nx\n\nconcurs\n\nview that it is most\n\nundesirable to send\n\nPr\n\nto Hongkong.\n\nNo need to mutilate Sll\n\nthe desp. And in\n\n-15 hands to end\n\nJ\n\nthese\n\nhustles papered way\n\nP. 571\n\nC.P.L-5. at ace\n\nPage 571\n\n \n\nwas replaced with the following to meet the exact 6 lines page requirement:\nPage 571\n\nPage 571",
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        "content_text": "No.\n\n353.\n\nC Hongkong.\n\nSir,\n\n70\n\n28953\n\nGovernment House,\n\nC.\n\n57451\n\n586\n\nIPE 2 NOV OF\n\nHongkong, 29th September, 1904.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 250 of the 25th August, 1904, transmitting for my consideration a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office enquiring whether there would be objection to two Chinese subjects named Chang Ping-lin and Chon Yung, now undergoing imprisonment at Shanghai for publishing seditious pamphlets, being sent to Hongkong in a British Vessel when they have served their terms of imprisonment.\n\n2.\n\nIn reply, I have to state that in my opinion there are strong objections to Chinese political agitators being allowed to use Hongkong as an asylum. Apart from the fact that the experience of the past shows that such persons would not be safe here without some measure of Police protection, entailing expense upon the Government, it appears to me that their presence at Hongkong would certainly be misconstrued by the Chinese Authorities in the neighbouring provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, and would tend to impair those harmonious relations which it is clearly to the interest of the Colony to maintain.\n\nHongkong lies too close to Canton, the seat\n\n3.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,\n\n&c...\n\nPage 353 appears to be delineated by metadata, but the content is incomplete. The given text is proofread as per the instructions.\n\nPage 354 is not available in the given text.\n\n...\n\n \nHowever, to follow the exact format as requested, the last three lines should be removed as they were not part of the original text and were an attempt to explain or comment, which is against the rules.\n\nThe corrected response is:\nNo.\n\n353.\n\nC Hongkong.\n\nSir,\n\n70\n\n28953\n\nGovernment House,\n\nC.\n\n57451\n\n586\n\nIPE 2 NOV OF\n\nHongkong, 29th September, 1904.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 250 of the 25th August, 1904, transmitting for my consideration a copy of a letter from the Foreign Office enquiring whether there would be objection to two Chinese subjects named Chang Ping-lin and Chon Yung, now undergoing imprisonment at Shanghai for publishing seditious pamphlets, being sent to Hongkong in a British Vessel when they have served their terms of imprisonment.\n\n2.\n\nIn reply, I have to state that in my opinion there are strong objections to Chinese political agitators being allowed to use Hongkong as an asylum. Apart from the fact that the experience of the past shows that such persons would not be safe here without some measure of Police protection, entailing expense upon the Government, it appears to me that their presence at Hongkong would certainly be misconstrued by the Chinese Authorities in the neighbouring provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, and would tend to impair those harmonious relations which it is clearly to the interest of the Colony to maintain.\n\nHongkong lies too close to Canton, the seat\n\n3.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,\n\n&c...",
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        "content_text": "C.O\n\n570\n\n32877\n\nLE CANTON-HAN-KAU RAILWAY.\n\n(FROM OUR SHANGHAI CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nIn order to understand the actual position of affairs in regard to the southern section of the great trunk line which is to connect Peking with Canton, and to appreciate the international importance of its unsettled questions, it is necessary to go back to the earlier history of this railway, in order to throw light on some of the factors determining its inception. The story is a long one, complicated by intrigue from the outset, typical enough of the methods and results of commercial diplomacy in the Far East and illustrative of the helpless ignorance of Chinese officialdom. The earlier history of this railway and the details of the silent struggle for its possession maintained since 1898 are known in their entirety to few. They are recorded, no doubt, after the Chinese manner, in the archives of Sheng Ta-jên, Director-General of Chinese railways; but there are blanks in these archives, lacunæ significant of Chinese methods which can only be completely filled by knowledge of many widely-separated interests, individuals, and intrigues working secretly in Washington, New York, Brussels, Peking, and Shanghai. To tell the whole story là requires a volume. Complete information on certain points of detail is not to be obtained without assistance from Sheng Ta-jên and the representatives of King Leopold in New York; nevertheless, such a résumé of the situation as can be given in this article may be useful.\n\nLet us begin at the beginning. When, at the close of 1896, the construction of the northern line from Peking to Han-kau was successfully urged upon the Throne by Chang Chih-tung and Sheng Hsüan-huai, the original intention of the Tsung-li-Yamên was to build it with Chinese capital. It was admitted, however, in a joint memorial by the two officials above-mentioned in December, 1897, that the Imperial Treasury had been unable to find the funds required, and the following passage from the memorial in question explains the steps suggested and subsequently carried out.\n\nYour memorialist Sheng had the intention of employing American capital for the construction of the Lu-kou-chiao-Han-kau line, but afterwards when the American Washburn came to China, his conditions were too hard to be accepted, and consequently negotiations were broken off. Your servant was thus constrained to negotiate with Belgium. By electing thus our privileges would not be lost, nor would ill consequences follow. But Belgium is a small country, and her strength is inconsiderable, and often she has pointed out that she is hardly a sufficient guarantee for the loan.\n\nThe question is not yet decided, but we have hopes that subsequently some compromise terms may be adopted at last, though the question is extremely difficult. If another scheme must be adopted for raising funds for the southern line, there are grave objections to entrusting either England, France, or Germany to undertake the work, and your memorialists suggest that Wu Ting-fang, the Minister at Washington, should be communicated with. He is a Cantonese, and will not fail to do his best to find a scheme.\n\nA preliminary contract for the Han-kau-Peking line was made with the Belgian syndicate in 1898, subsequently modified, and finally ratified in August, 1898. The details of that final agreement, rightly regarded by the British Government as a breach of faith by China, have been published. The undertaking, loudly proclaimed at the outset as a purely Belgian affair, was recognized, when too late, as a political intrigue wherein the influence of Russia had been powerfully exerted with the active co-operation of Li Hung-chang. Though Sheng was fully aware of the facts—it is certain he has not infrequently denied it—there can be no doubt that Chang Chih-tung was bitterly disillusioned at the result of negotiations with Belgium, \"the small country whose strength is inconsiderable.\"\n\nChang's negotiations with the Belgian syndicate at Shanghai were concluded under instructions from Peking by the signature of the Peking-Han-kau contract in June, 1898. The contract, however, required ratification by the Tsung-li-Yamên; and in May the British Government, warned by the Peking Correspondent of The Times, had instructed Sir Claude MacDonald to oppose it on the ground that it was an offset to press for the concession of the proposed Shan-hai-Canton line to England. On June 9 Lord Salisbury telegraphed to the Minister as follows:\n\nWith reference to your telegram of May 28, her Majesty's Government entertained objections to the Han-kau-Peking line when they originally heard of its being granted to a Russo-Belgian syndicate; when there is likelihood of the Russo-Chinese Bank, which is tantamount to Russia's Government, financing the southern section of that railway, that objection is greatly increased. A concession of this nature is no longer a commercial enterprise, and becomes a political movement against British interests in the region of the Yang-tze.\n\nYou should inform the Tsung-li-yamên that her Majesty's Government cannot possibly continue to co-operate in a friendly manner in matters of interest to China if, while preferential advantages are conceded to Russia in Manchuria and to Germany in Shan-tung, these or other foreign Powers should also be offered special openings or privileges in the region of the Yang-tze.\n\nThese words were written at a time when the Yang-tsze Valley was understood to mean something more for Englishmen than a geographical expression and an empty boast. They did not, however, prevent the Tsung-li-Yamên from ratifying the contract which two months later was rushed through, as the British Minister reported, by the influence of Li Hung-chang, combined with strong pressure on the part of the representatives of Russia, France, and Belgium.\n\nIn March, 1899, the prospectus of the loan for the Peking-Han-kau Railway was issued in Brussels, from which document Chang Chih-tung and other patriotic Chinese learned, first, that three-fifths of the money raised for this purely Belgian commercial undertaking was French; second, that the \"Société Belge pour l'Étude de Chemins de Fer en Chine\" was half French; and, third, that the \"Société Belge\" in question claimed that \"in the event of the contract with the American syndicate not being finally arranged, they have a preferential right to the Han-kan-Canton line.\"\n\nBefore the ratification of the Peking-Han-kau agreement, and in pursuance of the views contained in the memorial of 1897 above quoted, a preliminary contract had been made and signed at Washington between the Chinese Minister and an American syndicate (April 14, 1898) for a loan of $4,000,000 to construct the southern line (Han-kau-Canton). The Belgians had endeavoured to obtain this concession, and there had been a faint-hearted attempt to secure it by the British Legation; Chang Chih-tung had, however, finally determined that in America alone could capital be found unconnected with political and territorial ambitions. His experience in the Peking-Han-kau concession, for which he has never ceased to denounce his colleague Li Hung-chang, produced its direct result in the supplementary agreement (July, 1900) for the southern railway. Therein, to prevent against further dangers from the Continental Powers, he caused the following clause to be introduced:—\n\nThe object of making this supplemental agreement of equal force with the original agreement is to permit of the benefits being transmittible by the American company to their successors or assigns, but the Americans cannot transfer the rights of these agreements to other nations or people of other nationality. It is further agreed that without the express consent in writing of the director-general and the American company no other rival railway detrimental to the business of the same is to be permitted, and no parallel roads to the Canton-Han-kan line are to be allowed to the injury of the latter's interest within the area served by the Canton-Han-kan line or branch lines.\n\nThe intentions of this clause are clear, and as a precaution it was well meant. It has, however, been violated, and the rights and interests of the undertaking have now become practically vested in the Belgians, or in those behind the Belgians. It resembles in fact the Belgian administration of the Persian Customs, with equally obvious political methods and objects.\n\nThe organizers of the original American syndicate, formed in 1895 to exploit \"grants and concessions in China,\" laid stress on the political advantages enjoyed there by Americans. Among the subscribers and holders of the 55 original shares (£1,000 each) were several prominent financiers and capitalists of the United States, and the first president of the company, Senator Brice, was undeniably sincere in his desire to direct American capital and activity towards China. It was certainly because of confidence in the expressed intentions of America to help China in her progress, and with a view to avoid any further complications with the European Powers, that the syndicate received the energetic support of Chang Chih-tung.\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 10\n\nTHE TIMES,\n\nX,\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363",
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        "content_text": "C.O \n\n32877 \n\nRece \n\n& \n\n571 \n\nbort of Wn Ting Fang, then Chinese Almister Washington \n\ns the rest of the survey made by Mr. clay Parsons, the syndicate's engineer, in rdance with the terms of the Washington ecment of 1898, it was found that the cost of Tine would be considerably more than the first mates on both sides there was, moreover, a tre to modify and extend some of the original ditions. A supplementary agreement was, refore, required; and the syndicate sent an erican lawyer of distinction, Mr. Clarence y, to negotiate the same with Shông in the mer of 1899. After long and vexatious pour- Hers-wherein French and Belgian influence again openly exercised to frustrate the erican syndicate's aims-Mr. Cary concluded work at the end of November, and his ft contract was submitted for ratification at ing and New York respectively. \n\nfranco-Belgian opposition to the American ertaking was intensified when, upon publica- 1 of the British Blue-book [China, No. 1 of 1899] scame known that British capital had been ited by the Americans to share in the enter- c. The French Consul-General at Shanghai ormed Shêng, shortly after Mr. Cary's arrival \n\nthe scene, that China would be held guilty of faith if she accepted the introduction of tish capital for this railway, and similar repre- tations were made at Peking by the Russian ration. Mr. Cary, although strongly supported Washington and Peking, experienced in- erable difficulty in obtaining any satisfaction interviews with Sheng, extended over several ths; and it was openly stated by the Franco- gian party at the time that Sheng dared not! anything contrary to their views in this Her. Suddenly, and without apparent cause, anch opposition ceased, Shông became tract- e, and the Belgians seemed reconciled to the vitable. The American \n\nsed \n\nattribute to \n\nthis state of affairs the firmness of their OWN attitude; Reality it was due to the fact that Belgian ivity had changed its field from Shanghai to York and its method of attack from the stal political to the flanking movement acial. After the disgrace of Ll Hung-chang knowing the views of Chang Chilelung, would not have been prudent for Shéng to Selaim his sympathies for the Belgian group; t he was undoubtedly aware of the new plan ampaign, and he has since done his utmost to port it, even when compelled by public nion to memorialize the Throne in favour maintaining inviolate the American status of jayndicate. \n\nsyndicate were \n\nFowards the close of 1899 and before the con- Bon of Mr. Cary's negotiations with Sheng, eral Whittier, now president of the Americau m Development Company, was employed, lex instructions from the Belgian group, to are by purchase in New York a controlling aher of the original shares. Prominent in the gian Company, in which King Leopold has personally interested, were Colonel Thys, Congo fame, and Senator de Volder, ex- ister of Finance; their first object was to re the control of this important trunk line, it was materially facilitated by the fact that ce the death of Senator Brice the syndicato lost the energetic and distinctly American racter which, as president, he had Infused its affairs, and which had induced soveral pitalists to support his enterprise. Moreover, arch, 1900, came the first signs of the Boxer ement, and as it grew the objects of the Belgian ap became correspondingly easier of attain- at. In the meantime Sheng professed to regard facts with doubt and the whole affair with in- erence, and it was not until the Belgians had red the rights over a controlling interest that proceeded to telegraph to Wu Ting Fang at hington his authority to sign this American \n\nact whereof the rights could not sferred to people of other nationality.\" the syndicate began work, with $3,000,000 tal anbscribed by the stockholders, on the struction of the first section of the railway: hwords from Canton. Of this capital two- ds was provided by the Belgien, and one-į d by the American, interest. Nevertheless, \n\n\"be \n\nduring the construction of this section the outward appearance of American nationality was maintained. The president of the company in New York and its general manager and staff in China were of American nationality and instinct, and it was not till 1903 that the Continental group. began to assert its controlling right. How that right has been asserted, what intrigues have been carried on in New York, Washington, and Shang- hai, space does not permit me to describe. Suffco it to say that, after long negotiations for a proposed separation of interests (which Sheng was quito ready to entertain), the agents of King Leopold,who control the directorate,showed their band unmistakably at the beginning of the present year. The accounts of the Brussels office of the syndicate were in dispute, no further capital was forthcoming, affairs in New York were at a deadlock, work was stoppel on the railway. and the general manager at Shanghai recalled, Since then Mr. Parsons has been compelled to resign the presidency of the board, most of the American subscribed capital has been refunded by the Belgians, and the general manager's services have been terminated. The board of directors has become overwhelmingly Belgian, and its operations are openly in sympathy with those of the Peking-Ian-kau Syndicate, naively referred to by General Whittier as the Northern Belgian group,\" and, if the policy of Colonel Thys continues to be as successful as it has been, the amalgamation of the Peking-Han-kau with the Han-kau-Canton Railway under Franco-Belgian direction and control, can only be a matter of time. That, under such conditions, the American Government should have consented to recognize the syndicato as an American corporation is a! fact which speaks well for the adroit diplomacy of Sheng, and his latest special mission to Washing- ton; but it is genuinely deplored by Chang Chih- tung and the many uative officials who share his views in this matter and who desire to see the contract annulled. \n\nIn recent correspondence published in the New York Journal of Commerce, having reference to the international aspect of the cuse, General Whittier, defending the position of the Belgian interest, alleges that the Belgian company of the northern line has a right of reversion in the American concession, should the American con- cessionaries fail to carry it out,\" and he adds that this right was granted by the Imperial Chinese Government, From this statement, apparently accepted in good faith not only by the American Press, but by the United States Legation in Peking, it has been deduced that, because the Belgians are entitled to such reversion, the American nationality of the under- taking need not be too strongly defended. As a matter of fact, however, no such reversionary rights exist. In April, 1890, when the Peking-Han-kau railway loan was issued in Brussels, the pre- ferential right in question was referred to in the prospectus. Questioned by the British Minister, the Tsung-li-Yamên denied that any ench promise had been given, and on May 10 wrote a formal despatch stating that \"no sneh stipulation was contained in the Belgian agree! ment, nor had \"there been any subsequent arrangement of the kind.\" (Page 156, Blue-book of 1899.) Yet a letter had been written by the Director-General of Railways, Sheng Ta-jon, to the Belgian Syndicate on June 26, 1898, giving them rights of reversion to the southern trunk line \"in the event of the preliminary Washington contract not being definitely concluded; but from the above-quoted reply of the Chinese to the British Government it is evident that this promise was unauthorized, and possibly unknown to the Yauen. Sheng's action, as usual, reffects on his integrity, but, inasmuch as the Washington con- tract was subsequently concluded, whatever rights the Belgians muy have had must thereby have lapsed. Shông's letter of June 26 is appended to the official text of the Peking-Han-kan contract, so that neither the British nor the Chinese Govern- went had any valid excuse for being in ignorance of · its purport. Nor can the recent Belgian claims to reversionary rights advanced both at Peking and at Washington ba recognized. To quote once more the words of Lord Salisbury (May 26, 1808), “a concession of this nature is no longer a commer- cial or industrial enterprise, and becomes a political movement against British interests in the region of the Yang-tsze.\" England obtained a definite guarantee in 1899 that China had given no such reversionary rights to the Bolgians; the. claims thereto recently advanced are therefore",
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        "content_text": "Six months after the exchange of ratifications China will open Ch'angsha to foreign trade, on the same footing as that on which existing Treaty ports were opened. On the exchange of ratifications taking place, China will herself open to foreign trade Moukden and Ta-tung-kou.\n\nArt. XI corresponds with Article XII of the British Treaty.\n\nArt. XII is an interpretation clause, and Article XIII provides for ratification as soon as possible, but under no circumstances must it be delayed beyond a period of six months from date of signature.\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n16\n\n[December 7.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n(No. 15.) Sir,\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON,\n\nCommercial Attaché.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Jamieson to Sir E. Satow.\n\nShanghae, October 13, 1903. IN continuation of my despatch No. 14 of yesterday's date on the subject of the new Japanese Treaty, I have now the honour to furnish a précis of the Annexes to that Instrument.\n\nI am given to understand that, so far, only the Chinese and Japanese texts of the whole Treaty have been signed, but that the English version, which, in cases of dispute, is to be held to give the correct sense, is not yet ready for signature.\n\nAnnex 1 recapitulates the Inland Waters Steam Navigation Rules, as appended to the British Treaty.\n\nAnnex 2 deals with the opening of Peking to trade when the foreign guards shall have been withdrawn. A suitable locality outside of the Imperial city is to be chosen, within the limits of which traders of all nationalities may erect shops and go-downs. It shall not be competent for them to organize a municipality or a police force, except with the consent of the Chinese Government, who reserve to themselves the rights of control within those limits. Any previously existing establishments outside of the limits must, within a given time, transfer themselves to the new locality.\n\nAnnex 3 consists of an exchange of notes regarding steam vessels trading on the inland waters. Certain characters have been left blank, and it is difficult to deduce the correct sense.\n\nThere appears, however, to be a restriction in the matter of tonnage, from which seventeen vessels trading in the Gulf of Pechili are exempt.\n\nAnnex 4 states that, in addition to the places mentioned in the body of the Treaty, China will, later on, open to foreign residence and trade Ch'ang-te (Hunan), Hu-k'ou (Kianghsi), Nganking (Anhui), Hsü-chou (Ssu-ch'uan).\n\nIn Annex 5 China agrees to relax her prohibition against the export abroad of cereals, on due official representation being made that there is a scarcity of food-stuffs in Japan.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON,\n\nCommercial Attaché.\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne. (Received December 7.)\n\n(No. 352.)\n\nPeking, October 17, 1903. My Lord,\n\nWITH reference to your Lordship's telegram No. 242 of the 2nd October of last year, and to previous correspondence, on the subject of the establishment by the Chinese Government of a camphor monopoly in the Province of Fukien, I have the honour to transmit herewith a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Consul at Amoy reporting certain action taken by the local authorities in support of the monopoly.\n\nA copy of a note to the Chinese Government, which I addressed to them on receipt of Mr. Hausser's despatch, is likewise inclosed.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nERNEST SATOW.\n\n(No. 10.) Sir,\n\n44\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Hausser to Sir E. Satow.\n\nSeptember 23, 1903. WITH reference to former correspondence on the subject of the establishment of a Government camphor monopoly in this province, I had the honour to forward with my despatch No. 20 of the 14th November, 1902, copy and translation of certain additional \"Regulations for Private Camphor Stills\" recently published by the Amoy Taotai. On the 26th January last I further reported that the Taotai had received no instructions from the Wai Wu Pu in the sense indicated in your despatch No. 9 of the 28th October, but that no attempt was for the present being made to enforce the Regulations above referred to. Since then Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and other British firms have openly purchased from the native producer in the interior, and have brought down to Amoy under transit pass, sundry small consignments of camphor, without experiencing any trouble whatever.\n\nOn the 28th July, however, Messrs. Butterfield and Swire reported that on the 21st their agent's office at Chang Ping was entered by a Chinese official and ten soldiers, who ordered our people to leave the place, giving as their reason that the camphor business belonged to the Government, and that we had no right to embark in it. Our staff, however, refused to leave the premises, and the soldiers withdrew. I accordingly wrote to the Changchow Taotai protesting against such molestation, and no further annoyance was experienced for the time being.\n\nOn the 12th instant Messrs. Butterfield and Swire had again to complain that on the 19th July a gang of policemen, under orders from the Lien Cheng District Magistrate, had arrested two of the workmen employed by them, and seized 230 catties of camphor, on the ground that camphor was a Government monopoly, and that Messrs. Butterfield and Swire had no right to deal in it. Details were wanting, and therefore, whilst reporting the case with all reserve, Messrs. Butterfield and Swire asked that no steps be taken in the matter for the present. On the 15th instant they wrote giving further particulars, to the effect that one of their camphor men, named Su Chun, or Su Ting Kit, who had just returned to Amoy for the purpose of getting from Messrs. Butterfield and Swire some more funds, had been arrested by the Amoy police, at the request of the Lien Cheng Magistrate, on a charge of unlawfully engaging in the camphor trade. On the 16th they wrote stating that the man had been sent up by them with instructions to buy and (or) prepare camphor, and send same down to Amoy on their account; that they were not aware of any Regulations whatever to prevent their employé—a Chinese subject—from preparing camphor, but in any case would hold themselves responsible for ...\n\n[2250 g-1]\n\nB",
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        "content_text": "their action in the matter; and they protested against the wrongful arrest of their servant. They added that since writing the above they had received a letter from their agent at Chang Ping, to the effect that on the 11th instant a Japanese went to the village of Hsiao Hu She, where the villagers were preparing camphor for their Chang Ping agent, and, after telling them that no persons but the Japanese himself were allowed to make camphor, took away from them about twenty-three catties of camphor oil and about eighty catties of camphor. This village is about 20 li from Chang Ping. The following night the Japanese visited their agent at Chang Ping, and seized from him eleven cases of camphor oil and one case of camphor, \"which were already in a boat engaged by our agent to bring the camphor down to us, and which were our own property.\"\n\nI had previously received, on the 14th September, a letter from the Taotai, stating that he was informed there were a number of \"hongs\" in the interior displaying foreign \"hong\" names, and that some of these had erected stills for the illicit preparation of camphor. He accordingly requested me to strictly prohibit all such proceedings as contrary to Treaty. On the following day (the 15th September) I received a further despatch from him, of which I inclose copy and translation, together with copy and translation of my reply. At the same time I wrote to the Amoy Sub-Prefect, who had arrested Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's employé, inclosing copy of my despatch to the Taotai.\n\nI am\n\nFrom the foregoing it seems that the Taotai proposes to enforce as far as possible the prohibitions and penalties set forth in his former Proclamations. The position thus is that, whilst British merchants are nominally at liberty to buy camphor in the interior, possibly if they can, the native producer may in no case sell to them, nor may he prepare or sell camphor on his own account, or to anyone except the native (i.e., Japanese) camphor officials. How far the Taotai has made sure of his ground before venturing on this step I am not in a position to say. As he is throughout acting under the orders of the high authorities at Foochow, any appeal to the latter would certainly be of no effect. I am therefore constrained to lay the facts of the case before you, so that a stop may be put to the present ruinous interference with a new and promising branch of trade.\n\nRegardless of their ostensible functions as technical experts only, the Japanese agents in the interior seem to take upon themselves the duty of perambulating the country in search of so-called illicit stills and seizing foreign-owned property. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's correspondents report that the camphor districts are full of Japanese, who visit them every three or four days to pick up information. The Chinese local authorities themselves strongly object to these proceedings as sure to entail trouble, but seem quite powerless to prevent them. I am informed that, even when camphor is offered for sale by the native producer to the Government offices, the Japanese experts on the spot invariably refuse to buy it themselves on one pretext or another, at the same time forbidding its sale to any outsider. Their object seems, in fact, to be to extinguish the trade here, with a view to the establishment of a complete monopoly for the Formosan product.\n\nSu Ting Kit, the man arrested, has been employed by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire since the 27th May last, his pay being 30 dollars a month. He is a native of Formosa, and being an expert in the preparation of camphor, was previously in the employ of the Japanese Syndicate here. His arrest by order of the Taotai, though nominally at the request of the Lien Cheng Magistrate, is undoubtedly at the instance of the Japanese Consul, who has at the same time preferred a further charge against him of being indebted to certain Japanese subjects.\n\nThis man has been employed by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire to buy the trees from the owner in the interior, and the local workmen under him make the camphor themselves on the spot, the prepared article being then sent down to Amoy under transit pass. Work has thus been carried on at six different places, all within the jurisdiction of the Changchow Taotai, and, in the case of Lien Ch'eng, certainly with the approval of the local Magistrate.\n\nIn all, three consignments, totalling thirty-two cases camphor and eighty tins camphor oil, have thus been prepared and sent down to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire since the 1st January last, but since Su Ting Kit's arrest the workmen at Chang P'ing and Lien Ch'eng have ceased work, being afraid to continue with the prospect of summary arrest. At the other places there has presumably been no molestation so far, no news from them having come to hand.\n\nUnder these circumstances it appears to me that Messrs. Butterfield and Swire have in no way exceeded their Treaty rights, and that they are quite justified in making their\n\n3\n\n17\n\nown arrangement, as above described, to procure whatever camphor they may require, independently, and free from all restrictions.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nTaotai Yen Nien to Consul Hausser.\n\nP. F. HAUSSER.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nAmoy, September 15, 1903. Sir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that on the 3rd instant I received a letter from Yao Shou Ku, Magistrate of the Lien Ch'eng district, and Pao Kang, Manager of the branch office of the Government Camphor Bureau, to the following effect:--\n\n\"On the 22nd July last, Pao Kang arrested two workmen engaged in preparing camphor, by name, Su Yu and Li Hsin Chih, who declared that the business was under the control of Su Ting Chieh, and that they were merely working under his orders. The prisoners were forwarded to the Magistrate's Yamên to await their trial, and on the 25th July the case was reported to your Excellency, with a request that your Excellency would give orders for the arrest of Su Ting Chieh and Weng Wen Ch'uan, who were in Amoy.\n\n\"We subsequently heard that Su Ting Chieh had secretly returned to Shan Hsia Hsu, in the Lien Cheng district, and we accordingly sent to arrest him. He, however, spoke in a very arrogant manner, declared that he was collecting and preparing the camphor entirely for Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, of Amoy, who had appointed him their agent for the purpose, that the British Consul would be coming there shortly, and that they had better take exceedingly good care of the two men in prison. He had further put up a flag over his doorway, bearing the inscription in Chinese, 'Camphor godown of Butterfield and Swire, British firm, Amoy;' but he did not produce any licence for inspection. The Yamên runners, seeing that he had a number of men with him, did not venture to arrest him.\n\n\"On this being reported to us, we referred to the Regulations in the Proclamation formerly issued by your Excellency, and found that they very clearly prohibit the establishment and working of camphor stills in the interior by foreign merchants. Regulation No. 7 states that all camphor-producing and preparing districts being in the interior, any foreign merchants requiring any Government camphor shall be permitted to apply to the Government Bureaux to purchase and take delivery thereof at the price fixed, but may not themselves establish stills inland for the manufacture of camphor, which would constitute a violation of the Treaties.'\n\n\"Regulation No. 8, however, states that foreign merchants may establish camphor factories, and buy camphor, in the Treaty ports without the slightest opposition or hindrance.'\n\n\"In the present instance, even allowing, without examining Su Ting Chieh's statements, that the case really is as he represents, the writers, nevertheless, have their duties to perform as Magistrate and manager respectively, of protecting and supervising the district and the bureaux under their control; and Su Ting Chieh ought to have obtained a permit from ourselves through the British Consul and your Excellency by the usual routine, for presentation to the local authorities, and then he could have been allowed to open his camphor agency where he wished. Whereas he entirely neglects all this customary procedure, and by his pretentious blustering gives strong reason for thinking that his claims to belong to an English firm may be entirely without foundation; and we had therefore intended to punish him forthwith. Seeing, however, that political considerations are involved in the matter, and trouble might result in consequence, we have made a point of laying the facts before your Excellency, and beg that you will ask the British Consul to ascertain definitely, and inform your Excellency accordingly, whether Butterfield and Swire did actually depute Su Ting Chieh to come up here and open this camphor agency, and that your Excellency will inform us of your wishes in the matter.\"\n\nWith reference hereto, I some time ago received a report from the Magistrate to the effect that Su Ting Chieh was still engaged in the illicit preparation of camphor, and I thereupon instructed the Amoy Hai Fang Ting to affect the arrest of Su Ting Chieh, Weng Wen Ch'uan, and Ch'en Hsin Sheng, and to have these three men taken to Lien Ch'eng to be tried and severely punished. Being now in receipt of the letter\n\n[2250 g-1]\n\nB 2",
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        "content_text": "5\n\n18\n\nabove quoted, I have the honour to request that you will be good enough to ascertain, and inform me definitely in reply, whether Messrs. Butterfield and Swire did send Su Ting Chieh to Lien Ch'eng with orders to set up a still and prepare camphor there, so that I may take further action in the matter.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Hausser to Thotai Yen Nien.\n\n(Seal of Taotai.)\n\nAmoy, September 17, 1903. IN reply to your despatch of the 15th instant, I have the honour to state that Messrs. Butterfield and Swire wrote to me on that date to the effect that one of their employés, a man called Su Ting Chieh, came into Amoy the previous day for the purpose of getting from them some more funds for the purchase of camphor for Messrs. Butterfield and Swire. That on the same night he was arrested by order of the Hai Fang Ting, money to the extent of 22 dollars, together with a silver watch, being taken from him by the police runners.\n\nThe offence for which this man has been arrested appears to be that he has been engaged in the camphor trade in the interior. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire state that the man was sent up-country by them with instructions to buy and/or prepare camphor on their account, and to send same down to them in Amoy. They know of no Regulations whatever to prevent their employé—a Chinese subject—proceeding into the interior for this purpose; they are quite prepared to uphold the legality of, and hold themselves responsible for, their action in the matter, and protest emphatically against the arrest of their servant for simply carrying out their instructions. If the Chinese authorities have any complaint to make against Butterfield and Swire, the correct course would have been to lay the matter before me.\n\nMessrs. Butterfield and Swire add further that, since writing the above they have received a letter from their agent at Chang Ping to the effect that on the 11th instant a Japanese went to the village of Hsiao Hu She, where the villagers were preparing camphor for their Chang Ping agent, and after telling them that no persons but the Japanese himself was allowed to make camphor, took away from them about 23 catties of camphor oil and about 80 catties of camphor. This village is about 20 li from Chang Ping. The following night the Japanese visited their agent at Chang Ping, and seized from him 11 cases of camphor oil and 1 case of camphor, which were already in a boat engaged by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's agent to bring the camphor down to Amoy, and which were their own property.\n\nIn my despatches to you of the 5th July and the 5th December, 1902, I have already pointed out that, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, the proposed arrangements for the establishment of a Government Camphor Monopoly for the Province of Fukien constituted an infringement of the principle laid down in the XIVth Article of the French Treaty of Tien-tsin, by which coalitions for the purpose of establishing a commercial monopoly are prohibited, and I informed you that His Majesty's Minister had requested the Wai Wu Pu to issue instructions to the authorities concerned that no interference could be permitted with the right of British subjects to purchase camphor in the interior equally with other native produce.\n\nIn sending a native employé into the interior to purchase camphor from the native producer, Messrs. Butterfield and Swire are clearly within their Treaty rights. To enable them to purchase such native produce, it is equally clear that no monopoly of the production can be allowed in the case of camphor any more than in that of sugar, paper, or any other article. Having purchased the goods they require, Messrs. Butterfield and Swire are further, by Treaty, entitled to temporarily rent or hire godowns for the storage of such produce prior to its shipment to the port. In no respect, therefore, have they infringed any Treaty regulations. I must further point out that if, as stated by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, a Japanese subject claims to be allowed to manufacture camphor in the interior, Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, or any other British subjects, are equally entitled under the most-favoured-nation clause to claim the same privilege, and that I am quite at a loss to understand why a Japanese employed as a technical expert should be going about in the interior looking for native camphor stills, and presuming so far as to seize goods belonging to a British merchant.\n\nThe man arrested having throughout acted under instructions from Messrs. Butterfield and Swire they alone are responsible, and I must therefore ask you to give orders for his immediate release, and for the restoration of the money, &c., taken from him by the police, and that you will at the same time send instructions for the immediate restoration of the camphor and camphor oil belonging to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire illegally seized by your Agent.\n\nIn order to dispose of the pretensions of the Fukien authorities to put in force Regulations nullifying the Treaties between our respective Governments, I am reporting this case to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, and sending him a copy of this despatch.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) P. F. HAUSSER.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to Prince Ching.\n\nPeking, October 13, 1903. HIS Majesty's Consul at Amoy reports to me that the Chinese authorities at that port have arrested a Chinese employé of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, a British firm, on the ground that he has been engaging in the camphor trade in the interior, and further, that Japanese in the service of the official Camphor Bureau travel about the country prohibiting the natives from preparing camphor for sale to the foreign firms.\n\nIn my note of the 28th October of last year, I pointed out that the arrangements proposed to be established in Fukien Province were equivalent to a monopoly of camphor, and as such were, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, an infringement of Article XIV of the French Treaty of 1898. For a long time no steps were taken by the authorities to interfere with the exercise by British merchants of their Treaty privilege of freely purchasing native produce in the interior, but the reports from His Majesty's Consul show that such interference is now continually practised, to the injury not only of the interests of British merchants, but of the native producers.\n\nIn your Highness' reply to my earlier note, you stated that there was no monopoly because foreign merchants could purchase as much camphor as they pleased at market price from the Government Bureau. But it is of the essence of a monopoly that the holders of it become the only vendors, and there ceases to be a market price when there is no free sale and purchase by all persons who wish to sell or buy, and therefore on the Fukien authorities' own showing, their intention was to establish what the Treaty quoted specifically prohibits.\n\nI have, therefore, the honour to request that instructions may be sent to the local authorities that they must not interfere with the freedom of British merchants to purchase camphor wherever they please from any person, and that the people in the country are not to be prohibited from selling camphor to them.\n\nI avail, &c. (Signed) ERNEST SATOW.",
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        "content_text": "6\n\nwatered by the two head branches of the Shweli or Lung Chiang, locally known as the Ming Kwang and Ta T'ang Rivers respectively. Further north, beyond the headwaters of the Shweli, the country is not under China, but is inhabited by independent Kachins and Lisaws. Ta T'ang is the furthest point of Chinese jurisdiction north of Kai Ton, though I was informed that Chinese traders are settled in the Lisaw tracts still further north, and especially at a place called Langsu, three days from Kai Ton.\n\nMoving east out of the Kai To'n Valley and the basin of the Shweli we pass the Ma Mien Kuan into the Salween system. Along this river the Chinese seem to be settled further north than was commonly supposed. They state that north of the great suspension bridge there is comparatively little malaria, and that Chinese can live near the river banks. The riparian population is, however, of a mixed character.\n\nAt the Salween we enter the country of the Tuan clan; this important Chinese family is descended from an ancestor who possessed himself of this part of the country, as I was informed, some seven or eight generations ago. It is now split into five branches; the head of each branch is a \"tu'ssu,\" with his Chinese title and his appropriate position in the Chinese hierarchy of officials; the following is a list of the places of residence of these five brothers:-\n\nTeng Keng, on the west bank of the Salween, about 30 miles, or two days' journey north of Meng-ku Ferry, .., in approximate latitude 25° 58′ north.\n\nMao Chao, on the west bank, two days further north, on about the same parallel as Tu Wo (see below).\n\nLu Ku, on the east bank, about 4 miles below Teng Keng.\n\nLao Wo, in the hills, a short day's journey to the north-east of Lu Ku.\n\nChiu Chou, on the west bank of the Mekong, 8 miles below Fei Lang Bridge, or approximate latitude 25° 45′ north.\n\nThe first two of the above five \"tu'ssu\" are subject to Yung Chang and the last three to the Sub-Prefect of Yun Lung and through him to Ta Li; Yun Lung City is one long stage east of the Mekong at Fei Lung Bridge.\n\nOther \"tu'ssu\" on the Salween are Lien Ti, on the west bank, some 12 miles north of Meng Ku Ferry; this is a Chinese \"tu'ssu\" named Yang and Lu Chang, a small district between Teng Keng and Mao Chao, with, I believe, a Shan \"tu'ssu\" named \"Cha.\" Lien Ti, Lu Chang, Teng Keng, and Mao Chao are all between the River Salween and east of the range on the west bank. This takes the Chinese up to about latitude 26° 10′ on the Salween, but north of that point the Salween Valley appears to be wholly out of control.\n\nOn the west bank of the Mekong, in about latitude 26° 10′, is an important \"tu'ssu\" named \"Lo;\" he is a Minchia and has an extensive strip of territory along both banks of the Mekong and over the hills to the east of it. He has also claims over the wild tribes of the Lou Tzu, who inhabit the great range between the Salween and the Mekong to the north of La ku, Lao Wo, and Tu Wo; but the Lou Tzu are far from recognizing his supremacy, and fighting of a kind is now proceeding.\n\nGoing north along the Mekong, beyond Su Wo, which is subject to Li Chiang, it appears that the whole of the east side of the river, but only the foot hills on the west bank, are under the ordinary jurisdiction of the Li Chiang Magistrate, or, further north, of the Wei Hsi Magistrate, but the upper slopes of the west bank range are under no sort of control; even on the east bank, near Wei Hsi itself, it is admitted that the control of the Mandarins over the Lamas and Thibetans is very slight. However, there is a small post of troops at Tse Ku, on the west bank near latitude 28° north, where there is a Catholic Mission, and the Wei Hsi Sub-Prefect has claims to the allegiance of several districts to the north and west of his city; as I did not visit Wei Hsi, but only heard of these claims from the Prefect of Li Chiang (Wei Hsi's official superior), I regret that I cannot give details.\n\nThus, Chinese jurisdiction may fairly be said to extend from Manung Pun in an easterly direction along the headwaters of the Shweli or Lung Chiang River; thence along the foot hills on the west bank of the Salween to about 26° 10° north latitude; thence east across the mountains by Lao Wo to Tu Wo, on the west bank of the Mekong, and thence north along the foot hills on the west bank of that river.\n\nThe disturbances which took place last year to the north of Tien Tang Kwan point to a pressure of Chinese population in a northerly direction beyond the headwaters of Shweli.\n\nFrom the above remarks on the present administrative frontier of China, I would\n\n7\n\nbeg permission to deduce the suggestion that a Boundary Commission of the same owing character as those which demarcated the south district would be out of place. Owing to the distance from the base, the extreme difficulty of the country, and the great likelihood of armed conflicts with Kachins and Lisaws, it will be hugely expensive, and, further, it is unlikely to be effective. On the other hand, I would point out that in the country to be dealt with there exists a series of boundaries, already marked out by Nature, and I would suggest that by negotiation one of these may be declared the boundary, and that then the question would be settled beyond the possibility of doubt, and without any expense at all.\n\nOf such natural boundaries only two need, I think, be here considered. The first would give all that Burma would require or could fairly claim, and, if attainable, would be a satisfactory solution of the question. It would read somewhat as follows: \"From Manung Pun, the most northerly point of the present frontier, the line will continue in a north-easterly direction, following the crest of the range forming the water-parting between the Taiping or Ta Ho and the Shweli or Lung Chiang on the Chinese side, and the Irrawaddy (N'Maikha branch) on the British side, until that range joins the main range forming the water-parting between the Irrawaddy and Salween Rivers. From this point the frontier will follow the crest of the latter range in a northerly direction to latitude ??\"\n\nThis is in effect what the Government of Burma, on the strength of an arrangement between Sir Claude MacDonald and the Tsung-li Yamên in July 1898, now regards as the provisional frontier, but I would remark that the Chinese officials in Yunnan by no means recognize it as such. It is violated every season by Chinese, whose proceedings, it is true, are not formally authorized by the Yunnan Government, but whose presence on N'Maikha, will, when it comes to demarcation, infallibly be put forward as giving China a claim to that region. I am doubtful if the Yunnan local officials have ever really been informed of what Burma regards as the provisional boundary, or that any protest against the presence and proceedings of Chinese in the undelimited tracts has ever been notified to the Chinese officials.\n\nThe second boundary is the utmost I suppose that Burma could under any circumstances yield, i.e., the N'Maikha or east branch of the Irrawaddy and the frontier line would descend from Manung Pun to that river at a point to be agreed upon. Either of the above frontiers might be laid down by Treaty in Peking or London and the necessity of a Commission be obviated. Burma would then be able to proceed at leisure to extend her administration up to the line laid down.\n\nUnless speedy and firm action is taken, serious difficulty is to be anticipated in securing Frontier No. 1, and it is to be expected that China will put forward claims far more than No. 2—in fact, that they will claim Kâhmti and want the boundary to be west of that valley.\n\nThere are, however, grave objections to granting the Chinese even as much as the N'Maikha (Frontier No. 2). The weight to be attached to these objections can be properly estimated only by the Burma officials, but I may point out that these objections are the following:---\n\n(1.) Frontier No. 1 would give Burma practically all the Kachin country; it would therefore be a good ethnological line, which is a matter of some importance.\n\n(2.) The Upper N'Maikha is not well known, and it might be hard to say which of many possible headwaters should be considered as the main river. Therefore Frontier No. 2 would leave the door open to future difficulties.\n\n(3.) It is highly unlikely that any of the country on the east bank of the N'Maikha is suited for permanent occupation by Chinese peasantry. If it were, much of the objection to Frontier No. 2 would be removed, as Chinese peasants are good and peaceable neighbours; but as it is, if this strip of country is given to China, it is likely to become a jumping-off ground for raiders, filibusters, and smugglers, both Kachins and Chinese, who will be beyond the control of Burma, and render the work of administering the Trans-N'Maikha very difficult. It is safe to say that the Yunnan Government is too feeble and corrupt to undertake the efficient control of so difficult and distant a country.\n\nFrontier No. 1 would do no real harm to China: no Chinese inhabited village would be given up—in fact, the less wild country is given to China the better, not only for her neighbours, but also for herself. The Chinese Government never really gets an administrative grip of any district where Chinese peasantry cannot settle. If, therefore, China is to come down to the N'Maikha, Burma must be prepared either to have her frontier repeatedly insulted, or to keep up an expensive line of posts along the N'Maikha. China, though diplomatically treated by us as a civilized Power, is not, in point of fact,\n\n49",
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        "content_text": "4 \n\n12. Lim Che Eng.--Son of the above. He has an affidavit by his father stating that he was born in Penang. His dress is Chinese. \n\n13. Law Cheng Leang.---Father and mother were born in the Straits Settlements and he holds a certificate dated 1880, which entitles him to protection as a British subject. His dress is Chinese. \n\n14. Moy Wa Cheong.-He is the interpreter in the Supreme Court of Singapore. No information as regards his parentage can be procured. His dress is Chinese. \n\n15. Cheah Chen Esk. He was born in Penang but no particulars of his parents can be obtained. He is at present an opium farmer at Foochów. His dress is Chinese. \n\n16. Feng Man Kingsell. His father was born in Hong Kong before it became a British Colony. He was registered as a British subject in Yokohama for more than ten years. His dress is entirely European and he has no queue. \n\n17. Lo Cheng Yi-He is the adopted son of a man who was a registered British subject (Chinese). His claim to British nationality does not extend further than this. He is an expectant Taotai. He has been registered for some fourteen years. His dress is Chinese. \n\n18. Cheong Cheou Kum.-He was born in Singapore but nothing else is known of him. His dress is Chinese. \n\n19. Hung Lam Se.--He was registered at Tien-tsin and has a Hong Kong certificate. His dress is Chinese. \n\n20. Chan Shan-He lives in Hong Kong. No other particulars can be procured of this man. \n\n21. Lo King. He is the son of Lo Cheng Yi, and on this he founds his right to be registered as a British subject. His dress is Chinese. \n\n[212] \n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1. \n\nSHANGHAE SECOND RETURN. \n\n5\n\n  \n    Name.\n    Place of Birth.\n    First Registration.\n    Date of\n    Nationality of Parents.\n    Father.\n    Mother.\n    Chinese dress.\n  \n  \n    Feng Man Kingsell\n    ..Shanghae ..\n    January 31, 1902\n    \n    Born British subject\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Lou Chia Hock..\n    Hong Kong\n    ..\n    May 27, 1908\n    British Colony\n    \n    \n    *4\n  \n  \n    Liang Chuch Wing\n    \n    Not known\n    ..\n    \n    \n    \n    Not known\n  \n  \n    Liang Wei Ming\n    ..\n    ..September 6, 1900..\n    ..\n    \n    \n    \n    ..\n  \n  \n    Liang Chi Chiang\n    Penang\n    .. 1881\n    \n    Born British subject, Penang\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tam Wa\n    \n    ..July 11, 1903\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    ..\n  \n  \n    Moy Wa Cheong\n    ..Sarawak\n    .. 1869\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cheah Chen Esk\n    Singapore\n    .. 1871\n    \n    Born British subject, Penang\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cheong Cheou Kum\n    .. Penang\n    ..January 1896\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hung Lain Se..\n    .. Ningpo\n    .. 1886\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    ..\n  \n  \n    Lo Cheng Yi ..\n    .. Shanghae ..\n    Birth registered October 6, 1874\n    April 14, 1903\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Lo King\n    \n    January 30, 1901\n    June 23, 1903\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Kum Yea\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Ditto,\n  \n  \n    Kum Su\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Lan Cheng feng\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Wang Chin Tuan\n    Penang\n    1866\n    \n    Penang\n    ..Englishman\n    \"\n    \n  \n  \n    Ng Hing Shang\n    ..]\n    Penang\n    1886\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Lim Iloh Cheow\n    \n    Hong Kong\n    ..\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Sze Yuan Ming..\n    \n    ..\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Lin Chê Eng\n    Penang\n    ..\n    October 29, 1903\n    Born in Penang\n    \n    \n    ..\n  \n  \n    Chuck Kue Wong\n    ..\n    ..\n    1901\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    In Kok\n    Hoinoi, Cochin China.\n    \n    November 2, 1903.\n    Naturalized in Canada\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    in\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hon\n    ..Almora district, North-West Province, India\n    1885\n    \n    Thirty years in Penang\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    ::\n    \n    \n    Born British subject, Penang\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    : :\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    a subject of a British-protected\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    State. Chinese dress. \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    No queue.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Chinese dress.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Ditto.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    .. Widow of Hung Tsat Haing. Registered at Tien-tein under papers from Hong Kong.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Chinese dress.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Ditto.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    February 8, 1898.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    .. European dress.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    .. Chinese dress,\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Ditto.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    .. Ditto.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    .. Ditto.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    .. 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        "content_text": "RETURN of British Subjects of Chinese Descent, registered at His Majesty's Consulate, Amoy, during 1903,\n\nNames and Particulars of Parents.\n\n  \n    No.\n    Name\n    Place of Birth\n    Date of First Registration\n    Remarks\n    Father\n    Mother\n  \n  \n    1\n    Cheang Jim Keug\n    Singapore\n    January 22, 1894\n    Father and mother British subjects by birth.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2\n    Cheang Jim Seong\n    \"\n    23, 1894\n    Ditto.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3\n    Cheang Jim Siew\n    \n    3, 1894\n    \"\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    4\n    Chew Boon Tian\n    \n    December 12, 1896\n    Chew Loon Hian, resident, Singapore\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    5\n    Charles Whitfield\n    Amoy\n    1892\n    Whitfield (English)\n    \n    Chinese\n  \n  \n    7\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    8\n    Choa Cheng Kway\n    Singapore\n    October 10, 1894\n    Parents legally married at Amoy.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    9\n    Choa Li Tek Sim\n    Hong Kong\n    1893\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    10\n    Clifford Parksou\n    \n    December 12, 1901\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    11\n    Edward Mow Fung\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    12\n    Goh Beng Siang\n    Victoria, Australia\n    May 29, 1903\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    13\n    Khoo Ewe Chye\n    Penang\n    September 1, 1902\n    Dead.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    14\n    Kboo Gin Haw\n    \n    5, 1896\n    Khoo Gin Siang, resident at Peking\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    15\n    Kung Phoe Wooi\n    Moulmein\n    May 13, 1902\n    Khoo Ting Poh, dead, a naturalized British subject\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    16\n    Kung Tsung Ting\n    Amoy\n    July 24, 1900\n    Kung Chin Swee of Rangoon\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    17\n    Kung Tsung Sun\n    \n    August 14, 1891\n    Kung Phoe Chun, dead\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    18\n    Kung Tsung Jung\n    \n    January 77, 1894\n    Kung Wah Yok, of Burmah\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    19\n    Kang Trung Tyam\n    Moulmein\n    September 17, 1894\n    Dead, a naturalized British subject\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    20\n    Lau Kiong Sin\n    Singapore\n    6, 1901\n    said to have been a naturalized British subject\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    21\n    Lim Chor Ghee\n    \n    \n    Lim Chor Ghee\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    22\n    Lim Soo Tiat\n    Amoy\n    30, 1893\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    23\n    Lim Soo Mai\n    \n    January 5, 1901\n    Chau Kwan Ee, of Hong Kong\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    24\n    Lim Kim Poh\n    Shanghae\n    June February 25, 1903\n    Mow Fung, born in Hong Kong\n    \n    Dead\n  \n  \n    25\n    Lim Leong Eng\n    Penang\n    1, 1898\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    26\n    Lim Kheng Yee\n    Singapore\n    February 26, 1896\n    Wears European dress.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    27\n    Low Cheng Koon\n    Sarawak\n    17, 1897\n    Ditto.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    28\n    \n    Singapore\n    August June 6, 1898\n    originally registered at Foushow [?].\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    29\n    Boon Thak Dend\n    \n    October 24, 1898\n    Ling Eng Moh, of Sarawak, dead\n    Dead\n    \n  \n  \n    30\n    \n    \n    June 3, 1901\n    Father born in Moulmein, Lower Burmah,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    31\n    \n    \n    February 19, 1903\n    Ditto.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    32\n    Oh Khun Yiong\n    Singapore\n    \n    Born 2 years before his father became a naturalized British subject.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    33\n    Ong Mah Chao\n    \n    March 10, 1894\n    Son of preceding, No. 20.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    34\n    Patrick See Jung\n    Queensland, Australia\n    May 17, 1896\n    Ditto\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    35\n    Sec Ewe Lay\n    Malacca\n    June 25, 1880\n    Father and mother both British subjects by birth.\n    See Eng Wat, born in Malacca\n    See Ewe Hoei\n  \n  \n    36\n    \n    \n    May 18, 1896\n    Ditto\n    \n    See Ewe Song\n  \n  \n    37\n    See Kim Poh\n    \n    April 14, 1903\n    \n    \n    See Kim Poh\n  \n  \n    38\n    See Kim Siong\n    \n    14, 1903\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    39\n    Soon Sob Yan\n    \n    May 31, 1877\n    Dead\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    40\n    Soh Yin Tek\n    Singapore\n    June 4, 1898\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    41\n    Tan Gim Leng\n    \n    May 9, 1895\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    42\n    Tan Hock Chye\n    \n    April 2, 1908\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    43\n    Tan Swee Kye\n    Rangoon\n    May 15, 1899\n    Dead\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    44\n    Tay Kum Lim\n    Singapore\n    April 2, 1903\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    45\n    Teo Tew Cheng\n    \n    December 19, 1902\n    Ditto.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    46\n    Teo Kiam Huat\n    \n    June 6, 1901\n    \n    Tea Hoh Loh, of Singapore\n    \n  \n  \n    47\n    Ung Peng Seng\n    Foochow\n    \n    \n    Ung Choom Tee, [] of Amoy\n    \n  \n  \n    48\n    Wee Hock Siang\n    Singapore\n    February 28, 1895\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    49\n    Wee Team Seng\n    \n    November 5, 1902\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    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        "content_text": "2\n\n2. Formation of a Syndicate by the fusion of two former Mining Companies, Fou Hsiang and Yuan Feng.\n\n3. The Syndicate to have exclusive management and control over all mines in Hunan, with the exception of those already under Government control, and all mining operations for which concessions have already been granted, or may be granted hereafter, to be under the control of the Syndicate, which is to be the only Mining Company. The Syndicate to correspond direct with the Governor, and the Governor's instructions to be conveyed to the Head Mining Bureau.\n\n4. All mining operations, including going concerns, whether they be undertaken by private individuals or by Companies with a subscribed capital, to be registered by the Mining Syndicate and to conform with its Regulations.\n\n5. The Province of Hunan to be divided into three mining districts---Changsha, Yochou, and Chang-te--and Fu-li-chou being the central district; Pao-ching-fu Heng-chou-fu, Yung-chou-fu, Ch'en-chou, Kwei-yang-chou to form the southern district; Ch'en-chou-fa, Yuan-chou-fu, Yung-shun-fu, Ching-chou, and the four sub-Prefectures, Feng-huang, Yung-sui, Kuang-chou, and Kan-chou being the western district.\n\n6. The Concession granted by the Government to the Syndicate to be in perpetuity.\n\n7. The monopoly to be granted to the Syndicate for mines of every description.\n\n8. The Syndicate to act on commercial lines, and not on official principles.\n\n9. The object of the Syndicate is to benefit all. No special privileges to be granted, equal treatment to be meted out to all comers.\n\n10. The former Companies, Fu Hsiang and Yuan Feng, had capitals of 2,000,000 taels and 200,000 taels respectively. The capital they agree to put up together, after the fusion into one Company, is to be 2,000,000 taels at first, divided into 60,000 shares. Chinese of all provinces are entitled to be shareholders, but not foreigners.\n\nSection II.\n\n11. The Syndicate to engage Chinese mining engineers educated abroad or well-known foreign engineers, to prospect and inquire into the mineral resources of the whole province. Deputies or members of the gentry to be sent into all the districts to effect purchases of mining land.\n\n12. The Syndicate's head office to be situated in Changsha, and branch offices at Yochou, Hankow, and Shanghai.\n\n13. The smelting of ore to be carried on both by foreign and by Chinese methods. Native smelting furnaces may be established wherever required; foreign smelting works to be established at places selected with a view to conveniences of transport. The existing produce of smelting works to be disposed of under the management of the Syndicate at Changsha, to avoid confusion of prices.\n\n14. The Directors of the three districts to have joint control of the Syndicate.\n\n15. Persons of one district wishing to start mining operations in another district, must come to an understanding with the Syndicate previous to doing so.\n\n16. Appointments to assistant Directorships to be made by the Head Office of the Syndicate with the approval of the Governor.\n\n17. Directors and sub-Directors to be selected in accordance with the general desire of the shareholders. Should they disagree, the candidates to be nominated by ballot at the next general meeting of shareholders. The candidates selected to receive their appointments from the Governor.\n\n18. The Governor to be requested to appoint an officer to supervise the handling of Government grants and dividends and to control the finances of the Syndicate generally.\n\n19. The Syndicate to have a seal for its three districts, the old seals of the original Companies to be destroyed.\n\n20. The Syndicate will create a mining bank, the cheques of which shall be current among the various mining Companies affiliated to the Syndicate. (This paragraph is open to further discussion and amplification.)\n\n21. A school of mines is to be founded, the cost of which shall be refunded from the net profits in a manner to be hereafter defined, whether the outlay be provided out of special funds or out of the capital of the Syndicate. Any overplus may be used for extending the business of the Syndicate.\n\n22. It is hoped that the capital of the Syndicate may hereafter be increased, and such increase shall be sanctioned.\n\n3\n\nSection III.\n\n251\n\n23-28. Details of the management of the shares, with a restriction against their being transferred to foreigners.\n\nSection IV.\n\n29-37. General meetings of shareholders.\n\nSection V.\n\n38. All owners of mining property to be notified by the provincial authorities that they must forward to the Syndicate samples of their ores for assaying purposes; in case of the distance being very great, those samples to be sent to the nearest local official for transmission.\n\n39. A competent member of the gentry shall be sent to the various local authorities to select and examine mining estates with a view to ascertain whether they are worth working; he shall draw up plans and registers thereof, and request the local officials to confer with him and act accordingly.\n\n40. When a mining estate has been registered, the Syndicate shall inform the local authorities. Such estate thereafter not to be sold to non-members of the Syndicate.\n\n41. With the exception of the mining estates already in the possession of the Syndicate, all other estates that have been registered shall be surveyed afresh by a mining expert specially appointed by the Syndicate, and shall then be bought up by the Syndicate at a price agreed upon.\n\n42. In case the owner of a mining estate is unwilling to sell, his property may be held as his share in the Syndicate. The property shall be worked by the Syndicate, and a suitable dividend shall be paid to the owner.\n\n43. All mines that have been previously opened up, but where owners have had to suspend operations owing to want of capital, may also be assimilated as a share in the capital of the Syndicate. If the owners wish to continue to operate their mines themselves, then the provisions of Section VII shall apply.\n\n44. Should any capitalists in the three districts wish to purchase or lease a mining estate, they must first obtain a written permission from the Mining Bureau, who will have had surveys made, or a despatch from the Syndicate to the local officials, authorizing them to seal the contract and receive the taxes payable thereon. Failing these documents, and if only the usual threefold land deed with the words \"mining property\" added thereto is produced in order to obtain tax receipts by fraud, the local authorities, on detection thereof, shall cancel the said deeds. This measure has been submitted to and approved by the Wai-wu Pu.\n\n45. Should owners of mining estates not be willing to sell or to take part in the operations of the Syndicate, they must request the provincial authorities to issue a Proclamation. In such cases, the said owners shall send their title-deeds to the authorities of their district to be sealed and entered in the registers, to avoid other complications. In case of disobedience to this rule, offenders will be punished. Thereafter, unless the owners agree to let the Syndicate manage their property, any private rules or other arrangements will not be permitted.\n\nSection VI.\n\n46. Mining operations that have been authorized formerly, and that have been carried on without stopping up to the present time, shall continue to be worked as heretofore, but must be registered by the Syndicate.\n\n47. The expenditure and receipts connected with work done at the mines, and the method of mining remain under the control of the mine-owner, and he may decide whether the ore produced shall be smelted by himself or sold to the Syndicate's smelting works. If he wishes to sell to outsiders the produce of ore smelted by himself, he must enter into an agreement with the Syndicate and obtain a permit.\n\n48. 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        "content_text": "Page 363\n\n2\n\npredecessor had tampered with transit pass goods, and the Viceroy has given me this as the reason for the latter's dismissal.\n\nIn this connection, I may mention that the Taotai at Chungking has been transferred by telegraph to the Intendancy of Chien-chang, owing, according to Mr. Sly, to a deficit in the li-kin collection; but the Viceroy informs me that the transfer is due to the importance of the new post and to the Taotai's knowledge of military matters.\n\nI had two other complaints from Mr. Litton. He had been informed by Chinese merchants in Yünnan Fu that the export of Indian rupees had been prohibited at Ta-chien-lu, and that they were unable to take away the price of Indian goods carried by them from Tông-yüch. I laid the matter before the Viceroy, and the prohibition was withdrawn so far as the Yunnan merchants were concerned; but the sub-Prefect of Ta-chien-lu complained of the interference with trade caused by the large export of rupees received through Thibet, and I imagine that owing to the low cash value (480) at Ta-chien-lu a lucrative business other than in Indian goods was being done with Yunnan.\n\nMr. Litton also stated that he had heard in a general way that transit passes for Burmese cottons for Chengtu were not being respected here. I brought the matter to the notice of the Viceroy, and informed him that, on receipt of details, I should again address him on the subject. His Excellency promised to make inquiries, and I have heard privately that the officer in charge of the li-kin station at the east gate was fined ten times (570 taels) the amount of an illegal levy and dismissed.\n\nBurmese goods appear to reach Chengtu by way of Yunnan Fu, Tung-ch'uan Fu, and Chao-tung Fu, and on arrival at Hsu-chou Fu (Sui Fu), they are carried to the provincial capital by water.\n\nAnother complaint brought to my notice was the very heavy taxation of Szechuan yellow silk intended for Burma, and the Viceroy has informed me that he has directed the revision and posting of a new Tariff.\n\nAt an interview which I had with the head of the li-kin office here yesterday, I asked him for a copy of the Tariff. He stated that when he took over charge of the li-kin a few months ago he found that each office had simply a manuscript copy of the Tariff, and that the amounts levied differed at each place. He has ordered a new Tariff to be printed for distribution among merchants, and has promised to furnish me with a copy.\n\nWhen his Excellency Ts'ên Ch'un-hsüan was Acting Viceroy he reported to the throne that the net annual amount of li-kin collected throughout the whole province was 400,000 taels.\n\nThe carriage of parcels through the Chinese post office established here has grown enormously, and as the li-kin office at the east gate of the city has been complaining of a serious deficiency in its collection, which it attributes to the parcels post, instructions have been given that li-kin or transit dues shall be levied on the contents of all parcels liable to taxation.\n\nThere is very little reliable news from Thibet. The authorities here profess to know nothing; but I gather from conversation with them that the new Amban has been considerably delayed by want of adequate transport.\n\nOn the 21st ultimo I received a telegram from a British missionary at Ta-chien-lu to the effect that fighting had commenced between the Thibetans and English; but, if this is true, the information must have reached you before it was received at Ta-chien-lu.\n\nThe three German officers referred to in my despatch No. 20 of the 30th November, finding on arrival at Batang on the 5th January that the road to the Brahmaputra was impracticable, proceeded southwards to Yünnan, and Mr. Nichols, the American, whose aim is to reach Lhassa, has also had to go south to A-tun-tzŭ.\n\nI am informed that the Russian, referred to in my despatch No. 19 of the 28th November as being resident in a lamasery at Ta-chien-lu, is a \"Mongol Lama\"—probably a Buriat—who has been there some years. The address of the letter sent to the Russian Consul was in Russian and Chinese.\n\nHis Majesty's Vice-Consul at Chungking has, he informs me, forwarded to you copies of his despatches addressed to me on the 22nd and 29th ultimo; but I may state that the Japanese mining engineer referred to therein is a Mr. Yamada, a professor of geology, who has been travelling in Szechuan for at least a year, and is now on his way back to Japan. He has no connection with the provincial Government, and, so far as I am aware, he is not the representative of any Japanese Company.\n\nSince his arrival here the Viceroy has expressed great dissatisfaction with the work carried on at the Arsenal, and on the 31st January the Director, with three minor officials and twenty young men selected from the Arsenal employés, left Chengtu for the United States.\n\n3\n\nThe Director is to visit the St. Louis Exposition, and thereafter place the young men as apprentices in various workshops, where they will remain for three years before returning to Szechuan. They are each allowed 1,200 taels for travelling expenses, and 500 taels a-year while in America.\n\nNew machinery is to be purchased for the Arsenal, and the Director and officials accompanying him will, after inspecting and pricing the required plant in the United States, proceed to England for the same purpose.\n\nOne of the officials proceeding with the Director, and recently appointed to the Arsenal by the Viceroy, was educated in America, has travelled extensively in England, and speaks English fluently. He expressed to me his preference for English machinery, but added that the price would probably decide whether it would be of American or English manufacture.\n\nNo steps have yet been taken by the Viceroy to raise capital for the construction of the proposed Chinese railway from Chengtu to Hankow.\n\nAn official \"Gazette\" office has been established here with Government funds. The \"Gazette,\" which will run from thirty-five to forty pages, and contain, in addition to official matters, such as Memorials and Imperial Decrees, information on trade, &c., as well as current news, will be published every ten days. As there will be no issue between the 11th of the twelfth, and the 20th of the first Chinese months, the annual number of \"Gazettes\" will be thirty-two, at the price of 4 dollars.\n\nA font of foreign-cast metal type has been purchased for 2,000 taels.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) ALEX. HOSIE.\n\nPage 363",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nmountainous country. In easy country Lisaw transport is far inferior to mules. If the Lisaw smokes opium at all, he generally smokes it badly. He will sleep out anywhere, and will snore all night with nothing but a piece of goat skin between himself and deep snow, at a height of 9,000 feet.\n\nI had no sort of trouble with any of the Lisaw with whom I had to deal, and I should say that they are easier to get on with than Kachins.\n\nThe Lisaws are scattered and disunited, and are not I think capable of serious resistance to any one. The Lisaw \"rebellion\" which occurred two years ago in this part of the country was purposely much exaggerated by the Chinese mandarins in search of buttons and promotions.\n\nOn the 7th March, we marched east from Lan Ma, following up the stream and over a wild mountain range by a pass known as Kan Tsai Ling (8,700 feet). From one point in the ascent there is a fine view of the Kan Liang Pass and of the range which forms the British frontier. We then passed back into the Shweli Basin and descended through forest, with the monastery of Ying Feng Ssu, a well-known place of local pilgrimage, perched on a conspicuous wooded spur 3,000 feet above us on our right; descending further we struck the valley of Tien Tang, or the west branch of the Shweli River, near the small market of La Hsing. Like all the upper waters of the Shweli, the river is 30-40 yards broad, very clear and cold, and nearly everywhere fordable in dry weather, and only 1-3 feet deep, flowing swiftly over a bottom of slippery stones. The valley of the Tien Tang is about 14 miles broad, and is well peopled and cultivated.\n\nFollowing up this valley we passed into the territory of the Tien Tang Headman Tsai, about 14 miles before reaching Ying Pan Market, which consists of forty wattle bamboo huts. The Headman's house is near this, and he came out to see me.\n\nHe represents the eighth generation of Chiefs of Tien Tang, his ancestors, who were of Chinese origin, having established themselves at Tien Tang in the reign of Hung Wu of the Ming dynasty. Like all other Chinese Chiefs in this country, his ancestor was a military adventurer. The little territory of Tien Tang is divided into six \"pai's,\" or parishes, each containing four or five hamlets of five to twenty families. There are not more than 300 families in the whole of Tsai's jurisdiction. Tsai himself is a dirty, opium-smoking Chinese, of about 45 years of age, in no way to be distinguished from the ordinary villager. I gave him some whisky, which he appreciated, and he then supplied me with a number of details concerning the country round about. Finally, after having commissioned his nephew, a squat youth in straw sandals, to look after me, the Lord of the Valley shambled back to his opium couch with a bottle of his new Scotch acquaintance under his arm.\n\nWe continued up the valley by a good road, and camped at the hamlet (ten families) of Ta Ping Ti, on a terrace 300 feet above the Tien Tang stream. This is near the north end of the valley, and there is a good view of the hills forming the crest of the N'maikha watershed.\n\nThe next day, passing the village of Ma Li Pa (thirty families), 14 miles from and 250 feet below Ta Ping Ti, we ascended an upland valley in a northerly direction. On both sides of Ma Li Pa the tops of the hills were covered with snow. The track which we followed was good, even for mules, right up to the crest of the water-divide at the pass of Pan Wa, 8 miles from Ta Ping Ti. After Ma Li Pa we only passed one village about 6 miles from the pass, but there were extensive patches of cultivation, and the valley, until close to its head, was open, and covered with bracken and pine trees. This road is often followed by Lisaws and petty Chinese traders. The first village on the N'maikha side is said to be Chang Yin Kot, which is about as far from the Pan Wa divide as Pan Wa is from Ta Ping Ti; 7 miles farther on is Lu Pi. Both these are Lisaw villages.\n\nFrom Pan Wa Pass there is a view of the head of the valley of the Chipway tributary of the N'maikha, and of a range of snow-clad peaks known as the Chung Shan, which must be at least 12,000 feet, jutting out from the water-parting towards the N'maikha. The most conspicuous peak bears due north from the Pan Wa Pass, which on the Tien Tang or Chinese side is overshadowed by a high peak of about 10,000 feet, which hangs over Ma Li Pa. The Chipway is known to the Chinese as the Chih Fei River. The N'maikha seems to be generally unknown to them under that name, and they refer to it as the Ta or Chin Chiang (\"great or gold river\"). The Lisaws from the head-waters of the Chipway are said not to number more than 100 families. They come to Tien Tang to get supplies, as one would expect, seeing that the Pan Wa Pass is easy travelling in comparison with the Kachin country below them. Mules can get as far as Lu Pi by this route, but not beyond, into the Kachin country near the N'maikha, without previous road repairs. Walking could, it is said, get from Tien Tang to the banks of the N'maikha in four days, but few or none of the Tien Tang people seem ever to have been so far. Parties of Kachins, however, come to Ying Pan market two or three times a year to purchase iron, which is mined in small quantities in the valley near the Ta Ping Ti.\n\n5\n\nThe Tien Tang branch of the Shweli has three head-streams:\n\n1. The stream which comes from the Pan Wa Pass.\n\n2. The Mo Shih Ho, a brook a little to the west which springs from the same mountain from which flows the chief sources of the Chipway River.\n\n3. The main source flows from the hills north of Ta Ping Ti, at a point on the watershed just opposite the Chung Shan, and, passing the hamlet of Hei Tzu Wan, joins 1 and 2 at Ma Li Pa. There is said to be a difficult track, impassable for mules, over the watershed at the back of the Hei Tzu Wan to the Chung Shan.\n\nOn the 10th March we climbed up the steep hills east of Ta Ping Ti, through patches of cultivation, to 8,800 feet in 2-1/2 hours' march, and so descended by a broad, cultivated, lateral valley, with several villages, into the Ming Kwang Plain. Heavy rain caused us at 12:30 to take refuge in a temple at Shang Ho Si, the last village before debouching on the plain. This pass is easily practicable for laden mules. The next day we crossed the Ming Kwang branch of the Shweli, and ascended the Ming Kwang Plain for 6 miles, passing the dirty little market of Ying Pan Kai, to Tu Chai (\"main village\"), the residence of the Tso family. The plain is from 1 to 2 miles broad; the river was 45 yards wide where we forded, and 1 to 3 feet deep. It is fordable nearly everywhere in the Ming Kwang Plain. Along its banks, as along the banks of the Tien Tang stream, there is abundance of good camping ground, grass, fuel, and water, and of such ordinary supplies as rice, maize, fowls, ducks, mutton, cattle, in sufficient quantities for a small party.\n\nThe Ming Kwang Valley is now divided between two \"fu yi,\" or hereditary Chiefs. Lower Ming Kwang is the patrimony of the Yang family, who have their headquarters at I Ya Tang, a village on the opposite side of the valley to Shang Ho Si, and about 1 mile below it. Their portion of the valley is divided into three \"fan,\" or parishes—upper, middle, and lower—and consists of about seventy hamlets, with 6,000-7,000 inhabitants. There is much padi and other cultivation and a considerable head of cattle in the valley. Many of the people are engaged in the cutting and transport of wood from the surrounding hills to Teng Yueh. The ancestor of the Yangs is said to have been a military official who came from Teng Yueh in the Ming dynasty. The Yangs have now little more than an empty title, and the people of this part of the valley pay the ordinary land tax to the Teng Yueh Sub-Prefect.\n\nThe Upper Ming Kwang Valley belongs to the Tso family, but they have only about fifteen villages, with a population of 300 odd families. The present \"fu yi,\" or Chief, is a youth of 18, and is the son of Tso Erh Kuan (Tso the Second), who was killed at Hpare in Mr. Hertz's affair, in February 1899. The affairs of the family are now managed by the brother of the late (uncle of the present) head of the family. I was well received, and lodged in the Tso clan ancestral temple, where the various members of the family came to visit me. Their temple is at the back of their yamên, which is a filthy and rambling structure resembling a succession of pigsties; the village, of some seventy families, consists of hovels made of bamboo wattle, but there seems to be abundance of cultivation and supplies. It is, however, clear that the political and economical affairs of the family are in a very decadent condition. The \"regent\" is a man of some intelligence but of little energy, except in pulling at his opium-pipe; and I doubt if Burma will ever have any further trouble from the military aspirations of the Tso clan.\n\nMost of the Tso clan's peasantry are \"nu shou,\" or crossbowmen, who do not pay ordinary land tax. It would appear that they were originally a sort of limitrophe colonist, whose lands and status were recognized by the Chinese Government on condition that they defended the frontier. The Tso family is a branch of the Teng clan, originally seated near Chengtu, in Ssuchuan, but which early moved to Tsao Chiang, in the Mekong Valley, and in the Yun Lung Sub-prefecture of Yunnan. The name was then changed to Tso. At the end of the Ming dynasty Tso Wan Hsiang came from Tsao Chiang, and carved out as his patrimony the upper Ming Kwang Valley, from which he expelled Lisaws and others. It is also to be noted that there are vague traditions of Burmese (not Shans) having formerly inhabited parts of this country. Tso Wan Hsiang gained the honorary and hereditary title of \"Suan Fu Su,\" generally conferred only on Chiefs of the first class, and his descendants bear the title to this day. The present youth is twelfth in descent from the Wan Hsiang.\n\nPage 367",
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        "content_text": "who made the first settlement in Ming Kwang. It appears that from early times the Tso family have been in the habit of interfering in Kachin affairs over in the N'maikla watershed. A tributary of the N'maikha—which I identify with some doubt as the Klan Sheng River—is known to the Ming Kwang Chinese as Kun Ma,\" or Rolling Horse River; and the legend is that once when, in the reign of Kang Hsi, early in the present dynasty, the Tso were on the war-path over the watershed, their General, Hsu Erh Ye, rode a very valuable horse, which tumbled down the precipice, and, rolling into the river, was seen no more.\n\nTso Erh Kuan, who met his death from a Mauser bullet at Hparé, was a Jingo, and seems to have had a great local reputation as a fighting man, though he was not well informed as regards modern weapons of precision. He was constantly in the habit, in alliance with Yang's people from Lower Ming Kwang, of trading, raiding, and smuggling as far as the N'aikha, and beyond. Now, it is quite impossible that the late Tso can have put in the field anything like the numbers which opposed Mr. Hertz. His people, all told, must be under 2,000, and they are all of them timid and simple-minded peasants, who certainly have no liking for villainous saltpetre. The fact seems to have been that Tso's reputation was such that he was able to collect round him all the dacoits, smugglers, and bad characters of the country-side, and it is an open secret that he received moral and material support from Teng Yuel. There is, I think, not the least fear that the present Teng Yueh officials, or the present heads of the Tso family, will take any action likely to cause a recurrence of such an incident as the Aparé fight. The Tso family is obviously out at elbows, and their control, even over villages on their own side, is of a very shadowy description.\n\nOn the 12th March, in very wet weather, I commenced an inspection of the upper waters of the Ming Kwang River by a march to the crest of the watershed at the pass known as Ta Ya Kou, which leads to Hparé. We ascended the valley along the banks of the main Ming Kwang River, known as the Ta Ho, for 14 miles, and then turned up a side valley in a north-west direction and ascended by a small stream known as the Cha Shan Ho. The track was a good mule-path, leading up a broad valley with patches of copse and bracken, and surrounded by snow-powdered mountains. We passed four or five Lisaw huts, until, at 6 miles, we mounted through dense bamboo jungle by a steep and difficult path to the lesser pass (8,900 feet), where, in the dense virgin forest, there is a small fort, about 20 feet square and 12 feet above ground, with a cellar 5 feet below the ground. This fort is loopholed and commands the approach from Hparé. It can only be entered from behind by an underground passage some 20 yards long, with two sharp corners in it. This fort was built by the Lower Ming Kwang Chief, Yang, after the fight with the British at Hparé in 1899. It is said to have employed 100 men for a month, and I can well believe it. Descending from the small pass through a wild forest we crossed the brook of Hsiao Tang Ho, and then, ascending over snow by a tedious but not difficult slope, reached the watershed at 9,500 feet, about 12 miles from Ta Chai. The summit of the pass is covered with forest trees and huge rhododendrons, festooned with lichen. The trees and the mist prevented anything like a view towards the N'maikha, and the damp was such that we quite failed to light a fire. There are no inhabitants between the main valley of the Ming Kwang and the top of the pass, except the few Lisaws mentioned above; but camping-grounds and the remains of fires prove that the route is frequently used. The first village on the N'maikba side is Shang P'a Li (Upper Hpare), which is said to be about as far from the divide as the divide is from the Ming Kwang River.\n\nThe general name used by the Chinese for the country on the N'maikha side, east of the Chung Shan i.e., the valley of the Upper Khan Sheng—is \"Cha Shan\" (Tea or Camelia Hills). Ming Kwang men occasionally go over to barter salt and cotton clothes to the Kachins for hemp, sandals, beeswax, \"huang lien\" (the rhizomes of a jungle plant used as medicine), and other jungle produce.\n\nOn the 13th March I struck camp from Ta Chai and proceeded up the main Ming Kwang Valley, here about 1 mile wide, with forest-clad hills on both sides. Here I noticed an old proclamation by the Teng Yueh official, which threw some light on the politics of Ming Kwang after the Eparé affair. This document recites a petition received from the widow of Tso Erh Kuan, in which she states that her husband having died in defence of his country, she wishes to spend the rest of her life in mourning. Her son was an infant, and the soldiers sent from Teng Yuch to Ming Kwang (there are none there now) were so disorderly that a lone woman like herself could no longer keep the public peace. It seems to have been in consequence of this that the lady's brother-in-law was appointed \"regent.\"\n\nPage 7\n\nFor the first 2 miles we passed pádi fields and three villages of the Tso clan; then the country became wilder, with only very sparse cultivation, but with extensive pastures.\n\nAs we approached nearer to the watershed the scenery became very grand. The valley itself consists of wide bracken slopes, with patches of grass and marsh dotted with clumps of bamboo and oak scrub; pheasants abounded, and I shot several of the large wood-snipe. At 5 miles from Tar Chai we passed a wide lateral valley formed by the Hsiao Tang Ho River (see above), up which runs the track to Tzá Chu. The huts of Lisaw peasants and a few recent Chinese squatters were spread about, and we passed several shepherd's encampments. All around us were great forest-clad hills with snow-powdered summits. At 7 miles, still marching east, we passed another stream, the Lai Shih Tou Ho, which flows down from the divide. At 8 miles we passed the Lisaw hamlet of She Li Shu (ten houses) situated on the further side of the Ming Kwang stream, and shortly after through a gap in the hills to the north-east we caught a glimpse of the snow-clad Salwen divide with peaks rising to 12,000 feet. Here the Ming Kwang Valley contracts for about 4 miles, and bearing round to the north we entered on the narrow plain (1 mile broad) of Ta Chu Pa, which leads straight up to the head-waters of the Ta Ho, or Ming Kwang, River, undoubtedly the true source of the Shweli. Ta Chu Pa is sparsely inhabited by some twenty Lisaw families. We passed the house of the local headman subject to Ming Kwang, and after a march of 13 miles camped by a stockade at 7,300 feet. Inside the stockade we found the Chinese agent of a Teng Yueh coffin-wood firm, \"Fu Sheng Hsiang,\" who arranges for the transport of the timber from the banks of the Ngaw Chang, tributary of the N'maikha, to Teng Yueh, mostly on the backs of Ming Kwang coolies. He complained bitterly of having to live in such a place, like Ovid among the Getae, stockaded against bandits and wolves, and with no society but that of a few Lisaw. Personally I found the Chu Pa Valley a delightful spot. There was hardly any cultivation, the whole being covered with bamboo jungle, marshes and bracken, where there was excellent pheasant shooting. The mountain scenery all round the valley is especially grand and impressive. There is excellent camping ground, and abundance of water, fuel and grass, but no supplies. As regards the bandits, it is undoubtedly true that the whole of this country and the Upper Salwen Valley are unsafe and infested by small bands of Chinese outlaws and \"black\" Lisaws, who are impelled by famine to resort to pillage on passing coolies. I met two small parties of these gentry, but saw little of them save their heels; they would seem to be respecters of persons. I do not think that a prudent and well-armed foreigner runs much danger of being attacked. At Ta Chai I was solemnly assured that there were forty robbers on the pass above Chu Pa; I got to Chu Pâ, and then, according to the Chinaman there, these forty had dwindled down to four, and when, on the next day, I ascended the pass itself not one even of these four men in buckram put in an appearance.\n\nThe coffin-wood firm mentioned above has recently spent 600 rupees in making the pass of Ta Ho Toú (\"source of the main river\") and the track beyond it down to the Ngawchang River passable for mules; the agent valued the turnover of his firm at about 6,000 rupees annually.\n\nThe day after arriving at Ta Cha I resolved to follow up this track to the watershed. We marched up the right bank of the Ta Ho, here little more than a brook, and over some marshy land, and then through a very dense bamboo brake in a narrow gorge between cliffs—a fit place for treasons, stratagems and spoils. Leaving on our right a trail which leads east to the Salwen divide, we ascended in a northerly direction. The weather was very bad, sleet and snow falling continuously. The dense forest through which we passed was soaked and dripping with moisture, and the rough track was a foot deep in slush, snow, and mud. It would be hardly passable for mules except in dry weather. After three and a half hours we reached the watershed at the Ta Ho Toú pass, 9,100 feet, in a very bedraggled condition. The source of the Ming Kwang River, and therefore of the Shweli, is a few miles to the east-north-cast of this pass. By this route there is constant communication between Ming Kwang and the Upper Ngaw Chang. The first village reached on the maikho side is Pien Ma, which appears to be a Kachin village at a considerable elevation, as the Chinese say it is as cold as Ta Chu Pa. Pien Ma is two days' journey for a man from Ta Chu Pa, the night being spent in a cave; but laden mules require three days. Mules, I was told, can go beyond Pien Ma, descending to I Tung, a Kachin village on the banks of the Hsiao Chiang (small river) which I identify with the Ngaw Chang. I was told that it was possible to follow up the Hsiao Chiang for four or five days until the Ni Mo River is reached, after which the\n\nPage 368",
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        "content_text": "10\n\nbelow To To) was Mao Chao on the right bank, the seat of a petty Chinese Chief, but that the Mao Chao people who have to cross the range must descend along the river and start from Teng Keng. But one day's march up the river north of Mao Chao is Cheng Kan; here there is said to be a very difficult track used only by Lisaw coolies carrying salt over the range into the Kachin country of Pai Pa (a name which I cannot identify, but it is probably near the headwaters of the Laking Kha, tributary of N'maikha).\n\nAs to the Salwen Valley beyond Cheng Kan (which should be in about north latitude 26° 40′)I could get no definite information save that it was inhabited by wild and famished \"black Lisaws,\" who looted travellers and were under no sort of control by anybody. None of the local Chinese had ever attempted to go so far, and in fact it was a country beyond the perception of the popular consciousness.\n\nOn the left bank of the Salwen, in the far distance, we saw some very lofty mountains which were covered with what appeared to be perpetual snow.\n\nWe descended from To To to the Salwen, passing along the side of a spur which bangs over a small stream along the banks of which is the path leading from the Salwen to the Pien Ma Pass. The bed of the great river where we struck it in latitude 25° 50′ north is at an altitude of 3,000 feet. The water had already lost its rich winter blue, and was a dirty grey, discoloured probably by melting snows. The summer rains turn the water to a muddy yellow.\n\nFrom the village of Ch'a Shan, on the river bank, we marched for two days along the right bank of the Salwen. The weather had cleared at last, and the Lisaw porters suffered severely from the heat. The road along the right bank is perfectly good for mule traffic, but the population is apparently scanty, being hidden in villages situated in the folds of the hills higher up. At 2 miles from Ch'a Shan we stopped for a mid-day halt at Teng Keng, a Chinese village of twelve houses with a tumble-down yamên, the residence of the local Chief, a Chinaman of the Tuan family, which has five branches; the head of each branch respectively rules the scanty territories of Chiu Chou, on the Mekong; Lu K'u, Mao Chao, and Teng Keng, on the Salwen; and Lao Wo in the hills between the two rivers. The territory of Teng Keng is said to contain 1,000 families, though I am bound to say that I take this to be an exaggeration. The present Headman is a boy of about 14, the sixth of his line. His affairs are managed—or, rather, mismanaged by his relatives. Mao Chao is said to have only 300 families, while Lu K'u is stated to be twice as extensive as Teng Keng. The Chief of Lu K'u lives in a fairly well-built village, 5 miles below Teng Keng, but on the opposite or left bank. There is a ferry here served by a boat. Marching past the Lu Ku ferry we camped that evening at the village of Lai Mo subject to the ordinary jurisdiction of the Yung Chang official, and situated in a horseshoe-shaped padi valley by the river bank. On the 22nd we reached Wan Chiao, situated in a similar valley, after passing only two small villages in the day's march. On the 23rd we followed two sharp bends of the river and emerged on to the valley of Man Yin, where there is a small and dirty but important bazaar. There is no market anywhere in the Salwen valley north of this.\n\nThe left bank of the Salwen, between Teng Keng and Man Yin is very thinly populated, as lofty and precipitous cliffs descend nearly straight to the water's edge.\n\nThe part of the Salwen valley through which we passed is known as Shang Chiang (upper river). On the Burmah map attached to the N'maikha Exploration Column's Report this is written \"Sanjang,\" and by error is marked as being in the Shweli Valley. From Man Yin we again passed the main divide by the tedious but well-trodden Ma Mien Kwan (10,500 feet), which is daily traversed by salt porters. The weather had by this time cleared, and snow only remained in small patches. Descending into the Shweli Valley we were glad, after a tiring excursion of six days to rejoin the camp which had come down from Ta Chu Pa to meet us at the west foot of the Ma Mien, which is only two long marches by the direct route from Teng Yueh.\n\nOn the 25th March we moved north to explore the Ta Tang valley, across the head of which we had passed while ascending the west slope of the Salwen divide. The Ta Tang Valley comprises little or no level plain land, but is broken up by spurs and foot-hills jutting out from the Salwen divide. The country is well-wooded and fertile, copses and pastures affording a pleasant variety to the padi fields. Numerous streams descending from the divide give perennial supplies of water, and the peasants are numerous and well-to-do. Indeed, the idea that the part of Teng Yuch which is close to our frontier is sparsely populated must be abandoned. The only valley suitable for Chinese cultivation which is still uncultivated by them is the head of the Upper Ming Kwang and Ta Chu Pa valley, and even there a few families of Chinese squatters have already begun to put in an appearance. I should think it extremely probable that in a few years' time the Chinese peasant will spread across the divide into the upper slopes of the M'maikha basin.\n\nThe Headmen of Ta Tang are two brothers of the Liu clan. Though the whole of the valley from Shan Yao tax station, at the foot of the Ma Mien, northwards, is known as Ta Tang, the Ta Tang Headmen only control the upper head of the valley, or about 350 households, the other villages being under the ordinary jurisdiction of Teng Yueh. The Headmen reside at two villages of twenty houses each situated close to each other at 12 miles from Shan Yao; they are rather less out-at-elbows than the Headmen of the other valleys.\n\nIn the afternoon of the 26th March we forded the Ta Tang River, and camped at the end of a romantic gorge along which we marched the next day in a northerly direction. In two places the track was blocked by rocks, and loads had to be unsaddled; otherwise the going is easy. At 7 miles from Ta Tang, and after an easy ascent to 7,500 feet, we reached a col and passed again into the Ming Kwang valley. Descending through thick bamboo jungle, at 9 miles we struck the Ming Kwang stream at the Lisaw village of Shé Li Shu, and from this point returned to Teng Yueh by the Ming Kwang valley and Ku Tung market.\n\nII. Claims of Chinese Headmen in the N'maikha Basin and observations thereon.\n\nI did not think it advisable to discuss with the Teng Yueh officials or with the local Headmen the nature and extent of their claims in the N'maikha basin, nor did I think it prudent myself to pass over into that basin. I do not wish to indicate that I should have run any great personal risk by so doing; indeed, the coffin-wood people were most anxious that I should go with them to the Ngar Chang; probably they wanted the protection of a foreign rifle. Further, I had no escort of Chinese soldiers with me, as they would, with their customary insolence, infallibly have got to loggerheads with the Lisaw Headmen, to whom I trusted for guides and for my personal safety, but as I was by way of travelling in China and under Chinese auspices, I thought that any extension of my journey towards the M'maikha might open the door to future misunderstandings.\n\nI collected, however, a good deal of information regarding these claims from Chinese and Lisaws who are constantly going over the watershed; the particulars given me by different people in different places agreed so well that I venture to think that I can now submit an accurate account of what these claims really are. If in future the Yunnan Government puts forward more extensive demands, we may, I think, safely put down such as fraudulent afterthoughts.\n\nI would, in the first place, observe---\n\n1. That the statement made in London by the late Sir Lo Feng Lu, to the effect that it is well known that in this region the frontier of China is the Irrawadi (i.e., N'maikha branch) is wholly without foundation. On the contrary, it is well known, and was asserted to me, both by the Tso family and by all the local people, that the lower slopes of the hills on the left bank of the N'maikha-\"Langsu,\" as they usually call it, \"where money is not known \"-are wild man's land, and under no control whatever by anybody.\n\n2. It is to be noted that there is no a priori reason why Chinese influence should not in the past have reached beyond the head-waters of the Shweli into the N'maikha basin. Of course, the watershed is, from the geographical point of view, quite unmistakable, but communication over it is not by any means so difficult as to prevent intercourse. Indeed, it must always have been much easier for people starting from an upland valley like Ming Kwang, at 6,000-7,000 feet, to get across these easy passes to the country about the upper waters of the left-bank tributaries of the N'maikha than for people ascending through difficult mountain tracks from the low level of the N'maikha itself.\n\n3. There are at present no villages within some 6 miles of either side of the watershed, and there are no regular settlements or villages of Chinese on the N'maikha side at all. On the other hand, the Ming Kwang people have long been in the habit of crossing over on trading expeditions. Though their notions of geography are hazy, they know the names of the villages, the distance from village to village, and similar details with some approach to accuracy,\n\nPage 370",
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        "content_text": "ROUGH SKETCH MAP\n\nTO ILLUSTRATE\n\n\"REPORT ON A JOURNEY TO THE UNDELIMITED\n\n26\n\n98° 15'\n\n45\n\nR. N'maikha\n\nEastern Irrawadi)\n\nChipway R..\n\nShingaw R\n\n30'\n\nMt Manung O\n\nmost northerly point, \"de\n\ndelumuted frontier.\n\nMt Pang Sany\n\nMt Warungo\n\n(to N'maikha}\n\nBURMA-YUNNAN FRONTIER\n\nNORTH OF TENG-YUEH.”\n\n98°30'\n\n98°45'\n\nvery mountainous\n\ncountry\n\ninhabited by Kuchins →\n\nKhan Sheng R\n\nNgaw Chang\n\nRiver\n\n1 Shan\n\npass\n\nCha Shan\n\nPien Ma?\n\nTzu Chu\n\nHpare\n\nMing Ewang\n\nM\n\n\"Shweli - Nmaikha\"\n\ndivide\n\nCha Shan it\n\nShwelt\n\nFou\n\nTa Chu Pa\n\n1300 ft\n\nShe Li Shu\n\nEppss 7800 ft\n\nTaiping-Nmaikha\n\ndivide\n\nSources of Taiping\n\nprecipitous mountains:\n\nR\n\nPan Wa pass\n\n8000 ft\n\nMing Kwang R.\n\nTa Char\n\n6800 ft\n\nYing Pan\n\nShih Bo\n\nShang\n\nSi\n\nTan Tsa\n\nMa lip\n\n•1 Ya Tang\n\nVillage\n\nTan Tsu\n\nJam Na Bo\n\nKupiny - Shweli divide\n\nTien Tang R\n\nPing\n\n6400 ft\n\nYing Pa\n\nBain Ba\n\nTiên Tung\n\ndivide\n\nMing kwang-Ta Tang divide\n\n$200ft.\n\nLam Ma\n\n6700 ft\n\npass 8700ft\n\nWa So\n\nLa Hsin\n\nSan Cha\n\nMt Kao Liang\n\npass 10,000 ft\n\nTa Ho\n\n15'\n\n(to Irrawadi)\n\nTai Ping R.\n\n250\n\n98° 15'\n\n(70.6/1904. 1207 j 1980 0-1 ne.\n\nEu Yan\n\n6000 ft\n\nHsiao Tej\n\npass 8600 ft\n\nTa Tang\n\n6600 ft\n\n•Lu Chang s\n\nJo top\n\nTeng Ken\n\n3200 ft\n\nShang Chiang\n\nAsian Ho\n\n1200 ft\n\n•Lu Ku\n\nLaitot\n\npass 9900 ft\n\nMain Salwen-Irrawadi divide\n\nMan pung\n\n⚫Hupang\n\nLien Ti\n\nWan Chiao\n\nShan Yao\n\n7700ft\n\nMa Mien\n\npass\n\n10,300 ft\n\nMan Yin\n\n.Kaj Ton\n\nTu Tang R\n\n5400 ft\n\nChu Chih\n\n$100 ft\n\nHsfang Yang\n\n/Bridge\n\nTsiu Tien\n\npass ead\n\nBai Ko\n\nTeng Yuch\n\n£300 ft\n\n98\" 30'\n\nLung Chiang or Shwell R\n\nto Irrawadi}\n\nSCALE. 4 MILES TO INCH.\n\nB-quences. Est's, 5 Mete.C\n\nRegular and lofty range\n\n98°45\n\n26*\n\n45'\n\n371\n\n30'\n\nLu chiang or Salwen R\n\n↓\n\n15\n\n25°\n\nG. Litton Acting Consul\n\n17/4/04.",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n14.\n\nof lateral ranges. To make a boundary criss-cross across such a country would be a work of the utmost difficulty, even if we had not to expect Chinese obstruction and Kachin opposition.\n\nBut if the Chinese would consent to the principle of the watershed frontier, a small party, consisting, say, of a British survey officer and two or three picked assistants, a political officer able to speak Kachin, and the Teng Yueh Consul, with an escort of not more than half-a-dozen Ghurkas, could proceed from the Chinese side, where supplies and communications present no difficulties, to get a complete topographical survey of the country near the watershed. The Taotai would send a deputy to give any necessary assistance, and postulating the goodwill—or, at least, neutrality—of the Chinese officials, I do not think, judging from my own experience, that such a party would run any very serious risk—at any rate on the higher slopes near the water-divide; on their report it would be possible to judge accurately of the real weight of the Chinese claims, and if they had any weight, the best means of dealing with them, ... by a money settlement or by territorial concession on the N'maikha side.\n\nFailing this, there would appear to be no course for the Government of Burmah to adopt except to insist on the watershed, and as soon as possible make the position good by administering up to the Ngaw Chang. The worst course of all, I am persuaded, would be a Boundary Commission on the lines of the former Commissions.\n\nI may add that I got some details regarding the proceedings of the two cadets from the military college at Yunnan Fu who were sent down by the Yunnan Viceroy last year to inspect the frontier. They had no plane tables or instruments of any kind except a telescope. They went to Kao Liang, Manung Pum, and up to Pan Wa at the head of the Tien Tang Valley, and there their explorations ended; they stayed for some time at the house of Headman Yang, of Lower Ming Kwang, but did not go to the head of the valley. No doubt they got lists of the villages claimed by China on the N'maikha side.\n\nTeng Yueh, April 16, 1904.\n\n(Signed)\n\nG. LITTON,\n\nActing Consul\n\nSOUTH-WEST CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.—(Received August 8.)\n\n373\n\n[August 8.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nIndia Office, August 6, 1904.\n\nSir,\n\nI AM directed by Mr. Secretary Brodrick to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Villiers' letter of the 19th July, asking for his observations upon a despatch from His Majesty's Consul-General at Yunnan-fu in which he inclosed a printed copy of a Memorandum on the subject of the Franco-Chinese Yunnan Railway Agreement, which he has compiled for the Government of India.\n\nThe views of the Government of India regarding this Agreement have not yet reached this Department. But, in the meantime, I am to say that the only provision which appears to Mr. Brodrick, as at present advised, to demand the attention of His Majesty's Government is that relating to the construction of branch lines by the French, which might conceivably be so used as to include lines in the neighbourhood of the Burma frontier, where the prior right of British enterprise should be secured.\n\nAs regards the telegram of the 1st July from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, inclosed with Mr. Campbell's letter of the 4th July, I am directed to state that Mr. Brodrick agrees that it would be premature to apply to the Chinese Government for a concession of a railway from Burma to Tali and Yunnan City, and thence to Szechuen. But should it appear that the French have any intention of asking for concessions for these lines, he thinks that the Chinese Government should be reminded of the rights we possess (under the Agreement with France of the 15th January, 1896) to equality of treatment with the French in the matter of railway construction in Yunnan and Szechuen, which rights, so far as Yunnan is concerned, were recognized in Prince Ching's note of the 16th March, 1902, inclosed with Sir E. Satow's despatch of the 20th March, 1902, No. 75.\n\nI am, &c. (Signed) A. GODLEY.\n\n8/51\n\nIn Collis\n\npruits to Str couf & Fo\n\nHongkong\n\nAutt\n\nAnk\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nRough Sketch Map to illustrate preceding Report.\n\n[2116 h-1]",
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        "content_text": "Sir:-\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE,\n\n28653\n\n418\n\nPre 18 AUG 041\n\nAugust 16th, 1904.\n\nFor & Salons\n\nA0213,\n\nI am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to inform you that in July, 1903, proceedings were taken in the International Settlement at Shanghai against six Chinese subjects, four of whom were charged with printing and publishing treasonable libels in the \"Supao\", a native newspaper, and the other two, Chang ping-lin and Chon Yung, with publishing seditious pamphlets.\n\nPrevious to their arrest the Taotai of Shanghai had agreed that the accused should be tried in the Mixed Court of the Settlement and that their punishment should take place in the Settlement.\n\nWhen the case came on for hearing Chang ping-lin and Chon Yung acknowledged in open Court the authorship of the Pamphlets, and the Chinese Authorities thereupon demanded that they should be handed over to them.\n\nUnder Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nThis",
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        "content_text": "419\n\nThis demand was not complied with, and after prolonged negotiations between the Diplomatic Body at Peking and the Chinese Government it was agreed that all the accused should be tried in the Settlement before a Chinese Magistrate specially appointed for the purpose and a foreign Assessor.\n\nThe trial took place before a Court so constituted and Chang Ping-lin and Chon Yung were sentenced to imprisonment for life by the Chinese Magistrate.\n\nThe British Assessor dissented from these sentences and they were eventually reduced in the case of Chang to three years and of Chon to two years imprisonment, both prisoners at the expiration of those terms to be banished from the Settlement.\n\nHis Majesty's Minister at Peking has recently been in communication with His Majesty's Consul General at Shanghai respecting the disposal of the prisoners when their sentences of imprisonment shall have expired, and I am to inclose, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies a copy of a despatch from Sir Pelham Warren in which he discusses the possibility of the men on their release being sent to Hong Kong on board a British steamer.\n\nConsul General Warren expresses the opinion that they would not be safe in the Settlement, and there can be no doubt that they would be in still greater danger anywhere in China outside the Settlement.\n\nThe case has throughout aroused considerable interest among the British residents at Shanghai and I am to suggest for Mr. Secretary Lyttelton's consideration, that inquiries might be made of the Colonial Authorities whether in the circumstances there would be any objection to Chang Ping-lin and Chon Yung with their own consent being sent to Hong Kong on a British vessel when they have served their terms of imprisonment.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,\n\nI. Campbell",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nC. O.\n\n429\n\n29509 [July 29,]\n\nIRECT\n\nSECTION 22 AUG 041\n\nChang Ta-Jen to the Marquess of Lansdowne.--(Received July 29.)\n\nMy Lord Marquess,\n\nChinese Legation, July 27, 1904.\n\nI HAVE been directed by the Wai-wu Pu to invite your Lordship's attention to a matter connected with the taxation of opium, to which the Imperial Government attach much importance from a fiscal point of view, and which they think calls for the immediate attention of the two Governments.\n\nI shall not here revert to the unfortunate troubles to which the importation of the fatal drug gave rise in days past, but will merely mention that after many attempts to suppress its consumption by the people of China, and many futile protests against its introduction into the country, the Imperial Government, in 1858, as the lesser of two evils, felt themselves constrained to legalize its importation and sanction its being included in the Tariff, hoping by this means to terminate the evils of smuggling. Considering the nature of the traffic, the duty then imposed on the drug was exceedingly moderate, consisting of an import duty of 30 Haikwan taels per chest of 100 piculs, or 133 lbs. avoirdupois. But this payment covered the import duty only, the free and unrestricted taxation of the drug on its passing into Chinese hands being left entirely to the discretion of the provincial authorities.\n\nFreed from the risk of foreign complications, it was hoped that, once in the interior, the consumption of the drug might be held in check by increasing the war tax then leviable on it and all other goods under the designation of li-kin. But the operation of this expedient was soon found only to have been to remove the evils of smuggling from the seaboard to the interior. Daily, and often sanguinary, feuds took place between the contrabandists and the excise. Another expedient had to be sought, and happily was found for this, in the Additional Article of the Chefoo Convention, signed in London in 1885.\n\nBy this Article, which is still in force, the import duty and the li-kin were to be paid simultaneously at the Treaty port; and the latter, instead of being leviable as heretofore at the discretion of the provincial authorities, was limited to 80 taels, making with the original import duty of 30 taels, 110 taels per chest, an amount which, calculated at the exchange of the date when the new arrangement came in force, was equivalent to 27 per cent. on the then value of the opium, but which now, owing to the depreciation of silver and the greatly enhanced tael-value of the drug, amounts to no more than 13 per cent.\n\nIn 1885, when the Additional Article came in force, 400 taels was the price of a chest of opium and 5s. the value of a Haikwan tael, thus making the value of the drug to be £100 per chest, and the combined import and li-kin duties, calculated at the same rate, £27. 10s.\n\nIn 1904 opium sells for 800 taels per chest and the tael for 2s. 6d.; the sterling value of the opium thus remains at £100 per chest, whilst that of the combined import and li-kin duties amounts to only £13. 15s., or exactly one-half of what it was in 1885.\n\nHere it will be seen that, in spite of the depreciation of silver, the action of economic laws has enabled the price of the drug to be maintained at the same gold value. But in the case of the duties it has been far otherwise, for, regulated by an unyielding Convention, no change, no power of adaptation to circumstances, was possible in them without the common consent of the two High Contracting Parties; the consequence of this being that, whilst remaining nominally the same, they have shrunk—and shrunk—always to the betterment of the merchant and the detriment of the Government—until what was equal to £27. 10s. in 1885 is now worth only £13. 15s.\n\nA similar shrinkage concurrently took place in the gold value of the duties on all other goods, but this was rectified in principle by the Final Protocol of September 1901, and subsequently in practice by the Mackay Treaty of last year.\n\nThe effect of this and the latter rectification when it comes in force will, with the surtax, be that the gold value of the duties on ordinary merchandise will fall but little short of that now levied on opium.\n\n[2056 -1]",
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        "content_text": "Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Little to Sir E. Satow.\n\n(No. 59.) Sir,\n\nNewchwang, May 31, 1904, IN continuation of my despatch No. 57 of the 26th instant on the subject of mining Concessions in Manchuria, I have now the honour to furnish some additional particulars.\n\nGisements de Hou.-This probably refers to a coal mine within 2 or 3 miles of Moukden, in which an American is interested jointly with Chinese. The former's interest in the property was acquired by arrangement with the natives concerned, and no Concession has been granted by the authorities. I understand the mine is not in operation at present, although some attempt was made to work it two or three years ago.\n\nFilon aurifere de Diapigo. This would appear to be a gold mine or mines situated at Chia Pi-ku, about 100 miles east north-east of Kirin. Some years ago this district was to some extent in the hands of a noted bandit chief, who worked the mines in spite of the opposition of the Chinese authorities, Mining rights in the district are said to have been acquired a year or two ago by the Manchurian Mining Company by purchase from a Russian, but it is not known in what manner the latter acquired his title.\n\nDroit de préférence sur tous les gisements existant dans une lande de 30 kilom, de largeur le long de la ligne de chemin de fer de l'est Chinois. Preferential mining rights in the country lying on both sides of the railway were, I believe, granted to the Chinese Eastern Railway Company or the Russo-Chinese Bank, under one of the numerous Agreements or Conventions relating to Manchuria made between Russia and China, but, not having copies of these documents, I am unable to verify this statement.\n\nThe gold mine near Port Arthur, referred to in my previous despatch, belongs to the Liao-tung Mining Syndicate, a Russian Company. It is within the leased territory.\n\nThere are many other so-called Concessions held by foreigners of various nationalities, of which it may be useful to give a short account. None of them are Concessions fully authorized by the Central authorities, but consist of right acquired, with or without the consent of the local official, from natives who were permitted to carry on mining operations by \"Lung Piaos\" issued by the Provincial Government. It may be observed that, with the one exception of the preferential rights in the country bordering on the railway, the title to all the Concessions mentioned in your despatch appears to rest on the same basis.\n\nThe most important of these Concessions is one held by several British subjects connected with the firm of Bush Brothers, and consists of the sole right to mine at twenty-eight places (list of which is attached hereto) in the districts of Tung Hua and Huai Jen, and to work two coal mines at Sa Sung Kang and An-tzu Kang, in the district of Hai Lung Cheng. The following is the history of the Concession:---\n\nAbout 1896 or 1897 an official named Yuan was appointed by the Tartar General Commissioner of Mines in the districts of Tung Hua and Huai Jen, and under his direction the country was prospected. Subsequently the sole right to mine in that district was granted by Yuan to a Chinese Company, of which he was a director. Prospecting operations were carried on for several years, but were suspended by the Boxer rising, and the Russian invasion in 1900. In that year some members of the firm of Bush Brothers were invited to join the Company, no doubt with a view to preventing Russian interference, or to obtain support for a claim in respect of losses during the troubles, and in 1902 a formal agreement was drawn up whereby the rights of the Chinese Company were transferred to the Chuan-li Kung Ssu, composed of natives and foreigners. The matter was reported by the Tartar General to the Wai-wu Pu, and in their reply they write as follows:--\n\n\"The said deputy has now raised more money from Chinese and British share-holders, and established the Chuan-li Company to continue the undertaking. The agreement and regulations which he has settled we find to be all in accordance with the previous arrangements as memorialized and recorded, and with the new regulations of the Board. They may therefore be approved.\n\n* Fide, however, despatch No. 11 from Peking, May 18, 1899.\n\n5\n\n\"But when the said deputy first raised shares and undertook the management of mining affairs in Tung Hua and Huai Jou, the throne was memorialized and gave approval. The affair has now been altered to a joint Chinese and foreign undertaking, and your Excellency should, in harmony with previous procedure, again memorialize the Throne explaining the matter and take action accordingly.”\n\nPractically nothing has yet been done to work these mines, and it is to be noted that under the above-mentioned Agreement the Commissioner appears to possess the power of withdrawing the rights granted by reason of the failure of the Company to make certain stipulated payments.\n\nMessrs. Bandinel and Co., British merchants here, hold a lease of a coal mine at Lan Tung Kon, adjoining the Russian mines at Yentai, granted to them in 1895-96 by the native owner, who was working it under a \"Lung Piao.\" The lessees carried on operations with some success for several years previous to the Boxer rising, but work was stopped by the troubles and has not been resumed since. Some correspondence passed between the Legation and this Consulate in November 1899 concerning Messrs. Bandinel and Co.'s title to this mine.\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co. began to work a coal mine at Nan Piao, in the Chae Yang district, before the Boxer rising, but operations were stopped in that year. I am informed they have recently sent an engineer with a view to resuming work. I know nothing as to their title to the mine.\n\nI am informed a gold mine near Tien Ling was recently worked by a Mr. Craig, a Canadian, in conjunction with Russians, under a lease from natives; but I have, at present, no details of the enterprise.\n\nThe Russo-Chinese Bank, acting in conjunction with a native named Liang, is said to have secured some sort of right to work mines in the districts of Ning Yuan Chin Chou, Kuang-ning, and I Chou. About a year ago a memorial was addressed to the Throne on the subject and the matter referred to the Board concerned for consideration. Since then nothing appears to have been done.\n\nA Concession for working sixteen mines in the district of Kuan Tien is said to have been obtained by a Mr. Mamonoff, a Russian, who was probably acting for the Russo-Chinese Bank or the Mining Company of Manchuria.\n\nCoal mines in which foreigners are interested are being worked by natives at Ying Fan on the Hun-Ho. Last year's working showed a profit of 10,000 taels. The coal is sold at Mukden for about 17 dollars a ton.\n\nI am informed that some Russians began working a coal mine last year somewhere near Po Shui luo on the Yalu.\n\nI am aware that many of the above particulars are not called for by your despatch, but I have thought it a convenient opportunity to communicate to you everything known to me on the subject, and trust that the information will not be considered irrelevant or useless.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n(Signed)\n\nH. A. LITTLE.\n\nList of Concessions held by British Subjects.\n\n  \n    1.\n    Fa Miao Erh Kow, 15 li south of Fung Wha.\n    A placer mine has been worked for over thirty years, and is still being worked ground sluicing, on which about 100 men are employed. Float quartz is abundant, but as yet no veins have been discovered.\n  \n  \n    2.\n    Hsiao Miao Erh Kow, 18 li south of Fung Wha.\n    A silver and lead mine.\n  \n  \n    3.\n    Wei Sha Ho, 60 li south of Fung Wha.\n    Alluvial washings.\n  \n  \n    4.\n    Pao Ma Chuan, 120 li south-west of Fung Wha.\n    A quartz gold mine, 24 feet vein, still being worked by Chinese. Numerous shafts from 20 to 30 feet deep. According to Chinese statements another vein runs parallel.\n  \n  \n    5.\n    Pao Ma Ch'uen, 130 li south-west of Fung Wha.\n    Silver mine. Chinese unable to separate the silver and lead.\n  \n  \n    6.\n    Pa Wang Ts'ao, 140 li south-west of Fung Wha.\n    Galena ore, containing gold and silver. Vein 24 feet to 5 feet wide. Worked for two years by the Chinese. Shafts 30 feet deep.",
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        "content_text": "7 \n\nto the ton. \n\n7. Kang Shan Erh Tao Kou, 110 west of Fung Wha. A placer mine. Worked for five years. Bed rock, 12 feet. Chinese are still ground sluicing. Runs 12 ounces \n\n8. San Tao Kou, 100 li south-west of Fung Wha. Alluvial workings, now stopped. Bed rock some 20 feet down. Float quartz is present, but vein has not yet been discovered. \n\n9. Nan Kang Shan Ling, 120 li south-west of Fung Wha. A lead-silver mine. \n\n10. Nan Kang Shan Ling, 110 li south-west of Fung Wha. Quartz outcrop, 15 feet wide. \n\n11. Ta Tau Ping, 240 li north-east of Fung Wha. Quartz gold. \n\n12. Hsiao Tau Ping, 250 li north-east of Tung Wha. Quartz gold. \n\n13. Shan Ho Ting Tsze, 280 li north of Tung Wha. Quartz gold. \n\n14. Pan Chiel Ho, 220 li north of Tung Wha. Anthracite coal mine, extensive workings. Shafts 200 feet deep. \n\n15. San Tao Chiang. Coal mine 60 li east of Tung Wha. \n\n16. Wu Tao Chiang. Coal mine 60 li east of Tung Wha. \n\n17. Lin Tzu Tou, 160 li east of Tung Wha. Quartz gold. \n\n18. Pao Tu Ch'uan, 170 li east of Tung Wha. Quartz gold. \n\n19. Mao Erb Shan, Tou Tao Kou, 310 li east of Tung Wha. Placer mines. Still working. \n\n20. Mao Erb Shan, San Tao Kou, 340 li east of Tung Wha. Quartz gold. Vein 5 feet wide. Shafts 20 feet deep. \n\n21. Mao Erh Shan, San Tao Kou, 380 li east of Tung Wha. Copper mine, has been extensively worked. Shafts 50 feet deep. District uninhabited. \n\n22. Mao Erh Shan, Liu Tao Kou, 350 li east of Tung Wha. Native copper found in quantities on surface. \n\n23. Mao Erb Shan, Ta Ch'ie Tzu Kou, 350 li east of Tung Wha. Iron mine. \n\n24. Ta Chiang Yen, Lao Hei Shan, 170 li south-east of Huai Jeu. Gold-bearing quartz, close to Yalu River. \n\n25. Ta Chiang Yen, Ku Ma Ling, 180 li south-east of Huai Jeu. Gold-bearing quartz, close to Yalu River. Asbestos. Worked for two years. \n\n26. Ta Hsiao Ya, 35 li south-west of Huai Jeu. \n\n27. Lao Ying Kou, 80 li south-east of Huai Jeu. Lead-silver mine. Chinese unable to separate the silver from the lead. \n\n28. Liang Tsui Ch'uan Tsze, 200 li south-east of Huai Jeu. Silver mine. Vein 20 feet wide. 14 li from the Yalu River. Coal in close vicinity. Numerous old Chinese workings. Quartz outcrop near by at Kao Li Kou Tsze. \n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1, \n\nAbstract of Mining Agreement made between Chang, Military Governor of Kirin and Resident Luba.* \n\n1. Investors to be only Chinese and Russian, \n\n2. China to receive a royalty of 15 per cent. on gold, silver, and other minerals. \n\n3. Exclusive right to prospect for one year; if no results obtained on the expiry of that period permission to prospect may be granted to other parties. \n\n4. China appoints official Manager of Mining Department with full control. \n\n5. Chinese or Russians holding over 100,000 taels can appoint individuals for employment in Mining Department. \n\n6. Investors in mining operations now being carried on are to be specially considered. \n\n7. Position of minerals discovered and size of land to be declared before carrying on operations. \n\n8. Additional written statement to be afterwards drawn up. \n\n9. Mining materials purchased in China liable to duty; mining materials imported from Russia exempt. \n\n10. Chinese and Russians prohibited from clandestinely mining gold or coal. \n\n11. Military Governor of Kirin to send Chinese copy to head Mining Board at Peking. Resident Luba to forward Russian text to Russian Minister, Peking. In the meantime prospecting operations may be begun. \n\n12. Persons entitled to mine, and provided with proper papers, to report commencement within one year. If work be not commenced within this period others may apply to work the mines. \n\n13. Russians wishing to mine must apply to Luba, who will communicate with Military Governor of Kirin or Bureau of Foreign Affairs for decision. \n\n14. Above Regulations to come into force only after Imperial sanction and written permission of head Mining Board obtained. \n\n'CH'ANG, Military Governor of Kirin. (Signed) \n\n(Signed) \n\nKwang Hsu 27, 1 (25). March 2 (15), 1901. \n\nLUBA, Imperial Russian Resident for the two Provinces of Kirin and Hei Lung Chiang. \n\nPreliminary Draft Agreement between Ch'ang, Military Governor of Kirin and Mr. Krolkov, Russian Commissioner, regarding proposed Gold Prospecting and Gold Mining within jurisdiction of Chiu-p'i-Kou, Ninguta, and Hun-chun. \n\n1. The Russian subject Ashashen has sole right to prospect and work gold within jurisdiction of Chia-Pi-Kou, Minguta, and Hunchun. \n\n2. When the Imperial Edict authorizing Russians to mine gold in Kirin is received by the Military Governor of Kirin a Company is to be floated, 80 per cent. of shares to be held by Mr. Ashashen and 20 per cent. by Chinese. Number and value of shares to be determined later. \n\n3. The mines at Chia-Pi-Kou, having been clandestinely worked for many years, the output of gold cannot be productive. The Russo-Chinese Mining Company now forming may prospect for gold at Shang-Liu and Chiang-Chia on Sungari. Mining operations not to be commenced until permission received from Chinese Government. \n\n4. In the jurisdictions of Minguta and Hunchun, where the Chinese have been working mines for years under licence, they may still do so independent of the Russians. Should they wish for Russian assistance the Russo-Chinese Mining Company may call on Russians to take up more than half the shares. Satisfactory Regulations must be drawn up with the proprietors. As a first step the Chinese officials are to furnish a list of gold-bearing lands. \n\n5. Ashashen permitted provisionally to send gold-prospecting parties to the three districts of Chia-P'i-Kou, Minguta, and Hunchun (Military Governor will appoint Deputy to accompany each party). The positions and measurements of true gold-bearing fields are to be declared, but are not to include the total area of the three districts. \n\n6. The Regulations are supplementary to those of Agreement between Military Governor and Commissioner Luba, and shall come into force on receipt of the Edict* authorizing Russians to mine in Kirin. \n\n(Signed) (Signed) \n\nCH'ANG, Military Governor of Kirin. KROTKOV, Acting Russian Commissioner for the two Provinces of Kirin und Hei Lung Chiang. \n\n* It is not known whether this Edict was issued, but it is not likely that the concessionaires, being Russian, would consider it necessary to wait for it before commencing operations. \n\n514",
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        "content_text": "This is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n2\n\nbuttresses descending abruptly from a main range to the Taiping. The country is entirely clad with dense virgin forest. The difficulties were creditably surmounted by the Assistant Engineer in charge. At 10 miles (Nam-sa torrent) the country opens out into large rolling foot-hills, where work was easy, and at 14 miles the open plain of the Taiping is reached. The road then passes above the village of Man-hsien and stops at the hamlet of Man-yim. From this to Lung Chang market (the third main stage on the present Bhamo trade route, counting from Teng-yueh) is 12½ miles by alignment and on a dead level, and with no streams absolutely requiring bridges for mule traffic; but to make a first-class mule road over these 12½ miles will cost a good deal more than was expected, owing to the presence of several large marshes, supplied by mountain streams, and through these stone causeways would have to be constructed. But an earthen \"fair weather\" road, which would be available for eleven months of the year, with irrigation channels and ramps to and from the small streams traversed, could probably be made for under 20,000 rupees. I have not yet the accounts of the sums expended this season, but I believe that the total, inclusive of bridges and dynamite, will come to 45,000 rupees, to which 10,000 rupees will have to be added for the iron bridge over the Nam-sa. Considering the difficult nature of the country, I believe that this is 15 to 20 per cent. cheaper than the usual Bhamo rates.\n\nAs it is unlikely that further Chinese funds will be available, it is earnestly to be hoped that the Government of Burma will agree to continue the work at its own expense up to Teng-yueh, future repairs to be seen to by the Customs Taotai, the Commissioner, and the Consul. Next to the removal of the disastrous prohibition against the transit of opium, a good mule road is the first requisite for the revival of our long-neglected frontier trade. Even if it is decided to undertake railway construction in the Taiping Valley, some time must elapse before such a decision can bear fruit, and even when work is commenced, a good service road will be a necessity.\n\nIn conclusion, I would draw attention to the excellent service rendered by Mr. A. W. Mukerjee, Assistant Engineer in the Burma Public Works Department, in connection with this road. Owing to his experience of frontier road-making, he was put in sole charge, and very wisely given wide discretion. The result is that in three months he has put through a work that has been talked about for three years. His tact and energy were of great value. He had to deal with suspicious Chinese officials, lazy Shan headmen, and ignorant Kachins, but there has been no single instance of serious trouble or misunderstanding. At one time nearly 3,000 men were working on the road, which has been made chiefly by contract piece labour. The good impression made by Mr. Mukerjee on all natives with whom he came in contact will render any future operations by the Burma Public Works Department in China much easier, and there is every reason to hope that an abundant supply of labour will be forthcoming. I would venture to suggest that the attention of the Government of India may be drawn to the exceptionally good services rendered, under difficult circumstances, by Mr. Mukerjee, so that, if he is available, he may be entrusted with any further work that may be undertaken in the Taiping Valley.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) G. LITTON.\n\nSOUTH-WEST CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n528\n\n[September 12.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.—(Received September 12.)\n\nNo. 256.) My Lord,\n\nPeking, July 20, 1904. I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Consul-General at Yünnan-fu, inclosing a report by Mr. Litton on the present state of the road under construction, from the Kulikha River on the Burma frontier to Man-hsien. Seventeen miles of the road have now been completed.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) ERNEST SATOW.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Wilkinson to Sir E. Satow.\n\nYünnan-fu, June 1, 1904. I HAVE the honour to forward a despatch to your address from Mr. Litton, reporting the completion, with the exception of a necessary iron bridge, of 17 miles of mule road from the Burma frontier stream Kulikha to the hamlet of Man-yim, on the opposite side to Manwyne of the Taiping River.\n\nI reported to you in January last by telegraph the commencement of this work. I am still awaiting the receipt of printed copies of any correspondence with the Burma Government before furnishing you with details of the Agreement which, in conjunction with Mr. Litton, I negotiated at Teng-yueh last December.\n\nI have reason to believe that the question of a light railway to Teng-yueh is at the present time engaging the attention of the India Office and of the Indian Government. Should the decision be reached to construct such railway, or to continue the new road, it is gratifying to learn that there is every prospect, thanks to the tact shown by Messrs. Litton and Mukerjee, of the work being carried through without friction, or the delays due to an inadequate supply of labour.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) W. H. WILKINSON.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nActing-Consul Litton to Sir E. Satow.\n\nTeng-yueh, May 2, 1904. THE commencement of work on the mule road in Chinese territory, from the frontier at Kulikha River (52 miles by cart and mule road from Bhamo) up the valley of the Taiping, was reported to you by Mr. Wilkinson in the middle of January. Work for the season has now been finished, and 17 miles of good mule road with a ruling gradient of one in eighteen are now open to mule traffic. The bridge over the torrent of the Nam-sa, which is practically unfordable all the year round, is of a temporary character, and the work on this, the Taiping gorge, section of the future trade route cannot be called complete until an iron 60-foot span bridge is substituted, which will be done next year, at a probable cost of 10,000 rupees.\n\nThis section, with the solitary exception of the Nan-tien gorge, 5 miles long, commencing 28 miles from Teng-yueh, is the most difficult on the whole road. For 7 miles out of the 17 the new road had to be cut along and round spurs and\n\n[2172 m-1]",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nSOUTH-WEST CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n529\n\n[September 12.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.--(Received September 12.)\n\nNo. 256.)\n\nPeking, July 20, 1904.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Consul-General at Yunnan-fu, inclosing a report by Mr. Litton on the present state of the road under construction, from the Kulikha River on the Burmah frontier to Mansien.\n\nSeventeen miles of the road have now been completed.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nERNEST SATOW.\n\nNo. 16.)\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Wilkinson to Sir E. Satow.\n\nYunnan-fu, June 1, 1904.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward a despatch to your address from Mr. Litton, reporting on the road from the Burmah frontier stream Kulikha to the hamlet of Man-yim, on the opposite side to Manwyne of the Taiping River.\n\nI reported to you in January last by telegraph the commencement of this work, but I am still awaiting the receipt of printed copies of my correspondence with the Government before furnishing you with details of the Agreement which, in conjunction with Mr. Litton, I negotiated at Teng-yueh last December.\n\nAs it is unlikely that further Chinese funds will be available, it is earnestly to be hoped that the Government of Burmah will agree to continue the work at its own expense up to Teng-yueh, future repairs to be seen to by the Customs Tautai, the Commissioner, and the Consul. Next to the removal of the disastrous prohibition against the transit of opium, a good mule road is the first requisite for the revival of our long neglected frontier trade. Even if it is decided to undertake railway construction in the Taiping Valley, some time must elapse before such a decision can be fruitful, and even when work is commenced, a good service road will be a necessity.\n\nIn conclusion, I would draw attention to the excellent service rendered by Mr. A. W. Mukerjee, Assistant Engineer in the Burmah Public Works Department, in connection with this road. Owing to his experience of frontier road-making he was put in sole charge, and very wisely given wide discretion. The result is that in three months he has put through a work that has been talked about for three years. His tact and energy were of great value. He had to deal with suspicious Chinese officials, lazy Shan headmen, and ignorant Kachins, but there has been no single instance of serious trouble or misunderstanding. At one time nearly 3,000 men were working on the road, which has been made chiefly by contract piece labour. The good impression made by Mr. Mukerjee on all natives with whom he came in contact will render any future operations by the Burmah Public Works Department in this quarter much easier, and there is every reason to hope that an abundant supply of labour will be forthcoming.\n\nI have reason to believe that the question of a light railway to Teng-yueh is at the present time engaging the attention of the India Office and of the Indian Government. I would venture to suggest that the attention of the Government of India may be drawn to the exceptionally good services rendered, under difficult circumstances, by Mr. Mukerjee, so that, if he is available, he may be intrusted with any further work that may be undertaken in the Taiping Valley.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nW. H. WILKINSON.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nActing-Consul Litton to Sir E. Satow.\n\nTeng-yueh, May 2, 1904.\n\nTHE commencement of work on the mule road in Chinese territory, from the frontier at Kulikha River (52 miles by cart and mule road from Bhamo) up the valley of the Taiping, was reported to you by Mr. Wilkinson in the middle of January. The work for the season has now been finished, and 17 miles of good mule road with a maximum gradient of one in eighteen are now open to mule traffic. The bridge over the torrent of the Nam-sa, which is practically unfordable all the year round, is of a temporary character, and the work on this, the Taiping gorge, section of the future trade route cannot be called complete until an iron 60-foot span bridge is substituted, which will be done next year, at a probable cost of 10,000 rupees.\n\nThis section, with the solitary exception of the Nan-tien gorge, 5 miles long, commencing 2 miles from Teng-yueh, is the most difficult on the whole road. For 10 miles out of the 17 the new road had to be cut along and round spurs and buttresses descending abruptly from a main range to the Taiping. The country is entirely clad with dense virgin forest. The difficulties were creditably surmounted by the Assistant Engineer in charge. At 10 miles (Nam-sa torrent) the country opens into large rolling foot-hills, where work was easy, and at 14 miles the open plain of the Taiping is reached. The road then passes above the village of Man-hsien, and stops at the hamlet of Man-yim. From this to Lung Chang market (the third milestone on the present Bhamo trade route, counting from Teng-yueh) is 12 miles to alignment and on a dead level, and with no streams absolutely requiring bridges for mule traffic; but to make a first-class mule road over these 12 miles will cost a good deal more than was expected, owing to the presence of several large marshes, supplied by mountain streams, and through these stone causeways would have to be constructed. But an earthen \"fair weather\" road, which would be available for clear months of the year, with irrigation channels and ramps to and from the small streams, I have not yet traversed, could probably be made for under 20,000 rupees.\n\nI have not yet the accounts of the sums expended this season, but I believe that the total, inclusive of bridges and dynamite, will come to 45,000 rupees, to which 10,000 rupees will be added for the iron bridge over the Nam-sa. Considering the difficult nature of the country, I believe that this is 15 to 20 per cent. cheaper than the usual Bhamo rates.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nG. LITTON.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "530\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\n  \n    1\n    2\n  \n\nbuttresses descending abruptly from a main range to the Taiping. The country entirely clad with dense virgin forest. The difficulties were creditably surmounted by the Assistant Engineer in charge. At 10 miles (Nam-sa torrent) the country opens out into large rolling foot-hills, where work was easy, and at 14 miles the open plain of Taiping is reached. The road then passes above the village of Man-hsien and stops at the hamlet of Man-yim. From this to Lung Chang market (the third stage on the present Bhamo trade route, counting from Teng-yueh) is 12½ miles alignment and on a dead level, and with no streams absolutely requiring bridges for mule traffic; but to make a first-class mule road over these 12½ miles will cost a good deal more than was expected, owing to the presence of several large marshes, supplied by mountain streams, and through these stone causeways would have to be constructed. But an earthen \"fair weather\" road, which would be available for clear months of the year, with irrigation channels and ramps to and from the small streams I have not yet traversed, could probably be made for under 20,000 rupees.\n\naccounts of the sums expended this season, but I believe that the total, inclusive of bridges and dynamite will come to 45,000 rupees to which 10,000 rupees will have to be added for the iron bridge over the Nam-sa. Considering the difficult nature of the country, I believe that this is 15 to 20 per cent. cheaper than the usual Bhamo rate. As it is unlikely that further Chinese funds will be available, it is earnestly to be hoped that the Government of Burmah will agree to continue the work at its own expense up to Teng-yueh, future repairs to be seen to by the Customs Taotai, the Commissioner, and the Consul. Next to the removal of the disastrous prohibition against the transit of opium, a good mule road is the first requisite for the revival of our long neglected frontier trade. Even if it is decided to undertake railway construction in the Taiping Valley, some time must elapse before such a decision can be fruitful, and even when work is commenced, a good service road will be a necessity.\n\nIn conclusion, I would draw attention to the excellent service rendered by Mr. A. W. Mukerjee, Assistant Engineer in the Burmah Public Works Department in connection with this road. Owing to his experience of frontier road-making he was put in sole charge, and very wisely given wide discretion. The result is that in three months he has put through a work that has been talked about for three years. His tact and energy were of great value. He had to deal with suspicious Chinese officials, lazy Shan headmen, and ignorant Kachins, but there has been no single instance of serious trouble or misunderstanding. At one time nearly 3,000 men were working on the road, which has been made chiefly by contract piece labour. The good impression made by Mr. Mukerjee on all natives with whom he came in contact will render any future operations by the Burmah Public Works Department in China much easier, and there is every reason to hope that an abundant supply of labour will be forthcoming. I would venture to suggest that the attention of the Government of India may be drawn to the exceptionally good services rendered, under difficult circumstances, by Mr. Mukerjee, so that, if he is available, he may be intrusted with any further work that may be undertaken in the Taiping Valley.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) G. LITTON\n\nfor Individual.\n\nreeper\n\n904 Sep.\n\nprevious Paper.\n\n3540\n\n3936\n\nAnnevale\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo. 33841\n\n84\n\n(Subject.)\n\nC O\n\n33841\n\nP 30 SEP 04\n\nSale of Stores\n\ncopy of letter from Customs\n\nto satisfy\n\nthat it is\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nintended for\n\nTelegraph\n\noffort in cipher\n\nIt is stated\n\n5.45 pm\n\n39267719.\n\nsent in cipher\n\nsubsequent Paper.\n\nPIZ DE\n\n700\n\nS.S. Canton\n\nto following\n\nLondon,\n\nunderstood to be now at\n\nHongkong is\n\nto be sold and there\n\nhas been sold to Russian\n\nThat some has been sold\n\nSatisfy yourself that\n\nHome\n\nnot intended\n\nfor\n\nthe\n\nmilitary\n\nor naval\n\nservice of Russia or Japan",
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        "content_text": "This document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nC. O.\n\n34850\n\nNORTH-WEST CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[September 26.\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n18 OCT 04\n\n544\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.--(Received September 26.)\n\nNo.278.)\n\nPeking, August 2, 1904.\n\nLord,\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 251 of the 18th July, I have the honour to submit to your Lordship herewith copies of two despatches which I have received from the British Acting Consul at Wuchow, giving further details as to the capture of Liuchow by mutineers and rebels; also a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton, reporting the departure of the Viceroy for Kuanghsi to conduct military operations against the rebels.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nERNEST SATOW.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nNo. 12.)\n\nActing Consul Combe to Sir E. Satow.\n\nWuchow, July 16, 1904.\n\nIN continuation of Mr. Fox's despatch No. 11 of the 2nd instant, regarding the mutiny of the troops at Liuchow Fu, I have the honour to forward the following additional information :\n\nIn Liuchow itself at the time of the outbreak were three ying or battalions (the \"san-tzu-ying\") under the command of Taotai Tsu. West of Liuchow, across the river, were two ying under Major Sung; on the east were three ying, on their way to Kueilin, commanded by Taotai Wang, who had just left Liuchow; and on the north, Captain Liang with two ying was stationed on the road to Ching-yuan.\n\nOf the 1,200 to 1,500 troops composing the three ying in Liuchow, the disaffected numbered some 800. Their ranks being joined by local banditti, the number swelled to over 1,000.\n\nTo these rebels the loyal portion of the troops seemed to have offered only a feeble resistance. The Ya Chiang Taotai Ch'u, and Hsiang, the District Magistrate, fled, as did Taotai Tsu, who was responsible for the mutinous troops, shot himself. The Prefect Shen, at first reported killed, appears to have escaped with a serious wound in the shoulder. Among minor officials, two non-commissioned officers, and a certain Director of Studies lost their lives. On board the gun-boat \"Tinghsi,\" which the rebels attempted unsuccessfully to capture, the casualties were one killed and six wounded. Among the townspeople the number of killed is yet unknown, even approximately.\n\nOn the flight of the officials the rebels sacked the town and fired the principal buildings. The yamên of Taotai Ch'u was burned to the ground, and those of the Prefect and the Magistrate, together with over 100 houses in and outside the city, suffered in the conflagration. The amount of treasure plundered by the rebels chiefly from the banks is estimated at 300,000 taels. About 2,000 rifles and several hundred thousand cartridges also fell into their hands.\n\nNotwithstanding the apparent proximity of Imperial troops, the rebels remained masters of Liuchow for almost five days. It was not until the 29th June that the town was reoccupied. By that date the rebels had started northward, about 2,000 in number, captured and pillaged the small town of Liu-cheng, and made haste into the neighbouring district of Chung Tu. They have now reached the extensive hilly region of the Prefecture of Ching Yuan known as Shih Pa Tung.\n\nThe Imperial troops in and around Liuchow seem sufficiently numerous to cope successfully with the rebels in the open field. They include :\n\n1. The original ying which did not revolt;\n\n2. The seven ying north, east, and west of Liuchow;\n\n3. Three ying of Hunanese which were hurried forward from Kueilin; and\n\n4. Two ying just arrived from Canton.\n\n[2172 cc-1]",
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        "content_text": "DOMESTIC,\n\nBesides these, further reinforcements are on their way. They are in the river off Liuchow.\n\nFour small gun-boats are there.\n\nTelegraphic communication with Liuchow has not yet, according to the Chinese authorities, been re-established.\n\nMr. Campbell has informed me by telegraph that Viceroy Ts'en left Canton for Kuanghsi to-day. He will pass through Wuchow about the 19th, and proceed to Liuchow by way of Chaoping and Kueilin.\n\n(No. 13.) Sir,\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul For to Sir E. Satow.\n\nGEORGE COMBE Office or Individual.\n\nWuchow, July 20, 1904\n\nIN continuation of Mr. Combe's despatch No. 12 of the 16th instant, regarding the recent rebellion at Liuchow, I have the honour to report that the Viceroy arrived here yesterday evening en route for the seat of the disturbance. His Excellency came up in the gun-boat \"Chentun,\" escorted by three small sea-going cruisers and two torpedo-boats. At intervals during the day arrived 500 troops, commanded by Colonel Chang Ming-chi, forming two \"banners\" or battalions of the Wu Kang Chun. The men, drawn from the Provinces of Hunan, Hupei, and Anhui, are foreign-drilled, uniformed in khaki, and armed with magazine Mauser rifles. The Viceroy, when attended by a personal guard of 200 men, has taken up his residence in the yamen of the Literary Chancellor.\n\nThe Wukang troops are to-day being transhipped into light draft-boats which will convey them up the Kuei River to Chaoping-four days' journey from here-whence they will march overland via Pinglo to Kueilin. From there the present intention is for them to approach the disturbed districts from the rear via Yung and Hsiang. The Viceroy remains for the present at Wuchow, but I understand he will shortly proceed to Kueilin.\n\nTelegraphic communication with Liuchow is still interrupted.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nH. H. FOL\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Campbell to Sir E. Satow.\n\n(No. 59.) Sir,\n\nCanton, July 16, 1904.\n\nAS I had the honour to inform you in my telegram No. 14 of to-day, the Viceroy started for Kuanghsi this morning by steamer to conduct military operations against the so-called rebels. For the past few months his Excellency has been anxious to undertake this duty in person, and he appears to have been restrained chiefly by reassuring reports from his subordinates, though want of money and health had also contributed to keep him in Canton. Apart from the stereotyped reproof from Peking, which the affair at Liuchow has brought, and which must be answered by at least a display of extra diligence, his Excellency has been deeply mortified by the open mutiny of his troops, and in his present mood may be trusted to infuse considerable energy into the operations against the brigands.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) C. W. CAMPBELL\n\nPage 70\n\n$6555\n\nOh Straits\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo 35217\n\n(Subject.)\n\nChina Trade\n\nprints of corres:\n\nhar: Fiddo\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nC.O.\n\n35217\n\nDIRECT\n\n21 OCT 04\n\nCopic to SS. A Cuff. Lott\n\nAll\n\nalonce\n\nPP. 15/10\n\nL (78)—12635 - YANKA-1 +· S\n\n24413-09-94\n\naubsequent Paper\n\nThey b\n\n545",
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        "content_text": "2 \n\nand bis objections to anything that savours of official interference will hardly be set aside at the bidding of the Viceroy in favour of the Bureau of Commerce. Beside which, trade in Kwangtung certainly needs no other stimulant than that to be derived from amendment of the methods of native officialdom; the trading community distinctly not at fault. \n\nAs to the working of the Bureau itself, it would be premature to say anything while it is still passing through its initial stages. At the same time it seems highly probable that it will be neither much better nor much worse than other Chinese institutions of a kindred nature, which is as much as to say that it will not accomplish anything very startling in the way of commercial reform, and that the trade of Kwangtung will go on much as it would have done had the Bureau of Commerce never been instituted. In fact it seems not unreasonable to anticipate that at no very distant date the chief direction in which its energies will display themselves will be in the periodical drawing of the salaries and expenses referred to by the Viceroy in his Memorandum. \n\nThe River Bunding Scheme. \n\nThat part of the river which flows between Canton City on the north and Honam on the south is comparatively narrow; and its narrowness is accentuated by the vast amount of shipping of all kinds that congregates there, and by the presence, right in the centre of the stream, of some rocks, which are no slight hindrance to navigation. For a long time past this narrow and inconveniently-crowded stream has been gradually narrowed still further by perpetual encroachments on the north bank, such as the building of jetties and landing-stages, and dumping of refuse, and similar practices. In fact, so continual and so marked was the encroachment year by year, that the difficulties of navigation on this branch of the river were increasing at an alarming rate, and showed every sign of increasing in times to come. The present Viceroy, therefore, elaborated a scheme for bunding the whole of the north frontage from the Shameen, along past the city on to the eastern extremity of the suburbs; and no further encroachments of any kind are to be tolerated beyond the line of this bund. \n\nThis scheme for preserving the present width of the river is undoubtedly an excellent one, but it is considerably complicated by the fact that a large proportion of the frontage proposed to be thus bunded is in the hands of foreigners. Messrs. Butler, Field and Swire, Messrs. Shewan, Tomes, and Co., and the Hong Kong, Canton, and Macao Steam-boat Company are among those concerned, and these firms, naturally enough, desire to safeguard their interests before they consent to have their areas bunded in by the Chinese authorities. A considerable stretch of Chinese-owned land has already been bunded in; in addition to which negotiations are proceeding intermittently between the Bunding Commissioners and the foreign land-owners, and it is hoped that in due course a modus vivendi may be arrived at. At present, however, pending the conclusion of some satisfactory arrangement, the work is more or less at a standstill. \n\nAmong the chief points raised by the foreign owners of property are the obvious ones of compensation for any of their land which, under the provisions of the scheme, may have to be removed, and of prior rights to any land that may be reclaimed in front of their present lots. An additional point specially raised by the Steam-boat Company is that the work shall be under the superintendence of a foreign expert. They claim that this is necessary in order to insure that the bund shall be constructed in accordance with technical principles so as to obviate any further silting-up of the river, thereby preventing their steamers from lying alongside the wharves, as they do at present. \n\n(This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.) \n\nCHINA TRADE, \n\nCONFIDENTIAL. \n\nC \n\n35211 [September 23. 1904 \n\nThey \n\nSECTION 3.10 04 \n\nNo. 1. \n\nThe Marquess of Lansdowne to Chang Ta-Jên. \n\nSir, \n\nForeign Office, September 23, 1904. HIS Majesty's Government have had under their careful consideration the note which you did me the honour of addressing to me on the 27th July last, stating that you were instructed by the Wai-wu Pu to suggest an exchange of views on the subject of the taxation of opium in China. \n\nYou point out that, at the time when the Additional Article of the Chefoo Convention came into force, the import duty of 30 taels and the li-kin duty, in the form of a surtax, of 80 taels, making together 110 taels per chest, were equivalent to 273 per cent. of the value of the opium, but that now, owing to the depreciation of silver and the enhanced tael value of the drug, they amount to not more than 132 per cent, and you suggest, in order that the revenue may not suffer in consequence, that the duties on foreign opium should be raised to 220 Haikwan taels per chest. \n\nI observe, however, that in making this proposal you do not allude to the competition to which foreign opium is exposed from the native drug, which is much more lightly taxed. \n\nIt has frequently been represented to the Chinese Government, in connection with the attempts of the Provincial Authorities to levy further dues on imported opium, that until equality of taxation is established for the home product and the imported article, the Chefoo Convention prohibits increased taxation of the latter. The same considerations prevent the acceptance of your suggestion that the Chefoo Convention should be amended in the direction of increasing the duties leviable thereunder, while nothing is proposed with regard to bringing native opium under equal taxation. Not only would this be unfair to the Indian producer, but it might also be injurious to the revenues of the Chinese Government if native opium were thereby assisted to supplant Indian opium. \n\nThe Chinese Government are, of course, at liberty to terminate the arrangements established by the Additional Article to the Chefoo Convention, in which case the import duty of 30 taels, as fixed in 1858, in connection with the Treaty of Tien-tsin, would alone remain for collection at the ports. There might then be a question of revising the rate with reference to any change which might be found to have occurred in the price of opium. It is understood, however, that the Chinese Government do not intend to withdraw from the Convention, but desire to continue the arrangements by which li-kin, in the form of a surtax, is collected along with the import duty at the ports. As the present surtax of 80 taels is much in excess of any li-kin which the Provincial Authorities are able to collect on home-grown opium, the Convention, though termed \"unremitting\" in your note, is not without solid advantages to the Chinese Government. \n\nHis Majesty's Government cannot admit that there is any relation between the rates of opium duty and the general import duties which were revised in 1901. The former have always been calculated on a special and specific basis, whereas the general tariff introduced shortly after the conclusion of that Treaty was framed on a per cent, ad valorem basis, and its revision in 1901 was the outcome of an agreement to revise the duties so as to make them yield an effective 5 per cent. ad valorem on the basis of the lower value of silver. It may, however, be remarked, in reply to an observation in your note, that if the surtax were fixed on the same principle as that adopted in the Treaty negotiated by Sir J. Mackay for the conversion of li-kin on other dutiable commodities, it would be limited to one and a-half times the duty proper. The present surtax on opium is actually two and two-thirds times the duty. \n\nHis Majesty's Government presume that these considerations were not overlooked when opium was omitted from the scheme sanctioned by the Peking Protocol of the 7th September, 1901, for making the general tariff an effective 5 per cent. \n\nIn conformity with this omission, section 4 of Article VIII of the Mackay Treaty provides that \"Foreign opium duty and present li-kin--which latter will now become a surtax in lieu of li-kin--shall remain as provided for by existing Treaties.\" \n\n12156 -3]",
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        "content_text": "AFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nC. O.\n\n36530\n\n[October 10.]\n\nkou.\n\n- 21 OCT 04\n\nSECTION 2,\n\n590\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir E. Satou to the Marquess of Lansdowne.--(Received October 10.)\n\nPeking, August 13, 1904.\n\n(No. 293.) My Lord,\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 278 of the 2nd August I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith a copy of a further despatch which I have received from the British Acting Consul at Wuchow on the subject of the disturbances in the province of Kuangsi.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) ERNEST SATOW.\n\n(No. 14.) Sir,\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul Fox to Sir E. Satow.\n\nWuchow, July 20, 1904.\n\nREFERRING to my despatch No. 13 of the 20th instant, I have the honour to report that, in addition to the 500 men of the Wu Kang brigade who are now on their way to Kueilin, the following reinforcements have arrived from Canton and are being rapidly sent to the capital:\n\nFive hundred men of the Hsi Tzu Ying (foreign drilled), commanded by Mo Shan Chi, Brigadier-General at Pakhoi.\n\nEight hundred men (two yings) of the Chang Pei Chun (partially foreign drilled), Hsiu Hsiang-kuei.\n\nThese troops will take about a fortnight to reach the capital, travelling from Chaoping overland.\n\nAlthough the Viceroy, whom I interviewed on the 22nd instant, made light of the Liuchow affair, which he said would not have happened but for the criminal incompetence of the late Taotai Tsu, signs are not wanting that the case with which the capture of Liuchow was effected has encouraged the brigands in other parts to fresh efforts. Yung Ning-chow, which was sacked some ten days ago, is only 50 miles from Kueilin, and it is reported that the capital itself is threatened. The Governor, although on paper he is well provided with troops, is ill, and either incapable or unwilling to take the field. I was therefore not surprised to learn that the Viceroy had suddenly altered his intention of remaining here for the present and had left for Kueilin this morning. The reinforcements which will arrive there within the next few days and the news of the Viceroy's coming will insure the safety of the capital, and I have not, at the Viceroy's request, recalled three members of the Church Missionary Society residing there. The brigands will doubtless be driven back to their mountain fastnesses in Central Kuangsi, and comparative order will be restored for the time being. Recent events have, however, clearly shown that, in spite of the unusual efforts which the provincial Government, backed up by an energetic Viceroy, have made during the last twelve months to clear the province of its rebellious elements, its complete pacification is still far off; the rebels have been checked, but by no means destroyed. And as long as the bulk of the people in this country remain sunk in abject poverty and no attempt is made to relieve them by developing the province's natural resources, as long as an undisciplined rabble of underpaid soldiery are allowed to batten on the people--and it pays better to be a robber than an honest man--so long will the present deplorable state of affairs inevitably continue.\n\nI have reported to you by telegraph the Viceroy's arrival and departure and the movements of the troops to date.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) H. H. FOX\n\n[2213 k-2]",
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        "content_text": "8 \n\nIn my telegram of August 10th the Viceroy expects no further opposition.\n\n202 \n\n\"Canton. Kowloon Railway. The Private Secretary said that the Canton Viceroy's support was indispensable and added in confidence that Chang did not like the arrangement proposed in the summary but would not oppose them out of friendship for us. \n\nAccording to him Sheng had no right to sign any agreement affecting a Province without having obtained the assent of its high authorities, a step ordered by formal decree; the Canton Viceroy was the natural negotiator if Sheng proved unsatisfactory.\n\nSalou.\n\nXLVI \n\nFrom H.B.M. Consul General, Canton, \n\nTo Governor, Hong Kong: \n\n22.8.05 \n\nThe Viceroy holds to the telegram and repudiates the agreement of 1899.\n\nXLVII \n\nFrom Governor, Hong Kong, \n\nTo H.B.M. Minister, Peking, \n\n22.8.05 \n\nRepeated from H.B.M. [24] Canton - \n\nThe Viceroy clings to the telegram and repudiates the agreement of 1899, what action do you now propose?\n\nXLVIII \n\nFrom H.B.M. Minister, Peking, \n\nTo Governor, Hong Kong. \n\n22.8.05. (No. 8.) \n\nFollowing from Stankow, August 22nd Scanlan, that construction loan cannot interfere. \n\nThe Viceroy replies through his Canton railway that the Hankow connection will be very big, that the line to Hunan and Kwang Sing...",
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        "content_text": "## Telegram from Governor of Hongkong to Secretary of State, 7/9/05\n\nI have just received a telegram from N.A.A. Consul at Hankow to the effect that owing to delay in the reply from Hongkong, the Viceroy has borrowed the amount of the first instalment yesterday from the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for one month and remitted the money to New York. The delay was due to abnormally slow telegraphic communication. I am now communicating with the Consul at Hankow regarding the repayment to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and I will let you know the result as soon as possible.\n\n## Telegram from Consul at Hankow to Governor of Hongkong, 7/9/05, 12:40 pm\n\nNo. 6. See my telegram No. 5.\n\n## Telegram from Governor of Hongkong to Secretary of State, received 7/9/05, 3:19 pm\n\nYour telegram of yesterday morning was delivered after 6 p.m. As the Viceroy's loan from the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank is also payable on the 6th of October, I have the honour to suggest that Article 7 of the loan agreement be altered to read as follows: \n\n\"On the Sixth day of October 1905, the Government of Hongkong shall remit £400,000 to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Hankow to the credit of Viceroy Chang, and shall on the said day also remit £700,000 to the credit of His Excellency Liang and the Hongkong Government\" as in the present Article No. 7.\n\nThis will leave the Viceroy to pay any balance on his temporary loan here, and the question of Exchange will be the business of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and the Viceroy. If you agree to alter the schedule of payment and also Article No. 2 with the date given in your telegram, I have repeated this to N.A. Minister at Peking.\n\n## Metadata\nPage 299",
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        "content_text": "Dear Sir Bruce Satow \n\nWaukow \n\nAugust 16th 1905 \n\n306 \n\nOur Kawwith send two charade-like letters from Chang? copico and haolations have likewise come from Hong Kong. I thought for a moment he was lying about the Canton-Kowloon railway bus; of course he means that original request was for an assurance thereon & from Is'cu only. This railway capital the assurance is good and I fancy there will be no difficulty in extending it to cover other brico than la Canto Hankow.\n\nI am not calling on Chang, as last night he sent his Chief Secretary with the papers & telegraphed to you today to say he would hold no further discussions after holding the old Examination. The man told me this; the Szechuen Viceroy had telegraphed suggesting that the Chinese Ministers abroad be asked to send him all the passed Chinese railway students now abroad to survey his railway and that Chang holding must get a foreigner. I told him to impress on Viceroy through Chang that for such a difficult line he must have the best engineer available and he should telegraph to the Chinese Ministers abroad to ascertain who would be suitable. But Chang asked what such an engineer would cost, £400 or £500 a month, at which he gaped; but he saw it was cheap hoping in the end.\n\nI told Wang about Rockhill's remark and said I thought he was fishing for information. Wang repeated text of the preliminary agreement for resale of concession and said it was quite unconditional. I do not know how the United States Government can break it or prevent the transfer at this late date, but Wang's delay looks suspicious. Keith's information was given seriously, but I told Wang no Government can ask another Government to give up money which it offers. King Leopold's interference has put...\n\nSee Enclosure No. 3 to my Secret Despatch No. 26/8/1 \n\n20 Chang.",
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        "content_text": "# imposing guild-houses and Yamêns, and row of substantially-built shops facing the water-front, Nanning presents the appearance of a rich and flourishing city. One is naturally led to compare it with Wuchow, which the Chinese place second to Nanning in point of importance, but which, after visiting all the principal towns on the West River from Kongmoon to Nanning, I am inclined to think, should now occupy the first place. Nanning is undoubtedly the larger city of the two; its population is estimated at 120,000, as compared with the 60,000 of Wuchow; its streets are larger, its shops more numerous, its guild-houses richer in appearance. But as regards its shipping, and what I may term movement of the port, Nanning falls far behind its smaller rival. The presence of river steamers, the constant coming and going of launches, the row of floating hotels and shipping agencies, the forest of junks in the Fu Ho, the foreign buildings which are now springing up along the water-front, all give to Wuchow an air of bustle and prosperity which is wanting at Nanning.\n\nThe afternoon of our arrival I called, accompanied by Captain Noble, on the Taotai and principal local officials. The former sent chairs, with an escort of twenty foreign-drilled soldiers headed by drums and bugles. As we proceeded through the city, and were received at the Yamên with salutes and guards presenting arms, I could not help contrasting our welcome with the reception accorded the first Englishman who visited Nanning—Mr. Moss—who came here in 1870 as the Representative of the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce. He was not even allowed to land, the officials refused to meet him, and during the few hours he remained here his boat was bombarded with stones by the crowds which lined the bank. The Taotai, Tu Cheng-ko, a native of Anhui and a protégé of Viceroy T'sen, received us most courteously, and seemed willing to afford me all the information he could. He at once referred to the opening of Nanning as a Treaty port, and mentioned that he had instructions from the Governor to arrange for the laying out of a foreign Settlement. To the best of his belief, the Chinese Government intended to open the port at no distant date. No progress, he said, was being made with the French railway from the frontier, and no survey had yet been made of the line between Langchow and Nanning. He gave me the impression that the Chinese authorities are not at all anxious to see the railway completed to Nanning, and that they are anxious to see Nanning a Treaty port for political reasons. From the French Father whom I afterwards visited, I learnt that work on the railway was suspended owing to the lack of funds, and the Commissioner of Customs at Lungchow has since informed me that a Representative of the Colonial Government is now in Paris trying to raise a loan for the purpose: the Chinese Government, however, are placing obstacles in the way, as they wish to build the Chinese portion of the line themselves, employing, of course, French engineers.\n\nThe Taotai—who, as Intendant of the Tso Chiang (Left River Circuit), is in command of the South-West Military District—informed me that the country round Nanning was fairly free from brigandage, but that towards Taiping and Lungchow marauding bands of Marshal Sa's disbanded soldiery were still terrorizing the countryside, and rendering the river between Nanning and Lungchow unsafe for travellers except under strong military convoy. He said the crops promised well and that the export of sugar (which has practically ceased owing to successive bad harvests) is reviving.\n\nThe Taotai returned our call on the following morning and showed me a sketch-plan of the proposed foreign Settlement. On my expressing a wish to inspect the site he first offered to accompany me himself, but later in the day excused himself and sent instead three deputies, who, as permanent residents, were able to give me some interesting information on local matters. I shall refer to the question of Nanning as a Treaty port and the site of the Settlement in the next section. Our visits to the other officials call for no remark.\n\nI subsequently called at the French Mission and saw Father Thomas, whom I had known some years ago in Wuchow. The mission is headed by a Bishop—Mgr. Lavest—who has the Red Button of the Second Rank. He was unfortunately absent at the time. The French School—an imposing white building, with red-tiled roof, just opposite the Taotai's Yamên—is maintained by the Colonial Government, and is in charge of three Marist Friars. They had left for Canton on the morning of my arrival and the school was closed for the summer holidays, so I had not the opportunity of visiting it. The school has at present about forty pupils—ages ranging from 14 to 19—who are being educated with a view to future employment on the railway. On my expressing surprise that the French Government should allow this school to be managed by members of a religious Association, the Father exclaimed somewhat bitterly that the French Government, while they persecuted the Church at home, were only too ready, when it served their purpose, to make use of her sons abroad. The Father informed me that the city was ravaged annually by plague and cholera; he estimated that no less than 9,000 persons had been carried off by these two diseases last year. He said the people were quite friendly to foreigners and that mission work was progressing well. I may here mention that the Christian and Missionary Alliance of Wuchow have a station at Nanning; the missionaries in charge were, however, away at the time of my visit.\n\nFather Thomas told me that the French Consulate at Lungchow was now in charge of an Agent Consulaire, who was also Customs Doctor. There was really nothing for a Consul to do there but issue passports to Chinese proceeding to Tonquin. From the Commissioner previously referred to, I learn that his post is also somewhat of a sinecure. Owing to the heavy duties levied on the French frontier, Lungchow derives almost all its supplies from Nanning, and the bulk of these are carried in native craft. The total value of the trade coming under the cognizance of the Maritime Customs in 1902 was only seventy-seven thousand odd taels, and of this amount 65,000 taels worth was forwarded into the interior under transit-pass. Were: Nanning made a Treaty port, the raison d'être for the foreign Customs at Lungchow would, I think, cease to exist, the French Consulate would probably be transferred to the former place.\n\nThe environs of Nanning are devoted to market gardening, the surrounding districts produce all the best known products of Kuangsi: rice, sugar, hides, oils, aniseed, wood, tea, and ground nut paper, camphor, and all kinds of medicines. The bulk of this produce is brought down under transit pass and shipped by steamer to Hong Kong. Through Nanning, too, pass the products of Eastern Kueichow and Yunnan, en route to the coast, opium, medicines, oils, and hides. Nanning, as I have indicated above, derives its supply of foreign goods almost entirely from Hong Kong and Canton delta via the West River; the principal firms have agents in Wuchow, who purchase and forward the goods, in the case of imports from Hong Kong, under transit pass. The foreign imports into Nanning are practically identical with those appearing in the Wuchow Customs returns, chief among them being Indian cotton yarn, oil (Sumatra), piece-goods, and foreign sundries, such as flour, lamps, and matches.\n\nAs an instance of what ill-considered protection does for the manufactures of Tonquin, I may mention that Japanese matches are laid down in Nanning at 5 taels the case, while Tonquinese matches, on the rare occasions when they reach Nanning, cost 8 taels a case. The former have come nearly 2,000 miles, the latter about 200. In the course of my walks through the city, I noticed the usual display of foreign goods, chiefly of Japanese and German origin. I saw one or two large shops for the sale of foreign medicines, including brandy, mineral waters, and bovril. Everything that I priced was much more expensive than in Wuchow, but it is possible the shop-keepers quoted special rates for our benefit. My Chinese writer and official messenger were both, for various reasons, unable to accompany me on this trip, so that I found some difficulty in making myself understood by the shop people, who are for the most part Cantonese. The natives of Nanning speak a dialect near akin to Mandarin. The business of the city is in the hands of men from the delta, in particular the Sunui district, and from Fukien.\n\nI gathered that the trade of Nanning is reviving after a long period of depression, but is still hampered by the insecurity of the waterways leading to the Yunnan frontier, and lately by the sudden imposition of a new scale of native customs dues, called \"Tungshui.\" I have already referred to this subject in my Intelligence Reports. The effect of the new duties is clearly seen in the large number of transit passes which are now being applied for to purchase produce in the Nanning and Posé districts. The merchants of Nanning engaged in foreign trade are unanimous in desiring the opening of the port, which they take for granted would mean the presence of a British Consul. I could not learn what particular advantage they expected to derive from the latter's advent, but there exists undoubtedly a strong feeling amongst native merchants on the West River that wherever a British Consul is stationed there will be freedom of trade and protection from the exactions of the local authorities. Whether this good opinion be merited or not, I did not feel called upon to disabuse them of their idea.\n\nNo organized mining is carried on in the Nanning district, but coal for local consumption is imported from Posé. Attempts have been made to use this coal for steaming purposes, but it has been found to be quite unsuitable, being, like all native... \n\nPage 307 \nPage 9",
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        "content_text": "# \n## Yünnan\n\nMr. Litton urged that the prohibition, which is contained in Article XI of the Convention of 1894 between Great Britain and China, against the passage of Yunnan opium in bond through British India should be removed, in the interest of the trade of Burmah, and his Lordship desired to be informed of our opinion on this proposal.\n\n## \nWe inclose, for your information, copies of the correspondence which has taken place with the Government of Burmah on the subject. Mr. Litton's original proposals, which were very vague and indefinite, have been amplified, and are now formulated in a manner sufficiently precise to admit of their detailed discussion. The essential features of the scheme which he now suggests, and which the Government of Burmah recommend for adoption, are as follows:--\n\nHis Majesty's Government should intimate their willingness to allow the transport of opium from Yunnan through Burmah in bond, en route for the eastern ports of China, and the Chinese authorities should be approached with the view of obtaining their consent to a waiver of China's right to prohibit the export of the drug to Burmah. The particular form in which these negotiations should be conducted is a matter for the consideration of His Majesty's Government. It will be necessary, however, as an integral part of the negotiations, to arrange that the opium exported from Yunnan viâ Burmah shall be permitted to enter China by sea on payment of customs duties at a fixed rate, which must be much lower than that levied on \"foreign\" opium. Under the system at present in force, all opium which passes through non-Chinese territory is treated, for customs purposes, as \"foreign\" opium; but the tariff on the \"foreign\" drug is so high that it is essential that exports from Yünnan should be readmitted into China at a favourable rate, if the traffic is to be attracted to the Tengyueh-Bhamo-Rangoon route. Assuming that arrangements of this nature can be made, Mr. Litton is of opinion that the Imperial Customs duty on the drug should be levied on export at Tengyueh in one consolidated payment; and he considers that it would also be advisable to arrange for the collection of the provincial li-kin for Yünnan, and for the province of destination, by officials of the Chinese Imperial Customs service, all sums collected on account of li-kin being handed over in full to the provincial authorities. It is also proposed that a transit due should be imposed on the passage of the drug through Burmah, to be enhanced or reduced at the sole discretion of the Government of India.\n\n## \nThe various objections which may be urged against the acceptance of this scheme, and the advantages which may possibly accrue from its introduction, have been fully discussed in the correspondence which is inclosed with this despatch; but it will be convenient to recapitulate the more important arguments which have been advanced during the course of the discussion.\n\nMr. Litton contends that no material expansion of the trade between Burmah and Yunnan is possible, so long as the export to Burmah of opium, which is the chief product of Yunnan, is prohibited. He anticipates that the removal of this artificial restriction will result in a rapid increase of trade, and will also materially strengthen our political position on the Burmese frontier. While we are disposed to attach great weight to the latter contention, we are doubtful whether the disadvantages involved in the acceptance of the scheme have been fully appreciated, and whether the opinion held by the local authorities as to the probable effect on trade is not unduly sanguine.\n\n## \nUnder Mr. Litton's scheme it is essential that the initiative should be taken by His Majesty's Government, and that the Chinese Government should be induced to levy on opium imported from Yunnan viâ Burmah a lower rate of duty than they at present impose. We consider that, in respect of both these matters, any action which may be taken by this Government or by His Majesty's Ministers will be peculiarly liable to misrepresentation; and we are of opinion that the inadvisability of entering upon negotiations calculated to revive a general discussion regarding our opium policy has been but imperfectly appreciated. Again, although the immediate effect of the removal of the existing prohibition will doubtless be considerable, the trade directly secured will be a transit trade only, and there is no guarantee that it will be accompanied by a corresponding inflow of goods into Yunnan from British India. It is also questionable whether Indian merchants will be able to retain any considerable share of the Yunnan trade when the railway passing through the Red River Valley is completed. In the Report forwarded with his Confidential letter, dated the 1st October, 1903, addressed to the Marquess of Lansdowne, Mr. Litton expressed the opinion that the railway would probably altogether prevent the import of foreign goods to Yunnan-fu viâ Tengyueh; and he considered that, although the Ta Li and Yung Chang districts might not be directly affected, the railway would probably have a disastrous effect on trade generally between Burmah and Yünnan.\n\nAny concessions which may now be obtained from China in respect of the import duty on Chinese opium transiting foreign territory can be claimed at any time by France under the most-favoured-nation clause; and, as the Yunnan-fu-Mengtse-Tonquin route is probably preferable to the Bhamo-Tengyueh-Rangoon route, even under present conditions, and will certainly afford a better outlet for the trade of Yunnan on the completion of the railway, it would appear that, if Mr. Litton's surmise prove to be correct, His Majesty's Government may expose themselves to much adverse criticism in negotiating a concession which will be advantageous chiefly to our trade rivals.\n\n## \nWe recognize, however, that the removal of the existing prohibition will necessarily be accompanied by some expansion of the trade between Burmah and Yünnan, and we do not underrate the advantages which Indian traders will enjoy in competition with the French, owing to their being first in the field. The political advantages which may be expected to accrue from an extension of trade have already been alluded to, and we are of opinion that this aspect of the case is of great importance. For these reasons, and as the proposal has been strongly supported by the Government of Burmah and by the Rangoon Chamber of Commerce, and appears to be regarded favourably by Lord Lansdowne, we have no objection to negotiations being entered into with the Chinese Government, with the object of securing the concessions which it will be necessary to obtain before the traffic can be diverted to the Bhamo-Rangoon route. In view, however, of the considerations stated in paragraph 4 above, and of the uncertainty which we feel as to the results of the experiment, we are strongly of opinion that pressure should not be exercised upon the Chinese authorities in order to induce them to accept the scheme; and we are not prepared to purchase their consent by granting concessions of any material value in other directions.\n\n## \nThe nature of the concessions which must be obtained before the opium traffic can be diverted to the Burmah route is fully explained in Mr. Litton's Memorandum, dated the 16th November, 1904. We agree generally with the specific recommendations which he has made, but consider that the rates proposed for the consolidated Customs duty, and for the Burmah transit fee, are unsuitable. The information available regarding the total incidence of taxation and transport charges by the various alternative routes from Yünnan to the eastern ports of China is admittedly incomplete, and may possibly be inaccurate in certain respects; but it appears probable that Yunnan opium cannot be delivered at Canton, under existing conditions, for less than 200 rupees per picul, exclusive of profit and of the initial cost of the drug. If the specific proposals made by Mr. Litton and supported by the Government of Burmah, were accepted, it would be possible to sell Yunnan opium in the eastern ports at a rate approximately 32 rupees per picul lower than the current rate, and there can be no doubt that in a short time the sales of Indian opium would be adversely affected, owing to the competition of the cheaper drug.\n\n## \nWe consider that, in fixing the rates of duty to be levied, regard should be had to the following principles, viz., that the total charges on the drug should be maintained at approximately the same level as at present; that the Chinese Government should be permitted to retain as large a share as possible of the total taxation on opium transported through Burmah; and that the transit due should be utilized as an adjusting factor to regulate prices in the eastern ports, if necessary, and to prevent the diversion of the trade to any other route. We attach great importance to the power to regulate prices by enhancing the transit due, as this may at any time become necessary in order to prevent Yunnan opium from competing on unduly favourable terms with the Indian drug; but, while we are of opinion that entire freedom of action in this respect must be reserved, we do not desire to divert to the Indian exchequer any portion of the increased taxation which it may be necessary from time to time to impose. The objects in view are to some extent irreconcilable, inasmuch as the greater portion of the total taxation levied on the drug cannot be made over to China without reducing to a minimum the margin available for diminishing the cost of transit by the Burmah route. We recognize the difficulty, but consider that the question of obtaining a sufficient margin of taxation for this purpose must be subordinated to the more important considerations referred to above.\n\n## \nWe would, therefore, suggest that the following specific proposals, which have been framed in accordance with the principles explained in the preceding paragraph, should be adopted as the basis of the negotiations:-\n\nThe Imperial Customs consolidated export and re-entry fee shall be fixed at 50 rupees per picul for a period of three years. The transit due to be levied at the outset shall be 12 rupees per picul. During this period the consolidated duty levied by... \n\nPage 403",
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        "content_text": "# SOUTH-WEST CHINA\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## No. 1.\n\n[March 4.]\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\n**Acting Consul Litton to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received March 4)**\n\nTengyueh, January 30, 1905.\n\n**(No. 1.) My Lord,**\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit (1) duplicate of a despatch addressed to His Majesty's Minister on the subject of the Chinese Shan States near the Burmah frontier, and (2) extract from my last Intelligence Report dealing with the state of the frontier, a subject closely connected with the condition of the Chinese Shan States.\n\nAs the places referred to are unfamiliar, I attach a rough sketch-map.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \n**G. LITTON**\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**Acting Consul Litton to Sir E. Satow.**\n\n**(No. 1.) Sir,**\n\nTengyueh, January 30, 1905.\n\nI HAVE the honour to address you on the subject of the Chinese Shan States near the Burmese frontier, and their relations with the Chinese officials and this Consulate.\n\nTo the west and south-west of the Chinese sub-Prefectural cities of Tengyueh and Lung Ling, both of which are subject to the Prefect of Yung Chang, the country falls away towards the Burmah frontier in a series of valleys, roughly parallel to each other; these \"pa tzu,\" as they are locally known, have an altitude of 2,000-3,000 feet, Tengyueh City being 5,500 feet and Lung Ling 5,000 feet; each \"pa tzu\" was probably formed and is now watered by an affluent of the Irrawaddy.\n\nIn these low-lying valleys the ground, though highly fertile, is swampy, and during six months of the year the climate is so malarious and unhealthy that the Yunnan Chinaman, who is an inhabitant of high lands, cannot cultivate. Consequently, with the exception of one or two trading centres, the great bulk of the population still consists of Shans, who owe allegiance to various native Chiefs (\"Sawbwa\" in Burmese, \"Tu ssu\" in Chinese). These Chiefs, in their turn, are dependent on the two sub-Prefects, and enjoy Chinese titles and official rank. They are all professing Buddhists, and some of them superstitious Buddhists.\n\nEach of these valleys is separated from its neighbour by a range of mountains; these ranges are generally regular in their formation, and rise to an altitude of 3,000 feet or more above their valleys. They are inhabited by a considerable and increasing population of Kachin tribes, whose original seat was probably to the north, about the headwaters of the Irrawaddy, but who during the past two centuries have permanently established themselves in these hills. They are a fighting race, as distinguished from the Shans, who are timid and peaceable. The Kachins are nominally subject to the Sawbwas within whose territories they have settled.\n\nStarting from the north, the following is a list of the Shan States on or near our frontier with whom we have dealings:\n\n**(A.)-Taping River Valley States.**\n\n1. **Nan Tien**.-The border of this State is crossed about 18 miles south-west of Tengyueh City by the main Burmah road. The Sawbwa (whose name is Tao) is the most Chinese of all the Shan Princes. He is a man of about 40. His rule over his own people is oppressive, but he is a man of considerable intelligence and diplomatic skill. He is often employed by the Chinese officials as a go-between in matters affecting their relations with the other Shan Chiefs. He has few Kachins but...\n\nPage 421",
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        "content_text": "# 423\n\n4\n\nbe noted on the Sawbwa's registers. A Shan family may be taken on an average to consist of five persons, though this is sometimes an underestimate :-\n\n| State | Families |\n| --- | --- |\n| Nantien | 6,000 |\n| Kangai | 7,000 |\n| Chanta | 1,500 |\n| Labs-Hosa | 8,000 |\n| Meng Wan | 5,000 |\n| Meng Mao | 2,500 |\n| Chefang | 2,000 |\n| Meng Ting | 12,000 (of which nearly one-third Chinese.) |\n| Meng Kwan | 2,000 (?) |\n\nIf the unsubdued Kachins living within the borders of the various States are included, these figures would be at least doubled in the case of Meng Wan, Meng Mao or Chanta, and more than doubled in the case of Chefang; Nan Tien, Kangia, and Labsa have but few unsubdued Kachins.\n\nThe Shan population of Meng Wan is decreasing, partly by emigration to British territory, and the same may be said of Meng Mao; in the other States the population is probably stationary or slowly increasing.\n\nThe external trade of the Chinese Shan States is chiefly with Burmah and chiefly in articles which under that remarkable document, the Burmah-China Convention, are contraband; the principal trade is an export of rice and opium in exchange for salt, all three of which are forbidden by the Convention. The import of yarn and foreign piece-goods is also considerable, as is the export of cattle. But I question if the whole trade amounts to more than 1,000,000 rupees in the year.\n\nThere is an important rice trade from the Taping and Meng Kwan Valleys to Tengyueh and Lung Ling.\n\nThe principles on which the Yünnan Government acts in dealing with its Sban Chiefs are repression in some directions and non-interference or rather indifference in others. Not only are no measures taken to secure the well-being of the Shans, to restrain the excesses of the vicious Sawbwas or to correct the financial confusion which often prevails, but it is an axiom that an energetic or a rich Sawbwa may prove a rebellious Sawbwa and any attempt, if such were made, by the Sawbwas themselves to strengthen their Government or develop the resources of their States would be at once checked by the Mandarins and would probably land the adventurous Sawbwa in a Chinese prison. Thus Kangai dares not even repair his own roads. It is partly on account of this Chinese policy that the Kachins have made such headway and found so little resistance.\n\nC\n\nOn the other hand, the Sawbwas are allowed to oppress their peasantry and squander such resources as they have without any interference. They must accept Chinese titles, wear Chinese dress, make representations even to the lowest grade of Mandarin in the form of a petition and generally \"give face\" to their political superiors. So long as they do this, the Yunnan-fu Government leaves them alone and frowns down the proposals which are sometimes made by the local officials to incorporate the Shan States into the ordinary Chinese jurisdiction. I am told that under the arrangements made when the Shan Chiefs first submitted to the Chinese, chiefly in the Ming dynasty, no land in the Shan States can be owned by Chinese; but this rule is more honoured in the breach than in the observance, and where it has been observed, it is the climate and not the law which has protected the Shan peasant against his Chinese rival.\n\nThe West Yunnan local officials have ideas of their own regarding the Shan States; they would divide the Sawbwas into two classes, the poor and the rich; in the case of the first, the policy is to leave them severely alone as interference entails trouble and expense; in the case of the second the policy is to \"squeeze\" them. It is only the poverty of their families and the wretchedness of their States that can protect the Sawbwas from Chinese rapacity. There is an expressive phrase often heard in West Yünnan: \"ch'ih t'u ssu\" i.e., \"eating the Sawbwas.\" The nature and practice of this art is perfectly understood by every official and yamên underling in the country.\n\n5\n\nThe eating process may be consummated by any one of the following methods:-\n\n1. A method often practised by petty military officers. If one of these Mandarins has any business in the Shan States he will establish himself near a Sawbwa's residence and announce that he will not go away under a certain sum; he invariably gets it. The present provincial Commander-in-chief of the Kwangsi province, Ting, who was for many years in West Yunnan was an adept at this practice.\n\n2. The Shan Militia process; the Shans are not a fighting people, and are always unwilling to serve as soldiers. A military officer would therefore be sent from Tengyuel to train militia in the Shan States. Every one who is called up offers money to be let off and so a good sum could be collected in a short time. Li Shao Yuan, a rascally official who gave some trouble when Tengyueh was first opened to trade, made a fortune in this way. He called up the militia at harvest time, when all the peasants were prepared to pay more than usual to be let free. History repeats itself:-\n\nFalstaff—Prick me Master Bullcalf.\nBardolph—Sir, a word with you; I have three pounds to free Mouldy and Bullcalf.\nFalstaff—Go to!\n(HENRY IV, Part 2.)\n\n3. Fictitious lawsuits and cases against the Sawbwas are often got up by the yamên folk in collusion with some of the Chinese resident in the Shan States. The Sawbwa is then called on to appear at Tengyueh, or Lung Ling, or Yung Chang as the case may be to answer the matter. He never goes but always pays money to be allowed to stay at home. This game was brought to the level of a high art by a former sub-Prefect of Tengyueh, Chen Tsung Hai, who is now dead but his evil memory still lives along the border.\n\nSince the establishment of the Consulate the above three methods have rather fallen into desuetude, as the Consul may ask awkward questions.\n\n4. Threats of accusations of treason and rebellion. These false charges against the Sawbwas have been very frequent since the time of the Panthay rebellion. The late General Chiang Ping Tang, who was Brigadier at Tengyueh at the time of Margary's murder laid the foundation of a large fortune by holding such threats over the Sawbwas. Whenever a Sawbwa had to resist Kachin aggression it was easy to say that he wished to levy war against the Government.\n\n6. The Boundary Commission was made the excuse for heavy squeezing operations. The Kangai Sawbwa assures me that he alone first and last had to pay some 12,000 rupees in hard cash to the Chinese Commissioner, besides sending in quantities of supplies which were not paid for. Unluckily for the Mandarins this source of supply has been dried up by the final delimitation of the Sawbwa's frontiers.\n\n6. Accusations of secret and treasonable intrigues with the Government in Burmah. Since the establishment of the Tengyueh Consulate and the opening of trade, this method of \"eating Sawbwas\" has come into considerable vogue, but I hope it has now been put a stop to, for a time at least. It has two great advantages; first, such charges are greedily believed by the ignorant Mandarins who rule at Yunnan-fu, while other accusations might be more carefully gone into; secondly, the result of such a charge is that the accused Sawbwa is handed bodily over to the local Mandarin, and cannot only be \"squeezed,\" but plucked bare, and his State looted as well. On the other hand, the disadvantage of this method is that it involves a serious affront to a friendly Government, and, what is more to the point, may lead to unpleasant consequences to the Mandarin who employs it, if the Consulates take the matter up.\n\nThe first Sawbwa to be ruined by false charges of this kind was Santa, the father of the present infant Sawbwa. He was brought up to Tengyueh in 1897 by Yang, then sub-Prefect, and the same official who was responsible for the affair at Hparé in 1900; then he was first robbed and then executed by Yang; the State was handed over to the official Li Shao Yuan, mentioned above, as Regent, and it will be some time before it will recover from the effects of this short period of direct celestial government.\n\nIn the winter of 1903-1904 a similar plot was hatched by the sub-Prefect of Lung Ling against the young Sawbwa of Mang Shih (Meng Kwan in Shan). His comparative wealth made his guilt manifest. He was seized by Chinese troops and thrown into prison at Lung Ling, whence he was conveyed in custody to Yung Chang. For some months the process of extortion went steadily on, and\n\n[1899 -1] \n## 6 \n5",
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        "content_text": "# \naltogether a sum of about 22,000 taels was extracted, of which the Lung Ling sub-Prefect took about 11,000 taels (though he was probably \"squeezed\" in his turn by his superiors) and the rest went to the Yung Chang Prefect (now Acting Taotai of West Yunnan at Tengyueh) and to Mr. Tseng, his secretary, who was a fellow-provincial (Hunan) of the Lung Ling sub-Prefect, and had operated the affair in conjunction with him. The payments were made by Mang Shih chiefly in gold leaf, and one indirect result was the bankruptcy of a Burmese Tengyueh firm (Chop Wan Sheng Ho), who could not collect certain debts from Mang Shih, as the Sawbwa had paid away all his ready cash to the officials. There is little doubt that the unlucky Sawbwa would have been murdered as Chanta was, but the telegram which the Yung Chang Prefect and Lung Ling sub-Prefect had sent to Yunnan-fu about the case got into my hands, and was forwarded by me to the Consul-General.\n\nIt accused the Sawbwa of “secretly travelling to Rangoon\" and \"intriguing with the outer people,\" and also of buying cartridges for the purpose of raising a rebellion. It was added that \"the mouths of the outer people had long been watering for the possession of Mang Shih.\"\n\nI protested against this as a palpable falsehood, and an insult to a friendly Government. Mr. Wilkinson made similar representations at Yunnan-fu; the Sawbwa also succeeded in getting a statement of his case put before the Yunnan Viceroy. The matter has now been pressed by me for more than six months; the Lung Ling sub-Prefect has been removed; the Sawbwa has been released; the Prefect of Yung Chang, now Acting Taotai at Tengyueh, has withdrawn the charges of intrigues with Burmah, and, more sinico, has requested that he should be reprimanded for having made them; but though the Viceroy Ting pretends to be still inquiring into the case, I am informed that his Excellency is perfectly acquainted with the facts, and is merely waiting to see if the matter is further pressed by the Consulates, in which case he would have no other course but to denounce the Acting Taotai to the Throne. I have suggested to Mr. Wilkinson that it is not perhaps advisable to press the case so far as the Acting Taotai is an energetic and efficient official in other matters. He has been much alarmed, and has even conveyed to me that he is prepared to repay part of his share of the spoil to Mang Shih if nothing more is said about the matter.\n\nThe occurrences in connection with the \"squeezing\" and imprisonment of Mang Shih were matters of common knowledge in Tengyueh, and throughout the Chinese Shan States, where the other Sawbwas are much alarmed. The young Kangai Sawbwa appears to have thought, and not without reason, that on account of his wealth and friendliness to passing British officers, he would be the next victim of charges of conspiring with the outer people. It appears that the Taotai's secretary, Tseng, had already commenced to weave the net around him, but as soon as the Mang Shih business became known to me, Mr. Tseng bolted to Rangoon, and has not since been heard of. When I was passing through his State in June last, young Kangai came to see me, and told me that he feared his life and his property were in danger. I strongly dissuaded him from taking refuge in Burmah, and he remained at home until the autumn, when I was absent on the Thibetan frontier; then, in consequence of further reports which he received of yamên intrigues against him, he took refuge in Burmah nominally for the purpose of worshipping at the Buddhist shrines there and proceeding to Japan to study; I have suggested for the consideration of the Government of Burmah that the young Sawbwa should be advised to return to his State. The Chinese officials are in a fright in consequence of the exposure in the Mang Shih case, and I think that Kangai can be for the present protected by Consular representations. Disorders in this State, which may probably follow the permanent absence of the young Sawbwa, would be a source of danger to our trade and frontier.\n\nI think it may be stated, as a rule, that the functions of the West Yünnan officials in their Shan States are either parasitical or predatory; they do nothing to protect or educate their Sawbwas, and they prevent them from educating or protecting themselves, but they are ready to extort by false and frivolous charges the last rupee out of their unlucky dependents.\n\nQuestions, therefore, of some difficulty arise when the relations between the Tengyueh Consul and the Chinese Shan Chiefs have to be adjusted. To assist in the settlement of frontier cases in which British subjects have suffered injury is one of the principal duties of the Consul.\n\nNow, the subjects or nominal subjects of the Shan Sawbwas are nearly always the guilty parties in these cases. For the Consul to remain at Tengyueh and address formal remonstrances to the Chinese officials have been proved by experience to be utterly useless. On the other hand, by proceeding to the frontier, by meeting the Chinese deputies and the Shan Sawbwas on the spot, it has been proved that the British officials can, to a large extent, prevent serious frontier troubles, such as raids, and can obtain a large measure of satisfaction for the minor cases, such as cattle-lifting and so forth.\n\nThe Consul cannot do his duty unless he goes to the frontier and meets the Shan Sawbwas or their deputies; he cannot go to the frontier without passing through the Shan territories; he cannot pass through those territories without having relations with the Sawbwas.\n\nThe British Government has the right to post a Consul to Tengyueh, and the Consul has the duty of assisting in the settlement of frontier matters. It seems to follow that we can properly insist that the Shan Chiefs and States shall not be subject to any special oppression or extortion by the Chinese officials merely because we are exercising that right or the Consul is fulfilling that duty.\n\nThese official depredations must, and do, cause unrest in the Chinese Shan States, and such unrest must affect the border and the trans-frontier trade as a whole; it is, therefore, submitted that the argument that the internal affairs of the Chinese Empire—the \"squeezing of the Sawbwas\" included—do not concern the Consul, is purely academical, and cannot in practice rule the conduct of the Consulates.\n\nStill clearer is our right to insist that the Tengyueh officials shall not drag the name of our Government into these disgraceful transactions, and make Burmah the stalking-horse behind which they approach their prey. No one knows better than the Taotai that these charges of intrigues with the Burmah Government are both false and insulting; they are only put forward because they are readily accepted at Yünnan-fu, and being there accepted, render the \"squeezing\" process easy of accomplishment.\n\nIt may be said that, in cases where positive evidence that such false charges have been made is not forthcoming, or in cases where other charges, such as meditating a rebellion, are put forward with a view to extort money from one of these Shan Chiefs, the Consul has no locus standi and no official knowledge of what is going on, and no right to interfere.\n\nTo this, the reply is the charge of rebellion is as absurd as the charge of intrigues with Burmah for the reason that it is notorious that none of the Chinese Shan States have even the pretence of a force with which to operate a rebellion, and secondly, that the Consul or the British officials in Burmah are always acquainted with the condition of the Chinese Shan States, and will know if the Chinese officials have any real ground for molesting or arresting the Sawbwa in question. If there is no such ground, it is practically certain that such action on their part is an attempt to extort money.\n\nIf the false charge is conspiring with Burmah, it is an insult to the British name; if it is something else, it and the \"squeezing\" which follow endanger the peace of the frontier which it is the duty of the Yunnan Government to preserve, and I hope you will approve of the Consular officer making an energetic protest in all such cases. Such a protest would, I think, be always effectual, and the threat of demanding an inquiry by the Yunnan Viceroy, or still more by the Central Government at Peking, would always cause the local officials to drop their prey, as in the case of Mang Shih.\n\nIn the matter of the young Kangai Sawbwa, the Taotai has assured me, though not in writing, that it is all a mistake, and that if the young Sawbwa returns to his State, no notice of his absence will be taken. With the Mang Shih case hanging over him, I have little doubt that the Taotai will keep his word.\n\nIf the Chinese officials lay themselves open to Consular remonstrances, which they resent, they have only themselves to blame. They have always been bad and perfidious neighbours to Burmah; so long as they had the power they practised every kind of extortion on our trade, nor have I any doubt that nearly all the Kachin and other fighting which has accompanied the settlement of the border by the British down to the Hparé affair in 1900, was secretly instigated from the Tengyueh yamêns. It is true that on two occasions, i.e., after the Sima troubles in 1891, and after the fight at Hparé, the Yunnan-fu Government removed and degraded the guilty Tengyueh official, but one may suspect that this was not so much because intrigues across the border had commenced, as because they had ended in failure from the Chinese point of view.\n\nThus I venture to submit that the experience of the past amply justifies a certain amount of interference in the Chinese Shan States in the future, directed to secure \n\nPage 7  \n[1899 d-1] \nD",
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        "content_text": "# SOUTH-WEST CHINA\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nNo. 1.\n\nMay 19**5**6 → **1906** (Corrected to a plausible year as \"19566\" is not a valid date)\n\n**RECE SECTION**\n\nMAY 05'\n\n**Acting Consul Litton to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received May 13.)**\n\n(No. 5.) My Lord,\n\nI BEG to submit some extracts from the last Intelligence Report for this Consular district.\n\nTeng Yueh, April 15, 1905.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) \n**G. LITTON**\n\n## Inclosure in No. 1.\n\n### Extract from Intelligence Report, Teng Yueh, April 15, 1905.\n\nDecline in Trade; Opium Transit.-After a decline in the last quarter of 1904, the Burmah-Yunnan trade shows a fall of no less than 22 per cent. in the first quarter of 1905 as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1904. None of the usual causes of commercial depression in China are present to account for this, and it is notoriously due to the prohibition against the transit of opium across Burmah, combined with the fact that the opium crop of West Yunnan cannot for the time pass freely by any other route, owing (1) to the disturbances in Kwangsi, and (2) to the sudden and enormous increases in inland dues in all the provinces of transit, Yünnan, Kwei Chou, Hunan, and the two Kwangs. The result is that the merchants are holding up their stocks of the drug, which is the same as saying that they are holding up the capital with which they would otherwise buy foreign goods from Barmah, for opium is the only considerable product of West Yunnan suited for export.\n\nA consequent fall of 22 per cent. in our trade should satisfy even the ultra-protectionists who believe that India is to find her profit in totally prohibiting the passage of her neighbours' only export. The situation now is such that the West Yunnan merchants would be glad to take their opium across Burmah, and so by sea to Canton, and there pay duty on it to the Customs at the heavy rates levied on foreign—i.e., Indian-opium, and they inform me that Central Yunnan opium is passing via Mengtse and Tonquin to Canton under these conditions, but I have written to inquire if this really is the case.\n\nMeanwhile the li-kin have overreached themselves, and are not able to get in their revenue. The Teng Yueh and Yung Chang collectors are in despair. No doubt after a time the inland dues will be again reduced, or Kwangsi will be partially opened and the trade resume its ordinary course, but not until a serious blow has been struck at our import trade.\n\nIn articles on trade with Persia, I have often read denunciations of Muscovite wickedness in closing the Batum-Caspian transit route to foreign trade. But what the British are doing as regards West Yunnan opium is even worse. Russia prevents foreign goods reaching Persia across her territory. We prohibit the produce of one part of China reaching the consumers thereof in another part of China. The whole thing is not only injurious to our trade in practice, but it is unfair to the Chinese in principle, and it is not to be wondered at that merchants in West Yünnan feel strongly about the matter, and ask whether we really care as much about free and fair trade as we profess. They have recently sent a Petition to Yunnan-fu and to the Wai-wu Pu pointing out the disastrous results to them of the present block, and asking that measures of relief should be adopted. They use the old Chinese argument that, their opium being stopped, their silver, which is their life-blood and the true wealth of the country, is flowing out into the hands of the avaricious foreigner.\n\nSo long as the present policy in Burmah is maintained, His Majesty's Government must be greatly hampered in considering the important question of a railway or a road into Yunnan, for it is impossible to say what the potentialities of the Burmah-Yunnan trade are, unless it is given a fair chance.\n\n[2012 π-1] \nPage 578",
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        "content_text": "## Notification\n\npermission first of the K'u-p'ing tael pieces minted in Hupeh, and hearing $152 And whereas I have now applied to the Throne to make trial, and redifferential rates and squeezes, they shall likewise be severely punished according to inscription, \"The Great Ching Silver Currency,\" in Manchu in centre, and of the nation's currency, they will be seized and brought to trial, when the capital Chinese around it, with foreign inscription, province, name, and year and weight in addition, all entered on one face, and the other face encircled by dragon pattern, \"Minted One Tael,\" so as to be easily recognized and dealt with. For receipts and payments the coin will be reckoned at the Hupeh Treasury 103-6 K'u-p'ing rate, for issue and receipt will be taken as pure silver.\n\nIt is therefore proper at once to carry out the scheme, so as to show respect to the Constitution, and to advantage traders and people, and I have now ordered the Mint to coin and issue to the Hupeh Government cash-shops to put in circulation, receipts and payments being reckoned Hupeh Treasury 1036 K'u-p'ing rate, minted coins taken as pure silver, not the slightest variance being allowed, whereby it is hoped that the coins will be current in all provinces, and the currency for every purpose, and regular Government contributions, or for customs duties and li-kin, and any so on without mercy.\n\nIf scoundrels should counterfeit this coinage to the disturbance, punishment will be at once inflicted. All should obey with fear and without fail.\n\nA special Notification.\n\nPublished the 19th January, 1905.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n## Extract from Mr. J. Harvie's Letter\n\nI am at one in every detail with the contents of the Memorandum from the China Association, as the confusion at present existing, owing to the unlimited coinage of dollars of varying values, is a great drawback to trade, and I feel sure that the proposed new so-called Hupeh Treasury tael will only add to the confusion (as it is a private scheme, and not a Government one) and cannot be made a universal currency. Whenever the people have to make payments for land tax or whatever, and whenever District Magistrates, offices, and stations have to forward revenue to the Treasuries and Bureaux of the Commissioners and Taotais, the funds shall be reckoned according to the Hupeh Treasury rate of 103-6 K'u-p'ing taels. This will have no prejudicial effect on standing regulations.\n\nAs regards extra payments under existing rules on remittances apart from the regular items payable at the Treasury touch, such as \"extra weight,\" \"meltage loss,\" \"remittance charges,\" will be payable in addition to the amounts, reckoning the silver coins as Kuping silver. For the districts have, apart from the Treasury touch, regular amounts, head-allowed to make extra levies, which must, of course, be remitted separately in making payments to the Commissioners' and Taotais' Treasuries, so that the existing miscellaneous charges and expenses may continue; but it is forbidden to extort any further charge on account of short weight or deficient touch of this coinage, and where there are no existing miscellaneous charges it is still more forbidden to make any pretext for additional exactions.\n\nIn short, in forwarding funds this currency is to cause no addition; in receiving funds it is to cause no decrease, so as to avoid objection by clerks and underlings.\n\nIf one wishes to get change at a Government cash-shop into cash or copper pieces, or other sorts of raw silver, or the old silver dollars, the amount will be reckoned according to the Hupeh Treasury 103-6 K'u-p'ing rate for fine silver, without any deduction or addition whatever.\n\nThe old silver dollars, weighing 72 K'uping, coined in various provinces, were coined in imitation of foreign countries' silver currency. This was a temporary measure of expediency, not a permanent uniform system. Henceforward the old silver dollars will be taken as uncoined silver, and the people may use them as usual, the value rising and falling with the market price; they cannot be looked on as national currency.\n\nThe old silver dollars in style and inscription differ from this class of uniform silver currency, and they are quite apart in size and weight, so that they cannot be mixed up as the same. Thus the distinction between national currency and all the different sorts of uncoined silver is manifest.\n\nI am ordering the Commissioners and Taotais, the Customs offices and all district offices, li-kin, duty, and contribution bureaux, to carry out this system alike in paying and receiving.\n\nIt is further my duty to issue a public Notification.\n\nWhereby take notice, ye merchants and traders, soldiers and people alike. You must understand that this coinage of silver K'u-p'ing taels is a Government national legal currency, which in all accounts, whether public or private, and in the dealings of officers and people, are to be reckoned for receipts and payments at the Hupeh Treasury rate of 1036 K'u-p'ing fine silver taels, the coins being of uniform value, and quite unlike all other species of uncoined silver, which, when changed, are charged for short weight and discount, and which hucksters and clerks can manipulate so as hereafter to cause all sorts of loss on them. This is indeed an important step for the benefit of trade and the advantage of the people. Should the officials and clerks concerned, when rates and taxes are paid by the people, make pretexts for objecting to this currency, or refuse to accept it at the rate of 103.6 Ku-ping fine silver, so soon as complaint is made or such acts are heard of, the Throne will be once moved to inflict the severest punishment. Should cash-shops, pawn-shops, licensed hongs, trading shops, in receiving and paying this currency, dare to make ... \n\nThe profit accruing to the officials in charge of all these provincial mints is too great to presume they would withdraw their coins from circulation on the plan proposed by Viceroy Chang.",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n# CHINA TRADE\n\n## No. 1\n\n### [July 31.]\n\n#### SECTION 2.\n\n1578\n\nX\n\nX\n\n**(No. 204.)**\nMy Lord,\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.~(Received July 31.)\n\nPeking, June 12, 1905.\n\nWITH reference to your Lordship's despatch No. 28 of the 16th February instructing me to keep the attention of the Chinese Government directed to the framing of new Mining Regulations in accordance with Article IX of the Treaty of 1902, have the honour to inclose further correspondence with Prince Ch'ing.\n\nIn consequence of the delay in His Highness' reply to my note of the 18th April, I referred to the question on several occasions in conversation with members of the Foreign Board, and on the 5th instant complained to Nat'ung of the neglect of the Chinese Government to carry out this Article of the Treaty, reminding him that there was no excuse for the inaction of the Wuchang Viceroy, in whose hands I knew the draft had been for some months past, seeing that Sir James Mackay had personally discussed all the Articles of the Treaty with him, as well as with the late Viceroy of Nanking, Liu Kun-yi, in addition to the Plenipotentiaries appointed to negotiate that instrument.\n\nMy remonstrances have now drawn from the Prince an intimation that the revised draft may be expected to reach Peking in about a month's time, when it will be considered by the Boards of Foreign Affairs and Commerce.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) **ERNEST SATOW**.\n\n\nYour Highness,\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to Prince Ch'ing.\n\nPeking, April 18, 1905.\n\nON the 11th December, 1904, I had the honour to receive a letter from your Highness in reply to my inquiry as to what was being done with regard to the framing of Mining Regulations, in which your Highness informed me that these Regulations had already been drawn up by his Excellency Wu Ting-fang, but that it was necessary to consult with the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung before they could be definitely settled.\n\nAs more than four months have now elapsed, I have the honour to request information as to whether any progress has been made in this matter since that date.\n\nI avail, &c.  \n(Signed) **ERNEST SATOW**.\n\n\nYour Excellency,\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**(Translation.)**\nNatung to Sir E. Satow.\n\n7: 5: xxxi (June 9, 1905.)\n\nREFERRING to our conversation of some days ago regarding the Mining Regulations, I have the honour to inform your Excellency that we telegraphed without delay to the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, and that we have now received his Excellency's reply.\n\nHis Excellency says that in view of the importance attaching to the Mining Regulations, which will be binding on foreigners and Chinese alike, he placed ...",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure in No. 1\n## (F.)-\"Li-kin\" Case: A. R. Burkill and Sons\n\nOn the 23rd February, 1905, application was made to export twenty bags of foreign sugar on steam-launch \"Tung Hing\" to Tungehow. \"Tung Hing\" is owned by the Cheang Mow Steam-ship Company (Limited)—agents and managers, A. E. Burkill and Sons, Shanghae. Company registered in Hong Kong under Companies Ordinances.\n\nThe sugar was duly passed by the custom-house, and duty paid; the goods were then on Tung Yne Wharf, on Chinese bund, waiting to be put on the \"Tung Hing,\" and they were then seized by the Li-kin authorities and carried to the Li-kin barrier, and one of our Chinese clerks was seized and imprisoned in the Chinese police-station; and the same night the clerk was taken to the city and imprisoned in a latrine, and to secure a decent room for the clerk we had to pay $55 in four days.\n\nThe Commissioner of Customs wrote to us, and we requested him to have the sugar examined, and the examiner reported examining four bags containing native sugar. Being sure of our ground, we asked for re-examination, and it was found that native sugar had been substituted in four bags for our foreign sugar, while the other sixteen bags were not forthcoming. Same, however, were concealed on the premises of the Li-kin station, and were examined and found to contain foreign sugar—the four bags, of course, being changed by the Li-kin authorities to help them to win their case. (Examiner's Report appended.)\n\nThe matter is now the subject of much correspondence between His Britannic Majesty's Consul and the Totai and Viceroy, and up to the present (24th May) we have not received any compensation for our twenty bags of sugar or for expenses. As this is one of the most flagrant cases possible, we hoped for a prompt settlement, and in the interval the business of the Steam-ship Company is hampered, as shippers are afraid of a recurrence of this extortion.\n\n## Inclosure 9 in No. 1\n### Examiner's Report to Commissioner of Customs\n\nOn receipt of your instructions I went to the Li-kin station to re-examine the sugar. On my arrival there I only saw the same four bags I had previously examined, and on my asking to see the other sixteen bags I was told they had not come, and was requested to wait. Whilst I waited I noticed some bags of sugar in one of the inner rooms; same were covered over with Chinese bed boards and old clothing. I approached and inspected the bags, and found they were the very things I was told by the Li-kin man to wait for. I instantly took some samples from each of the sixteen bags, and carefully examined both the marks and the mode the bags were made up. The result is sugar is foreign sugar.\n\nSome of the bags are marked B, and on some the marks have been washed off. I conclude that the sugar that was shown to me, and which I had previously examined, was native sugar, but probably put into the bags of the lot marked B.\n\n## Inclosure 10 in No. 1\n### Consul-General Sir P. Warren to Sir E. Satow\n\nShanghae, June 16, 1905.\n\nI have the honour to inclose herewith a letter addressed to you by Mr. E. S. Little, dated the 12th instant and received to-day, forwarding a letter to Lord Lansdowne in amplification of the telegram sent to his Lordship on the 3rd May by certain British merchants at this port.\n\nAs instructed by your telegram No. 33 of the 19th ultimo, I have the honour to make the following observations on the original telegram and its amplification:\n\n1. The original telegram is so worded that it might be supposed that it was sent through me, whereas it was sent direct to Lord Lansdowne by Mr. E. S. Little, acting on behalf of the signatories, a list of whom as handed to me by Mr. Little I inclose herewith.\n\n2. Currency. The remarks made in the letter to Lord Lansdowne on the subject of currency are, as far as my information goes, borne out by facts. I had the honour to forward to you in my despatch No. 40 of the 5th June a copy of a letter addressed by the Shanghae Chamber of Commerce to the doyen of the Diplomatic Body at Peking, which deals with this subject, in reference to the recent coinage of 10-cash pieces. It is a matter of common knowledge that nearly every Viceroyalty has its own mint, and that the coins turned out are not, as a rule, accepted at face value beyond the limits of the Viceroyalty in which they are minted.\n\n3. Mining. Mining Regulations have been drawn up by Mr. Broad, a mining expert in the employ of the Chinese Government, and have been submitted to his Excellency Chang Chih-tung. Mr. Broad has been occupied for over twelve months in drawing up those Regulations, which have been shown to me and are those in force in Mexico, Spain, and South Africa.\n\nThe provincial authorities generally appear inclined to place obstacles in the way of the opening up of mines. In many instances the opposition is from motives of self-interest, and may be overcome by extra expenditure on the part of the Mining Syndicates and individuals interested.\n\n4. Taxation. There is an apparent tendency on the part of local officials in this district to levy Li-kin under other names. The first case of the kind was reported to me by Messrs. George McBain and Co. on the 25th May, 1903. These gentlemen complained that cargo-boats carrying kerosene oil and matches, their property, and covered by transit pass, had been stopped at Tsao O while on their way to Shaobsing, and Li-kin had been demanded. On inquiry into the case the plea was raised by the Chinese authorities that the tax sought to be levied was not Li-kin, but destination tax. I pointed out that destination tax was not leviable en route, and the attempted levy was illegal. A somewhat lengthy correspondence ensued between the Governor of Chekiang Province and myself, with the result that the officer in fault was superseded and the Li-kin station at Tsao O no longer collects destination tax. The Governor has further promised that the levy en route of destination tax shall not be permitted in future.\n\nThe second case is that of Messrs. Ilbert and Co., given in Inclosure (D) of the letter to Lord Lansdowne. In this instance the tax sought to be levied was called \"fungchuan,\" or general tax; but this general tax, besides grower's tax, evidently included some Li-kin, and on the 14th January I wrote to the officer administering the Government at Soochow pointing this out, and asking whether I was right in my conclusions as to the nature of \"tungchuan.\" I inclose copy and translation of my despatch, to which I have not succeeded in obtaining a definite reply.\n\nOn the 7th April I sent Mr. Twyman to Haimen to inquire into the case, and it was fully established that the Li-kin officials were in the wrong, and it is now merely a question of the amount of compensation to be paid to Messrs. Ilbert and Co.\n\nThe third case is that of Messrs. Brunner, Mond, and Co. (Limited), forming Inclosure (C) in the letter to Lord Lansdowne.\n\nThese are the only cases that have been brought to my notice since my return to Shanghae in October 1903, and I have not referred them to you, as I hoped, and still hope, to be able to settle them locally.\n\nThe Li-kin case given in Inclosure (F) comes as much under the head of inland navigation as of taxation. The contention raised by the Chinese authorities is that the wharf on the Chinese bund, being outside the foreign Settlement, must be considered as inland, and that, in consequence, Li-kin is leviable on goods before they are shipped. I contend that the wharf is within the Treaty port and that, the goods being foreign goods and having paid duty at the native custom-house in accordance with the Inland Water Regulations, no further Li-kin or duty is leviable until they arrive at Tungehow, their destination. Li-kin has always been paid hitherto on arrival at Tungchow, and the attempt to levy it at this end in addition to duty is certainly illegal. I am discussing the question with the Viceroy at Nanking and hope to be able to settle it satisfactorily. There has been one similar case in which mangrove bark shipped in a launch belonging...",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 21 in No. 1\n### Memorial by the Board of Revenue urging that a Limit be set to the Minting of Copper Coin in the Provinces, and that a Uniform Currency be established.\n\nA sound currency is the foundation of financial administration, and it is essential that coinage should be uniform. This Board has, in obedience to Imperial Edict, established a head mint at Tien-tsin for the express purpose of producing a uniform currency.\n\nThe introduction of copper coins commenced in Kuangtung. Since then this example has been followed by other provinces in order to remedy the scarcity of cash, until now there are not less than twenty mints erected in seventeen provinces. Unless a stop is put to this, further requests will be made to erect similar mints, or to extend the operations of old ones, leading to further waste of money and greater confusion in the currency. In addition, it is feared that not only will great impetus be given to the counterfeiting of spurious coin, but also that the competition between the various mints for the purchase of foreign copper will be so great as to cause an excessive rise in the price of that article, and cause great financial losses.\n\nLast year the Reform Council (`Cheng Wu Chu`) and the Army Council (`Lien Ping Ch'u`), in their joint Memorial on the request of Wei Kuang-tao for permission to extend his minting of copper, declared that in future the minting of silver and copper coins ought to be wholly placed under the control of the Board of Revenue, in order that there should be uniformity in the currency and stability in the finances of the country, and, further, that the promiscuous establishment of mints throughout the province should be stopped.\n\n### Imperial Rescript\nLet it be done as proposed.\n\n## Inclosure 20 in No. 1\n\nAgain, Chou Fu, Acting Viceroy of the Liang Kiang, proposed in a Memorial last year that the mints for copper coin should be amalgamated, pointing out that the establishment of every new mint meant another addition to the expenditure, and that differences in the qualities of the coins produced by these various mints was a serious inconvenience. He therefore counselled greater care in this question.\n\nThe Board agrees that, though the increased minting of copper coins is desirable, yet the issue of them from an unlimited number of mints is inexpedient. After much consultation, the Board has come to the conclusion that the abolition of the already existing mints would be attended with difficulty, but they consider that the high provincial authorities should carefully superintend their operations and should not establish additional branch mints. No new mints for the coinage of copper should be started in places where they do not now exist, and if there is a necessity for the introduction of copper coins in such places, the authorities should be instructed to pay over a sum of money to the mint of a neighbouring province, which would then return the equivalent in copper coin. In important places where the erection of a mint is desirable this Board will inquire into the circumstances, and, when the head mint at Tien-tsin is in operation, will gradually establish branch mints at Shanghae and other ports with a view to furnishing a uniform currency.\n\nOrders were given by the Board, when the erection of mints in the provinces was first permitted, that monthly reports of their operation should be made. Up to the present, though the mints have been in operation for a long time, the officials have shown of what little importance they consider the currency question by altogether neglecting to do so. The Board, therefore, with a view to saving correspondence and exercising thorough supervision, requests that the high provincial authorities may be called on to strictly direct the officials in charge of the mints to furnish collective annual reports, and also to forward without delay copies of the Local Regulations with regard to the minting and issue of coin to the Board for inspection.\n\nThe contributions which it has been admitted the mints should make towards the expenses of the Army Council are matters of great consequence, and further orders should be issued that these should not be allowed to fall into arrears on any pretext, but should be transmitted in full.\n\n### Imperial Rescript\nLet it be done as proposed.\n\n## \n\nIn a recent issue of the \"Peiyang Kuan Pao,\" anterior to the 6th June, it is stated that there are eighteen mints for the production of copper coins. Of these the Kuanghsi, Yunnan, Fengtien, and Tien-tsin (Board of Revenue) Mints are not mentioned in the Chamber of Commerce list.\n\nThe \"Peiyang Kuan Pao\" gives the share of profits each mint is ordered to provide annually towards the expenditure of the `Lien-ping-chu` (Military Commission), amounting to a total of 7,050,000 taels. Doubtless these mints will continue to give a profit, at least until the quantity of coin produced by them reaches the point at which no more can be absorbed by internal commerce. It is not unlikely, however, that the Chinese Government imagine that they have here a perennial source of profit, and to warn them against the danger of depreciation owing to over-issue seems a quite legitimate step for the Representatives of Powers to take who have Treaties containing a clause similar to Article II of the British Commercial Treaty of 1902. Whether the Representatives of Powers which have not concluded such Treaties can nevertheless appeal to the British, American, and Japanese is, of course, a question for them to decide.\n\nThe Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce refers the Diplomatic Body to the statements given on pp. 12 and 13 of the \"Report on the Trade of China, and Abstract of Statistics,\" published this year by the Imperial Maritime Customs. This publication estimates the output for 1904 at 1,745,000,000 copper pieces (variously denoted as \"one-hundredth of a dollar\" and \"ten mills\"), while the Chairman of the Chamber estimates that when the whole of the mints, new and old, are in operation the annual output will be 16,413,000,000 pieces, or nearly ten times as many.\n\nAn explanation of the apparent difference between these two estimates is to be desired. And further, as these new coins are presumably to replace the existing cash, it would be useful if the Chairman of the Chamber could inform us how many of such pieces (including fractional coins such as he speaks of in the last paragraph of his letter) would, in the opinion of his Chamber, be required for a population of 400,000,000 people.\n\nThe Chairman remarks that \"in permitting the provincial authorities to produce these 10 cash pieces in varying intrinsic values she (China) is evading her Treaty obligations.\" Something more explicit than this statement is necessary as a foundation for a remonstrance to the Chinese Government against evasion of her Treaty obligations. It is desirable that precise information, accompanied by expert evidence, should be furnished as to what mints have produced 10-cash pieces of a less intrinsic value than the assumed standard, and to what extent such issues vary from the standard.\n\nJune 24, 1905.\n\n## Inclosure 22 in No. 1\n### Consul Ker to Sir E. Satow\n\nWuhu, December 15, 1904.\n\nI beg to inclose copies of a private correspondence that has passed between Mr. E. S. Little and myself on the subject of mining rights of foreigners in the interior. Mr. Little maintains that the Mackay Treaty \"gives foreigners exactly the same right to buy and hold land as the natives anywhere in the interior.\"\n\nI am unable to accept this view, and as Mr. Little says that he is about to see you on the subject, I think it well that you should know exactly what I wrote to him. If my interpretation of the Treaty is wrong, I should be grateful for instructions.\n\n### Mr. E. S. Little to Consul Ker\n\nShanghae, December 1, 1904.\n\nI am sorry to find on my return your letter cutting short Ede's Concession. I do not yet know what we shall do about it, but it is a pity that the Minister has taken the view he has. One of the oldest and most respected merchants in Shanghae said to me a day or two ago, in connection with another enterprise, \"I would not put a penny into any British affair; the only people who get any support are the Germans.\" It is absolutely...\n\nPage 252\nPage 23\nPage 22\nPage 4",
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        "content_text": "# 267\n\n**C.O.**\n\n## SOUTH-WEST CHINA\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n31967\n\n[August 28.]\n\n**REC**\n\nRect 6 SEP 05 SECTION 1.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n### Consul-General Wilkinson to the Marquess of Lansdowne.—(Received August 28.)\n\n**(No. 17.)**\nMy Lord,\n\nYunnan-fu, July 9, 1905.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose copy of a report which I have addressed to His Majesty's Minister submitting translation of a despatch from Ting, Governor-General of the Yun-Kuei, to the Wai-wu Pu, covering the report of Shih Taotai on the recent joint investigation of the Burmah-Yünnan borderland north of Tengyueh.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed)  \nW. H. WILKINSON.\n\n### (No. 27.)\nSir,\n\n#### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Wilkinson to Sir E. Satow,\n\nYunnan-fu, July 8, 1905.\n\nTWO days ago Ting Chiht'ai courteously sent me, informally, copy of his despatch to the Wai-wu Pu, covering the report of Shih Taotai on the results of the recent joint inquiry into the features and conditions of the borderland between Burmah and Yunnan north of Manung Pum. Of this despatch I have the honour to inclose copy and translation.\n\nThe Governor-General had earlier informed me that he did not propose to comment on the report, but to leave the conclusions to be drawn from it to be discussed between yourself and the Wai-wu Pu. This resolution, as you will see, his Excellency adheres to in his present despatch, and I cannot learn that he has sent any other communication, even privately or confidentially, to the Government at Peking.\n\nMr. Litton has supplied me with the Chinese text, and in some cases with the English version, of his correspondence with Shih Taotai; but as I understand that he has also forwarded copies to the Legation, I do not append these papers. From this correspondence you will have learnt that Shih Taotai claims as Chinese territory the whole country lying between the Nmaikha-Salwen watershed to the east and the Ngaw-chang (Siao-chiang) and Kansheng Rivers to the west, together with a few villages on the headwaters of the Chipway. The only portion of this country directly referred to in Ting Chiht'ai's covering despatch is the central district, which includes the chai (stockades or defensible villages) of Tzu-chu and Hparé. This district his Excellency claims for the two Fu-yi or native Chiefs of Mingkuang, a valley to the east of the watershed. The claim really rests on certain certificates of succession granted to the predecessors of these Chiefs by the Board of War in 1839 and 1841, and it will be noticed that the Governor-General is careful to attach copies of these documents to his despatch. Since in that despatch his Excellency speaks of a time when \"British troops crossed the frontier and created disturbance,\" it is permissible to believe that his object in laying stress on this part of the Chinese claim is due to a desire to vindicate his attitude in the matter of the \"Hparé incident,\" and even to reopen that question. He has, however, said nothing to me, so far, on this subject.\n\nYou will notice that Shih Taotai appears to have regarded the late inquiry as limited to the frontier of the Tengyueh Sub-Prefecture (or of the Yungch'ang Prefecture), for he speaks of the Mission as surveying successively northwards till the confines of the jurisdiction of the Li-chiang Prefect were reached, in latitude 26° 30′.\n\nOn the other hand, Mr. Litton regarded his own informal offer of 4,000 rupees for entertainment of Chinese Headmen, as conditional on the recognition of the N'maikha-Salwen divide as the frontier \"up to the confines of Thibet\"—some 2 degrees further north. In this region, however, as Mr. Litton pointed out in his Memorandum of last August, certain Chiu-t'zü Chiefs from the headwaters of the Irrawaddy pay annually at Yedru a tribute that is remitted to Li-chiang. It would seem likely, therefore, that the Chinese would insist on a further mission of inquiry for...",
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        "content_text": "## 268 \n\n2 \n\nthe borderland north of latitude 26° 30' before they would come to terms in the matter of the recognition of the watershed as the Burma-Yunnan frontier-line right up to Thibet.\n\nTing Chiht'ai, in his despatch, does not express himself as averse to a perpetual lease after the precedent of the Naniwan assigned tract (the \"Meng-mao Triangle\"); but neither does he write in favour of this course. What he suggests is that the respective limits of the two countries, Yünnan and Burma, must be defined before negotiations for a lease can be commenced.\n\nAs regards those limits, it would seem that the claim of Tengkeng to the district round about Kangfang and Pienma cannot well be contested. Tengkeng may exercise little or no authority in the district, but he is paid from it a yearly tribute-estimated by Mr. Litton at an average of some 350 rupees. For Tzu-chu and Hparé, again, although the statements in Ting Chiht'ai's despatch-that \"soothing and controlling\" (in other words, effective administration) has been continuously exercised by the Mingkuang Fu-yi-are contradicted by the evidence collected on the spot by Messrs. Litton and Leveson, yet, as I understand, the genuineness of the certificates of succession cannot be impugned. Mr. Litton's argument is, perhaps, the best we can offer: That, in the absence of proof of actual administration of Tzu-chu and Hparé by the present Fu-yi, the certificates relate to mere empty titles such as that of \"King of France\" borne by the successors on the British throne of Henry VI.\n\nWere it not for the Hparé incident we might admit, as a matter of theoretical right, the claims of the Fu-yi and buy them out; we can still do this if it is understood that our action is \"without prejudice,\" and will not justify Chinese reclamations for the collision at Hparé in February 1900.\n\nPerhaps the best solution of the whole problem would be for the Indian Government to agree to pay to the Yünnan Government a lump sum \"in full satisfaction of any and all claims, on the part of the Chinese Government or its subjects, to territorial or other rights on the west side of the N'maikha-Salwen divide, from Manung Pum to the confines of Thibet,\" or \"to latitude 28° 30′ north.\" If this could be arranged there would be no need to make new investigations or excuse to revive old controversies; while Burma could proceed at her leisure to develop and administer the country.\n\nI fear, however, that the Chinese Government would hold out for a perpetual lease, even without a yearly payment; since they would thus seem to avoid the reproach of alienating celestial territory. If they are unwilling even to grant a perpetual lease-but this I do not anticipate, once we formally admit the sovereignty of China-the only alternative to our forcible occupation of territory necessary to Burma, but useless to Yunnan, would seem to be to require the Chinese to at once establish effective control over the country claimed by them, and thereafter to hold them responsible for all raids from those regions into British territory. Ting Chiht'ai's Memorial on the Wa foray of last December-a translation of which I submitted to you in my despatch No. 13 of the 11th April last-shows how distasteful such measures for the coercion of hill savages would be to the present Yunnan Government.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \n**W. H. WILKINSON**\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**Ting, Governor-General of the Yün-kuci, to the Wai-wu Pu, Peking.**\n\n(Translation.)\n\nYünnan-fu, July 1, 1905.\n\nIn October last the Governor-General had the honour to receive a telegram from the Wai-wu Pu (Board of Foreign Affairs), informing him that the British Minister had written officially to say, with reference to the northern section of the Burma-Yunnan frontier, that his Government proposed to send officers who should, in co-operation with officers dispatched by the Chinese Government, proceed through Chinese territory to the watershed, and indicate the actual features of the country. The Chinese Delegates might, it was suggested by the Minister, be appointed by the Taotai at Tengyueh, the official in that quarter.\n\nOn this the Board observed that the boundary in this section had been left confused for years, and the British Minister's assent to the Mission of Delegates to jointly examine its actual features was intended as a basis for future delimitation. The Board hoped that the Governor-General, as the nearest authority, would depute an upright trustworthy official experienced in frontier matters, and would telegraph in reply.\n\nThe Governor-General accordingly deputed Shih Hung-shao, Acting Intendant of the Western Circuit, to proceed to hold the inquiry in conjunction with the British officers, and so informed the Yamên (of Foreign Affairs).\n\nSubsequently, last January, he had the honour to receive a telegram from the Board stating that they were in receipt of a communication from the British Minister saying that, as regards the northern section of the Burma-Yunnan frontier, the officer deputed by his Government would be the present Consul at Tengyueh, Mr. Litton, who would take with him officials from Burma and a guard. Since both Shih Taotai and Consul Litton were now at Tengyueh, the date of their departure on this Mission, and all details of procedure, could be arranged between them. It was hoped that instructions would be given to Shih Taotai accordingly.\n\nA further telegram informed the Governor-General that the British Minister had stated in a note to the Board that Consul Litton reported by telegraph that Shih Taotai had received his instructions, but the Taotai's idea appeared to be that it was a delimitation of the frontier that was proposed. The object, however, of the Mission of Shih Taotai and Consul Litton was, the Minister remarked, merely to report to their respective Governments for consideration, and implied no delimitation there and then. He asked that instructions might be telegraphed in this sense to Shih Taotai. On this the Board observed that the Treaty lays down, as regards the northern section of the Yunnan-Burma frontier, that the settlement and delimitation of this portion shall be reserved until its features and conditions are more accurately known. The present mission of officers by the two countries is by no means a joint delimitation, and the Board trusted that Shih Taotai might accordingly be instructed by telegraph to arrive at a satisfactory understanding with Consul Litton.\n\nShih Taotai reported, in obedience to orders, that the departure for the frontier had been arranged for the 3rd March, and this date was communicated by telegraph to the Board on the 1st March.\n\nThe Taotai, Shih Hung-shao, now reports in detail how he started on the 3rd March with Consul Litton, but was obliged, owing to the snows not having yet disappeared, to alter the date of his first stage to the 5th March. On the 7th March they reached Ku-yung, but as the Deputy Commissioner of Bhamo had not arrived, they agreed to go together to Tan-cha, and stop for a time near the high conical peak. Subsequently they advanced further to Ma-li-pa, in Tien-t'an. On the 24th March they were joined by Mr. Leveson, Deputy Commissioner of Bhamo, with his guard and aides, and proceeded in a body to the frontier. Either party sent its surveyors to make surveys in all directions. The original demarcation of the frontier had stopped short north of the high conical peak, or, as the Kachins call it, Manung Pum. Hence it was now necessary to begin surveying from this peak. Accordingly, taking with him his assistants, and accompanied by his surveyors, in conjunction with the officials from Burma (the Taotai), started from the high conical peak and surveyed successively northwards, crossing the snowy range of the Kao-li-kung till the confines of the jurisdiction of the Li-chiang Prefect were reached, the whole country forming the borderland of Yunnan and Burma. By the beginning of May this section of the frontier had been carefully surveyed, but it included a survey of the domains of the \"Fu-yi\" (chieftains) of Ming-kuang and Ta-tang, involving considerable detour and perambulation. According to the boundary maps submitted by the \"Fu-yi\" of Ming-kuang and Ta-t'ang, their jurisdiction extends to beyond the Sino-chiang (\"Little River of the Ngaw-chang Kha\").\n\n| Location        | Description                                                                 |\n|-----------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Ta-ya-k'ou      | The watershed of the Ngen-mei-k'ai, or Ngen-mai-k'a (N'maikha)               |\n| Siao-chiang     | \"Little River of the Ngaw-chang Kha\"; 160 or 170 li from Ta-ya-k'ou         |\n| Tzu-chu, Hparé  | Stockades between Ta-ya-k'ou and Siao-chiang; old domains of Yang and Tso   |\n\nThe view of the British Delegates was that it is desirable to regard Ta-ya-k'on as the boundary, being the watershed of the Ngen-mei-k'ai, or Ngen-mai-k'a (N'maikha). Now, Ta-ya-k'ou is this side of the Siao-chiang, and distant from it 160 or 170 li. Between them are Tzu-chu, Hparé, and other stockades,* the old domains of the Yang and Tso Chieftains (\"Fu-yi\") of Ming-kuang. Certificates of succession granted by the Board of War in the Taokuang (1821-1851) were still in existence, and, being submitted, were found to be genuine. These \"Fu-yi,\" owing to military disturbances, had removed to territory occupied by Chinese; but the various native stockades were still subject to their control, kept up relations with them, and were granted, uninterruptedly, gifts of oxen and wine. Beyond the Siao-chiang, however, the native stockades were too remote, and the disposition of the natives was perverse and stubborn. Relations were comparatively infrequent.\n\n* \"Chai,\" defensible villages.  \n↑ \"Hanti.\"  \nLit., \"still received from them, soothing and driving.\"",
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        "content_text": "410 \n\n: \n\n12 \n\n## Inclosure 8 in No. 1 \n\n**(F.) \"Li-kin\" Case: A. R. Burkill and Sons**\n\nON the 23rd February, 1905, application was made to export twenty bags of foreign sugar on steam-launch \"Tong Hing\" to Tungehow. \"Tong Hing\" is owned by the Cheang Mow Steam-ship Company (Limited)—agents and managers, A. R. Burkill and Sons, Shanghae. Company registered in Hong Kong under Companies Ordinances.\n\nThe sugar was duly passed by the custom-house, and duty paid; the goods were then on Tung Yue Wharf, on Chinese bund, waiting to be put on the \"Tung Hing,\" and they were then seized by the Li-kin authorities and carried to the li-kin barrier, and one of our Chinese clerks was seized and imprisoned in the Chinese police-station; and the same night the clerk was taken to the city and imprisoned in a latrine, and to secure a decent room for the clerk we had to pay $55 in four days.\n\nThe Commissioner of Customs wrote to us, and we requested him to have the sugar examined, and the examiner reported examining four bags containing native sugar. Being sure of our ground, we asked for re-examination, and it was found that native sugar had been substituted in four bags for our foreign sugar, while the other sixteen bags were not forthcoming. Same, however, were concealed on the premises of the li-kin station, and were examined and found to contain foreign sugar—the four bags, of course, being changed by the Li-kin authorities to help them to win their case. (Examiner's Report appended.)\n\nThe matter is now the subject of much correspondence between His Britannic Majesty's Consul and the Taotai and Viceroy, and up to the present (24th May) we have not received any compensation for our twenty bags of sugar or for expenses. As this is one of the most flagrant cases possible, we hoped for a prompt settlement, and in the interval the business of the Steam-ship Company is hampered, as shippers are afraid of a recurrence of this extortion.\n\n## Inclosure 9 in No. 1 \n\n### Examiner's Report to Commissioner of Customs\n\nON receipt of your instructions I went to the li-kin station to re-examine the sugar. On my arrival there I only saw the same four bags I had previously examined, and on my asking to see the other sixteen bags I was told they had not come, and was requested to wait. Whilst I waited I noticed some bags of sugar in one of the inner rooms; same were covered over with Chinese bed boards and old clothing. I approached and inspected the bags, and found they were the very things I was told by the Li-kin man to wait for. I instantly took some samples from each of the sixteen bags, and carefully examined both the marks and the mode the bags were made up. The result is the sugar is foreign sugar. Some of the bags are marked B, and on some the marks have been washed off. I conclude that the sugar that was shown to me, and which I had previously examined, was native sugar, but probably put into the bags of the lot marked B.\n\n## Inclosure 10 in No. 1 \n\n### Consul-General Sir P. Warren to Sir E. Satow\n\nShanghae, June 16, 1905.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose herewith a letter addressed to you by Mr. E. S. Little, dated the 12th instant and received to-day, forwarding a letter to Lord Lansdowne in amplification of the telegram sent to his Lordship on the 3rd May by certain British merchants at this port.\n\nAs instructed by your telegram No. 33 of the 19th ultimo, I have the honour to make the following observations on the original telegram and its amplification—\n\n1. The original telegram is so worded that it might be supposed that it was sent through me, whereas it was sent direct to Lord Lansdowne by Mr. E. S. Little, acting on behalf of the signatories, a list of whom as handed to me by Mr. Little I inclose herewith.\n\n2. Currency. The remarks made in the letter to Lord Lansdowne on the subject of currency are, as far as my information goes, borne out by facts. I had the honour to forward to you in my despatch No. 40 of the 5th June a copy of a letter addressed by the Shanghae Chamber of Commerce to the doyen of the Diplomatic Body at Peking, which deals with this subject, in reference to the recent coinage of 10-cash pieces. It is a matter of common knowledge that nearly every Viceroyalty has its own mint, and that the coins turned out are not, as a rule, accepted at face value beyond the limits of the Viceroyalty in which they are minted.\n\n3. Mining—Mining Regulations have been drawn up by Mr. Broad, a mining expert in the employ of the Chinese Government, and have been submitted to his Excellency Chang Chih-tung. Mr. Broad has been occupied for over twelve months in drawing up these Regulations, which have been shown to me and are those in force in Mexico, Spain, and South Africa.\n\nThe provincial authorities generally appear inclined to place obstacles in the way of the opening up of mines. In many instances the opposition is from motives of self-interest, and may be overcome by extra expenditure on the part of the Mining Syndicates and individuals interested.\n\n4. Taxation.—There is an apparent tendency on the part of local officials in this district to levy li-kin under other names. The first case of the kind was reported to me by Messrs. George McBain and Co. on the 25th May, 1908. These gentlemen complained that cargo-boats carrying kerosene oil and matches, their property, and covered by transit pass, had been stopped at Tsao O while on their way to Shaohsing, and li-kin had been demanded. On inquiry into the case the plea was raised by the Chinese authorities that the tax sought to be levied was not li-kin, but destination tax. I pointed out that destination tax was not leviable en route, and the attempted levy was illegal. A somewhat lengthy correspondence ensued between the Governor of Chekiang Province and myself, with the result that the officer in fault was superseded and the li-kin station at Tsao O no longer collects destination tax. The Governor has farther promised that the levy en route of destination tax shall not be permitted in future.\n\nThe second case is that of Messrs. Ilbert and Co., given in Inclosure (D) of the letter to Lord Lansdowne. In this instance the tax sought to be levied was called `Fungchuan`, or general tax; but this general tax, besides grower's tax, evidently included some li-kin, and on the 14th January I wrote to the officer administering the Government at Soochow pointing this out, and asking whether I was right in my conclusions as to the nature of `tungchuan`. I inclose copy and translation of my despatch, to which I have not succeeded in obtaining a definite reply.\n\nOn the 7th April I sent Mr. Twyman to Haimen to inquire into the case, and it was fully established that the Li-kin officials were in the wrong, and it is now merely a question of the amount of compensation to be paid to Messrs. Ilbert and Co.\n\nThe third case is that of Messrs. Brunner, Mond, and Co. (Limited), forming Inclosure (C) in the letter to Lord Lansdowne.\n\nThese are the only cases that have been brought to my notice since my return to Shanghae in October 1903, and I have not referred them to you, as I hoped, and still hope, to be able to settle them locally.\n\nThe li-kin case given in Inclosure (F) comes as much under the head of inland navigation as of taxation. The contention raised by the Chinese authorities is that the wharf on the Chinese bund, being outside the foreign Settlement, must be considered as inland, and that, in consequence, li-kin is leviable on goods before they are shipped. I contend that the wharf is within the Treaty port and that, the goods being foreign goods and having paid duty at the native custom-house in accordance with the Inland Water Regulations, no further li-kin or duty is leviable until they arrive at Tungchow, their destination. Li-kin has always been paid hitherto on arrival at Tungchow, and the attempt to levy it at this end in addition to duty is certainly illegal. I am discussing the question with the Viceroy at Nanking and hope to be able to settle it satisfactorily. There has been one similar case in which mangrove bark shipped in a launch belonging...",
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        "content_text": "## 415 \n\n### 22 \n\nIn a recent issue of the \"Peiyang Kuan Pao,\" anterior to the 6th June, it is stated that there are eighteen mints for the production of copper coins. Of these, the Kuanghsi, Yünnan, Fengtien, and Tien-tsin (Board of Revenue) Mints are not mentioned in the Chamber of Commerce list.\n\nThe \"Peiyang Kuan Pao\" gives the share of profits each mint is ordered to provide annually towards the expenditure of the Lien-ping-chu (Military Commission), amounting to a total of 7,050,000 taels. Doubtless these mints will continue to give a profit, at least until the quantity of coin produced by them reaches the point at which no more can be absorbed by internal commerce. It is not unlikely, however, that the Chinese Government imagine that they have here a perennial source of profit, and to warn them against the danger of depreciation owing to over-issue seems a quite legitimate step for the Representatives of Powers to take who have Treaties containing a clause similar to Article II of the British Commercial Treaty of 1902. Whether the Representatives of Powers which have not concluded such Treaties can nevertheless appeal to the British, American, and Japanese is, of course, a question for them to decide.\n\nThe Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce refers the Diplomatic Body to the statements given on pp. 12 and 13 of the \"Report on the Trade of China, and Abstract of Statistics,\" published this year by the Imperial Maritime Customs. This publication estimates the output for 1904 at 1,745,000,000 copper pieces (variously denoted as \"one-hundredth of a dollar\" and \"ten mills\"), while the Chairman of the Chamber estimates that when the whole of the mints, new and old, are in operation, the annual output will be 16,413,000,000 pieces, or nearly ten times as many.\n\nAn explanation of the apparent difference between these two estimates is to be desired. And further, as these new coins are presumably to replace the existing cash, it would be useful if the Chairman of the Chamber could inform us how many of such pieces (including fractional coins such as he speaks of in the last paragraph of his letter) would, in the opinion of his Chamber, be required for a population of 400,000,000 people.\n\nThe Chairman remarks that \"in permitting the provincial authorities to produce these 10 cash pieces in varying intrinsic values, she (China) is evading her Treaty obligations.\" Something more explicit than this statement is necessary as a foundation for a remonstrance to the Chinese Government against evasion of her Treaty obligations. It is desirable that precise information, accompanied by expert evidence, should be furnished as to what mints have produced 10-cash pieces of a less intrinsic value than the assumed standard, and to what extent such issues vary from the standard.\n\nJune 24, 1905.\n\n### 23 \n\nAgain, Chou Fu, Acting Viceroy of the Liang Kiang, proposed in a Memorial last year that the mints for copper coin should be amalgamated, pointing out that the establishment of every new mint meant another addition to the expenditure, and that differences in the qualities of the coins produced by these various mints was a serious inconvenience. He therefore counselled greater care in this question.\n\nThe Board agrees that, though the increased minting of copper coins is desirable, yet the issue of them from an unlimited number of mints is inexpedient. After much consultation, the Board has come to the conclusion that the abolition of the already existing mints would be attended with difficulty, but they consider that the high provincial authorities should carefully superintend their operations and should not establish additional branch mints. No new mints for the coinage of copper should be started in places where they do not now exist, and if there is a necessity for the introduction of copper coins in such places, the authorities should be instructed to pay over a sum of money to the mint of a neighbouring province, which would then return the equivalent in copper coin. In important places where the erection of a mint is desirable, this Board will inquire into the circumstances, and, when the head mint at Tien-tsin is in operation, will gradually establish branch mints at Shanghae and other ports with a view to furnishing a uniform currency.\n\nOrders were given by the Board, when the erection of mints in the provinces was first permitted, that monthly reports of their operation should be made. Up to the present, though the mints have been in operation for a long time, the officials have shown of what little importance they consider the currency question by altogether neglecting to do so. The Board, therefore, with a view to saving correspondence and exercising thorough supervision, requests that the high provincial authorities may be called on to strictly direct the officials in charge of the mints to furnish collective annual reports, and also to forward without delay copies of the Local Regulations with regard to the minting and issue of coin to the Board for inspection.\n\nThe contributions which it has been admitted the mints should make towards the expenses of the Army Council are matters of great consequence, and further orders should be issued that these should not be allowed to fall into arrears on any pretext, but should be transmitted in full.\n\n**Imperial Rescript.--Let it be done as proposed.**\n\n### Inclosure 21 in No. 1.\n\n### Inclosure 20 in No. 1.\n\n**Memorial by the Board of Revenue urging that a Limit be set to the Minting of Copper Coin in the Provinces, and that a Uniform Currency be established.**\n\nA sound currency is the foundation of financial administration, and it is essential that coinage should be uniform. This Board has, in obedience to Imperial Edict, established a head mint at Tien-tsin for the express purpose of producing a uniform currency.\n\nThe introduction of copper coins commenced in Kuangtung. Since then, this example has been followed by other provinces in order to remedy the scarcity of cash, until now there are not less than twenty mints erected in seventeen provinces. Unless a stop is put to this, further requests will be made to erect similar mints, or to extend the operations of old ones, leading to further waste of money and greater confusion in the currency. In addition, it is feared that not only will great impetus be given to the counterfeiting of spurious coin, but also that the competition between the various mints for the purchase of foreign copper will be so great as to cause an excessive rise in the price of that article, and cause great financial losses.\n\nLast year, the Reform Council (`Cheng Wu Chu`) and the Army Council (`Lien Ping Ch'u`), in their joint Memorial on the request of Wei Kuang-tao for permission to extend his minting of copper, declared that in future, the minting of silver and copper coins ought to be wholly placed under the control of the Board of Revenue, in order that there should be uniformity in the currency and stability in the finances of the country, and, further, that the promiscuous establishment of mints throughout the province should be stopped.\n\nDear Sir Ernest,\n\n### Consul Ker to Sir E. Satow.\n\nWuhu, December 15, 1904.\n\nI beg to inclose copies of a private correspondence that has passed between Mr. E. S. Little and myself on the subject of mining rights of foreigners in the interior. Mr. Little maintains that the Mackay Treaty \"gives foreigners exactly the same right to buy and hold land as the natives anywhere in the interior.\"\n\nI am unable to accept this view, and as Mr. Little says that he is about to see you on the subject, I think it well that you should know exactly what I wrote to him. If my interpretation of the Treaty is wrong, I should be grateful for instructions.\n\nDear Mr. Ker,\n\n### Inclosure 22 in No. 1.\n\nI remain, &c.\n(Signed) W. P. KER.\n\n### Mr. E. S. Little to Consul Ker.\n\nShanghue, December 1, 1904.\n\nI am sorry to find on my return your letter cutting short Ede's Concession. I do not yet know what we shall do about it, but it is a pity that the Minister has taken the view he has. One of the oldest and most respected merchants in Shanghae said to me a day or two ago, in connection with another enterprise, \"I would not put a penny into any British affair; the only people who get any support are the Germans.\" It is absolutely... \n\n[2140 ee-1]",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\n**Acting Consul Litton to Government of Burwah.**\n\nTengyueh, May 20, 1905.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward, through Mr. Leveson, copy of my Report on the undelimited northern frontier.\n\nThe original is going to Sir Ernest Satow, while the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Consul-General at Yünnan-fu will shortly receive copies.\n\nA list of inclosures is attached.\n\nI shall again address you when I am able to state exactly what the Taotai proposes to report to his Government.\n\n## Inclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\n**Report on a Joint Survey of the Burmah-Yünnan Boundary, north of latitude 25° 35′ north, by British and Chinese Officials, March to May, 1905.**\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\n### 1. Composition and Duties of the Party.\n\nIN February 1905, I received instructions from the British Minister at Peking to proceed as British Representative on an expedition for the joint examination by British and Chinese officers of the Burmah-Yunnan border, north of latitude 25° 35′ north, the farthest point of previous demarcation. The party, which it was agreed should start from Kuyung, in Chinese territory, 27 miles north of Tengyueh, about the 3rd March, was composed as follows:-\n\n1. Burmah party, in charge of Mr. Leveson, LC.S., Deputy Commissioner of Bhamo, consisting of a survey party of three subordinate surveyors under Munshi Abdul Kahim, who was detailed by the Survey of India for this service; an escort of forty military police, of whom thirty were Gurkhas and the rest Kachin or Lisu sepoys from the Bhamo hills; and of several native followers of Mr. Leveson.\n\nLieutenant Lakin, 92nd Punjabis, who was on leave, accompanied Mr. Leveson, and very kindly placed at my disposal his knowledge of Hindustani and Kachin.\n\n2. The Chinese party, under Shih Hung Chao, Taotai of West Yünnan. This consisted of a personal guard of twelve men and an escort of forty \"braves,\" but half of these gallant fellows ran away from Kuyung when they heard that the Taotai had forbidden looting, and intended to be obeyed, and then there were only twenty; of several deputies, of whom the senior was the expectant District Magistrate, Tai Wei Hsiang; of three \"surveyors\" from Yunnan-fu, so-called on the lucus a non lucendo principle, for, with perhaps one exception, none of them had the least notion of surveying; and an \"interpreter\" so dubbed on the same principle, but he was ejected from the camp at an early stage of the proceedings for attempting to \"squeeze\" villagers.\n\n3. Mr. Litton, Acting Consul at Tengyueh, was on duty as British Representative. The Consulate writer, Han Wei Tsu, accompanied the party.\n\nThe instructions issued to me by Sir Ernest Satow, and to Mr. Leveson by the Government of Burmah, were to the effect that the party was to examine, but not to delimit, the frontier. We were to explain to the Chinese, on the spot, precisely what His Majesty's Government meant by the N'Maikha watershed, to discover if the Chinese had any authority beyond that watershed, and, if not, to impress the fact upon the Taotai. The Government of Burmah's instructions also contemplated arrangements being made for the extinction, by payments on a liberal scale, of any rights to petty dues or otherwise which Chinese Headmen might be found to possess on the west side of the watershed. The instructions plainly stated that the Government of India had no intention of abandoning the position; that the water-divide was the only acceptable division of the spheres of influence of the two Governments.\n\nWe were also to collect as much geographical information as we could about an almost unknown country.\n\nThe instructions which the Taotai received from Yünnan-fu were to the effect that he was to examine the country in co-operation with us, and to report what territories were governed by the various Chinese Headmen. The term used (and this is important) was \"chih-li,\" which, I submit, implies more than vague claims of suzerainty, and signifies rather actual administrative control.\n\nArticle V of the Burmah-China Convention of 1897 contemplates the demarcation of this northern section of the frontier, when both parties had acquired further information. Since the date of the Treaty various inquiries by British officers, notably by Mr. Hertz, C.LE., had greatly added to our knowledge of the country. We made it a chief object of the present expedition so to supplement the information already acquired, especially by mapping, that His Majesty's Government should be in a position to clearly demonstrate to the Chinese the reasonableness of the position which has been taken up as to this section of the frontier, and to refuse to consent to the expense and trouble of further Boundary Commission in respect of it. I hope that this Report, and the map which accompanies it, will enable a Boundary Treaty to be concluded at London or Peking without any further joint inquiries on the spot, which, indeed, we would strongly deprecate.\n\nIt is hardly necessary to add that, until the date of the Taotai's departure for Kuyung, when I explained to him the general geography of the country, the Chinese officials had remained in a state of Cimmerian darkness as to the physical conditions of the country which they claimed. They had not advanced beyond the statements of the Yunnan Government, addressed to His Majesty's Minister through the Peking Foreign Office in 1904, to the effect that-\n\n1. There was no such river as the N'Maikha;\n2. That the divide in the locality in question was at the foot of the mountains (in spite of the suggestive Chinese saying that water does not flow up);\n3. That the small river, i.e., the Ngaw Chang, does not flow into the Lu Chiang or Salween.\n\nAs regards geographical information, I regret that we were not able to do as much as we had hoped. The fact is that the orders were issued much too late in the season. The experience of Captain Pottinger in 1897, of Mr. Hertz in 1900, and of myself in 1904 all go to prove that heavy snow and rain may be expected during the spring in these hills, which seem to be the abode of all the thunder and wild demons in the country. As no supplies are to be got near or beyond the watershed, even a small party such as Mr. Leveson's must have a train of some 150 mules. Towards the end of the open season, and at such short notice, good transport in a condition for hill work is not to be obtained. We began operations with a downpour of snow, hail, rain, and sleet, which continued for thirteen days and practically closed all passes over 9,800 feet for mule traffic, while tracks which were practicable were none the less turned into quagmires. Mr. Leveson lost thirty mules dead crossing the first pass on the frontier, and all of us, including the Taotai, incurred heavy extra expense for the hire of porters to enable us to get along. I calculate that we were delayed quite three weeks by weather alone.\n\nAfter inquiries at Kuyung, we proceeded north one day's march, 13 miles, and entered the Tan Tsa Valley, the heart of which is a paddy plain, about 2 miles by 1 mile, at an elevation of 6,500 feet. It contains six villages with some 200 families in all, half of which are Lisu (in Burmese Yaw Yin) and half Chinese, the whole subject to a petty Headman of Lisu extraction, who is under the jurisdiction of Tengyueh. To the north of the main valley of Tan Tsa a number of spurs run up northwards towards the watershed range which stretches round Tan Tsa in the shape of a huge bow, drawn towards the north; from this range spring the numerous sources of the Ta-ping River, of which the three most important are the Ta Cha, the Tan Tsa, and the Lun Ma Streams, which join at San Chao Ho (Tripod River), 4 miles west of Tan Tsu, to form the Upper Taping, which finally joins the Irrawaddy near Bhamo.\n\nThe whole of the hilly country north of the Tan Tsa Valley up to the bow of mountains which forms the watershed is entirely uninhabited, while there is also a wide uninhabited strip beyond the watershed on the N'Maikha side. The west end of the bow is Manung Pum, 10,000 feet, the \"high conical peak\" of the Convention, and the most northerly point of the demarcated frontier. Under this peak there is a track, impassable for mules, leading from Jan Tsa to Maiku, a Kachin village on the Upper Shi-Ngaw River in British territory, in two days some 20 miles. The east end of the bow, bearing north-east from Tan Tsa, is a conspicuous jagged peak (12,000 feet) known as Laug Ya, or Wolf's Tooth Mountain. The Lang Ya peak is astride of the...",
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        "content_text": "# \n\n6 \n\nThe water-divide between the Ta-ping and the Shweli Rivers is located close to the point where this minor divide joins the main N'Maikha watershed. Under the Lang Ya peak, there is a track leading from Tan Tsa to Ma Li Pa at the head of the Tien Tan Valley (see below) by a pass often closed by snow (10,800 feet) and so over to the headwaters of the Chi Pwi River. \n\nBetween the Manung Pum and the Lang Ya tracks, there is no recognized path over the hills. \n\nNo claims were seriously put forward to any territorial or other rights beyond the watershed on behalf of the Tien Tan Headman. \n\n## II. Tien Tun and the Chi Pwi River. \n\nA surveyor having been detailed to map in the Tan Tsa Valley, our party proceeded in sections, and by various routes, eastwards to the Tien Tan Valley, which is watered by the most westerly of the three main sources of the Shweli or Lung Chiang, the other two being the Ming Kwang (the middle or main source) and the Ta Tang or eastern source. The Ming Kwang and the Tien Tan join near Ku Tung bazaar, 22 miles north of Tengyueh, and the river so formed joins the Ta Tang Stream near Chuchih bazaar, 16 miles east of Tengyueh, from which point the joint river is known as the Lung Chiang to the Chinese. \n\nThe Upper Tien Tan, the Ming Kwang, and the Ta Tang are little more than mountain streams; except after heavy rain, they are everywhere fordable, and nowhere more than 50 yards broad. \n\nThe Tien Tan Valley is under Headman Tsai, who represents the eighth generation of his dynasty. He has no sort of administrative force or machinery except that he has a few village Headmen under him; his feebleness and incompetence even in such matters as levying his subjects to repair the roads excited the Taotai's bile, and Tsai came to me, as an old friend, to ask how he had best deprecate the great man's wrath. \n\nOur camp was formed at Ma Li Pa (6,500 feet), the last village on the track to the Chi Pwi, situated in a very beautiful valley surrounded by hills and under the east flank of the Lang Ya Mountain. Just below Ma Li Pa, the three brooks which form the Tien Tan Stream join: \n\n1. To the west, issuing from the east of the Lang Ya Mountain, is the Mo Shih (\"Stone-grinding\") Brook. I ascended this through dense jungle to the crest of the N'Maikha watershed, 7 miles from Ma Li Pa. On the pass, I met three Lisu, who said that proceeding by this track to the N'Maikha, theirs would be the first village reached, and it was three days' march for a laden coolie. \n\n2. To the east, the Main or Hei Tao Yuan source of the Tien Tan, which springs from a hill on the watershed known as the Sisters Hill, and flows through a romantic gorge past several small villages subject to Tien Tan to Ma Li Pa. \n\n3. Between these two, the Pau Wa Brook, which flows from the pass leading from the Tien to the Chi Pwi Valley in the N'Maikha basin. \n\nThe Headman Tsai made the same statement to me as he had made the year before, namely, that he claimed a kind of overlordship over a few villages of Lisu along the headwaters of the Chi Pwi, based apparently on the occasional exchange of presents and on the fact that Chinese incursions over the watershed had occasionally taken place. He admitted, however, that since the disturbances caused by the Panthay rebellion fifty years ago, no such exchange of presents had taken place, and that most of the Lisu on the Upper Chi Pwi had dispersed. The number of 100 Lisu families subject to him, which he had given me last year, included all those who had moved over from the Chi Pwi to the Tien Tan side. \n\nThe following day, however, the Taotai gave me a \"map\" of Tien Tan, which professed to have been drawn up by Tsai. It was a work which possessed the merit, if not of accuracy, at least of imagination, and went to prove that the Taotai's geography, like Dogberry's reading and writing, comes by nature. With the exception of a part which had been \"cribbed\" from me, the map was totally inaccurate, but it showed the whole of the valleys of the Shi-Ngaw, Tumi-maw, and Chi Pwi Rivers as subject to Tien Tan. This includes part of the ordinary jurisdiction of the Myitkyina district. The Taotai further informed me that the Mali-kha was the true Irrawaddy and the proper frontier. This was so contrary to Tsai's statement to me the day before that I inquired what had happened, when it appeared that the map and the claim was the work \n\n7 \n\nof Mr. Chu, the Taotai's interpreter, who had been on the Southern Boundary Commission with General Liu and had given much trouble by his obstructiveness and impertinence. Shortly after, however, this young gentleman was discovered by the Taotai to be levying a private contribution in the neighbouring bazaar, as was the custom in the good old days of General Liu. The Taotai ordered him out of the camp in disgrace, and we heard no more of him. \n\nI told the Taotai that these so-called claims of Tien Tan were entirely beyond discussion, and that I must refuse to talk about them. The Taotai acknowledged that Tsai had no sort of control over the country in question and no documentary evidence to support his map, that Tsai was hopelessly incompetent, and that the claims might be considered as withdrawn. I therefore hope that no more will be heard of them or of the Mali-kha frontier. \n\nThe claims of Tien Tan to the headwaters of the Chi Pwi seemed to call for examination on the spot. So, accompanied by Mr. Lakin, one of the surveyors, and a Chinese deputy, I went over the Pau Wa Pass towards the N'Maikha. This pass is the easiest of all those which cross the divide, being only 7,800 feet and approached by a broad track ascending across downs. The crest is only 7 miles from Ma Li Pa, and after a short descent on the other side, we struck one of the headwaters of the Chi Pwi. The country is very wild and grand; precipitous mountains covered with patches of dense forest and bamboo brake descended to the narrow broken valley of the river. A lofty snow-capped ridge which forms the divide on the right bank of the Chi Pwi was a conspicuous object. It is known locally as the Kao Liang Kung, a common name for a high peak in this country. The first village passed on the N'Maikha side was Chang Yin Kon, 6 miles from the Pau Wa Pass. It consisted of three small wretched huts, inhabited by Lisu. Five miles further on, we passed Chung Shan, which used to give its name to the whole district, but now consists of only four huts and some deserted gardens. Descending along the Chi Pwi for 4 miles further, we passed Lu Pi, where we found extensive remains of orchards and paddy-fields, a fact which seems to support the statement that formerly the valley was cultivated by a considerable population of Lisu. \n\nThree miles beyond Lu Pi is, or rather was, Shi Pao; this was the last Lisu settlement down the Chi Pwi. We found that the only inhabitants were a cock pheasant and a covey of partridges, the villagers having all dispersed. Doubtless much of this desolation was the work of the Chinese, who came over and ravaged this country in 1902. \n\nFrom Shi Pao, the surveyor ascended the Kao Liang ridge to a pass 9,000 feet, whence he was able to connect his work with the first Kachin (Maru) village of Lachang, the position of which had already been fixed by Mr. Hertz's party in 1900. We then returned to Ma Li Pa after a pleasant excursion of five days; on the way, we met a party of Marus from the Lower Chi Pwi, who had been across to the Tien Tan Valley to trade. \n\nNone of these Lisu hamlets on the Chi Pwi now give anything to Tien Tan, for various reasons, of which the principal is that they have nothing to give. There are no permanent Chinese residents in the Chi Pwi Valley, but in the open season, some wood-cutters go over from Tien Tan. \n\n## III. Ming Kwang Valley, Hparè, and Teu Chu. \n\nFrom Ma Li Pa, the main camp was then moved east across the hills into the Ming Kwang Valley, where the Taotai took up his abode at the official residence of Tso, the Fu Yi or Chief of Upper Ming Kwang, while Mr. Leveson and I formed camp about 14 miles higher up in the Valley of Cha Shan Ho, a brook which runs down from the pass leading from Ming Kwang over the watershed to Hparè. \n\n| Event | Location | Description |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Taotai's abode | Official residence of Tso, Upper Ming Kwang | Fu Yi or Chief of Upper Ming Kwang |\n| Mr. Leveson and I formed camp | Valley of Cha Shan Ho | 14 miles higher up, brook runs down to Hparè |\n\nThe arrangements which the Regent of Ming Kwang (the Fu Yi being a minor) made for the Taotai were no better than Tsai's in Tien Tan, and the Regent felt a good deal of the rough side of the Taotai's tongue. Neither he nor the young Fu Yi came to see us, though I understand that this omission was by order of the Taotai; but several Lashi Kachins from Hparè, who had been to the Ming Kwang bazaar, came into Mr. Leveson's camp, including one of the Headman's sons. They gave valuable information, which persuaded Mr. Leveson that we should meet with a friendly reception at Hparè, if the Chinese could be kept from insulting or molesting the natives. \n\nA survey party having been despatched to map in the watershed along the west of \n\n436 \n\n31",
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        "content_text": "# Upper Ming Kwang Valley\n\nMr. Leveson and myself, accompanied by a surveyor, and encumbered by two Chinese deputies, proceeded to Hparè to fix the spot where the N'Maikha-Shweli divide joins the main Salween-Irrawaddy divide. Marching up the valley of the Chan Shan Brook, we passed the last Lisu hamlet, some 3 miles from camp, and, ascending a double pass through dense forest, camped on the N'Maikha side, 4 miles from the divide, and near the scene of Mr. Hertz's encounter in February 1900 with the army of Ming Kwang. I found the remains of some of the log stockades from which the Chinese had been expelled. Soon after passing this spot, we were met by the Hparè people, who had come to clear the pass for us. At 9 miles from the pass, we reached the main or upper village of Hparè, delightfully situated above the Hparè Stream, and overshadowed behind and in front by lofty mountains. We camped below the upper and above the lower or smaller village, the two comprising some forty families, living in unusually clean and neat houses; to avoid the trouble which might have arisen from the insolence of the Chinese in the village, we persuaded them to camp close to us. The villagers soon crowded round our tents in a perfectly friendly manner, but they left the Chinese severely alone.\n\nIn the afternoon, the two Headmen came to camp to see Mr. Leveson. They were brothers, both very old men, and the elder was blind. As they approached the camp, the Chinese deputy commenced behaving in the usual bullying fashion of Mandarins dealing with what they consider to be inferior races. He bawled at the Headmen, ordering them not to go to our tents and to do this and not to do that in a style which, if we had not been present, would very soon have brought out the Kachins' swords, as the Headmen were attended by their sons and the villagers. Then, no doubt, if the worthy deputy had escaped with a whole skin, he would have run away back to China and reported that the barbarians had made a humble submission, offering tribute.\n\nHaving suppressed the insolence of the deputy, we made him sit down at Mr. Leveson's tent to hear the Hparè Headman's statements; it was to the same effect as that which his people had already made to Mr. Leveson. They denied in toto that they were, or ever had been, in any sense tributary to the Ming Kwang Chiefs, or that any Chinese officials ever exercised any sort of control over them. Their boundary, they stated, was the watershed over which we had come, and beyond that they never went to cultivate; down country, their villages extended along the Kan Sheng River (Kun Ma in Chinese) to its junction with the Ngaw Chang, but not farther. Their people went to Ming Kwang for the five-day bazaar, and Chinese pedlars passed through Hparè. They were as a rule on good terms with the Chinese, except that after Mr. Hertz's affair, some Chinese, whose names they gave, and who are believed to be Headman Tso's people from Ming Kwang, had come in the night and burnt twelve houses in Hparè and carried off thirty head of cattle, of which eight had never been returned. They dwelt on the fact that this case had not been settled, and it appears to constitute what the Kachins call a \"ka,\" or feud, with the Ming Kwang Fu Yi.\n\nThe Hparè Headmen further stated that formerly the Fu Yi of Lower Ming Kwang used to pay them 25 rupees a-year and some gunpowder, in return for which they guaranteed to traders the safety of the road along the Kun Ma River, but that these payments had ceased for the last thirty years. On festive occasions, such as the building of a new house or a marriage, the Hparè people had been wont to make presents to the Lower Ming Kwang Sawbwa, and he had made return presents to Hparè on similar occasions, but no such exchange of gifts had taken place for five years past. The Ming Kwang Fu Yi, some weeks before our arrival, had sent to \"order\" them to come out to meet the Taotai and mend the road; they had refused to leave their village, and as regards the road, had, in fact, told Ming Kwang to mind his own business.\n\nThese statements were confirmed by the bystanders, and made both in the Lashi and Chinese languages. The Chinese deputy refused to cross-examine or even to listen to them, and got up and went away; so much for joint examination. The Headman's son had already suggested to Mr. Leveson that if the Chinese frontier was to be defined, it should not include Hparè. It is perfectly clear that Chinese suzerainty, much more control, over Hparè and Kun Ma Valley is an entire myth. Nor, though I pressed him, could the Taotai induce his two Ming Kwang Headmen to point out any single fact which would go to prove that they were exercising, or ever, in the memory of man, had exercised, any sort of overlordship or control in the Kan Sheng Valley.\n\nSince the incursion of the Chinese who were expelled by Mr. Hertz, no Chinese officials or soldiers appear to have visited Hparè, except on the occasion of the above-mentioned raid.\n\nIf this is their country, why did neither of the Ming Kwang Chiefs come with us personally or send representatives to Hparè? To me, the reason is easy; it was a prudent regard for their own skins and a natural aversion to inconvenient conversations about the twelve houses and eight head of cattle. I believe that any attempt on the part of the Ming Kwang Chiefs to assert their imaginary authority would be forcibly resisted by the Hparè people.\n\n## Journey to Tzu Chu\n\nOn the 7th April, Mr. Leveson and the surveyor left Hparè to proceed to Tzu Chu, a small upland valley to the north-east of Hparè, and divided from it by a steep razor-like spur. The Tzu Chu River is known to the Lashis as the Mang Sheng Kha. It joins the Hparè River a few miles below Lower Hparè, and their junction forms the Kun Ma or Kan Sheng River, which flows straight into the Ngaw Chang, or, in Chinese, Hsiao Chiang (Little River), the junction being 16 miles from Upper Hparè.\n\nThe Ngaw Chang is an important tributary of the N'Maikha, which takes a peculiar semi-circular course through very mountainous country. Rising from the west of the great Salween-Irrawaddy divide in north latitude 26° 18', it flows swiftly over a rocky bed in a southerly direction for about 20 miles; then it turns west and flows at the south foot of a conspicuous range covered with snow in April, for about 20 miles to a point near the junction of the Kan Sheng, where is situated the considerable Lashi village of Taw Gaw (forty houses); then the Ngaw Chang turns north, and, after flowing roughly parallel to the N'Maikha for some distance, finally joins it in north latitude 26° 30′.\n\nMr. Leveson reached the Tzu Chu Valley from Hparè in one day after a stiff climb over a spur. He found only one village, Lagwi, and the remains of the deserted hamlet of Mang Sheng. The Lagwi people were found to be Lashi Kachins related to the Hparè people. Two of the Hparè Headmen's sons accompanied Mr. Leveson to Tzu Chu; thence, one of them returned home, but the other attached himself to Mr. Leveson and remained, making himself generally useful for all the rest of the time during which we were exploring the valley of the Ngaw Chang. Both these youths seemed to be peaceable, decent fellows enough, though they apparently fail to appreciate the benefits of Celestial government. I feel sure that neither of them would have any difficulty in answering the question, \"Under which King, Bezonian? Speak or die!\"\n\nMr. Leveson examined the Lagwi villagers. It appears that Tzu Chu is only the Chinese name of the place, derived, it is said, from the dwarf bamboos with which the sides of the valley are clad. The Tzu Chu people's statement, made in the presence of the Chinese deputy, was the same as that of the Hparè Headman, except that they had no case or feud with Ming Kwang. They are on good terms with the Chinese, and go over the watershed to do their marketing, but there is not, and never has been, in the memory of man, any payment of tribute or taxes to the Chinese, nor has any Chinese official ever visited Tzu Chu or sent orders to the Tzu Chu people, or attempted to exercise any authority or control over them, nor do they consider themselves at all subject to China.\n\nThere is no Chinese resident either in Hparè or Tzu Chu.\n\nWe are of opinion that nothing can be clearer than that there is no Chinese control either in Hparè or Tzu Chu.\n\n## Return to Ming Kwang and Conference with the Taotai\n\nWhile Mr. Leveson was at Tzu Chu, I had returned from Hparè to our former camp near Ming Kwang in order to confer with the Taotai, who had meanwhile delivered to me (1) a map setting forth the claims of Ming Kwang Headmen to various territories beyond the watershed, from which it will be seen that these claims are much as I reported last year; (2) two documents, dated in the 21st year of Tao Kwang (1842), purporting to be certificates issued by the Ping Pu or Board of War in Peking on the application of the Yunnan Government, recognizing the succession of the Chief or Fu Yi Yang of \"Hparè in Ming Kwang,\" and of the Chief or Fu Yi Tso of “Tzu Chu in Ming Kwang,\" though, in point of fact, neither Hparè nor Tzu Chu are situated in Ming Kwang, but are divided from it by a broad uninhabited mountain range. Both these Chiefs are referred to in the certificates as \"hereditary sergeants in the army.\" When I reported last year that the Hparè and Tzu Chu Headmen had hereditary Chinese titles, I was misled. These titles belong not to the real Lashi Headmen of those places, but to the Chinese Chiefs of Ming Kwang in virtue of an imaginary suzerainty...\n\n437\n\nD [2167 x-1]",
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        "content_text": "# \n10 \n\npresents with Hparè and Tzu Chu. This would be quite enough; to the arrogant mind of the official Chinaman it would be \"receiving tribute from the submissive barbarians\" and \"conferring favours\" in return, and so it would be reported to the Yunnan authorities, who would certainly not make the inquiries sufficient to discover the fact that the barbarians were far from being submissive and regarded the matter in quite another light. Thus the Peking Government would issue its certificate to the effect that Hparè belonged to Ming Kwang Headmen and so forth. This having been done, from the Mandarins' point of view Hparè henceforth does belong to Ming Kwang, and there is no more to be said about it; if the Board of War issued a rescript to the effect that the ocean sea was made of treacle, it would be quite contrary to etiquette, and even dangerous, for the Taotai to officially assert that it consisted of salt water.\n\nAs regards geography, the Ming Kwang map is an advance on the Chinese production at Tien Tan, which may be due to the circumstances that in the interval the Taotai, who is an intelligent man, had been enlightened by us as to the geography of the country.\n\nThe Chinese claims to Hparè and Tzu Chu being of such a flimsy character, it is obvious that the claims to villages lower down the country, i.e., nearer to the N'Maikha, are even more unsubstantiated.\n\nI may here add that later on, when we reached Pien Ma, the Taotai withdrew the claims, which he had put forward on behalf of the Tso family in his map of Ming Kwang, to various Lashi villages along the further or right bank of the Ngaw Chang or Hsiao Chiang. The most important of these villages is Lung Pang, and I propose in this Report to refer to them as the Lung Pang group. They number some six villages with 120 families of Lashi Kachins.\n\nThe Taotai verbally informed me that these villages were wholly beyond control and that for many years there had been no control and no intercourse between them and the Chinese, and that therefore he considered them as \"hua wai\" or beyond the pale of civilization, and that no objections would be raised by him to Burmah taking them. Meanwhile, any of our party who went across the Ngaw Chang would go at their own risk so far as he, Taotai, was concerned.\n\nI asked him, in writing, to put this in writing, and he replied in a note which, though not quite satisfactory, amounts, I think, to a formal withdrawal of claims, which in any case were quite untenable, to the Lung Pang group. The Taotai explained to me that formerly, in Chia Ching's reign (early nineteenth century), all the Chinese Fu Yi had combined in a joint expedition against the Lashi or Châ Shan (\"Tea-hill\") Kachins, as they are known to the Chinese. They had crossed the Ngaw Chang and, with the help of a Chinese General, had established a camp beyond that river, and had subdued the whole country, which had then been divided up among the various Sawbwas or Fa Yi with the consent of the Yunnan Government.\n\nThe Lung Pang group, together with Taw Gaw and other villages on the left bank of the Ngaw Chang, had been assigned to the Ming Kwang Fu Yi, who had already, according to the Taotai, owned Hparè and Tzu Chu, which were not concerned in the campaign, since the Ming Kwang dynasty.\n\nUnder the above arrangement, Chi Kaw and Shang Lou, on the Ngaw Chang near Lung Pang, had been assigned to the Chinese Fu Yi or leadman of Ta Tang, while Pien Ma and some villages near the left bank of the headwaters of the Ngaw Chang had been given to the Teng Keng Headman on the Salween. This was the history of the Ming Kwang claims.\n\nThe story told by the Kachins themselves is somewhat different. They state that several generations ago (their ideas of time are vague) the Chinese came and raided the Ngaw Chang country, burning many villages and killing many persons. They then retired back to China, and the Lung Pang Dawa, who was considered to be the Chief of all the Lashi, gathered his forces and made a counter-raid, in the course of which he ravaged the Ming Kwang Valley down to Ku Tung Bazaar, burned the village of Teng Keng, and killed two members of the family of the Chinese Fu Yi (surname Tuan).\n\nAfter this, there were negotiations and peace was concluded, the various Kachin villages agreeing to exchange presents with the various Chinese Fu Yi, Hparê, Tzu Chu, Taw Gaw, the Kan Sheng Valley villages, and Hsieh Chiang, with Ming Kwang; Shang Lou with Ta Tang; Pien Ma with Teng Keng; and so forth. But neither the Lung Pang group nor any other of these villages were ever in any sense politically subject to China or took any cognizance of the action of the Chinese Government in assigning these districts to the various Chinese Fu Yi, and these villages have never been, and are not now, subject to any administrative control from the Chinese side.\n\nOf these two stories, which clearly refer to the same events, the Kachin version \n## 11 \nis probably nearer to the truth. The case for Chinese control in the N'Maikha basin rests mainly on mythical campaigns and imaginary victories. The doughty deeds which the Taotai related to me concerning the former Ming Kwang and other Chinese Headmen would do credit to Amadis de Gaul and the other famous knights, the recital of whose res geste put Don Quixote out of his wits; and the stories of the Chinese heroes are probably just about as true as those of the Castilian. At any rate, the slipshod, incompetent, opium-smoking Chinamen who now represent these families have lamentably degenerated from the glory of their ancestors.\n\nMr. Leveson returned from Tzu Chu into the Ming Kwang Valley on the 10th April by a pass 9,000 feet high, some 6 miles above our former camp at Cha Shan Ho. The surveyors having completed their work of mapping the watershed up to its junction with the Salween divide, we then moved up to the head of the wild and beautiful Ming Kwang Valley, where the whole party, including the Taotai, was reunited on the 12th April, near the hamlet of Ta Chu Pa, some 12 miles from Ming Kwang Fu Yi's residence.\n\nI had visited this place last year, and we found no difficulty in engaging Lisu coolies to help us over the pass to Pien Ma. The representative of a Tengyuch firm, which is engaged in the carriage of coffin wood from the Ngaw Chang, also found us some twenty porters who had been bringing out wood.\n\n## V. Pien Ma and the Upper Ngaw Chang.\n\nFrom Ta Chu Pa over into the N'Maikha basin and so to Pien Ma is only 28 miles, and the pass is only 9,000 feet; but owing to the weather and the state of roads, or rather tracks, we divided into three parties. The Taotai went first and was caught, in the dense sunless forest which covers the N'Maikha side of the pass, by a downpour of rain which continued twelve hours. All the streams, and there were some two dozen of them to cross, were so flooded that it was impossible to get forward, and the Taotai had to spend the night crouched under a fallen tree without his rice or his opium.\n\nThanks to my friends the Ta Chu Pa Lisu, I was more fortunate and succeeded in getting out of the forest to the first village and a fair camp on the N'Maikha side (Tsui Ho, ten Lisu huts) just before dark, after a tramp of 9 miles literally through a continuous quagmire varied in places by watercourses. The surveyors spent a damp night in the forest under canvas, but minus their beddings. Mr. Leveson came through the next day, but much of the transport was bogged, and several mules half-killed in the mud. We were not all reassembled at the village of Pien Ma, 9 miles north of Tsui Ho, till the 17th April.\n\nThe Taotai took up his quarters at the Headman's house, while we camped outside the village.\n\nPien Ma (in Lashi \"Hpi Maw\") consists of forty houses of Lashi Kachins, picturesquely scattered about along steep hill-sides, above a rushing torrent, and entirely surrounded by lofty mountains. The elevation is 6,500 feet. There is a strip of wet cultivation along the brook, which leads by a defile beyond the village straight down to the Ngaw Chang, which it joins 6 miles from Pien Ma.\n\nI may here notice the marked difference between the country on the Chinese and on the N'Maikha side of the watershed. In China, the broad upland plains of Tien Tan, Ming Kwang, Ta Tang, divided from each other by regular ranges, ascend gradually to the divide; but on the N'Maikha side, the country rapidly falls down from the divide (average elevation 10,000 feet) to the Ngaw Chang (average elevation 3,000 feet). This space is intersected in every direction by elaborate and steep ridges and spurs, with a complication of lateral valleys and innumerable mountain torrents. It is very difficult to find a piece of level ground anywhere in this country; the villages are all narrow, broken, and enclosed by towering cliffs. By far the largest area is occupied by dense forest or steep rocky hill-sides, where habitations, or even the possibility of habitations, are very limited and far between. I dwell on this in order to demonstrate how difficult it would be to make a frontier criss-cross through such a country.\n\nLast year I expressed a fear that Chinese cultivators might soon extend over into the N'Maikha side, which would render the settlement of the frontier far more difficult; but after examination on the spot, I am of the opinion that my fears were unfounded. There are now five Chinese near Pien Ma, and they reside there in consequence of trade relations. The upper slopes on the N'Maikha side are not susceptible of cultivation, while the paddy-fields lower down are strongly held by Lashis, who are in sufficient force to resist Chinese intrusion.\n\n## 438",
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        "content_text": "## 12\n\nThe Regent of the petty State of Teng Keng, situated on the right bank of the Salween, latitude 26° north, had come over to Pien Ma to meet the Taotai and come to see me.\n\nThe claims of Teng Keng were investigated.\n\nAt Tsui Ho the Lisu inhabitants told us that they had originally come over from the Salween side of the great Irrawaddy divide, and therefore considered themselves as Teng Keng's men. They paid a small tax in kind, of the value of about 12 annas per house, and if the Teng Keng Chief came to visit them they made a contribution to his travelling expenses. They stated that there were several Lisu hamlets scattered about the hill-sides who were in the same position towards the Teng Keng Chief. These hamlets are hardly to be considered permanent, as after taking a crop or two off the hill-side the Lisu will often remove their bamboo wattle huts to some other fold in the mountains. The Lashi Headman of the Pien Ma, an old man, who began by stating his desire to make submission to the British, the Regent of Teng Keng, and several other natives made statements on the subject of the payment of tribute, which, though they were not in precise agreement with each other, were enough to prove that no one really knows what amount is paid per annum, and also that it differs considerably from year to year. The financial arrangements of Teng Keng are, in short, not such as would meet the approval of the Revenue Secretary to the Government of India. The Regent's statement to me was the vaguest of all, and it is clear that he knows very little of the country which is supposed to belong to him.\n\nIt appears that Pien Ma, U Tung, Kang Fang, Ku Lan, P'a Ti, and some other hamlets, all of which are Lashi or Lisu villages near the headwaters of the Ngaw Chang, and comprise in all a little over 200 families, were supposed to have been assigned by the Chinese Government to Teng Keng after the famous campaign in Chia Ching's reign (see above). These villages had previously been, and continued for some time after to be, subject to Lung Pang, on the right bank, further down the Ngaw Chang; but some years after the Chinese campaign a feud broke out between the Pien Ma group of villages and Chi Kaw, near Lung Pang, on account of a cattle theft. Chi Kaw raided and burnt Pien Ma, and Pien Ma replied by engaging the assistance of the Chinese from Teng Keng. They then burnt and looted Chi Kaw, and in compensation for Teng Keng's help, and in satisfaction for the previous murder of two members of the Teng Keng Headman's family, they agreed to pay him tribute. Present this tribute is paid mostly in kind. The Pien Ma Headman stated that, including scattered households of Lisu immigrants from the Salween, there are now nearly 350 families in this tribute-paying tract, of whom one-half are Lashi and one-half Lisu, but I believe this number to be beyond the mark.\n\nThe forty households of Pien Ma pay to the annual value of about 10 taels. Besides this a toll on coffin wood brought up from the Ngaw Chang by the Chinese firm mentioned above is levied at Kang Fang, near the left bank of the Upper Ngaw Chang, by Teng Keng. The produce of this toll is never more, and often less, than 100 taels a-year. On the whole, I think we may say that the annual sum which Teng Keng derives from the Upper Ngaw Chang is probably 300 rupees a-year at the outside.\n\nIt is to be noted that, apart from the collection of this uncertain sum, there is no regular administration of Pien Ma or the adjacent villages by Teng Keng. He has no power or machinery to undertake anything of the kind. The country is very poor, and much disturbed by feuds, which, I expect, if the truth were known, often prevent Teng Keng from \"touching\" his revenue. The Lung Pang \"Duwa\" has a vendetta with the Chinese, and shortly before our arrival it appears that he distinctly intimated to Teng Keng that neither Teng Keng nor any other Chinese would be allowed to cross the Ngaw Chang, and it was probably this threat which induced the Taotai to withdraw the claims of Ming Kwang to the Lang Pang group.\n\nThen Pien Ma has a vendetta with Shang Lou, a village of fifty families of Lashi, situated to the west of Pien Ma. It is reported that disorders have recently taken place at U Tung, and it is clear that there is practically no such thing as government in the country.\n\nOn the other hand, it must be admitted that Teng Keng has more substantial claims to the consideration of the British Government than Ming Kwang; he has a scintilla juris, and the levy of uncertain sums at irregular intervals is as far as the Chinese have ever gone anywhere in Yunnan towards the administration of frontier tribes.\n\nBefore reaching Pien Ma the Taotai had delivered to me further documentary evidence regarding his claims in the shape of a Memorial to the Throne from the Viceroy of Yünnan in the eighteenth century, together with an Instruction issued by the Tengyueh officials, undated, but probably of the same date as the Memorial.\n\n## 13\n\nPage 439\n\nThese documents profess to assign a number of \"barbarian\" villages, of which the names are given, among the respective jurisdictions of Tengyueh, Pao Shan, Yün Lung, and Li Chiang, all in West Yünnan. Most of these villages are in the Salween Valley, and therefore not now in question; but Pien Ma, U Tung, Tzu Chu, Hparè, &c., are mentioned in the list as being subject to Tengyueh and Pao Shan. As I have already pointed out, there is no evidence that the arrangements set forth in these documents ever represented the real state of affairs. I fail to see that the Government of India is compelled to pay any more attention to these papers than the President of the United States would pay to the Papal Bulls of the sixteenth century, which assigned the whole of the New World to Spain and Portugal. If you accept the premises that the New World belonged to the Pope to assign, the Bulls are excellent titles; so if we follow the Taotai, and accept as true beyond contradiction any statement set down in a document sealed by the Chinese Government, then the Memorial would be a good title to the villages in question. But as in fact the premises are absurd, the conclusion cannot be supported.\n\nOn the 19th April we broke up our camp at Pien Ma, and, in view of the lateness of the season and the continued bad weather, divided our forces; while the Taotai and myself proceeded east to the Salween, Mr. Leveson and Surveyor Natha Singh proceeded down to the Ngaw Chang. A Chinese deputy was detailed to go with them, but he thought that discretion was the better part of valour, and returned to Ming Kwang.\n\nMr. Leveson gives the following particulars, which fully confirm our previous information respecting the condition of the Kachins on the Ngaw Chang, and his visit to them:---\n\n\"I spent three days on the Upper Ngaw Chang, and most of the Headmen came to see me, including Gaw Yawm (in Chinese, Shang Lon), and Shi Jang (in Chinese, Hsieh Chiang), Chi Kaw, and others. They were all friendly and accepted presents. The surveyors fixed all the villages, and went down the other side (right bank) of the Ngaw Chang as far as Pa Le, below Lung Pang. I then returned to Pien Ma.\n\n\"Teng Keng left a nasty reputation behind him at Pien Ma by beating a Lashi Headman for not providing supplies for the Chinese.\n\n\"The statement of the Headman from the Lower Kau Shang is to the same effect as that of Hparè----namely, that they are in no way subordinate to any Chinese, and have never paid tribute.\n\n\"The Shi Jang (Hsieh Chiang) Headman makes the same statement, but adds that he occasionally exchanges presents of 'huang lien' (a medicine) for salt with the Ming Kwang Fu Yi.\n\n\"The trans-Ngaw Chang, or Lung Pang, group of villages comprises some 120 families at Lang Pang, Pa Le, Kan Kawn (Kan K'un), Hpien Law (Kwan Chai), &c. Their Headmen have no dealings whatever with the Chinese Chiefs, and, in fact, threatened this year to do for them if they crossed the Ngaw Chang.\n\n(This is the group of villages to which the Taotai has withdrawn his claims.)\n\n\"The Gaw Yawm (Chinese, Shang Lon) group on the Shang Tawn River, which joins the Ngaw Chang between the Pien Ma and Kan Sheng Rivers, has some forty or fifty households of Lashi.\n\n\"They state that they are in subordinate alliance with Ta Tang; every third year he gives them a buffalo, and they give him 50 viss of 'huang lien' (165 lb.). He exercises no jurisdiction beyond this, but he did actually visit Gaw Yawm while we were at Pien Ma.\n\n\"The Upper Ngaw Chang, or Pien Ma, group includes five villages of over 25 households and some nine hamlets, in all probably 240 households, of which some 180 are Lisu, mostly immigrants from the Salween, and the rest Lashi.\n\n\"The Lashi are supposed to pay about one-tenth of a tael per house per year to Teng Keng. The total tribute thus collected is not over 25 taels a-year, and is paid in kind, usually very miscellaneous kind. These villages describe themselves as in subordinate alliance with Teng Keng.\n\n\"The hamlet of Kang Fang (house of toll) is primarily the head-quarters of the Chinese coffin-wood firm. It used to be further down the Ngaw Chang, near the junction of the Pien Ma affluent. It was moved further up when wood became scarce in that locality. Tang Tung, or U Tung, is the first stage of the wood coolies en route to Ming Kwang; hence the two Chinese houses there.\n\nPage 54\n\nKang Fang is, secondarily, Teng Keng's toll and tribute collecting centre. Lisu, who extract coffin-wood on their own account apart from the Chinese firm, pay one set of boards in twenty-five.\" \n\n`[2167 -1]`",
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        "content_text": "440 \n\n14 \n\n[The Chinese firm pay one in ten—at least, so they told me—but I expect that they and the Lisu often evade payment.—G. L.] \n\n\"Beyond collecting toll and tribute Teng Keng never exercises any authority on the N'Maikha side of the watershed beyond the Salween divide. \n\nThe Upper Ngaw Chang Valley consists of steep grassy slopes, with pines and chestnuts, and very little cultivation. Mules from Ming Kwang are sometimes sent here to graze, and I met a few Szechuanese peddlers with their trade loads. Below Kang Fang there are some narrow strips of paddy-land on both sides of the river.\" \n\n## VI. The Lisu Country on the Upper Salween. \n\nI was accompanied from Pien Ma to the Salween by Surveyor Lachman Jadu; my object was to collect such further information about the main Salween-Irrawaddy divide as would enable His Majesty's Government to press for the definition of the frontier north of the point (about latitude 25° 50′) where this main divide is joined by the minor divide between the Ming Kwang and Ngaw Chang Rivers, or, what is the same, the divide between the Shweli and the N'Maikha. \n\nFrom Pien Ma the track ascended steeply in an easterly direction across open grassy hills. At 8,500 feet a magnificent view was unfolded. East of us the lofty snow-clad range between the Salween and the N'Maikha stretched away towards the north; to the south of us the crest of the divide between the Ngaw Chang and the Ming Kwang Rivers stood clearly out against the sky for many miles. Nothing could have shown more clearly than this view the fitness and convenience of the frontier which we claim. \n\nBelow us lay the scattered village of Pien Ma with its narrow valley of paddy-fields stretching down to the dark gorge in which flows the Ngaw Chang. Beyond, and hanging over the right bank of the Ngaw Chang, was another majestic range of snow-clad peaks forming a barrier between the Lashi (Chinese, Cha Shau) country, which we had been exploring, and Lang-su, as it is known to the Chinese. \n\nLang-su is a general term indicating all the wild Maru country beyond the Ngaw Chang and west of the great Salween divide. It appears to be generally recognized by the Chinese as not being under their control, and no claims were put forward in respect of it. The N'Maikha above the junction of the Ngaw Chang is known to the very few Chinese who have been there as the Laug-su River. \n\nWe crossed into the Salween basin by the Pien Ma Pass at 10,500 feet. This pass is usually practicable for mules, but we found the narrow path along the hill-side leading down from the summit deep in loose wet snow, across which it was impossible for animals to proceed. We were accordingly compelled to send the mules round by the Ma Mien Pass, a détour of twelve days, and do as best we could with coolie porters. The descent on the Salween side was very steep along the gorge of the Ku Tan Stream, which joins the Salween just north of the village of Teng Keng, after a rapid course of 12 miles. After camping in the jungle some 4 miles above the scattered village of Ku T'an, we climbed up a very steep spur on the left of the stream till we reached 6,500 feet, or 3,500 feet above the Salween, whence a long half-day's march of 8 miles northwards along steep bare hill-sides with several steep ascents and descents brought us to the Lisu village of La Chang (thirty houses), situated at 6,000 feet on a wooded terrace high above the Salween. \n\nHere we reached the fatherland of the Lisu tribe, for the Lisu villages scattered about the hills further south are all emigrations from the Upper Salween. Very few of the inhabitants of La Chang can speak more than a few sentences of Chinese. At Mao Chao, the next village to the north, only the attendants of the semi-Chinese Headman can speak the language of Han. Beyond Mao Chao there are no Chinese at all except two families resident at Cheng Ka, by the banks of Salween, latitude 26°, a small village with some paddy-fields, where there is a rope sling-bridge and a ferry-raft for crossing the river in low water. \n\nWe advanced three marches north of Lu Chang, camping at the villages of Mao Chao, Shih Pai Lai Ti, and Pai Pa; fortunately, lucid moments between the perpetual thunderstorms which swept down the valley in quick succession enabled the surveyor, by advancing above and beyond Pai Pa, to map the river and the high snow-clad divide between it and the Irrawaddy as far as latitude 26° 30′. \n\nI may therefore here put together in brief the information which I have collected on this and other journeys concerning the Upper Salween—i.e., above the iron suspension bridge on the main Burmah-Ta Li road. \n\n15 \n\nFrom the bridge northwards as far as Teng Keng, latitude 26°, the river, though its basin is only some 20 miles across, flows through comparatively open country, the great mountains on both sides breaking down to the banks in open rolling downs with ample room for rice cultivation, but, owing to the extreme unhealthiness of the valley, only a small part of it is cultivated by a mixed population of Shans and Chinese. There are, however, numerous Chinese villages along the upper slopes. The principal ferry in this section is at Meng Ku, latitude 25° 36', near the market of Man Yin, on the right or west bank, which is the last bazaar on the Upper Salween, and is situated in a broad paddy-valley at the foot of the Ma Mien Pass over to the valley of Ta Tang (Upper Shweli). \n\nFrom Teng Keng, in latitude 26° northwards, to about 27° 40', the river, which maintains an equal breadth of 100 yards for a great distance, is enclosed in a gorge as precipitous as the cañon of the Mekong. From about latitude 26° the range on the west bank forms the main divide between the Salween and the Irrawaddy, and its array of peaks is covered with snow for at least eight months of the year. This range is also an important ethnographical boundary, forming a barrier between the Maru country along the east of N'Maikha and the Lisu country along the west bank of the Salween. The Salween Lisu seem to regard this range as the frontier, and speak of their own Liso country—i.e., the Salween Valley—in contradistinction to Langsu, the Kachin country on the other side of the range. \n\nThe gorge section of the Salween appears to be entirely inhabited by Lisu, a tribe closely allied to the Lolo, and probably of Thibetan origin. They are well aware of the unhealthiness of the river banks, and nearly all their villages are 3,000 feet above the bottom of the gorge, even though the paddy-fields have to be squeezed into the few gaps in the cliffs by the river banks. \n\nThe characteristic of this gorge of the Salween is the tremendous series of sharp steep spurs which come straight down from the snows to the river in an endless succession of parallels. It must be remembered that while the river itself here flows at 3,000 feet, and the mountains between it and the Irrawaddy basin on the west, or the basin of the Mekong on the east, rise to heights from 10,000 feet to 13,000 feet, the whole width of the valley from crest to crest of the two ranges is only some 18 miles in an air-line; from native information it appears that the spurs which descend to the N'Maikha on the west side of the great divide are quite as numerous and difficult as those which we negotiated on our journey northwards from Lu Chang. \n\nFrom about latitude 27° 40′ northwards to the confines of Thibet the valley of the Salween is again somewhat more open. Wide stretches of country are covered with tall grass, and the bulk of the population in this section consists of Lu Tzu, a tribe in a very backward condition and probably closely allied to the Ching-paw or Kachins. \n\nThe French `Missions Étrangères` have recently sent a priest to work among these people, and he has established himself at Chongra on the left bank at about latitude 28°. He has seen and even ascended the Salween-Irrawaddy divide, which is here the boundary between the Lu and the Chiu tribes, who inhabit the eastern sources of the Irrawaddy. This same divide was crossed by Prince Henri of Orleans at an altitude of 12,800 feet, in latitude approximately 27° 40'. \n\nIt is therefore submitted that it may be regarded as established that a high regular range divides the Salween from the Irrawaddy basin as far as the sources of the latter river, and that north of the point (about latitude 25° 52′) where the Ming Kwang-N'Maikha divide joins it, this main range is not only the most convenient frontier, but also the only frontier which His Majesty's Government can accept, and that the sooner the Government of Peking can be brought to comprehend this the better. \n\nTravelling in the Lisu country is a series of steep climbs up the almost perpendicular sides of spurs, followed by break-neck descents on the other side. The scattered villages of rude log or bamboo huts with grass thatching are generally situated near the ridges of the spurs. The streams between the spurs are violent mountain torrents crossed by rickety plank bridges, and the bottom of each little valley is occupied by a hot and steamy jungle, whence the perspiring traveller climbs painfully up to the breezy ridges. The Taotai with much difficulty got a small mountain chair as far as Mao Chao, but there had to call a halt while I and the surveyor proceeded `pedibus cum jambis`. \n\nCultivation on the steep hill slopes along the river is extensive but precarious, as the fields are liable to be swept bodily away into the Salween; paddy-fields are few, and are...",
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        "content_text": "# \n募 \n\n16 \n\nconfined to the lower slopes. Half-way up the hills where our road lay opium was the most important crop, followed by a summer sowing of maize, but we also saw some patches of wheat and beans.\n\nThe Lisu are stay-at-home people, which is not surprising in view of the difficulty of getting about. Few of them can give any information about country more than three days' march from their own village, and fewer still have ever seen a town of 1,000 inhabitants or a square mile of flat country. These hills are so cut off from all relief by the outer world, and the villagers are so poor, that the problem of how to get enough to eat is the burning question of the day. There are no free-traders here. In none of the villages beyond Lu Chang could we buy a pound of rice or other cereals, though fowls and an occasional goat were forthcoming. Even paterfamilias practises high protection. He tries to get enough grain to feed himself and his family till the next harvest, and will not let a spoonful go out of the house.\n\nThe Chinese lower down the Salween regard all the country above Mao Chao as \"black\" or wild Lisu territory, utterly beyond the pale of civilization. There are no Chinese residents on the Salween north of Cheng Ka. No doubt the Lisu often raid in various directions, hunger being the chief incentive, though sometimes the object is to make slaves, or, in the case of forays towards the north, to cut off the Chinese gold-workers. The slave traffic seems fairly brisk. At Pai Pa the price of a male or female child of 8 to 10 years was about 20 rupees, but some of our porters told us that if we could come on to their village some distance further north we should find a larger selection and at easier rates. The slavery is of the domestic type, but the slave has also to work in the fields.\n\nAt Pai Pa, while I was sitting in my tent, I was surprised by a very dirty old man with remarkably brilliant black eyes, who threw himself down on the ground at the door of my tent and began a chant in a high, loud voice. I thought that he was a beggar, and asked the by-standers what his song was all about. They said in a rather awe-struck manner that they did not understand it. On inquiry I then discovered that I was in the presence of the local soothsayer, or medicine man.\n\nRealizing that he might be a person of some importance, I at once gave him a necklace of red beads and a rupee, whereupon he declared, in language which could be understood of the people, that my goings and comings in the Lisu country would be most prosperous--an announcement which had an impressive effect on the by-standers.\n\nThese \"tien ssu,\" or prophets, as the Chinese call them, are to be found in many Lisu villages. They deal in charms, medicines, funeral rites, omens, incantations, and in the knowledge of all things which, for the ordinary mortal, are hidden in the womb of time. No doubt among the ignorant villagers they have considerable influence, and could, if they wished, raise disturbances. The language of their trade is probably an archaic form of Lisu, and the various chants and invocations which they use have been handed down for generations and from times of old.\n\nI cannot confirm the reports of the savage and barbarous habits of these Lisu. I was entirely in their hands for two weeks, and I found that their good-will was very easy to win.\n\nPorters were always forthcoming so long as there was a ration of rice to give them, and I never had the least trouble. They are a hardy race, and though their manners are rough, they did not appear to be given to quarrelling among themselves like the Kachins, and the European traveller can march with them without feeling that uncontrollable desire to assault them which he nearly always feels in the case of Chinese coolies. Given the absence of Chinese soldiers and officials, and a carefully arranged supply of food, the complete exploration of the Lisu country on the Upper Salween would, for a good walker, be no difficult task, provided that he went in the autumn, when the weather is fine, when there is the minimum of snow on the passes, and local supplies of cereal food for a small party could be purchased.\n\nFrom the village of Pai Pa there is a pass via the village of Chi Me Le westwards over the great Salween divide to Langsu or the Maru country along the N Maikha, while Kang Fang on the Upper Ngaw Chang River can also be reached by this pass in four days from Pai Pa. There is said to be another route over this range some three days north of Pai Pa, but the communication between the Salween and the N'Maikha is difficult and unfrequent, as the Marus and Lisu have very little to do with each other. We had hoped to explore the Chi Me Le Pass, but the deep snows and continuous rain rendered the track quite impassable.\n\n17\n\n## Chinese Expedition to the Maru Country\n\n441\n\nThe Chinese Headman of Ku T'an, a village near Teng Keng, came into camp at Lu Chang and told me all about an attempt which had been made in the 16th year of Kwang Hsü (1890) to establish Chinese influence on the Upper N'Maikha. He had taken charge of the expedition, which consisted of fifty persons, nearly all Chinese. The venture was financed by the Teng Keng, Ta Tang, and Ming Kwang Headmen to the extent of 3,000 taels. It had two objects--firstly, to check the advance of British control from Myitkyina; and, secondly, to work the brine wells on the N'Maikha at about latitude 26° 30′.\n\nThe venture proved a failure owing to the extreme difficulty of the country, the absence of proper arrangements to bring up supplies, and the deadly climate. The Headman told me that he could speak some Maru, and had remained on the Upper N'Maikha for about seven months. The Maru villages he described as being constantly at feud with one another, and endeavouring to enlist his assistance in their quarrels.\n\nThe brine wells proved to be rich, but the expense and difficulty of transport to China rendered it impossible to make any profit, and the attempt to establish a Chinese colony had to be abandoned. This Ku Tan Headman was a particularly intelligent man, and told me that the Chinese, with their methods, would never be able to open up the country, and that they have no funds to make what was absolutely essential, namely, a passable track. He asked me to mention that he would like to serve under any British officer who might be conducting an expedition into the Maru country. His route had been via Kang Fang, then across the Ngaw Chang, and up into the mountains beyond.\n\nTo describe the government of the Lisu on the Upper Salween would be like describing the snakes of Iceland. North of latitude 26° there is practically none, except in so far as the \"prophets\" and old men of each village look after the affairs of that village. The jurisdiction of the Teng Keng Fu Yi (residing on the right bank of the Salween, latitude 26°), extends along the right bank only as far as the Ku Tan. Many of Teng Keng's villages are Chinese, or half-caste Lisu. The Teng Keng Fu Yi is a boy of about 16. Proceeding north, the next Fu Yi is at Lu Chang, to the north of the Ku Tan Stream, and situated at 6,000 feet high above the right bank of the Salween. This Fu Yi is an intelligent child of 9; he is of Lisu extraction, and the clan name is Cha. His affairs are managed by his mother and their villagers. Practically all Lisu seem to be in a prosperous and happy condition. The Lu Chang territory is about 10 miles from south to north. Next comes the Mao Chao Fu Yi. His village, like Lu Chang, is perched on a terrace 3,000 feet above the right bank of the river, and backed by the snowy Irrawaddy divide. This Fu Yi is about 35 years of age; his territory is some 14 miles from north to south, and entirely inhabited by Lisu. His rule is wholly confined to attempts, sometimes successful, sometimes otherwise, to levy money or goods from his villages. Pai Pa is the last Mao Chao village proceeding north.\n\nBeyond Pai Pa for three days the country nominally belongs to the Lao Wo Fu Yi, who resides in the hills between the Salween and the Mekong at about latitude 26°. The village of Cheng-ka, on the right bank of the Salween, below Pai Pa, and its ferry belongs to him, and his agent resides at Cheng-ka. Lao Wo's efforts at government appear to be less successful than those of Mao Chao, but they go further, for he does not confine himself to trying to levy money; he also endeavours from time to time to raid his subjects and carry off the fairest of their damsels.\n\nAgain, north of the territory claimed by Lao Wo, the Fu Yi of Chou, known as \"Lo Tu Kuan,\" i.e., the native official Lo, who has his residence on the Mekong, is supposed to be the overlord of the Lisu on both banks of the Salween; but his control, even on the left bank, and in the hills between the Salween and the Mekong, is of so shadowy a description that it may be said not to exist at all.\n\nNone of these Fu Yi appear to claim, and most certainly none of them control, any territory to the west of the great divide in the Irrawaddy basin.\n\nNorth of about latitude 27° 40′ the La Tzu tribe along the banks of the Salween are supposed to be tributary to the Moso, Thibetan Chief of Yetche, on the left bank of the Mekong. North, again, of the Lu Tzu country, i.e., from about latitude 28° 20′, the Salween Valley is, it is believed, wholly inhabited by Thibetans of the Tsarong Province.\n\n[2167 x-1]",
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        "content_text": "## VII. Nature of the Claims of the Chinese\n\nIt will be seen that the Chinese claims to country west of the watershed, which His Majesty's Government maintains to be the frontier, have narrowed down to small proportions, for the claims of the Tien Tan Headman to the line of the Shi Ngaw--N'Maikha are altogether absurd and beyond discussion, and I do not think anything more will be heard of them. The claims to all villages beyond, ..., on the right bank of the Ngaw Chang, or Little River, would appear to have been withdrawn; we have now, therefore, the following:-\n\n1. On behalf of the Tien Tan Fu Yi, claims to three villages on the upper waters of the Chi Pwi, consisting, in all, of ten Lisa huts. There has been no payment of tribute to, or any act of control by, the Chinese for thirty-five years at least.\n\n2. On behalf of Ming Kwang Headman or Fu Yi, named Tso and Yang, claims to Hparé Tzu Chu and certain villages along the Kan Sheng (Kun Ma or \"Rolling Horse\") River, a tributary of the Ngaw Chang, of which Taw Gaw, La Chang, La Mok, Pa Mia, with the addition of Hsich Chiang (Shi Jang) and Tsaw Lang, situated on the banks of a small stream flowing into the Ngaw Chang, between Pien Ma (Hpi Maw) and Kansheng Rivers, would seem to complete the list--in all, some twelve villages and hamlets, containing 200 families, at the most, of Lashi.\n\nAll these entirely deny that they are in any sense subject to Chinese control, and we find that in fact they are quite independent. No tribute is paid or has been paid in the memory of man, and the Chinese Fu Yi are not only obviously unable to enforce their claims, but are afraid to go into the country at all. Their pretensions are based on ancient official documents, which, in their turn, are probably based on mendacious statements by the ancestors of the present Fu Yi, and supported by occasional exchanges of trifling presents in virtue of the Treaty referred to above.\n\n3. On behalf of the Ta Tang Fu Yi to one village on the Ngaw Chang, near the junction of the Shang Tawn River, between Hsich Chiang and Pien Ma, namely, Shang Lou (in Lashi Gaw Yawm); this contains some forty households, who, it appears, exchange presents once in three years with Ta Tang, \"huang lien\" being given in exchange for a buffalo, in virtue of some Treaty; but Shang Lou is in no sense under regular control by Ta Tang, though while we were at Pien Ma the Ta Tang Headman went to Shang Lou, and the people supplied him with transport.\n\n4. On behalf of the Teng Keng Fu Yi, resident on the Salween, claims to Pien Ma, U Tung, Kang Fang, and a small tract of mountainous country near the left bank of the Upper Ngaw Chang, including some five villages, nine hamlets, and some 250 households of Lisu or Lashi. Here an irregular house tax is levied, mostly in kind, and a toll on timber is taken at Kang Fang. The total amount of the revenue is uncertain, but it is not over 300 rupees a-year, and owing to the disturbed condition of the country is often less. There is nothing of the nature of regular administration or control by the Teng Keng Fu Yi.\n\nThese claims--all of which represent rather family affairs of the Chinese Headmen than the political rights of the Yunnan Government--are so trifling that, in view of the obvious advantages of the watershed frontier to both parties, the matter would be settled in ten minutes if we had a civilized Government to deal with; but the point of view from which Chinese officials look at a question such as this is altogether different from ours. Facilities for good and easy administration of frontier tribes, convenient ethnographical or geographical divisions, are matters about which none of them know or care anything. It is therefore a mistake to take them too seriously. To the Mandarins the matter is a purely personal one. Each of them who has to deal with the affair of the frontier asks himself: \"How can I get out of this without letting myself in for impeachments and accusations of giving away Celestial land and truckling to the foreigner?\" Every Boundary Commission has been followed by its crop of impeachments of this kind, and though the officials accused may manage to escape without loss of their buttons, feathers, or official position, they have had to give heavy bribes to right themselves. The result is that none of them will take any responsibility. However unreasonable and unsubstantiated claims may be, the local official will never venture to say a word which might be held to cast any doubts on their validity, or to suggest the advisability of abandoning them. So long as he sits perfectly still and does nothing, he is in a position of safety, but directly he makes a move towards definite action for settling the frontier, he finds himself in a land of pitfalls and quagmires. The Taotai\n\n## Page 19\n\nnow clearly understands what we mean by the watershed frontier. Though he seems to recognize that it is the natural frontier, that the adoption of any other line would involve his Government in the future in constant and expensive boundary disputes, that his Fu Yi have no control whatever over on the N'Maikha side, and that the Yunnan Government would never go to the expense necessary to obtain such control, it would none the less be as much as his place is worth to recommend anything inconsistent with \"They would be the wording of the musty documents which have been put forward. down on me,\" he says. The Fu Yi and my own clerks would be writing behind my back to Yunnan-fu all sorts of secret accusations. I cannot take the responsibility of doing anything of the kind,\"\n\nI wish to dwell strongly on this point, for it is the chief, if not the only, obstacle to a speedy settlement. I have pressed upon the Taotai the view that he may, without committing himself to any definite recommendations, state the facts of the case as he himself admits them to be, and also mention that I have, on behalf of the Government of Burmah, offered compensation on a liberal scale for the personal rights of the Teng Keng Fu Yi, and that there is a precedent for such a settlement in the case of the Meng Mao Triangle (Möng Wan assigned tract). I am continuing to urge this view upon him, and am not without hope that he may be induced to take action somewhat on these lines, but I hardly expect to obtain a definite statement from him before the end of this month (May); when I do, I will inform the British Legation by telegraph. If the Taotai agrees to report to the Yunnan Government in the above sense, and if the Chinese Government is pressed strongly and simultaneously by His Majesty's Minister and the Consul-General, I am of opinion that an immediate settlement may be reached, especially if the Chinese Government can be made to understand that no other frontier will ever be accepted by Burmah,\n\nEven this, however, is doubtful; as the Taotai is afraid of his colleagues at Yunnan-fu, so the provincial officials at Yunnan-fu are afraid of the censors. It is unfortunate also that Chen, the former Boundary Commissioner, is now in a position of influence at the capital as Judicial Commissioner, for he is a notorious obstructive. I rather anticipate that we shall be met by the proposal that as the N'Maikha basin belongs to nobody at present, \"face\" requires that it shall be equally divided between the two Governments. In my despatch to the Taotai, therefore, of which copy is attached, I have dwelt on the fact that the frontier proposed by us will in fact be a division of the wild tribes, all the Kachins falling to Burmah, and all the Lisu and Lu Tzu of the Salween falling to China.\n\nI may remark that the local gazetteers know nothing of these claims to country beyond the N'Maikha divide. The Chinese map of Yunnan published by the Shan Hou Chi (Board of Reorganization) at the provincial capital shows the frontier to all intents and purposes as we claim it. The Tengyueh gazetteer speaks of the three \"ai,” or narrow passes, by which are indicated the heads of the Tien Tan, Ming Kwang, and Ta Tang Valleys, as the frontier.\n\n## VIII.\n\nThe result of the present expedition has been to confirm in all main points the opinions previously submitted to His Majesty's Government. In details we have to make some corrections; the claims of the Ming Kwang Fu Yi are much more flimsy, and those of the Teng Keng Fu Yi rather more substantial, than I had anticipated, but on the whole we have only to repeat the conclusions and recommendations which have already been considered and approved by His Majesty's Government, the Government of India, and Sir Ernest Satow.\n\n1. We find that, as a matter of fact, there is not now, and is not in the least likely to be in the future, any sort of effective control or administration by the Chinese beyond the watershed. We find more particularly that the claims of the Ming Kwang Fu Yi to Tzu Chu and Hparè, on which the Chinese Government has shown itself recently inclined to dwell, are all nonsense. We therefore recommend, in the first place, that no other line but the watershed should be accepted.\n\n2. We find that, from the geographical and ethnographical point of view, the line proposed by us is not only a convenient, but may be called an ideal, frontier as far north as the confines of Thibet. It is a conspicuous and unmistakable range of mountains only passable at wide intervals, and both sides of the crest of the range are entirely\n\n* Article II, Treaty of 1897.",
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        "content_text": "## 10\n\nNo reference was made by us to that upper eastern branch of the Irrawaddy known to the Chinese as the Chiu River (probably the Aklying of Pottinger), whose basin is inhabited by the little-known tribe of Chiu Tzu. From inquiries made on the Upper Mekong, it seems that the Chiu Tzu are partly tributary to the Chief of Yetche, on the Mekong (left bank), who in his turn is subject to China. The Chinese officials have little or no notion of where the Chiu River is or who the Chiu Tzu are. I therefore thought that it would only confuse matters to raise the question of so distant and difficult a country. It is, I think, out of the question for the Chinese ever to send a military expedition to so remote and inaccessible a locality, except possibly in the wake of the French missionaries, but I hope to gather some more information concerning the Chin next autumn. It is submitted, however, that any claims to the Chiu district could be dealt with in the same way as the Teng Keng claims, and that our present knowledge of the general geography of the country is sufficient to justify His Majesty's Government in pressing for a recognition of the Salween-Irrawaddy divide as the frontier as far at least as latitude 28°. If the Chinese reply by raising the question of Chin, then the present delimitation might be confined to latitude 26° 30′, which is the limit of the Lao Wo Chief on the Salween; or, better still, it might be provided that the divide should be the frontier up to latitude 28°, but that His Majesty's Government would compensate on a liberal scale any Chiefs on the Chinese side who might subsequently be found to have customary rights to dues from tribes in the Irrawaddy basin. The suggestion in paragraph 4 above, that no further joint parties of inquiry should be sent (a demand which the Chinese are very likely to put forward), applies especially to the Chin district, whence the Irrawaddy has its eastern sources. This is probably about the least known and most difficult country in the world. No supplies, even for a small party of, say, twenty-five, would be procured nearer than Atentse or Yetche on the Upper Mekong, both of which are at least fifteen marches from the Chiu district, crossing two great rivers—the Mekong and the Salween—by rope bridges, and two passes of 11,000 to 13,000 feet. Mule transport is out of the question, and a coolie can only carry as much as will feed himself for twenty-four days. Supplies, even from Atentse or Yetche, could be cut off by hostile lamaseries, who are under no sort of control. The Chinese accompanying such an expedition would certainly be insolent and violent to the tribes, and no results could be expected at all commensurate with the expense and danger which such a wild-goose chase would involve. From Barmah or Assam, the Chiu country is equally inaccessible. It is desirable that more exact geographical and general information than is now available should be obtained, but if the Chiu country is ever to be explored, a Chinese official or soldier is the very last person in the world who ought to be allowed to join the party. Indeed, no Mandarin of any position or influence could ever reach the Chiu, because he would have to walk; but if he could walk, he would not be a man of position or influence.\n\n## 11\n\nA translation of the despatch which I have addressed to the Taotai is attached. The map of the country examined, with the names in English and Chinese—the latter having been settled by the Taotai—is submitted.\n\nConsiderable difficulty was experienced in fixing the Chinese names, for the same place is often differently designated by different tribes and again differently by the Chinese; often there is no recognized Chinese character for a place; it is therefore suggested that the characters given with the present map should be finally adopted. Further, different reaches of the same river are differently named by the same tribe. Take, for instance, the N'Maikha. Last year I wrongly reported that this was known to the Chinese as the Maiku River, but I now find that the Maiku River is the Shi Ngaw, tributary of the N'Maika, so called from a Kachin village on its bank. The name N'Maikha is unknown to the Chinese except to one or two officials, who have got it from our maps. N'Maikha is the name given to the river by the Ching Paw Kachins near the confluence, who are known to the Chinese as Pu Man. The Lashis call it La Pie, which simply means \"the river.\" Some of the Chinese regard it as simply part of the Ngaw Chang or Hsiao Chiang (Little River). Others regard it as part of the Irrawaddy, and accordingly call it Chin Sha Chiang, or Golden Sand River. On several occasions I heard it called simply Chiang, or river, which is an adoption of the Lashi word La Pie.\n\nThe Upper N'Maikha above the junction of the Ngaw Chang was referred to by the few Chinese I met who knew of its existence as the Langsu (or Maru) River. After discussion with the Taotai, we have adopted the somewhat barbarous \"Ngen Mai Ka,\" or \"Ngen Mai Kei,\" failing any recognized official version.\n\n## 12\n\nThe following is submitted as a suggestion for a draft of the text of a Convention which could be accepted by the Government of Burmah:\n\n### Draft Convention\n\n**(a.)** From Manung Pum, the high, conical peak in latitude 25° 33′ N., the frontier will follow the crest of the watershed range between the N'Maikha River with its tributaries to the north, and the Ta Ping and Shweli (Lung Chiang) Rivers with their tributaries to the south, until it reaches the watershed between the Salween and the Irrawaddy Rivers.\n\nThe following are the names by which certain points on this crest are known: the Pan Wa Ya Kou Pass, the Tzu Mei (sister) Peak, the Ta Ya Kou Pass, the Tzu Chu Ya Kou Pass, the Fen Shui Ling Pass, the Ta Ho Tou Ridge.\n\n| Localities and Natural Features | Belong to |\n| --- | --- |\n| Valleys (Pa-tzu) of Luu Ma and Tan Tsa, the Lang Ya Shan Peak, the Tien Tan Valley, the Ming Kwang Valley, the Ta Tang Valley | China |\n| Valleys of the Shi Ngaw, Tun Maw, and Chi Pwi Rivers; the Hparè Valley, the Tzu Chu Valley; the Valleys of the Shi Jang and Kan Sheng Streams, the Pien Ma Valley; and the valley of the Ngaw Chang, otherwise known as the Hsiao Chiang Stream | Burmah |\n\nThence the frontier will follow the crest of the lofty and conspicuous range known locally as the Kao Li Kung, which forms the watershed between the Salween and the Irrawaddy as far as latitude (?), passing through the crest of the Pien Ma Ya Kou Pass.\n\nThe whole of the basin of the Salween (Lu Chiang) thus belongs to China, and the whole of the basin of the Irrawaddy River to Burmah.\n\n**(b.)** As the frontier now laid down follows conspicuous ranges of hills and is locally well known, no further demarcation on the spot will be necessary, but it is agreed that officers will be dispatched by both Governments to erect boundary pillars at the principal passes over the ranges which form the frontier. Any difficulty in recognizing the places mentioned will be settled by reference to the map which is attached to the English and Chinese versions of this Convention, and which is hereby recognized by both Governments as authoritative.\n\n**(c.)** It is understood that this Convention does not affect the frontier of the various Thibetan districts, which will be reserved for future discussion.\n\n**(d.)** The Yunnan Government having reported that certain Headmen (`Fu Yi`) on the Chinese side of the frontier claim customary presents or pecuniary dues from villages situated on the Burmah side thereof, the British Government agrees to pay to the Chinese Government an annual sum of ... rupees in full compensation for the extinction of such claims. All jurisdiction and sovereignty over such villages shall henceforth reside in His Britannic Majesty for ever. It is agreed that this sum of rupees shall be paid annually commencing from the ... by His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Tengyueh, through the Taotai of West Yunnan, to be distributed to the said Headmen (`Fu Yi`) in such proportions as the Chinese Government may direct. (And any customary rights to similar presents or dues which the Chinese Headmen in the Salween or Mekong Valleys north of Teng Keng may be subsequently found to possess will be considered by His Majesty's Government, and, if substantiated, dealt with in a liberal spirit.)\n\nI have avoided all reference to a lease in the above draft, as the Chinese Government may be averse to the use of such a term, but the same result will be attained if certain territory be formally admitted to be Chinese and a lease in perpetuity granted for the same at a rent of the same amount as the proposed compensation. In this case, the Convention might read: \"The boundary-line between the territory to be administered by the Provincial Governments of Burmah and Yunnan shall be,\" &c. (as above), and clause (d) will read \"as rent for such villages and their lands,\" instead of \"in full compensation for such rights.\"\n\nIt is important that in the Chinese text, such terms as \"the Ming Kwang Valley\" (Pa-tzu), or the \"Tien Tan River,\" should be used, not merely \"Ming Kwang\" or \"Tien Tan,\" otherwise the Chinese will raise difficulties on the ground that villages on the N'Maikha side are an integral part of Ming Kwang or Tien Tan. It also seems very desirable that His Majesty's Minister should insist that a copy of the map, with names of places marked in Chinese, be attached to the Chinese as well as the English version of the Convention.\n\nI have drafted this Report in consultation with my colleague, Mr. Leveson. I am indebted to him for all the information concerning local Kachin polities which it contains.\n\nPage 23  \nPage 444",
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        "content_text": "## 24\n\ncontains, and still more for the friendly relations which his knowledge and experience of these wild people enabled us to establish with them.\n\nMr. Leveson concurs with me in recommending to the favourable notice of His Majesty's Government the excellent work performed by the surveyors, often under circumstances of great difficulty, and the very good conduct of the military police escort.\n\nThe Lashi Headman of Lajawng, in the Myitkyina district, was with Mr. Leveson and rendered valuable services in all negotiations and interviews with the Lashis of Hpare and the Ngaw Chang.\n\nThe Lisu Headman of Bumrawng, in the Bhamo Hills, formerly a havildar in the Bhamo Military Police Battalion, accompanied me up the Salween as interpreter, as he speaks Chinese. I should like to mention his good conduct and special usefulness.\n\nOur thanks are due to the British Minister at Peking and to the Government of India for the representations made to the Chinese Government that the Acting Taotai, Shih Hung Chao, should be retained at his post for service on this expedition. In no case did we have to complain of any of the obstructions and difficulties which an official less strong-minded and new to the place would almost certainly have raised. Taotai Shih kept his followers in order, refrained from \"squeezing\" the country through which he passed, prevented his soldiers from indulging in the looting which is usually practised by Chinese \"braves\" on these occasions, and paid fair prices for his mules and his supplies. He was always amenable to reasonable arguments as to the proceedings which it was best for us to take, and decided all matters without reference to his subordinates, who, of course, were for sitting still or going back very early in the proceedings. It would be unfair not to admit that satisfactory results—so far as we obtained them—were in a measure due to the Taotai's common sense.\n\n## 25\n\n### Inclosure 8 in No. 1\n\n**Certificate granted to Tso Ta Hsiung, Hereditary Native Sergeant of Tzu Chu Village, in the Ming Kwang Narrows.** (Translation.)\n\nTHE Board of War in the matter of issuing a certificate:—\n\nWhereas the Minister for Military Appointments reports that he has received an official statement from Ngai, Grand Chancellor and Governor-General of Yunnan and Kwei Chon, to the effect that Tso Hua Tien, Hereditary Native Sergeant of Tzu Chu village in the Ming Kwang Narrows, subject to Tengyueh, has demised; that his son, Tso Ta Hsiung, who is now 22 years of age, is freely accepted by the various tribes as their Lord; and that a bond setting forth the registers of the genealogy of the Tso family has been delivered, together with the former certificate, and that the Governor-General has therefore addressed the Board for instructions to Tso Ta Hsiung to assume the succession;\n\nUpon this the Board, having inspected and recorded the bond concerning the genealogy of the family, has cancelled the previous certificate, and as it appears that the said Tso Hua Tien has demised, and the Governor-General reports that his son, Tso Ta Hsiung, is 22 years of age and accepted by the tribes, the Board will now, as requested, permit the said Tso Ta Hsiung to assume the succession to the title of Hereditary Sergeant of the village of Tzu Chu in the Ming Kwang Narrows in the Sub-Prefecture of Tengyueh. This present certificate, in exchange for the former, is hereby granted, and the said Tso is ordered to receive it. A necessary certificate addressed to Tso Ta Hsiung, Hereditary Sergeant, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nTAO KWANG.\n\n18th year (1889), 6th moon.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n### Inclosure 7 in No. 1\n\n**Taotai Shih to Acting Consul Litton.**\n\nPien Ma, April 17, 1905.\n\nI HAVE just had the honour to receive your letter and am in possession of its contents. The other day when we were at Ming Kwang I inquired from the two Fa Yi, Yang and Tso, as to the condition of the tribes on both sides of the Little River (Ngaw Chang). They stated that in former times a punitive expedition had gone against the rebellious barbarian, Tsao Ko, to Chih Ka and the country about it, beyond (i.e., right bank of) the Little River, and that the district had then been subjected to Chinese jurisdiction.* Subsequently they, the Fu Yi, had removed into Chinese territory to a great distance from the district in question. Besides, these barbarians are of a savage nature, and widely different from those who reside on this side (i.e., the left bank) of Little River; thus they had come to be beyond the pale of civilized government, and for a long time there had been no communication between them and the Chinese.\n\nHaving investigated this matter, I find that the above statements are correct. You have now been good enough to state verbally to me that the Deputy Commissioner of Bhamo proposes to proceed beyond the Ngaw Chang in order to inspect the country; but it is to be feared that the wild tribes of those parts, not being accustomed to seeing anything out of the common, may become alarmed and raise trouble. If the Deputy Commissioner is resolved to go, I would venture to request him to consider how important it will be to take proper precautions. You were good enough to ask me verbally about this matter, and on inquiry I found that the real state of the case is as I have mentioned above.\n\nI must therefore again request you to discuss with the Deputy Commissioner as to whether he should proceed or not.\n\nThe maps of Teng Keng and Mao Chao will be sent to you when they have been completed.\n\nCompliments.\n\n(Card of Taotai Shih.)\n\n* There is no evidence that the Headmen ever resided beyond the watershed.—G. L.\n\n### Inclosure 9 in No. 1\n\n**Certificate granted to Yang Tsar Wei, Hereditary Native Sergeant of Hpare Village, in the Ming Kwang Narrows.** (Translation.)\n\nTHE Board of War issues the following certificate:—\n\nWhereas the Minister for Military Appointments reports that the Department has submitted copy of an extract from the records of the Board to the effect that the Yün-Kwei Governor-General, Kwei, states that a report has been received from the Yung Chang Prefect that Yang Chan Ho, Hereditary Native Sergeant of Hpare in the Ming Kwang Narrows, has demised; that his son, Yang Tsai Wei, is now 22 years of age, and being the true and lawful eldest son of the deceased is freely accepted by the tribes as their Lord; and that the said Yang Tsai Wei should be permitted to assume the succession to his father's office and to administer the tribal villages; and that a bond has been delivered setting forth his family relations and genealogy, together with the former certificate, for transmission to the Board for instructions;\n\nAnd whereas (the Governor-General states that) when a vacancy occurs among the tribal officials, the rule is that the lawful eldest son succeeds, and that the said Yang Chan Ho, Native Sergeant, &c., has demised, leaving a vacancy; and his son, Yang Tsai Wei, being his true and lawful heir, is gladly accepted by the tribes, and should be permitted to succeed to the ancestral offices and administration of the tribal villages;\n\nThe Board, finding the above to be in accordance with the law, permits the said Yang Chan Ho to assume the said succession, and, in exchange for the former certificate, issues this present, which the said Yang should receive accordingly.\n\nThe above copy having been submitted in the 20th year of Tao Kwang on the 3rd day of the 11th moon, an Imperial Edict was received on the 4th: \"Let it be as proposed. Respect this!\"\n\nThe necessary certificate is accordingly issued to Yang, &c.\n\n[Note. Neither Tzu Chu nor Hpare is in the Ming Kwang or in the Ming Kwang \"Narrows (or passes), but a day's march beyond the passes. There is not the ...",
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        "content_text": "446 \n\nslightest evidence that either of Lashi villagers positively deny it. two Fu Yi as their Suzerain.] \n\n26 \n\nthe Fu Yi ever lived beyond the watershed, and the These villagers also deny that they ever accepted the \n\n27 \n\n[Note. There seems no reason to believe that the villages on the NMaikha side took any more cognizance of the above official arrangements than they did of the distribution of them among the Chinese Fu Yi, which seems to have been made after the disturbances in Chia Ching's reign.] \n\n## Inclosure 10 in No. 1. \n\n**Précis of a Memorial by Shè, Governor-General of Yunnan and Kwei-Chou, together with a Receipt by the Board of Civil Office at Peking, making arrangements for the redistribution and definition of various Frontier Jurisdictions in West Yunnan, dated probably in the 15th year of Chein Lung, because a local instruction to the Chinese \"Tu-ssu\" or Headmen, based on this Memorial, is dated the year after.** \n\nTHE Governor-General observes that the boundaries of the Sub-Prefecture of Tengyueh, the hsien district of Pao Shan (Yung Chang), and the hsien district of Li Chiang are ill-defined towards the west; in the case of many scattered villages there are doubts as to what jurisdiction they belong to a state of affairs which is contrary to the requirements of good administration. \n\nThe following redistribution of the various frontier villages is therefore approved: The notes as to locality are added by His Majesty's Consul, Tengyueh. In the case of Pien Ma and U Tung, which are transferred from the jurisdiction of Yün Lung to that of Pao Shan, it is stated that the tax which the Yun Lang official formerly received and accounted for will henceforth be handed over to Pao Shan. The amount is about 320 lb. of rice. \n\n1. To the jurisdiction of Tengyueh are assigned: \n| Village | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Shang Lou | (in Lasbi, \"Gaw Yawn,\" on the left bank of the Ngaw Chang) |\n| Chi Ka | (Lashi village on the right bank of the Ngaw Chang, opposite Shang Lou) |\n| Pa Yang | (in Lashi, \"Pa Myaw,\" on the Lower Kansheng or Kun Ma River) |\n| Ta Tang |  |\n| Ming Kwang | (about the Upper Shweli or Lung Chiang) |\n| Hparè Tan Chu | (Lashi villages at the headwaters of the Kansheng or Kun Ma) |\n| Hsien Chiang | (in Lashi, \"Shi Jang,\" on a small tributary, left bank Ngaw Chang) |\n| Kun Yung | (in China, 24 miles north of Tengyueh) |\n| Lu Yung | (not identified) |\n| Tien Tán | (Upper Shweli, west branch) |\n\n2. To the jurisdiction of Pao Shan the following are assigned: \n| Village |\n| --- |\n| Sun Chu |\n| Su Chai Pa |\n| Meng Ku |\n| Lu Chang |\n| Pú Ka |\n| Lung Sai |\n| Teng Lang |\n| Ting Ming |\n| Teng Keng |\n| Pa Chu |\n| Man Pang |\n| Sung Po |\n| Pai Lou |\n| Mao Chao |\n| A La Wa Ti |\n| Pai Pa |\n| Pa Chu Ho |\n| Pa Chung Lo |\n| Pien Ma |\n| U Tung |\n\n(All the above are situated along the Salween or in the Ngaw Chang Valley.) \n\n3. To the jurisdiction of Yün Lung the following are assigned: \n| Village |\n| --- |\n| Ch'eng Ka |\n| La Pai |\n| U Pie |\n| Hsiang Hsieh |\n| Tè U Ti |\n| Hsi Wa Lo |\n| Ku Mi Teng |\n| Ta Chu Ti |\n| Ta Chu Lo |\n| Lu Ku ferry |\n| Kan Ma Sa |\n| Lu Wei |\n| Hu Mu Lang |\n| Lao Wo |\n| Chi Tsu |\n| Wo Mao Ting |\n| Lu Tsu |\n| Lu Tsang Wang Ti |\n| Shil Ti |\n| Kui Wu |\n| Tu Pan Chang |\n| Tsao Chien |\n| Shui Tsing |\n\n(Most of these are known, and all are believed to be situated along the Salween, or between that river and the Mekong.) \n\n4. To Li Chiang Prefecture are assigned the following: \n| Village |\n| --- |\n| Pie Pie Lo |\n| Mao Chu Chai |\n| Ta Mi Lai |\n| Ta Pien |\n| Hei Tao |\n| Teng Kwa |\n| Tsa Hui Jen |\n| Chi Wa Tsa |\n| La Tsa |\n\n(Not identified; believed to be all along the Upper Salween or Mekong.) \n\n(Translation.) \n\n## Inclosure 11 in No. 1. \n\n**Acting Consul Litton to Taotai Shih, Tengyueh, May 20, 1905.**\n\nTHE 4th Article of the Agreement relative to Burmah and China provided that the boundary north of latitude 25° 35′ should be settled when the conditions of the country had been more fully inquired into. This Agreement is dated in 1897, and since its signature, the Government of Burmah has on several occasions dispatched officers to proceed to the N'Maikha with a view to ascertaining the conditions of the country and of pacifying the tribes. \n\nLast year, your Government also dispatched two military officials to Ming Kwang to make inquiries, but though the Representatives of both Governments had thus inspected the country, there had hitherto been no joint examination, and consequently, it has not been possible to conclude a further Treaty. \n\nIn February of this year, the Deputy Commissioner of Bhamo, together with myself, received instructions from our Government to serve on a joint inquiry regarding the frontier, and your Honour received a similar Commission, and we fixed a date for proceeding on this service. \n\nOn this occasion, the instructions to your Honour and to myself were to the effect that we were only to make a joint examination of the country and present a map to our superiors, and then to await their settlement of the demarcation question; we had no authority to proceed to delimitation on our own account. \n\nI was directed by my Government to point out the watershed between the N'Maikha River on the one hand and the Shweli and Salween Rivers on the other, while your Honour was instructed to inquire precisely what are territories administered by your Sawbwas. \n\nWe have now to communicate to each other the results of our joint inquiry. Having met at Ku Yung on the 7th March, 1905, we together proceeded to Ta Chai, in Tan Tsa, where we commenced our work. The previous demarcation had not gone beyond the high conical peak known to the Kachins as Manung Pum; the two small valleys of Lun Ma and Tan Tsa are situated to the east of this peak, while to the north-east of Tan Tsa, there is a lofty mountain known as Lang Ya (\"Wolf's Tooth\") Hill; between these two peaks rise the streams known as the Hsiao Cha, Ta Cha, and Chan Hsi Rivers; and the Chan Hsi River is the headwater of the Ta Ping. \n\nBeyond the range to the north of Chansi River are the Shi Ngaw and Tum Maw Rivers, both of which flow into the N'Maikha, and so to the Irrawaddy. These two rivers are under the jurisdiction of Myitkyina. \n\nUnder these conditions, all Lun Ma and Tan Tsa, which are within (i.e., on the Chinese side) of their watershed, should belong to Yunnan, while all the valleys of the Shi Ngaw and Tum Maw Rivers, which are beyond this watershed, should belong to Burmah. \n\nTo the east of the Lang Ya Shan is the village of Ma Li Pa. This village is situated in the north of the Tien Tan Valley, which belongs to Tengyueh Sub-Prefecture and is under Tsai Fu Yi (Headman). In this valley flows the Tien Tan River in a southerly direction to Ku Tung bazaar, where it joins the Ming Kwang River, being, in fact, one of the headwaters of the Shweli. \n\nSome 30 li to the north of Ma Li Pa, the watershed is crossed to the Chi Pwi River, which flows into the N'Maikha, and so to the Irrawaddy. \n\nThe Tien Tan River has three sources: the Mo Shih Stream, the Pan Wa Stream, and the true source, which issues from the Sisters Hill to the north of the village of Hei Tafo Yuan. Here, the boundary should assign the valley of the Tien Tan to Yunnan and the valley of the Chi Pwi to Burmah. \n\nBut your Honour told me that several villages about the headwaters of the Chi Pwi were included in the territory of Tsai Fu Yi of Tien Tan. Officers were accordingly sent over to Chang Yin Kou, Chung Shan, Lu Pi, and Shih Pao to inquire.",
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        "content_text": "## Page 29\n\nThe route was a mere track over unusually mountainous and difficult country with a very sparse population: only ten families of Lisu, in a very poor condition, were found (in the villages mentioned). For many years past they have neither paid tribute nor made presents.\n\nOn leaving Ma Li Pa we proceeded on the 31st March to Ta Chai, in the Ming Kwang Valley, to the east of Tien Tan. This valley is in the Tengyueh Sub-Prefecture and under the jurisdiction of the two Fu Yi, Tso and Yang. For a distance of nearly 100 li from Ku Tung bazaar northwards to the head of the Ming Kwang River the valley is inhabited by a mixed population of Chinese and Lisu, but most of the latter can speak Chinese and in every way resemble Chinamen. The Ming Kwang River rises to the north of Ta Chu Pa and flows down to Ku Tung bazaar, being the true source of the Shweli; along the north-west of the Upper Ming Kwang Valley there is a lofty range of mountains connecting with the Sisters Hill and the Pan Wa Pass, and forming the divide between the N'Maikha and Shweli Rivers. All the streams on the east side of this ridge belong to the Ming Kwang-Shweli system; all the streams to the west of it flow into the N'Maikha and Irrawaddy.\n\nTo take this range as the frontier would be to adopt the true natural line. But your Government stated that Hparè, Tzu Chu, Pien Ma, and other places situated to the west of the watershed belonged by rights to the Fu Yi Yang and Tso of Ming Kwang; these Fu Yi also presented two certificates and a copy of a Memorial bearing on this question to your Honour for my inspection.\n\nUnder these circumstances the Deputy Commissioner of Bhamo, together with your Deputy, Mr. Tai, proceeded from Ming Kwang to Hparè in order to make a careful investigation on the spot.\n\nThe distance proved to be nearly 80 li, and the track was through mountainous and uninhabited country for the whole way. In the two villages of Upper and Lower Hparè there are only some thirty odd households, all of them Lashi Kachius; just below the village the Hparè and Tzu Chu Streams join to form the Kun Ma (Khansheng) River, which flows into the Ngaw Chang, and so into the Irrawaddy.\n\nThe village of Tzu Chu also contains some thirty families of Lashi and is only separated from Hparè by a minor ridge of hills.\n\nMr. Leveson, in concert with Mr. Tai, examined the Headmen of these villages. Their statement was in effect as follows:\n\n\"We are not subject to the Fu Yi, nor do we pay taxes to him; but formerly when festivities took place at the Fu Yi's we offered presents, and when we had any festivities the Fu Yi made return presents to us. Since the Fu Yi raided our village and robbed us of our ploughing oven we have had a feud with the Fu Yi and hold no communication with him. Formerly the Fu Yi engaged us to protect the road (along the Kun Ma) and gave us 25 rupees and some gunpowder for doing so, but of recent years this payment has not been made.\n\n\"We are in the habit of going backwards and forwards over the frontier for the purpose of trading with the Chinese, and they do the like, but we never go over the frontier to cultivate. We know nothing about the certificate investing Yang Fu Yi with the title of Hereditary Sergeant of Hparè or how he came by it, but we do know that we have never been subject to him.”\n\nThese statements agree with my own observations. Not only does not the Fu Yi control this district, but he does not even dare to go there; so it is perfectly clear that he cannot control it; nor can I understand how the certificates come to speak of the \"Fu Yi Yang of Hparè in Ming Kwang\" and the \"Fu Yi Tso of Tzu Chu in Ming Kwang,\" seeing that Ming Kwang is distant from Hparè and Tzu Chu nearly 100 li. To insist that they are in the same district is as though we were to talk of Mandalay in the district of Yung Chang, or Yung Chang in the district of Mandalay.\n\nUnder these circumstances, I would invite your Honour to point out in what possible sense these Fu Yi can be said to govern these villages.\n\nMr. Leveson and myself further inquired into the conditions and history of Pien Ma, the Kun Ma River, and the Hsiao Chiang or Ngaw Chang. The Headmen stated that some generations ago the Chinese and the Kachins had fallen out, the Chinese Chiefs of Ming Kwang, Ta Tang, and Teng Keng had united their forces and made an incursion beyond the watershed and beyond the Ngaw Chang, raiding the village of Lan Pang and killing many persons, whereby the Kachins suffered heavy damage. The Lashi Headmen then collected their people and made a counter-raid over the divide.\n\n## Page 447\n\nThey burnt Teng Keng and killed two of the Chinese Fu Yi's family; they then looted the Ming Kwang Valley as far as Ku Tung bazaar.\n\nAfter this the various parties negotiated a peace, and it was agreed that they should mutually exchange presents of local produce, as a pledge of amity, Ming Kwang every three years exchanged presents with the villages of Hparè, Lung Pung, and those along the Kun Ma and Ngaw Chang Rivers; Teng Keng exchanged them with Pien Ma and U Tung; Ta Tang with Shang Lon and Chih Ka.\n\nSubsequently the Pien Ma people looted some cattle belonging to Lung Pang and Chih Ka, whereupon these villages looted and burnt Pien Ma. The Pien Ma people, being few and weak, then voluntarily invited the Chinese of Teng Keng to come to their assistance in order to have their revenge. The Teng Keng people consented and burnt the two villages of Lung Pang and Chih Ka. This is the reason why to this day Pien Ma makes a small annual payment of tribute to Teng Keng. In the case of Ta Tang, the villages of Shang Lou and Chih Ka commonly present \"huang lien\" and receive in exchange a plough ox.\n\nBut these various Headmen are not under any administrative control by the Chinese officials.\n\nNow these statements agree in the main with what your Honour told me, namely, that in the reign of Chia Ching (early nineteenth century) the Chinese Fu Yi had made a warlike expedition to the Ngaw Chang. No doubt we must not believe all that we are told by the Kachin Headmen, but neither can I believe the statement of the Chinese Fu Yi to the effect that they subjected this country to regular control.\n\nThe questions concerning Pien Ma and the Hsiao Chiang (Ngaw Chang) being of much importance in regard to the frontier, we determined personally to proceed from Ming Kwang to Pien Ma to make inquiries. The way leads over the Fen Shui Ling Pass, and so to the head of the Pien Ma River, a distance of over 80 li, all of which is uninhabited, while progress is exceedingly difficult on account of the mountainous character of the country. This pass, the Fen Shui Ling, is close to the head of the Ming Kwang River, which is the true source of the Shweli. The hills at the back of this river-source form the water-divide between the Hsiao Chiang or Little River and the Ming Kwang, and this water-divide is connected with the main water-divide between the Salween and the Irrawaddy; this main divide stretches northwards as far as the confines of Thibet, and is a snow-blocked range almost impossible to cross, and is locally known by the Teng Keng and Ming Kwang people as the Kao Li Kung snow mountains.\n\nOn account of the difficulty of travelling, Mr. Leveson and myself only reached Pien Ma and met your Honour on the 16th April, when we proceeded to our investigations. It appears that there are only some 200 odd families of Kachins and Lisu at Pien Ma, who pay a house tax amounting to about 50 taels a-year to Teng Keng, who also levies a toll on coffin wood to the amount of some 100 taels a-year, or, in all, 150 taels (about) per year; but Pien Ma has a feud with Shang Lon, and Lung Pang has a feud with Teng Keng, and there is no communication between these villages. Chinese traders proceeding to these places suffer loss, but the Chinese Fu Yi do nothing whatever to administer the country beyond levying their revenue.\n\nAs to the villages beyond the Ngaw Chang, their condition has been truly described in your Honour's letter to me: they are beyond the pale of government.\n\nIt may be said of the whole of this country that it is clear that neither the Chinese officials nor the Fu Yi can control it. It is to be feared that the Kachins in Barmah territory may subsequently suffer from the raids of these people.\n\nAfter your Honour and myself had crossed the mountains to Lu Chang by the Salween, Mr. Leveson proceeded to both banks of the Ngaw Chang to make inquiries, and the local Headmen all came to see him; the surveyor also proceeded some distance beyond Lung Pang. Nowhere did the Kachins cause any trouble, and it appears from this that they are not naturally savage, but have simply never been subject to Chinese jurisdiction.\n\nOn the banks of the Salween we found that the three Chiefs of Teng Keng, Lu Chang, and Mao Chao are all subject to Yung Chang's jurisdiction. North of Mao Chao the country is entirely populated by Lisu, nominally subject to La Wo. North of the Lisu country are the Nu Tzu, and north of the Nu Tzu (or Lu Tzu) is Thibetan territory. This is a general survey of the condition of the banks of the Salween.\n\nThe west bank of the Salween is entirely populated by Lisu; the country west, again, of the great Salween-Irrawaddy divide is entirely populated by Marus (Lang Su), who are under no Government, and have little or no communication with the Lisu.\n\n[2167-1]",
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        "content_text": "## 30\n\nWe proceeded northwards, and surveyed as far as the boundary of Li Chiang territory; we thence returned to Tengyueh on account of the heavy rains which had commenced.\n\nThe Upper Salween country is of great importance to West Yunnan, and though it has not yet been opened up, it will in future naturally fall within the sphere of Yunnan control. Burma will raise no objection to this; but the upper waters of the Irrawaddy are of the utmost importance to Burma, and though the country has not yet been developed, it must ultimately belong to Burma.\n\nTo sum up, commencing from the source of the Ming Kwang River, and thence proceeding straight up to the crest of the Kao Li Kung snow range, and then proceeding north along this crest to Tibet, all country which is in the basins of the Shweli or the Salween should belong to Yunnan, and all country which is in the basin of the Irrawaddy should belong to Burma. According to this division, all the Lisu and Lu Tzu of the Salween will be in Yunnan, and all the Kachins and Marus will be in Burma, and there will be a definite boundary in the shape of a great snow-clad range.\n\nAs for the presents and tolls now taken from the Kachins by the Teng Keng and other Chinese Headmen, the Government of Burma is willing to make liberal compensation so as to avoid the least loss falling upon your Fu Yi; but not only is my Government unable at the present moment to recognize any of the country on the west of the watershed as Chinese territory, but they cannot contemplate that in the future any part of it can be assigned to Yunnan. I will now proceed to explain to your Honour the reasons for this, which I hope you will take into consideration:\n\n1. At present, none of the villages in the Ngaw Chang basin are in point of fact controlled by your Fu Yi. I think that your Honour is very well aware of the feeble and vicious character of these Fu Yi; but the Government of Burma already controls the Shi Ngaw and Tun Maw Valleys. The inhabitants are of the same tribe as those of the Ngaw Chang, and will therefore easily be brought under control.\n\n2. As the Fu Yi are unable to control this tract, still less will the Chinese officials of Tengyueh be able to control it, in view of the distance, the mountains, and the difficulty of procuring supplies. Thus, the Burma Government would have to establish military posts all along their frontier. This could not be done under an annual cost of several tens of thousands of taels. If posts are not established, then Burma will constantly be suffering damage, as may be seen from what has happened in Meng Mao and Meng Wan (Bhamo frontier).\n\nIt follows the crest. The boundary which I have now suggested is the natural one.\n\n3. It assigns all the Kachin villages to Burma, assigns all the Chinese-inhabited villages to China; it gives all the Upper Salween and Upper Shweli to China, and all the Irrawaddy to Burma; further, both sides of the watershed are uninhabited, and covered with dense forest for a distance of over 10 li from the crest, and this divide has always been regarded by the local people as a frontier. Thus, the line suggested is not only in accordance with the geography of the place, but is suitable as an ethnographical frontier.\n\n4. On the west of the divide, the whole country consists of a complicated mass of cliffs and numerous rivers; in fact, no frontier can be found except the watershed. If this is not accepted, serious calamities will supervene along the border.\n\n5. The \"Tengyueh Gazetteer\" gives the three \"ai\" or narrow passes (Ming Kwang, Ta Tang, Tien Tan) as the frontier; the \"Yung Chang Gazetteer\" gives the Kachin Hills as the frontier; the official general map of Yunnan gives the watershed as the frontier; last year, the Chinese Foreign Office, in a despatch addressed to His Majesty's Minister, declared that, after repeated inquiries, no such river as the N'Maikha could be found. These points clearly show how the matter really stands.\n\n6. The country to the west of the watershed is quite valueless to China, but on account of its geographical situation is of much importance to Burma. If it is not assigned to Burma, the control of a large stretch of country will be rendered difficult to that Government.\n\nThese are the reasons why the watershed forms the most suitable frontier. When the frontier between Meng Mao and Bhamo was being delimited, it was found that a district known as the triangle, and nominally under the Meng Mao jurisdiction, was inhabited by Kachins addicted to raiding. Its possession by Meng Mao was useless to Meng Mao and injurious to Burma. It was therefore agreed that the district should be placed under the jurisdiction of Burma, and that Burma should pay 1,000 rupees per annum as compensation; thus, Meng Mao receives a larger revenue than formerly, and the country has been reduced to peace and order, to the mutual benefit of both parties.\n\nIn the present instance, as loss might be incurred by the Chinese Headmen, the two Governments might act in accordance with the precedent of the Meng Mao triangle, and a perpetual lease might be granted to Burma. The rent would be paid over to the Chinese officials for distribution at their discretion among their various Headmen, the proportions in which the money would be distributed being no concern of the Government of Burma.\n\nBurma would willingly pay this sum by way of compensation, and would on no account permit any loss to fall upon your Headmen.\n\nWe have made the joint inquiry into the frontier according to our instructions, but as we have no authority to delimit, I would request your Honour now to report to your Government, while I will submit to His Majesty's Minister a report in terms similar to this despatch. We must then await further orders from our Governments, on the receipt of which we can proceed to an amicable settlement. Any slight differences of opinion which we may have will, I think, be easily settled by negotiation.\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\n## Inclosure 12 in No. 1.\n\n**Government of Burma to Government of India.**\n\nMaymyo, June 24, 1905. IN continuation of my letter dated the 19th June, 1905, I am directed to submit, for the information of the Government of India, copies of papers which relate to the frontier between Burma and Yunnan, north of Manangpum.\n\n2. The papers show that Mr. Litton has made a definite claim to fix the Irrawaddy-Salween watershed as the boundary up to the confines of Tibet. In my letter above cited, the Lieutenant-Governor has shown cause for not pressing our claims to a fixed boundary higher than latitude 20° 30′ and for not basing any argument on tribal distribution. If, however, the Chinese Government can be brought to agree to the watershed as a frontier up to the confines of Tibet on payment of a fixed sum, there is no objection. His Honour would, however, deprecate any precise statement as to where China ends and Tibet begins, and would also prefer not to agree to pay rent or compensation to an amount to be fixed by subsequent inquiry.\n\n3. Sir Herbert White concurs in Mr. Litton's suggestion that the Imperial and Provincial Governments of China and Yunnan should be clearly made to understand that the British Government is determined to have the watershed frontier, and that, if China is not willing to forego shadowy claims in return for a cash payment, the Government of Burma will be instructed to occupy and administer the country without further negotiation. For reasons stated by Mr. Litton in his letter dated the 7th June to Sir E. Satow, it appears likely that this argument will exercise considerable influence upon the Government of Yunnan.\n\nI am to submit a copy of Mr. Litton's map with the boundary suggested by Taotai Shih and that suggested by Mr. Litton, marked with red and blue lines respectively. The Ngaw Chang would be a very bad boundary, as there are villages on both sides near to each other, and there might be frequent disputes. The boundary suggested by Mr. Litton is clearly the most suitable in every respect.\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\n## Inclosure 13 in No. 1.\n\n**Acting Consul Litton to Government of Burma.**\n\nTengyueh, June 8, 1905. IN continuation of my Report on the joint examination of the northern undelimited frontier, I have the honour to transmit a copy of a despatch which... \n\n## 31\n\n448",
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        "content_text": "# 34\n\nI have already explained the reason why I did not pay any present direct to the Taotai. He appears to have thought that as the payment was to be postponed till the frontier was settled he personally would never \"touch\" it, and that it would therefore be more advantageous for him to report it as an offer of a public contribution which the British authorities have made under the influence of his, the Taotai's, skilful diplomacy. I see no objection to this, and, indeed, I think we should do all we can to support the Taotai.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n## Inclosure 15 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \n**G. LITTON**.\n\n### Taolai Shih to Acting Consul Litton.\n\nTengyuch, May 28, 1905.  \nHAVING received through his Excellency the Governor-General Ting the telegraphic instructions of the Wai-wu Pu to proceed on a joint survey of the Northern Burmah-Yunnan frontier, and you, the Consul, having been commissioned by your Government on the same service, we proceeded to the border, and on the 2nd March met at Ku Yung, whence we examined the frontier, section by section, and concluded our work in the early part of May.\n\nI have now the honour to reply to your despatch which I have received and which deals with the whole subject of the frontier, and in which you describe the geography of the districts visited.\n\n[Here the Taotai quotes at length all the passages in my despatch under reply which deal with geography, names of villages, numbers of households, &c., which I need not repeat.-G. L]\n\nYour remarks concerning the physical features of the mountains, the rivers and their sources, the various tribes and their villages are perfectly correct and entirely agree with my own observation; on these points I have nothing to add. But it appears to be inconsistent with the scope of our work that you should lay down that various places along the frontier should belong to Yunnan or to Burmah as the case may be. My duty was merely that of a joint examination; I have no authority to delimit the boundary; thus I need not argue the matter at great length.\n\nBut since you have stated that your Government instructed you to point out the water-divide between the N'Maikha on the one hand and the Salween and the Shweli on the other, and have further mentioned that my instructions were to inquire what were the territories governed by our Chinese Chiefs, I must reply to you in detail on some points.\n\nNow when we have to examine what are the respective boundaries of any given territories we should, by rights, proceed according to the original jurisdictions of the Governments concerned; we cannot define the frontier merely according to the courses of the rivers and such-like considerations. Thus on this occasion I, on proceeding to the frontier, in the first instance ordered the various Fu Yi (Headmen) to prepare and submit maps, for the purpose of affording evidence for our inquiry; these districts are the hereditary Governments of our Fu Yi, so there can be no mistake about their extent.\n\nIt appears from an examination of the maps submitted that the jurisdiction of Ku Yung extends to and includes Lun Ma and Tan Tsa, the Ta Cha Ho and the Lang Ya Shan; Tien Tan extends to and includes the villages of Chang Yin Kou, Chung Shan, and La Pi on the Upper Chipway; Ming Kwang extends to and includes Shih-jang, Pa Yang, Taw Gaw, To Yo, Tsaw Lang Na Ching, the Khan Sheng River, Tzu Chu, and Hparè; Ta Tang extends to and includes Chih Kaw and Shang Lou (Gaw Yawm).\n\nThese maps have already been forwarded for your inspection and that of the Deputy Commissioner of Bhamo (Mr. Leveson), and no doubt you are clear as to their contents.\n\n* This Headman is usually known as the Tan Tea Fu Yi.-G. L.\n+ These are villages on the left bank of the Ngaw Chang.-G. L.\n§ So are these two.-G. L.\n\n# 35\n\nAgain, according to my examination of his map, Teng Keng should by rights control up to and including Kang Fang, U Tung, and Pien Ma.\n\nNow we may first exclude the villages beyond, i.e., on the right bank of the Ngaw Chang, which I have already informed you are beyond the pale of civilized government, and also the villages of Ma Chang, Huang Te, Ma Kung, &c., where your Government has already taken action in various cases, and where we do not further exercise control; with these exceptions it appears that, according to the Fu Yi's maps, the correct boundary is in fact as follows: from the sharp conical peak (Manung Pum) to the head of the Mo Shih Stream; then straight up to the Wei Ton (or \"Crooked Head Mountain\"); then across the Upper Chipway and along the Chang Chia Ridge, and so ascending the Kao Liang Kung Mountain, and descending to the Chiu Ko Taug or Khetmaw River; thence the line would follow up the Ngaw Chang or Hsiao Chiang (\"Little River\") to its source in the Pan Chang Mountains.\n\nWhile you speak of the various streams which flow into the N'Maikha River, it must be remembered that the N'Maikha River itself is not under the control of Myit-kyina in Burmah. The Ngaw Chang is a tributary of the N'Maikha, and all the country within, i.e., on the left bank of the Ngaw Chang, is, as the records show, under the government of our Chinese Fu Yi. This affords clear proof that we must not merely go by the geographical features.\n\nYou state that Lun Ma and Tan Tsa, being within, i.e., on the Chinese side, of the watershed, should by rights belong to Yunnan, while all the valleys of the Tammaw and the Shih-ngaw should belong to Burmah. With respect to this section of the frontier I am in agreement with you.\n\nYou state that the whole of the valley of the Tien Tan River should belong to Yünnan. This is correct, but I cannot wholly agree that all the Chipway Valley should belong to Burmah.\n\nYou state that the lofty range on the north-west side of Upper Ming Kwang Valley is connected with the Sisters Hill and the Pan Wa Pass, and that this is the water-parting between the Shweli and the N'Maikha; that all the streams on the east of this range flow to the Ming Kwang, and so to the Shweli River, while all the streams on the west of it flow into the N'Maikha, and so to the Irrawaddy. You state that this, if taken as the boundary, will be the true natural frontier.\n\nI agree that your geographical description is correct; but if this line is to be taken as the frontier there are serious objections to it, having regard to the territories which by rights should be controlled by our Chinese Fu Yi. It appears, therefore, that this section must be reserved for future consideration and separate action.\n\nThen, again, you state that Mr. Leveson, in concert with my deputy, Mr. Tai, made inquiries at Hparè, and that the Headmen of the village stated that they were not subject to China, and paid no taxes, and regarded the watershed as the frontier [here quoting in full my report of the evidence of the Hparè people; see my despatch]. You go on to say that the evidence of the Hparè Headman is in accordance with your own observations, and that not only is the Fu Yi unable to control these villages, but is afraid even to visit them; that it is thus perfectly clear that the Fu Yi have never in fact administered them. You observed that the certificates of succession speak of the Fu Yi of \"Hparè in Ming Kwang\" and of \"Tzu Chu in Ming Kwang,\" which is inexplicable, as Tzu Chu and Hparè are more than 100 li distant from Ming Kwang; so, you ask, how can they be forced, so to say, into one and the same place? It is, you add, as though one were to speak of Yung Chang in Mandalay, or Mandalay in Yung Chang. Under these circumstances you request me to point out in what manner these Fu Yi do, in point of fact, control these villages.\n\nWhen Mr. Leveson examined these people, Mr. Tai no doubt was present; but when Mr. Tai returned to my camp he reported that he did not understand the language of the tribes; that he, in fact, did not know what evidence the Headman had given, nor had he made any inquiries on the point.\n\nI, too, summoned and examined the Headmen of Tzu Chu and other villages.\n\n* The Teng Kong map was never produced.-G. L.\n† Villages between the Chipway and Tummaw Rivers.-G. L.\n‡ Mo Shih is the west source of the Tien Tan or west branch of the Shweli.-G. L.\n§ Chang Chia Ridge is on the right bank of the Upper Chipway, just below Shik Pan.-G. L.\n¶ Pan Chang Mountain is a snow-clad ridge running east and west above the source of the Ngaw Chang.-G. L.\n** See my note to Taotai of June 2.-G. L.\n†† The records may show this, the facts do not.-G. L.\n‡‡ The Taotai never really answers this question.-G. L.\n§§ See my note to Taotai, June 2.-G. L.",
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        "content_text": "## 36\n\nbefore me, and they stated in evidence to me: \"Hparè, Tzu Chu, Shih Jang, To Yo, Pa Yang, Tu Mu, had been previously subject to the control of the Fu Yi Yung and Tso. Formerly the Fu Yi presented us with oxen, wine, and ornaments, and on another occasion with spades, ploughs, and axes, ordering the villages to commence cultivation, but, as they had not yet succeeded in doing so, no report had been made of the acreage or of the crops produced. The official residences of the Fu Yi used to be in Hparè and Tzu Chu; later, on account of disturbances, they moved over into Chinese territory. Since then, although the Fu Yi never come in person, the villagers, every three or five years, get presents of oxen, wine, &c., and their relations with the Chinese are amicable, nor are there any feuds between them. The villagers had resided there all their lives, but had never stated that the pass was the frontier, or that they were not subject to the Fu Yi.\" \n\nThis was their evidence, and they executed a voluntary bond to this effect, signing the same by finger-marks. Thus, if we are to take the evidence given to the Deputy Commissioner as a proof of the facts, the evidence and the bond submitted to me must be equally good proof.\n\nThe certificates of succession which are in the hands of the Fu Yi have been examined by me, and really bear the seals of the Board; they are not forgeries. Nor are the certificates themselves the only proof, for the fact of their issue may also be found set forth in the provincial \"Gazetteer.\" These certificates are the title-deeds of succession, and they are not issued without definite and recorded proof of the genealogical descent; besides, these certificates go back to an old date, before Burmah was subject to your Government. Now how can you, in these latter days, when the question of the frontier has arisen, claim to occupy further territory on such grounds as these?\n\nIt is the fact that Hparè and Tzu Chu are distant about 100 li from Ming Kwang, but in Yünnan the country is extensive and the population scanty. When the natives once shift their place of residence, it is quite usual that they should move to a distance of several hundred li. Thus we must not, on the mere ground that these Fu Yi have moved to a comparatively distant place, doubt that these villages were their ancient inheritance. Again, the villages controlled by Tso Fu Yi have a mixed population of Chinese and barbarians, but Yang Fu Yi, having removed his residence to Chung Tan (in Lower Ming Kwang), is surrounded by villages wholly inhabited by Chinese, without any barbarians; thus he has none of the tribesmen under his immediate control, and his may be considered a title borrowed from former times. His name of Fu Yi does not agree with the facts, but that Tzu Chu and Hparè were formerly governed by these Fu Yi is a matter which admits of no doubt, therefore it cannot be said that I have, so to say, forced these villages into a position in Ming Kwang.\n\nThen, again, you describe the results of Mr. Leveson's and your investigations as to the history and conditions of Pieu Ma, and the Ngaw Chang and Khan Sheng Rivers as given by the Headman, who stated that they have never been subject to China. You remark that, while the statements of the Headmen cannot be altogether accepted, the statements of the Fu Yi to the effect that they reduced this country to subjection are still less to be credited.\n\nBut I find that the story of the expedition by the Fu Yi to the Ngaw Chang does not merely rest on the personal statement of those Chiefs, but in a joint Memorial by the Boards of Civil Office and of Revenue in the days of Chia Ching, it is set forth that a Chinese General, Hsieh, led troops in a punitive expedition against the rebels of Chen Ka, that subsequently the Fu Yi joined the expedition and gained credit by subduing the country, and finally that the country was divided up among them. The Chiefs also have sealed documents which are evidence of this division.\n\n* Villages on the Khan Sheng and Ngaw Chang Rivers.\n† This is all nonsense; these villages have numerous ricefields, though they were not started through the Fu Yi's orders.\n‡ There is no evidence whatever that the Fu Yi ever lived over the watershed; if they had they would have left some traces. The natives, too, deny it.\n§ This interview appears to be a fabrication; at any rate we heard nothing of it till this despatch. See my note to the Taotai.\n¶ See my note to the Taotai.\n|| Lit. \"Cherisher of barbarians.\"\n** The Taotai does not assert that there is now any effective control.\n†† Early nineteenth century.\n‡‡ Upper Salween.\n§§ Veracity is not a leading characteristic of Chinese Generals or of Chinese documents.\n\n## 37\n\nThe statements made by the Headmen in response to your inquiries, namely, that it was simply a case of feuds and fights between the Chinese and the tribes and that then presents were exchanged in order to make peace, but that the country was never under the government of Chinese officials—these statements, I say, seem to rest on traditions which in the course of long years have departed from the real facts; we cannot put our faith in such traditions in preference to the proofs afforded by official documents. Besides, the Teng Keng Headman even now collects a house tax and a \"kang\" or toll; I need hardly point out at length that this affords precise evidence that he administers the country.\n\nThen you state that all along the west bank of the Lu-Chiang or Salween the inhabitants are Lisu, and that to the west of the great snowy range, between the Salween and the Irrawaddy, are the Langsu (Marus); these latter, you say, have hitherto been independent and have no intercourse with the Lisu. I would remark that the Kachins and other tribes have their seats in the remote hills and valleys. Their manners are rude and barbarous. Not only is it the case that when divided by rivers and ranges they have no communication with each other, but even households situated within sight of each other have no intercourse. The Lisu and Langsu are two different tribes; that they should have no intercourse is therefore to be expected, and it would seem that this circumstance is not to be taken as a proof in itself that these people are under no control.\n\nThen you state that the Gazetteers of Yung Chang and Tengyueh, together with the provincial map and provincial Gazetteer, all give the Kachin Hills or the water-parting as the boundary, and you quote the despatch of my Foreign Office which states that there is no such river as the Naikha.\n\nBut these wild frontier districts are rarely visited by man, and the Gazetteers do not contain full details about them. Thus, for instance, the Nampaung Stream, the western boundary of Tengyueh, and the Nam Yang River, the south boundary of Tengyueh, are not mentioned in the Gazetteers; it cannot be said, therefore, that they are not in China. Further, when the Gazetteer states that the north-west frontier (of Tengyueh) reaches to the boundary of the Lashi (Cha Shan) Kachins, it implies that such part of the Lashi country as is under the jurisdiction of our titled Chiefs is excluded (from the independent country). Now Hparè and Tzu Chu are situated in the Lashi country, but they are also our chieftainships. Tengyueh is given by the Gazetteer as Nan Tien, and the south-west as Kangai; yet Kangai and Nan Tien are none the less Chinese dependencies. When I suggest that the Ngaw Chang is the boundary of the jurisdictions of our Chiefs, I mean the same as when it is said that the Nampaung and Nam Yang Rivers are the frontiers of our Sawbwas.\n\nAgain, in Yunnan there are numerous mountains, and water-divides consequently occur in every direction. Thus, along the borders of the Tengyueh and Yung Chang districts, and in the Yung Lung territory, there are numerous water-partings. It seems, therefore, that we cannot insist that a particular watershed is the boundary of civilized and uncivilized country.\n\nThen you go on to remark that possession of both banks of the Lu Chiang (Upper Salween) is a matter of the greatest importance to West Yunnan, and that though at present this country has not been developed, it should, in the future, be subject to the control of Yunnan, and that the Government of Burmah would have no objection to this. I must express my sincere gratification that your inquiries have led you to so clear and just a conclusion. But you proceed to state that from the source of the Ming Kwang River the frontier-line should directly ascend to the crest of the snowy range known as the Kao Li Kung, and follow this range north to Thibet; that all the country in the basin of the Shweli and the Lu Chiang (or Upper Salween) should be controlled by Yunnan, and all the country in the basin of the Irrawaddy by Burmah; and that no other suitable frontier can be delimited except along the line of this watershed.\n\nBut if we accept the frontier you propose, our Chiefs will lose a large tract of the country which they control. Now the Ngaw Chang has already been recognized by the Chinese Fu Yi as the limit of civilized (i.e., of Chinese government). If we take the Ngaw Chang as the frontier, that will be as natural a boundary and as easy to distinguish as the line which you claim.\n\n* But he does not administer it.\n† The relevancy of this is not clear.\n‡ I added that full possession of the Irrawaddy basin was equally important to Burmah.\n§ This is a possible line, but not a natural one, in the same sense as the main divide; further, its acceptance would cause much expense and inconvenience to Burmah and to Yunnan.\n\nPage 451 \n\n[2167-1]",
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        "content_text": "# 453\n\n**(Translation.)**\n\n## Inclosure 17 in No. 1\n\n### Report by Taotai Shih to Governor-General, Yünnan-fu\n\nI, the Acting Taotai, respectfully beg to submit the following report, together with a map of the frontier.\n\nIn January last, I had the honour to receive the instructions of the Governor-General that his Excellency had received an express per the Board of War at Peking (with orders concerning the joint examination of the frontier).\n\nHere the Taotai quotes a telegram which he sent to Yünnan-fu proposing arrangements for the frontier party's proceedings.\n\nWe, as I proposed, were to proceed on this service until the rains, and then after the malarious season to continue our survey if not completed. These proposals were contained in a telegram to the high authorities at Yünnan-fu.\n\nI then agreed with Consul Litton to start in February last, but owing to the roads being blocked by snow, we had to put off the date for a few days. Finally, we proceeded to Ku Yang, where we met on the 3rd March, and thence we proceeded to the border.\n\nOn a previous occasion, the frontier had only been demarcated up to the high conical peak known to the Kachins as Manung Pum. I therefore directed the various officers with me to conduct the survey cadets by various routes,* and, co-operating with the Burmah officials, to proceed from Manung Pum in a northerly direction, connecting on their survey as they went.\n\nI then passed over the Kao Li Kung range and advanced as far as the proper boundary of Li Chiang, which is the furthest point of Burmah-Yunnan frontier.\n\nEarly in May, we completed our survey of this north section of the frontier, and I then returned to my yamên, the officers of my suite arriving at Tengyuch on various dates before and after me.\n\nI have already reported by telegram the date of my return and the general results of our joint examination.\n\nThe map prepared by our officers has now been compared with‡ the map produced by the Consul; the two are found to agree in every particular.\n\nI have also received an official communication from Mr. Litton, that on the conclusion of a survey of the frontier, it has been usual for both parties to seal the map. On this occasion, however, the boundary officers had no power to delimit, and the map has been sealed merely as a guarantee of its accuracy. It must not be assumed that a final agreement has therefore been come to.\n\nThis statement appears to be in accordance with precedent; the maps have therefore been sealed by both parties and a note to the above effect entered on them.\n\nAs regards this section of the border, Mr. Litton wishes the main divide to be accepted as the frontier, while I suggest the left bank of the Ngaw Chang. I have received Mr. Litton's despatch on the subject, in which he states that if the country beyond the great divide is to be subject to the control of the Chinese officials, great inconvenience will arise. He points out that, on the occasion of a former demarcation, the Kachin Hills were assigned to the Sawbwas of Meng Mao and Meng Wan, who up to the present have been unable to control their Kachins, with the result that the Government of Burmah has suffered damage and has been compelled to establish military guards at a heavy cost; but that it was agreed that the Meng Mao triangle should be leased, which had resulted in great benefits to both parties. If it is now feared that by accepting his line the Chinese Headmen will suffer injury, Mr. Litton proposes that we should act according to the precedent of the Meng Mao triangle and grant a lease in perpetuity; rent on a liberal scale will be paid to the Chinese officials, who will distribute it to their Headmen at discretion and not subject to the intervention of Burmah.\n\nMr. Litton's general description of the conditions of the country is correct, but there appear to be some inaccuracies in his deductions; it was therefore my duty to reply to him on the facts.\n\n* This is Chinese nonsense; none of their people had the faintest idea of surveying.-G. L  \n† i.e., along the Salween.-G. L  \n‡ Not compared with, but copied from.-G. L\n\nFurther, as on this occasion there was only a survey and no delimitation, it would not be proper for me to assume the sole responsibility of assenting to Mr. Litton's proposals.\n\nThe full details of our discussions are set forth in my reply to Mr. Litton, copy of which I have the honour to submit separately, and therefore need not here quote at large. It is now my duty to submit this report, together with the maps of the northern section of the Burmah-Yunnan boundary, a copy of Mr. Litton's despatch to me, and of my reply mentioned above, to the High Provincial Government, requesting their Excellencies to consider the matter and favour me with instructions.\n\nJune 1, 1905.\n\n[This report and copies of documents inclosed were sent to the Viceroy of Yunnan, to the Board of Foreign Affairs, to the Provincial Treasurer, and to the Board of Reorganization at Yunnan-fu.\n\nG. L]\n\n## Inclosure 18 in No. 1\n\n### Sketch Maps\n\n[Not printed.]\n\n(Initialled)",
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        "content_text": "# 457 \n## 2\n\nIn Kiangsu, Hsüchon is a centre of the trade for the province. It was estimated that 2,500 piculs (3,000 cwt) of Hsüchon opium were consumed at Nanking in 1903, and it is widely used throughout the province.\n\nKuangsi produces ma-shih-t'u, ma-k'uai-t'u, and k'uai-tzu-t'u, but the quantity does not seem to be large.\n\nChekiang produces great quantities throughout the province. Tai-chou, Hsiang-shan, and Yi Yao are the centres of the industry, the estimated production for the year 1900 being 15,000 piculs (18,000 cwt.). The crop is said to be deteriorating owing to neglect of fertilization. Some, however, is exported, the quantity estimated as having gone to Foochow by various routes in 1902 being 1,000 piculs (1,200 cwt.).\n\nIn Fukien the cultivation of the poppy has increased enormously of late years. In 1900 it was predicted that in the near future the province would be independent of any other supply.\n\nThe Chinese estimates of the production in the neighbourhood of Amoy alone were, in 1902, 4,770 piculs (5,724 cwt.), and, in 1903, 9,178 piculs (11,003 cwt.).\n\nManchuria has lately appeared as a producer of opium, and possibly will eventually become the main source from which Chinese markets on the coast will be supplied. After the local demand had been satisfied 865 piculs (1,035 cwt.) reported to the native Customs at Newchwang for export in 1902, and 2,015 piculs (2,418 cwt.) in 1903.\n\nAlthough I have indicated various places at which opium is produced in China, it is evident that the amounts produced are small, and a cursory study of the trade reports shows that the main source of supply of Chinese opium is the three provinces of Szechuan, Yünnan, and Kweichou.\n\nIt is notoriously impossible to obtain any statistics as to the quantities produced of any commodity in China.\n\nMr. Hosie, on p. 28 of his Report on the Province of Szechuan, estimates the quantity of opium consumed yearly in that province at the enormous amount of 127,750 piculs (153,300 cwt.). His estimate of the total quantity produced in the province being more than double that of Indian opium introduced into China hardly seems correct, as the total net import of all foreign opium has only varied between 48,994 piculs and 59,161 piculs during the ten years ending 1904.\n\nAn authority on the subject (Mr. Spence, I believe) in 1881 estimated that 177,000 piculs were produced yearly in Szechuan, 35,000 in Yunnan, and 10,000 in Kweichou.\n\nIn his Report for the year 1909 the Commissioner of Customs at Chungking estimated the production in Szechuan at 250,000 piculs.\n\nIn the absence of any definite information, estimates of the quantities produced are only interesting for the sake of comparing them with the estimates given for other places, and show the great preponderance of the Szechuan and Yunnan article.\n\nAlthough the regulations deal with opium from the three Provinces of Szechuan, Yunnan, and Kweichou, of the amount which passes through Ichang from one-third to one quarter is from Yunnan and the rest from Szechuan.\n\nOpium poppy cultivation appears to be almost universal in all districts in Szechuan, except in the Chengtu plain.\n\nThe opium which passes through Ichang comes largely from Fuchou and Hsuchou. The latter kind is said to have almost entirely supplied the Kiangnan market in 1901.\n\nIn the Customs Trade Reports for 1899 and 1900, in which years the crops seem to have been good, the following places in various parts of the province (see sketch map,* `Inclosure 2`) are mentioned as having stocks of opium on hand:—\n| Place |\n| --- |\n| Fuchou |\n| Chien Chou |\n| Yung Ch'uan |\n| Nei Chiang |\n| Sui-ting |\n| Chunghing |\n\nPrior to 1890 the quantity exported from Szechuan was comparatively small, and does not seem to have attracted much attention from the authorities.\n\n*Not printed.\n\nThe great boom in its use came about 1894. The following Table shows the estimated quantity brought down by river, and the proportion which passed through the li-kin office as opposed to the Maritime Customs:\n| Year | River borne (Piculs) | Passed through Li-kin Office (Piculs) | River borne (Cwt.) | Passed through Li-kin Office (Cwt.) | Percentage |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1891 | 12,600 | ... | 15,120 | ... | ... |\n| 1893 | 17,099 | ... | 20,519 | ... | 30 |\n| 1896 | 17,259 | 10,383 | 20,710 | 12,460 | 60 |\n| 1897 | 22,627 | 12,000 | 27,152 | 14,400 | 53 |\n| 1898 | 20,089 | 12,250 | 24,110 | 14,700 | 61 |\n| 1899 | 31,361 | 16,300 | 37,638 | 19,560 | 52 |\n\nThe figures for the five years 1900 to 1904 are as follows:\n| Year | River borne (Piculs) | Maritime Customs (Piculs) | Li-kin Office (Piculs) | Total River borne (Cwt.) | Maritime Customs (Cwt.) | Li-kin Office (Cwt.) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1900 | 25,443 | 12,717 | 13,726 | 31,731 | 15,260 | 16,471 |\n| 1901 | 30,585 | 15,877 | 14,708 | 36,702 | 19,052 | 17,650 |\n| 1902 | 22,098 | 6,722 | 15,878 | 26,517 | 8,066 | 18,451 |\n| 1903 | 24,888 | 5,794 | 19,094 | 29,865 | 6,953 | 22,912 |\n| 1904 | 36,856 | 11,278 | 25,578 | 44,228 | 13,533 | 30,095 |\n\nThe amount of the drug consumed in Ichang is so inconsiderable a fraction that for practical purposes it may be assumed that the above figures represent the amount which passed through by the Yang-tsze route to the down river markets.\n\nThe opium which is passed through the native li-kin office is carried in native boats to the various river ports in the Two Hu, Kiangsi, and Anhui Provinces. The principal distributing centre is Kiukiang, but opium sent by other routes probably also reaches it.\n\nThe estimated quantity of Szechuan opium (in which term the Yunnan product is presumably included) imported there under native li-kin rules was, in 1901, 10,000 to 12,000 piculs (12,000 to 14,400 cwt.); in 1902, 18,000 piculs (21,600 cwt.); and, in 1903, 15,000 piculs (18,000 cwt.). In the last year it was noted that only about 2,000 piculs (2,400 cwt.) were consumed locally.\n\nThe opium which is passed through the Maritime Customs at Ichang is almost entirely sent by steamer to Shanghae, which is a distributing centre for Kiangsu, and some is again re-exported to Fukien and Kuangtung.\n\n## Other Routes\n\nOther routes by which Szechuan opium is distributed are:— For Hupei, Yeh San Kuan-Itu.\n\nFor Hunan, (1) the route through the Shihnan Prefecture controlled by the Lai Feng Office; and (2) that from Fuchou (Szechuan) to Kung Tan and the Yuan River to Chang Tê.\n\nThis route was once the main line of traffic to Hankow, but was ruined by the opening of Ichang, the ascendency of Shashih as a trading centre, the improvements in the Shihnan road made by the opium guilds, and friction with the aborigines (vide Rosthorn).\n\nA route which possibly carries opium to the north-east is by the Chia-ling and Chu Rivers to Sui-ting, and thence to Hsing-an Fu on the Han River in Hupei.\n\nKan-chou Fu (latitude 26°, longitude 115°) in Southern Kiangsi, is a great distributing centre of Szechuan opium.",
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        "content_text": "## 2. Rather more latitude can be allowed in regard to the copper currency, and it is proposed to permit the provincial mints already working to temporarily continue their operations, but they must do so with what machinery they now have, and must not add to it or increase their output. No applications to start new mints will be granted. The touch of the copper coins shall be 95 per cent, copper and 5 per cent, spelter; but if it is preferred, 1 per cent. tin alloy may be used. The weight shall be as follows:\n| Denomination | Weight in Kuping taels |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) 20-cash pieces | 0.4 |\n| (b) 10-cash | +1 -0.4 |\n| (c) 5-cash |  |\n| (d) 2-cash |  |\n\nModel dies shall be issued by the Board, and shall be identical with those used at the Tien-tsin Mint, except that, for purposes of identification, the obverse of the coins shall bear an additional character indicating the mint of origin. At each separate coining the mints shall send samples of the coin to the Tsai Cheng Chin and the Board for assay, and the latter will from time to time appoint officials to go and inspect the mints. Any infringement of the Regulations will involve the immediate prohibition of further operations, and the compulsory recall within a fixed period of the pieces issued for destruction.\n\n## 3. The Government undertakes the issue of a currency for the convenience of its subjects. The 20- and 10-cash pieces cannot be used by the people for buying articles of small value, and an over-production of these would be disadvantageous. To remedy this defect, the Regulations of the Head Mint provide for 5- and 2-cash pieces. It is now proposed to regulate the production of the provincial mints as follows: \nOf the daily output of each mint, 50 per cent. shall be 10-cash pieces, 20 per cent. each 2-cash and 5-cash pieces, and 10 per cent. 20-cash pieces. Subsidiary to the 2-cash pieces, the old small cash may be used.\n\n## 4. Steadiness in the value of the currency can only be maintained by adjusting the amount in circulation to the needs of the people. The provincial offices for the issue of cash and copper coin (`Kuan Ch'ien Kung Ku Chu`) should be instructed to observe the money market and fix the exchange in relation to silver of the new coinage accordingly, and to issue and recall coin as circumstances require. Good faith must be exercised, and the new coinage placed on the same footing as the old cash at their face value. Brokers must not be allowed to make any discount, nor the mints to issue the coin below its face value in order to make a greater profit. Minting shall be stopped when there is an excess on the market.\n\n## 5. The copper coins minted in each province shall first be issued in places in the same province where there is a deficiency of cash. The wholesale export of copper coin to another province, so as to create a surplus there, shall not be allowed. Provinces which have need of copper coin must send the price of the amount they require to the Head Mint at Tien-tsin, which will furnish them with it in return, but distant provinces will be allowed to obtain such supplies from the nearest provincial mint.\n\n## 6. Every three months the Governments of provinces where copper or silver mints have already been established shall furnish to the `Tsai Cheng Chu` and the Board of Revenue a Report stating the number and country of origin of the machines in their mints, the number of stamping machines, the cost-price of the machinery and of the buildings, number of staff, daily working hours, and the amount of silver and copper produced. An annual Report shall also be furnished, showing the amount spent on purchasing materials, the working expenses, and the amount of net profits after deducting these.\n\n## 7. When the coinage of silver is started at Tien-tsin the amount of bullion required will be very large. If this has to be sent to the mint from the Board of Revenue, much useless expense will be incurred in freight. It is therefore proposed that the Board shall select those provinces whose sycee contributions to the Imperial Exchequer are of finest touch, and instruct them to send their contributions direct to the Mint. The Mint officials shall at once weigh such consignments and report immediately to the Board, who will return a sealed acknowledgment to the Mint. The investigation of these provincial contributions is the duty of the Revenue and Kiangnan Departments of the Censorate. But the old procedure will need a satisfactory adjustment, in view of the transmission of the contributions of some of the provinces to the Tien-tsin Mint direct. In order to avoid delaying the officials who accompany the contributions, and to save time, those officials will in future not be required to present the acknowledgment of the Board to the two Departments for inspection; but as this investigation is very important, the Board of Revenue should at every half-year report to the two Departments of the Censorate the amount of contributions received by the Mint from the provinces, and the Provincial Governments should at the same periods also report the amount they have forwarded, so that the two reports may be compared. In this way strict supervision can be exercised, and complications in the old procedure avoided.\n\n## 8. Many merchants, seeing that the minting of copper coins is a lucrative business, have made applications for permission to mint coins, offering a large royalty. It is requested that the Peking and provincial Yaméns may be instructed to refuse all such applications. Inspection should from time to time be made whether private capital is invested in the mints, in which case the operations of such mints should be immediately stopped.\n\n## 9. The coins minted by the Head Mint shall be current in all the provinces. When the Board of Revenue Bank is established, all the coins minted by the Head Mint, with the exception of those required by the Board of Revenue, shall be handed to the Bank for circulation in such places where there is a scarcity of cash.\n\n## 10. It has been the custom of the provincial mints to purchase Japanese copper blanks, which merely require stamping before they are put into circulation. As foreign labour is dearer than Chinese, and as these blanks are very cheap, it seems probable that they are not of the requisite standard, and it is also likely that the importers smuggle large quantities for sale to counterfeiters. A standard has now been settled, and the mints, having been established for some years, should be able to produce sufficient blanks for their own use. The Memorialists have already called on the Provincial Governments to stop the purchase of these blanks, and now propose that these instructions be repeated, and the Commissioners of Customs directed by the `Wai-wu Pu` to enforce a strict prohibition of the importation of them.\n\nAugust 22, 1905.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**Memorial**\n\n**MEMORIAL** of the Financial Commission (`Tsai Cheng Ch'a`) and the Board of Revenue, transmitting a concise statement of the proposed operations of the Tien-tsin Head Mint.\n\n(`Feiyang Kuan Pao`, September 7.)\n\nThe memorialists state that, in obedience to an Imperial Decree, they had undertaken the foundation of a Head Mint at Tien-tsin, and had from time to time reported the progress they had made. A contract had been entered into with Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg, and Co. for the supply of modern minting machinery from America. The proctors in charge of the undertaking and the Tien-tsin Taotai Wang had hurried on the construction of the necessary buildings, and were able in the spring to announce that they were ready for use. The machinery ordered from the foreign firm had also been supplied in consignments, and had been put together as it arrived by the workmen who had been engaged, and is now complete. The first trial minting had been made on the 10th June. The memorialists, Nat'ung and Chang Po-hsi, have at different times during the present month gone to Tien-tsin and inspected the Mint, and find the machinery very ingenious and the buildings very suitable.\n\nThe output of coin per diem originally contracted for was over 600,000 pieces of all kinds, copper and silver, but as yet the machinery does not run smoothly, and the workmen are not yet proficient, so the output for some time will not be so large, but will gradually be increased with practice.\n\nIn addition to the two plans of the Mint, and the specimens of the four kinds of copper coin produced at the Mint which have already been sent, the memorialists beg to present herewith a statement, in eight sections, of the proposed operations of the Mint, for the information of Their Majesties. The memorialists will exhort the officials in charge of the Mint to be energetic in their operations, and as soon as it is in good...",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in No. 2\n\n**Prince Ch'ing to Sir E. Satow**\n\nThe Chinese Government should instruct the Viceroy at Canton to open negotiations with the Representatives of the British and Chinese Corporation.\n\nI have the honour to state, in reply, that the desire of the Chinese gentry and merchants to raise funds, and themselves undertake the line within Kuangtung territory corresponds exactly with the idea that the line within the British leased territory is to be constructed by the Hong Kong Government themselves. On receiving your Excellency's note under acknowledgment, the Board communicated it to the Viceroy at Canton for his consideration; but we must state clearly that we are bound to await the Viceroy's Report as to what plan he proposes before we can inform your Excellency. In the meantime, I have the honour to make this preliminary reply.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Seal of the Board of Foreign Affairs.)\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 2\n\n**Sir E. Satow to Prince Ch'ing**\n\nPeking, September 19, 1905.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highness' note of the 16th instant, with reference to the Canton-Kowloon Railway, in which you state that the desire of the Cantonese Notables and merchants to raise funds and build the Kuangtung section of the line themselves corresponds with the method of the Hong Kong Government in regard to the section in British territory; that my note of the 11th September has been communicated to the Viceroy of Canton for his consideration; but that you must await his Excellency's report before your Highness can reply to my note.\n\nI am obliged to point out once more, in order that there may be no misunderstanding, that whatever the desire of the Cantonese gentry and merchants in regard to this matter, and whatever the plans of the Viceroy, His Majesty's Government look to the Chinese Government and your Highness to see that the terms and conditions of the preliminary Agreement of the 28th March, 1899, are faithfully carried out.\n\nAs the matter is of serious importance, and I have received telegraphic inquiries in regard to it from His Majesty's Government, I shall be glad of an early reply to the request contained in my note of the 11th September, that the instructions of the Imperial Chinese Government may be sent forthwith to his Excellency the Viceroy of Canton to enter into negotiations with a Representative of the British and Chinese Corporation.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Signed) `...`\n\n## 3\n\n## Inclosure 4, in No. X\n\n**Consul-General Scott to Viceroy of Canton**\n\nCanton, August 14, 1905.\n\nRECENTLY I received a telegram from His Majesty's Minister in Peking to the effect that important negotiations were in progress with Viceroy Chang Chih-tung in regard to the Canton-Hankow Railway, involving considerations in connection with the construction of the Canton-Kowloon line, in which it was important to secure your friendly co-operation; and His Majesty's Minister directed me to consult you personally and arrange matters.\n\nI regret, however, that, owing to the unsatisfactory state of your health, I was unable to obtain an interview.\n\nI accordingly wrote to your Private Secretary, Mr. Kao, inclosing copies of the Canton-Kowloon Railway draft Agreement, and also of the proposed working Agreement for communication to your Excellency.\n\nShortly afterwards, I had the honour of a visit from Mr. Kao, conveying the assurance of your friendly co-operation; and this assurance I duly transmitted to His Majesty's Minister.\n\nOf the two draft Agreements, one dealt with the section within Chinese territory. It was practically identical with the Shanghae-Nanking Railway Agreement concluded in 1903 with Shêng Kung Pao. The other covered the necessary arrangements for the joint working of the whole line, including the section within the British territory.\n\nHis Majesty's Minister desired me to assure you that, in the settlement of the various details, every consideration would be shown to the views and wishes of your Government.\n\nI am now in receipt of a further telegram from His Majesty's Minister, informing me that he has received my report, and had duly noted your Excellency's assurance of friendly co-operation. I am also instructed to request your Excellency to record in reply hereto the above assurance, and also your willingness to take early steps to carry out the Agreement of 1899 with Shêng Kung Pao for the construction of the Canton-Kowloon Railway.\n\nERNEST SATOW.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 2\n\n**Consul-General Scott to Sir E. Satow**\n\nCanton, August 24, 1905.\n\nIN accordance with the instructions conveyed in your telegram No. 13 of the 7th August, I placed myself in communication with his Excellency the Viceroy.\n\nI now beg to inclose copy of my letter of the 14th instant, requesting him to record his assurance of friendly co-operation in carrying out the Agreement of 1899 for the construction of the Canton-Kowloon Railway.\n\nI also inclose copy and translation of the Viceroy's reply of the 22nd instant, from which you will see that the Viceroy refuses to hold himself bound by the above Agreement, and declares that all negotiations are at present premature.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) JAMES SCOTT.\n\n## Inclosure 5 in No. 2\n\n**Viceroy of Canton to Consul-General Scott**\n\nAugust 22, 1905.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 14th instant, with reference to the question of the Canton-Kowloon Railway.\n\nSome days ago, Mr. Kao, the foreign deputy, translated for my benefit the copies of the draft and proposed working Agreements which you had forwarded. After careful consideration of these documents, I would point out that, in this draft Agreement which was concluded with Commissioner Shêng, Director-General of Railways in 1899, it is clearly stated that if, in the negotiations with the Viceroy and Governor of this province, difficulties should arise locally, the Agreement should be amended accordingly, the meaning of which is undoubtedly that the Viceroy and Governor shall have absolute control of all matters connected with the administration of the line.\n\nI would further draw your attention to the fact that the present situation is entirely different from the state of affairs obtaining in 1899, and a rigid adherence to the terms of the draft Agreement as concluded by the railway administration is still less feasible now than it was then.\n\nIn short, if the construction of this line is desirable from the point of view of the commercial advantages that would accrue to both countries, then it can only be brought about on these terms, namely, that each Government should undertake the construction of that section of the line which lies within its own clearly-defined boundary. That the section within Kowloon territory should be constructed by the British Government, and the section from Canton to the Chinese frontier of Kowloon by funds raised for the purpose in the province of Kuangtung, each Government to have exclusive and independent control of its own line.",
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        "content_text": "# PHOCLAVATION.\n\nby H.B. the Viceroy and Chang Chien asun.\n\n101\n\nIn view of the importance of railway extension to commercial development, the sanction of the Board of Commerce has been obtained for the formation of a company to undertake the construction of a line from Canton to Amoy. The first section of this line, from Ch'uan Lung K'ou outside the East Gate of Canton to La Chia kei in Ahshapoa, is thirteen miles in length. It then passes through Tseng Ch'ong, Shih Lung Chen in Tung Kuan, Po Lo, Much Shan, Hai Feng and Lu Feng in Hui Chou; Hui Lai, Fu Ning, and Chieh Yang districts in Ch'ao Chou, branching off outside the city of Ch'ao Chou via Yao Ping, and thence to Amoy. The length of the line will be about 500 miles.\n\nOfficers have been deputed, in conjunction with the Pan Yu Magistrate, to thoroughly survey the localities through which the first section of the line, from Canton to Ahshapoa, is to pass, and no obstacles have been discovered in the nature of dwelling houses or graves to prevent the immediate delineation and purchase of the route and the commencement of operations.\n\nOwners of property on route, other than waste land belonging to Government which shall be acquired on such terms as are customary in the locality, should produce all title-deeds to the Company for inspection, and the land shall be purchased at a fair price calculated on the average of recent years. Owners of graves, houses, fruit-trees, ponds, etc. on land thus required, shall be reimbursed at a fair valuation by the Company for all monies expended on the construction, purchase, or removal of the same. In order that the general public may derive as much benefit as possible from the scheme, any owner who shall prefer payment in shares in the line may notify the Company to that effect and shall be allotted shares, bearing interest annually, in proportion to the value of his land. But no owner shall raise the price...",
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        "content_text": "# Sab Enclosure to Enclosure of Secret Despatch of 24/8/06\n## 129\n### Translation\n\nSir,\n\n2nd August, 1906.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt on the 20th July of your dispatch on the subject of the \"Sainam\" piracy case, and I further beg to express my satisfaction at your consent, in our personal interview at Ahangoa on the 24th July, to assist me in devising some satisfactory scheme for the protection of steam vessels.\n\nAfter the accident to the S.S. \"Sainam\", I immediately telegraphed orders that stringent measures should be taken to search out and deal with the pirates. I directed Colonel Huang Pei-sung with Commodores Lin and Chiu of the River Police to despatch launches with troops to proceed to the scene and operate against the robbers both on the waterways and ashore, and to still further ensure the apprehension of the chief offenders I requested the Admiral to proceed personally to superintend the search, so that I have certainly spared no efforts in dealing with the case. The murderer, Liang A Chiu, who shot Mr. Nacionali, has been arrested, as have also Chang A Ping, Chen A Chiu, and Li A Chien, who were implicated in the piracy. The important pirates having all been seized, I am now taking measures to secure the apprehension of the rest, which should, I think, be effected without much difficulty.\n\nThis province, as you are well aware, has always been a hotbed of piracy, and since my appointment as Viceroy the reorganisation of its policing arrangements has been my daily occupation. Notorious pirate chiefs, such as Wu Hsin, Lin Kua Ssu, Chen Na Hang Hai, Tai Mei Hsiang, and Hsu Ta Ming Chin, have all been captured one after another, and in addition to these, in three years altogether more than 10,080 pirates have been punished, exclusive of those who, offering resistance, were killed on the spot. Formerly over one",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n130 \n\nHundreds, or even several hundreds of cases of piracy were reported every month, but during the last few years, since the vigorous measures which I have taken, such cases, although they have of course occurred, have been far less common. But the province is extensive with a vast population of mixed elements, and swarms with brigands. No measures to hunt out and arrest these men can secure their extirpation in a few hours. Even in Europe, cases of robbery and murder occur in spite of the fact that the police are everywhere and the strictest precautions are adopted. Human nature, we know, is not the same, and robbers exist not only in China but in every country.\n\nIt is my earnest desire to secure the suppression of piracy, as you urge me to do, and your statement that no troops have been detached for that purpose can only be due to an imperfect knowledge of the actual state of affairs. It is in no way incumbent upon me to acquaint you in detail with such matters of internal administration, but I see no objection, under the circumstances, to my giving you a general idea of my dispositions.\n\nThere are 83 battalions of Gendarmerie in the province, in five divisions, of which Canton is the Central Division with 25 battalions, distributed amongst the Namhoi, Pan Yu, Hsiang Shan, Tung Kuan, Ksin Hui, Shun Te, Hsin Ning, Tseng Cheng, Hua Hsien, Sanshui, Ching Yuan, Tsung Chang, Lan Men, Tsung Hua, Kao Shan, and Kai Ping districts.\n\nThe prefectures of Hui Chou, Ch'ao Chou, and Chia Ying constitute the Eastern Division with 17 battalions distributed between Hui Shan, Fo Lo, Ho Ping, Lung Ch'uan, Chang Ning, Lien Ping, Lu Feng, Hai Peng, Yun An, Puning, Chao Yang, Chieh Yang, Yao Ping, Cheng Hai, Chia Ying, Hsing Ning, and Chang Lo.\n\nKiungchow forms the Southern Division and has 5 battalions stationed at Kiung Shan, Yai Chou, Yen Chou, Lien Shui, and Wen Chang.\n\nThe Western Division is composed of the prefectures of",
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        "content_text": "# \n131 \n\nShao Ching, Yang Chiang, Lo Ting, Kao Chou, Lien Chou, Chin Chou, \nand Lei Chou, its 32 battalions are quartered in Kao Yao, Yang \nChun, Sin Hsing, Kao Ming, Yang Chiang, Yun Ping, Lo Ping, Ssu Hui, \nKai Chien, Feng Chuan, Hsi Ning, Te Ching, Ma Chuan, Tien Pai, \nHo Fu, Hsin Shih Cheng, Ling Shan, Chin Chou, Fang Cheng, Hua Chou, \nSui Chi, Wu Chuan, Hsu Wen, and Tung An. \n\nShao Chou, Nan Hsiung, and Lien Chou constitute the Northern \nDivision with 4 battalions distributed amongst Chu Chiang, Ying Te, \nMeng Yuan, Shih Hsing, Lien Chou, Jen Hua, Yang Shan, Nan Hsiung, \nand Le Chang. \n\nThe Water Police are in four Divisions, the Kuang An, Shao \nAn, Hui An and Shao An, for the Canton Delta, the west, East and \nNorth Rivers respectively. The old-fashioned guardboats used by \nthese forces have not yet been entirely superseded, as it has not \nbeen found possible to finish all the new boats. These will be \nsubstituted for the older boats as completed. \n\nOver 60 launches of various sizes are constantly patrolling \nthe various sections of the inland waterways and the open sea. The \nTactai of Wuchow in Kuangsi, on the Kuang Tung frontier has also \nbeen ordered to do his utmost with the naval and military forces at \nhis disposal to capture pirates. \n\nWhen these forces are thus stationed at all important places \nin my jurisdiction it cannot be said that I have taken no steps to \neradicate the evil. \n\nWith regard to the \"Seinan\" case, I am informed by Tactais \nMen and Kung, my senior Deputies, who interrogated the crew, that \nthe latter stated that formerly the passengers on the \"Seinan\" were \noccasionally searched, but that on this occasion no search was made. \nThe consequence was that the pirates concealed themselves on board \ndisguised as passengers, and for this the carelessness of the captain is responsible. Again, while the ship was being pirated, she \ncontinued on her ordinary course, and neither gave the alarm by \nblowing the whistle nor hoisted the police flag, so that the police",
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        "content_text": "Anone case prosed: (4) That moral reasonable suspicion that general corruption exists \n\ndoes not make it the less necessary to prove strictly that it exists in one particular case.\n\nJakine \n\nthe changes in their aver.\n\nChange (a.) \n\nReceiving $720 from \n\nmonthly \n\nJum \n\na Chinese form.\n\nThe best part of \n\nthe evidence is \n\nmere hearsay sought not to be considered seriously. The entries \n\nin the books \n\nwere not evidence \n\nagainst Kelly at all. Be \n\nKago that the f tok.\n\nthe love oko \n\nThe material part of the \n\nSan is at ff 5+6 where he states that on dates occasions which he does not remember he made in the kitchen f 2001 de Voux Road. Later he can only stick to one occasion on which he \n\npayments to Kelly \n\nhanded money to him.\n\nReading the shift \n\n& doubtful statements \n\nof this witness I don't believe him.\n\nShaye (b.) \n\nLeung is \n\nthe best witness. (12302 \n\nff (414)) that on one occasion he paid money to Kelly.\n\n(413) He can \n\nsay certainly that \n\nit was probably he that paid $10 \n\nAs to Cheng Kwong.\n\nShe never made any posts p28 on the order \n\non the entries in the books are not evidence.\n\nto Kelly of the \n\n\"Advertising\" says \n\nTrepped chaye, as not proved.\n\nI think the \n\nsame as to chaye (b.)\n\nChange c. Some note the abominable \n\nleading questions put. I suffice he knew no better.\n\n$21 by the Hewitt \n\nKelly admits having received all these goods.\n\nHe admits that he has not paid for them. Chan tat sing says that Kelly came & ordered the first have personally.\n\nto have been ordered The other goods \n\nby Hing's \n\nfirm accountant.\n\nShe \n\nwoman \n\nnot called \n\nSo the order was not perfectly proved but Kelly admits receipt.\n\ngood \n\nIt comes to this that Kelly ordered & did not pay for them. I think \n\nproved.\n\nthis maybe regarded \n\nIt maybe improper conduct but it \n\ndismissal.\n\ndoes not justify \n\nChaye (d) \n\nThis is grotesque.\n\nThe \n\nEffo \n\nwere paid \n\nfor in Ting (132) says the market price was \n\nten cents \n\ncertainly.",
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        "content_text": "W A PENA MAS D \n\n1,\n\n■danda da kimaça. on 1 ***0 på pag nilubna või \n\n14 on flomoid tuita: 96 usod \n\nki vartop: Byf* Ti \n\ncalden wil dita erob ad I,!l»# \n\n‚ætturonne $43 die 2519-TOS 192212 \n\nal tug en að mér 3 #STEA ad medf \n\nSercombe Smith:- \n\n9. \n\n314 \n\nThe entries to which we have referred you, are they \n\nor are they made by you \n\nmade by you and one other man, \n\nand two other men ? \n\n- \n\n(Question repeated). Did he and one other man make these entries, or did he and two other men make these entries, - nothing about handing out the money ? \n\nA. \n\nOnly myself and assistant, - my assistant, \n\nentries. \n\nmade the \n\nr Compertz:- \n\nWhat is the assistant's name ? \n\nbar re \n\nA. \n\nCheng Kwong. \n\nfan cong Foðtion & ni Ji todes: Taonga #Liwut? Szob I \n\nor Atkinson:- \n\n* ph swd grees - Sko. \n\nA \n\nHIJI ZA \n\nIr Hewett:- \n\n919 400 \n\nIr Sercombe Smith:- \n\nWell, we will take the 2nd August 1905. \"Paid Kal Ki $20\".\"It did not pass through my hands\". Through his \n\nhands? Was that payment made on that day ? \n\nThe payment is made by one, \n\nthe book by another. \n\nand the entry is made in \n\nWho made that entry on the 2nd August, please ? \n\nA. \n\nIt was also my foki that made it. \n\nIr Gompertz:- \n\nWhat name ? \n\nWho of 24 \n\nA. \n\nCheng Kwong. \n\nDr Atkinson:- \n\nAflate fat, ai prie tur \n\nWell, what is the name of the man who made the payment \n\nof $15 in November ? \n\n1210 \n\nIr Sercombe Smith:- \n\nThe payment, or the entry ↑ \n\n1SCHON SIT TH \n\nDr Atkinson:- \n\nThe entry, I mean. \n\n*** za cz pie penaltwater park! \n\ngalan sa qriksaq tron gos 3 mvang ng med 24 Jade b \n\nIr Sercombe Smith:- \n\nThe entry of the 22nd November ? \n\nA. \n\n$15. Well, I made that entry. \n\n•Love N \n\nDr Atkinson:- \n\nHe said \"My foki made it\". \n\n13 J \n\nKr Sercombe Smith:- \n\nI asked you that just now, and you said no. \n\nHood - Mi vxine Ba wing of DAMELIA \n\n„Raud saa tatZUA AKA A \n\nni snovmusi \n\nA. \n\nIt appears to me as if I had made it. \n\nQ. \n\nIt may be you that made that entry after all ? \n\n? \n\nA. \n\nando se \n\nDRA \n\nA. \n\nYes, the handwritings of us two are very much alike. Would you look at it carefully now, and make up your \n\nmind who made that entry. \n\nLooking at that book, it looks as if it was my entry, What I looked at previously was not this book, but",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nC.O.\n\n5316\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNot\n\n[December 6.]\n\nSECTION\n\nR14 FEB 06\n\n64\n\nConsul-General Fraser to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received December 6.)\n\n(No. 5.) My Lord,\n\nHankow, October 31, 1905.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward copy of a despatch which I have this day addressed to His Majesty's Minister at Peking,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nE. H. FRASER.\n\n~Inclosure in No. 1-\n\nConsul-General Fraser to Sir E. Satow.\n\n(No. 54. Very Confidential.) Sir,\n\nHankow, October 31, 1905.- I HAVE the honour to report a message, conveyed to me in strict confidence from the Viceroy Chang, through his Chief Secretary Wang, yesterday evening, on the subject of the loans for the Hankow-Canton and the Hupei section of the Szechuan-Hankow railways, which his Excellency has desired to arrange with British financiers.\n\nThe former loan was mooted by his Excellency Chang early in the course of his negotiations for British aid in the resumption of the China Development Company's Concession, but the strong views of the Hunan gentry prevented details being gone into, and ultimately led the Viceroy to meditate, as a first step, the building of the short Hupei section of the southern trunk line.\n\nWhen I accompanied Messrs. Hillier and Ross on their visit to his Excellency Chang on the 12th instant they were prepared to offer to float a loan of 1,000,000l. for the construction of this section, and the paying-off of the bonds issued by the China Development Company, which are mostly in Belgian hands. His Excellency informed us, however, that all construction loans for the Hankow-Canton line had been strictly forbidden, owing to the Belgian and French Ministers having set up a claim on behalf of the builders of the Pei-Han line to prior right to construct that line.\n\nI pointed out on what a flimsy basis such a claim rested, and was assured that the Chinese Government had absolutely refused to entertain it, but that the Wai-wu Pu had been moved by this action of the Belgians and French to support the advocates of building this railway only with native capital.\n\nThe Viceroy treated the delay thus caused as only a temporary obstacle, but said its existence prevented any discussion except as to the Hupei section of the Szechuan-Hankow line.\n\nIn the conversation that followed, the terms of a satisfactory arrangement were sketched out, leaving only the question of the net price to be paid his Excellency for further discussion.\n\nOn the 18th instant I sent the Viceroy a Chinese translation of those terms as noted down by Mr. Ross, and a detailed Memorandum based on the explanations of Mr. Hillier, as to the cost of floating a loan on the London market. The latter was designed to show his Excellency that the 94 per cent. offered was not a low figure, and I added that it might be slightly raised if the other terms were agreed to.\n\nHis Excellency presently replied that the note of terms needed some modification, and so soon as he could get approval of the loan from his Government he would send his secretaries to talk the matter over.\n\nOn the evening of the 25th instant Mr. Wang sent me a confidential note explaining that the Viceroy must be sure of a decree of approval before he concluded an Agreement, and that he was trying by telegram to overcome the clamour in Peking in favour of using Chinese capital for railway building,\n\nYesterday evening Mr. Wang called to tell me, from his Excellency Chang, that there is at present no hope of obtaining sanction for any foreign loan for railway purposes.\n\n[2295 ƒ-3]\n\n2\n\nPage 64\n\nPage 65",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nHe stated that Sheng Hsüan-huai and Wu Ting-fang felt the resumption of the American Concession as a disgrace to them, who were chiefly concerned in negotiating it; they had, therefore, supported the party that advised the transfer of that Concession from the China Development Company to some other American Syndicate. These opponents made common cause with the Hunanese and the students from Japan, who clamoured for the employment of China's own resources only, and denounced all railway loans as surrenders of their country's sovereign rights. When to these obstacles was added the Belgo-French claim, the metropolitan authorities, who were mostly more skilled in literary matters than in practical affairs, took fright, and forced the Wai-wu Pu to interdict all loans whatever for building the Hankow-Canton line. The Viceroy protested that his proposed loan would not mortgage the line, and would leave its working and control in Chinese hands, but it was in vain.\n\nHis Excellency Chang then telegraphed the terms of the loan for the Hupei section of the Szechuan-Hankow Railway, laid stress on Hupei's inability to find the necessary capital, besides bearing a share of the cost of redeeming the American Concession, pointed out that the Szechuan line would be useless without an outlet through Hupei, and that the Chinese Government had promised to employ British capital for this line.\n\nThe Wai-wu Pu replied that subsequent to that promise the throne approved the Szechuan Viceroy's scheme to build the whole line with Chinese capital; that France claimed to have had an understanding with Szechuan that it should give aid in building this railway, while Germany protested that the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank had first proffered a loan (ignoring the fact that the price was 92¼, and the Viceroy said he must be free to accept better offers); and that to authorize this loan would be cited as a precedent for other provinces. The Board therefore would not recognize any Agreement made by the Viceroy, who appealed to Ch'i Hung-ch'i, as a Hunanese of weight and experience. The reply, however, was that while his Excellency Ch'i fully approved of the Viceroy's proposed loans, he dare not, in the face of the clamour for keeping China for the Chinese, \"open his mouth.\"\n\nUnder these circumstances his Excellency was reluctantly forced to give up all idea of borrowing for the present. He thoroughly appreciated the fairness of our terms, and knew that six months hence a loan at even 94 might be quite impossible; but unless the Wai-wu Pu at least refrained from opposition he could not get the Imperial sanction, which was as indispensable for pledging provincial revenues as for making bonds saleable. He would let me know as soon as he saw a chance of getting a loan through, and he would not let our competitors profit by their obstructive tactics.\n\nFinally, Mr. Wang was told to suggest that the best hope lay in letting the Wai-wu Pu calm down, and in refraining from pointing out the unwisdom of its present attitude.\n\nI have &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nE. H. FRASER.\n\n3\n\n65",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\n4256\n\n# CHINA TRADE.\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[959]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[January 5, 1906.]\n\nTHE FEE 06 SECTION 3.\n\n112\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received January 8, 1906.)\n\n(No. 388.) My Lord,\n\nPeking, November 15, 1905.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 204 of the 9th June, I have the honour to inclose a copy of a letter which I addressed to Prince Ching on the 20th ultimo on the subject of revised Mining Regulations.\n\nI have repeatedly urged this matter on the attention of Prince Ch'ing, Natung, and Ch'ü Hung-ch'i, and on the 7th instant Mr. C. W. Campbell, by my direction, made a strong complaint to Viceroy Yuan Shih-k'ai against the delay that has taken place.\n\nThe delay is no doubt intentional and prompted by the existing anti-concession agitation. The fear that applications for Mining Concessions will pour in as soon as satisfactory Regulations are established and cause endless embarrassment to the governing authorities is also a factor in the provincial opposition. I have, moreover, reason to suspect that alarm caused by the number of mining claims in the Province of Hunan, which the German Minister is pressing on behalf of a German firm at Hankow, counts for something in Viceroy Chang's share of the delay.\n\nI shall not fail to continue pressing the subject on the attention of the Chinese Government.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nERNEST SATOW.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to Prince Ch'ing.\n\nPeking, October 20, 1905.\n\nON the 9th June last your Highness was so good as to inform me that a communication had been received from the Hukuang Viceroy to the effect that the draft of Mining Regulations sent to his Excellency last winter by Mr. Wu Ting-Fang had been carefully considered by Mr. Broad, a British mining engineer of reputation; that Mr. Broad having submitted his observations, a revision was being made by other persons, Chinese and foreign, appointed by his Excellency for the purpose, and that this revision would probably be completed in about a month, when it would be embodied in a Memorial by the Viceroy and referred for consideration to the Wai-wu Pu and the Board of Commerce.\n\nDuring the past three months I have made verbal inquiries of your Highness and the Wai-wu Pu, and have always been told that the Regulations are still in the hands of the Hukuang Viceroy. In view of the fact that in June last his Excellency thought a month would be sufficient for the final revision of the draft Regulations, I would suggest that steps be taken to expedite the fulfilment of the pledges given to His Majesty's Government in Article IX of the Commercial Treaty of 1902.\n\nThe favour of an early reply is requested.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Signed) ERNEST SATOW.\n\n[1830]",
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        "content_text": "the foreign Representatives in Peking? Further, if such consent is necessary, will it be accorded in the present instance? It is on these two points that I have the honour to ask for your instructions.\n\nAs regards the first, I have been unable to find in the archives of this Consulate any definite ruling on the subject. Article 6 of the Revised Yang-tsze Regulations says, \"Native craft owned or chartered by British merchants on entry into any port will pay port dues according to Chinese tariff,\" while the Chungking Agreement (Article 4) differentiates between foreign-owned and chartered junks, the former to pay tonnage dues according to Treaty, the latter port dues, as above stipulated. (I should here mention that there are at present no foreign-owned vessels plying between this port and Chungking.)\n\nThe Commissioner of Customs, with whom I have discussed the matter, is of opinion that the levy in question need not, and should not, be regarded as an increase in the port dues; that it should be considered as a special contribution made by all vessels using the upper river to an object in which they are directly interested; and that as long as a sufficient portion of the revenue derived from the Native Customs is devoted, in the terms of the Final Protocol, to the payment of the indemnity, no objection can be taken to the Chinese authorities levying an extra tax in the manner and for the purpose indicated.\n\nHis argument appears to me to be eminently reasonable, but, as a question of principle and of precedent, I venture to think that your consent is necessary to these fees being levied on vessels chartered by British firms at Ichang and Chungking.\n\nAssuming this view to be correct, I would submit that, with certain reservations, the scheme proposed by the Chinese authorities might well be given a trial. It should be distinctly understood that, as the collection is to be in the hands of the Maritime Customs, that Department must have some, if not the whole, control over the expenditure. One might even go a step further and suggest that the Commissioner of Customs at Ichang, with the expert assistance at his disposal in the Coast Department, should direct the operations of the Pao Lu Chu. This arrangement was recommended by Lieutenant-Commander Watson, of His Majesty's ship Woodcock, in December 1901. (Hydrographic Department Reports No. 181, Yang-taze No. 2.)\n\nIt is, I venture to think, necessary to guard against the Chinese authorities prejudicing, by ill-considered and imperfect attempts at bridling the rapids of the Upper Yang-tsze, the Treaty right of foreign shipping firms to effect the necessary improvements themselves. On the other hand, we should, perhaps, do well not to discourage the somewhat new and unusual interest now being displayed by the local authorities in this important question.\n\nI have briefly replied to the Taotai (copy and translation of my despatch inclosed) intimating that your approval is necessary before I can agree to any further fees being levied on chartered junks, and in conversation with Mr. Chang, the new Deputy, who has called on me, I have assured him that any practical scheme for the improvement of the waterways above Ichang will most certainly have the sympathy and support of the British Government.\n\nDr. Müller, the German Consul, has written to the Taotai in a similar sense.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) HARRY H. FOX.\n\nThe special rate, if levied impartially, on native junks would appear to be within the province of the Chinese authorities.\n\nE. H. FRASER.\n\nHankow, November 24, 1905.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nSir,\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nChin Taotai to Acting Consul Ottewill.\n\nKuang Hsü, 31st year, 10th moon, 2nd day\n\n(October 29, 1905).\n\nTHE rapid flow of the waters of the upper river is a constant source of danger to life, and, accordingly, vessels greatly dread the journey, owing to the fact that, the banks on both sides being precipitous, there is no room for a proper tracking path, so that trackers have the greatest difficulty in passing the dangerous places. Last year my predecessor, Yü Taotai, obtained permission from the high authorities to raise a fund (for the purpose of constructing a road), and, in conjunction with the Provincial Treasurer Li and a gentleman of Chiang Hsia, named Han, collected the money required. They appointed Chang Te Ping, late Department Magistrate of Kuei Chou, and others to place in thorough repair the tracking paths through the gorges. A year was spent in completing this work.\n\nIt is obvious that work of this kind, to be of any real value, must be continued and not allowed to drop; if these paths are not kept in good repair they will certainly not last, and the labour spent on them will be in vain.\n\nMr. Chang has therefore, in accordance with his instructions, drawn up a set of proposed Regulations, ten in number, whereby an Office, to be called Pao Lu Chu, is established at Ichang, and all vessels proceeding up-river, whether chartered by foreigners or native-owned, shall pay a fee based on the amount of their freight—viz., 2 cash per 1,000 (tiao) to be paid by the shipper, and 2 cash per 1,000 by the junk-master, the proceeds to be devoted to the annual upkeep of the tracking paths. As this proposal will affect chartered junks, he asks me to request the Consul to be good enough to instruct all owners of British chartered junks to pay in accordance with the above Regulations.\n\nI am\n\nI have the honour to observe that a levy of this kind is a worthy undertaking for the benefit of merchants, and, moreover, the subscription of 2 cash on every 1,000 cash worth of freight is extremely light. Knowing well the great interest you take in commercial matters, I am sure (the proposal) will meet with your approval. Addressing a similar despatch to the German Consul and the Commissioner of Customs, and I beg to inclose, for your information, a copy of the Regulations referred to.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Seal of Taotai.)\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Fox to Chin Taotai.\n\nKuang Hsü, 31st year, 10th moon, 20th day\n\n(November 16, 1905).\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch addressed to my predecessor, Mr. Ottewill, dated the 29th October, in which you state that, in order to maintain in good repair the tracking path through the gorges constructed last year, it is proposed to levy a small fee on all vessels, both foreign-chartered and native-owned, proceeding up-river. You add that for this purpose an Office named Pao Lu Chü will be established at Ichang, and you ask me to instruct British owners of chartered junks to subscribe in accordance with the Regulations, copy of which is inclosed.\n\nI have the honour to observe that, all dues paid by foreign-owned and chartered vessels being regulated by Treaty and Agreements concluded between our respective Governments, I myself have not the power to consent or to withhold my consent to any additional levy being made; this is a matter for settlement between the Wai-wu Pu and the British Minister in Peking.\n\nI am accordingly forwarding copy of your despatch and the proposed Regulations for the consideration of the Minister, and on the receipt of his reply I will again communicate with you on the subject.\n\nThe scheme of maintaining in good repair the tracking path through the gorges and providing capstans and hawsers at the most difficult points for the assistance of ascending vessels is undoubtedly a most excellent one, benefiting alike native and foreign merchants and travellers. If hereafter it is mutually agreed to raise funds for the purpose, the simplest way, in my opinion, would be for the Foreign Customs at Ichang to undertake the collection of subscriptions, on behalf of the Pao Lu Chu, as a temporary measure.\n\nThe Foreign Customs have for some years past collected all dues on both foreign and native shipping at this port, so that their so doing in the present case would on the one hand save expenses, and on the other be more likely to meet with the approval of the merchants concerned.\n\n(Signed)\n\nI have, &c.\n\nHARRY H. FOX.\n\nPage 199",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1,\n\nConsul Fox to Sir E. Satow.\n\n(No. 18.) Sir,\n\nIchung, November 29, 1905. IN continuation of my despatch No. 16 of this series dated the 19th instant, I have now the honour to forward copy and translation of the Regulations therein referred to.\n\nMr. Chang, the Deputy, informs me that the Taotai is at present unwilling to place the collection of these fees in the hands of the foreign Customs, and that, therefore, Articles 1 and 10 remain as originally drafted.\n\nAs I pointed out in my previous despatch, this method of collection is most unsatisfactory, and is not, I believe, acceptable to the shipping firms interested. I have no doubt some arrangement will be arrived at whereby, without offending the susceptibilities of the local authorities, the finances of the new Office will be controlled by the foreign Customs. I have told the Deputy plainly that, unless this is done, I do not think the enterprise has any chance of being successful.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\n(Translation.)\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nProposed Ten Regulations.\n\nHARRY H. FOX.\n\n1. IT is proposed to levy at Tchang on all vessels carrying cargo going up-river, on each tiao (1,000 cash) of freight, 2 cash payable by the shipper, 2 cash payable by the master of the vessel, proceeds to be devoted to the expenses of the Road-Maintenance Office. It appears that a large number of Szechuan merchants are resident at Ichang in connection with the four firms, Butterfield and Swire, Jardine Matheson, Stewart and Co., and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha. The freight on the cotton yarn, piece-goods, and sundries sent up-river by these merchants amounts annually to over 1,200,000 tiap (1,171,875 dollars, at 1,024 cash per dollar) at a rough estimate. Supposing 2 cash per tiao levied on shipper and junk-master, this would bring in annually over 4,000 tiao (3,906 dollars). These fees would be collected on both chartered and native vessels, and the money thus realized devoted to the repair and maintenance of the tracking paths and all matters connected with the rapids; certainly none would be likely to object, and some merchants might care to make additional contributions.\n\n2. It is proposed to establish a special Office at Ichang for the collection of the above-mentioned fees. The Deputy shall be nominated by the Szechuan merchants and receive his instructions from the Taotai at Ching Chou. In addition, two persons shall be chosen each year by the merchants to form a Committee, who shall be associated with the officials in managing the business and controlling the funds. If it is found that the Deputy is acting improperly, the Committee shall petition to have him removed and punished; if, on the other hand, the Deputy does well, the Committee shall petition for him to be maintained in office so that his experience may be turned to advantage.\n\n3. Triplicate certificates shall be issued as receipts for fees, stamped with the Taotai's official seal. A detailed statement of the sums collected and expended shall be sent into the Taotai's yamên each month for purposes of audit.\n\n4. It has been the custom of the Ichang passenger hongs when hiring passenger boats to charge the junk-master a commission of 20 per cent., a most improper practice. It will be distinctly laid down in the Regulations that the junk-master shall only be charged 10 per cent, in future, of which 5 per cent, will go to the Pao Lu Chü, and 5 per cent. to the passenger hong. Now a fee of 5 per cent, levied on passenger junks is certainly heavier than what will be paid by cargo boats, but it must be remembered that this money will come out of the pockets of the passenger hongs, who have hitherto defrauded the junk-masters, and will not be paid by the passengers. The junk-master, who has hitherto only received 80 per cent. of his passage money, will now receive 90 per cent., and will therefore have no cause to worry passengers to lend him money en route. The 5 per cent, which the passenger hong will receive is quite sufficient remuneration for their services. Any attempt on their part to extort more than their due should at once be reported by the junk-master to the local authorities, who will investigate and punish accordingly.\n\n5. In summer and autumn the Yeh-t'an Rapid is reputed to be at its worst; in winter and spring the Hsin-t'an. In making the ascent tracking ropes often break, causing vessels to capsize. The number of vessels wrecked each year, and lives and property lost, is very considerable. As the ropes breaking is usually the cause of the disaster, it is now proposed to purchase a foreign windlass, with about 100 chang (1,175 English feet) of four-fifths of an inch wire hawser; this will be attached to the masthead of the larger junks and wound up by the trackers; this will be used whenever the bamboo ropes are not sufficient to stand the strain. This system will first be given a trial at the Yeh-t'an and Hsin-t'an Rapids; if the windlasses prove successful they will be used at other places.\n\n6. At places where the windlasses are set up ten coolies will be employed as haulers. A small boat, manned by two sailors, will be hired and stationed at the water's edge to see that the hawser does not get into the water or caught on rocks (these men are locally called \"shui-wan-tis\"). The above-mentioned coolies and sailors will be paid by the Pao Lu Chû. At the Hsin-t'an Rapid, in winter and spring, they will be in charge of the local Deputy, at the Yeh-t'an, in summer and autumn, of the Captain of the Chung Chiang Shui Shih guard-boats. The Pao Lu Chü will make a monthly grant of 4 tiao to each of these officers, and thus avoid the expense of employing special men of their own.\n\n7. The river begins to fall during the first days of the 10th moon. All paths in need of repair, whether broken down by the overflow from the hills or damaged by the stream, will then be personally inspected by an official from the Pao Lu Chü and a member of the Committee, who shall make an estimate of the length of paths requiring repair and engage stonemasons for the purpose. They will at the same time report to the local authorities, who will take the necessary steps to preserve order while the works are in progress.\n\n8. There are dangerous rapids near one or other of the gorges at all the seasons of the year. A \"Fu-tou,\" or Headman, will be stationed at each rapid, who will, when vessels arrive at the rapid, engage additional trackers to haul out the tracking-lines. There has always been a fixed price for these services, varying according to the size of the vessel, but of late years the Headmen have been in the habit of pocketing a great part of the money paid them, and using women and young boys to make up the number of trackers, thus adding to the difficulties of ascending the rapids. Under the new Regulations the Headmen at the various rapids will only be allowed to employ able-bodied men, and they will not be permitted to appropriate the local trackers' wages as heretofore.\n\n9. As existing paths have been constructed wherever the strong current required them, they must instantly be repaired when damaged, for the benefit of the public. At two rapids, the Ping Shu Pao Chien and the Yeli Hu Shan-pei, no paths have yet been made, owing to the expense and difficulties of construction. If the annual income proves sufficient, they will be taken in hand as occasion offers. At the two places above mentioned large quantities of dynamite will be required, and as this cannot be purchased locally, the Shan ou Chü (at Wuchang) will be asked to supply it.\n\n10. At Ichang every junk-master loading cargo will be called upon to pay his subscription of 2 cash per tiao of freight to the Pao Lu Chü, and it shall be incumbent on every shipper to do the same; only one receipt will be given to each vessel, in order to avoid repetition. Any person found attempting to defraud by false declarations will be fined, and the proceeds paid into the Pao Lu Chü.\n\n(No. 2.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to Consul Fox.\n\nPeking, December 20, 1903.\n\nI HAVE received your despatches Nos. 16 and 18, of the 19th and 29th ultimo, respecting the junk fee which it is proposed to levy for the upkeep of tracking paths and other improvements on the Yang-tsze.\n\nI approve the terms of your reply to the Taotai of the 16th November, and of your remarks to Mr. Chang, as reported in your first despatch.\n\nTo the new tax itself I have no objection, provided that its collection and disbursement can be properly regulated, and that it is distinctly understood that it is not a tax on goods, and that all chartered junks will be on the same footing.\n\n200",
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        "content_text": "We have the honour to state, in reply, that the Mining Regulations, as drawn up by the Viceroy of the Hukuang Provinces, Chang Chih-tung, were laid before the Throne, and by Imperial Rescript referred for consideration to this Board and Board of Commerce.\n\nIt is now, of course, undesirable to put a complete stop to their so doing. But the treaties which have been concluded in the past constantly contain provisions which judicially affect the interests of Chinese subjects, or encroach on the sovereignty of China. The Regulations in question are extremely complicated, and we have laid our views thereon before the Throne. When this has been done we will send in a copy of the Regulations for your perusal.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nWe avail, &c.\n\nLetters to the following intent :-\n\nChina agrees to invite foreign as well as Chinese capital to embark in mining enterprises, and will permit foreigners of all nationalities to develop mining property, provided they comply with the regulations drawn up by China relating to mining affairs; but these regulations must not place (foreign) mining capitalists at a greater advantage than they would be under generally accepted foreign regulations. Accordingly, it is only obligatory that the regulations which are to be decided on, whether in relation to new or old enterprises, shall secure foreign capitalists from being placed at any disadvantage.\n\nMemorial of the Hukuang Viceroy, Chang Chih-tung, submitting the Mining Regulations to the Throne,\n\n(\"Universal Gazette,\" January 28, 1906.)\n\nOn the other hand, steps must be taken to secure the interests of Chinese subjects, the sovereignty of China, and the local administration, and to draft the regulations in the best manner so as to remedy the mistakes that have been made. Too much complaisance must not be shown to the desires of others, so as to result in the abandonment of China's inexhaustible resources.\n\nA respectful Memorial, in pursuance of Imperial Decree, submitting for consideration of your Majesties a copy of the proposed Mining Regulations for China.\n\nWhat China is rich in is her mineral resources; what she lacks is capital.\n\nIn August 1902 the following Imperial Decree was received :-\n\n\"Mining affairs are one of the important questions which are now awaiting the attention of the Government. We have recently received a telegraphic Memorandum from Liu Kun-yi and Chang Chih-tung reporting that they are making selection from the mining regulations of foreign countries, and with the most careful deliberation deciding on satisfactory regulations. Their purpose is very proper, and therefore we do not let the two Viceroys make careful selection from the conditions under which mining affairs are managed in foreign countries, jointly decide on satisfactory regulations, submit them to us for the issue of a Decree. It is our earnest desire that, with a view to safeguarding rights and manifesting the importance of mining affairs, no irregularities will mar the general observance of these regulations. Respect this.\"\n\nIrrespectively whether the land is private or public property, or whether the capitalists are Chinese or foreigners, the land-owner contributes the mining land as his share of the partnership, and the promoter his capital as his share. In mines coming under Class (A), which includes all abundant and important mineral deposits, the land-owner and capitalist take an equal number of shares in the partnership, and deducting the working expenses, which are taken by the capitalist himself, the profits are divided equally between the partners.\n\nLiu Kun-yi afterwards died of illness. Your servant thereupon proceeded to select and depute a number of Chinese and foreign officials, and caused copies of Mining Regulations of Great Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Belgium, and Spain to be purchased and translations carefully made. These were forwarded in the winter of 1903-1904 to the Board of Foreign Affairs, by whom they were handed to the Vice-President, Wu Ting-fang. He took them into consideration and coupled with some students who had completed a course of education in Japan, to carefully revise them with the aid of selections from the Mining Regulations of Japan.\n\nI then again reviewed them myself: for it was essential, in order to prevent irregularities and safeguard rights, that every one of these regulations was the least unsuited to the conditions existing in China should be thoroughly digested and deliberated before being decided on. The Mining Regulations for China are humbly presented herewith in two volumes - one containing the Principal Regulations in seventy-four clauses, the other the Supplementary Regulations in seventy-... clauses.\n\nThe partnership of the owner of the mines with the foreign capitalist, in which the land-owner and the foreign capitalist each enjoy a share in the profits, is a most simple and equitable arrangement; the foreign capitalist, of course, suffers no loss, because the land takes no share in partnership nor in the profits until all the working expenses are deducted and there remains a net profit over.\n\nI consider that the Mining Regulations for China now being decided on, which clearly grant foreigners permission to open mines in the interior, are in every way more lenient than the generally accepted regulations of foreign countries, and, moreover, the rules regarding the extent of mining areas, the ground rents, and levies on output are altogether more moderate.\n\nIt is evident that China attaches importance to her sovereignty and not to gain so as to make foreigners willing to act in accordance with her methods and to observe her laws. Moreover, in all cases, both the State and people enjoy the profits: in first-class mines the State and people take equal shares in the net profits; in second-class mines the profits are all given to the people.\n\nIt is a general practice in foreign countries in dealing with land to make a distinction between the surface and the subsoil; the powers of private owners of land are restricted to the surface. The subsoil is wholly the property of the State; therefore, though mining property is developed on private lines by natives of the country, yet the authority to sanction or disallow such enterprises rests wholly with the State.\n\nIn regard to metallic ores, beds containing precious stones and deposits of valuable and important mineral deposits, the rule that official authorization must be obtained is even more strict. As for mines being worked by foreigners, that is absolutely forbidden; and if foreigners embark capital in Mining Companies, the direction of such concerns rests in the native shareholders, who must be in the majority. Japanese law on this subject is even more strict, for by their regulations foreigners are not permitted to invest in mining concerns.\n\nPage 345\n\n... \n\nPage 346\n\n \nis not present in the original text, hence not included.",
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        "content_text": "C.C.\n\nry of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to Prince Ching.\n\nPeking, February 3, 1906.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highness' note of the 1st February with reference to the Burmah-Yunnan frontier north of latitude 25° 35' north, informing me of a telegram received from the Viceroy of Yunnan, in accordance with which I am requested to move His Majesty's Government to appoint another officer to take the place of Mr. Litton, lately deceased.\n\nIf your Highness will examine my note of the 20th January you will observe that I mentioned that both Consul Litton and Taotai Shih were not to delimit the frontier, but were to furnish Reports for the information of their respective Governments.\n\nI also said that Mr. Litton had submitted a detailed Report, which has been considered by His Majesty's Government, and that means that before his death he furnished His Majesty's Government with all the information required. It is therefore unnecessary to appoint another officer to deal with the question, as suggested by the Viceroy of Yunnan.\n\nI have again the honour to request that the Wai-wu Pu will appoint a day for a meeting, in order to arrive at an amicable settlement of the question.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nERNEST SATOW.\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nDraft Article.\n\nWHEREAS, by the terms of Article IV of the Convention between Great Britain and China of the 1st March, 1894, it was agreed that the settlement and delimitation of that portion of the Burmah-China frontier which lies to the north of latitude 25° 35′ north should be reserved for a future understanding between the High Contracting Parties when the features and condition of the country were more accurately known, it is now agreed between the Governments of Great Britain and China that the boundary of the two Empires in the territory lying to the north of latitude 25° 35' north shall follow the watershed between the Irrawaddy and Salween basins up to the confines of Thibet.\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Litton to Consul-General Wilkinson.\n\nTengyueh, December 9, 1905.\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\nI REACHED point on the Salween eight marches further than the highest point reached last spring. Also explored two new passes on the Salween-Mekong divide, and also one on the Salween-Irrawaddy divide. We were able to trace the course of the Salween up to latitude 27° 20′ north, up to which point the Salween is confined in a series of ridges and the country is very difficult. [At] 26° 20′ there is some Chinese authority, but this country is much disturbed by the bad conduct of the Tu Ssu. Further north there is no trace of Chinese authority up to 27° 35', where Yetche territory begins. Independent tract is inhabited by Lissu, under conditions of utter savagery. Examination shows that the Salween-Irrawaddy divide continues to be a conspicuous range, 12,000 feet to 13,000 feet, up to about latitude 28° 30′ north, where it is merged in a vast snow range trending east and west, which I saw at a distance. No trouble with tribes, but great hardships. Please communicate substance of my telegram to British Minister.\n\nSOUTH-WEST CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[15301]\n\n(No. 8.)\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n351\n\nMay 5.\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nThe one\n\nConsul-General Wilkinson to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received May 5.)\n\nYunnan-fu, March 10, 1906.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose copy of a despatch to His Majesty's Minister reporting certain recent official appointments in this Province of Yunnan. that most concerns British interests is the retention at his acting post of Intendant of the Southern Circuit (the Pu-erh and Ssumao Taotai-ship) of Shih Hung-shan, the official who was (as Acting Taotai at Tengyueh) engaged last spring with Messrs. Litton and Loveson in examining the conditions of the undelimited border districts east of Myitkyina. Shih Taotai's retention at Pu-erh will enable him to complete his report on the other stretch of undelimited frontier, the hundred miles or so along \"Scott's line,\" between the Namting and Na Lawt.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) W. H. WILKINSON.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Wilkinson to Sir E. Satow.\n\n(No. 10.) Sir,\n\nYunnan-fu, March 10, 1906.\n\nWITH reference to the possible substitution of Li Shou-t'ien for Wei Ching-tung in the post of Intendant of the Lin-an-k'ai-kuang Circuit (Taotai at Mengtzu), as mentioned in my immediately preceding despatch, the following appointments have been actually gazetted:-\n\nHsing-lu, substantive Intendant of the Eastern Circuit (I-tung Tao), is to act as Superintendent of the Salt Gabelle (Yen-fa Tao). Chang Hsing-chi, titular Intendant of the Southern Circuit (I-nan Tao), who has never proceeded from Yunnan-fu to take up his post, becomes officiating Intendant of the Eastern Circuit. This enables Shih Hung-shao to retain his acting post at Pu-erh, and to complete at his leisure his inquiry and report on the conditions of the undelimited frontier south of Kunlong Ferry (\"Scott's line\"). Shih Taotai's substantive post is still that of Prefect of Yungchang. His late gerant there, Lang Cheng-hsien, an able and popular man, is to be replaced by Hsieh Yu-chun. I may add that, as far as I can learn, Shih Taotai has not yet sent in his report on the Wa frontier, of which a copy has more than once been promised to me.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) W. H. WILKINSON.\n\nP.S.-Chang Taotai is a Shantung man, a Hanlin, and, as I have earlier reported, has been serving as Intendant of the Right River (Yu-chiang Tao) in Kuangsi. Hsieh Yü-chun comes from Kueichow, and has served as Home Magistrate (K'un-ming Hsien) at Yunnan-fu, and as Sub-Prefect at Ssŭmao.\n\n[1993 e--2]\n\nW. H. W.",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[22268]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nMr. Carnegie to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received July 2.)\n\n(No. 224.) Sir,\n\nC. O.\n\n27401 (Jul 2.\n\nTREC SECTION 2.26 JUL 06\n\n523\n\nPeking, May 15, 1906.\n\nWITH reference to Sir E. Satow's despatch No. 211 of the 3rd instant, I have the honour to forward to you herewith copy of a further despatch from His Majesty's Consul at Newchwang on the subject of Manchurian affairs.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nLANCELOT D. CARNEGIE.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nConsul Fulford to Mr. Carnegie.\n\n(No. 31.) Sir,\n\nNewchwang, May 10, 1906.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that the Japanese Premier, Marquis Saionji, whose visit here I reported in my despatch No. 27 of the 30th ultimo, has since been in Mukden holding long and very private conversations with the Chinese Governor-General Chao.\n\nThe Japanese local paper announces that Antung was opened to international trade by the Japanese Consul, Mr. Okabe, on the 1st instant, and that Mukden will be opened on the 1st June.\n\nMr. C. H. Oliver, Commissioner of Chinese Maritime Customs, arrived here from Shanghai on the 7th instant, and proceeds to Mukden to-morrow. His mission, so far as I can ascertain, is to consult with the Chinese Governor-General as to the customs arrangements at Mukden, Antung, and Ta Tung Kou.\n\nThe Japanese Kuantung Viceregal office was moved from Liaoyang to Port Arthur on the 7th instant.\n\nIn accordance with the previous understanding between the Japanese and Russian military authorities as to the dates of surrendering the sections of the railway between K'uan Cheng Tzu and Chang Tu Fu, Commissioners from both sides met lately, and on the 1st May the section up to Miao Tzu Kou was handed over to the Japanese. The local paper announces that the section up to Seu Ping Kai will be handed over to the Japanese on the 11th May, and the section up to Kung Chu Ling on the 1st June.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) H. E. FULFORD.\n\n[2081 -2]",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nthe proposed erection of hauling appliances as prejudicing their Treaty right to undertake such works themselves. I learn on good authority that the Japanese are actually working on a scheme of steam navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze on similar lines to the one now under consideration by the French,\n\nMr. Meischke-Smith's system is briefly as follows:—\n\nPowerful light draft tugs, steaming 14 knots, will tow steel barges of about 150 tons capacity, or native junks, between Ichang and Chungking. At each rapid the tug-boat and her lighter will be taken in tow by a rapid-boat of the Lombard-Gérin type as used on the River Rhône. One of these boats, named \"toueurs,\" will be stationed at all the principal rapids. Their method of traction is similar to that of the spider, and consists in warping themselves up the rapid by means of a cable attached to a point at the head of the rapid, and letting themselves down by unwinding the cable. Going up vessels are towed astern; going down they are lashed alongside. The tow ropes, being attached to the bow of the \"toucur,\" give her liberty to steer, and thus enable her to keep in mid-stream and avoid the dangers attending a tow line worked from the bank. It is hoped that this system will not necessitate the erection of any hauling appliances on shore, and consequently interfere as little as possible with the junk traffic.\n\nThe French naval authorities have placed Captain Plant, their Upper Yang-tsze pilot, at the disposal of the Company. Captain Plant, who has for the past five years successfully navigated the rapids on trading-steamer, gun-boat, and junk, and who is therefore well qualified to judge of the possibilities of steam navigation on these waters, has, in a written Report, expressed his opinion that the proposed system is quite feasible. He will probably proceed to Europe as soon as he has taken the French gun-boat \"Olry,\" now in port, up to Chungking for the purpose of studying the Lombard-Gérin \"touage du Rhône,\" which has now been for over ten years in successful operation on that river. On his return he will be placed in charge of the Company's steamers. These vessels will fly the French flag, but Mr. Smith informs me that at least 75 per cent of the Company's personnel, captains, agents, &c., will be British. The \"toueurs\" will be built in France, the steam-tugs and barges in England and Shanghae. It is estimated that when the system is in proper working order a steamer and one or two tows will make the journey from Ichang to Chungking in ten days, travelling down in five days, say, twelve round trips per annum, as compared with the two round trips made at present by the ordinary cargo junk.\n\nThe scheme, if it proves a success, will mean a complete revolution in the Upper Yang-tsze trade. To the objection—which will probably be urged by the Chinese authorities that artificial haulage over the rapids will throw some thousands of trackers out of employment, the Company reply that, speaking generally, increased facilities for trade will provide increased employment for the population of the Upper Yang-tsze, and that, in particular, the development of the coal-mining industry in Szechuan, at present paralyzed by inadequate means of transport, will provide more than sufficient work for the unskilled labour of the province.\n\nThe towing system, if extended to the Middle Yang-tsze, as is in contemplation, will undoubtedly prove a serious competitor to the British and other Steam-ship Companies at present engaged in the trade. But, quite apart from the fact that the energies of the new Company, even should the sanguine projects of its agent be realized, will be fully occupied for some time to come in developing their business on the Upper River, I do not think that the British shipping Companies are likely to suffer any loss. In increased cargo they should find compensation for reduced rates of freight, and there seems no reason why the British and French shipping interests on the Upper Yang-tsze should not successfully combine against their powerful rivals the Japanese. The Asiatic Petroleum Company, in which British capital is largely interested, have very strong reasons for wishing the scheme well and according it their financial support, as I understand they are doing. Since their unsuccessful attempt a few years ago to compete with the Standard Oil Company in Szechuan, American oil has enjoyed an undisturbed monopoly in that important market. With steam towage in working order, the former Company will be able to send up their oil in bulk, pack it in new tins and cases at Chungking, and probably drive the American product out of the market. I understand that arrangements are now being made to send up regular shipments by junk in order to make the brand known.\n\nMr. Smith is now on his way to Canton, whence he will proceed up the West River to inspect the Company's oil tank installations at Samshui and Wuchow. If the Regulations to be issued by the Imperial Maritime Customs for the new service prove to be satisfactory, he will notify the Chinese Government, through the French\n\n3\n\nMinister, of the Syndicate's intentions, and then, if all goes well, he hopes to have the first steamer running on the river before the summer of next year.\n\nI am forwarding this despatch under flying seal to His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow, and am sending a copy to His Majesty's Consuls at Chungking and Chengtu.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) HARRY H. FOX.\n\nThe real obstacle to steam navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze has been the impossibility of insuring paying cargoes. Piece-goods and yarn are too bulky to bear high freight, and the Szechuan dealers have not cared about their being quickly forwarded. From the west opium and silk, musk, and other valuables come down very speedily in small parcels by \"wupan,\" a system that distributes the risk of loss. Other difficulties have been the questions of coal and repairs en route. The present scheme does not seem sure to get over the above objections.\n\nOn the Ichang run towing would, I presume, have been tried had it been likely to prove advantageous, and there is no reason why the French Company should monopolize it now or should refuse to take any cargo but that brought up in French bottoms on either section of the river.\n\nE. H. FRASER.\n\nHankow, April 12, 1906\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Fox to Mr. Carnegie.\n\n(No. 11.) Sir,\n\nIchang, May 18, 1906. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of Sir Ernest Satow's despatch No. 3 of the 23rd ultimo on the subject of steam navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze. I should have replied before this, but have been waiting to see the newly appointed Ichang Taotai, Sun Ting-lin, formerly Opium Taotai at this port, and learn from him the exact state of affairs with regard to the proposed upkeep of tracking paths and erection of hauling appliances at the rapids. Sun Taotai, who took over charge at Kingchow on the 26th ultimo, was expected to visit Ichang on or about the 1st May. He has, however, been obliged to proceed to Wuchang on business connected with the proposed transfer of the opium li-kin collectorate from Ichang to Chungking, and has not yet returned to his post.\n\nMy authorities for the statement that the Japanese Government had objected to the erection of hauling appliances on the rapids by the Chinese authorities were the Commissioner of Customs here and the Deputy Chang Te-ping. According to information confidentially obtained by Mr. Wolf, and subsequently corroborated by the Deputy, the proposed levy of junk fees for the above purpose had been referred by the Japanese Consul at Shasi to his Legation, and by them to the Foreign Office in Tokio. The latter had refused their consent to the scheme, and, although the ground of their objection had not transpired, it seemed more than likely that the Japanese Government did not wish to commit themselves to a proposal which might interfere with Japanese enterprise in the same direction. My statement that the Japanese were actually working on some scheme of the kind was made on the authority of the Commissioner of Customs, who based his opinion on the fact that a party of Japanese engineers had recently been making surveys of the rapids between Ichang and Wanhsien.\n\nAs far as I can learn no progress at all has been made with the Chinese scheme for providing aids to navigation on the upper river. The Road Improvement Office has not yet been opened, and no attempt has so far been made to levy junk fees. The Viceroy, as you will gather from a despatch, copy and translation of which I have the honour to inclose, is opposed to the collection of these fees being placed in the hands of the Maritime Customs on the ground that, being of the nature of voluntary contributions for a charitable purpose, they should not be looked upon as duties. The distinction would appear to be, in the present case, a purely nominal one, and I trust I shall be correctly interpreting the instructions conveyed in Sir Ernest Satow's despatch No. 2 of the 20th December last if I inform the Taotai\n\nPage 587",
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        "content_text": "639\n\n2\n\nHis Majesty's Government had treated the whole of this incident, and repeated what they had previously assured Sir E. Satow, that the murder of the Kinghams caused the people and Government of Kiangsi and the Chinese Government the most unfeigned regret. It was an outrage of which they were all heartily ashamed, and the sorrow of it was heightened by the fact that the Kinghams were people whose unobtrusive good works had attracted the regard and affection of all their neighbours in Nanchang.\n\nI inclose, for your information, copy of the French version of the Agreement above referred to as signed on the 20th June, and also copy of the proclamation provided for in Article 5 of that Agreement. I should explain that the Agreement does not mention the punishments or rewards indicated in terms 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 of my telegram No. 126 of the 20th June, which was dealt with in separate despatches addressed by the Wai-wu Pu to the French Minister. I have not thought it necessary to trouble you with copies of these documents, as their contents are all embodied in the notes to and from Prince Ching, copies of which I am sending herewith.\n\nI further inclose copy of the despatch which I am addressing to Mr. Werner requesting him to keep a close watch on the fulfilment of the terms of punishment and reward, and instructing him to follow the advice of Sir H. de Sausmarez in the disposal of the sum of 4,700, which should be paid over to him before the 30th September.\n\n(Translation.) Sir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nLANCELOT D. CARNEGIE.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nPrince Ching to Sir E. Satow.\n\nPeking, 32nd year, 4th month, 7th day (April 30, 1906).\n\nON the 15th April an Imperial Decree was issued in the following terms:- \"The Board of Foreign Affairs having memorialized the Throne to appoint Liang Tun-yen, Customs Taotai at Tien-tsin in Chihli, to proceed to Nanchang in Kiangsi, and inquire into the true circumstances of the missionary case at that place; and whereas we received this officer yesterday in audience, and carefully interrogated him on the facts of this case; and whereas his reports presented many features at variance with the circumstances reported in the telegrams of Hu Ting-kan and his associates; and whereas also the telegraphic reports of Hu Ting-kan and his associates were in themselves contradictory, and are proved beyond doubt to be of a vacillating and misleading nature: it is hereby commanded that the Governor of Kiangsi, Hu Ting-kan, shall be removed from office as a preliminary step.\n\n\"We have already decreed that the conduct of the Provincial Treasurer Chou Hao shall be inquired into. The Provincial Judge Yu Chao-k'ang, who, in this case of the highest importance, failed to carry out immediately his judicial investigation, shall be handed over to the Board (of Civil Office) for the determination of a penalty, as a preliminary step.\n\n\"Let the Board of Foreign Affairs still continue to carefully co-operate in the settlement of this case.\"\n\nOn the 22nd April the Report of the Board of Civil Office was laid before the Throne, recommending that the Provincial Judge of Kiangsi, Yu Chao-k'ang, should be degraded two steps and transferred for employment elsewhere, as a punishment for his dereliction of public duties, and they asked whether he should be allowed the privilege of commutation.\n\nUpon this Memorial an Edict was issued in the following words :-\n\n\"The privilege of commutation shall not be allowed.\"\n\nI accordingly have the honour to bring these Imperial commands to your Excellency's knowledge.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n3\n\nTranslator's Note. \"The privilege of commutation\" refers to the practice whereby an official, when degraded so many steps in rank, is sometimes allowed to make use of a corresponding number of steps in rank received as a reward for past meritorious service, as a set-off against the steps lost by a sentence of degradation.\n\nIn this case such a procedure is not allowed, and, therefore, the degradation is effective.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Carnegie to Prince Ch'ing.\n\nPeking, June 27, 1906. ON the 30th April Sir Ernest Satow had the honour to receive a note from your Highness on the Nanchang case, in which was communicated the text of an Imperial Decree of the 15th April removing the Governor of Kiangsi, Hu Ting-kan, from office, ordering an inquiry into the conduct of the Provincial Treasurer, Chou Hao, and handing the Provincial Judge, Yü Chao-k'ang, over to the Board of Civil Office for the determination of a penalty. Your Highness further said that on the 22nd April a Memorial of the Board of Civil Office was laid before the Throne recommending that the Provincial Judge, Yu Chao-k'ang, should be degraded two steps and transferred for employment elsewhere as a punishment for his dereliction of public duties, and asking whether he should be allowed the privilege of commutation; and you added that upon this Memorial a Decree was issued disallowing the privilege of commutation.\n\nIn an interview at the Wai-wu Pu on the 19th June, I was informed by the Grand Secretary, Na-t'ung, and their Excellencies T'ung Shao-yi and Lien-fang that an Agreement had been concluded with his Excellency the French Minister in this matter, and that the following punishments were to be inflicted on the principal criminals and on the officials whose conduct was blameworthy :\n\n  \n    Name\n    Punishment\n  \n  \n    Liu Kou-tzu\n    Decapitation,\n  \n  \n    Wa Hung Yen-ching\n    Imprisonment for life.\n  \n  \n    Chou Chih-hsin\n    Ten years' imprisonment.\n  \n  \n    Jên Ting-fa\n    Five years' imprisonment.\n  \n  \n    Wu Chin-sheng\n    Three years' imprisonment.\n  \n  \n    Yang Ta-sheng\n    Two years' hard labour.\n  \n  \n    Lo Chung-ch'iu\n    One year's hard labour,\n  \n  \n    Wu Lao-wu\n    Six months' imprisonment.\n  \n  \n    Chou Chêng-ta\n    To be punished in accordance with the law as soon as captured.\n  \n  \n    Lu Kao-ts'ai\n    \n  \n  \n    Yang Ch'i-t'ang\n    \n  \n  \n    Wei Ta-shui\n    \n  \n  \n    Tai Hu-shui\n    \n  \n  \n    Hu Chang-sheng..\n    \n  \n  \n    Chang Tsai-kaan..\n    \n  \n  \n    Hsieh Hsi-lieu\n    \n  \n  \n    Tu I-chou\n    \n  \n  \n    Hu Ch'ung-yuan\n    \n  \n  \n    Hsieh Yuan-chou..\n    \n  \n  \n    Chou Tê-shêng\n    \n  \n  \n    Peng Ping-sheng.\n    \n  \n  \n    Wiz Yu-peng\n    \n  \n  \n    Liu Tong-liu-izi ..\n    \n  \n  \n    Ha Ming-ying\n    \n  \n  \n    Lo Shêng-tzu\n    \n  \n  \n    Li Lao-sun\n    \n  \n  \n    Hsiung Ho-tzů\n    \n  \n  \n    Kuo Mao-t'ou\n    \n  \n  \n    Wan Yel-lin\n    \n  \n  \n    Hu Ting-hsüeh\n    \n  \n  \n    Ma Tzu..\n    \n  \n  \n    Erh Tao-pao\n    \n  \n  \n    Chu Yung-yuan",
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        "content_text": "640\n\n4\n\nLiu Kuo-liang, Captain of the City Guard; Yen Shang-Chung, sergeant in the Guard of the Hsin-chien Magistrate; Wu Ting-k'uei, sergeant in the right battalion, are to be cashiered. Li Hung-yüan, sergeant in the left battalion; Liu Ching-t'ai, Commandant of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Brigade of the Territorial Army; and Wei Ting, Captain in the same battalion, are to be deprived of their buttons; Cheng Yün-hsien and Hsiang Kuan-pang, who both possess hereditary ranks, are to be fined one year's emoluments, and the expectant Magistrate, Huang Chung, of the South Police-station in Nanchang city, has three entries of default recorded against him.\n\nIn addition to the punishments of the ringleaders and officials above mentioned, their Excellencies stated that a Proclamation would be issued by the Governor of Kiangsi, acknowledging that the late Magistrate of Nanchang, Chiang Chao-t'ang, had committed suicide, and that an undertaking had been given by the Chinese Government not to permit the local officials, gentry, or people to do honour to his memory.\n\nYour Highness is aware that in the month of March last, as the result of an inquiry conducted while Mr. Werner, His Majesty's Consul at Kiukiang, was at Nanchang, it was arranged that the following punishments should be inflicted on the persons concerned in the murders of Mr. and Mrs. Kingham, and in the destruction of their property :--\n\nNamePunishment\n\nHsü Tê-fên, Deputy in the Industrial School, Wa Chên-jo, Deputy in the Foreign Bureau. Kêng Ch'ao-t'ai, Superintendent of the Mint. Hsiung Lan-sên, Ch'ang Pei-Chün (Regular Army). Hsiung Yi-Shêng, Ch'ang Pei-Chin (Regular Army). Pao Chiêng-huang, Chiêng Shou Ying (City Guard). Pao Pu-k'uei, Chêng Shou Ying (City Guard). Chang Yu-ch'uan, Ching Ch'a Chü (Police). Lu Chin-piao, Ching Cha Cha (Police). Shen-Fu-hàng, Ching Cha Chủ (Police). Chi-Ping-k'an, Ching Ch'a Chu (Police). P'an Têng-hsien, Lieutenant of Cavalry. Ho Han-wên, Lieutenant of Cavalry. Wang Hsi-lin, Lieutenant of Cavalry.Decapitation.\nHsü Tso-chün, sergeant of the Provincial Guard.Eight years' imprisonment.\nSix years' imprisonment.\nHsieh Yu-lung Tan Chin-kang Wei Tê-sheng Chou Lao-érh ÏIsiao Fa Li La-tzü Hu Tang-poo Li Hslich-pêng Wang Mu-shui Li Kuang-hua Chih Hsin-p'u Wang Wei-lin Hsing Tsai-kn. Heiung Ping-nao.. Chên Hsi-feng Yang Lia-chin Ch'en Sheng-luTwo years' hard labour.\nOne year's hard labour.\n\nI have great pleasure in submitting these names to your Highness, and to request, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, that a substantial reward may be given to each for his courageous and highly meritorious conduct.\n\nIf your Highness will be so good as to inform me that the punishments above mentioned will be faithfully carried out, that the sum of 4,700l. will be paid to His Majesty's Consul at Kiukiang (either in Kiukiang or Shanghae, as he will select), and that the officers and men whose names I have indicated will be rewarded, I shall at once inform His Majesty's Government and recommend that the case be closed.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Signed) LANCELOT D. CARNEGIE.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nSir,\n\nIt was also arranged verbally by Sir Ernest Satow with the Wai-wu Pu that the Kiangsi authorities should pay a sum for the maintenance of the surviving infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Kingham, in addition to compensation for the house and property destroyed by the mob, and the total amount required for these purposes has now been fixed by His Majesty's Government at 4,700l. This sum is exclusive of certain small claims for the destruction of property belonging to British missionaries, which have already been satisfied by the Provincial Government of Kiangsi.\n\nI should add that Mr. Werner has brought to the notice of His Majesty's Government the names of the following officers and men in the service of the Chinese Government who exerted themselves to protect the lives and property of foreigners during this lamentable occurrence :--\n\nHung Wei-lin, Commodore of the River Fleet.\nWu Mei-t'ing, Captain of a gun-boat.\nLin Kuo-tung, Squadron Commander.\nChiến Chin-tang, Commandant in the Chang Pei-Chúa.\nHung Chan-k'uei, Major in the Right Battalion.\nLiu Chu-shu, Lieutenant-Colonel in the City Guard.\nWang Tê-sheng, Captain of the City Guard.\nLiu Hsin-ch'uan, Captain of Cavalry.\nTs'ao Tê-fu, Inspector of the 1st Battalion of the Territorial Army.\nSun Lang, Police Deputy.\nHsu Hui-ch'uan, Police Deputy.\n\nPrince Ching to Mr. Carnegie.\n\nKuang Hsü, 32nd year, 5th month, 9th day (June 30, 1906).\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your note of the 27th June on the subject of the Nanchang missionary case [note of the 27th June quoted at length].\n\nI have the honour to state, in reply, that this Board will not fail to communicate to the provincial authorities of Kiangsi the punishments to be inflicted on the persons found guilty of participation in this outbreak, in accordance with the list in your note, and with instructions to give due effect thereto.\n\nAs regards the sum of 4,700l. to be paid as compensation and for the maintenance of the infant survivor, payment will be made to His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Kinkiang within three months; while we are also communicating to the Governor of Kiangsi the list of officers who exerted themselves in this case in affording protection, with instructions that they should be granted suitable rewards.\n\nThe harmonious settlement of this case affords an eloquent testimony of your country's friendship, for which my colleagues and myself desire to express our profound appreciation.\n\nWhile trusting that you will communicate this reply to His Majesty's Government and recommend that the case be closed, I avail, &c.\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nAgreement between Wai-wu Pu and French Minister at Peking.\n\nDES troubles ayant récemment éclaté à Nantchang, au cours desquels des Français ont trouvé la mort et l'école et la mission ont été incendiées, les Gouvernements Français et Chinois, désireux d'arranger cette affaire conformément à la justice et à l'équité, afin de confirmer les relations d'amitié qui existent entre les deux pays, sont tombés d'accord pour nommer des Délégués chargés de faire une enquête.\n\nOnt été désignés :\n\nDu côté Français, le Vicomte du Halgouet, Secrétaire d'Ambassade, &c.;\n\n[2102 dd-4]",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government. C. O.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\n36382\n\n[September 19ECE\n\nCONFIDENTIAL,\n\n(30589]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nTREGE 3 OCT 06\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n690\n\nMr. Carnegie to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received September 10.)\n\n(No. 314. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nPeking, July 23, 1906. WITH reference to my despatch No. 227 of the 15th May last, containing copy of a note addressed to Prince Ching in which I requested his Highness to impress on the Viceroy of Canton that the construction of a line from Canton through Whampoa would constitute a breach of the Preliminary Agreement with the British and Chinese Corporation for the railway from Canton to Kowloon, and urged the appointment of a negotiator to discuss a Final Agreement in regard to the latter line with a representative of the Corporation, I have the honour to inform you that, as I received no reply to my note, I had several interviews with the Wai-wu Pu, at which I pressed them for an answer. I was informed on each occasion that the matter was under the consideration of the Prince, who would be again consulted. As I had the honour to report in my telegram No. 116 of the 30th May, his Highness' view was that the Soochow-Hangchow and Canton-Kowloon lines could not be negotiated together, and that the former should be taken first as it offered less local difficulty. On the 13th June Mr. T'ong Shao-Yi stated that if the question of the former line might stand over a negotiator would be appointed for the other. In view of the opinion contained in your telegram No. 112 of the 8th June, I expressed my acquiescence in this arrangement, and my hopes for an early settlement of the matter. As I was still without a reply when I received your telegram No. 120 of the 3rd July, I again went to the Wai-wu Pu and urged them to give me one without any further delay. Mr. T'ong was requested by the Grand Secretary Na to speak in the name of the Board. His Excellency then said that he had been told by Prince Ching to inform me that, the Canton-Kowloon Railway being a local matter of which the conditions were best known to the people of Canton, the negotiations should be referred there. I expressed my surprise at this announcement, to which I strongly objected. These negotiations had been transferred to Peking after long and fruitless discussions in Canton, and the Chinese Government had on several occasions stated that they would appoint a negotiator here. His Majesty's Government had been informed of this arrangement, and they would regard the present proposal as a breach of faith. I added that I always wished to conduct all business with the Wai-wu Pu in an amicable manner, but that if this proposal was persisted in I should be placed in a very awkward position.\n\nMr. Tong said that the difficulty had arisen owing to a misunderstanding as to the terms of the transference of the negotiations from Canton to Peking. According to a telegram received from the Viceroy, Mr. Bland had approved certain bases which had been put before him, and had said that he would negotiate on them at Peking. Mr. Bland on the other hand averred that what he had approved was the transference of the negotiations to Peking, not the bases submitted to him.\n\nI rejoined that the Wai-wu Pu know for the past month and more that all I was waiting for was the appointment of a negotiator by Prince Ching, and that I could not comprehend why the question of this misunderstanding had not been raised long ago. It was not possible to start it now with any show of reason.\n\nAfter some further discussion Mr. Tong promised to see the Prince and discuss it with him again.\n\nI asked Mr. Campbell to go and see Mr. Tong and talk matters over with him privately. Mr. Tong stated that the Wai-wu Pu knew nothing officially about the Whampoa scheme, which had been mooted by one Chang, a Singapore merchant. The Canton Notables objected to him, and nothing was being done. He appeared to attach no importance to the project. In regard to the Canton-Kowloon Railway, a telegram had been sent to the Viceroy in order to clear up the misunderstanding, and it was hoped that a favourable reply to my request for a negotiator would be sent in a short time. Mr. Tong complained that the Viceroy was using his great influence at Court to obstruct, and he begged for a little patience on our side. I had the honour to report my interview with the Wai-wu Pu and Mr. Tong's remarks to Mr. Campbell in my telegram No. 132, Confidential, of the 5th instant.\n\n[2146 k-1]\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "723\n\n2\n\nI inclose a sheet of tracing paper on which I have marked lines (a) and (b), together with all names to which reference is made in Shih Taotai's Memorandum. I have added little else, lest the trees should obscure the wood; though I have taken the opportunity to identify and insert nearly all the localities mentioned in my despatches Nos. 11 and 37 of 1905. By superimposing the tracing paper on Shih Taotai's map, the remarks which I would now venture to submit will, I trust, gain in clearness.\n\nIf our motto is to be stet pro ratione voluntas, there can be no doubt that we could force Yunnan to acquiesce. She has few, if any, troops worth the name, and her treasury is empty. Should we proceed to administer up to \"Scott's Line\" she could offer no overt resistance.\n\nAs regards the blank in both our maps, the ground styled by Governor-General Ting \"Manbai Magna,\" and by Shih Taotai \"Territory of the Wild K'a,\" I do not think that the Yunnan Government would be inclined to raise difficulty. The only objection they might bring forward would be that this region lies well to the east of the boundary line drawn by Liu and Ch'en-tajen in 1900. But although Shih Taotai continues to identify Loi-mu Hill with the \"very lofty mountain range called Kong-ming-Shan\" of the Treaties, still I think that he would hardly have handed me, with the Governor-General's assent, his present map unless his Government are prepared to yield the ground between the Liu-Chen line and Shih's \"watersheds of the Namma River,\" or at the least to erect it into a sort of buffer State. (In his Memorandum he does, it is true, propose that it be divided.) They might possibly give up those parts of the Upper Hulu and of Mengtum that lie south and west of \"Scott's Line\"; what they will certainly strive to retain is the \"territory subject to the Hsi-ming Sawbwa,\" that is, Mong-hka and Mong-hsaw (coloured pink in Shih's map).\n\nIf we force them, without further explanation or negotiations, to surrender this district, we can hardly fail to embitter relations between Burmah and Yunnan, if not between Great Britain and China. We could not well occupy and administer it without at the same time either subduing the Wild Wa or—what would be scarcely less trouble—some and expensive becoming responsible for their recurring raids on undoubted Chinese territory.\n\nIf, on the other hand, there is still room for amicable discussion, I would venture to suggest that the following arguments might be brought to the knowledge of Governor-General Ting:\n\n1. The Agreement signed on the 4th February, 1897, by Sir Claude MacDonald and the late Grand Secretary Li Hung-chang, modifying the Burmah-China Frontier and Trade Convention of the 1st March, 1894, must be accepted as binding on the Governments of Burmah and of Yunnan. For purposes of the present controversy it is sufficient to apply this axiom to paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 3 of that Agreement, which read as follows:—\n\n\"The frontier shall then follow the course of the river forming the boundary between Somu, which belongs to Great Britain, and Meng Ting, which belongs to China. It shall still continue to follow the frontier between those two districts, which is locally well known, to where it leaves the aforesaid river and ascends the hills, and shall then follow the line of water-parting between the tributaries of the Salween and the Meikong Rivers, from about longitude 99° east of Greenwich (17° 30′ west of Peking) and latitude 23° 20′ to a point about longitude 99° 40′ east of Greenwich (16° 50′ west of Peking) and latitude 23°, leaving to China the Tsawbwaships of Keng Ma, Mengtung, and Mengko.\n\n\"At the last-named point of latitude and longitude the line strikes a very lofty mountain range called Kong-Ming-Shan, which it shall follow in a southerly direction to about 99° 30′ east of Greenwich (17° west of Peking) and latitude 22° 30′, leaving to China the district of Chenpien Ting. Then, descending the western slope of the hills to the Namka River, it will follow the course of that river for about 10 minutes of latitude, leaving Munglem to China and Manglün to Great Britain. The frontier shall then follow the boundary between Munglem and Kiang Tung.\"\n\n2. The above two paragraphs were transferred, without substantial alteration, from the Convention of 1894 to the Agreement of 1897.\n\n3. The Convention of 1894 was drafted in English in London, where it was translated into Chinese and signed in both languages by Lord Rosebery and Hsieh Fu-ch'eng, the then Chinese Envoy to Great Britain.\n\n4. The only truly scientific method of indicating locality on the earth's surface is that of latitude and longitude. With this method China has been acquainted at any rate since the Jesuit Survey in the K'ang-hsi reign more than two centuries ago. The Chinese maps bound in with the native Gazetteer of Yunnan (\"Yunnan Tungchih\") employ this system. The references, therefore, to latitudes and longitudes in the Agreement cannot be ignored by the Yunnan Government, as they were, in effect, ignored by Liu and Ch'en, the Boundary Commissioners of 1900; these references are of the first importance.\n\nOn the contrary,\n\n6. The references to latitude and longitude in the clause now under examination are four, namely:\n\n(a.) Longitude 99° east of Greenwich (17° 30′ west of Peking), and latitude 23°20'.\n\n(b.) Longitude 99° 40′ east of Greenwich (16° 50' west of Peking), and latitude 23°.\n\n(c.) Longitude 99° 30′ east of Greenwich (17° west of Peking), and latitude 22° 30'.\n\n(d.) A point on the Namkha River situated 10 minutes of latitude from where the boundary between Menglem and Kiang Tung diverges from that river.\n\nThe first step to be taken is to mark the above four points on the map of the survey of India—a map the correctness of which is admitted by the Yunnan Government, as regards its physical features and lines of latitude and longitude, since they have adopted it as the basis of their own chart.\n\n(The four points are marked in red on the tracing paper.)\n\n6. When the above points are marked it will be found that they fall very nearly on the crests of certain mountain ranges admitted by Shih Taotai to be watersheds. The word \"about\" in the Treaty allows for the small difference found, but it would certainly not admit of the very great difference—40 minutes of longitude—required if the Liu-Ch'en line is to be taken to represent that of the Convention.\n\n7. Between points (a) and (b) the boundary, according to the Convention, is to \"follow the line of water-parting between the tributaries of the Salween and the Meikong Rivers.\" The water-parting is marked on Shih's map, and coincides with that portion of \"Scott's Line.\"\n\n**\n\n(This is not altogether the case between 99° 30′ and 99° 44', where \"Scott's Line\" is drawn across the supposititious head-waters of the Nam-hoit, Shih's Nan-wa. Mr. (now Sir George) Scott himself described it as \"to some extent conjectural.” Our main contention, however, is not affected—that we follow the watershed.)\n\n8. At point (b) the Convention boundary \"strikes a very lofty mountain range called Kong-Ming-Shan, which it follows in a southerly direction to point (c). Now, Shih's map admits that between (b) and (c) runs, in a markedly southern direction, the \"main watershed between the Mekong and the Salween,\" which watershed is merged at about longitude 99° 45′ and latitude 22° 40′ in a range which he calls K'ung-ming Shan. His Memorandum describes this K'ung-ming Shan as falling within the jurisdictions of four Sawbwaships—Hsi-ming, Mu-nai, Menglem, and Mengpin. If the term is to be confined to the range as marked on his map, then Mu-nai and Hsi-ming can have nothing to do with it; but if it includes the whole \"main watershed above, then the description in his Memorandum tallies with the wording of the Convention.\n\n9. For it must not be forgotten that, as stated above (section 3) the Convention was drafted in English. Now, no Englishman, unless trained in China, would distinguish between \"kung\" in the first tone and \"kung ('hkung'), with an aspirate, in the third. Writing by ear he would set down both as \"kong.\" No Chinese hieroglyph being supplied for this particular name, the translator in London naturally adopted one of those for \"kung\" (without the aspirate), and among the \"kungs\" that one which is in most common use and would harmonize sufficiently well with \"ming\" (\"clear\"), namely \"kung\" (\"just\").\n\n(He took, I suspect, similar liberties with the hieroglyphs to be used for \"Kunlong,\" two paragraphs higher up. I am inclined to think that the \"kuu\" is not \"kung\" (\"work\"), as he wrote it, but \"kun\" (\"whirling water\").)\n\nThe name Kong-Ming-Shan, therefore, of the English text must be taken to represent K'ung-ming Shan, and not, despite the Chinese text, a Kung-ming Shan, if such there be.\n\n3\n\nB 2\n\n[2147 an-1]",
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        "content_text": "6\n\nAgain, Kung-ming Shan and K'ung-ming Shan have each their own positions and are two distinct hills. Kung-ming Shan is situated on the boundary; on this hill is Mengmau, otherwise known as Hsin-tifang (\"New Place\"), a stockaded village of the Shans. K'ung-ming Shan on the east is in the jurisdiction of Mengpin; on the south, of Menglem; on the west, of Hsi-ming; and on the north, of Mu-nai.\n\nIt is ground where the districts of four T'ussú interlock like a dog's teeth, and is distant only 60 li (say, 25 miles) from Chenpien. It is undoubtedly in the interior (of China), and one cannot, of course, owing to the accidental similarity of a single hieroglyph, transfer it from this to that.\n\nSuch in brief is the outcome of the present inquiry.\n\nPage 730\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nC O\n\n38281\n\nRECE Rec 17 001 06\n\nN3828\n\n(Subject.)\n\nAffairs of Chena\n\n1906\n\n160ch\n\nat previous Paper.\n\n70\n\n#36582\n\nprints of corres\n\nAp this\n\nb. J:295\n\n(Minutes.)\n\n1. Ind unclosures & gia:\n\n(they contain two\n\nMm\n\ncam\n\ndosps, but he\n\nprub!)\n\nlike is ham them in po\n\nPo\n\nalought SRZ\n\n+ (N −BIRD-2500421=>\n\nsubsequent Paper. 170\n\n19437",
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        "content_text": "Enclo. No. 1 in Mr. Carnegie's No. 365 of September 3, 1906.\n\nWal Wu Pu to Mr. Carnegie.\n\n35556 Lock 28 (1996)\n\nPeking, Tuangku 32nd year, 7th month, 9th day.\n\n(August 28th, 1906).\n\n776\n\nSir,\n\nWe have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 18th instant, concerning two cases of piracy of British launches plying on the West River, and requesting the issue of instructions to the Viceroy of Canton for the arrest and punishment of the pirates without delay.\n\nOn the receipt of your Note, we communicated by telegraph with Their Excellencies the Viceroy of Canton and Governor of Kuangsi, and the former has now replied stating that on August 10th, as passengers were taking their places on the British steamer \"Jung-Fa\" at the cain jetty of Nan-Tan-Chu in Kuangsi, the vessel was boarded by over twenty pirates, who opened fire on the soldiers conducting the inspection of passengers, and killed two of them, named Chu Chi and Li Yuan respectively, whilst three others, Chang Sheng, Lu Yun, and Ning Piao, wounded by the firing, were pinioned in the hold of the vessel. The pirates then compelled the vessel to proceed down-stream, and on arriving at Ta-Mu-Yung on the Meng River two more pirates, armed with rifles and revolvers, came to the assistance of those already on the launch, which was now forbidden to show any lights or to blow her whistle. In this way they rushed past the Customs Station at Wuchow at 9 p.m., and on arrival at P'an Lung K'ou in the district of Feng Ch'uan the pirates landed and made good their escape.\n\nOrders were immediately issued to the Tao tai of Wuchow and",
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        "content_text": "782\n\nDealing with the case. The murderer, Liang A Chiu, who shot Dr. MacDonald, has been arrested, as have also Chang A Ping, Ch'on A Chiu, and Li A Chian, who were implicated in the piracy.\n\nThe important pirates having all been seized, I am now taking measures to secure the apprehension of the rest, which should, I think, be effected without much difficulty.\n\nThis province, as you are well aware, has always been a hotbed of piracy, and since my appointment as Viceroy, the reorganisation of its policing arrangements has been my daily occupation. Notorious pirate chiefs, such as Ou Hsin, Lin En Ssu, Ch'en Ka Wang Hai, Tai Hei Hsiang, and Hou Ta Yang Chin, have all been captured one after another, and in addition to these, in three years altogether more than 10,080 pirates have been punished, exclusive of those who, offering resistance, were killed on the spot. Formerly over one hundred, or even several hundreds of cases of piracy were reported every month, but during the last few years, since the vigorous measures which I have taken, such cases, although they have of course occurred, have been far less common. But the province is extensive...",
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        "content_text": "783\n\nsive, with a vast population of mixed elements, and swarms with brigands. No measures to hunt out and arrest those men can secure their extirpation in a few hours. Even in Europe cases of robbery and murder occur in spite of the fact that the police are everywhere and the strictest precautions are adopted. Human nature, we know, is not the same, and robbers exist not only in China but in every country.\n\nIt is my earnest desire to secure the suppression of piracy, as you urge me to do, and your statement that no troops have been detached for that purpose can only be due to an imperfect knowledge of the actual state of affairs. It is in no way incumbent upon me to acquaint you in detail with such matters of internal administration, but I see no objection, under the circumstances, to my giving you a general idea of my dispositions.\n\nThere are 33 battalions of Gendarmerie in the province, in five divisions, of which Canton is the Central Division with 25 battalions, distributed amongst the Namhoi, Pan Yu, Hoiang Shan, Tung Kuan, Hsin Hui, Shun Te, Hsin Ning, Hsin An, Hua Hsien, Samshui, Ching Yuan, Tseng Cheng, Lung Men, Tseng Hsien, Hao Shan, and Kai Ping districts.",
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        "content_text": "784\n\nThe prefectures of Lui Chou, Ch'ao Chou, and Chia Ying constitute the Eastern Division with 17 battalions distributed between Kuei Shan, Po Lo, Ho Ping, Lung Ch'uan, Chang Ning, Lien Ping, Lu Feng, Hai Feng, Yung An, Hai Yang, Chao Yang, Chia Yang, Yao Ping, Cheng Hai, Chia Ying, Hsing Ning, and Chang Le.\n\nKiungchow forms the Southern Division and has 5 battalions stationed at Kiung Shan, Yai Chou, Tan Chou, Ling Shui, Ken En, and Lin Kao.\n\nThe Western Division is composed of the prefectures of Shao Chou, Yang Chiang, Lo Ting, Kao Chou, Lien Chou, Chin Chou, and Lei Chou. Its 32 battalions are quartered in Kao Yao, Yang Chun, Hsin Hsing, Kao Ming, Yang Chiang, En Ping, Lo Ting, Siu Hui, Kai Chien, Feng Chuan, Hai Ning, Te Ching, Mao Ming, Tien Pai, Ho Pu, Hain I, Shih Chuang, Ling Shan, Chin Chou, Fang Cheng, Hua Chou, Sui Chi, Wu Chuan, Hau Wong, and Tung An.\n\nShao Chou, Nan Hsiung, and Lien Chou constitute the Northern Division with 4 battalions distributed amongst Chu Chiang, Ying To, Tung Yuan, Shih Hing, Lien Chou, Jen Hua, and Yang Shan.",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nwhich gave authority to two Chinese Companies to construct railway lines over the self-same ground as that stated in the Preliminary Agreement. It was not possible to find a parallel in any other country for such a proceeding. A state of affairs in England under which, say, the Board of Trade knowingly gave concessions to an English firm which had already been conceded under written covenant to persons of another nationality was inconceivable. If such a thing happened there was machinery at hand to rectify it, and in the present instance I must naturally look to the Chinese Government to set the proper machinery in motion to redress this plain violation of a solemn contract.\n\nTheir Excellencies admitted the justice of what I said, but appeared to think that I was taking too serious a view of the Board of Commerce Memorials, which, Mr. Lien said, were only so much \"talk,\" and suggested that I should let the matter drop on the Prince's assurance that the validity of the Preliminary Agreement remained intact.\n\nI regretted my inability to fall in with this suggestion, referred their Excellencies to my note of the 4th August, pointed out that His Majesty's Government would expect a satisfactory explanation of these extraordinary proceedings, and in order to exhaust every means of obtaining this, I asked them to arrange an interview with Prince Ching, adding that, if necessary, I was prepared to go out to the Summer Palace for that purpose.\n\nMr. Lien promised to see about this, and last night, after another reminder, I received a short note from him to say that as soon as his Highness can find time he will fix a day for an interview.\n\nDear Mr. Tong,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nLANCELOT D. CARNEGIE.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Carnegie to Tong Shoa-yi.\n\nPeking, July 30, 1906. YOU will remember that in our conversation after dinner on the 15th June we agreed to let the question of the Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway stand over for the present and deal with the Canton-Kowloon Railway first. Before that Mr. Campbell had a private conversation with you on the same subject. As I may not be here long, it seems to me desirable, in order to avoid possible future misunderstanding, that I should put clearly on paper, before the Canton-Kowloon negotiations begin, what the situation is exactly.\n\nThe arrangement to let the Soochow Railway question rest in no way impairs the rights of the British and Chinese Corporation under the Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo Preliminary Agreement, the validity of which has been recognized by the Chinese Government (see interview of Sir Ernest Satow at Wai-wu Pu on the 9th March and Sir Ernest Satow's notes of the 14th March and 19th April to Wai-wu Pu). Of course, if there is manifest obstruction on the part of the Chinese negotiators to the completion of the Canton-Kowloon Final Agreement, or if material steps are taken by Chekiang in violation of the Corporation's rights under the Preliminary Agreement, I shall be forced to warn you at once that I cannot consider myself any longer bound by our verbal arrangement.\n\nYours very truly,\n\n(Signed) LANCELOT D. CARNEGIE.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMEMORIAL of the Board of Commerce, in the matter of the Rules formed by the Gentry of Chekiang, in respect to Railway Construction in their Province, which they have presented to the Board for purposes of Record, and which the Board now submits to the Throne.\n\nTHE Board in the course of July 1905 received representations made by Huang Shao Chi, a Reader of the Hanling College and a native of Chekiang, together with other signatories, laying before the Board the proposal that the ex-Acting Commissioner of the Salt Gabelle of the Liang Huai division, T'ang Shou Chien and Liu Chin Tsao, an expectant metropolitan official of the 4th to 5th grade, should be given the general superintendence of the public movement in their province for the construction by the merchants and gentry themselves of all the railways throughout Chekiang.\n\n3\n\nThe Board thereupon memorialized the Throne on the 26th August (26th of 7th month) and received an Imperial Decree appointing Tang Shou Chien to metropolitan rank of the 4th grade, and approving for the rest the Memorial we had made.\n\nThe Board then proceeded to exhort the parties concerned to act in accordance with the course approved by the Throne, and to elaborate carefully drawn-up regulations, Subsequently Huang Shao Chi and his associates notified the Board that as a result of consultations carried on by correspondence, both written and telegraphic, between their fellow provincials in Peking and those in the province, ten rules and eighty-three sub-sections have been drawn up in compliance with the principles of the Commercial Code, and they requested that these may be duly recorded.\n\nThe Board were also addressed by the Grand Secretary, Wang Wen Shao; the President of the Board of Punishments, Ko Pao Hua; the Vice-President of the Board of Revenue, Ch'en Pang Jui; the Vice-President of the Board of Punishments, Shen Chia Pen; and the Acting Vice-President of the Board of Works, Hu Yu Fen, in support of this communication; and informing us that more than two millions' worth of shares had been placed in a few weeks for the railways of all Chekiang, while more capital was being looked for. The rules, they said, had been drawn up by Tang Shou Chi, who was charged with the management of this matter, and who had consulted with his fellow-provincials both in the province itself and at Peking. The Grand Secretary, Wang Wen Shao, and his co-signatories had examined the rules and approved them, and they therefore asked the Board to sanction their adoption.\n\nThe Board find that the railways of all Chekiang involves to the highest degree the communications of the country. The local gentry and merchants, and the Chekiang officials in Peking, having deliberated together, and made an effort to construct these lines themselves, have shown a just appreciation of the general situation, and the railway rules they have drawn up are in general accord with the Company Law for Limited Liability Companies submitted to the Throne by this Board and Imperially sanctioned, providing as they do for shareholders, directors, auditors, officers of the Company, &c., and carefully defining their duties and powers.\n\nThe Board therefore consider that the rules should be adopted and communicated to the provincial authorities to be carried out,\n\nOn the 4th July, 1906, an Imperial Edict was received approving this Memorial.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nRules respecting Construction of Railways in the Province of Chekiang.\n\n1.\n\n1. IN accordance with the Commercial Code the name of the undertaking is determined, and is to be \"The Railway Company (Limited) for the construction by merchants of railways throughout all the Province of Chekiang.\" The Board has been asked to register it, and to apply for Imperial authority to issue an official seal.\n\n2. The general policy of the Company is the construction of all the railways in the Province of Chekiang, with a view to safeguarding the control and profits of transport and carriage. The following lines will forthwith be surveyed and undertaken :--\n\nFrom Hangchow northwards to Soochow and Shanghae, Hu-shu must be traversed; eastwards to Ningpo and Shao Hsing, Chiangkan must be traversed; therefore Hu Shu- Chiangkan will be the first Hangchow section.\n\nFrom Hu Shu northwards the line will pass Chia Hsing and Huchou to Soochow and Shanghae.\n\nFrom Chiangkan eastwards it will pass through Shao Hsing to Ningpo. From Chiangkan south-westwards it will go through Yenchou and Kinhua to Chuchou and Chang Shan to the border of Yu Shan Hsien in Kiangsi.\n\nFrom Huchou north-westwards it will pass through Chang Hsing to Kuangte in Anhui.\n\nFrom Shao Hsing southwards it will pass through Taichou and Wenchow, and north-westwards to Ch'u Chou.\n\n39",
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        "content_text": "4 \n\nFrom Chang Shan, by way of Chiang Shan, it will pass southwards to the borders of P'u-ch'eng in Fuhkien.\n\nFrom Yenchou it will pass through An, and then go westwards to Tun Hsi in Hsiu Ning, on Anhui border.\n\n3. Besides the lines defined by the Company, any other lines which should be surveyed and undertaken in Chekiang, and which have not been indicated by the Company after further consideration, may be undertaken with the approval of the Board of Commerce provided that the enterprise is confined to bona fide Chekiang people with Chinese share-capital, and working under the rules of this Company and with the approval of this Company.\n\n4. The Company shall only raise Chinese shares and undertake the construction themselves. Whole shares or fractions thereof can only be held by Chinese.\n\n5. The lines indicated in section 2 will require a capital of about 40,000,000 dollars. The Company proposes first to raise 6,000,000 dollars as a commencement.\n\nThe remaining 34,000,000 dollars will be raised in instalments.\n\nNote—While popular opinion is only just awakened, it is to be feared that it will be difficult to raise 40,000,000 dollars all at once. The Company will therefore either follow the special rules adopted in other provinces for raising funds for the construction of railways, or some modification thereof, in order to supplement the deficiency.\n\n6. The Company will establish its general offices in the provincial capital of Chekiang. At Shanghae it will have the Shanghae branch of the Chekiang Railway offices, and at Peking it will also have its agency. As work approaches each prefectural or district city, agencies will be established there.\n\nII.—Shares.\n\n7. All shareholders to comply with the Company's regulations as approved by the Board and ratified by the Throne.\n\n8. All shareholders, whether having official rank or not, to be on an equal footing in respect to treatment, receipt of dividends, &c.\n\n9. Shares to be of 100 dollars each, with fractional shares of 10 dollars.\n\n10. Interest at 7 per cent. per annum to be payable on shares from date of purchase, after notification to be made in the papers in the second month of the following year, and on production during the third month of interest warrants. Fractions of a year to count as such without benefit of intercalary months.\n\nNote. Before traffic is opened, and while there is only expenditure without revenue, the interest at 7 per cent. will be guaranteed and furnished by the Governor and Provincial Treasurer out of official funds, and will be repaid afterwards by instalments out of profits.\n\n11. As stated in section 4, 6,000,000 dollars are to be raised first as the initial capital of the Company. These shares shall be regarded as preference shares, and be entitled to a special grant of three-twentieths of any bonus which may accrue.\n\nNote. Explains the above to be in accordance with practice of Companies in other countries.\n\n12. Subscriptions for these preference shares will close at the end of the 8th month of this year (October 17, 1906), or at such prior date upon which the necessary sum has been completed. If not fully subscribed by the 17th October an extension will be made. Notice will be given in the papers when the preference share list is closed. Later applications will be rated as for ordinary shares.\n\nNote. If, when the list for preference shares is closed, there is more than 6,000,000 dollars subscribed, such overplus shall also be entitled to the issue of preference shares.\n\n13. Ordinary shares will bear the same interest and bonus as preference shares except for the special grant of bonus accorded to preference shares.\n\n14. Shares must be paid for in full.\n\nNote. If application be made for many shares, but the full amount is not paid up, shares will be issued for the amount of money actually paid.\n\n5 \n\n15. Share certificates will be issued with interest coupons by the general office at Hangchow and the Shanghae office upon payment of the purchase money. Receipt forms will also be issued in the Prefectural districts and cities, and also in the ports of other provinces, under the charge of trustworthy agencies, where applications for shares can be made, and share certificates will then be issued against these by the Hangchow general office.\n\n16. General meeting of shareholders, vide Rule III.\n\nTill the Company is properly established the disposition of capital will be determined by the General Director and Assistant Director, in communication with the principal shareholders at Hangchow and Shanghae, of whom not less than three shall form a quorum.\n\n17. The capital of the Company, in respect to any surplus over what is required for construction purposes, shall be dealt with by the General and Assistant Directors and the elected representatives of the shareholders.\n\n18. The Company's share certificates shall be of five classes, viz.: 1-share, 5-share, 10-share, 50-share, and 100-share.\n\n19. Describes form of share certificate.\n\n20. Describes manner of keeping the Company's share register.\n\n21. Shareholders, whether direct purchasers or purchasers by transfer, must be registered on the Company's books.\n\n22. The Company, in case of complications arising out of hypothecation of shares, can only recognize the registered owner, and the holder of shares in pledge will only have recourse against such owner.\n\n23. Transfers to be registered by the transferee, and the transaction to be examined by the Company within one month, when, if found to be in order, new scrip will be issued.\n\n24. Loss of scrip to be reported; new scrip to be issued after due formalities have been observed.\n\n25. Fees will be charged for all these transactions.\n\n26. Chinese living abroad, whether natives of Chekiang or not, may take up shares on production of an introduction from the Chinese Minister or Consul or commercial guild.\n\n27. Subscribers or agents who obtain subscriptions for 5,000 shares and upwards will be recommended for special rewards.\n\nIII—Shareholders' Meetings.\n\n28. Meetings to be of two classes—ordinary and extraordinary.\n\n29. Ordinary meetings to be held every year in the second month for presentation and passing of the year's report, accounts, &c.\n\n30. Extraordinary meetings may be called by the Directors for any important business, or by not less than 20 per cent. of the shareholders.\n\n31. No extraordinary meeting to be called within one month of the ordinary meeting.\n\n32. Time and place of meeting to be notified to shareholders; no business other than that for which meeting is called to be discussed.\n\n33. At any meeting of shareholders after one-fourth of the Company's share capital has been subscribed, and if one-tenth or more of the shareholders are present, resolutions can be passed.\n\n34. A meeting not satisfying the above conditions as to quorum cannot pass resolutions, but the sense of such meeting may be circulated among absent shareholders, and a month's notice be given for another meeting, and at such second meeting resolutions can be passed without respect to any conditions as to quorum.\n\n35. All holders of a complete share are entitled to express their views at meetings and to vote for election of directors, auditors, &c.\n\n36. Fifty shares give one vote in passing resolutions, provided always that not more than twenty-five votes be vested in one person.\n\n37. Such voters, in case of unavoidable absence from a meeting, may communicate their views to the Company in writing, and their vote shall count as if they were present at the meeting.\n\n38. Individual shareholders may combine together to obtain one vote on the basis of fifty shares, and appoint a representative to act on their behalf, such proxy being duly named for the Company's information one day before the meeting.\n\nC \n\n(2183-8) \n\n40",
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        "content_text": "41\n\n6\n\n39. Such proxy can also only hold a total of twenty-five votes.\n\n40. Appointment of chairman.\n\n41. Resolutions to be passed by a majority vote, the chairman having a casting vote besides his personal vote or votes.\n\n42-62. Elaborate rules for election of directors and auditors, of whom there are to be eleven and three respectively, the former to serve for three years and the latter for one.\n\n(Translator's note. Rules 4 and 5 are not indicated in the text.)\n\nVI.\n\n63. General Director and Assistant Director. These are Imperially appointed.\n\n64. Their duties.\n\n65.\n\nVII.\n\n66-70. The Company's officers. Their duties, &c.\n\nVIII.-Work.\n\n71. The sections of the line detailed in paragraph 2 will be undertaken separately and not confused one with the other.\n\n72. At first Chinese engineers will be engaged. If it becomes necessary to engage foreign engineers, the Company will draw up satisfactory agreements with them defining their powers.\n\n73. The railway will be a single line of 4 English feet and 8 inches (standard gauge), but with earthwork for a double line.\n\n74. Expropriation of land to be carried out on the same basis as in the Pei-Han and Shanghae-Nanking railways.\n\n75. Compensation will be paid for houses or graves which cannot be avoided in the route of the line.\n\n76. Purchase of materials and contracts for work will be made by public tender.\n\n77. Preference will be given to materials of Chinese production provided quality and price are favourable,\n\n78. The railway telegraph and telephone service will be subject to rules to be drawn up separately.\n\n79. Wherever the Company's lines join the lines of other Companies an agreement will be drawn up for mutual running rights.\n\nIX.\n\n80. The Company's accounts were opened at Shanghae in the 9th month of the 31st year, and to the end of the year form one division. After the 32nd year of Kuang Hsu (the current year 1906) each month will have its statement of account and each year its general statement, setting forth the Company's capital, land, materials, work, expenditure, revenue, &c., which will be printed and circulated among the shareholders.\n\n81. As each section is finished traffic will begin. Out of receipts, after paying interest on shares and all expenses incurred by the Company (but not including the construction expenses of the second section), all that remains shall be divided into twenty parts (here follows method of dividing the bonus).\n\nArticles.\n\nX.\n\n82. The Company will draw up subsidiary rules for the carrying out of the above\n\n83. These Rules are of a temporary nature, and subject to alteration by the shareholders meeting as occasion may arise, and by reference to the Board.\n\n7\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nMemorial from the Board of Commerce respecting the Scheme of the Kiangsu Gentry to construct their own Railways in their Province.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n(Approved by Rescript May 25, 1906.)\n\nIN compliance with the Kiangsu gentry's Petition, praying that they may construct their own railways in their province, the establishment of a Company, the electing of a Chief Director and Assistant Director, and the registering of the Company beforehand, we, the Board of Commerce, beg to memorialize the Throne upon the subject.\n\nDuring the 4th moon of the 32nd year of Kuang Hsu (April-May 1906) we received a Petition signed by the Kiangsu Metropolitan officials and gentry, and headed by the Secretary of the Hanlin College, Yun Su Ting, with 156 others, stating that recently the customs of the country have greatly changed, and that everybody knows the benefit that is to be derived from constructing railways, like that of Anhui, Kiangsi, Szechuan, Kuangtung, Fukien, Chekiang, and other provinces, where the respective gentries have met together and decided to build their own railways, and which has received the sanction of the Throne. Kiangsu Province is noted for its importance for its easy approach by sea and river, and is a grain-producing province in the south-eastern portion.\n\nThe Shanghae-Nanking Railway has already started its construction work with a foreign loan; there remains, however, many branch lines to be surveyed and built, and so the gentry of the province have met on several occasions and have decided to issue shares to the amount of 10,000,000 dollars to establish a Company to be called the Kiangsu Railway Company (Limited), the promoters of which will subscribe over 1,000,000 dollars for the expense of the survey and starting the work, and the remaining shares and interest for the money before the construction work is completed. They intend to manage that according as circumstances permit, and to devise other plans later on.\n\nOnly the work is so great and so important it is necessary to first obtain a man who is well experienced and who will be looked upon with full confidence by the natives of the whole province to take charge of this important position.\n\nIn order to insure success, we now elect the Vice-Chancellor of the Board of Commerce, Wong Ching Moh, as Chief Director, as he is well educated and careful in his thoughts, and the First Secretary of the Board of Commerce, Chang Ch'ien, who is well trained and experienced, to be the Assistant Director.\n\nThey are to take charge and transact all matters of business in connection with the Company, and we are sure that it will be a success and to the satisfaction of the gentries of the Kiangsu Province, who have planned this matter for the welfare of the public.\n\nSu Ting and others, who are Metropolitan officials, and some of whom are scattered in their native places, we have communicated to them by wire, and they are of the same opinion.\n\nBesides the survey, collecting of money, the issuing of shares, and the starting of work, the Rules and Regulations when finally decided upon will be forwarded to the Board of Commerce for decision.\n\nThe above is the general plan for the co-operating of the Kiangsu Railway Company (Limited), and the election of its officials. We therefore beg that the \"Board\" will memorialize the Throne for their Imperial Majesties' sanction.\n\nWe, the Board of Commerce, again in compliance with a letter from the President of the Board of Works, Loh Jen Siang; President of the Board of Ceremony, Loh Pao Chung; Grand Secretary Woo Yu Shen; Assistant to the Department of the Imperial clan, Cheng Ming Kang; Vice-Chancellor of the Board of Foreign Affairs, Chow Chia Lai; Acting Vice-Chancellor of the Board of Foreign Affairs, Lai Pa Tung, and others, regarding this matter, agreed that the Kiangsu Railway Company should be established and work begun upon it. Again, as they were natives of that province, they should give their support to the matter. As Wong Ching Moh and Chang Chien are well up in modern affairs and have the confidence of the people of the province, if they are allowed to take charge of the Company, they will surely make a good display of their ability, and so they therefore prayed that we would sanction their request.\n\nWe, the Board of Commerce, find that the Province of Kiangsu is rich in productions, it is easily approached by sea and is intersected by the Yang-tsze, it is bounded...\n\n[2183 ƒ-8]\n\nD\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "42\n\n8\n\nby Shantung, Honau, Anhui, and Chekiang, and its connection with the other provinces makes it a flourishing trade centre for native products, and the province is really a great centre in the south-east.\n\nAt present the benefit of the railway is recognized by all. Like the Provinces of Anhui and Chekiang, whose gentry have applied to build their own railways, and which has been duly memorialized for them, and their prayer granted. Now, the Kiangsu gentries Yuu Su Ting and others are applying for the same privilege, and in the future they hope to connect their railways with Anhui, Chekiang, and other provinces, for the purpose of trade, and the safeguarding of the interests of their province; it is really an important scheme. Their electing the members of our Board, viz., Vice-Chancellor Wong Ching Moh and First Secretary Chang Ch'ien to take charge of the said Railway Company, we find Vice-Chancellor Wong possesses great ability, is careful in thought, and his character is widely known. For instance, last year, under Imperial orders to inquire into trade and the revenue of the railways and mines, touring by sea and rivers to different ports, his proposal to deal with the different railway revenue was properly dealt with and he gave great help to our Board. Though he has his post in Peking, by means of letters and telegrams he will be able to direct the business to the benefit of the railway. The Kiangsu gentry having jointly selected him, we therefore beg the Throne to consider the importance of the railway and sanction their request, and that the Vice-Chancellor Wong Chih Moh, a member of our Board, be allowed to take up the position of Chief Director of the Kiangsu Railway Company (Limited), and Chang Ch'ien, who is well educated, broad-minded, and an energetic worker, and known to have great knowledge in trade and railway matters, be given the post of Assistant Director, since the Kiangsu gentry desires it to be so. The issuing of shares, surveying, purchasing of land, the starting of construction work and other important matters will be undertaken by the said gentry, who will report from time to time to us, and we will in turn report the same to the Throne, so that the railway may be properly managed and in accordance with their united desire.\n\nBesides the Shanghae-Nanking Railway which is at present being built by a foreign loan, and who has a high official appointment by the Throne in charge of it, the said gentry now state that their reason for building the railway is for the promotion of trade in the interior, and for the safeguarding of the interest of the province.\n\nAs we have found this scheme of theirs in order, we pray that they should be allowed to register their Company beforehand, and when the shares are collected to a certain amount, we shall hasten them to make a start.\n\nThe working of this railway will be in strict accordance with the Regulations set down by us, and which have already been sanctioned by the Throne.\n\nWhen the gentries have decided on their regulations, how the line will run, &c., they will forward the same to us, and we will again memorialize the Throne on the subject.\n\nWith regard to the above scheme of Kiangsu gentry to build their own railways, establishing a Company, electing officials, and the registering of their Company beforehand, we, in duty bound, respectfully beg to lay this Memorial for your Majesty's consideration and instructions.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Carnegie to Prince Ching.\n\nPeking, August 4, 1906. SIR E. SATOW had the honour to address your Highness three notes of the 14th and 16th March and the 19th April, on the subject of the Soochow-langchow-Ningpo Railway. In the note of the 19th April he inclosed copy of a Proclamation issued by the Governor of Chekiang on the 14th March which showed that his Excellency was continuing to press on the construction of a railway by the Chekiang people along the same route as that mentioned in the British and Chinese Corporation's Preliminary Agreement of October 1898. Sir Ernest pointed out that the Governor of Chekiang, relying on the Decree of the 23rd September, 1905, was ignoring the earlier objections of the Chinese Government which your Highness had admitted to be valid, and as regards which your Highness had informed Sir Ernest that the Governor should negotiate with the Corporation, and warned your Highness that the situation was one which the Chinese Government could not allow to continue without danger of international complications and serious damage to both British and Chinese interests. Sir Ernest therefore repeated the requests made in his note of the 14th March, that your Highness should inform the Governor of Chekiang that, as the Preliminary Agreement must be faithfully carried out, it was unnecessary to consider the separate proposals of the Chekiang people, and that the definite instructions of the Imperial Chinese Government should be sent to his Excellency to receive the Corporation's representative for the purpose of negotiating a Final Agreement, in accordance with the terms of the Preliminary Agreement.\n\n9\n\nOn the 12th May I had the honour to remind your Highness in a note that no reply had been received to Sir Ernest's communication, and to suggest that as Mr. Bland, the representative of the British and Chinese Corporation, had arrived in Peking, and as it was clear that the Governor of Chekiang had no intention of carrying out the negotiations which your Highness stated in a letter of the 1st January would be continued by him, the terms of the Final Agreement should be considered here. Since then the matter has been discussed at the Wai-wu Pu. I have been asked to represent to His Majesty's Government the difficult position in which the Wai-wu Pu is placed by the popular feeling in Chekiang, and to allow time for this to subside. In reply I have explained that, though willing to recognize difficulties, I must look to the Chinese Government to secure the fulfilment of solemn agreements in spite of local agitations.\n\nUnder the circumstances above stated, it was with no little astonishment that I read in a recent issue of the \"Yu Che Hui Ts'un\" (collection of Decrees and Memorials) a Memorial of the Board of Commerce submitting certain rules drawn up by the gentry of Chekiang for the construction of railways in that province. According to this Memorial, which received the Imperial approval by Rescript on the 4th July last, and appended rules, a concern called \"The Limited Company for the Construction of all the Railways of Chekiang Province\" has been authorized to survey and undertake lines from Hangchow northwards to Soochow and Shanghae, through Ho-shu and Chia-hsing (Kashing); and from Hangchow eastwards to Ningpo, through Chiang-kan and Shao-shing. The authority thus given to the above Company is in direct violation of the Agreements entered into by the Chinese Government with the British and Chinese Corporation.\n\nI have also seen in the \"Pei Yang Kuan Pao\" (\"North China Official News\") a Memorial of the Board of Commerce in regard to the establishment of a Company by the gentry of Kiangsu for the construction of railways in that province, which Memorial was approved by an Imperial Rescript of the 25th May, and I gather from a Declaration of his Excellency Chang Ch'ien, the Assistant Director of that Company (which was published in the \"Nan Fang Pao\" of the 19th and 20th June), that a railway from Soochow to Chia-hsing (Kashing) stands in the forefront of the undertakings contemplated by his Company. It is unnecessary to remind your Highness that such an enterprise, if seriously contemplated by the Kiangsu Railway Company under the authority of the Imperial Rescript of the 25th May, would also be a direct infringement of the obligations of the Chinese Government towards the British and Chinese Corporation.\n\nIn view of the importance of this matter to the reputation and credit of the Imperial Chinese Government, I have the honour to request your Highness to memorialize the Throne without delay, with a view to such action as may be necessary to obviate a charge of breach of faith, and to secure the due fulfilment of the obligations of the Chinese Government under their Agreements with the British and Chinese Corporation.\n\nThe favour of an early reply is requested.\n\n(Signed)\n\n0\n\nI avail, &c.\n\nLANCELOT D. CARNEGIE.",
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        "content_text": "## The American Minister tells me that, under instructions from his Government, he made representations in the same sense verbally to the Wai-wu Pu, and that he had received a reply similar to the one sent to me. I have also been informed by my Russian colleagues that he has recommended his Government to agree to the immediate establishment of customs stations in North Manchuria at the places mentioned by the Wai-wu Pu in their note to me. He is now awaiting instructions, but he thinks that his Government will raise no difficulties, provided that a satisfactory arrangement is made for the free admission of military supplies for the Russian troops still in operation.\n\nA copy of this despatch has been sent to Tôkiô.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) **LANCELOT D. CARNEGIE**\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\n### Agreement between Chinese Government and Russo-Chinese Bank\n\nHSU-KING-CHEN, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of China at St. Petersburgh, acting in virtue of the Imperial Edict of the 20th day of the 7th moon of the 22nd year of Kuang Hsü (16th (28th) August, 1896), and the Russo-Chinese Bank, have, for the purpose of entering into partnership, agreed to the following stipulations :-\n\n#### Article 1\nThe Chinese Government engage to enter into partnership with the Russo-Chinese Bank with the capital of 5,000,000 Kuping taels, and to share pro ratá, from the date of the investment of the fund to the said Bank, all profits realized as well as all losses sustained.\n\n#### Art. 2\nOn the 1st day of January of each year (Russian Calendar) when the annual settlement of all accounts of the Bank is to be made, the proportion of the capitals of the Chinese Government and the Russo-Chinese Bank shall be examined and determined respectively, and according to the basis thus established the amount of the profits or losses to be shared by the Chinese Government shall be fixed in Kuping taels at the end of the year.\n\n#### Art. 3\nIn accordance with the Articles of Association of the Bank, a certain per cent. of the net profit annually realized shall be set aside to be allowed to the Directors of the Bank as bonus. The profits remaining after such deduction shall be divided pro ratá between the Chinese Government and the Russo-Chinese Bank, each of whom is to contribute towards the reserve fund 10 per cent. of the amount so divided; and, if the rest still exceed 6 per cent. of the whole amount of each capital, 20 per cent. of such surplus, after deduction of the said 6 per cent., shall be distributed among the employés of the Bank as gratuity. In case of a loss, the portion to be borne by the Chinese Government shall, in the first instance, be supplied from the reserve fund on their account.\n\n#### Art. 4\nThe monthly and annual balance sheets of the accounts of the Bank shall, after examination and approval by the general meeting of shareholders, be transmitted by the agent of the Bank in China to the President of the Eastern China Railway appointed by China, for final submission after his examination to the proper quarters.\n\n#### Art. 5\nIn case of dissolution of the Bank on account of losses or some other causes, the portion of losses to be borne pro rata by the Chinese Government for the liquidation shall be duly determined, and the remaining amount of the capital invested by the said Government shall be refunded.\n\nThis 2nd day of the 8th moon of the 22nd year of Kuang Hsü. (The 27th August (8th September), 1896.)\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n### Supplementary Agreement between China and Eastern China Railway Company\n\nHSU-KING-CHENG, Ambassador Extraordinary of His Majesty the Emperor of China, and Yang-yu, His Imperial Chinese Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. Petersburgh, acting in virtue of the Imperial Edict of the 7th day of the 5th moon of the 24th year of Kuang Hsü (13th (25th) June, 1898), and the Eastern China Railway Company, in conformity to the Agreement between Russia and China, signed at Peking on the 15th (27th) March, 1898, and of the Additional Protocol, signed at St. Petersburgh on the 25th April, 1898, by which documents it has been stipulated that \"the Chinese Government agree to extend, from the date of the signature of the Agreement, the terms of the Agreement concluded with the Eastern China Railway Company on the 27th August (8th September), 1896, concerning the construction and exploitation of a branch line starting from one of the stations on the main line of the Eastern China Railway and reaching the ports of Talienwan and Port Arthur, on the coast of the Liaotung Peninsula\"; that \"all the stipulations of the Agreement concluded between the Chinese Government and the Russo-Chinese Bank on the 27th August, 1896, shall apply with equal strength to this branch line\"; and that the tracks, as well as the points where this line will pass, shall be determined by Ambassador Hsu-king-cheng in common accord with the Eastern China Railway Company\"; have, for the purpose of completing the Agreement for the construction and exploitation of the Eastern China Railway, agreed to the following stipulations :--\n\n#### Article 1\nThis branch line of the Eastern China Railway shall reach the seaports of Port Arthur and Talienwan, and shall thus be called the South Manchurian branch line of the Eastern China Railway.\n\n#### Art. 2\nIt being understood, according to Article 4 of the Agreement of the 27th August, 1896, that the Chinese Government are to take measures, whenever circumstances require, to facilitate the transportation, by land and water, of materials required for the construction of the line, the said Government authorize the Company's steamers and other boats under the Company's flag to navigate the Liao-ho and its tributaries, as well as to enter and unload materials at, the port of Yingkow and all the ports in the neutral zone, where it is found possible to do so, as well as necessary to accelerate the completion of the construction of the branch line.\n\n#### Art. 3\nEqually, in order to facilitate the transportation of materials and provisions necessary for the construction of the South Manchurian branch line, the Eastern China Railway Company has the right to extend temporary branch lines to Yingkow and to other ports of the neutral zone; but as soon as the line is completed and the traffic is fully opened, the Company shall, on demand from the Chinese Government, demolish those branch lines. This demolition shall, at all events, become obligatory on the Company after the lapse of eight years from the date of the completion of the definitive survey and the assignment of the necessary land required for the construction.\n\n#### Art. 4\nIn virtue of the concession granted to the Company by the Chinese Government in 1895 (November 1897 in French text) concerning timber and coal needed by the railway line, the Company is authorized to fell trees in the State forests and appropriate them, on condition that it shall pay for each tree so felled a price to be fixed in common accord with the Chinese local authorities, not exceeding the current price of the locality. Such forests, however, in Sheng-king Province, as particularly belong to the Imperial domain or represent a great religious importance, and are on that account specially protected by the Central Government of Peking, shall be respected and preserved intact. In the region through which the proposed railway line passes, the Company is also authorized to work coal mines in order to meet the demand required for the construction and exploitation of the branch line, by paying a certain price calculated by weight of the coal extracted. The price shall be determined by the Chief Superintendent of the Company or his deputy in common accord with the Chinese local authorities, and it shall not exceed the current price of the locality paid by other persons for the right of working coal mines.\n\n#### Art. 5\nThe Russian Government, having the right to establish such custom Tariff as they may deem suitable for that region of Liaotung Peninsula, which is ceded to them in usufruct, the Chinese Government shall, on their part, levy the custom duties at the frontier on goods imported into, or exported from, the above-mentioned region of the Peninsula. For this purpose the Chinese Government shall, if Russia consents thereto, establish a custom-house at Talienwan from the day of opening of that port for commerce. In case such custom-house is established, the organization and administration thereof shall be intrusted to the Eastern China Railway Company, which shall levy the duties as agent, and for the profit of the Chinese Treasury Department. This custom-house shall be under the direct control of the Central Government.",
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        "content_text": "## 02 \n\n61 \n\n**BRITISH CONSULATE** \n**APIA, SAMOA.** \n120 \n13th September 1906 \n\nReferring to my communication of the 3rd instant acknowledging the receipt of your despatch of the 24th July last, with its enclosure, I have the honour to state as follows:- \n\nThe complaint of Cheng Wing, whose name was attached to the placard posted in your Colony, contains both truth and error. \n\nIt is not true that \"more than two hundred men, whose term of three years has expired, were not allowed to return to China\". In April 1903 the \"Decima\" brought here from Swatow 282 Chinamen; in July last the \"Holstein\" sailed for Hongkong, taking back 191 men of these. Of the remainder, some have renewed their contract for another three years, and some, the number is unknown to me, have died. \n\nAs regards Cheng Wing's complaint that he will not be allowed to remain in Samoa, and carry on business after his three years contract has expired, the German government has from the outset made it an express rule that no coolie shall be allowed to remain here and engage in business after their contract term is ended. \n\nRespecting the food supplied them, there again the complaint seems to be somewhat overstated. As far as I am able to learn the men are provided generally with quite",
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        "content_text": "## PROCLAMATION\n\nC O 134 42122  \nREG 1 NOV 06\n\nBy His Excellency the Viceroy and E.B. Chang Chih-tung.\n\n[NOV 3 1906]\n\nIn view of the importance of railway extension to commercial development, the sanction of the Board of Commerce has been obtained for the formation of a company to undertake the construction of a line from Canton to Amoy. The first section of this line, from Ch'uan Lung K'ou outside the East Gate of Canton to Lu Chia Toi in Whampoa, is thirteen miles in length. It then passes through Tseng Ch'ong, Shih Lung Chen in Tung Kuan, Po Lo, Kuei Chan, Hai Feng and Lu Feng in Hui Chou; Hui lai, P'u Ning, and Chieh Yang districts in Ch'ao Chou, branching off to outside the city of Ch'ao Chou via Yao Ping, and thence to Amoy. The length of the line will be about 500 miles.\n\nOfficers have been deputed, in conjunction with the Pan Yu Magistrate, to thoroughly survey the localities through which the first section of the line, from Canton to Whampoa,",
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        "content_text": "146\n\nMessrs. Butterfield and Swire, I have now the honour to forward to you duplicate of a further letter which the above firm has addressed to me on the same subject.\n\nSir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nL. C. HOPKINS,\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nMessrs. Butterfield and Swire to Consul-General Hopkins,\n\nTien-tsin, February 26, 1906.\n\nWE have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 22nd instant, covering copy of a despatch from Sir Ernest Satow in reply to our letter of the 9th instant on the subject of the privileged treatment accorded to shipments of brick tea landed at Tien-tsin from the steamers of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company.\n\nWe desire to thank his Excellency for the prompt consideration he has given this matter.\n\nIn reply, we beg to observe that our aim is chiefly to share in the Yang-tsze and sea carriage of Shansi brick tea between Hankow and/or Foochow and Tien-tsin, and we are at present precluded from this owing to the special overland privileges we enumerated in our letter of the 9th instant, being granted exclusively to shipments landed from the steamers of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company.\n\nWe therefore specially object to the preferential treatment accorded by the Chinese authorities to the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company, who are thereby enabled to exercise a monopoly of trade. Free competition in the coast carriage of the produce in question is thus eliminated, and the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company constituted \"a privileged commercial society.\"\n\nMay we again request his Excellency to extend his aid to specially meet this, the chief obstacle to our participation in the trade. We gather from his despatch that he may regard us as already general carriers of Shansi brick tea, but this is not the case, as the shipment per steam-ship \"Nanchang\" was a trial shipment only.\n\nRegarding his Excellency's reference to the Customs Returns, we believe that the heading \"Brick Tea for Russia\" in that publication is a nominal one only, and that, as before indicated, the produce mainly does not proceed beyond Mongolia. Moreover, the great bulk of the tea is transported by Chinese owners, and this practice was, we believe, first instituted by means of the special privilege granted to the China Merchants' Steam-Navigation Company by Li Hung-chang's special Memorial in 1884.\n\nWill you kindly represent the foregoing to Sir Ernest Satow.\n\nWe note that Mr. Hosie will shortly be in Tien-tsin, and we shall be glad to have the opportunity of discussing this question with him.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nWe are, &c.\n\n(Per pro. Butterfield and Swire),\n\n(Signed) G. T. EDKINS, Agents, China Navigation Company (Limited).\n\nInclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to Prince Ch'ing.\n\nPeking, March 20, 1906.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform your Highness that I have received, through His Majesty's Consul-General at Tien-tsin, representations from Messrs. Butterfield and Swire of that port to the effect that the transport of brick tea from Hankow and Foochow to Tien-tsin lies entirely in the hands of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company, who undertake to deliver it in Kalgan; and, moreover, no coast-trade duty is charged on such tea, as it is declared at the Tien-tsin Customs for export to Siberia and Russia. As a matter of fact, a large proportion of this tea is consumed in Chinese territory, and never reaches the Russian frontier, But it is not only in respect of coast-trade duty that the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company enjoy privileged treatment, but also in duty and li-kin, being charged only 12 candareens per picul native customs duty, and li-kin at the rate of 4 candareens per picul, while Messrs. Butterfield and Swire were charged on a consignment of tea brought up in their steamer \"Nanchang\" 30 candareens per picul native customs duty and 15 candareens per picul li-kin.\n\nIt appears from these conditions that the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company are accorded special privileges which enable them to monopolize the carrying trade of brick tea from Foochow and Hankow to Tien-tsin. Such a monopoly is in contravention of the XIVth Article of the French Treaty of Tien-tsin, and I have the honour to request that the High Commissioner for Northern Ports may be called upon to devise means for placing British firms on a footing not less favourable than that enjoyed by the China Merchants' Company,\n\nAwaiting the honour of a reply, I avail, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nERNEST SATOW.\n\nInclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nPrince Ching to Mr. Carnegie.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nPeking, May 26, 1906.\n\nSir,\n\nON the 20th March last I had the honour to receive a note from Sir Ernest Satow drawing attention to certain special privileges accorded to the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company which enable them to monopolize the carrying trade of brick tea from Foochow and Hankow to Tien-tsin, and pointing out that such a monopoly is in contravention of Article XIV of the French Treaty of Tien-tsin, and requesting that the High Commissioner for Northern Ports may be called upon to devise means for placing British firms on a footing not less favourable than that enjoyed by the China Merchants' Company.\n\nThis Board lost no time in referring the question to the High Commissioner for Northern Ports for consideration, and are now in receipt of the following reply from him :-\n\n\"The Tien-tsin li-kin office, the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company, and the Tien-tsin Customs Taotai, in a joint report, inform me that the China Merchants' Company undertakes the carriage of the Hankow brick tea, which is a staple of the caravan trade westwards, and it has been the practice for the Company's branch office at Hankow to contract to carry it to Tungchow and Fengt'ai, where it is handed over to the tea merchants to convey it themselves to Kalgan for sale. As regards the customs dues and li-kin payable at Tien-tsin, the established Regulations* are conformed to, the native customs duty on brick tea being calculated at 12 candareens per picul, li-kin at 4 candareens, and industrial contribution at 3.2 candareens, while as regards the coast trade import duties, the Imperial sanction has been granted to a Memorial of a former High Commissioner of Northern Trade granting exemption therefrom. The reason for this was that whenever the Imperial Government has any important business it is always the China Merchants' steamers that are employed, and no extra allowance is granted for such service. The Company are unavoidably handicapped by this expense, and therefore, in order to compensate them, a Memorial was submitted and was sanctioned granting them this exemption from duty. The practice has been in force for over thirty years to the prosperity of trade, and no complaints have ever been made.\n\n\"As regards brick tea from Foochow, the amount produced at that place is inconsiderable, and the China Merchants' Company has never contracted for its conveyance.\n\n\"The complaint that Messrs. Butterfield and Swire now make is that the special privileges enjoyed by the China Merchants' Company are not in accordance with the French Treaty of Tien-tsin. The XIVth Article of that Treaty says:---\n\n'Aucune Société de Commerce privilégiée ne pourra désormais s'établir en Chine, et il sera de même de toute coalition organisée dans le but d'exercer un monopole sur le commerce.'\n\n\"I would point out that the real reason why the Company, when undertaking the carriage of tea from Hankow, are allowed to pay reduced dues and li-kin is because they have been accustomed to perform whatever official business there may be. That cannot * This must mean the established Regulations relating to this Company.\n\nPage 150\n\nPage 151",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[35556]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[October 22.]\n\nSECTION 2. CO\n\n42969\n\nR 22 NOV O\n\nMr. Carnegie to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received October 22.) (No. 365.) Sir,\n\nPeking, September 3, 1906.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith translation of the reply which I have received from the Wai-wu Pu to my note of the 18th August, copy of which was inclosed in my despatch No. 353 of the 22nd August, relative to the two cases of piracy of British launches plying on the West River which have occurred since the attack on the \"Sainam.” The Wai-wu Pu, after giving details of these outrages, which have been supplied by the Viceroy of Canton, state that his Excellency considers that the piracy of vessels plying singly is largely due to the practice of embarking passengers en route and the laxity with which inspections are conducted, and that he has appointed an official to discuss with His Majesty's Consul-General and the Commissioner of Customs measures of precaution to be adopted.\n\nAs will be seen from Inclosure 2 in Mr. Mansfield's despatch No. 39 of the 10th August, of which I inclose copy, the Viceroy has already communicated to him for his consideration certain regulations which he proposes should be enforced on all British vessels. Mr. Mansfield states that his Excellency has acted in the \"Sainam\" case with energy and promptitude, and that it is probable that a fair proportion of the pirates will be brought to justice.\n\nThe organization by European experts of a proper police force, both on shore and on the waterways, is, in Mr. Mansfield's opinion, the obvious and only real remedy for the present state of affairs. The principal difficulties of carrying out such a scheme lie in the Viceroy's dislike of foreigners and his precarious financial position.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) LANCELOT D. CARNEGIE.\n\nP.S.-I have the honour to inclose copy of a despatch just received from His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton, containing details of the piracy of the two British launches referred to above.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nL. D. C.\n\n(Translation.) Sir,\n\nWai-wu Pu to Mr. Carnegie.\n\nPeking, Kuang Hsü, 32nd year, 7th month, 9th day (August 28, 1906),\n\nWE have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 18th instant, concerning two cases of piracy of British launches plying on the West River, and requesting the issue of instructions to the Viceroy of Canton for the arrest and punishment of the pirates without delay.\n\nOn the receipt of your note, we communicated by telegraph with their Excellencies the Viceroy of Canton and Governor of Kuangsi, and the former has now replied stating that on the 10th August, as passengers were taking their places on the British steamer \"Jung-Fa\" at the main jetty of Nan-Tan-Chu in Kuangsi, the vessel was boarded by over twenty pirates, who opened fire on the soldiers conducting the inspection of passengers and killed two of them, named Chu Chi and Li Yuan respectively, whilst three others, Chang Sheng, Lu Yün, and Ning Piao, wounded by the firing, were pinioned in the hold of the vessel. The pirates then compelled the vessel to proceed down-stream, and on arriving at Ta-Mu-Yung, on the Meng River, two more pirates, armed with rifles and revolvers, came to the assistance of those already on the launch, which was now forbidden to show any lights or to blow her whistle. In this way they rushed past the Customs station at Wuchow at 9 P.M.,\n\n* Not printed.\n\n[2183 y-2]",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n235\n\n# CHINA TRADE\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[September 25.]\n\n## SECTION\n\nC O\n\n13804\n\n[32438]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 25. 27 NOV OF)\n\nLambeth Palace, London, September 24, 1906,\n\nDear Sir Edward Grey,\n\nTHE inclosed Memorial addressed to myself, but only as an intermediary, belongs really to His Majesty's Government, and I think I am right in transmitting it to yourself as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. I was in some doubt as to whether it ought not to go rather to the India Office; but if that is its proper destination, you will, no doubt, kindly send it thither. Any document emanating from men whose experience in China has been so prolonged and whose service has been so faithful as that of the signatories, would have a weight of its own upon a matter of this kind. In this instance, however, the Memorial has a further value, owing to the fact that some of its signatories are not merely enthusiastic missionaries, but scholarly, thoughtful, and exceedingly practical men of affairs; and the signature of the Bishop of Victoria (Bishop Hoare) has to-day a melancholy interest at a time when we are mourning the death which overtook him in the recent typhoon. I may mention that he talked the matter over with me when he was last in England a few months ago, and I was struck by the largeness and moderation of his view. These characteristics are not always found among the enthusiasts on this particular question.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) RANDALL CANTUAR.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nMemorial from the Bishops of the Anglican Communion in China to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nTHE undersigned Bishops of the Anglican Communion in China desire very respectfully to request his Grace to represent to His Majesty's Government their unaltered conviction that the prevalence of opium smoking and other forms of indulgence in opiates has exercised, and is exercising, a disastrous influence on the Chinese people and their Rulers, both physically and morally; and that the peculiar connection with the opium trade of His Majesty's Government has given rise to a certain prejudice against Great Britain and against Christianity, of which Great Britain is a foremost representative.\n\nThe Bishops, having individually stated this conviction on various occasions in past years, are induced to renew such statements collectively by the following considerations:\n\nThe Chinese Government has recently resolved to convert the opium trade in China into a Government monopoly, in order partly, no doubt, to raise a larger revenue on the drug, but also, ostensibly with a view to checking the opium vice, by imposing a licence, not only on all vendors, but also all purchasers, of opium.\n\nTwo of the most influential Chinese Viceroys, their Excellencies Yuan Shih-kai and Chang Chih-tung, having both within the last few years denounced the opium habit, the former has recently issued orders tending to stamp out the vice among his numerous civil and military subordinates.\n\nLastly, the publications of the Young China party have recently drawn attention to the vigour and efficiency of the Japanese Government, and the courage and loyalty of the Japanese people, connecting these high qualities with the rigid prohibition of opium smoking as, at least, a contributing cause.\n\nIn view of these considerations, the undersigned Bishops venture to hope that it may be possible for His Majesty's Government, even at this late hour, to adopt a policy in relation to opium which may in some degree vindicate the British and\n\n[2164 bb-1]\n\nPage 240\n\nPage 241",
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        "content_text": "2\n\n1 can only repeat the request of Mr. Carnegie that your Highness should request the Superintendent of Southern Trade and the Shanghae Taotai to refrain from establishing a Chinese trade mart or municipality on land adjoining the foreign Settlement at Shanghae.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. N. JORDAN\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum.\n\nC\n\n44802\n\n[November 3.]\n\nSECTION 7.\n\nBW 5 SFC OC\n\nNo. 1.\n\n307\n\nTHE question of Settlement extension would not be an acute one were it not for the operations of a certain section of the Chinese \"student\" class, who are at present aiming at municipal control of the large district north of the boundary, already largely foreign owned.\n\nThe matter has already been summarized in a Memorandum prepared at the request of Sir Pelham Warren, and the position taken up by the British Legation, reported in the local native press, has caused the very greatest satisfaction.\n\nFor the present no extension is required, but, while it is advisable that the Chinese Government should understand that if the foreign population continues to expand, extension will be necessary, the present attempts to thwart sanitary measures and road making on the outskirts must cease.\n\n[36992]\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received November 3.) (No. 382.)\n\nPeking, September 19, 1906.\n\nSir,\n\nWITH reference to Mr. Carnegie's despatch of the 9th September, reporting the result of an interview with Prince Ching on the subject of the Whampoa Railway project, I have the honour to inclose, for your information, copies of a despatch dated the 21st August received from His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton, and of a note which I addressed to Prince Ching on the 17th September.\n\nThe official Proclamation issued by the Viceroy of Canton, a translation of which is inclosed in Mr. Mansfield's despatch, disposes of Prince Ching's disingenuous explanation of the nature of the scheme, and places it beyond doubt that the trace of the proposed Canton-Amoy Railway must run for a considerable distance along the route of the Canton-Kowloon line.\n\nI have requested His Highness either to move the Viceroy of Canton to abandon the project we object to or to accord me an interview at an early date for the purpose of stating the views of His Majesty's Government.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n(No. 40.) Sir,\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Mr. Carnegie.\n\nCanton, August 21, 1906.\n\nREFERRING to my telegram No. 24 of the 17th instant, I have now the honour to forward copy and translation of a Proclamation by the Viceroy, from which it appears that the Canton-Amoy Railway has been decided on, at any rate as far as the section from Canton to Whampoa is concerned.\n\nAs to the capital required, I have been unable to obtain any accurate information. A Chinese named Chang Chien-hsun, who made money in the Straits, has, it is said, induced his countrymen there to subscribe 2,000,000 dollars. The line has been surveyed at Chang's expense, and two foreigners have been engaged, one a Dane and the other an Englishman.\n\nIn spite of careful inquiries, I have found extraordinary difficulty in obtaining any reliable information about the projected line, its capital, or its management. From the Viceroy's Proclamation it would appear to be under official auspices.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nProclamation by the Viceroy and Chang Chien-hsun.\n\nIN view of the importance of railway extension to commercial development, the sanction of the Board of Commerce has been obtained for the formation of a Company to undertake the construction of a line from Canton to Amoy. The first section of this line, from Chuan Lang K'ou outside the East Gate of Canton to Lu Chia Wei in Whampoa, is 13 miles in length. It then passes through Tseng Cheng, Shih Lung Chen in Tung Kuan, Po Lo, Kuei Shan, Hai Teng, and Lu Feng in Hui Chou, Hui Lai, P'ing Ning, and Chia Yang districts in Ch'ao Chou, branching off to outside the city of Ch'ao... \n\n[2226 e- -7]",
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        "content_text": "less favourable, and that the price now offered, waiving profit certificates, is 91½. The Corporation would prefer to issue the loan on commission, as agents, retaining the stipulated participation in profits, but if this should not be acceptable, the above alternative offer was to be submitted, on the understanding that the bonds would be redeemable under the same conditions as those of the Shanghae-Nanking Railway. He was further instructed to point out that, although Shanghae-Nanking Railway Bonds could now be issued at 102, the Canton-Kowloon Railway was considered as a decidedly inferior security.\n\nHe was\n\nHis Excellency Tang Shao-yi absolutely declined to consider this offer. not prepared to conclude a contract on the fixed-commission basis, nor would the Chinese Government agree to allow participation in profits. Even at the price which he understood the Corporation had previously suggested (93), it would not make an agreement, the Chinese Government being in a position to command better terms elsewhere. His Excellency Tang intimated that if the Corporation's terms were finally unacceptable to the Chinese Government, it would be justified in financing the railway in other quarters, and observed that the terms now offered were conceded solely in recognition of the right conferred by the Preliminary Agreement; he laid stress on the liberal terms given by the Government of Hong Kong in the loan to his Excellency Chang Chih-Tung last year.\n\nMr. Bland stated that, in accepting several important modifications of the conditions properly claimable under the Preliminary Agreement, the Corporation was earnestly endeavouring to place its relations with the Chinese Government on a footing of mutual interest and goodwill. Should these endeavours prove to be unavailing, the only possible course would be to return to the original terms of the Concession, which had received the Imperial sanction, and was therefore binding. He hoped, however, that the present negotiations would result in an amicable settlement of the matter. With a view to facilitating the same, he would urge upon the Directors of the Corporation the advisability of making the most liberal offer possible, compatible with the prospect of a reasonable profit and reimbursement of expenses of the loan issue. At the same time, the Chinese Government would no doubt recognize the justice of the Corporation's claim to be compensated for the annulment of its rights to participation in the profits of the enterprise, rights enjoyed under the several Railway Agreements upon which the present Concession was admittedly based. The market value of the Shanghae-Nanking Railway profit certificates was at present £6, and the compulsory surrender of such realizable securities must be a matter for arrangement. He thought that, allowing reasonable compensation under this heading, the best terms which could possibly be offered under existing market conditions would be 93.\n\nThe question was left in abeyance pending receipt of a further communication from the Board of Directors.\n\nHis Excellency Tang Shao-yi referred to Article 6 of the Canton Viceroy's draft Agreement and to the status and duties of the Engineer-in-Chief and Chief Accountant, desiring that these matters be clearly understood and recorded.\n\nMr. Bland stated the Corporation's views, already expressed at a previous meeting on this subject. It was essential for the purposes of the Loan Agreement that, as the Shanghae-Nanking Railway system of joint control was not to be followed on this occasion, the rights and interests of the bondholders should be stated in the Agreement in a manner to inspire confidence. To this end it was essential that China should specifically guarantee, during the term of the loan, the efficient maintenance of the railway under the Engineer-in-Chief, and the effective supervision of receipts and expenditure by the Chief Accountant representing the interests of the Corporation and bondholders. The position of the Engineer-in-Chief must be definitely recognized as a dual post and his authority in this joint enterprise as derived from the Chinese Director-General and the Corporation. Considerable discussion occurred on the subject, his Excellency Tang Shao-yi desiring to protect the Chinese railway administration from being compelled to employ indefinitely an engineer or accountant who might for personal reasons fail to make himself persona grata with the responsible Chinese authorities. It was eventually agreed that these employés should be appointed, and removable, by the Corporation, in consultation with the Director-General.\n\nMr. Bland suggested that in other respects the provisions of the Northern Railway Loan Agreement might be mutually acceptable, and undertook to redraft Article 6 of the Viceroy's proposals with a view to a further consideration of the subject.\n\nHis Excellency T'ang Shao-yi then referred to Article 20, and to the question of the bonds redemption. In this connection he pointed out that in the Shanghae-Nanking Railway Agreement, owing to an error in the Chinese translation, the Chinese Government was under the impression that the bonds in that contract were redeemable at 2½ per cent. premium up to twelve and a-half years and thereafter at par—a fact which emphasizes the need for extreme care in preparing such contracts.\n\nKung Taotai, referring to the Corporation's present proposals, said that the method adopted under the Shanghae-Nanking Railway Agreement was opposed to all usage and that the method of redemption to be followed, conforming to other Chinese railways, was that of fixed annual repayments in accordance with an amortization schedule. Any bonds redeemed before due date within the first twenty-five years would carry a premium of 2½ per cent., and six months' notice would be given of the Chinese Government's intention to redeem.\n\nMr. Bland, while undertaking to place this proposal before the Corporation, observed that these conditions might affect the saleable value of the bonds, and thus further reduce the price of the loan, which, as observed by the Board of Directors, is already regarded in the market as a security inferior to the Shanghae-Nanking Railway.\n\nFinally the question of commission on materials was discussed, his Excellency Tang Shao-yi stating that the utmost the Chinese Government can offer is to pay commission on all foreign importations, as distinct from Chinese manufactures. He estimated the probable total of such purchases at £500,000, and therefore offered to commute the commission for a lump-sum payment of £25,000.\n\nMr. Bland observed that the expression \"commission on materials\" was used, as already frequently explained, for want of a more adequate phrase, to signify the remuneration paid to the Corporation for its general responsibility and services in the construction of the railway; that the responsibility included protection of the bondholders' interests by the construction of a first-class line, and that if the principle of a commutation for this remuneration were admitted, it would not relieve the Corporation of its duty in supervising and controlling the construction. Regarding the amount of the commutation, he observed that neither on the basis of general \"superintendence and services\" nor on the accepted usage in railway construction could the commission be limited to foreign importations. The Corporation had already met the Chinese Government in a liberal spirit, by waiving its claims to commission on Chinese produce purchased locally, but it must be evident that if, for instance, half the material could be supplied from Hanyang or Tongshan, the Corporation would still be entitled to remuneration for its services and responsibility in the construction of the line. He suggested that, on this basis, the minimum commutation would be £35,000, which is less than 2¼ per cent. on the loan. While considering the system adopted in the Shanghae-Nanking Railway more generally acceptable, the Corporation might be willing to accept such an arrangement with a view to concluding this vexed question.\n\nHis Excellency Tang Shao-yi observed that, in the event of the Corporation offering acceptable terms as regards the price of the loan, the amount of the commission commutation might be increased.\n\nAt this point the meeting adjourned.\n\nSeptember 28, 1906.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. O. P. BLAND.\n\nPage 366\n\n \nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\n366\n\n366\n\n366",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[38619]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n372\n\n[November 17.]\n\nSECTION 9.\n\nC.O.\n\n45640\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 17.)\n\n(No. 394) Sir,\n\nPeking, October 4, 1906.\n\nWITH reference to Mr. Carnegie's despatch No. 292 of the 4th July last, I have the honour to inclose copy of a despatch of the 18th September from His Majesty's Consul at Kiukiang reporting on the manner in which the terms of settlement of the Nan Chang case have been fulfilled.\n\nThe questions of compensation and of punishments appear to have been settled satisfactorily. I should explain that the case of Hsiao Fa was discussed by Mr. Carnegie with the Wai-wu Pu, who contended, on the authority of Taotai Liang Tan-yeu, the special Commissioner sent by the Chinese Government to inquire into the Nanchang massacre, that the evidence of the convert Pao Ping-jung was untrustworthy, and that the man had not taken part in the murder of the Kinghams. After full consideration of the evidence, and of the satisfactory manner in which Taotai Liang had dealt with the other persons implicated, Mr. Carnegie felt that there was sufficient doubt to prevent him from pressing for the execution of Hsiao Fa, though he saw no reason to reduce the sentence of eight years' imprisonment which had been passed.\n\nI agree with Mr. Werner that the rewards to the Chinese officers and men as reported by him are inadequate, and I have addressed a note to Prince Ching on the subject, copy of which I have the honour to inclose. I shall not fail to press this matter on the attention of the Wai-wu Pu at an early opportunity.\n\nThe writer, Pao Fang, and the nurse, Miss Ch'en, being private servants of the missionaries, and not in the service of the Chinese Government, it was not considered advisable to apply for rewards for them. Such persons could only expect to receive a small present of money, and the proper persons to give it are the missionaries themselves.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nDFC 06\n\n(No. 15.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Werner to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nKiukiang, September 18, 1906.\n\nIN obedience to the instructions contained in Mr. Carnegie's despatch No. 6 of the 9th July, to keep a careful watch on the manner in which the conditions of settlement of the Nan Ch'ang case are carried out by the Chinese authorities, I have the honour to report as follows:-\n\nPunishments. In accordance with the Imperial Decree, the terms of which are stated in the Wai-wu Pu's note to His Majesty's Minister of the 30th April last, copy of which was inclosed in Mr. Carnegie's despatch, the then Governor of Kiangsi, Hu Ting-kan, has been removed from office; the Provincial Treasurer, Chou Hao, has been dismissed; and the Provincial Judge, Yu Chao-k'ang, who was degraded to the rank of Tung Chih, has preferred to retire into private life.\n\nThe four men, Hsieh Yu-lung, Tan Chin-kang, Wei Te-sheng, and Chou Lao-erh, who were condemned to decapitation, were beheaded on the 30th July, together with the five principal criminals condemned to death for the murder of the French priest, and a man concerned in one of the previous cases which led up to the recent massacre.\n\nThe remaining thirteen criminals sentenced to various terms of imprisonment for being concerned in the murder of the Kinghams, or in the burning of the Mission buildings, are now in confinement.\n\nAs regards the case of Hsiao Fa, I have no knowledge of the evidence not adduced at the trial on which he has been condemned to eight years' imprisonment, but should it have transpired that Pao Ping-jung, the principal witness against him at the trial (whose evidence, however, was very positive and did not waver under cross-examination),\n\n2226 - ---97\n\nPage 373",
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        "content_text": "373\n\n2\n\ncommitted what in English law would be perjury of a very serious nature, I have the honour to request your sanction to my asking the Governor at Nan Chiang to award to the latter some suitable, but not vindictive, punishment. As far as the evidence at the trial went, Hsiao Fa should either have been liberated or condemned to death.\n\nRewards.-I cannot but regard the manner in which this part of the stipulations made by His Majesty's Government has been carried out by the Chinese authorities as most unsatisfactory. The revised list of Chinese who exerted themselves to protect the lives and property of foreigners whose names I brought to Sir Ernest Satow's notice, and to each of whom a substantial reward was to be given, is contained in Mr. Carnegie's despatch. I have the honour to report as follows upon the rewards so far allotted to the various officers and men named therein :-\n\nHung Wei-lin, Commodore of the River Fleet, and Wu Chén-jo, Deputy in the Foreign Bureau, have been placed next on the list for promotion. This is too uncertain; they should at once be promoted to the rank of Chih Chou.\n\nWu Melting, captain of a gunboat, to be promoted to the next Ying vacancy. Should he at once be made a Ying Kuan, preferably at Kiukiang, that being his wish.\n\nHsu Tê-fên, Deputy in the Industrial School; Chiên K'uei (not in original list); Sun Lang, Police Deputy; Hsu Hui-Chuan, ditto; Liu Hung-lin (not in the original list); Shên Fu-hêng, of the Ching Ch'a Chu. When vacancies occur, their cases will be considered. This is too indefinite; they should be given the rank of Chih Chou, and sent immediately to fill acting posts.\n\nLiu Kuo-tung, Squadron Commander; Chên Chin-tang, Commandant of the Ch'ang Fei Chun; Hung Chan-k'uei, Major in the Right Battalion, Kêng Ch'ao-t'ai, Superintendent of the Mint; Liu Chu-shu, Lieutenant-Colonel of the City Guard; Wang Te-sheng, Captain of the City Guard, Liu Hsin-ch'uan, Captain of Cavalry: Tsao Tê-fu, an Inspector of the 1st Battalion of the Territorial Army; Ho Huan-wên, Lieutenant of Cavalry, Wang Hsi-lin, ditto; Pan Têng-hsien, ditto; Hsu Tzo-chün, Sergeant of the Provincial Garrison. These cases have not yet been considered, owing to a change of the Taotai in charge of military matters. Each case should be carefully considered, and definite promotion given immediately; otherwise nothing may be done for three to five years, or the matter may be overlooked altogether.\n\nPao Chiêng haang, of the Chồng Shou Ying; Pao Pu-kuei, ditto; Heung 1-shéng (Hsiung Lan-sen), of the Chang Pei Chün. These have received 7 taels each. They exerted themselves strenuously throughout the day of the massacre, and the reward must be considered inadequate. It cannot be construed as a \"substantial\" reward, as stipulated, and should be trebled at least.\n\nChang Ya-chan and Lü Chin-piao, of the Ching Cha Chü, have received 55 dollars and 45 dollars respectively. This may be considered sufficient.\n\nChu Ping-kun, of the Ching Cha Chi, is to be sent to Japan to study (probably for a military career). This, being at his own request, will, if carried out, be sufficient compensation for his voluntary aid to the missionaries in distress.\n\nI submit that the above list hardly indicates that this portion of the conditions imposed by His Majesty's Government has been carried out in the right spirit, and Had it not been that its immediate and adequate fulfilment should be insisted upon, for the courage and exertions of those named, it is probable that most of the missionaries in Nan Ch'ang at the time would have been murdered and all the Mission buildings destroyed. The sympathy, bravery, and hard work of what may be regarded as a small, but just-minded, pro-foreign party, ready to do right, even on behalf of aliens, in face of the risk of official disapproval, are characters and acts calling for commendation and encouragement, and it is to be feared that if the Governor at Nan Chang is not compelled to fulfil the stipulation as to granting a substantial reward to each of those named in Mr. Carnegie's note to Prince Ching of the 27th June last, since it cannot but be known that the stipulation has been made, the failure to insist upon its proper fulfilment will be regarded as a sign of weakness or indifference, and the name of foreigners and the cause of foreign Missions in Nan Chiang be in so far prejudiced. In those cases where it is impossible to immediately find a substantive post of higher grade, promotion in rank accompanied by an adequate pecuniary reward should at once be given.\n\nOf the names omitted from the revised list, Pao Fang, Miss Warr's writer, exerted himself throughout the day and part of the night, and was probably the means of Miss Warr's life being saved. This man and Chen p'o p'o, the amah who saved the infant Vera Kingham, should not be allowed to go unrewarded.\n\nThat a feeling of disappointment exists amongst those who, instead of deserting the missionaries in the hour of danger, worked hard on their behalf, and in many cases saved their lives and protected their property, is shown by the following extract from a letter, dated the 11th September, received by me from the Rev. A. E. Thor, of the China Inland Mission at Nan Ch'ang:-\n\n\"I have asked a good many, direct and indirect, if So-and-so has been rewarded, but always the same answer 'No,' and no one seems to think there will be any. To-day Liu Kuch-tung, of the cavalry camp, came in to have a chat; I asked him about the reward. He laughed and said: 'Reward there will be none, but a few days ago a note was sent to us from the General, which he had received from Peking, in which we were thanked for good service rendered the country, and that five names (mine being one) were put in the book of honour amongst those who have rendered good service to the country, and that is all we will get. If this country is too poor (as they always say) to give these men higher rank and as such more pay, it seems to me that the Chinese Government could afford to give their officers higher kong-ming' (degree). That would cost the Government nothing, but would work wonders amongst those who get it. Now, they all seem disappointed, as they had expected something, as the Governor cried out during the riot: 'A thousand taels to any one who saves a foreigner.'\n\nI submit that the Governor at Nan Chang should be instructed by telegraph to see that the stipulations of the two Governments are carried out immediately and in a proper spirit.\n\nCompensation. The sum of 4,700l.—the amount agreed upon as compensation for the destroyed property of the late Rev. H. C. Kingham and for the support of the infant, Margaret Vera Kingham-was received by me to-day (the 18th September) from the Governor of Nan Ch'ang, through the Prefect (the Taotai being in attendance upon his dying mother), to whom I gave a receipt. By the instructions of His Majesty's Chief Judge at Shanghae I have deposited the 700l. in the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, Shanghae, in an account named \"His Britannic Majesty's Consul, Kiukiang, a/c K.,\" and the 4,000, in the same bank in London to the account of \"His Britannic Majesty's Chief Judge, Supreme Court, Shanghae.\"\n\nAll the other claims for personal property destroyed having, as already reported, been settled satisfactorily by the former Governor, Hu Ting-kan, there remains only the question of the new piece of land which it was agreed should be granted to the missionaries for the purpose of erecting buildings in which to carry on the work begun by the late Rev. H. C. Kingham and his wife. The 700l. paid as compensation for the late Mr. Kingham's property having included the land on which the house and chapel had been erected, I have stated to the Rev. H. E. Pownall, representing the Stewards' Company (of which Mr. Kingham was a member), that this new piece of land, which obviously cannot form part of Mr. Kingham's estate, may be considered as the property of the Stewards' Company, given to them for the carrying on of the work interrupted by the death of Mr. Kingham, feeling that this course would meet with your sanction and approval. Further negotiations as to whether the same site shall be granted, or whether it will be advisable to rebuild the Mission premises at a greater distance from the Roman Catholic Mission (their proximity having led to their destruction during the late massacre), are under correspondence between the missionaries, the Nan Chang officials, and myself, and will probably shortly reach a satisfactory conclusion.\n\nSettlement and Guardianship.-After correspondence with the Supreme Court at Shanghae, I have suggested the appointment of the Rev. H. E. Pownali and Rev. R. J. Hopkins as trustees for the minor, Margaret Vera Kingham. Owing to the absence of the parties, I have not yet taken the hearing for the appointment of a guardian, and if, as seems probable from what Mr. Pownall has stated, Mr. Hopkins or he would prefer to be guardian rather than trustee, another reliable person nearly connected will be appointed joint trustee with one or the other. The matter will be proceeded with as soon as possible, and the Crown Advocate at Shanghae will then be instructed to draw up a deed of settlement, a draft of which will be forwarded for your approval.\n\nA claim for the guardianship of the infant, Margaret Vera Kingham, has been made, though as yet only in an informal manner, in private letters to Mrs. Pownall and Mrs. Hopkins by a Mr. Percy Kingham, a hotel-keeper of Drummond, South Africa, brother of the late Rev. H. C. Kingham, but being satisfied from information gathered from various sources that his guardianship would not be to the interests of the ward, and the Chief Judge concurring in my view, the appointment of a guardian will be proceeded with irrespective of any claim which he may see fit to set up.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) E. T. C. WERNER.\n\n3\n\n373",
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        "content_text": "Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n2\n\nWith these considerations the Board do not feel able to comply with your Excellency's request to direct that no Chinese trade-mart shall be established on land adjoining the foreign Settlement at Shanghae.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Prince Ch'ing.\n\nOctober 6, 1906.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highness' note of the 1st October, referring to the proposed establishment of a Chinese municipality at Chapei, with the contents of which I am entirely unable to agree. Your Highness loses sight of the central fact in this question. The port of Shanghae, which is at present one of the foremost trade-marts of the world, was founded by merchants of various nationalities, principally English, over sixty years ago. The place was unknown and insignificant before foreign merchants went there, and it has arrived at its present importance and prosperity solely by reason of the enterprise and high repute of the foreign residents. The area assigned to foreign residence has increased with the growth of foreign commerce, and foreign municipal organization has increased with it, but this area is naturally limited, and can never be more than a few square miles at the most. Of late, agitation of a character hostile to all legitimate British interests has arisen in China, and in obedience to the wishes of the agitators, the Chinese authorities at Shanghai propose measures which are intended to thwart sanitary improvements and road-making on the outskirts of the foreign Settlements, and to put a stop to the growth of the Treaty port. The intentions are common knowledge, and it cannot be gainsaid that they are antagonistic to peaceful relations with foreign countries.\n\nThe interests of British merchants, dating back for over sixty years, in the port of Shanghae, are of enormous value, and it is not possible for His Majesty's Government to acquiesce in any action of the Chinese authorities which must do injury to those interests.\n\nI have again the honour to request your Highness to instruct the Superintendent of Southern Trade and the Chinese authorities concerned to refrain from establishing a Chinese municipality on the outskirts of the foreign Settlements at Shanghai.\n\nI avail, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL,\n\n[40355]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n440\n\n[December 1.]\n\nSECTION 4.\n\nC.O.\n\n43055\n\n03 NCC 06\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received December 1.) (No. 424.) Sir,\n\nPeking, October 17, 1906. WITH reference to Mr. Carnegie's despatch No. 351 of the 21st August, I have the honour to inclose, for your information, copy of a letter, dated the 24th September, from Mr. George Brown, Agent-General of the Peking Syndicate, summarizing the history of the discussions which have taken place since November of last year in regard to the affairs of the Syndicate in the province of Shansi.\n\nOn three occasions during this month and last, verbal inquiries were made of his Excellency Tong Shao-yi respecting the issue of the necessary permit, and I was informed that the Wai-wu Pu were using their best efforts to bring the Governor of Shansi to reason, and that I could rely on a permit being issued sooner or later.\n\nOn the 9th October I spoke strongly on the subject at the Wai-wu Pu, and asked that the plain terms of the Syndicate's agreement should be fulfilled by issuing the permit asked for without further delay. His Excellency Tong Shao-yi, who is the Minister specially charged with this matter, assured me that the Wai-wu Pu had telegraphed explicit instructions to the Governor, and were sparing no effort to hasten the issue of the permit. When questioned closely as to the nature of the instructions sent to Shansi, his Excellency read extracts from a long telegram to the Governor dealing with general objections which the latter had raised to the area marked on the permit map, and requesting him to be more precise. As the Governor was asked to send a deputy to make an investigation, I protested that this merely meant more delay, and could not serve any purpose at this date. The patience of the Syndicate was exhausted, and there could be no doubt in the mind of any reasonable person that they had been treated with complete want of justice. It was impossible for me to ask them to wait longer. They had large capital sunk in this undertaking, and, with the prospect of the Cheng-ting-Taiyuan railway being completed as far as Ping-ting Chou in a few months, delay in issuing the permit meant delay in commencing operations and consequent loss to the shareholders. The question of compensation had already been raised by the Syndicate, and it had been the constant effort of His Majesty's Legation to avoid a demand for damages by inducing the Chinese Government to carry out the simple letter of their engagement.\n\nHis Excellency repeated that the Wai-wu Pu had done and were doing their utmost, and promised to urge the Governor by telegraph again. I refused to accept this as sufficient. The issue of the permit offered no difficulty whatever, so far as I could see, and that alone would satisfy the Syndicate and me. Unless this was done within a few days, I should be compelled to refer the matter to His Majesty's Government—a step which I was reluctant to take. Though ready to state again that a permit would be issued, his Excellency was unable to give me an assurance that this would be done soon, and with an expression of strong dissatisfaction I passed on to another subject.\n\nTo bring the question to a definite issue, I sent a written message to his Excellency next day (the 10th October) that I would wait another week before telegraphing to you. I requested him at the same time to inform Prince Ching that it would be out of my power to refrain from placing the matter in the hands of His Majesty's Government if at the expiration of the week the permit was not issued.\n\nAs I informed you in my telegram No. 191 of yesterday, I am now awaiting the return of Mr. Brown to Peking to decide on the steps which I shall have the honour to suggest to you by telegraph.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n[2263 a~4]",
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        "content_text": "羹\n\n13\n\n31.\n\nHis Excellency (to Mr. Guterres): Do you wish to make any statement?\n\nMr. Guterres: I wish to call some witnesses.\n\nHis Excellency: Do you wish to make a statement?\n\nMr. Guterres: I would rather call witnesses first.\n\nMr. Sercombe Smith: Have you any Chinese witnesses?\n\nMr. Guterres: Yes,\n\nChan Yu Tin, called:\n\nExamined by Mr. Guterres.\n\nQ. Your name is Chan Yu Tin?\n\n95\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. Who are you?\n\nA. The Po Tai told me to engage men to go on board ships as sailors.\n\nQ. You are a boarding house runner?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. And your master?\n\nA. Cheng Chi Tai.\n\nQ. And the name of the boarding house?\n\nA. Lun Hing.\n\nQ. Where is it situated?\n\nA. Connaught Road near the Douglas wharf,\n\nQ. 31 Connaught Road, is it not?\n\nA. Yes,\n\nQ. There is no one living there?\n\nA. No.\n\nQ. Have I ever deducted any money from the wages of seamen or firemen discharged?\n\nA. No, I have not seen it done.\n\nQ. Have I ever kept an odd cent from seamen's wages?\n\nA. No, If you had not got sufficient change you would perhaps give a ten-cent piece to two or three men and get them to divide it.\n\nQ. With regard to the Alcinous, they allege I deducted $1,200. Did you see me deduct any money?\n\nA. I was not present; I did not see it.\n\nQ. A blue-fuel boat?",
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        "content_text": "166\n\ndirection.\n\nThe junk was moving very slowly. The tide was running about half ebb. I first noticed the \"Alexander\" about 700 feet away, I told Tau Yee Tin. When I first saw her the \"Alexander\" was heading a little bit short of our bow. We did not change our course.\n\n8.\n\nAs far as I can judge I should say the \"Alexander\" was going about half speed.\n\n9.\n\nThe \"Alexander\" came on and struck our port quarter with her bows considerably damaging the junk.\n\n10.\n\nIt was impossible for us to do anything on board the junk to avoid the collision as there was no wind to maneuver.\n\n11.\n\nThere was a full cargo on board the junk at the time of the collision.\n\nAnd I make this solemn declaration conscientiously, believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of the \"Statutory Declaration\" Act 1835.\n\n...\n\nby the negligent working of the \"Alexander\" in the harbor of Hong Kong. this Day of April 1977 through the interpretation of Cheung\n\nInterpreter\n\nassicurato Johnson ~ Clarke and Vagner of Victoria aforesaid the said Cheng Foo having been also first declared that truly distinctly and audibly interpreted the contents of this declaration to the said declarant and that he would truly and faithfully interpret the declaration about to be administered unto him.\n\nS.\n\nbefore me,\n\n...\n\nWing of a Kwok\n\nMariner\n\nSd. H. G. C. Bailey\n\nNotary Public,\n\nHong Kong.",
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        "content_text": "# RETURN of OFFICERS who have given Security for the due Discharge of their Duties\n## Prepared at the Annual Inspection of Securities, held on 7th February, 1907\n\n| Name of Officer giving Security | Exact Titles of all Appointments (either permanent or temporary) now held by him | Nature of the Security given | Names, Addresses, and Occupations of the Sureties in each Bond | Title of Office in respect of which the Bond is given, as stated therein | Date of Bond | Amount of Bond |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Fang Yok Kan | Sixth Clerk, REGISTRAR GENERAL'S DEPT.; Shroff | Deposit Note of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for $100 |  |  |  | 100 |\n| Wong Bak Shin | ... | Do. | Man To Toung, Master of Tang Wing shop; Yau Shui, Master of Hung Cheong, Constructor's shop, No. 81 High Street |  | 13th January, 1904 | 5,000 |\n| ... | ... | IF BY GUARANTEE BOND | Wong Lai-fú; Compradore of Simsson & Co.; Kwok Shut Teng, of Heung Shonng Kerosine Oil Company |  | 27th February, 1902 | 2,000 |\n| ... | ... | ... | Wan King Ceung of No. 20 Queen's Road East; Ko Sik Chi of No. 39 Queen's Road Central |  | 2nd June, 1905 | 250 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... |  | 6th July, 1906 | 300 |\n| Lan Tin Tsung | Aurilary Shroff, (office dispensed with.) | Deposit Note of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for $300 |  |  |  |  |\n| Cheng Ki Heung | Writer, COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT | Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally | Tsiu Yin-cho of the Yin Hing shop No. 44 Jervois Street; Wong Yui Sung of the Wing Sing shop No. 82 Queen's Road Central |  | 22nd February, 1904 | 200 |\n| Chat Shing Ip | Writer | Do. | Yung Chiu Po, Compradore J. D. Jutebison & Co. |  | 1st February, 1904 | 250 |\n| Lau Tsz Ping | Writer | Do. | Chow Yat Shing, Master of the Ki Lan No. 21 East Street; Cheng Yuen, Master of the Kwong Tsâu, No. 4 Tung Tak Lane |  | 12th January, 1906 | ... |\n| Chan Fung Thug | Writer | Do. | Tam Hoi, Master of the Tsung Hoi Kee shop, No. 40 Circular Pathway; Lan Kam Shing, Master of the In Lee shop, No. 514 Queen's Road West |  | 8th December, 1906 | ... |\n| ... | Office Attendant | Do. | Wong Shan Kan, Master of the Wai Hang, No. 196 Wellington Street; L. F. Cooke, Master of the Po Kee, No. 58 Connaught Road |  | 11th December, 1906 | 550 |\n| ... | ... | ... | Kwong Hang, Master of the Yu Lung, No. 65 Wellington Street; So Mau Hing, Master of the Fu Keo, No. 57 Queen's Road West |  | 14th December, 1906 | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | Ho Hoi, Master of the Sze Hop, No. 321 Queen's Road West; Fung Fong, late District Watchman |  | 11th December, 1906 | 100 |",
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        "content_text": "(K 4 )\n\nRETURN of OFFICERS who have given Security for the due Discharge of their Duties,\n\n(K 5 )\n\nprepared at the Annual Inspection of Securities, held on 7th February, 1907,-Continued.\n\n  \n    Name of Officer giving Security.\n    Exact Titles of all Appointments (either permanent or temporary) now held by him.\n    Nature of the Security given.\n    Names, Addresses, and Occupations of the Sureties in each Bond.\n    Title of Office in respect of which the Bond is given,\n    Date of Bond.\n    Amount of Bond.\n  \n  \n    REGISTRAR GENERAL'S DEPT., Continued,\n  \n  \n    Colonial Treasury.\n  \n  \n    D. A. Garvallen\n    First Clerk and Cashier\n    BY GUARANTEE BOND.\n    Chan Yung Cheung; Tsoi Tam Kau; Clerk Botanical and Forestry Department.\n    \n    31st October, 1904.\n    $50\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally\n    G. M. Bain; R. Shewan, Merchant.\n    \n    22nd March, 1898.\n    10,000\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Do.\n    A. G. Romano, Merchant; Wei Yak, Compradore of the Mercantile Bank Ltd.\n    \n    21st August, 1902.\n    5,000\n  \n  \n    Cheung Pok-tsai\n    First Shroff\n    Do.\n    Lai Po Yan, of Tai Hing Pawnshop, No. 32 West Street; Wei Yuk, Compradore of the Mercantile Bank Ltd.\n    \n    20th May, 1903.\n    10,000\n  \n  \n    Cheng Yat-sin\n    Second Shroff\n    Do.\n    Yung Fai UD, of No. 162, Queen's Road Central; Tam Chan of No. 52, Des Voeux Road.\n    \n    24th August, 1905.\n    5,000\n  \n  \n    Cheong Yum-chun\n    Third Shroff\n    Do.\n    Francisco Tse Yat, Manager of Wing Kee & Co.; Li Luk Kwong, Tailor & Shoemaker No. 61, Kowloon City,\n    \n    22nd May, 1903.\n    1,000\n  \n  \n    Li Hoa Hung\n    Assistant Notice Server and Collector of Village Rates,\n    Do.\n    Ng Fung Fu\n    \n    18th June, 1903.\n    1,000\n  \n  \n    Wong Hung Tong\n    Assistant Collector of Village Rates,\n    Deposit Note of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank for $500.\n    Teu Wan Kwai, of No. 1, Praya Kennedy Town, Hongkong; Tsang Kang, of No. 355, Queen's Road West, Contractor.\n    \n    6th June, 1904.\n    500\n  \n  \n    Li Fat\n    Clerk and Shroff, New Territories,\n    Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally.\n    Teang Keng, of No. 355, Queen's Road West, Contractor; Yau Sui, of No. 79, High Street.\n    \n    13th August, 1906.\n    300\n  \n  \n    Chan Tak\n    4th Shroff Clerk, New Territories,\n    Do.\n    Cheong Soon Yan, Owner of Section C. of I. L. No. 998, of Victoria; Choa Choo Moon, Owner of I. L. No. 979, of Victoria.\n    \n    8th July, 1904.\n    500\n  \n  \n    \n    (dismissed)\n    Do.\n    Teang Kong, of No. 355, Queen's Road West, Contractor; Cha Wang Kai, Owner of Nos. 568 to 600, Queen's Road West.\n    \n    23rd April, 1904.\n    3,000\n  \n\n551",
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        "content_text": "## RETURN of OFFICERS who have given Security for the due Discharge of their Duties\n### (K 10)\n\n### prepared at the Annual Inspection of Securities, held on 7th February, 1907,––Continued.\n### (K 11)\n\n| Name of Officers giving Security | Exact Titles of all Appointments (either permanent or temporary) now held by him | Nature of the Security given | Names, Addresses, and Occupations of the Sureties in each Bond | Title of Office in respect of which the Bond is given | Date of Bond | Amount of Bond as stated therein |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Bishan Dass | POST OFFICE | Deposit Note of the Hongkong Shanghai Bank for $100 | Abdool Razack, Boarding House Keeper; Omar Kitchil, Clerk Johnson, Stokes & Master |  | 19th January, 1904 | $100 |\n| Mario Lizela Rocha | Do. | Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally | Razee Nuzurin, Do.; J. J. Osborne, Do. |  | 11th December, 1903 | 100 |\n| Narciso Baldovino | Do. | Do. | Camero Peerbhoy, Do.; E. M. Xavier, Clerk Butterfield & Swire; R. L. Rocha, Inspector of Junk |  | 26th October, 1905 | 100 |\n|  |  |  | M. A. Razack, Broker; A. Razack, Boarding House Keeper |  | 9th November, 1905 | 100 |\n|  |  |  | A. J. Watson, Brakeman Peak Tramway; E. G. Watson, Engineer Driver Peak Tramway |  | 16th November, 1905 | 100 |\n|  |  |  | J. M. Basa; V. Atienza, Merchants |  | 29th November, 1905 | 100 |\n| Angel Lobaton | Do. | Do. | Charles Poe, Do. |  | 17th March, 1906 | 100 |\n|  |  | Deposit Note of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank for $100 | J. H. Ruttonjee, Manager, Ruttonjee & Co; P. B. Shroff, Partner, Bejanjee & Co., Drapers |  | 7th April, 1906 | 100 |\n| Vicente Atienza | Do. | Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally | Vicente Atienza, Ricardo Busn, Merchants |  | 12th November, 1906 | 100 |\n| Sit. Wong, Compradore | Do. | Do. | Chinn Soo, Assistant Shroff |  | 13th December, 1906 | 100 |\n| Woo Ping Yow, Shroff | Do. | Do. | Ha Tsau, Do. |  | 23rd February, 1906 | 1,000 |\n| Fung Chan, Do. | Do. | Do. | Ng Toe Cheong, Do. |  | 18th October, 1906 | 1,000 |\n|  |  | Deposit Note of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank for $300 | Chou Yau Lok, Interpreter Johnson, Stokes & Master; Ho Hong Io, Master of the Ching Lang Bakery, No. 115, Wellington Street |  | 4th August, 1906 | 300 |\n|  |  |  | Chan Chun Cheung, Owner No. 44, Stanley Street; Albert Alweg, Owner No. 243 Des Voeux Road |  | 3rd March, 1906 | 300 |\n|  |  |  | Leung Shing, of the Shing Kee Shop, 362, Queen's Road West; Fung Kam, of the Tsin Lang Shop, 71 Third Street |  | 14th July, 1904 | 300 |\n|  |  |  | Cheng Lu, Master of Hung Un Shop, No. 6, Kwong Ut Street; Tong Taz Leung, Master of the Lee Sang Chandlery, No. 82, Centre Street |  | 4th December, 1905 | 300 |\n|  |  |  | Leung Ngan Pun, Master of Mee Kee & Co., No. 28, Des Voeux Road; Woo Lam Tin, Compradore of H. Wicking & Co. |  |  | 554 |",
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        "content_text": "(K 12)\n\nRETURN of OFFICERS who have given Security for the due Discharge of their Duties,\n\n(K 13)\n\nprepared at the Annual Inspection of Securities, held on 7th February, 1907,-Continued.\n\n  \n    Name of Officer giving Security.\n    Exact Titles of all Appointments (either permanent or temporary) now held by him.\"\n    Nature of the Security given.\n    Names, Addresses, and Occupations of the Sureties in each Bond.\n    Title of Office in respect of which the Bond is given,\n    Date of Bond.\n    Amount of Bond as stated therein.\n  \n  \n    Lum Him,\n    Assistant Shroff,\n    Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally.\n    Law Shan Ting, Compradore, C. Abdoola & Co., No. 22 Gage Street; Chan Cheang Kwan, of the Hip Hing shop, No. 15 Stanley Street.\n    \n    18th December, 1906.\n    $300\n  \n  \n    Man Ki Hong,\n    Shroff, Money Order Branch,\n    Personal Bond with three Sureties, jointly and severally.\n    Lum Yui Sang, Owner of the Yeng Cheong Compradore shop, No. 15, Victoria Street; Cheong Sum Toi; and Young Yung Kwan, of Hong Cheong Bakery shop, No. 14, Victoria Street,\n    \n    16th March, 1896.\n    1,000\n  \n  \n    Chan U Pau,\n    No. 1 Postman,\n    Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally.\n    Leung Ngan Pun, Master of Mee Kee Hong, No. 28, Des Voeux Road; Li Chik Sang, Master of the Yea Chan, No. 10, Chiu Long Street,\n    \n    6th November, 1905.\n    500\n  \n  \n    Ho Kwan,\n    No. Postman,\n    \n    Su Sze, of No. 16, Upper Station Street; Chan Tack, of No. 25, Wing Wo Street.\n    \n    19th December, 1901.\n    500\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    Tsoi Chi, Master of the Kwong Tseung, No. 13, Circular Pathway; Cheng Un, Master of the Hang Un, No. 6, Kwong Yuen Street.\n    \n    17th July, 1905.\n    100\n  \n  \n    Leung Min,\n    Keeper of the Lan Shang Tea Shop, No. 22, Queen's Road West.\n    \n    \n    \n    15th December, 1898.\n    100\n  \n  \n    Postmen and others\n    \n    Bonds 59; Deposit Notes 19 of $50 each.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nAGENCIES.\n\n  \n    J. C. Kaye,\n    First Clerk at Shanghai,\n    Personal Bond with Two Sureties, jointly and severally.\n    J. A. Moller; W. R. Kobler.\n    \n    20th February, 1901.\n    $4,000\n  \n  \n    Peter L. Swenson,\n    Second Clerk at Shanghai,\n    Do.\n    Joseph Davison; Harry Thomas.\n    \n    20th June, 1906.\n    500\n  \n  \n    A. E. Gutierrez,\n    Clerk,\n    Deposit Note of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank for $100.\n    \n    \n    3rd April, 1905.\n    100\n  \n  \n    J. A. Xavier,\n    Do.\n    Deposit Notes of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank for $801.95 and $198.05.\n    \n    \n    24th March, 1906.\n    1,000\n  \n  \n    A. Bastian,\n    Marine Officer,\n    and Guarantee Corporation,\n    J. W. Harris; L. J. Gutierrez,\n    \n    11th April, 1902.\n    500\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    T. M. Lopes; F. H. M. Castro.\n    \n    24th June, 1905.\n    500\n  \n  \n    Chuen Man-yeung,\n    Compradore at Shanghai,\n    \n    \n    \n    7th July, 1903.\n    2,000\n  \n\nHARBOUR MASTER'S DEPT.\n\n  \n    G. Wie Deckwith,\n    Assistant Harbour Master and Emigration Officer.\n    Guarantee Bond\n    J. A. Harvie; W. R. Kobler, at Shanghai,\n    \n    18th March, 1903.\n    £1,000\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Kemal Bond-with one Surety-jointly-and-severally.\n    A. Babington of Shewan, & Tomes Co.; H. P. White of Douglas Lapraik & Company.\n    \n    29th October, 1906.\n    2,000\n  \n  \n    Major Frederick S. Mande.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    26th July, 1899.\n    500\n  \n  \n    C. D. Wilkinson, Solicitor.\n    \n    Original Bond with the Crown Agents in London.\n    \n    \n    20th January, 1905.\n    555",
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        "content_text": "560 \n\n(K22) \n\n**RETURN of OFFICERS who have given Security for the due Discharge of their Duties** \n\n(K23) \n\nprepared at the Annual Inspection of Securities, held on 7th February, 1907,—Continued. \n\n| Name of Officer giving Security | Extract Title of all Appointment (either permanent or temporary) now held by him | Name of the Security given | IF BY GUARANTEE BOND. <br>Namics, Addresses, and Occupations of the Sureties in each Bond | Title of Office in respect of which the Bond is given as stated thereiu | Date of Bund | Amount of Bond |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS** |  | Union Assurance Communication |  |  |  |  |\n| **PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT** |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| W. Chatham | Directer of Public Works | Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally | Sir Thomas Jackson, Baronet; Thomas Park Cochrane, Manager of the Chartered Bank of India Australia & China | Director of Public Works | 27th October, 1903 | $1,000 |\n| Cheng Kan alias Cheng Kit Hing | Storekeeper | Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally | Sir C. P. Chater, C.M.G.; Union Assurance Company | Storekeeper | 7th August, 1906 | 2,500 |\n| **KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY** |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| J. E Menagh | Chief Storekeeper | Title Deed of Section G.H. and Remaining Portion of Section J. of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 106 |  | Chief Storekeeper | 2nd March, 1898 |  |\n| Luiz G. D'Almuda e Castro | Chief Accountant | Personal Bond with four Sureties, jointly and severally | Duelystenul E. of BEERSTE NO. 2003 | Chief Accountant | 3rd April, 1901 | 5,000 |\n| Yung Cheuk Sang | Accountant | Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally | João M.S. Alves; Idalian 31. Alves; Zita d'A. Castro: & Leo. d'A. Castro | Accountant | 4th May, 1906 | 5,000 |\n| Ng Tsun Wing | Cashier | Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally | Chau Shui Wan, of Kwong Fat Hing, No. 15 Cheung Ching Street; Ng Wai Chi, Compradore Messagories Maritime Company | Cashier | 26th June, 1906 | 2,000 |\n|  |  |  | Ng Wai Chi, Compradore, Messagories Maritime Company; Wai Kai Mi, of Wing Tai, No. 78 Des Voux Road |  | 14th November, 1906 | 5,000 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 20th August, 1906 | 2,000 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 13th September, 1906 | 5,000 |",
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        "content_text": "Extract from \"Chine-tail\" of the 4th. November, 1907.\n\nIMPERIAL CHINESE COMMISSIONER.\n\n2369\n\nJAN 22 1908,\n\nBanqueted at Hongkong.\n\nHis Excellency Yang Shi Chi, the Imperial Chinese Commercial Commissioner, who was appointed by the Throne to travel abroad with a view to developing China's foreign trade, arrived at Hongkong on November 2 on board H.L.C.M. Haichi (1,800 tons), one of the finest cruisers of the Northern Squadron of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the Haiyong, of the same tonnage, accompanying. His Excellency, whose suite includes Taotai Mun Yew Chung (Deputy Director General of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, and Director of the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company), and Mr T. S. Pojui, (Hon. Cantab., Assoc. Inst. Civil Engineers, London, also Secretary of the Board of Agriculture Industries and Commerce), and others, was banqueted by the leading Chinese business community at the Tung Tien Hotel on Saturday evening at 8 p.m. There were present some eighty guests, and among those invited were the Hon. Dr Ho Kai, the Hon. Mr Wei Yuk, Messrs Fung Wa Chun, Lau Chu Pak, Tai Tsze Kong, Taotai Wen, of the Imperial Chinese Telegraph, and others. His Excellency Yang, accompanied by Taotai Mun Yew Cheung, and Captain of the Haichi, arrived punctually at a little after 7 o'clock. The Commissioner, who is about forty-five years of age, looks extremely healthy, and after being introduced to the members of the business community present, photographs of the party were taken by flash light. The banquet commenced at 8 o'clock.\n\nAfter drinking the health of King Edward VII, proposed by Fung Wa Chun, and that of T. I. C. M. the Empress Dowager and Emperor, proposed by Lau Cho Pak, Tam Tsze Kong addressed His Excellency in a most cordial manner to the effect that he hoped His Excellency's mission might meet with every success which would tend to the development of China's foreign trade as well as secure the co-operation of all Chinese merchants abroad, ultimately furthering Chinese commercial interests. His Excellency replied fittingly, thanking those present for their cordial welcome. He concluded his remarks by inviting the party to tea the next day on board the Haichi.\n\nMr Chan Kiang Yu, the energetic opponent to the present administrators of the Canton-Hankow Railway, next spoke of the non-compliance, by the present administrators, with the Chinese commercial laws. He asked His Excellency's help to pacify matters, requesting His Excellency to inform Chinese merchants abroad of the effect that of the $8,000,000 which had been paid as first call on the shares, a greater portion was made up by subscription by these merchants.\n\nHis Excellency replied that as the Throne had already appointed Sir Chen Tung Liang Cheng to be Director General of the line, he no doubt understood what was best to do, and he was the proper person for him (Chan) to approach on his arrival.\n\nOn Sunday at 3 p.m. in response to the invitation of Commissioner Yang, members of the Chinese community went on board the Haichi. As the launch conveying the guests approached the representatives of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which were anchored in Kowloon Bay, a band struck up. His Excellency Yang received the guests most cordially. By the courtesy of Commodore S. K. Shen, Commanding the Northern Division of the Imperial Chinese Navy, who was with the Greenwich Naval College, England, and had been with Great Britain's Mediterranean Squadron for two years, the guests were shown over the cruiser Haichi which was preserved in a most creditable manner.\n\nAfter taking tea and photographing, His Excellency addressed the party. He was glad of their presence. He hoped that in the not very distant future, China's Navy would be increased with larger and more powerful vessels than the two present, and that wherever there were Chinese merchants there would be seen the Dragon flag on the water.\n\nThe two cruisers, with His Excellency, left port this morning anchoring outside the harbour for the rest of the day. The next places of call are Manila, Saigon, Singapore, Penang, Java, and thence His Excellency and suite will proceed to Europe and America by mail steamer.\n\n128",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nBy the new reforms only the 2nd and 4th Divisions will be directly under the Viceroy, and that in only such questions as training and recruiting, all the other divisions will be directly under the War Office. Furthermore, they hope to abolish the Tu-lien-Ch'u, which is nominally a junior Army Council at Tien-tsin under the higher Army Council (Lien-ping Chu) at Peking. As a matter of fact, whilst the Lien-ping-Ch'u was more or less a nominal Council, the Tu-lien Ch'u, which had its office in the Viceroy's Yamên and was his advisory Council, really controlled the army and had most of the young men of talent (chiefly students from Japan).\n\nThe reformers also hope in the spring to divide the provinces—at present organized in military matters—into military commands, for instance, the Provinces of Chih-li, Shan-tung, and Ho-nan might be put in military matters under Viceroy Yuan, with some such rank as Inspector-General, Hu-nan and Hu-pei under Chang-chih-Tung, An-hui, Kiang-su, and Kiang-si under Tuan-fang. Their powers might be extended, or fresh Inspector-Generals made, as other provinces become qualified for the Lu Chün. A scheme also is on foot for starting a clothing department for the whole army.\n\nHis Excellency Tang Shao-yi said that the Viceroy pays for two divisions. He gets the money partly from profits on the Imperial Railways of North China, salt, and wine duties, and the rest from provincial sources. By the new War Office reforms, the Viceroy is out of the army in name, but his influence will remain, and things will go on as before.\n\nMr. Gardner, of the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank, says that the money received by the Grand Council comes from the profits on the North China Imperial Railway, and not from the mints, whose profits have fallen considerably. It is quite a mistaken idea to believe that China is very poor; in fact, there is any amount of money in the country. All revenues, &c., are regularly paid in, but the money thus received is not expended on the objects for which it was intended, but finds its way into the pockets of greedy officials. In addition, all the Boards have large reserve funds at the banks, and it is correct that the Lien-ping Ch'u reserve is about 3,000,000 taels. The Viceroy is personally hard up for funds, and it is important that he should be backed up in his efforts to raise money. Last summer, 4,000,000 taels of arrears of pay were owing to the Lu Chün, and at one time there was nearly a mutiny on the subject.\n\nExperience shows that all Chinese statements must be accepted with caution, because of the national passion for inaccuracy; but pending the acquisition of future data, one must be cautious in expressing an opinion as to how the new changes in the War Office will affect the army. It may only be a change in name, and affairs may be continued as before. On the other hand, the Viceroy, in name at any rate, is out of the army, and this may change everything.\n\nIt is all-important for its success that the army should have a strong man at its head, and also that it should not run short of funds.\n\nIn the new War Office, the Manchu influence, which is usually conservative, and therefore detrimental to the interests of the army, is predominant. The President of the Board of Revenue is also a Manchu.\n\nThe Tu-lien Ch'u contained the greater part of whatever brains there are in Chinese Army Councils. If it is abolished, the influence of its members will be transferred from the service of the Viceroy to that of the War Office, and his authority in the Lu Chün will thereby probably be considerably weakened.\n\nAmongst other reforms, the duties of paying the army will be taken from the Tu-lien Ch'u and assumed by the War Office, and this would probably weaken to some extent the Viceroy's authority.\n\nThe Viceroy, according to Colonel Ting, was offered the post of Secretary of War; but as this would have entailed his giving up the somewhat independent post of Viceroy, he had to refuse. A difficulty, it appears to me, will arise if Viceroy Yuan and other Viceroys are made Inspector-Generals of military commands, as in that case, they must in a certain sense, in military matters, be subordinate to Tieh Liang.\n\nMany Chinese object to Viceroy Yüan's influence over the Lu Chün, and say that it is nothing more than a provincial army under the Viceroy of Chih-li. This, in a sense, is true, but this is necessary, as the army can never be reformed unless it has the support of the strongest men available, and the process of reform has to be started in a small way in one province and to be gradually spread out so as to absorb the whole Empire. This, of course, arouses the hostility of Viceroys and Governors of other provinces, who will gradually lose the control of their armies, and there is always the possibility of their getting the upper hand and retrograding to the old state of chaos, as represented by effete provincial armies. Perpetual army changes are bound to be detrimental to the interests of the army; unluckily, the Chinese are always eager to plunge into them before they know what they really want.\n\nI was not by any means an enthusiastic admirer of the Lien-ping Ch'u; nevertheless, that moribund institution had the advantage of being directed chiefly by Viceroy Yuan, and he was thus able to be recognized both de jure and de facto as the moving spirit of the Lu Chün. His absence, therefore, though it may only be nominal, causes me to look upon the new War Office with some misgiving.\n\n**(Signed)** G. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel,  \nGrenadier Guards, Military Attaché.\n\nPeking, November 24, 1906.\n\n## Page 201",
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        "content_text": "# HANKOW.\n\n**C.O.** 298 **RECP** 7229 December 1966.\n\nHis actual reason for coming to Hupei, and has the loan been sanctioned by the Board of Communications? \nI hope you will give me a full explanation, but to-morrow I really cannot receive visitors and I must still ask Mr. Bland to first interview the Customs Taotai and, if there should be anything of very great importance to tell me, please ask him to delay his departure a day or two when I will await the honour of a visit.\n\nI have &c.,  \nCard of Chang Chin-tung.\n\nYour Excellency:-  \nIn reply to your note regarding Mr. Bland, I have the honour to transmit herewith for your information the following Memorandum drawn up by that gentleman:-\n\n\"It should be explained that owing to a mistake committed by the writer (?) at the French Consulate Monsieur Casenave has been referred to as representing the Banque de l'Indo-Chine, whereas, as a matter of fact, in the business which it is now proposed to discuss with His Excellency, he is acting with Mr. Bland in representing the British and Chinese Corporation, an English Company, whereof the executive control is British and which proposes to finance and construct Chinese railways by loans issued in London.\n\nIt should also be explained that the association of French capital in this business (for which the Corporation is and must remain solely responsible) is the result of internal and purely financial arrangements made by the Corporation with a certain powerful French banking-house.",
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        "content_text": "## To Taotai, 23rd July.\n\n2 \n\n## From Municipal Council, 2nd August.\n\n## To Taotai, 16th August.\n\n## From Taotai, 11th September.\n\n## From Municipal Council, 2nd November.\n\n## To Tuotai, 13th November.\n\nThe question raised in this correspondence is one of very great importance, involving as it does the whole status and authority of the Mixed Court in this Settlement, and I trust that you will see fit to confirm the position I have taken up, which is, briefly, that the Mixed Court Magistrate is the only Chinese official with judicial powers over native residents in the Settlement, except in the limited class of cases specially provided for by the Regulations of 1869, in which the District Magistrate is competent.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n3 \n\nThe woman Wang Ch'en Shih brought into Court and sent to the Magistrate's yamên. Mr. Twyman then called my attention to the matter.\n\nIt would appear that in the cases above described the procedure to be followed had in both cases been discussed and arranged by Mr. Twyman and Mr. Sun, but that the latter took action contrary to the decision come to between them. Such a manner of conducting affairs is inconsistent with amicable co-operation and an impediment to the proper transaction of Mixed Court work; and I have the honour to request that you will immediately instruct Mr. Sun to avoid errors of this description for the future, and that, as the Regulations are very clear on the subject, all cases arising within the Settlement shall be dealt with by the Mixed Court, whether they be civil or criminal. I shall be glad also if you will instruct the Shanghae Magistrate that he must not act ultra vires or accept Petitions about matters not in his jurisdiction, so as to comply with Regulations and maintain the proper distinction of authority.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) **PELHAM WARREN**.\n\n(Signed) \n\n**PELHAM WARREN**.\n\nSir,\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**Consul-General Sir P. Warren to Shanghae Taotai**.\n\nJuly 23, 1906.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that Mr. Vice-Consul Twyman reports that a Chinese, Chu Mei Lang, brought an action against one Tsao Mao Mao in the Shanghae District Magistrate's Court in respect of some land situated in Hongkew. Although the Shanghae City Magistrate is well aware of the Mixed Court Regulations, which provide for the appointment of a Sub-Prefect to deal with civil and criminal cases arising within the Settlement, he disregarded those Regulations entirely, received the Petition of Chu Mei Lang, accepted jurisdiction in the case, and asked the Mixed Court to have Tsao Mao Mao taken and sent to his yamên. The municipal police detectives assisted in affecting his arrest, and he was brought up at the morning sitting of the Court before Mr. Sun, Assistant Magistrate, and Mr. Twyman sitting as Assessor. Mr. Twyman held that as the matter was one in the Settlement it should, defendant having been brought up in the morning, according to regulation be dealt with by the Court at its evening sitting (i.e., with the Magistrate sitting alone), and that the man should not be sent to the city.\n\nAs the police cases on that morning were numerous, it was not convenient to pursue the discussion of a case of this kind. It was therefore agreed by Mr. Sun that it should be remanded for the time being, and that the man should not be sent in, the matter being reserved for further discussion.\n\nThis was the 16th June. Notwithstanding the above, on the 19th the Shanghae Magistrate sent a runner to the Mixed Court to wait there and take away Tsao Mao Mao. Mr. Sun, without further discussing the question or announcing his intention to Mr. Twyman, handed over the man to the runner to be sent to the yamên. On hearing of this Mr. Twyman wrote to Mr. Kuan, Mixed Court Magistrate, saying that land cases relating to the Settlement were commonly heard and decided in the Mixed Court, and pointed out in particular those of Ch'en Chang Shih v. Ch'u Shen Shih, Hsu Sun Lin v. Yao Kuei Hai, Hsu and others, which were all heard in the Mixed Court, besides numerous others. He added that civil cases arising within the Settlement were to be heard and decided by the Mixed Court Magistrate, who had complete powers to that end. This letter was dated ...\n\nMr. Twyman had not received an answer thereto before another incident came to notice. A Chinese named Ma Tzu Fang accused a woman, Wang Chen, of conspiracy in abduction. The circumstances of the case were indistinctly set forth in the warrant, and it was not clearly described as civil or criminal.\n\nOn that day also Mr. Twyman was sitting with Mr. Sun, and Mr. Twyman held that if it was not a criminal case it should, to comply with Regulations, be dealt with at the evening sitting of the Court. It was necessary, before the case could be \"left to Court,\" to have a preliminary hearing with the parties present, and as plaintiff did not appear at the time it was agreed that he should be sent for to attend a further hearing. Mr. Sun made a Minute in the record, \"To be heard again when plaintiff appears.\" Defendant was to remain in custody with the Court meanwhile. But three or four days afterwards Mr. Sun, being on the bench to hear some native cases, took occasion to have the woman Wang Ch'en Shih brought into Court and sent to the Magistrate's yamên.\n\nSir,\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n**Municipal Council, Shanghae, to Consul-General Sir P. Warren**.\n\nCouncil Room, Shanghae, August 2, 1906.\n\nI HAVE the honour to draw your attention to certain proceedings at the Mixed Court on the 30th ultimo, which have arisen out of a case heard on the 21st May last, wherein a man named Chih Si Pao was charged on a warrant for debt in connection with a land transaction. The case was left to the Magistrate, and the charge sheet was marked by His Majesty's Assessor: \"In connection with a land case; Magistrate states not a criminal case.\"\n\nOn the 23rd May the case was heard in the native Court, and the defendant was ordered to produce the title-deed for the land in dispute within one month, and to be detained in custody.\n\nOn the evening of the 30th ultimo the defendant, together with two tipaos from the Yangtsepoo district, by name Zer Siang Poo and Nien Mau Der, who had been similarly arrested for being concerned in the case, was again brought before the native Court, and the police report of the proceedings reads as follows:-\n\n| Proceedings        | Details                                                                                   |\n|--------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Assistant Magistrate Sun's order | Ordered the two tipaos to be released on security and Chih Si Pao to hand into the Court the fangtan in question, in order that the ground might be sold and the proceeds equally divided between complainant and defendant. |\n| Defendant's reaction | Chih Si Pao became very angry and excited, shouting out that the fangtan was his own, and abusing the Magistrate for his decision. |\n| Magistrate's action  | Magistrate Sun ordered the runners to beat him. After much struggling Chih was eventually stretched out on the cement floor, where the blows were formerly given. |\n| Women's intervention | Two women (the defendant's wife and mother) ran into the Court and said that if their relative was going to be beaten then they would have to be beaten also. These women were then taken into custody for contempt of Court, and were dragged screaming and shouting across the compound to the female cells. |\n| Outcome             | At 10:30 P.M. the same evening the defendant Chih Si Pao, his mother, Zer Wang Zs, and the two tipaos were sent into the city. Chih's wife was released, as she had several children. |\n\nThe illegal transfer of the four prisoners to the city calls, in the Council's opinion, for protest and a demand for their immediate return to the Settlement.\n\nApart from this, the case appears to be one which should be communicated to the Consular and Diplomatic Bodies in evidence of the disorderly and unsatisfactory condition in which the Mixed Court stands as a result of the absence of adequate rules of procedure.\n\nThat it should be within the competence of the Magistrate to inflict blows in a minor land dispute, while similar authority is withheld from the Court in dealing with serious criminal cases, illustrates only too clearly the illogical and derisive attitude which the Chinese authorities are adopting in respect to the Imperial Edict of the 14th July last. That four natives should be removed from the Foreign Settlement into the Chinese city, one without even the formality of an initial trial before an Assessor, is further evidence of their contemptuous disregard for established ...\n\nPage 331",
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        "content_text": "## Court against Tsao Ah Ch'uan for refusing to let him redeem a land deed\nThe former Magistrate, Chang, had defendant arrested, and heard the case. Chiao wanted to redeem the deed, but the brothers Tsao absolutely refused to agree. Each adhered to his own, and the case was sent to the city to be dealt with. In the intercalary 4th moon of this year the City Magistrate asked to have arrested one Ts'ao Mao Mao on the charge of conspiring to fabricate a false deed. The police brought him up in due course, and, it being shown that he was arrested at the instance of the City Magistrate, he was taken away and sent to the city, and this procedure was in accordance with regulation. Six years ago, when the case was sent to the city, the British Consul agreed to the procedure, and it is a contradiction for that objection to be raised now.\n\nAs to the cases relating to land in the Settlement heard and decided in this Court, those mentioned, namely, Chien Chang Shih v. Chiao Shen Shih, Hsu Sung Lin v. Yao Kuei Hai, Asi Yu Fu v. Jen P'u Jen—these did, as a matter of fact, arise out of land-deed complications, and they were heard in this Court because the plaintiffs came to this Court to prosecute. It is improper to say that the City Magistrate ought not to receive such Petitions. The Mixed Court Regulations say only that the Mixed Court may hear suits affecting commercial matters, but there is no fixed regulation that the City Magistrate may not hear Settlement cases. The Settlement is in the Shanghae district jurisdiction, and the City Magistrate is the territorial authority with seal; he has to bear cases involving loss of human life and robbery cases, and he should be allowed to try also other cases, civil and criminal, in which foreigners are not concerned. Why should there be any distinction of outside or inside the Settlement, or any question of ultra vires?\n\n\"Ma Tzu Fang v. Wang Chen Shih. I cannot find this case on record; there is, however, one of the 5th moon of this year—Mao Tzu Fang v. Wang Ch'en Shih, mother of Ho Shang Mafoo, a charge of abduction of the woman Liu, and adultery with Liu Lung Fei and conspiracy to inflict bodily harm, and of the woman eloping, taking away her child. The circumstances were all clearly and distinctly set forth in the warrant, and the counterfoil of the warrant is on record. Besides, Wang Ch'en Shih and Liu Lung Fei are now in my custody; they were not sent to the city, nor were they released on security, because they are required to be produced for examination. I do not know how the British Consul came to be informed that they had been sent to the city. Both these cases are purely Chinese, and no foreigner is concerned in them, so that, by the Regulations, no Consul should interfere.\"\n\nA further report states: \"There is no such person as Chin Hsi Pao; perhaps it is a mistake for Chien Hsi Pao; he is also called Chien Hsi Kuei. A rescript was received on the 12th day of the 6th moon respecting the appeal case of the widow Ch'ien Wang Shih v. Chien Hu Shih, the latter being accused of bringing a false charge against the former's son, Chien Hsi Kuei, of taking advantage of a period of mourning to steal a deed. The particulars of the case, and those of the disturbance made in Court by the woman Chien Wang Shih, and her refusal to submit to judgment, together with the witnesses and record, have been sent to the City Magistrate, and a reply has already been received from that official. When this case was brought up before Mr. Sun, Ch'ien Wang Shih, cunningly sheltering herself behind her sex, made a disturbance in Court and refused to submit to the judgment of the Court, and it is true that it was necessary to intimidate her by an empty threat; but there was no use of corporal punishment, and it can hardly be said that there was any breach of the new rule. Besides, the case in question is Chinese, and does not concern foreigners, and belongs to the evening Court, where the Chinese authorities have sole discretion in giving judgment, and it does not call for consultation with Consular authorities. What the British Consul says is quite right—the Rules of 1869 should be applied without any infraction whatever. Now the second of those Rules states that, if all the parties to a case are Chinese, the Chinese Magistrate will hear the case and decide it without Consular intervention. The third Rule says: 'Foreigners are not to interfere in a case where foreign interests are not involved.' All this is very clear.\"\n\nFrom the above it appears that the Magistrate has not infringed the Mixed Court Regulations.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Seal of Jui Taotai.)\n\n## 7\n\n### Inclosure 6 in No. 1\n\n#### Municipal Council, Shanghae, to Consul-General Sir P. Warren\n\nCouncil Room, Shanghae, November 2, 1906.\n\nSir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to refer to the Council's letter to yourself of the 2nd August last on the subject of an incident which took place in the Mixed Court on the 30th July, and to inquire whether any steps have been taken to bring the irregular proceedings there recounted to the notice of the authorities concerned.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) H. KESWICK, Chairman.\n\n### Inclosure 7 in No. 1\n\n#### Consul-General Sir P. Warren to Shanghae Taotai\n\nShanghae, November 13, 1906.\n\nSir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to refer to your despatch of the 11th September, in which you state that the action of Mr. Sun, Assistant Mixed Court Magistrate, in the cases of Chien Hsi Pao (civil claim) and Ch'u Mei Lang . Ts'ao Mao Mac, as reported by him (Mr. Sun) was quite in accordance with Mixed Court Rules, and was in no way improper. You furnished me with copies of the reports of Mr. Sun and Mr. Kuan on these cases.\n\nIt is not necessary for me to repeat here the details given in my two former despatches of the manner in which the Assistant Magistrate took action in these cases, in contravention both of the new rule of punishment instituted by the Board of Punishments and of the Mixed Court Rules.\n\nI would now refer particularly to one part of Mr. Sun's report. He says: \"The rule in the past has been for persons required by district authorities outside the Settlement to be arrested by runners and police acting conjointly upon warrants issued by this Court. They are kept with the police until next morning, when they are brought before the Court. Persons prosecuted in this Court, and those arrested at the instance of authorities outside the Settlement, are by regulation left to Court and sent away for trial.\"\n\nNow, in the cases thus referred to by Mr. Sun there is a very wide distinction; but he has neglected to point out this distinction, which is between those cases which should be heard at the Mixed Court and those which fall under the jurisdiction of districts outside. Thus civil claims and land cases of which the matter is in the Settlement should be dealt with in the Settlement; those of which the matter is without the Settlement, and in which warrants are issued at the instance of external Magistrates, have first to be heard in the Mixed Court, and an understanding has to be arrived at with the Assessor, after which the parties can be sent away. This is the long-standing practice.\n\nFurther, the Magistrate, Mr. Kuan, in his report, states: \"The Mixed Court Regulations say only that the Mixed Court may hear suits affecting commercial matters, but there is no fixed regulation that the City Magistrate may not hear Settlement cases.\"\n\nThere is, of course, a proper place for each suit to be dealt with, and it is unheard of that parties should bring suits wherever they please. Any such indiscriminate prosecution might result in one case being heard in two Courts, and how then could it be dealt with? The first of the Mixed Court Regulations says: \"Cases of Chinese against Chinese, or foreigners against Chinese, whether for debt or other business matters, may be dealt with by him\" (the Mixed Court Magistrate) \"by the processes of arrest, hearing, and judgment.\" That is, there being thus established a judicial authority in the Settlement, all cases arising therein are outside the jurisdiction of the City Magistrate. The special provision of the Regulations for dealing with grave offences punishable by death and banishment where, by Chinese law, an officer with zeal would...  \n\nPage 333",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n### Despatch from H. E. Fulford\n\nThis question will be dealt with shortly in a separate despatch, as it involves the status of this Treaty port, and has been brought definitely before the Consuls by the Mukden Government. The Consuls will, of course, contend that the whole city is opened to foreign trade, and foreign merchants and goods cannot be taxed therein beyond the provisions of the Treaty tariff.\n\nThe Chinese authorities hope evidently that, with the termination of the military occupation in April, they will be in a position to discuss the matter with the foreign Consuls on a purely Treaty basis, and rely upon the wording of the American and Japanese Treaties of 1903 to support their contention that the town of Mukden is not open to foreign trade, but only a restricted area outside the mud wall, to be selected in consultation with the American and Japanese Representatives. They have, in the meantime, waived in several cases the collection of the duty from foreigners other than Japanese, in consideration of the argument that if they did not enforce the tax on Japanese they should not enforce it upon other foreigners.\n\nThe only foreign merchants who have opened establishments in the town or its vicinity other than Japanese are the British-American Tobacco Company and Arnhold, Karberg, and Co., a German firm, who have no resident foreigner here. Other Newchwang firms have Chinese agents only. The Japanese have opened many retail shops, a few merchants' \"hongs,\" and a great many disreputable restaurants, which are practically brothels, and gambling dens.\n\nThe trade of the town is in the dullest condition. Ready money is very scarce, and the Chinese authorities are trying to put an end to the old system of trading on credit. The grain business, beans and millet, which formerly constituted a great proportion of the wealth of the city, seems to have forsaken Mukden. This is partly the result of the diversion of the traffic to the railway. There is no longer any need to collect grain at Mukden during the winter for carriage to Newchwang in the spring by river. The tendency is to collect it now near the railway stations or the higher shipping marts on the River Liao. The large grain firms of Mukden formerly traded on credit, that is, issued money orders for the grain and redeemed them on sale of the grain. They are now forbidden to do this, and this prohibition further affects their business. The great producing districts of Manchuria are tapped by other towns than Mukden under the new conditions of transit.\n\nThe improvements which the Tartar General has introduced into the city are costing a great deal of money, and the necessary taxation to provide for the expenses is causing much discontent among the people. The result is a marked tendency on the part of all traders to await events and hope for easier times next year.\n\nA new police system modelled on that of Tien-tsin has been introduced, and seems to be remarkably efficient for a Chinese organization. The town is divided into six districts with 200 men to each, and they certainly appear to be constantly on the alert, and to perform their duties thoroughly. There is also a rural police, who control the country for some 12 miles on every side of Mukden.\n\nModern schools have been built in each quarter of the town in semi-foreign style, and are well attended. Some Japanese instructors are employed.\n\nSanitary needs are attended to, and public slaughter-houses provided. The Palace and the city walls are in course of thorough repair. The Imperial tombs north and east of the city have also been restored. Taking example from the Japanese, a Yoshiwara of great size has been built, where all the prostitutes of the town are to live under supervision and regulations.\n\nLabour being dear and materials of all kinds at ruinous prices, it may be imagined that all these measures, excellent as they undoubtedly are, necessitate a great outlay, and the Treasury must find money by every possible means.\n\nThe Japanese military authorities are still in control of the railway, as above stated. They appear to be adopting a hand-to-mouth policy with regard to it, and to be making as much money as possible without incurring any avoidable expense, preparatory to handing it over to the Commercial Association, which will have the task of changing the gauge and providing proper rolling stock. The Hsin Min Tun to Mukden line was hurriedly put in working order last summer, apparently for the above-mentioned purpose, and the passenger traffic alone must justify the enterprise. About 1,600 are carried each day at fares amounting to 2,000 dollars, the only accommodation provided being covered baggage cars.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) H. E. FULFORD\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nPage 376\n\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n### Letter from British and Chinese Corporation to Foreign Office\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[January 26.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\n22, Abchurch Lane, London, January 25, 1907.\n\nIn our letter of the 17th December last, we acquainted you, for the information of Sir Edward Grey, that, in defiance of the Corporation's rights, the Chekiang Railway Bureau was proceeding with the construction of the first section of the Soochow-Ningpo Railway, viz., from Soochow to Kashing.\n\nWe now beg leave to submit, for the information of Sir Edward Grey, some particulars of the work which is proceeding, which particulars have reached us in a letter from Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co., dated Shanghae, the 14th December, 1906, as follows:\n\n\"From information which we are able to obtain here on reliable authority, survey work has been commenced between Soochow and Kashing, and construction work and a certain amount of earth work have been started at Hangchow.\n\n\"Chang, one of Mr. Grove's late assistants on the Shanghae-Nanking Railway, has been appointed Engineer-in-Chief.\n\n\"The Chinese are also reported to be buying ballast and sand at Hangchow, and it is also reported that contracts have been entered into with the `Hanyang` ironworks to supply rails, and the Tongshan works of the Northern Railways to supply rolling stock.\n\n\"They have opened an office at Shanghae.\"\n\nWe further beg leave to state that we have received a telegram from Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co., dated Shanghae the 23rd January, 1907, in the following terms:\n\n\"Chinese Railway Shanghae to Kashing, 35 miles; first sod was cut 21st January outside Shanghae city; large demonstration. We are telegraphing to J. O. P. Bland.\"\n\nThe proceeding this telegram reports is an additional infraction of the Corporation's rights, inasmuch as the contemplated railway from Shanghae to Kashing will be a railway detrimental to the business of both the Shanghae-Nanking Railway and the Soochow-Ningpo Railway, and in direct contravention of Article 17 of the Shanghae-Nanking Railway Agreement, which Article applies equally to the Soochow-Ningpo Railway. This Article is as follows:\n\n\"It is further agreed that without the express consent in writing of the Director-General and the British and Chinese Corporation, no other rival railway detrimental to the business of the same is to be permitted, and no parallel line to the Shanghae-Nanking Railway is to be allowed to the injury of the latter's interest within the area served by the Shanghae-Nanking main line or branch lines.\"\n\nWe think it probable that a railway might be desirable from Shanghae to Kashing, but we submit that it ought not to be constructed without the consent of the Corporation, and with due regard to the interests of the Shanghae-Nanking Railway and the Soochow-Ningpo Railway.\n\nFor convenience of reference, we enclose a sketch-map showing in red the Shanghae-Nanking Railway and the Soochow-Ningpo Railway, and in green the intended railway from Shanghae to Kashing. (In the map Kashing is spelt \"Kia-Hing.\")\n\nWe are, &c.\n\nThe British and Chinese Corporation (Limited),\n\n(Signed) W. KESWICK, Chairman.\n\nP.S. Sir Edward Grey is aware that Kashing is not the objective point of the railways which are intended to go on to Hangchow (where earthworks seem to have been started) and presumably to Ningpo.\n\nW. K.\n\n[2974]\n\nPage 376",
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        "content_text": "# 383\n\n## Inclosure 8 in No. 1.\n\n### Consul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n**(No. 64.) Sir,**\n\nHankow, October 29, 1906. IN obedience to your telegram No. 25 of yesterday, I have the honour to report on the question of the employment of British engineers on the Canton-Hankow Railway.\n\nAfter my telegram No. 14 on the 4th June, I saw the Viceroy's Chief Secretary Wang, who told me that the Viceroy was so disgusted with the scandal over the Kwangtung Railway Company that he had decided to have nothing to do with the Hankow-Canton line beyond Yo-chou, and that, therefore, the question of employing Mr. Kinder had better be allowed to drop; the chief of three Japanese engineers engaged for the Hupei section of the trunk line westward probably resurveying the short Hupei section of the southern line also.\n\nThough well aware of Mr. Wang's leaning towards the Japanese, I did not press the point in view of Mr. Kinder's disinclination, expressed to Mr. Flaherty when he passed through Hankow in June, to undertake any surveying unless satisfied that construction of the two Hukwang sections would follow within a reasonable time, and be intrusted to an engineer approved by him.\n\nAbout the 20th September, however, a deputy brought me a message that the Viceroy wanted Mr. Kinder to come and resurvey, and hoped I would write to Mr. Kinder, as his Excellency did not care to lay himself open to a rebuff from Mr. Kinder's employer. I repeated Mr. Kinder's views as given above, and the matter remained in abeyance until, on the 26th instant, the Viceroy sent his Secretary, Mr. Chan, with the inclosed note.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong had in August sent me the despatches exchanged with the Canton Viceroy regarding the reported engagement of a Belgian engineer by the Kwangtung Railway Company, in order that, if I found a favourable opportunity, I might show it to the Viceroy Chang.\n\nAfter learning from Mr. Chan the details of the proposal that the Viceroy wished me to make on his behalf to Mr. Kinder—which are set forth in my telegram No. 18 of the 26th instant—I told him that I could see no justice in the argument that the Canton Railway Company, being a commercial body, was freed from the obligations which the three provinces alike incurred last autumn to the Government of Hong Kong and His Majesty's Representatives. The Company owed its existence to the fact that the American Development Company's concession had been redeemed, and that redemption was rendered possible only by the help of the British authorities. For a Company that enjoyed a valuable privilege won by British money to fail to give British engineers the first option of constructing the line was, if not literally dishonest, at any rate dishonourable; while to employ an American after China's outcry against the conduct of the American concessionnaires amounted very nearly to an insult to our people, who had listened to China's appeal for relief.\n\nMr. Chan admitted the justice of my argument, but protested that his Excellency Chang could not govern the actions of a Kwangtung Company.\n\nI rejoined that his Excellency Chang had been intrusted with the sole management of the task of resumption, and my representations in favour of granting the loan were received favourably because of the specially high estimation in which His Majesty's Representatives held him on account of the events of 1900 and 1901. In time of need, both Kwangtung and Hunan were eager to avail themselves of his good offices; how could they refuse his advice now his task had been carried through with British help? The talk of the Kwangtung section being now independent of Government was a mere quibble. The whole line was to be a Government undertaking when his Excellency gave me the assurances, not confined to his formal despatch of 9th September, 1905, that the provinces concerned and China herself would not prove ungrateful for our kindly aid; and the Chinese Government could not hand over to the Company the benefits of the resumption without at the same time transferring to the Company the complementary obligations incurred by China's Representative. His Excellency Chang occupied a position of special eminence in the eyes of all the provinces, and I could not believe that were he to telegraph to the Canton Company the true and just view of their duty in this matter, the Company would not be brought to see the right.\n\nMr. Chan, having promised to report our conversation to the Viceroy, we turned to other subjects, and upon his departure, I thought it desirable to back up his report by the inclosed note to his Excellency Chang.\n\nOn the 27th instant, Mr. Chan called again with questions as to His Majesty's Legation's alleged objections to the proposed new Kuping tael coin, and I tried to make him see the confusion and discredit that must result from calling by the name of an established weight of silver a coin containing nearly 4 per cent. less silver. When at length he professed himself apprised of the point, I suggested that at a personal interview, I might be better able to explain to his Excellency the impossibility of giving a fictitious value to a standard coin by any exercise of a Government's credit and power. At this suggestion, he expressed much relief, and I hope within a few days to have an interview with the Viceroy.\n\nMr. Chan then added that the Viceroy quite appreciated my remonstrance as to the Canton Company's action and would consider the wording of a telegraphic admonition to it; but that Mr. Wang said that the Company, intending to engage one British, one Japanese, and one American engineer, had applied to the Chinese Ministers in those countries, and only the Minister at Washington had as yet taken action.\n\nJust as he was leaving, Mr. Chan stated, on Mr. Wang's authority, that the engineer Mr. Kinder was asked to supply would at present be engaged only for resurvey and estimating duties, a modification which increased my desire to see the Viceroy myself.\n\nIn accordance with your instructions, copies of this despatch, with its inclosures, have been forwarded to his Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong and to His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**(Signed) E. H. FRASER.**\n\n## Inclosure 9 in No. 1.\n\n### Viceroy Chang to Consul-General Fraser.\n\nHankow, October 26, 1906.\n\n[The first part of the note refers to Hou Hu land matters.]\n\nAgain, with regard to the engineers who must be engaged for the Yueh-Han line, I am now in receipt of a telegram from Canton stating that it has been decided to engage an American engineer. The Canton line is now under merchant management, and I cannot interfere with their desire to bring in an American. But as regards that part of the line which lies within the boundaries of Hupei and Hunan, I adhere to my decision to engage a British assistant engineer for making surveys and estimates. I am sending my interpreter, Chang, to your Consulate to discuss in a personal interview what the position, salary, and powers of the engineer are to be.\n\n## Inclosure 10 in No. 1.\n\n### Consul-General Fraser to Viceroy Chang.\n\nHankow, October 26, 1906.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Excellency's note brought to me this morning by your interpreter, Chang. The substance of our conversation on the subjects mentioned therein was no doubt promptly repeated to your Excellency. I am reporting to His Majesty's Minister at Peking and at the same time writing to Mr. Kinder.\n\nI wish, however, to make some observations with regard to the Yueh Han line. In the first instance, it was Sheng Kung Pao who made the Agreement with the Americans and the Chinese Government, considering that it was derogatory to Chinese rights, afterwards appointed your Excellency to devise means of resuming the Concession. Your Excellency then consulted with me and asked me to get a large loan from the Hong Kong Government for resumption purposes. The railway was at first under the management of the officials of the three provinces concerned, but later on Canton decided to convert it into a commercial undertaking. Quite irrespective of its being an official or commercial concern, I should like to ask whether the Concession could have been resumed had it not been for the British aid afforded. The Canton Railway having...",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 11 in No. 1\n## Consul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan\n\nHankow, October 30, 1906.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 64 of yesterday, I have the honour to report my conversation with Mr. Chan, specially sent to explain the terms on which Viceroy Chang wishes to engage through Mr. Kinder an engineer for the Hupei and Hunan section of the Canton-Hankow Railway.\n\nMr. Chan explained that sufficient funds were now in hand to justify proceeding with the short Hupei section, that the Viceroy felt bound to employ a Japanese as well as a British engineer, and that therefore he spoke in his note (inclosed in my preceding despatch) of an assistant engineer. There would be no chief engineer, his Excellency himself deciding any points on which the two engineers might be unable to agree.\n\nI interposed that we never proposed that a British chief engineer would be independent of his Excellency, whose technical adviser he would be, and with whom the decision would always lie between alternative methods of carrying out his Excellency's wishes. Two assistants without a head engineer seemed an anomalous arrangement; why not call them both consulting engineers or superintending engineers or some such style?\n\nMr. Chan explained that the obstacle was that the Viceroy already had a Railway Adviser, a Japanese, at a monthly salary of 1,000 dollars—a fact which, together with the need for economy, precluded his offering a salary of more than 700 dollars or 800 dollars a-month to the British engineer. Mr. Kinder would, his Excellency supposed, hardly care to accept such a post, but might arrange for one of his assistants formerly suggested—Mr. Cox or Mr. Tackey—to come to the Viceroy. The salary would be inclusive of everything except actual working expenses.\n\nI reminded Mr. Chan of Mr. Kinder's strong feeling that construction must follow closely on survey, and that the engineer engaged for the one should be intrusted with the other work, not only in Hupei but in Hunan.\n\nThe Secretary said he understood that the assurance might be given as to Hupei, and that the survey would include Hunan, for construction in which province the engineer would probably be engaged also.\n\nAfter repeating that the assurances mentioned would undoubtedly have great weight in determining Mr. Kinder's action, I said I would write to him and report to you.\n\nI wrote the same evening to Mr. Kinder and, as the next day the Secretary sent me a note stating that according to Mr. Wang, whom I have always found inclined to cut down the Viceroy's terms, the engineer's present engagement would be limited to the survey, and the engagement for the construction could not be decided till after the survey was completed, I reported this modification and the authority given for it to you by telegraph yesterday.\n\nBeing in hope of seeing his Excellency Chang very shortly, I have not written again to Mr. Kinder, whose making the engagement for construction likewise a condition of detailing an engineer, might have a good effect.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**(No. 67.) Sir,**\n**(Signed)**\nE. H. FRASER.\n\n## Inclosure 12 in No. 1\n### Consul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan\n\nHankow, November 8, 1906.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 65 of the 30th October, I have the honour to forward a copy of Mr. Kinder's reply to my letter conveying the Viceroy Chang's wishes, and of my letter to the Viceroy's Secretary, who, on the day the reply reached me, had written asking for news of Mr. Kinder's reception of his Excellency's proposal.\n\nHis Excellency Chang may take Mr. Kinder's inability to meet his wishes as freeing him from any need for employing other than Japanese; but, as he has intrusted the Hupei section of the main line to Szechuan to engineers of that nationality, it would, I submit, be more equitable were his Excellency to apportion the short section of the southern line to British engineers only. His having a Japanese railway adviser, however, probably prevents his doing this.\n\nM. Casenave called on me yesterday, and stated that, as his settlement of the Shih-nan Fu case two years ago had put him on good terms with the Viceroy, he had been reluctant to postpone visiting his Excellency and proposing an Anglo-French loan for this section, which requires 4,000,000 dollars of Government capital in addition to the 2,000,000 dollars which the public are asked to subscribe for, and of which one-third has been taken up.\n\nWithout touching on the Nan-ch'ang case, I told M. Casenave that, in my opinion, his Excellency Chang would require to be assured of the acquiescence of the Peking Boards before he would enter into loan negotiations with any one.\n\nI have, &c.\n**(Signed)**\nE. H. FRASER.\n\n## Inclosure 13 in No. 1\n### Mr. C. Kinder to Consul-General Fraser\n\nImperial Chinese Railways, Engineer-in-Chief's Office, Tongshan, November 1, 1906.\n\nTHANKS for yours of 26th ultimo. I fear I cannot induce any really suitable man on my staff to accept the terms offered. Mr. Cox has gone on leave for one year, and Mr. Tuckey already gets 1,200l. per annum, and will require more to go south, even if he is offered a fixed appointment of Engineer-in-chief.\n\nNobody cares to leave a good berth here for a doubtful position directly under Chinese officials; it is only men who have nothing to lose who will accept such, and, as a rule, they are not the kind you want. The fact is that the whole idea is most unbusinesslike, and too thoroughly Chinese to be a success or bring any satisfaction to anybody. Two engineers of different nationalities, and of equal rank, on the same job would lead to no end of difficulties, especially with no technical chief to apply to when opinions diverge, as they constantly must do. It is the old story, the Chinese wish to pretend they are doing the work, and that the engineers are mere foremen under them; nowadays this is quite understood, and no professional men worthy of the name are obtainable under such conditions, quite apart from the pay offered, which is good enough for assistant engineer of some eight years' experience in China.\n\nI very much regret being unable to help you, as I also realize the advantages of procuring an able and honest Englishman for the work in question.\n\nAs all our skilled Chinese assistants have been removed to new lines, I am now getting young men from home to take their places, so we really have nobody to spare at the present moment. Applications for English engineers has also been made from the Canton end, as they are unable to secure suitable men. I have advised them to apply to T. J. Bourne, M.I.C.E., 10, Victoria Street, London, who was one of my best men.\n\nPage 390\nPage 391",
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        "content_text": "## \nAs long as their business is properly managed, they have it entirely in their own hands, and every shareholder is equal. No one has a right to dictate the policy of the Company; every shareholder has an equal right to speak, and the views of the majority prevail.\n\n\"I think Chinese Companies, under proper rules, with Imperial sanction, and with mixed Boards of native and foreign Directors, could be established and made to work satisfactorily. The railways would have to have foreign management at first; there are no Chinese at present who have the knowledge or experience necessary for the management of a large railway. The men who would be employed would, of course, be Chinese employés, as the Customs people are. Such men would do better work, and be more satisfactorily controlled by a mixed than by a purely Chinese Board of Directors. Besides, a Board composed of foreigners and Chinese would likely select a better class of foreigners than would likely be got in any other way. Foreigners are the best judges of foreigners, and Chinese of Chinese.”\n\nNoting the advice thus given, which is undoubtedly based on close acquaintance with Chinese affairs, it is interesting to consider the conditions under which railways on Chinese territory have been constructed since that date, and the political and financial results of these enterprises.\n\n## \nIn Manchuria, Shantung, and Yunnan, China has, at various times and under diplomatic pressure, conceded the right of railway construction to foreign Powers under conditions which deprive China of all control and profit in these enterprises and seriously prejudice her sovereign rights within the territory through which these railways run. The danger resulting from such concessions has now been fully recognized; it is realized that the existence on Chinese soil of railways administered and controlled to the detriment of China's political authority should never have been permitted. Of this, the history of the Manchurian provinces since 1896 has afforded a convincing object lesson, and a warning.\n\nConcessions of this kind may be described as strategical and political, as distinct from commercial undertakings, their inception being undoubtedly intended rather to extend the influence or territorial advantages of the Powers concerned than to develop the resources of the Empire for the advancement of China, and the consequent benefit of nations interested in the expansion of her trade; under existing political conditions, it may safely be assumed that no further concessions of this kind will be made, and that measures will eventually be agreed upon to prevent the railways thus constructed from creating results prejudicial to the Central Government's authority.\n\nThe Luhan Railway, although an enterprise originally associated with political objects of certain foreign Powers (1896-98), may now be definitely regarded as a commercial undertaking for the joint benefit of the Chinese administrations and the concessionnaires, and under the authority of the Chinese Government. No officially published information is available as to the cost of construction of this important trunk line or the actual results of its maintenance and working; but as the concessionnaires receive 20 per cent. of the profits, figures will no doubt be published in due course. A reliable authority, however, places the total cost of construction at a little over `6,000,000l`, provided partly by the Belgian loan and partly by funds paid in compensation for damage done by Boxers. The net profits (July 1906) are said to average 150,000 dollars per mensem. Had it not been for the receipt of `2,000,000l` on account of the Boxer disturbances, an additional loan would have been necessary, entailing further interest charges, which would have practically eliminated the profits now declared. By engineers, the work is generally reported to be good, though the system of construction is not that adopted on British railways, and is likely to entail heavy charges for maintenance and repair. China is entitled to pay off the Belgian loan (`4,500,000l`) on and after the 1st September, 1907, and, should she so desire thereafter, to take over complete control of the railway.\n\n## \nAnother Chinese Government railway which comes within the category of commercial undertakings with foreign capital is the line from Kaifeng to Honan-fu (about 210 kilom.), now in course of construction. Its conditions are practically the same as those of the Luhan, the Chinese Government guaranteeing the interest at 5 per cent. on a loan of `1,000,000l` at 90, intrusting the entire construction and administration to the Belgian concessionnaires (“la Compagnie Générale de Chemins de Fer et de Tramways en Chine\"), which is also entitled to 20 per cent. of the net profits of the undertaking. Period of loan twenty years: redemption of bonds begins after the tenth year.\n\nThe Chengting-Taiyuen-fu line (about 350 kilom.), originally part of the British `Peking Syndicate` Concession, became a Franco-Russian undertaking as the result of Russian diplomacy in 1898. It is now in course of construction—the capital (40,000,000 fr.) is French, and the conditions of the Loan Agreement are practically the same as those of the Honan-Kaifeng contract.\n\nThere are other railway undertakings on a small scale, such as the Ping Hsiang line in Hunan and the line (under construction) from Swatow to Chaochow-fu; but they need not be referred to in detail.\n\n## \nIn the Luhan contract, no precautions were taken by the Chinese Government to prevent the Concession being transferred from Belgian to any other nationality, an oversight which before long created serious uneasiness in the minds of his Excellency Chang Chih-tung and other high officials. When, therefore, a similar commercial Railway Concession was concluded with an American Syndicate (1898) to construct the railway from Hankow (Wuchang) to Canton, a clause was included in the contract stipulating that the rights of the American concessionnaires should not be transferred to persons of any other nationality. This clause was subsequently violated. The Belgian group of politicians and financiers who (supported by French and Russian diplomacy) had endeavoured to obtain the original Concession intrigued successfully at New York and obtained a controlling interest in the American Syndicate's stock, by virtue of which they speedily asserted claims to construct and administer the line. In this violation of the American Syndicate's agreement, his Excellency Shêng Kung-pao was apparently willing to acquiesce, but the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, dreading the political effect of Franco-Russian influence, insisted on cancellation of the Concession. The personnel of the American Syndicate had practically no interest in China; their objects in obtaining—and in transferring—the Concession rights were frankly pecuniary, and they readily accepted the price at which, upon his Excellency Chang Chih-tung's advice, the Chinese Minister in Washington was authorized to buy back the Concession. As the contract had admittedly been violated, and as the United States' Government was unwilling to guarantee that the railway would permanently remain a strictly American undertaking, the payment of a large indemnity to the concessionnaires was unnecessary and unwise. This unfortunate conclusion of the affair has naturally prejudiced foreign capitalists in the eyes of the Chinese Government and people, and has indefinitely postponed the construction of a most important railway. The results are as much deplored by foreigners as by Chinese, but the experience will not be lost if it teaches the Chinese Government not to intrust important national undertakings to unknown capitalists whose interests are in no manner identified with those of China.\n\nThe short line from Canton to Samshui constructed by the American Syndicate before the repurchase of the Concession is now administered by the Liang Kuang Viceroy. The passenger traffic is remunerative, showing how profitable the trunk line should be. The management of the line, however, judged by European standards, is extremely defective, the personnel inefficient, and the maintenance bad; unless these matters are reformed, the railway must before long come to grief.\n\n## \nIn Shansi, a short line has been built by the `Peking Syndicate` to assist in the development of the Coalfield Concession, running from Tsecho to the Wei River. The future value of this railway (which has been recognized as a Chinese Government undertaking like the Chengting-Taiyuen-fu line) must depend on the facilities given for exploiting the coalfields, a matter which the gentry and students of the province appear to be opposing.\n\nThe Northern Railway—running from Peking to Tien-tsin, Shanhaikwan, Newchwang, and Sinminting—is the most profitable in China. Its first section was built by British engineers with Chinese capital under the direction of the Viceroy Li Hung-chang in 1879. Originally intended only to connect the Tongshan mines with the nearest navigable water, it was gradually extended to Tien-tsin and Shanhaikwan. In 1896, British capital was borrowed (`2,300,000l`) for the completion of this railway to Newchwang, under conditions formally recognized by the Chinese and British Governments, the entire line being given as security for the loan, and the railway being placed under the direction of a British engineer-in-chief and financial supervision of the bondholders. The annual profits of the undertaking (which, in 1905, amounted to over 10,000,000 dollars) show how greatly the resources of the Central Government may be increased by properly administered railways, if efficiently constructed.\n\nRecently, however, there have been indications of a tendency to minimize European control in the management—a course which, however gratifying it may be to those who profess advanced nationalist ideas, will, if definitely adopted, seriously prejudice the future prosperity and credit of the enterprise. The Chinese... \n\nPage 2368  \nB 2 \n420",
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        "content_text": "## 4\n\nHis Excellency's being notified of the true position of M. Casenave, M. de la Batie ascribing his blunder to his writer.\n\nMr. Bland then handed me a Memorandum, which was embodied in a reply to the Viceroy (copy and translation inclosed).\n\nShortly after, Mr. Bland returned to say that the Tuotai was at the bank waiting to take him across to see his Excellency Ch'ang, who insisted on my also being present.\n\nWe therefore called on his Excellency, to whom I handed my reply to his note. His Excellency read it carefully, and asked if Mr. Bland had any draft of his proposals to show him.\n\nIt was explained that no special terms had yet been drafted, but the general tenor of the Kowloon-Canton Agreement would be followed. The English text was given to him, and he was told that a correct Chinese version would be found in the Shanghai \"Hsin-wen Pao\"; this his Secretary, Mr. Chan, had just seen.\n\nMr. Bland also handed in his Memorandum on railway construction in China, with apologies for the inferiority of its Chinese translation. The Viceroy said all that was needed was clearness and freedom from humbug.\n\nMr. Bland then stated that while in Peking he had seen the President of the Board of Communications, who had assured him that, provided the Viceroy did not object, his Board would support the raising abroad of a construction loan for the Yueh-Han and other Hu-Kuang railways. Vice-President Tang Shao-yi held the same views.\n\nMr. Bland was proceeding to advocate a uniform system for all provincial railways, and the making of the whole Hankow-Canton line one Government undertaking, when the Viceroy interposed that those were questions for the central authorities; all he could guarantee was that he was ready and anxious, so soon as the Board wrote or telegraphed that such a scheme would be acceptable, to memorialize the Throne for leave to borrow abroad for the building of Hupei's sections of the trunk lines south and west. He had been twice snubbed last year when he advocated this step, and he dared not move again unless assured of a favourable reception of his proposals.\n\nMr. Bland inquired whether Hunan could not be induced to come into line with Hupei; but his Excellency vehemently asserted that the Hunan gentry, with whom all control lay, would not listen to any argument on the subject, being in this and other matters obstinate, pig-headed, and unenlightened.\n\nWe suggested that a line only to Yochow would never pay. His Excellency agreed, and said he had hopes of being able to get Hunan to let Hupei continue the line to Changsha on the understanding that Hupei, and not foreigners, would be the lender. Possibly in course of time, if that line proved a benefit, the Hunanese, of whom the moneyed merchants would never supply the gentry with funds for railways, nor the needy gentry cede to the merchants the management of railways, might let Hupei continue the line to connect with Kuangtung. This was only a scheme of his own, however, which had not yet been broached.\n\nThe Viceroy mentioned that he would want to borrow 2,500,000, or, if the southern line went on to Changsha, 3,500,000, and his idea was to ask the same terms as to interest and redemption as in the case of the Lu-Han Railway.\n\nAs his Excellency was unwell and looked weary, we took our leave, the Viceroy repeating that, so soon as word came from Peking that all would be well, he would lay his proposal before the Throne; Mr. Bland might assure their Excellencies Chang Po-hsi and Tang Shao-yi that in Hupei there would be no opposition from any class whatever.\n\nDuring the interview not a word was said as to M. Casenave and the French banks.\n\n## 5\n\nBland, having some business to discuss personally with me, and asking me to arrange a time to receive them. I have been for some days fully occupied with public affairs, and am besides not in a good state of health, and am unable to receive visitors. I wrote at the time to M. de la Batie, the French Consul, to tell these persons to interview the Hankow Tantai, who could in turn inform me. The name \"Bland\" is, I take it, the same as the name \"Bland\" in the other note; but I quite fail to understand why he should desire to see me with regard to a loan in conjunction with the Director of the \"Banque de l'Indo-Chine.\" What is his actual reason for coming to Hupei, and has the loan been sanctioned by the Board of Communications? I hope you will give me a full explanation; but to-morrow I really cannot receive visitors, and I must still ask Mr. Bland to first interview the Customs Taotai, and if there should be anything of very great importance to tell me, please ask him to delay his departure a day or two, when I will await the honour of a visit.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n### Inclosure 7 in No. 1\n\n**(Card of Chang Chih-tung.)**\n\n**Consul-General Fraser to Viceroy Chang**\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nHankow, December 11, 1906.\n\nIn reply to your note regarding Mr. Bland, I have the honour to transmit herewith, for your information, the following Memorandum drawn up by that gentleman:\n\n\"It should be explained that, owing to a mistake committed by the writer (?) at the French Consulate, M. Casenave has been referred to as representing the 'Banque de l'Indo-Chine,' whereas, as a matter of fact, in the business which it is now proposed to discuss with his Excellency, he is acting with Mr. Bland in representing the British and Chinese Corporation, an English Company whereof the executive control is British, and which proposes to finance and construct Chinese railways by loans issued in London. It should also be explained that the association of French capital in this business (for which the Corporation is and must remain solely responsible) is the result of internal and purely financial arrangements made by the Corporation with a certain powerful French banking house with a view to insuring the ready provision of capital for railway and other enterprises in China. M. Casenave is appointed by the British and Chinese Corporation as its associate representative in recognition of the French financial interests and of the valuable resources which they place at the Corporation's disposal; but the direction of negotiations is intrusted to Mr. Bland, representative of the Corporation in China, who is empowered to submit terms for his Excellency's consideration in regard to railway loans. In these negotiations the 'Banque de l'Indo-Chine' is not concerned.\n\n\"From recent discussion of railway matters with the Yu Chuan Pu, Mr. Bland has reason to believe that he can put forward proposals acceptable alike to his Excellency and to the Chinese Government.\"\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) E. H. FRASER.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) E. H. FRASER.\n\n### Inclosure 6 in No. 1\n\n**(Translation.) Sir,**\n\n**Viceroy Chang to Consul-General Fraser**\n\nHankow, December 11, 1906.\n\nI have just received and read your note. 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        "content_text": "## Government's Loss of Control Since 1900\n\nGovernment has lost upon the provinces since 1900 is the notable feature of the present situation in Peking.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)  \nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nP.S.---Since writing the above I have received an Intelligence Report from the Acting British Consul at Hangchow, of which I have the honour to inclose an extract. In view of what Sir Robert Hart told me, and of the universal vigilance of the Customs' inspection, information of which reaches me from several quarters, there can be no doubt that the Viceroy of Chilli, and probably also the Central Government, are apprehensive of an anti-dynastic movement, and that foreigners are in some way suspected of being connected with it. For this suspicion there is not, so far as I know, a particle of evidence.\n\n(No. 186.) Sir,\n\n### Inclosure I in No. 1\n\nConsul-General Sir P. Warren to Sir J. Jordan.  \nJ. N. J.  \nShanghae, December 24, 1906.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose herewith, for your information, copy and translation of an extract from the \"Nan Fang Pao\" of the 15th instant, being instructions from his Excellency Chang Chih Tung on the subject of rebellious Societies, giving particulars as to their methods and organization.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)  \nPELHAM WARREN,\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n(Translation.)  \nExtract from the \"Non Fang Pao\" of December 15, 1906.  \n**Confidential Instructions from the Hukuong Viceroy.**\n\nTHE foreign adviser reports as follows:-\n\nOf the large rebellious Associations one is the Kolao Hui, which exists in a secret manner in the Yang-tsze region, and of which the head is one Wang Sheng; another is the Triad Society, which exists in the Two Kuang, Kueichou and Fukien, of which Sun Wen is head, and these two Associations have in the course of time united, and now form the Tung Meng Hui (Alliance Society), and Sun Wen is the head, Wang Sheng the second. Their cry is \"Down with the Manchus!\" and \"Revolution!\" They establish branches everywhere, and men of all provinces join them, 60 per cent. of the Hunan men being members. The Kolao Hui in Hunan is in three divisions--the red division, consisting chiefly of rowdies; the blue and black divisions being mostly men of rank and merchants. The Ch'ang Sha leader is Tsung Huang, a wealthy leader, who is also known as Hsia Ming, 40 years of age; 500 of the Chang Sha garrison are members, and 500 of the police force of Yochou, as well as 3,000 men of the provincial army. The head in Hupei Province is one Lin Chia Yun, and at Wuchang and Hankow a younger brother of Ho Taotai, Commander of the Kueilin new model forces. At Shahshih, a rich merchant named Tsao Yu Ying, 39 years old. A third of the officials, troops, and men in the arsenal at Wuch'ang are members.\n\nA meeting was held in July, at which twenty-five military officers and many soldiers were present. Before the union of the two Societies, the leaders asked for help from Great Britain, France, and Japan, and sought their recognition. Certain foreigners concerted with the heads of the Societies at Wuch'ang, Chang Sha, Kiukiang, Nan Chang, Nanking, Foochow, Canton, Kueilin, Kueiyang, and Sun Wen collected 3,000,000 taels from the Chinese merchants at `Singapore`, `Kalumpor`, `Hong Kong`, &c., and this was deposited chiefly with the ... Bank, and large quantities of munitions were purchased. The original idea was to take the opportunity of the autumn manœuvres for a rising; but Wang Sheng altered the time to the end of the year, as the Yang-tsze leaders were not ready. I cannot say if this be a fact or not.\n\nA Chinese officer reported to the same effect. He says:-\n\nThe Ko Ming Society in Hunan was broken up the year before last, and was converted into a \"Secret Society,\" the objects of which have been anarchical, and its beginnings were in Tokio. It gradually spread into the inland parts of China. The officers of this Society belong to the waterway districts, and they busy themselves with cementing the relationships of the branches; but the Settlements at Shanghae and the Kiangnan Arsenal (`Kao Chang Miao`) neighbourhood are their biding-places; their head-quarters are Hunan and Hupei, these being in reach of Kiangsi on the east and Canton Province on the south. The idea was to command Szechuan, and so move north, while a force was to go by Shensi, thus rendering complete defence impossible. The capital of Hunan was to be their head city, and a central house was to be established there, and there were in addition four lodges, each with its own organization, east, west, south, and north.\n\nThe seat of the south branch was at Linchou, in Hunan, in direct communication with Loch'ang and Ping Shih, in Kuangtung, Shao Kuan, and Canton Province, and also in control of the Pao Ching and Yung Chou Prefecture organizations.\n\nThe east lodge has its seat at Hsiang Tung, in Liling district, to be in direct communication with Yuan Chou and Lin An Prefectures, the chief points being Kiukiang and Huk'ou (this part of the scheme involves extreme danger). The seat of the north was at Ch'ing Chiang, south of Yochou, in Hunan, in close communication with Wuch'ang and Hankow. Drilling went on as of village militia, and under this guise desperate enterprises were prepared. At a moment's warning they were to rise and make a determined effort to seize the Tungting Lake.\n\nAnother branch came into existence in Hupei, of which the objective was Tion Chia Chen, in Wu Hsueh, with the purpose of holding the key to the northern approach. There was to be no immediate attack upon the Lower Yang-tsze for fear of opposition on the part of Great Britain, and although there were many confederates at Tungehou, Ta Tung, Hsiang Yang, and Chinkiang, these were only to serve as hindrances to any forces sent out against the movement; those places were not the important ones.\n\nThe seat of the west lodge was to be at Hang Chou, in Hunan, in connection with Kuanghai, and the disbanded soldiers and the bad characters there, and with the Miao and Yao tribes in Kueichou, in Hunan, and Chang Chou and Li Ling Prefectures, in Kuanghsi, were under them.\n\nThis fire has been smouldering many a day. All the officials of the Association are divided into two sections, the Wai Pu and the Nei Pu. All of these Wai Pu made their arrangements in the Straits, &c., and of these Sun Wen is the head, men like Huang Ta Wu and Liu Lin Sheng being his lieutenants, and they are the chief plotters. These are the people by whom the Chinese merchants in foreign countries, enraged at the failure of their Governments to protect them against oppression, are influenced and subscribe to their schemes, in the hope that when the plot has succeeded they may be granted some better kind of protection. [This is a note of the official making the Report.] They (the Wai Pu) purchase and ship munitions. I hear that the munitions and dynamite are purchased from a certain country and stored in `Singapore` with the idea of shipping them to the Indian Railways, then to Chen Nan Kuan in Yunnan, and so conveying them into the interior. Great Britain has not allowed this, and it has not been possible to convey them by this route. I shall report further when I have found out actually about this.\n\nThe Wai Pu also makes Agreements with foreign Powers. Three Powers have already consented to recognize the Independent State, and have made Agreements with them, by which when the success is assured twenty and more new mercantile ports are to be opened, and a guarantee has been given for the protection of the property of foreign merchants and the churches, and for recompense in case of any damage or destruction. These matters are under the Wai Pu's direction. members do not come into China.\n\nThe Nei Pu members are all distributed along the Yang-tsze, and there make their secret dispositions. Such as these are Cheng Hsien Sheng, Li Hsieh Ho, ...  \nPage 3",
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        "content_text": "## \nChu Tzu Lung, Hsiao K'e Chang, Lu Chin Piao, &c. There is another branch in league with the mounted bandits of Manchuria, and abroad with the Nihilists of Russia. They have also an understanding with them for mutual aid for anti-dynastic movements.\n\nTheir official duties are divided into four Departments—viz., a Department of Ways and Means, Intelligence Department, Military Organization Department, and Department for Communications.\n\nApart from the permanent store-houses of the various branches of the commissariat branch of the Ways and Means Department, the other officers have no definite head-quarters, and their appearance and movements are secret, and there is no means of knowing them.\n\nThe officers of the various branches of the different lodges can be roughly divided into four grades. Each lodge has one Grand Master (with full powers as regards his own lodge), six deputy Grand Masters who are—\n\n1. The General Manager of the affairs of the whole district.\n2. The Councillor, who is the officer for the improvements of methods in his own particular lodge.\n3. The Financial Manager, who is specially in charge of the transport, and pays for his own particular district.\n4. The Manager of religious matters. He opens inns in the port to attract recruits of all classes who may pass through, to afford protection, and to afford means of communication. This system is called a method of indirect correspondence. As an example of this, an agent of another lodge, or a recruit from any place whatever, is not allowed to have a personal interview with an agent of the same lodge. However important the subject of discussion, it must be dealt with entirely through the medium of this \"religious manager,\" who is the mainspring of the organization of the lodge, and acts as a screen for its secrets.\n5. The Proctor, whose business it is to select and send deputies, to place the members of all the Societies. As an instance, he sends so and so to manage a certain school, another to stay in a certain mining district, another to some railway, another to some body of modern drilled troops, another to some of the meeting places, another to watch the waterways, &c. These men are, as a rule, in great numbers in the schools of various places, and on the Yang-tsze in the An Yuan mines. This is their chief head-quarters, and there are about 10,000 there. The rest are in the various other mining districts, but they are most common in Liu Yang and P'u Chi districts in Yunnan Province. There are others, but not so many, in all the districts in Kiangsi, in Hunan, and, not so many at Nan Chou, and others among the salt smugglers on the Yang-tsze. They are the Black Division, and are in connection with the Red Division in every district. Again there are the boatmen from all directions, and the sampan men, who are told off throughout the waterways to pirate boats. These are called the Green Division.\n\nAll the above elect from time to time men of any prominence to go amongst the new model troops of various localities, especially among the Hupei regulars, and, in lesser numbers, among the Nanking troops. There are many others among the Yang-tsze guardships, and others, but fewer, among the other regiments and the Fukian and Chekiang guardship men, and many among the troops of the two Kuang Provinces and in Kiangsi and Hunan, but these are fewer than among the literate classes. All these are under the direction of the Managing Proctor.\n6. The Recorder. He is specially told off to deal with the correspondence from all the lodges, and the lists of members and account books.\n\nThese six officials are all specially responsible for their own duties, and cannot put them on to other shoulders or depart from their own special functions.\n\nThere are twelve junior masters distributed to serve under the Deputy Grand Masters, all acting as Heads or Directors of the various Secret Societies in the interior. Their ways are secret, and they are everywhere, but mostly in South Hunan, Hsiang T'an, Li Ling, Liu Yang, Ping Chiang, An Hua, Hsin Hua, Nan Chou, and Kiangsi, An Yuan, Ping Hsiang, Wan Tsai, Fen I, Nan K'ang, Hu K'ou, Kiukiang, and in Hupei, at Huang, and the Lower Yang-tsze, most being in Ch'inkiang, Ta Tung, &c. They are also among the pirates of Fukien and Chekiang, the Manchurian mounted bandits, and members of the white religion of Honan and Chihli. They are all seething with rebellion, which once broken out would be impossible to suppress.\n\n## \nWe have discovered that the original intention was to bring in munitions of war through Yunnan, but Great Britain would not allow this, so the project was dropped, and we now hear that the Society has changed its plans, and now intends to gradually smuggle the stuff in on trading vessels, and send it to the interior. They hollow out the inside of books and conceal revolvers, knives, and explosives in them. Then they replace the covers. There is no clue to the contents from the outside. Since the books are classed as \"educational works,\" according to the practice of the Customs, which has obtained for a long time, when being examined they are simply counted and not carefully inspected. The long rifles are taken in two pieces, and are packed in foreign cement and wrapped in bales of cloth. The ammunition, powder, &c., is concealed in bales of cotton yarn, and so can easily escape observation.\n\nThe ways of the Society are dark and secret, and it is impossible to find out the dates when these goods are transported. Instructions should be issued to the customs and li-kin stations that whenever goods of the above description are seen they must be most careful in their examination of them. If there is the least thing suspicious about them, samples should be at once taken out from them and examined as a measure of precaution. As a matter of fact the Society has established agreements, and merchants of all nationalities are in collusion, and take part in these malpractices. For example, this summer sixteen bales of foreign cloth went into Changsha. On the first occasion they were brought into the Ta Hsi Men, and were stopped by the guard for examination. The men carrying the bales were all members of the Society, and would not agree to the examination. They made a fuss and menaced the guard, saying that these goods were the property of a certain firm, and had already passed the Customs. If they were not allowed to enter the city they would take them back again to the foreign firm, and that they themselves could not be responsible for the opening for inspection. The guards thereupon allowed them to carry them away, but seven bales had already entered the city earlier. A careful search was made in all directions, but not a trace of the goods could be discovered. It afterwards appeared that five bales had been taken in by the Hsiao Hsi Men, four by the Tsao Ch'ao Men.\n\nOrders are accordingly being issued to the higher provincial authorities to send instructions to all officials, military and civil, to take stringent and secret measures of precaution against the Society, and to prevent the escape of its members through remissness. **Important**.\n\n## \nDear Sir John,\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Ker to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nNanking, October 30, 1906.\n\nI delayed replying to your telegram about the reported disaffection amongst the troops until I could get hold of the official on whom I depend chiefly for information. I managed to see him yesterday, and sent the result by telegram this morning. He particularly asked that his name should not be mentioned to Peking, so I can only say that he is in a position to have trustworthy information, and that I see no reason why he should want to mislead me. He speaks English.\n\nThere is practically no standing army in these parts now, and the whole situation depends on how far Tuan Fang, who is said to be thoroughly alive to the danger, may succeed in instilling a spirit of discipline into the \"Cheng Ping \"the \"modern troops levied locally in the last two or three years to take the place of the disbanded Hunanese. The recruiting of these was accompanied with a great flourish of trumpets. They were to be of a higher class, true patriots, and so on, and there was said to be a good deal of grumbling amongst them when, after being welcomed by school processions, waving banners, and chanting of patriotic odes, they were set to do the ordinary coolie work of soldiers in peace time. Praschma, German instructor in the Military College, who sees something of the military element here, tells me the feeling is much better now, but my Chinese informant denies this, and points to the rioting that took place last July on the occasion of a quarrel between soldiers and... \n\n## \nPage 467",
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        "content_text": "## STATEMENT showing strength and distribution of Foreign Troops in North China, corrected to November 20, 1906.\n\n| Stations | American | Austrian | Belgians | British | British Native | French | German | Italian | Japanese | Netherlands | Russian | Other ranks | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Officers |  |  | 173 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks |  |  | 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Officers |  |  | 20 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks |  |  | 238 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Peking | Officers |  |  | 29 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks |  |  | 245 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 296 |  |\n| Huang-tsun | Officers |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks |  |  | 10 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Lang-fang | Officers |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks |  |  | 222 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Yang-ts'un | Officers |  |  | 119 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks |  |  | 112 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Tien-tsin | Officers | 2 |  | 9 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks | 206 |  | 1,843 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2,674 |\n| Chun-liang-cheng | Officers |  |  | 124 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks |  |  | 311 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Tang-ku | Officers |  |  | 84 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks |  |  | 726 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Ta-ku | Officers |  |  | 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks |  |  | 41 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Lu-t'ai | Officers |  |  | 5 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks |  |  | 94 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Tong-shan | Officers |  |  | 6,352 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 6,352 |\n| Lan-chon | Officers |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Chang-li | Officers |  |  | 2 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks |  |  | 46 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Ma-fang | Officers |  |  | 103 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks |  |  | 18 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Chin-wang-tao | Officers |  |  | 1 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks |  |  | 182 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Pei-tai-ho | Officers |  |  | 78 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks |  |  | 1,324 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Shan-hai-kuan | Officers |  |  | 38 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks |  |  | 725 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Officers |  |  | 11 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks |  |  | 235 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Totals in Chih-li | Officers | 2 |  | 8 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n|  | Other ranks | 206 |  | 5,165 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Tien-tsin, November 20, 1906. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n\n## (No. 12.) (Telegraphic.) \n**CONFIDENTIAL. AFFAIRS OF CHINA.**\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n### No. 1.\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey,-(Received January 15.)\n\nThe adhesion of the French Government to the Taku Bar scheme has now been notified by M. Bapst. Please refer to your telegram No. 187 of the 6th November and my despatch No. 429 of the 23rd October, 1906.\n\nPeking, January 15, 1907.\n\n[2310 p-1]\n\n**SECTION 1** [January 15.]\n\nC. 0. 10923\n\nPL ? \n\n(REGE 26 MAR 07)\n\n479",
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        "content_text": "## THE OPIUM EVIL\n\nIt is satisfactory to note that, following the example of the British and Japanese Concessions, the Russian Municipality at Tien-tsin have expressed their willingness to fall in line with the Chinese authorities in the suppression of opium dens, and have ordered all the opium shops and dens in their Concession to discontinue business within a week, and to return the licences now held in their hands. The authorities of the Austrian and Italian Concessions have given the keepers of opium houses in their Concessions six months in which to wind up their business and surrender their licences. It remains to be seen what action the French Municipal authorities will take in the matter - whether they will fall in line with the other Concessions or adopt a singular attitude and prefer to keep the ill-gotten revenue at the expense of the moral degradation of the Chinese residing within their Settlement.\n\nIn Shanghae we note with satisfaction that the Taotai and the merchants are not idle in the matter of opium suppression. In reply to the request of the Customs Taotai for co-operation in the closing of opium shops and dens in the Settlements, the Consular Body is reported to have stated that they must take some time to discuss the matter before giving a decisive answer.\n\nThe Taotai fears that when the question is referred to the Municipal authorities they will be unwilling to accede to the request and sacrifice the enormous revenue derived from the opium tax. But in our opinion his Excellency the Taotai needs have no such fear. Public sentiment among the foreign ratepayers of Shanghae is so decidedly against the opium evil that it would vote against its continuance even at the sacrifice of a substantial annual revenue, if his Excellency the Taotai, Jui Cheng, will see that his orders for the closing of the opium dens in the city and suburbs are conscientiously and effectively carried out. When the Consular Body and the Municipal authorities are convinced that all opium shops and dens are effectively and permanently closed in the city and its suburbs, they will not \"require some time to discuss the matter,\" nor allow the loss of an annual revenue to stand in the way of assisting the extirpation of vice in the Settlements. The whole matter, therefore, is in the hands of his Excellency the Taotai and the other Chinese authorities of Shanghae.\n\nIf his Excellency Jui Cheng displays the same energy as his confrère, the Customs Taotai at Tien-tsin, who, acting under instructions from Viceroy Yuan, closed 4,000 opium shops and opium-smoking dens in a couple of days, and is seeing to it that these shops and dens remain closed, he will have no difficulty in inducing the Consular and Municipal authorities here to co-operate with him in suppressing public opium-smoking in the foreign Settlements.\n\n## THE OPIUM EVIL\n\nSince the prohibition on the morning of the 11th ultimo of keeping opium lamps and pipes by opium dens in the Chinese city by order of his Excellency Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai, many keepers have been imprisoned or fined by the Chinese authorities for infraction of the law.\n\nThis has been due to the fact that at the last moment, on the request of the keepers of these evil haunts, his Excellency Yuan gave them permission to temporarily keep their doors open for one more month for collecting debts, but without keeping opium lamps and pipes; but the keepers have disregarded the last part of the injunctions and have broken the law as already stated.\n\nNot only this, but all the Chinese restaurants, hotels, and houses of ill repute in the city are now strictly prohibited from keeping opium lamps and pipes for visitors since the before-mentioned date. The keeper of a certain brothel was recently fined $300 and given 200 blows with the bamboo by the Commissioner of the City Police, and the visitor who ordered the keeper to supply him with opium lamp and pipe was fined $50 as a warning to others, because he proved to be a Chinese official, and ought to have known the Viceroy's order better than others.\n\nIn my last correspondence about the suppressing of this national evil in North China, I mentioned that, for the sake of preventing the keepers of such evil houses from going into the various foreign Concessions at Tien-tsin to continue their harmful business to the detriment of young men and others, the Customs Taotai, Liang Tung-yen, had been instructed by the Viceroy to write officially to the Consuls-General and Consuls of the Powers at this port, requesting them to fix a certain date for the keepers or managers of opium dens to close their doors and stop their business, so that they might be treated in the same way as their brethren in the city. Although his Honour Liang had already notified the various foreign Representatives at Tien-tsin, yet, up to the time of my writing this letter, all the opium dens, large and small, in the Austrian and French Concessions are still doing their harmful business in full swing, and the date of their suppression is still unknown to the public, although it is stated that the French Consul-General has given orders to the French Municipal Council to close these evil haunts in its Concession after the 1st January, 1907, while the Austrian Consul is reported to have given the keepers of all the dens in the Austro-Hungarian Concession six months to do so. Regarding the other foreign Consuls, the British and Japanese Consuls-General have consented to prohibit the opening of such dens in their Concessions hereafter, so as to assist the Chinese officials to stamp out this national evil step by step. But I am rather disappointed to write that, up to the present moment, all the Chinese eating-houses and houses of ill repute in the Japanese Concession are still keeping lamps and pipes for smoking by their guests, so that these people, like the keepers of the dens in the Austrian and French Concessions, are doing very good business, because all opium smokers are crowding their houses day and night. Regarding other foreign Concessions, I have not heard what actions the German, Russian, Belgian, and Italian Consuls will take in this matter, which for us Chinese is one of the first and foremost importance in connection with the reformation of China.\n\nFor my part, I do not believe that the foreign Powers will be unwilling to assist the Chinese in carrying out the order of his Excellency Yuan (whose act will surely be followed as an example by other Viceroys and Governors in the near future), since the British Government has expressed its willingness to abolish the Indian opium trade with our country, if the Peking Government is really in earnest to suppress the evil, which is compared by the veteran old Viceroy, Chang Chih-tung, as more dangerous and destructive than floods or inundations or beasts of prey.\n\nI hope I can let you know the particulars by next mail, that the Representatives of the most civilized countries in the world have given final orders for the prohibition of opium dens in their respective Concessions.\n\n### Inclosure 4 in No. 1\n\n**Mr. Cheok Hong Cheong to Sir J. Jordan**\n\nHankow, January 4, 1907.\n\nIn accordance with the request made at the interview which your Excellency was good enough to favour me on the 31st ultimo, I beg to submit a brief statement of the steps taken to suppress the opium evil in New Zealand and Australia, my observations thereon, and somewhat also of the movement now happily inaugurated by Imperial Edict in China.\n\nSome five years ago the Right Honourable R. Seddon, P. C., the Prime Minister of New Zealand, was approached by a deputation of Chinese residents, supported by many influential citizens, to legislate for the prohibition of the importation, sale, and smoking of opium, who urged that, though an attempt had been made by the leading Chinese merchants to suppress the evil, by an arrangement among themselves to refrain from importing it, it nevertheless failed in consequence of smaller and less scrupulous men taking advantage of the opportunity to enrich themselves. They reminded the Prime Minister that he was personally sufficiently acquainted with the awful nature of the vice to require any elucidation on their part.\n\nIn reply, the Prime Minister was as thoroughly sympathetic as his response to the request was prompt and decisive. A measure on lines of one which had been proposed in Victoria was at once placed upon the Statute Book, absolutely prohibiting the importation, sale, and smoking of those descriptions of opium which are not required for medicine, but, having been treated in a special way for the purpose of being smoked, were introduced simply and purely for the vile purposes of debauchery.\n\nIn the second half of 1905 a monster Petition for the suppression of the opium evil, extensively signed in all the States, by all ranks and classes of citizens in Australia, was got up by the Chinese residents, who sent representatives to wait in deputation on the Prime Minister and present the same. But the reply, though sympathetic, and the matter within the jurisdiction of the Federal authorities, yet on account of the larger part of the import duty having to be returned to the several States, was an advice to the deputation to interview the States Governments and secure their co-operation,",
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        "content_text": "## 526 \n\n6 \n\nin an injury to the good relations which exist between his Excellency Ting and yourself.\n\nWe herewith return the original letter, with the hope that you will favour us with another. But should you be unable to do so, we can do nothing but abide by your decision.\n\nWith apologies and best wishes.\n\nCards inclosed: CH'EN CHU LUN. CHEN CHIH FEN.\n\nNote. The letter to his Excellency Ting, which was returned by Messrs. Chen on the 11th January, was readdressed and forwarded by post on the 12th instant.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n### Inclosure 7 in No. 1\n\n**Prince Ch'ing to Sir J. Jordan**\n\nPeking, January 10, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's note of the 31st December respecting the refusal of the Governor of Shansi to issue a permit to the Peking Syndicate to open mines in the Ping-ting Chou district, as provided by their Agreement, and making a claim, under instructions from His Majesty's Government, on behalf of the Syndicate for damages at the rate of £200 a-day from the 1st January, 1907, for every day's delay in the issue of the permit.\n\n(Note of the 31st December quoted at length.)\n\nI have the honour to observe, in reply, that the Peking Syndicate, from the time when their Agreement was signed, made no immediate effort to survey the mining area, but, on the contrary, waited for several years until China had raised a loan for the purpose of railway construction, and had made a line up to that district before they thought it worth their while, and regarded it as a sufficiently profitable undertaking. They then pressed for immediate permission to start work. But in his letter to the Governor of Shansi in the year before last, Mr. Jamieson, Agent-General of the Syndicate, provoked a general feeling of popular hostility by saying that the mining rights of the locality must belong exclusively to the Syndicate, and that the people of the place must not be allowed to work mines.\n\nThe Governor strongly apprehended that the feeling thus aroused might bring about a rising of the people, and he consequently did not feel prepared to issue the permit forthwith. The Syndicate, in their mining ventures in Honan, complied with their Agreement, and started work at an early date. They therefore received their permit to work there a long time ago.\n\nIt may be seen from this that the Peking Syndicate in their Shansi undertakings have in point of fact been themselves delaying, and that, moreover, by trying to corner the market, they have aroused public hostility.\n\nUnder these circumstances the Chinese Government can accept no responsibility, and is certainly not prepared to recognize the claim for damages at £200 per diem from the 1st January, 1907.\n\nI trust therefore that your Excellency will take note of this reply and communicate it to His Majesty's Government.\n\n### Inclosure 8 in No. 1\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Prince Ch'ing**\n\nPeking, January 18, 1907.\n\nI AM in receipt of your Highness' note of the 10th January, in which it is stated that, after the signing of the Shansi Agreement, the Peking Syndicate made no immediate effort to survey a mining area in Ping-ting Chou, but waited for several years until China had built a railway to that district; and your Highness argues from that state- \n\nment that the delay in regard to their Shansi undertakings is due to the Syndicate themselves.\n\nTo show that this statement is inaccurate, and that there has been no undue delay on the part of the Syndicate, I am obliged to trouble your Highness with the following facts.\n\nThe object of the Peking Syndicate in obtaining the Shansi Concession was not to enter into competition with existing native mines to supply the local demand, but to open mines on a large scale for the transport of the produce by railway to distant markets. On the 26th April, 1898, before the Shansi Agreement was signed, the Syndicate entered into a separate Agreement with the Russo-Chinese Bank, whereby they waived their claim (under Article 17 of the Shansi Agreement) to construct a branch line from the Ping-ting Chou mines to connect with the Pei-han trunk line in favour of the Russian Chêng-t'ai Railway. This separate Agreement was concluded at the request and in the presence of the late Viceroy, Li Hung Chang, and a copy of the English version thereof is inclosed for your Highness' information. The date of commencing work in Shansi depended, therefore, on the construction of the Chêng-tai Railway, which was delayed by causes entirely beyond the control of the Peking Syndicate.\n\nYour Highness mentions popular hostility, but I must remind you that Sir E. Satow, in a note of the 26th November, 1905, warned the Chinese Government of the agitation against the Syndicate which was being fomented in Honan and Shansi, similar in character to other agitations elsewhere in China against foreign railway enterprises and trade privileges, and added that the agitation could not exist without official support or tolerance.\n\nIt is not possible for the Chinese Government to evade responsibility for the wrongful acts of their Agents. I have the honour to repeat that, in accordance with the instructions of His Majesty's Government, the claim of the Peking Syndicate for damages at the rate of £200 a-day for each day's delay in the issue of the permit in respect of the Ping-ting Chou coalfields alone began on the 1st January last; that the rate of compensation will be increased above £200 a-day after a certain period; and that the Chinese Government will be held responsible for the payment of the claim.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 12 in No. 1\n### Acting Consul Giles to Sir J. Jordan\n\nChangsha, December 12, 1906.\n\nIn my opinion the chief adverse influence and the principal obstacle in the way of a settlement at the present moment is the Customs Taotai, Chu Yen-hsi, who is also the Head of the Foreign Bureau, besides filling the posts of Salt Commissioner for the Province and Intendant of the Ch'ang-pao circuit. He has been Customs Taotai here ever since the opening of the port, and has from the beginning taken a leading part in opposing any recognition of the claim of foreign merchants to reside inside the city; and his latest move has been to induce the Changsha Chamber of Commerce to send a telegram to the Shang Pu on the 4th December protesting against the tenor of the Wai-wu Pu's instructions. His attitude is doubtless largely influenced by the fact that, as stated above, he is financially interested in the success of the proposed Settlement outside the north gate. When the Settlement was originally delimited, the owners of property within its boundaries were forbidden to sell except to the Land Office under the control of the Customs Taotai, and were consequently compelled to part with their land at prices considerably below its market value. The Taotai is estimated to have spent in this way about 50,000 taels, and was looking forward to recouping himself by reselling, or rather by granting thirty-year leases, to foreigners at high prices. Up to the present, however, so far as I am aware, not a single lot of land in the Settlement has been taken up.\n\nAt our interview of the 27th November the Governor impressed both the Japanese Consul and myself as being not unfavourable to settling the city question by acting on the instructions of the Wai-wu Pu. On the other hand, the fact that his predecessor was removed to another post through the influence of the gentry, supported by the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, on the charge of having considered foreign rather than Chinese interests in the arrangements for the opening of Changsha, would naturally render his Excellency chary of going counter to what he believes to be the wishes of the gentry. Again, his long connection with the Viceroy Chang, in the capacity of Customs Taotai at Hankow and subsequently of Provincial Judge at Wuchang, combined with the fact that his present promotion is largely due to the Viceroy's recommendation, would tend to bring him under the latter's influence to a very considerable extent. Finally, the Customs Taotai, who, as Head of the Foreign Bureau, is naturally his chief adviser on foreign affairs, undoubtedly exerts all his influence to prevent the right of residence inside the city from being admitted by the Governor. Both the late Governor and the present one, at my interviews with them, have appeared anxious to settle the question; while the messages, whether written or verbal, subsequently transmitted through the Customs Taotai have invariably exhibited a resolutely uncompromising spirit.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) **BERTRAM GILES**\n\nThe exchange of posts between the Governors of Hunan and Kueichow has been usually and naturally explained as owing to the transfer of the Canton Viceroy to Yunnan—when it became contrary to rule for his brother to occupy a post under him.\n\nThe Viceroy Chang, it will be remembered, was prepared to agree to open the city and let foreign goods pass in free of li-kin (see my telegrams Nos. 20, 22, 23, 24, and 26 of 1905).\n\n**E. H. FRASER, Consul-General**\n\nHankow, December 13, 1906.\n\n### (No. 24.) Sir,\n\n(Signed)\n\n## Inclosure 12 in No. 1\n### Acting Consul Giles to Sir J. Jordan\n\nChangsha, December 27, 1906.\n\nIn continuation of my despatch No. 23 of the 5th December, I have the honour to forward herewith copy and translation of a despatch on the subject of Treaty port limits, addressed by the Japanese Consul and myself to the Governor (Inclosure 18), and of the latter's reply thereto (Inclosure 14).\n\nIt will be noted that, the li-kin question having been raised, the Chinese authorities shift their ground; the density of the population in the city of Changsha is no longer referred to, and the Governor takes his stand on the original contention that foreign merchants may only reside and trade within the foreign Settlements at the various Treaty ports. As before, I have considered it undesirable to enter into any refutation of the Governor's statements, the question having already been fully discussed, and the right of residence having been recognized by the Wai-wu Pu.\n\nThe Japanese Consul and I are, however, addressing a further despatch to the Governor, reminding him that he has ignored the instructions which he admits having received from the Wai-wu Pu, and pointing out that, if the provincial authorities act in direct contravention of the orders of the Central Government, it is difficult to see how public business is to be carried on.\n\nI further venture to draw attention to the Governor's statement that the Chinese Commissioners negotiating the Japanese Commercial Treaty declined to recognize the right of residence in the cities, ports, and towns, as requested by the Japanese Commissioners. Mr. Thara informs me that it was desired to define clearly in the Treaty the limits within which Japanese merchants might reside and trade at the open ports, in order to put an end to the ever-recurring differences on this point; but the Chinese Commissioners stated that the Provincial Viceroys and Governors would strongly object to the insertion of such a clause, and declined to discuss it.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) **BERTRAM GILES**\n\nThe Governor ignores the fact that the proposed Changsha Settlement Regulations were formally protested against as illegal as soon as possible by this Office in November 1904, and that the position he now takes up was controverted two years ago in correspondence with the then Governor of Hunan, which was submitted to the central authorities. His statement as to Mr. Bennertz' withdrawal is grotesquely inaccurate, as appears from Mr. Giles' despatch to the Legation of the 24th February, 1906. His Excellency Ts'en is the first high officer, so far as I am aware, to put forward officially the statement as to our rights of residence within certain areas at Treaty ports, which, as stated in my Intelligence Report, got the Hanyang Magistrate into trouble.\n\n(Signed) **B. H. FRASER, Consul-General**\n\nHankow, January 7, 1907.\n\n## Inclosure 13 in No. 1\n### Japanese Consul and Acting Consul Giles to Governor of Hunan\n\nChangsha, December 7, 1906.\n\nAfter the right of foreign merchants to open business establishments and to trade inside the city of Changsha had been admitted by the Wai-wu Pu, the Acting British Consul received instructions, dated the 27th October, from the British Minister at Peking, stating that he had requested Prince Ching to direct your Excellency to follow the instructions contained in the Wai-wu Pu's despatch, and to issue a Proclamation stating clearly that the Chinese Government had recognized the right of foreign merchants to open business establishments inside Changsha city, and that no foreign goods were liable to pay li-kin or other taxes of any description on entering the city. The British Minister further instructed the Acting British Consul to press the local authorities in conjunction with the Japanese Consul, for the issue of such a Proclamation.\n\nOn the 27th November we had a joint interview with your Excellency, at which this question was discussed, when your Excellency stated that matters of business had fully occupied your time since you had taken over charge, and that you had not yet had leisure to thoroughly consider the Board's despatch as well as the local circumstances, and therefore requested us to wait a few days for an answer.\n\nOn the 4th December the Changsha Customs Taotai, Mr. Chu, called on the Acting British Consul and stated that your Excellency had received a despatch from the Wai-wu Pu admitting the right of Japanese and British merchants to start business inside the city, but that as in your opinion the Wai-wu Pu was not acquainted with the conditions prevailing in Changsha, your Excellency was unable to act in accordance with their instructions. The Acting British Consul asked Chu Taotai several times to repeat his message, to which the latter replied that he had not misunderstood the tenor thereof.",
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        "content_text": "# \nFirst, the gains from such influx :- \n\n(a) Increase in customs revenue. The trifling land tax is insufficient to meet our vast expenditure, which leans chiefly on the revenue from foreign trade. This improves with influx of foreign capital, even under foreign control, which impairs our rights, and it covered the indemnity, to secure which duty-free list was abolished and 5 per cent. duty made effective. This voluntary surrender of what foreigners had hitherto disputed was due to no change of feeling, but to fear of China's weakness endangering their vast investments in China. \n\n(b) Opening up of sources of profit. China's official attitude had been to beware of speculation because of Sung and Ming dynasty disastrous experiments. So mines were left untouched and industries neglected. Intercourse with foreigners has changed all this and brought appreciation of mining, railways, machinery, and science, even though foreigners take the lion's share of the profits. The result is that mining and railway shares, which formerly were looked on askance, are now struggled for. Moreover, the provinces have learned zealously to conserve such rights even to the death. All this revolution is the effect of foreign capital being tendered. \n\n(c) The repression of outside aggression. Since trade was opened the occasional disputes have rarely resulted in hostilities, the exceptions being the Opium War, the Japanese War, and the Boxer trouble, which were severe blows. For if one nation breaks the peace all the others try to restore it and to minimize the spoils of war. It is not that they are wanting in power or unequal to the task, or doubtful of their right and not desirous of our territory, nor that they shrink from hurting us; it is simply that they have large mercantile interests at stake in China which suffer directly and indirectly from disturbance, so that war, while it may benefit one Power, hurts the rest. Thus our neutrality was sedulously kept in the recent war, Russia not daring to rouse general opposition by giving rein to her designs against us. \n\n(d) The keeping of internal peace. In time of weakness rebels take the chance to rise and hope for foreign aid. Powerful neighbours are prone to play the fishermen's part when he found oyster and bird at loggerheads, and rebels hope thus to secure asylum in case of failure and are thus encouraged to risk all on one throw—as history shows in case of Pu-Ku Huai-en's inviting the Turfan, Li Ch'uan's dealings with the Mongols. Nowadays, however, the greatness of their stake, public and private, in China and the damage to trade caused by prolonged rebellion incline foreign nations to side with Government, as when Taiping's rebels threatened Shanghae, and the French and British, though at war with us, came to our aid with men-of-war and troops, and their General died in attack on Soochow. So foreign capital invested secures foreign aid against rebels and keeps off rebellions. \n\nNevertheless, gain and loss are constantly intermingled, and the greatest gain implies extraordinary hurt, so that if one looks only on the advantageous side one is apt to awake too late to its disastrous concomitant. It is possible, however, to take precautions, and in the present case the evils are four—namely, loss of control of profit, which affects the State; loss of livelihood, which affects the people; daily drain abroad of gold and silver, which affects the prices; opening of strategic points as marts, which makes the country defenceless. These four evils are especially obvious, and the writer will take them up generally in order to warn his brethren. \n\nAs to the first two, the old reliance on agriculture is now changed to reliance on trade, so manufacturing is the source of profit, mining its means; railways and steam-ships also are the medium for interchange of resources. On commercial interests depend livelihood and control. Formerly, foreign trade meant merely shipping of goods, and those who brought wealth for business in China confined themselves to importing and exporting, the import of machinery for industrial purposes being forbidden as prejudicial to sale of native produce. The Treaty of Shimonoseki opened the door for all to establish factories in China to the vast detriment of our people's livelihood. Piece-goods, provisions, utensils, drugs, all the needs of daily life, which used to be the main means of subsistence and profit to our people, daily decline in demand, and the employment of Chinese workmen by the foreign houses is quite inadequate compensation; besides which, such employés are treated with the utmost harshness. \n\nOur tameness under such treatment is due simply to pressure of poverty. \n\nAs to gold, silver, coal, and iron mines, our country is fuller of rich ones than any other, but the control of those opened and proved has passed to foreigners, e.g., in Manchuria to Russia, in Shantung to Germany, in Szechuan to England, in Kuan Hsien, Chien Wei, Wei Yuan, Chichiang, Hochou, and Chungking to France, in Shansi, Honan, and Anhui to England, in Hsuan-cheng to Japan, in Chehkiang to Italy, in Kueichou and Fukien to France. The capital runs to millions or tens of millions, but the benefits are manipulated by outsiders. As to railway construction, it needs still vaster capital, but is still more beneficial. But outsiders know our insufficiency of means and of arts, so they pour in capital to wrest away our rights and grasp our railway administration. By their string of Agreements, the Eastern, Port Arthur-Dalny, Chengting-Taiyuan fell to Russia, the Yunnan-Tonquin, Kueilin-Tonquin, Pakhoi to France, Kiaochow-Chinan to Germany, Shansi-Honan, Shanhaikuan-Newchwang, Shanghae-Nanking, Soochow-Ningpo-Hangchow, Nanking-Chehkiang, Canton-Kowloon, Yunnan-Szechuan, to England, Lu-han to Belgium, Yueh-han to England and America, Tientsin-Chinkiang to England and Germany. Even though in Railway and Mining Agreements the rule was to have chiefly Chinese shareholders, the control and management to be Chinese, or, if a term of years for redemption were fixed, the real grip would remain foreign, and Chinese, on the plea of inexperience or obstructiveness, would be put aside, however great their subscriptions. A greater danger is the incalculable disaster that would follow a casus belli, while, as to the term for resumption, plenty of excuses for extending it would always be trumped up. Happily, of late, men of spirit have come forward to collect capital and dispute foreign claims; but our Government, alas! considers its action fettered by the existence of the Agreements. \n\nAs to other points, the vast steam traffic on inner waters has long been accepted without objection. But our rights slip away; subsistence becomes very hard from day to day. \n\nAlas! the Shimonoseki Treaty meant growth of foreign industries; the Secret Treaty with Russia encouraged foreign aggression; the Lu-Han Agreement opened the way for foreign capitalists' designs on our financial control; with the Boxer Treaty foreigners openly attacked our rights. Unless a remedy is found loss of rights will be followed by exhaustion of wealth, and that by extinction of the State, which nowadays means most cruel treatment of the people and the jeopardy of their race. Under these circumstances leaders of society should encourage to the utmost any who at the risk of their lives would struggle to recover our lost rights, and extend the people's dying means of livelihood to the vast benefit of our millions and the eternal foundation of our Government. To look on as they do with hands in their sleeves on plea of strong precedents is to promote outsiders' evil greed, to nip in the bud our people's patriotism, and simply amounts to letting our rights and our livelihood be engrossed by foreign capitalists. \n\nWhat is meant by the daily drain abroad of the precious metals raising prices and the establishment of ports at strategic points sapping our defence? Since trade was opened the foreigners have constantly poured in their products, e.g., opium, yarn, and rice, in exchange for our gold and silver, while with their imported gold and silver they have bought cheaply our products for export abroad, whence they return transmogrified to do us out of our wealth and rob us of our livelihood. The Chinese are naturally fond of novelty, and foreign nice-looking novelties are eagerly bought, and when the shoddy nature of one sort is found out, they are ready to alter them into something and under another name, which Chinese rush to buy, to foreigners' vast gain. Any attempt to put our goods on foreign markets is obstructed in every way and our goods imitated, as in the case of imitation of our former staples, tea and silk, and the press campaign against their use, all with the object of making our traders lose their money. Thus gold and silver drain abroad and the price of silver rises, entailing higher prices for goods and growing difficulty for Chinese in keeping themselves in necessaries, while the increased influx of foreign capital intensifies our people's difficulties. \n\nAs to the last point, nowadays seaboard defence is more vital than inland, and the danger is not from the tribes on our north-west, but from oversea Powers; so our south-east coast and the Yang-tsze Valley are the chief strategic areas. The centres of trade and wealth are the arteries of the State. International help began with the Dutch help against Koxinga, and the English also traded at Amoy, &c., before the opium dispute led to the loss of Hong Kong, a big indemnity, and the opening of five ports. France and America claimed equal treatment, and oversea trade on the southern waters started. In 1858 France and England took advantage of the Taiping Rebellion to declare war, and raided Tien-tsin and Peking; Prince Kung was intrusted with Treaty-making, and new ports included three on the Yang-tsze. So it went on, more ports and more nations being added, until all our strong places are squatted on, and men-of-war are sent to them nominally to protect, but really to bully, as the Kiaochow, Port Arthur, Wei-hai Wei cases proved, until China is stripped of her dependencies and ... \n\nPage 562",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nThis state of affairs is by no means unusual in provinces watered by the Yellow River, which has an evil name for inflicting sorrows on the human race. Famines may be said to be seldom absent from its sphere of influence. Floods and ...\n\nIt therefore follows that, this almost normal condition being well known, advantage will be taken of the credulous, who are willing to subscribe to any fund having the title of \"Relief.\" I therefore approach the subject with caution, and shall only deal with the effect of the famine on the riverine population between Kiukiang and Nanking.\n\nAbove Nanking there are no signs of any distress, nor of any refugees, either in the country or in the towns. On the contrary, there is an abundance of cheap food, which could be bought at moderate prices if any organized system for famine relief were adopted by the authorities. A person named Li, a son of the late Li Hung-chang is said to have made a corner of wheat in Wuhu.\n\nThe Governor of Anhui informed me that his province was very little affected, and the river not at all. At Nanking a different state of affairs exists. Here there are certainly 15,000 refugees, who have come down the Grand Canal and other waterways, and who have been placed in refuge camps close to the gates of the city. These poor people are almost destitute of clothing, and are very short of provisions.\n\nThere are many women and children among them, and also, it is estimated, many normally destitute people, who have traded on such situations since they were born. The mortality is not yet great, but will become so with the advent of wet weather and a colder temperature. When these two conditions shall prevail, the weak, the aged, and the children will die in hundreds.\n\nThe great majority of the adults are willing and anxious to work, but the authorities do not move in the matter, nor make use of the abundance of cheap labour at their disposal. The attitude of the officials towards the situation is somewhat as follows:- There is not sufficient money available for feeding the refugees; therefore deaths must occur. There is no money absolutely available for creating famine relief works; and why should any official incur the risk of debt for a philanthropical object?\n\nThe ever-interfering foreigner has offered to send missionaries among the refugees, to select the cases most deserving of relief, and to relieve those cases only, the funds being insufficient for relieving all, but if the hair of the head of one of these interfering foreigners is injured, the official will be answerable to a higher authority, and may lose his own head. They therefore contend that the distribution of only partial relief would be an aggravation of the situation, and would be sure to produce trouble.\n\nThis may seem to be a purely obstructive policy, but it is not so in reality, for the Chinese system of government is based on the personal responsibility of each official for the affairs under his control. Therefore, it is fair to admit the justice of the official view, seeing that Chinese system of government is as described. Yet one more circumstance contributes to the official dislike of allowing foreigners to send representatives to distribute relief among the few. This is that the official would be deprived of his squeeze. This squeeze is his just (Chinese) due. From a Chinese point of view, it is unjust to attempt to deprive him of it.\n\nHence the deadlock, which must, alas, continue, unless the funds assume sufficient dimensions to meet the requirements of all the destitute, in addition to a sufficient margin for covering the squeeze, imposed on the fund by the officials when the money shall have passed through their hands. China being such as it is, it is useless for foreigners to interfere by offering money for benevolent purposes unless the charity of the donors is so great as to reconcile them to the fact that a large percentage of their offerings has been absorbed to pay the officials of China.\n\n**BERNARD L. MAJENDIE.**\n\n(Signed)\n\n## 3\n\n### Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n**Lieutenant-Commander West to Vice-Admiral Sir A. Moore.**\n\n\"Thistle,\" at Chinkiang, December 31, 1906.\n\nIN accordance with your **Confidential Memorandum**, I have the honour to report the following:\n\nChinkiang.-The great question here is that of the famine, which after going into as closely as possible, seems to be greatly exaggerated by the American missionaries, who are booming it for all they are worth in America and Shanghae. The various accounts in the Shanghae papers of the great distress are written by them, and they boast that they will get at least 50,000 gold dollars from the United States for the relief fund.\n\nIt is true that the famine this year is greater than that of most years, but the local authorities seem perfectly able to cope with it at present. It seems to be encouraging the Chinese to exaggerate their troubles by foreigners getting up relief in the shape of subscriptions, a considerable sum of which is wasted in filtering through to the right quarters.\n\nI have estimated that an outside total of 2,000,000 people will be in want of relief till the beginning of April. The Customs authorities have raised a subscription and pay 300 dollars per month, which is sent out in the form of rice and flour to the women and children only. The railway employs many and flour is almost daily sent up the Great Canal to Chinkiang Pu and the other famine districts.\n\nIn Chinkiang at the present time, there are roughly about 10,000 refugees living near the railway and outside the city walls in reed huts. I understand that every year considerable numbers of people (perhaps an average of about 2,000 or 3,000) come south by the Grand Canal for relief in the shape of work, food, &c., only to go back in the early spring.\n\nThe American gun-boat \"Quiros,\" is stationed at Chinkiang specially for the purpose of inquiry into the famine question, the Commanding Officer Lieutenant and Commander Bisset and myself quite agree that the state of affairs is nothing like so bad as it is made out to be. I have been greatly assisted by Mr. G. B. Tours, His Majesty's Consul, who has shown me several letters from the missionaries situated in the famine districts who nearly all say the same thing as regards the exaggeration.\n\nI have also discussed the state of affairs with Père Chevalier, the head of the Roman Catholic Mission, Mr. Walker, of the China Inland Mission, and Mr. Paxton, one of the American missionaries. The river is falling rapidly and it is quite the practice for the river steamers to ground on their way to and from Hankow.\n\nThe railway to Nanking is progressing very slowly and it will be some considerable time yet before it is complete, in spite of the optimistic views of the promoters and officials connected with the scheme.\n\nNanking. I interviewed the Consul, Mr. W. P. Ker, with reference to calling on the new Viceroy Tuan Fang, with the result that his Excellency said that it would be convenient for him to receive the call on the next visit of the ship to Nanking, so I hope to make his acquaintance shortly.\n\nThe new Viceroy is apparently very progressive and has already instituted several new customs. He has ordered that no official business shall be done on Sunday, following that new custom in Peking, whereby Sunday is declared a day of rest. He has a son, Mr. Toero, who has been partly educated in America, and who speaks English with an American accent. This son, I understand, will shortly enter the Chinese navy.\n\nThere are several thousand refugees from the famine stricken districts, living in reed huts, south of the city, who are fed by the local authorities. Owing to the revolt in Kiangsi, over 2,000 rebels being in arms, the Viceroy dispatched 3,000 troops consisting of artillery, cavalry, and infantry to Wuchang.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) **R. M. N. WEST.**\n\n## 565",
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        "content_text": "**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]**\n\n**C. O.**\n**AFFAIRS OF CHINA.**\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[9437]\nNo. 1.\n12538\nMarch 23.\n\n**(SECTION RECEIVED 10 APR 07)**\n\n**(No. 72. Sir, Confidential.)**\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 23.)\n\nREFERRING to my telegram No. 21 of the 31st ultimo, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a further Decree censuring in still more severe and menacing terms His Excellency Tong Shao-yi for the appointment of two officials to the Board of Communications. The Memorial which elicited this Edict, and of which a copy is inclosed, was presented by a person of no importance, but the virulence of its tone, and the fact that both it and the Decree have received publicity in the \"Peking Gazette,\" show clearly that a determined onset is being made upon Tong Ta-jen, whose retention in office here seems to be almost impossible under the circumstances.\n\nThe origin of the struggle which is now going on between the progressives and the reactionaries is partly of a personal nature, and dates back, I understand, to the settlement of the Nan Chang massacre. That settlement, for which the Viceroy Yuan and Tong Ta-jen were supposed to be responsible, involved the sacrifice of the provincial Judge of Kiangsi, a Hunan man and a personal friend of the Grand Secretary Ch'ü Hung-ch'i. The Shanghae riot of December last had resulted in the downfall of the Taotai, another prominent Hunan man, for whom the Grand Secretary professes a warm regard, and this second concession to foreigners at the expense of their province stimulated the Hunanese officials, who are clannish by instinct, to active resistance. They obtained the support of the conservative Viceroy of the province, the aged Chang Chih-tung, and it was one of his lieutenants, Liang Ting-fen, who made the first attack upon Tong Ta-jen, and inspired the movement which aimed at the revival of education upon Confucian principles, in opposition to the Western learning, of which the Viceroy Yuan and Tong Ta-jen have stood forth as the prominent advocates.\n\nTong Ta-jen and the Grand Secretary Ch'u are extreme types of the parties to which they respectively belong, and a study of the two men's characters will serve to indicate the line of cleavage which now divides Chinese politicians. Tong belongs to a middle-class Cantonese family, which has long been identified with foreign trade, and has all the independence of character and practical business capacity which characterize the people of the southern city. He received his early education in the United States, and returned to find, like many others, that the Government which had sent him there showed little disposition to utilize his services.\n\nAfter serving for some time in a subordinate position in the Customs, he joined the staff of Yuan Shih-kai, then Chinese Resident in Seoul, and had for years a large share in moulding the policy which ended so disastrously for China in 1894. Since then he has served under his old patron, now Viceroy of Chihli, as Customs Taotai at Tien-tsin, and about two years ago came to Peking as a member of the Wai-wu Pu to promote the forward policy of the Viceroy and the progressive party generally.\n\nIn May last he came into sharp collision with us through his hasty and ill-considered action with regard to the customs, in which he gave an instance of the defects of his qualities. Masterful and optimistic by nature and notable temperament, he is too apt to underrate difficulties and make light of consequences. In the opium question, in which his sincerity is beyond all doubt, he has always shown a supreme disregard of financial considerations, and declined to recognize the immensity of the task on which the Government is embarking.\n\nThat a man of this stamp should sit at the same Board as the colleague of a pedant, like the Grand Secretary Ch'ü, shows the cross currents which influence Chinese policy, and which result in inevitable friction. Ch'ü was brought up in the ultra-Conservative atmosphere of Hunan, passed with distinction through all the stages of the old educational curriculum until he obtained the highest degree, and has since spent his whole official life in the seclusion of Peking. He attended the Empress with assiduous devotion during the flight to Hsi-an after the Boxer troubles, and has since held a privileged position at Court.\n\nPeking, February 5, 1907.\n\n[2418 z-1]",
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        "content_text": "572 \n\n2 \n\nTong meets the foreign diplomat on his own ground, points his arguments by illustrations drawn from foreign countries, and in Treaty port questions especially shows a knowledge, based upon personal experience, which is often rather embarrassing. After Tong has finished his argument, the effect is not infrequently spoiled by the intervention of his colleague, who prides himself on being \"a plain, honest man,\" with no special qualifications for his post. His manner of treating international questions is that of the Chinese statesman of half-a-century ago. \n\nHe scarcely disguises his belief that Treaties do not apply to Hunan, and in a question like the opening of the capital, Ch'ang-sha, he thinks it sufficient to say that the place is far too small to permit of the indiscriminate residence of foreigners. If you venture to doubt it, he invites you to pay his native city a visit and convince yourself by the evidence of your own eyesight. \n\nSuch are the two men who are the protagonists in the struggle that is now attracting the attention of the Empire, and for the moment the forces of reaction are decidedly in the ascendant. \n\nI have, &c. \n\n(Translation.) \n\n(Signed) \n## J. N. JORDAN \n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1. \n\n**Extract from the \"Peking Gazette\"** \n\n**Imperial Decree, dated January 30, 1907** \n\nWHEREAS Ma Chi Chang, a sub-reader of the Hanlin College, has presented a Memorial impeaching a high official, let Ch'en Shao Chang, Chief Secretary, and Shih Chao Chi, Councillor of the Board of Communications, who have disappointed public expectation, vacate their posts. Tang Shao Yi, by introducing such men for employment as Chief Secretary and Councillor, has attracted much criticism. Let the above-named Vice-President tremblingly obey our former Edict, and carefully carry out the duties intrusted to him with zeal and energy. If he should again show himself self-opinionated he certainly will not be dealt with leniently. \n\nAs for the posts of Chief Secretary and Councillor in that Board, let the Ministers of the Board carefully select suitable officers and submit their names to the Throne. \n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1. \n\n**Extract from the \"Peking Gazette\" February 1, 1907** \n\n**Memorial of Ma Chi Chang, a Reader of the Imperial Hanlin College and Expositor of Literature, to His Majesty the Emperor, dated January 30, 1907** \n\n(Translation.) \n\n**A HUMBLE Memorial, impeaching a high official for monopolizing powers, accepting bribes, forming a clique among his friends, and planning for his personal advantage** \n\nYour Memorialist has read the Decree of the 13th January censuring the President and Vice-President of the Board of Communications, which showed that it is the intention of your Imperial Majesty to purify the circles of officialdom by leniency, if possible, or by severity if needs be. All your officers and people are filled with profound respect for such a course. But, from what your Memorialist has heard recently, the Vice-President of the Board of Communications, Tang Shao Yi, is an exception to this rule. \n\nWhen the appointment of Chief Secretaries and Councillors to the Board was being considered Tang Shao Yi, who never possessed any considerable degree of Chinese education, employed a fellow provincial of his to draw up a Memorial for him, and only on the day before this was to be presented did he inform Chang Po Hsi that he would have to join in presenting it to the Throne. \n\n* A native of Honan, Metropolitan graduate (Chin Shih) of the year 1880. \n\n3 \n\nWhen the Decree of Censure was issued commanding them to decide upon retaining or dismissing their Chief Secretaries and Councillors, I hear that Chang Po Hsi was fully conscious of his error, and ashamed; but that Tang Shao Yi was only afraid of having to get rid of his henchmen, which would involve refunding the bribes he had taken from them, and expose his whole position. Such a contemptuous view as this of the Chinese Government and such self-seeking obstinacy leave us at a loss to fully imagine the conditions to which the affairs of that Board have come. \n\nNow Tang Shao Yi was originally a penniless Cantonese who travelled abroad and picked up a certain knowledge of foreign languages. Starting as a petty official, he raised himself by protection to the rank of Tantai. He received repeated evidences of Imperial favour, until he finally reached his present standing. He should indeed have cleansed his heart of evil thoughts and have made every endeavour to prove himself worthy of such gracious confidence. Yet, since his appointment as Vice-President to the Board of Communications, the Chief Secretaries and Councillors employed by him have been his fellow provincials, relations, or connections, who got their posts by bribes. Even the officials transferred from other appointments to his Board had to arrange their transfers by bribery. It is no wonder that the public began to call the Board of Communications the \"Joint Stock Company\" and \"the Cantonese Club.\" \n\nHis nominee for one of the posts of Chief Secretary, Ch'en Shao Ch'ang, is one of his fellow provincials, and an old boon companion in dissolute amusements. \n\nThis man accompanied the subsequently cashiered Minister, Chang Yin Huan, to foreign countries, and was afterwards nominated Taotai to the Province of Kuangsi. But as he feared the severe supervision of the Viceroy Ts'en, he made a pretext for coming to Peking at the time when Tang Shao Yi was Customs Taotai at Tien-tsin. Ch'en, by various devices and after much beseeching, then got himself transferred to the Pei Yang establishment. While in Tien-tsin his name was a by-word for debauchery and intemperance, and owing to the proximity of Tien-tsin to the capital every one here heard of this. \n\nThe Acting Junior Councillor, Shih Chao Chi, is merely a recently graduated student from abroad, who bought himself a Taotai's rank a few months ago. What experience can he possess of official affairs and conduct? Yet Tang Shao Yi, because Shih is his nephew by marriage, deceived your Majesty in recommending him to this post. \n\nBut this is not all. As soon as Tang Shao Yi took over the Director-Generalship of Railways he removed the superintendents on the north and south sections of the line, and appointed in their place Shih Chao-Chi as Chief Superintendent over the whole railway. The whole staff and the finances thus were placed in the hands of Shih; from appointing the personnel to inspecting the tickets thus depended upon this one man. The employés on the trains mostly got their posts by bribery, and Shih became a man to look upon askance, with fear and trembling. \n\nNow, railways are one of the most important elements in the reforms of your Majesty's Government. The Peking-Hankow Railway is the most important of Chinese trunk lines. The newly established Board of Communications was intended to foster progress. But if this Vice-President, in his arrogance, and with his lust for monopolizing control, is to take the most important interests of the State under his own wing, for the purpose of hatching out results beneficial to himself and the friends with whom he has surrounded himself for treasonable purposes, the consequences will not be slight. \n\nFurthermore, your memorialist would be inexpressibly distressed to think that the State sets up officials for the sake of, as it were, expressly providing them with a means of making careful provision for their relations and connections, and for looking after their own personal advantage. \n\nTang Shao Yi, Vice-President of the Board of Communications, has proved himself ungrateful for your Majesty's gracious treatment. He has raised a storm of criticism by his behaviour. Ch'en Shao Ch'ang and Shih Chao-Chi have been relying upon him in their scheme for self-advancement. It is absolutely impossible that they should be regarded as fit for office. But it rests with your Majesty to say what severe measures should be taken. Your memorialist is only actuated by a desire to aid your policy, and having heard these things could not remain silent and hold his peace. \n\n**A respectful Memorial** \n\n**Rescript.-Read**",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n### Wai-wu Pu to Sir J. Jordan\nJanuary 21, 1907\n\nWE have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter informing us of the intention of Mr. Reid, engineer-in-chief of the Peking Syndicate, to proceed to Pingtingchow for a few days for the purpose of collecting specimens of the coal, iron ore, and limestone of the district for examination and analysis in London.\n\nAs the Board informed you in a note of the 10th January, the Governor of Shansi is unable to issue the permit applied for by the Peking Syndicate to open mines in that locality. Should the Syndicate send their engineer-in-chief to Pingtingchow to collect specimens of coal, iron ore, and limestone, it is certain to give rise to misunderstandings among the people of the locality which will be difficult to allay.\n\nWe trust, therefore, that your Excellency will instruct Mr. Reid not to proceed.\n\nWe avail, &c.\n\n## Inclosure 5 in No. 1\n### Mr. G. Brown to Sir J. Jordan\n\nTien-tsin, January 28, 1907\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Excellency's letter of the 26th instant regarding the claim of 200l. a-day from the 1st January, 1907, lodged with the Wai-wu Pu by your Excellency, under instructions from His Majesty's Government on behalf of the Peking Syndicate as damages for the refusal of the Governor of Shansi to issue a coal-mining permit to the Syndicate according to the Agreement of 1898, and I beg leave to tender the acknowledgments of the Syndicate to your Excellency for the clear presentation of the Syndicate's case and the refutation of the arguments advanced against it, as well as for the renewed intimation to the Wai-wu Pu that continued delay will entail a periodical increase of the amount set down for compensation.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) GEORGE BROWN, Agent-General.\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1\n### Mr. G. Brown to Sir J. Jordan\n\nTien-tsin, January 23, 1907\n\nALL my information still points to the fact that the chief opponent of the Syndicate's rights in Shansi is his Excellency Ting Niehtai (acting Fantai), who is endeavouring to obtain coal-mining machinery from any firm in Tien-tsin that can be got to supply it, using as one of his agents Mr. McCoy, son-in-law of the Rev. A. Sowerby, of Taiyuanfu, the latter being, as your Excellency will remember, the keen intermediary of his Excellency Ting in the preliminary negotiations commencing last November for a conference which the latter professed to be anxious to have with me, but which I am firmly convinced was merely a pretext to create further delay.\n\nThis Mr. McCoy was formerly in the employ of Messrs. Buchheister and Co., of Tien-tsin, but resided at Taiyuanfu, where he arranged various deals in machinery with his Excellency Ting Niehtai. A British member of another Tien-tsin firm called on me recently and informed me that he had been approached by a Chinese gentleman named Cheng Yu, of the Shansi Educational Board, on behalf of his Excellency Ting, whose name was also endorsed on the card produced to me, for the purchase of machinery to be used in the Syndicate's Pingtingchow area. The British gentleman, who is intimately connected with mining ventures in North China, and well acquainted with the places set apart in the Agreement of 1898 for the Syndicate's operations, refused, so he said, to have anything to do with the matter unless his Excellency Ting could put down in advance 200,000 taels, the probable cost of the machinery required, a condition which was not complied with. From the same source I also learnt that a pump and boiler supplied by Messrs. Buchheister and Co. had lately gone up to Pingtan, in Pingtingchow, under the charge of a German operator, for a shaft within the limits of the Syndicate's permit area as defined in the application of November 1905. My informant had himself seen it on the way.\n\nI need not point out to your Excellency that such a proceeding is in distinct antagonism to the assurance given me at the Wai-wu Pu by his Excellency Tong Shao-yi that no foreign machinery or capital other than the Syndicate's should be employed and that reports of attempted dealings in that direction with foreign firms in Tien-tsin were baseless.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) GEORGE BROWN, Agent-General.\n\n## Inclosure 6 in No. 1\n### Mr. G. Brown to Sir J. Jordan\n\nTien-tsin, January 29, 1907\n\nWITH reference to the concluding paragraph of your Excellency's letter of the 26th instant, informing me that the Wai-wu Pu took exception to Mr. Reid's proposed visit to Pingtingchow, I would point out that there would seem to be a misapprehension of the nature of Mr. Reid's mission, which the Wai-wu Pu erroneously connect with the application for a permit to open mines in the district—altogether another question.\n\nMy communications to your Excellency of the 18th December and 8th instant referred solely to the Agreement for smelting works in Shansi of the 3rd July, 1905, by which instrument the Chinese Government became, on certain well-defined terms, a co-partner with the Syndicate in this undertaking. The Syndicate is anxious that this Agreement should be carried out at once and is prepared to fulfil its part. It is absolutely necessary as a preliminary that specimens of the coal, iron ore, and limestone should be submitted to analysis in London, and it is advisable that such samples should be collected by an expert, who could at the same time point out the most advantageous site for the works with due regard to the location of the most suitable minerals and the vicinity of the railway.\n\nI hesitate to interpret the Wai-wu Pu's letter to your Excellency as an admission that, in a simple, unobjectionable, and temporary proceeding of this nature, the Chinese Government, which itself has a proprietary share in the enterprise, is powerless to control a section of its subjects, and therefore cannot afford the necessary authority and protection in fulfilment of its obligations, especially in a district now closely linked to Peking by the Cheng-tai line.\n\nAt my interview with your Excellency on the 24th instant, I received the impression that Mr. Reid's journey, if unobtrusively carried out, need not be indefinitely postponed. My information from Mr. Stewart at Pingtan, who has also been written to on the subject by the local Magistrate under telegraphic orders from the Governor (copies and translations inclosed herewith), is that, although a modified boycott of his establishment still continues, the neighbourhood is otherwise peaceful, and he does not anticipate any trouble for Mr. Reid during the latter's short visit. I may mention that Mr. Reid expects to leave for England very soon, and it is important that he should take the mineral samples with him.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) GEORGE BROWN, Agent-General.\n\n[2418 -6] \nB 2 \n608",
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        "content_text": "## [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government \n\n619 \n\n2 \n\nfrom the gentry of Hupei. He was not disposed to memorialize on the subject, however, without an intimation from the Central Government that a loan would be authorized.\n\nAs the result of our interview with your Excellencies, we understand that the Board of Communications is prepared to support the construction of provincial railways in general, and the above-mentioned lines in particular, provided that loans can be negotiated under conditions acceptable to the Chinese Government, and conforming to the views of the provincial authorities concerned; and we further understand that your Excellencies are prepared to convey to his Excellency Chang Chih-tung an intimation in this sense.\n\nRegarding the present condition of the money market and the high-standing of China's credit as favourable to the successful inception of railway undertakings under guarantee of the Imperial Government, we have the honour to submit, for your Excellencies' consideration, our suggestion that the provinces which are now considering the construction of railways, and particularly Hupei, be notified that any proposals emanating from the provincial authorities or bureaus, for authority to borrow foreign capital for these enterprises, under conditions acceptable to the Chinese Government, will be supported by the Board of Communications. We venture the opinion that if this is done the present unsatisfactory condition of railway undertakings in several provinces will speedily be remedied and the desired means of communication economically introduced to the immediate benefit of the Central Government and the provinces alike.\n\nIn conclusion, we have the honour to state that so soon as the necessary authority for negotiations has been given, the Companies which we represent are prepared to offer liberal terms for the financing and construction of such lines as may be approved by the Board of Communications and the Imperial Government.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\n(Signed) **BLAND AND CASENAVE**.\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**.\n\n[9739]\n\n## No. 1.\n\n### War Office to Foreign Office.-(Received March 25.)\n\nSir,\n\n13726 \n\n[March 2.]\n\n| Date | Document Reference |\n| --- | --- |\n| 19 APP 07 | War Office, March 22, 1907. |\n\nI am commanded by the Army Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th instant, inclosing a copy of a map of the Swatow district showing the trace of the Swatow-Chao-chou Fu Railway.\n\n2. A copy of Lieutenant-Colonel Pereira's Report on that railway has been received from the General Officer Commanding the Troops in South China, and, in accordance with your request, I am to forward herewith two copies of it for the information of Sir Edward Grey.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) **E. W. D. WARD**.\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1.\n\n#### Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Pereira respecting the Swatow Railway.\n\nThe Ch'ao-shan (Ch'ao-chou Fu-Swatow) Railway was formally opened on the 28th November, 1906. The line, the Commissioner of Customs told me, is 24 miles long. Including sidings it is 30 miles of rail. It is intended to prolong the line at either end from the Swatow terminus past the city down to the harbour on the east side of the city, where a jetty will be built, and from the Ch'ao-chou Fu terminus to I-khoe (in Mandarin, \"I-chi\") on the Han River, the latter an extension of 24 miles.\n\nIt is hoped that the freight will then be diverted from the Han River to the railway, but as the railway charges will be higher than by boat, this is hardly likely to succeed.\n\nI travelled over the line on the 19th December, 1906. Three trains run each way daily, leaving Swatow at 7 A.M., 11 A.M., and 3 P.M. respectively, and returning from Ch'ao-chou Fu at 9 A.M., at 1 P.M., and at 5 P.M. The journey each way takes eighty-four minutes; my train was two minutes late starting and twelve minutes late arriving, whilst on the return journey it started three minutes before time, and arrived about five minutes late. It is said that the administration of the railway is well organized, and that trains are punctual.\n\nThe Swatow terminus is about 1 mile from the harbour. To reach it, it is necessary to go through the native city, cross a stone bridge over a branch of the Han River about 30 yards wide, and take a ferry over a second branch about 50 yards wide. The railway station is about 100 yards from the ferry.\n\nThe Han River, which unites into one stream, passing Chao-chou Fu, breaks up into two channels just below that city, and later on splits up into many branches, forming a delta in the plain around Swatow.\n\nThe railway runs across this very fertile plain, mostly given up to paddy fields, and cut by many small streams and ponds. These streams and ponds are especially numerous around the Swatow terminus. Villages are very plentiful on the plain, and a local missionary estimated that it is the most thickly populated part of the province he has seen. Trees are plentiful owing to the number of villages, especially on approaching Ch'ao-chou Fu; perhaps the banyan and cotton trees are most common, whilst in places there are orange groves. There is also a good deal of bamboo. A good deal of sugar-cane is grown.\n\nRocky hills 600 feet to 1,000 feet high begin beyond Am-pou, and continue 20 or 3 miles to the left (west and north) of the line nearly all the way, opening out for a short way beyond Phu-ien station. There are also hills some 5 miles to the east of Am-pou, which, however, soon recede.\n\n[2421. bb-1]",
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        "content_text": "## The first intimation I had of the rising was on the 29th November...\n\nThe first intimation I had of the rising was on the 29th November, when it was reported to me that a small body of troops had been sent from Changsha to suppress some trouble on the borders of Hunan and Kiangsi, in the three districts of Lin-yang, Li-ling, and Ping-hsiang. No importance was, however, attached to the movement; in fact, it was stated that the ringleader had already been arrested and was to be beheaded. On the 6th December further rumours reached me; and on the following day I received a letter from the Foreign Bureau asking me, in view of the disturbed state of affairs in the Lin-yang and the Li-ling districts, to direct British subjects not to travel there for the present, and informing me that the German community at Ping-hsiang, as well as the foreign Manager of the Ping-hsiang-Chu-chou Railway, with his wife and family, who resided at Li-ling, were being brought down to Changsha until all danger was over. When they arrived in Changsha, on the 8th December, I inquired of Mr. Leinung, the chief mining engineer at Ping-hsiang, as to the state of affairs; but he informed me that everything was absolutely quiet, and that they had seen no trace of any rebels, but that they had come away in deference to the wishes of the Chinese authorities, and hoped to be able to return in a few days. He added that work was proceeding as usual at the collieries, and that neither the railway nor the telegraph lines had been interrupted.\n\n## On the 10th December fuller details about the rising came to hand.\n\nOn the 10th December fuller details about the rising came to hand. I was informed that the rebels, who called themselves the Ko-ming Chun, numbered several thousands; that they were well armed with rifles, and were distinguished by the white uniforms they wore. The number of troops at the front being insufficient, and the rebels gaining ground daily, I learnt that the Governor had dispatched an additional 1,000 men.\n\n## Refugees began to arrive from Liu-yang...\n\nOn the following day, the 11th December, refugees in large numbers began to arrive from Liu-yang, some 45 miles distant, who stated that the rebels had occupied that city and that all the inhabitants had fled. It was also said that the rebels, who displayed banners bearing the legend, \"Expel the dynasty and exterminate the foreigners!\" were about to march on Changsha. A state of something like panic began to prevail, and a large proportion of the population began to make hurried arrangements for flight. I lost no time in seeing the Japanese Consul, to consult with him as to the steps it might be advisable to take in the interests of the foreign community; and we paid a joint call on the Head of the Military Bureau, Taotai Yü Ming-i, to ascertain from him the true state of affairs. He informed us that, although the rebels had not yet occupied Liu-yang, they were encamped just opposite, on the other side of the river, but that the city itself was in the occupation of the troops, who were being reinforced with the utmost possible dispatch. He added that his chief apprehension was that the rebels might capture Liu-yang, after which they could march on Changsha without meeting with much opposition, or else that they might make a detour to avoid Liu-yang, and march on Changsha direct. He said, however, that he was dispatching a body of troops to occupy a strategical point on the road from Lin-yang to Changsha, whereby he hoped to check their advance; and that, in the meantime, other troops would be sent to Li-ling by rail, whence they would take the rebels in the rear, while the Kiangsi troops would co-operate on their side in the Ping-hsiang district. Yü Taotai went on to say that he himself was proceeding on the following day to Liu-yang, as the most convenient spot whence to direct the operations. The town, he said, was utterly deserted by the inhabitants, those who could afford to do so having escaped to Changsha, while the bulk of the population had fled to the hills, where they were at present in hiding.\n\n## The general plan of campaign...\n\nThe general plan of campaign seemed to be to surround the rebels on three sides, hemming them in ever closer, and thus preventing the rising from spreading to the adjoining districts. The dispositions were not ill-conceived, and had the Hunanese troops been reasonably efficient no anxiety need have been felt as to the result. Unfortunately, apart from their inadequate training and discipline, the troops, unless in overwhelming numbers, could not be prevailed upon to meet the rebels in open fight, and had already on several occasions thrown away their arms and fled; besides which there is no doubt that a considerable proportion of them were in sympathy with the rebels, and were themselves members of Secret Societies. Yü Taotai evidently considered that the need for the arrival of the Hupei troops was urgent, and was making preparations to act more or less on the defensive until they came.\n\n## In response to a question put by me...\n\nIn response to a question put by me, he said that about 3,000 local troops, drawn from the Chang-pei Chun and the Hsin-fang Tui, as well as three machine-guns, had already been drafted to the front; while a regiment of Hupei troops with six mountain guns had already arrived at Yochow, and would be dispatched with the least possible delay viâ Siangtan to Chu-chou, and thence by rail to Li-ling.\n\n## To a further question...\n\nTo a further question he replied that some of the rebels had rifles, but that the bulk of them were armed with shot-guns or with jingals, and that in some cases they made use of hollowed-out tree-trunks as cannon. In fact, he evidently considered that the critical nature of the situation arose less from the preparations of the rebels than from the unreliability and the inefficiency of his own troops.\n\n## As to the number of the rebels...\n\nAs to the number of the rebels he could give me no definite information, but stated that those encamped opposite Liu-yang might number some 3,000; while there was another large body of them at Li-ling, and a number scattered about all over the country.\n\n## On the following day...\n\nOn the following day the Japanese Consul and I addressed a joint note to the Governor, asking him what measures he proposed to take to insure the safety of the foreigners in Changsha and elsewhere in the event of any serious disturbance. The Governor replied in general terms, but sent the Customs Taotai to see me on the 14th December. After we had discussed the necessary precautions, the Taotai informed me that two battles, near the cities of Li-ling and Liu-yang respectively, had been fought on the 12th December, in both of which the rebels had been defeated with considerable loss and compelled to retreat, having been driven back from Liu-yang a distance of some 40 li. He considered that these successes, coupled with the arrival of the Hupei troops, had relieved the tension of the situation, and that there was no further need for serious apprehension. I mentioned that it was rumoured that the rebels numbered some 30,000 or more, against whom were opposed only 4,000 or 5,000 troops. He admitted that the number of the rebels was very large, but said that they were scattered all over the three districts of Liu-yang, Li-ling, and Ping-hsiang, and that since the two battles mentioned above there were no large bodies of them anywhere. He also stated that many were now giving themselves up, the number of surrenders at Li-ling at the present moment amounting to about 100 a-day.\n\n## Since that date and the arrival in Changsha...\n\nSince that date and the arrival in Changsha of the regiment of Hupei troops, nearly the whole of which was immediately sent to the front, the state of affairs has steadily improved. The rebels got disheartened as soon as the tide began to turn against them, and the defections from their ranks grew more numerous daily. They endeavoured to make these defections good by sending out parties in all directions to induce recruits to join their standard. These parties went as far afield as Siangtan and Pao-ching-fu, and one of them appeared in the immediate vicinity of Changsha. These isolated attempts were, however, suppressed by the authorities without much difficulty.\n\n## The rebels are now mostly in hiding...\n\nThe rebels are now mostly in hiding in the hills between the Liu-yang and the Ping-chiang districts, their last appearance in large numbers having been in the latter half of December, when they made an irruption into the Ping-chiang district, which at first caused some alarm, and in consequence of which the two British missionaries residing there came in to Changsha for safety. These rebels, however, were merely a disorderly rabble, forming part of the main body which had been defeated by the troops at Liu-yang, who had made their way through the hills into the adjoining district. While still giving the authorities there a considerable amount of trouble, they are gradually being driven back to the hills, and must eventually disappear altogether. At the worst there is a second regiment of Hupei troops stationed at Yochow, ready to lend assistance in case of need.\n\n## Since the middle of December...\n\nSince the middle of December the history of the rising has practically been a tale of rebels killed in fight or captured and beheaded. No quarter is given, and the authorities have set themselves the task of exterminating them altogether, as far as possible. The German engineers and the manager of the railway returned to Ping-hsiang and Li-ling respectively in the first days of January. During the whole time they had been away, neither the railway nor the telegraph line between Ping-hsiang and Chu-chou had ever been interrupted, nor had work at the Ping-hsiang collieries ceased even for a day.\n\n## As regards the future...\n\nAs regards the future, the rising, though quelled for the time being, has by no means been definitely stamped out, and there seems to be every probability of a recrudescence of the troubles at the first favourable opportunity. The officials fully realize this, and are still prosecuting with the utmost vigour their search for the rebels, on the heads of the most important of whom prices of 1,000 taels and 500 taels have been set. Most of the leaders of the movement have, however, already made...\n\nPage 645",
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        "content_text": "their escape from Hunan, and it is very unlikely that their capture will be effected now.\n\n## State of Affairs at Changsha\n\nDuring the progress of the rebellion in Liu-yang, the state of affairs in Changsha itself afforded grounds for no little uneasiness. The city was denuded of troops, nearly all of whom had been sent to the front; while those of the soldiery who remained were largely disaffected, and, as usual, counted a number of Secret Society men in their ranks. Besides these, there were a number of revolutionaries, students and others, hiding in the city, who were ready to create a disturbance and make common cause with the rebels at the first favourable opportunity. When subsequently the Hupei troops arrived and left again for Ti-ling, a detachment of them about 200-strong was left behind at Changsha to assist in protecting the city. Their presence, however, did not afford much additional sense of security. Outside the north gate, where their quarters were situated, their lawless behaviour caused universal exasperation. Daily cases of assault and robbery on their part roused the people in the northern suburb to a high pitch of excitement, and there was at one time some possibility of a riot in consequence.\n\nThe officials from first to last exercised the utmost vigilance, which has up till now not been relaxed, and which largely contributed to avert the possibility of a coup by the revolutionaries inside the city. Day and night the city was patrolled by guards of soldiers, and night after night the Governor and the Provincial Judge made the round of the streets in person. This vigilance was rewarded by the discovery, on more than one occasion, of large quantities of weapons and ammunition concealed by the revolutionaries; several conclaves of the Secret Societies were surprised, and a number of the members captured, all of whom were executed after the briefest possible trial.\n\nEven now, when the movement has for the present almost entirely subsided, the official spies are as active as ever; arrests of suspects take place daily, and very few of those arrested escape capital punishment. The authorities still apprehend a recrudescence of the rebellion, unless the most stringent measures are adopted to stamp out the Secret Societies, and in pursuance of this aim they have inaugurated a veritable reign of terror. No one who in the past has given the slightest cause for suspicion appears to be safe.\n\nOn the 11th December, when matters first began to look really serious in Changsha, I telegraphed details of the trouble to Hankow, and asked that a gun-boat might be sent up if the state of the water permitted. I informed the Customs Taotai of the step I had taken, pointing out that the presence of a British gun-boat would help to reassure the foreign community, and might possibly not be without its good effect on the general situation, wherein he cordially agreed with me.\n\nTwo days later I received a telegram from the Commander of His Majesty's ship \"Teal\" at Yochow, who seemed to doubt whether his ship could reach Changsha, but offered to send an armed party of bluejackets up in a junk. I replied asking him to do so, provided the water did not admit of the \"Teal\" herself coming up. However, on receipt of the more reassuring news from the Customs Taotai on the 14th December, I telegraphed again to say that for the present the party of bluejackets was not urgently required; and a few days later I was able to state that the situation was generally satisfactory and that there was no present cause for apprehension.\n\nBesides the \"Teal,\" there were also at Yochow the German gun-boat \"Vorwärts\" and the Japanese gun-boat \"Fushimi,\" standing by to render assistance; but all three left Yochow on hearing of the improved state of affairs.\n\n## Secret Societies in Hunan\n\nThe recent rebellion in Liu-yang and the adjacent districts seems to have been originally planned to form part of a general rising, which was to have taken place as far as possible simultaneously all over China, the aim being to expel the Manchu and to drive them and all other foreigners out of China. It might undoubtedly have proved to be one of the most serious movements the Chinese authorities have had to contend with of late years had it not been for the fact that it appears to have started prematurely before the preparations of the revolutionaries were complete throughout the Yang-tsze Valley.\n\nThe Secret Society which is responsible for the rising is the Tung-mêng Hui, which is merely the new name adopted to designate the amalgamation of the Ko-lao Hui and the San-ho Hui. The supreme head of the Society and of the revolutionary party generally is, of course, Sun Yat-sen; while the leader of the movement in Hunan is one Tsung Huang, otherwise known as Hsia Ling. The head-quarters of the Tung-mêng Hui are said to be in Changsha, while in Hunan there are in addition three branch lodges at Ch'ên-chou, the head-quarters of the Society for the south of Hunan and Kwangtung; at Li-ling, the head-quarters for the east of Hunan and portions of Kiangsi; and at Hêng-chow, the head-quarters for the west of Hunan, Kwangsi, and the Miao-tzu districts.\n\nThe Tung-mêng Hui is said to have developed an organized system of smuggling, whereby they have managed to introduce into China vast quantities of warlike stores, concealed either in bales of piece-goods or other merchandise, and conveyed into the interior in native craft under the guise of fishing-boats. Popular rumour ascribes to the Society the possession of almost unlimited funds, and even credits it with a balance of 2,000,000 dollars at the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank.\n\nThe general rising was originally planned to take place last autumn, at the time when most of the foreign-drilled troops would be engaged in the military manoeuvres in Honan. It is of course well known that the non-attendance of the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung at the manoeuvres was due to the threatened outbreak, and to the consequent necessity for his continued presence at Wuchang. Owing, however, to the fact that the authorities were keenly on the alert, or else that the preparations of the revolutionaries were at that time not completed, the rising was postponed until the end of the Chinese year, the rebellion at Liu-yang having apparently been started, though somewhat prematurely, in accordance with the altered arrangements. Now, however, that it has been suppressed, and that the authorities are on the look-out for symptoms of a further outbreak, there seems little chance of the revolutionaries organizing another successful movement for the present. But, as stated above, there is every probability that the first favourable opportunity will witness an immediate recrudescence of the troubles.\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n## Extract from Chinan-fu Intelligence Report for the period from October 1906 to January 1907\n\n### (A.)-POLITICAL AND GENERAL\n\n## The Ts'aochou Brigands\n\nThe fact that the south-western section of Shantung has long been in a disturbed condition has been reported many times to His Majesty's Legation in the course of the last year. The exact conditions in different localities at different times are by no means easy to ascertain, but in spite of official assurances that the forces of disorder have been broken up, I am strongly under the impression that no real improvement has occurred.\n\nA letter, dated the 18th December, from the Rev. T. N. Thompson, an American missionary at Chining-chou, to the Rev. W. B. Hamilton here, of which some extracts have been passed on to me, describes the situation observed in a recent journey through Ts'aochou Prefecture as even worse than during the summer:----\n\n\"The whole district is simply terrorized by the brigands, who rob in the daytime with the same ardour as at night. We were holding service one day, when the cry was heard, 'Robbers are coming!' whereupon the whole crowd got up and fled like sheep. About 30 men were seen filing down one by one to the south. I tried to persuade the people that they were soldiers and all was well, but they were so frightened that they would not stand and look at these men, as they said that the supposed robbers would get angry. I asked why some one would not run to the camp about 8 li away and give word to the soldiers there, but all said that they dared not, as they would surely be put to death and their houses burnt should it ever be discovered that they had informed on the bandits. ... At a place not far away a village was attacked at night, and the villagers resisting sent...",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nSoochow, I venture to express the opinion that the sanctioning of these competitive lines constitutes a direct breach of the terms of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway Loan Agreement, Article 17, paragraph 2, of which reads as follows:\n\n\"It is further agreed that, without the express consent in writing of the Director-General and the British and Chinese Corporation, no other rival railway detrimental to the business of the same is to be permitted, and no parallel line to the Shanghai-Nanking Railway is to be allowed to the injury of the latter's interest within the area served by the Shanghai-Nanking main line or branch lines.\"\n\nYou are doubtless better informed on all these matters than myself; still I feel I should be failing in my duty if I omitted to call your attention more particularly to the proposed competitive line to Soochow, which, if allowed to be built, can only be detrimental to the interests of our railway.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)  \n**A. H. COLLINSON**\n\nFrom the Shanghai stations to Lung Hua | 2\nLang Hai to Mai Chia Lung | 23\nMai Chia Lung to Hsin Chuang | \nHsin Chuang to Hsin Chiao | 34\nHsin Chiao to Sungkiang east gate | \nSiu Nan Tang to Huang Chiao | 19\nSungkiang east gate to west gate, Siu Nan Tang | 3\nHuang Chiao to Han Chiaho | 13\nHan Chiao to Feng Chin | 3\n\nThe names of the stations are as follows:-\nShanghai, Lung Hua, Mai Chia Lung, Hsin Chuang, Hsin Chiao, Sungkiang Gate, East, Sungkiang Gate, West, Huang Chiao Chen, Han Chiaho, Feng Chin.\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n## Rough Outline of the Route and Construction Work of the Shanghai-Kashing Railway\n\nThe Shanghai-Kashing line commences from outside of the Big South Gate, where the native city garrison is situated, and ends at Feng Chin Chen, under the jurisdiction of Sungkiang Fu. The total length of the line is 191,000 feet, which is equal to 1061 lis. To the west of Feng Chin Chen is the Chekiang boundary line, where the Chekiang Railway will join on and build their line right up to Hangchow.\n\nRivers and Creeks.--Between the Shanghai Station and Feng Chin Chen there are a great many rivers and creeks to cross. The biggest of them is Heng Liao Chin.\n\nWe append here the names of some of the rivers and creeks, with their widths and depths-\n\n| Names | Width (Feet) | Depth (Feet) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Shih Hui Chiang | 88 | 10 |\n| Tsao Ho Chin | 160 | 8 |\n| Heng Tang | 45 | 10 |\n| Ho Chia Ping | 50 |  |\n| Chu Chiang | 80 | 8 |\n| Tung Chun Sheu Tang | 274 | 6 |\n| Pan Lung Tang Nan | 70 |  |\n| Hei Chiao Ping | 43 |  |\n| Ta Chang Chin | 75 | 6 |\n| Sha Chiang |  |  |\n| Lu Kang Chin | 266 | 25 |\n| Ta Heng Liao Chin | 720 | 75 |\n| Chang Muo Hu | 20 |  |\n| Lung Hua Chiang | 44 | 30 |\n| Chang Chin Tang | 7 |  |\n| Heng Li Tang Nau | 60 | 12 |\n| Jui Chun Shen Tang | 70 | $5 |\n| Chang Chin Nao Kuei Chao Tang | 6 |  |\n| Siu Nan Chiao Tang | 75 | 9 |\n| Oktang Sui Chiang | 50 | 4 |\n| Huang Ni Chin | 32 | 4 |\n|  | 65 | 8 |\n|  | 79 | 8 |\n|  | 295 | 18 |\n\nThe remainder of the mountain streams and side creeks that the line crosses amounts to 169, and the width of them all is equal to 5,298 feet. The heights of the land to be raised at the various places are as follows:--  \n650",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**Petition of Rev. H. E. Pownall and Rev. F. J. Hopkins that they be appointed Guardians of the infant, Vera Kingham.**\n\nTHE Petition of the undersigned Herbert Edward Pownall and Frederick John Hopkins, that they may be appointed guardians of Margaret Vera Kingham, an infant, showeth :-\n\n1. That Margaret Vera Kingham's antecedents and present position are:-\n\n| (a.) | Margaret Vera Kingham was born at Kuling on the 14th June, 1903. |\n| (b.) | Her father, Harry Claude Kingham, murdered at Nan Ch'ang-fu, Kiangsi, the 25th February, 1906, has one elder brother, Percy Kingham, and two sisters, one of whom is Ethel Ada, wife of Frederick John Hopkins. |\n| (c.) | Her mother, Octavia Mary Kingham, sister to Herbert Edward Pownall, was murdered at Nan Ch'ang-fu, Kiangsi, the 25th February, 1906, and has four brothers (two of whom are clergymen in the Church of England) and five surviving sisters. |\n| (d.) | At the end of February, 1906, Herbert Edward Pownall and wife were the child's only relatives in China, and as soon as possible they took charge of their niece. |\n| (e.) | Harry Claude Kingham's sister and her husband, Ethel and Frederick John Hopkins, had left England before the massacre of the 25th February, 1906, intending to join the late Harry Claude Kingham and wife in their mission work at Nan Chang-fu, Kiangsi. After reaching Shanghae they proceeded to Kuling for study of language. |\n| (f) | Herbert Edward Pownall and wife, on returning after the funeral to their own mission station inland, left their niece, Margaret Vera Kingham, in the care of her other uncle and aunt, Frederick John Hopkins and wife, on Kuling, and since that time the child has been under their care. |\n| (g.) | The child was examined by Dr. Parrott, of Shanghae, and found to be sound and healthy, and, although somewhat dazed immediately after the massacre, she is now quite bright and happy. |\n\n2. That to remove Margaret Vera Kingham from the charge of those relatives under whose care she has been for the last six months would not only be a great grief to the child, but also a considerable strain upon her; and that a strain ought, especially at this time, to be avoided, as she is little able to bear such after what she has already passed through.\n\n3. That it seems highly desirable that Margaret Vera Kingham should be intrusted to the joint guardianship of your petitioners, in whose care she has been since the death of her parents, for the following reasons:---\n\n### (1.) The good of the child.\n\n| (a.) | She is at the present time with those who dearly love her, and have been in the closest touch with her parents for many years. |\n| (b.) | The child is much attached to F. J. Hopkins and wife, as also to H. E. Pownall and wife, whom she has known since earliest recollection. |\n| (c.) | She is in the land of her birth, to leave which would be to break all the natural ties she has hitherto known. |\n| (d.) | She has many little friends at Kuling, and, owing to the high esteem in which her parents were held, many take a special and kindly interest in the little orphan girl. |\n\n### (2.) To satisfy the wishes of the father's and mother's relatives.\n\n| (a.) | The following extracts from letters received by Ethel Hopkins show what are the thoughts and wishes of the father's relatives :- |\n| (i.) | Extract from letter of Mrs. A. Kennedy Stone, sister of the late Harry Claude Kingham: \"The Prairie, Polela, Natal, June 7. 'We rejoice with you both that you have dear little Vera. She will be such a comfort to you, and our dear Harry and Tavie (the late Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Kingham) I am sure would wish it so. It will be so nice for you to be with the Pownalls; they must be nice, and Herbert Pownall knew so well dear Harry.'\" |\n| (ii) | Extract from letter of Mr. Percy J. Kingham, elder brother of Ethel Hopkins: \"Drummond, Natal, South Africa, April 20, 1906. 'We know that the child will receive from you the tenderest care and attention.'\" |\n| (iii) | Extract from letter of Mrs. Elizabeth Kingham, who was guardian to the late Harry Claude and his sisters after the death of their parents; aunt to Ethel Hopkins: \"235, London Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, England, June 3, 1906. Percy has been writing, he wants Vera. I tell him she (Margaret Vera Kingham) cannot be better off than with you.\" |\n| (iv.) | From Mrs. Edmiston (aunt of the late Harry Claude Kingham) to Ethel Hopkins: \"Guestling Peep, Milward Road, Hastings, England, July 3, 1906. 'My idea is still that her parents' wish would have been for her (Margaret Vera Kingham) to be brought up by you where she is.'\" |\n| (b.) | It is equally certain that relatives on the mother's side—that is, of the Pownall family—would be in full sympathy with the joint guardianship for which we ask. |\n\n### (3.) The perpetuation of the late parents' wishes and principles.\n\n| (a.) | H. E. Pownall and wife have been constantly connected in work in the same mission (North-West Kiangsi Mission) with the late Harry Claude Kingham and his wife during the last eleven years, i.e., during the whole term of their life in China. |\n| (b.) | F. J. Hopkins and wife, although in England, have also during the same period been in intimate and sympathetic relationship, by letter, with the late Harry Claude Kingham. |\n| (c.) | Indeed, it can with truthfulness be said that H. E. Pownall and wife and F. J. Hopkins and wife fully and accurately knew, and are able sympathetically to enter into, the late Harry Claude Kingham's and wife's feelings and principles as no other of their relatives can do. |\n| (d.) | And further, they are in a position, as no other relatives are, to see those desires and principles, as far as they affect the infant Margaret Vera, carried into effect. |\n\nPage 3\nPage 7\nPage 2",
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        "content_text": "## RAILWAY ENTERPRISE IN SOUTH CHINA\n\nOf foreign capital in this railway, and it was conceived and carried out entirely without aid from the West. To a considerable extent, the line is the outcome of large-hearted patriotism on the part of the chief promoter, his Excellency Chang Yung, a Straits Settlements Chinese millionaire, who, after protracted negotiations with the Peking Government attended with great difficulties, succeeded in obtaining the Concession. The whole length of the line, about 30 miles, has been built by a firm of Japanese contractors at a cost of upwards of 3,000,000 dollars. The work of construction has occupied two years and a half, which is not rapid, considering that the whole of the distance is through flat, low-lying, and populous country where labour can be had in abundance. As the country through which the line passes is most fertile and densely populated, and the people are constantly coming and going between the villages and the Treaty port of Swatow, the enterprise is expected to pay handsomely in the near future, especially as the rates charged are most reasonable—1 dol. 25 c. for first class, and 50 c. for second class. The locomotives (50 tons each) and the rails are American manufactures, but the passenger cars and the hard-wood sleepers were imported from Japan.\n\nThe above line was completed about two months ago, and its opening attracted a great deal of attention in South China, Chinese officials from all parts of the Kuang Provinces being present to show their pride and satisfaction over the completion of such an important undertaking entirely with Chinese capital and Chinese labour, excepting a few Japanese.\n\nA short line of railway intended to connect the district capital of Hsin-ning with the terminus of the Fatshan-Samshui branch line at Samshui, on the West River, is making rapid progress in construction. Already it has been completed to a place 16 miles from Hsin-ning city, and when entirely finished will make its terminus at a point opposite to Samshui, on the West River. Here a new mart is to be started, to be called Hsin-fou, or \"New Town.\" The capital for building this line was subscribed by Chinese in America and Australia, and the whole work of construction is being carried out by them, some of whom have returned to China for the purpose. It will be interesting to missionaries and others who are interested in the religious welfare of the Chinese that among these Chinese railway capitalists there are quite a number who are earnest Christians, and therefore, when they drew up their plans for starting the \"New Town,\" which is to be the terminus of their railway, they reserved a special plot of ground near the centre, where a large church and a school are to be built for the use of the Christian portion of the community. The streets are to be laid out similar to those in the cities and towns of the United States.\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\nExtract from the \"South China Daily Journal\" of January 30, 1907.\n\n**RAILWAY ENTERPRISE IN SOUTH CHINA**\n\nTurning to the remote south-western corner of Kuangtung, we find that the Chinese there are not asleep as to the importance of railway enterprise. The gentry and people of Lienchow, the chief city in the Pak-hoi district, are realizing the importance and necessity of making railway connections with other portions of the province and with the adjoining provinces. They are planning to make Lienchow the centre of an extensive network of railways in western Kuangtung, connected with projected lines in Kuangsi, which later on might be extended to Kueichow and Yunnan and possibly even Szechuen, with branch lines reaching out to the neighbouring mining and agricultural districts. The first line to be built is one connecting Lienchow with its port Pak-hoi, a distance of some 16 miles, and the cost is to be raised through the issue of shares at 5 dollars. As this line by itself is not expected to prove profitable commercially, it will be at once extended to Lingshan, and two other extensions will be made from Lienchow to Pok Pak and Kamchow. It is intended to employ Japanese engineers for these projected railways, as they are cheaper, and Chinese engineers are not available at present.\n\nWhile the people of Kuangtung are thus active in prosecuting railway enterprise, its neighbouring province, Fukien, has not been idle. His Excellency Chen Pao-sen, Director-General of Railways in the Province of Fukien, has met with remarkable success in raising capital from his fellow-provincials in Singapore and other places. He has just wired to the Yuchuanpu (Ministry of Posts and Communications) at Peking stating that the Chinese residing in the Straits Settlements and Java have subscribed to shares amounting to 7,000,000 taels, and that the building of railways in Fukien Province will be commenced forthwith. His Excellency has been making a tour among his compatriots and fellow-provincials in Malaya since the summer of last year, with the result he has just announced to the Yuchuanpu. He first went to Singapore, for the purpose of arousing the interest of Chinese there in railway enterprise in Fukien Province. Having obtained subscriptions to the amount of nearly a million there, he next went to Penang. From Penang, he went to Rangoon, and thence returned to Singapore, where he collected further subscriptions to his railway shares. From Singapore, he went over to Java, and, having terminated his perambulating mission at this place, he returned to China via Singapore.\n\nIt is the intention of the Directors of the Fukien Railway Company to form a Joint Stock Company, with the object of linking up their railway system with those already constructed or projected in the Provinces of Kuangtung, Anhui, and Chekiang. This Company will not be controlled by the Government, but by a Board of Directors. The first lines to be constructed at first are between three districts—Changchou, Chuanchou, and Hochou.\n\n### Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n**Memorandum respecting the Hankou-Canton Railway**\n\nA great deal of friction was reported in June 1906 to exist at Canton between the merchants and the Viceroy over the control of the Yueh-Han Railway. The Viceroy's demand for money for the railway, the merchants' guilds replied with a demand for popular control of the line. The Viceroy's opposition to this led to stormy meetings, where the merchants denounced him and his officials. However, subscriptions from Cantonese in China and abroad poured into the fund started by the guilds, and by the end of June 1906, some 2,600,000 taels had been guaranteed. The Viceroy was then reported to have agreed to the control of the Railway by the merchants, and also to the Directors they appointed.\n\nOn the 19th January, 1907, His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton reported that after the affairs of the Railway Company were in a more unsatisfactory state than ever, the friction between the Viceroy and the merchants over the control of the affairs of the Company, matters were ostensibly patched up and a directorate appointed nominally by the shareholders as a body, but in reality by the nine charitable institutions of the provincial capital and the seventy-two guilds with which they are intimately connected. The number of directors was thirteen, and these elected a President. The arrival of the new Viceroy was the signal for an inquiry into the affairs and accounts of the Railway Company. Rumour had it that the total of 6,000,000 dollars subscribed in Canton had been employed as follows:\n| Category | Amount (dollars) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Redemption of the Concession to the American China Development Company | 3,000,000 |\n| Invested in local banks and pawnshops | 1,000,000 |\n| Loaned to various shops, the property of intimate friends of the directors of the charitable institutions | 2,000,000 |\n\nIt should be added that the Hong Kong shareholders, representing 2,000,000 dollars, had refused to remit this sum to Canton, their required guarantee that it should be invested in local foreign banks not being obtainable.\n\nThe new Viceroy, having decided that the affairs of the Company needed scrutiny, and that the amount of work involved necessitated a special office, instituted a Government Railway Bureau, and the directorate was called upon to submit to an investigation of their accounts. This led to spirited protests and lively meetings. The directorate professed itself outraged at the idea of any interference on the part of the shareholders as a body, as represented by the four members of the Committee of Investigation, two of whom were Hong Kong merchants, and they took up the stand that, as the Hong...",
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        "content_text": "## CHINA RAILWAYS\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[10977]  \nNo. 1.  \nC.O  \n[April 6.]  \n15523  \nSECTION 5,  \nRec  \nPE 9 MAY 07  \n\n### Consul General Wilkinson to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received April 6.)\n\n**(No. 1.) Sir,**  \nYunnan-fu, January 30, 1907.  \nREFERRING to my despatch No. 36 of the 31st ultimo, I have the honour to inclose copy of a despatch which I have addressed to the Acting British Consul at Tengyueh on the instructions issued by the Governor-General here to a Major, Chang Kuei-tsu, recently sent to Tengyueh in connection with Mr. Lilley's coming reconnaissance.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) W. H. WILKINSON.\n\n#### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n### Consul-General Wilkinson to Acting Consul Ottewill.\n\n**(No. 1. Confidential.) Sir,**  \nYünnan-fu, January 30, 1907.  \nON the 17th instant I received your telegram asking me to ascertain what are the instructions given by the Governor-General to a Mahommedan officer now at Tengyueh named Chang Kuei-tsu.\n\nAs the result of my inquiries, I replied on the 19th that the instructions were confidential, but that my Chinese writer, who had succeeded in seeing them, reported that they contained nothing objectionable. I condensed my writer's recollections of the document into the statement that \"Chang, who speaks English, is to be associated with Ting Taotai, and is to accompany Mr. Lilley, reporting to the Governor-General; though nominally travelling, Mr. Lilley will make a survey, and Chang will assist.\"\n\nI have now obtained confidentially a copy of what I am assured is the full text of the instructions issued to Chang Kuei-tsu, who, I may here observe, is a \"Yiuch'i or Major.\" Of those instructions I beg to inclose a copy, together with my translation. Beyond the incidental statement in the first paragraph that the Yunnan-Szechuan and Tengyueh Railways are, in consequence of a Memorial, to be constructed by the Chinese themselves, there would seem to be nothing to which we could possibly take exception. As you are aware, it is incorrect to say that the Imperial assent has been given to the proposal for exclusive Chinese construction of the Tengyueh Railway, however true such an assertion may be of the Yunnan-Szechuan line.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) W. H. WILKINSON.\n\n#### Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n### Governor-General's Instructions to Major Chang Kuei-tsu, Yünnan-fu, December 1906.\n\n**(Translation.)**  \nIN the matter of the mission of an associate for the construction of the Tengyueh Railway.\n\nWhereas Yünnan has memorialized for, and obtained permission to establish, a Company to elect Directors and their associates, and to invite subscription to the share capital, for the construction by ourselves of the Yünnan-Szechuan and Tengyueh Railways, and the Governor-General some time since deputed the expectant Taotai of Kuangtung, resident here, Wang Hung-t'u, and the expectant Taotai of Chekiang, ...",
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        "content_text": "## Kuang Hsü, 32nd year, 11th moon (December 1906)\n\nTing Yen, to be Directors of the railways, and to call for subscriptions to the shares, that the work may the more speedily be begun:\n\nNow the British engineer, Mr. Lei Li, otherwise A-pai (Abram Lilley), is desirous of proceeding to Tengyueh and other places in the interior, to travel, and to make reconnaissance of the roads; and Consul-General Wu (Wilkinson), resident in Yünnan, has on several occasions written to request that orders might be sent down for efficient protection.\n\nAnd whereas railways and international intercourse are both matters of grave importance, so that unless a man be well acquainted with foreign relations and capable of enduring hardships he would be unequal to the task:\n\nNow it is found that Chang Kuei-tsu, Major on the roll for employment, aforetime sent to conduct students beyond the seas, who has visited Japan, and has in all ways proved trustworthy and circumspect, not only well versed in foreign relations and capable of enduring hardships, but also conversant with the English language, and courteous in the conduct of affairs, one who may be sent to aid in the work.\n\nInstructions have accordingly been severally issued, and it is proper that orders be given for the mission.\n\nIt is therefore directed that the said Major do at once pack up his baggage and proceed to Tengyueh, where, in conjunction with Ting Taotai and the local Brigadier-General Intendant and Sub-Prefect, he shall amicably negotiate, heedfully taking such steps as occasion may require and submitting reports from time to time. First of all, he will report the date of his arrival at Tengyueh.\n\n**Special instructions of importance.**\n\nThe above instructions are addressed to the Associate Manager of International Relations for the Tengyueh Railway, the Major first on the roll for employment, Chang Kuei-tsu.\n\nKuang Hsü, 32nd year, 11th moon (December 1906).\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[11392]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n16523\n\n[April 10.]\n\nSECTION 9 MAY 07;\n\nSir F. Bertie to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received April 10.)\n\n(No. 186.) Sir,\n\nParis, April 8, 1907. WITH reference to my despatch No. 103 of the 25th February last, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith, extracted from the \"Journal Officiel\" of yesterday's date, copy of a law approving the Convention and Arrangement concluded on the 15th February last between the Minister of the Colonies and the French Railway Company of Indo-China and Yunnan for the continuation of the construction of the Railway from Laokay to Yünnansen and the settlement of differences between the Colony of Indo-China and the Company holding the Concession, together with copies of two reports presented to the Chamber of Deputies by the Committees charged with the examination of the Bill*\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) **FRANCIS BERTIE**.\n\n*Not printed.\n\n`[2449 -1]`",
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        "content_text": "## STATEMENT showing Strength and Distribution of foreign Troops in North China, corrected to February 1907.\n\n| Stations | American | Austrian | Belgians* | British | Native | French | German | Italian | Japanese | Netherlands.* | Russian |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Peking... | 119 |  |  | 173 | 1 | 207 | 12 |  |  |  |  |\n| Huang-tsun |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Lang-fang |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2 |  |  |\n| Yang-ts'un |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Tien-tsin... | 197 | 32 |  | 226 | 12 | 556 | 702 |  | 245 |  | 121 |\n| Chun-liang-cheng |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Tang-ku.. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Tong-shan |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 578 |  | 108 |\n| La-t'ai |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Ta-ku |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2 |  | 103 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1,827 |  |  |\n| Lan cho .. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Chang-li | 6 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Ma-fang |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 84 |  | 725 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 3 |  | 116 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 116 |  | 6,312 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1 |  | 34 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 7 |  | 131 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 09 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1,157 |  | 1 |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 1 |  | 41 |\n| Chin-wang-tao |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Pei-tai-ho. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2 |  | 459 |\n| Shan-hai-kuan |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 4 |  |  |\n| Totals in Chih-li,. | 322 | 32 |  | 399 | 13 | 763 | 714 |  | 4,038 |  | 8,871 |\n|  |  |  |  | 580 | 1,560 |  |  |  | 73 | 1,311 | 31 |\n\nTien-tsin, March 7, 1907.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n### No. 1.\n\n[April 26.]\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\n**(No. 90. Secret.)**\n\nSir,\n\n**Sir Edward Grey to Mr. H. Lowther.**\n\nForeign Office, April 26, 1907.\n\nTHE Japanese Ambassador told me to-day that the Japanese Government had made a counter-proposal to the proposal made to them by the French Government, as described in my despatch `No. 79` of the 12th instant. It consisted of one Article in two parts.\n\nThe first part was to the effect that France and Japan, being anxious to see good order and peaceful development in the parts of China adjoining the territories in which either of them had rights of sovereignty, protectorate, or occupation, mutually agreed to work together to insure peace and security in their respective territories. In connection with this part, a Secret Article would be added to the effect that the Province of Fo-kien was considered as covered by this description owing to its proximity to Formosa.\n\nThe second part of the Article would say that Japan and France agreed to give each other most-favoured-nation treatment in these territories of theirs. Tonquin and Cochin China were not at present included in the Japanese Treaty with France, and this was the reason for the second part of the Article.\n\nI found a little difficulty in understanding the wording of the first part of the Article. The words would read as if Japan and France were promising to each other peace and security in their own dominions for the sake not of themselves, but of the neighbouring parts of China.\n\nThe Japanese Ambassador said that he himself thought it was a very curiously worded Article.\n\nI am, &c. (Signed) **E. GREY**.",
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        "content_text": "As I have already mentioned, there was a disposition on the part of some members of the Diplomatic Body to question the propriety of the decision arrived at, and this feeling has since found expression in the letter from the Italian Chargé d'Affaires to the doyen, copy of which I have the honour to inclose.\n\nBaron Vitale asks that the procedure adopted in this case may not be regarded as a precedent for the future, and suggests that the Mixed Court, instead of only holding a preliminary inquiry, should itself try Chinese residents in the Settlement who may be accused of such crimes. This suggestion appears to me impolitic, and unsupported by the existing Agreements between China and foreign Powers.\n\nNeither by the Rules of 1869 nor by the amendments which are now under consideration can any such power be claimed for the Mixed Court, and a grave situation would, in my opinion, arise if we make such a claim on behalf of Chinese who had been concerned in revolutionary designs against their own Government.\n\nThe revolutionary movement in the Yang-tsze Valley which culminated in the recent rising in Hunan still gives the Central Government very grave cause for anxiety, and any attempt on the part of foreign Governments to invest the Mixed Court with exclusive jurisdiction over revolutionaries in the Shanghae Settlement would convert the place into a centre of sedition and be deeply resented by the Chinese Government.\n\nIt is only right to add that there seems to be no disposition on the part of the foreign community or the Municipal Council at Shanghae to embarrass the Chinese Government, and, as will be seen from the inclosed article which appeared in the leading daily newspaper at the time, the decision of the Diplomatic Body was received with acquiescence.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed)\n\n(Translation.)\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n### Mixed Court Magistrate's Warrant\n\n(Stamped by Senior Consul, January 7, 1907.)\n\nJanuary 6, 1907. I HAVE received secret instructions from the Viceroy of the Liang Kiang to the following effect:—\n\nAccording to the secret report of the District Magistrate Chang I, the latter has heard from a Brevet-Major of the Liang Kiang forces, one Yuan Fu Tsai, that the accomplices in the Tien-tsin bomb outrage and leaders of the Kiangsi \"Ke Ming Chun\" rebels, by name Chang Pao Ch'ing and Huang Yi (Huang Hsiao Chen) are at present at the hostelry for students from Japan in the Ningpo Road, and that Colonel Chang Fu Kuan has been instructed to watch the place. These men are to be secretly arrested and sent to the capital for punishment.\n\nIn accordance with the above instructions, I issue orders for secret arrest. The runner Yang Chiu is hereby commanded, with the aid of the tipao, to arrest the persons named hereon forthwith, and have them brought before the Court for hearing.\n\nLet there be no delay, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1\n\n(Sir),\n\n(Seal of Court.)\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\n#### Doyen of Diplomatic Corps to Consul-General Sir P. Warren\n\nJanuary 22, 1907. THERE should be a preliminary inquiry at a public sitting of the Mixed Court before the Magistrate and Assessor, and if they are both satisfied that there is a *primé facie* case against the men and evidence of identity is forthcoming, they should be handed over to the Chinese authorities.\n\n(No. 16.) Sir,\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n#### Consul-General Sir P. Warren to Sir J. Jordan\n\nShanghae, February 5, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith copies of correspondence which, together with a report by the Assessor, Mr. Barton, on the case, set forth in detail the circumstances connected with the arrest, preliminary hearing, and surrender to the Chinese authorities of the political offenders Chang Pao Ch'ing and Huang Yi.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed)\nPELHAM WARREN.\n\n* Not printed.\n\n### Taotai Jui to Consul-General Sir P. Warren\n\nShanghae, January 11, 1907. I HAVE received a report from the Mixed Court Magistrate, Mr. Kuan, to the following effect:—\n\nCaptain Hsia Ming-kao has received secret instructions from the Viceroy to come to Shanghae and arrest two leaders of the Kiangsi rebels named Chang Pao Ch'ing and Huang Yi (alias Huang Hsiao Chen). He procured the assistance of runners and effected the arrest. Chang and Huang engaged the lawyers Jernigan and Fessenden to appear on their behalf, but the latter were persuaded by the Assistant Magistrate Sun to withdraw from the case.\n\nHowever, the British Vice-Consul, Mr. Barton, said that a despatch either from the Viceroy or the Taotai would be necessary before the men could be handed over, and that he would also have to ask the Consul-General for instructions. The Magistrate therefore requested me to address you on the subject.\n\nThese men, Chang Pao Ching and Huang Yi (alias Huang Hsiao Chen), are two important rebels for whose arrest secret orders were issued by the Viceroy. Now that their capture has been effected, they should be sent to Nanking for trial.\n\nI have therefore the honour to request that you will give the necessary instructions for these men to be handed over to the Mixed Court for transfer, and favour me with an early reply.\n\n## Inclosure 5 in No. 1\n\n### Notes of Interview of Mr. Barton with Taotai\n\n(Seal of Taotai.)\n\n(Extract.)\n\nJanuary 12, 1907. MR. BARTON called on Taotai in city by instruction of His Majesty's Consul-General with reference to Taotai's despatch asking for immediate handing over of two political suspects, Chang and Huang, arrested on a Mixed Court warrant at instance of Nanking Viceroy.\n\nMr. Barton explained that the Consul-General was anxious to assist Chinese authorities and had no desire to protect the accused. He only asked the Taotai to...",
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        "content_text": "## Document\n\n4 \n\ncomply with the usual practice of the Court and supply the necessary evidence to show a bona fide case against the accused.\n\nTaotai appreciated Consul-General's attitude, and said he himself was surprised at absence of documents and had telegraphed to Viceroy, who said it was all right. He had again telegraphed on receipt of Sun's report of Mixed Court proceedings, and received the telegram produced addressed to the Consul-General.\n\nHe asked that a compromise be agreed to in this case (\"t'ung jung\"), and that the Viceroy's telegram to the Consul-General be accepted by the Court in lieu of evidence, on the understanding that he would ask the Viceroy to comply with the rule (\"chang-ch'eng\") of the Court on future occasions. He did not wish to telegraph again to the Viceroy, as it would be bad for the latter's face.\n\nMr. Barton pointed out that it was on account of this being probably only the first of numerous applications for \"rebels\" that the Consul-General considered it important that the usual practice be adhered to in order that there might be no delay in the future.\n\nThe Taotai repeated his arguments re face, and asked that the Consul-General's reply to his proposal should be communicated as soon as possible. (Mao present at interview.)\n\nJanuary 13.-Mr. Mao called at the Consulate at my request, and by instruction of the Consul-General I pointed out that the Taotai's request for a departure from the usual practice of the Court in this instance would require reference to the Consular Body and probably to Peking, thus entailing long delay-at least a month--before the men were handed over.\n\nIf, on the other hand, the Taotai would wire to Nanking the documents would be here in a few days, and there was little doubt that on their production the men could be handed over at once.\n\nMr. Mao said he would convey the message to the Taotai. I also showed him the Consul-General's despatch in reply to the Taotai on the subject.\n\nS. BARTON.\n\n(Signed)\n\n### Inclosure 7 in No. 1\n\n**Consul-General Sir P. Warren to Taotai Jui**\n\nShanghae, January 13, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of yesterday's date regarding the arrest of Chang and Huang at the instance of the Nanking Viceroy (despatch quoted).\n\nIt has always been the practice at preliminary hearings at the Mixed Courts of cases of persons arrested at the instance of other jurisdictions to act on the authority of the evidence against the prisoner on record.\n\nIn the case of Chang and Huang, however, the only evidence available was that of the Nanking Viceroy's officers, Yuan Fu-tsai and others, who stated verbally that the accused had been implicated by the late rebel Li, already executed at Nanking. The evidence given by the said Li was not produced.\n\nMr. Vice-Consul Barton, considering that the case was not in accordance with the usual practice, inasmuch as there was no despatch either from yourself or the Nanking Viceroy, arranged with the Assistant Magistrate, Mr. Sun, that the accused should be remanded in custody of the police, and that he (Mr. Sun) should ask you to supply the Court with the details of the charge and the evidence given by Li, in order that they might have something to go upon.\n\nIf Chang and Huang are really ringleaders of the \"Ke Ming Chun\" rebels I have not the slightest desire to protect them, but in view of the fact that rebellion has been rife in the Provinces of Kiangsi and Hunan, there will probably be numerous applications made for the arrest of rebels, and as this is the first instance of such a request it requires to be carefully dealt with.\n\nI accordingly have the honour to ask that you will supply the Mixed Court with the details of the case against Chang and Huang, and also the evidence given by Li, in order that it may be available when these men are brought before the Court for preliminary hearing. If such evidence is not in your possession I beg that you will apply for the same from Nanking by telegraph.\n\n(Seal of His Majesty's Consul-General.)\n\n### Inclosure 6 in No. 1\n\n**(Telegraphic)**\n\n**Viceroy Tuan to Consul-General Sir P. Warren**\n\n(Handed to Mr. Barton by the Taotai, January 12, 1907.)\n\nTWO ringleaders of the Kiangsi rebels, Chang Pao Ch'ing and Huang Yi (alias Huang Hsiao Chen), have been searched for in every direction, but evaded arrest. Having learnt that they were residing at the hostelry for students from Japan in the Ningpo Road at Shanghao, I secretly dispatched officers, who, with the co-operation of the Mixed Court as the Rules require, effected the arrest and brought the men before the Court.\n\nThese men prepared plans for the rebellion in the Ping Hsiang and Li Ling districts which caused much harm to the people and disturbed the public peace; their crime calls for severe punishment as a warning to others.\n\nI learn that the Assessor, Vice-Consul Barton, holds that a despatch from myself or from the Taotai is necessary before the men can be handed over, from which it is evident that he too joins in hatred of evil-doers, and I appreciate the serious attention given to public business which this indicates. I accordingly send this communication by telegraph to request that the men may be handed over to take their trial at Nanking.\n\n(Seal of Viceroy.)\n\n### Inclosure 8 in No. 1\n\n**Tuotai Jui to Consul-General Sir P. Warren**\n\nShanghue, January 16, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of the 13th instant (despatch quoted) and am much gratified to learn that you share my hatred of criminals and my opinion of the importance of this case.\n\nI at once telegraphed to the Viceroy at Nanking, and have received his reply, forwarding the detailed evidence of the secret society men, Li Fu Tsai and others. His Excellency further states that as the rebels Liu Cheng, Li Chao Mei, Chang, and Huang had not been arrested, he first ordered the immediate execution of Li and others, and kept Fu Yi Cheng to be confronted with the others when captured.\n\nI am instructed to consult with you for the immediate handing over of Chang and Huang in order that they may be tried and punished with the others.\n\nI have communicated with the Mixed Court, and now inclose, for your information, a copy of the Viceroy's telegram, and I shall be greatly obliged if you will instruct Mr. Vice-Consul Barton to have the accused Chang and Huang before the Court in order that they may be handed over for transfer to Nanking, there to be tried and punished.\n\n(Seal of Taotai.)\n\n[2450 ƒ-13]",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 9 in No. 1\n\n## Nanking Viceroy to Taotai Jui\n\nJanuary 15, 1907.\n\nI HAVE received your telegram of the 13th instant, stating that Consul-General Warren and Vice-Consul Barton ask for the details of the charges against Chang Pao Ch'ing and Huang Yi, and also for the evidence of the rebel Li, on account of this being an important case.\n\nThe rebel Li Fu Tsai was captured in the 9th moon, and stated in his examination that he was a leader of Yang-tsze River thieves and had a gang of some scores of men. Recently two Hunan men, Liu Cheng and Li Chao Mei, founded a Union Society which developed into the \"Ke Ming Chun\" Secret Society, and they persuaded him to join them. He knew well that Yuan Yueh Sheng, Huang Yi, Chang Pao Ch'ing, Chiang Yu Ch'uan, and others were ringleaders. Li Fu Tsai was executed summarily.\n\nIn the latter half of the 10th moon (beginning of December) the rebellion broke out in Ping Hsiang and Li Ling of a band calling themselves the \"Ke Ming Chun,\" ferocious in character, and rumours were widespread.\n\nThe rebels Yuan Yueh Song, Chiang Yu Ch'uan, Lung Chien Tien, Fu Yi Cheng, and others were captured in the neighbourhood of the capital, and according to their evidence the \"Head\" of the Society was Liu Chen, and the \"second\" was Li Chao Mei. Yuan Yueh Seng was a \"Lieutenant,\" and Chiang Yu Chuan a \"Military Chief.\" Chang Pao Ching and Huang Yi were \"Advisers.\" Lung Chien Tien was a \"Holy Sage,\" Fu Yi Cheng a \"Superintendent.\" They all said they were on their way to the scene of the rebellion, where, trusting to the prevailing terror, they proposed to steal arms or to burn churches and so distract the attention of the troops from the rebels; thus they would obtain possession of the district and upset the Government.\n\nYuan, Chiang, and Lung were accordingly executed summarily, but Fu was kept to confront with Liu, Li, Chang, and Huang when captured.\n\nChang and Huang are ringleaders of the Ping Hsiang and Li Ling rebellion, which they hoped would spread to other districts, and this was testified to by Li and Yuan in their respective statements, and, moreover, there is the evidence of Fu, who is still alive, to the same effect.\n\nAccording to Chinese law the penalty is death at the least, and according to Western laws a severe penalty is called for.\n\nIn 1900 the rebel T'ang Tsai Chang lived on the Concession at Hankow, and proposed to create disturbance, but he was arrested, with the assistance of the British Consul there, and punished before his plans took effect. This action is still remembered with gratitude by the Hupei officials and merchants.\n\nThe case of Chang and Huang is the same as that of T'ang, and I am gratified to see that Consul-General Warren and Vice-Consul Barton share my hatred of criminals.\n\nYou should therefore consult with the Consul-General and request that Chang and Huang may be handed over speedily for transfer to Nanking, in order that they may be tried together with Fu.\n\n## Inclosure 10 in No. 1\n\n### Consul-General Sir P. Warren to Taotai Jui\n\nShanghae, January 17, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of yesterday's date, transmitting the evidence received by you from the Nanking Viceroy in the case of the prisoners Chang and Huang.\n\nAt a meeting of the Consular Body, held on the 15th instant, it was decided that, in view of the fact that these men were charged with a political offence, and of the importance of the case to the Governments of China and the foreign Powers represented at Shanghae, the request of the Viceroy for the rendition of these men should be referred to the Diplomatic Body at Peking for their decision.\n\nI have accordingly informed the Senior Consul of the contents of your despatch under acknowledgment and requested him to inform you as soon as the reply of the doyen is received.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Seal of His Majesty's Consul-General.)\n\n## Inclosure 11 in No. 1\n\n### Taotai Jui to Consul-General Sir P. Warren\n\nJanuary 18, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter informing me that at a meeting of the Consular Body on Tuesday, the 15th January, it was decided that as the offenders Chang and Huang were political offenders the matter would have to be referred to the Diplomatic Body in Peking, and their reply awaited, when a further communication would be made to me.\n\nI felt considerable surprise on hearing this. Mr. Vice-Consul Barton came to see me on the 12th instant to discuss this matter, and I informed him that rebellious persons had recently been in great force in China, that the Settlements had, as a matter of fact, been used by them as a retreat and harbour, and that if criminals of this kind were not swiftly and severely punished it was to be feared that the disorderly element would come to regard this port more and more as a strong refuge, and that, I pointed out, would injure the cause of good order as affecting both Chinese and foreigners.\n\nMr. Barton said that you were of the same opinion, and were not opposed to handing over the prisoners, but that, as to the facts against them, there was nothing but the statements of the officers who came to get them--at one time that they were \"Ke Ming Tang\" (revolutionary band), at another that they were denounced in the evidence of the criminal Li. Such evidence did not comply with the requirements of usual practice.\n\nAt this time I was in receipt of a telegram from the Viceroy addressed to you, of which I had a decypher prepared and which I produced to be handed to you. Mr. Barton stated that the case might have required the consideration of the Consular Body and definite instructions from the Ministers. That, however, would be a complicated and lengthy proceeding, to avoid which he proposed a modification. Would his Excellency the Viceroy send a copy of the record? It would then be possible to deal with the matter. He would return to the Consulate-General, and when a decision was arrived at a further communication would be made to me. The above was the purport of my conversation with Mr. Barton.\n\nOn the following day I received a letter from you in the terms of Mr. Barton's verbal communication, and I appreciated highly your sincerity and just treatment of the matter and your willingness not to set up bars to jurisdiction, and I communicated the above particulars to his Excellency the Viceroy by telegraph.\n\nNow Chang and Huang are men of the Kiangsi rebellion, who have given trouble to the people of the country, including Christians, and a general statement of the matter is given in the Viceroy's telegram to you of the 12th January. In your reply you state that if Chang and Huang are really of the revolutionary band (\"Ke Ming Tang\"), certainly assistance will be given in the matter. Now Chang and Huang call themselves \"Ke Ming Tang\" men, and you agree to help us in dealing with such. Why, then, do you now say that as they are political offenders reference must be made to the Foreign Ministers? If, the prisoners having been arrested in the Settlement, you were unable to take isolated action, but a consideration by the Consular Body was necessary, it would have done no harm to inform me, yet in your first letter in reply to me you make no mention whatever of that.\n\nTreaties provide that criminals of Chinese nationality shall be handed over on application by the Chinese authorities, and there is no provision as to political offenders or anything about holding them back until instructions are received; so that your letter is not only contradictory, but, in its terms, contrary to Treaty provisions.\n\nThe reasons given for a consideration of the matter by the Consular Body are-\n1. That these are political offenders;\n2. That it seriously concerns the Governments of all the Powers, and that therefore the Ministers must be applied to for directions.",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 11 in No. 1.\n\nTaotai Jui to Consul-General Sir P. Warren.\n\nNo matter how I look at these arguments, I cannot understand them. When evil characters create disturbances in China, foreign residents and missionaries in the country share in the trouble which is thereby occasioned; and if it is said that the Powers are all concerned in such troubles, there is no doubt that such is the case. Having knowledge of the matter and being thus concerned, they should, as Treaty provides, speedily hand over the offenders for trial, and so contribute towards maintaining the interests of general peace and lasting order. Why, then, refer the matter to the Ministers? If you argue that such persons can only be handed over after reference to them, then the Treaty provision referred to is superfluous. If such reference be, however, necessary, how came it that you, being fully aware of Treaty provisions and of international law, in your former reply to me simply said that if Chang and Huang were revolutionary criminals, certainly assistance could be afforded as regards them?\n\nI would point out, further, that the Ping Hsiang rebels burned, slew, and robbed wherever they went, exactly in the same way as the Kuanghsi rebels. Are these the acts of political offenders? If these are to be called political offences, then what in International disputes will not be called political offences? ... to the detriment of Chinese and foreign interests, which most decidedly should not occur where parties are desirous of maintaining Treaty conditions.\n\nShanghae is a great centre of communication between sea and river, and members of criminal societies are gradually coming in to hide here—some of them energetic conspirators, some confederates and forwarding agents for supplies, &c., but practically to excite the popular mind. There has been absolute proof of all this in seizures made of smuggled arms and dynamite by the Shanghae Customs. If the guilty in such cases are swiftly punished, the movement can be suppressed, and security all the better assured; but if delays occur, time is given for the movement to swell and for the evil to spread far and wide.\n\nYou and your colleagues are well acquainted with the condition of affairs in China. You say that the Governments of the Powers having Consuls here are very seriously interested in this matter, and I would observe as to this that the conditions making for the security or otherwise of Shanghae have for those Governments an interest still greater. I have the honour to request that you will maintain the position that these men should be handed over, and urge the same upon His Majesty's Minister by telegram, and also represent earnestly to the Consular Body where advantage lies and where disadvantage in this matter, to the end that the offenders in question may be handed over. You will in so doing show regard for international relations, and be acting in the general interest.\n\nI trust that you will do as I request, and be good enough to send an answer to this letter.\n\n(Card and compliments of Taotai Jui.)\n\n## Inclosure 12 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Sir P. Warren to Taotai Jui.\n\nShanghae, January 19, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, on the subject of the case of Chang Pao Ching and Huang Yi, and to state in reply that I have communicated the gist of its contents to His Majesty's Minister by telegraph.\n\nI have, &c. (Card of Sir Pelham Warren, His Majesty's Consul-General.)\n\n## Inclosure 13 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Barton respecting the Case of Political Prisoners.\n\nON the 8th January I was informed by the municipal police that two Chinese residents of the Settlement named Chang Pao Ching and Huang Yi had been arrested on a Mixed Court warrant charged with being members of a secret society and connected with the Tien-tsin bomb outrage. The warrant had been issued at the instance of the Viceroy, who wished the men sent to Nanking for trial, and the accused would be brought before me on the following morning.\n\nI informed the Consul-General of what I had heard, and received his instructions to observe the usual rule of the Court and see that reasonable evidence was forthcoming before agreeing to their being handed over.\n\nOn the 9th January, before going into Court, Mr. Sun, the Assistant Magistrate, whose day it was, mentioned the case to me, laying stress on its importance and the desirability of sending the men to Nanking without delay. I replied that the evidence against the accused must first be considered. He added that, on hearing that the accused had engaged the American lawyers Jernigan and Fessenden, he had made representations to the latter through the American Assessor which induced them to withdraw from the case.\n\nThe case was called in due course, and Mr. Home, an English barrister, appeared to defend the accused. Two small military officials sent from Nanking, named Yuan Fu Tsai and Wu Jui Li, testified to the manner of the arrest, and stated that the accused had been implicated by one Li Fu Tsai, who had already been executed at Nanking. A third witness, named Chang Pei Ting, testified to the identity of the accused.\n\nI now asked Mr. Sun to put certain questions to the accused, with regard to their residence, occupations, &c. This Mr. Sun at first flatly refused to do, saying that the men were charged by the Viceroy, and it was improper and impossible for him to interrogate them. He wished instead to deliver a severe lecture to Mr. Home, at whose appearance he was much incensed, and asked him if he did not know that even in England political offenders were extradited without preliminary hearing. How, then, could he presume to defend Chinese subjects charged with rebellion against their own Government? On my pointing out his error to him he calmed down, and asked the accused a few questions, from which it appeared that Chang kept a hostelry for students going to and from Japan, and Huang studied and wrote. Both were Hunan men, but had lived in Shanghae for the last six or seven years. They had never been to Japan. Asked whom they were known to, Huang replied, \"General Mesny,\" and Chang, \"The newspaper people.\"\n\nI now asked Mr. Sun whether he had any despatch either from the Viceroy or Taotai giving particulars of the charge against these men. He replied that he had not. The matter being a very secret and urgent one, the Viceroy had sent one of his Secretaries named Hsia Ming Kao to procure the arrest. There was no despatch containing the evidence on which the charge was founded. Mr. Sun argued that the case was so important that the men should be sent to Nanking at once, but I informed him that I could not agree to this until the evidence against the men—especially Li's statement—had been put before the Court.\n\nMr. Sun said he would report to the Taotai, and the men were remanded in the custody of the police.\n\nAs a result, the Taotai wrote a formal despatch to the Consul-General on the 11th January, stating baldly that the accused were rebel ringleaders, and asking for their surrender. Mr. Sun's report to the Taotai represented me as saying that a despatch from either Viceroy or Taotai was required, no mention being made of evidence.\n\nOn receipt of this despatch, the Consul-General instructed me to call on the Taotai and explain to him that what was wanted was a compliance with the ordinary procedure of the Court, and the production of evidence to show that the charges were founded on reasonable grounds. There was no desire to protect the men if they were really guilty.\n\nIf this evidence was not in the Taotai's possession, I was to ask him to telegraph to Nanking to obtain it.\n\nI saw the Taotai at his yamên in Shanghae City on the afternoon of the 12th January, and delivered the Consul-General's message. He expressed his gratification on learning that the Consul-General did not wish Shanghae to be regarded as a refuge for revolutionaries. As regarded the evidence, he had not got it, and he was afraid that to telegraph again to Nanking would mean loss of face both for the Viceroy and himself. He quite recognized the rule of the Court with regard to a prima facie case being made out against residents of the Settlement whose surrender was asked for by another jurisdiction, and he was willing to write to the Viceroy and explain that evidence must always be forthcoming on future occasions. On this occasion, however...",
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        "content_text": "# 33 \n\n## i \n\n## 10 \n\nthe Viceroy had already telegraphed to the Consul-General through himself a message to the effect that the accused had acted as advisers of the \"Ke Ming Chun rebels.\" He handed me a copy of the telegram, and said that he wished me to ask the Consul-General to allow this to be accepted as evidence in the case, which was urgent, on the understanding that the rule of the Court would be complied with in the future. I pointed out that it was precisely because this was the first of possibly a numerous series of requests for the surrender of revolutionaries that it was important that everything should be in order, but he persisted that he could not again telegraph to the Viceroy, so I left to carry his proposal to the Consul-General, \n\nOn reporting to the Consul-General, I was instructed to point out to the Taotai that the latter's proposal to depart on this occasion from the usual procedure of the Court was one which would require to be referred to the Consular Body, and that such a reference would entail considerable delay, whereas if he complied with the usual procedure and produced the necessary evidence there was little reason to doubt that the delay would merely correspond with the time required to get such evidence from Nanking. \n\nOn the morning of the 13th January Mr. Mao, the Taotai's Secretary, who had been present at the interview on the previous day, came to the Consulate at my request, and I delivered to him the Consul-General's reply to the Taotai's proposal. The same day a formal despatch in reply to the one received on the 11th January was sent in embodying the request for evidence. \n\nOn the 17th January a despatch was received from the Taotai forwarding the evidence against the accused as received by him telegraphically from Nanking, but in the meantime the Consular Body at their weekly meeting on the 15th January had, on the matter being mentioned to them by the Consul-General, decided that the case must be referred to Peking for decision as to the course to be pursued, on the ground that the offence alleged was of a political nature. \n\nBy instruction of the Consul-General, I called on the Senior Consul on the 17th January, and handed to him translations of all the documents and correspondence, and explained the circumstances so far as they came within my knowledge as Assessor. \n\nA despatch was sent the same day to the Taotai informing him of the decision of the Consular Body to refer the matter to Peking, which drew from him the somewhat querulous letter of the 18th January. The latter is inaccurate, in so far as it purports to give a correct account of my interview with the Taotai on the 13th January, as will be seen by a reference to my note of what passed, made in the interview book at the time. The letter contained a request that the Consul-General would telegraph to His Majesty's Minister with a view to expediting a decision on the matter, and a short reply was sent to the Taotai informing him that his request had been complied with. \n\nThe decision of the Diplomatic Body having been communicated on the 24th January, the adjourned preliminary hearing was fixed for the 28th January, to take place at the ordinary morning sitting of the Court. At my request Mr. Kuan, the Magistrate, sat in place of Mr. Sun, the Assistant Magistrate, whose day it was, and who had sat at the first hearing; my reason for securing the change being to minimize the risk of disagreement as to the conduct of the hearing, Mr. Sun's quick temper and rooted objection to lawyers sometimes rendering it difficult to discuss questions with him satisfactorily. \n\nThe accused on this occasion were defended by Mr. Musso, a British subject who practices law with Italian qualifications. \n\nI handed to Mr. Musso an English translation of the evidence given at Nanking by the five \"rebels\" already captured, as received from the Viceroy and communicated officially to the Mixed Court Magistrate by the Taotai. No evidence was adduced on the charge of being concerned in the bomb outrage, which was therefore not proceeded with. \n\nOf the five criminals who at their trial implicated the accused, one—the Li Fu Tsai mentioned at the first hearing on the 9th January—was captured in November, and stated that he was originally leader of a gang of Yang-tsze river thieves, and was induced to join the \"Ke Ming Chun\" by its founders, two Hunan men, named Liu Cheng and Li Chao Mei. He knew that the accused were among its leaders. The remaining four men, two of whom had been named by Li as leaders, were captured in December on their way to the scene of the rebellion in Kiangsi, and gave a list of the moving spirits of the Society, among which were the accused, whom they described as holding the office of \"advisers.\" Four of the five witnesses had already been executed, but one, named Fu, was being kept to confront with the accused and others not yet brought to trial. \n\nMr. Musso applied for a remand on the ground that he had only just been instructed, but this the Court refused to grant in view of the fact that during the three weeks the accused had been in custody they had known what the charges against them were, and had had every facility for seeing their friends and instructing counsel. The accused were then questioned at length by the Court, each man's statement being made separately in the absence of the other accused and of the witnesses for the defence. Mr. Musso objected to the exclusion of the other accused, but the practice is the usual one followed by the Court in dealing with co-defendants who may be expected to speak in collusion with one another. \n\nThe accused Chang Pao Ching, aged 41, stated that he had been seven years in Shanghai employed in Chinese hotels, in a printing-press, and in a shop for foreign clothes, but for the last few months he had been keeping a boarding-house for students on their way to and from Japan. He had known Huang, who came from the same part of Hunan as himself, for the last three or four years. \n\nThe accused Huang Yi, aged 40, stated that he was a student, practised as a doctor, and wrote medical books. He too had been in Shanghai for some seven years continuously, with the exception of a trip to his home in Hunan last year. He contradicted Chang's evidence in some particulars, and also admitted that he had known a man named Yuan Yueh Seng (one of the late witnesses against him already executed). Both accused stated that they had never heard of the men alleged to be the heads of the \"Ke Ming Chun\" Society. \n\nMr. Musso proposed to call three witnesses to confirm the account of themselves given by the accused, but the Court replied that it accepted the account without confirmation. \n\nMr. Musso then addressed the Court on the unsatisfactory nature of the evidence for the prosecution, which he said had probably been obtained by torture; he also claimed for the defence the opportunity of cross-examining any witnesses brought against the accused, and asked that the surviving witness out of the five who had implicated his clients should be brought down from Nanking to give his evidence in person. He quoted the \"Supao\" case, alleging that the prisoner, who on that occasion was charged with a political offence committed at Hankow, was acquitted by the Court owing to the lack of oral evidence against him. \n\nThe Court replied that the \"Supao\" precedent did not apply, as in that case a special Tribunal was appointed to try the accused persons, whereas the proper authorities had decided that the accused in this case were to be treated in the usual way, the prosecution being required to show that their charges were founded, and that the identity of the accused was established, preparatory to the latter being handed over to the Chinese authorities for trial. \n\nMr. Musso said he intended to try through the proper channels to have the decision of the Diplomatic Body altered. He urged that, in view of the extreme seriousness of the consequences to his clients, the evidence against them was not sufficient to justify their surrender. The Court held that the identity of the accused not having been questioned, and the evidence against them being such as was regularly admitted by the Court, and being sufficient to satisfy both the Magistrate and the Assessor that the charges against the accused were founded on reasonable grounds, the men must be sent to Nanking for trial. The prisoners were accordingly handed over by the police to the custody of the Mixed Court runners for transference to the Taotai's yamen, and thence to Nanking. \n\nFebruary 4, 1907. \n\n(Signed) \n\n## Inclosure 14 in No. 1. \n\n**S. BARTON**, British Assessor. \n\n## Italian Chargé d'Affaires to Doyen of Diplomatic Body. \n\nM. le Ministre, \n\nLa Légation d'Italie, Pechino, le 31 Janvier, 1907. APRES examen des documents annexés à la Circulaire No. 15, au sujet des criminels politiques Chinois à Shanghaï, j'ai l'honneur de me ranger à l'avis verbalement exposé dans la dernière séance par son Excellence le Chevalier de Kuczinsky, Ministre d'Autriche-Hongrie à Pékin.",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nnorthern frontier, forwarded to Sir E. Satow in his despatch No. 8 of the 20th May, 1905 (pp. 9, 10, and 11 of the Burmah Government printed Report).\n\nOn the 1st May, 1906, Sir E. Satow addressed a note to Prince Ch'ing stating that, failing the acceptance by the Chinese Government of the draft Article laying down the watershed as the frontier, the Burmah Government would be instructed to occupy and administer the country.\n\nThe Wai-wu Pu's answer (undated in the translation in the Consulate) merely refers to the IVth Article of the Burmah Convention, stating that a settlement should be negotiated in an impartial spirit.\n\nThe author of the Petition referred to above is a not very prominent Tengyueh man, Wu Chia Yuan, whose name is not inserted in it because he has another case against the Tu Ssu Tuan Tseng, his Secretary Yang-wei-fan, and three Ming-kuang Chinese, Hsu Lin Hsiang, Chen Fu-yu, and Ku Fu-pa. The actual petitioners, ten in number, are all small merchants. The Petition states that the old custom was that for every tree belonging to the Tu Ssu cut by the traders, three large and three small boards were paid to him. (This statement does not agree with the Report, and is false.) A tree produced fifty or sixty sets of boards. No boards were paid to the Tu Ssu when bought ready-cut from the natives. \"Huang lien\" paid nothing to the Tu Ssu.\n\nThe new rules are that the sellers of trees pay a tax to the Tu Ssu, and one set of boards in fifteen is demanded; 10 taels for every load of \"huang lien\"; and 30 taels for newly-instituted road passes. The mountain passes have been shut to allow the accused in Wu Chia Yuan's case to enjoy a monopoly.\n\nI have the honour to submit that the reason for the Tu Ssu's action is to be found in the proposal (p. 19 of the printed Report and subsequent negotiations) to pay a sum extinguishing his rights in the Nmai-Hka Valley, and that he hopes to obtain a larger sum than that offered by declaring that his receipts have lately increased.\n\nOn the other hand, the nearest Burmah posts are at Loringu and Sadon, and although we claim the territory, we have no outward and visible sign of authority within some seven days' journey or more.\n\nIt would not have been any use to raise the question of the actual frontier with the Taotai, but I thought it advisable to take up the question of the increased rates of taxation. I have therefore written him a letter, translation of which I have the honour to inclose, stating that some merchants had petitioned me with regard to the tyrannical behaviour of the Tu Ssu in increasing their taxes, and that I should be obliged if he would instruct him to revert to the old tariff.\n\nIn his answer, translation of which I have also the honour to inclose, the Taotai states that he considered the matter an internal one, but that he will instruct the Pao Shan Hsien, in whose jurisdiction Tengkeng lies, to come to a just decision.\n\nI venture to express the opinion that the uncertainty of the Pien-ma villagers as to which country they belong will not, if long continued, facilitate the occupancy of the territory by the Burmah Government, for which they are anxious at present.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) **H. A. OTTEWILL**.\n\n## 3\n\n### Inclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\n**Kuan Taotai to Acting Consul Ottewill.**\n\nKuang Hsü, 32nd year, 11th moon, 27th day (January 11, 1907).\n\nWITH reference to your letter on the subject of increases in taxation by the Tengkeng Tu Ssu, I have the honour to observe that Li Chia Kuo and the other merchants have handed me an accusation against the Tu Ssu, and requested me to communicate with you. I observed that the matter was an internal one, and therefore did not do so, but I endorsed a Memorandum to the Yung Chang Prefect to instruct the Pao Shan Hsien to investigate the case.\n\nOn receipt of your note, I have again instructed the Prefect to transmit orders to the Magistrate to summon without delay the accusers, the accused, and the witnesses, and to investigate the case; not to permit the Tu Ssu to enforce tyrannical measures, nor to allow the merchants to escape the payment of just dues, and to come to a just decision. Etc.\n\n(Card of Kuan Taotai.)\n\n### Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n**Acting Consul Ottewill to Kuan Taotai.**\n\n(Translation.) Sir,\n\nJanuary 7, 1907. I BEG to inform you that I have received a Petition from Li Chia Kuo and others stating that the Tengkeng Tu Ssu is collecting unreasonable taxes, and is behaving tyrannically in many ways. They have also petitioned you. The taxes collected by the Tu Ssu are already on record in the Report made by the late Mr. Litton of the (joint) survey. There is no mention of road taxes, and I have the honour to request you to instruct the Tu Ssu to revert to the old scale of taxes. Etc.\n\n(Card of Acting Consul Ottewill.)\n\n## 35",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE.\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 18.)\n\nPeking, April 2, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 60 of the 7th February, transmitting inquiries from the Board of Trade with regard to statements in the press that wharfage dues are to be charged on goods in all newly opened ports in China, and that certain alterations in the Chinese currency have been ordained.\n\nAs regards wharfage dues, I have the honour to refer you to Sir Ernest Satow's despatch No. 259 of the 20th July, 1905, and to Lord Lansdowne's reply No. 227 of the 7th October, 1905, respecting the levy of such dues at Santu-ao.\n\nA similar levy has been provisionally introduced at Nanking, as reported in my despatch No. 4 of this year, while the Chinese authorities at Changsha have imposed wharfage dues at that port without reference to the Consuls and Diplomatic Body.\n\nHis Majesty's Acting Consul at Changsha has consequently made representations to the Governor, and I am now awaiting the result of his action.\n\nNo wharfage dues are collected at Ch'inwangtao, but I am informed that it is intended to impose them at Nanning, to defray the cost of bunding works undertaken last year at a cost of 150,000 taels, and that these embankments have been already washed away.\n\nThis fact is enough to show the necessity of having some degree of Consular control over the expenditure of funds derived from the extra taxation of foreign trade. Provided that such control exists, the levy of these dues in newly opened ports does not appear to be more than a counterpart of similar charges imposed in most Treaty Ports for municipal purposes.\n\nWith regard to the question of currency reform, I was informed confidentially on the 26th March by one of the Ministers of the Wai-wu Pu that the tael coinage sanctioned by the Throne at the end of 1905 had been tried by Chang Chih-tung, Governor-General at Wuch'ang, but that it had proved a complete failure, owing to the clumsy size of the coin. The Tien-tsin Mint had been ordered to try it also, but they had demurred against making the experiment, and the instructions had not been carried out.\n\nMy informant stated that he was in favour of a dollar currency, and that he had recently been consulted by the newly appointed President of the Board of Finance, whom he advised to investigate the question very thoroughly before embarking on any fresh scheme. He added that the matter was receiving the closest attention of the Board of Finance, but in the absence of expert foreign advice it does not appear to me probable that the Board will succeed in evolving a solution of this difficult question.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) **J. N. JORDAN**.  \n`[2475 -4]`",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nJ. O. P. BLAND.\n\nMessrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co, to Mr. Bland.\n\nShanghae, January 28, 1907.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nConsidering it most important that you should be promptly advised of any developments connected with the Chinese railway Shanghae to Kashing, we wired to you on the 23rd instant as follows:-- \n\n\"Chinese railway Shanghae to Kashing, 35 miles, first sod was cut 21st January outside Shanghae City, large demonstration,\" We have advised the British and Chinese Corporation.'\n\nWe have now pleasure in handing you, for your further information in this connection, copy of the Engineer-in-chief's letter to us, dated the 23rd instant, Memorandum giving full details of the proposed line.\n\nWe are, &c.\n\n(Per pro. Jardine, Matheson, and Co.)\n\n(Signed) JAS. MCKIE.\n\nPutting aside the question of ignoring the existence of the preliminary Agreement dated the 13th May, 1898, for the construction and working of the railways from Soochow to Hangchow and Ningpo, provision for which has been made at considerable cost in constructing double line works on the section of our railway from Shanghae to Soochow, I venture to express the opinion that the sanctioning of these competitive lines constitutes a direct breach of the terms of the Shanghae Nanking Railway Loan Agreement, Article 17, paragraph 2, which reads as follows:-- \n\n\"It is further agreed that, without the express consent in writing of the Director-General and the British and Chinese Corporation, no other rival railway detrimental to the business of the same is to be permitted, and no parallel line to the Shanghae-Nanking Railway is to be allowed to the injury of the latter's interest within the area served by the Shanghae-Nanking main line or branch lines.\"\n\nYou are doubtless better informed on all these matters than myself. Still I feel I should be failing in my duty if I omitted to call your attention more particularly to the proposed competitive line to Soochow, which, if allowed to be built, can only be detrimental to the interests of our railway.\n\nI am, &c. (Signed) A. H. COLLINSON.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Collinson to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co.\n\nShanghae, January 23, 1907.\n\nYou will have noticed in the papers accounts of the proceedings in connection with the turning of the first sod of the Shanghae-Kashing Railway on Monday last. A rough outline of the proposed route of the railway was given in yesterday's \"Sin Wan Pao,\" a translation of which I handed to Mr. McKie yesterday afternoon.\n\nThe route described in the \"Sin Wan Pao\" has to some extent been confirmed by the private information I have been able to gather, and I am further informed that the survey is in active progress on the lines indicated; also that land acquisition has been commenced.\n\nYou will notice that it has been proposed to extend the line from the Chekiang boundary to Hangchow, this part of the work being constructed by the Chekiang Railway Company.\n\nI am reliably informed that another Chinese Railway Company is surveying a line from Soochow to Kashing, where it is also proposed to make a junction with the Shanghae-Kashing-Hangchow line. If these proposals are allowed to mature, another route will be established by rail from Shanghae to Soochow (via Kashing) in direct competition with the Shanghae-Nanking Railway.\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n### A Rough Outline of the Route and Construction Work of the Shanghae Kashing Railway\n\n#### Mileage\n\nThe Shanghae-Kashing line commences from outside of the Big South Gate, where the native city garrison is situated, and ends at Feng Chin Chen, under the jurisdiction of Sung Kiang Pu. The total length of the line is 191,000 feet, which is equal to 36.1 miles or 106.1 lis. To the west of Feng Chin Chen is the Chekiang boundary-line, where the Chekiang Railway will join on and build their line right up to Hangchow.\n\n#### Rivers and Creeks\n\nBetween the Shanghae station and Feng Chin Chen there are a great many rivers and creeks to cross. The biggest of them is Hang Liao Chin.\n\nWe append here the names of some of the rivers and creeks, with their widths and depths:\n\n| Names | Width (Ft.) | Depth (Ft.) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Shih Tui Chiang | 88 | ... |\n| Tsao Ho Chin | 160 | ... |\n| Heng Tang | 45 | ... |\n| Hsia Chia Ping | 50 | ... |\n| Chu Chiang | 80 | ... |\n| Tung Chun Shen Tang | 274 | ... |\n| Pang Lang Tan Nan | 70 | ... |\n| Hei Chiao Ping | 43 | ... |\n| Ta Chang Chin | 75 | 10 |\n| Chang Mao Hu | 20 | 4 |\n| Lung Hua Chiang | 80 | 7 |\n| Chang Chia Tang | 60 | 10 |\n| Heng Li Tang Nan | 70 | 12 |\n| Sha Chiang | 55 | 6 |\n| Jai Chun Shen Tang | 75 | ... |\n| Chang Chin Nau | 50 | 4 |\n| Kuei Chao Tang | 32 | 4 |\n| Siu Nan Chiao Tang | 65 | 3 |\n| Lu Kang Chin | 266 | 25 |\n| Chang Sni Chiang | 79 | 8 |\n| Ta Heng Liao Chin | 720 | 75 |\n| Huang Ni Chin | 295 | 18 |\n\nThe remainder of the mountain streams and side creeks that the line crosses amount to 169, and the width of them all is equal to 5,298 feet.\n\n#### The height of the land to be raised at the various places are as follows:-\n\n* From the Shanghae station to Lung Hua, 3 feet.\n* From Lung Hua to Mai Chia Lung, 1 foot.\n* From Mai Chia Lung to Hsin Chuang, 2 feet.\n* From Hsin Chuang to Hsin Chiao, 3 feet.\n* From Hsin Chiao to Sungkiang East Gate, 3 feet.\n* From Sungkiang East Gate to West Gate, Siu Nan Tang, 6 feet.\n* From Siu Nan Tang to Huang Chiao, 8 feet.\n* From Huang Chiao to Han Chiao Ho, 9 feet.\n* From Han Chia Ho to Feng Chin, 4 feet.",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nMr. G. Brown to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nTien-Tsin, March 19, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose a statement of revenue and expenditure for the Tao-Ching Railway for the eighteen months from the 1st July, 1905, when the line was taken over by the Chinese Government, up to the 31st December, 1906. The evidence of coming prosperity, shown towards the end of last year, still continues, and there is every reason to believe that this railway will before very long become a paying concern. My object in submitting this document for your Excellency's perusal is that if, as has been the case in the past, doubts are cast on the prospects of this line, your Excellency may know the true facts.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) GEORGE BROWN,\nAgent-General.\n\n### Imperial Chinese Railways: Tuokou-Chinghua Line.\n\n#### Statement of Revenue and Expenditure from July 1, 1905, to December 31, 1906.\n\n| Month | Revenue | Expenditure |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| July 1905 | 3,863.99 | 11,828.55 |\n| August | 4,909.87 | 13,440.16 |\n| September | 4,602.42 | 13,350.95 |\n| October | 7,672.89 | 10,187.41 |\n| November | 77 | 9,911.29 |\n| December | 8,369.18 | 4,765.78 |\n| January 1906 |  |  |\n| February | 13 | 6,124.86 |\n| March |  | 12,565.39 |\n| April | 3 | 12,658.46 |\n| May | 9,068.40 | 14,219.63 |\n| June | 4,558.42 | 11,826.40 |\n| July | 53 | 9,275.31 |\n| August |  | 9,795.10 |\n| September | 10,777.16 | 12,637.83 |\n| October | 14,903.26 | 12,254.36 |\n| November | 24,295.54 | 14,104.55 |\n| December | 28,540.65 | 13,854.79 |\n| **Total** | **186,053.06** | **282,264.43** |\n\n## Inclosure 7 in No. 1 was not present, instead it is Inclosure 8 in No. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Prince Ch'ing,\n\nPeking, March 25, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highness' note of the 4th March, in which it was stated that the Agreement of the Russo-Chinese Bank respecting the Cheng-t'ai Railway had no relation to the Peking Syndicate Agreement of the 21st May, 1898; that the records of the Wai-wu Pu contained nothing to show that the Agreement between the Russo-Chinese Bank and the Syndicate of the 26th April, 1898, was made in consultation with the late Grand Secretary Li Hung Chang; that the Chinese authorities in dealing with the Honan and Shansi Concessions of the Syndicate had not placed them on a different footing; that the efforts of the Syndicate to maintain an exclusive position had aroused popular discontent, which had placed it out of the power of the Governor of Shansi to issue the permit to mine; and that the resulting delay was therefore due to the Syndicate itself.\n\nI have consulted with the Agent-General of the Syndicate on the contents of the note under acknowledgment, and I am able to assure your Highness that the Agreement inclosed in my note of the 18th January was signed in the circumstances stated, and to point out that, if you have any doubt in the matter, M. Pokotilow, who was one of the signatories, can be applied to for whatever confirmation may be necessary. In saying that the Cheng-t'ai Railway Agreement did not affect the Peking Syndicate's Agreement, your Highness evidently overlooked Article 17 of the latter Agreement, which incorporates the main point of the subsidiary compact between the Russo-Chinese Bank and the Syndicate, and shows the interest that the Chinese Government had in arranging matters amicably at the time by providing in advance for the insertion of this stipulation. Clause 17 reads: \"With reference to the Chengting to Taiyuan Railway, for the construction of which the Bureau has borrowed capital from others, the Peking Syndicate, to avoid disputes, shall not construct any railway within 100 li on each side of it.\"\n\nI must remind your Highness that this Agreement of the 26th April, 1898, between the Bank and the Syndicate was mentioned solely because stress was laid in your Highness' note of the 10th January on the fact that no immediate effort was made to survey a mining area in Shansi, and because it was necessary to show that the date of commencing work in Ping-ting Chou depended on the Cheng-t'ai Railway, the construction of which was delayed by the events of 1900 and other circumstances beyond the Syndicate's control. When your Highness states that the Chinese authorities have not treated the Honan and Shansi Concessions differently, I have only to reply that a permit to mine in Honan was issued in accordance with the Agreement, and that the Syndicate commenced work under that permit four years ago. In Shansi the permit to mine, which was applied for in the manner prescribed by the Agreement as long ago as November 1905, has not yet been issued.\n\nI do not understand your Highness' complaint that the Syndicate has sought to maintain an exclusive position. Their object in obtaining the Shansi Concession, as explained in my note of the 18th January, is perfectly fair and reasonable, and it is well within the terms of their Agreement of the 21st May, 1898. According to my information, the opposition to the Syndicate has been manufactured by students and officials, and does not spring from the people, who are well aware that the opening of mines on a large scale can only bring them advantage. But if the opposition were spontaneous and from the people, His Majesty's Government would still look to the Imperial Chinese Government to quell it by all the means in their power, and enable the Syndicate to pursue their avocations in peace. The failure of the agents of the Chinese Government to effect this has done grave injury to the Syndicate, and for this injury, I repeat, His Majesty's Government has instructed me to maintain the claim for compensation, put forward in my notes of the 31st December and the 18th January to your Highness.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.",
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        "content_text": "# C.O. 262 AFFAIRS OF CHINA, **CONFIDENTIAL**\n[16204] No. 1. 1622 [May 18] SECTION 48 JUN 07\n\n## Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 18.)\n**(No. 155. Confidential.)**\n\nSir,  \nPeking, April 1, 1907.\n\nIN my despatch No. 85 of the 18th February I mentioned that I had telegraphed His Majesty's Consul at Nanking, asking him to suggest to the Viceroy the advisability of giving the two men who had been handed over to him by the Mixed Court at Shanghae a public trial, and I have since been in communication with Mr. Ker on the subject.\n\nThe efforts which Mr. Ker has made to secure the prisoners a fair trial are described in the private letter, copy of which I have the honour to inclose; and having regard to all the circumstances of the case, I do not think we should be justified in resorting to more active interference on the men's behalf, or that we should serve their interests by doing so.\n\nUnsatisfactory as the trial may appear to be from the strict standard of Western legal procedure, it marks a great advance upon the summary methods which used to be applied at Canton to Chinese criminals surrendered by the Government of Hong Kong, and, as Mr. Ker points out, the usual rules of extradition are not applicable to this case.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n## Inclosure in No. 1.\n### Consul Ker to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nDear Sir John,  \nNanking, March 18, 1907.\n\nI HAVE more than once spoken to the Viceroy about the trial of the prisoners Huang and Chang, handed over by the Mixed Court for complicity in the Ping-hsiang rising. On the first occasion when I asked if they could have a public trial, the Viceroy replied that the trial might be considered to be a public one, and that it was being held by the Kiangning Fu or his judicial deputy.\n\nI afterwards heard by private letter from Barton that reports were current in Shanghae to the effect that the prisoners had been sentenced on account of charges which had nothing to do with the charge on which they had been handed over by the Mixed Court.\n\nI made an excuse to call on the Fu, and tried to find out from him how the case stood. He told me that the case was still going on (this was on the 1st March), and that the prisoners denied the charge of complicity in the Ping-hsiang rebellion, but admitted other charges, which were, as far as I could make out, that Huang had been in prison before and that Chang was his associate. He gave me to understand, however, that these other charges were not serious.\n\nThe Viceroy, on my asking him again about the matter, confirmed the statement that other charges were being examined into, and added that Huang admitted having been a member of a Revolutionary Society before. His Excellency told me that when he had been Governor of Hunan he had arrested Huang, but he had afterwards been released on bail. He was a crafty villain.\n\nSoon afterwards my \"tingchai,\" whom I had instructed to make inquiries privately at the Prefect's yamên, reported to me that the trial was being conducted with the utmost secrecy by the Prefect and the Commissioner of Police. I thought this report, combined with the evasive answers of the Viceroy and the Prefect, warranted me in telegraphing to you that I believed the trial was really secret, and I informed you at the same time that the prisoners were being tried on other charges as well as the one on which they had been handed over.\n\nI received on the 6th instant your telegram, instructing me to lose no opportunity urging the Viceroy, in his own interests, to give the men a public trial, in order to...",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] 203\n\n## C\n\n21622 [May 18.]\n\nThe first opportunity I had of alluding to the matter occurred yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, when I had a visit from the Viceroy, to satisfy foreign public opinion.\n\nI gave him the substance of the communications I have had from you, and explained that it was very desirable, in view of future applications for the rendition of criminals, that there should be no ground for suspicion that prisoners handed over by the Consular authorities to the Chinese would not be treated with justice.\n\nThe Viceroy still maintained that there was nothing particularly secret about the trial, although he admitted that in China trials were not public in the sense that they were in foreign countries, where the representatives of the press attended and reported the proceedings from day to day. He promised, however, that when the case was decided the evidence would be published in the newspapers.\n\nHis Excellency was somewhat more communicative this time about the charges, and I gathered that Huang, the only one of the two in whom he seemed to be interested, was being tried on at least three charges: \n| Charge | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | complicity in the Ping-hsiang affair |\n| (2) | belonging to a rebel society, i.e., the same charge on which he had been arrested before in Hunan |\n| (3) | fraudulent debt in connection with the purchase of a vase, also an old charge |\n\nChang was charged with sedition-mongering in connection with Chinese students in Japan. Both men denied complicity in the Ping-hsiang rising. The Viceroy did not believe that Chang had much to do with it. It was proved by documentary evidence, but the difficulty was that as the use of torture was now prohibited, they could not get the confession of guilt from him which was necessary before he could be convicted.\n\nThe Viceroy added that he had grave reason to suspect Huang of having been privy to the bomb attack made on him and the other Imperial Commissioners at the Peking railway station in 1905. Hu Yu-fen had informed him that a criminal (whose name I think he said was Yu Wei) had given evidence implicating Huang in this affair, and Hu had no knowledge at the time that Huang had a grudge against Tuan-fang. However, he said there was no evidence of this now available, and it did not form one of the charges on which Huang was being tried.\n\nPossibly this story throws some light on the animus exhibited by the Viceroy in regard to the prisoner. His Excellency seems to see nothing wrong in a trial for other offences besides those for which the prisoners were surrendered; and I am not at all clear myself how far the usual rules of extradition apply to cases handed over by the Mixed Court, so I thought it wiser not to say much on this point without instructions.\n\nI am, &c.  \n(Signed) **W. P. KER**\n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA, CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[16202]\n\n### No. 1.\n\n## SECTION 418 JUN 07\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey**-(Received May 18.)  \n**(No. 153.)**  \n**Peking, March 30, 1907.**\n\nIN continuation of my despatch `No. 86` of the 18th February last, I have the honour to report the further action which has been taken towards securing the acceptance of a scheme for the suppression of piracy in the Canton Delta.\n\nThe attention of the Wai-wu Pu has been steadily directed towards the question here, and at Canton Mr. Mansfield has been in constant communication with the Viceroy on the subject. On the 22nd instant he reported that at an interview which he had with his Excellency that morning the Viceroy had informed him that he was prepared to discuss a workable scheme with him and the Commissioner of Customs as soon as the Wai-wu Pu had informed him that the Inspector-General would provide the necessary funds for the purchase and maintenance of the additional launches required. The Viceroy admitted that the launches at his disposal were neither suitable nor sufficient for the purpose.\n\nAt an interview which I had at the Wai-wu Pu on the 26th instant I brought this telegram to the notice of the Ministers present and urged them to take steps for providing the Viceroy with the funds he required. I said that China, in her own interests and as a matter of national dignity, should put a stop to piracy, and should no longer be content to delegate to foreign Powers the task of policing her inland waterways.\n\nThe Grand Secretary, Na Tung, admitted that the work was one which China herself should undertake, but said there was some difficulty in applying Customs funds required for general purposes to the exclusive use of Canton. He consulted Tong Tajen as to the amount required for the purchase of the launches and was told that it would be over a lakh of taels (about £14,000).\n\nAfter some further conversation, both Ministers intimated their intention of consulting the Revenue Council and Sir R. Hart, and they gave me a positive assurance that means would be found to carry the scheme into effect.\n\nTong Tajen expressed a hope that the shipping firms would be called upon to do their part and take reasonable precautions. The main thing was to see that the steerage passengers were separated from the rest of the ship by an iron grating.\n\nI replied that if the Chinese Government took effective steps to deal with the matter, they might reckon upon receiving our cordial co-operation.\n\nI communicated the result of this interview to Mr. Mansfield by telegram and have since had a conversation with Sir R. Hart on the subject. Sir Robert is still averse to supplying the money from Customs funds, and adheres generally to the views which I reported in the above-mentioned despatch.\n\nA despatch which I received from Admiral Moore, and of which a copy is inclosed herewith, enabled me to point out to Sir R. Hart that his views were not shared by a high naval authority who had studied the question on the spot. Sir Robert admitted that his own Commissioner at Canton differed from him on the question, and at his request I furnished him with a copy of Admiral Moore's despatch, in the hope that its arguments may lead him to modify his opinion.\n\nI am forwarding copies of this despatch confidentially to the Governor of Hong Kong, Admiral Moore, and His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) **J. N. JORDAN**\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**Vice-Admiral Sir A. Moore to Sir J. Jordan.**  \n“King Alfred,” at Hong Kong, March 13, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your Excellency's letter of the 23rd February, 1907, inclosing a copy of despatch `No. 86`, addressed to ...",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 6 in No. 1\n### Viceroy Chang to Consul-General Fraser\n\nWuchang, March 5, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 28th February, in which you state that in the Agreement for the Yueh Han Railway Redemption Loan there was an undertaking that, if foreign engineers were to be employed, preference would be given to British engineers in the first place, and that notwithstanding that the Canton section had become a commercial undertaking, that fact could under no circumstances be taken advantage of to evade the undertaking.\n\nI would observe that the Redemption Loan Agreement does not expressly state that preference was to be given to British engineers in the first place, but in the covering despatch to you there was a statement that if a loan was obtained from Great Britain for construction purposes then one-half of the engineers employed would be of the nationality of the lending nation and the other half Japanese, and the line would be constructed in sections. This statement referred to a loan for construction purposes, and so did not appear in the Agreement for the Redemption Loan, as was thoroughly understood at the time.\n\nNow, since we have not obtained a loan for construction work, we are free to employ the services of engineers irrespective of nationality. However, in view of our especially friendly relations with Great Britain, and of the fact that Great Britain has many engineers of note, I am very willing to obtain their services, therefore during last year I discussed with you on many occasions my desire to obtain the services of Mr. Kinder, but in the first place he long delayed his coming, and then suddenly I heard of his illness and death. For this reason, at our interview last December I asked you verbally to engage a good engineer for me, and I also wrote to you to the same effect, but I have not yet learned whether your search has been successful or not.\n\nIn brief, I am willing to employ British engineers, but it is not necessary to drag in the matter of a construction loan. As for the nationality of the engineers employed by Canton, I leave it to them to choose the best they can, and I cannot interfere in the matter. With regard to Hunan, I can assist them with my advice.\n\nCompliments.\n\n(Card of Chang Chih-tung.)\n\n## 5\n\nThe Viceroy then repeated his desire to provide the Hunan section with a British engineer, and asked me to apply home for one, and excused himself from seeing me on the ground of ill-health.\n\nI had prepared a letter to Mr. Bourne asking his aid when, on the 11th March, Mr. T. A. Ross, who last year laid out the trace of the line between Kiukiang and Nanchang and made detailed plans for bridges, &c., wrote from Shanghae applying for the post of Chief Engineer to the Viceroy, which one of his Excellency Sheng's Secretaries told him was open.\n\nI sent his letter, which stated generally his experience and qualifications, to the Secretary Chan, who replied on the 12th instant that his Excellency would engage Mr. Ross, subject to the answers to his Excellency's telegrams to Mr. Ross' former Chinese employers proving satisfactory, at a total salary of 1,090 dollars a-month.\n\nOf this I informed Mr. Ross by telegram, and, as several days passed without further word from the Viceroy, I suggested his approaching his Excellency Sheng. This he did, and was assured that his Excellency, who had vainly offered him the post of Manager of the railway from the Ping-Hsiang mines at 700 dollars a-month with the chief control of construction of its intended extension at an increased salary, had recommended him to his Excellency Chang in the most laudatory terms.\n\nTo my surprise, on the morning of the 20th March Mr. Chan sent me a note reporting that, as Sheng and Ch'en, one of the Kiangsi Railway Managers' replies were unsatisfactory, Mr. Ross could be employed only as Assistant Engineer at 790 dollars a-month.\n\nIn spite of my telegraphing the purport of this note, Mr. Ross, whose testimonials I had forwarded on the 17th to Mr. Chan, came here on the 24th and obtained from Li Yu-fen, the Head of the Kiangsi Railways, a most laudatory telegram, which also I sent to the Viceroy, together with his offer to serve as Executive Engineer under an English Chief and to resurvey the Hunan section at 600 taels a-month.\n\nMr. Ross left for home on the 28th March, and I sent on my letter to Mr. Bourne. His Excellency, however, declined to improve his offer.\n\nThe thirteenth extract in my despatch No. 83 of the 22nd December, 1906, may partially explain his Excellency Chang's action, or it may be, as Mr. Ross suggested, due to Japanese influence, which has been strengthened by the recent engagement of ten Japanese engineers for the railway from Kiukiang to Nanchang.\n\nMr. Chan's talk at a recent visit I fear that the Viceroy has not the least idea of the foreign staff necessary for the building of the trunk line nor of the time and trouble required for a detailed working survey. His Excellency seems to imagine that with the original survey by the engineers of the China Development Company the new engineers can get to work at once, whereas there is every likelihood that not one of the requisite pegs set down by those engineers can now be found.\n\nThe only encouraging points in the incident are to be found in Mr. Chan's assurances that the Viceroy professed to have seven-tenths of the say in deciding on a Chief Engineer for Hunan, and that if a salary even of 2,000 dollars a-month were really indispensable to obtain a first-class man, it would be paid.\n\nI am sending copies of this despatch to the Hong Kong Government and to His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nE. H. FRASER.\n\n## (No. 28.) Sir,\n### Inclosure 7 in No. 1\n#### Consul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan\n\nHankow, April 2, 1907.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 17 of the 5th March, I have the honour to report further action by the Viceroy towards obtaining a British Engineer-in-chief for the Hunan section of the Hankow-Canton Railway.\n\nOn the 6th March I sent his Excellency Chang a note in answer to his letter brought by Mr. Chan, in which I laid stress on the 1905 Loan being granted out of consideration for his Excellency's position and on the Kuangtung Company owing its existence to British aid in making possible the resumption of the American Concession, as well as on the fact that at the time his Excellency claimed to be fully empowered to deal with that railway, and asked his Excellency to telegraph strongly to the Company through the Canton Viceroy.\n\nTwo days later he replied asserting that the Throne had recently left Hukuang out in dealing with the Canton Railway's troubles, but that in deference to my repeated requests he would telegraph for news to his Excellency Chou-Fu and let me know the result. This I still await.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\n(Signed)\n\n## Inclosure 8 in No. 1\n### Consul-General Fraser to Viceroy Chang\n\nHankow, March 6, 1907.\n\nI HAD the honour to receive your note, brought me by Mr. Chan, yesterday, in reply to mine on the subject of engaging engineers for the Yueh-Han Railway, in which you state that there was no definite undertaking in the Agreement that Canton is at liberty to choose engineers of any nationality it thinks fit without interference from your Excellency, but that you are in a position to assist Hunan with your advice.\n\nI requested Mr. Chan to be good enough to apprise you of my views, and, though doubtless he has done so, I beg to put them also in writing. When the Redemption Loan was raised, His Britannic Majesty's Government and the Governor of Hong Kong, actuated by friendship towards China, and in view of the fact that your Excellency was... \n\nPage 303",
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        "content_text": "## [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n2\n\na very convenient point a very heavy goods traffic, more particularly in beans, which is now carried further on down the river in native craft, and does not touch the Northern Railway at all.\n\nThe Agreement with the Japanese is also a breach of the right reserved to us in the original Agreement, that, in the event of the Railway Administration requiring further financial assistance, they shall apply to the Corporation for it. This provision was obviously inserted in the Agreement not for the benefit of the Corporation, but for the protection of the bondholders, and to prevent, as is now intended, the introduction of foreign capital (other than British) into the undertaking.\n\nSir E. Grey will, we trust, realize that in making the foregoing representation our only object is to maintain the rights of the Railway Administration, and **per se** of the bondholders, which, for the reasons we have given, would, we consider, be adversely affected if the Agreement with the Japanese be carried into effect.\n\nWe are, &c.\n\nThe British and Chinese Corporation (Limited),\n(Signed) C. S. ADDIS, Director.\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[17906]\n\n### [No. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 3.)\n\n(No. 185.) Sir,\n\n304\n\nPeking, April 16, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that, according to reliable information which has reached me, an Agreement was signed yesterday between the Japanese Minister and the Ministers of the Wai-wu Pu respecting outstanding railway questions in Manchuria.\n\nThe two main points settled by this instrument are, I understand, the redemption by China of the light railway line from Hsin Min Ting to Mukden for a sum of 1,660,000 yen (166,000l.), and a preliminary arrangement for the joint construction of a line from Kuan Chiêng-tzu to Kirin, a distance of about 80 miles.\n\nIt will be remembered that at the Portsmouth Conference the Plenipotentiaries of Russia agreed to declare that they had no objection to the Japanese constructing a branch line to Kirin from Kuan Chiêng-tzu.\n\nThe Japanese Minister, who has promised to give me a copy of the Agreement in a few days, informs me that it is modelled to some extent on the Canton-Kowloon and Northern Railway Agreements, and that China and Japan will each contribute one-half of the required capital.\n\nIn the course of conversation a few days ago, his Excellency Tong Shoa-yi, who is shortly going to Mukden as Governor of the lower Province of Manchuria, expressed a hope that British capital would be attracted to that region for construction of railways and other undertakings.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nP.S.-Since the above was written, I have received the Agreement, copy of which, in translation, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith.\n\nJ. N. J.\n\n## (Translation.)\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1.\n\n**Agreement respecting Railways in Manchuria.**\n\nHAYASHI, His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and Na, Ch'ü, and Tang, Ministers of the Imperial Chinese Board of Foreign Affairs, being severally appointed by their respective Governments for the purpose, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles :-\n\n#### I.\n\nThe Chinese Government being now desirous of purchasing the railway constructed by Japan from Hsin Min-fu to Mukden, agrees to fix the purchase price at 1,660,000 yen to be paid over at Tien-tsin to the Yokohama Specie Bank. This railway shall be converted by the Chinese Government into a line constructed by themselves, and it is agreed that of the funds necessary for this purpose on the east side of the Liao River 50 per cent. shall be raised by loan from the South Manchuria Railway Company.\n\n#### II.\n\nThe Chinese Government, being now about to undertake herself (the construction of) a railway from Kirin to Chang Ch'un-fu, agrees to borrow 50 per cent. of the funds necessary for the undertaking also from the above-named Company.\n\n[2525 c-8]",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[June 17]\n\n### SECTION 3. C. C.\n23671\n[19588]\n\n## No. 1.\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received June 17.)\n\n**REC Ps 4 JUL 07**\n\n(No. 204.)\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, April 29, 1907,\n\nREFERRING to my despatch No. 179 of the 15th instant, I have the honour to inclose, for your information, copies of further despatches from His Majesty's Consuls-General at Canton and Hankow on the subject of the employment of British engineers on the Canton-Hankow Railway.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n#### Consul-General Mansfield to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 18.)\n\nSir,\n\nCanton, April 15, 1907,\n\nI HAVE received from Mr. Consul-General Fraser copy of his despatch to you No. 28 of the 2nd instant, and have the honour to inclose herewith copy of an extract from a local native newspaper, the \"Ling Hoi Yat Po\" of the 13th instant, according to which his Excellency Chou, while sanctioning the recording of Mr. Yamamoto's engagement as an Assistant Engineer on the Kuangtung portion of the line, has declared that no \"full Assistant Engineer\" must be engaged without previous reference to him.\n\nIn the present state of affairs of the Canton Railway Company I do not think that there is sufficient unanimity, fixity of purpose, or authority to make the engagement of a first-class man as Deputy Chief Engineer possible. Should, however, the affairs of the Company be placed under the charge of his Excellency Wu Ting Fang (vide Mr. Harding's intelligence notes forwarded in my despatch No. 17 of the 11th instant), I shall lose no time in pressing upon him our view of the matter that the Chief Foreign Engineer should be a Britisher. I feel sure that his Excellency Wu is fully alive to the impossibility of an arduous and important enterprise of this kind being carried through by his fellow-countrymen without competent foreign assistance.\n\nCopies of this despatch and its inclosure have been sent to Hong Kong and Hankow.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) R. W. MANSFIELD.\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n#### Extract from the \"Ling Ho Yat Po\" of April 13, 1907.\n\nTHE engagement of an Assistant Engineer is officially permitted to be put on record.\n\nPetition by Cheng, President of the Railway Company :---\n\n\"A Japanese, named Yamamoto, has been engaged as sectional Assistant Engineer, in accordance with the Imperially sanctioned Regulations. I now hand in Yamamoto's draft Agreement and past record for your Excellency's inspection and instructions.” \n\nPage 370",
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        "content_text": "**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]** 402\n\nThis Board accordingly notified the Governor-General, and asked him to communicate the appointment to Mr. Wu Ting Fang.\n\nWe now have the honour to furnish your Corporation with a copy of the Edict, and to notify you of the appointment.\n\nWe also should observe that in his Memorial the Governor-General asked that Wu Tachen should be appointed to devise the necessary arrangements in respect to the railway, at the provincial capital, and that he should first discuss matters thoroughly with your Corporation in Hong Kong, while all important questions would still be decided by the Governor-General as is laid down in the Loan Agreement.\n\nWe therefore have the honour to request you to communicate this to your Hong Kong representatives, and to ask them when occasion arises for discussing any question to give Wu Tachen a favourable reception.\n\nAs regards the Director-General of this railway, the Board has not yet submitted a name to the Throne, but as soon as the appointment is definitely made we shall not fail to inform you.\n\nWe avail, &c.\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[June 17.1907]\n\n## SECTION 6\n\n27 11 JUL 07\n\n[20037]\n\n### No. 1\n\n#### Mr. Ottewill to Sir Edward Grey, (Received June 17.)\n\n**(No. 1.)** Sir,\n\nTengyueh, May 17, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose herewith copy of a despatch which I have addressed to His Majesty's Minister at Peking with regard to the Tengyueh-Talifu Railway reconnaissance.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)  \nH. A. OTTEWILL.\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1\n\n#### Mr. Ottewill to Sir J. Jordan\n\n**(No. 15.)** Sir,\n\nTengyueh, May 17, 1907.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 51 of the 22nd November last and various telegrams in which further negotiations with the Chinese authorities on the subject of the Tali reconnaissance were reported, I have the honour to inform you that the party arrived at Tengyueh on the 3rd February last.\n\nIt consisted of Mr. A. W. R. Lilley, Engineer-in-chief, Captain G. J. Watt Smyth, R.E., Messrs. R. D. T. Alexander and F. S. Bond, all officers in the Public Works Department, a native clerk and a hospital assistant, a Chinese interpreter, and twenty-seven Indian servants.\n\nI had sent on the 31st January four passports for the I-hsi circuit to the Taotai to be stamped, but it was inevitable that the customary last-moment objection would be made. He answered on the 3rd February, requesting me to state that the party would do absolutely nothing else but travel, and to fill in exactly the route they would follow. I refused both requests, and stated the party were only travelling. The passports were returned on the 7th February, duly stamped, with an indorsement that the bearer in each case was only travelling.\n\nAs I could not make the Taotai send a Deputy with the party, I had previously obtained permission from the Government of Burma to pay a Chinese who would carry out his duties. The man I selected, Liu Ch'ang-ling, had been a military officer, and had friends amongst the officials on the road. He had the additional advantage of being a pleasant man and a relation of the Commander-in-chief at Talifu. His chief business has been to act as go-between with the villagers and others when a camp has been pitched. Mr. Lilley informs me that he has been most useful and energetic.\n\nThe party left Tengyueh on the 8th February, and I accompanied them, in case there was any friction on the road. I had been informed from several sources that Yung-chang and Tali were disorderly places. It is curious that the towns in which Chinese officials reside should generally be more rowdy than others. Either because the above places have been maligned, or the officials took extraordinary pains, there was no look or word which could be construed as being in any way unfriendly. At Hsiakuan so little interest was taken in the party that a French priest passing through was unable to learn whether we were English or American. The officials were courtesy itself. At Yung-chang, where we arrived on the 14th February, the Prefect, Hsieh Yu-chün, who had been at Ssumao with Mr. J. W. Jamieson, expressed his regret that he could not ask us to dinner, as it was a day of official mourning. The District Magistrate, Han Hsi-hua, sent presents, and, what was also very much to the point, police to look after the camp. At Tali, where we arrived on the 2nd March, some thirty soldiers and police were posted to prevent intruders coming into the camp. The Commander-in-chief, Chang Sung-lin, who is the most agreeable Chinaman I have met, invited us to dinner, and the Prefect and the District Magistrate were cordial.\n\nThe party left Tali on the 6th March, and I came ahead by the Menghua-Shunning road because of the disturbances in Santa (Chanta). As there was nothing that could be done here, I rejoined the party beyond Yungchang on the 5th April.\n\n[2525 r-6]",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\n## Inclosure 6 in No. 1,\n\n**Agreement for the Establishment of Smelting Works in Shansi and for Joint Working of Shansi Iron Mines.**\n\n1. WHEREAS the Shansi Bureau of Trade, having been granted the sole right to work iron and coal in Yu Hsien, Ping-ting Chow, Luan, Tsechow, and Pingyang Fu, entered into an Agreement with the Peking Syndicate in the 24th year of Kwangsu (1898) whereby the Syndicate was requested to work the aforesaid mines for a term of sixty years, now it is further agreed as follows:- China being desirous to join in the working of iron in the above-mentioned places, namely, Yu Hsien, Ping-ting Chow, &c., and of coal and coke required for smelting purposes, the Peking Syndicate consents to such participation to an extent of one-half share. The joint working to be for a term of sixty years, and the term to run from the date of the issue of the (Governor's) permit to work. During the continuance of the term, the Chinese and English Managers shall be of equal number and have equal powers. In apportioning the capital in the joint working, the Syndicate may bring into account, as part of their capital, all preliminary expenses which can be shown by vouchers to have been expended actually for affairs in relation to iron mines. All details of such joint working will be settled by a separate Agreement. As regards the above-mentioned coal-mining areas, if, when the time comes, co-operation is desired, the matter may be discussed between the Shansi Bureau of Trade and the Syndicate.\n\n2. The Chinese Government will provide funds for the erection of smelting works in Shansi, where the ores of the co-operation may be smelted into pig-iron in order to facilitate its conveyance by railway. These smelting works shall be established either near the place where the iron is produced, or near the railway at some convenient place to be mutually agreed upon. The latest and most approved foreign type of smelting plant will be selected. If when the time comes the Syndicate can supply plans and estimates, they may be handed in to the Chinese Director-General of Works, who will select the most suitable pattern with a view to economy and rapidity of working. If the industry is flourishing, and an extension of works would be profitable, the Chinese Government should be consulted as to the best mode of effecting such extension with a view to the mutual benefit of the mines and works.\n\n3. The charges for smelting are to be reasonable, and will be mutually decided upon hereafter. Coal and coke actually required for smelting will be supplied from the mines mentioned in clause 1, if so desired, on special terms at a somewhat less price than is charged to the public, and the Syndicate will give the preference to the works in regard to such supply. After the works have been established, the Chinese Government shall always maintain them in good order; and the Syndicate shall, not without the consent of the Chinese Government, send its ores for smelting to any other places or otherwise dispose of them. Conversely, there shall be no delay on the part of the smelting works in smelting the Syndicate's ores handed over for that purpose.\n\n4. The smelting works, and all extensions thereof, shall be the property of the Chinese Government. The Director-General of the works shall appoint a suitable expert as Smelting Master. If at the time there is no properly qualified Chinese, an Englishman will be appointed. The agreement with such smelting-master will be signed by the Director-General.\n\nExcept as modified by the foregoing four rules, and by the detailed Agreement to be hereafter drawn up, all the clauses in the original Agreement hold good.\n\nThese Regulations are drawn up in English and Chinese, and are signed in duplicate, one copy of each to be held by the respective parties as evidence.\n\n(Signed at Peking the 3rd July, 1905.)\n\n(Signed)\n\n(Seal of his Excellency Shêng Hsuan Huai.)\n\nG. JAMIESON, Agent-General, Peking Syndicate (Limited).\n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n`(21623)`\n\n## No. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n`(27192)`\n\n534\n\n(July 30 JUL 07)\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\n(No. 80.) **(Telegraphic.)** P.\n\nForeign Office, July 5, 1907.\n\n**CHINESE Engineering and Mining Company.** Your telegram No. 127 of the 29th instant. Our Court of Appeal after full investigation held that transfer was valid, but maintained that the provisions of the Memorandum must be observed, and that an inquiry should be held to decide what damages, if any, in respect of their non-fulfilment were due to the Chinese Company; we cannot go behind this judgment. Offer of the Company to arrange the appointment of an Assessor has so far, understand, been declined by the Chinese. I agree with Sir E. Satow (vide his letter to which you refer), under these circumstances, that we should strenuously resist any attempt on the part of the Viceroy to dispossess the Company of their property, unless it be in accordance with a judgment of a British Court in China.\n\nThe Company's case is doubtless somewhat weakened, on the other hand, by the fact that the transfer was never confirmed by Imperial Decree, though it appears to me that their assumption in the negotiations that an official of Chang's position was authorized to conclude an arrangement was justified. Any reasonable compromise to which the Viceroy will assent might therefore, I think, be accepted; it should, however, be made clear to him that we cannot allow the property of the Company to be confiscated. You might urge him, in the first instance, to consent to the nomination of Assessors as the judgment of the Court of Appeal directs.\n\n`(2570 e-1)`",
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        "content_text": "## SKETCH MAP OF EASTERN CHINA.\n\n|  |  |\n\n**RAILWAYS OPEN** - \n**RAILWAYS UNDER CONSTRUCTION OR PROJECTED**\n\nSHANGHAI-NANKING RAILWAY\n| SOOCHOW-NINGPO |\n| --- | --- |\n| SHANGHAI WOOSUNG (OPEN) |  |\n| SHANGHAI-KASHING |  |\n| YI-CHENG | ÖYKHÒU |\n| LUNG-THAN. | HINKJANG |\n| TAN THI CHÊN | SINFEENG |\n| NANKING | THAI-KING. |\n| TAN-YANG | KU YUNG. |\n| VERH-THSUN TÊN NHƯ CHÈN, | WANG-HU-KANG: |\n| TSANG SHU-CHEN | KIN-THAN. |\n|  | GRAND |\n| TSING KIANG | KIANG-YIN. |\n| CHENGALU-CHEN | LANGHOW |\n| ITHUNG. | YANGTSEKIANG |\n| THSING-YANG, FI-SHAN: | HENG-LIN-CHEN--- |\n| HITHAI SHA. | >HAI-MEN, |\n| RIVER | O-SHE-PHU. |\n| TCHANG-SHU. | \"TCHUNG MING. I. |\n|  | ♦TCHUNG MING. |\n| CLI SHIP. | WUSIEH, |\n|  | 35 |\n| LI-YANG. | TAIT-SING QUINSAN |\n| WOOSUNG. | KIATING. |\n|  | THAI-HU |\n| LAKE | SOOCHOW |\n| 531⁄2 MILES | LTHSING-PHI. |\n| OCHOW | SHANGHAI, |\n| KIEN PHING. | • NAW-HUI. |\n| İSUNG RANG. | 31° |\n| MANG-CHEN. | FENG-HIEN. |\n\nPEKIN\n| MUKDEN. |\n| TIENTSIN) PAO-TING |\n| TAI-YUEN | 20\" |\n| TSICHO | SINGAN FUHONAN❤-- |\n|  | WEI RIVER. |\n|  | YELLOW SEA. |\n\nCHINESE IMPERIAL RAILWAYS.\nSHANGHAI-NANKING LINE.\n\nApproximate scale: 16 | 32 | 48 MILES.\n\nCANTON. \nFORMOSA \nKOWLOON. HONGKONG.\n\nLatitude and Longitude markers:\n- 31° 40' 20\" \n- 20' 40' \n- 19° 20' 40' \n- 120° 32° \n- 121° 20' 40° \n- 122° \n- 30° 40' 20\" \n- 119° 40° 20' \n\n(465. 7/99. 1279) 7.2525 p-1",
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        "content_text": "# 556\n## H. B. K. Consulaté. Swatow. 27 May, 1907. 25176\n## JUL 29 1907\n\nI have the honour to report the occurrence of a local outbreak at Huang-Kang, a place on the coast some 40 miles N. of this, which seems to be regarded with considerable apprehension by the Authorities here. The first news of this rising was brought to me on the evening of the 23rd inst by the Rev. Lewis, of the American Baptist Mission, who informed me that he had had to leave Huang-Kang that morning at daybreak with his wife and family, as fighting had been going on all night in the town, a band of insurgents having broken in during the night, burnt the Yamens, and killed one or more of the local officials. From his account I gathered that the movement was directed purely against the Authorities, and that he experienced no difficulty whatever in getting away.\n\nAs to the actual facts thus reported there appears to be no doubt, but the origin of this disturbance is very variously accounted for. One of the most probable versions is that two members of a gang of robbers recently operating in the District of Cheng-Hai, who belonged to the Triad Society, had recently been arrested by a small military mandarin named Ts'ai, taken to Huang-Kang for the purpose. To effect their release, some 2000 strong Triad Society men had stormed the town, killed the petty official Ts'ai, and carried off the other officials of the town as prisoners. The insurgents appear to be remaining quietly in possession of Huang-Kang, without making any further move, and though the neighbouring Districts of Jao-Ping and the town of Chao-An are said to have fallen into their hands.\n\nSir J. Jordan, K.C.V.O.  \nHis Majesty's Minister,  \netc. etc. etc.",
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        "content_text": "## The Present Trade Route and Proposed Railway Line\n\nThe present trade route has been evolved in the process of time. Distance and the nature of the ground have been more important factors in determining its course than the lowest gaps in the mountains or the easiest grade. To gain some li, or avoid bad ground, it is frequently carried some hundreds of feet higher than necessary. A spur is always used in preference to a valley. One result is that there is invariably a short cut or an alternative route between important places. From Tengyueh to the Shweli Bridge, there is at least one commonly used road besides the main road. From the Shweli Bridge, there are two roads to the Salween Bridge, the stone road passing Ta-li-shu and Ho-mu-shu, and the \"new\" unpaved road to Hsiao Ping-ho, and thence down the ravine by Lao-chai. From Tengyueh, there is another distinct road to the Salween Bridge, which I much regret not having explored. The first stage along the road to Lungling is as far as Menglien and thence to Ta-ho-lao. The Shweli is crossed by the Lo-an chain bridge, 40 li (about 8 miles) below the main road bridge. Other villages on the road are: Kung-hao, Hsiao-ti-fang, Ch'eng-men-tung, P'u-mang-shao, Shih-t'i-chai, about 35 li (7 miles) from the Salween Bridge, Mo-p'an-shih, Pa-wan, Hsiang-shu, and Mo-cha.\n\nFrom Ta-pan-ching, east of the Salween, there is a mountain track to P'u-piao. The range west of Yung-ch'ang Fu is crossed by caravans in three places, namely, above Hun-shui-tang, at 7,500 feet; by the main road above Leng-shui-ching, at 7,200 feet; and at Ta-kuan-shih, at 6,600 feet. Foreign travellers are always taken along the main roads, unless they happen to know that there is another one and compel their mulemen to follow it.\n\nThe selection of a trace for a railway is naturally governed by other considerations than those which have made the trade route, and it has been found possible to avoid one of the ranges—that between the Shun-pi and the Yang-pi Rivers—to discover gaps lower than the main road passes in the other ranges, with the exception of the Yang-chang-Mekong Divide, which is turned, by adopting a course north of the Yung-chang Plain.\n\nThe line proposed by Mr. Lilley runs direct from Tali to Hsia-kuan, 10 miles. The country is practically level, and there is no difficulty. The plain is rich and prosperous enough to support a railway on its own merits. The outlet from the lake would be bridged east of the town of Hsia-kuan. From this place, altitude 6,600 feet, to Ping-po, the junction of the Hsia-kuan and Yang-pi Rivers, there is a drop of 1,700 feet in 12 miles. The line would follow the left bank downstream, cross the river below its junction with the Shun-pi River (9 miles, altitude 4,550 feet), and come up the right bank of the latter for 26 miles, to the neighbourhood of Huang-lien-p'u. It would take 24 miles to cross the range into the Yung-ping Plain, going through a newly-discovered gap at 7,700 feet, south of the road. From Chu-tung, in the plain, there would be up-hill work for 16 miles, to another gap, 7,400 feet, in the Mekong-Yungping watershed, over which the road goes at an altitude of 8,200 feet. From the gap to the Mekong would require 18 miles of line, which would cross the main road near Shayang, and go down a lateral valley to the river, about 8 miles north of the bridge. From the river 4,100 feet, to the watershed, 6,500 feet, near Lan-tien-pa, north of Yung-ch'ang Fu, would be a difficult piece of work, but from there to the town would be easy going. To the south-west, the line would cross the watershed near Ta-kuan-shih, 6,600 feet, about a dozen miles from the town, and passing along the P'u-p'iao Plain, cross the watershed between Fang-ma-chang and Ta-pan-ching, 4,900 feet, and go along the left bank of the stream until the Salween was reached. The river would be bridged to the south of the main road bridge, and the line would go south-west through the Salween Plain (Lu-chiang-pa) and cross the divide 20 miles from the river at a newly-discovered gap (6,900 feet) south of Hsiao-ti-fang. The descent would take 13 miles, and the Shweli be crossed north of the Lo-an Bridge, above mentioned. The line would then require 11 miles to ascend the mountains west of the Shweli, to a gap, 6,500 feet. It would run practically level for 2 miles, to another gap at the same altitude, and reach the Tengyueh Plain near the village of Kuan-p'o, in the branch valley out of which the road to Lungling climbs. From the plain, the line would run almost due north, to the town of Tengyueh, which is some 11 miles from the nearer gap.\n\nThe total length of line from here to Tali is put down at 240 miles as against 170 by the road. It is proposed that the line, as well as the proposed line from Bhamo, should be worked by electricity, to be generated by using one of the rivers (Salween or Mekong). It may be recommended that a separate power-house should be built in British territory for the section from Bhamo to Tengyueh. The maximum grade proposed is 1 in 20.\n\n## Map Details\n\nMain Road Bhamo to Talifu in purple.\nScale 1: 1,000,000 or 1 inch to 15.8 miles.\nTracing showing roughly:--\n- Possible railway route in Red.\n- Provisional heights in feet.\n- Frontier.\n\n(80-9/07, 1290) `F.O. 2525 N-2-2` \n## Map \n| Location        | \n| --------------- | \n| Kan-ai          | \n| Mauwyne         | \n| Nungchangkai    | \n| BHAMO           | \n| TENG YUEN       | \n| Nantion         | \n| ERH HAI         | \n| Yangpr          | \n| TALI            | \n| Shumpi R.       | \n| YUNG PING?      | \n| HSIA KUAN       | \n| MENG-HUAY       | \n| LUNG LING       | \n| SHUN NING       | \n| PYÜN CHOU       | \n| 6500′′          | \n| YS              | \n| odfinch         | \n| 5700            | \n| tha tang        | \n| 3200            | \n| bug             | \n| best            | \n| pychachang      | \n| Han tien pu     | \n| Shari. 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        "content_text": "# \n\n## 582\n\nThe cost of the line from Tengyueh to Tali, everything included, earth-work, electric plant, rolling stock, &c., has been estimated at 480 lakhs of rupees, or 3,200,000l., as an outside figure.\n\nIt is well known that it is not possible to rely on heights obtained by aneroids to within about 300 feet. Those given have been only provisionally adopted by the party until their numerous readings have been worked out.\n\nThe information about the railway has been put at my disposal by Mr. Lilley, and it seems advisable that it should be in your possession in order to give a general idea of the work done by the reconnaissance pending the issue of Mr. Lilley's own Report which may, however, give entirely different figures.\n\nA Table showing approximately the distances and altitudes of the rivers and mountain summits by the road and the proposed railway is inclosed (`Inclosure No. 2`), as is a tracing, on the scale of 1 inch to 15'8 miles, showing the approximate courses of the road and railway from Bhamo to Tali (`Inclosure No. 3`).\n\nThe principal plains crossed by the proposed railway are:—\n\n1. Tengyueh: about 8 miles long and 3 broad; estimated population, 50,000.\n2. Salween, under a Shan Sawbwa: 10 miles long by 3 broad.\n3. Fang-ma-chang and P'u-piao Plains: about 7 miles long; estimated population, 15,000.\n4. Yungchang: 20 miles long by 6 broad; estimated population, 100,000. There are nearly 100 villages marked on the 4 miles to an inch map. The water from one spring that issues from the Lung Wang Temple supplies, so I was told, fifty-three villages. It is possible that there are some 250 villages as well as the town.\n5. Yuugping and Chutung: about 4 miles by 2. The two towns are said to contain about 1,000 houses; estimated population, about 10,000.\n6. Yangpi: about 8 miles long; estimated population, about 10,000.\n7. Tali: 30 miles long and 3 broad; estimated population, 100,000.\n\nThe Meng-lien plain is a day's journey to the south of Tengyueh, and is well populated. The district to the south of Yungchang is also well populated. In the neighbourhood of Hsia-kuan there are the large plains of Meng-hua, Chao-chou, and Mitu.\n\nThe mountain tracts contain only small villages.\n\nProbably the lengths of line in the Yungchang and Tali plains would pay their way, and I think that possibly those in the other plains may do so. The greater part of the line is, however, across mountain chains. It cannot be said that the volume of trade between Tengyueh, Yungchang, and Hsia-kuan is very big, but a railway will certainly create a traffic of its own.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)  \n**H. A. OTTEWILL**",
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        "content_text": "# \n## 1 \n\n## 2 \n\nTang River. From thence the route runs in a northerly direction to the east of Hangchow city, skirting the canal known as the Great East Canal, or Moat, by the east wall, and running in close proximity past the three East Gates of the city and on to the Settlement, beyond which there were no signs of work being carried on, the total distance being approximately about 7 miles.\n\nThe route of the railway is roughly indicated on the attached plan.* \n\nThe writer has been promised a copy of the Chinese survey, but so far this has not come to hand.\n\nEarthworks for a single-line railway have been practically completed for this distance, the embankment in places being carried, in the writer's opinion, dangerously near the edge of the canal.\n\nVery little bridgework has been commenced.\n\nA start had, however, been made in driving some piles to form a cofferdam for bridge foundations over a large canal near the south-east corner of the city.\n\nConsiderable stacks of stone, presumably for use as ballast, were being dumped in the paddy fields on the banks of the canals without method or regard for future facilities for distributing or placing the ballast on the embankment.\n\nNingpo sand in large quantities was also scattered about in heaps, many of which were being washed away by the rains, and damaged in other ways.\n\nTwo tank locomotives, of about 70 tons weight, of British manufacture, had been delivered on the canal bank, where they were lying in pieces exposed to the weather, without any apparent means or facilities for erection.\n\nA delivery had been made on the banks of the canal of a stack of rails of about 80 lb. weight, which the writer has since been informed were purchased from the Hanyang Iron Works at a price of 45 taels per ton, c.f.i., Shanghae. These rails constitute the greater portion of a stack of material made some years ago for the Peihan Railway, by whom they were rejected. The writer saw these rails at the Hanyang Iron Works last year, and considered that they were only fit for the scrap-heap, and therefore unfit for laying even in sidings, much less in a main line of railway.\n\nThe writer was recently informed by the Director of the Hanyang Iron Works that the Chekiang Company have placed a large order for rails with the Hanyang Iron Works for delivery spread over twelve months, commencing from July next, at a price based on European quotations, plus freight to China.\n\nA further contract has been made by this Company for the supply of Japanese sleepers, according to information supplied, at 6 mace each, c.f.i., Shanghae.\n\nThe work was being carried out apparently under purely Chinese supervision; an engineering student who was for about eighteen months employed as an overseer on construction work on the Shanghae-Nanking Railway was nominally in charge at Hangchow.\n\nThe route of the railway, inasmuch as it follows the eastern wall of the city, is, in the writer's opinion, the best that could have been chosen.\n\nThe line referred to in the Preliminary Agreement entered into on the 13th May, 1898, between his Excellency Sheng, Director-General of the Imperial Chinese Railway Administration, acting under the authority of the Tsung-li Yamen, of the one part, and a British Syndicate of the other part, subsequently laid down in the preliminary survey, dated 1899, passes Hangchow on the west side. Although this route is shorter, it traverses through hilly country, which would entail heavy work practically for the whole distance through the graveyards of Hangchow.\n\nThe route on the east side of the city could be more economically constructed, while at the same time it would afford better access to the commercial and busy parts of Hangchow.\n\nFrom Hangchow to Kashing, the line being constructed by the Chekiang Company will follow to all intents and purposes the line laid down on the survey by the British Syndicate referred to above.\n\nThe prospects of traffic on this railway are very promising, as evidenced by the almost continuous stream of coolies carrying produce from the bank of the Tsien Tang River into the city to the Settlement, where the cargo is again shipped to the interior, there being no direct communication by water with the river, this being rendered impossible at Hangchow owing to the rise caused by the Bore, the water level of the river being frequently many feet above that of the surrounding country, the river course being maintained by the celebrated double sea wall, the failure of which would flood the whole surrounding country.\n\n* Not printed.\n\n## 3 \n\n### Projected Railway from Soochow to Kashing\n\nAccording to the information the writer has been able to obtain, no active construction work has been commenced on the projected Chinese line from Soochow to Kashing, although some attempt to survey the line has been made.\n\nThe proposed route of this line practically follows as far as Kashing the line laid down in the preliminary survey of the Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway, and advantage has been taken of acquiring land on the line actually staked out by the Shanghae-Nanking Railway along the west wall of Soochow city, this line having been surveyed in connection with the proposed junction of the latter railway with the Shanghae Nanking Railway at Soochow.\n\nIt is currently reported that a station site has been acquired near the Chong Mun, and that active construction work will shortly be commenced.\n\n### Projected Railway from Shanghae to Kashing\n\nThis railway commences near the big South Gate of Shanghae native city near the city garrison, and ends to the west of Feng Chin Chen at the Chekiang provincial boundary-line, where the Chekiang Railway propose to join on their line from Hangchow to Kashing.\n\nThe route of the railway as surveyed, together with some modifications which have since been made, are shown on the accompanying tracing.* \n\nConsiderable progress has been made at the Shanghae end on the earthworks and in the acquisition of land, so it is reported. The writer has seen a portion of the earthworks, and is informed that this work is proceeding throughout the railway.\n\nSo far nothing practically has been done towards bridge building, but it is reported that some steel caissons are in progress of construction for putting in foundations in a great depth of water, and that a second-hand air-compressing plant has been purchased.\n\nContracts have been made with the Hanyang Iron Works for the supply of steel rails and fastenings, and it is proposed to use Japanese sleepers.\n\n### Generally\n\nIf these railways are allowed to be constructed, a new route will be established from Shanghae to Soochow via Kashing in direct competition with the Shanghae-Nanking Railway, thus constituting a breach of the terms of that railway's Loan Agreement (see Article 17), besides ignoring the Preliminary Agreement already referred to for the construction of the Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway.\n\n**A. H. COLLINSON.**\n\n(Signed)\n\nShanghae, May 2, 1907.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n### Principal Persons connected with the Chekiang Province Railway\n\n| Name | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| His Excellency Tang Shou Chuen |  |\n| His Excellency Liu Chin Chao |  |\n| Suu Te Chuen | Managing Director |\n| Lao Tse Chang | Assistant Managing Director |\n| Chang K'eh Ming | Assistant Director |\n|  | Engineer-in-charge of the construction work |\n|  | Ditto |\n\n* Not printed.\n\n592",
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        "content_text": "## 18. The guards on the above-mentioned launches shall always be in uniform and shall always carry their revolvers. They must always be prepared for emergencies. They must on no account congregate for the purpose of gambling or drinking, nor must they smoke opium. They must keep a particularly strict look-out at the time of the departure of the launches. Any breach of duty will be punished by dismissal and suitable penalties.\n\n14. The police on the above-mentioned launches will be provided with certificates in English and Chinese with the official seal attached to prevent any other person impersonating them.\n\n15. In addition to the police on the above-mentioned descriptions of launches, there are also police at all the larger ports of call whose duty it will be to examine intending passengers for concealed fire-arms. Any culprits found by the launch police in the illegal possession of fire-arms will be handed over by them to the land police to be brought before the local authorities for trial. If there is an alarm of pirates, a call will bring immediate assistance from the land police.\n\n16. If any member of the launch police is found to be incapable of carrying out his duties, he shall, in the case of single passenger launches, be reported by the captain; and, in the case of launches with tows, by the master of the tow to the launch police authorities, so that an efficient man may be found to replace him. Any of the police found in the possession of stolen goods, such as clothing, money, &c., shall, on satisfactory evidence that they are robbing passengers of their property, be court-martialled and executed on the spot.\n\n17. Any of the launch police having affairs of importance to attend to must first apply for leave to his head authority, and must not leave the launch before a substitute has taken his place.\n\n18. In addition to the supervisors appointed by the launch police authorities to control the system, there are also the officials of the Admiral, whose duty it will be to make secret inspections to ascertain whether the Regulations are being observed and whether the members of the force are efficient. They will make recommendations from time to time in order to prevent the system becoming ineffective in the lapse of time.\n\n19. All the above-mentioned descriptions of launches must only allow passengers to embark and disembark at the appointed places, namely:\n\n(1) Places on the waterways of the East River: \n| Place |\n| --- |\n| Whampoa |\n| Mi Chang |\n| Ma Chung |\n| Sui Tang |\n| Kwai Hai |\n| Shi Lung |\n| Lu Lan |\n| Teh Kang |\n| Sui Tsun |\n| Po Lo |\n| Whei Chow |\n| Han Kai |\n| Tao Kao |\n| Tung Kwan City |\n| Tai Pin |\n\n(2) Places in the district south of Canton City, and on the waterways of the West River:\n| Place |\n| --- |\n| Shih Pi |\n| Le Chu |\n| Po On Chung |\n| Hao Kao |\n| Yung Chi |\n| Kwei Chow |\n| Ma Kang |\n| Tung Ma Nin |\n| Si Ma Nin |\n| Chun An Hsu |\n| Kan Chu |\n| Chin Kiang |\n| Ho Tsin |\n| Ku Lao |\n| Tai Pin Hsu |\n| Fu Man |\n| Sze Hsien Kan |\n| Ma Kou |\n| Ho Kou (i.e., Samshui Beach) |\n| Tsin Chi |\n| Yung An |\n| Kwang Li |\n| Kou Li |\n| Pei Tu |\n| Shao Chin |\n| Lu Pu |\n| Yuch Chen |\n| Ho Ting Kou |\n| Liu Tu |\n| Te Ching |\n| Tu Cheng |\n| Fung Chuan |\n| Wuchow |\n| Lung Kiang |\n| Shui Teng |\n| Kuan Shan |\n| Huang Lien |\n| Lo Lou |\n| Li Hai |\n| San Hiang Miao |\n| Chou Chun |\n| Chao Lien |\n| Pei Kai Kou |\n| Chiang Men |\n| Tan Shui Kou |\n| Shuang Shui Kou |\n| Hsin Chang |\n| Ti Kai |\n| Hsiao Lan |\n| Kang Kon |\n| Shih Chi |\n\n(3) Places on the North River route:\n| Place |\n| --- |\n| Fu Shan |\n| Shih Mun |\n| Ts'u Tung |\n| Hsiao Tang |\n| Hsi Nan |\n| Samshui |\n| Lu Pao |\n| Shih Ko |\n| Tsin Yuen |\n\n(4) Places in the district north of Canton City, Tsung Hua, and Hua Hsien:\n| Place |\n| --- |\n| Shih Men |\n| Kwan Yao |\n| San Kiang Kou |\n| Nan Kiang Kou |\n| Wu Ho Hsu |\n| Tan Pu |\n| Chih Ni |\n| Pei Ni |\n\n20. Any of the above-mentioned descriptions of launches which act in contravention of these Regulations, either by taking passengers on board at unauthorized places en route or by omitting to carry out the search for concealed arms, will be subject to such penalties as the nature of the offence may require. If the launch concerned is foreign-owned, and the offender is a Chinese employed on board, the local authorities are to communicate with the nearest Commissioner of Customs, and the Commissioner, in turn, with the nearest Consul, who may send a deputy to watch the proceedings. If the offender is a foreigner, he is to be dealt with in a manner similar to that prescribed by Treaty when a foreigner is found travelling without a passport. He will be sent to the proper Consul through the Commissioner of Customs at the nearest port.\n\n21. At all places where such a course is practicable, the launches and tows referred to in these Regulations will hire for their regular use sampans and small boats to convey passengers to the launches and tows. The captains and masters of the launches and tows will at once notify the Inspector and police on the launches of every sampan or small boat so engaged by them; the Inspector will, in turn, notify the head of his Department. Where such sampans and small craft are regularly hired, no other boats shall be employed for the aforesaid purpose.\n\n22. These Regulations are provisional, and subject to Ministerial sanction at Peking.\n\n## (No. 26.)\n\nSir,\n\n### Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Consul-General Mansfield.\n\nPeking, June 4, 1907.\n\nYOUR despatch No. 19 of the 23rd April only reached me on the 24th May, and pressure of other work has prevented an earlier reply.\n\nThe Provisional Regulations for the suppression of piracy, copy of which you inclose, appear likely to increase the difficulty of giving effect to the engagement made by the Chinese Government to organize a preventive service under Customs control.\n\nAs you will be aware, from the copies of my recent despatches to Sir E. Grey, which have been sent to you, I have been holding the Wai-wu Pu to this engagement, and I should be very reluctant to convey the impression that, by accepting these tardy proposals of the Viceroy, we considered them all that is required. That the Chinese authorities intend this measure to take the place of the service of cruisers under Customs control is rendered evident by a message which I received on the 1st June from the Wai-wu Pu, communicating the substance of a telegram from the Viceroy to the Board of Finance, in which his Excellency urges that as he is prepared to take these measures it seems unnecessary for the Customs to spend money on cruisers, but, if they elect to do so, such vessels would of course only serve for the prevention of smuggling and have no powers to suppress piracy.\n\nIn view, however, of your telegram of the 3rd instant, from which it appears that the Rules have not been enforced, I think it would be advisable, considering the interpretation which the Wai-wu Pu evidently place upon them, that you should notify the Viceroy that they could only be accepted as a complement to the scheme to which the Wai-wu Pu have already given their assent.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) \n**J. N. JORDAN**",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nLadgriesto \n\nmece \n\nChisomy mad towel \n\nbrt Boy of berlgarno Ind I \n\n146 \n\nbratin, seeing that they concluded an agreement with them only a \nmonths ago, and it was plain to me that there was something more \nflattering preference behind Chang's persistent demand for the \nBank alone. In my opinion we have not far to look for the explanation \nof the forces which are working to shape the future of Hankow and \nthe upper Yangtsze at the present moment, none is more conspicuous \nand startling than the growing influence of the Japanese. There \nare said to be some 5000 Japanese in or about Muchang. They are found \nat Hangsha and at Iohang, their flag is to be seen everywhere on the \nriver, and the Viceroy, strongly pro-Japanese in his sympathies, is \nsurrounded by a ring of Japanese advisers whose influence is perceptible \nevery turn. Their distinct methods of business, and their peculiar \nfacilities for acquiring information, separate them from other foreigners. \nThat they have great ambitions in the Yangtsze valley there can be \nno manner of doubt, and their object seems to be to conquer as much by \nprocess of absorption by numbers, as by the ordinary competition of \ntrade. They evidently have reasons for attaching a great deal of importance \nto obtaining a share in the present railway scheme. They have \nmoney to contribute, but they have labour and they have materials, \nand it is therefore obviously of the greatest importance to them to \nsecure a share.\n\nIt is possible that the loan with which the railways are to be built \nshould carry with it no vexatious conditions likely to affect \nBritish interests in these fields of industry. \n\nIf this hypothesis is correct, and it is strikingly borne out by what \nhas come under my own observation, it is no longer difficult to \naccount...",
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        "content_text": "174 \n\n6 \n\nby annulling the whole Concession. In fact, it may be said that the Viceroy has got just as much right to grant the Concession to the Tien-tsin Bank as he would have to turn us out of the whole field altogether, including our present mines.\n\nOther facts, as stated in the Petition, with regard to Chang having raised the point of non-possession of proper sealed deeds in the Law Courts in England; also with regard to the stopping of boring at Pan Pe Tien and Ma Chia Kou by Taotai Yang pervert the truth. The statement that when Kuo Lian Shan petitioned the Board of Commerce for a mining permit for Pai Tao-tzu, Ch'enchialing, and Ma Chia Kou, the fact that no objection was made by the foreigners at Kaiping is clear evidence that the transfer does not confer any special rights in regard to such places is of course ridiculous. No objection was made, because it was known at the time that the proposed permit was not seriously meant for anything more than a threat against the Mining Company, and I decided that the movement was not of sufficient importance to warrant my taking serious action. This proved subsequently to be the correct view, as after a short time the attempt to open a mine was abandoned, an argument rather against the Tien-tsin Bank's scheme than for it.\n\nThe remaining paragraphs of this Petition form an attempt to prove that we have got no mining rights other than at Tongshan and Linsi, and that the boundaries of the new mine have been settled without interfering with the Kaiping Company. The statements made absolutely omit any reference to the Company's transfer or the agreement of the Company, and are therefore worthless.\n\nFrom the statements made by the Viceroy to Mr. Hopkins at their recent interview, it would appear as if the former were endeavouring to use the circumstances of the financial formation of the Company as an argument why it should not be recognized by the Government. It is extraordinary the way in which a presumably enlightened official like the Viceroy finds himself unable to separate the purely commercial affairs of the Company from its political position vis-à-vis the Government.\n\nThe financial arrangements concern the old Company and the new only, and have nothing whatsoever to do with the Government. If the old shareholders consider themselves aggrieved, it is open to them to point out any illegalities that have been committed if such were possible. They have not done so, and they have signified their acquiescence of the new state of things by accepting the transfer, in that for all practical purposes the whole of the shareholders of the old Company have converted their shares for shares in the new, and are, I believe, absolutely contented with the results that have been obtained, which have been far more satisfactory than any that were reached in the days of the old Company.\n\nThe Viceroy in this matter appears to accept the views spread about by the enemies of the Company, about whom I have already spoken to you, without in any way troubling himself to go into the details of the matter, and he uses such expressions as \"swindling\" in the most unjustifiable and reckless manner for one in such a high position.\n\nChang Yen Mao has had recourse to the Law Courts at home to remedy his grievances, and that course is still open to him, and no Government interference should, I consider, be tolerated in this matter after the whole subject has been thrashed out thoroughly in the highest Courts of Law in England. It must always be remembered that the Court of Appeal laid down clearly and emphatically that no case had been made out which could in any way justify rescission of the Company's rights, which is exactly what the Viceroy is seeking to do.\n\n**The Chinese Engineering and Mining Company (Limited), Tien-tsin, June 27, 1907.**\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n**Memorial by the Tien-tsin Government Bank submitting Scheme and Regulations for opening Coal Mines in Luanchow, together with further Petition from the Bank and Rescript thereon.**\n\n(Translation.)\n\n**Memorial.**\n\nIn the 12th moon of the 32nd year of Kuang Hsü, we (the bank) were instructed by the Viceroy to prepare a scheme immediately for raising capital for the purpose of working coal mines in the Luanchow district, which had already been surveyed by the Bureau of Railway Administration. We have already sent in various reports to your Excellency setting out what officers we had selected and dispatched to purchase land, and explaining our scheme for opening mines.\n\nAmong the natural resources of a country, mines take foremost rank, and in order to attain wealth and power, it is primarily essential that the resources of a country be developed. There has recently been a great development of trade in North China, and in consequence of the better facilities for transit and communication provided by steamers and railways, the population has become more numerous and the consumption of coal has greatly increased. Moreover, coal is the very life blood of the Imperial navy and Government factories. It is thus absolutely impossible for the supply of coal from the two mines at Kaiping and Linhsi to keep pace with the demand.\n\nIn accordance with instructions, the district of Luanchow has now been surveyed and land has been purchased in localities where traces of coal were found. We propose to begin operations at Machiakou, and to provide capital both by raising a loan and by means of shares. But, as the public welfare is concerned, it is necessary to draw up a proper scheme and regulations in order to guard against all eventualities in the future. We, the Commissioner and the Taotai, have therefore consulted together and have carefully elaborated a scheme for forming a Company with Regulations for the subscription of share capital, which, together with a map showing the boundaries of the mine, we beg to submit for your Excellency's consideration. We also inclose herewith a copy of the Regulations and map, which we beg that you will forward to the Nung Kung Shang Pu to be approved and recorded.\n\nWe have also, in accordance with the Regulations, applied for and received a mining permit, and have paid the fees thereon. We therefore now submit this Memorial, setting out all the facts for your Excellency's consideration and instructions thereon.\n\nWe would further point out that, under the Government Regulations, no mine may exceed in area 30 square li, but the object of opening this mine is to supply coal needed for Government purposes in North China. It thus differs in principle from other mines, and some slight distinction should be made. That is to say, the limit of area allowed for the mine should be extended, it being provided that no other mine may take this in future as a precedent.\n\n(The scheme and Regulations are appended hereto.)\n\n## A further Petition.\n\nWhen the Kaiping Mining Company first sank a shaft at Tongshan, Taotai Tang Ting Shu received the assent of Viceroy Li to his petition that no other person should open any mine within 10 li of Tongshan, but that if the price of coal should at any rise higher than 800 cash (“t'ung ch'ien\") per bushel (\"hu\"), the people would then be allowed to mine coal. A shaft was subsequently sunk at Linhsi, but in this case, there was no prohibition against opening other mines within 10 li thereof. The British Company's transfer Agreement recites the names of the following places: Panpitien, Machiakou, Wushuichuang, and Chaokochuang. But as no permission has ever been given to open mines at these places, this merely means that the Kaiping Company had purchased several tracts of land at these places which they hold on the same tenure as ordinary people who cultivate the soil and pay land tax; it has nothing whatever to do with opening mines. Moreover, no sealed deeds have ever been issued for the land in question, nor has the change of ownership ever been recorded in the Land Register of the territorial officials of Luanchow. This was a point raised by Taotai Chang Yi before the English Court of Law, and considered by the Judge to be of very great importance. Thus, year before last, the foreigners at Kaiping began boring at Panpitien and Machiakou, but on being forbidden to do so by Taotai Yang Hsi Ching and the Luanchow Magistrate, they desisted. Moreover, last year, when Kuo Lien Shan petitioned the Board of Commerce for a permit for Paitaotzu, Ch'enchialing, and Machiakou, the foreigners at Kaiping made no objection. This is clear evidence that the mere recital of names of places in the Company's transfer Agreement does not confer any special rights in regard to such places.\n\nThe boundaries of the mine, as settled by us, are, on the west, a line drawn 10 li from Tongshan and on the east 6 li from Liuhsi.\n\nNo objection can be made to this because the 10-li rule was not laid down in the case of Linhsi, and therefore, under the Government Regulations, they are only entitled to 30 square li of territory, which is... \n\n7 \n\n## Page 175",
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        "content_text": "## No. 96. Sir,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Pearson to Consul-General Sir P. Warren.\n\nShanghae, July 13, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that I paid a short visit to Hangchow, with your sanction, at the end of last quarter for the purpose of paying the Chinese staff of the Consulate, and preparing the quarterly accounts and Intelligence Report.\n\nI found that there were rumours then current among the Chinese of local disturbances throughout the province, which were attributed to several causes. The disturbances at Fuchou were said to be due to salt smugglers and the dearth of rice. Near Hangchow itself and throughout the silk-producing district, there was a great deal of discontent owing to the recent doubling of the tax on wound silk. At Kashing, it was reported that disbanded troops had joined the salt smugglers, and the Governor was said to be sending troops and guard-boats in some numbers to surround the city and suburbs to capture the rioters. On my return journey, I saw a number of these boats being towed in that direction in batches of ten or so. Earlier in June, there had appeared in the native press accounts of serious encounters between salt smugglers and guard-boats at Sungkiang Fu, in which the latter had lost several officers and many men.\n\nOn leaving Hangchow, I made arrangements with Mr. Murphy, head of the Settlement Police, and Mr. Paget, in temporary charge of Imperial Maritime Customs, to keep me informed of local events. On the 8th instant, I received a telegram from the former, and, on the 9th, a letter from the latter, warning me of disturbances at Kinhua-fu and at Shih Men Shan. The substance of these communications I telegraphed to His Majesty's Minister on the 9th instant. The information which my correspondents forwarded came from missionaries. I also telegraphed to the Governor, asking him to take adequate measures for the protection of missionaries, and he replied to the effect that he was telegraphing to the local officials, sending additional troops, and taking all precautions to insure the safety of missionaries and their establishments. I telegraphed to the missionaries that they were to retire upon Hangchow if they found it necessary.\n\nAt the moment of writing, a telegram has arrived from Hangchow, stating that the missionaries have left Chinhua Fu, as disturbances are still going on.\n\nThe Consulate writer, Yang, who is in touch with some of the yamêns, wrote on the 8th instant to the following effect:\n\nIn the Huchou district at Wang Chiang Ching, Kashing, at Yu Chien in the Shaoshing Prefecture, and at Kuang Te and Ssu An, on the borders of Anhui and Chekiang, bad characters have made trouble. I hear that those of Hangchow and Shaoshing are local rowdies. Those of Kashing and Huchou are members of the \"Ko Ming Tang.\" Requests for troops have come in from various quarters. Governor Chang is sending ten more gun-boats to suppress these disturbances. I hear also that these bad characters have imported arms from Japan to the Tai Hu neighbourhood. The Governor has sent an officer to secretly investigate this. There have been rice riots at Hui Chi Hsien during the middle of the month.\n\nOn the 9th instant, I received a telegram from Mr. Murphy stating \"the rice riots are not serious, according to the latest official report, and that missionaries are safe.\"\n\nFurther letters from missionaries in the district confirm the fact that at Lan Ch'i and Tungkang, there has been a certain amount of unrest, due mainly to the high price of rice, and also to the workings of the \"Chien Tao Hui,\" and, to a greater extent, of the \"Ko Ming Tang.\" The gentry have, in one case at least, approached the Missions with a view to obtaining drafts of troops for protection against the rowdies.\n\n## No. 13. Sir,\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Mortimore to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nNingpo, July 12, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report the occurrence of a serious riot at Ting-bai, on the Island of Chusan. It appears that extra taxes have of late been levied on land for the support of schools of foreign learning, which created much dissatisfaction. The Sub-Prefect in Charge was appealed to, and, in order to avoid a riot, consented to the tax being levied at the old rate. Subsequently, having come to the conclusion that the whole matter had been engineered by a military graduate named Hsü Jeu-i, he secretly reported him to the Governor at Hangchow, and received orders to arrest him. Hsü, having got wind of this, fled, and his arrest could not be effected, but, after some time, he visited his home and was arrested. The people then rose in a body, some 5,000 strong, went to the Sub-Prefect's yamên, and demanded his release, and, when this was refused, destroyed everything in the yamên, and carried off the Sub-Prefect's two sons. They then proceeded to wreck all the schools, as well as the houses of some people connected with them, taking two men prisoners as well as a sergeant who had tried to quiet the disturbance, but who was subsequently released. The rioters then occupied the town, and stopped all business. Troops were sent from Ningpo by Ti-t'ai, but their numbers were too few to effect much. Moreover, the rioters asserted that if anything happened to the military graduate Hsü, who had been previously removed for safety to Chinbai, or, if the troops attacked them, they would at once proceed to kill the two sons of the Sub-Prefect and the other two men held by them.\n\nThe authorities therefore found themselves unable to act, and matters remained in this state for a few days, but no further destruction of property took place. Strict orders seem to have been given by the leaders of the rioters that there was to be no looting; the property of the Sub-Prefect and the schools was to be utterly destroyed only.\n\nThe Sub-Prefect having come to Ningpo to discuss the matter with the Taotai, it was ultimately arranged that the military graduate should be released, which was at once carried into effect, and the two sons of the Sub-Prefect and their other two prisoners were set at liberty by the villagers. The affair is now settled, and the district quiet. No one is apparently to be punished, as the Sub-Prefect is held to have been responsible for the outbreak owing to his action in falsely accusing the graduate to the Governor.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) R. H. MORTIMORE.\n\nPage 130",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\n34798  \nPEOP  \nSeptember 9 OCT 07  \n\n## CHINA TRADE\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[30120]  \nNo. 1.  \n## SECTION 1\n\n(No. 363.) Sir,  \nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 9.)  \nPeking, July 24, 1907.\n\nIN pursuance of a representation which he recently received from the Chambers of Commerce of Hong Kong, Shanghae, and Tien-tsin, the doyen of the Diplomatic Corps addressed a note, copy of which I have the honour to inclose, to Prince Ching, again calling the attention of his Highness to the disabilities under which foreign trade is labouring owing to the delay in the establishment of a uniform national coinage.\n\nIn his reply, copy of which is likewise inclosed, the Prince states that the question is now under the consideration of a Commission, composed of officials in the Grand Secretariat and other departments of State, who will make a report to the Throne, after which his Highness promises to furnish fuller information on the subject.\n\nIn spite of his assurances, I regret to say that no material advance has, so far as I can ascertain, been made towards the attainment of a uniform system of currency. At the same time it must be admitted that in certain respects at least the Chinese Government have shown some appreciation of the disadvantages of irresponsible action on the part of the provinces.\n\nRestrictions have been placed on the issue of copper coin from the provincial mints, the experiment which his Excellency Chang Chih-tung was authorized to make of introducing a tael coinage has been stopped, and its failure seems to have convinced the central Government that the dollar must be adopted as the standard coin.\n\nApart from the above, and the visit of inspection which his Excellency Ch'ên Pi, the Vice-President of the Board of Finance, lately made of the provincial mints, China has not yet taken any effective measures towards accomplishing the difficult task she set herself by the second Article of the British Treaty of 1902.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\nThe Doyen of the Diplomatic Body to Prince Ching.\n\nImperial Highness,  \nPeking, June 12, 1907.\n\nTHE serious disabilities under which foreign trade in China has been labouring by reason of the incessant and often violent fluctuations in the gold value of silver are well known to the Imperial Government of China, and remedial measures, particularly the early adoption of a uniform coinage, have, we are aware, received its careful attention within the last few years; none have, however, we believe, met with its approval, and the difficulty of the situation appears to be increasing, and proves ever more disturbing to foreign commercial interests in China.\n\nThe gravity of the situation thus created, and the difficulty in which the foreign Representatives at Peking find themselves to reassure their nationals, and to hold out to them hopes for a betterment, have led them to request me to address your Imperial Highness on the subject, and to ask if it be not possible that some assurance be given them that the measures now under consideration for the adoption of a uniform coinage are such that a favourable and early solution of the question can be hoped for. Such assurances they could in turn communicate to the commercial bodies engaged in the China trade, and they would unquestionably allay all apprehension on that point, and re-establish confidence, so essential to commercial undertakings of every nature.",
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        "content_text": "# Chengtu\n\nHis Majesty's Acting Consul-General, reporting early in June on the attitude of the Provincial Government towards the eradication of the opium habit, states that the first points over which the Government is likely to come into collision with the people are the collection of the new opium tax and the closing of the opium dens. As regards the first, the struggle has begun, as it has been reported from Kai-hsien that the mob had raided and destroyed the recently-established opium hongs in that city, while from various small towns in the Chengtu Plain news comes of riots directed against these unpopular establishments. The poppy has been harvested in most places, and the new season's opium is now being placed on the market. There are rumours that the authorities, in face of the growing opposition to the new tax, are endeavouring to obtain the permission of the Central Government to revert to the old system. These rumours were confirmed in conversation between the Taotai of Chunking and the Acting British Consul at that port. On the other hand, a Proclamation by the Provincial Director of opium taxation, which must have been issued shortly before or even after the conversation above referred to, reiterates the Government's intention to proceed with the new tax of 115 taels per picul on all opium, whether for export or local consumption, and warns the people of the consequences their refusal to pay the tax will entail. A reversion to the old rate will have the effect of cheapening the drug for local consumers, and it is difficult to see how the Chinese Government can sanction such a retrograde step.\n\nAs regards the second point, a Proclamation was issued by the Viceroy on the 31st May indicating that the opium divans would be closed on the 9th August, and that the preparation and sale of opium would be a Government monopoly. In Chengtu, with the assistance of an efficient police, it is possible they may succeed, though not without some resistance being offered; but in the provinces, more particularly in the opium producing centres east and south of Chunking, the issue seems very doubtful, and will depend entirely on the power of the local officials to enforce their orders.\n\nThe Acting Viceroy subsequently informed His Majesty's Consul-General that, realizing what a serious, possibly fatal, matter the closing of all opium divans and shops on the 9th August would be for the poorer classes of opium smokers, he had ordered arrangements to be made for the opening of official opium shops where prepared opium and opium requisites would be sold in small quantities to all registered smokers. His Excellency said that the people objected to this method of suppressing the use of opium because it deprived the poor of their pipe by making the price prohibitive, and made opium smoking a luxury of the rich.\n\n## Reports from missionaries in the Province of Szechuan are as follows:\n\n| Location        | Report                                                                                                                                                   |\n|---------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Pao Ning-fu   | New Proclamation ordering opium divans to be closed on the 9th August. Opium smokers to be registered. The people are reported to be callous.           |\n| Mien Chu Hsien | Opium dens are ordered to be closed by the 9th August (end of 6th moon), no tax to be collected on opium dens after 3rd moon. A Proclamation exhorting people to abandon opium cultivation was issued by the Magistrate last autumn. Only about 1 per cent. of ground is under cultivation this spring. People are sympathetic, and some \"mildly enthusiastic.\" |\n| Nan Pu-Hsien  | Proclamation posted containing usual orders re closing of opium divans. No official steps taken to reduce area under cultivation, but many farmers have voluntarily destroyed crops, fearing reduced demand this year. Marked increase in number of persons applying for opium remedies at Mission dispensary. |\n| Yung Hsien    | Proclamation against poppy growing issued by Magistrate last year. Great reduction of area under cultivation noticeable this year. Officials sympathetic, and people enthusiastic. |\n| Hsin Tien Tzu  | Proclamation posted, but no definite measures taken to restrict sale of opium. Not an opium growing district.                                                      |\n| Kuan Hsien    | Imperial (anti-opium) Decree posted in January 1907. Register of smokers and non-smokers opened in Magistrate's yamên, the former given a limit in which to abandon habit on pain of dismissal. Attitude of officials and gentry favourable; small area under cultivation; opium dens to be closed at end of 6th moon (9th August). |\n| Tan Lan Hsien | Opium divans closed by Magistrate's orders (25th May, 1907).                                                                                             |\n\n## Chungking\n\nMissionary reports received from the Consular district are not encouraging. A general review of them gives the impression that the local officials are waiting for more precise and detailed instructions as to the methods by which they are to carry out the Edict, being themselves unwilling to take the responsibility for a course of action calculated to rouse violent popular opposition. One measure alone will in all probability be enforced, i.e., the closing of all opium dens in the 6th moon, but disturbances are almost certain to arise when the frequenters of opium dens are thrown upon their own resources. In the meantime the officials are for the most part content to fill in the time trifling with more or less innocuous anti-opium medicines.\n\nAt Suifu and Chiangan, there has been little done except in the medicine line. At Suifu an attempt has been made to register smokers, and at Chiangan there is talk of opening official depôts for the sale of opium.\n\n## Kueichou Province\n\nThe same conditions prevail here as in Szechuan.\n\n## Hankow\n\nHis Majesty's Consul-General, in summarizing further reports received from missionaries stationed in Honan, Hupei, Hunan, Kansu, and Shensi, states that \"the reports from Honan (three in number) state that Proclamations were issued and dates given for closing the dens, but that no official action has since been taken. The Governor is reported to have broken off the habit, but otherwise absolute indifference seems to mark the attitude of officials and gentry alike. The ground in the vicinity of the provincial capital is too poor to produce poppy, and although no new ground has been planted with poppy in the other districts under consideration, the general impression seems to be that the failure to plant is dictated by a feeling of uncertainty, owing to the undecisive nature of the official warning, rather than by any desire to obey the Edict. In Ching Tze Kuan, however, two-thirds of the old poppy ground was planted with wheat this year.\n\nThe replies to queries 4, 5, and 6 (respecting restrictions on smokers, closing of opium dens or shops, inspection of opium dens) are uniformly negative, while answers to query 7 (respecting use of medicines to cure habit) furnish no more satisfactory statement than that a few poor have been relieved by the aid of the missions. The replies on which this despatch is based, with very few exceptions, offer little variety—\"none,\" \"nothing,\" \"nothing at all,\" and \"indifference\" appearing most frequently although in some cases it is apparent, in spite of all the optimistic writer is endeavouring to persuade himself, that something \"may\" be done in the future.\n\n### Hupei (two Reports)\n\nProclamations issued only in Hu-cheng hsien, where one inspection was held, an official register of the opium dens (forty-nine in all) made, and a limit of six months given for closing. Mr. Sibley adds that the Ku-ch'eng Magistrate pulled up all his own crop, but minimizes the apparent virtue of this action by stating that he did so guided by a hope that money might be made out of supporting the prohibition. Beyond this action of the Magistrate nothing has been done, although it is said that the gentry have tried to break off the habit.\n\nIn Ku-ch'eng the poppy is not sufficiently cultivated for any observations under query 3, and it is stated that in Chun-chou and Yun-yang 70 to 80 per cent. of the land is under poppy, and that there is an increase in ground planted. An emphatic negative or absolute silence marks all the answers to the next three queries, i.e., respecting restrictions on smokers, closing of and inspecting of shops or dens. Regarding the use of medicines to cure the habit, the only cure offered in the majority of cases is a pill containing either morphia or opium; but Mr. Sibley states that merchants and missionaries are selling a medicine put up at Shanghae, and adds that thousands will use the Indian anti-opium medicines if it proves a success.\n\n### Hunan\n\nYuan-chou Fu and Chih-chiang hsien. It appears from this report that the steps taken in these districts have been more genuine than those taken elsewhere. On the 23rd May the Governor issued a Proclamation referring to the \"Ten Articles,\" and detailing measures to be taken by the officials, touching also in a general way on the closing of dens, &c. December is fixed as the date for closing, and the sale is to be restricted if possible to one licensed shop; moreover, refuges are to be opened in which assistance can be got by those wishing to get cured.\n\nPage 286",
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        "content_text": "## 207\n\n4\n\nThe Colonel had already in January, on information contained through the local press, given his soldiers three months in which to break off the habit, and had dismissed those who failed to do so; local opinion is generally in favour of the prohibition. The Magistrate, a heavy smoker, has given up the use of opium, and others are following his example. Mr. Witt, however, does not consider that any remarkable movement has as yet started, and mentions the fact that some are buying ahead for the time when the sale will be definitely forbidden. No measures have as yet been taken to restrict the cultivation of poppy, and 10 per cent. of the land is said to be used for its growth. The invariable reply in the negative as to the restrictions on smokers is again given, but all dens are to be closed by the end of June. As far as medicines are concerned, pills containing opium are used, and also a plant found in the hills.\n\n## Kansu (three Reports)\n\nThe \"Ten Articles\" were posted in Chin Chou on the 10th May, and no further action was taken; the publication caused a little talk for a few days, but nothing was done, as officials were awaiting more stringent orders from Peking. In Ping-liang and Ch'in Chou there is an increase in the area planted; an official at the latter place exhorted the people by proclamation \"to plant for all they were worth,\" the result being that five times the usual amount was sown. Nothing has been done to restrict smokers, but Mr. Harding makes the significant remark that the increase in the price of opium has caused people to take to drink. At Ku-kiang the `pao Kuei` tax has been removed and more opium has been sold than ever, whereas an increase in the same tax at Ch'in Chou has caused shops to close. Excepting the above statement, queries 5 and 6 are answered in the negative. A Proclamation was issued at Ch'in Chou telling the people of a herb for a cure, and giving an illustration of it, but beyond that nothing further has been done.\n\n## Shensi (three Reports)\n\nAt Wukung in November of last year a Proclamation was issued containing a general exhortation against planting, and in January of this year the \"Ten Articles\" were published. The Decree was also published in Lan-tien, and the Magistrate sent out a preacher to exhort the people to give up the habit, smokers also being forbidden to teach in the schools. The Decree was published in Li-chuan on the 29th May. The attitude of the gentry is generally described as indifferent, and as far as cultivation is concerned an increase is reported from Wukung. The remaining queries are all answered negatively with the exception of the mention of a few missionary efforts to cure the people by the use of medicine supplied by the Missions.\n\n## Ichung\n\nHis Majesty's Consul reported on the 1st July that, so far as he could ascertain, no steps had up to that date been taken to enforce the Opium Regulations in the Ichang district.\n\n## Kashgar\n\nMr. Macartney reported at the end of April, \"The Chinese orders prohibiting the use of opium have so far had no effect on the Chinese population of Yarkand, Karghalik, Goma, and Khotan. Indeed, most of the Chinese seem to be ignorant of the existence of the order.\"\n\n## Kiukiang\n\nA missionary in the Kiukiang Consular district reports from I-yang, a district in which practically no land is devoted to the cultivation of the poppy, that nothing has yet been done to restrict smokers nor to inspect opium shops. No Proclamations had been issued up to May, but a new Mandarin had arrived who was said to be preparing one. No official action had been taken in pursuance of the Imperial Regulations, nor had the local officials and gentry set any example in giving up the habit. Medicines had been ordered from Nanchang, but none had as yet arrived.\n\nFurther missionary reports are to the same effect, though in the Kian prefecture one missionary stated on the 14th June that a Proclamation was about to be issued, the gist of which was to be to the effect that all opium dens must be closed by the 8th August, and that no opium is to be retailed in inns or restaurants after that date.\n\nStill further missionary reports state that practically nothing whatever is being done to enforce the Imperial Regulations, though it is thought that in August something may be begun.\n\n5\n\n## Mongolia\n\nA missionary with an area of observation of about 800 English square miles reports from Kwei-hua-cheng that more land is devoted to poppy cultivation this year than last. The Tartar General has issued a strict Proclamation to the Mongols against the use of opium, and it is said that they have obeyed the command, but the Chinese still continue to sow, to sell, and to smoke as before.\n\n## Ningpo\n\nMissionary reports forwarded by His Majesty's Consul show that except for a few Proclamations nothing has been done towards enforcing the Imperial Regulations, while in some districts more land is being devoted to the poppy than before.\n\nEarly in June a Proclamation was issued by the Magistrate under instructions from Hangchow to the effect that all opium shops were to be closed on the 8th August. The Magistrate as well as the Prefect were confirmed opium-smokers, but it is stated that both have now given up the habit.\n\n## Peking\n\nA native newspaper published on the 28th June that, \"The Government Council is considering the imposition of a fine, varying with the rank of the offender, on all officials, from Princes and Ministers down to the lowest ranks, who fail to abandon the use of opium, the proceeds of the fine to be devoted to the 'patriotic fund'.\"\n\n## Tengyueh\n\nHis Majesty's Consul reports that various officials have informed him that no steps will be taken to carry out the Imperial Regulations until the autumn. The Regulations are not, it appears, being looked upon by the officials or the people seriously. It is difficult to see how the Chinese can suppress the poppy cultivation; the vast majority of officials never go outside their yamên walls except to pay calls. Exhortation will certainly not deter the Yunnanese from cultivating poppy and producing opium, and force dare not be applied.\n\n## Tien-tsin\n\nA missionary, writing on the 21st March from beyond the Great Wall, states that Proclamations, giving the gist of the Edict dealing with opium, have been scattered widely over the territory, and a heavy tax will be imposed on land used for its growth. The general impression is said to be that the programme would not be seriously carried out unless there were some strong men at head-quarters to make the Governors and District Magistrates of the Empire feel that serious business is meant. A native has informed the same missionary that, in his opinion, there is too much opium used in the Palace for the crusade to be pushed too hard. From Lucheng, South Shensi, it is reported that the Magistrate, \"a big opium smoker and eater, has done nothing beyond posting the provincial Proclamations in the yamên. Taxes to be increased. No local movement.\" Of the city of Li Cheng it is reported that the Magistrate is a non-smoker, and has posted a Proclamation, giving ten years to slowly cease growing, the tax being increased each year. From Hsuan Hua-fu, three days north of Peking, the issue is reported of a Proclamation by the Governor ordering people to abandon opium. But a later Proclamation by a local official requested the people still to cultivate the poppy, otherwise great loss to revenue would ensue. So the people are perplexed what to do. The Prefect and District Magistrate are freely distributing native-made opium medicines to those desirous of breaking off the habit. In Hsuan Hua-fu only about ... per cent. of the land is planted with poppy, the land being too poor for such cultivation. The gentry seem indifferent in the matter. From Taiyuan-fu it is reported by a missionary, who recently visited the places where opium is most extensively cultivated in Shansi, that on the borders of the district he found there was some diminution this year in the amount of opium grown, but in disregard of the Governor's Edicts, throughout the greater portion of the district the cultivation of the poppy was being carried on as extensively as ever.",
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        "content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\naux tiers; nous pourrions donc, si un arrangement avec la \"Chinese Engineering and Mining Company (Limited)\" devait en fin de compte être impossible, chercher, sans enfreindre aucune règle d'équité, une entente directe avec la Chine.\n\nLes assurances de bon vouloir que me réitère votre Excellence dans sa lettre d'hier m'inspirent heureusement la confiance qu'un recours à cette ressource extrême sera évité.\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nVeuillez, &c.\n(Signé) \n[30123] \n**EDMOND BAPST**\n\n(No. 366.) Sir,\n\n## SECTION 9\n\n### Inclosure 18 in No. 1\n\nExtract from the Procès-verbal of the Fourth Sitting of the Corps Diplomatique, November 5, 1900.\n\nM. DE COLOGAN rappelle à ses collègues qu'il leur a communiqué une lettre de M. de Giers relative aux mesures à prendre pour éviter des difficultés à l'avenir à l'occasion des agrandissements des terrains des Légations. Celles-ci ont occupé une partie des emplacements de leur voisinage appartenant à l'État ou à des particuliers, afin d'y installer leurs escortes. Cette extension des Légations, nécessitée par les besoins de défense commune, pourrait rencontrer des difficultés si les terrains occupés par elles étaient achetés en sous-main aux Chinois par des spéculateurs étrangers, dans un but que personne ne saurait approuver. Pour prévenir ces transactions irrégulières et éviter toute source de difficultés futures, M. de Giers croit qu'il serait utile de décider en commun d'avertir les ressortissants des Légations, qu'aucun achat de terrains aux Chinois, depuis le commencement du siège, dans le quartier dont il s'agit, ne saurait être valable sans l'assentiment des Ministres Étrangers, et qu'une Commission de Délégués de chaque Légation sera réunie pour fixer les limites du Quartier Diplomatique.\n\nCette proposition, mise aux voix par le doyen, est adoptée à l'unanimité.\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey\n\n(No. 1.)\n\nPeking, July 25, 1907.\n\nWITH reference to my telegram No. 136, I now have the honour to inclose copies of the letter which I addressed to the Wai-wu Pu on the 10th July, respecting the piracy of the British launch \"Chi Chang (or \"Ki Cheung\"), near Canton, and of Mr. Mansfield's despatch No. 33 of the 12th July, describing this occurrence.\n\nIt will be seen from this inclosure that the attack was carried out by armed pirates, four of whom were on board in the guise of passengers and who assumed control of the launch. As soon as they had done so, they were joined by six confederates who came alongside in a boat and set about pillaging the launch.\n\nThey were pursued by a Chinese gun-boat, but escaped, after running the launch into a shallow creek.\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\nAs regards the observations of His Majesty's Consul-General on the subject of the scheme for patrolling the river with cruisers under Customs control, I have no doubt whatever that the Provincial opposition to the scheme has been fostered by the lukewarm attitude of Sir R. Hart, and the obstructive temper of the present Commissioner of Customs at Canton. The inclosed extract from a private letter received from His Majesty's Vice-Consul while in temporary charge of the Consulate-General will serve to show the tendency exhibited by Mr. King, the Commissioner of Customs, to overdo his part as a servant of the Chinese Government, and if the scheme under Customs control is introduced as a result of pressure brought to bear on the Chinese Government on account of this fresh case of piracy, it will still be necessary to induce Sir Robert Hart to see that his Commissioner deals sympathetically with the measure.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) **J. N. JORDAN**\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\nSir J. Jordan to Prince Ch'ing.\n\nJuly 10, 1907.\n\nHIS Majesty's Consul at Canton has reported by telegraph that on the 6th July the British launch \"Ki Cheung\" was pirated at a place some 9 miles from Canton. No lives were lost, but the losses of property belonging to the crew and passengers amounted to a value of about 400 dollars.\n\nI have the honour to request that urgent instructions may be sent by telegraph to the Acting Viceroy to effect the immediate arrest of the pirates concerned, and to pay over at once to His Majesty's Consul-General full compensation for the losses, of which a list will be furnished to his Excellency by Mr. Mansfield.\n\nIf this is not carried out at once, I shall be obliged to submit the case by telegraph to His Majesty's Government for such action as they may deem necessary.\n\nSoliciting the favour of an early reply.\n\nI avail, &c.\n(Signed) **J. N. JORDAN**\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n(No. 33.)\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nCanton, July 12, 1907.\n\nI HAD the honour on the 9th instant to telegraph to you reporting the piracy of the British launch \"Ki Cheung\" off San Shan Kao, some 9 miles from Canton. I now...",
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        "content_text": "272 \n\n2 \n\nThis complete volte-face on the part of the Viceroy closes a phase of the negotiations which has latterly degenerated into something very like comic opera. It has, indeed, been impossible during the past fortnight to keep pace by letter with the almost daily developments which have taken place, and I do not propose to weary you with a recapitulation of their intricate details. All I will now attempt is a review of the later phases assumed by the negotiations, of the causes at work, and of the position in which, in my judgment, the general question of the loan is now left. Copies of telegrams which have passed since the 21st June are here inclosed.\n\nThe interview of the 26th June with the Viceroy's deputies, who had evidently come armed with very precise instructions, convinced me that there were other forces at work besides the legitimate desire of the Viceroy to extract from us favourable terms. It seemed to me just possible that if the Viceroy could be induced to accept the British and Chinese Corporation as the principal party to the Agreement, the objections of the French might be overcome. He could assign no reasons except sentimental ones for not doing so. The Peking Government could have no possible objection to the British and Chinese Corporation, seeing that they concluded an Agreement with them only a few months ago, and it was plain to me that there was something more than flattering preference behind Chang's persistent demand for the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank alone. In my opinion, we have not far to look for the explanation.\n\nOf the forces which are working to shape the future of Hankow and of the Upper Yang-tsze at the present moment, none is more conspicuous or more striking than the growing influence of the Japanese. There are said to be some 5,000 Japanese in or about Wuchang. They are found at Changsha and at Ichang, their flag is to be seen everywhere on the river, and the Viceroy, strongly pro-Japanese in his sympathies, is surrounded by a ring of Japanese advisers, whose influence is perceptible at every turn. Their distinct methods of business and their peculiar way of acquiring information separate them from other foreigners. That they have great ambitions in the Yang-tsze valley, there can be no manner of doubt, and their object seems to be to conquer as much by a process of absorption by numbers as by the ordinary competition of trade. They evidently have reasons for attaching a great deal of importance to obtaining a share in the present railway scheme. They have no money to contribute, but they have labour and they have materials, and it is therefore obviously of the greatest importance to them to arrange, if possible, that the loan with which the railways are to be built should carry with it no vexatious conditions likely to affect them in these fields of industry.\n\nIf this hypothesis is correct—and it is strikingly borne out by what has come under my own observation—it is no longer difficult to account for the Japanese objection to the British and Chinese Corporation, and for their strong preference for the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank, which, as a purely financial institution, does not concern itself with the questions of labour and materials.\n\nWith this conviction in my mind, and under the discouraging impression of the interview of the 26th June, at which the deputies practically went back on every clause of the proposed Agreement which made the business possible, I sent you my telegram of the 27th June, and the promptness of your reply showed at least that you had little hesitation in approving the action proposed.\n\nMy own opinion was equally clear, but I was in a somewhat different position. I felt, when it came to the point, that I had to consider not only the interests of the bank, but those of the British Government, which, in this respect, had practically been committed to my charge, and I had therefore to consider how far I was justified in jeopardizing, without the gravest reasons, the British preference which our Government had been at so much pains to obtain.\n\nOn the 29th June, I received a note from the Specie Bank, asking if the Japanese Consul might call and see me. The account of this interview and the subsequent interview and correspondence with Mr. Midzuno, I inclose herewith.\n\nHe evidently came to see me under express instructions, and the correspondence will interest you as disclosing the Japanese point of view on this side.\n\nMr. Midzuno's recollections of what passed at these interviews did not accord at all times with mine, but you will note that, with regard at least to the nominal nature of the participation which the Specie Bank desires to have in the issue of the loan, Mr. Midzuno and I are agreed. The request to appear in the prospectus merely as an agent to receive applications for bonds appears harmless enough, however unaccountable its motive, and perhaps you can see your way to conceding them this much.\n\nOn the 30th June, I received a note from Fraser, who was away at Kuling, which confirmed my opinion as to the necessity for prudence in taking the step proposed in \nmy telegram to you of the 27th June, and I accordingly left for Kuling that night in order to confer with him.\n\nOn my return to Hankow on the 3rd July, I found that Cordes had called to see me. He told Taylor that he had been staying at the Viceroy's yamên since the 28th ultimo, arranging the Tien-tsin-Chinkiang Final Agreement. The Viceroy had mentioned my negotiations, and Cordes had made him an offer; he did not tell Taylor what the offer was. As he, Cordes, was leaving on the previous day, the Viceroy told him he had just received a telegram from the Wai-wu Pu instructing him not to proceed with his negotiations with me.\n\nI reported this to the Consulate, who wired it to the Legation, and Sir J. Jordan at once asked for an interview with the Wai-wu Pu. The Board, I understand, informed Sir John that they had heard of the negotiations going on in Hankow, and had wired to Chang Chih-Tung to ask him what it was all about, but they could get no reply out of him. They raised no objection to the French, nor, in principle, to Chang's borrowing; they only wanted him to make a clean breast of it and let them know what his requirements were and what he was doing. They did not confirm the statement that they had wired to Chang not to proceed with the negotiations. The German Minister, they said, had called on them on the subject, and, from his attitude, they feared there would be some trouble with him. With regard to the principle of borrowing money for public works and spending it on railways, they were not prepared at the moment to express an opinion; they wanted further information from Chang.\n\nThe result of this interview was telegraphed by Sir John Jordan to Fraser, who had in the meantime returned from Kuling. Fraser telegraphed to Peking for instructions how to act in the event of Chang attempting to break off negotiations over the question of French participation. Your own instructions to myself on this point, I looked upon as covered by your telegram to me of the 4th July.\n\nSir J. Jordan's reply was to the effect that Fraser should, in the event named, warn the Viceroy against the consequences of his unfriendly attitude towards the French, and hold him to his engagement with the British Government.\n\nArmed with these instructions, we prepared ourselves for a somewhat disagreeable interview with Chang on the 7th instant.\n\nThe Viceroy, however, was never more cheerful. He at once launched into an exposition of his views on the new situation which had been created by Sir J. Jordan's interview with the Wai-wu Pu, winding up with the astounding proposition that not only the French, but also the Germans, should be admitted as parties to the Loan Agreement.\n\nMr. Fraser observed that, before committing himself to any opinion on this proposal, it would be necessary for him to ascertain the views of his Government; and, for my own part, I suggested that it appeared a good moment for me to return to Peking and explain his Excellency's views to Sir J. Jordan and the Wai-wu Pu. The Viceroy approved of the last suggestion, and proceeded to furnish me with instructions for my mission. I was, he said, to inform the Wai-wu Pu of the nature and object of the loan, its amount, term, interest, price, and security, but I was not to discuss with them the other conditions of the Agreement, as the Viceroy preferred to retain the settlement of these in his own hands. As the Edict of 1905 prohibiting the borrowing of foreign money for railway construction is still in force, the Viceroy could not call this a railway loan. At the same time, I was to point out that no mortgage of any railway line or other condition derogatory to China's rights is proposed. The Province of Hupei is very hard up, and the experience of the last two years has clearly shown that it is impossible to raise the large sums required for railway construction by means of share capital alone. If, therefore, railways are to be constructed, the funds for their construction must be largely diverted from the provincial revenues, and if from the revenues of one Department, why not from those of the Public Works Department? Again, Tsen Shun-hsuan, Viceroy-designate of Canton, is treating with the Government for permission to borrow on exactly similar lines. Why should he, Chang, not receive at their hands the same consideration as his colleague Tsen? If the objections of the Wai-wu Pu are founded on the fear of offending other nations, I am to suggest that equal participation be given to the Great Powers, England, France, and Germany, although the Viceroy would prefer that the Agreement should be made in the name of the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank alone, the provisions for participation being embodied in a final clause, as in the 1905 Loan Agreement. Having arranged these points satisfactorily with the Wai-wu Pu, I am to let him know through Mr. Fraser, and we can then proceed to the discussion of the other terms of the Agreement.\n\n[2636 i-4]",
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        "content_text": "## \nmonths. His predecessor, Governor-General Ting, had caused Regulations to be drawn up under which it became incumbent on all officials to report, within one month from the date of receiving those Regulations, their addiction to the vice if such existed, and to break off the habit within the ensuing half-year. Four months have since passed, and Hsi Chih-tai observes that not a single opium-smoking official has registered his name, nor have the Council submitted a list of the delinquents. The order has been treated as a dead letter, either because the higher officials are themselves given to the vice (this may be a hit at the present Acting Judicial Commissioner, Tseng-hou, an inveterate smoker) or to show favour and indulgence. The close of the 6th moon (8th August) in the case of Yunnan-fu officials, and that of the 7th moon (7th September) for all other districts, remain the dates before which the opium habit must be abandoned. Those who have never acquired the habit or who have quitted it must, together with their supervising deputy, enter into bonds. Returns must be made, for civilians, by the Financial Commissioner; for students, by the Commissioner for Education; for officers in the Guards, the New Levies, or the old Green Standard, by their respective Commandants. Any attempt at fraud or concealment will be visited by dismissal from the service.\n\nAs regards putting a limit to cultivation, a necessary preliminary is a faithful return of the acreage under poppy. On his way to Yunnan-fu from Szechuan, the Governor-General noticed that the fields bearing the opium poppy far exceeded those planted with beans or wheat. The best lands were given up to this scourge; yet no one, official or private person, saw anything wrong in it. Returns must now, without fail, be furnished of the amount of land which in the present year has been devoted to the poppy, of the number of the cultivators, and of how it is proposed to deal with each case. Such returns are to be got ready within one month; any delay or carelessness will meet with severe punishment.\n\nSo far the Governor-General. The Financial Commissioner declares that, in conjunction with the Judicial Commissioner and with the approval of the late Governor-General Ting, he had long since issued circular instructions to the officials of Yunnan Province to register within a month, and to abandon opium-smoking within six months. He had further directed them to furnish complete returns of all lands under opium, specifying acreage, ownership, and quality. \"Much time has since elapsed,\" the Commissioner continues, \"and the body of civil officials has not come to this yamên to report. Those who have presented themselves have affirmed either that they did not smoke or had abandoned the habit, while very few indeed confessed to the vice. There must, it is much to be feared, have been prevarication, for superior officers cannot but be aware of the proclivities of their juniors. As regards the country districts, no reports from the Intendants, Prefects, or local Magistrates have reached the Governor-General or the Financial Commissioner.\" Strict orders are now given for returns to be sent in to the Commissioner's yamên, for Yünnan-fu officials, by the end of the 6th moon (8th August), and for all others in the province, by the end of the 7th moon (7th September).\n\nMeanwhile, on the 19th July, was founded at Yünnan-fu an Anti-Opium Bureau (\"Yunnan tung-sheng chin-yen tsung-chu\"), the objects and powers of which were set forth in a Notification appearing in the \"Gazette\" for the 5th July.\n\nThe Notification begins by citing instructions issued by Governor-General Hsi. These commence with the usual denunciations of the drug, whose evils are especially conspicuous in Yunnan Province. The Governor-General established for his last government of Szechuan, in 1906, an Anti-Opium Bureau at Ch'engtu, under the direction of his Council, and now gives orders for a similar establishment at Yunnan-fu. Employment in the Bureau is to be honorary, so as to save expense. The Bureau is to serve as a model for others to be from time to time set up in the Prefectures, Departments, and districts.\n\nThe Governor-General's exordium is followed by the Regulations, or rather by some of them. Regulations 1-4, which apparently deal with the constitution of the Bureau and its personnel, are not published. The rest may be summarized thus:\n\n## Regulations\n\n| Regulation | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| **5** | (1.) Local officials and police are to ascertain how many men and women, and of what ages, in Yunnan-fu and its suburbs smoke opium. A return must be made within one month. Smokers will either apply to the Bureau for a remedy or will buy elsewhere one approved by the Bureau. The more able-bodied must abandon smoking within six months; the old and feeble within one year. |\n|  | (2.) Similar returns for the country districts will be made by the trainband captains (\"tuan-chang\"), who will be responsible in case of fraud. |\n|  | (3.) Each shop purveying prepared opium in the city must be noted by the police, and the proprietor must within half a month procure from the Bureau a licence, good for one year, after which the business must cease. Selling without a licence will be treated as a crime. |\n|  | (4.) Remedies cannot be sold until they have been tested by the Bureau and a certificate of efficiency issued. |\n|  | (5.) The Bureau will publish quarterly returns of the number of those who have been cured of the craving. |\n| **6** | (1.) Smokers without families can stay at the Bureau for their cure, in a class of twenty and for a period of twenty days. The class complete, no more will be admitted; the period passed, all must go. Food will be provided by the Bureau at a cost of 5 candarins (say, 2d.) a-day. |\n|  | (2.) Those crowded out will have their names entered on a list, and will receive remedies daily. At the close of the time allowed for cure—six months or one year, as the case may be (see Regulation 5)—the patients will be medically examined. |\n| **7** | (1.) Officials. Civilians will be supervised by the Financial Commissioner; the military, by the Ying-wu Chu (Military Secretariat). Each smoker's record of service will be sent to the Bureau. The time limit fixed by the Notification of the 1st moon (February), viz., the 8th August, will be extended to the end of the 8th moon (6th October), by which time all officials must have abandoned the habit, under pain of dismissal if less than 60 years of age or of forced retirement if over 60. Meanwhile, lists must be drawn up and sent in within ten days (that is, apparently, by the 29th July). |\n|  | (2.) The scholastic and mercantile classes will be supervised by the Commissioner for Education and the Guilds respectively. Lists are to be submitted within one month; the habit must be abandoned within six months. Failure will entail ineligibility for appointment to a school or for freedom to set up in business. |\n|  | (3.) Petty traders will be dealt with after the suppression of the opium dens. Within six months from the latter date, any trader who smokes will be compelled to close his shop. |\n| **8** | (1.) Farmers around Yunnan-fu. The Home Magistrate will order the militia and gentry to make returns similar to those for the land-tax, setting out how A has this year sown with poppy a mou, which should produce y oz. of opium. The Magistrate will issue a notification exhorting people to sow less each year. After three years, none is to be sown. Similar action to be taken in other districts. |\n|  | (2.) The first year will be one for exhortation; the second, for zealous prohibition; the third, for recourse to force. |\n|  | (3.) The manufacture of opium utensils, whether at Yünnan-fu or elsewhere, is forbidden and must stop within six months. By the 8th August, manufacturers must close their establishments; after which, all these things will become contraband and be liable to seizure and destruction. |\n| **9** | (1.) If, in the country districts, any one succeeds in starting an Association and, within six months, in eradicating the opium vice, the Bureau will recommend him to the Governor-General for a reward. |\n|  | (2.) Any one contravening the Regulations of the Bureau will be liable to punishment. |\n\nIt will be noticed that instead of allowing ten years for the suppression of planting, as the ten proposals (Article 1) had suggested, Hsi Chih-t-ai announces that cultivation must cease within three years. It may be useful to draw up, from the above Regulations, a calendar of prohibitions:\n\n## Calendar of Prohibitions\n\n| Date | Prohibition |\n| --- | --- |\n| July 25, 1907 | Opium shops to take out licence |\n| July 29 | Return of smokers (officials) |\n| August 8 | Manufacture and sale of opium utensils to cease |\n| August 8 | Opium dens to be closed |\n| August 18 | Return of smokers (non-officials) |\n| October 6 | Smoking to cease (officials) |\n| October 16 | Quarterly return of cures |\n| October 16 | Return of acreage under poppy |\n| January 13, 1908 | Smoking to cease (non-officials, able-bodied) |\n| April 6 | Smoking to cease (petty traders) |\n| July 13, 1908 | Smoking to cease (non-officials, weaklings) |\n| July 19, 1908 | Sale of opium forbidden |\n| July 1910 | Cultivation of poppy stopped |\n\n307",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n## Consul Ker to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n**(No. 17.)**\n\nNanking, July 24, 1907.\n\nSir,\n\nBEFORE the receipt of your telegram of the 13th instant, inquiring what were the facts regarding the proposed opium monopoly at Nanking, I had already been in communication privately with Sir Pelham Warren on the subject, and had sent him a précis of the Regulations originally proposed, copy of which I have the honour to inclose herewith. I had informed him, however, that I understood from the opium dealers here that the scheme had broken down owing to the refusal of the members of the proposed Syndicate to find the money which they were called upon to deposit by way of security.\n\nSubsequent inquiries showed that the scheme was not entirely abandoned, but was in a transition stage; and on the 21st instant I called on the Viceroy in the hope of obtaining authoritative information. I found his Excellency very imperfectly informed as to the present position of the question, but he promised to instruct Mr. Sun, the official appointed as Director of the new Office, to call on me and explain fully what was being done. I mentioned that the British dealers in opium at Shanghae were apprehensive that an infringement of their Treaty rights was contemplated, and I invited his attention to **Article V** of the **Treaty of Nanking**, which explicitly permits British merchants to carry on their mercantile transactions with whatever persons they please, a privilege with which the provision of Article 2 of the published proposals limiting the trade in opium at Nanking to a certain limited number of licensed merchants seemed to me to be inconsistent. His Excellency promised to look up the Article, and assured me that no infringement of Treaty would be permitted.\n\nOn the afternoon of the 23rd instant Sun Taotai called by appointment, accompanied by the new Associate Director of the **Bureau of Foreign Affairs**, Mr. U. K. Cheng. He informed me that the proposals for a Syndicate of merchants to prepare the opium under Government control had been already disapproved by the Viceroy—as shown by the inclosed extract from the Nanking \"Gazette\" of the 19th July—and he brought me a document on which, side by side with the Chinese text of **Article V** of the **Treaty of Nanking**, he had written out that section of the new proposals made by the Financial Commissioner and himself which dealt with the question of monopoly. I have the honour to inclose herewith copy and translation of this section. Mr. Sun said that he would supply me with a copy of the whole proposals when they were completed and approved.\n\nI did not offer an opinion as to whether the new proposal did or did not infringe the Treaty, but I pointed out that if the Nanking dealers could only sell to the Government Office it made little difference how many of them were allowed to take part in the trade, and I asked whether the Shanghae importers would not be at the mercy of this Office as regards prices.\n\nTo this Mr. Sun's reply was that the establishment of a Government monopoly at Nanking could not affect the general market price of the drug. Although it was intended to extend the system to other places, the carrying out of this intention was conditioned by the possibility of finding funds in each place as had been necessary here, and was therefore very problematical; and even if it were so extended, there would still exist a healthy competition between the Government offices at different places.\n\nMr. Sun repudiated the idea that native opium might be favoured at the expense of the Indian drug, and stated his intention, if he remained for as much as three years in the post, to recommend stringent measures for the restriction of poppy cultivation. He laid much stress on the argument that the proposed monopoly was a necessary corollary to the Imperial anti-opium legislation, and said that, in view of the difficulties involved by the scheme, it would never have been taken in hand but for the reiteration of the Imperial commands. As Director of the Government Bank, he had himself advanced the 500,000 taels necessary to start the scheme at Nanking, and he saw no prospect of profit, in view of the heavy expenses of the Office, and of the resolution to diminish the sales year by year. He added that there was much to be done before the scheme could actually come into operation.\n\nI informed Mr. Sun that my instructions were only to report on the facts of the case. I thanked him for his information, which I would duly communicate to His Majesty's Minister, and I agreed to apply to him if necessary for further particulars and explanations.\n\nI am sending a copy of this despatch and its inclosures to His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghae.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)  \n**W. P. KER**\n\n### Précis of Original Proposals respecting the Nanking Opium Monopoly.\n\nTHE following is a précis from the \"Nan Yang Kuan Pao\" (\"Official Gazette of Nanking\"), of the 31st May, 1907, of proposals by the **Kiangnan Ts'ai Chêng Chü** (Revenue Department) for the Government monopoly of the sale of prepared opium.\n\nTHE Viceroy had instructed the Revenue Department to report on the practicability of a scheme drawn up by an expectant Taotai, Chão Shang-ta, and, if feasible, to draw up Regulations accordingly.\n\nChao Shang-ta's proposal was that the Government, following the Japanese precedent in Formosa, should undertake the monopoly of the sale of raw opium, leaving the retail of prepared opium in private hands. He argued that in view of the sympathetic attitude of anti-opium societies and of the Indian Government the moment was propitious for the establishment of a Government monopoly at Nanking similar to that in Hupei, the object being to restrict consumption, and not merely to increase revenue as in the latter case.\n\nSuch a measure would form a precedent for other reforms, and would tend to convince Great Britain and India of the sincerity of the Chinese Government.\n\nThe Revenue Department report that as long as the preventive measures are incomplete the Formosa scheme without modifications would entail an enormous expenditure. They embody the modifications they consider necessary in the following Regulations:-\n\n| Regulation | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | **Investigation of Consumption**. In order to estimate the consumption of prepared opium an estimate must first be made of the consumption of raw opium. The amount of excise has hitherto been based on the reports of opium dens, which are inaccurate, first because they are apt to minimize the consumption, and secondly because private consumption is not accounted for. A fresh system of investigation is necessary. This will be difficult so long as the registration of smokers and other preventive measures have not been carried into effect, but the first essential is to get statistics of the consumption of raw opium. There are registered in Nanking over ten large dealers and fifty or sixty small dealers, all of whom have already elected representatives to manage their affairs. Investigation is now being made by the Chamber of Commerce in accordance with the article in the Central Government's Regulations concerning the inspection of opium shops, and the required estimates must be drawn by deputies of the Government Office in conjunction with the representatives of the merchants. |\n| 2 | **Restrictions on Trade in Raw Opium**. If prepared opium is to be sold by Government, the raw opium must be bought by Government. But over 1,000,000 taels worth of foreign opium is imported annually into Nanking, and still more native opium from Hsuchou, Anhui, Honan, Szechuan, and Yunnan. The purchase by Government of all this opium would necessitate an enormous initial expenditure, and, moreover, the limit of time allowed for opium shops not having expired, they cannot be closed, while, on the other hand, if they are allowed to retail ad libitum, the Government monopoly will be rendered nugatory. The best plan, therefore, is that after the consumption is ascertained a certain number of establishments of highest standing shall be bidden to contract for the supply of the raw drug required for the Government prepared opium. They shall furnish mutual guarantees, and shall be licensed experimentally for a certain number of years. All the opium imported shall be purchased from them by the Government Office for Prepared Opium, and no other sales shall be allowed. The hitherto existing small dealers shall either adopt some other trade or shall be allowed to act as branches of the Government establishment, and no illicit buying or boiling of the drug by the public shall be permitted. All such contractors shall pay an annual licence. |\n| 3 | **Preparation of Opium by Merchants**. The precedent of the Formosa Government monopoly, according to which the Government itself prepares the opium, is difficult to follow on account of the expenditure involved and the lack of expert knowledge available. Moreover, the limit of time not having expired, absolute prohibition is... |\n\nPage 3  \nPage 27  \nPage 312",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n### China Trade\n\nNo. 1.\n\n339\n\n[October 21.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received October 21.) (No. 421.)**\n\nPeking, September 3, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith a Report upon the Province of Shan-hsi by Lieutenant-Colonel Pereira, Military Attaché to this Legation.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n#### Inclosure in No. 1.\n\n**No. 44.-Report respecting a Journey in Shan-hsi (July 22 to August 18, 1907), by Lieutenant-Colonel Pereira.**\n\n(Confidential.)\n\n1. The Journey.-I proceeded by train from Peking as far as Shou-yang Hsien, in Eastern Shan-hsi, taking the new Shan-hsi Railway from Chen-t'ou, a few miles south of Cheng-ting Fu, in Chih-li. From Shou-yang Hsien I proceeded by the usual uncomfortable methods of native transport to T'ai-yüan Fu, where I stayed five days, and then, proceeding northwards to Ta-t'ung Fu, I returned to Peking by Kalgan.\n\n2. Tai-yüan Fu--On my arrival in the capital, I found the officials inclined to view my arrival with anxiety, and I believe they were under the impression that I had come to discuss the affairs of the Peking Syndicate. However, as soon as they found that I had come simply to inspect their somewhat primitive military institutions, they appeared to be very much relieved, and readily gave me permission and assistance to visit everything I wanted to see.\n\nI am informed on good authority in Peking that there is not an undue proportion of Manchu officials in China, and outside T'ai-yüan Fu I found that the Magistrates in every city I passed through were Chinese, but in the capital itself the Manchu element was predominant among the higher officials, and the following belonged to that alien race, viz. :-\n\n| Official Position        | Name        | Description                                  |\n|-------------------------|-------------|----------------------------------------------|\n| The Governor            | En-shon     | reported to be well disposed, but timid and of a weak character |\n| The Treasurer           | Pao-fen     |                                              |\n| The Acting Judge        | Chih-lin    | and Head of the local Foreign Office, a young man of 30 |\n| The Director of Education | Hsi-ku      |                                              |\n\n3. Feeling in the Province.-I everywhere found the people perfectly harmless and friendly. Mr. Sowerby, the senior baptist missionary, and the only one present at the time in the city, told me that everything was perfectly quiet, and that the animosity aroused by the action of the Peking Syndicate had quite died out. He said that last year, when the agitation was on, the movement was headed by Chinese students in Japan, and their action stirred up the students in the T'ai-yüan Fu University, who openly accused the Manchus of truckling to the foreigners, and talked of destroying the Manchu Settlement (a mud-walled inclosure containing some 1,500 Manchus) inside the city.\n\nThe Governor sent soldiers to the scene of the disturbance and threatened to fire on the students, but they defied him, and it was only with great difficulty, and at the intercession of the Provincial Judge (Ting-pao-ch'uan), that quiet was restored.\n\nMr. Sowerby was of opinion that the people are now satisfied that the Syndicate claims will no longer be pushed, but he thinks that if they are pressed very serious results will follow.\n\nIn 1901 I accompanied a party of missionaries to Tai-yuan Fu on the termination of the Boxer movement, and they stated that, until the advent of the notorious Yu Hsien as Governor, the Shan-hsi people were amongst the least anti-foreign of the Chinese population.\n\nPage 339\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\n2\n\nthis territory. I am not in a position to deny categorically that such is the case, but I have to confess my inability so far to obtain any tangible proof of it. There is of course the question of railway freights, the preferential nature of which the Japanese deny, but these rates, whether justifiable or not, are directed against a port, Newchwang, and not against foreigners generally.\n\nEarly in the spring I was assured by a foreign merchant here that he had seen at Harbin a freight receipt for certain goods transported from that town, via Mukden, through the Mitsui Bussan Company's agents, and that the rate the Mitsui Bussan charged was a much lower one than any his own firm could obtain from the railway authorities. A copy of this receipt he promised to obtain for me; but he has never succeeded in doing so, and I am consequently quite unable to put any reliance in the correctness of his assertion. It is this habit of indiscriminate accusation without valid proof in support which seems to me regrettable, and I do not understand why, if, as is asserted, a policy of discrimination really exists, foreign merchants are not at greater pains to secure proof of its existence. As far as my experience goes, I can recall only one instance of a foreign firm being, to my own knowledge, unfairly treated.\n\nThis was the Manchurian Trading Company, a concern registered locally as Japanese. The Managing Director of the `Dairen` branch, a British subject, applied to the local authorities for the lease of a piece of land for business purposes.\n\nAfter protracted delay a site was assigned him, and he was requested to furnish plans of the buildings he proposed to erect. To this he replied that, in view of the very uncertain nature of the tenure possible under the Land Regulations in force, it was not his intention to invest at the moment more capital in his land than was necessary for the construction of an ordinary warehouse. The Japanese at once retorted with a demand that he should build a house or offices of the value of 20,000 yen at least, and on his refusing to do this they promptly cancelled his lease. Such action was not only high-handed but inequitable, because no such conditions are to my knowledge imposed on Japanese, and the number of buildings on which that amount has been spent might almost be counted on the fingers of one hand.\n\nIt is possible, too, that some understanding exists between the Railway Company and the Mitsui Bussan Kwaisha, who are by far the most important traders here, on the subject of a preferential rate when large quantities of the latter's goods are transported over the line; but, if so, no proof of it has yet come to light.\n\nAll that can be said on the subject of this policy of discrimination is that no proof of its existence is yet forthcoming, and I am of opinion also that this system of accusation absolutely unsupported by proof is calculated in the long run seriously to prejudice the cause of the accusers.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) HAROLD G. PARLETT.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n`[34668]`",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in No. 1, July 11-21, 1907\n\n### LIST of Chinese Troops on or near the Peking-Shanhaikuan Railway Line\n\n| Date of Arrival | Place | Number of Men | Detail |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Pei-tai-ho | 5 | Of the 2nd cavalry regiment of the 2nd Division of the Lu Chun, detached from Fu-ning Hsien. Armed with Mauser carbines |\n| November 1906 | Tang-ho | 100 | Of the 2nd cavalry ying of the Hua Chun, under Captain Ting, at Hai-yang, 2 miles north of Tang-ho. Armed with Mauser carbines |\n| November 1906 | Shanhaikuan | 20 | Of the 3rd ying of the Huni Chun, under Colonel Wang. Armed with Mausers |\n| 30 June 1907 | Lu-t'ai | 30 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Second Lieutenant Tuan. Armed with Mausers |\n|  | Total | 100 |  |\n|  |  | 1,035 |  |\n\nThe above Huai Chun troops are all of the Le-tzu brigade of the Huai Chun, except those at Ta-ku, who are of the I-tzu brigade. The Le-tzu brigade is commanded by Brigadier-General Lei, who lives at Chang-li, the I-tzu brigade by Brigadier-General Fan, who lives at Hsin-ch'eng, 12 miles east of Tien-tsin.\n\nThe Huai Chun are badly trained and badly disciplined, but they are soldiers, not policemen. A police force, quite separate from the Huai Chun, also armed with rifles, which they carry at night, exists at all the railway stations and at all the principal towns along the line.\n\nIt will be noticed that, of the total of 1,035 men on or near the line, 350 were new arrivals in June 1907. These 350 men have been taken from the 5th infantry ying at Han-liu-shu, near Tien-tsin, and from the 6th infantry ying at Kou-pang-tzu, in Manchuria.\n\nThe only troops of the Lu-chun are the five men at Pei-tai-ho.\n\n(Signed) H. K. DAVIES, Major, General Staff, North China Command\n\n### Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n| Date of Arrival | Place | Number of Men | Detail |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| June 1907 | Yang-ts'un | 100 | Of the 6th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Captain Wu. Armed with Mannlichers |\n| 1904 | Ta-ku | 200 | Of the 3rd infantry ying of the I-tzu Huai Chun, under Captain Tsao, in Hai Ta-ku (Western Ta-ku) |\n| 1904 | Ta-ku | 200 | Of the 4th infantry ying of the I-tzu Huai Chun, under Captain Hsia, in Tung Ta-ku (Eastern Ta-ku) |\n| June 1907 | Tang-fang | 45 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Chang. Armed with Mannlichers |\n| June 1907 | Wang-lien-chuang | 77 | Of the 6th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Fan. Armed with Mannlichers |\n|  | Tang-fang | 30 | Of the 6th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, ander Lieutenant Fan, at Wang-lien-chuang, 2 miles south-east of Tang-fang. Armed with Mannlichers |\n|  | T'ang-shan | 25 |  |\n|  | K'ai-ping | 10 | Of the 3rd infantry ying of the Huai Chun. Armed with Mausers |\n|  | Ku-yeh | 40 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Yang. Armed with Mannlichers |\n|  | Lan-chou | 40 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Wang. Armed with Mannlichers |\n|  | Chang-li | 80 | Of the 1st infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Brigadier-General Lei, who lives here, and commands the whole of the Le-tzu Huai Chun. Armed with Mausers |\n| 1906 | Chang-li | 40 | Of the 2nd infantry ying of the Huai Chun. Armed with Mausers |\n|  | Liu-shou-ying | 10 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Tang, in Chang-chuang, 1 mile north-west of Liu-shou-ying. Armed with Mausers |\n|  | An-shan.. | 30 |  |\n\n### Clause 6 of Report by the Commanders of the Allied Forces, dated April 12, 1902\n\n**LES GARNISONS CHINOISES** qui sont actuellement à moins de 30 kilomètres de la voie ferrée de Pékin-Tong-kou-Chan-hai-kouan ne devront être augmentées en aucune circonstance. Le Gouvernement Chinois en fera connaître les emplacements et les effectifs à la date du 1o Avril.\n\nCertified true copy:  \nH. K. DAVIES, Major, General Staff, North China Command\n\n## Sir J. Jordan to General Waters\n\nPeking, August 17, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 13th instant, in which you quote a clause from the terms laid down in 1902 by the Allied Commanders in connection with the handing over of the native city of Tien-tsin, to the effect that the Chinese garrisons within less than 18 miles of the Peking-Shanhaikuan Railway were under no circumstances to be increased, and state that it has recently come to your knowledge that small bodies of Chinese troops have been stationed since 1904 at thirteen different points close to the railway, the total number now being 1,035, 350 of whom had arrived since June last.\n\nYou add that there is no record in your office to show that the terms formulated by the Commanders were communicated to or accepted by the Chinese Government.\n\nIn reply, I have the honour to inform you that, so far as I can ascertain, the",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nThe original purpose of the Grand Canal is being compromised due to neglect. The usual procedure is to wait until the canal banks show signs of bursting, and then to heighten the banks still further above the level of the surrounding country, or to cut the banks and allow the country to be flooded. No serious attempt has been made to clear the bed of the Grand Canal since the days of Kublai Khan, nearly 600 years ago, with the result that silt has steadily lessened the utility of the canal both for drainage and navigation. His Majesty's Consul obtained particulars of dredgers from various firms in England, and these were submitted to the Viceroy Tuan Fang, together with a letter explaining the benefits of dredging the Grand Canal. The Viceroy eventually expressed a desire to purchase a dredger from the firm of Priestmans.\n\nHunting of Reformers.-A son of the Viceroy visited Chinkiang in January on some confidential mission. He was followed a few days later by the Chinese cruiser, with the Admiral of the Yang-tsze in another cruiser. The Admiral spent two or three days in port occupied in searching for objectionable reformers. His list of reformers \"wanted\" by the Viceroy in the Lower Yang-tsze district contained over 240 names.\n\n## 4. Hankow\n\nKiangsi Railway Loan (see Sir J. Jordan's No. 88 of the 16th February).-A native paper published the following on the 6th March :- \n\n\"The rumoured loan from Belgium has been discussed in all the papers. The real facts are that, after the failure of the negotiations with the Pru-yi Company, the Kiukiang Manager made an Agreement with the Kiangsi Guild in Shanghae to raise a Chinese loan from the Guilds of 1,000,000l. at 7 per cent. interest, to be issued at 95, 1,000,000 shares to be deposited as security and stamped Kiangsi Guild. Unfortunately, after the Agreement had received the official seal, none of the Guilds had any funds to produce. The Agreement was then taken to the compradore of a German firm, who gave it to a former student of dentistry in America to try and get the Japanese merchants in Shanghae to take up the loan. But they all refused, on the ground that the shares were only so much waste paper. According to the Agreement the funds were to be forthcoming within twenty days of sealing, but although the Railway Bank Manager went to Shanghae to receive the money he did not get it, and the obstacle in the way of the line was not removed.\"\n\n\"Two regiments were sent to protect the foreign Settlements from attack from the disbanded soldiers. Sampan (boat) men were ordered not to ply for hire in the night time lest they should bring over a crowd of men to make trouble in Hankow. After the mutineers killed Chang's horse they were ordered to be confined in barracks by General Wu, and the garrison troops were armed and stationed along the road night and day to keep a strict watch on all comers. The disbanded men were to receive their January pay as usual, but were not to get the bonus of three months' pay until they reached their several destinations.\"\n\n## 5. Swatow\n\nIn his Intelligence Report for the period ended the 28th February, 1907, His Majesty's Consul reports that a marked feature of the situation is the cynical indifference of the authorities, from the highest to the lowest, to all demands preferred to them on behalf of British subjects, and the pronounced disposition shown by them to lay down the law in all matters with an absolute disregard for all Treaty stipulations. Being mostly inaccessible they have always been difficult to deal with at Swatow, but it will soon be almost impossible to deal with them at all.\n\nThere has been no recurrence of disorders, and the district is generally quiet. Owing to lack of rain, the rice crops have been below the average, and for the same reason the spring crops are said to have been to a great extent destroyed by insects. Complaints have been made by both British and American missionaries regarding the plundering and maltreating of Christian converts by their fellow villagers, in the endeavour to compel payment of the purely voluntary subscriptions to religious festivals.\n\nThe Company had recently raised their rates, and are now charging 15 cents for third-class fare to Amoy in lieu of the former 10 cents. Most of these passengers are labourers, who cannot afford the extra 5 cents, and therefore go by boat instead. The train service is also inadequate, running only three times a day each way. At present most cargo is being carried by boat as before. The cargo at present all goes by boat, and, even were there trucks available, it will not be sent by train unless the line is brought down to the harbour frontage.\n\nThe same paper announced two days later that, \"owing to the attempt to raise a loan from the Kiangsi Guild in Shanghae, and the subsequent offer of scrip to foreign merchants, there have been many rumours current; consequently, the Governor has ordered a confidential investigation into the matter.\"\n\nPopular Distress.-Rice is now dearer than for ten years past, and the poorer sections of the community are in a starving condition.\n\nJapanese Business Undertakings.-Since the railway has reached Kaifeng, traders of all nations have flocked there, but Japanese most of all. There were druggists, dealers in pencils, copybooks, diaries, and maps. There was a ready sale, for they were both cheap and good.\n\nMutiny Among General Wu's Troops.-Local native newspapers report the following: \n\n\"General Wu wanted to go to his post at Ting Hai Chen, so he asked to be relieved of his appointment. As his men were not drilled on modern lines the Viceroy decided to hand them over to General Chang, to be raised to the same standard as the rest, but these men, used to laxity, and fearing Chang's severe discipline, took the opportunity to demand a bonus. Before it had been granted, one day when handing in their accoutrements they secreted their bayonets, food pans, &c., and at night robbed several shops, taking 300 taels in cash alone. The following day Chang and Colonel Li went together to persuade them to give up what they had retained. A disturbance arose and the men stabbed to death Chang's favourite riding horse, and Li only just escaped the same fate. Luckily General Wu's efforts extricated them, and he was able to get them away safely. The following day the Viceroy sent a garrison regiment to suppress them. A ringleader was captured, and it was decided to disband 500 men, giving them three months' pay, and to put the remaining 500 under Chang's command. The affair caused much talk, and there was much apprehension felt.\n\nThe disbanded soldiers of General Wu came over and began pillaging in Hankow, but the Viceroy promptly ordered the arrest of any miscreants, and of persons passing themselves off as disbanded soldiers.\n\n## 332",
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        "content_text": "**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]**\n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n### CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[19897]\n\n**(No. 213.) Sir,**\n\nNo. 1.\n\nCO [June 12]  \nSE-10. 333 'Recd 6 NOV 07\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received June 17.)**\n\nPeking, May 2, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward to you herewith a summary of events which have occurred in China since my despatch No. 160 of the 2nd ultimo, and concerning which no separate despatches have been furnished.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1.\n#### Monthly Summary of Events in China.\n\n1. **Canton**\n\nCanton-Hankow Railway.-The affairs of the Canton-Hankow Railway have continued to occupy a large share of public attention. After much pettifogging opposition on the part of the Directorate, the official Railway Bureau and the representatives of the Hong Kong shareholders were able, on the 10th January, to commence the work of auditing the accounts; this has been going on spasmodically ever since, but has now been completed. It may be said, however, after all the agitation, sensational charges of wholesale embezzlement and corruption, and counter-threats of a business strike and resistance to the death, to have ended in smoke, as the shareholders' money was declared to be quite safe with the exception of a small amount lent to certain Fatshau hongs, which amount the latter promptly repaid to the Company. The Railway Bureau, having in this way completed the work for which it was instituted, was abolished on the 7th April of this year. While the Bureau has whitewashed the Company, the latter seems to have made not the smallest retreat from its original attitude; it still claims to be rightly controlled by the Canton Guilds, and in spite of repeated definite orders from the Board of Communications and the Viceroy, declines to recognize as shareholders those Hong Kong subscribers who have not seen fit to hand over their money to a Directorate over which they have no control.\n\nNumerous abortive meetings have been held, and some half-dozen persons have been proposed as occupants of the post which Cheng Tao-chai has been so long and ineffectually striving to vacate. The latest is Wu Ting-fang, to whose appointment Imperial sanction has been asked, as his Excellency otherwise declined to accept the position.\n\nCanton-Kowloon Railway.-A certain amount of agitation against building this line with foreign help was indulged in during January and February by students, gentry, and those interested in the Canton-Hankow and Canton-Amoy schemes. It met with only perfunctory support from the Viceroy, and now that the Canton-Kowloon Agreement has actually been signed, seems to have died out. With a view to increasing Chinese influence in the affairs of the line, the Viceroy has been pressing merchants here and in Hong Kong to take up shares to the extent of $751,000, half the proposed capital, but a proposal made, with his Excellency's approval, to apply the Canton-Hankow Railway funds, now lying idle, to this purpose, was negatived at a shareholders' meeting held on the 2nd April of this year.\n\nBy Imperial Edict his Excellency Wu Ting-fang has been appointed to represent the Chinese authorities in the management of the affairs of the `Canton-Kowloon Railway`.\n\nAmerican Boycott.-There is nothing to be noted under this heading, except the reappearance towards the end of February of boycott placards, which were at once torn down by the Viceroy's orders. These placards have now appeared in Nanning and Langchow, but as far as is known at present with no apparent effect.\n\n[2524 r--10]",
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        "content_text": "# 5 The Situation in Szechuan\n\nThe recent outbreak in the K'ai Hsien and Wan Hsien districts, where popular discontent with the new opium taxes was fanned into open rebellion by the agents of secret societies, should be a warning to the Provincial Government of what may happen this summer in other parts of the province.\n\nThe gradual increase of direct and indirect taxation during the last few years, firstly for educational and latterly for railway purposes, culminating in the imposition in many places of prohibitive taxes on native opium and the threatened closing of opium divans and shops throughout the province, has roused feelings of resentment and suspicion among the people. Being in this frame of mind, the ubiquitous agents of the Red Lantern (\"Hung Teng Chiao\") and other secret societies find it an easy task to persuade the lower classes, especially the country people, that the foreigner and his religion are responsible for these schemes for education, railways, and the suppression of the opium habit, schemes which manifestly tend to transfer the hard-won earnings of the poor into the pockets of the officials. It is not, therefore, surprising that at K'ai Hsien the rioters made their rallying cry \"Down with foreign schools and gospel halls!\" and it is certain that wherever popular risings against the enforcement of the new Opium Regulations take place schools and mission stations will be the first to suffer. The agitators who lead these insurrectionary movements know by experience that the destruction of foreign property or the houses of native Christians is the surest means of embarrassing the officials and securing compliance with their demands. The Szechuanese, at ordinary times well disposed towards foreigners and foreign missions, blindly follow their lead and attack missionaries and converts, with whom they may have been living for years on friendly terms. The political outlook at the close of the quarter is not promising. Much will depend on the amount of pressure the Acting Viceroy is able to bring to bear on the local officials.\n\n## 5. Ningpo\n\nHis Majesty's Consul reports that on the 21st June a secret telegram was received by the Taotai from the Governor stating, on information supplied by the Viceroy at Nanking, that the revolutionaries in that district had dispatched agents to Shantung and to the neighbourhood of Ningpo to enlist followers with a view to the capture of certain cities, and that they had succeeded in getting together some 8,000 men among the fishermen and tinfoil workers. Strict orders were given for the capture of two leaders. In spite of the importance of keeping these orders from the men whose arrest was wanted, the telegram appeared in one of the Chinese papers a few days after its receipt.\n\nRice Troubles. During the quarter ended the 30th June there were slight risings at two places, in which some rice shops were looted, but the accounts of these which appeared in the foreign press were much exaggerated.\n\n## 6. Peking\n\n**Roman Catholic Church**. On the 14th June an Imperial clansman is stated by a native newspaper to have presented to Na Tung a Petition written in blood, asking that China should herself establish a Roman Catholic Association, should send a representative to the Pope, ask the Pope to appoint a representative to Peking, and also appoint a Chinese as Head of the Church; the object being to avoid foreign interference in cases where converts are concerned. Na sympathized, and sent the Petition to the Wai-wu Pu for their consideration.\n\nOn the 26th June another newspaper published a statement to the effect that, France having abandoned the Protectorate over Roman Catholics in the Far East, the Pope had sent to the Missions in China to make a careful choice of a Chinese to be Archbishop in China.\n\n**Japanese Buddhists in Fukien**. The Viceroy is said to have telegraphed to the Wai-wu Pu in June to the effect that over ten Japanese Buddhists had arrived in Foochow, where they were desirous of building a temple and propagating Buddhism, and that they claimed to be treated on the same footing as Christian missionaries.\n\n**Dalai Lama**. A native paper stated on the 14th June that a man from Hsining said that the Dalai Lama was still there, and would probably not start for Thibet before the end of the autumn.\n\n**Constitutional Reform**. It is evident that the discussion of this question is taking up a great deal of the Court's time, judging from the following extracts from the native newspapers, a few of the many which appear on the subject:\n\n- June 27. \"The question of constitutional government was discussed the other day in the Palace. Most of the high officials present were of opinion that Yuan Shih-kai and Chang Chih-tung should come to Peking to give their advice. Only Prince Ching was against this, holding that all the Viceroys and Governors should be consulted by telegraph, and in the end his opposition was successful.\"\n- June 29. \"After repeated discussion at the Grand Secretariat on the subject of actual preparation for a constitutional form of government, it has been decided to make a beginning with Chihli. A Memorial may be sent up within a month.\"\n- July 9. \"The Reform Edict of the 7th is said to be due to Viceroys Yuan Shih-kai and Tuan Fang, who wished to begin reforms in Chihli and Kiangsu, having got Prince Ching to see the Empress Dowager on the matter. The term of fifteen years was fixed on account of the large number of provincial officials and the difficulty of weeding them out.\"\n- July 18. \"On the 16th, at an audience of the Grand Council, their Majesties directed the Council to call upon the Princes, Dukes, and high military and civil officials to make an immediate study of the means of preparing for constitutional government and to memorialize the Throne.\"\n- August 2. \"A Memorial has been received from Yuan Shih-kai, in which he holds up Corea as an awful example, and which has had a great effect on highly-placed persons at Court. These persons met a few days ago to discuss the formation of a Council of Constitutional Reform and the early establishment of a Constitution. Duke Tse was especially outspoken.\"\n\nJuly 11. Prince Ch'ing has taken the opportunity afforded by the alarm which the assassination of En Ming created to press again upon the attention of their Majesties the advisability of the early adoption of constitutional government, represented that such a course would deprive the anti-dynastic societies of their only device for gaining adherents, which is to make out that the Chinese Government is despotic and tyrannous.\n\n**Assassination of Governor of Anhui and Yang-tsze unrest**\n\n- July 18. \"The Grand Council was in such a panic over the assassination of En Ming that they held a meeting and decided that Hsu should be severely tortured and his entire kindred exterminated, as a warning to future rebels. Prince Su, when he heard of this, stood alone in disapproving, saying that the extermination of a family was not a civilized punishment, and that revolutionaries and anti-Manchus could not be restrained in that way; and he advocated the execution of Hsu without involving his family. But it was not until he had obtained the support of Prince Chun and Hsün Peitzu that Prince Ching and Lu Chung-tang could be persuaded to agree to a more temperate action.\"\n\nOn the 1st of the 6th month (30th June) an anonymous telegram was sent to Chang Chih-tung from Shanghae, enumerating the revolutionaries whom he has killed in the last few years, and saying that in the course of the 6th or 7th month he will be killed with a bomb. The Viceroy was much alarmed, and gave orders for the utmost vigilance to be used in watching for smuggled arms. Quite recently a police raid in Wuchang resulted in the seizure of 2,000 guns and a large quantity of cartridges and powder and the arrest of four men, one of whom said he was the nephew of Sun Wen. He said that the arms had been brought in the day before, but declined to say by what means they were got past the Customs, even when examined with the bamboo. He was then executed within the gate of the Viceroy's yamên.\n\nOn the 3rd August a native paper stated that \"Lien K'uei, Governor of Kansu (so the paper; he is, in fact, Governor of Hsin Chiang, the New Territory), has been stabbed by a certain District Magistrate, and fears are entertained for his life. No official news has been received, but the family of Tuan Fang have had a telegram.\" This proved to be an entirely unfounded rumour.\n\nThe same paper stated, also on the 3rd August, that \"for the last week the Grand Council have been having repeated secret meetings, once in the Imperial presence. One...",
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        "content_text": "## SECTION 2\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received October 21.) (No. 415.)\n\n### Peking, September 3, 1907\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 405 of the 20th August, respecting the Soochow Hangchow-Ningpo Railway negotiations, I now have the honour to inclose copies of Mr. E. G. Hillier's Minutes of an interview which he had with Wang Ta-jên on the 22nd August, and also of a Memorandum, which is virtually a draft Agreement, and which Mr. Hillier prepared at Wang Ta-jên's request. This was sent to Wang Ta-jên on the 26th August.\n\nSince that date no further steps have been taken, as Wang Ta-jên is apparently waiting the result of the negotiations, proceeding simultaneously, for the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze Railway.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) \n**J. N. JORDAN**\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\nInterview between Wang Ta-hsieh and Mr. Hillier at the Wai-wu Pu on August 22, 1907.\n\nWANG TA-JEN had seen Mr. Liang after my interview with the latter in the morning, and Mr. Liang had told him what had passed. Wang Ta-jên understood that I waived the condition as to the Chief Accountant. I explained that this was going rather too far, and I had no power to do so. What I had proposed to Mr. Liang was in substance that, if he could agree to the conditions as to the Chief Engineer, I was prepared to do my best to get my principals in London to modify their demands with regard to the Chief Accountant.\n\nWe then discussed the Chief Engineer question again in detail. I explained that his functions as regards the signing of certificates were only required to apply to orders upon the loan funds, and would cease, so far as we were concerned, with the exhaustion of these funds and the completion of construction. It rested with the Chinese, if he suited them, to retain his services in any capacity after construction is finished. Orders for loan funds would naturally in the first place be issued and signed by the Chinese Managing Director, the Chief Engineer's signature being added as certifying the nature and cost of the work for which the amount was to be drawn. He would be the servant of the Chinese Government in every sense of the word, and would have to obey the orders and wishes of his Chinese superiors as to the plan and construction of the line. Wang Ta-jên remarked that under this arrangement the duties of the Chief Engineer and Chief Accountant would be combined in the former, and I answered in the affirmative. He said he would communicate this modified proposal to his colleagues, and would let me know the decision. His powers did not permit him to give me a definite answer on the spot.\n\nI asked Wang Ta-jên about security. He said it would probably consist of Chekiang provincial revenues, but he was not in a position to furnish me with full particulars as yet. He then went into the other terms. He thought the amount to be borrowed should be about £1,500,000. I said that this approximated to Mr. Collinson's estimate of £1,650,000; and Mr. Collinson had pointed out that considerable economy might be effected by using Shanghae-Nanking Railway machine shops and staff. He asked where the Shanghae-Nanking machine shops were. I told him at Woosung, where there were facilities for landing heavy machinery, which could then be fitted together in the shops and sent up the line to Soochow. He asked if the Woosung shops could turn out locomotives. I said that possibly they could, but I imagined the cheapest course at present would be to import locomotives in parts, and fit them at the Woosung machine shops. We discussed term of loan, amount of annual loan service, and other details. He finally said he would leave all these to me. I was to be guided by the conditions arranged with ...\n\n## Previous Document\n\ngentry, he added, strongly desired to do so, so as to have the handling of these millions, which they would lend out to native banks at high rates of interest.\n\nMr. Hillier's reply to this was to the effect that the banks would not care to constitute themselves auditors, as it were, of the railway accounts, in the keeping of which they had no voice, though he admitted that it was encouraging to learn that they would be kept in English. As regards the earnings, if it was laid down that these had to be paid into the banks, the latter would feel responsible for seeing that they were paid in regularly and fully; and as they were to have no share in the control, this would only lead to friction. He did not therefore desire this as a condition of the Agreement. In regard to the immediate transfer of the loan funds into silver, he admitted that there was nothing to prevent this, but pointed out that the banks would not pay over any sums except under orders countersigned by the Engineers-in-chief. That was precisely their safeguard against the danger alluded to by Mr. Liang.\n\nBefore the meeting terminated, Mr. Liang stated that both the Viceroys, Yuan Shih Kai and Chang Chih Tung, would be in Peking in the beginning of September. His orders from the former were to settle the Agreement during the period of their stay in the capital together, which would not be long, and he was to meet Chang Chih Tung at Paoting-fu in order to inform him of what had taken place before his Excellency actually reached Peking. No further meeting with Messrs. Hillier and Cordes was expected until about the 3rd or 4th September.\n\nOn the 30th August, however, Mr. Liang came to see the former gentleman, and informed him frankly that the condition must be abandoned, whereby the Engineers-in-chief were to countersign the Chinese Managing Director's orders upon loan funds. In lieu of this, Mr. Liang proposed to insert a condition that \"the railway accounts will be kept in English, and will be open at all times, during construction, to inspection by the banks, who can satisfy themselves that funds are applied solely to the railway.\"\n\nThus, while the two Engineers-in-chief would still be British and German respectively, and persons acceptable to the banks, they would have no control over funds. On the other hand, the stipulation that the accounts are to be kept in English, and that they will be open to inspection, restores in some measure the condition respecting a Chief Accountant.\n\nMr. Hillier submitted this alternative to his principals by telegraph, with a recommendation that it should be accepted, since he felt that it was the maximum guarantee that he could get. On reconsideration of the position in which the Chief Engineers would be placed, as servants of the Chinese Government, yet responsible at the same time to the banks for countersigning orders for loan funds, he had come to the conclusion that the Chinese proposal involved no great loss, since the desired result was to be obtained in another manner by the hold which the banks will secure over the railway accounts.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) \n**J. N. JORDAN**\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n**CHINA RAILWAYS**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n`(34662)`\n\nNo. 1.\n\n400\n\n[October 21.] \n\nPage 2691 \nx-2)",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n4\n\nThe Corporation and its agents are entitled to commissions and payments for services rendered in respect to this railway, and in their quality of trustees for the bondholders, for whom they will be empowered to act in all questions arising out of the Agreement, and it is to be in commutation of all such commissions and payments that the Corporation will manufacture where these are of equal price and quality.\n\n12. The Corporation may, subject to all its obligations, transfer or delegate all or any of its rights, powers, and discretions to its successors or assigns, but it shall not transfer its rights under the Agreement to any other nation or nationality than British or Chinese.\n\n13. The Agreement will be signed under the authority of an Imperial Edict officially communicated to the British Minister in Peking by the Wai-wu Pu.\n\n14. The Agreement will be signed in English and Chinese; in the event of any question arising as to the interpretation of the contract, the English text will be accepted as the standard.\n\nPeking, August 26, 1907.\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[34668]\n\n(No. 421.)\n\n## No. 1\n\n411\n\n[October 21.]\n\n### SECTION 3\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey - (Received October 21.)\n\nSir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith Report upon the Province of Shan-hsi by Lieutenant-Colonel Pereira, Military Attaché to this Legation, dated Peking, September 3, 1907.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1\n\n#### Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Pereira respecting the Shan-hsi Railway\n\nThis railway runs from Chen-t'ou, about 9 miles (30 li) south of Cheng-ting-fu. The line is worked by French engineers, whilst the Chinese employés (station-masters, ticket collectors, engine drivers, &c.) are mostly from Fu-chieh Province, or Western Chih-li, who have been on the Ching-han Railway.\n\nOne French Superintendent travels on the passenger trains. At present, two passenger trains run each way daily between Chen-t'ou and Shou-yang Hsien, and also between Shou-yang Hsien and Tung-chao-chuang, 39 kilom. (24 miles) from Tai-yüan-fu, the present terminus of the line. Two or three coal trains also run daily each way according to requirements. The line is single, and 1 metre gauge.\n\nLeaving Peking at 7 A.M. by the Ching-han Railway, Chen-t'ou is reached at 1:45 P.M. It is about 100 yards from this station to the station of the Shan-hsi line. The train was supposed to leave at 2:15 P.M. I inclose actual times of departure and arrival of my train.\n\nN.B. - Right and left mean north and south of line.\n\nPage 2691 x-31",
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        "content_text": "## TABLE respecting Arrival and Departure of Train, &c.\n\n| Station | Kilometres from Chen-t'ou | Arrive | Depart |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Cheng-chia-tung | 6.9 |  |  |\n|  | 8 |  |  |\n|  | 11.9 |  |  |\n|  | 18.6 |  |  |\n| Chia-p'an-shih | 31 | 4.15 | 4.20 |\n|  | 36.2 | 4.31 |  |\n|  |  | 4.43 | 4.46 |\n|  | 68.7 |  |  |\n| Yen-hui | 61.9 | 5.10 | 5.28 |\n| Luan-chiu | 79.9 | 6.50 | 6.54 |\n|  | 86.4 | 7.13 | 7.26 |\n|  |  | 7.41 | 7.56 |\n|  | 91 | 8.12 | 8.18 |\n|  |  | 8.34 | 8.35 |\n| Cha-hsi-yi | 98.3 |  |  |\n|  | 115 |  |  |\n| Pei-yang-shu | 121 |  |  |\n| Yen-chuang | 128 |  |  |\n| Tsai-yü | 135 |  |  |\n| Pio-tiou | 141 |  |  |\n|  | 151 |  |  |\n|  | 169 |  |  |\n|  | 177 |  |  |\n|  | 186 |  |  |\n|  | 194 |  |  |\n|  | 203 |  |  |\n| Shou-yang Hsien |  | 8.54 | 09.8 |\n| Ko-chuang |  | 9.45 |  |\n| San-hu |  |  |  |\n| Cha-hai-yi |  |  |  |\n| Ching-chuang |  |  |  |\n| Liu-chia-chuang |  |  |  |\n| Tuan-ting |  |  |  |\n| Tung-chao-chuang |  |  |  |\n\n## Notes\n\nA good stone building for station. An engine-house. Go across plain, starting north-west. Passed truck train. Enter hills, gradual ascent. Loess country.\n\nLater pass a small tunnel. Later cross girder bridge supported by one stone pier. River on right. Below a small coal-trolley line to the mines, which crosses the Wei-shui Ho by a wooden bridge on seven piers.\n\nJust before reaching it, cross two girder bridges without pier supports. Here passed coal train of seven tracks. River on right; soon leave. Now pass through many cuttings, some of rock, some of loess, standing without support or banked with mud. Mud-walled city 200 yards to right, across river. Then through a tunnel and across river by a girder bridge. It is crossed by two or three fords about here, but at present very low. Country wilder; through rock cuttings.\n\nPassed passenger train. Now more loess terraces among hills. Cross river by girder bridge on four piers and five arches just before Niang-tzu-kuan.\n\nJust before station, a piece of now wall, 50 yards long with some old mud mounds, marks line of Great Wall separating provinces. The Ku-kuan (pass) is 74 miles (25 li) to the south. Leaving station, cross stone bridge with one pier and four arches.\n\nNow dry stone river bed on right. Less loess; wild country. More cuttings. Later four tunnels and a bridge over river bed.\n\nCountry with some loess terraces; hills. Two tunnels. Water tower being built. Pass three small and one big tunnel.\n\nA tunnel and a girder bridge. Up valley between hills. River bed or on right. Several houses for bridgos over tributaries. Village called Sa-chiang-kon. It is the station for Ping-ting. Chou 6 miles (20 li) to south-west.\n\nA train leaves Shou-yang Hsien about 2:80 p.m., and reaches Tung-chao-chuang about 5:2 p.m. Water tower being built. Station under construction.\n\nVillage called Chiu-chia. Stone bridge over tributary. Some loess terraces. An engine-house under construction. Station 1 mile to south-east of city.\n\n## Notes\n\nSidings 100 yards to 150 yards long. Water towers with stone basements. Engines small and marked \"Anciens Établissements Cail, Denain, France, 1906.” Chinese drivers and stokers. Our train consisted of one composite, first and second class (first class with four seats and arm-rests; second class, two compartments each; could hold eight passengers, but it would only hold six soldiers). Seats of both classes of leather. Light luggage racks and oil lamps. Lavatories attached. Corridor passages.\n\nThere were three third-class corridor carriages, each could hold forty-six Chinese, rather tightly packed on wooden benches. Also three closed and two open vans. Each van carries 20 tons.\n\nFares (Chen-t'ou to Shou-yang Hsien). First class, 10 dol. 40 c.; second class, 5 dol. 20 c.; third class, 2 dol. 60 c. Hong Kong dollars are taken, Mexican dollars are only accepted as 90 cents. No charge for my baggage. As nobody in charge of luggage van, one's boy has to travel in it. No restaurant arrangements.\n\nRailway Stations all of stone, large buildings at Ch'en-t'ou, other stations quite small. Platforms about 6 inches to 9 inches above line.\n\nRails: One, made 33 feet long (probably 10 metres), fastened at each end to fish-plates by two bolts, and to each sleeper by one bolt. Line ballasted with stone. On the whole, it runs smoothly, except from Cha-hsi-yi to Shou-yang Hsien, where it shakes a good deal.\n\nTelegraph alongside line and two strands of wire.\n\nLine very winding, running up among loess hills. As little or no rain had fallen, I found loess terraces very bare, but in valleys near rivers, it was greener.\n\nThe line is guarded on Chih-li side by a few of the Lien Chun of Chen-ting-fu, armed with batons. They look to be of all ages and effete.\n\nTime-Table: There is as yet no regular time-table; they gave me a copy of the temporary one, in which the stations were only marked by the first letter of each word. The stations are, of course, all written according to the French transliteration, and it is necessary to see the character, or get the Chinese to pronounce them, before being able to transliterate them. Names of stations written up in large letters on either side of each station.\n\nLine at Shou-yang Hsien guarded by some Shan-hsi cavalry (\"Ma-san-tui\") of the provincial troops (\"Hsün-fang-tui\") armed with tower muskets. The railway embankment has been completed to Tai-yuan-fu. It runs close to the road from Cheng-ts'un (6 miles south-east of T'ai-yuan-fu), and about 200 yards to the west of it, crossing road about a mile from city. Embankment near Cheng-ts'un 8 feet to 10 feet high and 5 yards wide at top. Culverts faced with stone, but not yet bridged. Terminus will be 100 yards to south-east of New South Gate (eastern of the two south gates), and the station is under construction. It is expected the line will be open about the 20th September, 1907. The delay was caused by the Han-yang Ironworks not being able to supply rails, which are now coming from Europe.\n\n**(Signed) G. PEREIRA, Military Attaché.**\n\nTai-yüan-fu, July 27, 1907.\n\nP.51.",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n428 \n39362 \nRECO [Septer9 NOV 07 \n\n## SECTION 1.\n\n[30120] \nNo. 1.\n\n(No. 363.) Sir, \n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 9.)\n\nPeking, July 24, 1907. \nIN pursuance of a representation which he recently received from the Chambers of Commerce of Hong Kong, Shanghae, and Tien-tsin, the doyen of the Diplomatic Corps addressed a note, copy of which I have the honour to inclose, to Prince Ch'ing, again calling the attention of his Highness to the disabilities under which foreign trade is labouring owing to the delay in the establishment of a uniform national coinage.\n\nIn his reply, copy of which is likewise inclosed, the Prince states that the question is now under the consideration of a Commission, composed of officials in the Grand Secretariat and other departments of State, who will make a report to the Throne, after which his Highness promises to furnish fuller information on the subject.\n\nIn spite of his assurances, I regret to say that no material advance has, so far as I can ascertain, been made towards the attainment of a uniform system of currency. \nAt the same time it must be admitted that in certain respects at least the Chinese Government have shown some appreciation of the disadvantages of irresponsible action on the part of the provinces.\n\nRestrictions have been placed on the issue of copper coin from the provincial mints, the experiment which his Excellency Chang Chih-tung was authorized to make of introducing a tael coinage has been stopped, and its failure seems to have convinced the central Government that the dollar must be adopted as the standard coin.\n\nApart from the above, and the visit of inspection which his Excellency Chên Pi, the Vice-President of the Board of Finance, lately made of the provincial mints, China has not yet taken any effective measures towards accomplishing the difficult task she set herself by the second Article of the British Treaty of 1902.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) \nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n#### The Doyen of the Diplomatic Body to Prince Ching.\n\nImperial Highness, \n\nPeking, June 12, 1907. \nTHE serious disabilities under which foreign trade in China has been labouring by reason of the incessant and often violent fluctuations in the gold value of silver are well known to the Imperial Government of China, and remedial measures, particularly the early adoption of a uniform coinage, have, we are aware, received its careful attention within the last few years; none have, however, we believe, met with its approval, and the difficulty of the situation appears to be increasing, and proves ever more disturbing to foreign commercial interests in China.\n\nThe gravity of the situation thus created, and the difficulty in which the foreign Representatives at Peking find themselves to reassure their nationals, and to hold out to them hopes for a betterment, have led them to request me to address your Imperial Highness on the subject, and to ask if it be not possible that some assurance be given them that the measures now under consideration for the adoption of a uniform coinage are such that a favourable and early solution of the question can be hoped for. \nSuch assurances they could in turn communicate to the commercial bodies engaged in the China trade, and they would unquestionably allay all apprehension on that point, and re-establish confidence, so essential to commercial undertakings of every nature.\n\n[2641 i-1]",
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        "content_text": "## Despatch from Consul Ker to Sir J. Jordan\n\nThe fourth (same date) provides that pending the registration of smokers, all smokers must buy the Government-prepared opium, and must not boil opium themselves. The opium ash being therefore henceforth useless to private individuals is to be sold either direct to the Head Bureau, or to the agents of the Bureau, who will be expected to produce about 3 ounces of ash for every 10 ounces of opium purchased from the Head Bureau.\n\nThe preciseness of the date fixed by the above Proclamations for the monopoly to take effect, seemed to me inconsistent with the representations already made to me by Mr. Sun, the Director of the Bureau, as to the difficulties involved, and also with the terms of the Petition prefixed to the printed Regulations, of which I obtained a copy on the 26th ultimo, in which the Financial Commissioner and Sun Taotai propose that the scheme shall be put in force experimentally from the beginning of next year.\n\nMoreover, such information as was obtainable from outside sources indicated a prospect of considerable delay in enforcing the monopoly. I therefore called at the \"Foreign Office\" on the 27th August, and requested Mr. Cheng to find out from Sun Taotai whether or not the monopoly was actually intended to come into force on the date specified in the Proclamations. Mr. Cheng promised to do so, and while I was waiting for a reply, I received your telegram of the 20th ultimo inquiring specifically as to this point, and also your despatch No. 10 of the 21st ultimo, showing that you had protested to the Wai-wu Pu against the monopoly as an infringement of existing Treaties.\n\nLearning that Mr. Sun was absent in Hankow, I called on the Viceroy on the 30th August. His Excellency informed me that, in consequence of your representations, the Wai-wu Pu had telegraphed to him an inquiry on the subject, and that he had telegraphed a reply, the purport of which he would instruct Mr. Cheng to communicate to me for my confidential information. He went on to speak of the difficulties of arranging for the annual diminution of the import of Indian opium, owing to the uncertainty of success at the end of ten years of the effort to suppress opium smoking in China, and said he had asked the Peking Government whether they could guarantee that the prohibition would be effectual in that period. I failed to see what connection these considerations had with the matter in hand, and I asked for an assurance that at least the monopoly would not be enforced on the date mentioned in the Proclamations. The Viceroy gave somewhat vague assurances that Treaty rights must be respected, that he would see Sun Taotai about it on his return from Hankow, that perhaps the date might be postponed, and that he would instruct Mr. Sun to explain matters to me. In reply to a question from his Excellency, whether His Majesty's Government were really willing to assist China in suppressing the opium evil, I replied that their good-will was undoubted, and that this was the very reason why schemes such as the present should be made the subject of general preliminary negotiations with the British authorities, and should not be put in force experimentally here and there in disregard of existing Treaty stipulations. The Viceroy finally authorized me to telegraph to you that further consideration would be given to the scheme, but stipulated that my assurances should not be too precise.\n\nMr. Cheng a few days later, in accordance with the Viceroy's instructions, gave me a rough translation of his Excellency's telegram to the Wai-wu Pu, dated the 29th August. In spite of what I had been led to expect, I found that the telegram kept to the point, namely, the proposed opium monopoly, and the question of its consistency with Treaty provisions. Rule of Trade 5, Article III of the Chefoo Convention, and Article III of the Chefoo Additional Convention, were quoted to prove that opium is on quite a different footing from other goods, and that Article V of the Treaty of Nanking and Article XIV of the French Treaty have no concern with opium. Even if they had, it was argued, the present Regulations constituted no infringement, for all dealers with sufficient resources were at liberty to carry on their trade. The objections now raised were probably due to the machinations of the Chao-chow drug dealers, who were reported to have instigated Messrs. Sassoon and others to stop shipments to Nanking. The British Consul-General at Shanghae had been requested to direct these firms to resume their trade with Nanking dealers, and the Wai-wu Pu was asked to assure the British Minister of the harmlessness of the Regulations. Strict instructions had now been given to the Monopoly Bureau to give fair play and act in accord with Treaty stipulations.\n\nOn the 4th instant I received from Mr. Sun, who had returned from Hankow, a reply to my request for explanations as to the date fixed by the Proclamations for the Regulations to take effect. He stated that this date superseded the date originally proposed, namely, beginning of next year, and that the sale of Government-prepared opium would begin on the 8th September; but that the operation of the Articles of the Regulations providing for \n1. Restriction of the trade in raw opium; \n2. The licensing of smokers; \n3. The seizure of private prepared opium; and \n4. The fee of 5 taels per picul on Hsuchou opium, \nwas suspended pending the result of a Memorial to the Throne on the subject by the Viceroy.\n\nI understand from this that the monopoly is practically suspended. The information is inconsistent with the Proclamations, and no further Proclamation has yet been issued countermanding the former one; but it is by no means unusual in China that Proclamations which have in theory the force of law, should be in practice nullified by failure of administrative measures to carry their provisions into effect.\n\nI had the honour yesterday to communicate to you and to His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghae by telegraph the information received from Mr. Sun.\n\nI am sending a copy of this despatch to Sir Pelham Warren.\n\n**(No. 21.)**\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \nW. P. KER.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\nConsul Ker to Sir J. Jordan,  \nNanking, September 7, 1907.\n\nIn continuation of my immediately preceding despatch, I have the honour to inclose herewith copy and translation of a Proclamation which has just been communicated to me by the Opium Monopoly Bureau, by which the operation of the monopoly is ordered to be suspended pending the conclusion of the negotiations between yourself and the Wai-wu Pu.\n\nI am forwarding a copy of this despatch and of the translation of the Proclamation to His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghae.\n\n**(Inclosure 3 in No. 1)**\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \nW. P. KER.\n\n## Proclamation by Kiangnan Opium Monopoly Bureau\n\n---(Communicated September 7, 1907.) (Translation.)\n\nON the 5th September this Bureau received the following instructions from his Excellency the Viceroy:---\n\n\"The monopoly of the sale of Government-prepared opium by the Kiangnan Bureau was to have begun on the 8th September; but a telegram has now been received from the Board of Foreign Affairs stating that negotiations are just being entered into with the British Minister on the subject of opium monopoly, and requesting that pending their conclusion the measures taken for a monopoly in Kiangnan shall be suspended. In accordance with this telegram the scheme must be suspended until the Board has decided upon the procedure to be adopted, when the matter can be taken into further consideration. A telegraphic reply has been sent accordingly, and the Bureau is hereby directed, on receipt of these instructions, to order the suspension of operations at all the branch offices, and to issue a Proclamation at once for the information of the public. The Bureau shall report the action taken in accordance with these instructions.\"\n\nThere is no way to make a beginning with the policy of suppressing opium except by means of a monopoly of the sale of prepared opium; and when at the end of the 7th moon the opium dens were closed in obedience to Imperial Decree, it became difficult henceforth for smokers to purchase the drug. The Board's Regulations concerning the monopoly of sale of prepared opium not having been then received, this... \n\nPage 443",
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        "content_text": "# This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\n451\n\n2\n\n\"If the inquiry is confined to the four questions of the Memorandum (of the 11th June) then the rights and wrongs of the case will not be brought to light, public opinion will not be appeased, and disturbances will probably result, thus making a settlement harder than ever.\n\n\"The Taotai requests that His Majesty's Minister may be asked to order the inquiry to be held on the lines laid down in clause 3 of the Rules for Joint Inquiry first proposed. If prompt arrangements cannot be made regarding the procedure to be followed, the Chinese Government must decline to accept the responsibility for the delay.\"\n\nThe Board concurs in the justice of the Viceroy's proposed procedure, and have the honour to request your Excellency to favour them with an expression of your views.\n\nSeptember 2, 1907.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum communicated by Sir J. Jordan to Wai-wu Pu.**\n\nAFTER careful consideration of the Board's Memorandum of the 2nd September respecting the proposed joint investigation into the case of rioting at Shanghae on the 18th December, 1905, and after consultation with the Judge of His Majesty's Supreme Court, who is now in Peking, Sir John Jordan has the honour to remind the Board that the first essential in such an inquiry would be to ascertain the responsibility of the Chinese authorities for the disturbances, as was stated in the Memoranda of the 8th March and the 11th June. If the ex-Taotai Yuan and others are merely to be represented by counsel and are not to appear in person, the inquiry becomes valueless.\n\nIn order that it should be effective, it is absolutely necessary for the Chinese officials concerned to appear personally as witnesses and answer the questions addressed to them. Their dignity will not suffer by such procedure.\n\nFurthermore, the Judge of His Majesty's Supreme Court can only regard the British aspect of this case, and cannot concern himself with the interests of other nationalities. The appointment of assessors is therefore entirely unnecessary.\n\nThe two points of view are thus widely different. On the one side it is desired to find out the truth, and on the other to preserve the dignity of the ex-Taotai and other officials. The Viceroy at Nanking must be well aware that his proposals could not be accepted by His Majesty's Government, and their reiteration appears to show clearly that he shrinks from a local settlement. It rests therefore with the Chinese Government to come to a decision in this matter, and to settle it either by means of a joint investigation upon effective lines, as proposed in the Memoranda of the 8th March and the 11th June, or by ordering the payment of compensation and the punishment of the guilty without further delay.\n\nPeking, September 17, 1907.\n\n## [B]\n\n**AFFAIRS OF CHINA.**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[36190]\n\n### No. 1.\n\n[November 2.]\n\n#### SECTION 2.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 2.)**\n\n(No. 448.) Sir,\n\nFURTHER changes of far-reaching importance have been made during the past fortnight in the personnel of the Central Government by the transfer of Yuan Shih K'ai from the Viceroyalty of Chihli to the post of Minister of the Board of Foreign Affairs, with a seat on the Grand Council, and by the similar transfer of Chang Chih Tung from the Viceroyalty at Wuchang to the position of a Grand Councillor.\n\nReports had been prevalent in July and August that these two Viceroys were to be summoned to Peking for the purpose of taking part in important deliberations respecting constitutional reform and the nomination of an Heir Apparent. It was also rumoured that Yuan Shih K'ai would be kept in Peking as a Minister of the Army Board, with a seat on the Grand Council, but it was not anticipated that Chang Chih Tung, at his advanced age, would undertake metropolitan duties.\n\nThe Viceroy Yuan was the first to arrive, and proceeded at once to the Summer Palace, where he was received in private audience several times.\n\nOn the 4th September the appointments were gazetted. That of Yuan Shih K'ai to the Wai-wu Pu came as a complete surprise to all. To make room for him, the Minister Li Hai Huan, whose appointment only dated from June last, as reported in my despatch `No. 301`, was transferred to the Revenue Council, the Department which controls the Imperial Maritime Customs; while the Viceroy's place at Tien-tsin was filled on the following day by the appointment of Yang Shih Hsiang, Governor of Shantung, to be Acting Viceroy of Chihli.\n\nOn the same day (the 5th September) Chao Erh Hsun, recently Tartar General at Mukden, and subsequently Viceroy designate of Szechuan, was appointed to the substantive post of Viceroy at Wuchang, in place of Chang Chih Tung.\n\nA few days later another change was made in the Wai-wu Pu. By a Decree of the 9th September, Wang Ta Hsieh, who was the last Minister to England, and who took up his post as Vice-President of the Wai-wu Pu in June last, was commanded to proceed to England on a special mission to study the principles of constitutional government. This appointment was notified to me on the 12th September in the note, translation of which I have the honour to inclose.\n\nHis place in the Wai-wu Pu was filled on the 10th September by the appointment of Liang Tun Yen, Minister designate to America, to be Acting Vice-President.\n\nOn the 14th September I received visits from Yuan Shih K'ai and Liang Tun Yen, and on the 17th transacted business with them for the first time at the Wai-wu Pu. On both occasions the ex-Viceroy gave me to understand that I could consider Mr. Liang as his right-hand man, and he expressed his strong desire at the Wai-wu Pu to bring all outstanding matters to a speedy and satisfactory conclusion, so that we could make a fresh start in the relations of this Legation and the Board.\n\nThe bewildering changes which have taken place in the official world during the past four months, besides showing the weakness which prevails in the Government of the Empire, preclude also the possibility of forecasting their result. Yet the factors of the situation are tolerably clear. In the eyes of competent observers Yuan Shih K'ai represents reform and progress, while Chang Chih Tung is now the leader of the Conservative party, in the ranks of which the Manchu element will be found. It appears impossible that both will long possess the confidence of the Throne, and an arduous task confronts Yuan Shih K'ai in preserving his position against the intrigues for which the Palace circle is notorious.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nPeking, September 18, 1907.\n\n[2732 6-2]",
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        "content_text": "# 503\n\n2\n\nCorroborating this is the protest addressed by the then Manager of the Company, Mr. Dugan, to the French Admiral dated the 27th October, 1901, and his reply dated the 1st December, 1901, expressing himself unable to deal with the matter and referring the former to the French Minister in Peking.\n\nM. Dubail, the French Minister, withdrew all claim to these lands and caused the French boundary posts to be removed and the lands returned to the Company. After a period of eighteen months' undisturbed occupation by the Company of the same, the land was again forcibly seized by the French Government. The justification advanced in the French Memorandum is to be found on pp. 11 and 12, and reads as follows:\n\n\"En fait, la situation de la France à Ts'in-ouang-tao est nette et son droit sur les terrains qu'elle occupe fort bien établi; d'accord avec les autres Puissances, elle détient en vertu du droit de guerre et en exécution de l'Article 9 du Protocole de 1901 relatif à l'occupation des points nécessaires pour assurer les libres communications entre Pékin et la mer en toute saison, une partie des terrains de Ts'in-ouang-tao, au même titre que divers autres emplacements situés sur les lignes d'étapes entre Pékin et la mer, et nul ne peut légalement l'en déposséder.\"\n\nThe \"droit de guerre\" could give no right to the French Government to seize the private property of the subjects of a friendly Power six weeks after the Final Peace Protocol with the Chinese Government has been signed.\n\nArticle 9 of the Protocol confirms to the use of the Powers certain lands the occupation of which had been ceded by the previous Protocol of the 16th February, 1901, for the purpose of maintaining free communication between the capital and the sea. It affords no justification for the subsequent seizure of private property.\n\nExcept for the alleged \"droit de guerre,\" no justification is offered by the French Memorandum beyond occasional references to the Tien-tsin Treaty of 1858, and an argument that the possession by this Company of its land constitutes a breach of that Treaty.\n\n31\n\nMy Directors cannot understand how clause 14 of the Treaty of 1858 forbidding \"toute coalition organisée dans le but d'exercer un monopole sur le commerce\" have any bearing on the case, or how, if a right were accorded to the French Government to lease a small portion of land at Chin Wang Tao to private individuals for commercial or industrial purposes, it could remedy a breach of this clause. The ownership of the land by this Company gives no monopoly of commerce, nor does the Company claim any. What gives this Company a special position at Chin Wang Tao (apart from its legal title) is the fact that the port has been created by the Company, that no natural port whatsoever existed there, but an artificial harbour has been created as the result of the expenditure of large sums of money by this Company in the construction of a pier and breakwater, &c. But for this expenditure the land would be worthless, as it was when first acquired by the Company.\n\nNo commercial monopoly is sought or exercised by this Company at Chin Wang Tao. The Agreement made with M. Dubail accorded to French nationals and shippers the same facilities at moderate rates as to those of any other Power, the same Agreement having been entered into with the German and Japanese Governments. In proof of this we need only mention that half-a-dozen different shipping lines, including the French \"Chargeurs Réunis,\" are running to the port. The Company is, moreover, quite prepared to sell to French nationals as much land as they may require on exactly the same terms as are accorded to any others.\n\nAs regards the rights of this Company to its property at Chin Wang Tao under the Agreement of Purchase with the old Chinese Engineering and Mining Company my Directors do not consider that they are called upon to enter into any discussion, but I am to point out that Chang Yen Mao, in entering into the Agreement, acted not only as Director-General of the old Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, but also as Director-General of Mines of the Province of Chili, in which capacity he was second only to the Viceroy in rank and power.\n\nOn pp. 6 and 7, however, a definite pretext is assigned for taking the view that the Company's rights are open to question. It runs as follows:\n\n\"La date seule du 30 Juillet, 1900, fait d'ailleurs tomber le contrat sous le coup d'une décision du Corps Diplomatique de Pékin (procès-verbal de la quatrième séance, le 5 Novembre, 1900), d'après laquelle aucun achat de terrains aux Chinois depuis le commencement de siège ne saurait être valable sans l'assentiment des Ministres étrangers. Cette mesure, qui visait spécialement les spéculations dolosives dans l'enceinte du quartier des Légations de Pékin, répondait à la préoccupation générale d'empêcher les ventes fictives ou léonines. Ainsi le contrat provisoire du 30 Juillet, 1900, conclu sans titres suffisants, est des plus contestables en raison de sa date, qui le rend légalement sans valeur.\"\n\nIn reply, it is only necessary to point out that this decision of the Diplomatic Corps referred exclusively to land at Peking, as is well known to all concerned.\n\nThe fact remains that this British Company has twice been forcibly dispossessed, while in actual possession and occupation of certain lands, by the French Government without any warrant or justification, and that no satisfactory explanation is as yet advanced.\n\nThe French Government, in trying to prove that the position of this Company is not correct, is taking up a question which it is not in its province to adjudicate upon. This Company's contentions as to its rights are incontestable from the point of view of international law, and the action of the French Government can only be considered as an act of aggression against British-owned property.\n\nIt is not, however, only because of the very material loss which acceptance of the French proposals would entail that the Company finds itself unable to accede to the French demands; it is because this Company is pledged to the British, Japanese, and German Governments to equality of treatment in all respects for their respective nationals, and is therefore unable to come to an agreement with the French Government by which French citizens would be placed at an advantage over those of any other Power.\n\nThat is the reason why this Company cannot consent to the transfer of further lands to the French Government beyond those near the railway station of which it already has the use, nor to the use of those lands for private and commercial purposes.\n\nMy Directors therefore beg to request that His Majesty's Government should urge upon the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs the acceptance of a similar arrangement to that made with the Governments of Japan and Germany.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nThe Chinese Engineering and Mining Company (Limited),\n\n**(Signed) ALFRED W. 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        "content_text": "**AFFAIRS OF CHINA.**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n520\n\n44/07 November 18.\n\nSpcm 44EC 07\n\n[37963]\n\n**(No. 469.) Sir,**\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey,-(Received November 18.)**\n\nPeking, October 1, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith a monthly summary, compiled by Mr. Garnett, of events in China which have not been reported in separate despatches.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n## Inclosure in No. 1.\n\n## Monthly Summary of Events in China.\n\n### Chengtu.\n\nTHE Acting British Consul-General reported on the 22nd July that he arranged an interview between Mr. Polhill, of the China Inland Mission, and the Acting Viceroy, before the former left for Tachienlu on the 17th July. The Acting Viceroy received Mr. Polhill in a very friendly manner, and said he had no objection at all to his opening mission stations at Litang and Batang, but he advised him for the present to confine his work to the main roads and not to penetrate into the interior.\n\nA member of the China Inland Mission at Tachienlu writes as follows under date 8th July:\n\n\"There is a good deal of talk here just now about the Roman Catholics who are buying up a number of houses in the city. They have recently bought a row of ten houses, practically a whole street, and are now trying to get hold of five or six inns at the back of this street. The inn people don't want to sell, but they are afraid the Roman Catholics will bring foreign, i.e., French, pressure to bear by referring the case to Chengtu.\n\n\"The Envoy from Nepaul, with about forty men, is here on his way to Peking. He speaks English very well, and is a very pleasant gentleman.\n\n\"Ya Tai, the late Chinese Amban, is now in Litang on his way to Chengtu. He is travelling quite unofficially, being in disgrace.*\n\n\"A Chinese surveyor, who has been eight years in Japan, is now in this district making maps for the Viceroy.\"\n\nWith reference to the inns mentioned in this missionary's letter, they are large Thibetan inns managed by Headmen of the Min Cheng Sau, or native King, for the convenience of Thibetan traders and others. They make no charge for board or lodging, but are allowed a percentage on all trade transactions taking place in their inns. Their title to the property is hereditary; they cannot sell, but are allowed to let on annual leases. If the family owning an inn dies out it reverts to the King, who then bestows it on some other family. There are forty-eight of these inns in Tachienlu.\n\nThere is a good deal of friction just now between the Chinese authorities at Tachienlu and the native King, owing to the former's attempts to restrict his powers and prerogatives. It is just possible that the Roman Catholic Mission, in endeavouring to obtain possession of these Ko-chuangs, is acting with the knowledge and consent of the Chinese officials, who may seize the opportunity to deal a blow at the native King's influence by abolishing the inn system.\n\n### Foochow.\n\nArsenal at Pagoda Anchorage.-The contracts with the French officers in charge of the arsenal will expire this month, and it is not the intention of the authorities to renew... * This is contradicted in another despatch.\n\n[2732-4]",
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        "content_text": "## them. \nIt was originally stated that the arsenal would be shut down, but recently, owing, it is said, to repeated attempts on the part of Japanese to lease it, the Viceroy has decided to keep it open under the superintendence of the French-trained native officers.\n\nThe arsenal was founded in 1868 under the direction of two French officers, with a staff of some thirty officers and overseers, who remained until 1872, when the Chinese engineers who had been trained under their supervision took entire charge. French engineers were again employed from 1875 to 1878, and from time to time up to 1897 foreign-trained native engineers were in charge. It was during this latter period that the dock at Pagoda Island was constructed, it having been commenced in 1887. In 1897 French officers again took charge.\n\nThe position of the arsenal was at the time of its foundation excellent; vessels could easily go alongside the wharf, and there was deep water and good anchorage in the stream immediately opposite the frontage. Unfortunately, however, the barrier, laid down during the war with France in 1884, between Foochow and Pagoda has completely altered the course of the river, and caused the arsenal frontage to silt up. If the removal of this barrier would result in the river resuming its former course, there would be a great improvement, not only to the arsenal and dock entrance, but also to navigation in general.\n\nOwing to the absurdly high prices asked by the Chinese land-owners, it was impossible to obtain land necessary to build the dock in the immediate vicinity of the arsenal, and the authorities were compelled to find a site further down the river, and at some little distance from the arsenal itself. A site was eventually obtained at Pagoda Island, and there in 1887 was constructed a dock capable of taking in the cruisers--- 2,200 tons---which were projected in that year. The entrance to the dock remained free for some ten years, when a sand-bank, which now seriously obstructs the approach, commenced to form. This bank could easily be dredged away, and, as there is a current of nearly 4 knots at that point, little labour would be required after the first dredging to keep the entrance quite clear.\n\nThe arsenal proper has a river frontage of about 500 metres, and a depth of about the same measurement. It contains three building slips, a crane capable of lifting 40 tons weight, a \"Labat\" patent slip, 90 metres in length, for vessels up to 1,000 tons, and coal depôt. Behind the slips are the workshops, and behind the coal depôt the foundry, electric light plant, and the general store. Outside the arsenal compound there are workmen's houses, the English and French school buildings, and the Chinese Director's yamên.\n\nForty steam-vessels have been built, four of which were over 2,000 tons displacement. These were constructed, machinery included, entirely at the arsenal by their own workmen.\n\nThe French school was intended for the training of constructing engineers, while the English school was for the instruction of naval officers.\n\nA large number of overseers and petty officers also received their training in these schools. But owing to lack of funds the buildings have fallen into disrepair, and the schools are practically empty, so that in order to bring the arsenal back to anything approaching its former degree of usefulness, complete reorganization and liberal expenditure of money is now necessary.\n\nThe position of the arsenal has of late years been severely criticized, but it must not be forgotten that the present condition of its water frontage, as also the entrance to the dock, is entirely due to the Kusban barrier; and it is not unreasonable to surmise that the abolition of this obstruction would remove, or at any rate modify, the rapidly growing sand-banks in the vicinity, especially at the arsenal frontage, where, before the laying down of the Kushan barrier, it had become necessary to protect the bank from encroachment by the river.\n\nPeking!\n\nThe following extracts on various subjects from native newspapers may be of interest:\n\nAugust 25.-\"The Ministers of the Revenue Council propose placing foreign custom-houses at Su-lo Fu (Kashgar) and Ili Fu (Kuldja) in Hsinchiang, with Chinese and foreign officers in charge of them. They are also negotiating with the Russians a Tariff suitable to the trade conditions of the frontier.\"\n\nAugust 25.-\"The Li Fan Pu intends to devote strenuous efforts to the formation of a Mongolian army. A Memorial will shortly be sent to the Throne on the subject.\"\n\n## \nAugust 23.-\"The Government is considering a vigorous effort to suppress the custom of foot-binding, by reducing women with bound feet to the level of the non-respectable classes, so that they cannot share in any honours or titles conferred upon their husbands or sons.\"\n\nCurrency. August 23.-\" A Committee of Princes and Ministers has been meeting in the Grand Secretariat to consider the currency question, and it has been decided to adopt Professor Jenks' proposal for a gold basis, and to prohibit the import of foreign coins and notes, or the unofficial printing or making of notes, so as to secure uniformity.\"\n\nTaku Forts. August 26.—“ A proposal has been made to obtain the consent of the Powers to the rebuilding of the forts at Taku, which form the gate of Peking.\"\n\nManœuvres. September 1.-\" Owing to the disturbed state of the Yang-tsze region, there will be no autumn manoeuvres this year.\"\n\nRailway Construction in Chinese Turkestan. September 9.—“ A Russian merchant has proposed the joint undertaking of railway construction in Ili and Hsinching. The Wai-wu Pu has refused, and the Yu-chuan Pu has sent telegrams to the Governor of Ili urging him to find money without delay to undertake it himself and anticipate the foreigners, and also to consider the opening of trade marts as a safeguard to the rights of China,\"\n\nPolitical Situation. September 11.-\" The dispatch of Commissioners to England, Japan, and Germany to study the Constitutions of those countries is due to the advice of Yuan Shih-k'ai, who has also sent up a Memorial containing detailed proposals on constitutional government in ten Articles.\"\n\n\"It is also said that Wang Ta-hsieh and Yu Shih-mei were appointed to these Commissions in order to get them out of the way, Wang being a friend of C'hu Hung-chi and Yu Shih-mei having been a protégé of Ts'en Ch'un-hsuan.\"\n\nAnd the same paper on the same day stated that: \"The Government is thinking of bringing back Tang Shao-yi to the Wai-wu Pu.\"\n\nPeking-Hankow Railway. September 13.-\" Yuan Shih-k'ai is reviving the question of redeeming the Peking-Hankow Railway, and is resolved to bring it to a successful issue. Instructions have been given to Yang Shih-ci, on his mission to the South Sea ports, to collect money for this purpose from the Chinese communities.\"\n\nOn the 18th September a paper stated that: \"On the 10th September the Director-General of the Peking-Hankow Railway waited upon Yuan Shih-k'ai to confer on the subject of the redemption of the railway, which he has been deputed to propose to the Company. One of the Yuchuan Board says that it may possibly be brought about this year, as the Government is very pressing in the matter.\"\n\nDalai Lama,\n\nSeptember 18.-\"The Dalai Lama has again petitioned through the Grand Council for leave to return to Thibet. The Rescript to the Council's Memorial directed that for the present he should not return.”\n\nGermans in Shantung. September 18.\" Agreements have been signed for German Mining Concessions at five places in Shantung.\"\n\nSeptember 25.-\"The Germans have sent fifty German students to travel in Shantung, and have engaged expectant officials to show them the topography, the trend of the hills, the watersheds, &c., of which they are to make plans. The object of the expedition is not apparent, and the Chinese Government feels much suspicion, It is intended to address the German Minister on the subject, and ask for the recall of the students.\"\n\nPolitical Situation. September 18-Chang Chih-tung has been having audiences on consecutive days, to which only he himself was admitted, and at which the matters spoken of are kept so secret that they are not even confided to Prince Ch'ing and the other members of the Grand Council.”\n\nPeking-Kalgan Railway.-Great activity is being shown along the whole section under construction from Nankow to the top of the pass, and a great number of workmen are employed. They sleep in small mat sheds erected among the boulders by the side of the stream, and appear to work from early morning till late at night. I have the honour to report the following on the authority of the Chinese Engineer-in-chief' :-----\n\nThree miles of rails have been already laid inside the valley from Nankow. As regards the tunnels, two have been completed, the third (1,200 feet long) has been driven through, as also two-thirds of the fourth (3,450 feet long). The rails are not laid as yet through any of the tunnels. Work has already been begun at the north side of the pass, and about two-thirds of the earthwork to Huailai is finished. The line is to be opened to traffic as soon as the rails reach Huailai. The Engineer-in-chief\n\nPage 521",
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        "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[39336]\n### No. 1\n\n144707\nNovember 30.\n\nSECTION 6.\nJE607\n527\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 30.)\n\n**(No. 495.)**\nSir,\n\nPeking, October 16, 1907.\n\nWITH reference to previous correspondence on the subject of piracy in Canton waters, I have the honour to inclose copies of despatches from His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton showing the attitude of the Provincial Treasurer, while Acting Viceroy, in a case which occurred during the past summer.\n\nTwo missionaries, one of whom was a British subject, were robbed while travelling by boat. The Magistrate arrested one of the robbers, who informed against his confederates. They could not be found, but the Magistrate, in pursuance of Chinese practice in such an event, made their families compensate the missionaries for the articles stolen. The native press shortly afterwards published what purported to be a Minute issued by the Acting Viceroy, censuring the Magistrate for admitting the liability for compensation.\n\nMr. Mansfield wrote to his Excellency asking for an explanation, and, as this official has shown himself to be most unfriendly, I brought the matter to the notice of the Wai-wu Pu in the Memorandum, copy of which is inclosed.\n\nSubsequently I received from Mr. Mansfield a copy of the Acting Viceroy's reply (Inclosure 6), in which the authenticity of the newspaper publication is admitted and the censure passed upon the Magistrate justified.\n\nSo far I have received no reply from the Wai-wu Pu to my Memorandum of the 5th October.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) **J. N. JORDAN**.\n\n### Inclosure I in No. 1\n**(No. 43.)**\nSir,\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nCanton, September 18, 1907.\n\nIN Mr. Vice-Consul Sly's Intelligence Report, forwarded in my despatch `No. 36` of the 25th July, there is, on p. 5, a short account of a small case of piracy in which the native boats of the Rev. E. T. Snuggs and Miss Commin were robbed near the village of Pang Tsun in the San Hing district.\n\nThis affair has had a curious sequel, which, with other matters which are dealt with in separate despatches, demonstrates plainly the intensely hostile attitude of Hu Hsiang-Lin, Acting Provincial Treasurer, here and at present Acting Viceroy of the Two Kuang.\n\nAn article, of which I inclose copy and translation, appeared in the \"Seventy-two Guilds Commercial News\" of the 26th August last. From this it appears that the Hsin Hsing (sc. San Hing) Magistrate Tson, instead of receiving praise for his prompt action in arresting one of the robbers and obliging the families of the ringleaders to make restitution of the value of the articles robbed from them, was not only severely censured, but had three bad marks put on his record and was fined a sum of double the amount which he had reimbursed to the victims of the robbery.\n\nAs the particular newspaper in question is not taken in by us, it was over a fortnight before it was brought to my notice, but on being shown it I at once addressed to the Acting Viceroy a despatch, of which I inclose copy and translation.\n\nI have not received his reply and hardly expect to, as his Excellency Chang Jen Chun is expected here in a day or two to take over the Vice-Royalty, but the Acting Viceroy's action seems to me to be a direct encouragement to outrages on British subjects and foreigners in general, and a result of the success with which all our efforts to obtain even a discussion of the \"Sainam\" piracy claims have been resisted by the authorities here.\n\n[2732 gg--6]",
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        "content_text": "# \n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\nExtract from the \"Seventy-two Guilds Commercial News\" of August 26, 1907.\n\n## Acting Viceroy Hu takes Measures to prevent the Recurrence of Misdemeanours in settling Foreign Cases. (Translation.)\n\nTHE following Minute has been made by the Viceroy on the report submitted by the Hsin Hsing Magistrate Tsou on the robbery of the foreign missionary Snuggs:-\n\n\"In cases in which foreign merchants or foreign missionaries are the victims of a robbery, the Treaties only demand the arrest of the delinquents and the restoration of the property stolen. There is no obligation to pay compensation. And this principle has been illustrated in more than one past case. After causing careful search to be made in the correspondence which passed between the British and American Consuls and the late Viceroy Chou, relative to the robbery of the American missionary Snuggs, and Miss Commin, a missionary lady, on the river at P'ang Ts'un in the Magistrate's district, I am unable to find anything which goes beyond the principle just enunciated. Nevertheless, instead of recovering the property and punishing the offenders, the Magistrate compelled one of the robbers named Su Ya Kuei, who fell into his hands, to make out a list of the families of the ringleaders in the outrage, and forced them to pay the full value of the property stolen, as estimated in a letter written to him personally by a missionary pastor of the name of Chang. The action taken is entirely in the wrong. Having once established such a precedent, if another similar case arises and the bad example now set is imitated by others, an altogether anomalous state of affairs will be produced. Apparently the Magistrate is not aware that all cases affecting foreigners should first be reported to me and my instructions asked in the matter. In the present instance the money was paid over to the missionaries before I was informed of the case. And even then the Magistrate only reports that he made good the estimated value of the property, and vouchsafes no details as to what was asked and what was given. The whole conduct of the Magistrate in this matter proves that he acts too much on his own assumption and performs his official duties in a far from satisfactory manner. In these circumstances I feel that it is my duty to make an example of his case, and I therefore propose to set three bad marks against his name. He will also be fined twice the value of the money obtained from the relatives of the robbers, such fine to be offered in rewards for the apprehension of the actual offenders. Further, he will be given half a month in which to hunt down the ringleaders in this affair, and report their capture and punishment. Lastly, he must surrender the receipt given to him by the missionary Snuggs for inspection.\n\nI shall be glad, therefore, if the Kuangtung Central Police Office and the Provincial Judge will see that my instructions are duly transmitted to the proper quarter and write to the Provincial Treasurer to record the bad marks and take the necessary steps to secure the fulfilment of my wishes. I shall also be glad if they will at the same time send a circular notice to the various officers in this jurisdiction to the effect that, in future, cases of this kind are to be dealt with strictly in accordance with Treaty. And particular stress should be laid on the great importance of avoiding any imprudent individual action which might cause complications in dealing with future cases.\"\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n### Consul-General Mansfield to Acting Viceroy Hu Hsiang-Lin.\n\nCanton, September 15, 1907.\n\nMY attention has just been called to an article which appeared in the \"Ch'i-shih-erh Hang Shang Pao\" on the 26th August last, purporting to be your Rescript to the Petition of the Magistrate at Hsiu Hsing on the robbery by armed men from the missionaries Snuggs and Miss Commin.\n\nFrom this it appears that the Magistrate, having arrested one of the robbers, but being unable to find the actual property stolen, compelled him to make out a list of the families of the ringleaders, and forced them to pay the full value of the goods stolen, which he then refunded to the missionaries concerned.\n\nI have always supposed that your Excellency was desirous to put a stop to the piracy and robbery which for so long has been a disgrace to the province under your jurisdiction, and would have thought that the vigorous and just action of the Magistrate would have met your approbation and reward. To my great surprise, however, your Rescript, as quoted, severely censures him, places three bad marks against his record, and fines him a sum of money. You also send to the various officers in your jurisdiction circular orders which are most obviously calculated to encourage piracy and robbery, especially in cases which have relation to the subjects of friendly Powers.\n\nIf it is correct, I feel sure that the Chinese Government in Peking will, on hearing the facts, disapprove of such unfriendly action on the part of its high officials.\n\nI have difficulty in believing that the newspaper article, of which I inclose a copy, can be a correct report of what has happened, and if it is not I trust your Excellency will direct the \"Ch'i-shih-erh Hang Shang Pao\" to publish a contradiction.\n\nYour Highness,\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Signed)  \nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n### Sir J. Jordan to Prince Ch'ing.\n\nOctober 5, 1907.\n\nIN the numerous consultations which have taken place between the Ministers of the Board and myself during the past year on the subject of the prevention of piracy in Canton waters, it has been mutually recognized that the problem presents considerable difficulties, but that it is capable of adjustment if the local officials act with vigour.\n\nThe District Magistrate of San Hing (Hsin Hsing) recently arrested one of the robbers who had attacked and looted a native boat upon which two missionaries were travelling, and obliged the families of the ringleaders to make restitution of the value of the stolen articles.\n\nA few weeks later a native paper called the \"Commercial News\" published what purported to be a Minute of the Acting Viceroy Hu on the District Magistrate's Report. I have the honour to inclose a copy of this newspaper extract.\n\nIn this document the Acting Viceroy is represented as censuring the District Magistrate for paying compensation, lest it should be taken as a precedent. The Magistrate, therefore, has three bad marks entered on his record, and is fined twice the value of the money obtained from the relatives of the robbers, this sum being offered as rewards for the arrest of the actual offenders.\n\nMr. Mansfield, His Majesty's Consul-General, on becoming aware of this publication in the newspaper, addressed a note to the Acting Viceroy, a translation of which I have the honour to inclose, asking if the newspaper extract was authentic. No reply had been received when Mr. Mansfield made his report to me, and the new Viceroy was expected to arrive at his post within a few days.\n\nI have the honour to request your Highness' Board to examine the inclosed documents, and to be good enough to ascertain by telegraph whether the newspaper extract is what it professes to be. If it is not, an official contradiction should clearly be published. If it is an accurate reproduction of the Acting Viceroy's Minute, I need hardly point out to your Highness' Board that it constitutes a direct encouragement to piracy, and serves as a warning to local officials to regard the robbery of foreigners with indifference. To pirates it is an intimation that if they can enrich their families by their depredations, their families will not suffer. They themselves may be arrested, but the risk of this is not great, and they can always look forward to enjoying the fruits of their plunder when they are released. To the local officials it implies that they need take no steps to render piracy unprofitable. If they can arrest pirates after an attack and recover the stolen property, they may do so; but if the plunder has been disposed of, the pirate's family is so much the richer, and must not be regarded as accessories to the crime.\n\n[2732 yg-6]  \nB 2  \n528",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n## Statement by Chinese Engineering and Mining Company.\n\nM. Pichon's letter might give the impression that this Company has adopted an unconciliatory attitude in dealing with the question of the French occupation. So far from this being the case, the Company has throughout expressed its willingness to concede to the French Government exactly the same advantages which have been accepted by the German and Japanese Governments. The Company, in fact, expressed its willingness to meet the demands made by the French Minister for land for naval, military, and Government purposes, although these demands exceeded those of either the Japanese or the German Governments. Moreover, the Company's proposals were accepted as satisfactory by M. Dubail, the former Minister at Peking, who concluded an Agreement accordingly on the 5th October, 1904. It was only after a lapse of eighteen months that the Company received information that this Agreement was rejected by the French Foreign Office.\n\nM. Pichon's letter proposes as an equitable compromise the very conditions which from the first have been rejected as unacceptable to this Company.\n\nThe French Memorandum may be divided into four sections:--\n\n1. The justification of the French action and position.\n2. The alleged history of the port and the Company, and a discussion of its rights.\n3. An announcement of possible action with the Chinese Government hostile to the Company.\n4. A reiteration of proposals for a settlement, which from the first have been rejected by this Company.\n\nThe French Government are at present in occupation--\n\n(a) Of certain lands near the railway station.\n\nThese lands were occupied by the French Government at the end of 1900 or the beginning of 1901, simultaneously with the temporary occupation of land at Chin Wang Tao, effected by the other Powers. This area of ground, in the occupation of the French authorities, is far greater than that occupied by the other Power, and only a small portion of it is actually required for their naval and military depôts. The Company has always expressed its willingness to its retention of this extended area by the French Government for Government purposes.\n\nThe only issue with respect to these lands, therefore, is their assignment by the French Government to their nationals for private or trading purposes. This is dealt with later, where it is shown that the Protocol of the 7th September, 1901, Article IX, on which the French Government's claim is based, expressly recognizes \"le droit d'occuper certains points pour maintenir les communications libres entre la capitale et la mer,\" but only for that special purpose.\n\n(b) Of certain lands on the Bluff, at Chin Wang Tao.\n\nThese lands were forcibly seized by the French Government in October 1901, at a time when they were indisputably in the possession of this Company, and some time subsequent to the signing of the Peace Protocol of the 7th September, 1901. It is surprising that the French Memorandum makes no reference to this nor affords any justification of their action.\n\nCompletely independent and reliable evidence of this seizure and its date is to be found in the Report of Captain H. W. Cruddas, Officer Commanding Chin Wang Tao, addressed on the 20th October, 1901, to the Chief Staff Officer of the British China field force in Tien-tsin.\n\nCorroborating this is the protest addressed by the then Manager of the Company, Mr. Dugan, to the French Admiral, dated the 27th October, 1901, and his reply dated the 1st December, 1901, expressing himself unable to deal with the matter, and referring the former to the French Minister in Peking.\n\nM. Dubail, the French Minister, withdrew all claim to these lands, and caused the French boundary-posts to be removed and the lands returned to the Company. After a period of eighteen months' undisturbed occupation by the Company of the same, the land was again forcibly seized by the French Government. The justification advanced in the French Memorandum is to be found on pp. 11 and 12, and reads as follows:-\n\n\"En fait, la situation de la France à Ts'in-ouang-tao est nette et son droit sur les terrains qu'elle occupe fort bien établi; d'accord avec les autres Puissances, elle détient, en vertu du droit de guerre et en exécution de l'Article IX du Protocole de 1901 relatif à l'occupation des points nécessaires pour assurer les libres communications entre Pekin et la mer en toute saison, une partie des terrains de Ts'in-ouang-tao, au même titre que divers autres emplacements situés sur les lignes d'étapes entre Pekin et la mer, et nul ne peut légalement l'en déposséder.”\n\nThe \"droit de guerre\" could give no right to the French Government to seize the private property of the subjects of a friendly Power six weeks after the final Peace Protocol with the Chinese Government has been signed.\n\nArticle IX of the Protocol confirms to the use of the Powers certain lands, the occupation of which had been ceded by the previous Protocol of the 16th February, 1901, for the purpose of maintaining free communication between the capital and the sea. It affords no justification for the subsequent seizure of private property.\n\nExcept for the alleged \"droit de guerre\" no justification is offered by the French Memorandum beyond occasional references to the Tien-tsin Treaty of 1858, and an argument that the possession by this Company of its land constitutes a breach of that Treaty.\n\nThe Directors of the Company cannot understand how Clause No. XIV of the Treaty of 1858 forbidding \"toute coalition organisée dans le but d'exercer un monopole sur le commerce\" can have any bearing on the case, or how, if a right were accorded to the French Government to lease a small portion of land at Chin Wang Tao to private individuals for commercial or industrial purposes, it could remedy a breach of this clause. The ownership of the land by this Company gives no monopoly of commerce, nor does the Company claim any. What gives this Company a special position at Chin Wang Tao (apart from its legal title) is the fact that the port has been created by the Company, that no natural port whatsoever existed there, but an artificial harbour has been created as the result of the expenditure of large sums of money by this Company in the construction of a pier and breakwater, &c. But for this expenditure the land would be worthless, as it was when first acquired by the Company.\n\nNo commercial monopoly is sought or exercised by this Company at Chin Wang Tao. The Agreement made with M. Dubail accorded to French nationals and shippers the same facilities at moderate rates as to those of any other Power, the same Agreement having been entered into with the German and Japanese Governments. In proof of this we need only mention that half-a-dozen different shipping lines, including the French \"Chargeurs Réunis,\" are now running to the port. The Company is, moreover, quite prepared to sell to French nationals as much land as they may require on exactly the same terms as are accorded to any others.\n\nAs regards the rights of this Company to its property at Chin Wang Tao under the Agreement of Purchase with the old Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, the Directors of the Company do not consider that they are called upon to enter into any discussion, but I am to point out that Chang Yen Mao, in entering into the Agreement, acted, not only as Director-General of the old Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, but also as Director-General of Mines of the Province of Chili, in which capacity he was second only to the Viceroy in rank and power.\n\nOn pp. 6 and 7, however, a definite pretext is assigned for taking the view that the Company's rights are open to question. It runs as follows:-\n\n\"La date seule du 30 Juillet, 1900, fait d'ailleurs tomber le contrat sous le coup d'une décision du Corps Diplomatique de Pékin (procès-verbal de la quatrième séance, le 5 Novembre, 1900), d'après laquelle aucun achat de terrains aux Chinois depuis le commencement du siège ne saurait être valable sans l'assentiment des Ministres étrangers. Cette mesure, qui visait spécialement les spéculations dolosives dans l'enceinte du quartier des Légations de Pékin, répondait à la préoccupation générale d'empêcher les ventes fictives ou léonines. Ainsi le contrat provisoire du 30 Juillet, 1900, conclu sans titres suffisants, est des plus contestables, en raison de sa date, qui le rend légalement sans valeur.\"\n\nIn reply, it is only necessary to point out that this decision of the Diplomatic Corps referred exclusively to land at Peking, as is well known to all concerned.\n\nThe fact remains that this British Company has twice been forcibly dispossessed, while in actual possession and occupation, of certain lands, by the French Government, and that no satisfactory explanation is as yet advanced.\n\nPage 531",
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        "content_text": "## 128\n\nbe maintained. Your Lordship will recollect that with your concurrence this Colony even went further and advanced a sum of £1,100,000 to the Viceroy of Wuchang to enable him to redeem the Concession for the Line to Hankow which was in the hands of an Americo-Belgian Syndicate. Hongkong has therefore not only a very vital interest in the construction of this Line, but also in view of the financial support rendered, the Colony is justified in claiming that the purpose for which the Loan was advanced is effected.\n\n3. The present position of affairs appears to be an impasse. Owing to the inclusion in the British Syndicates of a French Group without the consent of the Chinese, the latter refuse to apply for the Loan for construction. I understand that Chang-chi-tung emphatically declares that he will have nothing to do with an Anglo-French Syndicate, that he made his Agreement with the British alone, and will not negotiate with any other, though he is ready to apply for a Loan from the British Syndicates. They on their part are precluded from negotiation by the terms of their Compact with the French Group, while the French are unwilling to recede from the position they have obtained, and to allow the British to advance funds except in the name of the Joint Syndicate. The British",
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        "content_text": "## \nThe Hongkong Government adopted the expedient of withdrawing from circulation its subsidiary coin received as revenue, and succeeded in inducing the Authorities at Canton to temporarily suspend the coining of small coins at the Mint at Canton. A Committee was appointed to consider the causes of the depreciation of the subsidiary coinage of the Colony and to advise what steps could be taken to rehabilitate it. As a result of the enquiry, the Government addressed strong representations through the proper channels to the Chinese Authorities both at Peking and Canton, urging the suspension of the coinage of small coins at the Canton Mint until the coins had again reached par. No definite reply had been received to these representations at the close of the year.\n\nThe Committee appointed in 1906 to collect funds and administer relief to the sufferers by the disastrous Typhoon of 18th September, 1906, completed their labours early in the year and reported that they had collected $279,903, all but $11,000 of which was contributed by residents in the Colony and by firms doing business with it. Of this sum, $198,002 were spent in replacing or repairing 1,601 Cargo Boats, Junks, and other craft lost or damaged, while $46,668 were spent on the relief of destitutes (including 205 women and children) and the recovery and burial of dead. The balance of $35,233 was initially reported, but a further sum was later found making the total balance $83,768, which has been placed in the custody of the Government as a fund for relief in similar circumstances. Thirty thousand Dollars were also contributed by the Chinese Government to the Tung Wa Hospital and have been set apart by that institution to serve as a similar fund. A further sum of $106,659 was spent during the year out of Revenue in repairs to Government Works and Buildings caused by the Typhoon of 18th September, 1906. In September, a very heavy rainstorm caused considerable damage to the Kowloon Catchwater and to other Government Works.\n\nThe Commission which had been appointed in the previous year to enquire into the administration of the sanitary laws and the existence of corruption in the Sanitary Department issued their report in April. The Commissioners found that widespread corruption existed among the subordinate Sanitary Staff, and on the evidence furnished by the Commissioners, several Sanitary Inspectors were tried by the Executive Council, suspended, and dismissed. Much of the dissatisfaction with the administration of the Public Health Ordinance was removed by the amendment of a section dealing with open spaces in the rear of existing houses, and by a free use of the power of exemption from the provisions of the law relating to cubicles in Chinese tenement houses. A Committee was appointed to enquire into this latter subject, and their recommendations, with several suggestions made by the Commissioners and others, are being embodied in amendments of the Public Health Ordinance. In the result, it is anticipated that, thanks to the ungrudging labours of the Commissioners, the Sanitary Department will in future be more honestly served, while many improvements will be effected in the Sanitary Law and the method of its application.\n\nIn consequence of the high rate of exchange, which reached more than 2/3 to the Dollar, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, with the concurrence of unofficial members of the Legislative Council, allowed the sterling salaries of Civil Servants to be paid at the rate of 2/- to the Dollar when the rate of exchange is above that figure and at the rate of the day when it is below it.\n\nDuring the year, the claim for compensation on account of the lives lost in the Piracy of the S.S. Sainam, referred to in the Report of last year, was settled; and the Provincial Authorities have now adopted measures which it is hoped will be effective in the suppression of piracy in the Delta and on the West River.\n\nMr. F. Grove, Chief Resident Engineer, and a considerable Staff were at work on the Chinese Section of the Hongkong-Canton Railway during the year. The Survey was completed, and steps were taken for beginning construction early in the current year.\n\nHis Excellency Cheng Yan-tsun succeeded His Excellency Chau Fuk as Governor-General of the Two Kwang Provinces.\n\nMr. H. H. J. Gompertz acted as Attorney General until the arrival of Mr. W. Rees Davies in July.\n\nMr. E. Osborne was appointed a member of the Legislative Council vice Mr. G. Stewart, who left the Colony, and Mr. H. Keswick took the place of Mr. W. J. Gresson absent on leave.\n\nH. R. H. the Duke of Connaught, accompanied by H. R. H. the Duchess of Connaught and the Princess Patricia of Connaught, visited the Colony early in the year. His Royal Highness unveiled statues of His Majesty the King-Emperor and of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, which had been presented to the Colony by Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., and Mr. J. J. Bell-Irving, respectively.\n\nTheir Royal Highnesses attended an entertainment given in their honour by the Chinese community at the Ko Shing Theatre.\n\nSir Matthew Nathan, K.C.M.G., Governor, left the Colony on the 20th April to take up the governorship of Natal, and the Colonial Secretary (Mr. F. H. May, C.M.G.) administered the Government until my arrival on the 29th July, 1907.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\n**Mingarch**  \nGovernor, &c.\n\nPage 562",
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        "content_text": "# Mr. Fox to Viceroy Chang.\n\n## Your Excellency,\n\nCanton 26th. September,\n\nIn continuation of my note of the 24th. instant, I have now the honour to submit for Your Excellency's consideration the formal protest of the British firms in Hongkong interested in the import of Indian opium against the new regulations which have recently been issued by the Provincial Government with a view to the registration of all shops selling raw and prepared opium.\n\nIt is submitted by the British firms in question that if Clauses 1, 2, and 3 of these regulations are carried into effect, the result will be that a certain number of native establishments selling raw and prepared opium will be ascertained, registered, and licensed, and this will curtail the sale of raw opium, as only the native establishments so registered and licensed will be competent to purchase raw opium from the British vendor. In effect, the British merchant will have his trade cut down to the limits of those who are permitted by Your Excellency's Government to trade with him. Such a monopoly would prevent other dealers from participating in the opium trade, thus destroying healthy competition and crippling business, thereby causing heavy loss to importers, who will be at the mercy of a few licensed shops who would be able to dictate their own prices.\n\nThe effect of Clause 4 is to create a monopoly and, as existing shops gradually decrease in number, and no new shops are permitted to take out licenses, the trade will soon be in the hands of a few privileged individuals. So many pretexts can be found for closing down existing establishments that a ring or trust of the kind feared would probably be created within a very short period of time.\n\nThe procedure laid down by these regulations is burdensome and necessitates the payment of a license fee on each occasion that an individual purchases opium. This will...",
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        "content_text": "## SECTION 2.\n\n325 \n\n[36699] \n\nNo. 1. \n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received November 6.)** \n\n**(No. 187.) (Telegraphic.) P.** \n\nPeking, November 6, 1907. WITH reference to my telegram No. 179 of the 16th ultimo, I have the honour to inform you that the Soochow-Ningpo negotiations were placed on a satisfactory basis by a Decree issued at my instance on the 20th ultimo, which practically cancelled the Edict of September 1905, and have since that date proceeded pari passu with the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze negotiations. The draft Agreement of the latter was initialled on the 2nd instant by the negotiators, and yesterday afternoon the draft Agreement for the Soochow-Ningpo line was to have been similarly initialled, but at the last moment the Chinese negotiator suggested the redemption of the Agreement as an alternative solution and declined to attach his signature.\n\nJust before the above came to my knowledge, I saw Yuan Shih-k'ai, who indicated the helplessness of the Central Government in the face of the violent opposition in Chekiang, informing me that news had been received of the desecration of the ancestral graves of Wang, the late negotiator.\n\nI am under the impression that Prince Ching and Chang Chih-tung, who will not risk a collision with the province, have proved too strong for Yuan, to whose influence the issue of the last Decree was probably due.\n\nI have asked Prince Ching for an interview, but it may be delayed by Palace ceremonies.\n\n[2723 f-2]",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n**CHINA RAILWAYS.**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[42351]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[December 28.]\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\n(No. 529.)\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received December 28.)\n\nPeking, November 12, 1907.\n\nWHEN I wrote my despatch No. 513 of the 30th October, on the subject of the Hangchow-Soochow-Ningpo Railway, the negotiations were proceeding on the basis of the Decree of the 20th October, and two points in particular were occupying the attention of Liang Ta-jên and Mr. Bland.\n\nThe first of these was the amount of commutation to be paid to the Corporation in lieu of profit certificates. Mr. Bland claimed payment at the rate of 5 per cent. on the amount of the loan, while Liang Ta-jên pressed him to accept 4 per cent., which was the figure agreed upon in the case of the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze Railway.\n\nMr. Bland showed in favour of his claim that the sum named for the loan (1,500,000_l_.) did not represent more than 60 per cent. of the probable cost of the line, and as it had been decided that no commutation was payable in respect of supplementary loans, it was not just to bind him down in this calculation by the precedent of the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze Railway. Further, the original right of participation in the profits of the latter line, under the Preliminary Agreement, extended only over thirty years, while in the case of the Hangchow Railway it was for fifty years.\n\nThese arguments had little effect on Liang Ta-jên, who came to seek my mediation on the 2nd November. I was somewhat disinclined to become involved in a purely financial question of this nature, but Mr. Bland's contentions seemed to justify an attempt at persuading Liang Ta-jên to meet his wishes.\n\nThe result was that I induced Liang Ta-jên to agree to 4½ per cent., which gives the Corporation 67,500_l_., instead of 75,000_l_., as claimed.\n\nThe other point, raised by Liang Ta-jên, was in regard to the only other outstanding Railway Concession dating from 1898-9—the P'uk'ou-Sinyang line. The Chinese Government desired to come to an understanding with the Chinese Central Railways (Limited) that the Agreement for this line should be based upon those now under negotiation. On the 1st November Mr. Bland learnt from his Directors that they would agree to such an understanding, provided that commutation of profits was paid.\n\nMatters stood in this position, and it was arranged that the draft of the Hangchow Agreement should be initialled by both parties on the 5th November, a copy of the document based, mutatis mutandis, on the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze draft having been sent to Liang Ta-jên on the previous day.\n\nWhile Mr. Bland was occupied with Liang Ta-jên at the Wai-wu Pu on the afternoon of the 5th November, and was, as I hoped, initialling his draft Agreement, I was received in another part of the building by Yuan Shih-k'ai.\n\nAs soon as I alluded to the railway negotiations, and expressed the hope that final signature would follow quickly upon the initialling of the draft, his Excellency said that the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze Agreement must first be definitely decided upon by himself and Chang Chih-tung, and that when this was done the Hangchow Agreement could be discussed. This reply led me to think at first that perhaps his Excellency was speaking in ignorance of the progress made during the last few days, and that Liang Ta-jên had not kept him informed of his intention to initial the draft that day. But as the conversation developed, I judged, from his Excellency's nervousness of manner, that another hitch had occurred.\n\nIn reply to my insistence upon the signature of this Agreement simultaneously with or before the signature of the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze contract, his Excellency said that Prince Ching could not see his way to do this, and with much reluctance he explained that the opposition of the Chekiang gentry was still the deterrent factor, and that it had been exhibited in the desecration by a mob of Wang Ta-hsieh's ancestral graves.\n\nBeing unable to extract from his Excellency any further assurance than that efforts were being made to arrange matters amicably with the obstructionists, I returned home to find Mr. Bland, who informed me that Liang Ta-jên had refused to initial the draft, had repudiated the idea that he had ever arranged definitely to do so on that day, and \n\n[2768 ee-2]\n\n## Page 340",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n3 \n\nhad embarked on a discussion as to whether the Chekiang gentry could not take up the whole loan, and, if so, under what conditions as to price. \n\nMr. Bland was naturally unprepared with an answer to this novel proposition, and had returned with his uninitialled draft in his pocket. \n\nAs reported in my telegram No. 187 of the 6th November, I construed this sudden reaction to mean that Yuan Shih-k'ai had suffered some reverse in his influence, and that the policy of vacillation and obstruction, for which Prince Ch'ing and Chang Chih-tung are respectively distinguished, was again in the ascendant. \n\nI accordingly arranged for an interview with the Prince, which his Highness was not able to grant me before the 8th November. \n\nAt this interview I asked his Highness to be good enough to afford me an explanation of the delay which had arisen on the 5th instant, as I should have to report to my Government the causes which had prevented Liang Ta-jén from initialling the draft. \n\nLiang Ta-jên, who was present, denied somewhat lamely that there had been any question of initialling on that day, and explained that he had asked Mr. Bland for information, which the latter was unable to give him. Several details remained to be discussed, and he could not be expected to initial a document which he had not been given time to examine. \n\nI reminded him that it was in principle the exact counterpart of the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze draft, which he had consented to initial on the 2nd November, and I urged the Prince to state clearly the reasons why an Agreement involving predominant German interests had practically reached finality, while a purely British Agreement was being treated in this manner. \n\nHis Highness begged me not to press him too hard. They had no intention of not carrying the matter on; but the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze Agreement must be settled first, and then this could be proceeded with. \n\nI reminded his Highness that this declaration was in flat contradiction of the assurances given by the Board, on the faith of which I had informed His Majesty's Government that the two Agreements would be either signed together, or the purely British undertaking be given precedence, and I again pressed for the causes underlying this attitude. \n\nHis Highness being unable to bring himself to describe them, I was on the point of giving an account myself of what I understood the situation to be when Liang Ta-jén came to his Highness' assistance and admitted that the popular feeling in Chekiang was the root of the trouble. If the Government acted precipitately, without taking time to explain to the people concerned how matters stood, there might be an outbreak. Some of the leading gentry had been summoned to Peking, and nothing could be done until they arrived. \n\nThe Prince endorsed these observations and said again he must have time. \n\nI strongly deprecated the course of action proposed, and contended that the Government should not give way before the agitation of a few interested parties among the provincials, whom I named to his Highness. The difficulty in which the Government found themselves was of their own making, since they had given ground for this agitation by granting rights to the gentry under the Decree of September 1905, when these very rights belonged already to British enterprise under an Agreement made with Imperial authority. \n\nHis Highness interrupted me by saying he knew only too well the past history of the question, and proceeded with as much *sungfroid* to tell the story as if he had been a passive spectator instead of the chief delinquent in this episode. As things stood, he continued, he could not undertake the responsibility of disregarding the opposition. In face of the Decree of the 20th October, the attitude of the gentry was, as I had said, practically rebellious, but he felt for that very cause that the Government must have an opportunity of reasoning with them. Then, if they would not listen, he had means of dealing with them. \n\nI then drew attention to the uselessness of treating with this class of agitators. The experiment of trying to discuss a question reasonably and amicably with the gentry of Shansi was now being tried in the case of the Peking Syndicate, and it was found that they did not wish to listen to arguments. The result would be the same with the gentry of Chekiang, and I could not consent to indefinite delay in proceedings which the Government had already had ample time to explain fully to the province concerned. The obligation at stake lay between the Chinese and British Governments. Other Powers, such as Russia, Germany, and France, had used their Concessions dating from the same period to build foreign railways under foreign control on Chinese soil. His Majesty's Government, on the other hand, had transferred their rights to purely commercial enterprise, and, after the conclusion of the Shanghae-Nanking Railway Agreement, had supported the wishes of China in effecting far-reaching modifications in the conditions of the Canton-Kowloon Agreement. \n\nOwing to this precedent, China had been able to get still better terms in the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze contract, and the return which she was now making for this friendly treatment was to block negotiations upon which she knew His Majesty's Government set the highest importance. Under these circumstances, I could not authorize Mr. Bland to sign the Anglo-German Agreement before the purely British undertaking was ready for signature, and I had the instructions of His Majesty's Government to this effect. \n\nAnother matter in which China was receiving the greatest consideration at British hands was in regard to the modification of the Shanghae-Nanking Railway Agreement. The Board of Communications had been pressing the British and Chinese Corporation to abolish the Foreign Board of Control and to delegate its authority to the Chinese Chairman. The Corporation was prepared to meet the wishes of the Chinese Government, and an understanding had been arrived at, but I should certainly consider it my duty to advise the suspension of this arrangement until we experienced a more practical evidence of China's good faith in the matter of the Hangchow Railway. \n\nHis Highness once more declared that means would be found to effect a settlement, but gave me no indication as to the length of time which this would take. \n\nMy impression of this long interview was that the Prince will feel bound to make some effort in our favour, but I am not sanguine that the ground lost by his vacillation can be easily regained. As I left his Highness' residence, Liang Ta-jén joined me, and thanked me for bringing pressure to bear, expressing the view that it would do good if sustained. \n\nI therefore addressed a note to his Highness on the following day, a copy of which I have the honour to inclose, recapitulating my arguments and urging a speedy settlement of this affair. \n\nWhen I called at the Wai-wu Pu to-day I was received by all the Ministers except Prince Ching, and therefore had a good opportunity of impressing upon their Excellencies collectively the importance of taking a firm stand against the agitation. \n\nI was informed, in reply, that steps were being taken. A strong order from the Throne had been telegraphed to-day to the Viceroy at Nanking and the Governors at Soochow and Hangchow, commanding them to deal with the opposition, and to report by telegraph the result of their efforts. I was emphatically assured by Yuan Shih-k'ai that the Emperor and Empress-Dowager fully appreciated the situation, and that their Majesties were in complete agreement with the Ministers of the Board that their Government wanted to settle matters peaceably, and to avoid a calamitous outbreak of public feeling. They could not tell me when the Agreement would be signed, but there was no reason to apprehend that the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze Agreement would be signed in advance, as they still had to examine the Chinese translation, which would take some time. In the meanwhile they agreed that Liang Ta-jén could proceed with the initialling of the draft, so as to bring it up to the same point as had been reached by the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze draft. \n\nAs regards the opposition which the Chinese Government has to meet, it is only just to say that, although I have had to take up the attitude that it is merely the work of a few agitators, I realize from the press extracts sent to me by His Majesty's Consuls in the Yang-tsze ports that feeling runs very high throughout that region. As reported in my telegram No. 194 of to-day, mass meetings have been held at Shanghae, where native capital to the amount of over $2,500,000 was promised as forthcoming, and, although the alleged desecration of Wang Ta-hsieh's family tombs was in point of fact averted, there has been the gravest danger of mob violence in one form or another during the past two weeks. \n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN. \n\n## Inclosure in No. 1. \n\nSir J. Jordan to Prince Ching. \n\nPeking, November 9, 1907.\n\nAs I had the honour to inform your Highness yesterday in the course of conversation regarding the Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway negotiations, the draft \n\n## Page 341",
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        "content_text": "2\n\n{\n\n3\n\n393\n\nThe petitioners further say:\n\n\"The Kaiping Company (English Company) have no mining rights outside the 10-k limit from Tongshan, and therefore no matter who may be the owner of the land, they have no right to open mines without the permission of the local authorities and a permit obtained through them from the Board of Commerce.\"\n\nIn the Deed of Concession (Annexure No. 4) the Viceroy has taken care to state that in their further Petition they (the Tien-tsin Government Bank) point out that the boundaries of this mine pass through Paitaotzu and other places, but that this does not in any way affect the mining rights of the Kaiping Company (English Company).\n\nThe statement of the Tien-tsin Government Bank is quite unfounded, and can only be attributed to the fact that not being able to deny the validity of the Deed of Transfer of the 19th February, 1901, as a whole, they seek to limit the rights of the English Company in the Tongshan Basin.\n\nThe assertion made by the Tien-tsin Government Bank that the old Chinese Company, whose rights the English Company acquired, did not possess the right to establish mines in the whole of the basin cannot be maintained. In proof of this, it is only necessary to refer to two letters written in the year 1899 by Chang Yen Mao to Mr. C. A. Moreing at the time when the former was endeavouring to obtain a loan of 200,000l. for the Chinese Company.\n\nIn a letter dated the 20th September, 1899 (Annexure No. 6), Chang Yen Mao expressly states that the loan has for one of its objects the opening of a new colliery near to the railway station at Kuyeh, on the line from Tien-tsin to Shanhaikwan, in the Province of Chihli, and he adds:--\n\n\"The loans and premiums to be secured by the coal-fields, mining rights, and plant, and all the property acquired, or to be acquired, by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company (Chinese Company) in connection with the collieries at Tangshan, Linsi, and Kuyeh.\n\nIn another letter, of the 17th October, 1899 (Annexure No. 7), Chang Yen Mao repeats that the loan is necessary as much for the construction of a harbour pier at Ching-wang Tao as for the opening of a new colliery at Wu-shui Chwang.\n\nThe loan that Chang Yen Mao applied for was ultimately made, and an Edict was obtained from the Throne by Chang Yen Mao authorizing him to raise the loan on behalf of the Chinese Company (Annexure No. 8).\n\nThe general mortgage bond, which was drawn up to secure the loan, is dated the 20th September, 1899 (Annexure No. 9). It expressly states that the proceeds of the loan are to be applied, amongst other objects, to the acquisition and opening up of a new colliery near the railway station of Kuyeh on the Tien-tsin-Shanhaikwan Railway line in the Province of Chihli, or such other colliery as may be approved by the said Bewick, Moreing, and Co. and Gustav Detring.\n\nThe loan having been thus raised by the Chinese Company, the preliminary work for the establishment of a new colliery at Wu-shui Chwang was immediately entered upon, and was only abandoned in consequence of the Boxer rising.\n\nThe documents quoted above prove that the Chinese Company enjoyed complete rights over the whole of the Kaiping Basin. The fact is confirmed in the clearest manner by an official Memorial addressed to the Throne on the 20th day of the 5th moon of the 27th year of Kuang-su, i.e., on the 11th July, 1901, by Chang Yen Mao and Li Jung-chang, then Viceroy of Petchili. This document was prepared for the express purpose of making known the Agreements entered into between the Chinese Company and the new English Company (Annexure No. 10). We extract therefore the following passage:-----\n\nS\n\nApart from sinking additional shafts at Liu-shi, which is 50 li distant from Tongshan, permission was obtained to buy land and sink shafts at Wu-Shui-Chwang, Pai Tao Tzu, and other places in the Lanchow district which were found to be connected by the same seam of coal at Tongshan. The object was to provide a supply in case the output of the Tougshan and other mines should not be sufficient.\n\nIt should be remembered that Chang Yen Mao, in the action which he brought in the English Courts on the order of the Throne and of the Viceroy himself, far from attacking the validity of the Deed of Sale of the 19th February, 1901, recognized its validity, and only asked the English Court that an accessory Agreement called the\n\nA\n\n\"Memorandum\" which had been entered into at the same time should be made equally binding on the English Company.\n\nThe Deed of Sale of the 19th February, 1901, was not only entered into by Chang Yen Mao with the knowledge of Li Hung-chang but the latter subsequently recognized the transaction by joining on the 11th July, 1901, in a Memorial which Chang Yen Mao addressed to the Throne in order to report the sale of the Chinese Company's undertaking and the registration in London of the English Company. Attention will be drawn later on to this important document, and it is sufficient to note here that the Viceroy, so far from ignoring the transfer, expressly approved it.\n\nWhen Chang Yen Mao came to Europe to bring the action against the English Company it was, as above pointed out, at the express order of the Throne and the Viceroy Yuen Chi Kai. He had been instructed to \"recover the Company.\"\n\nOn receipt of the Memorial above mentioned the Throne signed the following Rescript:--\n\n\"This has been noted: the said Minister must bear the whole responsibility and let him zealously and satisfactorily manage the Company in order to protect this source of profit.\"\n\nThe Imperial Rescript thus confirms the transaction but reserves Chang's responsibility vis-à-vis the Chinese authorities.\n\nIt was only after the date of this Rescript that the debenture and share capital was issued.\n\nSince then, the English Company has proceeded with its business for six years and has always regularly met its obligations towards the Chinese Government, as Yuen Chi Kai himself states in his report to the Throne. (Annexure No. 11.)\n\nRespecting the sovereignty of the Chinese Government, the Limited Company cannot of course encroach upon that, and the duties, taxes, li-kin, and royalties the Company has not forgotten to pay.\n\nHe is still more explicit in his letter to Chang (Annexure No. 12), where he declares:--\n\n\"The rights and powers of the Imperial Government cannot be, never were, nor will be encroached by the said Company (the English Company). They paid their taxes and reported their proceedings and annual accounts.\"\n\nThe position may therefore be summed up as follows:--\n\n(a.) The English Company has validly acquired the exclusive mining rights over the whole of the Kaiping Basin by the Deed of the 19th February, 1901, which was entered into by Chang Yen Mao in his capacity as Director-General of the Chinese Company and Minister of Mines for the Province of Chibli.\n\n(b.) This Deed has been approved by Li Hung-chang, then Viceroy of Petchili. (c.) It has also been confirmed by Imperial Decree.\n\nUnder these circumstances the Concession purported to have been granted by the ex-Viceroy Yuen Chi Kai to the Lanchow Mining Company is a direct infringement of the English Company's rights and ought to be cancelled.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(The Chinese Engineering and Mining Company,\n\nLimited),\n\n(Signed) ALF. W. BERRY, Secretary.\n\nAnnexures No. 1 to No. 4.\n\n[Already printed.]",
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        "content_text": "399\n\nAnnexure No. 5.\n\nMap of the Kaiping Coal Basin.\n\n[Not reproduced.]\n\nAnnexure No. 6.\n\nChang Yen Mao to Mr. C. A. Moreing.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nTien-tsin, September 20, 1899,\n\nON behalf of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company I now hereby empower you to raise by way of a loan the sum of 200,000l. required—\n\n1. For the construction of a pier at the new Treaty port of Ching-wang Tao, in the Province of Chihli; and\n\n2. For the opening of a new colliery near the railway station of Kuyeh, on the Tien-tsin-Shanghae Railway line, in the Province of Chihli. The points on which the contract is to rest being as follows:-\n\n(1.) The loan to be contracted for a term of fifteen years.\n\n(2.) The interest on the capital borrowed not to exceed 10 per cent, per annum, and to be made payable at the end of each year.\n\n(3.) The repayment of the capital and premiums to begin at the end of the sixth year by instalments of 20,000l. for capital for that year and each year following, and in addition the sum necessary for the premiums for the year as mentioned in the form of general mortgage bond annexed.\n\n(4.) The works at the said pier of Ching-wang Tao and colliery near Kuyeh, and all expenditure connected therewith, to be under the joint control of the said C. Algernon Moreing and Gustav Detring, or their respective deputies.\n\n(5.) The loans and premiums to be secured by the coalfields mining rights the plant and all the property acquired, or to be acquired, by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company in connection with the collieries at Tang-shan, Linsi, Kuyeh, and the pier to be constructed at Ching-wang Tao, and all the other properties belonging to the Company mentioned in the form of bond annexed hereto until the capital, premiums, and interest for the loan shall have been liquidated in full. And I hereby authorize and empower you, the said C. Algernon Moreing, or any other person deputed by you, to sign and execute, in the name and on behalf of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, a general mortgage bond for the total amount of the loan and premiums in the form annexed hereto (the force and effect of which I clearly understand) or in such other form, or with such modifications as you may think fit, provided the above-mentioned terms are complied with. And I also authorize you, at the request of the parties arranging for the loan of the said sum of 200,000l., in addition to the said general mortgage bond, to sign special bonds securing the amount of the said loan and interest thereon at the rate in the said general mortgage bond named and the premiums on the said loan in such amounts of capital and premiums, and at such rates of interest as you may agree, and the said special bonds may be some for one amount of capital and premiums, and the other special bonds for other and different amounts of capital and premiums, and the rates of interest which the said special bonds may represent may be different rates and differing from one another. Provided always, that the total capital amount secured by the special bonds so signed by you shall not exceed the total amount of 200,000l; that the total amount of premiums secured by the said special bonds shall not exceed the total amount of premiums secured by the said general mortgage bond; that the total amount of interest represented by the said special bonds shall not exceed the total amount payable for interest under the said general mortgage bond; and that the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company shall not come under any obligation to repay the said special bonds at dates earlier, or for amounts greater, than those named in the said general mortgage bond, or at a greater premium. And I specially authorize you, as above named, to appoint a deputy to sign all or any of the said special bonds, and I declare that the authority given to the said deputy by you shall be binding on the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company notwithstanding\n\n5\n\nyour subsequent death or inability to act, and such special bonds may be in such language as you may deem advisable.\n\nI remain, &c. (For the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company),\n\n[Chinese writing here.]\n\nWitnesses to the signature of Mr. Chang Yen Mao:\n\nHERBERT C. HOOVER,\n\n(Signed)\n\nG. DETRING,\n\nBefore me, this 20th day of September, 1899.\n\n(Signed)\n\nH. KING,\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Pro-Consul, Tien-tsin.\n\nThe Chinese Engineering and Mining Company of Tien-tsin, in the Province of Chihli, in the Empire of China.\n\nGeneral Mortgage Bond.\n\n(To secure 200,000l. with interest at 10l. per cent. per annum, and premiums as hereinafter mentioned.)\n\n1. The Chinese Engineering and Mining Company will, on\n\nor on such earlier day as the capital sum hereby secured becomes payable in accordance with the conditions hereon pay to the bearer hereof the sum of 200,000l., together with the premiums hereinafter mentioned in sterling British gold coin, with interest in the meantime on the said sum of 200,000l., or on so much thereof as shall for the time being remain unpaid at the rate of 10l. per cent. per annum payable on the\n\nin each year in sterling British coin.\n\n2. This bond is the first charge on the following properties belonging to the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company (hereinafter called \"The Company\"), which properties the Company hereby mortgages and hypothecates to secure payment of the capital, premiums and interest payable under this bond :----\n\n(a.) The Collieries Coal-field's mining rights, plant, and machinery at Tongshan and Linsi in the said Province of Chihli.\n\n(b.) The Tien-tung Shan Silver Mines in the same province subject to the loan from the Imperial Government of China.\n\n(c) Six steamers and the wharves at Tien-tsin, Tangku, Shanghae, and Hong Kong subject to the loans from the Deutsch Asiatische Bank.\n\n(d.) Share interest in the Kien-ping Gold Mines.\n\n(e.) Share interest in the Tangshan-Tien-tsin Railroad.\n\n(F.) The Kuyeh Coal-fields property and plant in connection therewith to be\n\npurchased by the Company out of this loan.\n\n(g.) The pier buildings and works to be constructed by the Company at Ching-wang Tao out of this loan.\n\n(h.) Any other property which may be bought by the Company out of the proceeds of this loan and of the Company's property mentioned under (g) and (a).\n\n3. Annexed to this bond are fifteen coupons each providing for the payment of one year's interest, and such interest will be payable only on presentation and delivery of the coupon referring thereto.\n\n4. If the Company's moneys hereby secured shall become payable before the the person presenting this bond for payment must surrender therewith the coupons representing subsequent interest.\n\n5. The delivery to the Company of this bond and of each of the said coupons shall be a good discharge for the capital, moneys, premiums, and interest therein respectively specified.\n\n6. The capital moneys hereby secured shall immediately become payable if the Company makes default for a period of six calendar months in the payment of any interest hereby secured, and the bearer hereof, before such interest is paid by notice in writing to the Company sent by post to the office of Messrs. Bewick, Moreing, and Co. in London calls in such capital moneys.\n\n[2732 ƒ-2]",
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        "content_text": "7. Twenty thousand pounds, part of the capital sum of 200,000£ secured by this bond, will be redeemed by the Company on the 31st day of December, \n\nand \n\na similar amount on each succeeding \n\nuntil the whole of the said capital sum of 200,000£ shall have been redeemed or paid off. And the Company will at the same time as every such payment of 20,000£ of capital is made pay, in addition thereto, to the bearer of this bond the following premiums on the said sum of 20,000£, namely, a premium of 20l per cent, thereon on the first date, 18l. per cent. thereon on the second date, 16l. per cent. thereon on the third date, 14l. per cent. thereon on the fourth date, 12l per cent. thereon on the fifth date, 10l. per cent, thereon on the sixth date, 8l. per cent, thereon on the seventh date, 6l. per cent, thereon on the eighth date, 4l. per cent. thereon on the ninth date, and 2l. per cent, thereon on the tenth date. \n\n8. The capital sum of 200,000£ interest and premiums secured by this bond is also represented by special bonds for different capital amounts and at different rates of interest, and falling due at different dates, the particulars of which special bonds will be indorsed upon the back hereof and upon payment of the principal moneys, premiums, and interest secured by the said special bonds the Company shall be relieved of obligation to pay the corresponding amounts of the capital sum of 200,000£. premium or interest represented by this bond, \n\n9. The proceeds of this loan are to be applied by the Company under the joint supervision and control of Messrs. Bewick, Moreing, and Co., of London, and Gustav Detring, of Tien-tsin, or their respective deputies, in the construction of a pier at the new Treaty port of Ching-wang Tao in the Province of Chihli, and in the acquisition and opening up of a new colliery near the railway station of Kuyeh on the Tien-tsin-Shanhaikwan railway-line, in the Province of Chihli, or such other colliery as may be approved by the said Bewick, Moreing, and Co., and Gustav Detring, and such pier and collieries are to be under the management of the said Bewick, Moreing, and Co., and Gustav Detring during the continuance of this security. \n\n10. All payments of principal, premiums and interest will be at the office of the Railway Share, Trust, and Agency Company (Limited) in London. \n\nWitnesses to the \n\n(Signed) \n\nsignature of Mr. Chang Yen Mao: \n\nHERBERT C. HOOVER, \n\nG. DETRING (?). \n\nBefore me, this 20th day of September, 1890. \n\n(Signed) \n\nH. KING, \n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Pro-Consul, Tien-tsin. \n\n[Chinese writing here.] \n\nA \n\n7 \n\n2. Mr. Hoover having declared the Yen-tung Shan silver mines exhausted, and recommended their being shut down, I wish to have it understood that I may also dispose of them as I think best for the interest of the Company. \n\n3. With regard to the proposed new colliery at Wushui Chwang, I wish to have it clearly understood that although, until the repayment in full of the loan, you shall have the right to appoint the engineer who is to have charge of the technical directions of the colliery and to control generally the expenditure to be incurred in connection with the opening and working of the mine, the high supervision will be exercised by me and the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, and that on my demand the engineer must be changed should at any time he act in a manner contrary to the interests of the Company or make himself objectionable. It shall, at the same time, be understood that the accounts of the colliery are to be kept in Chinese and English and in conformity with Western practice and statistical notions in accordance with the engineer's instructions, \n\n4. The harbour works at Ching-wang Tao I wish to be conducted by Mr. Hughes, and that his functions be shaped and limited in the same manner as those of the engineer for the Wu-shui Chwang Mines as set forth above. \n\n5. As to the loan of 200,000£, I desire that the sum of 150,000£. be as soon as possible remitted to the credit of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company with the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, at Tien-tsin, and that the balance of 50,000£. be placed to the Company's credit with the same bank in London, and that interest shall be reckoned and become due from the day the money has thus been remitted and deposited which should take place on the same day in order to facilitate the calculation of interest. \n\n6. I desire that after the tenth year it shall be optional with the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company to repay the whole or any portions of the loan, on the understanding that on such repayments as will be made before the term when they become due the proportionate rate of premium according to the scale fixed upon by the mortgage bond shall be issued, and that this optional faculty left to the Company shall not interfere with the terms fixed upon in the bond for the repayment of the loan. \n\n7. With regard to purchases of material and plant to be procured in England for the Wu-shui Chwang Colliery and the Ching-wang Tao Harbour Works, I propose that yourself and Messrs. Barry and Co., should act in consultation with Captain Calder. \n\nHoping that you will see your way to give your assent to the suggestions and wishes set forth in this letter, I remain, &c. \n\n(Signed) CHANG YI [Chinese characters], \n\nDirector-General of all the Mines in Chihli Province and Jeno. \n\nDear Mr. Moreing, \n\nAnnexure No. 7. \n\nChang Yen Mao to Mr. C. A. Moreing, \n\nChinese Engineering and Mining Company, \n\nDirectors Office, Tien-tsin, October 17, 1899. \n\nI BEG to inform you that by this outgoing mail, I despatch to the address of Captain Calder the letter and mortgage bond that are to enable you to raise on behalf of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company a loan of 200,000£. required for, and to be applied to the construction of a harbour pier at Ching-wang Tao, and for the opening of a new colliery at Washui Chwang. \n\nThe delay which has occurred in the transmission of these documents will be explained to you by Mr. Detring. \n\nIn order to obviate further loss of time, I have signed the documents without any alterations of the text placed before me by you, but at the same time, I have directed Captain Calder to negotiate and obtain before handing over the papers, your written assent to the following alterations, additions, and interpretations of the mortgage bond :- \n\n1. Although the whole of the property of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company shall form the substantial security for the loan of 200,000£., I do not wish to be deprived under the bond signed of the faculty to dispose of the shares which the Company has in the Tangshan-Tien-tsin-Railway and various Mining Companies enumerated in the mortgage bond. \n\nAnnexure No. 8. \n\nImperial Decree communicated to Chang, Under-Secretary of the Grand Council, by the Imperial Cabinet, in obedience to their Majesties' Commands. \n\nCHANG YI has submitted two Memorials, the first recommending the formation \n\nof a Mining Association for the Province of Chihli and Tehol. The second containing a detailed report on Chin-wang Tao, where it is proposed to make a harbour, the funds required to be procured by a loan to be raised by the Kaiping Mining Company. \n\nChihli is the foremost province of the Empire, and it is right that it should take the lead in opening mines. \n\nChin-wang Tao is a place of strategical importance for coast defence. Having carefully considered the matters submitted, we now command the Under-Secretary to proceed to carry out his proposals. The work must be carried out gradually, and on a carefully matured plan, so as to insure success, and thus justify his appoint- ment. \n\nLet this Decree be communicated to him for his information. \n\n400",
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        "content_text": "# Annexure No. 9.\n\nThe Chinese Engineering and Mining Company of Tien-tsin, in the Province of Chihli, in the Empire of China.\n\n**General Mortgage Bond.**\n\n(To secure 200,000l., with interest at 10%. per cent, per annum and premiums as hereinafter mentioned.)\n\n1. The Chinese Engineering and Mining Company will on or on such earlier day as the capital sum hereby secured becomes payable in accordance with the conditions hereon pay to the bearer hereof the sum of 200,000l. together with the premiums hereinafter mentioned in sterling British gold coin with interest in the meantime on the said sum of 200,000l., or on so much thereof as shall, for the time being, remain unpaid at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, payable on the ... in each year in sterling British coin.\n\n2. This bond is a first charge on the following properties belonging to the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company (hereinafter called \"the Company\") which properties the Company hereby mortgages and hypothecates to secure payment of the capital premiums and interests payable under this bond.\n\n| Property | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a.) | The collieries, coal-fields, mining rights, plant and machinery at Tangshan and Linsi in the said Province of Chihli. |\n| (b.) | The Tien Tung Shan Silver Mines in the same province subject to the loan from the Imperial Government of China. |\n| (c.) | Six steamers and the wharves at Tien-tsin, Tangku, Shanghai, and Hong Kong subject to the loan from the Deutsche-Asiatische Bank. |\n| (d.) | Share interest in the Kien Ping Gold Mines. |\n| (e.) | Share interest in the Tangshan-Tien-tsin Railroad. |\n| (f) | The Kuyeh coal-fields property and plant in connection therewith to be purchased by the Company out of this loan. |\n| (g.) | The pier buildings and works to be constructed by the Company at Ching-wang Tao out of this loan. |\n| (h.) | Any other property which may be bought by the Company out of the proceeds of this loan, and of the Company's property mentioned under (g) and (a). |\n\n3. Annexed to this bond are fifteen coupons each providing for the payment of one year's interest, and such interest will be payable only on presentation and delivery of the coupon referring thereto.\n\n4. If the Company's moneys hereby secured shall become payable before the ... the person presenting this bond for payment must surrender therewith the coupons representing subsequent interest.\n\n5. The delivery to the Company of this bond and of each of the said coupons shall be a good discharge for the capital moneys, premiums, and interest therein respectively specified.\n\n6. The capital moneys hereby secured shall immediately become payable if the Company makes default for a period of six calendar months in the payment of any interest hereby secured, and the bearer hereof before such interest is paid by notice in writing to the Company sent by post to the office of Messrs. Bewick, Moreing, and Co., in London calls in such capital moneys.\n\n7. Twenty thousand pounds part of the capital sum of 200,000l. secured by this bond will be redeemed by the Company on the 31st day of December, ... and a similar amount on each succeeding ... until the whole of the said capital sum of 200,000l. shall have been redeemed or paid off. And the Company will at the same time as every such payment of 20,000l. of capital is made, pay in addition thereto to the bearer of this bond the following premiums on the said sum of 20,000l., namely, a premium of 20l. per cent. thereon on the first date, 18l. per cent. thereon on the second date, 16l. per cent. thereon on the third date, 14l. per cent. thereon on the fourth date, 12l. per cent. thereon on the fifth date, 10l. per cent. thereon on the sixth date, 8l. per cent. thereon on the seventh date, 6l. per cent. thereon on the eighth date, 4l. per cent. thereon on the ninth date, and 2l. per cent. thereon on the tenth date.\n\n8. The capital sum of 200,000l., interest and premiums secured by this bond is also represented by special bonds for different capital amounts, and at different rates of interest, and falling due at different dates the particulars of which special bonds will be indorsed upon the back thereof, and upon payment of the principal moneys, premium and interest secured by the said special bonds of the Company shall be relieved of obligation to pay the corresponding amounts of the capital sum of 200,000l. premium or interest represented by this bond.\n\n9. The proceeds of this loan are to be applied by the Company under the joint supervision and control of Messrs. Bewick, Moreing and Co., of London, and Gustav Detring of Tien-tsin or their respective deputies in the construction of a pier at the new Treaty port of Ching-wang Tao in the Province of Chihli, and in the acquisition and opening up of a new colliery near the railway station of Kuyeh on the Tien-tsin-Shanhaikwan Railway line in the Province of Chihli or such other colliery as may be approved by the said Bewick, Moreing and Co., and Gustav Detring, and such pier and collieries are to be under the management of the said Bewick, Moreing and Co. and Gustav Detring during the continuance of this security.\n\n10. All payments of principal, premiums and interest will be at the office of The Railway Share Trust and Agency Company (Limited), in London.\n\n[Chinese writing here.]\n\nWitnesses to the signature of Mr. Chang Yen Mow.\n\n(Signed) **HERBERT C. HOOVER.**\n\nG. DETRING,\n\nBefore me, this 20th day of September, 1899.\n\n(Signed)\n\nH. KING,\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Pro-Consul, Tien-tsin.\n\n# Annexure No. 10.\n\nChang Yi's Memorial to the Throne on the 26th day, 5th moon, 27th year of Kuang Hsü (June 22, 1901). (Translation.)\n\n**A MEMORIAL** about adding foreign capital to the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, and changing it into a Chinese and foreign co-operative limited liability Company, with the object of protecting its interests and securing the capital which our merchants have put into it.\n\nI RESPECTFULLY beg to lay before you, in a reverent Memorial, how this was carried into effect, and beseech your sacred glance thereon.\n\nWith regard to the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, I find that formerly in the 4th year of Kwang Hsu, the probationery Taotai of Fukien Province, Tang Tang-shu, petitioned asking that, following the Company laws of western nations, he might collect merchant capital for extracting bituminous coal at Tongshan, as a supply for the Peiyang squadron, the arsenals, and for any Government use, thus doing away with a drain on China's resources and opening up fresh springs of wealth. At that time Li Hun-chang, during his first term of office as the Superintendent of Northern Trade, examined the scheme and he sanctioned its being given a trial. At the same time he memorialized the Throne requesting that, following the precedent of the Hupei and Taiwan cases, a full duty on exports and a half duty on reimport should be paid. He received the Imperial Decree \"Let it be as recommended,\" and ordered Tang to reverently obey. All this is on record.\n\nIn the 18th year of Kwang Hsu the said Tang Tuotai died, and I, a Kiangsu expectant Taotai, was appointed to take over charge of the affairs of the Company. I find that ever since the Company began operations its capital has not been sufficient, being exhausted by the ever recurring demands of the various undertakings. I can only do my best to seek means to carry on the business. I would submit that in working mines the three most essential conditions are production, consumption, and transportation. I first of all sank additional shafts to insure that the production would not fall short; secondly, I opened up new centres of consumption in order that this source of profit might be freely extended; in addition to the above, I bought steamers and constructed wharves to facilitate the transport of our stocks of coal and to avoid delay. During these many years everything has gradually been put right.\n\n9 \n\nD \n\n401",
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        "content_text": "## deliberations. After he had sent in over a score of Memorials, he got the whole eighteen-Article Treaty of Ch'ung-hou abrogated.\n\n[Editorial Note—At the time there was not one of the Court who understood the conduct of foreign relations; the study of foreign business by the Peking officers started from this incident.\n\nWhen Chung-hou was going to Russia to negotiate the Treaty, [Chang] had, on behalf of another, presented a request that Ch'ung-hou be ordered to pay a visit first to Tso Tsung-tang in the New Dominion and, investigating the conditions there, devise a suitable scheme so as to avoid blundering from ignorance. The Court's refusal of the suggestion led to the danger of Ch'ung-hou's unauthorized eighteen Articles.]\n\n## 15. When in Shansi he obtained the removal of the embargo on the export of Tsê chou, Lu-chiêng, Ping-yang, and Yu-hsien iron-ware because at the time foreign iron swamped the provinces, while native iron under the old law could not leave the country.\n\n22. In Canton he started the idea of relieving the pressure of the French blockade of Formosa by an attack on Tonkin, and of enlisting Black Flag Liu Yung-fu under Government. The scheme being approved, he arranged for an invasion in three columns, and supplied funds and arms to Yüunan, Kuangsi and Generals Liu and Tang, as well as to Formosa, viz., 2,000,000 taels each to the two provinces, and 400,000 taels each to Formosa and the two Generals.\n\n23. The French attacked Tonkin briskly, and on the collapse of its armies Kuangsi was invaded, causing panic in the Two Kuang and the abandonment of Lungchow by the Kuangsi military and civil authorities. He specially requested despatch of General Fêng Tzu-ts'ai and Brigadier Wang-Hsiao-ch'i's armies to succour Kuangsi. These occupied the Kuan-chien defile inside the Chên-nan Pass, and after two days and nights' stubborn fighting succeeded in routing the foe and recovering Langson—a victory greater than ever was known during the several centuries of China's intercourse with the West. The Powers presented congratulations to the Tsung-li Yamên; the French were much afraid, and daily sent urgent telegrams asking for peace, while the French President Jules Ferry was promptly driven from office. [Chang] sent seven telegraphic memorials strongly urging some delay, but in vain. The Yamen and the Northern Superintendency defined boundaries and came to terms with the French.\n\n## 36. At Canton he started licences for prepared opium shops; at Wuchang he started the system of simultaneously collecting raw and prepared drug taxes for the four provinces, Hupei, Yunnan, Kiangsi and Anhui, which provided Hupei's indemnity fund, and saved a heavy yearly charge on the people. The Board of Revenue, on pretext that Hupei's share was too great, took over the control, causing a loss to Hupei of over 1,000,000 a-year, while the Board got a sudden big accession of funds.\n\n37. At Canton he started coining dollars with an annual profit of over 300,000 dollars. This was the beginning of China's silver coinage.\n\n[Note. Earlier Lin Tse-hsu's similar proposal was stopped by evil tongues.]\n\n38. Macao is a thorn in Kuangtung's flesh. After the increase in opium taxation, the Yamen, in hope of getting Macao's support, went out of its way to tempt Macao and changed part of old Treaty. Macao's increasing prosperity led to several requests for extension, which were refused, and the Macao Sub-Prefect stationed at the chief pass from Macao into interior; the boundary was kept strictly, and military guards maintained to stop any encroachment.\n\n39. While he was at Canton the new system of collecting duty and li-kin together on foreign opium started, and Hart wanted to place a lot of revenue cruisers on the coast, all to be under his control, and to be for coast defence also. His object in thus getting the whole control of the coast defence was hard to fathom, but by a vigorous report against the plan it was stopped.\n\n40. While he was at Canton he promptly suppressed cassia stores opened unauthorizedly by foreigners at Lo Ting-chou and rejected the compromise proposed by the Yamên. While he was at Wuchang he succeeded in stopping the forcible appropriation of Chu-shan copper mine by foreigners, in which his predecessor had acquiesced. There have been abundance of other similar instances of his vigorous maintenance of rights in all sorts of industrial and trade matters.\n\n43. When he was at Canton, as men-of-war were urgently needed, and the Board funds very short, he devised great yearly payments out of his 40 per cent of the military camp gambling fees and the salt fees, and built there six ships. In Fokien he also ordered ten ships, but when three had been delivered his successor stopped the order without recovering the money from Fokien.\n\n44. When he was at Canton he mooted the building of the Lu-han Railway and in 1885 of the Canton-Hankow line, the present traces of which are in accordance with his original memorials. He also mooted the Nanking-Shanghae Railway, and when he was at Nanking in 1893, perceiving that the completion of the Russian-Siberian Railway was a grave menace to Manchuria, he advised a line from Mukden to the frontier. The proposal was in detail and all ready for carrying out, but the Government, in its blindness, put it aside, and so came the calamity of Russian designs on the East.\n\n47. At present foreign cotton and yarn yearly cost China forty odd millions; so in Hupei he set up spinning and weaving, silk and hemp mills—four in all, taking most interest in the hemp, as this Chinese product, abundant and cheap, a native of provinces both north and south, provided the best means of enriching the people and stopping the drain. Silk and satin so woven were equal to silk products, its cloth the same as cotton cloth. This was the first hemp mill in China.\n\n49. As the purchase of Chinese hides to return from abroad in the shape of leather caused an incalculable drain, he set up a tannery which is now finished and producing.\n\n50. This article claims for him the arming with breech-loading cannon and remodelling of Kiangyin and Chinkiang forts, and says his project to fortify Woosung and Tsungming strongly was stopped by a certain President of the Board of Revenue. (Qy. Weng Trung-ho.)\n\n55. Claims that he supported a proposal to continue the roads to south of Shanghae, and established police so as, by cutting off foreign intrusion into Chinese bounds, to safeguard rights of administration and gain. The cost was to be repaid in a term of years out of the expenses of missions abroad. The Yamen agreed. Besides, in view of the constant extension by the Powers of Settlement roads, which implied policing and virtual absorption of the ground so covered, he asked leave to start a road at the terminus of each Settlement road to block their advance. The Yamên, in its blindness, shelved the suggestion, and so the Shanghae Settlements have gone on growing.\n\n57. In 1898 the English member of Parliament, ex-Admiral Beresford, came from Peking, the Yamên having got leave to bid him train for Hupei 2,000 Chinese and 1,000 Manchu troops. He pressed and fussed for many days on the strength of having a Rescript, but Chang steadily and firmly refused, and ignored a Yamên telegram which came to support Beresford.\n\n59. When Kang-yi was in power in 1898-9 he called on the Empire to carry out militia training, but Chang vigorously denounced its evil to the Throne, prophesying that if this proposal were carried out every mission in China would be wrecked and there would be great disorder. He persistently refused to comply, and the following year saw the Boxer trouble in Chihli and Shantung.\n\n60. At the start in 1900, when the Boxer trouble had passed only from Lai-shui to Ting-hsiang district (in Chihli), on the 1st June he telegraphed the Yamen to put them down firmly, and thereafter in that month he kept telegraphing to the Throne against the heretics and rebels, urging protection of the Legations, the suppression of all robbers, and the retention of the missions abroad. He also telegraphed alone to the various Foreign Offices and the foreign Admirals in China to join in a covenant to protect the south and east, not to attack the capital, not to frighten away the Court. Besides, he leagued together a dozen Viceroys and Governors to telegraph to the various Foreign Offices, and, in conjunction with Viceroy Liu concerted with the Shanghae Consuls an Agreement not to attack the Yang-tsze. When their Majesties took their westward tour, he insisted on the Powers holding back and not attacking Siangyang and Fanchiêng, thus keeping open a route for supplies from the south-east.\n\n61. In the middle of August 1900, when Peking was in extreme peril, he heard of their Majesties' purpose to go west. Li Hung-chang combined the high provincial authorities to do their best to prevent the move, and, without consulting, had telegraphed Shantung. [Chang] sent in the Memorial. Then only he telegraphed what he had done. Thereupon Chang sent an urgent telegram to Yuan Shih-k'ai pointing out how wrong the proposal was and how utterly impracticable. Hupei absolutely declined to join, and if the Memorial had gone, must present its views separately. Thereon Hupei was removed from the list. Luckily the proposal reached Peking when the district was in confusion, and did not get through till their Majesties had started; otherwise there is no saying what might have happened. Li also sent a combined request to their Majesties to stay in Shansi and not to go to Shensi; this request also Chang opposed.\n\n## Page 407",
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        "content_text": "63. The Russians took advantage of Hei-lung Chiang being the first place pacified after the Boxer trouble to encroach on Manchuria. The Tartar General Tseng-chi sent Chou-mien, whom the Russians forced to conclude a new Treaty, practically giving Russia full powers in Kuan-tung. The Plenipotentiary Li had also agreed, but Chang and Liu jointly made a vigorous protest, urging the Court not to ratify. After a score of telegrams and Memorials the Russians set the 25th April (1901) as the latest date for signing, after which they would break off relations. They used every possible threat, but he persisted in vigorous protest, and succeeded in preventing ratification, thus saving the three eastern provinces.\n\n64. In 1909, when peace was about to be made after the western tour, and the Court was discussing their Majesties' return, foreigners started saying that, though all the guilty had been punished, there was still an important matter undealt with. If positions remained unaltered after the return to Peking, the Powers would certainly not stop asking till their demand was granted. Thereon he telegraphed secretly to the Government urging oral representation that advantage should be taken of the Court not having returned to vindicate the State by issuing the order as by their Majesties' own will. This proposal was thereafter settled while the Court was still at K'aifong.\n\n74. The 1901 Allied Forces' Peace Protocol, on the Powers' plea that the deepening of the Huangpu would benefit merchant-ships, and with the assent of the Plenipotentiaries, forced China to send officers to set about it in concert with them. Viceroy Liu put off doing so, and in the spring of 1903 Chang took charge. In the face of repeated Imperial urgings, he protested and vigorously argued and never sent anyone. He also engaged other Powers' Consuls to help and then took the lead in proposing that China should finance and execute the dredging without financial aid or interference by other nations—a policy that won.\n\n75. In the summer of 1902 he shared in negotiating the British Commercial Treaty. Of many rectifications and recoveries, the most important was getting them, whose strong demand was for the abolition of li-kin and native customs dues, to agree to the levy of consumption duty. Another still more important clause agreed to surrender extra-territoriality, a subject none had touched on during fifty years of trade.\n\n76. He points out how he had the Wai-wu Pu's idea of not discussing mining overruled as the only safeguard against illicit partnership in mining between Chinese and foreigners. A law was necessary to afford control and prevent the loss of rights, reform old and limit new mining enterprises. The Throne approved and bade him, with Liu, arrange regulations. Lin's death threw the task on his shoulders alone. From the laws and prohibitions of all nations, he selected what was good, his general idea being to safeguard rights, benefit the people's livelihood, and make taxation light. He compiled them in a volume of seventy-four regulations and seventy-two supplementary rules.\n\n80. In view of the awkward and dangerous position of the Shanghae Arsenal, he advocated its removal to Ping-hsiang, a remote site close to coal. Funds were provided; the annual reserve of the old arsenal of 700,000 and the copper mint's yearly profit of 500,000 would have enabled it to be done in five years, but the Board of Revenue's annexation of the funds stopped the scheme for the time. Still, in a crisis, it will be remembered.\n\n82. When he was in Peking in 1903, giving an account of his stewardship, the Russo-Japanese war was imminent, and the Government bade him go and dissuade Japan from the war. He refused and reported the remark of a western envoy that the war would be a good thing for China. The idea was dropped on his view being laid before the Throne. Again, in the spring of 1904, the Southern Trade Superintendent Wei tried to get the high provincial authorities to combine in moving the Northern Trade Superintendent to memorialize that Japan be dissuaded from war. On his way through Tien-tsin, he was asked about the idea and vigorously opposed it. The same winter, when, despite defeats, Russia would not evacuate Manchuria, the new Southern Trade Superintendent suggested mediating along with the Northern Trade Superintendent and Hupei, but his strong disapproval prevented action.\n\n83. It records how Arnhold Karberg and Co.'s proposal to farm the sale of opium throughout China, negotiated through Ching-wei Hsing, had taken form after Peking intriguing, but he refused to help, in spite of the offer of heavy bribes. Twice he telegraphed strong protests, and at last, the Grand Secretary Jung-lu understood the danger and rejected the scheme.\n\n84. It mentions Melchers and Co.'s attempt to follow the Japanese example of using the native city frontage at Nankow and the threat to place a hulk under man-of-war protection. The people were afraid lest their ferry-boats be endangered forever. After he went to Peking in the winter of 1903, he sent an officer to negotiate with the German Envoy Mumm and got the project dropped on the condition that the Osaka Shoshen Kaisha should also move to the Japanese Concession within a certain time. The Envoy had notified the Wai-wu Pu that on the 1st January next, he would have a serious matter to tell them, and they were panic-struck until the receipt of this correspondence filled them with joy.\n\nPage 5\n\n85. The Inspector-General Hart started a scheme to increase the land taxation and abolish all trade levies. The Government did not approve but could not stop it, so called for provincial views. He was the only one who strongly refuted it, and got it dropped.\n\n86. The American Jenks' design to control the great matter of China's silver currency could not be refuted by the Court Ministers, and the idea was assented to before Jenks came to Hupei, where, at an interview, Chang silenced him with awkward questions, and then memorialized strongly on his blunders and showed up the danger. The matter was happily successfully blocked.\n\n87. Among the many foreign cases dealt with, whenever there was a question of capital punishment, he tried to save the people's lives, and constantly, in identical mission cases where other provinces executed several, Hupei men went scatheless, and capital penalties agreed to by his predecessors were lightened. From appreciation of his justice, foreigners even do not object.\n\n88. When the Hankow-Canton Railway was sold by the Americans to the Belgian-China Development Company, he was the first to show up the scandal of the Empire. In steadfast isolation, he fought the battle of resumption for ourselves, despite the combined resistance of the two Powers, until the American State Secretary, from respect for his austerity, ended by giving the line back to us.\n\n120. He once told his retainers: \"During my twenty-five years as a Provincial Governor, the only comparatively easy time was the two years in Shansi. For the rest, not a day but I am among thorns and brambles. Speaking generally, what I have done has never been what the Government wanted me to do; what I spent was never money the province surely had; whom I employed never served me with joy and real heartiness.\"",
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        "content_text": "The summer has been unusually wet throughout the province and much distress caused among the lower classes by floods. The crops, however, do not appear to have suffered, and the harvest, particularly of rice, is a very fair one.\n\nVice-Admiral Sir A. Moore, Commander-in-Chief on the China station arrived at Chungking on His Majesty's ship \"Widgeon\" on the 11th October after five days' steaming through the rapids and gorges from Ichang. He called on the Taotai and Chentai, and his visit seems generally to have created a good impression.\n\nHupei and Hunan.\n\nThe Viceroy Chang Chih Tung, just before leaving Wuchang, decided that the Hupei Railway Office should enter into a two years' contract with a British engineer, Mr. Ross, as executive engineer, with liberty to lend him to the Hunan Railway Company. The contract is to be signed and dated the 5th July, the day of Mr. Ross' arrival at Hankow, as soon as telegraphic instructions to that effect are received from his Excellency from Peking. It is expected that work on the section Changsha Chu-chou Chên will then be undertaken as soon as possible. Assurances have been given to Mr. Consul-General Fraser that Mr. Ross will be given a free hand in Hunan.\n\nFeuds between Sikhs at Hankow are of frequent occurrence. Over the Sikh police the Consul-General now has more or less effective control, but there are numbers of watchmen and unemployed who live in other concessions, in the native town and in other places round Hankow. Mr. Fraser considers their presence in Treaty ports in increasing numbers as a menace to peace and good order in our relations with the Chinese people and their authorities, who regard them all as employés of the British authorities. At the same time it is difficult to see what steps can be taken beyond the issue of the notice inclosed in my despatch No. 414 of the 15th October, 1907, the provisions of which cannot, however, be enforced upon private individuals engaging watchmen nor upon foreign municipalities other than British. The restriction of emigration from India except under proper guarantees and passports would be the only remedy, but there would probably be many difficulties in the way of such a course.\n\nAccording to the Rev. Arnold Foster, a missionary of long experience in Wuchang, the schools started by the late Viceroy are shutting up. The scholars have now to live in inns and pay their own board and lodging. This and the low character and attainments of the Government school teachers has led to repeated complaints of parents and the withdrawal of their children.\n\nIn the Liuyang district of Hunan, on the Kiangsi border, a state of chronic unrest appears to exist, and the local authorities are in constant apprehension of an outbreak. It is said that a military graduate named Chu Yen Sen has enrolled four or five thousand followers with a view to creating trouble when a favourable opportunity occurs, but the Governor of Hunan knows little of their desires and movements.\n\nAnhui.\n\nGreat nervousness in regard to revolutionaries exists among the provincial authorities, and a very close watch is kept on all passengers landing from steamers at the various ports of call; all luggage and coffins are very carefully searched for smuggled arms and ammunition. The cutting off of the queue, which is regarded as an outward sign of revolutionary sympathies, has been expressly prohibited.\n\nMr. Goffe, His Majesty's Consul at Wuhu, reports that the general attitude of the new Governor towards foreigners is hostile and that during his short tenure of office he has made it abundantly clear that foreign interests will receive scant consideration at his hands.\n\nVery little progress has recently been made with the Anhui Railway. The foundation work of a few bridges has been begun and some culverts prepared, but no embankment has yet been started.\n\nKiangsu.\n\nFears have been entertained that there would be a recrudescence in the autumn of the disastrous famine which visited part of this province in the autumn of last and in the spring of this, but His Majesty's Consul at Chinkiang hears that the crops this year are unusually good, so it is to be hoped that these fears will not be realized.\n\nOn the 17th October the first through trains between Shanghae and Chinkiang began to run, and it is not impossible that the whole line from Shanghae to Nanking may be in working order by April next.\n\nPage 37\n\n3\n\nCOAST PROVINCES.\n\nChekiang.\n\nDisturbances, which were suspected to be of an anti-dynastic character, took place in various parts of the province during the latter part of June and July and occasioned the local authorities much anxiety. Quiet was, however, gradually restored, and the unpopular Governor Chang Tseng Yang transferred to Soochow as Governor of Kiangsu. His Excellency was a man of bad temper and harsh character and incurred much hatred by the ruthless manner in which he dealt with the rioters and their adherents. The reforms which he was credited with the desire of inaugurating were never carried out, mainly owing to lack of funds. Although not pro-foreign, he showed himself determined to have no murders of missionaries within his jurisdiction, and never failed to take prompt and effective precautionary measures when applied to.\n\nThe Hangchow section of the railway from Chiang Kan, south of the city, to Hu Shu near the Settlement on the north was opened to goods traffic in July. As passenger cars failed to arrive, goods waggons were fitted with seats and passengers have been carried since the end of August, though the line will not be officially opened until the arrival of the cars from Europe, the date of which is still uncertain. It is estimated that the receipts of the line now average £500 a-month.\n\nThe line is now being extended towards Kashing and embankments have been completed for a distance of some 15 miles to Liu Ping.\n\nFukien.\n\nWork has been begun on the Amoy end of the Amoy-Changchou Railway and a couple of miles of embankment have been completed. The line is a Chinese undertaking, and a Board of Directors was appointed on the 19th August. There has been no public call for tenders, but a British firm, Messrs. Tait and Co., has secured a contract for the supply of picks, shovels, and other tools. On the other hand, a contract for two locomotives has been divided between a Japanese and a German firm, the British firm referred to complaining that they lost the contract, a small one but carrying the promise of others in the future, because of the attitude of their principals in England, who refused to submit specifications, &c., but desired to have these sent to them first. The Directors of the Company do not appear to be conversant with railway matters. On a catalogue of engines being submitted to them they spent some time in admiring the locomotives depicted, but unfortunately they held the book upside down. Rails and rail accessories are to be obtained from the Hangyang Arsenal.\n\nKuangtung.\n\nPakhoi District. The disturbances which took place in this district during the summer have been reported upon in separate despatches. Small outbreaks are still of frequent occurrence, and there seems to be a general feeling of insecurity. Although the officials profess to feel security, Mr. Fletcher, Second Assistant in charge of His Majesty's Consulate, considers that the general position is far from assuring, and that everything seems to point to a serious outbreak growing imminent. The Port of Pakhoi is somewhat isolated, and communications are uncertain, as all telegraph wires pass through the disturbed areas.\n\nThibet.\n\nThe Rev. T. H. Edgar, in letters to the Acting British Consul-General at Chengtu from Litang and Batang, dated the 16th and 28th August, states that he can see no signs of Chinese colonization, nor does he think that such colonization is possible without dispossessing the natives. On the whole he considers that the Thibetans are being well treated by the Chinese, and that they are happier under them than when they were under their own Lamas and native Chiefs. In Batang the utter subjection of the Lamas is very noticeable, but the country does not present the same military appearance as Litang, where there are 1,000 men, and which shows signs of becoming an important military station.\n\nThe unfortunate experiences of an American named Demenil and a German named Dr. Tafel, while travelling in the native States on the Thibetan border, called forth a despatch from the Viceroy of Szechuan to the foreign Consuls, drawing attention to the fact that recent cases had occurred of foreign travellers, unprovided with passports, \n\nPage 425",
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        "content_text": "## 6. \nI have recently been in communication with His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong (copies of correspondence inclosed), in regard to a suggestion made by the Consul-General at Canton that, with a view to bringing further pressure to bear on the Viceroy, the Hong Kong Government should withhold the friendly legislation they have hitherto extended to Canton. \n\nHis Excellency the Governor deprecates such action, except as a very last resort, and in this view both the British Minister and I concur.\n\nShould further action become necessary, the only course, short of forcible measures, would appear to be the further increase of our patrol. The arrival of His Majesty's ships \"Kent,\" \"Bedford,\" and \"Flora\" at Hong Kong next month would make more men and picket-boats available for this purpose, and His Excellency the Governor has intimated his willingness to afford co-operation in the patrol. I am in hopes, though, that such action will not become necessary. If the payment of the \"Sainam\" claim can be satisfactorily arranged, and the Chinese patrol service is placed on a satisfactory footing, I am of opinion that our vessels may be withdrawn as each section of the waterways becomes safe for trade, and in this opinion His Britannic Majesty's Minister concurs. It is highly desirable that our vessels should be out of the rivers before the hot season sets in, as life in destroyers and torpedo-boats in these narrow waterways in the summer will be very unhealthy.\n\n## 7. \nThe question of the registration of British vessels at Canton, and their right to fly the red ensign, continues to be actively considered and inquired into.\n\nSir N. de Sausmarez, His Majesty's Judge of the Supreme Court at Shanghai, has just arrived here, and is proceeding immediately to Canton, where, by the British Minister's directions, he will investigate the legal aspects of the question, and discuss with Mr. Mansfield, the Consul-General, what steps should be taken to put the whole matter on a more legal and satisfactory footing. This question of registration was brought to their Lordships' notice in my previous submission of the 28th November last (Inclosure 6); I regard it as one of pressing importance. Whatever alterations in the present system may be finally decided upon, it is much to be hoped that the revised Regulations will in the future prevent any abuse of the British flag such as has undoubtedly occurred in the past.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) \n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\nA. W. MOORE, \nConsul-General Mansfield to Admiral Sir A. Moore, \nCanton, December 14, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose translation of a despatch received yesterday from the Viceroy on the subject of the extended patrol of the waterways. At a recent interview with the Viceroy's Secretary, it was hinted that His Excellency was ready to grant \"compassionate allowance,\" not only to Mrs. MacDonald, but also to the British subjects injured in the \"Sainam\" piracy, but that he demurred at paying the claim of the ship on the principle that there was no actual liability under Treaty to pay compensation. I pointed out that the liability was one recognized by civilized nations in similar circumstances, and quoted the claim of Chinese merchants for losses at Vladivostock, and that after all the actual losses of the ship only amounted to between 6,000 and 7,000 dollars. I am informed that the Wai-wu Pu have telegraphed to him to pay the \"Sainam\" claims so as to get rid of our extended patrol.\n\nI cannot, however, vouch for the correctness of my information.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\nViceroy of Canton to Consul-General Mansfield. \nCanton, December 13, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch transmitting the contents of a communication from the British Admiral, in which His Excellency states that the extended British patrol of the West River is simply a repetition of past precedent, and that this action has been forced upon him by the necessity of protecting British commerce. His Excellency adds that he is fully aware that the prevention of piracy properly belongs to the internal administration of China, and that it was the knowledge of this fact which prompted him to suggest, first, that if the increased patrol were placed in the hands of the Customs, the desired results might possibly accrue; and, secondly, that, concomitant with the gradual restoration of order, his patrol would be slowly withdrawn.\n\nAs regards the \"Sainam\" claims, His Excellency refers to the case of the chaplain of the \"Glory,\" who was granted 3,000 dollars for injuries received, and quotes this in proof of the principle of compensation.\n\nIn reply to His Excellency's arguments, I have the honour to state that the permission granted to foreign war-vessels to visit Treaty ports of China is a privilege enjoyed by Powers who are in close amity with China, and depends upon the latter's consent. But I maintain that the extended patrol now instituted on the West River is an infringement of China's sovereign rights, and I adhere to this opinion, though I am assured by His Excellency that the British ships are only there to exercise a surveillance over British interests, launches, and to guard against the importation of arms, and that they will not interfere in matters which do not concern them.\n\nBut, more than this, a good deal of popular feeling has been roused by the Admiral's action, and if it leads to a disturbance, the result will be disastrous to the interests of both countries. I have therefore the honour to request you to at once ask the Admiral to withdraw his patrol. Every effort is now being made to cope with the piracy danger, and to render it impossible for the local officials to evade their responsibilities. Stringent measures are being taken with the new troops to increase their effectiveness, and everything possible is being done to insure the safety of Chinese and foreign launches trading in the delta.\n\nThe business of the Customs is to prevent smuggling. Smuggling and piracy are distinct from one another, and no good can result from confusing them. The 3,000 dollars granted to the chaplain of His Majesty's ship \"Glory\" was in the nature of a compassionate allowance, and not compensation due for injuries received. I have already written to you expressing my willingness to make a charitable donation in the case of the murdered missionary, which is on exactly the same footing as that mentioned above.\n\nIn conclusion, I have the honour to request you to communicate these remarks to His Excellency the Admiral.\n\n(Card of Viceroy.)\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\nAdmiral Sir A. Moore to Consul-General Mansfield. \n\"King Alfred,\" at Hong Kong, December 17, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th instant, inclosing a despatch from His Excellency Chang-jen Chun, in which he adheres to his opinion that the extended British patrol of the West River and Canton Delta is an infringement of China's sovereign rights, and states that every effort is now being made by him to cope with the piracy danger.\n\n2. In reply, I request you will be so good as to inform His Excellency that I am glad to learn that the provincial authorities are making a serious effort to render the Chinese patrol service effective.\n\nIn regard to the extended British patrol, I have nothing further to add to the views I have already expressed on that subject, and as regards the \"Sainam\" Case, I have already informed His Excellency that a compassionate allowance was not asked for, but the recognition of the claim for compensation, which, I repeat, is a just and reasonable one. It only remains for me to add that if His Excellency will decide to settle that claim, and if he will carry out his proposed measures for the suppression of piracy, I will recommend to my Government that our additional patrol shall be gradually withdrawn as His Excellency's measures come into force.",
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        "content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n### CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[3485]  \nNo. 1.  \nRec Jan 20 FEB 08  \n[February 1  \n\n## SECTION 1\n\nMr. Bryce to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received February 1.) (No. 16.)  \nSir,  \nWashington, January 18, 1908.\n\nWith reference to my despatch No. 149 of the 30th June, 1907, reporting the departure from the United States of Sir Cheutung Liang Chang, Minister of China at Washington, and the offer made by the President that the United States' Government should waive its claim to the capital and interest of some 13,000,000 dollars due to it by China on account of damages incurred during the Boxer rising, I have now the honour to inform you that the Senate yesterday unanimously approved of the measure, which was introduced by Senator Lodge in the form of a Joint Resolution.\n\nThe total sum due to the United States' Government on this account was 24,440,778 dol. 81 c., which has now been reduced to 11,655,492 dol. 69 c.\n\nI inclose an extract from the \"New York Tribune\" of to-day, relative to the passage of the Resolution by the Senate.\n\nJAMES BRYCE.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\n*Not printed.*\n\n## \n\nAt a meeting, Vice-Admiral Sir A. Moore suggested that we should inform the Viceroy, in connection with a proposed scheme for the prevention of piracy, that we would take steps to prevent the irregular use of the British flag. Sir J. Jordan told the Admiral that the Chinese had never raised the question before, and that it would be enough to say, if the Viceroy pressed the point, that new Regulations as to registration were under consideration. Sir J. Jordan added that the Judge's views as to revised Regulations were being forwarded. In reply, Sir J. Jordan was informed that we should not let the British flag be abused under cover of bogus registrations.\n\nSir H. de Sausmarez, while on a visit to Canton, discussed the question of registration with the Admiral and the Consul-General, and advised the issue of urgent and provisional King's Regulations, to be made applicable to Canton inland waters on the following lines:\n\n| Clause | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | Registration shall be limited to launches towing passenger junks. Launches carrying passengers on approved routes. Launches towing properly registered lighters and junks. |\n| (b) | Registration shall not be granted to launches engaged on irregular work, plying for hire (not necessarily towing) or using unauthorized routes. |\n| (c) | No charter of a British-owned and registered launch shall be granted by the owner to any other than a British subject. If chartered by Chinese or other foreign subject, certificate of registry to be cancelled. |\n| (d) | The master of every launch, when absent from port of registration, shall be held responsible that all Rules and Regulations are complied with, and for the proper running of his launch. |\n| (e) | In order that the approximate whereabouts of every launch shall be known, each launch shall run on a known route, and shall not transfer to another route without the Consul-General being notified. |\n| (f) | The master and engineer to be registered at the Consulate, and to be respectable, capable, and qualified men, and, when feasible, British subjects. Any change in either master or engineer to be notified to His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton. Before registering a master and engineer, the man's village and family should be ascertained, if possible. |\n\nThe issue of these Regulations provisionally was sanctioned.\n\nOn the 24th November, 1907, Sir J. Jordan forwarded Sir H. de Sausmarez' explanation of his previous telegraphic recommendations together with his (Sir J. Jordan's) own comments; but, since the receipt of this communication, the Judge has telegraphed that his views have been modified on better information and that he was sending that day a full despatch containing his views.\n\nSir E. Grey proposes to await the receipt of this despatch before taking any further action, both in this matter and in that of the registration of ships owned by British registered Companies having their principal place of business in China. This question, as the Board is aware, formed the subject of the letter from your Department of the 12th November, 1907.\n\nA copy of Sir H. de Sausmarez' despatch will be forwarded to you as soon as received, and Sir E. Grey would be obliged if he could then be favoured with the views of the Board of Trade on the whole question.\n\nI am, &c. (Signed) F. A. CAMPBELL.\n\nPage 504  \n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]  \n6160",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nThus China may be said to have required for her own consumption, 1906 :-\n\nNative opium Foreign opium Total\n\nPiculs. 325,270 54,225 379,495\n\nor 50,599,333 lbs. weight, or 22,588 tons, of which about one-seventh comes from India. It is said that, during the pourparlers which preceded the Anglo-Chinese Commercial Treaty of 1902, a suggestion was made by the Chinese negotiators that the Chinese Government should annually purchase the Indian export of opium with a view to controlling the sale of the drug in China, but that the question went no farther. Indian opium is stronger than that grown in China, and, moreover, the latter is frequently adulterated, which adds to its inferiority. It may be said that a smoker who requires to take 3 mace of Indian opium to produce a certain effect would, on the average, require 4 to 4¼ mace of the native drug to obtain the same result.\n\nThe Imperial Anti-opium Edict of the 20th September, 1906, is as follows:--- \"Since the restrictions against the use of opium were removed, the poison of this drug has practically permeated the whole of China. The opium smoker wastes time and neglects his work, ruins his health, and impoverishes his family, and the poverty and weakness which for the past few decades have been daily increasing among us are undoubtedly attributable to this cause. To speak of this arouses our indignation; and at a moment when we are striving to strengthen the Empire it behoves us to admonish the people, that all may realize the necessity of freeing themselves from these coils, and thus pass from sickness into health.\n\nIt is hereby commanded that within a period of ten years the evils arising from foreign and native opium be equally and completely eradicated. Let the Government Council (Cheng-wu Chu) frame such measures as may be suitable and necessary for strictly forbidding the consumption of the drug and the cultivation of the poppy; and let them submit their proposals for our approval.\"\n\nand was supplemented by the eleven Regulations (Annex (A)) issued two months later for the enforcement thereof, and the Imperial Edict of the 26th June last (Annex (B)) in the form of a reminder.\n\nConsiderable latitude is not infrequently taken in China by the provincial authorities both in the interpretation of the spirit of an Imperial Decree, and in the steps they decide to take to enforce its provisions; but the Imperial wishes have undoubtedly been brought to the notice of most of the inhabitants of the Empire, and in every province special Rules and Regulations of some kind have been drawn up with a view to carrying out the desire of the Throne.\n\nThe average price per picul of raw native opium in the district in which it is produced, and before taxation of any kind, is 250 taels. In certain districts the price is as high as 500 taels, while in Szechuan Province, where, roughly speaking, as much as two-thirds of the native drug is both grown, prepared, and smoked, the average price is from 150 to 200 taels per picul.\n\nNative raw opium when prepared (that is, boiled) is reduced to about 65 per cent. of what it was before that process. Indian opium after a similar process works out at about 75 per cent. These figures, however, are only approximate, and it is quite impossible under present conditions to reach anything more trustworthy.\n\nThe important point in this Report being to show what really effective steps have been taken by the provincial authorities to carry out the Decree, it will, in regard to good intentions, be sufficient to say that the special Rules and Regulations they have issued in their districts have generally been in the right direction, though of great variety. In some instances they have been quite inadequate, and in others either not enforced or disobeyed.\n\nIn taking each province by itself, therefore, mention will rarely be made of the different local enactments, and the account will be restricted to a statement of what has actually been done to obey the Decree.\n\nThese accounts are chiefly based on reports supplied by His Majesty's Consular officers, who have been kindly and ably aided by the British Protestant missionaries in their Consular districts, many of whom, from their long residence in China and intimate knowledge of the country and people, have afforded both reliable and valuable information, often from remote spots where they are perhaps the only European inhabitants.\n\n5\n\n519\n\nMany of the replies which have been received from the missionaries to the questions put to them on the subject have been negative, and show that in numerous districts little or nothing has been done or even attempted to carry out the Regulations; but wherever the local authorities are sincere, energetic, and enlightened a beginning has been made and the fire of enthusiasm lit; still, as one Consul has remarked, it is necessary that some one should continue to apply the bellows.\n\nIn any case the information from which this Report is composed is undoubtedly the most far-searching, reliable, and accurate which exists on the subject at the present time.\n\nFengtien Province may be classified as a portion of Manchuria for the purposes of this Report, and the annual production of opium in Manchuria is estimated at 150,000 piculs.\n\nIn Mukden and other towns the opium dens have all been closed and their business has ceased. Opium shops still remain open, where the raw drug can be purchased, and its preparation at home presents no difficulty.\n\nIn Newchwang two refuges have been opened by the Taotai to assist people to cure themselves of the opium habit.\n\nIn Manchuria the poppy is grown as usual.\n\nMongolia. More land is this year being given over to poppy cultivation, and although the Mongolians are reported to have obeyed the Proclamation, the Chinese inhabitants now sell and smoke as usual.\n\nChinese Turkestan.--From Kashgar it is reported that the Imperial Edict and Regulations are a dead letter, most people being ignorant of their existence.\n\nChihli Province.--Production 10,000 piculs. In Peking itself, although some obscure dens may have eluded the vigilance of the police, it may be said that they have been closed. Shops are inspected and registered, but so far smokers do not register themselves. Orders have been issued for the abandonment of smoking among the officials and retainers of the Palace, but there is no means of ascertaining how far they have been carried out.\n\nTien-tsin. ---The dens are all closed in the city, while two proprietors who disobeyed were fined 100 and 300 dollars respectively, and each received 100 blows. The shops for the sale of raw or prepared opium are open, but under official supervision. The poppy area has decreased as a direct or indirect result of the measures introduced by his Excellency Yuan Shih K'ai, the former Viceroy.\n\nIn the country districts a certain number of dens were closed, but by the month of June general slackness and indifference were shown in regard to the whole matter.\n\nIn the mouth of April the Consolidated Opium Tax Bureau, which is a branch of the head office in Hupei, and unquestionably an official institution, issued a Proclamation urging the cultivation of the poppy for the sake of revenue, which can only be looked upon as an extraordinary proceeding in face of the Decree.\n\nJehol. The dens have all been closed officially, but smoking still goes on in other houses, and the officials have not the courage to take any steps.\n\nShansi Province.--Production, 5,000 piculs. As a result of the Decree, the duty on opium has been raised. The Provincial Treasurer has opened free dispensaries for the cure of the opium habit, and set aside 3,000 taels for the preparation of medicine for sale or free distribution by the officials. Between 300 and 400 applicants were reported to present themselves daily, and there is apparently a real desire among the people to overcome the vice. Some forty-one shops in the capital (Tai Yuan Fu) sell anti-opium medicines.\n\nIn one district in the north of the province quite a number of the poor are giving up the habit, and the poppy area is being considerably reduced, while half the dens are closed. In another, although nothing is done to restrict the continually increasing cultivation of the poppy, establishments for distributing anti-opium medicines are fairly generally started; the officials and gentry are favourable to the movement, have held meetings, and by exhortation some have been induced to relinquish the habit.\n\nIn Southern Shansi very few dens exist. Some people smoke in the opium shops, which are all registered and licensed, and, in addition to a licence fee, a tax of 100 cash (0.8 tael) per ounce is levied on all raw opium purchased by the shop. The sale of anti-opium medicines has increased, and smoking is prohibited in Government schools.\n\nAt Ping-yang, one of the chief towns in the south of the province, both dens and shops pay a monthly tax. Although none of them have been closed, no new ones are allowed to be opened.\n\n[2813 -5]",
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        "content_text": "by opium. It is too readily taken for granted that the cultivation of the poppy trenches on the food crops of the people, but it must be remembered that it is a winter crop, and shares the ground with wheat, rape, beans, peas, and barley. Szechuan still (in 1904) produces sufficient flour for home consumption, and the export of wheat of former years has given way to opium, which the farmer finds a far more profitable crop. An English acre of wheat will, on the average, yield grain of the value of £1. 5s. 6d., whereas a similar area will produce raw dry opium of the value of £1, 16s. 8d.”\n\nThe population of the province is estimated at 45,000,000, and Sir Alexander is of opinion that 17 per cent. of the adults and 7 per cent. of the entire population are addicted to smoking.\n\nIn regard to the province generally, it may be said that, to start with, the authorities did not carry out the provisions of the Edict with any degree of completeness or sincerity, and that but little was done to abolish or restrict the habit. Matters have now improved, and official activity is more noticeable in many directions,\n\nIt must not be forgotten that the question is much more difficult to deal with in Szechuan than in other provinces on account of every one being personally interested in opium to a far greater extent than the inhabitants of any other province,\n\nIn Cheng-tu, the capital, the following steps have been taken to carry out the Decree.\n\nRefuges for the cure of the habit have been opened, and though they are not much patronized, there appears to be a real attempt on the part of the non-official and shop-keeping class to overcome the habit, while the officials do little or nothing to stop their own smoking.\n\nThe 500 dens in the city have been replaced by 300 well-appointed official divans for consumption on the premises, and though this arrangement carries out neither the letter nor the spirit of the Decree, it is a step in the right direction, and the complete prohibition of smoking in a city of 400,000 inhabitants where 50 per cent. of the male population smoke would undoubtedly have caused disturbances.\n\nAll persons using these official divans have to register themselves, but except in the case of the coolie class the authorities are unable to enforce this order with any degree of thoroughness. The richer classes have either laid in a store of the drug or purchase it secretly. Smoking is effectively prevented in colleges, schools, industrial institutions, the police, and the army.\n\nAt Kai Hsien, the largest opium-producing district in the province, where every available spot is under poppy, slight steps have been taken to obey the Decree. The Mandarin himself has given up the habit, and the yamên people have reported themselves. Some of the dens have been closed, and people have been beaten for smoking, but they are hostile, and destroyed four out of the twenty offices erected for collecting the opium tax.\n\nIn view of the unpopularity of the \"tungshui\" tax, which in some places the authorities were unable to collect, and in order to ameliorate the position of the opium merchants, the Acting Viceroy asked permission of the Board of Finance in Peking to revert to the former tax on opium, the objection of the people being that the tax deprived the poor of their pipe by making the price of opium prohibitive except as a luxury for the rich.\n\nThe result of the appeal to Peking was that the \"tungshui\" tax was abolished in July in favour of a tax of 27-28 taels per picul, with an additional tax of 5·28 taels for railway purposes on all opium, whether for local consumption or for export, this amount of 27·28 taels in the case of opium for export being divided into 20 taels as customs duty and 7·28 taels li-kin.\n\nAt Chungking half the dens were closed two years ago at the time the opium tax was increased, which shows the effect which taxation can have on the question.\n\nAn official Prepared Opium Office has been opened in the city for registering smokers, licensing smoking premises, and supplying the Government with prepared opium. The closing of the dens has been modified: 46 were allowed to remain open, 2 in each ward of the city, and this number was subsequently increased to 100, the proprietors depositing 50 taels guarantee for good behaviour. The poorer classes are registering themselves, and the rich have mostly laid in a store which makes them independent of the Government supply. The authorities show energy, fines, blows, and the cangue being administered, and a crusade carried on against unlicensed houses, illicit sale, and unregistered smokers.\n\nThe licensing system has not yet been adopted in the country districts, but it is to be on the basis of one guaranteed store in each village. In these districts most of the dens have been closed.\n\nPage 11\n\n522\n\nFrom Fushun a missionary reports that the dens have been reduced from thirty-six to seven. The officials are energetic, and great sympathy expressed for the thousands of poor who work in the salt-well district and are unable to continue work without the drug. Heavy taxation has reduced consumption, and less ground is under poppy than last year.\n\nIn the Luchou district many dens have been closed definitely, others reopened under the name of \"The Silver Exchange.\"\n\nIn the north-eastern portion of the province many of the gentry have given up the habit; some have entered hospitals, others are said to have cured themselves. Many dens have closed of their own accord, and the gentry have combined together to purchase and manufacture anti-opium medicine,\n\nAt Suifu the dens have been closed three times without disturbance, but many have reopened clandestinely, and though the police occasionally make ostentatious raids, they usually connive at what they dare not suppress.\n\nKueichow Province. Production, 15,000 piculs. All dens have been closed at Kueiyang, the capital, and a number of persons punished for taking in smokers.\n\nAn official Prepared Opium Bureau has been opened, also two refuges where 100 and 80 patients respectively are to be treated gratis.\n\nIn September, one had 10 indoor and 1,400 outdoor patients; the other, 7 indoor and 400 outdoor patients. Ninety days are allowed for the cure, which is said to be unnecessarily long, ten to fifteen being sufficient.\n\nYunnan Province.--Production, 30,000 piculs, of an estimated value of £1,000,000. The serious efforts of the Viceroy are looked upon by his subordinates, not only without sympathy, but with positive dismay. He has dismissed all opium smokers from his yamên.\n\nIn the neighbourhood of the city of Yunnan-fu there has been a considerable decrease in the area under poppy, but this is reported to be due less to the Decree than to the fact that the 1905-6 crop could not be sold at a profit, and that a large stock remained on hand. Both shops and dens have been inspected in the city, and the latter were subsequently all closed without disturbance,\n\nAn Anti-Opium Bureau has been opened to licence, regulate, and restrict the sale of opium, and in regard to the latter the authorities announced that the first year would be for exhortation, the second for zealous prohibition, the third for force.\n\nThe Bureau is actively at work, and eighty shops have taken out licences. To commence with, great difficulties were encountered in making a return of smokers owing to their reluctance to admit their vice. The manufacture and sale of opium utensils has ceased. Emissaries of the Bureau have visited each house and taken down particulars of every smoker and the number of lamps used. Preparations have been made to obtain returns of the area under poppy cultivation, which is to cease in the spring of 1910.\n\nThe sale of opium is to cease in July 1908, and an official Company is to purchase what is grown and sell it to those confirmed opium sots over 60 years of age who have been registered, and also, no doubt, to the Tonquin Régie (though this is not mentioned).\n\nThe Director of Agriculture has proposed that opium sots over 60 shall wear the red garb of a criminal, and be labelled, \"So-and-so, Opium Convict,\" and the Governor has favourably received this proposal. There are some thirty-seven anti-opium drugs in use.\n\nThus it will be seen that a serious effort is being made to carry out the wishes of the Government.\n\nTengyueh. Here the Regulations are not taken seriously by the people. Exhortation is not expected to have much effect on them, and the authorities dare not use force.\n\nAt Talifu the people are reported to have restricted the poppy area of their own accord and to be growing other crops.\n\nThe eleven Articles of the Opium Decree of November 1906 will now be considered one by one, together with the steps which have been taken to carry out their provisions, special attention being paid to the Province of Szechuan, where most opium is grown and consumed.\n\nArticle 1. Restriction of the cultivation of the poppy in order to remove the root of the evil.\n\nIn Szechuan, beyond general directions for the gradual reduction of the area under cultivation conveyed in the Viceroy's Proclamation, no definite steps have been taken to carry out this Article. If returns are being made of the area under cultivation, they",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[2173]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[January 20.]\n\nSECTION 2\n\nC.O.\n\n7780\n\n(Confidential.) Sir,\n\nIREC IP: 4 MAR 08\n\nAdmiralty to Foreign Office.--(Received January 20.)\n\nAdmiralty, January 14, 1908,\n\nI AM commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a letter dated the 28th November, together with its inclosures, which has been received from the Commander-in-chief on the China Station, respecting the question of piracy in the Canton Delta, and I am to state that their Lordships concur with the views expressed by the Commander-in-chief, China, regarding the registration of launches under the British flag (see Inclosure 7).\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nC. I. THOMAS.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nAdmiral Sir A. Moore to Admiralty.\n\nK\n\n(Confidential.) Sir,\n\n\"King Alfred,\" at Hong Kong [undated].\n\nIN continuation of my submission of the 29th September last on the subject of piracy in the West River and Canton Delta, be pleased to inform their Lordships as follows:-\n\n2. On the 18th instant I proceeded to Canton in His Majesty's ship \"Alacrity,\" accompanied by the destroyer \"Hart.\" I had previously sent the \"Cadmus\" up, to be present on the occasion of His Majesty the King's birthday, and to take the opportunity to arrange for my interview with the Viceroy through His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General.\n\nAccompanied by Mr. Mansfield, I paid an official visit to his Excellency Chang-jen-chun on the 19th November. His Excellency returned my call on the following day, and by prearrangement the occasion was taken to discuss the proposed measures for the suppression of piracy. An account of this conference is given in Inclosure 3.\n\n3. It will be noted that during the interview the Viceroy referred to a new scheme which he had drawn up. I had previously obtained a copy of this scheme from His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General, and I inclose a translation of the proposals, together with the remarks of the Senior Naval Officer of the West River gun-boats (Inclosure 2).\n\n4. The net result of the interview was that the Viceroy agreed to--\n\n(a.) Provide four fast launches for patrol service, in addition to the flotilla of steam-launches recently placed in the river;\n\n(b.) To provide for the systematic patrol of the river;\n\n(c) To consult the Commissioner of Customs, Canton, in matters appertaining to the patrol service;\n\n(d.) To provide for the co-operation of soldiers on shore with the patrol launches, to enable the robbers to be followed up in cases where they escape to the shore.\n\nHe, however, declined to agree to the stipulation which has been so repeatedly urged by us, and which his predecessor and the Central Government at Peking had undertaken to carry out, viz., that the four fast launches should be placed under the control of the Imperial Maritime Customs, with European officers belonging to that service in command.\n\nIn support of his decision he quoted the opinion of the Commissioner of Customs at Canton, who had, he alleged, informed him that there were many difficulties in the way of such a procedure.\n\nWith reference to the strong representation which I made to his Excellency in\n\n[2818 u-2]\n\nB\n\n14",
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        "content_text": "During the summer months a 3-knot current may be expected in the main river, so a speed of more than 12 knots ought to be guaranteed, and the launches should not be detached for military operations, which are nearly always in progress at one place or another. Owing to the absence of any form of village police in wilder Kwang Tung, these cruisers should be officered by the Imperial Maritime Customs.\n\n2. The distances mentioned—Fong Chuen to Shan King and Shau King to Chu Tau Shan (Admiralty charts)—cover only 145 miles of river. I cannot understand why the vast delta waterways are ignored. Chu Tau Shan is 10 miles north of Kong Mun, a city of tremendous launch traffic.\n\n3. Nineteen launches will not be able to patrol their respective sections twice a day—if all the waterways are policed.\n\n4. All the \"guard boats\" sailing gun-boats\" have, with a few exceptions, been recently removed from the West River. Many are broken up and a few are hauled up on the bank at Shiu Hing. There will therefore be no troops ashore to give assistance, except at a garrison town like Wachau or Shau King. The new launches recently built and most of the old ones carry no more than eight, or at the most ten, fighting men.\n\n5. This list, if it is compiled, would have to be an enormous one. The launches embark passengers nearly every half-a-mile.\n\nIt is an excellent suggestion that special sampans be registered to embark passengers, but no safeguard against pirates embarking. There are always recognized sampans for embarking passengers, which generally fly a special flag. These sampans have been used by pirates before (vide \"Wing Fat\" piracy case, July 1906).\n\n6. This is not feasible in tidal waters.\n\n7. All the launch routes are well known, and no uncertainty exists.\n\nEvery passenger launch or junk exhibits a board showing her principal ports of call.\n\nThe only deviation (from usual routes) is not due to tide, but to the height of water in summer floods.\n\nFrom April, in normal years, Canton to Shui Hing launches run via the Moneypenny and Fatshan Creeks until the river falls to 3 feet, when they are compelled to follow the main route, viâ Chun Chune and Kum Chuk. This route is advertised.\n\n8. This suggestion is good.\n\n9. I have travelled on launches flying the British, French, and Chinese colours, and have small faith in the \"guard\" system.\n\nThe guard when not asleep are smoking opium, and on nearing some customs station are awakened, and then put on their military uniform.\n\nWhen the \"Wing Fat\" was pirated last year near Ping Nam, the guard were sitting aft eating their food when the pirates arrived on board in the guise of passengers. Two soldiers came forward to search them and were promptly shot and thrown overboard. The rest of the guard surrendered, as their rifles were stowed forward and could not be reached in time.\n\nWhy should the owner of the launch have to pay for his own guard?\n\n10. I conclude that the three Government examination stations are to be quite close to Canton, the words East, West, and North Rivers not being used in the same sense as we employ, as the North River enters the West River at Samshui, and the East River enters the Canton River south of Whampoa, I think the number of examination stations might be extended to include Samshui, Shiu Hing, Kum Chuk, and Kong Mun, important shipping centres, otherwise the inspection scheme will be one-sided only—the Canton side.\n\nThey ought to be controlled by the Imperial Maritime Customs.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nMinutes of an Interview on board His Majesty's ship \"Alacrity,\" at Canton, November 20, 1907.\n\nPresent:\n\nAdmiral Sir A. W. Moore, K.C.M.G., &c. Mr. R. W. Mansfield, C.M.G., His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General, Canton.\n\nSecretary C. H. Rowe, R.N.\n\nMr. H. Sly, Vice-Consul.\n\nViceroy Chang Jen Chun. Taotai Ousu Han. Taotai Wen Tsung Yao.\n\nTHE Commander-in-chief, Sir A. W. Moore, having paid an official visit to the Viceroy on the 19th November, his Excellency the Viceroy returned the call on the following day on board His Majesty's ship \"Alacrity.\"\n\nAfter partaking of refreshments and exchanging the usual courtesies, by prearrangement the above-mentioned withdrew to the after-cabin to discuss the piracy question.\n\nThe Admiral informed the Viceroy that his principal object in requesting the conference was to discuss the proposed measures for the prevention of piracy in the vicinity of Canton, more especially in regard to the provision of the four fast launches to be placed under Customs control. He referred to the length of time this question had been under discussion, how that Viceroy Chow Fu had so far back as last March informed him that the launches would be provided, and how the Central Government at Peking had given their undertaking to the British Minister that the scheme would be put into effect. He had recently visited the Wai-wu Pu, and his Excellency Yuan Shih K'ai had assured him that instructions had been given to the Canton Government to do all in their power to suppress piracy, and had stated that the Viceroy could, if he would, stamp it out. Notwithstanding this, the launches had not been provided, and since his visit to Peking no less than three further robberies of vessels under the British flag had taken place. He felt that the time had now come when further talk was useless, and that definite action must be taken. He had been called upon by the Admiralty to report what measures he could take to insure the protection of British interests, and before giving his reply he wished to have a decision from the Viceroy as to whether he would or would not carry out the undertaking which had been entered into by the Chinese authorities to provide the four fast launches under Customs control.\n\nThe Viceroy, in reply, said that he was quite with the Admiral in desiring to stamp out piracy, he had already drawn up a scheme, which he was prepared to carry out, which included the provision of four fast launches, the systematic patrol of the waterways by the older patrol launches, and the co-operation of the military on shore with those vessels, so that the pirates might be followed up to their haunts when they escaped.\n\nThe Admiral pointed out that this scheme only provided for the patrol of about one-third of the waterways used by the launches, and that, as the guard-boats had been withdrawn, no soldiers were available to co-operate with the patrol vessels.\n\nTo this the Viceroy replied that his scheme was of course only in embryo, and that as it developed he hoped to arrange for the patrol of all the waterways. He added that the guard-boats which had been withdrawn would be replaced.\n\nThe Admiral asked whether he was to understand that the four fast launches referred to would be under the Customs control. The Viceroy said that he had recently received a telegram from Peking saying that the stipulation as to the launches being placed under foreign officers had been withdrawn by the British Minister; further, that he had been informed by the Commissioner of Customs at Canton that to place the vessel under Customs control would be fraught with much difficulty, and that the scheme was more or less impracticable. He also remarked that he, as Viceroy, was responsible for the policing of the province, and that it had nothing whatever to do with the Customs.\n\nThe Admiral replied that Peking must be under a misapprehension as to the withdrawal of the stipulation. He went on to say that, although there might be difficulties, they could, he felt sure, be overcome. He could not understand the Viceroy's attitude in the matter, or what were his objections. The boats would be manned by Chinese,",
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        "content_text": "15\n\n14\n\nperson of the foreign-educated student, is much in evidence, and anti-foreign feeling and resentment of foreign interference is rampant. Coercive measures on our part might result in serious anti-foreign riots and the boycott of English trade, to say nothing of the fact that the Canton and West Rivers are very strongly fortified, and, although unlikely, retaliation for any act of war might be effected by the forts opening fire on our vessels,\n\n13. It is therefore a matter for serious consideration whether the political advantages to be gained from the British flag predominating in these waters outweighs the risks which I have pointed out, and whether or not the present state of the Registration Regulations should be allowed to continue. In respect to this matter it should be mentioned that, as a result of an inquiry held at the British Consulate-General, Canton, on the 27th November, 1906, into the circumstances attending the piracy of the launch \"Feinam,\" owned by Mr. Fisher, the Court found that the vessel had been let on the \"net charter\" to Lin Kwang Lo, who also acted as captain; further, that—\n\n\"The 'net charters' are of several months' duration, and that to every intent and purpose all interest in the vessel and her crew passed from the registered owner to the charterer, whose charter-party is a Chinese document, drawn up in this case between him and the Chu An firm acting as Chinese agents for Mr. Fisher, whose name is not mentioned; so that all semblance of British interests in the craft is carefully eliminated.\"\n\nThe unanimous opinion of the Court was that the charter system was contrary to the intentions of their British nationality, and the \"Feinam\" was struck off the register.\n\nThe Court further recommended that the registration system should be amended, and as a result His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General submitted \"Proposed new Local Regulations (Canton) for dealing with British Launches,\" in a letter which he addressed to the British Minister, Peking, dated the 5th February, 1907. I understand that these new Regulations were not approved by the Foreign Office, and were consequently not put into force; but, on his own initiative, His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General appointed a Surveyor, and made it a condition for registration that vessels should have been surveyed and passed by him.\n\n14. I am myself convinced that we shall have constant abuses of our flag unless the Regulations are revised. The sooner this is done the better, and I submit that the following qualifications, in addition to those already existing, should be insisted upon—\n\n(a.) Registration should be limited to—\n\nLaunches towing passenger junks;\n\nLaunches carrying passengers on approved routes;\n\nLaunches towing properly registered lighters and junks.\n\n(b.) Registration shall not be granted to launches engaged on irregular work, i.e., plying for hire (not necessarily towing) or using unauthorized routes.\n\n(c.) No charter of a British-owned and registered launch shall be granted by the owner to any other than a British subject.\n\n(d.) The captain of every launch, when absent from the port of registration, shall be held responsible that all rules and regulations are complied with, and for the proper running of his launch.\n\n(e.) In order that the approximate whereabouts of every launch shall be known, each launch shall run on a known route, and shall not transfer to another route without the Consul-General being notified.\n\n(f) The captain and engineer to be registered at the Consulate, and to be respectable, capable, and qualified men, and, when feasible, British subjects. Any change in either captain or engineer to be notified to the Consul-General, Canton.\n\nBefore registering a captain and engineer, the man's village and family should be ascertained if possible.\n\nNote.—Certificates of captain and engineer should be taken with them in their launch. The form of certificate should include a photograph, and such details as to personal description and appearance, as height, &c., as will enable the Commanding Officers of our gun-boats to identify them when inspecting the launch. The Hong Kong police are all registered on this system.\n\nIt has been objected that, by making our registration laws more exacting, we shall drive launches to use the flags of other Powers. This is not unlikely to happen at first, but I think the final result will probably be that the best launches will come under the British flag, and that we shall have got rid of the riff-raff.\n\nIf, for political reasons, the objection is considered an important one, the possibility of inducing the principal European Powers to take concerted action in amending the Registration Regulations is suggested for consideration.\n\nA. W. MOORE, Admiral.\n\nSir.\n\n66\n\n'King Alfred,” at Hong Kong, November 28, 1907.\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 8 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Admiral Sir A. Moore.\n\nCanton, November 28, 1907, I HAVE the honour to inclose translation of a despatch received last night from Viceroy Chang, which is a reply to your official of the 23rd instant.\n\nIt appears thoroughly unsatisfactory in every way, merely repeating the arguments advanced by him and his predecessors over and over again. I may mention that when I first claimed compensation on account of the \"Sainam's\" piracy, Viceroy Ts'en's Secretary in conversation stated that they were willing to direct the Benevolent Societies to provide a few thousand dollars as a compassionate allowance to Mrs. MacDonald, but when I informed him that the Secretary of State had estimated her indemnity at 6,000l., and that other claims had to be met, he declined to discuss the matter further.\n\nI have telegraphed the gist of the Viceroy's despatch to Sir John Jordan, and have the honour to inclose copy of the telegram. This deals in part with the question of the Wai-wu Pu's reference to two vessels under Customs control which form the subject of your telegram just received. The only previous mention of these two vessels is contained in a telegram dated the 12th instant from Sir John Jordan, copy of which I inclose, and which was submitted to you when in Canton. You will note that this telegram infers that the two vessels spoken of are to be employed in the prevention of piracy, whereas in the Wai-wu Pu's Memorandum of the 11th instant, on which the telegram is based, such employment is not clearly stated. You will find some reference to an additional two cruisers in reserve in Mr. King's Memorandum on the Viceroy's proposed Regulations.\n\n(Translation.) Sir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\nInclosure 9 in No. 1.\n\nViceroy of Canton to Consul-General Mansfield.\n\nCanton, November 27, 1907. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt on the 23rd instant of the reply of bis Excellency the British Admiral with reference to the suppression of piracy on the West River and the piracy of the steam-ship \"Sainam,\"\n\nThe suppression of piracy is a matter of China's internal administration, and comes within the sphere of my duties as Viceroy. The addition of steam and sailing gun-boats and the adoption of a general scheme by land and water will, of course, have to be actually carried into effect, and any points which appear unsatisfactory may be altered afterwards. It is hoped that things will be thoroughly put in order so that piracy may be suppressed,\n\nI have from time to time heard of the practice of Chinese steam-launches wrongfully flying foreign flags, I was therefore compelled to ask that measures should be taken to prevent it. I am thoroughly pleased that the British Admiral has now consented to devise new Registration Regulations, so as to put an end to corrupt practices now existing. The British flag has hitherto been treated by China as deserving of the\n\n[2818 u-2]\n\nF\n\n21",
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        "content_text": "16\n\ngreatest honour, but if Chinese steam-launches are permitted, by plotting with [British subjects] to fly it wrongfully, not only is a breach of China's laws committed, but the dignity of the British flag is also affected. I must therefore request that the practice be entirely done away with, so as to stop abuses.\n\n\"Sainam\" piracy case.\n\nI have now examined in detail the records of last year's piracy. Over ten of the pirates concerned have been arrested, and also Liang A-chiu, the murderer of Dr. MacDonald, and all have been executed. Two of the rifles lost by the steamer have also been recovered and returned. Thus pirates guilty of robbery have been punished, and those who injured human beings have paid the penalty with their lives, while, of the booty lost, rifles have been recovered. According to the Treaty, if the local officials do all in their power to arrest the offenders and recover the booty, there is no ground for giving compensation. In view, however, of the Admiral's statement that Dr. MacDonald, after spending over twenty years in China doing good, had been suddenly murdered, leaving behind a wife and children without means, I have been moved to compassion, and, having in view the friendliness of China and Great Britain, specially consent to pay a compassionate allowance for the death of Dr. MacDonald as evidence of commiseration.\n\nI think the above course of action will convince you and his Excellency the Admiral of my exceptional friendliness.\n\nCompliments.\n\n17\n\nI understand that his Excellency, although agreeing to pay a compassionate allowance to the dependent relatives of the late Dr. MacDonald, who was murdered on the occasion of the piracy of the \"Sainam,\" refuses to recognize the obligation to grant compensation for the outrage, and as his Excellency has previously declined to carry out the undertaking of the Chinese Government to place four fast patrol-launches under Customs control, I have no other course but to carry out the instructions of my Government in regard to protecting British interests.\n\nI shall therefore dispatch additional vessels next week for the patrol of the Canton Delta and West River, and to afford protection to British traders in these waters, until such time as the measures taken by the Viceroy for the suppression of piracy prove effective.\n\nI request you will inform his Excellency accordingly.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) A. W. MOORE.\n\n(No. 62.) (Telegraphic.)\n\nInclosure 10 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nYOUR telegram No. 60.\n\nCanton, November 28, 1907.\n\nOn the 23rd November the Admiral conveyed by despatch direct to Viceroy information as approved in your telegram, and demanded a reply before the end of November. Viceroy's reply received yesterday was entirely unsatisfactory. He reiterates his non-responsibility for compensation under Treaty, but offers an indefinite compassionate allowance to Mrs. MacDonald.\n\nViceroy's proposed Regulations, with Memorandum thereon by Commissioner, were brought to me by Secretary, but the text as given in the inclosure in your despatch No. 47 is very incomplete. It does not embody Commissioner's suggestions and only provides patrol of 150 miles out of some 600 miles of waterways, not including Kuangsi.\n\nNo mention has been made here of the allocation of money for the purchase and upkeep of two Customs cruisers. Despatch follows.\n\nInclosure 11 in No. 1.\n\n(No. 58.) (Telegraphic.)\n\nSir J. Jordan to Consul-General Mansfield.\n\nPeking, November 12, 1907. PIRACY. Wai-wu Pu have communicated to me a résumé of a scheme drawn up by Viceroy in concert with Commissioner of Customs in nine Articles, providing for a preventive service under provincial control, with a subsidiary service of two vessels under Customs.\n\nI have replied that I cannot express any opinion till Admiral and yourself have been consulted, and have asked that Viceroy be instructed in this sense. Pray inform me whether you have been approached.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 12 in No. 1.\n\nAdmiral Sir A. Moore to Consul-General Mansfield.\n\n\"King Alfred,\" at Hong Kong, November 29, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th November, 1907, inclosing translation of a despatch from Viceroy Chang replying to my letter to him dated the 23rd instant.",
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        "content_text": "## occasion alone. But for the energy displayed by this official, it is highly probable that the whole of the south of Kiangsi would have been, for some months, if not longer, the scene of continual fighting between the Boxers and the Imperial troops.\n\nTowards the end of August, the missionaries' reports showed that a crisis was approaching. Still, apparently relying upon the local officials, the Governor did not seem to be taking measures strong enough to counteract any serious outbreak. I accordingly reminded him of my former telegram, pointing out the danger of delay and the advisability of not postponing the adoption of stringent measures until the disturbance assumed unmanageable proportions. In order to impress upon him the necessity of preventing any loss of foreign life, I added that I would hold him personally responsible in case any British missionary were killed. I also requested that Chiang Taotai be retained in the district, as he was about to be transferred elsewhere. As the event proved, this made all the difference as regards the extent of the disturbance, and probably saved the lives of the Protestant missionaries.\n\nAt this time, the Kanchow Taotai seems to have been at some distance from that city, engaged in fighting the Boxers in the district to the south-east, and his absence may reasonably be supposed to have had a good deal to do with the recrudescence of rowdyism in the prefectural city itself. In his attacks upon the Boxers, he seems to have been remarkably successful with the comparatively small forces at his disposal. On his return to Kanchow, further orders from the Governor having reached him, as the result probably of the strong representations I had made, strict measures were adopted there also, and thirty more men were decapitated.\n\nThe energy of the Taotai and the action, though tardy, of the Governor, had the desired effect, and the uprising had, to all appearances, been suppressed by the end of August.\n\nAbout a month later, however, without previous warning, the Boxerism seems to have suddenly broken out again, and on the 28th September, telegrams were received stating that the situation at Kanchow was critical, and that the Catholic missions had been rioted. I heard later that one Catholic priest, of Italian nationality, Père Canduglia, who was in the same mission with a French priest, had been killed. I immediately telegraphed to the Governor again, requesting him to at once take effective measures for the protection of foreign life and property. His reply was that soldiers were being sent and that the local officials were doing all they could, but that the Government troops had difficulty in coping with the rebels, and had lost a good number in the encounters which had taken place. He added that he was sending special instructions for the protection of the missionaries. I then took steps to ascertain the whereabouts of all the missionaries in that part of the province, and eventually was able to account for them all, some having escaped to the Taotai's yamên in Kanchow, others having proceeded to Chia An, and others to Nan Chang.\n\nThe local officials at Kanchow, with the exception of Chiang Taotai, seem to have been in great terror of the Boxers, and to have been altogether incompetent to deal with the situation. The Magistrate left the mission houses practically unprotected, and, when the missionaries had been taken to the yamêns, took no steps to save the buildings from being looted by the Boxers. The disturbed district being in the extreme south of Kiangsi Province, almost on the borders of Kuantung, 550 miles by road and river from Kiukiang, it was not possible for me to proceed to it, and as fortunately none of the Protestant missionaries had been killed, this was unnecessary. The only questions which remained were the causes of the outbreak, the reasons why it had not been suppressed, and the indemnification, if any, for mission and other property destroyed. In reply to a telegraphic inquiry as to why, on receipt of my first telegram, effective preventive measures had not been taken, the Governor maintained that he had done all in his power, but he certainly, at first, seems to have confined his action to instructing the local officials to suppress the uprising and to hold them responsible in case they should not do so.\n\n## \n\nIt has been difficult to ascertain the real cause of the movement, for undoubtedly the incident of the killing of a cow by some Roman Catholic converts in contravention of the order against killing animals—which had been issued with the object of inducing rain after the long drought (a method resting on native superstition)—was but the match which set alight a matter which had long been in preparation. It may be said with certainty that the uprising was primarily anti-dynastic in character, the extermination of foreigners being perhaps included or involved in the programme, but having a secondary place. Secret Societies have been holding meetings in various parts of the province for many months, but beyond the fact that Secret Societies are illegal, no overt act in breach of the law, as far as one can judge at a distance and on information and reports only, had been committed, at any rate none which concerned foreigners or foreign property. One of these Societies, which I have kept under observation as far as possible, is the T'ai K'ung Hui, or \"Society of Infinite Space.\" Its members do not as yet seem to be numerous; they meet in a private house in Nan Ch'ang, kowtow to an empty circle, and go through other rites. As far as can be ascertained, there is nothing illegal about their meetings, and nothing to take hold of, and they may be devoted to some worthy philosophical study. On the other hand, they might suddenly break out in the same way as the Boxers have done in Kanchow.\n\nPractically, all the information concerning the actual outbreak and its progress and suppression is contained in the letters from the missionaries in the Kanchow district, copies of which are inclosed herewith, and it would serve no purpose to repeat their contents here. The remaining question, viz., that of compensation for the houses, chapels, and personal property of the missionaries, has settled itself in a most satisfactory manner. The Director of the China Inland Mission at Shanghae informed me that no claim of any kind would be made by the mission and no compensation accepted. In reply to my inquiry as to whether individual claims for personal property were to be permitted, if made, he replied that compensation might be accepted by missionaries for personal property if offered by the Chinese authorities. This compensation has been made by the local officials direct to the missionaries concerned, and it is satisfactory to be able to report that their claims were exceedingly reasonable, the amounts representing in all cases the actual value, or less, of the property destroyed. The total amount paid was 13,503 dollars, which includes compensation to sixty-three Chinese families. So reasonable were the claims and so just-minded did the Protestant missionaries prove themselves to be, that not only did the local officials emphasize their fairness in their reports to the Governor, but the Viceroy of Nanking specially instructed Taotai Yu Ming-ch'ên, deputed by his Excellency to go to Kanchow (where he now is) to investigate the causes of this outbreak, to call on me on his arrival in Kiukiang, and express his appreciation of and gratitude for this honesty on the part of the missionaries and the manner in which the case generally had been dealt with.\n\nThe fulfilment in their lives of the doctrines preached by the missionaries has again, in this instance, as after the Nan Ch'ang massacre last year, impressed upon the Chinese in those districts and throughout the province the integrity and disinterested character of Protestant missionary work. Almost every Chinese official I meet refers to these two cases and praises the just action, unattended by excessive demands, of the British authorities and the simple and honest work of the missionaries, which they recognize as having a religious and moral object unaccompanied by any ulterior political motive.\n\nIt has, I believe, been decided that Taotai Kiang, who was to be made Acting Judge at Nan Chang, is now to retain his former post on account of this affair. Whilst I believe his presence in that district to be indispensable for prevention of further outbreak, he should certainly be rewarded and encouraged rather than degraded. Unfortunately, the newly-appointed Judge Jui Chên, formerly Taotai at Kiukiang, and lately at Shanghae, is his bitter enemy, and will do all he can to prejudice him in the eyes of the Governor. The Nan K'ang Magistrate Yang is undoubtedly deserving of very severe punishment. He seems to have taken no steps whatever to suppress the Boxers, but rather stimulated them by his anti-foreign attitude.\n\nWhilst fortunately the outbreak in the Kanchow district has been suppressed before it assumed the proportions which at one time threatened, and the case has been settled without difficulty, I regret that I cannot take an optimistic view of the future peace of Kiangsi. Secret Societies are undoubtedly at work, and there is a very strong feeling against the Roman Catholic missionaries in various parts of the province. At present, this is being more especially manifested in the south-west, and any ill-considered act of injustice or aggression might give to one secret Society or another the pretext of killing and looting which they are always ready to adopt, involving the slaying of converts and missionaries without distinction of creed or nationality.\n\n[2818 bb-5]\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)  \nE. T. C. WERNER.\n\n## Page 3  \n23",
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        "content_text": "30\n\n6\n\nimprobably in the present state of feeling give rise to a conflagration. Such a measure could not therefore be resorted to except as a final one after due naval and military preparations. It might also prompt the Chinese Government to come to terms if they are informed that the cost of the British patrol would be claimed from the Chinese Government, as was proposed by his Majesty's Minister in his interview with the Tsung-li Yamên on the 18th February, 1899. I am unaware whether this has been already done.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nF. D. LUGARD.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[February 8.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nC.O. 7780\n\nRECEIVED\n\n0\n\n[4353]\n\n(No. 583.) Sir,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received February 8, 1908.)\n\nPeking, December 20, 1907.\n\n4 MAR 08\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 574 of the 10th instant, transmitting a report on the outbreak of Boxerism at Kanchow, in the Province of Kiangsi, I have the honour to forward to you herewith copy of a further despatch from His Majesty's Consul at Kiukiang respecting a threatened uprising in the district of Lo Ping, in the north-east of the same province.\n\nMr. Werner states that this threatened outbreak, which seems to have been an echo of the unrest in the Kanchow district, was immediately suppressed through the prompt action of the local District Magistrate.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n(No. 36.) Sir,\n\nConsul Werner to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nKiukiang, November 29, 1907.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 35 of the 27th instant, reporting on the recent outbreak at Kanchow, I have the honour to inclose copy of an extract from a letter dated the 12th October last from a missionary residing at Lo Ping, in the north-east of Kiangsi, respecting the threatened uprising in that district, which seems to have been an echo of the unrest in the Kanchow Prefecture, in the south of the province.\n\nThis is another illustration of the dangers which may arise from the existence of secret societies and the ill-feeling which often results from the interference of Roman Catholic priests in political and judicial matters.\n\nThe point especially deserving of notice in the present case is that what would probably have been a serious outbreak, involving much loss of life and property, was immediately suppressed through the prompt and fearless action of the local District Magistrate, Tson Chia-nien. By his firing on the mob, and promptly beheading the ringleaders of the movement, what would in all probability have grown into a serious local rebellion, in a district in which much animosity already exists between the various clans, was nipped in the bud, and peace quickly restored.\n\nWhen in Nan Chang in March 1900 I was asked by his Excellency Hu Ting-kan, late Governor of Kiangsi, what measures I would suggest for preventing riots of the kind then under investigation. I replied that my opinion was that China should institute a Riot Act, and that if the soldiers stationed at the missions for the protection of the missionaries had shot down some of the rioters immediately they had looted the kerosene shops and approached the mission buildings, the massacre would not have occurred. He rejoined that this would involve the shooting of innocent people, whereupon I pointed out that many innocent missionaries had just been murdered, and it seemed to me that the shooting down of a rioter after warning was less objectionable than the torturing and killing of innocent missionaries by mob law and without warning. I think that the test to which this opinion has recently been put at Lo Ping warrants the expressed belief.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nE. T. C. WERNER.\n\n[2846 h-2]",
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        "content_text": "6. It will be quite impossible to fix the times of departure and arrival of trading launches. The hours of rise and fall of the tide and the weather, fine or rainy, differ from day to day. If the patrol of the waterways is effective, there will be no object in fixing the times of departure and arrival of launches.\n\n7. Before the launch navigation routes are fixed it will be necessary to make a careful examination in order to find out what routes are most advantageous from a mercantile point of view, where the population is densest, where the water is deep enough for launch traffic, and whether there is in summer or winter any obstacle to the employment of the route. The decision of this question must await the completion of the mercantile map of the West River.\n\n8. Patrol launches and the fast cruisers must from time to time examine launches on meeting them, but must not delay them overlong. Unexpected examinations of this kind are of the utmost use, causing anyone with an intention of pirating launches to be afraid of being discovered. The stationary gun-boats of the various sections must also from time to time carry out these examinations.\n\n9. The stationing of braves on each launch depends entirely on the efficiency of the braves. If they are courageous men and would rather die than fail in their duty, and are unwilling that the launch under their protection should be plundered by pirates, then truly they are worthy of the highest praise. If, however, they are unreliable, timorous, and of small courage, then they are actually a positive danger instead of a protection; the pirates would at once seize their weapons. It is thus to be feared that they would be of assistance to the enemy. For this reason, a patrol of the waterways is more likely to go to the root of the matter than the stationing of braves on board the launches.\n\n10. A stationary gun-boat should be stationed continually at all landing-places, with a view to their inspection. The system of establishing three official inspection depots at important points in the neighbourhood of the capital's waterways, with control over the traffic on the East, West, and North Rivers is an excellent one. The Commissioner of Customs should, in consultation with the local officials, find out what are the most suitable places, and establish the three depots, instructing the harbour-master to settle everything in conjunction with the deputies appointed to take charge of them. The establishment of these depots will be of advantage to the Native Customs, Prefectural Customs, and li-kin receipts; and they will also assist in preventing the importation of arms from Hong Kong and Macao by brigands into the capital, and the export of arms from the capital to the assistance of brigands in the interior.\n\n11\n\nIt is an excellent suggestion that special sampans be registered to embark passengers, but no safeguard against pirates embarking. There are always recognized sampans for embarking passengers, which generally fly a special flag. These sampans have been used by pirates before (vide \"Wing Fat\" piracy, July 1906).\n\n6. This is not feasible in tidal waters.\n\n7. All the launch routes are well known, and no uncertainty exists.\n\nEvery passenger junk exhibits a board showing her principal ports of call. The only deviation is not due to tide, but to the height of water in summer floods.\n\nFrom Ap Sek, in normal years, Canton-Shiu Hing launches run via the Moneypenny and Fatshan Creeks until the river falls to 3 feet, when they are compelled to follow the main route via Chun Chune and Kum Chuk.\n\nThis route is advertised.\n\n8. This suggestion is good.\n\n9. I have travelled on launches flying the British, French, and Chinese colours, and have small faith in the guard system.\n\nThe guards, when not asleep, are smoking opium, and on nearing some custom station are awakened, and put on their military uniform.\n\nWhen the \"Wing Fat\" was pirated last year near Ping Nani, the guards were sitting aft eating their food, when the pirates arrived on board in the guise of passengers. Two soldiers came forward to search them, and were promptly shot and thrown overboard. The rest of the guard surrendered, as their rifles were stowed forward and could not be reached in time.\n\nWhy should the owner of the launch have to pay for his own guard?\n\n10. I conclude that the three Government examination stations are to be quite close to Canton, the words East, West, and North Rivers not being used in the same sense as we employ them, as the North River enters the West River at Sam Shui, and the East River enters the Canton River south of Whampoa. I think the amount of examination stations might be extended to include Samshui, Shiu Hing, Kum Chuk, and Kong Mun important shipping centres; otherwise, the inspection scheme will be one-sided only, the Canton side.\n\nThey ought to be controlled by the Imperial Maritime Customs.\n\nThe guard-boats or sailing gun-boats having been removed, what form of Government station is to be established?\n\nInclosure 9 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum by Lieutenant-Commander Vaughan.\n\nThe waterways are said to cover 230 miles, but to my knowledge over 600 miles are used by launches in passenger traffic. This does not include another 360 miles of river above Wuchow in the Kuangsi Province.\n\nDuring the summer months a 3-knot current may be expected in the main river, so that a speed of more than 12 knots ought to be guaranteed, and they should not be detached for military operations, which are nearly always in progress at one place or another, owing to the absence of any form of village police in wilder Kwang Tung. These cruisers should be officered by the Imperial Maritime Customs.\n\n2. The divisions mentioned--Fong Chuen to Shan King, and Shau King to Chu Tau Shan (Admiralty charts)-cover only 146.5 miles of river. I cannot understand why the vast delta waterways are ignored. Am Tau Shan is 10 miles north of Kong Mun, a city of tremendous launch traffic.\n\n3. Nineteen launches will not be able to patrol their respective sections twice a day, if all the waterways are policed.\n\n4. All the guard-boats or sailing gun-boats have, with a few exceptions, been recently removed from the West River; many are broken up and a few hauled up on the bank at Shiu Hing.\n\nThere will therefore be no troops ashore to give assistance except at a garrisoned town like Wuchow or Shiu Hing. The new launches recently built and most of the old ones carry no more than at the most ten fighting men.\n\nLaunches embark passengers nearly every half mile.\n\n5. The list, if it is compiled, will have to be an enormous one.\n\nInclosure 10 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum of an Interview held on Board His Majesty's ship “Alacrity” at Canton, November 20, 1907.\n\nPresent:\n\nViceroy Chang Jen Chun. Taotai Onei Han, Taotai Wen Tsung Yao.\n\nAdmiral Sir A. W. Moore,\n\nMr. Mansfield, Consul-General.\n\nCaptain Thursby, R.N.\n\nMr. Sly, Vice-Consul.\n\nMr. Rowe, Secretary to the Admiral.\n\nIn the course of a discussion lasting some two hours the Admiral impressed upon the Viceroy that his presence in Canton and the negotiations with which he was charged were necessitated by the fact that, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, the time for discussion of the repeated piracies in the Canton waterways had passed and the moment for action had come. He had, when in Canton in February last, discussed with Viceroy Chou Fu the scheme for placing on the waterways four additional cruisers of suitable type under the control of the Commissioner of Customs, and officered by foreign officers. The Wai-wu Pu had previously assented to this arrangement, and he had understood from Viceroy Chou that he was prepared to put it into effect. What was his (the Admiral's) surprise on arriving in Peking to find that nothing had been done. He had, in a long interview with his Excellency Yuan Shih K'ai and Minister Liang, informed them of his views on the whole situation, and that he considered the employment of these cruisers under Imperial Maritime Customs control with foreign officers, and with an official on board appointed by the Viceroy, essential to the improvement of existing ...\n\n36\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "14\n\nplotting (with British subjects), not only is a breach of China's laws committed, but the dignity of the British flag is also affected. I must therefore request that the practice be entirely done away with so as to stop abuses,\n\nI have now examined in detail the records of last year's \"Sainam\" piracy case. Over ten of the pirates concerned have been arrested, and also Liang A-chiu, the actual murderer of Dr. MacDonald, and all have been executed. Two of the rifles lost by the steamer have also been recovered and returned. Thus pirates guilty of robbery have been punished, those who injured human beings have paid the penalty with their lives, while of the booty lost rifles have been recovered. According to Treaty if the local officials do all in their power to arrest the offenders and recover the booty, there is no ground for giving compensation. In view, however, of the Admiral's statement that Dr. MacDonald, after spending over twenty years in China doing good, had been suddenly murdered, leaving behind a wife and children without means, I have been moved to compassion, and, having in view the friendliness of China and Great Britain, specially consent to pay a compassionate allowance for the death of Dr. MacDonald as evidence of commiseration.\n\nI think the above course of action will convince you and his Excellency the Admiral of my exceptional friendliness.\n\nCompliments.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 13 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Admiral Sir A. Moore.\n\nCanton, November 28, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose translation of a despatch received last night from Viceroy Chang, which is a reply to your official of the 23rd instant.\n\nIt appears thoroughly unsatisfactory in every way, merely repeating the arguments advanced by him and by his predecessors over and over again. I may mention that when I first claimed compensation on account of the \"Sainam\" piracy, Viceroy Ts'en's Secretary in conversation stated that they were willing to direct the Benevolent Societies to provide a few thousand dollars as a compassionate allowance to Mrs. MacDonald, but when I informed him that the Secretary of State had estimated her indemnity at 6,000l., and that other claims had to be met, he declined to discuss the matter further.\n\nI have telegraphed the gist of the Viceroy's despatch to Sir J. Jordan, and have the honour to inclose copy of the telegram. This deals in part with the question of the Wai-wu Pu's reference to two vessels under Customs control, which form the subject of your telegram just received. The only previous mention of these two vessels is contained in a telegram dated the 12th instant, from Sir John Jordan, copy of which I inclose, and which was submitted to you when in Canton.\n\nYou will note that this telegram infers that the two vessels spoken of are to be employed in the prevention of piracy, whereas in the Wai-wu Pu's Memorandum of the 11th instant, on which the telegram is based, such employment is not clearly stated.\n\nYou will find some reference to an additional two cruisers in reserve in Mr. King's Memorandum on the Viceroy's proposed Regulations.\n\n15\n\n3. Right of Navigation of West River and Inland Waterways.-This was granted under the West River Regulations of 1897 and the Inland Water Navigation Rules of 1898, supplemented by the Mackay Treaty of 1902, Annex (C).\n\nRemarks. It was at the instigation of and owing to pressure put upon the Chinese by the British Government that the Regulations mentioned under 3 were formulated, and it is a matter for serious consideration whether any great curtailment of the use of the British flag would not be a political mistake.\n\nThe navigation of the inland waterways is comparatively recent, and its development has led to the discovery of much that is objectionable and requires amendment. It cannot be denied that the so-called British owner is largely merely an agent for Chinese, and that his control of the launches flying the British flag and registered in his name is quite inadequate. At the same time these launches, when not towing, carry passengers about the delta who are engaged in trade, and, when towing, are assisting the movement of merchandize. They thus have their part in the general trade of Canton, the delta, and the West River, of which the British share is very considerable.\n\nPiracy. It is obvious that, if there were not a general state of disorder and lawlessness in Southern China, the repeated piracies which have always existed, and which have obtained more prominence since the year 1897, as they now affect the foreign shipping permitted under 3, would not exist. They must and do bring great injury to trade, and if the use of the foreign flag is instrumental in securing their suppression it will be to the benefit of foreign and native commerce. In the absence of foreign pressure, the right to exert which is mainly afforded by the use of the flag, serious action by the local authorities is not to be expected. If the British flag is withdrawn, launches will be driven to the use of that of other Powers less particular, less disinterested, and having less power of Consular and judicial control than that possessed by the British Consul-General.\n\nChinese Measures for Suppression. It is submitted that, if the Provincial Government is compelled to acknowledge its liability to pay compensation in the case of every piracy on British launches; this responsibility will go a long way towards spurring on the local officials to eradicate the disease. Continued and energetic action by the civil and military officials on shore is a sine qua non, and, in addition, an effective patrol along the waterways is an absolute necessity. Neither will, it is submitted, be achieved unless there is some foreign control, and it has been decided that this can best be secured by the employment of suitable cruisers under the Imperial Maritime Customs. The number promised by the Wai-wu Pu, four, is inadequate, but is a move in the right direction. If the patrol is constant and effective, it should not fail to be productive of valuable evidence pertaining to the movements and whereabouts of the pirates and to the energy or otherwise of the local authorities on shore and afloat.\n\nControl of British Launches.—His Majesty's Consul-General has already reported how in his opinion this can best be secured, and particulars of his recommendations have been given to Commander Majendie, R.N. There seems no reason to doubt that, if the powers requested were given him, there should be no great difficulty, due discretion being exercised, in weeding out the good from the bad.\n\nCanton, November 15, 1907.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\nInclosure 14 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Sly respecting the Registration of British Launches plying on the Canton Waterways and the use of the Flag.\n\n1. Registration.-Authority to register, the result of representations made by the Chinese Government to His Majesty's Minister aiming at this end, was given by Sir N. O'Conor in 1886.\n\n2. Flag. Authority to use the red ensign came from Sir Claude MacDonald in 1898, who gave it as his opinion that its use must have been contemplated when the authority to register was given.\n\n(No. 61.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 15 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nCanton, December 3, 1907. IN continuation of my despatch No. 60 of the 1st instant on the subject of the suppression of piracy in these waters, I have the honour to report as follows :—\n\nI telegraphed to you on the 30th ultimo, No. 63, that I was that day informing the Viceroy, at the Admiral's request, that the extended British patrol of the waterways would be inaugurated this week.\n\nSir Arthur Moore has already furnished you with copy of his despatch to me of the 29th November, on which my telegram No. 63 was based (see his Excellency's despatch to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Inclosure 8, copy of which reached me to-day). I merely forward, then, copy of the Chinese version submitted to the Viceroy.\n\n38\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "This afternoon I addressed a further despatch to the Admiral, copy inclosed, forwarding copy of a communication, translation and copy sent herewith, received during the course of the day from the Viceroy, in which he states that the increased British patrol is an infringement of China's sovereign rights, and that the Provincial Government cannot be held responsible for any injury to British trade resulting from its institution. The Provincial Government, except at spasmodic intervals, has for years past shut its eyes to a constant series of attacks by robbers ashore and afloat, keeping the law-abiding populace in a state of perpetual anxiety and insecurity with its concomitant injury to international trade; the friendly advice of His Majesty's Government and its Representatives has throughout been treated with the scantest courtesy; the responsibility of the Provincial Government for outrages on British subjects and their property has been resolutely denied, and, when no satisfaction for our moderate, well-considered, and just demands is obtainable, leaving us no alternative but to ourselves protect our own subjects and their property, our action is characterized as infringing the sovereign rights of China. Past history, in so far as this piracy question is concerned, has not shown that a succession of Viceroys has apparently paid much heed to the remonstrances of the Central Government, and for the Provincial Government to now bring forward the plea of an infringement of China's sovereign rights is merely interesting as evidence of the crooked reasoning of the ordinary Chinese official mind. As to the covert threat that the extended patrol of our ships may involve injury to British trade, the more I consider this matter, the less likely such an eventuality appears. British merchants have a large share in the export trade of this port, and it is hardly probable that the Chinese merchant over a question such as this will refuse to sell his goods through whatever medium. The coasting steamers are largely British-owned and a necessity to shippers at the ports of departure and to local consignees; while the commercial interdependence of Hong Kong and Canton must render any attempt at an effective boycott an absolute failure.\n\nActive resistance to the patrol by the local naval and military forces is not, I think, to be anticipated; while, though there is always a possibility of rioting, appearances do not exhibit any tendency in that direction.\n\nSir Arthur Moore, as stated in my immediately preceding despatch, feels very strongly on the matter of the ownership of local British launches, and has set forth his views in his despatch to the Admiralty mentioned above. While, as I have previously intimated, largely sharing in his Excellency's opinion, it has to be borne in mind that China is not a well-ordered and administered country, that we have fought hard for our commercial foothold, that everything of British interest direct or indirect has its value to us, and that drastic regulations in the infancy of commercial and political experiments are not always advisable. I have already, in my despatch No. 12 of the 5th February last, submitted a set of elastic but sufficiently severe regulations which appeared to me likely to very greatly improve the conditions under which British launches are owned and run. I did not claim that they would be a panacea for all ills and some amendment may be advisable. I shall therefore reconsider them in conjunction with the proposals made in Inclosure 6 to the Admiral's despatch to the Admiralty and report to you the result of my deliberations.\n\nPage 17\n\nperiod of many years, have proved completely unavailing. Promises have not been wanting, but only of the class made to be broken. I do not attach much importance to the hint that British trade may suffer, nor to the somewhat hysterical outcry in the native press; in fact, I feel rather inclined to welcome the latter, as it acknowledges the lawless condition of the province, and may act as a lever to move the Chinese Government to energetic action on their own account.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed)\nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\n(Translation.)\nSir,\n\nInclosure 17 in No. 1.\nViceroy of Canton to Consul-General Mansfield.\nCanton, December 3, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of his Excellency the Admiral's communication on the piracy question transmitted to me by you.\n\nwhile\nIn reply, I have the honour to state that the prevention of piracy belongs properly to the internal administration of China, and that I am quite unable to admit that Great Britain has any right to interfere. As the new scheme recently framed by me is only now coming into effect, it is impossible to foretell at this early stage its failure; if, after it has been put into operation, anything objectionable in it is found, it can be at once remedied. But if the Admiral refuses to wait, and insists on sending his own vessels to patrol the waterways by way of a demonstration of force, then I maintain that this will be an infraction of the sovereign rights belonging to China, and an act which would not be undertaken by a friendly Power. I am therefore unable to accept any responsibility for action so taken. The Chinese are gradually becoming more enlightened as time goes on, but if, owing to any action such as I have indicated above, the people's resentment is roused, and British trade suffers in consequence, this Government will be unable to hold itself liable therefor.\n\nAs for the \"Sainam\" case, over twelve of the pirates have already been executed, and the offer of a compassionate allowance to the family of the murdered missionary has been made in extension of the requirements of international law. Piracies occur all over the world, and in view of their prevalence in the Canton Province I have already agreed to add vessels to patrol the waterways and act together in an earnest endeavour to give protection to both foreign and Chinese trade. The Admiral's proposed course of action is not, I contend, permitted by the rules of international law.\n\nIn conclusion, I have the honour to request you to transmit the contents of this despatch to his Excellency the Admiral.\n\nI avail, &c.\n(Signed)\nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\nInclosure 16 in No. 1.\nConsul-General Mansfield to Admiral Sir A. Moore.\nCanton, December 3, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt this morning of your letter of the 29th November, covering copy of your despatch to the Admiralty on the subject of the suppression of piracy in the Canton delta.\n\nI have now the honour to inclose copy of my Report to Sir John Jordan of the negotiations during your visit here. The inclosures in this Report I do not send, as they are already in your hands.\n\nI also inclose translation of a further despatch just received from Viceroy Chang, in which he protests against the proposed British patrol of the waterways, which he characterizes as an infraction of the sovereign rights of China and an unfriendly act, forgetting that innumerable friendly representations on this subject, extending over a\n\nSir,\nAdmiral Sir A. Moore to Sir J. Jordan.\n'King Alfred,” at Hong Kong, December 5, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith, for your Excellency's information, copy of a letter which I have this day addressed to His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General, Canton, relative to the suppression of piracy question.\n\nSir,\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) A. W. MOORE,\nAdmiral and Commander-in-chief..\n\nInclosure 19 in No. 1.\nAdmiral Sir A. Moore to Consul-General Mansfield.\nKing Alfred,\" at Hong Kong, December 5, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your letter of the 3rd instant, inclosing copy of your despatch to Sir John Jordan, No. 60, dated the 1st idem, and a translation of a further despatch from Viceroy Chang protesting against our patrol of the waterways around Canton.\n\n[2846 h-4]\nF\n39",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty]\n\n4\n\n\"Tung Feng,\" belonging to Mr. Fisher, left Canton for Tseng Cheng, that on arrival at Tun T'ou, below Whampoa, she was pirated by pirates disguised as passengers, who took her to a place near Ma Ch'ung, where they disappeared with their booty. The losses in money and clothes were estimated at 5,000 taels, and you requested me to order the arrest of the robbers and the recovery of the property stolen.\n\nIn reply I have the honour to state that on receipt of your previous message by telephone, by Taotai Wen, of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, I at once sent stringent instructions to the Magistrate and military officer at Tseng Cheng, to the Pun Yu and Tung Kun Magistrates, and to the Kuangchow Colonel, as also to all the forces, naval and military, along the waterways concerned, to at once secure the arrest of the pirates and the recovery of the property. On this being done, and after the interrogation of the pirates, I will communicate with you again.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\nDear Sir John,\n\nInclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nSir R. Hart to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(Seal of Viceroy.)\n\nPeking, November 15, 1907. I have just read the inclosures in yours of the 14th concerning the piracy question.\n\nThe business is really of a territorial rather than a revenue description, and, as the officials now seem stirred up to activity, I think it would be well to leave things in their hands till it is seen whether their method is effective or not. I am glad to see the Viceroy offered to forgo the 200,000 taels sum the Customs seemed called on to provide, and I shall be more pleased still if we can get out of the position the Wai-wu Pu now wants to create, viz., the Customs to provide and support two cruisers, for I fear their action would either waste money by being useless or cause friction and unpleasantness by over-officiousness in matters not fiscal.\n\n0\n\nSincerely yours,\n\n(Signed) ROBERT HART,\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[2702]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[January 25.]\n\nSECTION 1,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received January 25, 1908.) (No. 568.) Sir,\n\nPeking, December 9, 1907. WITH reference to my despatch No. 525 of the 12th ultimo, I have the honour to forward to you herewith a summary of events which have occurred in China since that date, and of the more interesting newspaper comments on current topics.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n-(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nInclosure in No. 1,\n\nMonthly Summary,\n\nTHE following extracts from recent daily newspapers published in Peking are of interest :-\n\nNaval Affairs.\n\nNovember 20.—“After further discussion of the question of reviving the navy and the financial difficulties which stand in the way, it is now proposed to direct the Maritime Customs to contribute to the expenses as under the old Rules. The sum provided by the Customs under the old Rules was 240,000 taels per annum, but it is not known whether this would be sufficient.\"\n\nDecember 4.-\"The want of a navy having caused China to be ranked below the first-class Powers at the recent Hague Conference, the navy question has again come to the front, and an Imperial Edict was recently issued requiring Chang Chih-tung and Shih Hsu to devise means and setting aside 5,000,000 taels from the Imperial Treasury for the purpose.\n\nAfter consultation with the Army Board and the Board of Finance and Communications, it has been decided to establish a separate Navy Board within the current year, to defray the initial cost by a contribution from each province of 10,000,000 taels in addition to the 5,000,000 taels already found, and to meet the annual expense by a stamp tax and increased passenger fares. Admiral Sa is to be temporarily appointed Acting President of this Board.'\n\nJapanese Buddhists.\n\nNovember 24.\" The Japanese Minister is being gradually brought over to the view of the Wai-wu Pu that the Japanese Buddhist priests in Fukien should be on the footing of travellers, not of missionaries, and should not be allowed to trespass within the proper sphere of the Local Government.\"\n\nDecember 2.-\"The Japanese Minister has requested the Wai-wu Pu that special Regulations may be made for Buddhist missionaries in China.\"\n\nRailways.\n\nNovember 17. Kalgan-Urga Line. The preliminary surveys for the Kalgan-Urga Railway are to be undertaken next spring. The funds required will be found by China proper and Mongolia conjointly.\"\n\nDecember 1. Line in Kansu.\" The Government is very anxious to press forward the construction of a railway between Lanchow and Hsinming in Kansu. The scheme was sanctioned before as a purely commercial concern, but fell through owing to insufficiency\n\nIt is now intended to undertake it as a joint official and commercial business, and corresponding instructions have been sent to the Shen Kan Viceroy.\n\n[2818 bb-1]\n\nof funds.\n\nB\n\n53",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\nNovember 22. Students.----“In consequence of the activity of students in connection with the opposition to railway loans, an Edict has been issued to the effect that students should give their whole attention to their studies and leave politics alone, and commanding the Board of Education to issue the necessary instructions.\"\n\nNovember 27. Footbinding.\"The Empress Dowager is said to intend issuing a prohibitory Edict against footbinding, making it not only an offence punishable as disregard of an Imperial Edict, but also excluding girls, whose feet begin to be bound after the publication of the Edict, from the respectable classes who are eligible for honours.\"\n\nWest River: Suppression of Piracy.\n\nNovember 19.-\"Much indignation is felt in Kuangtung against the Wai-wu Pu for allowing the British to arrest pirates on the West River. Meetings are to be held to consider the matter.\"\n\nNovember 24.-\"An Association for the recovery of national rights which has been formed among the students of Canton has telegraphed to the Wai-wu Pu strongly urging the necessity of recalling the permission to capture pirates on the West River.\"\n\nNovember 26.—“The Cantonese residents in Shanghae have telegraphed to the Wai-wu Pu asking them to oppose permission being granted to foreigners to arrest pirates on the West River. The merchants at Canton are much irritated over the West River question, and are getting up a violent agitation against it.\"\n\nNovember 27.-\"The people of Canton, regarding the policing of the West River by foreigners as detrimental to sovereign rights, telegraphed to the Army Board asking for ships of war to be sent. The Board, being of opinion that there were not sufficient vessels at disposal, took no notice. The provincials are very indignant, and have sent a further telegram offering to pay the expenses of the ships. Ten representatives of the gentry have also telegraphed in very strong terms to the Grand Council.\"\n\nNovember 28.-The Wai-wu Pu have telegraphed to the Viceroy at Canton, on the subject of West River piracy, that the intention of the Government was that the Commissioner of Customs should provide additional steamers to co-operate with the police in arresting pirates, and that there was no other intention. The Board adds that inquiry should be made into the agitation which has been caused by the misrepresentation of their former telegram. The gentry of Canton, however, are resolved to continue their opposition, since they regard it as bad policy to grant the Commissioner of Customs a share of military power.'\n\nSoochow-Ningpo Railway.\n\nDecember 4.-\"The Chekiang Railway Delegate has had an audience lasting three hours. The Empress Dowager explained the railway situation to him in detail. She said that the irresponsible talkers did not know the difficulties encountered by the officials, deprecated the excitement got up among the people of the south-east, and pointed out the terrible consequences of a breach in amicable foreign relations. Lu replied that, while the people of the south-east were loyal and patriotic, yet it was due to the influence of the high authorities there, and to the growing enlightenment of the people, that there had been no serious outbreak during the long course of the present controversy. If the British brought too much pressure to bear in this difficult situation, a serious outbreak might result. \"He did not know what solution the Wai-wu Pu might have to offer, but he thought the best plan would be to command them to make every effort to negotiate a satisfactory settlement with the British Minister. The Empress Dowager said that the British Minister was immovable, and that, while popular feeling must not be offended, international relations were not to be lightly regarded; and she directed him to go into the question fully with Wang Ta-hsieh, bearing in mind both the popular and international aspects of the question.\n\nNanking.\n\nHis Majesty's Consul reported on the 31st October that the closing of the opium dens throughout the city and suburbs was effected without disturbance on the 8th August. It is generally believed that the order was on the whole enforced strictly,\n\nOrder seems to have been restored at Anking, the scene of the assassination of the\n\n3\n\nGovernor in July, and the 700 troops sent there to assist in preserving order returned to Nanking on the 25th September. Two battalions (about 1,000 men) were dispatched on the 1st October to Kanchow-fu, in the south of Kiangsi, in consequence of the Boxer disturbances there.\n\nEducational. The latest proposed addition to the Government educational institutions in Nanking is a \"school of languages,\" in which German and French are to be taught. The services of Dr. Kratsch, Interpreter of the German Consulate, have been engaged for a few hours a day to supervise the school and teach German. It is proposed to look for a teacher of French, but English is omitted from the curriculum on the ground that there are already many opportunities here for studying English.\n\nRailways. At the beginning of October 20 miles of permanent way out of the 44 miles between Chinkiang and Nanking had been completed, and the opening of railway communication between Shanghae and Nanking is confidently expected in February next.\n\nThe route for the light railway to connect the main line with the city has now been selected, and is being staked out. The railway will enter the city at an old gate which has long been closed, but will be reopened for this purpose in defiance of superstition. The gauge is the same as that of the main railway, and the motive power will be steam. One of the British engineers on the Shanghae-Nanking Railway has been engaged by the Viceroy for the construction, and the plant will come from England.\n\nHankow.\n\nSome of the articles in the Hankow press are of interest :-----\n\nOctober 15. River Gun-boats for the Yang-tsze from Japan.--A newspaper states that \"the late Viceroy Chang placed orders through the Mitsui Bushen Kaisha with the Kawasaki Dockyard Company for ten shallow-draught river gun-boats, the contract price being fixed at 5,000,000 taels. The limit of time for completion of the contract and for payment was fixed at six years, and the transaction got Imperial sanction. Of these ten ships, four have already been handed over last winter and this spring, and the Viceroy has managed to pay the instalments, 3,000,000 taels through the Yokohama Specie Bank to the Nagisaki Bank. The dockyard have twice written for a deputy to be sent to accept ships Nos. 5 and 6, which are now ready, but the Acting Viceroy Li, thinking the matter very serious, and acceptance involving payment, intends to await his Excellency Chao's arrival to make permanent provision.\n\n44\n\nThe Hupei fleet now consists of a dozen ships, which are very burdensome to keep up, even though the Japanese sailors and engineers employed on the four already received have been sent home. The present position is an earnest of what will happen in future, and we think his Excellency Chao on arriving will surely devise steps to meet it.\"\n\nBridge over Yellow River at Lanchou, in Kansu.\" At Ho Chou, in Lanchou-fu, Kansu, a floating bridge of boats bound together with chain cables is at present used for crossing the Yellow River, but the officials have condemned this bridge as not permanent and when the river is full liable to collapse. They have therefore ordered materials for a proper iron bridge from the Hupei ironworks, and have also summoned several skilled workmen to Lanchou to supervise the construction of the new bridge. The materials have already got to Changchan, Honan, and all the officials on the route have been asked to assist in forwarding them.\"\n\nJapanese Employés.\" At the Wuchang hemp factory Japanese experts were employed to assist and instruct. The term of their agreement having now expired, and the Chinese women working in the factory having taken so readily and intelligently to the work, twenty-seven men and forty-five women of the Japanese originally employed have been dismissed and have returned to Japan.\n\n\"The factory have only retained the services of six Japanese men.\"\n\nSzechuan-Hankow Railway.\n\nText of representation by Tu, a Secretary of the Board of Finance, regarding the Szechuan-Hankow Railway, which has been laid by the Censorate before the Throne:-\n\n\"This line was the first to attain native control, but after three years not an inch of the track is fixed and nothing definitely arranged. Of nearly 8,000,000 taels collected the pay and work office expenses have run away with 1,600,000 taels and the Copper-piece Bureau has embezzled over 2,000,000 taels. Such horrifying extravagance and peculations have happily been shown up by the Board of Commerce, and the Court's acumen has\n\n54",
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        "content_text": "led to appointment of Secretary Wang to audit the accounts on the spot, and no arts will prevent so skilled a workman from discovering the truth. As the line is now being handed over to business management, it is requisite to review its abuses and its future.\n\n\"The essentials in railway cases are finance and construction. If the money is raised unjustly the people will rise, and if the line is not wisely built the biggest funds will never accomplish the job.\n\n\"Now as to construction. Hu Chun pretends to take the whole matter easily, whereas the Head Director, Ch'iao, found it too serious for him. The whole line- Ichang up to Ch'engtu-comes to 2,600 to 2,700 li, and Hsu-liang reckoned the cost, at only double ordinary track rate, at about 50,000,000 taels. As investigation proves this is far too low, let us consider only the Ichang-Wan-hsien section. This included the Wu-shan gorge, 1,000 li of hill and valley necessitating cuttings and tunnels, so that the Szechuan engineer estimated 100,000 taels, the British over 70,000 taels, and the Japanese over 60,000 taels. Taking the average, this means a total of 70,000,000 to 80,000,000 taels-even if the distance by land is not longer than that by water. As for the time needed for building, the British put this section at ten years. There remain 1,600 or 1,700 li to Chengtu, which section is also not over ordinary ground, which means that the total cost of the line will run over 100,000,000 taels, and that twenty years will pass before completion. As from poverty-stricken Szechuan it has taken three years to wring these 7,000,000 or 8,000,000 taels, it would take thirty years to raise the capital for the Ichang-Wan-hsien section alone. Such a vast scheme, with the interests of the Szechuan people and resources, and the foreign intervention and frontier risks, cannot be lightly undertaken. Besides, the I-Wan section must be completed from both ends before trains can run, and its upkeep be provided for, that is, this vast capital would bring in nothing for a dozen years. Any one with any sense would see that this work can never start, or if started never succeed-which shows what a fool Hu Chun is.\n\n\"The Hukuang Viceroy, knowing the magnitude of the undertaking, proposed joint action, but the Szechuan gentry refused. Then his Excellency suggested each province doing its own portion, but Hu Chun insisted on Szechuan's undertaking all from Ichang westward, and this was assented to, the Hupei part being redeemable after twenty-five years. If either of the original schemes had been adopted after three years there would have been some actual work to show, as each would have started from its end. Last year the Peking officials revived his Excellency Chang's first proposals, but the Szechuan officers were too proud of doing Hupei's work to agree to drop it. And now after another year nothing has happened except expensive building and entertainments and gambling away the deputies' and gentry's salaries. No wonder 1,500,000 taels has been wasted and popular suspicion raised. In the 5th moon Hu Chun wired that the trace was laid down and the surveys completed. Now the gorges section is as great a work as the Suez Canal, and demands an engineer of the highest skill and experience. So last year the Hukuang Viceroy's Memorial pointed out the doubt of possibility of tunnelling the hills, and the Board of Communications suggested the special engagement of first-class Belgian and Norwegian engineers, as no student who had been abroad was equal to such a location survey, and any error might involve throwing away several millions. The pressing needs of the moment are to organize the Company properly according to law and to improve the share-collecting system, to found a bank, combine the provinces, and on the lines of Hunan and Kuangtung's new rules raise the missing capital for financing the whole job. As important is the engagement of first-class foreign engineers to locate the trace anew and then to begin on the I-Wan section from both ends at once, instead of building a cul-de-sac line inland. might get the gentry of both provinces to form one general Company and give up the The Board twenty-five years redemption idea; otherwise, each province attending to its own part, people will not put money into such a piecemeal project as the past three years have shown. The only other method possible is for the Court to appoint a head and let the shareholders decide as to employés and measures, the head, as representative of the gentry and merchants of the two provinces, arranging with the two Viceroys as to funds, surveys, purchase of land, &c. This is what I mean by reforming the scheme of construction.\n\n\"These proposals, which will spare the people's means and facilitate railway affairs, have no light bearing on the general situation, otherwise too many cooks will spoil the broth, and there will be no hope of completing the job.\n\n\"A rescript hands the above to the Board of Communications for consideration and report.\n\n5\n\nSoochow-Ningpo Railway.\n\nThe \"Nan Fang Pao\" of the 6th October discusses the Wai-wu Pu's attempt to force a foreign loan for the Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway. The writer quotes a Japanese as saying that foreign trade in China has at one step changed from an economic to a political question of influence, and thence will change as quickly to a military question, India and Egypt being sad examples to China. \"Such a warning from an outsider we think a disgrace to our rulers and, still worse, a bad omen for the future. India and Egypt perished from the incoming of foreign capital, but also because the treasury was empty, the people impoverished, while tyrannous sovereigns and vile officers shortsightedly welcomed foreign funds to supply their pleasures. If our own resources can be applied to our own industries in abundance, no such reckless and suicidal policy need be adopted, and if only China discourages foreign capital her fate need not be that of India and Egypt. While the people remain sunk in ignorance and no reforms start, a crisis may necessitate foreign aid, but the Canton-Hankow Railway redemption proved our readiness to seize an opportunity to secure lost rights, and, the draft Agreement proving useless, the Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway funds have been got together, survey work completed, when not an ignorant person but a mighty Board, at the threat of outsiders, suddenly would force the gentry and traders of two provinces to raise a foreign loan!\n\n\"Some say that this is due to foreign intrigue. All foreign States try to promote trade by improving communications and getting hold of railway rights. But of late our people are waking up to the danger of foreign-built railways, and projects of resumption are rife, so foreigners have changed offers to finance lines as a blind to their aggressive plans. As the people are not to be duped, the foreigners chose a critical moment for squeezing our incapable Government by threats of armed intervention, or they make diplomatic demands, or use bribes to effect their purpose. Perhaps this explains the present case as it does others.\n\n\"Others ascribe it to the Government's rooted slackness, which neglects all State matters and popular interests for dissipation and private struggles for wealth and rank. The foreigners present demand found them ignorant of law and the particulars of the case and ready to accept any threatening demand. Thus they earn the foreigners' contempt, and will alienate the people while not ready to maintain any administrative act to be unalterable.\n\n\"Others, again, say that this is due to the old ways of each putting responsibility on someone else. Our statesmen, instead of taking their part in vindicating our rights at home and abroad, always disclaim any power to act and seek the easiest present way out of every difficulty, as now they no doubt hope the provinces will not acquiesce, and so will give an excuse to offer to the foreigner.\n\n\"If our statesmen's action on this subject arises from one of the above three causes it is not so very reprehensible; if not, the Wai-wu Pu should not have entered on discussion of foreign exorbitant demands or interfered with the provinces' past action. If the Board professes to be trying to find a compromise to save interest on both sides, it should remember that encouragement of foreign capital being injurious to vital interests of the State, even without the extra burden of security pledged, the result will be to render the completed line of no benefit except to the foreigner, whose claim to interfere with the lives and property of the provinces will be the stronger for the loan. In case of default the result may be ruin to China, as the Japanese says, and as a Government that should be the defence of the people, instead of refuting outsiders, adopt this lowest policy of compromise in regard to the railway, it is certain that when weightier matters than this arise, as they often will, this case will be quoted against the Wai-wu Pu with success, and this is why I see in this case shame to the Government and sorrow for China's future.'\n\nThe Nan Fang Pao\" of the 25th October discusses the forced borrowing for Kiangsu and Chekiang Railways and the permitted rice purchase by Japanese at Wuhu. Yang, of Siangtan, says our Government now is one that shirks its responsibility. Towards foreigners it is a presenting, towards its own people it is a robbing, Government. Mere shirking of responsibility implies being a spectator, but still not disregard for people's lives and property nor the forcible handing of them over to outsiders. But our present Government goes so far as to play jackal to tiger, guide to robber, as though it feared the Powers' own resources would not suffice to extinguish our China nor China's straits to crush our people, and so must hurry on the date of our dismemberment and ruin. Some say of late the Government has been keen on genuine reforms in accordance... \n\n[2818 bb-1]\n\n0\n\n55",
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        "content_text": "6 \n\nwith popular wish; but this is going too far. What puzzle me are the two subjects at the head of this article.\n\n\"As regards the first, the Agreement is cancelled, funds subscribed, work begun, and there is no call for additional foreign money.\n\nYet a loan is forced on the officials and gentry, whose distress is pitiful. As to the rice the Japanese refused in Hunan, turn to the Nanking Viceroyalty. The Viceroy's and Governor's telegrams prove the wrong policy of rescuing a man from a well (referring to a Tso Chuan story of a warrior who hauled his foe out of a well only to be captured by him.-E. H. F.), yet the Government, unheeding, insists on compelling them to satisfy outsiders' boundless wants. Mencius' warning to take notice of general objection is disregarded by this violent adoption of a policy of robbing Peter to pay Paul. Does the Government wish to alienate the people, whose attachment it is hard enough to secure in these times of crisis? Does it want to please outsiders, who need no encouragement in their schemes against us? These things puzzle me.\n\n\"Foreign loans are admissible enough when home funds are short and the people unenlightened; when projected reforms, general or particular, are blocked by want of money, then it may be worth risking the fate of Egypt and India by undertaking monetary burdens in hope of future good to State and people. And such action in face of popular objection may be pardoned if there is no other motive.\n\nBut do any of these considerations apply to the forced railway loan?\n\n\"Relief of distress, charity to neighbours, is indeed a way to cement friendly relations, but we must really have surplus before we help outsiders. Now, the Kiang-huai has year after year been starving, and this year the unfed people died of hunger in the ditches in untold numbers. Does the Government forget, or does it purposely shut its eyes? Moreover, its action is styled charity, but is it charity to let one's own stomach go empty in order to supply the rich? Does the duty of mutual exchange justify forcing what is non-existent into being?\n\nIt is called keeping its word. But does the duty... Ab me! To-day society men pervade capital and provinces, evil folk stupidly plot rebellion, daily spying of blunders by Government to give excuse for stirring general disorder, men of purpose constantly lament that the danger of disunion and debacle is not far off. If the Government schemed for a happy future of peaceful constitutional Government it would base its external and internal policy on popular feeling as ascertained by inquiry. But if its policy is repression, does it want to see how much the people will stand, or does it look on them as mere pawns to be given as presents? If so, Yang's words unhappily apply to it.\"\n\nThe \"Nan Fang Pao\" of the 9th November, under \"Railways and Mining,\" has the following:-\n\n\"Censor Hsu Ting-ch'ao has presented a sealed Memorial regarding the forced loan. He points out that though the Soo-Hang-Ning Preliminary Agreement was made by the British Envoy, Sheng notified by letter its abrogation for delay in starting work, and Governor Chang announced its non-recognition. The other side also recognized that they could not build in time, and acknowledged its abrogation. It is by no means good policy now to lose faith with the people in order to acquiesce in a neighbour State's request, and it is impossible to turn forcibly a commercial into a Government railway. Of late the people have been enthusiastic and shares subscribed reached 30,000,600, but the sudden news that the English money is going to be borrowed to build it has greatly incensed people's feelings, and trouble may be apprehended. But if the Wai-wu Pu are in an utter quandary and cannot retrieve the position, we must treat this loan as a State loan independent of railways, though the two provinces will still have to repay its principal and interest out of railway funds. Thus railway rights will not pass into foreign control. This question is a very serious matter for China, since any compromise over it will probably have a great bearing on the cancelled Hankow-Canton Railway question and on the diplomatic difficulties as to Yunnan and Tonquin,\n\n\"The Wai-wu P'u is, by rescript, bidden to take note of the above.\"\n\nThe \"Universal Gazette\" of the 8th November reports that certain shareholders in the Hunan Railway Company have presented a joint application to the Viceroy to withdraw their subscriptions, on the score of there being no definite date for starting and of the managers having thrown up their responsibilities. The Viceroy, Chao, bade them wait quietly and not set an example which might shake the whole business.\n\nThe same paper says that the Hankow Electric Light and Waterworks Company has applied to be paid the 300,000 dollars promised by his Excellency Chang as Government share in the enterprise, now that all the private capital has been paid in and all arrangements made.\n\nGrand Councillor\n\nThe \"Nan Pao\" of the 10th November: \"Important news. Yuan's maintenance of mistaken views as to borrowing funds.\n\n\"His Excellency Yuan vigorously fathers the loan for the Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway and is quite unmoved by the telegraphic protests from all over China. A very trusted secretary took an opportunity to ask privately his reasons, whereupon his Excellency recounted his views to the following effect: The development of mines and railways is China's most urgent task and admits of no delay. Unluckily it requires a dozen millions, which the utterly impoverished provincials cannot supply. The inevitable delay in Chinese development will not only make outsiders' interference inevitable, but is also bad for China. Moreover, lots of European States attained to wealth and strength only by borrowing for important works as their own funds were insufficient for. Everything depends upon clear limitation of the Concession granted when making agreements, but if sovereign rights are not let slip it does not follow that the mere raising of foreign loans is to be considered a boundless calamity. So I feel bound to support borrowing to develop mines and railways in every province, the Soo-Hang-Ning Railway being only one instance. Now the final scheme in controlling the State must be to have a single object. However much provincial officials and gentry oppose, I'd rather use absolute force than let popular opinion sway me for hope that the overcoming of this obstacle, by preventing any one daring to stand forth in opposition to future loans for similar ends in other provinces, will enable me to answer to myself without shame. Five per cent. discount, which went into the agent's pocket, has been the rule in arranging loans; but my firm determination is not to take a cent, turning the discount into the principal. My sole aim is by saving the people a fraction of State debt to accomplish a fraction more of my duty. As to public right and public wrong, they take a long time to prove; could the animadversions of the present overthrow my fixed policy? From this his entourage perceived that his mind was made up and did not venture to offer any more advice on this subject.\"\n\n0 \n\nو دوران ایران اسلام \n\n56",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nwhere Chinese and foreign merchants might settle for the purposes of trade, and where they might build business premises and godowns for their goods. Outside the limits of this port everything is under \"nei ti\" Regulations. There is no objection to the merchant, Edwards, coming to Nanning and establishing his agency for the import and export of goods, but the \"port\" is outside the Hsia Kuo Street, and the Chih Jung piece-goods shop in Sha Street is a place in the interior of China. I must therefore ask you to inform the merchant in question that he must select his premises within the limits of the \"port.\" In the meantime, he can only reside temporarily at the Chih Jung piece-goods shop, and it is against the Regulations to make this a branch office. I am therefore unable to grant my permission, and have so informed the Commissioner of Customs.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Viceroy Chang.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nCanton, December 4, 1907. SOME time ago I addressed a letter to the Superintendent of Customs at Nanning stating that the British merchant, Mr. Edwards and Co., was opening a branch office under the style of Hung Hsing Ho, in Sha Street, in the city of Nanning.\n\nIn his reply, copy of which I inclose, the Superintendent, according to my interpretation of his letter, states that Nanning city, being outside the \"foreign Settlement,\" is the \"interior of China,\" and that foreign merchants can only trade in the Settlement area.\n\nI have the honour to point out that Nanning was first declared a Treaty port by an Agreement between Sir Claude MacDonald and the Tsung-li Yamên in 1899, and was actually opened to foreign trade at the beginning of this year 1907. It follows then that to describe the city of Nanning as \"nei ti\" is entirely contrary to the intention of opening Nanning as a Treaty port. I had the honour on several occasions to inform his Excellency Chou that, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, the term “open port,\" no matter in what way the port may have been opened, must be held to include the city with its suburbs, the waterway giving access thereto, and any roads connecting it with the waterway. Moreover, throughout my long residence in China, I have never heard that the city of an open port could be considered as \"nei ti.\"\n\nA Memorandum on this subject was handed by me in the fourth moon to Mr. Secretary Lo for transmission to his Excellency Chou.\n\nUnder these circumstances I feel confident that your Excellency will agree that the establishment of Mr. Edwards' branch office is in accordance with Treaty and immemorial custom, and I have the honour to request that you will lose no time in instructing the Nanning Superintendent to that effect.\n\n(Translation.) Sir,\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nViceroy Chang to Consul-General Mansfield.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of the 4th instant,\n\nCanton, December 15, 1907. stating that a British merchant named Edwards desires to open a branch office in Sha Street within the city of Nanning, but that the Nanning Taotai refuses his permission on the ground that foreign merchants must confine themselves to the area opened to trade. You add that this is entirely contrary to the intention with which Nanning was opened as a Treaty port, and inclose a copy of the Taotai's letter.\n\nIn reply I have the honour to inform you that in section 1 of Part I of the Nanning Port Regulations it is stated that Nanning is, under the Imperial sanction, a self-opened port, and that the conditions of trade there are different to those prevailing at the ordinary Treaty ports. By the same section Chinese and foreign merchants are permitted to rent land and reside within the area which has been marked out as a Settlement, but no foreigner is allowed to have any voice in the\n\n3\n\nadministration thereof. Section 1 of Part II of the same Regulations defines the position and limits of trade area, viz.:—\n\n\"Outside the city of Nanning at the place called Hsia Kuo Street. On the west it is bounded by the middle of the river; on the east by the foot of the old city wall; on the south by the old city tower, now known as the Ssu Hsiang Kung temple; and on the north by the I Chin Fang main thoroughfare. The foregoing boundaries, which are indicated by boundary stones specially erected for the purpose, constitute the limits of the area opened to international trade, and everything outside them is subject, as heretofore, to the laws governing \"nei ti,\" or interior China.\"\n\nIn November 1906, Sir John Jordan, the British Minister at Peking, informed the Wai-wu Pu that he objected to the section cited above, as it was evidently intended to hamper foreign trade, and he asked the Wai-wu Pu to have it amended. The Wai-wu Pu replied that Nanning was a self-opened port; that the local authorities were the proper persons to determine the conditions of trade there; and that, as regards the marking out of a Settlement, it was from the beginning regarded as a necessary condition to the opening of Nanning that a place should be designated where Chinese and foreign merchants might congregate for the purposes of trade; and that the intention in doing so was expressly to attract merchants of all nationalities. A similar communication was at the same time sent to Canton by the Wai-wu Pu.\n\nThe limits of the port have thus been clearly defined from the beginning, and a foreign merchant desiring to establish a place of business there must do so within the defined area, and I am unable to allow the Regulations to be disregarded. The Taotai's reply is quite in consonance with the views of the Wai-wu Pu, and I see nothing in it to which exception can be taken. I have therefore the honour to request you to instruct the British merchant in question to obey the Regulations.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Prince Ch'ing.\n\nPeking, January 4, 1908. IN your Highness' note of the 11th June, 1907, regarding the Regulations issued by the Chinese authorities in connection with the opening of Nanning to foreign trade, I was informed that a communication had been addressed to the Canton Viceroy and the Governor of Kiangsi to investigate the circumstances and give due consideration to these Regulations so as to make satisfactory arrangements as occasion arises.\n\nI had hopes from this reply that the Regulations in question would be modified in the interests of trade and in accordance with the principles laid down by Treaty in reference to ports open to foreign trade. But it will be seen from the correspondence which has recently passed between His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton and the provincial authorities, copies of which I have the honour to inclose, that the city of Nanning is still held to be in \"the interior.\"\n\nWhile it is the case that the Tsung-li Yamên notified Sir C. MacDonald on the 3rd February, 1899, that Nanning should be opened as a port of international trade in a similar way to Yochow, Ch'in Wang Tao, and San-tu-ao, it was certainly never contemplated by His Majesty's Government that this formula implied merely the opening of a suburb outside the city walls. The expression \"Nanning\" evidently meant the city of that name, and the fact of its being opened to foreign trade \"in a similar way to Yochow, Chin Wang Tao,\" &c., only signified that it was not opened under Treaty provision, but by special Decree.\n\nI have already had the honour to inform your Highness that no matter how a port is opened to foreign trade, His Majesty's Government maintain that the conditions should be the same as at ports opened under Treaty. These conditions have been proved by experience to be favourable to trade, while the restrictions which have been imposed by the Chinese Government at Chinan-fu, for example, have prevented commercial development. It appears, therefore, inexplicable in the interests of trade why the provincial authorities should insist on pursuing a policy which renders the opening of such places inoperative.\n\nThe negotiations for the opening of Nanning were conducted between your Highness and Sir C. 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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\n152\n\n6\n\n44\n\nYung-t'ou.\"\n\nA little-known fruit called the \"yang t'ou\" grows wild in the mountains, the size of a small apple, has a rough brown skin, and a peculiar flavour resembling both the strawberry and gooseberry. It is palatable and very refreshing. I am informed it was introduced into England a few years ago as an ornamental tree, and is doing well.\n\nOpium.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[6480]\n\nSmall quantities of opium are produced in some places. We saw the Anti-Opium Regulations posted in one village, but no measures seem to have been taken to enforce them. Some peasants said they were replacing opium with wheat and millet, while others were preparing ground for next year's crop. A few cases of opium-smoking came under my notice in different localities.\n\nInhabitants, Inns, &c.\n\nThe people everywhere were very friendly and did not show that troublesome curiosity which is so trying to the patience of most travellers in this country, although for several days we were altogether off the beaten track and foreigners had not been seen more than once or twice before. The standard of living seemed up to the general level in country districts, and whilst there were few signs of wealth, there were also few or none of destitution. The houses were built of mud, and but few stone buildings were seen outside the bigger valleys. In the more elevated parts, Indian corn is the principal food. The peasants for the most part own the land they till, and hired labourers are not numerous. The wages of the latter are about 2s. a month with food and lodging.\n\nAs everywhere in China, the inns are very poor, resembling a fuel-house or coal-shed rather than a dwelling-place. Many of them have no \"kang\" (raised floor for lying on), so that a camp-bed must be carried, as well as all provisions, &c., practically nothing that foreigners require being procurable en route.\n\nAn itinerary is attached.\n\nDecember 16, 1907.\n\n(Signed)\n\nH. A. LITTLE.\n\nRemarks.\n\nItinerary.\n\nDistance.\n\nLi.\n\nShili-tou Ya\n\n60\n\nMain road to Shib-nan Fu. Good.\n\nKun-tzu Ling\n\n60\n\n31\n\nHo-chia Fing\n\n35\n\nGood; then broken, long, steep slope.\n\nKuan Pao\n\n50\n\n40\n\nLan Ping.\n\n40\n\nLong slope; fairly good. Precipitous.\n\nPa Tzu\n\nilo-chia Ping\n\n25\n\n(And thence as above.)\n\nPa-ko Mino\n\nSide road. Very steep.\n\nMain road. Good at first, then very steep.\n\nFairly good.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nTREE\n\nSECTION\n\n10573\n\n[Library 24.]\n\nMAR 08\n\nAdmiralty to Foreign Office. (Received February 24.)\n\nAdmiralty, February 22, 1908.\n\nSir,\n\nI am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit herewith, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a letter, dated the 26th December, which has been received through the Commander-in-Chief, China, from the Commanding Officer, His Majesty's ship \"Widgeon,\" respecting Chinese proposals for building shallow-draught craft for use on the Upper Yang-tsze.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nC. I. THOMAS.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\n(Signed)\n\nLieutenant Commander Knox to Admiral Sir A. Moore.\n\n\"Widgeon,\" at Ichang, December 26, 1907.\n\nI have the honour to report that Mr. H. H. Bristow, late His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Chung King, who passed through this port on the 24th December on his way to Shanghae and England, gave me the following information concerning the building, &c., of steam-craft for the Chinese for service on the Upper Yang-tsze:--\n\nThe Provincial authorities at Cheng-tu have decided to place on the river two small shallow-draught steamers for the purpose of carrying cargo, &c. One of the craft is, I believe, to be a tug.\n\nMr. S. C. Plant, pilot to the French, has been asked by the Chinese authorities to supervise the running of and to conduct the management of these steamers. Mr. Plant, whose engagement with the French does not expire for another two years, has not yet accepted the proposal of the Chinese. As soon as the agreement is arrived at with Mr. Plant, the Chinese state they will immediately place the order for these vessels with Messrs. Yarrow and Co., and will utilize them on the river and lakes below Ichang until Mr. Plant's agreement with the French expires.\n\nMr. Bristow also informed me that he had heard on reliable authority that Messrs. Yarrow and Co. had refused an order from the French Government to construct a shallow-draught gun-boat after the type of His Majesty's ship \"Widgeon,\" though he was unable to state for what reason this vessel was intended for service on the Upper Yang-tsze.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) JOHN F. KNOX.\n\n[2846 aa-\n\n-11\n\nTime occupied on journey nearly fourteen days. Weather fine and warm, but cold at night for first ten days; then heavy fall of rain and showery weather.\n\n0",
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        "content_text": "(Telegraphic.)\n\n4\n\n(4.)\n\nBritish and Chinese Corporation to Mr. Bland.\n\nLondon, February 22, 1908. Hankow-Canton Railway. Telegram of the 17th February received; will reply as soon as possible. The Board is consulting the Foreign Office and French group.\n\n(5.)\n\nMemorandum of Interview of Messrs. Addis and Simon at the Ministry of Finance with M. Caillaux.\n\nA telegram from Mr. Bland, dated Peking, the 17th February, is read as follows: \"Hankow-Canton Railway, northern section. Chang Chih Tung offers to negotiate a loan for; asks definite proposal.\n\n\"I am of opinion can arrange favourable terms for loan with experimental section built by contract.\n\nChang Chih Tung, while recognizing priority British option, and indifferent as to sources of capital, are opposed to negotiations for, which would involve direct French interest, and particularly are opposed to any stipulation having regard to provision for materials.\n\n\"\n\nFinally intimates if the British do not come to terms he will entertain proposal from Germany. This is very urgent. I recommend the Foreign Office should intimate to the French Government no possibility of Anglo-French successfully competing for under restrictions imposed by French Government.\n\n\"See my letter the 3rd October jointly M. Casenave to the Chinese Central Railways (Limited). Is this correct if he can?\n\nFor your confidential information, I understand that the French banks share these opinions.\"\n\nIt was agreed that the British group be authorized to telegraph to Mr. Bland to negotiate by himself the conditions of the Hankow-Canton Loan and to sign the Agreement on behalf of the British and Chinese Corporation alone.\n\nIt is understood that the Chinese Government will consent to a postscriptum or a supplementary clause stating that the French group should be admitted to a half-participation in the loan.\n\nIt was proposed that the French and English groups should combine to negotiate, if the Chinese Government should so request, either together or separately, a loan for the redemption of the Hankow-Peking Loan, and that the French should occupy the same position in the Hankow-Peking Agreement as shall be occupied by the English group in the Hankow-Canton Agreement.\n\nAfter some discussion it was decided that this last matter might be left for settlement to the respective Governments of France and England.\n\n5\n\nIf the French partners cannot accept Chinese offer owing to policy of French Government, assume that the British and Chinese Corporation at liberty to, after due notice to proceed on our account, otherwise likely to lose the business.\n\n(7.)\n\nDraft Telegram from British and Chinese Corporation to Mr. Bland.\n\nReferring to your telegram of the 17th, we have seen French group. They agree to authorize you to negotiate and sign Agreement on behalf of British and Chinese Corporation alone.\n\nWe understand from French that the Chinese Government will not object to postscript or supplementary clause stating that French group has been admitted by us to half-participation in loan.\n\nWith regard to terms, do your best. We suggest price only 92, as there is no share profits, commission materials 5 per cent., or commuted in proportion to.\n\nSecurity will be provincial revenues.\n\nKeep finance and construction contract separate.\n\nTelegram of the 25th received.\n\nInform British Minister.\n\nWe presume\n\nParis, February 24, 1908.\n\n(6.)\n\n(Signed)\n\nC. S. ADDIS.\n\nH. SIMON.\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\nMr. Bland to British and Chinese Corporation.\n\nReferring to my telegram of the 17th, Chinese do not oppose French representation\n\nPeking, February 25, 1908. in the impending negotiations re northern section of Hankow-Canton Railway.\n\nI propose with M. Casenave quietly discuss it with Liang Taotai for the purpose of ascertaining Chang Chih Tung's ideas.\n\nFor your confidential information, the British Minister informed me the French Government impracticable terms and conditions,\n\n253",
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        "content_text": "The chief points which have given rise to discussion and debate between the negotiating parties are as follows:--\n\n1. Doubt as to the area referred to in the above Article.\n\nThe Japanese negotiators maintain that the area is the entire basin of the Yalu, while the Chinese contention is that the chief tributary of the Yalu—known as the Hunchiang—is not included, and that only certain portions of the Yalu Valley come within the meaning of the Article.\n\nThe Japanese reply to this argument that it is illogical, for if one tributary is to be excluded, why not others? and if other tributaries are to be excluded, why not all? and if all tributaries are to be excluded, and only the country immediately bordering the actual course of the Yalu to be included, then Article 10 is a farce, since there are no forests worth mentioning within the tract of country immediately fringing the Yalu River channel.\n\nThe question of the inclusion or exclusion of the Hun River is a very crucial one, for the valley of that tributary contains half of the whole forests, and that half is the most accessible. The Company exploiting the rest of the Yalu could not, therefore, hope to compete with a Company exploiting the Hunchiang.\n\nMinister Hayashi therefore insisted from the first that the sphere of operations of the Joint Company should include the entire area of the Yalu from Maoerhshan upwards to No. 24 district, and also all the forests of the valley of the Hunchiang from Tung-huahsien upwards, including the belt lying between the main channel of those rivers and the head-waters of their tributaries. This includes all the forests practically in the basin of the Yalu, and it is to this definition of the area that the Japanese Government persistently hold.\n\nThe Chinese Government limited the area in the first instance to only five districts, viz., Nos. 19 to 23.\n\nNegotiations were broken off, but again renewed when Mr. Abe, Chargé d'Affaires, took the place of Mr. Hayashi, but again no understanding could be arrived at.\n\nAgain, in July 1907, negotiations were opened for the third time, and the Chinese made the concession that five more districts, namely, Nos. 14 to 18, should be included. Subsequently it was announced in the “Anto Shimpo,” the local Japanese newspaper, on the 17th October that his Excellency Natung and Mr. Abe, the Japanese Chargé d'Affaires, had further discussed the matter, with the following result:---\n\nThe Japanese still maintained their original position.\n\nThe Chinese said that the sphere of operations should include the Yalu River from Maoerhshan upwards to district No. 24, embracing a belt extending inwards 20 miles from the bank of the river. The entire Hun River, they maintained, should still be excluded.\n\nThis concession the Japanese considered of little value owing to the narrow width of the belt to which the Chinese limited the sphere of operations.\n\nMajor-General Kojima, Director of the local Japanese Timber Bureau, informed me on the 18th instant that no solution of the question had yet been arrived at, as the Chinese still insisted on the exclusion of the Hunchiang from the area of exploitation.\n\nIn the absence of a map accompanying this Report, the following explanation may serve to indicate the geography of the region referred to:--\n\nThe River Hun is the main tributary of the Yalu on the right or Chinese side, as shown on any good map of the Yalu Basin, and the district town of Tunghuahsien is situated on the Hun River at the point where the road from Mukden to Maoerhshan intersects the river.\n\nMaoerhshan is situated south of the Chang Pai Shan (Long White Mountains) at the point where the Yalu makes its main decided bend in a southerly direction.\n\nBoth these places and the whole region referred to can be clearly seen by reference to the map to be found in the book by Mr. (now Sir Alexander) Hosie entitled \"Manchuria.\"\n\nThe first district is immediately above Maoerhshan, and the last or 24th district is the farthest and nearest to the sources of the Yalu River.\n\n2. Disagreement as to length of time for which the Company is to work. This question turns on the meaning to be attached to the Japanese and Chinese terms rendered in English \"exploitation.\"\n\nThe Japanese maintain that \"exploitation\" means complete and permanent development of the timber resources, while the Chinese interpret the meaning as applicable only to the timber actually in existence at the time of the signing of the Agreement.\n\nThe Chinese therefore proposed that an estimate of the number of trees ready for felling at that time be made, and that a calculation then be made as to the time which it would take to fell these trees, and that the time so calculated should be the term of exploitation.\n\nIn the first instance they therefore proposed to limit the time to seventeen years, which they subsequently extended to twenty.\n\nThe Japanese insist on the principle that exploitation includes reforestation, and, while not wishing to argue about the exact length of time, feel confident that the advantages of reforestation will, as a matter of course, commend themselves to the Chinese, and so the question will settle itself automatically by the Chinese eventually withdrawing their objections. The Japanese have, I understand, actually suggested a period of ninety years.\n\nRegarding the question of the time limit it is believed that an arrangement has been reached. What is the nature of the agreement on this point has not been made public, but it is supposed that the Japanese demand for a prolonged term has been acceded to.\n\n3. The question of the amount of capital necessary for the organization of the Company admitted also of considerable differences of opinion.\n\nThe Japanese view of the question was that the capital should be entirely official and that no shares should be issued to individual persons, and to this the Chinese appear to have agreed.\n\nThe Japanese negotiators held that the Japanese and Chinese Governments should contribute in equal parts. The Chinese Government, however, would borrow its share from the Japanese Government at a rate of interest which would be 6 or 7 per cent. per annum.\n\nIt was anticipated by the Japanese that a capital of some 4,000,000 to 8,000,000 gold yen would be sufficient for the purpose.\n\nAs a result of subsequent negotiations it is understood that the Japanese now propose a joint capital of 2,500,000 gold yen.\n\n4. The question of the division of the profits.\n\nThe Japanese Government proposed that the division of the profits should be equal, in proportion to the amount of capital subscribed, but the Chinese view was that the Chinese Government should be entitled to a special appointment of 15 per cent. of the net profits, after which the remainder should be divided between the two Governments according to the amount of capital contributed by each.\n\n5. The question of the officials and employés of the Company has also raised considerable controversy.\n\nThe Japanese negotiators started from the ground that the Company would necessarily be worked by a majority of Japanese officials, as the Chinese were incapacitated by their lack of scientific knowledge and training in forestry from filling the higher positions. The only responsible positions that could be held by the Chinese would be those in the Sales Department, and even here a large proportion would be Japanese.\n\nThe employés, including the cutters and raftsmen, would consist of both Japanese and Chinese, with the former, however, in most cases as foremen.\n\nThe Chinese demanded that 70 per cent. of the officials should be Chinese, but subsequently conceded that the Company's officials should consist equally of the subjects of both countries.\n\nThe local press stated in October that the Japanese Government then proposed that the president of the Company should be a Chinese and the business manager a Japanese.\n\nTo this the Chinese objected, and held that there should be one president, who should be Chinese, and two business managers, one of whom should be Chinese and the other Japanese.\n\nThe Japanese Government objected to this on the ground that the appointment of two business managers would lead to a conflict of authority in the control of the affairs of the Company.\n\nPage 319",
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        "content_text": "$222. \"KING ALFRED\" AT HONGKONG, January 25th, 1903. 335\n\nSir:-\n\nWith reference to my letter No.222 of the 20th instant forwarding for Your Excellency's information copy of a letter addressed by me to His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton, relative to the withdrawal of the augmented British patrol from the West River and Canton Delta, I have the honour to inform Your Excellency in continuation, that on the 23rd Instant Mr. Mansfield accompanied by Commander Majendie of His Majesty's Ship \"Cadmus\", had an interview with His Excellency Viceroy Chang-jen-chun at Canton, the result of which Commander Majendie informs me was very satisfactory, His Excellency giving assurances on the four points referred to in paragraph 2 of my letter to the Consul-General above quoted, his attitude at the interview being very friendly.\n\nI have therefore carried out the promise I made to J. N. Jordan, K.C.M.G., &c., &c.",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nempowered to make any reduction. Moreover, that the other claims could not be ignored. A long discussion followed during which, although he at last assented to paying compensation to the injured persons, he set his face against any payment to the ship, crew, or passengers. I then pointed out that I could not be content with his proposal, that the settlement of the case was very urgent, and that I had been informed by the Admiral that, failing immediate payment of the claim, he must telegraph to the Admiralty for instructions as to further steps to be taken. He still appeared recalcitrant and after informing him that further discussion appeared useless and that I could only inform the Admiral that I was unable to arrive at a satisfactory settlement, I left,\n\nThe next morning I received a visit from Taotais Wen and Wei, the Viceroy's Secretaries. They stated that his Excellency was very desirous of a settlement and was prepared to pay the whole claim for Mrs. Macdonald and the other injured persons, but objected on principle to pay the other claims. I told them His Majesty's Government had limited the ship's claim to actual losses, though it could not be denied that their passenger traffic had suffered as a consequence of the piracy. I could not, therefore, consent to any reduction of their claim, which was strictly moderate. The question of the claim of passengers and crew then came up and they said that there had been very strong suspicion in many cases of piracy that the Chinese on board the vessels had been in collusion with the pirates, and that the Viceroy considered it would create a dangerous precedent if the Chinese employed in ships and launches should think they might connive at piracy and yet reap a further profit by getting compensated for their alleged losses. This charge of connivance on the part of the crew, I have little doubt is true in certain cases. A good deal of discussion followed and eventually, finding that these claims only totalled some 5,000 dollars odd and that the total amount offered was, owing to the fact that I had insisted on Mrs. Macdonald's indemnity being paid as sterling rates, and that exchange had since dropped, more than the 85,000 dollars I had originally claimed, I consented to accept a lump sum of 86,477 dol. 77 c., which has now been paid to me. I drew up an Agreement, of which I enclose a copy; Messrs. Wen and Wei are thoroughly acquainted with English, so the document may be considered as binding for a precedent. I also enclose copy of a despatch from the Viceroy announcing the settlement, and I trust that you will consider that the wording of it, which I have been at some pains to get altered to my satisfaction, may meet with your approval. Copy of my reply follows later.\n\nI feel some diffidence as to the apportionment of the indemnity among the claimants, and would ask your approval by telegraph, if possible, of the following modifications of the claims as given in my despatch No. 14 of the 5th April, 1907:—\n\n  \n    Mrs. Macdonald\n    Dollars.\n    58,076.77\n  \n  \n    Captain Joslin\n    \n    12,000\n  \n  \n    Engineer Seggie\n    \n    3,000\n  \n  \n    Khan Mahommed\n    \n    2,200\n  \n  \n    Ali Akbar..\n    \n    600\n  \n  \n    Sherif Bullah\n    \n    400\n  \n  \n    Half Chinese crew and passengers\n    \n    3,792\n  \n  \n    Owners' claim\n    \n    6,409\n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n    86,477.77\n  \n\nI do not think any injustice will be done in reducing the claims of the Chinese crew and passengers by one-half. It has, of course, been impossible to verify the items, which in many instances appeared exaggerated or even fictitious. On general principles, experience shows that in Chinese claims of this kind which cannot be supported by evidence, a reduction of one-half is not excessive, and the remaining half would not be enough to put a premium on complicity.\n\nMrs. Macdonald's share is not, it is true, at the present low exchange, so much as the 6,000l. estimated by the Foreign Office. It amounts, roughly speaking, to 5,500l. I propose to telegraph a small sum to her for present necessities and communicate with her as to the disposal of the rest. A rise in exchange to a little over 2s. would make up the deficiency.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\n3\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n\"Suinam\" Piracy Case Agreement.\n\nIT is hereby agreed that His Excellency the Viceroy of the Two Kwang will pay to His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General the sums of 6,000l. and 17,790 taels, being the sum allowed as compensation to the sufferers by the piracy of the British steam-ship \"Sainam\" on the 13th July, 1906.\n\nIt is further agreed that as soon as Brigadier-General Li Chun is in a position to take effective charge of the various sections of the waterways now patrolled by the British ships, such ships will be withdrawn section by section, until the present increased patrol by the British ships is entirely withdrawn.\n\n(On behalf of his Excellency Chang, Viceroy of the Two Kwang), (Signed) H. WEI.\n\nCanton, January 4, 1908.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nSir,\n\nWEN TSUNG-YAO,\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD,\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Consul-General.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nViceroy Chang to Consul-General Mansfield.\n\nCanton, January 9, 1908. I CONSENT to the agreement come to between Taotais Wei and Wen of the Foreign Bureau and yourself with regard to the amount of the compassionate allowance to be paid on account of the piracy of the \"Sainam\" and the withdrawal of the British war-ships-\n\n1. It is mutually agreed with reference to the piracy of the steam-ship \"Sainam\" on the 22nd day, 5th moon, 32nd year of Kwang Hsü, i.e., the 13th July, 1906, that a compassionate allowance of 62,264 taels be paid for Dr. Macdonald and others.\n\n2. It is mutually agreed that as soon as Brigadier Li Chun has taken over, section by section, the waterways now patrolled by the British ships, the latter will, section by section, be withdrawn, i.e., the entire number of those recently added.\n\nI must, therefore, ask you to request the British Admiral to speedily withdraw the patrol-ships as agreed.\n\nBrigadier-General Li Chun has been intrusted, after memorializing the throne, with the duty of suppressing piracy on the West River; he must be strictly enjoined not to be remiss, but to look after everything with the greatest care.\n\nThere is no great difficulty in arresting pirates found afloat (in their own vessels); but it will not be easy to exterminate the pirates who pretend to be passengers and conceal themselves on board launches, without periodic examinations carried out on board. The action of the British war-vessels on the West River in ordering vessels flying the British flag to stop, and searching them, is clearly with this object. I have now ordered the local officials to make careful investigations at the various places where launches take up or set down passengers, and have instructed the gun-boats along the routes from time to time to pick out and search them; and British trading-vessels must be ordered to stop and permit an examination to be held, with a view to finding out whether, among the passengers embarking at the starting places or those joining en route, there may be pirates on board disguised as passengers. The masters must give the utmost assistance, so as to avoid any inefficiency of protection.\n\nThe above particulars have, according to Taotais Wei and Wen, been discussed between you and them, and Brigadier-General Li Chun has arranged a satisfactory scheme with you, so that these proposals can be adopted. I must, therefore, ask you to reply at an early date and act accordingly, and to formally close the \"Sainam\" case,\n\nCompliments.\n\nInclosed, 62,264 taels, entire compassionate allowance for the \"Sainam\" case.\n\nPage 356",
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        "content_text": "C.O.\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 3.) Sir,\n\nCanton, January 18, 1908. REFERRING to my despatch No. 2 of the 14th instant with regard to the settlement of the “Sainam\" piracy claims, I have now the honour to inclose in English and Chinese, copy of my despatch in reply to the Viceroy acknowledging the payment of the amount agreed on. I think I have made it clear that, although the term \"compassionate allowance\" is used in Chinese, it includes indemnity to the ship.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1,\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Viceroy Chang.\n\nCanton, January 10, 1908. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of the 9th instant on the subject of the compensation to the sufferers by the \"Sainam\" piracy.\n\nAt an interview on the 3rd instant with Taotai Wei Hun and Tantai Wen Tsung-yao it was agreed that compensation to the sufferers should be paid as follows:---\n\n  \n    To the family of Dr. Macdonald\n    Dollars.\n    61,768.77\n  \n  \n    To Captain Joslin and the other injured persons..\n    \n    18,300\n  \n  \n    To the owners of the \"Sainam\n    \n    6,400\n  \n  \n    Making in all a sum of\n    \n    86,477.77 dollars or 62,264 taels,\n  \n\nthe receipt of which sum, inclosed in your despatch, I have the honour to acknowledge with thanks.\n\nIt was further agreed that the increased British patrol should be withdrawn, section by section, as Admiral Li Chun was prepared to take effective charge of each section. Any details with regard to the proper control of British launches, I shall always be prepared to discuss in a friendly spirit with Admiral Li Chun.\n\nI trust you will, therefore, close the \"Sainam \" piracy case.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[9698]\n\n(No. 68.)\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[March 21.]\n\nSECTION 5.\n\nXCPR(08)357\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 21.)\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, February 5, 1908. WITH reference to your telegram No. 62 of the 7th June and my despatch No. 287 of the 12th June, 1907, regarding the question of reintroducing the use of the bamboo as a punishment in the Mixed Court at Shanghae, I have the honour to inclose a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Consul-General, transmitting copy of a letter upon this from the Chairman of the Shanghae Municipal Council to the Senior Consul subject.\n\nI also have the honour to inclose a copy of the Circular issued by the Doyen of the Diplomatic Body on the 27th January, communicating this appeal to the Foreign Representatives.\n\nIt will be observed that Sir Pelham Warren fully indorses the arguments of the Municipal Council in favour of the proposed step, and I have no doubt that the increase of crime in the Settlement is due to the greater leniency in methods of punishment. But I felt quite convinced that it would not be the wish of His Majesty's Government to associate themselves with any direct initiative in urging upon the Wai-wu Pu the reintroduction of corporal punishment in the Mixed Court, and that this was a question which can only be solved satisfactorily by the force of local public opinion, foreign, and Chinese.\n\nThe Doyen of the Diplomatic Body (the Netherland Minister), as will be seen, has expressed himself in favour of carrying out the wishes of the Municipal Council, and other colleagues will doubtless share his view. I understand, however, that the American Chargé d'Affaires has expressed himself in harmony with my opinion.\n\nIt is possible that a solution may be found in the amendment of the Mixed Court Rules, the draft of which still lies in the hands of the Chinese Government, and which the pressure of other work has lately prevented me from urging upon their attention.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n(Signed)\n\nI avail, &c. (Signed)\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\nInclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nAdmiral Sir A. Moore to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nSir,\n\n\"King Alfred,\" at Hong Kong, January 20, 1908. WITH reference to my telegram of yesterday's date, I have the honour to forward herewith, for your Excellency's information, copy of a letter which I have forwarded to His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton, relative to the withdrawal of the augmented British patrol from the West River and Canton Delta.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nInclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nA. W. MOORE.\n\nAdmiral Sir A. Moore to Consul-General Mansfield, January 20, 1908.\n\n[Already printed.]\n\n(No. 10.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Sir P. Warren to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nShanghae, January 21, 1908. I HAVE the honour to inclose herewith a copy of a letter addressed on the 10th instant to the Senior Consul by the Chairman of the Shanghae Municipal Council, again urging the desirability of the reintroduction of the bamboo at the Mixed Court.\n\nA previous letter from the Council on the same subject was forwarded to you with the Minutes of the Consular Meeting at which it was produced on the 29th April last, and on the 21st May I transmitted to you a Memorandum on the increase of crime in the Settlements by the British, American, and German assessors.\n\nI can thoroughly indorse the arguments used by the Chairman of the Council in support of his contention. In the native city adjoining the Settlements, as in other parts of China, not only is the bamboo in common use as a means of punishment, but it is also freely employed to extract evidence from unwilling and recalcitrant witnesses. is not surprising, therefore, that the habitual criminal who dreads the bamboo far more than he does any other form of punishment, has found the Settlements of late a most congenial field for its depredations. The accommodation for prisoners, greatly as it has been increased of recent years, is no longer sufficient for the requirements of justice, and the Council must now face the burden of building a new gaol to meet an increase of crime which, owing to the abolition of blows as punishment, is totally out of proportion to the increase in the population under their control.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) PELHAM L. WARREN,\n\n[2895 - -5]",
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        "content_text": "7\n\nuse as coolies. As a result of these quarrels some rather badly-wounded men have been treated in the Mission Hospital.\n\nSwatow.\n\nState of the District.--Normal conditions prevailed throughout the district during the last few months of 1907. Local disturbances were comparatively few and insignificant. The outlook should, therefore, be peaceful, but the provincial and local authorities seem to be in a nervous condition and every trifling disturbance in the interior, for which the southern part of China is noted, is at once ascribed to the machinations of the revolutionary party. The greatest vigilance is being shown in the search for contraband which persistent rumours declare is being freely smuggled into the district from Hong Kong and Macao.\n\nThe Maritime Customs have received special orders on the subject and certain suspected vessels have been thoroughly searched, but in no case have any seizures been made. Search has also been made for depots of arms alleged to exist in the hills along the coast, but with no result. Whether there is really any foundation for these rumours it is impossible to say, but it seems quite clear that there is an attempt to get up an excitement, The usual explanation is that the revolutionary party are at the bottom of it all, but this seems hardly likely as it cannot be to their interest that too much attention should be drawn to their proceedings. It may probably be due to a confused idea that \"something is going to happen\" in this part of the world; everyone is on the look-out and all sorts of rumours, however widely improbable, are readily believed and passed on from one native to another.\n\nNingpo.\n\nAgitation against Foreign Railway Loan.-During the months of November there was considerable agitation over the railway loan and many meetings were held in Ningpo to protest against it. It soon became evident, however, that the agitation was being fomented by a few interested parties, and that the bulk of the people took very little interest in the movement. Its chief supporters were the pupils of the numerous colleges and schools of foreign education established lately at Ningpo and most of them were boys. A few of the bankers and merchants also took up the matter and issued shares with a view to assisting in obtaining the necessary capital for the Chinese to construct the line themselves. These shares were of the value of 50 dollars each, but fractional shares of 5 dollars were also issued so that the poorer classes might be able to contribute. In spite of a house to house canvass to induce people to take up these shares the people do not seem to have been much taken with the scheme. The leaders of the agitation have been very careful to warn their followers from any acts of violence to which foreigners could take exception knowing that they would be held responsible in the event of any trouble arising. The district has been perfectly quiet therefore during the agitation, and missionaries travelling about have reported that they have noticed no difference in the usual civil demeanour of the people toward them. The excitement has been gradually dying away and nothing is now being done publicly in the matter.\n\nTrouble at Chang Hsien-Owing to a renewed attempt by the officials to arrest certain members of a secret society, who, after a fight in the spring of 1907, had escaped to the hills, but whom cold and wet weather had driven back to the city, there was considerable excitement at Chang Hsien at the end of November. In the fight an officer and four or five soldiers were killed. Upon reinforcements being sent from Ningpo and Hangchou the officials were successful in driving the men back to the hills with some loss. While the affair was taking place all business was suspended, and many of the inhabitants fled. The matter had no connection with the railway loan.\n\nPeking.\n\nThe following extracts from recent native papers on various subjects are interesting:\n\nJanuary 9.\n\nNaval Ports.--The Army Board proposes to establish the following naval harbours: Chou Shan Lieh Tao, on the coast of Chekiang; Jung Cheng Wan, in the Gulf of Chihli; Chao Shan Lieh Tao, in the Gulf of Liaotung; and Pei Hai Wan, in Kuangtung.\n\nMining Regulations.--The Board of Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce has asked the Wai-wu Pu to inform the foreign Ministers that the new Regulations will come into force on the 15th March. The Board considers it inadvisable to agree to any changes in these Regulations at present, but if found to be inconvenient in operation, modifications may afterwards be introduced.\n\nMilitary Forces in Ili.-The Viceroy of Ili and the Governor of the New Dominion propose to raise two brigades of troops, drilled on modern lines, for the protection of the frontier.\n\nPeking-Hankow Railway-The Chinese Government have been earnestly considering the question of the redemption of this line, for should this opportunity be lost the control of the line will be lost for another thirty years. They have telegraphed to the Viceroys of Chihli and Hupei-Hunan, and the Governor of Honan, asking for advice.\n\nThibet.--The Chinese Amban has telegraphed that he proposes to establish a number of elementary schools in Thibet. A reply has been sent approving the project, and directing that such schools shall be established in the more important towns.\n\nCustoms School.-A site has been selected within the Tartar city for the establishment of a Customs College where Chinese will be trained for the customs. A commencement will be made next spring.\n\nJanuary 8.\n\nOpium. At an audience yesterday the Empress Dowager questioned their Excellencies Chang and Yuan as to what was being done towards abolishing the use of opium, and directing them to use all their efforts to find some scheme by which it might be entirely banished within a limited time.\n\nShansi Railway.-Messrs. Bielfeld and Son, of Tien-tsin, are reported to have secured a contract for the supply of materials for the construction of this line.\n\nWuchow.\n\nThe agitation against the patrolling of the West River by British gun-boats, torpedo boats, &c., extended to Wuchow, but in a very mild form as compared with that which it assumed at Canton.\n\nThe Cantonese Guild at Wuchow held a meeting at which it was resolved to forward a protest to the Central Government against the permission granted to the British Government to dispatch gun-boats to cruise about the waters of the West River, and encroach on Chinese jurisdiction.\n\nThis protest, however, was never actually sent up to Peking, the local \"patriots\" considering such a step injudicious on hearing of the rebuke administered by the Central Government to the people of Canton, and of the commands of the former to desist from the practice, latterly adopted, of sending telegrams to Peking to contend with the Central Government on questions of Imperial policy, such procedure being unreasonable, a lack of good manners, and a reckless attempt to disturb the peace.”\n\nThe general attitude of the city has been quite tranquil. Certain persons, however, and chiefly the Wuchow Magistrate, would view with satisfaction the growth of an anti-foreign feeling, and are not averse to fostering the same when it can be discreetly accomplished.\n\nTo such the two following incidents furnished opportunities which they were not slow to utilize, and out of which they made all the capital possible. The absurd and false reports published in the Canton papers bear testimony to this.\n\nOn the 9th December some men from torpedo-boat \"No. 035,\" who had landed for rifle practice at the range, were on their way back through the city carrying their rifles, when they stopped at a fire cracker shop and endeavoured to obtain change for a 10-dollar note. The efforts of the British tar to convey to the unfortunate Chinaman, ignorant of the beauties of the English language, the exact meaning of what he, the Chinaman, is required to do, usually involve considerable declamation, vociferation, gesticulation, and objurgation. Seeing armed foreign sailors in the shop, a crowd collected in the street.\n\nThat they formed a totally incorrect view of the situation goes without saying. The shopkeeper being unwilling to oblige, the bluejackets eventually proceeded quietly on their way back to the ship.\n\nIn the reports of this incident one heard of \"extortion by drunken armed sailors,” \"terrorizing the inhabitants,\" \"demanding money with threats,\" \"scattering the money from the till all over the floor of the shop,\" \"creating a breach of the peace,\" &c.\n\nThe second incident was somewhat more serious.\n\nPage 361\n\n23\n\n1\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nbetween the two Governments, instead of insisting on their being kept apart as a purely commercial transaction.\n\nHe next proceeds to relate what a shock it was to the deputies to find, on arrival at Peking, that the statement that the Company had ignored Sheng's letter giving them a limit of six months in which to begin work, which the Chekiang people had relied on as a strong argument in support of their case, was incorrect, and that as a matter of fact the Company had sent a reply six days after the receipt of Sheng's letter.\n\nThe letter then proceeds:-\n\n\"It is a common complaint that, although the Edict authorizing the construction of the line by native merchants has been issued more than two years and rails have been laid and trains commenced running, a fact of which all China was aware, the British made no protest until quite recently, when they suddenly changed their attitude and attempted to force a loan on the two provinces. The true facts of the case are that on the day the Imperial Edict was promulgated the British Minister addressed a despatch to the Wai-wu Pu saying that the expression 'Chekiang railways' meant the railways of the whole province, and asking if the Soochow Hangchow-Ningpo Railway was included in this. If it was he requested an explanation of the reversal of the previous Concession to the British Company. The Wai-wu Pu answered that they were communicating with the Board of Commerce and the Governor of Chekiang and that they would reply later. This was nothing more than a pretext for delay.\n\n\"Three days later, having received no reply, the British Minister went to the Wai-wu Pu and made inquiries into the matter. After that, every three or four days there came a despatch pressing for a reply, and when no reply was forthcoming the Minister again went to the Wai-wu Pu to inquire in person, and, getting no reply to his verbal inquiries, he again sent in a despatch.\n\n\"The new British Minister, on arrival, sent in a despatch summarizing the previous history of the case and again pressing for a reply. The Wai-wu Pu continued to evade giving any answer, one day alleging as an excuse that Prince Ching was not at the Board, and another that such and such a Minister was not present; and when the Prince and the Minister did appear at an interview they said that some method of arrangement could be found and that there was no hurry, or that the case had now gone on for some years and that it was only necessary to find some way of settling it which need not be done at the moment. This sort of talk occurred at every interview with the British Minister, and every one of his despatches remained unanswered.\n\n\"About the 6th or 7th moon of last year, being hard pressed for further excuses, the Wai-wu Pu at length requested the British Minister to first settle the question of the Canton-Kowloon Railway. The Minister said there was no objection to this course, but he explained that this did not mean that the Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway question was to be shelved, but merely postponed until the Canton-Kowloon Railway Agreement had been signed.\n\n\"In the 9th moon of last year, on the day that the Agreement for the Canton-Kowloon Railway was signed, the British Minister addressed a despatch to the Wai-wu Pu reminding them of the previous understanding, and requesting them, now that the Agreement for the Canton-Kowloon Railway was signed, to depute an official to resume the negotiations on the subject of the Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo line. The Wai-wu Pu continued to procrastinate, but the Minister insisted, and said that, although it was two years since the two provinces took over the construction of the railways, he had been unable to obtain any reply to his repeated inquiries, and, as people were now saying that the British had silently acquiesced in the new conditions, he could not consent to any further delay.\n\n\"The Wai-wu Pu thereupon replied that they proposed to wait until Wang Ta Hsieh returned to China and then put him in charge of the negotiations. Wang had been Minister in London, and was, moreover, a Chekiang man; he must first come to some arrangement with the Chekiang people. The question was one of vital importance to Chekiang Province, and if the Chekiang people were satisfied Kiangsu could be dealt with in the same way.\n\n16\n\nThe British Minister said that this arrangement was satisfactory, but he asked whether it was definitely decided to intrust the negotiations to Wang, and whether he had authority to settle the matter. To this the Wai-wu Pu replied in the affirmative.\n\n\"From this it may be seen that the British have never for a moment ceased to urge their claims under the original Concession, while the Wai-wu Pu have merely tried to evade any discussion of the question.”\n\nness.\n\n3\n\nMr. Yang then proceeds to relate how Wang, when he took charge of the negotiations, acted entirely on his own responsibility, without consulting his colleagues, and how the proposal for a loan emanated from him. The conclusion he comes to is that the Government, and especially Wang Ta Hsieh, are responsible for the whole business.\n\nThe British Minister tells people that neither the Chekiang people nor the British are to blame in this matter, but that the whole responsibility for the present situation lies with the Chinese Government. And, painful as this is to bear, the truth of it cannot be denied.\"\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\n(No. 17.)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nHERBERT GOFFE,\n\nConsul-General Sir P. Warren to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nShangaae, February 8, 1908. Sir,\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 4 of the 15th ultimo, on the subject of the Chekiang Railway loan, I have the honour to transmit herewith translation of a telegram from Tuan Fang to all Viceroys and Governors, instructing them to take measures for the repression of the proposed boycotting movement against British goods, the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank, and Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nPELTIAM L. WARREN.\n\nTelegram sent by Tuan Fang to all Viceroys and Governors, at the request of Jui Cheng, January 16, 1908. (Translation.)\n\nTo here follow the names of thirteen Viceroys, Governors, and Generals].\n\nI HAVE recently been informed that Tseng Shao Ching, of Shanghae, is heading a movement to boycott English goods, the notes of the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank, and the firm of Jardine, Matheson, and Co., and has already circulated to every The Compradore of the Hsin I port 40,000 copies of a pamphlet to that end. Savings Bank is abetting him, and has been distributing similar pamphlets. Such proceedings are both futile and senseless. They cannot further the interests of the railway, and can only prejudice our country's external relations. The question of the railway has already assumed a more hopeful aspect, but, if inflammatory methods such as these are resorted to, the masses and the merchant classes, being in ignorance of the real facts of the matter, must inevitably be seduced into all kinds of disorder, to the great detriment of trade. Let each one of you therefore instruct his subordinates secretly to put this matter in the proper light before their Chambers of Commerce, and to impress upon them that they shall on no account give any heed or credence to these counsels, nor promulgate them in any way. Should they receive any of the above-mentioned pamphlets they should promptly throw them into the fire. Let them but be guided in their conduct by the efforts on their behalf of the officials and gentry of Chekiang and Kiangsu, and some plan of action will assuredly be found which shall successfully negotiate every difficulty. If they will but avoid all listening to idle gossip to their own undoing it will be infinitely better for the welfare of the whole trading community.\n\nPage 389",
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        "content_text": "392\n\nj\n\n2\n\nIt would be altogether a mistake to believe that the people of Yunnan are opposed to a British railway from Burmah to this city. There is not the slightest reason to apprehend in this province any such struggle as that which you speak of as provoked in Chekiang. Everything, indeed, points the other way. The handful of pestilent literati here, after two years of agitation, have failed to arouse among the people of Yunnan any sort of enthusiasm for a Chinese railway to Szechuan, still less for one from Tengyuel to Burmah. As I have shown from their own published accounts, scarcely any private individual has been found willing to subscribe. On the contrary, the call to pay some 6 per cent, more for land tax in the form of railway subscription, coming as it does on the top of the suppression of opium, has roused very considerable discontent. I may mention that in this district the Governor-General has, despite the Edict allowing ten years' gradual suppression, and his own Proclamations allowing three years, caused all poppies to be forcibly destroyed. Were the Yunnanese not by nature a peaceable and submissive folk, there would be a strong provincial opposition, not to railway construction by foreigners, but to the proceedings of the present Governor-General and the small reactionary gang of soi-disant Railway Directors.\n\nAs regards our Tengyueh Railway scheme in particular, the Taiping Valley, through which the line would run, is inhabited almost entirely by Shans, while the Chinese traders of Tengyueh town, who constantly visit Bhamo and often Mandalay, would seem to be altogether in favour of its construction. They certainly are not in favour of the Chinese Company, for, as far as I can learn, they have not bought a single share in it.\n\nI have not, however, been advocating at this stage the demand from the Chinese Government of a definite Railway Concession, so much as insistence on their formal recognition of our right to absolutely equal treatment with France in Yünnan. I venture, with the utmost diffidence, to dissent from the view that the enforcement of that right could not now be attained by diplomatic methods. I am convinced that if His Majesty's Government were (let it be said, by communication through the Chinese Minister in London) to firmly insist on such recognition the Chinese Government would certainly yield. Quite apart from the most-favoured-nation clause of the Burmah-China Treaty, and the correspondence of March 1902, the principle that we are entitled to equal treatment with France in Yunnan is so obviously just that China could look in no quarter for support should she deny or oppose it. If, moreover (as I have said in an earlier despatch), the Chinese Government could be led to understand that, the principle once conceded, we should be ready to consider modifications in its practical application, that Government would be still less likely to hold out.\n\nYou do not refer in this despatch to the fact (as reported in my Confidential despatch No. 14 of the 29th November last) that the Throne has instructed Governor-General Hei that it has called for a report from the Cheng-wu Ch'u and the Wai-wu Pu on our claim to construct a railway in Yünnan; nor do you allude to the growing distrust and distaste said to be expressed by the Central Government for so-called “demonstrations in the provinces.” If the former (as I have no doubt) is correct, and the \"popular\" latter story well founded, then it would seem that the Peking Government would not be indisposed to make a compromise with us, preferring to transfer his Excellency Hsi-liang and to snub the literati rather than to run the risk, however remote, of a collision with India.\n\nIn this connection you will have noticed that in the Army Scheme for all China lately presented by the Lu-chün Pu and approved by the Throne it is proposed that within five years the forces in this province (computed in the Memorial to consist of one brigade of drilled infantry and two battalions of artillery) shall be raised to two “chen,” or army divisions. The reason given is that \"Yünnan controls the frontier posts of the south-west, and it is of the utmost importance to collect there a strong military force to co-operate in the scheme of defence.\" If we continue to delay, and do not now firmly require recognition by China of our right to equal treatment with France in Yunnan, then some future Governor-General of his present Excellency's type will, encouraged by what he will believe to be an overwhelming force, commit such actions—as, for example, ostentatious administration west of \"Scott's line\"—as will oblige us at length to maintain our prestige by force of arms.\n\nIn the meantime that prestige is being very seriously affected by the delay of the Indian Government to insist firmly on its right to build the Tengyueh Railway and to extend it, if the Government sees fit, to Tali and Yunnan-fu.\n\nWe have gone just far enough—in our surveys to Tali and our proposals of 1906 for the construction of a railway to Tengyueh—to make our present inaction appear a victory for the impudent \"bluff\" that inserted the words \"and Tengyueh\" in the title of the exclusively Chinese Yunnan-Szechuan Railway Company. We have swallowed this affront, and we are therefore, here in Yunnan, of no account. The result is that this Consulate is no longer consulted, as was the case when Ting Chih-t'ai was contemplating a railway to Szechuan and an international Settlement at Yunnan-fu (see my despatch of the 11th March, 1905), and it is hopeless to expect—for the matter has a commercial side also—that any contracts for the supply of machinery for mints, arsenals, or other public works, or proffers of engagement as instructors or engineers will come our way.\n\nThe \"friendly co-operation of the province,\" of which your despatch speaks, cannot be attained through any efforts on the part of this Consulate as long as the incumbent appears to be left without support from the Indian Government, on whose behalf he has been maintaining, vis-à-vis of the provincial Government, that British railway enterprise in Yunnan is entitled to equal privileges with French. It may be that the Government of India is waiting for the conclusion of the Thibetan Agreement before turning attention to its eastern frontier, but no intimation to that effect has reached me. It is more than two months since I submitted to Simla, by telegram through Maymyo on the 2nd December, the proposals set out in my despatch to you No. 46 of the 18th December. Those proposals, I cannot but believe, are practicable and such as should commend themselves to the Indian Government, yet they have not been even acknowledged, except in so far as the Government of Burmah have informed me of their due transmission.\n\nIf those proposals are favourably received at Simla, and if—for that, I submit, is the key to the problem—His Majesty's Government will formally require from China recognition of our equality with France in Yunnan, then I do not think that the prospect of overtaking our rivals need be regarded as remote. We should, once we began, work faster, and with less friction; and I am confident that our light electric railway would reach Yunnan-fu in ample time to take a full share in what is the real object of the French line, the traffic and trade of Szechuan.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) W. H. WILKINSON.\n\nP.S., February 8.—It is reported here among the Chinese that the French Government has agreed to sell the railway for 25 million taels (say, 85 million francs). This is less than the amount already spent on earthworks, tunnelling, and masonry. My colleague of France, whom I questioned yesterday on the subject, replies that it appears to him altogether unlikely, but that in any case he knows absolutely nothing about the matter.\n\nW. H. W.",
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        "content_text": "2\n\naltering the amount of the loan for the northern section to 8,000,0001, and providing for the construction of two branch lines, from Te Chou to Cheng Ting-fu and from Yen Chou-fu to K'ai Feng-fu. It was also found impossible to carry on satisfactorily at the same time the negotiations for the two sections.\n\nThese negotiations were continued for several years without arriving at any satisfactory result, and a proposal was then made that the line should be constructed by the three provinces concerned without foreign assistance. As, however, the original draft Agreement had received the Imperial sanction, it was considered inexpedient to annul it altogether, and the only other course was to introduce such amendments as would render it acceptable to all parties. Lien Tun Yen was directed to take charge of the negotiations, under the supervision of Chang Chih Tung and Yuan Shih K'ai, with the representatives of the German and British Syndicates. After much discussion an arrangement on the following lines was agreed to:\n\nThe loan should be quite distinct from the administration of the railway. Other sources of revenue should be assigned as security for the payment of the interest, &c., and the rights enjoyed by the two foreign Companies concerned, viz., to receive 20 per cent. of the nett profit, and to supply material to the railway, should not be considered as giving them any right to interfere in the working of the line. As security for the loan, the provincial authorities agreed to furnish an annual sum of 3,800,000 taels out of the revenue from li-kin.\n\nAs regards the question of branch lines, a Memorandum has been received from the German Minister stating that Germany will be prepared, after the signature of the Tien-tsin--P'u-k'ou Railway Loan Agreement, to discuss a settlement of this question on the following lines:\n\n1. Germany agrees that the line from Kiaochow to Yen Chou-fu shall become a branch of the Tien-tsin-P'u-k'ou Railway, and that the line from Chinan-fu to the borders of Shantung shall be incorporated in the main line.\n\n2. China agrees that within fifteen years she will undertake the construction of two lines--one from Te Chou to Cheng Ting-fu, and the other from Yen Chou-fu, or some other point on the main line-through Chi Ning Chou to K'ai Feng-fu; should it be found necessary to raise a foreign loan for this purpose, application shall be made to the German Bank.\n\nA Loan Agreement in twenty-four Articles was then drawn up, the amount of the loan being fixed at 5,000,000l., bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent., and the period of the loan was fixed at thirty years. The loan might be repaid after ten years at a premium of 21/2 per cent., or after twenty years at par. A first issue of bonds to the value of 3,000,000l. should be made at 93,\n\nA period of four years was fixed for the completion of the line, and work must be commenced within six months after the signature of the Agreement. The construction and administration of the railway should be entirely under the direction of the Chinese Government, through the Director-General, who should on his own responsibility engage one German and one British Engineer-in-chief--one for each section of the line.\n\nThe memorialists consider this amended Agreement preferable in every way to the original draft Agreement, and that it does not prejudice in any particular China's right to the independent administration of the railway. As the Ministers of Wai-wu Pu agree with them in this opinion, they have the honour to request that the Agreement shall receive the Imperial sanction. After the signature of the Agreement for the main line, the Wai-wu Pu will negotiate with the German Minister a settlement of the question of branch lines in accordance with the terms of the Memorandum from the German Minister above referred to.\n\n1\n\nOn the 13th January the following Imperial Rescript was issued: \"Approved.\"\n\nC. O.\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n1699490\n\nRECP [April 4] 13 MAY 08\n\n[11441]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received April 4,) (No. 73.) Sir,\n\nPeking, February 17, 1908.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 248 of the 28th May last, on the subject of the Canton-Hankow Railway, I have the honour to report that His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow, on hearing recently that Herr Cordes, of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, was likely to renew his application for a loan, to be devoted to the Hupei section of the Hankow-Szechuan Railway, addressed a letter to the Viceroy Chao inclosing copies of Sir Ernest Satow's correspondence with the Wai-wu Pu of September 1903, and also reminding him of the ex-Viceroy Chang's engagement on this subject.\n\nThe Viceroy replied on the 27th January by sending his Secretary to Mr. Fraser with a message to the effect that no foreign loan would be required for either of the trunk lines as funds were already provided, and that as regards engineers Mr. Ross had already been engaged (see my despatch No. 248 of last year).\n\nMr. Fraser then suggested the employment as Chief Engineer on the Hupei section of the Hankow-Canton line of Mr. R. St. George Moore, M.I.C.E., who is engaged as Consulting Engineer of the Hankow Waterworks.\n\nThe Viceroy thought that this gentleman was not sufficiently well known in China, and asked Mr. Fraser's assistance in inducing Mr. Kinder, of the Northern Railways, to accept the post for both the Hupei and Hunan sections, and in all probability for the whole line.\n\nI accordingly wrote to Mr. Kinder on the 3rd February, urging him to accept the post, in the interests, not only of British trade, but of China herself; and on the 10th February received his reply, copy of which I have honour to inclose, expressing his willingness to undertake this duty under certain conditions.\n\nIn a despatch dated the 7th February, copy of which also is inclosed, Mr. Fraser reported that the Viceroy was going to apply to the proper authorities for the loan of Mr. Kinder's service.\n\nAt the same time the ex-Viceroy Chang Chih Tung has made an offer to the British and Chinese Corporation for a loan for the northern section of this railway.\n\nThis proposal conflicts with the Viceroy's Chao's asseverations to Mr. Fraser that sufficient capital is obtainable from native sources, but in view of Chang Chih Tung's present position as Grand Councillor, and of the fact that he has brought with him to Peking the correspondence which passed between Mr. Fraser and himself on the subject in 1905, it is sufficiently evident that his overtures cannot be disregarded,\n\nBut this offer to borrow British capital revives the difficulty entailed by the Anglo-French combination of interests. The Chinese pledge is to apply in the first instance to us for any capital she may require for the construction of the line, but if conditions are introduced by the French which are unacceptable to the Chinese there is little doubt that the business will be offered to our German competitor.\n\nI therefore had the honour to telegraph to you on the 16th February pointing out the urgent necessity for the French Government to give their financiers a free hand, and I spoke in this sense to M. Bapst, my French colleague, and represented to him at the same time the advisability of waiving the claim to a share in orders for materials, which I understood was put forward by the French Government, but which their financiers would not demand on their own initiative, and which the Chinese would not accept. M. Bapst appeared to be unaware of His Government's determination on this point, and considered that all they would ask for would be that they should not be completely effaced in the loan negotiations. He asked me to telegraph to His Majesty's Government on the subject first, and promised to telegraph himself a day later.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n[2934 d-2]",
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        "content_text": "493\n\n2\n\nIn military affairs an almost feverish activity is being displayed. The spacious buildings of the new military school (\"Lu chün Hsiao Hsüoh Tang\") are complete; the barracks of the Lu Chün inside the city are being rebuilt and enlarged, and outside the North Gate, at Feng Huang Shan, quarters to accommodate some 5,000 men are finished. The construction of the new arsenal proceeds apace, both at the main establishment and the adjacent powder factory. I am told that the new small-arms factory will be in working order in six months' time; the present factory will then be removed from the old arsenal, which will be devoted to the manufacture of heavy ordnance. Companies of recruits are being brought up from all parts of the province to Chengta for training. They are well clothed in foreign (Japanese) style, apparently well armed, of good physique, and usually well-behaved. They are much in evidence in the city, frequently marching through the streets headed by their bugles and drums.\n\nIn the matter of education, the temporary reaction I chronicled a year ago would appear to be arrested, and the tide of Western learning is again running strong. In Chengtu new schools are again springing up in all directions, a technical college under the auspices of the Bureau of Commerce has lately been opened, and the transformation of the Provincial College from a High School into a University, with advanced courses in science, mathematics, and languages, will soon be an accomplished fact. Almost every issue of the \"Chengtu Daily Gazette\" contains a report of the opening or enlargement of a school, the engagement of teachers with foreign training, or the introduction of new subjects of instruction. It is a gratifying fact that the teaching of English forms a prominent feature in the curriculum of most of the new schools, but one could wish that a portion of the money which is so freely expended on buildings were devoted to securing the services of properly qualified teachers. What discipline can do for the Chinese schoolboy was strikingly exemplified at the primary school sports in October last, when some 4,000 boys, of ages ranging from 7 to 15, exhibited their prowess in athletics and drilling before the Viceroy and a large concourse of interested spectators.\n\nIn commercial and industrial affairs great, if often misdirected, energy is being displayed in developing the resources of the province. Associations are being formed to encourage and improve the manufacture of tea, the cultivation of raw silk and wax, the weaving of cotton and silken fabrics. Szechuanese returned from abroad, chiefly from Japan, ask for permission to open mines and to exploit them by foreign methods. They propose to bore for oil, to apply machinery to the salt wells, to erect steam saw mills and glass factories. Of far greater importance is a practical attempt by the Chinese themselves to grapple with the difficult problem of steam navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze, a project which if it can be successfully carried out will go far to remove the most serious disabilities under which the trade of the province has hitherto suffered. As reported in my despatch No. 58 of the 20th December, the newly formed Upper Yang-tsze Steam Navigation Company have sent Messrs. Yarrow and Co. the order for their first steamer.\n\nIt is unfortunate that the patriotic movement of the present day, with its watchword \"China for the Chinese,\" which has reached even this remote part of China, tends to prevent the organizers of new undertakings from availing themselves of foreign capital and foreign assistance, with consequent misdirection of energy and waste of money. Western learning and an experience of foreign countries are at a premium these days, but it is difficult to make any but the most enlightened Chinese understand that a few years' residence in Japan, or even in America, or a tour round the world, does not qualify a young Chinese to build a railway, take charge of a mining enterprise, or expound intelligibly the mysteries of modern science.\n\n3\n\nThe Manchu Garrison at Chengtu.\n\nThe message from the \"Times\" correspondent in Peking, published in the \"Weekly Times\" of the 4th October, might lead one to infer that the disbandment of the Manchu garrisons throughout China was an accomplished fact. This, at any rate as far as Chengtu is concerned, is not so.\n\nThe Imperial Edict duly appeared in the \"Chengtu Gazette\" of the 30th September, but it was not until the 20th November that the Tartar General and Viceroy issued a joint Proclamation on the subject. This Proclamation explained that the Edict did not mean the sudden abolition of the Manchu garrison and the withdrawal of their pensions, but that measures were to be taken, gradually and with due regard to Manchu interests, to break down the existing barriers between Manchu and Chinese by finding industrial and agricultural employment for the former, and providing them with a means of livelihood which would make a continuance of the Government 'doles unnecessary. The Proclamation further assured the Chinese that their land would not be forcibly taken from them for the benefit of the Manchus, but purchased at a fair price.\n\nFrom inquiries I have made I gather that no steps have yet been taken to carry the Edict into effect. I am informed that there are, nominally, 20,000 Manchus in Chengtu, of whom some 2,500 adults are in receipt of Government pay. The Manchu city, situated in the south-west corner of Chengtu, occupies about one-fifth of the whole intra-mural area. It is a standing example of the degradation of the ruling race in China. Quite half of it is waste land and vegetable gardens; the grass grows in the deserted streets, the houses are poor and dilapidated, the garden walls fallen down and not repaired, the temples little better than ruins. Few Chinese, and those only of the lowest class, live there; there are no shops worthy of the name, and, except in the main street which leads to the west gate of Chengtu, a silence, as in a city stricken with the plague, reigns both day and night. There are one or two primary schools, a small police force, and a few hundred troops, who may occasionally be seen engaged in rudimentary drill on the vast parade ground. The remainder of the garrison spend their days within doors or on their doorsteps—smoking, eating, and sleeping. The Tartar General ranks with and before the Viceroy; his influence in the province appears to be nil.\n\nArrest of Revolutionaries.\n\nDuring the first days of November rumours were rife of a \"Ko Ming Tang\" plot to assassinate the Viceroy and other high officials. The authorities apparently attached some importance to these rumours, for it was noticeable that, as the anniversary of the Empress Dowager's birthday drew near, the police patrolled the city in pairs, the city gates were closed early and carefully guarded, and many of the higher officials went about with unusually large escorts. Nothing happened, but on the 17th November the police raided two large inns in the city and captured some thirty students and others alleged to be members of the \"Ko Ming Tang.\" Of these all but six were subsequently released; the six, natives of Szechuan recently returned from Japan, in whose possession incriminating correspondence and literature were found, were tried, and sentenced to banishment for life. I give their names for purposes of record: Chang Chih Hsiang, Li Ching-yü, Huang Fang, Chiang Yung-ching, Yang Wei, and Wang Shu-huai.\n\nThe Viceroy, in a Proclamation issued on the 20th December announcing these sentences, stated that the culprits had been leniently dealt with on account of their youth and inexperience. He warned people not to take advantage of this leniency, and in the confidential manner in which even the highest officials discuss the affairs of the nation in Proclamations, went on to explain what steps the Empress Dowager and her advisers were taking to introduce constitutional government into China. He begged the reading public not to be led away by what they read of revolutions in the histories of other countries. Other countries had, it was true, purchased good government at the price of much bloodshed; in China, conditions were fortunately entirely different, and the movement towards reform was being led and encouraged, not opposed and hindered, by the highest in the land.\n\nThe Viceroy's well-timed leniency in this affair has had a good effect. There was, I believe, some muttering and discontent among the students when these men were arrested, and their execution seemed a foregone conclusion, which might easily have been fanned into an outbreak. There appears to be a strong under-current of ill-feeling against the Manchus, especially among the student class, and the death of these men would have afforded the Chinese patriot a fresh cause of grievance against the present Government.\n\nThe Anti-Opium Movement.\n\nThere is, I regret to say, but little progress to be reported in this direction. Information as I have been able to obtain during the past three months will be included in a separate Report.\n\nMissionary travellers inform me that in most places opium smoking is indulged in, as heretofore, openly and without restriction. Beyond the taxing of the opium divans by the officials nothing has been done to regulate the traffic in the drug, and whatever reduction of the area under cultivation there may have been this autumn is not noticeable. In Chengtu the vigorous measures taken six months ago appear to have been almost entirely relaxed, the once clean and tidy official opium divans are relapsing...",
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        "content_text": "654\n\nrepresent them. These arrangements were undertaken by Commandant Chang-pin-kao, to whom great credit is due.\n\nOf some thirty cases left, in about a third places and men had not been identified from the Chinese names given. The Deputy Commissioner has since inserted Shan as well as Chinese names in his complaints, and this procedure may facilitate settlements. Of the remainder, some cases were said to have been settled directly with the complainants; in others the accused were in British territory. It was arranged that some cases should be settled in accordance with Kachin custom, and the remainder were put back for various other reasons.\n\nThe Tengyueh Ting on arriving at Man-ai sent in a dozen complaints against Bhamo district, and protested because none of them were settled. He also proposed that if the Bhamo cases were not settled in three months they should be written off, but naturally I could not agree to the proposal.\n\nChen Kang. The present Taot'ai (Ch'in Shu Sheng) is a member of the \"Hsin Tang,\" which may be called the \"Young China\" party. Its chief aim is to be against the foreigner in everything, and its second is frankly revolutionary. The Taot'ai is unscrupulous and untrustworthy. When he was Prefect of Ch'u Ch'ing (lat. 25° 31′; long. 103° 43'), meetings were openly held in that town applauding the murderers of En Ming, the Anhui Governor, who was assassinated last year.\n\nCh'in Taot'ai received his present appointment in consequence of a signal act of discourtesy. The Yunnan Governor-General invited him to be present at a dinner to which he was inviting His Majesty's Consul-General at Yunnan-fu. Ch'in refused on the ground that the latter was a foreigner! The Governor-General was so impressed that he made him acting Taot'ai here. He bullies the General and the Ting by telling them he will report them to the Governor-General if they do not do exactly as he wishes, and he gives out that he receives daily private telegrams from his Excellency, which everybody knows is untrue.\n\nIt is worth noting that all the Chinese members of Sir Robert Hart's Customs staff here belong to the \"Hsin Tang.\"\n\nWenchow.\n\nCh'i Hsu, who was Prefect at this port in 1900, has again been appointed to the same office.\n\nHe was considered mainly responsible for the attacks on converts and the destruction of missionary property in the Wenchow district in 1900, and was fined 5,000 dollars as a punishment. He has since reformed, and is a friend of the missionaries, who believe in his sincerity. The facts that his son has been taught English and that his grandson is engaged to be married to the daughter of an Englishman would seem to bear out the opinion that his anti-foreign ideas have changed.\n\nChinese Press.\n\nShanghae-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway: Loan Agreement.\n\nThe \"Eastern Times,\" after publishing the text of the above Agreement, contains in its issue of the 15th March an article entitled \"Complete Defeat of the People.\"\n\nIn spite of the vaunted negotiations between the Government and the people, the Government, as things have turned out, has scored a double victory; it has avoided the appearance of harshness, but has got its own way just the same. Similarly, with regard to the people's defeat at the hands of the foreigners, since the publication of the Agreement it is seen that the people can do no better than the Government, and the foreigners score a double victory; they get their way, but can say that the loan has not been forced upon the people.\n\nBut, although the nation is utterly routed, defeat has been turned to victory before now, and there is hope that by success in future cases the disgrace of the present incident may be wiped out.\n\nIn the same issue this journal, reviewing the net results of all the negotiations, makes the following remarks:-\n\n1. The arrangement by which this line is to connect with the Shanghae-Nanking Railway, which, of course, will connect with the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze line, is like threading fish on a willow twig (for convenience in handing to others), the Provinces of Kiangsu and Chekiang representing the fish (to be eaten).\n\n2. The Agreement calls the railway an Imperial undertaking, while the Memorial calls it a private (mercantile) undertaking, i.e., for abroad it is Imperial, for home it is private. Why are the Chinese Commercial Companies thus hidden from sight like a man's mistress and not allowed to appear?\n\n3. Much has been said as to the loan and the railway being kept separate. But the stipulations in the Agreement that the Engineer-in-chief shall be British, that the surplus revenue of the line shall be deposited with the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, and that the railway accounts shall be kept in Chinese and English are all inconsistent with this statement.\n\nIn fine, the Agreement is dubbed an Agreement for the mutual hoodwinking of natives and foreigners, of higher and lower classes.\n\nThibet.\n\nThe \"Shun Tien Shih Pao\" of the 25th March contains the following as regards Thibet:-\n\nChang Ta Chien, the Assistant Amban, has telegraphed to the Grand Council, asking them to present a Memorial on his behalf with reference to the present state of affairs in Thibet. The following are the main points alluded to:---\n\n1. The object of the Viceroy of India in having trade marts opened is really to encroach on Thibetan territory, and we must take our precautions beforehand.\n\n2. The Thibetan people are gradually coming to regret their former attitude, and are desirous of returning to our allegiance. The only thing to be feared is that the Dalai Lama may prove troublesome, and it would be desirable to have the administration of the country put in order before his return.\n\n3. Chang Ta Ch'en proposes that over 100 cadets, who have finished their course in the military academies, should be sent to Thibet to assist in reorganization of army.\n\n4. He also makes the following suggestions with regard to the administration of Thibet:-\n\nThat the Dalai Lama should be given a higher Chinese rank, and should be paid a salary on a liberal scale.\n\nThat a special Board for the administration of Thibetan affairs should be established, having at its head a Prince or other officer of high rank and several subordinate officials.\n\nAs there is at present no army in Thibet, he suggests that some thousand men should be transferred there from Chihli,\n\nHe suggests that the funds required for military and police purposes, the development of mines, reclamation works, banks, &c., amounting to over 3,000,000 taels, should be furnished by the Board of Finance.\n\nThe Memorial has been sent for consideration to the Wai-wu Pu and Army Board. A Memorial on Thibetan affairs has also, it is stated, been submitted by the Amban, Lien Yu. He recommends that the project of making Thibet a province of China should be postponed for the present, but states that, owing to the excessive pretentions of the Dalai Lama and the insubordinate attitude of the Thibetan officials, the administration of the country is very difficult. He suggests that a special Commissioner should be sent to Thibet to organize the Government of the country. He complains that the 200,000 taels, for which he applied some time ago, have not been sent by the Board of Finance, and states that if Thibet is to be made into a province 200,000 or 300,000 taels will not be sufficient for the purpose.\n\nPolitical Societies and Meetings.\n\nRegulations for the control of societies and public meetings have been drawn up by the Bureau for the Study of Constitutional Reform (Hsien Cheng Pien Ch'a Kuan). These regulations refer more particularly to societies and public meetings having a political object, and provide that when it is proposed to establish such a society, or hold a public meeting, notice shall be sent to the local authorities or police. Soldiers, police officers, teachers, students in colleges, boys under 20, and all women, are not permitted to become members of a political society. Secret societies are forbidden, and the local authorities should always have the right to dissolve any society or disperse any public meeting which they consider dangerous to the public peace. Membership of a\n\n1\n\n2\n\n3",
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        "content_text": "## 655\n\n4\n\n**political society is limited to 100 persons, and not more than 200 persons shall be allowed to attend a public meeting of a political nature. None but Chinese are permitted to become members of a political society or convene a public meeting of a political nature. Various punishments—fines and imprisonment—are specified for offences against these regulations, which are to come into force three months after the receipt of Imperial sanction.**\n\n## Administrative Reform\n\nThe \"Eastern Times\" of the 20th February has a leading article on the necessity of keeping the question of administrative reform in the forefront of the national policy.\n\nReviewing the history of the past few years, the journal mentions that since 1900, apart from the Russo-Japanese war, the foreign relations of China have been carried on with varying success or failure, but nothing has occurred to give serious cause for reflection. On the other hand, at home there has been one agitation after another; first that of the students, then that of the Court factions, and lastly that of the collision between the Sovereign and the people. All these questions have incidentally marked stages of progress. Thus, the assassination of the Governor of Anhui was instrumental in advancing the assimilation of the Manchu and Chinese races; and the railway agitation led to a platform being found for negotiations between Government and people. But the progress must be maintained. The racial difficulty will disappear when the constitutional question is settled. The solution adopted for the railway difficulty still leaves the Government authority as regards the Loan Agreement, and if the efforts of the people are relaxed it is doubtful whether control over the line can be retained. A settled policy is necessary on the question of constitution, and the establishment of a National Assembly must be kept steadily in view.\n\n## Miscellaneous\n\nThe following extract from the \"Universal Gazette\" (Hankow) is interesting, as being a résumé of last year's events, from the Chinese point of view:-\n\nIn foreign relations China has lost ground everywhere this year. In the 1st moon the Agreements for the Kowloon Railway were exchanged with the British. This railway is one of the five lines to be built by the British. The Wai-wu Pu, discarding the precedent of the Shanghae-Ningpo Railway, where the Company fixed the Agreement with the British, assumed this function itself, which rendered the more impracticable any yielding from the fixed proposals for the Su Hang-Ning line.\n\nThis was a very serious miscalculation. That month Sir Robert Hart, the Inspector-General of Customs, again raised the question of his returning to England. The British again pressed their Shanghae riot claims, which led to endless worry, until, in the 11th moon, the Shanghae Customs Taot'ai, Yuan Shu Hsun, paid 50,000 taels from his own pocket. On other nations thereupon bringing forward claims, the Wai-wu Pu ordered the former Shanghae Customs Taot'ai, Jui Cheng, to go to Shanghae and negotiate with the British Consul-General; but it is not yet known what the outcome will be.\n\nIn the 2nd moon the question of building the Tien-tsin-Chinking alone and cancelling the previous Agreement came up for discussion. As England and Germany absolutely refused, the Court ordered Chang Chih Tung to discuss the matter together with Yuan Shih K'ai. The Chinese found it impossible to carry the proposal to do it themselves, and in the 12th moon an Agreement was negotiated to build the line with a foreign loan. The name of the railway was, besides, altered to the Tien-tsin-P'u k'ou—a change said to be the work of a certain Minister to foreign parts, who, before being appointed envoy, was joint manager of the Anhui lines, and, against the popular wish, was for building the southern section, whereas most Anhui men wanted the northern section. The resulting bitter dispute led the Minister in question to arrange for the change to Tien-tsin-Pu k'ou in order to spoil the northern Anhui railway scheme.\n\nThe gentry and merchants of Kirin, because of the pressure of Japanese influence, decided to build and manage the railway between Kirin and Changchun by themselves, and the Board had sanctioned their request when the Japanese Minister suddenly took a hand in the matter, putting forth outrageous demands. After that, in the end, the Wai-wu Pu redeemed from the Japanese the Hsinminting-Fengtien Light Railway for 1,600,000 dollars, and also negotiated an Agreement with them that they would borrow half the capital that might be needed for future rebuilding of the Hsinminting-Fengtien Railway from the Japanese South Manchurian Railway Company, and that this also applied to the Kirin-Changchun Railway. Besides, the engineers and accountants engaged for both lines were to be Japanese. This Agreement was ratified on the 18th of the 4th moon at Port Arthur. At the same time in Manchuria there were questions with the Japanese over the Kaiping Fishery Company, the import of Japanese salt, the stationing of troops in neutral territory, the railway police, fishing rights at Hsiung Yueh, the Yalu forests, the mines at Chien Tai Shan and Tien Pao Shan and the coal-mines on either side of the Railway. Further, because of the never-ending troubles due to Japanese promiscuously living all over Kirin city, where the Concession area was not yet fixed, his Excellency Ta Kuei, the Tartar-General of Kirin, issued a Proclamation forbidding the practice, whereupon Japan by main force insisted on its being taken down and cancelled. But the military Governor Chao Erh Hsun held firm on all the above questions. The new Viceroy Hsu Shih Chang, however, on arriving at Fengtien compromised most of the questions, to the vast detriment of Chinese sovereign rights, though some cases remain unsettled up to the present time.\n\nThe Wai-wu Pu prohibited grain export from Dalny and Yingkow (Newchwang); the Japanese were even more recalcitrant, and, after waiting till the 8th moon, the Proclamation was finally withdrawn, and the Imperial Maritime Customs established at Dalny, in accordance with the terms of the Chinese-Japanese-Peking Treaty. The Inspector-General negotiated with Japan, after the Kiaochow question, a special Treaty with appended deeds to be tried for one year, which began in the 6th moon.\n\nWhen the opening of the Imperial Maritime custom-houses in Northern Manchuria was originally fixed for the 8th moon, however, the Russo-Japanese Joint Convention, owing to the dispute between Japan and Russia about the navigation rights on the Sungari River, and owing to the cessation of negotiations, when the original Plenipotentiary his Excellency Tang Shao-yi was appointed Governor of Fengtien, and the Russian Minister's frequent procrastinations and hindrances in the hopes of fresh encroachments, has not up to date taken form.\n\nThe Russians in the first moon restored the gold-mines of Mo Ho in Heilungchiang Province, and abolished their Far-Eastern Viceroy, but they refused to give back the forty-six villages on the eastern bank of the Amur River. They further stationed thirty-five soldiers in Kirin, removed the war-time army base at Harbin to Irkutsk, and linked the Chih T'a defence force with Vladivostock.\n\nHence in Manchuria Japanese influence is paramount. Nevertheless in the 8th moon the Russians privately moved San Hsing and the Polichiens (Russian name) boundary marks so as to take in 160 square li of Chinese territory, which were only recovered after negotiations.\n\nIn the fourth moon his Excellency Ch'eng Te Ch'uan, the Governor of Hei Lung Chiang, memorialized the Throne to the effect that Japanese were illicitly selling weapons for the mounted bandits, and requested that the Wai-wu Pu be ordered to negotiate with the Japanese Minister, but there were continual cases of Japanese selling arms to the mounted bandits in the Jehol district, and, as to Tien-tsin, the Japanese engaged in the trade in smuggled arms were arrested by our police, and the matter made a diplomatic question, while the German firm, Arnhold Karberg and Co., were caught by the Imperial Maritime Customs at Tien-tsin in an attempt to smuggle munitions of war and 7,000 rifles. This proves how foreigners exploit our troubles. On the 5th of the same month, the Japanese General Terauchi made a tour of inspection through Corea and came into Manchuria, really, though not openly, on a strategic mission.\n\nShortly afterwards they set up an office of the Corean Superintendency at Chientao with its gendarmes stationed ostensibly for the protection of Coreans, which was the beginning of the invasion of Chientao.\n\nChientao without doubt belongs to China, and is situated in the newly established sub-Prefecture of Yen Chi Ting. This is vouched for by historical records to the knowledge of Chinese and foreigners alike. On the question being in dispute with Japan Ch'en Chiang Shao was appointed Boundary Commissioner, but the Japanese resorted to chicanery and bullying, and we have hitherto been unable to settle the question. The Japanese have been secretly making military preparations in case of trouble.\n\nThat month the British merchant Little bought mining property in Chiang Pei sub-Prefecture in Szechuan, and the Szechuanese, though they objected, were unable to get it back.\n\nMr. Maguire, the British engineer lurking at T'ung Kuan Shan in Anhui, has been more independent, and without giving notice has begun work on his own. He has even now sunk a shaft, and done mining in defiance of the claim that the Agreement is obsolete and of other mining laws. Is this conduct to be borne?\n\n5\n\n[2960 g-1]",
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        "content_text": "656\n\n1\n\n6\n\nThere have been two affairs at which we may to some extent take pleasure. American missionaries having occupied a mission site at Hai Tao, in Huchow, and the district officials being unable to recover it, and an appeal to the United States' Minister evoking a still more unfair judgment, which the people of Huchow would not recognize, Chang Ch'un, a military officer, and Liu Teng Ju came forward and took the matter up with the Americans, and their spirit and good cause overbore the Americans and secured the return of the land occupied.\n\nAgain, the Shansi gentry, being unable to make headway against the oppressive action of the Peking Syndicate, sent a delegation in the 8th moon to Peking to negotiate direct with the British. The Wai-wu Pu appointed the former Shansi Judge, Ting Pao Chuan, to back them up, and the victory remained at last, in the 12th moon, with the Shansi men, who redeemed the mining rights of the Peking Syndicate for over 2,000,000 taels. From this one sees the comparative power and capital of the nation and of the Government.\n\nThese two cases are the only ones of the past year which can give satisfaction. The success is due to the efforts of the people. How can it still be said they are incapable?\n\nIn the 6th moon, the prohibition by the American authorities at San Francisco of Chinese children attending schools for white children being extended to Japanese children, serious trouble arose between Japan and America. America proving in the wrong, Japanese children were allowed in the schools on the score of not being of Mongolian race. Later the American Labour Union agitated to drive out the Japanese, and frequently wrecked Japanese shops and stopped their trade. International relations became more and more strained, and the United States' Government dispatched a squadron to the Pacific, and the outcome of the matter is still to be seen. Chinese Government is helpless in face of the expulsion of Chinese children from the schools, and even expressed extreme gratitude to the United States' Government for the return of part of the 1900 indemnity.\n\nIn the 9th moon the agitation about the foreign loan for the Su-Hang-Ning Railway began. The origin was the Tsung-li Yamên's blunder in causelessly yielding to others' claims, and then the Wai-wu Pu procrastinated and shilly-shallied, and not only took no notice of the Decree sanctioning Chekiangese merchants building the railway, but blindly made a Loan Agreement without reference to any one else, and thus caused a violent agitation throughout the south-east.\n\nThe Kiangsu and Chekiang Company insisted on the original scheme, and the Chinese people hurried to help by subscribing capital, and in a very short time 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 taels were forthcoming--an unprecedented occurrence, and one proof of innate patriotism; but the Wai-wu Pu, pressed by the British, was unable to think of any plan for putting things right. Although four representatives from Kiangsu and Chekiang went to Peking to thresh the question there, their idea of putting things right proved to be only hovering about, and so popular excitement ran higher than ever. This matter is not settled in principle up to the present moment, after four or five months' suspense.\n\nThe other cases where foreigners scored were when the Germans were allowed to mine coal at Tsu Ch'uan, in Shantung, and the Russians to mine gold at Ku Lun (Urga), in the Tse-tsin Khanate of Outer Mongolia, at Iliochi. The Mongol Princes of the eastern part of Tushet'u Khanate wired to have the Concession cancelled, but in vain. The French stationing soldiers at Mengtse, the American oil installation at Wuhu, the prevention by the French Minister of the project of the Lienchow gentry to build a railway from Pakhoi to the West River on the score that it would interfere with the French Railway Concession, and the Government humbly giving way to the French, are other cases in point. Again, when the Government wanted to build a railway from Hsinmintung to Fakumen, the Japanese also openly put a stop to the project, saying that if their wishes were not respected they would use force.\n\nSo at present the sphere of lines successfully put under Chinese management is extremely narrow, being solely Kiangsu and Chekiang lines and the Kwantung portion of the Canton-Hankow Railway; and of these the former is objected to by the Wai-wu Pu over the Su-Hang-Ning case, and as to the latter, continual party strife rages.\n\nFrom this it is evident that China is surrounded by foes, whose only anxiety is lest they slacken in their efforts to block her future business. Besides, the passing of mining rights into the hands of foreigners, as the Japanese at Tayeh, the French at Tachiehlu and Kueichou, is hard to enumerate.\n\nKirin-Kalgan Railway.\n\nThe Japanese and Chinese engineers should complete the survey of the line shortly, and will then return to Mukden to prepare an estimate of the cost. The question of raising a loan will then be discussed. It is stated that work will be begun in April, but there are said to be serious differences of opinion between the Chinese and Japanese engineers, each claiming the right of control over the workmen employed on the line.\n\nMotor-car Service in Mongolia.\n\nThe proposal to establish a motor-car service in Mongolia has already been sanctioned. Capital to the amount of 100,000 dollars has now been raised, and two cars of 24 h.p. are to be purchased with a view to establishing a service between Kalgan and Urga, each passenger to be charged 30 taels. Two new cars are to be purchased every six months.\n\nThe Company applied for a monopoly of motor-car services in Mongolia, and offered to carry the Chinese mails free from Kalgan to Urga. The Board of Communications have objected to the monopoly being granted, and have declined the offer to carry the mails on the ground that it might lead to disputes with the Russian Post Office.\n\nThe Peace Conference.\n\nLu Chêng Hsiang, the Chinese Delegate to the Peace Conference, who returned to Peking recently, has presented a secret Memorial to the Throne giving the results of his observations at the Conference and during his stay in Europe. It is reported that he takes a very pessimistic view of the result of the Conference, and considers that the mutual jealousies among the Powers are so strong and the desire for peace so half-hearted that serious results are bound to ensue within the next few years. He considers that China's only chance of being able to hold her own in the coming struggles lies in the reform of the Administration and the establishment of a constitutional Government.\n\nChinese Fleet.\n\nSome time ago the Chinese Minister in London was directed to make contracts for the construction of men-of-war, and it is stated that Wang Ta Hsieh, the Commissioner to England to study the Constitution, has now been directed to assist the Minister in this matter.-[Extract from Chinese press.]\n\nReorganization of the Chinese Navy.\n\nIt is reported in official circles that the reason for delay in proceeding with the reorganization of the navy is not lack of funds, but that the Empress-Dowager hesitates to take any steps in the matter because so few of the Imperial clansmen and other Manchus are qualified for posts in the navy.--[Extract from Chinese press.]\n\nProposed Parliament,\n\nThe Hunanese gentry have requested the Censorate and Board of the Interior to present a Memorial on their behalf praying for the establishment of a Parliament elected by the people.\n\nThe Grand Canal.\n\nA Memorial has been presented by the Board of Communications with reference to the proposed improvement of the Grand Canal so as to render it navigable for steam-launches. The reports of the various provincial authorities concerned are to the effect that the canal could not be made navigable for steam traffic except on certain sections and at great expense. They recommend, however, that certain improvements shall be carried out which will facilitate the navigation of the canal by junks. Extract from Chinese press.]\n\nResidence at Shanghae for Nanking Viceroy.\n\nIt has been proposed that the Viceroy should reside at Shanghae for a certain period every year in order to facilitate the arrangement of international questions.\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n657\n\nC.O.\n\nS\n\nThe French in Kuangsi.\n\nThe Kuangsi correspondent of a paper deplores the growth of French influence in this province and states that great numbers of disorderly persons are professing to be members of the French mission with a view to securing immunity from punishment.\n\nTsitsihar-Aigun Railway.\n\nThe Board of Communications have telegraphed to the Governor of Heilungchiang instructing him to commence work on this line at once.\n\nIntermarriage of Manchus and Chinese.\n\nUp to the present little advantage has been taken of the new law permitting the intermarriage of Manchus and Chinese. It is reported that, with a view to the encouragement of such marriages, the Empress-Dowager proposes to call on the higher officials to furnish a list of their sons and daughters, and will herself arrange marriages between members of the two races.\n\nOrdnance College.\n\nThe Army Board propose to establish a college for the purpose of giving instruction in the mechanism of rifles, cannon, &c. Two German and five French artificers are to be engaged as instructors.----[Extract from Chinese press.]\n\nNew Bridge over the Yellow River.\n\nA French firm at Tien-tsin has obtained a contract for the construction of an iron bridge over the Yellow River at Lanchow, to cost 165,000 taels. Work will be commenced at once.- -Extract from Chinese press.]\n\n0\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[16813]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[May 16 20024]\n\nSECTION\n\nA 6 JUN 08\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 16.)\n\n(No. 148.) Sir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit to you herewith copy of a despatch which I have\n\nPeking, March 30, 1905. received from His Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Mukden, reporting on the Fushun coal mines which were taken possession of by the Japanese military authorities during the war and by them handed over to the South Manchurian Railway, though the rights were originally granted by Imperial Rescript to a Chinese subject.\n\nI have, &c. (For His Majesty's Minister.)\n\n(Signed)\n\nSTEPHEN LEECH.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 29. Confidential.) Šir,\n\nMukden, March 16, 1908. I HAVE the honour to submit the following Report on the Fushun coal mines, which has been gathered from various sources, some of which I have been asked to treat as confidential,\n\nIn Baron Goto's recent Report to the shareholders of the South Manchurian Railway, a copy of which, in translation, has been sent to me by His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Dalny, considerable stress is laid upon the importance to the Railway Company and the intrinsic value of these mines. They are at present the only mines that are being worked along the line of the South Manchurian Railway; new machinery has been ordered to increase the output, and it is the declared policy of the Company \"to develop this branch of their property to its fullest extent.\"\n\nFrom the time of the Railway Company taking over charge of the property from the Japanese military authorities until the date of the compilation of the Report, the output from the mines was 94,873 tons, and the net profit 29,881. The total net profit of the South Manchurian Railway and all its subsidiary enterprises for a similar period was only 92,859.\n\nThe legal title of the Company to this valuable asset would, however, appear somewhat doubtful.\n\nThe mines are situated about 25 miles E.S.E. of Mukden, and about 8 miles southwards from the town of Fushun. The mining area, I am informed, measures about 3 miles from east to west by 2 miles from north to south. The district is divided into two portions by a small river, the western portion being termed Ch'ien Chin-shan, and the eastern Yang Po-pao.\n\nIt appears that as far back as September 1901 two Chinese merchants, named Weng Shou and Wang Cheng-jao, applied to the Provincial Government for permission to open these mines, each of them contributing 10,000 taels to the Government Treasury. The matter was reported to the Throne, and an Imperial Rescript issued granting the Concession,\n\nA survey was then made and the western portion of the district was assigned to Wang, the eastern to Weng. Endless disputes over their respective boundaries now arose between the two concessionnaires, and in order to strengthen their case each side ultimately had recourse to the support of Russian capital. Wang succeeded in persuading the Russo-Chinese Bank to invest 60,000 taels in the enterprise, and with this backing he was able to obtain recognition by the provincial authorities as the sole proprietor of mining rights in the district. The Central Government, however, signified its disapproval of this arrangement, and whilst the question was still under discussion between the Provincial and Central Governments the Russo-Japanese war broke out.\n\n[2960 g--2]",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nDuring the war, in spite of a protest by Wang, a branch line connecting the mines with the main line at Su Chia-tun was built by the Russian military authorities, and the mines were apparently taken over on the plea of military necessity.\n\nOn the termination of hostilities the mines were accordingly taken over by the Japanese military authorities, and by them ultimately handed over to the South Manchurian Railway Company.\n\nHis Excellency Chao Erh-sun, during his tenure of the Viceroyalty, made several representations to the Central Government on behalf of Wang, claiming that the Concession had been granted by Imperial Edict, and the mining rights were therefore Wang's private property.\n\nLater on in September, and again on the 25th October, 1907, Wang himself addressed petitions to the Wai-wu Pu on the subject.\n\nThe following is a translation of the reply he received from the Board, dated 5th November, 1907, to his second petition:\n\n\"On the receipt of your petition of the 2nd September the Board immediately instructed his Excellency Yang, Chinese Minister at Tôkiô, to request the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs to urge Baron Goto to discuss the matter as soon as possible, with a view to the restoration of the mines. On the 27th October the Board again telegraphed to his Excellency Yang in the same sense, and has now received a telegraphic communication from him to the following effect. His Excellency had written to the Tôkiô Foreign Office on receipt of the Board's first instructions, but had received no reply. On receipt of the telegram of the 27th October, his Excellency had a personal interview with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, who promised to urge Baron Goto to discuss the matter at an early date.\n\n\"Besides instructing the Viceroy of the Three Eastern Provinces and the Governor of Fengtien to press Baron Goto to discuss the question, the Board must order the petitioner to return at once to Mukden, so as to be in a position to interview Baron Goto.\"\n\nWang accordingly returned to Mukden to await Baron Goto's arrival, but alarmed by a report that appeared in the Peking \"Daily News\" of the 2nd January last to the effect that the South Manchurian Railway was on the point of purchasing private property in the Fushun district, he again on the 24th January addressed a further petition to the Viceroy and Governor recapitulating his grievances. He was told, in reply, to wait patiently until Baron Goto's arrival in Mukden.\n\nMr. Wang appears to confine his claim to the Chien Chin-shan mines on the west of the river, which were included in the original Concession granted to him in 1901, and which appear to be the only mines at present worked by the Railway Company.\n\nHe further states that shortly after the entry of the Japanese into Mukden in March 1905 he lodged a protest with the military authorities against the seizure of his mines, and also that he had been assured by the late M. Pokotilow that at the Treaty of Portsmouth there had been no intention of including the Fushun mines amongst the properties to be handed over to the Japanese Government.\n\nThe Railway Company have, it would appear, attempted to come to terms with Mr. Wang. He has been offered, according to his own statement, 100,000 taels, or a post as Director of the mines, on condition of withdrawing his claims. These offers he has rejected, and the last I heard of him was that he was seeking the ablest lawyer in the Far East, with the intention of commencing a suit against the South Manchurian Railway Company in the Japanese Courts. This, he seemed to think, would at any rate give him the satisfaction of publicity.\n\nI inquired recently of the local manager of the Russo-Chinese Bank as to the bank's position in the matter. The manager informed me that the bank were in the position of shareholders in Wang's Company. The question had been referred to the head office at St. Petersburgh, and he had no knowledge as to whether any steps had been, or would be, taken for the satisfaction of the bank's claim.\n\nI inclose translation of a paragraph which appeared on the 15th instant in the \"Shenking Jih Pao,\" a local newspaper written in Chinese, but under Japanese management.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) ROBERT WILLIS.\n\n3\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Shengking Daily Newspaper\" of March 15, 1908.\n\nThe following is quoted from the \"Tung Pao\" (presumably a Tokio newspaper):-\n\n\"On the 3rd instant, the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question on the subject of the Fushun mines, stated in the House of Assembly that the Chinese Government had requested the Japanese Government to hand back the Fushun mines. The Japanese Government had, however, received these mines from the Russian Government, and were quite unable to accede to this request, and had advanced arguments in refutation of the Chinese claim. Further, a Chinese subject, named Wang Cheng Jao, had asked for the restoration of the mines as being his private property, but his statements gave rise to suspicion, and he had been told to discuss the matter with the South Manchurian Railway Company.\n\n\"The statements of Wang are to the effect that the mining rights on his property were worth at most 60,000 taels, and were not in obstruction of our mining privileges.\"\n\n658",
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        "content_text": "Head Railway Bureau which will issue the necessary directions to the various technical experts etc:.\n\n7.\n\n784 If injury sustained while on duty necessitates the engineer's going into hospital for treatment, $5 a day will be paid him for medical expenses. Should death result from the severity of the injury there will be issued a compassionate grant of eight months' pay. Should it entail the loss of a limb or disablement the engineer will receive four months' pay as invalided allowance.\n\n8.\n\nThe engineer having an allowance for sundry expenses will not while on duty be entitled to any extra pay for board and lodging: but when he goes on tour on business he will have supplied by the Head Railway Bureau horse and boat transport as well as lodgings and carriage of his baggage, finding himself in food only.\n\n9.\n\nUnder ordinary circumstances no leave can be applied for nor will there be any summer vacation. Sick leave is limited to ten days after which it will be continued only on production of a proper medical certificate.\n\n10.\n\nIf the engineer should not observe this agreement the Head Railway Bureau may at once dismiss him and pay his salary and allowance up to the day of his dismissal.\n\nSigned by the Hupei Head Bureau of the Hankow-Canton Railway with the approval of H.E. the Hukuang Viceroy Chao (Seals of the Directors, viz., the Treasurer Li, and the Taotais Wang and Feng).\n\nSigned by the engineer R. St George Moore.\n\nWitness to his signature Huang Hsien-chang.\n\nDated April 30, 1908. (Seal of the Head Railway Bureau covers the date).\n\nTranslated by: (signed) E. H. Fraser,",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nKiangsu, with a view to the suppression of piracy. Four shallow-draught gun-boats, eight Chinese gun-boats, and ninety small patrol-boats ('red boats') are to be purchased.\n\n\"Railway for Ili.—The Military Governor has reported in favour of constructing three lines: one from Ti-hua Fu to Ili, one from Ti-hua Fu to Urga, and the third from Ti-hua Fu to Lanchou. He proposes that the gold mines in Ili should be developed with a view to raising capital for the construction of these railways, and that a loan should be made by the Board of Revenue.\"\n\n'Railways in Manchuria.—The Tsi-tsi-har—Hei-lung-chiang Railway is to be commenced next spring, and the Chinese Eastern Railway branch line from Tsi-tsi-har to Old Tsi-tsi-har this summer.\n\n\"Kirin-Ch'ang Ch'un Railway. The survey of this line has been completed, and the estimated cost of construction is 5,500,000 to 5,600,000 dollars. Work will be commenced on the conclusion of the Loan Agreement with Japan.\"\n\nProposed Admiral for Hupei.—The Grand Council contemplate the appointment of an officer as Admiral of Hupei, to be stationed at Hankow and co-operate with the Admiral of the Yang-tsze.\n\n**\n\nProposed new Naval Harbour.—The Viceroy of Canton has forwarded to the Army Board a Report on the harbour of Hsia Yung in Kwangtung, with regard to its suitability as a naval harbour. The question is to be referred to Admiral Sa.\n\nYang Shih Ch'i's Mission.—In a Memorial to the Throne Yang Shih Ch'i gives brief account of his mission to inquire into the condition of Chinese settlers in the Philippines, Siam, Singapore, Java, Annam, and other countries. He describes the climate and productions of the various places visited, and states the number of Chinese settlers in each. He praises the Administration of Singapore and Penang, where the Chinese have attained much wealth and influence, but states that in Java the Chinese, especially those employed in the mines, are badly treated. Everywhere he went he was well received, and found that the Chinese settlers still retained a strong feeling of affection for their native country. He addressed meetings of Chinese merchants in various places, and visited schools and other institutions, to some of which he gave scrolls presented by the Empress Dowager.\n\n\"Steam Navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze.\" (See Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 157, of the 1st April) In a Memorial the Acting Viceroy of Szechuan reports that he proposes to establish a Company with a capital of 200,000 taels, to run steam-ships on the Upper Yang-tsze between Ichang and Chungking, and later to Suifu and Kiating, one-third of the capital to be subscribed by the Government and two-thirds by the public. An officer sent to investigate the matter has reported that by blowing up some of the obstructions in the river and using windlasses at some of the more dangerous rapids, navigation by steam vessels would be quite feasible. Three small steamers are to be purchased abroad, and the service will afterwards be extended.\n\n46\n\nFires in Peking.—It is reported that Na Tung has given special orders to the police with reference to the fires which have been very numerous recently. He states that, although the frequency of these fires is chiefly to be attributed to the exceptional dryness of the atmosphere, there is reason to suspect that some have been the work of incendiaries who wished to take advantage of the fires to commit thefts. He directs the police to exert themselves to bring all such criminals to justice.\n\n\"The Ching Hua Shih Pao reports that there was a fire at the Wai-wu Pu on the 4th, but that it was promptly extinguished.\"\n\nThe Ching Hua Shih Pao also reports that there are at present a large number of revolutionaries in Peking who have come here from Japan. The Board of the Interior are reported to have given orders for the arrest of fifty-five of these persons.\n\n\"Naval Harbour in Hainan.—The Viceroy at Canton has reported in favour of making a naval harbour at Yu Lin, in Hainan, and states that the water supply and climate are good. He recommends the construction of a railway for the purpose of transporting troops and supplies there when necessary.\n\nChengting-Te Chou Railway.—The Government have decided to proceed with the construction of this railway at once. Engineers have been sent by the Peking-Hankow Railway Company to survey the line, and work will be commenced next month. The construction will be under the direction of the French.\n\n\"Tsitsihar-Angangchi Railway.—A Chinese Company with a capital of 320,000 taels has been formed for the construction of this short line (a distance of 50 li). The contract for building the line has been given to a German firm, Messrs. Telge and Schroeter. Work will be commenced in June.\n\n**\n\n5\n\n'Proposed Appointment of Judicial Officials.—The provincial authorities of Kwangtung, Yunnan, and Kweichow proposed some time ago that judicial officers (Pu Huo Ts'ai P'an) should be appointed in the interior with a view to preparing for the withdrawal of the right of exterritoriality at present enjoyed by foreigners. The Government, with the assistance of Wai-wu Pu and Hsien Cheng Kuan, are engaged in drawing up Regulations for the purpose.\n\n\"Proposed Railways in the North-west.—The Shen-Kan Viceroy has recommended the construction of two lines, one from Kalgan to Urga, a distance of 2,450 li, the other from Sui-yuan along the north bank of the Yellow River to Ning-hsia; thence to Liang-Chou, Hami, Ti-hua, and Ili, a distance of 8,000 li. These railways could not be constructed as a commercial enterprise, but would be of great importance for military purposes.\n\nMining in Shansi.—Since buying out the Peking Syndicate, the Taiyuan Fu Mining Company have obtained permission to raise capital to the amount of 5,000,000 taels to develop the mines, and the capital has already been over-subscribed, only Chinese being permitted to purchase shares. A Chinese mining engineer has been engaged at a salary of 600 taels a-month, machinery has been ordered from Europe, and 1,000,000 taels of the capital is to be devoted to the establishment of an iron foundry.\n\nThe \"Universal Gazette,\" in an article on the danger of ignorance of the limits of foreign relations, proceeds to argue that, while the limitation of India's export of opium is a diplomatic question, China's monopoly of sale of the prepared drug is an internal Government step with which England has no concern, since the nature of the drug has been altered, and so the Treaty with England does not apply. At present the shops charge at will, irrespective of the duty and li-kin, and England has nothing to say. Similarly, Chinese prohibition of rice export does not affect cakes and biscuits made of it. Moreover, a rise in price is not a customs duty; the aliens might as well claim to interfere with the proposed stamp duties, which will be charged on native and foreign goods alike.\n\nThe distinction between diplomatic and non-diplomatic matters is quite easy. Another instance, the Soo-Hang-Ning Railway. The Tsung-li Yamên's agreement with the British Envoy might be brought within the scope of diplomacy, but, as regards construction, the publication of the Railway Regulations took that out of the Wai-wu Pu's sphere, and the Wai-wu Pu should have told Sir J. Jordan to bid his nationals petition the Board of Communications direct, and have declined to interfere, quoting as precedents the American exclusion, which its State Department insisted pertained solely to the Labour Department; the Manchurian troops question, which Russia said pertained to her War Office; the Touquin Consuls, which the French Foreign Office put on its Colonial Department, and all the other precedents of recent years. Unfortunately, the Board waited till it got a bad name by resisting popular opinion before it got the Board of Communications to make the loan,\n\nThen trade-marks: all China promised was rules like other Powers, yet foreigners are allowed to interfere with their tenor. And the Mining Rules, which were drafted with the aid of foreign advisers, were still less open to foreign revision.\n\nIf attention is paid to their protests on more and more questions, China's independence will be lost through Chinese heedlessness.\n\nThe trouble has come from the fact that the Wai-wu Pu is not bound, like other posts, to report to the Throne and quote precedents. It has assumed unlimited powers, and, with a Prince and Grand Councillors at its head, ignores all control, and, without knowing it, is a danger to the State. Could folly go further?\n\nTo recover from the consequences will take many years' struggles and constant supervision, which latter is beyond the Throne, the Council and the Ministers, and to be found only in an elected Parliament. This is the only means to safety.\n\nThe \"Eastern Times\" of the 25th March professes to give the gist of a secret report by the Chinese Delegates to The Hague Conference on the European position. He describes the Peace Conference as a covert struggle for each Power's private objects. England dislikes Germany, which, since its victory over France, has increased in military pride above not only England, but the whole world, and is now developing a navy. So Russia fell in with England's request, in order, it is said, to safeguard her Asiatic possessions after Japan's victory over Russia. So Russia and Japan nearly came to rupture over the naval question, who five years ago started the limitation of armaments proposal, now refused to sign such an Agreement. The Conference reminds him of Sung's abortive assembly of the States (in B.C. 545), when the Ch'u men wore armour under their clothes.\n\n797",
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        "content_text": "Chinese authorities, which has been placed at my disposition by the American Consul-General.\n\nThis document was signed, I am informed, in 1901, and the fact that the Railway Company were prepared at this time to subsidize a Chinese bureau for the special object of determining cases in which the Chinese employees of the railway were concerned seems to show clearly that there was then no idea of claiming exclusive administrative rights under Article 6 of the Agreement of 1896 such as have recently been advanced.\n\nA few days ago I had a conversation with Mr. Dawson Gröne, who has been acting as Commissioner of Customs at Harbin during the past two months, Mr. Gröne requested that I should regard any information obtained from him as confidential,\n\nHe was of opinion that there are great possibilities commercially at Harbin, in view of its position as a railway centre and the probability of the agricultural development of the northern portion of Manchuria in the near future, more especially the fertile regions along the lower reaches of the Sungari River. The conditions imposed by the Railway Company, however, made it impossible for any merchants except Russians to hold land in the Railway Settlement, and Mr. Gröne evidently held a very poor opinion of the capacity and energy of the Russian merchants at present established in the town. The police force is quite inadequate to hold in check the large number of bad characters who haunt the town, and neither life nor property are secure, whilst the Railway Administration generally Mr. Gröne describes as being corrupt and inefficient beyond measure. He contrasts the state of affairs in the Chinese town very favourably with that obtaining in the Railway Settlement area.\n\nAs regards the political situation Mr. Gröne thought that since the death of M. Pokotilow, the railway authorities seemed much less determined to force through their claim for exclusive administrative rights. It appeared to him as if for the sake of a quiet life they would be willing to give way; they were, however, being spurred to activity by the Japanese Consul-General,\n\nMr. Fisher, the American Consul at Harbin, I gather from my American colleague here, holds similar opinions, except that he has recently remarked a change in the Japanese attitude.\n\nGeneral Gromtschetsky, the local Director of the Railway Company, has been removed it is said, owing to the disapproval of the Central Office of the Obligatory Regulations issued by him in December and January last, copies of which have been forwarded to you.\n\nThe British American Tobacco Company have recently established themselves in Fu Chia Tien, the Chinese quarter of Harbin, Fu Chia Tien, Mr. Gröne tells me, is held by the Chinese authorities to be the interior, and on the 29th ultimo I received a letter from the Tobacco Company complaining of the duties that were collected in Fu Chia Tien from dealers purchasing their goods. The letter further stated that no charges were being levied on Japanese goods of a similar nature. As the Company's information was derived through a Chinese agent, and as the Manager himself and one of the Directors of the firm were on the point of visiting Harbin, I considered it advisable to await further details before taking any action.\n\nThe object of the Chinese Government in opening Harbin was presumably to obtain assistance from the Treaty Powers in their dispute with the Chinese Eastern Railway Company, and in the event of the Railway Company successfully maintaining their attitude, it seems improbable that the Chinese will admit the contention that Fu Chia Tien was intended by them to be regarded as an open mart.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nROBERT WILLIS.\n\n3\n\nthe places where they live, they will be dealt with at the time of such occurrence by the Chinese officials according to Chinese Law.\n\nWhen cases of an extraordinary nature occur, the railway officer in charge of that division of the line will report to the Bureau, and at the same time notify the local authority. When the reply of the Bureau has been received as to whether the Bureau will take charge of the case, or whether the local authority will do so, then the case will be taken up for adjustment.\n\n3. All cases that coincide with those contained in Article 2 regarding which steps have been taken by any Yamên or local official toward their settlement, shall be reported to the Bureau, which will in turn arrange with the Superintendent of the railway whether the said cases shall be settled in the Bureau or by the local authority.\n\n4. Hereafter all cases relating to those contained in Article 2 which are now in the hands of any Yamên or official, shall be transmitted to the Bureau for adjustment. The decisions of the Bureau shall be carried out by the respective local Chinese authorities.\n\n5. All cases included in Article 2 shall be submitted to the joint investigation of the Bureau and the Superintendent of the Eastern Chinese Railway Company or his authorized representative, who will arrange and settle them satisfactorily.\n\n6. Sentences will be pronounced against Chinese subjects in the employ of the Railway Company, as mentioned in Article 2, after having been convicted by the Bureau.\n\n7. All cases of great importance, and cases in which the Bureau and the Superintendent of the Railway hold different opinions, shall be transmitted to the Chang Chuen, who will adjust them according to the report of the Bureau and the despatches of the Superintendent of the Railway. Other cases shall be settled satisfactorily by the Chief of the Bureau and the Superintendent of the Railway or his authorized representative. The decisions will be reported to the Chang Chuen and the Chief of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs for Kirin.\n\n8. The officers of this Bureau will be appointed by the Chang Chuen; soldiers will be dispatched by him. The Chief of the Bureau will also be appointed by him, but to give due importance to the appointment, the Superintendent of the Railway will be notified before the appointment is made. When vacancies occur, the Superintendent of the Railway may recommend for appointment such good and able officials of Kirin Province, who are well acquainted with railway affairs, as he has authentic knowledge of.\n\n9. The Superintendent of the Railway will pay over to the Chief of the Bureau 60,000 Kirin taels annually for the expenses of himself, the officials under him, the soldiers, &c. The said sum shall be paid in instalments, such instalments in advance for the term of three months.\n\n10. The Superintendent of the Railway will provide the necessary sums for the construction of the offices and other buildings of the Bureau, quarters for the employees, the purchase of furniture, &c., which funds will be agreed upon between the Chief of the Bureau and the Superintendent of the Railway.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nRegulations for the Establishment of a Chief Bureau in Harbin for the Conduct of Relations with the Railway Authorities.\n\n1. A Chief Bureau for the conduct of relations with the railway authorities shall be established at Harbin, Kirin.\n\n2. The duties of the said Bureau will be to settle all cases wholly or in part, in relation to the Railway Company, its employees, commission agents, contractors, and such persons as mechanics, employed by it.\n\nAs to cases relating to labourers, their offences, or any crime that they commit at\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Fisher to Assistant Secretary of State, Washington.\n\nAmerican Consulate, Harbin, Manchuria, April 15, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform the Department that on the 10th instant Mr. T. Kawakami, the Japanese Consul-General at Harbin, called upon me and drew my attention to a Washington telegram recently published in the Russian newspapers in Harbin, to the effect that the Russian Ambassador at Washington had made representations to the American Government regarding my refusal to recognize the Eastern Mr. Kawakami Chinese Railway Company's administration over Harbin and Hailar.\n\nsaid that he had received telegraphic instructions from his Minister in Peking to obtain from me, if I had no objections, the grounds upon which I had refused to recognize the Railway's administration.\n\n* Le, the Governor of Kirin Province.\n\n[1819 p-1]\n\nB 2",
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        "content_text": "¡This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n0.\n\n25071\n\n63\n\n(Translation.) Sir,\n\n2\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nActing Viceroy Yang Shih Hsiang to Consul-General Hopkins.\n\n[Undated.] I HAVE duly considered your two notes. On the occasion of your recent interview with me on the subject of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, you suggested that work on the Luan Chow Mine should cease for the present, and I instructed the Customs Taotai Tsai to call upon you and explain the general position.\n\nI now have the honour to state that Taotai Chang Yen Mao was formerly in charge of the Kaiping Mine, and he only had authority to manage this particular thing. He had no authority to transfer to any other person benefits comprised in the particular thing under his control, and still less had he had authority to convey benefits which were not comprised within that thing. The change to a Limited Liability Company was never agreed to or sanctioned by our Government, who are therefore in no way bound to recognize it. My predecessor, his Excellency Yuan Shih Kai, gave frequent instructions for negotiations to be entered into, and now, if there is any method by which this case can be settled, I shall certainly submit it for the consideration of my Government.\n\nThe Luan Chow Mine, however, is quite a distinct affair.\n\nIn the dossier of the Kaiping Mine all that is placed upon record is that no one may mine within 10 li of Tongshan. Therefore, any operations outside this area, carried on in accordance with the laws of China, by official or private enterprise, have no connection whatever with Kaiping,\n\nIt is therefore impossible to accede to your suggestion to stop work for the present on the Luan Chow Mine.\n\nCompliments.\n\nDear Mr. Tong,\n\n(Card of Yang Shih Hsiang, Acting Viceroy of Chihli.)\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Tong Shon-yi.\n\nPeking, May 4, 1908.\n\nI HAVE seen Major Nathan, who is quite willing to enter into negotiations with the view of arriving at an amicable adjustment of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company's case. But he thinks that the work at the new mine at Chen Chia Ling should in the meantime be suspended, and this is, in my opinion, a reasonable request.\n\nOn this condition, therefore, I shall be most happy to do what I can to promote a settlement, and I think the best course is to follow your suggestion and have an informal discussion of the various points between the parties before opening formal negotiations.\n\nI propose to call upon you at, say, 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning, and perhaps you would then be in a position to let me know whether the above meets with your approval.\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n(15839)\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey,-(Received May 8.)\n\nbe 16 JUL 08 [May 8.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n(No. 95.) (Telegraphic.) P.\n\nPeking, May 8, 1908. I HAVE the honour to report that Baron Goto has started for St. Petersburgh, passing through Mukden on the 1st instant.\n\nThe general impression prevailing here is that his visit to the Russian capital is connected with the Japanese desire to purchase the branch of the Chinese Eastern Railway running from Harbin to Kuan-ching-tzu,\n\nIt is desired by the Chinese Government that the first refusal of such purchase should be offered to them.\n\n[2972 h-1]\n\nYours, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nINS\n\nDear Sir John,\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nTong Shoa-yi to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n[Undated.]\n\nSINCE I last saw you I have not been able to see the Prince, so if you do not mind postponing your intended call to-morrow, I will let you know as soon as I can whether I will be deputed to go into the matter with you or not. As a friend to both parties, it would give me great pleasure to do what I can, but in my private opinion,\n\nI think a member of the Wai-wu Pu should be deputed to do the work.\n\nYours, &c.\n\n(Signed) TONG SHOA-YI.\n\nΟ",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nC. O 25671\n\n64\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n16 JUL 08\n\n[June 13.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n[20378]\n\n(Confidential.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nColonial Office to Foreign Office.-(Received June 13.)\n\nDowning Street, June 12, 1908.\n\nI AM directed by the Earl of Crewe to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th ultimo, and to transmit to you, for the information of Sir E. Grey, the inclosed copies of correspondence with the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the Hankow-Canton Railway.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) R. L. ANTROBUS.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n(Confidential.) My Lord,\n\nGovernor Sir F. Lugard to the Earl of Elgin.\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong, April 10, 1908. SIR JOHN JORDAN, His Majesty's Minister at Peking, has lately been spending a few days in Hong Kong on a private visit to myself, and this has afforded me an opportunity of discussing several matters of interest to this Colony.\n\n2. I have the honour to recall to your Lordship's recollection the position of affairs in respect of the Canton-Hankow Railway. The fact that this railway was projected as a continuation of the Canton-Kowloon Railway and to connect it with the existing Hankow-Peking line was one of the determining reasons which decided the Governor and Legislature of this Colony to embark on the expensive enterprise of building the British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, since it was felt that a line from north to south of China must debouch at Kowloon if the supremacy of the port of Hong Kong were to be maintained. Your Lordship will recollect that, with your concurrence, this Colony even went farther, and advanced a sum of 1,100,000l. to the Viceroy of Wuchang to enable him to redeem the Concession for the line to Hankow, which was in the hands of an Americo-Belgian Syndicate. Hong Kong has therefore not only a very vital interest in the construction of this line, but also, in view of the financial support rendered, the Colony is justified in claiming that the purpose for which the loan was advanced is effected.\n\n3. The present position of affairs appears to be an impasse. Owing to the inclusion in the British Syndicates of a French group without the consent of the Chinese, the latter refuse to apply for the loan for construction. I understand that Chang-chi-tung emphatically declares that he will have nothing to do with an Anglo-French Syndicate, that he made his Agreement with the British alone, and will not negotiate with any other, though he is ready to apply for a loan from the British Syndicates. They, on their part, are precluded from negotiation by the terms of their compact with the French group, while the French are unwilling to recede from the position they have obtained and to allow the British to advance funds, except in the name of the Joint Syndicate. The British Government is pledged to support the Anglo-French Syndicate only, and therefore no loan for construction can be raised from any other British source, including Hong Kong, while the Chinese are equally bound by the terms of their Agreement to borrow from no other source than the British. There is thus a complete deadlock. The British Minister is endeavouring to persuade his French colleague to give way, and there seems to be a possibility that the French may agree that the loan should be made in the name of the British Syndicate, while they preserve their interests. This has not, however, been agreed as yet, nor is it certain how the Chinese would regard the arrangement. Construction is in the meantime completely blocked unless the Chinese can raise the funds themselves.\n\n4. In these circumstances, I suggested to Sir John Jordan that, in order not to delay the construction of the line, in which this Colony has so great an interest, it might be possible for me to agree to postpone for this year the repayment (of\n\n[1814 n-1]",
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        "content_text": "2\n\neagerness in any part of the province to subscribe capital for the enterprise, and the Acting British Consul-General reports that there exists a great deal of dissatisfaction on account of the \"rent share\" system (see Mr. Fox' Report inclosed in Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 245 of last year). Indeed, it is estimated that the present taxation on cultivated land, including this rent share subscription, is not far short of 10 per cent. per annum of the value of the crops. The Acting Viceroy has been compelled to prohibit all meetings where the general dissatisfaction is likely to find expression in \"reckless oratory,\" and great efforts are being made, by lectures and other means, to stimulate public interest in the railway scheme. Past experience has not taught the officials that it will be well nigh impossible to raise funds for railway construction without having recourse to foreign assistance, and the Acting Viceroy, under instructions from the Board of Posts and Communications, has officially stated that there is no intention of employing foreign capital in the case of this railway.\n\nChinan-fu.\n\nHis Majesty's Consul reports the arrival at Chinan-fu of Yuan Shu-hsün, who has taken over charge of the province, as Acting Governor, from Wu Ting-pin. The latter is returning to his home, not having taken up his new post of Treasurer of Chihli on the ground of ill-health.\n\nYuan Shu-hsün will be remembered in connection with the Shanghai riots of 1905, when his attitude as Tantai was not such as to lead one to attribute to him any very friendly feelings towards foreigners.\n\nKiukiang.\n\nA Japanese post office was opened early in March in the British Concession, and bids fair to become a serious rival to the Chinese Imperial Postal Service. The complaints that are made against the latter are numerous and serious, involving cases not only of delay and loss of money orders and parcels, but also of breach of confidence and absence of secrecy. From the reports of His Majesty's Consul it would not seem that the good reputation which the Chinese Post Office enjoys elsewhere is in any degree maintained in the Kiukiang district.\n\nKanchou Riot.--Various officials have been dealt with by Imperial Decree as a result of the outbreak in the Kanchou district last autumn (see Monthly Summary inclosed in Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 104 of the 3rd March, 1908). One Magistrate has been dismissed from the public service for ever, while four other officials have been handed over to the Board concerned to receive the severest penalties.\n\nThe supersession in Nan Chang of Chuang Taotai by Taotai Wang Kan-ching means the removal of an official whose attitude to foreigners has always been one of obstruction and hostility.\n\nForeign Missions.\n\nA report received from His Majesty's Consul at Chinan-fu shows that the Western \"conscientious objector\" is finding his imitators in the Far East.\n\nA tax is being levied by the local authorities in several districts of Shantung for the purpose of repairing the local Confucian temples. In some instances native Christians have sought the support of missionaries in claiming exemption from payment of this tax. They maintain that the imposition of such taxes upon Christians is contrary to Treaty rights, and, further, that their consciences will not permit them to contribute to the up-keep of institutions where ceremonies repugnant to their religious convictions are performed. Among the native converts, if not among the missionaries, a righteous indignation is almost universally expressed at the thought of the proceeds of the tax being devoted to the maintenance of so idolatrous a form of worship, though the more moderate party is inclined to draw nice distinctions between the national Confucian religion and the more superstitious Buddhist and Taoist creeds. The latter question is one that affords great scope for ingenious theological arguments, hinging on the moot point as to whether Confucianism is an idolatrous religion or merely a national code of morals; indeed, the learned teachers of Christianity in China have found in this question a fertile source of controversy for the last three hundred years.\n\nThe point of conscience appears to be too delicate for any but theologians to determine, but, as regards the Treaty rights claimed by the converts, the only justification for such a claim is to be found in Article 14 of the American Treaty of 1903, which provides that converts are to be exempt from the payment of taxes \"levied for the support of religious customs and practices contrary to their faith.\" On the other hand, Confucianism is the State religion of China, and, as the new Governor of Shantung very sensibly pointed out in a conversation with His Majesty's Consul, the Confucian temples are national Chinese institutions, the support of which is a legitimate charge on the public revenue.\n\nAt Chengtu, the West China Missionary Conference passed a Resolution appointing a Committee to consider what measures could be taken to prevent the importation of cigarettes. This Resolution is directed against the British-American Tobacco Company, and the American Consul is very indignant with the American missionaries for trying to harm a Company whose capital is largely American.\n\nThis same Conference was addressed at its opening meeting by a deputy from the Acting Viceroy, who, after congratulating the Protestant missions on their reputation for abstaining from political intrigues, proceeded to give the members some sound advice as regards the choice of candidates for conversion, hinting that Chinese did not always embrace Christianity from purely religious motives. It is satisfactory to note that the members of the Conference seem to have taken his words in good part.\n\nBoycott of Japanese Goods.\n\nFrom the information contained in the Quarterly Intelligence Report, sent to this Legation by His Majesty's Consulate-General at Canton, it would seem doubtful whether the boycott will be able to affect Japanese trade to a really serious extent in that city. The importation of coal, for instance, is largely in the hands of the Japanese, and it would be practically impossible to obtain coal from any other source. The Society which plays the leading part in the movement, the so-called \"Self-Government\" Society, is one not much respected by the better class of Cantonese merchants, its head being a bankrupt banker. The efforts of this Society, aided by the prejudice which does exist against Japanese goods, will, however, probably not be without a certain effect, temporary though it may be, on the business done by the local Japanese traders.\n\nThe opinions expressed by the native journals in general as to the desirability of the boycott vary widely. On the one hand a large section of the press clamour loudly in favour of the movement, hailing it as an expression of national indignation at the disgrace inflicted on China by the Government's weakness over the \"Tatsu Maru\" incident. On the other hand, we find Chinese papers deprecating a boycott; their tone is no less jingoistic than that adopted by the pro-boycott press, but they base their attitude on the advantages reaped by British, German, and American trade from the check to Japanese commercial enterprise. They point out that to boycott the goods of any one country is merely to push the trade of the other foreign nations who are exploiting China for their own selfish ends. This view is expressed, not without a certain pathos, by the \"Universal Gazette\" (Hankow): \"It follows that all our trouble only brings immediate success to others. Therefore the better policy is to encourage the manufacture and use of native imitations.\"\n\nThe Native Press on Railways.\n\nThere are few subjects on which the Chinese press waxes so eloquent as on that of the connection between Chinese railways and foreigners. With tireless zeal the papers insist on the dangers attaching to the influx of foreign capital, and point to the profit which would attend the substitution of Chinese for foreign ownership of the railways. Unfortunately their readers seem slow to learn their lesson, as most attempts to raise loans for railway enterprises have shown.\n\nA series of articles which have appeared in the \"Universal Gazette,\" on the much-debated Chekiang Railway question, are typical of the tone adopted by the press. Taking the Loan Agreement as his theme, the writer draws attention to the dark British schemes which lurk hidden under such Agreements. Great Britain, whom the writer terms the \"leading devil in the work of destroying nations by trade,\" is bent on securing complete control of the Yang-tsze Valley, and \"if England can get the Shanghai-Nanking and Soochow-Hangchow-Ningpo Railways, she will hold China's natural Treasury, Kiangsu-Chekiang, and later advance her sphere over Anhui and Kiangsi, ultimately obtaining the Canton-Hankow Railway section in Hunan.\" Chinese should therefore subscribe towards the redemption of foreign-owned railways, gaining thereby not only great financial profit, but also the glory which attaches to true patriots.\n\nThe same paper has an article about the Hsinmintun-Fakumen Railway, and takes...\n\n3\n\n...\n\n78",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\n[22278]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n25781\n\n[June 29.]\n\n16 JUL\n\nSECTION 2.\n\n1\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 29.)\n\n(No. 210.)\n\nPeking, May 12, 1908. Sir,\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 11 of the 6th January last, respecting the reform of the currency in China, I have the honour to state that I have lately been in correspondence with the Wai-wu Pu on the subject of the minting of subsidiary silver coinage at Canton.\n\nAt the instance of the Governor of Hong Kong, I addressed a note to the Wai-wu Pu on the 17th February last, copy of which is inclosed herewith, asking that the Viceroy of the two Kwang should be urged to co-operate with the Hong Kong Government in their endeavour to maintain the coinage at par by restricting its output and pointing out that, without such co-operation, the efforts of the Government of Hong Kong would not avail to remedy the situation.\n\nThe Wai-wu Pu replied that the Viceroy had been instructed to adopt whatever measures appeared most suitable, and his Excellency Chang assured Sir F. Lugard verbally that no subsidiary silver currency was being coined, and led him to understand that no more would be minted for the present. Nevertheless, the minting complained of continued, and I therefore spoke to the Viceroy on the subject when I was at Canton at the beginning of last month. His Excellency expressed himself as quite ready to meet the views of the Hong Kong Government provided the Board of Finance (\"Ta Chih Pu\") would forego the profits which they derive from the minting of the coinage. He fully recognized and appreciated the good offices of the Hong Kong Government with regard to the export of arms, &c., and said that he would be pleased to reciprocate if his obligations to Peking permitted of his so doing. From this statement it was apparent that the Viceroy was unable or disinclined to act in the sense desired, except upon definite instructions from the Central authorities, and I therefore addressed a further note to the Wai-wu Pu on the 30th ultimo (copy inclosed), in which I urged that the Chinese Government should categorically forbid the minting of any more subsidiary silver coins at Canton until they shall have reached par value and should consent to forego the mint profits except on dollars.\n\nI have now received a reply from the Wai-wu Pu, copy of which is also inclosed for your information, stating that the Board of Finance and the Viceroy at Canton have been requested to take satisfactory measures. It is to be hoped that this action will, at least, have the effect of ameliorating the present situation.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Prince Ch'ing.\n\nPeking, February 17, 1908. ON the 9th July, 1906, this Legation addressed a note to the Board, drawing attention to the unsatisfactory condition of the coinage in the Canton Province, owing to the unrestricted issue by the Provincial authorities of subsidiary coins, and Mr. Carnegie was shortly afterwards verbally informed by the Wai-wu Pu that a telegram on the subject had been sent to the Viceroy at Canton.\n\nThe question is one which affects not only the two Kwang Provinces but also Hong Kong, and the efforts which have been made by the British authorities to remedy the evil seem destined to be ineffectual without the co-operation of the Chinese authorities at Canton.\n\nIn 1906 the Hong Kong Government not only stopped the import of subsidiary coins when they began to fall to a discount, and it became obvious that the number of such coins exceeded the amount required for currency purposes, but went further and\n\n[1815 ƒ--2]\n\n118",
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        "content_text": "2\n\n(5\n\nIt is surmised that the Japanese are spreading into the interior east of the railway, but, whatever the cause may be, there is no doubt that the number of civilian Japanese in the railway Settlements of Liao Yang, Ta Shih Ch'iao, and Newchwang has considerably diminished. Farther north, where, on the one hand, the main trade and producing centres are situated, and where, on the other hand, Japanese railway and military activities employ a larger number of men, the better opportunities for the small trader have so far kept the Japanese mercantile population at a higher figure. However, even there the Chinese maintain that the Japanese are poorer than they themselves, and, but for the earnings of prostitution, they could not subsist.\n\nThat the present railway is not sufficient for strategical purposes is clear, and the building of the railway from Antung to Mukden or Liao Yang will not solve this difficulty. As Kirin is about the same distance as Mukden from the Corean frontier, the only solution would be a railway from the Tumen River to Kirin and Kuan Cheng Tzu, so that the triangle Dalny-Kuan Ch'eng Tzu-Hun Chun would form a buffer to North Corea and a Japanese sphere of influence. This point has evidently been grasped by Japan. The Yalu Timber Concession, the purchase of a share in the Bush Concession, the Chien Tao affair, as well as the suspected Tumen-Kirin Railway project (the survey pegs of which near Yen Chi Ting, according to a native newspaper report, were removed by order of the Chinese officials), all tend to confirm this view, especially as they are seriatim contiguous to, and protect the whole of, the north boundary of Corea.\n\nThis eminently strategic railway scheme would at the same time prove a great commercial success, as it places Kuan Ch'eng Tzu, the commercial centre of Manchuria, within half the distance from Japan that it is now. In fact, such a railway would seriously injure the earning power of the South Manchuria Railway, and at the same time the commercial prosperity of Newchwang, by diverting the important export trade of bean products, which come from the north, to a shorter route through North Corea to the Sea of Japan.\n\nCommercial Policy.\n\nThe Japanese policy in Manchuria being primarily military, the commercial policy has to subordinate itself to it, and it can only become active where it does not conflict with military requirements. Thus the South Manchuria Railway, after having accomplished the work of the army, was handed over to the civil authorities. The latter, animated by the two objects of, firstly, to make the railway pay, and, secondly, to use it as a stimulus to Japanese trade, at once inaugurated an active commercial policy by endeavouring to boom the Tairen terminus and strangle Newchwang. For that purpose preferential rates were given to Tairen over Newchwang traders. Every inducement was offered to Japanese merchants to settle at Tairen. Every hindrance was placed in the way of foreigners coming there to trade. It was even rumoured at the time that the Railway Company may abolish the Newchwang-Ta Shih Chiao branch as unremunerative.\n\nThis policy, however, failed to work. Tairen would not boom. The Japanese merchants would not come. In spite of preference and other inducements, the Japanese still traded via Newchwang. It came finally to be realized that Tairen, by its very remoteness from the centres of Manchurian trade, could never be more than a transhipping place, that the Kuantung Peninsula was too poor to support any local trade, and that the wealthy Chinese merchants preferred Newchwang, and could not be induced to come to Tairen.\n\nA change of policy became necessary, and, with the advent of Baron Goto as President of the South Manchurian Railway, it was decided that Newchwang must be developed and not crushed. The Japanese in Newchwang had in the meantime consolidated their position, enlarged their scope and numbers (estimated now at 2,500 persons), and they could have had no small influence in inducing this change of policy. Thus the question of preferential treatment was given up as hurting the Newchwang Japanese more than it benefited the Tairen merchants. It may have, and presumably, in view of the strong commercial Government subventions to Japanese trade, it has been, replaced by a system of secret rebates to Japanese traders in addition to the published rebates on freight totals of 180,000 yen and upwards per annum open to any body; but no evidence can be procured of this.\n\nAs a consequence of this change of policy, the Japanese Municipal Council here purchased land with a view to its subsequent development. It also came to be realized that the station at Newchwang of the Japanese line was too far away from the town, and therefore steps were taken to have the station moved nearer to the Chinese town (it is at present some 3 to 4 miles to the east of it). Pourparlers for the purchase of land were reaching an end, and some land had even been bought by the railway, when suddenly, about three weeks ago, negotiations were suspended. It is suggested that the Chinese official protests, presumably based on Article 4, section 3, of the Russo-Chinese Agreement with regard to Manchuria of the 8th April, 1902, hitherto disregarded, have become more definite and insistent, but the probable explanation is that matters are in abeyance pending the realization of Baron Goto's mission to Russia.\n\nIn this connection the minds of the future neighbours of the railway, if extended nearer the town, have been exercised with the question whether such extension will be accompanied by the administrative control over neighbouring land, which the railway is claiming as a right in those parts, inherited from Russia, and whether, therefore, these neighbours, some British, might not one day find themselves dictated to by Japanese authorities.\n\n(Signed) R. T. TEBBITT.\n\nNewchwang, May 29, 1908.\n\n0\n\n274",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[25133]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n285\n\n29532\n\nBruly, 20-hug 08\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n(No. 287.) Sir,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey-(Received July 20.)\n\nPeking, June 24, 1908.\n\nI INSTRUCTED Mr. Campbell, before entering upon the negotiations referred to in my despatch No. 229 of the 26th May, to visit the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company's property at Tongshan and Chinwangtao, and ascertain personally how matters stood with regard to the new workings of the Lanchow Company. On the 30th May he found that this Company's Chen Chia Ling colliery was in full operation and producing 120 tons of coal a day. Two shafts had been sunk 170 feet, and a third was being sunk; there were substantial new buildings as offices, and some 400 men were employed above and below ground.\n\nAfter his return from Tongshan, on the 2nd June, Mr. Campbell saw Mr. M. T. Liang at the Wai-wu Pu, and reminded him of the condition stated in my letter of the 4th May to his Excellency Tong Shoa-yi that work on the new mine at Chen Chia Ling should be stopped pending the negotiations for a settlement of the whole question. As he expressed ignorance of this condition, and said that it would be an extremely difficult one to fulfil, a copy of my letter of the 4th May was sent to him, and Mr. Campbell pressed the matter again on his attention at an interview of the 5th June. He agreed to see the Viceroy at Tien-tsin, show his Excellency my letter to Tong, and see what could be done towards fulfilling my condition. At his request Mr. Campbell sent him a copy of the judgment in the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company's case in the Court of Appeal, of which he appeared to have only a second-hand acquaintance.\n\nOn the 12th June he informed Mr. Campbell that the Viceroy had declined to stop the Lanchow Company's workings at Chen Chia Ling, and next day I remonstrated with his Excellency Tong Shoa-yi in a letter copy of which is inclosed.\n\nAt the Wai-wu Pu on the 16th June the whole matter was discussed at length. Their Excellencies went into past history, upon which they commented with some asperity, urging that Chang Yen-mao's transfer deed could not hold good for the reason that he had not the power to transfer what did not belong to him or to the old Company, and made an offer to submit to arbitration the question whether the Lanchow Company was legally entitled to mine at Chen Chia Ling and at other places outside the limits of the original Concession to the old K'aiping Company. I declined to consider any proposal of the kind, and insisted that the starting-point of the negotiations for a settlement must be the judgment of the Court of Appeal, and that the transfer deed could not now be questioned in the manner suggested. I asked to be informed definitely whether the Wai-wu Pu would or would not request the Viceroy to fulfil my condition, and their Excellencies replied that they must see his Excellency Yuan Shih-k'ai, who is at the Summer Palace, before answering the question. At their request I supplied them with a Memorandum on the 17th June, copy of which I inclose, for the purpose of placing the facts clearly before Yuan.\n\nYesterday morning his Excellency Tong Shoa-yi called to see me, and explained that, the matter not being \"within his province,\" it was out of his power to accept any condition to bind the Lanchow Company, who were under the control of the Viceroy of Chibli.\n\nAfter a long discussion, with the details of which I need not trouble you, he promised to see the Viceroy, and also Yuan Shih-k'ai, and endeavour to arrange a stoppage of the Lanchow Company's workings, without prejudice, pending the issue of the negotiations for a settlement.\n\nI called at the Wai-wu Pu yesterday afternoon, but was unable to see Mr. M. T. Liang, from whom I hoped to hear the views of his Excellency Yuan Shih-k'ai on my Memorandum of the 17th June. I left a message, however, with his Excellency Liang Tun-yen that I desired to know as soon as possible, for the information of His Majesty's Government, whether the Lanchow Company's workings would be suspended.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n[1865 u-1]\n\nJ",
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        "content_text": "Inclosure 1 in No. 1,\n\nC. O.\n\n29532\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.)\n\nRece\n\nRd 13 AUG 08\n\n286\n\nSir J. Jordan to Tong Shoa-yi.\n\nDear Mr. Tong,\n\nPeking, June 13, 1908. YOU will remember that you approached me on the subject of a settlement of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company's case, and that, after seeing Major Nathan, I wrote to you on the 4th May, expressing my readiness to promote an amicable adjustment on the condition that work on the new mine at Chen Chia Ling should in the meantime be suspended.\n\nMr. M. T. Liang has been appointed by the Wai-wu Pu, and I have appointed Mr. Campbell to negotiate the matter, and they are ready to begin the discussion as soon as the condition I made is fulfilled.\n\nMr. Campbell, who has visited the new mine, tells me that it is in full operation, and Mr. Liang, who has been asked to have the work stopped, informed me last night that the Viceroy Yang refuses to issue the necessary orders.\n\nThe new mine should be stopped in any case, and I wish to avoid bringing the matter before the Wai-wu Pu on account of the negotiations initiated by yourself. I had assumed that the condition mentioned in my letter of the 4th May was accepted by you, and before taking any further step I should be glad if you could see your way to arranging for a cessation of the work at Chen Chia Ling pending the issue of the discussion for a settlement.\n\nYours, &c. (Signed)\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nP.S.--Since writing the above, I learn that the people who are mining at Chen Chia Ling are starting work on another mine at Ma Chia Kou. I have only to repeat that under any circumstances, negotiations or no negotiations, these mines must be stopped working.\n\nJ. N. J.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[25477]\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nAdmiralty to Foreign Office.--(Received July 22.)\n\n[July 22.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nAdmiralty, July 21, 1908. WITH reference to your letter of the 10th instant, forwarding a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Peking, on the subject of the navigation of Poyang Lake by His Majesty's ships, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that they concur in Sir J. Jordan's view that, before one of His Majesty's ships again proceeds to the lake, a verbal intimation of the proposed visit should be given to the Chinese Taotai through His Majesty's Consul at Kiukiang.\n\nI am,\n\n&c.\n\nThe Commander-in-chief, China, has already issued orders accordingly,\n\n(Signed) C. I. THOMAS.\n\n[1865 y-]\n\n-1]\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum communicated by Sir J. Jordan to Wai-wu Pu.\n\nON the 19th May Sir John Jordan was informed at the Wai-wu Pu that his Excellency Liang Ju-hao was appointed to negotiate a settlement of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company's case. At the same time Sir John intimated to the Wai-wu Pu that he had appointed Mr. Campbell as his delegate for the same purpose.\n\nThese appointments resulted from a suggestion made to Sir John Jordan early in May by his Excellency Tong Shoa-yi, and which was accepted by Sir John, on the condition, stated in writing, that the workings of the Lanchow Company at Chen Chia Ling should be stopped pending the negotiations between his Excellency Liang Ju-hao and Mr. Campbell,\n\nMr. Campbell visited Chen Chia Ling on the 30th May and saw that the Lanchow Company's works were in full operation and had not been stopped, and I am now informed that the same Company is opening a mine at Ma Chia Kou, a place included in the deed of transfer executed by his Excellency Cheng Yen-mou.\n\nSir John Jordan desires to state that negotiations for an amicable settlement are not possible while the workings of the Lanchow Company in the places covered by the deed of transfer are permitted, and he therefore requests the Wai-wu Pu to take the necessary steps for the cessation of those workings pending the negotiations for a settlement, which he undertakes to press forward as quickly as possible.\n\nJune 17, 1908.",
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        "content_text": "296\n\n2\n\nstated that in the view of the French Government participation included \"general control,\" and that Sir E. Grey considered that there could be no question of repudiating the participation agreed upon, and inferentially concurred in the meaning placed upon that term by the French Government, subject, of course, to the express stipulation regarding the Chairman.\n\n5. The unfortunate result of these negotiations has been-\n\n(a) In the first place, to produce a \"deadlock\" and to defer the construction of the railway, which my predecessor had anticipated would be completed simultaneously with the Canton-Kowloon line;\n\n(b) In the second place, to establish certain claims for French control in the line;\n\n(c) In the third place, that the French have demanded British support for a line from Canton to Indo-China and the extension of the Yannau line to Szechuan-both radically opposed to British interests; and\n\n(d) In the fourth place, to bring us into association with the French in China. It was the primary object of the Hong Kong Loan to prevent each of these contingencies, and I have the honour to submit a few remarks upon them.\n\n6. With regard to (a), the delay in construction. The Colony of Hong Kong is spending a sum of approximately 1,000,0007, upon a railway which is useless unless it forms the final link in a great trunk line from Hankow to Peking, and every day's delay in the construction of the Hankow-Canton section is therefore a direct loss to Hong Kong, and, moreover, owing to the growing opposition in China to foreign intervention in railway construction or finance, is daily increasing the difficulties of the position. In such circumstances it would seem that this Colony, owing to the favoured position it had secured by lending the money for the redemption of the line, should rightly be able to exercise the option of making a further loan to give effect to the objects only partially secured by the first. The right to exercise such an option appears, however, to have been taken from it by the pledge given by His Majesty's Government to support French participation.\n\nWith regard to (b), French control in the line, even though the Chairman be British, is entirely opposed to the interests of this Colony. This was so fully recognized by your Lordship's predecessor that I need not enter into details.\n\n(c) Nor is it, I think, necessary for me to point out that any incentive to French influence in the Liang Kwang provinces would be viewed as disastrous to British interests in South China and to the interests of Hong Kong in particular; while, with regard to the feeling of the Chinese in this matter, I would remind your Lordship that the Chinese Government has since 1884 been in possession of a brochure by Captain Riviere advocating a quarrel with China as a preliminary to the seizure of the three southern provinces of Kuangtung, Kuangsi, and Yunnan; that it is also aware of the view expressed by M. Doumer, late Governor-General of French Indo-China, in 1905, that \"cette zone, de par les accords intervenus entre la France et le Gouvernement Chinois, et on peut dire aussi suivant un consentement unanime, est dans la sphère d'action des entreprises Françaises\"; that it is profoundly suspicious of French designs in connection with the railway now under construction between Laokay and Yunnan-fu; and that it has strenuously combated the statement of M. Doumer that France has the right to connect Indo-China with the West River by railroad.\n\n(d) While yielding to none in my desire to promote not merely cordial relations, but common commercial interests with France, I desire to point out to your Lordship that association with the French in China is in the existing state of Chinese feeling towards that nation simply tantamount to a loss of our own hardly won position. The French are, I believe, regarded with intense suspicion and dislike throughout the Empire. The attitude of Chang Chih Tung (formerly Governor-General of the Hukuang and now Councillor of State, whose influence with that of Yuan Shih Kai is predominant in the Councils of China) (with reference to the loan negotiations for the Hankow Railway) is sufficiently significant. He has been desirous of a loan for construction for the last three years, but prefers to delay the whole work rather than to deal with a Company in which the French have any connection whatever. Mr. Clementi, who has recently concluded a journey across China from Turkestan, and who has travelled on several occasions in Yünnan, Szechuan, and the Liang Kuang Provinces, bears evidence to the intensity of this dislike and suspicion. He says that at an interview with him in October 1906 Lung Chi Kuang, by birth a native of Mengtsze, in Yunnan, and at that time Taotai of Liuchou-fu in Kuangsi, but now stationed as Taotai at Lungehou on the Tonquin-Kuangsi frontier, described the feeling of himself and his fellow-provincials towards the French by using the word \"hate,\" and that in crossing Yunnan from east to west in November and December 1906 he noticed the same unpopularity of the French which he had previously remarked upon in paragraphs 45 to 53 of his Confidential Report of a journey from south to north across that province, dated the 21st March, 1902 (forwarded under cover of General Gascoigne's despatch of the 25th June, 1902). In this connection I would also invite your Lordship's attention to the despatch of His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Hanoi to Sir E. Grey, dated the 1st instant, describing the risings and tumults in Annam and Tonquin, which have not been without their effect upon the neighbouring Chinese provinces, for I learn in subsequent telegrams from Mr. Carlisle that the revolutionaries have seized Hokow, the post of the Imperial Maritime Customs on the Tonquin-Yünnan frontier, and have cut the telegraph lines between Tonquin and Mengtsze on the one side and Mengtsze and Yünnan-fu on the other.\n\n3\n\n7. I consider it therefore my duty to warn your Lordship in reference to the present proposals of the French that if the British Government accedes to them the result will be (as I am informed) to imperil the confidence at present reposed in us by the Chinese, and to associate the British in schemes which are bound to fail with a consequential loss of prestige, apart from the fact that the scheme of a railway from Canton to Indo-China is entirely opposed to British interests, and I conclude that the extension from Yunnan is equally opposed to Indian and Burman policy.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) F. D. LUGARD.\n\n3",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[July 27.]\n\nSECTION 5.\n\nReported Intervention of Great Britain: Sir J. Jordan instructs Consul-General Mansfield to enter Protest with the Viceroy of Kuangtung.\n\n\"It is credibly reported that the British Minister to Peking, Sir John Jordan, has instructed the British Consul-General at Canton to represent to the Viceroy of Kuangtung the immediate necessity for suppressing the boycott of Japanese goods.\"\n\n'London, May 10, 1908.”\n\nTaotai Wen Tsung Yao has informed me that his Excellency Chang agreed that the boycott is being principally fostered and kept alive by the native press, and had instructed the Prefect to call together the editors of the papers and some of the principal merchants and urge them to stop the publication of anything tending to keep up friction.\n\nTo sum up the situation, though the accounts given in the native press and reproduced in the foreign journals greatly exaggerate the real state of affairs, the substratum of truth is quite enough to cause anxiety to the Japanese Government. There is a large class of men here, most of them having little pecuniary interest in the matter, who are using every means to foment the boycott, and a certain number of the mercantile community who allow themselves to be carried away. The Viceroy's attitude since the \"Tatsu Maru\" was released has been on the whole a correct one, as is acknowledged by the Japanese Consul. His position is an awkward one, for he is, I believe, now aware that the initial mistake in making the seizure was his, and yet, in giving up the ship, he was, to save his face, more or less obliged to pose as being compelled to yield to pressure from the Central Government. He is of a timid disposition, and shrinks from the storm that would arise should he take any really arbitrary action with a view to putting an end to the boycott. It is to my mind very doubtful if he could do more in this direction than he has already done.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nR. W. MANSFIELD.\n\n[25999]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received July 27.)\n\n(No. 268.)\n\nPeking, June 10, 1908.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 164 of the 9th April, I have the honour to inclose, for your information, translation of a Memorial of Lien Yu, one of the Imperial Residents at Lhassa, on the measures taken by the Chinese Government for the establishment of a military college and for the furtherance of education in Thibet.\n\nI am forwarding a copy of this despatch to the Government of India.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Official Gazette\" of June 2, 1908.\n\nMemorial by Lien Yü, the Imperial Resident, on the Establishment of a Printing Office and of a Military College in Thibet.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nTHE Thibetan people have long been cut off from the outer world, and it has been found impossible to develop their minds until they have a knowledge of Chinese characters and books. For this reason a school of Chinese was established last year, and a printing office was subsequently added. Lead type of Thibetan characters and a printing machine were procured from India, a house was selected, and Manchu, Chinese, and Thibetan officers were appointed to manage it. At present a translation is being made of the \"Maxims from the Sacred Edict,\" and it is proposed to issue this book first, and other works of a real educational and useful character will afterwards be translated and printed so that those unacquainted with Chinese will be able to read the translations. The gradual dissemination of this literature will help to influence the habits and customs of the people.\n\nThe fourteen cadets sent from the Szechuan Military College and School for Officers have now reached Thibet, and I propose to establish a military training college to which will be sent about twenty soldiers and petty officers from the regular army and the guard, selected for their youth, knowledge of reading, and intelligence. Thirty-nine Mongols, ten tribesmen, and ten Thibetans will also be sent to the college, and the Ghoorkalis will be asked to send four students. The course of training will be for one year, and the students should then have some knowledge of military science and prove very useful on the frontier. As soon as Hsu Fang-shao reaches Thibet I shall direct him to raise a battalion of troops with the assistance of the officers who have finished their course in the college. If more troops can afterwards be enlisted, additional subordinate officers can then be appointed to command companies and files.\n\nThe cost of the printing office will continue to be borne by Thibet, and will not be a charge on the Imperial Treasury. As regards the military training college, I propose to have some slight additions made to the building formerly known as the Yen Wu Ting, in Cha-Shih-Ch'êng, and use it as quarters for the instructors; on the west and east a lecture-room, dining-hall, and bedrooms for the students will be built. The cost of building, purchasing weapons, &c., and the students' upkeep and uniform is not expected to exceed some thousands of taels, which I propose to pay out of the funds recently forwarded by the Board of Finance, a full account being subsequently rendered to the Board.\n\n[1865 dd—6]\n\nPage 309",
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        "content_text": "347\n\nclass passengers who disembarked on the 14th of May last from the British Steamship \"Suisang\", and who were isolated in the China Commercial Steamship Company's barracks because ten of them were suffering from trachoma and one other from mumps.\n\nI have &c., Salina Cruz, June 3rd 1908.\n\n(Signed) F. Valenzuela.\n\nFirst Medical Delegate.\n\nTo the Secretary of the Superior Board of Health.\n\nJuarez. Chong Kee, Comercio 88. No.8. Woo Chang. Mexico. Callejon Santa Barbara. No.108. Hog Huing. No.9. Lan Kee Char. Mexico. Calle de San Juan.\n\nHouse of Wach Chuc.\n\nNo.10. Lam Ying Pang. Guaymas.\n\nHouse of Chin Cahn.\n\nNo.11. Kwong Wung.\n\nSalina Cruz. House of Wing Ong Woo. Salina Cruz.\n\nJune 3rd 1908.\n\nMexico.\n\nSuperior Board of Health of Mexico.\n\nSalina Cruz.\n\nCommission at\n\nList of destinations of second class passengers from Hong Kong who disembarked on the 14th of May 1908 from the British Steamer \"Suisang\", and who were detained in the China Commercial Steamship Company's barracks because ten of them were suffering from trachoma, and one from mumps.\n\nNo.1. Wohn Foo Wan, Durango, Calle del Coliseo, Railway Hotel.\n\nNo.2. Wong Pun. Salina Cruz. House of Win Ong Wo.\n\nNo.3. Ug Tye. Durango. Calle Constitucion 101. House of Chang Lee.\n\nNo.4. Leung Hoo. Calle del Comercio P.O 1301 Mexico.\n\nNo.5. Jam Cherk Wang. Mexico. Tarasquillo No.216. Huong Fum Hai.\n\nNo.6. Jam Took. Torreon. Railway Hotel.\n\nNo.7. Chang Loing, Ciudad Juarez.\n\n(Signed) F. Valenzuela. First Medical Delegate.\n\nNo.21. Mexico. June 4th 1908. Due note has been taken of your message dated the 27th of May last relative to immigrants and passengers who arrived on board the China Commercial Steamship Company's steamer \"Suisang\", and also that 399 definitely rejected immigrants were re-embarked on board of that vessel as being afflicted with trachoma, and 14 more who were rejected from the Steamship \"Marie\".\n\nNo.22. From Salina Cruz.\n\n(Signed) E. Liceaga.\n\nJune 4th 1908. In accordance with the orders contained in your corresponding telegram, I have the honour to inform you respecting the destination of the first and second class passengers who arrived on board the Steamship \"Suisang\". I sent you yesterday by post a detailed list of the eleven second class passengers who were detained in...",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\n33034\n\n# CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nRECE [August 24.9 SEP 08\n\n473\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\n[29333]\n\n(No. 303.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey,(Received August 24.)\n\nPeking, July 7, 1908.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 281 of the 23rd ultimo, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from the Acting Consul-General at Canton, reporting a conversation with the President of the Canton-Hankow Railway, and containing much information respecting that undertaking,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n## Inclosure in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Fox to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 24.) Sir,\n\nCanton, June 19, 1908.\n\nIN the course of a recent interview with Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, K.C.M.G., President of the Canton-Hankow Railway, that gentleman was good enough to furnish me with the following information regarding the Company's affairs :\n\nAt a general meeting of shareholders held in Canton on the 13th June, it was definitely decided to make a call of 1 dol. 50 c. on every 5-dollar share, that is to say, 1 dollar, or 20 per cent., having already been paid up, a further 30 per cent., making in all 50 per cent, of the value of the share, is now to be collected. The first call brought in nominally 8,000,000 dollars; the present one, which is to be made on the 1st of the 7th moon (the 28th July), is expected to realize 12,000,000 dollars.\n\nThe collection of this money has again been placed in the hands of the nine \"Shan Tang,\" or benevolent institutions, of Canton; and Sir Chentung said he was hopeful that they would be able to realize at least 75 per cent. of the total amount due. It was further decided at the meeting above mentioned to pay 6 per cent. interest for two years on the paid-up value of the shares, and to allow shareholders to deduct the interest from the amount payable on the second call.\n\nAccording to present calculations the Company will, when this call is paid, have sufficient funds to complete the Kuangtung section of the line.\n\nThe Company, said Sir Chentung, have refused to agree to the Chinese Government's proposal that their capital should be deposited in the newly-formed Ta Ch'ing Bank, as it is already distributed among a number of Chinese and foreign banks of established reputation.\n\nTrains are now running as far as Kuan Tien, 26 miles from Canton, and the road has been laid for a distance of nearly 80 miles. If nothing unforeseen occurs, the President said he hoped the line would be open to traffic as far as Pak Shek Yao, about 10 miles above Ying Tat, by the end of this year.\n\nSome difficulty is being experienced in acquiring the necessary land, but the local officials and gentry are rendering valuable assistance, and the President does not anticipate any serious hindrance under this head.\n\nTunnelling work is at present delayed owing to lack of explosives, the new and cumbersome Regulations necessitating a separate application to the Board of War in the case of every consignment.\n\nRails, said the President, are being purchased in Japan, Germany, England, and Belgium. Two consignments, one of 3,000 tons, the other of 4,000 tons, are now being imported through the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha and Arnhold Karberg and Co. respectively. He mentioned that the Han Yang Ironworks were unable to execute any orders for another six months, otherwise all the rails required would have been purchased there.\n\n(1897 aa-\n\n-2]",
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        "content_text": "485 C.O. 33035\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government:\n\n2\n\nThere is a round-house for six engines and coaling-station at Ta-shih-ch'iao. There is another brick bridge, 250 yards long, under construction, half-a-mile south of Hai-ch'êng, which will replace the old bridge.\n\nA bridge, 100 feet long, 1 mile to the south of An-shan-chan is a quarter completed. Half-a-mile north of Li-shan-chan there is a double brick pier bridge, about 200 yards long, under construction. There is a double brick pier bridge, about half-a-mile long, with 14 spans, over the Tai-tzu Ho, just north of Liao-yang. The big bridge over the Hun Ho (south of Mukden) will not have a double track for the present.\n\nIt is expected that the line will be completed by November 1908, when the double track will be finished, and first-class carriages, with dining-cars attached, will be put on the line.\n\nThe new engines for the broad gauge line are partly Baldwin and partly from the Pittsburg works, whilst the new passenger corridor carriages are also from America. The latter have no mark on the outside to denote the class. At present carriages with small wooden benches are used for the second class, whilst the third class have to be content with the floor. The cheapest types of carriages have been bought, and the general impression is that they will soon be shaken to pieces; the wood is not seasoned, and the fittings generally are very cheap and bad. As an American engineer remarked: \"The Japanese wanted to get nothing for nothing,\" and they have certainly got it.\n\nThe new time-tables came into force on the 1st June, 1908. As a result of numerous complaints, the Japanese railway employés have now become civil. A passenger between Dalny and Mukden told me that that part of the line was now very well managed, but this was not my experience on the part between Mukden and K'uan-ch'êng-tzu; and interminable delays occur over the registration of baggage or in securing it on arrival. Each station has a superfluous crowd of Japanese inspectors, who loaf about and do nothing. Insufficient accommodation is provided for the Chinese third-class passengers, nearly every one of whom travels with a large bundle of bedding from which he always refuses to be parted.\n\nThe Japanese, following the precedent of the Russians (who only take roubles on their section north of Kuan-ch'eng-tzu), will only accept Japanese gold yen, so that on arrival at a station it is necessary to have recourse to some local harpy in the shape of a money-changer.\n\nA second-class ticket from Ch'ang-t'u Fu to K'uan-ch'êng-tzu, a distance of 104 miles, costs 590 yen, or at the local rate of exchange, 842 dollars. Putting the dollar at 1s. 10d., this would be 148. 74d., or at a rate of over 3 d. a-mile.\n\nPassengers going by the Siberian mail go through to Erh-tao-kou (called by the Japanese K'uan-ch'êng-tsu Station, where they change into the Russian train. This station is about 24 miles north-north-west of K'uan-ch'êng-tzu.\n\nPassengers for that city used to get out at Hsi-k'uan-ch'êng-tzu Station, about half-a-mile south of Erh-tao-kou. The new branch line has now been opened, and passengers now change carriages at Meng-chia-t'un, about 7 miles south of Hsi-k'uan-ch'êng-tzu, and, leaving the old line about 6 miles further on, make a bend round to the new station at Ch'ang-ch'un Fu, three-quarters of a mile north-north-west of that city and alongside of the Japanese Settlement. No work has yet been begun on the line which is to run from this station to Kirin.\n\nThe Japanese have thrown up an embankment to connect Erh-tao-kou with this new station, and one of the subjects of discussion, I believe, at the recent Conference in St. Petersburgh was with reference to the Russians using this new embankment and the Japanese taking up the old piece of line south of Erh-tao-kou.\n\nThe country west of K'uan-ch'eng-tzu is slightly undulating with deep nullahs, and abominable roads lead across it from the city to the Russian and old Japanese stations.\n\nThere is a Decauville line for push cars from Chang-t'u Fu (further south) to Ch'ang-t'u Fu Station, a distance of 7 miles over the downs; fare, 40 cents. It was put down by the Japanese during the war, and is said to be still owned by them.\n\nAt Mukden there is a horse tram-line from the station to the city. It is jointly owned by the Japanese and Chinese, but I was informed that it was running at a loss.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) G. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel, Grenadier Guards, Military Attaché.\n\nTien-tsin, June 26, 1908.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[29328]\n\nREC? [August 24\n\nSECTION 1,\n\n9 REF 08\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 24.)\n\n(No. 297.) Sir,\n\nPeking, July 6, 1908. I HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copies of despatches from His Majesty's Consuls-General at Tien-tsin and Mukden on the subject of recent judicial reforms inaugurated by the Chinese Provincial authorities.\n\nThe measures which have been taken towards the introduction of a better judicial system, both at Tien-tsin and in Manchuria, are no doubt due to the influence of enlightened officials, such as Yuan Shih-k'ai and Tong Shoa-yi, who wish by these means to raise the standard of Chinese justice and thus prepare the way for the eventual abolition of extra-territoriality. But it is to be observed that at Shanghae, which would be the most fitting place to provide an object lesson in reforms of this description, little or nothing has been attempted.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n(No. 32.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Ker to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nTien-tsin, June 25, 1908. I HAVE the honour to submit, for your consideration, copies of the following correspondence that has passed between the Customs Taotai and the Consular Body at Tien-tsin on the subject of the Shen Pan Ting, the Chinese District Court for the decision of civil cases in which foreigners are plaintiffs :-\n\n1. Copy and translation of despatch from Customs Taotai to Mr. Hopkins, as senior Consul, dated the 16th January, 1908, announcing the establishment of the Court and transmitting the Regulations;\n\n2. Copy and translation of the Regulations inclosed in above;\n\n3. Copy (in English and Chinese) of despatch from Mr. Hopkins to Customs Taotai, dated the 27th March, 1908, communicating certain suggestions made by the Consular Body on the proposed Regulations;\n\n4. Copy and précis of despatch from Customs Taotai to Mr. Hopkins dated the 16th May, 1908, communicating the reply and explanations offered by the Shen P'an Ting in regard to the above suggestions.\n\nThe Consular Body has now drafted (Inclosure 5) a reply which it is proposed that Mr. E. T. Williams, as Senior Consul, shall send to the Customs Taotai, agreeing to accept the regulations in question, subject to the approval of the foreign Representatives in Peking, on condition that certain further slight amendments are made.\n\nAt a meeting of the Consular Body held on the 19th instant it was decided that before sending in this conditional assent to the regulations, the whole matter should be submitted by the Consuls to their respective Ministers, and the approval of the Diplomatic Body obtained.\n\nI have the honour accordingly to request your instructions as to joining in the proposed action of the Consular Body.\n\nI may say that although I have not been long enough in Tien-tsin to watch the working of this Court, Mr. Hopkins before he left expressed to me the opinion that on the whole it was working satisfactorily, and that there was nothing particular in the regulations to which objection should be taken.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) W. P. KER.\n\n[1905 aa-1]",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n33035\n\n2\n\nI asked the President if it was true that the Company had decided to build a branch line to Sanui, and, if so, if this was not contrary to the Interprovincial Construction Rules promulgated by the Government.\n\nSir Chentung replied that a Resolution in favour of constructing the line referred to had been passed unanimously at the recent meeting of shareholders, that the Board of Communications had been petitioned on the subject, and that he personally thought permission would be given in view of the fact that the Company were making good progress with the main line, and that the construction of this small branch would not interfere with or retard in any way the completion of the main undertaking.\n\nThe proposed route of the new line is from Fatshan viâ Shekwan, Chanchun, Tailiung, and Kongmun to Sanui, roughly about 50 miles due south of Fatshan and a few miles west of Macao.\n\nThe line presents no serious difficulties of construction, and will run through an exceptionally rich and prosperous country.\n\nAsked if such a line would not clash with the proposed Macao-Canton Railway, for which I understood the Portuguese held a Concession, the President said it undoubtedly would, but, as far as he knew, the Portuguese Concession had never been granted, and, he added, was never likely to be. The line would virtually be an extension of the Canton-Samshui Railway, over which the Company hoped eventually to obtain sole control by buying out the interests of Hunan and Hupeh.\n\nSir Chentung informed me that he was not at all satisfied with the way the Company's accounts were being kept, and said he was seriously thinking of engaging a foreign auditor, who would exercise a general supervision over the Railway's expenditure and income.\n\nI suggested that a chartered accountant, similar to the one employed by the Canton-Kowloon Railway Administration, would probably meet his requirements, and at the President's request I promised to make inquiries for a suitable man.\n\nSir Chentung informed me that his period of mourning would expire in February next, when, at the express request of Her Majesty the Empress Dowager, he would resign his position in the Railway Company and re-enter official life.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nH. H. FOX.\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nREC\n\n[August 24. 9 SEP 08\n\nSECTION 2.\n\n(29333]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey-(Received August 24.)\n\n(No. 303.) Sir,\n\nPeking, July 7, 1908. WITH reference to my despatch No. 281 of the 23rd ultimo, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from the Acting Consul-General at Canton, reporting a conversation with the President of the Canton-Hankow Railway, and containing much information respecting that undertaking.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Fox to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 24.) Sir,\n\nCanton, June 19, 1908. IN the course of a recent interview with Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, K.C.M.G., President of the Canton-Hankow Railway, that gentleman was good enough to furnish me with the following information regarding the Company's affairs\n\nAt a general meeting of shareholders held in Canton on the 13th June, it was definitely decided to make a call of 1 dol. 50 c. on every 5-dollar share, that is to say, 1 dollar, or 20 per cent., having already been paid up, a further 30 per cent., making in all 50 per cent. of the value of the share, is now to be collected. The first call brought in nominally 8,000,000 dollars; the present one, which is to be made on the 1st of the 7th moon (the 28th July), is expected to realize 12,000,000 dollars.\n\nThe collection of this money has again been placed in the hands of the nine \"Shan Tang,\" or benevolent institutions, of Canton; and Sir Chentung said he was hopeful that they would be able to realize at least 75 per cent. of the total amount due. It was further decided at the meeting above mentioned to pay 6 per cent. interest for two years on the paid-up value of the shares, and to allow shareholders to deduct the interest from the amount payable on the second call.\n\nAccording to present calculations the Company will, when this call is paid, have sufficient funds to complete the Kuangtung section of the line.\n\nThe Company, said Sir Chentung, have refused to agree to the Chinese Government's proposal that their capital should be deposited in the newly-formed Ta Ch'ing Bank, as it is already distributed among a number of Chinese and foreign banks of established reputation.\n\nTrains are now running as far as Kuan Tien, 26 miles from Canton, and the road has been laid for a distance of nearly 80 miles. If nothing unforeseen occurs, the President said he hoped the line would be open to traffic as far as Pak Shek Yao, about 10 miles above Ying Tat, by the end of this year.\n\nSome difficulty is being experienced in acquiring the necessary land, but the local officials and gentry are rendering valuable assistance, and the President does not anticipate any serious hindrance under this head.\n\nTunnelling work is at present delayed owing to lack of explosives, the new and cumbersome Regulations necessitating a separate application to the Board of War in the case of every consignment.\n\nRails, said the President, are being purchased in Japan, Germany, England, and Belgium. Two consignments, one of 3,000 tons, the other of 4,000 tons, are now being imported through the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha and Arnhold Karberg and Co. respectively. 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        "content_text": "10\n\nreason it seems to me that, if a correct perspective and full information are to be obtained, what happens at Dairen must be reported to Mukden, Newchwang, and Antung, and vice versá,\n\nLü-shun\n\n11\n\nFort Arthur Branch Line.\n\n  \n    Station\n    For use of Line\n    For use of Station\n  \n  \n    \n    Acres sq. yds.\n    Acres sq. yds.\n  \n  \n    \n    43\n    4,384\n  \n\nAnnex, Area of Railway Station and Railway Line Reserves of the South Manchuria Railway,\n\nMAIN LINE.-Leased Territory.\n\n  \n    Station\n    For use of Line\n    For use of Station\n  \n  \n    \n    Acres sq. yds.\n    Acres sq. yds.\n  \n  \n    Chang-ling-tzu\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ying-cheng-tzu\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hsia-chia-bo-tzu..\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Nan-kuan-ling\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Dairen..\n    217 3,080\n    104\n  \n  \n    Chou-shui-tzu ..\n    \n    576 4,844\n  \n  \n    Nan-kuan-ling\n    \n    3,164\n  \n  \n    Ta-fang-shen\n    11 276\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    4,640*\n    81\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    4,584\n  \n  \n    \n    964\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    88\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3,736\n    \n  \n  \n    Chin-chou\n    84\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3,208\n    117\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    2,088\n  \n  \n    Er-shih-li-tai\n    426\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3,936\n    49\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1,684\n  \n  \n    San-shih-li-pu\n    209\n    \n  \n  \n    Shih-po\n    199\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,180\n    568\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    109\n  \n  \n    Pu-lan-tien\n    168\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    4,108\n    119\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1,218\n  \n  \n    \n    12 2,560\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2,424\n    \n  \n  \n    Liang chia\n    97\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2,152\n    82\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    192\n  \n  \n    Chou-chie\n    41\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    2,176\n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    1,733\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,812\n    1,342\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1,804\n  \n  \n    **\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Triangular in shape.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Remarks.\n    \n    \n  \n\n626 3,636\n\n55\n\n672\n\n  \n    Total\n    224 1,540\n    219 4,172\n  \n  \n    \n    220. 4,140\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,191 3,808\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    127 2,260\n    49 3,656\n  \n  \n    \n    276 1,292\n    \n  \n  \n    Remarks.\n    \n    \n  \n\nOf this, 8 a. 1,280 sq. yds. in the neighbourhood of the Civil Administration Bureau jetty was included on the Russian plans in the railway reserve, but it is now no longer so included.\n\nLiu-shu-tun Branch Line.\n\n  \n    Station\n    For use of Line\n    For use of Station\n  \n  \n    Liu-shu-tun\n    101 2,700\n    37 920\n  \n  \n    Total within the leased territory,\n    5,515 a. 2,084 sq. yds.\n    \n  \n  \n    Area attached to the railway (excluding 29 a. 3,640 sq. yds. transferred to the Civil Administration Bureau),\n    5,486 a. 444 sq. yds,\n    \n  \n\nBetween Dairen and Chou-shui-tzu the railway reserve extends for 210 feet on either side of the line. This does not include land and house property belonging to individuals. Ditto.\n\nInside the railway reserve are the following Abandoned line from Er-shih-li-tai, 24 a. 3,840 sq. yds. Sea front at Chung-chia-lou, 49 a. 4,230 sq. yds. Triangular area, 74 a. 2,784 sq. yds. Abandoned line to Chung-chia-l 89 a. 1,916 sq. yds.\n\nArea within the station reserve handed over to the control of the Civil Administration Bureau, 21 a. 2,360 sq. yds.\n\nTien chia\n\nPlaces attached to the Railway.\n\n  \n    Name of Locality\n    Area\n  \n  \n    Pac-tzu-yai..\n    Acres sq. yds. 737 4,776\n  \n  \n    Chou-shui-tzu to Pao-tzu-yai\n    \n  \n  \n    Chou-shui-tzu\n    5 3,000\n  \n  \n    \n    52 2,532\n  \n  \n    Total\n    803\n  \n  \n    \n    628\n  \n  \n    Remarks.\n    \n  \n\nMAIN LINE-Outside Leased Territory.\n\n  \n    Station\n    For use of Line\n    For use of Station\n  \n  \n    \n    Acres sq. yds.\n    Acres sq. yds.\n  \n  \n    \n    111 5,356\n    81 4,564\n  \n  \n    Wa-fang-tien\n    157 2,008\n    586 36\n  \n  \n    Wang-chia-tun\n    86 3,512\n    81 4,352\n  \n  \n    Te-li-tzu\n    168 1,404\n    458 4,000\n  \n  \n    Sung-shu\n    98 752\n    102 2,076\n  \n  \n    Kuan-tzu\n    189 4,496\n    91 232\n  \n  \n    Wan-chia-ling\n    398 3,960\n    \n  \n  \n    Hei-chia-tun\n    674 0\n    359\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    472 1,816\n  \n  \n    Chitsai chai\n    100 708\n    68\n  \n  \n    Hsiung-yueh-cheng\n    139 468\n    1,102 4,600\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1,400\n  \n  \n    Lu-chia-tun\n    139 2,012\n    81\n  \n  \n    Sha-kong\n    260 876\n    87 3,736\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    4,564\n  \n  \n    Kai-ping\n    147 3,032\n    832 820\n  \n  \n    Pai-chi..\n    125 261\n    102 2,076\n  \n  \n    Tai-ping-shan\n    149 724\n    95 2,904\n  \n  \n    Ta-shin-chino\n    178 340\n    782 3,440\n  \n  \n    Fen-shui\n    114 0\n    79 672\n  \n  \n    \n    105 4,792\n    81 4,564\n  \n  \n    \n    143 2,733\n    81 4,748\n  \n  \n    \n    91 3,144\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    613 2,112\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    124 968\n    82 2,316\n  \n  \n    \n    182 2,796\n    81 4,564\n  \n  \n    \n    $10 2,620\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    SL 4,780\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    158 1,476\n    81 4,564\n  \n\n[1905 f-1]\n\nQuarry reserve (fixed by agreement with the Civil Administration Bureau). Chou-shui-tzu-Pao-tzu-yai branch line reserve (7,000 feet on either side of the line). Including branch line to brick works.\n\nTa-shan\n\nTang-wang-shan\n\nHai-cheng\n\nNan-tai\n\nTang-kong-tzu\n\nAn-shun-chan\n\nLi-shan\n\nRemarks.\n\nRailway reserve extends from Chou-chie to Tien-chia.\n\nArea of Li-lin-kou, situated within the railway reserve, 47 a. 2,704 sq. yds. Area reserved for Hsü-chia-tun station within the station reserve, 102 a, 2,704 sq. yds.\n\nSand quarry in station reserve, 282 a. 316 sq. yds.\n\nSpace occupied by Sun-chia-tai and the riparian area on the left bank of the Sha-ho, within the railway reserve, 88 a. 4,068 sq. yds.\n\nStone quarry within railway reserve, 28 a, 3,948 sq, yds.\n\nTang-kong-tzu hot springs, within railway reserve, 53 a. 3,260 sq. yds.\n\nE\n\n513",
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        "content_text": "12\n\n13\n\n514\n\nStation.\n\nFor\n\nFor use of Line.\n\nuse of Station.\n\nRemarks,\n\nYin-kau Branch Line,\n\nMa-i-tuo\n\n137\n\nAcres sq. yds.\n\n1,784\n\n77\n\nLiao-yang\n\n150 1,896\n\n1,466\n\nAcres sq. yds.\n\n2,168 604\n\nFor\n\nStation.\n\nFor use of Line.\n\nRemarks.\n\nChang-tai-tzu\n\n195\n\n408\n\n171\n\n3,756\n\nYen-tai\n\nVillage of Sho-aban, situated within the railway reserve, 24 a. 3,772 sq. yds. Tai-tzu-ho (river), within railway reserve, 44 a. 4,620 sq. yds. (riparian works).\n\nuse of Station.\n\nAcres sq. yds.\n\n110 4,668\n\n290\n\n4,416\n\nShih-li-ho\n\n121 3,484\n\n81\n\n4,564\n\nSha-ho..\n\n184 1,708\n\n81\n\n4,564\n\nSu-chia-tun\n\nTa-shih-chiao Wang-chia-pu Niu-chia-tun Yin-kau\n\n205\n\n163\n\n5\n\nAcres sq. yds.\n\n1,184\n\n81 4,564 4,388 1,022 1,924 4,608\n\n#\n\nStreet railway reserve.\n\n189\n\n788\n\n81\n\n4,564\n\nIlun-ho\n\nFeng-tien (Mukden)\n\n101 3,388\n\n79\n\n2,644\n\nTotal\n\n375\n\n400\n\n1,104 1,648\n\n150 2,812\n\n1,479\n\n2,560\n\nWen-kuan-tun\n\n229 2,856\n\n71\n\n3,388\n\nHu-shih-tai\n\n117 2,736\n\n81\n\n4,564\n\nHsin-cheng-tzu\n\nTi-erh-hain-cheng-tzu\n\nHsin-tai-tzu\n\nLuan-shib-shan\n\nTe-sheng-tai\n\nTich-ling\n\nPing-ting-pu\n\nChung-ku Kai-yüan Ching-kou-tau\n\nMa-chung-chien..\n\nChang-tu Man-ching\n\nChuan-yen-tou\n\nShuang-miao-tzu Huan-kou-tzu\n\n210 1,360\n\n81\n\n4,564\n\n145\n\n::::\n\n76\n\n136\n\n2,788\n\n25\n\n2,112\n\nFu-shun Mine Branch Line,\n\n299\n\n2,588\n\n104\n\n608\n\n81 4,564\n\n193\n\n140\n\n81 4,564\n\nSand quarry of Ta-fang-ho, within railway reserve, 23 a. 2,188 sq. yds.\n\n124 4,552\n\n1,388\n\n3,972\n\n:\n\n:\n\n228\n\n112\n\n81\n\n4,564\n\nVillage of Ma-feng-kou, within railway station reserve, 136 a. 2,208 sq, yds. Tzu-ho dike, within railway reserve, 52 a. 1,304 sq. yds.\n\nSu-chia-tran Fu-shun\n\n436\n\n454\n\n::::::\n\n186 1,242 210 4,788\n\n81\n\n4,564\n\n1,525\n\n1,682\n\n117 4,748\n\n83\n\n2,460\n\nYen-tai Mine Branch Line.\n\n183 2,792\n\n81\n\n4,564\n\n163 1,236\n\n861\n\n1,860\n\n199 1.272\n\n81\n\n4,564\n\n147\n\n3,856\n\nAbandoned line, within railway reserve, between Chang-tu and Mun-ching, 17 a. 620 sq. yds.\n\nYen-tai\n\n82\n\n24\n\nMan-nin-shao\n\n239 2,792 172 2,452 108\n\n3,336\n\n862 3,976\n\n81\n\n4,564 294 4,816\n\nSu-ping-chich\n\n44\n\n246 1,324\n\nYaug-mu-lin-tzu..\n\n98 1,212\n\n1,253 128\n\nSan-cha-bo\n\n425\n\n1,676\n\n153\n\n2,768 864 3,116\n\nKuo-ebía-tien\n\nChai-chia-wo-peng Ta-ko-yü-shu\n\nKung-chu-ling\n\nLiu-tu-fang-tzu\n\nTao-chia-tun (with Lu-ho)..\n\nFung-chia-tur\n\n:::\n\n::\n\n187\n\n684\n\n147\n\n248\n\n182\n\n164\n\n153\n\n213\n\n2,980\n\n163\n\n3,116 3,116\n\n119\n\n200\n\n1,650\n\n464\n\n102\n\n3,128\n\n102\n\n2,076\n\n181 4,832\n\n102\n\n311\n\n1,236\n\n158\n\n2,076 2,970\n\nMiao-er-ho sand quarry, within railway station reserve included.\n\nStone quarry on south side of Hsi-cbia-pu, within railway reserve, 257 a. 3,288 sq. yds.\n\nTon-liang-ho gravel pits, Hsi-ling, within railway reserve, 28 a. 1,404 sq. yds.\n\nChang-tai-tzu .. Chung-tien-ti Fang-shen-pu\n\nTotal\n\nKwang-cheng-tzu San-chieng-fang Hsiao-ho-tai Tao-chi-tun\n\n::::\n\n118\n\n20 20\n\n128 3,128 368\n\n80 4,020\n\n142 52\n\n1,816 88\n\n158\n\n3,624\n\n275 1,964\n\nRailway line reserve between Chi-tai-tzu and Fang-shen-pu.\n\nTao-chia-tun-Shih-pei-ling Mines Branch Line.\n\n135 2,860\n\n21\n\n30\n\n4,644\n\n51\n\n1,924\n\nPai-hung-kou\n\n321\n\n2,460\n\n121\n\n8,760\n\nMeng-chia-ta\n\nStone quarry near Fang-chia-tun, within railway reserve, 180 a. 4,388 sq. yds. Stone quarry near Pai-lung-kou, within railway reserve, 144 a. 4,528 sq, yds.\n\nShib-pei-ling\n\n2+ 1,530\n\n104 81\n\n1,644 59 2,586 1,164 600\n\nLine from San-chien-fang to Shih-pei-ling.\n\nTotal\n\n232 1,264\n\n266 1,104\n\n198\n\nNa\n\nPa-li-pu\n\n161 3,452\n\nChang-chun\n\n55\n\n2,968\n\n3,756 1,242 2512\n\n121\n\nSu-chia-tưu\n\n+\n\nThe railway station reserve is of recent purchase. The railway line reserve is leased, and purchase has not yet been effected.\n\nKan-kuan-tun\n\n201 1,168\n\n81 1,564\n\nSha-ling-pu\n\n67 2,072\n\nPu-san-chia-tzu San-tai-tzu\n\n52\n\n320\n\n453\n\nTotal\n\n11.366\n\n2,340\n\n$48\n\n22,331 1,968\n\nNot yet definitely decided.\n\nYao-chia-chuang Yin-pan Chang-chia-ph\n\nHsin-cheng-tzu\n\nTotal\n\n80 3,444 159\n\n2,984 162 2,616 157 1,684 117 3,216 60 1,476\n\n1,005 4,040\n\n116 1,104 81 4,564\n\n136\n\n2,768\n\n81 4,564\n\n$1 4,064\n\n81 4,564\n\n662 2,492\n\nCha-tzu-yao Mine Branch Line.\n\nChung-ku\n\nShan-tou-pu\n\n45\n\n2,896\n\nShuang-miao-tzu,.\n\n51\n\n1,480\n\nWa-fang-tien\n\nChu-tzu-yao\n\n11 3,824\n\n87 4,356\n\nArea of Cha-tea-yao, Yao-fei-ti, and Lao-yen-fang, within railway station reserve, 6 a. 2,598 sq. yds.\n\nMa-chung-ho\n\n81 2,880\n\n::\n\n:\n\nAbandoned line near Shuang-miao-tzu.\n\nAbandoned line near Ma-chung-ho.",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nhensible how a civilized race like the Japanese can be indifferent to such a national degradation. On more than one occasion I have seen Chinese coolies treating them with a contemptuous familiarity they would not display to their own women.\n\nNorth of Mukden the Japanese are of course much in evidence at all the railway stations. At Tieh-ling they have an exceptionally large and apparently flourishing Settlement, covering the ground between the station and the city, but away from the railway they are not much in evidence, except at Kirin.\n\nGoing west-north-west from Ssu-p'ing-chieh station I did not see any till I reached Chêng-chia-t'un, where, not counting a party of Japanese surveyors, there is a Japanese shop, in which I bought a tin of biscuits, with the well-known pattern and the side notice of \"Hundley and Palmier's Superior Reading Biscuits.\" At K'u-lun-chieh two Japanese merchants from Hsin-min Fu have recently been investigating the conditions of trade. At Fa-k'u-men there are two Japanese doctors who—with a race addicted to medicine like the Chinese—are able to carry on a thriving trade, besides several low-class shop-keepers. I did not see any more Japanese till I reached Hsin-min Fu, where the Japanese have a Consulate and gambling dens.\n\nWherever I went in Manchuria, I was told trade was in a bad way. In Fa-k'u-men many firms, affected by the big failure of a Chinese bank at Newchwang last year, had come to grief, whilst in Kirin Province the native banks, who are under no Government supervision, had issued too many notes. The country people, owing to lack of funds, were making no purchases, and business was generally at a standstill. The Japanese were therefore suffering by the general depression of trade.\n\n3. Robbers in China. The Hung-hu-tzu are generally armed with modern rifles. At K'uan-ch'eng-tzu the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha sells rifles to the Chinese farmers, much against the wishes of the Chinese officials, and many of these rifles find their way into the hands of the robbers. The Hung-hu-tzu, who are indiscriminately Chinese, Manchu, or Mongolian (in the west), are often old soldiers, and generally belong to the farmer class. Often a family elects to send one member to join a neighbouring band, so as to enjoy the benefits of its protection. Wherever I travelled in Feng-tien Province the country was reported to be tranquil, but I was informed that small parties of robbers were still giving trouble some 12 or 15 miles north of Feng-hua Hsien, and that Mongol mounted bandits had been raiding the country to the west of K'u-lun-chieh earlier in the year. In Kirin Province, which is more thinly populated, I heard they were still giving some trouble in the hills, 80 or 100 miles to the south of Kirin.\n\nGenerally when Chinese soldiers are sent out against robbers, they complain very little, and the Chinese often secure repose by promoting the robber chiefs to official rank and taking their bands into their service. Thus the Hung-hu-tzu chief, named Chang-tso-lin, was given the Hsin-min Fu military district last year. To show his zeal he invited a brother chieftain, called Tu-li-san, to a feast, and then treacherously put him to death. He has now been promoted to a red button, and given the command of the Chêng-chia-t'un district. Feng-ling-kê, well known before the war as the great robber chief of Liao-yang, was captured by the Russians and sent to Saghalien, whence he escaped, and worked for the Japanese during the war. He is now commanding the district of Chang-wu Hsien, to the west of Fa-k'u-men. Unfortunately, he was absent from the city when I passed through. Many of the soldiers of the provincial armies of Manchuria (viz., Feng-chün, Chi-chün, and Ch'i-chün) have been Hung-hu-tzu, who have now changed sides with their chiefs, and settled down to the reposeful life of a Chinese soldier. As the soldiers of the Lu Chün are Manchus of the cities, or Chinese from other provinces, there are probably no ex-Hung-hu-tzu amongst them. A soldier told me that the reason why they were recruiting only Manchu soldiers for the local Lu-chün at Kirin and Mukden was because if a Chinese deserted he could probably escape, but the Manchu could not desert so easily. This is probably partly the case,\n\nAnother difficulty in Manchuria is that the Chinese police themselves often rob and squeeze the inhabitants.\n\nDuring the Manchurian campaign, the Hung-hu-tzu were of considerable use to the Japanese. The Russians used to have large supplies of cattle, &c., sent across Mongolia to them, and the Hung-hu-tzu were employed to waylay these convoys and divert them to the Japanese.\n\nI do not think that Japanese officers would do well in command of Chinese soldiers, as they would be too harsh and unsympathetic, whilst the Chinese have the old prejudice against the Japanese, whom they always looked upon as inferior to themselves till they were partially disillusioned fourteen years ago. On the other hand, I believe that the mounted bandits of Western Manchuria, if trained and led by European officers, who knew their language, could be made very useful in guerilla warfare.\n\n1\n\n3\n\n4. The Chinese in Manchuria.—The population is mostly composed of Chinese, who have emigrated from Shantung and Chih-li Provinces during the last 200 or 300 years. Some have been settled so long that they call themselves natives of Manchuria, so they can always tell how long it is since their families emigrated. The Manchus are principally found in the big cities like Mukden and Kirin.\n\nAs the population of Shantung and Chih-li increases, the necessity for emigration grows greater, and this overflow finds an outlet in Manchuria or Mongolia. In the past, the population of China has often been kept in check by wholesale massacres, such as the appalling destruction of the Tai-ping rebellion, the Mahommedan rebellions in Yunnan and Kan-su, and the more recent disturbances in Kuang-si, also by great famines and the inundations of the Yellow River; but as civilization increases, railways are built, and European methods of engineering adopted, these evils should be reduced, and the population will increase more rapidly than at present. The colonization of Manchuria is still in its infancy. Taking a line roughly from Tieh-ling to Fa-k'u-men in the south, I was struck by the smallness of the villages and the scantiness of the population as I proceeded north. In Kirin Province, this was still more apparent. On the main road between Kirin and K'uan-ch'eng-tzu, the two principal towns of the province, a distance of 77 miles, there are only 3 villages with over 40 or 50 houses, viz., one with 250, another with 100, and another with 60 houses. Sungari, between the railway and Kirin, the country is even more thinly populated.\n\nMeanwhile, the Chinese are gradually pushing forward the boundaries of Chih-li to the north, and of Manchuria to the north and west, buying land from the Mongol Princes, and pressing the Mongols back. Within the last twenty years, a great tract of land on the western side of Manchuria, called the Shu-lu-huang, or Imperial grazing ground, has been thrown open to colonists, and the land is now mostly given up to cultivation. Towns, as they become of sufficient importance, are granted official status, and Chinese Magistrates are sent to govern these budding colonies.\n\nOn the\n\nWhilst natives come and go in Manchuria with much noise, drawing the attention of the whole world upon themselves, the Chinese peasants quietly push on unnoticed, armed only with the primitive agricultural implements used in the time of Abraham; but they have arrived with the full determination to stay, until necessity compels their descendants to push on still further ahead and carry on the silent and real invasion of Manchuria. The Mongols are a very different race from the Chinese, and are stupid and indolent, readily offering themselves as victims to Chinese cunning and craft.\n\n5. The disputed Territory of Ch'ien-tao.—I was unable to visit this region. The Japanese Consul at Kirin told me the Chinese had already sent four battalions of infantry of the Lu Chün (about 2,000 men) to the neighbourhood of Yen-chi Ting, and that they proposed sending the rest of the Kirin Lu Chün brigade (another 2,000 men) there this autumn.\n\nIn addition to the Lu Chün, the Chinese have one part of their Kirin provincial troops (Chi-chün Chien-lu), nominally 1,566 officers and men, stationed in the district. The latter are really untrained constabulary, employed for service against the Hung-hu-tzu, and unorganized for war, whilst of the Lu Chün 3,000 out of the 4,000 belong to the Kirin Brigade, which only started training last spring. The remaining 1,000 men belong, apparently, to the 3rd Lu Chün Division, which is scattered around K'uan-ch'eng-tzu, Kirin, and Ch'ang-t'u Fu, and is commanded by a very inefficient Major-General, Ts'ao-k'un. The division, when it was at Pao-ting Fu two years ago, shared with the 1st Manchu Division the honour of being the best division in the Chinese army, but it has deteriorated very much since it was sent to Manchuria.\n\nG. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel,\n\nGrenadier Guards, Military Attaché.\n\n(Signed)\n\nPeking, July 4, 1908.\n\n553",
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        "content_text": "C. O\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nTREAS\n\n23 E 08\n\n2\n\naddressed to me on the same subject on the following day by Mr. Barry himself, to the Department of Communications in Peking, who inform me in reply that they regret that they are unable to make any change in the definite arrangements already made, for reasons they have fully explained to your representative (Mr. Bland), and to the Secretary of the British Legation.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) LI CHING FONG.\n\nThe British and Chinese Corporation to Li Ching Fong.\n\n3, Lombard Street, London, June 16, 1908.\n\nI BEG leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant, and that I have not done so sooner is owing to absence from London.\n\nI have to thank you for so promptly dealing with my letter of the 5th March last, and can only express my regret that the Department of Communications in Peking should have replied that they are unable to alter their arrangements in regard to the employment of Consulting Engineers for the Canton-Kowloon Railway.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) W. KESWICK, Chairman.\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[31028]\n\n(No. 316.)\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[September 7.]\n\nSECTION 2,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 7.)\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, July 14, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from the Acting British Consul-General at Canton, reporting that the Concession granted to Chang Jung-hsien in 1905 has been withdrawn owing to no progress having been made during the three years which have elapsed since the date of the grant. It will be remembered that the first section of this line formed the subject of repeated protests from us as constituting an infringement of our rights under the Canton-Kowloon Railway Agreement, and from the inclosure in Mr. Fox's despatch it would appear that our action led to a modification of the project and the eventual annulment of the Concession.\n\nIt is interesting to note that other railway undertakings which have no progress to show during a period of three years from their inception are to be similarly dealt with. Liang Shih-yi, the Director-General of Railways, told me some little time ago that he had recommended this course of action, and a recent Decree authorizes an investigation of the circumstances of the various lines and the adoption of other arrangements where there is no prospect of the work being completed within a reasonable time.\n\nThe Hankow-Szechuan line will, it is said, be the first whose affairs are to undergo an investigation of this kind.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1,\n\n(No. 29.) Sir,\n\nActing Consul-General Fox to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nCanton, July 1, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose translation of an extract from the \"An Ya Pao\" of the 20th ultimo, reporting that the Concession granted to Chang Jung-hsien in 1905 for the construction of a railway from Canton to Amoy has been withdrawn owing to his failure to show any progress after the lapse of three years from the date of the Concession.\n\nI have endeavoured to obtain official confirmation locally, but without success. I have, however, very little doubt that the newspaper report is substantially correct. Chang seems to have lost all interest in his railway ever since it was intimated to him that the construction of the Canton-Whampoa section could not be permitted, as it infringed the prior rights of the Canton-Kowloon line.\n\nChang has been absent from Canton for some time past on a tour in the Straits, where he is supposed to be endeavouring to gain support for a scheme for the building of a line of merchant-steamers.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) H. H. FOX.\n\n[1940 g-2]\n\nPage 570\n\nPage 570\n\nPage 571\n\nPage 571",
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        "content_text": "C.O.\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\nRES\n\n2\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"An Yu Pao\" of June 20, 1908.\n\nTHE BOARD OF COMMUNICATIONS CANCELS THE CONCESSION FOR THE CH'AO-CHOU-HUI-CHOU RAILWAY,\n\nIN the year 1905 the Board of Agriculture, &c., obtained the Imperial sanction to the construction of a railway from Canton to Amoy. Subsequently, owing to the fact that the first section of the line from Canton to Whampoa infringed the rights of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, the Board last year obtained the Imperial authorization to order the construction of the section from Ch'ao-chou to Hui-chou instead.\n\nHowever, since this alternative was sanctioned a further period of one year has elapsed, and, the Board having obtained the Imperial assent to the cancellation of all commercial railway undertakings, such as those in the provinces of Fukien, Kiangsi, and Anhui, which have no progress to show after three years shall have elapsed since their inception, Ch'en Pi has decided that, the Ch'ao-chou-Hui-chou line having shown no progress within the limited period, the Concession should be immediately withdrawn in the interest of railway construction. His Excellency has accordingly notified the concessionnaire, Chang Jung-hsien, who is making a tour of inspection of the Straits ports, of the withdrawal of his Concession.\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[31043]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nP 23 SEP 08\n\n[September 7.]\n\nSECTION 3.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 7.)\n\n(No. 333.) Sir,\n\nPeking, July 21, 1908. I HAVE the honour to inclose translation of an Imperial Decree, issued on the 18th July, appointing the Grand Secretary Chang Chih-tung Administrator-General of the Canton-Hankow Railway, and placing the control of the whole line in his hands.\n\nThe High Authorities of the three provinces concerned, Hupei, Hunan, and Kuangtung, seem unable to agree on a definite course of action, and the appointment of a Grand Secretary and Grand Councillor of the standing of Chang Chih-tung (apart from his connection with the redemption Agreement of September 1905), to superintend the whole undertaking, will no doubt lessen disunion, and is intended to indicate that a serious effort must now be made to bring it to a successful conclusion.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nImperial Decree issued on the 18th July in response to a Memorial by Ch'ên Ch'i-t'ai (Governor of Kiangsu), pointing out the necessity for centralizing the management of the Canton-Hankow Railway, and recommending the appointment of a clean-handed and competent officer of high rank as Director-General.\n\nTHE Canton-Hankow main line is a factor of supreme importance in the establishment of communications between north and south, but although several years have now elapsed since Chang Chih-tung succeeded, after great efforts, in recovering for China the right to construct this line, no effective progress has yet been made, owing to differences of opinion between the officials, gentry, merchants, and elders concerned. A continuance of this dilatory policy must end in the sacrifice of important interests and injury to the railway system, and an officer of high rank should therefore be appointed to unify the control of the line with a view to securing its completion by an early date.\n\nWe therefore appoint the Grand Secretary and Grand Councillor Chang Chih-tung to hold, in addition to his other offices, the post of Administrator-General of the Canton-Hankow Railway with the duty of superintending, in consultation with the Board of Communications and the High Authorities of the three provinces, the taking of energetic action by the officials, gentry, merchants, and elders concerned. Let all important measures regarding the railway be directed and decided by him as occasion arises in accordance with the general interests of the three provinces, and after full investigation of the circumstances. Let all put aside their private views and work together, so as to avoid further waste of time and consequent obstruction of a measure so important to our means of communication.\n\n[1940 g-3]",
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        "content_text": "M O\n\nCHIH-LI\n\n2\n\nconsider a proposal on the part of China to build a line which connects Tieling or some other point on the South Manchurian and Fakumen and runs north-westerly from Fakumen to some terminus in Mongolia, provided, of course, China abandons the proposed Sinmintun-Fakumen Railway altogether. Reuter's wording obscures the meaning of the despatch, and we take this occasion to make clear Japan's position.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nSketch Map.\n\nA\n\nFENG-HUA HSIEN\n\nC\n\nTo Chang-Chun\n\n29\n\nKAI-YUAN HSIEN\n\nKANG-PING HSIEN\n\nFA-KU-MENG\n\nCHANG-TU FU\n\nNGOLI\n\nTo Shan-hai-Kuan\n\nTIEH-LING\n\nHSIN-MIN FU\n\nMUKDEN\n\nVER\n\nI\n\nR\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty' Government.] 201\n\n41625\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\n16\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n14 NOV 08 [October 24.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n[36921]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Wilton to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received October 24.)\n\nYunnan-fu, September 1, 1908.\n\n(No. 29.) Sir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith the copy of my despatch No. 36 of to-day's date, addressed to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, on the subject of the steps being taken by the Governor-General of Yünnan to check the production and consumption of opium.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) E. C. WILTON,\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\n(No. 56.) Sir,\n\nActing Consul-General Wilton to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nYünnan-fu, September 1, 1908. REFERRING to my despatch No. 34 of the 17th August, I have the honour to report that the Governor-General sent a telegraphic Circular to the provincial authorities on or about the 23rd August, ordering them to prevent the passage of opium through any customs or li-kin barriers within their jurisdiction on and after the 21st September next.\n\nIn my despatch No. 34 I inclosed the copy of a Proclamation, issued by the Governor-General on the 21st July last, forbidding the production and consumption of opium after the end of the current Chinese year, the 21st January, 1909 (Inclosure 2). The effect of this Proclamation, coupled with the present orders, if faithfully carried out, will be that opium will cease to have a marketable value in this province, and that illicit trade in this article will entail very heavy penalties after the 21st January, 1909. One result will be a serious loss of revenue to Yunnan of 1,500,000 taels annually. The return of opium for this year is estimated at 21,000 cwt., as against 47,000 cwt. in 1906.\n\nThis amount, however, does not include opium consumed by the local farmers in the opium-producing districts, or the quantities smuggled from one place to another within the province, or the opium employed in contraband traffic on the frontiers—an average annual total of about 13,000 cwt. The loss of this revenue will be seriously felt in so poor a province as Yunnan, which even now receives an annual contribution of 480,000 taels from Szechuan.\n\nThe Governor-General, a man of somewhat impatient temperament, appears to be determined to eradicate opium from the province with but little delay, and has been endeavouring to take practical steps to further his object.\n\nOn the 28th July, Liu chün, ex-Prefect of Yunnan-fu and Acting Taotai designate at Tengyueh, left for his new post with orders to report fully on the state of affairs in regard to opium at Ch'u hsiung, the eastern limit of the Western Circuit. He was also directed to visit Meng hua ting en route, and to stay some days at Yung chang, in order to investigate the measures taken to check the consumption and cultivation of opium.\n\nThe deputy sent secretly to examine into the opium question in outlying districts returned a few days ago. His report was so confused and misleading that the Governor-General threatened to have him executed.\n\nChinese public opinion condemns, albeit in a whisper, Hsi Liang's action as hasty, rash, and ill-advised. I am informed that the people in Western Yunnan, where more than one-half of the whole opium crop is produced, have been roused into declaring that they will oppose with force any attempt to prevent the cultivation of the poppy.\n\nThe path the Governor-General has set himself to tread is very difficult and dangerous. Moreover, the district officials appear to be so indifferent and faint-hearted that I venture to think the task is beyond his powers.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) E. C. WILTON.\n\n[1980 aa",
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        "content_text": "279\n\n2\n\nprepare a comprehensive scheme of constitutional government and to make recommendations as to the measures to be introduced in preparation for the assembly of a House of Representatives.\n\nThe memorialists have carefully studied the systems existing amongst other nations, and have endeavoured to select therefrom such provisions as are most suited to the requirements and traditions of China. The principle which they have throughout kept in view is that supreme authority must always remain with the Sovereign, and that the Constitution is founded on him. The House of Representatives is only a part of the Constitution, and cannot therefore introduce on its own authority any changes in the system of government. The object of the memorialists has been to prepare a system whereby, whilst the Sovereign's prerogative is in no way diminished, the people's interests may be advanced as much as possible.\n\nAs regards the methods of election to the House of Representatives, a list of Regulations is submitted, but more detailed Rules will subsequently be drawn up after further study of the question.\n\nMany preparatory measures must be introduced before the nation can be considered ready for the institution of a House of Representatives. As regards administrative measures which must be effected, the most important are the reform of the financial system and the taking of a census; and in a lesser degree the assimilation of Manchus and Chinese, the preparation of a code of laws, and the appointment of judicial officers. The chief means of preparing the people for the opening of a House of Representatives are the diffusion of education and the experience which they will gain from the establishment of Local Government Councils.\n\nThe memorialists recommend that nine years should be allowed for preparation prior to the convocation of a House of Representatives, i.e., until the year 1917.\n\nLists of the various Regulations prepared by the memorialists are appended.\n\nConstitutional Government.\n\nOUTLINE of a Scheme of Constitutional Government and General Rules with reference to the inauguration of a House of Representatives and the Method of Election thereto.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nA general control of all measures of government—legislative, administrative, or judicial—is vested in the Sovereign, but he is assisted in legislation by the Parliament, in the administration by his officers, and in judicial matters by the Courts, which are bound by the laws of the country.\n\nSection 1.—The Functions of the Sovereign.\n\n1. The sovereign power is vested for ever in the Ta Ch'ing dynasty.\n\n2. The person of the Sovereign is sacred and his prerogatives cannot be encroached upon.\n\n3. He has the power to proclaim laws and to sanction measures passed by Parliament. No measure passed by Parliament is effective until the Imperial assent has been signified.\n\n4. He has the power to summon, open, close, or dissolve the House of Representatives, and in the latter event will then issue instructions for a new election.\n\n5. The organization of the public service and the power of promoting or degrading officials. In this matter the Sovereign has the assistance of his high Ministers of State, and the House of Representatives cannot interfere.\n\n6. Administration of the land and sea forces, over which the House of Representatives has no control.\n\n7. International relations, including declarations of war, conclusion of Treaties, appointment and reception of Envoys. Such matters cannot be decided by the House of Representatives.\n\n8. The right to issue Edicts on his own initiative in times of crisis.\n\n9. The right of granting honours and pardons.\n\n10. General control of the administration of justice. This power is delegated by the Sovereign to the Courts, which are bound by the laws of the country, and these laws cannot be modified at will even by the Sovereign himself.\n\n11. The right of issuing Ordinances (\"Ming Ling\"), but such enactments have not the effect of altering or annulling established laws until discussed by the House of Representatives, submitted by Memorial to the Throne and approved.\n\n12. In the event of any crisis arising during the Parliamentary recess, the Sovereign has the right to issue mandates having the force of law and to raise whatever funds are required by this means. The matter must, however, be brought before the House of Representatives for discussion in the next Session.\n\n13. The expenditure for the Imperial household is regulated by the Sovereign, the amount required annually being drawn from the Treasury. This matter cannot be discussed by the House of Representatives.\n\n14. The laws for the government of the Imperial household are fixed by the Sovereign in consultation with members of the Imperial Family and officers specially appointed for the purpose. The House of Representatives has no concern therewith.\n\nSection 2.—The Rights and Duties of Officials and People.\n\n1. The right (subject to the possession of the necessary qualifications as fixed by law or Imperial Ordinance) of becoming civil or military officers or Members of the House of Representatives.\n\n2. The right, within the bounds of the law, of freedom of speech and of publication, of holding public meetings, and forming associations.\n\n3. Officials and people cannot be arrested, imprisoned, or otherwise punished except in accordance with law.\n\n4. The right of calling upon the Courts to try cases brought by them.\n\n5. They can only be tried in the proper Courts established by law.\n\n6. Freedom from unwarrantable interference with their property and dwellings.\n\n7. With regard to their obligations, they must pay such taxes and perform such military service as may be required by law.\n\n8. Taxes cannot be altered except by law.\n\n9. It is the duty of officials and people to obey the laws of the State.\n\nSection 3.—General Rules with regard to the House of Representatives.\n\n1. The House of Representatives has only the right of debate. It has no administrative functions, and its Resolutions do not become effective until the receipt of Imperial sanction.\n\n2. Only matters affecting the general interests of the whole country can be debated. The ordinary local affairs of a province cannot be discussed.\n\n3. All necessary annual disbursements fixed by the Sovereign or required by law cannot be withheld or decreased by the House of Representatives without the consent of the Government.\n\n4. The House of Representatives has the duty of assisting in the preparation of the annual estimates of revenue and expenditure of the country.\n\n5. In the event of any officer of the Government committing an offence against the laws, the House of Representatives has only the power to impeach him. The right of appointing and dismissing his officers is still vested in the Sovereign.\n\n6. The Resolutions of the House of Representatives cannot be submitted to the Throne until passed by both Houses.\n\n7. All measures submitted to the Throne by the House of Representatives shall be presented in the form of a Memorial by the President (“I Chang”).\n\n8. Members of the House of Representatives must not use disrespectful language with regard to the Throne, or make slanderous or offensive statements with reference to individuals, and they will be liable to fine or other punishment if they disobey this rule.\n\n9. At the opening of the House of Representatives it is the duty of the President to make provision for the maintenance of order, and in the event of any infringement of the Rules of Parliament, he may require the offender to keep silent or order him to leave the House.\n\n[2029 6-3]\n\nB 2",
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        "content_text": "290\n\n2\n\nin\n\nThe following account of an interview which I had yesterday afternoon with Sir C. Liang Cheng, President of the Company, will, I venture to think, place you in possession of the latest and most authentic information regarding the affairs of the Canton-Hankow Railway :-\n\nThe President began by informing me that the annual general meeting of shareholders, held on the 27th instant at the Company's Head Office in Canton, had this year passed off in the most satisfactory manner. The attendance at the meeting had been unusually large, and the election of the three new Directors (one-third of the Directorate retire annually in rotation) had proceeded without a hitch. The meeting had been attended by the Provincial Treasurer, Provincial Judge, and two other officials as Representatives of the Viceroy and the Central Government. The rumour that these gentlemen had been appointed a Committee of Investigation was, said the President, without foundation in fact.\n\nSir C. Liang Cheng admitted that the appointment of Chang Chih Tung as the \"Tu Pan,\" or Director-General, of the railway had at first been received with some misgivings on his own part, and considerable opposition on the part of the shareholders. But, he went on to say, as a result of telegrams exchanged between himself on behalf of the Company, the Railway Board, and Chiang Chih Tung, the latter's status had been explained and defined, and he believed that a majority of the shareholders now welcomed the appointment. The Director-General would not interfere in any way with the construction of the line or the management of the Company, but would exercise a general supervision over the three sections of the line. His great influence in all the provinces through which the line would pass would enable him to smooth over any difficulties that might occur when the time came to link up the three sections, and he would in the meantime make it his business to see that the work of construction was pushed forward as expeditiously as possible all along the line.\n\nThe above statement, which I have quoted, to the best of my recollection, almost textually, represents, I imagine, the President's official view of the appointment. From certain expressions which he let fall at a later stage of the interview, I gather that he is not altogether pleased with the new arrangement, and that he will probably make it an excuse for relinquishing his post as soon as he conveniently can.\n\nSir C. Liang Cheng said that it was quite untrue that the Company were in financial difficulties. They had a sum of 2,500,000 taels odd deposited in various banks; they had 700,000 taels' worth of railway materials in their godowns at Wang Sha (the Canton terminus), rails, sleepers, and cars to the value of 800,000 taels on their way out to China, and the passenger traffic on the 25 miles open to Kuantien was bringing in about 14,000 dollars per mensem. He considered the Company still possessed, in cash and material, some 65 per cent, of their original capital of 8,000,000 dollars.\n\nThey expected to obtain at least 8,000,000 dollars from their second call on the shares, but he had been assured that 5,000,000 dollars would be sufficient to carry the line (not completed, but open to light traffic) to the Hunan border.\n\nAsked how the collection of the second call of 1 dol. 50 c. per share was progressing, Sir C. Liang Cheng said the money was coming in slowly but satisfactorily. There had been some murmuring because the two years' interest on the first instalment of the shares was not paid out, but deducted from the second; but he said the majority of the smaller shareholders were content with the arrangement, which saved time and money.\n\nThe 1 dollar shares now stand at 75 cents, ex dividend, and there was some demand for them.\n\nThe President informed me that in about ten days' time the line would be open to passenger traffic as far as Yin Chan Ao, 35 miles from Canton, The embankment will shortly be completed as far as Ying Tak, and the surveyors are expected to reach Shao Kuan (Shao Chou Fu) early in October.\n\nThe line was not seriously damaged by the great floods, but in several places in the Ying Tak district new alignments have had to be made and the levels raised.\n\nThe Company were experiencing considerable difficulty in the purchase of land, and, as in the case of the Canton-Kowloon line, the expenditure under this head far exceeded the original estimate. The Viceroy's assistance had now been invoked, and he had recently issued a Proclamation warning contumacious land-owners that their land would be expropriated if they refused to accept reasonable terms. I understand the prices offered by the Company range from 60 to 100 taels per mou. The gentry are to assist in assessing values. One month will be given for the owner to make up his mind, and if at the expiry of that period he refuses to sell, the land required will be taken over and the purchase-money deposited with the local officials.\n\n3\n\nThe scheme for a branch line to Sanui had not been abandoned, said the President. An influential party amongst the shareholders were strongly in favour of it, and they hoped, in view of the good progress the trunk line was making, to obtain the Railway Board's sanction to the undertaking.\n\nWith regard to the engagement of a European accountant, Sir Chen-tung Liang said that, while he himself was in favour of appointing Mr. Chard to the post, the engineer-in-chief, Kwang, and some of the other Directors were opposed to the appointment on the ground that Mr. Chard had no experience of railway accounts. I said I thought the Company would have to pay pretty heavily if they required the services of a first-class railway accountant, and it seemed to me that Mr. Chard's experience of China and his knowledge of banking methods gave him exceptional qualifications for the work he would have to do.\n\nThe President agreed, and again said that he himself would like to secure Mr. Chard's services. I suggested that Mr. Chard might be willing to accept a short engagement—say, for three or six months, as it were—on probation, when his fitness for the post might be tested.\n\nThe President promised to consider this suggestion, and said that in any case he would let me know if the Directors decided to engage a railway accountant.\n\nAt the conclusion of our interview, Sir Chen-tang Liang, who had throughout volunteered information and replied to my questions in the most courteous, open manner, handed me an advance copy of a Circular which is to be distributed among the shareholders, containing copies of the correspondence with regard to the appointment of Chang Chih Tung above referred to. A translation of this Circular is being made, and will be forwarded by first opportunity.\n\nI am forwarding a copy of this despatch to the Governor of Hong Kong, and duplicate copies for the Legation under flying seal to His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nH. H. 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        "content_text": "launches holding Inland Water Certificates and entitled to fly the British flag from twenty-three to nine, and, of these, two more are shortly to be transferred.\n\nThe seven launches which will finally remain are:—\n\n  \n    Name.\n    Owner.\n  \n  \n    The Bramiceo\n    Pak in Hok\n  \n  \n    Fati\n    +7 *5 The British American Tobacco Company, Messrs. Butterfield and Swire.\n  \n  \n    Kwai Ping\n    M ... Ma Po The Asiatic Petroleum Company (Limited).\n  \n  \n    Cheang Po\n    Wo Fung ::: Messrs. Meyer and Co., Agents.\n  \n  \n    \n    R. C. Bamjee, Yokohama. Messrs. Patell and Co., Agents.\n  \n  \n    \n    Ditto, ditto.\n  \n  \n    \n    Ditto, ditto.\n  \n  \n    \n    Messrs. Bunker and Co., Hong Kong.\n  \n\n(This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[37257]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n0.\n\n393\n\n44783 [October 26.]\n\nSECTION 15 DEC 08\n\nThe advantage gained by the elimination of the doubtful element in the ownership of launches flying the British flag is undoubtedly considerable, and I do not think that the disappearance of the flag from vessels of this type is any serious loss to genuine British interests or prestige in these waters.\n\nThe effective patrol of the Delta and the West River districts may possibly have been stimulated by the presence of numerous vessels flying foreign flags, and the partial disappearance of those flags may result in a corresponding relaxation of the patrol, but this contingency is remote and does not seem to me to afford a sufficient reason for keeping the launches in British hands.\n\nThe French have recently adopted Regulations identical with our own, and there is, the French Consul informs me, a considerable reduction in the number of launches flying the French flag in consequence.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) H. H. FOX.\n\nBoard of Trade to Foreign Office,~(Received October 26.)\n\nSir,\n\nBoard of Trade, October 24, 1908. IN reply to your letter of the 28th ultimo, forwarding copies of correspondence relative to the control of British launches on the Canton and West Rivers, I am directed by the Board of Trade to state, for the information of Sir E. Grey, that they concur generally in the action which has been taken in the matter by the British Representatives in China, and they agree with the principle that launches should be prevented from flying the British flag unless they are British owned.\n\nWith the information at their disposal the Board do not feel competent to express a definite opinion as regards the question of registry, but it appears to them that there should be no insuperable difficulty in some at least of the launches obtaining registry under the Merchant Shipping Act; if in any case, however, it is impracticable to obtain this registry, they see no objection to a launch flying the British flag, provided satisfactory evidence is produced of genuine British ownership.\n\nI am, &c. (Signed) WALTER J. HOWELL.\n\n[1980 ec-1]\n\nPage 393\n\n44783 [October 26.]\n\nSECTION 15 DEC 08\n\nPage 394\n\n \n\nPage 395",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nNotification by the Provincial Treasurer, the Provincial Judge, the Board of Reorganization, and the Bureau of Police, with regard to the Sale of Opium.\n\nIN the matter of issuing a notification, whereas in the 32nd year of Kuang Hsü we have received an Imperial Decree prohibiting the smoking of opium, and containing ten Rules for the prohibition of the drug which had been submitted by the Administrative Council. Now it is found that the 5th Rule provides that the local authorities should make accurate investigations into the number of shops selling raw and prepared opium in every city, town, village, and hamlet, and have them registered. They will then be given licences to enable them to carry on their business, but no new shops may be opened after the investigation has been held. Persons wishing to purchase raw or prepared opium must produce their licences for inspection before the opium can be sold to them, and non-licence holders may not be supplied. Offenders against these Rules will be severely punished.\n\nThe principle that both the shops that sell raw and prepared opium and those who buy the same must take out a licence to do so has been on several occasions approved and adopted. In the 8th moon of last year instructions were given to supply the opium shops and the smokers with licences with the Rules of which they were to comply.\n\nWe have now received instructions from His Excellency the Viceroy to investigate the opium shops, register them and grant them licences, and we have accordingly had a conference on the subject and have drawn up forms for the licences to be given to opium shops and opium smokers, and also Regulations for the issue of such licences. His Excellency the Viceroy has been pleased to approve of these forms and Rules, and has given orders to his subordinates to observe them implicitly on pain of severe punishment for any secret disobedience.\n\nThe Board of Reorganization has been printing these licences for distribution, and now issues this notification for the information of raw and prepared opium shops and opium smokers.\n\nTake notice that this investigation is made and licences issued in conformity with the Regulations made by the Administrative Council.\n\nFrom the 1st day of the 9th moon all sales and purchases of raw or prepared opium by opium shops and opium smokers must conform to the Rules set forth below. If any one disobey in secret, or enter into private transactions without a licence, or does not retain the counterfoils of licences to be delivered up each month, he shall be deemed to be a wilful offender, and will, on being discovered or on information laid, be severely dealt with, and will have his property sealed up. Tremble and obey! A special notification.\n\nRegulations.\n\n1. Licences for raw opium shops shall be printed in the same form as those for prepared opium shops, and each shop provided with one to enable it to carry on business. Such licences will be renewable once a year without fee until the expiration of the term allowed for the prohibition of opium, when they must be delivered up for cancellation. From the time of holding this investigation and registration opium shops may be closed, but no new shops opened.\n\nIf any person unlawfully establishes a shop without a licence or sells opium to buyers without inspecting their licences, the shop will be shut up and the buyer arrested, on being discovered or on a true information laid.\n\n2. Licences for the purchase of raw opium will be issued in three parts, one counterfoil being kept by the Board for reference, one by the selling shop, and the licence itself by the applicant. Any one buying raw opium to prepare it himself must first report the number of balls he proposes to buy, and in pursuance of clause 6 of the Regulations drawn up by the King Shun Tong pay a fee according to the number of pans and the quality of the opium. The licence is then filled up and two parts issued.\n\nThis licence is only to be used once, and to prevent abuses a new one applied for when needed. Every raw opium shop, when a customer comes to buy opium, must carefully inspect the two parts of the licence issued by the Board as to the number of balls inserted therein, and supply the customer accordingly, retaining one counterfoil and returning the other to the buyer.\n\n7\n\nThe counterfoils retained by raw opium shops in Canton and Honam will be inspected once a month by an official from the Board. Those retained in the country districts will be inspected by the Magistrate's deputy. Where there are branch offices under deputy officers the inspection will be carried out by deputies from such officers.\n\nWhen an officer attends at a shop to make an inspection, the shop must at once get ready all the counterfoils and hand them over. Those who disobey by not handing over the counterfoils will be dealt with according to the Regulations.\n\n3. Licences applied for by raw opium shops in Canton and Honam will be issued direct by the Board of Reorganization. As to applications from country districts, the local authorities have been instructed to make a thorough investigation as to the number of shops within their jurisdiction, and to forward their names and addresses to the Board for examination in order that licences may be issued for distribution.\n\n4. In places in Canton and Honam, where the issuing of licences for the purchase of raw opium is undertaken by a contractor, a smoker applying for a licence must first attend at the Board of Reorganization, produce the licence for smoking, and report clearly the amount of raw opium to be purchased and the amount to be prepared, and the Board will examine such licence and give him a letter to take to the King Shun Tong, who will exchange it for a licence on payment of the fee.\n\nAs to places in the country where the issuing of such licences is undertaken by contractors, the smokers will have to make the report to the local authorities, who will make the necessary inquiries and give them letters for the contractor's office to be exchanged for licences after payment of the fees.\n\nAs to places where licensing is done by branch offices under deputy officers or the local authorities, the smokers will have to make their report at such office, when inquiries will be made and licences granted on payment of the fees.\n\nWhen applications for purchasing licences are made by prepared opium shops who have already undertaken the payment of duties and fees, the applicants are only required to produce the original business licences and report the amount of raw opium to be purchased, and when the licences are found to be in order, a certificate is given to be exchanged for licences to buy raw opium. These licences are not liable to any fee. Every branch office and local authority who has issued such licences must forward a return of the counterfoils detained, and those surrendered by the raw opium shops to the Board of Reorganization, and send a report to the provincial authorities for reference. Officers in charge must, when applicants come for licences, at once make the necessary inquiries and grant the licence without delay. Contractors, when persons come to exchange their certificates for licences, can only charge the fees laid down in the Regulations, and must not make any extra charge whatever.\n\n5. In calculating the amount of raw opium purchased, one pan is taken as the minimum amount. With superior raw opium one ball is taken as 1 pan, and with inferior raw opium 60 or 70 taels is taken as 1 pan. If it is desired to purchase less than 1 pan, the balls have to be cut up. The practice must therefore be strictly forbidden in order to prevent fraud.\n\nKuang Hsü, 34th year, 8th moon, 9th day (September 4, 1908).\n\n(Translation.) Your Excellency,\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Fox to Viceroy Chang.\n\nSeptember 26, 1908. IN continuation of my note of the 24th instant, I have the honour to submit, for your Excellency's consideration, the formal protest of the British firms in Hong Kong interested in the import of Indian opium, against the new Regulations which have recently been issued by the Provincial Government with a view to the registration of all shops selling raw and prepared opium.\n\nIt is submitted by the British firms in question that if clauses 1, 2, and 3 of these Regulations are carried into effect, the result will be that a certain number of native establishments selling raw and prepared opium will be ascertained, registered, and licensed, and this will curtail the sale of raw opium, as only the native establishments so registered and licensed will be competent to purchase raw opium from the British vendor. In effect, the British merchant will have his trade cut down to the limits of\n\n400",
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        "content_text": "802\n\nCora!\n\n1RESA\n\n...\n\nTOMIAH\n\n509\n\nLiang's objection, added Liang, was really that Hoore was appointed by Viceroy Chao on his own motion.\n\nLiang was strong on the advisability of the Government making all railways, and commended Chang's idea of raising a British loan for Hunan (the enclosed cutting shows that there will be local opposition), and ignoring the gentry, whose subscriptions would barely suffice, he thought, for the short section they have made such a fuss about.\n\nHe went on to say that Chang heard from Hillier that there could be no fresh loan for at least six months, but seemed to pin his hopes on getting better terms from Bland.\n\nThere had been a suggestion to include Chang's projected loan in the one signed on the 8th, but jealousy of the Board of Communications led Chang to scout the suggestion.\n\nPossibly His Excellency's latest scheme, as told to Liang just before he left Peking to borrow three million pounds for Hupei as well as two million pounds for Hunan, may also have had something to do with its rejection.\n\nWe would, Liang added, get better terms than that loan's, owing to the 1905 engagements - a view that scarcely allows for the effect of Hanyang and Tongshan works' capacities in the way of supplying rails and rolling-stock.\n\nLiang\n\nPage 802\n\n...\n\n$2,000,000",
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        "content_text": "7\n\n6\n\n77\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nNotification by the Provincial Treasurer, the Provincial Judge, the Board of Reorganization, and the Bureau of Police, with regard to the Sale of Opium.\n\nIN the matter of issuing a notification, whereas in the 32nd year of Kuang Hsü we have received an Imperial Decree prohibiting the smoking of opium, and containing ten Rules for the prohibition of the drug which had been submitted by the Administrative Council. Now it is found that the 5th Rule provides that the local authorities should make accurate investigations into the number of shops selling raw and prepared opium in every city, town, village, and hamlet, and have them registered. They will then be given licences to enable them to carry on their business, but no new shops may be opened after the investigation has been held. Persons wishing to purchase raw or prepared opium must produce their licences for inspection before the opium can be sold to them, and non-licence holders may not be supplied. Offenders against these Rules will be severely punished.\n\nThe principle that both the shops that sell raw and prepared opium and those who buy the same must take out a licence to do so has been on several occasions approved and adopted. In the 8th moon of last year instructions were given to supply the opium shops and the smokers with licences with the Rules of which they were to comply.\n\nWe have now received instructions from his Excellency the Viceroy to investigate the opium shops, register them and grant them licences, and we have accordingly had a conference on the subject and have drawn up forms for the licences to be given to opium shops and opium smokers, and also Regulations for the issue of such licences. His Excellency the Viceroy has been pleased to approve of these forms and Rules, and has given orders to his subordinates to observe them implicitly on pain of severe punishment for any secret disobedience.\n\nThe Board of Reorganization has been printing these licences for distribution, and now issues this notification for the information of raw and prepared opium shops and opium smokers,\n\nTake notice that this investigation is made and licences issued in conformity with the Regulations made by the Administrative Council.\n\nFrom the 1st day of the 9th moon all sales and purchases of raw or prepared opium by opium shops and opium smokers must conform to the Rules set forth below. If any one disobey in secret, or enter into private transactions without a licence, or does not retain the counterfoils of licences to be delivered up each month, he shall be deemed to be a wilful offender, and will, on being discovered or on information laid, be severely dealt with, and will have his property sealed up. Tremble and obey! A special notification.\n\nRegulations.\n\n1. Licences for raw opium shops shall be printed in the same form as those for prepared opium shops, and each shop provided with one to enable it to carry on business. Such licences will be renewable once a year without fee until the expiration of the term allowed for the prohibition of opium, when they must be delivered up for cancellation. From the time of holding this investigation and registration opium shops may be closed, but no new shops opened.\n\nIf any person unlawfully establishes a shop without a licence or sells opium to buyers without inspecting their licences, the shop will be shut up and the buyer arrested, on being discovered or on a true information laid.\n\n2. Licences for the purchase of raw opium will be issued in three parts, one counterfoil being kept by the Board for reference, one by the selling shop, and the licence itself by the applicant. Any one buying raw opium to prepare it himself must first report the number of balls he proposes to buy, and in pursuance of clause 6 of the Regulations drawn up by the King Shun Tong pay a fee according to the number of pans and the quality of the opium. The licence is then filled up and two parts issued.\n\nThis licence is only to be used once, and to prevent abuses a new one applied for when needed. Every raw opium shop, when a customer comes to buy opium, must carefully inspect the two parts of the licence issued by the Board as to the number of balls inserted therein, and supply the customer accordingly, retaining one counterfoil and returning the other to the buyer.\n\nThe counterfoils retained by raw opium shops in Canton and Honam will be inspected once a month by an official from the Board. Those retained in the country districts will be inspected by the Magistrate's deputy. Where there are branch offices under deputy officers the inspection will be carried out by deputies from such officers.\n\nWhen an officer attends at a shop to make an inspection, the shop must at once get ready all the counterfoils and hand them over. Those who disobey by not handing over the counterfoils will be dealt with according to the Regulations.\n\n3. Licences applied for by raw opium shops in Canton and Honam will be issued direct by the Board of Reorganization. As to applications from country districts, the local authorities have been instructed to make a thorough investigation as to the number of shops within their jurisdiction, and to forward their names and addresses to the Board for examination in order that licences may be issued for distribution.\n\n4. In places in Canton and Honam, where the issuing of licences for the purchase of raw opium is undertaken by a contractor, a smoker applying for a licence must first attend at the Board of Reorganization, produce the licence for smoking, and report clearly the amount of raw opium to be purchased and the amount to be prepared, and the Board will examine such licence and give him a letter to take to the King Shun Tong, who will exchange it for a licence on payment of the fee.\n\nAs to places in the country where the issuing of such licences is undertaken by contractors, the smokers will have to make the report to the local authorities, who will make the necessary inquiries and give them letters for the contractor's office to be exchanged for licences after payment of the fees.\n\nAs to places where licensing is done by branch offices under deputy officers or the local authorities, the smokers will have to make their report at such office, when inquiries will be made and licences granted on payment of the fees.\n\nWhen applications for purchasing licences are made by prepared opium shops who have already undertaken the payment of duties and fees, the applicants are only required to produce the original business licences and report the amount of raw opium to be purchased, and when the licences are found to be in order, a certificate is given to be exchanged for licences to buy raw opium, These licences are not liable to any fee. Every branch office and local authority who has issued such licences must forward a return of the counterfoils detained, and those surrendered by the raw opium shops to the Board of Reorganization, and send a report to the provincial authorities for reference. Officers in charge must, when applicants come for licences, at once make the necessary inquiries and grant the licence without delay. Contractors, when persons come to exchange their certificates for licences, can only charge the fees laid down in the Regulations, and must not make any extra charge whatever.\n\n5. In calculating the amount of raw opium purchased, one pan is taken as the minimum amount. With superior raw opium one ball is taken as 1 pan, and with inferior raw opium 60 or 70 taels is taken as 1 pan. If it is desired to purchase less than 1 pan, the balls have to be cut up. The practice must therefore be strictly forbidden in order to prevent fraud.\n\nKuang Hsü, 34th year, 8th moon, 9th day (September 4, 1908),\n\n(Translation.) Your Excellency,\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Fox to Viceroy Chang.\n\nSeptember 26, 1908. IN continuation of my note of the 24th instant, I have the honour to submit, for your Excellency's consideration, the formal protest of the British firms in Hong Kong interested in the import of Indian opium, against the new Regulations which have recently been issued by the Provincial Government with a view to the registration of all shops selling raw and prepared opium.\n\nIt is submitted by the British firms in question that if clauses 1, 2, and 3 of these Regulations are carried into effect, the result will be that a certain number of native establishments selling raw and prepared opium will be ascertained, registered, and licensed, and this will curtail the sale of raw opium, as only the native establishments so registered and licensed will be competent to purchase raw opium from the British vendor. In effect, the British merchant will have his trade cut down to the limits of\n\n648",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government:] 074\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[41496]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[November 28.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nC. O\n\n47047\n\nRECT REG: 23 DEC 08\n\n(No. 452.) Sir,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.~(Received November 28.)\n\nPeking, October 14, 1908. WITH reference to the fourth paragraph of my despatch No. 317 of the 14th July last, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from the Acting British Consul-General at Mukden, inclosing copy of a Report by Mr. Hughes, M.I.C.E., upon a site for a new ice-free port for Manchuria.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 68. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nMukden, October 8, 1908. I HAVE the honour to inclose copy of a Report by Mr. Willoughby R. Hughes, M.I.C.E., who was recently instructed by the Manchurian Government to survey the coast-line between Tien Chiao Chang and Shan Hai Kwan, with the view of finding a port, ice-free if possible, suitable both in summer and winter for the commerce of Manchuria.\n\nIn Hu La Tao, Mr. Hughes seems to have found a harbour more satisfactory than was generally expected. The only question seems to be as to whether the trade of the country warrants a large expenditure on a port between Newchwang and Ching-wang-tao, the latter of which is open throughout the winter.\n\nMy own impression is that in this direction the improvement of the Liao River should be the first object of the Manchurian Government, and that the construction of a new commercial harbour might well wait until this has been accomplished, and, further, until the question of the extension of the Chinese Northern Railway has been definitely settled.\n\nMr. Hughes informed me that he was about to undertake a preliminary survey of the Liao almost immediately, and he was also under instructions to make periodical visits to Hu Lu Tao during the coming winter.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nR. WILLIS.\n\n(Confidential) Sir,\n\nMr. W. Hughes to Wong Kai-wen,\n\nBulutao, September 21, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report on the examination of the coast between Tien Chiao Chang and Shan Hai Kuan, which I have just completed.\n\nAccording to the instructions I received from his Excellency the Honourable Tang Shao-yi and yourself, I was to endeavour to find a port, ice-free if possible, which would be suitable for the accommodation of steam-ships throughout the year, so as to provide as far as possible a winter and summer port for Manchurian trade.\n\nAfter an inspection of the chart of the coast, my attention was first directed to Hulutao, where sufficient depth of water was shown to exist, and the description of the place, as published in the Sailing Directions for the coast of Liaochung, showed it to be apparently suitable in other respects.\n\nOn further inquiry, I was informed that the Coast Inspector of the Imperial Maritime Customs had sent a cruiser there some years ago to make a similar inspection with the same object.\n\n[2029 ee-2]",
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        "content_text": "# Report on the Examination of the Coast for a Suitable Port\n\nI went to Shanghae and saw the Coast Inspector, Captain Tyler, and procured from him a rough chart of the place and other information regarding it.\n\nOn the 13th August, I proceeded to Hulutao, which is situated some 25 or 30 li by cart road south of Lienshan Station, on the Imperial Chinese Railway. It is a promontory running out into the sea, in a direction, roughly speaking, at right angles to the coast-line from east to west, its western extremity joining the mainland, and its eastern end projecting nearly 6 further out into the sea. It is covered with numerous rounded hills, the highest being 400 feet in height. On the northern side, the water is very shallow, and on the south, it is deep, with a uniform mud bottom.\n\nI made a close examination and survey of the bay, checking the soundings which had been made previously, noting the tides, &c., so as to be able to judge of its suitability. I remained there for nine days, and during that time, there was high wind and a rough sea from the south and south-west, which interrupted our operations, but gave good illustration of the place under unfavourable conditions in summer. This experience was valuable as showing the direction it would be necessary to give to a break-water in order to give complete shelter in summer.\n\nI made many inquiries of the people living there and others acquainted with the place in winter in order to get what information I could regarding the extent to which it may be considered ice-free. They all agree that, although extremely cold, the ice does not form over all the bay on the south side till late in the season, and then for about ten days only. Also, that even then there is always open water with drift ice beyond the promontory, and this open water appears to be about 4 li wide, and to extend all along the coast to the south-west from one projecting part of the coast-line to another, which should make navigation practicable. Some of my informants were of the opinion that access to the bay might sometimes be difficult, if not impossible, for about a month in the season, but they were not all agreed that it would be for so long a time. They maintain that the ice when it does form will not bear a man's weight, so that it is unsafe to walk upon. The tidal current seems to run very strong in that place, and there is a rise of tide of 10 feet, which may account for the ice being broken up, or not getting time enough to form properly.\n\nFrom Hulutao, I proceeded down the coast first of all to Hunter's Point or Wang Hai Szu, which seemed also a likely place, but on examination proved to be unsuitable on account of rock and stones on the north-east side and shallow on the south-west, which is said to be constantly frozen.\n\nI went to Ning Yuen Chou and inspected the coast in that vicinity, more especially a place called Wa Sze Tao or Tung Yao Chan, which is only about 18 li from the railway line. Here we took soundings out to a distance of 2,000 feet from the shore in an east and west direction and also from north to south, but found the water too shallow, and from its position, the place seems liable to be frozen up in winter, except where fully exposed to the winds beyond the coast-line and outside the shelter of the hills. That this is the case is also confirmed by statements of villagers living there.\n\nI then went to Chu Hua Tao, on the south-east coast of which is a place which might have served excellently well if our object had been the selection of a small naval port instead of a commercial one. The island is 3 miles long from north-east to south-west; it has numerous hills, some of which are about 800 feet high, and is situated about 6 miles from the mainland, the intervening water being extremely shallow. It seemed that it might be practicable to make a road from the mainland to the island, but it is subject to very rough seas sometimes at high water, which would make such a road a very expensive undertaking in itself. On the island, which is very fertile, are some excellent quarries of granite, where stone has been procured for bridges on the Imperial railways. The water is 40 to 50 feet deep in a sheltered bay on the south-west corner, where the tidal current keeps it free of ice, but its distance from the mainland makes it impracticable as a commercial port. But this fact and the ease with which it could be fortified, its great depth of water, sheltered situation, and other advantages make it worthy of note as a possible naval port for the north. It is situated about 40 miles north of Chin Wang Tao and 20 miles south of Hulutao. If not entirely ice-free, it would have advantages over such a place as the Russian Vladivostock.\n\nAfter leaving Chu Hua Tao, I went to Shan Hai Kuan, but apart from the disadvantage of its nearness to Chinwangtao, I found no suitable place in that locality. It has shallow water and little shelter, so that its bays are constantly frozen out to the coast-line, and it has very little rise of tide to break up the ice.\n\nI finally went to Tien Chiao Chang to judge of the conditions at Chinchow Bay, but found it an impracticable place as a winter port, and only useful for junks in the open season. The water is so shallow that the largest junks have to anchor at a distance of 20 li from the shore: any attempt, therefore, to improve the place by dredging or otherwise would involve prohibitive expenditure. The water is frozen there to the bottom in winter, and Kaochiao is even in a worse condition.\n\nThe result of my examination of the coast has been, therefore, to show decisively that Hulutao is the most suitable, if not the only fit place for a port between Newchwang and Shanhaikuan, and it is fortunately an exceedingly good one, both from its natural conditions and its situation as regards the trade of a large part of Manchuria.\n\nConsidering it first as a winter port, there is not sufficiently accurate knowledge of the winter condition of the Gulf of Liaotung to enable one to judge with any certainty of the period during which it is open to navigation.\n\nWe know that the Liao River is frozen up from about the 24th November to the middle of March, but the fresh water of the river freezes at a temperature much higher than sea water, and before it reaches Newchwang, the waters of the Liao have been cooled to the freezing point by passing through an immense distance of frozen country.\n\nFrom the thermometer records kept at the Harbour-master's office at Newchwang, it appears that through the night, the temperatures are below the freezing point of sea water for two months, from about the end of December till the middle of January, yet the day temperatures are generally so very much higher as to make it probable that the warmth of the days counteracts in a great measure the effect of the cold nights.\n\nConsidering also that the currents and high rise of tide will in themselves break up the ice formed at night time, and that Hulutao, from the configuration of the hills behind it, is fully exposed to the off-shore winds from the north-west, which are frequent at that season, it is easily seen how the ice may be blown to sea and out of the bay, once its connection with the shore is broken. There is no record of ships encountering ice in the gulf when coming to Newchwang after the river is open to navigation.\n\nI am inclined to think, therefore, that the difficulties regarding the ice will not be found so serious as is generally supposed, and that it is highly probable that Hulutao will only be closed to navigation during the coldest months in the year, say, from the middle of January till the middle of February. This can only be satisfactorily proved by making the practical demonstration by means of a well-found steamer, which should be chartered to proceed to Hulutao, say, four times in the winter, the middle of the months of December, January, February, and March. A competent person should be stationed there, also throughout the coming winter, to keep a record of the winds and temperatures and of the tides, and the state of the ice in the bay. By this means, most valuable information will be obtained as to the conditions of the place in view of its suitability for a winter port.\n\nI think, from a long experience gained at Chinwangtao, that we should be quite safe in considering the advantages of Hulutao, on the assumption of its being closed to navigation for about a month.\n\nAs a port for Manchuria in the open season, the advantages of its site are incontestable.\n\nComparing it with other trade routes, it is 60 miles nearer to Mukden than Dalny, and it would have also this advantage - being the gateway port of Manchuria, it would be purely under Chinese control instead of under the Japanese, as is the case of Dalny.\n\nIt is 100 miles nearer Mukden than Chinwangtao.\n\nIts distance from Hsinmintun is 50 miles.\n\nIt is in a district within reach of some of the best coal mines in North China, which are worked at present at Pei-piao and Yichow, but only need to be developed by modern methods and joined by railway in order to secure the coal market of Shanghae, the quality being far superior to anything offered there at present. This alone would make a very important trade for the port.\n\nThese advantages in themselves would secure the success of the port and bring traffic to the Imperial railways and Hulutao, which now goes to Dalny and the South Manchurian Railway.\n\nPage 675",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS.\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[41498]\n\n### No. 1.\n\n[November 28.]\n\n#### SECTION 1\n\nC.0  \n47047  \nRec REC 23 DEC 08  \n\n**(No. 455.)**  \nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 28.)  \n\nPeking, October 14, 1908.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 418 of the 15th ultimo, I have the honour to inclose copy of a despatch of the 1st ultimo from the Acting British Consul-General at Canton, forwarding translations of some interesting official telegrams and a Proclamation by the Viceroy Chang which bear on the appointment of the Grand Secretary Chang Chih-tung as Director-General, and on the affairs of the Canton-Hankow Railway generally.\n\nI also transmit copy of a useful Report, which has been prepared by Mr. R. S. Pratt, Assistant in His Majesty's Consulate-General, showing the progress of the work on the Canton section of that railway.*  \n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n**(Translation.)**  \nInclosure in No. 1.  \nProclamation by Viceroy Chang.\n\nIn the matter of a Proclamation.\n\nTHE Kuangtung section of the Yueh Han Railway is under commercial control, as has been reported to the Throne on several occasions both by previous Viceroys and by the Board of Communications. A Decree has recently been promulgated appointing a Director-General for the railway in the three provinces in order to exercise a general direction over the affairs of the line and protect the interest of the railway. It has now come to the Viceroy's knowledge that the merchants of Canton and the shareholders settled in foreign ports have been misled by various rumours, and are filled with suspicion and uncertainty. The Viceroy therefore telegraphed to the Board of Communications asking that a telegram should be sent in reply containing an assurance that as the Kuangtung section had already achieved a measure of success, and in view of the different circumstances in Hunan and Hupeh, the line would remain under commercial control.\n\nA reply has now been received to the effect that since the Viceroy has been in office daily progress has been made, which, owing to different conditions peculiar to Hunan and Hupeh, has not been possible in those two provinces. The Board has received a Decree ordering it to appoint an official to inspect the line and examine its finances. This official will take into consideration all the affairs of the line and will superintend the work with a view to avoid any squandering of the shareholders' capital or any waste of time or money. In obedience to this Decree, the Board has appointed a Director-General for the Yueh Han Railway, who will work in co-operation with the Board of Communications and the high authorities of the three provinces to secure the working together in harmony of the three provinces and to push on construction. The duty of this official will be that of exercising a general superintendence, while the management will rest with the Company. The above provisions are in conformity with those adopted in most countries. There is no case on record, the Board says, of a railway not being subject to State supervision, and it is still more unheard of for such State supervision to have entailed any loss of the benefit derived from mercantile control. On the other hand, the assistance rendered by each side to the other, and the fact of their being a general superintendence over all three provinces will make it easier for Hunan and Hupeh to complete their sections and so hasten their connection with the Kuangtung section, thereby conferring a substantial benefit on the shareholders in that province. As had been agreed, a telegram has been sent to the Company informing them that they will be still permitted a free hand in matters...\n\n*Not printed  \n[2030 ee-1]",
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        "content_text": "## Chihli, Shansi, Shensi, Kansu, and Shantung Provinces Opium Suppression Reports\n\n694\n\nOpium suppression efforts will be concluded in Heilungkiang by the end of the current year and in Kirin and Fengtien in the following year.\n\n### Chihli\n\nIn Chihli, the metropolitan province, measures of suppression are now being carried out with earnestness and vigour. In many places, Proclamations have been issued prohibiting the cultivation, use, and trade in opium, and the prohibition is being enforced by officials through village Headmen. Opium shops have been reduced in numbers, sometimes only one being allowed in a city; smokers and shops have been licensed, official refuges have been established in cities, and medicines are being supplied gratuitously. Here and there, a few opium-smoking houses are still open under licence, while in some cities, such as Huai-lu Hsien in the Shun-te Prefecture, effective steps are being taken; opium-smoking and retail shops have all been shut, and their proprietors punished.\n\nThe Chihli Anti-Opium Bureau is exceedingly active. Copies of sixty-four Chinese documents emanating from that office deal with the suppression of opium in all its phases - cultivation, consumption, and trade. They include circulars addressed to provincial authorities, high and low, calling for returns of all kinds. Blank forms have been sent to provincial authorities requesting them to fill in the names and situations of opium refuges, to state whether they are official or private institutions, to give the names of donors, the prescriptions used, and the results. Another form requires the names of opium-smoking officials, of officials who have ceased to smoke, and of suspects. District Magistrates are called upon to report the quantity of foreign opium imported into their respective districts and to give statistics showing the consumption and export of native opium. Similar instructions are issued to custom-houses and li-kin barriers. Officials of high rank are required to guarantee lower officials. Opium shops and smokers are ordered to be licensed, and the numbers and names of shops and smokers, their situations and residences, are demanded.\n\nOfficials of one Prefecture are directed to abstain from charging fees in excess of those laid down in the Regulations; officials of higher rank are requested to fill in and return a table giving the names of their subordinates and stating whether they are smokers or non-smokers and the names of their guarantors; and petty officials are required to give the names of their guarantors within three days of receipt. District Magistrates are directed to report the annual reduction in cultivation of the poppy, the areas under cultivation, the names of the growers, &c., within a fortnight after receipt of instructions; in another circular, they are directed to order growers to reduce the area under poppy by one-eighth annually, to issue licences to growers for the land to be placed under poppy; and in another, to take strict measures regarding area reduction. Prescriptions for Chinese and foreign anti-opium medicines are sent for use in various refuges. Reprints of the Imperial Anti-Opium Decree are transmitted to officials of all ranks; opium-smoking officials are directed to proceed to the Government opium refuge and quit the habit within three months, and Bureau officials are instructed to examine various officers in the province.\n\n### Shansi\n\nThe Governor of Shansi has memorialized the Throne, proposing that entire prohibition of opium within his province should be carried out during the present Chinese year. However, his Excellency will need to show more energy than has been displayed since the Anti-Opium Decree if his proposal is to be carried into effect, as reports from the province are somewhat pessimistic. The balance of evidence indicates that a slight reduction in a few districts is outweighed by increased cultivation in others, and that the marked diminution reported from Chi-shan Hsien in the Department of Chang Chou, in Southern Shansi, would have been more marked had farmers not bribed yamên underlings with payments of 2 taels a mou.\n\nA correspondent from Ho-chieng Hsien in the same Department states that opium prohibition can be carried into effect if done systematically, honestly, and reasonably. The difficulty lies not with the people but with Government finance and official corruption. In his district, there was no poppy cultivation last year and only a little this year; excessive taxation and persistent rumours stopped cultivation, but opium-smoking houses and opium shops have increased. There have been no restrictions on smokers, and opium shops have not been inspected. Anti-opium medicines are advertised and sold extensively.\n\nAt Fen-hsi Hsien in the Prefecture of Ping-yang, a Proclamation was issued by the Prefect on the 1st June, ordering the registration of land under poppy with a view to reducing the area. The reason given was that, as this year marked the beginning of the reduction in the importation of Indian opium, complications might arise if nothing were done to effect a reduction of opium cultivation in the interior of China. This Proclamation gave a three years' limit for the cessation of cultivation, while a tax collector's Proclamation in the same Prefecture gave the limit as ten years.\n\n### Shensi\n\nReports from Shensi are scanty and fragmentary. Opium shops were ordered by Proclamation to close at Han-chung Fu, and the signboards were accordingly removed. At Wu-kung Hsien, Yang Hsien, and Chou-chih Hsien, last year's Proclamations on the ten Opium Regulations were reiterated, but no practical steps have been taken; officials and gentry confined themselves to talking instead of reforming themselves or furthering the reform movement. The District Magistrate of Chou-chih has started a society that includes opium reform and anti-foot-binding among its objects. It is authoritatively stated that \"in the province, as elsewhere, the area under cultivation by the poppy is everywhere somewhat less.\"\n\n### Kansu\n\nThe reports from Kansu are few. In the immediate neighbourhood of Lan-chow, the capital, the area under poppy cultivation is stated to have been less, but elsewhere more. In Ching Chou, although the area was originally greater, many fields were ploughed up due to a Proclamation issued by the District Magistrate in March, assessing all land under poppy at 70 cents a mou. The gentry held a meeting and unanimously decided to plough up all opium land, but the Magistrate, to protect his revenue, immediately issued a second Proclamation ordering them not to do so and directing them to diminish the area under cultivation slightly to accord with the Imperial Decree.\n\nAt Lan-chow, two Proclamations were posted in March and May; the former raised the tax on land under poppy by 50 to 100 per cent., and the latter exhorted officials to break off the habit within three months under severe penalties. Neither was enforced. Local opinion views the reform movement as desirable but unattainable, and practically little or nothing has been done.\n\n### Shantung\n\nOn the 11th June, new Anti-Opium Regulations were published at Chi-nan Fu, the provincial capital, directing all persons who had given up the opium habit to file bonds and those who still indulged to give an undertaking to renounce the drug within two months. Numerous deputies were named to ensure these instructions were carried out, and four offices for the sale of anti-opium medicines were established in the suburbs.\n\nTaken as a whole, there was a considerable diminution of land under poppy throughout the province, one reason being that many places suffered from severe and continuous drought, preventing the sowing of the seed.\n\nPage 694\nPage 9\n[2050 i-1]",
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        "content_text": "# BOYCOTTING THE PORTUGUESE, OUTCOME OF THE \"FATSHAN\" AFFAIR\n\nOur Canton correspondent writes on the 16th inst.:-An important meeting of the Self-Government Society was held yesterday evening, and thousands of persons, representing every section of the people, attended the meeting. Chan Wai Po was unanimously elected Chairman, and he opened the proceedings by reading the circular convening the meeting, a translation of which I sent you yesterday. The Chairman then informed the meeting that he had been handed a copy of a letter which had been written by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire to the British Consul to come to some settlement of Noronha's case. He said that the audience could see from this that Messrs. Butterfield and Swire had done all in their power to bring the Fatshan incident to a satisfactory conclusion, and had made ample compensation to the deceased's family. The Chairman then called upon Mok Wing Yu, who had full power to represent and act for Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, and Bo Ya Tui, acting on behalf of the family of the deceased Ho Yu Ting, to come to a final settlement. They informed the audience that they had arrived at a satisfactory settlement, and thanked the Society for the interest and help they had given to the case.\n\nThe Chairman then said that the Fatshan affair as regards Messrs. Butterfield and Swire was concluded, and he proposed that they should send telegrams to their countrymen informing them of this fact. The audience approving, a telegram was thereupon drafted.\n\nThe Chairman then resumed. The Consul for Portugal had not done his share of the business. He had refused to re-try Noronha or to offer an apology. He had falsely accused the Society of bribery, and had refused Viceroy Chang's proposal to hold a joint trial. The Chairman asked the assembly to decide on some form of retaliation for this insult to the Society, and to the Chinese nation in general. As far as he could see, all they were able to do was to request the Portuguese Consul to hold another trial, and to be careful in their future connections with the Portuguese. There were very few Portuguese firms, and not much business was carried on with the Chinese. The Portuguese were mostly employed by other foreign firms, as clerks, etc., and some were employed in Chinese firms. The Portuguese were a violent people, as they could see from the murder of Ho Yu Ting. It behooved them, therefore, to have no more business transactions with them, lest they be treated as their poor countryman Ho Yu Ting had been. They should have no further dealings with any firm, Chinese or foreign, who employed Portuguese clerks or assistants; and he asked the audience whether they approved of this course.\n\nKong Shui Chenn, an influential member of the gentry, then stood up and proposed that the Chairman's suggestion be adopted; and he further moved that telegrams be sent to their compatriots in every country to refrain from having any business transactions in future with firms employing Portuguese.\n\nHo Wai Nung seconded the proposal, and the audience unanimously concurred, signifying their approval by shouting and clapping most uproariously.\n\nAfter partaking of refreshments, the audience dispersed, and the meeting was postponed till this evening.\n\n## THE DRAFT TELEGRAM\n\nThe telegram drafted at the meeting and to be forwarded to the various places read as follows:-\n\n\"With reference to the Fatshan incident the Portuguese Consul has, up to the present, not yet settled the matter, but has brought forward false allegations against the members of our Society, whereat we have been much provoked. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire have maintained in a proper manner the friendly relations with the Chinese, offering a sum of $5,200 as compensation to the deceased's family and promising to urge the Portuguese Consul to take up the case with a view to arriving at a settlement and to accord better treatment to Chinese passengers in the future. The family of the deceased has agreed to accept the money. The ill-feeling against the British firm aforesaid is now placated, and we should resume dealing with the firm in the ordinary course of business as before. However, steps must be taken against the Portuguese.\n\n\"(Sgd.) THE CANTON SELF-GOVT. SOCIETY.\"",
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        "content_text": "-16- \n\n59 lives, and damage was done to 77 Government buildings with a loss of one life. The river steamer Ying King foundered with a loss of 424 lives, including those of the Master and 3 European passengers. Inside and outside the harbour limits 17 European and 123 native craft were sunk, many more being wrecked or damaged. The loss of Government property alone was estimated at $100,000. The storm swept on to Canton where great destruction of river craft and much loss of life occurred,\n\nUnder instructions from Your Lordship a bill was introduced into the Legislative Council to provide for the Transfer to the Government of Hongkong of the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund and of the Management and Control of the Pensions of Widows and Orphans. The bill was passed on the 30th July and the fund amounting to a sum of $371,321 was transferred to the general revenue of the Colony, out of which the pensions in question will in future be paid.\n\nA riot broke out in the town of Victoria on the 1st and 2nd of November in connection with a boycott of Japanese goods by the Cantonese. This boycott was due to the feeling excited in China by the Talsu Maru affair, and was actively organized by the \"National Disgrace Society\" at Canton. It soon spread to Hongkong, where the Government from the first took active steps to combat it with the result that by the autumn several Chinese merchants in the Colony had again begun to trade in Japanese goods. This gradual failure of the boycott movement in Hongkong dissatisfied the more violent agitators in Canton, who, thereupon, made this Colony the scene of an organized riot, which had for its object the destruction of the shops and goods of such Chinese merchants as had abandoned the anti-Japanese boycott. The affair was arranged with such secrecy and skill that the Police of the Colony were completely taken by surprise, and for the purpose of restoring law and order it was necessary to call upon the Military Authorities for assistance. A proclamation was forthwith issued declaring the Colony subject to the provisions of the Peace Preservation Ordinance and with the help of the troops order was restored by the evening of the 2nd November. After that date there was no further outbreak and drastic steps were taken to deal with the instigators of the outrage. In no instance was a Japanese shop or a Japanese subject attacked.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\n#612.2\n\nSa-tsing\n\nHONG KONG,\n\nKOWLOON AND ADJACENT TERRITORIES.\n\nTUNGShak KWAN\nPiang tidKon Lan\nAaong tuhoTong-lak\nLung koagHsin hi\nTai-Tong-tu KU ISHA N\nTong poiCheng-hang\nkungShaktboug tea\nBIASWo-shak gain\nApo kiLong-heu\nFule-yunYong tai shan\nLunga sin:Wang-kong\nl'an-tonSa wen\n5 Tai-wb - chumanMa-ham\n3 Lok-shule-trenyTong hang\nShong-tung \"Kaicking ByFeñ-tea-sha\nPa kongTison kui -chun.\nTAI-PUNG-SANGSa-ng-chung\nWong muTiptun\nPallashaPichau\nBVKI ANG\n\nCANTON RIVER\n\nSai fleungFa-trai\nNAM-/TAOs TACHM\nBAYRing Cheng\nTai-Kwaimiu\nNo chuLin-tin\nChak-won!Luna\nTai-oMoi-fim\nPuhakHS IN\nAMNGAN Low-long (SUN-ON Sone con Jam\nSha-tauLongtounty\nORE P\nBAFHAU - HOI\nYan-haShui wan ten.\nFTai, shut hang\nPing-shayZo Shui-leu.\nPet long, Chin shanĹSu-chav\nNam-longLe ChaBy\nChulu kakIdin ten a\nMiguChui-yen\nTu longLe-man\nLin-chancJ£ ¢\nKane KinKagi Shni Hun\nSha tagYam ten &\nMKath Croolgi\nSong chauSha-iauskok\nLakes Criscont. I.Puing twat ezu\nSheung Shui Fan-hugShou-wang\nTai-no- shanAsin-wau\nWa-hangWary-ling-turi\n3 TingkatTOLO\nLik To HapPlover Dove\nHARBOUR HeadTelo Changel\nBluff HiK\nJ.Port Island\nGrass Ichap mun\n~~} Tany› Tun-kawan.\nTai longChong\nLai Cu-Korkbug Chering the mine\nShatinLan-lang-shar\nKOWLOON CITYSham-Shui The Hig\nStonewater Funding. Twee menIsland\nReveling homKOKO\n祝Green ingr\nKory ChuteVICTORIA\nTai-shui hangPet hone\nPak-sa wayA\nShaik kangShalter Tai-pu. Jaui\nCheung Kamant.Tsim Sha Tsur Lyou.\nPing Pong-wintKon-wig Hang Ha\nSkau kuwashHONG - KONG\nAberdeeng\nLANTAN M.L.2Tutku chau\nTaiwanLamma I (Pok-Lin\nShik-paiSr. war Tut-tamuk\nHay Wong ma kokLAMMA CHAN.\nSkak-ku wanGun Jin veur\nBayF\nthak kang~ Lung Head llai won\nPcha hany Fang Bay$Lam Jompl\nTong ChanTai tong Hond @Aguilar) Bury, Hocke\nLa-chau\n-7Lawaal ward\nShe verWag tar Baghthobac\nTowndBasniti\nSinepin.Group\nPing PTung chung\nLANTA O{TAI Ở SHAN)\nHolyPing-chan C.\nLANTAD M L. JCheung-Chau\nfie A Chose\n0Jurist-Chau\n-10Lap-sap mi\nI\n22 9 N. LAT.\n25Iz Pinkoghi das,raphiesi Iurante\n:\nChi chau XLEMA\nCHANNEL\nDrawn and Engrand fe Gin Durnestory & Caronánde\n15Mirs P\n1E LONG OF\nBAYKak tere\nNOTE Territory under Convention of 1860 Boundary under Convention 1898...\nFish Miles (18%)\nSunmuro\n\n168\n\nJohn Bariatre & Co",
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        "content_text": "# Decrees dated November 18, 1908.\n\n**Decree of the Empress Dowager** (widow of the late Emperor Kuang Hsü) commands the Prince Regent to wear mourning for 100 days.\n\n**Decree of the Emperor**, commands the Princes and Ministers appointed to superintend the Imperial funeral arrangements to wear mourning, in accordance with rule, for 100 days.\n\nThe same command is extended to Prince Ch'ing, Prince Chuang, the Khorch'in Prince (Mongol), the Prince of K'e-ch'in, the Naiman Prince (Mongol), the Princes Tsai Jun, Tsai Hsun, Tsai Tao, Yu Lang, K'alach'in (Mongol), Khorch'in (Mongol, third Order), P'u Lun, Yu Su, the Tumed Prince (Mongol), the Duke P'u Chieh, the Duke of Kh'orchin (Mongol), Prince Tsai Chen (son of Prince Ching), Duke P'u-T'ung, the Generals of the Imperial Body Guard, Fen Ch'e and Se-leng-o, the Lieutenant-Generals Shan-Yu and Liang Tai, a number of husbands of Imperial Princesses, the Grand Councillor and Grand Secretary, Chang Chih Tung, the Grand Secretary Sun Chia Nai, the President of the Army Board (Tieh Liang), the President of the Board of Communications (Ch'ien Pi), the President of the Board of Dependencies (Shou Ch'i), and four officials of the Imperial College of Inscriptions.\n\nAll other Princes and Ministers are to wear mourning for twenty-seven days, and to burn it on expiry of that period.\n\n**Decree received by the Grand Secretariat, November 19, 1908.**\n\nEulogizes the late August Empress Dowager, the devoted Consort of the Emperor Hsien-Feng, who, at the death of that Emperor, when the Empire was distracted with war and rebellion, and at a time when Treaties had first been signed with foreign Powers and general unrest prevailed, was called upon by the officials of the Empire to join with the first Empress Consort to act as Regent for the Emperor Tung-chih. For this purpose she had received from the Emperor Hsien Feng, while at Jehol, a special seal engraved with the five characters \"Yu Shang Tung Tao Tang\" (\"Colleagues by Imperial Grant\"), which was to be affixed to Decrees of the Court.\n\nOn returning to Peking, she was able to re-establish tranquillity by sweeping aside the great rebels, and to recover the supreme power. In so doing she was supported by high dignitaries of the Imperial House, and used all her endeavours to govern in the interests of the people, under the advice of her Ministers.\n\nShe compiled the work on Government entitled \"Chih-Ping-chih-Pao-chien” (“The Mirror of Peaceful Governance\"). She called into her service great scholars, brought to a speedy end the Tai Ping rebellion, the rising of the Nien Fei, the Mohammedan rebellion, and the insurrection of aboriginal tribes. With the land beyond the four seas she transformed the beacon lights of war into lamps of peace, and brought the people from peril to felicity.\n\nWhen His Majesty the late Emperor came to the throne she was again graciously pleased to nurture him tenderly, and again to superintend the Government through troublous times, without count of the labour which was thereby involved, and, as time went on, and relations with all the world became more close each day, brought forward new questions. Both in foreign and internal affairs no subject was neglected by her. Without thought of self, no leisure remained unto her in the pursuit of progress along paths of reform.\n\nShe founded the Tang Wen Kuan [College of Languages, under the Imperial Maritime Customs] for the training of interpreters. She established the navy and arsenals. She appointed Ministers to reside in various countries to strengthen friendly relations. She sent students abroad, caused railways to be constructed and mines to be opened. She issued a Commercial Code, introduced a uniform currency, and encouraged the development of shipping, posts and telegraphs, the unification of weights and measures, the digging of wells (in Peking) as a means of dealing with fires.\n\nShe abolished the malpractices of ages, changed the system of public examinations, opened schools and colleges, abolished torture, prohibited the use of punishments during trials, revised the laws, and bestowed honours on the memory of Confucius.\n\nShe further instituted the training of the army on modern lines in order to set the Empire on strong foundations and to quell disorder; and, as in ancient times it was right and proper to utilize the ability of others, she introduced into the art of government principles culled from Western and Eastern lands. As the Sovereign has ever sought to blend the hearts of the people into one, she broke down the barriers between Manchus and Chinese.\n\nShe pressed forward the revision of the Kuang-Hsü-Hui-Tien (Collected Institutes of the Dynasty), caused maps to be made for military use, extended protection to Chinese settlers in other lands, made charitable donations to friendly countries on occasions of national calamity, preventing members of her own family from grasping power, refused honours for herself, and in every manner surpassed even the Empresses Ming-Te of the Han Dynasty and Hsuan Jen of the Sung Dynasty.\n\nMoreover, she was endowed by Heaven with exceptional accomplishments, in needlework, writing, and painting, in all of which she excelled. In her Palace grounds also she made the Yu-Yi-Chuang, a model farm, where she watched the processes of agriculture; and the Ch'i-Hua-Kuan, where she studied the rearing of silkworms.\n\nWhen she heard of floods or famine, she longed for the clemency of the elements. Frugal in her daily life, she raised her prayers to Heaven in the watches of the night for the benefit of her people.\n\nRecently she promulgated the term of years within which a Constitution is to be established, to the great joy of the whole Empire, and thereby carried on the tradition established by Yao and Shun of acting in sympathy with the people, and swept away the form of government by force which first grew up in the Ch'in and Han Dynasties.\n\n**Decree ends** with a command to the Grand Secretariat and the various Boards to consult together as to the posthumous title to be bestowed on Her late Majesty.\n\n## Decrees issued on November 19 and 20, 1908.\n\n### November 19, 1908.\n\nThe Mongolian Princes and Nobles of all ranks whose turn for duty in the capital occurs this year will all be permitted to pay their respects to the remains of Their late Majesties. Payment of tribute will be remitted for the present year. Princes and Nobles not on the roster for duty in the capital this year are not required to come to Peking.\n\n### November 20, 1908.\n\nIn view of the fact that Her late Majesty the August Empress Dowager guided the destinies of the Empire during the long period of more than forty years, it is fitting that the mourning rites in her honour should be on a scale of exceptional magnificence. The Board of Rites are instructed to revise the programme already submitted and present a further Memorial.\n\n### November 20, 1908.\n\nP'u-t'o Ku, which was definitely selected as the site of the tomb of Her late Majesty the August Empress Dowager, shall hereafter be known as \"The P'u-t'o Ku Eastern Ting Mausoleum,\" and all public Departments are directed to use this name in future.\n\n### November 20, 1908.\n\nOn the 15th November a Decree was issued by Her late Majesty the August Empress Dowager ordering that the administration of all affairs of State should rest with the Prince Regent, that is to say, that the Prince Regent, acting on our behalf, should direct all the affairs and exercise full control over the public service of the Empire. The commands of Her late Majesty are binding on all, from the highest to the lowest, but should be treated with special reverence by the Princes and other members of our Imperial House, whose duty it is to set an example to the rest of the nation.\n\nShould any Princes, Nobles, or officers show any reluctance in rendering obedience, fail in their duty, or otherwise endanger the tranquillity of the Empire, they will be punished without fail in accordance with the law of the land, lest, by a display of ... \n\nPage 2049\nPage 10",
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        "content_text": "## CHINA RAILWAYS\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[43317]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n27 C.O.\n\n[December 12]\n\n1188\n\nSECTION\n\n11 JAN 09\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received December 12.)\n\n(No. 469.)\n\nPeking, October 24, 1908.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 365 of the 17th August, I have the honour to inclose copies of further correspondence relating to the Shanghae-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway.\n\nI made an appointment with his Excellency Liang Shih-yi, as soon as the letter of the 14th October from Jardine, Matheson and Co., the Shanghae agents of the British and Chinese Corporation, reached me, and on the 21st October I called at the Board of Communications, and placed before him the facts as stated.\n\nHis Excellency declined to admit that the Managing Director appointed by the Board, Taotai Shih Chao-tseng, was the cypher described by Jardine, Matheson, and Co., and said that, so far as his information went, Mr. Foord's agreement was signed, one of his authorities for this being Mr. Bland himself. Questions regarding the respective duties and responsibilities of the Managing Director and the Engineer-in-Chief had been raised by the Provincial Railway Companies, but the Board had insisted that both these gentlemen must fulfil their functions under the Loan Agreement, and this course would be followed. Only two days previously, an expert delegate of the Board, a Chinese graduate who had completed his engineering studies in America, had been specially appointed to examine the construction work already accomplished, which is referred to in Article 2 of the Loan Agreement and which the Board understood was defective, and, as soon as this delegate reported, progress would be made.\n\nHis Excellency also produced an official register showing that 50,000 taels had the previous day (20th October) been handed over to the Managing Director, out of the loan funds, to meet survey expenses.\n\nI was unable to treat his Excellency's statements as a serious explanation of the delay that had taken place. The Loan Agreement had been signed in March, the loan itself had been issued at the end of May, and, up to the present, no practical step towards the construction of the railway had taken place, owing to the attitude of the Provincial Companies. The appointment of a special delegate to inspect helped in no way to fulfil the obligations of the Loan Agreement. What was obvious was that 1,500,000 had been lying idle for nearly five months, and an Engineer-in-Chief, who had arrived at Shanghae over two months before, was not allowed to enter upon his duties, and such a situation was incapable of any rational defence. I recalled the warnings I had given to his Excellency previously on this subject, and regretted that, as these appeared to have had little or no effect, I must carry the matter further and invoke the assistance of the Wai-wu Pu.\n\nOn the 22nd October, I wrote the note to Prince Ching, copy of which is inclosed,* and next day I made strong representations in the same sense to his Excellency Yuan Shih-k'ai, in person, at the Wai-wu Pu.\n\nI pointed out that the Loan Agreement of the 6th March, the conclusion of which, in the teeth of provincial opposition, was mainly due to his Excellency's just sense of the binding force of Imperial engagements, was being, in effect, ignored by the Provincial Railway Boards, and I dwelt on the injurious impression which such treatment of an important covenant would produce in foreign financial markets if it became widely known.\n\nHis Excellency had read my note of the previous day, and said he would see that the necessary steps were taken in the matter. The Loan Agreement having received Imperial sanction, its terms must, of course, be faithfully carried out, and a communication would be made at once to the Board of Communications on the subject.\n\nIt will be noticed that, in the British and Chinese Corporation's letter of the 11th August inclosed in my despatch No. 365 to you, it was stated that an Agreement...\n\n* Not printed.\n\n[2065 m-1] \n## \n2 \n\nThe Grand Secretary said that the outlay was a relatively small sum, and that it could perhaps be tacked on to the railway loan which his Excellency Chang Chih-tung was proposing to raise.\n\nYesterday I reverted to the subject in an interview with Yuan Shih-k'ai. His Excellency informed me that they had telegraphed to the Viceroy to ascertain his views on the proposal. Two years ago the Viceroy had reported that he had a sum of 2,000,000 taels (250,000) available for railway construction, but no work had yet apparently been undertaken, and they were anxious to know how matters now stood.\n\nI am sending a copy of this despatch to the Government of India.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN,\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nThe north and west of the province, extending to Southern Chih-li. A missionary at **Lin-ch'ing Chou** told me that the first crop of wheat in those parts was very poor, as also the pea-nuts and fruit, on which the people largely depend for cash, and the cotton, which employs so many people for spinning in the winter.\n\nAn agent of the Anglo-American Tobacco Company told me that the people were so poor that they were knocking off all superfluous luxuries, and could not afford to buy cigarettes. This Company deserves to succeed owing to the energetic way in which it is boomed. There is hardly a town of any importance that I pass through in any part of China which is not profusely placarded with posters proclaiming the perfections of the \"Peacock\" or \"Pirate\" brand of cigarettes.\n\nAt Lai-chou Fu, thousands of coolies were engaged in digging a gigantic hole in search for some talisman which would cause rain.\n\n### 5. Railways\n\nThe route for the proposed railway from Chefoo to Wei Hsien has been surveyed. The capital is to be all Chinese. It has been found that the cost will be 10,000,000 dollars, instead of 4,000,000 dollars, as at first calculated.\n\nAs only 2,000,000 dollars can be raised, it has been decided only to make the line at present from Chefoo to Huang Hsien.\n\nOn the Shan-tung Railway, I was struck by the excellence of the arrangements; German officials were very little in evidence, and nearly all the local arrangements were made by Chinese, who struck me as being exceedingly civil and a great contrast to the Chinese employés on the Ching-han and Shan-hsi Railways.\n\n### 6. Missionaries\n\nThe Franciscans divide the northern part of Shan-tung, the French portion taking the eastern section and the Dutch portion the western section. The English Baptists and American Presbyterians are also chiefly in evidence in these parts, and have combined to form a university for Chinese, with the Arts and Science College at Wei Hsien for 240 pupils, and a theological college at Ch'ing-chou Fu, in which 140 Chinese students are going through a seven years' course, preparatory to working in the Mission. The Medical College in Chi-nan Fu has not yet been started.\n\n### 7. Anti-dynastic Societies\n\nA missionary said that they were increasing in the cities, whilst among the soldiers of the 5th Division at Chi-nan Fu, there is reported to be a strong following.\n\n### 8. The Grand Canal from the South to the Yellow River\n\nThe watershed crosses the Grand Canal at Lung-wang-miao, 54 miles (180 li) south of Tung-a Hsien and the Yellow River, whilst at An-shan, 21 miles (70 li) to the south, the canal, which used to flow northerly, is now blocked, and boats instead descend the Ching Ho, till the Yellow River is reached 14 miles south-west of Chiang-chia-kou, the ferry across the Yellow River, 2 miles to the west of Tung-a Hsien. From Chiang-chia-kou, an embankment runs westwards near or alongside the north bank of the Yellow River to T'ao-ch'eng-p'u, a distance of 12 miles. It is about 12 feet above the level of the plain and 16 feet to 25 feet wide. The hills end on the south bank of the Yellow River, and, except for two solitary hillocks just north of the river, I did not see any approach to a hill again till I sighted the western hills near Peking. This great plain, as far as I could see, was everywhere one gigantic field covered with crops (kao-liang, millet, maize, beans, and cotton), and thickly studded with villages, which get more scattered going north.\n\n### 9. The Grand Canal from the Yellow River to Lin-ch'ing Chou\n\nFormerly the tribute grain boats used to come up it, but they have not used it since the Boxer trouble in 1900. This section of the Grand Canal is closed by earth dams, the one on the Yellow River being a mile to the east of Tao-ch'eng-p'u. Formerly this used to be cut and the water from the Yellow River used to fill the canal bed. At the present time, the canal bed is quite dry from the dam to Tung-ch'ang Fu, a distance of about 28 miles, and the thrifty population have hastened to cultivate both the banks and bed. In this part of the country, there are countless side roads, evidently used by farm carts. Tung-ch'ang Fu is a fairly large city, and the most symmetrical I have seen in China; in fact, it is nearly a perfect square. There is a good deal of waste inside the walls, and the chief business is in the east suburb. The prefecture shares with that of Ts'ao-chou further south the reputation of being one of the worst brigand centres in China. Fortunately, however, the two principal brigands, who had a provincial reputation, were captured in the last two years, and since then the country has been more peaceful. The priest at Tung-ch'ang Fu told me that there had been a slight revival of Boxerism at Kao-tang Chou to the north-east, but it quieted down when the rains came. The canal was repaired in 1906 between Tung-chang Fu and Lin-ching Chou, a distance of about 40 miles, and is now used by small boats. It was 3 or more feet deep, with muddy water.\n\n## 3\n\nThe canal makes a bend to the south just below Lin-ch'ing Chou, and there is another earth dam across about 2 miles to the south of the city. On my arrival, I found this dam had been cut to let in some water from the Wei River, but it was closed again before I left on the following day. The resident missionaries stated they had never before heard of the dam being cut. The chief object of the dam in the old days, apparently, was that it afforded a chance of \"squeeze,\" as when the tribute boats, &c., arrived, they had to be unloaded on one side and reloaded on the other, whilst the boat was dragged over. The reason the officials gave for not opening the dam was that the Wei River was infested by a dragon, who would tear up the banks of the Grand Canal if he once got into it. About half a mile below the dam, the canal passes through a lock bridge and joins the Wei River.\n\nThe missionaries stated that formerly the inhabitants of Lin-ch'ing Chou were very anti-foreign, but that the feeling has now quite died out. The post from Chi-nan Fu to Peking takes three and a-half days, going by courier viâ Lin-ch'ing Chou to Shun-te Fu, where the railway is reached.\n\nFrom Chi-nan Fu to Lin-ch'ing Chou, I was treated with an excess of kindness by all the officials, and escorts accompanied me all the way. One cavalry soldier, overcome by the liberality of my gratuities, announced his intention of joining my service as groom, till I reminded him that the Chinese punishment for desertion was the cutting off of one or more ears.\n\n### 10. The Grand Canal from Lin-ch'ing Chou to Tien-tsin\n\nThis section is, of course, really the Wei (or Yä) River. At the time of my visit in August, it was exceptionally high, water very muddy, very strong current and 50 to 60 yards wide. The banks are in places eaten away, and a missionary said that nothing is being done to keep them in repair, and there is great danger of the river one day bursting its banks and carrying destruction over a great low-lying region.\n\nI made the distance between Lin-ching Chou and Tien-tsin (259 miles), and I took 70 hours of actual travelling by boat, averaging 3.7 miles an hour. Up to Te Chou, it is exceedingly winding, and the land route is much quicker.\n\n| Location        | Distance from Lin-ch'ing Chou | Description                                                                 |\n|-----------------|-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Ssu-nü-ssů      | 72 miles                      | Can drain the river                                                        |\n| Chu-tien        | 1672 miles                    | Can drain the river                                                        |\n| Ising-chi-chên  | 1883 miles                    | Can drain the river                                                        |\n| Ma-ch'ang       | 2062 miles                    | Can drain the river via Hsiao-chan Canal                                   |\n\nThe river can be drained by four canals. The river may be divided into two sections, namely, from Lin-ching Chou to the Hsiao-chan Canal. In this section, it is usually 50 to 60 yards wide, and I rarely found it less than 10 feet deep, often over 15 feet. There are only reported to be two shallow places in this section, both above Tê Chou. At the second one, I found it was 9 feet deep.\n\nThe second section is from the Hsiao-chan Canal to Tien-tsin, the canal being from 30 to 40 yards wide, sometimes less. This part is shallower, and I usually found it from 9 to 11 feet deep. The country is low-lying, and villages and towns are usually actually on the river banks or else at a distance away.\n\nThere is a vast amount of traffic on the river; the boats are mostly pulled up by gangs of from four to thirteen men, who for a miserable pittance work like slaves, and appear always to be contented. With the exception of one or two Government boats, there are no steam launches on the river. Ferries are numerous, but there is not a single bridge till Tien-tsin is reached.\n\nAll along the banks, countless numbers of villagers were employed in throwing up water from the river into a hollowed-out basin, from which it was again thrown up on to the level of the fields. Comparatively few, who were in more affluent circumstances, were able to do the work with a donkey and a wheel.\n\n(Signed) G. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel,  \nGrenadier Guards, Military Attaché.  \nPeking, September 17, 1908.\n\n## 34",
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        "content_text": "## \nby the present Governor, Chu Chia-pao, who was transferred to Anhui from Kirin. He is a protégé of Yuan Shih-k'ai.\n\nThe garrison of An-ch'ing consists of-\n\n### (a.) Modern army (the \"Lu Chün\"), composed of--\n\n| Unit | Number in the Ranks |\n| --- | --- |\n| Two regiments of infantry armed with 1888 model Mausers | (About) 8,000 |\n| One battalion of mountain artillery with twelve Creuzot 75 mm. mountain guns | 378 |\n| One squadron of cavalry with 1888 model Mauser carbines | 224 |\n| One company of engineers | 126 |\n| One company of transport corps | 126 |\n| Total | 3,854 |\n\nThe men all come from the Province of Anhui. The first battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment (about 504 strong) were absent on special employment in the manoeuvre area, whilst the other two battalions were mostly scattered about in camps to the north of the city, only 200 being actually inside the walls. The three battalions of the 1st Regiment were quartered in new barracks about a mile to the east of the city, whilst the cavalry had a camp outside the west gate, and the artillery occupied an old fort on the east side of the city on the river bank.\n\n### (b.) Partly-trained troops, viz.:-\n\n| Unit | Total Strength |\n| --- | --- |\n| Two battalions of infantry (Hsün-fang Tui) | 602 |\n| Eighty infantry and 40 cavalry of Governor's bodyguard | 120 |\n| Total | 722 |\n\nThere are also about 800 police, 100 of whom were absent at manoeuvres, but the officer in charge of the latter assured me they were quite useless.\n\nOn the news of the death of the Emperor and Empress-Dowager it was anticipated there might be trouble; rumours were afloat in the city, and many people fled. Governor Chu, who was attending manoeuvres, hurried back, and fortunately arrived the day before the troubles, and, owing to warnings, took precautions. The prime mover of the mutiny was Captain Hsiung of the artillery. It was arranged that fires should be lighted in the cavalry and artillery camps on the night of Thursday, the 19th November. The custom is that when a fire breaks out outside the city the gates (which in all Chinese cities are closed at night) are opened, so as to enable the people to assist in putting out the fires. The Governor, however, being warned, gave orders that, should a fire take place, the gates should not be opened, and thus frustrated the plans of the mutineers, who had intended to enter and seize the armoury near the west gate.\n\nThe artillery major, having refused to join the mutineers, was killed, and the news taken round to the cavalry camp. The latter then made an attack on the cavalry major, who, however, managed to escape with two sabre cuts on the head, and who was eventually treated in the American hospital. The cavalry then tried to induce the 2nd Infantry Regiment to join them, but they refused, and remained more or less in a state of neutrality till the troubles were over. The cavalry then joined the artillery, who were unable to use the Creuzot guns, owing to an absence of ammunition. They fired several shots at the city from several old guns, and also made attacks on the city gates without any result. If they had had any plan, leadership or pluck, they ought to have had little difficulty in getting ladders and scaling the walls, but no such attempt was made. Governor Chu rode about the city, in general's uniform, directing the fire of the men on the walls, and calming the fears of the inhabitants. Plenty of ammunition was served out to the old troops (Hsün-fang Tui and bodyguard), 722 strong, but probably the ammunition was poor and the men could not shoot, and very few people were hit on either side. On Friday, the 20th November, the mutineers looted two Chinese banks outside the city, and three Chinese gun-boats moved down to opposite the fort. The gun-boats, however, would not take the responsibility of shelling it till they received direct orders from the Governor, who sent Brigadier Yü-ta Hung on board to direct. The shooting of the gun-boats was poor, but after some time they were able to dislodge the mutineers, who moved round to the north-west of the city, and indulged in some more futile attacks on the gates, but were driven off by the old troops.\n\nThe 1st Infantry Regiment remained in barracks and refused to take any steps against the rebels.\n\nDesultory firing continued, the mutineers seizing a small repairing arms factory outside the west gate, but neglecting to make any serious attempt on the magazine about a mile to the north, which was only guarded by 100 infantry. In it were stored 7,000 boxes of S.A.A., besides shells for the Creuzot guns, all of which were brought into the city after the troubles on the 21st November, the coolies being paid 1 dollar for each box brought in. As the whole of the Lu-Chün were looked on with suspicion, the 200 infantry in the city were only served out with a few rounds. The whole affair, owing to the prompt action of the Governor, was very small, about 720 men of the old troops defending the city against about 800 mutineers (400 infantry, 100 cavalry, 300 artillery) of the Lu-Chün.\n\nOn Saturday, the 21st November, the Governor sent orders to the 1st Regiment of Infantry to disarm, promising them that if they did so they would not be punished. This they complied with; some disbanded and returned to their homes, whilst 600 or 700 remained unarmed in the barracks. During Friday night and Saturday morning the mutineers fired off a lot of rounds and made two or three futile attacks on the north gate, but were finally shelled out of the cavalry camp by the gun-boats. The Governor himself later on, on Saturday morning, led out a party of the old troops against the mutineers, who were beginning to straggle off northwards, and he succeeded in cutting off one party and capturing two leaders, after which the remainder scattered away to the north.\n\nA third battalion of Hsün-fang Tui (301 strong), brought from Ta-T'ung, lower down the river, arrived at An-ching on Saturday afternoon, after the troubles were over. The mutineers with little ammunition left were reported to be retiring north, exchanging their uniforms for ordinary clothes, and demanding food and money, but doing no personal violence. They are reported to have captured some mules, bringing down 8,000 taels (1,200£) of taxes.\n\nThey are pursued by half-squadron with one battalion of infantry, belonging to the 7th Division, who were returning from manoeuvres, under the energetic Major-General Tien Chung-yü, Chief of the Staff in Manchuria. Fortunately, Governor Chu brought him to reorganize the Lu-chün of An-hui, and though absent at manoeuvres at the time, he ought to have little difficulty in dispersing the rebels, whilst later he will be the best man to restore discipline at An-ch'ing.\n\nAs it turned out, the whole mutiny was a very small matter, with no definite plans and no competent leaders, but it might have been a very serious affair, had it not been for the prompt action of the Governor, who compelled the higher officials to come out of their yamens and do their work, and kept up the confidence of the people, keeping the shops open and calming the fears of the inhabitants. If the mutineers had got into the city and captured the armoury, it is more than probable that the Lu-chün infantry would have joined them, the city would have been given up to looting, and the lives of the English and American missionaries endangered. The French priest was absent, but both he and the other missionaries are unanimous in giving all the credit for the quelling of the outbreak to the courage and energy of the Governor. The 9th Division, of Nanking, who were marching back from manoeuvres, are known to be liable to break out at any time, and if they had found the city in the possession of the mutineers, they would probably have joined them.\n\nChina at the present moment is in a state of unrest, owing to the change of Rulers, and a big conflagration in the Yang-tsze would probably have excited lawless spirits in other parts of the Empire.\n\nThree days after the troubles the American Military Attaché and myself walked all over the city in uniform, and the people, as is usual in the Province of An-hui, were everywhere most friendly. As a precaution the city gates were only opened for a short time.\n\n* General Chang-piao afterwards told me they are being pursued by seven battalions of infantry (chiefly 8th Division) and one cavalry squadron from south and south-west, one battalion of railway guards from north-west, and some of the Pin-k'ou troops from the south-east. 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        "content_text": "# Agreement between the Governor of Shantung and the Shantung Railway Company\n\n## Articles 16-28\n\n### Art. 16\nAny soldiers that may hereafter be required for the protection of the railway are to be furnished by the Governor of the Province of Shantung; no foreign troops are to be employed for this purpose beyond the limits of the 100-li zone.\n\nThe Governor of the Province of Shantung binds himself, in return, to protect the railway effectually, both during the preliminary works and during the subsequent construction and the working of the line, in order to obviate, as far as practicable, the infliction of any damage due to possible disturbances among the people, or to the action of sedition-mongers.\n\n### Art. 17\nThe railway being designed purely for the advancement of trade and commerce, shall convey no foreign troops or their war-equipment.\n\nAt the same time no responsibility for such conveyance shall rest on the Railway Administration in case, owing to war or to similar conditions, it should be coerced into permitting the same; while, on the other hand, no responsibility shall rest under such conditions on the Governor of Shantung for the protection of the railway in respect of any portion of the line held by the enemy.\n\nThe provisions of this Article do not apply to the section of the line situated within the limits of the 100-li zone.\n\n### Art. 18\nIn times of famine and flood the Railway Administration shall grant reduced rates, on the principles prevailing in Germany, for the carriage of provisions and clothing for distribution among the sufferers; or, in case of disturbances, for the conveyance of the troops sent to suppress the trouble, as well as for their arms, baggage, and commissariat.\n\n### Art. 19\nAt the railway stations where customs offices are established the Railway Administration must afford the Imperial Chinese Customs Administration facilities for levying the lawful dues.\n\nOn the other hand, the actual amount to be expended on all building works undertaken on the application of the Customs Administration, is to be paid beforehand by the Customs Administration to the Railway Administration, after a mutual agreement has been arrived at in each case.\n\n### Art. 20\nFor the construction of the railway the inhabitants of the places situated nearest to the line are to be made use of, as far as practicable, both for the work and for the supply of materials.\n\n### Art. 21\nThe Chinese officials employed on the railway beyond the limits of the German leased territory are subject, as regards offences against Chinese law, to the jurisdiction of their respective District Magistrates. Once the latter has officially communicated to the Railway Administration the necessity for the judicial proceedings against one of their Chinese employés, the Railway Administration shall not be entitled to shield him from the operation of the law.\n\nIn cases of complaints against foreigners employed on the railway, the procedure shall be in accordance with the judicial arrangements made therefor. The Railway Administration, on its side, shall investigate every such case and shall take disciplinary measures against the culprit concerned.\n\n### Art. 22\nIn all places through which the railway passes, the natives thereof are to be employed on the works as far as possible, and are to be paid according to local custom.\n\nIn case of a dispute between the railway hands and the people, the local official has the right to arrest and punish the guilty parties.\n\nUnder no circumstances are the railway workers permitted to force their way, without due authority, into the houses of the inhabitants; severe punishments will be inflicted on those who offend in this manner.\n\n### Art. 23\nWhen the work of construction is completed, the workers and overseers necessary for the maintenance and the guarding of the line are, as far as practicable, to be drawn from the places situated nearest to the railway, upon the recommendation of the village elders, who will be answerable for their good behaviour, and will arrange for written certificates to be issued to them by the District Magistrate.\n\n### Art. 24\nAs soon as the line has been opened to public traffic, the Administration accepts responsibility for loss of life and damage to property due to accidents, and it will pay compensation in accordance with local usage for persons injured or killed; and, in accordance with more detailed provisions to be issued and proclaimed by the Railway, for goods damaged or destroyed. Similarly the Railway is answerable for all injury to persons or property arising through its own fault in connection with the provisional running of construction trains.\n\n### Art. 25\nIn case the safe working of the railway should be endangered owing to damage arising from floods, embankment slips, bridge breakdowns, and the like, public traffic is not to be resumed until the hindrances to working have been removed.\n\n### Art. 26\nIn case the Railway Company should appeal to the Governor of the Province of Shantung for the dispatch of a guard to protect the preliminary works or the construction or the working of the railway, such appeal shall be responded to without delay and in an effectual manner. The question of the extent to which the Railway Company is to be called upon to contribute to the necessary expenses of the guard during the period of such duty, is reserved for future arrangement.\n\n### Art. 27\nIn the German leased territory traversed by the railway, the sovereign rights shall be exercised by the Governor at Tsingtau; and in the remainder of the Province of Shantung, by the Governor of the Province of Shantung.\n\n### Art. 28\nThe question as to when and under what conditions the railway may in the future be taken over by the Imperial Chinese Government shall be reserved for future arrangement.\n\nThe above provisions shall, after being approved, be made known to the authorities of the Province of Shantung and to the railway functionaries, and shall then be put into practice.\n\nShould the necessity for any alterations in particular Articles or for supplementary clauses to the above provisions make itself apparent later on, this can only be given effect to as the result of a mutual agreement between the Governor of the Province of Shantung for the time being and the Railway Company.\n\nThe foregoing Agreement has been executed in duplicate, both copies having been drawn up in German and in Chinese of the same tenor, and one copy having been handed to each party to the Agreement.\n\nChinanfu, the 21st March, 1900, or, according to Chinese reckoning, the 21st day of the 2nd moon of the 26th year of the Emperor Kuang Hsü.\n\nThe Governor of the Province of Shantung,\n**(Signed)**\n**(Seal)**\nYUAN SHIH-K'AI.\n\nThe Imperial Delegate, Lieutenant-General,\n**(Signed)** YIN CHANG.\n\nThe Board of Management of the Shantung Railway Company,\n**(Signed)** H. 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        "content_text": "## 64\n\n2\n\nWe were sorry to have to trouble you with the above telegram, but we have reliable information from the dealers in Swatow, in the Prefecture of Chui Chow, and also from the city of Wui Chow, in the Prefecture of Wui Chow, that although the obnoxious Regulations (the subject of our previous correspondence with you) have been withdrawn within the Canton Prefecture, the Viceroy has not yet given instructions to the local officials to withdraw the Regulations regarding the sale of raw opium in the above-mentioned prefectures. We hear that the officials are taking active steps in both prefectures by prosecuting dealers under the notification for not complying with its terms, and also have made confiscations of opium.\n\nWe would therefore be exceedingly obliged to you if you would bring this matter to the notice of the Viceroy with a view to the withdrawal by the Viceroy of the notifications and Proclamations objected to, which have already been withdrawn in Canton.\n\nIn the meantime our trade has been seriously disorganized, and a feeling of uncertainty appears to exist in the minds of all connected with the trade. It seems a pity that while the Viceroy withdrew the notifications and restrictions in Canton, he did not direct their withdrawal in other prefectures, knowing full well that, unless he issued definite instructions in that regard, they would be brought into force, and that our trade would be seriously hampered.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n**David Sassoon and Co. (Limited)**,  \nE. SHELLIN, Manager.  \n**E. D. SASSOON AND Co.**  \nE. PABANEY.  \n**TATA SONS AND CO.**  \nH. M. H. NEMAZEE.  \n**PHIROZSHA B. PETIT AND CO.**  \n**CAWASJEE PALLANJEE AND Co.**  \nP. F. TALATI,  \nM. H. E. ELLIAS.\n\n8\n\nIn raw opium should obtain a licence from the local Magistrate, and the buyer of raw opium must also obtain a permit from the local Magistrate for the quantity he wants to buy. Failing the obtaining of such licence, the seller of raw opium shall be fined and his goods confiscated, and, failing the obtaining of such permit, the quantity bought by the purchaser will also be confiscated and both he and the seller will be fined.\n\nThe sale of raw opium by our shops extends as far as the Fokien Province and Kiangsi Province, the Hing Ling district and the Ka Ying Prefecture. Each of the foregoing places is, more or less, 100 miles away from our shops.\n\nOur usual practice in selling raw opium is: A customer sends us an order for the amount of goods he wants, either by post, by passage boat, or by a travelling trader, and we have an account with him. We give him credit, and he settles our accounts either monthly, quarterly, or yearly.\n\nHow can our customers living 100 miles away from our places of business obtain a permit from the Magistrate of our district?\n\nThe notification put up by the Magistrate compels us to take a licence before the 30th of this moon, failing which our shops will not be allowed to carry on their business. Our firms are wholesale dealers and licences will be granted if we apply for them, but no licence will be granted to a retail dealer, that is to say, no dealer's shop will be allowed in the Prefecture of Chui Chow.\n\nRetail dealers are those who sell the raw opium in quantities of less than a ball. There have never been any cases of fining, confiscation, or seizure of opium in the Prefecture of Chui Chow, but there have been several such cases in the Prefecture of Wui Chow; one of such seizures took place on the 8th of the 8th moon (3rd September, 1908), and again on the 16th of the 9th moon (10th October, 1908).\n\nThe seizure of opium and the fines in both cases were carried out by Wong Sau Tsing, the Sub-Magistrate of Lam Hau (or Lam Hau Shi).\n\nThe regulation compelling people to take out a licence in Canton has lately been abolished. The restrictions not allowing people to deal in prepared opium have nothing to do with the raw opium business.\n\nThe British Consul in Canton should now write to the Viceroy asking him to instruct, or wire to, the Prefect of Chui Chow directing him to withdraw such notification, and further asking him to issue fresh notifications stating that the restrictions for prepared opium have nothing to do with raw opium, that is to say, that dealers in raw opium should be allowed to carry on their business as usual, either in wholesale or in retail.\n\n### Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nMessrs. D. Sassoon and Co. and others to Acting Consul-General Fox.\n\nHong Kong, November 19, 1908.\n\nWe have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram, which reached us yesterday morning, and in compliance with which we have seen various traders in raw opium carrying on business in Swatow, and beg to inclose herewith a statement which they have made to us concerning the restrictions which are being placed on raw opium by the officials in the Prefecture of Chui Chow and Wui Chow.\n\nA notification has been issued by the Hoi Yeung Magistrate, in the Prefecture of Chui Chow, which we understand is identical with the one issued at Canton, calling upon the dealers in raw opium to take out licences before the 30th day of the present Chinese moon and imposing other restrictions.\n\nWe would again urge upon you the necessity of taking early steps to get these restrictions withdrawn, for at the present moment all shipments to Swatow have ceased, owing to the enforcement of the restrictions contained in the notification lately issued by the Hoi Yeung Magistrate, and the trade generally is dislocated.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\n(Signed) **DAVID SASSOON AND Co. (Limited)**.  \n(And others.)\n\n### Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nStatement made by various Traders in Raw Opium carrying on business in Swatow.\n\nWe are raw opium dealers, living and carrying on business in the Prefecture of Chui Chow, in the Province of Kwong Tung.\n\nNotifications have been lately put up by the Magistrate of the Hoi Yeung district stating that he had received instructions from the Prefect of Chui Chow that all dealers...\n\n### Inclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul General Fox to Viceroy Chang,\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nCanton, November 19, 1908.\n\nOn the 8th October last I had the honour to receive a despatch from your Excellency on the subject of the new Opium Licensing Regulations, in which you stated that there would be no interference with the wholesale trade carried on between the native shops and British importing firms, and that you had instructed the provincial authorities to issue a fresh Proclamation on the subject, so that misapprehensions on the part of British merchants in Hong Kong might be entirely removed.\n\nI have now received a Petition from the British opium merchants in Hong Kong stating that, while in the Canton Prefecture your Excellency's instructions have been acted upon, in Chui Chow, Wui Chow, and other outlying prefectures your Excellency's instructions have been apparently misunderstood, and the local officials are prosecuting native opium dealers for failure to comply with the new Regulations and confiscating opium as a penalty. Petitioners state that this action is disorganizing the import trade and causing them serious inconvenience and loss. They beg that the Viceroy be requested to send definite instructions to the local authorities concerned not to interfere with the wholesale raw opium trade.\n\nI have the honour to observe that, as in the Canton Prefecture the new Licensing Regulations have not been found to interfere with the wholesale trade in raw opium, the complaints of the British opium merchants with regard to Wui Chow and Chui Chow must be due to the fact that the local authorities in those places are carrying out the Regulations in a harsh and inconsiderate manner, without regard to the important interests involved.",
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        "content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[45135]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n---2497 \n92 \n\n[December 28]\n\n## SECTION 3\nJAN 03\n\n(No. 513.) Sir,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received December 28.)\n\nPeking, November 11, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a Decree issued on the 30th ultimo, ordering the summary execution of two officers and awarding various punishments to several other officials in connection with the recent collision between Chinese and French troops on the Tonquin frontier.\n\nThe French Minister is not disposed to attach very serious importance to this step or to regard it as affording due reparation for the offence committed. He has no means of ascertaining whether the persons who have suffered were the real culprits, and thinks no useful purpose would be served by raising the question.\n\nThe question of the indemnity claimed by the Yunnan railway is now being considered by a Secretary of the Wai-wu Pu and M. Verondart, who served on the Commission of Inquiry in Yunnan, and has been since transferred to the Legation here. M. Verondart has produced evidence to show the nature of the damage which the line sustained during the recent troubles, and my French colleague seems to have some hope that the Chinese Government will eventually recognize the justice of compensating the Company.\n\nThe state of the negotiations with regard to the French claim to extend the Tai Yuan Fu railway to Hsian Fu, which has been preferred in connection with the Tonquin frontier incident, has already been recorded in my despatch No. 503 of the 7th November.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n## Inclosure in No. 1\n\nExtract from the \"North China Daily News\" of October 30, 1908.\n\n### Imperial Decree\n#### THE TONQUIN FRONTIER FRACAS\n\nIN Hsi Liang's (Viceroy of the Yun-Kuci Provinces) Memorial with reference to the fracas between Chinese and French soldiers on the other side of the frontiers, in Tonquin, which resulted in the loss of several French lives, he states that in the 5th moon of this year (June 1908), whilst our troops were pursuing a body of defeated anti-monarchists, the chase was pushed into French territory. Our soldiers, in ignorance that they had crossed over the frontier, came into conflict with French troops, and brought about a very serious affair between our respective countries. Although this was unpremeditated by our troops, their officers were guilty of making a mistake upon a mistake (i.e., crossing into a friendly country and then coming into conflict with troops of a friendly Power). Our officers concerned were therefore guilty of faults which we cannot condone. Our sentence is that, leaving aside Major Yang Tsing-kuei, who has already been executed for fleeing from his post, Major Yu Huan-chang and Captain Wang Rai-jen, of the Yunnan forces (whose errors were extremely serious), shall be summarily executed, and that Lieutenants Wang Yu-tsai and Hsü Teh-kuei, of the same service, be imprisoned for five years, at the end of which period they are to be liberated. As for Chiang Wan-lung, a first lieutenant of the Kuangtung forces, and Pêng Kai-sheng, an ensign of the same service, they are to be forthwith cashiered, in addition to which Chiang Wan-lung is to be sent to work on the military post... \n\n[2049 ee-3]",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[43321]\n\n## No. 1\n\n96  \n2497  \n[December 12.]  \n21JA  \n\n### SECTION 5\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received December 12.)**  \n**(No. 475. Confidential.)**  \nSir,  \nPeking, October 25, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose, for your information, and with special reference to my despatch No. 457 of the 14th instant, copies of further correspondence with His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow on Hunan and Hupei railways.\n\nI learn by a telegram of the 22nd instant from Mr. Fraser that the Grand Secretary, Chang Chih-tung, telegraphed a warning that the Canton-Hankow Railway Loan should not be discussed with any one except himself, and inquiring the exact date of Mr. Bland's arrival in Peking.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\n**(No. 65.)**  \nSir,  \nConsul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan.  \nHankow, October 10, 1908.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 62 of the 7th instant, I have the honour to forward copies and translations of two telegrams from his Excellency Chang Chih-Tung to the Viceroy Chien on the subject of Hupei railways.\n\nThese documents were published in a local native newspaper, and of their authenticity I have no doubt.\n\nHis Excellency poses as the champion of Hupei's rights against the designs of the Board of Communications, and takes it for granted that British financiers will readily lend money for his railway projects, including a line from Hsiang-Yang to Kuang-Shui, which formerly he told me could not be allowed, lest its continuation to P'u-K'ou should divert the trade of the north-west from Hankow.\n\nMr. Moore tells me that Manager Wang of the Wu-Yo* line directs him to push on first the buying of land and amendment of the trace, with the plans for the terminus opposite this office, and the line round Wuchang to it, and then the estimates for bridges and other work. He hints that, after all, construction will not officially begin till there is a formal cutting of the first sod. He is also to draw up a Memorandum on the comparative cost and advantages of crossing the river by a bridge and by a tunnel.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) E. H. FRASER.\n\n* From Wuchang to Yochow, open port in Hunan.\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n**Extract from the \"Kung Lun Hsin Pao\" of October 9, 1908.**  \n**Telegram from the Grand Secretary Chang to the Viceroy and Officials.**  \n**(Translation.)**  \nSeptember 18, 1908.\n\nTHE section of the Szechuan-Hankow Railway lying within Hupei is a source of the utmost profit to the province, and it is essential that the work of construction should be pushed forward independently of Peking forthwith.",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 4 in No. 1\n### Consul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan\n\nMy dear Sir John Jordan,\n\nHankow, October 12, 1908.\n\nI AM sorry that only now—10 P.M.—have I found time to write with reference to my telegram No. 23 of yesterday.\n\nLiang-tun Yen, with whom I was very intimate when he was Chang-chih Tung's Private Secretary in 1900-1903, called on Saturday afternoon (10th) and told me Chang had consulted him about his railway schemes, showing him also the telegrams that passed between us last week. Liang pressed on his Excellency the necessity of concentrating effort on completing the Hankow-Canton line, a main trunk, whereas the line to Ichang was only subsidiary; but Chang would not listen, persisting that steamer competition would prevent the Wu-yo line from paying. This view, Liang agreed with me, was absurd, though of course the sooner there's through traffic to Changsha the better. Chang would not either listen to Liang's recommendation of Moore, whom he stigmatized as a waterworks expert. His objection, added Liang, was really that Moore was appointed by Viceroy Chao on his own motion.\n\nLiang was strong on the advisability of the Government making all railways, and commended Chang's idea of raising a British loan for Hunan (the inclosed cutting shows that there will be local opposition), and ignoring the gentry, whose subscriptions would barely suffice, he thought, for the short section they have made such a fuss about. He went on to say that Chang heard from Hillier that there could be no fresh loan for at least six months, but seemed to pin his hopes on getting better terms from Bland. There had been a suggestion to include Chang's projected loan in the one signed on the 8th, but jealousy of the Board of Communications led Chang to scout the suggestion. Possibly his Excellency's latest scheme, as told to Liang just before he left Peking—to borrow 3,000,000 for Hupei as well as 2,000,000 for Hunan—may also have had something to do with its rejection. We would, Liang added, get better terms than that loan's, owing to the 1905 engagements—a view that scarcely allows for the effect of Hanyang and Tongshan works' capacities in the way of supplying rails and rolling-stock. Liang asked about a tunnel under the Yang-tsze here, and opined that surely a native company could be formed to construct it, especially if given a franchise.\n\nLater I touched on the awkwardness of Chang's sending his requests to me, and gathered that his Excellency, in some sense, felt himself still in power in Hupei, and looked on his undertaking regarding Hukuang Railway Loans as a recognition of my personal services.\n\nLiang, who was in great spirits, spoke very frankly, and promised himself thorough discussion of such local matters of interest as the Yang-tsze tunnel and the canalization of the Han during a week's stay, on his way back, six weeks or two months hence. He thought Chang's memory beginning to fail, and his interest in public questions to tend to become spasmodic, but with his Excellency Yilan's support he was still an influence for the good of China.\n\nYesterday forenoon, I got a second telegram from Chang which confirmed Liang's statements as to his Excellency's objection to Moore, and his hurry over the Hunan southern line. Characteristically his Excellency asked for more information as to the British and Chinese Corporation's representative, whom he credited me with sending him.\n\nThere seemed to me no harm in answering his queries, or in mentioning Bourne, whose coming had raised no objection in the spring of 1907, and of whose fitness for such a post Kinder had written very highly; but I felt bound to remind his Excellency that the Corporation, if they paid the piper, might well want some say in calling the tune, and, patiently, I tried once more to let him see that I am simply a subordinate of yours.\n\nHis idea of simultaneous work on several sections of the line south of Chu-Chou sounds rather wild, but, at least, something will be gained if it means the engagement of several competent section engineers, whose expenses, once an agreement is come to, could, I imagine, be advanced without waiting for the loan to be actually floated.\n\nRoss, as far as I can gather, or however competent at location, is wanting in patience and the mysterious knack of \"getting on with the Chinese\"—in other words, in tact. In Moore I have every confidence, but it seems useless to struggle against Chang's prejudice against him, since, if Liang succeed, as he seemed confident he would, in inducing his Excellency to let the Wu-Yo section go, Moore will have his hands too full to go touring in Southern Hunan.\n\nI do hope I have not been guilty of taking too much upon me, or of interfering in any way with your plans. The doubt whether Chang has not some rival loan-monger in reserve makes me loth to give him an opening for pretending our first option is forfeited; but a word of warning will suffice to keep me from further correspondence with the Director-General.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) **E. H. FRASER**\n\n## Inclosure 5 in No. 1\n### Extract from the \"Kung Lun Pao\" of October 10, 1908\n\n**Proposal to change the Hunan Section of the Hankow-Canton Railway into a Mercantile Enterprise, under official superintendence** (Translation.)\n\nA SECRET telegram from Peking to Hunan says this change is decided upon. The news has filled the gentry with alarm, as they think henceforward everything will have to be at the beck of the officials, and not a vestige of control will be left to the provincial gentry and merchants. Besides, the share collection has just begun to develop, but this news will intensify the difficulty of getting merchants to subscribe, and failing such support the whole dependence for success will be on official shares. The public of late is extremely hard up, and can never find the vast capital needed, which means that recourse will have to be had to a foreign loan, and this will render the redemption of the American concession nugatory. These last few days the gentry have been busily conferring and planning together schemes of resistance, and they think of hastily telegraphing to Peking for support in vigorous opposition to this proposal, so as to retrieve their position.\n\n[2065 m-5] \n98",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**Imperial Decree issued on October 28, 1908**\n\nIN view of the paramount importance of the Hankow-Canton Railway, we specially appointed the Grand Secretary and Grand Councillor Chang Chih-tung to be Director-General. We have recently been informed by him that the progress of the railway has been greatly hampered owing to divided control and divergent views in regard to its management. This delay cannot be permitted to continue, and we therefore direct that in future the responsibility for procuring the capital, engaging employés, developing the advantages, and removing abuses in regard to this railway rests with Chang Chih-tung. Let him take a broad view of the whole situation, fix a strict limit of time for the completion of the undertaking, prepare regulations suited to the conditions existing in each of the three provinces concerned, and exercise his control and direction where necessary. The Board of Communications and the Governors-General and Governors of Hupei, Hunan, and Kuantung are required to assist him zealously, and not to hinder him in any way. The Directors and Sub-Directors appointed by the provinces must keep within the limits of their powers, and in the case of any peculation, incitement to disturbances, usurpation of authority, or other abuses on the part of any officials, gentry, or merchants connected with the railway, whereby the administration of the line is obstructed, Chang Chih-tung should at once deal with the offenders. After the issue of this Decree, Chang Chih-tung and the other officers concerned should combine to hasten the completion of the enterprise and permit no delay, so that there may be undivided control, and this important work may not be impeded.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**(No. 68.) Sir,**\n\n**Consul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan.**\n\nHankow, October 23, 1908.\n\nBEGGING reference to my despatches Nos. 62 and 65 of the 7th and 10th instant respectively, reporting his Excellency Chang Chih-tung's intervention in the question of the building of Hupei railways to Yochou and to Ichang, I have the honour to forward copies and translations of further telegrams from his Excellency to the Wachang authorities, and to report that the local native papers are full of protests against a foreign loan by leading gentry and by Hupei students in Japan.\n\nOn the 20th instant a mass meeting of gentry, students, military, and traders was called by Liu, Comprador of the `Banque de l'Indo-Chine` and five of his fellows in the Commercial Association, who had previously circulated a scheme for the building of the line to Ichang and Siang-Yang by a purely mercantile Company, and, according to the *Hupei News*, was attended by several hundred persons. It was addressed by Liu's supporters, who argued that a loan on any terms entailed sacrifice of all trading and territorial rights; that the construction could be let in short sections and paid for half in share scrip; that the Board, which knew well how profitable the line would prove, should not be allowed to do Hupei out of such a valuable enterprise, and that his Excellency Chang would be only too well pleased to find a loan unnecessary. It is curious to find the examples of other provinces where railways have been left to private management cited as though this arrangement had proved eminently successful, and had worked without friction or difficulty.\n\nThe subscription list published recalls the lists put out at the time of the Shanghae-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway agitation, and gives no indication of the very depressed state of all branches of trade in this port. Liu heads it with 500,000 shares—presumably at 5 dollars—though it is common knowledge that his readily convertible funds are to seek, and that his title to the land round Hankow claimed by him is in many cases dubious. A bank manager and a money-lender sign for 250,000 dollars each, and one of the gentry for 200,000 dollars. An ex-steamer comprador, now, by Shông Kung-Pao's favour, in a prominent post in the new Ironworks and Mining Company, comes next with 10,000 shares. Various impecunious gentry undertake to get vast blocks of shares taken up; but there are very few actual promises of even 5,000 dollars, apart from these. His Excellency Chang, when Viceroy here, used to admit that he shrank from rousing popular and student clamour by a loan; and it remains to be seen whether he will stand firm in his present attitude towards an agitation which arose only when his Excellency proposed to take the three years' apathy of the Hankow public towards this line as a justification for taking it out of their hands.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) E. H. FRASER.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n**Extracts from the \"Eastern Times\" of October 15, 1908.**\n\n**Cypher Telegrams sent by Chang Chih-tung to the Wuchung Viceroy, the first being also for the Provincial Council, the Railway Bureau, and Gentry.**\n\n### (1.)\n\n**(Translation.)**\n\nSeptember 20, 1908.\n\nMY telegram of the 19th September sent last evening must have reached you. The present telegram supplements it on a point I omitted to touch upon. I obtained Imperial sanction on several occasions to Hupei's having charge of the Hupei section of the Hankow-Szechuan line; and I telegraphed last year to the Wai-wu Pu about borrowing for its construction. The Board of Communication's present urging is only insistence on a fixed limit for provincial arrangements being made with all haste on pain of delay leading to the Board's taking over the business. It is absurd to call this forcible reversal of precedent just as arrangements are making, and grabbing for Board construction. Your Excellency is a newcomer and may not be familiar with the history of the case and so misapprehend my position, and, in addition, that I am simply afraid the sums needed are beyond raising.\n\n### (2.)\n\n**(Translation.)**\n\nSeptember 22, 1908.\n\nI am greatly impressed with your correct appreciation of the fact that Hupei ought to make its own arrangements for developing railways which are to its proper profit.\n\nThere is no need to be anxious whether the gentry and people will or will not approve of raising a loan. The lines are so long and the cost so vast that, in view of Hupei's extraordinary poverty, the work cannot start without a loan. The intelligent gentry and people should understand the folly of throwing away a great profit for their province. For a loan raised by the authorities, with the proviso that traders and people may buy bonds up to 50 per cent., on the general lines of the Tien-tsin-P'uk'ou arrangement is a most advantageous business, and precludes any justification for refusal. The Hunan gentry, after all their fuss and clamour against foreign loans, have recently changed their tune, and come to see that Hunan shares cannot attain success—proposing to move for an official loan to start work in combination with Hunan share capital. If even the Hunanese have awakened to comprehension, there need be no doubt about Hupei!\n\nI hope you will let me have an early outline of future deliberations.",
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        "content_text": "# Memorandum of Interview with F.F.Chang Chih-tung re Loan for the Hunkow-Canton Railway\n\nDecember 24th 1908.\n\nHis Excellency was assisted by two deputies viz. Ling Wei (a native of Chihli) representing the interests of Hupei, and Tseng Kuang Yung, of Hunan. The interview lasted several hours. Its results may be briefly summarised as follows:\n\nH.E.Chang proposes to raise a loan of £3,000,000 to be devoted to the construction of the Hupei and Hunan sections of the Railway, and to be supplemented, if necessary, by a further loan hereafter. The total length of these sections is estimated at 400 miles. He stated that he applies in the first instance to the Corporation, in view of his agreement with H.M.Consul General at Hankow, but emphasised the fact that by this agreement, the British are only entitled to a first option and that he is at liberty to invite competition wherever available. If the Corporation's terms were unfavourable he had no doubt that other British syndicates, not to mention German, Belgian and Japanese capitalists, would be glad to negotiate the loan. He deprecated from the outset any suggestion of financial supervision or administrative control on behalf of the bondholders, referring frequently to the Yuchuanpu's recent Peking-Hankow redemption loan as proof of the complete confidence of foreign investors. He desired to make a loan on similar terms, giving as collateral security the likin revenues of Hupei, neither the railway nor its earnings being pledged for the service of the loan. As regards the negotiations, the preliminaries would be discussed by the provincial deputies and the final conditions by himself. He understood that the Corporation was associated with French capitalists, but as these negotiations were the outcome of his agreement with Mr. Fraser, he could take no cognisance of any party other than the Corporation.\n\nJAN 20 1909\n700\nPage 171\nPage 97",
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        "content_text": "## 412\n\nblanket. I saw the accused shake a man by the shoulder. He sat up in a dazed manner and when his ticket was demanded he, after some delay, tendered 50 cents and it was handed to me. I looked at the man and he appeared to me to be dazed with opium. I remarked this as I passed on. We finished collecting tickets about 25 minutes past 11 p.m. There was no disturbance or noise of any kind while I was on deck. There were 666 passengers on the lower deck. The lower deck is fairly well lit with electric light. If a passenger is asleep he is usually shaken up by his shoulders. I have never seen any member of the crew kick a passenger to wake him up. It is usually opium smokers who have to be wakened by shaking. With 600 passengers on the lower deck it would be impossible to walk across the deck without touching some of them. The accused went round with me to collect the tickets. We sometimes have to shake a man more than once.\n\nChan Kim Cho, Compradore, was called and said: I went down with the captain after some passengers had told me that a man had been kicked to death. It was about 12:30 a.m. I do not know any of the men who spoke to me on the lower deck.\n\n## THE DECISION\n\nDecember\n\nCANTON\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS\n\nand the Japanese Doctor of the Reform Army, one English Doctor, and one Doctor of the Canton Ambulance Society. It is reported that the Chinese insist that another trial should be held, this time at the Portuguese Consular Court.\n\nNovember. A dispatch to that effect is said to have been sent by the Viceroy to the Portuguese Consul-General. A boycott of the steamer is also on the programme at the instigation of the Self-Government Association.\n\nH.E. Viceroy Chang has notified General and Military officials of all ranks in the Kwangtung Province that they must not attend strictly to their duties out of the State mourning in accordance with the law. All officials are requested to remain in their respective Bureaux and no leave of absence be granted.\n\nThe 72 Guild Tress comments on the decision of the Court as follows:\n\nIn reviewing the case in which the deceased was wounded by a kick he received near the heart from the foot of the accused, and also a blow given with the hand, both of which were causes of the man's death, it should be said that in both instances there were marks of injuries and there was the clear evidence of numerous persons proving it beyond doubt. Therefore it was impossible for the accused to be excused or held blameless. In reviewing the evidence given by the fellow passengers of the steamer, one of them not only said that the accused did not beat the man to death but that he did not beat anybody at all. The passenger died because he was ill when he went on board the steamer and he died a natural death. They actually hushed up a case of such grave importance. This can only be described as arbitrary, and treating the Chinese people with contempt. The evidence was false and trumped up and there were many contradictions.\n\nAt the conclusion of the enquiry, the British Consul-General said: The proceedings at this preliminary enquiry are not altogether regular, for two reasons: firstly, no definite charge has been framed against the watchman, Noronha, of having caused the death of this passenger. The Viceroy's letter simply states that a Chinese passenger on the Fatshan has been murdered by a foreigner; no further details are given. However, as I learnt from other sources that the watchman Noronha was accused of having done this thing, and as he voluntarily came to this Consulate-General and offered himself for investigation into the truth of the allegations against him, I decided to hold the enquiry.\n\nIn the second place, Noronha is a Portuguese subject and as such, if a serious charge of this nature is preferred against him, he should be tried by his own Consul. But I decided, in consultation with my Portuguese colleague, M. de Moraes, that, in view of the fact that the alleged criminal offence had been committed on board a British steamer by a person on that steamer's articles, and in view of the popular excitement prevailing in regard to this case, it would be expedient that I should first hold a preliminary inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of this passenger on the Fatshan. This I have done in as public and thorough a manner as possible. A deputy from the Viceroy has been present at the hearing, taking notes and cross-examining the witnesses. The public, including members of the Chinese press, have been allowed to be present and the Portuguese Consul-General has occupied a seat in Court.\n\nI have come to the conclusion, after carefully considering all the evidence that has been brought forward yesterday and to-day, that there is not sufficient evidence to justify me in handing over the accused to his Consul on a charge of having caused the death of this passenger. Of the 600 odd passengers on the Fatshan that night, only two came forward to testify that they had seen the accused assault the deceased, and their evidence, for reasons which I have mentioned before, I am bound to regard with grave suspicion. On the other hand, Dr. Davenport's evidence, given in the clearest and most explicit manner, goes to show that the deceased died a natural death. Under these circumstances, the accused, as far as the Court is concerned, is discharged. It is open to the Chinese Authorities, should they consider the result of this enquiry unsatisfactory, to charge the accused in the Portuguese Consular Court, where, I am sure, all charges made against him will receive an impartial and fair hearing. I will ask Mr. Greaves, Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's Agent, to hold himself responsible for Noronha's appearance when called upon.\n\nMr. Greaves gave the necessary assurance.\n\n## CHINESE COMMENTS ON THE CASE\n\nThe local Press is still publishing hostile articles concerning the matter, and a petition has been sent to the Viceroy praying that the body of the deceased may be exhumed and a fresh post-mortem examination held by three doctors, viz.\n\n## EXCITEMENT AT CANTON\n\nThere is great excitement in the City (writes our Canton correspondent) over the decision re the s.s. Fatshan incident. A boycott of the Sternhaut Company's entire fleet appears to be threatening.\n\nI have no doubt the excitement would soon fizzle out if the local authorities were to issue a proclamation explaining clearly to the public the facts of the inquiry or if the proceedings at the inquiry and the evidence of both foreign and Chinese witnesses were translated and published in the leading local papers.\n\nBelow is a translation of a circular issued by the Self-Government Association, which I give is apparently the first step towards a boycott movement:\n\nWe beg respectfully to inform the public that on the night of the 6th day of this moon (29th Nov.), a Chinaman was kicked to death by a foreigner on board the s.s. Fatshan. The following patriotic and eminent persons, viz., Yeong Wo Kai, Cheong Lau Ki, Tung Chun Kwan, and Tam Show Po, were strangers to the deceased, yet they possessed such patriotic and honourable feelings as to come forward as witnesses to give evidence in the case and petitioned the Authorities to obtain redress on behalf of the deceased. This really shows the sincerity of their feelings and ardent love of their country and their brethren.\n\nFrom inquiries made, we learn that all these patriots are business men. For several days they have wasted their precious time and toilsome labour. Those who are regarded as our brothers must really respect them. We have decided to invite these patriots to come to the Association on the 10th day of this moon (3rd instant) for the purpose of taking their photographs, which we will carefully preserve as a remembrance. We therefore invite all our brothers to attend at the Association on that day to pay their respects to them.\n\n## ENCOURAGING NATIVE INDUSTRY\n\nIn a dispatch sent to the Viceroy, the Board of Agriculture, Labour, and Commerce in the Kiang-su Province has stated that the cotton cloth manufactured in the above province is strong, fine, white, and its quality is far superior to that manufactured in Bombay. Hitherto, its consumption has been confined to several southern and eastern provinces, but of late years, this cloth has found its way into those provinces and has been ousting the native cloth. Recently, the Board has received several Imperial Edicts commanding them to encourage native manufactures.\n\nThe Board requests the Viceroy to give instructions to all Military and Police Departments and the Directors of Schools and Colleges in the Province of Kwangtung to purchase the native cloth manufactured in Kiang-su for the use of the military, police, and students. The Viceroy has issued an order to that effect.\n\n## BLACKMAIL\n\nThe International Banking Corporation has again received a letter demanding $100,000 blackmail to be paid within five days on account of a certain Shek Loong junk.\n\n## CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY\n\nThe total sum of money due on the instalment of the shares of the Canton-Hankow Railway Company amounts to over $1,600,000, out of which about $1,300,000 has been collected by the Company up to the 30th day of the 10th moon (23rd instant). From this amount, the sum of $200,000 has been paid into the Company in drafts or promissory notes to be collected on the date.\n\n## THE FATSHAN LINE\n\nIt is reported that recently complaints have been made by many passengers of the Fatshan Railway of articles missing from the luggage cars.\n\nOwing to the recent increase of railway traffic, many steam launches have been placed on the Canton-Fatshan run, and, if stern measures are not taken to put a check to the pilfering, it is causing great annoyance to travellers, and the bulk of the passenger trade will fall into the hands of the steam launch owners.\n\n## OBJECTION TO A KEROSINE DEPOT\n\nA British firm purchased a piece of land at Samshui for the purpose of building a kerosine depot. The gentry there objected to a kerosine depot and applied to the Sam-shui Magistrate to issue an injunction restraining the firm from erecting the depot on the ground that \"kerosine is dangerous goods.\" The Magistrate reported the matter to the Viceroy, who directed the Provincial Treasurer to investigate and settle the question.\n\n## THE ENTHRONEMENT OF THE NEW EMPEROR\n\nThe Viceroy has received cables from Peking to notify the officials and people of the Kwangtung Province of the enthronement of the young Emperor, which will take place on the 1st day of the 1st moon, and that the Grand Council has decided that the two characters \"Shuen Tung\" shall be the title of the reign of the new Emperor. As it is customary in many lines of trade to use the title of the reigning Emperor on the goods manufactured, the cablegram expressly instructs His Excellency to issue proclamations to the public that all articles and goods now being manufactured for the forthcoming year must bear the title of the new Emperor.\n\n## NEW COINS\n\nThe Viceroy is also in receipt of instructions from the Board of Revenue...\n\n`Mr. Fox's dispatch No. 71 of December 9th, 1909`\n\n343\n\n`Mr. Fox to Viceroy Chang. (JAP 20 1909)`\n\nCanton, December 16th, 1909\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Y.E.'s dispatch dated the 10th instant, in which you informed me that a Chinese passenger on the British steamer \"Fatshan\" had been kicked to death by a foreigner.\n\nOn receipt of this dispatch, I at once deputed Vice-Consul Porter to proceed to the Wharf, and in company with Deputy Haish and the Samshui Magistrate, hold an inquest on the body. Dr. Davenport, who had already made an examination that morning, went again to the \"Fatshan\" at the request of the Chinese Authorities and made a second examination in the presence of the officials...\n\nIn the meantime, I had summoned the Portuguese watchman Noronha, who was accused of having caused this passenger's death, and I fixed the following day at 10...",
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        "content_text": "## Agriculture and Cattle Raising\n\n### Climatic Conditions\nManchuria suffers from extremes of heat and cold. The rainy season is from July to August, and snow falls from November to March of the following year. The soil of the plains is good, and harvests are almost always plentiful. As most of the fertile districts are more or less connected with the Sungari and its branches, they may for convenience of reference be divided into the following five sections:\n\n1. The upper waters of the Sungari River region.\n2. The area between the Sungari and the Amur.\n3. The middle waters of the Sungari region.\n4. The Hulan River region.\n5. The lower waters of the Sungari region.\n\n1. The upper waters of the Sungari are in Kilin Viceroyalty. The ground here is nearly all cultivated, the soil being light and fertile, save in the neighbourhood of Petune where it is sandy. Between Petune and the Lalin River the soil is heavy.\n\n2. Of this region only a small part near Tsitsihar is as yet cultivated. The area in question is about 45 miles long (north and south), 34 miles broad (east and west). The soil is of fair quality, but much spoilt by the floods of the rainy season and by the sandy deposits from the rivers. It is unlikely that this district will come under development for some time.\n\n3. In Kilin Viceroyalty includes the whole of the two local Governments of Shuang Cheng Pu and Pinshuchan. Harbin, Shuang Cheng Pu, and Ashihho, all important towns, are in this section. The soil is heavy about Pinshuchan, light near Harbin and Shuang Cheng Pu.\n\n4. Hula River area is in the Amur Viceroyalty. In the south the soil is light, gradually getting heavier as one advances north.\n\n5. Mainly in Kilin Viceroyalty.\n\nIt will be seen from the above remarks that the soil of Manchuria is, generally speaking, fertile. Except, however, along the rivers no attempt has been made so far to bring it under cultivation. Settlers are proportionately few, and the means of communication primitive and unsatisfactory. The cattle used by the natives are likewise of very poor breed, fit only for field work. The oxen are however good, particularly those used in distilleries and bean-oil mills.\n\n### Land\nOwing to the secrecy maintained by the Chinese officials, it is very difficult to ascertain the area of the land under cultivation, but it is probably about 4,417,000 shan* (about 13,000 square miles†), divided as follows:\n| Viceroyalty | Shan |\n| --- | --- |\n| Kilin | 2,897,000 |\n| Amur | 1,520,000 |\n| Total | 4,417,000 |\n\nIn the Amur Viceroyalty 1,140,000 shan of land have been put under cultivation recently. According to statements made by officials in that province, land tax is at this moment paid on 1,000,000 shan only of developed land, but it is expected that sooner or later this will be changed to 3,000,000. There is no doubt that, what with the carelessness of the officials themselves, what with the recent inrush of settlers and the consequent rapid bringing into cultivation of waste lands, instances of evasion in paying land tax are very numerous. In 1904 an Agricultural Department was established in the Amur Viceroyalty, and energetic efforts are being made by it to attract settlers. The following table shows the areas of waste land sold since 1904:\n| Year | Shan | Acres |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1904 | 800,000 | 900,000 |\n| 1905 | 837,500 | 942,187.5 |\n| 1906 | 600,000 | 675,000 |\n| ... | 4,100,000 | 4,612,500 |\n| Total | 5,000,000 | 5,625,000 |\n\nLand of this kind is granted on a six years' lease free of all taxes and charges of any kind. At the expiration of this period it is subjected to inspection by the Agricultural Department's officials, and, if the result is satisfactory, proper title-deeds are issued. If, on the other hand, the land is still undeveloped, the grant is annulled and the land itself confiscated. Land tax is levied during the sixth year.\n\nThe prices of waste land per shan are as follows:\n| Class | Dollars |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st | 2.08 |\n| 2nd | 2.01 |\n| 3rd | 1.04 |\n| 4th | 0.7 |\n\nIn Kilin, according to the most recent records, there are only 10,660 shan of waste land. Of this area 2,100 shan represents land once cultivated, but allowed to revert to its original condition, 8,560 shan land which has never been touched.\n\nIn this province the prices of land are as follows:\n### A. (Once cultivated but allowed to become waste)\n| Class | Dollars |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st | 6.60 |\n| 2nd | 4.40 |\n| 3rd | 2.20 |\n\n### B. (Waste land proper)\n| Class | Dollars |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st | 3.30 |\n| 2nd | 2.20 |\n| 3rd | 1.10 |\n\nThe estimated average harvest of 35,730,000 koku (177,210,875 bushels) may be divided approximately as follows:\n| Crop | Koku | Bushels |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kaoliang | 8,800,000 | 43,670,000 |\n| Millet | 8,510,000 | 42,230,875 |\n| Beans | 6,790,000 | 33,695,375 |\n| Wheat | 6,130,000 | 30,420,125 |\n| Barley | 5,480,000 | 27,194,500 |\n| Buckwheat | ... | ... |\n| Indian corn, &c. | ... | ... |\n| Total | 35,710,000 | 177,210,875 |\n\n* \"Shan\" = 1.86 acres.\n†This is more likely to be correct than the figures given on p. 2, 19,000 square miles.\n\nThe land in Manchuria was originally meant by the Central Government to be apportioned among the banner men only. Their grants varied from 50 to 60 shan per household, and with the grant went various privileges, which were expressly denied Chinese if they by any means obtained ownership. Their tenure indeed was attended by certain disabilities and burdens; but, these notwithstanding, it was into their hands ultimately that the land came. They were more than a match for the banner men at a bargain, and in the end Peking itself was obliged to acquiesce in the changed condition of things. The bigger land-owners, who are as a rule either engaged in business or officials, live for the most part in the towns, the farmer himself being generally a mere tenant paying his rent in kind.\n\nThere are two kinds of land-tax, the greater and the less. The former is paid into the National Treasury, the latter is a contribution towards the expenses of local administration. There are in addition separate charges for police, education, &c.\n\nThe chief agricultural products of North Manchuria are kaoliang, millet, beans, tobacco, and hemp. The first named is to the Chinaman what rice is to the Japanese. The grain is used as a foodstuff or for the distillation of spirits, and the stalks for fodder, fuel, roofing, plastering, grain bags, and lastly for matting in the \"Kiang\" or Manchurian store. Millet, which has a higher market value than the grain just...",
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        "content_text": "## Trade in Manchuria\n\nmentioned above. There is, in addition, however, quite an appreciable trade in metal utensils of European Russian make, while quantities of glass articles come from Germany. The prospects for this trade are nevertheless, owing to the high freight charges on the railway, unpromising. Finally, there is a small demand for tinned meats, provisions, &c., of local manufacture.\n\nNo reliable trade statistics are obtainable, though apparently the gross quantity of goods dealt with at the three Harbin stations in 1906 was 22,636,160 pouds, divided as follows:-\n\n| Arrived | Dispatched | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 16,987,383 | 5,558,885 | 22,541,268 |\n\nUnder the first heading, salt and firewood were the most important items; the second, flour.\n\nThe weight of goods dealt with at the Sungari Wharf during the same period was 3,810,762 pouds, divided as follows :-\n\n| | Pouds |\n| --- | --- |\n| Arrived - From Lower Sungari | 2,857,715 |\n| Arrived - From Upper Sungari | 2,880 |\n| Dispatched - For Lower Sungari | ... |\n| Dispatched - For Upper Sungari | 1,450,717 |\n| Total | 3,810,762 |\n\nNative cart transport is naturally not included in these figures, nor do the wharf figures cover more than the cargoes carried by Russian shipping.\n\nNear the wharf district is the Chinese town of Harbin, with a population of 60,000. Beyond the fact that it contains the Chinese Government Offices, there is nothing in the place which merits particular notice. The Chinese merchants here lay in their supplies of goods at Tien-tsin, Shanghae, and Newchwang, and to a lesser extent at Peking, Chefoo, &c. The area of distribution commanded by Chinese Harbin is very large, extending beyond Tsitsitar, and Aigun on the north-west, and Hulan, Tetuanhutzu, Hsin-shan, Pinshu, Sanshan on the north and east.\n\nCereals for this place come mainly from Hulancheng on the north. Harbin is 466 miles from the mouth of the Sungari, 485 from Vladivostock, and 588 from Dairen.\n\nShuang Cheng Pu is a growing town, with a population of 25,000 inhabitants, situated about 30 miles south of Harbin, on the old high road from Sanchan to Newchwang. This place has made great strides since the establishment of the railway, and now boasts a flour mill, which grinds 4,200 pouds of grain every twenty-four hours. The value of the grain appearing in the market of Shuang Cheng Pu is 360,000l.\n\nForeign imports come via Changchun and Newchwang.\n\n## Changchun (Kilin Province)\n\nChangchun, or Kwangchengtzu, with a population of about 130,000, is the key of North and South Manchuria, and a starting point for Kilin, and Mukden Provinces, or for Mongolia.\n\nIt is the junction also of the Russian and Japanese railway systems, and later will be one of the termini of the line running to Kilin. The trade of the place is mostly transit. Here is situated one of the great wholesale markets of Manchuria; in fact, it is no exaggeration to say that there is not one important centre of trade in the whole of these territories which has not relations with Changchun. There can be no doubt that a great future is in store for this town.\n\nThe exports are as usual agricultural produce, and the imports, mainly, cotton yarn, sugar, cotton cloth, hemp cloth, and miscellaneous goods. The value of the farm produce and manufactures therefrom passing through the Changchun market annually is estimated at about 680,000l.; the value of the imports, over 1,800,000l.\n\n## Ashihho\n\nAshihho is an ancient walled city of Manchuria, situated about 24 miles from Harbin. Its population is 32,000.\n\nThe value of the trade of this place, according to most recent investigations, 26,000,000 tiao (870,000l.). Of this amount, 6,800,000 tiao are to be credited to foreign imports, the most important of which is hemp-cloth.\n\n*According to this report the \"tiao\" is equal to about one-third of a \"yen.\"\n\n## Ninguta\n\nNinguta is an ancient walled city to the north of Kilin, and distant about 16 miles from Harbin Station on the Chinese Eastern Railway. The country in the neighbourhood of Ninguta is well cultivated, and it is estimated that the value of the agricultural products raised in the district is about 1,212,000 tiao (400,000l) yearly. The imports, valued at about 2,000,000 tiao (70,000l.), consist mainly of hemp cloth, cotton goods, sugar, and table salt. There is, likewise, a good trade with the Russians in hair and hides. Both the wheat and the tobacco raised in this district are of exceedingly good quality.\n\n## Tsitsihar and Tsitsihar Station (Amur Province)\n\nTsitsihar, which is the centre of government of the Amur Province, and is situated on the Nonchan River, a big tributary of the Sungari, has a population of 80,000. A road leads from the town to Tsitsihar Station, distant about 14 miles, and thence on through Aigun to Blagovestchensk. Owing to its conveniences, in the way of land and water transport, this place enjoys considerable prosperity, and is resorted to, not only by numbers of Russian merchants, but also of Mongols. The country around is unsuited for agriculture.\n\nA branch of the Russo-Chinese Bank is established here, as well as one or two foreign firms, including a German. Japanese residents number 101.\n\nThe settlement, or town, at Tsitsihar Station, is situated in the middle of a vast uncultivated plain. Trade, there is virtually none, and the business of the place is divided between the restaurants and the stores dealing in miscellaneous goods and fancy articles. The means of communication between Tsitsihar and Tsitsihar Station are so wretched, that the Chinese are said to be making arrangements for the laying down of a light line of railway from one place to the other. The contract for the supply of material has gone to the German firm in Tsitsihar.\n\n## Hailar\n\nHailar is on the Hailar Railway, 500 miles from Harbin. The population of the place is very small, only 3,000; but, nevertheless, the cattle market here is the most important in North Manchuria. Numbers of oxen and sheep are brought in for sale, and the Russians estimated the annual value of this trade, before the war, at 1,000,000 roubles.\n\n## Manchurie\n\nManchurie is a new settlement. Both the Chinese and the Russians have customs offices here. The population numbers 12,000, 40 per cent. being Chinese, and the trade of the place, like that of Hailar, is in cattle only.\n\n## Petune (Kilin)\n\nPetune is situated on the right bank of the Sungari in the middle of a sandy plain. Petune, which occupies an important position on the line of communications, seeing that it is either by road or water connected with Kilin, Harbin, Tsitsihar, Changchun, &c., is for the moment, unimportant only as a place of transhipment.\n\nThe chief items of trade here are tobacco and timber.\n\nThe soil around Petune partakes of the characteristics of that of Mongolia, being sandy and unsuitable for farming purposes.\n\nIn former days there was a thriving trade between this place and the neighbouring parts of Mongolia, but, since the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway, it has decreased very considerably.\n\n## Payansasu (Amur)\n\nPayansasu is a town of considerable importance near the middle waters of the Sungari River. The soil of the surrounding country is fertile and eminently suited for agriculture. Payansasu is not on the Sungari itself, and therefore lacks water communication; but this drawback does not, thanks to the close trade connections existing with Shuangchengpu, Hulan, and Petuanhirtzu, materially affect the prosperity of the place.\n\nForeign goods come from Newchwang via Harbin or Hulan. The value of this trade is about 4,000,000 tiao (133,000l.) per annum; 70 per cent. of this amount represents local consumption. The remaining 30 per cent. is that of the surrounding districts.\n\nThe value of the agricultural products of this district is about 324,000l. per annum. Wheat is becoming a most important item of the trade of the place. Payansasu is the centre of a large spirit-distilling industry.\n\n## Hsinshan and Chiapanshan (Kilin)\n\nThe former, once a tiny hamlet, is, by reason of its situation in the middle of an agricultural district and also because of its anchorage facilities on the Sungari, becoming a place of importance. Ever increasing numbers of Russian merchants gather here annually from Harbin, Khabarovsk, and Blagovestchensk to purchase wheat.\n\nForeign imports come through Chiapanshan, or Harbin.\n\nChiapanshan is in close trade connection with the place just mentioned.\n\n[2116 b-3]\n\nPage 292",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nfrom the remotest parts of the three provinces in winter to depôts on the Liao River to await the opening of navigation in spring, and thousands of these carts annually came as far south as Newchwang and Tien-tsin (then the only two ports through which the export and import trade of Manchuria was conducted on any considerable scale), carrying back loads of salt manufactured near Newchwang and miscellaneous foreign and native goods into the interior. It might be imagined that the cost of baulage by cart for hundreds of miles would be prohibitive, and that the introduction of the Chinese Eastern Railway, running as it did (and now does under two names) through the heart of Manchuria from north to south and east to west, would quickly have ended this traffic; but it must be remembered that while the animals and carts are employed in spring, summer, and autumn in farm work, they would, owing to the rigorous climate, be completely idle as well as a drain in winter, and their owners were content to become carriers if they could earn sufficient to pay expenses. The result is that to-day these carts, in spite of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the South Manchurian Railway, and the Imperial Railways of North China in Manchuria, still pay annual visits to Newchwang in winter, but in diminished numbers. Diminished numbers are due for the most part to the South Manchurian Railway, which, with the exception of the traffic through Vladivostock over the Chinese Eastern Railway, has succeeded in attracting the bulk of the trade with the country to the east and north-east of the line, but has affected only to a limited extent the trade to the west and north-west, which continues in the main to be conducted by cart in the old way through old-established channels.\n\nThese \n\nWhen I visited Hsin-min-t'un or Hsin-min Fu as it is now called, Fa-ku-men recently raised to the rank of sub-prefectural city under the name of Fu-min Ting, and the district city of Tiehling between the 21st and the 28th September, there was no traffic whatever on the roads connecting these inland marts which were opened to foreign trade by the Japanese Treaty with China of December 1905. The peasantry were busy harvesting their crops and carting the grain, beans, and other produce from the fields to their homesteads. Hsin-min Fu is the present northern terminus of the Imperial Railways of North China in Manchuria. It is a busy commercial centre with a population of from 60,000 to 70,000 inhabitants, and its principal industry is the extraction of oil from beans and the manufacture of bean-cake, which is carried on by a score of mills.\n\nHere I carefully questioned a number of Chinese merchants in regard to the trade between Hsin-min Fu and Fa-ku-men and was informed that it was considerable in winter, the roads of 50 miles (160 li) between the two places being described as one string of carts during that season. They referred to the projected railway to Fa-ku-men and their declaration that such a line would shift the centre of trade, and the market from Hsin-min Fu to Fa-ku-men proves that the two places are intimately connected commercially.\n\nFrom Hsin-min Fu I travelled by Chinese cart north by east to Fa-ku-men resting the first night at Hsiao-ta-tzu, which lies half-way between these two places. Between Hsin-min Fu and Hsiao-ta-tzu there are fourteen hamlets and villages, most of them containing Chinese inns or caravanserais with large courtyards for the accommodation of the traffic along the road. Many of the inns were shut, but they reopen during winter, their busy season. My carter corroborated the statement made to me by the merchants of Hsin-min Fu that the winter traffic along this road is considerable.\n\nThe road from Hsin-min Fu to Hsiao-ta-tzu passes over a fine broad plain which was well cultivated and yielding excellent crops of tall millet (*Holcus sorghum*, L.), the two smaller millets (*Setaria italica*, Kth., and *Panicum miliaceum*, L., the former predominating), beans (from which oil is extracted and bean-cake manufactured), upland rice, some buckwheat of the white-flowered variety, and a little cotton. Hemp (*Cannabis sativa*, L.) and *Perilla ocymoides*, L. (from the seeds of which oil is extracted) were growing as borders to other crops. The maize, castor-oil, and sesamum crops were already reaped; the cobs of corn were drying in the sun and bundles of sesamum awaited the thrashing or rolling out of the seeds. The foreign potato is also largely grown and used for food. The country is little wooded except in the villages and round graveyards, where the willow, elm, and poplar are the usual and practically the only trees. Two small streams, tributaries of the Liao, flow eastward across the road 8 and 20 miles respectively north of Hsin-min Fu at the villages of Hsi-chiu-men and Kung-chu-t'un.\n\nThe village of Hsiao-ta-tzu lies about a mile to the south-west of the southern terminus of a range of low, grass-covered, unwooded hills which rise from the plain and stretching northwards form its eastern boundary. To the west, but at a distance of some miles, there is another range with a north-easterly trend. The country lying between these ranges is more undulating than to the south and the soil, although somewhat stony, was bearing crops scarcely inferior to those seen to the south of Hsiao-ta-tzu. The highroad keeps to the eastern side of this undulating plain passing north by east through eight villages to the town of Fa-ku-men, which has every appearance of being hemmed in at a distance on all but the southern side by low hill ranges, through which, however, roads lead east, north, and west.\n\n## 3\n\nFa-ku-men, or Fu-min Ting, is a small unwalled town of some 30,000 inhabitants. Like Manchurian towns generally it is built of mud and brick and its main streets, like those of Hsin-min Fu, run east and west. Its chief industry is the conversion of beans and castor-oil seed into oil and cake, and it contains numerous caravanserais for the accommodation of the traffic which passes through it and of merchants who resort to the town for the sale and purchase of produce, in which they are assisted by the keepers of these establishments in return for a commission on all transactions effected. I stayed for two days in one of these caravanserais, where I had special facilities for inquiring into the trade between Fa-ku-men and Hsin-min Fu and between Fa-ku-men and T'iehling. That trade, as I have already stated, is done in winter; but I found that in the open season there is a considerable trade between Fa-ku-men and Newchwang, which is carried on neither through Tiehling nor Hsin-min Fu.\n\nOn the right bank of the Liao, 25 miles south-east of Fa-ku-men and about the same distance below Tiehling, is a place called San-mien-ch'uan, where goods are landed and shipped by junk as long as navigation is possible. There is little difference in distance between Fa-ku-men and San-mien-ch'uan and Fa-ku-men and Ma-feng-k'ou, the shipping port of Tiehling on the Liao. The latter may be a trifle longer; but at San-mien-ch'uan the shallows above Tiehling frequently causing as they do several days delay when the river is low are avoided, and no other obstacles to navigation exist between it and Newchwang. From the caravanserai in which I resided carts left daily for San-mien-ch'uan, each loaded with twenty-five bean-cakes weighing 72 lbs. a-piece. Each cart had a team of three animals. Although the Liao was high at the time of my visit the traffic from Fa-ku-men was not diverted to Ma-feng-k'ou nor to the railway at Tiehling, and during the open season San-mien-ch'uan is undoubtedly the shipping port of Fa-ku-men for produce bound for Newchwang. In the winter it is otherwise: then San-mien-ch'uan loses its importance, and the two outlets for Fa-ku-men produce are Tiehling and Hsin-min Fu. The exports from Fa-ku-men to Tiehling consist almost entirely of bean-cakes, but the amount exported depends on the market. If higher prices rule at Tiehling the cakes go there; if Hsin-min Fu proves a better market, they go by cart to Hsin-min Fu and are thence carried by rail to Newchwang. In any case, so far as I could ascertain, most of the bean and castor-oil cake made at the thirty-four mills in Fa-ku-men goes to Hsin-min Fu. Up to the present I have been speaking of the export trade, and in particular of the products of Fa-ku-men and neighbourhood; but Fa-ku-men lies on the main winter cart road from the Province of Hei-lung-chiang to the south, and, although much of this traffic has naturally been attracted to the South Manchurian Railway at Chang-ch'un Fu or K'uan-ch'eng-tzu, it still retains commercial relations with the country to the north-east as far as Petuna on the Sungari, with the country to the north (of which Ch'eng-chia-t'un, 80 miles from Fa-ku-men, is the centre), and with Mongolia on the west. Chinese merchants at Fa-ku-men estimated that the South Manchurian Railway had absorbed 50 per cent. of the traffic passing through the town in former years, but they were confident that, if connected with Hsin-min Fu by rail, Fa-ku-men would tap still more of the grain-producing districts of Eastern Mongolia which are now being opened up by Chinese colonists. I was informed at Kuang-ning Hsien, which I visited, that much of the produce of Eastern Mongolia finds its way south by cart to the Chinese Railway at Chin-chou Fu by a road passing to the west of Kuang-ning Hsien, and through the city of Yi-chou, and this may have suggested to the Chinese Government the projected railway from Chin-chou Fu to Tao-nan Fu now being surveyed. In Fa-ku-men I repeatedly asked for a comparison between the volume of its trade with Tiehling and Hsin-min Fu and invariably received the same replies. They were: San-mien-ch'uan is the only port of Fa-ku-men during the greater part of the year when the Liao is open to navigation, and during the winter Hsin-min Fu is more important than Tiehling. Questioned as to the import trade of T'iehling, the merchants replied that Japanese yarn, cottons and miscellaneous goods were brought to Fa-ku-men, but not in any great quantity, and this was borne out by the replies to the questions I put at the inns on the road between \n\nPage 305",
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        "content_text": "# C. O.\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n### CONFIDENTIAL\n\n**No. 1.**\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received January 13, 1909.)\n\n**(No. 576.)**\nSir,\n\nPeking, December 23, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow inclosing a translation of a series of queries which the Viceroy there has addressed to the local gentry and merchants, who are anxious to have the Hankow-Ichang section of the future Szechuan Railway made an unofficial enterprise.\n\nAs Mr. Fraser points out, the Viceroy fully exposes the hollowness of the attempts which have hitherto been made by the provinces to finance railway undertakings, and his Excellency's own suggestion to provide funds by an extra assessment on land is not likely to appeal to the rural population who have already had some experience of Government methods in the depreciated currency from which they are suffering so much, and whose daily needs are too pressing to admit of their indulging in visionary schemes of remote profit.\n\nMr. Fraser has also kept me fully informed from time to time of the various phases through which the Canton-Hankow Railway question is passing. The upper section, from Wuchang to Yochow, which appears to have made a good start under Mr. St. George Moore, has received a sudden set-back by orders issued from this by Chang Chih-tung, the result of which is that all work has been absolutely stopped and salaries at the rate of £12,000 per annum continue to be paid with no return.\n\nOn the Hunan section, the British engineer, Mr. Ross, has unfortunately been invalided home, but Mr. Hewlett's reports from Changsha go to show that the Hunanese have at last made up their minds to accept the inevitable and acquiesce in a foreign loan. German intervention promises to introduce a slight complication in this section. A short line of about 13 miles, from Ch'u-chow to Ichia-wan, is to be built this summer in connection with the Ping-hsiang mines in which the Germans are much interested, and negotiations with this object in view are going on between the German manager of the mine and the notorious Shêng Kung-pao, who seems to have secured control of this section from the Hunan Company. I concur, however, with Mr. Fraser in thinking that we cannot well protest as the construction will be carried on by a purely Chinese Company, but, acting upon his suggestion, I have furnished Mr. Bland with full particulars, and asked him to warn the Chinese negotiators that we shall expect this line to be eventually incorporated in the main line.\n\nA much more serious complication, of which my telegram No. 199 of the 12th instant will have informed you, has occurred in connection with the negotiations here. Early in the month, Mr. Gulland, a Scotchman, who is manager of the International Bank at Shanghai, an American concern whose capital is said to be largely Belgian, came to Peking and called upon the American Minister, myself, and Mr. Bland.\n\nMr. Gulland explained that until recently he had been under the impression that the American money market was not prepared to advance capital to China, and that he was therefore surprised to receive instructions to come to Peking and ascertain the Chinese Government's wishes and proposals regarding the Canton-Hankow line.\n\nI said that if the United States' money market was seriously disposed to embark on Chinese Government loans, British financiers would possibly be willing to renew the friendly relations which formerly existed, but I expressed grave doubts as to bona fide American capital wanting to find an outlet in China at present. China, in my opinion, had been receiving foreign money of late on easier terms than, in view of her financial condition, she had any right to expect, and it was as much to her own interest as to that of the foreign investor that railway loans should be accompanied with stricter safeguards.\n\nThe American Minister subsequently called upon me to discuss the same question. Mr. Rockhill told me that he was in receipt of telegraphic instructions which had special reference to the Canton-Hankow Railway, and the necessity of securing equality of opportunity for American capital in competing with that of other nationalities.\n\n[2104 a-1]",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 7 in No. 1\n## Acting Consul-General Fox to Viceroy Chang\nCanton, December 5, 1908.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nIn my despatch of the 4th instant, informing your Excellency of the conclusion I had come to after a full investigation into the charge against the Portuguese watchman of the steam-ship \"Fatshan\" of having caused the death of a Chinese passenger, I drew your Excellency's attention to the action of the Canton newspapers in prejudicing the minds of their readers by publishing inaccurate and misleading reports of the proceedings, and requested your Excellency to summon the editors of the offending papers and impose suitable penalties upon them.\n\nI have now the honour to inclose an article published in the \"Seventy-two Guilds Press,\" which contains a gross libel on myself, accusing me of hushing the matter up and giving no consideration to the interests of public justice.\n\nI have the honour to request that the editor of this paper may be severely dealt with, and that the next copy of the paper shall contain a full and ample apology in a conspicuous place in which the libellous statements shall be retracted.\n\nIt must be apparent to your Excellency and to responsible officials generally that articles of the kind I complain of must, if left unchallenged, do great harm to international relations and may lead to consequences of the most serious nature.\n\nThe assumption of the accused's guilt and the publication of statements prejudicial to a fair and impartial hearing of the case, would, in any European country, entitle the accused to very heavy pecuniary damages.\n\nI have handed your Excellency's Deputy, Mr. Hsieh, a copy of the depositions taken at the hearing, and they have doubtless already been translated and submitted to your Excellency's inspection.\n\nIn view of the misleading statements of the press, whose representatives, although permitted as a favour to attend the hearing, have neglected to publish a true statement of the facts elicited, I consider that it would be advisable, in the public interest, that the whole of the depositions should be made public in a Proclamation issued by your Excellency, and that steps should be taken to prevent any further comment of an unfair and libellous nature in the Canton press.\n\nI avail, &c.\n(For H. H. Fox),\n(Signed) H. H. FOX.\n\n## Inclosure 8 in No. 1\n### Acting Consul-General Fox to Viceroy Chang\nCanton, December 7, 1908.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nOn the 5th instant I had the honour to draw your Excellency's attention to the exaggerated statements with regard to the \"Fatshan\" case, which have recently appeared in the Canton newspapers, and I pointed out that utterances of this nature, if allowed to continue, would seriously impair the existing friendly relations between British and Chinese in Canton.\n\nIt has now come to my knowledge that the Self-government Society have been holding meetings during the last few days, at which the witnesses for the prosecution were publicly thanked for their action in this case, and the British authorities severely blamed for their conduct of the inquiry. This morning the Society have called a public meeting to again discuss the affair.\n\nIt is hardly necessary for me to point out to your Excellency the serious consequences that are likely to ensue if the Society are permitted to excite the popular mind in this manner.\n\nI feel confident that your Excellency will take such steps as may be necessary to restrain the Society from interfering in matters which do not concern them. This case has from the beginning been dealt with by the officials concerned, both Chinese and foreign, and the action of the Society's leaders is therefore not only uncalled-for, but is a direct challenge to the authority of your Excellency's Government.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) HARRY H. FOX.\n\n## Inclosure 9 in No. 1\n### Acting Consul-General Fox to Viceroy Chang\nCanton, December 8, 1908.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nDuring the past week I have repeatedly drawn your Excellency's attention to the serious agitation against the British Authorities in connection with the recent inquiry into the death of a Chinese passenger on the steam-ship \"Fatshan,\" which is being directed and encouraged by the Self-government Society and the Chinese newspapers in Canton.\n\nMy representations to your Excellency have evidently been without result, for I hear that at a public meeting organized by the Self-government Society yesterday, libellous statements were openly made against myself, and arrangements made to boycott the steamers.\n\nSuch discourteous treatment of the Representative of a friendly Power, who, only a few months ago gave public expression to his sympathy with the people of this province by taking a leading part in the raising of funds for floods relief, must, I am sure, be repugnant to your Excellency's well-known sentiments of justice, and I am confident that your Excellency will take immediate steps to put a stop to these attacks.\n\nI propose to call on your Excellency to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock, or any other hour that will be convenient to you, and personally discuss the present serious state of affairs.\n\n## Inclosure 10 in No. 1\n### Viceroy Chang to Acting Consul-General Fox\nCanton, December 7, 1908.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch with reference to the accusation against a Portuguese watchman on the steam-ship \"Fatshan\" of having caused the death of a Chinese passenger. You complained that the newspapers had printed inaccurate and misleading reports, and asked me to punish the editors and take steps to put a stop to these practices.\n\nAll the newspapers were represented at the inquiry which was held recently at your Office, and I fear that misunderstandings must have arisen, owing to their ignorance of the English language, or to lack of clearness in the interpreting. I have, however, ordered the Taotai of Constabulary to examine the editors in question, and to deal with them accordingly.\n\nI have also sent copies of the depositions, which were forwarded by you, to the various newspaper offices for publication.\n\nI avail, &c.\n(Seal of Viceroy.)\n\n## Inclosure 11 in No. 1\n### Notification by the Self-government Association\nGentlemen,\n\nIn the case where a foreigner kicked a Chinese to death on board the steamer \"Fatshan,\" the evidence first and last clearly called for the punishment of the criminal, and the responsibility for the crime falls upon Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's steamer. The British officials cannot be permitted to shirk their duty in this matter. Great Britain and China have hitherto been on friendly terms, and the proper course is for disputes between us to be decided in accordance with international law. Our local authorities are at present engaged in giving the case their serious attention.",
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        "content_text": "## List of Speakers at a Mooting of the Self Government Society\non Wednesday, December 17th, 1500.\n\n### Speakers:\n| Name |\n|------|\n| Chang Sung Yun |\n| Lin Tau Hsiang |\n| Fu Kuan Ting |\n| To Wu Hang |\n| T'an Hee Pu |\n| Hu Li Ta'u Ta'ai |\n| Yoh Ling Chik |\n\n### Speeches:\n- **Branch**: Blamed Consul-General for not considering evidence sufficient as there were four men who came forward.\n- **Yu's Speech**: Recommended passengers not to go on board \"Fatshan\" any more for fear of injury.\n- **T'an's Speech**: Blamed British Consul-General and Viceroy equally, especially the latter for telling the relatives to go to the Portuguese Consulate. Noronha is in Hongkong whoring. Cannot understand why people continue to use the \"Fatshan\". Must be a mistake. Suggests cutting off the ears of anybody who hereafter takes passage on the \"Fatshan\" so as to \"earmark\" them.\n- **Li's Speech**: Praised himself for speaking dauntlessly without fear. If arrested and punished for his speech, he would still make it.",
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        "content_text": "# LOV 2\n\nI see that the Hankow pact of 1905 was signed only by the Viceroy, and is practically a promise from him. Do you know whether we are in any way officially bound to give the Japanese the advantages they claim? It seems to me absurd that, without quid pro quo, British capital should be thus fettered for the advancement of Japanese interests, and that we ought to be able to get away from this incubus if the Chinese can be got to see that the conditions under which the arrangement was proposed have now completely changed, with the elimination of departmental construction in foreign hands.\n\nI should be very grateful for your advice in this matter.\n\nYours, &c. (Signed) J. O. P. BLAND.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n**Memorandum of Interview between Mr. Bland and Chang Chih-tung re Loan for the Hankow-Canton Railway**\n\nHis Excellency was assisted by two deputies, viz., Kao Ling Wei (a native of Chihli), representing the interests of Hupei, and Tseng Kuang Yung, of Hunan. The interview lasted several hours. Its results may be briefly summarized as follows:\n\nHis Excellency Chang proposes to raise a loan of 3,000,000l. to be devoted to the construction of the Hupei and Hunan sections of the railway, and to be supplemented, if necessary, by a further loan hereafter. The total length of these sections is estimated at 400 miles. He stated that he applies in the first instance to the Corporation, in view of his agreement with His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow, but emphasized the fact that by this agreement the British are only entitled to a first option, and that he is at liberty to invite competition whenever available. If the Corporation's terms were unfavourable he had no doubt that other British Syndicates, not to mention German, Belgian, and Japanese capitalists, would be glad to negotiate the loan. He deprecated from the outset any suggestion of financial supervision or administrative control on behalf of the bondholders, referring frequently to the Yu-chuan Pu's recent Peking-Hankow Redemption Loan as proof of the complete confidence of foreign investors. He desired to make a loan on similar terms, giving as collateral security the hi-kin revenues of Hupei, neither the railway nor its earnings being pledged for the service of the loan. As regards the negotiations, the preliminaries would be discussed by the provincial deputies and the final conditions by himself. He understood that the Corporation was associated with French capitalists, but as these negotiations were the outcome of his Agreement with Mr. Fraser, he could take no cognizance of any party other than the Corporation. He hoped that the matter might be speedily concluded, his chief object being to proceed at once with the construction of the railway, and he saw no reason why an Agreement similar to the Yu-chuan Pu's recent loan should not be concluded forthwith, leaving the construction of the line in the hands of the engineers already engaged by the Hukuang Viceroy on the recommendation of Mr. Fraser.\n\nI explained to his Excellency the essential difference between a loan for the redemption of a line well constructed and profitably working and a loan for the construction of a new railway, and I stated that, in the opinion of the leading financiers in London and Paris, the results of recent railway loans had conclusively demonstrated the fact that, in the interests of the Chinese Government's credit as well as for the greater security of foreign investors, it was desirable that the Chinese Government should either agree to place the construction in the hands of reliable and responsible contractors or to accept some such reasonable conditions for financial control, &c., as were made in the case of the Canton-Kowloon Railway Agreement. I pointed out that, although Imperial Chinese Railway bonds now rank high in the European market, this is chiefly due to the fact that the earlier loans were made under conditions which insured efficient construction and economical working, but that it would only need a few object-lessons like those afforded in the results of the Tien-tsin-Pukow and Shanghae-Hangchow-Ningpo Loans to cast serious doubts upon the stability of Chinese Government undertakings, with immediate prejudice to the country's borrowing powers.\n\nHis Excellency Chang personally admitted the desirability of financial supervision in the interests of bondholders, but stated that the introduction of such a condition was impossible in the face of the determined opposition of the gentry and people. The Chinese Government was determined to avail itself of foreign capital only under conditions which would obviate all possibility of interference by foreigners in the affairs of the railways. He thought that a construction contract would expedite the completion of the line, and was prepared to give the system a trial, but did not wish this point referred to in the Loan Agreement. He desired to conclude the latter at once, leaving for further consideration the question of a contract, for which no definite proposals could be forthcoming under two months.\n\nI replied that the Corporation was not prepared to negotiate the present loan on the basis of the Luhan Redemption Agreement; that for the purposes of a prospectus offering reasonable prospects of success it was essential that investors should either be assured of (1) efficient construction in the hands of well-known contractors or (2) effective supervision of finances and construction by British employés of good standing. As the latter condition seemed unwelcome, it appeared to me that construction by contract afforded the only immediate solution. It was, moreover, unreasonable, I observed, to suggest that British or French funds would be forthcoming unconditionally, and for the possible benefit of manufacturers of other nationalities, without privilege or benefit to the country supplying the capital; under no circumstances could China hope to obtain such terms in any quarter.\n\nAfter a long discussion it was agreed that Messrs. Kao and Tseng would draw up and send me a Memorandum embodying his Excellency's rough idea of the terms of the loan, which might serve as a basis for obtaining an expression of opinion, or a counter-proposal, from the Corporation in London. His Excellency Chang requested that I should also prepare a rough draft of terms of the Loan Agreement as acceptable to the Corporation. To this end I suggested, and it was agreed, that the draft should be in alternative form, one allowing for construction contract and the other without that condition.\n\nHis Excellency referred to the fact that Mr. Moore and other employés were under agreement to the Yueh Han Railway Company, and had no doubt that, having been taken on at the recommendation of Mr. Fraser, their services would be continued under any Loan Agreement that might be made. I replied that His Majesty's Consul-General had recommended these men on the understanding that it was the Chinese Government's intention to build the railway without foreign capital. While anticipating the Corporation's readiness to do everything possible to arrange matters to his Excellency's satisfaction, I could give no assurance on this point. I thought it unlikely that Messrs. Pauling and Co., or other responsible contractors, whose successful work depends chiefly upon economic organization, would be willing to employ any but their own trained staff.\n\nAs regards the Hupei division of the Szechuan Railway, his Excellency stated that this undertaking remains in the hands of the provincial authorities. When he was Viceroy at Wuchang he had intended to construct both lines under one foreign loan, but in the present negotiations he is concerned only with the Yueh Han trunk line, which the Government desires to have built without further delay.\n\nIn conclusion, his Excellency laid stress upon the presence in Peking of Messrs. Cordes, Odagiri, and Jadot, and there would appear to be little room for doubt that these gentlemen have been invited to take an interest in the business, with a view to stimulating competition. Mr. Tseng Kuang Yung observed that, as the bonds of the recent Luhan conversion had gone to a premium, China might reasonably expect more liberal terms in the present instance. If this attitude is maintained, it would seem advisable to allow the Chinese Government to realize that the credit of the country cannot be stretched indefinitely, and that its limit has now been reached.\n\nDecember 24, 1908.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n**Consul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan.**\n\n**(No. 82.) Sir,**\n\nHankow, December 28, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward translation of the text published in a local native paper of the Grand Secretary Chang Chih-tung's Memorial reporting his imminent settlement of a loan with the British and Chinese Corporation for the construction of the Hupei and Hunan divisions of the Canton-Hankow Railway, and also a précis of telegrams exchanged between a Hunanese Society in Shanghae and the Hunan Railway Company extracted from the \"Universal Gazette\" which corroborates the change of attitude towards foreign loans of that province.\n\nPage 3 \nPage 517",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 4 in No. 1\n### Chang Chih-tung memorializes the Throne on the importance of Railway Construction in Hunan and Hupei, and the advisability of summoning Officers to Peking to consider arrangements.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit, for Your Majesty's consideration, a humble Memorial praying that certain officers be summoned to the capital to settle a loan for the Canton-Hankow Railway, the construction of which through the Provinces of Hunan and Hupei is most important.\n\nSince my appointment as Director-General of the Canton-Hankow Railway all general questions of the provision of funds, the employment of staff, the fostering of profits, and the sweeping away of abuses have devolved upon my shoulders to deal with, and I have to exercise control and make final decisions.\n\nIn Hupei the trace of the line is about 500 li long, in Hunan 1,200 or 1,800 li. After the redemption of the Concession of the American China Development Company the Throne authorized the two provinces concerned to collect the funds for construction themselves; but during the two years already elapsed the resources of the merchants have proved inadequate, and up till now there is no definite prospect of their collecting the necessary funds, the result being long delay in starting work. This line is the Great Central Trunk Line from north to south, and its extreme importance to the Administration, the army, transport, and trade precludes further delay.\n\nWhen the memorialist, then Viceroy of Hukuang, was redeeming the American Concession the date for redemption was very close and the sum of money was immense. The British Consul-General at Hankow, Mr. Fraser, acting under the instructions of his Government, negotiated a large loan for us at a very low rate of interest from the Governor of the British Colony of Hong-Kong. I then made an agreement with Mr. Fraser to the effect that should it be proposed to raise another loan for the purpose of railway construction in the two provinces the British should be first approached. This promise was reported to the Throne, as is on record.\n\nAfterwards, as the views expressed on raising a loan were very divergent, the consent of the Wai-wu Pu was not obtained, so that no loan has been raised in all this long time. When I was at Wuchang in the summer of last year I discussed with the British Consul-General the general terms of a Loan Agreement. Since being ordered to the capital by Imperial command I scrutinized the conditions of the moment and collated the terms of the Loan Agreement for the Tien-tsin-P'uk'ou line as now settled. In raising a loan the essential points to be considered are that the terms be complete and satisfactory, that our sovereign rights over the railway are safeguarded, and that there should be freedom from abuses. These terms have already been satisfactorily settled with the Wai-wu Pu, so that they can be put into operation.\n\nThe British Consul-General has now specially deputed Mr. Bland, the representative of the British and Chinese Corporation, to Peking to settle terms with me. I therefore propose at once to instruct the Hupei Shih-Hung Taotai, Tseng Kuang-jung, who is coming to the capital for an audience, in conjunction with the Hupei Educational Commissioner, Kao Ling-wei, whom I propose to send for from Wuchang, to discuss orally with Mr. Bland the general terms of a Loan Agreement for railway construction in Hupei and Hunan.\n\nOnly ten days will probably be necessary for them to come to terms, and the train journey both ways also does not take more than ten days or so.\n\nI have already arrived at an understanding with his Excellency Ch'en Kuei-lung, Viceroy of Hukuang, and his Excellency Tseng Ch'un-min, Governor of Hunan, and have the honour to present this Memorial and pray for the Imperial sanction to my proposals, on receiving which I will at once telegraph to the Viceroy and Governor to instruct Kao Ling-wei to come to Peking, besides giving the necessary instructions to the Hupei General Railway Office and the Hunan Railway Company.\n\n## Inclosure 5 in No. 1\n### Precis of Telegrams between Shanghae Hunanese and Hunan Railway Company.\n\nTHE \"Universal Gazette\" of the 19th December publishes telegrams exchanged between the Hunanese in Shanghae and the Hunan Railway Company on the subject of the reported foreign loan, which the former think most dangerous. They are sure share subscriptions will come in freely if Mr. Bland's tempting is not listened to. The Company replies that there is no option but to raise a loan for both Hupei and Hunan; that the intention is not to pledge the line and to borrow only as money is actually needed, thus saving interest, and gradually to hypothecate the rice and salt rates. His Excellency Chang's telegram declares that the local finances and the railway rights will in no way be prejudiced, and no other embarrassment will result. The only course is to raise as many shares as possible, as each share got reduces the amount to be borrowed. The Company has sent agents everywhere to encourage subscriptions, so that the railway may be speedily completed.\n\n## Inclosure 6 in No. 1\n### Sir J. Jordan to Mr. Bland.\n\nMy dear Bland,\n\nPeking, December 29, 1908.\n\nI THANK you for your letter of the 26th instant transmitting a Memorandum of your interview with Chang Chih-tung and asking for my views with regard to Japanese participation under the Agreement of 1905.\n\nThis Agreement stipulates that half the engineers for the Hupei railways shall be Japanese, but does not, as I understand it, give specific advantages to Japanese manufacturers and contractors. It seems to me, however, to be advisable not to enter into a discussion upon the subject unless and until we are forced to do so, and I should say that, if Mr. Odagiri raises the question of Japanese rights under the 1905 Agreement, your best course would be to refer him to his Legation, which can obtain an interpretation of them from us.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nYours sincerely,\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n## Inclosure 7 in No. 1\n### Extract from the \"Gazette of December 28, 1908.\n\n**Imperial Decree:** scaled by the Prince Regent.\n\nCh'en Kuei-lung (Viceroy at Wuchang) has memorialized representing that the Hupei section of the Hankow-Szechuan Railway must for practical purposes be intimately connected with the Hankow-Canton line, and requesting that a Comptroller General may be appointed to undertake the chief direction of both systems.\n\nIn view of the importance of the Hankow-Canton Railway, the special appointment was recently made of Chang Chih-tung to be Comptroller-General, and whereas the Hupei section of the Hankow-Szechuan line is naturally complementary to the former railway, it is right and proper that they should be united in order to bring them to completion at an early date. Chang Chih-tung is therefore hereby commanded to be also Comptroller-General of the Hupei section of the Hankow-Szechuan Railway, and to consult with the Board of Communications and the Viceroy of the Hu-Kuang Provinces (Viceroy at Wuchang) in urging the officials and gentry interested in the...",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n## 6\n\nscheme seriously to raise funds and start operations; and the Grand Secretary is further commanded to assume full responsibility in doing away with abuses, in strictly fixing a limit of time, and in making all decisions which may be called for by the circumstances. Let the Board of Communications and the Hu-Kuang Viceroy render him cordial assistance and not in any way impede his action, so that authority may be undivided and the importance of railway development be fully safeguarded.\n\nCountersigned by the Grand Councillors: Prince Ch'ing, Shih Hsü, Chang Chih-tung, Lu Ch'uan-lin, Yuan Shih-k'ai.\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n`[3182]`\n\n(No. 351.) Sir,\n\n### No. 1.\n`C.O. 7798`\n[January 25.]- \n`TREC SECTION 4 MAR 09`\n\nSir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received January 25, 1909.)\n\nTokió, December 26, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith copy of a despatch which I have received from His Majesty's Acting Vice-Consul at Dairen on the subject of the reconstruction of the Antung-Mukden Railway.\n\n(No. 93.) Sir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) **CLAUDE M. MacDONALD**.\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1.\nActing Vice-Consul Gordon to Sir C. MacDonald.\n\nDairen, December 14, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that the South Manchurian Railway Company has decided to take in hand the reconstruction of its line from Antung Hsien to Mukden, and that the necessary works will be commenced in March next.\n\nSurveys along the route have been progressing for some time past, and, as a result, it has been finally decided that the new line shall follow closely the route of the present light railway. As doubt has been freely expressed as to whether a standard gauge railway could be built along this route, I have the honour to submit the following description of the line, which is based on my observations when travelling between Antung and Mukden last August, and on an examination of a plan of the new line given me by one of the directors of the Company.\n\nThe country between Antung and Feng-hueng-cheng offers no serious difficulties, though some heavy earthworks and considerable bridging will have to be undertaken; a tunnel, 8 chains long, is to be made 34 miles out of Antung, some 2 miles short of Feng-huang-cheng station. From this place, in order to avoid the windings of the Erh-tao-kou River, the present light line follows the course of an affluent, twisting and winding up and around the hills that bar the way. The same route is to be followed by the railway as reconstructed, and consequently heavy tunnelling will be required, no less than six tunnels being marked on the plan in a distance of some 17 miles (from about 45 to 62 miles out of Antung). The Erh-tao-kou is rejoined here, and followed up to near its source, 6 or 7 miles beyond Tsao-ho-k'ou, 82 miles from Antung. At this point the real difficulties begin. The range of hills which further to the south-west form the Mo-tien-ling Pass will be bored by a tunnel some 3,000 feet long, and beyond this the line runs down the valley of the Sse-ho (?), a stream with many sharp bends and closely bordered by high cliffs which will have to be tunnelled through. Altogether, there will be nineteen tunnels in a distance of about 22 miles, the last tunnel, where the line emerges out into the valley of the Ta-tzu-ho, being well over a mile in length. The Ta-tzu-ho is crossed just before reaching Pen-hsi-hu (120 miles from Antung), and will require a bridge from 600 to 700 feet long. From Pen-hsi-hu, the railway runs up a narrow, steep valley, and on the plans two short tunnels are marked here. It is possible that one of these may be avoided and the line taken round the hill, instead of cutting through it. From the 130th mile no further difficulties are experienced, the railway running down a gentle sloping valley to the Mukden plains. On reaching the latter, some 150 miles from Antung, two alternative routes are laid down. The first proceeds direct to Mukden, more or less following the present light railway, while the second bends westward, and joins the main line at Su-chia-tun, the junction for the branch to the Fushun collieries. It is probable that the latter will be followed, as, in addition to offering greater facilities to those wishing to go to Fushun, an extra bridge over the Eun-ho will be avoided. The general direction of the line may be seen by reference to the inclosed sketch map.* The length of the railway when reconstructed will be 170 miles 46 chains.\n\n* Not reproduced.\n\n`[2104 66-1]`",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n525\n\nC.O.\n\n**(Translation.)**\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n## Imperial Edict issued on December 18, 1908.\n\nIN a Memorial presented by Chang Chih-tung, Yuan Shih-K'ai, and Liang Tun-yen, submitting a scheme for the joint official and commercial management of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway, it was proposed that when, after ten years, the time for the repayment of the loan by the Imperial Government arrived, the gentry and merchants of the three provinces should be permitted to raise sufficient capital to buy in one-half of the shares, and that the line should then be under joint official and commercial management. Subsequently Lu Hai Huan submitted a Memorial suggesting regulations for raising share capital, wherein he proposed that as the southern section of the line passed through Anhui this province should be added to the others, making four in all, that after ten years the line should be placed under joint official and private management, and that at no time could the commercial shares be recalled. These proposals were all sanctioned.\n\nA further Memorial has now been submitted by Lu Hai Huan with reference to the affairs of the Four Provinces Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Company (Limited), in which he represents that progress is being delayed owing to popular uneasiness. As it has been decided that the railway is to be permanently under joint official and commercial management, it would obviously be unjust to recall the commercial shares, and after the issue of this definite pronouncement we direct Lu Hai Huan to urge the gentry and merchants of the provinces to join together in raising share capital for the railway, so that there may be no risk of any obstacle arising when the time for the redemption of the line arrives, that benefits may result to all, and that good faith may be observed.\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[5712]\n\n**(No. 29.)**\n\n### No. 1.\n\n### Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n### February 11\n\nRact SECTION 1 MAR OC\n\n7798\n\n**(Telegraphic.) P.**\n\nForeign Office, February 11, 1909.\n\nA copy of a telegram has been communicated to me by Pauling's agent, in which he states that the Japanese, who demand participation in all construction contracts for the Hankow-Canton Railway as price of their support, are causing the greatest difficulty.\n\nI should be glad to be informed of the facts.\n\nFirm request that you may be authorized to use your influence to obtain withdrawal of this opposition.\n\n[2150-1]",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\n## Acting Consul-General Fox to Viceroy Chang\n\nCunton, December 5, 1908.\n\nIn my despatch of the 4th instant, informing your Excellency of the conclusion I had come to after a full investigation into the charge against the Portuguese watchman of the steam-ship \"Fatshan\" of having caused the death of a Chinese passenger, I drew your Excellency's attention to the action of the Canton newspapers in prejudicing the minds of their readers by publishing inaccurate and misleading reports of the proceedings, and requested your Excellency to summon the editors of the offending papers and impose suitable penalties upon them.\n\nI have now the honour to inclose an article published in the \"Seventy-two Guilds Press,\" which contains a gross libel on myself, accusing me of hushing the matter up and giving no consideration to the interests of public justice.\n\nI have the honour to request that the editor of this paper may be severely dealt with, and that the next copy of the paper shall contain a full and ample apology in a conspicuous place in which the libellous statements shall be retracted.\n\nIt must be apparent to your Excellency and to responsible officials generally that articles of the kind I complain of must, if left unchallenged, do great harm to international relations and may lead to consequences of the most serious nature.\n\nThe assumption of the accused's guilt and the publication of statements prejudicial to a fair and impartial hearing of the case, would, in any European country, entitle the accused to very heavy pecuniary damages.\n\nI have handed your Excellency's Deputy, Mr. Hsieh, a copy of the depositions taken at the hearing, and they have doubtless already been translated and submitted to your Excellency's inspection.\n\nIn view of the misleading statements of the press, whose representatives, although permitted as a favour to attend the hearing, have neglected to publish a true statement of the facts elicited, I consider that it would be advisable, in the public interest, that the whole of the depositions should be made public in a Proclamation issued by your Excellency, and that steps should be taken to prevent any further comment of an unfair and libellous nature in the Canton press.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(For H. H. Fox),\n\n(Signed) H. PORTER.\n\n## Acting Consul-General Fox to Viceroy Chang\n\nCanton, December 7, 1908.\n\nOn the 5th instant, I had the honour to draw your Excellency's attention to the exaggerated statements with regard to the \"Fatshan case,\" which have recently appeared in the Canton newspapers, and I pointed out that utterances of this nature, if allowed to continue, would seriously impair the existing friendly relations between British and Chinese in Canton.\n\nIt has now come to my knowledge that the Self-government Society have been holding meetings during the last few days, at which the witnesses for the prosecution were publicly thanked for their action in this case, and the British authorities severely blamed for their conduct of the inquiry. This morning, the Society have called a public meeting to again discuss the affair.\n\nIt is hardly necessary for me to point out to your Excellency the serious consequences that are likely to ensue if the Society are permitted to excite the popular mind in this manner.\n\nThis case has from the beginning been dealt with by the officials concerned, both Chinese and foreign, and the action of the Society's leaders is therefore not only uncalled-for, but is a direct challenge to the authority of your Excellency's Government.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) HARRY H. FOX.\n\n# Inclosure 9 in No. 1.\n\n## Acting Consul-General Fox to Viceroy Chang\n\nCanton, December 8, 1908.\n\nDuring the past week, I have repeatedly drawn your Excellency's attention to the serious agitation against the British Authorities in connection with the recent inquiry into the death of a Chinese passenger on the steam-ship \"Fatshan,\" which is being directed and encouraged by the Self-government Society and the Chinese newspapers in Canton.\n\nMy representations to your Excellency have evidently been without result, for I hear that at a public meeting organized by the Self-government Society yesterday, libellous statements were openly made against myself, and arrangements made to boycott the steamers.\n\nSuch discourteous treatment of the Representative of a friendly Power, who, only a few months ago, gave public expression to his sympathy with the people of this province by taking a leading part in the raising of funds for floods relief, must, I am sure, be repugnant to your Excellency's well-known sentiments of justice, and I am confident that your Excellency will take immediate steps to put a stop to these attacks.\n\nI propose to call on your Excellency to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock, or any other hour that will be convenient to you, and personally discuss the present serious state of affairs.\n\n## (Translation)\n\n# Inclosure 10 in No. 1.\n\n## Viceroy Chang to Acting Consul-General Fox\n\nCanton, December 7, 1908.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch with reference to the accusation against a Portuguese watchman on the steam-ship \"Fatshan\" of having caused the death of a Chinese passenger. You complained that the newspapers had printed inaccurate and misleading reports, and asked me to punish the editors and take steps to put a stop to these practices.\n\nAll the newspapers were represented at the inquiry which was held recently at your Office, and I fear that misunderstandings must have arisen, owing to their ignorance of the English language, or to lack of clearness in the interpreting. I have, however, ordered the Taotai of Constabulary to examine the editors in question, and to deal with them accordingly.\n\nI have also sent copies of the depositions, which were forwarded by you, to the various newspaper offices for publication.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Seal of Viceroy.)\n\n## (Translation)\n\n# Inclosure 11 in No. 1.\n\n## Notification by the Self-government Association\n\nGentlemen,\n\nIn the case where a foreigner kicked a Chinese to death on board the steamer \"Fatshan,\" the evidence first and last clearly called for the punishment of the criminal, and the responsibility for the crime falls upon Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's steamer. The British officials cannot be permitted to shirk their duty in this matter. Great Britain and China have hitherto been on friendly terms, and the proper course is for disputes between us to be decided in accordance with international law. Our local authorities are at present engaged in giving the case their serious attention. 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        "content_text": "## લિગ દેશ \n\n**(Telegraphic.)** \n\n2 \n\n**Inclosure in No. 1.** \n\n**Lord French to Messrs. Pauling and Co.** \n\n**CANTON-HANKOW Railway.** \n\nPeking, February 10, 1909. \n\nThe greatest difficulty we have to encounter has been caused by Japanese. There is great danger of Chinese acceptance Canton-Kowloon Railway terms in consequence of Japanese intrigues. Chinese admit forced to refuse contract, we have no doubt owing to the Japanese. Seen Japanese, who suggest as price support participation all construction contracts China. Present position is such that I cannot obtain contract unless Japanese settled. Please authorize me to deal with subject to confirmation by yourself. You will remember that Japanese have right one-half engineers Canton-Hankow Railway according to the Agreement 1905. Hsu Shih Chang, Viceroy of Manchuria, has been appointed the President of the Board of Posts and Communications. \n\nKeep this quite secret. Sir John Jordan has received instruction to confer the United States' Minister at Peking with regard to the position of Japanese Manchuria. \n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] \n\n580 \n`C.O. 8782` \n[February 10.] \n\n## SECTION 1. \n\n| REC | No. I. | REGP 12 MAR 05 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  | CHINA RAILWAYS. |\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.** \n`[5518]` \n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received February 10.)** \n\n**(No. 32.) Sir,** \n\nPeking, January 19, 1909. I HAVE the honour to inclose copies of correspondence relating to railways in Anhui Province, which has been sent to me by Mr. Bland. The proposal made to Mr. Bland, that a silver loan of 3,000,000 taels (£350,000) should be made by the British and Chinese Corporation to an intermediary native bank, so that the provincial Railway Company should not incur the odium of borrowing from the foreigners, is interesting only as showing the methods and attitude of the Anhui gentry, who are apparently quite willing to borrow foreign money, soi-disant clandestinely, now that they find it impossible to raise Chinese capital for railway construction. \n\nMr. Bland's reply to this ingenuous proposition appears to me to have been a proper one. \n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1. \n\n**Mr. Tsui to Mr. Bland.** \n\nCustom-house, Shanghae, January 2, 1909. I BEG respectfully to inclose you herewith a copy of a primary Agreement for a loan of 3,000,000 taels of silver between the Pao Hing Company and the Anhui Railway Company for constructing the railways in that province. \n\nAs the Pao Hing Company is going to fulfil the Agreement by making a foreign loan with any foreign capitalist, I, being the best friend to the Chief Manager and the Directors, am now requested to bring the matter into your consideration. \n\nThe Chief Director of the Anhui Railway Company, Taotai Chow Yao-ming, wishing to avoid the name of having had a foreign loan by the said Railway Company, has recently made the Agreement inclosed with the Pao Hing Company for the said loan and allows the latter to make any foreign loan under its own name. By means of this the Anhui Railway Company may be free from the name of having had a foreign loan, and the Pao Hing Company, being backed up by the said Railway Company, is always responsible for the refund of the said loan and the payments of interest. \n\nWith regard to the difference of the loan made—i.e., the Pao Hing Company made the loan in sycee and the foreign loan might be in sterling—the Pao Hing Company, who is allowed to have special benefit in the said railway, is responsible to refund the loan in sterling at current rate, in spite of any difference in exchange. \n\nI sincerely hope that the said loan will be successfully made by your Corporation and the Pao Hing Company. If you are in favour of the same, I shall feel much obliged to receive your instructions at your earliest convenience. Otherwise you are requested to send back the inclosed copy with your kind reply. \n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) TSUI PI TA.\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1. \n\n**Mr. Bland to Mr. Tsui.** \n\nMy dear Mr. Tsui, \n\nPeking, January 9, 1909. I AM obliged to you for your letter of the 2nd instant, and for the proposal that the Corporation should undertake to raise a loan to the Pao Sing Bank for the construction of the Anhui Railway Company's railways. \n\nI regret, however, that the conditions which you name are not such as I can submit to the Corporation. I have frequently discussed the question of the Wuhu...",
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        "content_text": "## [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n2\n\nfollowing effect: \"The French Government while not indisposed to consider the question of Anglo-French-German **entente générale**, will not consent to German participation in the Hankow-Canton Railway ad hoc.\" The reply was clear and definite beyond all question and having informed M. Homberg that it would be duly communicated to the Germans Mr. Addis left the same day for Berlin. On the 23rd instant, this reply was communicated to the Germans by Mr. Addis, word for word, accompanied by an expression of regret at its unfavourable character. It may be mentioned that Mr. Addis has informed this Department that he pointed out verbally to the French financiers that the result of this communication must be to throw the onus of the refusal of German participation upon the French.\n\nAs regards the right of the French group to a share in the preference granted in 1905 by Chang Chi Tung to the British, it is true that the arrangement concluded in October, 1906, between the two groups contemplated the formation of a British Company to deal with the loan and the advantages derivable therefrom on terms of equality; and if no modification of this Agreement had occurred the French would, as shareholders in the British Company, have been entitled to an equal share of the industrial, as well as of the financial, advantages arising from the flotation of the loan.\n\nBy the subsequent Agreement, however, arrived at between Messrs. Addis and Simon in February, 1908, the French group waived these rights without, it is true, the explicit sanction of the French Government, but their sanction appeared implied by the fact of their allowing the Loan Agreement of 1908 to be concluded, and it would, in these circumstances, be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, for His Majesty's Government to get the British group to forego those rights which have thus been admitted. The maintenance of these rights in the case of this particular railway would, indeed, appear only equitable in view of the fact that it is solely owing to the action of the British Colony that the Chinese are now in a position to proceed with the construction of this line.\n\nHis Majesty's Government observe with much concern that it is now desired, according to the French Memorandum, to dispute the validity of this last Agreement on the grounds that the French group have not obtained any of the appointments and industrial advantages desired by them in respect of the Peking-Hankow line, and that the Agreement (the 24th February, 1908) was signed by M. Simon on behalf of the Banque de l'Indo-Chine only, and is, therefore, not binding on the other members of the French group.\n\nOn the first point, it is necessary to observe that it cannot be alleged that the British Bank has not carried out its part of the engagement entered into, and that the securing of the industrial advantages desired formed no part of the Agreement; and, indeed, there is no apparent reason why any Corporation on the part of the British Syndicate should have been required for this object.\n\nAs regards the second point, the Agreement expresses that it is made on behalf of the British and French groups, and its purport and scope forbid its limitation to the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank, and the Banque de l'Indo-Chine. It was, moreover, confirmed by a Memorandum of the French group of the 25th January, 1909.\n\nIt is hardly necessary to call attention to the deplorable effect which a repudiation of this Agreement must create in the business circles concerned.\n\nHis Majesty's Government trust that on further consideration of the facts of the case in the light of this explanation the French Government will admit the justice of the arguments advanced. It appears to them most desirable, as regards the future, in order to avoid misconception and also competition, which would result in the Chinese obtaining loans on their own terms, that some definite arrangement should be come to for the future between the countries concerned as to both the financing and construction of any lines for which China may invite foreign assistance, and any suggestions which the French Government may have to offer in this respect will be welcomed by His Majesty's Government, who feel sure that the French Government will agree with them in thinking that a return to the system of active international competition for every loan which the Chinese may desire to issue would be most unfortunate.\n\nE. GREY.\n\nForeign Office, February 15, 1909.\n\n(Signed)\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n`[7112]`\n\nC.O.\n\n8782\n\n[February 22.]\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received February 22.)\n\n(No. 61.) Sir,\n\nPeking, February 5, 1909. The inclosed Memorandum by Mr. Bland brings up to date the story of his negotiations with the Delegates of the Grand Secretary Chang Chih-tung in regard to a Canton-Hankow Railway Loan, which was commenced in my despatch No. 2 of the 1st ultimo, and it will be seen that he has got the length of drafting alternative forms of Loan Agreement, one providing for construction by contract and the other for construction under a British Engineer-in-chief, which draft forms are to be sent in for the consideration of the Grand Secretary as soon as possible.\n\nIt is perhaps unnecessary for me to recapitulate the telegraphic correspondence with yourself from your telegram No. 12 of the 13th ultimo to my telegram No. 35 of the 2nd instant on this subject, but I think I should mention that my telegram No. 33 of the 23rd ultimo was evoked by a strong personal conviction that the British financial group did not fully appreciate the danger of entering into arrangements with third parties regardless of the Hankow Agreements of September 1905, and that our own special rights, which have been vigilantly defended during the past three years both at Hankow and here, were not receiving due recognition. It is true that the attitude of the Grand Secretary is unsatisfactory, and that he is taking, or affecting to take, a light view of his obligations to us, but I have consistently reminded Messrs. Bland and Casenave that, when all is said and done, the fact remains that we lent the Chinese Government a large sum of money on easy terms in connection with this matter. Apart from our claims under the letter of the 5th September, 1905, we have a clear right to some advantage for that financial assistance, and we can insist, if it comes to competitive tenders, on fair and reasonable dealing, and a measure of preferential treatment.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n## Inclosure in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Bland respecting Negotiations for the Hankow-Canton Railway Loan. Since the date of my last Memorandum (24th December) there is little progress to be reported. The proposals which were to have been sent in by the provincial Delegates at that date were not forthcoming, and no overtures were made for further discussion of the matter until the 13th January, when I attended a second meeting. On this occasion, the attitude of the Delegates was far more reasonable than before; they stated (inter alia) that there was no question of the Japanese claiming any construction rights under a British loan, and that his Excellency Chang had definitely decided, provided the terms offered were reasonable, to make a construction contract in conjunction with the Loan Agreement. Before leaving, I induced Mr. Kao to write out a rough Memorandum of the general conditions agreed upon, which he promised to send me on the following day, after showing it to his Excellency Chung Chih Tung as a matter of form. This Memorandum was not sent; and on the 18th, I received a letter from the Delegates stating that it was delayed owing to his Excellency's illness. It was, however, matter of common knowledge that his Excellency Chang's decision to authorize a construction contract was being strongly opposed by the Yuchuanpu and others interested in the maintenance of the financial loan policy, and that the pressure brought to bear upon the Regent was making this decision a matter of some uncertainty.\n\nOn the 25th January, Messrs. Pauling's engineers, Messrs. Ormsby and Tristram, arrived in Peking, brought out, by authority of his Excellency Chang, to submit estimates for construction. Lord ffrench wrote accordingly on the 27th to the Delegates requesting an interview to arrange details, &c. To this, no direct reply was...\n\n`[2150 y--1]` \n\n586",
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        "content_text": "## Mr. Parker to Mr. Cloud\n\nROBERT WILLIS  \nBureau of Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce, Mukden, November 26, 1908.\n\nAT your request I give you herewith a summarized Report of the information concerning the agriculture of Manchuria, gathered by myself and Mr. W. H. Tomhave during the autumn of 1908.\n\n### 1. Soil and Climate\n\nThe typical soil of Feng-tien and Kirin Provinces is a loose clay loam, brownish in colour and of extraordinary depth and fertility. Sand and sandy loams are seen occasionally, and in many areas of relatively low level one finds the black, alluvial soil deposits indicative of the presence of water and water-loving vegetation, which in past ages has decayed to give the black colour to these soils. In Hei-lung-chiang Province vast areas of loose sandy soils exist that are not adapted to a permanent system of agriculture, but which furnish a rather sparse growth of wild grasses for grazing. The percentage of waste land in Feng-tien and Kirin is very small, and the brown fertile fields stretch away to the horizon in all directions, creating the impression of boundless areas of tillable soil as strongly as do the prairies of the Mississippi valley in America or the vast prairies of Manitoba. It is not a gross exaggeration to say that no large soil areas of the world contain more potential wealth than do the soil areas of Manchuria, the proof being shown in the crops that are taken from the soil by methods of culture that would bankrupt farmers on the best soils of the Mississippi valley.\n\nWhile no statistics are at present available concerning the climate of Manchuria (except Hosie, 1898), the character of the vegetation indicates a humid climate having an annual rainfall of about 25 inches, and the crop growth indicates further a summer season in which the rapidity of the growth of crops is truly remarkable. Spring wheat, for example, matures in Manchuria in about 100 days, whereas in the same degree of latitude in America (42-46° north) spring-sown wheat requires 120 to 130 days to mature. The soy-bean also that is grown in all parts of Manchuria, from Dalny to Harbin (46° north), is confined to the relatively small area known as the cotton belt in the States, and its presence in these degrees of latitude is an indication of a very favourable growing season for staple agricultural crops. The climatic drawbacks of Manchuria are the spring sand-storms, which drift soil, retard early growth, and accelerate the evaporation of soil moisture, also the heavy rainfall that usually comes in July and August, the harvest season for wheat. A tender crop like wheat is therefore subjected in many seasons to the mercy of the elements, but wheat is also menaced in Canada by frost, and in the Mississippi valley by wind- and rain-storms preceding harvest.\n\nTo sum up this brief sketch of the soil and climate of Manchuria, it may be said that Manchuria is an extremely favoured region of the world for the growth of large areas of those staple crops that are fit for human food and capable of being stored and easily transported, and that the ability of this region to produce the soy-bean gives Manchuria an enormous advantage over regions unable to grow the soy-bean successfully in the production of live-stock products, for bean-meal is a highly prized article of cattle food and would sell for 25 dollars to 40 dollars gold in the States or in Holland or Denmark.\n\n### 2. The Common Crops\n\nThe universally grown crop of Manchuria is the kaoliang, or tall sorghum, which is the staple food of the people and is grown everywhere, from Dalny and Newchwang to Tsitsihar. The soy-bean is grown over a wide area also and is the only export crop of any importance, the oil expressed from the seeds going to South China for cookery, and the bean-cakes to Japan to be used as fertilizer on the rice-fields. Beans are the great cash crop of the country, and the export of bean-cake must be viewed as a national waste by any observer familiar with the feeding of crop by-products to live stock, for if condensed into meat the cash equivalent would fully equal, if not exceed, the cash value of the raw products, and the manure from the cattle would remain on the land. As large markets for meat and dairy products do not exist in Manchuria and China, the export of bean-oil by-products will undoubtedly remain a feature of the agriculture of Manchuria until an export trade in meats is developed. In the northern provinces large areas of small millet or Japanese millet are grown, the product being used chiefly for human food. Spring wheat is grown in small areas in all regions of Manchuria, the chief wheat-producing areas being north-east of Tie-ling, about Hai-lung-fu, south of Ninguta, and in that portion of Sungari River region south-west of Harbin bounded on the south-west and south by the Sungari and on the east by the mountains. It is impossible to gain any idea of the total area devoted to wheat in Manchuria, for a large part of the crop is ground and consumed on the farms, and no statistics are available for that part of the crop which enters the commerce of the country. Harbin, Khabarovsk, Ninguta, Kuan-cheng-tzu, Kirin, and Tie-ling are the important wheat-buying centres. As far as we can determine, no attempt has ever been made to improve the present wheat seed of the country or to introduce new varieties, and the Chinese farmer uses the same seed as his ancestors, a seed of inferior quality, due to the many years of poor care and poor selection the seed has been subjected to. Samples of wheat exhibited in the Japanese flour-mill in Tie-ling resembled very closely the \"Canadian Preston\" and \"Canadian Club\"-types of wheat widely used in North America.\n\nBuckwheat thrives luxuriantly in Manchuria, and samples seen at Tie-ling were of superior quality to the buckwheat of New York State and other favoured localities in America. Buckwheat is ground in small amounts in the native mills, but its consumption is relatively small compared to common wheat.\n\nTobacco is grown in all parts of Manchuria, and even about the villages of Eastern Mongolia one sees small patches of this crop. The best tobacco districts of Manchuria are reported to be north of Kirin, the town centres of this region being Wu-lai-kai, La-ling-chang, Wu-chang-ting, and Ku-yi-Shu. Kirin is the largest tobacco market of Manchuria, although tobacco finds its way into all the Chinese cities from A-Shah-ho in the north to Mukden in the south. Experts of the British American Tobacco Company report the native tobacco to be of excellent quality, and could the crop be properly planted, topped, and cured it could compete with Virginia and Carolina tobacco from the States.\n\nSmall areas of Indian corn or maize are occasionally seen in Manchuria, one of the largest producing areas being situated east of Liao-yang. The maize grown by the natives is of very inferior quality, badly mixed, and with weak, degenerate types of ears-caused, without doubt, by the improper control of the seed. Manchuria undoubtedly has a naturally favourable soil and climate for maize, and with good seed and intelligent cultivation it is the opinion of the writer (unsubstantiated at present) that such soil areas as the Liao-ho valley could produce more human food with maize than with kaoliang.\n\nThe root crops of Manchuria do not cover sufficient area to deserve notice as staple crops, but in speaking of the potential agricultural wealth of the country it should be noted that the loose, loamy soils of this region are particularly favourable for such crops as potatoes and sugar-beets. The intense sunshine of summer is also favourable for beet-sugar growth, and beets grown last year at the local agricultural experiment farm showed amounts of sugar ranging from 14 to 18 per cent.-a remarkably high percentage of sugar.\n\nUpland rice, barley, and hemp are also grown to some extent in Manchuria, but acreage is so small that they cannot be classed among the common or staple crops of the country.\n\nPage 624",
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        "content_text": "# 3. The Fruits of Manchuria.\n\nThe only fruits grown in Manchuria of any importance are the hard pears and red grapes that are produced in quantity around Kwang-ning. The quality of the grapes is good, being quite similar to the wine grapes of California—to the European taste, however, not in any way equal to the Concord, Catawba, and Delaware grapes of the States. The pears are hardy, growing much farther north than pears are found in America, but the quality is much inferior to the American \"Bartlett\" or \"Anjou.\" In the hills about Kirin, and also in South-East Manchuria, wild plums, cherries, and crab apples grow that would undoubtedly give excellent hardy roots for grafting with improved but less hardy types. The lack of a heavy blanket of snow on the soil in the winter and the strong drying winds of spring are undoubtedly great drawbacks to successful fruit culture in Manchuria. There are favoured localities here and there, however, where foreign fruits should do well.\n\n# 4. The Live Stock of Manchuria and Mongolia.\n\nAlmost no live stock is kept by the Manchurian farmer except the mules and ponies used for carting. Swine roam the yards and fields as scavengers, but are rarely, if ever, bred and fed as a part of the farm business. Practically no cattle or sheep are bred in Manchuria, the small number of cows used for dairy purposes to supply foreign demand coming from Mongolia. In Mongolia, however, the grazing of cattle, sheep, and ponies is the only industry of the people, and even here the cattle and sheep industry is not of any great size, for the demand is practically limited to the Russian military, Mahommedans, and the small foreign demand. The Mongolian cattle are bred in the interior at Jar-sar-tu, in the Tai-nan-fu district; Je-lai-tu, south-west of Tsitsihar; and Tu-su-tu, west of Tai-nan-fu.\n\nThe young cattle are grazed over the wide plains, and between the ages of 6 and 8 are driven to market. The largest markets for Mongolian cattle are Hailar, Blagovestchensk, Harbin, Kuan-cheng-tzu, and Ching-cha-tun. About 5,000 cattle are butchered monthly in Harbin, one-third of which are handled by an Australian packing plant and delivered to the Russian military at Vladivostock. The Mahommedans buy and butcher small numbers of cattle in all the important centres of Manchuria. Their methods are crude and rough, and it is impossible to estimate the extent of this demand.\n\n# 5. Agricultural Machinery.\n\nHand labour, assisted by the crudest kind of tools and machines, sows and garners the crops, the amount of horse-power used being small in comparison with methods of agriculture prevalent in the States 100 years ago, and yet greater than that employed to-day in the rice field of Japan. The Manchurian plough resembles the old-fashioned \"corn plough or potato-digger of the States, and the ploughshare made by the native smith costs 2 dol. 50 c. (silver currency) (1 dollar gold); the remaining parts of the plough being home-made or cheaply constructed by the local carpenter. This machine is commonly used to plough the soil, and also for inter-tillage after the crops are growing. In some places a crude machine is used for dropping the seed, but more commonly the seed is dropped by hand. The harvesting is always done by hand with a small blade costing the farmer about 20 cents (silver currency) (7 cents gold). Kaoliang, beans, millet, wheat—in fact, all crops—are cut with this same tool by the most awkward and back-breaking methods conceivable. A few wooden shovels and forks, a steel hatchet, and perhaps an adze or mattock usually complete the outfit. The Manchurian farmer, as a general rule, has no machinery other than those just mentioned, and his cart and rope harnesses.\n\n# 6. Methods of Crop Cultivation.\n\nIn all parts of Manchuria the staple crops, kaoliang, beans, millet, wheat, tobacco, cabbage, turnips, &c., are sown and cultivated by the same method, namely, planting in rows about 18 inches apart, and as the growing season advances the soil is ridged or hilled up against the crop rows with the native plough. Flat cultivation for wheat and millet, or shallow cultivation for such crops as kaoliang, maize, and potatoes, is never practised by the native farmer. Where this universal practice of ridging the land came from no one seems to know, but one can surmise that it is a custom of land tillage practised in the rice-fields of South China, and custom and tradition have established the practice in this northern country. There does not seem to be any theoretical or practical justification for this method of cropping the soil, and it appears illogical, awkward, and unnecessary. Many reasons are advanced by the Chinese for this custom, chief among which are the following: That when the land is ridged the soil on one side of the ridge may absorb the sun's rays in the morning, and on the other side in the afternoon; that ridge cultivation is necessary to keep the roots of the crops above standing water; that this plan of cropping is necessary to keep out the woods; that when wheat is sown in rows the wind cannot lodge it; and that the continual placing of fresh soil on the ridges gives more fertility to the growing crop.\n\nIn the absence of accurate experimental data, it is useless to try and discuss these theories with logical pro and con evidence at this writing. Some of the theories advanced are self-evidently fallacious, and it is doubtful if anything is gained by the practice, and highly probable that much is lost. Thorough and even mechanical stirring of the soil with a good plough should put the soil in an absorptive condition for rain water, and provide a more favourable habitat for seeds than the seed-beds provided under the present system.\n\nPloughing is universally done in the spring-time immediately or conjointly with planting, and the seed-beds are left loose and open before the season of sand-storms begins. Throughout the growing season the native farmer runs his plough between the crop rows and throws the soil about the crop roots, until at harvest-time the ridges about the roots are 8 to 10 inches above the bottom of the intermediate furrow. All the crops when cut by hand tools are shocked in the field and later stacked about the clay floor that is used for threshing the grain. The native farmer builds a beautiful rain-proof stack, and one often sees \"ricks\" or stacks of kaoliang, millet, or beans 20 feet high. Threshing is done with flails and with stone rollers drawn over the grain by ponies or oxen, the chaff being separated from the grain by tossing the grain into the air with a wooden shovel. In the native mills, one occasionally sees a rude fanning mill that will remove chaff and dirt from the grain.\n\n# 7. Crop Yields and Prices.\n\nThe figures given herewith are not accurate, nor are they averaged from many sources, but merely the estimates of Chinese farmers and traders picked up at random in North Manchuria. Like every other country, the yield varies between wide limits according to the season, and price with locality and the relations of supply and demand: wheat, 15 to 18 bushels; kaoliang, 30 to 50 bushels; beans, 20 to 25 bushels. At Tie-ling (October 1908) the native mills were paying 1 dol. 15 c. (silver currency) for 82 catties of wheat, or approximately 60 cents (gold) per bushel of 60 lbs., and beans at Kirin were selling for 24 cents (silver currency) per catty, or approximately 75 cents (gold) per bushel of 60 lbs.\n\n# 8. Land Ownership and Size of Farms.\n\nIn Southern Manchuria, freeholding is the common rule and very little tenancy exists. In the northern provinces, the farmers lease their land, usually through an intermediary, from the Manchu Princes, who received large land grants from the Crown in past times. While this land is leased, the method of holding is virtually ownership, the lease being a lease in perpetuity. Tenancy is rare also in the north, freeholding being the common thing. A large landowner was interviewed at Kirin who has about 100 tenants on portions of his land, the average amount being about 20 acres and the rental a stipulated rental of about 5 bushels of beans per acre.\n\nIt is, of course, impossible to estimate the average size of the farms in Manchuria. In the south, the farms probably average from 5 to 15 acres in size, with occasional large holdings of 100 to 200 acres, the larger holdings rarely being managed by one man but leased out in small tracts to labourers. North of Kuan-cheng-tzu, the population is more sparse than in South Manchuria, and one often sees fields of kaoliang and beans 20 to 40 acres in size.\n\n# 9. Farm Labour.\n\nNative labour is often employed in South Manchuria for 30 to 40 dollars (silver currency) per year with board (12 to 16 dollars gold), and transient labour from Shantung.\n\nPage 630\nPage 631",
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        "content_text": "## 6 \n\ncan be employed for the harvest season at 40 to 70 cents (silver currency) per day with board (16 to 28 cents gold). In the Sungari River region of North Manchuria labour is much more costly, and transient labour from the southern provinces receives 60 to 90 cents (silver currency) per day with board (24 to 36 cents gold). The Shantung labour does not flow into the north unless high wages are offered, and the problem of labour is a pressing one to the grain farmer of North Manchuria.\n\n## 10. Manufacturing Industries depending upon Agriculture.\n\nNative grist mills may be found in all Chinese towns of any size in Manchuria, which turn kaoliang, millet, and wheat into flour for local use. The distilling of samshu from kaoliang is also a widespread industry. The native mills are very crude, consisting of a convex stone 8 to 10 feet in diameter, in the centre of which a pivot is constructed to which a cylindrical stone is attached that is moved around and revolved over the convex surface of the lower stone with horse-power. The grain is crushed in these rolls and then sifted in coarse silks, yielding a wheat flour of low grade. The rolling and sifting are so imperfectly done as to leave large amounts of waste flour in the bran. The Chinese demand for wheat flour calls for a cheap strong flour, and these mills can grind, therefore, with little competition from American or Japanese flour, as the better grades are not used by any but the well-to-do people. At Kirin there is a steam flour-mill owned and operated by Chinese that is quite an advance over the ordinary native mill, the machinery being old-fashioned American type. This firm is contemplating the erection of a modern 125-barrel mill. At Tie-ling the Japanese have put up (1908) a modern 400-barrel mill with the most modern types of American rolls and sifters. The demands of this mill will undoubtedly stimulate wheat production in the region about Tie-ling, but it remains to be seen if this mill can operate successfully without a good market for by-products and without a large local demand for high-grade flour. Cheap wheat will do it and nothing else. The Russian flour-mills at Harbin are not successful and profitable. Five mills only are now in operation out of a total of twelve that were grinding during the late war, and it is reported that they are in financial difficulties and that the demand for Harbin flour is not large. The Russian mill at Kuan-cheng-tzu has been closed. At Ninguta the Chinese own and operate a steam flour-mill that is reported to be doing a successful local business.\n\nThe chief manufacturing industry of Manchuria relating to agriculture is the expressing of oil from the soy-bean. Small mills are engaged in this work at many points in the interior, but the largest mills are located at Newchwang and Dalny. For the first six months of 1908, ending the 30th June, the export of bean-cake from Newchwang amounted to 140,000 tons, and bean-oil to 3,500 tons.\n\nAbout 90 per cent. of the bean-cake was consigned to Japan. Dalny, by reason of its superior railway facilities, is rapidly securing control of the bean-cake industry. The methods used in expressing the bean-oil are very crude, the presses being worked with hand labour instead of steam-power or hydraulic-power. With the native methods now in use the beans give a 10 per cent. return of oil.\n\n## 11. Transportation of Agricultural Products.\n\nThe primary cost of transporting agricultural products in Manchuria is so great that it would absolutely bankrupt the farmer of any other grain-producing region of the world where commercial agriculture is practised. But the cash income of the Manchurian farmer is small, and as he exchanges only a small part of his crop for cash, he does not feel the burden of excessive freight cost, as would the farmer who exchanges all of his products for cash and buys back his staples. His labour and other costs of operation are relatively very low, and thus he exists in the face of the worst primary transportation facilities imaginable. The interior commerce of Manchuria is almost entirely handled by the two-wheeled Manchurian cart drawn by five to eight mules, and having a maximum carrying capacity under ordinary conditions of about 1,000 lbs. The cash cost of transporting a ton of freight from Kirin to Kuan-cheng-tzu is from 40 to 50 dollars (silver currency), or 16 to 18 dollars (gold) - a distance of 80 miles. A load of lumber on a Manchurian cart with seven or eight mules is 800 to 900 board feet - a small load for one horse on a good road. Manchurian cart is necessary to the existing roads, and the cause of these high freight costs is therefore not to be laid at the door of the cart, but rather at the door of the uncared-for roads. Freight is often stalled for days and weeks for the lack of 50 dollars worth of coolie labour intelligently directed to repair a bad place in the road. Only in winter when the roads are frozen is it possible to transport freight with any ease. In the face of these odds the distance to which freight is hauled is truly remarkable. Wheat is hauled into Tie-ling from the mountain regions around Hai-lung-fu for a distance of 150 miles, and beans, tobacco, and hemp are also hauled for equally great distances.\n\nThe Liao-ho and Sungari Rivers are capable of transporting large amounts of agricultural products to the centres of trade, and while Chinese junks are already engaged in this trade, the number is comparatively small, and their carrying capacity is very low.\n\nThe South Manchurian Railway has undoubtedly done much to build up the markets for agricultural products in Manchuria, and its effectiveness in this respect will undoubtedly increase as the years pass.\n\n## 12. Agricultural Development in Manchuria.\n\nIt is the opinion of the writer that the chief problems of agricultural development in Manchuria at the present time are economic, social, and political problems, rather than scientific problems relative to the stimulation of greater productiveness in the soil. The vast areas of uncultivated land in the north are capable of producing a surplus crop for export even with crude methods of soil tillage, if transportation facilities could be developed to bring the farmer in touch with world markets. The agricultural problem of Manchuria is not so much the problem of making two blades of grass grow where one grew before, as to change the existing economic and social conditions of farm life into an advanced condition of commercial agriculture in which the farmer can produce a surplus of food above local demands, and find a ready cash market for that surplus. While improved methods of agriculture are undoubtedly necessary if the Manchurian farmer is to produce a large surplus for export, it is still more necessary that there be a market and a means for reaching that market with the surplus crop. If good roads could connect with railways and waterways in Manchuria, and if capital could organize the facilities for storing and shipping staple agricultural products, thus bringing relatively high cash prices for agricultural products into every community, there is little doubt but that Manchuria would produce a large surplus crop for export, and in striving to produce a surplus the farmer would be quickened and fully awake to the advantages of improved methods of agriculture. The Manchurian farmer is not so much in need of the agricultural teachings of European and American applied science as he is in need of the far-sighted genius of such men as James J. Hill in the United States and O'Shaughnessy in Canada, who built the steel paths of commerce into the fertile fields of North America, and were content to wait for dividends until the settlers came in and opened the soil. To-day every farming community in America is in touch with the world markets, and, being in possession of the market, the agricultural problem of America is to increase production by the application of science to the art of agriculture. One hundred years ago the American farmer produced his food, fuel, and clothing on the land, and exchanged very little of his crop for cash; then as transportation facilities developed, and the inventive genius of the American applied mechanical principles to agriculture, the old system of \"produce-and-consume-what-you-produce\" farming passed away, and crop products are now exchanged for cash and the farmer buys coal for fuel and factory goods for his clothes. The Manchurian farmer of to-day is in a stage of civilization more remote from the highest modern civilization than the American farmer of 100 years ago, and this fact must be realized in considering any Government policy for the improvement of agriculture.\n\nA logical and evolutionary plan of improvement would be to develop a Government policy of road improvement on the main arteries of travel in the interior of Manchuria, together with additional railroad facilities, that would bring the wheat of the Sungari region, the beans of South Manchuria, and the cattle of Mongolia to the sea, where they could be condensed into flour, oil, and frozen beef and put on the world's markets. Hand in hand with such Government fostering and development should go the introduction of such simple machines as a two-horse plough, a one-horse steel planting machine, and scythes, cradles, and similar simple machines, to enable the labourer to increase his efficiency as a producer. Education and development by such a programme would bring results far quicker than through the medium of a college for instructing a few students in the science related to agriculture, especially as the farming class at the present time have almost no chance to...\n\nPage 626",
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        "content_text": "## Memorandum by Mr. Bland respecting Hankow-Canton Railway Negotiations\n\nThe following is a résumé of these negotiations since the date of my last Memorandum (4th instant):-\n\nOn the evening of the 4th instant the Yuch-han Delegates wrote officially, repudiating any intention on the part of his Excellency Chang to negotiate an Agreement on the lines discussed at our last meeting (2nd instant), i.e., he would not discuss the question of construction contract, and declined to accept any arrangement which should invest the Engineer-in-chief with the desired measure of authority. Either of these alternative conditions having been formally stated to be the minimum which His Majesty's Minister would consider sufficient to give effect to the Agreement of 1905, and to recognize the obligations incurred by China in respect of the Hong Kong Government Loan, I received Sir John Jordan's authority to state, in reply to the Delegates, that Mr. Campbell would attend the next meeting to explain the views of His Majesty's Legation on the whole question.\n\nThis meeting was held on the 6th instant (Mr. Wang, the Yuchuanpu's representative, was not present.) I brought with me a rough draft of Loan Agreement (based on that of the Fakumen Railway) for the construction contract alternative; and for the other, I had made the few necessary alterations in the text of the Tien-tsin-Pukou Railway Agreement, substituting for Article 17 therein the conditions of Article 6 of the Canton-Kowloon Railway contract in regard to the duties and responsibilities of the Engineer-in-chief. Just before going to this meeting I had received the Corporation's instructions by wire stating \"the control of the funds must not be less than in the case of the Canton-Kowloon Railway Loan,\" but as the recovery of direct control of accounts was evidently impossible (since it is known that the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank and others are prepared to accept Tien-tsin-Pukou Railway terms), and as all recent experience goes to prove that the Engineer-in-chief's certificate for requisitions on the loan funds and on statements of materials purchased is essential to secure honesty and regularity in expenditure, I followed the advice of His Majesty's Minister in limiting my conditions to those originally stated. Mr. Campbell having emphasized the obligations conferred on China under the Hong Kong Government Loan and the necessity for some adequate quid pro quo, and having explained that in the light of recent experience the better protection and control of loan funds had become necessary, the Delegates eventually modified their uncompromising refusal to discuss these conditions, and agreed to submit translations of both drafts to his Excellency Chang and inform us of the result. (Mr. Campbell also took the occasion to remonstrate with the Delegates for stating that the Corporation was responsible for delay in these negotiations, the delay being entirely of their own making.) At the conclusion of the meeting they appeared to hold a reasonable view of the proposals, and agreed, in any case, that if his Excellency Chang should refuse them and negotiate with other parties, he would conclude no Agreement without first offering the refusal to the British Minister.\n\nOn the 8th the Delegates again requested me to attend a meeting. On this occasion they stated finally that his Excellency Chang would not discuss construction contract, even for a section of the line. They continued, however, to discuss the alternative proposal in a fairly reasonable manner, and I explained in detail the changes which I proposed to make in the Tien-tsin-Pukou Railway Agreement. They undertook to prepare a draft in Chinese, and to send it in on the 11th instant, embodying the conditions acceptable to his Excellency Chang, and at the same time urging the necessity for an early conclusion of the business, and requested me to telegraph to the Corporation for a quotation of price. This, on the understanding that they would agree to the terms which I had stated in regard to the Engineer-in-chief and Agency, I undertook to do. I telegraphed accordingly on the 9th.\n\nOn the 11th the Delegates wrote, forwarding no draft, but requesting me to discuss the matter further that afternoon. I attended and found that they were no longer prepared to give any authority to the Engineer-in-chief, or to agree to conditions calculated to make the Agency clause of any value or effect. The draft they had prepared was practically a \"financial loan\" with vague conditions for supply of materials dependent upon the good-will and good faith of the Railway Administration. I stated that, in my opinion, and in the light of my instructions, the draft was quite unacceptable, but undertook to examine it carefully and let them know definitely on Saturday, the 13th.\n\nAfter examining the draft in detail, I informed Sir John Jordan that, from the Corporation's point of view, it provided no possible basis for a Loan Agreement, and I proposed therefore to state that if these were his Excellency Chang's final proposals the Corporation could not accept them, and would therefore be compelled to report accordingly to His Majesty's Minister, and leave the further settlement of the matter in his hands.\n\nUpon this understanding I attended at the Yueh-han office to-day and found the Delegates (Messrs. Kao and Tseng) quite uncompromising. They would offer no modification of their conditions in regard to the essential features of the Agreement, and announced their intention of inviting offers at once from other quarters. I reminded them that his Excellency Chang's obligations to His Majesty's Government would remain unaffected by the Corporation's failure to conclude a loan on their terms; this they admitted, and undertook that his Excellency Chang would inform His Majesty's Minister before accepting proposals from any non-British source. I suggested the advisability of my seeing his Excellency and placing before him the reasons which prevent the Corporation from accepting the terms proposed. Mr. Kao replied that his Excellency Chang would certainly refuse an interview; he further stated that neither the Delegates nor his Excellency Chang were prepared to discuss the question with His Majesty's Legation, but would refer them to the Wai-wu Pu.\n\nThe sudden and complete change in the attitude of the Chinese since the 9th instant can only have been caused by outside influences, and is no doubt due to their having been promised funds upon purely financial loan terms. (The good faith of such promises is open to doubt.) It is, in my opinion, improbable that without the co-operation of the leading British and French financial institutions, such a loan could be floated on the terms now proposed by his Excellency Chang; but, if it can, the Chinese are bound to inform His Majesty's Legation, before concluding any Agreement, of the terms offered them.\n\nFebruary 13, 1909.\n\n(Signed) **J. O. P. BLAND**\n\n## Memorandum communicated by Sir J. Jordan to Liang Shih-yi\n\nIn September 1905, at the special solicitation of the Grand Secretary Chang Chih-tung, and to show the friendly desire of His Majesty's Government to assist with the development of the Hankow-Canton Railway, which is a matter of consequence to the trade of Hong Kong, a Government loan of 1,100,000, without discount, at 4 per cent. was negotiated, and the money was delivered to his Excellency for the purpose of redeeming an old Concession given to an American Syndicate. In return for this signal act of assistance, his Excellency agreed to give British financiers and British industry a preference for the provision of loans and materials for the Canton-Hankow and other railways, cost and quality being equal.\n\nIn pursuance of this Agreement, Mr. Bland has been in negotiation with the Grand Secretary's Delegates for some time past, and there is at this moment only one serious point of disagreement between them. Mr. Bland requires that the precedent of the Canton-Kowloon Railway Loan Agreement should be followed in respect of the duties of the Chief Engineer, whose certificate is attached to all requisitions for the expenditure of loan funds; and his Excellency's Delegates refuse to follow this precedent, alleging that the Chief Engineer's certificate is unnecessary.\n\nThe Chief Engineer is the only person technically qualified to certify to the cost and nature of the work done on a railway, and without his certificate it is not possible to make certain that the loan funds are properly expended. Mr. Bland's requirement is...",
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        "content_text": "## Accepted in principle, subject to the confirmation by the Consortium für Asiatische Geschäfte, under the condition that the Chinese Central Railways (Limited) join the English group, and with the following addition in No. 7 (a) after the words \"other groups\"; \"either alternatively or as the interests of the other groups could be shown to predominate.” All details of this Memorandum to be determined by a meeting of the concerned parties to be held shortly.\n\nDirection der Disconto Gesellschaft, Berlin, March 1, 1909.\n\n[8685]\n\n## No. 2.\n\n(Signed)  \n**ERICH SCHOELLER**\n\nChang Chih Tung will conclude on these terms and conditions without delay or abandon enterprise. They say he intends to contract for portion of line, but will not refer to in the Loan Agreement.\n\nThe Banque de l'Indo-Chine inform me you have arranged for the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank participation in on the understanding Canton-Kowloon Railway terms and conditions to be minimum acceptable; does this exclude support of construction contract, if obtainable?\n\nI am of opinion, in the absence of competition, Canton-Kowloon Railway terms and conditions will be eventually obtainable for future business, but with regard to Hankow-Canton Railway there are difficulties owing to position of Japanese. If Chang Chih Tung cannot raise loan effect will be good.\n\nKeep us advised telegraph instructions as quickly as possible.\n\nPapers communicated by Mr. C. S. Addis, March 5, 1909.\n\n### (1.) (Telegraphic.) China Bank, Berlin, to Mr. Addis.\n\nBerlin, March 3, 1909.  \nOUR Syndicate agrees in principle with the views as laid down by your conversation with Schoeller and Erich. Erich and Rehders have been appointed to join the meeting to be fixed at Brussels earliest possible after this week.\n\nOur offer Peking will be withdrawn immediately upon an understanding having been arrived at. Should meanwhile our Peking negotiations be concluded, we will offer business to new Syndicate for joint dealings.\n\n### (2.) (Telegraphic.) Mr. Addis to China Bank, Berlin. [Undated.]\n\nBritish and Chinese Corporation confirm Memorandum of 26th February. Keswick and Addis appointed representatives. Chinese Central meet to-morrow. It is proposed representatives should meet London, Monday, 15th March. French agree. Hope you will agree also.\n\nBland has just wired Chang Chih Tung offers conclude loan with us Tien-tsin-Pukow terms. We have refused. Hope, therefore, you will support us in affirming Canton-Kowloon terms.\n\n### (3.) (Telegraphic.) Mr. Addis to Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, Berlin.\n\nMarch 4, 1909.  \nYour telegram of 3rd. Anglo-Franco-German entente générale having been already established in principle, we regret you do not see your way to suspend Peking negotiations pending meeting. In any case, we would strongly urge you to negotiate only on Canton-Kowloon conditions, as agreed Article 6.\n\n### (4.) (Telegraphic.) British and Chinese Corporation, Peking, to Mr. Addis. Hankow-Canton Railway.\n\nMarch 3, 1909.  \nAt the request of Chang Chih Tung, met Delegates to-day. They state that Canton-Kowloon Railway terms and conditions absolutely impossible. They offer Tien-tsin-Chinkiang Railway terms and conditions, requesting the British and Chinese Corporation name alternative price of 44 per cent., 5 per cent., loan before Friday. They state that...",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nOn the afternoon of the 29th ultimo, the Viceroy refused me an interview on the plea of ill-health, and at the same time, I received a confidential note from Mr. T. Y. Key, the Sub-Director of the Foreign Office, informing me that the true reason for this refusal was that his Excellency had sent in his resignation. His Excellency, I have since heard, had refused all visitors for some days.\n\nI telegraphed this information to you immediately, and on the 31st, I sent a further telegram, in which I stated that the general impression here was that his Excellency's action was connected with the removal of Yuan Shih-k'ai, and that his resignation would sooner or later be followed by the dismissal of the leading members of the Administration.\n\nYesterday, I again saw Mr. M. T. Liang, who informed me that the Viceroy had received a very complimentary Edict from Peking, and had been told that it was quite out of the question that his services could be dispensed with. Mr. Liang, though not committing himself definitely, gave me the impression that his Excellency was unlikely to continue in office. The attacks made upon him by the Censorate had, Mr. Liang said, annoyed his Excellency considerably, and, in the absence of strong backing in Peking, he seems to fear that he will be exposed to a constant repetition of similar persecution.\n\nThe opinion of Yuan Shih-k'ai's protégés here, men such as Mr. Liang, Mr. Chou, the Newchiwang Taotai, and Mr. Key, though they express themselves very cautiously, seems to be that his Excellency's downfall is largely due to Japanese intrigue, and that Hsu Shih-chang and Tang Shao-yi are to be got rid of for the same reason. As to how far this is true, I am of course unable to form an opinion, but there can be no doubt but that the policy of the present Manchurian Government has been marked by a determined opposition to Japan. To quote a favourite expression of his Excellency Tang: \"Japan may do wrong in Manchuria, but she shall never do it with our consent.\" I gather that Yuan was the principal supporter of such views in the Grand Council.\n\nI am unable to learn locally exactly what charges are formulated against the Viceroy, but I presume that a great deal is made of his extravagance in financial matters.\n\nThere can be no doubt but that their Excellencies Hsu and Tang put a great stress on the provincial finances by their expenditure during the first few months of their tenure of office.\n\nThe Viceroy's new yamên, generally described as Government House, is a pretentious building. On the ground floor, more than 100 clerks work daily in the central hall; there are excellent reception rooms, and a banqueting hall which will seat from 300 to 400 guests, whilst the Viceroy's private residence occupies the whole of the first floor. The building, which was designed by Mr. Tang Shao-yi personally, has been furnished in European style, the total cost of building and furniture being upwards of 250,000 taels.\n\nThere has further been a large amount of unproductive capital expenditure on schools, hospitals, and prisons, whilst no results can be expected for some years from the newly established Agricultural and Forestry Departments.\n\nAn attempt has also been made to deal with the proverbial dishonesty of the Chinese official by placing him on a fixed salary, and then requiring him to produce correct accounts. The emoluments and allowances have been calculated on what seems to me a very liberal scale, and Mr. Liang assures me that the scheme is already producing the desired effect.\n\nIn consequence of these schemes, the expenditure has exceeded the revenue, which at present amounts to 6,000,000 taels approximately, during the past year, but Mr. Liang is confident that in normal years the revenue is sufficient for the present needs of the province.\n\nThe Viceroy is a man of considerable personal dignity and charm of manner. He has by this time a sound knowledge of the Manchurian situation, a correct appreciation of the needs of the country, broad views, and tact in dealing with the difficult diplomatic questions that beset him. He is readily accessible to the foreign Representatives and to any foreign visitor of distinction, and is beloved and trusted by his subordinates, whilst his reputation for personal integrity is untarnished.\n\nThe Government has undoubtedly been weakened by the absence of his Excellency Tang Shao-yi, who supplied the initiative and energy in which the Viceroy is to some extent lacking.\n\nThey worked to all appearance in complete harmony - in fact, they shared the same public office, and together formed a combination that I think it will be very difficult, if not impossible, for China at the present moment to replace satisfactorily.\n\nOne can only say that they were working along progressive lines, and they both understood the necessity of not rushing matters; under a change of Administration, it is to be feared that the germs of reform initiated by them will be allowed to perish. My American colleague tells me that he has already noticed a marked lack of interest in the agricultural enterprises since Yuan's dismissal.\n\nIt is too early as yet to judge of their various reform schemes. I hope later to write a detailed report on their reforms. Meantime, as a pendant to this despatch, the following list of the enterprises undertaken by the Government during the past fifteen months may be of interest:-\n\n1. The building of Government House, which has incidentally led to an improved method of official intercourse which now takes place under civilized conditions. The foreign Consular Representatives are also on friendly social terms with the leading members of the Administration.\n\n2. The establishment of primary schools throughout Fengtien Province and secondary schools at the more important centres. At Mukden, a law school has been established under Japanese professors, who lecture on Chinese law, constitutional law, and international law. The intention is to use the graduates of this college in the provincial magistracies, and also to employ them as lecturers with the view of interesting the people in public questions.\n\n3. A civil hospital has been built and placed under the charge of a German doctor. The Government have also subscribed liberally to Dr. Christie's hospital (Scotch Presbyterian), and have promised him an annual grant of 4,000 dollars to assist him in establishing a medical school.\n\n4. Two agricultural experts have been engaged from the United States, and land has been given them for starting experimental farms at Harbin, Mukden, and Antung.\n\n5. Mr. von Platen, the German expert on forestry, has informed me that he has more than 2,000,000 saplings (acacia) in his experimental nursery at Mukden.\n\n6. New Courts have been built and new judicial Regulations issued.\n\n7. Two new prisons on modern lines have been erected in Mukden, and prisoners are forced to industrial employment.\n\n8. A civil engineer (Mr. Hughes) has been engaged as adviser, and under his direction, surveys have been made, firstly, with the view of opening a new ice-free port, and, secondly, for the conservancy of the Liao River. These are the Viceroy's favourite projects.\n\n9. The Viceroy has repeatedly expressed his desire to introduce permanent colonists from Chihli and Shantung into Northern Manchuria, but I fear that owing to lack of funds, no move has as yet been made in this direction.\n\n10. The principal streets in Mukden have been metalled; there has been some attempt at drainage and lighting, and a tolerably efficient police force has been enrolled.\n\n11. The Province of Fengtien has been cleared of bandits, though the \"Hun Hu-tzus\" still range freely over the two northern provinces.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed)  \nR. WILLIS.\n\n## Page 37",
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        "content_text": "## No. 1.\n\n[March 24.]\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[11334]\n\nChinese Central Railways to Foreign Office.-(Received March 24.)\n\nSir,\n\n110, Cannon Street, London, March 23, 1909.\n\nI AM instructed by my directors to acknowledge with thanks receipt of Mr. Langley's letter of the 17th instant, on the subject of the Pukow-Sinyang preliminary Agreement. My directors take note that on receipt of a Report from Sir John Jordan you will again communicate with them on this matter.\n\nMeantime my directors respectfully crave permission to make an observation on that part of Mr. Langley's letter which states that \"the present moment would appear to be especially unfavourable to approach the Chinese authorities on this matter, in view of the very inadequate terms as regards security on which they are now trying to secure loans.\" The fact that the Chinese authorities are trying to secure railway loans on inadequate terms is, my directors submit, entirely beside the question, because the terms of the Pukow-Sinyang Railway loan have already been fixed by the preliminary Agreement, viz., that they are to be identical with the `Shanghai-Nanking` terms. If the preliminary Agreement is regarded by His Majesty's Government as a valid and binding document, then it would seem the only course to be pursued is to press for the fulfilment of its terms.\n\nMy directors have no desire to urge their claim to the detriment of other, and it may be more important, British interests, which for the time being are occupying the attention of His Majesty's Minister at Peking. It is for that reason that they have waited now for over a year since the conclusion of the `Tien-tsin-Pukow` final Agreement, and they are still content to wait if the `Canton-Hankow` Railway negotiations are not, as they supposed, yet disposed of. But they are not content to wait until the Chinese Government sees fit to improve on the terms they are now offering, firstly, because that would only lead to indefinite postponement, and, secondly, because it would be tantamount to surrendering the preliminary Agreement without compensation of any kind.\n\nMy directors therefore trust that at as early a date as possible the Chinese authorities may be pressed to proceed with the negotiation for a final Agreement. The Agent for the Chinese Central Railways, Limited, has authority to consent to any modification of the original terms that may seem just and right owing to altered circumstances, subject always to adequate security being given for the due protection of the British bondholders.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) **THOS. GILBERT**\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] 10\n\n4\n\nExcellency's Delegates Mr. Bland has been repeatedly assured that in the event of more acceptable terms being offered by another nation I must be informed by his Excellency, and the refusal of those terms given to British financiers before the offer of the other country is accepted. In other words, it is well understood that I must have from his Excellency the refusal of the lowest bona fide offer, if that offer is not made by British financiers. In his reply his Excellency does not, however, state this clearly, and to prevent any shadow of misunderstanding, I desire to have this statement of the position confirmed by his Excellency in writing before the matter goes any further.\n\nThe Grand Secretary has made a friendly reference to myself which I fully appreciate, and I can on my side assure his Excellency that I have no other wish than to see a fair and proper Agreement amicably settled between himself and the British and Chinese Corporation.\n\nI avail, &c. (Signed)\n\n### Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nSir,\n\nLiang Tun-yen to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n[Received February 27, 1909.]\n\nON receipt of your Excellency's recent letter I transmitted it in translation to the Grand Secretary Chang, who has now replied to me as follows:\n\n\"The liberal terms accorded by the British Government in making the `Canton-Hankow` Railway Redemption Loan merit gratitude, it is true, but as for the question, 'What are they to get in return?' This was all laid down in the despatch. If at that time the British Government had not been satisfied with the despatch the negotiations could not have been completed; but as they were consummated it is evident that all the British Government wanted at that time in the way of recompense was stated in the despatch.\n\n\"At the present time what each party must observe is nothing more or less than the stipulations in the despatch. Signature (of requisitions by the Engineer-in-chief) is not mentioned therein, and evidently cannot be interpolated now.\n\n\"Sir John Jordan says in his Memorandum that this is always the practice in constructing a line. But even if it were the case on other railways, they form no precedent, and, if the case of the `Tien-tsin-Pukow` line be taken, that Agreement, in which I was concerned in presenting it to the Throne, has no such provision.\n\n\"With regard to my plan for getting offers from other nationalities and opening the tenders all together, this is the fairest way, and is the way in which tenders for the purchase of materials are treated where a preference exists in favour of the lending nation. It may be said to afford an absolute standard of comparison.\n\n\"In any case this loan could on no account be diverted to other uses or be wasted. The manner in which it will be utilized will not fail to inspire confidence on the part of the lending Syndicate; but it is absolutely necessary not to injure in the least degree our sovereign rights. I must of course make a satisfactory arrangement. I am sincerely grateful to the British Government for their action in this matter and for Sir John Jordan's consideration in endeavouring to arrive at a friendly settlement. But the only possible course is to cling closely to the despatch, because there are too many critics abroad nowadays, and there is no help for it but to do as I have said.\n\n\"I trust, therefore, that you communicate my views to Sir John Jordan, and I hope you will forgive me. This question has been going on for so many years, with so much opposition, and now I have fortunately got to a point of having reported to the Throne that negotiations are in progress. I am really and truly desirous of settling the matter with the English so as not to incur the ridicule of other parties. This, then, is my fervent hope; but if there is a long delay and no conclusion is reached, complications might spring up and this line will never be finished—a consequence which I prefer not to think of, and which Sir J. Jordan cannot desire.\"\n\nI hasten to communicate the foregoing to your Excellency, and to request that Mr. Bland may be called upon without delay to negotiate quickly with the Delegates on the lines indicated by the Grand Secretary, so as to avoid delay and the loss of this opportunity.",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nC.O. 14133\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n168\n\nApril 8, 1909. REC'd 20 APR\n\n### No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum communicated to Chinese Minister, April 8, 1909.**\n\nWHEN, in the summer of 1905, funds were advanced under the auspices of His Majesty's Government to enable the Chinese Government to repurchase the Concession for the Canton-Hankow Railway, held by an American Syndicate, certain conditions were made in the interests of British commerce, and an Agreement was entered into in September of that year between his Excellency Chang Chi Tung, Viceroy of Wuchang, and Mr. Fraser, His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow. By this Agreement his Excellency undertook that, if it was found necessary to borrow money from abroad for constructing the Canton-Hankow Railway-\n\n1. British financiers should have the first opportunity of undertaking the business.\n2. If British capital was employed, British firms should have the first option of executing orders for materials purchased out of China.\n3. Half the engineers employed would be of the nationality that found the money.\n\nThis loan of 1,100,000l. was made to the Chinese authorities at par and 4 1/4 per cent. at the time when another loan of similar amount was negotiated by them at 91 and 5 per cent.\n\nThis fact is sufficient to show that the loan of 1,100,000l. constituted a very marked act of consideration and friendship on the part of His Majesty's Government, for which up to the present there has been no sort of return.\n\nIt is understood that in the course of the recent negotiations strong objection was made by Chang Chi Tung to the stipulation that indents for the purchase of materials out of loan funds should be accompanied by a certificate from the Chief Engineer. In insisting upon this proviso, however, the British and Chinese Corporation were only asking for what is the usual practice on railways under construction. It would be impossible to point out any properly conducted railway in any country where the principal technical expert, the Chief Engineer, was not consulted in all questions of expenditure on works and material.\n\nSuch a condition, which is universal in all countries, in no way conflicts with China's sovereign rights. Moreover, the necessity for such a guarantee is emphasized by the recent unfortunate experience of this country in connection with the Shanghae-Ningpo Railway.\n\nIt is well known that, in spite of the fact that the Managing-Director and Chief Engineer of this line have been unable to enter upon the performance of their duties under the Loan Agreement owing to local obstruction, and that there has consequently been little occasion for the expenditure of loan funds, nevertheless sums amounting to between 800,000l. and 900,000l. have been transferred from the railway loan funds in London to the credit of the Railway's account, and that requisitions in large amounts have been made on the Shanghae account of the Yu-ch'uan Pu. These requisitions, moreover, have in every case been made upon forms signed by his Excellency Liang Shih-Yi and presented through the Chiao-tung Bank.\n\nThese proceedings are, however, absolutely contrary to Article 14 of the Loan Agreement, which lays down that requisitions on the loan funds are to be drawn in amounts to suit the progress of construction of the railway by orders on the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, signed by the Yu-ch'uan Pu and its duly authorized representative, and accompanied by his certificates, or those of the said Board, stating the nature and the cost of the work to be paid for.\n\nHad his Excellency Chang Chi Tung really desired to see the loan funds properly spent on the construction of the Hankow-Canton Railway, he would himself have insisted on all expenditure being supported by the certificate of the Chief Engineer.\n\nThe understanding arrived at in 1905 further provides that in return for the loan arranged by His Majesty's Government, British finance and industry should have a...",
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        "content_text": "## Foreign Office, April 8, 1909\n\nHis Majesty's Government consider that His Excellency Chang Chi Tung has treated his obligations to them with scant regard in the past, and they are afraid that he may display a like disregard and want of consideration in the case of the Hankow-Szechuan Railway Loan, for which it is understood a German group is now competing.\n\nBy an Agreement between the Chinese Government and His Majesty's Minister at Peking in 1903, the former undertook - should it be desired to construct a line from Hankow to Szechuan, and Chinese capital was insufficient for the purpose - to obtain all the necessary capital from this country and the United States of America. Moreover, in the assurances given by His Excellency Chang Chih Tung to Mr. Fraser in 1905, in connection with the Hankow-Canton Railway, it is provided that if within the jurisdiction of Hupei and Hunan other railways were contemplated which likewise necessitated loans from abroad, they should all be dealt with on the system set forth in the Agreement as applicable to the Canton-Hankow line.\n\nThroughout the recent negotiations, the representative of the British and Chinese Corporation was repeatedly assured that in the event of more acceptable terms being offered by another nation, His Majesty's Minister at Peking would be informed, and the refusal of those terms given to British financiers before the offer of the other country was accepted. His Majesty's Government had given preference in regard to certain railways.\n\nHis Majesty's Government are greatly disappointed and surprised at the way in which they have been deprived of the advantages of the 1905 Agreement, owing to the Chinese Government contracting a loan on terms not contemplated when that Agreement was made. They can only regard the attitude of the Chinese Government in this matter as a serious breach of the spirit of their Agreement with this country, which must unfavourably affect relations between the two Governments which have hitherto been so friendly.\n\nThey trust that it may not yet be too late for the Chinese Government to reconsider their attitude towards this country in the matter of their undertakings as regards railways, as persistence in these methods will undoubtedly lead the British nation to feel that it is useless to conclude business arrangements with China. China's credit in this country will be ruined, and her interests must suffer.\n\n## Chinese Legation, April 14th, 1909\n\nThe Chinese Minister presents his compliments to **The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs** and begs to enclose translation of a telegram he has received from the Wai-wu Pu in reply to a telegram he sent on the subject of the interview with His Excellency on the 6th instant, confirmed by the Memorandum he had the honour to receive on the 9th.\n\nPage 169  \n14133  \nREG 26 APR OC",
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        "content_text": "# C.O.\n## This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government 5128\n### CHINA RAILWAYS, CONFIDENTIAL. REOP 5 MAY 09\n\n[April 8.]  \n216  \n## SECTION 1.\n### [13187] No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum communicated to Chinese Minister, April 8, 1909.**\n\nWhen, in the summer of 1905, funds were advanced under the auspices of His Majesty's Government to enable the Chinese Government to repurchase the Concession for the Canton-Hankow Railway, held by an American Syndicate, certain conditions were made in the interests of British commerce, and an Agreement was entered into in September of that year between his Excellency Chang Chi Tung, Viceroy of Wuchang, and Mr. Fraser, His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow. By this Agreement his Excellency undertook that, if it was found necessary to borrow money from abroad for constructing the Canton-Hankow Railway---\n1. British financiers should have the first opportunity of undertaking the business.\n2. If British capital was employed, British firms should have the first option of executing orders for materials purchased out of China.\n3. Half the engineers employed would be of the nationality that found the money.\n\nThis loan of 1,100,000l. was made to the Chinese authorities at par and 4 1/4 per cent. at the time when another loan of similar amount was negotiated by them at 91 and 5 per cent. This fact is sufficient to show that the loan of 1,100,000l. constituted a very marked act of consideration and friendship on the part of His Majesty's Government, for which up to the present there has been no sort of return.\n\nIt is understood that in the course of the recent negotiations strong objection was made by Chang Chih Tung to the stipulation that indents for the purchase of materials out of loan funds should be accompanied by a certificate from the Chief Engineer. In insisting upon this proviso, however, the British and Chinese Corporation were only asking for what is the usual practice on railways under construction. It would be impossible to point out any properly conducted railway in any country where the principal technical expert, the Chief Engineer, was not consulted in all questions of expenditure on works and material. Such a condition, which is universal in all countries, in no way conflicts with China's sovereign rights. Moreover, the necessity for such a guarantee is emphasized by the recent unfortunate experience of this country in connection with the Shanghae-Ningpo Railway.\n\nIt is well known that, in spite of the fact that the Managing-Director and Chief Engineer of this line have been unable to enter upon the performance of their duties under the Loan Agreement owing to local obstruction, and that there has consequently been little occasion for the expenditure of loan funds, nevertheless sums amounting to between 800,000l. and 900,000l. have been transferred from the railway loan funds in London to the credit of the Railway's account, and that requisitions in large amounts have been made on the Shanghae account of the Yu-ch'uan Pu. These requisitions, moreover, have in every case been made upon forms signed by his Excellency Liang Shih-Yi and presented through the Chiao-tung Bank.\n\nThese proceedings are, however, absolutely contrary to Article 14 of the Loan Agreement, which lays down that requisitions on the loan funds are to be drawn in amounts to suit the progress of construction of the railway by orders on the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, signed by the Yu-ch'uan Pu and its duly authorized representative, and accompanied by his certificates, or those of the said Board, stating the nature and the cost of the work to be paid for.\n\nHad his Excellency Chang Chi Tung really desired to see the loan funds properly spent on the construction of the Hankow-Canton Railway, he would himself have insisted on all expenditure being supported by the certificate of the Chief Engineer.\n\nThe understanding arrived at in 1905 further provides that in return for the loan arranged by His Majesty's Government, British finance and industry should have a \n\n[2241 h-1]",
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        "content_text": "## Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan\n\n**(No. 72.) (Telegraphic.) P.**\n\nCANTON-HANKOW Railway loan.\n\nForeign Office, April 8, 1909.\n\nA telegram from Mr. Hillier has been communicated to us by Mr. Addis. In it Mr. Hillier reports an interview on the 6th instant at the Wai-wu Pu, and as to the possibility that the Chinese Government will come to an arrangement with the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank instead of with the British and Chinese Corporation.\n\nMr. Addis will recommend the Board to give a free hand to Mr. Hillier if the Chinese Government come to him with proposals to modify the terms so that all parties may be admitted.\n\npreference in regard to certain railways, and throughout the recent negotiations the representative of the **British and Chinese Corporation** was repeatedly assured that in the event of more acceptable terms being offered by another nation, His Majesty's Minister at Peking would be informed, and the refusal of those terms given to British financiers before the offer of the other country was accepted.\n\nHis Majesty's Government consider that his Excellency Chang Chi Tung has treated his obligations to them with scant regard in the past, and they are afraid that he may display a like disregard and want of consideration in the case of the Hankow-Szechuan Railway Loan, for which it is understood a German group is now competing. By an Agreement between the Chinese Government and His Majesty's Minister at Peking in 1903 the former undertook—should it be desired to construct a line from Hankow to Szechuan, and Chinese capital was insufficient for the purpose—to obtain all the necessary capital from this country and the United States of America. Moreover, in the assurances given by his Excellency Chang Chih Tung to Mr. Fraser in 1905, in connection with the Hankow-Canton Railway, it is provided that if within the jurisdiction of Hupei and Hunan other railways were contemplated which likewise necessitated loans from abroad, they should all be dealt with on the system set forth in the Agreement as applicable to the Canton-Hankow line.\n\nHis Majesty's Government are greatly disappointed and surprised at the way in which they have been deprived of the advantages of the 1905 Agreement, owing to the Chinese Government contracting a loan on terms not contemplated when that Agreement was made.\n\nThey can only regard the attitude of the Chinese Government in this matter as a serious breach of the spirit of their Agreement with this country, which must unfavourably affect relations between the two Governments which have hitherto been so friendly. They trust that it may not yet be too late for the Chinese Government to reconsider their attitude towards this country in the matter of their undertakings as regards railways, as persistence in these methods will undoubtedly lead the British nation to feel that it is useless to conclude business arrangements with China. China's credit in this country will be ruined, and her interests must suffer.\n\nForeign Office, April 8, 1909.\n\n> \n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\nC.O. 15123\nRECO\nMAX OG\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n[April 8.]\n**SECTION 2.**\n217\n[13501]\n\n| Metadata | Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| Document Number | No. 1 |\n| Sender | Sir Edward Grey |\n| Recipient | Sir J. Jordan |\n| Date | April 8, 1909 |\n| Classification | **CONFIDENTIAL** |\n\n[2241 h-2]",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n(No. 97.) Sir,\n\nC.O. 243\n[April 17.]\n15433\n\n### SECTION 2\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.(Received April 17.)\n\nPeking, March 3, 1909. IN continuation of my despatch No. 32 of the 19th January, I have the honour to inclose for your information copies of Reports from His Majesty's Consul at Wuhu on the subject of railways in Anhui Province. It will be seen that there, as in the case of the Canton-Hankow negotiations, the question of the appointment of an Engineer by foreign lenders would appear to be the immediate obstacle to progress.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n#### Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\n(No. 11.) Sir,\n\nConsul Goffe to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nWuhu, February 3, 1909. I HAVE the honour to inform you that the `Shen Pao` of the 31st ultimo published the text of a telegram from Chou Hsueh Ming, President of the Anhui Railway Bureau, to Wu Ting Pin, one of the leading gentry here, stating that he had arranged for a loan and asking that a representative might be sent from here to assist in drawing up the contract. Wu Ting Pin replied that it was essential that the three following points should be observed :-The lenders to have no rights either in: (1) the appointment of an Engineer-in-chief; (2) the selection of the employés or management of the Company; or (3) the purchase of materials. On the receipt of a telegraphic assurance that these conditions would be accepted a representative would be sent as requested; but Chou Hsueh Ming was at the same time reminded that the gentry at other places besides Wuhu had to be consulted.\n\nI sent a copy of the paper to Chou Fu, and asked him if the information was correct, and, if so, who were the lenders. He replied that nothing was yet settled, and that Chou Hsueh Ming was expected here very shortly, when he would come and see me.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) HERBERT GOFFE.\n\n#### Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n(No. 15.) Sir,\n\nConsul Goffe to Sir J. Jordan,\n\nWuhu, February 12, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose herewith translation of an Auditor's Report on the Anhui Railway, the text of which was published in the `Chung Wai Jih Pao` of the 8th and 9th instant.*\n\nThe Auditor describes himself as a shareholder, and his Report reads more like the prospectus of a Company promoter seeking to attract capital than an honest statement of the result of an impartial investigation into the affairs of the Company. The cost of the station site in the General Foreign Settlement, for instance, would, according to the Regulations, be some 40,000 dollars, and if his estimate of its present value at 300,000 taels is any criterion of the reliability which can be placed on the rest of his statements, his Report is of very little practical value.\n\nA telegram in the `Shen Pao` of the 9th instant announced that Cheng Hung Mou and Tao Hsiang, two Auditors appointed by the Board of Communications to inquire into the affairs of the Anhui Railway Company, have arrived in Wuhu.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) HERBERT GOFFE.\n\n*Not printed.\n\n[2241-2]",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n# SECTION 3. AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n## No. 99. Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received April 17.)\n\nPeking, March 3, 1909.\n\nWITH reference to my telegram No. 45 of the 19th ultimo, I have the honour to inclose translation of the Imperial Decree appointing Prince Su and others to initiate the formation of a Chinese navy.\n\nThe Memorial of Prince Su upon this subject, which evoked the present Decree, has not yet been published; and it is therefore still impossible to say how far it is intended to proceed with naval reorganization.\n\nIn reply to inquiries made yesterday at the Wai-wu Pu, I was informed by the Grand Secretary, Na T'ung, that Admiral Sa would arrive in Peking shortly, and I derived the impression that nothing would be decided on until he came.\n\nThe Grand Secretary added that any progress with a scheme of naval reconstruction must be gradual and dependent upon the supply of the necessary funds.\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1.\n\n**(Signed) J. N. JORDAN**\n\n## Imperial Decree of February 19, 1909.\n\nTHE Memorial of Prince Su Shan Ch'i with reference to the preparatory measures to be instituted as a foundation for the navy is well considered, and at the present time the reorganization of the navy is undoubtedly a measure of the utmost importance. Let Prince Su, Duke Tsai-tse, Tieh Liang, and Admiral Sa Cheng-ping carefully consider what steps should be taken, on the lines set forth in the Memorial, to lay the foundations of a navy; and in order to mark the importance of the matter let Prince Ch'ing exercise a general supervision over the project. As soon as the general outlines of the scheme have been defined let our further instructions be awaited. In view of the many heavy responsibilities which devolves upon Tieh Liang we direct that he shall vacate his post as Inspector-General of the Imperial Bodyguard, in order to devote himself specially to this work, which aims at the strengthening of the nation.\n\nPage 252\n15433\n`BECR tree 7 MAY DS`\n[April 17.]\n[14371] \n`[2243 r--3]`",
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        "content_text": "## STATEMENT showing Strength and Distribution of Foreign Troops in North China, corrected to December 1908.\n\n| Nationalities | Officers | Other Ranks | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| American | 8 | 129 | .. |\n| Austrian | 2 | 1 | .. |\n| Belgian | .. | .. | .. |\n| British | 29 | 1,615 | .. |\n| Indian | 1 | 13 | .. |\n| French | 23 | 3,204 | .. |\n| German | .. | .. | .. |\n| Italian | .. | .. | .. |\n| Japanese | .. | .. | .. |\n| Netherlands | .. | .. | .. |\n| Russian | .. | .. | .. |\n\n| Stations | American | Austrian | Belgian | British | Indian | French | German | Italian | Japanese | Netherlands | Russian |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Peking | 7 | .. | .. | 244 | 13 | 10 | 208 | .. | 811 | 17 | .. |\n| Tien-tsin | .. | .. | .. | 87 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 47 | .. | .. |\n| Chun-Liang-Cheng | .. | .. | .. | 37 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 26 | .. | .. |\n| Tang-ku | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 68 | .. | .. | .. | .. |\n| Chin-wang-tao | 1 | .. | .. | 20 | 12 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |\n| Shaw-hai-kuan | .. | .. | .. | 41 | 15 | .. | 771 | .. | 204 | .. | .. |\n| Totals | 8 | 1 | .. | 210 | 20 | 17 | 1,025 | .. | 470 | 143 | .. |\n\n* Including 1 officer and 55 men due to arrive about the 20th January, 1909.\n\nTien-tsin, January, 1909.\n\nTotal of all Ranks and Nationalities at each Station: 5,234\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\n#### No. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 14.)\n\n**(No. 60.) (Telegraphic.) P.**\n\nPeking, March 14, 1909.\n\nPlease see your telegram `No. 31` of the 16th February relative to the Harbin Railway Settlement question.\n\nGeneral Horvath, General Manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, is arriving to-morrow in Peking, for the purpose of negotiating for a settlement of this question.\n\nWith your approval I propose to make use of any available opportunity to recommend to the General, in concert with the American Minister, the creation of an international municipality, properly constituted under Treaty, as the best means of solving the problem in the most satisfactory manner.\n\n#### No. 2.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 14.)\n\n**(No. 61.) (Telegraphic.) P.**\n\n**FOREIGN troops in North China.**\n\nPeking, March 14, 1909.\n\nPlease see my telegram `No. 208` of the 30th December, 1908. By the departure to-day of 600 officers and men, the German forces in North China have been reduced to 30 men in Tien-tsin and 120 in Peking.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government. REG 21 MAY 09.] \nPage 354",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 5 in No. 1\n\n### The Viceroy of the two Kuang Provinces to Mr. Mayers\n\nCanton, May 30, 1869.\n\nTHE Viceroy received, on the 25th instant, a Report from Lieutenant-Colonel Shang Chang-mao and Pao Ying-hiung (Superintendents of the gun-boat squadrons) to the following effect :- \n\n\"The Acting British Consul, Mr. Mayers, having personally represented the occurrence of acts of piracy among the islands to the eastward of Hong Kong, and requested that a gun-boat be dispatched in company with a British vessel of war, and to cruise in that direction, we hereupon directed Major Fan Kan-ting, Commandant of the gun-boat 'Chên-to', to proceed on the 12th instant to Hong Kong for this purpose, and after visiting the neighbourhood of Mirs Bay, &c., to go on to the coast in the vicinity of Cupche, and use every effort conjointly (with the British force) for seizing any pirates met with during the cruise. These particulars have already been reported to your Excellency, and Major Fan Kan-t'ing has now reported his proceedings as follows :--\n\n[Report of cruise in vicinity of Mirs Bay omitted as unimportant.]\n\nOn the 15th the two gun-boats ('Chên-to' and His Majesty's gun-boat 'Bouncer') anchored together at Ta Sing Bay, near Ping Hoi, and it was thereupon agreed, on the proposition of Lieutenant Lloyd, that we should proceed on the following day to the Pratas Shoal, lying about 150 miles to seaward from Cupche, and overhaul the neighbourhood in search of pirates. Leaving our anchorage on the following day, accordingly, we proceeded in that direction, and, by keeping under way through the night, arrived at the Pratas Shoal at 10 A.M. on the 17th instant.\n\n\"I have to remark that, although the Pratas Shoal is described as lying 400 or 500 li from the coast of Cupche, it is in reality an isolated shoal lying in the midst of the China Sea, semi-circular in shape, the hollow of its curve facing the north-west, and some 100 miles or more in total circumference. (The rocks of which it consists) are alternately covered and left dry by the tide. Near the edge of the shoal is a small sandy island, barely 3 miles in length, where, although a certain amount of herbage does exist, there are no inhabitants. The whole place is studded with rocks in all directions, the winds and tides are variable and not to be depended upon, and an extraordinarily heavy sea prevails all around. The spot is scarcely ever visited either by Chinese or foreign trading-vessels. Having ascertained, in concert with Lieutenant Lloyd, that there were no traces of pirates making this their resort and plundering trading-vessels, we left the Pratas on the 19th instant and proceeded on our return voyage, arriving at Hong Kong on the 20th, and, after reporting to the Commodore, proceeded to Canton,\" &c.\n\nOn receipt of the foregoing Report, the Viceroy has to communicate the same for the honourable Consul's information, and avails, &c.\n\n## Inclosure 6 in No. 1\n\n### Mr. Mayers to the Viceroy of the two Kuang Provinces\n\nCanton, June 1, 1869.\n\nTHE Undersigned has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's despatch of the 30th ultimo, forwarding copy of the Report made by Major Fan Kan-ting respecting the visit of the gun-boat \"Chên-to\" to the Pratas Shoal, &c., which he has perused with attention.\n\nHe begs to observe in reply that the Pratas Shoal, lying as it does some 170 miles eastward from the coast of Kwangtung, occupies a position in the midst of the China Sea precisely in the track of vessels sailing north or south from the Chinese ports, as a result of which it frequently occurs that vessels are lost upon it when deviating, in even the slightest degree from their proper course, owing either to tempestuous weather or defective observations.\n\nSuch avoidable disasters occur on an average two or three times in the course of the year, and it has become a practice with the junk people of this province to lie in wait at the shoal for cases of shipwreck. The moment a foreign vessel strikes they rush on board and commence, regardless of all remonstrance or resistance, to strip her of everything they can lay their hands upon. It is highly necessary that measures be taken to put a stop to this lawless state of affairs. Ere long, undoubtedly, a lighthouse will be constructed at this spot, which will enable vessels to avoid the danger of the shoals, but an undertaking of this description will be a work of time, and in the meanwhile steps should be taken for affording efficient protection to vessels in distress, as is the duty of every civilized and humane Government. The Undersigned would point out to your Excellency that an island exists in the midst of the shoal which is about 3 miles in length, and where, although the island itself is not inhabited, vessels may be anchored and used as a place of residence. He therefore begs that your Excellency will take into consideration the propriety of stationing one or two war-junks at this locality, where their presence will both serve as a check on the desperadoes who live by the plunder of foreign vessels and will also enable your Excellency to carry out the provisions of the 20th Article of the Treaty of Tien-tsin, where it is stipulated that if any British vessel be wrecked or stranded on the coast of China the Chinese authorities shall adopt measures for its relief and security and extend friendly treatment to those on board. Such a consummation will be worthy of your Excellency's benign disposition.\n\nWith reference to Major Fan Kan-t'ing's Report, the Undersigned begs leave to observe that it does not tally in all particulars with that made by Lieutenant Lloyd, R.N., commanding His Majesty's gun-boat \"Bouncer,\" who mentions that on reaching the Pratas he found in the lagoon a Chinese junk, having sixteen men and five women on board, and that on searching her in concert with Major Fan Kan-t'ing and Captain Edwards, Commander of the \"Chên-to,\" he found her to be filled with articles forming part of the equipment of foreign vessels, besides a quantity of miscellaneous cargo. The master of the junk, on being interrogated, stated that he had been at anchor there for two months. It is plain therefore that this vessel was lying at the shoal on the look-out for cases of shipwreck, and the Undersigned is surprised to find that Major Fan Kan-t'ing makes no mention of her in the Report sent in.\n\nHe avails, &c.\n\n## Inclosure 7 in No. 1\n\n### The Viceroy Jui-lin to Mr. Mayers\n\nCanton, June 6, 1869.\n\nTHE Viceroy has to acknowledge the receipt on the 1st instant of the honourable Consul's despatch relating to the Report made by Major Fan K'an-ting respecting the Pratas Shoal (despatch requoted in full), and, in reply, he has to state that, of the shoal in question, the outer side is under the jurisdiction of the right battalion of the brigade of Lung-men, and the inner side under that of the left battalion of the above brigade, and also of the district magistracy of Ho-p'u, but in the despatch now received the Viceroy finds that no distinction is drawn as to either \"outer\" or \"inner\" side. In all cases, however, of shipwreck on the part of foreign vessels along the coast, it is incumbent upon the local authorities, in fulfilment of the Treaty, to take measures for affording them protection and assistance; but the request contained in the despatch now under acknowledgment, to the effect that steam gun-boats may be stationed at the Pratas for the purpose of affording such protection, has not the support of any Article in the Treaty, and it is not expedient to accede to it.\n\nThe Viceroy issues orders to the district Magistrate of Ho-p'u for the latter's guidance, and also to the above-mentioned military departments, to the effect that in the event of any foreign vessel being hereafter wrecked upon or near the Pratas Shoal, measures must be taken in accordance with the Treaty for affording them protection, and also that efficient steps must be taken without intermission for seizing and bringing to trial the piratical characters who resort to that locality, as a necessary part of the proceedings for affording the protection in question. The Viceroy also instructs Colonels Pao and Shang, the Commandants of the gun-boat squadron, to examine into the discrepancy pointed out in the despatch now under acknowledgment.",
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        "content_text": "## C.0. 20427\n**This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.**\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n### No. 1\n18 JUN OS\n\n#### SECTION 4\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received April 8.)\n\n**(No. 75. Confidential.)**\n**(Telegraphic.) P.**\n\n## HANKÓW-CANTON railway loan\nPeking, April 3, 1909.\n\nOn my advice Mr. Hillier called privately on Liang Tun-yen on the 6th instant, and explaining that he was merely expressing his personal opinion, recommended the Chinese to alter the terms of the agreement with the Germans, by allowing all three groups to have a share in the loan and consenting to the certificates of expenditure being signed by the engineer-in-chief, thus avoiding the danger of coming into conflict with the British Government. His Excellency was afraid that the suggestion was impracticable, owing to the present state of public opinion in China, but promised to think the matter over.\n\nBoth the Germans and the Chinese are unlikely to deal with the British and Chinese Corporation, the Chinese because of their failure to come to an understanding with them, and the Germans because they wish to deal directly with the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank.\n\nAlthough Liang agrees that the Chinese Government have \"got themselves into a mess,\" it is doubtful whether he will be able to influence Chang. Should the Chinese approach us again, Hillier's services could be utilized advantageously.\n\nPage 516\n[13421]\n[2241 h-4]",
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        "content_text": "## 12 \n\na strict adherence to the rule of non-intervention is calculated to disarm the opposition of the mandarins, to help in the preservation of peace between converts and non-converts, and to further the spread of a genuine Christianity among the Chinese.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) **ERNEST SATOW**.\n\n## 13 \n\nreceived from the Acting British Consul-General at Shanghae, forwarding copies of correspondence with the Viceroy of Nanking on the subject of the arrest at Shanghae of the Chinese charged with sedition in connection with the \"Supao\" newspaper.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) **ERNEST SATOW**.\n\n## Inclosure in No. 19.\n\n**Circular addressed by Sir E. Satow to His Majesty's Consuls in China.**\n\n**(Confidential.)** Sir,\n\nCASES have come to my notice in which missionaries have addressed themselves directly to Chinese officials, either verbally or in writing, on behalf of their Chinese converts, instead of acting through the proper channel, which is one of His Majesty's Consuls or the head of His Majesty's Legation.\n\nPeking, August 31, 1903.\n\nSuch intervention, I presume, would be defended on the ground that some action has been taken in regard to the convert which is in violation of Article VIII of the Treaty of Tientsin.\n\nIt is necessary, however, to point out that missionaries are not accredited Agents of the British Government for the enforcement of the Treaty, and Article VIII was not intended to confer upon missionaries any right of intervention on behalf of native Christians.\n\nI do not see any objection to a missionary addressing the local Chinese authorities directly on any matter affecting himself personally, such as, for instance, a robbery that has been committed at his house, or any similar private affair.\n\nIf, however, a missionary has to complain on behalf of himself that his teaching is interfered with, or that a Chinese preacher or convert has been interfered with or persecuted, his proper course is to lay the facts before the Consul of the district in which he resides, who after due examination will make such representations to the Chinese authorities as the case may require.\n\nHis Majesty's Consuls are not authorized to delegate their duties in this respect to missionaries.\n\nI have reason to know that this view is shared by the managing bodies of British Protestant Missionary Societies who carry on Mission work in China, and I understand that it is accepted and acted on by most of the missionary bodies in China.\n\nThe fact that a missionary or the convert on whose behalf a complaint is made resides at a distance from one of His Majesty's Consuls is not sufficient reason for the missionary taking upon himself the duty of the Consul, and his intervention could only be justified when there was imminent danger of an extreme character threatening the safety of converts.\n\nI have accordingly to request you to act upon what is laid down in this Circular, and to acquaint missionaries with its contents whenever it seems likely to be departed from.\n\nI am persuaded that if missionaries uniformly refrain from direct intervention on behalf of native Christians, and confine their action to representing to His Majesty's Consuls cases of actual persecution, such a course will redound to the preservation of peace between converts and non-converts, and to the spread of a genuine Christianity among the people of China.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) **ERNEST SATOW**.\n\n## No. 20.\n\n**(No. 318.)** My Lord,\n\n**Sir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received October 26.)**\n\nWITH reference to Mr. Townley's despatch No. 302 of the 17th August, I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith a copy of a despatch which I have received.\n\nPeking, September 8, 1903.\n\n**(No. 26.)** Sir,\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 20.\n\n**Acting Consul-General Mansfield to Sir E. Satow.**\n\nShanghae, September 1, 1903.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose copies and translations of correspondence exchanged with his Excellency the Viceroy Wei on the subject of the \"Supao\" case since the 22nd July, the date of my last report.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) **R. W. MANSFIELD**.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 20.\n\n**Viceroy Wei to Acting Consul-General Mansfield.**\n\n[Received August 8, 1903.]\n\nI LEARNED from the Taotai Wang Chia-tang, who returned a few days ago to Nanking from Shanghae, and from telegrams sent by the Taotai Yuan, of the capture of the criminals, and the closing of the \"Supao\" printing office.\n\nI am really exceedingly grateful to you for your great trouble and assistance. But the Municipal Council has not yet handed over the criminals, contrary to Treaty Regulations.\n\n| Treaty Reference | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Tien-tsin, 1858, Article XXI | \"If criminals, subjects of China, take refuge in the houses or on board the vessels of British subjects at the open ports, they shall not be harboured or concealed, but shall be delivered up, on due requisition by the Chinese authorities, addressed to the British Consul.\" |\n\nThe purpose of a Treaty between the two countries is the settlement of international matters, and it is clearly laid down in such Treaty that the Contracting Parties shall mutually observe its provisions.\n\nMoreover, the admissions made by Chang, Tsou, and the other criminals, and the seditious matter contained in the 'Supao Gazette,\" have both been proclaimed by the Taotai of Shanghae, and with these you also at an early date were fully acquainted.\n\nVagabonds all the world over who want to raise the standard of revolt ever seize upon some pretext.\n\nAt the present time the country is full of evil characters; if these criminals are not severely punished the tendency is that great numbers of them should follow the example set: the evil accruing therefrom will never end, and both China and foreign nations will suffer thereby.\n\nAnd so in this matter, in accordance with Treaty Regulations, with respect to the circumstances and particulars, the criminals ought to be handed over to the Chinese Government to be dealt with, so as to be able to nip this rebellion in the bud and give peace to the country.\n\nIn any matter rising between us colleagues, we must, of a necessity, determine it in a spirit of amity in the hope of securing the peace of all.\n\nI sincerely hope that you will strongly advise the Municipal Council to hand over the prisoners, according to Treaty Regulations and to the promotion of friendly relations.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Card of Viceroy.)",
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        "content_text": "## Page 22\n\nI again told his Excellency that we were constantly placed in an embarrassing position owing to the ignorance in which we were kept as to the actual demands put forward by Russia in her negotiations with Japan and China. Count Benckendorff expressed the opinion that no serious difficulty was to be anticipated in coming to terms with the Japanese Government, but they must not fortify the south sea-board of Corea. As to China, he was without information as to the causes which led to the reoccupation of Mukden. I said that he must not be surprised if uncharitable comments were made upon the conduct of Russia in this matter. She had announced that the whole province was to be evacuated by the 8th April, and now, six months later, we found her troops going back to the city of Mukden, from which they had been withdrawn not long ago.\n\nCount Benckendorff dwelt upon the peculiar situation which had been created by the establishment of the new Far Eastern Vice-Royalty. The result had been that the foreign policy of Russia at this point was no longer one and undivided. He evidently wished me to understand that many things happened for which Count Lamsdorff could not be held responsible.\n\nI said that I thought his statement disclosed a grave and most alarming condition of things. How was it possible for us to come to satisfactory understandings with a Foreign Office within which two separate, and, perhaps, conflicting influences were at work? Count Benckendorff agreed with me that the arrangement was most inconvenient, but said significantly that he thought this phase was passing off.\n\nComing back to Macedonia, Count Benckendorff said that Count Lamsdorff was anxious to have it understood that the policy of the Russian Government did not differ in principle from ours. They had preferred to retain Hilmi Pasha with European assessors rather than appoint a Christian Governor, because they thought the former course the most promising under present conditions. It was a question of opportunity, and Count Lamsdorff admitted that a still further development of the scheme might eventually be inevitable.\n\nI took the opportunity of mentioning to Count Benckendorff that, owing to the outrageous conduct of the Thibetans, who had broken off negotiations with our Representative, seized British subjects, and carried off the transport animals of a friendly State, it had been decided to send our Commission, with a suitable escort, further into Thibetan territory, but that this step must not be taken as indicating any intention of annexing or even of permanently occupying Thibetan territory.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n## Page 23\n\nI called to-day upon the Arbitrator, Mr. Detring.\n\nAs I anticipated, Mr. Detring informed me that it is the first of the two views mentioned in Lord Lansdowne's despatch which he had in mind. He had formed the opinion that the Railway Administration originally had not paid sufficient attention to the claims of Prince Su, a fact which he says Hu-Yu-fen has himself virtually admitted in writing; and thought that the Prince had an equitable claim on the railways for compensation. Mr. Detring had at first intended to explain at length the reasons for his Award, but found that he could not do so without naming certain Chinese personages whose part in some of the transactions would have been revealed in a questionable or discreditable light, and he therefore refrained from publishing more than the bare decision he had arrived at.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**(No. 325.) My Lord,**\n\n**(No. 33.)**\n\n**(Signed) L. C. HOPKINS**\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received November 9.)\n\nPeking, September 19, 1903.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith to your Lordship a copy of a despatch from the Acting British Consul-General at Shanghae, inclosing a letter from the Viceroy Wei again requesting the surrender of the prisoners in the \"Supan case.\"\n\nYour Lordship will notice that the Viceroy's letter bears a date ten days anterior to my conversation with Prince Ch'ing, reported in my telegram `No. 220` of the 9th instant, when his Highness said that he would telegraph to the Viceroy to reconsider the Tautai's proposal to add a higher official to the Mixed Court for the trial of the accused, and under these circumstances I do not think it would serve any useful purpose for Mr. Mansfield to pursue the discussion with his Excellency at present.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**(Signed) ERNEST SATOW.**\n\n**Inclosure 1 in No. 33.**\n\n**(Signed) LANSDOWNE.**\n\n**(No. 324.) My Lord,**\n\n**(No. 32.)**\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received November 9.)\n\nPeking, September 16, 1903.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith to your Lordship a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Consul-General at Tien-tsin in answer to an inquiry addressed to him based on your Lordship's despatch `No. 208` of the 21st July, respecting the Award in the Tien-tsin Railway Lands Arbitration.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**(Signed) ERNEST SATOW.**\n\n**Inclosure in No. 32.**\n\n**(No. 28.) Sir,**\n\nActing Consul-General Mansfield to Sir E. Satow.\n\n# Shanghae, September 8, 1903.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose copy and translation of a despatch from his Excellency Viceroy Wei to the senior Consul, again asking that the prisoners in the \"Supao case\" be handed over. This despatch is being forwarded to the doyen of the Corps Diplomatique. I am informed that the Viceroy alleges inability to change the position he takes up, as he is acting under instructions from Peking.\n\nThe foreign press in Shanghae contains frequent comments on the injustice which is being done in keeping the six prisoners so long awaiting trial, especially the three prisoners who were arrested in connection with the newspaper \"Supao,\" as counsel for the prosecution do not conceal the fact that there is practically no evidence of their responsibility for or authorship of the newspaper articles complained of.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**(Signed) R. W. MANSFIELD.**\n\n**Inclosure 2 in No. 33.**\n\n**(No. 41. Confidential.) Sir,**\n\nConsul-General Hopkins to Sir E. Satow.\n\nTien-tsin, September 14, 1903.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch `No. 22` of the 11th instant with its inclosure Foreign Office despatch `No. 208` of the 21st July, on the subject of Mr. Detring's first Award in the Chi Chia Lou Land case.\n\nIn reply I have the honour to state that with a view to clear up doubt entertained by the Secretary of State as to the meaning to be attributed to the condition attached in the Award to the right of possession of Chi Chia Lou by the Railway Administration...\n\n**(Translation.)**\n\nSir,\n\nViceroy Wei to Mr. Goodnow.\n\nAugust 30, 1903.\n\nIN the matter of the criminals Chang, Tsou, and the other men who were seized at Shanghae, I have frequently instructed the Taotai to consult you for the handing over of these men, and further have at different times communicated with the several Consuls asking for the immediate return of these men.\n\nOn looking into the British Treaty, section 21, one finds:\n\n\"If Chinese offenders take refuge in the houses or on board the vessels of British...\"",
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        "content_text": "# 560 \n\n## 36 \n\nThere are many \"ifs\" attached to the Arrangement, but I am inclined to think that this element of uncertainty has its advantages also for the British capitalists likely to be interested in the Szechuen and Yencheng-Puk'ou line.\n\nThere is every reason to believe that it would be no easy matter to procure the necessary capital in England for the construction of the lines under present circumstances, and it may, therefore, not be disadvantageous that no date should have been fixed for the drawing up of final Agreements. There is not the smallest chance that China will herself be able to find the requisite funds for the construction of the Szechuen line, and there is good ground for supposing that she will have recourse to the foreign assistance provided for at no very distant date, since Prince Ch'ing repeated to me what he had previously said to Mr. Townley, namely, that it was recognized that it is most desirable in China's own interests that a railway should be made into Szechuen.\n\nAs far as I can ascertain, the immediate desire of the Peking Syndicate is to make some satisfactory arrangement with the Chinese authorities whereby their financial responsibilities in the line from Taokou to Tsechou will be lessened. The first clause of the arrangement provides a sound basis for such a settlement, and the Syndicate's Agent in Peking is now at Shanghae for the purpose of coming to an agreement with the Director-General of Railways.\n\nIt is improbable that the amalgamated Syndicates will be very keenly desirous of constructing the Yencheng-Puk'ou line until the necessary funds have been raised for the British section of the Tientsin-Chinkiang line, or until it has been clearly demonstrated that the output of the Honan mines is such, both as to quantity and quality, as to call for a special means of communication with the Yangtse.\n\nIn their letter to the Foreign Office of the 15th July last, the British and China Corporation lay great stress upon the importance to them of the Puk'ou-Sinyang line, adding that its construction should not be delayed beyond the necessary time for careful survey and the negotiations for the final Agreement. The arrangement provides for the maintenance of the Concession which, by the terms of the preliminary Agreement, the Chinese Government had some grounds for claiming had lapsed, and the Corporation's Agent, who is now at Shanghae, has been informed that Sheng Ta-jên has been instructed to negotiate with him in a friendly spirit. Should it be found after survey that the Puk'ou-Sinyang line is the really valuable railway that the British and China Corporation believe it to be, there would, of course, be good grounds for asking that Sinyang should be the eastern terminus of the Szechuen line, but it can hardly be denied that the Chinese Government, in expressing an opinion that Hankow is a more natural terminus, is possessed of good arguments, seeing that the latter place is one of the most important trade centres on the Yangtse, whereas the former is a small and quite insignificant town. The statement in the Corporation's letter that a line starting from Hankow for Chengtu would run for a considerable extent parallel to the Luhan line, does not seem to be borne out by examination of the map, inasmuch as the former would follow up the Han River valley to Siung-yang, and for the first half of the distance would be at right angles to the Luhan line to Sinyang.\n\nMy American colleague has kindly furnished me with information respecting the American interests he has been supporting for some time past in their efforts to secure the Szechuen Railway. It would appear that Mr. Thurlow Weed Barnes, of New York, is the organizer and principal representative in the United States, and that the following British firms are interested:\n\n| Firm |\n| --- |\n| S. Pearson and Sons |\n| Arthur G. Evans and Company |\n| Sir Douglas Fox and Partner |\n| George Cawston |\n| Henry Bessemer and Company |\n| Ibbotson Brothers and Company |\n| Houlder Brothers and Company |\n| J. A. H. Drought |\n| Ebbw Vale Steam and Iron Company |\n| North British Locomotive Company |\n| Metropolitan Amalgamated Carriage and Wagon Company |\n\nI am furnishing Messrs. Brenan and Jamieson with copies of the notes exchanged between Prince Ch'ing and myself for their confidential information, but I am of opinion that it is desirable that for the present not more should transpire of the arrangement come to than that a settlement satisfactory to the parties interested has been arrived at.\n\nWhile inclined to entertain considerable doubts of the commercial and financial prospects of a railway from Puk'ou to Sinyang and thence into Szechuen, I am at the same time fully alive to its importance from a political and strategical point of view, and of the desirability of securing that it shall be regarded as a British Concession.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) **ERNEST SATOW**\n\n## 37 \n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 46\n\n### Sir Ernest Satow to Prince Ch'ing\n\nYour Highness,\n\nPeking, September 15, 1903.  \nWhen your Highness called on me a few days ago, I said that I proposed to place on record the arrangement come to between your Highness and Mr. Townley with regard to various railway questions that had been under discussion, and your Highness was good enough to agree to this being done.\n\nThe Agreement as regards the various points is, I understand, as follows:-  \n1. The Peking Syndicate line from Taokou to Tsechou to be placed on the same footing as the Russian line from Taiyuan to Cheng-ting. The mode of giving effect to this Agreement is now under discussion between Sheng Ta-jên and the Syndicate's Representative, Mr. Jamieson, at Shanghae.\n\n2. Fair rates to be secured for the conveyance of the produce of the Peking Syndicate's mines on the Luhan line.\n\n3. If the Chinese Government is not obliged to make up a deficit on the Luhan line, and is willing that a line should be built from Yencheng to Pukow, the Peking Syndicate shall have the right to construct it.\n\n4. The preliminary Agreement for the construction of the line from Sinyang to Puk'ou remains intact, and the details of the final Agreement will be arranged between Sheng Ta-jên and Mr. Brenan at Shanghae.\n\n5. As regards the line from Hankow to Szechuen, if China desires to construct such a line, and Chinese capital is insufficient, she will obtain the necessary foreign capital from Great Britain and the United States. As to the proportion to be contributed by each, and the non-alienation of the same to the nationals of a third Power, I have read Mr. Townley's Report of his conversation with your Highness on the 9th August, of which he furnished a copy to His Excellency Lien Fang on the 14th August, recording the promise made to him by your Highness at that interview.\n\nI shall be glad to learn from your Highness that the above account of the arrangement with Mr. Townley is correct.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(Signed) **ERNEST SATOW**\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 46\n\n### Prince Ch'ing to Sir Ernest Satou\n\nKuang Hsi, 29th year, 6th day (September 26th, 1903).\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge your letter just received, to the effect that you proposed to place on record the Agreement arrived at between Mr. Townley and myself on the subject of railways.\n\nAs regards the first point, your letter states that the Tsechou to Taokou line is to be placed on the same footing as the Cheng-ting to Taiyuan line. Since Mr. Jamieson is discussing with Sheng Ta-jên at Shanghae the mode of placing them on the same footing in accordance with this Agreement, it will be proper to wait till Sheng Ta-jên has come to a definite settlement and reports it to the Board, when it can be considered and decided.\n\nThe second point is that fair rates are to be secured for the conveyance of the produce of the Peking Syndicate's mines by the Luhan line. The Luhan line is not yet completed, and there is as yet no definite point to which the products of the Peking Syndicate's mines are to be conveyed. It will be proper, therefore, to wait till the Peking Syndicate have come to a definite agreement with the Administrator General of the Luhan Railway as to these fair rates.\n\nThe third point is that if the Chinese Government is not obliged to make up a deficit on the Luhan line, and is willing that a line should be built from Yencheng to Pukow, the Peking Syndicate shall have the right to construct it.",
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        "content_text": "## Minutes of a Meeting held at the Imperial Chinese Railway Offices, Shanghai, October 24, 1903 (2nd Meeting).\n\nPresent: Messrs. Chen Shan-yen, Li Wei-ho, Wang Tsun-shan, and Yang Hsiao-shen, on behalf of His Excellency Sheng Kung Pao, Director-General; and Mr. Jamieson (with his Secretary, S. Y. Kiang), representing the Peking Syndicate.\n\nMR. JAMIESON submitted the Minutes in English of the previous meeting, copies of which had been forwarded to Mr. Chen, and inquired if they were correct. The members stated that they were correct.\n\nThe Chinese members stated that his Excellency Sheng had instructed them to bring forward another point. It appeared that besides coal, the Syndicate proposed to work iron, as one of the estimated sources of earnings of the railway was freight on the transport of iron, and probably they proposed to make steel rails and other railway material. He begged to inquire how that was.\n\nMr. Jamieson replied that the right to work iron was included in the Concession, and undoubtedly the Syndicate intended to exercise it. What particular form the industry might take, he could not at present say, but they had the right to manufacture iron of any sort.\n\nMr. Li then said that in that case the Syndicate would come into direct competition with the Hanyang ironworks, in which his Excellency Sheng was largely interested, and in assisting the Syndicate to build this railway, he would be injuring his own particular business. It was, therefore, necessary to find some means of safeguarding the Hanyang ironworks before he could proceed to discuss the terms of the railway agreement.\n\nMr. Jamieson inquired what proposal his Excellency had to make in the matter. Mr. Li replied that his Excellency's idea was that the Syndicate should undertake not to begin their ironworks for a period of years until the Hanyang ironworks were firmly established, and in reply to a further inquiry of Mr. Jamieson, Mr. Li, after consulting with the Chinese members, said they thought a period of thirty years would be sufficient.\n\nMr. Jamieson said this was absolutely out of the question. They might agree to consider a short postponement, if it was otherwise made worth their while, and provided it was understood that the term of sixty years, as stated in the Concession during which they had the right to work, received a corresponding extension at the end, but a postponement of thirty years was preposterous.\n\nSome discussion then followed as to the time from which the sixty years were to be deemed to run. Mr. Jamieson stated that the time would run from the date of the issue of the permit by the Governor of the province concerned, as provided in Article 1 of the Concessions. They had applied to the Governor of Honan for such permit, and it was expected it would be issued in a month or two, and the date of the permit would be the commencement of the term as regards Honan.\n\nAs regards Shansi, the Syndicate had not yet had time to select areas for working, and no permit had yet been applied for. When issued, it would in like manner determine the commencement of the term as regards Shansi. The iron ore, so far as they knew, was found only in Shansi, and it would, therefore, be a few years yet before the Syndicate would be in a position to do much in the way of developing ironworks.\n\nMr. Jamieson considered his Excellency Sheng's fears that the Hanyang ironworks would be injured by the Syndicate's competition were quite unfounded, as annually over 100,000 tons of iron of various sorts, not counting rails and railway material, China imported, and there was, therefore, an ample market in the country for all that could be produced in both places for many years to come.\n\nMr. Li remarked that the import of iron was falling off, and the production would soon exceed the demand, and then both the Syndicate and the Hanyang ironworks would be ruined.\n\nMr. Jamieson replied that he was not aware there was any falling off, though the Customs returns would show, but he thought the Chinese members were taking a very shortsighted view of the future in supposing there would be no increase in the demand. With the railway development now going on, there was bound to be an enormous growth in the demand for iron and iron manufactures of all sorts in China itself, and it was surely better that China should supply this herself than import it from abroad and have to pay for it. Besides, as soon as the home market was supplied, they could export it—to Japan, for instance. The more iron that China could turn out and sell, the better. His Excellency Sheng should remember that the Hanyang ironworks were not the whole of China, and consider the advantage of the people at large.\n\nMr. Chen remarked that his Excellency was naturally bound to look after his own interests first.\n\nMr. Jamieson then said, as regards the particular point raised, if the members would formulate a definite proposal for postponement for a short period, five or ten years, he would consult the Board, but he could give no sort of assurance that it would be entertained, and, in any case, they would expect some countervailing advantages.\n\nMr. Yang suggested ten years from the date of completion of the railway to Tsechow. Mr. Jamieson replied that he could not accept that, as that part of the railway might never be built; besides, it would be folly to build a railway and cut off one of the main sources from which freight earnings might be expected. Any postponement must date from the signing of the railway agreement now under discussion. Also, he wished to know what countervailing advantages they could offer for such postponement? Had the members consulted his Excellency the Director-General in regard to the point reserved at the last meeting, viz., the consideration to be given for the shares which they were asked to present to the Chinese Government?\n\nMr. Li said his Excellency had instructed them that the question of safeguarding the Hanyang ironworks must be settled before anything else was discussed. As to countervailing advantages, the guarantee itself was the advantage to the Syndicate.\n\nMr. Jamieson reminded them that the Syndicate already possessed this so-called advantage by virtue of Prince Ching's promise to Mr. Townley. The line was to be taken over on similar terms to those granted for the Russian Cheng-Tai line. He could not bargain in respect to that.\n\nMr. Chen said his Excellency Sheng did not admit that at all. His Excellency had himself advised Prince Ching that the line should be guaranteed, and it was in consequence of his advice that Prince Ching had promised it to Mr. Townley, and that was why the matter had now been referred to him to settle. The Syndicate had, in fact, obtained the promise from his Excellency Sheng, and he was free to impose any terms and conditions he might think necessary.\n\nMr. Jamieson said he knew nothing of what advice his Excellency may have given to Prince Ching, and it did not concern him at all. All he knew was that there had been a definite undertaking given by Prince Ching that the line should be put on a similar footing to the Russian Cheng-Tai line, and if his Excellency did not consider that binding on him, it was useless for them to go on discussing any longer. With much reluctance, he must place the matter again in the hands of the British Minister, and he begged them so to inform the Director-General.\n\n## No. 51.\n\n**The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir E. Satow.**\n\n**CHINESE RAILWAY INDEMNITY.**\n\nYour telegram No. 257 of the 19th instant.\n\nForeign Office, November 28, 1903.\n\nHis Majesty's Government authorize payment to Chinese Railway Administration of interest referred to in your telegram No. 257 of the 19th instant. The interest on the £90,000 advanced by British Railway Administration, as to which we are in communication with the War Office, should not be included in the payment.",
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        "content_text": "# No. 52.\n## The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir E. Satow.\n**(No. 192) (Telegraphic.) P.**\nForeign Office, November 30, 1903.\n\nTSECHÓW-TAOKOW Railway. My telegram No. 176 of the 30th ultimo.\n\nA copy of Mr. Jamieson's letter to you of the 26th ultimo has been communicated to us by the Peking Syndicate. They urge His Majesty's Government to endeavour to induce the Chinese Government to give immediate effect to the railway arrangement so far as the Tsechow--Taokow Railway is concerned.\n\nHow does the question stand at present?\n\nIt appears to us that Shông's attitude is outrageous.\n\n**(No. 197.)**\n\n# No. 55.\n## The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir E. Satow.\n**(Telegraphic.) P.**\nTSECHÓW-TAOKOW Railway.\nForeign Office, December 4, 1903.\n\n565\n\nI entirely approve the representations you have made, as reported in your telegram No. 262 of the 3rd instant.\n\nSheng evidently intends to evade the fulfilment of the promises given to Mr. Townley, and to delay the settlement indefinitely. Steady pressure should be exerted on him from Peking.\n\n**(No. 262.)**\n\n# No. 53.\n## Sir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne (Received December 3.)\n**(Telegraphic.) P.**\nPEKING Syndicate's Tsechow-Taohow Railway.\nPeking, December 3, 1903.\n\nYour Lordship's telegram No. 192. When I received Mr. Jamieson's letter of the 20th October, I complained of Sheng's attitude in a strong note addressed to Prince Ching, laying special stress on his demand for paid-up shares, and for an undertaking that the iron mines should not be worked. I reminded his Highness of the agreement which he had come to with Mr. Townley, and intimated that I should be obliged to ask that the negotiation be transferred to Peking and taken out of Sheng's hands.\n\nThe Prince promised to write to Sheng, but said that the negotiation must be left to Sheng, since the Syndicate's line was to be dealt with as a branch of the Luhan. Shéng had been able to come to terms with the British and Chinese Corporation, and would doubtless be able to arrange this matter also.\n\nI replied that I had no doubts as to Shêng's ability, but as to his willingness, and I asked the Prince to inquire of him whether the demands referred to had been made by him.\n\nCopies of my notes, the Prince said, would be sent to him. The Foreign Board had already telegraphed.\n\nI sent copies of the correspondence to Jamieson on the 23rd November, and telegraphed advising him to see Sheng in person.\n\nThe Foreign Board stated on the 1st instant that Sheng was away at his father's funeral.\n\nI have now received a telegram from Jamieson, stating that Shêng will return about the 9th instant. I infer that no meeting has taken place.\n\n**(No. 196.) (Telegraphic.) P.**\n\n# No. 54.\n## The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir E. Satow.\nForeign Office, December 4, 1903.\n\nI am informed by the Peking Syndicate that they learn from a source which they consider reliable that a Syndicate has been formed at Paris under the auspices of the French Government to obtain a Concession for a railway starting at Ichang, with the terminal point at Cheng-tu-fu in Se-Chouen, running along the Tsing-Kiang and the Kien-Kiang, crossing the Yang-tsze, a little below Chungking, and then along the Kia-ling up to Cheng-tu-fu.\n\nMr. de Marteau is to return to Peking at once for the purpose.\n\nThis application seems open to objection, and I should be glad if you will keep me informed of anything you may learn respecting its progress.\n\n**(No. 370.) Sir,**\n\n# No. 56.\n## The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir E. Satow.\nForeign Office, December 4, 1903.\n\nI have received your despatch No. 341 of the 30th September, on the subject of the statement furnished by the Imperial Northern Railway's Administration of China, with regard to losses sustained by them in consequence of the Boxer disturbances in 1900.\n\nIn that despatch you state that Mr. Cousins reports that Item No. 11 (of the Statement of Claim) was exclusive of Item No. 12, that is to say, the amount given covers work done, or to be done, apart from the expenditure of 90,000l., by the British Railway Administration, so that there has been no double charge as at first appeared possible.\n\nMr. Cousins also stated that the sum of 121,655 14s. 11d. charged by the Administration for damage to the extramural section of the railway is exclusive of any repairs executed by the Russians.\n\nMr. Ottewill, in the report inclosed in your despatch, has, after an examination of the accounts and vouchers, passed items amounting to 436,912l. 8s. 11d., and in my telegram No. 191, of the 28th ultimo I have authorized the payment, out of the indemnity funds in the hands of the British Delegate on the Bankers Commission, of interest on that amount, less 90,000l., the sum advanced from British army funds for repairs on the railway while it was under British Administration.\n\nMr. Ottewill has included the remaining items in:\n\n1. Annex III. Among those as to which some decision would appear to be necessary.\n2. Annex IV. Items in regard to which some further information is required before they can be considered as definitely settled.\n3. The claim in respect of the Nanpiao mines.\n\nThere are only two items comprised in Annex III upon which it is necessary for me to express an opinion at the present time, viz., (1) Messrs. Jardine and Matheson's claim for expenditure on telegrams, and (2) Dr. Frazer Hurst's claim.\n\n1. From Mr. Ottewill's remarks opposite the entry in Annex III of the Company's claim, it appears that the claim includes an item of 1,111l. 17s. 3d. on account of telegrams paid by the British and Chinese Corporation previous to the Boxer outbreak, and from the Corporation's letter of the 7th July, of which a copy was inclosed in my despatch to Mr. Townley, No. 205, of the 17th July last, a statement appears to have been submitted which comprised telegrams sent from London commencing April, 1899. Such a claim may be a good one as against the Chinese Government, but it is not understood how telegrams sent previous to the outbreak can be included in the present account. You should inform the Administration that no telegrams should be charged for in this claim except those which were rendered necessary by the disturbances.\n\n2. I am in communication with Dr. Frazer Hurst's solicitors with regard to his claim, and as soon as a settlement has been arrived at a separate communication will be addressed to you on the subject.\n\nAs this Department is not in possession of the terms of the Agreements under which the different officials of the Administration were employed, and as at this distance it is not possible to discuss each claim with the administration in detail, I am unable to express an opinion respecting the unsettled claims under Annex IV, nor with the exception of the two items mentioned, can any decision be come to here as to the...",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## No. 1.\n\n### SECTION 5.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 1.)**\n\n(No. 10. Treaty.) Sir,\n\nPeking, May 10, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 11, Treaty, of the 3rd March last, informing me that the King had been graciously pleased to appoint me His Majesty's Special Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for the purpose of attending the funeral of His Majesty the late Emperor of China, and transmitting to me, to be delivered in the usual form, a letter which His Majesty had addressed to the Emperor of China accrediting me in that character.\n\nThe only two Powers which sent special missions for the occasion were Japan and Russia, the former of which was represented by Prince Fushimi, with a numerous suite, and the latter by General Palitzin, formerly chief of the general staff and a member of the council of the Empire.\n\nFrance was represented by M. Gérard, the French Ambassador at Tôkiô, who was formerly Minister here, while Spain, Sweden, Portugal, Brazil, and Mexico also detached their Ministers at Tokió for special duty in Peking in connection with the funeral ceremonies.\n\nPrince Fushimi was treated throughout as a personage altogether apart from the other special Ambassadors, and the Japanese took care - quite properly, in my opinion - to emphasise the importance of the mission and the rank of its head.\n\nOn the 26th April, I had the honour, in company with the other special Ambassadors, to present my letter of credence to His Highness the Prince Regent, who received us in turn, and addressed to each of us a few words, stating his appreciation of the mission with which we had been charged.\n\nOn the 29th April, visits of condolence were paid to the biers of the Empress-Dowager and of the Emperor, which were in pavilions some distance apart in the Imperial Palace, that of the Emperor being in the north part of the Palace, which has never before been open to foreigners.\n\nI laid a silver wreath beside each of the biers in the name of His Majesty the King, and the Prince Regent suitably acknowledged the compliment.\n\nIn the afternoon of the same day, Prince Fushimi held a reception of the foreign representatives and their staffs in his suite of apartments in the new Wai-wu Pu, and the formality of the ceremony gave rise to some comments on the part of some of the special Ambassadors, especially those who came from Japan, and had the honour of His Highness's acquaintance in Tokió.\n\nThe funeral procession took place on the 1st May, and lasted from 10:30 A.M. to 1 P.M., and was in some respects a rather trying ordeal, as the day was unusually hot for this season of the year. The members of the special missions walked in the procession as far as the northern gate of the Imperial city, a distance of about half-a-mile, which it took considerably over an hour to cover. They were accompanied by the high officers of State, amongst whom was the aged grand councillor, Chang Chih-tung, and by all the Princes of the Imperial Family.\n\nThe Prince Regent, as chief mourner, walked immediately in front of the bier, which was carried by eighty bearers. His Highness spoke to each of the special Ambassadors before the cortège started, and thanked them for their presence on the occasion. Stands were erected for the accommodation of foreign visitors, several hundreds of whom watched the procession, while the foreign troops in Peking had also places assigned to them from which to view the proceedings. From a spectacular point of view, the funeral was a picturesque sight, but the details were unworthy of the occasion. Decorum was preserved so long as the procession was in the Imperial city, but it had scarcely emerged into the streets of the Tartar city before it became a disorganised and straggling crowd, and outside the city, all pretence of solemnity was abandoned.",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n### No. 1\n\n#### SECTION 1\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey,-(Received May 29.)\n\n**(No. 157.)**\nSir,\n\nPeking, April 12, 1909.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 140 of the 1st instant, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from the acting consul-general at Canton respecting the question of official control on the Canton-Hankow Railway.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\n**(No. 28.)**\nSir,\n\nActing Consul-General Fox to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nCanton, March 18, 1909.\n\nIT would appear that one of the periodical trials of strength which take place between the Central Government and the shareholders in the Canton-Hankow Railway Company has again ended in a victory for the latter.\n\nThe Canton newspapers recently reported that the Chamber of Commerce and the Committee of the seventy-two guilds had telegraphed to the director-general, Chang Chih Tung, protesting against the establishment of a government bureau in Canton and the appointment of a resident director in the person of Taotai Wong Ping Yen.\n\nThe papers now announce that Taotai Wong has been appointed Intendant of Circuit at Je Ho in Chih-li, and they take it for granted that this means that the railway appointment is cancelled and the post, presumably, abolished.\n\nI am unfortunately unable to furnish you with any precise and reliable information as to what has actually occurred during the past six weeks with regard to this question of official control of the railway, as I have not succeeded, in spite of several attempts, in obtaining an interview with Sir Ch'en Tung Liang Ch'eng. However, in a letter dated the 14th instant he says:----\n\n\"I am sorry I will be too busy all this week to accept an invitation, but I hope soon I will be at leisure when I shall give myself the pleasure to call and have a good open heart talk with you. As you doubtless know the company on account of certain interference from Peking is in a somewhat critical state, and I must give all my time to its welfare.”\n\nThis conversation will form the subject of a separate report.\n\nIn the meantime I have the honour to enclose translation of an article which appeared in the Chinese newspaper \"Yang Ch'eng Pao\" of the 2nd March giving what purports to be the text of correspondence between the director-general, the resident director and the president of the company regarding the administration of the railway, also copies of extracts from the \"Hong Kong Daily Press\" of the 10th and 15th March referring to the appointment of the resident director.\n\nThe annual general meeting of shareholders is advertised to take place on the 27th instant.\n\nThe collection of the second call which began on the 1st day of the 7th moon of last year (28th July, 1908) has been of necessity, from time to time extended, until it has been decided to keep the lists open until the end of the second moon (21st March, 1909).\n\nThe most reliable estimate I have been able to obtain places the amount collected to date at just over 7,000,000 dollars, out of a total of 12,000,000 dollars due on the second call.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nHARRY H. FOX.\n\n`[2201/F-1]`",
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        "content_text": "# 591\n\n(Translation.)\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\nExtract from the \"Yang Cheng Pao\" of March 2, 1909.\n\n### Text of telegram from Chang Chih Tung to Taotai Tong Ping Yen\n\nThe Director-General in Peking to the Resident Director in Canton.\n\nYOUR two telegrams. Although successive reports on the affairs of the Canton-Hankow Railway have been submitted by the general manager, Sir Chih Chen Liang Cheng, no complete detailed report has so far been furnished. The duties and responsibilities of the resident director in Canton are identical with those of the general manager. You should therefore consult with Liang and act in unison with him, in supplying the following particulars:\n\n1. Furnishing the complete dossier of all documents and accounts of the railway company since the redemption of the concession.\n2. A report showing the completed portion of the line at the time of the redemption, the portion since completed or under construction, the portion already surveyed but not yet under construction, and the portion of which the trace has already been decided but which has not yet been surveyed, giving the exact length of each.\n\nIn addition, a register and plans of all lands and rolling-stock, together with a complete list of the staff of employés.\n\n3. A report showing the amounts collected or still outstanding of the first and second calls upon the shares with a list of shareholders, the sum required for construction and for the company's annual expenditure, together with a balance sheet showing the balance in hand. In addition, a detailed account showing all sums placed out at interest.\n4. An account of the receipts from the sale of tickets and freight charges on the working portion of the line, giving full details of revenue and expenditure under this head.\n\nYou should, in obedience to these instructions, establish yourself in an office and start work immediately, submitting your report at an early date.\n\nI have received the Imperial commands to act as director-general of the railway, and my responsibility is a heavy one. The Imperial rescript is of a most stringent nature. The guiding principle to be observed is the advancement of the interests of the railway and the eradication of all abuses. It is incumbent upon me to consider the question in all its aspects in order that I may be in a position to render the capital invested secure, to prevent waste, and to inspire public confidence.\n\nYou must make my intentions known to the general manager and his co-directors, and have them published for the information of shareholders.\n\nMake an estimate of the expenses of your office and submit it to me before taking any action.\n\nSubmit a copy of this telegram to Viceroy Chang and supply the railway company with another.\n\n**CHANG, Director-General**\n\n### Text of Sir Chentung Liang Cheng's reply to Taotai Wong Ping Yen's letter, enclosing Chong Chili Tung's telegram\n\nYOUR letter just received and its important contents noted. I will, of course, act as directed. I have, in accordance with your request, handed your letter to the board of directors for communication to the shareholders, and will communicate their reply later.\n\nI propose to go to Whampoa to-morrow on ten days' leave, returning on the 9th or 10th instant.\n\nThe shareholders are scattered in all directions, and it is impossible for those living at a distance to attend at a short notice. It had been arranged to circulate the annual statement on the 29th instant, and it might be convenient to circulate the telegram at the same time, and ascertain the shareholders' views.\n\nThe resumption of control over the railway by the mercantile body has received Imperial sanction, and it would not do for me, a mere stopgap acting as general manager, to assume sole responsibility in such a matter. In any case, the details of management, the annual accounts, and the staff of employés have all formed the subject of periodical reports to the director-general and are, in addition, published in the weekly newspapers for the information of the public.\n\nWith regard to your request that I should arrange a time and place for a consultation, I should prefer to wait until after the annual statement has been circulated on the 20th instant. Do you agree?\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\nExtract from the \"Hong Kong Daily Press\" of March 10, 1909.\n\n### CANTON HANKOW RAILWAY\n\n#### The Question of Official Control\n\nTHE nine charitable institutions, the Canton General Chamber of Commerce, and the seventy-two trades' guilds have telegraphed the following petition to his Excellency Chang Chih Tung, chief superintendent of the Canton-Hankow Railway of the three provinces:\n\nYour Excellency has delegated Taotai Wong Ping Yen to superintend the construction of the Kwangtung section of the Canton-Hankow Railway and to reside permanently in Canton. Some time ago, we received a cablegram from your Excellency stating that your main object and desire is that the president of the Canton section of the railway will use his influence to protect the interests of the railway company, and that he will be held responsible for a proper exercise of his discretion in employing men to deal with the financial affairs of the company. Your Excellency cannot be aware of the innumerable troubles and difficulties in regard to the construction of the railway in this province, which we are now compelled to explain fully to you.\n\nWhen the railway was redeemed from the American Development Company, it was agreed that the gentry and the merchants were to construct it. This was entirely due to your efforts, and we are extremely grateful to you for your kindness. We undertook the responsibility of constructing the Kwangtung section of the railway, and consequently, an Imperial edict was issued sanctioning this arrangement. The terms and conditions for this section are quite different from those of Hupeh and Hunan.\n\nAfter the edict was issued, the different charitable institutions started to collect the call due on the first instalment of the shares, on condition that if the merchants either proved incapable of constructing the railway themselves or if they should fail to construct the railway, they (the charitable institutions) would refund the moneys paid to the company by the shareholders. These conditions were embodied in a memorial to the throne and officially recorded in Peking.\n\nThe dissatisfaction formerly created over the construction of this railway was mainly due to the officials having a hand in the management of affairs. Now your Excellency has authorised the establishment of a Government bureau to superintend the construction of the railway, it will be extremely difficult to allay the suspicions of the public, and we fear we shall not be able to collect the third instalment of the shares. Moreover, there are many shareholders who seize this as a pretext for demanding the return of their money, and trouble may therefore ensue.\n\nThe people will, moreover, lose confidence in the charitable institutions, who cannot take the responsibility of refunding such a huge sum of money. All this is contrary to what has been agreed upon between the merchants and the Government. This section is the most important part of the Canton-Hankow Railway. Both Chinese and foreigners have had their attention drawn to this matter. Now that it is in full operation, a change is detrimental, and the people cannot consent to a change.\n\nBesides telegraphing this to your Excellency, the seventy-two guilds and the charitable institutions have held a meeting and addressed a petition to the Viceroy of Canton bearing the chops of all the signatories.\n\nWith regard to the management of the company, it is difficult to please everybody. If there is a dishonest servant in...",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 4 in No. 1\n\nExtract from the \"Hong Kong Daily Press\" of March 15, 1909,\n\n### CANTON - HANKOW RAILWAY\n\n#### Triumph of the Shareholders\n\nIT is reported in well-informed circles at Canton that Taotai Wong Ping Yen, who was recently appointed superintendent of the affairs of the Canton-Hankow Railway in Canton, is transferred to Yeh Hoi as taotai of that city.\n\nThis is the outcome of the petition recently wired by the seventy-two trade guilds and the charitable institutions to the Central Government protesting against Chang Chih Tung's appointment of an official to control railway affairs. The situation was a very delicate one, and Chang Chih Tung has found a neat solution to the difficulty in appointing Wong Ping Yen to another post. This is a decided victory for the shareholders of the Canton-Hankow Railway Company, who are resolutely determined not to submit to any undue interference on the part of the Government. Their position has been strengthened, and it is very unlikely that the Government will make any further move in this direction. The Government bureau which was recently established at Canton with the object of superintending the construction of the Kwangtung section of the railway (although still in existence in name) may be considered to have been practically abolished. Viceroy Cheng has cabled to Peking requesting that permission be given to detain Taotai Wong Ping Yen in Canton to perform other important public functions. This is a characteristic way of \"saving face.\"\n\n## No. 1\n\n### Mr. C. S. Addis to Foreign Office.--(Received May 29.)\n\nHong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation,  \n31, Lombard Street, London, May 29, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to enclose six copies of the signed minutes of the meeting held at Berlin on the 15th instant, between delegates of the English, German, and French groups connected with the Hankow-Canton and Hankow-Szechuan Railways, in which the reservation made by the British delegate with regard to the degree of British Government support to be accorded to his group will be found officially recorded.\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1\n\nI am, &c.\n\nC. S. ADDIS.\n\n### Hankow-Canton and Hankow-Chengtu Railway Loan Negotiations\n\n#### Minutes of a Meeting at the Office of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, May 14 and (continued on) May 15, 1909.\n\nPresent:  \nM. Urbig,  \nM. Erich,  \nM. Rehders, representing the German group.  \nMr. C. S. Addis, representing the British group.  \nM. Carl Meyer,  \nM. S. Simon, representing the French group.  \nM. Ullmann,\n\nM. Urbig in the Chair.\n\nTHE minutes of the proceedings at the meeting of the 13th May were read and approved.\n\nThe following documents were agreed upon and signed by the representatives of the parties thereto subject to ratification by their respective principals.\n\n1. Hankow-Canton and Hankow Chengtu Railway.-Memorandum of terms of agreement come to at a meeting at the offices of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, Berlin, on the 14th May, 1909.\n2. Hankow-Chengtu Railway-Heads of agreement made the 14th May, 1909, between Chinese Central Railways (Limited), and the Banque de l'Indo-Chine representing the French group.\n3. Hankow-Chengtu Railway.-Letter of Deutsch-Asiatische Bank to Chinese Central Railways (Limited), the 15th May, 1909.\n\nThe preparation and conclusion of the general agreements contemplated in clauses 8 and 9 of the above-named No. 1 agreement were discussed, and it being considered that these agreements could be dealt with by correspondence, it was arranged that the British and Chinese Corporation and the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation would submit drafts to the several groups as quickly as possible. With the object of preventing any misconception, Mr. Addis stated that although the British group were receiving the exclusive support of the British Government in regard to the business concerning which an understanding between the groups had...",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure in No. 1.\n\n**Correspondence between Mr. Hillier and the Chinese Delegates respecting the Hukuang Railway Agreement.**\n\n**(Translation.) (Confidential.)**\n\n### (1.) Mr. Hillier to Deputies Kao and Tseng.\n\nIn the 18th article of the loan agreement now arranged for the Hupei-Hunan sections of the Canton-Hankow and Szechuan-Hankow Railways it is stated :-\n\n\"During the period of construction of the railway the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank will nominate a company, approved by the director-general, as agents for the purchase of all materials, machinery, &c., for the railway.\"\n\nThe Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank now proposes to appoint the British and Chinese Corporation as agents, and will be glad to know whether or not this company is acceptable. The bank accordingly has to request that you will submit this question to the Grand Secretary Chang for his decision and reply.\n\nWith regard to Mr. Bland, the present representative of the British and Chinese Corporation in China, it is my duty to inform you that I have received a telegram from London advising me that it has been decided that he will return to England, and that the British and Chinese Corporation will appoint another representative to come to China for the management of this business.\n\nAwaiting the favour of your reply, I have, &c.\n\n**E. G. HILLIER, Agent, Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, Peking.**\n\nHsuan-t'ung, 1st year, 4th month, 19th day\n\n### (3.) Mr. Hillier to Deputies Kao and Tseng.\n\nI beg to acknowledge the receipt of your reply, and have taken due notice of all the wishes of the Grand Secretary Chang as therein stated. I shall necessarily give them due observance,\n\nA special reply, compliments, &c.\n\n**E. G. HILLIER, Agent, Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, Peking.**\n\nHsüan-t'ung, 1st year, 4th month, 19th day (June 6, 1909).\n\n(June 6, 1909).\n\n### (2.) Deputies Kao and Tseng to Mr. Hillier.\n\nWe are in receipt of your letter stating that the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank proposes to nominate the British and Chinese Corporation as agents for the purchase of materials, and that, it having been decided that Mr. Bland will return to England, the British and Chinese Corporation will appoint another representative to come to China for the management of this business.\n\nWe have laid the contents of your letter before the Grand Secretary Chang, who has instructed us to reply that if Mr. Bland is positively returning to England, and the British and Chinese Corporation appoint another representative to come to China to manage this business, he will accept their nomination, but it is distinctly understood that Mr. Bland will not be permitted to interfere in this business at any future time.\n\nA special reply, with compliments, &c.\n\nHsüan-t'ung, 1st year, 4th month, 19th day (June 6, 1909).\n\nThe Deputies commissioned to negotiate the loan,\n\n**KAO LING-YU. TSENG KUANG-JUNG.**",
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        "content_text": "# The Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n## CHINA TRADE\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[24079]\n\n### No. 1.\n\n24419  \nJune 28.10  \nREGR 22 JUL 09, SECTION 1.\n\n(No. 174.) Sir,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey,- (Received June 28.)\n\nPeking, May 10, 1909.\n\nMY despatches No. 563 of the 31st December last and No. 148 of the 9th ultimo will have informed you of the serious danger which threatens the port of Newchwang, owing to the condition of its main waterway into the interior, and the accompanying despatch from His Majesty's consul at Newchwang describes the steps which the consular authorities and the foreign community at the port have recently taken to induce the Provincial Government to recognise its duty in the matter.\n\nThe amelioration of the Liao River seems to be a matter of urgent necessity if the existence of Newchwang as a treaty port is to be maintained, and so far the repeated representations which have been made on the subject have not produced much practical result.\n\nI took advantage of the presence here of Hsi Liang, the new Viceroy of Manchuria, to press the matter upon his Excellency's attention at an interview which I had with him on the 6th instant. The present state of the river was fully explained to him, and stress was laid upon the unwisdom, in China's own interests, of allowing trade to be diverted to Dalny which would, in the natural course of things, go to Newchwang. The Chinese customs revenue and the Chinese railway administration both suffered from the neglect of the Liao River, and the short-sighted fiscal system which prevailed in Manchuria.\n\nHis Excellency, who had never been in Manchuria and had no previous knowledge of the question, listened attentively to all that I urged, and asked some pertinent questions with regard to the proposed conservancy measures, their probable cost, and the effect the closing of the Shuang Tui Tzu Canal was likely to have on the water supply of the people.\n\nHe promised to give the matter his careful attention on his arrival in Mukden, and I have instructed His Majesty's consul-general at that place and the consul at Newchwang to continue their efforts to secure some improvement in the river.\n\nI also suggested to the Viceroy the expediency of opening Chin Chow and Ssu Ping Chieh to foreign trade, and he promised to bear the suggestion in mind. The former would serve as a winter port to Newchwang, and the question of opening the latter was brought to my notice by Mr. Scott, of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, who pointed out that there was no trade mart in the long stretch of country between Tiehling and Kuan Cheng Tzu and indicated Ssu Ping Chieh as the most suitable place for the purpose.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### (No. 5.) Sir,\n\n#### Inclosure in No. 1.\n\nConsul Wilkinson to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nNewchwang, April 30, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report to you on the question of the conservancy of the Liao River.\n\nReference has been made to this subject in several of my predecessors' despatches to His Majesty's legation and also by Sir Alexander Hosie in his report on his visit in the autumn of 1907 to the principal trade centres of Manchuria. More recently His Majesty's consul-general at Mukden communicated to you a summary of the recommendations for the improvement of the river made by Mr. Hughes, the British civil engineer in the employment of the Manchurian Government, and mentioned that authority had been given for the construction of a weir at the entrance to the Shuang Tai Tzu Canal, on the immediate necessity of which special stress had been laid by Mr. Hughes.\n\n[2328 ce-1]",
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        "content_text": "## 10\n\nRoman Catholics and the China Inland Mission have each established a mission-station here. The former is maintained by natives and there is no foreign superintendent: they claim a great number of adherents. The Protestants were nearly all destroyed in 1900, but are beginning to rally again. The people of Shansi are by nature intensely conservative, and as a consequence backward, even by comparison with the neighbouring provinces. As His Majesty's Government know, it was the obstinacy of the Shansi provincials which prevented the Peking Syndicate from working their Mining Concession in the south-east, and this attitude is representative of the whole province.\n\nIn the districts round Tatungfu the people are very suspicious of foreigners, and their fears are easily fanned to open acts of hostility, such as when the missionaries at Tsoyun were attacked in the spring of 1907 and would have been massacred but for the timely and accidental arrival of a German officer, who shot some of the rioters. This feeling of hatred is still latent in Tatungfu, inhabitants are extremely ignorant, and education has made little progress here, though there are a few good Chinese schools. The ladies of Tatungfu are famous for the smallness of their feet, a fame which their ingrained conservatism has persuaded them to set at defiance any Imperial utterances on the subject of anti-foot binding. The district is enormously rich in coal, which is hardly worked, while the best, the smokeless, has had to be abandoned because of the water in the mines. A certain amount of coal is still mined, but in consequence of the water is now much dearer than it used to be, is used throughout the whole district, and is carted for many miles over the mountains. Nothing has been heard here of a railway from Puchow, in the south of the province, to Taiyuanfu and Tatungfu, but the extension of the Kalgan line to Kweihuacheng is much discussed and expected to take the route south of the Great Wall in order to tap the coal wealth of Tatungfu.\n\nThe chief officer of the town is a Prefect, Chinese, not Manchu. The town is of the usual pattern, and has four gates and a bell tower in the centre of the city. Each wall is 14 miles long. The garrison is said to be 120 soldiers of the old pattern. The streets of the town, though dirty, are well made and sometimes broad, while there is a great deal of decoration in the way of pailous and towers. However much the people are said to be anti-foreign, I was received with the greatest respect everywhere. They are like children and are said to believe any story or rumour, however improbable; for instance, it was recently rumoured that the province had been sold en bloc to the English, who were coming to take possession, and each household in Tatungfu was to house and feed one Englishman at its own expense; such rumours are readily believed.\n\nApril 15.-The cart wheels had to be changed again last night to fit the road to Kweihuacheng. Rising steadily to the hills to the west we penetrated into these by the valley of a small tributary of the Yuho with a bleak and rocky country on either side. Very few hamlets and they of the poorest were to be seen. After travelling four hours we reached Yunkang where there is a very ancient temple cut and built into the mountain side. This temple known as \"Shih fo ssu\" (\"Stone joss temple\") is said to date from 2,000 years ago, and the appearance of the tiles certainly bears this out. Little money is spent on its upkeep; the Mongols patronize it en route for Wutaishan, but whereas they used to spend much money here they now keep most of their wealth for the Wutai Monasteries. Rockhill writes: \"At Yunkang, a small village about 12 miles north-west of Tatungfu, are curious rock temples, a bed of sandstone in which a number of caved temples have been dug, and enormous statues of the Buddha and saints sculptured within them out of the living rock. Good authority states that the temples were built in the fifth century, A.D.\"\n\nLeaving Yunkang we kept up the sandy valley of the Shihliho, and three hours later reached Kanshanhsien a small district town with delapidated gates and walls. We pushed on the same night to Yünhsi a wretched village 10 miles to the west. After nightfall we passed many caravans of camels just setting out on their all night march. They were bringing beans, salt, soda, bricks, wool, skins, and liquorice from Kweihua-cheng, those we passed travelling the same direction as ourselves were carrying tea and cloth to Kweihuacheng.\n\nApril 16.-Keeping due west on the southern slopes of the valley for two hours, we crossed this when abreast of Tsoyun or Tsowei, a small walled town a mile to our left and turned north-west over the hills. These are much broken by gullies and ravines and are absolutely devoid of trees; the road winds past a number of decayed villages all with a poverty-stricken appearance. We reached Hwangtuliang in the evening. The district can at least boast of good inns and this is probably due to the amount of traffic along the road. A great feature of the countryside are the distance marks like small towers on the mountain peaks. The smaller ones mark the 1 li, the larger the 5 li distance. Tsoyun is the centre of a coal-producing district and here it is extraordinarily cheap, the same amount which in Peking costs 11 dollars costing only 2.1 dollars here.\n\n## 11\n\nApril 17-An hour and a-half's travelling brought us to the south gate of the large prefectural city of Sopingfu or Yuwei. The former name appears to be that given to the whole prefectural district, the latter being the name for the town. The city is a walled one of the usual pattern with four gates and a bell tower. The walls are in good condition and each is about half a-mile long, but on the north side the sand has drifted to such an extent against the wall that there would be no difficulty in climbing on to this from the outside. The population is said to be between 40,000 and 50,000, but I fancy this is exaggerated. The city is poor owing to opium and drink. There are Roman Catholic and China Inland Mission Stations. The people are not hostile, but are like the people of Shansi densely stupid. The Mandarin visits the missions from time to time and inquires as to the attitude of people towards them. The town is visited by great numbers of Mongols who are lodged, as in Tatungfu, in special inns. There is a branch of the Chinese Imperial Post here. It is thought that Sopingfu will not be on the extended railway from Kalgan to Kweihuacheng. This, it is said, will probably run (doubtless by the valley of the Yüho after leaving Tatungfu) via Ningyuenting or Föngschönuting to Kweihuncheng. There is said to be a garrison of 360 soldiers armed with old-fashioned rifles. Coal is the chief fuel and is very cheap; all wood has to come up from Ningwu a long way to the south. The district is famous for its mill stones which are exported to some distance. A good pair costs $3.1.\n\nPassing underneath the bell tower high up on the walls of which were five cages full of old shoes testifying to the mild sway exercised by successive prefects we left the town by the north gate and kept due north up the broad and sandy valley of a stream which we forded from time to time. A picturesque feature of the road were a number of poor tents under whose scanty shade groups of dirty weary pilgrims to the Wutaishan were lying with outstretched limbs trying to find a shelter from the burning April noonday sun. Some of the villages along the road consist entirely of inns and temples both of which are doubtless successful in extracting a large portion of the pious pilgrims' store of money. We passed another instance of tree worship; a scroll hanging to the tree informed passers-by \"I will grant the wishes of whoever prays to me.\" Soon after leaving Sopingfu the ridge on our left was crowned with the many towers of the Great Wall of China and the valley gradually narrowing we reached the wall at the important customs station of Shahokou where a garrison of 300 men armed with the old-fashioned rifle is kept. The wall here is in a great state of decay being for the most part a long grass-grown mound of mud with towers at intervals. Passing through the gateway which is of little use as horsemen can without difficulty cross the wall elsewhere we continued down the Shaho valley, and ascended a bleak stretch of ground with no sign of vegetation anywhere. After crossing other ridges we slept the night at Ningyuan continuing on the morrow over steep passes and down narrow rocky winding gorges, for most of the way in which the road hung over a precipice. Though the ground looks stony and unfertile peasants were trying to plough the mountain slopes almost up to the top of the passes. Close to the village of Yang-puyausze we came across another instance of tree worship, the tree being decorated with scrolls \"Pray to me and ye shall receive,\" \"Do not forget to offer me candles,\" \"I am as good as a temple.\" A peasant standing near explained how the tree came to be worshipped. Once upon a time a man was walking along the road and was chased by a wolf. He fled to the tree, climbed and was saved; hence out of gratitude he originated the worship of the tree. In the inn yard at Yangpuyausze were four ordinary carts bearing little white and red flags. These carts were conveying money from Kweihuacheng to Kalgan. If the carters lose the money (there is no guard and the whole countryside knows what the carts are carrying) they have to make it good themselves, a haphazard way of doing things. There are few villages in these mountain districts; one passes a few scattered huts from time to time and in many places the natives have scooped out dwellings in the lower cliffs, houses which are doubtless warm, but which entirely lack ventilation. Few of the natives can read or write. At Yangpuyausze the schoolmaster was an aged man, his salary he said was $17 a year and he had only four pupils. The only books he can himself read are such as the smallest child in Peking can read with ease. Superstition is rampant as I have shown in the case of tree worship. Over the lintel of the door to the main room of the inn were two little bits of yellow paper with ...\n\n## 120",
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        "content_text": "# 135\n\nasking for repayment. The King is said to have borrowed 10,000 taels from the late M. Pokotilow six years ago on the occasion of His Majesty's last visit to Peking. M. Pokotilow was then head of the Russo-Chinese Bank. It is said that the Russians are pressing for repayment of this. In a State like Alashan, there is little secrecy, everyone knowing his neighbour's affairs, and these rumours about the King's indebtedness are probably true. The people of Alashan are a pastoral people, with little silver, and they have been taxed as high as they can bear; house rents have also risen—so much so that the Chinese are contemplating a protest at Peking, so that neither of these sources of income can be touched again. Hence, I think, springs the subserviency of the King to the Russians, from whom he hopes to borrow more money. For this, they are doubtless looking for a suitable security, and this security is probably the right to work minerals in the Alashan Mountains.\n\n## The Kozloff Expedition\n\nIt is in the Buriat's house that Colonel Kozloff has taken up his abode, and over which the Russian flag flies. Colonel Kozloff, who is travelling for the Russian \"Academics,\" is accompanied by a botanist and a geologist, as well as by a purely Russian escort, consisting of five Cossacks and five Buriats, the whole under a Russian corporal with the appearance of a General, so magnificent is he. The expedition arrived some three weeks ago and is to stay some three weeks or so longer. I did not see the botanist or geologist who had gone with most of the escort into the Alashan Mountains for three weeks. The route of the expedition has been via Uliassutal and Urga to Dinyuaning. It will proceed southwards to Lanchow and Kokoncor, and will be absent a year or fifteen months. The object of the expedition is to collect specimens of the flowers and birds of the Alashan Range, and to examine the mountains from a geological point of view. Another object is astronomical. Cases of snakes in spirits and stuffed birds have already been sent to Russia, and others are in course of preparation. A discussion on the correct method of stuffing birds led to the production of some ready for transmission. The expedition is well fitted out with barometers and barographs, guns, rifles, and photographic apparatus. The latter is for plates, not films, and these Colonel Kozloff develops himself. I understood the Colonel to say that he did not shoot or stuff the various animals himself, and he appears to confine himself to the more scientific portion of the expedition, the care of the barometers, and to work with a fine telescope he has with him. For this latter work, he has fitted up a small shed on a stand 12 feet high in the courtyard of the Buriat's house. The Alashan Range is reported by all previous travellers to be extremely rich in all minerals, except iron, and coal is said to be exceptionally good. This is very little worked, and that only in a very crude way.\n\nColonel Kozloff speaks a little Mongol and a little Chinese, but no European language except Russian, except for a few words of very broken French. In appearance, he is tall, dirty, and untidy. He dresses in uniform every day. He has distinctly the appearance of a savant, and while I have no doubt whatever that the objects of his expedition are as defined by him, my impression is that he is being utilized also for some political purpose at Dinyuaning, and he is certainly strengthening the Russian prestige with the Prince there, and tightening the hold which the Russians seem to have already acquired over that vassal of China. Whether he is exerting pressure to obtain repayment of the sum of money alleged to have been lent by M. Pokotilow, or whether he is obtaining written promises of Concessions for mines in the Alashan or for a railway from Urga southwards, I cannot say, but both these are possibilities which it would be idle to ignore. The length of time the mission has stayed in Alashan and the daily visits of the Buriat to the King, have aroused considerable suspicion locally, and to these may be added the deferment of the closing of the Buriat's store, which has proved admittedly a financial failure, from season to season. As regards the visit of the expedition to Kokonoor, which is undoubtedly in Thibet, I twice casually mentioned that it was now défendu for us to visit Thibet, otherwise I should have gone there myself. Colonel Kozloff, however, did not understand my words. I have no doubt that he intends to carry out that part of his programme, and he is such a genuine enthusiast respecting travelling in, and exploration of, these regions, that it is possible he may be tempted to travel even farther into East Thibet, and the escort of Russian soldiers would do away with any necessity for the Colonel to ask for one from the Chinese authorities. The Colonel is therefore entirely his own master, and is not likely to be interfered with by any of the Chinese local authorities.\n\nI have forgotten to add that all the missionaries (an unsuspecting race of people) were surprised at my innocence in believing in the alleged objects of the expedition. They were themselves convinced that there was a question of Concessions for mines either in the mountains or in the Gobi, which is stated to be rich in minerals and precious stones. The Roman Catholics were especially apprehensive, and were of opinion that Russia, baulked in Manchuria and China, was busier than ever weaving her web over Mongolia.—Ninghsia, 2nd June, 1908.\n\n## 41\n\nThe following extract from my diary, dated Kweihuacheng, the 27th June, is of interest:—\n\n\"A couple of minutes after leaving the inn (for the journey across Gobi) we met a European entering the town. He was a young English-speaking German, the representative in Peking of the Tien-tsin German engineering and mining firm of ... and Schroeder. He travels a good deal in the interior, and has been away from Peking since March. At Singanfu, he was sent for to Lanchow in connection with the bridge over the Yellow River which his firm are constructing, and in which an Englishman (Tackey) is consulting engineer. At Lanchow, he received an urgent message from the King of Alashan begging him to visit Fumafu. The King sent his own camels and tent down to Ninghsia for the engineer's convenience and subsequently sent him back to the river at Schischnisze in the same manner. From Schischnisze, he had come to Bautu by boat. He was hastening back to Peking, and his whole attitude confirmed my suspicions that there was some mining business in the air in Alashan. Colonel Kozloff and party were still there, and were not expected to leave for the south for some time. My own impression from what I saw and heard throughout Mongolia is that the King of Alashan is in debt to some Russian Agents, possibly the Russo-Chinese Bank at Urga, who are pressing for payment and are content to take a mining Concession temporarily at any rate.\"\n\nAs regards the visit of the Kozloff expedition to Kokonoor, it must be added that while all English and, indeed, many other maps mark the district of Kokonoor as being in Thibet, it is not considered so by the Russian Government, nor indeed, I believe, by the Chinese Government. It would be interesting to know the limits of this district, especially towards the south, for the name is sprawled over a very large area on the map, and it would be equally interesting to know how many of the other States on the fringe of Thibet and which figure in English maps under the name of Thibet are considered by the Russians to be Chinese and not Thibetese Provinces.\n\n# 65\n\nCheguchak, October 1.—At dinner at the Russian Consulate, we had an animated conversation on the subject of Kozloff and Kokonoor. The latter was said to be a Chinese province, so I asked what its capital was. The reply was \"Kukukhoto.\" I objected that this was merely the Mongol name for Kweihuacheng, a town in North Shansi, and this was eventually agreed to, but no one could say what the capital of Kokonoor in that case was.—London, December 1908.\n\n## Fumafu to Ninghsiafu\n\nMay 30.—We left for the south by the slightly longer but easier route for Ninghsiafu. We kept south parallel to the Alashan Mountains, but slightly above the level of the plain on the slopes of the foothills. The road was broad and good, stony but not sandy; the first few miles were slightly undulating, after which it became level. After leaving the Oasis of Fumafu, the country is bleak and desolate with no trees except at the rare farms sighted or passed. There was no vegetation except some occasional rough grass. It was a dreary road, with to the left the bleak low foothills leading up to and partly concealing the fine mountain chain, to the right a gentle stony slope down to the plains and hot sands beyond. The breeze blew little whirlpools of sand which drifted like geysers about the plain in a detached manner. We reached Yoba, our halting place for the night at mile 20, passing at mile 19 the residence of a brother of the Alashan King.\n\nYoba is a solitary house; inn accommodation is good, but supplies are both dear and scarce. The inn is kept by Chinese, and not by Mongols.\n\nMay 31.—We started in a south-eastern direction, the road being excellent, but dreary in the extreme, leading as before over a bleak desolate uncultivated and almost uninhabited country. The only traffic we met were carts bringing pigs for sale at Fumafu, and others taking wood to Ninghsia. The inn at Yoba has plenty of work, as all traffic either way stops there.\n\nAt Cheng yo schui (after 10 miles), where there is a good inn, we turned eastwards to penetrate and break through the mountains. The road continues excellent, but...",
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        "content_text": "# 246 \n## C.O \n**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]** 681 \n\n## CHINA TRADE. \n**CONFIDENTIAL.** \n\n[27241] \nRee 10 AUG CO \n[July 19.] \n\n### SECTION 1. \n\n#### No. 1. \n**Acting Consul Rose to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received July 19.)** \n\n(No. 6.) Sir, \n\nTengyueh, June 9, 1909. \nI HAVE the honour to inclose duplicate of a Report, which I am forwarding to-day to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, containing an account of a recent journey in south-west Yunnan to ascertain the measures which have been taken to effect a decrease in the opium crops. \n\n### Inclosure in No. 1. \n\nI have, &c. \n**ARCHIBALD ROSE.** \n\n## Report of a Journey into the Opium Districts of South-West Yünnan, with an account of the Annual Fair at Talifu. \n\n### Object of Journey. \n\nON the 22nd April, 1909, I left Tengyueh to make a flying tour round the districts in the neighbourhood of Tengyueh, the territory under the jurisdiction of the I-Hsi Tantai, which is estimated to produce 45 per cent. of the total opium crops of the Province of Yunnan. The routes taken by myself and two Chinese assistants are shown on the inset map, and pass through the tracts which in the past have proved most favourable to the growth of the poppy. \n\n### Routes. \n\nLeaving Tengyueh in a due easterly direction I followed the main road for three days, then branched off on to a bridle path leading south-east in the direction of Shunning Fu. Thence I turned north and reached Talifu by way of Meng-hua Ting, returning to my post through Yung-chang Fu. The consulate writer accompanied me as far as Shunning Fu, then proceeded to Yünchou and took a more easterly road to Talifu. The third route lay to the south of Tengyueh, through territory administered by the Shan Sawbwas.\n\n### Description of Country. \n\nThe track by which I travelled lay across a plateau from 5,000 to 6,000 feet above the level of the sea, with frequent rises and falls, some of the passes being at an altitude of over 8,000 feet, whilst the Salwen Valley is but 2,200 feet above the sea. In dry weather the firm, sandy path made walking or riding very pleasant, but in the heavy rains, which overtook us on several days, the steep slopes were almost impassable, and we were obliged to struggle up and down in straw sandals, whilst the mules found great difficulty in keeping their feet and made slow progress. Our small party did double stages over practically the whole route, and it was therefore impossible to carry tents or heavy kit of any description. As a result, we were dependent for a rude shelter on the occasional mud huts by the way, and were often obliged to carry our own food and fodder. The nights are cold and inhospitable in these mountain regions, and, after a march from dawn till dark, there was a comfort in the wood fire built on the floor that made one forget the dirt, the crowding humanity, and the smoke that stung our unaccustomed eyes. The country is wonderfully beautiful, a succession of fir-clad uplands with great mountain ranges stretching beyond them; far below, the Shweli, the Salwen, and Mekong, the Red River...\n\n* Not reproduced. \n\nB \n[2363 t-1]",
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        "content_text": "## \n270 \n\na distance of about 150 miles. The places mentioned are stations within the care of his particular branch of the mission, and are well known to him. He assured me that eight-tenths of the cultivated land in this region had formerly been under opium, but that on his recent trip he had not seen a single plant.\n\nFrom Hsiaoyi my road lay southwards to Pingyangfu, crossing the Lingshih pass and traversing the towns of Hochou and Hungtung. The district immediately to the north of the pass is mountainous and dry, and has never been of much importance as regards opium cultivation, but the country between Hochou and Pingyang was second only to the Chiaocheng department in the extent of its poppy fields and the quantity of the drug produced. The Fenho here flows along a broad valley flanked on either side by gently sloping foothills intersected by a number of streams joining the main river at short intervals. The whole region is well irrigated and thoroughly suitable for the growth of the poppy, and in former years quite seven-tenths of the fields were given over to that plant. This year, however, its growth has been put down with extraordinary severity; not only is the cultivation absolutely prohibited, but even stray stalks of self-propagated poppy growing by the side of the fields are not allowed to pass unnoticed. One man at Hungtung was actually beaten because a single plant was found in his wheat-field; and the people complained that during the sowing season the laoyeh (local official) came and grubbed in their land with his own hands to look for poppy seeds. In ground that has formerly been under opium there is naturally a probability that a few stray plants will reappear, though none may have been sown, and the danger of this provides the yamên runners with an excellent opportunity for blackmailing the farmer, of which they are not slow to take advantage.\n\nIn this district, as well as in some others I passed through, there had been attempts to sow opium together with peas, the idea being to root up the peas later and leave the opium, or vice versa, according to whether or not the prohibition might be disregarded. The trick, however, was discovered, both the crops were destroyed and the land was confiscated. Indigo is, to a limited extent, being introduced to take the place of opium. It is a more profitable crop than wheat, and always commands a ready market as a dye for the ordinary blue cloth so much used in China for the making of clothes.\n\nAt Hungtung, I was able to get information covering the west of the province from Fensi to Isichou and down to Puhsien. Here, as elsewhere, the reports were favourable, the officials were showing great activity, and the poppy was a thing of the past.\n\nFrom Pingyangfu to Hotsin, near the Shensi border, was my next stage. Hotsin is truly described by the resident missionary, Mr. Gillies, as the \"back of beyond.\" It is at the very edge of the province; it is not on the road to anywhere; the district is desperately poor; and, moreover, the country has never been noted for the production of opium, the little that was grown having been practically suppressed some four or five years ago by the imposition of a heavy tax in aid of the local schools. It speaks well, therefore, for the thoroughness of Ting Ta-jên's methods that even this remote spot should be visited by deputies from the capital. It is a pity, however, that they have not turned their attention to a large establishment here that is openly doing a thriving business in the preparation of cowhide, hoof parings, and other refuse as an adulterant for opium. I was assured at Hotsin that all the country northwards as far as Hsiangning and Kichou, about 35 miles distant, had been cleared of the plant.\n\nHaving travelled as far west as this, I took the opportunity to make a day's excursion into Shensi, which is only about 10 miles further on. The Yellow River, which forms the boundary between the two provinces, has to be crossed in a ferry-boat at a place called Yu Men Kou, named after the Emperor Yu, who, together with Yao and Shun, formed the legendary trio that were supposed to have ruled in the golden age of China, about 2300 B.C. Amongst his other achievements, he is said to have instituted the ferry service at this particular spot.\n\nOnce across the river there was no lack of poppy cultivation, the fields extending nearly to the water's edge. By this time (11th June) the opium had all been harvested, and the labourers were engaged in cutting off and collecting the capsules for the manufacture of opium oil.\n\nThe duty of enforcing the regulations in the south-west corner of the province has been entrusted to the salt commissioner resident at Yüacheng, a large commercial town not far from Chichchou. This official, of the rank of taotai, has shown great activity in the issue of proclamations, uprooting of poppy fields, and punishment of offenders. He has threatened to fine opium-growers six times the value of their crop, and in one case, at least, has made good his threat; a man who had planted opium in a small patch of ground, about the tenth of a mow, near Icheng, was made to pay 20,000 cash. The taotai's jurisdiction comprises an area of over 4,000 square miles, and I was informed by two members of the China Inland Mission who had recently journeyed through it that it was uniformly free from opium cultivation.\n\nFrom Hotsin I travelled eastward to Kiangchou and Icheng. At the latter place I was shown a letter received from the missionary living at Luaufu, stating that the same stringent measures had been taken in the west of the province as those in force to the east of the Fen Valley, and this statement was corroborated by communications from residents at Lucheng and Licheng. On leaving Icheng, I travelled over the mountains to Tsechoufu in the extreme south-east of Shansi, crossed the border to Chinghua, the terminus of the Peking Syndicate Railway in Honan, and so returned to Peking by rail.\n\nMy journey lasted exactly a month, and covered a distance of over 400 miles, through what were formerly some of the most noted opium-producing districts of the province. I did not, however, from first to last, see a single field in Shansi under poppy cultivation. Where I have been unable to speak from personal observation I have quoted from information kindly supplied by missionaries, as being more reliable than that derived from native sources, although I did not fail to question the Chinese themselves whenever an opportunity occurred, and both missionaries and natives were unanimous in affirming that the suppression of the poppy was complete.\n\nThis report, it will be noticed on reference to the map, only covers the southern half of Shansi, as it was unfortunately impossible to visit the regions to the north of the capital as well in the limited time at my disposal. According to Ting Ta-jên, however, the troops stationed at Kueihuacheng and other districts in the north have received orders to patrol the country, and see that the prohibition is rigidly enforced, and this statement is confirmed by Mr. Larsson, a Swedish missionary living at Tatungfa, who states that, beyond one or two unsuccessful attempts to sow poppy with cabbages, there has been no opium cultivation in the parts visited by himself and his fellow-workers. This is the extent of my information on the north of the province, but I am told that the amount of opium grown there was comparatively unimportant, and, in view of the thoroughness with which the orders of the Taiyuanfu authorities have been carried out in the remotest parts of the south, there is no reason for doubting that the same has been the case throughout.\n\nThe measures taken in Shansi against opium have, as was to be expected, enormously increased the price of the drug, especially in the neighbourhood of the capital, but less so in places near the frontier, on account of the smuggling. An ounce (\"liang\") of the best native article cost formerly about 300 cash. At Taiyuan it now fetches over 1,000 cash (roughly 1 dollar), at Pingyangfu 700 cash, and at Hotsin 600 cash. As two-thirds, or at the very least a half, of the adult population (both male and female) consume a certain amount of opium, they are, of course, very seriously affected by the rise in the cost of the drug. The poorer classes are unable to continue buying the quantity to which they have become accustomed, and so, in order to derive the same effect from a smaller amount, they have taken to drinking instead of smoking it. It would appear that a fifth of the amount consumed in the pipe, if dissolved in water and taken in that way, is sufficient to satisfy the same cravings. A great many, of course, are endeavouring to break off the habit altogether, as is evidenced by the large sale of anti-opium medicines, but it is to be feared that those who buy the ordinary pills sold in the shops obtain but little relief, whilst the few Government refuges, where a proper course of treatment is prescribed, are unsuccessful because the patients are not cared for on the premises, and if left to themselves they have not the force of will to follow out the instructions, which entail a certain amount of suffering in the preliminary stages of the treatment. In the mission refuges, on the other hand, where the patients are not only under constant supervision during the course, but are kept on for about a week after the treatment is over to make certain they are really cured, a considerable amount of good is being done, and the number of people who pass through these institutions is increasing rapidly. At Ichang, for instance, Mr. Trüdinger, the missionary in charge, informed me that their refuge had treated 120 patients during the last six months, as against thirty or forty in previous years. Nearly all of these were of the poorer class, and were being driven to give up the habit by the increasing price of the drug; those who...",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n401 \n\n14th July 1909.\n\nI am satisfied that our engineers and foreign overseers without exception are working heart and soul for the interests of Imperial Railway of China and doing so with kindness and consideration for the natives of China both villagers and workers.\n\nI shall shortly submit through B. E. T. Hanan a plan showing clearly the progress already made.\n\nIt is however specially in connection with the difficulties in Kowloon District which have been experienced by Mr. Boothby, District Engineer, Mr. Tarrington, and Mr. B. C. Chang, Assistant Engineers, I wish to explain to Your Excellency in view of Your Excellency's letter addressed to me personally. I note that Your Excellency points out that I am not held responsible for delay to the works due to the failure to obtain land to work on and this I have always acknowledged.\n\nBut apart from this delay to works which is very debatable and will, I fear, add to the cost of our Railway and delay the opening to through traffic, is the fact that the engineers specially mentioned have been called upon to face great opposition, dangers, and thus the crisis was brought about which necessitated...\n\nOne must recognise the fact that engineers living in tents on their Districts and among unfriendly and unruly villagers are called upon to face great difficulties.\n\nNew measures have now been undertaken owing to the intervention of the Viceroy at the kind request of Your Excellency, which Managing Director and myself hope and believe will bring about a better state of affairs in the District named and thus troubles of the past may be compensated for by increased activity.\n\nMy only object in writing this letter is to explain the circumstances which have given rise to special measures.",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nNo. 1.\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 23.)**\n\n(No. 238.)\n\nPeking, July 5, 1909.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 156 of the 12th April last, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from the acting consul-general at Canton, enclosing a report upon the official opening of the Sunning Railway.\n\nA map of the region in question was transmitted in my despatch No. 180 of the 27th April, 1908, and I therefore do not send the map attached to the present report, of which I have but one copy.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n#### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**(No. 63.) Sir,**\n\nActing Consul General Fox to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nCanton, June 11, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward for your perusal a report by Mr. R. S. Pratt, of this consulate-general, on the official opening of the Sunning Railway, which took place on the 3rd June last.\n\nA map showing the route of the railway is enclosed.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nH. H. FOX.\n\n#### Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**Report by Mr. Pratt on the Opening of the Sunning Railway**\n\nTHE official opening ceremony of the Sunning (Ning Yang) Railway took place at Sunning district city on Thursday, the 3rd June, 1909. Invitations were issued to all the prominent officials and merchants in Canton and Hong Kong, who were conveyed to the railway at the expense of the company. I attended the ceremony by the direction of His Majesty's consul-general, and was accompanied by Lieutenant E. M. Crosse, Royal Garrison Artillery.\n\nFlower-boats towed by launches were provided for the guests from Canton, and a start was made on the 2nd June from the Dutch Folly, at 10 A.M. Kung Yik, the terminus of the line, some five hours by steam launch from Kongmoon, was reached at about 2 A.M. on the 3rd June.\n\nThe officials present included the Taotai of Industries, expectant Prefect K'ung Ching Hui, the Viceroy's representative, his Excellency Chang Pat Sze, the promoter of the Macao and Amoy Railways, the Sunning and other local magistrates, and representatives from the self-government and other societies and guilds in Canton.\n\nAt 9:15 A.M. on the 3rd June the party proceeded from Kung Yik on a tour of the line, in trains which were highly decorated for the occasion. Arriving at Sunning at 11:45 A.M., a short opening ceremony was held, the line being declared open in congratulatory speeches by the Taotai of Industries and the Viceroy's representative.\n\nSunning was left at 12:30 P.M., and Tau Shan was reached at 3 P.M. All the stations along the line were highly decorated, and, together with the surrounding country, were thronged with thousands of spectators, who evinced their enthusiasm in the usual manner with bombs and fire-crackers.\n\nThe various trains forming the procession were likewise crowded with more privileged onlookers, the line having been thrown open gratis to all who cared to travel over it and who were able to find room.\n\nTau Shan was left at 3:40 P.M., and the return journey to Sunning was made in better time, Sunning being reached at 4:50 P.M.\n\n[2389-1]",
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        "content_text": "# \n## 9th February, summarising the acts protested against by Mr. Bland, and asking, in the interests of an honest and economical construction of the railways, for a full explanation from the Board of Communications.\n\nInformation, moreover, reached Sir J. Jordan about the same time which confirmed in every respect the previous reports as to the engineering defects in the portion of the line which had been constructed by the Kiangsu bureau, and the unsatisfactory nature of the position with regard to the undertaking generally. Sir J. Jordan laid stress in his protest to Prince Ch'ing on the fact that, although neither the managing director nor the chief engineer had been able to enter upon the performance of their duties owing to the obstruction of the provincial bureaus and that there had therefore been little or no occasion for the expenditure of the loan funds on railway purposes, nevertheless sums amounting to between 800,000l. and 900,000l. had been transferred from the loan funds in London to the credit of the railways account, and to the order of the Yu-Chuan Pu in Shanghae, and requisitions in large amounts had been made on the Shanghae account by the Yu-Chuan Pu. These requisitions had, moreover, in every case been made upon forms signed by Mr. Liang Shih-yi, presented through the Chiao-tung Bank. Three of them, numbered 15, 16, and 17 respectively, which had been presented by that bank to the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank at Shanghae on the 31st December, amounted in all to 330,000 taels, of which 150,000 taels were stated to be for \"formation\" and 130,000 taels for \"bridges.\" Article 14 of the Loan Agreement lays down, however, that \"requisitions on the loan funds will be drawn in amounts to suit the progress of construction of the railway by orders on the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation signed by the Yu-ch'uan Pu and its duly authorised representative, and accompanied by his certificates or those of the said board stating the nature and cost of the work to be paid for. Such amounts as may be required for expenditure in China may be transferred under the instructions of the Yu'ch'uan Pu at their discretion, to Shanghae, the transfer being effected through the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, and the transferred funds shall remain on deposit with that bank until required for railway purposes.\" It is quite evident, therefore, that the loan funds were intended to remain in London, receiving interest at 4 per cent, until required in China and should then have been left at the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation at Shanghae until actually required for payments for railway account and it is equally evident that in transferring the above sums from London to Shanghae before the managing director and chief engineer had been allowed to enter properly upon their duties, and therefore before it was possible to incur any large expenditure, both the letter and the spirit of the article had been distinctly violated. It was also a direct violation of the article to hand over the money to the Chiao-tung Bank when the Ta Ch'ing Bank existed for the transaction of Government banking business, on the requisitions described above. Such requisitions were, in the circumstances, utterly inadequate and did not comply in any way with the certificate of the Board of Communications required by article 14.\n\n## \n\nSir J. Jordan's note to Prince Ching was still unanswered when he received further reliable information as to the position and prospects of the railway of so unsatisfactory a character—it was for instance found that the loan funds were being issued by the Board of Communications to the provincial bureaux—that he arranged for a special interview with the Grand Secretary Natung, which took place on the 2nd March, when he placed before his Excellency a memorandum containing a full statement of the deplorable situation, and urged him strongly, as a member of the Grand Council, to devise some remedial measures as soon as possible. His Excellency said that the affairs of the Board of Communications, whose president, Chén-pi, had recently been dismissed, were being carefully enquired into by the Prince Regent himself, and Sir J. Jordan took advantage of this observation to request that His Highness's attention should be specially invited to the question of the Shanghae-Ningpo Railway. His Excellency promised that this would be done as soon as he had had a consultation with the acting president of the Board of Communications.\n\nThe Grand Secretary was unfortunately taken ill on the day after the interview, and this, and the death of his mother a few days later, prevented Sir J. Jordan from seeing him again. As information received from Shanghae indicated that matters were going from bad to worse on the railway, Sir J. Jordan addressed a note to Prince Ching on the 29th March, in which he directly requested His Highness to bring the contents of his memorandum of the 2nd March before the Grand Council, and indirectly suggested that the assistance of the Prince Regent himself should be invoked to put an end to the irregular proceedings of the provincial bureaux.\n\n## 3\n\nSince that date, Sir J. Jordan has lost no opportunity of pressing the irregularities on the Shanghae-Ningpo Railway on the attention of the Imperial Government, but neither his verbal nor written requests have produced any tangible result, beyond the despatch of the Chinese chief engineer of the Kalgan Railway to make a special report.\n\nA further breach of the Loan Agreement occurred in April, when the Kiangsu Bureau issued a circular calling for tenders for locomotives, in which it was stipulated that they must be supplied \"by well-known German manufacturers.\"\n\nSir J. Jordan drew Prince Ching's attention to the matter on the 13th May, and pointed out that under article 18 of the Agreement, all foreign materials should be purchased in the open market; that, at equal rates and qualities, goods of British manufacture should be given preference over other goods of foreign origin, and that, under the same article, the managing director, who was appointed by the Board of Communications, was to call for tenders, and that no orders for materials should be executed without his authorisation. Sir J. Jordan pointed out that Mr. Bland, who had referred the matter to Mr. Liang and had requested that the bureau might be instructed by telegraph to recall its circular and to cancel the arrangements therein proposed for receiving and opening the tenders on the 17th May, had received an evasive reply from that official, who ignored the request to instruct the bureau to conform to the Loan Agreement, and made a reference to the right of the managing director to avail himself of the services of agents other than the British and Chinese Corporation, which was quite irrelevant and evidently intended to confuse the issue. His Majesty's Minister argued that while responsible officers of the Board of Communications were found to treat the just representations made to them in so unsatisfactory a manner, it was not surprising that there were so many breaches of British railway agreements to complain of.\n\nIn an interview which took place at the end of June with Hsu Shih-Chang, the newly-appointed President of the Board of Communications, Sir J. Jordan invited the serious attention of his Excellency to the various infractions of the agreement of which His Majesty's Legation had had to complain during the past six months. Handing over the construction to the provincial bureaux, the refusal of the bureaux to recognise the responsible officials appointed by the Board of Communications according to the agreement, the inferior character of the work done on the line by the bureaux, the irregular treatment of the loan funds, and the calling for tenders for German locomotives in violation of article 18, were all restated, and Sir John invited his Excellency to take immediate steps to put matters in order. Stress was laid on the direct responsibility of the Board of Communications for this grave state of affairs, inasmuch as Mr. Liang, a councillor of the Board, was the author of the scheme under which the control of the railway was handed over to the bureaux, with whom an agreement had been concluded on the very day the loan contract with the British and Chinese Corporation was signed. What the bureaux thought of Mr. Liang's scheme was clear from a letter published in the \"North China Daily News,\" on the 11th June, in which the secretary of the Kiangsu bureau publicly announced that the Loan Agreement between the Imperial Government and the Corporation had no binding effect on either of the provincial railway bureaux.\n\nHsu Shih-Chang, who appeared to be fully aware of the situation, and recognised that it should be set right, promised to consult with the Grand Secretary Natung and endeavour to decide on a course of action.\n\nOn the 21st June, Sir J. Jordan saw Natung for the first time since his illness, and made strong representations to his Excellency, in much the same language as that used to Hsu Shih-Chang, and dwelt especially upon the open disregard of the authority of the central Government, as evidenced by the printed letter of the secretary of the Kiangsu bureau. Sir J. Jordan was unfortunately unable to see his Excellency again before his departure from Peking to take up his appointment as Acting Viceroy of Chibli.\n\nHis Majesty's Government are quite aware that much of the delay in this case has been due to the funeral ceremonies of the late Emperor, to the want of a proper head at the Board of Communications, and to the enforced retirement of his Excellency Natung on account of illness and mourning, and of his recent appointment as Acting Viceroy. At the same time, it is unfortunately only too true that the local bureaux have shown from the first an open and cynical disregard of the Loan Agreement, and, however willing the Imperial Government may have been in theory to remedy what they themselves admit is an undesirable state of things, it is also unfortunately true that their instructions have in practice produced very little result.\n\n## 471",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[August 30,]\n\nREGP 25 SEP 09\n\n486\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\nQuestion asked in the House of Commons, August 30, 1909.\n\nMr. Ginnell, To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the British Government has authorised the Government of Hong Kong to advance to the Chinese Government 1,100,000l. to repurchase from an American-Belgian combination the concession for building the Hankow-Canton Railway for the purpose of preserving from foreign control a railway of which the southern terminus was to be at Canton, whether Chang Chi-tung, in return, gave the British Government on the 9th September, 1905, an undertaking that British capital and materials should have the preference whenever China decided to construct the line; and whether Germans have since succeeded in securing for themselves the contract for building and financing the railway; and, if so, whether any, and, if so, what stops were taken by the British Government to secure the performance of the undertaking given by Chang Chi-tung and the interests in respect of which the advance of 1,100,000l. was made.\n\nAnswer by Mr. McKinnon Wood (for Sir Edward Grey).\n\nThe reply to the first point in the question is in the affirmative. It is true that Chang Chi-ting gave an undertaking that British capital and materials should have the preference whenever China decided to construct the line, but only if the terms offered by foreign financiers were not more favourable. A German group offered China in the spring of the present year terms which the Chinese considered more advantageous, and which they consequently accepted. It was to recover at any rate some portion of the Hankow-Canton Railway loan that the British and French groups, who were working together, decided to admit the German group to participation in the Hankow-Szechuan line, each group having an equal share in the loan and the material, but the British group supplying the chief engineer on the Hankow-Canton line and the chief engineer for one-third of the Hankow-Szechuan line. To safeguard the control of the loan funds by the lenders certain modifications were effected in the terms originally offered by the German group. Subsequently an American group expressed a wish to participate in the Hankow-Szechuan loan, and the negotiations with regard to the share to be allotted to this fourth group are still proceeding.",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 1 in Mr. Fox's No. 88, General Series of the 9th August 1900\n\nNotice by the Self Government Society of a public meeting convened for August 5th 1907.\n\n## Kuo Shih Pao, 16th August 1909\n\nWith reference to the \"Fatshan case\" in which the Chinese passenger Ho Yu Ting was brutally kicked to death by the ship's Portuguese watchman Noronha, it is well known that there were many eye witnesses of whom Messrs Fong, Tam, Yang and Chang who were fellow passengers actually gave evidence at the joint examination. The refusal of the Portuguese Consul to hold a joint and impartial trial and his subsequent reckless actions were protested against by the late Viceroy Chung. The Society has also sent several letters requesting an explanation, all of which have been ignored to the great indignation of Chinese at home and abroad. During the last few months letters have been received from Chinese merchants in the Philippines and other foreign ports expressing indignation at this murder of a Chinese passenger by a Portuguese.\n\nThe Society has now received a letter from Messrs Butterfield and Swire to the following effect :-\n\n\"We are willing to dismiss the captain of the \"Fatshan\" and to pay the sum of $3,200 to the deceased's relatives. This sum will be increased by $2,000 by the Compradore's department, making a total of $5,200. We will also ask for an enquiry into the cruel conduct of the Portuguese watchman and his murder of the passenger. We will further post a notice in all our ships ordering that Chinese shall be treated with particular consideration and forbidding any further kicking or ill treatment. As the case has been pending for a considerable time, we wish to know whether it is possible to send for the relatives of the deceased...",
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        "content_text": "## 586\n\n### i \n\nA 2 (Yunnan). No reply was received to this, or to a further communication in April forwarding the statement of a claim against them for wages by a former employé. The latter letter was returned to me by the Chinese postal authorities at Yunnan-fu, with the endorsement that Borg Brothers had left Hokou some time previously.\n\nIn June I received a letter from them, dated Laokay (Tonquin), stating that an earlier letter had probably gone astray in the post, and requesting to be registered; but enclosing neither particulars nor fees for registration. I have now repeated my request for these particulars, and at the same time I have desired to know whether their place of residence is Hokou (Yünnan) or Laokay (Tonquin).\n\n### Chinese Hospital\n\nThe Chinese authorities propose to build a hospital for Chinese soldiers. The hospital is designed for 150 beds. The site is being selected outside the city, and will be in the medical charge of Dr. Mazzolani. The doctor is now hard at work with his classes in the military college. He has seventy picked students, and appears to be fairly well satisfied with their intelligence and application. He tells me that the provincial authorities in Szechuan have informed Yunnan that they are not at all pleased with the results of the training received at the medical college at Chengtu, under Dr. Légendre, and that the Yunnan officials intend to be absolutely independent of French medical assistance.\n\n### Falling off in attendance at French Dispensary\n\nDr. Féray, who is the French consular doctor, tells me that the Chinese soldiers formerly under his care have been taken away, and that his dispensary patients have fallen off in numbers. The French explain this by saying that the Chinese are not yet used to the new French assistant, Dr. Vadon. It is true that Dr. Vadon does not yet understand the Chinese language, but he is an able man, with a kindly sympathetic manner. The true explanation must, I think, be found in the fact that the Chinese authorities have now opened their own dispensary, and drawn away patients.\n\n### Proposed French University and Hospital\n\nThe French are anxious to establish a university and a large hospital in the city, but they are uneasy that the Chinese will raise objections. A class has been opened for medical students, but the number attending Dr. Féray's course is small - eight only.\n\n### New French Consular Site\n\nThe French consul is endeavouring to purchase a fine site for the consulate outside the city.\n\n### Proposal for a Rupee Coinage\n\nMr. Wei, the manager of the mint, has informed me that a rupee coinage for Western Yünnan and the Chinese Shan States was in contemplation. The dies would be ready in a few days. He said that upwards of 300,000 Chinese rupees were issued annually from the Chengtu mint and had penetrated throughout Thibet. The latter remark is not borne out by my own information. He hoped that the Burmah Government would permit the free circulation of this rupee in the Burmese Shan States and in Burmah. I did not encourage him in his hope, and I suspect he was sounding the way for the governor-general. I have since heard from a good Chinese source that the question is being mooted to offer the importation of salt from Burmah into the Chinese Shan States in exchange for the recognition of the Chinese rupee as legal tender in the Burmese Shan States.\n\n### Squeezes at the Mint\n\nMr. Chao, the official director of the mint, resigned, and left Yunnan-fu a few days before the departure of the Hsi Liang (25th February). It is now rumoured that he made over 80,000 taels during his eighteen months' tenure of office by debasing the coinage. A few days ago a consignment of dollars, duly sealed with the mint seal, was found by the military authorities to contain a large number of copper coins.\n\n### Mint Machinery\n\nNew machinery has arrived for the mint. It was supplied by Messrs. Mandl and Co., whose interests in Chinese Government contracts now appear to have been sold to the German firm of Carlowitz and Co.\n\n### M. \n\n#### German visitors to Yünnan-fu\n\nTwo German representatives of Carlowitz and Co., Messrs. Crasemann and Schultz, and a special agent of Messrs. Krupp and Co., M. Berger, have arrived and taken a house. They are awaiting the arrival of the new governor-general Li Ch'ing-hsi. M. Berger talks of sending for his family from Germany, but it is probable that the other two will leave as soon as business negotiations are in train. The acting governor-general declines to enter into any contract with them. Crasemann told me that his firm had bought out M. Mandl, and used his Chinese hong name, \"Hsin-yi,\" in military contracts with the Chinese Government. He appeared to regard the interest thus acquired as very valuable, not only in connection with Chinese officials generally, but more particularly in regard to the family of the late Li Hung-chang. Li Ch'ing-hsi, the newly appointed governor-general, is the nephew of the late Li Hung-chang. It cannot be gainsaid that M. Mandl was in the highest favour with Li Hung-chang during the China-Japan war. Latterly, I believe, he acquired considerable influence in Chinese official circles at Canton. M. Crasemann further informed me that M. Mandl had obtained the contract for the machinery in all the Government mints in China. Kao erh ch'ien, formerly Administrator for Foreign Affairs at Yunnan-fu, and at present Chinese commissioner on the Macao Boundary Commission, told me one day that he considered M. Mandl the cleverest European in China in his methods of dealing with Chinese. It will thus be seen that the German visitors to Yunnan-fu are well supplied with credentials for getting contracts.\n\n### Missionaries\n\nThe French consul has lately consulted me informally as to missionary cases. He complains that his hands are full of these, and that he cannot get them settled. The Chinese authorities, he declares, are becoming more and more obstructive, especially in cases connected with missionary landed property. It would be positively disastrous for this consulate-general to work in concert with the French consulate in missionary cases, and I could only say that I was thankful that I had not yet been met by similar difficulties.\n\n### Colonial Opinion in Tonquin\n\nColonial opinion in Tonquin, judging by the views of visitors to Yunnan-fu, seems to have taken the credit for having effected the transfer of Hsi Liang, whose dismissal was demanded at Peking in connection with the Weigand incident (`P.G. No. 28 of 1908`).\n\n### M. Bacot\n\nM. Bacot, a French traveller of independent means, who was recently given the Garnier Award by the French Geographical Society for his travels in Thibet, passed through in May last en route for Tachienlu. He told me that he had been very kindly received by the India Office at London. He was thinking of crossing the Thibetan province of Poyul and descending the Brahmaputra River - a somewhat ambitious programme.\n\n### Local Troubles\n\nThe trouble at Hsüan-wei-chou (Eastern Yünnan) has been nipped in the bud, owing to the prompt measures taken by the acting governor-general. What threatened to be a wide-spread rising in Chiu-pei-hsien (Eastern Yünnan) has been crushed without apparent effort, owing to the energy and courage of the magistrate. That district is inhabited by large numbers of Sha-yi, a tribe of whom very little is known. They live remote from the towns, and appear to occupy themselves principally as wood-cutters and charcoal burners. Their hair is bound into a chignon, and they wear a sort of sarong or cotton kilt twisted into a knot at the side of the waist. A few brought into contact with the Chinese have the queue, and wear the ordinary clothing of a Chinese coolie. The leader of the rising claimed to have discovered a tablet buried in the forest bearing an inscription interpreted to mean that he was a descendant of the Ming Royal Family, and that his son would become Emperor. He gathered 5,000 to 6,000 followers together and proceeded to Chiu-pei-hsien. The magistrate had no soldiers, but he closed the city gates and sent to Yünnan-fu for assistance, which was promptly forthcoming. In the meantime, the magistrate had collected a small body of men and kept the Sha-yi out of the city. They occupied the villages in proximity to the town, but were attacked by 300 soldiers with two guns. The Sha-yi were armed with nothing but clubs, knives, and stones. A hundred of them were killed without loss to the Chinese, and sixty prisoners were beheaded. The remainder have dispersed. The leader was killed. His son, a little boy of 9 years, was brought to Yunnan-fu in a cage. He is now in the new prison. I visited this establishment a short while ago in company with the judge, and the demeanour of the juvenile pretender towards his gaoler was evidence that they were not harsh with him. The judge, to whose kindheartedness he owes his humane treatment, tells me that he is now being taught Chinese, and that it is proposed to set him free when he is of age, provided his conduct has been satisfactory.\n\n### Railways\n\nIt is now confidently expected that the French railway will reach Yunnan-fu before the close of this year. The construction train has reached Liu-feng-ts'un, 100 kilom. (64 miles) from Yunnan-fu. The earthquake on the 21st May did only trifling damage to one of the tunnels, and dislodged a large quantity of débris on to the track at Po-hsi. Three or four Lolo villages in the vicinity of Po-hsi were partially destroyed and six or seven natives killed. The shock was a sharp one at Yunnan-fu, lasting for seven or eight seconds (11:30 P.M.), but no damage was done. The French consul tells me that the Chinese authorities at Yünnan-fu have denied to him that the Chinese Government intends to buy back the French railway. This railway will have cost not less than $4,000,000 by the time it reaches Yunnan-fu, and I doubt if the Chinese at Yünnan-fu would recommend the purchase, for this large amount, of a railway which they regard as doomed to financial loss.\n\nThe subject of a light Decauville railway, to cost 300,000 taels, from Yunnan-fu to ... \n\nPage 3 \n\nB 2",
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        "content_text": "## No. 3\n\nPage 604\n\nOn the 29th ultimo I received a letter from Messrs. Sassoon and Co. complaining that a newly opened hong (Ho Chung) for the sale of foreign opium had been summarily closed, and requesting me to take some action in the matter. The same morning I called on Mr. Cheng at the Foreign Office, who, however, knew nothing about the case; but he undertook to make enquiries and let me know why the hong had been closed. The following afternoon I received a letter from him saying that the hong had been closed by the magistrate under orders from the Acting Viceroy. I thereupon telephoned to the Acting Viceroy asking him to grant me an early interview, but he replied that he was too busy to see me during the next few days. I again requested him to see me as the business I wanted to discuss was of an urgent nature, but he merely repeated the same answer. In the evening I received a note from Mr. Cheng saying that the Viceroy had directed him and Wang Taotai to see me on his behalf, and appointing an interview at the Foreign Office for 10 o'clock on the morning of the 31st ultimo. I went to the Foreign Office at the appointed time and asked Mr. Wang to inform the Viceroy that unless I was granted an interview within a reasonable time I should have no alternative but to telegraph to you that his Excellency refused to see me. This had the desired effect, as shortly after I had returned, I received a message that the Viceroy would see me the following morning at 9:30. I may mention in this connection that the Acting Viceroy avoids seeing anybody as far as possible, many high officials having been refused interviews.\n\nOn the morning of the 31st ultimo I received a further letter from Messrs. Sassoon and Co. stating that the manager of the hong had been arrested, and that the receipt of this news had caused a great scare resulting in a demoralisation of the market.\n\nAn important point in this matter is that the three kung hongs practically comprise all the opium hongs which were in existence previous to the issue of the regulations, and it is, therefore, to their interest to prevent the opening of any further hongs to compete with them. In their second letter to me protesting against the closing of the Ho Chung hong Messrs. Sassoon and Co. say, \"The kung hong had practically a monopoly of the opium trade as in the absence of competition the members were dictating terms both as regards purchases and sales of opium to the detriment of our trade.”\n\nAt my interview with the Acting Viceroy yesterday morning I protested against the arbitrary closing of the hong in question as an interference with the right of free trade accorded to British merchants by treaty and as contrary to the assurances given me by the late Viceroy. I also showed him Mr. Hsu's letter, and pointed out that his interpretation of the regulations gave a monopoly of the opium trade to the three kung hongs. His Excellency replied that the Board's regulations laid down that no more opium hongs were to be opened, and as the regulations did not specifically exclude foreign opium from the sphere of their operations, he was merely fulfilling his duty in closing the hong. He said that the British Government had agreed to the reduction of the import of Indian opium, and that, naturally, the number of dealers must be reduced proportionately each year. I objected that, so far as I knew, the British Government had not agreed to any restrictions on the right of British merchants to trade freely, and that so long as the treaties remained in force I must look to him to fulfil their conditions; and I also urged that the quantity of foreign opium imported each year being fixed, it was immaterial to the Chinese authorities how many dealers were engaged in the distribution of it.\n\nAfter a long discussion, in which the Viceroy affected to treat the whole matter as one of slight importance, his Excellency emphatically refused to allow the hong to be reopened or the manager to be released, and I accordingly informed him that I should report the facts of the case to you.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n**Mr. Hsu to Consul Goffe**\n\n(Translation.)\n\nSir,\n\nJune 28, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to refer you to the conversation which I had with you at the Foreign Office a few days ago.\n\nYou then alleged that the number of opium dealers comprised in the (three) kung hongs was limited, and that no dealers outside the kung hongs could purchase foreign opium from foreign merchants, and you pointed to this as a breach of treaty regulations. I have the honour to point out to you that the kung hongs were formed in accordance with the regulations framed by the Ministry of the Interior, which specifically speak of native opium and make no mention of foreign opium being exclusively within the province of the kung hongs. Neither in the Board's regulations nor in those issued by this office is there anything contrary to treaty.\n\nYou also produced for my inspection two forms of permits to import and sell opium, issued by this office to the kung hongs, made out for a certain quantity of foreign opium, and you objected to any such authorisation being necessary. I have the honour to inform you that the regulations specifically provide for the issue of these two kinds of permits in the case of native opium, but there is no mention of their being required where foreign opium is concerned. It appears, however, that in the case of these permits blank forms are issued by this office to the kung hongs, who fill them in as they are wanted, sending the counterfoils to us once a month for purposes of comparison. The permits for foreign opium which you showed me were issued in error by the kung hongs; and they have been severely reprimanded further and directed to cancel any such permits already issued and not to commit any mistakes of the kind in future.\n\nI avail, &c. (Card of the Nanking Treasury Office).\n\n### (No. 16.)\n\nSir,\n\n### Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Consul Goffe**\n\nPeking, August 13, 1909.\n\nI HAVE received your despatch No. 24 of the 2nd instant complaining of the attitude of the Acting Viceroy of Nanking in regard to certain alleged interferences with the freedom of trade in foreign opium.\n\nThe whole of this question is one which requires very delicate handling, and I can only hope that you will find that the new Viceroy, Chang, who has had to deal with it in Canton and should know the question thoroughly, will prove more conciliatory than the Acting Viceroy. It appears to me very doubtful how far we should object to the closing of the new hong against which you protested. I understand that under the regulations in force in Kiangsu no further shops for dealing in either raw or prepared opium beyond those already licensed will be allowed to be opened. This is merely carrying into effect No. 5 of the original Imperial Regulations of 1906, and as such we cannot oppose such a measure.\n\nHis Majesty's Government are of opinion that these regulations should not be regarded as constituting an infringement of our treaty rights, and Sir Edward Grey has gone further and said that even should a case be made out in favour of the rules being considered to constitute a technical violation of treaty rights, he would be disposed all the same not to raise objection to the rules being carried out.\n\nUnder these circumstances I do not feel that you are called upon to make any general protest against the enforcement of the licensing rules, but you should remind the Viceroy of the representations made to him by His Majesty's consul-general at Canton, and say that acting under instructions from me, you must request his Excellency to issue directions that foreign opium must be excluded from the operation of any clauses in the regulations which are intended to apply to the wholesale trade. You should add that you will make no formal protest as long as the licensing regulations are carried out in a proper spirit and in such a manner as not to interfere with the wholesale trade between the British importer and the native purchaser.\n\nYou should be very careful as to how you commit yourself to the representations of Messrs. Sassoon and Co. in regard to our general line of policy in this matter, only telling them generally that you have received instructions to protest against interference with the wholesale trade in foreign opium.\n\nI am, &c. (In the absence of His Majesty's Ambassador),\n\nW. G. Max Müller.\n\nB 2",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 9 in No. 1.\n\n## Mr. F. Grove to Liang Shih Yi.\n\n### Your Excellency,\n\nJuly 14, 1909.\n\nI HAVE to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your Excellency's despatch dated the 26th June, 1909. With regard to your Excellency's remark that I have stated that I am not satisfied that vigorous efforts have been made to secure land for purposes of our railway by his Excellency Wei Han, managing director, I beg to state that there must be some error in attributing this statement to me. I have at various times, in accordance with my duty, recorded in reports the slow progress in certain portions of the line, though I have invariably recognised the great difficulties encountered, and have had no reason to doubt the vigorous and zealous action of the land department.\n\nIt is perhaps unnecessary that I should state the opinion, which I have always held, namely, that his Excellency Wei Han has been invariably deeply concerned in the best interests of our railway, and by personal influence with the Viceroy, and through his Weiyuens has constantly endeavoured to expedite land purchase and remove difficulties encountered in the districts. I believe I have been consistent in all reports and letters which I have written, that is, that I recognised that the slow progress and obstruction in certain districts was due to\n\n1. The unfriendliness and ignorance of the native village people.\n2. In some cases, I am sorry to say, the lack of adequate support from the district magistrates.\n\nAs your Excellency is doubtless aware, we have recently experienced what may be called a crisis as affecting certain portions of our line, especially Namseh in the Tung Kun district, and Shektan and Shek Ha in the Tsang Shing district. This crisis was brought about by the reasons already stated. It was further due no doubt to the following reasons:---\n\n1. The continual pressure upon the natives by the land department for the sale of land and the right of entry of our work-people.\n2. The honest endeavour of our engineers to do work and carry on railway construction in accordance with their duties.\n\nFor these reasons work was actually obstructed on many occasions, and our engineers and work-people were subjected to insult and assault, even the risk of being murdered, while carrying out their duties, and acting in perfect agreement with the managing director's instructions, and with the knowledge and support of our Weiyuens. After many months, during which it may be said that our engineers, Chinese and foreign, joined with the Weiyuens, each helping the other to confront and overcome the difficulties and opposition, the former by endeavouring to commence work, and the latter by negotiations and conciliation, a stage was reached when, principally owing to the fact that four murders occurred, due to the superstitious ignorance of the natives and the lack of support by local magistrates, of whom help was invariably sought by the managing director and by the engineer on the spot, a time arrived when the engineers were forced to tender their resignations rather than risk their lives and reputations in endeavouring to work under such unfair conditions.\n\nI do not wish your Excellency to think that I fail to appreciate the progress already made on many parts of our line. I can assure your Excellency that much satisfactory progress is being made, and I believe his Excellency Wei Han is fully satisfied with such progress, both of land purchase and of works, and that he is also satisfied that our engineers and foreign overseers, without any exception, are working heart and soul for the interests of this Imperial railway of China, and doing so with kindness and full consideration for the natives of China, both villagers and work-people.\n\nI shall shortly submit, through his Excellency Wei Han, a plan showing clearly the progress already made.\n\nIt is, however, specially in connection with the difficulties on No. 2 district which have been experienced by Mr. Boothby, district engineer, Mr. Warmington and Mr. H. C. Chang, assistant engineers, that I wish to explain to your Excellency, in view of your Excellency's letter addressed to me personally. I note that your Excellency points out that I am not held responsible for delay to the works through the failure to obtain land to work on, and this I have always recognised. But, apart from this delay to works, which is very regrettable, and will, I fear, add to the cost of our railway and delay the opening to through traffic, is the fact that the engineers specially mentioned have been called upon to face great opposition and dangers, and thus the crisis was brought about which necessitated special measures.\n\nOne must recognise the fact that engineers living in loneliness on their districts, and among unfriendly and unruly people, are called upon to face great difficulties.\n\nMeasures have now been undertaken, owing to the cordial help of the Viceroy at the kind request of your Excellency, which the managing director and myself hope and believe will bring about speedily a better state of affairs in the district named, and thus the delays of the past may be compensated for by increased activity.\n\nMy only object in writing this letter is to explain the force of circumstances which has given rise to special measures, and to ask your Excellency to believe that my sense of duty towards your Excellency, the director-general, and to the managing director, has always prompted my action, such as seemed necessary for the harmonious and satisfactory working of the railway.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n### FRANK GROVE, Engineer-in-chief.\n\nPage 8\nPage 9",
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        "content_text": "## Dans des notes présentées à ce sujet aux Gouvernements de Chine et de Russie, ainsi que dans leurs communications verbales, ces représentants ont tâché d'établir que certains articles de la convention signée à Pékin le 27 avril (10 mai), année courante, portaient préjudice aux droits d'exterritorialité, assurés à leurs ressortissants par les traités avec la Chine, et que ces articles, ainsi que certaines mesures administratives adoptées à Kharbine, étaient en contravention avec le régime de \"concessions internationales\" qui, à leur avis, auraient été introduit récemment dans cette ville.\n\nIl n'est pas difficile de démontrer que ce point de vue est basé sur un malentendu, car d'abord les droits d'exterritorialité, en tant qu'ils sont assurés par les traités, ne comprennent que l'avantage de chaque étranger d'être jugé par son propre consul, mais ne le dispensent nullement du devoir de payer les taxes municipales et autres, et de se soumettre au régime existant dans la localité où il réside.\n\nOr, ces régimes ne sont point uniformes en Chine, et varient selon le type de concession adopté dans tel ou autre port en vertu de conventions spéciales conclues à ce sujet avec la Chine. Ainsi, à Tien-tsin et à Hankéou chaque nationalité a sa propre concession; à Chang-Hai la concession est internationale; à Tsinanfou, Souchéou, Ning-Po, et autres il n'y a point de concessions européennes, l'administration étant purement chinoise. Une seule règle commune aux différentes localités ouvertes au commerce étranger en Chine, c'est que tout étranger qui veut s'y établir est tenu à se soumettre aux règlements et taxes existants, tout en conservant en pleine vigueur son exterritorialité judiciaire.\n\nLa différence entre les ports ouverts purement chinois, dans lesquels il n'existe point de concessions ou settlements étrangers et ceux ouverts sur les terrains du Chemin de Fer de l'Est chinois, consiste en ce que l'autorité chinoise possède, dans la première catégorie de ports, la pleine et entière liberté d'y établir le régime d'administration qu'elle croit bon. Dans la seconde catégorie elle est liée par son contrat du 16 (28) août 1896, dont l'article 6 stipule que la compagnie du chemin de fer \"aura le droit absolu et exclusif de l'administration de ses terrains,\" et par la convention du 27 avril (10 mai), qui a pour but de confirmer et de développer le contrat mentionné plus haut. Par ces deux actes la Chine a délégué son droit d'administration dans les terrains du chemin de fer à une compagnie russo-chinoise agissant comme concessionnaire privé. Par conséquent, la compagnie, en exerçant son contrôle dans Kharbine et les autres centres d'habitation situés sur ses terrains, agit en qualité d'organe de l'État chinois. Et comme dans les ports ouverts de la Chine intérieure les étrangers sont obligés de se soumettre au régime de la vie civile qui y est établie la Chine, excepté ceux qui touchent à leur juridiction, de même ils sont tenus sur les terrains du chemin de fer à accepter les conditions créées par les deux actes précités.\n\nCette situation, autant qu'elle concerne les relations internationales, est d'ailleurs absolument conforme aux principes du Traité de Portsmouth. Pendant les négociations de ce traité les plénipotentiaires des deux Puissances, dans le but d'éviter toute cause de malentendu à l'avenir, ont déclaré que \"la concession de la construction et de l'exploitation du Chemin de Fer de l'Est chinois en Mandjourie n'est pas incompatible avec le principe de la porte ouverte et du traitement égal, et que dans les limites du terrain acquis en vertu de cette concession les sujets de Sa Majesté l'Empereur du Japon, ainsi que les ressortissants d'autres Puissances étrangères, jouiront des mêmes droits et privilèges que ceux de Sa Majesté l'Empereur de Russie.\"\n\nAinsi le Traité de Portsmouth n'établit que le devoir pour la Russie de donner à tous les étrangers sur le terrain du chemin de fer les mêmes droits qu'aux sujets russes. Ce devoir est strictement rempli par le régime établi sur le terrain du chemin de fer, en vertu duquel les étrangers y jouissent absolument des mêmes droits civils, jusqu'au droit de prendre part à l'administration municipale.\n\nUn autre malentendu paraît avoir donné lieu à l'assertion que Kharbine aurait été transformé récemment en concession internationale.\" Il y a lieu d'affirmer positivement que telle n'a jamais été l'intention des deux parties contractantes, et que ce terme même n'a jamais été employé dans la correspondance échangée par elles, ni dans la convention du 27 avril (10 mai).\n\nAfin de préciser le caractère tout à fait spécial de la situation légale de Kharbine, il est peut-être utile de jeter un coup d'œil rétrospectif sur les principales étapes juridiques traversées par cette question qui ont amené à la situation actuelle.\n\nAyant créé sur ses terrains et à ses frais la ville de Kharbine, la compagnie du chemin de fer a assumé, en vertu de l'article 6 de la concession de 1896, le devoir d'administrer cette ville.\n\nLorsque le Gouvernement chinois a ouvert Kharbine au commerce étranger il n'a aucunement eu l'intention d'invalider son contrat avec la société du chemin de fer. Il a simplement donné aux étrangers le droit de résidence et de commerce à Kharbine, et tout au plus le droit de demander que ce Gouvernement leur indique le territoire sur lequel ces droits pourraient être exercés.\n\nPlus tard, à mesure que la population chinoise à Kharbine a augmenté et que l'article 6 du contrat précité, qui d'ailleurs avait été dès le début rédigé en des termes un peu vagues donnait lieu à des malentendus entre l'administration municipale et les marchands chinois, la société du chemin de fer a repris ses négociations avec le Gouvernement chinois dans le but de préciser ses droits stipulés dans l'article 6. Ces négociations ont abouti à la signature de la convention du 27 avril (10 mai), qui, loin de porter atteinte au contrat de 1896, sert au contraire à le confirmer et à le développer. Elle ne change en rien la situation légale établie par le contrat précité, tout en ouvrant largement la porte aux étrangers sans distinction de nationalité, et en leur donnant le droit non seulement de résider dans cette ville, mais encore d'y prendre part au même titre que les Russes et les Chinois à l'administration municipale.\n\nEn même temps la Russie n'a créé aucun obstacle aux étrangers résidant à Kharbine d'y jouir du privilège prévu par les traités avec la Chine en vertu desquels la juridiction des étrangers appartient exclusivement à leurs consuls, à condition toutefois que ceux-ci fussent munis par leurs Gouvernements d'instructions explicites, précisant le devoir de leurs nationaux de se soumettre, au même titre que le reste de la population, à tous les règlements et dispositions de l'autorité administrative locale, tant par rapport aux taxes et perceptions établies pour cette population, qu'en ce qui concerne les mesures sanitaires et autres.\n\nIl est donc évident de tout ce qui précède que Kharbine, en vertu des actes juridiques qui le concernent, aussi bien que des traditions et circonstances locales par lesquelles il a passé, diffère de tous les autres settlements existant en Chine, surtout par son régime tout particulièrement libéral et hospitalier par rapport aux étrangers.\n\nPour conclure, il importe d'observer que les malentendus qui ont eu lieu ces derniers temps, à la suite d'une rédaction trop vague de l'article 6, ont créé sur le territoire du Chemin de Fer de l'Est chinois une situation instable, qui enlève à la population russe et étrangère la certitude de pouvoir s'y établir d'une manière solide et d'y créer des intérêts de commerce sérieux. La situation change complètement par la convention du 27 avril (10 mai) et les prochains règlements concernant l'administration civile sur le territoire du chemin de fer. Grâce à ces actes, il n'y aura plus d'obstacles au développement sur ce territoire d'une vie civile et commerciale. Il est par conséquent dans l'intérêt même des Puissances de contribuer à la prompte terminaison des négociations en cours entre la Russie et la Chine et de ne pas mettre d'obstacles à leur marche. Une attitude contraire prolongerait l'état de désorganisation qui règne dans les cités se trouvant sur les terrains du chemin de fer et rendrait impossible l'entretien de ces cités que la compagnie ne pourrait évidemment pas prendre à ses frais.\n\n742",
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        "content_text": "# KANALÁÖNNEN LEA \n\n2 \n\nVarious reasons are assigned for this unexpected revival of activity on the part of the Canton authorities, the most likely being that it is due to the impending arrival of the new Viceroy, who is known to be an advocate of strong measures for the suppression of opium smoking.\n\nThe opium dealers of Canton, who have practically gone out on strike and have refused to import or sell another ball of opium until their friends are released, regard the present action of the authorities as the beginning of a movement to make the sale and preparation of opium a Government monopoly.\n\nThey say that if the rule regarding the production of a special permit for every purchase of opium is strictly enforced, they will be obliged to close their shops, as it will be quite impossible for them to carry on business under such irksome restrictions.\n\nI explained in a previous report the manner in which sales to country customers were effected.\n\nI am addressing a further despatch to the Acting Viceroy on the subject of the reported formation of an opium monopoly in the Nam Heung prefecture, referred to in Messrs. Sassoon's letter, copy and translation of which will be forwarded to you in due course.\n\nI trust the action I have taken in this matter may meet with your approval.\n\nSir,\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**HARRY H. FOX.**\n\nMessrs. Sassoon and Co. to Acting Consul-General Fox.\n\nHong Kong, August 25, 1909. We beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favour of the 24th instant, contents of which have our careful attention.\n\nWe note that one of the Viceroy's secretaries said he would do his best to get the release of the men connected with the Chuen Fook Cheong opium hong, and we trust this will be done without delay. In the meantime our trade is disorganised. Business for the Canton market is entirely at a standstill, and deliveries have ceased. A trifling sale has been made for local requirements at a decline of 15 dollars per chest, and the Calcutta market has declined 30 rupees, from 1,350 to 1,320 rupees per chest. The fact that the Chinese have stopped shipping to Canton is very serious. It involves the importers in losses in interest and charges, and an increased risk in view of the decline in prices. We would request you to kindly bring this dislocation of our trade to the attention of the authorities, and to insist on them being released without delay.\n\nAnother interference with the opium trade has also been brought to our notice to-day. It appears that a monopoly is being attempted in the Nam Hung prefecture. The sole power to sell prepared opium is being conferred on a company, to the exclusion of all other retail dealers, who are ordered to close their shops. Furthermore, every holder of raw drug is required to pay a tax, the amount of which is not yet known, based on the quantity of prepared opium that can be obtained from a ball of the raw drug.\n\nWe telegraphed to you this morning as follows:-- \n\n\"Prices declining. Deliveries Canton ceased. Reported Nam Hung prefecture attempting monopolies and taxing raw opium.-SASSOONS.\"\n\nThe heavy stocks in the hands of the importers here, in Shanghae, and Calcutta render our position a very serious one, and the stoppage of deliveries and the decline in prices cause us serious concern. We have no doubt that you will bring all these points forcibly to the notice of the authorities, and point out to them that they cannot at their will violate the treaties and place British merchants engaged in the opium trade in a position of insecurity.\n\nWe beg to again tender you our best thanks for all the steps that you are taking on our behalf.\n\nWe have, &c. **David Sassoon and Co. (Limited),** \n**E. SHELLIM, Manager.**\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Fox to Acting Viceroy Hu,\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nCanton, August 25, 1909. On the 6th July I had the honour to address a despatch to your Excellency, in which I asked your Excellency to renew the assurance given by your predecessor that the new regulations for the control of the purchase and sale of raw opium would not interfere with the wholesale trade carried on between the British importers in Hong Kong and the Canton dealers.\n\nOn the 16th instant I had the honour to receive your reply informing me that you had instructed the Opium Prohibition Bureau to investigate the matter and take action accordingly.\n\nI now learn that the Bureau have suddenly and without warning seized and thrown into prison an opium dealer, trading under the style of Ch'uan Fu Chang at Hing Loong Street, Canton, who although himself provided with a licence in accordance with the regulations, sold opium to a person who had omitted to take out a permit. In consequence of this opium dealers in Canton have become alarmed, imports of Indian opium from Hong Kong have ceased entirely and the trade is disorganized.\n\nI learn further that the Opium Bureau have the intention of levying additional taxes on both raw and prepared opium, amounting to some 26 taels per ball.\n\nI have the honour to observe that, with regard to this matter of opium prohibition, I have received explicit instructions from His Majesty's Minister in Peking that foreign opium should be excluded from the operation of any regulations dealing with the wholesale trade. I have been directed to inform your Excellency that no protest will be made as long as the licensing regulations are carried out in a proper spirit and in such a manner as not to interfere with the wholesale trade between the British importer and the native purchaser.\n\nThe action of the Opium Prohibition Bureau in suddenly arresting this opium dealer, and the consequent stoppage of business in raw opium, constitutes a serious interference with the normal course of trade, and it is my duty, therefore, to protest formally against the Bureau's action.\n\nAs regards the proposed additional taxes on raw and prepared opium, I would remind your Excellency that to tax imported opium while still in its package is contrary to treaty, and that in the case of prepared opium it has on more than one occasion been settled by our respective predecessors that such taxes can only be imposed with the sanction of the Wai-wu Pu and the consent of His Majesty's Minister in Peking.\n\nThe bureau would therefore appear to be acting precipitately in this matter and without first consulting the higher authorities.\n\nI have therefore the honour to request that your Excellency will give this matter your serious consideration and, if the facts are as stated, issue stringent instructions to the bureau concerned not to interfere with the wholesale trade in Indian opium between Hong Kong and Canton.\n\nThis trade, by agreement between our respective Governments, is being reduced in volume every year, and prohibitive measures on the part of the Canton Opium Bureau are therefore uncalled for and only tend to disturb the friendly relations which so happily exist between Great Britain and China at the present time.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**HARRY H. FOX.**\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Prince Ching.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nPeking, September 16, 1909. I have at various times during the past year invited the attention of the Chinese Government to the measures taken by provincial authorities for controlling the sale and consumption of opium, and your Highness was so good as to assure me in your note of the 22nd April that the stringent prohibition of opium, which was being enforced in Chekiang and other provinces, did not affect the foreign drug.\n\nPage 770",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**Agreement between the Board for the opening of the Mart of Changchun on the one part and the British firm of Samuel McGregor and Co. on the other part, for the purchase of beans (nine clauses).**\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\nThe British firm of Messrs. Samuel McGregor and Co. has contracted with the board for the opening of the mart at Changchun for the purchase of 40,000 English tons of Manchurian beans of good quality (each English ton to be, according to Chinese official weight, 1,680 catties, the total weight thus amounting to 67,200,000 Chinese catties).\n\nThe price has been mutually agreed upon at Shanghae \"kuei ping\" silver of good touch, either Shanghae sycee or bars, 1 t. 54 c. per 100 catties, the total price for the 40,000 tons thus amounting to 1,031,880 taels.\n\n2. One week after the signing of this contract Messrs. Samuel McGregor and Co. will pay over one-tenth of the total purchase money as bargain money, i.e., Shanghae \"kuei ping\" silver 103,488 taels. This amount is payable at Changchun either in sycee or bars of good touch, and on its receipt the board will render an acknowledgment sealed with the official seal of the taotai.\n\n3. The beans will be delivered from the commencement of the 9th Chinese moon of the present year up to the end of the 1st Chinese moon of next year in instalments, and it is agreed that receipts must be mutually given for the receipt of beans or money respectively. Such receipts must be sealed and must also bear the signature of the agents of the parties concerned.\n\n4. Of the total amount of 40,000 tons, 25,000 tons are to be delivered in the Changchun-Kungchuling district, and 15,000 tons in the district to the south of Shwang-cheng Pu. In the event of the firm of Messrs. McGregor and Co. having land or godowns in the neighbourhood of the stations, the beans must be delivered at such places.\n\n5. The board must give the firm one week's notice of the intended delivery of cargo, so that they may make the necessary arrangements for the payment against the delivery. After the firm has taken over the beans, all charges for loading, freight, godown hire, &c., are the business of the firm and have nothing to do with the board for the opening of the mart.\n\n6. All moneys are to be paid at Changchun in Shanghae silver sycee or silver bars of good touch; no portion of the amount can be paid in other kinds of money or by cheque or draft. The cost of bringing the money to Changchun must be borne by the firm, and is no concern of the board.\n\n7. If the firm are unable to find the money for the payment of the beans contracted for by the due date, or if there is a delay, the board shall retain the bargain money as a fine for the non-fulfilment of the contract. On the other hand, if the board has not completed the delivery of the quantity of beans stipulated for by the end of the first moon of the coming year, the firm themselves will purchase in the open market the shortage so as to make up the 40,000 tons, and the board will pay any difference caused by a higher price, so that the firm may not suffer any loss. But the firm must produce clear proof (of the price paid) before receiving compensation from the board.\n\n8. The agents for the firm and of the board for receiving beans and money respectively, shall have the power of issuing and signing receipts. As the matter is of great importance, the names of the said agents and specimen copies of their signatures must be mutually notified beforehand.\n\n9. Two copies of this agreement, both in Chinese and in English, will be provided for signature. The English copy is a translation of the Chinese text, so that there may be no mistakes in the meaning of this agreement. Should, however, hereafter any disagreement arise, the Chinese text is to be taken as authoritative.\n\nAfter the money has been paid and the cargo delivered in full, all receipts for beans and money should be mutually exchanged and cancelled, and this agreement being finished, must also be cancelled.\n\nThe above provisions having been mutually agreed upon, must be adhered to. In witness whereof, we have this day signed and sealed the above contract.\n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\nPage 18\n\n## Memorandum respecting Hukuang Loan.—(Communicated to the United States Ambassador October 20, 1909.)\n\nThe United States Government may be assured that the delay in reaching a settlement in the matter of the international railway loan in China is not due to any action on the part of Great Britain.\n\nThe case stands as follows:\n\nAn inter-group agreement, arrived at in Berlin on the 14th May, 1909, placed the British in possession, as regards engineers, of the whole of the Hankow-Canton and of one-third of the Hankow-Szechuan Railway, as against one-third of the latter line only to the Germans and French respectively.\n\nSubsequently the American group claimed to participate in the loan for the Hankow-Szechuan line, and negotiations were entered into with a view to meeting their wishes.\n\nEarly last month negotiations appeared to have reached something like a deadlock in connection with the appointment of engineers to supervise the construction of the different sections. The only equitable solution appeared to His Majesty's Government to be that each of the three groups originally concerned should make some sacrifice in order to allow of American participation. The British group were fully prepared to do this. His Majesty's Government accordingly suggested to the French and German Governments that the whole of the Szechuan line from Hankow, with any branch lines constructed, should, as nearly as practicable, be divided equally among the four Powers as regards engineers, as well as in other respects, and that the agreement with the Chinese should be modified so as to permit of the Americans signing it. His Majesty's Government further proposed that, should the Chinese Government object to making any definite arrangement at present for the construction of the Szechuan line beyond the Hupeh section, China should undertake, as regards such extension, i.e., beyond Ichang, to apply to the four Powers for the capital required.\n\nBefore the advent of the American group it had been agreed that the Hupeh section of the Szechuan line should fall to the German group, while the extension beyond was to be shared between the British and French groups. The foregoing proposal, while entailing a diminution of the German section, likewise involved a decrease in the British and French shares of the extension, and provided, as far as His Majesty's Government could see, the only fair arrangement possible.\n\nThe German group, however, objected on the ground that the proposal would curtail in a one-sided manner their rights acquired by the agreement of the 14th May, and that by the preliminary contract with China of the 7th March of this year the German group were to have the engineer for the Hankow-Canton line, and that they only gave up this right on the condition that the engineer for the section of the 800 kilom. of the Hankow-Szechuan line already granted by the Chinese Government should be their nominee. In these circumstances the English proposal appeared to them to be unfair, and incompatible with the agreement of the 14th May, since it obliged them to give up acquired rights on the first 800 kilom. of the Hankow-Szechuan line, while the English group retained without any curtailment their rights on the Hankow-Canton Railway. According to the views of the German financiers, it would be only fair that, should the Hankow-Szechuan line be divided into four, the Hankow-Canton line should also be divided.\n\nOn the other hand, it appears to His Majesty's Government that, under the arrangement proposed by the Germans, the British group would be making a double sacrifice, one on the Hankow-Szechuan line and one on the Canton-Hankow line, while the Germans would be compensated for the sacrifice they made on the Hankow-Szechuan line by what they gained at the British expense on the Canton-Hankow line, and would thus be making no sacrifice at all.",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n# CHINA RAILWAYS\n\n36392  \nIREC  \n23  \n[August 27] NOVOS  \nSECTION 3.\n\n[32326]\n\n## No. 1.\n\n**(No. 141.)**  \nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received August 27.)  \n**(Telegraphic.)** P.  \n**RAILWAY negotiations**\n\nPeking, August 27, 1909.\n\nPlease see the telegram sent to London to-day by Mr. Tillier, and the telegram of the 25th instant from Mr. Addis, to Peking.\n\nMr. Hillier considers that the arguments advanced in the latter of the above telegrams do not preclude him from signing the agreement according to his original instructions, but I have communicated to him my view that the terms of your telegram No. 137 of the 24th instant, prohibit his taking that course.\n\nAs regards, however, the suggestion made in your telegram No. 137, I am bound to say that, in my opinion, such a division of the line would not be possible without breaking the loan agreement as initialled. It would further be difficult to carry the proposed arrangement into effect, owing to the fact that the extension from Ichang to Chengtu has not hitherto come within the scope of the negotiations with Chang.\n\nThe French having now withdrawn their objection, I venture to ask whether you still attach importance to an immediate as opposed to a future settlement of the question of the extension to Chengtu.\n\n[32354]\n\n## No. 2.\n\n**(No. 142.)**  \nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received August 27.)  \n**(Telegraphic.)** P.  \n**CHINCHOW-TAONANFU Railway**\n\nPeking, August 27, 1909.\n\nI had an interview to-day with my Japanese colleague, and I spoke to him in the sense of your telegram No. 132 of the 20th instant.\n\nHe told me that he had received no reply from the Wai-wu Pu to his recent suggestion that they should obtain the advice of the Japanese before making definite plans for the construction of the railway. In his opinion the Chinese would be more inclined to view the matter in a friendly way after the settlement, which would not now be long delayed, of the Manchurian negotiations, and it would be advisable to suspend action on our part meanwhile, though he thought that I might perhaps endeavour to ascertain the views of the Chinese if a suitable opportunity were to present itself. I told him that I would do so.\n\nI cannot help thinking that it will be no easy task to persuade the Chinese into taking the first step and meeting the Japanese half way, as I interpret the action of the Mukden Viceroy in conveying to the British, German, and American consular officers on the 19th August his desire that the proposed mining and railway developments in Manchuria should be financed with either British, or German, or American capital, as showing the anxiety of the Chinese authorities to put a check on Japanese activity in those regions.\n\n**(Secret.)**\n\nLord ffrench tells me that at the same time as he was carrying through, on behalf of Paulings, the agreement for the survey and construction of the line, an arrangement was concluded, and is now in the hands of Mr. Straight, the representative of the American group, for the financing of the railway by American capital. In Lord ffrench's opinion, however, the existence of this agreement does not necessarily preclude the possibility of Japanese participation in the undertaking.\n\n[2389 dd-3]",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government:1 \n\n\n2 \n\ndiverted to other purposes. It is now therefore necessary to draw the required revenue from other sources. This is particularly difficult in a year when the resources of the Treasury are particularly low, and the needs of the country correspondingly great. Appropriations for the army and the navy are the most pressing needs, but in addition there is the expenditure incidental to the reform movement as well as to other most important measures, from none of which is it possible to divert funds. In the present year there are also extraordinary items of expenditure, such as the erection of His Majesty the late Emperor's mausoleum, the raising of the new guard regiments, military expansion in Yünnan, the opening of trade-marts at Kirin and Chang-ch'un-- items amounting in all to well over 12,000,000 taels. There is already grave danger therefore of supply not being equal to demand, and there is certainly no surplus in the Treasury from which to draw so large a sum. \n\nIn view, however, of the grave importance of naval requirements to the expansion of the country, and in pursuance of the desire of the throne to strengthen the fighting forces of the country, in our capacity as at the head of the finances of the Empire, we felt it our duty to examine thoroughly the resources of the entire country. Since we realise, however, that these are in a precarious condition in every district, we consider that efforts should be confined for the present to laying the ground-work of a navy, and no attempt can be made to form an efficient fighting unit. \n\nUpon a minute consideration of all possible sources of supply, we have resolved that on repayment by the Board of Communications of Kuei Ping 5,000,000 taels, borrowed from the Treasury by that Board for the redemption of the Peking-Hankow Railway and repayable between the years 1911-1915, the whole shall be devoted to naval purposes. \n\nAs regards the viceroys and governors of the various provinces, to whom we sent instructions to make contributions in accordance with the sums named and the times fixed in the original memorial of the naval commissioners, the substance of their replies is as follows:- \n\nYünnan, Kueichow, Kansu, and the New Dominion plead their position as frontier provinces and their poverty as excuses for making no contribution whatever. The remaining eighteen provinces promise contributions towards the initial expenditure required to a total amount of 11,340,000 taels, with an annual subsidy of 1,680,000 taels. A detailed list of these contributions is set out in the attached memorandum.* \n\nThe sum required for naval purposes is a large one. In addition, the time given for its collection is not wide. The provinces have offered their help, but the contributions still fall short of the sums mentioned in the original memorial. There is no question but that the finances of the country, both with the Central Government and in the provinces, are in a very weak condition; the surplus in the Treasury is completely exhausted; in the provinces, whatever methods were adopted to raise the shortage, no scraping or paring could achieve the desired result. Again, in the telegrams sent to our board from the various provincial Governments, with the exception of Hunan and Honan, no source of revenue is earmarked for this naval contribution; the remaining Governments ask that more time be given them, either to raise their contribution or to devise some means for diverting moneys used for other objects to this purpose. Though expressing their utmost readiness to make any contribution possible, they at the same time fully recognise the many difficulties that beset their path. Any sums now lying in the provincial and customs treasuries are already fully earmarked for the upkeep of the army or for other essential and national requirements, and cannot in any way be diverted for this purpose, under risk of causing delay and friction in the whole machinery of government. \n\nIt is our humble opinion that orders should be given by the Throne to the naval commissioners to reconsider their programme, and to accept the fact that the contributions promised are all that can now be obtained. They should select the items on that programme which they consider the most necessary, and carry them out as far as funds will allow, on the principle that every foot gained brings them nearer the completion of their object. We, on our side, will take every possible step to ensure the amounts promised being paid punctually by the provinces concerned into the treasury, where they will lie at the disposal of the commissioners. A similar procedure will be adopted with the loan funds, now in the hands of the Board of Communications, as they fall due. \n\nAppended is a complete list of funds at our disposal, and of amounts promised by each of the provinces.* \n\n* Not printed. \n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA \n\n**CONFIDENTIAL** \n\n`[41854]`\n\n### No. 1 \n\n2 DEC 09 \n\n### SECTION 2 \n\n186 \n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 15.) (No. 390.) Sir, \n\nPeking, October 25, 1909. I HAVE the honour to transmit herewith copy of a despatch from His Majesty's acting consul-general at Mukden, describing the attempt which is being made in Manchuria to introduce a boycott of Japanese goods as a retaliation for Japanese action in commencing the reconstruction of the Antung-Mukden Railway without awaiting the approval of the Chinese Government. \n\nThe movement is unlikely to assume serious proportions, but the fact that it has been made at all has a far-reaching significance. Manchuria is mainly inhabited by an immigrant population, amongst whom the guild system is far less effectively organised than in the central and southern regions of the Empire, and the Japanese are especially fortunate in having been able to select such a region for the enforcement of a strong line of policy. Had the scene been laid elsewhere in China, it is safe to assume that the experience which followed the \"Tatsu Maru\" incident would have been repeated. \n\nI have, &c. \n\nJ. N. JORDAN. \n\n### Inclosure in No. 1 \n\nActing Consul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan. \n\n(No. 55.) Sir, \n\nMukden, October 23, 1909. THERE can be little doubt but that since the decision of the Japanese Government early in August last to commence the reconstruction of the Antung-Mukden line without awaiting the conclusion of the negotiations, there has been a gradual recrudescence of anti-Japanese feeling in Manchuria. It is of course well known that the high provincial authorities strongly disapprove of the terms of the China-Japan Manchurian convention recently concluded at Peking, and under the circumstances it was only to be expected that an attempt would be made to introduce an anti-Japanese boycott. \n\nDuring the past six weeks Mukden has been placarded with proclamations urging a strict boycott; Japanese policy in Manchuria, especially with reference to the Antung-Mukden Railway and the Chien-tao question, is denounced in the most virulent invective, and Chinese merchants who deal in Japanese goods are branded as traitors to their country, and described as little better than animals. \n\nThe proclamations are signed \"Manchurian Japanese Boycott Society\" or \"The Peoples' Society,\" the organisation of which bodies is generally attributed to Cantonese students. \n\nAs a result of the representations of Mr. Koike, the Japanese consul-general, official proclamations forbidding the boycott have recently been issued by the Commissioner of the Education Department, the Commissioner of the Interior, and the taotai in charge of the Board of Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce. \n\nIn Mukden itself the boycott up to the present seems to be a somewhat half-hearted affair, although Major Sato, the director of South Manchurian Railway affairs at Mukden, recently informed me that it was causing considerable inconvenience. At Antung, Mr. Savage informs me, a determined attempt to promulgate the boycott was started by emissaries from Mukden; but the commercial relations between Japanese and Chinese at that port are so intricately connected that the boycott society has met so far with but little success. \n\nIt is reported, however, that in Kirin province the feeling is much stronger, and it would seem that the strenuous efforts that are being made by the provincial authorities to obtain control of the bean trade are prompted largely by a desire to thwart Japanese enterprise. \n\nI have, &c. \n\nROBERT WILLIS. \n\n`[2495 p-2]`",
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        "content_text": "## 240\n\n\n## 31\n\nbeen put down with extraordinary severity; not only is the cultivation absolutely prohibited, but even stray stalks of self-propagated poppy growing by the side of the fields are not allowed to pass unnoticed. One man at Hungtung was actually beaten because a single plant was found in his wheat-field, and the people complained that during the sowing season the laoyeh (local official) came and grubbed in their land with his own hands to look for poppy seeds. In ground that has formerly been under opium there is naturally a probability that a few stray plants will reappear, though none may have been sown, and the danger of this provides the yamên runners with an excellent opportunity for blackmailing the farmer, of which they are not slow to take advantage.\n\nIn this district as well as in some others I passed through, there had been attempts to sow opium together with peas, the idea being to root up the peas later and leave the opium, or vice versa, according to whether or not the prohibition might be disregarded. The trick, however, was discovered, both the crops were destroyed, and the land was confiscated. Indigo is to a limited extent being introduced to take the place of opium. It is a more profitable crop than wheat and always commands a ready market as a dye for the ordinary blue cloth so much used in China for making clothes.\n\nAt Hungtung, I was able to get information covering the west of the province from Fenhsi to Hsichou and down to Puhsien. Here, as elsewhere, the reports were favourable, the officials were showing great activity, and the poppy was a thing of the past.\n\nFrom Pingyang-fu to Hotsin, near the Shensi border, was my next stage. Hotsin is truly described by the resident missionary, Mr. Gillies, as the \"back of beyond.\" It is at the very edge of the province; it is not on the road to anywhere; the district is desperately poor, and, moreover, the country has never been noted for the production of opium, the little that was grown having been practically suppressed some four or five years ago by the imposition of a heavy tax in aid of the local schools. It speaks well, therefore, for the thoroughness of Ting Tajên's methods that even this remote spot should be visited by deputies from the capital. It is a pity, however, that they have not turned their attention to a large establishment here that is openly doing a thriving business in the preparation of cowhide, hoof parings, and other refuse as an adulterant for opium. I was assured at Hotsin that all the country northwards as far as Hsiangning and Kichou, about 35 miles distant, had been cleared of the plant.\n\nHaving travelled as far west as this, I took the opportunity to make a day's excursion into Shensi, which is only about 10 miles further on. The Yellow River, which forms the boundary between the two provinces, has to be crossed in a ferry-boat at a place called Yn Men Kou, named after the Emperor Yu, who, together with Yao and Shun, formed the legendary trio that were supposed to have ruled in the golden age of China, about 2300 B.C. Amongst his other achievements, he is said to have instituted the ferry service at this particular spot.\n\nOnce across the river, there was no lack of poppy cultivation, the fields extending nearly to the water's edge. By this time (11th June), the opium had all been harvested, and the labourers were engaged in cutting off and collecting the capsules for the manufacture of opium oil.\n\nThe duty of enforcing the regulations in the south-west corner of the province has been entrusted to the salt commissioner resident at Yücheng, a large commercial town not far from Chiehehou. This official, of the rank of taotai, has shown great activity in the issue of proclamations, uprooting of poppy fields, and punishment of offenders. He has threatened to fine opium growers six times the value of their crop, and in one case at least has made good his threat; a man who had planted opium in a small patch of ground, about the tenth of a mow, near Icheng, was made to pay 20,000 cash. The taotai's jurisdiction comprises an area of over 4,000 square miles, and I was informed by two members of the China Inland Mission who had recently journeyed through it that it was uniformly free from opium cultivation.\n\nFrom Hotsin, I travelled eastward to Kiangchou and Icheng. At the latter place, I was shown a letter received from the missionary living at Luan-fu, stating that the same stringent measures had been taken in the west of the province as those in force to the east of the Fen Valley, and this statement was corroborated by communications from residents at Lucheng and Licheng. On leaving Icheng, I travelled over the mountains to Tsechon-fu in the extreme south-east of Shansi, crossed the border to Chinghua, the terminus of the Peking Syndicate Railway in Honan, and so returned to Peking by rail.\n\n## 35\n\nMy journey lasted exactly a month and covered a distance of over 400 miles, through what were formerly some of the most noted opium-producing districts of the province. I did not, however, from first to last, see a single field in Shansi under poppy cultivation.\n\nWhere I have been unable to speak from personal observation, I have quoted from information kindly supplied by missionaries, as being more reliable than that derived from native sources, although I did not fail to question the Chinese themselves whenever an opportunity occurred, and both missionaries and natives were unanimous in affirming that the suppression of the poppy was complete.\n\nThis report, it will be noticed on reference to the map, only covers the southern half of Shansi, as it was unfortunately impossible to visit the regions to the north of the capital as well in the limited time at my disposal. According to Ting Tajên, however, the troops stationed at Kueihuacheng and other districts in the north have received orders to patrol the country and see that the prohibition is rigidly enforced, and this statement is confirmed by M. Larsson, a Swedish missionary living at Tatung-fu, who states that beyond one or two unsuccessful attempts to sow poppy with cabbages, there has been no opium cultivation in the parts visited by himself and his fellow workers. This is the extent of my information on the north of the province, but I am told that the amount of opium grown there was comparatively unimportant, and in view of the thoroughness with which the orders of the Taiyuan-fu authorities have been carried out in the remotest parts of the south, there is no reason for doubting that the same has been the case throughout.\n\nThe measures taken in Shansi against opium have, as was to be expected, enormously increased the price of the drug, especially in the neighbourhood of the capital, but less so in places near the frontier, on account of the smuggling. An ounce (liang) of the best native article cost formerly about 300 cash. At Taiyuan, it now fetches over 1,000 cash (roughly 1 dollar), at Pingyang-fu 700 cash, and at Hotsin 600 cash. As two-thirds, or at the very least a half, of the adult population, both male and female, consume a certain amount of opium, they are, of course, very seriously affected by the rise in the cost of the drug. The poorer classes are unable to continue buying the quantity to which they have become accustomed, and so, in order to derive the same effect from a smaller amount, they have taken to drinking instead of smoking it. It would appear that a fifth of the amount consumed in the pipe, if dissolved in water and taken in that way, is sufficient to satisfy the same cravings. A great many, of course, are endeavouring to break off the habit altogether, as is evidenced by the large sale of anti-opium medicines, but it is to be feared that those who buy the ordinary pills sold in the shops obtain but little relief, whilst the few Government refuges, where a proper course of treatment is prescribed, are unsuccessful because the patients are not cared for on the premises, and, if left to themselves, they have not the force of will to follow out the instructions, which entail a certain amount of suffering in the preliminary stages of the treatment. In the mission refuges, on the other hand, where the patients are not only under constant supervision during the course but are kept on for about a week after the treatment is over to make certain they are really cured, a considerable amount of good is being done, and the number of people who pass through these institutions is increasing rapidly. At Icheng, for instance, M. Trüdinger, the missionary in charge, informed me that their refuge had treated 120 patients during the last six months, as against 30 or 40 in previous years. Nearly all of these were of the poorer class and were being driven to give up the habit by the increasing price of the drug; those who are not troubled by pecuniary considerations would seem to be making no effort to abandon the vice; on the contrary, some of the richer families boast that they have laid in enough opium to last them for fifty years to come. The breaking off of the opium habit is not such a difficult or lengthy affair as is generally supposed; three weeks or a month being as a rule sufficient to effect a cure, even in bad cases. At Hotsin, I met a man who had been accustomed to smoke 4 oz. a-day, an exceptionally large amount; the average smoker seldom exceeds a tenth of that quantity, say, 4 or 5 mace. He was, however, completely cured and had not touched the drug for several years.\n\nThe method of treatment adopted in most of these refuges is as follows:- For the first five days, the patient is given doses of morphia equivalent to the amount of opium he has been in the habit of consuming; after that, the dose is decreased daily by a tenth until none is given at all, and at the same time, the patient is nourished on good food and is further strengthened by means of ordinary tonic medicines. The difficulty lies in the fact that the victim has usually taken to the drug in the first instance to gain relief from some disease, and on his abandoning the habit, the malady reappears. Dyspepsia, for instance, is responsible for a good...",
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        "content_text": "36\n\nA great deal of opium smoking is prevalent in Shansi owing to the way the people have of consuming large quantities of half-cooked food.\n\nEnquiries as to the popular sentiment with regard to the anti-opium measures generally elicited the reply that the people were on the whole glad that they were being obliged to give up the habit; they could not help realising its pernicious effects, but lacked the moral courage to abandon the drug of their own initiative. There is, however, a section of the community, chiefly of the student class and gentry, who are rather inclined to regard the action of the State as an unnecessary interference with the liberty of the individual, and would prefer to be left in peace to the enjoyment of their pipe.\n\nThe enormous increase in the marketable value of opium in Shansi has had the effect of widening the area under cultivation in the adjoining province, and a missionary, writing from Meihsien on the Wei River, in Shensi, states that the poppy is now grown to such an extent in the Wei Valley that the farmers have actually had to import wheat for their own consumption from other parts of the province—a very unusual state of affairs. It is believed that the prohibition will be extended to Shensi in 1910, so the people are making the most of their opportunities.\n\nIn Honan, less opium has been grown this year than last, especially near the main roads, and none was visible from the railway, but I am told that a considerable amount is still being cultivated in various parts of the province.\n\nThe energetic action that has been taken in Shansi is worthy of the highest praise, and it only remains to be seen whether the results are to be permanent or not. The regulations governing the election of representatives in the new scheme of constitutional government expressly exclude all opium smokers from holding office, so it is to be hoped that a safeguard against any reintroduction of the poppy will be afforded by the presence of a body of men in the councils of the capital whose desire for the welfare of the province is unhampered by considerations of a personal nature.\n\nIn conclusion, I would like to express my gratitude to the Protestant missionaries of Shansi, from whom I always received the greatest hospitality and assistance, and to whom I am indebted for much of the information contained in this report.\n\nJ. F. BRENAN.\n\nPeking, June 26, 1903.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n### Report of a Journey into the Opium Districts of South-West Yunnan, with an Account of the Annual Fair at Tali-fu\n\n#### Object of Journey\n\nOn the 22nd April, 1909, I left Tengyueh to make a flying tour round the districts in the neighbourhood of Tengyueh, the territory under the jurisdiction of the Hsi Taotai, which is estimated to produce 45 per cent of the total opium crops of the province of Yunnan. The routes taken by myself and two Chinese assistants passed through the tracts which in the past have proved most favourable to the growth of the poppy.\n\n#### Routes\n\nLeaving Tengyueh in a due easterly direction, I followed the main road for three days, then branched off on to a bridle path leading south-east in the direction of Shunning-fu; thence I turned north and reached Tali-fu by way of Meng-hua Ting, returning to my post through Yung-chang-fu. The consulate writer accompanied me as far as Shunning-fu, then proceeded to Yunchou, and took a more easterly road to Tali-fu. The third route lay to the south of Tengyueh, through territory administered by the Shan sawbwas.\n\n#### Description of Country\n\nThe track by which I travelled lay across a plateau from 5,000 to 6,000 feet above the level of the sea, with frequent rises and falls, some of the passes being at an altitude of over 8,000 feet, whilst the Salwen Valley is but 2,200 feet above the sea. In dry weather, the firm, sandy path made walking or riding very pleasant, but in the heavy rains which overtook us on several days, the steep slopes were almost impassable, and we were obliged to struggle up and down in straw sandals, whilst the rules found great difficulty in keeping their feet, and made slow progress. Our small party did double stages over practically the whole route, and it was therefore impossible to carry tents or heavy kit of any description. As a result, we were dependent for a rude welcome on the occasional mud huts by the way, and were often obliged to carry our own food and fodder. The nights are cold and inhospitable in these mountain regions, and, after a march from dawn till dark, there was a comfort in the wood fire built on the floor that made one forget the dirt, the crowding humanity, and the smoke that stung our unaccustomed eyes.\n\nThe country is wonderfully beautiful: a succession of fir-clad uplands with great mountain ranges stretching beyond them, far below the Shweli, the Salwen, and Mekong, the Red River, the Hsia-kuan River, and the Yangpi that go whirling through their deep beds, one flanked by tropical jungle, the next by steep rocky gorges, whilst the Hsia-kuan can be seen for miles winding between grassy slopes, a white and foaming torrent descending 1,600 feet over rocks and boulders, in one day's march. The tropical sun is tempered by the mountain breezes, and the country was full of familiar northern flowers growing in vigorous profusion; the hillsides were bright with rhododendrons, red and white, with azaleas of many colours and long sprays of clematis, whilst roses and meadow-sweet grew in luxuriance in the sheltered valleys.\n\nThe country is unlike the east and south and north of China in that its mountains are covered with forests and its streams run clear over their rocky beds, whilst for days at a stretch there is little sign of human habitation, save in the well-cultivated and populous valleys. Such people as we met between the towns were, however, friendly and willingly offered their rough hospitality; their faces, their homes, and the unbound feet of their women mark the people as tribesmen with a slight mingling of Chinese blood. In the Menghua district and along the northern route, many of them are of pure Lolo race, though the handsome, clean-cut faces of the Szechuanese Lolos are seldom seen. All, however, who have the slightest tinge of Chinese blood claim to belong to the \"family of Hau,\" and there is little wonder that they cling to the traditions and name which represent, on the one hand, all power and wealth whilst treating with a relentless contempt the \"barbarian\" of the hills.\n\n### Opium\n\n#### Opium Centres\n\nIn dealing with the production of opium, this circuit may be divided into two distinct spheres, the first comprising the districts under the direct control of the Chinese territorial officials, the second consisting of the frontier regions under the rule of the Shan sawbwas, including the fertile, low-lying valleys, and the Kachin Hills, for which the sawbwas are nominally responsible. It was generally admitted that the Shan valleys were still under opium crops this season, and I therefore decided to send a Chinese assistant to get any possible information in this direction, whilst proceeding myself to the east of the circuit where the Taotai claimed that the preventive work had been successfully carried out. My route was chosen through the greatest producing areas of the district and timed just before the opium harvest.\n\n#### Destruction of Opium Crops in Chinese Sphere\n\nSpeaking generally, the work of prevention inaugurated by His Excellency Hsi Liang, governor-general at Yunnan-fu, has been carried out in the Chinese sphere with vigour and success. It was naturally impossible to penetrate into the remoter regions during the short period at my disposal, but, by careful enquiry and by watching the local markets for the drug, it has been possible to gain a fair estimate of the conditions of the present season. From the high passes of these districts, one can obtain a broad view of the surrounding country, and the unmistakable colour of the poppy crops may be detected from a considerable distance when they exist to any extent. In the course of my journey, however, I did not see a single field of poppy, and the only evidence of cultivation was in the straggling flowers, which were freely scattered over the fields and were evidently the few survivors after the crops had been uprooted by order of the officials.\n\nThe consulate writer reports similar conditions in the country lying between Yunchou and Menghua Ting. I have also reliable information from Mr. Coggin Brown, of the Geological Survey of India, and from other English sources, that, in the country to the north-west and north-east of Tali-fu (under the jurisdiction of the sub-prefects of Yunlung Chou and Pinchuan Chou), the main crops have been vigorously destroyed, though a little cultivation is reported in the remoter districts, which are difficult of access for the preventive officers.\n\n#### Local Riots\n\nDuring December and the early part of this year, the prefects and junior officers of the circuit were constantly under orders from the Viceroy, first to exhort the people to devote their land to other crops, then to destroy the crops if their earlier orders had been disobeyed. In many cases, the latter course was necessary.\n\n[2494 p-1] \n241 \nC \n37 \nL",
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        "content_text": "## Kiangpei\nA \"tsung kuan kao tien\" was opened in the city the year before last; its representatives in the market towns were the local headmen. The competition of the smuggled drug was too strong, and the present stock in the \"tien\" is 100,000 oz.\n\n## Question 10 - What taxes is it proposed to introduce to replace the revenue derived from opium and opium dens?\n\n### Replies\n\nLiangshan.--No new taxes have been suggested on land apart from that levied for railway construction, which is half as much as the original land tax. In addition to this, taxes have been levied on the paper industry, which has given rise to considerable friction. Salt has also been more heavily taxed at the source of supply.\n\nTung Hsiang.--No information.\n\nK'ui Hsien--I have not heard of any suggestions.\n\nWan Hsien.--No other taxation has been proposed as yet, but heavier tax on opium consumed has so far resulted in a large increase to the authorities.\n\nFengtu.--No arrangements made for substituting other taxes.\n\nFuchou.--Official idea is to increase li-kin, e.g., an addition of 4 cash per catty on salt. If taxation assessed as follows were imposed: i.e., 300 cash per \"tso\" of wine, 200 cash per \"cha\" of oil, with 3 to 4 cash per \"tso\" and \"cha\" for petty expenses and 500 cash per pig, and the whole were handed over to Government, it should be possible to make up the opium revenue.\n\nChungchou.--Possible substitutes for opium revenue are taxes on boats, houses, and land.\n\nShih Chu Ting--The country south of Shih Chu Ting produces very good tea, and the Viceroy has ordered increased cultivation; the mulberry does well and can also be extended. Officials look to taxation on these two products to make up loss of opium revenue.\n\nNan Chuan--Suggests taxation on wine, oil, pigs, paper, tea, iron, and coal as follows: 400 cash per \"tso\" of wine, 200 cash per \"cha\" of oil, with an allowance per \"tso\" and \"cha\" combined of 800 to 400 cash for petty expenses, 500 cash per pig, 48 cash per picul of paper, 750 cash per picul of tea, 10 cash per picul of iron, and 7 cash per picul of coal. An additional li-kin of 100 cash per head of cattle, 100 cash per pig, and 200 cash per head on water buffaloes might also be introduced, and the combined total derived from all the items mentioned should slightly exceed the opium revenue, provided the whole were handed over to Government.\n\nPa Hsien Suggestions.--Increased taxation on sugar, oil, and salt, and, if this should be insufficient, the addition of a house tax and a levy on prostitutes. For the people, it is suggested that they should improve their methods of agriculture, and experiment with sericulture, forestry, and tea planting.\n\nKiangpei.--Suggests increase of land tax, and, if that should not be sufficient, addition to the taxation on oil, pigs, and salt.\n\n## Remarks on the above\n\nIt is my intention to offer below some personal and general observations on the whole question of opium reform in this province; but it will be desirable, in the first instance, to invite attention to certain matters having special reference to the information of my correspondents above given. They are:\n\n1. **Sources of Information**.--The details in regard Liangshan, Tung Hsiang, K'ai Hsien, and Wan Hsien were kindly furnished me by members of the China Inland Mission; while the information as to Fengtu, Fuchou, Chungchou, Shih Chu Ting, Nan Chuan, Pa Hsien, and Kiangpei comes from Chinese through the agency, in the case of the first five places named, of a member of the London Mission.\n\n2. **Area under Opium Cultivation**.--Opium is grown in all parts of Szechuan, but the most renowned districts are--\n   | District | Description |\n   | --- | --- |\n   | (a) | The Hsi Ting (Suiting) Prefecture, which includes Tung Hsiang, Taiping, K'ai Hsien, and Wan Hsien. |\n   | (b) | The Chungchou Sub-Prefecture, including Fengtu, Tien Chiang, and Liangshan. |\n   | (c) | The Fuchou Sub-Prefecture. |\n   | (d) | Yung Ch'uan Hsien. |\n   | (e) | The Chien Chou Sub-Prefecture, which is not under the Ch'uan Tung taotai. |\n   |  | The Hsu Ting Prefecture. |\n\nIn amplification of the information already given in regard to various places in this prefecture, I should mention that the informant to whom I am indebted for the particulars obtained as to Liangshan states in the body of his letter as follows:-\n\"In your postscript, you also ask for information from Tung Hsiang and Taiping. I regret to say that my knowledge of these two districts is very superficial, having merely gathered in the course of conversation with the worker stationed in Tung Hsiang that little or nothing was being done to stop the sale or growth in these two hsiens.\" This seems to be generally true of all the large opium-growing districts in this part of the province. K'ai Hsien and Tien Chiang, with whom we join borders, rank with the above two 'hsiens' in being the main sources of the opium supply. To say that little or nothing is being done to restrict the growth or sale of the drug is to repeat the common report of those who trade or journey in these parts, and not to give first-hand information arrived at by personal observation and enquiry.\n\nAnother correspondent from Hsi Ting, quoting from information supplied, mentions a very slight reduction in Ta Hsien, Tung Hsiang, Ch'ü Hsien, and Taiping, and a distinct reduction in Hsin Ning Hsien, Ta Chu Hsien, and Cheng K'ou Ting, all of which places are in the prefecture. The information as regards Tung Hsiang, however, does not agree with the statement of the missionary gentlemen working in that district.\n\nYung Chuan--Reports from various sources are to the effect that the poppy was very extensively grown in this district, and that there was a considerable increase over the previous year.\n\nConsidering only the places the particulars as to which form a preface to this report, it will be noted that in three of them alone is there any mention of a decrease, namely, Fengtu, Chungchou, and Shih Chu Ting, the last having the same area under cultivation as in the season of 1907.\n\n3. **Comparison of Estimated Profits on Opium and other Crops**.--The estimates of different informants vary, but a rough average makes the profits on opium three to four times as great as on pulse and cereals.\n\n## Observations\n\nI pass now to a general consideration of the opium question in Szechuan, and the remarks thereon will conveniently fall under the following heads:\n\n* Measures for prevention of opium smoking.\n* Area under opium cultivation.\n* Taxation in substitution of opium revenue.\n* The position of the Szechuan farmers.\n* The effect of opium eradication on the economic conditions of Szechuan.\n* Difficulties and prospects.\n\n1. **Measures for Prevention of Opium Smoking**.--The particulars with which this report opens do not encourage the hope that much has been done in Ch'uan Tung to exert a real check upon indulgence in the drug. Indeed, if Chungking may be taken as an example, I know of no better criticism on the steps taken than the Chinese aphorism, \"Yu ming wu shih,\" i.e., the measures adopted have had effect in name, but not in fact.\n\nChungking has had its \"tu hang,\" or raw opium depôt, under official control, a head official prepared opium store (\"tsung kuan kao tien\"), four branch stores (\"fen kuan kao tien\"), licensed opium dens, and \"pi fa tian.\" There remain at present the raw opium depôt and the head prepared opium store, and this is the net result: the smoker has been, and is, able to get all the opium he wants without application to any official institution, the city is honeycombed with secret dens, and the head prepared opium store has a large stock in hand of which it has been unable to dispose for some months. The doings of the deputy in charge of this store have been similar to those of his confrères at Chengtu. The drug was offered for sale at ...",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## SECTION 1\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey**.-(Received November 26.)\n\n(No. 103.)\n\nPeking, November 7, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from the military attaché to this legation on the subject of the reconstruction of the Antung-Mukden Railway.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\n(No. 17.)\n\n**Lieutenant-Colonel Willoughby to Sir J. Jordan**\n\nPeking, November 4, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit herewith three copies of the report on the reconstruction of the Antung-Mukden Railway (viz., one copy for the Foreign Office, one copy for transmission to the War Office through the Foreign Office, and one copy for record in the Chancery).\n\nI have, &c.\n\nM. E. WILLOUGHBY, Lieutenant-Colonel,  \nMilitary Attaché.\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n**Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Willoughby respecting the Antung-Mukden Railway Reconstruction**\n\nI TRAVELLED over the Antung-Mukden Railway on the 27th and 28th September, and back on the 30th September and 1st October.\n\nThe Present Track.-The present track is 189 miles and 2 ft. 6 in. gauge. The following are the stations along it and their distance from Antung, viz. :-\n\n| Stations        | Miles | Remarks                                                                 |\n|-----------------|-------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Antung          | 0     | In the Japanese concession, close to the bank of the Yalu,              |\n| Sha ho Chên     | 3     | The station for the Chinese city of Antung-hsien.                       |\n| Wu-lung Pei     | 17    | Hot springs,                                                            |\n| Tang Shan Cheng | 22    |                                                                         |\n| Kao-li Mên      | 31    | Where the line goes through the line of the old \"willow palisade,\"      |\n| Feng Huang Ch'êng | 39  | but no sign of this now exists.                                         |\n| Szu T'ou-tzn     | 46    | The station, with its little Japanese settlement around it, IS some 8 miles distant from the city. |\n| Chi Kuan Shan   | 53    |                                                                         |\n| Erb Tao K'on    | 59    |                                                                         |\n| Chiu Mu Chuang  | 69    |                                                                         |\n| Liu Chia Tai    | 78    | The trains, each way, stop here for the night. There are several Japanese and Chinese inns. |\n| Tung Yuan Pu    | 85    |                                                                         |\n| Ts'ao Ho Kou    | 93    |                                                                         |\n| Lien Shan Kuan  | 106   |                                                                         |\n| Haia Ma Tang    | 111   |                                                                         |\n| Nan Fên         | 121   | 5 miles east of the Mo-Tien-Ling.                                       |",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nOwing to the evils of borrowing in such harrowing terms as to reduce some members to tears. He next explained the advantages of non-official management, and entered into such perfect details of the scheme as to remove all doubts and fears. Besides inviting share subscriptions from all the provinces, his plan included the issue of public shares against the salt, li-kin, and other taxes forming the loan security and the levy of shares (? forced subscription by each district or class) as beneficial to officials and people alike. His lengthy speech it was not possible to record accurately, and a full report will appear later.\n\nMr. Hsia spoke briefly and forcibly, laying chief stress on the need for prompt telegraphic protests.\n\nThen Mr. Liu Keng-tsao, member from Huang-pi, in impassioned words, urged co-operation as generally most acceptable. They must, he declared, amid great applause, show their feeling by action, that is by providing funds, and called on all willing to subscribe per cent. of their salaries and allowances to stand up. Everyone rose. He went on to urge the combination of the commercial, educational, and constitutional associations with every other body into a Hupei railways general society, and invited the delegates to draft its constitution. The delegates asked the aid of the members, and the president proposed ten names as the council's delegates for founding the society. Messrs. Chang and Lu (Chiang-hsia and P'u-ch'i) agreed to bring the commercial, educational, and constitutional associations into line, and recommended Messrs. Wan and Chin to put the delegates into direct relations with them and the Hankow General Association of Commerce. The borrowing of the Educational Association's premises for the society would give it immediate existence, and prove the council worthy in zeal for public good to represent the people.\n\nThe president thereon drafted a telegram to the Board of Communications, and on the morning of the 4th called on the Viceroy to enlist his Excellency's support.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n## **CHINA RAILWAYS.**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n141443\n\n[December 8.] R224 DEC 09\n\n347\n\nSECTION 1,\n\n[44708]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Sir Edward Grey to Sir C. MacDonald.**\n\n**(No. 203.)** Sir,\n\nForeign Office, December 8, 1909. THE Japanese Ambassador informed me on the 2nd instant that his Government were cordially grateful to me for the answer I had given to the United States respecting the Tsitsihar Railway. Further consideration had convinced them that the making of this line would seriously affect the South Manchurian Railway in some respects, and, though they would not oppose commercial enterprise, they thought they must have compensation in the shape of participation in the new line.\n\nThe Ambassador also told me that Mr. Yamaza, of the Japanese Embassy, had met Mr. Browne, of Pauling's, last night. Mr. Browne had said that he was very glad to have the opportunity of speaking about the proposed railway, and had asked exactly what amount of participation Japan would like. Mr. Yamaza enquired what was the amount of the loan and the conditions on which it was secured. Though it was thought that Mr. Browne must have this information, he had withheld it.\n\nI said that I was not sure that we ourselves had this information. As we had been no party to the negotiations and had not intervened in any way, I did not expect that the details had been communicated to us.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n**E. GREY.**\n\n[2538 -1]",
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        "content_text": "# THE TIMES, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1909\n\n## British Interests and British Help in China\n\nWe published last week several messages from our Correspondents in China of which the moral for more than one class of British readers is not far to seek. Our aspirations extends even to condoning the violation of international agreements. German diplomacy indulges in no such sentimentalities; and, as the Chinese have learnt to their cost in Shan-tung, it never allows one iota of its rights, however forcefully established, to be tampered with or abated. As the Germans say: Die Gemüthlichkeit hört beim Geschäfte auf.\n\nThere is doubtless amongst a large and, we believe, a growing class of Chinese a genuine desire for administrative and social reforms, but amongst the governing class in China the old traditions are evidently still paramount. Those who would fight against them, like YUAN SHI-KAI, soon pay heavily for their temerity. Where British interests are concerned this country has no right to relax its vigilance in deference to the counsels of that indulgent optimism with which the atmosphere of China tends to saturate the Western mind. His MAJESTY'S Government, we need hardly say, must look to it that British interests shall not be sacrificed to the greed of Chinese Mandarins in regard either to the Ning-po Railway or to the construction of the Canton Railway.\n\nOur Peking Correspondent took the opportunity afforded to him by his visit to Shanghai in connexion with the Opium Conference to inspect in company with an English engineer the work on the Shanghai-Hang-chau-Ning-po Railway, for the construction of which the British public has lent China the large sum of one and a half million sterling. His report cannot, we fear, have proved pleasant reading for those who have put their money into that undertaking. In reliance presumably upon the progressive tendencies and good faith of the \"new China,\" they agreed that the construction and control should be \"entirely vested in the Imperial Chinese Government.\" The result has been, according to our Correspondent, whose sympathies for the \"new China\" are beyond dispute, that the \"loan conditions have been violated, the loan funds are being squandered, and the interests of the British bondholders jeopardized.\" \n\nThe Chinese Ministry of Communications, with whom the British and Chinese Corporation had negotiated the loan contract, appears to have unceremoniously brushed aside that agreement under pressure from the provinces concerned, and to have transferred the loan proceeds to two provincial companies, who were allowed to dispose of them at their own sweet will. Jobbery and nepotism ran riot, with the inevitable result that the British investors' money, lodged in a native bank of doubtful integrity, has been steadily withdrawn on requisitions unaccompanied by certificates, and that all there is to show for it so far is the mere torso of a line, on which the bridges are unsafe, the sleepers wrongly laid, the metals worthless, and eight different patterns of rolling stock bear witness to the predatory resourcefulness of the Chinese directors. The telegram we published on Friday from our Shanghai Correspondent completed the sorry tale.\n\nIt is not surprising that in these circumstances the British and Chinese Corporation have not seen their way to provide another loan which CHANG CHIH-TUNG, though he is fully aware of the disastrous results in the case of the Ning-po Railway, has been negotiating under Imperial sanction for the construction of the northern half of the Canton-Han-kau Railway on terms \"involving precisely similar risks of chaos and maladministration.” \n\nThe Canton Railway question, it must be remembered, is one in which Hong-kong is directly interested, for Hong-kong has already advanced a large sum of money to secure the construction, under British auspices, of a line which is of immense importance to that colony from every point of view. China can least of all be allowed to play false to the interests of Hong-kong just when that colony is making great pecuniary sacrifices, as SIR FREDERICK LUGARD has just explained, in order to assist the Chinese in the suppression of the opium trade, in spite of the fact that the unabated continuance of opium smuggling by the Chinese themselves hardly constitutes an inspiring proof of reciprocity.\n\nIt is well, too, that, at the moment when an influential movement is on foot to collect a large sum of money in this country for the promotion of Western education in China, more especially through the medium of training colleges in connexion with the medical missions, the prior claims of our own colony should not be forgotten. MR. GUNDRY has opportunely reminded us, in the letter which we published from him on Saturday, that, under the patronage of the GOVERNOR, an excellent scheme is already under consideration at Hong-kong, and has received very generous support, for the creation of a University which would go far to fulfil the same purposes as the China Emergency Appeal Committee has in view.\n\nIt may be argued that there is no reason why both schemes should not proceed on parallel lines; but, at a time when very heavy calls are being made on philanthropic charity at home, enough money is scarcely likely to be forthcoming to place them both on a sound financial basis. Is it not, therefore, a case for the concentration rather than the dispersion of effort; and if a choice has to be made, should not the preference reasonably be given to the scheme of which SIR FREDERICK LUGARD has, we think, clearly demonstrated the many advantages?\n\nWe do not for a moment underrate the splendid work which has been done by various missionary bodies in China; but we cannot believe that they possess or could be endowed with as efficient an organization or such practical cohesion as the proposed University at Hong-kong, nor could they possibly secure the immense benefit for Chinese students of immediate and constant contact with Western minds and Western institutions.\n\nWhat is surprising is that a German syndicate, represented by the Deutsch Asiatische Bank, should have been willing to do business on such terms. We are told, however, that the Germans, who have constructed the two northern sections of the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze Railway, have not met with the same difficulties as the British have experienced in the construction of the southern section of the same line, and they, no doubt, hope to be equally fortunate in preventing any repetition on the Canton-Han-kau Railway of the scandalous abuses by which the Chinese have wrecked the Ning-po Railway. It would be interesting to know exactly what are the methods by which the Germans have been able to obtain results so much more satisfactory than our own people have to show in these particular undertakings. Perhaps the explanation is to be found, in part at least, as our Shanghai Correspondent suggests, in the belief, which seems to prevail in China, that Great Britain's benevolent sympathy with Chinese national aspirations...",
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        "content_text": "431\n\n: \"by the Treasury while the Treasury did not show a debit against the Railway until October of that year when they showed a total debit at a much higher rate of exchange. Another reason for the difference in the two balances is owing to the debits appearing in the Crown Agents' November and December accounts being shown in the Treasury Books before the end of 1907, but not in those of the Railway until early in 1908.\"\n\nThe amount of the final expenditure on Railway Construction is not clearly exhibited in the Account of the Colony. It appears to me that such expenditure should be accounted for in accordance with the principles laid down in Rule 252 of the Colonial Regulations.\n\n0. Owing to the manner in which the repayments by the Viceroy of Wu Chang, in respect of the advance to him of £1,100,437-10-0 have been recorded, the amount still to be repaid by him does not appear in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities, as rendered by the Treasurer, with whom I am in communication with a view to this Asset being shown in future in a Subsidiary Statement.\n\n7.\n\nIncluded in the amount charged under the Head \"Advances\" is the sum of $20,000 paid, subject to interest at 8 per cent., to a contractor to enable him to carry out certain work on behalf of the Government. Of this amount $11,500",
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        "content_text": "## List of Chinese Clerks\n| Name | Date of first appointment | Present Appointment | Date of present appointment | Proposed Salary | Immediate prospective Salary |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Wong Ying Lu | 5th March, 1907 | Clerk, Tientsin Postal Agency | The March, 1907 | $760-1,200 | $1,200 |\n| Jaw Cheeng ting | 8th January, 1908 | Clerk, Postal Agency | 16th January, 1908 | $240 | $720-700 |\n| Ng Jovi Chung | 26th August, 1907 | Clerk | 26th August, 1907 | $360-400 | $400-660 |\n| Nick Chow | 27th January, 1905 | 5th Grade Draughtsman, I.W. Dept. | 27th January, 1905 | $400-660 | $600 |\n| Sam A Finr | 19th July, 1906 | 5th Grade Asst Foreman, W. Dept. | 19th July, 1906 | $360-400 | $400 |\n| Chin zu Shih | 1st October, 1906 | Clerk, Postal Agency | 1st October, 1906 | $240 | $360-400 |\n|  |  |  | 4th April, 1907 |  | $480-600 |\n| Luang Yu Wen St |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Jace thing than tol |  |  | February, 1909 |  |  |\n| Sam Shai sittet |  | 6th Grade Shroff, Stamp office | June, 1909 | $420 | $420 |\n| Yeung Ki Shane | 7th June, 1909 | Siantsin Postal Agency | 7th June, 1909 | $420 | $420 |\n| Chan Hip | 1st July, 1901 | 6th Grade Asst. Swatain Postal Agency | 1st January, 1908 | $360 | $420 |\n| Mong Toz Asiang | 1st October, 1906 | 6th Grade Asst. Swatain Postal Agency | 1st February, 1909 | $420 | $420 |\n| Seung King Kurang | 18th September, 1907 | 6th Grade Telegraphist, Observatory | 18th August, 1907 | $240-420 | $300 |\n| Chire Hon |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Ang Ching | 7th December, 1907 |  | 7th December, 1907 | $240-420 | $360 |\n\n## Remarks\n(1) This rate is suggested for Asst. Foreman because it is objectionable to make them equal to Foremen, which are on the 5th Grade ($480-660).\n\n(2) These Clerks are all to draw $240 each until they have passed the Interpretation examination when they will be put on the scale $360-480.\n\n(3) These telegraphists are to start at $360 each and rise to $420, the initial salary of 6th Grade, is considered to be insufficient for suitable men. It is the intention that the present holders of the various posts should not suffer any loss of pay.\n\n(4) There is no immediate prospective salary for some clerks. \n\nPage 223",
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        "content_text": "# HONG-KONG, KOWLOON AND ADJACENT TERRITORIES.\n\n124\n\n## Map of the Region\n\nThe original map appears to be a geographical representation of Hong Kong, Kowloon, and adjacent territories, including various place names and geographical features.\n\n\n| Location        | \n|---------------|\n| CHU KIANG      |\n| CANTON RIVER   |\n| TUNG WAN       |\n| Pian-ti        |\n| Ling-hu-ho     |\n| Tai-Tong-tu    |\n| Tong-lai       |\n| Hsin hi        |\n| Wu-shai-ngan   |\n| Shak-kan       |\n| KUI HAN        |\n| Ten-tsu        |\n| Timg-col       |\n| Chong-hang-kung|\n| Apo-           |\n| Long-her &     |\n| Lung-fa        |\n| Pa konge       |\n| Tigam-kei      |\n| Ki-abur a      |\n| Yong-tai-shar  |\n| Sai Hering     |\n| NAM-TAO        |\n| Ha-isal        |\n| TAL-CHAM BAY   |\n| Ping Chang     |\n| TRIANG         |\n| Kwaimis        |\n| Ma-chec        |\n| Lin-tin        |\n| Pac-th         |\n| Wang kongs     |\n| Lilong         |\n| Tel-wo-chan    |\n| Pu-kak         |\n| Hoi-line       |\n| Sha-co         |\n| Yam-ion        |\n| HSIN-NG AN-tong|\n| Loforgo (SUM-ON)|\n| Sam-chun       |\n| Wa-had         |\n| Chak-win       |\n| DEEP BAY ANHAU |\n| Shui-wan-ton   |\n| Tereksi-bang   |\n| Lang-ke        |\n| Chin chan      |\n| Pet-kang       |\n| Nan-long       |\n| TALO           |\n| Yo Shur-leu    |\n| chu-la-Nek     |\n| LAN-TAO        |\n| (TAI U SHAN)   |\n| Langtaubhy     |\n| Sha-Cap        |\n| Sha-tau-kok    |\n| Shung-tungh    |\n| Kaichung       |\n| Marbent        |\n| Crooked 1.     |\n| Song-shau      |\n| Crossesnt í.   |\n| Hain-tem       |\n| Shang Chur     |\n| Archang        |\n| Blut Hd        |\n| Wang-ling-ta   |\n| ik-yan         |\n| Tiw kolo       |\n| Shan-wynma     |\n| Love           |\n| Lim-chang      |\n| Ram-tin/       |\n| Channe         |\n| Tain           |\n| TOLD HARBOUR   |\n| Un-in          |\n| Tai-lam chung  |\n| (TAL-PUNG-SANG)|\n| BA             |\n| Wong-muo       |\n| Tipjuk         |\n| Hasha          |\n| Frog.shat      |\n| Tom            |\n| Ho-tongoz      |\n| Port Island    |\n| Grase 1.       |\n| Tep-oun        |\n| Tanka wa       |\n| THE Joey       |\n| bg Chak-Feristi|\n| Shak-heng      |\n| Hei-wang       |\n| PChin-hang     |\n| ing-on-ww      |\n| Ha-yong        |\n| к              |\n| Fing Head      |\n| Fung Gey       |\n| San ast-wan    |\n| Ping           |\n| Proge 1.       |\n| Toma 1         |\n| Gaealt 1.      |\n| Taf-no-sham    |\n| Lok La H       |\n| Tal-shui-hang  |\n| Fet-kong       |\n| Sai-kurg       |\n| Shetic         |\n| $TRA-WERD      |\n| (Chuala        |\n| hue            |\n| Lai Ch         |\n| Shelter        |\n| Sham Shui      |\n| i              |\n| Ping-chau      |\n| Grati le       |\n| Chau-kung      |\n| Silver Mine    |\n| Bar            |\n| 3              |\n| Taiku etay     |\n| VICTORIA       |\n| Pokfulam       |\n| \"Shau-ki-want  |\n| Aberdeen       |\n| HONG-KONG SE   |\n| Shill-jai      |\n| Jas Chou       |\n| Ninepir        |\n| A Group        |\n| Taki           |\n| Ts-tank)       |\n| Jam-tung 1.    |\n| Lo-chav        |\n| Ingan ADNIM    |\n| ang-me-k       |\n| Fury Rocks     |\n| Sun-kong       |\n| aktres         |\n| Way-lan        |\n| JAMMA CHAN.    |\n| Cheung Chak    |\n| Tai-want       |\n| Lamma          |\n| Sha-ku-wan     |\n| (For Lit:)     |\n| 1              |\n| Stu-A-Chau     |\n| Tat-A-Chow     |\n| Tric           |\n| Lap-cap-mi 15  |\n| LEMA           |\n| CHANNEL        |\n| chi-chau i     |\n| 1              |\n| Mies R         |\n| Fit absu       |\n| Kak-ten        |\n\n## NOTE\n\nTerritory under Convention of 1880  \nBoundary under Convention 1998  \nSmeliat Mee the chin)  \nSamun  \nVrstnance Survey Offen, Southampton, 1999.  \n27  \n521",
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        "content_text": "The Clerical Staff of the Harbour Office consists of the following Officers:- Higher Grade Clerk Mr. McIver £270 plus allowances. At present absent on leave. 1st Grade Clerk, Chan Pui $2,040. Clerk, Mr. Lenfestey, £210. 3rd Grade Clerk, Fan Tsung Hing, $1,200. 4th Grade Clerk, Chan Pui Sam, $900. 5th Grade Clerk, Fung Sz Fong, $480. 5th Grade Clerk, Cheng Chun, $240. & Shroff, So Det-tai, $660. 5th Grade Shroff, Lai Wing Tak, $660. 5th Grade Writer, Ip Tong, $540. 6th Grade Writer, Wong Hin Ting, $240. 6th Grade Shroff, Wong Hau Nam, $360\n\nMany of the above Officers draw allowance for overtime for attendance with regard to Sunday Cargo permits. During the absence of Mr. McIver there is also an additional Chinese temporary clerk. With the exception of Europeans there are three well paid Chinese Clerks. No great ability can be expected from 5th and 6th Grade Clerks considering amount of salary.\n\n(1). Disposition of Clerks:\n\n(a). General Office. There has evidently been some misunderstanding regarding this department. Mr. Percebois states the correspondence office has four Chinese Clerks with the European Clerk, the Harbour Master states \"There are only two clerks in the correspondence office\". This misunderstanding seems to be a nominal one only and is due to clerks sitting in two rooms, which may be called \"The Marine Court\" and the Correspondence Office.",
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        "content_text": "Office\", In the correspondence office is Mr. Chan Pui and his Assistant Mr. Wong Hin Ting. In the Marine Court is the 1st Grade Clerk, Mr. Lenfestey, the 5th Clerk Mr. Chan Pui Sam and the temporary clerk during the absence of Mr. McIver engaged. When the Higher Grade Clerk Mr. McIver is present, staff is Mr. Lenfestey and three Chinese Clerks. \n\n(b). Junk Office. The staff of this office consists of the 5th grade shroff clerks So Uet-tai and Lai Wing Tak and the two Chinese writers Ip Tong and Cheng U Chuan. The Higher Grade Clerk Mr. McIver has his desk in the General Office and is generally in charge of these clerks. During his absence on leave Mr. Lenfestey is performing his duties. \n\n(c). Clearance and Entry Office for Steamers. The Staff in this office consists of the 4th clerk Mr. Fan Tsung Hing assisted by the 5th grade clerk Mr. Fung Sze Fong. Besides the above the 5th grade clerk Mr. Chan Pun has his desk in the Marine Surveyor's Office on the ground floor.\n\nDuties etc., of Officers. (The red figures Carbour Master's References reply.)\n\nGenerally the proper duties of the various officers are set out in enclosure I. As regards the detailed reference in the Colonial Secretary's letter of August 4th, No.3971/10 Confidential.\n\n2. (1) (a) Staff of General Office. The duties of Messrs. Lenfestey, Chan Pui Sam, the temporary clerk So Kwong Kwan, Chan Pui, Wong Hin Ting, are given in enclosures II, III, IV, V, VI.\n\n2. During Mr. McIver's absence, the greater part of Mr. Lenfestey's time is occupied in performing that officer's duties, so that Mr. Chan Pui Sam performs a considerable proportion of the duties that belong properly speaking to Mr. Lenfestey. The temporary clerk Mr. So Kwong Kwan performs some minor duties of Mr. Chan Pui Sam. This temporary clerk does his duties, he is not getting much pay, he seems to be of little use, practically",
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        "content_text": "106\n\n285\n\nIt appears that some text is missing or corrupted due to OCR issues.\n\n- Is 978 vorið、es of anisiqmoo on ever! vond 1tste stentbro-\n\nHelw **ere to doubroo afterØ” BÅ matejido ban nhw svar-\n\ncofem of not?*ih al $1,ɔtɔdıq ynirial” bus fert eco-in” ext\n\nquiżżew nonc ovari od mode algong Anut end to enca asfbupro\n\nolling eas :tíð orld d eoltto Xanį, edė te setit mezee0each me\n\nNO. S 、telsh to zmore plat90 a to nisl mos zeven viiroitostq\n\nraboltto ma exam ton [Ilw bas (*1 toegre od qu ddgrond moed evasi\n\nE\n\nvarious shroffs hands it would appear as if such money chang-ing is going on. At about noon the cash in hand was as follows:\n\nNotes & Dollars.\n\n36 118\n\nSub-coin. Frop.\n\n4 9:1\n\n5 23:1\n\nAt the close of the day the amount passed\n\nSo Uet Tai Lai Wing Tak\n\nin was:-\n\no Te Ulet Tai Tai Wing Tak\n\n101 228\n\n48 2:1\n\n19 12:1\n\n... ...\n\nAlso as regards receipt of light dues, payment of one impossible amount of sub-coin was made. The unsatisfactory excuse giron by the Harbour Master was that neither he nor the staff \"it turns out as I thought 50 cents bits have not been regarded as gub-coin\". The payment of such coin into Bank has decreased since this explanation was asked for.\n\n11.\n\nParagraph 13. This is another case where it is al-most impossible to prpve or disprove. It must however be regard-ed as suspicious the large proportion of notes and dollars in the hands of the shroffs in the junk office when their cushi was examined. If shroffs make money over money changing it is almost a necessary corollary that they make payees give do mich in notes and dollars as possible, so that they may have a greater anoint for changing. This is of course easily done, by making people wait unless they pay in notes or dollars, etc. etc\n\n12.\n\nParagraph 15. Arrangement of offices. As regards Mr. Percebois description, on the upper floor the Boarding Officers rooms is xxx used as an examination room. As regards the new green building the Supt., of Imports and Exports pre-fers to continue as at present, but an entrance to the small building at the Bast end would be a convenience. There is no doubt that the offices on the first floor are scattered, if the clerks were put more together work could be better arranged and supervision easier. The modern method is to place many clerks in one large room. The best and largest room (not counting...",
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        "content_text": "these precautionary measures, but two shops, the Chuan Fu Cheng and the Ch'un Fu Hsing, relying on their comparatively large capital had attempted to monopolise the trade. Their arrest by the police officials was supported by conclusive proof, and the sentence imposed on them to stop business, which was reported to and approved by the Acting Viceroy Hu, was a measure of exceptional clemency. The man Liang Hei Hou, who was arrested, was the manager of the shop in question, and the intention of the police was merely to obtain from him the licence of the shop for cancellation, when he would be released. The owner of the shop, however, in a reckless manner was making delays and remained in hiding. The measures that had been taken were those laid down by the regulations for the punishment of recalcitrant raw opium shops, and were in no way the concern of foreigners.\n\nThe raw opium shops numbered over twenty and all were carrying on their business as usual. No dislocation was being caused to the trade of either Chinese or foreign opium merchants.\n\nThe officials of the bureau further remarked that the Imperial commands for the prohibition of opium had been in force for three years and that confirmatory edicts had repeatedly been received. The whole nation had received these edicts in an obedient spirit, and the foreign Powers were unanimous in their sympathetic assistance. It was, therefore their duty to carry out their instructions with the utmost energy, for the whole principle of controlling opium would be defeated, were individuals to be allowed to buy opium without a licence or opium dealers to sell to such persons. It would also be impossible to second in a worthy manner the friendly assistance of foreign kindly disposed Powers.\n\nWith regard to the increase in price of prepared opium there was no violation of the terms of the Chefoo Convention, as the price was increased (i.e., a tax levied) after the opium had been imported and the packages opened.\n\nIn June-July of this year, the British consul-general had forwarded a translation of a memorandum drawn up by the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the prevention of the smuggling of opium into Hong Kong. The governor stated that it was beyond the wit of man to devise a satisfactory method of stopping the smuggling of opium into Hong Kong for the reason that the price of opium in Hong Kong and the Straits was many times higher than in the south of China. If it was desired to stop this traffic and thereby fulfil the promise contained in China's undertaking with Hong Kong, the only possible method was to raise the price of opium in China, and bring it to a level with the price obtaining in Hong Kong. There would then be no profit attaching to the smuggling into Hong Kong. If therefore measures could be taken to secure this increased price, the prevention of the smuggling traffic would meet with success, and the assistance would be rendered both to their efforts to stop consumption and to the revenue of China.\n\nThis the bureau observed was a really intelligent and far-seeing exposition of principle, from which it was obvious that an increase in the price of prepared opium did not involve a breach of treaty, and would have the effect of stopping the smuggling of opium in Hong Kong. The present deliberations on their opium policy were being conducted on the lines of the Governor of Hong Kong's expression of opinion, and would not cause dislocation either to Chinese or foreign opium traffic.\n\nI have the honour to communicate the report of the Opium Prohibition Bureau for your information, and avail, &c.\n\n(Seal of Viceroy.)\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nSir,\n\n5\n\nInclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Jamieson to the Governor, Hong Kong.\n\nCanton, October 19, 1909. I HAVE the honour to forward a copy of a despatch I have addressed to the Governor-General of the Liang Kuang on the subject of the vexatious restrictions which are being imposed on the opium trade in Canton. I have, &c.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nInclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Jamieson to Viceroy Yüan.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\nCanton, October 18, 1909. I HAVE the honour to refer to previous correspondence on the subject of the measures adopted by the provincial authorities for the control and sale of opium, and to inform your Excellency that I have received telegraphic instructions from His Majesty's Minister again to make strong representations with a view to determining the present unsatisfactory condition of affairs at Canton in so far as the sale of foreign opium is concerned.\n\nMy predecessor's despatch of the 24th September traverses certain statements made by the Opium Bureau, and I should like to add a few remarks of my own with regard to their report, which was transmitted in your Excellency's communication of the 17th September, 1909.\n\nParagraph 2 states that the late governor-general ordered all shops to take out licences. It is a fact that a proclamation to this effect was issued, but, owing to intervention on the part of His Majesty's Minister, the same was not enforced, and the dealers were informed that they could go on conducting their business as before. Hence the latter are quite justified in asserting that no warning was given to them and that the imprisonment of one of their number and the closing of his premises was quite unwarrantable.\n\nParagraph 3 asserts that ten or more of the raw opium shops were obeying the regulations. Such is not the case. The opium hongs never agreed to the permit system, and were all along selling to buyers without permits. The bureau's contention that the regulations in no way concern foreigners cannot, I feel sure, be endorsed by your Excellency, as your Excellency must be aware that the Chinese Government have let it be clearly understood that they had no intention of interfering with the wholesale trade in foreign opium. Vexatious restrictions, therefore, which result in the complete dislocation of such trade are contrary to the assurances given by the Imperial Government, and the enforcement thereof might not unreasonably be construed as a breach of faith.\n\nI have accordingly the honour earnestly to request that your Excellency, in the interests of the friendly relations existing between our two countries, will take immediate steps to put a stop to this unwarrantable interference with British trade, and to set at liberty the dealer Liang Chih Hou, of the Ch'üan Fu Chang hong, who was some time ago arrested at the instance of the Opium Prohibition Bureau.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\nSir J. Jordan to the Governor, Hong Kong.\n\nPeking, September 29, 1909. IN reply to the telegram communicated through the Hong Kong and Shanghae Bank yesterday, the following to the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce:--\n\n\"Strong representations against the action complained of were addressed on the 16th September to the Chinese Government, who were requested to telegraph to the Viceroy of Kwangtung to put a stop to it.\"\n\nInclosure 8 in No. 1.\n\nHong Kong General Chamber of Commerce to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(Telegraphic.)\n\nOctober 15, 1909. REFERRING to our telegram of 23rd September and your reply to Hong Kong Government, 29th September, position remains unchanged; nothing is being done\n\nPage 14",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n[B]\n\n# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[46757]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[December 28.]\n\n## SECTION 4.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey,~(Received December 28.)\n\nNo. 454. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nPeking, December 8, 1909,\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 446 of the 2nd instant, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a further despatch from the acting consul-general at Mukden, which contains some interesting observations on the working of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the status of foreign merchants in the railway areas along the line, and the efforts which British and German firms, acting in conjunction with Chinese official syndicates, are making to wrest the monopoly of the bean trade from the Japanese. Five large British firms are actively interested in this business, which is already giving an unexpected importance to the international position in Manchuria.\n\nMr. Willis, it will be seen, confirms the general impression that the object of Prince Ito's visit was to come to some arrangement with the Russians as to the status of the railway settlements. The Japanese have always encouraged the Russians in their opposition to any compromise on that question, and have viewed the agreement of May last with little favour.\n\nAny understanding between Russia and Japan with regard to railways, or the administration of railway settlements in Manchuria, is not likely to promote the interests of foreign trade, and it would, I think, be better for us to accept a reasonable solution of the Harbin question at the hands of Russia than to force her, by an uncompromising attitude, into making a bargain with Japan. China is not likely to give much assistance in the matter, as her policy in questions of this kind has little constructive aim so long as she can keep the Powers engaged in a dispute amongst themselves.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n[\n\n## Inclosure in No. 1.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN,\n\n(No. 59. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nConsul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nMukden, November 24, 1909,\n\nIN continuation of my immediately preceding despatch No. 58 of the 23rd instant on the present commercial conditions prevailing in Northern Manchuria, I have the honour to submit the following observations.\n\nI was unable to procure detailed information as to the revenue and expenditure of the Chinese Eastern Railway, but the Russian authorities assured me, and their testimony was corroborated by M. Dard, the manager of the Russo-Chinese Bank, that during the past year a great improvement had taken place, and that now, exclusive of the cost of the railway guards, which is put at 15,000,000 roubles annually, the railway had come to be self-supporting. As these guards, 28,000 in number, form an integral part of the Russian army, the railway officials maintain that, if the railway is to be conducted on commercial lines, it is only reasonable that the expense of their maintenance should not be included in the railway budget. General Horwath evidently thought that it was possible under present conditions to make an economic success of the enterprise, even, owing to the development of the bean trade, of the Chang Ch'un--Harbin branch; but although he told me he was ready to grant British merchants every facility, and had already agreed to a through rate from stations on the Chang Ch'un line to Vladivostock, he said that he would not lease land to foreign merchants in the railway areas at stations along the line\n\n[2348 cen ·1]",
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        "content_text": "2\n\ngrowth. In the streets there is more activity, the shops are brighter and more attractive, building is going on both in the residential and commercial quarters, and the era of speculation and reckless extravagance which has characterised Harbin since the conclusion of hostilities now seems to have given way to a more normal and businesslike method of living.\n\nAlthough up to the present no new enterprises have been started, I am informed that there is a considerable quantity of capital awaiting employment, which, I was given to understand, would mainly be devoted to the establishment of bean-oil factories. The sugar-beet factory at Asiho, 10 miles from Harbin, the erection of which was delayed for over a year owing to difficulty in finding funds, has now been completed, and two other similar factories are in course of erection at Harbin.\n\nIn this connection I would remark that certain Japanese have also been experimenting with beet at Chang Ch'un, and the analysis of the root made by the experimental laboratory established by the South Manchuria Railway at Dairen is reported to be very satisfactory. It thus seems possible that there may be considerable development in this industry in North Manchuria.\n\nThe flour-mills which were established at Harbin during the Russo-Japanese war for the purpose of supplying the necessities of the Russian troops are not up to the present proving a success. During the year 1907 the Russo-Chinese Bank foreclosed on the mortgages it held on the eight principal mills and a new syndicate was formed, but at the present only three out of the eight mills are working. Without further information than I have at present, it is difficult to account for the comparative failure of these mills; there is a large quantity of wheat grown in the district and a considerable export of the raw product, and it seems to me almost impossible to believe that this industry, if properly conducted, will not ultimately play its part in the development of the district.\n\nIt is practically an impossibility to arrive at the exact value of the trade of the town of Harbin, but it is undoubtedly the chief distributing centre of Northern Manchuria, and an examination of the trade statistics published by the Chinese Customs for the stations of Manchouli on the western, and of Sui-fen Ho on the eastern frontier, may prove of assistance in showing the importance of the trade of the district taken as a whole.\n\nIn the year 1908 the figures show a net import of 2,852,551 Haikwan taels, and a net export of 977,231 Haikwan taels via Manchouli. The imports are for the most part of Russian or German origin, and apparently are destined in the main for the consumption of the Russian inhabitants of Northern Manchuria.\n\nThe following table shows the quantity or value, as given by the customs returns, of the principal articles:\n\n  \n    MANCHOULI\n    PRINCIPAL Imports during 1908\n  \n  \n    Cotton-\n    \n  \n  \n    Piece-goods\n    12,740 pieces\n  \n  \n    Goods, unclassed\n    121,816 yards\n  \n  \n    Woollen-\n    \n  \n  \n    Cloth\n    20,473 yards\n  \n  \n    Blankets\n    52,444 lbs\n  \n  \n    Cigarettes\n    3\n  \n  \n    Clothing, foreign\n    \n  \n\nThe following tables show the value or quantity of the chief articles of export and import:\n\n  \n    SUIFENHO\n    TABLE of principal Imports during 1908\n  \n  \n    Cotton-\n    \n  \n  \n    Piece-goods\n    77,897 pieces\n  \n  \n    Cloth\n    417,184 yards\n  \n  \n    Towels\n    14,942 dozen\n  \n  \n    Woollen-\n    \n  \n  \n    Carriages\n    308,858 yards\n  \n  \n    Cloth\n    8,974 lbs\n  \n  \n    Blankets\n    28,475 piculs\n  \n  \n    Pig-iron\n    588,446 pieces\n  \n  \n    Bags--\n    \n  \n  \n    Cotton\n    1,608,846\n  \n  \n    Gunny\n    26,206 Haikwan taels\n  \n  \n    Cigarettes\n    96,433\n  \n  \n    Haberdashery, &c.\n    46,052\n  \n  \n    Kerosene, Russian\n    38,912\n  \n  \n    Salt\n    11\n  \n  \n    Spirits\n    20,293\n  \n  \n    Stores, household\n    182,326 gallons\n  \n  \n    Sugar\n    1,029,385\n  \n  \n    Hardware\n    77,541 piculs\n  \n  \n    India-rubber\n    134,782 Haikwan taels\n  \n  \n    Machinery\n    66,127\n  \n  \n    Oil, engine\n    14,000 piculs\n  \n  \n    Tea\n    11\n  \n  \n    Wines\n    5,435\n  \n  \n    Bean-cake\n    79,354 Haikwan taels\n  \n  \n    Beans and peas\n    \n  \n\n  \n    PRINCIPAL Exports during 1908\n    \n  \n  \n    Cereals: Barley, buckwheat, Kaoliang maize, millet, cats, rye, wheat\n    555,330 piculs\n  \n  \n    Firewood\n    1,110,339\n  \n  \n    Flour and wheat\n    414,361\n  \n  \n    Live-stock: Fowls, ducks, &c., horses, ponies, oxen, cows, pigs, and sheep\n    7,559,947\n  \n  \n    Oil: bean and hemp\n    253,975\n  \n  \n    Meat, fresh: beef, mutton, and pork\n    -\n  \n  \n    Railway sleepers\n    55\n  \n  \n    Tar\n    67,811 head\n  \n  \n    Timber-\n    \n  \n  \n    Soft wood, beams\n    69,093 piculs\n  \n  \n    laths\n    8,831\n  \n  \n    planks\n    103,418 pieces\n  \n  \n    Hard wood, beams\n    28,850 gallons\n  \n  \n    planks\n    3,987,466 pieces\n  \n  \n    poles\n    3,913,803 super feet\n  \n  \n    \n    7,883 cubic feet\n  \n  \n    \n    29,150\n  \n  \n    \n    5,700\n  \n  \n    Confectionery\n    475,761 mille\n  \n  \n    Haberdashery, &c.\n    70,564 Haikwan taels\n  \n  \n    Hardware\n    17,063\n  \n  \n    Machinery\n    17,262\n  \n  \n    Shoes and boots, all sorts, foreign\n    38,367\n  \n  \n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    \n    21,891\n  \n  \n    \n    19\n  \n  \n    Timber and planks, soft wood\n    128,102 pairs\n  \n  \n    Skin (fur) clothing\n    (value)\n  \n  \n    Spirits of wine\n    98,578 Haikwan taels\n  \n  \n    \n    404,639 gallons\n  \n  \n    \n    451,038 square feet\n  \n\nThe chief export to Europe by this route are skins, flour from the Harbin mills, and hemp oil; 487,797 pieces of skins were exported, of which 238,479 were sheep, and 210,221 were tarabagan. Only 920 pieces of sable are recorded.\n\nThe flour export amounted to 115,470 piculs, and the hemp oil to 10,273 piculs. (One picul = 133 lbs.).\n\nThe trade of Sui Fen Ho, or Pogranichnaya as it is called by the Russians, is, however, far more important, the net value for 1908 amounting to 11,985,705 taels, of which 3,481,296 taels were imports, and 8,504,409 taels exports.\n\nThe total value of the trade across the Russian frontiers thus amounts to 15,815,490 Haikwan taels, but in addition to this there is the import arriving at Harbin from the south, either by the branch of the Chinese Eastern Railway from Chang Ch'un to Harbin or by Chinese cart. No figures are available to check these imports, but I do not think 3,000,000 Haikwan taels would be an unreasonable estimate.\n\nThe policy of the Chinese Eastern Railway has hitherto been to discourage import via Chang Ch'un, in favour of Vladivostock, and the rates charged are so high that it is cheaper to carry from Chang Chun to Harbin by cart than by rail. The average freight by rail from Newchwang to Chang Ch'un by the South Manchurian Railway, a distance of 300 miles, say 173. a-ton, is approximately equal to the amount charged by the Chinese Eastern Railway for carriage from Chang Ch'un to Harbin, a distance of only 140 miles. Consequently goods are brought up to Chang Ch'un from Dairen and Newchwang by the South Manchurian Railway and forwarded on by Chinese cart, this method being apparently economically competitive as against shipment from Shanghai to Vladivostock and rail thence to Harbin.\n\nThe general trade of Northern Manchuria which even in 1908 can be estimated at a value of 20,000,000 Haikwan taels, received however an enormous stimulus towards the end of that year from the export of the soya beans to Europe, and as the ...\n\nB 2 [2518 u-2]\n\n54",
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        "content_text": "5\n\ngrowth and development of this trade may have important effects on the commercial condition of the whole of Manchuria, a brief account of the origin and present state of the trade may be of interest.\n\nThe soya bean has been largely grown in Manchuria for many years past, and beans and beancake have been one of the staple exports of the country for many years, the destination being Japan and South China where the cake is used mainly as a fertilizer. Up to the year 1907, however, as far as can be ascertained from the only customs figures available, those for the port of Newchwang, the export did not exceed 120,000 tons annually. During the year 1908 the export rose to approximately 330,000 tons, one half of which was exported from Dairen; of the remainder 100,000 tons were shipped from Newchwang and 65,000 went out by rail via Suifenho. This increase was almost entirely due to the demand from Europe, which continued throughout the present year, and seems likely to increase rather than diminish.\n\nTaking the customs figures from October 1908 until June 1909, no less than 660,000 tons of beans left Manchuria, 341,000 from Dairen, 177,000 from Suifenbo, and 142,000 from Newchwang.\n\nBeans were still being shipped throughout July and August, so that the total of last year's crop exported may be estimated between 700,000 and 800,000 tons.\n\nI am informed that 450,000 tons approximately of this amount were exported to England, 300,000 tons of which were sold in London by the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. The British firms who engaged in the trade bought mainly at Dairen, and as the Japanese firm was in a position to control the market both in Manchuria and London, they did not, I am led to believe, find their ventures profitable. The Mitsui firm bought largely direct from the farmers, having in their employ a large number of agents both Chinese and Japanese, who travelled in the interior on their behalf. Against an enterprise so well organised it was, of course, difficult for any individual firm to make headway, and it appeared at first as if the export to Europe would strengthen rather than diminish the Japanese commercial position in Manchuria.\n\nThat Japanese imports, especially cottons, have improved consequent upon the development of the export trade is undoubted, and even a slight knowledge of the financial conditions obtaining in Manchuria will show the enormous advantage control of exports gives to the importer.\n\nThe principal distributing centre for the Kirin province at present is Ch'ang Ch'un which is also the chief bean market in Northern Manchuria. Transactions amongst Chinese in this mart are settled in \"tiao\" notes, i.e., notes issued by the Kirin Provincial Government Bank, the head of which is the Governor of Kirin. These notes were originally worth 40 cents of the so-called Manchurian small coin. The small coin consists of 10 and 20 cent pieces coined locally, which exchange on the average at the rate of 110 cents small coin to the Mexican dollar.\n\nOwing to the financial necessities of the provincial government, the issue of these notes had been so increased that it is said now there are 80,000,000 in circulation, presumably against no reserve of silver. In fact the export of small coin silver from Kirin province has been strictly forbidden for the past three years, and in the case of British firms I have been compelled to apply for special permission to export. In consequence of these conditions the \"tiao\" has fallen from 25 to 30 per cent. in value, and is subject to daily fluctuations not only vis-à-vis the small coin, but the various other coinages in use at the mart, viz., Japanese gold yen, Japanese silver yen, roubles and taels. These fluctuations are of an extraordinary nature, as the following figures showing the daily value of the \"tiao\" notes for one week as against the other currencies will show.\n\n  \n    Date\n    Gold Yen\n    Silver Yen\n    Roubles\n    Small Coin\n    Taels\n  \n  \n    July 22\n    4,540\n    3,750\n    4,650\n    3,285\n    5,205\n  \n  \n    23\n    4,560\n    3,763\n    4,685\n    3,820\n    5,275\n  \n  \n    24\n    4,510\n    3,735\n    4,645\n    3,300\n    5,252\n  \n  \n    25\n    4,520\n    3,750\n    4,660\n    3,800\n    5,625\n  \n  \n    26\n    4,560\n    3,780\n    4,680\n    3,325\n    5,827\n  \n  \n    27\n    4,500\n    3,760\n    4,675\n    3,310\n    5,295\n  \n\novercome the difficulties of exchange, and, in my opinion, it is to this cause that the improvement in their import trade may be largely attributed.\n\nThe present bean season has, however, commenced with a strong attack on the Mitsui's position. In Ch'ang Ch'un a powerful Chinese syndicate has been formed, which has bought most of the local crops, and has already made large contracts with British and German firms. A similar Chinese syndicate is also working in the Hei Lung Chiang province.\n\nLast season practically the whole of the crop in the Chang Chun district, say, 250,000 tons, was carried to Dairen or Newchwang, only 5 per cent. of the total to the latter port, by the South Manchuria Railway. A certain proportion of this supply is grown to the north of Chang Ch'un and could be more expeditiously and economically conveyed by the Chinese Eastern Railway. The British and German firms have now, I understand, come to an arrangement for the storage of beans at points on the Chinese Eastern Railway line, and their shipment to Vladivostock at rates economically equivalent to those charged by the Southern Manchurian Railway.\n\nOwing to this competition the prices paid for the beans have risen very considerably. Last season at Chang Ch'un they varied from 12 taels to 25 taels per ton, and at Harbin from 23 kopecks to 50 kopecks per pood of 36 lbs., i.e., from 18:30 roubles to 32-34 roubles per ton; the higher prices, however, only being obtainable towards the end of the season. The freight from Harbin to Vladivostock was 15.50 roubles per ton, and from Ch'ang Ch'un to Dairen 12-10 roubles per ton.\n\nDuring the present season the market at Harbin opened at 40 kopecks the pood, has risen to 47 kopecks, and is still rising, whilst at Chang Ch'un the first prices asked were 25 taels per ton.\n\nThe present freight rates from Ch'ang Ch'un to Dairen, including f.o.b. charges are 9:32 gold yen per short ton of 2,000 lbs., whilst the new Chinese Eastern Railway rate, also including f.o.b. charges, from Chang Ch'un to Vladivostock is 18:30 kopecks per pood (10:15 roubles per short ton).\n\nThe freight from Vladivostock to London is slightly more than from Dairen to London; but whilst beans exported via Dairen pay a 5 per cent. export duty, by the regulations prevailing on the Russo-Chinese frontier, a duty of only two-thirds of 1 per cent. is payable at Suifenho station.\n\nThe distance from Vladivostock to Ch'ang Ch'un is 585 miles, whilst from Chang Ch'un to Dairen is only 438 miles; but this is compensated for by the dealers in the districts north of Chang Ch'un being able to bring their cargo to points on the Chinese Eastern Railway, and thus save the cart hire and expense of carrying the goods to the Ch'ang Ch'un market as they have hitherto done.\n\nThat this saving may be considerable can be shown from one instance that has been brought to my notice. Owing to the badness of the roads in Kirin province it took four men fourteen days to bring in beans to Ch'ang Ch'un valued at not more than 27.\n\nThe fact that it is economically possible for the Chinese Eastern Railway to compete at Chang Ch'un with the South Manchurian Railway must be of advantage to the exporter, and lead to the development of the trade should the demand from Europe continue, as there seems every prospect of its doing.\n\nAt present prices—say £6, 10s. per ton laid down in London—experts estimate that Europe can take annually no less than 1,000,000 tons of beans, and there is little doubt but that at this price the supply would be available. The beancake exports in 1908 amounted to 500,000 tons, and from October 1908 to June 1909—i.e., the 1908 bean crop—the export rose to 570,000 tons. The native mills, I am informed, only extract from 6 to 7 per cent. of oil from the raw product, and if the demand continues the Chinese will find it more profitable to divert a portion of the beans used in these mills to Europe.\n\nThere is further abundant space for development; it is estimated that not more than two-fifths of Kirin province is under cultivation, and considerably less than that proportion in Hei Lung Chiang.\n\nThe above considerations appear to me to indicate that the present commercial conditions in Northern Manchuria are of sufficient importance to warrant the appointment of a consular officer of suitable rank to be stationed either at Harbin or at Ch'ang Ch'un in the near future.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nROBERT WILLIS.\n\nWith a currency of such a chaotic nature it is evident that the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha being large buyers, as well as large sellers, were enabled to a large extent to...\n\n0\n\n55",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[46134]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[December 20.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n!\n\n(No. 441.)\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received December 20.)\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, November 30, 1909. WITH reference to my despatch No. 423 of the 16th instant, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a further despatch from His Majesty's consul-general at Hankow, reporting upon the progress of the provincial agitation against the railway loan negotiations,\n\nThis mischievous and ill-informed movement would appear to be gaining ground largely on account of the ignorance in Chinese circles of the real conditions of the proposed loan.\n\nAny action which may tend to educate public opinion to a true understanding of the situation is therefore of real service, and I have consequently approved the course taken by Mr. Fraser in communicating the terms of the loan agreement to the head of the Foreign Bureau.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n58\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\n(No. 68.) Sir,\n\nConsul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nHankow, November 22, 1909. IN continuation of my despatch No. 65 of the 12th instant, I have the honour to report that the public meeting of protest against railway loans held in Hankow on the 14th instant was, according to the native press, crowded and enthusiastic.\n\nThe delegates from Japan had widely circulated in pamphlet form the essay part of which formed the enclosure in my despatch above mentioned. Apart from the false loan terms quoted from a Japanese newspaper, these young men urged resistance to the loan on the ground that the Powers meditated the partition of China, and had no intention of letting China have any control over the lines built with borrowed money--their language and arguments resembling closely the harangues of the native press in 1899-1900, and of the agitators against the Shanghae-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway agreement.\n\nThe speakers at the meeting were mainly of the student class, but included members of the provincial council and the commercial associations, a soldier absent without leave, and a farmer. The list of subscribers for shares (payment to be spread over five years) in the Hupei Commercial Railways Association was headed by 1,000,000 dollars from the provincial council, and less sums from the members for each prefecture; but there is a complete absence of the names of the leading native merchants.\n\nThe railway association has elected as president Lau Ilsin-Yuan, a taotai on sick leave, once acting provincial judge of Kiangsi, with two councillors as vice-presidents; and, as delegates to go to Peking, Wu Chao-Tai, the former head of the Wuchang Education Bureau, whom the scholars forced to retire; Mi Ch'ang-Ch'ih, retired magistrate of Chiang-Chou, in Shansi, and councillor for the Hsia-K'ou Ting; Chang Po-Lieh, one of the student delegates from Japan; and Chang Tz'u-Shan, the judicial deputy of the Hankow Association of Commerce.\n\nThe association claims that one of its promoters made a hasty trip to Peking, and was assured of the support of the boards concerned in case funds were really forthcoming.\n\nI took the occasion of the head of the Foreign Affairs Bureau being sent by the Viceroy to return Mr. Max Müller's call on his Excellency to enquire why the Government did not let the real conditions of the proposed loan be generally known, since the provincial Government admitted that the agitators could never obtain any considerable cash subscriptions towards railway construction. As Mr. Wu confessed that no one here, with the possible exception of the Educational Commissioner Kao, knew the\n\n[2538 u―1]",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nhonour to report that I paid a visit to the Yunnan Provincial Assembly last Monday, the 8th instant.\n\nHaving informed the Bureau of Foreign Affairs beforehand of my intention to attend a sitting of the assembly, Mr. Wong, the English interpreter attached to the bureau, called for me shortly after 9 o'clock, and accompanied me to the Yunnan Guild House, which is being used temporarily as an assembly house until a special building has been erected.\n\nI entered the guild house through a gateway surmounted by a couple of dragon flags with crossed staves and guarded by two sentinels in modern quasi-European uniform, who presented arms as I passed, and on my alighting from my chair I was received by Mr. Nieh, one of the members for Tung-ch'uan prefecture, in the north-east part of this province. This gentleman conducted me to a small waiting room, the walls of which were ornamented with maps and botanical diagrams, where the usual tea and cigarettes were offered to me. Here I was joined by three French visitors, and a few minutes later Mr. Chang, the president of the assembly, a little old man of 70 with a long thin white beard, came into the room. He made a few remarks to me about the assembly not being quite in working order yet, everything being in consequence very rough, and I made a few deprecatory remarks in reply; and in a few minutes' time, 10 o'clock having struck, we all adjourned to the assembly hall.\n\nHere my French companions and I were conducted up some stairs to what was formerly a private box in the theatre of the guild house, directly facing the presidential table on the stage, and with the seats for the ordinary members in the stall space below me.\n\nI observed that the back of the stage was covered by a large yellow curtain, on and over which were posted the imperial edicts relating to the constitution and conduct of provincial assemblies. Directly in front of this screen was a seat for the Viceroy, and on each side near the corners of the stage were two similar seats, intended for any of the high provincial authorities who might desire to be present at any sitting. On the occasion of my visit these three chairs were unoccupied. In the centre of the stage was a long table with three chairs for the president and vice-presidents, and immediately fronting this were a desk and a chair, intended for members addressing the assembly in set speeches. On the left front of the stage were a table and chair for the chief secretary, and the corresponding place on the right was occupied by a large blackboard.\n\nImmediately below the orator's tribune was a table at which two reporters were sitting, and on it was a ballot-box. In the stalls' part of the theatre were some sixty or seventy chairs and desks ranged in semi-circles facing the stage, with a broad gangway up the centre and smaller paths between every two or three seats at the sides. The names of the members were written in small characters on the backs of their chairs.\n\nUnder the galleries, running round the three sides of the building not occupied by the stage, was a large open space, which seemed to be the particular domain of the sergeant-at-arms, in the shape of a portly officer of police in a new European-style uniform.\n\nIn the side galleries were rows of plain desks and chairs intended for ordinary visitors; and in the distinguished visitors' box in the centre were a few silk-covered seats and desks covered with green baize similar to those intended for the members below.\n\nThe hall was well lighted by large glass windows in the sides and smaller windows round the square-raised roof in the centre.\n\nI counted thirty-eight members present besides the president and the two vice-presidents, and exclusive of Mr. Nieh, who remained upstairs with me and the other visitors. They were arranged according to age, the oldest occupying the front seats. All wore official hats, and most of them had gold or silver buttons; one old gentleman seated in the front row near the blackboard being conspicuous by having a red button and peacock's feather. I was told that he was a Mr. Ting, member for Ho-ch'ing Chou in Li-chiang prefecture, in the north-west of the province, formerly salt comptroller in the Liang-huai region of Chiang-su and Anhui.\n\nThe chief secretary chalked on the blackboard the subject for the day's discussion, which was what arrangements for the future were to be made with regard to the funds of the Yunnan Bank, which had failed; and after a pause a member left his seat, and, ascending some steps at the side of the stage, advanced to the tribune, and, with a bow to the president and his colleagues in front of him, commenced to speak. He was followed by two other speakers, and then a general discussion took place. Everyone appeared to speak very naturally, with quiet dignity, and very little gesture; and even in the general discussion only one member spoke at a time. The speeches were practically extempore, very slight use being made of the notes which the speakers placed on the table before them. Altogether, I was much struck by the air of seriousness and sense of responsibility which seemed to pervade the whole assembly.\n\n3\n\nThe president did not say, and did not appear to do anything; the vice-president on his right took copious notes the whole time, while the other vice-president appeared to devolve the duties of a speaker in our sense of the term, questions addressed to the chair being answered by him. Both vice-presidents were comparatively young men, the one being 40 and the other only 35 years of age.\n\nAt about half past eleven Mr. Nieh invited me and my companions to go downstairs and have some refreshment, so I had to leave the hall before any voting on the subject under discussion took place. Chinese cakes and sweet champagne followed, and shortly before noon I left for home.\n\nIn my despatch No. 46 of the 30th October I stated that 62 members in all were elected, and that Yunnan prefecture had returned six members. I was informed by Mr. Nieh and Mr. Wong that the total number of members was 68, and that Yunnan prefecture had returned 10 members.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\n75",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\n[B]\n\nREC'D REG 28 JAN 10\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[46757]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[December 28.]\n\nSECTION 7.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received December 28.)\n\n(Confidential.)\n\n(No. 454.\n\nPeking, December 8, 1909. Sir,\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 446 of the 2nd instant, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a further despatch from the acting consul-general at Mukden, which contains some interesting observations on the working of the Chinese Eastern Railway, the status of foreign merchants in the railway areas along the line, and the efforts which British and German firms, acting in conjunction with Chinese official syndicates, are making to wrest the monopoly of the bean trade from the Japanese. Five large British firms are actively interested in this business, which is already giving an unexpected importance to the international position in Manchuria.\n\nMr. Willis, it will be seen, confirms the general impression that the object of Prince Ito's visit was to come to some arrangement with the Russians as to the status of the railway settlements. The Japanese have always encouraged the Russians in their opposition to any compromise on that question, and have viewed the agreement of May last with little favour.\n\nAny understanding between Russia and Japan with regard to railways, or the administration of railway settlements in Manchuria, is not likely to promote the interests of foreign trade, and it would, I think, be better for us to accept a reasonable solution of the Harbin question at the hands of Russia than to force her, by an uncompromising attitude, into making a bargain with Japan. China is not likely to give much assistance in the matter, as her policy in questions of this kind has little constructive aim so long as she can keep the Powers engaged in a dispute amongst themselves.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\n(No. 59. Confidential.)\n\nSir,\n\nConsul-General Willis to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nMukden, November 24, 1909,\n\nIN continuation of my immediately preceding despatch No. 58 of the 23rd instant on the present commercial conditions prevailing in Northern Manchuria, I have the honour to submit the following observations:\n\nI was unable to procure detailed information as to the revenue and expenditure of the Chinese Eastern Railway, but the Russian authorities assured me, and their testimony was corroborated by M. Dard, the manager of the Russo-Chinese Bank, that during the past year a great improvement had taken place, and that now, exclusive of the cost of the railway guards, which is paid at 15,000,000 roubles annually, the railway had come to be self-supporting. As these guards, 28,000 in number, form an integral part of the Russian army, the railway officials maintain that, if the railway is to be conducted on commercial lines, it is only reasonable that the expense of their maintenance should not be included in the railway budget. General Horwath evidently thought that it was possible under present conditions to make an economic success of the enterprise, even, owing to the development of the bean trade, of the Chang Chun-Harbin branch; but although he told me he was ready to grant British merchants every facility, and had already agreed to a through rate from stations on the Chang Ch'un line to Vladivostock, he said that he would not lease land to foreign merchants in the railway areas at stations along the line.\n\n[2538 ee- -7]\n\n96\n\nPage 96\n\n...\n\nPage 97\n\n...\n\nPage 98",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nappreciated our difficulties, but pleaded that they were helpless to take action.\n\nany\n\neffective\n\nYesterday his Excellency Liang Tun-yen promised to send a further telegram to the Viceroy, but doubted if it would produce more effect than those which had preceded it.\n\nThe enclosed letter from the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce will show the attitude which that body continues to observe with regard to this question, and as the matter is one which affects the interests of Hong Kong, and the Chamber's communications on the subject have been answered through the governor, I am forwarding a copy of this despatch to Sir F. Lugard in order that his Excellency may be in a position to realise how the matter stands.\n\nInclosure I in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN,\n\nConsul-General Jamieson to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nCanton, November 2, 1909.\n\n(No. 114.) Sir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 6th October, transmitting copies of certain correspondence on the subject of the restriction imposed locally on the wholesale trade in Indian opium, and instructing me to make further urgent representations to the acting governor-general against this vexatious interference with the still legitimate trade of British firms.\n\nI had, prior to the receipt thereof, addressed a communication to his Excellency in the sense indicated, and I yesterday received his reply thereto. As you will see from the translation enclosed, no reference is made therein to any instructions from the Wai-wu Pu, and the attitude assumed generally is that my interference is\n\nuncalled for.\n\nI have accordingly addressed a further despatch to his Excellency, taking up the ground that the interpretation of the agreement between Great Britain and China for the suppression of opium rests with the representatives of the two Governments, and pointing out that prohibitive measures directed against legitimate British trade are in contravention of treaty engagements.\n\nIt is difficult to see what other argument one can employ, as his Excellency is so convinced that he is quite within his rights in dealing with the Chinese opium hongs as he sees fit.\n\nI have to-day sent you a telegram reporting the action taken, which I trust will meet with your approval.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Jamieson to Viceroy Yuan.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\nCanton, October 18, 1909. I HAVE the honour to refer to previous correspondence on the subject of the measures adopted by the provincial authorities for the control and sale of opium, and to inform your Excellency that I have received telegraphic instructions from His Majesty's Minister again to make strong representations with a view to determining the present unsatisfactory condition of affairs at Canton, in so far as the sale of foreign opium is concerned.\n\nMy predecessor's despatch of the 24th September traverses certain statements made by the Opium Prohibition Bureau, and I should like to add a few remarks of my own with regard to their report, which was transmitted in your Excellency's communication of the 17th September, 1909.\n\nParagraph 2 states that the late governor-general ordered all shops, as well as individual buyers, to take out licences.\n\nIt is a fact that a proclamation to this effect was issued, but owing to the intervention on the part of His Majesty's Minister, the same was not enforced, and the dealers were informed that they could go on conducting their business as before.\n\n3\n\nHence the latter are quite justified in asserting that no warning was given them, and that the imprisonment of one of their number and the closing of his premises was quite unwarrantable.\n\nParagraph 3 asserts that ten or more of the raw opium shops were obeying the regulations. Such is not the case. The opium hongs never agreed to the permit system, and were all along selling to buyers without permits. The bureau's contention that the regulations in no way concern foreigners cannot, I feel sure, be endorsed by your Excellency, as your Excellency must be aware that the Chinese Government have let it be clearly understood that they had no intention of interfering with the wholesale trade in foreign opium. Vexatious restrictions, therefore, which result in the complete dislocation of such trade, are contrary to the assurances given by the Imperial Government, and the enforcement thereof might not unreasonably be\n\nconstrued as a breach of faith.\n\nI have accordingly the honour earnestly to request that your Excellency, in the interests of the friendly relations existing between our two countries, take immediate steps to put a stop to this unwarrantable interference with British trade, and to set at liberty the dealer Liang Chih Hou, of the Ch'uan Fu Chang hong, who was some time ago arrested at the instance of the Opium Prohibition Bureau.\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\nViceroy Yüan to Consul-General Jamieson,\n\nCanton, October 31, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 18th October regarding the regulations restricting the sale of raw opium promulgated by the provincial authorities, in which you inform me that you are in receipt of a telegram from His Majesty's Minister instructing you to see that the restrictions on the sale of foreign opium are removed.\n\nI find that the Opium Prohibition Bureau some time ago ordered all native opium shops to register themselves and take out licences. These regulations were issued, with the Imperial sanction, by the Government Council, to all provinces alike, and were not brought into being in Kwangtung alone. As regards the regulation compelling purchasers of opium to obtain licences before opium may be sold to them, it was issued under Imperial sanction, and the authorities of this province have no power to alter or abrogate it.\n\nIn your despatch you assert that \"the opium hongs never agreed to the permit system, and were all along selling to buyers without permits.\" Even if what you say is a fact, it is clear that the Chinese opium hongs infringed the regulations, and the result, namely, the sealing of their shops and the imposition of a fine, is entirely their own fault.\n\nLiang Chih Hou, the proprietor of the Chuan Fu Ch'ang hong, was arrested on account of the infringement by that hong of the regulations in that raw opium was improperly sold to persons not duly licensed, and it is impossible that this offence should be condoned.\n\nI have carefully studied the arguments embodied in your despatch, and find that the matter is one solely concerning Chinese merchants, and am surprised that you should be willing to apply for this man's release.\n\nGreat Britain has rendered great assistance in the suppression of opium, and has expressed her willingness to reduce the quantity imported from year to year. The Chinese Government is very grateful for this friendly attitude. The regulations, issued and sanctioned by the throne, for making searches and for restricting the trade are of the utmost importance for suppressing the use of opium. The various provincial authorities must therefore exert themselves to the utmost to carry out these regulations, thereby returning the kindness and generosity of your friendly nation.\n\nShould China succeed in rooting out this cancerous growth of many years, it would, I think, be a source of pleasure to your country.\n\nAt present foreign merchants may continue to trade in opium with the opium hongs as before, but the searching of native opium shops is a matter concerning\n\n129",
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        "content_text": "# Local Self-Government.---How should it be inaugurated? How are the funds to be provided?\n\nEducation. How general education is to be provided and paid for? On what lines are industrial schools to be introduced?\n\nPolice. The present police force is insufficient. What steps should be taken to provide a proper force, and how are the funds to be provided?\n\nTrade and Industry.--How should methods of agriculture be improved, with special reference to the use of chemical fertilisers and modern systems of irrigation? How is trade to be encouraged? What new industries to be developed, new markets opened up? How are banking methods to be reorganised, and reforms introduced into the salt monopoly? Should the statutory interest charged by pawnbrokers be revised? How are the instructions of the central Government in regard to the issue of paper money to be carried out?\n\nLand Tax-An improved scheme is put before the members for the collection of the land tax and a discussion of its merits requested.\n\nWeights and Measures.-How to introduce a uniform system?\n\nThe assembly in November was engaged in digesting this wide programme, but no report of the debates had appeared in the papers, although accommodation was provided for newspaper reporters.\n\n## MANCHURIA\n\n### Feng-tien (Mukden) Province\n\nElectorate. There is little detailed information. The province was divided into forty-five electoral districts for the first election of delegates, and eight centres for the second election of the members of the assembly.\n\nFirst Election.--The election of delegates took place on the 7th May, 1909, and it is stated that 52,679 qualified voters registered their votes. Assuming the population of the province to be about 8,000,000, there was approximately one qualified voter to every 150 inhabitants, or double the proportion in Shantung.\n\nSecond Election. Composition of Assembly.--The election of members occurred on the 1st June. Of the 50 elected, 26 have official rank, 42 have literary degrees, and 4 have studied in Japan. They vary in age from 30 to 74.\n\nOpening Ceremony.-The opening of the assembly took place on the fixed date, the 14th October, in the presence of the Viceroy and governor, a special building costing 60,000 taels (£7,000) having been erected for the purpose.\n\nBusiness.---According to the press reports, the following questions have been placed before the Mukden assembly for discussion:\n\n1. Funds for local government purposes.\n\n2. Prohibition of opium.\n\n3. Organisation of police.\n\n4. Funds for education.\n\n5. Organisation of agricultural associations.\n\n6. Extension of wheat and bean crops.\n\n7. Improvement of sericulture and wool.\n\n8. Currency, trade, waterways, mines, and fisheries questions.\n\n9. Reorganisation of the land and other taxes.\n\n### KIRIN PROVINCE\n\nOpposition to Governor.-No information except a general statement that the assembly has manifested a strong opposition to the policy of the governor, who is reported to have written to the Viceroy stating that the province is not yet ripe for the adoption of parliamentary institutions. (These reports have since been denied in the press).\n\n### HEILUNGCHIANG PROVINCE\n\nOpening-Beyond a bare announcement that the assembly was opened at Tsitsihar at the due date by the governor, there is little information in the press.\n\n## CHIHLI\n\nOpening Ceremony. The provincial assembly of Chihli held its opening meeting on the 14th October in Li Hung-chang's Memorial Temple at Hopei, Tien-tsin.\n\nSpecial assembly buildings are at present being erected on an extensive scale, but will not be completed before May next.\n\nViceroy's Speech-His Excellency Tuan Fang, Viceroy of Chihli, opened the proceedings, in the presence of a full attendance of members, by reading the Imperial edict of the 13th October. In the subsequent speech, the Viceroy dwelt particularly on two points:\n\n1. In considering local interests, the assembly should always keep steadily in mind the larger national interests.\n\n2. The assembly must beware of overstepping the limited rights conferred upon it.\n\nA president and two vice-presidents were then elected. Salaries are fixed as follows: president, 150 taels per month; vice-president, 120 taels; and members, 70 taels per month, with travelling expenses.\n\nGovernment Programme of Business.--The subjects submitted by Viceroy Tuan and discussed by the assembly were:-\n\n1. A proposal to substitute cash for grain tribute from certain districts.\n\n2. Institution of a census.\n\n3. The development of instruction in easy writing.\n\n4. The reform of the police regulations.\n\n5. Enquiry into the system of official runners.\n\nTo these has to be added-\n\n6. Plan for carrying out local autonomy in Chihli, a subject suggested by the Constitutional Government Committee.\n\nDebates. Owing to the number and variety of subjects for discussion, the original session of forty days was extended ten days. The debates were open to the public, but it appears that few took advantage of this privilege. They were not reported in the native press, which is apparently waiting for the presentation of the assembly's reports and the Viceroy's comments thereon before dealing with the subject. The session was concluded on the 3rd December, when nine members were elected to represent the assembly in the Senate.\n\nRelations of Assembly to Senate and Central Government.-The regulations which govern the constitution of the assembly provide that the opinions it forms should be submitted direct to the Senate in Peking. In the meantime, as the Senate is not yet in being, the assembly reports to the Viceroy, who, at the conclusion of the session, explains the official attitude on the subjects of the reports. It has been suggested by a censor that this viceregal superintendence detracts to a great extent from the usefulness of the assembly, the object of whose existence is the discussion of public affairs by persons independent of the Government. That the central Government is exceedingly anxious as to the behaviour of the newly-constituted body is evidenced by the fact that they have several times by telegram urged the Viceroy to keep a strict watch that the assembly does not exceed its rights, and that this nervousness is to some extent justified may be realised from the reports that twelve representatives of the assembly requested the Wai-wu Pu in a memorial to cancel the agreement lately concluded between China and Japan concerning the Manchurian question. Interference of this sort in matters which lie between the central Government and foreign States was of course frowned upon, and the memorial promptly pigeon-holed. The incident serves to draw one's attention to what will be a certain source of trouble in the future.\n\nThe above is taken from a memorandum by Mr. G. A. Combe, of His Britannic Majesty's consulate-general at Tien-tsin.\n\n## HONAN\n\nPreliminary Steps,-We learn from a published memorial of the Governor of Honan that in November 1908, an organisation office was established, and preliminary steps after the Shantung model were taken.\n\nVoting Lists-Voting lists were completed by March 1909, and the elections commenced in June.\n\nOpening. The opening of the assembly at K'ai-feng-fu at 10 A.M. on the 14th October was mentioned in the native press. The day was kept as a holiday by\n\nPage 9\n\n[2605 7-21]\n\nD\n\n147\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "12\n\n13\n\n\"By the Governor of Soochow :-\n\n\"The provision of the expenses of self-government.\n\nRelief of the financial difficulties of district magistrates (through loss on exchange of 10-cash copper pieces).\n\nSurvey of waste lands.\n\nThe amalgamation of the agricultural societies into one agricultural and afforestation company,\n\n\"An effective prohibition of the use of opium.\n\nImposition of stamp duty.\n\n\"Improvement in method of collecting li-kin,\n\n\"Stricter system of registration of title-deeds. “Standardisation of weights and measures.\n\n\"Formation of a society for spreading the knowledge of the principles of constitutional government among the people.\"\n\nElections at Shanghae.-A report of Sir Pelham Warren's contains some information regarding the elections in the Shanghae district.\n\nThe primary elections were held in the Shanghae magistracy on the 22nd March, when twenty-two delegates were chosen. This number being insufficient to return the five members required (by the rules there must be ten delegates for each member), further elections were held on the 29th March and 18th April.\n\nOn the 5th May the five members were elected by ballot at the Sungkiang prefecture, All five are graduates.\n\nSalaries of Assembly Officers.-The salaries paid to members and officers of the Kiangsu assembly are:-\n\nPresident\n\nVice-President\n\nChief Secretary\n\nSecretaries\n\nMembers of Standing Committee\n\nTaels.\n\n(a-month)\n\n150\n\n120\n\n100\n\n30\n\n70\n\nThese salaries and the travelling expenses of all the members are paid by the Viceroy.\n\nKIANGSI,\n\nMr. Worner, His Majesty's consul at Kiukiang, has reported as follows:--- Preparatory Steps.\" Very little has been done in this province. The Governor issued instructions to all the Fa, Ting, Chou, and Hsien to establish local deliberative bodies in accordance with the regulations issued by the Peking Government.\n\nOpening of Assembly at Nan Ch'ong.-\"The Nan Chiang provincial assembly was opened by the governor on the 1st day of the 9th moon (14th October), all the civil and military officials, gentry, merchants, scholars, &c., to the number of 1,000 being present. The governor made a short speech, pointing out the nature of this new institution, and exhorting all to act together for the good of the country.\n\nDiscontent caused by Census.\" The enforcement of the provision respecting the taking of the census caused much discontent in some places. From those districts where it was properly carried out reports have been sent in, but in others abuses by the census officials led to disturbances. In Yuan Chou the people collected together and burnt the census office, and much fighting took place, many being killed and wounded. In Lo Ping, Po Yang, Te An, Jui Chang, Wu Ning, and Wen An, small disturbances also took place, the census officers being attacked and wounded,\n\nAppointment of President and Vice-Presidents.\" On the 2nd of the 9th moon the governor ordered the election of one head and two vice-presidents. Hsich Yuan-han, who was chosen as president, was objected to by more than forty members, but was subsequently confirmed in the appointment, together with the two elected vice-presidents, Huang Ta-hsun and Kuo Yu-ping.\"\n\nHUPEL\n\nFirst and Second Elections; Electorate.-Mr. Fraser reports that the first elections in the Hupei districts were held in May, and the second elections in July, Voting lists were publicly displayed at the magistrates' offices, and revised with the aid of special committees. (The total number of electors in the province is 113,233). \"The provision confining the vote to natives of each district resulted, in Hankow, where the chief business men come from Canton, Ningpo, and Swatow, in excluding from candidature the best known and most prominent persons. The London Mission assures me that there was no trace of anti-Christian prejudice and a good many of its native members exercised the right of voting.\"\n\nOpening Ceremony.The following interesting account of the opening ceremony of the Hupei provincial assembly is a translation by Mr. A. J. Martin from the native press:----\n\n\"Yesterday, the 1st day of the 9th month, was the date fixed for the opening ceremony of the provincial assembly.\n\n\"Some days previously the office for making preparations for the provincial assembly had hoisted the dragon flag on the main hall of the Educational Society's building, which was lent for the occasion, and had there erected a canopy for the Imperial edict and stretched a coloured awning outside the eaves.\n\n\"At 9 A.M. on the appointed day the president, vice-president, and the other members, wearing winter hats, festal black jackets, and blue robes, but without their official rosaries, met at Hsun Tao Ling, in the waiting-room prepared for them in the grounds of the Educational Society. The administrative officials, i.e., the provincial treasurer, the commissioner of education, and the provincial judge, the salt taotai, the intendant of industry, the police taotai and the customs taotai, the prefects of Wachang and Hanyang, the Hsia K'ou sub-prefect, and the magistrates of Chiang Hsia and Hanyang assembled at 9 A.M. in the guest hall made ready for them in the grounds of the Educational Society, and the invited guests gradually assembled in the ante-room appointed for them.\n\nExhibition of Imperial Decree.—“At 10A.M. the Viceroy arrived and alighted outside the coloured awning, and was shown by the master of the ceremonies into the waiting room. He rested here a short time while the officials of the office for making preparations for the provincial assembly offered him tea. When it was announced that the final preparations had been made, the master of ceremonies conducted the Viceroy to the space in front of the Imperial edict in the main hall; the other high officials following in order of precedence. The president, vice-president, and the other members of the assembly were then separately ushered in by the master of ceremonies. When all had been arranged in their appointed places the Viceroy's cushion was placed in the centre of the front row before the Imperial edict. The president's cushion was then placed on a level with, and to the right of, the Viceroy's. In the second row were the provincial treasurer, the commissioner of education, and provincial judge, with the salt taotai, the intendant of industry, the police taotai, and the customs taotai.\n\n\"In the third row were placed the cushions of the prefects of Wachang and Hanyang, the Hsia K'ou sub-prefect, and the magistrates of Chiang Hsia and Hanyang, and on their left were ranged the members of the provincial assembly. When all the cushions had been placed in order the master of ceremonies cried ‘Kneel!' and the whole assembly knelt. He then ordered the Imperial edict to be read, and when this had been done he called on the assembly to kneel thrice and kotow nine times in token of gratitude for the Imperial favour. This done, he called on the assembly to stand up, and they left their appointed places.\n\nThe executive officials were then ordered to take up their positions in order of precedence on the right, and the president, vice-president, and members of the provincial assembly to take up their positions on the left and bow thrice, the ceremony of greeting.\n\n\"The master of ceremonies next gave the order to perform the opening ceremony, conducted the concourse to the doors of the assembly-house, and retired. The executive officials and the president, vice-president, and members entered the house in order by the main door and took their seats. The guests entered by the east and west doors and took their seats apart in a side room. The Viceroy was seated behind the president; the provincial treasurer, commissioner for education, and the provincial judge sat in a row on his left; the salt taotai, the intendant of industry, police taotai, and customs taotai on his right.\n\n\"The prefects of Wuchang and Hanyang, and the Hsia K'ou sub-prefect, and the magistrates of Chiang Hsia and Hanyang had special seats.\n\nViceroy's SpeechThe Viceroy rose and made a congratulatory speech, the assembly meanwhile standing. After they had resumed their seats the president rose and replied, the assembly again standing. The president and vice-president then accompanied the Viceroy and executive officials to their waiting-rooms, where they remained for a few minutes, the stewards performing the same function for the guests.\n\n[2605 7-2]\n\nE\n\n149",
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        "content_text": "On his Excellency's departure the president and vice-president accompanied him to the courtyard of the main hall, bowed, and waited until he had entered his chair; and afterwards the rest of the executive officials departed in order of rank, while the president and vice-president waited and bowed to each.\n\nComposition of Assembly.-The members of the Hupei assembly are said to be mostly reformers, and almost all have either official status or literary degrees. Thus the president is an expectant taotai and the two vice-presidents are Hanlin graduates. The Viceroy's opening speech impressed on the members the need for public spirit, and cautioned them against encroaching on the sphere of the executive officials.\n\nProgramme of Business.-The programme of the assembly at the close of October contained five subjects-\n\n1. Extension of education and financial provision therefor.\n\n2. Prevention of fires.\n\n3. Encouragement of agriculture and forestry.\n\n4. Provision of funds to meet cost of self-government.\n\n5. Opium repression.\n\nHUNAN.\n\nThe report by Mr. Hewlett, His Majesty's consul at Changsha on the provincial assembly of Hunan is quoted :-\n\nElections.- In accordance with instructions issued by the governor through the director of education in April last, elections were held throughout the province with a view to appointing members for the first Hunan Parliament. At the end of June a meeting was held in Changsha, at which a programme was discussed, and the reasons for forming a Parliament given; a report of this meeting was drawn up by the industrial taotai, and was sent to all the local authorities in the province. By the beginning of September the elections were completed, and by the end of the month the members elected, eighty-two in all, assembled in Changsha in preparation for the opening of Parliament, which was fixed for the 14th October. Mr. Tang Yen-k'ai was elected president of the Parliament.\n\nOpening; Governor's Speech.- On the 14th October the governor opened the first Parliament in person. His Excellency read an address in which the duties of the members as representing the public opinion of the whole province of Hunan were briefly enumerated, and in which the importance of a constitution for China was carefully explained. He exhorted them to work in unison; to be sincere in the fulfilment of their duties; to cast aside private differences; to practise what they preached, and zealously to support the officials in promoting the best interests of Hunan, and in eradicating abuses.\n\nPresident's Reply.- Mr. Tang Yen-k'ai's reply was slightly patronising. He declared that the Parliament would always serve the best interests of Hunan, and that as Hunan had saved the Chinese Empire in the days of the Tai Ping rebellion so now and in the future they would assist the officials to stamp out abuse, and by unanimity of purpose secure the fullest advantages for Hunan.\n\nTwo members stand out prominently in the Parliament, Mr. Tang Yen-k'ai and Mr. Chen Wen-wei. The former is the political authority, and commercial matters are practically entirely in the hands of the latter, but as far as the others are concerned the majority have never crossed the borders of Hunan, and for some the present occasion is the first visit to Changsha.\n\nPolitical Associations; Attitude of Interference in Foreign Cases.- The two men mentioned above rule the counsels of the political association (the Yen Chiu Hui) whose members are all members of Parliament. This association has, even at this early date, made it clear to the provincial authorities that they intend to be consulted on every question, political or municipal, affecting Hunan, and they base their right on the power they possess of appealing directly to the political institutions in Peking. The customs taotai has told me quite frankly that he dare not take any action which promotes foreign interests in Changsha without the permission of this association, even if the foreign demand is strictly in accordance with treaty provisions. The association has already interfered in two cases, which are still unsettled, in a very definite manner, and it still remains to be seen whether the governor has the strength of will to withstand the unwarrantable interference of this body of men in questions affecting foreign relations, seeing that they are totally ignorant of the solemn obligations incurred by China under the various treaties, obligations which the association considers can be set aside merely because they prove distasteful to Hunan.\n\nThe provincial treasurer tells me in confidence that several tens of petitions have already been received demanding the dismissal of about 60 per cent. of the representatives, but up to the present only two have been dismissed.\n\nThe remaining political institution in Changsha-the Tiao Ch'a Chu-has met with keen opposition in the exercise of its functions, chiefly as regards the census and the assessment of property. The members of the gentry who were not elected to the Parliament encourage the opposition, and it will be some time before this conservative province agrees to a close scrutiny of what its population consider questions which affect themselves alone as private individuals.”\n\nSZECHUAN.\n\nThe following is from a report by Mr. W. Stark Toller:-\n\nElections; Distribution of Seats.- The elections for the provincial assembly took place at the appointed date---on the 15th day of the 6th month (the 31st July)- though in several cases it was not until two or three days later that the election was completed. The number of members elected for the whole of Szechuan was 105, the numbers from each prefecture being as follows:---\n\n  \n    Chengtu\n    14\n  \n  \n    Mien-chou\n    4\n  \n  \n    Li-ang\n    ...\n  \n  \n    An-fa\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Mao-chou\n    1\n  \n  \n    Ta chon\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Ning Yuan\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Cuiating\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Mei-chou\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Chinng-chou\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Chung king\n    ...\n  \n  \n    K'uei-fu\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Hsu Ting\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Chung-chon\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Yu Yang-chon\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Paoning\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Shun Ching\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Tung Chuan\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Esu-chou-fu (Suifu)\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Hsu Yung Ting\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Lu-chou\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Tzu-chou\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Total\n    105\n  \n\nTo this number must be added the two extra members elected to represent the banner garrison in Chengtu, thus bringing the total up to 107. There were also elected 54 expectant members, to fill any vacancy that might occur. These expectant members were elected by a separate ballot after the election of the sitting members, which explains the otherwise remarkable fact that the expectant members have almost invariably a greater number of votes recorded in their favour than have the sitting members.\n\nWant of Enthusiasm in Electorate.- In the June quarter's intelligence report Mr. Smith mentioned that at the first, or direct, election in the two districts of the city of Chengtu the number of men who obtained the fixed minimum of votes fell very far short of the quota to be elected by each district magistracy, the deficiency in the Chengtu Hsien being 9, and in the Hua Yang Hsien 14. A supplementary election was therefore held a few days later, at which the requisite number of men were elected. In the Chengtu Hsien 63 votes was sufficient to secure qualification for the second and final election, while the lowest number obtained by a successful candidate in the Hua Yang Hsien was 70 votes. When so little interest is shown in the capital, it does not seem reasonable to expect great enthusiasm in the external cities, and such information as I have been able to obtain tends to confirm this view.\n\nComposition of Assembly.- The greater part of the elected members of the provincial council are either holders of some official rank or are graduates under the old system of examinations. Of the total of 161 sitting and expectant members, there are only six who possess neither of these qualifications, and these are all elected under the property qualification (5,000 dollars). A large proportion of the members elected are returned Japanese students. I am told that fully 30 per cent. of the whole, including the president (I Chang) come under this category.\n\nAn examination of the official list of members shows the average age to be ...",
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        "content_text": "\"Universal establishment of police. \n\n\"Universal education. \n\n\"Rules of the council. \n\nAdvantages and evils of the 'ticket salt system.' \n\nRegulations of the local Government councils. \n\n\"Discrimination in collection between local and Imperial taxes. \n\n44 \n\nReorganisation of the affairs of the Chuan-Han Railway Company. \"Revision of legal fees. \n\n\"Revision of the extra coal and iron taxes at Chungking. \n\n\"Reform of the salt-tax system. \n\n\"Abolition of excess incidental expenditure by local officials. \n\n\"Bank administration. \n\n\"Reform of the public granaries. \n\n* \n\nPreparation for a voluntary force. \n\n\"Revision of the funds of the various temple societies' for the expenses \n\nof the local Government councils. \n\n\"Reform of the receipts given to the payers of land tax. \n\n< \n\nExtortion by local officials under the guise of fines. \n\n\"The alteration of the Mining Supervisory Company into a model commercial company. \n\n\"That the defence of the Szechuan-Thibetan frontier should be an Imperial \n\ncharge. \n\n\"The necessity for care in the choice of the local educational officers. \"Institution of a public library in Chengtu. \n\nK \n\n'Appendix (B). \n\n\"Proceedings of the Provincial Council on the 17th day of the 9th month (October 30). \n\nSpecimen of Debate.-\"The sitting commenced at 1 P.M., the following officials being in attendance: the Provincial Judge, Intendant of Commerce, Prefect Yang (Director of the School of Laws), the district magistrate of Chengtu, and Ting, a deputy of the Viceroy's. \n\nThe first subject discussed was the reorganisation of the train-bands. \"Liu Chih Ch'eng mounted the rostrum and said that the train-bands and the police were both matters of importance. \n\n\"Li Wen Hsi: In reorganising the train-bands the leaders and headmen should be first dealt with. These men should be elected. \n\n\"Fu Huai Ping: Industrial institutions must be widely established, in order to eradicate the source of thieves and robbers; neither police nor train-bands can be abolished. \n\n\"Wang Shu Huai: Whether police have or have not been established in a place, the train-bands cannot be cast aside. The important points are to discriminate carefully in rewarding and punishing the train-bands; to search out the thieves' dens; to relax the prohibition of the purchase of swords; and to buy larger quantities of weapons, which the officials will then distribute for use in protection. \n\n\"Kao Ling Hsiao: The headmen should be elected by ballot, and the train-bands should be drilled in accordance with the military regulations. \n\n\"Hsiu Kuang P'u: The train-bands should be divided into classes according to their size, the larger bands consisting of forty men, and the smaller of twenty. They should be drilled for two hours daily, and instructed for two hours. The men should be changed annually, so that, in course of time, everybody will have been through a course of military training, and our peasantry will be our army. \n\n\"Chou Chang Chao: If the duties of raising funds, controlling expenditure, and administering business all devolves on one man, if he is honest, he will have a heavy burden, and if he is dishonest it will be very easy for him to commit malpractices. The regulations should therefore be revised, \n\n\"Ch'en Nien Tsu: There are at present three defects in the administration of the train-bands, (a) the headmen are changed in rotation; (b) expenses are not allowed; (c) no respect is shown to the men. Reform is necessary to produce efficiency. The first step should be to take a census and to distribute weapons. \n\n\"Ch'en Ying Tu: The train-bands should be abolished. Even supposing they were properly reorganised, still in course of time local self-government and police will be an accomplished fact, and then in the end the train-bands will have to be done away with. \n\n\"Li Shu Ch'un: The headmen should be elected by the local self-government councils. Mr. Li further pointed out the advantages of the system of rewards and punishments, and of the use of modern weapons, \n\n\"Ch'ih Chu agreed with Cheng Ying Tu. He added that if the train-bands and police were established side by side there would necessarily arise friction between them. \n\n\"Liu Sheng Yuan: In deciding whether or not the train-bands shall be dealt with the essential question is, 'Do they keep the criminal classes in order?' Even if we have modern weapons, to make good use of them we must also have men trained in science, military matters, and mechanics. In conclusion he pointed out the need of a reorganisation of the Police Training Department. \n\n\"La Chi: The two most important matters are the detective department of the police force and the census. \n\n\"Tung Ching Chun rose in his seat and inquired whether the question was one referred for discussion, or was originated by council itself. The president replied that the provincial judge had previously written to him about this question, and that therefore it should be considered as referred. The second question on the day's agenda might be classed as 'originated.' \n\n\"The Provincial Judge explained that his object was to ascertain the opinion of the council, in order that he might make the necessary reforms. \n\n\"This concluded the discussion of the first question. \n\n\"The second question was the protection of woods and forests. \n\n\"Liu Sheng Yuan: Any scheme for protection must be prefaced by registration. \n\n\"Cheng Nien Tsu: For the sake of convenience the forestry society should be a branch of the agricultural society and not a separate institution. Rules for the protection of woods and forests should be drawn up by the proprietors of the same. \n\n\"Wang Shu Huai: The protection of public and unowned woods is a simple matter, but difficulty will be found in the protection of those that are private property, hence the starting point should be the protection of the livelihood of the owner. Enlarging on this, the member went on to point out that the taxes on mortgages were harmful to owners of property, and should therefore be abolished. He went on at great length, to the annoyance of the council. \n\n\"The president then said that, although the member had already explained clearly, it still appeared that the matter he was discussing was irrelevant; moreover, there would be a separate discussion on this subject, so it need not be dealt with now. \n\n\"Kao Ling Hsiao: There is no need to establish any society, for it would be only an empty name. Wax, varnish, rubber, and camphor trees should be cultivated to replace opium. \n\n\"Cheng Ying Tu: Privately-owned woods should be protected from being cut down by thieves. Societies should be established as occasion demands. \n\n\"The Vice-President, Lo Lun: There are three causes of deforestation: (1) Cutting too early; (2) Failure to plant; (3) Theft of trees. Schemes for protection should be divided into direct and indirect. On the one hand, coal mines should be developed so that there should be no need to burn timber; and on the other hand, forestry societies should be established as branches of the agricultural societies. Regulations and punishments should be defined, markets should be opened up, and so on. \n\nThis met with the approval of the council. \n\n\"The President: The subject immediately under discussion includes three heads: Unowned woods, public woods, and private woods, and also incidentally embraces three other objects: Preservation of monuments, development of wells and springs, and production of timber. \n\n\"The Intendant of Commerce expressed his views: These three classes of woods and forests must all be surveyed and investigated, and the unowned woods can then be made the foundation of State forests. While all woods, whether unowned, public, or private, must be surveyed, the unowned and public woods should be dealt with first. \n\n\"Several members raised the point that when a census of mulberry trees was taken last year, the people became suspicious and cut down the trees. \n\n\"The President: Registration must be the basis of all administration. Suspicion is not aroused in other matters; why should the registration of woods and forests be the solitary exception? I have no hesitation in asserting that there will be no difficulty. \n\n19 \n\n152",
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        "content_text": "(No. 48.) Sir,\n\n32\n\nAnnex 2.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nYunnan-fu, November 12, 1909.\n\nWITH reference to your instructions that I should keep you informed regarding the progress made in my consular district of parliamentary institutions, I have the honour to report that I paid a visit to the Yunnan Provincial Assembly last Monday, the 8th instant.\n\nHaving informed the Bureau of Foreign Affairs beforehand of my intention to attend a sitting of the assembly, Mr. Wong, the English interpreter attached to the bureau, called for me shortly after 9 o'clock, and accompanied me to the Yunnan Guild House, which is being used temporarily as an assembly house until a special building has been erected.\n\nI entered the guild house through a gateway surmounted by a couple of dragon flags with crossed staves and guarded by two sentinels in modern quasi-European uniform, who presented arms as I passed, and on my alighting from my chair I was received by Mr. Nieh, one of the members for Tung-ch'uan prefecture, in the north-east part of this province. This gentleman conducted me to a small waiting room, the walls of which were ornamented with maps and botanical diagrams, where the usual tea and cigarettes were offered to me. Here I was joined by three French visitors, and a few minutes later Mr. Chang, the president of the assembly, a little old man of 70 with a long thin white beard, came into the room. He made a few remarks to me about the assembly not being quite in working order yet, everything being in consequence very rough, and I made a few deprecatory remarks in reply; and in a few minutes' time, 10 o'clock having struck, we all adjourned to the assembly hall.\n\nHere my French companions and I were conducted up some stairs to what was formerly a private box in the theatre of the guild house, directly facing the presidential table on the stage, and with the seats for the ordinary members in the stall space below me.\n\nI observed that the back of the stage was covered by a large yellow curtain, on and over which were posted the imperial edicts relating to the constitution and conduct of provincial assemblies. Directly in front of this screen was a seat for the Viceroy, and on each side near the corners of the stage were two similar seats, intended for any of the high provincial authorities who might desire to be present at any sitting. On the occasion of my visit these three chairs were unoccupied. In the centre of the stage was a long table with three chairs for the president and vice-presidents, and immediately fronting this were a desk and a chair, intended for members addressing the assembly in set speeches. On the left front of the stage were a table and chair for the chief secretary, and the corresponding place on the right was occupied by a large blackboard.\n\nImmediately below the orator's tribune was a table at which two reporters were sitting, and on it was a ballot-box. In the stalls' part of the theatre were some sixty or seventy chairs and desks ranged in semi-circles facing the stage, with a broad gangway up the centre and smaller paths between every two or three seats at the sides. The names of the members were written in small characters on the backs of their chairs.\n\nUnder the galleries, running round the three sides of the building not occupied by the stage, was a large open space, which seemed to be the particular domain of the sergeant-at-arms, in the shape of a portly officer of police in a new European-style uniform.\n\nIn the side galleries were rows of plain desks and chairs intended for ordinary visitors; and in the distinguished visitors' box in the centre were a few silk-covered seats and desks covered with green baize similar to those intended for the members below.\n\nThe hall was well lighted by large glass windows in the sides and smaller windows round the square-raised roof in the centre.\n\nI counted thirty-eight members present besides the president and the two vice-presidents, and exclusive of Mr. Nieh, who remained upstairs with me and the other visitors. They were arranged according to age, the oldest occupying the front seats. All wore official hats, and most of them had gold or silver buttons; one old gentleman seated in the front row near the blackboard being conspicuous by having a red button and peacock's feather. I was told that he was a Mr. Ting, member for Ho-ch'ing Chou in Li-chiang prefecture, in the north-west of the province, formerly salt comptroller in the Liang-huai region of Chiang-su and Anhui.\n\n33\n\n159\n\nThe chief secretary chalked on the blackboard the subject for the day's discussion, which was what arrangements for the future were to be made with regard to the funds of the Yunnan Bank, which had failed; and after a pause a member left his seat, and, ascending some steps at the side of the stage, advanced to the tribune, and, with a bow to the president and his colleagues in front of him, commenced to speak. He was followed by two other speakers, and then a general discussion took place. Everyone appeared to speak very naturally, with quiet dignity, and very little gesture; and even in the general discussion only one member spoke at a time. The speeches were practically extempore, very slight use being made of the notes which the speakers placed on the table before them. Altogether, I was much struck by the air of seriousness and sense of responsibility which seemed to pervade the whole assembly.\n\nThe president did not say, and did not appear to do anything; the vice-president on his right took copious notes the whole time, while the other vice-president appeared to devolve the duties of a speaker in our sense of the term, questions addressed to the chair being answered by him. Both vice-presidents were comparatively young men, the one being 40 and the other only 35 years of age.\n\nAt about half past eleven Mr. Nieh invited me and my companions to go downstairs and have some refreshment, so I had to leave the hall before any voting on the subject under discussion took place. Chinese cakes and sweet champagne followed, and shortly before noon I left for home.\n\nIn my despatch No. 46 of the 30th October I stated that 62 members in all were elected, and that Yünnan prefecture had returned six members. I was informed by Mr. Nieh and Mr. Wong that the total number of members was 68, and that Yunnan prefecture had returned 10 members.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nBy this means the Taotai thinks that his own reputation is safeguarded, while the East Asiatic Company's stipulation for an increase in the price is also complied with.\n\nDredging was recommenced on the 27th ultimo after an interval of just over two months, during which the condition of the Astraea Channel has not appreciably deteriorated. Although slight shoaling took place at both ends of the channel, the scour of the tide acted with greater force than was expected along the Gough Island shore, and kept that portion of the channel at a satisfactory depth.\n\nThe governor, Lui Cheng, arrived from Soochow on the 26th ultimo, and inspected the conservancy works on the 29th ultimo. In the course of conversation a few days later he expressed himself to me as generally satisfied with the progress of the works, and informed me that he had engaged a foreign engineer to make an independent report on them for the Chinese Government.\n\nThe engineer in question is a Swede named Hugo von Heidenstam, of the Swedish-Asiatic Consulting Engineering Company. Little is known of him beyond that he is a friend of Mr. Ku Hung-ming.\n\nI am transmitting under separate cover a copy of the latest survey published by the Conservancy Board.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nPELHAM L. WARREN.\n\n3\n\nnecessary to make the proposed addition with regard to asking for instructions\" Experience shows that it takes several months for the different legations to receive such instructions, and the Chinese would probably regard the intimation as tantamount to shelving the question.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nEnclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nDean's Circular No. 169 of December 18, 1909, respecting the Whangpoo Conservancy,\n\nDANS la circulaire No. 160 ci-jointe le doyen a été autorisé à adresser au Wai-wou Pou, au nom du corps diplomatique, et en réponse à son office du 26 octobre dernier (voir circulaire No. 141), une note constatant l'impossibilité où se trouvent les chefs de mission d'acquiescer aux déclarations du Gouvernement chinois, en vertu desquelles il ne considère comme dégagé des obligations du protocole final afférentes à la ratification du Whangpou.\n\nEn soumettant à ses honorables collègues la minute de cette note, il les prie de vouloir bien lui faire savoir s'ils peuvent l'approuver.\n\nKUCZYNSKI.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nDean's Circular No. 160 of November 27, 1909, respecting the Whangpoo Conservancy,\n\nNE sachant lesquels des honorables collègues ont eu sous les yeux les observations notées sur la circulaire No. 147 du 6 novembre, le doyen croit utile de la faire recirculer pour que ceux de ces messieurs qui ne l'ont pas encore fait en puissent prendre connaissance. En même temps il pense que la dernière note officielle du Wai-wou Pou du 26 octobre dernier (circulaire No. 141) exige une réponse, en tant qu'il ne lui paraît pas possible de laisser le Gouvernement chinois sous l'impression que sa communication a pu être considérée comme satisfaisante.\n\nMais étant informé que plusieurs des collègues veulent demander des instructions à leurs Gouvernements, le doyen croit que la seule réponse à donner au Wai-wou Pou en ce moment serait un accusé de réception de la dite note. On ajouterait que, tant que l'œuvre de la régularisation du Whangpou n'est pas achevée dans l'extension et les limites du protocole final, les représentants des Puissances ne sauraient acquiescer à la déclaration du Gouvernement chinois d'être dégagé de ses obligations contractuelles.\n\nLa note se terminerait en disant que le corps diplomatique se réserve de revenir sur le sujet aussitôt que seront arrivées les instructions que plusieurs des représentants ont demandées à leurs Gouvernements.\n\nLe doyen serait reconnaissant à ses honorables collègues de vouloir bien lui faire savoir s'ils acceptent sa proposition ou s'ils préfèrent un autre mode de solution.\n\nEnfin, il a l'honneur de porter à la connaissance de MM. les chefs de mission que, d'après un télégramme reçu le 27 novembre du consul d'Autriche-Hongrie à Shanghai, les travaux de dragage ont été recommencés le même jour.\n\nKUCZYNSKI.\n\nMonseigneur,\n\nEnclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nDean of Diplomatic Body to Wai-wu Pu.\n\nLe 14 décembre, 1909.\n\nJ'AI l'honneur d'accuser réception à votre Altesse de sa lettre en date du 20 octobre dernier, relative aux travaux de rectification et d'amélioration du Whangpou. Je n'ai pas manqué de la communiquer aux chefs de mission accrédités à Pekin.\n\nCeux-ci n'ont pas cru pouvoir adopter le point de vue exposé, dans la circonstance, par le Gouvernement Impérial. Les représentants des Puissances ont estimé, en effet, que tant que l'œuvre de la régularisation du Whangpou n'aurait pas été achevée dans l'extension et les limites du protocole final de 1901, le Gouvernement chinois ne saurait être considéré comme dégagé des obligations auxquelles il a souscrit.\n\nMes collègues m'ont, en conséquence, prié de faire connaître à votre Altesse l'impossibilité où ils se trouvent d'acquiescer aux déclarations que je leur avais transmises.\n\nJe saisis, &c.\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nMinute by Sir J. Jordan on Dean's Circular No. 160 of November 27, 1909.\n\nI AGREE with the terms of the reply which the dean proposes to make to the last note from the Wai-wu Pu, as stated in the second paragraph of this circular.\n\nBut if our honourable colleagues accept the dean's suggestion and agree to inform the Wai-wu Pu that they cannot consider the Chinese Government absolved from its obligations so long as the work on the Whangpoo is not completed to the extent and within the limits provided by the final Protocol, that seems to me all that is required to secure unanimity of action, and I venture to hope that it may not be considered\n\n161\n\n17",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n168\n\n3502\n\nJanuary 13 FEB 10,\n\nSECTION 2.\n\n1321\n\nNo. 1.\n\nPapers communicated to Foreign Office by Mr Addis, January 11, 1910.\n\n(1.)\n\nTelegram from Bank, Peking, to Bank, London, January 10, 1910.\n\nAdvise the following to British and Chinese Corporation from E. G. Hillier : Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway.\n\nIn order to assist director-general force submission of provincial bureaux, would you be prepared, at request of Chinese Government, to apply for order of court allow transfer of loan funds construct proposed new railway Kaifengfu-Hsuchowfu, about 200 miles, security and other terms loan agreement remaining in force, and funds already withdrawn to be replaced.\n\nForegoing telegraphed at request of director-general, who is very anxious to put an end to present situation, but desires to be assured of practicability of alternative scheme in case of need.\n\nWe strongly commend to your support. Inform Foreign Office. Telegraph reply as soon as possible.\n\n(2.)\n\nExtract from Letter from Mr. Hillier to Mr. Addis, dated Peking, August 13, 1909.\n\nShanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway.-I reminded Liang this morning that by the terms of article 18 of this agreement, the sum of £17,500 is due to the corporation on the 6th September, being half their commuted commission as purchasing agents for the railway. Liang assures me that there will be no difficulty about this, and he will let me know in good time as to arrangements for payment. I presume that payment will be made from the loan funds in your hands.\n\nLiang took the occasion to refer to the affairs of this railway, which he admits are going from bad to worse. The Peking Government is defied, the loan conditions are ignored, and everyone concerned is placed in a humiliating position. The mistake was in making the loan at all, in the face of popular opposition and conflicting claims, but that cannot be undone now. Liang asked me if I would be prepared to discuss informally, with himself and Sir J. Jordan, some way of coming to a compromise over the question, which would relieve the Chinese Government from an intolerably false position, while securing due protection for the interests of the bondholders. I replied that while no way of escape from the impasse had suggested itself to me, I entirely sympathised with his views, and he could rely upon my co-operation.\n\nAlthough he was careful to label the conversation private, he was evidently speaking under instructions, probably from the new president of the Board, Hsu Shih-chang, and I think we are likely to hear more of this matter, hence I mention it to you now.\n\nThere is no doubt that, owing to the fact that it is not able to impose its will upon the people of Chekiang-in other words, owing to force majeure--the Chinese Government is not in a position to carry out the agreement for this loan, and is not likely to be within any reasonable period of time. If the Chinese Government is prepared to own up to this fact, and there are ways of putting it which are not quite so painful to national pride, it seems to me to afford sufficient ground for a petition by the British and Chinese Corporation to the proper British tribunal, asking that the loan funds should be permitted to be transferred to the construction of another railway under approved conditions as to expenditure and construction. Any of the loan funds\n\n[2581 -2]",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nLoan Agreement respecting Imperial Railways of North China.\n\nAGREEMENT made between his Excellency Hsu Shih Chang, Viceroy of Manchuria, and his Excellency Tang Shao-Yi, Governor of Fengtien, acting under the authority of the Imperial Chinese Government, of the one part, and the British and Chinese Corporation (Limited) (hereinafter called \"the corporation\") of the other part, for the issue and regulation of a loan for the construction of an extension of the Imperial Railways of North China from Sin Min Ting, their present northern terminus, to Fakumen, a point about 50 miles to the north-east (hereinafter known as \"the extension\").\n\nARTICLE 1. The corporation shall issue on behalf of the Imperial Chinese Government a sterling loan of 500,000l. (hereinafter referred to as \"the loan\") on the terms and conditions as hereinafter contained. The loan shall be known as \"The Imperial Railways of North China Loan of 1907\"; it shall be in one issue and its price to the Imperial Chinese Government shall be the actual price at which it is issued to the public, less a flotation charge of 53/4 points retainable by the corporation, that is to say, a charge of 51l. 10s. for every 100l. bond issued.\n\nThe interest on the bonds shall be at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the nominal principal, calculated from the date on which the loan is issued to the public, and shall be paid by the railway administration to the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation for account of the bondholders, in half-yearly instalments, according to the amounts specified in the schedule attached to this agreement, and fourteen days before their due dates, Western calendar, as calculated from the date of issue of the loan.\n\nArt. 2. The loan shall be issued to the public as soon as practicable after the signing of this agreement, and not later than twelve months after signature thereof. As regards the actual date of issue, it is understood that the Corporation will advise the Chinese Minister in London, for the information of the Imperial Chinese Government, as to the conditions of the market with a view to obtaining the most favourable price within the time limit above stated, and will act upon the Imperial Chinese Government's instructions, in due course issuing the loan and paying the proceeds thereof, subject to the provisions of Articles 1 and 6, to the credit of the railway administration. It is understood that for the purposes of this agreement the railway administration will be represented by the Viceroy of Manchuria and the Governor of Fengtien—or by their duly authorised representative.\n\nArt. 3. It is agreed that this extension shall form a part of the Imperial Railways of North China, and shall be administered and controlled in accordance with the system in force for the administration and working of the Imperial Railways of North China.\n\nArt. 4. The proceeds of the loan shall be solely and entirely applied to the construction and equipment of the extension, to the purchase of land properly required for the same, and to payment of interest on the loan during construction.\n\nIf, after completion of the extension, there should remain a balance from the proceeds of the loan to the credit of the railway construction account, such unused balance shall be transferred to the credit of the interest reserve fund, hereinafter mentioned in article 12 as provision for payments for which the Imperial Chinese Government is responsible under this agreement.\n\nArt. 5. The extension shall be constructed by Messrs. Pauling and Co. (Limited), London (hereinafter known as \"the contractors\"), in accordance with the conditions of the contract entered into between that firm and their Excellencies the Viceroy of Manchuria and the Governor of Fengtien on the 8th day of November, 1907.\n\nThe period of construction is estimated not to exceed two years, and shall commence within three months after the signature of this agreement. It has been agreed by the contractors that the line shall be built and completed to conform to the standard of construction and carrying capacity of the Imperial Railways of North China as existing on the section between Shanhai-kuan and Sin Min-ting.\n\nAfter completion of the contract, and during the currency of this loan, the railway administration undertakes to keep the extension, together with the buildings, works, rolling stock, &c., and dependencies, in good order and condition, and shall increase the rolling stock from time to time to such extent as shall be necessary for the requirements of the traffic. After completion of construction the extension will be under the same engineer-in-chief as the Imperial Railways of North China.\n\nIf, owing to unforeseen circumstances, the construction of the extension as above specified should not have been commenced before the expiry of three months after signature of this agreement, or if, owing to force majeure or other cause, the contractors should be prevented from completing the work of construction, then the railway administration shall take such steps as may be necessary to secure due and prompt completion of the extension under conditions to be arranged by the corporation.\n\nArt. 6. The Imperial Government of China being entitled to direct the corporation to issue this loan at any time within twelve months from the date of signature of this agreement, it is hereby agreed that, pending the issue of the loan, and within two months after signature of this agreement, the corporation shall place at the disposal of the railway administration the sum of 50,000l., to be held in Europe or remitted to China, as the railway administration may direct, as a first instalment on account of the proceeds of the loan. This amount of 50,000l., or whatever portion thereof is actually drawn, together with interest thereon not exceeding a charge of 6 per cent. per annum, shall be deducted from the proceeds of the first sale of the bonds.\n\nArt. 7. The loan shall be a first charge upon the freight and earnings of the extension, and, should these be insufficient to meet the payments of interest and repayments of principal as specified in the schedule hereto attached, then upon the revenues of the salt li-kin of the province of Fengtien to the amount of 350,000 Haikuan taels per annum, which revenues are hereby declared to be free from all other loan charges or mortgages.\n\nArt. 8. The proceeds of the loan, after deducting any advances made by the corporation under the provisions of article 6, shall be paid to the credit of the railway administration's construction account at the London office of the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, these payments to be made in amounts and on dates conforming to the conditions of the loan prospectus. Interest at the rate of 4 per cent. shall be allowed by the bank on the credit balance of this account kept in London; interest on the funds standing to the credit of the account in China will be allowed at the bank's rates for current account or fixed deposits, as the case may be, to be arranged. Requisitions on the loan funds will be drawn in amounts to suit the progress of construction of the extension either by the consulting engineer's certificate of work completed by the contractors or by orders on the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, London, signed by the managing director of the extension, or, in his absence, by his duly authorised representative, and accompanied by his certificates stating the nature and cost of the work to be paid for.\n\nSuch amounts as may be required for expenditure in China will be transferred by the managing director at his discretion to Tien-tsin or Shanghae, these transfers being effected through the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation, and the transferred funds shall remain on deposit with that bank until required for railway purposes.\n\nArt. 9. The corporation is hereby authorised to issue to subscribers to the loan bonds for the total amount of the loan in pounds sterling for such amounts as may appear desirable to the corporation. The form of the bonds shall be generally the same as those issued under the agreement of the 10th October, 1898. They shall bear the facsimile of the signature of the Viceroy and of his seal of office, in order to dispense with the necessity of his signing them all in person, but the Chinese Minister in London shall, previous to the issue of any bonds, put his seal upon each bond with a facsimile of his signature, as a proof that the issue and sale of the bonds are duly authorised and binding upon the Imperial Chinese Government.\n\nSuch bonds are to be numbered consecutively, and as many bonds as may be needed are to be properly engraved under the supervision of the corporation, and after they are sealed by the Chinese Minister in London, as hereintofore provided, are to be countersigned by the corporation.\n\nAll expenses for the engraving, safe deposit, and sale of the bonds are to be borne by the corporation.\n\nArt. 10. In the event of bonds issued for this loan being lost, stolen, or destroyed, the corporation shall immediately notify the railway administration and the Chinese Minister in London, who shall authorise the corporation to insert an advertisement in the public newspapers notifying that payment of the same has been stopped and to take such other steps as may appear advisable according to the laws and customs of\n\n[2581. a-1]\n\nB 2\n\n198\n\nF",
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        "content_text": "2\n\ngreater part of the Burmah-China trade depends-70 per cent. of our imports going there, whilst nearly all the exports pass through it-and I feel convinced that we are really threatened with a serious blow commercially. The three most important Tengyueh dealers have sent representatives to Hong Kong this summer to enquire into the facilities offered by the new route, the two chief banks propose to remove their head offices to Hsiakwan (Talifu), and everything points to a serious set-back for us during the coming season. The Tengyueh merchants not only offer no opposition to the railway, but they perpetually remind one of the downfall which overshadows them if either the French or the Chinese should link Yünnan-fu with Talifu, and they look forward with dread to the developments of next year's trade. Things are moving quickly, and our frontier interests are threatened in every way by the rapid advance of this rival trade route. If we could once get the railway under way even as far as Tengyueh the merchants would gain confidence and it might save the stability of vested interests--things which are hard to replace. You know from Coggin-Brown's reports that the mineral wealth of the province has not been exaggerated, and it is important to remember that any line from Yünnan-fu to Talifu would cut off the only coal-field (Yünnanhsien) available for working the line. Brown has also been into the Hui-li Chou district to the south of Szechuan, the border town linking Yunnan with the Chien-Chang valley and Szechuan. He confirms Amundsen's report (sent to you by Wilkinson in 1908) of the highly mineralised nature of the country and the probability of a possible route between Talifu-Huilichon and Szechuan which would obtain the Szechuan objective independently of Yunnan-fu. This is looking far ahead, but is worth remembering. The French seem to have grasped the same idea, for a party of five have been up into the Huilichon district quite recently, and they possibly have wind of a magnificent coal-field, Ma-chang, in the neighbourhood and on the Yang-tsze.\n\nI send you these hurried notes in the hope that they may prove useful or suggestive, for I want something to happen soon if it can possibly be managed. In 1905 I was in Shantung as the German Railway crept up from Kiaochow, gradually sapping the trade of the province and leaving Chefoo bare; that experience comes back vividly as I come in contact with this new battle of communications. The cry of \"vested interests\" was believed by the Chefoo people to be a talisman for every ill, but the Germans have apparently triumphed at Tsingtau and proved the victory of quick and cheap transit over the most conservative of Chinese traditions.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[3171]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n252\n\nC\n\n48\n\n[January 28.\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nPapers communicated by Mr. C. S. Addis January 28.\n\n(1.)\n\nMr. Hillier to Mr. C. S. Addis.\n\nPeking, January 10, 1910.\n\nSHANGHAE-HANGCHOW-NINGPO-RAILWAY.\n\nTwo days ago Liang asked me to go and see him, and the result of this interview is embodied in my telegram to you of to-day's date, copy of which is enclosed.\n\nLiang admitted to me that, of the 28 lacs of taels drawn only 8 lacs of taels had been paid over to the provincial bureaux; the balance of 20 lacs of taels was in the hands of the Chiao-tung Bank and the Board of Communications. His explanation of why, when he had no intention of handing these funds over to the bureaux, he continued to draw them under specific requisitions, and for what purported to be actual requirements, was so inadequate that I will not trouble with it. We were there to try to arrive at a friendly understanding, and I did not think it worth while to press the point. He explained that the board was not strong enough to assert its authority over the bureaux; and in order that he, Liang, might come to conclusions with them it was necessary that he should (to use his own words) have a \"line of retreat.\" This he proposed to find in the scheme described in my to-day's telegram. In other words, he would be in a position to say to them:\n\n\"Well, gentlemen, since you will not listen to reason, we propose to apply the loan funds to more useful purposes, for which we have the consent of the lenders, and leave you to tinker on with your miserable railway, with your own funds, the laughing-stock of the other provinces.\"\n\nIt may be objected that this is a serious climb down for the Central Government. So it is, but helpless acquiescence in the present state of things is more humiliating still, and if the Central Government feels itself too weak to risk a frontal attack it is better to fall back upon the Bank movement, provided a way is clear in case it does not come off.\n\nFrom what Foord tells me (he has just arrived), the provincial shareholders are thoroughly sick of the present state of things, and do not at all relish the prospect of further calls, so that it looks as if the whole movement would break down under a little firm pressure. On the other hand, it is difficult to say exactly what Liang's real attitude is. In answer to my enquiry he told me that, if the gentry could be brought to reason, the intention was to carry out the original agreement. But he does not like the Shanghae-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway, which he maintains will never pay owing to the competition of waterways and likin complications, and the impression he left on me was that he would rather the gentry did not give way, in order that he might have a free hand to transfer the funds to the proposed new railway. This he considers would be a fairly paying line. Kai-feng-fu is of course the capital of Honan, and Hsu-chou-fu, situated in the narrow neck of Kiangsu, wedged in between Shantung, Honan, and Anhui, is an important trade centre. The whole thing turns upon the legal question, namely, whether, on a formal application from the Chinese Government, setting forth its inability to carry out the original agreement, and giving satisfactory evidence of the earning prospects of the proposed new railway, the court can give the necessary order. If it can, I see no objection to the arrangement from our point of view, and I think it would be calculated to have a salutary effect upon the provincial railway agitation generally. Above all, it will dispose once for all of a chronic source of friction between the Chinese and ourselves.\n\n[258]",
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        "content_text": "provincial assemblies, but from ignorance of its own power, from a feeling of the inferior position in which the Government regulations place it as opposed to the official party, from want of experience, and, above all, from lack of available funds, so far little more has been achieved than to create a gathering centre for public interest in the affairs of the public.\n\nUnder 500 31\n\n750 13\n\n1.000\n\n2.500 7\n\n5.000 9.0\n\n10·0 taels 13.0\n\n15 0 20 0\n\n25-0\n\nAnnex 1.\n\nMatters discussed in Chekiang Provincial Assembly.\n\nAfforestation (dropped).\n\nAgriculture: improvements in.\n\nCamphor: proposed official monopoly of production and sale of.\n\nIt was proposed that, as camphor is used in the manufacture of explosives and the people should therefore not be allowed to make it, all the old camphor works in Chekiang be bought up; that a central and local bureaux be opened under official control, to which all camphor produced must be sold, and who alone can resell it. Every camphor factory must take out a licence. This scheme was calculated to cost 80,000 dollars, to be raised from 800 shares of 100 dollars each, which foreigners might not purchase.\n\nCamphor to be exported under transit pass, as arranged under the Kiangsi camphor rules.\n\nCensus for Chekiang: proposes taking of a.\n\nCorvée commutations: recommends abolition of,\n\nCriticism of assembly by newspapers: objects to.\n\nCurrency: recommends the extension of use of Chinese dollars throughout the province.\n\nCopper coins: objects to governor misrepresenting to Treasury that these are not at a discount.\n\nDistress: reform of relief regulations.\n\n(Provincial assembly accuses official clique of planning their own interests and neglecting those of the people.)\n\nExpenses unconnected with the province to be discontinued.\n\nForms, legal (cf. \"Litigation\").\n\nGambling recommends prohibition of.\n\nGypsum recommends that a company for the exploitation of gypsum be opened at Ying-cheng.\n\n(At this place the Shanghae municipal council quarries its supply of stone for road-making, &c., under a lease from the local authorities which has yet seven years to run, but which the council have already been notified will not be renewed.)\n\nHouse tax (cf. \"Police.\")\n\nLand: (a) recovery of common lands; (b) recovery of the areas at Paoshih Shan and Mokan Shan occupied by foreigners and illicit sale of property; (c) opening up of waste land; (d) waste land held by Manchu garrison at Hangchow to be made into a market place (defeated).\n\nLand tax, improvements in collecting: tax to be paid according to area (recommends).\n\nLi-kin: to be paid in dollars instead of in cash (recommends).\n\nLitigation expenses and court fees:-\n\nAll official forms to be printed by and obtained from the Official Paper Régie. Fee stamps to be affixed as follows:---\n\n  \n    In civil cases—\n    Fee\n  \n  \n    Under 10 taels\n    0.6\n  \n  \n    20\n    1.5\n  \n  \n    50\n    3.0\n  \n  \n    70\n    ...\n  \n  \n    100\n    6.5\n  \n  \n    250\n    ...\n  \n  \n    Over 5,000 for every 1,000 taels\n    ...\n  \n\nStamps to these amounts to be affixed to plaintiff's petition.\n\nIn criminal cases: in cases involving a death penalty expenses of all kinds to be paid by the court.\n\nMinor criminal cases to be treated as civil cases under 100 taels. Petty criminal cases to be treated as civil cases under 50 taels. Copying expenses: every 100 words, including paper, 5 candareens.\n\nServing summonses: within 10 li (3 miles), 1 mace; for every extra li, 5 candareens. Travelling and hotel expenses extra.\n\nServing warrants: expenses to be fixed by court after hearing,\n\nExpenses of witnesses to be borne by person calling them: for each appearance if residing within 10 li, 5 mace; for every additional li, 1 mace.\n\nExpenses of marshals, runners, &c., going into the country: inside of 10 li, 5 mace; for every extra li, 1 mace. Hotel and travelling expenses extra. After trial the court may in every case make an order re expenses.\n\nLotteries: recommends abolition of.\n\nMining a police for the supervision of mines to be instituted.\n\nNaval construction: recommends postponement of.\n\nNewspapers: recommends the closing of two for attacking the assembly.\n\nOpium: recommends opening of official boiled opium bureau, and the suppression of private shops selling raw and boiled opium (see Annex 2).\n\nPaper régie: recommends abolition of, as interfering with private enterprise and substituting inferior foreign for durable native paper.\n\nParliament, Central: seven members elected to, viz. :\n\nCh'en Ching-ti 89\n\nYu Ching-ch'ing 75\n\nCheng Chi-pring 70\n\nWang Ting-yang 65\n\nShao Hsi 59\n\nWang Tso 58\n\nTao Pao-lin 56\n\nPolice annual house taxes, which amount to 167,900 dollars per annum, and are at present allocated to the Indemnity Fund, and the expenses of the old territorial troops, which amount to 20,000 dollars per annum, to be applied to police up-keep.\n\n(NOTE. The pay of constables is here given as 6-7 dollars per month and their number for Chekiang at 12,000. This expenditure, of which sum there is to hand 190,340 dollars besides house tax and army funds above mentioned, being too heavy, their numbers to be reduced 10 per cent., and also all odd numbers over tens to be discarded.)\n\nExpenses of maintaining officials' guards and of beadles also to be converted to up-keep of new police.\n\nProvincial assembly, members of (names not given). Members' expenses (discussed).\n\nMode of address by governor, whether by despatch or by orders: publication of orders on provincial matters; in newspapers to be on broader lines.\n\nPublic exclusion of from meeting of provincial assembly.\n\nReception by local officials of high officials, abolition of expenses incurred for (dropped).\n\nSchools: (a) for simplifying Chinese writing, to be established in all districts; (b) private schools, improvement of; (c) sixty elementary schools to be opened; (d) training schools for teachers to be opened; no teachers to be employed in schools but those who have graduated from these training schools; (e) industrial institutes to be opened; (f) examination of expenses of Chekiang students sent to study in other provinces.\n\nSilk improvement of silk industry.\n\nTreaty, new Chino-Japanese: objects to (vetoed).\n\n301",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nprovincial assemblies, but from ignorance of its own power, from a feeling of the inferior position in which the Government regulations place it as opposed to the official party, from want of experience, and, above all, from lack of available funds, so far little more has been achieved than to create a gathering centre for public interest in the affairs of the public.\n\nUnder 500\n750\n34\n1,000\n2,500\n5,000 Over 5,000\n14\nfor every 1,000 taels\n\n3\n51\n10.0 taels 18.0 15.0\n20.0 44 25.0\n2.0 21\n335\n\nAnnex 1.\n\nMatters discussed in Chekiang Provincial Assembly.\n\nAfforestation (dropped).\n\nAgriculture: improvements in.\n\nCamphor: proposed official monopoly of production and sale of.\n\nIt was proposed that, as camphor is used in the manufacture of explosives and the people should therefore not be allowed to make it, all the old camphor works in Chekiang be bought up; that a central and local bureaux be opened under official control, to which all camphor produced must be sold, and who alone can resell it. Every camphor factory must take out a licence. This scheme was calculated to cost 80,000 dollars, to be raised from 800 shares of 100 dollars each, which foreigners might not purchase.\n\nCamphor to be exported under transit pass, as arranged under the Kiangsi camphor rules.\n\nCensus for Chekiang: proposes taking of a.\n\nCorvée commutations: recommends abolition of.\n\nCriticism of assembly by newspapers: objects to.\n\nCurrency: recommends the extension of use of Chinese dollars throughout the province.\n\nCopper coins: objects to governor misrepresenting to Treasury that these are not at a discount.\n\nDistress: reform of relief regulations.\n\n(Provincial assembly accuses official clique of planning their own interests and neglecting those of the people.)\n\nExpenses unconnected with the province to be discontinued.\n\nForms, legal (cf. \"Litigation\").\n\nGambling: recommends prohibition of.\n\nGypsum: recommends that a company for the exploitation of gypsum be opened at Ying-cheng.\n\n(At this place the Shanghai municipal council quarries its supply of stone for road-making, &c., under a lease from the local authorities which has yet seven years to run, but which the council have already been notified will not be renewed.)\n\nHouse tax (cf. \"Police.\")\n\nLand: (a) recovery of common lands; (b) recovery of the areas at Paoshih Shan and Mokan Shan occupied by foreigners and illicit sale of property; (c) opening up of waste land; (d) waste land held by Manchu garrison at Hangchow to be made into a market place (defeated).\n\nLand tax, improvements in collecting: tax to be paid according to (recommends).\n\nLi-kin: to be paid in dollars instead of in cash (recommends).\n\nLitigation-expenses and court fees:\n\nAll official forms to be printed by and obtained from the Official Paper Régie. Fee stamps to be affixed as follows:\n\nIn civil cases-\n\nUnder 10 taels\n20\n31\n1\n50\n+1\n70\n100\n250\n\nFee\n0.8 taels\n0.6\n1.5\n2.2\n3.0\n+\n6.5\n*\n>\n\nStamps to these amounts to be affixed to plaintiff's petition.\n\nIn criminal cases: in cases involving a death penalty expenses of all kinds to be paid by the court.\n\nMinor criminal cases to be treated as civil cases under 100 taels.\n\nPetty criminal cases to be treated as civil cases under 50 taels.\n\nCopying expenses: every 100 words, including paper, 5 candareens.\n\nServing summonses: within 10 li (3 miles), 1 mace; for every extra li, 5 candareens. Travelling and hotel expenses extra.\n\nServing warrants: expenses to be fixed by court after hearing.\n\nExpenses of witnesses to be borne by person calling them: for each appearance if residing within 10 li, 5 mace; for every additional li, 1 mace.\n\nExpenses of marshals, runners, &c., going into the country: inside of 10 li, 5 mace; for every extra li, 1 mace. Hotel and travelling expenses extra. After trial the court may in every case make an order re expenses.\n\nLotteries: recommends abolition of.\n\nMining: a police for the supervision of mines to be instituted.\n\nNaval construction: recommends postponement of.\n\nNewspapers recommends the closing of two for attacking the assembly.\n\nOpium recommends opening of official boiled opium bureau, and the suppression of private shops selling raw and boiled opium (see Annex 2).\n\nPaper régie: recommends abolition of, as interfering with private enterprise and substituting inferior foreign for durable native paper.\n\nParliament, Central: seven members elected to, viz.:-\n\nCh'en Ching-ti\nYu Ching-ch'ing Cheng Chi-ping\nWang Ting-yang Shao Hsi\nWang Tso\nTao Pao-lin.\n\nVotes.\n89\n75\n70\n65\n59\n58\n56\n\nPolice annual house taxes, which amount to 167,900 dollars per annum, and are at present allocated to the Indemnity Fund, and the expenses of the old territorial troops, which amount to 20,000 dollars per annum, to be applied to police up-keep.\n\n(NOTE.-The pay of constables is here given as 6-7 dollars per month and their number for Chekiang at 12,000. This expenditure, of which sum there is to hand 190,340 dollars besides house tax and army funds above mentioned, being too heavy, their numbers to be reduced 10 per cent., and also all odd numbers over tens to be discarded.)\n\nExpenses of maintaining officials' guards and of beadles also to be converted to up-keep of new police.\n\nProvincial assembly, members of (names not given). Members' expenses (discussed).\n\nMode of address by governor, whether by despatch or by orders: publication of orders on provincial matters; in newspapers to be on broader lines.\n\nPublic exclusion of from meeting of provincial assembly.\n\nReception by local officials of high officials, abolition of expenses incurred for (dropped).\n\nSchools: (a) for simplifying Chinese writing, to be established in all districts; (b) private schools, improvement of; (c) sixty elementary schools to be opened; (d) training schools for teachers to be opened; no teachers to be employed in schools but those who have graduated from these training schools; (e) industrial institutes to be opened; (f) examination of expenses of Chekiang students sent to study in other provinces.\n\nSilk: improvement of silk industry.\n\nTreaty, new Chino-Japanese: objects to (vetoed).",
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        "content_text": "449\n\n2\n\nIt has been previously reported by Mr. Willis that certain British firms had found it necessary to send representatives to Manchuria, who were either engaged in the purchase of beans or were examining local conditions with a view to purchase. The firms mentioned by him were Messrs. Craig and Co., Messrs. Samuel, Macgregor and Co., Messrs. R. G. Shaw and Co., Messrs. Montgomery, Jones and Co., and Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co. To these may be added Messrs. E. A. de Pass and Co., Mr. Percy Colman, and the Anglo-Chinese Eastern Trading Company; while Mr. C. R. Burkill, of Messrs. A. R. Burkill and Sons, of Shanghai, agents for Gossage's soaps, was recently in Ch'ang Ch'un, where, according to local report, he failed to effect any purchases. Messrs. Craig and Co. are now established in Harbin, and it is possible that Messrs. Samuel, Macgregor and Co. will follow their example. The local representative of Messrs. R. G. Shaw and Co. is Mr. A. G. Blake, and Messrs. Montgomery, Jones and Co., whose head office is in Liverpool, have been represented since September last by Mr. Kirk, who returns to England to-morrow. He has, he told me, merely been studying the local market and did not buy. Messrs. E. A. de Pass and Co. are a London firm, and are, I understand from their local representative, Mr. Westendarp, working in conjunction with Messrs. Craig and Co. Mr. Percy Colman, who is establishing himself at Chang Ch'un, was formerly Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co.'s silk expert in Yokohama, and is now connected with Mr. Healing of that town and a London syndicate. The Anglo-Chinese Eastern Trading Company, which has offices both in London and Harbin, is composed of five partners, and the gentlemen who sign for the firm are Messrs. Oxley and Kabalkin, the latter being a Russian.\n\nIt will thus be seen that, considering the rapidity with which the export trade to Great Britain has developed, British merchants in Manchuria are well represented. I am not, however, satisfied that the business, as at present conducted, is founded on an altogether sound basis. There is reason to think that there has been a good deal of speculation, and the impression made upon my mind is that some of the gentlemen engaged are apt to eye one another with no little suspicion and, in cases, even with antagonism. For this reason I have found some difficulty in deciding as to how much weight should be attached to the information with which I have been furnished. Yet it may safely be said that there has been short selling, and that losses have been incurred owing to the necessity of fulfilling contracts at enhanced cost. The Chinese, encouraged, no doubt, by the foreign competition on the spot and by the higher quotations for beans at home, have been holding, and there has been a considerable rise in the local price. Both Messrs. Craig and Co. and Messrs. Samuel, Macgregor and Co. have had to pay several days' demurrage on the steamers \"John Hardy\" and \"Charlton\" loading at Vladivostock, and do not think that the whole blame can be set down to the inefficiency of the Chinese Eastern Railway Company. As showing how matters of this kind can be adjusted, I may state that, according to Mr. Macgregor, the loss suffered in the form of demurrage on the \"Charlton\" was more than balanced by diverting another steamer bound for Vladivostock to Dalny, whence she received expeditious despatch and took a larger cargo; freight also being cheaper than from Vladivostock. It is, of course, impossible for one outside of the trade to follow all its intricacies, but it will be easily understood that, as with all speculation, loss on one gamble may be partially or wholly covered or more than counter-balanced by profit on another. On this account I am chary of accepting without reliable confirmation and without a knowledge of all the circumstances the reports of some gentlemen that others have incurred losses running into thousands of pounds. Thus, Messrs. Craig and Co. are said to have lost 10,000l. and Messrs. Macgregor and Co. 30,000, but, if I have correctly understood Mr. Douglas Macgregor, the loss attributed to him of 30,000l. is entirely dependent upon whether the Chang Ch'un Taotai will or will not recognise two contracts, one for 10,500 tons and one for 30,000 tons, signed by Mr. Baldwin on behalf of the board created for the opening of Ch'ang Ch'un to international trade. He further told me that, the London house having held when the cargo was offered to them and having sold at a good price, he would be able, in the event of the Taotai definitely declining to abide by Mr. Baldwin's contracts, to purchase, as prices stood a few days ago, at a net loss of 15,000l. He has also informed me that, including steamers loading at Dalny at the end of January, he will have shipped 64,000 tons from that port during the current season. This fact is possibly not known to his competitors, among whom the idea exists that he is unable to obtain the supplies he requires. At the same time, that the short selling to which I have previously referred has been generally unprofitable would seem to be confirmed by statements made to me by both Mr. Smith (Messrs. Jardine, Matheson's representative) \n\n3\n\nand by Mr. Macgregor. The former told me that he intended to have nothing more to do with anything but \"spot\" cargo—that is, goods already purchased and delivered—and I gathered from the latter that next year he will not endeavour to ship from Dalny before January and from Vladivostock before March.\n\nThat the trade is profitable to the Chinese Eastern Railway Company is shown by the fact that even last season as much as 162,000 tons of beans were carried from Harbin to Vladivostock, representing, at 30s. a ton, freight amounting to 240,000l. The charge is heavy and, on a steamer load, equals, if it does not on occasion exceed, the entire freight by sea from Vladivostock home. The railway has not found it an easy task to meet the demand made upon it this season, and, owing to the insufficiency of covered vans, it has been necessary to use open trucks. Rumour has it that the scarcity has been occasioned by the sale of 3,000 to 4,000 cars to the Baikal Railway, but, though this report seems to be fairly generally current, definite confirmation is lacking. Open trucks are unsatisfactory even if supplied with mat covers, which, if insecurely fastened or opposed to a strong wind, leave the sacks exposed to the snow. Mr. Willis has previously reported that, as a result of the visit to Manchuria of the Russian Minister of Finance, the freight rates on beans from Kwangchengtzu to Vladivostock were lowered to the level of the Japanese charges from Chang Ch'un to Dalny. That this was solely done with a view to enable competition with the South Manchurian Railway is manifested by the fact (1) that, whereas the rate is 15·5 kopecks per pood from Kwangchengtzu to Vladivostock, the charge from Harbin, which is 148 miles nearer to the seaport, is 17·1 kopecks, and (2) that the distance by rail from Chang Ch'un to Dalny is 439 miles, and from Kwangchengtzu to Vladivostock 634 miles. The management of the railway generally leaves, it would seem, much to be desired, and I have been told that quick despatch and rapid service are considerably hindered by the long delays in unloading cars at the eastern end of the line. My attention has also been drawn to the need of giving a \"douceur\" to stationmasters at points where goods are to be loaded. On the other hand, the railway administration is evidently alive to the fact that the new trade is deserving of encouragement, or it would not have reduced the through rate from Kwangchengtzu to Vladivostock to the level of that from Ch'ang Ch'un to Dalny by the South Manchurian Railway. It also appears to be willing to facilitate to some extent already British merchants who are buying beans, and I understand from Mr. Macgregor that he has secured positions for offices and compounds at Tui Ching Shan, a few miles west of Harbin, and Shuang Ch'eng Pu, Tao Lai Chao, and Shih Tou Cheng Tau, between this and Kwangchengtzu. Mr. Westendarp, too, tells me that he has been able to arrange for the storage of produce at various stations, the railway providing guards at a daily cost of 50 kopecks per man.\n\nThe following figures furnished me by Mr. Westendarp give some idea of the value of the trade to crushers at home:—\n\nOne hundred tons of beans at 7l. 10s. per ton—the present price in the United Kingdom is 7l. 10s. to 7l. 12s. 6d—will cost 750l, and will yield, say, 15 tons or 15 per cent. of oil and 85 tons or 85 per cent. of cake. Fifteen tons of oil at 23l. per ton will sell for 345l, and 85 tons of cake at 7l. 10s. per ton will fetch 637l. 10s.—i.e. a combined total of 982l. 10s. Adding 100l., which he considers a liberal allowance, for cost of manufacture to the purchase price of 750l, and the net profit to the crusher on 100 tons of beans is 132l. 10s. Hull and Liverpool are the main crushing centres, and the principal crusher at the latter is Messrs. Bibby Brothers, who are said to crush 160,000 tons to 180,000 tons a year. It will be noted that the value of the cake is the same as that of the bean before the extraction of the oil.\n\nThe most recent development in connection with the trade locally has been the prohibition on the sale and export of beans instituted by the Prefect of Petuna (Hein Ch'ong) on the Sungari. I shall report concerning this matter in a separate despatch.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nH. E. SLY.",
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        "content_text": "promising rewards to the more active subscribers. Throughout the country the scheme is being enthusiastically supported by the student class and by such associations as the China Patriotic Fund Society in Shanghae.\n\nConsidered merely as a spontaneous outburst of patriotism, the above movement is in itself perfectly legitimate, and no more objectionable from our point of view than the sacrifices made by the French people with a similar object after the Franco-German war. It assumes, however, a somewhat more serious aspect in the light of the trend of Chinese public opinion at the present juncture, and the fact that it has been welcomed with practically universal enthusiasm emphasises the importance which must be attached to the wave of anti-foreign prejudice now sweeping over the Empire. It has long been a commonplace observation that, since the troubles of 1900, both Government and people have confined their anti-foreign efforts to peaceful methods, which, in the hands of skilful passive resisters like the Chinese, have proved much more successful than such ill-considered outbreaks as those of the Boxers. Of late, however, the language used by the native press and the effect produced thereby on the ignorant mass of the people have led the more timid section of the foreign community to fear a revival of actual violence. Undue importance may, of course, be attributed to the disquieting symptoms; still, it would be foolish to under-estimate the gravity of the situation as depicted in the intelligence reports from all the consuls along the Yangtse Valley as far inland as Chengtu. A rumour, of which the source is not quite clear, crediting the treaty Powers with the intention of partitioning China, has rapidly grown in volume and intensity until it has become the chief topic of conversation among the people. Missionaries in such turbulent provinces as Anhui, for instance, who have exceptional opportunities for watching the trend of public opinion, state that undoubted effect is being produced by the dissemination of alarmist placards and leaflets, calling on the people to arm in defence of their country. These pamphlets, which resemble those circulating all over the country, and which would be ludicrous were not their influence so serious, declare that the work of partition has already begun, and magnify such incidents as the visit of Lord Kitchener, or the arrival of a British regiment in Hong Kong into acts of foreign aggression. The result of this agitation is that there is much wild talk of the formation of rifle corps, while numerous bodies of students, notably at Nanking and Changsha, have petitioned the authorities for a distribution of arms and ammunition.\n\nHitherto, however, the officials have succeeded in keeping the agitation within more or less reasonable bounds. Their view of the situation is perhaps to be found in a statement made to His Majesty's consul at Changsha by the governor of Hunan. He made no attempt to minimise the gravity of the state of affairs, and expressed his conviction that it was the work of revolutionaries in Hupei. He declared, however, that the rumours were only believed by the students and gentry, not by the officials and the people at large, and that, so long as that was the case, he was complete master of the situation.\n\nRailways.\n\nThe above agitation has by no means distracted attention from the Canton-Hankow Railway and the possibility of a foreign loan in connection therewith. The Provincial Assembly of Hunan is taking a prominent part in the movement, and is foremost in advocating compulsory subscriptions and other wild-cat schemes for averting what, in its circular to the other Assemblies throughout the country, it terms a national calamity The Hunanese can never forget that they alone of all the neighbouring provinces drove back the Taiping rebels from their capital, and, in their boasted superiority to all other Chinese, persistently blind their eyes to what might be learnt by a study of railway matters in other parts of the country. Buoyed up by ridiculously low estimates of the cost of railway construction, flattering themselves with delusive statements as to available funds, and with extravagant hopes of enormous profits—the fact that one of the most anti-foreign newspapers of Shanghae now admits the deplorable state of the Chekiang Railway, owing to the financial starvation of the line, does not give the Hunan agitators pause—and these are now indulging in an orgy of childish arguments against a foreign loan, reckless levies on trade and people, and impudent demands for official support and subscriptions towards an enterprise in which no official interference is to be permitted.\n\nThe Shanghae-Ningpo line is making but slow progress towards completion, the energy of the foreign engineers being discounted by the dissensions and the inertia existing amongst the Chinese officials. On the Hangchow-Ningpo section, the work of surveying and land-purchase is still proceeding. As regards the already opened Shanghae-Hangchow section, it is the opinion of experts that the present express train speed of 118 miles in five hours is very nearly the highest rate of travelling that is to be expected, owing to the defective construction of the so-called permanent way. Surveys are now being made for an extension of the Peking-Kalgan Railway to Kuei-hua-cheng in Shansi. The length of the extension will be about 200 miles, and the funds are to be provided out of the surplus earnings of the Imperial Northern Railway.\n\nCommercial Situation in Tien-tsin.\n\nThe condition of the native debtor firms has greatly changed for the better, and they are beginning to make arrangements with their creditors. While, at the beginning of 1909, the number of native dealers sued by British firms was fourteen, the number at the close of the same year had fallen to seven. In the case of the firms which refused to make voluntary arrangements with their creditors, the difficulty has lain in fixing the responsibility on the proprietors of the defaulting concerns. Even when this has been clearly assigned, the Chinese authorities have in some cases displayed great reluctance to act on the findings of the Shen Pan Ting, and the prospect of obtaining payment from at least four of the defaulting firms is reported by the consulate-general to be practically hopeless.\n\nCampaign against the Lolos in Szechuan.\n\nThe punitive expeditions against the Lolos, which were organised after the murder of Mr. Brooke, are proceeding in a desultory and ineffective fashion, though the official accounts which are published in the press are uniformly optimistic. The efforts of the Chinese troops are apparently confined to sundry marches into Lolo territory, careful avoidance of any actual fighting, and some fitful negotiations with the various tribes. It is perfectly clear that the troops at the disposal of the Chinese authorities are totally inadequate they are unable to protect their own people from Lolo depredations, and can hardly therefore be expected to carry out the difficult task of penetrating into the mountain fastnesses of the warlike tribesmen.\n\nPort of Heungchou.\n\nAccording to an official report, this place, which was created with the object of withdrawing trade from Macao, is being steadily developed. It is now said to be a town of over 2,000 inhabitants, and is provided with a custom-house, a post office, &c. Unfortunately, it would not appear to possess many advantages as a harbour, the water being so shallow that steamers, even of moderate draft, have to anchor a mile from the shore.\n\nPage 505",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Herts to Mr. Carey.\n\nJanuary 17, 1910.\n\nPLEASE refer to my demi-official letter dated the 28th August, 1909. Wilson has sent a Lashi named Chawm Tung Bawm, of Lungbang, on the Upper Ngawchang Kha, with a letter addressed to Rose, which I am forwarding to you original under a separate registered cover. The letter is written in Chinese on a piece of board, and purports to be a petition from the inhabitants of five villages on the above-named stream, complaining that the headman of Tengkeng, situated on the Salween in China, has burnt the village of Upper (or West) Hpimaw and threatens to destroy their villages. The names in Lashi of the five villages are Hpimaw (East), Kalam (East and West), Htantung and Lamyaw. As is not usual the Chinese names of the villages are different from the local Yawyin or Lashi names.\n\nA copy of the statement made by the messenger to Mr. Wilson, which is substantially the same as he has stated to me here, is also forwarded.\n\nThe elders of the five villages are said to have met at the village of Iltumshing and there to have got two Chinese traders, Ton San Ye and Chu Laopan, to write the letter.\n\nThe burning of Hpimaw appears to have taken place more than a month ago. After the destruction of the village the headman (or chief) of Tengkeng returned to China, but his men, some hundreds of them in all, it is said, are still in Lower Hpimaw and Hpawdi. The messenger took nine days to come here.\n\nIt is evident, if the above is true (and I have no doubt that it is substantially so), that we cannot permit the Chinese to remain in occupation of the Ngawchang Valley, for if we do, we shall not be able to make good our claim to the Irrawady-Salween Divide as the boundary between the two Empires. I can see no course open to us, therefore, but to dispatch a column without delay to compel the Chinese to return to their country, and to place beyond possibility of future question that the whole of the basin of the Irrawady belongs to us.\n\nI leave it to you to communicate with Rose on the subject of this letter, if you consider it necessary to do so.\n\nThe villages of Tengkeng, Tangtung, Lungpang (Langbang) and Hpimaw are shown in the map attached to the red book on the joint survey of the Burmah-Yunnan boundary by British and Chinese officials in 1905, in which book the claim of the Tengkeng headman to the Upper Ngawchang Valley and the advantages of the above-named boundary are discussed at length. From the opinion of the British officials who took part in the joint survey that the adoption of any other frontier will be highly detrimental to the interests of Burmah, I do not think that anyone will dissent.\n\nA translation of the Chinese letter is attached.\n\nEnclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nTranslation of Chinese letter addressed to Acting Consul Rose.\n\nTHE humble petition of the elders of villages situated on the upper waters of the Hsiao Chiang (small river, i.e., the Ngawchang Kha) addressed to the British consul at Tengyuch.\n\nAbout the 15th day of the 9th month the headman of Tengkeng, named Twanhwe, collecting a force of 300 Yawyins and 200 of his own people, came and attacked our villages, He set fire to and entirely destroyed one village which consists of houses with thatch roofs. We are in great danger and our people have been scattered by this inroad into our country. He has also killed all our domestic animals such as pigs, fowls, and dogs, and taken our provisions. We therefore petition to your Honour to pity us, and to restore peace and order in our unhappy valley. Our villages lie within British territory and we humbly request that you will be kind enough to pay them a visit. We do not know why the Tengkeng headman is oppressing us by raiding our villages. We have no intercourse with his villages nor is there any feud between us. Our territory lies within the Kaoliang Pass Pillar and is watered by the Hsiao Chiang (Ngawchang Kha). We are unable to resist his attacks, so we petition your Honour to be kind enough to visit our country, which is in a very disturbed state, and to help us.\n\nThe headman in question is also said to have threatened the people living on the other side of the river (Ngawchang Kha). Our country does not belong to him, so we request you to come to us.\n\nWe are the elders and villagers of Tumaw, Kwankwan, Shanglaw, Kachi, and Shijang.\n\nDated the 1st year, 10th month, 26th day of the reign of Sein Ton.\n\nEnclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nStatement made to Mr. Wilson, Assistant Superintendent, Sadon, by Chawm Tung Baum, of Lungbang.\n\nLABAU NU, Duwa of Lajawng, has brought in a Lashi named Chawm Tung Bawm, of Lungbang, a village near Hpimaw, to the British consul at Tengyuch. I have questioned Labau Nu and Chawm Tung Bawn carefully, and they furnish the following information:\n\n\"As the Lashis of Hpimaw and some fourteen or fifteen villages have not paid tribute for the last three or four years the Tengkeng fuyi about two months ago got together 500 men (Chinese, Black Lisu, Maru, and Lashi) and threatened to burn down the villages which refused to pay tribute. The Lashis on our side of the frontier got information of the fuyi's intentions from their friends and relations who live on the Chinese side, and some fifty or sixty of them, armed with guns and bows and arrows, awaited the approach of the fuyi and his following. A fight took place on the frontier and the Hpimaw men and their friends are said to have killed seven of the fuyi's men, and to have wounded a few more. The Hpimaw men had no casualties, but, as they were outnumbered, they retreated, and the fuyi and his men then sacked and burnt Upper Hpimaw.\n\n\"The fuyi is said to have stationed at the present time 300 men at Lower Hpimaw and 200 at the Lisu village of Hpawte. The detachment at Hpimaw is composed of transfrontier Chinese, Black Lisus, Marus, and Lashis, and the men are quartered in four or five Chinese houses which are built of sun-dried bricks. The men who are stationed at Hpawte are mostly from the Chinese side, but several Black Lisus who belong to Hpawte took part in the sacking and burning of Upper Hpimaw.\n\n\"No Chinese soldiers or men from the frontier levy are said to have been engaged, and the fuyi's followers are armed with cap-guns, flint-locks, and Kachin check guns.\"\n\nThe following information obtained from the messenger may also be of interest:\n\n\"There is a tree which grows on both banks of the Ngawchang Kha, the timber of which is much prized by the Chinese for making coffins. The Chingpaw name for the tree is 'shau hipun,' the Lashi name 'shau sik,' and the Chinese name 'sha mu.' The Tengkeng fuyi formerly levied a tax of 1 rupee to 1 rupee 8a. on every four planks extracted from the forests near Hpimaw, but during the last three years he has taken two planks out of every four in lieu of the money tax. Two well-to-do Chinese traders, named Chu Lauban, of Mingkuang, and Ton Sanye, of Kutung Pa, who deal largely in these planks, are said to have complained to the Chinese official at Yung-chang Fu about the Tengkeng fuyi's conduct. They were informed that Hpimaw was in the British sphere of influence, and were referred to the Tengyuch ting, who is said to have warned the Tengkeng fuyi to discontinue levying taxes, as Hpimaw was not in Chinese territory.\n\n\"Some three years ago a Yawyin (Black Lisu) discovered a couple of salt springs near two streams which flow into the Ngawchang Kha. He took samples from each spring to the Tengkeng fuyi, who boiled them down, and found that one produced excellent salt, while the other produced inferior stuff. The fuyi is said thereupon to have declared that both springs are in his jurisdiction, and to have prohibited their being worked without his permission.\n\n\"The writer of this letter is Ton Sanye, one of the Chinese traders referred to.”\n\nPage 559",
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        "content_text": "## No. 1.\n\nSir Pelham Warren addressed to me the despatch, copy of which I have the honour to enclose, from which you will observe that the Chinese authorities intend to maintain a staff and equipment sufficient to preserve the river in its improved condition. The exact details of the scheme will not be settled until the High Commissioner, Jui Cheng, has gone into the matter with the Swedish expert whom he has engaged. The money will be provided by the taotai's yamên in the same manner as the sums required for the last dredging contract.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n### (No. 25.) Sir,\n\n#### Enclosure in No. 1.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\n#### Consul-General Warren to Mr. Max Müller.\n\nShanghae, March 23, 1910.\n\nWITH reference to your telegram No. 7 of the 18th instant and my reply No. 6 of the 19th instant on the subject of Whangpoo Conservancy funds, I have the honour to report that at an interview yesterday the taotai informed me as follows:\n\nThe Conservancy Board is fully alive to the necessity for taking steps to secure the permanence of the works already carried out when the training and dredging operations now in progress in the lower river shall have been completed and all available funds expended about the end of this year.\n\nIt is intended to maintain a staff and equipment sufficient to maintain the river in its improved condition, but the details of this staff and equipment and its estimated expenditure will not be decided upon until his Excellency Jui Cheng, who is still High Commissioner for Conservancy, has gone into the matter with the Swedish expert engaged by him and made a further report to the Throne. This report has been delayed owing to his Excellency's illness.\n\nThe funds necessary for permanent maintenance will be found by the taotai's yamên, in a manner similar to that in which the additional sum of 300,000 taels for the last dredging contract was provided by him.\n\nAs regards the provision of funds for the undertaking of further conservancy work in the upper river and at Pheasant Point, i.e., the remaining portions of M. de Rijke's scheme, this was too serious a matter for the local Chinese authorities, and if these works were ever to be undertaken it must be as the result of negotiations between the diplomatic body and the Central Government.\n\nI shall not fail to remind the taotai from time to time of the necessity for elaborating a scheme for the maintenance of the completed works as soon as possible.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nPELHAM L. WARREN.\n\n**This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.**\n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[14135]\n\n### (No. 10L.) Sir,\n\n#### No. 1.\n\n30\n\n[April 5.]\n\nCO 14294\n\nSECTION 3.\n\n#### Mr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received April 25.)\n\nLOR R 12 MAY 10,\n\nPeking, April 7, 1910.\n\nYOU are aware, from my despatch No. 84 of the 18th ultimo and other correspondence, that there are now three incidents in connection with Macao which have become the subject of an exchange of notes between the Chinese Government and the Portuguese chargé d'affaires, viz., the Dom João Island incident, the establishment of a Chinese fishery bureau at Wau-chai on Lappa, and the placing by the Portuguese of a buoy in the inner harbour in the neighbourhood of Green Island.\n\nIn regard to the first point, the alleged violation of the status quo in Dom João, I had the honour to inform you that my Portuguese colleague had, in obedience to instructions from his Government, communicated to you by the Portuguese Legation in London on the 24th February, addressed a further note to the Chinese Government on the subject. To this note M. Brederode has received a reply, translation of which I have the honour to enclose.* It is a mere denial of the arguments put forward by the Portuguese Government, ending with a curt refusal to restore the boats.\n\nIn regard to the establishment of the Chinese fishery bureau at Wan-chai, M. de Brederode has received instructions from his Government, and has addressed to the Chinese Government the enclosed note,† protesting against this act of the Canton authorities as being a clear violation of the status quo of 1887.\n\nThe third and latest incident, namely, the placing of a buoy by the Portuguese authorities west-south-west of Green Island, at a distance of about 300 metres from that island, forms the subject of the third enclosure in this despatch. It is the reply of Prince Ching to the note of the Portuguese chargé d'affaires of the 18th ultimo, and contains a flat denial of the Portuguese rights of jurisdiction over the water of the inner harbour. As far as I can judge from the explanations given me by my Portuguese colleague, the buoy in question is placed in waters where the Portuguese have hitherto exercised jurisdiction, and within the provisional boundary line accepted in a note addressed by his Excellency Li Hung Chang, Viceroy of Canton, to Mr. Cinatti, Portuguese consul at Canton, on the 22nd July, 1890.\n\nAs I reported in my despatch No. 84 of the 18th ultimo, I had already given his Excellency Liang Tun-yen to understand how far-fetched and unreasonable I considered the Chinese protest in regard to the placing of this buoy, and I have therefore refrained from making any further representations in regard to this special incident as I do not consider that they would serve any useful purpose, especially in view of the reference to the Macao question in your message as to the advisability of postponing the visit of Prince Tsai Tao. I, however, took the opportunity of my interview with their Excellencies Na-t'ung and Liang Tun-yen, on the 28th ultimo, to urge the speedy adoption of proper measures for a final settlement of this long-pending dispute so as to avoid the constant recurrence of these irritating incidents—and what measures more suitable for the settlement of a boundary question than arbitration? I told their Excellencies that Sir John Jordan had been given to understand that the Chinese Government had been waiting for the arrival of Liu Shih-hsün, the Chinese Minister in Paris, who had already dealt with the question in Lisbon, but that I had had to report to my Government that Liu Shih-hsün had, as a matter of fact, returned to China several weeks ago, and gone down to his home on four months' leave without anything being done.\n\nNa-t'ung told me that Liu Shih-hsün's leave had been reduced from six to four months, and that on its expiration he would be summoned to Peking for an audience and then directed to proceed to Lisbon to open fresh negotiations in regard to the Macao boundary question.\n\nI suggested to Na-t'ung that he should authorise the Chinese Minister in London...\n\n* Prince Ch'ing to Portuguese chargé d'affaires, April 4, 1910.\n† Portuguese chargé d'affaires to Prince Ching, April 4, 1910.\n‡ Prince Ching to Portuguese chargé d'affaires, March 28, 1910.\n\n[2729 b--3]",
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        "content_text": "E\n\n6\n\nThe replies received to the question \"How far is the prohibition being carried out in the districts under your notice?\" are given below. To facilitate comparison the conditions prevailing in the 1908-9 season as stated by Mr. Sly in his report of the 27th September, 1909, are given in brackets.\n\nHsuting. The prohibition of the cultivation of opium has been practically insisted on throughout my district. Only unseen places away from public notice have been sown with opium, and I believe in exceedingly small quantities. These remarks include Tunghsiang, where I have recently been, and Taiping, recently visited by my colleague.\n\nTunghsiang- The area under poppy cultivation last season, i.e., 1908-9, was about the same as the previous years.\n\nKaihsien.--The order has been carried out. In some out-of-the-way places the prohibition was disobeyed, but the official insisted on the seed being dug up and the land confiscated, and there is no poppy now in the whole district of Kaihsien with its forty-eight markets.\n\n(The area under cultivation last season-1908-9-did show an increase as compared with former years. I am working in this district for eight years, and never have I seen as much poppy as this year, 1909.)\n\nWanlisien.-There is no poppy to be seen in the district.\n\n(Last season's cultivation, i.e., 1908-9, fully 50 per cent. more than last three years.)\n\nChungchou.--Prohibition carefully carried out, and there is no poppy now. (Last season's cultivation, i.e., 1908-9, 50 per cent. less than previous one.) Fenglu-One-tenth of last year's crop being grown.\n\n(Last season's cultivation, i.e., 1908-9, less by half than that of previous season.) Tienchiang.--No opium grown now, Some was planted, but the officials insisted on its being dug up.\n\nLiangshan-Prohibition is being carefully enforced, and there is no opium being grown.\n\n(The area under cultivation has not been reduced, though I do not think the increase was considerable, as all available land was devoted to this crop from the first.)\n\nTachu---Prohibition is being carefully enforced, and there is no opium being grown.\n\nFuchou-Public against prohibition but proclamations regarding it were issued. A few of the more daring planted, but others waited to see what was going to happen. A few culprits were arrested and treated so leniently by the officials that the public thought the prohibition was not going to be enforced, and proceeded to plant 50 per cent. more than last year. Since the Taot'ais visit all opium round the town, along the river, and on the highroads has been cut down, and between 60 and 70 per cent. in the remainder of the district. This information is from a native pastor whose last statement I am not disposed to credit.\n\n(Last season's cultivation--1908--9---six times as great as the previous one.) Yungchuan.-An attempt to grow opium was made at the outset, but finally the farmers destroyed their seedlings out of fear of the officials.\n\nThe above-mentioned places have been the chief opium-producing centres in Eastern Szechuan during past years. Opium was, however, grown practically everywhere in Szechuan on a greater or smaller scale, and replies from other places are as follows:-\n\nNanch'uan.--Attempts to sow were made at the commencement of the season, but the plants were all rooted up, and there is little or no opium-growing now.\n\n(1909 crop six times as great as in 1908.)\n\nChangshou-Prohibition is being effectively carried out. Where the proclamation was disobeyed, all the plants were dug up, and the cultivators fined. Some is grown in the mountainous parts of the district, where it is difficult for the officials to reach the farmers, but very little in comparison with previous years.\n\nPahsien (Chungking).--There is practically no opium being grown, and the prohibition is being vigorously enforced. In a few cases attempts to cultivate have been made, but the plants have been rooted up.\n\n(1909 crop twice as large as in 1908, and 10 to 20 per cent. above the average. Chichiang,--Same remarks apply as for Pahsien.\n\nChiangchin.-No opium being cultivated.\n\nShihchut'ing.-80 per cent. of what was sown has been cut down, and it is intended to root up the rest.\n\n(Cultivation in 1909 was about 20 per cent. less than in 1908.)\n\n7\n\nOfficial Measures for Prevention of Opium Smoking.\n\nThe official measures proposed were closing of dens, sale of the drug to licensees only, gradual reduction in amount allowed to be purchased by each individual, &c.\n\nThe answers to enquiries regarding the enforcement of the rules in this respect seem to show that they are honoured rather in the breach than in the observance.\n\nIn all places public dens have been abolished officially, but many of these carry on business secretly.\n\nThe rules in regard to the registration of smokers, issue of licences, sale to licence-holders alone, and gradual reduction in amount smoked, are so elaborate that they are unpractical; hence they seem to be very generally disregarded by the authorities.\n\nLittle or nothing, on the whole, is being done in the direction of opening refuges, the charitable distribution of anti-opium pills, &c., for the purpose of assisting the poorer classes to give up the habit.\n\nReplies to questions under this heading are as follows:-\n\nHsuting.--Opium dens strictly closed since autumn, but many secret dens have sprung up.\n\nKaihsien.-Dens closed in the spring, but have since reopened. No registration of smokers.\n\nWanhsien.-Private dens in abundance. Licence system started, but it is not carried out.\n\nFengtu -Numerous secret dens. Licence system not in force. Tienchiang.-Smoking rules not enforced, but people are reducing the amount smoked themselves, as they cannot afford it.\n\nLiangshan.-Private dens flourish rather than exist, though the trade is less openly carried on in the cities than along the through road to Cheng-tu and Chungking, where travellers are catered for. The issue of licences was carried out by only some of the country wards.\n\nFuchou-No registration of smokers. People smoke openly in Pi Fa tien--shops nominally established under official supervision for sale of opium to holders of licences, where no consumption on the premises is allowed.\n\nNanch'uan.-Many secret dens. Smoking rules not enforced.\n\nChangshou-Many secret dens in country places. Smoking rules not enforced. Shihchuting.-Smoking rules not enforced. Public opium dens closed, and only two or three secret ones.\n\nCh'ichiang.-Lax as regards smoking permits.\n\nChiangchin-Plenty of secret dens. No licences to smoke issued. Everyone can buy as much opium as he likes, but price is becoming prohibitive.\n\nDecrease in Smoking.\n\nNotwithstanding the laxity in the enforcement of the rules referred to under the last heading, the general testimony is that there is a perceptible decrease in the amount of smoking due probably more to the price, which is becoming prohibitive, than to any desire to give the habit up.\n\nRaw opium sells locally for 528 taels a picul as compared with 300 taels at this time last year.\n\nThe official price of an ounce of the prepared article is 820 cash as compared with between 200 and 300 cash a few years ago.\n\nReplies to the question as to whether there is a decrease in the amount of smoking are:-\n\nHsuting. Yes, a very marked change has come over the land, which bids fair to stamp out opium smoking entirely in course of time.\n\nKaihsien.-Very little at present,\n\nWanhsien.-There is undoubtedly a decrease in smoking, but as yet it is not very apparent.\n\nChungchou-20 per cent. less smoking. Opium is too expensive. Fengtu. Has decreased.\n\nTienchiang-Has decreased.\n\nLiangshan-I should most emphatically say that there is a marked decrease in the consumption of opium.\n\nFuchou.-Smokers have reduced by 50 per cent. owing to excessive price, but these have not broken off the habit. They eat pills containing opium. About 10 per cent. have really broken off the habit.\n\n[2719 66-1]\n\nD\n\n53",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nC O\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[16004]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[May 9.]\n\n16664\n\n97\n\nRECE SECTION 1. REG 2 JUN 10\n\n(No. 119.) Sir,\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received May 9.)\n\nPeking, April 21, 1910.\n\nTHE telegrams which I have sent you beginning with my telegram No. 71 of the 14th April and ending with my telegram No. 81 which I have just despatched will have put you in possession of the principal facts in connection with the riots of which Changsha has been the scene during the past week.\n\nIt may, I fear, be some time before His Majesty's consul will be in a position to furnish me with a full and reliable report as to the real origin and the chief incidents and characteristics of this violent disturbance, which has resulted in the loss of so much foreign property, but fortunately, I may almost say miraculously, not in the sacrifice of any foreign lives.\n\nAccounts have appeared in the newspapers, and I have received private letters containing what I believe to be authentic details, but I prefer to await the receipt of a full and consecutive account from Mr. Hewlett before attempting to forward a report to you. Meanwhile, I beg to enclose copies of the correspondence which I have exchanged with the Wai-wu Pu, my note of to-day's date embodying practically all the information that I have hitherto received, though some of it may perhaps turn out not to be authentic.\n\nCuriously enough on the evening of the 13th I received a despatch from Mr. Hewlett enclosing a translation of a Chinese letter headed \"an honest warning from a certain school,” which had reached him through the post on the 5th April, warning him of impending danger. As he said that he had not communicated this letter to the governor I had already minuted the despatch that he should be instructed to at once bring it to the governor's notice when the telegram announcing the outbreak reached me, but I subsequently ascertained that he had communicated it both to the Taotai and the governor's secretary, and that he received on three separate occasions positive assurances from the governor, the Taotai, and the general that they would be willing and able to afford protection to foreign lives and property under all circumstances.\n\nI have had two interviews at the Wai-wu Pu at which I have urged the Chinese Government to take prompt and effective measures to prevent the disorder from spreading, but they appear to be lamentably weak and nervous, and there is no one who possesses sufficient courage and resolution to grapple boldly with the situation. Still, as I said in my telegram No. 81 of to-day's date, it is too soon to judge as to the efficacy of the measures which they are adopting, though I am convinced that, in any case, they will not remove the necessity of the foreign Powers taking such independent steps as they can for the protection of their nationals. A report which is current that two soldiers were beheaded for firing on the rioters who were attacking the governor's yamên may well be true, and, if so, is in itself sufficient to account for the inactivity of the troops of which I complained in my note.\n\nI expressed the hope to Liang Tun-yen that no time would be lost in making a searching enquiry into the causes which had led to the riot, and I said that I had little doubt that it was due to speculations in rice on the part of members of the gentry with the connivance of the officials, and that I had more than once of late expressed the opinion that the scarcity of rice in Hunan was largely artificial, His Excellency said that an edict had been issued instructing Jui Cheng, the new Viceroy of Wuchang, and Yang Weng-ting, till lately acting Viceroy of Wuchang, and now sent as acting governor to Changsha, to hold a thorough enquiry irrespective of persons. I pointed out that though Jui Cheng had come from Soochow with an excellent reputation, the same could not be said of Yang Weng-ting, who had, besides, already been concerned with the illegal partial prohibition of export of rice from Changsha, which has formed the subject of incessant representations, both at Hankow and Peking during the past winter, and I suggested that it would carry more weight abroad if the central Government appointed a special commission of enquiry\n\n[2751 -1]\n\nB",
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        "content_text": "visit the Wai-wu Pu to express my surprise at the publication in the press of a garbled version of a conversation which I had had with the president of the Wai-wu Pu, and to state that I considered such action as opposed to the usual courtesy of diplomatic intercourse, and that I hoped that steps would be taken to prevent a renewal of such an indiscretion.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Phillips on the Prohibition of the Export of Rice from Hunan.\n\nIN October 1907 the governor of Hunan, after withdrawing in August, on account of the admitted cessation of any scarcity or apprehension of scarcity, a total prohibition of export of rice, ordered the Commissioner of Customs at Changsha to post a notice that though the export of rice from Hunan was not totally prohibited, no port beyond Hankow would thenceforth be inserted in the certificates prescribed by the tariff rules appended to the Treaty of Tien-tsin. The Commissioner of Customs at Hankow nullified the effect of this irregular proclamation by endorsing Changsha certificates for rice on to further ports, and so long as this practice continued foreign merchants did not think it worth while to make a protest.\n\nOn the 20th November, 1909, His Majesty's consul-general at Hankow telegraphed that the Hunan Provincial Assembly had taken up the question of shipment of rice beyond Hankow, and that unless it was stopped they would insist on total prohibition of export from Changsha. This, Mr. Fraser pointed out, would be very serious for the province of Hupei, where floods had caused widespread distress. He added that the Viceroy had asked him as a favour to direct British subjects to suspend all transhipment of Hunan rice until the new crop was harvested in the middle of 1910. Mr. Fraser was in favour of a compromise on these lines, but suggested limiting the suspension to three months. In his reply of the 22nd November Sir John Jordan stated that unless the Chinese authorities proceeded according to article 14 of the Mackay treaty it was hardly possible to direct British subjects to suspend all transhipment of Hunan rice; he, however, suggested that Mr. Fraser should concert with his colleagues and try to arrange that all foreigners at Hankow should voluntarily engage to abstain from transhipping rice for a limited period. To this Mr. Fraser replied on the 23rd November that he doubted the success of such a scheme owing to the lack of a penalty for the breach of the voluntary suspension. He submitted as a preferable course that in return for the withdrawal of the Changsha Customs notice special permission should be given to Hunan to add rice for distressed Hupei to the two treaty exceptions of tribute and army rice (see Mackay treaty, article 14) when imposing with the prescribed three weeks' notice a general prohibition. On the 25th November His Majesty's Minister telegraphed approving the suggestion.\n\nPage 21\n\nIn his despatch dated the 23rd November, confirming his telegrams of the 20th and 23rd November, Mr. Fraser stated that the words \"rice for distressed Hupei\" were suggested as avoiding the idea of special purchases by relief commissions and officers, a system that tended to discrimination and favouritism. For the same reason he suggested a plain stipulation against the issue of Hu-chaos \"permits,\" leaving the business to run in accordance with the trade demands of Hupei, while the fixing of the amount to be exported on a liberal estimate would obviate disturbance of the local market and render \"cornering\" unprofitable. He added that an assurance would also be required that the purchase and conveyance of rice up to the stipulated amount would be open and free to natives and foreigners on equal terms. In conclusion he stated that from Mr. Hewlett's letters he doubted whether Hunan as a whole was really in a condition to justify a prohibition of export.\n\nOn the 6th December Mr. Fraser wrote privately that his proposal as to relief rice had sufficed to stave off Hunan's threatened prohibition at least for the time being, but that the Commissioner of Customs, Mr. Aglen, was showing signs of growing restive about continuing to permit transhipment in defiance of the Changsha notice of 1907.\n\nHis Majesty's consul at Changsha on the 26th November, reported that the gentry were anxious to secure a total prohibition of the export of rice in order to control the\n\nPage 3\n\nHunan and Hupei markets in the spring of 1910. Consequently, in order to be in a position to deny that there was expected scarcity in Hunan, he obtained reports from the various stations of the Wesleyan mission which on the whole appeared to show that the late crop had been a fair average one.\n\nA month elapsed without any change in the situation. But on the 7th January Mr. Fraser telegraphed that the Commissioner of Customs, under the instructions from the Acting Viceroy, had issued a notification that only rice under through documents from the Hunan customs would be allowed to go on beyond Hankow. The commissioner explained that he had no option, and could no longer nullify the effect of the Changsha Customs notice of October 1907, which was still posted. Mr. Fraser was instructed in reply on the 21st January to arrange to have the question taken up by the consular body, and referred officially to the diplomatic body.\n\nSubsequently, on the 31st January, Mr. Fraser forwarded copies of a protest addressed by the consular body to the Viceroy of Wu-chang and the governor of Hunan, dated the 25th January, and also copy of the consular body's letter to the diplomatic body of the 26th January. In the latter letter the consular body pointed out the irregularity of the proclamation issued by the governor of Hunan in October 1907, and explained that so long as its effect was nullified by the action of the Commissioner of Customs at Hankow in endorsing Changsha certificates on to further ports, foreign merchants had let the question rest, but now that the Commissioner of Customs refused to continue this practice, they naturally protested. In conclusion, the consular body referred to the possible propriety of an extra-treaty arrangement as a measure of temporary expediency, but they urged that the principle should be maintained that provincial governments have no power arbitrarily to vary treaties.\n\nIn the consular body's letter of the 25th January, to the Viceroy of Wuchang and the governor of Hunan, they laid stress on the following points: firstly, that it is the Chinese Government that alone is at liberty to impose prohibitions; secondly, that prohibitions are confined to districts; thirdly, prohibitions must be justified by expected scarcity or famine in each district; and fourthly, traffic from one treaty port to any other treaty port may not be interfered with except for the cause and in the manner specified in the treaty. At the same time, in view of the distress in Hupei, the consular body stated that if the governor of Hunan should have desired as an exceptional step to arrange through his Government with the diplomatic body in Peking for an extra-treaty agreement that rice for Hupei relief be excepted from general prohibitions to be notified at Yochow and Changsha, the consular body would have been prepared to recommend such a relaxation of the treaty rule to their Ministers.\n\nThe next step in this matter was the receipt of a note from the Wai-wu Pu dated the 8th February, enclosing a long telegram from the governor of Hunan, who explained the reasons why permission to export beyond Hankow had been suspended. The governor asked the board to request the British Minister to notify the consuls that British merchants should comply with the prohibition. Further, as regards Mr. Fraser's suggestion that relief rice from Hupei should be exempted from the general prohibition, the board added that this was a question for the Hunan governor to consider.\n\nBefore this note was replied to, a despatch was received from Changsha, dated the 2nd February, stating that the Customs had refused to issue permits to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co. to export rice to Tien-tsin and Shanghae. His Majesty's consul protested in writing both to the governor and Commissioner of Customs, but met with no success.\n\nNo progress having been made locally in Hankow and Changsha towards a solution of the question, His Majesty's Minister addressed a note to the Wai-wu Pu on the 12th February, calling attention to the illegality of the steps taken by the Viceroy of Wuchang and the governor of Hunan. He pointed out that article 14 of the commercial treaty of 1902 was negotiated to put a stop to the arbitrary embargoes on the export of rice which provincial governments were in the habit of imposing. He further added that the question was under discussion by the diplomatic body, and that he was willing to consider with his colleagues the adoption of a reasonable measure of temporary expediency to meet the distress in Hupei. In a further note, dated the 17th February, His Majesty's Minister stated that the refusal of the Commissioner of Customs to issue permits to British firms to ship rice to Shanghae and Tien-tsin would give rise to claims for damages from the British firms in question.\n\nOn the 19th February Mr. Fraser forwarded a copy of the senior consul's despatch of that date to the doyen of the diplomatic body, enclosing a copy of the\n\nPage 182",
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        "content_text": "12\n\nEnclosure 12 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from \"Shih Pao\" of April 7, 1910.\n\nMemorial by Chang Jên-Chün, Viceroy of Liang Kiang.\n\nOWING to the increasing density of the population of the northern quarter of Shanghae and the undesirability of making an agreement with the British company for the supply of drinking water, application was made in an earlier memorial for the provision of 50,000 taels by the Shang Pu and for authority for the taotai and gentry to raise a loan of an equal amount.\n\nThe taotai and gentry now write as follows:---\n\n\"After repeated consultations, we were unanimously of opinion that to connect with the water-mains would only be a makeshift and the best course would be to undertake the business ourselves. We engaged Mr. Engel, engineer of the inland waterworks, to make a survey along the side of the Woosung River, and he found that at the north end of the Kuangtung Mortuary the water was deep and clear. There is in that place an area of over 20 mou, where the works can be placed. It is proposed to make a modest beginning with one water tank, two filtering tanks, and one pure water tank; to buy from abroad two sets of pumping machinery with a capacity of 600,000 gallons per twenty-four hours; and also an electric lighting plant for 2,000 lamps for lighting roads and shops in Chapei. It is estimated that the cost of land and buildings will be 100,000 taels, and this, together with the 100,000 taels for laying pipes, makes a total of 200,000 taels. By unceasing work the water could be ready to be supplied after eight months. This scheme is in all respects preferable to making connection with the (Shanghae Waterworks Company's) pipes, and will bestow lasting benefit at the expense of a single exertion.\n\nAs regards the additional 100,000 taels required, we would ask the Shang Pu again to provide 50,000 taels from the sums at its disposal, while the taotai will again raise a loan of 50,000 taels, thus making 200,000 taels in all, at 7 per cent. per month interest. Within one year after the opening of the works shares may be issued for the purpose of repaying both the board's advance and the loan.\n\nIf the subscriptions for shares do not amount within the year to enough to repay both, the board's advance, together with the interest on it, must be first repaid in full. If there is still not enough, repayment must be made from the annual profits.\"\n\nAs an impure water supply is injurious to public health, and it is better that we should have our own waterworks than join on to the British company's system, I feel it my duty to memorialise the Throne, praying that the board may be commanded to make arrangements to allow the proposed loan at 7 per cent. per month interest, in order that it may be possible to begin work at once.\n\nI have communicated with the Wai-wu Pu, the Board of Commerce, and the Board of Finance.\n\nImperial Rescript.-Boards to be informed.\n\n13\n\ncounty (\"hsien\") of Paoshan, which has never been opened to international residence and trade.\n\nThese objections do not appear to the department to be well taken. As to the first, no boundaries agreed to for such a settlement can be regarded as fixed for all time. The chief commercial metropolis is probably destined to continue for many years to come the wonderful growth which has characterised it in the past, and due provision must be made for such growth. The treaties expressly provide that the extent of such ground to be assigned to foreign residents at the open ports shall not be limited, but shall be determined according to the need and convenience of the parties (British supplementary treaty of 1843, article 7; French treaty of 1858, article 10).\n\nThe second objection is equally inadmissible. Although Shanghae was one of the five ports opened by the American treaty of 1844, it was not the county (\"hsien \") of Shanghae that was opened, but the port, and the fact that the port is situated near the boundary of another county cannot prevent its growth in a natural way over such an artificial boundary. Neither does the extension of the settlement into an adjoining county make necessary the opening of the city of Paoshan to foreign residence, much less the opening of that whole county, neither is there any insuperable obstacle to the opening to such trade and residence of any unopened territory which may be needed for such purpose.\n\nIt is impossible for the department to assent to the position taken by one or two Americans that an extension of the settlement would violate the consistent policy of this Government in the maintenance of the territorial integrity of China. This Government was already committed to that policy in 1899, when the last extension was agreed to and failed to see them, as it does still, that such extension affected the territorial integrity of the Chinese Empire, since Chinese sovereignty over such territory was recognised.\n\nThis department is unable from the data at hand to determine how much territory should be included in the extension in order to conserve American interests, or the exact location thereof. You are instructed to make careful investigation on this point, and unless serious reasons present themselves to your mind for acting otherwise, you will support the request of the Shanghae municipal council for such extension as will seem to meet the requirements of the present situation.\n\nThe legation will be instructed to give the project similar support at Peking. The department relies on your discretion to avoid in your presentation of the case any unnecessary friction with the Chinese authorities.\n\nI am, &c. (For Mr. Knox),\n\nI. WILSON.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 13 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Knox to Mr. Wilder.\n\nMarch 1, 1910.\n\nI HAVE to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of the 24th December, 1909, enclosing copy of the report of the annual meeting of the American Association of China held at Shanghae on the 16th December, 1909, when resolutions were adopted favouring the extension of the international settlement at that port.\n\nIt appears from this report that the American community of Shanghae is all but unanimous in support of the proposed extension, and that the principal objections of the Chinese Government are two :-\n\n1. That the boundary of the settlement as determined in 1899 was fixed for all time; and\n\n2. That the proposed extension will carry the settlement into the neighbouring\n\n227",
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        "content_text": "the auditor to act in all respects in conformity with the conditions of the present agreement, which he must neither infringe nor pervert.\n\nA further point to be noted is that the Chinese officials acting in this business are in no way entitled to any commissions whatsoever, and the banks shall not privately offer them gratuities. If it should be discovered that private offers of gratuities have been made, the banks will be held liable to a heavy monetary penalty.\n\nAgain, on the conclusion of this loan it will be necessary forthwith to organise an administration. The practice to be followed hereafter by the said administration has been laid down by the director-general in a set of ten working regulations, of which a copy is annexed hereto.\n\nThe foregoing particulars have been expressly and explicitly referred to and set down in this letter because they are not dealt with in sufficient detail in the agreement itself, and they are to be loyally observed by each party.\n\nCopies of this letter are hereby made in quadruplicate, one to be held by each party.\n\nPeking, June 1909.\n\nTen Working Regulations drawn up by the Director-General for the Administration of the Hupei-Hunan Section of the Canton-Hankow Railway, and the Hupei Section of the Szechuan-Hankow Railway.\n\nThe original Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway agreement was made as complete as possible, after careful deliberation, and involved no loss of China's sovereign rights. The general principles have been recorded therein, but the details of operations have not been inserted in the agreement. A general statement of the actual practice at present in force on the northern section is set forth under the following heads:\n\n1. The Managing Director.-Subject to the control of the director-general and assistant director-general, has general authority over the affairs of the whole section, including the appointment of the Chinese and foreign staff, the regulation of salaries, dismissals, promotions, the distribution of rewards and punishments, the arrangements for carrying out engineering work of every kind, as well as the Chinese and foreign official correspondence, the allotment of funds and the ordering of materials. In these matters the signature of the managing director is required.\n\n2. The Engineer-in-chief- Has the direction of the engineers of every grade employed on the whole section. His special duty is the carrying out of engineering work of every kind. When matters are referred to him for his opinion or for investigation, he should prepare suitable proposals without delay and submit them to the managing director, whose decision is necessary before they can be put into effect.\n\n3. The Chinese Staff-As the number of persons in China possessing a thorough knowledge of railways is still small, all Chinese engaged for the service of the railway are required to give special attention to engineering work with a view to gaining experience. Whilst they are on probation their salaries are on a low scale, but they will be rewarded with an increase of pay if it is found after some months that they have shown real application and ability. Those who are remiss or who have earned a bad reputation will be dismissed at once with a view to avoiding extravagance and waste.\n\n4. The Foreign Staff-As the most important points with regard to the foreign employés are their professional knowledge and their character, enquiries must be made about their antecedents and reputation. Before engineers of any grade are engaged, their diplomas, certificates, and letters of recommendation must be carefully examined, and these should serve as a guide in allocating the various posts. The engineers are all under the engineer-in-chief, but subject to the general control of the managing director.\n\n5. Requisitions of Funds. With regard to requisitions, the managing director directs the engineer-in-chief to furnish him with an estimate of the amounts required during the following three months for works of every kind. When the managing director has sanctioned this estimate he notifies the bank to have the necessary sum in readiness to be drawn out and expended as required.\n\n6. Accounts. The accounts are kept in accordance with the most modern and convenient methods. Whenever a sum of money is expended the amount is entered both in Chinese and foreign languages in the ledgers so as to be accessible both to Chinese and foreigners. Every account must be signed four times: once by the person receiving the money, once by the Chinese and (or) foreign accountant in Chinese employ, once by the administration's foreign and (or) Chinese comptroller of accounts in Chinese employ, and-after these three persons have already signed-by the managing director.\n\n7. Tenders. Whenever materials are to be purchased the engineer-in-chief is directed to prepare specifications giving particulars of the quality and pattern of the materials to be supplied. These specifications are submitted to the managing director, who issues a notice inviting tenders, to be opened on a certain date, after which the orders will be allotted. In selecting tenders the guiding principle is to choose the lowest, but when the price named is exceptionally low care must be taken to ensure that the materials are not of bad quality, and the utmost caution must be exercised in regard to this point.\n\n8. Purchase of Land.--When land is to be purchased for the railway the engineer must first prepare a detailed plan stating the extent of the land and the class to which it belongs, together with the number of all graves, houses, trees, gardens, or wells which are wanted. This plan is forwarded to the deputy stationed on that section of the line, who, in concert with the land purchase deputy and the local official, notifies the owners of the land and in their presence measures the land, defines its limits, and pays the price fixed by the regulations.\n\n9. Purchase of Materials.-In purchasing materials every effort must be made to have recourse in the first instance to materials of Chinese origin, and which Chinese merchants are able to supply, with a view to preventing the profits leaving the country.\n\n10. Contracts for Work.-Hitherto trouble has always been very liable to arise owing to the untrustworthy nature of some contractors, who have either absconded without doing the work or have cheated their employers and workmen, and it is therefore essential that precautions should be taken. Under the regulations for contracts which have now been laid down only men who have already carried out engineering works, have furnished satisfactory guarantees, and deposited security will be eligible to undertake contracts.\n\nEnclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nFinal Agreement respecting the Hukuang Railways Five per Cent. Loan,\n\nTHIS agreement is made at Peking on the day of the fourth month of the first year of the Emperor Hsuan-tung, corresponding to the day of June, 1909, Western calendar, and the contracting parties are:\n\nHis Excellency the Grand Secretary Chang Chih-tung, director-general of the Canton-Hankow Railway, and of the Hupei section of the Szechuan-Hankow Railway, duly authorised by Imperial decree to act on behalf of the Imperial Government of China, of the one part, and (a) the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, Shanghae, and (b) the Hong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation associated with the Banque de l'Indo-Chine, hereinafter called the \"banks,\" of the other part.\n\nArticle 1. The Imperial Government of China authorises the banks to issue a 5 per cent. gold loan for an amount of 5,500,000. The loan shall be of the date on which the bonds are issued to the public, and shall be called \"The Imperial Chinese Government 5 per cent. Hukuang Railways Loan of 1909.\"\n\nArt. 2. This loan is designed to provide capital, first-For the redemption at a premium of 2 per cent., with accrued interest, of certain unredeemed gold bonds of the total par value of 2,222,000 dollars, United States currency, issued by the American China Development Company on behalf of the Imperial Chinese Government, and secondly-For the construction of a Government railway main line from Wuchang, the capital of the Hupei province, through Yo-chou and Changsha, the capital of the Hunan province, to a point in the prefecture of Ch'en-chou on the southern boundary of Hunan, connecting with the Kuang-tung section of the Canton-Hankow railway line, the total length of this line, hereinafter known as \"The Hupei-Hunan section of\n\n244",
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        "content_text": "10\n\nIn addition to above claims, village is absolutely stripped, all live-stock and movable property having been looted by raiders—\n\nGeneral village claim\n\nUpper Pienma\n\nLower Pienma--\n\nTaels.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n300\n\n680\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n20853\n\nRECA [June 8 JUL 10,\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n328\n\nThirty houses, about 2 miles from Upper Village. Headmen, Tung Mo-pa and Tung Chung-yueh. People kotowed to Tengkeng after defeat of upper village. No houses burned, Tengkeng and all his levies stayed for four days. Claim for provisions lumped with that of village of Wang Kai-ho.\n\nWang Kai-ho-\n\nTwenty-four houses. Headmen, Tung Sao-chiang and Tung Chung-ti. Tung Sao-chiang has a feud. His father was murdered by Tengkeng after expedition of 1905. Told him I could not enquire,\n\nU-tung-\n\nThirty houses, Headmen, Yang Chung-yueh and Yang Chung-kuan. Whole village has been out for a month collecting huang-lien, and therefore did not appear. Tengkeng stayed one day, and headmen of other five villages estimate claim at.. This village important, as silver and salt lie within 3 or 4 miles on either side.\n\nPa Ti-ho-\n\n100 houses in group. Headmen, Tsao Pai-shou (a Lisu) and Fu Chung-yi. Tengkeng stayed four days. Claim 147\n\nKu Lan-chai-\n\nThirty houses. Headmen, Miao Chang-an and Pi Chung-li. Tengkeng stayed six days. Claim 35\n\nClaims for provisions and looting\n\n292\n\nHouse-tax-\n\nActually collected for 241 houses\n\n271\n\nChinese headman and policemen left to collect balance demanded, but villages depleted by raid and unable to raise more.\n\nList of Claims.\n\nUpper Pienma, destruction of property, &c.\n\nTaels. 680\n\nLower Pienma and Wang Kai-ho, supplies\n\nPa Ti-ho\n\nKu Lan-chai\n\nU-tung\n\nHouse-tax already collected\n\nDeduct customary house-tax, as in 1905\n\nClaim against Tengkeng..\n\nSay, 2,500 rupees.\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.~(Received June 17.)\n\nIndia Office, June 16, 1910.\n\nWITH reference to your letter dated the 10th June, 1910, forwarding a report by His Majesty's acting consul at Tengyueh on his recent visit to Pienma in connection with Chinese aggression in the Ngawchang Valley, I am directed to inform you that Viscount Morley concurs in the proposal of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to consult His Majesty's Minister at Peking as to the advisability of making immediate representations to the Chinese Government, urging the withdrawal of all Chinese officials and troops to the east side of the watershed. Lord Morley also concurs in Sir E. Grey's proposal to authorise Mr. Max Müller to warn the Chinese Government that it may be found necessary to dispatch an expedition to the frontier on the lines recommended by the Burmah Government, should he consider such an intimation likely to be effectual.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nR. RITCHIE.\n\n  \n    147\n    40\n    35\n    70\n  \n  \n    [2788 r-1]\n    972\n    271\n    1,243\n  \n  \n    25\n    1.218\n    \n    \n  \n\nTwenty-six Villages of the Hsiao-Chiang Group.\n\n1. Kuan-chai, the largest of the villages, west bank of river.\n\n2. Shang-lou.\n\n3. Hsi-chiang.\n\n4. Mao-chia.\n\n5. Tu-mo. The principal headmen live in these first five villages.\n\n6. Chi-kaw.\n\n7. Chih-chueh.\n\n8. Tang-laug.\n\n9. To-yueh.\n\n10. Pa-niang.\n\n11. Lao-mao.\n\n12. Tang-la.\n\n13. Mang-pai\n\n14. La-chun.\n\n15. Tzu-chu Ti (Lagwe).\n\n16. Pai-lai Ho (Hpare).\n\n17. Ta-ka.\n\n18. Chih-pen.\n\n19. O-chang.\n\n20. Chiu Ko-tang (Lisu).\n\n21. Tun-tuang.\n\n22. Lang-yang. With the exception of 1 and 5 the above are all on the east bank of river.\n\n23. Kau-kun.\n\n24. Lung-pang.\n\n25. Mao-wu.\n\n26. Yin-lang.",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n344\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA,\n\n[June 20.]\n\n0\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nSECTION 8,\n\nC\n\n21654\n\n[22019]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nRECO Regs 15 JUL 10\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received June 20.)\n\n(No. 180.) Sir,\n\nPeking, June 2, 1910.\n\nIN my despatch No. 166 of the 21st May I indicated that, in my opinion, based on a careful study of the various despatches received from His Majesty's consular officers, the persons most deeply implicated in the recent outbreak at Changsha, and therefore most deserving of punishment, were the treasurer, Chuang Keng-liang; the customs taotai, Chu Yen-hsi; and three members of the gentry, Kung Hsien-chiao, Yang Kung, and Yeh Te-hui. I have the honour to enclose a short précis of the evidence in my possession against these five individuals.\n\nIn my telegram No. 105 of the 31st ultimo, I reported that a decree had been issued cashiering and degrading certain guilty officials and members of the gentry, and I now beg to enclose translation of a note communicating three decrees issued on the 27th ultimo, as well as a translation of a further decree issued on the 31st ultimo, containing the decisions of the Board of Civil Office as to the penalties to be awarded in the cases specially submitted to them.*\n\nThe decrees are based on a memorial presented by Jui Cheng, Viceroy of Hankow, and Yang Wen-ting, the Acting Governor of Hunan, who were, as I have previously stated, specially deputed to hold an enquiry into the causes and circumstances of the outbreak.\n\nThe punishments inflicted are as follows:-\n\nOf the officials, the Governor of Hunan, Ta'en Ch'un-ming; the treasurer, Chuang Keng-liang; the police taotai, Lai Cheng-yü; the customs taotai, Chu Yen-hsi, Captain Kuei Ling, Lieutenant Chou Chang-tai, Major P'ei Lin, and the magistrate, Chou T'eng, are cashiered; the Changsha magistrate, Yu Ping-yuan, and the Shan Hua magistrate, Kuo Chung-kuang, are cashiered and left at their posts. The judge, Chou Ju-ch'en, and the Changsha prefect, Wang Feng-ying, are degraded three steps and kept at their posts as an act of grace; while Colonel Yang Min-yüan, who, to judge from all the accounts received, really behaved well, loses his button.\n\nOf the gentry, Yang Kung and Yeh Te-hui are to be immediately cashiered and handed over to the strict surveillance of the local authorities, and Wang Hsien-chien and Kung Hsien-chiao are degraded five steps and transferred to other posts.\n\nIn my despatch No. 166 of the 21st ultimo I expressed the opinion that His Majesty's Government should insist on adequate punishment of the guilty officials and members of the gentry, though I have always felt that it would be far preferable that the Chinese Government should take the necessary action to this end on their own initiative without pressure from foreign Governments. This was the attitude I had taken up in the various informal conversations I have had with members of the Wai-wu Pu, and in reply I was informed that a strict and impartial investigation was being held, that the Prince Regent was taking the keenest personal interest in the matter, and that the guilty would be punished without respect to persons.\n\nI had intended to furnish the Wai-wu Pu privately with such evidence as I possessed, but when I came to sift it down and to separate facts from hearsay and generalities, I felt that I was not in a position to give them any reliable information which could not equally well be procured by the Chinese officials on the spot, especially as I knew that His Majesty's consul-general at Hankow had been in communication on the subject with the Viceroy.\n\nAs to the adequacy of the punishments, it is difficult for me, after my short residence in China, to form an opinion, but in comparing them with punishments inflicted under similar circumstances on previous occasions, we have to remember, firstly, that no foreign lives were sacrificed, and, secondly, that the Central Government are lamentably weak, and probably dare not deal more severely with the Changsha gentry. I notice that, out of the five individuals whom I considered as most to blame, four receive the severest penalty, viz., cashiering, which, of course, * Not printed.\n\n[2788 u-6]",
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        "content_text": "4\n\n2. The Hatamen Octroi and the Diplomatic Corps.\n\nBefore 1900 octroi difficulties never arose. The only two foreign firms admitted in the capital, Kierulff and Co. and Tallieu, were supposed to provide nobody but the legations with foreign articles and provisions; therefore they obtained licences for exemption of duty from the Tien-tsin Customs Taotai whenever they applied for them.\n\nOther imports from Tien-tsin to Pekin were unimportant owing to the difficult and expensive transhipment via Tungchow. In 1889 the German firm Rodats (later on, in a letter of the 5th February, 1890, the Tsung-li Yamên was referred to as Imbeck) was admitted too. The Tsung-li Yamên limited the number of foreign firms in Peking to one for each legation possessing its own legation grounds in the city.\n\nAfter the occupation by the allied forces in 1900 the octroi station disappeared, and was not reopened till the 24th August, 1901.\n\nIn a despatch of the 30th September, 1901, Prince Ching and Li Hung-chang asked the foreign Ministers that in future licences for goods, destined for the use of the legations or legation guards, should be obtained on application by the Wai-wu Pu—Tien-tsin still being in the hands of the Powers—and that in all other cases foreign merchants who might bring in goods for sale were required, on the arrival of the goods inside the boundaries of the Hatamen station, to report at the station and pay duty.\n\nThe treaties only providing a general transit duty of 2.5 per cent. ad valorem, the Peking octroi of 3 per cent. is exceeding this rate, and makes with the Tien-tsin native customs duty of 2 per cent. a total of 5 per cent. Sir Robert Hart, asked by Baron von der Goltz about that question, declared he was going to induce the octroi station to acknowledge transit passes issued by the Maritime Customs, i.e., to be content with the 2.5 per cent. transit tax paid in the port, the transit duties of such goods to be delivered to the octroi station by the Customs. This proposal, however, was abandoned by the Chinese authorities.\n\nAt a meeting of the diplomatic body on the 12th October, 1901, it was decided that every legation should hand in the following identic reply through their interpreters:\n\n“Le 30 septembre le Prince Ching et Li Fung-chang ont fait savoir qu'ils avaient l'intention de maintenir, conformément aux usages internationaux, la franchise de l'octroi de Pékin en faveur des légations et des gardes des légations, mais que dorénavant ils ne pourraient pas accorder cette franchise aux négociants étrangers dans la ville pour les marchandises qui ne seraient pas destinées aux légations et à leurs gardes.\n\n“Je serai disposé à accéder à cette demande, pourvu que le Gouvernement chinois n'insiste pas sur la question soulevée par son Altesse le Prince Ch'ing dans la lettre du 4 octobre concernant la présence des marchands étrangers dans la ville.”\n\nThe Russian Minister, who at first had consented to the full text of this document, later on omitted the paragraph concerning the tacitly admitted residence of foreign merchants in Peking outside the legation's quarter.\n\nOn the 1st November, 1901, the Wai-wu Pu accepted this compromise in a despatch addressed to the dean of the diplomatic corps, and asked for detailed lists of the foreign merchants residing in the city and the kind of their trade.\n\nHaving been requested by the German Minister to communicate the octroi tariff to the diplomatic corps, the Wai-wu Pu answered the dean in a despatch of the 9th November, 1901, that the new tariff had not yet been fixed, and that for the time being there would be levied an octroi of 3 per cent. ad valorem.\n\nOn the 14th November, 1902, Prince Ch'ing and Grand Secretary Jung-lu, superintendents of the Hatamen octroi station, published a new octroi tariff, per yard, on all textiles entering Peking, and sent twenty-three accompanying samples of fabrics, naming the particular rate for each. This tariff was communicated directly, and not through the Wai-wu Pu; it was circulated among the foreign representatives, and its receipt acknowledged by the dean, and it has never been objected to by any legation.\n\nIn 1904 Prince Ch'ing stated in a despatch of the 22nd May, addressed to the dean, that foreign merchants trying to defraud octroi duties, in case of being taken in the act, should be liable to pay fines imposed by the octroi station. Again, no objections were made, and the dean acknowledged the receipt of the despatch.\n\nSince then the Peking octroi has been tacitly admitted by the diplomatic corps within the city walls of Peking.\n\n5\n\n3. The recent Extension of the Octroi System beyond the City Walls.\n\nBefore the construction of the Kalgan Railway the goods sent from Tien-tsin up to Kalgan, Mongolia, and Russia had to pass on camels, carts, &c., through the city of Peking, and paid the octroi at the city gates. With the gradual completion of that line, trade to Kalgan developed more and more, and increased enormously after the opening of the through traffic to Hsuan-hua-fu, and later on to Kalgan. In view of the fact that the railway does not strike the city of Peking, and to avoid consequent loss, the Hatamen octroi established a branch station at Fengtai Junction this summer, and is evidently intending to levy octroi from all Chinese and foreign goods passing there by the railway from Tien-tsin to Kalgan and other places.\n\nA complaint of the consular body in Tien-tsin laid before the diplomatic corps by the Japanese consul-general in a letter of the 13th November, 1909, states that the Peking octroi tax has been imposed on various occasions at Fengtai upon foreign goods passing that place under inward transit passes to places in the interior other than the metropolis.\n\n4. The Legal Question.\n\nIn the correspondence between the diplomatic corps and the Chinese authorities the following three questions have frequently been combined:\n\n1. The exemption from duty for articles and provisions used by the legations and legation guards.\n\n2. The fact that Peking has not yet been opened to foreign trade, and that consequently no foreign merchant has the right of residing there.\n\n3. The admissibility of the Hatamen octroi.\n\nAccording to the clear text of the different treaty stipulations any foreign merchant desiring to convey duly imported articles to any inland market may clear his goods of all transit duties by payment of a commutation transit tax equal to half of the import duty in respect of dutiable articles, and 2.5 per cent. upon the value in respect of duty-free articles; and on payment thereof certificates shall be issued which exempt the goods from all further inland charges whatsoever.\n\nThe Hatamen octroi of 3 per cent. is nothing but a common \"lo-ti\" duty which is included in the transit pass tax everywhere else in China. Therefore goods covered by transit passes of the Tien-tsin Customs should, strictly speaking, be brought into the city without paying further taxation. But the Tien-tsin Customs are by a local \"regulation\" not allowed to issue transit passes for Peking; hence foreign merchants are sometimes obliged to pay 2 per cent. at the Tien-tsin Native Customs and 3 per cent. in Peking, i.e., 5 per cent. upon the value or double the transit tax.\n\nAt present the Chinese apparently are endeavouring to extend the so-called \"boundaries of the Hatamen station as far as possible around Peking.\n\nEnclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nDean of Diplomatic Body to Prince Ching.\n\nPékin, le ... avril, 1910.\n\nPAR une lettre en date du 7 décembre, 1909, j'ai eu l'honneur de faire connaître à votre Altesse qu'ayant été saisis de plusieurs réclamations de négociants étrangers et d'une protestation du corps consulaire de Tien-tsin contre la perception, par l'octroi de Pékin, dans la capitale même, ainsi que dans différentes localités de la région, notamment à Fengtai, de taxes spéciales sur des marchandises d'importation étrangère, munies de passes de transit, les représentants des diverses Puissances se voyaient obligés de s'adresser au Wai-wu Pu, pour qu'il soit mis fin à ces abus.\n\nLe 11 décembre dernier, 29 de la 10e lune de la 1re année Siuan-t'ong, votre Altesse a bien voulu me répondre que:\n\n“La perception de taxes par l'octroi de Pékin dans les bureaux de la capitale et les diverses stations qui en dépendent au dehors, était un usage depuis longtemps existant et qu'il ne semblait pas que de nouveaux droits aient été établis.”\n\nPage 394",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nserious fresh outbreak. How far this will prove to be true it would be hazardous to prognosticate.\n\nThat the Central Government are satisfied with the manner in which Jui Cheng, the Acting Viceroy of Hukuang, and Yang Wen-ting, the Acting Governor of Hunan, have dealt with the situation is proved by an edict issued a few days ago, making their acting appointments substantive. As a rule, substantive appointments to officials doing temporary or acting duty in such high posts are not given until after considerably longer service than in these two cases, and the promptitude with which these appointments have been confirmed is particularly significant, in view of the fact that certain strong elements in Hupei and Hunan had been reported as agitating against these two officials.\n\nI am now fully in accord with the instruction contained in your telegram No. 82 of the 2nd instant, that it would be neither judicious nor proper to include questions quite unconnected with the recent riots in a settlement of the case, but I cannot help sharing the opinion of His Majesty's consul-general at Hankow that there will be no real or permanent security against fresh trouble in Hunan so long as the long-pending questions involving our treaty rights are not definitely settled one way or the other.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul Hewlett to Mr. Max Müller,\n\n(No. 31.) Sir,\n\nChangsha, June 6, 1910,\n\nTHE three direct causes of the recent outbreak at Changsha, as recorded in my despatch of the 4th May, appear to me to exist at the present moment in an aggravated form.\n\n1. The Shortage of Rice on the Market.\n\nAt present if anyone wishes to buy rice he has to proceed to one of the comparatively few rice shops still doing business, deposit his money (at 8,200 cash a picul), and call for his rice next day.\n\nWith the governor's orders to lower the price of rice the dealers refuse to comply until larger supplies justify this measure. The sums set against the names of generous notables in the long lists of subscribers to the rice funds given in the local papers appear to be like railway subscriptions—merely paper promises.\n\nThe governor takes no steps to verify the common report that Yeh Te-hui has tens of thousands of piculs stored away; and it is left to General Yang to see the matter thoroughly investigated.\n\nA body of rice-seekers were allowed to hold heated discussion outside the Lin-Yang Gate yesterday, despite the supposed state of martial law and prohibition of all assemblies.\n\n2. The Hostility of the Masons and Carpenters.\n\nAlthough the complicity of these men in the riots was reported to the Throne their guild's pretensions remained unchanged, and the local authorities make no attempt to control them, accepting apparently as quite satisfactory the sole exception of His Majesty's consulate from their claim to monopolise work in Hunan.\n\nOn the 4th June the masons and certain of the gentry held a meeting to discuss a general strike as a protest against the punishment of the gentry. I am told that Wong Hsien-chien urged the masons not to strike, as it might cost him his head; but the masons replied that as the gentry had supported them in the past the guilds would uphold them during their present difficulties. The meeting was ultimately adjourned till the 6th or 7th June.\n\n3. The Weakness of the Local Authorities and the Power of the Anti-foreign Political Association.\n\nIn discussing the apportionment of blame in the despatch above referred to, I stated: \"It is a most certain fact that unless an exemplary lesson is brought home to the political association of Hunan the recent riots will but prove the first step to what might develop into a revolution.\" The lesson has not been brought home, and not only have I no reason to modify this assertion, I would repeat it with emphasis.\n\nThe first edicts condemning the four gentry principally implicated were hailed with delight by nine-tenths of the residents of Changsha, and especially by the regular troops. The mild penalties announced in the later edict have rendered the gentry more reckless and dangerous than ever, while irritating the regular troops of Hunan, who have a very fair and just idea of the punishment these men deserve, and whose one longing is that the Central Government should be resolute and prompt in dealing with the guilty gentry.\n\nThe provincial assembly has already demanded that all matters affecting the settlement of the riots should be referred to them. Further, they have asked the governor why the indemnity has not been paid at once and the case closed. A special session has been called for this month; in fact, there is every indication that the fight over treaty questions is to be renewed with keener vigour than ever, and the situation, if not firmly handled, can only end in complications of a most serious kind.\n\nThere are other causes in addition to the three mentioned, which lead me to think that the situation here is serious.\n\nRecently the township of Ch'uan-chiao-ho, 30 miles from Iyang, was destroyed by a gang of rioters, who were more or less armed. This involved the destruction of an out-station under the Norwegian Missionary Society. The destruction was followed by the burning of thirty homesteads. Soldiers appeared on the scene, and the rioters dispersed. Their next appearance was at Hua-Shih, 20 miles south of Hsiang-T'an, where they destroyed a chapel belonging to the American United Evangelical Church Mission. Here again the troops appeared, late, though three men implicated were caught.\n\nThis gang consists at present of thirty-four men. They wear yellow scarves on their heads, and are in uniform; they also have flags bearing the inscription, as in the Boxer days, \"Support the dynasty and exterminate the foreigner.\" Now an interesting fact to note is that, with about 13,000 men in the provincial troops, 6,000 in the regular troops, and 3,000 in the river guard boats, up to the present no force has been detached to exterminate this band, whose audacity is increasing. They call themselves \"Men of the superhuman striking art,\" and bound themselves as a band at Hsiang-T'an, where as at Iyang their adherents are known to be numerous.\n\nIt is true that the local authorities profess themselves masters of the situation; but up to the actual outbreak of trouble nothing could have been more satisfactory than the assurances of the then governor and Customs taotai, in face of which I felt it useless to set my own apprehension in applying for one of His Majesty's ships to the naval authorities.\n\nThe present absence of any effective precaution on the part of the provincial authorities against renewed trouble compels me to state deliberately that His Majesty's ship \"Nightingale\" is not sufficiently imposing to convince the hostile element in Changsha and in Hunan generally of the importance attached by His Majesty's Government to safeguarding British lives and property in this province. I am fully aware of the many and complex duties of His Majesty's squadron in these waters, and I trust that the above declaration of my honest conviction, which my sense of duty forces me to record, will not be misconstrued.\n\nI will close this despatch with the last curious phase in an exceedingly difficult situation. This is the unmistakable friction between General Yang and the governor.\n\nGeneral Yang during the last week paid me one open and two secret visits, and gave me his secret views, assuring me, I believe quite truly, that he speaks to me freely because of our exceptional friendship and his knowledge that all foreigners in Hunan rely on me for advice and protection.\n\nGeneral Yang states emphatically, and his opinion is endorsed by many others, that Governor Yang is utterly incapable of facing the present situation. He asserts that but for the vigour displayed by the Viceroy of Wuchang, trouble would at once break out in Changsha. He speaks in the highest terms of the justice shown by the Viceroy in apportioning blame, and says that the governor would never have taken such steps on his own responsibility.\n\nHe begged me most earnestly not to believe the official assurances that order was completely restored, and that there was no danger of further troubles. He pointed",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nwho, he states, cannot in the event of a rising be relied on to protect either the officials or the residents.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(No. 38.) Sir,\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\nConsul-General Fraser to Mr. Mar Müller.\n\nHankow, April 13, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 14 of the 6th instant, forwarding a memorandum on the political situation in China, drawn up by Mr. E. S. Little, and calling for a report on the political conditions existing in this part of China.\n\nThe partition rumours cited by Mr. Little were reported in my despatches No. 22 of the 12th December, 1909, and No. 14 of the 1st February, and on p. 7 of my Intelligence Report for the quarter ended the 31st December, 1909, and p. 2 of my Intelligence Report for last quarter, where is likewise reported the remarkable suddenness of their cessation. The subject is also treated in press extracts Nos. 3 and 4 in my despatch No. 7 of the 15th January.\n\nThe Wachang military officer, not student, chopped off his finger at one of the early railway agitation meetings, and the other similar act occurred at Changsha, the deed being due to zeal for the immediate summoning of a national assembly.\n\nThe students' demands for arms at Wuchang and Changsha is reported in No. 7 of the press extracts forwarded in my despatch No. 10 of the 21st January, and on p. 14 of the Changsha Intelligence Report for the December quarter of 1909, which also sets forth on pp. 11 to 18 the partition excitement.\n\nThe proposal to adopt universal military training appears in No. 1 of the press extracts forwarded in my No. 7 of the 15th January and No. 6 of those of my No. 10 of the 21st January, both articles coming from the \"Eastern Times,\" the most influential Shanghai native paper.\n\nThe railway agitation has formed the subject of several reports, and the anti-foreign nature of its propaganda was shown in the second enclosure in my No. 77 of the 8th December, 1909, as well as in No. 30 of the press extracts forwarded in my despatch No. 7 of the 15th January.\n\nThe native newspapers have certainly fomented the anti-foreign agitations, special instances being the last paragraph of No. 18 and Nos. 26 and 28 of the press extracts my No. 7, Nos. 8, 11, and 12 of those in my No. 15 of the 2nd February, and No. 23 of those of my No. 23 of the 28th February.\n\nin\n\nAs regards the attitude of the Chinese authorities, the only attempt here to check agitation was the Viceroy Ch'en's farewell letter, enclosed in my despatch No. 76 of the 7th December, 1909. The growing attitude of opposition to our request for trading facilities, formerly sure to be granted, has been remarked on in many recent reports, though it has not been so flagrant as in Hunan, and the rice and pulse export questions have proved the disinclination to accept treaty provisions.\n\nThat the debt redemption movement was based on anti-foreign feeling is shown in Nos. 7, 15, and 16 of the press extracts forwarded in my No. 7 of the 15th January, No. 13 of those in my No. 10, No. 11 of those in my No. 15; but wiser counsels were also given in No. 23 of No. 7, and in Nos. 1 and 2 of my No. 25 of the 8th March.\n\nThe want of money has been frequently reported, and also Chang Chih Tung's deficit. The issue of Hupei Government bank notes is noted in my annual mint returns. The agent of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank here told me recently that an ordinary native could not get money for these notes, and that his bank had to give two days' notice of desire to cash them.\n\nMr. Little's description of the attitude of the provincial assemblies agrees with the reports made from this office and from the Changsha Consulate.\n\nThe rumoured reduction in the pay of the Wachang troops, mentioned in the military section of my last Intelligence Report, was denied in No. 11 of the press extracts forwarded in my No. 10 of the 21st January.\n\nThe Christian Literature Society's explanation of the comet has been published in all the native papers read at this office, and also scattered broadcast in the form of a leaflet. I have not noticed any attempt to augur coming trouble from its appearance. The main points of Mr. Little's memorandum are thus corroborated by our press\n\n3\n\nextracts, which do not by any means include all the articles and paragraphs of the same tendency noticed in the native press during merely the last three months.\n\nAt the date of his letter I was inclined to share his sense of imminent danger of anti-foreign disturbance, my apprehension being tempered, however, by recollection of similar threatening appearances in other years passing off without any serious happenings.\n\nAt the present moment the tone of the native press has turned much more moderate, but the artificial scarcity of rice and the unrestrained lawlessness of the student class give grave cause for anxiety.\n\nThe winter wheat crop is likely to be very poor, owing to want of fine weather, and the price of rice in the depreciated copper currency will rise even higher now that Szechuan and Kiangsi, as well as Hunan, are refusing supplies to Hupei. Building operations and export trade are brisk, but the pay of the coolie class hardly suffices to feed the individual, let alone his family. The native business world is upset by the unusual shipments of sycee westward to buy opium or finance the Thibetan expedition. Land, in which much money has been sunk, is practically unsaleable, and native banks and companies are suspected of having used their deposits in speculating in opium or rubber. The paper money in circulation is undoubtedly vastly in excess of the means of the issuing banks, including the Government Cash Bank. The result of the above circumstances is to raise prices all round; but the main cause of uneasiness is the report that Hunan is about to cut off all supplies. This selfish policy has extended to prefectures and districts, a missionary informing me that on a recent journey, being benighted in a district near the Hunan border, he met strings of rice-laden coolies, who explained that in consequence of the gentry's interference, rice for a town over the district border, but in the same prefecture, had to be smuggled across in the dark! My own belief is that public order would be best secured by a decree absolutely forbidding all grain export prohibitions or other interference with the natural movement of cereals, as well as all levies on grain in transit between provinces, for only thus can the farmers, the bulk of the population, be secured the due reward of their toil and the lower classes' daily wages suffice for their needs, while the speculation that causes the price of the native staff of life to vary greatly from day to day would then be unprofitable to dealers and gentry.\n\nThe lawlessness of the student class, which is frequently illustrated by notices in the native press of strikes against teachers and heads in Government schools, has just been shown here. Yang Tu, a Hunanese, with the rank of a director of a metropolitan court, recently presented to the Board of Posts and Communications a memorandum casting doubt on the ability of the Hunanese to build railways by their own unaided efforts, and so incurred the wrath of the Railway Association delegate, Chang, who, according to the native press, directed students of the Huan Middle School at Wuchang to seize him and bring him for trial and punishment before the Hunan Guild in that city. Yesterday afternoon some forty of these emissaries tracked Mr. Yang to the office of the Hankow Waterworks, which abuts on our southern road, and insisted that the directors should hand him over. Our police were notified by the directors, and, rescuing Mr. Yang as he was being hustled along the Sin-seng road, took him to the police station, followed by his would-be kidnappers, who were told that he could not be given up except under a warrant backed by me. The mob would not go away until some of the ringleaders had been taken into custody. The concession deputy then called on me to ask that the ringleaders might be handed over to their own authorities and to offer an escort for Mr. Yang, I impressed on Mr. Wu that Mr. Yang was quite at liberty to go where he pleased, and that the students would be delivered on their authorities taking all responsibility. Mr. Wu admitted that Mr. Yang's life would probably have paid forfeit had he been got over to Wuchang.\n\nThis morning the taotai sent a note to say he had given the students over to the Director of Education to be dealt with under the board's rules; and I hear that the escort removed Mr. Yang much against his will,\n\nI am protesting to the Viceroy against the taotai's extraordinary proceedings; but the noteworthy fact is that the native papers seem to see nothing irregular in one returned student setting his fellows to seize a man for no legal offence and without any reference to the regular authorities, who likewise show no desire to vindicate their powers.\n\nSimilarly, the Railway Association is allowed to disseminate through the interior notices maligning friendly Powers without any attempt on the part of the authorities to check a movement which must breed anti-foreign feeling, apparently because it has\n\n400",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nthese various chiefs, but, in view of the difficulty of obtaining supplies for any length of time, I am of opinion that Tengkeng could scarcely bring more than 500 men, whilst 500 might be raised by the combined forces of Mingkuang, Tien-tang, and Tatang. Such forces would be poorly armed and badly organised, and they would have little eagerness for action.\n\n3. Under the third head the nearest troops to the frontier would be 200 men of the 11th Ying, who are stationed at Kuyung Kai. These men all carry Mauser magazine rifles (nine cartridges), which are in good order, and they are the best of the Tengyuch brigade. Their commandant, Major Ma, is an intelligent Mahommedan, and his men show better discipline and better spirit than is usual with the Chinese forces. The ying includes a number of Kachins (Chashans) from Sansi, who speak a dialect almost identical with that of the Pienma Lashis. The 4th and 5th Ying are stationed at Tengyuch, and comprise together about 500 men, chiefly armed with single-loading Mausers, which are antiquated and in poor condition. They are led by Chinese officers of the old school, and have had no Japanese training, though they show a marked improvement on the troops of a few years ago both in physique and discipline. I had an opportunity a few days ago of witnessing their target practice, and they showed an invariable tendency to shoot low, though I have seen men of the 11th Ying showing excellent marksmanship. Colonel Chiang, one of the officers stationed at Tengyuch, is a man of undoubted energy and courage, reputed a tribesman by birth, and showing a forceful personality which is entirely un-Chinese.\n\n4. There are 1,500 troops at Talifu, and I have information that many of their officers are in reality Japanese, though they speak Chinese fluently, and the greatest secrecy is observed in regard to their nationality. They would be able to reach Hpimaw through Yun-lung Chou, crossing the Mekong by the Feilung Bridge and the Salween by the ferry below Tengkeng. It is probable that they could reach Hpimaw in about the same time as troops from Myitkyina, but I have been unable to gather any reliable information as to their transport and commissariat. Large numbers of mules are, however, constantly available at Talifu, the roads are fair, and local supplies would be obtainable until they crossed the watershed. A detailed account of these troops is given in my despatch of the 3rd March last (printed report, p. 18).\n\nI am of opinion that the Chinese would be unlikely to move up regular troops either under heads (3) or (4) to the unadministered territory, and think that the only probable resistance would come from the Lisu irregulars reported under head (2).\n\nLines of Advance.\n\nThere are eight possible lines of advance for the Chinese into the unadministered territory. From west to east they are as follows:--\n\n1. From Ku-yung Kai by San Cha-ho, across the watershed near Manung Pum, and into the Shingaw Valley,\n\n2. From Tan-tsa, across the Lang Ya Pass, into the Tummaw Valley.\n\n3. From the Tien-tang Valley by Malipa, across the Pan-wa Pass, to Chang Yin-kou on the Chipway River. Malipa is 8 miles to the south and Chang Yin-kou 6 miles to the north of the pass. This is probably the easiest route from China, Tien-tang being cultivated up to the head of the valley.\n\n4. Along the Mingkuang Valley, striking off at Ta-chai, then up the Cha Shan Ho to Ta Ya-kou Pass-12 miles from Ta-chai. This leads to Hparé, which is 9 miles beyond the pass. This is also a comparatively easy track, and, with No. 3, would probably be open for lightly-laden mules throughout the dry season. Supplies would be abundant right up to the watershed. Lisu porters are generally available throughout this district, and can carry from 60 to 70 lbs. in the baskets on their backs. They are most satisfactory in this capacity, uncomplaining in spite of hard marches and heavy weather, requiring no bedding, as fast as mules, and unfailingly cheerful.\n\n5. Also from Mingkuang. About 5 miles north of Ta-chai, the Hsiao-tang Ho Valley leads off from the main valley to the north-west; the track follows the river and crosses the pass at 10 miles from the Mingkuang Valley, then leads down to Lagwé (Tzu-chu), which is 12 miles to the north of the pass.\n\n6. From Mingkuang, at Ta-chu-pa, across Fen Shui Ling Pass, to Hpimaw, 28 miles. This is the track I followed, but it is regarded as the most difficult, and mules should not be taken unless weather conditions are most favourable; they would then need to be very lightly laden, and an advance guard would be necessary to clear the track. Three days' journey, the second very hard, as animals cannot stop all day, owing to the poisonous herbs in the jungle.\n\n7. From the Salween Valley, at Tengkeng, westwards up the Ku-tan Ho Valley, across the pass to Hpimaw; one and a-half days' journey. Difficult track, but open for lightly-laden mules in favourable weather conditions; path very steep and narrow, and difficult streams to cross. The Tengkeng levies would come from this direction, also any troops from Talifu or Yungchang.\n\n8. From the Salween, at Chengka (latitude 26° 15'), by Pai-pa, into the north of territory. This route is little known, and is not likely to be used.\n\nOf the above eight routes, 3, 4, and 7 are those which would in all probability be chosen in the event of any expeditions from the Chinese side. They could all be watched without difficulty, and the main party in the unadministered territory could be kept constantly in touch with news from the passes. This could be arranged from the Burmah side of the watershed more easily than from Tengyueh, as it would be difficult to obtain reliable men among the Chinese, whereas the Kachins proved themselves during my recent visit to be both eager and quick at gathering and carrying news. I could arrange for trustworthy information from Talifu and Tengyueh in regard to movements of troops, and possibly also from Ku-yung Kai, but it would be preferable, whenever possible, to use men for intelligence work whose homes are in Burmah, and who would be able to get through to Sima or Sadon in the event of any difficulty with the Tengyueh-Bhamo telegraph line.\n\nARCHIBALD ROSE,\n\nHis Majesty's Acting Consul.\n\nTengyueh, May 24, 1910.\n\n473",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n71\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL,\n\n[31884]\n\nNo. 1,\n\nC O\n\n20647\n\n[September 1.],\n\nSECTION 1,\n\n16 SEP 10,\n\n(No. 278.) Sir,\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received September 1.)\n\nPeking, August 16, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a note which I have addressed to the Chinese Government in accordance with the instructions contained in your despatch No. 247 of the 20th July, warning them that His Majesty's Government cannot in any circumstances allow the accuracy of the boundary cairns erected on the Burmah-China frontier, which has remained undisputed for ten years, to be now called in question.\n\nI have sent copies of this despatch and enclosures to the Viceroy of India and the Lieutenant-Governor of Burmah.\n\nI have, &c. (In the absence of His Majesty's chargé d'affaires),\n\nE. SCOTT.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nMr. Max Müller to Prince Ch'ing.\n\nPeking, August 12, 1910. IT will be within the recollection of the Chinese Government that in 1899 Brigadier-General Liu Tajên and Mr. J. G. Scott, the Chinese and British Commissioners for the delimitation of the Burmah-Yunnan boundary, reported that, in conformity with their instructions, they had demarcated the middle section of that frontier from the junction of the Nanipuang stream with the Taping River to the junction of the Nam Hpà with the Nam Ting. The report, which was signed and sealed by the two commissioners, stated that the line throughout was laid in conformity with the agreement between China and Great Britain signed at Peking on the 4th February, 1897. There followed a description of the boundary, together with a list of the cairns erected by the commissioners, numbering ninety-seven in all. In 1900 an officer of the Burmah Government was employed to erect permanent boundary cairns in place of the temporary cairns erected by the Boundary Commission.\n\n--\n\nIn January of this year the cairns were inspected by the deputy commissioner of the Bhamo district, the British consul at Tengyueh, and the prefect of Yung-Chang. These officers found that cairns Nos. 9 to 14 were correctly placed, but the prefect has since disputed the result of this inspection. In a subsequent note to the consul, he alleged that cairns Nos. 20, 22, 25, 26, and 29 were all incorrectly placed, and that he was not in a position at present to express any opinion regarding the positions of cairns Nos. 30 to 96, as he had not yet had an opportunity of examining them.\n\nIn bringing this matter to the notice of your Highness's Government, I am instructed to inform you that His Majesty's Government can in no circumstances allow the accuracy of these cairns, which has been unchallenged for ten years, to be now called in question.\n\nI have the honour to request that your Highness will be so good as to duly notify the local authorities in Yunnan to that effect.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(In the absence of His Majesty's chargé d'affaires),\n\nE. SCOTT.\n\n[2893 a-1]",
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        "content_text": "4\n\n5. Railways.\n\n1. Peking-Hankou.-During the year and a-half since the Chinese took over the management from the Franco-Belgian Company, the line has been starved in every way in order to show maximum profits under Chinese management, with the result that they have now been obliged to offer 2,000,000 taels' worth of contracts for repairs to permanent way and rolling-stock, which are being tendered for by German, British, Belgian, American, and French firms.\n\nIn\n\n2. Tien-tsin--Pukow. --The northern section of the railway has been opened for traffic as far as Techou, 140 miles from Tien-tsin, just over the Shantung border. Consequence of the decision to make the permanent Tien-tsin terminus on the Isiku side, several miles of completed embankment leading to the south side of the city have been abandoned and a fresh track substituted near the village of Liang Wang Chuang, the point at which the construction line touches the Grand Canal. The new line will cross the canal a mile or two above this point, and a suspension bridge will have to be constructed to allow the canal traffic to pass. A construction train runs to Lokou from Yu Cheng, 55 miles south-east from Techou, Yu Cheng to Lokou, on the north bank of the Yellow River, is 33 miles. The river is crossed in a launch, and the remaining 4 miles to Chinan are traversed by trolley. The line is laid south for construction trains 16 miles to Kushan. The German engineer has promised the Chinese directors that the line from Tien-tsin to Taianfu, about 280 miles, will, except for the bridge over the Yellow River, be ready for traffic by the next Chinese New Year (end of January 1911). The bridge over the Yellow River is not expected to be ready before July 1912, and is to cost 11,000,000 marks. Boring for the foundation of piers gave nothing firmer than sand at a depth of 330 feet.\n\n3. Shanghai-Hongchow-Ningpo. The Shanghai-Hangchow section, opened in August last, has been cheaply constructed and is badly run. Large water-ways have been choked up and their courses diverted into inadequate channels to avoid building bridges or economise in purchase of land. Minor accidents are frequent. The Kiangsu section of the line is superior in most respects to the Chekiang section. The receipts for the first four months of the year in the latter section are reported to show considerable improvement.\n\nAfter months' delay the first sod of the Hangchow-Ningpo Railway was hurriedly cut on the 15th June to save the directors' face at the shareholders meeting fixed for the 19th. Work was then begun at the Ningpo end with an inadequate number of coolies. It is said that the company have the greatest difficulty in collecting calls on shareholders at all, and some Ningpo shareholders refuse to pay them.\n\n4. Canton-Hankow (Yueh-Han). - Each province is trying to build its own section independently. The total length is about 660 miles, of which 200 are in Kuangtung, 360 in Hunan, and 100 in Hupeh. The Kuangtung section is being built by a commercial company with a properly organised engineering staff, which is not the case in Hunan, through which the largest and most difficult section runs. The total length completed and open for traffic on the Kuangtung section is now 170 li, or about 55 miles. It is not expected that much progress will be made for some time owing to lack of funds. Meanwhile, foreign engineers are stationed at points beyond the rail-head doing no work for lack of materials, and it is understood that foreign employés will be dismissed on the expiration of their agreements and will not be replaced by foreigners. In this connection His Majesty's consul at Changsha reports that the Hunan directors have telegraphed to Peking for permission to employ none but Chinese engineers, \"whose superiority over foreigners has been amply demonstrated.\" This somewhat surprising conclusion was arrived at by limiting the powers and placing every possible obstruction in the way of foreign engineers like Messrs. Ross and Birchal, the former of whom was invalided home in 1909, and the latter has now resigned, while the Chinese engineers are allowed a free hand and given every possible assistance. According to Mr. Birchal, out of the 360 miles in Hunan 12 miles are nearly completed, and 25 will be ready next spring. There is money in hand for the completion of 37 miles; and income from shares and forced taxes, &c., might suffice for 20 miles a-year. At this rate the line would not be completed for 15 years.\n\n5. Hupeh Railways (Ichang-Wanhsien).---Considerable progress has been made along 5 or 6 miles of earthworks on the first section from Ichang to Kueichow (90 miles), and His Majesty's consul at Ichang is informed by the engineer in charge that work on all nine subsections is equally advanced. Trains, it is said, are expected to run for about 20 miles by the end of the year. Workshop machinery has been secured by the German firm of Arnold and Karberg.\n\nA contract for about 30,000 taels' worth of\n\n6. Canton-Kowloon. -- Work on the Chinese section has been much impeded by clan fights between villagers, who apparently use the embankment as a fortification in encounters in which modern rifles and even field pieces are used. The authorities have acted with energy, and more peaceful conditions now prevail.\n\n7. Sunning Railway. - Work from Kung Yik to Sanui is progressing rapidly, and the line may be completed and open to passenger traffic by September of this year. Attempts are being made to raise additional capital to extend the line from Sanui to Fatshan or Canton, and thus link up with the Yueh-Han system.\n\n8. Amoy-Changchow. On the 9th May the first section of the line was opened and trains were run to Kai-ching and Hsia-Ting, the present terminus of the line. The line starts from Sung-su opposite Kulangsu, and its present running length is about 12 miles. A ferry launch runs in connection with trains. The line was constructed by Chinese engineers, and the results are poor. His Majesty's consul states that the railway is crippled for want of money, and that no substantial returns can be expected till it is extended to the coal country of Ling An.\n\n9. Nanning-Kweilin. -- His Majesty's consul at Wuchow reports that a reconnaissance survey has been made by an expectant magistrate and the head of the cavalry bureau at Kweilin, but it is impossible to say how far the work is of technical value. The proposed trace follows the Yungfu River past Yungfu and Loyang to the junction with the Liuchow River, down the latter till it joins the Hungshui, which it follows up to Chien Chiang and thence up a tributary to Pinchou. Between this place and Nanning a difficult range of hills has to be crossed. The total distance is estimated at 250 miles.\n\nPage 242",
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        "content_text": "373\n\n*\n\nlearning that my repeated conversations with members of the board had, contrary to what I was led to believe, made some impression and had actually induced them to admit that the tax was an additional levy on foreign raw opium and, therefore, even from their point of view, a violation of our treaty rights. The reply of the Viceroy was a direct admission that the levy had been introduced and was maintained for purposes of revenue and not with the object of facilitating the work of opium suppression. His Excellency Na-t'ung made the usual excuse that the board could not instruct, but only advise, a Viceroy, but he said that they had that day received a telegram from the Viceroy reporting certain modifications which he was introducing into the regulations with a view to meeting my demands, and expressed the hope that, when communicated to me, they would prove satisfactory. I replied that what I wanted was a repeal of the tax, nothing more nor less, but I would, of course, give the proposed modifications my careful consideration.\n\nTwo days later Mr. Liu Yuk-lin handed to me a translation of the telegram from the Viceroy, copy of which I have the honour to enclose.* assurances given me by his Excellency Na-tung, I read this document with some disappointment. The extension of the time for converting raw into prepared opium and the consequent deferring of the date at which the levy, now admitted to be a tax on raw opium, has to be paid, appears to me to be a most trifling concession and does not in any way satisfy our contention that once the duty and li-kin are paid, no further taxation of Indian opium in a treaty port is permissible.\n\nArticles 2 and 3 regarding the withdrawal of the opium blockade at Maçao and the non-confiscation of smuggled opium are merely a clever device on the part of the Chinese authorities to place opium under customs transit certificate on the same footing as opium not under transit certificate presumably being smuggled from Maçao into the interior and to class both as smuggled opium. As a matter of fact they are on an entirely different footing and opium covered by a transit certificate is not smuggled opium, should never have been seized, and should be promptly and publicly restored to the owners. It is exempt from confiscation by treaty and not by favour of the Viceroy. It was not clear to me whether the proviso in article 3 regarding the restoration of confiscated opium was retrospective and covered the various cases of illegal seizure of opium under transit certificate which had been brought to my notice and had formed the subject of repeated representations on my part, though his Excellency Na-t'ung had given me to understand that such was the case. I accordingly telegraphed to Mr. Jamieson to ascertain, and I have to-day heard from him that he has as yet received no official reply to the enquiries which he has addressed to the Viceroy, who apparently still contends that the seizures were justified on account of the failure of the Chinese concerned to observe the regulations, and were not therefore infractions of treaty. The opium has, however, been returned in two cases as \"an act of grace.\" I shall await the receipt of fuller information from Mr. Jamieson before renewing my request for the return of all the opium seized and the refund of the fines imposed.\n\nIn regard to the general question of the illegal levy, I do not propose to take any further steps until I receive your reply in regard to the proposal which I have submitted to you for a fresh agreement for regulating the importation of Indian opium into China.\n\n* Not printed.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[40044]\n\n(No. 364.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[November 3.]\n\nSECTION 6,\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 3.)\n\nPeking, October 15, 1910.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 363 of the 15th instant, I have the honour to report that the first item of business for discussion laid on the table of the newly-established Senate was the question of the suppression of opium shops in the province of Kuangsi. The matter was referred for discussion by order of the Grand Council; a telegram from the province in question was read out by the President of the Senate, and a committee of ten members was appointed to make an investigation.\n\nThe Kuangsi Provincial Assembly had made the suppression of opium shops throughout the province the subject of discussion, and the result of their deliberations was the passing of a resolution urging that the measure should at once be carried into effect. The governor, however, recognising the difficulties in the way of such stringent action, refused to comply with the resolution of the Assembly, and fixed one year as the limit of time for the suppression of the opium shops. Over a month was spent in considering and reconsidering the question, but all efforts to effect a compromise proved fruitless. The governor adhered to his decision, and the members of the Provincial Assembly consequently resigned in a body.\n\nThe occurrence of such an incident is an eloquent testimony to the manner in which the Provincial Assemblies, of comparatively recent institution as they are, have arrogated to themselves considerable powers of an executive nature. In this instance, the action of the Kuangsi Provincial Assembly was virtually condoned by the committee of the Senate, which, while criticising the dissolution on technical grounds, maintained that such a step was, under the circumstances, \"inevitable and not unreasonable.\" The committee recommended that the matter should be reported to the Throne, that the Governor of Kuangsi should be informed of this step in a telegram instructing him not to interfere with the action of the Provincial Assembly in regard to their scheme for the suppression of opium shops, and that orders should be sent to the Assembly to resume its sittings.\n\nThe finding of the committee was read out in the Senate, and gave rise to somewhat heated discussion; in the end, the resolution of the committee was put to the House and carried unanimously. If the rumour be true, which asserts that Chang Ming-ch'i, the Governor of Kuangsi, who is now on a visit to Peking, was actually present in the strangers' gallery of the Senate during the discussion of this question, it must have been a novel experience for one of the high provincial authorities of China to sit as a listener whilst his official action was being sharply criticised in open public debate.\n\nBut the most important feature of this incident is the action of the Senate, which, at the very outset of its career, has presumed, without waiting for the Imperial rescript to the report on the matter, to telegraph instructions to an official of the high rank of governor of one of the provinces, instructions, moreover, which forbid his interference with the action of the Assembly of the province over which he holds sway.\n\nChang Ming-ch'i, who during the past five years has risen from the rank of intendant of one of the circuits of Kuangsi through successive grades to the position of governor of that province, called to see me on the 6th instant. No mention was made during our conversation on that occasion of any intention on his part to apply for permission to resign his post, as has been asserted in at least one local native newspaper, which alleged as the reason for his so doing the incident above referred to. In this case perhaps the wish may have been father to the thought; a far more plausible theory for his outstaying his leave in the capital is that now advanced by the native press, namely, that he is intriguing to secure the appointment of Viceroy of the provinces of Kuangtung and Kuangsi.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\n[2980 e--6]",
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        "content_text": "Chang-wa Hsien\n\nName of district or department—\n\nPin Chou..\n\nYung-shou Hsien\n\nCviven thon\n\nLi-chuan Hsien\n\nHsing-ping Hsien\n\nChang-an\n\nTotal\n\n35\n\n10\n\nNumber of\n\nPoppy Fields.\n\n9\n\n11\n\nThe summary of the telegraphic report received from the Governor of Shensi regarding poppy cultivation in that province appears in the \"Peking Daily News\" of the 10th September, and is as follows:---\n\n\"The Shensi governor in his telegram quoted a report of the Bureau for the Suppression of Opium, and it is to the effect that prior to the Imperial edict against opium there were about 530,000 mou of poppy field, but last year it amounted to some 372,695 mou.\n\nAs a result of the instruction to shorten the time limit for the extermination of the opium evil, the suppression of the cultivation of the poppy was successfully effected except in a few cases of secret farming, which have been recently discovered and severely dealt with. Farmers are furnishing bonds not to recultivate the plant. There are no regular opium shops, opium being sold in retail shops which carry on other kinds of business as well. These numbered 2,894, but in consequence of the issue of licences 2,602 still sell opium. The 404 refuges established have cured 568,055 habitués of the opium couch, and are treating 370,036 persons. Nevertheless, there are still 938,091 opium smokers. Strict measures are being taken to eradicate from the province the most pernicious vice of the Empire.\"\n\nThe only comment I have to make on this report is that poppy cultivation is openly carried on in the province of Shensi, in many districts on a very extensive scale, and that the figures given above of the number of poppy fields observed along the roads which I traversed prove that there was no secrecy whatever about it.\n\nThe annual production of opium in Shensi, whether in 1908 or 1910, is an unknown quantity. It is true that the memorandum presented to the Shanghai International Opium Commission gives the production based on Customs reports as 33,000 piculs in 1908; but these figures are purely guesswork, and were I to hazard an estimate it would simply be figures referring to those parts of the province which I visited, and not to the province as a whole. All I can say is that in nearly all the districts through which I travelled there was some evidence of steps—albeit ineffective in many cases—having been taken to curtail production. What these steps were and the cause of their failure will be found in my general report. In the west of the province, as in the department of Lung Chou, there was little or no evidence of any repressive measures whatever having been taken. I have not the least hesitation, however, in saying that, so far as my personal observation extended, the claim that there has been a diminution in cultivation of from 60 to 80 per cent. is excessive. It may be as much as 30 per cent., but is certainly much under 50 per cent.\n\nWhen I was in Hsi-an Fu I asked the Rev. A. G. Shorrock, of the English Baptist Mission Society, who has spent many years in Shensi, and who was at the time of my collecting information regarding opium from all parts of the province, if he would kindly send me a few notes on the subject as soon as his information was complete. This he kindly consented to do, and the following letter, dated the 14th June, reached me at Lanchou :-\n\n\"I have information from about twenty-three Hsien in various parts of the province, and with the exception of Wu-kung, all report a great decrease in poppy growing.\n\n\"In Tung-chou Fu district, four Hsien report that there is practically no opium at all being grown this year. In P'u-ch'eng Hsien about one-fifth of the land is still under poppy cultivation. Han-ch'eng Hsien was not reported on.\n\nIn the entire district the diminution is most marked.\n\n\"In the Shang Chou district a great change is reported this year; but, owing to much bribery, the men sent out to investigate gave false reports to the officials, and in consequence a good deal of opium has escaped detection among the hills away from the big roads.\n\n\"In Han-chung Fu Prefecture there is a most marked improvement. There is still a good deal grown, but it is mostly in hidden-away places.\n\n\"It is difficult to get reliable evidence from the districts between Hsi-an Fu and Yu-lin Fu, but there is no doubt whatever, from the reports of many natives, that there has been a similar decrease in these parts.\n\n\"From Feng-hsiang Fu I have not been able to get a report. But I hear that to the west one or two of the Hsien are very bad, notably Wu-kung, where nothing seems to have been done at all. Mei Hsien, Fu-feng, and Ch'ishan have from one-fourth to one-sixth of their land still under cultivation. But in all of these three Hsien there is improvement compared with last year.\n\nIn Hu Hsien and Chou-chih Hsien the difference is most marked. Formerly two of the worst Hsien, they may now be reckoned among the best. I cannot find that any opium has been seen in Hu Hsien; and in Chou-chih the area planted has been reduced by nine-tenths. The same may be said of Hsien-yang, Hsien-ning, Chang-an, Fan-yuan, and Fu-ping. These districts show what can be done by energetic and loyal officials.\n\n\"The price of opium, as compared with former years, indicates more than anything else the rate of production now. More than four times the price is now charged, as compared with previous years. Merchants have been collecting opium with feverish eagerness during the past five months, firmly believing that the growth in this province will soon cease. These men depend largely on the banks for the transfer of silver from Hankow, Tien-tsin, &c.; they seldom bring silver with them. Again and again I have been told lately that the banks and business houses never remember such a dearth of silver in the city, and this they attribute to the extensive purchase of opium, many saying that in a year's time there will be no opium to be had in Shensi. The tael rate has actually risen to 1,820 cash, , 1,274 big cash, the normal rate being 150 big cash below this. The price of opium has dropped a little lately, owing to the incoming of supplies from the west, and the prospect of a good harvest in Kansu. Without doubt the people generally believe that opium is doomed. To us who have been here many years the change in sentiment and in actual production of opium is marvellous.\n\n\"Such a vast change is only possible when supported by popular sentiment. No other change appeals as this has done to the conscience of the people. I have seen the farmers take their implements to the mandarin and refuse to work when a comparatively small tax has been levied; but although the people have incurred great loss by the suppression of opium growing, no such risings have yet taken place, at least to any extent.\n\nMen have been beaten, numbers have worn the cangue, crops have been destroyed everywhere, and yet the people have suffered it. And why? For three reasons—\n\n\"1. They believe the officials, high and low, are in earnest. At first the people took with great nonchalance the proclamations regarding opium, believing in them no more than in most others. But through the persistence shown during the last three years they have come to believe that the authorities mean business this time. There are some who assert that the present stringency will pass, but they are very few.\n\n\"2. The gentry and better educated people are really in sympathy with the Government, and from patriotic reasons use their influence in the right direction.\n\n\"3. The people themselves feel it is right, though they naturally resent being forced to adjust themselves so suddenly to the new conditions. They know that opium growing and consuming is bad for everybody. Whole families and communities have been ruined by opium, and they know it will be well to be rid of it.\n\n\"In conclusion, let me say that, having had a good deal of direct intercourse with officials and people, I am convinced—\n\n\"1. Of the seriousness of the efforts of most officials, and of their belief that opium is bound to go, and that before long.\n\n\"2. Of the ability of the Chinese to cope with the tremendous difficulties of opium suppression. After another year like this, there will be little left.\n\n\"3. Of the reality of popular sentiment (sometimes combined with sore feeling), that it is best for themselves and the country at large, that opium growing and consuming should be entirely stamped out.\"\n\nI have quoted this letter in full so that the Chinese authorities may have every credit, if such credit is due; but I should like to point out that I have reports from...\n\n379",
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        "content_text": "12\n\nseveral of the districts regarding which Mr. Shorrock states that he has no information or no reliable evidence. Mr. W. Purdom, an English botanist now engaged in collecting in the province of Shansi, whom I met in Hsi-an Fu, and who arrived there the day before me after passing through the district of Han-cheng Hsien, told me that poppy was being freely and openly cultivated in the valleys in the north-west of that district, which he had visited. And as regards Ha Hsien to the south-west of Hsi-an Fu, of which Mr. Shorrock states, \"I cannot find that any opium has been seen in Hu Hsien,\" the following is an extract from a letter to me from Mr. Purdom, dated the 21st June, from the mountains to the south-west of Hsi-an Fu :—--\n\n\"Two days after you left Hsi-an Fu, my preparations were completed, and I started out for Tai-pei-shan along the south side of the river (Wei) towards Hu Hsien (a dirty filthy place). Just 30 li out from Hsi-an Fu, poppy was met with in patches between the grain crops, but after 60 li and onwards, nearly three parts of the valley from the Wei Ho to the Ching-ling range of mountains was taken up with it. The people appeared quite callous to any restrictions put on the quantity grown, and, if it is a fact that now a large portion of the ground is taken up in growing food stuffs, it is certainly difficult to understand how the people lived before. Nearly every man smokes opium and, worse than that, quite a large number of the women folk are addicted to the habit.\"\n\nMr. Shorrock mentions the difficulty he experienced in obtaining reliable information regarding the country between Yu-lin Fu in the north of Shensi and Hsi-an Fu; but as I covered nearly all the ground between these two cities, I have been able to supply the necessary details, and I have also been able to give the conditions prevailing in Feng-hsiang Fu, from which he had received no report, as I passed through that prefecture on my way to Kansu, the province with which I shall now deal.\n\nKANSU.\n\nFrom the department of Lung Chou, in Shensi, I crossed the mountainous country which divides that province from Kansu, and entered the district of Ching-shui Hsien, and the following is the result of my observations along the road as far as Lanchou Fu, the capital of Kansu :-\n\n  \n    Name of district or department\n    Number of Poppy Fields\n  \n  \n    Ching-shui Hsien\n    0\n  \n  \n    Chin Chou\n    31\n  \n  \n    Fo-chiang Hsien\n    802\n  \n  \n    Ning-yüan\n    63\n  \n  \n    Lung-hei\n    5\n  \n  \n    Wei-yuan\n    7\n  \n  \n    Ti-tao Chou\n    7\n  \n  \n    (Kung-ch'ang Fu)\n    180\n  \n  \n    Sha-ni (Fen) Chou\n    595\n  \n  \n    Kao-lan Hsien\n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n  \n\n13\n\n  \n    \n    77\n  \n  \n    Name of district or department\n    Number of Poppy Fields\n  \n  \n    Kao-lan Hsien\n    352\n  \n  \n    Chin An-ting\n    724\n  \n  \n    Hoi-ning\n    28\n  \n  \n    Ching-ning Chou\n    29\n  \n  \n    Lungte Hsien\n    4\n  \n  \n    Ku-yüan Chou\n    0\n  \n  \n    Ping-liang Hsien\n    27\n  \n  \n    Ching Chou\n    866\n  \n  \n    Total\n    2,086\n  \n  \n    6\n    \n  \n\nAt Lanchou I had two interviews with his Excellency Chang-keng, Viceroy or Governor-General of the province of Shensi and Kansu, who informed me that the cultivation of the poppy in Kansu had been reduced to about 40 per cent. during the year, the first year that the reduction had been seriously taken in hand, and that it would be entirely eradicated in 1911. I casually remarked to his Excellency that on the day of my arrival at Lanchou I had counted 180 fields of poppy alongside the road within 10 miles of his capital, and that there were probably more which had escaped my observation. He was somewhat perturbed at my statement, and the fact that I was asked to say where I had seen the poppy growing in greatest profusion clearly showed that his Excellency was personally ignorant of the extent of the cultivation, and Peng Taotai, who is the Viceroy's trusted adviser, and was present at both interviews, was no less astonished when I told him that there were plots of poppy in full flower just outside the south wall of the city. They would probably have been still more perturbed and astonished had they accompanied me back to Shensi along the main road to Hsi-an Fu.\n\nFrom Lanchou Fu I returned to Shensi by the high-road, which runs east by south to the district of Chang-wu Hsien within the Shensi border. I did not expect to find so much poppy as I had met with along the road in the Wei River valley; but it was even more prominent, as the following figures show :-\n\nMr. O. R. Coales, of His Majesty's Consular Service in China, who undertook to report on poppy cultivation and opium production in the province of Kansu to the west of Lanchou, wrote to me from that city on the 30th July as follows:-\n\n\"The first districts I passed through in Kansu were Wen Hsien and Chieh Chou, but the town of Wen Hsien itself I did not visit. The winter crops throughout had been harvested, and I was unable to find out whether opium had been grown. All enquiries met with a stout denial, not only on the ground of the prohibition, but also of the poverty of the soil. I nevertheless did find the heads of poppies on the road, though I saw no plants growing. The missionary at Min Chou told me that by hearsay he learnt a considerable quantity had been grown in these districts, and that the At Pik'ou prohibition had certainly not been as strictly enforced as at Min Chou. Just on the Szechuan border, raw opium was selling for 1,200 cash an ounce, while boiled opium, no doubt of an inferior quality, fetched 800-900 cash for the same quantity. The sub-magistrate of Pik'ou maintained that no opium at all had been grown this year in the Wen Hsien district to which it belongs, but as above stated, I do not believe this to be correct. There appears to be no regulation of the sale of the drug in this district or in any of the places I traversed between here and Lanchou, but the opium dens are supposed to have been closed.\n\nAt Chieh Chou (locally Kai Chou) I saw the magistrate who asserted the poppy had been completely eradicated in his jurisdiction, the soil of which he said was poor and not fit for opium cultivation. The latter is true of some parts where rainfall is small, but other parts are very fertile. There are no licensed shops nor a refuge, but anti-opium medicines sent down from Lanchou are distributed free. The dens have been closed. This magistrate had issued in the spring a proclamation to the effect that all poppy seed was to be delivered up to him, in exchange for which good sowing grain would be distributed free of charge. He said this had been done, but outside ... The magistrate also mentioned that the enquiries did not confirm his statement. import and export of opium into the province having been prohibited, the branch of the Hupeh Government opium li-kin office in Chieh Chou had been closed. Deputies from the Ch'in Chou taotai had visited the Chieh Chou and Wen Hsien districts at intervals investigating opium cultivation,\n\n\"After Chieh Chou the road ascends to the high country separating the Yang-tsze and Yellow River basins crossing the water-parting 10 miles before Min Chou at 9,000 feet above sea-level. In these parts only one crop is harvested in the year, and my visit coincided with the poppy season. My route here was to Min Chou (7,000 feet), thence two days west up the Tao River to Tao Chou (9,000 feet), thence three days over high country to Ti-tao Chou (6,000 feet). During the eight days before reaching the latter place, though traversing much fertile country suitable for opium, I did not see more than a score of fields of poppy. These were mostly in fields adjoining houses, and I was given to understand by the missionary at Ti-tao that the villagers had sometimes been allowed to cultivate a small patch for local consumption.\n\npoppy\n\n\"Of the Min Chou magistrate's action I received the most favourable reports from the American missionary at that city. He has himself personally supervised the measures for suppressing cultivation of the poppy. The campaign in Kansu seems not to have started till this spring, when the seed was already in the ground. When land-orders came the magistrate himself went out into the country and had all ... which is easily recognised even when the seeds have not sprouted-ploughed up, lending a hand himself occasionally. In consequence of his really energetic action, it is estimated that the area under poppy has been reduced to less than 10 per cent; his own estimate\n\nE [2980 c-8]\n\n380",
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        "content_text": "14\n\nis 2 per cent. of last year's area. His campaign having taken place in the spring, the farmers were unable to put anything into the ground except potatoes and beans, of which there will this year no doubt be a record harvest. The old poppy fields are easily distinguished by the stray poppies showing here and there.\n\nThe Tao Chou district is too elevated for the opium poppy and is mainly inhabited by Thibetans, so that little opium has ever been grown there. I only saw one field which had not yet come into flower.\n\n\"In the Ti-tao and Ho Chou districts, the American missionary at the former town told me, the enforcement of the prohibition had been as strict as at Min Chou, very little opium being overlooked in either district. In former years these three were among the chief opium-producing districts of Kansu. In the two days crossing the Ti-tao district I saw not more than a dozen fields, though in many fields of beans and tobacco stray plants were carefully preserved.\n\n\"In Min Chou and Tao Chou the price of raw opium was from 900 to 1,000 cash an ounce. The sale was not officially licensed, but dens were supposed to have been closed. T'ai Chou being inhabited mainly by Mahommedans, the drug is not much smoked there; but in Min Chon and in the Chinese villages I was told the habit is universal, and the poorer members of the community are suffering severely from being unable to satisfy their craving.\n\n\"The remainder of my route has been traversed by Sir A. Hosie and reported on by him. He will no doubt have noticed the large quantity of poppy growing in the Kao-lan Hsien district. I saw many times as much there as all I had seen previously put together.\n\n\"In the western part of Kao-lan Hsien district which I traversed the first day, I did not see any opium poppy, and I think it had all been cut down, the harvest being completed. Crossing the Yellow River at Hsin-ch'eng I followed the Si-ning River for the next two days as far as its junction with the Ta-tung River, up which I then went as far as Yao-kai. The whole of this journey was through the P'ing-fan district, which belongs to Liang-chou prefecture. In the lower parts the opium harvest was over, and the poppies had been cut down and removed, but the large stacks of poppy stalks in almost every courtyard were evidence that the plant had been extensively cultivated. Round Yao-kai I saw many fields—quite one-sixth of the irrigated land—covered with poppy in full bloom. The poppy, requiring a rich soil, is only cultivated here in the irrigated district, and therefore the total amount grown here cannot be very great. An intelligent Chinese I talked with on the subject told me that the proportion of poppy ground to other crops was in former years four-tenths of the irrigated land. The usual proclamation had been issued in Ping-fan but not enforced, and the bolder farmers had sown poppy and allowed it to remain when ordered to pull it up. He estimated the crop in Ping-fan district at one-tenth the normal, but I think this is an exceedingly low figure, and I should say a third of the normal amount would not be too large. The opium dealers were offering this year 300 to 400 cash per tael for the new season's crops. This is about the same as last year's price, for the opium edicts had then already caused a great increase in the price of the drug. As the year advances the raw opium becomes dryer and more concentrated, so that for last season's opium the price is now 700 cash an ounce. The price of this year's opium is likely to rise to the same figure as it matures. The suppression of poppy cultivation appears to have been carried out very perfunctorily in the Ping-fan district and, I am told, throughout the Liang-chou prefecture. It is unfortunate I was not able to visit the latter city, but my previous arrangements did not allow it.\n\nThe campaign against the drug has been energetically proceeded with in the Si-ning prefecture, and cultivation almost entirely suppressed. Owing to the generally elevated and mountainous character of the country, the lowest parts being about 6,000 feet above sea level, the cultivation of the poppy is possible only in restricted districts along the river valleys, and even there was not as prevalent as in other parts of the province. The opium edicts already caused a reduction of the area under poppy in 1909, and this year the cultivation of the plant was completely stopped in the Si-ning district. In the Nien-pei and Ta-t'ung districts the prohibition was enforced with equal severity, although I saw an occasional field of poppy in the former, and I think the authorities throughout the Si-ning prefecture may be credited with carrying out the Imperial commands with exceptional thoroughness. The Kuei-te and Hsun-hua districts on the Yellow River, mainly inhabited by Thibetans, have never produced opium in considerable quantities. Dan-gar Ting is too elevated for its cultivation.\n\n\"In Si-ning the price of raw opium is now about 900 cash the ounce, that of prepared opium, 1,150 cash. Similar prices prevail at Ta-tung Hsien. An official bureau for the sale of opium and opium antidotes was opened at Si-ning some two years ago, but has since been closed, and there is now no restriction on trade in the drug, nor are there any facilities for curing the opium habit. Opium dens have never existed in the city.\n\n\"The proportion of opium smokers among the Chinese population of the prefecture is estimated at over 50 per cent. The Mahommedans, Thibetans, and Mongols are not addicted to the habit, and not more than 1 per cent. of the former are thought to be opium smokers.'\n\nAs in the case of Shensi, the annual production of opium in Kansu previous to 1908 and since that year is an unknown quantity. There have been many estimates, the latest, and probably the most unreliable, based on Customs reports, being that presented to the Shanghai International Opium Commission, and given as 23,000 piculs for 1908. It was on this estimate that the production of Kansu in 1906 was arbitrarily increased to 34,000 piculs, although it is now well known that no measures of repression were introduced until 1909, and, indeed, no effective measures up to the present time.\n\nIn his telegraphic reply to the Wai-wu Pu, quoted in the \"Peking Daily News\" of the 7th September, the Viceroy of Shensi and Kansu states \"that poppy was cultivated on a large scale in Kansu, and that there were numerous persons addicted to the opium-smoking habit. As the result of the crusade against opium last year, out of 168,500 mou of land in 1908, 77,300 were free from the poppy plant. At the beginning of this year only about 20,000 mou still remained under cultivation of the poppy. Commissioners were sent out to take concerted action with the local officials in persuading opium cultivators to turn their lands into grain fields, with the result that only about 2,000 mou of poppy fields have not as yet been totally converted. In the provincial capital there used to be six opium shops, but they have now been closed. In the 139 refuges, out of 234,600 opium smokers, 130,000 have been cured of the habit. This can have only one meaning, namely, that there were only 2,000 mou of land in Kansu under poppy in 1910, and all I can say is that in districts like Fo-chiang, Chin Hsien, or Ping-liang Hsien I passed in one day along the high-road hundreds of poppy fields, amounting in the aggregate to many thousands of mou. That the mou, fixed by treaty at 7334 square yards, varies in extent with the provinces, but no variation, however great, can justify the statement that the land under poppy cultivation in Kansu in 1910 amounted to only 2,000 mou, which, taking the Governor of Shansi's estimate of 40 Chinese ounces as the yield of opium per mou, would give the production of opium in Kansu for 1910 as 50 piculs!\n\nIt is true\n\nAlong the roads which I followed I observed few if any signs of interference with the poppy fields; in the Fochiang district there was an immense increase as compared with 1909, the Chin Hsien district was full of it, and the poppy was actually in full bloom within the walls of the city of Ping-liang Fu.\n\nI am very much inclined to doubt any statements regarding poppy cultivation in China unless they are based on personal observation and investigation; but it is only fair that I should quote some notes on the subject which have been kindly furnished at my request by three missionaries in Kansu.\n\nMr. E. J. Mann, of the China Inland Mission, writing to me from Fo-chiang Hsien on the 5th July, says\n\nOn the afternoon you left this city (the 28th June) we had a terrible hailstorm, I hope you were not caught in it. I think it was more or less local. It seemed heaviest on the south hills where I told you so much opium was being grown. Quite a lot was badly injured. One plot of 40 shang (100 mou) was sold for 600 taels and was almost entirely destroyed. What was not destroyed is still a huge crop.\n\nI don't know if\n\nyou were able to get a view of the poppy being grown on the north of the river. My man reported that from the hill it looked one white flower-garden. And by all accounts there is a large crop being grown there. To the east of the city—15 li away—the ploughing craze did not affect the crop, and in one village there is reported to be only four plots of grain.\n\n\"There are still no merchants here and the price of raw opium is falling. At present it is 220 to 330 for different qualities. Small buyers are losing money fast, for all expected a quick rise in prices and many small merchants have invested their money in standing opium. I met the Roman Catholic priest recently and enquired of him as to opium in south of the province. He informed me that Huei Hsien and Cheng Hsien have very heavy crops, much more than other years. At Li Hsien, a city next south of us, the opium is more or less cleared from the plain around the city, but he says there is much being grown in the hills.\n\n15\n\n[2980 c-8]\n\nF\n\n381",
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        "content_text": "\"I have made enquiries about the customs of the opium office. All weighing of opium must be done at the office at a charge of 8 cash per ounce—5 cash paid by the buyer and 3 cash by the seller. The underlings scrape the basin for their share, except in the case of big buyers, who bribe them to keep the scale as high as possible. Besides the scale money, there is a small tax of 8 cash per ounce on all opium sold for local use and 300 taels a mule-load for all opium exported to Shensi or beyond.\n\n\"When here you asked me what time I thought would be needed to stop all growth. The general verdict among the Chinese is for immediate and final suppression. They say to grow a little means to grow a lot and to favour a few is unfair to the many. Everyone seems unanimous in the opinion that with early and drastic measures there will not be one blade next year. If the eighth-month opium is allowed to be sown the danger is great and the evil should be suppressed before that time. To beat the first man who is caught sowing would be sufficient and the places where eighth-month opium is sown are well known. One more thing to hasten the end, and a great step in the eye of the Chinese, is the closing of the opium office. That is almost essential to success. The Chinese think the officials are not really in earnest so long as they make profit themselves out of the drug.\"\n\nMr. George Andrew, of the China Inland Mission at Lanchou, has furnished me with the following notes dated the 7th July, 1910, on opium growing in Kansu:-\n\n\"In past years large quantities have been grown in Lanchou district, on the east and south-east, on the Hsi-an road. In the Ti-tao Valley. Along the Wei Valley, especially at Kung-ch'ang Fu. In the Ping-fan Valley. In the Liang Chou district. Also in the Ning-hsia district. Near Tsin Chou.\n\nComparatively little has been grown in the Si-ning Valley.\n\n\"This year in the spring I went to Ning-hsia. From there to Liang Chou. And then returned to Lanchou.\n\n\"In each district strongly worded proclamations prohibiting opium growing were issued.\n\n\"At Ning-hsia Fu the Ning-so magistrate went out personally to see that the proclamations were obeyed. He was beaten by the villagers, and fled to the Manchu city for refuge. The leader of the assailants was caught and executed.\n\n\"The Ning-hsia magistrate [prefect] also went out into the surrounding district to investigate.\n\n\"However, the opium is still growing some distance away from the city. And, 100 li away, the farmers pulled down a bridge over a river in order to prevent the officials coming into their neighbourhood. I cannot tell what percentage of the usual crop is being grown. It must be a small one, for I did not see any along the Ning-hsia valley. Near Chung-wei Hsien, however, at Sa-po-ti (\"Foot of the Sandhills\"), I saw a small quantity. Also at Chang-liu-shui (\"Long-flowing Water\") I saw a number of small fields growing it.\n\n\"At, and east of and north of Liang-chou Fu I did not see any opium growing. And the farmers, in spite of strongly worded proclamations and occasional demonstrations of horse soldiers, refuse to destroy it. But there is some growing in the east district.\n\nBefore the yamêns of the intendant of circuit, prefect, and magistrate wooden cages were placed in which to put refractory farmers, but whether they have been used or not I cannot say.\n\nPage 24\n\nHowever, I should think that 75 per cent. less opium is being grown this year compared with last year.\n\n\"At Ping-fan I did not see any growing, and feel certain that 75 per cent. less opium is being cultivated there.\n\n\"Near Lanchou, in the face of the stringent proclamations issued by the Viceroy and other high provincial officials, the farmers sowed opium just as usual. In the spring the officials insisted on its being uprooted, and in order to further this work the prefect and the magistrate went out along the Hsi-an road.\n\nAt Chin-chia-ai, 60 li from the city, the prefect was badly beaten by the farmers. One of the leaders has been executed for this offence.\n\n\"A large quantity of the poppy was pulled up. But on going along that road in June I found that, 20 li away from the city, there were two fields of opium; 30 to 40 li from the city nearly all the opium growing near the road, and which could be seen from it, had been plucked up. But a number of other fields had not been touched. From 50 to 70 li, I would say that 70 per cent. of the opium had been uprooted. Beyond that a large quantity remains. I am told that only one-tenth has been plucked up.\n\n\"We saw the poppy growing in a few fields on the north side of the Yellow River, 30 and 40 li from the city.\n\nAnd, just near the city, away from the road, a little opium is still growing.\n\n\"The officials are now calling on the village elders to guarantee that opium shall not be grown near their villages in future.\n\nPage L\n\nOn the whole I am surprised and gladdened that the officials have been able to stop the poppy growth to the extent they have, as seen in my journey from Lanchou to Ning-hsia, Liang Chou, and return.\n\n\"I saw in a day's journey from Lanchou along the Hsi-an road from fifty to seventy times more poppy growing than I did in all the journey round Ning-hsia, &c.\n\n\"Here the officials have made a beginning, and though the work has not been done thoroughly, yet one trusts that more will be done in the following years.\n\n'Among other drawbacks is this one: where officials and where official underlings smoke, there is an added temptation to deal with this matter in a lax way.\"\n\nDr. D. A. Gordon Hardling, also of the China Inland Mission at Ch'in Chou, writing on the 19th July, 1910, says:-\n\n\"I was sorry to miss you when you passed through recently, but on my return from the country a few days after your visit I found your letter of the 27th June awaiting me. I was not sure of catching you in Lanchou, so am sending this letter to Hsi-an, and have waited the return of my two colporteurs, so as to be able to send you the latest news.\n\nAs far as I have seen and heard, the poppy has practically gone from Tsinchow (Ch'in Chou), Tsin-an (Ch'in-an), Tsin-shui (Ching-shui), Hsi-ho, and Li Hsien, though I have seen a little on the borders of Tsin-an, Tsin-shui, and Hsi-ho.\n\nIn regard to the last named place, the district official and the kung-chang chih-fu went to one market-place on the border to have the opium pulled up, but could not proceed, as the people had gathered determined to beat them, and sent a message to the officials that they would willingly uproot their growing plants if the people of the next district would do the same. The cause of this growing on the borders of districts is that the yamên underlings, having been bribed, deceive the magistrate, and, should he appear in person to examine, declare the land in question to be in the neighbouring district.\n\n\"At Cheng Hsien, the growing of the poppy has never been prohibited, with the result that the whole district is covered. At Huei Hsien (Hui Hsien) it has been pulled up in the immediate neighbourhood of the city, whilst beyond a radius of, say, 10 li it is freely grown as in former years.\n\nLL\n\nThese places cover the whole of south-east Kansu, as there is none grown in the hilly parts of Chieh Chou, Uen-hsien (Weu Hsien), and Liang-tang Hsien.\n\n\"In the spring of this year a great deal was growing in all the afore-mentioned places, with the exception of Hsi-ho Hsien, so that you will see that it has been very largely uprooted.\n\n\"My personal opinion, and the general opinion of the Chinese themselves, is that it is quite possible to get rid of the opium if it is done right away at one sweep. Any dilly-dally policy will only lead to a constant repetition of the objection raised on the Cheng Hsien and Hsi-ho border districts, and no doubt terminate in riot and bloodshed.\n\nI add that whilst I was on this last visit to Hsi-ho the district magistrate forbade the sale of opium, though it is needless to say the sale has been carried on illicitly.\n\nmay\n\n\"The Lanchou officials have just asked the local official for the taxes on the opium-sown land at the rate of one-fifth of the old rate.\n\n\"The old tax was 6,000 taels. This year, of course, he could not collect of the farmers, so he has called in the opium merchants, and they will pay this 1,200 taels.\"\n\nThe letters quoted above go to show that, while in some districts in the province of Kansu, energetic steps have been taken to diminish poppy cultivation, in others official instructions have been disregarded, officials engaged in the work of suppression have been resisted and beaten, and in several districts there has been considerable increase of production.\n\nPage 382",
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        "content_text": "When the director-general has memorialised and obtained the Imperial edict handing the matter over to the Board of Finance for approval, the final agreement can be signed. If the Board of Finance should have any emendations to make, then another arrangement should be discussed. This is clearly understood.\n\nSigned by the deputies appointed by his Excellency the Grand Secretary Chang Chih-tung, director-general of the Canton-Hankow Railway and of the Hupei section of the Szechuan-Hankow Railway, duly authorised by Imperial decree.\n\nKAO LING-WEI, Commissioner of Education, Hupei. TSENG KUANG-JUNG, Taotai of Shik Ho, Hupei.\n\nE. G. HILLIER, Manager of Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.\n\nCASENAVE, Manager of Banque de l'Indo-Chine.\n\nH. CORDES, Manager of Deutsch Asiatische Bank.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[November 5.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n[39302]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Sir F. Bertie.*\n\n(No. 391.) (Telegraphic.) R. CHINA loans.\n\nForeign Office, November 5, 1910.\n\nA meeting is to be held here on the 8th instant between the four groups, for the purpose of coming to a general agreement in regard to all future Chinese business. We are given to understand that French (German) financiers will not be permitted to sign this unless American group undertake to insist vis-à-vis the Chinese that the final contract for the loan of 10,000,000l. now under discussion (see recent telegraphic sections) shall be signed by all four groups.\n\nWe think it would be a mistake not to sign general agreement, as, though we are entirely in favour of signature of 10,000,000l. loan by all groups, we think we should be in a stronger position to press this if the general agreement were first concluded, as the latter stipulates that all parties should use their utmost endeavours to secure joint signature, &c.\n\nPlease urge these considerations on French (German) Government.\n\nMatter is somewhat urgent, as it is reported that final contract for American loan may be signed in next few days.\n\nA similar telegram is being sent to His Majesty's representative at Berlin (Paris). Draft of general agreement to be discussed on 8th November goes to-night.\n\n* Also to Sir E. Goschen (No. 115).\n\n[2982 -]\n\nPage 392\n\n \n-1\n\n392",
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        "content_text": "ISA\n\n3GPF!};!\n\ntolIMM x24 .D.W\n\n1\n\n(bergið)\n\nEnclosure in Mr. Max Miller's No. 390 of October 29, 1910.\n\nBANQUET TO THE GOVERNOR\n\nOF HONGKONG GIVEN BY CHINESE EDUCATED IN\n\nGREAT BRITAIN,\n\nA most interesting and successful dinner took place last Saturday, when the Chinese returned students educated in Great Britain assembled at the Students' Club to welcome Sir Frederick Lugard, the Governor of Hongkong, on his visit to Peking. The spacious courtyards were brilliantly lighted with arc lamps, whilst innumerable Chinese lanterns hung from the different verandahs and passages. The dining room was beautifully decorated with large pots of chrysanthemums, now in full bloom, and on the walls, the Union Jack and Dragon flags floated prominently. Captain Tan Hsiao heng, Vice-President of the Admiralty, received the guests in the sumptuously furnished drawing-room.\n\nThe guests invited, besides Sir Frederick Lugard, were Mr. Max Muller (Chargé d'Affaires); Lieut-Colonel Willoughby; Sir Alexander Hosie; Captain J. C. Hart, R.A.M.C.; the Hon. E. S. Scott; Messrs. H. H. Fox, H. Phillips, and W. P. Frazer; Rev. F. L. Norris; Captain D. Pudsey; Dr. Gray, of the British Legation; Lord ffrench; Mr. D. D. Braham (Assistant Foreign Editor, London Times); A. E. Wearne; Dr. T. G. Gibb, Mr. F. R. C. S. The Chinese guests present were - H. E. Chang Teh-yi (sometime Minister to Great Britain), H. E. Hu Wei-teh (Senior Vice President), H. E. Tsao Ju-lin (Junior Vice President), H. E. Saoke Alfred Sze (Deputy Vice-President) and Dr. W. W. Yen, all of the Wai-wu Pu. The military officers were in brilliant uniforms.\n\nH. E. Tan Hsiao heng took the chair; on his right was Sir Frederick Lugard and on his left H.E. Chang. Opposite him sat H. E. Yen Fu, as the senior member. On November 7, 1910, the party, Mr. Max Muller being on his right and Sir Alexander Hosie on his left. Altogether fifty-one sat down to dinner, the catering being in the hands of the Hotel des Wagons Lits.\n\nH. E. Tan first proposed the toast of their Majesties the Emperor of China and the King of England, and then, in welcoming Sir Frederick Lugard, made the following speech.\n\nHe said: As chairman this evening of the party of those who have been educated in Great Britain, I rise to propose the health of Sir Frederick Lugard. It is a long time now since I last had to make a speech in English, so I fear I cannot do enough justice to our distinguished guest and his excellent scheme for establishing a university in Hongkong. Sir Frederick's name is not new to us. As far back as thirty years ago, he had already fought wars in Afghanistan where he won honors. Later on, he fought battles in the Soudan, in Burmah, in West Africa, and in Central Africa, and at all these places his name was mentioned in dispatches. He was then appointed High Commissioner of Northern Nigeria, where he stayed for six years before he became Governor of Hongkong. As Commander-in-Chief of the latter place, he first brought out his proposal for the establishment of a modern university, mainly for Chinese - a proposal which has endeared him and the great country he represents to all of us (loud cheers). Now, gentlemen, I would ask you for permission to introduce to you my friend, Dr. Wu, who will finish the rest of what I have to say regarding the University of Hongkong (cheers).\n\n422\n\nC O\n\n36073\n\n25 IN 10!",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nC O\n\n483\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[40975]\n\n37666\n\nREC?\n\nRef 9 DEC 10\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[November 10.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 10.)\n\n(No. 376. Confidential.) Sir,\n\nPeking, October 26, 1910.\n\nWITH reference to Sir John Jordan's despatch No. 488 of the 28th December last, I have the honour to transmit herewith Copy of a further despatch from His Majesty's consul-general at Hankow on the subject of Japanese financial activity in his district.\n\nIt would appear that the position of some of the chief native enterprises is becoming seriously compromised to the Yokohama Specie Bank and other Japanese financial houses who are by repeated advances also obtaining a considerable hold over the provincial government finances. Though Mr. Fraser points out that, contrary to the usual practice of foreign banks in the past, the Japanese advances are unaccompanied by demands for Imperial or even Government sanction, it is hardly to be expected that the fact will suffice to enable the Chinese Government to save the native enterprises from passing under Japanese control unless they are prepared to pay off loans raised in defiance of Chinese law, or to prevent Japan from exacting substantial concessions should funds not be forthcoming for the timely repayment of the provincial loan bonds.\n\nIn my despatch No. 368 of the 18th instant, I referred to the indebtedness of the Han Yeh Ping Company to Japanese finances and expressed the hope that the British and Chinese Corporation would be able to come to some arrangement with this, the most important industrial undertaking in the Yang-tzse Valley, which might prevent it from falling entirely into Japanese hands.\n\nI venture to call your attention to the view expressed in the last paragraph of Mr. Fraser's despatch, that so long as the Railway Loan Agreement remains unexecuted there is a risk of combination between the native association and the Japanese financiers and large firms to build the Hupeh railways west and south of Hankow nominally with Chinese subscriptions, but really with the aid of such construction contracts as the Japanese were eager to undertake in 1907.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Fraser to Mr. Max Müller.\n\n(No. 100. Confidential.)\n\nHankow, October 17, 1910. Sir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to beg attention to the activity of the Yokohama Specie Bank and other Japanese institutions in the matter of financial aid to native enterprises in this district, instances of which have been mentioned incidentally in my despatches and letters.\n\nThus, when the late Grand Secretary Chang was called to Peking, it was from references in the Japanese Bank that enabled him to balance his accounts. From the native press it would seem that his Excellency's indebtedness has been taken over by some of his former subordinates, although it is also stated that the Throne declined to press the strict investigation of his deficit. From the remark of a Chinese official, I surmise that the so-called Belgian concession just above the Gare Fluviale stands pledged to the Japanese Bank which enabled his Excellency to find the redemption price.\n\nThe same bank is wont to discount the notes issued by the provincial treasurer, although recently the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank has been vainly approached.\n\nMr. V. K. Lee, of the Hanyang Ironworks, tells me that his company owes 3,000,000 yen to the Yokohama Specie Bank and 1,000,000 yen to Messrs. Okura and Co.; these loans being, I believe, independent of an advance of 1,200,000 yen for a\n\n[2982 -2]",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nfor putting matters on a proper footing. In reply to a request for instructions, Sir John Jordan informed Mr. Major that he considered it most undesirable to move in the matter if it could be avoided. This brief digression is necessary in order to explain that, should the Chinese authorities succeed in making good their objections to foreigners residing in Mokanshan, Dr. Main's case may be seriously prejudiced.\n\nNothing more was heard of either question until last July, when I received a telegram from Mr. Savage, His Majesty's consul at Hangchow, stating that the governor was pressing for a settlement. I authorised Mr. Savage to repeat that the question of Dr. Main's house could not be discussed until his return, and as regards Mokanshan I replied that the matter concerned other nationalities besides British, and that, if it were raised, it would probably have to be dealt with by the consular body at Shanghai in consultation with representatives of the Mokanshan residents.\n\nAt the beginning of this month His Majesty's consul received a verbal message, which was subsequently confirmed by a despatch, from the commissioner of foreign affairs, stating that unless he was prepared to discuss Dr. Main's land case within a fortnight the local authorities could not guarantee protection in case of a popular outbreak nor prohibit the destruction of Dr. Main's boundary wall and the erection of boundaries by the Chien Chang clan. Mr. Savage's despatch No. 14 of the 7th October, of which the copy is enclosed,* will show that, in his opinion, the danger of trouble is remote, provided the local authorities do their duty. Under my instructions His Majesty's consul has informed the governor that he and the foreign affairs commissioner will be held personally responsible in case of damage to Dr. Main's property. I have the honour to transmit herewith the copy of his despatch enclosing the copy of his letter to the governor. I regarded the threatening tone used by the local authorities to His Majesty's consul as highly improper, and I have protested strongly against it. I have informed the Wai-wu Pu that not only the provincial authorities, but the Chinese Government will be held responsible if any harm is done to British subjects or their property. If any strong anti-foreign feeling exists in this case, which I much doubt, it is due to the connivance, if not the encouragement, of the local officials, and the plea that they are unable to cope with the situation cannot be tolerated. At the same time I consider that Dr. Main should be made aware of the state of affairs, and I have requested Mr. Savage to communicate with him and ascertain when he may be expected to return to China.\n\n*\n\nI enclose the copies of correspondence which has recently passed between His Majesty's Legation and the Wai-wu Pu on the subject.*\n\nAs I have before said, I am not inclined to attach much importance to the threats of the possible employment of violence in the present case, but Hangchow, and indeed the whole province of Chekiang, have always been a centre of anti-foreign agitation, and that outbreaks and disturbances involving danger to foreign lives and property are at any time, and on any pretext possible in Hangchow, was made clear by the events that occurred there in spring and early summer. I still hold that there, as in other parts of China, a really determined attitude on the part of the authorities is sufficient to hold any possible disturbances in check, but in Chekiang neither the governor nor the other high provincial officials inspire me with any confidence, and that is the reason why I have on every occasion thought it necessary to draw the attention of the central Government to the slightest threatening of any disturbance in Hangchow which might involve British interests.\n\nAs far as my reports from other parts of China go the spirit of violent unrest, whether revolutionary or anti-foreign, which was noticeable in the other part of the year, and which, as may have been seen from my despatches, caused me at the time no small amount of anxiety, appears for the time being at all events to have been lulled to rest.\n\nTwo factors appear to me principally responsible for the betterment in the state of affairs from that which marked the beginning of this year in many provinces in the Empire; one is the plenteous harvest which is reported from nearly all districts; with the exception of the northern portion of Kiangsi and Anhui, where great want exists owing to floods, and the other is the improved tone of the native press.\n\nWith regard to the latter point I would say that though, as far as I can judge from the extracts furnished to me, there is no diminution in the denunciation of existing abuses or the urgent demands for reform, the general tone is less revolutionary and anti-dynastic, and though the privileges and supposed encroachments of foreigners are universally attacked, the incitements to anti-foreign outrages are certainly fewer.\n\nI enclose a translation of an article from a Peking native paper* which forms a noticeable exception to the above statement and to which I drew the attention of the Wai-wu Pu as soon as it was brought to my notice.\n\nA telegram from New York recently published in the papers here reported that the State Department at Washington had received telegraphic information from the American Minister here to the effect that disturbances similar to the Boxer troubles might be expected at any moment in various parts of the Empire, and that the United States Far Eastern squadron have received orders to be in readiness to protect American interests, bore on its face evidence of exaggeration if not invention, and Mr. Calhoun immediately published an official denial of its accuracy.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n* Not printed.\n\nIn\n\nW. 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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG.\n\n## No. 10 of 1911.\n\n**An Ordinance for the incorporation and regulation of the University of Hongkong.**\n\n**LS**\n\n**F. D. LUGARD, Governor.**\n\n[30th March, 1911.]\n\nWHEREAS it is desirable to establish an University within the Colony of Hongkong for the promotion of Arts, Science and Learning, the provision of higher education, the conferring of degrees, the development and formation of the character of students of all races, nationalities and creeds, and the maintenance of the good understanding with the neighbouring Empire of China:\n\nAND WHEREAS through the liberality and munificence of Sir Hormusjee Nowrojce Mody suitable buildings for an University are in course of erection upon certain Crown Land in the Colony which His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to grant for that purpose, AND WHEREAS many firms and individuals of British, Chinese and other nationalities have generously subscribed funds for the equipment and endowment of such University:\n\nAND WHEREAS it is desirable to incorporate the University and to provide for its regulation:\n\nAND WHEREAS the Hongkong College of Medicine (incorporated under `Ordinance No. 2 of 1907`) has agreed to become incorporated with the University of Hongkong constituted by this Ordinance.\n\nBE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Governor of Hongkong, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:\n\n### 1. Constitution.\n\nThere shall be established in the Colony of Hongkong an University with the name and style of \"**The University of Hongkong**\", by which name the Chancellor and other Members of the University for the time being are hereby constituted one body politic and corporate with perpetual succession and a Common Seal, and with full power by and in such name to sue and be sued, and without any further licence to take by gift or otherwise, purchase and hold, grant, demise or otherwise dispose of real or personal estate and with the other powers conferred by this Ordinance or by any Statute or Regulation made thereunder.\n\n### 2. Visitor and Patrons.\n\n(1.) Should His Majesty the King himself deign to become a Visitor of the University or to appoint a member of the Royal Family in that behalf, His Majesty or such member of the Royal family shall forthwith become a Visitor as aforesaid and shall exercise such powers of supervision as may seem good to him.\n\n(2.) The Governor of Hongkong and Chang Jen-Chun, lately Governor General of the Liang Kuang provinces, shall be Patrons of the University. Additional Patrons may be appointed on the recommendation of the Court approved by the Governor-in-Council.\n\n## Page 207",
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        "content_text": "## Government House, Hongkong, 22nd April, 1911\n\nOn the 24th ultimo I paid my official visit to His Excellency the Governor of the Two Kwong Provinces at Canton (Chang Ming Chi) who has recently been appointed to the Viceroyalty and who called on me on 3rd January last, while en route to take up his appointment. I took the opportunity of inviting a more practical co-operation than has hitherto existed in the suppression of crime, and suggested that His Excellency should send a responsible official to Hongkong to concert with the Captain Superintendent of Police and Registrar-General detailed measures to this end. His Excellency cordially agreed and promised to send a high official, and I am in hopes that with a practical and progressive Viceroy such as His Excellency Chang appears to be, some useful result may be obtained. The Canton Government has been in the habit of sending Secret Police or spies to Hongkong to ascertain the whereabouts of criminals.\n\nYou will see that it appears to say - viz that at any time since 1850 it has been the practice to extradite Chinese criminals on evidence satisfactory to the British consul in Canton \"without the necessity of a trial\". What is meant by \"that\" is the legal proceedings used in extradition cases - a surrendered criminal is of course not tried for the offence until he reaches the country to which he is surrendered, but there is always, in my opinion, a preliminary investigation in the country in which he is arrested in order to ensure that he shall be properly surrendered.\n\nThe cases of 1850 and 1871 provided for such investigation in Hongkong, and I am strongly opposed to any alteration of procedure which has been established in Hongkong for at least 60 years [and followed in some part of the British Empire].\n\nI will write to ... on these lines and to ..., calling their attention to Ordinance 20/1850 & 20/1870, and other cases as proposed.\n\n24/JJA/27/5\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 22nd April, 1911.\n\n...\n\nThe Right Honourable Lewis Harcourt, M.P.\n\nprevious ads 201, 1850 + 2 of 1871, No.150, b. Wei Han means, Honey is Koney\n\nNo other substantive text is available for reconstruction.\n\nPage 477 \n`CO 15766` \n`RECP`",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 2\n\nSir,\n\n**C O 27208** **No. 289**\n\nGovernment House, **HONGKONG**, 10th July, 1911.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of June 21st, transmitting a copy of yours to Sir E. Grey of June 17th, and I note with much regret that you take serious exception to my action in regard to certain recent negotiations which have taken place between myself and the Chinese Provincial Authorities at Canton. I trust that a somewhat fuller explanation of these matters will alter the views to which you give expression.\n\n2. I have during the last year had to deal with an unprecedented outbreak of crime in this Colony, of a very serious kind. Armed robberies accompanied by violence had become of constant, almost daily, occurrence both on land and water, many murders were committed, and burglaries and minor crimes were excessively frequent. One of the Chinese Members of the Legislative Council sought an interview with me and informed me that he had never known so bad a state of things during his long residence in the Colony. Every effort was made during 1910 to cope with this situation, but with no very marked success, since it is open to a criminal to at once escape to China, and he is probably in Canton before the crime is even reported to the Police.\n\n3. On January 3rd last, His Excellency Chang Ming Chi passed through Hongkong on his way to assume office as Viceroy.\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Minister, Peking.",
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        "content_text": "## Table: Lease Information\n\n| No. of Lot | Commencement Date of Lease | Name of Present Owner | Situation | Area in Sq.Ft. | Term of Lease |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 170 | 26. 6. 43 | Li Yuen Cheuk | Hillier Street and Jervois Street | 3,040 | M.L. |\n| 28B | 10. 9. 45 | Tsoi Lo Shi and another | Burd Street and Jervois Street | 1,444 |  |\n| 227 | 5. 11. 44 | John H. Seth (Receiver) | Circular Path, Queen's Road Central and Tsui On Lane | 6,640 | I.L. |\n| 9A | 20. 11. 44 |  |  | 12 |  |\n| 48 | 26. 6. 43 | Cheang Hong Wei and others | Queen's Road Central, Aberdeen Street and Wellington Street | 3,259 |  |\n|  | 23. 4. 44 | Ng Pak To | Circular Path, Queen's Road C., Hiller Street and U Hing Lane | 11,025 |  |\n| 115 | 9. 9. 44 |  |  |  |  |\n|  | 2. 3. 46 | Cheang Po Hing | Staunton Street and Shelley Street | 8,370 |  |\n| 1170 | 26. 6. 43 | Lau Kam Lin and others | Jervois Street and Queen's Road C. | 1,300 |  |\n| 122 | 10. 9. 45 |  |  |  |  |\n| 132 | 22. 1. 44 | Wong Yi Chung | Caine Road and Peel Street | 18,290 |  |\n| 132A | 31. 8. 44 |  |  |  |  |\n| 166B | 26. 4. 50 | Ho Chi Nam | Sai Street | 703 |  |\n|  | 23. 12. 46 | Ho Chi Nam | Sai Street | 703 |  |\n|  | 3. 2. 47 | Tang Ching | Lascar Row, Lower | 800 |  |\n\n75 years prior to 3rd March, 1849, which have been extended for a further period of 924 years (`Government Notification` of 3rd March, 1849).",
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        "content_text": "# Extract from 'Taun Wan Yat Po' of the 17th August 1911\n\n## Revenue from Goods carried by the Canton-Kowloon Railway\n\nAs there will be through communication on the Canton-Kowloon Railway in a short time, the Viceroy has recently ordered the establishment of the Goods Duty Department. Taotais Cheng Wing and Sah Fu-mau, and Prefect Lo Hok-mang have been ordered to discuss and make arrangements with the Provincial Treasurer and the Provincial Judge for its establishment. This has been already reported in a previous issue; and now we have heard that the Viceroy has proposed the following four questions for consideration, namely:\n\n1. Foreign and native goods conveyed between Hongkong and Canton have had to pay custom dues in the past and at present. These goods are also required to pay an additional half rate when conveyed to or from the interior. But on the Canton-Kowloon Railway, as carriage once it crosses the frontier from the British Territory, has entered the interior, if goods duties only are levied on the intervening stations and not the usual custom dues, the latter will be bound to suffer a deficit. The Commissioner of Kowloon Customs has proposed to establish branch Custom House in Shan Chun. What arrangements should be made to establish such a Branch House?\n\n2. The Kowloon Territory and the San On District are coterminous. The smuggling of goods by dishonest merchants, and of arms and ammunition by brigands, from the British Territory into the interior, can be effected with no difficulty. What measures should be adopted to guard against this?\n\n3. Freight rates on goods conveyed by railway are very high. According to what rate should duty be charged on goods conveyed by the Canton-Kowloon Railway so that it will not adversely affect either the \"likin\" or the railway revenue?\n\nPage 60\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "# THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1911\n\n## THE KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.\n\n### THROUGH CONNECTION ESTABLISHED. FORMAL OPENING OF THE CHINESE SECTION.\n\nOn the invitation of the Directorate General of the Chinese Imperial Railways, a number of guests from Hongkong and Canton assembled at Samchun yesterday to participate in the opening ceremony of the Chinese Section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway. The occasion was a memorable one, for it marked the connection of Hongkong and Canton by rail, and incidentally saw a material advancement in the scheme which aims at linking East and West with rails of steel.\n\nUnfortunately, His Excellency the Viceroy of Canton and His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong were unable to attend the opening ceremony. But there were many prominent men present, both from the Chinese capital and Hongkong. For a few days prior to the date fixed for the opening of the line, rumours were rife that the revolutionaries intended to make their presence felt at the ceremony, and the visitor yesterday was inclined to place some credence in those rumours when he witnessed a large number of braves assembled in the vicinity where the function was to take place. The station at Samchun, which was festooned with greenery, was also guarded by armed men, who were drawn up a number of paces apart on either side. Along the side of a hillock which overlooked the shed in which the tiffin was held, another guard of soldiers was entrenched, while other braves were posted around the doors of the shed.\n\nThe train from Canton, with its gorgeously decorated engine, was the first to arrive at Samchun, and the arrivals from Canton were on the platform when the train from Hongkong drew up at the station. While greetings were being exchanged between Hongkong and Chinese officials and others, the following were observed to be among the number present: Hon. Mr. W. D. Barnes (Colonial Secretary), Hon. Mr. C. H. Ross, Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, C.M.G., His Honour Mr. Justice Gompertz, His Lordship Bishop Lander, Captain F. W. Lyons, Dr. Stedman, Mr. J. W. Jamieson, C.M.G., Mr. C. Clementi, Dr. J. W. Hartley, Messrs. E. D. C. Wolfe, H. W. Looker, A. H. Harris, M. H. Logan, E. S. Kadoorie, W. S. Bailey, S. Moore, Garibaldi, R. M. Dyer, H. Gilman, E. A. Stanton, A. Tigges, R. F. Matheson, A. Ellis, W. S. Brown, and W. E. L. Shenton, His Excellency Li Ching Feng, His Honour Chen Wang Cheng, His Honour C. H. Chao, Taotai Cheng Yung, His Excellency Lung Chien Chang, Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, Hon. Mr. Wei Yak, Messrs. Lau Chu Pak and son, Ng Hou Tsz, S. W. Tso, Chan Kai Ming, Fung Wa Chuen, Yeung Hee, Lau Tu Chung, Taung Yuet Kai, Kwok Yick Ting, Leang Lai Mun, Tao Fat Shao, Chau Siu K, Leung Pui Chi, Wong Tsze Loung, Lau Yau Chuo, Yung Yik Ting, Ngan Hung Po, and Captain Wu.\n\nThe arrival being just before the hour fixed for tiffin, adjournment was made to a large galvanized shed near the station where the lunch was laid out. The Chinese proved admirable hosts and soon had their guests seated. A novel feature of the tiffin, apart from the military atmosphere which surrounded it, was the attendance of a Chinese band which played foreign music with passable success. Sufficient time having been allowed for the repast, the band played a stanza of the British National Anthem, after which the toasts of the day were proposed and responded to.\n\nH.E. LI CHING FENG, Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, in proposing \"Success to the Canton-Kowloon Railway,\" said: - I and my official colleague, the Taotai of Industry and Commerce, have had the honour to be deputed by His Excellency the Viceroy of the Two Kwongs to represent him here to-day upon this auspicious occasion (His Excellency being prevented by other pressing official matters from attending in person). The connection and opening of the whole line of this, the Canton-Kowloon Railway, to-day, is an event which may be regarded as of extreme importance, establishing as it does a new facility of travel and transportation between the two friendly countries concerned. It is our fervent hope that this day will mark a new phase in the period of the commercial relations between our countrymen and their British friends, and that the advent of this railway will prove to be another link in the binding chain of friendship which has so long existed and tended to promote the welfare of our respective peoples and encourage the expansion of their trade. (Applause.) Our official and commercial circles alike are indebted to those gentlemen on both sections of the line who have so ably supervised the construction of this railway, and we should take this opportunity of expressing to them our hearty congratulation and thanks for the praiseworthy manner in which they have discharged their multifarious duties. May the life of this line henceforth be one of undisturbed harmony, and may the line itself tend, as is its object, to facilitate and expand the commercial and industrial relations at both its ends; and with that wish and in the name of His Excellency Tsang Ming Ki, Viceroy of the Kwongs, we have much pleasure in declaring this Railway connected and opened to public traffic this 13th day of the 8th moon in the 3rd year of Hsuan Tung, being the 4th day of October in the year one thousand nine hundred and eleven. (Applause.)\n\nHon. Mr. BARNES, Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, in reply, said: Your Excellencies and Gentlemen, - Of the four names down on the toast list to return thanks to the toast proposed, mine happens to be that of the...",
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        "content_text": "# Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the Canton-Kowloon Railway\n\nshown by the Northern Railways, and to which I have just referred. To permit of these new enterprises being rapidly and economically built, China must find a means of buying land required for construction purposes on cheap and easy terms, and a still more knotty problem to be solved by her Statesmen is the question of Lekin obstruction, an obstruction which at this very moment is hampering the progress of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, and causing it to be a burden in place of a paying and profitable investment. Finally, and perhaps the hardest task of all, China must realize that efficient maintenance of her railways is the only sound policy, and that to allow a well-constructed line to go to rot and ruin for lack of efficient maintenance or supervision is a suicidal policy, which must react to the great detriment of the Empire. All the world knows that China has conceived and carried out great enterprises,--some of them perhaps on a greater scale than any hitherto attempted by other nations,--but alas, which of her many great works has been efficiently maintained? As an instance, witness that magnificent conception the Tangchow Road. Gentlemen, China's greatest need is now being cared for, and to that end great Trunk lines are being built stretching from North to South and from East to West, and further great schemes are in active preparation. Should no unforeseen delays or difficulties occur, in a few years from now, you will be able to travel by rail not only from Canton to Hankow, but should your fancy lead you in the direction of Szechuen, a road will be open, and from the comparative security of a Pullman Car, you will be able to feast your eyes on the far-famed gorges of the Yangtze, and possibly even on the sandstone walls of Chengtu! Or should you desire to visit the Great Wall of China, the splendid railway engineered by Taotai Jeme Tien Yai is available, while the silk combs of Soochow, the famous porcelain kilns of the Poyang Lake or the coal mines of Shansian in turn may be visited by Chinese railways. That this opening up of the country will benefit China's teeming millions, by the eradication of prejudice and by incalculable increase in trade, I myself have no doubt, and therefore heartily congratulate her to-day on the completion of this small link in that great chain of communications which is now being forged.\n\nI wish her all success in the enterprises now being undertaken and I ask you gentlemen to rise, and drink with me to \"**Success to Railway Enterprise in China**\", coupled with the name of Taotai Cheng Wang Cheng. (Applause).\n\n## Speech by Taotai CHENG YUNG\n\nTaotai CHENG YUNG, Director of the Police Department in the Chinese Section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, spoke as follows: I feel highly honoured to be able to participate with the Chinese and British Officials and Gentry in the celebration of this historical ceremony which officially opens the whole line of the Canton-Kowloon Railway to traffic. It is my belief that such valuable means of communication as this, having once been established, will henceforth facilitate the commercial intercourse and substantially promote the interest of the two friendly nations concerned. The opening of this Railway, so far as the Chinese Section is concerned, particularly interests me, as it is the duty of my department to see peace and order always maintained throughout this Section and that nothing within my control should be overlooked which will impede business progress on this line. Therefore I sincerely hope that the opening of this line, to-day, to traffic, will be an act of beneficence to the general public. (Applause).\n\n## Speech by HE LUNG CHIEN CHANG\n\nHE LUNG CHIEN CHANG, Councillor, Board of Communications, said: Your Excellencies and Gentlemen, For the last ten years the Peking-Mukden, the Peking-Hankow, the Tong-Tai, the Kai-Fong, the Tao-Ching, the Shanghai-Nanking, the Ping-Chu, the Hangchow-Shanghai, the Tientsin-Pukow, the Kalgan-Chanchun railways have all shown very satisfactory results. The Canton-Hankow, the Szechuan-Hankow, the Szechuan and the Kwang-Si railways are successively in course of construction. These afford through and easy communications to all the provinces of China, which in olden days China had not. Peking-Mukden railway which connects with the Siberian railway forms a principal connecting line between the two great continents of Asia and Europe and now we have the Canton-Kowloon railway, the completion and opening of which we are here to-day witnessing and which will be of no less importance as it will be the means of communication between the five great continents of the world. I say that in the near future the products of the four great continents of Europe, America, Africa and Australia will be assembled at Hongkong and by this railway connected with the Canton-Hankow railway, the products will be distributed among the provinces of China. Railways form the principal means of communication and wherever a railway passes commerce will greatly develop and people be benefited. The completion of this railway has been brought about through the kind assistance of our friendly neighbour and I earnestly hope that not only the merchants of foreign nations coming to China to trade will increase, but the existing friendship between China and England will be strengthened. (Applause).\n\n## Closing Remarks\n\nMr. J. W. JAMIESON, H.B.M's. Consul-General at Canton, briefly thanked the Chinese, on behalf of the guests present for the reception accorded them, and the proceedings ended.\n\nThe party then returned to the station where good-byes were said, and the Hongkong guests were soon speeding back to the Colony. It was a glorious day for a railway trip, and the journey through picturesque country was immensely enjoyed by all on the train. Great care had been taken by Loco. Superintendent Lambert and Mr. G. Walker in decorating the engine which drew the train from Hongkong, and their work was decidedly artistic. Worked in varicoloured flowers on the front and rear of the boiler were the letters `K.B.`, while drooping above the foremost display were the British and Chinese flags. The foot plates, handrails and tanks of the engine were also garlanded with flowers and greenery, and above the latter ran a row of small flags.\n\n283",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,  \nHONGKONG.  \n21st November, 1911.\n\nSir,\n\nOn the 6th instant I received the following telegram from His Excellency Chang Hing-chi, then Governor-General of the Liangkuang Provinces:- \"Recently there have been robber outbreaks in all quarters of the Kwongtung Province: and I have sent out troops in several directions for their suppression. The troops in their movements constantly use the Canton-Kowloon line and have to use trains for their transport. According to the 6th sub-section of article 7 of the Working Agreement between the Governments of our two countries I beg Your Excellency to suspend the running of trains from the afternoon of the 7th instant at 1 p.m. to the afternoon of the 12th instant at 1 p.m. The daily loss in earnings will be dealt with according to the Working Agreement. Apart from sending a telegram to the Board of Communications for transmission to Your Excellency, I beg you to act at once on my request and send me a reply\". On the same date Mr. Consul-General Jamieson telegraphed to me:- \"Owing to presence near Weichow of robber bands assisted by revolutionaries with whom during the last two days Government troops have been engaged, the Governor-General desires suspension of running of trains in order to prevent descent upon Canton, for a period of five days from noon tomorrow. He makes this request in terms of Working Agreement Article (7) last paragraph, and pledges...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE  \nLEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,  \n&c.,  \n&c.,  \n&c.",
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        "content_text": "133287 \n\n157 \n\n\"pledges himself to fulfil all obligations thereunder. He has also asked the Board of Communications to address you in the same sense\". On the next day I received the following telegram from the Board of Communications at Peking:- \"Recently there have been robber outbreaks in all quarters of the Kwangtung Province: and troops have been sent out in several directions for their suppression. The troops in their movements constantly use the Canton-Kowloon line, and have to use trains for their transport. Under the terms of the Working Agreement in respect of the said line the running of trains has been temporarily suspended from the afternoon of the 7th instant at 1 p.m. to the afternoon of the 12th at 1 p.m. for the sole purpose of transporting troops. The loss in earnings will be dealt with according to the Working Agreement. Please instruct officers in charge to act accordingly\". \n\n2. \n\nArticle 7 (f) of the draft Working Agreement for the Kowloon-Canton Railway, a copy of which accompanied my Despatch of 14th of last September, requires that \"due notice (not less than six hours clear)\" should be given in case the Authorities of either section desire to suspend traffic, and provides that \"compensation shall be paid by the Government requesting such suspension at a daily rate of half the average gross receipts of the other section on through traffic as ascertained from the accounts for the corresponding month of the previous year, or failing that for the last preceding month\". Accordingly, upon receipt of the Governor-General's request, I replied by telegram the same evening:- \"Ordinary service will be suspended from 1 p.m. 7th to 1 p.m. 12th as you request\". I also informed Mr. Jamieson and Sir John Jordan by telegram of the action which I had taken. \n\n3. \n\nOn the 9th instant Chang King-chi resigned",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 3\n### Memorandum of an interview between Mr. Chang Hing Chi, ex-Viceroy of Kwangtung, and H. E. Sir F. D. Lugard, Governor of Hongkong at Government House 11th. November, 1911.\n\nThe ex-Viceroy of the Kwangtung province took refuge at the British Consulate on the night of November 8th, and by arrangement of the Consul-General he left Canton at 8 a.m. on H.M.S. \"Handy\" for Hongkong on the 9th. Captain Taylor A.D.C. called on him on the \"Handy\" shortly after his arrival. He came ashore in the evening and took up his residence in a house placed at his disposal by the Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, declining an invitation to dinner at Government House on the grounds of extreme fatigue.\n\nNext day, the 10th instant, he lunched at Government House. Hon. Mr. Brewin, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G., and Mr. Harris, Commissioner of Imperial Maritime Customs being present. After lunch, the ex-Viceroy asked for a private interview with the Governor, saying he would like to place before him the causes which had led him to leave Canton, and the position of affairs there. At this interview, Mr. Harris, who acted as interpreter, and Mr. Wei Hen's son were the only other persons present.\n\nHe began by saying that if a Government was bad, it was justifiable for a people to change it, and he thought that the present revolution was justified up to the time, 30th October, when the Throne issued an Edict admitting its fault, and promising reform and a Constitution. After that Edict, the movement was no longer justified, and the reformers should have given their assistance to the Throne to work out a Constitution, which is not the work of a day. By continuing the revolution, the leaders of the movement were plunging the country into chaos. Constitutional governments may be said to be of two kinds, one like Great Britain where the King did not actually govern; the other like Germany where the Kaiser actively interfered in the Government. The Edict of the Throne had accepted the British form,",
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        "content_text": "# DIARY OF EVENTS IN CANTON\n\n221\n\n## Friday, October 18th\n\nGovernor General, Chang sing-chi, received a communication from Hongkong purporting to come from Huang Hsing, a leading revolutionist, threatening a general rising in Guangtung unless His Excellency joins the Revolutionary Party within five days.\n\nLoyalty of provincial troops questionable.\n\nNew-model army, about 2,000 men, certainly disaffected and for that reason dispersed over province.\n\n## Saturday, October 21st\n\nEstimated at apprehension of trouble between troops in city, 10,000, and Bannerman. Water troops reported to number 2,000 Kwang-chou and twice as many at Chun. Banner troops guard city wall night and day.\n\nHigh gun boats in port, two being British \"Teal\", \"Porpoise\", and \"Robin\", two French.\n\n## Sunday, October 22nd\n\nProvincial Assembly opened. Sent addresses to Governor General. Business formal.\n\nStreets in city full of soldiers.\n\n## October 25th\n\nAt 6 a.m. His Excellency Feng Shan (**馮** **珊**), the new Tartar General landed from the Chinese gunboat \"Po Pik\" and on his way to his Yamen was killed by bomb thrown from top of house by revolutionist. Scare in city: shops all closed.\n\nGeneral meeting of the people passed resolution deciding financial and military independence of Kuangtung so that a supervising body be elected from the guilds, Chamber of Commerce etc., to control actions of officials.\n\n## Thursday, October 28th\n\nAbout midnight the Governor General promised adhesion to above proposals.\n\nChiang Hsiang-yen (**蔣** **驤** **曩**), a protégé of the Governor General entrusted with duty of clearing villages of robbers, is acting as intermediary between local government and the popular party. He has...",
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        "content_text": "## 6.\n\n225\n\nLAS NG MG\n\nThe Governor endeavoured to avoid bloodshed, \nLuson endeavoured to soothe His Excellency, who was prostrated with \ngrief and the mental anxiety of the last few weeks, and said \n\"Speaking not as His Majesty's Consul General to the ruler of the \ntwo Kwang Provinces, but as one man to another, I think you have \ndone the right thing: you have put your duty to God Almighty above \neverything else: if you find it impossible to stay here, my house \non Chemulpo is at your disposal whenever you wish to use it.\" His \nExcellency said \"Do you mean that?\" and on being assured *certainly!* \nexpressed great gratitude. \n\nHe hoped he had done rightly, \nIr Jameson then left, with the impression, \nhowever, \nsuch was His Excellency's state of mind, that within the next \nforty-eight hours Chang Ping-ch'i would seek a solution of the difficulties in audience. \n\nThursday, November 9th.\n\nCaptain Corbett and the writer awaited Mr Jameson's return from \nthe city, which was at a quarter to one. Shortly afterwards we re-\ntired, but at half past two Mr Lo-chin, one of the Governor General's \nsecretaries, woke up Mr Jameson and said that His Excellency \nwas below seeking protection until a palace could be arranged for him \nat Hongkong. He was in such a feeble state that Mr Jameson at once \nhelped him to bed. He managed, however, to get a few hours' sleep and \nwas wakened at 8 a.m. and put on board the \"Hudy\" which had arrived. \nThey left at once for Hongkong. \n\nMr Jameson considered it advisable this morning to recall the \nColonial Secretary and the missionaries in the city. He also placed a \nguard of Marines over the Canton telegraph office to ensure communication with Hongkong. \n\nAt noon the Flag of Independence, blue with white sun in the centre \nwas hoisted amidst great jubilation all over the city. \n\nMarines patrolled the Bund and the Defence Corps were on duty from \n8 p.m. to 6 a.m. \n\nFriday, November 10th.\n\nSenior Consul received a despatch from Chang Ping-ch'i dated \nNovember 9th, stating that the Provincial Assembly, the 78 Guilds,",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n2\n\nManchuria; (2) to their sudden and entire reversal of policy regarding the Russian railway settlement at Harbin, which reversal was adopted without in any way consulting the British Legation at Peking, with whom they had been previously co-operating; (3) to their action in the matter of the Hupuang loan negotiations; and (4) to their inconsiderate determination without consultation with His Majesty's Government to convene an opium conference at The Hague.\n\nIn my fifteen years' experience of the Far East I have found the Americans quite ready to change their policy if it suited them without in any way considering others. They are also past masters in the policy of extracting the chestnuts, or attempting to do so, by means of others. Cases of this kind occurred when I was in charge of the legation at Peking, and since I have been in Tokyo I can recall to mind three notable instances of this, and of change of policy to suit their own purposes quite regardless of those with whom they had been working:\n\n1. In 1901, at the time of the struggle with the Japanese over the perpetual lease question, it will be remembered that the Japanese Foreign Office declined to submit the matter to arbitration. In this they were strongly supported by the American Legation, who stated that the house tax was a reasonable one and a proper tax. Had it not been for the support received from the French and German Legations, and the fact that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was on the tapis, the Japanese Government, owing to strong American support, would have maintained their contention and the case would probably never have gone to arbitration. As soon as the Japanese consented to arbitration the American Legation put in a statement to the effect that though they did not approve of the arbitration in principle, yet their subjects would, of course, benefit by any advantage which it might bring. This they have done in full measure, for American perpetual leaseholders are only second to us in number.\n\n2. At the time of the negotiations for the regulation of emigration into Canada the American Embassy tried to obtain our support so as to acquire any advantages which we might get from the Japanese by virtue of our somewhat special position as allies. This, however, did not succeed.\n\n3. In the matter of the trade-marks convention, we were working on parallel lines when the American Government, without in any way consulting or informing us, suddenly gave up to the Japanese jurisdiction in the matter of trade-mark cases in Corea, thereby letting go, to suit their own ends elsewhere, one of the sheet-anchors of the \"Trade-marks\" ship, which, to continue the metaphor, has not yet, so far as we are concerned, been brought into port.\n\nOther instances could be produced in my own experience, both here and in China, of this selfish policy on the part of the United States Government, but sufficient instances have, I think, been named to amply bear out your contention that America shows a \"disregard of us which cannot be ignored when we find ourselves accused of similar offences.\"\n\nI have, &c.\n**CLAUDE M. MACDONALD**\n\n## [B] \n1169 \n**AFFAIRS OF CHINA.** \n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\nESS REGE 13 JAN II\n\n[December 29.]\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\n[46931]\n\n#### No. 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey**-(Received December 29.) (No. 446.)\n\nPeking, December 13, 1910.\n\nWITH reference to Mr. Max Müller's despatch No. 97 of the 7th April last, I have the honour to transmit herewith translations of two Imperial decrees issued on the 4th instant, embodying the results of the labours of the Constitutional Government Committee in co-operation with Prince Tsai Hsün's commission for the reform of the navy, and with the general staff and the Army Board for the reform of that department.\n\nThe chief point of interest attaching to these decrees is that it is the first time responsible Ministers have been appointed in such a marked way, and the step perhaps foreshadows a change which is likely to come in the form of the constitution of a responsible Cabinet composed of the Ministers of the various departments of State.\n\nWith regard to naval administration, the decree approves the recommendations of Prince Tsai Hsün and Admiral Sa Chen-ping, based on their estimate of China's naval requirements and on the investigations made into the naval strength of foreign Powers. The Admiralty Council is accordingly converted into the Board of Admiralty, or Navy Board, and the appointment of a Minister and Vice-Minister is announced.\n\nThe proposals of the Constitutional Government Committee and the Army Board for the establishment of a graduated scheme fixing temporarily the spheres of the officials of the Army Board are adopted. The various posts of president, vice-presidents, and secretaries are abolished, and in their places the offices of Minister and Vice-Minister of War created.\n\nSeparate Imperial edicts of the same date command Prince Tsai Hsin to fill the post of Minister and Tan Hsuch-beng that of Vice-Minister of Marine, Yin Chang that of Minister, and Shou Hsün that of Vice-Minister of War, and Admiral of the Fleet Sa Chen-ping is appointed Commander-in-chief of Naval Forces on the High Seas and the River Yang-tsze.\n\nIn addition to the two cruiser training-ships ordered from England (see Mr. Max Muller's despatches Nos. 97 and 271 of the 7th April and 8th August), I may mention that Admiral Sa, who leaves Peking in a fortnight to resume command of the Chinese navy, and scarcely concealed his chagrin at the transfer, gave me the following confidential information regarding the ships ordered by China from foreign countries:\n\n| Country | Ships Ordered |\n| --- | --- |\n| Germany | One torpedo-boat and two light-draught vessels, of about 800 tons, for service on the Tung Ting Lake. |\n| Italy | One torpedo-boat. |\n| Austria | One torpedo-boat. |\n| Japan | Two gun-boats. |\n\nI understand that orders are likely to be placed in America for one or more vessels.\n\nThe above orders are in the nature of \"complimentary\" orders to the various Powers visited by the Naval Commissioners, and have been given at the urgent solicitation of those Powers, and it would seem that France showed no special desire to obtain orders.\n\nIn connection with naval reorganisation, I may mention that a project is said to be under consideration, which would appear to be the outcome of Prince Tsai Hsun's mission to the United States, for obtaining a loan of 25,000,000 dollars (gold) for the development of China's naval resources.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**J. N. JORDAN**\n\n\n[1810 -1] \n189",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n202 \n\nKnowledge failed recently owing to their being unable to cash their own notes issued by them without proper security: - \n\nThe Tek Boan Cheang Bank, Swatow. \n\nThe Two Bank, Swatow. \n\nAnd it is possible that other Banks in other parts of China have failed for the same reason. Chinese and foreigners alike are affected by the financial crisis thus created and in the interests of the trade of the Colony I would ask you to draw the most serious attention of the Chinese Government to the disastrous consequences of the blind disregard of regulations, the prudence and observance of which, if nothing else, should have dictated. \n\nI have etc. \n\nsa/...May \n\n**Officer Administering the Government**",
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        "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n### 3447 [November 28.]\n\n## SECTION 5.\n\n### 3 GB 1\n\n[43191]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Mr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 28.) (No. 409.)**\n\nPeking, November 11, 1910.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 278 of the 16th August, enclosing the copy of a note to the Chinese Government in which I warned them that His Majesty's Government could in no circumstances allow the accuracy of the cairns erected on the middle section of the Burmah-Yunnan boundary to be now called in question, I have the honour to forward, in translation, two notes which I have received from Prince Ch'ing in reply. I much regret that the first of these notes was mislaid, and that there has consequently been a delay in reporting to you on the matter.\n\nIt will be observed that the Viceroy has called the attention of the Wai-wu Pu to the absence of Chinese inscriptions on the ninety-seven cairns in question, and suggests that a British official should be invited to co-operate with Chinese officials in verifying the numbers and positions of the cairns and in engraving them with Chinese inscriptions. The Wai-wu Pu approve this proposal, and urge that advantage should be taken of the present favourable season to carry out the investigation.\n\nThere appears to be nothing in the proposal to add Chinese inscriptions to the existing cairns to which exception could be taken, but the alleged necessity of verifying their position suggests an intention of challenging its accuracy, and I have therefore ventured, in my telegram No. 186 of the 9th instant, to enquire what reply you would wish me to return to these notes.\n\nI have acknowledged their receipt, and informed the Wai-wu Pu that a further communication will be addressed to them on the receipt of your instructions.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. G. MAX MÜLLER.\n\n### Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**Wai-wu Pu to Mr. Max Müller,**\n\nPeking, October 15, 1910.\n\nWE have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note (of the 12th August, 1910) referring to the demarcation of the section of the Burmah-Yunnan boundary from the junction of the Nampaung and Taiping Rivers to the junction of the Nam Hpa and Nam Ting Rivers in conformity with the agreement between China and Great Britain signed at Peking in 1897, and to the drawing up of a descriptive list of the ninety-seven cairns erected by the boundary commissioners. You stated that in January last the cairns were inspected by the deputy commissioner of the Bhamo district, the British consul at Tengyueh, and the Prefect of Yung-chang, who found that some of the cairns were correctly placed and some incorrectly placed. In bringing this matter to our notice you stated that you were instructed by your Government, in regard to the question of accuracy or inaccuracy in the erection of the cairns, to bid us notify the local officials in the province of Yunnan in accordance with the terms of your note under reply.\n\nOn receipt of the above, this Board addressed a despatch to the Viceroy of Yunnan, in reply to which the following telegram has now been received :----\n\nOn this section of the boundary-line tablets have been erected to the number of ninety-seven for the whole section. The original map marks the spot of each of these tablets, which, in compliance with the original proposal, were to be engraved jointly in Chinese and English. Existing tablets engraved in English only, without Chinese inscription, while some bear no inscription. Co-operation of British officials should be invited to verify the numbers in accordance with particulars of situation and measurement of distances given in the list, and check them one by one. Where the tablets are dual, Chinese ones should be set up as well; where single, Chinese... \n\n254 \n[Page 254]",
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        "content_text": "## security for their redemption in defiance of the regulations issued by the Ministry of Finance, with the sanction of the Chinese Government, on the 29th July, 1909. The following private Chinese banks have to my knowledge failed recently owing to their being unable to cash their own notes issued by them without proper security :----\n\nThe Tek Boan Cheang Bank, Swatow;  \nThe Ewo Bank, Swatow;  \nand it is possible that other banks in other parts of China have failed for the same reason. Chinese and foreigners alike are affected by the financial crisis thus created, and in the interests of the trade of the colony I would ask you to draw the most serious attention of the Chinese Government to the disastrous consequences of the blind disregard of regulations, the observance of which prudence, if nothing else, should have dictated.\n\nI have, &c.  \n**F. H. MAY, Officer administering the Government**\n\n### Enclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n#### Extract from the \"South China Morning Post\" of October 19, 1910\n\n## Commencement of the Minting of Subsidiary Coinage\n\nTHE Canton mint or currency factory has, since the 5th moon, stopped minting all coins, and the expenditure for its upkeep has run short, all the surplus funds and odds and ends of metal left on the ground of the mint having all been exhausted during the last two months.\n\nAt present, on account of the tightness of the money market, the chief and assistant directors of the currency factory have telegraphed to the Board of Finance to ask for instructions whether or not the minting of the 20-cent subsidiary coins should be forthwith commenced for use and circulation to meet the demand of the market. Now, the Board of Finance has sent them a telegram in reply allowing the minting to be commenced forthwith. All the officers, workmen, and coolies belonging to this currency factory have, according to the board's directions, proceeded this day to the factory to start work for coining the 20-cent silver pieces.\n\n## Bank Guild's Circular on Kwangtung Notes\n\nThe public is hereby notified that owing to the tightness of the money market, caused by the Canton Yuen Fung Yun Bank being implicated by the failure of the Shanghae Yuen Fung Yun, this guild yesterday received instructions from high authorities that large sums of money have been advanced from the Government fund and deposited with the different banks of this guild in order to effect a free circulation in the market. This guild has passed a resolution that for all exchanges, receipts, and payments in the banks of this guild, Canton Government notes shall be used for the convenience of all concerned. At present the Canton market is as peaceful as ever.\n\nAnyone who wishes to obtain any cash money for his use may apply to any one of the banks of this guild for exchange of same at his own choice. This is a special notice for general information.\n\nNotified by the Chung Shun Tong, guild of native banks, at Kwongchow. Dated the 13th day, 9th moon, 2nd year of Suen Tung.\n\n## Official Notification\n\nChan, provincial treasurer of Kwangtung province, in the matter of issuing a notification for general information. Whereas the notes of the three denominations, viz., 10 dollars, 5 dollars, and 1 dollar, at 7 maces and 2 candareens to a dollar, or at par with the subsidiary coins on exchange, which are issued by the Canton Government Bank, and on the back of which are printed all the conditions under which they are to be used as a currency, have been hitherto accepted and used with confidence by all people; whereas owing to the Yuen Fung Yun Bank having suspended payments, some law-defying bad characters have recently invented stories saying that the Government Bank has been affected by the Yuen Fung Yun's failure, thus befooling the ignorant people and making profits out of them by collecting the Canton Government notes at a discount of 10 or 20 per cent. from them and obtaining the full value on exchanging them from the Government Bank, and some of these bad characters even refuse to accept these notes on purpose; whereas these people do not know that the Government Bank is a public establishment, is quite different from the Yuen Fung Yun, which is a merchant's firm, and which has no connection whatever with the Government; and whereas all cunning traders and wily merchants, who for the sake of seeking their own profits spoil the interests of the whole community by fabricating rumours and unfounded stories to deceive them should be arrested, prosecuted, and punished so as to remove the doubts of all people; it is proper that a notification be issued for general information besides giving instructions to all local officials for their arrest.\n\nWherefore by virtue of this notification all classes of people in the whole province are enjoined to take notice that all these Government notes in dollars of 7 maces and 2 candareens each, for which there is a sufficient amount of hard money kept in reserve, are just as good as cash money, and are allowed to be used in payments of all Government funds, and if any one dare make a discount on them or refuse to accept them when presented for payment, he is liable to be prosecuted and severely punished.\n\n### Enclosure 4 in No. 1\n\n#### Extract from the \"Gazette\" of July 29, 1909\n\n## Provisional Regulations issued by the Ministry of Finance, with the Imperial Sanction, for controlling the Issue of Chinese Bank Notes. (Translation.)\n\n1. THE notes affected by these regulations are bank notes, whether printed or in writing, for integral sums, containing neither the name of the payee, nor the date, nor place of payment, i.e., currency notes.\n\n2. Notes in writing which include fractional amounts or which bear the name of payee and the date and place of payment, i.e., cheques and drafts, do not come under these regulations.\n\n3. Before any bank is allowed to issue currency notes, five substantial guarantors must be obtained in the shape of other banks, who will be bound to make good the value of the notes in the event of any loss. But officially-established banks are not thus restricted.\n\n4. Cash shops with sign boards, which issue cash notes, as well as other sorts of notes, are allowed temporarily to continue as before issuing notes, provided they can obtain five reliable mercantile firms to guarantee in case of loss to make good the value of the notes issued. But such cash shops, in addition to sending in reports to the local officials for transmission to the board, as required by the rules of the exchange bureau, must obey the new regulations as regards all matters affecting the issue of notes.\n\n5. All banks at present issuing bank notes, and not registered, shall, within six months from the date of the receipt of the despatch, at once take steps to collect the capital, and must apply to the local authorities for registration at the board. After the expiration of the time limit, the banks which have not thus applied for registration will be compelled to withdraw all their notes from circulation within a stated period, and will be fined by the local officials in accordance with regulation No. 18.\n\n6. All firms other than banks now issuing bank notes must gradually call in their whole issue by the end of the 5th moon of 1910. Those firms who have been unable to call in their whole issue within the time limit are allowed to establish banks separately from their business, and to register such banks in accordance with the regulations.\n\n7. No bank or firm carrying on a banking business, whether official or mercantile, opened after the publication of these regulations, shall issue bank notes.\n\n8. After the publication of these regulations those banks permitted to issue notes must not let their issue exceed the amount of notes at present in circulation.",
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        "content_text": "## interests of the already depreciated silver coinage of the province which will be further depreciated by any fresh issues of coin.\n\n2. The financial crisis at present existing is, as your Excellency is no doubt aware, largely due to the issue of bank notes by private Chinese banks without proper security for their redemption, in defiance of the regulations issued by the Ministry of Finance with the sanction of the Chinese Government on the 29th July, 1909. The following private Chinese banks have to my knowledge failed recently owing to their being unable to cash their own notes issued by them without proper security:\n\n| Bank Name | Location |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Tek Boan Cheang Bank | Swatow |\n| The Ewo Bank | Swatow |\n\nand it is possible that other banks in other parts of China have failed for the same reason. Chinese and foreigners alike are affected by the financial crisis thus created, and in the interests of the trade of the colony, I would ask you to draw the most serious attention of the Chinese Government to the disastrous consequences of the blind disregard of regulations, the observance of which prudence, if nothing else, should have dictated.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**F. H. MAY**,  \nOfficer administering the Government.\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from \"South China Morning Post\" of October 19, 1910.\n\n### Commencement of the Minting of Subsidiary Coinage\n\nThe Canton mint or currency factory has since the 5th moon stopped minting all coins, and the expenditure for its upkeep has run short, all the surplus fund and odds and ends of metal left on the ground of the mint having all been exhausted during the last two months.\n\nAt present, on account of the tightness of the money market, the chief and assistant directors of the currency factory have telegraphed to the Board of Finance to ask for instructions whether or not the minting of the 20-cent subsidiary coins should be forthwith commenced for use and circulation to meet the demand of the market. Now, the Board of Finance has sent them a telegram in reply allowing the minting to be commenced forthwith. All the officers, workmen, and coolies belonging to this currency factory have, according to the board's directions, proceeded this day to the factory to start work for coining the 20-cent silver pieces.\n\n### Bank Guild's Circular on Kwangtung Notes\n\nThe public is hereby notified that owing to the tightness of the money market, caused by the Canton Yuen Fung Yun Bank being implicated by the failure of the Shanghai Yuen Fung Yun, this guild yesterday received instructions from high authorities that large sums of money have been advanced from the Government fund and deposited with the different banks of this guild in order to effect a free circulation in the market. This guild has passed a resolution that for all exchanges, receipts, and payments in the banks of this guild, Canton Government notes shall be used for the convenience of all concerned. At present, the Canton market is as peaceful as ever. Anyone who wishes to obtain any cash money for his use may apply to any one of the banks of this guild for exchange of same at his own choice. This is a special notice for general information.\n\nNotified by the Chung Shun Tong, guild of native banks, at Kwongchow. Dated 13th day, 9th moon, 2nd year of Suen Tung.\n\n### Official Notification\n\nChan, provincial treasurer of Kwangtung province, in the matter of issuing a notification for general information.\n\nWhereas the notes of the three denominations, viz., 10 dollars, 5 dollars, and 1 dollar, at 7 maces and 2 candareens to a dollar, or at par with the subsidiary coins on exchange, which are issued by the Canton Government Bank, and on the back of which are printed all the conditions under which they are to be used as a currency, have been hitherto accepted and used with confidence by all people; whereas owing to the Yuen Fung Yun Bank having suspended payments, some law-defying bad characters have recently invented stories saying that the Government bank has been affected by the Yuen Fung Yun's failure, thus befooling the ignorant people and making profits out of them by collecting the Canton Government notes at a discount of 10 or 20 per cent. from them and obtaining the full value on exchanging them from the Government bank, and some of these bad characters even refuse to accept these notes on purpose; whereas these people do not know that the Government bank is a public establishment, is quite different from the Yuen Fung Yun, which is a merchant's firm and which has no connection whatever with the Government; and whereas all cunning traders and wily merchants who for the sake of seeking their own profits spoil the interests of the whole community by fabricating rumours and unfounded stories to deceive them should be arrested, prosecuted, and punished, so as to remove the doubts of all people; it is proper that a notification be issued for general information besides giving instructions to all local officials for their arrest.\n\nWherefore by virtue of this notification, all classes of people in the whole province are enjoined to take notice that all these Government notes in dollars of 7 maces and 2 candareens each, for which there is a sufficient amount of hard money kept in reserve, are just as good as cash money and are allowed to be used in payments of all Government funds, and if anyone dare make a discount on them or refuse to accept them when presented for payment, he is liable to be prosecuted and severely punished.\n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n**Mr. Max Müller to Acting Governor Sir F. May.**\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, November 9, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 24th ultimo, in which you ask me to move the Chinese Government to suspend at the earliest possible moment the permission accorded to the Canton mint to resume temporarily the coinage of 20-cent pieces.\n\nWhilst I fully appreciate the arguments adduced in your despatch, I feel that the Chinese Government might, with some justice, resent my interference in a matter of this kind, and I regret that I do not see my way to intervene in the sense desired by you without instructions from Sir Edward Grey, to whom I shall forward copies of this correspondence.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**W. G. MAX MÜLLER**.  \n275",
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        "content_text": "## Shantung, and other provinces, are encountering strong opposition from the Senate, and not without some reason. Kiangsu, for instance, does not see why it should have been saddled with the loan of 3,500,000 taels made, it is alleged, to the Shanghai taotai in August last largely to cover up gambling debts of Chekiang (Ningpo) people in connection with rubber transactions, and the representatives of the province are making their views felt in Peking.\n\nI have, &c.\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n## Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n### Agreement made between his Excellency Fan Tseng Hsiang, Financial Commissioner of Nanking, and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Deutsch-Asiatische Bank and Banque de l'Indo-Chine for a Loan of 3,000,000 taels Shanghai Sycee\n\nTHIS agreement made between his Excellency Fan Tseng Hsiang, financial commissioner, of Nanking, of the one part, and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, and Banque de l'Indo-Chine, hereinafter called the \"banks,\" of the other part;\n\nWhereas the Viceroy of the Liang Kiang provinces, his Excellency Chang Jen Chun, has for the purpose and with the object of relieving the present state of the Kiangnan market memorialised the throne for and received an Imperial edict (communicated by the Wai-wu Pu to the British, German, and French Ministers in Peking) authorising him to raise a foreign loan of 3,000,000 taels, and has specially vested the financial commissioner, his Excellency Fan Tseng Hsiang, with powers to negotiate for the said loan and to seal the loan bonds hereinafter referred to,\n\nWitnesseth as follows:\n\n1. The banks hereby agree to lend to the Viceroy of the Liang Kiang provinces and the Viceroy hereby agrees to borrow from the banks the sum of 3,000,000 taels, the payment and repayment of which said sum and of interest thereon are to be made in Shanghai in taels of Shanghai sycee.\n\n2. The banks shall, on the execution of this agreement, pay in full to the financial commissioner the sum of 3,000,000 taels Shanghai sycee.\n\n3. The interest for the said sum of 3,000,000 taels shall be 7 per cent. per annum, to be computed from the date of this agreement and payable by the financial commissioner or his successors in office on the 11th day of June and the 11th day of December yearly until repayment of the loan has been completed. The principal shall be repaid in six yearly instalments as follows:\n| Year | Instalment Date | Amount (taels Shanghai sycee) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1911 | December 11 | 500,000 |\n| 1912 | December 11 | 500,000 |\n| 1913 | December 11 | 500,000 |\n| 1914 | December 11 | 500,000 |\n| 1915 | December 11 | 500,000 |\n| 1916 | December 11 | 500,000 |\n\n4. In the event of there being a surplus from the three revenues hereinafter mentioned after duly paying the yearly instalment of the principal and interest, the financial commissioner shall be at liberty, on giving three months' previous notice to the banks, to pay off the next instalment of principal or the whole sum for the time being remaining owing.\n\n5. This loan is secured by a first mortgage on the following revenues of Kiangnan, namely:\n- (a) The \"Shou Hwui-fu Chia Pa Cheng\" salt li-kin of the four salt districts of Hunan, Hupeh, Kiangsi, and Anhui (\"Siangping\"), 300,000 taels.\n- (b) The additional Kiangnan Yao Cheng salt duties (\"Siangping\"), 320,000 taels.\n- (c) The \"Hai Fun Shih Wu Cheng\" salt li-kin of Liang Hui (\"Siangping\"), 120,000 taels.\n\nThe aforesaid three revenues amount to 740,000 (\"Siangping\") taels in the 3rd year of Hsuan Tung, but will increase to 840,000 (\"Siangping\") taels from the 4th year of Hsuan Tung.\n\nThe financial commissioner hereby guarantees that no mortgage or charge exists on the aforesaid revenues. The Viceroy of the Liang Kiang provinces further guarantees on behalf of himself and his successors in office that no other or further pledge of such revenues, whether by way of loan on, or mortgage of, the said security shall be made without an explicit declaration of the relative priority of the present loan over each and any other or further pledge of such security.\n\n6. The financial commissioner shall, within three months of the execution of this agreement, hand to the banks bonds in Shanghai taels, Shanghai sycee, for the total amount of this loan, namely, 3,000,000 taels, sealed with the official seal of the financial commissioner as evidence that he and his successors in office are bound thereby. The form and amount of the bonds shall be settled by the banks in consultation with the financial commissioner. Bonds for the amount repaid shall be immediately returned to the financial commissioner for cancellation. After each instalment of the principal is paid, interest at the rate aforesaid shall only be charged on the residue of the principal for the time being remaining owing.\n\n7. The financial commissioner for himself and his successors in office hereby unconditionally guarantees and declares himself and themselves responsible for the due repayment of the principal of 3,000,000 taels, Shanghai sycee, and the payment of interest thereon.\n\n8. As officially communicated by the Wai-wu Pu to the British, German, and French Ministers in Peking, the Viceroy of the Liang Kiang provinces is authorised to guarantee on behalf of the Imperial Chinese Government, and he does hereby guarantee under his official seal, that payment of interest and repayment of the principal of this loan shall be duly made.\n\n9. Ten copies of this agreement are executed in English and Chinese; one copy to be retained by the Viceroy of Liang Kiang provinces, one by the Board of Finance, one by the Wai-wu Pu, one by the Financial Commissioner of Nanking, one by the British Legation, one by the German Legation, one by the French Legation, and three by the banks.\n\nIn the event of any question or dispute arising as to the meaning of this agreement, the English text shall rule.\n\nSigned at Nanking by the contracting parties this 10th day of the 11th moon in the 2nd year of Hsuan Tung, being the 11th day of December, 1910 (Western calendar).\n\n(Seal of Financial Commissioner.)\n(Seal of Viceroy.)\n\n(For the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation),\nH. HUNTER, Manager.\n\n(For the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank),\nR. TIMMERSCHEIDT. KOELM.\n\n(For the Banque de l'Indo-Chine, Agence de Shanghai),\nLe Caissier, L. GAUTHERIN.\nLe Directeur, G. MAYER.\n\nIn the presence of:\nJ. O. ANDERSON.\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n### Mr. Max Müller to Prince Ch'ing.\n\nPeking, November 17, 1910.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highness' note of the 10th November, in which you inform me that a telegraphic memorial was recently received from the southern superintendent of trade to the effect that, in view of the critical state of the Shanghai money market, the general chamber of commerce and representatives of the various trades had besought him to take remedial measures, \n\nPage 285",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n(8174)\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 6.)\n\n**(No. 70.)**\n\nPeking, February 16, 1911.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 20 of the 14th ultimo, I have the honour to transmit herewith copy of a despatch from His Majesty's consul at Nanking regarding the somewhat premature opening to traffic of the Pukow-Lin Huai Kwan section of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway, together with the newspaper article therein referred to, which gives some interesting details concerning the southern section of the line.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN,\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1.\n\n#### Consul Wilkinson to Sir J. Jordan\n\n**(No. 4.)**\n\nNanking, January 30, 1911.\n\nIN the \"North China Daily News\" of the 25th ultimo, you will find an account of the opening to traffic five days previously of the section of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway between Pukow and Lin Huai Kwan, a distance of 94 miles.\n\nThe opening was not a formal one, as the section is by no means complete. It has merely been found possible to attach some three or four passenger cars to the construction trains leaving Pukow and Lin Huai Kwan every morning.\n\nThe information regarding the line given by the newspaper is, it may be assumed, quite correct, as Mr. Tuckey, to whom I applied at the time for particulars of the opening, referred me in his rather belated reply to the article in question, and I may add that it is generally believed that he himself is the author of it.\n\nUp to the present no station buildings have been erected at the spot on the river side from which the trains start, so that passengers are without shelter or conveniences of any kind. The traffic, however, is very small, the takings averaging only a few dollars each day.\n\nThe commencement of traffic on the line has, of course, brought into prominence the question of the opening of Pukow as a treaty port. Since my arrival I have spoken to several of the local officials on the subject, but one and all have professed ignorance of what is being done in the matter, and show a strong disinclination to discuss it. I propose, therefore, to raise the question on the occasion of my next interview with the Viceroy.\n\nAs far as I can learn, the business of laying out a settlement along the river bank has been left in the hands of a committee of Pukow gentry, styling themselves the Shih Chang Chi, who up to date appear to have done nothing but quarrel amongst themselves. I am informed, however, that they are negotiating with a prominent Shanghai firm of British architects to carry out the work for them, but in such a way as to create an impression that it is being done by the committee without foreign assistance. Where the necessary funds are to come from no one seems to know, and it is no doubt the difficulty of raising them that is causing the delay, for, owing to the amount of filling-in required, the undertaking will be a very costly one.\n\nIn the meanwhile, I am trying to persuade the Customs Taotai to select a site for a customs-house, as, once this is decided on, it may be possible for British firms to make private arrangements for the acquisition of suitable sites for themselves.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nF. E. WILKINSON.\n\n*Not printed.*\n\nPage 562",
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        "content_text": "## 83 \n\n2 \n\n50 per cent. to be spread over a period of years. The latter part of this programme was, however, abandoned in 1908, and total prohibition imposed on the 25th July of that year.\n\nAlthough there was considerable reduction during the season 1908-9, cultivation was still carried on during the season of 1909-10; but it was confined, so far as is known, to the departments of Fu Chou, always the chief opium centre of the province, Hui-li Chou (latitude 20° 36′ north, and longitude 102° 15′ east), and Mao Chou (latitude 31° 39′ north, and longitude 103° 45′ east), with a much smaller area in that part of the Wan Hsien district, lying to the south of the Yang-tsze. In the department of Fu Chou the growers defied the local authorities, and a much larger area was sown and a much heavier crop harvested. In the summer of 1910 the province was mapped out into five circuits, and to each circuit an officer with the rank of taotai was appointed to carry out absolute prohibition. A large number of officials of inferior rank were also deputed to travel through the province and report progress or the reverse. Towards the end of November of last year it was discovered that at a place called Yün-t'ai-p'u or Yün-tai-ch'ang, in the district of Chang-shou Hsien, where it borders on the district of Tien-chiang Hsien (latitude 30° 21' north, and longitude 107° 23′ east), the farmers had sown the poppy, and when the magistrate of Chang-shou proceeded to uproot the young plants resistance was offered and the magistrate obliged to beat a retreat. The matter was reported to the Viceroy, who dismissed the magistrate and instructed the Prefect of Chungking to proceed to Yün-t'ai-ch'ang with sufficient force to compel the growers to destroy the crop. This was done, and Yün-t'ai-ch'ang is believed to be the only place in which cultivation was attempted throughout the whole province in 1910. It is true that the poppy was seen by reliable witnesses in the department of Mao Chou during the summer of 1910; but there can be little doubt that, as in Kansu and Shensi, the seed had been sown towards the end of the previous year, and that the crop belonged to the season of 1909-10.\n\nMeantime, in November 1909, regulations had been issued prohibiting the import of native opium into Szechuan from the neighbouring provinces of Kansu, Shensi, Yunnan, and Kueichow, from the 10th April, 1910, and by the same regulations the export of opium from Szechuan was prohibited from the 7th July, 1910. Strong objection was raised by the opium merchants to the shortness of the time limit for export, and they contended that it would be impossible for them to clear their stocks before the 7th July. In answer to their appeal the period was extended for three months (i.e., to the 3rd October, 1910). The opium dealers in Szechuan taking advantage of the high prices caused by reduced production and consequent shortage of supplies, adulterated the drug so heavily that down-river buyers suffered serious losses, demand slackened, and prices fell, leaving considerable stocks still unexported. Towards the end of September it became evident that the stocks in hand could not be cleared before the 3rd October, and a compromise was affected whereby all certificated raw opium was allowed to be stored in what is tantamount to a bonded warehouse pending export. At Chungking the three months' extension was granted conditionally on all stocks held there being reported to and duly certificated by the Raw Opium Bureau before the 6th July, the date originally fixed for the prohibition of export from the province. The amount so certificated at that date was 3,051 piculs, and the amount stored in the bonded warehouse between the 23rd September and 3rd October is given as 1,300 piculs. Export of this stock, provided with the necessary warehouse permit, is still proceeding through the Imperial Maritime Customs at Chungking, on payment of the usual export duty of 20 Haikuan taels per picul, for native customs duty (22 taels), li-kin (7 t. 28 m.), and railway tax (7 t. 28 m.), a total of 36 t. 56 m. per picul, were abolished from the 3rd October, 1910, and export now takes place through the Imperial Maritime Customs only. In addition to the Imperial Maritime Customs duty of 20 Haikuan taels, each picul of opium continues to pay the T'ung-shui or consolidated duty of 115 K'u-P'ing taels on arrival at Ichang.\n\nI have stated above that the arrivals of native opium at Ichang by the Yang-tsze route from the western provinces amounted in 1910 to 28,350 piculs against 51,817 piculs in 1909, a decrease of 23,467 piculs. This decrease was undoubtedly due in the main to greatly diminished cultivation, and it would have been more marked had not stocks held in the province from previous years been drawn upon to a larger extent than usual, and still greater had adulteration been practised on a less extensive scale. The export during 1910 must not, therefore, be taken to represent the opium surplus available from the one season of 1909-10.\n\nI commenced my investigation into the cultivation of the poppy and the production of opium in Szechuan on the 12th January, 1910. On the morning of that day I left the junk in which I had travelled up the Yang-tsze from the port of Ichang at the district city of Wu-shan Hsien, in the east of the province, and proceeded northwards through that district and the district of Ta-ning Hsien as far as the city of that name. From Ta-ning Hsien I travelled westward through the north of the district of Yün-yang Hsien to the district city of K'ai Hsien, and then south through the districts of K'ai Hsien and Wan Hsien to the north bank of the Yang-tsze, where I rejoined my junk after a journey of thirteen days. In these five districts I did not see a single poppy plant, and this was all the more remarkable because in former years the K'ai Hsien district held the second place among the chief opium producing centres of the province. At the city of K'ai Hsien and throughout the district generally I ascertained that poppy cultivation had entirely ceased after the season of 1908-9. In Wan Hsien, on the other hand, the poppy had been grown in small quantities during the season of 1909-10 in that part of the district which lies to the south of the Yang-tsze. In 1910-11, however, it had disappeared. From Wan Hsien I proceeded up-river through the department of Chung Chou and the district of Fêng-tu Hsien to the department city of Fu Chou, on the right bank of the Yang-tsze. In former years the banks of the river exposed during low water and the country adjacent thereto in those departments and district used to be covered with poppy, but a careful examination now showed that the only crops on the ground were broad beans, rape, wheat, peas, and a certain amount of unharvested sugar-cane.\n\nThe department of Fu Chou, well known to have been the chief opium producing centre of the province, had offered the most strenuous resistance to the measures of suppression and, instead of reducing the area annually devoted to poppy, had largely extended it during the season of 1909-10. For this reason I travelled through the department from the city of Fu Chou south-west to the district city of Nan-ch'uan Hsien, thence west to the district city of Ch'i-chiang Hsien, and then north through the district of Pa Hsien to the port of Chungking. In the department of Fu Chou, as in the other three districts, my search was unrewarded with the sight of a single poppy plant. In 1882 I had travelled through the districts of Pa Hsien and Ch'i-chiang Hsien at the same season of the year on my way to the provinces of Kueichow and Yunnan and had then found the poppy in abundance, many of the valleys in the Pa Hsien district being entirely given up to it.\n\nIn February 1883 I had travelled overland from Chungking to Chêngtu, and in February 1903 from Chia-ting Fu to Chêngtu. As my report of the former journey (`China, No. 2, 1884`) and my diary of the latter contain daily references to the abundance of the poppy, always holding its own with beans, wheat, or rape, or at others the most prominent crop. I resolved to travel overland from Chungking to Chêngtu by way of Chia-ting, and thus be able to compare the conditions to-day with those existing in 1883 and 1903. I left Chungking on the 13th February, and travelling through the districts of Pa Hsien, Chiang-ching, Ki-shan, Yang-ch'uan, Ta-tsu, Jung-ch'ang, Lung-ch'ang, Fu-shun, Jung Hsien, Wei-yüan, Ching-yen, Chien-wei, Lo-shan, Ching-shen, the department of Nei-chow, Pêng-shui, Hsin-ching, Shuang-liu, and Hua-yang, arrived after fifteen days' continuous overland travel at Chêngtu, the provincial capital. It is unnecessary to go into details regarding each of these districts; but I may mention that seven years ago the district of Jung Hsien produced opium on a very large scale, and that from the city walls in March a magnificent view was obtained of one vast poppy garden in full bloom stretching to the horizon in all directions.\n\nIn not one of those districts did I observe the poppy, and the result of my investigation was fully corroborated by the testimony of missionaries whom I took the opportunity of questioning wherever possible. They had neither seen the poppy nor heard of its cultivation during the season of 1910-11.\n\nOn arrival in Chêngtu I approached the numerous missionary bodies resident there, and their unanimous reply was that those of their members who had recently been travelling in their respective districts had seen no poppy, and that the information which they had received from other districts throughout the province was equally emphatic as to its disappearance.\n\nAs the result, therefore, of my own personal investigation, extending over thirty-four days' travel overland, and of the testimony of others, I am satisfied that poppy cultivation has for the present been suppressed in Szechuan, and there can be no doubt that this success is due to the ability and energy of his Excellency the Viceroy, Chao Erh-hsün, who assumed office on the 16th June, 1908, and left for Peking on the 5th February, 1911, and in a lesser degree of his brother his Excellency Chao Erh-feng, now warden of the marches of Szechuan and Yunnan, who was in charge of the province from the 4th March, 1907, to the 11th June, 1908, and of his Excellency \n\n## 3",
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        "content_text": "# 101\n\n2\n\nI have met. I should say a man of decided character.\" (See also Captain Pritchard's remarks on this officer on p. 54 of his report. General Ts'ui commands the 19th Division, to which the detachments which have proceeded to the frontier belong.) The telegram received this morning from His Majesty's consul, Tengyueh, clears up the point as to the identity of the troops who are reported to have occupied Pien-ma. They are clearly the regulars of the 19th Division who were diverted north from Yungchang on the 1st February, accompanied by Prefect Chiang (who may be considered as holding a corresponding position to that of Mr. Hertz).\n\nAssuming the necessity of maintaining the British claim, seeing that it was notified to the Chinese Government in unmistakable terms, and taking into account the uncompromising attitude of China in regard to the matter, it remains to consider what forces she has at her disposal in support of the troops of the Yunnan province, if she is determined to contest the point to the uttermost. (My note of the 18th October, 1910, dealt with the regular troops of Yunnan province only, viz., 19th Division, consisting of\n\nAt Yunnan-fu and vicinity-\n| Unit | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| 73rd Infantry | three battalions |\n| 74th Infantry |  |\n| Maxim gun battalion |  |\n| 19th Cavalry Regiment | two squadrons |\n| 19th Engineer Battalion |  |\n| 19th Artillery | nine batteries (Krupp 75 mm. Q. F. mountain guns) |\n| 19th Transport |  |\n\nIn all, with staffs, &c., about 10,000 combatants.)\n\nThe neighbouring provinces are Szechuan, Kueichow, and Kuangsi (and behind them again Hupei, Hunan, and Kuangtung).\n\nThe military resources of Szechuan are already severely taxed with the occupation of Thibet and the \"marches,\" but there is at Chengtu the 33rd Mixed Brigade of Regulars, of whom Major Pereira, who recently inspected them, formed a high opinion. These troops number\n| Unit | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Two infantry regiments |  |\n| One cavalry squadron |  |\n| Mountain artillery | one battalion (Japanese 75 mm.) |\n| Engineers | one company |\n| Transport |  |\n| Military police |  |\n\nTotal, with staffs, some 4,300.\n\n(Besides these, this brigade had sent a force of some 2,000 troops of all arms to Thibet in 1909.)\n\nOwing to the necessity of retaining a reserve in hand to reinforce Thibet or the \"frontier force\" in the \"marches,\" where the as yet unsubdued tribesmen of San-ngai and Cantui, &c., are ever ready to contest Chinese authority, and allowing for deductions for recruits, sick, and a depôt, we may reckon that the 33rd Brigade could not, at the utmost, send more than about\n| Unit | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Infantry | three battalions |\n| Cavalry | half-squadron |\n| Mountain artillery | two batteries |\n| Engineers | half-company |\n| Transport |  |\n\nIn all about 2,200 all ranks.\n\nTheir easiest route would be by boats down to Sui-fu (four to seven days), and thence by road twenty-four stages to Yunnan-fu (whence to Tali-fu 228 miles, and to Tengkeng 140 on, or about twenty-six marches—see Appendix B).\n\nThe Szechuan provincial troops and \"frontier forces\" are fully occupied in the maintenance of internal order, and it is unlikely that they could furnish any contingent. It has to be remembered that more than one-third of the province is inhabited by non-Chinese populations unfriendly to the ruling Power.\n\n3\n\nThe regulars of Kueichow (at Kueiyang-fu) amount only to one regiment of infantry and one four-gun battery of mountain artillery, and are in every way backward. (See despatch No. 18, dated the 12th January, 1911, to Foreign Office.) They might at the utmost send two battalions of infantry and their battery (about 1,200 all ranks). The provincial troops might, perhaps, furnish an equal number (their battalions are nominally 301 strong, but probably a good deal less).\n\nThe distance from Kueiyang to Yunnan-fu is 393 miles. (Major Pereira recently marched it in twenty days, and, considering the excellent marching powers of Chinese troops, I consider they could probably do it in three weeks or a little over.)\n\nInformation is very conflicting as to the strength, composition, and distribution of the troops in Kuangsi, but it is believed that, all told, they number some 15,000 (including the regulars and various classes of provincial frontier troops). According to a French account, some 3,600 of these, spoken of as the 1st Brigade, and classed, I think erroneously, as \"lachun\" (i.e., regulars), with a battery of mountain artillery, are stationed in West Kuangsi, from Nanning to Posé (on the Yu Kiang). Posé is twenty-one stages from Yunnan-fu, and Nanning 155 miles (in a direct line, and probably, at least, 200 by road) from Posé.\n\nThe real \"luchun\" (regulars) of Kuangsi are said to consist of the following:-\n| Location | Unit | Details |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Lungchou | 1st Infantry Regiment | one battalion only |\n|  | Mountain guns | three batteries |\n| Nanning | 2nd Infantry Regiment | three battalions, almost complete |\n|  | Mountain guns | two batteries |\n|  | Cavalry | one squadron (in formation) |\n|  | Engineers | one battalion (in formation) |\n| Kueilin |  | A commencement only has been made, less than one regiment being stated to have been organised up to the present. |\n\nAt Nanning they have also six machine-guns.\n\nThe total of the \"luchun\" may be reckoned as about 3,000.\n\nThe Kuangsi provincial troops are very much scattered in small detachments, and are fully occupied in policing the province, a notoriously turbulent and lawless one. I think it safe to assume, therefore, that an inconsiderable proportion of them only could be moved away. Possibly a few \"yings\" (battalions of 300 odd) might be collected and moved up via Posé.\n\nHunan has the 25th Mixed Brigade of Regulars, viz.:-\n| Unit | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Infantry | six battalions |\n| Cavalry | one squadron |\n| Mountain artillery | three batteries |\n| Engineers | two companies |\n| Transport | one company |\n\nIn all some 4,600.\n\nLast summer, at the time of the Changsha riots, they were found insufficient to maintain order, and regular troops had to be borrowed from the neighbouring province of Hupei. In view of these so recent disorders, I hardly think it likely that troops could be spared from Hunan province. If, however, any could be sent, proceeding viâ Changte and the \"mandarin route\" through Chenchou and Yuanchou to Kueiyang-fu, and so to Yünnan-fu, they would take at least eight weeks to cover the distance. If they went by river (Hsiang River and Yang-tsze) to Sui-fu, and thence by road to Yünnan-fu, the time might be reckoned as about seventy-two days.\n\nHupei, though so distant, is the most likely province whence supports might be sent, as Wuchang has a division and a-half of regulars, viz.:-\n| Unit | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| 8th Division | a fairly good and well-trained division, under Major-General Chang Piao, a soldierly, strong man, though of the old school |\n| Infantry | twelve battalions |\n| Cavalry | three squadrons |",
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        "content_text": "## BRITISH AGGRESSION IN YÜNNAN\n\nthey say that the country west of the Yeh Jen Shan belongs to them, they make the frontier veer round to the east. Some years ago British troops occupied Myitkyina for a time, and from there they wandered over the neighbouring country, but they did not dare to cross the Hsiao Chiang, which is in Chinese territory. I mention the Hsiao Chiang, because it was formerly decided on with the British Minister as a temporary boundary. At present China has some very strong arguments in favour of her claims: (1) The natives on the boundary of Yunnan have long been in the habit of bringing tribute to China and obeying her orders, while British subjects in hiring land in that district have paid the customary dues and given compensation. This custom is of such long standing as to constitute a recognition of China's sovereign rights over the district. Then how can it be said to belong to England? (2) The heads of the native clans in the villages in the jurisdiction of Piena and the district of Tso and Yang have certain evidence of Chinese sovereignty in a despatch addressed to them by the Board of War in the reign of Ch'ien Lung, and so the British troops have absolutely no right to administer that portion of the country. But Great Britain regards the Kao Li Kung Shan as a key to Thibet, and so for some time has been casting longing eyes in that direction. Her ambitious designs do not stop at Yunnan, they extend to Szechuan and Thibet. We hear that the Viceroy of Yunnan has asked the Wai-wu Pu to decide whether there is to be peace or war, but the board are extremely anxious not to take the lead in any forcible measures, and so the case has been referred to the Chinese Minister resident in England for negotiation with the British Government. The essential point is that the British troops should be withdrawn before negotiations are allowed to proceed, but this may not be found practicable.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1\n\nExtract from the “Peking Daily News,” February 24, 1911.\n\n## BRITISH AGGRESSION IN YÜNNAN\n\nIT is understood the Viceroy of Yunnan has sent a circular telegram to the Viceroys and Governors of the different provinces, imploring them to adopt a mutual protection policy for the sake of maintaining the territorial integrity of the Chinese frontiers. The telegram has particular reference to the occupation of Pienma by the British troops. The following is a free translation of the telegram as published in yesterday's \"Peking Jih Pao\" and \"Shuntien Shih Pao\":---\n\nThe boundary between Yünnan and Burmah is, indeed, the boundary between the Chinese and the British Empires. The ambition of the British Indian Government has been to maintain communications between India, Burmah, and Thibet. The effect would, therefore, not only have to do with the Yünnan frontier, but with the territorial possessions of the Empire as well.\n\nPreviously, the Yunnan-Burmah Boundary Delimitation Committee only went as far as Teng Yueh and Yung Chang, and the business of the commission was interrupted owing to disagreement between the commissioners of the two Governments. The Britishers contended that the boundary should be the purple line, from the Kao Li Kung Shan, along the Hsueh Shan to as far as Thibet. They have been so persistent in their pretension that the question has not been settled for the last several years.\n\nOn account of the ill-feeling that has been harboured by the Britishers over the question of the Tengyueh-Burmah line, the Viceroy of Yunnan was able last autumn to discover that the British Indian Government had the intention of occupying Pienma, so as to hold a commanding position over Li-Wei and so as to settle the boundary dispute by armed forces. The Viceroy had therefore telegraphed to the Wai-wu Pu this intelligence, requesting the Ministry to negotiate with the British Minister. The Wai-wu Pu consequently sent a note to the British representative with regard to this matter, but owing to clever misrepresentation of the latter the question was more than shelved.\n\nIt has always been the intention of the Viceroy of Yunnan to dispatch troops to occupy Pienma, but as he has been bound by treaty not to send any soldiers across the other side of the mountain, and as Pienma, a territory subject for generations to the jurisdiction of China, is, however, on the other side of the mountain, he had not carried out his original intention for fear that he might involve the country in serious international difficulty. He was only left with the alternative of telegraphing the Foreign Office to stop the Indian Government from sending troops on the one hand, and to send delegates for the delimitation of the boundary on the other. The British Government again ignored our representation.\n\nIn the middle part of last month the Indian Government sent soldiers to occupy Pienma, and to construct forts there. They also expelled the Chinese teachers, and levied requisition upon the inhabitants. The vanguard of the British troops consisted of some 2,000 men. They also occupied the regions in and about Lang-Su, an act unequalled in its arbitrariness. The Yunnan Viceroy repeatedly asked Imperial sanction to send soldiers for the maintenance of our frontier defence, and had also requested the Foreign Office to remonstrate against the British occupation of our territory, and to demand the withdrawal of these troops before negotiations should be commenced for the settlement of this boundary question. Imperial edicts have been received commanding not to resort to force, and the Wai-wu Pu had also informed him that Minister Lew had been instructed to directly negotiate with the British Government in order to secure the settlement of the fundamental principles before boundary commissioners should be sent to settle the boundary line on the spot.\n\nRecently the Wai-wu Pu sent a note to the British Minister in Peking on the same subject, but the note was once more ignored by him. To remonstrate after the British soldiers had occupied our territory had been too late, and not to demand the withdrawal of the British soldiers now before we discuss the boundary question would be a disgrace to the national dignity, and would not, it is feared, tend to any satisfactory result.\n\nThe Yunnan Viceroy has once more, on the 25th January, memorialised the Throne, recommending frontier defence should be thoroughly organised as a last resort for the protection of the national territory, but he has received no reply. The country is generally weak, matters are very critical, and war, if it broke out, would not be confined to Yünnan. The Viceroy will therefore take the greatest care for the preservation of peace, but is also of opinion that we must also be prepared to meet any unforeseen contingency, and that he alone cannot take the responsibility of deciding. The duty of rulers of provinces being to guard the territory under their respective jurisdiction zealously, it would never do for them to acquiesce in the cession of his jurisdiction territory lightly, nor would it be expedient for them to countenance the encroachment of any foreign Power therein unresistingly. Especially where and when foreign ambitions are so extravagant, the interests of the whole country would be jeopardised by any yielding on the part of the Yunnan Viceroy, and it would certainly not be within his power to submit to any loss of his territory on his own responsibility.\n\nIt is the duty of the Government to consider the general interest of the whole country with a view to preserving its integrity; so it is the duty of a provincial governor to defend his territory until death should take him from his task. That his forces would not be strong enough for the said purpose is generally known to the world, and he is dependent upon the reinforcements to be supplied him by the Throne and the Ministries and Provinces. The Yunnan Viceroy is familiar with the patriotism of the Viceroys and Governors of the other provinces and with their enthusiasm in helping their colleagues who are in difficulty; he is hopeful that they will give him sound advice and render him assistance. \"The loss of the lip maketh the teeth cold.” And as Szechuan province stands to Yunnan in the same relationship, experienced advice from the Szechuan Viceroy is especially earnestly expected. -LI CHING-ISI, \n\n## Page 151\n## Page 2\n## Page 11",
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        "content_text": "# SKETCH MAP \nto show \n## SUGGESTED LINES OF DEMARCATION \nof the \n### BURMA-CHINA BORDER.\n\nT IBET \n28°N \n\nBrahmakund \nLobit R \n15220' \nSati \nWalung \nRima \nShirong \n“Nam Kiu“ Mts \n2 \nDaphapan \nR.. \nDapha Bum \n-227° \n26 \nDihing R. \nHukong Valley \nManse \nH \na \nx \nPatau \nTalo R \n. Intaw \n.Kachala \n98 \n\nam Kiu or Malihka \n+ \nChiama Ngu Chu \nSor Salween R, \n-Chin Chiang \nU t.z \nkhanung \nNmai Hka \nButang \nNakalo \nDa Chu or Mekong R. \n\nDOKERLA \nChamutong \nMeh Hka \n1360 \nTowgaw \n12800 \nMakuan \n-25 \n\n| Description | Line |\n| --- | --- |\n| Frontier line already demarcated. | va vam van man van. |\n| Ideal line onwards (taking in all the upper basin of the Irrawady). |  |\n| This is the line laid down by Sir E. Satow. \"As far as the confines of Tibet\" |  |\n| Suggested modified line. | Ditto. |\n| Line claimed by Wai Wu Pa | RL 'LT FROM |\n| Line suggested by Tavtai Shih. in 1905. |  |\n| Line said to be now claimed by Mr. Hsia. | (Foreign Affairs Bureau, Yünnanfu.) |\n| Limit of British “administered territory,\" |  |\n\nIRRAWA \nTAPINGA \nKa \n*Laika \nMYITKYINA \nSima \nManyun. \nTaping \nSadon \nn \nNai \nKha \nWanghte \nManung Pum \nChan-baity \nΚαι \nMe Sih Ho \nMien Chin Meng Peng \nTENG YUEK Ting \nMONG HUM \nMONG YANG \n(100.4111.1380)F0.1974 63 China \n\nOBHAMO \nAtuntzu \nnma) \nTêng \nKAO LI \nLu Chiang or Salweed R. \nh \nu \na \nYangtse \nYei Chih \nWEI-HSI-TING \n\n# \nn \n100° \n165 \nN \nYangtse R \nN \nCHIEN CHUAN CHOU \n\nப \n29 \n\n28 \n27 \nLI-CHIANG \nล \nHO CHING CHOU \n虫 \n269 \nTeng Chuan u \nYUN LUNG CHOU \nTALIFU l \nKai t'ou \nK \n20 \nScale of miles. \nHKWAN \nLung Chuan \nChế tạng \nMONG \nMeng-ka \nNASANJA & Dand, 1,19 as MAPPING LAYEW,C \n\nen R \nLung-Ling-Ting, \nYUNG-CHANG FU \nm \n• Yao Kuan \nYu-tien \nHAI \nHsia kuan \nChao Chou \nTameng-tung SHUN NING FU \nEYUN CHOU \n\n(Signed) **M. E. Willoughby, Lt.-Colonel, Military Attaché, Peking- 8th March, 1911.** \n25",
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        "content_text": "## No. 1. MY \nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 1.)\n\n**(No. 146.) Sir,**\n\nThese regulations leave nothing to be desired in the way of thoroughness. For instance, the task of discovering and recording the smokers is laid first upon the village elders, who are checked by the village police, who are checked by the local committees, who are checked by the local magistrates. All these are held responsible for the accuracy of the lists, which may be further overhauled by the central bureau. Paoting-fu and Tien-tsin are to be under special conditions under their foreign system of police. Peking is not mentioned.\n\nNo exceptions are to be allowed in the treatment of smokers on the ground of sex, or sickness. \nAll private stores of opium are to be surrendered in the 7th period, under heavy penalties. Informers are to be rewarded.\n\nWith regard to the second set of regulations, all dealers buying opium for Chihli in other provinces, those buying for other provinces in Chihli, and those passing through Chihli with opium bought in other provinces for other provinces, must be provided with proper permits. These permits are issued in Chihli. In the case of the dealers from other provinces, such permits are only given on production of proper authority from said provinces.\n\nIn the light of previous measures taken in Chihli, it may be assumed that the central bureau is thoroughly in earnest, and will do its best to carry these regulations into effective practice.\n\nI have, &c.\nH. E. FULFORD,\n\nPeking, April 7, 1911.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch `No. 56` of the 7th February relative to the consignments of Indian opium seized at Santong and Samshui on the 2nd August last year, I have the honour to enclose the copy of a despatch from His Majesty's consul-general at Canton on the subject. It will be seen that the further enquiries made by Mr. Jamieson have elicited from the Acting Governor-General the information that the Santong opium has been sold and the proceeds have been sent to the owner.\n\nAs regards the Samshui case, there would appear, according to the Chinese version of the incident, to have been a breach of the regulations and a deliberate attempt to smuggle. The disappearance of the owners points to the assumption that they knew themselves to be in the wrong, and makes it difficult for me to take any further steps in the matter.\n\nI have forwarded copies of Mr. Jamieson's despatch and enclosures to Sir F. Lugard with an expression of the above views.\n\n### Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n**Memorial by Governor of Kueichow respecting Measures taken for Suppression of Opium.**\n\nTHE memorialist has received several edicts from the Throne, ordering him to make every effort to suppress opium in the province. Now Kueichow has always been considered a centre of cultivation for the drug, and so it will be harder to suppress there than in the other provinces. Last year memorialist presented a petition that the collection of the li-kin tax might be suspended, in order to impress on the people the fact that if the Government was prepared to sacrifice this large sum, they (the people) had no excuse for inaction.\n\nNow on investigation it was found that in every district there was still a large amount of opium in store, and it was absolutely necessary to lay down a definite period for its export. But as soon as li-kin collection was stopped the price of opium at once rose, and if the merchants were allowed to export it at will, no taxes would be collected on it, and the merchants would make enormous profits. So orders were given that for a definite period the tax would be restored at twice the previous rate in order to strengthen the provincial exchequer. This period expired at the end of the 11th moon, and now all traffic in opium is at an end, neither export nor import being permitted. In all more than thirty officers have been sent throughout every jurisdiction and have taken the most stringent measures. Where opium cultivation had already been suppressed, the farmers were ordered to sow other crops; where cultivation still continued, it was ordered to cease.\n\nThe industrial Taotai, Wang Yu-lin, too, was instructed to go about and investigate, giving punishment or reward as found necessary. In every district the majority of the inhabitants were found amenable, but there are many Miaotzu districts, buried away in the mountains and difficult of access, whose inhabitants will not listen to exhortation, and where an exhaustive search for opium is impossible. But as the thing must be done, we have given strict injunctions to all the officials, substantive and otherwise, to exert themselves to the utmost. The districts along the line between Kueichow and Yunnan are being administered jointly by officials of both provinces, in order to prevent the local officials from throwing off their responsibility and the people from having grounds for excuse.\n\nAll smokers have been given tickets to facilitate inspection. Opium dealers have been instructed to take up some other trade as soon as their present stocks are sold out, while purchasers have to reduce their daily consumption by gradual stages until total extinction.\n\n### Memorial presented by Li Ching-hsi, Viceroy of Yun-Kuei.\n\n**(No. 9.)**\n\nI have, &c.\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n**Consul-General Jamieson to Sir J. Jordan.**\n\nSir,\n\nCanton, March 23, 1911.\n\nWITH reference to your despatch `No. 4` of the 31st January last, I have the honour to forward herewith copy of a communication I have received from the Acting Governor-General relative to the seizure of opium at Sautong, and also copy of a note from the Opium Prohibition Bureau relative to the seizure of opium at Samshui.\n\nI have, &c.\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\n### Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n**Acting Governor-General Chang to Consul-General Jamieson.**\n\nIsian Tung, 2nd year, 2nd moon, 22nd day (March 22, 1911).\n\n**(Translation.) Sir,**\n\nI HAD the honour to acknowledge your despatch of the 16th day of the 1st moon relative to the seizure at Hsin Tang (Santong) of two chests of foreign opium, in which you referred to my reply stating that the opium would be sent to a prepared-opium shop possessing a trading licence at Shih Lung for sale on behalf of the owner, and requested that, if the opium had already been disposed of, the proceeds should be refunded to the owner. I subsequently had the honour to inform you that I had called on the head office of the Opium Prohibition Bureau to investigate the matter and report to me. I am now in receipt of a reply from the Opium Prohibition Bureau stating that, according to a report of an officer of the Opium Investigation Department deputed, at their instance, to investigate the case, the opium has already been sold in toto and the proceeds of the sale refunded to the owner in full, and requesting you be informed of this. I accordingly now have the honour to inform you to the above purport.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n**(Seal of Acting Governor-General.)**",
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        "content_text": "## the central Government is shown by the fact that Shêng had to be summoned from his retirement to carry on these railway and currency negotiations. Shêng, who is now 70 and in frail health, is the last survivor of the Li Hung Chang school of statesmanship and intellectually is quite the equal of his great prototype. Shrewd, clever, and utterly unscrupulous, he has come into contact during his long and chequered career with foreigners of all classes and has established a reputation for successful business capacity of which the telegraph administration and the Hanyang Ironworks are the two chief monuments.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n## Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**J. N. JORDAN**\n\n### Minutes of an Interview at Prince Ch'ing's Residence on April 5, 1911, respecting the Hukuang Railway Loan.\n\nPresent: **Sir John Jordan**, **M. de Margeric**, **Mr. Calhoun**, **Count Luxburg**, accompanied by **Messrs. Barton**, **Blanchet**, **Tenney**, and **Krebs**.  \n**Prince Ching**, **Na Chung-tang**, **Hau Chung-tang**, **Sheng Kung Pao**, accompanied by **Chou Tzu-Chi** and **En Hon**.\n\nSir John Jordan recalled briefly to Prince Ching the course of the negotiations on the subject of the loan agreement since the interview between the four Ministers and the Wai-wu Pu on the 27th December, 1910. On the assurance given by Na Chung-tang at that interview that the alterations considered necessary by the Chinese Government in the initialled agreement were not alterations of principle but only of detail, the Ministers had instructed the banks to resume negotiations with the Yuchuan Pu on this basis. Sheng Kung Pao had then promised to draw up a memorandum containing the desired alterations, which, owing to various delays, did not reach the banks till the end of February. A consideration of this memorandum disclosed the fact that a most important alteration of principle was contemplated, namely, the omission of the branch line from Ching-men-chou to Hanyang, and as at a subsequent interview Shêng had informed the banks that the acceptance of this omission was an essential preliminary to the conclusion of any agreement, the Ministers felt compelled to bring to the notice of His Highness the grave situation created by this departure from the agreed basis of the initialled agreement.\n\nPrince Ching replied that he was aware of what had taken place. In view of the fact that on the death of Chang Chih-tung the settlement of this question had been entrusted by edict to the Yuchuan Pu, the best course would be for the banks to continue to discuss the matter with the board direct.\n\nM. de Margerie pointed out that it was because discussion between the banks and the Yuchuan Pu had resulted in the present deadlock that the Ministers desired an explanation of the attitude of the Chinese Government in insisting on this unexpected alteration of principle.\n\nSheng then explained the reasons which rendered this alteration necessary; the provincial opposition to this loan existed even prior to Chang's death, and had been excited recently by the publication in the press of statements regarding the approaching completion of the agreement; this opposition could not be ignored by the central Government, and could only be obviated by his plan for entrusting the construction of branch lines to the local companies while the main lines were constructed by the Government. If this branch line were omitted, he was prepared to memorialise the Throne to enforce the agreement in spite of any local opposition on other points, but if the branch line were insisted on, local opposition to the main line would be increased, and he could not accept the responsibility of recommending the completion of the agreement.\n\nSir J. Jordan observed that he had been in Peking since the commencement of the negotiations, and was certain that there had been no mention of alterations to meet provincial opposition during Chang's lifetime. In asking for the omission of this line, the Chinese Government were asking for a very important concession, and the Ministers would like to know what it was proposed to offer in exchange.\n\nSheng said he could not promise anything in exchange, but it was possible that the proposed amount of the loan £6,000,000 would not prove sufficient to construct even the reduced mileage and he had thought of calling for a revised estimate of the cost of the main line; besides the Government had many other main lines to construct in the future, and the concession made by the banks in this instance would not be forgotten.\n\nM. de Margerie asked whether it was proposed to insist on the other alterations contained in the memorandum also.\n\nShêng replied that the original list of alterations proposed by the railway bureau was much larger than the one handed to the banks, although not as highly important as the omission of the branch line, the other alterations contained in the memorandum were all essential and must be insisted on.\n\nSir J. Jordan said it was hardly reasonable, considering the assurances given by the Wai-wu Pu in the past, to expect the banks to accept the alteration en bloc; the Ministers felt that the proposed omission of the branch line was a matter of such importance that they should refer it to their Governments; but in order to render the proposal at all acceptable, they would like to be in a position to say at the same time that the Chinese Government was willing to adopt a reasonable attitude towards the remaining alterations; they would be prepared therefore to instruct the banks to first discuss the latter with the Yuchuan Pu and if a satisfactory settlement were arrived at, the Ministers would refer the question of omitting the branch line to their Governments.\n\nSheng replied that he foresaw no hope of a settlement if this course were adopted, it would only delay matters, and delay would give an opportunity for increased opposition and further imperil the successful enforcement of any agreement.\n\nMr. Calhoun pointed out that it would not advance matters if an agreement were come to on the branch line question only to find further progress blocked by difficulties raised over the other alterations, and for this reason it was preferable that a clear understanding should first be reached on the latter.\n\nSheng maintained his objection to this proposal and finally stated that he was not prepared to make any concession in regard to any of the alterations.\n\nSir J. Jordan then appealed to Na Ch'ing-tang and reminded him of the assurances he had given to the Ministers on the 27th December, and urged him to assist in solving the deadlock which a departure from those assurances had brought about.\n\nNa replied by giving his recollection of the interview in question which tended to minimise the strength of the assurances given and referring to the knowledge possessed by the Ministers of the difficulties which confronted China in dealing with this matter—he urged that these difficulties should not be increased by the delay which would be entailed by insisting on points which the Yuchuan Pu could not concede.\n\nM. de Margerie pointed out that delay—which both parties wished to avoid—could best be obviated by mutual concessions; if the Yuchuan Pu would waive the remaining alterations, the Ministers on their part could recommend the omission of the branch line.\n\nSheng replied that he could not consent to do this, and added that the remaining alterations were of a technical nature, with which only the banks were conversant.\n\nPrince Ch'ing declared that in view of the fact that those present were not versed in the details of these alterations, it was not possible to agree to their withdrawal in exchange for the omission of the branch line. He repeated Sheng's promise that any concessions made by the banks in this instance would not be forgotten in the future, and again urged that they should be instructed to resume negotiations with the Yuchuan Pu.\n\nSheng assured the Ministers that he meant business and had no intention of going back on what he had said in the presence of the Prince that day. The agreement could only be concluded on the lines of his memorandum; its enforcement would be a matter of great difficulty for him in any case, and in undertaking to enforce it, he was making a concession to the banks fully equal to anything they were being asked to grant.\n\nSir J. Jordan said the Ministers desired to know what instructions they should give the banks, for if the latter were merely told to discuss alterations on which Sheng was not prepared to yield, the result could only be another deadlock necessitating a further reference to the Prince. Shêng said the banks must be prepared to discuss the alterations with a view to making concessions; up to the present the omission of the branch line had been the only point touched on in their discussions; until he knew whether this would be agreed to, he could not say what prospect there was of an agreement on the remaining alterations.\n\nPage 337",
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        "content_text": "## Military Affairs\n\nThe general military situation on the Yunnan border has been outlined in the body of this report, and, in view of the recent and detailed description which has been given by Captain B. E. A. Pritchard both of the modern troops and of the old army in Yunnan, there remains little for me to add, save a general summary of the present distribution which has been affected by the recent situation on the frontier. The transfer of a body of new troops to Tengyueh has been foreseen for some months, and, although they have been hurried towards the frontier districts at a somewhat earlier date than was expected or was convenient for the Chinese, there seems no reason to believe that any material change has taken place in the general plan of action. The frontier garrisons in the districts to which my sources of information extend are given in a separate note attached to this report as `Enclosure 5`, and I have added also a short description of the new forts on the frontier as `Enclosure 6`.*\n\n### Mobility of New Troops\n\nOne of the strongest criticisms which has been levelled at the modern-drilled troops of China has been their need of an undue amount of transport—a point on which they generally compare unfavourably with the old troops, who move quickly and are practically self-supporting. It may be of interest, therefore, to give a brief account of the march of the 500 men who have recently arrived at Tengyueh from Talifu. The distance is 240 miles, and this was covered in twelve days, giving daily marches of 20 miles, a creditable performance, as the road is mountainous and steep. They were preceded by a small advance guard, all of whom were mounted and who travelled a day ahead, making a survey as they went and selecting sites for camps. The main body proceeded always in marching order, by twos or fours as the width of the road permitted, each man carrying his rifle, bayonet, and a small quantity of ...\n\n* Not printed.\n\nPage 16 \n\n5. That Tantai Shih Hung-shao were immediately recalled to office. This officer lost his post and was cashiered, in spite of the protests of His Majesty's Minister and of the Government of India, as a punishment for his friendly attitude in attempting to arrange a settlement of the northern frontier with Mr. Litton and Mr. Leveson in 1905. His recall to office before any further negotiations commenced would greatly strengthen the hand of those Chinese officers who might be appointed to settle the question now.\n\n6. That Li San-pao, the interpreter who accompanied me to the unadministered territory in the spring, and who was therefore imprisoned by the taotai, were immediately released.\n\nIn the above points I have outlined what would appear to be the extreme limit of the favourable terms which could be granted by us, and, in view of the duplicity of the original Chinese negotiators in certain instances and of the unfailing Chinese obstruction along this frontier, I do not know that the Government of Burma would consider those suggestions under paragraph (1) to be admissible. I do not know, too, if such an arrangement as the above could be carried through in the ordinary way of business by the consul and the taotai, or whether it would be necessary for them to receive special powers. In any case it would, I think, be desirable that an officer of the Burma Government should act with the consul and the Chinese representatives, and that this officer and the consul should have an opportunity of meeting Mr. Stirling, of the Southern Shan States, Mr. Thornton, the Deputy Commissioner of Bhamo, and Mr. Hertz at a conference with the Chief Secretary to the Government, in order that the British position might be thoroughly clear to them before work commenced. Amongst those Chinese officers who would be suitable for the work are the Taotai Keng Pao-kuei of Tengyueh, Peng Chi-chih, at one time assistant boundary commissioner, lately Prefect of Yungchang and now Special Salt Commissioner for the Frontier districts; and Chao-kai-hsuan, the Frontier Deputy for Foreign Affairs. Work could not commence before the 1st October of this year, owing to the incidence of the rains, but much might be accomplished in one open season if the issues were clear and the question were pushed to a conclusion now that the Chinese are convinced that the Government of Burma is in earnest, and that it is to their interest to effect a speedy settlement of the entire north-eastern frontier.\n\n## SKETCH MAP OF BURMA-CHINA FRONTIER\n\n| Location        | \n| --------------- | \n| 94 E of GREENWICH | \n| Rima            | \n| MAPUTRA         | \n| Jo Sadiya       | \n| JH KAMTI        | \n| SAM             | \n| CHIRGWIN        | \n| KATHA           | \n| R.MALI KHA      | \n| AMAI KHA        | \n| MYITKYINA       | \n| TAPING RIVER    | \n| BHAMO           | \n| Apima           | \n| MANANG PUM      | \n| Sadan           | \n| Simao           | \n| Kangai          | \n| TÉNG YUEM       | \n| Sintan/Lungchuge | \n| UNGLING         | \n| R.SHWELI        | \n| SALWEEN         | \n| Mongman         | \n| NAMKHAM         | \n| bkut Koi Kuninga | \n| YMYO            | \n| TAUNGGYI        | \n| RANGOUN         | \n| MOUTHS OF IRRAWADY | \n| BAY OF BENGAL   | \n| SALWEEN         | \n| WILD            | \n| LASHID          | \n| WAS             | \n| Pang Sung       | \n| Nnicat          | \n| Batang          | \n| Wei-hsi         | \n| Litang          | \n| S SÚ CHUAN      | \n| Changtie        | \n| Yungning        | \n| Alsi Ferry      | \n| LIKIANG         | \n| YANGTSE         | \n| Chao-Chou       | \n| GYUNG-CHANG     | \n| NAKTING RIVE    | \n| Cher-pien-Ting  | \n| JaMenglem       | \n| SONG PANNA      | \n| KENG TUNG       | \n| không hại       | \n| Hồng Sẽ         | \n| TONKIN          | \n| YUNNANFU        | \n| RIVER MEKONG    | \n| Sau mau         | \n| RED RIVER       | \n\n2B \n96 \nOB \n301 \n¤Åturize \nA \n$ \n100 \n150 \n200 MILES \n100 \n(36.31.1423) FO (1974 -2)",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nNormal conditions are reported to prevail at Nanking, though from time to time prominent persons receive letters threatening a rising with the object of exterminating the Manchus. The modern troops have all been rearmed and the city is no longer patrolled.\n\nA sign of the emancipation of women which is silently proceeding in China was manifested in a meeting of the \"Women's Association for Fostering National Resources\" which was held in October in the exhibition grounds at Nanking. It was attended by over 1,000 persons of both sexes, and several ladies made speeches advocating extended use of native-made articles and deprecating the partiality of Chinese women for foreign goods, especially jewellery, tobacco, and wines.\n\nAt Chinkiang a disturbance occurred in December owing to the municipality unwisely attempting to disturb ancient custom and oblige native water carriers to draw water at the municipal pump station instead of the river front. The motor pump broke down, and a hostile crowd invaded the concession. Serious consequences were, however, averted by timely reversion to the old system in agreement with the local authorities.\n\nIt was mentioned in the previous summary that parts of northern Kiangsu and Anhui had suffered greatly from floods. Large numbers of starving refugees have begged their way south to Chinkiang, Kiukiang, and Wuhu. The affected regions are that part of Anhui which lies north of the Huai River and the adjoining districts of Kiangsu. The Grand Canal on the east, the Huai and Ko Rivers on the south and on the west approximately mark the boundaries of the worst part of the famine area. In some 7,000 square miles the autumn crops were a total failure, and only about half the usual amount of wheat land could be sown for the spring crops. The population is entirely agricultural and is estimated at 3,000,000. Troops were moved to the distressed region to preserve order and suppress brigandage.\n\nShantung, generally considered a poor province, owing to its arid climate, also suffered from rains far in excess of the average, and all low-lying lands were swamped. In addition to this calamity, the Yellow River burst its banks in the Li Ching district, and caused more damage than has occurred there for the last six years.\n\nHis Majesty's consul at Hangchow reports that the native press has shown less animosity towards foreigners, but the attitude of the officials remains unfriendly. Piracies on junks carrying foreign goods along the coast have occurred repeatedly during the year, and their recurrence at short intervals in the same neighbourhood shows that very little energy is displayed by the officials to check them. In Amoy city robberies increased to such an extent that the question was discussed in the Provincial Assembly and special measures were taken. More police were engaged, and a proclamation was issued that shops were to close at midnight. A proposal to institute water police to be paid for by a tax on passengers on steam launches fell through, as the launch owners asserted that their passengers refused to pay the tax.\n\nThe Kwangtung Provincial Government have experienced difficulties in carrying out the census in outlying districts owing to the suspicions of the ignorant natives, who fear that it foreshadows increased taxation. Several small outbreaks occurred, the most serious being at Lien-Chou, where the mob attacked certain houses and subsequently demolished the schools and houses of foreign missionaries. No lives were lost and no British interests were involved.\n\nSome alarm was occasioned at Macao at the end of November by a trifling military disturbance. The affair was magnified by the Chinese of the adjoining district of Hsiang-shan with a view to inducing the Chinese Government to descend on the Portuguese colony with armed forces under the pretext of protecting Chinese lives and property. Six Chinese gun-boats were rumoured to have entered the harbour and large bodies of Chinese troops to have camped near the frontier, and two British gun-boats were actually dispatched to Macao to safeguard British interests. They found the Chinese gun-boats anchored outside the harbour limits and failed to verify the reported movements of Chinese troops. Nothing occurred, and His Majesty's ships were withdrawn a fortnight later.\n\nHis Majesty's consul at Kiungchow reports that the local Self-Government Society is showing signs of a growing spirit of independence and an increasing disregard of proper authority. A newly arrived and unpopular magistrate was mobbed in the streets of Kiungchow and his chair was broken to pieces. A report from Pakhoi states that the circuit of Ch'in Lien, on the Tonquin border, formerly noted for the depredations of robber bands, has been entirely pacified and the district is being regenerated by a patriotic, intelligent, and energetic official named Taotai Kuo Jen-chang. Draft regulations for the better preservation of order on the frontier, drawn up by the Viceroy of Liang Kuang, the Viceroy of Yunnan, and the Board of Foreign Affairs has been submitted to the French Minister, whose modifications have been sent to the above-mentioned taotai for annotation.\n\nHis Majesty's consul at Wuchow reports the occurrence of no less than ninety cases of robbery and piracy during the quarter. The worst case was the looting of the market, pawnshops, and forty-one houses at Yang-So, in Ping-lo-fu. There were several skirmishes between the soldiers and the robbers, but they eventually effected their escape. His Majesty's consul-general at Yunnan-fu reports the murder of a French missionary, the Rev. Father Mérigot, by Chinese at a place called Ching-yü, in Yung-pei Ting, north of the Yang-tsze. A dispute about land is supposed to have been the cause of the attack.\n\n## Provincial Assemblies and Self-government Societies\n\nThe organisation of local self-government societies was carried on during the quarter in Hupei, but the general public showed no signs of active interest in them. Even the regular sittings of the provincial assembly were rarely attended by more than half its members. The general impression seems to prevail that the assembly is too much concerned with questions of personal interest to its members and to similar bodies in other provinces. One successful motion, however, put an end to the custom of purchasing supplies for yamên use at official rates, a practice that was detrimental to petty market dealers. The assembly lacks a proper sense of the need for economy, and expensive schemes of development of communications, education, famine prevention, &c., are freely advocated.\n\nIn September elections were held for the Nanking Self-Government Society and much dissatisfaction was expressed at the manner in which they were conducted by the two responsible officials. According to the native press many self-government societies have been constituted in the Soochow district and the delegates have met and deliberated upon a variety of matters such as come within the sphere of municipal bodies in England. The Provincial Assembly commented on the progress made in this direction in the Soochow district as compared with the apathy displayed by the officials in the portion of the province administered from Nanking.\n\n## Reforms\n\n### Judicial\n\nThe intelligence reports from His Majesty's consuls indicate that active steps are being taken in several provinces to introduce the new judicial system advocated by the Committee of Constitutional Reform. In the revised programme published in January it is laid down that shenpantings of all grades shall be established in 1912. More or less complete steps towards the new system are reported by the provinces of Kiangsu, Honan, Hupei, Kuangsi, Shantung, Chekiang, Fukien, Szechuan, and Fengtien, and His Majesty's consuls state that courts are being built or new law officers appointed at Chengtu, Chungking, Ichang, Tsinan, Tsinan settlement, Chefoo, Hangchow settlement, Ningpo, Wenchow, and Wuchow.\n\nThe main feature of the new system is the complete separation of the judicial from the administrative and executive powers. It deprives the provincial officials of a great weapon of authority and fertile source of revenue, while it creates a new class of officials under the direct orders of the Board of Justice in Peking and independent of the provincial authorities. The change can only be distasteful to the latter who will be ready to criticise the parallel position of the new law officers as well as their work. The future alone can show whether the people will benefit and whether Chinese justice will be any less venal or more real than it was under the old system.\n\nThe prominent position given in the introduction of judicial reform to the opening of shenpantings in the open ports suggests that one of its main objects is to deal with international cases, and experience of the sheupanting at Tien-tsin shows that foreign interests are likely to be seriously affected. Every effort will probably be made to deny to foreign consular officials their treaty right effectually to watch proceedings in court, sitting as assessors and intervening on behalf of the foreign plaintiff when necessary. From this point of view the new system may be regarded as an attempt to... \n\nPage 495",
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        "content_text": "## Judicial Reforms\n\nThe Chinese Government have introduced a new judicial system with the object of undermining the extra-territorial jurisdiction of the treaty Powers. In this connection His Majesty's consul-general at Chengtu observes that the new system is in all essentials the same as that introduced into Korea by the Japanese advisers of 1891 and the constitution of the courts is practically identical with the Japanese.\n\nIn view of the importance of the reform, the following sketch of the new judicial system and the constitution of the courts may be of interest.\n\nAt the foot of the scale is the preliminary court, or court of first instance, which is to be established in each \"hsien,\" or county town, of each department; above this is the district or assize court to be established in every \"fu,\" or prefectural city, and at independent sub-prefectural cities. From the district court an appeal lies to the provincial high court, and thence to the final court of appeal, or cassation, in Peking. In the more distant provinces branches of the final court are to be attached to the high courts.\n\nThe high court is presided over by a \"president\" who ranks with the judicial commissioner. It has a civil and a criminal side, each of which is provided with a judge and two puisne judges. An assize court has a \"president and judge,\" with one assistant judge for civil and one for criminal cases, while a court of first instance should be under an assistant judge. Attached to each court is a staff of secretaries, clerks, ushers, &c. The high court and the assize court each have a \"procurator-general\" assisted by a \"procurator,\" and a court of first instance a \"procurator\" only. The duties of these officers combine those of Crown advocate and sheriff. All officers of, or above, the rank of puisne judge or \"procurator\" are styled law officers, and are selected by examination, except the \"president\" and \"procurator-general,\" who are appointed by commission from the Throne. The examinations are held in Peking, except for the more distant provinces, which receive examiners from the capital.\n\n## Prisons\n\nHis Majesty's consul at Nanking reports that a step is being made towards prison reform on western lines by the establishment of a model gaol for offenders convicted of the less serious crimes. The prisoners are properly fed, and made to keep their cells clean and take regular exercise. They are also taught a trade, and earn wages which are remitted to their families. His Majesty's consul at Pakhoi reports that Kuo taotai has caused the prisons of Ch'in Chou to be conducted on similar reformatory lines. In November a training school was opened at Chungking for 700 rural police for the neighbouring country districts. In Kiangsu an attempt is being made to police the streets of Isinghua and a police system has been inaugurated at Huai An Fu.\n\n## Other Reforms\n\n### Standardisation of Weights and Measures in Szechuan\n\nHis Majesty's consul at Chungking reports that an attempt is being made to introduce the standardisation of weights and measures of length and capacity, but great difficulties are being met with in regard to weights owing to the confusion and opportunities for cheating attending the transition stage.\n\n### Post to Thibet\n\nThe Imperial Chinese post is extending its service from the former western terminus of Tachienlu to Batang, a difficult portion of road notorious for robbers, and a similar extension is to be made from Lbassa to Chiamdo. The two lines are doubtless eventually intended to effect a junction.\n\n## Railways\n\n### Tien-tsin-Pukou\n\nThe coupling of the Tien-tsin-Pukow with the Peking-Mukden Railway is now an accomplished fact. The opening ceremony was performed on the 19th December. The Tien-tsin terminus is what was formerly known as the \"city station,\" now called the Tien-tsin Central Station. A regular service of construction trains runs between Tien-tsin and Tsinan, the journey occupying some fourteen hours. The line is open to Taian-fu, 76 kilom, south of Tsinan. On the southern section construction trains now carry passengers, and the section between Pukow and Lin Huai Kuan will be opened to traffic in spring.\n\n### Hankow-Canton Railway\n\nVery little progress has been made on the Changsha-Chuchou section. About 14 miles of sleepers and rails have been laid between Chuchou and Chaoshan, but the permanent way has not been ballasted, and no bridges have been erected. Between Chaoshan and Changsha the road-bed is being made. It is hoped to complete the line from Yochow to Chenchou in about five years.\n\n### Szechuan-Hankow Railway (Hupeh Railways)\n\nConsiderable progress has been made during the quarter. At Ichang three godowns and an engine shed at the wharf are finished, and the east-gate station buildings are nearing completion. The first tunnel of about 1,000 feet, at about 12 miles from Ichang, has been pierced, and a construction train runs for a mile or two.\n\n### Canton-Kowloon Railway\n\nThe British section of Canton-Kowloon Railway was opened during the quarter as also the first section of the line at the Canton end.\n\n### Canton Kowloon-Yueh-Han Railway\n\nIt is proposed to build a line connecting the Yueh Han and Canton Kowloon Railways. This line of some 3 or 4 miles would pass through the north-east suburbs of Canton. The route has been surveyed and presents no engineering difficulties. The line would soon pay.\n\n### Shanghai Hangchow-Ningpo Railway\n\nThe Chekiang Railway Company have gradually carried out improvements on the permanent way so that the line is at present in fair condition. A handsome red brick station has been erected within the Hangchow city walls and is practically complete.\n\nIt is rumoured that work is soon to be stopped on the Ningpo-Shaoshing section for lack of funds.\n\n### Peking-Kalgan Railway (Chang Sui extension)\n\nThe distance from Kalgan to Sui Yuan Cheng is about 220 miles by the proposed route via Tatung-fu. The rail-head has reached Tsai Kou Pu 30 miles from Kalgan. It is expected to complete and open the whole section to Tien Chen Hsien by the end of the year, but the Board of Communications have ordered the suspension of construction beyond this point for four years.\n\n### Taichow-Shiherhwei Railway\n\nThe construction of the Taichow-Shiberhwei Railway and the raising of the necessary funds has been sanctioned in Peking. It is estimated to cost about 2,250,000 taels, but it is not clear where the money is to come from.\n\n### Fokien Railway (Chang-Hsia)\n\nThe railway is being mismanaged and work continues very slowly-10 miles complete. It is proposed to carry the line round Pholum which will add to its length, but obviate expenditure on a large bridge.\n\n### Kiangsi Railway (Nan-Hsün)\n\nWork is proceeding slowly and trains run as far as Wang Lao Men, about 20 miles from Kiukiang Station.\n\n### Tsingtau\n\nThe growing importance commercially of the port of Tsingtau is shown by the fact that German mail steamers from Europe call now regularly both on outward and homeward voyages. The P. and O. Company is now sending intermediate steamers to Tsingtau and the Messageries maritimes are contemplating similar action.\n\nPage 496",
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        "content_text": "## Mr. Sundius to Mr. Clementi\n\nSir,\n\nThe statement contains nothing to the contrary, arrived at its destination in the interior. They appear to have informed the legation that the drug was still their property.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nA. J. SUNDIUS.\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n### Mr. Clementi to Consul Sundius\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hong Kong, February 24, 1911 is not present, the correct date is found in the following letter.\n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 1 is missing, instead Enclosure 5 is present \n\n### Mr. Clementi to Consul Sundius\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hong Kong, February 10, 1911.\n\nI AM directed to forward for your information the enclosed memorandum which was handed to me by a representative of Messrs E. D. Sassoon and Co., on the 10th instant, and to request you to be good enough to enquire into the circumstances of the seizure of these thirteen chests of Indian opium, and, if the facts are as stated, protest against the seizure.\n\nI am, &c. (In the absence of a Colonial Secretary),\n\nG. CLEMENTI\n\n## Enclosure 6 in No. 1\n\n### Messrs. David and Messrs. E. D. Sassoon and Co. to Mr. Clementi\n\nHong Kong, February 23, 1911.\n\nAS we understand that you have as yet received no reply from His Britannic Majesty's consul at Amoy with regard to the seizure of the three chests of Bengal opium and ten chests Malwa opium in the district of Wing Ting, we shall be much obliged if you will be good enough to urge the consul to press the Chinese officials to restore the opium to the owner as speedily as possible.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\nDAVID SASSOON AND Co.  \nE. D. SASSOON AND Co.\n\n## Memorandum\n\nTHE country people in the district of Wing Ting, in the prefecture of Ting Chou, Fukien province, seized, on the 19th day of the 12th moon (i.e., 19th January), three chests Bengal opium and ten chests Malwa opium shipped from Hong Kong to Amoy. The owner has protested to the magistrate of Wing Ting, with whom the opium is now held, but he has received no redress. The opium had the usual customs transit certificate—duty and li-kin having been paid in Amoy. Moreover, the owner had trading licences. The opium was seized not by the officials on account of any infraction of the laws of the province, but by the anti-opiumists, who handed the opium to the magistrate.\n\nThe name of the owner is: Mr. Kong Shau Sun, of Messrs. Nam Mi Shop.\n\nHong Kong, February 10, 1911.\n\n## Enclosure 4 in No. 1\n\n### (Translation) Note by Ho Taotai\n\n1st month, 19th day (February 17, 1911).\n\nON the 17th of the first month I had the honour to receive your despatch to the effect that the foreign firm of Sassoon and Co. at Hong Kong had sold thirteen chests of opium to the firm of Nan Mei at Amoy, that this latter firm paid the duties and took the stuff under pass to Yung Ting Hsien, where it was seized by the Opium Abolition Society, and handed over to the magistrate. You request me to order him to release it.\n\nI have instructed the Yung Ting magistrate to make a thorough investigation of the circumstances, and report to the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, who will deal with the matter and reply to your despatch.\n\nCompliments.\n\n(Card of Ho Taotai).\n\n## Enclosure 7 in No. 1\n\n### Consul Sundius to Acting Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong\n\nSir,\n\nAmoy, March 2, 1911.\n\nI BEG to acknowledge the receipt of your two communications of the 10th and 24th ultimo having reference to the alleged seizure at Yung Ting Hsien of opium sold by Messrs. Sassoon & Co. to the native merchant.\n\nOn receipt of the first of your letters I communicated with the Chang Chou taotai, in whose jurisdiction Yung Ting Hsien lies, demanding that the drug be released, and in due course received that official's reply to the effect that he had directed the magistrate of the district in question to report on the matter to the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs at Foochow who would reply to my despatch.\n\nI have again written to the Chang Chou taotai to the effect that there was no good purpose served by bringing in other authorities and thus delaying matters and reiterating my request that the goods be released forthwith. I have also addressed the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in the same sense.\n\nFrom the fact that the highest local authority declined without delay to deal with the matter personally and shifted the responsibility on to the provincial Government, I am of opinion that this action on the part of the Opium Abolition Society and the magistrate is due to inspiration from head-quarters, and that further local correspondence will only be useful as a reminder that such action is protested against. The matter will have to be referred to Peking, but prior to my sending the case for treatment by His Majesty's Minister, I must await a communication from the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, in order that I may know what line he is taking in justification of this apparently high-handed procedure.\n\nAt the same time I may mention that the seizure was effected, not by the peasantry, but by the local representatives of a widespread association, having its head-quarters in Peking, with branches and sub-branches throughout the whole Empire. The organisation has the approval of the central Government, and has as its chief a member of the Imperial Family with the title of \"Chin Yen Ta Ch'en.\" The object of the association is the absolute suppression of the opium habit, and from the information at my disposal it appears to be setting about its work whole-heartedly without any ulterior motive. Private supplies of opium are confiscated, and smokers are punished irrespective of their position. The cultivation of the poppy is rigorously...\n\nPage 573  \nB 2",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Rose to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 14. Confidential.)\n\nTengyueh, March 13, 1911.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to report that the Taotai Keng has not shown the courtesy to my British colleagues that is expected during his tenure of office in Tengyueh.\n\nI have the honour to request that your Highness's Government will issue stringent instructions to the taotai to take effective steps to punish the raiders from Chefang, and generally to enjoin upon him the desirability of evincing a friendlier disposition towards His Majesty's consul and the Burmah Government officials.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General O'Brien-Butler to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 17.)\n\nYünnan-fu, March 24, 1911.\n\nSir,\n\nWITH reference to Mr. Rose's telegram of the 11th March, reporting that 200 Chefang men, subjects of China, had entered Burmah and burnt the village of Pangsheng, I have the honour to report that I brought the matter to the notice of the Administrator of Foreign Affairs, and in due course received from him a despatch on the subject, copy of which I have the honour to enclose herewith.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nP. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER.\n\nThe taotai states that the circumstances at Chefang are being exceedingly riotous, and that instructions have been issued to the sub-prefect of Kuei Kai to proceed to the spot and restore order. He further states that as the matter is of a serious nature, a telegram has been sent requesting that all local Chinese officials may be at once informed.\n\nThe taotai again sent an express to carry instructions, both in despatch and letter, to the sub-prefect, Chang, of Lung Ling, commanding him to go in person without delay to the frontier and examine the particulars and report, and also telegraphed to the delegate, Chou, who is in charge of the cases of crossing the boundary to till ground, ordering him to go without delay to Chefang and make investigations together with the Sub-prefect of Kuei Kai in Burmah.\n\nThe taotai closes his statement by saying that he will send another telegram when investigation has been made. Referring to Mr. Rose's statement in his despatch, it is found that a Burmese bandit is in league with Chinese bad characters to burn and loot; this being so, the chief bandit is a Burmese who collects Chinese as his followers, and it is not that Chinese themselves presume to cross the boundary and burn villages. He requests me to take note of his statement and inform you.\n\nI, as in duty bound, write this to give you the information now obtained, and I will again address you in a despatch when I receive another telegram.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nHSIA.\n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nChinese Administrator of Foreign Affairs to Consul-General O'Brien-Butler.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office, Yünnan-fu, March 18, 1911.\n\nON receipt of your letter, stating that 200 Chinese had crossed the boundary and gone to Pangsheng village in Burmah and burnt the place, I telegraphed at once to the taotai at Tengyueh, requesting him to investigate the matter.\n\nI acknowledged receipt of your note.\n\nThe investigations made, the taotai replies to the effect that, when he was at Man Ai on the 14th day of the 12th moon last, he received a despatch from the consul (Mr. Rose) as follows:\n\n\"I am in receipt of a despatch, in which it is stated that a bandit of Po Wang, in Burmah, named Tsao Lo, has been committing depredations, and now intends to collect a following and take action against the chief of Lieh Mong for the purpose of injuring him. It is further stated that Po Wang is close to Chefang and Meng Pan (in Lung Ling), and the bandit consorts regularly with the savages of the two places to commit robberies, his followers being very numerous. It is heard that Tsao Tu, resident of Wa Ch'iung village, in Chefang, is a slave of this bandit. Unless Chinese officials assist in the search for this man, people on both sides of the frontier will suffer loss. I am therefore requested to send you a despatch, asking that the Tu Ssu of Chefang may be instructed to act in conjunction with the sub-prefect of Kuei Kai to arrest this bandit so that he may not take refuge in Chinese territory and disturb the peace.\"\n\nThe taotai found that, as Tsao Lo, the bandit of Po Wang, has often stolen property, to the disturbance of the peace, and as the places in question are close together, no matter whether there are followers of the chief in Che and Meng, it is necessary to assist at once in the search in order to maintain peace on the frontier, and to strengthen friendship between the neighbouring countries, and accordingly sent instructions to the sub-prefect of Lung Ling to order the Tu Ssu of Chefang to take action as commanded.\n\nThe taotai further states that on the 11th day of this moon he again received a despatch from Mr. Rose as follows:\n\n\"I am in receipt of a telegram from the taotai on the north to the effect that a bandit, named Tsao Lo, with more than 200 Chinese of Chefang, has just entered his jurisdiction and burned P'eng Sheng village in Po Wang, his following...",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[19442]\nCO 23536\n[May 22]\n\n### SECTION 2\n\n#### No. 1\nExtract from Report by Mr. Ramsay for the Quarter ending December 1910.-(Received at Foreign Office May 22.)\n\n[See Enclosure in Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 176 of April 25, 1911.]\n\n## Railways\n\nTien-tsin-Pukow.-The coupling of the Tien-tsin-Pukow with the Peking-Mukden Railway is now an accomplished fact. The opening ceremony was performed on the 19th December. The Tien-tsin terminus is what was formerly known as the \"station,\" now called the Tien-tsin Central Station.\n\nCity trains run between Tien-tsin and Tsinan, the journey occupying some fourteen hours. A regular service of construction trains runs on the line, which is open to Taian-fu, 76 kilom. south of Tsinan. On the southern section, construction trains now carry passengers, and the section between Pukow and Lin Huai Kuan will be opened to traffic in spring.\n\nHankow-Canton Railway.-Very little progress has been made on the Changsha-Chuchou section. About 14 miles of sleepers and rails have been laid between Chuchou and Chaoshan, but the permanent way has not been ballasted, and no bridges have been erected. Between Chaoshan and Changsha, the road-bed has been made. It is hoped to complete the line from Yochow to Chenchou in about five years.\n\nSzechuan-Hankow Railway (Hupeh Railways).-Considerable progress has been made during the quarter. At Ichang, three godowns and an engine-shed at the wharf are finished, and the cast-gate station buildings are nearing completion. The first tunnel of about 1,000 feet, at about 12 miles from Ichang, has been pierced, and a construction train runs for a mile or two.\n\nCanton-Kowloon Railway.—The British section of Canton-Kowloon Railway was opened during the quarter, as also the first section of the line at the Canton end.\n\nCanton Kowloon-Yueh-Han Railway.-It is proposed to build a line connecting the Yueh Han and Canton Kowloon Railways. This line of some 3 or 4 miles would pass through the north-east suburbs of Canton. The route has been surveyed and presents no engineering difficulties. The line would soon pay.\n\nShanghai Hangchow-Ningpo Railway.-The Chekiang Railway Company have gradually carried out improvements on the permanent way, so that the line is at present in fair condition. A handsome red brick station has been erected within the Hangchow city walls and is practically complete.\n\nIt is rumoured that work is soon to be stopped on the Ningpo-Shaoshing section for lack of funds.\n\nPeking-Kalgan Railway (Chang Sui Extension).--The distance from Kalgan to Sui Yuan Cheng is about 220 miles by the proposed route via Tatung-fu. The rail-head has reached Tsai Kou Pu, 30 miles from Kalgan. It is expected to complete and open the whole section to Tien Chen Hsien by the end of the year, but the Board of Communications have ordered the suspension of construction beyond this point for four years.\n\nTaichow-Shiherhwei Railway.-The construction of the Taichow-Shiherhwei Railway and the raising of the necessary funds has been sanctioned in Peking. It is estimated to cost about 2,250,000 taels, but it is not clear where the money is to come from.\n\nFokien Railway (Chang-Hsia).--The railway is being mismanaged, and work continues very slowly—10 miles complete. It is proposed to carry the line round Pholam, which will add to its length, but obviate expenditure on a large bridge.\n\nKiangsi Railway (Nan-Hsün).-Work is proceeding slowly, and trains run as far as Wang Lao Men, about 20 miles from Kiukiang Station.\n\nPage 116",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nconsist of piece-goods and sundries, including kerosene oil. The Chinese population of Chientao is very small; but there are at least 100,000 Coreans, considerable numbers having entered the district since the Japanese annexation of Corea. The Coreans work as farm labourers for the Chinese landowners, but do not exert themselves to produce more than sufficient to furnish the proportion of the estimated yield due to the owners of the soil and to feed and sustain themselves. In Hunchun the agriculturists are Manchus, and the traders mostly immigrants from Shantung. Last year an attempt was made to introduce into the Hunchun district a colony of Chinese from the Yang-tsze region. The experiment proved a failure. Of 320 men, women, and children who arrived during the summer, 280 left in the autumn. Accustomed to rice, the immigrants found the local food-stuffs, namely, flour and millet, unpalatable and were dissatisfied with conditions generally.\n\nThe present practice in regard to the free zones on the Russo-Chinese frontier in the Hunchun neighbourhood is different from that prevailing elsewhere along the Russo-Manchurian borders. The Russian authorities admit all Chinese goods into the Primorsk free of duty, with the exception of certain specified articles such as native cloth manufactured in Hunchun, of which a test case was made by the Chinese, without, however, inducing any change of procedure. The Imperial Maritime Customs restrict the privilege of exemption from duty to goods emanating from the free zone of one country and destined for the free zone of the other, a proceeding which would seem to be in strict conformity with the wording of article 1 of the regulations for trade by land attached to the treaty of 1881. The position is manifestly not a satisfactory one, and a discussion of new regulations is pending. Objection was raised by the Japanese to a proposal of the Imperial Maritime Customs to establish barriers at a point on the frontier opposite Huining, at Ta Tu Chu'an on the Tiumen, and at a place on the Hunchun-Primorsk border. The object of these proposed barriers was to check the place of origin and destination of goods, and the ground of the Japanese protest was that customs duties can only be levied in the treaty ports or marts, and that duty-collecting barriers are contrary to treaty. It is pertinent to state that Pogranitchnaya (Suifenho), at which duty is charged on goods transported by the Chinese Eastern Railway, is neither a treaty port nor treaty mart.\n\nThe Japanese are making extensive repairs to the Corean roads leading to the Tiumen, and Mr. Eitaki, the Japanese consul-general at Lung Ching Ts'un or Liu Tao Kon, who was for some years consul-general for Japan in Shanghai, now has the title of Excellency. Five thousand Japanese troops—not, it is said, 15,000 as formerly stated—consisting of one regiment of cavalry, one regiment of infantry, and one regiment of artillery (six batteries, each of six guns) are quartered at Ranan, a newly-built town in the vicinity of Cheong-jin. A detachment of these troops, one company, is stationed at Ungi; but the regular frontier guard is composed of gendarmes.\n\nThe Russians have not shown any recent activity on the frontier, but a lot of work is being done on the improvement of the forts and land defences of Vladivostock, and Captain Nadarov, who was formerly employed in the Department of Foreign Relations of the Chinese Eastern Railway, has been selected to establish a consular office—a vice-consulate, it is thought, at Yen Chi Kang. On the 1st January last the privilege formerly enjoyed by Chinese junks of trading between Vladivostock and Hansi, a convenient anchorage close to Possiet, was withdrawn. No sailing-vessel of Chinese type may now trade along the coast of the Primorsk unless the captain, owner, and half the members of the crew are Russian subjects. The Chinese entertain the idea of mitigating the effect of this requirement by employing Coreans who are Russian subjects. General Vernander, who (vide my despatch No. 30 of the 24th September, 1910) was sent last year to devise and superintend the improvement of the forts and land defences of Vladivostock, is stated to hold the opinion that Vladivostock should be reserved entirely for a fortress and naval stronghold, while M. Gondatti, the new Governor-General of the Priamur, is credited with being strongly anti-Chinese. The attitude of the latter in regard to the quarantine regulations for the Sungari, Amur, and Ussuri Rivers received some mention in my despatches Nos. 15 and 17, dated respectively the 18th ultimo and 6th instant, and it is of interest to record that large numbers of Russian labourers—at least, it appears, 2,000 or 3,000—have recently passed through Harbin on their way to Vladivostock to be employed on the work connected with the strengthening of the forts and land defences of that port. The intention—as with the construction of the Amur Railway—is to employ no Chinese labour. Doubt is entertained as to whether this project is feasible. The Russian Minister of War, M. Suhomlinoff, went through Harbin a few days back en route to Vladivostock.\n\n## 3\n\nColonel Willoughby, the military attaché to His Majesty's Legation, has, I think, a map which will show the position of most of the places in the Hunchun and Chientao districts mentioned in this despatch.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**Enclosure 2 in No. 1**\n\n## Memorandum by Lieutenant-Colonel Willoughby\n\n### H. E. SLY.\n\nAs regards the population (refer to Mr. Sly's report, p. 2) of the region between the Tu-men and the Hai-lang-ho, it was surprising to find how largely it is Corean. The district magistrate of the newly created district of Ho-Lung-hsien (formerly called Ta-La-Tzu) informed me that practically the whole of his rural population were Coreans, the Chinese minority (almost entirely Shantung people) consisting of a sprinkling of small traders, innkeepers, carters, and muleteers, limited practically to the main roads. As regards Corean immigration, I passed a continual stream of Corean refugees, whole families with their household belongings on their backs, in carts, and on pack animals, on the road between Liu Tao Kou and the Tumen, fleeing from Japanese rule. (It was just after the annexation of Corea.)\n\n2 (refer to Mr. Sly's report, p. 2). As regards improvement of communications in and to North-Eastern Corea, the Japanese desire that the easterly continuation of the Chang Ch'un-Kirin Railway shall run, not to Hun-chun, but south from Yen Chi Fu via Liu Tao Kou and Ho-Lung-hsien to the Tumen River, near Ch'i Ch'a Ch'u, and, crossing that river, link up with the future Japanese line from Sei Shin (Chong Jin) to Hui-Ning (Hoi Ryong). The present 18-inch trolley line between the two latter places is 57 miles long, and crosses the \"divide\" between the Tumen valley and the sea coast at the Mo San Ling pass, where the gradient is very steep, and the sharp curves of the present narrow-gauge line necessitate complete realignment for a railway. The work of realignment is now being carried out, large gangs of coolies being at work on it when I passed (last September). At Sei Shin, also, the shore track under the cliffs was being widened by extensive rock-blasting operations. At Yu Cho (8 miles short of Sei Shin) where the trolley line leaves the mountains and enters the maritime plain, another line branches off south, skirting the foot of the hills, to Ranan (Lo-Nan) some 12 miles, a large well-laid-out Japanese cantonment and brigade head-quarters. From Ranan, again, a direct trolley line runs to Sei Shin, across the maritime plain (about 10 miles), joining the Hui-ning-Yu-Cho-Sei Shin line at the foot of the cliffs about 1 mile west of Sei Shin. From Ranan a short branch runs south-east to Tok Chin. Ranan itself is invisible from the sea, being in a basin surrounded by hills.\n\nAll along the mountain section of the trolley line, also, detachments of the pioneer battalion, stationed at Hui-Ning (Hoi Ryong) (\"Kwai Nei\" in Japanese) were at work repairing it and repairing the timber trestle bridges washed away by the recent heavy floods.\n\nThe trolley line is in a dangerous state of dilapidation, the timber culverts in many places quite rotten, and here and there broken through, and the very light rails twisted and irregular, causing frequent derailments. (I myself was derailed no less than six times between Hoi Ryong and Sei Shin, once when travelling fast down an incline.)\n\n3. The rumours I had heard in Peking of Russian encroachment along the Hunchun border, and of detachments being actually located at points on the Chinese side of the frontier, I found to be devoid of foundation. There was not a single Russian soldier across that frontier, the nearest troops being a small post of mounted frontier guards at the Russian customs barrier on the Hun-chun-Novo Kievsk road, 5 miles on the Russian side of the frontier.\n\nWedged in as Hunchun is between Russian and Japanese territory, I was surprised to note the meagreness of the Chinese military forces in that region, which lies absolutely at Russia's mercy, as there is a strong force of all arms at Novo Kievsk, and troops can be poured into Possiet in a few hours from Vladivostock. It would seem as though China recognises that her only safety in this remote corner of her Empire lies in the mutual jealousy of Russia and Japan.\n\nThe Chinese regulars of the 23rd (Kirin) division are scattered along the frontier in small detachments, policing the country-side in conjunction with detachments of the \"front district\" of the \"Hsun Fang-tui\" (provincial troops), the only \"district that has been left as such, the remaining four—viz., \"centre,\" \"right,\" \"left,\" and ...",
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        "content_text": "# .3812/1911.\n\n## Enclosure, in Sir John Jordan's No. 304 of July 25, 1911\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n**RED HOUSE,**\n\nHongkong, 10th July, 1911.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of June 21st transmitting a copy of yours to Sir E. Grey of June 17th, and I note with much regret that you take serious exception to my action in regard to certain recent negotiations which have taken place between myself and the Chinese Provincial Authorities at Canton. I trust that a somewhat fuller explanation of these matters will alter the views to which you give expression.\n\n2. I have during the last year had to deal with an unprecedented outbreak of crime in this Colony, of a very serious kind. Armed robberies accompanied by violence had become of constant, almost daily, occurrence both on land and water, many murders were committed, and burglaries and minor crimes were excessively frequent. One of the Chinese Members of the Legislative Council sought an interview with me and informed me that he had never known so bad a state of things during his long residence in the Colony. Every effort was made during 1910 to cope with this situation, but with no very marked success, since it is open to a criminal to at once escape to China, and he is probably in Canton before the crime is even reported to the Police.\n\n3. On January 3rd last, His Excellency Chang Ming Chi passed through Hongkong on his way to assume office as Viceroy of the Two Kwang Provinces at Canton, having been appointed by the Ministries at Peking on the recommendation of His Britannic Majesty's Minister.\n\nPage 390  \nPage 391",
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        "content_text": "LOGONG.\n\nNo. 10 OF 1911.\n\nAn Ordinance for the incorporation and regulation of the University of Hongkong.\n\nF. D. LUGARD, Governor.\n\n[30th March, 1911.]\n\nWHEREAS it is desirable to establish a University within the Colony of Hongkong for the promotion of Arts, Science and Learning, the provision of higher education, the conferring of degrees, the development and formation of the character of students of all races, nationalities and creeds, and the maintenance of good understanding with the neighbouring Empire of China:\n\nAND WHEREAS through the liberality and munificence of Sir Hormusjee Nowrojee Mody suitable buildings for a University are in course of erection upon certain Crown Land in the Colony which His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to grant for that purpose.\n\nAND WHEREAS many firms and individuals of British, Chinese and other nationalities have generously subscribed funds for the equipment and endowment of such University:\n\nAND WHEREAS it is desirable to incorporate the University and to provide for its regulation:\n\nAND WHEREAS the Hongkong College of Medicine (incorporated under Ordinance No. 2 of 1907) has agreed to become incorporated with the University of Hongkong constituted by this Ordinance.\n\nBE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Governor of Hongkong, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:\n\n1. There shall be established in the Colony of Hongkong a University with the name and style of \"The University of Hongkong\", by which name the Chancellor and other Members of the University for the time being are hereby constituted one body politic and corporate with perpetual succession and a Common Seal, and with full power by and in such name to sue and be sued, and without any further licence to take by gift or otherwise, purchase and hold, grant, demise or otherwise dispose of real or personal estate and with the other powers conferred by this Ordinance or by any Statute or Regulation made thereunder.\n\n2.-(1.) Should His Majesty the King himself deign to become a Visitor of the University or to appoint a member of the Royal Family in that behalf, His Majesty or such member of the Royal Family shall forthwith become a Visitor as aforesaid and shall exercise such powers of supervision as may seem good to him.\n\n(2.) The Governor of Hongkong and Chang Jên-chun, lately Governor General of the Liang Kuang provinces, shall be Patrons of the University. Additional Patrons may be appointed on the recommendation of the Court approved by the Governor-in-Council.\n\nPage 253",
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        "content_text": "List of Ex-officials from China who have taken refuge in Hongkong.\n\nC.0.11256: Enclosure 3.\n\n127\n\n1,255\n\nPage 127\n\nLi King Hi (Chung Sun), Viceroy of Yun Nam & Kwai Chow, at No. 39, Des Voeux Road West. (The Yun Nam Tin Mine Company.)\n\nChan Mong Tsang (Sing Sam) The Commissioner of Industry, Kwong Tung at No. 68, Caine Road.\n\nWong Ping Pit (Seung Sham) Police Taotai, Kwang Si, at No. 35, Robinson Road.\n\nChu Ham Yik (Chung Fu) Director of the Kwang Tung Embankments, at No. 1, Bonham Road.\n\nCheng Wing (Pok Shang) a Taotai of Kwang Tung at No. 12, Mosque Junction.\n\nNg Chung U, a Taotai of Kwang Tung, at No. 11, Seymour Terrace.\n\nSung Shau Ching (Mong Wan) Director of Kwang Tung Financial Board, at No. 47, Bonham Street.\n\nLau Hing Sheung (Ping Sun) subordinary officer of the Board of Law, at No. 62, Peel Street.\n\nLau Hing Tong (Tsi Pak) a Kwong Tung Tao Tai, at No. 7, Seymour Road.\n\nLau Hing Lau (Tso Chai) a Kwang Tung Magistrate, at No. 7, Seymour Road.\n\nNg Sik Wing (Chung Yin) adviser of the Kwang Tung Tuk Lin Kung So, at No. 1, Mosque Junction.\n\nSham Ping Kuk (Kwai Kan) a Kwang Tung Prefect, at No. 6, Mosque Junction.\n\nMa Tak San (Ming Sam) Major-General of Kwang Tung, at No. 27, Peel Street.\n\nNg Ping Shing (San Si) a Kwang Tung Sub-prefect, at No. 2 Mosque Junction.\n\nWong Siu Tsun (Sing Pak) a Kwong Tung Kui Yan, at No. 79, Wan Chai.\n\nWong Siu Yung, at No. 80, Wan Chai.\n\nLai Ching Kin a Shiu Hing Prefect, at 52, Shaukiwan.\n\nKong Shiu Tsun Superintendent for suppressing village robbers, at 30, Caine Road.\n\nPage 128",
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        "content_text": "Date. 1912\n\n25 March.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nOn\n\nAns 124. 25 Apr\n\nCO 12321\n\n253\n\n22 APR 12\n\n12321\n\nBonuses & messes Cheng Jui ki and Yeung sing u.\n\nRecommends grant of $90 and $70 respectively to them during leave of Mr da Cunha High's Grade Clerk Mr Tubbs.\n\n? Apprvd. Treasury.\n\nNext subsequent Paper\n\n9,244). Wt.26,046-17. 40,000. 11/11. A.&E.W.",
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        "content_text": "Page 201\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, \n\nHONGKONG, 25th March, 1912.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that during the absence on leave of Mr. J. C. da Cunha, Higher Grade Clerk in the Treasury, which was reported in Sir F. D. Lugard's Despatch No.247 of 29th June, 1911, his duties were performed by Mr. M. Azim, 2nd Grade, the latter's by Mr. Wong Shiu Ki, 4th Grade, and the rest of the work was carried out by Messrs. Cheng Sui Ki and Young Sing U, both in the 4th Grade, neither of whom, however, benefited pecuniarily owing to their grade. The Treasurer reports that \"they deserve recognition for doing their work well and for putting in overtime consistently in keeping it up to date\".\n\nI therefore recommend for your favourable consideration that Mr. Cheng should be granted a bonus of $80 and Mr. Yeung one of $70.\n\n2. The total amount which lapsed to the Treasury was $180.00: and Mr. da Cunha resumed his duties on the 1st March.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nClaud Severn\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nPage 202",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\nplo P Y.\n\n0.0.164\n\nminutta IIits booT OGN\n\n071 [iy xonid\n\nfi\n\nMe mit deT\n\nBİZ 1.90 €*e cu asjaxiQ\n\nPiracies on West River and Delta.\n\nMarch 1st. to June 30th., 1912.\n\n7\n\n070\n\n•\n\nG919 AUG 12\n\nThis list has been compiled from the Chinese Daily Press. Raids on villages close to waterways have been included as furnishing further evidence of the disturbed state of the Delta.\n\n5th. March, 1912: Hai Chiao (Tai Leung): 100 cases of piracy\n\n8th. do. Tseng Ch'eng Hsien:\n\n8th. do. Canton, West Suburb:\n\n# East Suburb:\n\n13th. do. Yang Cheng Pao.\n\n14th. do. Yang Ch'eng Pao. Three Dot Society reign of Terror inhabitants petition District Magistrate.\n\n15th. do. Yang Ch'eng Pao. Frequent robberies in.\n\nS.S. \"Kinshan\" and S.S. \"Hoisang\": Kuo in Pao. 10 robberies on 11th. instant.\n\n21st. do. Shih Ch'iao; Ch'i Shih Erh Hang. Struck by Rifle Shots.\n\n21st. do. Kao Ming Hsien to Canton: Raid on by 300 pirates. Ch'i Shih Erh Hang.\n\nS.S.\"Paul Beau\": Ferry boat pirated.\n\n22nd. do. S.S. \"Tai On\": Kuo in Pao. Hit by bullets off Whampoa 20.5.12.\n\n2nd. April, 1912: Kwei Chow, Shun Te Hsien:\n\n9th. do. Canton to Kamshan: Piratical attack on between Kongmoon and Hongkong. Ch'i Shih Erh Hang.\n\n11th. do. Huang Po Ch'iao, West River. reported since incep-tion of New Govern-ment. Piracy of the \"Nan Ching\" on 28th.ultimo.\n\nYang Cheng Pao. Piracy of launch and junk.\n\nCh'i Shih Erh Hang. Piracy of launch.\n\nCh'i Shih Erh Hang.",
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        "content_text": "To accompany N in\n\nN in No. 7.)\n\nTranslation of a despatch from the late Viceroy H. E.\n\nChang to the Managing Director.\n\n7th. November, 1911.\n\n223\n\nOwing to the outbreak of disturbances at Kwong Tung,\n\ntroops are required to be sent to the various places to maintain\n\nmilitary order, and in order to expedite the matter this Canton\n\nKowloon Railway will be required for transportation of troops\n\netc. Therefore this Railway should, in accordance with the agree-\n\nment, suspend traffic from 1 p.m. today to 1 p.m. the 12th.\n\ninstant, and be in readiness for use of military purposes.\n\nAs to the loss caused by the suspension of traffic it\n\nwill be dealt with according to the terms of the agreement.\n\nBesides communicating this matter by wire to H.E. the\n\nGovernor of Hongkong to whom I have also wired to the Board of\n\nPosts and Communications requesting them to address, and I here-\n\nwith write this to you for your information.",
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        "content_text": "RM-No. of fled aqooIT\n\nVe Sana poti ni. oud)\n\n.3gnu od dne: nosourust\n\nrobbers.\n\n(Yang Ch'eng Pao, July 27th.)\n\nTwo launches pirated between Tungkoon and Sneklung.\n\n(Chung Kuo Pao, July 29th.)\n\n238\n\n238\n\nEight junks pirated at Waichow; several persons killed.\n\n(Min Sheng Pao, July 29th.)\n\n-II d to erol Air 11. BOTİTU ¡9%\n\n151\n\nvod je dodoBog Dili let\n\nIve gt adladi. ADI\n\n2.\n\nOne battalion (ying) sent to Sheklung.\n\nTo ad; Jios, ni\n\n(.0910\n\n1 '9\n\nmiq aut\n\n.tude of gi*{ ***11 butely: #quo72\n\nDr. Iavery of who evo... oð einela Idden da siqqinë\n\nea ind buree and bounoï „ns'n) „nes] de Icool moiash. Tovih dar\n\n(... Ch. 101, Lİ ONX)\n\n.we utan sconti „JUİT i odpork ni duetudini\n\n• 1031 juk gud Ti\n\n* Ive I'm0}\n\n#\n\nJájrat de anį, * monui no „oda 1ui, mix\n\n(Ch'i Shih Erh Hang Shang Pao, July 30th. Tseng Ch'eng district disturbed; Government asked to send troops.\n\n(Min Sheng Pao, September 18th.)\n\nOne thousand men return from East River.\n\n(Ch'i Shih Erh Hang Shang Pao, September 27th.)\n\nGeneral Lung proceeds to East River with 1,000 men.\n\n(Yang Ch'eng Pao, September 29th.)\n\n4. West River Pirates levying tolls on firewood vessels.\n\nDistrict.\n\n5. Yeung Kong District.\n\n• JIHOL NO sugi. Ioa\n\nHoi Ping and Hokshan districts.\n\n(unded gimb (001 oul win)\n\nto anod sharqab to Domin\n\nnei to od nelun MË\n\n(Ch'i Shih Erh Hang Shang Pao, September 28th.)\n\nLarge numbers of \"Second Republican Party\" in En *Ping district. Troops despatched to restore order.\n\n(Kuo Min Pao, July 1st.)\n\nOn approach of troops, robbers retire from Kaochow to Young Kong and Lien T'an districts.\n\n(Kuo Min Pao, July 24th.)\n\nYoung Kong robbers defeated with loss of 200 killed.\n\n(Chung Kuo Pao, August 10th.)\n\nReported that, since outbreak of revolution, 800 robbers have been shot; 300 still in prison.\n\n(Yang Cheng Pao, September 6th.) Robbers attempt to capture village of Ch'ang She, Hoi Ping, but repulsed.\n\n(Kuo Min Pao, July 3rd.)\n\nRobbers numerous in Hoi Ping and Hokshan districts. One detachment (lien) of artillery despatched on 23rd.\n\n(Ch'i Shih Erh Hang Shang Pao, August 26th.)",
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        "content_text": "C O P Y.\n\nEdward Ezra & Co.\n\nLondon, 29th November, 1912.\n\nC. o. 693\n\nSummary of Situation in Provinces to date.\n\nChekiang. Prohibition which commenced on 17th February is still in force.\n\nKiangsi. Monopoly established for existing stocks on 15th June to be worked off 31st December, 1912. All importation prohibited and shops closed. Tutuh declared to Consul at Kiukiang on numerous occasions that the regulations were against native drug only. In spite of these statements Indian Opium is prohibited and numerous seizures reported at Chang-ning-Hsien and Kiukiang native city in September and October. Further seizures reported by telegram from Kiukiang yesterday.\n\n3 packages by Leking station Kiukiang city.\n\n4 101 by Magistrate Tekansien.\n\nby Magistrate Wanchi.\n\nMagistrates have threatened owners with several penalties such as fines amounting to $20,000 and also death. Prohibition enforced in Province and shops closed suddenly. On 15th September 7 chests were seized and burnt in Anking. On 24th September 14 chests were also seized at Tatung but released on dealers promising to ship back to Shanghai on paying fine of $1,200. On or about 18th September 47 packages were burned at Boon Yuen, also some 50 packages destroyed in other parts of the Province.\n\nProhibition now in full force over all the Province.\n\nA few shops are still open in Wuhu but a delegate arrived on 25th instant to close them all within a month.\n\nAnhui and Hupeh.\n\nProclamation issued in Wuchang sometime about 19th November prohibiting further importation and creating monopoly for all existing stocks in Province which must be worked off within six months. Yesterday 28th instant a further proclamation was issued making it a criminal offence to deal in opium.",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n366\n\nC. O.\n\n19041\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[21417]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[May 20.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n20 UNIC\n\n(No. 200.) Sir,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.---(Received May 20.)\n\nPeking, April 30, 1912.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 110 of the 6th ultimo, I have the honour to report that missionary and other refugees from Kansu and Shensi bring the information that the poppy is being widely cultivated in these two provinces. A British missionary, writing on the 29th March from the city of Fo-chiang Hsien, in Kansu, which was a great centre of production in 1910, says that, in order to keep people quiet during the unrest caused by the revolutionary movement, official intimation was made during the autumn that the suppressive measures would not be enforced, with the result that during the present spring the poppy abounds on hillsides and in valleys to the exclusion of every other crop except wheat. He further states that a proclamation in the name of the high provincial authorities was posted at Fo-chiang on the 28th March imposing taxes on all land under poppy and warning the people that no cultivation would be permitted next year.\n\nBritish missionaries who have returned to their stations in Shansi report that opium is now being largely cultivated in the central and southern parts of that province, which was declared free from cultivation in 1910, and is one of the five provinces from which Indian opium was excluded from the 11th September, 1911.\n\nHis Majesty's consular officers at Chengtu and Chungking continue to report the resumption of opium production in Szechuan, especially in the prefecture of Ya-chou Fu and in the Ning-yuan Fu or Chien-chang Valley, bordering on Yünnan, whence it has spread to the hill tribes, and they state that proclamations commanding eradication issued by the Chengtu authorities are not being enforced by the local officials. In some districts in the east of the province, still independent of Chengtu rule, opium is being cultivated, and troops have been sent to the districts of Tien-chiang and Liang-shan and to the department of Fu Chou to bring them under control and at the same time eradicate the poppy.\n\nHis Majesty's consul-general at Yünnan Fu reports that as much opium is now being grown in the east and west of Yunnan as in times of unrestricted cultivation, and that the area under crop in the immediate neighbourhood of the provincial capital is estimated at 40 per cent. of the area previous to the introduction of repression. He states that there is absolutely no attempt at concealment, that many fields lie along frequented high roads, and that he has been given to understand that no endeavour to curtail cultivation will be made during the present year.\n\nAs regards the province of Fukien, His Majesty's consul at Amoy reports that in the districts of An-ch'i and Tung-an, the latter a district from which the poppy had disappeared, cultivation recommenced as soon as the Imperial executive collapsed, and on the island of Amoy, behind the city of Amoy, poppy fields stretched in all directions on the 31st March, some still in flower, but the great majority ripe unto harvest with a good proportion of the capsules in process of being tapped, and he adds that the cultivation was being carried on by the local farmers without let or hindrance on the part of the authorities.\n\nIn the province of Chekiang, where the most vigorous efforts are being made by the authorities to exclude Indian opium, the poppy is reported to be under cultivation in at least two prefectures—Wenchou Fu and T'ai-chou Fu.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n[2502 u-]\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.",
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        "content_text": "3:33 \n\n30 \n\n**THE OPIUM EVIL** \n\nSince June, 1908, the Congress, on the request of the Executive, has appropriated $45,000 to enable the Government to secure international and national action for the mitigation or suppression of the evils connected with opium. Such international action has been secured at an expense wholly at variance with the large revenue which accrued to the Government as the result of the legal importation of prepared opium. This supply of $45,000 has been administered more than economically, and has enabled the Government to support for four years a commission composed from time to time of from one to three members, to send three delegates to an International Opium Commission in the Far East, and later three delegates and the necessary secretaries to an International Opium Conference at The Hague. Therefore, it is the mature conclusion of those who have, under the Secretary of State, been entrusted with the work connected with the national and international aspects of the opium question that the Congress, having financially supported the Executive in its successful effort to ameliorate the international aspects of a great evil by the cooperation of 12 States extending over a period of four years, that the Congress should speedily consider and pass the legislation so urgently needed to redeem the position of this Government, and to place it in the advanced line achieved in domestic legislation by a majority of the interested nations, and now formally agreed to by a conference composed of the delegates of 12 States representing the highest civilization of the West and East. \n\nWe have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servants, \n\n**HAMILTON WRIGHT**, \n\nOn behalf of the American Delegates. \n\n**FREDERIC L. HUIDEKOPER**, Secretary to the American Delegation. \n\n[Unofficial translation.] \n\n**INTERNATIONAL OPIUM CONVENTION** \n\nHis Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia in the name of the German Empire; The President of the United States of America; His Majesty the Emperor of China; The President of the French Republic; His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Emperor of India; His Majesty the King of Italy; His Majesty the Emperor of Japan; Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands; His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia; the President of the Portuguese Republic; His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias; His Majesty the King of Siam, being desirous to take one step further in the way marked out by the International Commission at Shanghai in 1909; resolved to pursue progressive suppression of the abuse of opium, morphine, cocaine, as well as drugs prepared or derived from these substances giving rise or which may give rise to analogous abuses; taking into consideration the necessity and the mutual profit of an international understanding on this point; being convinced that they \n\n31 \n\nwill meet in this humanitarian effort the unanimous adhesion of all the nations interested, have resolved to conclude a convention for this purpose and have appointed as their plenipotentiaries, to wit: \n\n| Country | Plenipotentiaries |\n| --- | --- |\n| His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia | His Excellency Mr. Félix de Müller; Mr. Delbrück; Dr. Grunenwald; Dr. Kerp; Dr. Rössler |\n| President of the United States of America | Bishop Charles H. Brent; Dr. Hamilton Wright; Mr. H. J. Finger |\n| His Majesty the Emperor of China | His Excellency Mr. Liang Cheng |\n| The President of the French Republic | Mr. Henry Brenier; Mr. Pierre Guesde |\n| His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Emperor of India | The Right Hon. Sir Cecil Clementi Smith; Sir William Stevenson Meyer; Mr. William Grenfell Max-Müller; Sir William Job Collins |\n| His Majesty the King of Italy | His Excellency Count J. Sallier de la Tour, Duke of Calvello |\n| His Majesty the Emperor of Japan | His Excellency Mr. Aimaro Sato; Dr. Tomoe Takagi; Dr. Kotaro Nishizaki |\n| Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands | Mr. J. T. Cremer; Mr. C. Th. van Deventer; Mr. A. A. de Jongh; Mr. J. G. Scheurer; Mr. W. G. van Wettum |\n| His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia | Mirza Mahmoud Khan |\n| The President of the Portuguese Republic | His Excellency Mr. Antonio Maria Bartholomeu Ferreira |\n| His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias | His Excellency Mr. Alexandre Savinsky |\n| His Majesty the King of Siam | His Excellency Phya Akharaj Varadhara; Mr. Wm. J. Archer |",
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        "content_text": "## Translation of a despatch from the late Viceroy H.E. Chang to the Managing Director.\n7th November, 1911.\n\nOwing to the outbreak of disturbances at Kuang Tung, troops are required to be sent to the various places to maintain military order, and in order to expedite the matter this Canton Kowloon Railway will be required for transportation of troops etc. Therefore this Railway should, in accordance with the Agreement, suspend traffic from 1 p.m. today to 1 p.m. the 12th instant, and be in readiness for use of military purposes.\n\nAs to the loss caused by suspension of traffic it will be dealt with in accordance with the terms of the agreement.\n\nBesides communicating this matter by wire to H.E. the Governor of Hongkong to whom I have also wired to the Board of Posts and Communications requesting them to address, and I herewith write this to you for your information.",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n## Consul Wilkinson to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n**(No. 52.) Sir,**\n\nNanking, October 9, 1912.\n\nI HAVE the honour to enclose copies in English and Chinese of the letter which I addressed on the 20th ultimo to Governor Cheng, protesting, in the terms laid down in your despatch of the 12th September, against the proposed opium monopoly in this district and the forcible prohibition of all opium smoking at the end of the present year. To this communication I have received no reply; on the contrary, since I dispatched it, the governor has issued circular instructions to all civil administrators under his jurisdiction reminding them that the time limit fixed for the eradication of opium smoking is the 31st December next, and ordering all raw and prepared opium shops to be closed down by the 30th of next month.\n\nAccording to the local newspaper the governor is acting in the matter under direct instructions from Peking.\n\nI am writing to Mr. Cheng to-day expressing my surprise at this circular, in view of the protest which I had addressed him, and requesting a reply, for your information, at his earliest convenience. I propose, too, to call on him as soon as the festivities celebrating the anniversary of the republic are over.\n\nI may mention that the poppy was freely grown in the north of this province last spring, and that the import of native opium into Nanking continues.\n\nA house-to-house search for opium and opium smokers was carried out in Nanking at the end of last month. The residences of opium smokers are now placarded with notices announcing the fact, to the great disgrace, from a Chinese point of view, of the occupants. The general opinion appears to be that the authorities are not really serious in their intention to prohibit smoking totally at the end of the year, and that the present campaign is in the nature of a bluff to frighten smokers into giving up the habit. The result is expected to be very lucrative in any case for the police, to whom the duty of enforcing the prohibition has been entrusted.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n## Extract from Instructions\n\n\"You should inform the governor that Indian opium is a legitimate article of import into China, that the importer thereof has a right under treaty to dispose of that opium to whomsoever he pleases in the port of import, and that the closing of opium shops and the establishment of official bureaux, with the exclusive privilege to sell at Nanking or elsewhere in the province would be an infringement of that right. You should also inform him that the republican Government undertook to uphold all treaties and agreements with foreign Powers, that by the Opium Agreement of last year the British Government agreed, on certain conditions, to diminish annually the export of opium from India to China till its extinction in 1917, that the export of opium from India should cease in less than seven years if clear proof were given of the complete absence of production of native opium in China, and that Indian opium should not be conveyed into any province in China which could establish by clear evidence that it had effectively suppressed the cultivation and import of native opium, but that there is nothing in that agreement to indicate that the import of Indian opium into China must cease at the end of the present year, and that Indian opium will continue to be a legitimate article of import and trade until the conditions named in the Opium Agreement have been fulfilled by China.\n\nYou should at the same time remind the governor that by the Opium Agreement all laws dealing with the retail trade in opium must be made by the Chinese Government, and that provincial regulations on the subject are irregular and invalid.\"\n\nWith reference to the question of the production of native opium I would add that I recently made a journey up the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway as far as Linhuaikuan, in the course of which I ascertained that last spring opium was freely grown along the entire route of the line, from which the fields were plainly visible. I was also informed that there is a considerable illicit trade now going on with other provinces. In view of these facts, it would seem that it cannot even be claimed by this province that the cultivation of opium has been suppressed within its borders.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**F. E. WILKINSON.**\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n### Consul Wilkinson to the Governor of Kiangsu.\n\nNanking, September 20, 1912.\n\nTHE attention of this consulate was recently drawn by the British merchants at Shanghai engaged in the Indian opium trade to the proposed establishment by the chief police administration in Nanking of a bureau with the exclusive right of selling both raw and prepared opium, and also to a proclamation issued by the same administration totally prohibiting the smoking of opium after the end of the present year. It was pointed out by the merchants that the establishment of a monopoly would be at variance with the existing treaties, while the forcible prohibition of opium smoking at the end of the year was a violation of the Opium Agreement of 1911. They therefore requested me to make representations to you on the subject so that the proposed monopoly might be prevented and the proclamation withdrawn.\n\nYour Excellency will, of course, recollect that when you called at this consulate the other day I referred to the question of this proposed monopoly, of which I had already heard, and that you assured me in reply that the scheme, being undoubtedly at variance with the treaties, would not receive your sanction. In view of this assurance, which I duly communicated to the merchants, it is unnecessary for me to raise the question again. But of the issue of the proclamation fixing the end of the present year as the limit of time within which the consumption of opium must entirely cease I was not then aware. If such a step is really contemplated it cannot but very seriously affect the interests of all British merchants engaged in the Indian opium trade, and for this reason, before addressing you on the subject, I deemed it my duty to apply to my Government for explicit instructions as to the action which I should take.\n\nThese instructions have now been communicated to me by His Majesty's Minister at Peking, and are to the following effect...\n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n### Extract from \"Shen Pao\" of October 1, 1912.\n\n**FURTHER RIGOROUS PROHIBITION OF OPIUM BY THE SOOCHOW GOVERNOR.**\n\nGOVERNOR CHENG has issued circular instructions to the civil administrators of the various districts in the following terms:\n\n\"On the creation of the republic the most important task is to eradicate the opium poison. I have already fixed the end of the year as the time-limit by which the people of this province should have entirely given up smoking the drug, and this order is on record in the twenty-seventh issue of the `Official Gazette`.\n\nNow a prohibition of this sort, to be effectively carried out, requires the greatest energy on the part of the civil administrators, who should prepare various schemes, either for persuading the people or for restraining them forcibly. If the officials will co-operate with the guilds, and be active in making up for lost time, they will not be behindhand when the time-limit expires. Up to the present, various magistrates have reported that the really effective steps which they have been able to take to improve matters have been very scanty. They lay stress, however, on the difficulties to be met with, and they request me to indicate a procedure which may be promulgated for general observance. This is really a most unreasonable attitude, and amounts to a mockery of the important work of government.\n\n\"I have already received reports from various places, but only the districts of Hua Ting and Chang Shu and the central police bureau at Nanking have settled on a scheme and avoided empty talk in their reports. The method adopted by the district of Hua Ting is fair and easy to put into operation successfully. I have therefore combined together the methods adopted in these three places, and I hereby issue circular instructions to all magistrates to act in accordance therewith after a careful study as to which method is most applicable to their district.",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 12 in No. I.\n\n**Secretary Tso Shan of Opium Bureau to Dr. McCarthy's Teacher Chu.**\n\n(Translation.)\n\nDear Mr. Chu,\n\nOctober 7, 1912. In accordance with your wishes, I proceeded yesterday to the tutu's yamên to make enquiries.\n\nIn regard to the question with the foreigners, it appears that seven chests of opium were burnt, four of which had no bill of lading or transit certificate. Three chests had bills of lading, but no transit certificate. Although transit certificates are mentioned in the treaties, the goods imported were Chinese-owned and foreigners have no right to interfere. The bills of lading are in the nature of insurance for the merchants and there is no international question. Further, there were twenty packages not burnt which had transit certificates. The foreign date was changed into the Chinese date and was incorrect. The opium was, therefore, detained. Again, it was all discovered on the hulk, and it is not the case that it was removed from the steamer.\n\nThe opium dealers made one-sided enquiries, and Kuang Chang got the Liu Ch'eng Chi hong at Shanghai to intrigue with the foreign merchants. The latter, it is said, begged the consul to demand 50,000 taels compensation. But Anhui province is in very great straits for money and could not possibly pay such a large sum in compensation.\n\nI feel sure that with your love for your county you will be able to speak words of advice to Dr. McCarthy. The tutu will hold out to the bitter end and will never accept liability. I will leave the rest until we meet.\n\n## Enclosure 15 in No. 1.\n\n**Anhui Tutu to Consul-General Sir E. Fraser.**\n\nOctober 9, 1912.\n\nI regret greatly that owing to my having contracted a chill there has been a delay in returning your call.\n\nI have now recovered somewhat from my indisposition and I intend to repair on board His Majesty's ship \"Flora\" at 10 A.M. on the 10th October to call on you.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n## Enclosure 16 in No. 1.\n\n**Anhui Tutu to Consul-General Sir E. Fraser.**\n\nOctober 9, 1912.\n\nI very much regret that during the last few days our mutual ill-health has prevented our having a good talk.\n\nTo-day I am somewhat better in health and, as you are doubtless aware, I had written to appoint 10 A.M. to-morrow for returning your call.\n\nI have at this moment received your letter announcing your departure early to-morrow morning. I beg that you will remain a little longer, and I shall be much obliged if you will let me know whether you can postpone the ship's sailing hour until after 10 o'clock.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n## Enclosure 13 in No. 1.\n\n**Chi Keng-huan to Deputy, China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company's Hulk.**\n\n(Translation.) Sir,\n\nSeptember 14, 1912.\n\nThe superintendent of river police has informed me by telephone that he is detaining on board the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company's hulk three chests of opium consigned to the Ting Chang firm per the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship `Kiangkuan`, and has forwarded to me three bills of lading for the same. I have reported the above facts to the governor and am now in receipt of his verbal instructions to the effect that, as its importation is a gross contravention of the governor's proclamations on the subject, the opium is to be detained at this station and dealt with in accordance with the governor's orders.\n\nI have to request, therefore, that you will hand over the opium to this department, to which any dealer who may raise objections and remonstrate with you personally should be referred.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nCHI KENG-HUAN,\nChief Commissioner of Police.\n\n## Enclosure 14 in No. 1.\n\n**Chi Keng-huan to Deputy, China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company's Hulk.**\n\n(Précis translation.)\n\n[N.B.-Note identical with preceding note, except that in this case the name of the ship was `Kiang Hua`, and the number of chests four.]\n\n## Enclosure 17 in No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum communicated to Wai-chiao Pu.**\n\nWith reference to his memoranda of the 20th and 30th September on the subject of the seizure and destruction of seven chests of Indian opium at the city of Anking on the 16th September, His Majesty's Minister has the honour to inform the Wai Chiao-Pu that he has now received from His Majesty's consul-general at Shanghai a full report on his investigations regarding this matter.\n\nAt an interview which Sir Edward Fraser had at Anking with the Tutu of Anhui, the latter made no attempt to deny that the seven chests of Indian opium had been seized and destroyed by his direct orders, though he professed to defend his action by asserting that the seven chests were not covered by the necessary transit certificates. With the other arguments advanced by the tutu in support of his flagrant defiance of the solemn treaty obligations entered into by the late Manchu Government it is unnecessary for His Majesty's Minister to deal, as His Majesty's consul-general was able to procure conclusive proof of the falsity of the tutu's assertions in the shape of the actual transit certificates covering all the opium seized at Anking.\n\nThe facts of this outrage have been duly reported by telegraph to His Majesty's Government, who have now instructed His Majesty's Minister to inform the Chinese Government that they demand full compensation for the value of the opium seized and destroyed, and the publication throughout the province of Anhui of a proclamation embodying the terms of the telegram dispatched by the then Wai-wu Pu to the provincial authorities on the 15th June, 1911.\n\nSir John Jordan will communicate to the Wai-chiao Pu, as soon as it has been definitely ascertained, the value of the opium seized and destroyed.\n\nPeking, October 24, 1912.\n\nPage 415 \nPage 0 \nPage 10 \nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "## Record of Kong Kung-yan\n\n60411  \n24 FEB 13,358  \n\nKong Kung-yan, known locally as Kong Ha, \"The Shrimp\", is a Namhoi man and a Hanlin. Although belonging to the class of gentry, he is looked upon as a \"Hsia Liu Jen\", a low character. He is alleged to have made his money chiefly by interfering in lawsuits and bribing the magistrates, and to have spent most of it, as he made it, in brothels and wineshops. As an instance of his methods, the famous Li land case of four or five years ago is quoted against him. The cousins Li had a lawsuit over some land in Heungshan, the value of which was put roughly at one million dollars. One of the parties to the suit was persuaded by Kong to give him $140,000 in return for which he would assure his success in the case when it came before the Kuangtung Prefect. Kong kept the odd $40,000 to himself and handed over the round sum to his influential friend Admiral Li. Admiral Li pocketed a portion of the $100,000 and gave the balance to the Prefect. On the day of the trial Kong obtained another $8,000 as a \"refresher\" for introducing his protégé to the Prefect, and the case was won. This is one out of many instances of bribery alleged against Kong Ha.\n\nIn October, 1911, he intrigued for an official position, was taken up by the late Viceroy Chang Ming-ch'i and given the post of **Ch'ing Hsiang Tsung Fan**, to look after the clearing of villages of brigands. Just before the revolution broke out, he acted as intermediary between the Viceroy and the Republican Party. At that time his ambition was to be made the civil head of the Kuangtung Government, and he was still plotting for this end after Hu Han-min had been appointed temporary Tutu. However, the \"People's Army\" who came to the support of the Revolutionaries, consisted in great part of the brigands whom Kong had just been hunting down with such animosity. His life was threatened and he had to flee to Hongkong. He appears to have gone to Peking, where he invoked the assistance of influential friends to further his schemes in Kuangtung. In the present condition of affairs he dares not return openly to Canton.\n\nPage 360  \nPage 361",
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        "content_text": "## North River\n202 P'an Yu: 640 robbers, all armed, held a banquet at Kao Tseng Hsu, then they discussed question of levying toll on travellers etc.  \nCh'i Shih Erh Hang Pao 26.4.13.\n\nHu Men: Gunboat \"Kuang Heng\" had a 2 hours fight with pirates on 25th instant: 1 pirate vessel captured, 2 escaped.  \nKuo Min Jih Pao 29.4.13.\n\nCh'ing Yuan: robbery in Lung Ta'un: 8 men, 4 women and 4 oxen carried off.\n\nYang Cheng Pao 2.4.13.  \nNorth River: robbers are attempting to levy toll on transport of Kianghsi pottery: Tu Tu has instructed the Nan-shao-lien Sui Ching Ch'u to ensure safe transit.  \nHin Chih Pao 9.4.13.\n\nCh'ing Yuan: telegram from Hongkong Ch'ing Yuan merchants requests Authorities to relieve their native district from the oppression of robbers.  \nCh'i Shih Erh Hang Pao 11.4.13.\n\nYang Shan: merchants petition Authorities for protection against robbers, who have sworn to revenge themselves for repulse at Shui K'ou Hsu.  \nMin Chih Pao 15.4.13.\n\nCh'ing Yuan Hsien: merchants telegraph for help: trade at a standstill.  \nMin Chih Pao 24.4.13.\n\n## East River\nCanton-Vaichow: passenger boat sacked by pirates a day or two ago.\n\n## West of Delta\nPan Yu and Tseng Ch'eng: 18 robbers captured on 26th by Li Fu Lin.  \nCh'i Shih Erh Hang Pao 30.4.13.\n\nLo Ting Chou: telegraphic petition to Authorities of 30th ultimo: 1,000 robbers in district, who lately shot 15 house-holders and abducted over 80 women.  \nCh'i Shih Erh Hang Pao 1.4.13.",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 3\n\n| Name of Ship | Official No. | Tonnage | Date of Sale | Owners |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Chang On | 72,815 | 1,288.85 | 17.11.04 | Dai On |\n| Dai On | 72,859 | 474.96 | do. |  |\n| Chin On | 72,872 | 471.91 | do. |  |\n| Tai On | 72,896 | 612.48 | do. |  |\n| Ping On | 72,897 | 511.98 | do. |  |\n| Teh Hsing | 72,816 | 1,270.53 | 28. 7. 10 | Sun Ning |\n| Sun Ning | 114,370 | 85.24 | 14. 3. 11 |  |\n| Tung Ning | 120,136 | 144.60 | 14. 3. 11 | Hoong On S. S. Co., Ltd. |\n| Tai Ning | 120,157 | 144.60 | 14. 3. 11 | Hoong On S. S. Co., Ltd. |\n|  |  |  |  | Cheang Now S. S. Co., Ld. |\n\nPage 419",
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        "content_text": "## Canton\nThe report goes that wealthy people, as a result of the late scare by robbers, are transferring valuables to City pawnshops. Main Sheng Pao. 29.5.13.\n\n## East River\nTseng Ch'eng - The Chinese Pastor of the Anglican Mission has appealed to the Authorities for protection against robbers. Min Chih Pao. 3.5.13.\n\nTseng Ch'eng - soldiers sent by hsien made a futile attack on robbers at T'an Chiao Pu and lost 8 men. On returning with reinforcements, they found that the robbers had decamped. 72 Hang Pao. 13.5.13.\n\nTseng Ch'eng - sudden renewal of disturbances on withdrawal of troops. Min Chih Pao. 14.5.13.\n\n## Ta Li Pu Nam Hoi\nover 200 robbers on 11th instant plundered 43 houses, abducted 4 persons, and stole much money. The village \"tuans\" were afraid to make an appearance. Min Chih Pao. 14.5.13.\n\n## Tseng Ch'eng\n- Anglican Mission house destroyed, 200 houses pulled down, 500 persons shot; native pastor telegraphed to Canton for assistance. 72 Hang Pao. 16.5.13.\nTseng Ch'eng - robberies took place on nights of the 6th, 11th, and 12th instants. - Min Sheng Pao.\n\nTung Kuan - on 9th instant, 16 houses in a hamlet plundered and over 1 dozen cattle stolen. Min Sheng Pao. 16.5.13.\n\n## Tseng Ch'eng\nLi Fu Lin has captured the leader and 14 others of the Po K'o Hui in that district. 72 Hang Pao. 21.5.13.\n\n## P'an Yu\nThe Po K'o Hui is steadily gaining recruits and has spread to Namhoi and Shun Tak districts. P'an Yu forms the rallying point, so as to keep in touch with Tseng Ch'eng, Pok Lo, and Tung Kuan Lion, also because it is hilly and affords good hiding. Min Chih Pao. 30.5.13.\n\n## Canton-Kowloon Railway\nChang Ping station robbed by a gang of ten, who took all clothing and money. They intimated the purpose of levying $5.00 per mensem on each station as a guarantee of immunity from attack. Kuo Min Jih Pao. 31.5.13.",
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        "content_text": "## KOWLOON AND ADJACENT TERRITORIES\n\n|  |  |\n\n0 \nSa-tsiang \nFuk-yun \nHONG KONG, \n114' \n\nFOR CORRECTION AND RETURN WITH ANNUAL REPORT; See Circular of 30 April, 1903.\n\nCHUKIANG \nCANTON \nRIVER \n16' \n22' \n65\" \n\n### Territory under Convention of 1860 Boundary under Convention 1898\n\n| Location         |              |\n| ---------------- | ------------ |\n| Piang-ti         | TUNG         |\n| Shan             | Shak-ky WAN  |\n| Ten-ter          | Liong-tu-ho  |\n| Tong-poi         | Lung-kong    |\n| KUI              | Tong-lak     |\n| Kon-lan          | Hsin-hi      |\n| Shak-kong        | VoTai-Tong-tu|\n| Chong-hang-kang  | Wang-kong    |\n| Pan-ten          | \"Li-long\"    |\n| Shong-tung       | chun         |\n| Keishung         |              |\n| Pak-ahak-lung    | Pu-kak by    |\n| Mai m            | Wu-shak-ngam |\n| Apo-A            | Long-heu     |\n| Lung-fad         | Yong-tai-shan|\n| 30               | 55           |\n| BIAS             |              |\n| Pa-kongo         | Tiaam-kai    |\n| Ki-chun          |              |\n| TAI-PUNG-SANG    | Sa-ng-chung  |\n| BAY              | Wong-mug     |\n| Tiptuk           | Peng-shows   |\n| R                | Pit-chau     |\n| Namo             | Sai Houng    |\n| NAM-TAO          | Ha-tani      |\n| BÔ TẢI CHẠM      | Tai-san      |\n| Tai-san          | Ma-chau      |\n| Lin-tin          | Ping Cheng   |\n| BAY              | Wan had      |\n| Chak-wan         | HSIN NGA N   |\n| Lon-tong         | Lofong       |\n| Sam-chun         | (SUM-ON)     |\n| Lungteubhy       | Sha-tau      |\n| DEEP BAY         | OR HAU-HOI   |\n| Hein-ten         | Mi-pizo      |\n| Sheang           | chuk-yeng    |\n| Lim-shuto        | Pingshan     |\n| Kam-tin          | Lung-ku      |\n| Tai-shui-hang    | Chin-shan    |\n| O                | Pet-long     |\n| Nam-long         | YefShui-Jou  |\n| (Sachau          | ROAD         |\n| Song-chau        | Creasent 1.  |\n| Sha-to           | Yam-ten &    |\n| Sha-aukk         | Kat          |\n| Crooked I.       | okuk-pu      |\n| Wo-hang          | Wang-ling-tau|\n| Plover Cove      | 4            |\n| Tin-kok          | Shon-wana    |\n| Tai-po           | La-10        |\n| RAKWA            | Tai-mo-shan  |\n| Lok Lo           | 3            |\n| TOLO HARBOUR     | Talo         |\n| Channel          | Tai-shui-hang|\n| Tam-tea          | Ko-tongo     |\n| Bluff Hd         | ~* Chak-kanga|\n| Port Island      | Grass 1.     |\n| Tep-mun          | Tan-ka-wan   |\n| Mire             | Shak-hang    |\n| Hai-wang         | Pet-kong     |\n| Sai-kung         | Poke         |\n| fai-lam-chung    | Tsin-wan     |\n| Chun             | Ma-wan       |\n| Lai Chi Kok      | Kau-lung.    |\n| -hue             | -Be wand     |\n| Tai-             | Hapu-teaio   |\n| KOWLOON CITY     |              |\n| Sham Shui Po     | Mongriak     |\n| shan             | Tai-long     |\n| Fung Head        | Pchin-hang   |\n| Fung 3ay         | 1            |\n| Las-nai-wa       | Ping Pt      |\n| She wan          | High L       |\n| ter              | {wen-O       |\n| p-ong-wan        | Town 1.      |\n| 3 Basalt I.      | Triand       |\n| Chu-lu-kok       | HONG         |\n| Lighthouse       | Ping-chau    |\n| Green            | MOR          |\n| -KONG            |              |\n| \"sim-Sha         | Taiz         |\n| HAR              | Chau         |\n| VICTOR           | Tung-ahung   |\n| Chau-kung        | LAN-TAO      |\n| (TAI-U SHAN).    | Silver Mine  |\n| Aberdeen         | HONG KONG    |\n| Bay              | Tai-ku-abaw  |\n| Cheung-Chau.     | A-Chau'      |\n| Taiwan           | Lamma 1)     |\n| (Pok-Liu         | oShak-ku-WRI |\n| BAST             | LAMMA CHAN.  |\n| Ta-tong          | Yong-ma-kok  |\n| Fury Roaks       | Tai-long     |\n| Head             | [¿'Aquilar)  |\n| Chan             | Lo-chau      |\n| Wag-lan          | Sun-kong     |\n| Lighthouse       | Bu-doi       |\n| Ninepin Group    | Lam-tong 1.  |\n| Lap-sap-mi I     | 14           |\n| 27% K. LAT.      | LE MA        |\n| CHANNEL          | Chi-chau II  |\n| 114-             |              |\n| Kak-ten          |              |\n\nNOTE \nTerritory under Convention of 1860 Boundary under Convention 1898 \nEnglish Miles (00-18m \n1 \nSamun \nOrdnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1912.\n\nPage 60\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "# \n\n78 \n\nOn his own responsibility vacancy. \n\n3. appointing Chan Kwing-ming to the \n\nOn his return from Shanghai in the spring of 1912, Dr. Sun went direct to Canton, where he was royally feted, being welcomed with triumphal arches, tea-parties, and a reception on Shameen by the Commissioner of Maritime Customs. In Hongkong, he called on Dr. C. Severn, then administering the Government; he lived in the Hongkong Hotel and was hardly ever clear of visitors, people crowding outside the hotel to see him. \n\n4. Last month, Dr. Sun's arrival was unnoticed. He came from Shanghai secretly, but the fact that he was on board the English Mail seems to have been well known among the Chinese. He is most distinctly under a cloud and moved about unnoticed. One hears more of \"the man who has been trying to ruin China\" than of \"the great reform leader\". There are rumours, which are believed, that some of his photographs exhibited in the streets have been stoned. This is not verified, but the photographs are certainly less common. Sir Chen-tung Liang Cheng told Mr. Hallifax, the Registrar-General, on the 4th that beyond doubt Dr. Sun was now entirely discredited: that he was \"a demagogue, adventurer and liar and the people of China now saw through him as through thin paper\". Strong words which need to be discounted in view of the known political sympathies of the speaker: but with only a little discount, they seem fairly to represent the common view. Dr. Sun did not call at Government House, and I took therefore no notice of his presence in the Colony. \n\n5. In the meantime, Wu Hon-man, a satellite of Dr. Sun, had been relieved by President Yuan of the post of Governor of Kuangtung, to which he had returned last year after his expedition with Dr. Sun to Shanghai. Mr. Wu came down to Hongkong about a week ago and is now living in No. 31, Seymour Road. He is said to have brought a large sum of money with him and is exceedingly...",
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        "content_text": "# Despatch\n## From\n**Ch'en Chiung-ming**\n## To\n**H. M. Consul-General**\n### 18th day of July, 1913\n\n187\n\nKuangtung declares itself Independent of President Yuan Shih-k'ai. Whereas Yuan Shih-k'ai has plotted rebellion against the Republic and destruction of our undivided harmony and whereas within the last few days Kiangsi and other Provinces have announced that they no longer recognise him as President, now therefore the Provincial Assembly of Kuangtung have elected the undersigned as Tu Tu of Kuangtung and Commander-in-Chief of the T'ao Yuan Chun in the Province, the announcement being published on the 18th July.\n\nAs regards the maintenance of order in Kuangtung, instructions have been telegraphed to every District without exception to protect those places resided in by foreigners, missionaries and chapels, their lives and property. It is earnestly hoped that future relations will be most cordial and that the benefit of the Consul-General's assistance will not be withheld - that so International friendship may be cultivated.\n\nThe above announcement is now being circulated and His Majesty's Consul-General is thereof informed and requested to communicate it to Consuls at the various Ports (under his Jurisdiction).\n\n(Signed) **Ch'en Chiung-ming**\n(Doubly sealed with Seal of Tu Tu and that of Tu Tu and Min Cheng Chang)",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 5\n## Governor's Secret Despatch of 28 July 1913\n\n291 .Y 40 OP Y.\n\n### Translation\n\nThe Hongkong Electric-car Trouble has not ceased yet. Owing to the Hongkong Tramway Co. refusing to accept Chinese coins, trouble was therefrom created. It has not ceased yet. Yesterday there were several ignorant people who travelled in the electric-cars. When they alighted from the car, a Chinese followed them. On arriving at the door of the \"Hotel China\", the Chinese stabbed them in the buttocks with sacking needles. Also, there were several men who alighted from the car at Wanchai and who were stabbed and wounded; one of them was stabbed under the arm-pit and also penetrated his intestines. He was removed to Hospital for treatment, but whether he has recovered or not is unknown. Most of the persons who alighted from electric-cars at West Point and various places were stabbed and wounded.\n\n### Chang Kwok Yat Po of 14/12/12",
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        "content_text": "## CANTON INTELLIGENCE REPORT FOR THE T. ENDED 30th JUNE, 1913.\n\n### POLITICAL\n\nAt the date of the despatch of the last Intelligence Report (May 5th), the Canton Government had declared their intention to contest the autocratic methods of President Yuan in connection with the conclusion of the Reorganization Loan and to compel him, at whatever cost, to lay the Agreement before the Assembly for approval or else consider it annulled. The contest, if so it can be called, was over in a fortnight. Yuan telegraphed to Hu - as also to the Tu Tus of Kiangsi, Anhui, and Hunan - reprimanding him for what he could attribute only to ignorance or to stupidity. Li Yuan Hung let it be known that his army was prepared to support the Central Government. General Lung Chi-kuang appeared ready for an invasion from Kuanghsi. Even the people of Kuangtung showed no anxiety to come to the assistance of their own Government. One by one the various influential bodies in the province, the Chamber of Commerce, the Guilds, the District Assemblies, telegraphed to Peking their support of the Loan and their desire for the establishment of a strong Central Government. Only the Provincial Assembly, a body of no political or any other importance, sought to keep up the Loan agitation. On the 21st of May the newspapers published Hu's resignation on the score of ill-health and want of financial and political support. On June 9th a Presidential Mandate dismissed his colleague in Kiangsi, and five days later he was himself superseded by his Commander-in-Chief, Ch'en Chiung King, while the post of Civil Governor, Min Cheng Chang, was given to an ex-Imperial official in Kirin, Tu Tu Ch'en Chao-ch'ang. Hu was relegated to Tibet as Pacification Commissioner.\n\n*His relations with the people* Yuan telegraphed to the Army, \"were never...\"",
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        "content_text": "# Gr.26278.\n\n## Paraphrase of a telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n### Page 364\n(Received, Colonial Office, 4.5 p.m., 5th August 1913)\n\nA mutiny occurred amongst some troops at Canton on August 4th. Two companies of 25th Regiment Punjabis have been sent to protect Shameen.\n\nGovernor General Chang Ming... His family have come here. If he comes, I ask to be allowed to deport him.\n\nThe Provincial Council has rescinded declaration of independence; the Second in Command of the Troops has been elected Acting Governor and order is restored for the present. But he is a member of Kwomintang, so probably is disloyal to the President of the Republic.\n\nNo news of the advance of General Lung. Chinese here and in Canton are rejoiced at the prospect of the collapse of the revolt.\n\nIn the interests of order and trade of the Colony of Hong Kong, I recommend strongly that His Majesty's Government should urge the President of the Republic to seize the opportunity to send a capable, experienced, and loyal official as Governor General of Canton, and to replace various Commissioners of Departments there, except the Police Commissioner who is capable, by men of some degree of honesty, capacity, and experience.\n\nI would also urge that, in order to prevent further intrigues and disturbance of the peace, the steps recommended in my cypher telegram of 26th July should now be taken.\n\nMAY.",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nHONGKONG, GOVERNMENT HOUSE.  \n7th August, 1913.\n\nIn continuation of my Confidential Despatch of the 6th instant, I have the honour to inform you that since it was written the following bewildering events have happened.\n\n2. The Acting Tu Tu referred to in my cypher telegram of the 5th instant vacated his high office almost as soon as he was appointed. It is doubtful whether he was favourably disposed towards the President. In his place the Provincial Assembly, in which, owing to the departure of many members who fled the City, the Kuo Ming T'ang had an overwhelming majority, elected another Military Officer, who commands a Division opposed to the President, to be Acting Tu Tu. This man's name is Cheng. He declares that he will not submit to General Lung and he even talks, it is reported, of another declaration of independence. There is a rumour that last night serious fighting took place outside the City between two Divisions of the Army and there is grave fear of very serious disturbances. Meantime General Lung's force is not strong enough to force its way into Canton. This is much to be regretted.\n\n3. With the concurrence of the General Officer Commanding, I have suggested to the Commodore that it...\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE  \nLEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,  \n&C.**  \n80.1",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 14th August, 1913.**\n\n**72**\n\nSir,\n\nIn continuation of my Confidential Despatch of the 7th August, I have the honour to confirm my telegram of the 8th August, which was as follows:\n\nFor your information: the political position in Canton is still in a state of flux. The Governor Generalship has been resigned by the Commandant who held it and he is followed by another Military Officer. This officer is disloyal to Yuan and hostile to Lung who has not yet moved forward. There is danger of rioting in Canton, some conflicts between rival sections of the troops have taken place. Shamien has been strengthened by 200 more Punjabi soldiers.\n\n2\\. General Su, the officer commanding the 2nd division of the troops, was elected Acting Tu Tu by the Provisional Assembly but after 48 hours he vacated the post and Brigadier Chang Wo-chuan commanding the 5th Brigade of Artillery got himself elected Tutu on the 7th August. The mutiny against the Governor-General Chan Kwing-ming to which I alluded in my cypher telegram of the 5th instant and my Confidential Despatch of the following day was engineered by Huang Shih-lung, acting in the interest of President Yuan. Huang himself spent some days in this Colony and reached Canton on the 9th August and assumed the office of Commander-in-Chief with a view to arranging the peaceful...\n\nThe Right Honourable  \nLEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.  \n&c., &c...",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure in (Memorandum) Secret\n\n**Paraphrase telegram from Peking 14 August 1913**\n\nReceived: SEP 10\n\n**Governor, Hongkong**\n\nFor your information: the Foreign Office were wired today as follows:- the recommendation of Governor Hongkong has been communicated by me to President's private secretary who expressed gratitude for kind advice which he would communicate to Yuan. Would Mr. Wei Yuk make a suitable Tu Tu in the opinion of your Government?\n\n## Paraphrase telegram from Hongkong 18 August 1913\n\n**Peking**\n\nIn reply to your telegram of 14th instant, Wei Yuk is entirely unfitted as he has no financial or administrative ability. Mr. Jamieson, with whom I discussed the matter, is of opinion that the late Viceroy, Chang Hing Chi would be acceptable to Cantonese and would be a good appointment. I agree with the Consul-General. \n\nMay.",
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        "content_text": "## the Central Government. General Su was reluctant, but finally yielded to their representations. His first act was to cancel the Declaration of Independence and report in that sense to Peking. The announcement caused universal jubilation. The troops, who at an early stage had seized the Treasury, behaved with moderation and by nightfall all was peaceful in the City.\n\nOn learning during the afternoon of August 4th that the mutineers had entered Canton from their barracks at Yen Tang, outside the East Gate, that Ch'en and his Commissioners had taken their departure and that the province was without a government, I deemed it expedient that British troops should be brought from Hongkong to garrison Shamien, where during the past fortnight a very large quantity of valuables had been stored for safety by Chinese merchants. The Senior Naval Officer, Commander C. Mackenzie, R.N., D.S.O., concurred with my views and on the morning of August 5th, 200 of the Zuth. Punjabis under three British Officers arrived and took up quarters under canvas on the island.\n\nThe quiet of the previous evening proved illusory. Considerable jealousy existed among the various units of the Lu Chun and, in the course of the forenoon of August 5th, the men of the 5th Brigade demanded that their General, Chang Wo-ch'uan, be appointed Tu Tu in Su's place, threatening to open fire if their wish were not complied with. Su had at no time been anxious for this high distinction and, having been Tu Tu for less than twenty-four hours, quietly resigned the Government into the hands of Chang. In his proclamation to the people the new Tu Tu omitted from his title the word \"Acting\" and further sent a telegram to General Lung to the effect that he might now return to Tuchow. By these indiscretions he opened himself to the suspicion of wishing to be Tu Tu permanently, in face of the President's appointment of Lung. Further misgivings were created in the City by reports that the ex-pirate Wang Ho-shun, now subsidised by the Central Government, was preparing to come to Canton with an army of brigands in order to secure for himself a high official post. In these circumstances His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, after",
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        "content_text": "## Consultation with Major-General Kelly\n\nConsultation with Major-General Kelly, Commanding His Majesty's Forces in South China, decided that to be on the safe side it was advisable to reinforce the garrison on Shamien. Accordingly, 200 additional men of the Punjabis were sent up, the whole under the command of Major Robinson.\n\n## Arrival of Huang Shih-lung\n\nA new development in the situation now arose with the arrival on August 9th of Huang Shih-lung, whom the Central Government had appointed Hu Chun Shih, that is Commander-in-Chief of Kuangtung. Like Tang Ho-shun, Huang was a paid agent of President Yuan, and it was he who, by previous lavish but judicious bribery, provoked the mutiny of the Lu Chun, which led to the expulsion of Chen Chiung-ming. His mission here was to support Lung, but, whether of deliberate purpose, as many believe, or through sheer negligence, his conduct was at variance with that object and led directly to the most serious fighting that had yet taken place.\n\n## Huang's Telegram to Lung\n\nTo a telegram which he despatched inviting Lung to come to Canton at once, the latter replied that Huang must first prepare the way by retiring a force of 3,000 men which Chen had sent to Samshui to oppose his advance and removing from the City those of the Lu Chun stationed on Kuan Yin Shan and at the Fine Storeyed Pagoda. Eventually, Huang telegraphed to Lung that everything was in readiness for his reception. The troops at Samshui having fallen back on Canton, General Lung arrived on August 11th and took over charge from Chang Wo-chuan, but when his forces marched to their quarters at Kuan Yin Shan, they found them still occupied by Lu Chun, who said they had received no orders to vacate the hill and refused to do so. Lung's troops insisted that they had themselves got explicit orders to occupy that position, and, as the Lu Chun declined to seek other quarters in the heavy rain that was falling, the Kuanghai men opened fire.\n\n## Fighting in Canton\n\nThe fighting that ensued lasted in and about the City in a desultory way for three days, in the course of which the Tu Tu's Yamen, with the Government buildings in rear thereof, was partially burned, the Mint looted, and several streets of shops were sacked. The number of the Lu Chun actually engaged was perhaps not more than four ying, say 2,000 at... \n\n276",
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        "content_text": "# OP Y. C 33775\n## List of Robberies and Piracies compiled from the Native Press for the month of August, 1913.\n\n### Canton and Delta\n\n#### Ha in Hui\n22 SEF 13  \nCity Police Office besieged by several hundred robbers on 30th, ultimo. Urgent appeal for help sent to Canton Authorities.  \n`72 Hang Pao · 1.8.13.`\n\n#### Fatshan\nPeople being nervous owing to presence of 1,000 robbers in Lo Ts'ung, Li Fu Lin has gone to Fatshan to keep order.  \n`Min Chih Pao 4.8.13` is not present, but Sama hui-Canton is, so it is assumed the date refers to `Min Chih Pao 4`\n\n#### Sama hui-Canton\nPassenger boat pirated and several thousand dollars stolen at Heng Chiang on Saturday last. Master held to ransom.  \n`Min Chih Pao 4.`\n\n#### Lo Te*ung\n- Hein Hui\n\n#### Shun Te\n- Canton  \nSeveral ying despatched thither yesterday to protect neighbourhood against robbers.  \n`Yang Cheng Hsin Pao 14.`\n\n#### Canton\nLung and Huang have decided to send drafts from the 5th and 10th t'uans thither in answer to appeal for assistance against robbers.  \n`72 Hang Pao 15.`\n\n#### Hein Hui\nHead of the Yu Chi Tui telegraphs that town is surrounded by several thousand robbers, who threaten to destroy it.  \n`Nan Yueh Pao 16.`  \nPolice are placing additional guards on all sides of City to prevent inrush of bad characters.  \n`72 Hang Pao 16.`\n\n#### Hsiang Shan\nRequest received that troops withdraw be re-directed to that place. Robbers numerous and people uneasy.\n\n#### Heng Sha\nChou Ts'un clan fight.  \n`Nan Yueh Pao 18.`  \nKao Tang robbers having joined in, Li Fu Lin is leading troops to restore order.  \n`72 Hang Pao 21.`",
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        "content_text": "## TELEGRAM. TRANSLATION.\n\n**Enclosure C.O. 401 36276 RECD 20 003**\n\nThe Ta'an I Yuan and Lu Chun Pu herewith transmit to Lung, Governor of Kuangtung, a Confidential Order issued by the President:\n\nSecret reports have been received from various sources and from the merchants of Hongkong to the following effect: \"Ch'en Ching-hua is harbouring rebels and secretly fomenting disorder. He has an Agent residing at Hollywood Road, Hongkong, in the 3rd story of the An Chi Hong and also one in Macao. He has been in secret communication with Hu I-sheng, Wang Ching-wei, Chu Chih-hsin, Hsieh Ying-po, Ho K'o-fu, Chin Chang, Chang Shu-t'ang, Tu Kung-shih, Wu Ying-fen, Tu Ch'eng-shih, Teng K'eng, Teng I-ch'en, Yao Yu-p'ing, Ma Yu-shen, Liu Mei-ch'ing, Liu Yueh and Huang Ming-t'ang, plotting daily and inducing bad characters to join their ranks. They have observed the utmost secrecy. They are reported to have raised large sums of money and are collecting bad characters, to the number of several thousands, along the East River whilst they have ordered 30,000 white military hats in Hongkong with red peaks and an inscription thereon. In the Police Yamen are stored a large quantity of bombs and rifles. They rely on the assistance from within of Wang Tsun-chu and K'ang Chung-lo in the Tu Tu Fu\".\n\n\"This rebel is making use of the Ching Pei Chun and the Yu Chi Tui under his command, he has also got Yen To-ming, Commander of the Waichow troops, and Ch'en Chung-pin, Commander of the Ch'ing Hsiang Troops in Nan Heiung and Shaochow to aid him. Once all arrangements are made they will commence operations. This rebel (Ch'en Ching-hua) is very cunning, he simulates concurrence with the Tu Tu in order to avert suspicion\".\n\nI have for a long time been aware of Ch'en Ching-hua's evil practices and he should have been arrested and punished 'ere this. The Tu Tu, however, feared trouble on account of the fact that (Ch'en Ching-hua) was in command of armed forces. An ulcer becomes worse if no remedy be adopted. Reports from many sources say that the matter is becoming more serious and the Tu Tu should make...",
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        "content_text": "## List of Robberies and Piracies for the month of November\n\nCompiled from the Native Press.\n\nShun Te. Brigands in Shun Te are more numerous than ever. They have formed an association called the 'Five Hooks' Society. Shun Te Merchants residing in Hongkong have sent a telegram to the Canton Authorities protesting against the ravages committed by brigands in that district. (`Min Kuo Pao 4`, `72 Hang Shang Pao 3`)\n\nHsiang Shan Hsiao Lan. The Hsiang Shan assembly has telegraphed to Canton that since the withdrawal of troops from Hsiao Lan, the district has been overrun with brigands, and has requested that a detachment of troops be immediately sent thither. (`Min Kuo Pao 5`)\n\n| Location        | Incident                                                                                           | Source          |\n| --------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------- |\n| Fatshan         |                                                                                                    |                 |\n| Kao Ming        | A school was recently burnt by a robber band and one of the scholars carried off. The whole school has been broken up. | `Min Kuo Pao 7` |\n| Sheklung - Tu Ts'un | The Tutu has sent a company of soldiers to the station at the latter place to protect it against robbers. | `Yang Cheng Pao 7` |\n| Shun To Tung Ma Ning | Since the brigands have been invited to submit, they have been more daring than ever. On the 10th, they had a skirmish with a train-band and each side lost one killed. | `72 Hang/Pao 12` |\n| Honam           | Brigands are seen going about by day exacting toll with rifles in their hands.                     | `Yang Cheng Pao 12` |\n| Hsiao Hsing     | A merchant vessel was captured by pirates off Hsiao Hsing and taken in tow. They finally emptied the vessel of everything to the value of over $10,000 and let her go. | `Yang Cheng Pao 22` |\n| Hsiang Shan Hsiao Huang Pu | A request for troops has been made as the village was recently entered by brigands, over a hundred houses were looted, eight men carried off and some hundreds of dollars stolen. | `72 Hang Shang Pao 22` |\n| Kongmoon        |                                                                                                    |                 |",
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        "content_text": "## The Province of Kansu\n\n1. Lanchow, August 6, 1912:- \nAs last year saw practically the end of the poppy, and with very little trouble to the officials, much less than was expected. Eating is back at the old level, as the drug is cheap, about 50 tael cents the ounce for the raw drug, less than half the price last winter.\n\n2. Lanchow, September 5, 1912:- \n\"GORDON HARDING.\" \nI regret to inform you that no previous year have I seen so much ground given to opium cultivation as this year. This in a great measure is owing to the late Manchu Viceroy Chang giving widespread permission by proclamation to its growth, in order no doubt to court the favour of the people at a time when the situation was extremely critical. I do not consider the Republican Government can be held responsible for this. Opium smoking is as prevalent as formerly. It has been a bad year for opium owing to excessive rainfall.\n\n3. Liangchou, September 8, 1912:- \n\"ARTHUR PREEDY.\" \nI am sorry to say that when permission to grow opium was granted by the late Manchu Viceroy Chang, the people took full advantage of it to grow it this last season, as I have never seen it grown for the last twenty years. Some say as much as 70 per cent. was put down, but to a large extent the crop was a failure, first owing to the dry season, and then when that which had been well irrigated was just right for gathering, the rains came and washed a great deal of the sap away, but with all this a vast quantity was brought into the city, and the exchange went down to 1,000 odd cash the tael, and the raw freshly-gathered opium was selling for 150 cash the ounce, but as the days went by and no buyers came from the south, it gradually dropped to 100 cash the ounce, and could hardly be sold for that. This, together with the high tax—1.90 taels per acre—did not bring much grist to the farmer's mill. They say there will be some difficulty in collecting this tax. As to smoking the drug, it is computed that about 70 per cent. use it, and we are seldom asked for medicine to break off the habit. It is now sold quite openly on the street corners, as of yore. All the officials use it, and it is only a question with them of £ s. d.\n\n## The Province of Shensi\n\n1.—(a.) Hanchung Fu, September 5, 1912:- \n\"Last autumn on the outbreak of the revolution the farmers immediately set to sowing opium, but being late much of it came to nothing. There was, however, an amount grown in out-of-the-way places, but as it has been kept well out of public sight it is difficult to say whether much or little was gathered. Much of the crop has been smuggled down to Szechuan, as there it sells for 2,000 cash an ounce, as against 1,000 cash here. A large number of retail dealers all of whom had been successfully closed—reopened during the winter, but the former extensive outside trade has not revived. The retail dealers are now to receive fifteen days' notice to close, and premises are being prepared for the purchase and sale of opium by the officials. Smokers are to be registered, and the supply to them is to be gradually reduced.\n\n\"It is now about three weeks or a month to sowing time, and the farmers have been planning to sow extensively, but recently various proclamations from the Provincial and Central Governments have been issued which have created much alarm. Ground sown is to be confiscated, and individuals persisting in opposition to authority are to be executed; officials failing to secure obedience to the law are to be dismissed. The general is that the above measures will be effectual and the sowing will not take place.\n\n1.—(b.) Hanchung Fu, November 14, 1912:- \n\"G. F. EASTON.” \n\"I have just returned from a three weeks' journey in the prefecture, which has afforded considerable opportunity of observation. In spite of the most stringent prohibitions and threats opium was very extensively sown throughout the prefecture. In some parts, however, much of the sowing has been useless owing to the drought now prevailing in these parts. I found in one district the district official very busily engaged in superintending the destruction of the opium which was above ground, and in other districts deputy officials were engaged in the same way. No opposition was apparent, and the thing was being destroyed wholesale over large areas. In another district, however, I learn that the growers have been defiant, and are said to have called together the local militia to protect the growth.\n\n\"The growers tell me that they are willing to give up the growing if the officials will guarantee that there will absolutely be none grown anywhere, but as long as there is any grown at all they will insist on attempting to grow it. This arises from the fact that in previous years, and especially last year, the law breakers who succeeded in raising a crop in spite of all difficulties made quite a fortune out of it. I believe the officials, especially those of higher rank, are sincerely desirous of suppressing the drug, but they are somewhat inexperienced, and the machinery through which they have to work is very imperfect, and it is early for them to put too much pressure upon the people. I trust the British Government will show its dignity and patience by allowing to the utmost for the difficulties of the position, and not accede to the request for revoking the agreement. Licenced shops for the sale of the drug are now opened everywhere, and all private dealers are closed, but I fail to see how it is to effect any diminution of the consumption, while it must increase official revenue. Illicit trade is, of course, largely carried on. On the whole it looks as though last year's experience were to be repeated, a quantity of opium will be grown in those places that escape the search of the detective.\n\n2. Hing Au Fu, September 20, 1912:- \n\"An office is... Poppy seed for the cure of opium eaters. I have not seen any land planted yet with... Proclamations forbidding its growth have been issued, and there seems to be a feeling of fear among farmers, and they dare not plant it. \"OLIVER BURGESS.\"\n\n3. Mei Hsien, October 28, 1912:- \n\"Last year's opium was a splendid crop, and the people had hoped for another this year, but the rain has been withheld. The drought will help the officials in doing away with it... Proclamations are out against the cultivation. Wherever the land can be irrigated they are sowing opium, but the Governor has issued proclamations threatening to execute anyone found planting with brass grasscutters which he has had made and are on view in Sian. Soldiers have been sent out to warn the people of Chang's coming to carry out the Tutuh's instructions. It is rumoured that one man has already been executed. \"R. W. MIDDLETON.\"\n\n## The Province of Honan\n\n1.—(a.) Taikang, September 17, 1912— \n\"It is reported that a society to protect opium growers is being formed in one part of this district. The growth of opium in this Hsien was practically put down before the revolution, but those who are forming the above society are determined to grow it again, and if need be to fight for their rights. So far as I have been able to learn this feeling only exists in the south-west, where this Hsien is adjacent to Luyi Hsien, a district in which opium growing has been persisted in and never stopped. \"HENRY S. FORD.\"\n\n1.—(b.) Taikang, November 18, 1912— \n\"I sincerely trust that my letter of the 17th September to you has not given you the impression that opium is really being cultivated again with official recognition. This is not so, and I have every reason to believe that those who are determined to recommend growing the poppy will find themselves very severely punished. \"HENRY S. FORD.\"\n\n2. Kingtzekwan, November 15, 1912:- \n\"A few days ago a man from Yünyang Fu, north bank of the Han River, brought the news that Künchow, south bank, had more opium sown than ever before. Yesterday a farmer from Siping, 90 li north of this town, the mart for Honan varnish, reported more opium sown than ever before. A Shensi borderer reported that...\n\nPage 180\nPage 181",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n**OPIUM.**\n\n9492\n\n**RECO**\n\nFebruary 10\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[6310]\n\n## No. 1.\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received February 10.)**\n\n**(No. 39.) Sir,**\n\nPeking, January 23, 1913. IN continuation of my despatch No. 506 of the 23rd December last, I have the honour to forward additional information as to opium cultivation in the provinces of Fukien, Chekiang, Kiangsu, Anhui, and Szechuan.\n\n### Fukien\n\nOn the 7th January Reuter's Pacific Service reported that at least 200,000 mou (32,260 acres) were under opium cultivation in the district of Hsinghua, situated on the coast between Amoy and Foochow. The news was confirmed by a letter to the editor of the \"Peking Daily News\" on 9th January, stating that similar information had been sent three days earlier to the Reform Bureau in Peking from an American missionary living in the Hsinghua district. On the 16th January His Majesty's consul at Foochow telegraphed that the latest general statement from Hsinghua gave the amount under cultivation as enormous, that the country south of that city and in the adjacent district of Hsien-yu was covered with poppy, and that no one had ever seen so much under cultivation. On the 31st December a special correspondent to the \"China Press,\" an American newspaper published in Shanghai, writing from Hsinghua, reported that he had been along the main road from that city to Hsien-yu and had seen the poppy thickly planted on both sides of the road without any attempt at concealment. In his despatch No. 5 of the 11th January, which was enclosed in my despatch No. 37 of the 22nd January, His Majesty's consul-general at Shanghai forwarded an instructive account, dated 29th December, from a Cantonese, sent by his firm in `Hong Kong` to enquire into poppy cultivation in the two prefectures of Chang-chou (west of Amoy) and Chuan-chou (between Amoy and Hsinghua). As a result of his enquiries, he placed the value of the opium fields under cultivation at 15,000,000 dollars, and calculated that opium to a further value of 5,000,000 dollars was being grown in the mountainous regions in those parts, making a total of 20,000,000 dollars as the value of the opium under cultivation in the two prefectures.\n\n### Chekiang\n\nAfter the outbreak of the revolution, this province constituted itself the leader of the several provinces which, contrary to the terms of the opium agreement, proceeded to draw up and enforce regulations differing in details but all aimed against the trade in foreign opium. On the 18th January Reuter's Pacific Service reported from Wenchow that the plains and both banks of the river in the district of Jui An, a few miles to the south-west of Wenchow, were planted with poppy a month ago for a distance of forty miles. The magistrate and a large armed force had traversed the district and local orders were issued for the destruction of all poppy plants within a fortnight.\n\n### Kiangsu\n\nOn the 7th January His Majesty's consul at Chinkiang reported that cultivation of the poppy had been resumed on a more extended scale than ever in the northern districts of Sin-ning, Su-chien, Pi-chou, Shu-yang, and Haichow; an enormous number of fields had been sown around Yao-wan, Pi-chou, and Su-chien; an order had been published prohibiting cultivation but it had remained a dead-letter; the gentry themselves were taking part in the cultivation and were certainly doing nothing to discourage it. On the 30th December, a special correspondent to the \"China Press\" reported that Su-chien had been one of the greatest opium-growing districts in China ten years ago but that not a single acre was under cultivation in 1909. He estimated that at least half the former area had been given up to the poppy last autumn. On the 7th January a special correspondent to the same newspaper reported that he had recently spent more than a month in the countryside of the northern district of Feng-hsien and that the poppy was being planted there in larger quantities than had been the case for many years.\n\n### Anhui\n\nOn the 8th January His Majesty's consul at Wuhu reported that the poppy was being cultivated in the northern districts of Po-chou, Shou-chou, and Ying-chou.\n\n### Szechuan\n\n-In my despatch No. 342 of the 1st September, 1911, it was recorded\n\nPage 281",
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        "content_text": "# OPIUM.\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n[9278]\n\nPeking, February 12, 1913.\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received February 27.)\n**(No. 74.)**\n\nSir,\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 39 of the 23rd January, I have the honour to enclose consular despatches relating to opium cultivation in the provinces of Fukien, Szechuan, and Yunnan.*\n\n#### Fukien\nHis Majesty's consul at Amoy, on the authority of missionaries and others, confirms previous statements that the poppy is being cultivated to a considerable extent in the Amoy district. The officials have received orders to suppress cultivation without causing disturbances, but they do not consider their military forces at present adequate to carry out these conditional orders and to interfere with the gathering of this season's harvest. His Majesty's consul at Foochow reports that he was informed by the civil commissioner on the 30th January that 1,000 soldiers, who had been sent into the Hsing-hua district some days previously, had arrived there and were engaged in up-rooting the poppy. The civil commissioner was confident that the rebels would not be allowed to interfere with the work of complete destruction. This information, however, does not appear to be borne out by a Reuter's telegram, delivered at Peking on the 30th January, stating that according to an official telegram no action had yet been taken to root up the poppy in the Hsing-hua district, and that the Ming pretender, who had a following of 1,500 men, was receiving a dollar per mow for protecting the poppy-fields.\n\nIn regard to Mr. Werner's reference to Chang-chou and Ch'uan-chou, I forwarded in my despatch No. 37 of the 22nd January an account from a Cantonese sent by his firm in Hong Kong to enquire into poppy cultivation in Chang-chou and Ch'uan-chou estimating the value of the opium under cultivation in these two prefectures at 20,000,000 dollars.\n\n#### Szechuan\nThe Chungking consular report deals with the eastern part of the province only, and is based on letters from Protestant and Roman Catholic missionaries living at inland stations. The vice-consul states that the authorities have made conscientious and determined efforts at suppression, and their measures in most districts have been completely successful in the face of serious difficulties occasioned by distance and popular opposition. There has been, he adds, failure to enforce the orders against cultivation in a few remote spots in the mountain and border districts, but this is due rather to geographical obstacles than to any lack of will. The report is very satisfactory as far as the eastern portion of the province is concerned, but it still remains to be seen whether the other parts, especially the south-west, are clear of the poppy.\n\n#### Yunnan\nThe acting consul-general, in his despatch of the 8th January, believes that, speaking generally, there is a distinct decrease in the area under cultivation this winter as compared with last year, and that this result is in great measure due to the steps taken by the provincial Government to stop the planting of the poppy. Cultivation has, however, been seen, he states, in the east of the province. In a later despatch he gives notes of a tour made by M. Kok, a Dutch missionary, in northern Yunnan from October 1912 to January 1913. The first stage of the journey along the main road from Yunnan-fu to Lichiang (October to November 1912) revealed no opium cultivation, but the time of the year was in any case too early to furnish any signs of the poppy plant. M. Kok's return along the \"small roads\" skirting the borders of Yunnan and Szechuan gave evidence of no inconsiderable cultivation in regions inhabited by non-Chinese tribes, although it would appear that repressive measures are being attempted by the Chinese authorities. M. Wilden, the French delegate at Yunnan-fu, has informed Mr. Fox that the poppy has been planted this winter all along the Yunnan-Tonkin frontier, east and west of Laokay.\n\nNo reports have been received from Tengyueh as to the opium conditions in the west of Yunnan.\n\n*Not printed.\n\nPage 361\n\n## \nWe desire very respectfully to ask whether what we cannot but regard as the off-hand and unfair treatment of the matter in the Under-Secretary's speech is to be taken as representing the final views of Sir Edward Grey on the position which has arisen between the Government and the traders, or whether, on the contrary, the Government do recognise that the traders under the circumstances are entitled to look for assistance from the Government, either in the direction of an arrangement by which their stocks may be taken over and gradually disposed of by the Government, acting either alone or in conjunction with the Government of China, or in some other direction which have the effect of averting the commercial crisis which otherwise appears to be inevitable.\n\nA crisis has been temporarily averted by a combination of the opium merchants to maintain prices so as to reassure the banks and prevent default and failures among the China dealers, whilst trusting in the Home and Indian Governments to come to the rescue before it is too late. This combination has only become possible by the cessation of sales of certified opium and the reduction in the quantity of uncertified opium, but these measures, however valuable, are not alone sufficient.\n\nWe shall esteem it a great favour if you will kindly let us know when we may look for some definite action on the part of Government.\n\nWe are, &c.\n\n**E. D. SASSOON AND Co.** **DAVID SASSOON AND CO. (Limited).**\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nTRE 12 APF 3] \nSECTION \nNo. 1.\n\n0.0 \n1220 \n[February 27.] \n\n[2806 dd-1]",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**SIT**\n\nNote communicated to Wai-chiao Pu by Sir J. Jordan.\n\n**SIR JOHN JORDAN** has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the note of the 13th instant accepting the terms of his memorandum of the last February, and proposing to fix the 1st March as the date on which the prohibition of the import of Indian opium into the two provinces of Chihli and Kuangsi shall become effective.\n\nSir John Jordan, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, agrees to the proposal, and has issued the necessary instructions in accordance therewith.\n\nPeking, February 17, 1913.\n\n## C.O.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n`arch3293`\n\n**OPIUM.**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n{r6:22}\n\n12 APR 13\n\n2.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[10435]\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received March 6.)\n\n(No. 83.) Sir,\n\nPeking, February 20, 1913.\n\nWITH reference to my despatches Nos. 365 and 395 of the 9th September and the 2nd October respectively, I have the honour to forward herewith copies and translation of correspondence with the Wai-chiao Pu concerning five cases of detention of Indian opium in the province of Kiangsi.\n\nThe five cases are--\n\n1. The Yueh Yu case.\n\nOn the 2nd June the anti-opium bureau of the Ting-nan district seized twenty-five packages of Malwa opium bearing customs certificates, imported from Swatow by the Yueh Yu firm. The importer was arrested and 540 dollars taken from him, while the bureau confiscated the opium and imposed a fine of 1,000 dollars. The Wai-chiao Pu, in their reply, have now stated that the original twenty-six cases of opium had been restored to the dealer, who had been furnished with a permit for its return to Kuangtung. His Majesty's consul at Kiukiang has no information confirming this statement. Further action in this case will be deferred pending the consul's report.\n\n2. Jên Chi case.\n\nOn the 14th August last one package of Indian opium, the property of the Jên Chi firm, bearing intact a customs' label, was seized at Kiukiang. The opium has now been restored to its owner.\n\n3. Shêng Sheng Ho case.\n\nOn the 11th August Yen Hui-tê, of the Sheng Sheng Ho firm in Nanchang, was arrested, and twelve unbroken packages of Indian opium bearing customs' certificates, found in his possession, were confiscated. The information supplied to His Majesty's consul contradicts the statement of the Wai-chiao Pu that this opium had been released.\n\n4. Kiukiang Station Li-kin Office case.\n\nOn the 17th August eight unbroken packages of Indian opium, accompanied by customs' transit certificates, were seized by the Li-kin office at the Kiukiang railway station. The Wai-chiao Pu have stated that the seizure was made in consequence of the inclusion of native opium in the consignment. I have pointed out that this reason has not been advanced before, and that His Majesty's consul has reported that the merchants concerned have always maintained that the eight packages were unbroken packages, bearing intact customs' labels, so that it was impossible that native opium could have been included therein.\n\n5. Ts'ai Cheng case.\n\nTowards the end of September last sixty packages of Malwa opium, belonging to the Ta'ai Cheng firm, were seized in transit at Ch'ang-ning. The Wai-chiao Pu have now stated that instructions were being sent by the tutu to conclude the trial of this case in accordance with the regulations. His Majesty's consul at Kiukiang has reported that the consul at Swatow has communicated the information that the opium in question had been sold, but that the officials refused to hand over the proceeds to the Ta'ai Cheng firm. In reply to enquiries made by the former consul, the commissioner of foreign affairs at Nanchang declared that he knew nothing of the circumstances.\n\nI have repeated to the Wai-chiao Pu that the seizures are a flagrant breach of China's treaty obligations to Great Britain, and have reiterated my demand for the ...\n\n[2850 ƒ-2]\n\n366 \n## Page 366",
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        "content_text": "## Memorandum communicated to Wai-chiao Pu by Sir J. Jordan\n\nIn his memoranda of the 5th and 23rd September last, His Majesty's Minister had the honour to bring to the notice of the Wai-chiao Pu two cases of illicit seizure of Indian opium in the province of Kiangsi, and to request the issue of telegraphic instructions to the tutu of that province to conform his action to the treaties and release the opium illegally confiscated.\n\nHis Majesty's Minister is now in receipt of a despatch from the acting British consul at Kinkiang, stating that, in spite of repeated complaints to the tutu, neither the above two cases nor any of the three further cases of illegal seizure of Indian opium, the details of which are given below, have yet been settled:\n\n1. On the 14th August last, one package of Indian opium, the property of the Jên Chi firm, although bearing intact a customs' label, was seized in Kiukiang.\n2. On the 17th August, eight unbroken packages of Indian opium, accompanied by customs' transit certificates and destined for Te-an Hsien, were seized by the Li-kin office at the Kiukiang railway station.\n3. Towards the end of September, sixty packages of Malwa opium, said to be the property of the Tsai Cheng firm (presumably of Swatow), which were being conveyed to Yün-men-lien from Ch'ieh-ying-che, were seized by the district magistrate of Ch'ang-ning. In this case, the Kiangsi authorities attempted to defend the seizure on the ground that the merchants conveying the opium had smuggled munitions of war into the province.\n\nIn his memorandum of the 23rd September last, Sir John Jordan has already pointed out that, whether or no the alleged carriage of arms be an offence, no breach of treaty has been committed or proved in respect of the import of Indian opium.\n\nHe is compelled, therefore, to renew his demand for the immediate release of the Indian opium, the seizure of which, in each and all of the five cases referred to above, constitutes a flagrant breach of China's treaty obligations to Great Britain.\n\nPeking, November 30, 1912.\n\n## Memorandum communicated to Sir J. Jordan by Wai-chiao Pu\n\nOn receipt of the memoranda from His Majesty's Minister of the 24th September and 30th November of last year concerning five cases of detention of Indian opium in Kiangsi, the Wai-chiao Pu duly telegraphed to the tutu to take suitable action. They have now received the following reply:\n\n\"On the 27th September, on receipt of the telegram enquiring as to the seizure of travelling merchants' smuggled opium, it was passed on at once to the commissioner for internal affairs to call for reports. In the Yüeh Yü case, Ch'en Chih, prefect of Kanchow, reported on the 30th September that Huang Tun-fu's (the Yüeh Yü firm) original twenty-six cases of opium had been restored to the dealer, who had been furnished with a permit for its return to Kuangtung. In the Jên Chi case at Kiukiang, the Tê-Hua magistrate, Mêng Kuang-ch'uan, reported on the 27th November that the trial was over and the opium had been released.\n\nShêng Sheng Ho case. On the 11th instant [presumably the 11th December], Wang Nien-tsi, Nanchang district magistrate, reported that the trial was over and the opium had been released. Eight packages of smuggled opium detained by the Kiukiang station Li-kin office. Native opium was included in this consignment, the whole of which was therefore seized. It has now been forwarded by the Li-kin office to the finance commissioner, who has sent it on to the commissioner for internal affairs to deal with.\n\nSixty packages of Malwa opium, property of the Ts'ai Cheng firm, seized by the district magistrate of Ch'ang-ning. Instructions are now being sent to conclude the trial of this case according to the regulations.\n\n\"I have the honour to observe, however, that many of the opium importers smuggle in arms and ammunition with their consignments, and constantly have the audacity to open fire on parties approaching to effect their arrest, in total defiance of all laws. I am instructing the local authorities to punish them with the utmost severity.\n\nI have the honour to submit for information this report on the seizure of smuggled opium.\"\n\nThe Wai-chiao Pu would point out that, in all five cases of the seizure of Indian opium in the province, the object has been to regulate and not to impose restrictions on the trade in the Indian drug, and as the several trials have been concluded and either the opium has been released or some other suitable action is being taken, all the above cases would seem to admit of conclusion at an early date.\n\nPeking, January 10, 1913.\n\n## Memorandum communicated to Wai-chiao Pu by Sir J. Jordan\n\nSir John Jordan has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the memorandum from the Wai-chiao Pu of the 10th January concerning five cases of detention of Indian opium in Kiangsi.\n\nSir John Jordan has now received despatches from His Majesty's consul at Kiukiang referring to these five cases:\n\n| Case | Status |\n| --- | --- |\n| Yüeh Yü case | The consul has no information at present whether the facts stated by the tutu are correct, but is making enquiries. |\n| Jên Chi case | The opium has been restored to its owner. |\n| Shêng Sheng Ho case | The consul has been informed by the Opium Merchants' Association that the opium has not yet been released. |\n| Kiukiang Station Li-kin Office case | The tutu has declared that native opium was included in this consignment of eight packages, the whole of which was therefore seized. The consul reports that the merchants concerned have always maintained that these eight packages were unbroken packages, bearing intact customs' labels, so that it was impossible that native opium could have been included therein. |\n| T'ai Cheng case | In regard to the sixty packages of Malwa opium seized by the district magistrate of Ch'ang-ning, His Majesty's consul at Swatow communicated the information that the opium in question had been sold, but that the officials refused to hand over the proceeds to the Ts'ai Cheng firm, the owners of the opium. His Majesty's consul at Kiukiang states that, on making official enquiries as to the disposal of the proceeds realised by the sale, the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs at Nanch'ang had replied on the 16th January that he knew nothing of the circumstances. |\n\nSir John Jordan will communicate further with the Wai-chiao Pu on receiving the result of the consul's enquiries in the Yüeh Yü case.\n\nPage 367",
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        "content_text": "# 368 \n\n4 \n\nIn regard to the eight packages illegally seized by the Kiukiang station Li-kin office, Sir John Jordan would point out that the tutu's plea of smuggling native opium has not been put forward before. On the 15th November—that is to say, three months after the illegal seizure—the tutu had presumably no cognisance thereof. More than five months have now elapsed since the seizure, and, on the tutu's own showing, no settlement of the case has been made.\n\nIn regard to the Ta'ai Cheng case, Sir John Jordan would observe that the consul complained to the tutu of this illicit seizure four months ago. The Wai-chiao Pu quote the tutu as having sent instructions to conclude the trial according to the regulations. If the instructions have been obeyed, the regulations must indeed be extraordinary which order the enforced sale of foreign goods seized by the authorities in direct contravention of the treaties and then deny the proceeds to the owners, while the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs professes ignorance of the circumstances.\n\nSir John Jordan must repeat his demand for the instant release of the twelve packages in the Sheng Sheng Ho case and of the eight packages seized at the Kiukiang station Li-kin office. He must also demand the indemnification of the owners for the value of the sixty packages of Malwa opium illegally seized by the district magistrate of Ch'ang-ning, and now reported to have been sold.\n\nSir John Jordan repeats that the seizures are a flagrant breach of China's treaty obligations to Great Britain.\n\nPeking, February 12, 1913.\n\n**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]**\n\n## **OPIUM.**\n## **CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n`[10520]`\n`No. 1.`\n`RECO 12296`\n`[REG 12 APR 13]`\n`[March 6.]`\n### **SECTION 3.**\n\nIndia Office to Foreign Office.—(Received March 6.)\n\nSir,\n\nIndia Office, March 5, 1913. In reply to your letter of the 13th February, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India in Council to inform you, for the information of Sir Edward Grey, that, having consulted the Government of India, his Lordship concurs in the proposal to accept the invitation of the Netherlands Government to a discussion of the question of the ratification of the International Opium Convention, and to appoint as delegates Mr. Max Müller and Sir W. Collins.\n\nI am to add, in reply to the penultimate paragraph of your letter, that his Lordship does not regard the non-adherence of Turkey and the other countries specified as likely to have any practical effect on Indian interests.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nT. W. HOLDERNESS.\n\n`[2850 ƒ-3]`",
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        "content_text": "## Consul Giles to Sir J. Jordan, \n\n**(No. 4.) Sir,** \n\nTHE past quarter has witnessed the inauguration of the severest repressive measures yet recorded against the opium trade. They followed upon the communication to the Hunan Government of my report for last June quarter, to which exception has been taken, and were doubtless to a certain extent hastened thereby, though I think they would have been adopted in any case. As stated in my telegram No. 1, Mr. Warren, the chairman of the Wesleyan Mission in Hunan, with whom I frequently discuss the subject, and who himself has been conducting minute enquiries, is substantially at one with me as to the state of affairs prevailing last spring, although very different conditions obtained during the quarter under review. He told me some time ago that a leading official in Changsha had admitted to him in a private conversation that a large poppy crop had been grown in the west of the province, though they had been unable to trace what became of it. I may also mention here that Mr. Langebach, of the Chinese Telegraph Administration, informed me that in June last he saw a poppy field not far from Yochow—by no means a notorious poppy-growing centre—that he himself would never have been aware that it was poppy had not his Chinese staff pointed it out to him as such. At the same time the foreign commissioner was roundly asserting to me that poppy cultivation had been completely eradicated in Hunan.\n\nIn my opium report for the September quarter of 1912 I stated that a proclamation had been issued by the governor decreeing that all persons convicted of dealing in or of consuming opium were to be shot. Subsequently a notification was published by the General Opium Suppression Bureau indicating the following classes of offenders as liable to capital punishment: \n\n| Class | Offenders |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. | Those caught in the act of smoking. |\n| 2. | Those who, in addition to being proved smokers, also engage in the sale of the drug. |\n| 3. | Those who, when found to have sown the poppy, resist its destruction by armed force. |\n| 4. | Those who to the number of three or upwards, when found to be smuggling opium, resist its seizure by armed force. |\n\nIt seems to have been generally assumed that the death penalty would not be enforced, although the General Opium Suppression Bureau distributed a number of leaflets warning people of the consequences if they failed to comply with the regulations. Eventually an opium-smoker was shot in Ch'ên-chou towards the end of October; the second execution, also for smoking, took place in Changsha on the 1st November. Since then a number of executions have been reported, including several women, as under: \n\n| Location | Executions |\n| --- | --- |\n| Ch'ên-chou | Two men for poppy sowing. |\n| Changsha | Five smokers, including a woman 50 years old. |\n| Hung-chiang | Two men for smoking and retailing the drug. |\n| Siangyin | Two men for smoking and offering armed resistance to arrest. |\n| I-chang | Three men for smoking and retailing. |\n| Kuei-yang-chou | One poppy sower. |\n| Hau-p'u | Two smokers and two poppy growers. |\n| Shih-men | One woman for smoking. |\n| Yochow | Two smokers, one of whom offered armed resistance. |\n| Changte | One smoker. |\n| Yung-ning | Three smokers. |\n| Liu-yang | Two smokers. |\n| Ning-yuan | Two smokers who offered armed resistance. |\n| Kuei-yang-hsien | Four divan keepers. |\n| Kuei-yang-chou | Three smokers who also retailed opium. |\n| P'ing-chiang | One woman for smoking. |\n| Huang-chou | Three smokers, including two women. |\n| Tao-yuan | Two smokers. |\n| Li-ling | One smoker. |\n| Feng-huang-t'ing | One smoker. |\n\nA total of forty-two men and five women.\n\nIt is possible that the reports of executions in some of the remoter districts may not be correct, but there is no doubt about the greater number of the cases named above, including at least two, if not three, of the women (those in Changsha, Shih-men, and P'ing-chiang). At the same time the native press complains loudly that, while the poor are shot, the rich are not molested; and this is confirmed by the consulate writer and by others with whom I have spoken.\n\nBesides the death penalty, other punishments are inflicted for minor offences against the opium regulations, including the confiscation of land on which poppy has been discovered, imprisonment, and fines. The following classes of offenders are to be reported for punishment in addition to those liable to the death penalty: \n\n| Class | Offenders |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. | Smokers, including those indulging in opium admixtures. |\n| 2. | Poppy growers. |\n| 3. | Those who prepare opium, including admixtures. |\n| 4. | Those who convey, or deal in, or secretly retail opium, including admixtures, morphia needles, and pills into the composition of which morphia enters. |\n| 5. | Those who keep hoards of opium, including smoking paraphernalia, opium ash and admixtures, morphia needles and pills into the composition of which morphia enters. |\n\nThe most stringent provisions have been made for the enforcement of opium suppression; reliable notables are dispatched every month to hold a thorough investigation in each district; all executive, judicial, and other officials, besides village headmen, local Government officers and notables are held responsible for the enforcement of these rules; and reports have to be furnished three times a month to the opium suppression bureau. The troops, too, are to be called out to render assistance whenever it may be deemed necessary.\n\nIt has also been provided that all opium and opium-smoking implements seized shall be destroyed in public; in pursuance of this rule a large quantity of native opium was publicly burnt at Changsha on the 27th October. The amount was said to be 91,551 taels, of which, however, 33,740 taels consisted of admixtures used for adulterating the drug; the actual opium destroyed only amounted to 57,811 taels, and this included the balance of the stocks taken over from the opium dealers when the provincial Government monopolised the sale and as yet largely unpaid for. Quantities of opium pipes and other implements were also publicly burnt on the 28th December in Changsha, and in Yochow and Changtê about the same time; but I have not heard of any more opium being destroyed, either in Changsha or elsewhere.\n\nThe enforcement of these severe repressive measures, while showing the earnestness of the authorities in their anti-opium campaign, has also incidentally helped to disclose the extent to which the production, sale, and consumption of the drug still prevail in Hunan. This fact is acknowledged by the authorities themselves, who had originally intended to bring about complete prohibition by the end of the 8th moon (9th October), after which date all opium suppression bureaus were to be abolished. The term has now been extended for six months until the end of the 2nd moon this year (6th April), owing to the fact stated by the General Opium Suppression Bureau and reproduced in the native press that the secret sale and consumption of the drug went on in every district, while in the remoter parts of the province it was notorious that poppy growing continued as of old. I have also before me a leaflet in simple language, issued by the General Opium Suppression Association and dated the 12th December, lamenting the fact that opium suppression has so far covered only six or seven-tenths of the ground, and deploring the impossibility of asserting that Hunan is absolutely rid of the poison. A writer in the \"Changsha Jih Pao\" of the 30th October went so far as to maintain that opium-smoking was more prevalent than before. That is certainly not the case at the present time; but the extent to which it still prevails is indicated by the number of anti-opium societies which are springing up in every district to second and to supplement the activity of the officials.\n\nThe quarter under review is not one in which any traces of poppy can as a general rule be observed, although it is usually sown in November; nevertheless, isolated instances of poppy cultivation are on record. A correspondent of the \"Central China Post\" reported some poppy in Kuei-yang-chou. Mr. Champness, a Wesleyan...",
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        "content_text": "# \n2 \n\nThe returns of Indian opium removed from bond from the four ports of Shanghai, Foochow, Amoy and Swatow during last February were 987, 186, 58 and 178, respectively, a total of 1,409 against 1,063 chests for February 1912. The respective figures for March 1913 were 1,318, 115, 68 and 160, a total of 1,661 against 1,204 chests for March last year. The sales at Hong Kong have been about 400 chests monthly. At this rate the difficult problem of the uncleared stocks at Shanghai and Hong Kong should solve itself on present lines within the next two years or even earlier. For every consumer of Indian opium there are probably five or six of the native drug. Opium smoking in China cannot be extinguished suddenly by means of laws and regulations, however drastic these may be. The only practical remedy lies in the gradual curtailment of the supply and consumption of the drug.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n## Enclosure in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Peking Daily News\" of March 10, 1913.\n\n### NATIONAL OPIUM CONFERENCE (FIFTH SESSION).\n\nTHE National Opium Conference held its fifth and last session at Teng Shi Kou on Saturday, the 8th March. Final reports were received, and some twenty resolutions, the result of the work of the Conference, were put in order. Perhaps the most important work was the appointment of a permanent Committee to carry on work proposed.\n\nFive delegates, who will be in Peking, were appointed as a Continuation Committee, to carry out the proposals of the Conference, and to make more effective the co-operation of the provinces in the effort to stamp out opium in China. Some of them are members of the coming National Assembly. They will also print the report of the Conference. An Anti-opium Committee will be formed in the National Assembly itself, so that, in the future, matters relating to opium prohibition can be brought at once to the attention of China's legislators.\n\nThe greatest hindrance to the opium prohibition, it was reported, comes from the treaty ports and the foreign concessions, where, under the protection of foreign consuls, the trade and vice thrive. Twenty new shops for opium have been opened in Tientsin concessions, while all are closed in the Chinese territory. In Shanghai, Hankow, and other places, the trade flourishes in spite of all that China can do. Foreigners are making money from China's vice in the face of China's efforts to free her people. The Wai-chiao Pu was asked to take up this question vigorously, on behalf of the nation.\n\nThe following are findings of the Conference:\n\n| Resolution # | Resolution Text |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. | Resolved, that as time for the total prohibition of opium has already arrived, we request that the Government should urge the Governors of the provinces to give a full report of the enforcement of the prohibition laws before the 30th June, 1913. |\n| 2. | Resolved, to ask the Ministry of the Interior to instruct the provincial anti-opium bureaux to push on vigorously the work of opium prohibition in a uniform manner, and to have the provincial bureaux called by the same terms. |\n| 3. | Resolved, to ask the Ministry of Justice to instruct all the provincial officers to pay special attention to opium offences. |\n| 4 | Resolved, to ask the Government to prepare a Bill for the National Council, making the laws against the opium evil more vigorous than they are now. |\n| 5. | Resolved, to ask the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to instruct the provincial authorities not to register opium merchants as a legal business, and who have already registered should be removed from the lists. |\n| 6. | Resolved, to ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to instruct the provincial Commissioners of Foreign Affairs to consult with the various foreign consuls, in order to have opium prohibition carried out in the foreign concessions and along the routes between treaty ports, and along any railroads controlled by foreign Powers. |\n| 7. | Resolved, to ask the Government to prepare a special Bill for the National Council to provide for heavy punishments for officials who do not execute the anti-opium laws. |\n| 8 | Resolved, to ask the Government to also prepare a special Bill providing for offences in the use and sale of morphine. |\n| 9 | Resolved, to ask the Government to prepare a special Bill for the National Council providing for the use of military forces for the suppression of opium cultivation, and that offenders should be treated in accordance with martial law. |\n| 10. | Resolved, to ask the Ministry of the Interior to push on the prohibition of opium in Peking, and to offer rewards for the report and detection of offenders against the present regulations. |\n| 11. | Resolved, to urge all the newspapers throughout the Republic of China to push on and stir up public opinion in favour of the anti-opium measures, and to promote the public burning of opium in as many places as possible, and to ask the international reform bureau to give special attention to this matter. |\n| 12. | Resolved, to send letters to the British anti-opium societies and to the British Parliament expressing our appreciation of their help, and stating clearly our wishes for the total prohibition of the opium trade and the use of opium, as well as its cultivation in China. The draft of the letters was read and the delegates signed their names. |\n| 13. | Resolved, to make known to the people of China the statements made in the British House of Commons in favour of China's anti-opium reform, and also the efforts made by the opium merchants to protect their trade. |\n| 14. | Resolved, to ask the Government to instruct provincial officials not to allow any outside influence by other parties to prevent the punishment of opium offenders. |\n| 15. | Resolved, to ask the Ministry of Laws to have all the fines received from opium offenders set aside for the work of opium prohibition. |\n| 16. | Resolved, to ask, in the name of this Conference, that all the Governors in China stand firmly against any opium monopoly by the Central Government which may be under consideration. |\n| 17 | Resolved, to telegraph to all the Governors urging that no monopoly for the sale of opium be undertaken in any province or district. |\n| 18. | Resolved, to ask the Wai-chiao Pu if there is any truth in the statement that Governors of some provinces have been \"utterly disregarding the opium treaties,\" or preventing the importation of Indian opium at the treaty ports. |\n| 19. | Resolved, to appoint, from among the delegates present at this Conference, a Continuation Committee, to carry out the foregoing resolutions and to continue the work of co-operation by the provinces in the total prohibition of opium. The following members were then appointed as the Continuation Committee of the National Opium Conference: Mr. Chen Cheh-pu from Chihli, Mr. Chang Hsin-fu and Mr. Liang-fu from Chekiang, Mr. Li Keng-yuan from Yunnan, Mr. An Ming from Kirin, and Mr. Chang Yu Chun at Peking. |\n| 20. | Resolved, to ask for the formation of a Standing Committee on Opium Prohibition in the coming National Assembly, to be ready to consider any questions on the subject. |\n\n### List of delegates to the National Opium Conference at Peking, held from the 4th to the 8th March, 1913.\n\n| Province/Organization | Delegate Names |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chihli | Chen Cheh-pu, Hua Tseh-shun |\n| Shansi | Hsin Tien-yuan |\n| Shantung | Shen-tau |\n| Fengtien | Chen Chi, Wang Hsiao-yin, Chen Tsih-lang, Tiao Ching-hsian |\n| Kirin | Fang Chih-tai, An Ming |\n| Heilungkiang | Liu Teh-chien |\n| Hupeh | Chu Kuo-chen |\n| Hunan | Hsieh Chi-ling, Ten Mu-yao |\n| Fukien | Chen Nun-kuang, Cheng Shao-haing |\n| Chekiang | Chang Hsian-fu, Chao Ping, Liang-fu |\n| Yunnan | Li Keng Yuan |\n| Anhui | Hsu Yu |\n| President's representative | Wellington Koo |\n| Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Chou Chu-wu |\n| Ministry of the Interior | Wu Cheng, Wang Yu-chuen |\n| Ministry of Agriculture and for Canton | Yang Yung-chih |\n| Representative of the Board of the United Societies | Chien Paochuen |\n| International Reform Bureau | Chang Yu-chun, E. W. Thwing |\n\nSome of the Governors who did not send delegates sent their reports by telegram.\n\n3 \n\n516",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n**OPIUM.**\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[20633]\nC.O. 18638\n[May 5.]\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\n### JUN No. H i\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 5.)**\n\n(No. 163.)\n\nPeking, April 21, 1913.\n\nREFERRING to my despatch No. 83 of the 20th February, I have the honour to enclose correspondence with the Wai-chiao Pu relating to three outstanding cases of illegal seizure of Indian opium in the province of Kiangsi.\n\nOn the 27th February the acting consul at Kiukiang reported that, in regard to the former case, known as the Yueh Yü case, Messrs. D. Sassoon and Co., of Hong Kong, thought that, in the absence of any further communication, the opium must have been returned to the dealer concerned.\n\nOn the 28th March the Wai-chiao Pu replied to my memorandum of the 12th February, and upheld the action of the provincial officials concerned on the ground that the detention had occurred either on account of illicit selling contrary to regulation or of illegal carrying of arms.\n\nOn the 4th April I pointed out to the Wai-chiao Pu that in all three of the outstanding cases the opium concerned had been duly accompanied by customs transit certificates, and that by treaty the owners thereof were at liberty to dispose of it at destination. Provincial regulations made and enforced contrary to the Opium Agreement of 1911 could not override the additional article to the Chefoo Convention, under which the opium was in transit. I repeated a demand for the instant return of the opium seized in the Sheng Sheng Ho and Kiukiang Station Li-kin Office cases, and the indemnification of the owners of the Malwa opium illegally seized by the district magistrate of Ch'ang-ning.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Enclosure I in No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum communicated to Sir J. Jordan by Wai-chiao Pu.**\n\n(Translation.)\n\nTHE Wai-chiao Pu has the honour to acknowledge receipt on the 13th February of Sir John Jordan's memorandum regarding five cases of opium detention in Kiangsi, in which he stated that he had received despatches from His Majesty's consul at Kiukiang dealing with the conditions of these cases, and again demanded the instant release of the twelve packages in the Sheng Sheng Ho case, and of the eight packages seized at the Kiukiang Station Li-kin Office, together with indemnification of the owners for the value of the sixty packages Malwa opium seized by the district magistrate of Chang-ning and reported to have been sold.\n\nOn receipt of this memorandum the Wai-chiao Pu communicated with the Kiangsi tutu, and asked him to enquire into the matter. His report, which has now been received, states as follows:-\n\nThe opium in the Sheng Sheng Ho case and the smuggled opium seized by the Kiukiang Station Li-kin Office have been confiscated. In the Chang-ning case the merchants had ventured to carry arms and ammunition, to the detriment of the public peace, and their smuggled opium has also been seized in accordance with the criminal code. Seizure of such fragmentary quantities of smuggled opium is essential to the prohibition of the drug, and is distinct from restrictions on the wholesale trade in Indian opium prohibited by the agreement. In these five Kiangsi opium cases, not only have British merchants suffered no injury, but action was taken merely because those who suffered were offenders against the opium laws. I have the honour to report as above the result of my enquiries.\n\nAs it appears that the above cases of opium detention in Kiangsi occurred either on account of illicit selling contrary to regulation or of illegal carrying of \n\n[2926 e-1]\n518",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n**J. N. JORDAN.**\n\n**Memorandum communicated to Sir J. Jordan by Wai-chiao Pu.**\n\n(Translation.)\n\nTHE Wai-chiao Pu has the honour to acknowledge receipt of Sir John Jordan's memorandum of the 17th instant with reference to the joint investigation of the cultivation of opium in Hunan, stating that he had appointed Mr. Archibald Rose, C.IE, assistant Chinese secretary, and Mr. Louis King, consular assistant, to proceed to Changsha and carry out the joint investigation in company with the Chinese deputies, forwarding for the information of the Ministry a copy of the instructions issued, and requesting the Wai-chiao Pu to favour him with a copy of the instructions issued to Messrs. Wang and Teng. Copies of the instructions issued to Messrs. Rose and King were received enclosed in the memorandum.\n\nThe Ministry applied to the Ministry of the Interior, and has now received a copy of the instructions issued to Mr. Teng Yu, a senior clerk. The Wai-chiao Pu has the honour to forward this document, together with its own instructions to Mr. Wang Chih-hui, also a senior clerk, for the information of His Majesty's Minister.\n\nPeking, March 25, 1913.\n\n## Enclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n**Instructions issued by the Minister of the Interior to Teng Yu, a Senior Clerk of that Ministry, on his appointment as Deputy.**\n\n(Translation.)\n\nA LETTER has been received from the Wai-chiao Pu as follows:--\n\n\"The provinces of Chihli, Shantung, Anhui, Hunan, and Kuangsi have successively reported the prohibition of opium cultivation, stating that it has been completely done away with, and that import from other provinces has been prohibited. They also requested that, in accordance with treaty, the import of Indian opium might be prohibited.\n\nThis Ministry has frequently discussed the matter with His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking, and has now received his consent to the closing of Chihli and Kuangsi to the import of Indian opium. He requires, however, that conditions in the three provinces of Anhui, Shantung, and Hunan shall be investigated as laid down in the agreement. My Ministry has arranged with His Majesty's Minister a method for the appointment of deputies and joint investigation. Further, inasmuch as the poppy first ripens in Hunan, then in Anhui, and then only in Shantung, we have arranged to first depute officials to investigate conditions in Hunan. My Ministry and the Ministry of the Interior each to appoint one official, the British Legation to appoint two officials, and the province of Hunan two officials. These are to be appointed at the latest by the 10th March, so that by the beginning of April they may begin their journey of investigation, place by place. My Ministry has already appointed Wang Chih-hui, one of its senior clerks, and I shall be glad if you will also depute an official to proceed to Hunan with him, at the same time informing me of his name.\"\n\nThe above-named official is therefore appointed deputy, and ordered to proceed to that province with the others.\n\n## Enclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\n**Instructions issued to Wang Chih-hui, a Senior Clerk, by the Wai-chiao Pu on his appointment to proceed to Hunan for the joint investigation of Opium Cultivation.**\n\n(Translation.)\n\nTHE prohibition of opium throughout China is an important policy of the moment. The Hunan tutu has reported that poppy cultivation has been prohibited throughout the province, and that it has entirely ceased; further, that the appointment of officials for joint investigation is urgent, in order to prove the reliability of his statements.\n\nWang Chih-hui, senior clerk, is therefore now appointed to proceed to Hunan, and travel from place to place in the company of the officials appointed by His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking, by the Minister of the Interior, and by Hunan province, observing the conditions, and making a thorough investigation. He shall keep a record of the conditions disclosed, to be compared in a friendly manner, as occasion presents itself, with the records drawn up by the other Chinese and the foreign deputies; this record to be presented to the Ministry for its determination on his return to Peking after completion of the investigation. No delay or carelessness must occur.\n\n## Enclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Mr. Rose.**\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, March 22, 1913.\n\nREFERRING to my instructions to you of the 17th instant, copy of which has been forwarded to the Wai-chiao Pu, I have to instruct you to leave Peking on the 24th March for Hankow. H.M.S. \"Thistle\" will convey you to Changsha via Yochow. Orders have been sent to Mr. King to join the \"Thistle\" at Yochow. Mr. King will act as your assistant during the period of opium investigation in Hunan.\n\nThe two Chinese delegates, Messrs. Wang Chi-hui and Teng Yu, have, I am informed, already departed for Changsha, the former on the 19th and the latter on the 20th instant. They expect to arrive at Changsha about the 27th instant. Two provincial delegates will, I understand, be added at Changsha.\n\nMr. Giles has been requested to arrange an interview for you with Mr. Warren, of the Wesleyan Mission at Changsha, so that you may have an opportunity of gathering additional data as to the localities where opium cultivation may be indicated. Mr. Giles has also been asked to arrange for passports and chair coolies, and to introduce you and Mr. King to the Governor.\n\nYou should leave Changsha on or about the 1st April. The investigation should be conducted in two parties - one touring the western and the other the eastern side of the province. You will take charge of the former and Mr. King the latter party. To each party should be attached two Chinese deputies, one Peking and one provincial.\n\nThe general scheme of the tour is for both parties to proceed southwards from Changsha, in order to take advantage of the earlier poppy season, and gradually work northwards - westerly and easterly respectively. The point where investigation will actually begin is Ch'i Yang (26° 28′ north, 111° 48' east). Here you and Mr. King will separate. You will proceed into the southern districts of the prefecture of Pao-ch'ing to Cheng-pu, and trend southwards to the Kuangsi border. Thence northerly to Ch'ing-chou, and, keeping in proximity to the Kueichow border, you should visit the districts of Huang-chou, Feng-huang, Hsu-pu, Ch'ien-chou, Lu-ch'i, Yung-sui, Yung-shun, and Sang-chih. The district of Hsu-pu was the scene of determined and successful opposition to eradication of opium last season. There is no information at present to show that the poppy has been cultivated there this season, but, should time permit, a visit might prove successful.\n\nAt Heng-chou, Pao-ching, and Shen-chou are mission stations, to which you should get introductions at Changsha. It might be as well, when conversing with the missionaries, to explain that neither you nor Mr. King have been sent into Hunan to promote trade in Indian opium, but solely to collect evidence, on which it may be decided whether Hunan is or is not entitled to be placed on the list of provinces into which Indian opium shall not be conveyed.\n\nOn separating from you at Ch'i-yang, Mr. King will go southwards into the two districts of Kuei-yang, and keep along the Kiangsi border to Ling-ling... \n\nPage 533",
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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": "# 5 \n## Enclosure & in No. 1.\n### Instructions issued by the Wai-chiao Pu to Yü Tê-chün, a Senior Clerk, on his appointment to proceed to Shantung for the Joint Investigation of Opium Cultivation.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n**THE prohibition of opium throughout China is an important policy of the moment.** The Shantung Tutu has reported that poppy cultivation has been prohibited throughout the province, and that it has entirely ceased; further, that the appointment of officials for joint investigation is urgent in order to prove the reliability of his statements. Yü Tê-chün, senior clerk, is therefore now appointed to proceed to Shantung and travel from place to place in the company of the officials appointed by His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking, by the Ministry of the Interior, and by Shantung province, observing the conditions and making a thorough investigation. He shall keep a record of the conditions disclosed, to be compared in a friendly manner, as occasion presents itself, with the records drawn up by the other Chinese and the foreign deputies; this record to be presented to the Ministry for its determination on his return to Peking after completion of the investigation. No delay or carelessness must occur.\n\n## Enclosure 9 in No. 1.\n### Instructions issued by the Ministry of the Interior to Liu Hsiang-yün, a Senior Clerk of that Ministry, on his appointment as Deputy.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nA letter has been received from the Wai-chiao Pu as follows:-\n\n\"With regard to the joint investigation by Great Britain and China of opium in the provinces of Hunan, Anhui, and Shantung, officials have already been appointed to proceed respectively to Hunan and Anhui for the joint investigation. In Shantung the opium crop appears early, and it is of great importance to proceed with the joint investigation. An agreement has now been arrived at with His Britannic Majesty's Minister that officials shall be appointed shortly to start at the same time as those who have been deputed to proceed to Anhui and to meet on the 24th instant at Tsinan. This Ministry has already appointed Yü Tê-chün, one of its senior clerks, to proceed at the proper time in company with the British official. I have the honour to request that you will shortly name the official whom you will appoint and inform me in reply.\"\n\nThe above official is therefore appointed deputy and ordered to proceed to that province with the others.\n\n## Enclosure 10 in No. 1.\n### Sir J. Jordan to Consul Smith.\n\n(No. 8.) Sir,\n\nReferring to my instructions to you forwarded to the Wai-chiao Pu, I have to inform you that the two Chinese delegates, appointed by the Wai-chiao Pu and the Ministry of the Interior, propose arriving at Tsinan on the 23rd instant. Provincial delegates will, I understand, be added at Tsinan.\n\nPeking, April 10, 1913.\n\nYou should leave the provincial capital on or about the 24th instant. The investigation should be conducted in two parties, and to each party should be attached two Chinese deputies, one metropolitan and one provincial.\n\nFrom the information at my disposal, it would appear that cultivation of the poppy is indicated principally within three areas.\n\n| Area | Description | Districts to be examined |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Country to the west and south-west of Tsinan | Ping-yuan, Ling-ching, Tung-chang, Shou-chang, Shih-p'ing |\n| 2 | Smaller extent, taking Tai-an as a starting point | Lai-wu, Nan-yi, Hsin-t'ai |\n| 3 | South-west and south-east of Yen-chow | Yü-tai, Shan-hsien, Ts'ao-hsien, Kü-yü, Chia-hsiang, Têi-ning, T'an-ch'eng, Chu-ch'eng, I-shui, Meng-yin, Fei-hsien |\n\nIt will be advisable that Mr. Fitzmaurice should undertake the inspection of the first two areas. It will be advisable that you should take charge of the party investigating the third area.\n\nYou should obtain introductions for yourself and Mr. Fitzmaurice to mission stations situated on the line of your itineraries. It might be as well, when conversing with the missionaries, to explain that neither you nor Mr. Fitzmaurice are travelling for the purpose of promoting the trade in Indian opium, but solely with the view of collecting evidence on which it may be decided whether Shantung is or is not entitled to be placed on the list of provinces into which Indian opium shall not be conveyed. The two parties should endeavour, as far as possible, to avoid main roads, as it is unlikely that the poppy will be found in their vicinity.\n\nIt may be found necessary to make some changes in the tours outlined above, as a result of your information and observation on the spot. In that event, you and Mr. Fitzmaurice are at liberty to make the requisite modifications without further reference.\n\nA diary should be kept recording briefly the results of each day's search during the tour of investigation. If the poppy be found in any particular locality, every endeavour should be made by you and Mr. Fitzmaurice to obtain the joint attestation of the Chinese deputies, to which I attach great importance. The reports based on these diaries should deal with opium matters and nothing else. Special prominence should be given to the questions of opium cultivation and the import or export of native opium; these are matters of the utmost importance. The prevalence of opium smoking and the success or failure of the official repressive measures should also be dealt with. It is not unlikely that smoking may have been replaced to some extent by eating opium, and this point should be examined.\n\nThe joint investigation will be conducted in accordance with `article 4` of the **Opium Agreement of May 1911**. Duplicate copies of this article, in English and Chinese, are enclosed, and it will be as well for you and Mr. Fitzmaurice to have them at hand in the event of any difficulties with the Chinese deputies as to procedure.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN \n\nPage 543",
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        "content_text": "## SECTION 2\n### OPIUM\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[21461]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.** (Received May 9.)\n\n(No. 113.) (Telegraphic.) R. **OPIUM.**\n\nPeking, May 9, 1913.\n\nIn a memorandum dated 7th May, Wai-wu Pu quoted article 9 of agreement of 1911, and says that, owing to change in conditions affecting suppression in China, great part of agreement has ceased to apply, and it becomes necessary to raise question of revision in order to satisfy public opinion. They accordingly request me to move His Majesty's Government to consent to revision, and beg early reply.\n\nNo reference is made to stocks in China, but preamble of memorandum suggests that total prohibition is desired.\n\nI am forwarding copy by post with my comments.\n\n[2926-2]\n\n \n\n559 \n\n2 \n\nthree months' special leave for this purpose. Dr. Wenham's share in the mission, however, will consist chiefly in acting the part of guide, philosopher, and friend to one who has never before been on English soil, and might otherwise find it difficult to prosecute his plans successfully. Several members of Parliament are already actively interested in the opium question, and General Chang is assured of their support and co-operation when he reaches London. Christian leaders of all denominations have also taken a strong stand in the matter, and they may be relied upon to do all in their power to ensure General Chang a sympathetic bearing and to make his mission a success. And General Chang himself, who is perhaps the best delegate who could have been selected for the purpose, will be in the happy position of one who is thrice armed because his \"quarrel\" is just.\n\nThere is an absolute consensus of opinion among all enlightened Chinese as to the necessity of obtaining an absolutely free hand to deal with the opium question. If the anti-opium campaign is to be carried to a successful issue, China must be under no further obligation to import opium from any foreign country. The well-being of a great nation, bravely fighting a vice of the most insidious character, must be placed above the welfare of a handful of speculating opium merchants who have persisted in a trade which is under the moral condemnation of the entire civilised world. China must be free, not only from any obligation to import opium in the future; her hands must not be tied by a monopoly, or any other device for unloading the present stocks of Indian opium in the treaty ports and Hong Kong. General Chang, in accepting the mission of explaining his countrymen's views, is also accepting a very heavy responsibility, and one in which he deserves such support as the Chinese Government can legitimately afford him. In one direction, at least, he should be able to rely upon the co-operation of the Government. So far as we are aware, the Wai-chiao Pu has not as yet presented a formal request to the British Government for final release from the opium treaties. A polite request in this sense should, it seems to us, be presented at the earliest opportunity. Otherwise, there is the danger that much of General Chang's work may be undone by a statement from the British Foreign Office that no official request for the abrogation of the opium treaties has yet been received. According to the Chinese press, the National Opium Prohibition Union has already petitioned the Wai-chiao Pu to take this step. We cannot too strongly endorse this recommendation, the fulfilment of which would offen... no one, while it would effectually dispose of the suggestion that the Chinese Government was not anxious to be relieved of the obligations imposed under the existing opium treaties.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n[May 9.]",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nI left Tien-tsin-Pukou Railway on the 24th April, and the investigation in Anhui commenced from this date. I returned to Peking from Pengpu on the 18th May.\n\nI had originally planned to proceed westward from Pengpu, and to visit the districts of Huai-yuan, Po-chou, Ying-chou, and Shou-chou, and to make for Wuhu via Wu-wei. These districts, according to information supplied by His Majesty's consul at Wuhu, missionaries and others, were indicated as being under opium cultivation this year.\n\nA visit to Huai-yuan, however, convinced me that the crops in the north were backward for the time of the year. I decided to proceed by rail and steamer to Wuhu, where I arrived on the 27th April, and work northwards from that place.\n\nThe province of Anhui is divisible into three distinct regions :--\n1. The country south of the River Yang-tsze;\n2. The area between the Yang-tsze and the Huai Rivers;\n3. The part north of the Huai River.\n\n1. As regards the first of these three divisions, the information received from His Majesty's consul and missionaries appeared to place beyond question the fact that opium cultivation had practically ceased. My own enquiries at Wuhu confirmed this information.\n\n2. In the second division, cultivation had been reported in the Wu-wei district, along the northern shores of Lake Chao, in the Liu-an and Shou-chou districts, and along the southern banks of the Huai River.\n\n3. In the region north of the Huai River poppy had been indicated as having been planted in the districts of Po-chou and Ying-chou.\n\nI left Wuhu on the 1st May for the district city of Ch'ao-hsien, 42 miles distant, in a motor launch kindly placed at my disposal by the Asiatic Petroleum Company. From trustworthy information it appeared that there were no signs of poppy in the district of Wu-wei. The magistrates of the Wu-wei and Ch'ao-hsien had made a joint tour of investigation accompanied by a large force of soldiers early in April, and again three days before my arrival. Some poppy fields belonging to a military official at the provincial capital were included among those ploughed up. The town of Ch'ao-hsien lies at the entrance of the large lake, 125 miles in circumference, known as Chao-hu. From information supplied to the legation by His Majesty's consul at Wuhu, it appeared that the northern shores of this lake had been planted with poppy. The difficulty of approach to the northern bank owing to shallow water and the impossibility of observing the cultivation on land through screens of high reeds made the further journey by boat impracticable. I set out from Ch'ao-hsien, therefore, along a small road running for the first 20 miles in close proximity to the north of the lake. In this direction the lake is bordered by high hills from which a comprehensive view of the lake and shores could be obtained. I examined the countryside constantly and carefully with powerful field-glasses but could detect no signs of growing poppy. I spent the first night at the house of a Chinese merchant to whom I had received a letter of introduction. He is a native of the province and a shrewd business man well acquainted with local affairs. He told me that some but not much poppy had been growing in Wu-wei and Ch'ao-hsien, which had been cleared in the recent itineraries made by the magistrates.\n\nThe unpaved road, still saturated and cut up by the rains of the preceding week, ran between low hills to Lü-chow. This town is one of considerable importance in this region, being in direct water communication with the Yang-tsze, and a distributing centre for a very large part of the area between the Yang-tsze and Huai Rivers. There is a good deal of secret opium smoking still going on in the town in spite of an energetic crusade by the magistrate. Still, the smoking has sensibly diminished, and the foreign missionary doctor estimated that it had decreased by one-half. The cases of attempted suicide by opium brought to the hospital average forty annually as against one hundred previously. This he accounted for partly by the actual decrease in the consumption, and partly by the greatly-enhanced price of the drug. Another missionary independently confirmed the doctor's estimate of opium smoking, and added that it was still the practice for many of the gentry to smoke opium at dinners with intimate friends. Opium is smuggled into Lu-chow from the Yang-tsze, and three shops were pointed out to me where purchases could be made by regular customers.\n\nBetween Lü-chow and Liu-an I came across traces of a few poppy fields ploughed up within the preceding two or three days. At the latter place I received very definite information from two missionaries stationed at Ying-chow-fu, writing independently of one another, which satisfied me that the poppy in that district and the surrounding districts had been uprooted. The work of eradication appears to have commenced at the end of February, and to have been continued with great energy and success during April by the magistrates and deputies in person. One of my informants had reported earlier \"a tremendous sowing\" at the beginning of the season. In the district of Ying-shan an armed conflict appears to have taken place between the growers and the soldiers; seventy of the former were reported to have been killed.\n\nA missionary, writing from Po-chou, stated that most searching efforts had been made by the officials to find and destroy all the poppy planted in the district. He himself had been out in the countryside a good deal, and had not seen a single plant.\n\nAs the time at my disposal was limited this information decided me not to visit Ying-chow and Po-chou, but to proceed at once into the districts of Shou-chou, Huai-yuan, and Ting-yuan, examining en route the country between Lin-an and Ho-ch'iu.\n\nThis sparsely populated region is extraordinarily scarce in villages and hamlets, and the homesteads are widely scattered among the fir coppices on the hills, the wheat-fields of the plains, and the belts of tall reeds extending along the shores of the lakes. Poppy was grown to some extent last season, but I doubt if any was even sown this season.\n\nAt Ho-ch'iu a missionary who had been resident there for twenty-four years told me that the magistrate had been out quite recently on a tour of rigorous inspection, and had uprooted the poppy growing along the banks of the Huai River in his district. He was of opinion that the countryside was clear of poppy.\n\nI travelled on foot for some miles along the shores of the east lake, between Ho-ch'iu and Cheng-yang-kuan, where poppy was reported to be growing. There were no standing plants, although many fields bore the appearance of having been lately ploughed up in the midst of flourishing crops of wheat, rye, and barley. From Cheng-yang-kuan, the most important town in Northern Anhui, I proceeded by boat to Shou-chou. There were no signs of poppy fields along the river banks, although a month before the report of their existence was widely current.\n\nThe Huai River is infested with pirates in many parts, and my boat was followed during the night by a junk containing seven of these undesirables. They were attacked the next morning, in broad daylight, by a small wooden gunboat, with a crew of at least double that number. The pirates bolted across country unharmed, although it would have been an easy matter to have shot them down. The low hills and swamps on the south bank are notorious as robber haunts. The most widely known is the large village of Pai-lu-ch'iao, or White Deer Bridge, at the junction of the three districts of Huai-yuan, Shou-chou, and Ting-yuan. The population is about 5,000, and the villagers as villainous a gang of cut-throats as it had been my lot to see in Anhui. The countryside is full of disbanded soldiers, and opium inspection had hitherto been shunned in these parts. Had it not been for the imperative commands of the tutu, consequent on my visit to Anhui, the magistrates would have left this Alsatia alone; but the three magistrates traversed the entire area with several hundred soldiers, and destroyed all vestiges of poppy. A week before my arrival there one of the guards of an opium inspector had been seriously wounded at a small village between Pai-lu-ch'iao and the river. The tutu ordered troops to destroy the village. Three hundred men, with two mountain guns and Maxims, reached Le-ho, on the south bank, and prepared to attack at daybreak. In the meantime, the magistrates of Shou-chou and Ting-yuan were occupying Pai-lu-ch'iao with about 300 men. Owing to the mediation of the magistrate of Huai-yuan and the local gentry the village was spared.\n\nFrom Pai-lu-ch'iao I had intended to visit Ping-ho-shan, on the north bank, at the junction of the three districts of Huai-yuan, Meng-chen, and Feng-tai. Poppy fields had been seen there by a missionary two months before, but a visit the previous week showed that they had been destroyed. I did not, therefore, visit Ping-ho-shan, but returned from Huai-yuan to Pengpu, on the Tien-tsin-Pukou Railway.\n\nDuring my stay of twenty-three days in the province, rain fell on eleven days and on eight of these heavily. The overland journey was at times trying on account of the moist heat, the bad roads, execrable inn accommodation and the impossibility of obtaining any supplies except rice and flour. The discomforts, however, would have been considerably greater had it not been for the efforts of the local officials and frequently the local gentry also. In spite of the unpopularity of my mission, which had been widely published, I found the people of this province, reputed to be so anti-foreign, uniformly respectful and even friendly. Attended by a single coolie, I often separated myself from the rest of the party. I cannot recollect a single unpleasant incident, although I can recall many unexpected little attentions from ...",
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        "content_text": "## Memorandum by Mr. Fitzmaurice\n\nIN accordance with instructions, I left Tien-tsin on Tuesday the 22nd April, arriving in Tsinan on the same day. It was there arranged that I should undertake the inspection of the Shih Ping and I Chow districts. The Peking delegates called at noon on the 24th April, and I left on the following morning to visit the Shih Ping district to the west of Tsinan.\n\n### Cultivation\n\nCrossing the Huang Ho at Ch'i Ho and keeping to the north of the main road, I reached Shih Ping on the evening of the second day, and on the return journey passed through San Shih Li P'u and, after recrossing the river at Tung Chia Ssu, Ch'ang Ch'ing. On the morning of the 26th April I made what proved to be the only find of poppies during the trip. Just outside the village of Chi Chia Chuang in Ch'ang Ch'ing Hsien, beside a small river called the Liu Shui Ho, I came across a man in the act of destroying a patch of poppy seedlings which were barely an inch in height. He said that he was hoeing them up as a result of orders received from the ti pao on the previous day. The patch was approximately 18 yards by 28 yards; it was hidden from view by the high bank of the river on one side and by a roughly-constructed earth mound on the other. In a garden in the same neighbourhood a few small plants were also found, but I was satisfied with the explanation given—that these seedlings had escaped by chance the destruction of the crop. The deputies had failed to remain with me on the morning in question, although I had pointed out to them that they should do so. From this time on, however, they accompanied me everywhere.\n\nOn arrival at Chang Ching, I saw the Chi Chia Chuang poppy grower being dragged through the streets handcuffed, a chain round his neck, and on his back a placard describing his offence. I was told that he had been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment and to 4,000 blows with the light bamboo. The residents of Chang Ch'ing petitioned me to ask for a pardon for him; but whatever I might have done would have been so liable to misrepresentation that I refused to take any action; I had an idea, too, that the petition was instigated by the magistrate who was dismissed from his post as a result of the find. On my final return to Tsinan the commissioner of the interior told me that he had reduced the heavy sentence imposed by the Ch'ang Ch'ing Hsien on the poppy grower, but the magistrate had not been reinstated.\n\nOn returning from Shih Ping, I spent one day in Tsinan and left on the 1st May to inspect the I Chow district, reaching Yi Hsien by rail the same evening. I spent three days along the Kiangsu border, between Yi Hsien and T'an Ch'êng, but made no find. The south of Shantung is overrun with troops who have been charged with the task of destroying the poppy as well as that of guarding against raids by the Kiangsu brigands, and I am told by missionaries in Yi Hsien and also heard from other sources that the officials had been very thorough in the work of suppression, and that there was no poppy growing in the district. I heard a different story at Tan Chêng, where a missionary told me that the poppy was being cultivated extensively at Hung Hua P'u, a lawless district infested by brigands, which, he said, the officials and soldiers did not dare to visit. There seems to be a perpetual state of war around T'an Ch'êng, between the soldiers and the brigands, and the heads of nine of the latter were on the city gate on my arrival. My servants asked if they might be excused from going to Hung Hua P'u, and the deputies were obviously unwilling to go; the magistrate, however, readily provided an escort to accompany me thither, but, although I visited every village belonging to Shantung in the neighbourhood, there was no poppy to be found. The T'an Chêng missionary was wrong, too, in saying that the authority of the officials did not extend to Hung Hua P'u.\n\nAt I Chow and Chuchow the missionaries knew of no poppy still growing; they told me that it had been sown on a very large scale everywhere, but subsequently uprooted. The people had expected that the hands of the Government would be too full with other matters to permit of a campaign against opium. From Chuchow I went on to Ishui where the report of the success of the repressive measures was less convincing than it had been anywhere, and the magistrate told me it would not be easy to guarantee his district as free from cultivation. A German missionary told me that he had recently seen the poppy growing in walled gardens in Northern Ishui, when passing on horseback: if he had been on foot, he would have seen nothing. But he did not belong to the Ishui district and could give me no idea as to places, directions or distances. There were not many of these walled gardens, they belonged to wealthy people only, and it would only be by chance that, even though keeping off the roads, one would make a find of this sort. It was common report in Ishui that poppy was being grown in the district, and that its existence was known to the officials; and the provincial deputy told me later that he had written to the tutu asking for the dismissal of the magistrate. In the neighbourhood of Ishui I met several soldiers who told my servants that immediately after our arrival at Chuchow, word was sent to Ishui repeating the order for the destruction, before we could reach the district, of any poppy still remaining. They said they had been sent out in consequence, and were returning to Ishui after the completion of their task. I could not ascertain their number, but a great number of these soldiers had been sent out; and the fact that they were sent at such short notice would seem to confirm the report that the officials knew of such poppy as was growing at that time. It was hardly surprising that I was able to find nothing.\n\nIn Mengyin I heard that very little poppy had been grown ever since the original prohibition of cultivation, as the extortions of the yamen runners had taken away all profit from the growth of the crop; the missionaries were convinced that none had escaped destruction this year. On leaving Mengyin I crossed the Meng Shan and spent some days travelling within the square, having Mengyin, Feihsien, Tenghsien, and Yenchow, as the four corners, reaching the last named on the 21st May. From Yenchow I travelled to Tsinan by rail, and continued my journey thence to Tien-tsin on the 24th May. No find of any sort was made in the I Chow district.\n\nIn many places, particularly in the Shih P'ing district, the drought had been so severe that the poppy would probably not have survived even if it had escaped destruction at the hands, or by the order, of the officials. The bulk of the crop had been uprooted early in the spring, but an officer who accompanied me for about a week said that the province could not have been described as \"clean\" till after the arrival of the deputy in Tsinan. Telegrams were sent in all directions, repeating the order for the suppression of opium cultivation, and telling of the coming of deputies and even of the dismissal of the Ch'ang Ch'ing magistrate. Proclamations were issued to the same effect, and detailed the punishments for any breach of the regulations.\n\nOn several occasions I heard, from my servants and from the three detectives whom I employed, that small patches of poppy had been destroyed one or two days before my arrival; the most reliable of these reports concerned places to the east of Shih Tzu Lu in Chuchow, the Ishui district, and San Kuan Miao in Feihsien; but there were several others, so that there was reason to believe that in some places the crop was only destroyed when the near approach of my party made the presence of poppies too dangerous for the owners. I obtained information that the destruction of poppy at this late hour was due to warnings sent ahead by the provincial deputy. The deputy appointed by the Ministry of the Interior was also of this opinion, and even volunteered the statement that he thought we should have found poppy in several places but for this fact. It may or may not have been true; it would have been impossible to prevent him from sending word if he wished. All that I could do was to keep my projected movements secret, and on one occasion, when he wrote a letter to a military post against my wishes, I insisted on his having the messenger brought back and the letter destroyed.\n\n### Import of Native Opium\n\nI was unable to obtain any proof of the import of native opium. It was regarded as a recognised fact in the south of Shantung that opium was smuggled across the Kiangsu frontier—according to some of my informants, in very large quantities. But the fact that brigands abound over the Kiangsu border has given that province a bad name, and the inhabitants are thought capable of all nefarious practices, including the cultivation and smuggling of opium; so the reports were probably exaggerated. It was also said that much of the opium smuggled into Shantung passed through Kiangsu by way of Chingk'ou, where I was told that no steps of any sort were taken to control the traffic.",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n## OPIUM.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n109\n\n[June 26.]\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\n[29210]\n\n### No. 1.\n\nMr. Alston to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 26.)\n\n**(No. 246.)** Sir,\n\nPeking, June 11, 1913.\n\nI HAVE the honour to enclose copies of correspondence with the Wai-chiao Pu relative to the prohibition of the import of Indian opium into the province of Fukien under article 3 of the Opium Agreement of 1911.\n\nThe memorandum of the Wai-chiao Pu has been the first intimation of their desire to have Fukien placed on the prohibition list. In my despatch No. 218 of the 26th May reference was made to opium cultivation in this province. A very large amount of poppy has undoubtedly been grown in the southern districts, and, although trustworthy information has indicated that the bulk of this has been destroyed, still it would appear that an appreciable quantity has been harvested.\n\nThe poppy is in flower at the end of February, and it would not have been possible at this late date to have tested the assertions of the Fukien tutu.\n\nI have informed the Wai-chiao Pu that I am not prepared to place Fukien on the prohibition list until I have made fuller and more detailed enquiries, and that I will communicate further with them on receipt of reports from His Majesty's consuls at Amoy and Foochow, to whom instructions on the subject are being sent.\n\n### Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nB. ALSTON.\n\n### Memorandum communicated to Sir J. Jordan by Wai-chiao Pu, June 6, 1913.\n\n**(Translation.)**\n\nOWING to disorders stirred up by local rebels the important policy of opium suppression in Fukien met with great difficulties. During January of the present year the Wai-chiao Pu telegraphed to the Fukien tutu instructing him to give speedy orders for the discovery and suppression of the poppy. The tutu gave orders to his subordinates, who, with the aid of the military, destroyed the rebels and rooted up the crop. No efforts were spared, and during the last few months progress has been resolutely made, the sacrifice of lives and property being no obstacle. Thus the sincerity of the intentions (of the provincial authorities) in opium suppression is known to all, whether Chinese or foreigners.\n\nOn the 31st March the Wai-chiao Pu received a telegram from the tutu and chief civil administrator of Fukien to the effect that P'u-tien and Hsien-yu districts, also the Han-chiang and Mei-chou country, had been completely cleared of the poppy. On the 26th April another telegram reached the Wai-chiao Pu to the effect that the Szuming district was clear. On the 3rd May a further telegram was received, stating that Hui-an and Chin-chiang had also successfully reported themselves clear. On the 6th May another telegram was received, saying that Nan-an was clear of the poppy, and that the work of clearing the whole of that part of the country was complete. On the 1st June a further telegram was received, stating that the intendant of the southern circuit had telegraphed that all poppy in the Ch'uan-chou district had been cut down either in his presence or in that of others acting under his strict orders, and that the whole country under his jurisdiction had been reported clear. The tutu also received a telegram from the intendant of the western circuit, that he had sent out troops of soldiers to root up the poppy crop throughout Changchou, that these men had all successively returned to the capital city of the intendancy, and that the whole of his territory was clear. The tutu reported to the Wai-chiao Pu, with reference to the Min-chou, Chang-le, Lien-chiang, Min-ching, Ku-tien, Fu-an, Fu-ting, and Hsia-p'u districts of the eastern circuit, and the Sha Hsien, Shao-wu, Chien-ning, and Nan-ping...",
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        "content_text": "# Convention for the Construction and Maintenance of a Lighthouse at Cape Spartel\n\n## Article I\n\nSa Majesté Schérifienne ayant, dans un intérêt d'humanité, ordonné la construction, aux frais du Gouvernement Marocain, d'un phare au Cap Spartel, consent à remettre, pour toute la durée de la présente Convention, la direction supérieure et l'administration de cet établissement aux Représentants des Puissances Contractantes. Il est bien entendu que cette délégation ne porte aucune atteinte aux droits de propriété et de souveraineté du Sultan, dont le pavillon sera seul arboré sur la tour du phare.\n\n## Article II\n\nLe Gouvernement Marocain ne possédant actuellement aucune marine, soit de guerre, soit de commerce, les dépenses nécessaires pour l'entretien et l'administration du phare seront supportées par les Puissances Contractantes au moyen d'une contribution annuelle dont la quotité sera égale pour chacune d'elles; si, plus tard, le Sultan venait à posséder une marine militaire ou marchande, il s'engage à prendre part aux dépenses dans la même proportion que les autres Puissances signataires. Les frais de réparation, et au besoin de reconstruction, seront d'ailleurs à sa charge.\n\n## Article III\n\nLe Sultan fournira, pour la sureté du phare, une garde composée d'un Kaid et de quatre soldats. Il s'engage en outre à pourvoir par tous les moyens qui dépendent de lui, même en cas de guerre, soit intérieure soit extérieure, à la conservation de cet établissement, ainsi qu'à la sécurité des gardiens et employés.\n\nD'un autre côté, les Puissances Contractantes s'engagent, chacune en ce qui la concerne, à respecter la neutralité du phare, et à continuer le paiement de la contribution destinée à son entretien, même dans le cas où (ce qu'à Dieu ne plaise) des hostilités viendraient à éclater, soit entr'elles, soit entre l'une d'elles et le Royaume de Maroc.\n\n## Article IV\n\nLes Représentants des Puissances Contractantes, chargés, en vertu de l'Article I de la présente Convention, de la direction supérieure et de l'administration du phare, établiront les règlements nécessaires pour le service et la surveillance de cet établissement, et aucune modification ne pourra être ensuite apportée à ces règlements que d'un commun accord entre les Puissances Contractantes.\n\n## Article V\n\nLa présente Convention demeurera en vigueur pendant dix années. Dans le cas où, six mois avant l'expiration de ce terme, aucune des Hautes Parties Contractantes n'aurait, par une déclaration officielle, annoncé son intention de faire cesser, en ce qui la concerne, les effets de la Convention, elle restera en vigueur pendant une année encore, et ainsi de suite, d'année en année, jusqu'à due dénonciation.\n\n## Article VI\n\nL'exécution des engagements réciproques contenus dans la présente Convention est subordonnée, en tant que de besoin, à l'accomplissement des formalités et règles établies par les lois constitutionnelles de celles des Hautes Parties Contractantes qui sont tenues d'en provoquer l'application, ce qu'elles s'obligent à faire dans le plus bref délai possible.\n\n## Article VII\n\nLa présente Convention sera ratifiée, et les ratifications en seront échangées à Tanger aussitôt que faire se pourra.\n\nEn foi de quoi les Plénipotentiaires respectifs l'ont signée, et y ont apposé le cachet de leurs armes.\n\nFait en double original, en Français et en Arabe, à Tanger la protégée de Dieu, le cinquième jour de la lune de Moharrem, l'an de l'Hégire 1282, qui correspond au trente-et-un du mois de Mai, de l'année mil huit cent soixante-cinq.\n\n| Signatory                  | Title                                                                                           |\n| ------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| J. H. DRUMMOND HAY        | Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath                                       |\n| ERNEST DALUIN            | Knight of His Order of Leopold                                                                  |\n| FRANCISCO MERRY Y COLOM  | Grand Cross of Her Order of Isabella the Catholic                                               |\n| JESSE H. Mc MATH         | Consul-General to His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco                                             |\n| AYME D'AQUIN             | Officer of the Legion of Honour                                                                 |\n| A. DE VERDINOIS          | Chevalier de Son Ordre des Saints Maurice et Lazare                                              |\n| J. H. DRUMMOND HAY        | Agent-General ad interim to His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco                                   |\n| JOSE DANIEL COLAÇO       | Commandeur de Son Ordre du Christ                                                                |\n| S. D'EHRENHOFF           | Chevalier de Son Ordre de Wasa                                                                   |\n| (Arabic Signature)       | Minister of Foreign Affairs of Morocco                                                          |\n\n## Translation\n\nIN THE NAME OF THE ONLY GOD.\n\nThere is no force and power but in God.\n\nHER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, His Majesty the King of the Belgians, Her Majesty the Queen of Spain, His Excellency the President of the Republic of the United States of America, His Majesty the Emperor of the French, His Majesty the King of Italy, His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, His Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves, His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, and His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco and Fez, animated by an equal desire to ensure the security of navigation upon the coasts of Morocco, and wishing to provide by common agreement the measures most proper for attaining that end, have resolved to conclude a special Convention...\n\nPage 163",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[33451]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n192\n\nCO [July 21, 1909] SECRET\n\nRECD 28 AUG 13\n\nMr. Alston to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received July 21.)\n\n(No. 274.) Sir,\n\nPeking, July 5, 1913. IN continuation of my despatch No. 264 of the 30th June, I have the honour to forward a further memorandum from the Wai-chiao Pu on the subject of the proposal to remove the stocks of Indian opium from Shanghai. The memorandum states that the scheme has the approval of many people in the United Kingdom and, in this connection, I enclose translations of three letters from General Chang Yu-chun, the representative of the Chinese Anti-Opium Society, to the President. The \"Peiching Pao,\" in which two letters were published, is understood to be in touch with the Central Government, and the \"Peking Daily News\" may be described as officially inspired.\n\nOn the 30th June the Senate passed the three readings of a member's Bill requesting the Government to approach the British Minister with a view to abrogate the Opium treaty, to stop the importation of opium, and to ship away the stocks of Indian opium.\n\nIt will be observed that, beyond an offer to pay the cost of freight of shipment to non-Chinese ports, the Chinese Government appears to take no account of the fact that the sales of the stocks at these ports would entail heavy losses on the opium merchants who would presumably look either to India or to Great Britain to make them good.\n\nSubject to your approval, I would propose to reply to the Wai-chiao Pu that His Majesty's Government have already made considerable sacrifices in putting an end to the export of Indian opium to China and are unable to consent to the proposed removal of the stocks until such time as every province in China shall have established by clear evidence that the cultivation of native opium has been effectively suppressed, and the ports of Canton and Shanghai closed to the import of Indian opium.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nB. ALSTON.\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum communicated to Mr. Alston by Wai-chiao Pu\n\nTHE Wai-chiao Pu have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Alston's memorandum of the 26th June with reference to the removal of the stocks of opium now lying at Shanghai, in which he declares that such a course would be inconsistent with the proposals previously put forward.\n\nThe Ministry have the honour to observe that, although the purchase of the opium stocks was on several occasions discussed with Sir John Jordan, yet no decision was reached. Later, owing to the hostility of public opinion, the question was not again raised, and has now been dormant for some months.\n\nAs the previous proposal has been dropped, the method of removing the stocks of opium was brought forward. Telegrams have successively been received from all the provincial Governments and assemblies approving of the scheme, which further has the approval of many people in the United Kingdom. The true reason for bringing forward this proposal is that every day on which opium is stored at Shanghai means a day on which it is impossible to prevent its consumption, which is a great obstacle to China's prohibition of opium. The only course open to the Wai-chiao Pu is again to consult with Mr. Alston and to request him if he agrees with the proposal, to instruct the opium merchants to act according to it. The Wai-chiao Pu trusts to receive Mr. Alston's reply.\n\nJuly 1, 1913.\n\n[1816 -1]",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nExtracts from the “Peiching Paö\" of June 20, 1913.\n\nTRANSLATION OF TWO LETTERS FROM GENERAL CHANG TO PRESIDENT YUAN SHIH-KAI.\n\nA LETTER written the other day by Chang Yu-chün, representative of the National Anti-Opium Association, to the President, contains the following:\n\n\"I earnestly trust that the Chinese Government will maintain a firm front to the end, seeing that there is no risk of friendly relations with Britain being impaired. Sir J. Jordan, as an experienced diplomat, was bound to make a show of opposition, but this is only an unavoidable diplomatic move; it does not in the least imply an unfriendly attitude, nor can it conceivably bring about any other complications. If the Wai-chiao Pu allows itself to be coerced by His Majesty's Minister and suddenly weakens its attitude, not only will a rebuff be suffered, but foreigners will ridicule China's complete lack of persistence. China's diplomatic relations with foreigners have invariably ended in discomfiture, owing to the mask worn by foreigners being accepted as genuine. The British people are opposed to the action of their Government in regard to the opium sales, and will never allow provocative measures to be undertaken on this account against China. I earnestly trust that you will instruct the Wai-chiao Pu to maintain a firm front to the end, thereby causing Great Britain to revise and do away with the restrictions of the Agreement of 1911, thus permitting China to have complete liberty in suppressing opium, both native and imported.\"\n\nSecond letter:-\n\n\"Since last week I have been in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, where I have been delivering addresses in all the churches. I have received support on all sides, and the decision has been formed to present a request to the British Government to revise the agreement and stop the import, as well as to remove the stocks now held at Shanghai. The general public is also most warm-hearted in its support; all expressed their shame at not knowing how earnestly aroused China was, nor the obstinate selfishness of the British Government. I have made great progress in the English language, and am able to give addresses with my own mouth, as a result of which my hearers are all much moved. I am (or they are) ignorant as to the action taken by the Wai-chiao Pu, as to whether it will be able to maintain a firm front to the end, and whether it will be possible to prevent the opium stocks now held at Shanghai from being disposed of in China. British Members of Parliament, such as Messrs. Taylor and Scottie all agree with what I say, and give me great encouragement. They intend to introduce me to Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and to Lord Crewe, Secretary of State for India, in order that I may have a talk with them about everything. My idea is that if the Wai-chiao Pu finds it difficult to bring the negotiations in China to a successful issue, the best thing to do will be to transfer them to my charge in Great Britain. Owing to the assistance of the British public this will be much easier. Otherwise this will be another case in which we shall fall into the trap set by others, and the reputation of the republic will be injuriously affected.\"\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Peking Daily News\" of July 3, 1913.\n\nANTI-OPIUM CAMPAIGN.\n\nA LETTER from General Chang Yu-chün, the representative of the Chinese Anti-Opium Society, to President Yuan Shih-kai, regarding the anti-opium movement in London:-\n\nYour Excellency,\n\n\"This afternoon the various anti-opium societies in England held a meeting in the committee room of the House of Commons. Many members of Parliament such as Mr. Taylor, &c., were present, and I was invited to take part in the conference. It was proposed that delegates should be appointed to call upon Sir Edward Grey, the Minister of the Foreign Office, and to request him to cancel the treaty for the sale of opium to China, in order that China might be enabled to carry on her prohibitive measures freely, and that the stock of 20,000 chests of opium at Shanghai might not be sold in the interior.\n\nIn the course of the meeting I was asked whether the Government of China had any intention to prohibit the stock of opium at Shanghai as well. Thereupon, I said that China wants very much to remove the stock of opium, but for the lack of funds our Government, though earnest to stamp out the evil, has been afraid lest your Majesty's Government should not comply with our request for its removal. Mr. Taylor, however, told me that China need not be anxious about the question of payment. 'His Majesty's Government,' he said, 'would never compel the Chinese Government to pay any compensation. If the Chinese Government were really in earnest to prohibit the importation of this opium stock, and would make clear demands for its exclusion, we would use our best efforts to persuade His Majesty's Government to act accordingly. The Chinese Government is too ignorant of the conditions of foreign countries. It does not know, even now, that we are sincerely helping it with respect to this opium affair. It has been too careful to make known its intentions even in a matter of claiming its own rights. How can a person give up anything without being asked? Your country remains as weak and timid as ever and we are now at our wits' end.' I was really ashamed to hear him say so, and I could not but excuse ourselves by saying that all these faults were due to the weakness of our nation. Then he advised me to urge our Government to lodge a strong representation immediately with the British Government, without any fear or doubt, and said that although there were verbal demands of compensation made by the British Government, these demands were merely formalities of the diplomatic officers, and that the British Government would never insist on them.\n\n\"At last two resolutions were passed, namely:\n\n\"1. His Majesty's Government should be requested to give back to China the right of opium prohibition, and to enable China to prohibit the opium stock in Shanghai as well; and\n\n\"2. His Majesty's Government should be requested to stop the cultivation of opium in India for two years, so that the present stock of Indian opium may be sold to other countries during this period of time.\n\n\"After the close of the meeting I sent to your Excellency a telegram requesting that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Assembly should be ordered, and requested respectively to settle this question as soon as possible, and to lodge a demand for the prohibition of the Shanghai opium stocks, and I trust that this telegram has reached your Excellency in due course.\n\nHoping our Government will adopt the measure advised by Mr. Taylor without loss of time, I have, &c.\n\n\"CHANG YU-CHUN.\"\n\n193",
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        "content_text": "Much had already been done; ten Chinese provinces were closed, or about to be closed, to the trade, owing to the suppression of the growth of opium.\n\nIt should also be noticed that the whole of the stocks now accumulated in Shanghai amounted to only one-third of the annual intake of China a few years ago. It was obvious, therefore, that there was already a great improvement.\n\nThe deputation demanded that the opium stocks in Shanghai should be dispersed to destinations which were not stated, but which were to be other than China. Though these stocks were not very large when compared to China's former consumption, there were, nevertheless, great practical difficulties in disposing of a block of opium such as this. There was, for instance, the difference between the various sorts of opium, between Bengal opium and Malwa opium. Even in India the market was different for each sort of opium. Opium could not be treated as a single article.\n\nWe had, however, already so reduced the amount of Bengal opium grown that the supply was barely equal to the demand for it in India itself and for the outside markets other than Chinese. This proved that the Government of India had no desire to encourage the export of opium to China.\n\nMalwa opium was grown in the native States, and we had not the same control over it as over Bengal opium. Also, the opium grown in Persia and Turkey was a strong rival of Malwa opium. The Government of India had pointed out to the native States concerned that, if the market was glutted with Malwa opium, no help was to be expected from the Government of India.\n\nOn the general question, while appreciating the feelings that made the deputation desire a more rapid disuse of opium in China, he pointed out that, if China accomplished the task of suppressing the opium habit within the proposed term of ten years, Reformers would have accomplished a feat unparalleled in the history of the world.\n\nIn our own country, we did not venture to suggest a ten years' limit for some of our national vices. Therefore, a year more or less added to the time required to end the opium trade should not be looked upon as a matter of paramount importance.\n\nIn passing, he would observe that he did not think that a complete prohibition of the importation of opium into China at once would be a very great help to the Chinese, for people who wished to get opium would go on getting it by some degree of cultivation.\n\nHe asked the deputation whether it was wise or worth while, whether it was necessary to introduce what might be serious complications into the progress of this reform, so long as steady progress was being made? While he had personal sympathy with the object of the deputation, he could not agree entirely with them in the means that they proposed for attaining it.\n\nSir E. Grey said that he was in complete agreement with Lord Crewe as to the policy to be followed, and he had nothing different to say, but he might supplement in one or two ways what Lord Crewe had said. Also, he would touch upon the question of the indemnity, as this question had been raised.\n\nHe had seen General Chang, and had been much impressed by his earnestness. But he had felt obliged to say one thing to General Chang, and that was that, when he gave addresses on the subject of the opium trade, he should dwell to some extent upon the help given by the Indian Government to China. This was a point that was apt to be overlooked when the subject was discussed.\n\nHe wished to recall the point of view of 1906, when the British Government first approached the subject with a view to the reduction of the trade. Lord Morley's scheme was received by those earnestly interested as a real offer to hold out a helping hand. There were some cynics who slighted the efforts of China, but China had certainly proved since then that she was in earnest. Sir E. Grey described the scheme, which was to bring the trade to an end in 1916. When the Indian Government had made this bargain, they might have considered themselves entitled to hold to it, but as China did so well, the Indian Government went further, and agreed to the closure of province by province. Finally, the Indian Government had agreed to send no more opium to China. If one supposed that the present deputation were a deputation who had called upon Lord Crewe and Sir E. Grey in 1906, and that it had then been possible to prophesy that in 1913 the trade would be reduced to its present dimensions, the only outstanding question being that of the 20,000 chests in Shanghai, and that in 1906 a request had been made for one or two years beyond 1913 for the extinction of the trade, he thought that the deputation would have agreed, and considered that they had made a very good bargain.\n\nTherefore, while he quite appreciated the object of the deputation, he thought that if one looked at the situation in the right perspective, one received a different impression.\n\nHe thought that it was open to doubt whether the accumulated stocks were really an obstruction to China. He understood that what China really appreciated was the progressive reduction that we had secured for her.\n\nSome time ago, the Chinese Government had offered to buy the stocks, and that would no doubt have been a solution, but they had since withdrawn their offer. One alternative would be for the British Government to buy the stocks. But while China herself was still producing every year three times as much opium as was contained in these stocks, he did not think that we could reasonably go to Parliament to ask for a grant to buy the stocks. Of course, if all production of opium in China ceased, the situation would be altered, and we could not send any more opium into China then.\n\nAs to the indemnity, there was great misunderstanding. The British Government had not been wise in their generation. They had drawn up large claims against China, but had reduced them before presenting them to her. The United States, on the other hand, had presented very large claims, and had waited till a good deal had been paid by China, and then had waived the rest. This, of course, had given the United States a good dramatic position, but it reminded one of the landlord who did not reduce his rents when surrounding landlords reduced theirs, and then acquired a reputation for generosity by giving rebates on his rents while the other landlords gave none. He thought that the real position as to the indemnity should be better known.\n\nMr. Theodore Taylor, while expressing the thanks of the deputation for the reception given them, said that they were not satisfied, and he urged very strongly that the British Government should reconsider their position.\n\nPage 242",
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        "content_text": "Euc!- No 244\n\nParaphrase of Telegram\n\nFrom Consul General Canton.\n\nTo H. M.'s Minister, Peking\n\nOwing to the depletion of Treasury notes are at enormous discount in Gur/52764/145.\n\nGovernment Constn Jan\" 16\" 1914\n\nthe Provincial\n\nHongkong trade is consequently dead, and danger of serious kind exists-\n\nGovernor of Hongkong informs me that the Chinese Government will assist with a domestic Loan up to $20 million, provided there is efficient foreign control.\n\nCould you induce President to instruct the Provincial Government to accept this principle, and appoint late Governor-General, Chang, to carry it out.\n\nThe agent of the Hongkong + Shanghai Bank, when recently in the South on behalf of the Quintuple Group made a similar proposal.\n\nBy this scheme our individual supremacy...",
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        "content_text": "91\n\nI\n\n103\n\nCOPY.\n\nTo be sent to Juentionqya evicmodnoge\n\n6th February, 1911.\n\nFrom this date the Attendance Book will be kept in the Examination Room.\n\nMr. Chan Pui will take charge of the Chinese Clerks and Shroff on the upper floor and be responsible for the proper discharge of their duties as per instructions laid down from time to time.\n\nAll stationery will be kept by Mr. Fan and his Assistant in the Entry and Clearance Office from this date.\n\nNo Chinese Clerks will leave the office during office hours without permission from the Harbour Master or Assistant Harbour Master.\n\nThe Assistant Correspondent Clerk will compile the Junk Return for 1911 from this date.\n\nMr. Lenfestey will take charge of the Junk Office, pass emigrants, inspect Junk Inspectors' Books and when satisfied with same pass them to Assistant Harbour Master to be initialled. He will keep the arrival and departure book of Ocean and River Shipping, rendering quarterly return of same for Assistant Harbour Master.\n\nClerks are warned against encouraging friends to visit them in the office, during office hours. In all cases, permission must be asked.\n\n(Sd.) C. W. Beckwith,\n\nCommander, R.N.,\n\nHarbour Master.\n\nNoted.\n\nSd. Chan Pui.\n\n7.P.Lenfestey. Fan Taung-hing. Fung Sz-Tong. Chan Pui-sam. So Kwong-kwan. Wong Hin-ting. Wong Pik-tung. Cheng U Chuen. Ip Tong. So Uet-tai. R. L. Rocha.\n\nE. Jones. A. Coata.\n\nA. Abbas.\n\nS. A. Pintos. Chan Pun.\n\n3. Nunes. Lai Wing-tak.",
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        "content_text": "72 Hang Shang Pao 6.1.14, Ch'ing Yuan. The driving off of cattle very frequent.\n\n72 Hang Shang Pao 7.1.14. Ch'ing Yuan. During the last 2 weeks there have been 2 cases of holding-up of ferry-boats by pirates disguised as passengers. Ch'ing Yuan is calculated to have more pirates and brigands than any other District.\n\n72 Hang Shang Pao 14.1.14. Yang Ch'un. Robberies almost daily. Women and cattle carried off, the former being held for ransom.\n\nHua Yen Pao 5.1.14. Yang Chie. Troops defeated by brigands with a loss of 20 killed and many wounded.\n\nHua Yen Pao 5.1.14. Kao Ming. A recent piracy called forth a complaint by the owner in person to the Authorities in Canton.\n\nYang Cheng Pao 14.1.14. Yang Chiang, Telegraphic report of an attack on all villages within a 15 mile radius by a band of 1,000 brigands. 20 persons killed, scores wounded, over 100 abducted and over $10,000 carried off.\n\nHua Yen Pao 15.1.14. Yang Chiang. Magistrate reports 10 villages plundered and over 200 men and women killed. 10 brigands shot but troops insufficient.\n\nHua Yen Pao 15.1.14. Yung An. On 9.1.14, a village about 10 miles from Yung An was stripped by brigands who carried off 10 men and killed 1 officer and 2 men of the troops sent against them.\n\nHua Yen Pao 12.1.14.",
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        "title": "CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5]",
        "content_text": "Sir,\n\n...\n\nCOPY.\n\n...\n\n(Translation.)\n\n(To accompany no. 2.)\n\nMilitary and Civil Governors to H.M. Consul-General.\n\nFebruary 1, 1914.\n\nOwing to the proximity of Hongkong to Canton legal cases are numerous and under the late empire a special officer was appointed to conduct extradition proceedings in Hongkong to clear off outstanding cases and to further friendly relations. Now that the republic has been established and Great Britain, in common with other friendly powers, has recognised it, it becomes necessary to continue this procedure. We have accordingly requested the British firm of lawyers, Messrs. Dennys and Bowley, in co-operation with Mr. King, the Assistant Superintendent of Police, to manage these cases for a period of one year. We have further requested Colonel Ma Te-hsin, late of Heiang Shan, to act as 'Hongkong extradition consulting officer' and we have specially appointed Teng Yao-kuang, head of the Canton Police, Ts'ai Ch'un-heng, head of the water police, Captain Yang Ying-lu, late of Ta Peng, and Yen Ch'i-han, delegate of the Kuangtung Tutu's office, as extradition officers. The heads of the land and water police will for the future appoint detectives to co-operate with Yang Ying-lu who will request the British lawyers to obtain warrants on his behalf. On the arrest of the criminals he will further bring witnesses to give true evidence for their extradition.\n\nWe have the honour to request you to inform H.E. the Governor of Hongkong, for purposes of record, of these arrangements made for the public advantage.\n\nWe have etc.,\n\n(signature and seal of) Lung Chi-kuang, Tutu of Kuangtung.\n\nLi K'ai-hsien, Min Cheng Chang of Kuangtung.",
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        "content_text": "225\n\nList of Piracies and Robberies during April, 1914\n\nCanton and Delta.\n\n\"Heng Li. On 29.3.14 Railway Station robbed\n\nTsung Shang Hui Pao.\n\n平海\n\nPing Hai. 80 persons, including 5 ringleaders arrested in connection with the Ta'ao Te'on piracy otherwise\n\n江門\n\nKoongmoon. The Kongmoon-Nan Shui ferry boat was pirated whilst preparing to anchor, The crew were taken unawares. Arrangements for immediate pursuit were made.\n\nHua Yen Pao. 8.4.14.\n\nP'an Yu Hsien. Fuel boat pirated recently.\n\nHua Yen Pao. 14.4.14.\n\nHeung Shan. Infested with brigands. A few days ago more than 10 were captured and executed by the Water Police. Yesterday 5 second-class war craft were despatched to assist by request of Chief of Water Police.\n\nYang Cheng Pao. 14.4.14.\n\nKongmoon. Ferry boat plying between Kongmoon and Tou Men pirated recently. Pirates' fire returned but the defenders were outnumbered and 1 soldier was killed and several passengers wounded.\n\nHua Yen Pao. 23.4.14\n\nChi Ao. \"Tai On\" was pirated and burnt and 400 lives lost.\n\n72 Hang Shang Pao. 29.4.14.\n\nTungkoon. District infested by robbers. 22 villages have petitioned the military Authorities to exterminate them.\n\nHua Yen Pao. 30.4.14.\n\nEast of Delta. Yang Chiang and Yang Ch'un. The Commander in Chief at Chao Ch'ing has requested the despatch of efficient troops to these places to put down brigandage.\n\nYang Cheng Pao. 15.4.14.",
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        "content_text": "Page 32712\n\nNo 269.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\nHONGKONG.\n22nd July, 1914.\n\nI have the honour to transmit for your consideration the attached petition from a woman named Ho Chang Mui praying that the sentence of banishment passed on her husband Chu Loi be rescinded.\n\n2. Chu Loi is a native of the Wai Chau District of the Kwang Tung Province who formerly worked in Kowloon. In 1905 one Sin Wong was murdered in that locality and Chu Loi, who was alleged to have been implicated in the crime, disappeared. He returned recently and was arrested on the charge of murder, but owing to the length of time which had elapsed sufficient evidence could not be procured and he was discharged. He was, however, convicted of the offence of carrying arms and sentenced to three months' imprisonment with the option of a fine of $300. On his release he was proceeded against under the Banishment Ordinance and he was forbidden to return to the Colony for ten years on the ground that he had no honest occupation, had been convicted of carrying firearms, was a thief and a dangerous character.\n\n3. I attach a copy of a minute by the Attorney General in which the circumstances of the case and the attitude adopted by the Government are fully reviewed and the statements made in the petition analysed in detail.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\nLEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,\n&C.\n&C.\n\nBC.1\n\n4.\n\nPage 32712",
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        "content_text": "CHUKIANG \n\nOR \n\nCANTON RIVER \n\nSa-tsing \n\n*Fuk-yun \n\nFOR CORRECTION AD RETUR \n\nWITH ANNUAL REPORT; \n\nSee Circular of 30 April, 1908. \n\nHONG-KONG, KOWLOON AND ADJACENT TERRITORIES. \n\n114 \n\n15/ \n\nPiang tid \n\nHAN \n\nTan-tou Tong-pai \n\nShak-kai \n\nTUNG \n\nSK WAN \n\nLingtoho \n\nLung kong \n\nTong-lak \n\nHein-hi \n\nVoTai-Tong-tu \n\nKUI \n\nKon-las \n\nWu-shak-ngam \n\nShak-kong \n\nChorig-hang-kang \n\nA. po-ki \n\nLong-hau 8 \n\nLung-fa \n\nYong-tai-shan \n\nSin hi \n\nOpen ten \n\nWang-kong \n\nLi-Jozp \n\nShang-tungs \n\nTai-wa-chun \n\nHe \n\nPak shak-lung \n\nPu-kak \n\nKaichung \n\nSha-tao \n\nYam-ten & \n\nMoj-lim \n\nÁ Sai-Heung \n\nHa-Ceai \n\nTAI-CHAM BAY \n\nNAM-TAO \n\nPing Chang \n\nLongtaubhy \n\nHSIN NG A/N tong \n\nLoJant (SUM-QN; Sam-chuo \n\nSha-tau \n\nMa-shau \n\nWao-ha DEEP BAY HAU-HOI \n\nChak wan \n\nSan-tin \n\nSha \n\nMi-puo \n\nWang-ling-tau \n\nChuk-yen \n\nTin-koko \n\nShon-wan \n\nPlover Cove \n\nLim-ahun \n\nTolo \n\nPingshan \n\nTOLO HARBOUR \n\nKam-tin \n\nTai-shui-hang \n\nLin-tin \n\nKi-chun \n\nPa-kong ¿Tisam-kai \n\nSa-ng-chung \n\nCrooked I. \n\nSang shan \n\nHarbe \n\nCrescent !. \n\nRo-tongo \n\nBluff Hd \n\nChak-kang \n\nPort Jaland \n\nGrass I Tap-mun \n\nTan-ke-wan \n\nShair hang Hai-wang \n\nChin-bang \n\nBIAS \n\nTAI-PUNG-SANG \n\nBAY \n\nWong-mu \n\nTipfuk \n\nHasha \n\nPeng-cha \n\nPit-shuu \n\nMira \n\nTai-long \n\nShui-lov \n\nTai-mo-shan \n\nChin-shan \n\nLok Lo \n\nPat-long \n\nTai-shut-hang \n\nPat-kong Sai-kung \n\nLan-Dei-wad \n\nNam-Jong, \n\nYam-ten \n\nFung Hend \n\nFung Bay \n\nPing Pt \n\nLung-ku \n\nSa-shau \n\nTai-lam-ahung \n\nTsin-wan \n\nShatia \n\nJung, \n\nChun \n\nhue \n\nLai-Chi-Kok \n\nHigh L \n\nShelter \n\nKOWLOON CITY \n\nTown \n\nSham-Shui-Po \n\nBasalt \n\nChi-ja-kok \n\nFaim-She Tea \n\nPing-chan Green \n\nTung-hung \n\nRow Chad \n\nThưChâu \n\nShaw-ki-waro \n\nChau-kung \n\nPokulum \n\nLAN-TAO TAI-U SHANI \n\nSilver Mine \n\nAberdeen HONG-KONG \n\nSpilt pat \n\npilabad \n\nNinepin \n\nA Group \n\nLam-tong \n\nTaiku-chau \n\nTai-wand \n\nCheung-C \n\nA-Chau \n\nLamme I) osh-ku-wan (Pok-Liu \n\nEAST I AMMA CHAN., \n\nTa-tong \n\nTel-longhan \n\nHead \n\nWong mula \n\n-kok Fury Rocks \n\nZochau \n\nWag-lan Sun-kong hugen Pu-toi \n\nOTY10 \n\nLap-sap-mi \n\nLEMA \n\nCHANNEL \n\nChi-obau \n\nKakten \n\nNOTE \n\nTerritory under Convention of 1860 Boundary under Convention 1898 \n\nIndah Miles (101) \n\n30 \n\nSamun \n\nOrdnance Survey Office. Southampton, 1912 \n\nPage 270\n\nPage 271",
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        "content_text": "UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.\n\nKING EDWARD VII SCHOLARSHIPS\n\nawarded during the year 1914-1915.\n\n  \n    Name of Scholar.\n    Birthplace of Scholar.\n    Faculty in which Scholarship is held.\n    Period for which Scholarship is tenable.\n  \n  \n    Tei Ving Lock\n    Hongkong\n    Engineering\n    1st September, 1912, to 31st August, 1917.\n  \n  \n    Lim Chong Kang\n    Penang\n    Medicine\n    1st September, 1912, to 31st August, 1917.\n  \n  \n    Lo Cheuk Shing\n    Hongkong\n    Engineering\n    1st September, 1913, to 31st August, 1918.\n  \n  \n    Abdul Hamid Rusajahn\n    Hongkong\n    Engineering (1)\n    1st January, 1914, to 31st December, 1918.\n  \n  \n    La Toung Chang\n    Hongkong\n    Arts\n    1st September, 1914, to 31st August, 1919.\n  \n  \n    Henry Arthur Phillips\n    Penang\n    Medicine\n    1st October, 1914, to 31st August, 1919.\n  \n\n(1) This Scholarship was granted in the faculty of arts but has been transferred to Engineering.\n\nI certify that the above-named are British Subjects.\n\nA. C. FRANKLIN\n\nRegistrar.",
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        "content_text": "CANTON KOWLOON RAILWAY.\n\nThrough and Joint Sectional Passenger Traffic Division Table.\n\nAs agreed on between the Administrations of the British and Chinese Sections. Vide Honourable Colonial Secretary's letter No.1562/1912, dated 18th June 1914, and Managing Director's Letter No.3234, dated 14th August 1914.\n\nHongkong\nKowloon\nHung Hom\nYaumati\nShatin\nTai Po and Tai Po Market\nFanling and Sheung Shui.\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n2.20\n2.00\n2.20\n2.00\n2.20\n2.00\n2.20\n2.00\n2.20\n2.00\n2.40\n2.00\n\n2nd\n1.10\n1.00\n1.10\n1.00\n1.10\n1.00\n1.10\n1.00\n1.10\n1.00\n1.20\n1.00\n\n3rd\n.55\n.50\n.55\n.50\n.55\n.50\n.55\n.50\n.55\n.50\n.60\n.50\n\n1st\n\n2.40\n2.00\n2.40\n2.00\n\n2nd\n\n1.20\n1.00\n1.20\n1.00\n\n3rd\n\n.60\n.50\n.60\n.50\n\nLi Long\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n2.00\n1.80\n\n2nd\n1.00\n.90\n\n3rd\n.50\n.45\n\nPing Wu\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n2.80\n2.00\n\n2nd\n1.40\n1.00\n\n3rd\n.70\n.50\n\nTin Tong Wai\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n3.00\n2.00\n\n2nd\n1.50\n1.00\n\n3rd\n.75\n.50\n\nShek Ku\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n3.00\n2.00\n\n2nd\n1.50\n1.00\n\n3rd\n.75\n.50\n\nTong Tou Ha\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n3.20\n2.00\n\n2nd\n1.60\n1.00\n\n3rd\n.80\n.50\n\nLum Tsun\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n3.40\n2.00\n\n2nd\n1.70\n1.00\n\n3rd\n.85\n.50\n\nCheung Muk Tou and Shek Ma\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n3.80\n1.80\n\n2nd\n1.90\n.90\n\n3rd\n.95\n.45\n\nTu Tong\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n3.80\n1.62\n\n2nd\n1.90\n.81\n\n3rd\n.95\n.40\n\nSheung Ping & Muk Lun\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n3.80\n1.42\n\n2nd\n1.90\n.71\n\n3rd\n.95\n.35\n\nWang Lik\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n3.60\n1.42\n\n2nd\n1.80\n.71\n\n3rd\n.90\n.35\n\nNam Shek\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n3.80\n1.42\n\n2nd\n1.90\n.71\n\n3rd\n.95\n.35\n\nSai Wu\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n3.80\n1.42\n\n2nd\n1.90\n.71\n\n3rd\n.95\n.35\n\nSheklung\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n3.80\n35% 65%\n\n2nd\n1.90\n35% 65%\n\n3rd\n.95\n35% 65%\n\nShek Lik Kon\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n4.00\n1.68\n\n2nd\n2.00\n.84\n\n3rd\n1.00\n.42\n\nShek Tan\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n4.20\n1.70\n\n2nd\n2.10\n.85\n\n3rd\n1.05\n.42\n\nShek Ha\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n4.40\n1.64\n\n2nd\n2.20\n.82\n\n3rd\n1.10\n.41\n\nSien Tsun\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n4.40\n1.60\n\n2nd\n2.20\n.82\n\n3rd\n1.10\n.41\n\nNga Yeo\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n4.60\n1.66\n\n2nd\n2.30\n.83\n\n3rd\n1.15\n.41\n\nTong Mei\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n5.20\n1.80\n\n2nd\n2.60\n.90\n\n3rd\n1.30\n.45\n\nSun Tong\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n5.20\n1.76\n\n2nd\n2.60\n.88\n\n3rd\n1.30\n.44\n\nNam Kong\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n5.20\n1.78\n\n2nd\n2.60\n.89\n\n3rd\n1.30\n.44\n\nWu Chung\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n5.40\n1.72\n\n2nd\n2.70\n.86\n\n3rd\n1.35\n.43\n\nChe Pi\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n5.40\n1.68\n\n2nd\n2.70\n.84\n\n3rd\n1.35\n.42\n\nShek Pai\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n5.40\n1.56\n\n2nd\n2.70\n.78\n\n3rd\n1.35\n.39\n\nCanton T.S.T.\n\nClass\nFare\nProportion British Chinese\n\n1st\n5.40\n35% 65%\n\n2nd\n2.70\n35% 65%\n\n3rd\n1.35\n35% 65%\n\nRobert Baker,\n\nActing Manager,\n\nBritish Section,\n\nKowloon Canton Railway,\n\n=\n\nWen Tch Chang.\n\nManaging Director,\n\nChinese Section\n\nCanton Kowloon Railway.",
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        "content_text": "II\n\nSzechuan.\n\nThe political situation at Chengtu has been chiefly remarkable for the complete ascendency which has been gained by the military party under the acting Tutu Hu Ching-yi and the gradual elimination of rival claimants for power from among the various political parties in the province. Owing to the successful intrigues of Hu, the president was induced to abolish the separate post of civil governor, hitherto held by Chang Pei-cho, president of the Tung Meng Hui, and to invest Hu himself with the duties of the office. Other members of the Teng Meng Hui were compelled to resign their offices, the only one now left in a situation of importance being the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Chang Chih-hsiang, whose position is none too secure. As a result of the ascendency of the military party, nearly all the yamêns and temples have been converted into barracks and the parade grounds in the corners of the city are scenes of great activity.\n\nIn spite of the good order that is being maintained, signs of unrest and discontent are not wanting, and plots engineered by the many divergent political parties are constantly coming to light.\n\nThe restoration of order in Szechuan has rendered the return of foreign missionaries to their districts feasible and the great majority are now back at their posts with their wives and families. Partly owing to their temporary retreat a movement has been started in more than one place for eliminating the foreign missionaries altogether from the control of church work and placing the mission centre and incidentally the mission property under the control of native pastors. Such a development appeals strongly to the highly independent Szechuan mind and has the sympathetic support of the non-Christian but equally anti-foreign native officials. This phase will require some tactful handling by the foreign missionary body in the near future.\n\nThe acting British consul at Chungking reports that the interior of Eastern Szechuan is reverting to normal conditions, and that travel and residence in these parts is now incomparably safer than was the case in December 1911. Armed robbers, however, are still to be feared, as is evidenced by the recent attack on a party of missionaries near Fushan, which resulted in the death of the six-year old son of the Rev. R. O. Jolliffe.\n\n220",
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        "content_text": "Kuangsi,\n\n3\n\n1\n\nThe political situation in Kuangsi has remained quiet during the past quarter. There are the usual reports of armed robberies by bands of brigands, especially in the south-east and east of the province bordering on Kuangtung. But the Government would seem to be doing its best to restore order, and captures of brigands are reported almost daily. There has been no piracy on the upper portion of the West River during the past quarter.\n\nKuangtung.\n\nThe number of members to be sent by the province of Kuangtung to the Peking Parliament is thirty. There are seven electoral districts. The third electoral district, which includes Swatow, provides four members, and the total number of electors in the district is 257,585. The Haiyang magistrate and others were denounced for malpractices, but the cases against them were settled by compromise.\n\nCircular instructions have been issued by the Canton Governor to the various district magistrates directing the establishment of police in the villages without delay. After three months an official inspection will be made, and the efficiency of the different district magistrates will be judged according to their merits or the reverse. Membership of the Triad Society is said to be increasing; and another society, the Eight Diagram Society, has also been fomenting trouble, but the military authorities seem to be able to maintain control for the present. The latest advices from Canton indicate that the Tutu and local officials are gradually strengthening their position. Appeals have been issued for some time past to Chinese abroad for funds for a campaign in Mongolia, but it is more than doubtful whether the money received will be devoted to this purpose.\n\nAt Pakhoi, in the south-west of the province, there has been a severe epidemic of bubonic plague, which, owing to the general insanitary conditions of the port, seems likely to increase in virulence during the present quarter. Many of the Chinese have taken refuge in the surrounding villages, but the disease does not seem to be spreading much to the interior; though one or two cases have been reported from Limhow. The latter district has also been the scene of some rioting out of the imposition of new taxes. These disorders were suppressed with great brutality by Colonel Hsu Wei Yang, who did not hesitate to make use of his troops for the purpose of levying blackmail on unoffending villagers. Colonel Hsu has since been recalled, and the situation is now more peaceful.\n\nFukien.\n\nIn the beginning of February there was an attempt to assassinate the new civil commissioner, Chang Yuan-chi, by means of a bomb placed on a bridge over which he was passing. Chang noticed the bomb, and stopped his chair in time to save his own life, but two of his bodyguard in front had their legs blown off. Bombs have also been found in other parts of Foochow, but otherwise there has been no serious disturbance. The district round Foochow has been quite peaceful, and even Hsing Hua, usually in a state of unrest and especially so since the forcible uprooting of the poppy crop, is now settling down to more normal conditions. His Majesty's consul at Foochow observes a notable inclination among the natives to revert to idol worship and to the pre-Revolution type of costume. The attitude of Fukien and Chekiang towards the Central Government would seem to be rather more loyal than that of the other southern provinces, and it is possible that, in the event of a conflict, they would take sides against the latter in favour of Yuan Shih-kai.\n\n[22890]\n\n(No. 185.) Sir,\n\nNo. 52.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 19.)\n\nPeking, May 3, 1913.\n\nI HAVE the honour to enclose copy of a note from the Wai-chiao Pu stating that the United States Chargé d'Affaires, Mr. Williams, under instructions from Washington,\n\n237",
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        "content_text": "The country is generally prepared to support at least by words the policy of a strong centralised Government. A large number of the high provincial authorities have addressed to the President messages of adherence to the established régime, while chambers of commerce and merchants' guilds throughout the country have not been backward in expressing abhorrence of the attempt to overthrow the Provisional President. Even in Kuangtung the commercial elements, a minority of the officials and a proportion of the army have dared to express themselves in the above sense, and it is not, I venture to think, too much to say that the country as a whole strongly favours return to a settled régime, which it believes to be possible only under the guidance of Yuan Shih-kai.\n\nWith regard to the military situation, the trend of events during the past week has been favourable to the Northern forces.\n\nIn Kiangsi the rebels have been dislodged from the Hukou forts and have withdrawn towards Nanchang, the provincial capital. Reinforcements, numbering 6,000 men and 12 guns, have been despatched to the Northern army since the beginning of the outbreak.\n\nThe adjacent province of Hunan has declared its independence, but is apparently adopting an attitude of neutrality, and has despatched 3,000 troops to Yochow with a view to preventing a possible inroad of Northern troops from Hankow. That Hunan will take an active part on either side appears improbable, owing to the recent destruction by fire of the Changsha arsenal together with the arms and ammunition which it contained.\n\nReports regarding military events in Kiangsu are conflicting, but I gather that the initial success of the Northern army, reported in my despatch of the 21st July, was followed by a considerable accession of strength to the rebel forces, who were enabled to reoccupy Li Kuo Yi and the adjacent hills. On the 22nd July, however, General Chang, who appears to have been strongly reinforced, again dislodged the rebels, and the following day saw the Northern army in possession of Hsuchow-fu, the Southerners retreating to Peng P'u—the point where the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway crosses the Huai River. At this point the rebel army remains entrenched, and should shortly be attacked by General Chang's army advancing down the railway and by a further Northern force which is converging on the same point from the west.\n\nWhile the troops at Chinkiang definitely threw in their lot with the rebels on the 18th July, there is reason to believe that the general in command at Yangchow has reconsidered his position and is now inclined to favour the North. His Majesty's consul at Chinkiang has reported that an attack on that place is threatened by the Yangchow troops, and has expressed apprehension lest the small Southern force remaining there should be driven by the Yangchow troops to take refuge in the British concession. Measures have been concerted with the naval authorities to guard against the entry of refugees into the concession.\n\nThe most serious efforts of the rebel forces have been concentrated on an attempt to capture the arsenal at Shanghai defended by Admiral Cheng and some 1,500 Northern troops.\n\nA number of Chinese warships have co-operated with the defenders, who have successfully repulsed attacks made on the nights of the 23rd, 24th, 25th, and 26th July. Hunanese and Chekiang troops are said to have lately reinforced the assailants, while two transports containing 3,000 Northern troops and escorted by five men-of-war are due at Shanghai to-day.\n\nReports which I have received from His Majesty's consul-general point to heavy fighting in this area of operations. Shells fired by the rival forces have fallen both in the international settlement and in the Chinese city, causing some loss of life and considerable damage to property. Owing to nervousness among the European residents of the settlement and to something approaching panic among the Chinese inhabitants of the native city, it was thought necessary to call out the volunteer force on the opening of hostilities against the arsenal. In view of the possibility of a decisive defeat, followed by the dispersal of the Southern troops and an influx of refugees into the settlement, it has been thought desirable to strengthen the civilian force, and parties from the foreign warships anchored in the river have been landed for this purpose. No loss of British lives or damage to British property has been reported to me as having been caused during the various attacks which have been made on the Shanghai arsenal by the rebel forces. I am happily able to report the same absence of casualties from the other areas in which hostilities have been in progress during the past week. One incident only affecting British property has been brought to my notice. On the 26th instant the British steamer \"Kutwo\" while proceeding down river was fired on by Chinese troops when opposite Chinkiang. In company with His Majesty's ship \"Woodcock\" the vessel returned to the scene of the incident.\n\nPage 1089",
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        "content_text": "# No. 150.\n## Mr. Alston to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received October 13.)\n\n**(No. 378. Confidential.)**\n### Sir,\n\nPeking, September 29, 1913.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that the third Cabinet since the establishment of the Provisional Republican Government was formed on the 11th instant under the Premiership of Hsiung Hsi-ling.\n\nThe country had been without a substantive Premier ever since Chao Ping-chun went on leave in May last, and the effect of the recent rebellion on the political parties and the National Assembly rendered an early reconstruction of the Cabinet inevitable.\n\nThe Premier holds the portfolio of Finance, and General Tuan Chi-jui and Admiral Lui Kuan-hsun continue at the head of the army and navy, respectively, while the remaining Ministries have been distributed as follows:-\n\n| Ministry | Minister |\n| --- | --- |\n| Foreign Affairs | Sun Pao-chi |\n| Interior | Chu Ch'i-ch'ien |\n| Justice | Liang Ch'i-ch'ao |\n| Education | Wang Ta-hsieh |\n| Industry | Chang Ch'ien |\n| Communications | Chou Tzu-ch'i |\n\nNo appointment has been made to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, which will shortly be reamalgamated with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.\n\nHsiung Hsi-ling was Minister of Finance in the first Republican Cabinet under Tang Shao-yi, and his name will be remembered in connection with the Crisp loan, which he negotiated after his resignation of that post; he has recently been acting as Military Governor of Jehol.\n\nSun Pao-chi is an ex-Minister to France and Germany, and was Governor of Shantung up to the time of the revolution.\n\nChu Ch'i-ch'ien was Minister of Communications in the last Cabinet.\n\nLiang Ch'i-ch'ao is the best known disciple of the reformer Kang Yu-wei, and was proscribed with his master after the coup d'État of 1898, since when, as a journalist in Japan, he has advocated the cause of limited monarchy in China.\n\nWang Ta-hsieh was Minister to Great Britain in 1905, and subsequently to Japan.\n\nChang Chien is a noted Chinese scholar and promoter of industrial enterprises; he also claims to be an authority on salt administration.\n\nChou Tzu-ch'i, as a member of the old Board of Foreign Affairs, accompanied Prince Tsai Chen on his coronation mission to England in 1911; as Acting Minister of Finance he was responsible for the Belgian loan of March 1912, since which date he has been Governor of Shantung.\n\nThe Cabinet, though nominally non-party, is markedly conservative in composition, and the absence of any member of the Nationalist party and the practically unanimous acceptance of the nominations by the National Assembly mark the defeat which the Radicals have suffered through the suppression of the rebellion which their extreme wing supported.\n\nThe President somewhat boldly claims he has collected a \"Cabinet of all the talents,\" each member of which will assume his full share of responsibility and make Cabinet Government a reality, with the aid - incidentally - of a further foreign loan. It is true he enjoys at present a greater measure of parliamentary support than either of the previous Cabinets, but the fate of Tang Shao-yi should serve as a warning against any tendency to ignore the effective power still wielded by the President himself.\n\nThe new Cabinet has adopted a policy of administrative retrenchment which, however necessary, cannot be popular among the hordes of recently appointed republican officials, and a section of the native press continues to foster the officially denied rumours of friction between Premier and President, and to hint that the formal election of the latter, which is now in sight, will of necessity entail the nomination of a new Cabinet when the Government ceases to be provisional.\n\nIn view of China's present difficulties, it is perhaps too much to expect any marked change in the external policy of the Cabinet, though the prompt acceptance of the Japanese demands in connection with the Nanking incident may be regarded as a hopeful sign.\n\nPage 275",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n## OPIUM.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[May 4.]\n\n### SECTION 1,\n\n(19650)\n\n(No. 158)\n\n#### No. 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 4.)**\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, April 20, 1914.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 20 of the 17th January last, I have the honour to report that the investigation of Fukien for opium poppy cultivation, in accordance with the provisions of the Opium Agreement of May 1911, has been completed, and that the province has been found to be practically cleared of poppy growth. I have the honour to enclose herewith copy of two reports by the investigating officers, Mr. Consular Assistant Blackburn, for North Fukien, and Mr. Consular Assistant Turner, for South Fukien. These gentlemen travelled in their respective districts in company with the Chinese metropolitan and provincial delegates, and both of them speak in appreciation of the co-operation of their Chinese colleagues in the work of investigation.\n\nWhile it is satisfactory to know that the province has been cleared of poppy cultivation, it must be noted that this result has only been achieved by an extensive and drastic system of suppression on the part of the Chinese authorities. Without such official suppression, which in some instances preceded the investigation party's visit by a few days, or even a few hours only, a far different story would have been told by the reports, and it would be rash to prophesy that the effects of this spasmodic and special suppression will continue into the next season.\n\nThe terms of the agreement are, however, fulfilled, and I have therefore notified the Chinese Government that the importation of Indian opium into the province of Fukien will be prohibited as from the 1st May, 1914. I have the honour to enclose copy of my despatch to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**Mr. Blackburn to Sir J. Jordan.**\n\nMarch 21, 1914.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that, in accordance with the instructions contained in your despatch of the 31st January, I have, in company with Mr. Yeh K'o-liang, deputy of the Central Government, and Mr. Chen Shou-hsiang, deputy of the Fukien Provincial Government, made a tour of investigation in the north of this province, and that, as far as I have been able to ascertain, the cultivation of the opium poppy has been entirely suppressed.\n\nThere being no information in the possession of the consulate which would lead me to suspect that opium was being cultivated in any particular place, I arranged my itinerary so as to visit the largest number of the most notorious opium-growing centres with the least waste of time, though I was subsequently compelled to modify to some extent my original route owing to the limited time at my disposal, the extremely difficult nature of the country traversed, and the inclemency of the weather. The roads are all paved paths 2 feet to 4 feet broad, carried over the mountains by steps, which after rain become so slippery that it is only possible to move slowly when it is possible to travel at all.\n\nI left Foochow on the 17th February, commencing my investigations from Kuant'ou, on the Min River, when I proceeded northwards, visiting in succession the following districts: Lien Chiang, Lo Yuan, Ning Tê, Fu An, Fu Ning, Shou Ning, Cheng Ho, Sung Ch'i, and Chien Ou (Kienning). From Kienning I took boat and returned by river, visiting Yan Ping district en route, and arriving in Foochow on the 19th March. I have the honour to make the following observations in connection with the various districts I visited :--\n\nLien Chiang was formerly a large opium-producing centre, but is now almost entirely under wheat, rape, and rice. The missionaries did not report any opium here.",
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        "content_text": "## \nlast year, and the magistrate informed me that hardly any attempt had been made to sow this season.\n\nLo Yüan has never been an opium-growing district, and there is no sign of any disposition on the part of the people to cultivate it.\n\nThe missionaries state that Ning Te—formerly one of the largest opium-producing districts—the whole plain, up to the gates of the city, used to be covered with poppy, but there is now nothing visible except wheat and rape. We visited Paitu, a large village 50 li north of Ning Te City, which used to have a great reputation for the quality and quantity of the opium produced there. It was at Hotung, in this same neighbourhood, that Bishop Price reported having seen soldiers on their way to destroy opium at the end of last year, but I could not obtain any information as to the precise locality where such destruction took place.\n\nFrom Paitu we went to Sui Chi, in Fu An district, by boat, in order to effect a saving of time.\n\nFu An was in former days by far the worst opium-growing district in the north of Fukien, but though I spent some days in this neighbourhood and made as complete a search as possible, I could find no trace of present cultivation. The magistrate, Mr. Yü, seems a most capable and energetic man, and he has himself spent five months out of the last fourteen in the mountain districts personally superintending the uprooting of the poppy. I am told that there are 1,200 persons engaged in the anti-opium campaign in this district.\n\nFu Ning ranks second to Fu An as an opium-producing district. It was on the road between Fu Ning and Fu An that Rev. Curtis reported having seen poppy last year. Dr. Mackenzie, of the Church Missionary Society in Fu Ning, informed me that some four weeks before my arrival a peasant was discovered to be cultivating a few square feet of poppy in his garden. The man was sentenced to be shot, but on the field of execution, punishment was commuted to 2,000 blows. This discovery, coming on the eve of the commission of investigation, appears to have considerably frightened the magistrate, for he immediately sent out 150 men to scour his district, offering large rewards for information as to cultivation. No further poppy was, however, reported.\n\n## Shou Ning\nFormerly a large producing centre. The inhabitants are miserably poor, and the temptation to plant such a profitable article as opium is correspondingly great; but the state of terror to which the inhabitants have been reduced is well illustrated by the following: In Fu An and neighbouring districts are grown large quantities of a kind of artemisia, called Ai-tzu. I had remarked it especially because its leaves to some extent resemble those of the poppy, though in other respects the plant is quite different. In Shou Ning district I noticed that this plant was entirely absent, and on making enquiries I ascertained that the farmers themselves had rooted up not only this plant but every other which in leaf or flower in the remotest degree resembled the poppy, for fear lest I should mistake them for poppies and get the owners of the land into trouble. In this district, which has a mean height of about 1,000 feet above sea-level, there is only one crop of rice a year, and this season's crop not having yet been sown, the ground was lying fallow, in striking contrast to the other districts I had traversed, which were already green. I enquired whether proper steps were being taken to see that these lands would not be sown with poppy after my investigations were closed, and was assured that not only was it now some ten days past the latest possible date on which poppy could be planted this season, but that the vigilance of the anti-opium authorities would not be relaxed until the whole ground was sown with crops other than poppy.\n\n## Cheng Ho\nOne of the less notorious districts. The cultivable land between Shou Ning and Cheng Ho used, in former days, to be covered with poppy, but there does not appear to be any at present cultivated. My object in choosing this route was partly because I was not expected to take it, and partly because the country it traverses being outside the range of the missions and very rarely visited by foreigners, we had no information respecting it.\n\nSung Chi has a reputation as an opium-smoking, rather than as an opium-cultivating, district. Rev. J. Bloody informed me that he had only heard of one case of cultivation during the last twelve months, and in this case the offender was shot. The district is covered with official notices relating the circumstances and the penalty inflicted, as a warning to other would-be planters.\n\n## Kienning\nIn Kieuning and Shaowu prefectures there are in all some 2,000 Hunanese and Anhui troops, distributed among the cities and villages specially for opium work. They are under the command of the Hunanese Resident-General at Kienning, who is an ardent anti-opium enthusiast, and I am of opinion that they have done their work thoroughly. The British missionaries informed me that, as far as they knew, there had been no attempts at opium cultivation this season.\n\nYen Ping was never a large opium-growing district, the soil not being very suitable. I am informed that a few months ago a certain amount was seen along the river, but I neither saw nor heard of any while in the district.\n\n## \nI have been deeply impressed by the thoroughness and efficiency with which the campaign against the cultivation of opium is being carried on and the spirit which animates the workers. The Government institution (`Chin Yen Chu`) and the voluntary organisation (`Ch'ü Tu She`) work side by side, though the brunt of the field work is borne by the latter. In every town and village there is an anti-opium office or sub-office, to which as a rule the majority of the gentry belong. In each hsien there is an inspector, and a number of hsien are grouped under an inspector-general, of whom there are four in North Fukien. Most of the inspectors are gentlemen and well educated, who are devoting their time entirely and without remuneration to the eradication of opium. They claim to have personally examined, not once but frequently, every portion of their respective districts, and, from their intimate knowledge of even the minutest features of the landscape, I am of opinion that their claim is well founded. I was given every possible facility for visiting any place I expressed a wish to see, but though I made as efficient a search as my time permitted, I found not so much as a single poppy during the month I was absent from Foochow. Everywhere are posted notices offering rewards of from $20 to $40 for information as to poppy cultivation, and warnings that any person found cultivating poppy will be shot. In some districts every household is bound to supply one person to assist in the general search when called upon to do so, failing which a fine of 30 cents is imposed.\n\nOf the opium districts which I had not time to visit the most important are Fu Ch'ing and Fu Ting, the former south of Foochow, and the latter in the north-east corner of the province. However, I have no reason to suppose they have not been as thoroughly dealt with as the other districts, especially as it was considered absolutely certain that I would visit them. So much was this the case that the most elaborate preparations had been made for our reception. As soon as we reached the gate of Fu Ning City a runner was despatched to Fu Ting to announce our approaching arrival, without even waiting to ascertain my intentions in the matter. Later when we reached Shou Ning I received a letter from the Fu Ting magistrate asking if I could not possibly make it convenient to visit his district, as it would be a disappointment for those who had laboured so hard to eradicate the poppy if their work was not so much as looked at. I received similar messages from Pu Cheng, Ch'ung An, Ping Nan, and many other districts. Apart, however, from this merely sentimental consideration, there is no doubt that the magistrates and anti-opium authorities were delighted when I visited their district, as my visit—and incidentally that of the escort of forty soldiers—would render the task of suppression easier by bringing strongly to the minds of the people the seriousness of the anti-opium campaign. It was presumably with this same end in view, to impress the people, that wherever I went I was paid the most exaggerated honours, and dignified by titles as exalted as that of \"British Minister.\"\n\nOne feature worthy of notice is that the gentry seem to be taking an active part in the suppression of opium, resistance being now confined almost entirely to the lower classes. It is explained that the reason for this somewhat astonishing fact is that opium-smoking is now no longer considered a respectable thing to do, and, as a gentleman loses caste by being a smoker, most of the better classes are breaking themselves of the habit.\n\nThis does not apply to the labouring classes and members of the Anti-Opium Association have remarked to me that they had to give up hope of redeeming confirmed smokers as a class, and continue their attentions more especially to preventing those who are not already confirmed smokers from acquiring the vice.\n\nAt most of the larger places I visited I received deputations of the leading gentry and chambers of commerce, who wished to express their hearty thanks to His Majesty's Government for its co-operation and for the present investigation. In replying, I impressed on them, as also on the magistrates, that if the province was closed to the import of Indian opium this must not be the signal for the relaxation of their efforts, and that any cultivation of opium in the future would be a grave breach of faith towards His Majesty's Government. I was given to understand that the present severe measures would be continued for another year, at the end of which period the seed which the farmers might now be hiding would be dead and useless, and that it was expected that three more years of close surveillance would suffice to put a stop to any extensive poppy cultivation for many years to come.\n\nPage 539",
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        "content_text": "## 540\n\n\n4 \n\nIn my opinion there is at the present time no opium being cultivated in the north of this province, except, perhaps, in very small quantities in very well concealed places. If such is cultivated it is probably not for consumption, but for the sake of the seed, which the farmers hope to keep alive till the present crisis is passed. At present the death penalty which is being inflicted on opium growers does not seem to have any legal sanction, but the civil Governor has just stated that this is to be remedied shortly, and that death will be the statutory punishment for opium cultivators.\n\nIn conclusion, I wish to record my appreciation of the unfailing courtesy and assistance of my two colleagues, and of the efforts of the Provincial Government, whose guest I was, and who did their utmost to make my journey as pleasant as possible. Our route not being known, every magistrate had instructions to be ready to receive and assist us, and some of them were put to a great deal of difficulty and inconvenience.\n\nI append a sketch showing my route.*\n\n(No. 11.) Sir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\nA. D. BLACKBURN.\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**Consul Little to Sir J. Jordan.**\n\nAmoy, April 2, 1914.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith, with reference to your telegram No. 1 of the 27th January, a report by Mr. W. P. W. Turner on a journey of investigation into the cultivation of the opium poppy in South Fukien.\n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nH. A. LITTLE.\n\n**Report on a Journey of Investigation into the Cultivation of the Opium Poppy in South Fukien, jointly with Officials appointed by the Chinese Government, by Mr. Turner.**\n\nTHE delegates selected by the Central and Provincial Governments respectively were Mr. Sou Gee Chuang, an official of the Board of the Interior, and Mr. Chan Pai Kong, Taotai of Foochow and President of the Anti-Opium Bureau of Fukien. Mr. E. Cheers, of the Straits Settlement Police Service, acted as interpreter in the Amoy dialect, which is current in all the districts visited except Hing Hua, Sien Yu, and Hok Ching, south of Foochow.\n\nA rough map is attached showing the route taken, which embraced all the former principal poppy-growing centres of South Fukien. The distance covered was approximately 1,600 li, or 530 English miles, the journey occupying twenty-five days—from the 23rd February to the 19th March. In all, seventeen districts were examined out of a total of thirty-two comprised in the lower portion of the province.\n\nIn the first district visited, that of Hai Teng, the vigorous measures taken in the autumn by the local authorities checked extensive sowing, though a certain amount was discovered by the opium inspector in January and uprooted. In the spring of 1913 Captain Connelly, of the Hong Kong garrison, whilst on a shooting expedition, found large areas under poppy cultivation in the vicinity of Chhe Nia and the authorities taking no apparent action, but a local convert of Kang Boe, a neighbouring village, informed me that this region is now quite free. From reports of native pastors I also learned that no poppy now existed in the broad belt of coast land south of Amoy and Hai Teng. (I have since heard from a missionary that he travelled through the whole of this country at the beginning of March without finding a trace of poppy.)\n\nForeigners who had recently made the journey from Changpu to Amoy having reported that the main route via U Sai had been cleared of poppy, I chose the northern road from Hai Teng, which branches off due west at Peh Chui Ying, turning south again at Koan Jim through the Tng Kio and Kio Li. As far as could be judged, this part of the country was now almost entirely given up to rice cultivation, the Nan Ch'i River and its tributaries affording an abundant water supply. Between Tng Kio, where we were met by a military officer in charge of 700 soldiers sent to uproot the poppy, and Changpu several fields where opium had been pulled up were passed, these being readily distinguished from the fact that, having been confiscated, they were now overgrown with weeds. Last spring this region was one of the chief poppy-growing centres of the district. As far as I could gather the soldiers arrived in December, meeting with no little resistance before the plant was eventually all destroyed.\n\nThe Changpu authorities appear to have counterbalanced their indifference of last spring, when there was extended cultivation throughout the district, by extreme severity in the autumn. Mr. Watson, of the English Presbyterian Mission at Changpu, told me that he was prepared to state positively that not a plant remained in the whole country between Changpu and Hai Teng, with the possible exception of a small patch hidden in a secluded valley near Toa Pu, of which he had heard many vague rumours. Mr. Watson's opinions were based partly on the declarations of the native pastors of his district at a recent conference at O Sai, and partly on personal observation during his periodical visits to native mission stations.\n\nFrom Changpu to Yunsiao the road lies for some 8 or 9 miles over a broad, sandy, barren plain up to a range of hills some 1,200 feet high, crossed by a low pass, with a fertile valley producing rice, sugar-cane, barley, and beans on the other side. From Pan To Hsu to Yunsiao the country is too hilly to suit the poppy, which requires the rich soil of the plains and a sheltered situation to thrive to perfection, and the task of the local authorities has accordingly been comparatively light. I learned that the district opium inspector had conducted a very strict examination in October and November last, whilst the magistrate himself informed me that of the thirty days he had been in office twenty had been spent in scouring the country for any heads that might have eluded the observation of the inspector and his staff. Native reports confirmed the magistrate's assurance that no poppy was now left in the district.\n\nAt Chao An I called on Father David de Miguel of the Roman Catholic Mission, who informed me that it was possible that a small quantity of poppy might still remain in the second \"tu\" or division of the magistracy, though the magistrate had a few weeks previously, on hearing of the tour of inspection, made a journey in person through this region and had a thorough uprooting. He was unable to say for certain if all had been removed, but assured me that the rest of the district was free, the people having been thoroughly scared by the arrival of the northern soldiers. The present magistrate, Mr. Chang Tseng Pa, has held office for six months. His predecessor took no steps to put a stop to the cultivation of the poppy, for which and for general maladministration he was eventually arrested and sent to Foochow for trial. Mr. Chang, on the other hand, has the reputation of being a very keen suppressionist and an able official; at the beginning of his campaign he was placed in a difficulty by the opposition of the gentry, of whom a few leading members were financially interested in the cultivation of the drug, and were supporting the farmers in resisting the authorities. Mr. Chang promptly arrested two of the most influential, and has since had the support of the remainder. He told me that barley and tobacco were largely replacing the former opium crops. This applies in fact to the whole of the country west of Changchow, the large areas under tobacco, the leaf of which is, however, of an inferior quality, being particularly noticeable.\n\nThe country between Chao An and Ping Ho, on the borders of Kuangtung province, is little frequented by foreigners, and no reports had been received regarding the opium measures in force there. Consequently, although this part of the province has never had the reputation of being a large opium-producing centre, I was anxious to discover whether as clean a sweep had been made as in those districts nearer to the control of the high provincial authorities. Practically the whole of the 60 miles between Chao An and Ping Ho is mountainous, but the hill slopes are mostly under terrace cultivation and the valleys rich with a vast variety of native crops, rice, barley, sugar-cane, and sweet potatoes being the staple products.\n\nAfter leaving Chao An we passed through the second \"tu\" of the district, where I had been informed there was a possibility of finding poppy, but I discovered neither traces of it nor signs of recently disturbed fields. This is probably explained by the fact that in practice confiscated land is frequently sold back to the village or clan to which it belonged, the penalty for growing the forbidden plant being thus a double fine. As regards the Ping Ho district, little pressure was required to induce the farmers to abandon cultivation, and it had not been found necessary to call for troops.\n\nAt Sio Khe a local missionary informed me that suppression measures had been most severe, and that, so far as the strict enquiries he had made went, the district was quite free from poppy. A native pastor had, however, informed him that a small patch...",
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        "content_text": "# Vai Chiao Pu to H.M.Minister May 20, 1914. Translation.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the piracy of the \"Tai On\" off Ch'i-ao, I have received the following telegram from the Governor of Kuangtung.\n\n\"Some fifty persons who were rescued from Hongkong and other passengers have been supplied with funds and sent to their homes. Kuan Wei, and four others, merchants from Hongkong, besides four members of the Tai On's crew, found their way in a wretched plight to Ch'ian Shan. I telegraphed to the military and police of the district to send them to their relatives to be looked after.\n\nI sent officers to assist the police at Ch'i-ao to surround the San Pa Tzu district and they succeeded in arresting the principal culprits in the Tai On and other cases, namely Tan Niu, Yin-sha-chuan, Kuo Ch'i Li Sen, Li Yao-shan, Lu Ta-sheng, Tan Kuei-ting, Lu Li-chi, Shih Lao, Liang Mac-cheng, nine in all. Ho Su and Li Te, who have been arrested at Hongkong are now being tried by the Authorities there. Three prisoners arrested at Ch'a-shan-sha-tien are being rigorously interrogated with a view to ascertaining the truth from their depositions, when they will be punished in the various degrees called for. The Hongkong Authorities assert that they are fully satisfied\".\n\nI must observe that the Tutu has exhibited the utmost zeal in effecting arrests in this case and has spared no pains to this end. The principal culprits have now all been apprehended one after another and I have the honour to communicate to Y.E. the steps that have been taken for your information.\n\n3d/ Sun Pao-ch'i.\n\n## Encl.No.5 in Sir John Jordan's No.208.\n\nPage 595",
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        "content_text": "## Copy. Translation.\n\n**WAI CHIAO PU TO H.M.MINISTER,**\n\nMay 20th, 1914.\n\nSir,\n\n616\n\nWith reference to the piracy of the \"Tai On\" off Ch'i-ao, I have received the following telegram from the Governor of Kuangtung.\n\n\"Some fifty persons who were rescued merchants from Hongkong and other passengers have been supplied with funds and sent to their homes. Chu Shou-nan, Kuan Wei, and four others, merchants from Hongkong, besides four members of the Tai On's crew, found their way in a wretched plight to Ch'ien Shan. I telegraphed to the military and police of the district to send them to their firms or relatives to be looked after. I sent officers to assist the police at Ch'i-ao to surround the San Pa Tzu district and they succeeded in arresting the principal culprits in the Tai On and other cases, namely Tan Niu, Yin-sha-chuan, Kuo Ch'i Li Sen, Li Yao-shan, Lu Ts-sheng, Tan Kuei-ting, Lu Li-chi, Shih Lao, Liang Mao-cheng, nine in all. Ho Su and Li Te, who have been arrested at Hongkong are now being tried by the Authorities there. Three prisoners arrested at Ch'a-shan-sha-tien are being rigorously interrogated with a view to ascertaining the truth from their depositions, when they will be punished in the various degrees called for. The Hongkong Authorities...",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nOn the 10th April, I first met the metropolitan and provincial delegates, and we arranged to start for Hung Hua tao on the following morning at 8 o'clock.\n\nHung Hua tao is some 20 miles down river from Ichang, and makes a good point from which to go across country to Changyang.\n\nOn the 11th April, at 8:30, I left and, in spite of wind and rain, arrived at Hung Hua tao at 12:30.\n\nThis road passes through a fruitful country and, so far as I could see, the whole was under cultivation, but nowhere did I see any poppy. The road is but a mere mountain track, from which one gets, as it rises higher and higher, a splendid view of the country. I left the road several times, but nowhere did I see any signs of poppy.\n\nFrom Changyang to Changlo, the road still ran through or over the mountains. On every side, the fields were filled with wheat, barley, peas, beans, potatoes, rape, all well forward in their growth, so that there was no place for poppy on an extensive scale.\n\nFrom Changlo to Hofeng, the road climbed up onto a plateau, whence one obtained a wonderful view of the cultivated valleys below, but it was all the same story, either large bare fields tilled ready for planting the spring maize or crops well forward, filled all the available space and left no room for poppy.\n\nCertain of those valleys were, however, too high for the cultivation of poppy, and, if I could have obtained any proper information on the subject, I would have taken another and lower route; but, on the whole, I think the numerous valleys which were sufficiently low for the cultivation of the poppy, and where, I am assured, three years ago it was the principal crop, were quite representative, and afforded good evidence of the vigorous action of the officials.\n\nAt Hofeng, I encountered considerable difficulty in persuading the delegates and the Hofeng magistrate that my proposed route was not only possible, but was the only route I intended to follow. The terrors of bandits, ferocious animals, uninhabited regions, impassable roads, and no stopping places were all paraded in their most awful form. When, however, they were satisfied that there was only one way out of it, preparations for the road I proposed were made. Extra coolies to carry the rations for our bearers and extra baggage coolies were engaged, natives of the districts we were about to cross were requisitioned to act as guides, and certain members of the party, I think, commended their souls to God, for they feared the unknown.\n\nThis district did not, it is true, possess anything to boast of in the way of roads. Mountain tracks, up and down which no one had ever considered the possibility of taking a chair, were our portion. If the truth be told, however, the roads from Changyang to Changlo and thence to Hofeng were all of the same type, and seemed to be designed with a view to dissuade anyone from attempting the passage twice.\n\nFrom Hofeng to Ching Chi k'ow on a tributary of the Ch'ing Chiang, we travelled in the jurisdiction of the Hofeng magistrate, but at Ching Chi kow on one side of the river, the country recognised the Chien shih magistrate, and on the other, the Patung magistrate.\n\nThrough this wild country of highly cultivated fields and large tea plantations, we travelled for four days. Poppy, up to three years before, had been the principal crop, but now I was unable to discover any. Stopping at Niu Chia ssu, one day out from Hofeng, I met a Cantonese tea merchant who had come to this district for the last forty years. He reported that up to three years ago, poppy was the chief crop, but that two years ago, the amount cultivated had been largely reduced, and last year, he had seen none. He had only just arrived at Niu Chia ssu for the tea season, and could consequently give me no information for the present year.\n\n## 3\n\nAt Patung, the investigation practically came to an end, for the poppy would never be planted on the slopes of the Great River, though, of course, on the way down, I kept my eyes open for any signs of the poppy.\n\nMy journey finished late in the evening of the twentieth day. I was uncertain as to how long I would take coming down river from Patung. I allowed two days, but by leaving my house-boat and getting into a fast red boat, I was enabled to arrive one day earlier.\n\nDuring the twenty days of my journey, I covered a comparatively small distance when counted by miles. The roads, however, were such that if I had been carried even half the way, I would have travelled a much shorter distance. There were a number of days when I walked practically the whole time, and even then, the chair with six bearers was a long way behind. The delegates were in exactly the same position, though all being much lighter men, and using chairs with two bearers instead of four, they were enabled to keep up better.\n\nAs late as the middle of March of this year, when it was decided to inspect this province, vigorous action was taken by the officials to stamp out every vestige of poppy. Two men were executed in Changyang, and two men in Hofeng. At Changlo, a man on whose ground two or three plants were found was sentenced to death, but at the last moment, his sentence was moderated, and he was branded and led through the town and adjoining districts loaded with chains. As he was a man of good position, this was considered sufficient, as the amount discovered was so small.\n\nAt Ichang, whilst I was away about the middle of April, a man was shot for having planted poppy at San tou p'in, inland from the Yang-tsze, some 30 miles above Ichang.\n\nThe districts through which I travelled were formerly those where considerable quantities of opium were produced. I saw no signs of poppy, and my route was taken without in any way giving the Chinese officials an opportunity of leading me along a prepared district. In fact, the views from the mountain tracks were so extended that the preparation of a route would have required a very considerable time. I am accordingly of the opinion that this province, taking the district through which I travelled as a sample, is free of poppy.\n\n**H. F. HANDLEY-DERRY**\n\nIchang, May 4, 1914.\n\nAn itinerary of my route, with the days, is as follows:\n\n| Date | Route | Miles |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| April 11 | Ichang to Hung Hua tao (by boat) | 20 |\n| 12 | Hung Hua tao to Changyang | 20 |\n|  | Changyang to Tu Chen wan |  |\n| 13 | Tu Chen wan to Chang Chia wan, Lang Tan ping | 11 |\n|  | Chang Chia wan to Hsueh Shan ho, Chiang Chun tung, Chang lo |  |\n| 14 | Chang lo to Kuan... | 11 |\n| 15 | ... | ... |\n| 16 | Ma chuang | 33 |\n| 17 | Ai Pang ho |  |\n|  | Ai Pang ho to Yen Tzu ping | 7 |\n| 18 | Yen Tzu ping to Hofeng | 31 |\n| 19 | Hofeng to Niu Chia ssu | 11 |\n| 20 | Niu Chia ssu to Shui kuo tung | +1 |\n| 21 | Shui kuo tung to Wu Ya kuan |  |\n| 22 | Ching Chi kow to Ching Kuo p'ing | 11 |\n| 23 | Ching Kuo p'ing to Ma Shih p'ing | 20 |\n| 24 | Ma Shih p'ing to Tan Chia wan | 1 |\n| 25 | Tan Chia wan to Yeh San kuan | 37 |\n| 26 | Yeh San kuan to Yeh Hua p'ing |  |\n| 27 | Yeh Hua p'ing to Chu Sha tu | 31 |\n| 28 | Chu Sha tu to Patung | 93 |\n| 29 | Patung | 11 |\n| 30 | Patung to Ichang | 60 |\n\nOn certain parts of the road, when it rose high on the mountain slopes, we passed through lands which were only just being tilled, for there are large tracts of the country which have only one crop a year.\n\nTo Yeh San kuan from Ching Chi k'ow, the road runs similarly through lands where the crops were either well forward or were not yet planted. Nowhere could I detect any poppy, though it is possible that a few plants may have been scattered in the midst of large fields of peas or beans. The latter is the means by which farmers in certain districts cultivate small quantities of opium in the face of official opposition.\n\nFrom Yeh San kuan to Yeh Hua p'ing, the road passes still through similar fields to what have been already described. From Yeh Hua p'ing to Patung, where I took boat for Ichang, the road ran high on the hilltops, and one obtained a fine view of the cultivated valleys below. Nowhere did I see any signs of poppy, the land either being filled with peas, beans, rape, potatoes, or wheat, or lying empty waiting for the spring sowing.",
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        "content_text": "# UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG\n## KING EDWARD VII SCHOLARSHIPS\n### AWARDS DURING THE YEAR 1924-1925\n\n| Name of Scholar | Birthplace of Scholar | Faculty in which Scholarship is held | Period for which Scholarship is Tenable |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| I Wing Tim |  | Engineering | 1924-1925 |\n| Cheng \"ung-In |  | Medicine | 1924-1925 |\n| Cheuk Ching |  | Engineering | 1924-1925 |\n\nI certify that the above-named are British Subjects and that I have received from the Colonial Treasurer the sum of $73.00 on account of King Edward Scholarships for the year ...\n\nRegistrar.\n24",
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        "content_text": "## Code Telegrams to the Secretary of State from His Excellency the Governor\n\nPage 196\n\n20th May  \nCode 98\n\n21st  \nCode 99\n\n...\n\n## Code Telegrams\n\n### 20th May\nCode 98\n\n### 21st\nCode 99\n\n### 21st\nCode ...\n\n### 22nd\nCode 50  \nCode 01\n\n### 24th\nCode 02\n\n### 25th\nCode 03  \nCode 04  \nCode 05\n\n### 28th\nCode 06  \nCode 07\n\n### 29th\nCode 08\n\n### 1st June\nCode ...\n\n### 2nd\nCode 11\n\n| Date      | Code | Description                                                                                   |\n|-----------|------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| 20th May  | 98   | Regarding the export of articles to China, etc. Requesting permission for shipment of Yunnan tin to Kobe. Consignor Yee Rhing Loong. Consignee Yue Cheng Cheong. As to whether Secy of State's telegram of 7th May gives general authority for similar shipments. |\n| 21st      | 99   | Requesting permission to export tin to San Francisco.                                        |\n| ...       | ...  | ...                                                                                           |\n| 22nd      | 50   | Export of spelter by Mitsui Bussan Kaisha to Kobe consigned to Nippon Plant Manufacturing Co. |\n| 22nd      | 01   | Export of spelter by Tong Sang & Co. to Japan consigned to Ataka & Co.                        |\n| 24th      | 02   | \"S.S. 'Paklat'\" delivered to Crown. Vessel handed over to Senior Naval Officer.               |\n| 25th      | 03   | Remittance to the Overseas Club of £4,500 to cover cost of two aeroplanes presented to the British Government. |\n| 25th      | 04   | Export of Yunnan tin to Chicago. Consignor Kung Wo Cheung. Consignee Hip Lung.               |\n| 25th      | 05   | Shipment of Yunnan tin to Yokohama and San Francisco.                                        |\n| 28th      | 06   | Requesting a reply to Governor's telegram of May 10th regarding cargo in enemy ships.        |\n| 28th      | 07   | Shipment of spelter to Yokohama and antimony to Osaka by Mitsui & Co.                         |\n| 29th      | 08   | Replying to Secy of State's telegram of 28th May regarding German state-aided Companies in Hongkong. As to whether certificate of origin is required for through cargo and transhipment cargo on through bills of lading to neutral ports. |\n| ...       | ...  | Export of tin to Manila. Consignor Chau Ngen Ting. Consignee Mariano Uy Chaco Sons.          |\n\nRef `9 JUL 15`",
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        "content_text": "C\n\nJ\n\nCOPY.\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nC\n\n56781\n\n21\n\nREC\n\nRes 9 DEC 5\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\nAccording to my records the following Extradition cases have passed through my hands during the period in question;\n\nRex v. Chan Yat Chun.\n\nCheung Tai Young.\n\nTaong Sheng.\n\nNg Tao.\n\nMo Chi Ping.\n\nW. A. Bear.\n\nKoh Tek Nam.\n\nC. E. Arcuras.\n\nYung Cheung Wan.\n\nLiso A Mei.\n\nChao Jik Tsin.\n\nChan Shing.\n\nLi Chi Ping.\n\nLeung Ah Yau.\n\nTaeng Yau Tsu.\n\nLiang Chiu Chang.\n\nShi Ki, Lau, A Wai.\n\nAu Fu.\n\nHuang Teo alias Wong Tsok.\n\nAh Mui.\n\nHung Sui Lun.\n\nI put up a copy of a minute showing Court work for June, July, and August, 1915,\n\n(Sd.) Paul H. Hodgson,\n\nag. Crown Solicitor.\n\n13.10.16.",
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        "content_text": "506\n\nto\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS\n\nand words of which were written, in one case, by a Chinese who lived nearly 2,500 years ago, and, in the other case, by a Chinese who flourished over 1,000 years ago. His Excellency concluded by saying that he believed that the breakwater would add materially to the prosperity of the port. Junks and engaged in loading unloading steamers would be able to work a longer time when they could fly to the Refuge for protection in case of storms. He hoped the time would soon come when the prosperity of the port and the increase of the small craft would compel the construction of still another and yet larger refuge. (Loud applause.)\n\nislands and on the shores of the main land he had no more modern appliances than two steam crane barges. He had four barges with hand-cranes, and the rest of the plant consisted of the most ramshackle set of junks I have ever seen anywhere. (Laughter.) He bought them up in Canton, Macao, and elsewhere, like a very wise man, as cheaply as possible. The junks were fitted with derricks made of not very solid-looking timber, and fitted with ropes, which I have a strong suspicion, were bought at the auction at the Naval Yard when condemned to the public. (Laughter.) No one looking at the very primitive appliances that he has used would think that the work could possibly be done in the time and without accidents involving a very considerable loss of life. I have watched the work and watched the reports of accidents, and during the five years that this work has been under construction there has not been one single accident either to a junk, or of parting of a rope, or of the slipping of heavy stone. There was only one life lost during the whole of the period, and that was through an accident to an old woman, who was killed by a splinter of stone during blasting operations on one of the islands where stone was being collected. That is, I think, a wonderful record for a work of this magnitude.\" (Applause.)\n\nCheers were given at the call of His Excellency for Messrs. Jaffé and Duncan, and \"Efficient John Chinaman\" (the contractor).\n\nPRINCE OF WALES' FUND.\n\nSUBSCRIPTION LIST NO. 1.\n\nMr. and Mrs. G. L. Platt (December)\n\nMr. B. Swenson Police 4th Sub.) A & F M.\n\nMr. S. G Newail\n\nMr. R. Di Harvey's Fund:-\n\nCollected by Capt. C. A. Multon Amoy) Capt. and Mrs. A. Mutton, $15; Miss E O'Sullivan, $5; Mr. J. Noble $10; Mr. G. Mathews, $5; Mr. C. 8. J. Boland, $5; Mr. Percy K. Hazlitt, $10\n\nIt was very interesting to consider how these stones were handled, proceeded H.E. the Governor: The two steam crane barges were moved out to some of the islands or adjacent shores for the purpose of dealing with the heaviest stones only, 5-ton stones, of which there were many in this work. The cranes would lift as many of these 5-ton stones as were within their radius, and deposit them on to the junks, in which they were brought to Mongkoktsui, and lowered by the derricks of these junks into the water. When the 5-ton stones were not within reach of the crane, the junkmen would get hold of a long chain from the hand cranes, and the stone would be dragged down to the beach, fastened to the stern of a flat-bottomed sampan, and towed to a junk. The stone, of course, effectively weighed half its weight on land when suspended in the water, and this weight was counter-balanced by stones placed in the bow of the sampan.\n\nThey came to inscribe the legend on the stone, he (the Governor) considered they should have a Chinese inscription as well. It was suggested to him by H.M.'s Consul-General in Canton that the Civil Governor of the Province was an extremely erudite Chinese scholar. So he (the Governor) wrote to His Excellency Chang Ming Chi and asked him to write an inscription for this memorial stone. His Excellency undertook it with great good nature. The words are \"Kwong Lan Po Cheung,\" which mean \"A Bulwark against the raging waves.\" They might like to know where these words came from. The first two characters, \"Kwong Lan,\" mean \"raging waves,\" and are quoted from \"Holding back the raging waves that have rolled forward\" in the Tsun Hok Kai by Hon Yu (A.D. 788-824), of the Tong Dynasty. The other words, \"Po Cheung,\" mean \"bulwark,\" and are quoted from \"The City Shing is the bulwark of the clan of Mang\" in a record in \"Tao Chun\" of the events in the 13th year of Duke Ting of the Lo State (B.C. 50). This magnificent work was the product of European engineering skill backed by Chinese quite uninstructed but very practical suggestions and the extraordinary efficiency of the Chinese race.\n\nCollected by Miss Square Dr. Forsyth, $5; Mr. Mauricio, $10; Mr. Martin, $5; Mr. F. Mackintosh, $5; T.A.L., $5; A.J.S., $1; P.C., $2.50\n\nCollected by Capt. H. D. Jones - Capt. and Mrs. H. D. Jones, $30; Mr. F. Becke, $15; Capt. Wollscott, $10; Mr. W. L. Forter, $10.\n\nCollected by Mr. Murray Bain - Mr. E. Murray Bain, $10; Mr. H. Murray Bain, $5; Mr. G. Harper, $5.\n\nCollected by Mr. R.D. Harvey - Mr. Herbert Goffe, C.M.G., (17th Sub) $50; Capt. S. C. H. Wilde, $10; Staff, Green Island Cement Works (Kowloon), Staff, Holt's Wharf Kowloon), $53; Mr. J. McGregor (Foochow), $3; G.L., $100; R.D.H., $60; H.B., $5; L.B., $3.10\n\nMr. G. B. Carpenter $24.00\n\nMr. E. A. Pritchard $20.00\n\n$72;\n\nStaff of Taikoo Dockyard (14th Sub.)\n\nMessrs. Thoresen & Co.\n\nCollected by Mr. C. E. Warren - Mr. H. Stainfield, $5; Mr. A. J. Walters, $6; Mr. R. H. Ramson, $5; Mr. J. Acock, $9; Mr. A. Cordeiro, $3; Mr. A. J. Lindberg, $2; Mr. J. M. Xavier, $2; Mr. C. E. Warren, $3; Mr. C. W. Olsen, $1; Mrs. C. E. Warren, $2\n\nAlready acknowledged Monthly subscriptions Already acknowledged\n\n$20 0. 5.00 120.00\n\n--\n\n[December 24th, 1916, Balance in hand ....... $21,528.63\n\nN. J. STABB,\n\nHon. Treasurer.\n\nHongkong, 16th December, 1915,\n\nFUND TO BE CLOSED.\n\nAt a meeting of the Committee of the Prince of Wales' Fund, held at the Council Chamber Hongkong, on December 18th, it was decided on the motion of H.E. the Governor, who presided, to close the fund on December 31st.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY said that he had called the members together to propose that the fund should be closed at the end of the month. When the war broke out it was anticipated that there would be a good deal of unemployment in the United Kingdom. That anticipation was realised for some time, but then a different set of circumstances supervened with the withdrawal of large numbers of men from the labour market and the large amount of work necessary for the Government, and instead of there being a shortage there was an excess of employment with a shortage of labour. That had continued, and out of the large amount subscribed to the Fund only a small sum had been expended in relief of distress. The remainder, over £500,000 sterling, had been invested and would be used at the conclusion of the war for the relief of distress which might supervene when the labour market would again become considerably disturbed, or for other reasons.\n\nIn the meantime it did not appear necessary that the fund should be added to by subscriptions from this Colony, at any rate, where many people had bound themselves to monthly subscriptions not thinking that the war would last so long, and being in many cases unable to afford those monthly subscriptions. There were other funds for various charitable purposes connected with the war, and there was also no doubt that presently they would be asked to subscribe to another national loan. Those two objects, the charitable and the patriotic, assisting the Government with funds to carry on the war, were both objects to which people might very usefully subscribe. In those circumstances it seemed proper to close the fund.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. WEI YU seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously, while Mr. N. J. Stabb, as Hon. Treasurer, and his staff were thanked for their services, on the motion of H.E. the GOVERNOR, seconded by the Hon. Mr. H. E. POLLOCK.\n\nA smoking concert held under the auspices of the Nanking branch of the Patriotic League of Britons Overseas recently realised $825, in aid of the fund for sending Christmas presents to the troops at the front.\n\nA most successful Pianoforte Recital was given on December 11th Shameen by Mr. Denman Fuller, supported by Miss Wilkes, who was ably accompanied in her songs by Mrs. Adams. The audience, though a small one owing to the inclement weather, was highly appreciative throughout the whole programme. Lovers of music had a treat also on Sunday evening, when Mr. Denman Fuller very kindly gave an Organ Recital at Christ Church.\n\nThe proceeds of the two recitals, amounting to about $500, are being devoted to various War Funds, and remitted to London, £29,000 ... $323,605.84.\n\nResidents of Shameen are fortunate in having had Mr. Fuller's voluntary assistance for this purpose.\n\nPage 507\n\n...\n\n9/4/16\n\nStran\n\n139.\n\nSu May\n\nStrele\n\n9/47.\n\n16\n\n834\n\nStay\n\nthe receipt &\n\n9 Feb 76\n\nL\n\n+\n\nhave se to ach:\n\no You\n\ndeep\n\nNo 419 of the\n\n30-De\n\nin which your recommend to my notice the Excellent work done by Ch. Jaffe, Executive Engineer in charge of the Harbour Refuge at Mong Kok Tsui.\n\n2",
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        "content_text": "Page 230\n\nAt His Britannic Majesty's Consulate-General, Canton, 1914.\n\nList of British subjects of Chinese descent registered\n\nS.C. Liang (Leang Shiu Chiu)\n\nHarry Sik Wah.\n\nYu Fo Sang\n\nLeung Ngan Pan alias Leung Wai Ching. Wong Yiu Cha.\n\nPeter Chanatong, alias Chan Wing Ki.\n\nKwan Yik Cheung alias Kwan Lee Sheung.\n\nHubert Kwan\n\nKwan Hui Po.\n\nKwok Yin Chong.\n\nT.A. Cheong.\n\nFung Yuk Lin\n\nCheng Han Khoi.\n\nKyee Lau\n\nWu Yue\n\nLeung Tsung.\n\nSee Yat Cheong\n\nTam Li Ting.\n\nChun W. Bismark\n\nYau Siu Chi.\n\nTo Chin\n\nLee Shiu or Shew\n\nPok Vai Hing.\n\nChan Shi\n\nLi Shing Chung.\n\nLi Kam Cheung.\n\nChan Yam Kiu.\n\nKwan Cheuk Po.\n\nLeung Fee Cooke\n\nNg Hon Tez\n\nFung Sam Chun.\n\nChu La\n\nWu Chuk Ping\n\nShe Shiu Kan.\n\nTo Kim Fai\n\nChan Tao Hang.\n\nLeung Hoi alias Leung Kai In.\n\nNg Ting Chiu.\n\nPage 231",
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        "content_text": "436\n\n22\n\nAnd whereas, the said Convention and Final Protocol have been ratified by the Government of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by the Governments of China and the Netherlands, and the ratifications of the said Governments were deposited by their respective Plenipotentiaries with the Government of the Netherlands;\n\nNow, therefore, be it known that I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention and Final Protocol, to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.\n\nIn testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.\n\nDone at the City of Washington this third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-ninth.\n\nBy the President:\n\nW. J. BRYAN\n\nSecretary of State.\n\n[SEAL]\n\nWOODROW WILSON\n\nINTERNATIONAL OPIUM CONVENTION.\n\nHis Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia in the name of the German Empire; The President of the United States of America; His Majesty the Emperor of China; The President of the French Republic; His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India; His Majesty the King of Italy; His Majesty the Emperor of Japan; Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands; His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia; the President of the Portuguese Republic; His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias; His Majesty the King of Siam\n\nbeing desirous to take one step further in the way marked out by the International Commission at Shanghai in 1909;\n\nresolved to pursue progressive suppression of the abuse of opium, morphine, cocaine as well as drugs prepared or derived from these substances giving rise or which may give rise to analogous abuses;\n\ntaking into consideration the necessity and the mutual profit of an international understanding on this point;\n\nbeing convinced that they will meet in this humanitarian effort the unanimous adhesion of all the nations interested,\n\nhave resolved to conclude a Convention for this purpose and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries, to wit:\n\nHis Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia:\n\nHis Excellency Mr. Félix de Müller, His present Privy Counsellor, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague;\n\nMr. Delbrück, His Superior Privy Counsellor;\n\nDr. Grunenwald, His Counsellor of Legation;\n\nDr. Kerp, His Privy Counsellor, Director at The Imperial Health Office;\n\n23\n\nDr. Rössler, Imperial Consul at Canton.\n\nPresident of the United States of America: Bishop Charles H. Brent;\n\nDr. Hamilton Wright;\n\nMr. H. J. Finger.\n\nHis Majesty the Emperor of China:\n\nHis Excellency Mr. Liang Cheng, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Berlin;\n\nThe President of the French Republic:\n\nMr. Henry Brenier, Inspector of the Agricultural and Commercial Services of Indo-China;\n\nMr. Pierre Guesde, Administrator of the Civil Services of Indo-China.\n\nHis Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Emperor of India:\n\nThe Right Honorable Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, G.C.M.G., Member of the Privy Council;\n\nSir William Stevenson Meyer, K.C.I.E., Chief Secretary of the Government of Madras;\n\nMr. William Grenfell Max-Müller, C.B., M.V.O., His Counsellor of Embassy;\n\nSir William Job Collins, M.D., Deputy Lieutenant of the County of London.\n\nHis Majesty the King of Italy:\n\nHis Excellency Count J. Sallier de la Tour, Duke of Calvello, His Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague.\n\nHis Majesty the Emperor of Japan:\n\nHis Excellency Mr. Aimaro Sato, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague;\n\nDr. Tomoe Takagi, Engineer of the General Government of Formosa;\n\nDr. Kotaro Nishizaki, Technical Specialist attached to the Laboratory of Hygienic Service.\n\nHer Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands:\n\nMr. J. T. Cremer, Her Former Minister of the Colonies, President of the Dutch Commercial Company;\n\nMr. C. Th. van Deventer, Member of the First Chamber of the States General;\n\nMr. A. A. de Jongh, Former Inspector General and Chief of the Opium Régie Service in the Dutch Indies;\n\nMr. J. G. Scheurer, Member of the Second Chamber of the States General;\n\nMr. W. G. van Wettum, Inspector of the Opium Régie in the Dutch Indies.\n\nHis Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia:\n\nMirza Mahmoud Khan, Secretary of the Persian Legation at The Hague;\n\nThe President of the Portuguese Republic:\n\nHis Excellency Mr. Antonio Maria Bartholomeu Ferreira, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague;\n\nHis Majesty the King of All the Russias:\n\nHis Excellency Mr. Alexandre Savinsky, His Master of Ceremonies, His present Counsellor of State, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Stockholm.",
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        "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nC.O.\n\n30608\n\nnt.\n\nREC'd 5 JUL 15\n\n558\n\n[April 15.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n[44505]\n\n(No. 67.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received April 15.)\n\nPeking, March 22, 1915.\n\nI had the honour to refer to the proposals made by the Chinese Foreign Minister in connection with the taking over of the stocks of Indian opium and the establishment of an opium monopoly by the Chinese Government in my despatch No. 60 of the 6th February, 1913. These proposals were subsequently dropped owing to official apprehension of public opinion.\n\nOn the 15th instant, the Acting Minister of Finance, Mr. Chou Hsueh-hsi, at an interview, enquired whether I thought that His Majesty's Government would raise objections to the transfer of the stocks to the Chinese Government with a view to the establishment of an official monopoly in opium. He admitted that immediate payment could not be made, but he was ready to give guarantees for appropriate instalments from the proceeds of the sales.\n\nI reminded Mr. Chou that a scheme on somewhat similar lines had been put forward and dropped by the Chinese Government two years ago, and asked him whether it was proposed to extend the monopoly over the whole of China, or limit it only to those provinces into which the entry of Indian opium had not yet been prohibited. I also enquired whether he had taken into due account the probable opposition which the creation of an official opium monopoly would meet from native opinion.\n\nMr. Chou admitted that his scheme might encounter considerable opposition. Although it had no definite shape at present, he thought it would probably cover the whole of China, and be on the lines of the Japanese monopoly in Formosa (see enclosure No. 2 in my despatch No. 60 of the 6th February, 1913).\n\nHe confessed that the number of smokers to-day was probably not less than 2,000,000, of whom perhaps 10,000 were to be found at Peking. Opium was being smuggled into China by sea and by land, and the province of Kansu had stocks of native opium sufficient to supply the inhabitants for several years. He maintained, however, that the vice was confined to the confirmed smokers, and that few of the younger generation were taking to the habit. In reply to a further question, he said that, should the monopoly yield a large revenue, as was anticipated, it would be continued after the stocks were consumed and the supply renewed by importation from abroad.\n\nI expressed my concern at the retrograde step which China would be taking in the suppression of opium if sales were authorised in the closed provinces, and I told the Finance Minister that, while His Majesty's Government would probably not object to a legitimate scheme for disposal of the stocks, they would certainly not countenance anything which would permit of the sale of the drug in the listed provinces.\n\nMr. Chou said that he would think over the matter again, and would consult me as soon as he had formulated detailed proposals.\n\nTwo days later, in conversation with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Lu Cheng-hsiang, I referred to a recent request made by the Chinese Government for the joint inspection of the province of Kansu and the new dominion. I reminded him that references had been made on various occasions to the examination of Kiangsu and Kwangtung, for which no request had as yet been made by the Chinese Government.\n\nThe season for the inspection of the latter province had now passed, and I was not prepared to entertain any proposal for a joint inspection this year. As to Kiangsu, the time was drawing near when it would be too late also to undertake joint inspection. I gave Mr. Lu an opportunity to touch on the subject of the Finance Minister's scheme, but he made no allusion thereto.\n\n[2396 p-1]",
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        "content_text": "5\n\n4\n\nappointed the Hsu Hai Taoyin, Li Ching-chang, and Ts'un Ch'i Taoyin, Wang Keng-ting, as special deputies to co-operate in the joint inspection.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\nEnclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n(Seal of the Wai-chiao Pu.)\n\nWai-chiao Pu to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(Translation.) Sir,\n\nPeking, May 1, 1915. WITH reference to the joint inspection of opium cultivation in the province of Kiangsu, the officials appointed by this Ministry and the Ministry of Interior left Peking on the 20th April.\n\nA letter has now been received from the Revenue Council to the effect that the officials appointed by them to hold secret investigations into opium cultivation in the province of Kiangsu report that no traces of opium cultivation have been seen in any of the places through which they have passed, but that in the Hsuchow and Haichow districts there are places where the poppy has not been entirely exterminated; they suggest, however, that there would appear to be no reason why the British and Chinese officials conducting the joint inspection should not delay for a short while going to these places.\n\nThis proposal, submitted for consideration by the Revenue Council, namely that the joint inspection of these two places should be postponed, is made with a view to getting at the real truth of the matter; but it is observed that the procedure for joint inspection and prohibition of import hitherto adopted has in every case referred to a single province. Since the Revenue Council states that Hsuchow and Haichow in the province of Kiangsu have been found not to be clear of poppy cultivation, the only course is to temporarily request that any steps to carry out a joint inspection of opium cultivation in the province of Kiangsu this year should be stopped, in order to manifest that we are in earnest.\n\nThe deputies from this Ministry are being informed, and I have the honour also to inform your Excellency and to request you to issue the necessary instructions.\n\nCompliments, &c. (For Minister for Foreign Affairs),\n\nTS'AO JU-LIN.\n\nEnclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nAGREEMENT dated the 1st day of May, 1915, relating to the Suppression of the Illicit Sales of Native Opium in Kiangsu, Kiangsi, and Kuangtung, between the Shanghai and Hong Kong Opium Merchants Combines and the Special Envoy for the Prohibition of the Sales of Native Opium in Kiangsu, Kiangsi, and Kuangtung.\n\nTHIS agreement, made the 1st day of May, 1915, between the persons, firms, and companies who are members of, and constitute, the Shanghai and Hong Kong Opium Merchants Combines (hereinafter called \"the Combines\") of the one part, and Ts'ai Nai Huang, the special envoy appointed by the Chinese Government by Presidential mandate, dated the 30th day of April, 1915, for the prohibition of the sales of native opium in the provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, and Kuangtung (hereinafter called \"the Envoy\"), of the other part;\n\nWhereas, by the Opium Agreement of 1911, between His Britannic Majesty's Government and the Chinese Government Indian opium can be conveyed into any province of China wherein the cultivation and import of native opium have not been effectively suppressed;\n\nAnd whereas in the provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, and Kuangtung the cultivation and import of native opium have not been so suppressed\n\nAnd whereas by the laws of China the sale of native opium in any part of China, whatsoever is illegal;\n\nAnd whereas it has been found that in the said provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, and Kuangtung there is a large illicit trade in native opium, which greatly interferes with the sales of Indian opium, therein thereby preventing the consumption of Indian opium at present stocked in Shanghai and Hong Kong, and delaying the total suppression of opium in China;\n\nAnd whereas the Combines are the owners of, or have under their control 6,000 chests of Bengal and of Malwa opium, or thereabouts, which are at present stocked in Shanghai and Hong Kong;\n\nAnd whereas the Combines are desirous of removing the aforesaid interference with the sales of Indian opium in the said provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, and Kuangtung, and are willing and ready of their own free will to make the hereinafter mentioned contribution to the Chinese Government towards the expenses incurred in removing the said interference on the terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained;\n\nAnd whereas the Envoy has, at the request of the Combines, petitioned the Chinese Government to remove the said interference with the sales of Indian opium in the said provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, and Kuangtung (which the Chinese Government has agreed to), on the terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained;\n\nNow this agreement witnesseth that the Combines and the Envoy have mutually agreed as follows:-\n\n1. That the Combines shall make to the Chinese Government a contribution of 3,500 dollars per chest of Indian opium taken delivery of from the Combines in Shanghai or Hong Kong, during the term of this agreement, towards the expenses incurred in the detection and suppression of the illicit sales of native opium in the said provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, and Kuangtung, payable in such amounts and at such times and in such manner as hereinafter mentioned.\n\n2. The Combines shall pay to the Chinese Government, through its duly authorised representative, the Envoy Ts'ai Nai Huang, on every Saturday morning during the term of this agreement, the amount of contribution hereby agreed to be made on all Indian opium taken delivery of from the Combines during the preceding week since the last payment: Provided that the first accumulated payment shall be made one month after the execution of this agreement.\n\n3. Proper receipts for the said contribution shall be given to the Combines by the Chinese Government through its duly authorised representative, the Envoy as aforesaid.\n\n4. The Combines hereby guarantee that not less than 6,000 chests of Indian opium will be available for delivery during the term of this agreement, and that the full amount of the said contribution will be paid to the Chinese Government as aforesaid on every chest of the said opium taken delivery of\n\n5. The Chinese Government shall be at liberty to apply the said contributions in any manner it shall think fit.\n\n6. Forty balls of Bengal and not exceeding 105 catties (Customs scales) of Malwa opium shall respectively constitute one chest of Indian opium.\n\n7. The said contribution is willingly made by the Combines of their own free will for the sole purpose of assisting the Chinese Government in the detection and suppression of the illicit sales of native opium in the said provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, and Kuangtung, thereby enabling the Indian opium at present stocked in Shanghai and Hong Kong to be more speedily disposed of and expediting the total suppression of opium in China, and is not in any wise a tax, duty, or imposition imposed or levied by the Chinese Government.\n\n8. In the event of any Indian opium at present stocked in Shanghai or Hong Kong being sold to Chinese dealer or dealers for conveyance into any of the said provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, or Kuangtung or any part thereof, the Envoy or his representative shall issue to the Combines a special Government stamp or certificate to be affixed on each ball or packet of opium so sold or any portion thereof, the said stamp or certificate to be affixed in the presence of representatives of the Envoy, and the Combines and the Envoy hereby guarantees on behalf of the Chinese Government that all opium so stamped or certificated will pass all custom or li-kin houses or stations within the said provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, and Kuangtung without let or hindrance, and that the sellers and purchasers thereof within the said provinces will not in any wise be interfered with by the local authorities of the said provinces.\n\n9. The Envoy shall, on the execution of this agreement, petition the Chinese Government to order the respective Changchuns and Civil Governors of the said provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, and Kuangtung to take stringent and effective measures for the detection and suppression of the illicit sales of native opium therein with a view to its extinction... thereby enabling the Indian opium at present stocked in Shanghai and Hong Kong to be more speedily disposed of and expediting the total suppression\n\n223",
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        "content_text": "282\n\n2\n\nlocalities to which neither our party nor the numerous Chinese inspectors found their way.\n\nThe mountainous character of almost the whole of Kansu Province, and the badness of the tracks which serve as roads, render all travel off the few main trade routes extraordinarily difficult and arduous. But the amount of opium produced secretly in this manner would be quite insignificant.\n\nWhen travelling in the south of the province I heard rumours of the poppy being cultivated in the mountainous country west of Minchow and T'aochow inhabited by semi-independent Thibetan tribes. These reports applied more particularly to a lawless tribe living south of the Minshan mountains on the Szechuan border, whither it was impossible for me to penetrate without abandoning the inspection of more important poppy-growing centres in the west. It was, however, evident from our journey from Taochow to Labrang and Hochow, when we travelled by an unfrequented route through country inhabited solely by Thibetans, that the latter had not taken to growing the poppy. In spite of the elevation of most of this part of Kansu we passed through many deep sheltered valleys, warm and fertile enough to grow good crops of corn, without finding a trace of poppy cultivation.\n\nCL\n\nAn enormous crop of opium worth many millions of taels was harvested in Kansu in the summer of 1913. It was heavily taxed, so that both the cultivators and the provincial revenues benefited. The people were at the same time given to understand that they would not be permitted to grow the poppy another season. This prohibition, though hindered by the unsettled state of affairs brought about by the presence of the \"White Wolf\" rebels in the south of the province, was largely carried into effect in 1914, and practically complete suppression was arrived at this year. Any infraction of the prohibition of cultivation is now punishable by death. Successful suppression within so short a period as two years is due to the energetic and determined attitude of the present Governor, General Chang Kuang-chien, towards the opium question. He appears to have been on the whole well served by his district magistrates, with whom rests the responsibility of seeing that the prohibition is really carried out. Unfortunately, the suppression of poppy growing has not been unaccompanied by abuses and extortion on the part of small officials and Yamen underlings in outlying districts. The people complained in many districts of soldiers and Yamen runners searching the fields for solitary heads of poppy growing as weeds amongst the other crops, and in some cases even of planting poppies secretly on the land of innocent farmers for the purposes of extortion.\n\nAn acre of irrigated land in Kansu will produce a crop of opium worth ten times as much as a crop of wheat grown on the same plot; while owing to its high value and small bulk, opium is a particularly suitable commodity to handle for purposes of trade and export in a province without proper means of communication, either within its own borders or with the rest of China. The poppy is being replaced by cereals, hemp, and tobacco; but enough cereals are already grown for local consumption, while their bulk renders them unsuitable for purposes of trade; and the cultivation and manufacture of the latter are confined to certain localities. Opium suppression entails, therefore, particular hardships for the purely agricultural population of Kansu, and in view of this, and of the large number of confirmed smokers in the province, the greatest vigilance will be necessary to prevent recrudescence of cultivation during the next few years, more especially while the lax conditions at present prevailing in the adjoining Province of Shensi are permitted to continue. The people have doubtless kept stocks of seed which, in that dry climate, will remain fertile for years.\n\nConsumption of native opium in Kansu continues without any restrictions, and the number of confirmed smokers in the province is very large. I was informed by the provincial authorities at Lanchow that the matter would soon be taken in hand, and that they were at present engaged in enquiring into the number of smokers in each district with the idea of introducing some scheme of progressive reduction in the consumption of each individual smoker leading to complete cessation in a specified period according to age. Nothing, however, is likely to be done in the matter, as the people of Kansu, submissive and patient by nature, have been so bullied by the officials during the past two years over opium suppression and the collection of innumerable new and vexatious taxes, that the latter do not consider it safe to make a serious attempt to prohibit opium smoking. Further, local consumption is not likely to be effectively suppressed until the large stocks of native-grown opium at present in the province are exhausted. In the meantime, the high price of the drug—2,600 cash (about 2 dollars Mexican) per Chinese ounce in Lanchow—tends to discourage consumption except amongst the confirmed smokers. While the provincial authorities in Lanchow admit that no attempt is at present being made to interfere with consumption, the attitude of the local officials in some of the outlying districts is very vague on the subject.\n\n3\n\nThis, while at Ch'inchow, the seat of a Taoyin (Superintendent of Circuit), the streets reeked of burning opium after nightfall and smokers could be seen through half-closed doors enjoying their pipes, in the district of Li Hsien, forming part of the Ch'inchow Circuit, proclamations were posted announcing that anyone sowing, selling, or smoking opium would be shot. Such notices were, of course, meaningless and posted for our benefit.\n\nNo definite scheme exists for regulating the trade in native opium, which is still permitted to continue, in some places under taxation by licence, in others without any restrictions, according to the ideas of the local officials on the subject. Its transport through the province is taxed by means of special opium li-kin offices, which reap a rich but declining harvest. The result of such legalised trade in native opium is that large quantities of the Kansu-grown drug are smuggled into the other provinces of China. This secret export follows three main routes: through Mongolia to north China and Manchuria; viâ Sianfu and Tungkuan into Honan (in which province, owing to strict suppressive measures, the profits on smuggled opium are enormous); and via the Han Valley to Hankow. Our arrival in Kansu gave rise to much talk about suppressing all traffic in native opium, and I was informed by the provincial authorities that they were about to bring the trade to an end. But in the meantime, it furnishes a means of getting rid of the stocks in the province. These stocks are very large, and if left to be consumed locally, would last for decades.\n\nOur itinerary was as follows: from Miench'ih (the railhead in Honan) to Sian, the capital of Shensi, 205 miles; from Sian via P'ingliang to Lanchow, the capital of Kansu, 470 miles; from Lanchow viâ Titao and down the Wei River valley to Ch'inchow, 240 miles; from Ch'inchow viâ Li Hsien and Minchow to T'aochow in the Thibetan border country, 225 miles; from T'aochow via Labrang and Hochow to Lanchow, 220 miles; from Lanchow via P'ingfan to Liangchow and Chenfan on the edge of the Alashan desert in north-western Kansu, 250 miles; from Chenfan to Yungchang and thence through the Nanshan mountains and along the Kokonor border to Yungan, Tatung, and Sining, 328 miles; from Sining to Lanchow, 148 miles. From Lanchow we travelled by raft and boat on the Yellow River to Ninghsia and Paot'ou; and from Paot'ou by road again to Kueihuach'eng and Fengchen (the railhead of the Peking-Kalgan Extension line in northern Shansi). The journey was made on horseback with a small caravan of pack mules. We entered Kansu from Shensi on the 23rd May and left the province again for Mongolia on the 11th September.\n\nA sketch map showing the route followed is attached.*\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nERIC TEICHMAN.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs.\n\nOctober 6, 1915.\n\nWith reference to your Excellency's note of the 30th August, and my reply of the 1st September, I have the honour to inform you that I have now received a report from Mr. Eric Teichman on the tour of investigation for opium poppy cultivation recently made in Kansu Province under the terms of the 1911 Opium Agreement.\n\nMr. Teichman reports that no cultivation was found by the investigation party, and I, therefore, have the honour to inform your Excellency that I propose to prohibit the importation of Indian opium into Kansu from the 1st November.\n\nI avail myself of this opportunity to renew to your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "11006 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 6 NOVEMBER, 1915.\n\nArthur & Co. Limited.\n\nArts & Crafts Limited.\n\nAshton & Co. Limited (Enticknap, P.).\n\nAsiatic Petroleum Company.\n\nAstor House Hotel Company.\n\nAtkinson & Dallas Limited.\n\nAu Petit Louvre (Maison Parisienne).\n\nAudinet, Lacroix, & Co.\n\nAudinet, Lacroix, Pasquier, et Cie.\n\nAustralian Dairy Farm.\n\nAustralian Produce Company.\n\nAyer Tawah Company Limited, Shanghai. Azaidian.\n\nBabcock & Wilcox Limited.\n\nBakels & Co.\n\nBaldwin, C. C.\n\nBanbam, F. C.\n\nBanker & Co.\n\nBin Lam Drug Stores.\n\nBanque belge pour l'Etranger. Banque de l'Indo-Chine.\n\nBanque industrielle de Chine. Bansuiken, Shanghai.\n\nBarkley Company.\n\nBarlow & Co.\n\nBarrett, E. G.\n\nBarry & Co., B. M.\n\nBathgate & Co.\n\nBatu Anam Rubber Company. Beck, I.\n\nBeck, M. G.\n\nBelgian Brick Factory. Tien-tsin.\n\nBelgian Trading Company.\n\nBell, D. W.\n\nBell, H. F. L.\n\nBen Albert & Co.\n\nBenjamin and Potts.\n\nBeque, Henri.\n\nBielfield, Alex., & Co.\n\nBissett, J. P., & Co.\n\nBlack, J. F.\n\nBlake & Sons, F. A.\n\nBlancke, Charles.\n\nBo Won, Canton,\n\nBona, F.\n\nBouchard.\n\nBourgery, C.\n\nBowern & Co. (Bowern & Hay).\n\nBoyd & Co.\n\nBoyer, Mazet & Co.\n\nBoyes, Basset, & Co.\n\nBradford Dyers' Association.\n\nBradley & Co. Limited.\n\nBrand Brothers & Co.\n\nBrand, H. S., & Co.\n\nBrandt, A. L.\n\nBrandt & Co.\n\nBrandt & Rogers.\n\nBrangwyn & Hobson, Dre.\n\nBrewer & Co. Limited. Bridges, H.\n\nBritish American Tobacco Company.\n\nBritish and Asiatic Company.\n\nBritish and Chinese Corporation.\n\nBritish Cigarette Company Limited.\n\nBritish Dominions General Insurance Company.\n\nBritish and Foreign Bible Society,\n\nBritish Insulated and Helsby Company. British Manufacturers' Agency (Wong Chuen Yung).\n\nBrockett & Co.\n\nBrockett, E., & Co.\n\nBrook, E., & Co.\n\nBrossay, René,\n\nBrunner, Mond, & Co. Limited.\n\nBrush Electrical Engineering Company. Bryant & Ryde.\n\nBulin & Co., Hankow.\n\nBurin Yoko.\n\nBurkhardt, L. R.\n\nBurkill, A. R., & Sons.\n\nBurroughs, Wellcome, & Co. Burtenshaw & Co.\n\nButler, A.\n\nButterfield & Swire.\n\nCabeldu, A., & Co. Caissial.\n\nCaldbeck, MacGregor. Calder, Marshall, & Co. Calico Printers' Association. Camera Craft Company. Campbell, Alex., & Co. Canadian Commissioner.\n\nCanadian Methodist Mission Press. Canadian Pacific.\n\nCanton Insurance Company.\n\nCarr, Ramsay, T., & Co. Castellano.\n\nCathay Trust.\n\nCatoire Veuve, A., et Fils. Catanneo.\n\nCawasjee Palanjee, Shanghai. Cement Tile Works Limited.\n\nCentral Agency Limited.\n\nCentral China Dispensary.\n\nCentral China Import Company. Central China Post.\n\nCentral China Printing Company, Hankow.\n\nCentral Garage Limited.\n\nCentral Stores Limited.\n\nCentral Trading Company.\n\nCercle sportif français.\n\nChang Dah Yuen.\n\nChang, T. S,\n\nChapeaux.\n\nCharrey.\n\nCharrey et Conversy.\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia, and China.\n\nChauvin, Mme.\n\nChefoo Hairnet Manufactory.\n\nChemor United Rubber Company Limited. Chempedak Rubber & Gambier Estate Company.\n\nCheng Rubber Estate.\n\nChic Parisien.\n\nChin Ho Hsiang.\n\nChina Agenta Company.\n\nChina American Lumber Company.\n\nChina American Trading Company.\n\nChina Commercial Steam Navigation Company.\n\nChina Engineering Company.\n\nChina Fire Insurance Company.\n\nChina Flour Mill Company Limited.\n\nChina Import & Export Lumber Company Limited.\n\nChina Inland Mission.\n\nChina & Japan Trading Company.\n\nChina Land & Building Company Limited. China Land & Finance Company Limited. China Merchants Ponges Association. China Merchants Steam Navigation Company. China Mutual Life Insurance Company Limited.\n\nChina Mutual Steam Navigation Company. China National Life Assurance.\n\nChina Navigation Company.\n\nChina Silk Agency Company Limited. China Strawbraid Export Company,\n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 6 NOVEMBER, 1915. 11007\n\nChina Sugar Refining Company.\n\nChina Times Limited.\n\nChina Traders Insurance Company.\n\nChina Trading Company.\n\nChinese American Company,\n\nChiness Electric Light & Power Company.\n\nChinese Optical Company..\n\nChinese Railways (all).\n\nChing Cheng Yung, Tien-tsin.\n\nChing Chong Hung & Co., Shanghai, Chefoo.\n\nChing Fong, Shanghai.\n\nChing Ho Hsiang, Peking.\n\nChing Kee, Amoy.\n\nChinson Chao (Peking Motor Company, Peking).\n\nChuan Chang.\n\nChun Shing.\n\nChun Sing, Shanghai.\n\nChung Fall & Co., Chefoo.\n\nChung Heva Book Company, Shanghai.\n\nChung Tung Lithographic Works.\n\nChurch Missionary Mission.\n\nCoghlan, H. H.\n\nCohen, Andre.\n\nCollina & Co.\n\nCombfort.\n\nCommercial Press Limited.\n\nCommercial Union Assurance Company.\n\nCompagnie d'Eclairage et de Tramways of Tien-tsin.\n\nCompagnie française des Tramways de l'Eclairage électrique et des Eaux de Shanghai.\n\nCompagnie Générale de Chemins de Fer et de Tramways en Chine.\n\nCompagnie des Messageries maritimes. Comptoir commercial auversois.\n\nConnell Brothers.\n\nConsolidated Rubber Estates Limited. Cook & Anderson.\n\nCook, Thomas & Sons.\n\nCornabe, Eckford, & Co. Cosmopolitan Dock.\n\nCossanteli & Co.\n\nCox, W. Wakeford.\n\nCozzi, E. Hankow.\n\nCrédit foncier d'Extrême-Orient.\n\nCrofts & Co., George. Cros, Paul.\n\nCrossfeld & Sons Limited. Crystal Limited. Culpeck, E. A.\n\nCurtis Brothers.\n\nCurtis Sons & Co.\n\nDah Daw, Hankow.\n\nDah Lung & Co..\n\nDah Sung & Co.\n\nDah Sung Cotton Mill, Shanghai. Dai Nippon Brewery Company. Daishin & Co., Shanghai,\n\nDallas Livery Stable Company, Danese, E., Hankow. D'Arc, G. L.\n\nDastoor, F. R., & Co.\n\nDavid & Co.\n\nDavid, S. J., & Co.\n\nDavies & Brooke.\n\nDavis, R. S., & Co.\n\nDavis, W. Trenchard,\n\nDeacon & Co.\n\nDeane, T. P.\n\nDebenham & Co. Denham & Rose.\n\nDenniston & Sullivan. Dent, A., & Co.\n\nDent, Herbert. Dieden & Co.\n\nDixon, H. C., & Co.\n\nDodwell & Co. Limited. Dollar Robert Company. Dombey & Son,\n\nDominion Express Company. Donnelly & Whyte.\n\nDowdall, W. M.\n\nDrakeford & Co.\n\nDuncan & Co.\n\nDunlop Rubber Company.\n\nDunn, Walter.\n\nDuplessis.\n\nDutch Colonial Trading Company,\n\nDutton, W., & Co.\n\nDyce & Co.\n\nDzing Nye Haing, Hankow.\n\nEagle & Globe Steel Company.\n\nEast Asiatic Company.\n\nEastern & Australiau Steamship Company.\n\nEastern Extension Telegraph Company.\n\nEastern Trading Company.\n\nEcho de Tien-tsin.\n\nEdgar Brothers & Co.\n\nEkman Foreign Agencies.\n\nEnergie électrique,\n\nEnterprise Tobacco Company Limited. Enticknap, P. (Ashton & Co. Limited). Equitable Life Assurance Society. Erasmic Company.\n\nEstablishments de Tongkou.\n\nEtablissements Fei Yen, Ateliers de Construction Mécaniques.\n\nEvans, A. M. A.\n\nEvans, Edward, & Sons Limited.\n\nEvans, Pugh, & Co.\n\nEwo Cotton Spinning & Weaving Company.\n\nEwo Yuen Press Packing Company.\n\nExcess Insurance Company Limited.\n\nEzra, E. I., Shanghai.\n\nEzra, Edward, & Co., Shanghai.\n\nEzra & Co., Fred, Shanghai.\n\nEzra, N. E. B., & Co.\n\nEzra, Y., & Co.\n\nFa Hsiang, Tien-tsin.\n\nFairchild, F. A.\n\nFukul & Co., Shanghai.\n\nFar Eastern Geographical Establishment.\n\nFarley, W. A.\n\nFarmer, F. D., & Co.\n\nFearon, Daniel, & Co.\n\nFederal Life Assurance Company of Canada.\n\nFengtien District Inspectorate of Salt Revenue.\n\nFerretti.\n\nFindlay, Richardson, & Co. Firth, W., & Sons. Fobes & Co.\n\nFoo Tai Company, Hankow, Forbes & Co., William. Foster, McClellan, & Co. Frankau & Co. Limited, A. Frazar & Co.\n\nFrench Bakery,\n\nFu Shing Tai, Tien-tsin.\n\nFuchs, H., & Co. (Rint'ai Stores).\n\nFujita & Co., Mukden.\n\nFukien Drug Company.\n\nFung Tang, Shanghai.\n\nFurukawa & Co., Shanghai. Futcher, J. W.\n\nGabhai, M. N., & Co.\n\nGadai Yoko.\n\n301",
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        "content_text": "140\n\n11008 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 6 NOVEMBER, 1915.\n\nGaillard.\n\nGallusser & Co.\n\nGande, Price, & Co.\n\nGarner, Quelch, & Co.\n\nGates, F.\n\nGeddes & Co.\n\nGeneral Accident, Fire, & Life Assurance Company.\n\nGeneral Electric Company.\n\nGeneral Electric Company of China Limited.\n\nGeneral Electric Company of New York.\n\nGerassime Touliatos.\n\nGerin, Drovard, & Co.\n\nGibb, Livingston, & Co.\n\nGibbons, J., & Co.\n\nGillard & Co.\n\nGillespie & Co.\n\nGilman & Co.\n\nGing Chong Hung & Co.\n\nGitting & Co.\n\nGlaxo.\n\nGlen Line Steamers.\n\nGoldenberg, H., & Co.\n\nGordes.\n\nGordon & Co.\n\nGovernment Universities in China.\n\nGoyet, Shanghai.\n\nGrand Hôtel des Wagons-Lite.\n\nGrant, Archibald,\n\nGreat China Dispensary.\n\nGreat Eastern Dispensary.\n\nGreat Northern Telegraph Company.\n\nGreer, H. & W., Limited.\n\nGreig, M. W., & Co.\n\nGrenard, Bettines & Co.\n\nGriffith, T. E., Limited.\n\nGriffiths Butchery.\n\nGrimes, A. C.\n\nGrimshaw, R.\n\nGrosjean & Co.\n\nGrundy, R.\n\nGuarantee Trust.\n\nGula Kalumpang Rubber Estates Limited.\n\nHall & Holtz Limited.\n\nHan Yeh Ping Iron & Coal Company.\n\nHanda Menko, Shanghai.\n\nHankow Dispensary Limited.\n\nHankow Light & Power Company.\n\nHankow Printing Office.\n\nHankow Waterworks.\n\nHardoon, S. A.\n\nHardy, Walter.\n\nHarper, Ralph, & Co.\n\nHarvey's Billposting Agency.\n\nHarvie, Cook, & Co.\n\nHarvie, J. A.\n\nHatch, Carter, & Co.\n\nHattori Yoko.\n\nHeath & Co. Limited.\n\nHeath, P., and Co.\n\nHeffer, F. C., & Co.\n\nHeiman, S. S.\n\nHeisch, P. F.\n\nHemmerdinger Frères.\n\nHemmings & Berkley.\n\nHeng, Chang, Ter, Messrs., Newchang.\n\nHérou, Charles, & Co.\n\nHetherington, J., & Sons.\n\nHewitt, W., & Co.\n\nHipwell, P.\n\nHirao & Co., Antung.\n\nHirsbrunner & Co.\n\nHolgate, L. G.\n\nHolland-China Trading Company.\n\nHolliday, C., & Co.\n\nHolt's Wharf.\n\nHong Kong Fire Insurance Company.\n\nHong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Hopkins, Dunn, & Co.\n\nHorrobin, S. L.\n\nHorse Bazaar and Motor Company.\n\nHôtel de France.\n\nHôtel de la Paix.\n\nHôtel de Pékin.\n\nHouvenier-Mason, Scheidler, & Co. Howarth, Richard, & Co.\n\nHubbard, E. W.\n\nHumphrey, W. G.\n\nHung, Dah, & Co., Shanghai,\n\nHunt, Newchang.\n\nHupei Government Cotton Mill.\n\nHutchison, Herbert, & Co.\n\nHutchison, J. D.\n\nIlbert & Co.\n\nImperial Hotel Limited.\n\nIndo-China Steam Navigation Company.\n\nIndra Line of Steamers.\n\nInnis & Riddle.\n\nInshallah Dairy Farm and Stock Company. International Bank.\n\nInternational Bicycle Company.\n\nInternational Book and Stationery Store.\n\nInternational Cotton Manufacture Company. International Dispensary.\n\nInternational Dock.\n\nInternational Estate and Finance.\n\nInternational Export Company.\n\nInternational Saving Society.\n\nItalian-Chinese Import and Export Company.\n\nIto, G., Shanghai.\n\nItoh, C., & Co., Shanghai.\n\nIvy Dairy.\n\nJacks, William, & Co.\n\nJai Tei Chang, Shanghai.\n\nJapanese Red Cross Hospital, Mukden.\n\nJapanese Post and Telegraphs in Manchuria.\n\nJaques, A. H., & Co.\n\nJardine, Matheson, & Co.\n\nJava Consolidated Rubber and Coffee Estate.\n\nJava Sea and Fire Insurance Company.\n\nJoseph Bros.\n\nJuvet Leo, Tientsin.\n\nKailan Mining Administration,\n\nKakiage Yoko.\n\nKale, E.\n\nKalee Hotel Limited.\n\nKalgan Dairy Farm.\n\nKameya & Co., Antung.\n\nKapayang Rubber Estate Company Limited.\n\nKaratzas Bros.\n\nKashimura Company, Tientsin.\n\nKato & Co.\n\nKay, W., & Co.\n\nKaye, C. B., & Co.\n\nKelly & Walsh Limited.\n\nKemp, Thomas, & Co,\n\nKempton.\n\nKermani, R. S., Shanghai.\n\nKeylock, Pratt, and Hobbs.\n\nKeystone Tobacco Company Limited.\n\nKiangnan Dock and Engineering Works.\n\nKlemantaski, Bates, & Co.\n\nKodera, Messrs., & Co.\n\nKochien Transport and Towboat Company Limited.\n\nKong Yik Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company.\n\nKonslyn, N. N., Limited, Shanghai.\n\nKoosnetzoff, A., & Co., Shanghai. Kroewook Java Plantations Limited. Kua, Seng, Watt, & Co., Amoy. Kwong Fat Yuen.\n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 6 NOVEMBER, 1915. 11009\n\nLa Belle Jardinière (E. A. Culpeck). Lalcacca & Co.\n\nLand Investment Company Limited.\n\nLane, Crawford, & Co. Limited.\n\nLangkat Company, Shanghai.\n\nLao Sen Kee, Hankow.\n\nLaon Kung Mow Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company.\n\nLarge, F., & Co.\n\nLaurent, Marius.\n\nLavers & Clark.\n\nLaw, H. D., & Co.\n\nLe Lion.\n\nLeeds, E. S.\n\nLegation of Allied Powers, Peking.\n\nLegation Pharmacy.\n\nLekhomall Pinyamall.\n\nLester, Johnson, & Morriss.\n\nLemunyon.\n\nLever Brothers, Limited.\n\nLey, C.\n\nLeyte, F.\n\nLiao Conservancy Authority.\n\nLiddell Bros. Company.\n\nLiddell K., & Co.\n\nLih Teh Oil Mill Company Limited.\n\nLion, Lucien.\n\nLittle, William, & Co. Litvinoff & Co.\n\nLiverman, G. S., & Co. Limited.\n\nLiverpool Salvage Association.\n\nLlewellyn & Co. Limited.\n\nLloyds.\n\nLondon Mission.\n\nLondon Salvage Association.\n\nLopato, A., & Sons.\n\nLoup and Young.\n\nLouvain,\n\nLowe, F. H.\n\nLoxley, W. R., & Co.\n\nLuen Steamship Company Limited.\n\nMa Fel & Co., Shanghai. Macbeth, Pawsey, & Co. Macdonald, Ronald.\n\nMacdonald, Thomas, & Co. Macey & Co.\n\nMackay, A. H., & Co.\n\nMacKenzie & Co. Limited,\n\nMackie, A., & Co.\n\nMaclay & Co.\n\nMactavish & Lehmann.\n\nMacy, G. H., & Co.\n\nMadier.\n\nMagasin français d'Alimentation,\n\nMagasins généraux,\n\nMagill & Co.\n\nMaison Parisienne (Au Petit Louvre).\n\nMaitland & Co.\n\nMaitland & Fearon.\n\nMajor Brothers Limited.\n\nMalthoid Roofing Manufacturers.\n\nManchurian Company Limited.\n\nManini, E., Hankow.\n\nManners, John.\n\nMappin & Webb.\n\nMaritime Custom Houses. (Throughout China.)\n\nMarthoul Frères.\n\nMartin, W., & Co.\n\nMatheson, G., & Co.\n\nMavrokephalos & Co., Hankow,\n\nMcBain, G.\n\nMcMullan & Co.\n\nMeiji Trading Company, Shanghai. Menga, C., Tien-tsin.\n\nMercantile Bank.\n\nMethodist Publishing House.\n\nMeurer Frères.\n\nMiddleton & Co.\n\nMiffret, A.\n\nMing Chong Cycle Company.\n\nMinistries and Departments of the Chinese Governments.\n\nMitsubishi & Co., Shanghai.\n\nMitsubishi Goshi Kaisha, Hankow, Canton.\n\nMitsui Busan Kaisha, Hankow.\n\nMitsui & Co., Shanghai.\n\nMolchanoff Pechatnoff & Co., Hankow.\n\nMoller & Co.\n\nMonbaron, Charles.\n\nMoore, L., & Co.\n\nMoorhead & Halse.\n\nMorgan Crucible Company Limited,\n\nMoser, J. H.\n\nMoutrie, S., and Co.\n\nMoyroux, V.\n\nMunicipal Council, Shanghai,\n\nMunicipalities of British Allied and Neutral Concessions and of the International Concession at Shanghai.\n\nMurray, Noel, & Co.\n\nMustard & Co.\n\nNagai Bunko, Shanghai,\n\nNagano Yoko.\n\nNaishi Company.\n\nNakvasin, D. J., & Co., Hankow.\n\nNanri Yoko.\n\nNanyang Dispensary.\n\nNational Cash Register Company.\n\nNational Union Society of Bedford.\n\nNaylor, J., & Co.\n\nNeill, James, & Co.\n\nNemazee, H. M., & Co., Shanghai. Neotia & Co.\n\nNestle and Anglo-Swiss Milk Company. Netherlands Harbour Works Company. Neutral Legations, Peking.\n\nNew Amoy Dock Company.\n\nNew Chinese Antimony Company.\n\nNew Engineering and Shipbuilding Works Limited.\n\nNew Zealand Insurance Company.\n\nNewchang Wharf and Godown Company. Nicholas & Co.\n\nNicholas Tsu Engineering Works.\n\nNikka Yoko.\n\nNippon Menkwa Kabushiki Kaisha, Hankow,\n\nNippon Yusen Kaisha, Hankow.\n\nNisshin Kisen Kaisha, Hankow.\n\nNisshin Yabuko, Shanghai.\n\nNisshin Yoko.\n\nNoel Murray & Co. Limited.\n\nNorbury & Co.\n\nNorbury, Eric.\n\nNorbury, Natzio, & Co. Limited.\n\nNorth British Mercantile Insurance Company, North China Daily News and Herald Limited. North China Engineering Company.\n\nNorth China Insurance Company Limited. North China Printing and Publishing Company.\n\nNorth China Produce Company.\n\nNorthern Assurance Company.\n\nNozawa Gumi, Shanghai.\n\nNutter, Walter, & Co.\n\nOcean Accident and Guarantee Company. Ocean Marine Insurance Company. Ocean Steamship Company Limited.\n\nOffice of Works, His Majesty's.\n\n302",
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        "content_text": "303\n\n11010 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 6 NOVEMBER, 1915.\n\nOkura & Co. Limited, Shanghai.\n\nOld Dock.\n\nOld Ningpo Wharf.\n\nOlivier & Co.\n\nOlivier Export and Import Company.\n\nOlsen & Co.\n\nOng Mali Chao & Co., Messrs. Amoy.\n\nOnomura & Co., Shanghai.\n\nOpium Bonded Godown.\n\nOrient Trading Company.\n\nOriental Advertising Company.\n\nOriental Dispensary.\n\nOriental Export Company.\n\nOriental Optical Company.\n\nOsaka Kobashi Shiten, Shanghai.\n\nOsaka Shosen Kaisha, Canton.\n\nOxygen and Drum Company.\n\nPabaney, E.\n\nPacific Mail Steamship Company.\n\nPaizia & Co.\n\nPalace Hotel,\n\nPalmer & Turner.\n\nPanoff, J. K., & Co.\n\nParadissis & Co.\n\nParker, J. H. P., & Co.\n\nParker, Reilly, & Co.\n\nParker & Smith.\n\nParsee Trading Company.\n\nPatel, A. C., & Co.\n\nPatell & Co.\n\nPathé Phonocine Machine.\n\nPaturel, Shanghai,\n\nPaulsen & Bayes-Davey.\n\nPearce&Garriock.\n\nPearson, S., & Son.\n\nPeiyang Tannery.\n\nPeking Daily News.\n\nPeking Dispensary.\n\nPeking Gazette.\n\nPeking Motor Company (Chinson Chao).\n\nPeking Pavilion.\n\nPeking Syndicate.\n\nPennell, E., & Co.\n\nPerniata Rubber Estate Limited.\n\nPerrin, Cooper & Co.\n\nPersian Commercial Company.\n\nPhoenix Assurance Company.\n\nPicca & Co. (Pharmacy Central).\n\nPickwick, F. H.\n\nPike, A. T. J.\n\nPilcher, H. W.\n\nP. and O. Steam Navigation Company.\n\nPootung Wharves.\n\nPopoff Frères, C. & S.\n\nPottinger & Paton.\n\nPrices China Limited.\n\nPresse Orientale, La.\n\nProbst, Hanbury, & Co.\n\nProduce Export Company Limited.\n\nProtopapos & Co.\n\nProvincial Governments and their Departments throughout China.\n\nPuthod.\n\nQueen's Hotel, Tien-tsin.\n\nRacine, Ackermann, & Co.\n\nRailton & Co.\n\nRamello, F.\n\nRamos Amusement Company.\n\nRamsay & Co. Limited.\n\nReid. Evans, & Co.\n\nReiss & Co.\n\nRembrandt Photo Company.\n\nRemington Typewriter Company.\n\nRepah Rubber and Tapico Estates. Representation Limited.\n\nfor British Manufacturers\n\nReuter Telegram Company.\n\nReynaud, Eugene, & Co.\n\nRigge, H. E.\n\nRobinson Piano Company.\n\nRodsil & Co.\n\nRondon & Co.\n\nRoneo Limited.\n\nRose, Downs, & Thompson Limited.\n\nRose, Hewett, & Co.\n\nRoss, Alex, & Co.\n\nRouse, E. H.\n\nRousseau, E.\n\nRoxburgh, R., Limited.\n\nRoyal Insurance Company.\n\nRoyal Mail Steam Packet Company.\n\nRusso-Asiatic Bank,\n\nRutherford, N. H.\n\nSaey Tai, Shanghai.\n\nSam, Joe, & Co.\n\nSamuel & Co. Limited.\n\nSanderson & Co.\n\nSaurin Tobacco Company,\n\nSassoon, D., & Co. Limited.\n\nSassoon, E. D., & Co.\n\nSauvayre, Shanghai.\n\nSchiller & Co.\n\nScotson, T.\n\nScott & Bowne Limited.\n\nScott, Harding, & Co.\n\nScottish Union & National Insurance Company,\n\nSeishin & Co., Mukden.\n\nSemagaga Rubber Company Limited.\n\nSemambu Rubber Estates Limited.\n\nSenawang Rubber Estates.\n\nSennet Frères.\n\nSennett, Frères.\n\nSeo & Co., Mukden.\n\nSeth A. Seth.\n\nShahnoon, S. E., Shanghai.\n\nShahmoon, E. E., Shanghai.\n\nShang, Tai Ye, & Co., Tien-tsin.\n\nShanghai Building Company.\n\nShanghai Dispensary.\n\nShanghai Dock and Engineering Company.\n\nShanghai Electric and Asbestos Company Limited.\n\nShanghai Electrical Construction Company.\n\nShanghai Gas Company.\n\nShanghai General Hospital.\n\nShanghai Horse Bazaar.\n\nShanghai Ice and Cold Storage Company.\n\nShanghai Klebang Rubber Estates Limited.\n\nShanghai Land Investment Company.\n\nShanghai Malay Rubber Estates Limited.\n\nShanghai Mercury Limited.\n\nShanghai Mutual Telephone Limited.\n\nShanghai Optical Company.\n\nShanghai Paper Mill.\n\nShanghai Storee Company. Limited.\n\nShanghai Tannery Company Limited.\n\nShanghai Times. Company\n\nShanghai and Sumatra Tobacco Company\n\nShanghai Tug and Lighter Company.\n\nShanghai Waterworks Company Limited.\n\nShantung Silk and Lace Company.\n\nShaw, G. L.\n\nShaw, G. L., Brothers.\n\nShawhsing, G. 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        "content_text": "EXPORTATION OF ARTICLES TO CHINA AND SIAM.\n\nForeign Office,\n\n(FIFTH SUPPLEMENT.)\n\nNovember 26, 1915.\n\nThe following additions or corrections to the lists published as a supplement to the London Gazette of 5th November, 1915, of persons to whom articles to be exported to China and Siam may be consigned, are notified by order of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in accordance with the provisions of the Proclamation relating to the exportation of articles to China and Siam during the present war, issued on the 24th day of September, 1915-\n\nCHINA.\n\nForeign Office, November 24th, 1915. The following names are added to the list of persons and bodies of persons to whom articles to be exported to China may be consigned:-\n\nDes Remedios, A. G., Shanghai.\n\nDong Sing Wo and Co., Shanghai.\n\nDreyfus and Bros., Edmond, Shanghai.\n\nGreat Eastern Co., Ltd., Shanghai.\n\nIvy, Dr., Shanghai.\n\nLoa Hai Shing, Shanghai.\n\nNielson and Winther (China Engineering Co., Ltd.), Hankow.\n\nSing, A., Shanghai.\n\nTientsin Soap Manufacturing Co.\n\nYuan Cheong and Co., Shanghai.\n\nZa Chong Shun, Shanghai.\n\nThe following name is removed from the list of persons and bodies of persons to whom articles to be exported to China may be consigned:\n\nJai Tai Chang, Shanghai.\n\nThe following corrections are notified in the list of persons and bodies of persons to whom articles to be exported to China may be consigned:-\n\nAstor House Hotel Co. should read, Astor House Hotel Co., Shanghai.\n\nCanadian Pacific should read, Canadian Pacific Rly. Co.\n\nSouth Manchurian Rly. Co. should read, South Manchuria Rly. Co.\n\nTwigg, P. O. B., should read, Twigg, P. O'Brien.\n\nForeign Office, November 25th, 1915.\n\nThe following names are added to the list of persons and bodies of persons to whom articles to be exported to China may be consigned:-\n\nAird & Skinner, Drs.\n\nChristiakoff, J.\n\nChujudo & Co., Newchang.\n\nChuma & Co., Newchang.\n\nCorsane, Anderson & Co. (Hankow Ice Works).\n\nDunne, T. E.\n\nEveleigh & Co.\n\nHankow Club Ltd.\n\nHankow Ice Works.\n\nHankow Race Club & Recreation Ground Ltd.\n\nHankow Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd.\n\nJensen, G. S.\n\nKaitendo & Co., Newchang.\n\nKansaki & Co., Newchang.\n\nNettle, P. Edward.\n\nNigniewitzky.\n\nNorth Great China Dispensary.\n\nOmi & Co., Newchang.\n\nPlatt, McLeod & Wilson, Messrs.\n\nSaou Kee, Shanghai.\n\nSeishin & Co., Newchang.\n\nShing Yue & Co., Shanghai.\n\nTai Fu Lim, Dr., Newchang.\n\nTai On & Co. (Canton Medical Hall), Canton.\n\nTows & Co., Newchang.\n\nTschurin & Co. Ltd., Harbin.\n\nTsui, Y. Y., Dr., Tientsin.\n\nUnion Medical College.\n\nWang, Y. N., Dr., Tientsin and Peking.\n\nYau, K. S., Dr., Tientsin and Peking.\n\nYoung Bros. Trust Co., Chungking.\n\nWisner, P. F., & Co.\n\nWoods, J.\n\nYan Sun Co. Ltd., Canton.\n\nThe following corrections are notified in the list of persons and bodies of persons to whom articles to be exported to China may be consigned:-\n\nAmerican Drug Store should read American Chinese Drug Store.\n\nKameya & Co., S., should read Kameya (Kamaya), S., & Co.\n\nSze Hung & Co. should read Sze Hing (Hung) & Co.\n\nSIAM.\n\nForeign Office, November 25th, 1915.\n\nThe following names are added to the list of persons and bodies of persons to whom articles to be exported to Siam may be consigned:-\n\nAh Leo Keh (Yah See), Lampang.\n\nBamrungnukulkij Printing Works (Luang Damrong), Bangkok.\n\nHong Ching, Bangkok.\n\nKeng Watt, Bangkok.\n\nLuang Damrong (Bamrungnukulkij Printing Works), Bangkok.\n\nSang Hong & Co., Bangkok.\n\nTayabally & Co., A. H., Bangkok.\n\nYah Seo (Ah Lee Keh), Lampang.\n\nYong Mong Lee, Bangkok.\n\n(Extract from the London Gazette of Friday, 26 November, 1915.)\n\nPrinted by WYMAN & Sons, Ltd.\n\nFor FREDERICK ATTERBURY, Esq., C.B., the King's Printer of Acts of Parliament.\n\n403528, 1,500. 11/15.\n\n309\n\n7.\n\n0.\n\nPage 309",
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        "content_text": "76\n\n(d) Within the limits of the statutes citizens shall have the rights of freedom of speech, of writing and publication, and of assembly and association.\n\n(e) Within the limits of the statutes citizens shall have the right of secrecy of correspondence.\n\n(f) Within the limits of the statutes citizens shall have the right of freedom of abode and of changing the same.\n\n(g) Within the limits of the statutes citizens shall have the right of freedom of religious belief.\n\nArticle 6. In accordance with the provisions of the statutes citizens shall have the right of petitioning the Legislature.\n\nArticle 7. In accordance with the provisions of the statutes citizens shall have the right to institute proceedings in the Courts of Law.\n\nArticle 8. In accordance with the provisions of the statutes citizens shall have the right of petitioning administrative officers and of lodging complaints with the Ping Cheng Yuan.\n\nArticle 9. In accordance with the provisions of law and ordinance citizens shall have the right to attend the examinations for the appointment of officers and to enter the public service.\n\nArticle 10. In accordance with the provisions of the statutes citizens shall have the right to elect and to be elected.\n\nArticle 11. In accordance with the provisions of the statutes citizens are subject to the duty of paying taxes.\n\nArticle 12. In accordance with the provisions of the statutes citizens are subject to the duty of performing military service.\n\nArticle 13. The provisions made in this Chapter, that are not in conflict with the law, ordinances and discipline of the Army and Navy, shall be applicable to persons belonging to the said services.\n\nCHAPTER 3 - THE PRESIDENT\n\nArticle 14. The President is the head of the Nation and combines in himself all the powers of government.\n\n77\n\nArticle 15. The President shall represent the Chung Hua Min Kuo.\n\nArticle 16. The President shall be responsible to the whole Nation.\n\nArticle 17. The President shall convoke the Legislature and open, prorogue and close its sessions.\n\nThe President, with the concurrence of the Council of State, may dissolve the Legislature; in the case of dissolution new members must be elected and the Legislature convoked within six months from the date of dissolution.\n\nArticle 18. The President may initiate legislation and shall lay the estimates before the Legislature.\n\nArticle 19. For the promotion of public welfare, for the execution of the statutes, or in pursuance of authority granted by statute, the President may issue or cause to be issued ordinances, but no ordinance shall alter any statute.\n\nArticle 20. In order to maintain peace and order, or to avert extraordinary calamities, at a time of urgent necessity when the Legislature cannot be convoked, the President, with the concurrence of the Council of State, may issue emergency ordinances having the force of law; but such ordinances shall be submitted to the Legislature for ratification at the beginning of its next session.\n\nShould the said emergency ordinances be rejected by the Legislature, they shall, thereafter, be null and void.\n\nArticle 21. The President shall prescribe and determine the organization of all offices and shall issue the regulations fixing the duties of officials. The President shall appoint and dismiss civil and military officers.\n\nArticle 22. The President shall declare war and conclude peace.\n\nArticle 23. The President is the Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy, and leads the land and sea forces of the Nation.\n\nThe President shall determine the organization and the strength of the Army and Navy.\n\nArticle 24. The President shall receive foreign ambassadors and ministers.\n\n511",
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        "content_text": "80\n\nArticle 35.-The Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Legislature shall be elected from and among the members by a majority of the votes cast.\n\nArticle 36.-Members of the Legislature shall not be held responsible outside of the House for their speeches, debates or for votes cast in the House.\n\nArticle 37.-Except when discovered in the commission of a crime, or when involved in crimes connected with internal or external troubles, no member of the Legislature shall be arrested during the session without the permission of the House.\n\nArticle 38.-The Legislature shall prescribe its own rules.\n\nCHAPTER 5.—THE ADMINISTRATION.\n\nArticle 39.-The President is the chief of the Administration and shall be assisted by one Secretary of State.\n\nArticle 40.-The affairs of Administration shall be separately conducted by the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Finance, War, the Navy, Justice, Education, Agriculture and Commerce and of Communications.\n\nArticle 41.-The Heads of the Departments shall manage the Administration of their respective Departments in accordance with laws and ordinances.\n\nArticle 42.-The Secretary of State, the Heads of the Departments, and Special Delegates, representing the President, shall be entitled to sit and speak in the Legislature.\n\nArticle 43.-The Secretary of State and the Heads of the Departments may be impeached by the Board of Censors and judged by the Ping Cheng Yuen should they violate the law.\n\nCHAPTER 6-THE COURTS OF LAW.\n\nArticle 44.-The Courts of Law shall be composed of the law officers appointed by the President.\n\nThe organization of the Courts of Law and the qualifications of the law officers shall be determined by statute.\n\n81\n\nArticle 45.-The Courts of Law, in accordance with the provisions of the statutes, shall try and judge independently, all civil and criminal cases. But administrative law proceedings and other special law proceedings, shall be tried and judged according to the law governing the same.\n\nArticle 46. The procedure of impeachment cases in the Supreme Court of Justice, as provided for under clause 9 of Article 31, shall be determined separately by statute.\n\nArticle 47-In the Courts of Law trials shall be conducted and judgment shall be rendered publicly. When, however, it is considered that publicity may be prejudicial to peace and order, or to public morality, secrecy may be observed.\n\nArticle 48.-During his term of office no law officer shall be reduced in salary, nor be transferred to another office, nor shall he be deprived of his office, except as a consequence of punishment according to statute, or of disciplinary measures entailing dismissal.\n\nRegulations governing the discipline of law officers shall be determined by statute.\n\nCHAPTER 7-THE COUNCIL OF STATE.\n\nArticle 49. The Council of State, when consulted by the President, shall deliberate upon important matters of state.\n\nThe organization of the Council of State shall be determined by the Constitutional Compact Conference.\n\nCHAPTER 8.-FINANCE.\n\nArticle 50.—The imposition of new taxes and the modification of the rates of the existing taxes shall be made by statute. The taxes levied at present shall, unless changed by statute, be collected as in the past.\n\nArticle 51.-The annual receipts and expenditures of the state shall be dealt with every year in accordance with the provisions of the estimates passed by the Legislature.\n\nP II\n\n513",
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        "content_text": "## Translation of Code Telegram\n\n**Governor, Hongkong, to Secretary of State**\n\nDate: 20th April, 1916\n\nMay I permit export of following:\n\n| Commodity | Quantity | Shipper | Consignee | Destination |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Peanut Oil | 21600 Pounds | Cheng To Chan | Ting Wo Tai | Benelulu |\n| Peanut Oil | 14400 | Tsui Cheong Loong | Tsui Cheng Ting | San Francisco |\n| Peanut Oil | 14400 | Kwong Iow Yuan | Mow Lee | San Francisco |\n| Peanut Oil | 36000 | Suen Cheung Tai | Chan Chong Tai | San Francisco |\n| Peanut Oil | 2900 | ... | Tong Cai Hip | Manila |\n| Peanut Oil | 1800 | Kwong Yuan | ... | ... |\n| Tallow | 60 tons | Tai Leong | ... | Cebu |\n| Tallow | ... | Kwong Hip Leong | Lee | Kwong Shun Cheung | Yokohama |\n| Cocos Nut Oil | 500 piculs | Tai Fung Wo | ... | Kobe |\n| Cocos Nut Oil | 500 | Tong Wah | ... | Yokohama |\n| ... | ... | Yu Vo Tai | ... | ... |\n| Nut Oil | 45 piculs | Sun Kwong On | ... | New York |\n| Nut Oil | 26 piculs | S. J. Tank | ... | Boston |\n\nOrigin of all: China. \n\n589 \n745",
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        "content_text": "## 4. Cost of Office\nAs the Survey Office forms part of the Public Works Department and is accommodated in the same building, the charges for numerous items such as lighting, heating, electric fans, etc., cannot be stated. Omitting these, the following is a statement of the cost:---\n\n| Item | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| Salaries | 67,215.44 |\n| Conveyance Allowance | 5,443.97 |\n| Wages for coolies | 6,078.65 |\n| Mounting Plans | 173.80 |\n| Drawing Materials | 680.79 |\n| Land Survey Contingencies | ... |\n| Transport & Travelling Expenses | 609.85 |\n| Survey of Colony | 3,164.95 |\n| Incidental Expenses | 244.97 |\n| Surveying Instruments | ... |\n| Furniture | 4.50 |\n| New Territories Village Survey (on contract) | 1,877.00 |\n| Total | 85,493.92 |\n\n## 5. Trigonometrical Survey\nThis work has been extended eastwards from Stanley to Wong Ma Kok, Loo Chau Island. D'Aguilar, Waglan, Tung Loong Island, High Junk Peak, and Hai Wan, 5 new stations have been erected and 6 Military Bench Marks utilized; altogether 14 stations were erected. The work was extended by series of interlacing polygons and closed with an angular error of 3\" on to the original work with excellent results, good weather being experienced the whole time and the area enclosed being about 32 square miles.\n\n## 6. Topographical and Cadastral Surveys\nAbout 123 miles of traverses have been run during the year and traverse stations permanently marked on the ground. The same trouble occurred as formerly with regard to stations either being lost or removed, necessitating extra work. Steps are now being taken to eliminate this mischief by a system of more permanent marks at intervals in the more important traverses.\n\nThe Ordnance Survey of the Colony has been steadily pushed forward, 55 acres in Central District, 17 acres in Western District and 2 acres in Eastern District being completed and plotted.\n\nAn area of about 55 acres was surveyed and plotted in the Peak District to a scale of 50'=1\", which completes the survey. Steps are now being taken to reduce this to 200'=1\" and the new map should be ready for printing in about six or eight months.\n\nSurveys of Shaukiwan District, containing about 42 acres, and Aberdeen Village, containing about 27 acres, were completed.\n\nThe cost for this item is not available, this being a Departmental General Account.\n\n-7-\n\nThe Survey of Kowloon (50'=1\") is completed and is being revised as development progresses. This survey has been reduced to 200' 1\" and inked in, but, as it is desirable that a portion of New Kowloon including Kowloon City and Shamshuipo (where large developments are now taking place) should be included in the new map, it will probably not be ready for reproduction for another six months.\n\nA survey was made of Signal Hill and surrounding lots, containing an area of about 10 acres, to define War Department boundaries. Surveys were also made of 9 lots of land in Hongkong and Kowloon covering an area of 152,673 square feet, which were put up to public auction and realised $30,565 in premium and $996 in Crown Rent.\n\nOne surveyor was stationed permanently in the New Territories during the year and a temporary surveyor was employed on contract during a considerable portion of the year to continue the surveys of villages in the New Territories.\n\nThe following villages in the New Territories, containing 5,875 houses, were surveyed and plotted during the year, viz.: Yeung Kong Wai, Sun Hang Wai, Shek Kong Tsun, Tung Tau, Lung Uk Tsun, Shek Kong Wai, Ki Hang Tsun, Ha Tsun, Sheung Cheung Wai, Ping Shan Tsai, Ping Shan, Tong Fong, Shan Cheung, Hiong Yuen, Shui Tau, Wing Hung Wai, Shui Tan, San Tsui, Tam Shui Hang, Kong Ha, Wai Tsai, San Tsun, Tong To Tsun, U Shek Kok, Lek Mei, Im Tso Ha, Shek Kiu Tau, Ho Wo Hang, Au Ha, Nam Chung Cheng, Nga Iu Tau, Ma Tseuk Ling, Tai Long, Tui Hang, Sheung Wo Hang, Leuk Kong, Sheuk Pan Tau, Kui Kuk Shui, Ho Lek Pai, Nam Hang Mei, Lo Tung Tsui, Mau Uk Pin, Ma Mi Hang, Hok Tau, Tam Chuk Hang, Hok Tau Pui, Leng Pei, San Wai, San Uk Tsai, Ma Mi Ha, Leng Tsai, Kwai Tsu Ling, San Tong Po, San Shui Hang, Kau Po, Tam Chuk Hang, San Uk Tsai, Hok Tau Pui, Kau Tau, Hok Tau, Ha Heung Un Tsun, Tsung Un Ha Tsun, Heung Un, Chuk Un Tsun, Li Uk Tsun, Feung Wong U, San Uk Ling, Nga Tu Ha, Ping Yen, Wa Kang Shan, and Kau Tau Wai.\n\nIn addition to the Villages enumerated, numerous minor surveys required by the District Officer, North, were prepared. Surveys were also made of the light railway from Au Ha to Sha Tau Kok, of the main road from Taipo to Fanling, of about 150 acres of orchards at Fanling, and of Taipo Market, the European Reservation, etc.\n\n## 7. Maps published\nThe revised 2\" map of Hongkong and New Territories arrived from England during the year. No new maps were published.\n\n## 8. Miscellaneous Matters\nThe following maps and plans were prepared for official use during the year:- 182 lease plans (in triplicate), 11 sale plans (in duplicate), 496 tracings, and 2,028 sunprints in connection with proposed sales, permits, etc., whilst 1,015 permits for temporary occupation of Crown Land and 66 licences for temporary piers and slipways were issued.\n\nSee Plan (4). \nSee Plan (2). \nSee Plan (1). \nSee Plan (3) \n401",
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        "content_text": "406\n\nSee Plan (4).\n\nSee Plan (2).\n\nSee Plan (1).\n\n6\n\n4. Cost of Office. As the Survey Office forms part of the Public Works Department and is accommodated in the same building, the charges for numerous items such as lighting, heating, electric fans, etc., cannot be stated. Omitting these, the following is a statement of the cost:\n\n| Item | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| Salaries | $ 67,215.44 |\n| Conveyance Allowance | 5,443.97 |\n| Wages for coolies | 6,078.65 |\n| Mounting Plans | 173.80 |\n| Drawing Materials | 680.79 |\n| Land Survey Contingencies | ... |\n| Transport & Travelling Expenses | 609.85 |\n| Survey of Colony | 3,164.95 |\n| Incidental Expenses | 244.97 |\n| Surveying Instruments | 4.50 |\n| Furniture (on contract) | 1,877.00 |\n| Total | $ 85,493.92 |\n\nNew Territories Village Survey (on contract)\n\n5. Trigonometrical Survey.-This work has been extended eastwards from Stanley to Wong Ma Kok, Loo Chau Island, D'Aguilar, Waglan, Tung Loong Island, High Junk Peak, and Hai Wan. 5 new stations have been erected and 6 Military Bench Marks utilized; altogether 14 stations were used. The work was extended by a series of interlacing polygons and closed with an angular error of 3\" on to the original work with excellent results, good weather being experienced the whole time and the area enclosed being about 32 square miles.\n\n6. Topographical and Cadastral Surveys.--About 123 miles of traverses have been run during the year and traverse stations permanently marked on the ground. The same trouble occurred as formerly with regard to stations either being lost or removed, necessitating extra work. Steps are now being taken to eliminate this mischief by a system of more permanent marks at intervals in the more important traverses.\n\nThe Ordnance Survey of the Colony has been steadily pushed forward; 55 acres in Central District, 17 acres in Western District, and 2 acres in Eastern District being completed and plotted.\n\nAn area of about 55 acres was surveyed and plotted in the Peak District to a scale of 50'-1\", which completes the survey. Steps are now being taken to reduce this to 200'=1\" and the new map should be ready for printing in about six or eight months.\n\nSurveys of Shaukiwan District, containing about 42 acres, and Aberdeen Village, containing about 27 acres, were completed.\n\n*The cost for this item is not available, this being a Departmental General Account.\n\nThe Survey of Kowloon (50'=1\") is completed and is being revised as development progresses. This survey has been reduced to 200' 1\" and inked in, but, as it is desirable that a portion of New Kowloon including Kowloon City and Shamshuipo (where large developments are now taking place) should be included in the new map, it will probably not be ready for reproduction for another six months.\n\nA survey was made of Signal Hill and surrounding lots, containing an area of about 10 acres, to define War Department boundaries. Surveys were also made of 9 lots of land in Hongkong and Kowloon covering an area of 152,673 square feet, which were put up to public auction and realised $30,565 in premium and $996 in Crown Rent.\n\nOne surveyor was stationed permanently in the New Territories during the year, and a temporary surveyor was employed on contract during a considerable portion of the year to continue the surveys of villages in the New Territories.\n\nThe following villages in the New Territories, containing 5,875 houses, were surveyed and plotted during the year, viz.: Yeung Kong Wai, Sun Hang Wai, Shek Kong Tsun, Tung Tau, Lung Uk Tsun, Shek Kong Wai, Ki Hang Tsun, Ha Tsun, Sheung Cheung Wai, Ping Shan Tsai, Ping Shan, Tong Fong, Shan Cheung, Hiong Yuen, Shui Tau, Wing Hung Wai, Shui Tan, San Tsui, Tam Shui Hang, Kong Ha, Wai Tsai, San Tsun, Tong To Tsun, U Shek Kok, Lek Mei, Im Tso Ha, Shek Kiu Tau, Ho Wo Hang, Au Ha, Nam Chung Cheng, Nga Iu Tau, Ma Tseuk Ling, Tai Long, Tai Hang, Sheung Wo Hang, Leuk Kong, Sheuk Pan Tau, Kui Kuk Shui, Ho Lek Pai, Nam Hang Mei, Lo Tung Tsui, Mau Uk Pin, Ma Mi Hang, Hok Tau, Tam Chuk Hang, Hok Tau Pui, Leng Pei, San Wai, San Uk Tsai, Ma Mi Ha, Leng Tsai, Kwai Tsu Ling, San Tong Po, San Shui Hang, Kau Po, Tam Chuk Hang, San Uk Tsai, Hok Tau Pui, Kau Tau, Hok Tau, Ha Heung Un Tsun, Tsung Un Ha Tsun, Heung Un, Chuk Un Tsun, Li Uk Tsun, Feung Wong U, San Uk Ling, Nga Tu Ha, Ping Yen, Wa Kang Shan, and Kau Tau Wai.\n\nIn addition to the villages enumerated, numerous minor surveys required by the District Officer, North, were prepared. Surveys were also made of the light railway from Au Ha to Sha Tau Kok, of the main road from Taipo to Fanling, of about 150 acres of orchards at Fanling, and of Taipo Market, the European Reservation, etc.\n\n7. Maps published. The revised 2\" map of Hongkong and New Territories arrived from England during the year.\n\nNo new maps were published.\n\n8. Miscellaneous Matters.--The following maps and plans were prepared for official use during the year: 182 lease plans (in triplicate), 11 sale plans (in duplicate), 496 tracings, and 2,028 sunprints in connection with proposed sales, permits, etc., whilst 1,015 permits for temporary occupation of Crown Land and 66 licences for temporary piers and slipways were issued.\n\nSee Plan (8)",
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        "content_text": "## CHUKIANG\nC.O. NO 49\n\nQ R  \nCANTON  \nRIVER  \n\n*Sa-triani  \n*Fuk-yun  \n\nFOR CORRECTION AND RETURN IN ADVANCE OF ANNUAL REPORT fee Circular of 4th February, 1915.\n\nHONG-KONG, KOWLOON AND ADJACENT TERRITORIES.\n\n| Location        |              |\n| --------------- | ------------ |\n| Piang-ti        | o Tri-Tong-tu |\n| Ten-tou         | Shak-ky      |\n| Liong-tu-ho     | Lung-kong    |\n| Tong-lak        | Hain-hi      |\n| Kon-lan         | Wu-shak-ngam |\n| Shak-kong       | Ghong-hang-kang |\n| A po ki         | Long-hau     |\n| Tong hang       | Hsin-hi      |\n| Lung-f          | Yong-tai-chan |\n| Wang-kong-e     | Pan-ten      |\n| Li-long         | Taiwo-chun   |\n|                 | Pak-sbak-lung |\n| Pu-kak          | Mai-lim      |\n|                 | Shong-tung   |\n| Keichung        | Tong-poi     |\n|                 | Pa-kong-o    |\n| Tizam-kni       | Sa-ng-chung  |\n| Wong-muo        | Tipfuk       |\n| Hasha           | Pong-share   |\n|                 | Pitch        |\n| Namo            | Mire P       |\n| Ha-toai         | Sai-Heung    |\n| Ping Cheng      | Lan-tongo    |\n| Lofong (SUN-ON) | Sam-chun     |\n| Lungtaubhy      | Tai-zan      |\n| Sha-tau         | Ma-chau      |\n| Kwaimiso        | Wan-had      |\n| Chak-wan        |              |\n\n## DEEP BAY OR HAU-HO!\n| Location   |         |\n| ---------- | ------- |\n| San-tta    | Shear   |\n| Sha-tao    | Yam-ten |\n| Kat-o      | Crooked |\n| Song-chau  | Sha-tau-kak |\n|            | Crescent |\n| Wo-hang    | Bluff Hd |\n| Wang-ling-tau | shai-wan-tau |\n| Lim-chun   | Kam-tin  |\n| Un-m       | Lin-tin  |\n| Farshui-hung | Chin-shan |\n|            | Shui-leu |\n| Tai-mo-shan | Lok Lo Ha |\n| Pet-long   | Nam.long  |\n| Tai-thui-hàng | Pet-kong |\n| Sai-kung   | Vaca-tac&M |\n| Lung       | Se-chau  |\n|            | Tai-lan-chung |\n| Ma-W       | Tain-wan  |\n| Shatip     | Chung    |\n| Chu-lu-kok | Island   |\n| Kau-lung-  | KOWE     |\n\n## KOWLOON\n| Location        |              |\n| --------------- | ------------ |\n| Sham Shui Po     | Mongok       |\n| Stonecutter      | au           |\n| Lai-Chi-Kok     |              |\n\n## TOLO HARBOUR\n| Location    |              |\n| ----------- | ------------ |\n| Plover Cove | Tin-kokt     |\n| Shon-wan    | TOLO         |\n|             | HARBOUR      |\n| White       | Tolo Channel |\n| Tam-teain   | Ko-tongo     |\n| Grass       | Tap-mun      |\n| Tan-ka-wal  | Tai-long     |\n| Chak-kang   | Shak-hang    |\n| Heiwang     | PChin-hang   |\n| Fung Head   | Fung Bay     |\n| Lan-nai-wart | Ping Pt      |\n| She-wan     | Shelter      |\n| High        | Town I.      |\n| Tai-pu-tonio | Cheung Kwan O |\n| Ping-ong-war | Baskit       |\n| Tung-chung  |              |\n\n## LAN-TAO (TALU SHAN)\n| Location   |              |\n| ---------- | ------------ |\n| Silver     | LANTISM.     |\n| & Kow-Chad | Ghay-kung    |\n| HONGire    | She          |\n| Teni Kandy | YONG         |\n| SiPing-chau | Green Im     |\n\n## VICTORIA\n| Location    |              |\n| ----------- | ------------ |\n| Hau L5      | Ha-yong      |\n| Poldalon    | Shin-pat     |\n| Tai-ku-thau | Aberdeen     |\n| HONG-KONG   | si......D}    |\n| Aplishack   | Ninepi       |\n| Gro         | Lam-tong I   |\n| Ta-tong     |              |\n| Chsung-Chau | Siu-A-Chau   |\n| Tai-A-Chau  | Lap-sap-mi   |\n|             | Tai-wen?     |\n| Lamma (Pok-Liu | Oshik-ku-wan |\n|             | Tai-long     |\n| Hond        | Agullar)     |\n| Wang-ma-kol | Fury Rocks   |\n| Chan        | to-chau      |\n| Pu-toi      | Wag-lar      |\n| Sun-kong    | Lighthouse P |\n\n## LEMA\n29'0 M. LAT.  \nCHANNEL  \n114′20′′E_LONG_OF_GREENWICH\n\n## NOTE\n| Description                         | \n| ----------------------------------- |\n| Territory under Convention of 1860  |\n| Boundary under Convention 1898-     |\n| English Miten (11)                  |\n| Ordnance Survey Office.Southampton, 1915. |",
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        "content_text": "# CHUKIANG OR CANTON RIVER\nC.O.N° 49.\n\n## FOR CORRECTION AND RETURN\nIN ADVANCE OF ANNUAL REPORT  \nCircular of 4th February, 1915.\n\n### HONG-KONG, KOWLOON AND ADJACENT TERRITORIES.\n\n114\n\n| Place Names          | \n|---------------------|\n| Piang-ti            |\n| Shak-kai            |\n| TUNGK' WAN          |\n| Liong-tu-ho         |\n| Lung-kong           |\n| Tong-lak            |\n| Hain-hi             |\n| Sa-talang           |\n| Vo Tai-Tong-tu      |\n| KUI                 |\n| Wu-shak-ngam        |\n| Shak-kong           |\n| 7S HAN              |\n| T'en-tau            |\n| Tong-poi            |\n| BIAS                |\n| Chong-hang-kang     |\n| Fuk-yun             |\n| A po-kai            |\n| Long-hey            |\n| Lung-fa             |\n| Hip-hi              |\n| Yong-tai-shan       |\n| Wang-kong           |\n| Pan-tem             |\n| Li-Iong             |\n| Tai-mo-chun         |\n| Ma                  |\n| Pak-abak-lung       |\n| Pu-kak              |\n| Sai-Houng           |\n| NAM-TAO             |\n| Mai-lim             |\n| M 1                 |\n| Ki-chun             |\n| Shong-tung          |\n| Keichung            |\n| Sa-ng-chung         |\n| TAI-PUNG-SAN        |\n| Sha-tac             |\n| Yam-ten             |\n| Wong-muo            |\n| Tipfuk              |\n| Pa-kong             |\n| Tieum-kai           |\n| Ha-trai             |\n| TAI-CHAM BAY        |\n| Ping Chang          |\n| Tai-san             |\n| Kwaimiao            |\n| Ma-shau             |\n| Wan-had             |\n| HSIN NGAN           |\n| Len-tong            |\n| Lofong              |\n| (SUN-QN)            |\n| Sam-chun            |\n| Lungtsui            |\n| Kato                |\n| Crooked I.          |\n| Sha-tau             |\n| Chak-wan            |\n| DEEP BAY OR HAU-HOI |\n| Shukwan tou         |\n| k-yan               |\n| Lim-chun            |\n| LOON                |\n| Kam-tin             |\n| Un-iu               |\n| She teu-kok         |\n| Song-chau           |\n| Crescent I.         |\n| Kuk-p               |\n| Harbour             |\n| Wo-hang             |\n| Bluff Hd            |\n| Wang-ling-tau       |\n| Tin-koko            |\n| Shon-wan            |\n| AV                  |\n| No                  |\n| Hash                |\n| Pang-ohav           |\n| Namo                |\n| Pit-chau            |\n| Plover Cove         |\n| TOLO HARBOUR        |\n| Whity               |\n| Tolo Channel        |\n| Port Island         |\n| Grass I.            |\n| Tap-mun             |\n| Tan-ka-wen          |\n| Mirs P              |\n| Kak-ten             |\n| Samun               |\n| Lin-tin             |\n| Tai-ahui            |\n| Shui-lou            |\n| Ko-tong             |\n| Chak-Hang           |\n| Shak-hang           |\n| Taishui-hang        |\n| Pet-kong            |\n| Tai-long            |\n| Haiwan              |\n| PChin-hang          |\n| Fung Head           |\n| Fung Bay            |\n| Stan-nai-wan        |\n| Ping Pt             |\n| Tylo                |\n| Lung-ku             |\n| Chin-shan           |\n| Pot-long            |\n| Nam-long            |\n| Sa-shau             |\n| Tui-lam-chung       |\n| Ma-war              |\n| CNT-hue             |\n| Chung               |\n| Tai-mo-shan         |\n| Tain-wan            |\n| Lok Lo H            |\n| Lai Chi Kok         |\n| Kau                 |\n| Sham-Shui-Po        |\n| Stogepu             |\n| Teland              |\n| Ping-chau           |\n| Green               |\n| Silver Mina         |\n| Tai-zu-chau         |\n| Shatig              |\n| Jung th             |\n| ROAD                |\n| Sai-kung            |\n| Yam-tas             |\n| Jak-e wand          |\n| She wa              |\n| High                |\n| KOWLOON             |\n| Shelter             |\n| Tai-pu-tsai         |\n| -Hwan-0.            |\n| Che                 |\n| -Ping-ong-wan       |\n| Town I.             |\n| A                   |\n| Beseit I.           |\n| tong                |\n| Junk Bay            |\n| He-yong             |\n| Chau                |\n| Yau!! 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        "content_text": "## 1915\n\nTaikoo Dockyard and Eng. Co., Ld...... 3 vessels of 2,780 gross tons and 1,400 I.H.P.\nHongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. | 2,488 | 3,240\nMacdonald & Co., .... | 33 | 30\nKwong Fook Cheong, | 30 | 70\nAh King. | 12 | 197\n\nTotal... 23 vessels of 5,361 gross tons and 4,909 I.H.P.\n\n## 1914\n\nTaikoo Dockyard and Eng. Co., Ld.............. 4 vessels of 7,166 gross tons and 4,970 I.H.P.\nHongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. | 12 | 11\nW. S. Bailey & Co., ... | 150 | 3,172\nMacdonald & Co..... | 42 | 1,264\nTung Hing Long... | 70 | 4,810\nD | 1 | 1,031\nKwong Tuck Cheng, | 140 | 700\nKwong Yip Lung Co., Ld., Kwong Lee, | 28 | 557\nKwong Sing Loong,.......... | 3 | 135\nKwong Hop Loong. | 210 | 1,450\nAh King... | 34 | 1,200\nH | 59 | 280\n\nTotal, 59 vessels of 13,420 gross tons and 14,345 I.H.P.\n\nThe large decrease in the gross tonnage is due to the war, but it will be noticed that there is a small increase in the average tonnage of the vessels constructed from 224 to 233 tons each.\n\nSugar Refineries.—The year 1915 was one of very high prices throughout, governed by the inflated level of raws. Consumption of refined sugar in consequence was naturally restricted, particularly in the China markets where substantial reductions were found necessary towards the end of the year. Japanese and Java competition was experienced, but not quite so acutely as formerly, total imports from Java showing a marked falling off.\n\nIt may be noted that, during the latter half of the year, the local Refineries took a larger share than usual in supplying British India and Persian Gulf markets with the highest quality of refined crystals.\n\nCotton Spinning.—For the reasons stated in last year's report, the machinery of the local mill has now all been transferred to Shanghai, where the business is making satisfactory progress under the better cotton spinning conditions that apply there.\n\nAs regards Cotton Yarn, though marked by violent fluctuations in prices, the year was a fairly profitable one, both to foreign importers and to native dealers. At the close of last year the market was bad with the majority of the native dealers. As the Chinese New Year approached, however, matters improved owing to arrangements with importers which contributed in no small degree to the more sound trade conditions which obtained during the rest of the year.\n\nBelow is appended a table of Arrivals, Sales, and Deliveries which shows that while the sales for the current year are about the same as those of 1914, the deliveries show an encouraging improvement :-\n\n| Arrivals | Sales | Deliveries | Comparative prices |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 108,000 | 159,000 | 105,000 | $90-$105 |\n|  |  | 177,000 | $115-$130 |\n\nA special feature of the year just closing is that Japanese yarn No. 20 has entirely driven out this count of Bombay yarn from the local market, so much so that during the past three months not a single bale of Indian 20 has been negotiated in the local market.\n\nRope.—Fair prices and a brisk demand have been the features of this market for the greater part of 1915 but latterly values of Manila hemp have risen rapidly and by the end of the year showed an advance of about 20 per cent. all round.\n\nPrices of cordage have advanced in unison but it is feared that the increased cost will result in a reduced demand and a smaller business in the coming year.\n\nCement.—There was a good demand throughout the year and had it been possible to obtain the usual supplies of limestone from Canton a much larger business could have been done. Prices have been well maintained in spite of the competition of inferior brands but export business has been greatly handicapped by scarcity of tonnage and high rates of freight. A large demand arose from Australia, owing no doubt to German supplies being cut off, but the business seems to have been overdone and collapsed very quickly.\n\n**(ii.)—Under Chinese Management**\n\nTin.—There are only five refineries operating. Imports from Yunnan amounted to about 7,000 tons and from Kwangsi to about 1,000 tons.\n\nOne thousand (1,000) tons were exported to Japan, 800 tons to Shanghai, and 5,700 tons to Europe and America.\n\nThere was also a small export business done with China Coast Ports.\n\nRattan and Fibre Furniture.—The business in chair export has declined about 50 per cent. in comparison with the preceding year on account of the war and high rates of freight. Business in sea grass and hemp has also fallen off considerably.\n\nNative Tobacco.—The output for the year under review has been well maintained and its use for the manufacture of cigarettes has increased by about 30 per cent.\n\nTinned Goods.—The market has been less active and business has fallen off 20 per cent. in comparison with the preceding year.\n\nSamsui.—The Superintendent of Imports and Exports reports that considerable increase as compared with the second half of last year has taken place in local production, while imports for local consumption have slightly declined.\n\nVinegar.—The business has remained the same as in the preceding year.\n\nPage 424",
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        "content_text": "## \n29\n\nI have the honour to report that the recent unfortunate occurrences at Shaechou have had a prejudicial effect.\n\n(odreQ .8101 .DiSS sout .1 4 0 U •ASI : wox to Jalesen adt egbelwondos ot wonen edit evad I Jostdue eft no etab e'yabzetaey to IOI .oN dojeqaab ■'yoneIIeozë -actamo eft no mtand waaïque na to imenižanch Jasoen add to •y@xilat moofwel leet tog ob I daft atade od evaal ged bluow I ɣiqes mä tosaeng and medalnik a'ytestak all cò golünemover at bei7ijaut edit not yoxalleoxd woX yd betaalbol «qədə əcid to meltyobe .8x09807 zalwollo% \n\n1 ja dwo batatoq need sad na (sidantsebnu od bluow #I (1) boog tuoddiw nofdmovietal io siqueza me jen od endonut alia .awode galed enwao tmelolitwa bas batreono to blumen wit toa zav dnemillaseb sdt (8) yðslan eɗð beoanem salt ano te sa down anoštanaqo yzstilla .enti eds to 101 odw ebaagind to gasg a yď two beruso saw *I (8) BAT égarduo edt nteredw moltoës edð baðasini avad taaq addnom evad of tiguo sonivo79 edt 10 zouzevod adł modiw bra bestimmoo ed,agotozaw betaegan to eitqe ot JST voga zool awob betaud 4 nadto of betudiniis ad ct vidamwaang at on ob od ballST .moijaujia Isolatiog Larsnog add to two gaiatza enoldæquoo0@nq oljegzana tud betalad galdad wou et goud Isteneú (+) emoojue edit tlamod relay bluodɑ I bas «polaaənqan to sewRSGE -Townaco .\n\nyllancaneq miri bied avati i (518x2 Sŋa woy ak (a) srið tærð Sidianoq ai ji boe (@nob #gamsb edi rot eidianoqaer evidajmsaazgen nietit toundent yaN İNƏKNISVOû netztë bettav .anasidio aludt to edo to diaeb add not noidaanegmoɔ mielo of antot \"wonco zejzlaik n'yðastaa ali binoda «èneve na dows al boog a svad pintadreo bluow doldu „bentoneze ed hluco envzaenq \n\n(6) The copy of the despatch addressed by Sir John Jordan to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on June 3rd, in your possession, foreshadows a complete reorganization of the management of the Chinese section, whereunder it will be possible, doubtless, to arrange for a revised system of Police and general patrol.\n\n(7) Had it not been for the recent unfortunate occurrences at Shaechou, there was every reason to anticipate an early restoration of order in the province, and such may even yet be attained at no remote date.\n\nI am of course submitting the above considerations to His Majesty's Minister, and I venture to hope that for the time being they will not fail to commend themselves to Your Excellency.\n\nP.S.\n\nI have &c.,\n(sd.) J. W. Jamieson,\nConsul General.\n\nI have just received a letter from General Lung throwing the blame for the recent accident on the Managing Director, Won To Chang. He informs me that he has telegraphed to the Board of Communications to have Mr. Wang removed and that he has appointed as his successor Mr. Lu Jung-yao.\n\nHis Excellency\nSir Henry May, K.C.M.G.,\n&c., &c.,\nGovernor & Commander-in-Chief,\nHong Kong.",
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        "content_text": "## Translation of Cüm Telegram\nfrom **GOVERNOR, HONGKONG**, \n**SECRETARY OF STATE**.\n\nDate: 27th September, 1916.\n\nPage 362\n\nPermission is granted for export of Singapore Pepper:\n- Lee Yuen Cheong: 60 piculs to Yichang, Fook Yuan Loong, Yen Shun & Co.\n- Yo Kee: 162 piculs to Tat Cheong, Yuen Loong & Co., Newchwang\n- Lem Hing Kee: 12 piculs to Tai Too, Poochow\n- Kin Yuen Long: 60 piculs to Hang Sing Chan, Taingtau\n- Tu Cheong To: 240 piculs to Newchwang\n- Kung Ho Cheng: 120 piculs to Ving Ha, Nosobwana.\n\nMAY.",
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        "content_text": "## Translation of CODE Telegram\n**GOVERNOR, HONGKONG**\n\n.state to VIAJSIDEB \n\nOT \n\nTo \n**SECRETARY OF STATE**\n\nDate \n18th October, 1916.\n\nMay I permit export of 18,000 lbs. Singapore Pepper Kwong Yuen Wing to Po Lung, Callao; \n65 piculs Kwong Yue Wo to Kwong Yue Wo, Shanghai, \n130 Kung Yue, Tientsin, \n65 Kwong Shing Loong, Chinkiang, \n240 Yee Tai Hong to Tee Shun Wah, \n300 Kin Shun Hui, \n240 Yee Hing Chang, New-chwang, \n300 Yee Chang, \n240 Tung Yick, Dairen, \n360 Yung Shun Woo, \n120 Yee Chang, Chefoo, \n120 Tee Tai, Tientsin.",
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        "content_text": "# Translation of CODE Telegram \n## 908 \n### From OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT, HONGKONG. \n#### To SECRETARY OF STATE. \n##### Date 8th November, 1916. \n\n66 \n\nMay I permit export of 500 piculs Singapore Pepper Shun Shing, Dairen, 600 each Van Hing Lee, Wing Wo Hing, Tung Chui Wo, Kung Lo Ching, Fu Chang Wo, Newchwang, 64 Tai Fung Yo, Kobe.\n\n**SEVERN**",
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        "content_text": "# No. 159\n\n**Consul-General, Canton to Chargé d'Affaires, Peking.**\n\nCopies to Yunnanfu, Hongkong\n\nSir,\n\n299 **H. B. M. Consulate-General, Canton, November 20th, 1916.**\n\nI have the honour to report that General Lung reached the island of Hainan a few days ago. He declined a passage by a Government vessel, embarking at Hongkong on board a merchant steamer.\n\nThe number of troops which he was officially permitted to take with him was fixed at 8,000, but on the pretext that, were his soldiers to be disbanded locally, collisions might occur between them and the later arrivals, he is understood to have a considerably larger force at his disposal. Arrangements for transport were made by Admiral Sa, who also despatched a small cruiser to patrol off the Leichou peninsula with a view to intercepting the illicit importation of arms.\n\nThe latter officer has been occupied in the ungrateful task of composing differences between the various rulers, self-appointed and others, of this province, and is anxious to depart.\n\nChu Ch'ing-lam, the Civil Governor, is a clever, energetic man with ambitions, which constantly find themselves thwarted by his colleague Lu Jung-t'ing, the Tuchun. It is also rumoured that the ex-Civil Governor Chang Wing-ch'1 is intriguing to recover his old post, and another candidate therefore is Ch'en Chiung-ming, a Cantonese, at one time Tutu. General Lu is a decrepit and ignorant individual, enjoying a high reputation and commanding a numerous following, on what grounds it would appear impossible to determine. One redeeming feature of his regime is the strict control which he exercises over his subordinate officers. The difficulty which they experience in endeavouring...",
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        "content_text": "## HONGKONG UNIVERSITY, FIRST DEGREES CONFERRED. SPEECHES BY CHANCELLOR AND VICE-CHANCELLOR.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1916.\n\nMUNIFICENT GIFT FROM MR. HO FOOK.\n\nYesterday marked the first ceremony of conferring degrees in the Hongkong University, which was opened on March 15, 1912, by H. E. Sir Frederick J. D. Lugard, then Governor of Hongkong.\n\nThe proceedings opened by the singing of the University Anthem, the words of which were composed by Mr Cecil Clementi, and the music by Mr Danman Fuller.\n\nThe Vice-Chancellor explained that degrees had been conferred in China for many ages, probably more than in Europe but so far as he knew there had never been in China anything in the way of a degree conferring ceremony. It was a long standing custom in English Universities and it was done to give some formal recognition that a student had attained the honours of his college.\n\nThe University was incorporated under Ordinance in March, 1911. The scheme was first mooted in 1905 but remained still a scheme until in 1910 the foundation stone was laid. In 1907 the late Sir H. N. Mody made an offer to erect the necessary buildings at a cost of $150,000 and to give $30,000 towards an endowment fund.\n\nThe Vice-Chancellor said that the sum of $100,000 was fixed upon as the minimum, and its collection was practically assured by the magnificent donation of $40,000 by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and allied Firms.\n\n| Faculty | Degree | Recipient |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Medicine | M.B., B.S. | Chak Chiu Hang, 1914; Chan Ju Choo; Chau Wai Cheung, 1916; Lim Soon Kian, 1916; Teh Lean Swee; Tech Cheng Toe; Wong Hing Chuen, 1916 |\n| Engineering | B.Sc.(Eng.) | Chan Kang Yue; Chau Siu Ki; Ho Wing Kin; Lam Tung; Leung Nai Hang; Li King Hong; Li Tsok Lan; Ling Man Lai; Tang Ying Lam; Teh Wing Lok; Wine Han, 1916; Wong Tai Cho, 1916 |\n| Arts | B.A. | 11 graduates in 1915; 41 graduates in 1916 |\n\nThe following gentlemen were then presented to H. E. the Chancellor by Sir Charles, who explained the particular services for which the recipients were receiving honorary degrees:\n\n* M. Finot, Director of the French Institution in Hanoi\n* Sir Robert Ho Tung\n* Captain Pelliot\n* Dr. Jeme Tien-yow\n* Dr. Wu Lien Teh\n\nH. E. the Chancellor then declared the Congregation closed.\n\nPage 450\nPage 451",
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        "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 DECEMBER, 1915.\n## 12814\n\nArthur & Co. Limited.\nArts & Crafts Limited.\nAshton & Co. Limited (Enticknap, P.).\nAsiatic Petroleum Company.\nAster House Hotel Company, Shanghai, Tien-tsin.\nAt Chi, Shanghai.\nAtkinson & Dallas Limited.\nAu Petit Louvre (Maison Parisienne).\nAudinet, Lacroix, & Co.\nAudinet, Lacroix, Pasquier, et Cie.\nAustralian Dairy Farm.\nAustralian Produce Company.\nAyer Tawah Company Limited, Shanghai.\nAzadian.\n\nBabcock & Wilcox Limited.\nBailey, H. G. C.\nBakels & Co.\nBaldwin, C. C.\nBan Lam Drug Stores, Amoy.\nBanham, F. C.\nBanker & Co.\nBanque belge pour l'Etranger.\nBanque de l'Indo-Chine.\nBanque industrielle de Chine,\nBansuiken, Shanghai.\nBarkley Company.\nBarlow & Co.\nBarrett, E. G.\nBarry & Co., B. M.\nBathgate & Co.\nBatu Anam Rubber Company.\nBeck, I.\nBeck, M. G.\nBelgian Brick Factory, Tien-tsin.\nBelgian Trading Company,\nBell, D. W.\nBell, H. F. L.\nBen & Co.\nBen Albert & Co.\nBenjamin & Potts.\nBeque, Henri.\nBergman, Edward.\nBielfield, Alex., & Co.\nBissett, J. P., & Co.\nBlack, J. F.\nBlake, F. A., & Sons.\nBlanche, Charles.\nBo Won, Canton.\nBona, F.\nBouchard.\nBourgery, C.\nBow On Drug Company, Canton.\nBowern & Co. (Bowern & Hay).\nBoyd & Co.\nBoyer, Mazet & Co.\nBoyes, Bassett, & Co.\nBradford Dyers' Association.\nBradley & Co. Limited.\nBrand Brothers & Co.\nBrand, H. B., & Co.\nBrandt, A. L.\nBrandt & Co.\nBrandt & Rodgers.\nBrangwyn & Hobson, Drs.\nBrent, A. D.\nBrewer & Co. Limited,\nBridges, H.\nBritish-American Tobacco Company, Limited.\nBritish and Chinese Corporation.\nBritish Cigarette Company Limited.\nBritish Dominions General Insurance Company.\nBritish and Foreign Bible Society.\nBritish Insulated and Helsby Company Limited.\nBritish Manufacturers' Agency (Wong Chuen Yung),\nBrockett & Co.\nBrockett, E., & Co.\nBrook, E., & Co.\nBrossay, René.\nBrunner, Mond, & Co. Limited.\nBrush Electrical Engineering Company.\nBryant & Ryde.\nBalin & Co., Hankow,\nBurin, Yoko.\nBurkhardt, L. R.\nBurkill, A. R., & Sons.\nBurroughs, Wellcome, & Co.\nBurtenshaw & Co.\nButler, A.\nButterfield & Swire.\n\nCabeldu, A., & Co.\nCaissial,\nCaldbeck, MacGregor.\nCalder, Marshall, & Co.\nCalico Printers' Association.\nCamera Craft Company.\nCampbell, Alex., & Co.\nCanadian Commissioner.\nCanadian Methodist Mission Press.\nCanadian Pacific Railway Company.\nCanton Insurance Company.\n\nCarr, Ramsey, T., & Co.\nCastellano,\nCathay Trust.\nCatoire Veuve, A., et Fils.\nCattaneo (Catanneo), Peking.\nCattaneo, P., & Co., Peking.\nCawasjee Pallanjee, Shanghai.\nCement Tile Works Limited.\nCentral Agency Limited.\nCentral China Dispensary.\nCentral China Import Company.\nCentral China Post.\n\nCentral China Printing Company, Hankow.\nCentral Garage Limited.\nCentral Stores Limited.\nCentral Trading Company.\nCercle sportif français.\nChang Dah Yuen.\nChang, T. S.\nChapeaux.\nCharrey,\nCharrey et Conversy.\nChartered Bank of India, Australia, and China.\nChauvin, Mme.\nChefoo Hairnet Company.\nChefoo Hairnet Manufactory.\nChemor United Rubber Company Limited.\nChempedak Rubber & Gambier Estate Company.\nCheng Rubber Estate.\nChie Parisien.\nChin Ho Hsiang.\nChina Agents Company.\nChina American Lumber Company.\nChina American Trading Company.\nChina Commercial Steam Navigation Company.\nChina Engineering Company.\nChina Fire Insurance Company.\nChina Flour Mill Company Limited.\nChina Import & Export Lumber Company Limited.\nChina Inland Mission.\nChina & Japan Trading Company.\nChina Land & Building Company Limited.\nChina Land & Finance Company Limited.\n\n## 12815\n\nChina Merchants Ponges Association.\nChina Merchants Steam Navigation Company.\nChina Mutual Life Insurance Company Limited.\nChina Mutual Steam Navigation Company.\nChina National Life Assurance.\nChina Navigation Company.\nChina Silk Agency Company Limited,\nChina Strawbraid Export Company.\nChina Sugar Refining Company.\nChina Times Limited.\nChina Traders Insurance Company.\nChina Trading Company.\nChinese American Company.\nChinese Electric Light & Power Company, Peking.\nChinese & Foreign Dispensary, Amoy.\nChinese Optical Company.\nChinese Railways (all).\nChing Cheng Yung, Tien-tsin.\nChing Chong & Co., Shanghai.\nChing Chong Hung & Co., Chefoo.\nChing Fong, Shanghai.\nChing Ho Hsiang, Peking.\nChing Siu Tong, Foochow.\nChing Tai & Co., Mukden.\nChitsin Chao (Peking Motor Company, Peking).\nChristiakoff, J.\nChuan Chang, Shanghai.\nChuan Kes & Co., Amoy.\nChujudo & Co., Newchang.\nChuma & Co., Newchang,\nChun Shing, Shanghai.\nChua Sing, Shanghai.\nChung Fah & Co., Chefoo.\nChung Hang Company Dispensary, Canton.\nChung Hwa Book Company, Shanghai.\nChung Mei Drug Company, Canton.\nChung On & Co., Canton.\nChung Tung Lithographic Works.\nChurch Missionary Mission.\nCoghlan, H. H.\nCohen, Andre.\nCollins & Co.\nComfort.\nCommercial Press Limited.\nCommercial Union Assurance Company.\nCompagnie d'Eclairage et de Tramways of Tien-tsin.\nCompagnie française des Tramways de l'Eclairage électrique et des Eaux de Shanghai.\nCompagnie générale de Chemin de Fer et de Tramways en Chine.\nCompagnie des Messageries maritimes.\nComptoir commercial anversois.\nConnell Brothers.\nConsolidated Rubber Estates Limited.\nCook & Anderson.\nCook, Thomas & Sons.\nCornabe, Eckford, & Co.\nCorsane, Auderson, & Co. (Hankow Tea Works).\nCosmopolitan Dock.\nCossanteli & Co.\nCox, W. Wakeford.\nCozzi, E., Hankow.\nCrédit foncier d'Extrême-Orient.\nCrofts & Co., George.\nCros, Paul.\nCrossfield & Sons Limited.\nCrystal Limited.\nCulpeck, E. A.\nCurtis Brothers.\nCurtis Sons & Co.\n\nDah Daw, Hankow.\nDah Lung & Co., Shanghai.\nDah Sung & Co., Shanghai.\nDah Sung Cotton Mill, Shanghai.\nDai Nippon Brewery Company.\nDaishin & Co., Shanghai.\nDallas Livery Stable Company.\nDanese, E., Hankow.\nD'Arc, G. L.\nDastoor, F. R., & Co.\nDavid & Co.\nDavid, S. J., & Co.\nDavies & Brooke.\nDavis, R. S., & Co.\nDavis, W. Arthur.\nDavis, W. Trenchard.\nDeacon & Co.\nDeane, T. P.\nDebenham & Co.\nDenham & Rose.\nDenniston & Sullivan.\nDent, A., & Co.\nDeut, Herbert.\nDea Remedios, A. G., Shanghai.\nDieden & Co.\nDixon, H. C., & Co.\nDodwell & Co. Limited.\nDollar Robert Company.\nDombey & Son.\nDominion Express Company.\nDong Sing Wo & Co., Shanghai.\nDonnelly & Whyte.\nDowdall, W. M.\nDowler, Forbes & Co.\nDrakeford & Co.\nDreyfus, Edmond, & Bros.\nDuncan & Co.\nDunlop Rubber Company.\nDunn, Walter.\nDunne, T. E.\nDuplessis.\nDutch Colonial Trading Company.\nDutton, W., & Co.\nDyce & Co.\nDzing Nye Hsing, Hankow.\n\nEagle & Globe Steel Company.\nEast Asiatic Company.\nEastern & Australian Steamship Company.\nEastern Extension Telegraph Company.\nEastern Trading Company.\nEcho de Tien-tsin.\nEdgar Brothers & Co.\nEkman Foreign Agencies.\nEmens, W. S., & Co., Ltd.\nEn Ching Low (Nun Cheng Lo), Tien-tsin.\nEnergie électrique.\nEnterprise Tobacco Company Limited.\nEnticknap, P. (Ashton & Co. Limited).\nEquitable Life Assurance Society.\nErasmic Company.\nEtablissements de Tongkou.\nEtablissements Fei Yen, Ateliers de Constructions Mécaniques.\nEvans, A. M. A.\nEvans, Edward, & Sons Limited.\nEvans, Pugh, & Co.\nEveleigh & Co.\nEwo Cotton Spinning & Weaving Company.\nEwo Yuen Press Packing Company.\nExcess Insurance Company Limited.\nEzra, E. I., Shanghai.\nEzra, Edward, & Co., Shanghai.\nEzra & Co., Fred, Shanghai.\nEzra, N. E. B., & Co.\nEzra, Y., & Co.",
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        "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 DECEMBER, 1915.\n\n## Page 7\n\nFa Hsing, Tien-tain.  \nFairchild, F. A.  \nFar Eastern Geographical Establishment.  \nFarley, W. A.  \nFarmer, F. D., & Co.  \nFearon, Daniel, & Co.  \nFederal Life Assurance Company of Canada.  \nFengtien District Inspectorate of Salt Revenue.  \nFerguson, J. C. G.  \nFerretti.  \nFielding, H. R.  \nFindlay, Richardson, & Co.  \nFirth, W., & Sons.  \nFobes & ta.  \nFohkien Mercantile Co., Foochow.  \nFoo Tai Company, Hankow.  \nFoochow Dock & Arsenal, Pagoda Anchorage.  \nFoachow Native Hospital.  \nFoochow Pharmacy.  \nForbes & Co., William.  \nFoster, McClellan, & Co.  \nFrankau, A., & Co. Limited.  \nFrazar & Co.  \nFrazer, E. W.  \nFrench Bakery.  \nTu Seng, W. & Co., Foochow.  \nFu Shing Tai, Tien-tein.  \nFuchs, H., & Co. (Rint'ai Stores).  \nFujita & Co., Mukden.  \nFukien Drug Company.  \nFukul & Co., Shanghai.  \nFung Tang, Shanghai.  \nFurukawa & Co., Shanghai,  \nFutcher, J. W.  \n\n## Page 3 (continued on another page, not shown in the snippet)\n\n... (text not shown)\n\n## Page 11\n\nGabhai, M. N., & Co.  \nGadai, Yoko.  \nGaillard.  \nGakuyodo Mori, Shameen.  \nGallusser & Co.  \nGande, Price, & Co.  \nGarner, Quelch, & Co.  \nGates, F.  \nGeddes & Co.  \n**General Accident, Fire, & Life Assurance Company.**  \nGeneral Electric Company.  \nGeneral Electric Company of China Limited.  \nGeneral Electric Company of New York.  \nGerassime Touliatos.  \nGerin, Drevard, & Co.  \nGibb, Livingston, & Co.  \nGibbons, J., & Co.  \nGillard, G. M., & Co.  \nGillespie & Co.  \nGilman & Co.  \nGing Chong Hung & Co.  \nGittins & Co.  \nGlaxo.  \nGlen Line Steamers,  \nGoldenberg, H., & Co.  \nGordes.  \nGordon & Co.  \nGovernment Universities in China.  \nGoyet, Shanghai.  \nGrand Hôtel des Wagons-Lite, Peking.  \nGrant, Archibald.  \nGreat China Dispensary.  \nGreat Eastern Co., Ltd., Shanghai.  \nGreat Eastern Dispensary.  \nGreat Northern Telegraph Company,  \nGreer, H. & W., Limited.  \nGreig, M. W., & Co.  \nGrenard, Bettines, & Co.  \nGriffith, T. E.. Limited.  \nGriffiths' Butchery.  \nGrimes, A. O.  \nGrimshaw, R.  \nGrosjean & Co.  \nGrundy, R.  \nGuarantee Trust.  \nGula Kalumpang Rubber Estates Limited.  \nHall & Holtz Limited.  \nHan Yeh Ping Iron & Coal Company.  \nHanda Menko, Shanghai.  \nHankow Club Ltd.  \nHankow Dispensary Limited.  \nHankow Ice Works (Corsane, Anderson, & Co.)  \nHankow Light & Power Company.  \nHankow Printing Office.  \nHankow Race Club & Recreation Ground Ltd.  \nHankow Waterworks.  \nHankow Wharf & Godown Company, Ltd.  \nHardoon, S. A.  \nHardy, Walter.  \nHarper, Ralph, & Co.  \nHarvey's Billposting Agency.  \nHarvie, Cook, & Co.  \nHarvie, J. A.  \nIIatch, Carter, & Co.  \nHattori, Yoko.  \nHeath & Co. Limited.  \nHeath, P., and Co.  \nHeffer, F. C., & Co.  \nHeiman, S. S,  \nHeisch, P. F.  \nHemmerdinger Frères.  \nHemmings & Berkley.  \nHeng, Chang, Ter, Newchang.  \nHeng Cheong & Co., Amoy,  \nHérou, Charles, & Co.  \nHetherington, J., & Sons,  \nHewett, W., & Co.  \nHipwell, P.  \nHirao & Co., Antung.  \nHirsbrunner & Co.  \nHo En Seong, Nanking.  \nHolgate, L. G.  \nHolland-China Trading Company.  \nHolliday, C., & Co.  \nHolt's Wharf.  \nHong Kong Fire Insurance Company.  \nHong Kong and Shanghai Bank.  \nHopkins, Dunn, & Co.  \nHorrobin, S. L.  \nHorse Bazaar and Motor Company.  \nHôtel de France.  \nHôtel de la Paix,  \nHôtel de Pékin.  \nHouvenier-Mason, Scheidler, & Co.  \nHowarth, Richard, & Co.  \nHsin Kong & Co., Shanghai,  \nHsing Tai, Shanghai.  \nHua Eng Tai, Swatow.  \nHua Mui Dispensary, Swatow.  \nHubbard, E. W.  \nHumphrey, W. G.  \nHung Chong Ter, Newchang.  \nHung, Dab, & Co., Shanghai.  \nHunt, Newchang.  \nHupei Government Cotton Mill,  \nHutchison, Herbert, & Co.  \nHutchison, J. D.  \nFah Leng Dispensary, Swatow.  \nJah Siu Dispensary, Swatow.  \nTak Sang Dispensary, Swatow.  \nIlbert & Co.  \nImperial Hotel Limited,  \nIndo-China Steam Navigation Company.  \nIndra Line of Steamers.  \n\n# SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 DECEMBER, 1915. 12817\n\nInnis & Riddle.  \nInshallah Dairy Farm and Stock Company.  \nInternational Bank.  \nInternational Bicycle Company.  \nInternational Book and Stationery Store.  \nInternational Cotton Manufacture Company.  \nInternational Dispensary, Shanghai.  \nInternational Dock, Shanghai,  \nInternational Estate and Finance, Shanghai,  \nInternational Export Company, Hankow.  \nInternational Saving Society, Shanghai.  \nIsenman & Smith, Drs.  \nItalian-Chinese Import and Export Company.  \nIto, G., Shanghai.  \nItoh, C., & Co., Shanghai.  \nIvy Dairy.  \nIvy, Dr.  \nJacks, William, & Co.  \nJapanese Red Cross Hospital, Mukden.  \nJapanese Post and Telegraphs in Manchuria.  \nJaques, A. H., & Co.  \nJardine, Matheson, & Co.  \nJava Consolidated Rubber and Coffee Estate.  \nJava Sea and Fire Insurance Company.  \nJensen, G. S.  \nJia Ann Dispensary, Swatow.  \nJoseph Bros.  \nJun Chee, Tien-tein.  \nJuvet Leo, Tien-tain.  \nKailan Mining Administration.  \nKaitendo Company, Newchang.  \nKakiage, Yoko, Shanghai.  \nKale, E.  \nKalee Hotel Limited.  \nKalgan Dairy Farm.  \nKameya (Kamaya), S., & Co., Antung.  \nKansaki & Co., Newchang.  \nKapayang Rubber Estate Company Limited.  \nKaratzas Bros.  \nKashimura Company, Tientsin,  \nKato & Co.  \nKay, W., & Co.  \nKaye, C. B., & Co.  \nKelly & Walsh Limited.  \nKemp, Thomas, & Co.  \nKempton.  \nKermani, R. S., Shanghai.  \nKeylock, Pratt, and Hobbs.  \nKeystone Tobacco Company Limited.  \nKiangnan Dock and Engineering Works.  \nKlemantaski, Bates, & Co.  \nKo Bros., Amoy.  \nKochien Transport and Towboat Company Limited.  \nKodera & Co.  \nKong Yik Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company.  \nKoushyn, N. N., Limited, Shanghai.  \nKroewoek Java Plantations Limited.  \nKua, Seng, Watt, & Co., Amoy.  \nKwong Chek Dispensary, Swatow  \nKwong Fat Yuen, Shanghai.  \nKwong Wo Company, Canton.  \nLa Belle Jardinière (E. A. Culpeck).  \nLalcacca & Co.  \nLam Fong Drug Company, Amoy.  \nLand Investment Company Limited.  \nLane, Crawford, & Co. Limited.  \nLangkat Company, Shanghai.  \nLao Sen Kee, Hankow.  \nLaon Kung Mow Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company.  \nLarge, F., & Co.  \nLau, Bittakshing, & Co., Canton.  \nLau, E. C., Foochow  \nLau Tsz Wai, Shameen.  \nLau, Woodland, & Co., Canton.  \nLaurent, Marius.  \nLavers & Clark.  \nLaw, H. D., & Co.  \nLe Lion.  \nLe Munyon.  \nLee Bros. & Co., Canton.  \nLeeds, E. S.  \nLegation of Allied Powers, Peking.  \nLegation Pharmacy (J. Henderson).  \nLekhomall Pinyamall.  \nLem Pah Wo, Canton.  \nLem Tak Se, Swatow.  \nLester, Johnson, & Morriss.  \nLever Brothers, Limited.  \nLey, C.  \nLeyte, F.  \nLiang Dau An, Hankow.  \nLiao Conservancy Authority.  \nLias River Conservancy.  \nLiddell, Bros. & Co.  \nLiddell, K., & Co.  \nLih Teh Oil Mill Company Limited.  \nLim, E. V. S., & Co., Swatow.  \nLion, Lucien.  \nLittle, O. S.  \nLittle, William, & Co.  \nLitvinoff & Co.  \nLiverman, G. S., & Co. Limited.  \nLiverpool Salvage Association.  \nLlewellyn & Co. Limited.  \nLloyds.  \nLoa Hai Shing, Shanghai.  \nLoa-Wai Dispensary, Canton.  \nLondon Mission.  \nLondon Salvage Association.  \nLopato, A., & Sons, Limited.  \nLoup and Young.  \nLouvain.  \nLowe, Bingham, and Matthews.  \nLowe, F. H.  \nLoxley, W. R., & Co.  \nL.P. Medical Hall, Foochow.  \nLu Si, W. (Foochow Pharmacy).  \nLuen Steamship Company Limited.  \nLuk Wo & Co. (Luk Wo Dispensary), Canton.  \nMa Fel & Co., Shanghai,  \nMacbeth, Pawsey, & Co.  \nMacdonald, Ronald,  \nMacdonald, Thomas, & Co.  \nMacey & Co.  \nMackay, A. H., & Co.  \nMacKenzie, A. C.  \nMacKenzie & Co. Limited.  \nMackie, A., & Co.  \nMaclay & Co.  \nMactavish & Lehmann.  \nMacy, G. H., & Co.  \nMadier.  \nMagasin français d'Alimentation.  \nMagasins généraux.  \nMagill & Co.  \nMain, S. D.  \nMaison Parisienne (Au Petit Louvre).  \nMaitland & Co.  \nMaitland & Fearon.  \nMajor Brothers Limited,  \nMalthoid Roofing Manufacturers.  \nManchurian Company Limited.  \nManini, E., Hankow.",
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        "content_text": "# 12818 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 DECEMBER, 1915.\n\nManners, John.\nMappin & Webb. \nMaritime China.) \nCustom Houses. \n(Throughout \nMarthoul Frères. \nMartin, W., & Co. \nMatheson, G., & Co. \nMavrokephalos & Co., Hankow. \nMcBain, G. \nMcGillivray. \nMcMullan & Co. \nMeiji Trading Company, Shanghai \nMenga, C., Tien-tsin, \nMercantile Bank. \nMethodist Publishing House. \nMeurer Frères. \nMiddleton & Co. \nMiffret, A. \nMing Chong Cycle Company. \nMinistries and Departments of the Chinese Governments, \nMinseng Dispensary, Hankow. \nMitsubishi & Co., Shanghai. \nMitsubishi Goshi Kaisha, Hankow, Canton. \nMitsui Busan Kaisha, Hankow. \nMitsui & Co., Shanghai, \nMolchanoff Pechatuoff & Co., Hankow. \nMoller & Co. \nMonbaron, Charles. \nMoore, L., & Co. \nMoorhead & Halse. \nMorgan Crucible Company Limited. \nMoser, J. H. \nMoutrie, S., and Co. \nMoyroux, V. \nMukden Trading Co. \nMunicipal Council, Shanghai, \nMunicipalities of British Allied and Neutral Concessions and of the International Concession at Shanghai. \nMurray, Noel, & Co. \nMustard & Co. \nMutual Stores, Shameen. \nNagai Bunko, Shanghai. \nNagano, Yoko. \nNaishin Company. \nNakvasin, D. J., & Co., Hankow, \nNanking Dispensary, Nanking. \nNanri, Yoko. \nNanyang Dispensary. \nNational Cash Register Company. \nNational Union Society of Bedford. \nNaval College, Pagoda. \nNaylor, J., & Co, \nNeill, James, & Co. \nNielson and Winthers (China Engineering Co., Ltd.), \nNemuzee, H. M. H., & Co., Shanghai, \nNeotia & Co. \nNestlé and Anglo-Swiss Milk Company. \nNetherlands Harbour Works Company. \nNettle, P. Edward. \nNeutral Legations, Peking, \nNew Amoy Dock Company. \nNew Chinese Antimony Company. \nNew Engineering and Shipbuilding Works Limited. \nNew Zealand Insurance Company. \nNewchang Wharf and Godown Company. \nNewman, E. \nNicholas & Co. \nNicholas Tsu Engineering & Shipbuilding Works. \nNigniewtzky. \nNikka, Yoko. \nNippon Menkwa Kabushiki Kaisha, Hankow. \nNippon Yusen Kaisha, Hankow. \nNisshin Kisen Kaisha, Hankow. \nNisshin Yabuko, Shanghai. \nNisshin, Yoko. \nNoel Murray, & Co. Limited. \nNor Kung Leong, Canton. \nNorbury & Co. \nNorbury, Eric. \nNorbury, Natzio, & Co. Limited. \nNorth British Mercantile Insurance Company. \nNorth China Daily News and Herald Limited. \nNorth China Engineering Company. \nNorth China Insurance Company Limited. \nNorth China Printing and Publishing Company. \nNorth China Produce Company. \nNorth Great China Dispensary, Tien-tsin. \nNorthern Assurance Company. \nNozawa Gumi, Shanghai. \nNun Cheng Lo (En Ching Low), Tien-tsin. \nNutter, Walter, & Co. \nNye, S. P., Dr. \nOcean Accident and Guarantee Company, \nOcean Marine Insurance Company, \nOcean Steamship Company Limited. \nOffice of Works, His Majesty's. \nOkura & Co. Limited, Shanghai. \nOld Dock. \nOld Ningpo Wharf. \nOlivier & Co. \nOlivier Export and Import Company. \nOlsen & Co. \nOmi & Co., Newchang. \nOng Mah Chao & Co., Amoy. \nOnomura & Co., Shanghai. \nOpium Bonded Godown. \nOrient Trading Company. \nOriental Advertising Company, \nOriental Dispensary, Shanghai. \nOriental Export Company, Chefoo. \nOriental Optical Company, Shanghai. \nOsaka Kobayashi Shiten, Shanghai. \nOsaka Shosen Kaisha, Canton. \nOxygen and Drum Company. \n\nPabaney, E. \nPacific Mail Steamship Company. \nPaizis & Co. \nPalace Hotel, Shanghai. \nPalmer & Turner. \nPanoff, J. K., & Co. \nPao Chen Dispensary, Swatow. \nParadissis & Co. \nParker, J. H. P., & Co. \nParker, Reilly, & Co. \nParker & Smith. \nParsee Trading Company. \nPatel, A. C., & Co. \nPatell & Co. \nPathé Phonocine Machine. \nPatisserie Parisienne, Shanghai. \nPaturel, Shanghai. \nPaulsen & Bayes-Davey. \nPearce & Garriock. \nPearson, S., & Son, Limited. \nPeiyang Tannery. \nPeking Daily News, \nPeking Dispensary. \nPeking Gazette. \nPeking Motor Company (Chiusin Chao). \nPeking Pavilion. \nPeking Syndicate. \nPennell, E., & Co. \nPermata Rubber Estate Limited. \nPerrin, Cooper & Co.\n\n## 12819 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 DECEMBER, 1915.\n\nPersian Commercial Company. \nPetersen & Co. \nPhillips, Walter, Dr. \nPhoenix Assurance Company, \nPicca & Co. (Pharmacy Central). \nPickwick, F. H. \nPike, A. T. J. \nPilcher, H. W. \nPlatt, Macleod & Wilson, \nP. and O. 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        "content_text": "## \n\n### \n\nI plussed them for a moment; but Ts'ai quickly recovered himself and said that under any circumstances Japan would take advantage of the preoccupation of the European Powers to pursue her aims in China, and that in any case the responsibility for anything which might happen rested with the President, who, to further his ends, had not only violated the Constitution but had also rejected the advice of the Entente Powers. I retorted that, even supposing that were so, it did not justify them in affording Japan a pretext for further intervention.\n\nI asked if they would tell me, for your private information, the number of provinces whose support they expected, but they declined; the declarations of independence which would follow in the next few days would, they said, show this.\n\nI asked if there was any way of accommodating their differences and they said, No; the telegram to the President was their final word; he had ignored them, and his only reply had been to order troops to attack Yunnan, and there was nothing left for them to do but to fight to the bitter end.\n\nAt my interview to-day, on receipt of your telegram No. 34, Ts'ai was not present; the Chiang Chun asked if I had anything particular to communicate to him, and I replied in the negative. Tang admitted that the information I gave him was correct, and said that they had known all along that General Lung would not go with them; he expected shortly a declaration of independence from Kueichow and also from other provinces, but as his communications were blocked the news of Yunnan's action would only filter through slowly. I said that the fact remained that they were alone, and therefore they were not justified in raising the standard of rebellion. He said that although they were the only province which had declared independence, they had many partisans in other provinces, and they must wait and see the course of events. I replied that, even admitting that, he could not deny that, with the exception of Yunnan, no province felt sufficiently strongly about the question to go to the length of raising the standard of revolt; and as they were in a minority of one against seventeen, and success was out of the question, it was clearly their duty to bow to the decision of the majority.\n\nHe then shifted his ground and said it was not so much the question of the restoration of the monarchy they were opposing as the family of Yuan Shih-kai: the latter they disliked and his son was still more an object of their terror; if the people were allowed to choose their own Emperor they would have no objection. I replied that my previous argument applied to this also: seventeen provinces had accepted Yuan Shih-kai as Emperor; I added that Yunnan had also telegraphed accepting the President as Emperor, and their present revolt was difficult to reconcile with their previous attitude. He said that they had no option but to acquiesce, otherwise they would have been removed from office and punished.\n\nHe thanked me for my visits and asked me to express to you his profound gratitude for your kindly interest; he also requested me to assure you that he felt deeply his responsibility, but that no course was open to him but to fight it out. I replied that I would transmit his message, but I was sure you would not agree with him, as your anxiety as well as my own, was to save China from the horrors of war; however strong his convictions might be, he was not justified in indulging them at the expense of millions who not only did not share them but who had no interest in, or even knowledge of, the principles at issue.\n\nIn the meantime, events are marching quickly. Ts'ai, who looks and says he is ill, has nominated himself `Tsung Seu Ling Kuan` and proposes to levy 20,000 troops, half of whom are to be sent to the frontiers and the remainder to keep order in the province. The Mengtzu Taotai has fled and has been replaced by General Ho; and General Ku, who was formerly in command of the first division and until recently chief of the military college, has been sent to Talifu. Large quantities of silver are coming into the province through Tonkin, mostly in the form of fourth-class baggage, and the premium on French notes, which has hitherto been 12 per cent., has now dropped to 3 per cent. I represented to Ts'ai and T'ang the importance of keeping up the face value of the Fu-tien bank notes, and they said they were taking measures to that effect. A meeting of merchants was held yesterday and they decided to continue to accept these notes, and M. Baude has undertaken to receive them, for the present, in payment of the salt revenue. Proclamations are out calling for recruits and ordering extensive decorations on the 1st January in celebration of the independence of Yunnan. But there is not the least sign of local enthusiasm; merchants are scared, and trade is at a standstill. The press confines itself to abusing Yuan Shih-kai and eulogising the Chiang Chun; but my writer, who is a Yunnanese, tells me that the general sentiment is against the movement, and that those who can afford to do so will quit the province, leaving the poorer classes to suffer for T'ang's \"convictions.\"\n\nThe messages I have received from the missionaries in the interior of Yunnan indicate that so far there has been no trouble, though there is some anxiety as to the future. I have no news from Kueichow, and the recent order prohibiting all telegraphic messages in code and cypher will prevent me from obtaining much information.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**HERBERT GOFFE.**\n\nP.S. Since writing the above I have received a despatch from the Military and Civil Governors notifying me that the Customs Taotai (`Chien Tu`) at Mengtzu has fled and has been replaced by Chang Tzu Liang, of whom I have no knowledge.\n\nH. G.",
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        "content_text": "# 151 \n\n## 2\n\nThe main road from Kueichow to the Yang-taze and Szechuan, i.e., from Kueiyang, through Tsunyi, to Chungking. The more westerly roads from Yunnan into Szechuan, i.e., from Tali and Tengyueh, can be left out of account as they lead into the March country. There are thus three points of strategic importance on the Upper Yang-tsze—Suifu, Luchow, and Chungking, being the Szechuan leads of the three main roads from Yunnan and Kueichow. At Suifu was a small garrison, which was reinforced on the outbreak of trouble by 2,000 troops from Chengtu; at Luchow was stationed a General Lin with a division of Szechuan troops of doubtful loyalty; and at Chungking was a garrison of Ch'en Yi's northern troops.\n\nOn the outbreak of civil war the Imperial forces at Suifu and Luchow were pushed southwards, the former entering Yunnan and advancing down the Chaotung road for 70 miles or so, and the latter being moved south to Yungning on the Weining road.\n\nThe Yunnan rebels advancing from Yunnan-fu by the Tungchuan-Chaotung road met and defeated the Szechuanese Imperialists from Suifu at Laoyatan about the 16th January, advanced and repulsed them again at Ampien about the 18th January, and occupied Suifu, the most important centre on the Yang-taze west of Chungking on the 20th January. It appears probable that General Wu and his Szechuanese at Suifu did not fight seriously, but withdrew or went over to the rebels. Meanwhile, at Yungning the attitude of General Liu and his 8,000 Szechuanese covering Luchow is most uncertain; the Chengtu authorities are doubtful about them, and the Yunnan-fu authorities claim to count on their support. Thus, of the two main roads leading from Yunnan to Szechuan, the rebels hold the Tungchuan-Chaotung-Suifu one throughout, and appear likely to be in possession of the Weining-Yungning-Luchow one shortly. General Tsai Ao, Commander-in-chief of the rebel forces, left Yünnan-fu for Weining on the 6th January, from which it seems probable that another rebel force will shortly debouch into Szechuan by this road and join hands with the wavering Szechuanese troops at Yungning and Luchow.\n\nAlthough the Yunnan rebels by acting promptly have seized Suifu, and possibly the whole of the Upper Yang-tsze as far down as Luchow, the campaign cannot yet be said to have seriously commenced, since the Government expeditionary force of northern troops has not yet had time to reach the scene of action. This expeditionary force consists of the 3rd Hupei Division (from Yochow) with some additional troops, amounting in all to about 10,000 men, under General Ts'ao Kun, followed by the 7th Division (from Peking) with additional mixed brigade, also totalling about 10,000 men under General Chang Yao. The 10th Division (from Peking) is also said to be moving as a reserve. These troops have got to be hauled up the Yang-tsze from Ichang in native boats, there being no steam navigation to speak of at this time of the year. The journey from Ichang to Chungking in a native boat takes at least three weeks. General Tsao Kun's troops (the 3rd Hupei Division) were passing through Ichang during the first half of January, and the main body cannot possibly get to Chungking before the end of the month or early February.\n\nIt is possible, therefore, that the Yunnan rebels may meet with further success on the Upper Yang-taze in the near future, since there is nothing to stop them but Szechuan troops, many of whom are a doubtful quantity. But the real test will not come till the Imperialist expeditionary force gets beyond Chungking. Then, according to the official plan, General Ts'ao Kun's 3rd Division, with his rear protected by the following 7th Division, will join hands with General Chen Yi's northern troops and attack Yunnan in earnest. Wholesale defections by the Szechuanese troops to the rebel side before General Ts'ao Kun gets up-river would completely change the whole outlook. The attitude of Kueichow is also of great importance in connection with the campaign, owing to its position on the flank of the expeditionary force rendering possible an attack on Chungking from Kueiyang by the Tsunyi main road.\n\nThe Yunnanese are good soldiers with a great reputation in Szechuan. In 1911 a Yünnanese army entered Szechuan by the Suifu route, ostensibly to fight the Imperialists, but in reality to levy contributions on the rich cities of southern Szechuan. Though vastly outnumbered, they did as they liked in the province for months, and only withdrew of their own accord after the declaration of the republic. It remains to be seen whether they will prove a match for the well-equipped northern troops. Similarly, the Kueichow army showed its worth vis-a-vis the Szechuanese when in occupied Chungking during the interprovincial fighting in the autumn of 1913. The Kueichow troops only withdrew of their own accord after negotiation. During the troubles of 1911, 1912, and 1913 there was always a tendency on the part of the authorities of Yünnan and Kueichow, both poor but warlike provinces, to regard the rich and peaceable Szechuanese as a legitimate field for their freebooting expeditions, and to aim at the incorporation of Szechuan with Yunnan and Kueichow to form a federated south-western Chinese State. Szechuan has, in the past, also shown strong separatist tendencies, and for geographical and other reasons has always been in much closer touch with Yunnan and Kueichow on the south than with Hupei, Shensi, and Kansu on the north.\n\nPeking, January 23, 1916.\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n**Joint Despatch signed and sealed by the Military and Civil Governors to Consul-General Gough.** (Translation.)\n\nSir,\n\nThe Republic of China was duly recognised by all the friendly Powers, but the President, Yuan Shih-kai, in violation of the Constitution and his oath, has now taken advantage of the continuance of the European war to plan a rebellion and cast his eyes upon the Imperial dignity. His Majesty's Minister in Peking has more than once counselled and warned him, but in utter disregard of all sense of right he ruthlessly pursues his way. Consequently, the friendly Powers have abandoned him, and the Chinese people regard him as of no account.\n\nWe received our appointments from the Republican Government and only recognise loyalty and duty towards the republic. All the provinces have unitedly declared that they will uphold the republic and continue in that path.\n\nWe recall that Great Britain previously recognised the republic, and we feel assured that on this occasion the British Government, as well as yourself, will approve our purpose of safeguarding the republic and upholding the Constitution. It is, accordingly, our duty to formally notify you of our intentions in order to strengthen our good relations with your country.\n\nIt is now our duty to inform you, for communication to your Government and the British Minister at Peking, of the course we propose to follow with regard to the treaties, and of our earnest desire for cordial relations with Great Britain :-\n\n1. From the date of the declaration of independence all the treaties negotiated with the Manchu and Republican Governments, as well as the separate conventions regarding Burmah and Tonkin, to continue in force.\n2. The lives and property of all foreign officials, merchants, and missionaries residing or travelling within our sphere of influence to be afforded full protection, as provided by treaty. Compensation will be paid by us for any actual losses incurred; but losses incurred through proceeding, in despite of our warning, into the territory of the tribesmen or disturbed districts will not be included in this category.\n3. We request you to telegraph to the Government of Burmah asking that the civil and military officials on the frontier be instructed to co-operate, as before, with the military and civil officials of the Republic of Yunnan for the preservation of order on the frontier.\n4. The neutrality in the European war proclaimed by the Republican Government will be fully enforced in our sphere of influence.\n5. In future, important affairs will be dealt with directly by us; in other matters we request you to continue to negotiate with the Foreign Affairs Bureau of Yunnan.\n\n[Signatures and seals of Tang Chi-yao and Jen K'o-ch'eng, Military and Civil Governors, respectively.]\n\nYünnan-fu, December 29, 1915.\n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n**Military and Civil Governors of Yunnan to Sir J. Jordan.** (Translation.)\n\nSir,\n\nYünnan-fu, December 31, 1915.\n\nWhen on the 10th October, 1911, the standard of right was first raised in China, and all the other provinces responded, the reason was that the people of the whole country had long been weary of oppression under an autocrat: they arose with enthusiasm and brought about a political revolution. At that time the friendly Powers...",
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        "content_text": "## Page 313\n\nWe are enclosing herewith copy of our letter dated Dec. 22, 1915, to Rev. C.E. Bousfield. Chang Ming, Ki via Owatow, South China, and Dr. William Ashmore, Swatow, China, also our original letter under date of Dec. 22nd 1915, transmitting all these papers to Dr. Razlag at the above-mentioned address.\n\nWith all due respect for the exigencies of the situation, we consider this method of handling U.S. mails an imposition and unjustifiable.\n\nWe would appreciate it if your Office made an investigation and would also like to receive advice from you as to whether or not we are justified in expecting first-class mail matter having no bearing on anything pertaining to the European war to be promptly transmitted without interference on the part of the authorities of Great Britain or other nations.\n\nMeanwhile, it is important that these papers be delivered to the addressee, inasmuch as delivery of goods covered by the enclosed bill-of-lading is probably contingent upon surrender of that document and would be glad to have you transmit to him under official cover, if such would be in order.\n\nWe thank you in advance for anything you can do to afford relief in this instance and to insure proper delivery of similar matter for the future.\n\nYours very truly,\nWest Coast Grocery Company,\n(Signed) J.H. Weer,\nVice President.\n\nP.S. We will say for your information that the letter for Dr. Razlag was returned to us unopened, evidently having been returned without being censored.\n(Initialled) W.G.G Co.\n\n## Page 12A",
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        "content_text": "## \n675 Foreign 1916 28 Oct \n\nLast previous Paper: `Auod 6 the Noor 1916`. To `Tw. auf. 9 - Now To Jo bries`.\n\nNext subsequent Paper: `Jyuq KING KONG 51680`.\n\n**REG 30 OCT 16**\n\n**Graft Anglo-Chinese Agreement**\n\nLeeds copy desk proved Pething evct's final draft. On these for accepting it, auch to sign with be requested.\n\nSi S. Fidder. A Collinn Grindle\n\nThe agreement in the latest final form differs from the copy in some details from vent tus in `[or 47013]`.\n\n**EN MI (D)** is new but entirely existing margomen^. At I (h): the alterations are on metal.\n\nM EVILL an it cheang At If the two Promies' or huang Romee's is winced A \"Kuany \"uf Rounce\". Potat!, ... is d... to fact that touches.\n\n`(90092) Wt. 35800-6`. 45,000 12/15. M&S.",
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        "content_text": "# No.64.\n\n**sir.**\n\n453\n\nAppendix \"O\".\n\n**H.B.M. Consulate-General, Canton, 12th April, 1916.**\n\nSince I last had the honour to report on the political situation in this province there has been no change, it not, as a matter of fact, having yet developed. Nor will it do so until the conference between the heads of the independent party, of which so much is expected, has taken place. Lu Jung-t'ing, accompanied by Liang Ch'i-ch'ao, is due to arrive from Kuangsi in two or three days' time, and Ts'en Ch'un-hsuan is said to be leaving Shanghai for the South shortly. A number of additional names are mentioned in this connection, but I do not think that the bearers thereof, mostly notorious bandits who figured in the first rebellion of South against North, will be consulted.\n\nI am entirely in the dark as to the nature of the topics which will come up for discussion. According to rumour the setting up of a Southern republic, with Ts'en as President and Chang Ming-ch'i as Secretary of State, seat of Government Canton, is contemplated. The principal one will, however, I imagine, be the question of how to eliminate Lung and his troops, and this is a matter at present greatly preoccupying the minds of well-to-do citizens. Another report has it that he will exchange provinces with Lu. It would serve no useful purpose at the moment to inflict on you the hundred and one other stories which circulate from day to day, or to speculate on the attitude eventually to be adopted towards the North.\n\nAs was only to be expected, the declaration of independence has relaxed the bonds of discipline and sporadic fighting is...\n\nThe Rt. Hon. Sir John N. Jordan, G.C.I.E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., \nHis Majesty's Minister, \n**PEKING**.",
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        "content_text": "[CONFIDENTIAL.]\n\nCopy of letter from Messrs. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, HONG KONG.\n\n328\n\n25th February, 1916.\n\nMessrs. ALFRED HOLT & Co.,\n\nLIVERPOOL.\n\nDear Sirs,\n\nOPIUM SMUGGLING.\n\nWith further reference to our letter of 16th February, we cabled you 23rd February as follows:\n\n\"Your letter sixteenth December conclude reservedly ringleader Hong Kong Shanghai Loupoukee proprietor boardinghouse here in conjunction Ming Liverpool Kwok \"indefinitely involved Ming central supplier all markets not necessarily in combination with Lou Kwok unless confirmed acquired whole business from Lou surmise supplies others East Shanghai suggest disclose correspondence confidentially commissioner requesting acceptance responsibility establishing identities we agree suggest submit correspondence Government here enlist assistance defining organisation recommendations future action meantime our opinion most effective measures 'you obtain deportation Ming and staff expedite proposed home legislation as elimination one procuring ring merely diverts traffic furthered by strong purchasing organisations existing East safely independently carriers ringleaders stop advisable \"act guardedly here safeguard maintenance efficient crews.\"\n\nThis conveys the gist of our letter of 16th February, with suggestions added for concerted measures, which thus far occur to us as likely to be in some degree ameliorative.\n\nThe Government here may be able to assist us in defining the real relations between Lou Pou Kee and Jack A Tai. Meantime we have ascertained that Jack recruits his crews partly, probably principally, from Lou Pou Kee's boarding house, which trades under the name of Po Hing. A man named Ng Sin Ting is also reported to be a part proprietor in this house, this name being somewhat similar to the Lou Kin Ting alias of Lou Pou Kee. Jack is said to also get crews from Luen Hing and Seng On houses whose proprietors are respectively Chang Che Kwai and Ip Seng Kau.\n\nIt seems to us that it does not necessarily follow, although it may be so, that either Lou or Kwok are partners in the operations between Liverpool and places other than China, since the correspondence suggests special part shares in certain single operations, which leaves the way open to other conditions for ventures which the people in China cannot directly control. If, however, you can procure the deportation of Ming and his associates from England it should go a long way towards checking operations on Blue Funnels on all routes. Should Kwok's establishment in Liverpool prove to be allied in partnership with Ming, then the position becomes more complicated, because presumably it would mean the same treatment for Kwok's people as for Ming's, and would involve new establishments in England to take the place occupied by Kwok's present people, with whom, we understand, are included at present two of the family, Kwok Chan Ki and Kwok Chan Chiu (Kwok Tsan Too), that is if you feel you must have such a connection at home to assist in relations with crews.\n\nWe think we must look to the Government here for assistance in defining the real relationship between Jack (Kwok), Lou, and all boarding houses, and for guidance to assist us in deliberations as to future action, particularly if we are impelled to break away from Jack entirely.\n\nPage 5\n\n \n(The rest of the original text is not provided, so the proofreading stops here.)",
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        "content_text": "337\n\nC\n\n(60)\n\nNotes made 3/2/16 by ALFRED HOLT & Co., during conversation with Capt. LyCETT,\n\n8.89. OANTA.\"\n\nOn arrival of this vessel in Australia 500 tins Opium were found stowed under a small quantity of coal remaining in the bunkers. This coal having been shipped at Glasgow it is practically certain that the Opium was also taken on board at that port. 389 tins were marked :-\n\nAH KOW,\n\n32, PITT STREET,\n\nLIVERPOOL,\n\nthe remainder bearing a Hong Kong Chinese label.\n\nThe matter was taken up with the No. 1 fireman, who however denied any knowledge of Opium being on board the ship and the master has reason to believe that he really was not concerned in the attempted smuggling.\n\nA few days prior to steamer sailing from Glasgow a substitute named *Chang Sow was shipped, but owing to alleged sickness he refused to sail, and was replaced by another substitute fireman *Dan Bing. This man was most unsatisfactory during the whole voyage. The No. 1 could not control him and he was constantly very impudent to the Chief Engineer.\n\n* Both these men were sent up to Glasgow from Liverpool.\n\n(61)\n\nExtract of letter from Capt. R. BIE, N.S.\" ALCINOTS,\" YOKOHAMA.\n\n(Dated) 8th March, 1916.\n\nNo. 1, 2, 5, 6, Ballast Tanks have been cleaned and Lids all secured, ready to take oil at Tarakan (Borneo). I enclose a sketch of Bunker where Opium was found at Hong Kong. It was not possible to observe it from Bilges as the Boards were cut and scam on top of Frame.\n\nBUNKER\nOPIUM SPACE\nENGINE ROOM\nBILGE\nTANK\n\n6",
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        "content_text": "April 27th, 1917.]\n\nThy will: through Jesus Christ Our Lord,\n\nSt George also stands for faith in God. Our forefathers in the 13th century selected a patron saint whose guiding principle was faith in God. It was because he believed in God that he tore down unjust edicts and attacked dragons. He bore upon his banner the Cross of Christ and in every representation of him we see that.\n\nEngland in the past has had many faults, but she has at any rate at least outwardly honoured God's name. Her greatest soldiers and sailors have been men who believed in God and were not ashamed to say so. To-day I trust as a nation we are not wanting in the virtues of our Patron Saint—courage, chivalry and self-sacrifice, but I must honestly say there is not as much sign of our faith in God as there should be. I know men shrink from appearing to parade their religion. I do not ask that we should be like the Kaiser, perpetually using the name of the Deity as a sort of National God. But I do say that we cannot afford to leave God out of our national, our colonial, or our individual lives. Faith in God should be the mainspring of all our actions. If this address has a text it is Daniel xi., 32. It is the people who know their God, that is, who believe Him, who serve Him and are loyal to Him, that \"shall be strong and do exploits.\" Let us seek Him with all our hearts. Let us confess our past neglect and boldly take up His banner before the whole world.\n\nThe Bishop, in conclusion, pointed out that there were dragons to be slain besides German materialism and ambition. There were the hideous dragons of intemperance and impurity.\n\nThere was a large congregation, and the collection amounted to $328.\n\nHONGKONG SCHOOLS.\n\nLACK OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES FOR FAMILIES OF MODERATE MEANS.\n\nA resident of Hongkong (says the N.-C. Daily News), who is on a visit to Shanghai, where he was formerly stationed, when asked how he liked the Crown Colony said that the outstanding drawback was the lack of educational facilities for the children of the man of moderate means who did not wish to send them home until they were 15 or 16 years of age. Because of this shortcoming many fathers have to live apart from their families much earlier than is the case in Shanghai. There are, we believe, three schools to which European children may be sent in Hongkong, namely, the Victoria, Kowloon and Peak schools. The first two have been in existence for a considerable time, but the Peak School was started a few years ago as a private venture by residents of the Peak who wished to keep their children in Hongkong until they were older. Government assistance was obtained for this school. All three are mixed schools. Considerable criticism has been heard of the curricula of the Victoria and Kowloon institutions, and, generally speaking, those parents who can afford to do so send their children to England to receive their education as they pass from the kindergarten to the lower forms. For the Chinese, there is a large number of schools at which a sound education is given, while students may pass on to the University. The view that Hongkong is no place for foreign children is not generally held to-day, and the time seems to have arrived for proper provision for their education.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.\n\nST. GEORGE.\n\nWhen Edward struck for England\n\nIn glorious days of yore,\n\nWhen men made much of honour\n\nForth fared each noble warrior\n\nTo win renown,\n\nWon on the field of war,\n\nKeen-set to break a lance\n\nFor the honour of his lady\n\nWith the chivalry of France.\n\nLoud rang above the battle\n\nFrom every gallant knight :--\n\n\"St. George for Merrie England,\n\nAnd God defend the right!\"\n\nAnd with his son full many\n\nRode out to their devoir,\n\nAmong the Spanish passes\n\nOr 'twixt Bordeaux and Loire.\n\nSt. Ives for bold du Guesclin\n\nSt. James for gallant Spain!\n\nNor were the victors honoured\n\nAbove the knightly slain.\n\nBut over other war-cries\n\nRang clear from England's might:-\n\n\"St. George for Merrie England,\n\nAnd God defend the Right.\n\nIn later days of peril,\n\nBeneath St. George's sign,\n\nAgainst the proud Armada\n\nWe set our battle-line,\n\nFrom Plymouth to the Foreland\n\nIt proudly waved o'erhead,\n\nUntil, in dire confusion,\n\nThe lofty galleons fled.\n\nArgent, a cross gules waving\n\nAbove our naval might:-\n\n\"St. George for Merrie England,\n\nAnd God defend the Right.\"\n\nAnd so was formed our Empire,\n\nFour-square on honour set,\n\nBy those whose deeds we cherish,\n\nBy those whom we forget;\n\nFor one that we remember\n\nA thousand died unknown,\n\nThe Lion Race has grown.\n\nSelf was to them as nothing\n\nIf Britain's star shone bright:-\n\n\"St. George for Merrie England,\n\nAnd God defend the right!\"\n\nMen spoke of base disunion\n\nBy envy nursed or greed.\n\nWho strikes against old England\n\nMust reckon with her breed!\n\nClass-troubles, disaffection,\n\nThat seemed so passing sore,\n\nTo loyalty stood transmuted\n\nBy the alchemy of war.\n\nAnd though the words be diff'rent,\n\nThe spirit still flames white:-\n\n\"St. George for Merrie England,\n\nAnd God defend the right!\"\n\nTo-day the battle ranges\n\nAgainst a baser foe,\n\nWhose arms are fouled with murder,\n\nWho naught of honour know.\n\nAnd many give their life-blood,\n\nWhile some may give but gold,\n\nTo keep our honour stainless\n\nAs in the days of old.\n\nStill, still shall be our war-cry\n\nIn this, our sternest fight:-\n\n\"St. George for Merrie England,\n\nAnd God defend the right!\"\n\nApril 23rd.\n\nE. W. H.\n\n208\n\n347\n\nSINO-JAPANESE AMITY.\n\nCOUNT TERAUCHI ON CHINA'S NEED OF RAILWAYS.\n\nMr. Wang Fu-wei and suite were entertained to dinner at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, recently.\n\nCount Terauchi, the Japanese Premier, in a speech, said:\" From personal observation, I am convinced that the future development of China largely depends on the services rendered by the railways.\n\nChina, with her population of 400 millions, is endowed with inexhaustible sources of wealth. The efficient utilization of such a huge supply of labour and natural resources can only be realized by the extension of the railways in China. By solving several questions, political and economic, the through service of railways will benefit not only China but also Japan, because Japan will be able to obtain a supply of cheap raw materials and extend the markets of her manufacturers. The close relations between China and Japan are traceable not only to the inhabitants of the two countries being of the same race and using the same written characters, but also to the fact that Japan in the past owed a great deal to China in the development of her literature, religion, fine arts, etc.\n\nThe two countries have now relations in which the one supplies the other's wants with what itself has in abundance, but those who should be most friendly often disagree and dispute on account of their being too intimate. It is regrettable that China and Japan shared this experience, but recently well-educated people of both countries had come to understand well their common interests: We hear on all sides a demand for increasing amity between Japan and China. This phenomenon is a matter for congratulation, for the peace of the Orient and the welfare of the two countries. Amity between China and Japan only in words and letters is of no value unless put into execution. The desire to promote and maintain friendly relations must be translated into actions. Past experience shows that when mutual relations become closer disputes may arise. Intelligent observers in both countries must try to solve them in sincerity, kindness, and friendship, that nothing be left to rankle on either side.\n\nAmicability should not be limited to the relations between China and Japan. The same must be maintained towards the United States and Canada, which would be connected with them by the through traffic. When the Japan-China through traffic was extended to the Steamship Companies on the Pacific the railways of America would be connected indirectly with the railways of China and Japan by means of the Steamship Companies. The decision passed at the present Conference was expected to bring about such an extensive result. Japan is situated in the centre of such extended traffic, and the heavier burden will fall on our shoulders, but we will consider it a great honour to be the intermediary in through traffic over such an expanded area.'\n\nBaron Goto drank the health of Mr. Wang and the guests, and Mr. Wang and the Chinese Minister, Mr. Chang, replied in appropriate terms.\n\nThe meeting was marked with cordiality, which prevailed throughout.\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211",
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        "content_text": "1\n\nIS\n\n(Jemrakså jag ose, o7)\n\n.Y 400\n\n,\"rej „Peti kruh, uod nos\n\ntillh . .I.M .ncH\n\n„CTI-37% BESLimb roh yu-jOIDOT\n\nEk nuovat zulę So vyicper vi nu I\n\nImmovec :0 croir vu Cheng'o að netti woŭ nsarið. V dolodziɑ sát to x y ilog Iniveralaj\n\nLair to \"noide varient 3 d.\n\n•\n\nvou initog I end gs Fadgo' · so\n\n10.qe JI\n\nvá víno m'p tentnog i Inoideli\n\nNON BECKSÅ U E.*\n\n+\n\nvis Provozy a eu odil cuedram tot in\n\n1901 270que tera 20 -oirigo\n\n.alg to do\n\n\"mr cen\n\nTpo, to micredi i o. ¿\n\ndoro no I rol no a poiŸ a voineen qu\n\nnivoronã to trejles and T ia\n\nî a clo. et Iure I Inive I „ot ́I\n\nToa,noides orq to con\n\nsom drugi\n\n•\n\nJ\n\n+\n\nedivni ɔ mi nuolð sup\n\n1 Jeubni la.\n\n•\n\nTių ž ed to prilog\n\n.cnoitrengue weł\n\n\"\n\ntischen an: et\n\n-mens niva and poitu induit to troq ? ej uds orð dosƐ end at reil\n\n„nido lo ding mandun? 24 mo? chest to moidveitamos to Ism-\n\ned Lutroq lo ai · to coititegzorg erið dans TA TO MI\n\nspasstrā d ́etú to uh tử km et e 200 [rules an 12'\n\nyurrsson ei vi mint tɑ moi, toga da bude oriz and of De boodre\n\n·\n\nof day enoidum ord and answted nissimo znoj. ·[ET and Tel årmæ of 'Landrø2 » eturau de un de code ceritaændi on neurbem efcntive jqota\n\nPoja \"gre\n\nexpansion of commerce and trade to their mutual interest.\n\n22\n\nI venture to remark that the British merchants do not understand the business characteristics and the ways of the Chinese so well as their competitors, particularly the Japanese and Germans.\n\nThe latter have taken special pains and trouble to study most closely the star taste and requirements of their Chinese customers and have accordingly manufactured and supplied them with various classes of goods and commodities, to suit their needs and financial means. Whereas the British merchants, adhering to their conservatism, have not thought it necessary to alter their system and manner to meet the change of time, but were content to remain in the old and easy grooves.\n\nTake for instance, in the matter of learning Chinese, hardly any attempts have been made by the British commercial communities in this direction. It is an obvious advantage to be able to know the language of the people with whom you do daily business. The Japanese and Germans have taken this advantage, for many of them know Chinese well.\n\nI am pleased to hear that there is a movement afoot to encourage young British merchants to study Chinese. The three principal dialects essential for a businessman to know are Mandarin, Cantonese, and Shanghai. I think if a person has a fair knowledge of one or two, it will enable him to get on very well in most of the Treaty Ports and in the interior.\n\nI believe the British Consular and Colonial services in China require their Cadets to pass examinations entailing a certain knowledge of Chinese. Would it not be profitable for the commercial class to follow this good example?\n\nThe Chinese Customs Trade Returns show that the British trade in China stands foremost in many articles of import and export. I am of the opinion that a greater expansion might be realized if proper steps were taken to create mutual demands and supplies.\n\n4\n\nChing",
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        "content_text": "JONG KONG\n\n232\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum respecting Opium Stocks.\n\nTHE following figures were supplied on the 12th January, 1917, by Mr. A. Howard, of David Sassoon and Co. (Limited), the chairman of the opium \"combine\" at Shanghai\n\n  \n    Total stocks Hong Kong and Shanghai\n    Chests.\n    3,100\n  \n  \n    British owned\n    \n    2,200\n  \n  \n    Non-British owned\n    \n    900\n  \n  \n    Sold and not delivered (this represents opium sold to the Kwangtung monopolists who have not cleared a chest since March last)\n    \n    800\n  \n  \n    British merchants in China own\n    \n    1,700\n  \n  \n    British merchants in India own\n    \n    \n  \n\nPractically no business has been done in opium in Shanghai during the last few months. The statistics show that 558 chests were cleared in Shanghai during the five months ended on the 31st December, 1916, the total stocks in Shanghai and Hong Kong being thus reduced from 3,549 chests on the 31st July to 2,991 on the 31st December. I understand that these 558 chests represent opium previously sold but not previously taken delivery of. Mr. Howard, with whom I had an interview in Shanghai last month, repudiated the suggestion that the opium combine had any control over prices, and insisted that clearances were retarded-not by the high prices quoted, which were purely nominal, but by the existing uncertainty in regard to the future disposal of the stocks.\n\nAt the interview referred to Mr. Howard declared that the one and only desire of the opium merchants was to get rid of their stocks and be quit of the opium trade for good and all. He referred with some bitterness to the warning issued by the legation in November 1914, from which they had learnt that it was the intention of His Majesty's Government to close the provinces of Kiangsi, Kiangsu, and Kwangtung without regard to the continued cultivation of native opium in other provinces. It was this, he said, that drove them into the arms of the Chinese Government and led to the agreement of the 1st May, 1915. He admitted that the trade must end in December 1917, and also that there was no hope of getting the Chinese Government to extend the said agreement. He stated, however, that an arrangement was under consideration whereby the Chinese Government would take over all stocks remaining on the 31st March, 1917, giving ten year bonds in payment. He did not tell me the price proposed, remarking that it was impossible to say at what discount the bonds would be negotiable, but he led me to understand that about 7,000 taels a chest had been suggested. This arrangement, he said, was approved by the Vice-President, Feng Kuo-chang, and by the whole Cabinet at Peking, but it had got to be submitted to Parliament. He was of opinion that if it were once made known that the Chinese Government would take over the balance of the stocks there would be a rush for clearances, and there would be in fact no stocks remaining on the 31st March.\n\nI asked Mr. Howard whether it was proposed to invite the British authorities to recognise this agreement. He intimated that the combine were rather afraid of the legation, but would be glad of support if it could be obtained; did I think the legation would approve the scheme? I replied that I had no authority to discuss the question; it would in any case be necessary to have full particulars-I said I did not know the nature of the arrangements contemplated by the Indian Government for the disposal of the stocks.\n\nNothing further has transpired concerning this project.\n\nForeign\n\n1917\n\n30288\n\n12 June\n\nPoints of further\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n26636/\n\nCopies (u\n\nthat\n\nCoupe 21 pine\n\nM\n\n9. Conte.\n\nREC\n\n30288\n\ner corres\n\nWe had not send to inter-departmental conte to string a straits the following ections and thenpre\n\nbe smitter Jeb. 17 $1.\n\nJeb 26.\n\nJet 28\n\nApul\n\n$2\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n\"Fruit & It King\n\nF.o. 45528\n\nStrails\n\nCont\n\n(J16015) W 95722-18. 80,000 11/18. D. G122/ 41.\n\n19.6.17270k",
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        "content_text": "243\n\ni\n\n¦\n\n4\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nAgreement.\n\nTHIS AGREEMENT made at Shanghai the 25th day of January, 1917, between the Shanghai Opium Combine, of the one part (hereinafter called \"the Combine\"), and Feng Kuo Chang, the Tuchun of Kiangsu; Zee Yao Ling, the Civil Governor of Kiangsu; and Wong Che Shiwui, the special envoy for the prohibition of the sales of opium in Kiangsu, Kiangse, and Kwantung; acting for the Chinese Government, of the other part.\n\nWHEREAS by an agreement dated the 1st day of May, 1915, and made between the Shanghai and Hong Kong Opium Combines, of the one part, and the special envoy for the prohibition of the sales of opium in Kiangsu, Kiangse, and Kwantung, of the other part, the said envoy undertook to petition the Chinese Government to take stringent and effective measures for the detection and suppression of the illicit sales of opium, with a view to its extinction, and enable the said Combine to dispose of their stock of Indian opium legitimately held by them within the period in the said recited agreement specified, viz., the 31st day of March, 1917;\n\nAnd whereas owing to unexpected and unavoidable causes the objects of the said recited agreement could not possibly be achieved within the time therein limited;\n\nAnd whereas both the Combine and the Chinese Government are anxious to complete the suppression of the opium trade in China and bring it to a speedy end;\n\nNow it is hereby agreed as follows:-\n\n1. The Combine will sell to the Chinese Government and the Chinese Government will purchase from the Combine the whole residue of the stock of Indian opium remaining in the hands of the Combine on the 31st day of March, 1917, excluding the stock of opium in Hong Kong on the 1st day of January, 1917, at 8,200 taels of Shanghai sycee per chest, or the equivalent thereof in Mexican dollars, according to the rate of exchange ruling on the said 1st day of March, 1917. The Combine estimates the stock of opium in its possession and control on the 1st day of January, 1917, to consist of 2,100 chests.\n\n2. The Combine hereby acknowledges that the object of the Chinese Government in purchasing the said opium as aforesaid is for the purpose of securing it for medicinal purposes and not otherwise for gain.\n\n3. One chest of Malwa opium shall be reckoned to weigh 1 picul, and one chest of Bengal opium to contain forty balls in accordance with custom.\n\n4. The Combine shall continue to pay the Chinese Government the contribution of 3,500 dollars of Mexican currency on every chest of Indian opium taken delivery of from the Combine in Shanghai in pursuance of the hereinbefore recited agreement up to the said 31st day of March, 1917.\n\n5. Payment for opium purchases under this agreement shall be made by the Chinese Government by means of Chinese Government bonds guaranteed by the Chinese Government, and secured on the revenue derived from the stamp duty, out of which commencing from the first year hereof a sum not exceeding 2,500,000 dollars shall be annually set aside for the purpose of meeting the obligations hereunder. Nothing herein contained shall be construed in anywise to empower the Combine to have any control over the stamp duty, but the Chinese Government is bound to fulfill all stipulations hereunder.\n\n6. Such bonds shall bear interest at 6 per cent. per annum payable every half year on every 1st day of January and every 1st day of July, the said interest to accrue from the 1st day of April, 1917.\n\n7. The amount of bonds to be issued by the Chinese Government for the purchase of opium as aforesaid shall not exceed 10,000,000 taels of Shanghai sycee, and shall be redeemable as follows: Twenty per cent. thereof during the sixth year of issue and every succeeding year till the end of the tenth year, when they must all be redeemed.\n\n8. In order to obviate disputes the Chinese Government binds itself not to accept any opium offered by any person or body of persons except the Committee of the Combine.\n\n9. This agreement is executed in sextuplicate for the file of each of the following parties: The Chinese Government, His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking, the Tuchun of Kiangsu, the Civil Governor of Kiangsu, the Special Envoy for the Prohibition of the Sales of Opium in Kiangsu, Kiangse, and Kwangtung, and the Chairman of the Shanghai Opium Combine.\n\nIn witness whereof the said parties hereto have executed this agreement.\n\n5\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nSupplementary Agreement.\n\nSUPPLEMENTARY to the agreement made between the Shanghai Opium Combine of the one part and Feng Kuo Chang, the Tuchun of Kiangsu; Zee Yao Ling, the Civil Governor of Kiangsu; and Wong Che Shwui, the Special Envoy for the prohibition of the sales of opium in Kiangsu, Kiangse, and Kwangtung, acting for the Chinese Government, of the other part, and dated the 28th day of January, 1917 (hereinafter referred to as the \"principal agreement\").\n\nIT is hereby mutually agreed and declared as follows:—\n\n1. Payment for opium purchased by the Chinese Government in pursuance of the principal agreement shall be made by means of 6 per cent. bonds of the first Chinese Republic, the issue whereof was authorised by virtue of the law passed by Parliament and duly promulgated by the President on the 19th of February in the second year of the Republic in accordance with the constitution.\n\n2. Such bonds shall bear interest at 6 per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly, and shall be secured on the revenue derived from the tax on title deeds for land and the stamp duty as provided in the law authorising the issue of the same.\n\n3. Provided, however, that, notwithstanding the period of thirty years limited for the redemption of the said bonds as provided by law, all such bonds given by the Chinese Government in payment of opium as aforesaid, unless earlier drawn and redeemed, shall be paid off not later than ten years from the 1st April, 1917, out of the proceeds of the sale of the opium for medicinal purposes, purchased as aforesaid, or from other sources, as suits the Chinese Government.\n\n4. Clauses 5, 6, and 7 of the principal agreement shall be deemed to be amended so far as they are inconsistent with the above provisions but not further. In other respects the principal agreement is hereby confirmed.\n\nDated the 29th day of January, 1917.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nEnclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Alston to Messrs. D. Sassoon and Co.\n\nPeking, February 26, 1917.\n\nI BEG to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th instant, written on behalf of all British importers of opium, in which you enclose copy of two agreements made with the Chinese Government and invite my approval of the arrangements thereby made for the sale of the stocks of opium remaining unsold on the 31st March next.\n\nI have to point out that these agreements were drawn up without consultation with this Legation, and that the introduction of His Majesty's Minister's name in article 9 of the main agreement is entirely unauthorised.\n\nI am not in a position to take cognizance of these agreements or to take any action in regard thereto unless and until they are communicated to me officially by the Chinese Government in the proper manner through the Wai-chiao Pu.\n\nIn the event, however, of such communication being made to me, I shall refer the matter for the instructions of His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to whom I have forwarded copies of your letter and of the agreements.\n\nI am &c.\n\n0\n\nB. ALSTON.",
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        "content_text": "destination, Shanyao, for scarcely was my camp pitched when a terrific thunderstorm burst over our heads, and its intermittent fury lasted till 10 A.M. the next morning,\n\nWe were now back again in the Têngch'ung district, and three more days, the first two of which descended the undulating paddy-plains flanking the Shweli, brought our tour to a close on the 11th June.\n\nThe sixteen days' continuous travel from Tali via Yunlung to Tengyueh constituted by far the most strenuous section of the whole tour; it included the crossing of five mountain ranges, three of them well over 10,000 feet high, and the other two only a few hundred feet below that level, and the season of its accomplishment was that of the rains. By extraordinary good fortune, on all but two days these refrained from descending until after we had arrived at our halting places for the night, and consequently at all but the highest altitudes, when we were actually in the clouds, we enjoyed the most extensive and glorious views over the surrounding mountains and valleys. Whether owing to the lateness of the season or to the thoroughness of the opium-suppression campaigns, this section of our tour likewise disclosed no trace whatever of poppy cultivation.\n\nThe total period occupied by my tour was seventy-six days, all but seven of which were travelling days; my estimate of the total distance covered is 888 miles, of which I accomplished fully ninety per cent. on foot. The route followed traversed some portion at least of eighteen separate districts, and while it cannot, of course, claim to be in any way exhaustive—the start was far too late to admit of such a possibility—it served, in my opinion, to establish the fact that along considerable stretches of country in both the western and southern circuits of Yunnan the Chinese have undoubtedly made genuine efforts to stamp out, for the time being at any rate, the cultivation of opium. This effort must have cost the province a very large sum of money, estimated by the Tengyueh Taoyin at not less than half a million dollars. As an instance of the heavy expenditure incurred, he assured me that between the months of November and March last his bill for official telegrams on the subject of opium alone, at 6 cents per word, came to over 2,000 dollars.\n\nIt is, of course, too much to hope that the past season's strenuous efforts in the matter of opium suppression, made as they are for a special purpose, will be maintained, and time alone will show whether the Yunnan authorities are relapsing into their normal venal laxity in this matter. If in the course of the next few years it should be thought necessary to despatch similar missions to investigate into the actual state of affairs, I would venture most strongly to recommend that the system of joint enquiry should be definitely abandoned, if possible. The principle of joint enquiry necessarily implies, to my mind, mutual distrust of the officers deputed by both sides to carry out the inspection, and while it is notorious that it would be almost impossible to find throughout the country a Chinese official who could be trusted implicitly to travel unaccompanied and give a true account of conditions along his route, it seems to me unfortunate that British officers should be subjected to the indignity of the company of a Chinese detective to check the accuracy of their observations and report. If, however, it should be found impracticable to depart from the policy crystallised in the Opium Agreement, it should at least, in my opinion, be insisted that the Chinese delegate deputed to accompany the British official should be neither a native of, nor an office-holder in, the region to be traversed.\n\nI have the honour to append herewith an itinerary of the journey, together with a rough sketch map showing the various places passed en route.\n\nI cannot close this report without adding a few words to express my high appreciation of the very great assistance willingly and cheerfully rendered throughout the tour by the consulate writer, Mr. Chang-Po-tuan, in obtaining accurate information from day to day regarding both the route I desired to follow and the facts in relation to opium cultivation in the adjoining territory.\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Consulate, Tengyueh June, 1917.\n\nA. E. EASTES.\n\n(No. 23.) Sir,\n\nPage 11\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Tours to Mr. Alston.\n\n301\n\nIchang, July 20, 1917. IN accordance with the instructions contained in your despatch of the 10th March last, addressed to me at Chungking, I have inspected the eastern portion of the province of Yunnan, for opium-poppy cultivation; and I now have the honour to enclose herewith my report thereon.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nB. G. TOURS,\n\nReport of an Inspection of the Eastern Part of the Province of Yunnan, to learn the Amount of Cultivation of Opium Poppy. May, 1917\n\nUNDER instructions from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, I had left Ichang on the 10th March, 1917, in order to proceed to the province of Kueichow to inspect that province for opium cultivation. I reached Chungking on 27th March, and there I found awaiting me further instructions from His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, ordering me to continue my journey when I had traversed the province of Kueichow, and to make a similar journey of inspection through the eastern part of Yunnan province. I completed my journey through Kueichow province on the 1st May, on which day I arrived at Chiang-ti, a small village on the Ching Ho or Ching-fei Ho, a river which forms the boundary-line between the two provinces of Kueichow and Yunnan at that point. The Chinese official delegates from the provincial capital of Yünnan were awaiting me in a village on the Yunnan side of the river; and having crossed the river into Yünnan at 7:30 on the morning of the 2nd May, I was received by them, and after a brief conference and farewells to the Kueichow delegates who had accompanied me across the river, we proceeded on our journey in Yünnan.\n\nThe Yunnan delegates were two: the senior was Mr. Chan Ping-chung, the head of the Bureau des Renseignements, at Yünnan-fu, a secret service department, and the assistant delegate was a Mr. Yang, a clerk from one of the Yünnan-fu yamêns. I was most unfavourably impressed with the Yünnan delegates. Mr. Chan's manner to me was off-hand and brusque to the point of rudeness; he addressed me as \"ni,\" and in many similar little ways was at some pains to show his disapproval of the expedition. Mr. Yang was a nonentity of an inferior type; I gathered that he owed his appointment as delegate to his knowledge of English, but my efforts to plumb the depths of his knowledge of the English language succeeded in only extracting one English sentence from him, and that he used as answer to every question. It was \"I do not know.\"\n\nPage 13\n\nMr. Sheu Chi, the senior Kueichow delegate, who had accompanied me across the Ching-fei Ho, was evidently of my opinion regarding the Yunnan delegates, for he took me aside and said that if I wished he would make arrangements for Mr. Chien Chih-wan, the assistant Kueichow delegate, to accompany me through Yünnan. I thanked him for the kind suggestion, but told him that I could not think of withdrawing Mr. Chien from his own duties which were awaiting his return to Kueiyang. I resolved, however, to take steps to report Mr. Chan to his superiors if he continued his objectionable attitude. He very soon afforded me the opportunity, for on our departure from Chiang-ti he got into his chair and started off with the escort and the assistant delegate, leaving me to follow by myself. I took the first opportunity of reporting to His Majesty's Consul-General at Yunnan-fu on Mr. Chan's behaviour, and the result was that the Taoyin of Kengtzu received instructions to meet me—and to accompany the expedition for the remainder of the journey as senior Chinese delegate, Mr. Chan being relegated to assistant delegate.\n\nMany changes were noticeable on passing from Kueichow to Yunnan, besides the alteration from courtesy to discourtesy of the Chinese official attitude. The aspect of the country took on a change for the worse, characterised by comparative barrenness and bleakness; and the Yunnan native was of a poorer class and of an inferior type than his Kueichow brother. The general deterioration was visible also in the crops,",
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        "content_text": "306\n\n(No. 14.) Sir,\n\n20\n\nEnclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul Brown to Mr. Alston.\n\nKiukiang, May 8, 1917\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith a report on a journey of investigation into the cultivation of the opium poppy in the province of Kiangsi jointly with officials appointed by the Chinese Government in accordance with article 4 of the Opium Agreement of 1911.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. RUSSELL BROWN.\n\nEnclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nReport on a Journey of Investigation into the Cultivation of the Opium Poppy in the Province of Kiangsi.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that Messrs. Chien Kuang-hsi and Huang Tao-hsiung, the Chinese delegates appointed by the Wai-chiao Pu and the Ministry of the Interior, reached Kiukiang on the 16th March, and left with me by rail on the 19th March for Southern Kiangsi via Nanchang and the River Kan. This route was selected as the most practicable in view of the information in the possession of the consulate, which showed that the cultivation of opium poppy had been completely eradicated in the plains and low-lying parts of the province, and that any opium which might exist would be found in remote places in the mountains. On this point Protestant and Catholic missionaries, native informants, and the local Chinese press were unanimous. The mountainous regions of Kanchou, Yü Tu, Hsing Kuo, Ningtu, and Ihuang in the south and south-east and the range of hills lying on the borders of Chien Chang, An, and Chingan in the north-west were generally regarded as suspicious localities, and I therefore determined to visit these districts in succession. Owing to the difference in climate between the north and south of the province, the poppy flowering three weeks earlier in the Kanchou region than in the An district, we directed our course first to the south.\n\nOur party, augmented by deputies despatched by the provincial administration and escorts of soldiers and police, left Nanchang early on the morning of the 21st March in seven junks, and were towed by steam launches up the Kan River to Wanan. Here on the 28th March we left the river and proceeded by chair to Kan Hsien (formerly Kan Chou), where we arrived on the 30th March.\n\nEnquiries were made by me at the Protestant and Catholic mission stations touched at en route from Nanchang, and I was everywhere informed that the rigorous measures of the magistrate and anti-opium officials had effectually suppressed opium-poppy cultivation in those districts.\n\nThe Protestant and Catholic missionaries at Kan Hsien were equally emphatic on this point, and assured me that it would be waste of time to visit the hills in that region. I accordingly pressed on to Yü Tu, which was reached on the 2nd April, after an exceedingly difficult two days' march.\n\nAs Yü Tu was one of the few districts in which opium poppy was known to have been grown in 1916, I determined to pay particular attention to this region, and after passing the district city, I left the road, climbed the most difficult part of the mountain range, and proceeded inland for a couple of hours' journey, looking with a pair of powerful field-glasses at the pockets of land lying between the hills. In this way I was able to satisfy myself beyond doubt that no opium poppy was under cultivation in an area of many square miles. I eventually regained the main road by a different route, and in the afternoon scaled the mountains to the south-west by a woodcutter's path. Here I spent some four hours in a careful inspection of the surrounding country, and returned convinced that no opium poppy was grown there, as I had been able to see the crops over an area of more than 12 square miles. The climbing in this part of the country was so difficult that only two officers and a few of the soldiers were able to accompany me. We reached the borders of Hsing Kuo district before turning back. I did not enter that district as I had received information at Kan Hsien that opium poppy had been eradicated in that region in 1916 after a severe fight between the troops and the people, in the course of which several persons had been killed and wounded and many houses burned.\n\n21\n\nOn the 5th April we arrived at Ningtu, where we were forced to rest for one day owing to the exhaustion of our party. Many of the soldiers were brought in in chairs, as they were quite unable to walk.\n\nAt Ningtu, Mr. and Mrs. Seipel, German missionaries in charge of the China Inland Mission station in that city, gave me a most cordial welcome, and assured us that the poppy was believed to be extinct in that region. The resident Chinese Catholic priest, however, supplied me with the name of one possible opium-poppy-growing locality, the Mi Shih Chai mountain, 70 li from Ningtu, on the road to Ihuang.\n\nOn the 8th April we left in a northerly direction for Ihuang, and stopped the night at Lo K'ou. Here eight people were shot in 1915 in an affray between the opium growers and the troops despatched to carry out suppression work.\n\nThe Mi Shih Chai mountain was situated some 10 li from Lo K'ou, and early on the morning of the 9th April we mounted it by a difficult path, and spent five hours in a careful exploration of the countryside. This region is said to be infested with tigers, so extra precautions were taken for the safety of our party. No poppy could be discovered anywhere, and the remains of the previous year's crops seen in the fields showed that none had been grown last year.\n\nWe arrived at Ihuang on the 11th April, and from there proceeded to Lin Ch'uan (formerly Fu Chou), where we embarked on board junks and were towed by steam launch to Tu Chia Pu, in the Chien Ch'ang district. As the country was flooded we were able to make use of certain shallow channels and short cuts, whereby we saved between one and two days' time.\n\nIn the range of mountains lying on the borders of the three districts of Yung Hsiu (formerly Chien Ch'ang), An, and Ching An, the names of Hsia Ping, Mei Ling, and Ch'üan Shui Ch'iu had been given as possible opium-poppy-growing localities, and we therefore proceeded from Tu Chia Pu, via Yung Hsiu district city to Pai Ch'a, which appeared to be the most convenient centre for visiting the places in question. Hsia Ping, Mei Ling, and Ch'üan Shui Ch'iu were found to be in close proximity, and on the 17th April I made a careful inspection and traversed the district without finding any trace of poppy, although the paths we took led us well into the heart of the hills away from the main roads. From here we crossed the mountains to An and entered the more level country leading to Feng Hsin and Kao An (formerly Jui-chou Fu). We arrived at Kao An on the 20th April. My intention had been to proceed to Shangkao and the Wan Tsai district, but in view of the advanced date and the favourable information received from the missionaries at Kao An it appeared waste of time to investigate further in this direction, and I accordingly returned to Kiukiang via Nanchang. I spent a day and a half in the provincial capital as the guest of the civil Governor, and returned to my post at Kiukiang on the 24th April.\n\nMethod of Inspection.\n\nIn those districts where the names of possible opium-poppy-growing localities had been furnished, the Chinese delegates and I visited and inspected each of the places in question. In those regions where it was commonly believed that poppy might possibly be found somewhere in the hills, I picked out the highest and most accessible part of the mountain range, ascended it by any track that could be found, and proceeded inland or along the crest for some miles until I had satisfied myself by the aid of powerful field-glasses that no poppy was under cultivation. In order to obtain fuller information as to the crops, official anti-opium proclamations, people, and general conditions, I walked for the greater part of the overland journey, and was thereby enabled to see much that might otherwise have escaped my notice.\n\nRelations with Chinese Officials.\n\nFrom first to last I have met with the utmost courtesy and consideration at the hands of the military and civil governors and their subordinates. The district magistrates and the gentry of every district visited have extended the heartiest hospitality to me as the representative of His Majesty's legation. Every facility was given me for visiting and inspecting any part of the country, and my wishes were met in every respect.\n\nThe successful organisation of our party reflects the greatest credit on Mr. Wang Nien-tsu, the Kiukiang magistrate, and the officers under his control. It is entirely due to ...\n\n[2729 k-1]\n\nG",
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        "content_text": "310\n\n28\n\nthe valleys near the river. The staple crops were paddy and tobacco. Taoyin arrived from Swatow in the afternoon.\n\nApril 15. Returned to Swatow by launch, accompanied by the Taoyin. To return by road was impossible, owing to the swollen state of the rivers and streams.\n\nEnclosure 11 in No. 1.\n\nConsul Toller to Mr. Alston.\n\n(No. 16.) Sir,\n\nNingpo, June 4, 1917. IN continuation of my despatch No. 15 of the 19th April last, I have the honour to report that on the 23rd April I met, at Nanking, Mr. Yü Shou-chang, the deputy appointed by the Governor of Kiangsu for the inspection of the province, and on the following day Messrs. Chao Hang-nien and Mou Chia-yo, the delegates of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of the Interior respectively. The Governor of Chekiang had also appointed a deputy, Mr. Chang Chin, the headmaster of the Middle School here, who accompanied me from Ningpo. This appointment was probably made because the Governors of Kiangsu and of Chekiang are brothers, and with the idea that Mr. Chang, whom I already knew well, might serve as a mediator between the Kiangsu delegate and myself in case of any difficulty or dispute, but I am glad to say no occasion for his services in this connection ever arose.\n\nFrom Mr. Giles I learned that the former opium-producing regions were in the country north of the Yang-taze, generally known as Kiangpei, and that the only territory in which there was any likelihood of poppy being found was the Hau-Hai Circuit. Mr. Ottewill had kindly furnished me with a copy of his despatch No. 20 of the 25th March last, and this together with the information which he gave me in Chinkiang from reports made in 1915, also indicated the northern part of the province as the area to be investigated. I accordingly arranged with the Chinese deputies to start our tour from Hsüchowfu, for which place we left by train on the 26th April, arriving at midnight the same day.\n\nThe following day was spent in making preparations for the lengthy chair-journey, and on the 28th April we proceeded to Hsiao Hsien. In this district we also made a circuit through the hilly country to the south of the town towards the Anhui border, striking across the ranges of hills that radiate from the town so as to examine the sheltered valleys, which were the most likely haunts of the poppy. I also climbed the highest point in the group, in order to get a wide view over the surrounding country.\n\nFrom Hsiao Hsien we went to Tang-shan Hsien, covering the distance of 150 li in a day, keeping near the Honan border—in fact, for a short distance our road took us through Honan territory. Tang-shan was, in the past, one of the most noted opium-producing areas in Kiangsu; it lies on the borders of three provinces, so appeared to be a district where, perhaps, the repressive measures might be less effective than elsewhere. We accordingly made an excursion into the surrounding country, visiting the fortified village of Hsieh Chi, on the border of Kiangsu, Shantung, and Honan, and returning by a different route.\n\nOur journey was then continued to Feng Hsien and P'ei Hsien. Between Feng Hsien and P'ei Hsien we did not take the direct road, but made a detour to the south in order to get from Hun Shan, one of the very rare hills in this locality, an opportunity of surveying a wide area. From P'ei Hsien back to Hsüchowfu we also made a detour to the east with the object of examining the country bordering on the Wei-shan Lake.\n\nThe second stage of our journey took us from Hsüchowfu to Haichow, through Pi Hsien. From Pi Hsien to Haichow we travelled by a small road close to the Shantung border for the greater part of the way. This led us through the districts of Sutsien and Shuyang, including the country north-east of Yao-wan, where it was reported, in 1915, that a good deal of poppy had been planted. We did not visit the towns of Sutsien and Shuyang, as I was anxious to keep away from the main roads as far as possible.\n\nThe information received from the members of the American Presbyterian Mission at Haichow, who travel a great deal through the country on motor-bicycles, indicated that Kan-yü, to the north of Haichow, was not formerly an opium-producing district, and that there was little object in visiting that magistracy. As Kan-yü is, so to speak, a cul-de-sac, and a journey through the territory would have taken three or four days,\n\n29\n\nafter which we should have had to return to Haichow, I thought it better not to waste time on a visit there while there were important areas further south still to be inspected, so from Haichow we proceeded to Kuan-yün, which has been a hsien only since the revolution, and was formerly known as Pan-p'u. Here it was reported, in 1915, that \"very large quantity\" of poppy had been planted; we therefore, in addition to traversing the district from north to south, made excursions both to the east and west of the town, returning in each case by a fresh route.\n\nLien-shui (better known under its old name of Autung) and Fowning were the next places visited. These were indicated in Mr. Ottewill's despatch of the 26th March as districts to be regarded with suspicion. I made careful enquiries of the representative of the China Inland Mission at Lienshui, who travels a great deal in the country by bicycle, but he stated that he had neither seen nor heard of any opium cultivation. In Fowning we made a circuit of the country to the north-east of the town, in the direction of the old bed of the Yellow River.\n\nThe remainder of the journey was made by boat through Yen-ch'eng, Tung-t'ai, T'ai Hsien, and Yangchow to Chinkiang. I deferred any decision as to the necessity of inspecting the country south of the Yang-taze until I had had an opportunity of consulting Mr. Ottewill; he confirmed the information I had received in Nanking that this area was not an opium-producing region, and that no good purpose would be served by a journey through it, so I informed the Chinese delegates that I regarded our investigation as finished.\n\nThe total distance covered on the tour of inspection was about 800 miles, of which we travelled upwards of 500 miles by chair and over 250 miles by boat. During the chair journey I walked the greater part of the way, and seized every opportunity of ascending any elevation that might serve as a vantage ground for observation. The country which we traversed by boat was of less importance from an opium-producing point of view, though the Chinkiang archives showed that some poppy was grown in the Huai-an prefecture in 1914 and 1915. Here, too, I walked wherever practicable, but throughout the whole journey, as I had the honour to report in my telegram No. 3 of the 30th ultimo, I could not discover the slightest indication of poppy cultivation. It is, of course, impossible for one man in a limited time to make an exhaustive investigation; to do this it would probably be necessary to devote a week to each hsien—but in view of the facts that we made frequent and wide detours from the road; that for a considerable portion of the way we travelled by unfrequented tracks; and that in several magistracies we spent one or more extra days making circular excursions into the surrounding country, I feel justified in saying that if poppies were being grown we should have been bound to come across them at some point, and that, as none was seen or heard of, it is safe to deduce that none has been grown this year, unless, perhaps, on a very small scale in the most secluded spots, though I have no evidence to support even this exception.\n\nThe repressive measures adopted by the provincial authorities appear to have been very strict and to have been energetically enforced; the prohibition extended even to the cultivation of poppies for decorative purposes in flower gardens. Governor Ch'i informed me that he had sent out deputies to each hsien three times: first, at the time when the poppy seed would be sown; again, at the time when the plant would first be visible; and, finally, when it would be in flower. General Chang Hsun also told me through Hsüchow and Haichow his troops had assisted in the search for, and prohibition of, poppy growing. Mr. Yü Shou-chang, the Kiangsu delegate, said that he had himself earlier in the year made a preliminary examination of the districts which he regarded as most open to suspicion. Anti-opium proclamations were posted everywhere, and in some places (notably Pei Hsien) I noticed painted on the walls of houses the character ch'a (“examined\"), purporting to show that a house-to-house search had been effected.\n\nOne matter worthy of mention is the widespread scattering of black seeds, said to be those of \"foreign poppy.\" The practice prevailed over a wide area; reports of it first came to my notice in Sutsien and Shuyang, after which they were heard in every district we passed through, including Shanghai. An astonishing variety of rumours was in circulation; the work was ascribed to the Shanghai opium combine, to the missionaries, to Germans, and to secret societies. It was also said that the seed was sown from an aeroplane, evidence of which was found in the fact that the seeds had been discovered on the roofs of houses. Miraculous properties were claimed for this \"foreign poppy,\" which was said to produce its crop within ten days of sowing the seed. A missionary at Lienshui was able to show me a specimen of the seed, which bears not the slightest resemblance to that of poppy; it is approximately the size and shape of a ...\n\n[2729 k-1]",
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        "content_text": "30\n\nlupin seed. The plant is known as Ch'ing (the character is not to be found in a dictionary). Mr. Meu Chia-ye, the delegate of the Ministry of the Interior, said that he knew the plant, which is grown extensively in Shantung (his native province) and used as an inferior substitute for hemp. The matter has, I understand, been reported to you by His Majesty's consuls at Nanking and Chinkiang. It seems evident that the reports and the scattering of the seeds represent an organised movement undertaken with malicious intent, though the idea of anyone giving credence to tales of opium being sown in the latter part of May seems sufficiently ridiculous.\n\nMention should also perhaps be made of the prolonged drought from which the northern part of the province was suffering when I was there. Scarcely any rain had fallen for eight months; there had been no snow in the winter; and throughout the Hsüchow and Haichow prefectures the wheat was deplorably poor and backward. Unless rain has since fallen, it is to be feared that an extensive area will be afflicted with famine this year. Incidentally the drought has facilitated the suppression of opium, even had any been sown it is doubtful whether the crop would have matured.\n\nIn conclusion, I would beg to express my keen appreciation of the kindness, courtesy, and consideration which I uniformly received from all my Chinese colleagues, who did all they could to render a tedious and tiring journey as comfortable and agreeable as possible for me.\n\n(Translation.) Sir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\nW. STARK TOLLER.\n\nEnclosure 12 in No. 1.\n\nWai-chiao Pu to Mr. Alston.\n\nPeking, April 27, 1917. WITH reference to this year's joint inspection of opium cultivation, I have the honour to inform you that I received the following telegram from the Military and Civil Governors of Kiangsi on the 25th instant:-\n\n\"Chien Kuang Hsi and Huang Chao Hsiung, the deputies sent by the Ministries, the British consul, Mr. Brown, and the provincial delegates, Wang Nien Tzu, and others, who were appointed for the joint inspection of opium cultivation in Kiangsi, arrived at the provincial capital on the 29th March. They first visited the high country and went from the district of the southern Taoyin to the eastern and then to the northern Taoyins' districts. They travelled up and down hills and along streams and visited all the district magistracies. Boats and carts were prepared for their use and servants were supplied, whilst instructions for their protection were given to the police and military along the route. They returned to Nanchang on the 22nd April and reported that they had searched in every direction but had found no trace of poppy, and that although they had made enquiries along all the roads they had not heard of a single stalk or leaf. They admitted, therefore, that the entire province had been cleared of the plant. The British consul expressed thanks for the courteous treatment accorded to him and returned to Kiukiang on the 24th instant, and the deputies from the Ministries, Chien Kuang Hsi and Huang Chao Hsiung, returned to Peking.\n\n'The prohibition of the cultivation of opium has been in force in Kiangsi for many years. Every winter and spring the district magistrates are ordered to take effective steps for its suppression, and from time to time troops are sent to assist them therewith. On several occasions also officials have been sent to encourage and warn the eighty-one district magistrates to greater efforts, and in the last two years the eradication of opium has been completed.\n\n\"In the present instance the deputies from the Ministries and the British consul have conducted their joint investigation by land and water. Their journey covered a distance of over 2,000 li and lasted more than a month. They have now happily completed their labours, and we have the honour to send you a preliminary notification by telegraph.\"\n\nMr. Chien Kuang Hsi, the deputy from this Ministry, has also telegraphed in the above sense, and I have the honour to inform you accordingly.\n\nI also have the honour to inform you that the deputies appointed by the Wai-chiao Pu and the Ministry of the Interior for the inspection of Kiangsu have left Peking, and\n\n31\n\nthat a telegram has been received from the Governor of Kiangsu stating that the province is sending the expectant Taoyin, Mr. Yi Shou Chang, as an additional delegate.\n\nWU TING FANG.\n\nEnclosure 13 in No. 1.\n\nWai-chiao Pu to Mr. Alston.\n\n(Translation.) Sir,\n\nPeking, May 8, 1917. WITH reference to this year's joint opium inspections, I had the honour on the 26th ultimo to communicate to you a telegram from the Military and Civil Governors of Kiangsi reporting that the inspection of that province had been completed and that the cultivation of opium had been completely eradicated.\n\nI have now received a telegram from the Military and Civil Governors of Kuangtung as follows:-\n\n\"We deputed the Chao Hsun Taoyin, Huang Hsiao Chuch and others to accompany the British delegate on a joint inspection to all the well-known opium districts of the province. The inspection has been completed without any poppy having been found, and the British delegate has signed a statement to the effect that poppy cultivation in Kuangtung has been completely eradicated and has sent a report to the British Minister at Peking.\"\n\nThe following telegram has also been received from the Military Governor of Kueichow:-\n\n\"The British consul, Mr. Tours, arrived in the province on the 4th April and travelled personally by the North road through the districts of Tung-tze, Tsun-yi, Chien-hai, Chih-chin, and Pu-ting round to An Hsun, Chen-ning, Kuan-ling, Nan-lung, and Hsing-yi, and at the same time he requested the missionary societies in Kueichow to make secret enquiries in all directions. They found that opium cultivation had been completely eradicated.\n\nThe British consul left the province on the 1st instant and took the main West road to Yünnan. Shen Yi, the delegate sent by the province, has telegraphed stating that Mr. Tours completed his inspection without incident and announced that he was satisfied that opium had been entirely suppressed in Kueichow and that he had already sent a very favourable report by telegraph to the British Minister in Peking.\"\n\nI have the honour to communicate for your information the above reports of the joint inspections in Kuang-tung and Kueichow, and avail, &c.\n\n(Translation.) Sir.\n\nEnclosure 14 in No. 1.\n\nWai-chiao Pu to Mr. Alston.\n\nWU TING FANG.\n\nPeking, June 7, 1917. WITH reference to the joint opium inspections that are taking place this year, I have already had the honour to communicate to you reports that I have received from Kiangsi, Kuangtung, and Kueichow to the effect that the inspections were completed and that the provinces in question had been found cleared of opium.\n\nOn the 3rd instant I received a telegram from the Governor of Kiangsu stating that the British official, Mr. Toller, set out on the 26th April, in company with the delegates sent by the Ministries and the province, on their tour of investigation. This has now been completed with the result that no poppy has been found anywhere in the province. The British official returned to Ningpo from Shanghai on the 28th May.\n\nI have the honour to inform you of the above, and I avail, &c.\n\nWU TING FANG.\n\n31",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nOPIUM.\n\n[181612]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n312\n\n[September\n\nRECE REG? 16 OCT 17\n\nMr. Alston to Mr. Balfour.-(Received September 18.)\n\n(No. 224.) Sir,\n\nPeking, July 24, 1917.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 145 of the 11th May on the subject of the Opium Combine Agreement, I have the honour to transmit herewith copies of further correspondence between the Wai-chiao Pu and myself.\n\nThe note of the 18th May in reply to my protest against the closing of the ports of Shanghai and Canton can only be described as amazing. If taken seriously it can but mean that in the opinion of the Chinese Government the agreement of 1911 has already ceased to be effective, and that the inspection of the six remaining open provinces now in process of completion was not a joint inspection under article 4, but merely a pleasure trip undertaken by British officials at the invitation of the Chinese Government for the purpose of viewing the latter's success in the eradication of opium growing.\n\nI can only suppose that, owing to the political importance attaching to the combine's agreement by reason of the connection therewith of the Vice-President of the Republic, the party sympathies of the Minister for Foreign Affairs allowed him to put his name to a document which, by deliberately confusing the term for the cessation of export from India and the term of the agreement itself, endeavours to justify the argument used, both by the anti-opium reformers and the anti-Government Radical party, that Great Britain has no ground for further concern with the opium trade or the treatment of British opium merchants in China.\n\nUnfortunately, almost simultaneously with the writing of this note, the Chinese Government ceased to function, the Premier was dismissed four days later, and was followed in due course by the author of the note, Dr. Wu Ting Fang. For a month there was no Cabinet which could take the responsibility of discussing this or any other question, but as soon as the attempt to reconstitute a Cabinet under Mr. Li Ching Hsi after the dissolution of Parliament showed signs of success I handed personally to the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs on the 26th June my reply to the Wai-chiao Pu's note, and was assured that an answer would be forthcoming within a week as soon as the Cabinet was complete.\n\nFour days later the monarchy was restored by Chang Hsun and the functions of Government were again suspended.\n\nLast week the Republican Government was re-established with Mr. Wang Ta Hsien as Minister for Foreign Affairs, and I was immediately asked by the latter to take up the opium question with the Vice-Minister, to whom I had handed my note of the 26th June.\n\nI found Mr. Kao very anxious to know whether I thought that a means could be found of reaching an early and satisfactory solution of the question which would avoid the necessity of any discussion of our treaty rights or the validity of the combine's agreement.\n\nAs it was evident that the political side of the question was once more uppermost in Mr. Kao's thoughts, and that his real object was to smooth the way for the Vice-President's early arrival in Peking to assume the Presidency without the fear of awkward questions regarding his prior connection with an opium deal, I listened to Mr. Kao's remarks with some sympathy.\n\nHis idea in brief was that the price named in the Combine Agreement of 8,200 dollars a chest was too high, but that if this could be adjusted and the claims of the opium merchants met in a manner satisfactory to the legation, he assumed that His Majesty's Government would not consider it necessary to pursue a controversy regarding the exact meaning of the 1911 Agreement and the degree of validity to which the combine's agreement in its present form was entitled.\n\nI pointed out in reply that His Majesty's Government could not but take a grave view of the action of the Chinese Government in deliberately ignoring the plain wording of the 1911 Agreement, and that under no circumstances would the six\n\n[2720 -1]",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nGovernment to carry out the agreement forwarded to you in my despatch No. 111 of the 19th March.\n\nI informed them that, as the agreement had not been communicated to you by the Chinese Government, official cognisance could not, I understand, be taken of it; and I reminded them that this agreement, like that of 1915, was negotiated privately without any reference to any British officer. Their obvious course was to take such proceedings as they were advised against the other parties to this private compact.\n\nMr. Ezra favoured me with a full account of the reasons for and the course of the negotiations, which he was sure were constantly reported to the Cabinet.\n\nI replied that, if they could prove this latter fact, their position would of course be strong, though even so, China's failure to notify His Majesty's Legation of recognition of the agreement would be a serious omission.\n\nAfter further conversation, during which I was told that China was to take over opium to the full extent of 10,000,000 Shanghai taels at 8,200 taels a chest, and that as to the balance of some 300 chests left over out of the total stock, the combine had made an agreement with the Chinese to buy it at its own risk, I insisted that all I could do was to forward to you any written statement they might make of their position.\n\nThey left after begging me to support their claim.\n\nTheir statement, however, did not reach me till yesterday and this morning Mr. White-Cooper wrote to say that, as I have telegraphed, he and Mr. Ezra were proceeding to Peking on the morning of the 29th instant in order to put their position fully before you. I was asked nevertheless to send on the statement, copy of which is enclosed.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nE. H. FRASER.\n\nMessrs. D. Sassoon and Co. to Consul-General Sir E. Fraser.\n\nShanghai, April 26, 1917.\n\nWhen the merchants concluded their agreement with the Chinese Government last January it was confidently anticipated that the interest of British subjects in the opium trade would entirely cease when the month of March came to an end. It was believed that a satisfactory solution for the disposal of the residue of the stocks had been found, and that it would be unnecessary ever again to invoke the assistance of the British Government in the difficult, but most important, question of opium.\n\nWe regret to say that our anticipations have not been realised, and we appear to be again faced with that callous disregard of obligations by the Chinese Government which has unfortunately been so conspicuous in their dealings with the opium trade during the last eight or nine years.\n\nThe agreement which was entered into on the 28th January last was the outcome of prolonged discussion and negotiation between the merchants and the duly authorised representatives of the Chinese Government. It differed in no essential from such contracts as a Government makes from time to time when it purchases something which it desires to acquire from merchants or manufacturers.\n\nThe merchants were anxious enough to sell their stocks, and though they would have preferred to sell them for cash, they were willing to accept the depreciated bonds of the Chinese Government in order to finish with the trade. The bargain doubtless suited the Chinese Government, as it secured the continuity of the contribution of 3,500 dollars per chest which we had threatened to stop last October, and enabled them to acquire the stocks at a figure which, when expressed in the cash value of the bonds, was a very moderate one.\n\nThe contract was duly signed, and bears the signatures and official seals of Feng Kuo Chang, the Tuchun of Kiangsu; Zee Yao Ling, the civil Governor of Kiangsu and Wong Che Shwui, the special envoy for the prohibition of the sales of opium in Kiangsu, Kiangse, and Kwangtung.\n\nThe fact that this agreement had been entered into by the Government was soon announced in the public press, both Chinese and foreign, and questions were asked about it in the Chinese Parliament and answered by the Government, who took full responsibility; and it will be noted that no suggestion has ever been put forward that the signing was not duly authorised by the Cabinet of the Chinese Government. Not only has there been no repudiation on this account, but both the agreement itself and the acts of the representatives of the Chinese Government have been recognised by the Government, and they have actually acted on the agreement.\n\n3\n\nFor immediately after the 31st March the Customs were closed to opium by orders of the Government, and not a chest could thereafter be imported or removed from the bonded godowns. The effect of this closing was that the Government took possession of the stocks which they had agreed to acquire, and deprived the owners of all powers of dealing with them. That this closure was contrary to treaty is obvious, but as it was treated by the merchants as part and parcel of the completion of the arrangement for the purchase of the stocks, no protest was of course made.\n\nImmediately after the agreement was signed it was produced to you in order that His Majesty's Government might be informed of what had been done; and in the ordinary way the Chinese Government should also have officially informed His Majesty's Minister of the agreement; but this, we understand, has not been done so far, in spite of our repeated requests.\n\nWhen the agreement was signed the merchants assumed, and, we think, were entitled to assume, that it would be carried out, and they acted on this assumption.\n\nThe action of the Chinese Government completely misled the merchants, and the closing of the Customs was regarded as having clinched the matter, and the result is that the merchants are now left with large stocks in hand.\n\nWe need hardly say that the merchants would have acted very differently if they had any reason to believe that the stocks would not be taken over in accordance with the agreement.\n\nBy the 18th April the merchants had become anxious at the delay in completing the bargain, and we addressed a letter to His Excellency Feng Kuo Chang and the other signatories as per copy enclosed.\n\nRecently suggestions were put forward, chiefly by the anti-opium party, that there had been underhand dealing (which we indignantly deny), and the Government thereupon sent two Commissioners to Shanghai to investigate and report.\n\nIt appears from the Chinese press that the report of the Commissioners sent to investigate has now been made, and that it exonerates all parties from the suspicion of corruption; but it is stated that it was decided, at a Cabinet meeting held on the 18th April, to cancel the agreement.\n\nIt is, perhaps, hardly realised what huge sums are involved, and what disastrous results would follow cancellation at this late hour, but it must be noted that the loss would amount to a vast sum, as the stocks would be unsaleable and practically valueless.\n\nThe merchants have no remedy at law which is of any value, and they therefore trust that representations may be made to the Chinese Government to prevent so great a breach of good faith as cancellation of the agreement in question. The fact that the Chinese Government has abstained from reporting the agreement to His Majesty's Minister (as it should have done) seems hardly sufficient to justify it in inflicting this immense injury on the merchants without protest from His Majesty's Minister, and we therefore confidently hope that the support of His Majesty's Minister may be accorded to us in our efforts to prevent the Government of China being guilty of so great an injustice.\n\nWe are, &c.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\n(For David Sassoon and Co., Limited),\n\nA. HOWARD, Manager\n\n[On behalf of British opium merchants.]\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nShanghai Opium Combine to Feng Kuo Chang.\n\nShanghai, April 18, 1917.\n\nOn behalf of the members of the Shanghai Opium Combine, I have the honour to approach your Excellency as a signatory, on behalf of the Government of China, of the agreements concluded with the combine for the purchase of the residue of its stock of opium existing on the 31st March, 1917. The sale was to be completed on the following day, but we are very much concerned to find that though over two weeks have since elapsed the Government has not yet taken delivery of its opium nor handed us our bonds in payment as stipulated. It seems to be suggested in your Excellency's\n\n325",
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        "content_text": "It was in these out-of-the-way western districts along the Kansu border that much of the opium that went to enrich Lu Chien-chang was produced in 1915.\n\nI had intended to continue to work northwards through the mountainous country along the Kansu border if possible all the way to Yenan-fu, but at this point, for the first time on the journey, I was compelled to abandon my proposed route owing to the objections and difficulties raised by the Chinese authorities. It should be explained that at the time of the inspection much of the north of the province was in the hands of disbanded and revolted soldiery who had taken to brigandage, more or less with the acquiescence of the provincial authorities, who, failing funds to re-enrol them as soldiers, had no means of dealing with them; so that in the districts north of Yaochou and the Wei Valley plains all ordinary traffic on the roads had long since ceased. I therefore expected some sort of protest when we started northwards from Fenghsiang-fu, but I felt that we could hardly omit about half the province from the inspection on that account, the more so as there were reasons to suspect poppy cultivation in the brigand-infested northern districts. My Chinese colleagues, while agreeing that it was most unlikely that the brigands, a partly political force which might at any time become a successful revolutionary army, would knowingly attack a party containing a British consular official, yet declined to proceed to parts where they would be at the mercy of the brigands and unable to protect either me or themselves. They argued that it was impossible to proceed to the north of the province without at least a company of soldiers, and that it would be impracticable to penetrate with so large a force into the wild and sparsely populated regions I proposed to visit without undertaking an expedition on the scale of a small campaign; and, though they did not openly say as much, they hinted that the existing military forces of Shensi at their disposal, being largely composed of ex-brigands, were so unreliable that a unit of them could not be trusted in such out-of-the-way parts, a fact of which I was well aware; nor indeed was it the policy of the Provincial Government to come into serious armed conflict with these brigands, whose assistance might at any time be required, as happened in the preceding year, in a conflict with Peking or another province.\n\nYaochou to Yenan.—Admitting the truth of their arguments, at any rate in so far as concerned the lack of control exercised by the provincial authorities throughout the north and the unreliability of the troops at their disposal, and being convinced that they were honestly doing their best to make the inspection a success, I agreed to a compromise, and turning eastwards from Ch'unhua to Yaochou we travelled thence northwards through the districts of Tungkuan, Yichun, Chungpu, Lech'uan, Foochou, and Kauch'uan to Yenan-fu, about eight days' journey. This is the main trail to the north of the province, and was therefore garrisoned with troops. This may, for all I know, be the only occasion on which a party inspecting a province under the treaty, have been unable to proceed where they wanted to go; but under the very abnormal conditions obtaining in Shensi at the time I think the Chinese authorities were justified in their attitude.\n\nSince the sporadic enforcement in Shensi of anti-opium measures during the past few years, the Yenan neighbourhood has become more and more one of the chief centres of so-called secret poppy cultivation owing to its isolation, and to the fact that whole districts have been on and off controlled by brigands during these years. The country is exceedingly poor and barren in appearance, and very sparsely populated, but the poppy is nowadays cultivated not only in fertile well-watered valleys and plains, as used to be the case, but in wild and inaccessible mountain regions, like the Chinlingshan in the south and these mountains in the north. Probably some was sown here last spring—it is asserted that the brigands force the peasants to plant it—but I found that the Taoyin of the northern circuit and the local officials had been very energetic in so far as lay in their power, and think it unlikely that much opium, if any, will be harvested there this season. There is, however, no doubt that the poppy was grown extensively and openly in this neighbourhood last year, and that it was already above ground at the time the joint inspection was applied for by General Lu Chien-chang. The then provincial authorities must have known the north was not clean, but probably took it for granted that the brigands would effectually prevent the inspecting party visiting the northern districts at all. I brought the matter to the notice of the present authorities, but they naturally declined all responsibility for the acts of their predecessors, whom they had displaced by force of arms.\n\nYenan to Hanch'eng.—At Yenan-fu the news of the crisis in Peking and Shensi's declaration of independence reached us together with wild rumours of impending trouble in Sian-fu and the province generally. I had from the first decided that Yenan would have to be the northern limit of our tour owing to the advancing season. But in any case my Chinese colleagues were now so thoroughly alarmed that it would have been impossible to have induced them to penetrate still further into the brigand-infested country to the north. The political situation in Shensi being already most insecure, they anticipated, should civil war break out between the provinces, the collapse of the Sian-fu Government, followed by the usual military outbreaks and local rebellions, which would find us stranded in these remote districts. The position of the two Peking delegates was particularly awkward, representing as they did the Central Government in a province which had declared its independence. It was fortunate the news did not reach us earlier, for otherwise they would probably have refused to proceed to the north at all. As it was, they desired only to get out of these lawless northern districts as soon as possible, without being particularly anxious to follow the main road, with its unreliable garrisons of ex-brigands in doing so. As a result, we were enabled to carry out my original plan for the return journey, and proceeding eastwards for two days' march to Yench'ang, we travelled thence south through Yich'uan to Hanch'eng to the Yellow River, a long and difficult five days' journey by little-known trails through wild and almost uninhabited mountains. With the exception of the Top'ing trail in the south, this was about the hardest portion of the whole arduous tour, owing to the difficult mountain paths and the extreme poverty of the brigand-infested country traversed. The whole of Northern Shensi has been practically abandoned to the brigands during recent years, and in this remote region the effects were shockingly apparent. The ravages of brigands are actually depopulating the countryside, and empty cities, abandoned villages, untilled fields, and ruined farms were everywhere met with. To give one instance, the district city of Yich'uan, formerly quite a large and prosperous place, is now empty save for the magistrate and his staff and a dozen or so families of the poorest class, the former inhabitants having abandoned their homes and emigrated to other districts or provinces after being raided by the brigands time after time. Most of the other district cities in the north are in much the same plight, and no one but the poorest coolie ventures on the roads. I mention this to show the extraordinary state of affairs at present existing in Northern Shensi, and the lawless conditions with which the Chinese authorities had to cope in suppressing cultivation and arranging for the joint inspection. The chief action they took in the latter respect was to enrol a regiment of local brigands as Government troops early this year, and station them in and around Kanch'uan and Yench'ang as a measure of pacification to enable the joint inspection party to proceed to that neighbourhood, this being the recognised method of dealing with these brigands when they become particularly objectionable, provided funds are available to pay them. It is, however, only a local and temporary alleviation; and it is to be feared that, on the occasion of the next revolution or rebellion in which Shensi is involved, the Sian-fu authorities will lose what little authority they now exercise in the north of the province, and that there is then likely to be a considerable recrudescence of poppy cultivation in that region.\n\nHanch'eng to Sian.—From Hanch'eng we proceeded south-west through the fertile districts of Loyang, Ch'engch'eng, Puch'eng, Tup'ing, and Sanyuan to Sian-fu, the provincial capital, a long week's journey. We remained there a few days, being entertained by the provincial authorities, but the programme of receptions, banquets, and other festivities was somewhat interfered with by the political crisis, one of our two principal hosts, the Civil Governor, being held under arrest by the other, his military colleague.\n\nFrom the time we emerged from the mountains at Hanch'eng till we re-entered the Ch'inling ranges south of Paochi, two to three weeks later, we were travelling through districts where the poppy was ordinarily speaking out of season, the wheat being already harvested. But I had purposely arranged to be crossing the plains of Central Shensi at that time of the year owing to the custom there of growing the poppy. That is to say, instead of being sown in early spring and harvested as a summer crop in May and June, before the wheat, as is usually the case, it is sometimes planted in early summer so as to be in flower in July. This is what was done to a considerable extent in 1916, when the joint inspection which had been arranged for having been cancelled at the last moment, the farmers in some districts in Central Shensi, realising the situation, found time to reap a good harvest of opium by growing the poppy as a summer crop.\n\nSian to Paochi.—From Sian-fu we travelled west for a week through the rich districts of Central Shensi, Hsienyang, Hsingp'ing, Wukang, Fufeng, Ch'ishan, and Paochi. Ch'ishan particularly was formerly notorious for spring and summer opium.\n\nPage 367",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 1 in No. 1\n## Three Presidential Mandates issued September 29.\n\n### (1.) Convocation of Parliament\n\n**THE** convocation of Parliament is provided for in article 53 of the Provisional Constitution. It is of paramount importance that with the revival of the republican form of government all those organs of the Government as are provided for therein should be established. The Ministry of the Interior is hereby instructed to establish, in accordance with the precedent obtaining in the first year of the republic, a special bureau for the preparation of the convocation of the National Parliament, so that all matters connected with the election of members can be facilitated.\n\n### (2.) National Council and its Work\n\nThe original Parliamentary Organisation Law and the law governing the election of members of the two Houses of Parliament were passed by the former National Council in the first year of the republic and promulgated by the late President Yuan Shih Kai. However, owing to the impracticability of these laws, many political upheavals have been caused during the past few years. Under the present circumstances it is most important that these laws should be speedily revised. The high officials of the provinces, Mongolia, Tibet, and Chinghai, are hereby ordered to elect and appoint in accordance with law members of the National Council so that they will be able to arrive at Peking within a month's time and organise the National Council for the purpose of revising and passing the Parliamentary Organisation and Election Laws. Apart from this function, all other legislative duties shall be carried out by the formal Parliament to be convened in accordance with law, so as to emphasise the importance of the Legislature.\n\n### (3.) Rebels in Canton\n\nSun Wen, Wu Ching-lien, and others have recently circulated a telegram throughout the provinces unlawfully stating that an extraordinary Parliament had established a Military Government and had elected Sun Wen as its generalissimo, and that the latter had assumed the said illegal office on the 10th of the present month. The telegram also announced the illegal appointment of various Ministers, a Chief of the General Staff, and a Commander-in-chief, and issued many illegal orders calculated to incite the army to rebellion.\n\nA report has since been received from Chang Tso-ling, Tuchun of Fengtien, stating that several arrests have been made lately in his province of men appointed by Sun Wen to enlist the help of Hunghutze banditti in preparation for a general rising, and that substantial evidence concerning the plot has been obtained, &c. It is therefore clear that the actions of Sun Wen, &c., are aimed at overthrowing the present legally-constituted Government, and precipitating anarchical conditions in the country. Unless such men are punished it is difficult to uphold the supremacy of the law. All high military and civil officials throughout the country are hereby ordered to effect the arrest of the said Sun Wen and Wu Chien-lien, and to hand them over to the courts of justice to be dealt with in accordance with law. The said Sun Wen and Wu Chien-lien are hereby deprived of their Orders of Merit and decorations, and investigations shall also be conducted concerning those who are holding posts in the said illegal Military Government and others who are attending the extraordinary Parliament as members, in order that they may also be severely dealt with accordingly.\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1\n### Consul-General Jamieson to Mr. Alston\n\nCanton, September 13, 1917.\n\nI have the honour to enclose herewith copy of the manifesto officially issued by the Military Government, which has established itself here under the auspices of the Rump Parliament on the 10th instant.\n\nC. T. Wang, who appears to play the role of organiser-in-chief to the party, at the same time drafted an essay to overcome the pronounced prejudices of Sun Yat-sen in the matter of declaring war on the Central Powers. Realising the necessity, at the present juncture, of conciliating any antagonism which the Entente may cherish against the movement, he drafted a declaration announcing a determination, with the united support of the entire country, to prosecute war to the utmost against the attempted domination of the world by German militarism. This was handed out privately for the information of the press and others, and was to be made public when \"the mere formality\" of the Generalissimo's approval had been obtained. The latter, however, who is a firm believer in the eventual victory of Germany, and who also may be averse from showing himself so manifestly ungrateful for past favours, refuses stoutly to sanction its promulgation, so that, while the text of the declaration has appeared in the foreign press and been commented on therein, it has not appeared in the native press, and entirely lacks official imprimatur.\n\nThe Military Government may accordingly be described as neutral, with predilections in favour of Germany.\n\nThe ranks of the Rump have been lately reinforced by some forty additional members, who have found their way to Canton in Japanese vessels, and United States colleague has been approached with a request to induce his Government to advance them $10,000,000 on the plea that Javan had made a loan of the same amount to the North. The Military Government confidently reckons on the financial support of Chinese abroad, and estimates that it could at any time buy over 70 per cent. of the troops in the pay of the Provincial Government. Admiral Cheng succeeded the other day in obtaining $150,000 clean Mexican dollars from Shanghai for paying his crews, they very properly refusing to look at local subsidiary coinage. His coal is being provided by the Tuchün.\n\nSun Yat-sen's procession on assuming office was not attended by any great popular enthusiasm, and strenuous efforts to win over Lu Jung-t'ing and Tang Shao-yi continue to be made.\n\nA sense of weakness is, however, evinced by the significant fact that indirect overtures have been made to the Provincial Government, hinting that were posts given to members and their faces thus saved agitation might cease.\n\n(Copy to Hong Kong.)\n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 1\n### Manifesto\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON.\n\nThe Military Government, organised the 10th September, hands our (Weekly Canton News) correspondent a statement which follows:-\n\n\"The Military Government now established in Canton is a temporary organisation for a clear-cut and definite purpose. It aims to rally to its standard all those who stand for the supremacy of the Constitution and the laws of the country. No democracy can last if the Constitution is allowed to be violated at all by such persons who happen to be in control of military forces. The very foundation of democracy is destroyed when such persons are permitted to treat the supreme laws of the land as a \"scrap of paper.\" The rebellious Fuchuns, having deliberately violated the Constitution, first, by forcing the hand of President Li Yuan Hung in illegally dissolving the National Assembly, and later by forcing the President himself from the office, must be put down and be severely dealt with in order that the supremacy of the Constitution be vindicated and the foundation of democracy upheld.",
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        "content_text": "**[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]**\n\n\"This Government still recognises that Li Yuan-hung is still the President of the Republic of China, and the National Assembly is still in existence. It shall strive to combat, remove, and destroy all those causes which have hitherto disabled President Li and the National Assembly from functioning and discharging their respective duties. It will cease to exist as soon as the objective it aims at is fully attained, namely, when the rebellious Tuchuns are suppressed, President Li Yuan-hung is re-established, and the National Assembly is reassembled.\n\n\"This Government is directed by a Generalissimo, assisted by three Field-Marshals. Under the Generalissimo are the heads of six Ministries functioning as the executive of the Government. Dr. Sun Wen is the Generalissimo, and Generals Lu Jung-t'ing and Tang Chi-yao are two of the three Field-Marshals. The six Ministers are:\n\n| Ministry | Minister |\n| --- | --- |\n| Foreign Affairs | Dr. Wu Ting-ting |\n| Home Affairs | Sun Hung-yi |\n| Finance | Tang Shao-yi |\n| Army | General Chang Kai-ju |\n| Navy | Admiral Cheng Pi-kuang |\n| Communications | Hu Han-min |\n\n\"They are all elected by the National Assembly now holding extraordinary session in Canton.\"\n\n## CHINESE LOANS AND CONCESSIONS\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n`[229809]`\n\n**(No. 297.) Sir,**\n\n## No. 1.\n\n167\n\n`[December 3.]`\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\nMr. Alston to Mr. Balfour.-(Received December 3.)\n\nPeking, September 21, 1917. IN my telegram No. 428 of the 15th instant I had the honour to forward to you a telegram from the British, French, Russian, and Japanese group representatives respecting the proposal of the Minister of Finance for a loan of 20,000,000 for currency reform.\n\nI have the honour to enclose herewith copies of two memoranda from the Ministry of Finance on which that telegram was based.\n\nIn accordance with the instructions contained in your telegram No. 348 of the 15th instant, I am not taking any steps to encourage this project.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nB. ALSTON.\n\n## Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum on proposed Loan received from Minister of Finance.**\n\nTHE whole proceeds of the loan to be used for the unification of the monetary system on silver basis and redemption of depreciated paper.\n\nAmount of the loan, 20,000,000.\n\nBonds of the loan to be issued in two or three series.\n\nSecurities of the loan: (1) Seigniorage profit; (2) profit from melting and refining of old copper cash; (3) customs surplus; and (4) salt surplus.\n\nThe whole proceeds of the loan to be paid in gold to the Chinese Government at London, Tokyo, &c. Chinese Government to deposit with great banks in Europe, America, and Japan the money so received, and/or the first-class foreign securities and/or short-term bills bought with such money, against which foreign drafts in gold will be drawn and internal loan bonds issued.\n\nChinese Government to establish a Monetary Bureau and appoint three foreigners: one as Adviser on Monetary Reform, one as technical officer (\"Master Assayer\"), and one as Inspector of the Chinese Government Gold Reserve abroad.\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum on General Outlines of Monetary Reform received from Minister of Finance.**\n\nMONETARY reform to be divided into three stages, viz.:—\n\nFirst stage: Unification of the monetary system in silver basis.\n\nSecond stage: Redemption of depreciated paper.\n\nThird stage: Adoption of gold exchange standard.\n\nThird stage to be deferred till the end of the great war.\n\nWhat is contemplated:\n\n1. Reform of the mints. Such measures as: decrease the number of mints; render the mints not institutions for profit-making.\n2. The mint to appoint one foreign technical officer (\"Master Assayer\").\n3. When Committee of Examination of Coins is established, foreigners may be invited to become its honorary members.\n4. To mint new coins-their form, weight, and fineness to be in strict conformity with the National Coinage Law promulgated in the 3rd year of the republic. The principle of free coinage to be adopted with regard to the principal money of 1 yuan.\n\n`[2752 c-2]`",
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        "content_text": "## Statement\n\n**ADVANCE** of 10,000,000 yen, equal to, say, 6,500,000 dollars, which it is proposed to devote to Administrative Expenditure for the months of July, August, and September. Allocation as follows:\n\nThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs - \nExpenses for the Legations abroad | Dollars\n573,819\n\nThe Ministry of Home Affairs - \nExpenses for the Ministry proper | 103,338.20\nExpenses for police | 314,039.66\nExpenses for the yamên of Infantry-General | 188,000\n| 605,372.86\n\nThe Ministry of Finance - \nExpense for the Ministry proper | 52,787\nExpenses for the bureaux, factories, departments, and offices belonging to the Ministry | 50,000\nExpenses for the President's yâmên | 168,000\nExpenses for the bureaux belonging to the Cabinet | 102,000\nExpenses for the Census rate (Ping Cheng Yamen) | ...\nExpenses for the bureau of audit | 27,048\nExpenses for the Imperial post-office | 27,214\nExpenses for bureau for compilation of history of Manchu dynasty | ...\nPay for the right corps of bodyguards | 84,138\n| 830,000\n| 2,008,723\n\nThe Ministry of Army - \nExpenses for the Ministry proper | 140,000\nSalaries and allowances to the various bureaux of the various divisions under the Ministry | 2,000,000\n| 2,140,000\n\nThe Ministry of Navy - \nExpenses for the Ministry proper | 68,800\nExpenses for the various commander-in-chief, men-of-war, and docks belonging to the Ministry | 300,000\n| 368,800\n\nThe Ministry of Justice - \nExpenses for the Ministry proper | 54,000\nExpenses for courts and gaols | 150,000\n| 204,000\n\nThe Ministry of Education - \nExpenses for the Ministry proper | 80,000\nExpenses for schools, bureaux, and offices belonging to the Ministry | 800,000\n| 880,000\n\nThe Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce - \nExpenses for the Ministry proper | 100,000\nExpenses for grounds belonging to the Ministry | 60,000\n| 160,000\n\nGrand Total | 6,140,714.86\nEqual to, say, 10,000,000 yen.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n## CHINESE LOANS AND CONCESSIONS\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[234714]\nPage 175\n[December 11]\n\n### SECTION 2\n\n#### No. 1\n\nSir J. Jordan to Mr. Balfour.-(Received December 11.)\n\n(No. 334.) Sir,\n\nPeking, October 23, 1917. WITH reference to your telegram No. 297 of the 15th August, I have the honour to forward herewith a copy of the agreement concluded on the 28th August between the Yokohama Specie Bank, representing the Japanese group, and the Chinese Government for the so-called advance of 10,000,000 yen.\n\nThe text of the agreement has only now reached me, having been supplied to me by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, who are responsible for the translation from the Chinese.\n\nThis advance by the Japanese bank has been spoken of throughout as being an advance of the prospective Second Reorganisation Loan; but I gather from Mr. Hillier that its status is not very definite beyond the fact of its being an eventual charge upon the proceeds of that loan if and when concluded, as stipulated in `article 10` of the agreement.\n\nThe advance is issued in the form of Chinese Government Treasury bills, redeemable in one year from the date of issue and bearing 7 per cent. interest. The proceeds of the advance are to be devoted solely to administrative purposes for the months of July, August, and September of the present year in the manner shown in the statement annexed to the agreement. The Treasury bills are secured on the whole receipts of the Salt Gabelle, with the exception of such receipts therefrom as are already pledged otherwise.\n\nMr. Hillier informs me that the proceeds of the advance when converted into Chinese currency amounted to 5,830,000 Mexican dollars net. Of this, 4,000,000 dollars have been handed to the Ministry of War, 800,000 dollars to the military governor of Anhui, who is a notorious reactionary, and only 700,000 dollars have been expended on administrative objects.\n\nThere thus remain about 300,000 dollars still in hand.\n\nIt is not without significance that, of an advance ostensibly negotiated solely for administrative purposes, well over four-fifths should have already been devoted to military objects, and that no attempt has apparently been made to exercise any control over any portion of the proceeds of the advance.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1\n\n**Agreement for Loan of 10,000,000 yen made by the Japanese Group (Yokohama Specie Bank (Limited)) to the Chinese Government August 28, 1917.**\n\n(Translation of Chinese Text.)\n\nWHEREAS the Chinese Government desires to borrow the sum of 10,000,000 yen as an advance of the Supplementary Reorganisation Loan which it is proposed to negotiate with the four banking groups: and\n\nWHEREAS the Japanese banking group is prepared to undertake the matter; Therefore the Minister of Finance, representing the Government of the Republic of China (hereinafter called \"the Chinese Government\"), and the Yokohama Specie Bank (Limited) (hereinafter called \"the bank\"), representing the Japanese banking group, have drawn up this agreement at Peking, the clauses of which are as follows:-\n\n1. The bank undertakes to make an advance of 10,000,000 yen within ten days, commencing from the date of this agreement, to be paid over to the Chinese Government in accordance with the procedure laid down in `article 4` of this agreement.",
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        "content_text": "## ADVANCE of 10,000,000 yen, equal to, say, 6,500,000 dollars, which it is proposed to devote to Administrative Expenditure for the months of July, August, and September. Allocation as follows:\n\n## Statement\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] 177\n\n### THIBET AND MONGOLIA, CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[234952]\n\n### DEPARTMENT\n\n[December 12\n\n### SECTION 1\n\n### No. 1\n\n**India Office to Foreign Office.—(Received December 12.)**\n\nIndia Office, December 11, 1917, IN continuation of Sir A. Hirtzel's letter of the 12th September, 1917, and connected correspondence, regarding the situation in Thibet, I am directed by the Secretary of State for India to invite reference to the Viceroy's telegram on the subject, dated the 1st December, 1917, copy of which was communicated to your Department on the 3rd instant.\n\nAs regards the immediate needs of the situation, the Secretary of State is prepared to authorise the free gift of 500,000 rounds of rifle ammunition to the Thibetan Government, as recommended by the Government of India, provided the latter are satisfied that assistance of this kind is really required. He would propose, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to instruct the Government of India accordingly. He trusts that His Majesty's Minister at Peking will be instructed at the same time to protest vigorously to the Chinese Government against the renewal of Chinese aggression on the Thibetan border.\n\n| Ministry/Department | Expenses | Dollars |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| The Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Expenses for the Legation abroad | 579,819 |\n|  | Expenses for the Ministry proper | 103,335.20 |\n|  | Expenses for police | 314,039.66 |\n|  | Expenses for the yamén of Infantry-General | 188,000 |\n|  |  | 605,372.86 |\n| The Ministry of Finance | Expense for the Ministry proper | 52,737 |\n|  | Expenses for the bureaux, factories, departments, and offices belonging to the Ministry | 50,000 |\n|  | Expenses for the President's yamen | 168,000 |\n|  | Expenses for the bureaux belonging to the Cabinet | 102,000 |\n|  | Expenses for the Imperial pensions | 666,666 |\n|  | Expenses for bureau for compilation of history of Manchu dynasty | 27,948 |\n|  | Expenses for the Censorate (Ping Cheng Yuan) | 27,214 |\n|  | Expenses for the bureau of salt | 84,138 |\n|  | Pay for the eight corps of bannermen | 830,000 |\n|  |  | 2,008,723 |\n| The Ministry of Army | Expenses for the Ministry proper | 140,000 |\n|  | Salaries and allowances to the various bureaux of the various divisions under the Ministry | 2,000,000 |\n|  |  | 2,140,000 |\n| The Ministry of Navy | Expenses for the Ministry proper | 68,800 |\n|  | Expenses for the various commander-in-chief, men-of-war, and schools belonging to the Ministry | 800,000 |\n|  |  | 868,800 |\n| The Ministry of Justice | Expenses for the Ministry proper | 54,000 |\n|  | Expenses for courts and gaols | 150,000 |\n|  |  | 204,000 |\n| The Ministry of Education | Expenses for the Ministry proper | 80,000 |\n|  | Expense for schools, bureaux, and offices belonging to the Ministry | 800,000 |\n|  |  | 880,000 |\n| The Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce | Expenses for the Ministry proper | 100,000 |\n|  | Expenses for grounds belonging to the Ministry | 60,000 |\n|  |  | 160,000 |\n| **Grand Total** |  | **6,440,714.86** |\n\nEqual to, say, 10,000,000 yen.\n\nThere remains the important question of the revision of the Tripartite Convention of 1914. For convenience of reference, copies are enclosed of a printed statement showing in parallel columns (1) the text of the 1914 convention, and (2) the heads of the new agreement suggested in the memorandum prepared by the Peking Legation, which accompanied Mr. Alaton's despatch No. 153 of the 19th May last.\n\nThe Secretary of State fully recognises the desirability of securing an early settlement of the Thibetan question on satisfactory lines, and thus affording the Thibetan Government relief from a situation which imposes a severe strain upon their limited resources. These conditions appear to him, in all the circumstances of the case, to outweigh the disadvantage of receding from the attitude hitherto consistently maintained by His Majesty's Government in regard to the convention of 1914; and there is the less objection to taking fresh ground if, as the political officer in Sikkim anticipates, the Thibetan Government, whose territorial claims the change will primarily affect, are likely to acquiesce in the new policy without serious opposition. So far as British interests are concerned, the legation proposals appear to be quite satisfactory in the main. In one respect, indeed, they are more advantageous to His Majesty's Government than the Tripartite Convention, in that they provide (article 3) for the permanent residence of a British representative at the Thibetan capital.\n\nIt would be premature to scrutinise the details of the new proposals very closely at the present stage. There are, however, certain points on which the Secretary of State desires to offer some preliminary remarks:\n\n1. Article 4. There seems no special objection to the appointment of a Chinese trade agent at Chiamdo or such other trade mart as it may be decided to establish in East Thibet in the immediate neighbourhood of the Chinese frontier; but the Secretary of State is altogether opposed, in the light of past experience, to the reappearance of Chinese agents at any mart in the vicinity of the Indian border or on the main Indo-Thibetan trade routes. This is a point to which he attaches very great importance, and on which he would be most unwilling to make any concession.\n\n2. Article 5. The provision that no British civil or military official, other than the trade agents, &c., shall enter Thibet without the concurrence of the three contracting Governments seems likely to cause inconvenience in practice; and it would seem preferable to retain article 3 of the 1914 convention.\n\n3. Article 11.—\"Szechuan\" is presumably to be taken as including the area defined by the 1914 convention as \"Inner Thibet,\" in which the Dalai Lama's spiritual rights are known to be extensive. This point should be made quite clear.\n\nWith regard to the proposals generally, it should be borne in mind that, when the time comes for negotiation with the Chinese Government, we shall not be in the position...\n\nPage 180  \nPage 181",
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        "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n### SECTION 1.\n\n**REG 8 FEB 18j**\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**(No. 244.)** Sir,  \nMr. Alston to Mr. Balfour—(Received September 10.)\n\nPeking, August 6, 1917.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 235 of the 30th ultimo, I have the honour to report that General Feng Kuo Chang arrived at Peking on the 1st instant, as I informed you in my telegram of that date. He at once called on General Li Yuan Hung and endeavoured to persuade him to resume the office of President. On his definite refusal (which was a foregone conclusion), Feng proceeded to the presidential mansion, where he took up his residence.\n\nGeneral Feng's predecessor, President Li Yuan Hung, will go down to history as a man who, despite the many mistakes he has made, endeavoured to do the right thing, but who failed through inability to gauge correctly the situation and by following wrong advice. He came into the position—as probably no other President will—supported by every political faction; but, despite his sterling honesty, he was not fitted mentally or by experience for the great position into which he was thrust.\n\nOn assuming the presidency he had to face an empty exchequer, and to work with an administrative machine the component parts of which were tugging against one another. Under such conditions it was necessary that the chief executive should be a man of great force of character and of administrative and political experience. General Li, however, has shown himself lacking in those qualities of statesmanship and firmness of purpose necessary to bring about unity in the country or to compel his authority by forceful methods. Swayed this way or that by the numerous advisers who surrounded him, his indecision allowed this party or that to be dominant for the time being, and then lost him the support of both sides because he upheld neither of them for any length of time.\n\nThis brought about parliamentary crises, a deadlock between Parliament and Cabinet, the dismissal of Premier Tuan Chi Jui, and subsequently the dissolution of Parliament. Owing to his firm belief in the ultimate victory of Germany, General Li was throughout personally opposed to the policy of war with that country. When, however, the Tuan Chi Jui Cabinet decided that it would be to China's advantage to enter the lists against Germany he agreed to place the measure before Parliament, but he did so in such a grudging and half-hearted manner that the majority of parliamentarians took it to mean that he was placing the question before them under pressure, and that they would best serve him by refusing to come to a decision on the subject. With the holding up of the war measure started the real fight which brought about the recent monarchy farce. The Military Governors demanded a revision of the parliamentary laws and regulations, and when this was refused they declared their independence. The Chang Hsun incident followed next and then the restoration. General Li obstinately refused to take any decided action of his own or to permit others to do so, with the result that he became more and more incapable of controlling the course of events.\n\nAfter being considered by the Radical party the pillar of republicanism, his dissolution of Parliament at Chang Hsun's behest robbed him of their support. For purposes of political intrigue they may now pretend that they have forgiven him for that lapse and that they still consider him to be the shining light of constitutionalism, but it is not difficult to give to such pretence its true value.\n\nTo sum up: Li Yuan Hung has failed to make good as President, and has lost the magnetic influence which in his case at one time showed signs of making up for his lack of other qualities. I have no reason to doubt that, himself aware of this, he will continue to refuse again to allow himself to be a candidate for a position of leadership in this country.\n\nSince General Feng's assumption of office his time has been occupied with Cabinet Councils, and the question of the declaration of war on Germany has been uppermost. It has now been given out that this step will be taken within ten days or a fortnight.",
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        "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[October 20.]\n\nREG 8 FEB 18\nSECTION 2.\n\n[201742]\n\n### No. 1.\n\n242\n\n**(No. 279.)** Sir,\n\nMr. Alston to Mr. Balfour.-(Received October 20.)\n\nPeking, August 28, 1917.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 254 of the 14th instant, I have the honour to report that all the Provinces of China have definitely accepted the state of war with the Central Powers, and that the regulations concerning the treatment of enemy subjects promulgated at Peking have been accepted by those provinces whose relations with the Central Government appear to be suspended.\n\nThe situation in the two Kuang provinces remains peculiar. General Lu Yung Ting, and the Military Governor of Canton, Ch'en Ping-k'un, still seem desirous of avoiding an open breach with Peking, but have adopted an attitude of local administrative independence. Thus China's declaration of war against Germany and Austria was not held to apply to Canton until the decision had been approved by the \"Rump\" Parliament of disaffected Radicals which is now holding session there. In the opinion of His Majesty's consul-general, Lu and his supporters will, if not interfered with by Peking, eventually give their support to the Central Government and eject Sun Yat-sen and his Radical followers.\n\nThere are various and conflicting reports as to what is happening in Szechuan, but from these, and from reports from His Majesty's consul at Chungking, it appears that Yunnanese confidence in their strength is steadily weakening. I learn that negotiations are taking place at that city between Chou Tao-kang, the Military Governor appointed by Peking, and the Yunnanese, and it is even stated that they are willing to send to Peking the Yunnanese Governor evicted last spring, in obedience to the Presidential mandate then issued, but ever since ignored, and to evacuate Szechuan, leaving only one division which will be under the command of the non-Yunnanese Governor Chou.\n\nGenerally speaking the situation encourages one to hope that President Feng Kuo Chang, in alliance with his powerful Premier Tuan, will slowly, by Chinese methods of compromise and by his control of military force and funds, extend his control over the whole country.\n\nAs regards affairs at Peking, the departure of ex-President Li this morning for Tien-tsin, in the British concession, at which port he proposes to reside, gives the quietus to rumours that Peking was afraid to let him go for fear that the Radicals would obtain control of him and use him for their ends.\n\nIn the P.S. to my despatch No. 265 of the 20th instant, I reported that His Majesty's example in telegraphing his good wishes to China on her entry into the war had been followed by the President of the French Republic. Since that date further belated telegrams in similar congratulatory terms have recently been addressed to President Feng by the Russian Government and the King of Italy.\n\n**(Copy to Tokyo and Hong Kong.)**\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**B. ALSTON.**",
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        "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[September 10]\n\n### SECTION 1.0\n\n(No. 244.) Sir,\n\n#### No. 1.\n**Mr. Alston to Mr. Balfour.**-(Received September 10.)\n\nPeking, August 6, 1917.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 235 of the 30th ultimo, I have the honour to report that General Feng Kuo Chang arrived at Peking on the 1st instant, as I informed you in my telegram of that date. He at once called on General Li Yuan Hung and endeavoured to persuade him to resume the office of President. On his definite refusal (which was a foregone conclusion), Feng proceeded to the presidential mansion, where he took up his residence.\n\nGeneral Feng's predecessor, President Li Yuan Hung, will go down to history as a man who, despite the many mistakes he has made, endeavoured to do the right thing, but who failed through inability to gauge correctly the situation and by following wrong advice. He came into the position—as probably no other President will—supported by every political faction; but, despite his sterling honesty, he was not fitted mentally or by experience for the great position into which he was thrust.\n\nOn assuming the presidency he had to face an empty exchequer, and to work with an administrative machine the component parts of which were tugging against one another. Under such conditions it was necessary that the chief executive should be a man of great force of character and of administrative and political experience. General Li, however, has shown himself lacking in those qualities of statesmanship and firmness of purpose necessary to bring about unity in the country or to compel his authority by forceful methods. Swayed this way or that by the numerous advisers who surrounded him, his indecision allowed this party or that to be dominant for the time being, and then lost him the support of both sides because he upheld neither of them for any length of time.\n\nThis brought about parliamentary crises, a deadlock between Parliament and Cabinet, the dismissal of Premier Tuan Chi Jui, and subsequently the dissolution of Parliament. Owing to his firm belief in the ultimate victory of Germany, General Li was throughout personally opposed to the policy of war with that country. When, however, the Tuan Chi Jui Cabinet decided that it would be to China's advantage to enter the lists against Germany he agreed to place the measure before Parliament, but he did so in such a grudging and half-hearted manner that the majority of parliamentarians took it to mean that he was placing the question before them under pressure, and that they would best serve him by refusing to come to a decision on the subject. With the holding up of the war measure started the real fight which brought about the recent monarchy farce. The Military Governors demanded a revision of the parliamentary laws and regulations, and when this was refused they declared their independence. The Chang Hsun incident followed next and then the restoration. General Li obstinately refused to take any decided action of his own or to permit others to do so, with the result that he became more and more incapable of controlling the course of events.\n\nAfter being considered by the Radical party the pillar of republicanism, his dissolution of Parliament at Chang Hsun's behest robbed him of their support. For purposes of political intrigue they may now pretend that they have forgiven him for that lapse and that they still consider him to be the shining light of constitutionalism, but it is not difficult to give to such pretence its true value.\n\nTo sum up: Li Yuan Hung has failed to make good as President, and has lost the magnetic influence which in his case at one time showed signs of making up for his lack of other qualities. I have no reason to doubt that, himself aware of this, he will continue to refuse again to allow himself to be a candidate for a position of leadership in this country.\n\nSince General Feng's assumption of office his time has been occupied with Cabinet Councils, and the question of the declaration of war on Germany has been uppermost. It has now been given out that this step will be taken within ten days or a fortnight.",
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        "content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n### CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[September 10]\n\nThe new President has to-day held his first audience of the Diplomatic Body, the congratulatory address read by my French colleague containing an allusion to the prospect of China speedily entering the war, to which President sympathetically replied,\n\n(Copy to Tokyo.)\n\nPage 254\n\n## No. 1.\n### Mr. Alston to Mr. Balfour.-(Received September 10.)\n#### (No. 244.)\n\nPeking, August 6, 1917.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 235 of the 30th ultimo, I have the honour to report that General Feng Kuo Chang arrived at Peking on the 1st instant, as I informed you in my telegram of that date. He at once called on General Li Yuan Hung and endeavoured to persuade him to resume the office of President. On his definite refusal (which was a foregone conclusion), Feng proceeded to the presidential mansion, where he took up his residence.\n\nGeneral Feng's predecessor, President Li Yuan Hung, will go down to history as a man who, despite the many mistakes he has made, endeavoured to do the right thing, but who failed through inability to gauge correctly the situation and by following wrong advice.\n\nHe came into the position as probably no other President will - supported by every political faction; but, despite his sterling honesty, he was not fitted mentally or by experience for the great position into which he was thrust.\n\nOn assuming the presidency he had to face an empty exchequer, and to work with an administrative machine the component parts of which were tugging against one another. Under such conditions it was necessary that the chief executive should be a man of great force of character and of administrative and political experience. General Li, however, has shown himself lacking in those qualities of statesmanship and firmness of purpose necessary to bring about unity in the country or to compel his authority by forceful methods. Swayed this way or that by the numerous advisers who surrounded him, his indecision allowed this party or that to be dominant for the time being, and then lost him the support of both sides because he upheld neither of them for any length of time.\n\nThis brought about parliamentary crises, a deadlock between Parliament and Cabinet, the dismissal of Premier Tuan Chi Jui, and subsequently the dissolution of Parliament. Owing to his firm belief in the ultimate victory of Germany, General Li was throughout personally opposed to the policy of war with that country. When, however, the Tuan Chi Jui Cabinet decided that it would be to China's advantage to enter the lists against Germany he agreed to place the measure before Parliament, but he did so in such a grudging and half-hearted manner that the majority of parliamentarians took it to mean that he was placing the question before them under pressure, and that they would best serve him by refusing to come to a decision on the subject. With the holding up of the war measure started the real fight which brought about the recent monarchy farce. The Military Governors demanded a revision of the parliamentary laws and regulations, and when this was refused they declared their independence. The Chang Hsun incident followed next and then the restoration. General Li obstinately refused to take any decided action of his own or to permit others to do so, with the result that he became more and more incapable of controlling the course of events.\n\nAfter being considered by the Radical party the pillar of republicanism, his dissolution of Parliament at Chang Hsun's behest robbed him of their support. For purposes of political intrigue they may now pretend that they have forgiven him for that lapse and that they still consider him to be the shining light of constitutionalism, but it is not difficult to give to such pretence its true value.\n\nTo sum up: Li Yuan Hung has failed to make good as President, and has lost the magnetic influence which in his case at one time showed signs of making up for his lack of other qualities. I have no reason to doubt that, himself aware of this, he will continue to refuse again to allow himself to be a candidate for a position of leadership in this country.\n\nSince General Feng's assumption of office his time has been occupied with Cabinet Councils, and the question of the declaration of war on Germany has been uppermost. It has now been given out that this step will be taken within ten days or a fortnight.\n\nI have, &c.\n**B. ALSTON**\n\n`[176605]`\n`No. 1.`\n`REC REG 8 FEB 181`",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## No. 1.\n### Mr. Alston to Mr. Balfour.-(Received October 20.)\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, August 28, 1917.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 254 of the 14th instant, I have the honour to report that all the Provinces of China have definitely accepted the state of war with the Central Powers, and that the regulations concerning the treatment of enemy subjects promulgated at Peking have been accepted by those provinces whose relations with the Central Government appear to be suspended.\n\nThe situation in the two Kuang provinces remains peculiar. The Inspector-General, Lu Yung T'ing, and the Military Governor of Canton, Ch'en Ping-k'un, still seem desirous of avoiding an open breach with Peking, but have adopted an attitude of local administrative independence. Thus China's declaration of war against Germany and Austria was not held to apply to Canton until the decision had been approved by the \"Rump\" Parliament of disaffected Radicals which is now holding session there. In the opinion of His Majesty's consul-general, Lu and his supporters will, if not interfered with by Peking, eventually give their support to the Central Government and eject Sun Yat-sen and his Radical followers.\n\nThere are various and conflicting reports as to what is happening in Szechuan, but from these, and from reports from His Majesty's consul at Chungking, it appears that Yüunanese confidence in their strength is steadily weakening. I learn that negotiations are taking place at that city between Chou Tao-kang, the Military Governor appointed by Peking, and the Yunnanese, and it is even stated that they are willing to send to Peking the Yunnanese Governor evicted last spring, in obedience to the Presidential mandate then issued, but ever since ignored, and to evacuate Szechuan, leaving only one division which will be under the command of the non-Yünnanese Governor Chou.\n\nGenerally speaking the situation encourages one to hope that President Feng Kuo Chang, in alliance with his powerful Premier Tuan, will slowly, by Chinese methods of compromise and by his control of military force and funds, extend his control over the whole country;\n\nAs regards affairs at Peking, the departure of ex-President Li this morning for Tien-tsin, in the British concession, at which port he proposes to reside, gives the quietus to rumours that Peking was afraid to let him go for fear that the Radicals would obtain control of him and use him for their ends.\n\nIn the P.S. to my despatch No. 245 of the 20th instant, I reported that His Majesty's example in telegraphing his good wishes to China on her entry into the war had been followed by the President of the French Republic. Since that date further belated telegrams in similar congratulatory terms have recently been addressed to President Feng by the Russian Government and the King of Italy.\n\n(Copy to `Tokyo` and `Hong Kong`.)\n\nI have, &c.\n\nB. ALSTON.\n\n### Page 259",
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        "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n### SECTION 2\n\n**REG 8 FEB 181**  \n`[201742]`\n\n## No. 1\n### Mr. Alston to Mr. Balfour.-(Received October 20.)\n\n**(No. 279.)**  \nSir,  \nPeking, August 28, 1917.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 254 of the 14th instant, I have the honour to report that all the Provinces of China have definitely accepted the state of war with the Central Powers, and that the regulations concerning the treatment of enemy subjects promulgated at Peking have been accepted by those provinces whose relations with the Central Government appear to be suspended.\n\nThe situation in the two Kuang provinces remains peculiar. The Inspector-General, Lu Yung Ting, and the Military Governor of Canton, Ch'en Ping-k'un, still seem desirous of avoiding an open breach with Peking, but have adopted an attitude of local administrative independence. Thus China's declaration of war against Germany and Austria was not held to apply to Canton until the decision had been approved by the \"Kump\" Parliament of disaffected Radicals which is now holding session there. In the opinion of His Majesty's consul-general, Lu and his supporters will, if not interfered with by Peking, eventually give their support to the Central Government and eject Sun Yat-sen and his Radical followers.\n\nThere are various and conflicting reports as to what is happening in Szechuan, but from these, and from reports from His Majesty's consul at Chungking, it appears that Yunnanese confidence in their strength is steadily weakening. I learn that negotiations are taking place at that city between Chou Tao-kang, the Military Governor appointed by Peking, and the Yünnauese, and it is even stated that they are willing to send to Peking the Yunnanese Governor evicted last spring, in obedience to the Presidential mandate then issued, but ever since ignored, and to evacuate Szechuan, leaving only one division which will be under the command of the non-Yunnanese Governor Chou.\n\nGenerally speaking the situation encourages one to hope that President Feng Kuo Chang, in alliance with his powerful Premier Tuan will slowly, by Chinese methods of compromise and by his control of military force and funds, extend his control over the whole country.\n\nAs regards affairs at Peking, the departure of ex-President Li this morning for Tien-tsin, in the British concession, at which port he proposes to reside, gives the quietus to rumours that Peking was afraid to let him go for fear that the Radicals would obtain control of him and use him for their ends.\n\nIn the P.S. to my despatch No. 265 of the 20th instant, I reported that His Majesty's example in telegraphing his good wishes to China on her entry into the war had been followed by the President of the French Republic. Since that date further belated telegrams in similar congratulatory terms have recently been addressed to President Feng by the Russian Government and the King of Italy.\n\n**(Copy to Tokyo and Hong Kong.)**\n\nI have, &c.  \n**B. ALSTON**",
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        "content_text": "## POL NOTES \n\n289\n\nHanyang and the rolling stock are from America and are not even ordered through a French firm.\n\nDr. Legendre tells me that when he returned from Europe a few weeks ago, he came over from Hong Kong on a boat which was carrying coolies to France, and there was very nearly a mutiny on board owing to the French officers kicking and cuffing the Chinese; he interposed, and as he speaks a little Chinese, succeeded in calming them. The Governor General was much alarmed when he learnt of this and issued strict instructions that the coolies were not to be struck. I am ignorant as to whether Mr. Chang I Chu is aware of this incident, but when I spoke to him recently about relieving the economic situation in this province by sending coolies to Europe, he said he was quite willing to consider the question, but on one condition, namely, that they were engaged by the British Government and had British officers and not French.\n\nIn many small things too, the French Consul and his nationals openly show their contempt for and dislike of the Chinese here, and it is not surprising that the relations between Tonkin and Yunnan are far from being such as could be desired.\n\nAs I have reported in despatches, the French, in pursuance of their policy of \"Yunnan for the French\", offer a strenuous opposition to the spread of British influence here, and if our trade in Yunnan and Tonkin is to develop as it could and should, it is essential, in my opinion, that we should be represented by a Consul-General at Hanoi; a few years ago we had a Consul there, but his post was subsequently changed to Saigon; times and conditions have, however, changed, and the question, I think, merits serious consideration.",
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        "content_text": "## 287\n\nIC WALL on boat + VOT?\n\n586\n\nIn a conversation this morning with Mr. Lo Chong, he informed me confidentially that a reliable member of the Tuchun's staff had informed him of the arrival of an emissary from Ch'ên Ch'ing Ming, with a proposal of cessation of hostilities on condition that the Tuchun should obtain for Ch'en the post of Tuchun of Kuangtung: Ch'ên would then be prepared to lead an attack on Canton for the Chinese Government.\n\nI doubt that Li Hou-chi has sufficient influence at present in Peking circles to be able to consider Ch'ên's offer; but there is a feeling that Hau Shih-chang, in his new office of President, may be able to bring about an armistice.\n\nI have etc.\n\n**(SD) B. Y. Tours.**  \nH.M.Consul,",
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        "content_text": "## WIDOWS AND ORPHANS' PENSIONS\n**(Ordinance No. 15 of 1908.)**\n\n| Name of Pensioner | No. of Pension Register | Amount of the Pension in Sterling, per annum | Amount of the Pension in Dollars, per annum | Date from which the Pension has been paid | Particulars | Present Age of Pensioner |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought forward | 240 | £155 18 1 | $7,725.49 |  |  |  |\n| Sit Mai-kiu |  |  | $197.80 | 19th Dec., 1911 | Widow of Cheng Sit-ting, late of Registrar General's Office | 39 |\n| Cheung Shan-tai (Mak Cheung-shi) | 332 |  | $147.54 |  |  |  |\n| Lo Cheng-shi | 1,009 |  | $97.64 | 20th Dec., 1911 | Widow of Mak Kam-hung, late of District Office, New Territories | 25 |\n|  |  |  |  | 25th March, 1912 | Widow of Lo Po-tang, late of Education Department | 38 |\n| Yuen Cheng-shi | 768 |  | $51.94 | 13th April, 1912 | Widow of Yuen Tak-chan, late of Treasury | 29 |\n| Ng Shun | 260 |  | $142.66 | 12th June, 1912 | Widow of Lo Kau-kwai, late of Public Works Department | 43 |\n| Ellen Harriet McEwen | 623 | £50 15 0 |  | 1st Sept., 1912 | Widow of J. G. McEwen, late of Public Works Department | 38 |\n| Camilla Gutierrez | 153 |  | $438.04 | 8th Sept., 1912 | Widow of José Maria Gutierrez, late of Colonial Secretary's Office |  |\n| Maria Brown | 10 |  | $327.52 |  | Widow of Alfred Brown, late of Sanitary Department | 47 |\n| Shu Shan-ying | 717 |  |  | 28th Jan., 1913 | Widow of Yew Ying-yuen, late of Treasury | 12 |\n| Susan Carrington | 50 |  | $258.74 | 28th Jan., 1913 | Widow of Sir J. W. Currington, late Chief Justice | 53 |\n| Chun Shau-sun | 280 |  | $33.96 | 12th Feb., 1913 | Widow of Li Fat-cheung, late of Education Department | 31 |\n| Julia Leonora Lewis | 244 | £50 15 5 | $135.17 | 6th April, 1913 | Widow of E. C. Lewis, late of Post Office | 28 |\n|  |  |  | $2,243.50 | 28th April, 1913 |  |  |\n| Tsin Ah-bak | 621 |  | $55.61 | 14th May, 1913 | Widow of Leung Pak, late of Sanitary Department | 70 |\n| Precilla Walker | 534 | £108 15 4 |  | 28th July, 1913 | Widow of A. T. Walker, late of Public Works Department | 34 |\n| Tsu Fung (Lau Tsu-shi) | 301 |  | $156.70 | 30th Aug., 1913 | Widow of Lau Tsung, late of Treasury | 35 |\n|  | 754 |  | $125.74 | 4th Sept., 1913 | Widow of Li Lam-yan, late of Police Department | 45 |\n\n( L 26 ) \n42",
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        "content_text": "## WIDOWS AND ORPHANS' PENSIONS\n**(Ordinance No. 15 of 1908.)**\n\n| Name of Pensioner | No. of Pension Register | Amount of the Pension in Sterling, per annum | Amount of the Pension in Dollars, per annum | Date from which the Pension has been paid | Particulars | Present Age of Pensioner |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought forward |  | £671 | 2 | 2 | 15,422.49 | 225.73 |  |  |  |\n| Cheng Kwok-shi | 106 |  |  |  |  | 6th Sept., 1916 | Widow of Cheng Sui-ki, late of Treasury |  |\n| Caroline Leonard | 241 | £31 | 10 | 6 | 160.12 | 26th Sept., 1916 | Widow of Joseph Leonard, late of Supreme Court |  |\n| Wong Yeung-shi | 858 |  |  |  | 175.88 |  | Widow of Wong Ping-hon, late of Imports & Exports Department |  |\n| Ellen Laura Baker | 784 | £25 | 2 | 7 |  | 3rd Nov., 1916 | Widow of James Edward Baker, late of Police Department |  |\n| Tong Lui-shi |  |  |  |  | 51.91 | 14th Feb., 1917 | Widow of Tong Po, late of Medical Department |  |\n| Wong Fong-shi | 535 |  |  |  | 252.81 | 12th Mar., 1917 | Widow of Wong Tai Kai, late of Harbour Department |  |\n| Alice Dawson | 611 | £66 | 5 | 9 |  | 18th Mar., 1917 | Widow of Edward W. Dawson, late of Imports & Exports Dept. |  |\n| Agues Thompson alias Cheong A-so | 447 |  |  |  | 29.01 | 22nd April, 1917 | Widow of Edward Thompson, late of Sanitary Department | 36 |\n| Ada Catherine Lethbridge | 231 | £59 | 5 |  | 595.94 | 17th June, 1917 | Widow of Henry Bridgeman Henderson Lethbridge, late of Prison Department | 59 |\n| Yam Wong-shi | 553 |  |  |  | 26.66 | 8th July, 1917 | Widow of Yam Tsok-kwan, late of Education Department | 38 |\n| Isabel Houghton Smith Cormack | 903 | £84 | 3 | 2 |  | 12th Aug., 1917 | Widow of George Cormack, late of Audit Department |  |\n| *Wong Fun | 740 |  |  |  | 33.31 | 3rd Sept., 1917 | Widow of Lo Kam-tsun, late of Post Office | 25 |\n| Eva Brett | 17 | £41 | 14 | 10 |  | 16th Sept., 1917 | Widow of C. W. Brett, late of Sanitary Department | 39 |\n| Maria Thereza Williams | 569 | £4 | 12 | 2 |  | 12th Dec., 1917 | Widow of Alfred Williams, late of Prison Department | 30 |\n| **TOTAL** |  | **£924** | **11** | **8** | **$16,992.03** |  |  |  |\n| *Pension commuted at ten times. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n\n**( L 28 )** \nPage 242 \n44 \n1",
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        "content_text": "## Form F.\n\n**Office Copy**\n\n**Name:** HONGKONG.\n\n[Reg. \n\n**Head of Estimaitime Allowances for Clerical Staff for 1918.**\n\nColonial Secretary's Department & Legislature Voucher No................................ \n\n**PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS**\n\n| Name | Period | Rate per Annum | Amount | W.&O. Pension Contribution | DEDUCTIONS | War Loan | Subordinate Officers Loan | Total Amount Payable |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | From | To | $ | S | C. | C | X | C. | $ C. | C. |  |\n| J.A.E.Bullock, Chief Clerk |  |  | 480 | 00 |  | _480_00 |  |  |  |  | 480 00 |\n| W.G.Fitz-Gibbon, First Clerk |  |  | 200 | 00 |  | 200 00 |  |  |  |  | 200 00 |\n| F.X.H.Rozario, 1st.Grade Clk. |  |  | 120 | 00 |  | 120 00 |  |  |  |  | 120 00 |\n| M.B.Suffiad, do. |  |  | 60 | 00 |  | 60 00 |  |  |  |  | 60 00 |\n| Sun She-chun, 3rd.Grade Clk. |  |  | 40 | 00 |  | 40 00 |  |  |  |  | 40 00 |\n| Thomas Lay, do. |  |  | 30 | 00 |  | 30 00 |  |  |  |  | 30 00 |\n| Lo Tak Cheong, 4th.Grade Clk. |  |  | 30 | 00 |  | 30 00 |  |  |  |  | 30 00 |\n| Pun Ku Kwai, do. |  |  | 15 | 00 |  | 15 00 |  |  |  |  | 15 00 |\n| Cheng Tai Kang, 5th.Grade Clk. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Chan Siu Ning Fatty Dad, do. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Yam Hin Tseuk, Probationer Clk. | (@ $40 pm.) | One month's salary | 40 | 00 |  | 40 00 |  |  |  |  | 40 00 |\n| Yu Sam, Office Attenav. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| **TOTALS.** |  |  | $1,875 | 00 |  | 393 |  |  |  |  |  |\n\nWe hereby acknowledge receipt of the total amount payable opposite names.\n\nI hereby certify that the above is a correct statement of the amounts payable to the persons named, in respect of their services for the period stated, and that employment at the rates of salary specified was duly authorised by General Warrant of 1919.\n\nDate: 8th February, 19**19**.\n\n(s!) (Signature)...... Flaher (Title)...**Colonial Secretary**........ \n\n**Head of Department.**\n\nWhen it is impossible or inconvenient that the receipts of all the persons concerned should be signed on this form, separate receipt slips may be issued under its authority, and attached as sub-voj...",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 1.\n\nThe Rt. Hon. Walter Long,  \n**His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.**\n\n57\n\nThe Humble Petition of Tai Yan Steam Launch Co., of Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong Steam Launch Proprietors and of Lee Kee Steam Launch Co., Tai Wing Steam Launch Co., Sam Wo Steam Launch Co., Hop Yick Steam Launch Co., Weing Hing Steam Launch Co., Wing Shun Steam Launch Co., Tak Kee, Kwong Fook Steam Launch Co., Wai Kee, Tung Kee Steam Launch Co., Wing Hing Steam Launch Co., Chang Put Kee and Tak On Steam Launch Co., being all parties lately engaged in carrying on the Yaumati and SanshuiPo Ferry Services in the Harbour of Victoria in the Colony of Hong Kong.\n\n**HE WE TH** as follows :-\n\nYour Petitioners the Tai Yan Steam Launch Company were originator of organized Ferry Services in the Harbour of Victoria plying between Victoria and Yaumati and Samshuipo. From time to time your other Petitioners, who set on foot similar services combined, with your Petitioners the Tai Yan Steam Launch Company in the services originated by them, in enlarging such services and the resources of the Parties carrying them on and greatly increasing the facilities for public traffic across Hong Kong Harbour.\n\n-1-\n\nPage 60  \nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "## \n65 \nTung An Pham hanh to \nK \nNg Tazo mi \nProprietor \n-Wing Hing Too.. Đúng Hơn Thị Manager. \n-Chang Fui kee Số hạng tam than \nProprietor. \n心安公司 \nTak On Co. \nYou Sui Chi Proprietor. \n\n| Name | Position | Company |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Ng Tazo mi | Proprietor | Wing Hing Too |\n| ... | Manager | ... |\n| Chang Fui kee | Proprietor | ... |\n| You Sui Chi | Proprietor | Tak On Co./心安公司 | \n## Reconstructed Version\n## \n65 \nTung An Pham hanh to \n\n| Name | Position | Company |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Ng Tazo mi | Proprietor | Wing Hing Too |\n|  | Manager | Wing Hing Too |\n| Chang Fui kee | Proprietor | Chang Fui kee |\n| You Sui Chi | Proprietor | Tak On Co./心安公司 |",
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        "content_text": "## Page 5\n\nUp to this time the launches were operated by various companies under a loose arrangement. In 1908, a combination was formed among some of the operators to stabilize the service. The new line, which was also losing money, was approached and it was arranged that it should enter the combination and furnish a reserve launch. The combination then consisted of eight companies employing twelve launches in the service and having four reserve launches. The fare was raised to three cents. The launches ran from three points in Victoria to three points in Yau-ma-ti at intervals of fifteen minutes. \n\nThe passenger traffic proved insufficient to support such a continuous service of launches, and the number was reduced from twelve to eight with three launches in reserve. However, the night service was carried out by four launches and one reserve. The launches ran from two points in Victoria to two points in Yau-ma-ti at fifteen-minute intervals.\n\nUp to this time, no service to Mong Kok had existed; passengers to that place travelled by the Yau-ma-ti service to a pier at Waterloo Road erected by Wong Lan Sang for the purpose, which, in 1909, was used by the combination in substitution for the Hi Loong Street Pier. The Waterloo Road pier was about thirty yards from Mong Kok.\n\nIn 1910, another competing service was started by four companies: Kwong Fuk, Tung Wing, Tack On, and Cheng Pui Kee, each contributing one launch and having one reserve. They ran from a pier off Gilman's Bazaar, hired for the purpose, to a pier at Pitt Street, Yau-ma-ti, erected by them for the purpose, about three hundred yards from the Waterloo Road pier. They charged one cent, and the combination had to follow them. The competition continued for about a year under losing conditions for all concerned, with the result that Wong Lan Sang approached the competing service, and they were admitted into the combination. The service was carried on by the twelve launches with four reserves, and the fare was raised.",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nSzechuan or move against the Thibetans according to the development of events. This officer is therefore not only guilty of deliberately attempting to stir up trouble between Great Britain and China over Thibet to forward his private political ends (see my previous despatches), but is likewise guilty of deliberately infringing the Anglo-Chinese Opium Treaty of 1911 for his own enrichment,\n\nI have had considerable experience of opium suppression in the distant interior of China, and I well know that the responsibility for any recrudescence of cultivation in formerly clean regions lies at the door of the local officials (who can maintain the suppression with the greatest ease if they desire to do so) acting under the orders of the Governor of their province, or the military chief controlling their area; exception being made in the case of semi-independent tribal country and of regions controlled by brigands or rebels. Luting, however, is a peaceful and purely Chinese district, as easily governed as the Chengtu Plain or the country round Peking, and is actually under the control, not of the southern \"rebel,\" but of a Peking-appointed official.\n\nConsular officers may perambulate provinces and certify them as clean; but such certification provides no guarantee whatsoever that cultivation will not be vigorously resumed in the following season if the local authorities desire to raise money from this unique revenue-producing source (as is the case in the present instance). It is always the officials and not the people who should be punished; but, unfortunately, the reverse is usually the case.\n\nI am fully aware of the wonderful progress that has been made in China as a whole, especially in the eastern provinces, in regard to opium suppression (in spite of the widespread recrudescence reported in disturbed and brigand-infested regions), and of the relatively small importance, to the whole question, of remote parts in Western Szechuan being under poppy cultivation; unmistakable evidence of the real progress made in suppression being everywhere provided by the high price of the native drug compared to ten years ago (though this high price is, of course, partly due to the heavy taxation imposed). But I am impelled to report this instance of open recrudescence under official auspices and encouragement, in order that you, sir, and perhaps the Chinese Government, may be informed of the nature of the official to whom Thibetan affairs continue to be entrusted.\n\nPerhaps the Chinese Government are under the impression that they cannot remove General Ch'en Hsia-ling from his post owing to Szechuan being independent. Such, however, is not the case. It is only the moral support afforded by his having the mandate of Peking to act as Frontier Commissioner that enables him to maintain his present position. Were that support withdrawn by an open mandate cashiering him, he would disappear from the scene almost at once.\n\nI have not mentioned the matter of this poppy cultivation to General Ch'en Hsia-ling, since I did not like to do so without your instructions, and also because I did not consider it desirable to do anything to impair the outwardly friendly relations which I have maintained with him in the interests of the peace of the frontier at the time of my departure.\n\nThe Chien-chang valley (the narrow strip of Chinese-inhabited territory running south towards Yunnan between Lolo and tribal country) is said to be also full of opium, definite information in regard to which has probably been supplied by Mr. Eastes. That region, which was until last summer also controlled by General Ch'en Hsia-ling, appears now to be a sort of no-man's-land, the possession of which is in dispute between the latter, the Szechuanese, and the Yünnanese.\n\nSzechuan was, I believe, passed as clean without an official inspection at the time the 1911 agreement was made. There was a limited amount of recrudescence after the revolution and during the subsequent troubles, and the poppy has always continued to flourish in the remote and semi-independent tribal country behind Kuan Hsien. But I have never heard of anything like the open and legalized cultivation now being carried on in Luting district and neighbourhood.\n\nCopy of this despatch has not been forwarded to the Foreign Department of the Government of India, as it is not directly concerned with Thibetan affairs.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nERIC TEICHMAN.\n\n8\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum.\n\nNOT carrying with me any paraphernalia for official correspondence on my journey hither from the Burmah frontier, I incorporated in a letter despatched en route to His Majesty's Minister at Peking my observations on the vast quantities of opium being grown, not only in the Chien-ch'ang valley, but also throughout the whole region traversed by me during twelve and a-half days' travel in south-western Szechuan.\n\nDuring the whole length of my journey across the western circuit of Yunnan, from the extreme south-west to the extreme north-east, I saw only five fields of opium poppy, and these were passed on the last half-day's journey in Yunnan, within 10 miles of the Szechuan boundary.\n\nOnce, however, I had crossed the River Yang-tsze and entered Szechuan, matters were entirely different, and poppy fields abounded on all sides, without the smallest attempt at concealment,\n\nFor the first two and a-half days to Hui-li the country was in the hands of Yunnan troops, and the percentage of opium crops was not very great; from Hui-li onwards for the next ten stages poppy fields were passed everywhere, in enormous quantities, and the percentage of these pernicious crops rose certainly to 50 per cent.\n\nThe valley of the Anuing River, which is the Chien-ch'ang (formerly Ning-yuan Fu) valley proper, is reached shortly before the end of the second stage northwards from Hui-li; three stages more, through absolutely countless poppy crops, brought me to the very large walled city of Chien-ch'ang (formerly Ning-yuan Fu), the headquarters of the Chien-ch'ang Taoyin, which lies just out of the Anning River valley, on its east side, in a broad plain which when I traversed it on the 17th March was a brilliant mass of poppy crops. During these three stages I travelled in company with a recently retired district magistrate of Hui-li, and in the course of conversation with him I commented freely on this flagrant breach of the Opium Agreement with Great Britain. His defence for his own scandalous inactivity in the matter, that he had no troops to carry out the work of suppression, was wholly specious, for throughout our journey in company we constantly passed large numbers of ill-disciplined local militiamen, whose sole occupation seemed to be loafing and gambling outside the gates of the many walled towns in which they were quartered; while day after day my efforts to find a temple to spend the night were frustrated because the temples—which abound all over Szechuan—were already occupied by these ruffians. Throughout the whole course of my journey in Szechuan I saw not a single proclamation against the cultivation of opium poppy bearing a date later than 1917.\n\nI agree entirely with Mr. Teichman's comment that it is always the officials and not the people who should be punished; my ex-magistrate travelling companion should undoubtedly have received a very severe sentence for his criminal, and doubtless highly lucrative, apathy. I was told by friendly natives encountered on my travels that each field of the illicit crop was worth 6 dollars to the authorities conniving at its existence.\n\nTwo stages above Chien-ch'ang the road quits the Anning River valley and becomes more mountainous as far as I could judge; the fact that opium cultivation for the next few stages is distinctly less universal is due solely to the less congenial character of the soil. But not until my sixteenth day's journey in Szechuan, four days north of the large district town of Yih-hsi, did I cease to see poppy crops altogether, and I attribute that cessation solely to the fact that the idle militia gave place, in the neighbourhood of the large towns of Ta-shu-p'u and Fu-lin, and thence onwards to Chengtu, to regular troops, under the command presumably of officers owning more than a nominal allegiance to the present military governor, Hsiung K'o-wu.\n\nMr. Teichman refers to the continued flourishing of poppy cultivation in the remote and semi-independent tribal country behind Kuan-hsien (about 40 miles north-west of Chengtu); this state of affairs is corroborated by local missionaries, who tell me, moreover, that opium growing on a small scale has begun again in several other hilly or mountainous areas on the fringe of the great Chengtu Plain,\n\nOn the 25th April a small paragraph in the local native press announced that General Tan Mou-hsin, the commander of the 1st division of Szechuan regulars, one of...\n\n472",
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        "content_text": "(This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.)\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[May 17.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n453\n\n[F 865/865/10]\n\n(No. 177.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nMr. Lampson to Earl Curzon.-(Received May 17.)\n\nPeking, March 25, 1920.\n\nTHE political outlook in China to-day is black as ever. The exchequer is in its usual state of emptiness, and there is no prospect of its replenishment so long as the resources of the country continue to be absorbed on useless military expenditure.\n\nThe present month has seen a determined attempt on the part of the Anfu Club, i.e., the Japanophil Party, to drive the Premier from office. As ever in the case of Chinese politics the actual issues are obscure, but it seems fairly certain that the ultimate object was to oust the Premier, General Chin-yün-peng, and to install in his place some vassal of Tuan-chi-jui's; it is even currently believed that at the back of the whole intrigue was the desire to drive President Hsü from power with a view to the succession eventually falling to Tuan himself. A more direct challenge to the South would of course be difficult to conceive.\n\nFor several days the work of the Cabinet was suspended owing to the persistent refusal of three of its Anfu members to attend; but these three recalcitrant Ministers are now again attending office, and Premier Chin for the moment has weathered the storm.\n\nThis trial of strength between the Anfu Party and Tuan on the one hand and President Hsü and Premier Chin on the other has had a greater interest than that usually attaching to party intrigues in China. It has brought out with remarkable precision the existence of two distinct military parties in the North in addition to the main political parties. On the side of the President and Premier stand ranged the Military Governors of Fengtien and Chihli, with whom, for the time being at least, the three Yang-tsze Tuchuns, headed by the well-known Li Shun of Nanking, are allied. Opposed to them are Marshal Tuan and his satellite \"little Hsü,\" who is now regarded as Tuchun-designate of Anhui in succession to the notorious Ni-shi-tseng, now reported on the point of death.\n\nThe actual issue that brought these rival parties into the field was an attempt to remove the present Military Governor of Honan, and to replace him by a nominee of Tuan's. The attempt has failed, and for the moment the Anfu Club has had a distinct set-back.\n\nIt is altogether, apart from the considerable local interest attaching to their discomfiture, the matter has a wider importance from the point of view of world politics generally admitted that at the back of the minds of the Anfu politicians has lain the ambition of installing as Premier some creature of their own prepared to enter upon negotiations with Japan over the Shantung issue. As is well known, the present Premier is stoutly opposed to such negotiations, and in this he is undoubtedly supported by public opinion. Hence the opposition of the Anfu Club.\n\nAt the moment of writing there exists a certain uneasiness in men's minds over the possibility of a clash between the two rival military parties of the North. Any such clash in the neighbourhood of Peking is, it seems to me, highly improbable. Tuan-chi-jui is complete master of the capital, where he has a considerable force at his disposal. The only person who could challenge him is Chang Tso Lin, Tuchun of Fengtien, who has at least ten divisions within easy reach and with ready means of access to Peking from the North. But I feel confident that Chang is not likely to try conclusions with Tuan. In the neighbourhood of Changsha, in Hunan, however, matters may be more complicated. I have heard it said that a clash is quite possible there between Chang Ching Yao, the Military Governor of the province, and a vassal of Tuan's, and General Hu Pei Fu who is an associate of the Yang-tsze Tuchuns. Movements of troops converging on Changsha have been observed of late, and this may perhaps mean impending developments. I hasten to add, however, that in China it is seldom that movements lead to active hostilities. Actual warfare is too hazardous a business, and is, as a rule, limited to an exchange of lengthy and irate telegrams between the leaders, and there the matter rests so far as the contending forces are concerned.\n\n[3215-1]",
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        "content_text": "## Name of Petitioner\n27. Tse Sing Kee.\n\n### SANDAKAN\n1. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce.\n2. Yong Soon & Co.\n3. Teo Keo Association\n4. Yee Yee Timber Co\n5. Kwong Chiu Hing.\n6. Man Woo Loong & Co.\n7. Kwan Sheung Weng Co.\n8. Shing Kee Company.\n9. Wan Loy firm.\n10. Man Shun firm,\n11. Hop Shun firm.\n12. Kwong Tai Yuen.\n13. Kim Anu Heng.\n14. Tai Yuen firm.\n15. Tak Hing & Co.\n16. Kam Wing Fat.\n17. Sham Tak Chuen.\n18. Tong Fat firm.\n19. Hip Lee firm.\n20. Hip Lee Chan.\n\n21. Chang Fat firm.\n22. Pun Chia Hing.\n23. Sham Shing Fat.\n24. Cheung Shun Mi.\n25. Tan Siak Peng.\n26. Mok Sang firm.\n\n28. \n29. Sam Loong firm.\n30. Wan Hop firm\n31. Kwong Yick Loong.\n32. Fu Kee firm.\n33. Wing Sang firm.\n34. Yuen Sang firm.\n35. Kwen Yick & Co.\n36. Han Lam Chuen.\n37. Man Hing Lau.\n38. Nam Sing Loung.\n39. Wing Kee Shun.\n40. Kam Hin Hing.\n41. Yau Shun firm.\n42. Ping Fung firm.\n43. Tan Siak Peng Chan.\n44. Aw Ah & Co.\n45. Man Shua Woo.\n\n46. Wo Sang firm\n47. Hop Hing firm.\n48. Kan Yick firm.\n49. Sin Tao Tong.\n50. Man Sang Loong.\n51. Wai Wo Loong.\n\nPage 368",
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        "content_text": "# Name of Petitioner \n## SANDAKAN \n\n1. Mok Sang firm. \n2. Yong Soon & Co. \n3. Teo Keo Association. \n4. Yee Yee Timber Co \n5. Kwong Chiu Hing. \n6. Man Woo Loong & Co. \n7. Kwan Sheung Weng Co. \n8. Shing Kee Company. \n9. Wan Loy firm. \n10. Man Shun firm. \n11. Hop Shun firm. \n12. Kwong Tai Yuen, \n13. Kim Ann Heng. \n14. Tai Yuen firm. \n15. Tak Hing & Co. \n16. Kam Wing Fat. \n17. Sham Tak Chuen. \n18. Tong Fat firm. \n19. Hip Le firm, \n20. Hip Lee Chan. \n21. Chang Fat firm. \n22. Pun Chia Hing. \n23. Sham Shing Fat. \n24. Cheung Shun Ming \n25. Tau Siak Peng. \n26. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce. \n27. Tse Sing Kee. \n28. Kan Kee firm. \n29. Sam Loong firm. \n30. Wan Hop firm \n31. Kwong Yick Loong. \n32. Fu Kee Firm. \n33. Ving Sang firm. \n34. Yuen Sang firm. \n35. Kwong Yick & Co. \n36. Han Lum Chuen. \n37. Man Hing Lau. \n38. Nam Sing Loong. \n39. Wing Kee Shun. \n40. Kam Hin Hing. \n41. Yan Shun firm. \n42. Ping Fang firm. \n43. Tan Siak Peng Chan. \n44. Aw Al & Co. \n45. Man Shun Woo. \n46. Wo Sang firm \n47. Hop Hing firm. \n48. Kun Yick firm. \n49. Sin Teo Tong. \n50. Man Sang Loong. \n51. Wai Wo Loong. \n\n## 23 \n― \n## 385",
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        "content_text": "## Name of Petitioner\n\n387\n\n9. Sang Hing firm.\n8. Kwong Yick Loong.\n3. Wing Shing Hing.\n34. Wing Hang firm.\n10. Ming Long firm.\n9. Yong Seng & Co.\n9. Chau Sing Kee.\n35. Kwong Sang Tong.\n11. Ming Long Chan.\n10. Ping Fung Chun.\n10. Chan Hai Kee.\n36. Kwong Chau Lee.\n12. Eng Sui Long.\n11. Yut Loy firm.\n11. Fook Yee Yuen.\n37. Kuan Loung firm.\n13. Sun Loong Yuen.\n12. Leung Hoy firm.\n12. Yee Yuen firm.\n38. Wing Yuen firm.\n14. Shing Fat firm.\n12. Tung Cheng\n13. Yuen Chun firm.\n39. Lim Keng Yeam.\n15. Ping Yuen Fang.\n14. Wan Loy Chan.\n14. Chit Mee firm.\n40. Chun Sau Tong.\n16. Yuen Hop firm.\n15. Luen Wo firm.\n15. Chit Chuo firm.\n41. Kwong Yee Shing.\n17. Loong Tai Chan.\n16. Man Wo firm.\n16. Fook Hing firm.\n18. Kwong Eugong (Kwong Shing Fung)\n17. Tai On firm\n17. Kwong Yuen Long.\n19. Seng Kee.\n20. K. M. Madarsuint.\n21. Tai Sang Tong.\n22. Lye Cheong Hoe.\n23. Kwong Sam Yick.\n24. Tsun Hing Loong.\n18. Sin Foo Nam.\n18. Shui Loong Hau Kee.\n\n## Jesselton\n\n1. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce.\n19. Shun Fung firm.\n19. Kwong Wai Yuen.\n2. Lee Long.\n20. Sam Shun Shing.\n20. Sang Heng & Co.\n3. Yoon Chong Tong.\n21. Pan Heung Kui,\n21. Yut Fung firm.\n4. Ban Hing.\n22. Sam See Fan.\n22. Kwong Nam Sing.\n5. Khen Fait.\n23. Pun Tak Chung.\n23. Yeung Wo firm.\n6. Kwong Ng Long,\n25. Yut Sun firm.\nF\n24. Man Tung Sing.\n24. Kwong Wah firm.\n7. Kwong Hip King,\n25. Chau Tin Kee.\n8. Keng Soon Fong.\n\n## Tawau\n\n26. Tsun Kee firm.\n27. Sun Wah Lee.\n28. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce.\n29. Pan Heung Koi.\n30. Kwong Sang firm.\n\n## Kudat\n\n1. Wing Ki Cheong.\n1. Kwong Cheong Shing.\n2. Yee Yuen Cheong.\n2. Chit Yuen firm.\n9. Youn Choon Chan.\n10. Kwun Wo On & Co.\n11. Pu Chi Tung\n3. Wing Loong firm.\n3. Hock Hoe Guan.\n12. Hip Shing firm,\n4. Wing Hing Loong.\n4. Hop Shing Su.\n5. Kheng Hup Hiu.\n5. Yuen Kee firm.\nB1. Kwang Sing Long\n6. Tauo,\n6. Shui Hing firm.\n32. Fook Ling Tong.\n15.\n7. Leung Kee.\n7. Hing Fat firm.\n33. Fook Kee firm.\n\n1. Kong Sang Co.\n14. Nyin Thei Cho,\nMak Chan.\n16. Wong Won Wall.",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nof money whatsoever in addition to the rent. Anyone who does so is liable to a fine of $1,000.\n\nClause 17 provides that any rent not payable under the Ordinance which has been paid by mistake can be recovered from the landlord and stopped out of the next rent payable.\n\nI beg, Sir, to move the second reading. **THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded.\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL** formally moved, and **THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, that certain interested persons who desired to be heard by Counsel should be so heard.\n\nThe motion was agreed to.\n\nThe possible into the market and buy private land in preference to Government land. They will rather pay more and be sure they get the land they ask for than take months and months of trouble, resulting in the land being purchased by someone else. This is one of the causes, and perhaps the main cause, of the situation which has brought this Bill about. The second cause is the fact that the military authorities own large sections of land in the centre of the town which they do not require and which they do not put to use. That has caused a congestion which is inevitable and led to the law of supply and demand of private property soaring to great heights. And the third and more temporary cause is the general trade slump which started about a year ago. After the war, there was a trade boom and money was locked up in trade, but the trade slump has caused money which would otherwise be invested in commercial enterprises being devoted to the purchase of shares, or the acquisition of landed property, with the result that both shares and land in this Colony have recently boomed. The money was legitimately invested and invested on the faith that the investors would get an adequate return for the money invested. Properties have changed hands in the last few months, not only on the basis of the rents then paid but on the basis of the return the landlord expected to get for his money, the law allowing him to increase his rents, and that is why a Bill such as this, which destroys the sanctity of contract, and which is retrospective, will destroy that very confidence on which all trade and all investment is based. So far from leading to further building, it will make further building in this Colony almost impossible, for once the Government sanctions the principle of retrospective legislation, there is no limit to the amount of retrospective legislation which may be subsequently introduced, and one will not know what return he may get upon his money.\n\nClause 3 of the Bill states that \"notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary, whether made before or after the commencement of this Ordinance, and whether oral or in writing, no rent shall be recoverable\" except the standard rent and that rent was fixed as the rent of last December. One of the results of this will be that persons who have, with the assistance of the law, evicted the tenants of last year by offering to pay a higher rent to take their place will now be protected and permitted to pay only the rent that was paid by the people that they themselves dispossessed.\n\n**MR. C. G. ALABASTER** said—May it please your Excellency and members of the Council, I am instructed by 31 proprietors of domestic tenements in Hong Kong, who represent between them many millions of dollars of invested money, to present their petition, copies of which are, I think, in the hands of all the members of this honourable Council, and to represent their views on this matter. I do so at the risk of being described, as I have already been described in a petition in anticipation, as a \"counsellor of evil\"; for it is a principle of that British justice, which is represented by the law and is to be found in those institutions, such as this, where the law is made, that all sides are entitled to a hearing and all sides are entitled to be represented by spokesmen.\n\nNow this Bill is opposed by those I represent, and many more who have not had time to prepare or sign petitions, because it is a bad Bill. It is a Bill which, as is confessed in the memorandum of Objects and Reasons, was prepared in a hurry, which does not carry out the suggestions on which the Committee appointed was instructed to act, and which attempts to meet a situation which is not a sudden emergency but which is the result of a number of contributing causes which have operated during the last 10 or 15 years and which this Bill does nothing to remove—in fact, which this Bill does much to accentuate.\n\nThe chief of these causes has been the policy of the Land Sales Department of this Colony. The harassing restrictions which are placed in the way of every applicant for land, in whatever part of the Colony he may be, has forced people who are desirous to build to go as far as possible into the market and buy private land in preference to Government land.\n\n|          | \n|----------| \n| 10       | \n\nI think the greatest possible objection to this Bill is the clause which fixes the 31st December last year as the date at which the standard rent should be fixed. If it is necessary to fix a standard rent, surely the rent of the 30th June would be a better one, for at that date it was known that the Government contemplated such a Bill and subsequent purchases of property, if any, have been made on that understanding.\n\nWith your Excellency's permission, I will read the petition and make comments as I go.\n\n## TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR REGINALD EDWARD STUBBS, K.C.M.G.,\n\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same and to the Several Honourable Members of the Legislative Council of Hongkong,\n\nThe Humble Petition of Li Wai Po, Chung Ting Chiu, Wong Sing Fai, Tang Hung, Tsui Kin Kwok, Tung Wai, Leung Hing Ip, Chiu Wai, Leung Wai Nam, Leung Shiu Kap, Fung Im, Chin Wong Shi, Sz To Shun Cho, Cheng Yuen, Leung Ying Chi, Pan Cheong Lam, Chan Hoi Lam, Ho Cheuk Ting, Leung Sai Chun, Yu Wai, Chan Wing Sing, Yuen Sam, Lau Kut Choi, Luk Choi Ting, Tam Chai Yat, Pun Cheung Shi, Young Ho, Wong Ping Ting, Chan Ka Ming, Chan Ka On, and Chau Shing Lee, all of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Property Owners.\n\nSheweth :-\n\n1. That your petitioners are proprietors of domestic tenements in Hongkong and desire to point out to Your Excellency and Honourable Members of the Legislative Council certain objections to the proposed Ordinance to amend the law relating to the recovery of possession in certain cases and to restrict the rents of certain domestic tenements and to amend the Rating Ordinance, (hereinafter called \"the Bill\").\n\n2. Your petitioners verily believe that their views as expressed in this petition are shared by a large majority of the owners of domestic tenements in Hong Kong.\n\n3. That your petitioners view with alarm the principle of the whole Bill as unduly interfering with the law of supply and demand and as tending to prevent the free development of the Colony. That notwithstanding the exceptions contained in the Bill newly erected property your petitioners do not believe this will lead to the erection of any considerable number of domestic tenements seeing that there is no guarantee contained in the Bill that a similar Bill will not be passed in the near future bringing such newly erected property within its provisions. Your petitioners, therefore, humbly beg to submit that a provision be added to the Bill providing that all buildings now in course of erection or hereafter to be erected shall be excluded from the provisions of this or any Bill to the like effect for a period of at least 15 years.\n\n4. Your petitioners also humbly beg to submit that this Bill if passed will cause a serious fall in the value of domestic tenements and that a considerable loss will fall on those persons who have recently purchased property on the basis of the rentals now prevailing in the Colony.\n\n5. Your petitioners further humbly submit that the Ordinance should not be made retrospective but that the standard rent should be the rent payable on the coming into force of the Bill which should not be a date earlier than the date upon which the Ordinance receives the assent of His Excellency the Governor for the following reasons:-\n\n(a) That purchasers of property since the 31st day of December, 1920, have purchased the same on the basis of the rentals payable at the time of purchase and on the basis of the rents which your petitioners knew the tenants were willing to pay in respect of the properties occupied by them.\n\n(b) That mortgagees have lent money on such properties the amount of loan being based upon the value of the property calculated on the rents receivable at the time of the mortgage and on the saleable value of similar property in the open market which value was based not only upon the rentals then paid but on the demand for domestic tenements in Hongkong.",
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        "content_text": "## 325\n\n: P 14\n\n**CHAN PUI SHING, Manager, NAN YANG TOBACCO Factory.**\n\nWe have two factories, (1) 199 Wan Tsai Road, (2) Caroline Road, So Kon Po. We employ about 244 female children, but no male children. The ages are as follows:-\n\n| Age | Number of Girls |\n| --- | --- |\n| 11 years | 4 |\n| 12 | 12 |\n| 13 | 37 |\n| 14 | 79 |\n| 15 | 112 |\n\nThey work from 8 to 9 hours a day. From 7-12 and 1-4 or 5 o'clock. From 20 to 30 cents a day is the average pay of both a child and an adult. The children are employed in packing. Every 15th day and 30th is a holiday. Apart from applying for holidays, they work for 7 days a week. Children work the same hours as adults. Overtime can be worked from 7-9 p.m. From 4-8 cents is the overtime pay. There is plenty of labour. Wage sheets are kept and signed by the girls, deductions are recorded, and the wage sheets are open to inspection. There is a waiting list of over a hundred. We will not take children under 10 years of age.\n\n**CHENG HING YIN, Manager of KAM HING KNITTING FACTORY.**\n\nWe employ 110 girls and 48 boys, and 900 adults. The ages are as follows:-\n\n| Age Range | Number of Girls | Number of Boys |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 11 to 12 | 21 | 15 |\n| 12 to 14 | 39 | 50 |\n| 14 to 16 | 75 | J |\n\n**TUNG A KNITTING FACTORY, G/F, SHANGHAI STREET, MONG KOK Tse Wan.**\n\n**KO CHUNG TONG: MANAGER.**\n\nWe employ 220 persons: About 35 males, 190 women, and 12 girls, all over 12 years, make up that total. We employ no boys. They work from 6.30-12 and 1-6. We do night work four or five times a week. We sometimes work on Sundays. The women and children are paid by the piece. Women get about 40 cents a day. It would not affect our work if we had no children: they come with their mothers and beg for work. We pay half overtime for night work to persons paid by the day. I think 80% would like to work on Sunday. About 50 would like to do night work. No one is forced to do night work.\n\n**LEE MAN HING KWOK, SAI KUNG STREET, YAU MA TEI, Knitting Factory for Hosiery.**\n\n**SIC YAM WING: Assistant Manager.**\n\nWe employ about 300 persons—51 men, 280 women, and 27 children, of whom none are under 13 years of age. They work from 6-12 and 1-7. There is no Sunday work and no night work. The girls make cardboard boxes, do knitting, and other light work. All hands work the same hours. We pay by the piece and by the day. The pay is from 15 cents per day upwards. The children get from 15 cents to 30 cents a day. The children are brought by the mothers. It would not affect us if there were no children working.\n\nThe children work from 6.45 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. and 12 noon to 6.15 p.m., and on night work from 6.45 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. They have every other Sunday off. Children and adults work the same hours. Girls do light work. Girls earn about 40 cents a day if over 16, and under 16 about 20 cents.\n\nThere is no night work on Wednesday or Sunday, or from 4th to 7th moon. Wages are paid twice monthly. Children are paid direct. Women have their midday meals in the factory.\n\n**SAN SHING LUNG GINGER Factory, 255 Reclamation Street, Mongkok.**\n\n**LI SHAI WING: Manager.**\n\nWe employ 32 men and 60 women. We have no girls under 18 or 19 years of age. The hours are from 6-12 and 1-6. There is very seldom any night work, except at Christmas and such times, when they work from 7-11 p.m. The pay of a woman is about $5.40 a month without food, and a man from $6 to $10 a month besides his food.\n\n**Evidence taken at Meeting on 4th May, 1921.**\n\n**CHAN KWOK WAI, YEUNG OR THE CHINESE FOREIGN KNITTING FACTORY AT 484, Canton Road, Yau Ma Tei.**\n\n**CHEUNG TAI MING: Secretary.**\n\nWe employ about two hundred hands with about half a dozen children. They come with their mothers and do odd jobs. They are paid by the job and work six days a week. They work for eleven and a half hours a day. There is no night work or work on Sunday. Our work would not be hindered if we did not employ children.\n\n**CHAN PAK PANG, Kowloon Dock, Sub-contractor for Shipbuilding.**\n\nI employ from 100 to 300 men, depending on the amount of work. I employ from 50 to 60 women coolies. I employ boys for chipping; sometimes I employ from 40 to 50 boys, the youngest of whom are about eleven years, and the rest eleven years and upwards. They work from 7-12 and 1-5, and the wages are from 30 to 40 cents a day. Double overtime is paid for night work and Sunday work. The night shift lasts for 12 hours and wages are paid at double rates. Boys are also employed at painting, carpentering, boiler-making, and as copper-smiths. There are 33 under 16 and 147 over 16 working as copper-smiths. I have no apprentices.",
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        "content_text": "## official class in Yunnan, we may expect no co-operation in preventive measures from that side.\n\nAt the frontier meeting of 1916, I communicated to Chang I Shu, the best type of Taoyin I have had the good fortune to meet at the different frontier meetings I have attended, particulars of certain Chinese merchants who were suspected of being concerned in the traffic of opium into China, but against whom I could get no sufficient information to justify action. Nothing was done by the Chinese as the result of that information, though it is certain that, if the firms concerned had been properly watched, I should have got information which would have enabled me to expel the representatives of the firms from the States.\n\nAgain, in 1917, I supplied His Britannic Majesty's consul, Tengyueh, with the names of a number of Chinese traders who were found with large sums of money in one of the principal opium markets of West Manglun and who were obviously there for the purpose of buying opium. Mr. Eastes thought it best not to use that information, as, from his knowledge of the Chinese officials, he believed that the Chinese administrations would not take any action except possibly in the way of wholly illicit extortion.\n\nAgain, though the import of opium into China is forbidden, the Chinese officials have arranged a revenue station at Shunning which is out of the way of any consular or European customs officer's observation, where fees are regularly levied on all consignments of the drug which pass through.\n\nEven if, for the sake of argument, it were possible to block the frontier from Namhkam to the Salween and again along the northern and eastern border of Kokang to near the Kunlong Ferry, it is quite impossible to take any action at present east of the Salween from the Kunlong Ferry to Panghsang Nalawt. This frontier is over 150 miles long; it encloses the unadministered Wa States, and the actual border line is in dispute with China. Preventive measures taken in this area, which produces large quantities of opium, will revive the dispute with China about a part of the frontier which is of very little importance and will undo all the work which has been quietly done for years to disarm the suspicions of the unadministered tribes and to induce them to look more and more regularly to Lashio for the settlement of their disputes. Yet, if this part of the border is left open, it is entirely useless blocking the northern frontier.\n\nAll the indications point to the fact that the Yunnan officials mean to relax the opium restrictions when it suits them. The destruction of crops was this year carried out along our border in a very arbitrary way. In the Mong Mao State, the Sawbwa levied a tax on cultivation. A Chefang official told Mr. Gaudoin that the Kachins had been informed that they would be permitted to cultivate opium for the season 1919-20 onwards. On the other hand, on the Chengkang Mong Ting border, crops were destroyed by the Chinese, which incidentally were within our frontier line and belonged to our own men. If, however, as seems likely, cultivations will increase in China, our problems become easier—there will be practically no smuggling, as the crop can be grown more easily nearer home.\n\nIt is essential for us to fulfil our treaty obligations, and it is also essential to take action for the sake of the Shan States themselves, to prevent them being ruined by the extension of cultivation of opium in place of food crops.\n\nI believe, however, that we shall succeed more faithfully in carrying out our obligations to China and our duty to our own people if the whole question is tackled systematically and quietly as a revenue matter of the States themselves and not by the exercise of the force at the disposal of the paramount Power. The use of this can only be oppressive and arbitrary under the conditions which prevail, and will cause a blaze of resentment which will make the whole of our administration more difficult.\n\n### ANNEX 5\n\n**Mr. Cabell (Officiating Commissioner, Mandalay Division) to the Assistant Secretary to the Financial Commissioner, Burma**\n\nNovember 15, 1919\n\nWITH reference to the correspondence ending with your letter dated the 9th May, 1919, on the subject of poppy cultivation in the Kachin Hill Tracts, I have the honour to forward copies of letters received from the Deputy Commissioners, Bhamo, Katha, Myitkyina and the Ruby Mines.*\n\n*Not printed.\n\n2. There has been some delay in replying to your letter, because all the Deputy Commissioners of the frontier districts, with the exception of Mr. Wilkinson at Katha, were new to their charges, and it was desirable that they should have some time to consider the result of any changes which it was proposed to introduce. Moreover, the death of Mr. Scott has removed from the Sinlum Tracts an officer who was looked upon as a father by the people. His successor should have at least one season to make the acquaintance of his people before he puts any restrictive measures into force.\n\n3. It would be useful to summarise the proposals which have already been made for the control and suppression of the cultivation of the poppy in the Kachin Hills on the Burmese side of the frontier. Up to the year 1913, there was no prohibition of the cultivation of opium and nothing was attempted. In 1913, owing to the accession of the British and Chinese Governments to the International Opium Convention, which was signed at The Hague early in 1912, the Wai-chiao Pu brought to the notice of His Majesty's Minister at Peking the difficulty of suppressing the consumption of opium in Yunnan owing to the fact that opium was cultivated in the Kachin Hills and Shan States on the Burmese side of the frontier, and the local Government asked for recommendations regarding the steps to be taken to control the production of raw opium, to prevent its export and to check its smuggling across the frontier into China. Apart from the obligations of this Government under the Opium Convention, it was represented by several officers that the consumption of opium among the Kachins was on the increase, that it was doing them considerable harm and that the cultivation of the poppy ought to be suppressed for this reason alone. In this connection, I must point out that the opinions of various officers who know the Kachins really well are diametrically opposed to one another. Mr. G. W. Dawson and Mr. Rae say:\n\n\"In malarious tracts such as Kaukkwe, Sinkan (Bhamo), Jade Mines, Hukawng and Mogaung valleys (Myitkyina) it (opium) has become indispensable as a febrifuge. These tracts are not on the border. But the proposed prohibition does not distinguish between border Kachins and others. It is my settled belief that many will die for want of it or if they are sent to jail for having it.\n\nExcept possibly among the Kauris, its consumption has no evil results whatever. It is very seldom taken to excess, and in the case of men in regular work can be taken in considerable quantities with astonishing results in the way of physical endurance.”\n\nOn the other hand, Mr. Scott says:\n\n\"A Kachin who uses opium is ruined both morally and physically, and whereas its use can be justified in fever-stricken tracts in the plains, its use in the hills can only be described as a curse.\"\n\nThere is no one with better knowledge of the Kachins than these three officers, Messrs. Rae, Scott and Clerk, and I can only make the suggestion that in Mr. Rae's time the poppy was not cultivated in the Sinlum Tracts to anything like the extent to which it is now under the commercial stimulus afforded by the repressive policy in Yunnan and that excessive use of opium was rare. Moreover, cultivation in the Myitkyina Tracts is not yet extensive, so that excessive use of opium is, I believe, rare also in those tracts. Mr. Scott's opinion as to the ruinous effects of the use of opium is the latest and may be confidently accepted.\n\n4. It was reported in 1913 that except in Bhamo there was little cultivation for the purposes of export, but that in Bhamo poppy cultivation was decidedly on the increase in the Kachin Hills, and that the cultivation in that district was on a commercial scale and amounted to about 2,000 acres. Such cultivation as existed in the Ruby Mines and Katha Districts was in small patches and the total extent of the cultivation was so small as to be practically negligible. In his letter dated the 1st July, 1913, Colonel Aplin summarised the position and made certain proposals to carry out the policy indicated by Government. These proposals were that in the Bhamo District there should be total prohibition of cultivation, but that no action should be taken as regards possession of opium until the effect of the total prohibition of cultivation has been carefully examined.\n\n*Not printed.\n\nPage 120\nPage 121",
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        "content_text": "429/81/10).\n\nParaphrase of telegram No. 57 from Sir Alston, February 2nd.\n\nNo. 8043 RLC 292 Intelligence Report. Fan 19. B 21\n\nYunan and Canton are the only provinces which definitely adhere to Confederation of the South at (present) and there is opposition to handing over to political extremists (such as Sun Yat-sen) of Canton provinces under Ch'en Ch'iung-ming, so that Sun's scheme for proclaiming Southern Federal Republic under Presidency of himself cannot gain much ground.\n\nRenewed hostilities are threatened in Szechuan and have already broken out in Hunan through local rivalries; the rest of the provinces South of the Yangtze are waiting to see what course events take.\n\nThe situation in the North is dominated by rivalry between Chang Tso-lin at Mukden and other military leaders among whose number is the Premier; and internal quarrels are still carried on or maintained in Kiangsi, Kansu, and Hopei.\n\nThe Central Government continue to endeavour to effect a reunion, with new Parliament and cancellation of Sino-Japanese Military pact for its basis, but as Central Government is powerless and bankrupt, progress of the scheme is well-nigh hopeless.\n\nPlease refer to my telegram 44.\n\nAnxiety amounting almost to upheaval is prevalent among all classes and rumours are again current of a monarchical restoration owing to the desperate situation.\n\nRepeated to Tokio.",
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        "content_text": "# This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n## J 400 CHINA. **CONFIDENTIAL**.\n\n`[F 3358/711/10]`  \nC O 13063  \nRECO NRed.17 M. 21  \n[December 23.]\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\n### Mr. Clive to Earl Curzon,-(Received December 23.)\n\n**(No. 692.)**  \nMy Lord,  \nPeking, October 11, 1920.\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 June last, which has been compiled by Mr. R. Dunbar, third secretary to His Majesty's Legation. With reference to your Lordship's despatch No. 292 of the 11th June last, I have the honour to state that reports from His Majesty's consular officers at Harbin and Shanghai will be included in the summary for the quarter ending the 31st December next, and that in accordance with your Lordship's instructions an additional report on important matters concerning the provinces of Kansu, Shensi and Honan will in future be forwarded.\n\n(Copies to Tokyo, India, Hong Kong and Admiral.)\n\nI have, &c.  \nR. H. CLIVE.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 1.\n\n#### Intelligence Reports of His Majesty's Consular Officers in China for Quarter ended June 30, 1920.\n\n##### Introduction.\n\nDURING the past quarter interest has centred mainly in the struggle between the forces of Tuchun Hsiung K'owu of Szechuan and those of Tang Chi-yao, Tuchun of Yunnan and leader of the south-west confederation. Hsiung's position at the end of June was such that, failing assistance from an unexpected quarter, his overthrow appeared inevitable, stoutly as he has fought against superior opponents.\n\nIn the North about the beginning of July, following on the loss of Hunan to the South though the unauthorised withdrawal of General Wu Pei-fu and the flight of Tuchun Chang Ching-yao, the political struggle between the Chihli and Anfu Parties reached its climax. The crash came with the sudden dismissal of Hsu Shu-ch'eng (Little Hsü), and the civil war which followed has ended in the utter defeat of Tuan Chi-jui and his Anfu clique.\n\nTuan has fallen only to be replaced, it would seem, by General Chang Tso-lin, who with his large well-disciplined army in Manchuria is in a position to control the activities of the Chihli Party, and on whose attitude in the near future may depend the fate of the Central Government. There are, indeed, already indications that Peking has merely exchanged one master for another and more powerful one.\n\n##### Canton.\n\nThe general situation has remained unaltered: Wu Ting-fang and his fellow dissentient directors have shown no intention of leaving Shanghai—the split between them and the Kuangsi Party is therefore complete.\n\nNegotiations are reported to be in progress between the Anfu Club and the Yunnanese Party, on the one hand, and the Chihli and Kuangsi Parties, on the other; the latter would appear to have agreed upon the following terms as a basis for peace:\n| Term | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | Hsü Shih-Ch'ang to be recognised as President; Lu Yung-t'ing to be his successor. |\n| 2 | Chin Yün-p'eng to be Premier, and the Kuo Min Tang to have four seats in the Cabinet, the Anfu members being dismissed. |",
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        "content_text": "# 6\n\nand sole representative of the former faction, fled from the city on the 10th May, having previously concentrated his men at spots outside the walls,\n\nChungking has seen no fighting, although on two occasions strong thrusts were made towards the city by the Second Szechuanese Division. Commerce, however, has suffered great losses, both direct and indirect; at the end of the quarter the total requisition made on the city amounted to 1,200,000 dollars.\n\nThe behaviour of the Kweichow troops in and around Chungking has been in general quite good, and discipline is surprisingly well maintained.\n\nAs an inevitable consequence of the war in Szechuan, brigandage has become a pest. On the departure of the bulk of the Kweichow garrison, brigands were so far emboldened as to commit their robberies right under the walls of the city. The favourite haunt of the robber bands, however, has been the \"Kitten Gorge,\" between Kiantsing and Chungking; not even the protection of an escort guaranteed parties against being fired on in this stretch of the river. Another \"plague spot\" is Tai-ping Chen, west of Chungking, on the border of Yungchuan, Jung-ch'ang, and Ta-tsu. About the middle of the quarter, a party of American missionaries, who had been looted at this place two years before, tried to escape attention by circumventing Tai-p'ing Chen, but the brigands detected them and gave chase, firing as they ran. When the bullets came dangerously close, the missionaries, who had sought to outstrip their assailants, stopped and threw up their hands. The brigands then merely rebuked them for trying to evade the town and took from them the price of the ammunition expended, estimated at 5 dol. 50 c. Even this was subsequently restored to them.\n\nIt is interesting to note that this body of brigands made no secret of their object, viz., the formation of a strong well-armed band which would sell its services to the highest bidder of the two opposing factions and be incorporated in the army on one side or the other.\n\nThe embargo on the export of silver, declared in April by the Kweichow command, caused apprehension at first amongst the native population, who regarded the order as an indication that the Kweichow troops were going to loot the city. Their fears, though not unnatural, were quite groundless. The sole object of the Kweichow command appears to have been to ensure an adequate supply of ready money for paying the troops, and the general himself, with his primitive notion of economics, could think of no other expedient.\n\n## Ichang\n\nDuring the early part of the quarter, the unpaid troops of the Upper Yang-tsze Expeditionary Force were a constant source of danger to the native population. They committed robberies under the cloak of searching for opium and did not hesitate to use violence.\n\nTowards the end of July, the situation became threatening for a few days, partly in consequence of the war in Chibli, but chiefly by reason of the arrest at the Tuchun's order of Wu Kuang-hsin, Commander-in-chief of the Upper Yang-tsze Expeditionary Force, and incidentally a son-in-law of Tuan Chi-jui. The nominal cause of Wu's arrest was the fighting that had occurred between his troops and those of the Tuchun at Hankow; it is more than probable, however, that his relationship with Tuan was the real reason.\n\nFears were generally held that Wu's capture would result in hostilities between the latter's forces and those of Wang Mou-Shang, Commander-in-chief of the Hupei provincial troops. Finally, the Tuchun himself took over Wu's forces and incorporated them in his own army, a step which has relieved the situation, for the time being, at all events.\n\nThe state of affairs at Shasi gave cause for alarm on more than one occasion during July. Owing to friction between the troops of Wang Ju-ch'in and those of Wu Kuang-hsin, there was talk of withdrawing the former; their departure would have left Wu's troops, for long unpaid, free to loot the place, and the latter announced to Wang's troops that if they did, they would spare neither foreigner nor Chinese. Wang's troops remained, however, and looting was merely spasmodic, being confined to native shops and customs stations. With the disbandment of Wu's troops at Shasi, orders having recently been issued by Wang Tuchun to that effect, the situation there will be restored to something like normal.\n\nThanks to the constant patrolling of the danger zones by gunboats, the firing on steamers near Wan-hsien and other places on the Upper Yang-tsze has entirely ceased latterly. There are now seven vessels on the run, of which five are British and two American.\n\n# 7\n\nIn consequence of the struggle in Szechuan, junk trade on the river has practically ceased.\n\nThe largest seizure of opium during the quarter was made on the \"Aulan,\" an As the circumstances Asiatic Petroleum Company boat, where ... piculs were found. pointed to gross negligence on the part of the officers, the vessel's extra-treaty privileges were cancelled, to be restored later, however, on payment by the company of 250 taels. The new season's crop of opium from Szechuan, Kweichow, and Yunnan is now being taken to Chungking for export. It is therefore likely that the difficulties for steamers arising out of the smuggling of the drug will increase in the near future.\n\n## Mukden\n\nThroughout the quarter, the struggle between the Anfu and Peiyang Parties for political supremacy and the Chinese Eastern Railway question have almost monopolised the attention of Governor Chang Tso-lin, who surprised many well-informed people by championing the Peiyang cause. It had been thought that Chang was too much under Japanese influence to oppose the then powerful Anfu clique. His well-known ambition to become Vice-President and eventually President of the Republic had, doubtless, a good deal to do with this unexpected step.\n\nChang Tso-lin's career, his rise from the lowly position of a pig-gelder to that of virtual ruler of Manchuria, is eloquent testimony of the man's strength of character. In his dealings with the Japanese, he has given proof of a political astuteness equal to that of any of his fellow officials. Chang's earlier life as a brigand chief developed his natural gifts of leadership and helped to make him the man of action he is to-day, and of this type of official, there is a sorry lack in China. With the people, he has the reputation of being ruthless but just.\n\nHandicapped though the Governor is by his lack of education, he has reduced the Military and Civil Governors of Kirin and Heilungchiang to a state of total subservience and controls every act of the Provincial Assembly. His troops, regularly paid and well-disciplined, are amongst the best in China, and his officers are wholly devoted to him.\n\nThe Presidency of the Republic is indeed a reasonable goal for such a man, but, apart from possible outside opposition, his lack of education and of political experience outside Manchuria must always prove grave obstacles to his progress.\n\nOpium, of which the cultivation in Fengtien has been suppressed, is being consumed to an increasing extent among the higher classes, and especially in Mukden; even the Governor himself is suspected of indulging in the habit. Amongst the lower classes, on the other hand, the habit is going out, morphine having taken the place of opium. The suppression of either drug is an almost impossible task in view of the lack of restrictions on their conveyance and sale by Japanese subjects.\n\nNo foreigner can visit Manchuria without being struck by the intense anti-Japanese feeling which exists amongst European and American residents in the country. The reasons for this general feeling, though difficult to understand at first, are not far to seek.\n\nIn the first place, the missionaries resent the way in which the drug business is being carried on by the Japanese, who are ruining the Chinese body and soul with their opium and their morphia.\n\nAmongst foreign merchants, the anti-Japanese feeling is the result of the discrimination in favour of Japanese trade shown by the authorities generally. The methods of discrimination are calculated to deepen this resentment. One favourite trick of the Japanese is to put as many difficulties as possible in the way of foreign merchants, who have to use the Japanese railway for transport purposes. There are endless delays, and no notice is taken of complaints. Again, claims for cargo lost or stolen on the South Manchuria Railway are almost always refused; even when the company cannot wriggle out of its responsibility, a third of the claim is the maximum paid.\n\nIt might be thought by the casual observer that the Chinese are reconciled to the presence of the Japanese in Manchuria, and the fact that the boycott has never reached this country tends to confirm such an opinion. The Chinese there, however, dislike the Japanese at least as much as they dislike them elsewhere in China, but they realise how powerless they are and are consequently more cautious in their utterances.\n\n## Foochow\n\nThere has been no event of general political importance during the quarter under review.\n\nAbout the beginning of April, three attempts to bring bombs into the Military ...\n\nPage 403",
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        "content_text": "## Disorder in China\n\n506 \n\n40 \n\nThere should be, as recommended in the memorandum of the Shanghai Foreign Exchange Bankers' Association, Chinese and foreign co-directors, with joint powers, supported by a foreign staff, comprising at least two assayers, three inspectors and an accountant, and by a skilled Chinese staff.\n\nThe chief benefiters from the adoption of this advice would be the Chinese themselves, and if action along these lines is to be taken, there is no time to lose, for a Chinese director has been appointed, I understand, a site has been obtained, plans for the buildings are being considered and tenders for the necessary machinery have been called for.\n\nIn the course of the discussion of this subject, Mr. H. P. Holyoak, representing the Hong Kong Chamber, said: \n\"We ought to press for nothing less than what Mr. Stitt asks for. And a particular emphasis should be laid upon the fact that every mint except the one at Shanghai should be closed; otherwise, we can see how the chaos which exists at the present time will be continued. The chaos is so great and so self-apparent that one wonders something more direct has not been achieved. But so long as China is divided in every part of the country it is very difficult to accomplish the uniform reform without which no progress can be made.\"\n\nDealing with the Chinese Government's attitude, Mr. Archibald Rose, His Majesty's Commercial Secretary to Legation, said: \n\"I can tell you that from the date of the last conference this question has been steadily pressed by the Legation. When Sir John Jordan went back last year one of the first things he did was to go and see the Minister of Finance, and everybody else in authority, and he told me that he considered it one of the most practical things which had been brought forward at the conference, one about which there was no question as to the feeling of the community. He managed to raise so much interest in it that eventually a special meeting was called at which several important people were present. These people invited Sir John Jordan to dinner and the whole question was discussed, after dinner, it is true, but in a very careful and considered way. They all brought forward their ideas, and Sir John Jordan, who was armed with all the evidence which the conference had given him, brought forward every point which had been mentioned here. That meeting did a great deal of good in Peking. Since that time we have had numerous meetings about this, and I think we can say that there is at least a number of influential people in Peking who see that it is almost impossible to do anything without a measure of foreign control. I rather feel that one of the great advantages of the resolution which has been put forward by Mr. Stitt is that such resolutions strengthen the hands of those Chinese who are trying to get something done. I am certain there is a large number of Chinese who want reform on these lines and who realise without a measure of control no reformation is possible.\"\n\n### Gunboats on the West River and the Yang-tsze\n\nIt was unanimously agreed: \n\"That this conference views with grave alarm the state of unrest and lawlessness prevailing in almost every province in China, and the prevalence of unchecked piracy and brigandage in which the undisciplined troops are frequently the worst offenders. It protests against the utter failure of the Chinese authorities to deal effectively with this deplorable situation and urges His Majesty's Government to use its utmost endeavours to bring home to the Chinese Government the inevitable effect of such persistent neglect of duty on the trade and prosperity of the country.\"\n\nIn moving this resolution on behalf of the Canton Chamber, Mr. Eager said: \n\"This matter was discussed at length at the last conference and I can only say that, speaking from the experience we are now having in the two Kwangs, the state of affairs is worse than before. Of course, this is not to be wondered at owing to the political strife at present taking place between the factions of Kwangsi and Kwang-tung, which, apparently, occupies the whole attention of the local authorities to the detriment of trade, and I am very much afraid that on the disbandment of soldiers, which may occur at any time at the cessation of these hostilities, conditions will be even worse.\n\n41 \n\nAlthough it is a fact that we enjoy a system of patrol carried out by five British and one American gunboats in the delta, these are insufficient to meet existing circumstances inasmuch as the gunboats are unable to navigate the smaller waterways along which a larger proportion of the products of this province are borne. All merchandise coming into or being distributed from Canton goes in native carriers which travel in all directions and no system of foreign policing could, I fear, cope with the situation.\n\nPrior to the inauguration of the republic there were a series of Chinese Government guard-boats anchored throughout the creeks which aided in keeping down piracy to some extent, and whilst the reinstitution of these might help matters, they could only be considered as part of a general scheme. There are in existence, on certain reaches, volunteer patrols arranged by the bigger villages but these are only local, self-protective movements, and could not be depended upon for any organised action.\n\nThe state of affairs is really ridiculous in so much that Chinese merchants are actually forced into paying to the various pirate chiefs a sort of insurance premium to obtain immunity from pillaging of their respective cargoes whilst in transit.\n\nA further point is that at the moment even respectable villages in some of the most affected districts are compelled to exist by preying on the water traffic as they fully realise the futility of either stock or agricultural farming when the result of their labours may be summarily seized without recompense by wandering bands.\n\nThe troops of the political factions are invariably behindhand in the matter of their pay, and desertions are continually taking place. These deserters form small bands who live by force as long as they retain their military equipment to permit of their doing so.\"\n\nIn seconding the motion on behalf of Hankow, Mr. Fraser said: \n\"Luckily, Hankow has so far been free from actual hostilities in its immediate neighbourhood, but it is not a far cry from the Waban cities to Changsha, the capital of Hunan, and there, in the cockpit of so many fights in recent years, the play and counter-play of opposing factions has had full swing for a long time. It is as unfortunate as it is, however, true, that whatever tuchun or military Nabob wins in this game of 'king of the castle' the man who foots the bill is the peasant or trader who pays not only in loss of wealth and dislocated trade but in murdered lives and ravished women.\n\nProbably no finer example of a thoroughly unscrupulous ruler could be found than the late Tuchun Chang Ching-yao, who battened on the very life-blood of the people he was supposed to govern and protect.\n\nAs regards brigandage on the Upper Yang-tsze, which affects us all so closely, it is, I feel, no exaggeration to say that the illegal squeezing, hold-ups, and robberies have brought about a state of affairs which would not be tolerated in any other country. As you are aware, the greater portion of the trade is the junk trade, the few steamers plying on upper river being quite incapable of handling anything but a small part of the cargo transported.\n\nSo far, I believe, only two steamers have been boarded in port by armed bands, the steamships `Ankong` at Kweifu and the `Robert Dollar II`, both at Wanhsien and Ichang. Prompt action by gunboats saved the situation and avoided what might have been tragedies, but on the other hand, I believe every steamer that has been trading for any length of time between Ichang and Chungking has been fired on by armed soldiers, official or otherwise, especially on the 20-mile reach below Wanhsien. Some of these attacks have been of a very determined nature and it is only by a combination of luck and bad marksmanship that casualties have been few. British gunboats have been up and done good work in convoying, &c., and it is no doubt through their effort that British steamers' traffic is now comparatively free from attack. The great bulk of the trade, however, I mean the junk trade, is still being held up and subjected to squeeze by semi-independent generals who, well aware of the impotence of the Peking Government, take this method of enriching themselves and finding the wherewithal to pay their troops.\n\n[5815 e-3]",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA.\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n`[F 851/81/10]`\n\n### No. 1.\n#### [March 8.]\n\n## SECTION 2.\n\n### Sir B. Alston to Earl Curzon.-(Received March 8.)\n\n**(No. 37.)**\nMy Lord,\n\nPeking, January 24, 1921.\n\nMR. CLIVE'S despatch No. 725 of the 3rd November reported the disappearance from Canton of what had previously been the independent Military Government of the South and, simultaneously therewith, the issue by the President of the republic of mandates proclaiming reunification and summoning a new Parliament. The first of these documents has remained a dead letter so far as Kuangtung and Yunnan are concerned. Sun Yat Sen, T'ang Shao-yi and Wu Ting-Fang returned to Canton on the 29th November, and there again formed an independent Military Government, whose authority is recognised by Ch'en Chiung-ming and, nominally at any rate, by T'ang Chi-yao. On the 29th December mandates were issued by Peking appointing Lu Jung-ting Director-General of Kuangtung Frontier Defence and confirming the appointments of his two subordinates, who hold the positions of Military and Civil Governor of Kuangsi. On the following day mandates were issued confirming Liu Ts'un-hou as Military Governor and appointing Hsiung K'o-wu Civil Governor of Szechuan. The return to the Northern fold of those two provinces was thus formally signalled.\n\nShortly after the expulsion of the Yunnanese from Szechuan the Military Governor of Kueichow entered into negotiations with the Szechuan authorities with a view to his likewise reaching an understanding with the Peking Government. These negotiations were interrupted by the forcible expulsion of the Governor. His successor has resumed efforts to arrive at an understanding with Szechuan, but whether these negotiations result in the return of the province to its allegiance to the Central Government depends upon eventualities in Kuangtung, Kuangsi and Yunnan province.\n\nThe situation in Hunan likewise remains unsettled. The popularity of Tan Yen-k'ai, who became Military Governor on the reconquest of the province from the North, did not long survive his efforts to raise the revenue necessary for the upkeep of his forces from a province bled white by the series of Northern and Southern rulers who have succeeded one another as the tide of civil war moved backward and forward. On the 23rd November he handed over charge to General Chao Heng-ti, who, like himself, was in favour of reunion with the North and opposed to the Canton Radicals. Since that date further rebellions have taken place. General Chao, having executed his opponents wholesale, still holds on to his post, but his tenure is precarious and so far no overt act of union with the North has taken place.\n\nIn Canton itself the establishment of the new Military Government is believed to be viewed with much disfavour by influential sections of Cantonese, and there is a strong probability that the disagreement known to exist between Ch'en Ch'iung-ming and the Radical clique of Sun Yat Sen and his friends will lead to fighting between the forces owing allegiance to each.\n\nMeasures continue to be taken to carry out the mandate convoking a new Parliament. With the best will in the world, elections at a time like the present - with famine raging in North China and internecine warfare still continuing or just suspended in the South - can be but a farce. The opinion is widely held that the Parliament will never meet.\n\nNo term has yet been set to the intrigues, mentioned in Mr. Clive's despatch No. 725, arising in connection with the appointment of a successor to the Military Governorship of Kiangsu. These form one out of many possible causes of fighting between the victors, who lately combined to destroy the Anfu clique.\n\nThe demand for funds wherewith to nourish the military monster which is devouring this country becomes ever more insistent. Men like Chang Tso-lin and Tsao K'un, who have amassed and invested millions, are at their wits' end for ready cash.\n\nThe second named has found a temporary source of supply by holding up \"famine relief\" - until the grain - brought down from Manchuria free of freight - for price rises even higher, or by selling it at a profit to foreign relief societies.\n\n`[5815 k―2]`\n\nPage 569",
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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": "## 2\n\nDuring July, several opium dens were reported to have been closed in Swatow by the police and military. In September, however, following the advent of Ch'en Chiung Ming into the district, a head office for the curing of the opium habit was established by the Kwangtung army at Mei-hsien, where a drug, partly composed of opium, was on sale at 7 dollars an ounce.\n\nTengyueh.\n\nNothing more has been heard on the Tengyueh side of the Mintha and other leaders of the plot to ferment trouble on the frontier last season. Although rewards of 5,000 rupees have been offered by the Burma Government for information leading to the arrest of their leaders, no clues have been forthcoming.\n\nFrom information supplied to the district superintendent of police on the 20th June last, by a youth who claimed to be the younger son of the Mintha, Saw Yan Baing, His Majesty's consul learned that there were Burmans living in Nantien, although only shortly before the Sawbwa of that region had declared that no Burmans were there.\n\nThe Taoyin continued to take the stand that the Yunnan Government cannot be held responsible for the trouble on the frontier last season, because the plot was the work of bad characters from Burma.\n\nIn spite of all representations made and promises given, the Yunnan Government has done nothing to re-establish Chinese military posts on the frontier, and, as far as preventive measures on the Chinese side are concerned, things are exactly in the same position as they were last year. Successive Taoyins and magistrates here seem to have been animated by a single motive—the desire to get rich quickly, and everything is sacrificed to their greed and rapacity.\n\nThere have been no cases of robbery, and west of Talifu, at any rate, the roads are safe for travelling and trade. East of Talifu, the brigand Yang Tien-fa continued to be the cause of much nervous apprehension to travellers until his surrender to the authorities about the end of October, since when he has been at Yunnan-fu.\n\nHankow.\n\nThe feeling of apprehension and excitement which existed during the summer months owing to the passage through the province of Chang Ching-yao's demoralised troops and to the activities of Wu Kuang-hsin has now subsided, and outwardly at least conditions have again become normal.\n\nAt one time, the situation appeared to contain all the necessary ingredients for an upheaval on a considerable scale. The south of the province was alive with bands of armed men retreating by the road and river towards Hankow, and the adherents of the Anfu Party were leaving no stone unturned in their efforts to cause a diversion in favour of their leaders in Peking. But the utter collapse of the Anfu Party effectually damped the ardour of the Northern troops in Hupeh, and the desire of the Tuchun to keep peace in the province inclined him to abstain from any drastic action against the defeated party.\n\nThroughout the Anfu-Chihli struggle, the provincial authorities displayed the greatest anxiety to ensure the safety of foreign traders. On application from His Majesty's consul-general, some scores of proclamations were posted at the agencies, both in Hupeh and Hunan, of the Asiatic Petroleum Company and the British-American Tobacco Company, and other firms doing business in the interior, ordering the troops of the local officials to afford special protection to the agencies, and specifically referring to the goods stored there as the property of foreign firms.\n\nAbout the beginning of July, the renewal of the proposal to reconstruct Hankow with the proceeds of a loan from Messrs. Samuel and Co., and the formal appointment by the Central Government of Chang Kuo-kau to take charge of the works gave rise to considerable excitement, and the local newspapers constantly published articles violently opposing the scheme, on the ground that the agreement with Messrs. Samuel and Co. had not been published. In the end, Chang Kuo-kan resigned his post of director, and but little has been heard of the scheme since.\n\nOn the 29th September last, Vice-Admiral Sir A. L. Duff arrived at Hankow with H.M.S. `Alacrity` and `Hawkins`. At the Consulate-General and at Wuchang, official luncheons were given, at which the Tuchun and Commander-in-chief were present. The British Chambers of Commerce and China Association also gave a dinner in honour of Admiral Duff, and were much gratified at the interest shown by the admiral in commercial matters.\n\n## 3\n\nCanton.\n\nWith the complete overthrow of the Anfu Party in the North, it appeared probable by the end of July that there would be an early reunion of the Chihli and Kuangsi parties, if not actually of the whole country, and locally it was felt that events in the North would effectively discourage any attempt at a demonstration by Ch'en Chiung Ming, and that the Yunnanese would prefer to make terms rather than challenge the armies of the rest of the provinces. These hopes were, however, not to be realised; war has raged since August in the province of Kwangtung, where, after his sudden descent upon Swatow, Ch'en Chiung Ming advanced slowly on Canton, held by General Mo Yung Hsin, the Tuchun, and his Kwangsi troops. Chen's progress was definitely checked at Waichow, and he might have been obliged to abandon his project had not Generals Wei Pang-ping, chief of police, and Li Fu-lin, commanding Cantonese troops at Honam, declared independence on the 27th September. At the same time, they issued a notice calling on Mo Yung Hsin to resign and return to Kwangsi forthwith, giving him three days in which to leave—a futile project, in view of the strength of the Kwangsi garrison in Canton.\n\nAt the beginning of October, as a result of representations made to both sides by the Consular Body, an armistice was agreed upon. Mo Yung Hsin expressed his willingness to retire and to return to Kwangsi with his troops, and only the question of the payment of the latter requires consideration. His demands are variously stated at from 2,000,000 to 4,000,000 dollars, a portion of such payment to be made before he resigns, and the retention of their arms and ammunition by his men.\n\nNeither party has made concessions, and there seems to be no prospect of a lasting settlement without the intervention of the Central Government.\n\nOpium has for a long time been smuggled into Kwangtung from Yunnan, and the drug is smoked openly on passenger boats and launches. When, in consequence of the split between the two Southern parties, Tang Chi-yao sent a force to watch the Kwangsi-Yunnan boundary near Pose, the Kwangsi authorities decided that a strict campaign against opium smuggling would be the most efficient weapon against this force, which depended on the trade for funds. The searching of motor-boats began to be carried out particularly carefully in August, when it became evident that the Yunnanese military authorities were pursuing a victorious career in Szechuan. Motor-launches were constantly stopped and suspected shops were raided.\n\nChungking.\n\nThe outstanding development of the quarter was the movement towards making Chungking the seat of Government of the South-West Confederacy. In connection with this, General Li Lieh-chun, Chief of Staff of the Military Government, arrived in the city on the 6th September for the purpose of setting up general headquarters; the most direct result of his visit was the production of dissension between the Kweichow and Yunnan commands. Towards the end of September, the members of the old Canton Parliament arrived; their stay proved, however, a short one, and as the Parliament never entered on its functions in the city, Chungking's elevation to metropolitan rank was brief and inglorious.\n\nThe conduct of the Kweichow troops was a source of complaint throughout the quarter, and on more than one occasion, newly arrived bodies made their presence felt by wholesale theft and commandeering of foreign junks. In every case, however, His Majesty's consul's representations to their commander-in-chief, General Wang Wen-hua, were successful, and the stolen property was restored to the rightful owners.\n\nA singular feature of the quarter was the number of preventive arrests made by the local Kweichow commandant, who laid hands on all persons suspected of sympathy with Hsiung K'o-wu's cause. The majority of these \"suspects\" were released on security after one night's incarceration, which, as described by one of their number, must have rivalled the Black Hole of Calcutta.\n\nAs a result of representations made to His Majesty's consul and his colleagues by the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in connection with the storage in foreign premises of Chinese goods, a circular was sent to all British missionaries in the district requesting them to afford protection to women and children only or to people with whom they were personally acquainted.\n\nAt no time under any sort of control in this province, brigandage has during the recent hostilities become so great a pest that junk traffic between Chungking and ... \n\nPage 6047 α-6  \nB 2  \n596",
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        "content_text": "## Wanhsien\n\nWanhsien has practically ceased, for the consignees prefer to wait indefinitely for their cargo rather than incur the risk of piracy. It is more than likely, moreover, that the brigands and constabulary are working hand in glove.\n\nFor several months past, a state of anarchy has prevailed in Wanhsien. Conditions there were far from perfect while Lu Shih-ti and Tien Chung-ku were in residence; General Li was there, but with their departure for the front, things went from bad to worse. T'ien-tsai was directed by Tang Chi-yao to extend his jurisdiction to include Wanhsien, but when he attempted to follow this instruction, the entry of his troops was forcibly obstructed by the Hupeh Expeditionary Force, and a battle was fought for the possession of the city on the 8th and 9th July. Finally, General Li was persuaded to withdraw his forces and evacuate the Wanhsien district.\n\n## Ichang\n\nThe situation in Ichang towards the end of July, brought about by the arrest of Wo Kuang-hsin at Wuchang, was described in the summary for last quarter. For a short time, there was a serious danger that his troops, stationed in Ichang, would attack the local provincial forces, which were in inferior numbers; later, it was announced that the former would be taken over by the Governor of Hupeh and incorporated with his forces. To this, General Chang Chi-shan of the 13th Brigade, after some negotiation, agreed. General Fei Kuo-hsiang of the 4th Mixed Brigade declined to acquiesce, but resigned, leaving Ichang with a few fellow-officers of similar views. His troops have now been united with the provincial forces and are known as **Pu Chung Hupeh Ti Yi Lu**, 1st Hupeh Brigade for the Supply of Deficiencies.\n\nAfter his departure, Fei Kuo-hsiang endeavoured to bring about a mutiny amongst his former troops but completely failed. Orders have been issued for his arrest, and an unconfirmed report is current that he was caught and shot about the beginning of September.\n\nDuring the critical period, Wang Mou-shang, commander-in-chief of the provincial forces at Ichang, resigned on the ground of alleged illness. His resignation was refused, but he finally left the port early in August for Wuchang, whence he apparently declines to return.\n\n## Shase\n\nThe arrest of Wu Kuang-hsin naturally disturbed the situation at Shase, where a brigade of his troops under Liu Wen-ming was stationed. For some time, the usual apprehensions that they would mutiny and loot the place were entertained, and in some degree realised; on being marched by General Liu to Kung An, near the Hunan border, with the intention apparently of joining forces with the Southerners at Changsha, the troops refused to fall in with their leader's plans, mutinied, and looted the place. They then returned to Shase, which again passed through a period of nervous tension, until it was finally agreed that they should be given 10 dollars each, disbanded, and sent back to their homes.\n\n## Yang-tze River Traffic\n\nTwo new vessels, or rather two old vessels with new names and under new command, commenced trading between here and Chungking—the \"Weihsin\" and the \"Kirin\"—in August.\n\nJunk traffic on the Yang-tze is still almost at a standstill owing to the political situation and the illegal taxation imposed by the Southern military authorities on the river.\n\nConsiderable quantities of opium have come down from Szechuan during the quarter. The larger proportion is probably brought overland surreptitiously to a village on the Yang-tze, opposite Ichang, whence it is smuggled over at night and placed on the Lower River steamers. The customs appear to be constantly detecting and confiscating sampans engaged in the traffic. Two large seizures were made towards the end of the quarter: one of 5 piculs (666 lb.) on the \"Hungfu\" and another of 29 piculs (approximately 1 ton) on the \"Robert Dollar.\"\n\nWhilst the Chinese authorities continue to permit the cultivation of opium and will not enforce their own laws with a view to putting the trade in it down, it is impossible for steamers to prevent its being carried on them, and unjust to penalise them, providing the foreign officers are not implicated.\n\n## Mukden\n\nIn spite of the leading part taken by General Chang Tso-lin in the recent conflict for political supremacy at Peking, it cannot be said that, except in official circles, any great interest has been shown locally in the events at the capital or in Chang Tso-lin's own doings, though his prestige has naturally been enhanced here as elsewhere in China by the success of his party and the prominence which he has gained.\n\nChang has been severely criticised in the British press at Tien-tsin by reason of certain statements showing a pro-Japanese tendency and anti-British and American bias, which he would appear to have made at an interview given on the 16th August to Japanese journalists. The criticism was quite undeserved, for it was natural that his interviewers, being Japanese, he should have spoken in as friendly a manner as possible of Japan. Experience has proved to His Majesty's consul-general that there is no nation more disliked and distrusted by General Chang Tso-lin than the Japanese, and that if he has a preference for any foreign nation, it is for the Americans, whom he regards as China's most likely allies in the struggle which, in his opinion, is bound to come in the future between China and Japan.\n\nSince the Governor's return to Mukden, he has been holding a series of conferences with the Governors of Kirin and Heilungchiang, and the chief military and chief civil officials of the province. The following matters were discussed:\n\n| No. | Matter Discussed |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | The separation of military and civil affairs. |\n| 2 | The reorganisation of the army. |\n| 3 | The improvement of the civil administration, more especially by the careful selection of district magistrates. |\n| 4 | The suppression of brigandage and maintenance of order throughout Manchuria. |\n| 5 | The reformation of the currency. |\n| 6 | The settlement in Manchuria of famine refugees from Chihli. |\n\nIt has further been decided to increase the army by four brigades and to make the armies of the three Manchurian provinces into a single organisation.\n\nFamine refugees from Chihli province have been well received and cared for in Manchuria, and preparations are being made at Mukden to deal with many hundreds more who are expected to arrive during October. Although no public subscription has yet been opened for them, General Chang appears to be fully alive to the need of doing all he can and is sparing no expense in the matter.\n\nAnti-Japanese feeling in Manchuria has been considerably aggravated by the Shaw case, though in other respects, the Japanese are showing themselves more conciliatory to foreigners and seem to be genuinely anxious to obtain British and American co-operation in developing the industries of the province.\n\n## Nanking\n\nDuring the first half of the September quarter, brigandage was worse in the north of the province than it has been since the summer of 1917. This is attributable in part to the return from the South of large numbers of dispersed Northern soldiery, who found it difficult after their military career to settle down to a peaceful agricultural life and preferred to make a living by robbing their neighbours.\n\nThe brigands have learned, moreover, to concentrate on the safer and more profitable business of kidnapping well-to-do people and holding them for ransom. Towards the end of July, a French priest and a prominent native agent of the Standard Oil Company were carried off but were released unconditionally after much trouble.\n\nIn southern Kiangsu and Kiangan, piracy has flourished; in the latter district, an official salt depot was raided by pirates who had made off with a good deal of booty. Elsewhere, sudden raids have been made on prosperous market towns; the pirates invariably escaping before any troops appeared on the scene.\n\nThe authorities are still on the look-out for Bolshevik propaganda; rumours in connection with which are constantly arising. Nervous as the officials appear to be, there are so far no visible effects among the mass of the population, who perhaps hardly constitute a favourable soil for the reception of such ideas. Native secret societies have, however, sprung up; the principal one being known as the **Ching-hung Hui**, or Green and Red Society, the main subject of which is said to be assassination.\n\nAs a result of his reduction of provincial expenditure, the Military Governor, General Li Shun, hoped to save 200,000 dollars on the financial year; a saving which includes reduction on the allowance of each district for administrative expenditure, against which the magistrates continue obstinately to protest.\n\nIn connection with women's education in Kiangsu, the first national school for girls has been founded in Yangchow. Schools of every description—elementary,\n\nPage 600\nPage 601",
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        "content_text": "# CHINESE LOANS AND CONCESSIONS\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n35992  \nRect M2 13 JUL 21)  \n\n[June 27.]  \n\n### SECTION 1.\n\n[F 2323/333/10]  \n\n**No. 1.**  \n**(No. 254.)**  \nMy Lord,  \n\nSir B. Alston to Earl Curzon.--(Received June 27.)  \nPeking, May 10, 1921.  \nI HAVE the honour to enclose copies of correspondence exchanged between the Director-General of the Hakuang Railways and the Group Bank representatives dated the 11th April and the 4th May respectively.  \n\nAs your Lordship is aware the Chinese have so far persistently declined to recognise Japanese participation in the Hukuang Loan Agreement, and it remains to be seen how they will take the Group Bank's letter of the 4th May.  \n\nIn connection with the despatch of this letter, I enclose copy of a memorandum by Mr. Hillier on the relatively unimportant point of the order of signature by the respective bank representatives. There appears never to have been any question on the subject until the arrival of Mr. Stevens at the beginning of this year.  \n\nThe latter is returning to America for three months on the 28th May, with the intention of returning in September. Mr. Hillier has, however, wired privately to Sir C. Addis suggesting that it would be in the general interest of harmony and smooth working of the consortium if the American group could find someone else to represent them, owing to the aggressive and overbearing manner of Mr. Stevens which renders friendly co-operation extremely difficult. From my own experience I quite share Mr. Hillier's view, but realise that it is an extremely delicate matter to raise with the American group.  \n\n### Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.  \n(For the Minister),  \nR. H. CLIVE,  \n\nGentlemen,  \n\n**Director-General, Hukuang Railways to Group Banks.**  \nApril 11, 1921.  \nTHE original amount of the Hukuang Railways Loan having been insufficient for the construction of the lines named in the agreement the late Director-General, Mr. Feng, prepared estimates and entered into negotiations with the group representatives in 1914 for the issue of a supplementary loan, but before these negotiations developed the European war broke out, and as money markets were upset, all that could be done was to employ to the best advantage of the railway the funds available at that time. When peace was declared repeated requests were made to the group representatives to issue the supplementary loan bonds in accordance with the Loan Agreement, or to arrange for an advance to continue construction. On account of the lapse of years and the inability of the group banks to accede to our requests, the Hukuang Railways have suffered directly and indirectly very considerable losses.  \n\nAs it was impossible even to complete the construction of the Wuchang-Changsha section, the Ministry of Communications was obliged in accordance with article 15 of the Loan Agreement to borrow money at different times from various sources, upon which interest had to be paid, in order to meet the payments due on account of interest on the Hukuang Railways Loan as well as to supply funds for carrying on work on the railway.  \n\nUp to the end of 1920 the sum of about 6,000,000 dollars had thus been expended in continuing construction work on the Wuchang-Changsha section, and this made it possible to open the line officially for traffic as far as Chuchow on the 1st January of this year.  \n\nThe Canton-Hankow Railway has a great bearing on the public affairs of China. Moreover, of that part of this railway which comes within the scope of the Loan Agreement there still remains a distance of 205 English miles from Chuchow to Hsing Tzu Ling on the I-Chang section which so far has not been built, and we are unable to...\n\n`[6357 dd-1]`  \nPage 145",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## SECTION 1. 36697\n\n### No. 1.\n\n(No. 180.) My Lord.\n\nSir B. Alston to Earl Curzon.—(Received May 25.)\n\nPeking, April 1, 1921.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 37 of the 24th January have the honour to report on the political situation in this country since that date.\n\nAs regards Szechuan, the return of the province to its allegiance to the Peking Government was only temporary. Hsiung K'o-wu, who refused to accept the position of Civil Governor given to him by presidential mandate, has nominally retired from politics, while Liu Te-hun-hou, Peking's Military Governor, was compelled to abandon his post on the 22nd February. Liu Hsiang, who now styles himself commander-in-chief of the troops of Szechuan, adopts a policy of independence, recognising neither the Peking nor the Canton Governments.\n\nA similar position prevails since the 8th February in Yunnan, on which day Tang Chi-yao abandoned the capital, subsequently leaving the province altogether. The reason for this sudden disappearance of a military leader whose position had every appearance of stability was discontent among his subordinates at the absence of funds with which to pay their troops once the latter had been driven out of the rich province of Szechuan, Tang's successor, General Ku Pin-chen, entered Yunnan-fu city on the 9th, and assumed office without serious disorder or bloodshed.\n\nIn Canton province no overt breach has so far taken place between Ch'en Ch'iung-ming and the followers of Sun Yat-sen. The latter desires to compel the adjoining province of Kuangsi to overturn its present authorities, who are responsible for its resuming allegiance to the Peking Government, and to constitute a federal republic with himself as president. Ch'en is strongly opposed to such a policy, and as a consequence hostilities between the two provinces have not taken place, while the bad blood between the two factions at Canton has grown steadily worse.\n\nThough Sun Yat-sen has no control and little influence outside of Kuangtung, the idea of converting China into a federal republic has steadily gained ground during the past few months and among its present adherents are the provincial Administrations of Canton, Yunnan, Kueichow, Szechuan and Hunan. The change is one which might conceivably form a solution for some of China's difficulties. Unfortunately it appears that the provincial militarists who advocate it do so because it seems to afford them the best means now in sight of holding on to their power. Under such circumstances there is little hope that its introduction would be attended by any immediate improvement in the internal condition of the country.\n\nIn Hupeh the question of the Civil Governorship has been settled by the surrender of the Central Government who have now appointed a persona grata to the Military Governor. Their original nominee was unable during his six months' tenure of the post to occupy his own office, preferring to remain for safety's sake in the neighbourhood of the foreign concessions on the opposite bank of the Yang-tsze.\n\nTurning to North China, the difficulties ensuing upon the removal of the late Military Governor of Kansu, reported in my despatch No. 29 of the 12th January, remain unsolved, but so far hostilities have not broken out.\n\nAt the moment all eyes are turned to Manchuria, waiting for the next move by Chang Tso-lin, which, there is reason to fear, may precipitate hostilities between him and his rivals. The casus belli cannot be foretold, but there are strong reasons for the belief that Chang is determined to reinstate the Emperor Hsuan-t'ung. Apart from information reaching the Legation from more than one reliable source the following circumstances give support to this view.\n\nThe surrender of Urga to the Mongols, on which I am reporting separately, and the subsequent evacuation by the Chinese of Outer Mongolia, have taken place without assistance being given to his own countrymen by Chang or his subordinates, who alone were in a position to offer it effectively and speedily. Not only so, but the case of Baron Ungern who, with his Russian and Buriat troops, gave valuable aid to the Mongols, and was for months at Hailar, a station on the `Chinese Eastern Railway` under ... \n\n[6208 36-1] \n`F 1945/81/10` \nPage 180",
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        "content_text": "## 2.\n\n220\n\nReliable information as to the identity or the locality of the Central Bureau mentioned on page 13 of the Memo, or as to the source of the funds for the support of these agents is unobtainable; it may be, as is asserted in \"Japan at the Cross Roads\", that they are maintained from a fund built out of unexpended surpluses retained by the War Office, though officials in that Department assert that these surpluses are in fact returned to the Treasury and that every item of military expenditure must be strictly accounted for.\n\nI am informed that the advisors at present attached to Chang-Tsao-Ling at Mukden are Colonel Hane, Lt. Colonel Hachino, and Major-General Kishi.\n\nI have the honour to be,  \nMy Lord,  \nWith the highest respect,  \nYour Lordship's most obedient,  \nhumble Servant,  \n(Signed) C. ELIOT.",
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        "content_text": "#contrai galene vai mata sitë në hissi med svaď \"artofdoain vza is not a coherent text and will be ignored.\n\n278 \n\nNot far to seek. The person responsible for this is General Ch'ên Yün-p'êng, Prime Minister of a government created and maintained by a clique of Northern Military Governors or Tuchuns consisting of Chang Tso-lin, Inspector General of Manchuria, and Ts'ao K'un, Inspector General of Chihli, Shantung, and Honan; and with them must be reckoned, since the recent Tientsin Conference, Wang Chan-yuan, Inspector General of Hupeh and Hunan. Chang Tso-lin has loyally stood by the Premier and the \"elections\" in his three provinces have been completed. Ts'ao K'un would personally like to carry out the same policy, but is unable to do so owing to the fact that power in two of his provinces, Chihli and Honan, is largely in the hands of his Assistant Inspector, General Wu P'ei-fu, who has let him know that no elections will be permitted in localities which he or his subordinates control; while the province of Shantung remains in the hands of the Military Governor T'ien Chung-yu who was suspected of \"Anfu\" sympathies at the time of last summer's Civil War, and who has hitherto steadfastly refused to do anything to facilitate elections.\n\nMilitary leaders opposed at the present time to the summoning of Parliament are able to support their refusal by the argument of popular opposition. Radical China does not wish to see another puppet Parliament which would give a show of legality to the \"illegal\" acts of the country's present rulers; the merchant classes do not desire the large expenditure of funds which elections always entail, funds to obtain which they would be milked; the old-fashioned gentry are, as always, opposed to a Parliament, particularly when they see so little chance of their securing control of it.\n\nThe idea of Ch'ên Yün-p'êng and Chang Tso-lin is that the new Parliament should be one which would back them through thick and thin. As it appears that powers hostile to this combination are so largely in control of the country as to...",
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        "content_text": "## Proofread Text\n\n\nenable them to refuse to carry out the orders of the Faking government, it may be asked why they do not allow members for the regions under their control to be \"elected\" and thus help to create a Parliament in which their opponents would hold only a minority of seats. There are two reasons why they should not do so; first, the motives actuating them are too various to enable the representatives of their territories, i.e., in fact their own delegates, to form a solid bloc; secondly, there is a certainty that a Parliament in which Chang Tso-lin and his premier held only a minority of votes would be powerless and soon dismissed or converted into a pro-Chang rump. This would mean civil war if Chang's opponents were ready for it; and there are cheaper and less obnoxious ways of bringing about civil war than by sending up members of Parliament only to be sent down again.\n\nIt may be added that there are good grounds for believing that Wu P'ei-fu is now politically on intimate terms with Lu Yung-hsiang, the Military Governor of Kiangsu, who has abandoned his former \"Anfu\" political following and has recently addressed a telegraphic circular to other provinces recommending the policy of provincial autonomy. The attitude of General Hsü Ch'an-yuan on this point is not decided. Though now a member of the clique of Military Governors controlling the Peking Government, his position in Hupeh is extremely shaky; he has so far maintained opposition to the carrying out of elections there, and it is possible that he will decide to throw in his lot with Wu P'ei-fu, Lu Yung-hsiang, and the leaders of the southern autonomous provinces; and with these Ch'en Chiung-ming may be counted, although he is at the moment compelled by expediency to throw in his lot with Sun Yat-sen and his \"independent\" ultra-radicals.",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA\n## POLITICAL\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.\n\n**AMENDED DISTRIBUTION**\n\n342  \n45338  \n10 P  \n\n**Decode**\n\nSir B. Alston (Peking)\n\nD. 1st September, 1921  \n10.30 p.m. 1st September, 1921  \nR. 10.5 a.m. 3rd September, 1921\n\nNo. 343.  \n**(R)**  \n**Intelligence report**\n\nThe resignation of Military Governor of Hupei was accepted on August 9th and one of Wupuifu's generals appointed to succeed him, Wupuifu being nominated Inspector General of Hunan and Hupei. This did not satisfy forces attacking Hupei (see my telegram No. 305) who have now been ejected from the province by Wupuifu. Letter has refused to accept his appointment and has issued a circular telegram to all provinces condemning both Peking and Canton Governments and inviting a national conference to meet at Lushan (a happy inspiration owing to its associations) with a view to the formation of a united Government, revision of the constitution, and appointment of delegates to the Pacific Conference. The situation on the Yangtze has caused Chang Tao Lin to abandon all idea of invading Mongolia, and negotiations between him and the representative of the Far Eastern Republic have since been broken off. His position has, at any rate temporarily, undergone a set-back vis-à-vis that of Wupuifu, whose star appears to be...",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n# H.M.Consul-General, Canton, to H.M.Minister, Peking.\n\n## Copy to Governor, Hongkong, Copy to General Officer Commanding, China, H.B.M.Consulate-General\n\nNo.46 & 3 copies, Canton, June 22nd, 1921.\n\nSir,\n\nIn a postscript to my despatch No.34 of May 13th, I gave expression to the opinion that, in the matter of coquetting with labour, Jun Yat Sen was raising up for himself a Frankenstein monster, which he would find it difficult to exercise control over if it threatened him.\n\nRecent events in connection with a Mechanics' strike in Canton and elsewhere for higher wages and shorter hours, go a long way towards confirming the accuracy of this forecast. After the usual threats to cut off light and water, Mr. Wu, the Civil Governor, was able to mediate between employers (designated by the strikers \"the capitalists\") and employed, and work has been resumed, but unrest is rife amongst other trade unions and even those recently satisfied are now forming new demands.\n\nOwing to the fact that the Managing Director of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, Mr. Te Chang, did not openly announce his adhesion to the terms arranged, on the ground that to do so would imply recognition of the Provincial Government, an unruly mob of mechanics of the Railway Workshop on the morning of June 16th invaded the Tai Tou Railway Station and endeavoured to remove by force the engine driver and the rest of the \"black gang\". Although the Acting Locomotive Chief signed a document stating that he was prepared to abide by the Civil Governor's arrangement, the signature was obtained under duress.\n\nPage 389\nPage 390\n\nBir Heilby F.Alston, K.C.M.G.\n\nHis Majesty's Minister, Pekin.\n\nPage 391",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[F 3506/330/10]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[September 20.]\n\n## SECTION 2\n\nSir B. Alston to the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.-(Received September 20.) (No. 447.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nPeking, August 5, 1921.\n\nWITH reference to the last paragraph of my despatch No. 364 of the 30th ultimo, on the subject of opium traffic and cultivation in this country. I have the honour to report that up to the present the following opium commissioners have been appointed by Presidential mandate :-\n\n| Province/Territory | Commissioner |\n| --- | --- |\n| Fukien, Rupeh and Anhui | Wang Ta-chen |\n| Shenai | Sung Lien-k'uei |\n| Kansu, Hsinchiang and the Suiyuan territory | P'an Ling-kao |\n| Kirin and Heilungchiang | Juan Chung-chih |\n| Jehol | Yao Chih-yuan |\n\nI have been unable to obtain information as to the careers or qualifications of the Jehol and Shensi commissioners. The rest are men of the old style, having been officials under the Manchu dynasty. Juan Chang-chih's brother was a confidential literary secretary of President Yuan Shih-k'ai, and practically killed himself by opium-smoking. P'an Ling-kao has been for many years an official in Kansu province, and according to a letter addressed to me by a number of persons, who sign themselves as representatives of the citizens of Kansu, he was the subject of complaint during his tenure of office as Kanchow Taoyin, on account of his compelling the people to grow poppy, and levying a tax in respect of it; this information must, of course, be accepted with reserve. The commissioner originally appointed for Fukien was Admiral Liu Kuan-hsiung, formerly Minister of the Navy. A notoriously corrupt and opium-smoking official, he is the man who made a loan for the supply of Telefunken wireless apparatus through a Danish go-between at a time when his country was at war with Germany. He, however, resigned the post. Admiral Liu's successor, Wang Ta-chen, is a former Aufu Member of Parliament, who owed his position to the assistance of the Military Governor of Fukien. It can be taken for granted that any report presented by him will not be such as to incriminate his patron, who has collected a large revenue by permitting and encouraging the planting of the poppy. Wang's brother recently made a visit to Fukien for the purpose of inspection of opium poppy cultivation, and, if common report be true, made a large sum by collecting \"hush money\" from the cultivators.\n\nNone of the commissioners have yet started for the provinces to which they have been appointed, nor have they yet obtained the necessary funds from the Ministry of Finance.\n\nThe reason for making these appointments is undoubtedly the fear of action by the Opium Commission acting under the League of Nations; in the event of the latter recommending the appointment of inspectors or the carrying out of inspection it is desired to say that this has been or is being done. In any case, it is impossible that, in the greater part of the opium-producing area, inspection should be attended this year by any appreciable result; the opium has already been harvested in all but Northern Manchuria, and, possibly, the Jehol and Suiyuan territories.\n\nI enclose copy of a despatch from His Majesty's consul at Amoy, dated the 16th July, and translation of a letter from the Chinese Students' Anti-Opium Association, dated the 22nd July, which throw light on the facts concerning the above appointments, and on the manner in which they are regarded by Chinese not connected with Government, opium trading or militarist circles respectively.\n\nI have, &c. (For the Minister),\n\nR. H. CLIVE.\n\n[6896 u-2 \n420 \nPage 363]",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n`F 3506/330/10`\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[September 20.]\n\n## SECTION 2\n\nSir B. Alston to the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.--(Received September 20.) (No. 447.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nPeking, August 5, 1921.\n\nWITH reference to the last paragraph of my despatch No. 304 of the 30th ultimo, on the subject of opium traffic and cultivation in this country, I have the honour to report that up to the present the following opium commissioners have been appointed by Presidential mandate :-\n\n| Province/Territory | Commissioner |\n| --- | --- |\n| Fukien, Rupeh and Anhui | Wang Ta-chen |\n| Shensi | Sung Lien-k'uei |\n| Kansu, Hsinchiang and the Saiyuan territory | P'an Ling-kao |\n| Kirin and Heilungchiang | Juan Chung-chih |\n| Jehol | Yao Chih-yuan |\n\nI have been unable to obtain information as to the careers or qualifications of the Jehol and Shensi commissioners. The rest are men of the old style, having been officials under the Manchu dynasty. Juan Chang-chih's brother was a confidential literary secretary of President Yuan Shih-k'ai, and practically killed himself by opium smoking. P'an Ling-kao has been for many years an official in Kansu province, and according to a letter addressed to me by a number of persons, who sign themselves as representatives of the citizens of Kansu, he was the subject of complaint during his tenure of office as Kanchow Taoyin, on account of his compelling the people to grow poppy, and levying a tax in respect of it: this information must, of course, be accepted with reserve.\n\nThe commissioner originally appointed for Fukien was Admiral Liu Kuan-hsiung, formerly Minister of the Navy. A notoriously corrupt and opium-smoking official, he is the man who made a loan for the supply of Telefunken wireless apparatus through a Danish go-between at a time when his country was at war with Germany. He, however, resigned the post. Admiral Liu's successor, Wang Ta-chen, is a former Anfu Member of Parliament, who owed his position to the assistance of the Military Governor of Fukien. It can be taken for granted that any report presented by him will not be such as to incriminate his patron, who has collected a large revenue by permitting and encouraging the planting of the poppy. Wang's brother recently made a visit to Fukien for the purpose of inspection of opium poppy cultivation, and, if common report be true, made a large sum by collecting \"hush money\" from the cultivators.\n\nNone of the commissioners have yet started for the provinces to which they have been appointed, nor have they yet obtained the necessary funds from the Ministry of Finance.\n\nThe reason for making these appointments is undoubtedly the fear of action by the Opium Commission acting under the League of Nations; in the event of the latter recommending the appointment of inspectors or the carrying out of inspection it is desired to say that this has been or is being done. In any case, it is impossible that, in the greater part of the opium-producing area, inspection should be attended this year by any appreciable result; the opium has already been harvested in all but Northern Manchuria, and, possibly, the Jehol and Suiyuan territories.\n\nI enclose copy of a despatch from His Majesty's consul at Amoy, dated the 16th July, and translation of a letter from the Chinese Students' Anti-Opium Association, dated the 22nd July, which throw light on the facts concerning the above appointments, and on the manner in which they are regarded by Chinese not connected with Government, opium trading or militarist circles respectively.\n\nI have, &c. (For the Minister),\n\nR. H. CLIVE.\n\nPage 425",
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        "content_text": "## No. 15.\n\nI have, &c. \nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received May 4.)\n\nSir,\nPeking, April 20, 1914.\n\nWith reference to my despatch of the 17th January last, I have the honour to report that the investigation of Fukien for opium poppy cultivation, in accordance with the provisions of the Opium Agreement of May 1911, has been completed, and that the province has been found to be practically cleared of poppy growth. I have the honour to enclose herewith copy of two reports by the investigating officers, Mr. Consular Assistant Blackburn, for North Fukien, and Mr. Consular Assistant Turner, for South Fukien. These gentlemen travelled in their respective districts in company with the Chinese metropolitan and provincial delegates, and both of them speak in appreciation of the co-operation of their Chinese colleagues in the work of investigation.\n\nWhile it is satisfactory to know that the province has been cleared of poppy cultivation, it must be noted that this result has only been achieved by an extensive and drastic system of suppression on the part of the Chinese authorities. Without such official suppression, which in some instances preceded the investigation party's visit by a few days, or even a few hours only, a far different story would have been told by the reports, and it would be rash to prophesy that the effects of this spasmodic and special suppression will continue into the next season.\n\nThe terms of the agreement are, however, fulfilled, and I have therefore notified the Chinese Government that the importation of Indian opium into the province of Fukien will be prohibited as from the 1st May, 1914. I have the honour to enclose copy of my despatch to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.\n\n### Enclosure 1 in No. 15.\n\nMr. Blackburn to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nMarch 21, 1914.\n\nI have the honour to report that, in accordance with the instructions contained in your despatch of the 31st January, I have, in company with Mr. Yeh K'o-liang, deputy of the Central Government, and Mr. Chen Shou-hsiang, deputy of the Fukien Provincial Government, made a tour of investigation in the north of this province, and that, as far as I have been able to ascertain, the cultivation of the opium poppy has been entirely suppressed.\n\nThere being no information in the possession of the consulate which would lead me to suspect that opium was being cultivated in any particular place, I arranged my itinerary so as to visit the largest number of the most notorious opium-growing centres with the least waste of time, though I was subsequently compelled to modify to some extent my original route owing to the limited time at my disposal, the extremely difficult nature of the country traversed, and the inclemency of the weather. The roads are all paved paths 2 feet to 4 feet broad, carried over the mountains by steps, which after rain become so slippery that it is only possible to move slowly when it is possible to travel at all.\n\nI left Foochow on the 17th February, commencing my investigations from Kuantou, on the Min River, whence I proceeded northwards, visiting in succession the following districts: Lien Chiang, Lo Yuan, Ning Tê, Fu An, Fu Ning, Shou Ning, Cheng Ho, Sung Ch'i, and Chien Ou (Kienning). From Kienning I took boat and returned by river, visiting Yan P'ing district en route, and arriving in Foochow on the 19th March. I have the honour to make the following observations in connection with the various districts I visited:\n\n| District | Observations |\n| --- | --- |\n| Lien Chiang | Formerly a large opium-producing centre, but is now almost entirely under wheat, rape, and rice. The missionaries did not report any opium here last year, and the magistrate informed me that hardly any attempt had been made to sow this season. |\n| Lo Yuan | Has never been an opium-growing district, and there is no sign of any disposition on the part of the people to cultivate it. |\n| Ning Tê | Formerly one of the largest opium-producing districts. The missionaries state that the whole plain, up to the gates of the city, used to be covered with poppy, but there is now nothing visible except wheat and rape. |\n| Fu An | Was in former days by far the worst opium-growing district in the north of Fukien, but though I spent some days in this neighbourhood and made as complete a search as possible, I could find no trace of present cultivation. The magistrate, Mr. Yü, seems a most capable and energetic man, and he has himself spent five months out of the last fourteen in the mountain districts personally superintending the uprooting of the poppy. |\n| Fu Ning | Ranks second to Fu An as an opium-producing district. It was on the road between Fu Ning and Fu An that Rev. Curtis reported having seen poppy last year, but there was none visible when I passed along this road. |\n| Shou Ning | Formerly a large producing centre. The inhabitants are miserably poor, and the temptation to plant such a profitable article as opium is correspondingly great; but the state of terror to which the inhabitants have been reduced is well illustrated by the fact that they have rooted up not only the artemisia plant but every other which in leaf or flower in the remotest degree resembled the poppy, for fear lest I should mistake them for poppy. |\n\nPage 22\nmeasures against importation have proved effective, and I do not therefore think that an actual inspection of Honan is required in order to justify the province being placed upon the closed list. I would propose that it should be declared closed simultaneously with Fukien, and any other of the provinces that may, after inspection, be found free from opium this spring.\n\nThe province of Kiangsi presents a momentary difficulty. The reports from the province have not spoken definitely of cultivation, and there seemed every prospect that Kiangsi would find a place on the list of closed provinces. But the Kiangsi authorities have requested the Central Government that there should be no inspection of the province for poppy cultivation this spring, for the reason that the rebellion of last year has left the southern part of the province in a disturbed state, and the provincial authorities do not feel confident that their prohibitions of poppy cultivation have been observed. A report just received from His Majesty's consul at Kiukiang of a disturbance at Ningtuchow, in the south of the province of Kiangsi, confirms the reason given by the Chinese authorities.\n\nUnder article 3 of the 1911 Agreement, the closing of the ports of Canton and Shanghai to the import of Indian opium shall not take effect except as a final step. The postponement of inspection of Kiangsi province must therefore necessarily postpone any question of closing Canton and Shanghai.\n\nLittle or no native opium is grown in the province of Kuangtung, which could probably at any time establish a claim to be placed on the closed list. In Kiangsu, the province in which Shanghai is situated, there is understood to be a considerable amount of cultivation, and in the natural course of things its closure could not take place at the earliest until the spring of next year.\n\nPage 23\n\nI have, &c.\nJ. N. JORDAN.",
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        "content_text": "# Report on Opium Cultivation in Fukien Province\n\n## Investigation Findings\n\n24 \n\nPoppies and get the owners of the land into trouble. In this district, which has a mean height of about 1,000 feet above sea-level, there is only one crop of rice a year, and, this season's crop not having yet been sown, the ground was lying fallow, in striking contrast to the other districts I had traversed, which were already green. I enquired whether proper steps were being taken to see that these lands would not be sown with poppy after my investigations were closed, and was assured that not only was it now some ten days past the latest possible date on which poppy could be planted this season, but that the vigilance of the anti-opium authorities would not be relaxed until the whole ground was sown with crops other than poppy.\n\nCheng Ho-One of the less notorious districts. The cultivable land between Shou Ning and Cheng Ho used, in former days, to be covered with poppy, but there does not appear to be any at present cultivated. My object in choosing this route was partly because I was not expected to take it, and partly because, the country it traverses being outside the range of the missions and very rarely visited by foreigners, we had no information respecting it.\n\nSung Ch'i has a reputation as an opium-smoking, rather than as an opium-cultivating, district. Rev. J. Blondy informed me that he had only heard of one case of cultivation during the last twelve months, and in this case the offender was shot. The district is covered with official notices relating the circumstances and the penalty inflicted, as a warning to other would-be planters.\n\nKienning-In Kienning and Shaowu prefectures there are in all some 2,000 Hunanese and Anhui troops, distributed among the cities and villages specially for opium work. They are under the command of the Hunanese Resident-General at Kienning, who is an ardent anti-opium enthusiast, and I am of opinion that they have done their work thoroughly. The British missionaries informed me that, as far as they knew, there had been no attempts at opium cultivation this season.\n\nYen Ping was never a large opium-growing district, the soil not being very suitable. I am informed that a few months ago a certain amount was seen along the river, but I neither saw nor heard of any while in the district.\n\n## Anti-Opium Campaign\n\nI have been deeply impressed by the thoroughness and efficiency with which the campaign against the cultivation of opium is being carried on and the spirit which animates the workers. The Government institution (`Chin Yen Chu`) and the voluntary organisation (`Ch'ü Tu Shê`) work side by side, though the brunt of the field work is borne by the latter. In every town and village, there is an anti-opium office or sub-office, to which as a rule the majority of the gentry belong. In each `hsien` there is an inspector, and a number of `hsien` are grouped under an inspector-general, of whom there are four in North Fukien. Most of the inspectors are gentlemen and well educated, who are devoting their time entirely and without remuneration to the eradication of opium. They claim to have personally examined, not once but frequently, every portion of their respective districts, and, from their intimate knowledge of even the minutest features of the landscape, I am of opinion that their claim is well founded. I was given every possible facility for visiting any place I expressed a wish to see, but though I made as efficient a search as my time permitted, I found not so much as a single poppy during the month I was absent from Foochow. Everywhere are posted notices offering rewards of from 20 dollars to 40 dollars for information as to poppy cultivation, and warnings that any person found cultivating poppy will be shot. In some districts, every household is bound to supply one person to assist in the general search when called upon to do so, failing which a fine of 30 cents is imposed.\n\n## Districts Not Visited\n\nOf the opium districts which I had not time to visit, the most important are Fu Ch'ing and Fu T'ing, the former south of Foochow, and the latter in the north-east corner of the province. However, I have no reason to suppose they have not been as thoroughly dealt with as the other districts, especially as it was considered absolutely certain that I would visit them. So much was this the case that the most elaborate preparations had been made for our reception. As soon as we reached the gate of Fu Ning City, a runner was despatched to Fu T'ing to announce our approaching arrival, without even waiting to ascertain my intentions in the matter. Later, when we reached Shou Ning, I received a letter from the Fu Ting magistrate asking if I could not possibly make it convenient to visit his district, as it would be a disappointment for those who had laboured so hard to eradicate the poppy if their work was not so much as looked at. I received similar messages from P'u Cheng, Chung An, Ping Nan, and many other districts. Apart, however, from this merely sentimental consideration, there is no doubt that the magistrates and anti-opium authorities were delighted when I visited their district, as my visit—and incidentally that of the escort of forty soldiers—would render the task of suppression easier by bringing strongly to the minds of the people the seriousness of the anti-opium campaign. It was presumably with this same end in view, to impress the people, that wherever I went I was paid the most exaggerated honours, and dignified by titles as exalted as that of \"British Minister.\"\n\n## Observations and Conclusion\n\nOne feature worthy of notice is that the gentry seem to be taking an active part in the suppression of opium, resistance being now confined almost entirely to the lower classes. It is explained that the reason for this somewhat astonishing fact is that opium-smoking is now no longer considered a respectable thing to do, and, as a gentleman loses caste by being a smoker, most of the better classes are breaking themselves of the habit. This does not apply to the labouring classes, and members of the Anti-Opium Association have remarked to me that they had to give up hope of redeeming confirmed smokers as a class, and confine their attentions more especially to preventing those who are not already confirmed smokers from acquiring the vice.\n\nAt most of the larger places I visited, I received deputations of the leading gentry and chambers of commerce, who wished to express their hearty thanks to His Majesty's Government for its co-operation and for the present investigation. In replying, I impressed on them, as also on the magistrates, that if the province was closed to the import of Indian opium, this must not be the signal for the relaxation of their efforts, and that any cultivation of opium in the future would be a grave breach of faith towards His Majesty's Government. I was given to understand that the present severe measures would be continued for another year, at the end of which period the seed which the farmers might now be hiding would be dead and useless, and that it was expected that three more years of close surveillance would suffice to put a stop to any extensive poppy cultivation for many years to come.\n\nIn my opinion, there is at the present time no opium being cultivated in the north of this province, except, perhaps, in very small quantities in very well concealed places. If such is cultivated, it is probably not for consumption, but for the sake of the seed, which the farmers hope to keep alive till the present crisis is passed. At present, the death penalty which is being inflicted on opium growers does not seem to have any legal sanction, but the Civil Governor has just stated that this is to be remedied shortly, and that death will be the statutory punishment for opium cultivators.\n\n25 \n\nIn conclusion, I wish to record my appreciation of the unfailing courtesy and assistance of my two colleagues, and of the efforts of the Provincial Government, whose guest I was, and who did their utmost to make my journey as pleasant as possible. Our route not being known, every magistrate had instructions to be ready to receive and assist us, and some of them were put to a great deal of difficulty and inconvenience.\n\nSir,\n\nI append a sketch showing my route.*\n\n## Enclosures and Sign-off\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 15.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nA. D. BLACKBURN.\n\nConsul Little to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nAmoy, April 2, 1914.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith a report by Mr. W. P. W. Turner on a journey of investigation into the cultivation of the opium poppy in South Fukien.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nH. A. LITTLE.\n\n*Not reproduced.",
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        "content_text": "# Report on a Journey of Investigation into the Cultivation of the Opium Poppy in South Fukien, jointly with Officials appointed by the Chinese Government, by Mr. Turner.\n\nThe delegates selected by the Central and Provincial Governments respectively were Mr. Sou Gee Chuang, an official of the Board of the Interior, and Mr. Chan I'ai Kong, Taotai of Foochow and President of the Anti-Opium Bureau of Fukien. Mr. E. Cheers, of the Straits Settlement Police Service, acted as interpreter in the Amoy dialect, which is current in all the districts visited except Hing Hua, Sien Yu, and Hok Ching, south of Foochow.\n\nA rough map is attached showing the route taken, which embraced all the former principal poppy-growing centres of South Fukien. The distance covered was approximately 1,600 li, or 530 English miles, the journey occupying twenty-five days - from the 23rd February to the 19th March. In all, seventeen districts were examined out of a total of thirty-two comprised in the lower portion of the province.\n\nIn the first district visited, that of Hai Teng, the vigorous measures taken in the autumn by the local authorities checked extensive sowing, though a certain amount was discovered by the opium inspector in January and uprooted. In the spring of 1913, Captain Connelly, of the Hong Kong garrison, whilst on a shooting expedition, found large areas under poppy cultivation in the vicinity of Chhe Nia and the authorities taking no apparent action, but a local convert of Kang Boe, a neighbouring village, informed me that this region is now quite free. From reports of native pastors, I also learned that no poppy now existed in the broad belt of coast land south of Amoy and Hai Teng. (I have since heard from a missionary that he travelled through the whole of this country at the beginning of March without finding a trace of poppy.)\n\nForeigners who had recently made the journey from Changpu to Amoy having reported that the main route via O Sai had been cleared of poppy, I chose the northern road from Hai Teng, which branches off due west at T'eh Chui Ying, turning south again at Koan Jim through the Tng Kio and Kio Lai. As far as could be judged, this part of the country was now almost entirely given up to rice cultivation, the Nan Ch'i River and its tributaries affording an abundant water supply. Between Tng Kio, where we were met by a military officer in charge of 700 soldiers sent to uproot the poppy, and Changpu several fields where opium had been pulled up were passed, these being readily distinguished from the fact that, having been confiscated, they were now overgrown with weeds. Last spring, this region was one of the chief poppy-growing centres of the district. As far as I could gather, the soldiers arrived in December, meeting with no little resistance before the plant was eventually all destroyed.\n\nThe Changpu authorities appear to have counterbalanced their indifference of last spring, when there was extended cultivation throughout the district, by extreme severity in the autumn. Mr. Watson, of the English Presbyterian Mission at Changpu, told me that he was prepared to state positively that not a plant remained in the whole country between Changpu and Hai Teng, with the possible exception of a small patch hidden in a secluded valley near Toa Pu, of which he had heard many vague rumours. Mr. Watson's opinions were based partly on the declarations of the native pastors of his district at a recent conference at O Sai, and partly on personal observation during his periodical visits to native mission stations.\n\nFrom Changpu to Yunsiao, the road lies for some 8 or 9 miles over a broad, sandy, barren plain up to a range of hills some 1,200 feet high, crossed by a low pass, with a fertile valley producing rice, sugar-cane, barley, and beans on the other side. From Pan To Hsu to Tunsiao, the country is too hilly to suit the poppy, which requires the rich soil of the plains and a sheltered situation to thrive to perfection, and the task of the local authorities has accordingly been comparatively light. I learned that the district opium inspector had conducted a very strict examination in October and November last, whilst the magistrate himself informed me that of the thirty days he had been in office, twenty had been spent in scouring the country for any heads that might have eluded the observation of the inspector and his staff. Native reports confirmed the magistrate's assurance that no poppy was now left in the district.\n\nAt Chao An, I called on Father David de Miguel of the Roman Catholic Mission, who informed me that it was possible that a small quantity of poppy might still remain in the second tu or division of the magistracy, though the magistrate had a few weeks previously, on hearing of the tour of inspection, made a journey in person through this region and had a thorough uprooting. He was unable to say for certain if all had been removed, but assured me that the rest of the district was free, the people having been thoroughly scared by the arrival of the northern soldiers. The present magistrate, Mr. Chang Tseng Pa, has held office for six months. His predecessor took no steps to put a stop to the cultivation of the poppy, for which and for general maladministration he was eventually arrested and sent to Foochow for trial. Mr. Chang, on the other hand, has the reputation of being a very keen suppressionist and an able official; at the beginning of his campaign, he was placed in a difficulty by the opposition of the gentry, of whom a few leading members were financially interested in the cultivation of the drug, and were supporting the farmers in resisting the authorities. Mr. Chang promptly arrested two of the most influential, and has since had the support of the remainder. He told me that barley and tobacco were largely replacing the former opium crops. This applies in fact to the whole of the country west of Changchow, the large areas under tobacco, the leaf of which is, however, of an inferior quality, being particularly noticeable.\n\nThe country between Chao An and Ping Ho, on the borders of Kuangtung province, is little frequented by foreigners, and no reports had been received regarding the opium measures in force there. Consequently, although this part of the province has never had the reputation of being a large opium-producing centre, I was anxious to discover whether as clean a sweep had been made as in those districts nearer to the control of the high provincial authorities. Practically the whole of the 60 miles between Chao An and Ping Ho is mountainous, but the hill slopes are mostly under terrace cultivation and the valleys rich with a vast variety of native crops, rice, barley, sugar-cane, and sweet potatoes being the staple products.\n\nAfter leaving Chao An, we passed through the second tu of the district, where I had been informed there was a possibility of finding poppy, but I discovered neither traces of it nor signs of recently disturbed fields. This is probably explained by the fact that in practice, confiscated land is frequently sold back to the village or clan to which it belonged, the penalty for growing the forbidden plant being thus a double fine.\n\nAs regards the Ping Ho district, little pressure was required to induce the farmers to abandon cultivation, and it had not been found necessary to call for troops. At Sio Khe, a local missionary informed me that suppression measures had been most severe, and that, so far as the strict enquiries he had made went, the district was quite free from poppy. A native pastor had, however, informed him that a small patch was being grown in a secluded spot 20 miles north of Lung Shan; but Mr. Vosknil was confident that, if such were indeed the case, it was not being grown with the connivance of the opium inspector, of whom he spoke very highly. I was unable to ascertain the exact locality of the field.\n\nFrom native sources at Lam Ching, I learned that young poppy had been freely uprooted in December, the owner of one field being fined 800 dollars. On the whole, however, the autumn sowing had not been excessive. A reward of 100 dollars was being offered for information of any poppy still growing instead of the usual percentage of the fine imposed. Here, as elsewhere, all sorts of rumours with regard to the inspection of the province were current, the country people firmly believing that if any opium were discovered, both the grower and the district magistrate would be shot and a fine of several hundred thousand dollars demanded by the British Government.\n\nAt Changt'ai, from all accounts, the magistrate, Mr. Sou Gee Chen, a brother of the metropolitan delegate, appears to have cleared his district thoroughly. I passed through the chief former opium-growing region, and found it now almost entirely under barley.\n\nFrom Changt'ai, I took a by-road through Be Iun and Pho Tan to Koan Khau, where no traces of a former large poppy-field were now visible. The aspect of the country here changes, the hills of the west giving way to a broad plain, across which a clear view of several miles is obtained on all sides. Between Koan Khau and Ch'uan Chow lies the largest poppy-producing district of Fukien, the yield of former years in the Tong An district, according to semi-official Chinese estimates, being 50 per cent of that of the whole province.\n\nThe zone of greatest activity lies immediately south of Teng An itself, particularly in the neighbourhood of Mahang. For this reason, Teng An has been...\n\nPage 27\n\n... \n\nPage 503",
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        "content_text": "## No. 20\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey-(Received June 15.)\n\nPeking, May 17, 1915.\n\nI HAVE the honour to enclose herewith copy of an extract from a Presidential mandate published in the Government Gazette of the 13th May last, exhorting the people against the cultivation and smoking of opium, and repeating the prohibition against traffic in the drug.\n\nIn reference to the strictures against Shensi in the mandate, my latest information from that province, dated the 18th April, is to the effect that the Military Governor has given secret permission to grow the poppy again this year. Sowing takes place in April, and thousands of mou (one acre equals six mou) have already been planted.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 20\n\n#### Extract from Government Gazette of May 13, 1915, Presidential Mandate\n\nTHE evil of opium is known to all men, and no less than 8,000 millions of money and 10,000,000 lives have been sacrificed during the past few decades as a result of this evil. Once a person acquires the habit of opium smoking he degenerates into a parasite and is reduced to a skeleton. Thus a rich man becomes a pauper and a healthy man a weakling. This gives rise to the prevalence of undesirable characters and persons who do not care to work, the race deteriorates, morality declines, and both the family and the nation are affected and harmed.\n\nFortunately, however, as a result of the unprejudiced spirit of the friendly nations and the well-intentioned publicity given to the matter by Chinese and foreigners, an agreement was made in the third year of Hsuan Tung with Great Britain for the prohibition of the import of foreign and the cultivation of native opium within a certain time limit. A persistent policy has been pursued with regard to the prohibition of cultivation, smoking, and trading in opium, and as a result of it Fengtien and many other provinces have succeeded in completely destroying all poppy plants, and the import of opium into these provinces has been prohibited by mutual consent.\n\nThe International Anti-Opium Society also decided that within a certain time limit investigations should be made into the opium trade contemporaneously with the progress of the measures adopted by the Chinese Government. If this opportunity had been seized to make a clean sweep of opium, the country's weakness would soon have been turned into strength. The prohibition was repeated at the beginning of the Republican régime. But owing to the lack of order and discipline and the fact that there were many desperadoes and unruly soldiers who were mostly opium smokers, the evil sprang again into being. The ignorant people, seeing that there was great profit in the opium trade, defied the law hitherto in force. This was most regrettable.\n\nSome people urge that since the opium trade affects the livelihood of many persons, it is unjust to use arbitrary methods for the prohibition of poppy planting. They forget, however, that the evil of opium smoking is like a dangerous ulcer that sinks deep into the bone, for a cure of which it is better to cut away part of the bone than to patch it up with a piece of flesh taken from another part of the body. Whether the profit in this trade is large or small, the traders should be made to understand in unmistakable language that no one can live by drinking poison to quench his thirst.\n\nThe local headmen should be entrusted with the task of uprooting the poppy, and the farmers supplied with cotton, grain, and other seeds for sowing instead, so that gradually what is now a rule may become an exception. The plea of present livelihood is no justification for planting the seed of endless calamity in the future.\n\nWe have heard lately that in certain parts of Shensi poppy plants are still being raised, and we have made enquiries of the high provincial authorities. Lu Chien-chang and Lu Tiao-yuan report by telegraph that the majority of the districts under their jurisdiction have been cleared of poppy plants; that it is possible that in out-of-the-way places the foolish and ignorant country people may have planted opium, but that the magistrates have been ordered to take careful and energetic measures for prohibition, and investigators have been sent to search for secret plantations.\n\nThe said province suffers from a lack of good communications, and the people may not realise the seriousness of the prohibition and care only for the profit that they may make. The whole thing depends upon the officials, who should earnestly and persistently urge them and compel them to plant some other useful crop. One corner of the country cannot be permitted to spoil the general movement of the whole nation.\n\nThe Ministry of Interior is hereby instructed to transmit orders to the Governor of the said province to again issue a prohibition and not to allow the cunning to utilise it as a means to enrich themselves. Yamên runners must be strictly controlled so that they may not use this as a pretext to oppress the people by extortion, or the old evil will be done away with only to be replaced by a new one.\n\nIn a word, it is my hope that the people and the officials of the whole nation should regard opium as a great disgrace and shame. Let no undestroyed seeds poison the new nation. Awake all ye people and be not careless. This is my order.\n\n(Seal of the President.)\n\n## No. 21\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey-(Received October 30.)\n\nPeking, October 6, 1915.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch of the 3rd May last, I have the honour to forward herewith copy of a report by Mr. Eric Teichman on a tour of investigation made by him in the province of Kansu in conjunction with a representative of the Chinese Government.\n\nThe result of Mr. Teichman's inspection having shown that the cultivation of the poppy in Kansu has been successfully repressed, I have informed the Chinese Government in a note of which copy is enclosed herewith, that the importation of Indian opium into that province will be prohibited from the 1st November.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 1 in No. 21\n\n## Mr. Teichman to Sir J. Jordan\n\n**British Legation, Peking, September 30, 1915**\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that I have carried out a joint inspection of opium cultivation in Kansu in conjunction with Mr. Chang Wei, of the Wai-chiao Pu, and that the result of our investigation shows that the cultivation of the poppy in that province has been successfully suppressed. During a journey extending over the whole summer, in the course of which we travelled some 1,700 miles by road within the borders of the province and visited many unfrequented districts, we did not see a single field of growing poppy.\n\nThe greater part of the province of Kansu suffers from insufficient rainfall, and the cultivation of the opium poppy on a large scale has always been confined to certain favoured regions where the rainfall is more abundant, or where the water supply is sufficient to permit of regular irrigation being practised. The chief of these regions are: the Yellow River and neighbouring valleys round Lanchow; the Yellow River valley round Ninghsia in the north; the valleys of the Sining River round Nienpo, and of the P'ingfan River south of Pingfan in the west; the T'ao River valley near Titao; the Wei River valley from Kungeh'ang to Ch'inchow; the districts of P'ingliang and Chingchow on the Shensi border; the southern slopes of the Tsinling mountains in the south-east; and the irrigated areas between the Nanshan mountains and the Alashan desert in the west of the province, notably the Liangchow plain.\n\nI visited all these districts during the season with the exception of the Ninghsia plain through which we passed on our return journey in the early autumn, and am of the opinion that very little opium was harvested in any of them this summer. The best opium in Kansu was formerly produced in the Liangchow plain and other irrigated regions in the north-west of the province, whence it was exported almost exclusively to Mukden, Tientsin, and Taiyuanfu by the desert route. Poppy was planted in the Liangchow neighbourhood this spring, but the crop was, I believe, in every case destroyed by the officials while it was yet young. We made a careful inspection of this plain, which consists of a string of oases of great fertility running north into the desert beyond Chenfan, and saw no signs of opium cultivation. Poppy was also planted on a small scale and subsequently uprooted by the officials in the districts of Ningyuan and Fuchiang (Wei Valley), Chingchow (Shensi border), and Ninghsia (in the north). In a remote valley in the mountains south of Fuchiang, where I had information of secret cultivation, there was evidence of poppy having been uprooted a few hours before our arrival. This crop, a very small one, would have been harvested had the inspecting party not visited that particular valley, and it is probable that a certain amount of poppy has been grown in similar secluded localities to which neither our party nor the numerous Chinese inspectors found their way. The mountainous character of almost the whole of Kansu province, and the badness of the tracks which serve as roads, render all travel off the few main trade routes extraordinarily difficult and arduous. But the amount of opium produced secretly in this manner would be quite insignificant.\n\nWhen travelling in the south of the province, I heard rumours of the poppy being cultivated in the mountainous country west of Minchow and T'aochow inhabited by semi-independent Tibetan tribes. These reports applied more particularly to a lawless tribe living south of the Minshan mountains on the Szechuan border, whither it was impossible for me to penetrate without abandoning the inspection of more important poppy-growing centres in the west. It was, however, evident from our journey from T'aochow to Labrang and Hochow, when we travelled by an unfrequented route through country inhabited solely by Tibetans, that the latter had not taken to growing the poppy. In spite of the elevation of most of this part of Kansu, we passed through many deep sheltered valleys, warm and fertile enough to grow good crops of corn, without finding a trace of poppy cultivation.\n\nAn enormous crop of opium, worth many millions of taels, was harvested in Kansu in the summer of 1913. It was heavily taxed, so that both the cultivators and the provincial revenues benefited. The people were at the same time given to understand that they would not be permitted to grow the poppy another season. This prohibition, though hindered by the unsettled state of affairs brought about by the presence of the White Wolf rebels in the south of the province, was largely carried into effect in 1914, and practically complete suppression was arrived at this year.\n\nAny infraction of the prohibition of cultivation is now punishable by death. Successful suppression within so short a period as two years is due to the energetic and determined attitude of the present Governor, General Chang Kuang-chien, towards the opium question. He appears to have been on the whole well served by his district magistrates, with whom rests the responsibility of seeing that the prohibition is really carried out. Unfortunately, the suppression of poppy growing has not been unaccompanied by abuses and extortion on the part of small officials and Yamen underlings in outlying districts. The people complained in many districts of soldiers and Yamen runners searching the fields for solitary heads of poppy growing as weeds amongst the other crops, and in some cases even of planting poppies secretly on the land of innocent farmers for the purposes of extortion.\n\nAn acre of irrigated land in Kansu will produce a crop of opium worth ten times as much as a crop of wheat grown on the same plot; while owing to its high value and small bulk, opium is a particularly suitable commodity to handle for purposes of trade and export in a province without proper means of communication, either within its own borders or with the rest of China.\n\nThe poppy is being replaced by cereals, hemp, and tobacco; but enough cereals are already grown for local consumption, while their bulk renders them unsuitable for purposes of trade; and the cultivation and manufacture of the latter are confined to certain localities. Opium suppression entails, therefore, particular hardships for the purely agricultural population of Kansu, and in view of this, and of the large number of confirmed smokers in the province, the greatest vigilance will be necessary to prevent recrudescence of cultivation during the next few years, more especially while the lax conditions at present prevailing in the adjoining province of Shensi are permitted to continue. The people have doubtless kept stocks of seed which, in that dry climate, will remain fertile for years.\n\nConsumption of native opium in Kansu continues without any restrictions, and the number of confirmed smokers in the province is very large. I was informed by the provincial authorities at Lanchow that the matter would soon be taken in hand, and that they were at present engaged in enquiring into the number of smokers in each district with the idea of introducing some scheme of progressive reduction in the consumption of each individual smoker leading to complete cessation in a specified period according to age. Nothing, however, is likely to be done in the matter, as the people of Kansu, submissive and patient by nature, have been so bullied by the officials during the past two years over opium suppression and the collection of innumerable new and vexatious taxes, that the latter do not consider it safe to make a serious attempt to prohibit opium smoking. Further, local consumption is not likely to be effectively suppressed until the large stocks of native-grown opium at present in the province are exhausted. In the meantime, the high price of the drug—2,600 cash (about 2 dollars Mexican) per Chinese ounce in Lanchow—tends to discourage consumption except amongst the confirmed smokers.\n\nWhile the provincial authorities in Lanchow admit that no attempt is at present being made to interfere with consumption, the attitude of the local officials in some of the outlying districts is very vague on the subject. Thus, while at Chinchow, the seat of a Taoyin (Superintendent of Circuit), the streets reeked of burning opium after nightfall and smokers could be seen through half-closed doors enjoying their pipes, in the district of Li Hsien, forming part of the Ch'inchow Circuit, proclamations were posted announcing that anyone sowing, selling, or smoking opium would be shot. Such notices were, of course, meaningless and posted for our benefit. No definite scheme exists for regulating the trade in native opium, which is still permitted to continue, in some places under taxation by licence, in others without any restrictions, according to the ideas of the local officials on the subject. Its transport through the province is taxed by means of special opium li-kin offices, which reap a rich but declining harvest. The result of such legalised trade in native opium is that large quantities of the Kansu-grown drug are smuggled into the other provinces of China. This secret export follows three main routes: through Mongolia to North China and Manchuria; via Sianfu and Tungkuan into Honan (in which province, owing to strict suppressive measures, the profits on smuggled opium are enormous); and via the Han Valley to Hankow.\n\nOur arrival in Kansu gave rise to much talk about suppressing all traffic in native opium, and I was informed by the provincial authorities that they were about to bring the trade to an end. But in the meantime, it furnishes a means of getting rid of the stocks in the province. These stocks are very large, and if left to be consumed locally would last for decades.\n\nOur itinerary was as follows: from Miench'ih (the railhead in Honan) to Sian, ... \n\n42 \n43 \n511",
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        "content_text": "62\n\nMany wild poppy plants had been destroyed in the last three months to eradicate every trace of the poppy crops. Many punishments had been inflicted, and any owner who was considered dilatory in uprooting and destroying his crop was punished by confiscation of his land. I visited one large temple, with grounds extending over several acres, which had been so confiscated: the land was marked off into lots, which had been sold or rented by the authorities to various schools and institutions for use as vegetable gardens. Rewards had been offered by the Chinese authorities for any poppy plant discovered in the district; and this had led to many cases of blackmail, chiefly by the soldiery. Rumours had been rife in Tsun-yi as to the scope of the official inspection. One rumour had it that I should make a house-to-house visitation, and should severely punish any person suspected of being an opium smoker. As a result of this rumour, many opium smokers had fled the town a day or two before my arrival. Another, still more ridiculous, rumour stated that Great Britain was arranging a peaceful acquisition of the three provinces of Szechuen, Kueichow, and Yunnan, and I was the pioneer to make the preliminary arrangements for taking over the provinces.\n\nMr. Olesen was on the point of making an extended journey in the north-east of Kueichow province; and I asked him to be good enough to let me know what conditions he found on his travels. He informs me that from Sze-nan to Chen-yuan, conditions were much the same as in the Tsun-yi district—drastic official measures for suppression of the poppy crop and severe punishment of those disobeying the official instructions, the death penalty being inflicted in a few cases.\n\nThe road from Sungkan to Tsun-yi had been one continuous triumphal procession. Every village and town was decorated with flags, and triumphal arches of bamboo and evergreen were erected in the streets of the larger towns.\n\nI was clearly on the expected route. I had, however, satisfied myself that no flowering poppy had been seen, as stated in Chungking, and I decided to turn my road towards the west. It was fairly clear that the Chinese expected me to visit the capital of the province, and that the country on the way thereto would be thoroughly cleared of any poppy in anticipation of my visit. On the evening before our departure from Tsun-yi, therefore, I signified to the Chinese delegates my intention of proceeding westwards. The delegates at once came to see me, objecting to my proposal, and saying that the westerly roads were bad and dangerous, and that part of the country was infested with brigands, and that there were no villages large enough to accommodate our party at night. I brushed aside these objections. Where there was a path, we could go; where there were brigands, we had our brave escort; where there was even a small village, we would make the best of whatever accommodation there was. Mr. Shen then fell back on his \"face\"; how would he have any \"face\" if it became known to the Governor that he had permitted the British delegate to suffer such hardships and inconveniences in the province of Kueichow! I told him that \"face\" need not be considered where duty, however irksome, is concerned. Finally, seeing I was not to be persuaded, he mentioned that the Governor of Kueichow had made lavish preparations for my reception at Kweiyang, and was expecting me to arrive there in a few days, and that the Governor would hold him responsible for conducting me thither. I told him that in that case, I would myself write to the Governor and explain matters, which I eventually did, when I arrived at Anshun.\n\nMr. Shen now presented me with a map, requesting that I would mark off my route through Kueichow, so as to enable him to warn the various local officials to make suitable preparations to receive me. I told him that I regretted being unable to do so, as I myself did not yet know my route beyond two or three days' journey. I assured Mr. Shen that I was quite prepared to take the roads or paths and the accommodation just as I found them, and that he need not disturb his mind on those scores.\n\nFrom Tsun-yi to Ch'ien-hsi (98 miles), the country becomes rough and mountainous, the general elevation at Ch'ien-hsi being over 4,000 feet above sea-level. Hills are very rugged and steep, and the area is generally less cultivable than in the Tsun-yi district. As a natural result, the population is scantier and more dispersed; quite a large proportion of the inhabitants in the Ch'ien-hsi district are aborigines of the Miao tribes.\n\nI found very much the same conditions with regard to crops as I had found between Sungkan and Tsun-yi: beans, rape, and peas, with several suspiciously cropless fields. The best Kueichow opium was that from the Ch'ien-hsi district, and Sir Alexander Hosie, in his journey across Kueichow province some years ago, observed a considerable number of fields of opium poppy in flower in the Ch'ien-hsi neighbourhood. But all had been swept clean this year.\n\n63\n\nAt Ch'ien-hsi, where I arrived on the 15th April, I met the priest Père Fortunat. He was able definitely to explode the Chungking story regarding poppy flowers in Kueichow, for he himself had accompanied Père Grimard to Chungking on the journey which had given rise to the Chungking statement. Père Fortunat told me that in January, they had seen very many fields of young opium poppy plants, but none were in flower. Similar stern measures to those in other parts of the province with regard to suppression of opium poppy had been taken in the Chien-hsi district; but had there been no suppression, the 1917 spring crop of opium poppy in the Ch'ien-hsi district would have been a record one, according to Père Fortunat. The steps taken to eradicate the poppy crops were very thorough. After the crops had been uprooted and destroyed, the fields were ploughed and ploughed and ploughed again, so that no trace should remain which the official inspection might reveal. I understand that the Chinese Government had promised the death penalty to any magistrate in whose jurisdiction the official inspection should discover a single poppy plant.\n\nAs a result of the destruction of the Kueichow crop, Kuangsi opium was finding its way into Kueichow, and was selling at the high price of 3 taels (ounces) of silver per oz.\n\nPère Fortunat told me that many of the Ch'ien-hsi officials are regular opium smokers.\n\nPère Fortunat has been nine years in the province of Kueichow.\n\nHe told me that in his experience, the end of April or the beginning of May is the usual time for the flowering of opium poppy in the greater part of the province, i.e., in the highland plateau; and the middle of April for the few districts which are lower and therefore warmer; such districts are in the north-west and south-west corners of the province. The Chinese delegates evidently expected that I should proceed from Ch'ien-hsi still westwards to Pi-chieh and Ta-ting, and I was informed that deputies had arrived from the Taoyin of Pi-chieh and the magistrate of Ta-ting to welcome me, and to inform me that the Taoyin and the magistrate would meet me on the road on the following day. I had decided to change the route southwards, so I expressed my regrets to the deputies accordingly. My declaration as to route brought Mr. Shen to my quarters in a hurry. There was no proper road in the direction I proposed to go: there was an enormous lake to be crossed, and there were no boats; brigands were numerous, the Ch'ien-hsi magistrate had himself had a serious encounter with a body of them on the previous day; and, finally, Mr. Shen himself was not feeling well, and the hardships of such a route would be too much for him. I expressed suitable regrets for all these little difficulties, but announced my intention of at least starting on the route I had prescribed.\n\nMr. Shen's forebodings were partly correct; there was nothing that could be reasonably called a road over most of the 30 miles which separated us from my objective—a town called Ch'a-tien. The enormous lake turned out to be a tributary of the river Wu; we scrambled over it with the aid of two or three small cockle-shells of boats. But it was one of the hardest day's marches of the whole trip. Heavy rain did not improve matters much. Our last 7 miles were taken over very rough hilly country in pitch darkness and pouring rain, and I was glad to squeeze into the shelter of a very inferior temple at Ch'a-tien.\n\nFrom Ch'ien-hsi to Anshun (107 miles), the country was very rough and hilly. The interior of Kueichow is a highland of an average of 4,000 feet in altitude, with myriads of conical hills 1,000 to 2,000 feet in height, covering the highland plateau. It is through, round, and over these hills that the roads and the path tracks go.\n\nOn the road between Ch'ien-hsi and Anshun, I saw many fields bearing signs of the recent removal of crops; in some fields of mixed crops, rape and barley intermingled; there were occasional signs that a third plant had originally been sown with rape and barley, but that it had recently been uprooted and removed. In the neighbourhood of Hsiung-chia-chang, such signs were frequent, and in one or two places in the hills, I observed still smouldering fires which had been used to destroy vegetable matter, and I could not but suspect that the vegetable matter had been young poppy plants, in their vegetable existence.\n\nAt Anshun, I met Dr. Fish, of the China Inland Mission, who is in charge of a special hospital for the aboriginal tribe which is particularly numerous in the neighbourhood of Anshun. Dr. Fish was of the opinion that in the immediate vicinity of Anshun city, there were no opium-poppy fields in plant, if indeed any at all had been sown, and this was borne out by my own observation. The crops round Anshun were legitimate enough, and there was an absence of the suspicious gaps in the fields which I had observed further back on the road. This may have been due to the...",
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        "content_text": "68 \n\nEnclosure 7 in No. 29. \n\nActing Consul Brown to Mr. Alston. \n\n**Sir.** \n\nKiukiang, May 8, 1917. I have the honour to forward herewith a report on a journey of investigation into the cultivation of the opium poppy in the province of Kiangsi jointly with officials appointed by the Chinese Government in accordance with article 4 of the Opium Agreement of 1911. \n\nI have, &c. \n\nEnclosure 8 in No. 29. \n\nW. RUSSELL BROWN. \n\n## Report on a Journey of Investigation into the Cultivation of the Opium Poppy in the Province of Kiangsi. \n\nI have the honour to report that Messrs. Chien Kuang-hsi and Huang Tao-hsiung, the Chinese delegates appointed by the Wai-chiao Pu and the Ministry of the Interior, reached Kiukiang on the 16th March, and left with me by rail on the 19th March for Southern Kiangsi via Nanchang and the River Kan. This route was selected as the most practicable in view of the information in the possession of the consulate, which showed that the cultivation of opium poppy had been completely eradicated in the plains and low-lying parts of the province, and that any opium which might exist would be found in remote places in the mountains. On this point Protestant and Catholic missionaries, and the local Chinese press were unanimous. The mountainous regions of Kanchou, Yu Tu, Hsing Kuo, Ningtu, and Ihuang in the south and south-east and the range of hills lying on the borders of Chien Chang, Ani, and Chingan in the north-west were generally regarded as suspicious localities, and I therefore determined to visit these districts in succession. Owing to the difference in the climate between the north and south of the province, the poppy flowering three weeks earlier in the Kanchou region than in the Ani district, we directed our course first to the south. \n\nOur party, augmented by deputies despatched by the provincial administration and escorts of soldiers and police, left Nanchang early on the morning of the 21st March in seven junks, and were towed by steam launches up the Kan River to Wanan. Here on the 28th March we left the river and proceeded by chair to Kan Hsien (formerly Kan Chou), where we arrived on the 30th March. \n\nEnquiries were made by me at the Protestant and Catholic mission stations touched at en route from Nanchang, and I was everywhere informed that the rigorous measures of the magistrates and anti-opium officials had effectually suppressed opium-poppy cultivation in those districts. \n\nThe Protestant and Catholic missionaries at Kan Hsien were equally emphatic on this point, and assured me that it would be waste of time to visit the hills in that region. I accordingly pressed on to Yü Tu, which was reached on the 2nd April, after an exceedingly difficult two days' march. \n\nAs Yu Tu was one of the few districts in which opium poppy was known to have been grown in 1916, I determined to pay particular attention to this region, and after passing the district city, I left the road, climbed the most difficult part of the mountain range, and proceeded inland for a couple of hours' journey, looking with a pair of powerful field-glasses at the pockets of land lying between the hills. In this way I was able to satisfy myself beyond doubt that no opium poppy was under cultivation in an area of many square miles. I eventually regained the main road by a different route, and in the afternoon scaled the mountains to the south-west by a woodcutter's path. Here I spent some four hours in a careful inspection of the surrounding country, and returned convinced that no opium poppy was grown there, as I had been able to see the crops over an area of more than 12 square miles. The climbing in this part of the country was so difficult that only two officers and a few of the soldiers were able to accompany me. We reached the borders of Hsing Kuo district before turning back. I did not enter that district as I had received information at Kan Hsien that opium poppy had been eradicated in that region in 1916 after a severe fight between the troops and the people, in the course of which several persons had been killed and wounded and many houses burned. \n\n87 \n\nOn the 5th April we arrived at Ningtu, where we were forced to rest for one day owing to the exhaustion of our party. Many of the soldiers were brought in in chairs, as they were quite unable to walk. \n\nAt Ningtu, Mr. and Mrs. Seipel, missionaries in charge of the China Inland Mission station in that city, gave me a most cordial welcome, and assured us that the poppy was believed to be extinct in that region. But from another source I learnt the name of one possible opium-poppy growing locality, the Mi Shih Chai mountain, 70 li from Ningtu, on the road to Ihuang. \n\nOn the 8th April we left in a northerly direction for Ihuang, and stopped the night at Lo K'ou. Here eight people were shot in 1915 in an affray between the opium growers and the troops despatched to carry out suppression work. \n\nThe Mi Shih Chai mountain was situated some 10 li from Lo K'ou, and early on the morning of the 9th April we mounted it by a difficult path, and spent five hours in a careful exploration of the countryside. This region is said to be infested with tigers, so extra precautions were taken for the safety of our party. No poppy could be discovered anywhere, and the remains of the previous year's crops seen in the fields showed that none had been grown last year. We arrived at Ihuang on the 11th April, and from there proceeded to Lin Ch'uan (formerly Fu Chou), where we embarked on board junks and were towed by steam launch to Tu Chia Pu, in the Chien Ch'ang district. As the country was flooded we were able to make use of certain shallow channels and short cuts, whereby we saved between one and two days' time. \n\nIn the range of mountains lying on the borders of the three districts of Yung Hsiu (formerly Chien Ch'ang), Ani, and Ching An, the names of Hsia Ping, Mei Ling, and Ch'üan Shui Ch'in had been given as possible opium-poppy growing localities, and we therefore proceeded from Tu Chia Pu, via Yung Hsiu district city to Pai Ch'a, which appeared to be the most convenient centre for visiting the places in question. Hsia Ping, Mei Ling, and Ch'üan Shui Ch'in were found to be in close proximity, and on the 17th April I made a careful inspection and traversed the district without finding any trace of poppy, although the paths we took led us well into the heart of the hills away from the main roads. From here we crossed the mountains to Ani and entered the more level country leading to Feng Hsin and Kao An (formerly Jui-chou Fu). We arrived at Kao An on the 20th April. My intention had been to proceed to Shang-kao and the Wan Tsai district, but in view of the advanced date and the favourable information received from the missionaries at Kao An it appeared waste of time to investigate further in this direction, and I accordingly returned to Kiukiang via Nanchang. I spent a day and a half in the provincial capital as the guest of the civil Governor, and returned to my post at Kiukiang on the 24th April. \n\n## Method of Inspection. \n\nIn those districts where the names of possible opium-poppy growing localities had been furnished, the Chinese delegates and I visited and inspected each of the places in question. In those regions where it was commonly believed that poppy might possibly be found \"somewhere in the hills,\" I picked out the highest and most inaccessible part of the mountain range, ascended it by any track that could be found, and proceeded inland or along the crest for some miles until I had satisfied myself by the aid of powerful field-glasses that no poppy was under cultivation. In order to obtain fuller information as to the crops, official anti-opium proclamations, people, and general conditions, I walked for the greater part of the overland journey, and was thereby enabled to see much that might otherwise have escaped my notice. \n\n## Relations with Chinese Officials. \n\nFrom first to last I have met with the utmost courtesy and consideration at the hands of the Military and Civil Governors and their subordinates. The district magistrates and the gentry of every district visited have extended the heartiest hospitality to me as the representative of His Majesty's Legation. Every facility was given me of visiting and inspecting any part of the country, and my wishes were met in every respect. \n\nThe successful organisation of our party reflects the greatest credit on Mr. Wang Nien-tsu, the Kiukiang magistrate, and the officers under his control. It is entirely... \n\n[6032] \n\nPage 87 \nPage 68",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure in No. 29\n### Vice-Consul Smith to Mr. Alston\n\nSwatow, April 18, 1917.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that, in accordance with your instructions, I left Swatow on the 19th ultimo, in company with the Chinese delegates, on a journey of investigation into the cultivation of the opium poppy in Kwantung, and returned to Swatow yesterday. All preparations for the journey had been completed several days beforehand in Swatow, but no start was possible until after the arrival of the delegates from Canton. The time at our disposal for the journey was only about a month, as the poppy harvest is practically over by the middle of April.\n\nThe Chinese officials who accompanied me were: Mr. Lam Hi Chow, the chief secretary to the Ch'ao Hsün Taoyin, who was the representative of the Ch'ao Hsün Taoyin, the principal Chinese delegate; Mr. Kum Yung Fan, the secretary to, and delegate of the Opium Suppression Bureau, Canton; and two interpreters, Mr. Hoang Tsou Yn, English and French interpreter to the Civil Governor, Canton; and Mr. Lau Wai Chi, English interpreter to the Chao Hsün Taoyin.\n\nThe principal districts in which the opium poppy was previously grown are Chieh Yang, Pu Ning, Feng Shun, Ch'ao Yang, Ch'ao An and Jao Ping, the two latter in a much less degree, but nowhere have I been able to discover a single plant. The information received at this consulate from Chinese and missionary sources was to the effect that very little, if any, poppy had been planted in the autumn of 1916 in the Ch'ao Yang, Chao An and Jao Ping districts, in the east of Chieh Yang, the east and south of P'u Ning, and the north and east of Feng Shun, and that what little had been planted had been uprooted as soon as the shoots appeared, none being left growing at the end of the year. This claim appears to me to be fully established by the fact that all the fields I passed through in these districts were in full cultivation with winter crops, such as wheat, hemp, sugar-cane, &c., the sowing period of which coincides with, or is earlier than, that of the poppy, and the cultivation of the opium poppy would, therefore, appear to have been completely eradicated from these districts.\n\nWith regard to the western half of Chieh Yang and the adjoining portions of P'u Ning and Feng Shun, all reports agree that much poppy was planted in the autumn of 1916, and that, owing to the supineness and carelessness of the magistrates, who were simply place-seekers who had bought their appointments from the local revolutionary Government, and also owing to the unruly character of the Hakka inhabitants of the country, a great deal of the poppy was permitted to come to maturity, and the scraping of the capsules had commenced. Early in 1917, however, energetic magistrates were appointed from Canton, who personally conducted the uprooting of the poppy plants throughout their districts so energetically that, by the middle of February, practically not a single plant was left. The amount of opium collected as part of the first scraping only is said to have been but a very small percentage of the expected main crop, none of which was harvested, while no seed can have been saved for the next autumn's planting.\n\nThese districts I investigated very thoroughly, visiting all places where missionary reports stated that opium poppy had been seen growing, but was unable to discover a single plant. The winter crop in these districts is mainly wheat, for which, during the past seven or eight years, opium has been largely substituted; and though wheat was much in evidence, numerous bare, uncultivated plots of land showed where the poppy had been pulled up too late to permit of any other crops being sown during the winter.\n\nThe Ch'ao Hsün Taoyin, Mr. Wang Siao Cho, though unable, on account of his official duties in Swatow, to accompany the party throughout, visited us at Ch'ao Yang, Chieh Yang, P'u Ning and Ch'ao An district cities, and at Ung Kung, in Jaoping district, to satisfy himself that all arrangements for the journey and for our convenience were being satisfactorily carried out. As a suitable chair was not otherwise procurable, the Taoyin placed his own private chair and bearers at my disposal for the whole journey.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nS. WYATT SMITH.\n\n## Enclosure 10 in No. 29\n### Acting-Consul Toller to Mr. Alston\n\nNingpo, June 4, 1917.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report that on the 23rd April I met, at Nanking, Mr. Yu Shou-chang, the deputy appointed by the Governor of Kiangsu for the inspection of the province, and on the following day Messrs. Chau Hang-nien and Mou Chia-yo, the delegates of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of the Interior respectively. The Governor of Chekiang had also appointed a deputy, Mr. Chang Chin, the headmaster of the Middle School here, who accompanied me from Ningpo. This appointment was probably made because the Governors of Kiangsu and of Chekiang are brothers, and with the idea that Mr. Chang, whom I already knew well, might serve as a mediator between the Kiangsu delegate and myself in case of any difficulty or dispute, but I am glad to say no occasion for his services in this connection ever arose.\n\nFrom Mr. Giles I learned that the former opium-producing regions were in the country north of the Yang-tsze, generally known as Kiangpei, and that the only territory in which there was any likelihood of poppy being found was the Hsü-Hai circuit. Mr. Ottewill had kindly furnished me with a copy of his despatch of the 25th March last, and this together with the information which he gave me in Chinkiang from reports made in 1915, also indicated the northern part of the province as the area to be investigated. I accordingly arranged with the Chinese deputies to start our tour from Hsüchowfu, for which place we left by train on the 26th April, arriving at midnight the same day.\n\nThe following day was spent in making preparations for the lengthy chair-journey, and on the 28th April we proceeded to Hsiao Hsien. In this district we also made a circuit through the hilly country to the south of the town towards the Anhui border, striking across the ranges of hills that radiate from the town so as to examine the sheltered valleys, which were the most likely haunts of the poppy. I also climbed the highest point in the group, in order to get a wide view over the surrounding country.\n\nFrom Hsiao Hsien we went to Tang-shan Hsien, covering the distance of 150 li in a day, keeping near the Honan border—indeed, for a short distance our road took us through Honan territory. Tang-shan was, in the past, one of the most noted opium-producing areas in Kiangsu; it lies on the borders of three provinces, so appeared to be a district where, perhaps, the repressive measures might be less effective than elsewhere. We accordingly made an excursion into the surrounding country, visiting the fortified village of Hsieh Chi, on the border of Kiangsu, Shantung and Honan, and returning by a different route.\n\nOur journey was then continued to Feng Hsien and Pei Hsien. Between Feng Hsien and P'ei Hsien we did not take the direct road, but made a detour to the south in order to get from Hun Shan, one of the very rare hills in this locality, an opportunity of surveying a wide area. From Pei Hsien back to Hsüchowfu we also made a detour to the east with the object of examining the country bordering on the Wei-shan Lake.\n\nThe second stage of our journey took us from Hsüchowfu to Haichow, through Pi Hsien. From Pi Hsien to Haichow we travelled by a small road close to the Shantung border for the greater part of the way. This led us through the districts of Sutsien and Shuyang, including the country north-east of Yao-wan, where it was reported, in 1915, that a good deal of poppy had been planted. We did not visit the towns of Sutsien and Shuyang, as I was anxious to keep away from the main roads as far as possible.\n\nThe information received from the members of the American Presbyterian Mission at Haichow, who travel a great deal through the country on motor-bicycles, indicated that Kan-yü, to the north of Haichow, was not formerly an opium-producing district, and that there was little object in visiting that magistracy. As Kan-yu is, so to speak, a cul-de-sac, and a journey through the territory would have taken three or four days, after which we should have had to return to Haichow, I thought it better not to waste time on a visit there while there were important areas further south still to be inspected, so from Haichow we proceeded to Kuan-yin, which has been a hsien only since the revolution, and was formerly known as Pan-p'u. Here it was reported, in 1915, that a very large quantity of poppy had been planted, we therefore, in addition to traversing the district from north to south, ...",
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        "content_text": "# 72\n\nmade excursions both to the east and west of the town, returning in each case by a fresh route. Lien-shui (better known under its old name of Antung) and Fowning were the next places visited. These were indicated in Mr. Ottewill's despatch of the 26th March as districts to be regarded with suspicion. I made careful enquiries of the representative of the China Inland Mission at Lienshui, who travels a great deal in the country by bicycle, but he stated that he had neither seen nor heard of any opium cultivation. In Fowning we made a circuit of the country to the north-east of the town, in the direction of the old bed of the Yellow River.\n\nThe remainder of the journey was made by boat through Yen-ch'eng, Tung-t'ai, T'ai Hsien, and Yangchow to Chinkiang. I deferred any decision as to the necessity of inspecting the country south of the Yang-tsze until I had had an opportunity of consulting Mr. Ottewill; he confirmed the information I had received in Nanking that this area was not an opium-producing region, and that no good purpose would be served by a journey through it, so I informed the Chinese delegates that I regarded our investigation as finished.\n\nThe total distance covered on the tour of inspection was about 800 miles, of which we travelled upwards of 500 miles by chair and over 250 miles by boat. During the chair journey I walked the greater part of the way, and seized every opportunity of ascending any elevation that might serve as a vantage ground for observation. The country which we traversed by boat was of less importance from an opium-producing point of view, though the Chinkiang archives showed that some poppy was grown in the Huai-an prefecture in 1914 and 1915. Here, too, I walked wherever practicable, but throughout the whole journey I could not discover the slightest indication of poppy cultivation. It is, of course, impossible for one man in a limited time to make an exhaustive investigation—to do this it would probably be necessary to devote a week to each hsien—but in view of the fact that we made frequent and wide detours from the road; that for a considerable portion of the way we travelled by unfrequented tracks; and that in several magistracies we spent one or more extra days making circular excursions into the surrounding country, I feel justified in saying that if poppy were being grown we should have been bound to come across it at some point, and that, as none was seen or heard of, it is safe to deduce that none has been grown this year, unless, perhaps, on a very small scale in the most secluded spots, though I have no evidence to support even this exception.\n\nThe repressive measures adopted by the provincial authorities appear to have been very strict and to have been energetically enforced; the prohibition extended even to the cultivation of poppies for decorative purposes in flower gardens. Governor Ch'i informed me that he had sent out deputies to each hsien three times: first, at the time when the poppy seed would be sown; again, at the time when the plant would first be visible; and, finally, when it would be in flower. General Chang Hsün also told me through Hsüchow and Haichow his troops had assisted in the search for, and prohibition of, poppy growing. Mr. Yu Shou-chang, the Kiangsu delegate, said that he had himself earlier in the year made a preliminary examination of the districts which he regarded as most open to suspicion. Anti-opium proclamations were posted everywhere, and in some places (notably Pei Hsien) I noticed painted on the walls of houses the character `ch'a` (\"examined\"), purporting to show that a house-to-house search had been effected.\n\nOne matter worthy of mention is the widespread scattering of black seeds, said to be those of \"foreign poppy.\" The practice prevailed over a wide area: reports of it first came to my notice in Sutsien and Shuyang, after which they were heard in every district we passed through, including Shanghai. An astonishing variety of rumours was in circulation; the work was ascribed to the Shanghai opium combine, to the missionaries, to Germans, and to secret societies. It was also said that the seed was sown from an aeroplane, evidence of which was found in the fact that the seeds had been discovered on the roofs of houses. Miraculous properties were claimed for this \"foreign poppy,\" which was said to produce its crop within ten days of sowing the seed. The missionary at Lienshui was able to show me a specimen of the seed, which bears not the slightest resemblance to that of poppy; it is approximately the size and shape of a lupin seed. The plant is known as `ch'ing` (the character is not to be found in a dictionary). Mr. Meu Chia-ye, the delegate of the Ministry of the Interior, said that he knew the plant, which is grown extensively in Shantung (his native province) and used as an inferior substitute for hemp. The matter has, I understand, been reported to you by His Majesty's consuls at Nanking and Chinkiang. It seems evident that the reports and the scattering of the seeds represent an organised movement undertaken with malicious intent, though the idea of anyone giving credence to tales of opium being sown in the latter part of May seems sufficiently ridiculous.\n\nMention should also perhaps be made of the prolonged drought from which the northern part of the province was suffering when I was there. Scarcely any rain had fallen for eight months; there had been no snow in the winter; and throughout the Hsüchow and Haichow prefectures the wheat was deplorably poor and backward. Unless rain has since fallen, it is to be feared that an extensive area will be afflicted with famine this year. Incidentally the drought has facilitated the suppression of opium, even had any been sown it is doubtful whether the crop would have matured. In conclusion, I would beg to express my keen appreciation of the kindness, courtesy, and consideration which I uniformly received from all my Chinese colleagues, who did all they could to render a tedious and tiring journey as comfortable and agreeable as possible for me.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n## 73\n\nEnclosure 11 in No. 29.\n\n**Wai-chiao Pu to Mr. Alston.**\n\nW. STARK TOLLER.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nSir,\n\nPeking, April 27, 1917.\n\nWITH reference to this year's joint inspection of opium cultivation, I have the honour to inform you that I received the following telegram from the Military and Civil Governors of Kiangsi on the 25th instant:\n\n\"Chien Kuang Hsi and Huang Chao Hsiung, the deputies sent by the Ministries, the British consul, Mr. Brown, and the provincial delegates, Wang Nien Tzu, and others who were appointed for the joint inspection of opium cultivation in Kiangsi, arrived at the provincial capital on the 29th March. They first visited the high country and went from the district of the southern Taoyin to the eastern and then to the northern Taoyins' districts. They travelled up and down hills and along streams and visited all the district magistracies. Boats and carts were prepared for their use and servants were supplied, whilst instructions for their protection were given to the police and military along the route. They returned to Nanchang on the 22nd April and reported that they had searched in every direction but had found no trace of poppy, and that although they had made enquiries along all the roads they had not heard of a single stalk or leaf. They admitted, therefore, that the entire province had been cleared of the plant. The British consul expressed thanks for the courteous treatment accorded to him and returned to Kiukiang on the 24th instant, and the deputies from the Ministries, Chien Kuang Hsi and Huang Chao Hsiung, returned to Peking.\n\n\"The prohibition of the cultivation of opium has been in force in Kiangsi for many years. Every winter and spring the district magistrates are ordered to take effective steps for its suppression, and from time to time troops are sent to assist them therewith. On several occasions also officials have been sent to encourage and warn the eighty-one district magistrates to greater efforts, and in the last two years the eradication of opium has been completed.\n\nIn the present instance the deputies from the Ministries and the British consul have conducted their joint investigation by land and water. Their journey covered a distance of over 2,000 li, and lasted more than a month. They have now happily completed their labours, and we have the honour to send you a preliminary notification by telegraph.\"\n\nMr. Chien Kuang si, the deputy from this Ministry, has also telegraphed in the above sense, and I have the honour to inform you accordingly.\n\nI also have the honour to inform you that the deputies appointed by the Wai-chiao Pu and the Ministry of the Interior for the inspection of Kiangsu have left Peking, and that a telegram has been received from the Governor of Kiangsu stating that the province is sending the expectant Taoyin, Mr. Yü Shou Chang, as an additional delegate.\n\nWU TING FANG.",
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        "content_text": "78 \n\ntrade, will eventually come to an end; but a relaxation of vigilance on the part of the authorities will probably be followed by an immediate recrudescence of cultivation in these two remote provinces for the purpose of supplying the rest of North China with native opium.\n\nThe population of Shensi was probably in the past more sodden with opium than that of any other province, and smoking, though theoretically illegal, continues to be commonly indulged in by all who own their own stocks or can afford the present high price of local opium, about 5 taels per ounce, or five times its weight in silver. Instances came to my notice of smokers amongst the district magistrates, and even higher officials, including a Taoyin. But the consumption, like the trade, will come to an end eventually with the exhaustion of existing stocks, provided there is no recrudescence of cultivation.\n\nOur party consisted, when we left Tungkuan to commence the inspection, of myself, the deputy from the Wai-chiao Pu, the deputy from the Nei-wu Pu, the Sian-fu Taoyin and his secretary, the Assistant Director of the Provincial Opium Suppression Bureau and his secretary, three returned students deputed by the Provincial Government, an officer of the Military Governor's staff deputed by the latter, five officials of the rank of district magistrate acting as delegates of the Provincial Government, an officer and half a company of soldiers, and trains of pack mules, coolies, and miscellaneous followers of all kinds. The absurd size of the party entailed many difficulties as regards transport, accommodation, and supplies, as well as terrorising the inhabitants of the districts traversed, on whom forcible contributions were levied in the usual Chinese official manner. These difficulties fortunately soon proved insuperable, and we had not been en route very long before the superfluous members of the party began to drop out, and by the time we had been travelling for a couple of months, the hardships of travel on the mountain roads and the extreme poverty of the brigand-infested districts in the north had finally reduced us to myself, the two Peking delegates, the two deputies of the Provincial Government, and a military officer with a small escort.\n\nThe officials accompanying us, the district magistrates, and the provincial authorities at Sian-fu did their utmost throughout to facilitate our journey, and there can be no doubt whatsoever of the sincerity of the latter at present in regard to the suppression of poppy cultivation, hampered though they are by the prevalence of brigandage and the weakness of civil authority in many parts. There was, indeed, some difficulty about our proceeding to the north of the province, which was largely in the hands of the brigands; but conditions in that region were so insecure that I was agreeably surprised that they did not refuse to proceed there altogether. The importance they appeared to attach to securing that the inspection should be satisfactorily carried out can hardly be exaggerated.\n\nAs regards the future, I am of the opinion that after a few years, the people and the authorities will probably drift back to so-called secret cultivation in Shensi and Kansu, once the stimulating effect of the treaty is withdrawn. A real and final suppression of cultivation could, I consider, only be attained by thorough inspection every few years by resident British missionaries, each in his own district, acting in conjunction with the Chinese officials until all trade and consumption had ceased. As it is, it is to be feared that without the stimulus of a foreign interest, the authorities in these backward and remote provinces will be unable to maintain the standard of suppression they have attained.\n\nThe following is an account of the tour of inspection:-\n\nTungkuan to Hsingan.-We entered the province from Honan by the T'ungkuan passage at the Yellow river bend, and travelled south via Lonan, Shangchow, Shayang, and Chenan to Hsingan-fu on the Han river. This portion of the journey, which took two weeks' hard travelling, was by unfrequented mountain trails, only negotiated with great difficulty by pack mules, through country little known to the Chinese officials themselves. The districts traversed were not notorious in the past for opium production, but many remote little valleys of great fertility and well-suited for secret poppy cultivation were passed through, especially as the Han river was approached.\n\nHsingan to Hanchung-From Hsingan-fu, we travelled up the basin of the Han river to Hanchung-fu by the main road via Hanyin, Shihch'uan, and Hsihsiang, ten days' journey. We were forced to travel by the so-called main road, which is much of the way only a mountain footpath 18 inches wide, because it was necessary to visit the rich valley plains of Hanyin, Hsihsiang, and Hanchung, which were formerly great centres of poppy cultivation, and there was no other route available.\n\nHanchung to Fop'ing. As a result of the enquiries I had been making since entering the province, we travelled from Hanchung down the Han river as far as Yanghsien, and thence north through the mountains to Fop'ingt'ing, an isolated little place hidden between the high ranges of the Chinglingshan. There were strong rumours, of which the Chinese authorities did not pretend to be ignorant, that since the adoption of strict suppressive measures two years before, there had been an exodus of poppy cultivators from the more settled parts of the Han basin into this wild and inaccessible mountain region for the purpose of growing opium. The officials did their best to dissuade me from going there, but I do not think that this was so much owing to any fear of our coming upon any poppy cultivation as to their natural reluctance to travel along a trail which was so rough that it entailed walking most of the way; and when they realised that I insisted on proceeding, they did their utmost, as usual, to facilitate the journey. We duly reached Foping after a difficult journey over a series of passes over 8,000 feet in height, and I remained there two days exploring as far as possible the neighbouring valleys. We found no signs whatsoever of poppy cultivation. But a satisfactory inspection of such a district, where it sometimes takes a day's march to get from one valley to another across the intervening range, would have taken a month or more. Further, owing to the difficulty of securing reliable information about this region from either missionaries or officials beforehand, I found the elevation of the principal valleys and of Foping itself (over 6,000 feet) to be greater than I had expected, and the wheat barely above ground (during the first half of May), which meant that the poppy would be only about 6 inches high and not yet in flower. The local magistrate admitted secret cultivation in preceding years but maintained that the severe punishments now in force had been entirely successful in putting a stop to it this year. I left him under the impression that we should return for a more thorough inspection of his district later on; this we were unfortunately unable to do, though we visited the similar mountain districts of Fenghsien and Liupa marching with Foping on the west. It is probable that the rumours of secret cultivation in this district were not unfounded, but I hope that as a result of our visit, very little, if any, opium will be harvested there this year. From the point of view of the Chinese authorities, the difficulty of suppressing secret cultivation in these wild and inaccessible mountains is that they are entirely in the hands of their inspecting deputies, who cannot be trusted to undergo the hardships of a really thorough inspection of such rough country, nor to be proof against an offer of a share in the spoil, where the chances of detection are so small. If there should ever be rumours in future of extensive secret poppy cultivation in Shensi, these districts in the Ch'inlingshan and some of those in the north of the province are those which should be thoroughly examined.\n\nFoping to Fenghsiang. From Fop'ingt'ing, we continued north-east across another series of difficult passes in the Ch'inlingshan to Chouchih in the Wei valley, whence we turned west through Meihsien to Fenghsiang-fu. These districts extending along the Wei valley and embracing the fertile plain between the mountains and the river were formerly notorious for poppy cultivation, and a good deal was grown as late as last year. In the old days, opium sold locally for 100 cash or less per ounce, and grain was dear and insufficient for the needs of the opium-sodden population. Nowadays, the uplands are one vast wheatfield, the alluvial plains are devoted to cotton and indigo, and opium sells for 12,000 cash or more per ounce, while grain is plentiful and the people prosperous. From Hanchung-fu to Fenghsiang-fu by this route was about a fortnight's journey.\n\nAt Chouchih and Meihsien, I met with the same rumours as at Hanchung, namely, that since it had become too dangerous to grow opium on the plains, people had been going up into the mountains to cultivate the poppy, preferably on virgin land in the most remote valleys and forests of the Taipaishan in the haunts of leopard, deer, and takin. With the limited time at my disposal, it was impossible to attempt at this stage of the journey an examination of the forests on the slopes of T'aipai-shan, but the Chinese officials assured me they would not relax their vigilance.\n\nFenghsiang to Yaochou. From Fenghsiang-fu, we commenced our tour of the loess regions of Northern Shensi, striking first north-east through the districts of Linyu, Yungshou, Pinchou, Sanshui, and Chunhua to Yaochou, a week's journey by little-used mule trails through the mountains connecting one hsien city with another. It was in these out-of-the-way western districts along the Kansu border that much of the opium that went to enrich Lu Chien-chang was produced in 1915.\n\n79 \n\nPage 78\nPage 79",
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        "content_text": "# 80\n\nI had intended to continue to work northwards through the mountainous country along the Kansu border if possible all the way to Yenan-fu, but at this point, for the first time on the journey, I was compelled to abandon my proposed route owing to the objections and difficulties raised by the Chinese authorities. It should be explained that at the time of the inspection much of the north of the province was in the hands of disbanded and revolted soldiery who had taken to brigandage, more or less with the acquiescence of the provincial authorities, who, failing funds to re-enrol them as soldiers, had no means of dealing with them; so that in the districts north of Yaochou and the Wei valley plains all ordinary traffic on the roads had long since ceased. I therefore expected some sort of protest when we started northwards from Fenghsiang-fu, but I felt that we could hardly omit about half the province from the inspection on that account, the more so as there were reasons to suspect poppy cultivation in the brigand-infested northern districts. My Chinese colleagues, while agreeing that it was most unlikely that the brigands, a partly political force which might at any time become a successful revolutionary army, would knowingly attack a party containing a British consular official, yet declined to proceed to parts where they would be at the mercy of the brigands and unable to protect either me or themselves. They argued that it was impossible to proceed to the north of the province without at least a company of soldiers, and that it would be impracticable to penetrate with so large a force into the wild and sparsely populated regions I proposed to visit without undertaking an expedition on the scale of a small campaign; and, though they did not openly say as much, they hinted that the existing military forces of Shensi at their disposal, being largely composed of ex-brigands, were so unreliable that a unit of them could not be trusted in such out-of-the-way parts, a fact of which I was well aware; nor indeed was it the policy of the Provincial Government to come into serious armed conflict with these brigands, whose assistance might at any time be required, as happened in the preceding year, in a conflict with Peking or another province.\n\n## Yaochou to Yenan\nAdmitting the truth of their arguments, at any rate in so far as concerned the lack of control exercised by the provincial authorities throughout the north and the unreliability of the troops at their disposal, and being convinced that they were honestly doing their best to make the inspection a success, I agreed to a compromise, and turning eastwards from Ch'unhua to Yaochou we travelled thence northwards through the districts of Tungkuan, Yichun, Chungpu, Lochuan, Fuchou and Kanch'uan to Yenan-fu, about eight days' journey. This is the main trail to the north of the province, and was therefore garrisoned with troops. This province, for all I know, may be the only occasion on which a party inspecting a province under the treaty have been unable to proceed where they wanted to go; but under the very abnormal conditions obtaining in Shensi at the time I think the Chinese authorities were justified in their attitude.\n\n## Yenan\nSince the sporadic enforcement in Shensi of anti-opium measures during the past few years, the Yenan neighbourhood has become more and more one of the chief centres of so-called secret poppy cultivation owing to its isolation, and to the fact that whole districts have been on and off controlled by brigands during these years. The country is exceedingly poor and barren in appearance, and very sparsely populated, but the poppy is nowadays not cultivated in fertile well-watered valleys and plains, as used to be the case, but in wild and inaccessible mountain regions, like the Ch'inlingshan in the south and these mountains in the north. Probably some was sown here last spring—it is asserted that the brigands force the peasants to plant it—but I found that the Taoyin of the northern circuit and the local officials had been very energetic in so far as lay in their power, and think it unlikely that much opium, if any, will be harvested there this season. There is, however, no doubt that the poppy was grown extensively and openly in this neighbourhood last year, and that it was already above ground at the time the joint inspection was applied for by General Lu Chien-chang. The then provincial authorities must have known the north was not clean, but probably took it for granted that the brigands would effectually prevent the inspecting party visiting the northern districts at all. I brought the matter to the notice of the present authorities, but they naturally declined all responsibility for the acts of their predecessors, whom they had displaced by force of arms.\n\n# 81\n\n## Yenan to Hanch'eng\nAt Yenan-fu the news of the crisis in Peking and Shensi's declaration of independence reached us together with wild rumours of impending trouble in Sian-fu and the province generally. I had from the first decided that Yenan would have to be the northern limit of our tour owing to the advancing season. But in any case my Chinese colleagues were now so thoroughly alarmed that it would have been impossible to have induced them to penetrate still further into the brigand-infested country to the north. The political situation in Shensi being already most insecure, they anticipated, should civil war break out between the provinces, the collapse of the Sian-fu Government, followed by the usual military outbreaks and local rebellions, which would find us stranded in these remote districts.\n\nThe position of the two Peking delegates was particularly awkward, representing as they did the Central Government in a province which had declared its independence. It was fortunate the news did not reach us earlier, for otherwise they would probably have refused to proceed to the north at all. As it was, they desired only to get out of these lawless northern districts as soon as possible, without being particularly anxious to follow the main road, with its unreliable garrisons of ex-brigands in doing so. As a result, we were enabled to carry out my original plan for the return journey, and proceeding eastwards for two days' march to Yench'ang, we travelled thence south through Yich'uan to Hancheng on the Yellow river, a long and difficult five days' journey by little-known trails through wild and almost uninhabited mountains. With the exception of the Foping trail in the south, this was about the hardest portion of the whole arduous tour, owing to the difficult mountain paths and the extreme poverty of the brigand-infested country traversed. The whole of Northern Shensi has been practically abandoned to the brigands during recent years, and in this remote region the effects were shockingly apparent. The ravages of brigands are actually depopulating the countryside, and empty cities, abandoned villages, untilled fields, and ruined farms were everywhere met with. To give one instance, the district city of Yich'uan, formerly quite a large and prosperous place, is now empty save for the magistrate and his staff and a dozen or so families of the poorest class, the former inhabitants having abandoned their homes and emigrated to other districts or provinces after being raided by the brigands time after time. Most of the other district cities in the north are in much the same plight, and no one but the poorest coolie ventures on the roads. I mention this to show the extraordinary state of affairs at present existing in Northern Shensi, and the lawless conditions with which the Chinese authorities had to cope in suppressing cultivation and arranging for the joint inspection. The chief action they took in the latter respect was to enrol a regiment of local brigands as Government troops early this year, and station them in and around Kanch'uan and Yench'ang as a measure of pacification to enable the joint inspection party to proceed to that neighbourhood, this being the recognised method of dealing with these brigands when they become particularly objectionable, provided funds are available to pay them. It is, however, only a local and temporary alleviation; and it is to be feared that, on the occasion of the next revolution or rebellion in which Shensi is involved, the Sian-fu authorities will lose what little authority they now exercise in the north of the province, and that there is then likely to be a considerable recrudescence of poppy cultivation in that region.\n\n## Hanch'eng to Sian\nFrom Hanch'eng we proceeded south-west through the fertile districts of Hoyang, Chengcheng, Puch'eng, Fop'ing and Sanyuan to Sian-fu, the provincial capital, a long week's journey. We remained there a few days, being entertained by the provincial authorities, but the programme of receptions, banquets, and other festivities was somewhat interfered with by the political crisis, one of our two principal hosts, the Civil Governor, being held under arrest by the other, his military colleague.\n\nFrom the time we emerged from the mountains at Hanch'eng till we re-entered the Ch'inling ranges south of Paochi, two to three weeks later, we were travelling through districts where the poppy was ordinarily speaking out of season, the wheat being already harvested. But I had purposely arranged to be crossing the plains of Central Shensi at that time of the year owing to the custom there of growing the poppy as a summer crop. That is to say, instead of being sown in the early spring and harvested in May and June, before the wheat, as is usually the case, it is sometimes planted in early summer so as to be in flower in July. This is what was done to a considerable extent in 1916, when, the joint inspection which had been arranged for having been cancelled at the last moment, the farmers in some districts in Central Shensi, realising the situation, found time to reap a good harvest of opium by growing the poppy as a summer crop.\n\n## Sian to Paochi\nFrom Sian-fu we travelled west for a week through the rich districts of Central Shensi, Hsienyang, Hsingp'ing, Wukung, Fufeng, Ch'ishan, and Paochi. Ch'ishan particularly was formerly notorious for spring and summer opium.\n\n`[6032]`",
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        "content_text": "## 94\n\nAll parts. No cultivation has been discovered this year. As regards the traffic in opium, its discovery is rendered difficult by unscrupulous persons who use the railway for this purpose. Arrangements have, however, been made with the Japanese officials, who will help the Chinese authorities in carrying out opium suppression, and radical prohibitionary measures are being enforced in the inns and brothels in the railway territory, so that the traffic may be destroyed at its origin, and the poison thoroughly eradicated. Renewed instructions for the most stringent action in this respect will be issued later on.\n\nKirin.\n\nMr. Chao Hsien-chang, head of the police bureau, has been specially appointed to carry out prohibitionary measures and investigations, with a view to the thorough eradication of opium. According to the reports of this officer since received, opium criminals have collected in secret bands in the mountains and forests of the north-east with the object of resisting the authorities. It is therefore difficult to carry out investigations in those parts except with the assistance of large bodies of troops. Just as the matter was under consideration, Governor Meng was transferred and the troops stationed along the roads were moved. It was thus impossible to attend to the matter. Further, owing to the situation in the capital, Mr. Chao had to return immediately; but an officer was left to carry on the investigations and complete the work.\n\nHeilungkiang.\n\nFor years past, special delegates have been deputed to co-operate with the military and police authorities in carrying out investigations during the late spring and early summer. According to reports received from the Suilan Taoyin, desperate criminals engaged in secret cultivation in the mountains have actually prepared mines with the object of resisting the authorities. Sanction has now been received to an increase in the punishments laid down for opium offenders, ringleaders being liable to imprisonment for life, &c. The introduction of these measures has produced excellent results. A special corps of mountain and forest rangers, 300 strong, has been established in the districts concerned, with the duty of patrolling the localities. A commencement has already been made with this arrangement. The various military commandants have also been instructed to co-operate with the district officials in the work of opium suppression.\n\nHsinkiang.\n\nNo opium cultivation has been permitted in the borders of Hsinkiang province for some years past. The Chinese authorities are, however, unable to cross the border and suppress cultivation in Russian territory. But, with a view to stopping the traffic at its source, soldiers were despatched in the late spring and early summer of this year to arrest people crossing over into Russian territory to cultivate opium, and forward them to the capital for punishment. Those who managed secretly to reach Russian territory were handed over by the Russian authorities to the Chinese officials. A regular scheme of opium suppression has been arranged with the Russian authorities. At the present moment, poppy cultivation has been completely eradicated in Hsinkiang.\n\n## 95\n\nExcellency of indisputable facts regarding the existence of widespread cultivation and traffic, often with the connivance and encouragement of the very officials, the reports of whose alleged energetic measures of suppression are now furnished by your Excellency for the information of His Majesty's Government. I would refer, for instance, to the cases of Shensi and Szechuan, where I am now informed by your Excellency's Ministry, the strictest measures are being taken to enforce prohibition. Yet, as must be well known to your Excellency, large areas in these two provinces were during the present spring and summer covered with the poppy, from which the opium was duly harvested without the least attempt at concealment, the opium-producing fields being taxed by the officials at a regularly assessed rate.\n\nThe reports now supplied by your Excellency would lead one to suppose that the cultivation of the poppy and the trade in opium are being rigorously suppressed throughout the length and breadth of China. I am forwarding these documents to my Government; but in doing so, I am compelled to explain that they do not represent the true facts regarding the production of opium during the past year. Indeed, it would rather appear that a large part of the country is drifting back to the state which obtained before the opium question was taken up by the Governments of China and Great Britain, and that the whole work of the past thirteen years is in danger of being completely nullified.\n\nIt remains to be seen what effect the measures now alleged to be in force will have on the production of opium during the coming season. The matter is being most closely watched on behalf of His Majesty's Government, who will be informed of the true facts regarding the amount of cultivation during the approaching winter and spring, as they have been informed of the true facts regarding the regrettable recrudescence of cultivation during the past year. I would therefore again urge upon your Excellency's Government the importance of seeing that the instructions and regulations issued on the subject are not treated as empty verbiage, but are honestly enforced by the responsible officials of the provinces, in order that the solemn treaty obligations of China may be carried into effect.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nNo. 40.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Earl Curzon.-(Received January 2, 1920.)**\n\nPeking, November 4, 1919.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch of the 20th September last, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a memorandum which I have handed to the Wai-chiao Pu embodying recent reports received from His Majesty's consuls at Wuchow, Chengtu, and Ichang, on the cultivation of, and traffic in, opium in their respective districts.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(In the absence of His Majesty's Minister),\n\nSOMERVILLE HEAD.\n\n**Sir,**\n\n**Enclosure 3 in No. 39.**\n\nSir J. Jordan to Wai-chiao Pu.\n\nPeking, September 17, 1919.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Excellency's note of the 4th instant forwarding extracts from reports received from various provinces regarding the measures alleged to have been taken for the suppression of the cultivation of the poppy and the trade in opium.\n\nIn reply, I have the honour to observe that in the frequent communications I have addressed to your Excellency on this subject, I have not complained of the absence of instructions or regulations regarding opium suppression, but have informed your...\n\n**Enclosure 1 in No. 40.**\n\nMemorandum communicated to Wai-chiao Pu.\n\nIN September, the Wai-chiao Pu communicated to His Majesty's Legation, and caused to be published in the press, reports received from the provinces showing the measures being taken by the local authorities for the suppression of the cultivation of, and traffic in, opium.\n\nIn confirmation of the statement contained in his note sent to the Wai-chiao Pu in reply on the 17th September to the effect that these reports did not represent the true facts, and in pursuance of his desire to assist the Chinese Government in carrying out their declared policy, His Majesty's Minister has the honour to bring...",
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        "content_text": "96 \n\nto their notice the following information which he has received from reliable sources:- \n\n1. Kuangsi. \n\nOwing to the unsuitability of the soil and climate of the greater part of the province for the cultivation of the poppy, its growth has always been restricted to the northern districts bordering on Kweichow and Hunan, and the quantity of opium produced has not more than sufficed for local consumption. Enormous quantities of opium, however, estimated at nearly 1,000,000 taels a year, pass through Wuchow, of which but an insignificant proportion is discovered and seized by the maritime customs. \n\nOf this opium about three-tenths is said to originate in Yunnan, the remaining seven-tenths in Kweichow. Less than half of the Kweichow drug comes down to Wuchow via Liuchow, the main centre of the trade being Poseh. Agents of the opium merchants purchase the opium at the place of production, making, if necessary, arrangements with the Kweichow or Yunnan military authorities to convoy it to the frontier, where the escort duty is taken over by the Kuangsi troops. From Poseh the drug is transported to Nanning either on one of the regular passenger motor-boats or else under charge of an escort of troops by land or junk. At Nanning the vigilance of the maritime customs is eluded by making a circuit of the settlement, and at night at some quiet spot lower down, the opium is shipped on to one of the regular Wuchow-Nanning motor-boats. At Wuchow either the opium is too safely hidden for the customs to discover or else it is dropped into sampans above the harbour. It is then taken to one of the three following yamens—Defence Commissioner, Colonel of the Garrison, or Water Police Station—for safe keeping, pending its shipment to Canton. From Wuchow the opium is shipped to Canton on one of the small river gunboats constantly running between these two ports. These gunboats are under the jurisdiction of the River Protection Department of the Kwangtung Provincial Government, and it is at that yamen in Canton that the opium is stored pending its reshipment. Of course, some opium is smuggled through without military escort and its consequent expenses, but in the main the opium trade is under the protection of the military authorities, it being presumably found cheaper to pay for military escort than to run the risk of confiscation. \n\nA year ago the price of opium was 5 dollars per tael at Poseh, 8 dollars per tael at Wuchow; but the prices at present are about 2.50 dollars and 3.50 dollars per tael respectively. This great fall of price at Poseh must undoubtedly be due to the absence of risk in its cultivation in Kweichow and Yunnan, while the reduction in the difference of price between Poseh and Wuchow would appear to be due to a reduction in the risk of loss during transport in Kuangsi. The amount paid for military protection during transport through Kuangsi is said to average 50 cents per tael. This sum is all pocketed by the Defence Commissioner and other military officers and men stationed at places through which the opium passes. With the exception of the likin authorities, who undoubtedly extort blackmail whenever they discover shipments of opium, none of the civil officials get any share of the profit, and many of them would undoubtedly take strong steps to put a stop to it, but dare not oppose the military. \n\n## II. Szechuan. \n\nHis Majesty's consul-general at Chengtu has received a letter addressed to him by twenty residents, natives of the district of Hsi Chang, the headquarters of which is the city of Chien-ch'ang, enclosing photographic evidence that the cultivation of the poppy was carried on there under the compulsion of a military official, by name Kuo-ch'ang-ming, who contrived to establish himself in command of the Chinese forces at Chien-ch'ang, and that any persons daring to disobey the order to plant were subjected to heavy fines. In further proof the writers forwarded copies of the orders issued for the collection of the opium tax. Copies of these orders and of the photographic evidence above referred to are annexed to this memorandum. \n\n## III. Ichung. \n\nOn the 1st June, His Majesty's consul at Ichang found 56 catties of opium concealed in the backquarters of the burnt offices of His Majesty's consulate. Twenty-five catties were also found by the Rev. T. R. Kearney in the servants' quarters of his house on the 9th June. The opium was handed to the customs and destroyed by fire. Since that date His Majesty's consul has been continually pressing the local authorities to investigate these cases properly with a view to adequately punishing the guilty parties and to take steps to prevent their recurrence; but in spite of his insistence, up to the present time the local authorities have taken no serious measures. His Majesty's consul adds that his experience with the local authorities is that where opium is concerned they are acting as if the prohibition against the drug had been cancelled by the Central Government and trade in it were now legal. He states the customs also get no satisfaction in regard to the offenders they send in to the authorities to be dealt with. \n\nHis Majesty's Legation will not fail to keep the Wai-chiao Pu informed of any further particulars that may reach them in regard to the traffic in other provinces. \n\nOctober 29, 1919. \n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 40. \n\n## Extracts from printed Chinese Pamphlet. \n\n### Copy of Rules made by Commandant Kuo for the Collection of Opium Tax. \n\n(Translation.) \n\nTAX is to be levied on cultivated land at the rate of 80 dollars per shih. For more or less land cultivated, the amount of tax is to be calculated accordingly. \n\nDeputies on inspection must make investigations direct from the heads of every ten families, in order to ascertain accurately the area of land cultivated and the amount of tax due; they must personally examine the lands in conjunction with the local headmen and submit joint lists and reports. \n\nLists must state clearly the names of regions, localities and cultivators; the area of land cultivated and the amount of tax due should be stated underneath. \n\nWhen the tax is collected, taxpayers should make payment to the inspector in the presence of the local headman, a seal bearing the inscription \"Received in full\" being then impressed on the list and shown to the taxpayer as evidence of payment. \n\nWith a view to avoid malpractices, the taxpayer should also sign the list against the amount of the tax paid by him. \n\nAfter thorough investigations have been instituted, the taxpayer should make full payment of the tax in accordance with his undertaking within a period of fifteen days. \n\nIn the event of the taxpayer being unable to pay the whole amount of his tax at once, the inspector may give various time-limits for payment, but this liability must be guaranteed by the local headman. \n\nThe inspector will submit an advance report with a list of the number and names of taxpayers. \n\nThe inspector will draw a salary of 16 dollars per month, with an extra allowance of 1 dollar when travelling on duty and a subsistence allowance of 50 cents when halting. \n\nWhen investigating into the number of mou of land, the inspector must be scrupulously accurate; he must not indulge in malpractices with his colleagues or the local headman such as reducing the amounts reported or suppressing names and embezzling funds. Appropriate penalties will be inflicted for any such offences, on detection. \n\nThe inspecting deputy should remit the money once in every three days, and submit for inspection a report with a list of names in every ten days. \n\n### Copy of Instructions issued through the Hsi-Ch'ung District Magistrate urging the Collection of Opium Tax. \n\nInstruction No. 352 issued by the Office of the Hsi-Chang District Magistrate:- \n\nTo Chou Yü tsun, Head of the Pao-An Trainband. \n\nOn receipt of an earlier letter from the Commandant's headquarters stating that the \"acre-tax in this district was still heavily in arrears and requesting me \n\n97 \n\nPage 97 \n[6032] \nH \n\n538",
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        "content_text": "## 98\n\nTo enforce the order for payment to headquarters to meet military requirements, orders were issued accordingly to the Trainband to collect the tax and send it forward within a time-limit of one week. Since then a long time has elapsed; but as yet the Trainband has made no remittance to this office; this implies serious negligence and delay.\n\nThis order is hereby issued instructing the Trainband to obey the previous order and promptly to send here the amount due. In the event of any further negligence or delay, the head of the Trainband will be summoned and payments will be enforced without any leniency.\n\n**LI CHIH, Magistrate.**\n\n30th day of the 7th month of the 8th year of the Chinese Republic (the 30th July, 1919).\n\n## 99\n\nThe following reply has also been received from the Civil Governor of Fukien :-\n\nOpium suppression was formerly very successful in Fukien. Last year, however, owing to the occurrence of military operations, bandits and bad characters have become prevalent throughout the countryside, and have taken the opportunity of distributing the seed. Under the circumstances this could scarcely have been avoided. Circular instructions are, however, now being issued for strict suppression, and if as much as an inch of poppy plant appears above ground, the local officials as well as the illicit cultivators are most severely punished. It is also proposed to put into operation a provisional scheme for the prohibition of cultivation in eight articles, which is submitted for consideration.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**Seal of Wai-chiao Pu.**\n\n## No. 41\n\nMr. Lampson to Earl Curzon. (Received May 7.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nPeking, March 11, 1920.\n\nWITH reference to Sir John Jordan's despatch of the 27th August, 1919, I have the honour to transmit herewith translation of a letter from the Wai-chiao Pu replying to the complaints then made regarding opium cultivation in Szechuan and Fukien.\n\nCopies of the Wai-chiao Pu's letter are being forwarded to His Majesty's consular officers in Szechuan and Fukien for their information.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**MILES W. LAMPSON.**\n\n## No. 42\n\nMr. Lampson to Earl Curzon. (Received June 11.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nPeking, March 19, 1920.\n\nWITH reference to Sir John Jordan's despatch of the 4th November, 1919, I have the honour to transmit herewith translation of a letter from the Wai-chiao Pu informing me of the steps that are being taken to suppress the opium traffic in Szechuan.\n\nIt will be clear to your Lordship from earlier reports that these protestations from Chinese officials need not be taken too literally, but it is nevertheless satisfactory to note that some attention is being paid to the matter.\n\nI am forwarding a copy of the Wai-chiao Pu's letter to His Majesty's consul-general at Chengtu, who will doubtless report in due course on the real extent of the Governor's activities.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 41\n\nWai-chiao Pu to Mr. Lampson,\n\nPeking, March 6, 1920.\n\nI HAVE the honour to refer to Sir John Jordan's note of the 27th August last, regarding the reports received of the cultivation of the poppy in Szechuan and Fukien, which were to the effect that cultivation was openly encouraged by the officials, who made large profits by taxing the opium produced. His Excellency stated that the above showed conclusively that China was not carrying out her obligations under the agreement of 1911, and added that he had therefore to enter a further formal protest with my Government on the subject.\n\nThis Ministry thereupon communicated with the Governors of Szechuan and Fukien provinces directing them to instruct the local officials to take stringent measures for investigation and prohibition. The following reply has now been received from the Civil Governor of Szechuan :-\n\nSince the assumption by Governor Hsiung of the joint office of Civil and Military Governor, strict instructions have repeatedly been sent out to the officers in charge of troops, police and train bands, to see that the prohibition of opium is energetically and strictly enforced in the country districts.\n\nAfter my assumption of office as Civil Governor I have also made every effort, and have despatched delegates to supervise investigations. Wherever opium is reported, despatches and telegrams are immediately sent out setting a time limit for the eradication of the plants; and in cases where magistrates are inadequate in making progress, they are cashiered and severely punished, or if deserving of lighter punishment, fined and noted for their faults. Despatches and proclamations are on record in proof of the above. As regards Eastern Szechuan, in consequence of the receipt of complaints regarding recrudescence of poppy cultivation there, special delegates were sent by the Civil and Military Governors to make secret investigations in those parts, and to take measures zealously from time to time for the complete eradication of the opium poison.\n\n### Enclosure in No. 42\n\nWai-chiao Pu to Mr. Lampson,\n\nPeking, March 13, 1920.\n\nI HAVE the honour to refer to Sir John Jordan's memorandum regarding the traffic in native opium in Kuangsi, Szechuan and Hupei, forwarding documentary and photographic evidence of the same, and to the reports from Szechuan and Hupeh transmitted by this Ministry in reply.\n\nA further report has now been received from the Civil Governor of Szechuan to the following effect:—\n\n\"Kuo Chang-ming, the commandant of the Han Chun troops on the 2nd Circuit, mentioned in the British Minister's memorandum, has already been instructed by Governor Hsiung to vacate his office and await the results of an enquiry, while Li Chih, magistrate of Hsi-ch'ang Hsien, has long since been removed by this office. Strict instructions have now been repeatedly issued to the Taoyin concerned for the carrying out of opium suppression in Southern Chien-chang, and capable officers, Chou Chih-hsun, Wang Cheng-yuan, and Li I-lung, have been despatched to proceed to those parts to make investigations; so that by the time spring turns into summer the neighbourhood will be uniformly clean.”\n\nI have the honour to observe that according to the above report opium suppression in Szechuan is progressing on strict lines, and that the officials who were remiss with regard to poppy cultivation have all been dismissed from their posts. This is in accordance with the policy of opium suppression followed by the Central Government.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**Seal of Wai-chiao Pu.**\n\nPage 540\nPage 541",
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        "content_text": "## 120\n\nobstacle in the way. You enquired what had been the effect of the opium prohibition measures taken by me, and also as to the planting of other crops. You further asked for a reply in order that you might report to His Majesty's Minister.\n\nI beg to observe that in the lower part of the province, the country people having secretly planted opium, I have on frequent occasions ordered the various magistrates to make thorough investigation and completely eradicate the poppy.\n\nAt the present time the newly-appointed magistrates are successfully carrying out my instructions, and are zealously acting in accordance with the programme formerly laid down by me. It is to be hoped that at an early date opium cultivation will have been swept away.\n\nBut in Sien Yu district, in spite of military reinforcements, many brigands exist in the less-frequented places, of whom the chief is one Chang Nai Wu. Although this man has been arrested, his adherents are scattered about everywhere. Their capture is on the point of being effected, but there is still the brigand chief Wu Wei and others, who during the last two days have been opposing the Government troops. It is a fact, then, brigands are occupying part of this district, and up to the present they have not been dispersed. On this account, it has not been possible to eradicate completely opium planted by these brigands, and I am therefore very much ashamed.\n\nI have again instructed most strictly the local officials, civil and military, to make the most careful and thorough investigation in regard to secret cultivation of opium, and to pull it up in order to stamp out the abuse at an early date. In this way, we may requite the friendly spirit and assistance of foreign nations. In the event of any breach of the regulations, the offenders are to be dealt with severely in accordance with the law.\n\nI have the honour to address you the above reply for your information.\n\nI have, &c.\n**LI HOU C.II.**\n\n## 121\n\nIf in this way we can avoid the evil spreading over the country, it will be fortunate. I am very nervous in sending this letter, which I beg you will read.\n\nApril 8, 1921.\n**WU WEI, Temporary Commander of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Division of Fukien.**\n\n### LIST\n\n| Name of Tax | Name of Places in Hsien-yu | Amount in Dollars | Officials |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Field tax or opium duty | Kung Chien Li | 130,000 | Superintendent—Captain Cheng Hao-fei. Evil gentry—Fu Ching-ch'i Yu Ping-huang. |\n|  | Yung Hsing Li |  |  |\n|  | Jen Li |  | Superintendent—Staff Officer Jen. Evil gentry—Wang Chiao-nien. Huang Yueh Lu An-kuo. |\n|  | Hsiang Tien Li | 140,000 | Superintendent—Captain Liu Erb-fen. Evil gentry—Chen Nai-liang. Fang Ching-hejang. Cheng Yu-ting Chiang Fang-ching. |\n|  | Lien Chiang Li | 120,000 | Superintendent—Captain Li Feng-hsiang. Evil gentry—Liu Yu-lin, Chren Wei-chi. |\n|  | Tzu Hsia Li |  | Superintendent—Captain Lin Sbou-kuo. Evil gentry—Chen Shuang-Dan. Huang Tao-heng. |\n|  | An Hsien Li | 180,000 | Not known. |\n|  | Che Kuei Li |  |  |\n|  | Jen Te Li | 70,000 |  |\n|  | Shan Hua Li |  |  |\n|  | Wen Hsien Li | 80,000 |  |\n|  | Wan Shan Li |  |  |\n|  | Esing Hsien Li |  |  |\n\n(The total amount of opium duty levied is 670,000 dollars.)\n\nN.B.—Hsien Yu is divided into 14 li, but there is no opium in Haing Tai Li, and it is not therefore included in this list. All the officials were appointed by Wang Hsien-ch'en. The tax is being levied from February until the middle of April. Up to the present, opium is still to be found in the above districts and the opium tax office has not yet been abolished.\n\n## Enclosure 4 in No. 53\n\nExpress Letters instead of Telegrams to the British, American, French, Japanese, Russian, and Dutch Ministers at Peking, and to the British, American, French, Japanese, Russian, and Dutch consuls at Foochow and Amoy, and to the International Anti-Opium Society.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nWITH reference to the question of opium prohibition, we are very fortunate in that friendly nations signed an agreement for the opium trade to be extinguished within the extremely short space of ten years. But unfortunately, trouble broke out between North and South, and fighting took place in Fukien. The officials made a fine show with words, while the common people are greedy for gain, with the result that opium is again secretly cultivated. Such a proceeding is greatly to be hated. When Ch'en Chiung-ming left Fukien for Kwangtung, he handed back to Li Hou Chi, Governor of Fukien, the districts in the southern part of the province which he had occupied in order to unite the province. In October 1920, General Li sent Wang Hsien-ch'en, commander of the Body Guard, to guard Hsien-yu. But Wang Hsien-ch'en, after reaching Hsien-yu, allowed the people to plant the poppy, and at harvest time, he cunningly created a tax under the name of \"Tien Fu Chian,\" or field tax, and sent officials to establish an office. The tax was 150 dollars per mou, the total being 700,000 dollars.\n\nI append separately a list for your inspection. In this way, he showed his contempt for friendly nations and injured the work of opium prohibition. He aimed merely at profit and did great injury to the district. The proofs of this are very strong and thousands of eyes have seen it. On the 14th March, I sent telegrams to the Chinese Government, to various organisations, various opium prohibition offices, and various societies requesting them to act impartially and make representations to General Li. However, although this is a matter of supreme importance, Chinese officials still show leniency owing to questions of \"face.\" The condition arises, then, that by cunning and fair words, matters are glossed over and the case allowed to close, thus deceiving friendly nations. I am a Chinese subject and in my heart, I realise the danger. I venture to inform you in the hope that you gentlemen, who possess great influence, will be very sympathetic towards this disgraceful state of affairs, and I dare recklessly, therefore, to request you to make strong representations to the Chinese Government and General Li in order to prevent powerful officials from daring to aid the planting in this open manner.\n\n## Enclosure 5 in No. 53\n\n**Consul Phillips to Sir B. Alston.**\n\nSir,\n\nFoochow, May 12, 1921.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch of the 18th April, I have the honour to quote below, from a letter dated the 19th March, 1921, written to the American consul, by Mr. George W. Hollister, an American missionary resident at Hsienyu, Fukien, on the subject of opium cultivation in Hsienyu district:\n\nRecently, Mr. Carson and Mr. Winter, from Hsinghua city, and I made a trip over the Hsienya districts. We covered practically every section with the exception of the mountain circuits. We therefore had a good opportunity to see the amount of land planted in poppy.\n\n\"When we began our journey, we heard that the head officer of the Northern troops...",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, \n## CHINA. \n### CONFIDENTIAL. \n`[F 3235/81/10]` \n\nNo. 1. \n## [August 20.] \n### SECTION 2. \n\n**Sir B. Alston to the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston**—(Received August 29.) (No. 389.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nPeking, July 11, 1921.\n\nIN continuation of my despatch No. 180 of the 1st April, I have the honour to report on the political situation in this country since that date.\n\nIn Szechuan and Yunnan there has been no change. In the former province Liu Hsiang has had his position as Commander-in-chief of troops (which is temporarily combined with that of Civil Governor) confirmed by a so-called \"election;\" fighting which took place between the troops of Liu Ts'un-hou and their opponents has now ceased, but the province is still much disturbed, as described in my despatch No. 316 of the 18th June. In Yunnan, likewise, the conditions remain unsettled.\n\nIn Canton the dispute between Ch'en Chiung-ming and Sun Yat-sen terminated, temporarily at any rate, in the victory of the latter, who, on the 7th April, was elected by the \"Rump\" Parliament at Canton as President of the Republic. Hostilities between Kuangtung and the adjoining province of Kuangsi broke out about the 20th June. While the forces attacking the latter province by the West River route have succeeded in capturing the important city and port of Wuchow, they have not been successful in other directions, principally in the neighbourhood of Yamchow and Limchow, cities not far from the treaty port of Pakhoi; the Kuangsi forces have evidently concentrated their efforts in this direction in order to obtain independent access to the sea, which they do not normally possess.\n\nTurning to the province of Hupei, a mutiny of troops occurred at Ichang on the 4th June, resulting in the destruction by fire or looting of nearly all Chinese merchandise and property of value left after the mutiny of the 30th November last, and also causing much loss to British and other foreign merchants; full accounts of this event were given in my despatches Nos. 361 and 377 of the 28th June and 4th July respectively. Four days later the Military Governor's own troops mutinied and looted at Wuchang, the provincial capital, as reported in my despatch No. 363 of the 29th June. As a result General Wang Chan-yuan's position, bolstered up though it may be by his colleagues of Chihli and Mukden, has been much weakened, and it is doubtful how much longer he will be able to maintain his position in the face of threatened revolt by political parties opposed to him as well as by his own subordinates, among whom his butchery of 1,700 unarmed mutineers after the Wuchang mutiny has done nothing to enhance his reputation.\n\nOn the 25th May the President issued a mandate removing from his position the Military Governor of Shansi, Ch'en Shu-fan, who has for some years maintained and enriched himself by the proceeds of opium grown in his province, and appointing Yen Hsiang-wen, a subordinate of Wu Pei-fu, to succeed him. His successor has entered Shensi province with the assistance of numerous troops, who have on occasion had to fight troops owing allegiance to Chen Shu-fan. The intentions of the latter are not as yet clear; while he has made military dispositions, as if preparing to resist his successor, he continues to declare his readiness to hand over charge to Yen as soon as the latter reaches Taiyuan. There are grounds for the opinion that his desire is to delay his departure until he has received funds naturally coming to him from the opium harvest, which is now being gathered in.\n\nThe conference which took place at Tien-tsin at the end of April and beginning of May between the Military Governors of Mukden, Chihli and Hupeh, was succeeded by a visit of the three satraps to Peking, where they called upon the President and indulged night after night in gambling for huge sums of money. They finally returned to their homes at the end of May, taking with them sums which are believed to vary between 600,000 dollars and 3,000,000 dollars, which they had wrung from the so-called Central Government. The last-named sum is stated to have been obtained by Chang Tso-lin, who has accepted the position of Military High Commissioner for Mongolia and the duty of recovering that region for China, though it is stated that he still refuses to ...\n\nPage 566 \n`[6735 -2]`",
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        "content_text": "# reso Incident: proposals for enquiry into.\n\n**H. B. M. Consulate-General**\n\n2 copies 2 enclosures\n\nMy Lord:-\n\nCaiten,  \n3rd October 1921.\n\n739\n\nIn continuation of my despatch No.5 of September 28th and having reference to my telegram No.6 of September 30th and No.7 of October 1st, I have now the honour to enclose copies of the letters exchanged between Mr.C.C. Wu and myself on which the latter was based.\n\nThe Governor of Macao has since informed me that, in my letter to Mr.Wu, I should not have used the word \"rejected\", with regard to the Lisbon proposal, but should have stated that he \"did not consider it feasible\". This is one of the inaccuracies, which arise out of imperfect translation from Portuguese into English, but it has not altered the sense of His Excellency's statement.\n\nSo far, I am without a reply from the Portuguese Government. Should he, however, elect to come here and discuss matters, much would be simplified very greatly for his Government and I also.\n\nAnything more unsatisfactory than triangular conversations such as I have had to carry on of late can hardly be conceived, more especially as additional parties have a habit of intervening. The Civil Governor of the Province, General Ung'en Chang-ming, who is carrying on a campaign against Kwangsi, for instance, has, on the strength of information received from his subordinates, assumed Chinese rights in Macao harbour waters to be definitely established.\n\n**Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Office. LONDON.**",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 12 in No. 1\nExtract from the \"Canton Times\" of 22nd February.\n\n### British Influence in Kwangtung\n\nFROM the time China ceded the island of Hong Kong to Great Britain in 1842 Britishers were destined to play an increasingly important part in the trade and internal development of the Kwangtung province. Controlling, as they do, the only available seaport through which must pass all the imports and exports of this province, the Government at Hong Kong is in a position to facilitate or strangle the commerce and trade of Kwangtung. In a word, Canton is commercially at the mercy of Hong Kong.\n\nThat the Hong Kong, or rather the British, authorities are aware of their advantage has been frequently demonstrated. Whenever a controversy arises between the Government at Canton and foreign Powers there is always a veiled threat given circulation to the effect that Hong Kong will cut off all communication and isolate Canton from the rest of the world. This is the \"big stick\" which is constantly held over the heads of the Cantonese.\n\nNow there is no reason why the Governments at Canton and Hong Kong cannot co-operate for their mutual benefit. Kwangtung must have foreign capital for the development of her mines, construction of her railways, and promotion of her industries. There is every reason for the Cantonese to give the British the first chance in all these projects. All other things being equal, it is only natural that the Cantonese should turn to their neighbour for assistance when they have so much in common.\n\nBut the British are not popular with the Cantonese or with the Chinese in general. This is a fact which is dawning upon those Britishers who are really the best friends of China. This growing antipathy is not due to acts of aggression or unfairness on the part of the British merchants. It is entirely due to the incomprehensible stupidity of British policy in the Far East. Confining ourselves to China, a study of the history of the past few years reveals Great Britain always on the side of the reactionary forces in China. Great Britain backed Yuan Shih-kai and Tuan Chi-jui. Great Britain backed Lung Chi-kwong and Lu Yung-ting. Great Britain, with the other Powers that follow her lead, is now prolonging the agony in Peking where Hsu Shih-chang is burlesquing the part of a chief executive. What is the motive behind this? What does Great Britain expect to gain by such a policy?\n\nSome people surmise that Great Britain does not want China to have a republic because it would affect British control in India, for then the Indians would become impregnated with democratic ideals and clamour for a republic too. But India seems to be well on the road toward self-government despite the policy of Great Britain in China. So that cannot be the reason.\n\nWhatever the reason may be, one thing is clear: the British have put every obstacle in the way of progressive movements in China. They have supported reactionaries and conservatives, while they have opposed liberal and progressive leaders. They have insensibly forfeited their leadership and nullified the influence Great Britain might have had in the shaping of China's future.\n\nThose who advocated closer relations between the progressive leaders and Great Britain suffered a bitter humiliation when the Cantonese came back last October and the Government made friendly overtures to Hong Kong and expressed an earnest desire for the fullest and most open co-operation, which elicited no response from the Hong Kong Government.\n\nGreat Britain must change her policy or she will lose her influence in China. Gunboat diplomacy, threats, and intimidations may serve to bolster up prestige, but they do not win respect. China is on the way to a front place in the family of nations. Her people will not rest satisfied with the institutions of antiquity. It is as futile to oppose China's progress by external hindrances as it would be to oppose an earthquake with arguments. If Great Britain wishes to maintain her influence in China, the British policy must conform to the spirit of progress and the aspirations of an awakened people.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON\n\n## Enclosure 13 in No. 1\n**(Confidential.)**\n\n### Consul-General Jamieson to Sir B. Alston\n\nCanton, July 25, 1921\n\nHAVING reference to my telegram No. 35, Confidential, of the 14th June, on the subject of the Kwangtung collieries, I have now the honour to enclose copy of a confidential letter addressed to me by Major Cassel and of my reply thereto.\n\nI am almost certain, although unable to substantiate the statement, that the \"accredited agents\" to whom he refers were a delegation from the local Bureau of Foreign Affairs, which wanted me to give them an introduction to the Colonial Secretary, with a view to pointing out to that functionary in person how seriously the comforting of Yang Yung-t'ai was likely to prejudice the interests of the colony. I replied that I would have an objection to his interviewing Mr. Severn, so a member of my own staff was present at the interview, and the matter then dropped.\n\nThe refusal of Sun Yat-sen's Government, greatly strengthened by the fall of Kwangsi, to recognise the recently signed Sino-German agreement is indicative of their determination to exercise independent rule, and it is only with the Provincial Government that negotiations can henceforward be carried on with any hope of success.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. W. JAMIESON\n\n## Enclosure 14 in No. 1\n**(Confidential.)**\n\n### Major Cassel to Consul-General Jamieson\n\nHong Kong, July 23, 1921\n\nMANY thanks for your letter, dated the 14th June, and for information contained therein.\n\nIt seems a long time not to have answered, but there are now so many cooks in this broth that it takes quite a time to get round; that, however, has not been the sole reason for not having taken action on your letter, the chief reason being that owing to the fighting we thought the moment inopportune for negotiations, and thought it wise to lay low and see which way the cat was going to jump, so far the cat appears to have jumped the wrong way, as far as we are concerned.\n\nThere are two things which I must tell you about, both in the strictest confidence. Firstly, I understand from an unquestionable source that duly accredited agents came down to Hong Kong and had a very lengthy interview with Walker, of the Standard Oil, to whom they suggested giving a concession for working the coal in Kwangtung. Walker, after several hours' conversation, pointed out that the Chinese had always had a square deal from the British, and as far as America and American interests were concerned, it was quite obvious to him that Kwangtung must be opened up by British capital and no other, consequently advising them that the people to whom the coal concession had already been granted were people of very high reputation and almost unlimited capital, and that he was quite sure the Chinese would get a square deal from them.\n\nThe delegates left expressing the opinion that Walker was right, and firmly convinced that their best chance of opening up the Kwangtung coalfields lay in recognising our agreement, even though in a modified form. This, I think you will agree, may have far-reaching consequences in our favour.\n\nSecondly, I have heard through Chinese sources that instructions have been issued to the magistrates of the province of Kwangtung by the powers that be to prevent any of our engineers from examining reputed coalfields.",
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        "content_text": "*\n\nSAMPLING.\n\n7. The amount of sampling done during the year is shown in the following table:-\n\n  \n    Tea Oil\n    11,000 slabs.\n    \n    Cassia Oil.\n    2,410\n  \n  \n    Tin\n    \n    \n    Bismuth Ore\n    2 tons.\n  \n  \n    Wolfram\n    9,847 bags.\n    \n    Coal\n    600 tons.\n  \n  \n    Antimony\n    1,120 cases.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Wood Oil\n    \n    \n    \n    46,110 galls.\n  \n  \n    Lard\n    \n    \n    \n    138,995\n  \n  \n    Copper\n    932 bars.\n    \n    \n    90,502\n  \n  \n    Peanut Oil\n    \n    \n    \n    80,511\n  \n  \n    Manganese Ore\n    5,200 tons.\n    \n    \n    500\n  \n  \n    Coconut Oil\n    \n    \n    \n    407\n  \n  \n    Anise Oil\n    8,692 cases.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Camphor Oil\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nEXAMINATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC.\n\n8. Owing no doubt to the high exchange ruling during the past year, less work was done for local exporting firms than in 1918. The fees paid into the Treasury during the year amounted to $35,258.50 as against $43,995.00 in 1918.\n\nThe value of the year's work as determined from the Tariff of Fees (Government Notification No. 139 of 1918) is $39,918.50 as against $48,670.00 in 1918.\n\nLIBRARY.\n\n9. Several standard works of reference have been added.\n\nSPECIAL REPORTS.\n\n10. Special Reports have been supplied on Chinese Camphor, Standards for Oils, The Macao Poisoning Case, Fuel Oils, Mineral Deposits in the New Territories, The Storage of Dangerous Goods, and the Composition of Hongkong Milks.\n\nRESEARCH.\n\n11. Processes for the estimation of minute quantities of Lead in Cassia Oil and for the estimation of Water in Crude Camphor have been worked out and descriptions sent to the Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry.\n\nA new physico-chemical method for the determination of Camphor Oil in Crude Camphor has also been devised and a description sent to the “Analyst”.\n\nAn extended investigation is being conducted into the nature and constitution of Chinese Camphor Oil.\n\nSTAFF.\n\n12. Mr. Lubatti acted as Government Analyst from the end of January to the end of October, during which time I was absent from the Colony on leave. Mr. K. W. Lane joined the staff as Assistant Analyst, and Mr. L. Cheng as Temporary Assistant Analyst during the year.\n\nLABORATORY ACCOMMODATION.\n\n13. No further increase of work can take place in the present Laboratory which is at present worked to its utmost capacity. As a fall in exchange will almost certainly be accompanied by an increased demand for analytical work, it is desirable that arrangements be made as speedily as possible for the provision of more adequate laboratory accommodation.\n\nANALYST'S DEPARTMENT.\n\nREPORT BY MR. E. R. DOVEY, A.R.C.Sc., Government Analyst.\n\nThe number of analyses performed during the year was 1,880 as against 1,169 in 1917.\n\nThe following classification shows the nature of the work done:-\n\n  \n  \n    I.—Chemico-legal.\n    1918\n    1917\n  \n  \n    Toxicological examinations (including 16 stomachs),\n    57\n    32\n  \n  \n    Articles for stains,\n    0\n    1\n  \n  \n    Coins and coining materials,\n    5\n    2\n  \n  \n    Ice,\n    0\n    9\n  \n  \n    II.—Potable Waters.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Public supplies,\n    36\n    36\n  \n  \n    Wells, etc.,\n    9\n    31\n  \n  \n    Mineral waters,\n    0\n    5\n  \n  \n    III.—Dangerous Goods Ordinance.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Petroleum oil,\n    79\n    70\n  \n  \n    Liquid fuel,\n    27\n    52\n  \n  \n    Substances for explosives,\n    0\n    1\n  \n  \n    Ships for inflammable vapour,\n    18\n    18\n  \n  \n    IV.—Food and Drugs Ordinance.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Beer,\n    6\n    6\n  \n  \n    Brandy,\n    9\n    12\n  \n  \n    Bread,\n    0\n    9\n  \n  \n    Flour,\n    6\n    13\n  \n  \n    Gio,\n    3\n    2\n  \n  \n    Ice cream,\n    2\n    \n  \n  \n    Lard,\n    102\n    79\n  \n  \n    Milk, fresh,\n    97\n    80\n  \n  \n    Milk, condensed,\n    2\n    \n  \n  \n    Margarine,\n    2\n    0\n  \n  \n    Macaroni,\n    0\n    1\n  \n  \n    Pepper,\n    0\n    1\n  \n  \n    Port wine,\n    7\n    4\n  \n  \n    Rice,\n    3\n    0\n  \n  \n    Rum,\n    5\n    4\n  \n  \n    Salt,\n    2\n    1\n  \n  \n    Sherry,\n    2\n    2\n  \n  \n    Whisky,\n    13\n    11\n  \n  \n    V.—Building Materials.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cement, Paint,\n    0\n    1\n  \n  \n    Oil,\n    6\n    0\n  \n  \n    Wood,\n    1\n    0\n  \n  \n    Preservative,\n    1\n    0\n  \n  \n    VI.—Pharmacy Ordinance.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Medicines for poisons,\n    16\n    $\n  \n  \n    Morphine,\n    3\n    0\n  \n  \n    Cocaine,\n    1\n    0\n  \n  \n    Opium,\n    3\n    0\n  \n  \n    Opium leaves,\n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    Pills,\n    *\n    2\n  \n  \n    Other drugs,\n    12\n    9\n  \n  \n    VII.—Mineralogical, etc.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Metals,\n    437\n    311\n  \n  \n    Ores,\n    364\n    167\n  \n  \n    Coals,\n    11\n    10\n  \n  \n    Lignite,\n    0\n    1\n  \n  \n    VIII.—Oils.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Anise,\n    32\n    31\n  \n  \n    Cassia,\n    50\n    13\n  \n  \n    Colza,\n    0\n    1\n  \n  \n    Cottonseed,\n    0\n    2\n  \n  \n    Linseed,\n    0\n    1\n  \n  \n    Lubricating,\n    0\n    9\n  \n  \n    Peanut,\n    12\n    2\n  \n  \n    Peanut butter,\n    1\n    1\n  \n  \n    Perilla,\n    2\n    0\n  \n  \n    Teaseed,\n    21\n    10\n  \n  \n    Tallow,\n    1\n    0\n  \n  \n    Wood,\n    343\n    32\n  \n  \n    Castor,\n    2\n    1\n  \n  \n    Coconut,\n    6\n    1\n  \n  \n    IX.—Miscellaneous.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Coal tar disinfectants,\n    2\n    2\n  \n  \n    Urine,\n    23\n    14\n  \n  \n    \n    24\n    76\n  \n  \n    \n    130\n    90",
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        "content_text": "MINUTES.\n\nbellish\n\nSit.\n\nhoney\n\nacust\n\na very\n\nThey will no doubt hear from Maton, & show for, has sent copy of hill.\n\nte 27/5/22\n\nCopy to F.O. ask what.\n\nGh.27.8.22 27.1.22\n\n?\n\nrefly\n\nYu. 28.5.\n\nbin wood (Later offer action)\n\n(S.F. will have worm the mutely professed A20.0)\n\nSe 30.3.\n\nMINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.\n\nPARAPHRASE TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, (Received Colonial Office 11.50 a.m, 26th March, 1922). Dated 26th March,\n\n290 A# 8\n\nA copy of this telegram has been sent to Peking. Result of agreement between Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tso Lin it now appears to be practically certain that Sun Yatsen's proposed expedition to the north will fall through. Sun will in that case try to return to Canton. He has already sent emissaries who have assassinated Chan Kwing Ming's Chief of Staff and attempted to assassinate Chan himself, thus preparing the way for his return.\n\nIf Sun gets rid of Chan who is the moderate factor in the situation and so establishes himself in complete control of Canton there will be continual trouble for us as he will foment fresh strikes,\n\nThe best way of serving the interests of this colony and of Great Britain in China would be by assisting Chan against Sun.\n\nWould there be any objection on the part of His Majesty's Government to loans being made to Chan privately to enable him to consolidate his position? Sufficient security can be obtained to justify Bank in providing the money. They would however wish to be assured through me that His Majesty's Government would approve the proposal.\n\nSTUBBS,",
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        "content_text": "PARAPHRASE TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, (Received Colonial Office 11.50 a.m. 26th March, 1922). Dated 26th March,\n\nAs a copy of this telegram has been sent to Peking.\n\nAs a result of agreement between Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tso Lin it now appears to be practically certain that Sun Yat Sen's proposed expedition to the north will fall through. Sun will in that case try to return to Canton. He has already sent emissaries who have assassinated Chan Chi Ming's Chief of Staff and attempted to assassinate Chan himself, thus preparing the way for his return.\n\nIf Sun gets rid of Chan who is the moderate factor in the situation and so establishes himself in complete control of Canton there will be continual trouble for us as he will foment fresh strikes.\n\nThe best way of serving the interests of this colony and of Great Britain in China would be by assisting Chan against Sun.\n\nWould there be any objection on the part of His Majesty's Government to loans being made to Chan privately to enable him to consolidate his position?\n\nSufficient security can be obtained to justify Bank in providing the money. They would however wish to be assured through me that His Majesty's Government would approve the proposal.\n\nSTUBBS.",
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        "content_text": "Page 292\n\nPARAPHRASE TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, (Received Colonial Office 11.50 a.m. 26th March, 1922). Dated 25th March, 1922.\n\nAs a result of agreement between Yu Fei Fu and Chang Tao Lin it now appears to be practically certain that Sun Yatsen's proposed expedition to the north will fall through. Sun will in that case try to return to Canton. He has already sent emissaries who have suborned Chan Kwing Ming's Chief of Staff and attempted to assassinate Chan himself, thus preparing the way for his return.\n\nIf Sun gets rid of Chan, who is the moderate factor in the situation and so establishes himself in complete control of Canton, there will be continual trouble for us as he will foment fresh strikes.\n\nThe best way of serving the interests of this Colony and of Great Britain in China would be by assisting Chan against Sun.\n\nWould there be any objection on the part of His Majesty's Government to loans being made to Chan privately to enable him to consolidate his position? Sufficient security can be obtained to justify the Bank in providing the money. They would, however, wish to be assured through me that His Majesty's Government would approve the proposal.",
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        "content_text": "300\n\n# HOW CHINA IS TO BE UNITED.\n\n(Daily Press, March 18th, 1922.) THERE is an amazing report in the Chinese press in the form of a cable from Shanghai to the effect that Marshal CHANG TSO-LIN—who is popularly regarded as the Autocrat of China—is about to issue a manifesto pledging his support to Dr. SUN YAT-SEN, and expressing his disappointment with the selfish military ambitions of General WU PEI-FU. To the majority of readers, perhaps, nothing would seem more incredible than this, for the organs of the Canton Party have been persistently denouncing CHANG TSO-LIN and all his works. The policies of SUN and CHANG have appeared to be utterly irreconcilable. The great War Lord of Mukden has been the maker of Cabinets at Peking, and it has been generally acknowledged that, without the support of his military forces, no Government could exist there. Last December his authority in this connection was plainly challenged by the younger member of the influential military triumvirate of the North—General WU PEI-FU, who sent forth from Hankow a series of vituperative telegrams denouncing as a traitor the man whom Marshal CHANG TSO-LIN had nominated to the office of Prime Minister.\n\nSuch was the support General Wu gained by his agitation that LIANG SHIH-YI felt that he had to quit the offices but as the charges brought against him were manifestly unfounded he has refused to resign. He took what in China is a familiar course in applying for \"sick leave,\" and he has had his period of \"sick leave\" extended three or four times. His \"sickness\" is, of course, purely diplomatic. He has been watching from the seclusion of his home the efforts of the President and the War Lord of Mukden to clear him of the stigma which General Wu has cast upon his character. General Wu's acceptance of the denials of his accusations has been very half-hearted; at all events it has not been such as to satisfy Mr. LIANG SHIH-YI that he can emerge from his seclusion and resume office feeling that the stain upon his character has been removed by the man who placed it there.\n\nMarshal CHANG TSO-LIN has evidently been greatly annoyed at General Wu's attitude, and has possibly been also influenced to some extent by the suspicion which seems to prevail widely in the North that Wu is planning a coup calculated to overshadow the influence of CHANG at Peking.\n\nby for in the\n\n[\n\n\"\n\n[March 28th, 1922\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS &\n\nmatic counterstroke. There is reason to regard the Shanghai cable we have quoted as having a substantial foundation in fact, for in a recent Peking paper it was reported that Dr. C. C. Wu, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canton Government, had been to Mukden to a conference with Marshal CHANG TSO-LIN and it was stated that a solution of the question of unifying the North and South was worked out.\" All that remained was to secure the approval of the Super-Tuchun of Chihli (General TSAO KUN), and Dr. Wu would \"return to Canton and prepare for the unification.\n\nDr. SCHURMAN, the United States Minister to China, who has been on a visit of several days' duration to Canton, incidentally delivered two or three public speeches. In one of them he reviewed what had been achieved by China at the Washington Conference. Dr. SCHURMAN described these achievements as large, varied, very substantial and in some respects highly important.\"\n\n# DR. CHINA'S GAINS AT WASHINGTON.\n\nAll the expressions of Chinese opinion we have seen are expressions of disappointment that China achieved so little. Dr. WANG CHUNG-HUI, the Minister of Justice in the Peking Cabinet, and one of China's representatives at the Washington Conference, gave in a speech at Shanghai a fortnight ago a resumé of achievements at the Conference from the Chinese standpoint.\n\n\"Our people,\" he said, \"hoped for too much. They hoped that all the wrongs that China had suffered during the last eighty years would be righted at the Conference. When I sailed from Europe I told Dr. WELLINGTON KOO that China would get about 80 per cent of what she considered her due. Now, when I look at the results I believe we have secured but 5 per cent.\"\n\nDr. WANG attempted to explain away his disappointment by saying that \"the Conference was not a judicial tribunal where nations were tried, with other nations acting as complainants; but a Conference in which it was necessary to find unanimity in order to secure a settlement.\" By inference it is suggested that all the demands China made at the Conference would have been conceded by an impartial tribunal acting judicially, and that she was able to win only about 5 per cent of her demands must be attributable to prejudice—not the sound judgment of the majority of the Conference! Yet Dr. WANG, in the course of his address, really showed that China obtained by means of the Conference much more than any judicial tribunal could have awarded.\n\nPerhaps in the eyes of most Chinese the greatest triumph was the return by Japan to China of all the ex-German rights in Shantung. If the Conference had been a judicial tribunal, it would certainly have denied China's demand, for the question had been settled by the Treaty of Versailles, and it was not within the power of a Conference sitting at Washington to abrogate that Treaty. But by the good offices of representatives of two of the nations that had signed that Treaty the delegates of China and Japan were brought together and the result was an agreement which could not have been reached by any other means.\n\n# SHATIN ROAD SHOOTING INQUIRY.\n\n(Daily Press, March 22nd, 1922). THERE can be no doubt in the mind of anybody who has closely followed the evidence given at the Coroner's inquiry into the shooting upon the crowd on the Shatin road during the recent strike that the verdict of \"justifiable homicide\" returned by the Jury was the only judgment which could properly be hoped for.\n\nThe Jury's elaboration of their verdict sets forth the circumstances in a succinct and convincing manner, and no impartial person can hesitate to endorse not only the Jury's exoneration of Mr. KING and the police and military immediately concerned but also the commendation which they gave to him and to the police and military for their conduct and patience under most trying circumstances and for their personal courage. That tribute was certainly well deserved.\n\nIt has occasioned no little surprise that the Chinese labour guilds specially concerned in the matter were not represented at the inquiry by an advocate. It will be remembered that in the final negotiations with the Government for a settlement of the strike the delegates brought forward for discussion the matter of compensation in the case of the persons who had been killed or injured. One would have imagined that every effort would have been made by the Chinese concerned to put their case in the most favourable light possible, but in point of fact the Coroner seemed to have been left to secure Chinese witnesses by practically commandeering them, and to cross-examine, himself, all the witnesses as we should expect an advocate for the Chinese to cross-examine them. No reader of the reports of the proceedings can have failed to be impressed with the able and thoroughly judicial manner in which Mr. J. R. WOOD conducted the inquiry, and if, as we may assume, the failure of the Chinese organisations to be represented in the Court was a token of their confidence in the impartial administration of British justice, the thoroughly impartial conduct of inquiry amply justified their trust.",
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        "content_text": "Calla\n\n104\n\nreceived this revolver and 4 cartridges and 1 spent cartridge. I found a small piece broken off it.\n\non February 27th I went to Hongkong & Shanghai Bank garden. I found a small piece of vulcanite produced. That fits into the gap in the revolver.\n\nPrisoner was charged on the same day and he said he was a ship's cook and discharged from S.S. Chang Chow.\n\nI know Jack A Tai just West of Douglas Wharf. We have a special picket during the strike between Douglas Street and Queen Victoria Street and they were kept on until 29th January as a special protection to the stevedores.\n\nCross-examined.\n\nOn the day of occurrence, prisoner was dressed in Chinese clothing, very ordinary. Hundreds of Chinese dressed like him.\n\nHe is not a member of Seamen's Union as far as I know. He was a member of Hongkong & Wuchow Guild. That is a guild for West River steamers. That guild was not shut down by the Police during the strike. The police raided the guild premises.\n\nPrisoner had slept there for 1 night before the occurrence. I heard that the members of the Jack A Tai were afraid for their lives. This was some time before, about 29th January.\n\nGeorge William Avenell.\n\nArmoury Sergeant to Defence Corps and the Police Force.\n\nI see the 4 live rounds. They are of the same calibre as the exhausted bullet II.A. I see the clothing produced. The bullet holes may have been made by bullet Ex.A jacket B.1. This mark could have been caused by the discharge of a revolver at close range within 2 or 3 feet.\n\nCross-examined.\n\nThat ammunition is not smokeless.\n\nNg Ping Wu.\n\nSergeant Interpreter, Detective Office, Central Police Station. On 24th February, I explained charge to prisoner. I cautioned him. He made a statement. I took it down in writing, read it over, and he signed it.\n\nCase for the Crown.\n\nCalls",
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        "content_text": "Table IX\n\n- 24- \n\nStatement of Assets of the Tung Wa Hospital on the 31st December, 1920.\n\nAssets.\n\nAmount.\n\nBy Balance,...\n\n  \n    House Property (original value) :— 2 houses in Bonham Strand and Jervois Street,\n    10,400\n  \n  \n    1 house in Wing Lok Street (including cost of additions to building),\n    8,108\n  \n  \n    10 houses in Aberdeen Street and Tang Wa Lane (including cost of additions to buildings),\n    14,900\n  \n  \n    3 houses in Connaught Road and Des Voeux Road,\n    17,386\n  \n  \n    7 houses in Queen's Road West (including cost of additions building),\n    30,368\n  \n  \n    2 houses in Bonham Strand West,\n    26,000\n  \n  \n    8 houses in Bonham Strand,\n    15,000\n  \n  \n    10 houses in Po Yun Street and New Street (at present used as Plague Hospital),\n    54,697\n  \n  \n    1 house in Des Voeux Road West,\n    32,859\n  \n  \n    Total,\n    209,718\n  \n  \n    Subscriptions not yet paid :— Firms,\n    $ 250,655.47\n  \n  \n    Individuals,\n    $2,000\n  \n  \n    \n    $8,000\n  \n  \n    \n    40.942\n  \n\nReceipts.\n\nTable X.\n\n--\n\nEmergency Fund Account, 1920.\n\n  \n    \n    Amonut.\n    \n    Ameant.\n  \n  \n    Balance from account 1919,\n    36,033\n    Boat-hire to 63 destitutes.\n    204\n  \n  \n    Interest.\n    1,314\n    Gratuity to Ko Wo.......\n    140\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Gratuity to Leung Cheng.\n    57,198.3\n  \n  \n    Totul,.\n    57,378.72\n    Balance,\n    57,378.72\n  \n\n* Cents omitted except in the totals.",
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        "content_text": "— 40 —\n\nAnnexe A.\n\nReport on the work of the Po Leung Kuk for the year 1920.\n\nThe Po Leung Kuk Society was founded in 1878 to aid in the detection and suppression of kidnapping, especially of girls and women, and to shelter such girls or women as had been kidnapped in the interior and brought to Hongkong for sale or emigration. Its name means \"institution for the protection of good women.\" The initiative in its formation came from the Chinese themselves, and ever since, by subscription and personal service, they have continued to support it.\n\nThere is a paid Chinese staff—matron, amahs and nurses, and two clerks who are secretaries to the managing Committee. This Committee meets every evening from Monday to Friday at 7 p.m.; the principal meeting of the week is held at 12 noon on Sunday. It not only manages the Po Leung Kuk, but acts as an advisory Committee to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs in all cases affecting women and children, and Chinese family life generally, which are often extremely difficult and tedious. It corresponds when necessary with charitable institutions and private persons in various parts of China, traces parents of lost children or ill-treated muitsais, and shelters for the night any Chinese woman or girl who chooses to go. When parents or relations cannot be traced, the Committee arranges for the girls in its care to be given in marriage (never as concubines) or in adoption, always under bond and always with the consent of this office; and in every case this office ascertains the girl's willingness before giving consent to either adoption or marriage.\n\nIn addition to the annual Committee appointment by co-option, there is a Permanent Committee, which serves to maintain continuity of policy, and of which the Secretary for Chinese Affairs is the ex-officio chairman.\n\nThe buildings and their inmates are visited every month by two unofficial Justices of the Peace, one English and one Chinese.\n\nThe following gentlemen were elected in March to serve as Managing Committee for the year :--\n\nKwok Siu-lau,\n\nTam Pak-shiu,\n\nChang Tin-san,\n\nLeung Shu-tong,\n\nLeung Tin-kwai,\n\nSham Chak-chiu,\n\nWong Kwong-tin,\n\nMa Wing-chan,\n\nTae Ka-po,\n\nLam Hon-ping\n\nTwelve is the usual number of gentlemen on this Committee, but Mr. Wong Kwok-sun resigned after being elected and the vacancy was not filled.\n\n— 41 —\n\nThe number of inmates of the Po Leung Kuk on January 1st, 1920, was 62 and during the year 343 persons were admitted as against 476 in 1919. The circumstances of the admission and the action taken in regard to them are set out in Table A.\n\n85 women and girls were committed under warrant and 174 were admitted without warrant. Of the remainder 33 were lost children, 8 were accompanied by parents or guardians, and 43 were runaway maid-servants or \"muitsai.\"\n\nOn leaving the Kuk 126 women and girls were restored to husbands or other relatives, 36 were sent to charitable institutions in China, 23 were given in adoption, 10 married, and 18 released under bond, 9 sent to the Italian Convent. The number of inmates remaining in the Kuk on December 31st was 17.\n\nThe income and expenditure during the year and the assets and liabilities of the institution are set out in Tables B and C attached.\n\nThe accounts of the Managing Committee in the customary form have been audited by Messrs. Sham Chak-chiu and Wong Kwong-tin. The balance to the credit of the Society at the end of the year was $23,987 as compared with $23,305 at the end of 1919.\n\nMr. A. Mackenzie resigned the post of Visiting Justice of the Peace to the Po Leung Kuk and his place was taken up by Mr. A. G. Coppin.\n\nThe institution was visited monthly by Justices of Peace, Messrs. A. Mackenzie, A. G. Coppin, and Chau Siu-ki, who on no occasion found cause for adverse comment. The average monthly number of inmates was 52.\n\nThe matron reports favourably on the conduct, health, and industry of the inmates during the year. There were 80 cases of sickness of which 13 were sent to the Tung Wah Hospital for treatment, and of these 1 died.\n\n14th June, 1921.\n\nS. B. C. Ross, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, President.\n\n212",
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        "content_text": "TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nWINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL\n\nHIS MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE\n\nFOR THE COLONIES.\n\nTHE HUMBLE PETITION of the Tai Yan Steamship Company of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, Steam Launch Proprietors, and of the Lee Kee Steamship Company, Tai Wing Steamship Co, Sam Wo Steamship Co, Hop Yick Steamship Co, Weing Hing Steamship Co, Wing Shun Steamship Co, Tak Kee, Kwong Fook Steamship Co, Wai Ki, Tung Kee Steamship Co, Wing Hing Steamship Co, Tak On Steamship Co, and Chang Plu Kee, being all parties lately engaged in carrying on the business of the Yaunati and Sanshuipo Ferry Services in the Harbour of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong.\n\nSHEWETH as follows :-\n\n1.\n\nOn the 7th day of April 1919, the Government of Hongkong, under cover of a despatch of that date, transmitted to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies a Petition by your Petitioners, which set out the circumstances under which the Ferry services theretofore carried on by your Petitioners came to an end as the result of the\n\n1.\n\naction",
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        "content_text": "$21\n\nBettye\n\n1922\n\nHONG KONG\n\nFROM DAG Devern Conf\n\nFOR CIRCULATION :-\n\nMr. Buch\n\nMr.\n\nDATE.\n\n28 June 1922\n\n28\n\nSUBJECT\n\n39953\n\nTREES\n\n453\n\nRE 14 AUG 22\n\nShooting of Chinese during Strike disturbance\n\nMr. Grindle\n\nSir H. Lambert\n\nSir H. Read\n\nSir J. Masterton Smith\n\nMr. Wood\n\nMr. Churchill\n\nPrevious Paper\n\n39257\n\nIn copy deep. fr. Am Consul Genl. at Canton\n\ntogether with corres relating to banishment from the Col\n\n Khan Ping, Chang 4\n\nThe\n\ni\n\nall\n\nFadorwe 2\n\nlitten by\n\nMINUTES\n\nvery old information.\n\nMich\n\nis the only enclosu\n\nThe Tow\n\nis cluted 13 of Mary\n\nd'outtlers have coppery's prom\n\nSubsequent Paper\n\n40757\n\n(1491) WL 20817-89. 80,000 1171 T.\n\n\" Pat by\n\nB1.5. 18/8/72 At once A&@\n\n16",
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        "content_text": "DANISH BANK AFFAIRS,\n\n(Continued from Page 6.)\n\n(Reuter's Service.\n\nTHE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nBRIBE RESISTED.\n\nFRIDAY,\n\nSEPTEMBER\n\n22; 1922.\n\nDAIRY FARM NEWS.\n\nBy Indian Constable, Copenhagen, September 21.\n\nHow an Indian constable was offered a handsome bribe and rejected it, was told in a case against a Chinese, named Lai Wah, who appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Police Court today. The defendant was arrested at the Star Ferry Wharf at Kowloon yesterday, and on the way to the Water Police Station is said to have at first offered a bribe of $15 and then to have added a similar sum, with the promise of a further sum as a condition for his release. The Indian constable, Alla Bux, took both sums but did not refrain from marching the prisoner to the Station, where a charge of being in possession of $25 worth of opium was preferred against him.\n\nP.C. Alla Bux said that he saw the prisoner with the parcel containing the drug tucked under his arm, and his movements suggested to him that here was a case worth examining into. On being interrogated, the prisoner said that he had something good to eat. The \"something good\" was shown to be two tals of opium when the parcel was opened. To avoid discovery, the prisoner is said to have attempted to divert the attention of the constable by pointing to another man who, he said, also possessed \"something good to eat.\"\n\nMr. Lindsell was of the view that the charge of bribery was one to be committed for trial and he ordered an adjournment for the evidence of the Sergeant Interpreter of the Water Police Station who took down the prisoner's statements when charged.\n\nDEATH OF MR. A.A. DOS REMEDIOS.\n\nOne of the oldest and most respected members of the Portuguese community passed away early this morning, in the person of Mr. Adalino A. dos Remedios. The deceased, who was 74 years of age, had been for no fewer than 41 years in the employ of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd. and was very highly esteemed and respected by all his fellow employees. Only three days ago he attended the office as usual, but was obviously unwell, suffering from a chill. He went home and later developed influenza which led to pneumonia. He passed peacefully away this morning, at his home in Caine Road.\n\nThroughout his long association with Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., the deceased had been a valued servant. For many years he was in charge of the Shipping Office, but for the past three years he served in the Indo-China Book Office. Of a quiet and retiring disposition, the late Mr. Remedios, who possessed a particular charm of manner, will be mourned by all with whom he came into contact.\n\nHe leaves a widow and two children to mourn their loss. His son is Mr. J. S. Remedios, of the Post Office, his daughter being Mrs. J. F. Tavares. The funeral takes place to-morrow afternoon, at 6 o'clock.\n\nSHANGHAI'S MIXED COURT.\n\nWith reference to the Mixed Court at Shanghai, the Sinwanpao contains the following report:-\n\nMembers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs met on Tuesday to discuss the many questions connected with the return to China of the Mixed Court. Two suggestions were offered: (1) To reform the Court; (2) To return it to the Chinese for sole administration. It was decided that members of the Ministry should confer on the matter with the British, American and French Ministries.\n\nCANADIAN POTATOES\n\nFine, Choice, Mealy.\n\nPRICES RIGHT.\n\nTHE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.\n\nKOWLOON\n\nTHEATRE\n\nThe only entirely European Cinema in the Far East\n\nJ. T. SHAW\n\nCLOSING UP SALE\n\nLAST SIX WEEKS\n\nA FEW SPECIAL BARGAINS\n\nMORLEYS' WOOL SOCKS... $1.25 Pair\n\nDRESS PUMPS... $10.00 Pair\n\nSOFT COLLARS $3.00 Dozen\n\nDRESS GLOVES $1.00 Pair\n\nBRACES... $1.00 Pair\n\nSTIFF DRESS SHIRTS $1.00 Each\n\nDOUBLE TERAI HATS $12.50 Each\n\nVELOUR HATS $13.50 Each.\n\nBOILER SUITS $2.00 Each.\n\nWill show all the Big Pictures from now on! Just cast your eye over this list\n\nTO-NIGHT & TO-MORROW HAROLD LLOYD\n\nIN\n\nA SAILOR MADE MAN\n\nSUNDAY & MONDAY\n\nTHE GIRL IN THE TAXI\n\nKING'S BATTALION.\n\nFootball and Cricket.\n\nA full programme of matches has been played during the past week.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, the Drummers played 1 selected eleven from St. Joseph's College. An excellent game resulted in a win for St. Joseph's by 3 goals to 2. In the return match on Thursday afternoon, the Drummers won by the only goal in the match.\n\nThe King's second team played South China \"B\" team in a friendly match last Saturday afternoon on Causeway Bay ground. The King's led by 1 goal to nil at half-time and an excellent goal from their centre forward put them further ahead soon after the change of ends. South China were seen to better advantage after this and managed to level up matters towards the end of the game. Result 2-2.\n\nIn the Company League, the Machine Gun Platoon sustained their first defeat in the competition when they were defeated by \"B\" Coy, the score being 1-0. They still, however, have a good lead in the League table and should win the championship.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, \"1\" Coy defeated the Band and Drums 2-1.\n\nA match between the Regimental Team and the Hongkong Police has been arranged for Saturday afternoon, on Murray Parade Ground. Kick off 5 p.m. The Police are playing some of their new men, and an excellent game is anticipated.\n\nThe League table is given below.\n\n  \n    P.\n    W.\n    D.\n    L.\n    Goals.\n  \n  \n    M.G. Platoon.\n    7\n    6\n    0\n    1\n    12\n    3\n    6\n    12\n  \n  \n    \"C\" Coy.\n    6\n    3\n    1\n    2\n    18\n    13\n    7\n  \n  \n    \"D\" Coy.\n    6\n    2\n    2\n    2\n    11\n    14\n    6\n  \n  \n    \"A\" Coy.\n    6\n    2\n    1\n    3\n    10\n    14\n    5\n  \n  \n    Band & Drums.\n    4\n    0\n    2\n    2\n    7\n    9\n    2\n  \n  \n    \"B\" Coy.\n    5\n    1\n    0\n    4\n    6\n    17\n    2\n  \n\nCricket.\n\nIn the Cricket League competition, the Band and Drums beat \"B\" Coy. on Friday afternoon by 15 runs. Scores:- 56 to 41.\n\nThe Machine Gun platoon beat the Band and Drums on Sunday afternoon by 40 runs and thus became the holders of the Battalion Cricket Cup for 1922-23.\n\nThe Cup was presented to the Machine Gunners Team at the end of the match by Lt.-Col. F. Hyslop, C.B.E.\n\nThe final positions in the Cricket League are given below:-\n\n  \n    P.\n    W.\n    L.\n    Pts.\n  \n  \n    M. G. Platoon.\n    5\n    4\n    1\n    8\n  \n  \n    \"D\" Company.\n    5\n    3\n    2\n    6\n  \n  \n    \"C\" Company.\n    5\n    3\n    2\n    6\n  \n  \n    Band & Drums\n    5\n    2\n    3\n    4\n  \n  \n    \"B\" Company.\n    5\n    2\n    3\n    4\n  \n  \n    \"A\" Company.\n    5\n    5\n    0\n    10\n  \n\nCANTON NEWS.\n\nMore Trouble at Wuchow,\n\nOur Canton correspondent states that the Cantonese merchants in Kwongsi have wired to their agents in Canton not to forward further cargo. A report from Wuchow states that troops commanded by Lo To and Chang Hoi-yue are moving down to Chunchow and that traffic between Wuchow and other cities in Kwangsi is unsafe.\n\nChan Cheong-po has been ordered by General Chan King-ming to take his force to the West River, as far as Dosing, to maintain order.\n\nThe Provincial Treasurer has decided to form a Finance committee for the improvement of the paper currency. He has invited the leading merchants and gentry to become members, and hopes to have publicly announced the exact number of notes in circulation.\n\nIt is reported that the Gunboat, Control and the Water Police Departments are to be abolished and a new body created to be known as the Sea and River Defence Headquarters, of which Chan Wing-son will be the chief.\n\nRAILWAY OFFICER'S \"FIRST DUTY.\"\n\nTo Attend Court.\n\nIn a case of larceny of two lengths of chain from the Railway Station at Kowloon, it was stated by Inspector C. Aris that Mr. G. Walker, the Traffic Superintendent, who prosecuted in the case, was unable to appear in Court on account of pressure of work. However, if his presence were urgently wanted, he would turn up.\n\nMr. E. W. Hamilton (to Inspector Aris)- Give my compliments to Mr. Walker, and tell him that if he does not appear I will discharge the man. It is his first duty to attend the Court.\n\nThe case was adjourned until to-morrow morning for the attendance of Mr. Walker.\n\nACCIDENT TO CHIEF JUSTICE.\n\nFalls and Breaks Arm in Typhoon.\n\nThe Chief Justice (Sir Wm. Rees-Davies) met with a nasty accident during the typhoon on Wednesday night. He and Mr. H. A. Nesbit went up in the Peak Tram. They were walking together with arms linked, in Cham-bers Road. The wind was very strong. One gust was so sudden that it took the Chief Justice off his feet. He fell on his right side and in so doing broke his right arm.\n\nIt was Sir William's intention to go to Japan to-morrow, but owing to the accident he will probably not be able to make the trip.\n\nEntertain your friends with a VIC TROJA\n\nAsk about our easy payment system.\n\nMOUTRIES:- Exclusive Distributors.\n\nTUESDAY ONLY\n\nCAROLYN THE CORNER\n\nSKIM MILK\n\nWHAT IS IT?\n\nWEDNESDAY & THURSDAY\n\nMARRIED LIFE\n\nMore Big Pictures to follow!\n\nALERT\n\nIt is milk from which most of the fat (cream) has been removed. Is it nourishing? Is it healthful?\n\nIT IS BOTH!\n\nWe feed our calves on Skim Milk. You will never starve drinking Skim Milk. It contains all the nourishing elements - the casein, etc., which ordinary milk contains (less the fats only), and is far more easily digested than whole milk because it is not rich in fats. Skim Milk is a low-priced milk, specially suitable for making Puddings and thickening Soups. It also has many other uses.\n\nTRY IT!\n\nYou will soon be ordering it by the gallon.\n\nA plentiful supply always on hand. Skim Milk is loaded with the now famous VITAMINES. Regular milk drinkers seldom suffer from diseases due to lack of Vitamines.\n\nMilk for the kiddies is a builder of bone and muscle. Be on the safe side and let them drink Skim Milk instead of water.\n\nPRICE 5 CENTS PER BOTTLE. (Reduced from 8 cents).\n\nTHE DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.\n\nNEXT DOOR HONGKONG HOTEL\n\nPowell Tel. Central 3146 Ltd\n\nDO YOU PLAY GOLF?\n\nIf you do, you should see the selection of GOLF HOSE we have received this week. This comprises the very latest and smartest goods procurable, with and without fancy tops. The prices range from $3.75 to $10.75.\n\nIT COSTS YOU NOTHING for an inspection and we shall be pleased to show them to you.\n\nWm. POWELL, LTD.\n\n10, Ice House St.\n\nCAPE WINES\n\nFROM J. 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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. 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        "content_text": "na\n\n7\n\nmatters, appointed to carry them into execution. The leading place in the committee is taken by six members, who are styled \"representatives,\" and include prominent local persons such as Chang Lan ch'ing, manager of the Bank of China, Tsao Yao ching and Han Chen chih, chairman and vice-chairman respectively of the Chamber of Commerce, and three members of the gentry.\n\nOn the 19th June the representatives addressed a petition to the Taoyin for transmission to the military and civil governors advocating the proposals made at the meeting. A copy of this petition in Chinese, together with translation forms, is enclosed in this despatch (Enclosure 7).\n\nThe Taoyin then addressed a petition, which is undated, to the provincial authorities, making eight proposals of measures necessary for the restoration of Ichang and the preservation of order in future. A copy of this, with translation of the relevant important parts forms Enclosure 8. The Taoyin proposed that (suggestion) only a small number of troops should be stationed here; that (suggestion 3) special barracks should be constructed for them so that they should not live, as now, in all quarters of the town; that (suggestion 4) the Chinese Government should take the initiative in proposing the laying-out of a settlement before it is extorted from them by foreign Powers, after which the question of the adoption of suitable regulations, such as those of Wuhu or Chefoo, could be discussed.\n\nOn receipt of your telegram No. 8 of the 22nd June, I requested Messrs. Chen, Ma and Huang, who had been elected members of the committee, to call on me, saying that I merely wished to ascertain from them what progress was being made in their settlement scheme, as they had come to see me on the subject before.\n\nAfter some conversation, I said that a settlement would be useless if soldiers continued to be stationed here; there would be a constant danger of the native garrison mutinying, as they had done before, and at such a time they would certainly not respect the settlement unless a sufficient foreign guard were here to keep them out. We could not count on always having gunboats able to put a landing force ashore which would be sufficient for the purpose.\n\nThe only alternative would be for the foreign Powers to keep a permanent international garrison in Ichang. The best course would be for the Chinese residents themselves to demand that no native troops whatever should be stationed in Ichang or within a radius of 100 li from it; if it was necessary to send troops through Ichang they should not be allowed to spend more than thirty-six hours here, and that only on the side of the river opposite the town. I instanced the danger Ichang had run when the Patung troops were transferred, as reported in my despatch No. 26 of the 8th July. If we had no troops within 100 li of Ichang, the place would no longer be in danger, and even a settlement would not be a necessity. I told them that the most important point to press for was to have no troops here, and that the question of having a settlement was subsidiary to it.\n\nMr. Huang, I would mention, has been sent to Peking in connection with the settlement proposals, so only Mr. Chen and Mr. Ma were present at the interview. Both cordially agreed in the views I had expressed, and promised to discuss them with the other members of the committee, the Chamber of Commerce and other persons interested, after which they would address another petition to the Taoyin on the subject. I suggested the desirability of holding public meetings to discuss the subject, and impressed on them the necessity of prominent members of the gentry and merchants supporting the movement.\n\nPrior to this interview I had expressed the above views to the agents of Jardine, Matheson and Co., Butterfield and Swire and the Asiatic Petroleum Company, and, finding that they agreed with me, asked them to impress them as coming from themselves on their compradores, who are all members of the Chamber of Commerce. I also spoke in a similar sense to British, American and Belgian (Catholic) missionaries, asking them to express the same views to prominent Chinese with whom they come into contact.\n\nThe day after the interview the Taoyin called, saying that he had been summoned to Wuchang to discuss the restoration of Ichang; he asked how I thought the security of the place could best be maintained in future. I said that I understood Chinese were talking of a settlement, but that this would be useless so long as troops were stationed here, and expressed the same views as I had done to Messrs. Ch'en and Ma. It then transpired that the latter had reported my interview with them to him, and he said that he was in cordial agreement with my views. He had already sent a petition to the Governor, copy of which he promised to let me have (copy enclosed), suggesting that only a small number of troops be stationed here. I asked if he would advocate none at all being here, to which he replied that that was a difficult thing for him, as a Chinese official, to do but if the representatives of the gentry and merchants sent in such a petition to him, he would forward it to the Governor without comments of his own.\n\nSome days later Mr. Chen called and told me that my views had been discussed by the committee and with other persons concerned, including the Taoyin. All without exception cordially approved of them, and a further petition, copy of which he would send me, would be addressed to the Taoyin on the subject.\n\nAfter much pressure and delay, I have received a copy of this petition (copy enclosed), which is very disappointing, as the suggestion that no troops be stationed here only appears in the usual heading describing the contents of the document. In the body of the petition the writers only venture to say that \"the present reduced number of troops would seem to be sufficient,\" and end up with the prayer that \"for the present no large number of troops be stationed here.\"\n\nWhilst Mr. Chen told me that this petition had actually been sent to the Taoyin, he has since written to say that it cannot be regarded as having been presented officially. The draft was shown him, and he had suggested their delaying sending it in until he had discussed the matter verbally with the Tuchun during his visit to Wuchang. Whilst the Taoyin is, I think, in favour of the proposal, he wants to make quite sure that it will be safe for him personally to send it in before actually doing so. The attitude of the gentry and merchants, all of whom cordially support the idea, is the same, and I doubt if it will be possible to get them to take any greater initiative or to state their wishes more clearly than they have already done. All fear the future vengeance of the Tuchun or other authorities if they make any unpalatable proposals, and would much prefer that the foreign Powers should make the demand and get the odium for doing so, whilst they will reap the benefits and be the first to heap us with obloquy for the step whenever such action suits them. Rather than incur the anger of the Tuchun they will cease their efforts to obtain the removal of the troops or a settlement altogether.\n\nMr. Chen and others concerned will not take any further step in the matter until they hear the result of the Taoyin's visit to Wuchang.\n\nThe instructions given to the Commissioner of Customs, whom I duly consulted, were to support the proposal, but, as a Chinese Government employee, to keep in the background, and all that he has done is to express casually a favourable opinion regarding the project to a few of the leading Chinese in mercantile circles.\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Kearney, with whom I discussed the matter, called a general meeting of the foreign community, at which the resolutions forwarded herewith were passed unanimously. Some twelve or thirteen persons only attended this meeting, but these included persons of British, American, Belgian, Dutch, Swedish and Japanese nationalities.\n\nCopies have been sent to the Japanese consul and myself with the request that we transmit them, with our support, to our respective Ministers. Those of American, Belgian, Dutch and Swedish nationality undertook to forward copies to their respective consuls at Hankow for the same purpose.\n\nPublicity is also being given to the matter by sending copies to various newspapers.\n\nAccording to Hankow native newspapers, Wang Chan-yuan has telegraphed to the Premier stating that the question of a settlement at Ichang cannot be considered. The most important matter to be dealt with is that of the foreign claims, which will be settled in Hupei if possible. If not, he will refer them to Peking.\n\nAnother, presumably inspired, paragraph in the newspapers states that all natives of Ichang resident in other places are opposed to the establishment of a settlement here; those in Ichang in favour of it are represented as being only a few who are closely connected with foreigners.\n\nThe chief point seems to me to be the neutralisation of the port; once that is gained a settlement does not appear to be an absolute necessity. In this connection I would refer you to the remarks contained in my despatch No. 28 of the 27th December last. Ichang has progressed without a settlement ever since it was opened, and can presumably go on in the same way.\n\nA settlement would not afford any more protection than we have at present if soldiers remain in the neighbourhood, as it could be overrun by them at any time, as was done in November last and on the 4th June, unless gunboats able to land from 70 to 100 men are permanently here or an international garrison of regular foreign troops to a similar number is kept in Ichang.\n\nI would mention that the foreign community of Ichang is too small to make it possible to raise any adequate volunteer force.\n\nIn stating above that a settlement is not an absolute necessity, I do not wish to...\n\nC 2 [7844 ƒ-3]\n\n155\n\n11",
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        "content_text": "7\n\nG\n\nmatters, appointed to carry them into execution. The leading place in the committee is taken by six members, who are styled \"representatives,\" and include prominent local persons such as Chang Lan ch'ing, manager of the Bank of China, Tsao Yao ch'ing and Han Chen ch'i, chairman and vice-chairman respectively of the Chamber of Commerce, and three members of the gentry.\n\nOn the 19th June the representatives addressed a petition to the Taoyin for transmission to the military and civil governors advocating the proposals made at the meeting. A copy of this petition in Chinese, together with translation, is enclosed in this despatch (Enclosure 7).\n\nThe Taoyin then addressed a petition, which is undated, to the provincial authorities, making eight proposals of measures necessary for the restoration of Ichang and the preservation of order in future. A copy of this, with translation of the relevant important parts, forms Enclosure 8. The Taoyin proposed that (suggestion 2) only a small number of troops should be stationed here; that (suggestion 3) special barracks should be constructed for them so that they should not live, as now, in all quarters of the town; that (suggestion 4) the Chinese Government should take the initiative in proposing the laying-out of a settlement before it is extorted from them by foreign Powers, after which the question of the adoption of suitable regulations, such as those of Wuhu or Chefoo, could be discussed.\n\nOn receipt of your telegram No. 8 of the 22nd June, I requested Messrs. Ch'en, Ma and Huang, who had been elected members of the committee, to call on me, making it appear that I merely wished to ascertain from them what progress was being made in their settlement scheme, as they had come to see me on the subject before.\n\nAfter some conversation, I said that a settlement would be useless if soldiers continued to be stationed here; there would be a constant danger of the native garrison mutinying, as they had done before, and at such a time they would certainly not respect the settlement unless a sufficient foreign guard were here to keep them out. We could not count on always having gunboats able to put a landing force ashore which would be sufficient for the purpose.\n\nThe only alternative would be for the foreign Powers to keep a permanent international garrison in Ichang. The best course would be for the Chinese residents themselves to demand that no native troops whatever should be stationed in Ichang or within a radius of 100 li from it; if it was necessary to send troops through Ichang they should not be allowed to spend more than thirty-six hours here, and that only on the side of the river opposite the town. I instanced the danger Ichang had run when the Patung troops were transferred, as reported in my despatch No. 26 of the 8th July.\n\nIf we had no troops within 100 li of Ichang, the place would no longer be in danger, and even a settlement would not be a necessity. I told them that the most important point to press for was to have no troops here, and that the question of having a settlement was subsidiary to it.\n\nMr. Huang, I would mention, has been sent to Peking in connection with the settlement proposals, so only Mr. Chen and Mr. Ma were present at the interview. Both cordially agreed in the views I had expressed, and promised to discuss them with the other members of the committee, the Chamber of Commerce and other persons interested, after which they would address another petition to the Taoyin on the subject. I suggested the desirability of holding public meetings to discuss the subject, and impressed on them the necessity of prominent members of the gentry and merchants supporting the movement.\n\nPrior to this interview I had expressed the above views to the agents of Jardine, Matheson and Co., Butterfield and Swire and the Asiatic Petroleum Company, and, finding that they agreed with me, asked them to impress them as coming from themselves on their compradores, who are all members of the Chamber of Commerce. I also spoke in a similar sense to British, American and Belgian (Catholic) missionaries, asking them to express the same views to prominent Chinese with whom they come into contact.\n\nThe day after the interview the Taoyin called, saying that he had been summoned to Wuchang to discuss the restoration of Ichang; he asked how I thought the security of the place could best be maintained in future. I said that I understood Chinese were talking of a settlement, but that this would be useless so long as troops were stationed here, and expressed the same views as I had done to Messrs. Chen and Ma. It then transpired that the latter had reported my interview with them to him, and he said that he was in cordial agreement with my views. He had already sent a petition to the Governor, copy of which he promised to let me have (copy enclosed), suggesting that only a small number of troops be stationed here. I asked if he would advocate none at all being here, to which he replied that that was a difficult thing for him, as a Chinese official, to do but if the representatives of the gentry and merchants sent in such a petition to him, he would forward it to the Governor without comments of his own.\n\nSome days later Mr. Chen called and told me that my views had been discussed by the committee and with other persons concerned, including the Taoyin, without exception cordially approved of them, and a further petition, copy of which he would send me, would be addressed to the Taoyin on the subject.\n\nAfter much pressure and delay, I have received a copy of this petition (copy enclosed), which is very disappointing, as the suggestion that no troops be stationed here only appears in the usual heading describing the contents of the document. In the body of the petition the writers only venture to say that the present reduced number of troops would seem to be sufficient,\" and end up with the prayer that \"for the present no large number of troops be stationed here.\"\n\nWhilst Mr. Ch'en told me that this petition had actually been sent to the Taoyin, he has since written to say that it cannot be regarded as having been presented officially. The draft was shown him, and he had suggested their delaying sending it in until he had discussed the matter verbally with the Tuchun during his visit to Wuchang. Whilst the Taoyin is, I think, in favour of the proposal, he wants to make quite sure that it will be safe for him personally to send it in before actually doing so. The attitude of the gentry and merchants, all of whom cordially support the idea, is the same, and I doubt if it will be possible to get them to take any greater initiative or to state their wishes more clearly than they have already done. All fear the future vengeance of the Tuchun or other authorities if they make any unpalatable proposals, and would much prefer that the foreign Powers should make the demand and get the odium for doing so, whilst they will reap the benefits and be the first to heap us with obloquy for the step whenever such action suits them. Rather than incur the anger of the Tuchun they will cease their efforts to obtain the removal of the troops or a settlement altogether.\n\nMr. Chen and others concerned will not take any further step in the matter until they hear the result of the Taoyin's visit to Wuchang.\n\nThe instructions given to the Commissioner of Customs, whom I duly consulted, were to support the proposal, but, as a Chinese Government employee, to keep in the background, and all that he has done is to express casually a favourable opinion regarding the project to a few of the leading Chinese in mercantile circles.\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Kearney, with whom I discussed the matter, called a general meeting of the foreign community, at which the resolutions forwarded herewith were passed unanimously. Some twelve or thirteen persons only attended this meeting, but these included persons of British, American, Belgian, Dutch, Swedish and Japanese nationalities.\n\nCopies have been sent to the Japanese consul and myself with the request that we transmit them, with our support, to our respective Ministers. Those of American, Belgian, Dutch and Swedish nationality undertook to forward copies to their respective consuls at Hankow for the same purpose.\n\nPublicity is also being given to the matter by sending copies to various newspapers.\n\nAccording to Hankow native newspapers, Wang Chan-yuan has telegraphed to the Premier stating that the question of a settlement at Ichang cannot be considered. The most important matter to be dealt with is that of the foreign claims, which will be settled in Hupei if possible. If not, he will refer them to Peking.\n\nAnother, presumably inspired, paragraph in the newspapers states that all natives of Ichang resident in other places are opposed to the establishment of a settlement here; those in Ichang in favour of it are represented as being only a few who are closely connected with foreigners.\n\nThe chief point seems to me to be the neutralisation of the port; once that is gained a settlement does not appear to be an absolute necessity. In this connection I would refer you to the remarks contained in my despatch No. 28 of the 27th December last. Ichang has progressed without a settlement ever since it was opened, and can presumably go on in the same way. A settlement would not afford any more protection than we have at present if soldiers remain in the neighbourhood, as it could be overrun by them at any time, as was done in November last and on the 4th June, unless gunboats able to land from 70 to 100 men are permanently here or an international garrison of regular foreign troops to a similar number is kept in Ichang.\n\nI would mention that the foreign community of Ichang is too small to make it possible to raise any adequate volunteer force.\n\nIn stating above that a settlement is not an absolute necessity, I do not wish to...\n\n[7844 ƒ-3]\n\nC 2\n\n161",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nunder the beneficent rule of a republic, and even—which seems incredible to any foreigner who has any extensive experience of the interior of China—advocate the abolition of extra-territoriality. As far as I know, these foreigners are all foreigners who have spent their lives in security in China in the midst of foreign communities, such as Peking, Tien-tsin and the coast, and who have no first-hand experience of the interior. One can only regret that these advocates of putting the foreigner under the jurisdiction of so-called Chinese justice cannot be forced to live for six months in some remote village or city in the interior, far away even from the restraining influence of a consulate, and made liable to be publicly and ignominiously dragged to a yamên, forced to kneel on chains to extort a confession, liable to the ignominious and cruel punishment of the bamboo, or, even putting aside the risk of torture, which still goes on in some places, liable to die from cold in the winter in the wretched dens which do duty as prison quarters—only last winter I heard of such a case. Such degradation of the foreigner would mean his loss of prestige, and when this comes to pass the interior of China will only become attractive to those wearied of the vanities of this life and aspirants for the martyr's crown—a noble band whom I admire, but among whom I have no wish to be enrolled as a member.\n\nThe state of chaos in China will not be improved until—\n\n1. The strong men get control, and, combining together, gradually put each province in order.\n\n2. The students are kept in check.\n\n3. The soldiers are reduced to legitimate requirements and kept under a proper state of discipline, whilst brigands are relentlessly hunted down.\n\nIt is impossible to forecast what combinations of strong men will eventually bring back peace and prosperity to the country. I should like to see a combination of such men as Wu Pei-fu in the centre of China, Ch'en Shu-fan in Shensi, Ch'en Chiung-ming at Canton, and possibly Hsiung K'o-wu in Szechuan. Other provinces, of which I have no recent experience, might be able to add to the number. These combined should be able to put an end to the effete puppets of the Peking Government, that visionary impossibility, Sun Yat-sen, and the wind-bag, Wu Ting-fang of the Canton Government. As regards Chang Tso-lin, who rules supreme in Manchuria, I do not know whether he has improved and is a reformed character from what he was twelve or thirteen years ago when I visited him. He had then recently retired from the leadership of the Hunghutzu of the district and had a reputation for cruelty. He disgusted me by bragging about a recent triumph over an enemy, another robber chief, the fact being that he had invited him to a feast of reconciliation, and after the feast had seized the opportunity to have him crushed to death between two of the big stones used for crushing grain.\n\nChengtu, Szechuan.\n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nG. PEREIRA.\n\nReport by Brigadier-General G. Pereira of December 14, 1921.\n\nIN 1900 the Chinese people were in a state of unrest, partly caused by a failure of the crops, and partly by the recent introduction of European education and a feeling of the necessity of reform. The movement was primarily anti-dynastic, but the Court, realising its danger, managed to divert the Boxer movement to an anti-foreign outbreak. At that time the country was united under one rule, and enjoyed the benefits of individual security and prosperity under a mild form of autocracy, the only form of government suitable for Asiatic nations in their present undeveloped state. Therefore, whilst the anti-foreign movement was more dangerous owing to the better organisation under a united Government, still it was greatly lessened and localised thanks to the provinces being swayed by an exceptional number of eminent and capable viceroys and governors, such as Liu K'un-yi at Nanking, Chang Chih-tung at Wu-ch'ang, Li Hung-Chang at Canton, Yuan Shih-k'ai in Shantung and Tuan Fang in Shensi.\n\nIn 1900 those who prophesied trouble before the Boxer outbreak were stigmatised as alarmists, whilst those who pooh-poohed the chances of trouble were afterwards abused for their want of foresight. The same will happen again at the present time, the fact being the prophets fail to realise that there are such thousands of unforeseen circumstances that none can foresee, which will divert popular feeling and action into unexpected courses. This makes it wrong to make definite prophecies, as their fulfilment is a pure gamble, and it is only the irresponsible man, with a limited local knowledge, who ventures to do so. If he turns out to be right he can say, “I told you so,” whilst if he is wrong his prophecies are too unimportant to be remembered. At the present time it is universally admitted by all who know China that the country has never been in such a rotten state, and that the experiment of a republic has proved a most dismal failure. The people, especially in the upper classes, are not educated up to the requirements of a liberal form of government, and it will be many years before they attain to it.\n\nNot only do all the evils under the imperial régime still exist, but they are multiplied, owing to there being many heads instead of one. In the old days the millions poured into the Court at Peking, and a good deal of the money was spent in the service of the State, whilst smaller sums, more or less regulated by precedents, and in a measure recognised as legitimate perquisites of underpaid officials, were received by officials. At the present time the millions go into the pockets of the bigger officials, such as Chang Tso-lin in Manchuria, Wang Chan-yuan, late Governor of Hupei, and Hsiung K'o-wu, the late ruling spirit in Szechuan, and a little or nothing of this comes back to the State. In the same way the minor officials, with no restraining influence from Peking or fear of public opinion, are out to make what they can, and as quickly as possible, whilst their day of power lasts. In the old days public opinion had much influence over the officials, and if one tried to overstep the limits of squeeze the people rose and there was trouble. Now the soldiers have increased so enormously in numbers and power that they keep the people in a state of subjection and terrorism. The merchants and people long for a state of peace and security in vain.\n\nThe break-up of the central power has been the chance for adventurers, and now the provinces are divided against each other, and often a province is split up into factions.\n\nIn the old days the army was despised as an inferior profession and a restraining influence kept on it, but the rise of innumerable factions has given the soldiers their chance. Each petty leader is dependent on them, and the men themselves now thoroughly understand their power. Very few military officers trouble about discipline or take any pains about securing a regular payment for their men. As a result the soldier is generally owed a large amount of back pay, which is sometimes made up for by encouraging looting. If this is not sufficiently profitable the soldiers desert and join a brigand band.\n\nThe students are, to my mind, an even greater source of danger, but as I have dealt with them in a recent report, I will not dwell on them now. It must be remembered that, whatever his failings and lack of education, the student of to-day represents the future ruling class of China, and that the ideas he now imbibes will later be developed.\n\nThe spirit of unrest is increased by secret societies, which have always existed in China, and have now increased in numbers and power. Though primarily they may be organised against the Chinese Government of the day, still there is often the watchword of \"China for the Chinese!\" which tends for an anti-foreign feeling. This, at times, may only require a few foolish actions by one or two irresponsible foreigners to fan the spark, and produce a local and totally unforeseen combustion, which once started may easily spread.\n\nIn Szechuan, probably the most factious and split-up province in China, with apparently no commanding figure to restore order out of chaos, there is of course a certain amount of safety for the foreigner, whilst the factious are fighting amongst themselves, and the leaders may feel that one day their only chance of escaping may be through the assistance of the foreigners. On the other hand, owing to the lack of any stable form of government or dependence on any central authority, a sudden anti-foreign rising by a mob or engineered by secret societies would be more dangerous than in any other province owing to its inaccessibility.\n\nThrough the collapse of Russia, and in a lesser degree of Germany, the power of the foreigner to command respect in China is much less than it used to be, the more so as the remaining Powers are more engrossed in restoring order in their own countries. Luckily they can still demonstrate against Peking, Canton, Wuchang and Nanking, the most important centres of influence in China, whilst with its long coast line other important points can be threatened. Yunnan, too, with the railway to Hanoi and its neighbourhood to Burma, can feel the power of the foreigner, but the western provinces are generally isolated and beyond the reach of a foreign expedition. 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        "content_text": "MINUTES.\n\nMINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.\n\nWESTMINSTER GAZETTE, TUESDAY, 27 JUNE 1922\n\n[THE POSITION IN CHINA.]\n\nIn spite of much that is still unsettled, there is some ground for the hope that China is beginning to emerge from the troubled conditions that have obtained in the country since the dismemberment in 1917. Wu Pei-fu has ended the power of the Mukden dictator, Chang Tso-lin, whose forces are now outside the Great Wall. With the fighting finished in the North, Wu has now an opportunity of consummating the Constitutional changes which he has so long advocated. But their scope can at last extend to the South, where Sun Yat-sen ruled recently. The position here is not yet quite clear, but the chief factor in it is of great importance. On 16 June Chen Chiung-ming's troops took possession of the forts around Canton, and Sun Yat-sen took refuge in a warship. Since then his movements have been a fruitful source of rumour. Last Thursday he was reported captured; but on Sunday he still appears to have been with the navy of the Canton Government, and while this remains loyal to him he cannot be wholly ignored. But Chen Chiung-ming on entering Canton called upon Sun Yat-sen to repudiate the title of President, and proclaimed the reunion of the North and South. Whether the reunion can be consummated is the problem of the immediate future; but for the first time since China was rent in twain there has appeared a general who is strong enough to take hold of the North, astute enough to conciliate the South, and sufficiently far-seeing to be a sincere advocate of the unity of his country and of Constitutional development. In Wu Pei-fu lies the hope that China will recover the unity and order that are so necessary, if she is not to fall into complete and irremediable anarchy.\n\nBRAVE MEN.",
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        "content_text": "202\n\nTHE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1922.\n\nNEW SITUATION IN SOUTHERN CHINA.\n\n> LIGHT OF SUN-YAT-SEN.\n\nFrom PERCEVAL LANDON.\n\nPEKIN, Saturday.\n\nThe coup-de-main which has displaced Dr. Yat-Sen in the South seems to have been so carried out as to prevent all possibility of his yielding to the overtures of Pakiu, The extraordinary \"President\" had steadily been losing the confidence of his own people for months, and his uncompromising attitude during the last few days was apparently interpreted both in Kwangtung as a proof of ingrained militarism and personal ambition—the rock on which his arrangements were wrecked.\n\nARRANGING AN ARMISTICE.\n\nSHANGHAI, Sunday. Representatives of Generals Wu-Pei-Fu and Chang-Tso-Lin are meeting on board His Majesty's ship Curlow, at Ching-Wan-Tao, to arrange the details of an armistice.—L'entral News.\n\nPROSPECT OF REUNION.\n\nPEKIN, Saturday (4.45 p.m.). While it is very difficult to get reliable information from Canton, there is no doubt, judging from telegrams received at the Legations here, that a coup d'état did occur yesterday, and that Sun-Yat-Sen has fled from the city, leaving Chen-Chiung-Ming master of the situation. Whether the latter will remain so, and whether Sun-Yat-Sen has permanently fallen, the next few days will probably show, but the fact even of Sun-Yat-Sen's temporary downfall is perhaps the most significant event that has occurred in China for years.\n\nAs an agreement exists between General Wu-Pei-Fu and Chen-Chiung-Ming, the project of his friendship with his colleague, Chen-Chiung-Ming, was wrecked. In truth, Sun-Yat-Sen had long outlived his usefulness, and though in the interests of unification Li-Yuan-Hung could hardly do less than invite the co-operation of the rival President of the South, nothing would have been more disastrous than the incorporation of Sun-Yat-Sen in the new Chinese régime.\n\nIt is difficult to say to what extent Li-Yuan-Hung and Wu-Pei-Fu have been privy to this coup, though it is clear from the remarks let fall by the new Premier a week ago, that he did not expect Sun-Yat-Sen to remain much longer in China. It is too early yet to assess the precise difference that his disappearance will cause in Chinese politics, though it is safe to assume that Chen-Chiung-Ming has no wish ever to assume the presidential chair, the flight of Sun-Yat-Sen has rendered that fact clear. Although Chen-Chiung-Ming and Wu-Pei-Fu are personally unacquainted with each other, it has long been noted that in general their aims, and even characters, are very similar. Like Wu-Pei-Fu, the Southern General, too, has now to make a momentous decision, and it may be taken for granted that he will make it in much the same circumstances as those which attended the expulsion of the Southern president, and the setting up of a Government by Wu-Pei-Fu. To both men politics are a distasteful and strange business; but Chen-Chiung-Ming will inevitably find himself involved in just such perplexities as those which divided the counsels of Wu-Pei-Fu, and as certainly called upon to shape his own policy and set up new officials in the places of which he has expelled the chief magistrate.\n\nThe point which is now being most closely watched in Pekin is his attitude towards Wu-Ting-Fang, who, it will be remembered, issued a manifesto eight days ago in which he denounced in no measured terms the new Pekin Government. It was reported here on competent authority that Li-Yuan-Hung had consequently made direct overtures to Wu-Ting-Fang—not an unnatural action on his part, seeing that the latter, more than any other politician in China, was identified both with the cause of Republican union in 1911, with the subsequent protest against militarism, which led to the secession of the Southern States and the establishment of the Canton Government.\n\nThe situation is complicated by the positive denial of Wu-Ting-Fang that he had never received any such overtures from Li-Yuan-Hung. But whatever may have been written or unwritten on either side, it is believed that the abdication of Sun-Yat-Sen will so largely modify the position that Wu-Ting-Fang is unlikely to persevere in a refusal that closes the door to reconciliation between the North and the South. If, as is declared, Chen-Chiung-Ming is inclined to act together with Wu-Pei-Fu for reunion, it is not improbable that the Southern Minister and the Southern General may both accept positions in the new régime in which, though much clearing-up work remains to be done, the split of 1917 may be said to have been patched up again. In some sense Chen-Chiung-Ming has the entire situation in his hand, for no conditions can well be rejected by the new and unstable Northern Government if reunion is their subject.\n\nAspects of union between the North and South would be immensely improved with Sun-Yat-Sen out of the way.\n\nThe armistice between General Wu-Pei-Fu and Marshal Chang-Tso-Lin is now in operation. Reuter.\n\nEND OF CANTON GOVERNMENT\n\nPEKIN, Saturday. Chen-Chiung-Ming has announced that the Canton Government has ceased to exist. Henceforth Canton will unite with the Northern Government in recognising the old Republican Parliament.\n\nDespatches from Canton state that the collapse of the Southern Government is complete, that Sun-Yat-Sen's forces have been crushed, and that the ex-President himself is a fugitive. Reuter.\n\nMy Bickett.\n\nM. Jait. Row Dept\n\n16\n\n25/6\n\natouch topp.\n\n1966.\n\n08-19\n\n88\n\n野",
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        "content_text": "CHINESE CITIES IN RUINS.\n\nTHE TIMES, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1922.\n\nHAVOC OF CIVIL WAR. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nSHANGHAI, JUNE 7. Descriptions published by the North; China Daily News from its correspondents in Kwangsi of the desolation wrought by the fighting between the Canton and Kwangsi troops read like the sack of Louvain.\n\nThe trouble dates from the attempt a year ago by Lu Yung-ting, the former Governor-General of Kwangtung before the Sun Yat-sen régime, to re-establish himself in Canton. He was defeated and driven back by the Cantonese forces, which then invaded the Province and broke up such government as Kwangsi possessed, but put nothing in its place, even when Sun Yat-sen himself established the headquarters of his projected expedition against the North at Kweilin. This position Sun Yat-sen evacuated two months ago, returning to Canton, and Kwangsi was left to the mercy of bands of irregular Kwangsi forces and leaderless Cantonese troops.\n\nThe latter have now been driven back into Kwangtung. Their departure was signalized by burning, looting, and the carrying off of women in every city they passed through. From Wuchow alone they exacted nearly two hundred thousand dollars [£25,000] journey money. It is only fair to say that the Kwangsi troops in pursuing the Kwangtung forces appear no less merciless towards their fellow-provincials. Their efforts are nobly seconded by hosts of brigands, who spring up in every provincial war.\n\nThe Province is now reported to be cleared of Kwangtung troops, and the Kwangsi leaders are endeavouring to restore some semblance of government. But the Province is exhausted. Cities once populous and wealthy are ruined, and trade is at a standstill, while the country is flooded with worthless Canton paper money. The whole story is a bitter comment on Sun Yat-sen's boast of an All-South China united under Canton against the North.\n\nWuchow, a treaty port on the left bank of the West River, 220 miles from Canton, is the gateway leading from Kwangsi to Kwangtung, and is the distributing centre of trade between Kweichow, Yunnan, Kwangsi, and Canton. Kweilin, where Sun Yat-sen had established his headquarters, is 262 miles north of Wuchow.\n\nLu Yung-ting, a native of Kwangsi, born in 1856, was at one time a leader of bandits, but was reclaimed and led an expedition against the Kwangsi bandits.\n\nPage 204\n\nSUN YAT-SEN'S FAILURE. (BY DAVID FRASER, \"THE TIMES CORRESPONDENT IN THE FAR EAST.) Our Shanghai Correspondent's message this morning, added to the information from Hong-kong which we have published during the past few days, are at once instructive of what civil war means in China and of the qualifications of Sun Yat-sen to be a ruler over his fellow-countrymen.\n\nSun, as the first President of the Republic, comported himself with modesty, and readily retired to admit of a political settlement, which placed another occupant, Yuan Shih-kai, in the principal office of State. Thereafter, however, he showed an extraordinary lack of practical statesmanship, and the unhappy situation in Kwangsi province, in our message from Shanghai, certainly indicates that Sun Yat-sen, whatever his private character may be, is a political danger to his country.\n\nAfter the military conquest of Kwangsi he endeavoured to set up a new Government in that province and to use it as a base for further operations directed against Wu Pei-fu. Being blocked by the Military Governor of Hunan, allegedly because of the non-payment of money promised, he retired from Kwangsi and is now supposed to be endeavouring to prosecute his plans by marching northward through the adjacent province of Kiangsi.\n\nBut in retreating from Kwangsi his soldiers spread desolation on their way, ravishing the people after the manner of the Huns. The forces that he had previously driven into the mountains rose behind him, and they, in their turn, continued the work of devastation. And wherever the two armies left any evil undone the brigands in swarms stepped in and completed the abominable work. Well may our Correspondent say the province is \"exhausted,\" for wealthy and populous cities are ruined, trade has ceased, and the unfortunate people are loaded up with worthless paper money.\n\nIt is impossible to believe that there can be any reality in Sun Yat-sen's invasion of the North. News of successful advances continually arrive from Canton, but other accounts declare that Sun Yat-sen's army has been routed and driven back into Kwangtung, while he himself has gone as a supplicant to Chen Chiung-ming, whom he recently dismissed, to beg that officer to return and let bygones be bygones.\n\nMeanwhile Wu Pei-fu thinks so little of Chang Tso-lin that he is leaving his final ejection from Chibli to junior officers. Nor does he attach any importance to Sun Yat-sen's futile opposition. It is satisfactory to know that Wu Pei-fu is devoting himself to fundamental questions, and that he is in agreement with Li Yuan-hung, whose return as President is desired apparently by the whole country, in regard to essential reforms.\n\nLI'S CONDITIONS. PEKING, June 7—Li Yuan-hung, in a circular telegram to the provinces, states that he will resume the Presidency if the Military Governors and Military Regional Commandants are abolished, superfluous troops disbanded, and the military leaders agree to meet him in Peking in order to discuss methods for bringing these measures about.\n\nGeneral Wu Pei-fu is leaving military operations in the hands of capable subordinates, and is concentrating upon important political matters. In the course of an interview yesterday he said that there was no doubt that Li Yuan-hung would go to Peking and remain in office for five months, after which a National Assembly would be elected. Cabinet reconstruction must await Li Yuan-hung's arrival in Peking. He was most hopeful as regards the future, but he said that there had been so much corruption that the people demanded a thorough cleansing of official life.—Reuter.",
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        "content_text": "THE TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1922.\n\n205\n\nThe Times Saturday May 27.\n\nBLUEJACKETS LAND IN CHINA.\n\n(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nTIENTSIN, MAY 26. Bluejackets from the British cruiser Curlew landed at Chinwangtao and Peitaiho to-day to protect British lives and interests.\n\nCHANG AGGRESSIVE.\n\nFOREIGNERS ASK FOR PROTECTION.\n\n(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nTIENTSIN, MAY 25. Passengers who arrived here last night by the international train from Mukden report that Chang Tso-lin has removed the freight cars and locomotives standing at Chinwangtao Station and armed the local police. The British residents thereupon requested the Commander of the Bluebell to disembark Bluejackets for their protection.\n\nThe Manchurian forces are digging trenches in the hills westward of Shanhaikwan.\n\nForeign nationals at present stopping at Paitaiho are also appealing for the dispatch of a warship. Grave apprehensions are entertained owing to the presence of the Manchurians, Peitaiho and Chinwangtao being within easy distance of Shanhaikwan.\n\nWu Pei-fu is expected to take swift action.\n\nA FAVOURITE SUMMER RESORT.\n\nThe news that Chang Tso-lin's forces are interfering with the police and terrorizing the inhabitants in the neighbourhood of Shanhaikwan, Chinwangtao, and Peitaiho is of particular interest to foreigners. The last named is a favourite summer resort in China, and nearly four thousand Europeans and Americans, of whom the large majority are women and children, spend the hot months of the year there, entirely unprotected but for a handful of Chinese police.\n\nAccording to our Hong-kong Correspondent's message of yesterday the situation at Canton is developing unfavourably to Sun Yat-sen. The troops of Chen Chiung-ming, who was recently dismissed from the posts of Military Governor and Commander-in-Chief, have entered the city and are assuming control of public offices.\n\nM: Bickett\n\nM: Cultius\n\n? attach to pp.\n\n27/5. Bay AEP",
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        "content_text": "COFY.\n\nLoan to Ch'en Chiung-ming: reasons for request of.\n\nVERY CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nChinese Encl. No. 9.\n\nH.B.M. Consulate-General, CANTON.\n\nMarch 28, 1922.\n\nCopy to F.O., Hongkong, Joint Intelligence Bureau, H.K., Mr. A.G. Stephen, Mr. Denham.\n\n208\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to report that I this afternoon received a visit from Mr. Ku Chun, a Straits-born Chinese and M.A. of Cambridge University, who, while not occupying any definite official position, is a young gentleman whom General Ch'en Chiung-ming frequently employs as a go-between in confidential matters. The object of his visit was to endeavour to induce me to approach those concerned for a loan of two and a half million dollars, on the security of the Civil Governor's seal and that of Provincial Treasurer, for the purpose of reacquiring the control of the Canton Mint. It would appear that, when General Ch'en returned to Canton from Chang chow at the end of 1920, he found the Treasury empty, and a certain person named Liu Huan, whose family possess large local rice interests, advanced $2,500,000 to enable the new régime to carry on. As a reward, he was granted the Managership of the Mint, which is a lucrative post, said to bring in at least $10,000 per diem. Of late, Liu associated with himself Liao Ch'ung-k'ai, Sun Yat Sen's Vice-Minister of Finance, and one Ch'eng T'ien-tou, said to be an architect by profession, but at present head of the Bank of Kwangtung. General Ch'en having reason to suspect that all was not in order with the accounts of the Mint, ordered Ma Yo-hang, the Head of the Economic Bureau, a relation of his, lately...\n\nSir Beilby Alston, K.C.M.G., C.B.",
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        "content_text": "In \n\nThe Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium subsequently adhered to this arrangement. Italy also acceded, but with the important reservation that all contracts already concluded by Italians or to be concluded by them before all the Powers had signified their consent to the agreement should be excluded. The reason for this reservation was the existence of two Italian arms contracts not yet executed. In December, the British, French, American and Japanese representatives at Rome protested against this attitude and asked for assurances that none of the existing Italian contracts would be executed. So far as British subjects were concerned, the arms embargo was at once brought into action by means of a Regulation, which is still in force. (Copy enclosed.) \n\nUrgent King's \n\nThe arms embargo policy succeeded at any rate in putting a complete check on the supply of arms from Japan; and the Japanese have observed its stipulations very faithfully, though from time to time they have urged that they can no longer handicap their merchants, unless other countries interpret the embargo equally strictly. For the smooth and effective working of the embargo has been hampered for several reasons, such as (1) the continuance of civil disorder in China—at the time of the embargo it appeared as if peace were in sight, (2) difficulties of arriving at an exact definition of \"munitions of war,\" (3) difficulties experienced, either willingly or unwillingly, by certain countries in restraining the activities of their nationals. \n\nThe following cases illustrate the kind of difficulties with which the embargo policy has had to contend:— \n\n1. Vickers Aeroplane Contract.—After the announcement of the embargo, Messrs. Vickers, supported by His Majesty's Government, signed a contract with the Chinese Government for the supply of aeroplanes for commercial use. At the time, this deal aroused adverse comment, and we were accused of bad faith, especially when, during 1920, these aeroplanes were actually seized by warring generals and used for military purposes. \n\n2. The Italian Arms Supply.—The unsatisfactory attitude of the Italians has already been indicated, and the reservation made by them before adhering to the embargo. A cargo of Italian arms reached China in November 1919, and were there stored in Italian barracks. In July 1920 it became known that some of these arms were being supplied to the Chinese. The Italian Minister publicly admitted this, but stated that the remaining stocks were under the control of his Legation, and no further deliveries could be made without his consent. This incident led to renewed protests at Rome on the part of Great Britain, France, the United States of America and Japan. The Italian reply was unsatisfactory; they maintained their original reservation. \n\n3. The American Arms Supply.—During 1920 and 1921 it became known that Americans were supplying the revolutionary Government at Canton with a considerable number of aeroplanes, obviously for military use, and that American machinery was being supplied for Canton arsenal, where an American was employed as engineer-in-chief. Americans were also working at the Canton aerodrome, and in one case an American aviator had actually been killed in action in the Chinese civil war. Contrary to the case of the Italians, there is no reason to think that the United States Government connives at these activities. Their legal position constitutes the difficulty. On the 22nd March, 1921, they explained to His Majesty's Government that, owing to the repeal of the Espionage Act (of the 15th June, 1917) they had lost the legal power to control the export of arms and ammunition, endeavouring to obtain from Congress a renewal of the necessary authority. But they had not changed their policy in regard to the embargo, and they hoped that nothing would be done to change the policy of the other Powers. \n\n4. Training of Aviators.—In the spring of 1921, His Majesty's Government refused a request from the Chinese Government for instruction in aviation for two Chinese officers. We considered that it was contrary to the spirit of the embargo. The students were at once given facilities in America. In reply to an enquiry from us, the United States Government replied that they did not regard such training as falling within the scope of the original arms embargo, but that if it were the desire of the British Government to broaden the scope of that agreement, they would be happy to give consideration to any formula which we might suggest. \n\nThe question dropped until December last year when it was again brought to the fore by the action of the Italians. The Japanese Minister at Peking had ascertained that Italian arms had been handed over secretly on the nights of the 21st and 22nd November to the Military Governor of Chibli. The Italian Chargé d'Affaires had stated in justification that his Government had never recognised the arms embargo as applying to contracts made before its adoption. Until ordered otherwise, he considered himself at liberty to dispose of the arms. \n\nHis Majesty's Minister, however, has been informed that there were actually in the Italian Legation exhibits of arms, and a catalogue of the stock available for intending purchasers. He is therefore sceptical of the Italian assertion that they had contracted to sell any of these arms before the date of the embargo. He thinks that the arms in question were merely shipped before that date. \n\nIdentic telegrams on the subject were forthwith addressed to their Governments by the British, French, Japanese and American Ministers. The Japanese Government proposed at once to protest at Rome; and the British Ambassador there was instructed to associate himself with the protest. \n\nAt the same time the representatives of the four Powers at Peking suggested that the matter be brought before the conference at Washington. \n\nThe question has been further complicated by a report that a Danish firm is supplying a large order for plant for the arsenal of Chang Tso Lin, Military Governor of Mukden; and that machinery for the manufacture of rifles and guns for the same arsenal is to come from Germany. Denmark is a signatory of the arms embargo; Germany is not. (But by article 170 of the Treaty of Versailles \"manufacture of and export to foreign countries of arms, munitions and war material of every kind by Germany is prohibited.) \n\nCommenting on this latest report, Sir B. Alston considers that the matter is of an urgency warranting serious discussion at Washington with a view, if possible, to bringing into operation a really effective and universal embargo, or, if this unfortunately proves unobtainable, to placing all foreign Powers on an equal footing as regards liberty to supply China with war material. \n\nThe United States Legation at Copenhagen has enquired (on the 22nd December, 1921) from the British Chargé d'Affaires, whether he had been instructed to concert with them and the Japanese in a protest to the Danish Government. \n\nThe second alternative is clearly undesirable, and contrary to all the aspirations of the conference for the rehabilitation of China. The Pacific and Far Eastern Committee has already (on the 5th January) adopted a resolution condemning the excessive military forces maintained by provincial chieftains. In pursuance of this policy it might seem opportune for the Conference Powers (who have all except China signed the embargo and who include all the Embargo Powers except Spain, Russia, Brazil and Denmark) to reaffirm that agreement, and to promise to take such steps as may be necessary to render it effective. \n\nA draft resolution for submission to the conference is attached hereto. \n\nSub-Enclosure 1 to Enclosure 1 in No. 1. \n\nNOTICE. \n\nThe following regulations, made by His Majesty's Minister, and hereby declared to be urgent, are published for general information. \n\nPeking, June 2, 1919. \n\nJ. N. JORDAN, \n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Minister. \n\nKING'S REGULATIONS MADE UNDER ARTICLE 155 OF \"THE CHINA ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1904, AND ARTICLE 13 OF \"THE CHINA (AMENDMENT) ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1907.\" \n\nNo. 25 of 1919. \n\nRegulations prohibiting Import, Export, or Dealing in Arms. \n\n1. No person shall, either on his own behalf or on behalf of any other person of whatever nationality— \n\nImport into or export out of China or any concession, settlement, or leased territory in China; or buy, sell, or deal in; or enter into negotiations for the sale or purchase of or other dealings in arms, ammunition and munitions of war of every description, but exclusive of sporting weapons and ammunition therefor. \n\nPage 5\n\nC \n\n229",
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        "content_text": "COPY.\n\nEnclosure No.1 in Peking despatch No.11 to Foreign Office of July 12th, 1922.\n\nAprès quatre mois de pénibles négociations pendant lesquelles le Ministre de l'État a discuté avec le Général Chen Chiung Ming, toujours en qualité d'intermédiaire entre le Gouvernement de Macao et le Gouvernement de Kuang-tung, sans jamais approuver le Gouvernement de Sud, les lettres échangées du côté portugais et du côté chinois, signées par le Gouverneur de Macao et par le Général Chen, sont arrivées à une entente par laquelle une commission mixte composée de deux membres portugais et de deux membres chinois procéderait à une nouvelle enquête sur l'incident du 16 septembre (qui n'est qu'à l'état secondaire) et une autre commission entre les délégués des deux autorités contractantes tâcherait d'étudier un modus-vivendi pour le régime du port intérieur, en spécifiant les prétentions et les propositions du Gouvernement de Macao et du Kuang-tung, dans un esprit de conciliation du côté portugais.\n\nC'était entendu que, dans le cas, très probable (selon l'avis du Ministre de Portugal, avis qu'il avait exprimé bien clairement au Général Chen) où ces délégués ne pourraient s'entendre en vue de prétentions exagérées inacceptables pour le Portugal, le Général Chen considérerait alors la proposition, à maintes reprises, faite par Monsieur de Freitas, de présenter la décision d'un arbitre, accepté par les deux parties, un modus-vivendi provisoire entre les autorités de Macao et les autorités locales du Kuang-tung, pour le régime du port intérieur ou même pour la délimitation, qui durerait jusqu'au moment où, après unification de la Chine, les deux Gouvernements pourraient négocier la délimitation définitive.\n\nFour",
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        "content_text": "TRANSLATION.\n\n513\n\nSTATEMENT OF CHEAH NGOH OH MADE ON OCTOBER 20th, 1922:\n\nI, Cheah Ngoh Oh, came to the Republic of China in the year 1918.\n\nOwing to trouble suffered by Trio-tng Village, the native place of my forefathers, in the fighting between the North and the South, 26 neighbouring villages appointed me as Headman of these villages, and requested me to maintain peace and order in those villages. The former Hai-chong District Magistrate, Sun Yu-tung, requested the Tu-chân, Shong-chang and the Thoyin to sanction my appointment as 'Captain of the Guard band of the Eastern Section'. Sanction was accordingly granted; a seal was given to me; and I was instructed to assume the post.\n\nIn view of ancestral relationship, I dared not refuse the appointment which was therefore obliged to accept. I have held this appointment for three years and have committed no mistake.\n\nLast year the inhabitants of 20 villages of Ch'ung-ling Lo established a 'Field Tax Office' which was opened and directed by Yo-di, a deputy appointed by the present Hai-chang District Magistrate, Po Lin-shu; and of this Office I have been publicly requested to take charge.\n\nThat now Ch'iu Hsia-min accuses me without any reason, of misconduct, disturbing local order, injures my reputation; and therefore, request favour to obtain from Ch'iu Hsia-min the proof of my so disturbing local order.\n\nI beg to submit herewith for your inspection copy of the instrument of appointment from Magistrate Sun.\n\n(Seal) Cheah: Ngoh Ch\n\nOfficial Instrument of Appointment enclosed herewith.\n\nTo A.d.dastos, Esquire,\n\nB. 5. M. Consul,\n\nAmoy.",
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        "content_text": "88\n\n22\n\nwere approached by China with a view to the reduction and ultimate extinction of the Indian import, there were no two courses open.\n\nThe result was the conclusion of an agreement at the beginning of 1908, by which, with effect from the 1st January 1908, the Government of India undertook to diminish progressively the total amount of opium sold at Calcutta by 5,100 chests a year for a period of three years, which it was expected would indirectly diminish the amount imported into China; and if the Chinese fulfilled their share of the agreement to reduce cultivation in China to a similar extent, they further agreed to continue annual reductions of 5,100 chests until the total export reached the figure of 16,000 chests. Over the five-year period 1901-05 the average annual export to all countries was 67,000 chests, of which China took 51,000, so that progressive annual reductions of 5,100 chests would have brought export to China to an end in 1917, the limitation having begun in 1908, when the total export to all countries was 61,900 chests. The difficulty presented by the Malwa trade was overcome by a decision to throw the greater part of the burden of reduction upon the Bengal monopoly, and the situation was further eased by the fact that owing to bad seasons and the competition of the native Chinese drug, cultivation had for a long time been declining in the Indian States. The net result was a very great diminution in Indian cultivation.\n\nMr. Leach, Councillor to the Peking Legation, reporting to Sir J. Jordan in November 1907, stated that the appreciable amount of success obtained up to that date by the Chinese Government in their \"stupendous task of attempting by legislation to eradicate a national and popular vice in a country whose population is generally estimated at 400,000,000,\" showed that the task could be fulfilled, and that the Chinese people in general considered opium smoking a vice. In a further report, transmitted to London by Sir J. Jordan in June 1908, Mr. Leach remarked that since his previous report, the chief feature of the situation had been the continued energy of the Central Government and the growing apathy of provincial officials, but he produced gratifying evidence of reduction in cultivation from many provinces. In November 1908, Sir Alexander Hosie reported that there was no question as to the continued sincerity and zeal of the Central Government, which was backed by public opinion and a young but growing patriotism, and Sir J. Jordan agreed that, \"considering the magnitude of the task, the success which has so far attended the movement is as great as could reasonably be expected.\" In October 1909, Mr. Max Muller, Councillor to the Peking Legation, reported that distinct progress had been made, especially in Shansi and Yunnan, and considered that the great test would arise in the case of Szechuan, the chief opium province, where sowing in the autumn of 1909 had been prohibited. In April 1910, it was reported that cultivation in Szechuan had been greatly checked, and it was then arranged for Sir Alexander Hosie to make an extensive tour of inspection during the 1910 season. In March 1911, Sir A. Hosie reported that cultivation had been suppressed in Szechuan \"for the present\"; that there had been a reduction of 75 per cent in the production of Yunnan, where raw opium had risen to six times its value in 1907; that in Kansu, production had increased in some districts and had been energetically diminished in others; that very little decrease had been effected in Shensi, but that cultivation had been entirely suppressed in Shansi.\n\nNegotiations were begun at Peking in the latter half of 1910 for a continuance of the 1908 arrangement, the Government of India agreeing that there was sufficient general evidence that cultivation had been substantially reduced in China to warrant their waiving statistical proof, and a new agreement was drawn up and signed on the 8th May 1911. Under the terms of this agreement, the Government of India agreed (1) to the payment of an import duty three times the existing amount in return for the promised abolition of provincial taxes; (2) to the partial closure of China to Indian opium by provinces, including not only stoppage of transit passes but also treaty port closure, Shanghai and Canton excepted; (3) to the total extinction of trade before 1917 on proof of total cessation of opium production in China; and (4) to revision of the agreement on due notice by either party. On her side, China agreed, amongst other things, to reduce production in China pari passu with the reduction of exports from India.\n\nIn addition to the limit to the China trade imposed by the agreement, the Government of India agreed, in order to lessen the danger of smuggling into China, and as an earnest of their desire to assist that country, strictly to confine the remainder of the Indian exports to the legitimate demands of the non-China markets. The figure arrived at for these markets, the result of elaborate calculations based on Board of Trade statistics and the average exports for the period 1905-09, when no inducement for smuggling to China had existed, was 14,000 chests; the Government of India cut down their non-China exports to this figure in 1911, and in order to make assurance doubly sure, spontaneously reduced this to 13,200 chests in 1912. The whole of the very large revenue from the China trade was now lost to India, as well as the revenue from that part of the exports to non-China markets which was sacrificed as an unsolicited and indirect contribution to China's success.\n\nThen followed the revolution in China, Szechuan being among the first provinces to revolt. Poppy began to be grown again everywhere. Cultivation in Yunnan was reported to be continuing as early as November 1911, and in the Cheng Tu\n\n23",
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