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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\nEN\n\nLaw Officers\n\nForeign Office\n\nSir Gr Bonham's Desps 404-1854\n\nInclosure here\n\n3\n\nGovernor in Council\n\n27 May/57\n\nRECEIVED\n\nMAY 20\n\n1854\n\nForeign Office May 19.1854\n\nI am directed by\n\nthe Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you a copy of a note from the Prussian Minister at this Court requesting that the British Authorities in Hong Kong might be instructed to recognize M. William Menging as Consular Agent at that Place, and to request that in laying the Chevalier Bunsen's note before His Grace you will comply with the wishes expressed herein.\n\nOur most obedient,\n\nHumble Servant\n\nC. B.\n\nTo Herman Merivale Esq.\n\n...\n\nPage 76",
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        "content_text": "I am anxious to know the grounds on which my suspension was alleged by the late Governor of Hong Kong to have proceeded, or to deny that my anxiety is much increased since the perusal of the two letters of the 13th and 16th ultimo, dated 1862.\n\nThese letters were addressed to you at your direction by the last mail, No. 4091. Her Majesty's Undersecretary of State, and the latter also addressed to me by his Lordship but not at your direction.\n\nYet, for the reasons already mentioned, I am willing to bear, a little longer, with the perplexities of my uncertain position, and to rely on your doing justice, sooner or later, pending applications of Feb 4th & 14th to Secretary.\n\nMy present object is of a merely public character, and has reference to that part of your letter of the 13th ultimo, wherein you announced your intention to renew, through the Governor of Hong Kong, an enquiry.\n\nI have humbly to represent, for my reasons, \"for fearing that the good intentions, as well of yourself as of this Excellency, will be disappointed.\"\n\nIn the first place, it is to be a local enquiry, that is to say, at Hong Kong.\n\nNevertheless, the following witnesses are in Europe: -\n\nThe following witnesses: Lieut. George Bonham (formerly Resident in the Straits Settlements), John Darby Esq. (of the Chinese firm of Littlestone & Co.), William Dent Esq. (of that of John Dent & Co.), Augustus Hudson Esq. (of the firm of Gillman, H.J. & Co.), Henry M.A.S. Dixson (the former Merchant of Hong Kong) and myself.\n\nThe following witness is in Ceylon: Mr. Justice Stirling, late Attorney General of Hongkong.\n\nThe following witnesses are at Singapore: - Mr. Dunman, A. M. and Mr. Woods, the leading lawyers of that Straits Settlement.\n\nThe following witness is in transit between Japan and Europe: - The Chevalier Guimarães, late Governor of Macao.\n\nAnd the following are between China and Europe: - Thomas Taylor Meadows, late Chinese Secretary to the Superintendency of British Trade in China.\n\nMoreover, the following witness has, by this time...\n\nPage 24",
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        "content_text": "# THE LONDON GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1862.\n\n## TREATY of Commerce and Navigation between Her Majesty and the King of the Belgians.\n\nSigned at London, July 23, 1862.\n\n[Ratifications exchanged at London, August 30, 1862.]\n\nHer Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the King of the Belgians, being equally animated by the desire to facilitate and extend the relations of commerce and navigation between their respective dominions; and being desirous, with a view to so beneficial an object, to remove the obstacles which impede the commercial relations between the two countries, have resolved to conclude a Treaty for that purpose, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:\n\nHer Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable John Earl Russell, Viscount Amberley of Amberley and Ardsalla, a Peer of the United Kingdom, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, a Member of Her Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and the Right Honourable Thomas Milner Gibson, a Member of Her Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, a Member of Parliament, and President of the Committee of Privy Council for Affairs of Trade and Foreign Plantations;\n\nAnd His Majesty the King of the Belgians, the Sieur Sylvain Van de Weyer, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Her Britannic Majesty, Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold, decorated with the Iron Cross, Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III of Spain, of the Order of the Ernestine Branch of Saxony, of the Tower and Sword, of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, Commander of the Legion of Honour, &c.;\n\nWho, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:\n\n### ARTICLE I.\n\nThere shall be reciprocal liberty of commerce between all the dominions and possessions of the two High Contracting Parties; and the subjects of each of them shall, throughout the whole extent of the territories and possessions of the other, enjoy the same rights, privileges, liberties, favours, immunities, and exemptions, in matters of commerce and navigation, which are or may be enjoyed by native subjects.\n\n### ARTICLE II.\n\nThe subjects of one of the two High Contracting Parties residing in the dominions of the other, shall have the same liberty as native subjects to manage their own affairs themselves, or to commit them to the management of any other persons, as brokers, factors, agents, or interpreters. They shall not be restrained in their choice, and shall not be obliged to pay any salary or remuneration to any person whom they shall not choose to employ in those capacities; buyers and sellers being at perfect liberty to bargain together, and to fix the price of any goods or merchandise imported or destined for exportation, on condition of observing the regulations and the Customs laws of the country.\n\n### ARTICLE III.\n\nIn all that relates to navigation and commerce, the High Contracting Parties shall not grant any privilege, favour, or immunity to any other country, which shall not be also and immediately extended to their respective subjects.\n\n### ARTICLE IV.\n\nAll vessels which according to the laws of Great Britain are to be deemed British vessels, and all vessels which according to the laws of Belgium are to be deemed Belgian vessels, are declared to be British and Belgian vessels respectively.\n\n### ARTICLE V.\n\nNo duties of tonnage, harbour, light-house, pilotage, quarantine, or other similar or corresponding duties, of whatever nature or under whatever denomination, levied for the profit or in the name of the Government, public functionaries, communes, corporations, or establishments of whatever kind, shall be imposed in the ports of either country, upon the vessels of the other country, from whatever port or place arriving, which shall not be equally imposed in the like cases on national vessels.\n\n### ARTICLE VI.\n\nIn all that regards the stationing, the loading, and unloading of vessels in the ports, basins, docks, roadsteads, harbours, or rivers of the two countries, no privilege shall be granted to national vessels, which shall not be equally granted to vessels of the other country; the intention of the High Contracting Parties being, that in this respect also the respective vessels shall be treated on the footing of perfect equality.\n\n### ARTICLE VII.\n\nBritish vessels entering a port of Belgium, and, reciprocally, Belgian vessels entering a port of Great Britain or of the British Possessions, and desiring to discharge only a part of their cargo, may, subject to compliance with the laws and regulations of the respective countries, retain on board that part of the cargo which is destined for another port, whether in the same country or in any other country, and may re-export the same, without being compelled to pay, upon such retained part of their cargo, any duty of Customs save those for watching, which, of course, shall be levied only at the rate fixed for national vessels.\n\n### ARTICLE VIII.\n\nGoods of every kind which are or may be legally importable into the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its Colonies and Possessions, in British vessels, may likewise be imported into such ports in Belgian vessels, without being liable to other or higher duties, of whatever denomination, than if such goods were imported in national vessels.\n\nReciprocally, goods of every kind which are or may be legally importable into the ports of Belgium in Belgian vessels, may likewise be imported into such ports in British vessels, without being liable to other or higher duties, of whatever denomination, than if such goods were imported in national vessels.\n\nSa Majesté la Reine du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, et Sa Majesté le Roi des Belges, animés d'un égal désir de faciliter et d'étendre les rapports de commerce et de navigation entre leurs Etats respectifs; et voulant, pour arriver à un but si utile, faire disparaître les obstacles qui entravent les relations commerciales entre les deux pays, ont résolu de conclure un Traité à cet effet, et ont nommé pour leurs Plénipotentiaires, savoir:\n\nSa Majesté la Reine du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, le Très Honorable Jean Comte Russell, Vicomte Amberley de Amberley et Ardsalla, Pair du Royaume Uni, Chevalier du Très Noble Ordre de la Jarretière, Membre du Très Honorable Conseil Privé de Sa Majesté Britanique, Principal Secrétaire d'Etat de Sa Majesté Britannique pour les Affaires Etrangères; et le Très Honorable Thomas Milner Gibson, Membre du Très Honorable Conseil Privé de Sa Majesté Britannique, Membre du Parlement, et Président du Comité du Conseil Privé pour les Affaires de Commerce et des Colonies;\n\nEt Sa Majesté le Roi des Belges, le Sieur Sylvain Van de Weyer, Son Envoyé Extraordinaire et Ministre Plénipotentiaire près Sa Majesté Britannique, Grand-Croix de l'Ordre de Léopold, décoré de la Croix de Fer, Grand-Croix de l'Ordre de Charles III d'Espagne, de l'Ordre de la Branche Ernestine de Saxe, de la Tour et de l'Epée, de St. Maurice et St. Lazare, Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur, &c.\n\nLesquels, après s'être réciproquement communiqué leurs pleins pouvoirs respectifs, trouvés en bonne et due forme, sont convenus des Articles suivants:\n\n### ARTICLE I.\n\nIl y aura liberté réciproque de commerce entre tous les Etats et possessions des deux Hautes Parties Contractantes; et les sujets de chacune d'elles, dans toute l'étendue des territoires et possessions de l'autre, jouiront des mêmes droits, privilèges, libertés, faveurs, immunités, et exemptions, en matière de commerce et de navigation, dont jouissent ou jouiront les nationaux.\n\n### ARTICLE II.\n\nLes sujets de l'une des Hautes Parties Contractantes résidant dans les Etats de l'autre, seront respectivement libres de régler, comme les nationaux, leurs affaires par eux-mêmes, ou de les confier aux soins de toutes autres personnes, telles que courtiers, facteurs, agents, ou interprètes. Ils ne pourront être contraints dans leur choix, et ils ne seront tenus à payer aucun salaire ni aucune rétribution à ceux qu'ils n'auront pas jugé à propos d'employer à cet effet; étant absolument facultatif aux vendeurs et acheteurs de contracter ensemble leur marché, et de fixer le prix de toutes denrées ou marchandises importées ou destinées à l'exportation, sous la condition de se conformer aux règlements et aux lois des douanes du pays.\n\n### ARTICLE III.\n\nEn toute ce qui concerne la navigation et le commerce, les Hautes Parties Contractantes ne pourront accorder aucun privilège, faveur, ou immunité à un autre Etat, qui ne soit aussi et à l'instant étendu à leurs sujets respectifs.\n\n### ARTICLE IV.\n\nTous les navires qui, d'après les lois de la Grande Bretagne, sont considérés comme navires Britanniques, et tous les navires qui, d'après les lois de la Belgique sont considérés comme navires Belges, sont déclarés respectivement navires Britanniques et navires Belges.\n\n### ARTICLE V.\n\nAucun droit de tonnage, de port, de phare, de pilotage, de quarantaine, ou autres droits semblables ou équivalents, de quelque nature ou sous quelque dénomination que ce soit, perçu au profit ou au nom du Gouvernement, des fonctionnaires publics, des communes, corporations, ou établissements quelconques, ne sera imposé dans les ports de chacun des deux pays sur les navires de l'autre nation, arrivant d'un port ou endroit quelconque, qui ne soit pas également imposé en pareil cas sur des navires nationaux.\n\n### ARTICLE VI.\n\nEn tout ce qui concerne le placement des navires, leur chargement et leur déchargement dans les ports, bassins, docks, rades, havres, ou rivières des deux Etats, il ne sera accordé aucun privilège aux navires nationaux, qui ne le soit également à ceux de l'autre Etat; la volonté des Hautes Parties Contractantes étant que, sous ce rapport aussi, les bâtiments respectifs soient traités sur le pied d'une parfaite égalité.\n\n### ARTICLE VII.\n\nLes navires Britanniques entrant dans un port de Belgique, et réciproquement les navires Belges entrant dans un port de la Grande Bretagne ou de ses Possessions, et qui n'y voudraient décharger qu'une partie de leur cargaison, pourront, en se conformant toutefois aux lois et règlements des Etats respectifs, conserver à leur bord la partie de la cargaison qui serait destinée à un autre port, soit du même pays, soit d'un autre, et la ré-exporter, sans être astreints à payer pour cette dernière partie de leur cargaison aucun droit de douane, sauf ceux de surveillance, lesquels, d'ailleurs, ne pourront naturellement être perçus qu'au taux fixé pour la navigation nationale.\n\n### ARTICLE VIII.\n\nLes marchandises de toute espèce dont l'importation dans les ports du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, ses Colonies et Possessions, est ou sera légalement permise sur des bâtiments Britanniques, pourront également y être importées sur des bâtiments Belges, sans être assujetties à d'autres ou de plus forts droits, de quelque dénomination que ce soit, que si les mêmes marchandises étaient importées sur des bâtiments nationaux.\n\nRéciproquement, les marchandises de toute espèce dont l'importation dans les ports de Belgique est ou sera légalement permise sur des bâtiments Belges, pourront également y être importées sur des bâtiments Britanniques, sans être assujetties à d'autres ou de plus forts droits, de quelque dénomination que ce soit, que si les mêmes marchandises étaient importées sur des bâtiments nationaux.",
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        "content_text": "CONVENTION between Her Majesty and the Emperor of the French, relative to Communication by Post.\n\nSigned at Paris, September 24, 1856.\n\n[Ratifications exchanged at Paris, November 19, 1856.]\n\nHER Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the Emperor of the French, alike animated with the desire of strengthening the ties of friendship and of neighbourly esteem which unite the two countries, and of improving the communications by the Posts of their respective dominions, have determined upon securing this important result by means of a new Convention, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries for this purpose, namely:\n\nHer Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Most Honourable Henry Richard Charles Lord Cowley, a Peer of the United Kingdom, a Member of Her Britannic Majesty's Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of the French, &c., &c., &c.;\n\nAnd His Majesty the Emperor of the French, M. Alexander Count Colonna Walewski, a Senator of the Empire, His Secretary of State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross of the Order of St. Stephen of Austria, of the Order of the Black Eagle of Prussia, &c., &c., &c.;\n\nWho, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles.\n\nSA Majesté la Reine du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, et Sa Majesté l'Empereur des Français, également animés du désir de resserrer les liens d'amitié et de bon voisinage qui unissent les deux pays, et d'améliorer les communications par les Postes de leurs Etats respectifs, ont résolu d'assurer cet important résultat au moyen d'une nouvelle Convention, et ont nommé pour leurs Plénipotentiaires à cet effet, savoir:\n\nSa Majesté la Reine du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, le Très Honorable Henry Richard Charles Lord Cowley, Pair du Royaume Uni, Conseiller de Sa Majesté Britannique en Son Conseil Privé, Chevalier Grand-Croix du Très Honorable Ordre du Bain, Ambassadeur Extraordinaire et Plénipotentiaire de Sa Majesté près Sa Majesté l'Empereur des Français, &c., &c., &c.;\n\nEt Sa Majesté l'Empereur des Français, M. le Comte Alexandre Colonna Walewski, Sénateur de l'Empire, Son Ministre et Secrétaire d'Etat au Département des Affaires Etrangères, Grand-Croix de Son Ordre Impérial de la Légion d'Honneur, Grand-Croix de l'Ordre de Saint Etienne d'Autriche, de l'Ordre de l'Aigle Noir de Prusse, &c., &c., &c.;\n\nLesquels, après s'être réciproquement communiqué leurs pleins pouvoirs respectifs, trouvés en bonne et due forme, sont convenus des Articles suivants:-\n\nARTICLE I\n\nThere shall be a regular exchange of letters, newspapers, and printed papers of all kinds, between the Post Office of Great Britain and the Post Office of France, by means of two lines of steam-\n\n[36]\n\nARTICLE I.\n\nIl y aura entre l'Administration des Postes Britanniques et l'Administration des Postes de France, un échange régulier de lettres, de journaux, et d'imprimés de toute nature, au moyen\n\nB 2\n\n307\n\nI\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "The height of the foremost port above the water-line is 12 feet 9 inches, the height of the middle port 10 feet 6 inches, and that of the after port 12 feet 5 inches. She can stow 700 tons of coal in her boxes, and 72 tons of water.\n\nShe has seen active service, having been engaged in suppressing the insurrection at Jamaica, and having destroyed the batteries on Cape Haitien after the loss of the Bulldog. Her behaviour in the hurricane which she met off St. Paul's during her late cruise, proved her to be admirably adapted for rough weather. A list of her Officers is given in the Appendix, (A).\n\nHis Royal Highness was accompanied on board by his Equerries, the Honorable E. C. Yorke, and Arthur Balfour Haig, Esq., R.E., and by M. Chevalier, an artist.\n\nShe carries 530 souls, viz.: Officers 46, Petty Officers 65, Seamen 305, Boys 40, and Marines 74. \"The clear bright looks worn by all, fore and aft,\" struck the attention of a reporter who visited her soon after she anchored, and all who saw her agreed with him that the Galatea is worthy of the British Navy and of her Royal Captain.\n\nAfter Divine Service on board, the Prince and his suite landed, and spent the remainder of the day at Government House with His Excellency Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, C.B., Lady MacDonnell, and a limited number of guests, including his late Commanding Officer, Admiral the Honorable Sir Henry Keppel, K.C.B., and a few Officers of the Galatea.\n\nMonday, November 1st.—His Royal Highness considerately postponed his Public Official Landing till Tuesday morning, as that important event in Hongkong life, the departure of the mail for Europe, was close at hand; and during the day, both on shore and on board the Galatea,",
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        "content_text": "(40)\n\naccomplished troope who took the various characters. From old Father Neptune (Lieutenant Fitz-George) down to the Tritons (Messrs. Eyre, Rich, and Brown) there was not a character lacking the fullest and most humorous interpretation. Neptune was most ably seconded by his better half, Mrs. Amphitrite, (Mr. Key) whose visage alone, apart from her inimitable 'get up,' was a sight worth seeing. We hope that this gentleman does not throw such comicality into private life, for if he does, sobriety of demeanour in his presence must be an impossibility. Each of the worthy pair had noses which, like that of a well-known recent visitor to this Colony, would be worth a fortune if composed of real flesh and blood. Lord Charles Beresford, as Billy Bowline, was almost the lion of the piece, as he certainly was the terpsichorean favourite. His 'double shuffle,' accent, look, and general turn out, were as completely removed from anything like stage 'get-up' as was possible. He looked the sailor, which under more refined conditions, we suspect he really is, and he deserves to be congratulated on a very unusual measure of success. Ben Backstay, The Barber, and Policeman X, were important elements in the success of the piece. But we must give the palm amongst the 'humanities' to Marina, who as Neptune's little girl, was the most perfect little witch ever seen upon a Hongkong stage. As for Billy-coddy, whose difficulty in taking a chair was one of the most amusing touches of the piece, he was a perfect gem amongst fishes; and we never heard heartier laughter than that evoked by his touching, gasping appeal, acted, though not spoken, when he discovered that Billy Bowline was his accepted rival. We wish we knew who acted the part of Sambo for he certainly deserves decided recognition.\"\n\nPage 40\n\nPage 41\n\n(41)\n\nSunday, November 14th.-His Royal Highness according to custom attended Divine Service on board the Galatea;\n\nHis Excellency the Governor and Lady MacDonnell forming on this occasion, by special invitation, part of the congregation. The singing by the Crew, in which the Prince takes great personal interest, was very effective, and the Reverend J. Milner, the Chaplain, preached on the Miracle of \"The water turned into wine.\"\n\nTiffin and the inspection of the Prince's collection of Photographs, and of M. Chevalier's sketches of various incidents associated with the voyages of the Galatea agreeably occupied the former part of the afternoon.\n\nMonday, November 15th.-His Excellency the Governor invited a select number of guests to meet His Royal Highness at dinner this evening; and a reception was afterwards held by Lady MacDonnell, which was attended by a large number of ladies and gentlemen, who assembled to do honour to the Prince for the last time. His Royal Highness moved freely among the guests, and probably so large an assembly never gathered together in Hongkong on the eve of the departure of the Home Mail. Government House and grounds were beautifully illuminated for the occasion, and the coup-d'œil on entering the gateway was very striking, a most enchanting effect being produced by the thousands of Chinese and Japanese lanterns which were hung on shrubs and trees on the spacious lawn and croquêt ground. The singing of Signor Pellico and of more than one Amateur, during the evening was greatly admired, and after a few dances in the well-lighted Central Hall, the company separated about midnight, highly pleased with the Royal Prince, and with the hospitality of His Excellency the Governor, in which he is ever charmingly seconded by Lady MacDonnell.\n\nIt may here be mentioned that during his visit, His Royal Highness and suite, accompanied by the Governor, the Honorable Julian Pauncefote, and several Officers of\n\nPage 41\n\n(51)",
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        "content_text": "My Lord\n\n8. 76576\n\nHory Rory 25 May 1870 123\n\nDuring the past few years I have received from several Foreign Princes and Scientific Bodies recognition, as unexpected as unsolicited, of my scientific services; as notably\n\n1. In 1867 (July) the gold medal of the Order of Merit of the First Class from His Majesty King Victor Emanuel II of Italy, for assistance to the scientific Expedition under the Senator Fillipo de Fillipi.\n\n2. In 1870 (19 Jan.) a vote of thanks from the Imperial and Royal Academy of Sciences of Vienna, conveyed through Count von Beust, for furthering the scientific purposes of the Expedition under Chevalier Dr. Schertzer.\n\n3. In 1870 (3 Jan.) a gold medal of the Order of Merit bearing the inscription \"Illis quorum meruere labores\"\n\nThe Right Honorable  \nEarl Granville K.G.  \nSecretary of State for the Colonies  \nHis Majesty's King",
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        "document_key": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]",
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        "content_text": "ARTICLES. \n\n(2) \n\nREMARKS. \n\n \n\nARTICLES. \n\n(3) \n\nREMARKS. \n\n131\n\nGOVERNOR'S OFFICE.\n\nBrass Fender and Metal Fire Irons. Gasalier, 3-burners.\n\n1 Round Table.\n\n1 Large Office Table, Chubb's Locks.\n\nTeak Writing Desk and Office Stool.\n\n2 Carved Black-wood Presses.\n\n1 Carpet..\n\n6 Morocco Walnut Chairs.\n\nWaste Paper Basket.\n\nCellaret.\n\nDivan and 3 Cushions.\n\n2 Post Office Notification Boards.\n\n1 Opera Glass by Chevalier.\n\nBrass Balance and Weights.\n\n1 Measuring Tape.\n\nDaily Indicator.\n\nOffice Call-Bell.\n\n2 Metal Inkstands.\n\n1 Pen Rack.\n\n1 Penang Chair.\n\nLIBRARY.\n\n2 Crimson Figured Curtains and Valances (2 Windows).\n\nMahogany Round Table (5-feet),\n\n2 Morocco Leather Arm Chairs,\n\n6 Green Morocco Walnut Chairs.\n\n4 Carved Book Cases.\n\n1 Large Mirror (Mantel Piece),\n\nGasalier, 5-burners.\n\nBrass Fender and Fire Irons.\n\n2 Lace Muslin Curtains.\n\n8 American Cloth Chairs (China made)..............\n\n1 Green Morocco Ottoman 4′ 2.\"\n\n1 Walnut Sofa, Green Morocco..\n\n1 Black-wood Press.\n\n1 Photograph Case,\n\n1 Round Table.\n\n1 Re-made Carpet,\n\n4 Bracket Oil Lamps, 2-burners.\n\nVery old.\n\nIn very bad order.\n\nFlaw in Centre.\n\nWant repair.\n\nCracked.\n\nIn bad order.\n\nBILLIARD ROOM.\n\nBilliard Table and Cover.\n\nSpirit Level,\n\nCue Rack.\n\n29 Cues.\n\n2 Long Cues.\n\n3 Small Rests.\n\n1 Long Rest.\n\n1 Mace.\n\n42 Balls.\n\nRules and Regulations.\n\nPool Scoring Board.\n\nBilliard Scoring Board,\n\nSmall Fender and Irons.\n\nBilliard Lamp (Gas) 6 Lights.\n\nBrush, Iron, and Screw Driver.\n\n1 Cane-seated Bench.\n\n1 Side Table, (3 Drawers).\n\n1 Cellaret.\n\n4 Large Maps in Wooden Case,.........\n\n1 Cane-seated High Chair.\n\nDo. Small do.\n\n2 Small Screens, Silk Damask.\n\n1 Bagatelle Table 10' x 4', with Balls,\n\n6 Cues and 3 Maces,\n\nScoring Board,\n\nWash Stand Console.\n\nSpirit Level for Bagatelle Board.\n\nBelow Table.\n\nIn Central Hall.\n\nCENTRAL HALL.\n\n2 Black-wood Marble-top Flower Stands.\n\n4 Walnut Chairs, Green Morocco Cushioned Backs,\n\n4 Bracket Gas Lights (3 lights each.)\n\nGasalier, 4-burners.\n\nRoyal Arms.\n\nPortrait, Her Majesty The Queen.\n\nPortrait, H. R. H. The Prince of Wales.\n\nPortrait, H. R. H. The Princess of Wales.\n\nHongkong Volunteer Flag.\n\n1 Black-wood Marble-top Side Table.\n\n2 Sheepskin Door Rugs.\n\n3 Pairs Rep Curtains.\n\n1 Large Black-wood Marble-top Centre Table.\n\n2 Rep Curtains,\n\nVESTIBULE.\n\n1 Blotted with Ink.\n\n2 Lace Curtains,\n\nLath and Pulley Rods complete.\n\nGilt Cornice Pole, Centre and Ends.\n\nGasalier, 3-burners,..\n\n4 Japanese Marble-top Tables.\n\nTelescope and Stand,\n\n4 Bracket Oil Lamps. Gas Lamp, 4-burners.\n\nMuch worn and apparently\n\neaten by rats or vermin.\n\nIn bad order.",
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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": "ARTICLES. \n\n(2)\n\nREMARKS.\n\nC)\n\nARTICLES.\n\n(3)\n\nREMARKS.\n\nGOVERNOR'S OFFICE.\n\nBrass Fender and Metal Fire Irons.\n\nGasalier, 3-burners.\n\n1 Round Table.\n\n1 Large Office Table, Chubb's Locks.\n\nTeak Writing Desk and Office Stool.\n\n2 Carved Black-wood Presses.\n\n1 Carpet.\n\n6 Morocco Walnut Chairs.\n\nWaste Paper Basket.\n\nCellaret.\n\nDivan and 3 Cushions.\n\n2 Post Office Notification Boards.\n\n1 Opera Glass by Chevalier.\n\n1 Brass Balance and Weights.\n\n1 Measuring Tape.\n\nDaily Indicator.\"\n\nOffice Call-Bell.\n\n2 Metal Inkstands.\n\n1 Pen Rack.\n\n1 Penang Chair.\n\nLIBRARY.\n\n2 Crimson Figured Curtains and Valances (2 Windows).\n\nMahogany Round Table (5-feet), \n\n2 Morocco Leather Arm Chairs,\n\n6 Green Morocco Walnut Chairs.\n\n4 Carved Book Cases.\n\n1 Large Mirror (Mantel Piece), \n\nGasalier, 5-burners.\n\nBrass Fender and Fire Irons.\n\n9 Lace Muslin Curtains.\n\n8 American Cloth Chairs (China made),..............\n\n1 Green Morocco Ottoman 4' 2.\"\n\n1 Walnut Sofa, Green Morocco.\n\n1 Black-wood Press.\n\n1 Photograph Case,\n\n1 Round Table.\n\n1 Re-made Carpet,\n\n4 Bracket Oil Lamps, 2-burners.\n\nVery old. In\n\nvery bad order.\n\nFlaw in Centre.\n\nWant repair.\n\nCracked.\n\nIn bad order.\n\nBILLIARD ROOM\n\nBilliard Table and Cover.\n\nSpirit Level.\n\nCue Rack.\n\n29 Cues.\n\n2 Long Cues.\n\n3 Small Rests.\n\n1 Long Rest.\n\n1 Mace.\n\n42 Balls.\n\nRules and Regulations.\n\nPool Scoring Board.\n\nBilliard Scoring Board,\n\nSmall Fender and Irons.\n\nBilliard Lamp (Gas) 6 Lights.\n\nBrush, Iron, and Screw Driver.\n\n1 Cane-seated Bench.\n\n1 Side Table, (3 Drawers).\n\n1 Cellaret.\n\n4 Large Maps in Wooden Case,...........\n\n1 Cane-seated High Chair.\n\n2 Do. Small do.\n\n2 Small Screens, Silk Damask.\n\n1 Bagatelle Table 10' x 4', with Balls,\n\n6 Cues and 3 Maces,\n\nScoring Board,\n\nWash Stand Console.\n\nSpirit Level for Bagatelle Board.\n\nBelow Table.\n\nIn Central Hall.\n\nCENTRAL HALL.\n\n2 Black-wood Marble-top Flower Stands.\n\n4 Walnut Chairs, Green Morocco Cushioned Backs.\n\n4 Bracket Gas Lights (3 lights each.)\n\nGasalier, 4-burners.\n\nRoyal Arms.\n\nPortrait, Her Majesty The Queen.\n\nPortrait, H. R. H. The Prince of Wales.\n\nPortrait, H. R. H. The Princess of Wales.\n\nHongkong Volunteer Flag.\n\n1 Black-wood Marble-top Side Table.\n\n2 Sheepskin Door Rugs.\n\n3 Pairs Rep Curtains.\n\n1 Large Black-wood Marble-top Centre Table.\n\n1 Blotted with Ink.\n\n2 Rep Curtains,\n\nVESTIBULE.\n\n2 Lace Curtains, §\n\nLath and Pulley Rods complete.\n\nGilt Cornice Pole, Centre and Ends.\n\nGasalier, 3-burners,....\n\n4 Japanese Marble-top Tables.\n\nTelescope and Stand,\n\n4 Bracket Oil Lamps.\n\nGas Lamp, 4-burners.\n\nMuch worn and apparently eaten by rats or vermin.\n\nOld.\n\nIn bad order.\n\n98",
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        "content_text": "that they seemed to know a thing or two about it. And it now appears they often did. Cellier of 24 was sent to L. Kie for information. \n\nAs it was stated in this question, the answer was clear. He had been charming Annam for some time and had been responsible for why others were responding in a certain way.\n\nFrance, Spain, and Annam.\n\n**Décret de l'Empereur des Français, portant promulgation du Traité de Paix, d'Amitié, de Commerce, et de Cession, conclu le 5 Juin, 1862, entre la France et l'Espagne, d'une part, et le Royaume d'Annum, d'autre part.**-Fontainebleau, le 1 Juillet, 1863.\n\n**NAPOLEON** par la grâce de Dieu et la volonté nationale, Empereur des Français, à tous présents et à venir, salut.\n\nSur le rapport de notre Ministre Secrétaire d'Etat au Département des Affaires Etrangères,\n\nAvons décrété et décrétons ce qui suit:\n\n**Article 1.** Un Traité de Paix et d'Amitié ayant été conclu à Saigon, le 5 Juin, 1862, entre la France et l'Espagne, d'une part, et le Royaume d'Annam, d'autre part, et les Ratifications de cet Acte ayant été échangées à Hué, le 14 Avril, 1863, le dit Traité, dont la teneur suit, recevra sa pleine et entière exécution.\n\nLeurs Majestés Napoleon III, Empereur des Français, Isabelle II, Reine d'Espagne, et Tu-Duc, Roi d'Annam, désirant vivement que l'accord le plus parfait règne désormais entre les trois nations de France, d'Espagne, et d'Annam; voulant aussi que jamais l'amitié ni la paix ne soit rompue entre elles;\n\nA ces causes, nous, Louis-Adolphe Bonard, Contre-Amiral, Commandant en Chef le Corps Expéditionnaire Franco-Espagnol en Cochinchine, Ministre Plénipotentiaire de Sa Majesté l'Empereur des Français, Commandeur des Ordres Impériaux de la Légion d'Honneur et de Saint Stanislas de Russie, Commandeur de Saint Grégoire-le-Grand de Rome, et Chevalier de l'Ordre Royale de Charles III d'Espagne;\n\nDon Carlos Palanca-Gutierres, Colonel Commandant Général du Corps Expéditionnaire Espagnol en Cochinchine, Commandeur de l'Ordre Royal Américain d'Isabelle la Catholique, et de l'Ordre Impérial de la Légion d'Honneur, Chevalier des Ordres Royaux et Militaires de Saint Ferdinand et Saint Hermenegilde, Ministre Plénipotentiaire de Sa Majesté Catholique Dona Isabelle II, Reine des Espagnes;\n\nEt nous, Phan-Tanh-Gian, Vice-Grand-Censeur du Royaume d'Annam, Ministre Président du Tribunal des Rites, Envoyé Plénipotentiaire de Sa Majesté Tu-Duc, assisté de Lam-Gien-Thiep, Ministre Président du Tribunal de la Guerre, Envoyé Plénipotentiaire de Sa Majesté Tu-Duc;\n\nTous munis de pleins et entiers pouvoirs pour traiter de la paix et agir selon notre conscience et volonté, nous sommes réunis, et, après avoir échangé nos lettres de créance, que nous avons trouvées en bonne et due forme, nous sommes convenus, d'un commun accord, de chacun des Articles qui suivent et qui composent le présent Traité de Paix et d'Amitié:\n\n**ARTICLE 1.**\n\nIl y aura dorénavant, paix perpétuelle entre l'Empereur des Français et la Reine d'Espagne, d'une part, et le Roi d'Annam, de l'autre. L'amitié sera complète et également perpétuelle entre les sujets des trois nations, en quelque lieu qu'ils se trouvent.\n\n**ARTICLE II.**\n\nLes sujets des deux nations de France et d'Espagne pourront exercer le culte Chrétien dans le Royaume d'Annam, et les sujets de ce Royaume, sans distinction, qui désireront embrasser la religion Chrétienne, le pourront librement et sans contrainte; mais on ne forcera pas à se faire Chrétiens ceux qui n'en auront pas le désir.\n\n[118]",
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        "content_text": "Lord Carnarvon's\n\nConsideration whether this Lordship\n\nFrance, Spain, and Annam.\n\n75\n\n395\n\nmight not in\n\nthe mean\n\nmean time obtain.\n\nthe opinion of the India Office upon\n\nthe\n\nthus raised.\n\npoint there\n\nfar.\n\nYour\n\nSir\n\nmost obedient, humble servant,\n\nSister\n\nThe inclosures sent in original\n\nP.S.\n\nin\n\nLetter\n\nyour\n\nare herewith returned,\n\nDécret de l'Empereur des Français, portant promulgation du Traité de Paix, d'Amitié, de Commerce, et de Cession, conclu le 5 Juin, 1862, entre la France et l'Espagne, d'une part, et le Royaume d'Annam, d'autre part.-Fontainebleau, le 1 Juillet, 1863.\n\nNAPOLEON par la grâce de Dieu et la volonté nationale, Empereur des Français, à tous présents et à venir, salut.\n\nSur le rapport de notre Ministre Secrétaire d'Etat au Département des Affaires Etrangères,\n\nAvons décrété et décrétons ce qui suit:\n\nArticle 1. Un Traité de Paix et d'Amitié ayant été conclu à Saïgon, le 5 Juin, 1862, entre la France et l'Espagne, d'une part, et le Royaume d'Annam, d'autre part, et les Ratifications de cet Acte ayant été échangées à Hué, le 14 Avril, 1863, le dit Traité, dont la teneur suit, recevra sa pleine et entière exécution.\n\nLeurs Majestés Napoleon III, Empereur des Français, Isabelle II, Reine d'Espagne, et Tu-Duc, Roi d'Annam, désirant vivement que l'accord le plus parfait règne désormais entre les trois nations de France, d'Espagne, et d'Annam; voulant aussi que jamais l'amitié ni la paix ne soit rompue entre elles;\n\nA ces causes, nous, Louis-Adolphe Bonard, Contre-Amiral, Commandant en Chef le Corps Expéditionnaire Franco-Espagnol en Cochinchine, Ministre Plénipotentiaire de Sa Majesté l'Empereur des Français, Commandeur des Ordres Impériaux de la Légion d'Honneur et de Saint Stanislas de Russie, Commandeur de Saint Grégoire-le-Grand de Rome, et Chevalier de l'Ordre Royale de Charles III d'Espagne;\n\nDon Carlos Palanca-Gutierres, Colonel Commandant Général du Corps Expéditionnaire Espagnol en Cochinchine, Commandeur de l'Ordre Royal Américain d'Isabelle la Catholique, et de l'Ordre Impérial de la Légion d'Honneur, Chevalier des Ordres Royaux et Militaires de Saint Ferdinand et Saint Herménégilde, Ministre Plénipotentiaire de Sa Majesté Catholique Dona Isabelle II, Reine des Espagnes;\n\nEt nous, Phan-Tanh-Gian, Vice-Grand-Censeur du Royaume d'Annam, Ministre Président du Tribunal des Rites, Envoyé Plénipotentiaire de Sa Majesté Tu-Duc, assisté de Lam-Gien-Thiep, Ministre Président du Tribunal de la Guerre, Envoyé Plénipotentiaire de Sa Majesté Tu-Duc;\n\nTous munis de pleins et entiers pouvoirs pour traiter de la paix et agir selon notre conscience et volonté, nous sommes réunis, et, après avoir échangé nos lettres de créance, que nous avons trouvées en bonne et due forme, nous sommes convenus, d'un commun accord, de chacun des Articles qui suivent et qui composent le présent Traité de Paix et d'Amitié:\n\nARTICLE I.\n\nIl y aura dorénavant paix perpétuelle entre l'Empereur des Français et la Reine d'Espagne, d'une part, et le Roi d'Annam, de l'autre. L'amitié sera complète et également perpétuelle entre les sujets des trois nations, en quelque lieu qu'ils se trouvent.\n\nARTICLE II.\n\nLes sujets des deux nations de France et d'Espagne pourront exercer le culte Chrétien dans le Royaume d'Annam, et les sujets de ce Royaume, sans distinction, qui désireront embrasser la religion Chrétienne, le pourront librement et sans contrainte; mais on ne forcera pas à se faire Chrétiens ceux qui n'en auront pas le désir.\n\nB\n\n[118]",
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        "content_text": "## Col. Office \n160 \n.co. \nREC? \n8813 \nREGE 28 MAY É \n\n**(No. 295.) My Lord, No. 2.** \nViscount Lyons to Earl Granville.-(Received May 21.) \nParis, May 19, 1884. \n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship an article, published in the *Économiste Français* by M. Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, on the occasion of the Convention concluded at Tien-tsin between France and China.\n\nM. P. Leroy-Beaulieu has always strongly advocated the energetic prosecution of what is termed the \"colonial policy.\" In the present article he warmly congratulates France on having established her Protectorate over Tunis and Tonquin, and he urges that \"il faut procéder,\" he says, \"à Madagascar, en ayant devant les yeux le même but, à savoir: de soumettre entièrement le pays, et d'y constituer notre Protectorat sans restriction aucune. N'acceptons aucun moyen terme : que le Protectorat complet de toute l'île soit notre but.\" An expedition of 7,000 or 8,000 men should be sent at once straight to Tananarive.\n\nM. Leroy-Beaulieu expresses a hope that the establishments which M. de Brazza is founding for France on the Congo will retain their pacific character, and that an annual expenditure of two or three millions (80,000l. or 120,000l.) will suffice to support the \"glorious champion\" of France in that quarter. Taking this for granted, he thinks that France need make no more distant wars at present, but may rest in contentment as soon as the question of Madagascar is as happily solved as have been those of Tunis and Tonquin.\n\nM. Leroy-Beaulieu is the son-in-law of the late eminent political economist and free-trader, M. Michel Chevalier; and he himself passes for one of the principal advocates of liberal commercial principles in this country. Indeed, he affirms, in the article before us, that he is \"autant que qui que ce soit en France,\" a partisan of liberal economical doctrines—and, indeed, that he may, without arrogance, term himself one of the champions of those doctrines.\n\nIt may be interesting, therefore, to see what commercial policy M. Leroy-Beaulieu recommends the French Government to adopt in carrying into effect the new Convention. \"China,\" he says, \"engages by the recent Treaty to open to our commerce the three great southern provinces of the Empire.\" \"Je dis notre commerce, et non pas le commerce international. Il ne faut pas qu'il y ait sur ce point d'équivoque. Oui, toutes les nations profiteront de l'ouverture du Tonkin et des provinces méridionales de la Chine à la civilisation Européenne; mais quant à croire que nous ferons au commerce Anglais ou au commerce Allemand les mêmes conditions qu'au commerce Français ce serait une erreur: nous ne commettrons pas cette faute.\n\nNous considérons qu'il est indispensable qu'au moins pendant une première période d'installation d'une douzaine d'années, le commerce Français bénéficie de droits différentiels de 10 à 15 pour cent environ.\"\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) LYONS,",
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        "content_text": "ANNEXE AU PROJET DE LOI\n\nPORTANT APPROBATION DE LA\n\nCONVENTION COMMERCIALE ENTRE LA FRANCE\n\nET LA CHINE\n\nSignée à Tien-Tsin, le 25 avril 1886.\n\nLe Président de la République française et S. M. l'empereur de Chine, désirant conclure, conformément aux dispositions de l'article 6 du traité du 9 juin 1885, une convention pour régler les conditions dans lesquelles s'effectuera le commerce par terre entre le Tonkin et les provinces méridionales de l'empire, et prenant, d'autre part, en considération l'article 10 du même acte, qui maintient les anciens traités, accords et conventions conclus entre la France et la Chine, ont nommé pour leurs plénipotentiaires savoir :\n\nLe Président de la République française, le sieur François-Georges Cogordan, Ministre plénipotentiaire, sous-directeur des Affaires politiques au Ministère des Affaires étrangères, officier de l'ordre de la Légion d'honneur, grand officier de l'ordre de la Couronne d'Italie, etc., envoyé en mission extraordinaire en Chine,\n\nAssisté du sieur François-Edmond Bruwaert, Consul de France, commandeur de l'ordre de Gustave Wasa de Suède, chevalier de l'ordre de Léopold de Belgique, etc.;\n\nEt S. M. l'empereur de Chine : Li-Hong-Tchang, commissaire impérial, premier grand secrétaire d'État, grand précepteur honoraire de l'héritier présomptif, surintendant du commerce des ports du Nord, directeur adjoint des armées navales, gouverneur général de la province Tché-Li, appartenant au premier degré du troisième rang de la noblesse, avec le titre de Sou-Yi;\n\nLesquels, après s'être communiqué leurs pleins pouvoirs, qui ont été reconnus en bonne et due forme, sont convenus des stipulations suivantes :",
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        "content_text": "## DESPATCH \n**145**\n\nRead & ex READ 9 OCT 00\n\n**(Subject.)**  \nL. Chevalier reports a threat of hostilities\n\n**(Minutes.)**  \nMr. Luness  \nSome copies have been sent to the usual departments.\n\nOffices Junited.? Put by.  \n; and the telegram has been sent to Lord Lansdowne.\n\n| Date | Initials |\n|------|----------|\n| 19/10 | A. F.     |\n| 9/10  | gw. 8.    |\n| 9/10  | C.Pd-9    |\n| 9/10  | INHO      |\n| 9/10  | at one    |\n\nNo. 32873  \nDisturbances  \n\n...tuled bath and تشمسه Sewick with and rearmetle N Substantial fromotine. prospect of, 5. 24 after confully considering kist points and stell of opruim that it is absolukly necessing to obta The or mai trained Clerks fraid this country, I with endiators meet for wishes to ly alikity we is the g.\n\n.P.O. 3 mor. No. Tel 1900 Pock previous Paper. 33761.  \nNo. 33670 subsequent Paper.",
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        "title": "CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901",
        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\n3\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n4079-3\n\n342 [October 24.\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Scott to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received October 24.) (No. 31. Confidential.) My Lord,\n\nCanton, September 21, 1901,\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose herewith, for your Lordship's information, copy of a despatch which I have addressed to His Majesty's Minister in Peking on the subject of French activity in the Two Kuang.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJAMES SCOTT,\n\nActing Consul-General Scott to Sir E. Satow,\n\nCanton, September 16, 1901.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram, Secret, of the 12th instant, and in reply to state that your instructions will be carefully carried out.\n\nRegarding the situation generally, there appears at present to be no immediate intention to effect a coup, for the force at the disposal of the French in Canton consists of one man-of-war with two shallow-draft gunboats, and there seems to be no special disposition of French naval forces along the coast. There can, however, be no doubt that the French intend, and are preparing for, an aggressive policy in the Two Kuang Provinces. In the Delta and along the coast they have practically no trade, but within the past year they have been attempting to develop their influence in Canton. At the French Consulate, Yamên, within the city there has been constructed a large foreign building to be used as a college for the instruction of Chinese in the French language. Upon Shameen a small hospital has been opened for the treatment of European and Chinese patients. Two steamers \"Le Rhône\" and \"La Seine,\" having head-quarters in Canton, one of which runs to Hong Kong and the other, started just lately, to Kuang Chou Wan, are both generally understood to be under subsidy from the French Government, while a claim is considered by the French Consul to exist in favour of his Government and his nationals to priority of all mining rights in the Two Kuang Provinces.\n\nSystematic support is accorded to the French priests, and protection is given in a special degree to their native converts in their litigation and disputes with their non-Christian fellow-subjects. In the Port of Canton the French officials have recently ignored the authority of the Maritime Customs in respect to the mooring of ships, and have taken upon themselves to lay down buoys.\n\nRecently junks and launches have taken to flying French colours, and it is notorious that one firm (Chauvin, Chevalier, and Co.) regularly lends its name and assistance for this purpose. The Chinese authorities are unwilling to interfere with these French-protected vessels. Surveys have been made by the French river gun-boats of the West River and the Delta waterways, which they are constantly patrolling.\n\nIn the Ports of Hoihow and Pakhoi there are large Consular establishments with medical officers and hospitals attached.\n\nThe Chinese officials all over Kuang Tung Province, as I know specially from my experience at Swatow, are in constant apprehension of demands, claims, and high-handed proceedings on the part of the French authorities, especially in regard to Mission questions; for there is no doubt that the French priests are training up a large native following subservient to their wishes and looking to France as their protector.\n\nAnother significant fact is the establishment of a regular French post-office which the French Consul has stated, by circular, to be in conjunction with the Postal Union; two sub-offices have been established in conspicuous parts of Canton City. Some time after the setting-up of these sub-offices the French Consul applied to the Viceroy in order to\n\n[2350 aa--1]\n\nPage 3\n\nPage 4\n\n...\n\n(No further text is given as the original scan ends here)\n\n \n## Becomes \n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\n3\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n4079-3\n\n342 October 24.\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Scott to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received October 24.) (No. 31. Confidential.) My Lord,\n\nCanton, September 21, 1901,\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose herewith, for your Lordship's information, copy of a despatch which I have addressed to His Majesty's Minister in Peking on the subject of French activity in the Two Kuang.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJAMES SCOTT,\n\nSir,\n\nActing Consul-General Scott to Sir E. Satow,\n\nCanton, September 16, 1901.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram, Secret, of the 12th instant, and in reply to state that your instructions will be carefully carried out.\n\nRegarding the situation generally, there appears at present to be no immediate intention to effect a coup, for the force at the disposal of the French in Canton consists of one man-of-war with two shallow-draft gunboats, and there seems to be no special disposition of French naval forces along the coast. There can, however, be no doubt that the French intend, and are preparing for, an aggressive policy in the Two Kuang Provinces. In the Delta and along the coast they have practically no trade, but within the past year they have been attempting to develop their influence in Canton. At the French Consulate, Yamên, within the city, there has been constructed a large foreign building to be used as a college for the instruction of Chinese in the French language. Upon Shameen, a small hospital has been opened for the treatment of European and Chinese patients. Two steamers, \"Le Rhône\" and \"La Seine,\" having headquarters in Canton, one of which runs to Hong Kong and the other, started just lately, to Kuang Chou Wan, are both generally understood to be under subsidy from the French Government, while a claim is considered by the French Consul to exist in favour of his Government and his nationals to priority of all mining rights in the Two Kuang Provinces.\n\nSystematic support is accorded to the French priests, and protection is given in a special degree to their native converts in their litigation and disputes with their non-Christian fellow-subjects. In the Port of Canton, the French officials have recently ignored the authority of the Maritime Customs in respect to the mooring of ships, and have taken upon themselves to lay down buoys.\n\nRecently, junks and launches have taken to flying French colours, and it is notorious that one firm (Chauvin, Chevalier, and Co.) regularly lends its name and assistance for this purpose. The Chinese authorities are unwilling to interfere with these French-protected vessels. Surveys have been made by the French river gun-boats of the West River and the Delta waterways, which they are constantly patrolling.\n\nIn the Ports of Hoihow and Pakhoi, there are large Consular establishments with medical officers and hospitals attached.\n\nThe Chinese officials all over Kuang Tung Province, as I know specially from my experience at Swatow, are in constant apprehension of demands, claims, and high-handed proceedings on the part of the French authorities, especially in regard to Mission questions; for there is no doubt that the French priests are training up a large native following subservient to their wishes and looking to France as their protector.\n\nAnother significant fact is the establishment of a regular French post-office, which the French Consul has stated, by circular, to be in conjunction with the Postal Union; two sub-offices have been established in conspicuous parts of Canton City. 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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\n0.\n\nSOUTH-WEST CHINA,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n31160 [June 20 269\n\nPeat 20 AUG 03\n\nSECTION.\n\nConsul-General Scott to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received June 22.)\n\n(No. 16.)\n\nCanton, May 19, 1903.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose herewith copy of my despatch No. 16 of the 14th instant to His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking, relative to the activity at present displayed by the Tonkin Government in the Southern provinces of China.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJAMES SCOTT.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n(No. 16.) Sir,\n\nConsul-General Scott to Mr. Townley.\n\nCanton, May 14, 1903.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose an extract from the local press, having special reference to French activity in the Canton provinces.\n\nThe writer of the article is the author of a recent volume entitled, \"The French in Tonkin and South China,\" a subject concerning which he, as former editor of the Hong Kong Daily Press, set himself to acquire full information.\n\n*\n\nFrench activity in these provinces may be summarized :--\n\n1. Large new post-office buildings, with sub-stations in Canton city and an agency at Wuchow, erected and maintained at the expense of the Tonkin Government.\n\n2. A new hospital in Canton under a medical officer detached from the Tonkin military forces.\n\n3. Two steamers, one of which has started running during the last week, on the West River, and two other steamers plying regularly between Canton and Hong Kong-all heavily subsidized by the Tonkin Government.\n\n4. A large school, called the École Pichon, in Canton city, for the special instruction of Chinese students in French, said to have already 100 pupils.\n\n5. French Consulates, post-offices, schools, and medical hospitals are maintained at Pakhoi and Kiungchow. On the Tonkin frontier there are regular Consular establishments at Mêngtze and Lungchow.\n\n6. A regular line of French subsidized steamers trading between Haifong and Hong Kong, calling en route at Pakhoi, Hoihow, and Kwang-chow-wan.\n\n7. A branch of the Banque de l'Indo-Chine, which is flooding Canton with its notes, on which its existence would appear to depend.\n\n8. The very small share which the French have in the actual trade of Canton can be gauged by an inspection of the Customs Returns. There are, in fact, only three French firms of any standing, namely, Pasquet and Co., Chauvin, Chevalier, and Varenne and Co. What, however, the French lack in solid commercial interest they gain by their missionary propaganda and the lending of the tricolour to Chinese.\n\n9. Contemplated railway extension from Haifong to Nanning viâ Langson and Lungchow, and from Hanoi to Yunnan-fu via Mêngtze.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJAMES SCOTT.\n\n[2021 g-1]\n\nB\n\n1",
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        "content_text": "houses, and so forth-are complete. At the A-mi Concession there must be quite thirty Europeans, including two women and three children.\n\nThe people of A-mi appeared to be friendly. As I approached the town, I was addressed by one or two as \"Messer,\" and an old man of whom I inquired my way seized and shook vigorously my hand-the left hand-while he answered.\n\nThis friendly attitude may well in part be due to the little hospital which had been attached to the Construction Company's compound. The hospital is in charge of Dr. Sureaud and his \"infirmier.\"\n\nAs it was Dr. Sureaud who, in the absence of M. Garcia, acted as my host.\n\nThe next stage, Siao-lung-t'an, is only 16 kilom. distant, I did not start till after déjeuner on the second day (the 20th May), but took the opportunity to walk round the town, for the most part on the wall. The town is small, but even so a considerable space within the walls is occupied by vegetable gardens and banana or pomegranate plantations. On the west side are some temples, apparently in good repair, and a number of fine old trees. The place seems to have little or no trade, nor could I learn that there are any mines of value in the district, with one exception, to be noted presently. The future railway station is to be outside the town, on the north-east.\n\nAfter tiffin M. Savoyard, the sub-contractor, an Italian, rode with me to the end of his lot. He told me he had bought his tools and other implements at Hong Kong, for the contractors are free to procure them whence they please. He had paid some 500l. for them at Hong Kong, but their transport to A-mi had cost three times that sum. Work, I noticed, had been commenced at several points along the line, notably at the tunnel connecting the A-mi Plain with the valley of Pei-ta Ho, and at the further tunnel at the entrance to the Pei-ta Ho gorge. We followed the service road which joins these points and mounts the side of the gorge above the tunnel. On the way, M. Savoyard pointed to a village near which, he said, is a copper mine that would repay exploitation by Europeans. At the tunnel by the gorge were a couple of white men, one of them an elderly Italian who had been with M. Savoyard in Macedonia. Their lodging is a hut of four tiny rooms. In one of these tea was served to us, stewed in a saucepan and poured out, leaves and all, into thick glass tumblers. The river water is undrinkable during the rains, which had evidently begun up country; for the stream was of a bright orange colour, a colour it retained as far as the I-liang Plain.\n\nFrom this tunnel commence the defiles of the Pei-ta Ho, defiles that continue with brief intervals till the I-liang Plain is reached. The \"trace\" keeps to the right bank up to the first of these intervals, an amphitheatre on the southern edge of which is the contractor's post of Siao-lung-t'an (kilom. 237). Here the railway is to cross to the left bank, where it remains till past Lu-feng Ts'un (kilom. 345). Only one bridge, as I understand, is to be of iron; all others will be built of stone.\n\nAt Siao-lung-t'an the railwaymen had no temple for their base, but were obliged to erect everything themselves. Here I found M. Serpieri, an Italian, and his wife who, thanks to M. Guibert's circular, were expecting me, and received me most hospitably. M. Serpieri was at first employed in the Nam-hti Valley, but, as his health was greatly suffering, succeeded in effecting an exchange. There were half-a-dozen other Italians, surveillants and \"tâcherons,\" in the compound, which was so full that I had to take for my bedroom the office, while my servants camped out under their bell-tent.\n\nThe next day (21st May) M. Serpieri showed me the way past some railway embankments on the comparatively level ground of the amphitheatre, to the river side, after which it was impossible to miss my road, the \"chemin de service.\" The scenery becomes presently most remarkable. On the right hand is a towering precipice; on the left the river describes a double S curve, having in each concave bend a lofty crag topped with pines. The railway, keeping now always to the left of the stream, runs parallel to the line of the precipice, piercing by tunnels the great banks which join precipice to crag. Near the second of these tunnels I met two Italians, who asked me if it was true that I was in charge of Italian interests.\n\nI replied that I am in charge only of British and Austrian interests: on which one of the two observed that he had understood from his Minister at Peking that they would be able to refer to me. The Italians along the line, he added, were now about 1,000 in number, of all grades from chief of section to a foreman. They were not altogether satisfied with the condition of affairs, and, as I understand, had telegraphed to their Minister accordingly.\n\nPage 9\n\nI tiffined in a cavern by the side of the service road, still in the gorge. About 4 o'clock the country again opened out, and in less than an hour later Ta-lung-t'an was reached. The \"dragon spring\" is a tank up which wells a strong and steady stream.\n\nNailed to a tree hard by was a board with the inscription \"Chalet de Tao-long-tang,\" and beside it a long flight of steps led up to the temple occupied by a sous-chef, M. Chevalier, and his assistant (\"conducteur\") M. Lebadie. The former was away, but the latter received me and most amply entertained me. I spent the night in the quarters of his absent chief, with every comfort—I might say, with every luxury. M. Lebadie told me that a large part of his duties consists in arranging for the purchase of land for the line; and that when the prospectors first appeared the farmers used to turn out with guns to warn them off. The people were now, however, accustomed to the sight of the \"yang-kuan\" (foreign official—the stock term for the railway man) and no longer threatened them.\n\nBy the Regulations land should be purchased by the officials; but, as I was told elsewhere, if the contractors waited till this was done work would never begin. The Provincial Government, in answer to remonstrances from the French Consulate-General, pleaded want of funds. The Canton Viceroy had been instructed to assist his colleague of Yün-kuei, but all his spare cash had gone in the attempt to suppress the Kuangsi rising. Finally, the Railway Company had offered to advance 2,000,000 dollars. Even so the Company would, M. François told me, be paying twice over for the land; because they found it more satisfactory to purchase themselves direct from the owners than to await the slow results of mandarin action. On the other hand the Chinese (not the officials only) complain of hasty and high-handed proceedings on the part of the engineers and contractors, who will endeavour to hustle the East. It is fortunate for the peace of Yunnan that quite 90 per cent. of the line passes through uninhabited mountains, where tunnelling disturbs no one's ancestors, and there are no paddy fields to be smothered by rubble.\n\nThe railway track keeps close to the river, and so passes at a little distance to the west of the \"Chalet de Tao-long-tang.\" I did not, in fact, again strike the track till about 11 in the forenoon of the next day. M. Lebadie rode with me to La-li-hei, about an hour's journey north, to the spacious temple filled with railway plant and occupied by the contractor for the 17th-19th \"lots,\" M. Parboni. He was away along the line, but two of his associates received us. After a stay of an hour or so I left, in the company of M. Kalos, a young Greek, who acts as paymaster for the line between La-li-hei and Yunnan-fu. The road, leaving the river, mounts a plateau sparsely planted with pines and walnuts; then, after traversing a poor village, skirts some reservoirs (at present half dry) and descends abruptly through a valley inhabited chiefly by Lo-los, a not uncomely race. Where this valley joins the Pei-ta Ho the service road recommences. Following this I arrived at midday at the hut of M. Poirçon, a French \"conducteur,\" where I was presently joined for tiffin by M. Kalos, who had stayed behind to make sure of his treasure train. The Company remit to Europe, free of charge, such portions of each employee's salary as the recipient may desire; the balance is paid in piastres, and these it is M. Kalos' duty to distribute.\n\nM. Poirçon's station is the last point south of Posi where work on the actual line is being conducted. The service road, indeed, thence to Posi has only lately been finished. Round a bend just above this station magnificent cliffs shut in the river. Here a \"barque,\" a long, narrow, flat-bottomed boat, is kept for the service of the Company, and in this M. Kalos and I took passage, sending our baggage ahead by the \"chemin de service,\" cut into the almost precipitous east side of the gorge. We were punted or hauled up stream, frequently running aground, until we began to despair of reaching our destination by dinner-time. Night had, in fact, fallen before we emerged from the defile into the Posi Plain. We stumbled along a broken stone road round three sides of a wide stretch of paddy ground, until at last, at half-past 9 o'clock, we found ourselves in the temple compound occupied by the chief of section and his staff. The Chief was ill and in bed, but his kindly assistant, M. Vialard, though himself far from well, and Mme. Vialard, were most good to us. I spent the night in the newly-erected offices, rooms absolutely bare; but the traveller in Yünnan would be only too content if he could always get quarters equally clean and dry.\n\nThe Plain of Posi is evidently not healthy, and I can answer for it that it can be exceedingly hot. The crops then (May 23rd) showing above ground included cotton and sugar-cane, proofs of a tropical climate. I do not think that any railway work (beyond the housing of the staff) has yet been begun on Posi Plain. It was not until\n\nPage 572",
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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": "## \n\na mart, to install here a large agency of l'Union Commerciale, with ten or a dozen Europeans. The firm would deal in all kinds of goods, including kerosene. From other sources I hear that although this firm succeeded in raising a considerable amount of capital in France last year, its prospects in Yunnan Province are not regarded as brilliant. A large sum was lost three or four years ago by the Mengtzu Agency through speculation in opium.\n\nThe Yunnan Syndicate is showing more signs of life than has been the case for some time. M. Lutz, the local Manager, has got as far as Mengtzu, where he is looking for a house in which to set up an extensive assayist's laboratory purchased in England. He is to be assisted by a young Englishman named Collins, now in Hong Kong. Both gentlemen contemplate visiting Yunnan-fu shortly, when I shall be in a better position to report on the proposals and prospects of the Syndicate.\n\nA Match Factory, to be run with capital largely raised in London and (I believe) Singapore, is in contemplation, but is being delayed by the death of one of the two local Managers, M. Schneebeli, a Swiss.\n\n## Proposed Distribution Agency for goods from India and Burmah\n\nThe Norwegian agent in Yunnan of the British and Foreign Bible Society (Mr. Edward Amundsen), a capable man with an extensive personal knowledge of Yünnan and Szechuan, laid before me last October a proposal to open depôts at Yunnan-fu and Hsiakuan for the display of samples of woven goods, hardware, watches, soaps, paper, medicines, boots, grocers' stores, and the rest. This proposal I transmitted, through the Government of Burmah, to the Rangoon Chamber of Commerce. In due course I was informed by the Chief Secretary that it had been passed on to the Chamber, but I am still without any acknowledgment from the latter. I regret to say that this apparent indifference to the furtherance of trade with Yünuan would seem to be characteristic of the present Rangoon Chamber.\n\n## Inland Transit Passes\n\nA local Chinese merchant sent in to me a petition affirming that a consignment of dried orange peel (\"ch'en pi\"), for which an inland transit pass had been taken out at Chungking, was being detained by the li-kin collectorate here. Petitioner represented that the pass had been granted to the British firm of Kung-tai (J. W. Stewart), but on making inquiries I found that it had been issued to the China Merchants Company. Although the goods had, by their passage through Hong Kong, acquired a foreign status, they are of Chinese origin; I did not, therefore, feel justified in doing more than to advise, informally, the Provincial Government to release them pending a reference to the Chungking Customs.\n\nThis is the first case for upwards of three years in which complaint has reached me of lack of respect shown to transit passes.\n\n## Laokei-Yunnan-fu Railway\n\nTowards the end of 1905 the Construction Company declared that the work could not be completed for the amount originally estimated, and that some sixty million more francs would be necessary. It was in connection with this demand that M. Beau, Governor-General of Indo-China, visited the province last March.\n\nHis Excellency was conducted along the line, up the valley of the Namhti, past the Mengizu Plain to La-li-hei, a point some three stages further north. Thence he returned to Tonking by way of Mengtzu and Manhao. The object of this tour was doubtless to show what difficulties had been, and remained to be, surmounted; but to thus confine the Governor-General's attention to a series of ravines was hardly the best way to convince him that the Yunnan Province is worth exploiting. However that may be, it is understood that M. Beau concluded that further financial aid must be given, and with that end in view has been personally consulting at Paris with the State Departments concerned. (He returned a short time since to Hanoi.)\n\nMeanwhile the French Government had sent out a Mission of Inquiry, headed by M. Drogue, Engineer-in-chief of the Ponts et Chaussées. He was assisted by two Engineers, MM. Constantin and Gervais, and by two Financial Experts, MM. Decron and Loisy. The Commission followed the line right up to Yunnan-fu, accompanied by M. Guibert, the Chief Superintendent, and M. Sainson, formerly Consul at Mengtzu, representing the Construction Company; by M. Jullidières, Acting Director-General of Public Works in Tongking, and MM. Metour and Kerler, representing the interests of the Colony; and by MM. Langrogne and Chemin-Dupontès, representing the Concessionnaires. Two days only were spent at Yunnan-fu, after which the party returned to Mengtzu along the earlier trace, through Tunghai. On their arrival at Mengtzu M. Drogue declared himself so disgusted with Chinese inns as to be unwilling to encounter the worst of them all, those between Mengtzu and Manhao. He accordingly elected to go down to Tongking by the Namhti route. Part of his following took the ordinary road to Manhao, while part continued to observe the original trace along the Sinhsien Valley.\n\nIt is confidently expected that, as a result of their reports, the money asked for by the Construction Company will be forthcoming. MM. Guibert and Sainson went to Paris with the Mission, M. Guibert's place being meanwhile taken by M. du Traz.\n\nService trains are running for at least 33 kilom. (say 20 miles) in Yünnan territory, and work is being energetically pushed everywhere. Some 46,000 coolies are now employed, costing per head in the Namhti Valley, in wages and rice, 1 dol. 20 c. a-day. At this (the Yunnan-fu) end of the line, the buildings of the station are complete except for doors, windows, and ironwork. All the staff of the section has been transferred elsewhere, and one European alone will be left in charge of the buildings and of the comparatively small remaining work on the embankments. It seems now fairly certain that the railway will be completed by the end of 1909.\n\nP.S.-A Reuter's telegram (Hong Kong, 24th January) reports that the French Government has approved the project of a loan intended to complete the Yunnan Railway.\n\n## Movements of Foreign Officials\n\nM. Leduc, “Député du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères,\" left Yunnan-fu on the 7th February, after a residence here of close on three years. I hear (from Chinese sources) that he has recommended his Government to bestow decorations on Hsing-lu, for many years Superintendent of the Department for Foreign Affairs in Yünnan and now Financial Commissioner in Kueichow; on Kuei-fu, his sometime Assistant, now Prefect of Chengchiang; on Chou Hang, formerly Magistrate at Mengtzu; and on Tang, French Secretary in the Foreign Department. In return a telegram was sent, about the 4th February, to Peking, asking for the bestowal on M. Leduc of rank of the Second Degree (Erh-p'in Ting-t'ai).\n\nWith the exception of four months at Foochow in 1887, M. Leduc has spent the whole of his twenty-one years of service either in the north, at Peking or Tien-tsin, or in this province, at Mengtzu and Yunnan-fu. He remains titular \"Premier Interprète\" —or, as we should say, Chinese Secretary—to the French Legation; but it is doubtful whether on his return to China at the close of this year he will take up the post.\n\nHe is succeeded here by M. Arnould, Consul of the Second Class. M. Arnould has been stationed at Aleppo, and is altogether ignorant of Chinese. He is some 52 years of age, and has been confined to his bed since his arrival, so that I have not yet had the pleasure of meeting him. He has brought with him his young son of 10, with the latter's governess, Mme. Arnould remaining in France with her daughter.\n\nM. Gélis, Assistant at the French Consulate-General, leaves for Foochow. He has been replaced here by M. Soulier, a young man who has spent five years in China, for the most part at Shaughae. He will act as interpreter for M. Arnould.\n\nTo the Yunnan-fu agency of the Imperial Chinese Post has been sent a Frenchman, M. Périer, at one time employed at the French post-office at Tien-tsin, but later on at the Chinese Post at Yochow. Hitherto the office has been run by Chinese alone, with the result that many complaints reached the Superintending Commissioner (at Mengtzu) of petty frauds or exactions. A recent notification by the Judicial Commissioner invites popular confidence in M. Périer and the three branch offices he has opened in this city.\n\nM. Mougeot, \"Receveur\" at the French post-office here, expects to shortly return to Tonquin. He has an uncle who is, or was, a Cabinet Minister.\n\n## Missions\n\nMgr. Fenouil, titular Bishop of Tenedos and Vicar Apostolic in Yunnan, died on the 10th January, aged 86. He came out to Hong Kong nearly sixty years ago, stayed on the island some two years, then proceeded to this province, where he resided continuously up to the day of his death. He was, I imagine, the oldest European resident in China. In earlier days he more than once went in peril of his life; but he died a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. For the past few years he led a very secluded life, indeed, never saw him. A Suffragan Bishop, Mgr. Excoffier, acted for him till a year or two ago, when the Suffragan returned to Rome, severing for some reason his connection with the Mission. Since that time P. Maire, the Pro-Vicaire, ...\n\nPage 43",
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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": "## \nas possible, \nthe obeis \nMe \nCE \nufan \nthe \nbroposals \nRAN \nput forward \n4 Si 3 Lugars: \n\nshould be rewritten as \n**Proposals Put Forward**\nas possible, the obedient Me CE often the proposals RAN put forward 4 by Si 3 Lugars:\n\nHowever, a more plausible reconstruction is \n**Proposals by Lugard**\nAs far as possible, the obedient Member of the CE often put forward the proposals RAN put forward by Sir Lugard:\n\n3. I arti \nthat \nthe \nFlans we be released \nreal \nDeft watter \nFoun \nFugard. \n1910 \n175 Feb \nNo \n42. \nLast previous Paper. \n779812 \nCong \nJause Conf 20 \nwo \n(16,855) WE.21,850-1. 40,000. \n1. A&B.W. \n\nreconstructed as \n### 3. Article \nI am certain that the Plans will be released regarding Deft water Found by Fugard.\n\n## \n1910 \n175 Feb \nNo 42.\n\n| Reference | Amount    | \n| --------- | --------- |\n| 779812    | 16,855    | \n| WE.21,850 | 21,850-1  | \n|           | 40,000    | \n| A&B.W.    |           | \n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nNext subsequent Paper. \n9493 \nHONG KONG \n7820 \nTramway Tunnel to Victoria \nREC \n7820 \n283 \nReef 16 MAR 101 \n\nreconstructed as \nNext subsequent Paper: `9493`\n\n## HONG KONG \n### Tramway Tunnel to Victoria \n`REC 7820` \n`283 Reef` \n16 MAR 101 \n\nImperial Maritime Customs has never made any proposals for... \na \nChevalier Pescios proposal is not at present regarded seriously. \nNot aware of any schemes for development of Aberdeen \nnor Ardin \nwhich \n\nreconstructed as \nImperial Maritime Customs has never made any proposals for a tramway tunnel. Chevalier Pescio's proposal is not at present regarded seriously. Not aware of any schemes for development of Aberdeen nor Ardin, which...\n\nThis is rather violent. \nAn examination of the figures have fortunately retained cyphering \nгла \nthers that \nthre \naccurate \nww \ncare \nther \nin transmission \nabsolutely \nemr \nSür \nmay have been \nan \nbut it is obvious that if Sir 7. Lagard had he not been determined to mis understand, be would have known that \nPescio's scheme. \nWh \n} \nreferred & \n\nreconstructed as \nThis is rather violent. An examination of the figures has fortunately retained the original cyphering, showing that they are accurate and were transmitted with care, absolutely correct. It may have been that Sir F. Lugard was determined to misunderstand, but it is obvious that he would have known that Pescio's scheme, which is referred to...\n\n## \n2. Ack 859 \nfurther derp, who would understand \nfrom 4707 to the on its \nогорта \nit will await. \nway: assethal. \nhav \nparaphrase javl \nshan that the bewild back \nLend hun \n\nreconstructed as \n### 2. Acknowledgement \n`Ack 859` \nFurther details will be understood from `4707`, to which it will refer. \nIt will await further instructions in an essential way, having paraphrased the details that the bewildered backers lent.",
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        "content_text": "## Draft for consideration\n\nIt is not clear that one sent observing that it contained a reference to Flegran & Ирник and the û. that there was no group WX reference. Shew that the original figura Kally always be to in future!\n\nUser Harry an great rencentlance to the grimp J = J for that Carral name: that it is possible that there is an error in the transmissin ifo the fark not discried reflects the figures that; that it is...\n\nWhile the err little cadet on Utie fficer who intelligence decypherad Alegram] Ry for [ ] substitute 1673 in my cifhte held. Acc 284 \n\nAlso that, if the project is not regarded seriously, it is a pity that Chev. Fescio should have been encouraged to take steps for raising money to carry out surveys in the district in which he wished to obtain land.\n\nAr A&C 17/3 \n\nBut that if there was reason to suspect an error which could not be amended to give a reasonable interpretation, it would have been well to enquire by tel. In any case, a telegraphic reply was expected.\n\nAdd that Chevalier Fascio wrote to his agents in H.K. last Dec. explaining that he was proposing to divert his tunnel under Mount Kellet, instead of bringing it above the Reservoir, and we can only assume that this amended project had been brought to the notice of the Govt. Add that...",
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        "content_text": "# No. 42\n## Hongkong\n\nMy Lord,\n\nReceived 16 MAR 10  \n7020  \n285  \n3260  \n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 7th February, 1910.\n\nIn reply to your telegram of the 3rd ultimo, I have the honour to state that the Imperial Maritime Customs has never made any proposal for a tramway tunnel from the South of the island into Victoria and that I am at a loss to understand the allusion made to that department in Your Lordship's telegram.\n\n2. Chevalier R. Pescio, an Italian who has on several occasions passed through the Colony, submitted in February, 1906, a proposal for such a tunnel and repeated his proposal in July, 1909; but the project is not at present regarded seriously.\n\n3. I am not aware of any particular schemes for the development of Aberdeen.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE  \nTHE EARL OF CREWE,\n\n...  \n...  \n...  \n\nChevalier Pescio's tunnel",
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        "document_key": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]",
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        "content_text": "To 3.\n\nMadame Marques to stay at Government House. He declined on the grounds that they were both suffering from nervous shock, but promised to come to tea (which they did) before their departure. They left on Tuesday 5th instant. Meanwhile I had heard (on November 29th) that there was some anxiety in Hongkong among those who had relatives in Macao. One gentleman who had a daughter in the Convent had, I heard, gone to bring her here and I received a letter from the Honourable Mr. E. A. Hewett covering an appeal from Mr. Soares and late in the evening I received through my wife an urgent appeal from the Lady Superior of the Italian Convent here urging me to take steps for the safety of the sisters. I enclose copies of these letters. I at once wrote to Chevalier Volpicelli, Consul-General for Italy, enquiring whether any of the ladies were Italians, and in view of the fact that there is no Italian Man-of-war in these waters at present whether he endorsed the appeal. I asked also whether he had any definite news and considered there was any danger. His reply, of which I attach a copy, was re-assuring. I had already earlier in the day telegraphed to the Governor in the following terms:-\n\n*Governor, Macao.\n\n\"Reports",
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        "content_text": "## No. 1.\n\nM. Pichon to the Netherlands Minister at Paris.\n\nParis, le 29 décembre, 1910.\n\nM. le Chevalier,\n\nPar votre office en date du 7 novembre dernier, vous avez bien voulu, d'ordre du Gouvernement Royal, proposer au Gouvernement de la république la date du 30 mai, 1911, pour la réunion de la Conférence de l'Opium.\n\nLe 14 du même mois, vous m'avez fait connaître le désir du Gouvernement britannique de voir instituer, d'abord, par les Puissances participant à la conférence une enquête, dans chaque pays intéressé, sur la préparation et le commerce de la cocaïne et de la morphine.\n\nLe Gouvernement de la république est tout disposé à procéder à cette enquête, dès que le Gouvernement Royal aura bien voulu lui faire connaître avec plus de précision les propositions du Gouvernement britannique.\n\nD'après une communication que vous m'avez fait l'honneur de m'adresser le 14 de ce mois, le Gouvernement des Etats-Unis avait fait savoir au Gouvernement Royal que les Puissances participant à la conférence auraient terminé l'enquête préparatoire demandée par le Gouvernement anglais.\n\nCette déclaration semble prématurée, puisque, par votre office en date du 22 décembre, vous voulez bien m'informer des mesures que le Gouvernement britannique prendra, à partir du 1er janvier prochain, pour connaître les quantités et valeurs de morphine et de cocaïne importées en Angleterre ou exportées de ce pays.\n\nIl paraît donc difficile au Gouvernement français d'accepter, dès maintenant, une date fixe pour la réunion de la conférence, tant que les conditions mises par le Cabinet de Londres à sa participation à ladite conférence n'auront pas été communiquées aux Puissances intéressées et acceptées par elles.\n\nAgréez, &c.\n\nS. PICHON.\n\n## (No. 11.)\n\n(Telegraphic.) R.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nForeign Office, January 21, 1911.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nGOVERNMENT of India telegram of 18th January: Opium. Please report your views, consulting consular officers at Canton and Shanghai if you think it desirable.\n\n`[1857x-1]`\n\nPage 313\nPage 3443\n[January 21.]\n\n## Enclosure in No. 1.\n\n**GERICKE**\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n**OPIUM.**\n\n## No. 2.\n\nA la demande des Gouvernements russe et chinois, dont les délégués ne peuvent être présents le 30 mai, mon Gouvernement a remis la date de la conférence au 1 juillet prochain.\n\nM. le Ministre des Affaires Étrangères communiquera ce qui précède aux autres Puissances après avoir reçu la réponse du Gouvernement de Sa Majesté britannique.\n\nVeuillez, &c.\n\nGERICKE.",
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        "content_text": "# PARIS, le 13 Avril, 1911.\n\nMonsieur Cruppi, Ministre des Affaires Étrangères à Monsieur le Chevalier de Stuers, Ministre des Pays-Bas à Paris.\n\nJ'ai l'honneur de porter à votre connaissance que le Gouvernement Français se rallie volontiers aux suggestions du Gouvernement Britannique relatives aux questions dont la conférence internationale de l'opium convoquée à la Haye, devra être saisie.\n\nIl accepte, en ce qui le concerne, la date du 1er Juillet pour l'ouverture de la Conférence; toutefois, je dois ajouter que le Gouvernement français ayant connu seulement le 13 Février, par la lettre que vous avez bien voulu lui adresser, les conditions auxquelles le Gouvernement Britannique participerait à la Conférence, le ministère compétent du Commerce ne dispose pas d'un délai suffisant pour établir, d'ici le 1er Juillet, les statistiques réclamées par le Gouvernement anglais. Il n'est même pas...",
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        "content_text": "# CONVENTION between Her Majesty, the Emperor of Austria, the King of the Belgians, the Queen of Spain, the United States of America, the Emperor of the French, the King of Italy, the King of the Netherlands, the King of Portugal, and the King of Sweden, on the one part; and the Sultan of Morocco, on the other part; relative to the Establishment and Maintenance of a Lighthouse on Cape Spartel.\n\nSigned, in the French and Arabic languages, at Tangiers, May 31, 1865.\n\n[Ratifications exchanged at Tangiers, February 14, 1867.]\n\n## AU NOM DE DIEU UNIQUE.\n\nIl n'y a de force et de puissance qu'en Dieu.\n\n**SA Majesté la Reine du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, Sa Majesté l'Empereur d'Autriche, Roi de Hongrie et de Bohême, Sa Majesté le Roi des Belges, Sa Majesté la Reine d'Espagne, Son Excellence le Président de la République des Etats Unis d'Amérique, Sa Majesté l'Empereur des Français, Sa Majesté le Roi d'Italie, Sa Majesté le Roi des Pays Bas, Sa Majesté le Roi de Portugal et des Algarves, Sa Majesté le Roi de Suède et de Norvège, et Sa Majesté le Sultan du Maroc et de Fez**, animés d'un égal désir d'assurer la sécurité de la navigation sur les côtes du Maroc, et voulant pourvoir d'un commun accord aux mesures les plus propres à atteindre ce but; ont résolu de conclure une Convention spéciale, et ont à cet effet nommé pour leurs Plénipotentiaires, savoir:-\n\nSa Majesté la Reine du Royaume Uni de la Grande Bretagne et d'Irlande, Sir John Hay Drummond Hay, Commandeur du Très Honorable Ordre du Bain, Son Ministre Résident près Sa Majesté le Sultan du Maroc;\n\nSa Majesté l'Empereur d'Autriche, Roi de Hongrie et de Bohême, Sir John Hay Drummond Hay, Commandeur du Très Honorable Ordre du Bain, son Agent-Général ad interim près Sa Majesté le Sultan du Maroc;\n\nSa Majesté le Roi des Belges, le Sieur Ernest Daluin, Chevalier de Son Ordre de Léopold, Commandeur de Nombre de l'Ordre d'Isabelle la Catholique d'Espagne, Commandeur de l'Ordre du Nichan Eftikhar de Tunis, Son Consul-Général à la côte Occidentale d'Afrique;\n\nSa Majesté la Reine d'Espagne, Don Francisco Merry y Colom, Grand-Croix de Son Ordre d'Isabelle la Catholique, Chevalier de l'Ordre de St. Jean de Jérusalem, décoré de l'Ordre Impérial Ottoman du Medjidie de la troisième classe, Officier de l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur, &c., Son Ministre Résident près Sa Majesté le Sultan du Maroc;\n\nSon Excellence le Président de la République des Etats Unis, le Sieur Jesse Harland McMath, Esquire, Son Consul-Général près Sa Majesté le Sultan du Maroc;\n\nSa Majesté l'Empereur des Français, le Sieur Anguste Louis Victor Baron Aymé d'Aquin, Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, Commandeur de l'Ordre de François I des Deux Siciles, Commandeur de l'Ordre des Saints Maurice et Lazare d'Italie, Commandeur de l'Ordre du Christ de Portugal, Commandeur de l'Ordre du Lion de Brunswick, Chevalier de l'Ordre de Constantin des Deux Siciles, Chevalier de l'Ordre des Guelphes de Hanovre, Son Ministre Plénipotentiaire près Sa Majesté le Sultan du Maroc;",
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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": "DELOITTE, PLENDER, GRIFFITHS & CO?\n\nBin William Plandia.\n\nFangIVAL D.GRIFFITHS. EDWARD DAVIS.\n\nLIONEL MALTAY.\n\nM.L. CHEVALIER.\n\nA.E. CUTFORTH.\n\nThe\n\nAND AT\n\nCAROLPP.\n\nNew York, Chicago, HAVANA\n\nPETROGRAD & Moscow.\n\nMexico CITY,\n\nMONTREAL Vancouver,\n\nBuenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro & TucUMAN.\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Bulawayo, Cape Town,\n\nSALISBURY & Durban.\n\nDELON\n\n23661\n\nRECE?\n\nREGE 20 MAY 16 5. London Wall Buildings.\n\nLondon\n\nEC\n\n196\n\nTELEPHONE DELOITTE (AVE) LONDON. Trummons No. 3000 London Wall (3 lines)\n\n20664/1916.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nWhitehall, S.W.\n\n19th May, 1916.\n\nSir,\n\nBRITISH ESTABLISHMENT OF DIRECTION DER DISCONTO GESELLSCHAFT.\n\nMessrs. Jebsen & Jessen, Hamburg. Messrs. Jebsen & Co., Hongkong.\n\nStaut.\n\nI am much obliged for your letter of the 16th inst.\n\nIn regard to your suggestion that the guarantee of the Bank of England would provide a better security than the guarantee of the London Agency of the Direction der Disconto Gesellschaft, I venture to suggest that it would be impracticable for us to procure a guarantee from the Bank of England. The Management of the Disconto-Gesellschaft point out that a guarantee given by them as the duly authorised attorneys of the Disconto-Gesellschaft in London, could not be repudiated by their Head Office in Berlin, even if the latter desired to repudiate it after the war, which in the opinion of the London Management is extremely unlikely. I agree with this view.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,",
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        "content_text": "Ity ascertain Whether the Calcutta hauche has a surplus, that if so agree J & and if the fost A India we consider that the course Adeplint purposed by his he pleader Pho be adopted. Both them to communient\n\nELOITTE PLENDER, GRIFFITHS & CO\n\nBin Willian Plenden. PaneIVAL D.GRIPPITHE Eoward Dayın LIONEL MALTRY. H. I. CHEVALIER. A.E.CUTPORTN. 19148. with India 5 al.\n\nThe Akong AND AT CAMBIFF, Petrograda Moscow. New York, CHICAGO, HAYANA & Mexico CITY, Montreal & Vancouver. Buon Anka, Ridon Janetão a TuqUMAN, JOHANNgung, Bulawayo, Cape Town, BALISTURY a Dunaan. Eno.\n\nTELEGRAMA. C ¿ 469 35387 D DELOITEC. REG 26 JULIA 5. London Wall Buildings. London, EC. TELEGRAM DELOITTE(AVE) LONDON. TRUPINE No. 3000 LONDON WALL (3 LIKE)\n\n25th July, 1916. liquidation is likely to be in a position to be completed shropy. (35719 minuted separate)\n\nHOB 1H 245/7/146 06.20/714 10. See now in 35 35710 Hol,.8.1 at once. H.D.R. 218716\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, S.W.\n\nBRITISH ESTABLISHMENTS OF GERMAN & AUSTRIAN BANKS. DEUTSCHE ASIATISCHE BANK.\n\nWeasury. 1..Thesty I return the File received on the 22nd instant with reference to the transfer of a balance from the Calcutta to the Hongkong Branch of the above Bank. The India Office, in their letter of the 3th November 1915 (R. S.7207/15), gave authority for the Liquidator of the Calcutta Branch of the Bank to discharge the indebtedness of that Branch to the Disconto-Gesellschaft, London, the amount being then 26,394. 6. 9.\n\nThe indebtedness of the Caloutta Branch of the Deutsche Asiatische Bank to the London Branch of the Disconto-Gesellschaft at date is ... and the indebtedness of the Hongkong Branch of the Deutsche Asiatische Bank to the London establishment of the Disconto-Gesellschaft is 2533.12. 9 720,251. 1. 9\n\nThe Liquidator of the Calcutta Branch of the Deutsche Asiatische Bank should remit to London what is now owing, namely, 583. 12. 9. Any balance found to be owing by",
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        "content_text": "Copy.\n\nF. E. E. FREYTAG,\n\nSouv. Arana President des Arans.\n\n294\n\nWiesbaden, Germany, Hermannstr.19.II.\n\n20. Juin, 1920.\n\nVotre Excellence!\n\nJe vous prie de permettre à Son Excellence le Ministre de l'Aran le Baron Matthes Dr. phil. de l'Université de Berne en Suisse, Chambellan de Sa Sainteté le Pâpe, Grand Chambellan de l'Arana, Gran Prior de l'Ordre Espagnol de St. Jean, Chevalier des Ordres de l'Aran, Conseiller du ci-devant Prince de Thurn & Taxis qu'il peut porter ses titres. Il se rendra dans quelque temps dans votre pays. Il n'a pas de nationalité, c'est-à-dire, il est sans patrie, sans nationalité. Ayez la bonté de me donner une réponse.\n\nAgréez l'expression de ma considération la plus parfaite de votre tout dévoué.\n\nSd. FREYTAG\n\nDr. Frederic Freytag\n\nPrince de l'Aran etc.\n\n3 Souverain Arane sous le Lordprotektorat de Son Altesse Impériale Hossein Khan.\n\nWiesbaden, Allemagne, Hermannstr.19,II.",
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        "content_text": "## Bartour No. 145.\n\n**FOR OFFICIAL USE**\n\n**PRINTED FOR THE COLONIAL OFFICE**\n\nValor 3 iro. Enclo: M\n\nThe Steamboat Company.\n\nAt a meeting this morning (4.4.17) with His Excellency at Government House, the following were present:-\n\nMr. Weall, Dodwell and Co., Chairman of Directors, Steamboat Co.\nMr. Staples Smith (Canton), Director.\nMr. Paterson, Jardine Matheson & Co.\nMr. Johnson, Mackinnon Mackenzie\nChevalier Alves\nSir R.H. Tung\nMr. Thayer, Butterfield & Swire). This Firm owns the \"Fat Shan\" and three-eighths of one other River Steamer (in han) and three-eighths of the wharf property at Hong Kong and Canton. The actual running of all the steamers is in the hands of the Steamboat Directors, Butterfield and Swire not being represented on the Directorate.\n\nMr. E.R. Hallifax, C.G., C.B.E., Hon Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\nAfter discussion of the demands connected with the \"social Saloon\" for the crew on the \"Kin Shan\", and of the incident on Thursday March 31st at Canton, when the crew \"walked out\" at about 8 a.m. without notice, it was resolved that:-\n\n1. The members of the crew who walked out should not be reinstated in the Company's service, either as a crew or as individuals, and that the Company should inform the Seamen's Union to this effect.\n\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "24\n\nSub-Inspectors,\n\n(Continued)\n\nSergeants\n\n14\n\nHONG KONG,—Continued.\n\n15\n\nHONG KONG,—Continued.\n\nPOLICE DEPARTMENT, -- Continued,\n\n£320-£10-£360\n\nJA. J. Dorling. Oct. 1, 25. A. H. Mason, Jan. 1, '25. J. McLellan, Oct. 1, 25. F. Hoare, Nov. 27, '25. A. Nicoll, May 2, '26. J. S. Dick, July 5, 26. P. Murphy, Aug. 6, 26. F. T. James, Aug. 6, 26. M. Murphy, Aug. 13, '26. S. Logan, Sept. 11, '26. W. Chevalier, Nov. 24, 25. M. Hope, April 14, '27. E. Carpenter, May 11, 27.\n\n£220-£10-£300... W. A. Pepperell, Aug. 24, '17.\n\nR. S. R. Swan, Jan. 1, 20.\n\nJ. A. Joy, Jan. 17, '21.\n\nR. C. Butcher, Dec. 24, '23. A. H. Elston, Jan. 1, '24. A. W. Smith, Jan. 1, '24. J. C. S. Fender, Jan. 1, '24. H. E. Langley, Jan. 1, '24. W. R. Chester Woods, Jan. 4, '24.\n\nH. W. Fraser, Feb. 7, '24. C. Rozeskwy, Dec. 14, '24.\n\nH. Griffin, Dec. 21, '24. H. E. Roger, Jan. 1, '25. J. R. McWalter, Jan. 1, '25.\n\nA. E. Carey, Jan. 1, '25. F. T. J. Portallion, Jan. 1, '25. T. O. Connor, Jan. 1, '25. W. Mair, Jan. 1, 25.\n\nM. Dickson, Mar. 12, '25.\n\nJ. Dredge, July 6, '25. J. Cargill, Aug. 7, '25. A. V. Baker, Oct. 1, 25. W. Russell, Dec. 4, 25. P. J. Condon, Nov. 27, '25. A. L. Hopkins, Oct. 26, '25.\n\nSergeants\n\n(Continued)\n\nPOLICE DEPARTMENT,—\n\n£220-£10-£300\n\nContinued.\n\n125 Lance Sergeants., £160 to £200 by 2 annual increments of £10 and annual increments of £5.\n\nJ. Bright, Oct. 1, 25. E. J. Post, Aug. 13, '26. A. Wright, Aug. 6, 26. S. C. Saunders, Sept. 10, '26. A. Riach, Sept. 1, '26.* S. Shepheard, Aug. 6, '26. R. J. Hunt, Oct. 28, '26. E. J. Field, Jan. 10, 27. W. Hynes, Nov. 24, 26.\n\nA. Kirby, Jan. 1, '27.\n\nM. P. Koretsky, April 1, 27. L. Mist, April 27, '27. A. Sabey, May 11, '27.\n\nL. Whant, June 3, 27.\n\nR. McFall, July 28, 27. H. Hallam, Aug. 5, '27. J. Munro, Oct. 11, 27. W. G. C. Stewart, Oct. 1, 21.\n\nH. Waller, Oct. 1, 21. F. Tuckett, Nov. 19, 21. W. Armitt, Dec. 9, '21. B. Thorpe, Dec. 27, 21. L. R. Whant, Mar. 23, '22. D. D. Reid, June 24, '22. G. W. Moreton, June 24, '22.\n\nW. H. Nolloth, July 21, '22.\n\nJ. O'Donovan, Oct. 18, 22.\n\nJ. Kelly, Oct. 18, '22. T. H. Daly, Oct. 18, 22. L. Tyler, Oct. 18, '22.\n\nC. Poyntz, Oct. 18, 22. J. J. Walsh, Oct. 18, '22. M. J. Flattery, Oct. 18, '22.\n\nJ. Murphy, Oct. 18, '22. T. K. Whelan, Oct. 18, '22. P. Kellet, Oct. 18, 22. D. A. Murphy, Oct. 18, '22.\n\n* Transferred from Police Store-Keeper.\n\n25",
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        "content_text": "12\n\nWhen, on the request of the police Magistrate, the Inspector visited this home she found a boy aged two who was suffering from marasmus,\n\nAfter much persuasion the mother took him to the Tung Wah Hospital but would not allow him to stay as an in-patient.\n\nAt the Society's request Dr. Kirk visited the home. He found the child in a pitiable condition, undersized and covered with boils. He asked the mother to bring it to the French Hospital but she refused and the Inspector's persuasion failed.\n\nA week later the mother took the child to the Tung Wah Hospital in a moribund condition and he died within a few hours.\n\nUnder the existing laws there is no power to compel parents to obtain medical attention for sick children or to punish them if they fail to do so.\n\nPlaint No. A.40.—When seen by the Inspector a boy aged five and his baby brother were covered with boils and the baby also had fever. The Inspector took them to hospital and the baby was found to have a high temperature and remained as an in-patient.\n\nBoth were cured and are doing finely after a diet of Glaxo and emulsion.\n\nPlaint No. 136.—When, on the report of a neighbour, the Inspector visited this case she found a boy aged five very thin and pale and suffering from suppurating ophthalmia of the right eye. The disease had spread to the left eye and complete blindness was threatened.\n\nDr. Kirk, a member of the Executive Committee, was consulted and arranged for the child's admission to the French Hospital where he enucleated the right eye.\n\nThe sight of the left eye has been saved and the father has written expressing his gratitude.\n\nB\n\nThe Officers of the Society.\n\nPresident: The Hon. Sir Shouson Chow.\n\nVice-Presidents.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga\n\nThe Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G. The Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, K.C. The Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton The Hon. Dr. S. W. Tso, O.B.E.\n\nHonorary Vice-Presidents. Sir Cecil Clementi, G.C.M.G. Mr. Wai Shiu Pak\n\nGeneral Committee.\n\nChevalier J. M. Alves Mr. A. el Arculli The Rev. L. Banchio The Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga Mr. J. D. Bush\n\nMr. Chan Heung Pak Mr. T. N. Chau (Hon. Sec.) The Hon. Sir Shouson Chow Mr. E. Cock Mr. A. G. Coppin Mrs. Creasy\n\nDr. A. L. Dovey\n\nMr. R. A. D. Forrest Mr. V. M. Grayburn Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, M.C.\n\n(Hon. Sec.)\n\nSir Robert Ho Tung Mr. Ho Kom Tong, O.B.E. Mr. Ho Kwong Father D. Hourigan Mr. Ho Sing Chau The Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes\n\nMr. Hung Hing Kam Mr. Ip Lan Chuen Dr. E. W. Kirk The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G.\n\nMrs. Kotewall Mr. Kwok Siu Lau Mr. Leung Pat Yu Mr. Li Hoi Tung (Hon. Treasurer)\n\nMr. Li Jowson\n\nMr. Li Yau Tsun, C.B.E. Mr. Li Yik Mui Mr. M. K. Lo\n\nDr. A. McElney\n\nMr. J. L. McPherson Dr. E. M. Minett Mr. Mok Kon Sang Mr. H. Mori\n\nMrs. Fred Mow Fung Mr. Ngan Shing Kwan Mr. Ng Wah\n\nDr. Phoon Seck Wah\n\nThe Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, K.C.\n\nLady Pollock\n\nMr. J. T. Prior Miss R. Rains Mr. E. M. Raymond Mr. T. H. R. Shaw The Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton\n\nMiss Shin Tak Hing\n\n22",
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        "content_text": "14\n\nGeneral Committee.—Continued.\n\nThe Rev. Dean Swann Mr. Tam Woon Tong Mr. Tang Shiu Kin Mr. Tong Yat Chuen Mr. Tse Ka Po\n\nThe Hon. Dr. S. W. Ts'o, O.B.E.\n\nMrs. S. W. Ts'o\n\nThe Rev. R. H. Wells, O.B.E. Mr. B. Wong Tape Mr. Wong Kwong Tin Mr. Wong Mau Lam Mr. Wong Tak Kwong Miss Foon-yee Catherine Woo, M.B.E.\n\nExecutive Committee.\n\nChairman: The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G. Vice-Chairman: The Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton.\n\nChevalier J. M. Alves\n\nMr. A. el Arculli\n\nThe Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga\n\nThe Hon. Sir Shouson Chow\n\nMr. A. G. Coppin\n\nMrs. Creasy\n\nDr. A. L. J. Dovey\n\nMr. R. A. D. Forrest\n\nMr. Ho Kom Tong, O.B.E.\n\nMr. Ho Kwong\n\nFather D. Hourigan\n\nThe Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes\n\nMr. Ip Lan Chuen\n\nDr. E. W. Kirk\n\nMrs. R. H. Kotewall\n\nMr. Li Yau Tsun, C.B.E.\n\nMr. M. K. Lo\n\nDr. A. McElney\n\nMr. J. L. McPherson Dr. E. M. Minett\n\nMr. H. Mori\n\nMrs. Fred Mow Fung\n\nDr. Phoon Seck Wah\n\nThe Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, K.C.\n\nMr. J. T. Prior Miss R. Rains\n\nMr. E. M. Raymond Miss Shin Tak Hing Mr. Tang Shiu Kin\n\nMr. Tong Yat Chuen\n\nThe Hon. Dr. S. W. Ts'o, O.B.E.\n\nMr. J. M. Wong\n\nMr. Wong Kwong Tin\n\nMr. Li Yik Mui, as Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.\n\nMr. Ngan Shing Kwan, as Chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital.\n\nMr. Tam Woon Tong, as Chairman of the Po Leung Kuk. Messrs. T. N. Chau and T. M. Hazlerigg, Hon. Secretaries, Mr. Li Hoi Tung, Hon. Treasurer.\n\nInspectors:\n\nMiss Seto Wai Sheung\n\nMiss Violet C. Chan. Miss Agnes Anderson.\n\n15\n\n—\n\nLife Members.\n\n(Donors of $100 or more.)\n\nH.E. The Governor, Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G., K.B.E.\n\nMr. J. M. Alves\n\nMr. A. el Arculli\n\nMr. Au Lim Chuen\n\nMr. Au Shiu Cho\n\nLt. Col. L. G. Bird, D.S.O. Mr. W. H. Bell\n\n*Lt. Col. G. K. Hall Brutton\n\nMr. Chan Hing Wa Mr. Chan Hung Leung Mr. Chan Kam Po *Mr. Chan Leung Ming\n\nMr. Chan Lim Pak Mr. Chan Mung Hung Mr. Parkson Chan Mr. S. C. Chan Mr. Chan Shiu Hing Mr. Chan Shu Kai\n\nMr. Chan Ting Yu Mr. Chan Tin-son Mr. Chan Tsze Chiu Mr. T. N. Chau Mr. Chau Tung Shang *Mr. Cheung Sau Pau\n\nMr. Cheung Yuk Lam\n\nMr. Chiu Kom To Mr. Choa Po Sin\n\nThe Hon. Sir Shouson Chow Mr. Chung Shu Tseung Mr. Chung Yuk Hing Sir Cecil Clementi, G.C.M.G. Lady Clementi\n\nMr. A. G. Coppin Mr. John Fleming Mr. F. M. Ellis Mr. Fung Fuk Tin\n\nMr. Fung Kong Un Mr. Philip Gock-Chin Mr. J. F. Grose\n\n*Mr. Ho Kom Tong, O.B.E.\n\nMr. Ho Kung Chung\n\nThe asterisk indicates\n\nMr. Ho Sing Chau Sir Robert Ho Tung Mr. Ho Wa Sang\n\nMr. Hung Hing Kam\n\nMr. A. C. Hynes\n\nMr. Ip King Fan Mr. Ip Lan Chuen\n\nMr. F. C. Jenkin, C.B.E., K.C.\n\nMr. J. E. Joseph Mr. Kan Hung Chiu Mr. Kan Tat Tsoi Mr. Kong Shui Ying The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G. Mrs. R. H. Kotewall Mr. Kwan King Suen Mr. P. K. Kwok Mr. Kwok Siu Lau Mr. Kwok Tsan Mr. Lam Cheuk Ming Mr. Lam Siu Lai Mr. Lau Ping Chai Mr. K. F. Lay Mr. Lee Iu Cheung Mr. Leung Pat Yu Mr. Leung Yiu Chor Mr. Li Heung Kuk Mr. Li Hoi Tung Mr. Li Jowson Mr. Li Koon Chun Mr. Li Ping\n\nMr. Li Po Kwai Mr. Li Tse Fong\n\nMr. Li Yan-tsun C.B.E.\n\nMr. Li Yik Mui\n\nMr. Lo Cheung Shiu Mr. Lo Chung Kue\n\nMr. M. K. Lo\n\nMrs. M. K. Lo *Mr. Look Poong Shar\n\nMr. Ma Tsui Chiu *Mr. Ma Ying Piu\n\ndonations exceeding $100.\n\n24",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "title": "CO129-587-12 Evacuation from Hong Kong- passenger lists 8-7-1940 - 8-7-1940",
        "content_text": "## SHEET TEN\n46\n\n### Particulars of Husband \n\nRank. Surname.\n\n### Particulars of Children \n\n| Full Christian Names of Wife | Name | Date of Birth | Rank |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | THOPNE |  | Cpl. |\n|  | Pte. THIRD |  |  |\n| Emily Lilian. Zoia. | Robert. S. | 22/8/36 | W.C.II |\n|  | TIBBLE |  | W.C.II |\n|  | TIERNEY |  |  |\n| Florence. Doris. | Arian | 29/3/35 |  |\n| Doris. | Doris | 14/9/27 | W.O.I |\n| Nessie. |  | 4/4/29 | TRIMMER |\n| Violet. |  |  | W.C.II |\n|  | TRINDER |  |  |\n| Lena. | Bernard | 21/5/33 |  |\n|  | George | 16/6/36 | Lieut. |\n|  | TUL |  |  |\n| Edith. | Shirley | 2/6/30 |  |\n|  | Richard | 13/12/31 |  |\n|  | Feter | 1/6/34 | Sgt. |\n|  | TUIFR |  |  |\n| Sylvia Brigid. | Brian 0.J. | 20/7/32 | Sgt. |\n|  | TYNEP |  | S/Sgt. |\n|  | UPTON |  |  |\n| Clive Trene. Doris. | Marion 0. | 25/3/36 |  |\n|  | Joyce | 29/12/36 |  |\n|  | Valerde | 5/6/40 | /Cpl. |\n| Annie. | Patrick | 17/3/34 | Sgt. |\n|  | VALANCE |  |  |\n| Winifred Edna. | Rosemary | 17/7/35 | W.0.II |\n|  | WADE |  |  |\n| Florence. | Louisa W. | 27/1/19 |  |\n|  | Leslie K. | 15/6/26 |  |\n|  | Rodney K. | 21/10/28 | kr. |\n| Kiss | VITORT |  | W.C.I |\n|  | WALKER |  | Sgt. |\n|  | WALLINGTON |  |  |\n|  | WALTER |  | 9/Sgt. |\n|  | WARD |  | .O.I |\n|  | WARDLE |  |  |\n| Eleonor Margaret. | H.(Nurse to child |  |  |\n| Mona Frances. Any Hilda. | Florence Annie. Dorothy May. |  |  |\n|  | Michael J. | 3/7/33 |  |\n|  | Patricia A.M. | 21/5/36 | or2/Lieut.) Prior |\n|  | Jocelyn P. | 11/12/38 |  |\n| Maurien |  | 26/9/84 |  |\n| Joan R. |  | 25/1/28 |  |\n| Elizabeth J. |  | 13/2/30 | Lieut. |\n|  | WATERS |  |  |\n| Adelaide. | Fric | 14/12/28 |  |\n| Anne. |  | 7/5/36 | Cpl. |\n|  | WATHEN |  |  |\n| Kate, |  |  | S/Sgt. |\n|  | WAY |  |  |\n| Edna Frances. | Shirley D. | 19/9/35 | Lt-Col. |\n| Winfred Ethel Chevalier. |  |  | Cnr. |\n|  | WEAVER |  |  |\n| Ivy. |  |  | Capt. |\n|  | WEBB |  |  |\n| Dorothy Mabel. | Fatricia P. | 2/11/23 | Sgt. |\n|  | LERB |  |  |\n| Florence Kaud. |  |  | Sgt. |\n|  | WEBSTER |  |  |\n| Anne. | Sydney | 18/12/31 |  |\n|  | Frederick |  | W.C.II |\n|  | WEDLOCK |  |  |\n| Lilian. | Leslie | 1/1/26 |  |\n|  | Thelma | 16/11/27 |  |\n|  | Geoffrey | 14/1/35 | B.Q.M.S. |\n|  | WELLINGTON |  |  |\n| Kathleen. | Patricia | 27/1/26 |  |\n|  | Lorna | 21/11/28 |  |\n|  | Claire | 19/1/36 | Sgt. |\n| Martha. | Doris | 16/6/27 |  |\n|  | Alan | 8/9/28 | Sgt. |\n|  | WHIFFEY |  |  |\n| Janet. | David | 8/1/30 |  |\n|  | Robert | 14/10/30 |  |\n|  | George | 16/11/33 |  |\n|  | Ruby | 26/9/36 |  |\n|  | Sarah | 16/12/39 |  |\n| Lily. | Terek | 19/7/27 |  |\n|  | Patricia | 14/12/29 | Sgt. |\n| Miss | WHITEHEAD |  | W.O.II |\n|  | WIGZELL |  | Pte. › S/Sgt. |\n| (.A.I.M.N.S.- on duty). |  |  |  |\n| Doris. |  |  |  |\n|  | WILLIAMS |  |  |\n| Cecilia Dolores. |  |  |  |\n|  | WILLIAMS |  |  |\n| Ettie Brett. | Marion A. | 13/4/40 |  |\n| Miss | WILLS |  |  |\n| Elsie May (Q.A.8.) |  |  |",
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