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        "document_key": "CO129-032 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [1-4]",
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        "title": "CO129-032 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [1-4]",
        "content_text": "Thanks to Hong Kong easily opportunity.\n\nAu\n\nShave\n\nCopy\n\nList of Books required.\n\n259\n\nHameon's Analytical Digest of all the reported\n\nCase's in the several Courts of Law.\n\nCrabb's Digest and Index of all the Statutes. Archere's Digest of the Law of Evidence in\n\nCriminal Cases.\n\nPeere's Digest of the Law of Evidence on the\n\nTrial of Actions at Nisi Prius.\n\nChitty's Practice of the Law in all its\n\ndepartments. Impey's Sheriff and Coroner.\n\nAddison on Contracts.\n\nChitty's Medical Jurisprudence.\n\n(True Copy)\n\n(Signed) B. Hillier,\n\nChief Magistrate\n\nColonial Secretary.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856",
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        "title": "CO129-061 - Public Offices - 1856",
        "content_text": "(2)\n\nFrom F. Platt, Esq. 2 C.\n\nample testimony to your being,\n\n288\n\nin every respect, well qualified for the office of Chief Magistrate at Hongkong. It is now, I think about 15 years since you left my chambers and I have much pleasure in adding my personal testimony to your being assiduously following the Profession, and particularly adapting yourself to it in all its branches, and particularly to the Criminal Law. Trusting that you may be successful in the office, Believe me,\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nThomas Chitty to H. J. Davies Esq.\n\nHis career at Cambridge where he obtained high honors fully entitled him to expect greater success at the Bar in his own country. I know him to be a man of sound professional as well as general ability, and I have no doubt that he would do credit to any high judicial appointment. I am informed that he is anxious to proceed to the Colony where I am.\n\nFrederick Haye\n\n(3)\n\nD.C.\n\nFrom Thomas Chitty Esq. (Special Pleader)\n\nDear Davies,\n\nKing's Bench Walk, 25th March 1856.\n\nIt gives me much pleasure to be able to...\n\n(4)\n\nFrom James Stephen Esq., Barrister at Law, Professor of Law at King's College, London.\n\nMy dear Henry,\n\nCrown Office Row, Temple, 22nd March 1856.\n\nI do not attach much importance to testimony from any one; but, if you think otherwise, make what use you please of this letter, which I write in reference to you...\n\nINDEX",
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        "document_key": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]",
        "content_text": "# \n1 \n\n**b Percup ford, Temple** \n\n28th August 1954 \n\n34 \n\nI have great pleasure in being able to testify in favor of Mr. When I consider his legal acquirements and business habits and study that I have not the least doubt that he will file with ability and diligence the work which he offers to do. Informed as I am that he is looking for an appointment \n\nfor \n\na new role as a pupil with me when a Pleader \n\nTo me \n\nit seems \n\nAnd \n\nI then had read \n\nhave since had high \n\nmany opportunities of judging of his legal attainments - \n\nand honorable and \n\nGentlemanly character \n\nTypes of Compliments from Chitty \n\n[signed] \n\n1 \n\n1",
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        "document_key": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860",
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        "title": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860",
        "content_text": "Attering generaleting, if Mr. Adams be promoted, or the Chief Interpreter is not entirely disposed of.\n\n1190. R. Rong you\n\nFrom which we see that the Governor speaks highly of Mr. Geler's services, but you might.\n\n463\n\n3082-\n\nIn Hong Kong, it not be well before this letter goes to send for I. Green to the Office and to ascertain the extent of illness which caused him to relinquish his acting appointment, and the prospect of suffering from bad health.\n\nMr. Green further offers to submit some observations about H. Rong.\n\nAB 21\n\nI have written privately to Tom Wh 21 this year for information regarding the restoration of health!\n\n771 27 marshy\n\nL\n\nPerhaps 60-(827\n\nI have sent to foren. He is a man of mild, pleasing manners, and while chatty ill, an amendment which, without appearing to be liberty, he would be present.\n\nAL et presente has N 25.\n\nbe suffered fit for any ray, S for additional words which acting Exflogens. de Blackwoodi fachen.\n\nWhen the belang of 2.1 by formative. Mige tine, he adopted, with fwromotions. M: 23.\n\n4\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and to improve the response further, here is the revised version in HTML format as requested:\n\nAttending generally, if Mr. Adams be promoted, or the Chief Interpreter is not entirely disposed of.\n\n1190. R. Rong you\n\nFrom which we see that the Governor speaks highly of Mr. Geler's services, but you might.\n\n463\n\n3082-\n\nIn Hong Kong, it would not be well before this letter goes to send for I. Green to the Office and to ascertain the extent of illness which caused him to relinquish his acting appointment, and the prospect of suffering from bad health.\n\nMr. Green further offers to submit some observations about H. Rong.\n\nAB 21\n\nI have written privately to Tom this year for information regarding the restoration of health!\n\n771 27 marshy\n\nPerhaps 60-(827)\n\nI have sent to foreign. He is a man of mild, pleasing manners, and while chatty, an amendment which, without appearing to be at liberty, he would be present.\n\nhas N 25.\n\nbe suffered fit for any ray, for additional words which acting Exflogens de Blackwood fachen.\n\nWhen the balance of 2.1 by formative Mige tine, he adopted, with promotions. M: 23.\n\n4\n\nRevised to fit the exact format and rules:\nPage ...\n\n lines were not detected, hence not included.\n\nHere is the final output in the required HTML format:\n\nAttending generally, if Mr. Adams be promoted, or the Chief Interpreter is not entirely disposed of.\n\n1190. R. Rong you\n\nFrom which we see that the Governor speaks highly of Mr. Geler's services, but you might.\n\n463\n\n3082-\n\nIn Hong Kong, it would not be well before this letter goes to send for I. Green to the Office and to ascertain the extent of illness which caused him to relinquish his acting appointment, and the prospect of suffering from bad health.\n\nMr. Green further offers to submit some observations about H. Rong.\n\nAB 21\n\nI have written privately to Tom this year for information regarding the restoration of health!\n\n771 27 marshy\n\nPerhaps 60-(827)\n\nI have sent to foreign. He is a man of mild, pleasing manners, and while chatty, an amendment which, without appearing to be at liberty, he would be present.\n\nhas N 25.\n\nbe suffered fit for any ray, for additional words which acting Exflogens de Blackwood fachen.\n\nWhen the balance of 2.1 by formative Mige tine, he adopted, with promotions. M: 23.\n\n4",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]",
        "page_number": 342,
        "title": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]",
        "content_text": "## THE DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY AUGUST 1965\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG\n\nthe acting Attorney General formally presented the case.\n\nTUM\n\nWows Arurdwand Cunniline. How critic, wither be rug use, RACANY to 1 Quorem wede ja abia cenu!\n\nby amann othut Jerice, if the tenny, which Re very touch dobe, die He is to colon se wire Bosk\n\n'To Lei.\n\n2713 omdat psico. Spratly or in Waltres special two-storied Godorum Hiland on the Primu close for Monate. 1. Hupy, outer was perf M\n\n21 Best of Meesce Gibb, Livingst, & 60,\n\nAppl\n\nENFORD & O\n\nFor Sale.\n\nEXORATOR. PARLARE.\n\nnines Sail Femmes B. Wii U of James Tuila\n\nHenty, in Hid by Axrorud Skin i. Bile, the inlene hran\n\nAda |\n\nmil\n\nFor Sale.\n\nWALL PAPER, of different patterns\n\nLAMMERT ATZINGON A GE\n\n9 Bengkong, 11th July. D5665.\n\n-- NEW CALINIURIATMOATS,\n\nWhite Male Barille. Ladis Fashivele li Rehner, is at Clack\n\nMuk Estic Kit Glowny, de vente per mišri\n\n1758 +2, 26 July, 1966,\n\n--16, 20\n\nsaid Wong Strong our fa Alyce Builder 150 Tipping, Cure, 15.\n\ngigin ritused on a basin, sive credetion of angi\n\n********* + LIST OF HOLD... the virus of af every hid the Sint ser inte bereof to pruce Lier theic clits TOMIZAM she is by be done the Lot of word and PARINIC LOT NO. 185 siteated esraw the lindore of the portusing by tee Jo-band ef 5 Cibany Sector 1 orang, Print, Fenuraga 120 rive? the whole political pond foaring Lo Mucker and over aantal interest 50,70 feet\n\nFor Paris, noply to 1619 Qllion in the Ren, 2nd find grafite these! paw wing vờ là\n\nhat no Tube 38, at 67-. This was like sivon, em ciment met\n\nCethi pendest bande? io. Prit you! That Watdhere wither art i Let of Gora) REK İTEMİnce will be and par roRRIL Pmmixas |\n\nalimevine\n\nLased the ith day if June, I HÃN,\n\nPI MAZELAND, Crown Poikat, Sprazse t'bars Floșua\n\nponte Exeggut te themid Deerce This the ice an the slatamine published in presidente für mühital leuinney, we pretend that Noch 13ton Berlin B'ame of Monday Topky. The joint Sind of political peristirauzito mmsplate and ¦\n\n2 was a (bimargan, angazed at se merah pez ¦ soarchive sa propustion to the politimil Indagine Death a thin was te-fer hia do we e-the time of the safetcher, at mental. Ens while of the wrath. I was in tay chân, whaết kho minit facturilting these are al maaż, when pha sirrak. ↑ End vermeintó en deck; the roles of aperosive latimay, that the tmekih 13:15 25. The chief officer was no desk at hammaitišs of the ouso require at it the na The Hon. When we strups the tide we zonningthilation of the political influrane of the thin\n\n3. Beat the only offices in of the sumption facty, me tepress var ATE: Watts on the month lard of the & Worked hope that the Ararins ument may CITORAGS may la bed in das fun GRA Tha pink shann? The answer. The gone bey the men da to this malier in mak sut maruple to 98, 12) SITS MODOWY8, under Mesen, Bowrat\n\nsom, the hewing thracht went snerul et following tin bail example vs have int & Cela Oker, Janga Weste\n\nPD-\n\nbesar 9 miles W, of Gutaki lemn, met in Gris the gunichaorac, of pic\n\nhow pur ai the Engelsolent. & alaleak in the lived disquitostira thers Du\n\nWe at 1.55 cm. The ah 1116 removal is tim allenal, spīdenda splinting\n\nwas wete aking at the sloan. Wie we sterke, Kér, Dariu rad Kr. Menjanin ko sāc ammalanandirm\n\nJ 1351\n\nStorage.\n\nBORAGE,\n\npartia moyle to\n\nLANTATION ♣ tìu. Broky, Jely, 13\n\n***** UNINTERAGE AND STORAGE. ****\n\n8 Bndervigovt will modertake to lush Cut j 1.\n\nWhon et druck. That would fart ways of Mr. Langeln, or 018 in the ing of the bar Badets and kar rodine phth the sama te fuit heas vary strutiva, opal Not/lem eius-Tat there be red for thema I that on his plane thart Werk the punish it fairly found elty, their own to see the rai e. The rate was thiet all that night with petuity patentined in fun. But logs in fascines that dunsæirnal clear intervala. We pay the four Fight in 4-4-one pic lead slow, abrose who wreck.\n\nthe Actions overnement vinafoxtet are its tale carme. power god ite plamenes, hitherty na elemolly short throughout this m\n\npilate\n\nBORT. & WALKER $ 20. Prae. 4th and 1863\n\nK. Serið vit of the India Rock, sid: to such us as the iTEAGE, ona be bus in Grantle Unde\n\n1GA\n\nandling Huntington How Long love foto dhe i orchellaity of Quar's Road 11\n\nPombe given the the fut\n\nut\n\nApply\n\nABSINBBOY MATHABLOY A UV.\n\n£ *ing ffomplete. 1716 May, 196\n\nBoad,\n\nAered in a central puition in law's like forme kugejaten ErdalwooA, Apply\n\nty to\n\nGIRS LIVINGSTON 4. US,\n\n981 Bobek, tand there. 18,\n\nEVOKE ASH COAL 2.41 sal!\n\nAndesit tho moha un cha\n\nand CDs Cur Festraller has 1' intues\n\nRon. Liz Houghnan, 2741 they. 15.\n\nand\n\n-- 200 Cod Nagar\n\n20 Bamenda Shil' Better\n\nPlate He\n\nhot napros\n\nEn fiscu\n\nFrant Roses, furs.\n\napply w\n\nNULLER I OLAFSSES.\n\ndegli utes the risin 125 Banglang, 2716 demon. Is\n\nBrant Fair. Apple\n\nAWUTH ARCHEN A. UO.\n\n1973 Hongkong. Via duly, 1968,\n\nPOR SALE\n\nCourt the Boone\n\nFor Sale\n\nFanted,\n\n12 invica of White Wine, ventining\n\nA\n\nPlayer.\n\nBLiu=Äiryihu:r.\n\nHolder\n\nSing Kn\n\nLAY & Cu\n\nJes\n\n1 1997 Strugkong. With fun. 1786,\n\nRoyal Traning of stooty-bound S\n\neating of\n\nblood's Memorite.\n\nSugar Talie Twis\n\nIT W\n\nFrank Polar\n\nMaurice you\n\nPur Surin Hres\n\nHär july's Meilė.\n\nfred Mytaty.\n\nMislandReMAG.\n\nSasha Buy.\n\nH\n\n1. Ma\n\nRuban Mill.\n\nhalshei\n\n16.\n\nStambe\n\nkcjuesin\n\nMand, & Rym of Honma Storrien, Porst, d'incert. Tipuram, Sr. An\n\nYHO HET A to.\n\na mekong eth Mey, G.\n\nREAL ILAVANA USUA 155 dealing art s\n\napezio ya AYANA, w picast uppisis. Peopren of de ret d'Bauge.\n\nHongkong, 3rd October, 1\n\nA BRIDAN Tap uggies and Harney.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.\n\nASTELLÀTE JURNYCHEN.\n\n1802\n\nHEY, Appelt. z. 1.1-%PNER, Royanini. A EL or Coste\n\nAug 11th 75 Beleinet............. \n\nbridgwa\n\nChristine Matana.\n\nHaish A White's Horaitors and Car\n\nBar\n\nUcpb-towding Carblown and Car-\n\nNow Halas\n\nJahn Kerchwoni's Lagaay,\n\nseals.\n\nwilgen.\n\nand e fal aviv slu.\n\n11\n\n30 barrels Ty DEKAT\n\nSark Pictionary\n\n109 Bargond's Cebuan.\n\n100 pana, Clavul,\n\nBranty.\n\nWap-asi los 11 Tow Shipbone ol Opera,\n\nFor in When\n\nmut, Selz July, căni,\n\nAT THE MAMLS, AND LAVITE GIRA23 NICHOL\n\nGinkley Heart, ita 3\n\nDear Ms Papa'\n\ndie Spri Gazdag, suitabin fur jumtheshaver oriolum in zạn vừw the whole busbuat.\n\napply to\n\n1. NOW HOJEK\n\n:bout to 1$ (), a. Un mm (16h, July 1965.\n\ntrendition of this ufen, had dintainen fumust be the Free Consul at duties and dug Eve-aghaimile of comeings sirength. Mr. Unik Shea pot in the praizng dễ an beroditzes prieve The whose children met set up e claim re they seep-\n\nwing of the Lelie Garth. I hid tifant. I was on lesk when the prank. for obesen mitte). That is as siguture. migaie kurky wann whim pátek.\n\n2nd I hank self at about th Inet vant nf the Soud T\n\nCow be limo hits The Heuring witter benciagani? tem, and gas balwynn Të fal, and a falla. The¦unan háu arvid Hera Togstd in Las parta Seve silat won deck armyding a Getin mhaft of me\n\nnxise\n\nnil sevic1950 kerak.\n\nUeberal\n\nBULAT A DO\n\nFind t\n\nALISHMENT.\n\nstock of fusion fraus nad ellers nat\n\nmi tyllawz si ¡Curta CleNu, 2 in Lance ni falan napki\n\n-N. 2 Marila\n\nCh-2\n\n-N\n\nin the Qera's Hond\n\n| Qubules then, thh thosher, L. HOUKE at Wis corner Polynomialund atau and Alerter Sets SF Orgas sa bounties of as juh\n\nApply\n\nBAY 4 C\n\n778 voksing, sech Juno, Elñ\n\ndis B\n\nA. DE AXEVEDO Slary 6, 1955.\n\nAwacasion can be given all tema.\n\nApplyin\n\nchai, bering Yes fromag\n\nk 100,000 pecula to Uranics Gran, The night who think, met dienend un att was Amasened, a cinne frapriyononang for two gene\n\nwon to hit Lion\n\nLoft for Farm' were her half a male art. Fruta se ne in a heavy within them lepity ficha was 112,000. 34.00 time befel riu sil alteratione ta iñe rovran | fiammdias felines. As for General Yes, we front 1 (9,000 and 10,000 phula vapecity. mens synde lap the risk. The chorus per mat chekje in not bear that be in likely to ba zied. It may\n\nApply arate hueyproendor of the lan to was this the\n\nYADONIU & fo\n\nsedež josed the Falls Hankh be a refellss of big surrender reccted; thazine. 29th Art, 1803.\n\nFAME Marr add-I belang is the firm is only senda military tribanals. Has it will Mat, Mass & Co. Mao nútilin Gaita Punkk's de su fátalu mistake for this Amarjan Garen. pilte had been in the Mieszank for more. Rest aliand is seem to kmak na handcrabin msbeslan i\n\nin druik dievny these\n\nvor. The Captain winloyed the pilot on raiding, ang de Bu\n\nafo de Bic Amil B\n\neranon dating of the gramadore has with its who will have Burping Hut Orneral Ice in 4- name of the few, Sua loka Anet and black cepting thatarem profereal him by General Grant.\n\nThe meter to the Zing wakunellen that run bison Anti den on there\n\ncha vile was concretant to take charge. Captia | Kich of the Government at Washington. Voitib\n\nHard.\n\nROYAL HOTEL.\n\nSMACAO.\n\nat studenty Mutal, mitad\n\nPraja Buče, and convsiolog, mors airy\n\nF\n\nHO TEIK SHEN, in the Juda house, Elgin Stewk ja 1, od Zum, test.\n\n*** Reserved a Frat Jendea of\n\nwerd eer and timp Works\n\nBOWRA & (3.\n\n4 1804 Wenzhong Lakh July 18th,\n\n\"BOUND and well stances PORT FIE\n\nOperior seality as 80 per dora.\n\nApply to VAUCHER A tio.\n\nU15 Fong, 1415 March, 1BUS\n\nPOF BALE BY THE UNDERSIGNED. *** Anke aru platz.\n\nPet Tiber and Marks.\n\nKidgenore de én,\n\ndil\n\nBaler Pinas mul. Päristä. Naila, wote kiza.\n\ntar\n\nGURPIEN MEARD A Q\n\nHongkong, 17% July 1805 Just landed ex St, Lowi,\"\n\nMothern arzivnie Latizo.\n\n160TR PADIES. HE Dric and beak! THAT Bri\n\n¡D SOLA\n\nX N, Q's harp RACKAY NUES Cakes vad Ixora Bun\n\ningerlag. Apply to\n\nATKA.\n\nTANG ALOR 77 Huge, A. Parte 16.\n\nA. BOTER\n\nCantenas! 105% Mouse, tark Juos, ¡nus.\n\nAN 13055, abreast WHARPAGH AND HODOWNA, * \n\nA WARTHI WHARU, with or wilboat\n\nof the Throw comparish where elabor\n\ncan te bied word change.\n\nmis might bir karm busier klippa hamurable understuives cadetin et socity ramon dark, eta arra le not her. elves, will be 21 true policy for Mr. Febo monded for its aculation. to invalide and don't know the pilti\n\nCar Ren, temi me feel at the Averaged and seality outrea the pilota. The head pi'ne www uzat no bound by is Government, Borisave won kirs to mine wat!\n\nIggy's Cabina),\n\nthe war, and the uthet was gut by Mr. bagi inipla in, and\n\n30MITTEY\n\nST facin $25 Apr 1929\n\nRIFTE ROTEL\n\nQURENS GOAD, VIIST.\n\nTesme Moderate\n\nMarried Couple; jam No25- Single\n\nThe the Hot was in sharps I 5d 10\n\n10 sena webus pelasimlas, with fewer inoltant at chitty bility, and well mit have thunght of fotorfaring and rage mi the pros of tha vinkors than nay whe with Min. priniet in thick visher Ines ia lürtme can akon, ertad by a palies a sur pela for ship, an lạp xy a gapeval charge tonin Shan vished ordinary pliuy as of the omare more ziwa by the pilot, dan obair porce to tom pang than the purpos enland and and it had ben many bandingy victor-it onto y p elter the conrea in tan vaidle wares, je i den gammle populue Omenomana (muling the way yue half a print or a prane. I should me have meninisty and levity, suis already od tamil cited.\n\nthe www in fentilado Bourage, that we earnished\n\n| Scent the Amazingas pomis to do all to their por\n\nA ducho made to beater providing\n\nany longue iban two punthe\n\n6. P. BENSOWA 1. SHAS\n\nApply to\n\nBig Couple 244 Blends, 1858.\n\nGarter of Wellingen wel 19 Aguilar Straps,\n\nHAB juive by late Mail tim blowing\n\nundicia...\n\nPrinted Musline for Salvarer Danm\n\nWe do plain for Ju\n\n901 Onch and Cerradict\n\nRizet elly Tuse Headete,\n\nBook Silk Monties\n\n45 Ledion and Children\n\net fashion,\n\nTHE OFFICE and Emad Sues and other\n\nnar of Welingt and herd Street Parsle\n\nWeak ire\n\nCharmi EN\n\nPoudel Vares,\n\nChanna Mug\n\nLes Diun\n\n11-1\n\nan Etnice of Cruysa & Blackwelle Dilaware Store\n\n$1 Overland Nail Shokes, and Sweda,\n\nPARK & va 15ay Dongsong, 6th July, 1858.\n\nDEVOLVER B, and\n\nP\n\nTE\n\nYusibor Accoutmupants. for Fates, Áu\n\nSeit lieth, (bow great..\n\nCut Mag, 1.3, 1. 9. nad 1 fret, vivo.\n\nAu Lovaine of Bell-bangirqa\n\nTel. 20, 12, 36, 40, nuð ák le. figlio, veli\n\nfi.\n\nKing, sith Bayon\n\nBerulating Hill Chebures.\n\nSim Pattern Spacial Ki\n\nDouble Navy Cabins, Swivel Beds from L'ali.\n\naber Torry.\n\nLOWRA & Or.\n\n1 162 Tongkang, bra July, 1665.\n\n¿Murein in quarts and its\n\nFNGLISH NO\n\nA larga smartment of Breakfast Clazzes, Vilau- Ikan Jerawat Sur Suluan\n\nBased from vintage of Mayaia of Hur!\n\nچھا کھا کر رہے لیئے\n\nLAMMERT, ATKINSON & C\n\nા 99 hu to 24 Yra sud\n\nJust resaved, wire B\n\nIN OLD PALE BRANDY\n\nAle poz\n\nJ. Kudaan & On,'n Brundy. $10 per Ona.\n\n| Olies khljarnan, g? per daa.\n\nULARETS.\n\n| Breasturi ask, er de\n\nMerays Morina, $44 par Que\n\n8. Raton St. Kilim and 9 Zoophe, do naci\n\nTená a presont le dba eccnpzion of Merera In a teremy Hole gee. in Mont Reuseres and Want Hare,\n\n$0.\n\n¦ Pastekaoter zud Server.\n\n150\n\nFar purtiem apply in\n\ny\n\n10.\n\n16 litung, 7th\n\n- \n\nThe Aperatura Large and bity, and wih\n\n· H\n\ni vozy embora Casa, containing & Bass\n\nBa\n\nAapry as face of die Paper,\n\ndoves and cathcurex, compridog Xt!\n\nThis our coins their wich thick weather it or in formints Bhis shasan ghatween and maket van Sally supplot well az dejo. Stridine.for three ones, a citruse!\n\nwould hawa horn wore prudent to bere anchored • centick with a eley m genervus thus it may he\n\nBut the washer alerted, no tad having fees deth fan and makeling mo at their foes. The be froix\n\nlogone a Lighterḥing and ship bara malind is soe vespesitta was so interprys thin\n\nwas beat through an areas in pigment, augen Cretinem. 14: them interprat le triba as weak allece un barb Teen site for the amnge heatating veira whiring a\n\nbene, 17h Jaly, 1865,\n\nASTOR HOUSE HOTEL,*****\n\nSHANGHAI. subed in S\n\nses of heat ce- North Daily Herityisil insscert in Ho Chi Mi\n\nwhich shall and only induta lie aver Frasines 6\n\nThe Treatment of the Hovalva Kiviky\n\nthe Nock.\n\nthe even give, Se the beamediate gregent, my\n\nfirst-ime furile Sokol in pomurgnased,\n\nPaged in it own graurők, it in po-\n\nmuch frein so be without expiry comfort and trenians\n\nLiis altres her for those who have selenjing in this clar. opptareve, to thons aan band julierly healthy and need in hinggis role Chemian, advice in the aut i hon fielding for the wine of the apparent,\n\nLinea, and it is so much adrien uocally esen 6igatop wita ma-The per\n\nHas an in. Fadi popot so batus of ananasam\n\npertama severance of the wal genities of te\n\nstaro otrained hithuria from bowl. ; \n\ning the crowd of patienter sansellore of America, !\n\nIf hazar, the people : shri United Statan will i\n\nfun to 2 Kegljah is at all, they may GOVERNMENT. LEGAL AND\n\nach a gun to that of\n\nwho here brid verunt'y tu sbale mocno while t\n\noch vill meantzinicý sad zarten! ignaming co\n\nAn o, xd who Yuma Yujulani la tènir m\n\ncer ble lagt need the\n\non with for rikiuly ma tome sited the tank!\n\n6. fur cost be too hip nt all degran, in f\n\npating in war plea for aderatiza in victory a\n\nrols which so fitta mule appro-i Arion\n\npriate the tenet that ir, fees faire sored ise svanging it\n\nbeing four content?\n\nPan, the hollowness of whide thr\n\ndomusdur tili azt flizeugh in a mout\n\nCONSULAR NOTICES\n\nIN THE SOPREME OVOR OF\n\nTONGLONG.\n\nCileriyent Pousasutus, Praag,\n\nrd\n\nof Hype Huracany Uma\n\ntending wider the\n\nand 12. Okka asp Öpmeyne tot Frudunt.\n\n11\n\nBEREAR an Aativus murdin\n\nIn in place, shen, we got urge de\n\nte\n\nthe Coat Ribe it the ke s\n\ny l'hom-bhoy alnut za\n\ne bloed |\n\nAmands of forteren te tus of langlich preesdens. Kyzurine Safranur Gal rowing an Enced\n\nRazmik, aut Lastris base basen witów die land for to project the age of Frosinoned by\n\nin\n\nEine Apartacuse are Medios and away Furnisho The Table waily up), and the\n\nle, all ughed with the choice Win a\n\n| Spirte-impratā dienņa.\n\nflat\n\nkobani ka for Ezard by the munch on\n\nMajas sash Carringe on Livogy and lera. Jason Camper mia plese pixies, 40-\n\nutiectulio lbs Hol\n\nBaiba cirnos pimey.\n\nThe Somehow fridge in kolom 4: Baudega,\n\nしてMATS\n\n.. MADON\n\nProprietor\n\n.6bu Unike is mades the dreador of Caspariancad Kronal excke.\n\nblondes-hurge $100 Fblic Dates and Tali Numers smppbel of 1264 27.4 Shanghai, 2nd March, 1965,\n\nOTEL DES COLONIER\n\nHONAM, CANTOS.\n\nar 1070 Benchng, 16h Tang, 1885, BUTO ZA LET DE SOLD\n\nSTAR HUUSK God 2000WNE, at perut soupled by Howwes, Junday & tal Apply to the Manager af Ban Bane of Hirla. t+.. \n\n198 Hoogkung, 25dı May, juos,\n\nThe Prop OWN \"ALI; Ph...\" hay. | ng Fans of Righty these foot at Wengin Rodag hitters and of on andret and foca. A burunea at coming parfarini kamu vs alone kutua aquesta featu\n\nAantal Bread (ma 21233.6.\n\nFor Pristine purligabuen uppelz ko\n\nTHE LIVINGTON D #beng Wih Priruary, 1964.\n\n***NOTICE OF RIGÓVÁL\n\ntybine kod Calerud Cicamel.\n\nColer things in Tel.\n\nThread Socks, Erst quality,\n\nLim Shirts and Cullers!\", \n\nTreatief Ardy Hate,\n\nwed\n\nRemchid Eugliah Peglunes. Trailing Bag\n\nAlse\n\nper do\n\n¡ Chataan Palmer and Tašken, $10 pử Jez.\n\n: Chau,pagan, satin, in quarte au pines.\n\nOlagte to wood.\n\nS. Jumilion, Juliem, apuk 154. Besophis,\n\nApply\n\nlike Hongkong, 5th Marril, bang\n\nA well bleed furnies de Blame\n\nEthertona. 3rd April, 1962.\n\nHandül\n\nNEW GOODS\n\nnext!\n\nEX \"TARFIX\" \"BANIAN \"EATHS. 73.s?:Y?LDS\"\n\nSew Bucks, weil selecta.\n\nTitle and Floor Hoe be the vizele\n\nOCT\n\nPany Car\n\na\n\nDany Baturajand\n\nCite! Wy\n\n||JA_BOUSTELA, has removed in Sianlay\n\n1 street, two lanes from Fastinger Street. În\n\nFear of iba tornaertiul Buck\n\nIf 1815 Hongkong Jacz le\n\nTHE Busine of the Melis B and Seat\n\nWater Mufiny c\n\nrevamped to the upparit fit of the Road,\n\ntl coupled v Messrs HotAY, Wase & Co., natriu Muzeju. Trucar & Co. and Mentre, BILET & Co.\n\n17 Honghena, a June, 1995. THE HOUSE, in the Gun Road,\n\nABAY 1.ANDANG BER eined and theat it Menarik kebilder, Wise & Ch\n\nti\n\n1323\n\nis Premis is enver\n\nTURVER & C Hongkong. Si Kay. I milă,\n\nNE\n\nCatriski Tom Chasin\n\nMemalise in iyon, Briting, Des\n\nPauta and S\n\n신디오XT 살리고,\n\nJellip\n\ncncbair.\n\nfaper Hangings, reckly chatur.\n\nPlaner Vand thiet Butle\n\nShine Histor\n\nMala Gas\n\nPild til i TUZON.\n\nLANG, CRAWFORD & U\n\n* 1956 Tow Song. 17ta Jun 1865,\n\n11TERN Hops of all sizes.\n\nBrigit artik\n\nVerma.\n\nkai de, str. Casa. Mikill and phrase: „Pranck's juegos Espuelli\n\nTE DANIJA Shapine.\n\nZia Au\n\nCAMMER, ATKINSON &\n\n40 (gong, 1ých Juan, can. DAVID. \"Ohrine and thus. Cum Hard Ter\n\nJ'aimky, Linment GI! and Purpentine\n\nyou say never wiha mubal lesdner. Cho anty loved and friars and Why Gout, for dying to Toe die Public Part she had changel precedent the ac mau yukidnon, is any anan meen 1 mages for managerpaing certain there: the my that of Hate! iso findings. For\n\nhipones parties, witch we can pleach, is Horeban; and Statua\n\nComm-tip 5.5. azove stablishment with almars be kept with our fastment in the brzo of the Potato-Gapittel, tarpainst\n\nfree in Ch 13 the anal dacis shit squforts. Not indick of\n\nmachine Eng Toure be Baba in Iran. Al these the eye of Defends what mid shaver sus Eefendant be actasun will be shared in the faute d'itheadhan ratus Bodine u\n\nAnauce, that is in totally need to Hape. padaltem is ev slight that the prunedenk juny he! or actes Sena de Vinili se pridjor flares. to boost nasies in disc sējam directivul. A varral¦ Os prlos shareef; and time raulay paid by 'ibo Bear in attenten on arrival at Herer Stemmer ndvatur his autor for Henry, willak wid korenitor\n\nfar netenden at talmát ábree num, proposing to disopter it me Plaintiff for t\n\nat Iris\n\ntear Ball Bea; de chavez Phuseneste ta the Hotel, tree of sEnego, and soul fatima mokier. De $25 per viomac fr nespreted Mr. Sinis O'Brien for the Pole-incere far te bere izen by the Kadome Lasne will aka Silke Beariera \"st. Stanger anil $29 for? szer.\n\nT. HARINY Garden Rebellion, what pandant should we | Pole the Thement of my tue from the moderato luxion. late indicted on him if he`trat, ben er agminasful | Plažati to the Defendant: nad it being alleged¦ Mr. Jetorean Ladis — monii pot field an un- that the mht Bycunjee Hormujee Deuna dega mot t\n\nPendeng in Judia w roeide wishin this folyad na je de\n\nTHE P\n\nVAL LANDINE,\n\nKaroger.\n\nSM SWAT Frogs fiz okresent struth asi matiunny. ! Writ of Yonaga áthassants, ) Fra 2016 Couten, 27th July, 1850.\n\nLavio jasued\n\nTHE EASTERN PRIVATE\n\nFAMILY HOTEL.\n\n142 enge, Jetli Awil, 1005.\n\nFor Sale.\n\n'UNE STRİNEERS 1657\n\nsapoys and exccasid valanez bositation a webus torvable nu slík firem any of dupsi arah, stone-i\n\nvilian retoma ather she rabellion had ingejin Zestonjeo kapuciiarýni Neris of Vlabria, in Ben the Peas simture. Az example, the deliny on Brezhong. Marchet, and withic nets a low waste. Y e In Faring Hand and there arly lead of the places Fadies. dba, bulerardengs nes dartsinly not kerplamikdo į same plate, alarphanie, sky Canisters,\n\nJ\n\nour Propria fe how this BOOK JOANNES 1857, Cams of\n\nà vishing this Pet and the poshte semenity, the br\n\nSPARKLING WELLS KOMPA\n\nBOOK EHRYSPREITEIN. CALE, in Cush\n\nthan the man of the Bouth. Again aut noly were Notes is hereby given thareut and testbed his prins uppste e tuls the bars of the Reach pepelin 1945 cases time hefte nje in akis, unto the forcibly to the thousan Club, bad then, but new last and to beat code só pranja Rocca Care, darurier Boss in the viraniay of 11.X. of 1 arzon. hlari Enst Mehon 204 Mr. Hallam, shhör;anid, or say too on bẩy beha) w give the\n\nBead Ford (juven's Food, Eat. The Ronna absolutely justify one intimate their bidu ja Pavony i zamurity and miljer mod file the sapretencë e” piem í of the bayering za judiamus. Ailer the groak bejuteve ny thin Ordnance of thận dictio Finach war, hee heen ramulis pad ont in led An Uzitsuer to provide facile expenas buvo kompared in were he for acantemporary, Land, d'arthronyl din vce merupli\n\nces in Actions Live agvities porn kentut Frandow, Bush of a destly lives vu tu pro\n\ntance his bug that haploon will be devas the tolong, the at anche m\n\n하\n\nTech] vt og França, blid as rebel uthe Dinoinen, dewward and exreated, and wax only dentaʻul of\n\nthy wisins of this course bruauen he dought it\n\nKain wharbre it would taarl to lexicutiva\n\nwith adeintertainty. Is may be mid «bot if a gonze vabullion in Ireland were now w break 12 sustained for indz barn, we emrinialy shod na burg, the useful anders alik tu! wa hope not, has we contesa ven Sunt very Bes\n\nnotave advent or friends\n\non to who mighards, what clapeceriă-nts ¦\n\ncamily in print are, on the arbete, zo very itide in ganzdanas min bai hepthooke\n\nNet veze the American oran\n\nDabad this 15 dag er lag, vu. 16,\n\nF. C. R. OVEN\n\nil Honghont, 2846 Suty, 1905.\n\nmultica Bam strange igen wlish, Relm me prevalent, wat all canaing for\n\nMetota zgre e\n\ndisainioston rebellion and only in\n\nthe South ledths the energ\n\nmar, the asing of the delito extendun. I\n\nriseer in the fate) SALT\n\nIN TAN SORAME COCKT OF BOSAKOND.\n\n• riktad with antico now\n\ntre altringe shacagimas, me to pay no\n\nEides the wine listing teams Fan Town Pipes\n\nTable d'lium et ull hwch. Tama moderne.\n\nApply k\n\nREYJULIA &tio.\n\nisan ungling, 10th June, 1904, tANNE), (036, (ia Ling-brads) todella mit\n\nHuosobit parfe\n\nGEORGE HOTELIXELMORA,\n\nHeunge and Propriece\n\nChammer i\n\nChanapar in\n\nde d\n\nSeantech\n\nfeet, and\n\nSets, Fue\n\nApply to\n\n12m 1974 Hoogk veg, Vuk Juna. 1962,\n\nconclude, in 3 doors, camın,\n\nFEED, T. SMITH,\n\n6pkan, \"Hi Jasonery. 1863,\n\nManil\n\nVivian's drug and Sees Slow Me!\n\nand patio Nais. Tourism M\n\nSOLD & Co lungo, but Now, 18,\n\n1Jght thedra F\n\n7062 Gari Makra\n\nHigh Barden Mara.\n\nLight Sebie Forks pic\n\nLight Garden Spader.\n\nContbrug'n Boer Guns, Herman Mackin\n\nSOWKA (. \n\nTin loi khen nhing, ach July, 194\n\nAN Ince of \"terated Wan\n\nJA\n\n! \n\nGRERURY & SA\n\nPUGHT W\n\nBugg, thing,\n\nPBLIC TOISES \"Gura Bed\"\n\nto Con\n\nThis Pess.\n\negnng, 18th July, 15%.\n\nUN; FOR SALMI\n\nCAMILANA man dah party Thar porannes YOCOYSAD Lo Frears, and White su mi beitehing Splab Berd\n\nFurthering Sew Sight Cowered Hockeklu Twowane, the Osvinge is van Polve and tw: pairs of i\n\nShames of double 15 mana\n\n\"Apply t\n\nBrakes darrers dann, wanau, Housos, Lands, Tenements, de, Wiki,\n\nTKY MANOR,\n\n2. Tikai\n\nsau, Wiz\n\nJa rank WH\n\ntably tention the Hiɲlk.\n\nhe firm of JARGIR, Here\n\nG3MPANY Pkalabif's,\n\nJoey Manny Porci\n\nha\n\nda\n\nthecate, or fires of les P Sam Lnfanduma,\n\nde court al the veil of chen sinte\n\nTO LET\n\nEw to Becek. A\n\nTDE lower part of the Previze wind by\n\n|| \n\nWhite Pigs And Varjoile Wa\n\n2.06.\n\n' Club,\n\nדי ריח\n\nБаром\n\nBokkie, curd Ple Meram. I. Mazur, & tra Torgan. Tucs, and Beck and Doors Aprons\n\nALLES & CLAUSSHN Rosis patira in the same Bilding\n\nLANG vs. 24th Hwch, thu5.\n\ntientars, syple 15\n\nC. DAVID, My blessing Seal, from 14 to 3d ca\n\ntf 1956 Hongkong, 24th July 1955, mj........ \n\neping on the age of His returning prufiga Resas ar Adon hub carenced rises to 2 and S. Ten Staviti sladusent | Nothing can be. We do but to my\n\nAlly\n\n18ng, Juan 12 18415,\n\nPesa Pangong Pir Maker\n\n13. this walk is mar (granen of the stars Jacifios. Ja sall, Juma che i cones Contato and der 500,000) Pak and Berú trag\n\n13+ and 250 win\n\n-- TEENS RAPDV DONGKONG.\n\nAt Cheap essay.\n\nthe Penisy Port.\n\nKry\n\nChurcia, Greakfast and Pieter,\n\nPapolis, vintaga täna., \n\nArded Tigur\n\nPurane.\n\n3 wit\n\nBeauty (Ougima).\n\nChablir,\n\nSewer\n\nAwes\n\nKindly\n\n15 Honglung, 25ch February, Tauð,\n\nNeonora Druse & Hinckwell.\n\nPUSENJE Cauliomis\n\nHorse Ma\n\nT\n\nFrench and Spanish Diam\n\nPraits in So\n\nin Seyrand Birmaly\n\njuter, in engural finalen\n\ned, and Twine.\n\nGist White Impe\n\nLinand Di\n\n14.\n\nIran Boller Pinces and sheets, True) að a\n\ndivacion, in caster whine and vary,\n\nThi\n\nAir\n\nBerriro Klant\n\nBURNOG & tr. Peru's Whart\n\nHong, 153 May, 1836.\n\nPERER DETON KUTTER, in begs of 12\n\nSant Wilk Crators,\n\nPickled Cabbage (Singochami) za jara Danch Curry Stent Rotden (Wyuan :Parbiak.)\n\nBitless Reeserantine Spiritmes.\n\ndise;\n\nPer read\n\n4 van fartion of Berelvets with sout\n\nKai attached, neu kucesine,\n\nAVAAN. BETHEUS & SK, \n\nFAANDUYA\n\n3 making, 1919 Jejuny, 1395\n\n† CAT KRORIYBO, vid Fry Nrie by the\n\nCurlersigued.\n\nSharp's Ourlinen. Sartridger and Primer, Pools Lamplvera\n\nKorkbod Wren's Havelters. (Bian haecalled\n\nsilver plate.) \n\nDESUVAR A 12,\n\n28: Hongkong, 29 Macuh, 1800.\n\nANTEMRIOR PRINTING PAPER, in vuriuka\n\nSKSSE ULLERA & Ca\n\nrapon Himgiring, Bist July, Jan.\n\nTESTADA. Syable uram.\n\ning from 5 set, ta do mar,\n\nBAY 4\n\nbongkeun. 199th June, Tams.\n\nUde zopired by the gezurizued- 360 for matc\n\nAn astmoul of Confection in Torvides of time, f, and boo\n\n142_55 par god below, tóm market prius, a\n\nVruitia Cherplsia\n\nFivefingar, tin Ch\n\nCe\n\nPagri\n\nP\n\nwilevice Mangalent\n\nPioklys, Lumina, Tutt\n\nSobique. Opferd nan Gamesonge Surges,\n\nin\n\n\"T4TH FS 6.4.0.\n\njul IANA MOJ bany, Beh dhir, |Rajh\n\n- TE\n\nCARA MAIGN. Szennina Muke) \n\nU\" Dag de Murtikale.\n\nLurace Nei, he panels are Pte.\n\nJenterar à 03.\n\nCart Blanket Dani Pinin,\n\nBurgen liegt.\n\nFrau de Grene, ir. Qaside and Pints. Lienaine Buck.\n\n1837. Det\n\nkan warIPS & OM 1 - July, 1\n\nVALJARLY 15 AT TORPOTEN\n\nLOW OF GROUND, steprising almus 24. ALES. Finner at of the maliy Encautios Putolous, Trolig bal Fio of the Hurrading Smery, sad Bayonining other Spice ta thi, tavržen there. of Ke of Thron Bungalow, Broken, unig 3121 por Šante\n\nestinoria of way\n\nHuco Vercheni Taich, in skin.\n\nPusher Ektoms.\n\nc.prizing-- \n\nPrint Wine Event Leather BOOTS\n\nK\n\nCall JOTS\n\nTel\n\nFou\n\n해\n\nSi\n\n- BTS\n\nCalf SHONY.\n\nDouble SHOES,\n\n/Xo!o Eiding_kkis,\n\ni Shoes, A\n\nguzleð kirola.\n\nOpkomnes veliking the Coung of Hongkang si Food tray\n\nother Brun That,\n\nand italt shoes 1 sist sie die waer\n\nactiuter\n\nBy ldalon Persian\n\nVOTORIA SXCHAÑON.\n\nPRALOCK, q qurat poctivate w TOS, he hadle of this\n\nCoy is ted and place Mwick of My Dracena the flimpïve andun\n\nHANDY DREA\n\nSi huge walvis, 30 to 30 prouts que pode Poles. Cort Arsantren, 21 586 por Tickle Mix Glute A2 in at Singa\n\nthe Rilling Kabis. Plains Mulajen, in laygro wapinday.\n\nMALINS 30 French Fried Acuez, 25 behin pure. de\n\n2 min. 33 werdet for gir\n\nsriginal price 50 Dunte\n\nThe above in met missy in find at Po a trates muck of his bangk Ubogazin, SE\n\nPer dir\n\nLolizam\n\nAjgilz\n\nLevastik\n\nBOWRA .\n\nP Hongkong, Sur Sarch, 1865.\n\nPROVOU VILIANO, Tom &\n\nis plan mynted and Figured.\n\nDUESS HAKIKO\n\nI move the inwangement of the claws Doors\n\nMake fuck hy kan desal. having\n\nAris dans Gun, Culte alle exere in large Ents, ni\n\nApply un\n\nARNEMANN 4\n\n4132 Hungring 16 May, 1844\n\nHONGKONG\n\norder\n\nrecht so fize will be really and Hougang 10 July, 1955,\n\npred\n\n·MARKETS\n\nthe tick Jelly --- \n\nEniet othe\n\n2.40s. Wilt Shirkog\n\nb. Grcy Shielangs\n\nPri she above we are now for Holiday. Wine & iu 1795 169 own? Amie Bounce, War and\n\nTROMAS UNT & de\n\nJeweler\n\nPrime 220\n\n10 1ngking Apr. 195) \n\nJAYITAMIN KRANDY BUT 190, OHAME\n\nSUDREY Y\n\nPORT\n\n414\n\nBULLY A\n\nMagt jose kandež os si\n\ncitation. Facinaren everywhere spak ma il | drow, fierbert Si. Loger Marrige, Velius Ken is were a bites desapalatinos to dana to find cink, and Edsall Whiteall, trading as aforesaid, rants Reoma, und Ukaitanto, having a Depactes i jab duck up o lat iulier one mat, termed rebeliion voce nest, crazyding is the aber Tarand dahi bareng Purpia, * 15 1ા મમત store al lago into perse nun sanity. Do they \n\nvreuliug në uformaid, to recuror the sum at Miner\n\n#upport than the of thờ kiuď vogli bove boru; The and heren Hundent paltarlar bioves\n\nتا نا نیام در ایه \n\nJ. 2. FOR RENKLOS.\n\nFraght without adinal didapata në voglat prime pad by the Phinish wed for the Redes. It new! Hangkang, 80th July. Pasa,\n\nke, nové that that radical difference will destas ! dene qe his request and the money mos ng she jam\n\npeas within clot? There is no queries in Doen and the inlets TEB in Rabins Was. 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        "content_text": "37\n\ncession there seems no doubt that.\n\nThey consisted of a few Fishermen, who (or whose descendants if any are still to be found) were not very likely to give rise to any trouble about their nationality: since the Chinese Population of Hong Kong therefore, neatly consists of Chinese Subjects who have resorted to the Colony cession for the purpose of trade or gain and who therefore not only cannot throw off their nationality but have no claim whatever to be considered British Subjects.\n\nWith respect to their Children born in the Colony, since they are entitled by rights and privileges of British Subjects unless their parents at the time of their birth were alien Enemies. This is the English Rule though according to Calvo in order to be of the Country it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for if he is born there of a foreigner it will only be the place of his birth and not of his country: (Law of Nations Chitty 1 Ed 8212)\n\nAnd Mr Westlake in his able and recent work on International Law (p. 16) gives the following",
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        "content_text": "## 6 Mark Hembers Descriptor\nMIIK\n\n### Contents\n| Box | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| B 29 | Box Continued |\n|  | Bracket & 2 Springs |\n|  | Side plates with Qet pins for raising Collar plate |\n|  | Liver for ditto |\n|  | Wedges & buttons die dishes |\n|  | Marks & Remarks |\n\n### Cumber Description\n| Box | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| MHK B 29 | Box |\n|  | 4 Laying on levers & brackets |\n|  | Plate for raising lower die Collar plate in |\n| B 30 | Base |\n|  | Laying on plate & hopper |\n|  | 1 Anvil bed & traps |\n|  | 1 Conical Anvil |\n|  | / Spring Collar Rong |\n|  | Brackets for wedges Brass guard |\n|  | Spanner |\n|  | Door plates for Brass |\n|  | 1 Screw driver |\n| B 31 | Witte |\n| B 32 | Postage |\n| B 33 | dite |\n| B 34 | Car Cines |\n|  | 3 Spring for lifting Dice block |\n|  | Spare & duplicate parts |\n|  | Top die dishes. Bolton Clithe |\n|  | Depressin Came Laying |\n|  | Top Knuck joints AB Botton Chitto |\n|  | 7 Limb for ditto |\n|  | Dampee pins Contints |\n|  | But Continued |\n|  | 10 Depressing levers |\n|  | 4 Heelges ficers for Mardards |\n|  | Sets Deres for depressing lever |\n|  | 16 Operings for laying on levers |\n|  | 6 Wedges |\n\n### Milling Machine\nMilling Machine with fast & Coon pully spindles & clise\n1 Breet Quantity of Copper utensils\n- Bans with handle\n- 12 Inch pan\n- 4 10 Inch pan\n- 6 Inch Kans Amares Scoops\n- 2 Buckets Acid Jugo\n1 Sharing lurret Siraking burrit Span Crank for Dining pries\n\n### B35\nBuchages / Die is 2. 2 Ciameter\n\n### Remarks\n199 Temarks\nF. Over",
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        "content_text": "## Remarks\n\n| Marks & Numbers | Description | Contents |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| MH K H 82 | Case continue | 1 Berner & Sundry bolts & nuts, 1 Fly wheel, hundles for ditts. Lengths of main shafting, 2 Lengths of 10 inch leather beeting & 2 length of to inch Rubber Betting. |\n| MH K H 76 | Case | 1 Length of main shafting with Coupling, 1 Counter shaft, 1 Piston rod for Engine!, 1 Spare piston, 3 Bearing irons (Meety Depart), 1 Small pulley, 3 Press drip pans for Engine! |\n| H 83 |  | 19 Bisnes of Beeting various from 6 tones |\n| H 84 |  | 77 H 17 Castings, 1 Yau box |\n| H 78 | Chitte | 1 Well box |\n| H 79 | Chelte | 1 Wave box, Will |\n| H 80 | dila | 1 Wave Box |\n| H 81 |  | 1 Old cistern, 41 Locker Journal for brackets Complete with bolts |\n| H 85 | Case |  |\n| H 86 |  | 86 bis Cups, Earthen vare baths in Sulphur for Misting Department, 6 Deoria pots for |\n| H 82 | Casa | 5 dili, 1 Length of Shafting, Lengths of rubber have Coupling both for Shafting, 1 Liver guide & weight for Multiplying press |\n| H 88 to 93 |  | 5 Longer of Main Shafting with botts for Ditto, 1 Sevened shaft for Lathe, 3 Hydrant heads & Duquer Spanners, 2 Drives |\n|  |  | 22 712, 20 X 187, 17 9, 18 x 8, 1878, 16×35, 13 Small decans (Various), All the cast shoes for Guders with bolts for &, 4 Wall brackets for Casting \"Girders. |\n| H 94 |  | 1 Old table, 2 Pullies 24 × 12. 100, 15 × 12 |\n\n|  |  | 480 | 12414 | 1473 | 14% | 19712 | 14. 16x6 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n\nShoe Masinder  \n26th Aug! 1868  \nIhaste plestint",
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        "content_text": "148\n\nI.\n\nThe Law of England prevails here (see Hong Kong Ordinance 12 of 1846) therefore the \"onus lis\" should be on the other side. The rest of this passage & fail to comprehend. It appears to have been corrected since the Judgment was delivered for the Chief Justice stated and no doubt was under the impression that. It had cited the opinion of W. Chalmers himself instead of that of the two eminent lawyers.\n\nI.\n\nvo eminent\nIt is unnecessary to remark that Chitty Book on the Prerogative (which I cited here for the Rule referred to at page 291) is not founded on Chalmers as his authority (25) the Lord Lieut. and not by the Attorney in an ex-officio Information by the then Attorney General of Ireland. But the argument proceeds. It does not follow because the power to institute such a proceeding as this, may be exercised in England or even in Ireland, that this function exists in the A. G. in a Colony.\n\nFirst then I say, if the passage from Chalmers proves anything, it proves too much, viz., that the Attorney General of New York could then and there depute the power to file an information; to my mind a reductio ad absurdum. And secondly, Mr. Pollard gave me the reference (accidental on his part) to what the Lord Chancellor of Ireland said in re Pigott & Bar. Rep. p. 114, in June last. He said, \"the precedents were for a long period those of unsettled times (bad times) when a great deal was often done according to the particular party which happened for the moment to be in power.\" He expressed his unwillingness in settled times to follow them, and he did not follow them.\n\nI must adopt the same language and conduct here, and thus dealing with the opinions, for they are only opinions (and ex parte statements in them) in Chalmers as coming out of bad times; and with what Chitty says as to the prerogative in this particular founded on Chalmers as his authority, I do not recognize them as precedents, and I find myself without a reliable precedent or constitutional authority satisfying me that an ex officio information was ever filed in any Colony by any Colonial Attorney General at any time.\n\nPrinciple points to the non-existence of such a power. It is the personal right of the Sovereign as a remedy for specially personal injuries. Are there in a Colony such misdemeanours as peculiarly, I emphasize the special words, tend to endanger Her Majesty's Government or to molest or affront her? Not to insist that I can see no misdemeanour of this kind in these libels, I can conceive of no case for which the ordinary Law in the Colonies, in this Colony at least, does not provide, or why Her Majesty's suit \"truly and properly her own\" should be extended to alleged wrongs which in no way affect Her Majesty.\n\nBut there is not the same relation between the Queen and a Colonial Attorney General as between Her Majesty and Her Attorney General in England. The latter is appointed by Letters Patent, the former by warrant not of Her Majesty but of the Governor under the Colonial Seal. The Governor has granted to him full ordinary authority as well as some prerogative powers specified, but I do not see that he has delegated to him by his commission the extraordinary authority to commence and carry on the Queen's own suits, much less to delegate such powers to the A. G. here.\n\nThe affirmative shewing that such powers exist, the onus to prove that it ever existed lay on the prosecution. From the time when the case came first before me months ago, and repeatedly since, I have asked for a precedent of such a proceeding in any Colony to be furnished to me. It was as often said that no such precedent could be furnished, but reliance was placed on Chalmers' opinions, page 493-497, as evidence that in fact the right now in question was exercised by the Attorney General in New York in or before 1725, and as nullum tempus occurrit regi, it was contended that the statements and opinions in Chalmers were sufficient to sustain the existence of these Informations as a Royal Prerogative in a Colony at that date.\n\nConsidering that Mr. Chalmers had been a zealous Loyalist in that great struggle begun before 1725, which he throughout called a \"rebellion\" the success of which \"compelled him to sacrifice his professional prospects which were very good,\" and he sought refuge in England, considering also what bitterness he said at page 13 that the most satisfactory proof existed that from 1688 it had been the settled purpose of the revolted colonies to acquire independence, he is not a safe guide as to any legal phase of that struggle.\n\nBut I will assume the facts to be as they are represented at page 403. They are a recital in an act that Her Majesty's subjects had been then (1725) lately prosecuted in the Supreme Court of the Colony of New York upon informations filed against them by the Attorney General and deputies though the matters charged had been trivial and inconsiderable, &c. Now this statement proves too much; it proves, if it proves anything, that \"Deputies\" had done what it is admitted the Attorney General alone could do in England and what even his \"deputies\" could not have done anywhere.\n\nIt shows that in this as in almost every other respect the Crown's Prerogatives were then strained and forcibly used to oppress the Colonists, not for the King's service, but for the benefit of the officers who abused these Prerogatives. As a key to what appears in Chalmers, I turn to Bancroft's History of the United States in Chap. 23, passim, of which I read to show what violence the officers of the King proceeded. Beyond doubt there were then ex-officio informations by the Attorney General and by his Deputies, which culminated (the Grand Jury having thrown out the Bill) in the trial of Zenger for seditious libels in 1734, and his acquittal which was called the \"Morning Star of the American Revolution.\"\n\nNow",
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        "content_text": "## to the Proceeding, in the case of \n**Crown Leases** (See Chitty, on Prerogative p. 250). \n\nIn England the necessity of an Inquisition or office has been expressly dispensed with by Section 25 of 22 and 23 Vic: c. 2. \n\nThe Ordinance therefore extends that enactment to this Colony by Section I. \n\nSection II provides for the Registration of a Memorial of Re-entry at the Land office, and for a Summary mode of redress in case the Right of Re-entry be disputed. \n\nSection III enables the Lessee...\n\nT.B. The rent reserved is made payable at the Treasury by the terms of the **Crown Leases**.\n\nN.B. The Lands become thereby ipso facto reverted to the Crown.\n\nWhere the Right is undisputed, Petition for Relief against the Forfeiture is made...\n\nBy Section IV the Governor in Council may grant the Relief, or refer it to the Supreme Court for adjudication.\n\nSection II regulates the Practice on the hearing of such Petition by the Supreme Court, which is empowered to adjudicate thereon in the same manner as in a Suit in Equity between private Parties for the same Relief.\n\nSections VII and VIII provide for the cancellation of the Memorial of Re-entry in certain cases, and...",
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        "content_text": "# Extract from Despatch No. 3 of the 26th December, 1885, from The Right Honorable Edward Cardwell, M.P.\n\n## 5th Point\nThere has been no complaint, information or communication by any officer of the Chinese Government made or forwarded to the Committing Magistrate or to his Court desiring the arrest of any Person being a Chinese subject and alleging, &c., &c., to give the Magistrate Jurisdiction under Section 1 of Ordinance 2 of 1850, and no Warrant or Order from the Governor to the Magistrate under Section IV.\n\nThe Prisoner was already in custody upon a charge then under Investigation. Section I of Ordinance 2 of 1850 therefore applies and no Warrant from the Governor under Section IV was required.\n\nThe letter from the Colonial Secretary to the Magistrate informing him of the Demand for Extradition is annexed to the depositions. The practice in England is similar. (See Report of Select Committee on Extradition page 18.)\n\nEvidence of Sir Thomas Henry.\n\n| Question | Answer |\n| --- | --- |\n| 319.-Do you get all the London Cases? | The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs examines the papers, and if he sees that the offence is one of those named in the Treaty, he sends the papers on to Home Secretary. The papers are examined at the Home Office again, and if the Home Secretary is satisfied that it is a Case within the Treaty, he then sends to the Chief Magistrate at Bow-street a letter, signifying that requisition has been made in the proper manner by the Ambassador or the Minister of the Foreign Country to have the accused delivered up. |\n| 320.-That letter sets you in motion? | That sets me in motion. |\n\nThe Practice to be followed in Hongkong is prescribed in a Despatch from the Secretary of State, of which the following is an extract:\n\n\"Questions have been raised both as to the forms in which the extradition shall be demanded and to the cases to which it shall apply, on both of which I am desirous that you should be fully informed of the views of Her Majesty's Government.\n\n\"On the first head I am to instruct you that the Consular or other Diplomatic Officer is in all cases the recognized Channel of communication between Chinese and British functionaries. That all ordinary communications should be carried on through that Officer and that without his concurrence direct communications should not take place between Colonial Officers and the Chinese Government. Requisitions for the delivery of Criminals should therefore be conveyed to the Colonial Government through the Consular or Diplomatic Officer or with his authority.\"\n\nUnder `6 & 7 Vic. cc. 75 & 76`, the Statutes passed to carry out the Treaties with France and the United States, the communication to the Magistrate must be by Warrant under Seal. Under Ordinance No. 2 of 1850, it is not even required to be in writing. The Writ of Habeas Corpus in this case is a Writ at Common Law and the Return cannot be traversed (3 Chitty's Stat. 3d. Ed. p. 69 note).\n\n## 6th Point\nThere is no evidence whatever before the Court, nor was there before the Magistrate to show that the offence charged against the Prisoner is an offence against the Laws of China. The alleged offence having been committed on board a French ship on the high seas, the presumption is the Chinese Courts have no jurisdiction, and the evidence shows that Chinese Mandarins having the opportunity to arrest and try the Coolies from the \"Nouvelle Penelope,\" took no steps to punish them, (Phil. 377, 413) and no right to claim Extradition.\n\nThere is nothing in the Treaty of Tientsin or in Ordinance No. 2 of 1850 which imposes upon the Magistrate the duty of ascertaining that the crime charged is a crime against the Laws of China;-but in any Case the Court will assume that Murder being a crime malum in se as distinguished from malum prohibitum, is a crime against the Laws of all civilized nations.\n\nIf the Description of Crimes for which Chinese may be surrendered under the Treaty of Tientsin is to be limited at all, it is submitted that it should be limited to such crimes as by our Statute or Common Law would, if committed by a British subject, be justiciable by the Courts of this Colony. This Rule was adopted in the Ashburton Treaty. (See In re Windsor, 10, Cox C. C.), and is also adopted in the Imperial Extradition Act of 1870, in which the following heading to the Schedule of Crimes is prefixed:\n\n\"The following List of Crimes is to be construed according to the Law existing in England, or in a British Possession (as the case may be) at the date of the alleged crime, whether by Common Law or by Statute made before or after the passing of this Act.\"\n\nIf the Murder charged in this Case had been committed by a British subject, it would have been justiciable by the Courts of this Colony. (`Reg. v. Azzopardi. 2 Moody, C. C. 288.`)\n\n## 7th Point\nThe depositions disclose no offence whatever. The conduct of the Coolies in getting possession of the ship being justifiable, they being illegally restrained of their liberty and there being no excess. Unless the acts charged against the Prisoner are such as English Laws attach criminal responsibility to, the Extradition Treaty does not apply.\n\nThe depositions disclose the Murder of nine persons.\n\nAll homicide is prima facie Murder subject to be reduced to justifiable homicide by the particular facts proved in defence. (1 Russell on Crimes, p. 668.) The Prisoner is identified as being one who actually took part in the Murder of the Captain and was an accomplice in the general massacre of the other victims. There is no evidence of his having been illegally coerced and much less of his having been reduced to slavery by the Master of the ship, Captain Le Vigoureux, whom he murdered, or by any one connected with the ship. In Anderson's case (that of the fugitive slave) it was admitted that the case was one of Slavery. (See Wheaton's Int. Law, 8th Edition, Note 75.) Here the question whether the homicide was Murder or excusable homicide on the plea of self defence is not raised on behalf of the Prisoner in the depositions. One of the witnesses states that he was kidnapped by a Barber, Chea Afook, but nevertheless that he told the Macao Authorities he was willing to go and did contract to go to Peru. He likewise says that he heard others say they had been kidnapped. But he does not accuse the Master of the ship or any of the crew of the kidnapping but on the contrary describes their conduct to have been most kind.\n\nThe \"proof of guilt\" required to justify the Surrender under the Treaty of Tientsin is thus stated in a Despatch of the Duke of Newcastle:\n\n\"It is at the same time quite clear in the letter of the Tientsin Treaty that it is only on proof of their guilt that Chinese Criminals can be demanded by Chinese Officers and the proof intended can of course be no other than proof satisfying the minds of those,--the British Officers--who have to determine the question at this preliminary stage. On this head I have to instruct you that as a general rule reasonable evidence ought to be accepted as sufficient, such for example as would lead a Grand Jury, in this Country to find a true bill where the evidence is ex parte only, or such as with evidence on both sides, would induce a Magistrate to commit for Trial.\"\n\nThe Expression \"Proof of Guilt\" in the Treaty of Tientsin has had legislative interpretation, so far as our Courts are concerned, by Section III of Ordinance No. 2 of 1850, which directs the Magistrate to commit on \"probable cause of guilt.\" There is abundant \"probable cause\" within the meaning of Section III of Ordinance No. 2 of 1850, to warrant the Committal. (Wheaton's International Law, Section CXVII, Note 75, by Professor Dana, 8th Edition.)\n\nTernan's case. 9 Cox, C. C.\n\nTernan's Case shows that a Court or a Judge, upon such a Proceeding as the present, is not to weigh the effect of the evidence; that is a matter for the Magistrate. The Court can only consider whether there is enough evidence to justify a Committal, and it is unnecessary to add that in the present case no Magistrate could hesitate to commit the Prisoner for Trial if the case were cognizable by the Supreme Court.\n\nIt has been doubted in the United States whether evidence of Justification of killing can be received at all under the Extradition Treaty with Great Britain. (See In re John Bennett, Southern District Court of New York, reported in 11 Law Times N. S. page 488.)\n\nThe King v. Marks (3 East) shows that if there be a corpus delicti on the depositions, the Prisoner must be remanded, and the cases collected by Mr. Forsyth at page 451 of his work on Constitutional Law show that the Return (if necessary) may be amended. Finally it is again submitted that all Decisions upon other Extradition Treaties are inapplicable so far as the nature of the crime charged is concerned, inasmuch as the Treaty of Tientsin embraces all crimes. The facts alleged in the Return cannot be traversed. [The Writ of Habeas Corpus taken out in this case is a Writ at common Law. As to contradicting the Return...]",
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        "content_text": "long thông trong không \n\n4437 \n\n**Circular.** \n\n305 \n\n[6] \n\nsee R. v. Douglas, 12, L.J. 49, Q.B. and II. Chitty's Statutes, (3rd Edition,) Note p. 69.] On the face of the Depositions there is ample proof of Homicide and no proof of Justification. The Committal was by a competent Court and in every other respect warranted by Law and the accused should be remanded to await the action of the Executive in the matter.\n\nAt the close of the Attorney General's Argument, the Chief Justice handed to him a Paper containing six additional points which he expressed his desire to hear argued, and of which the following is a copy.\n\n1. In case the Nouvelle Penelope had been a British ship carrying these Coolies on the high seas under the circumstances proved by the depositions, would she or would she not have come within the 5 Geo. 4 c. 113, and would or would not the Captain under that Act have been subject to suffer death \"as pirates, felons and robbers upon the seas ought to suffer\" up to 1 Vict. c. 91, when the penalty was lessened to transportation for a period not less than 15 years.\n\n2. In case this Prisoner and the other Coolies had valuable property as was in the case of the Aunamites which the Captain had taken from them and was keeping in his Cabin and was taken, and keeping their persons and their property on the high seas, would or would not the taking the property by the Captain have been Piracy or at least such a state of circumstances as would have justified their rising and if necessary killing the Captain to regain their property and liberty.\n\n3. Would or would not the Coolies on board the Nouvelle Penelope in either Case come within the designation of slaves, according to the definition in Section II of 6 and 7 Vic. c. 98. Property is res estimabilis, but it is a maxim as old as Jenkins and as I believe as King Alfred the Great and older still, Libertas est res inestimabilis.\n\n4. Is there any and if any what difference in the status of slavery as dealt with by the statutes collected in 1 Rus., chap. 18, p. 243, ed. 1865, whether that status was originally brought about legally or illegally, by kidnapping or by a voluntary consent to go.\n\n5. According to English Law can a man by consent become or be a slave and does his consent affect or not affect his status or the criminality or innocence of the person holding him in slavery.\n\n6. Can he contract away his liberty any more than he can contract away his life, and if taking the Prisoner's life with his consent (e.g. shooting him) would be Murder, would or would not taking his liberty with like consent subject the taker of the liberty to the same penalties as if it had been originally taken by force.\n\nThe Attorney General declined to argue the above Six Points on the ground that they were raised upon suppositious facts, of which he contended there was no evidence upon the Depositions.\n\nF.O. `wif. 30 May` \n71668 \n`Svr 54/20` \nJ. Lucia \nIndexed \n54 \n1168870 \nSiducia \n\nRE \nMAY. 6 \n1871 \n\n**Government House Hong Kong** \nsythe March, 1875.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Lordship's Circular despatch of the 1st of December, informing me that Her Majesty's Government...\n\nThe Right Honorable \nThe Earl of Kimberley, \nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State, \n...year... \nJo",
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        "content_text": "Horner oftangkang. The woult will \n\nin this case only tend to lower the fourt in the eyes of the Chinese, which might \n\nhave been avoided had he known that \n\nhis proposals to the V.M. would not be acceptable to the Jammer Blythe Vice Roz. \n\never \n\nif auded \n\nGar \n\nIt seems to me monstrous that a coural should be proposing to the Chinese gant the permenent stationing of a \n\nChinese gunbre \n\ngunboat in H. Kong \n\nHartona without consulting the witches \n\nof the oh gout \n\nZ \n\nthy gremark that in \n\nIt is worthy \n\nhis ment \n\ndespatches ( \n\non \n\nby the 20 & utamed in rignial) pon Robertson strongly conturated fin R. M. Natement that Orney thill \n\nContimid \n\nan article \n\nDips and \n\nand C \n\nIther always \n\nLaith with our \n\nhen \n\nConsular Officials to differ \n\nwith fir R. M. but nor \n\nthat he \n\nit is time there petty thickening ceased. \n\n8m 417 \n\nCJ \n\nD \n\nI \n\nfree \n\nthe Co \n\nthan \n\nthe Consular officials quine \n\nto officers \n\nkore \n\nis pleasant. \n\nthe hueen's kurie. \n\nsurumarily \n\nadvantepons \n\nMuss ful str \n\n431 \n\nI agree. & I think this is a good opportunity for pulling up the contut, or at least of calling the attention of Van F. 3. to \n\na. Conest. \n\nproceeding which camurt be accepted as satisfaitsey & might be production of mit höf. we do not want more chinese fun bouts than an encepans in Wrayton Cartoo \n\nIf in do want then it is for the fovernor of the Estony & out the coures aber Castor to take the intrative \n\nChetty 6/7/72 \n\nI entirely agree \n\n7.0. \n\nCalc \n\nJuJ \n\nJary \n\nThat \n\nthe particular \n\nGran \n\nwille \n\nIn writing to \n\nclasic \n\nC \n\nTh \n\nthe forel \n\nherendings f initiating a propinal \n\nFunny \n\nand \n\nintherel \n\nThe Juvions \n\nSuffent \n\nZe \n\nJ \n\nit Green, \n\nThe \n\nJariy \n\nThank \n\nL \n\nlent \n\nhere his taction \n\nthe faul \n\nwill prevent \n\nSuch perading, white objectionable, \n\nher \n\nteen to \n\ndreft. \n\niin \n\nfactura \n\nK July 1/12 \n\nhar \n\n[ \n\nSor",
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        "content_text": "996.\n\n1.\n\n532\n\nYour Lordship with obseren\n\nthat Señor\n\nfor\n\nwill\n\nCheca has been\n\nitted\n\ntrial at the Supreme Comit-bail being accepted.\n\nI have the hever to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nLordship's\n\nYou Ledlilijn mot obedient\n\nhumble cervant,\n\nLilin neay Governor.\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUG. 15, 1872.\n\nTO-DAY'S FOLICE.\n\nTHE DUEL CASE. Before the Honourable . MAY. 15th Aug., 1872.\n\nMr Leon Checa again appeared to answer the charge of conspiracy to take away hu- man lives.\n\nMr Toller, Crown Solicitor, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr B. J. Francis for the defence.\n\nMe Toller said that during the last exa- mination Mr La Forest declined to answer certain questions on the ground that they would tend to criminate him.\n\nMr Toller\n\nwould put him in the box again and ask him the same questions; if he should take the same objection, he, Mr Toller, had a free pardon in his hand, and he would give it to Mr La. Forest, which would remove all objections on that score.\n\nMr La Forest was then sworn: I was not in Mr Checa's house on the 20th July last.\n\nMr May recorded the fact that the Crown Solicitor had a Free Pardon for Mr La Forest in his hands,\n\nMr Francis submitted that was no part of the evidence and should not appear in the deposition.\n\nMr May overruled the objection. Examination continued: Mr Toller asked whether witness recognised the signatures on the document handed to the witness\n\nMr La Forest declined to answer, saying\n\nit would criminate him.\n\nThe Crown Solicitor herewith handed the Free Pardon to the witness.\n\nMr Francis asked to see it and told wit-\n\nness not to answer any questions.\n\nMr Toller repeated his question.\n\nMr La Forest declined to answer.\n\nMr Toller said if he persisted in declin-\n\ning, he would ask the Magistrate to commit him.\n\nMr Francis said the Governor had no power to grant & Free Pardon on Her Majes: iy's behalf except under the Charter of the Colony and Ordinance No. 1 of 1860.\n\nMr Toller said Mr Francis had no latus standi, and quoted Taylor on evidence and Chitty's practice.\n\nMr Francis contendel that he could ap- pear for the protection of the witness, and on behalf of his client he took the objec tion.\n\nMr May thought the witness being a for eigner unacquainted with the English law should have the advantage of legal assist-\n\nance,\n\nMr Toller, after the remarks from his Worship, waived his objection.\n\nMr Francis then submitted that the Go- vernor had no power under his Letters Fatout to grant a Pardon, freeing a person\n\n! \n\nfrom all the consequence of a Criminal act, unless that person had been first convicted before a Court. This appeared in the cita- tion of the document produced by the Crown Solicitor. By the Governor's Let- ters Patent, he was merely a delegate hold- ing, as it were, a power of attorney from the Queen, which latter must be literally and strictly construed. With this limited power, the Governor could only grant a pardon to a person convicted before any Court, or (under the Conditional Pardon Ordinance No. 1 of 1860) to a person con- victed of a crime in order to free him from the effect of the sentence, or order impri- sonment in place of death, but not for the purpose of getting a participator in crime to come forward to give evidence against an accomplice. Therefore if a person was not convicted, the Governor had no power to grant a Pardon to him. It would have been different if the words \"convicted of any crime\" had been struck out. The Governor's power was limited to pardon a particular class of persons and not all persons.\n\nMr May wished some suggestions could be made by which the case could be brought to the Supreme Court.\n\nMr Francis said he had a means of taking\n\nit to the Supreme Court if the Crown Soli- citor would accept a nominal committal.\n\nMr Toller could not consent to any arrangement, and cited a case to shew that where a witness had a pardon, and if the danger of incrimination was only imaginary, the witness should not be allowed the privilege of refusing to answer. It was not likely that the Government, having granted a pardon, would turn round and prosecute Mr La Forest, Mr Toller undertook, on behalf of the Crown, that a nolle prosegui should be entered against Mr La Forest.\n\nMr Francis argued that the Pardon was a useless piece of paper, and if the Attorney General should return to the Colony and take the office over from the Acting Attor- ney General, there was nothing to prevent Mr La Forest from being indicted, in which case the Pardon of the Governor would not avail him. (Here the defendant's Soli- citor again referred to the Letters Patent, remarking that Legislative power by Ur- dinance having to be given before the Go- vernor could grant conditional pardons was another strong argument against the suffi ciency of the Pardon.) Touching the pow ers of the Attorney-General, it might be re- membered that three criminal informations were filed against the late proprietor of the China Mail, in opposition to the wish of the Governor, and on the sole responsibili. ty of the then Acting Attorney-General.\n\nMr Toller said that the Government would not turn round after granting this Pardon.\n\nMr Francis replied that Mr Pauncefote might take an entirely different view of the matter; and the Government of Hongkong had done more extraordinary things than that in its time.",
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        "content_text": "(4)\n\nfrom Aberdeen Street. The woman now here, LAU-A-YEE, is that woman. I took her back to the house and gave her in charge of a Lokong. The people on the ground floor called to me and told me that some people had fallen into the cookhouse. I went into the cookhouse and saw the deceased(1) lying on the granite on her face, with her head close to an earthen-ware chatty, which I pointed out, and the bundle of clothing with a Chinese rule lying on the top of her head, or on the back of her neck. Close beside her was another woman lying on the other side of the chatty with her feet against the wall and her head out towards the cookhouse door. I had a Chinese candle. I took up the bundle of clothes off the deceased's head and turned her on her back, and there were no signs of life apparent. The other woman was bleeding from the face, and her face and neck were covered with blood. She was moving as if in great pain. I sent for the ambulances at once, and by this time the whole street was aroused. Dr. GOMES lives close by and he came to the place. I asked him to look at the deceased and he did so and said she was dead. When the ambulances came, I removed the women to the Civil Hospital.\n\nThe deceased was called A-Su, I believe. I cannot find out anything more about her than that she has been in the house two or three days.\n\nThe woman who is now in Hospital is called TAI-YAU, and was fined in November last for keeping an unlicensed brothel.\n\nThe woman whom I took to the Station is called LAU-A-YEE. She rents the upper floor. The deceased is a servant-woman in the house.\n\nThere were two women besides the three referred to in the house. They are servant-women. They are here now.\n\nLAU-A-YEE is in custody charged before the Magistrate as the keeper of an unlicensed brothel, and the case is postponed till the 19th.\n\nWhen I went up the stairs and climbed over the folding doors, I did not call out \"Police.\" I have been on the roof of many Chinese houses since I became Inspector of Brothels. I have never seen any roof, but that of 42 and that of 44, which had not a protection wall round the smoke-hole or area. I only saw one man in the house, the one who opened the trap door. His name is NG-A-KAN. He is the informer and was one of the men who got the notes to get evidence. I only knew from the informer that women had run up and I wanted to secure them.\n\nI had no knowledge of the existence of such a hole being unprotected. I believe the women did not know of the existence of the hole and simply ran there in their endeavours to escape.\n\nBoth Inspector WHITEHEAD and myself had suspicions on the house No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace, for months. We had no suspicions on No. 42, Peel Street, until last night at midnight. I was then told something by the Interpreter and in consequence went.\n\nOur instructions to the Interpreter last night were to send to a house No. 258, Queen's Road Central, and if the informers could not gain admission, then to try and find some other place. We did not give any special instructions to go to No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace, last night.\n\nJonx LEE.\n\nNG-A-KAN declared, states:-I am a carpenter living at D'Aguilar Street. I am a friend of CHENG-A-YU, the Interpreter to the Inspector of Brothels. He gave me seven dollars yesterday about 6 o'clock. He told me that the Inspectors wanted to get some cases and told me to make inquiry about unlicensed brothels. I went with a friend surnamed CHENG last night, but we could not find any in Queen's Road Central. We went into a house in Queen's Road Central, over a district watchman's house. CHENG-A-YU sent us there. The people said it was a family house. I separated from CHENG and I searched about. I intended to give back the money. I met two friends MAN-A-ON and LÓ-A-MAN, and they asked me to go to Lyndhurst Terrace. We went to a house on the first floor about 9 o'clock. LÓ-A-MAN and MAN-A-ON had been there before. When I got into the house, I only saw three women there. One of the women only was a prostitute. I did not sleep with any woman at No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace. There was a girl brought to the house. A man named A-NAM brought her. I did not have anything to do with the girl. I engaged the girl at Lyndhurst Terrace and went with her to Peel Street, No. 42. That was about 1 o'clock. Before the Inspectors came, I had left Lyndhurst Terrace. The girl who is in Hospital is the one I had engaged. A-NAM came with me to the house in Peel Street. He said he was going to sleep there, but he was not going to sleep with a girl. I had not paid the girl, whom I had engaged, anything. I opened the trap door and let the Inspector into the floor. The women kneeled before me and said not to do anything, as the Inspector was coming. The deceased and TAI-YAU kneeled before me. They were much frightened. TAI-YAU said, \"I was fined $100 before. I sold my son to pay the fine, and you must not say anything now.\" That was before I opened the door. The woman now present, LAU-A-YEE, was there. She ran with the others up the stairs. I had never been in the house before. I had had some drink. I was not quite drunk, but I was under the influence of drink.\n\nCHENG-KAN-TSAI paid for the supper. He got money from CHENG-A-YÜ. I returned my seven dollars to CHENG-A-YÜ.\n\n根吳\n\nJ. RUSSELL,\nCoroner.\n\n(5)\n\n18th October, 1877.\n\nInquiry resumed at the Magistracy, at 4 o'clock.-Jurors present.\n\n476\n\nCHENG-KAN-TSAI, declared, states:-I am a painter living at Jervois Street. On the evening of the 16th instant, between 6 and 7 o'clock, I was walking with a man named NG-A-KAN, and went to CHENG-A-YU's place, 31, Caine Road. CHENG-A-YU asked me to get some cases for him, to find unlicensed brothels for him. We were to go and try a house in Queen's Road. We got money from CHENG-A-YÜ. I got $3 and NG-A-KAN got $7. We went to the house in Queen's Road over the watchman's and went upstairs. We had no previous knowledge of the women there. We stayed for five minutes. We saw no men there. We proposed to them thus: \"Have you got any women who have got time?\" They said-\"No, you can go.\" We saw three women.\n\nWe then separated. I was walking in Queen's Road. I met a friend called MAN-A-ON. I asked him where he was going to? He said to Singapore. I said, \"As you are going to Singapore, you ought to give me an invite to spend a night at a brothel.\" He said-\"Yes, go on, let us go to a sly brothel.\" He had a friend with him. His name I learned to be LÓ-A-MAN. They took me to an Opium shop, where we fell in with a man called A-NAM. We stayed a short time there, and A-NAM took us to a house at Lyndhurst Terrace, first floor. I do not know the number. When we went up, I saw three women there. I proposed that we should stay there and have supper, and afterwards have girls there. There was one man there. One of the women, named SAI-KAM, told me that there was only one girl there, herself. I said, \"Get two more,\" and a servant was despatched to get two girls. A-NAM was only a pimp to find us the girls. This occurred about eight o'clock. Two girls came about quarter-past eight o'clock. I gave a dollar to A-NAM to buy supper. That was one of the dollars that I got from CHENG-A-YU. The girls came, but only stayed a few minutes, one minute. They promised to stay, went away, but did not return. A-NAM himself went out to get two girls and fetched two at after eleven o'clock, about quarter-past eleven o'clock. One called herself CHAU-KIN, and the other called herself A-SÓ. Three women had supper. We had supper as soon as they came. We had for supper fowls, stuffed pig's feet, sausages, eggs, and about six taels of samshü. We drank three or four cups.\n\nA-NAM remained there and had supper. MAN-A-ON went and fetched NG-A-KAN about nine o'clock. LÓ-A-MAN said that NG-A-KAN might have his girl. We told MAN-A-ON and LÓ-A-MAN that we were going to have them arrested, and MAN-A-ON and LÓ-A-MAN said they did not want to have anything to do with it. They said they had no time to be witnesses. NG-A-KAN promised to pay for the women for them. I stayed at Lyndhurst Terrace with the woman who was in the house. I had not paid her any money.\n\nI was in her room when A-YÜ told me that I should pay the girl two dollars. She agreed to sleep with me. I had not paid any money.\n\nWhen the Inspectors came, I was told that I should pay her. I had not paid any money.\n\nCHENG-A-YÜ never asked me to do any work of this kind before for him, nor did I ever do it. NG-A-KAN was not there when the Inspector came. He left to go to Peel Street with a girl. He went with A-SÓ. A-NAM went with him. CHAU-KIN went away before A-KAN. She went with a servant woman. MAN-A-ON told NG-KAN to pay her, but NG-KAN did not.\n\nMAN-A-ON and LÓ-A-MAN went away together about half-past twelve o'clock, when I paid the money for the supper. I told MAN-A-ON to go and tell CHENG-A-YU.\n\nTo the foreman:-My pay as a painter was 1 mace and 4 candareens per day. I am out of employ now. I have been out of employ for a year now. I sometimes stop here, and sometimes go elsewhere. I live on my friends.\n\nQuery. You spent $1, what did you do with the others?\nAnswer. I gave back the $2 to CHENG-A-YU. I did not expect to get any money from CHENG-A-YÜ. He is a friend of mine. I live in the WING SHING CHEUNG shop, Jervois Street.\n\nTo the Coroner:-I opened the door and let the Inspector in. She (the girl in No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace) was very frightened and asked-\"What is that?\" I said, \"Nothing, don't be afraid.\" She was afraid. She ran into a front room and concealed herself under a bed. I pointed her out to the Inspector. The Inspector could not see me in the girl's room because I opened the door.\n\n鄭簡齋\n\nNG-A-KAN recalled, and further examined, states:-We had about 18 taels of samshü. I had the most to drink, i.e., more than the others. The supper consisted of fowls, sausages, duck, pig's tripe, pig's feet, salt eggs, and plums.\n\nA-NAM is not here. I don't know where he is. I had nothing to drink when I went to Peel Street. I have been employed by CHENG-A-YÜ in the business before. I have discovered three places before. One last year and two this year. I was a witness against TAI-YAU before. I did not recognize the girl again. She called herself A-SÓ. She did not recognize me.\n\nA-NAM ran out when the Inspector came. He knew that my being there was a plant. He ran when the Inspector came. He ran away with the woman to the roof. I have paid back the money, seven dollars, to CHENG-A-YU. I got no pay last year, but this year I got $2, one on each occasion before as pay.",
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        "content_text": "1 \n\nnent.\" In Paley on Summary Convictions, p. 172, the author, in describing the general qualities of a conviction, makes remarks to the same effect. Of course, greater nicety is required in the cases of summary convictions, and where the commitment is in execution, than where prisoners are remanded or committed to prison for further disposal only. But I am of opinion that in cases of rendition, the accused are entitled to the protection of every formality the law throws around them, and that it is the duty of a court before whom they claim their discharge to see that there has been no shortcoming in this respect. After very careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that there was no jurisdiction to justify the commitment of these thirteen men, and that the necessary formalities have not been complied with. There is no complaint, no information, no communication forwarded or made to the Magistrate. The learned Attorney-General refers us to Chitty's Criminal Law, page 11, 113, where it is stated that even if the warrant of commitment is informal, the Court will look at the depositions to see if there was sufficient ground laid to detain the party; and if a various offence is shown, they will not discharge or bail the prisoners. I certainly consider the commitment informal; but if I look at the depositions, I find still greater irregularities. No doubt, there is prima facie proof of murder, but I also find two charges rolled into one, their order being inverted. No information; no statement that the accused were called upon to plead. Above all, it does not appear that they were asked what they had to say in their defence, although they might have been able to show beyond a doubt either mistaken identity or an alibi, or some defence within the province of the Magistrate to hear. No opportunity was afforded them to do so. If the letter of the Chinese officials is to be relied upon to give jurisdiction, there is no proof that they are the persons mentioned in it. The return to the writ of habeas corpus shows that they were committed under names differing from those in the writ, and it is not sufficient that the Magistrate satisfied himself of their identity; proof is required.\n\nI will only add a few words as to the reasonableness of the detention. Nothing can be more opposed to the laws of Great Britain, so jealous of personal liberty, than a lengthened imprisonment pending a penal destination. It is considered oppressive, and under a writ of habeas corpus, a discharge from prison may be obtained unless the accused is brought to trial within a certain time. This does not exactly apply in cases of rendition in this Colony or elsewhere, but the spirit is shown in the French and American Convention Acts, where the accused was protected from a long detention; and in the Extradition Act of 1870, it is provided that in the case of fugitive criminals in British possessions, a judge of any court exercising the like powers as the Court of Queen's Bench exercises in England may exercise the power of discharging a criminal when not conveyed within two months out of such British possession. By a recent Ordinance providing for the mutual surrender of criminal fugitives in Macao and Hongkong, the limit of detention is one month. It is to be regretted that the Extradition Act of 1870 is not extended to this Colony, or that our Ordinance 2 of 1850 is not repealed and re-enacted in clear and precise terms.\n\nI am, however, of opinion that the Court is bound by the provisions of the Ordinance, which makes it lawful for a Magistrate to commit such person (i.e., one who there is probable cause for believing, being a subject of China, has committed a crime or offence against her laws) for safe custody to prison, and to direct the gaoler to detain him until he shall receive some order from the Governor of Hongkong, relative to his further detention, discharge, or transmission. The law, therefore, places the discharge of persons so committed in the discretion of the Governor, who is alone responsible that their detention does not exceed reasonable limits, and I think that the Court has no power to interfere on this ground. I am, however, of opinion that the Magistrate had no jurisdiction; that the proceedings were bad ab initio, and therefore that, however much it may be regretted that persons who have, on the face of the depositions, been guilty of the murder of three of their fellow creatures should escape from the punishment which by the law of our own country is awarded to their crime, the prisoners must be discharged. We, therefore, order them to be discharged.\n\nMr. Justice Russell said—I am likewise of opinion that the prisoners must be discharged on the ground that the return to the writ is insufficient and not according to law, and that the whole proceedings were coram non judice. The jurisdiction given to the magistrate in this case is special, as in all extradition cases, and must appear clearly on the face of the warrant of committal. We cannot, I think, look behind the commitment to sustain it as in other cases (of offences against the laws of our own country—ex-parte Bosset 9 Jurist & G),\n\nBut even if that were possible, nothing is to be obtained here from the conviction or order, for the depositions returned to the writ of certiorari show that the prisoners were illegally before the magistrate in the first instance, being arrested not by a Justice of the Peace but by a Police Constable without any authority from a Justice of the Peace and simply on the information of a Chinese who told him that there were thirteen men in a certain house who had committed murder on the mainland some time before.\n\nReferring shortly to the law warranting the arrest and rendition of refugee Criminals to China, the first provision that we have is contained in the Treaty of the Bogue 1843—art. IX, which is as follows:—\"If lawless natives of China, having committed crimes or offences against their own Government, shall flee to Hongkong or to the English ships of war, for refuge, they shall, if discovered by the English officers, be handed over at once to the Chinese officers for trial and punishment; if it should be ascertained or suspected by the officers of the Government of China whither such criminals and offenders have fled, a communication shall be made to the proper English officer in order that the said criminals and offenders may be rigidly searched for and on proof or admission of their guilt, delivered up,\" (then as to surrender of British Criminal fugitives.). It will be seen that the terms were very wide and that apparently no legal procedure was necessary—and there is no law or Ordinance that I can find for the carrying out that stipulation until Ord. 2 of 1850, which is an Ord. entitled: \"An Ordinance to provide for the more effective carrying out of the Treaties between Great Britain and China in so far as relates to Chinese Subjects within the Colony of Hongkong.”\n\nThe treaty of the Bogue was abrogated in 1858, and the Treaty of Tientsin of that year contained a provision in its 21st Article of a much more guarded description—\"If Criminals, Subjects of China, shall take refuge in Hongkong or on board the British ships there, they shall upon due requisition by the Chinese Authorities be searched for, and on proof of their guilt be delivered up.” Up to the year 1871, the extradition of all Chinese criminals was carried out under the provisions of Ordinance 2 of 1850 and the 21st section of the Treaty, but in that year, the application of the Ordinance to the Treaty was much discussed in the Kwok A-sing case, and it was decided by the Chief Justice that the Ordinance had ceased to have any effect. Ordinance 2 of 1871 was then passed, re-enacting Ordinance 2 of 1850 and declaring it to apply to the Treaty of Tientsin. The position, therefore, is that the provisions of Ord. 2 of 1850 are those which govern the legal tribunals of the Colony in questions of Chinese extradition—assuming for the moment that such provisions are co-ordinate to those of the Treaty.\n\nThe first Section of the Ordinance shows three ways in which the magistrate may be placed in the position of having to investigate and commit. (1) If moved, as I read the section, by a complaint; by an information or a communication from a Chinese officer to ask for an order of arrest, or as the Chief Justice prefers to read it, by the \"Complaint\" or \"information\" of any one—or a Chinese officer. (2) If during the investigation of some charge against A, he finds that B, a Chinese subject, is in the Colony, a fugitive criminal, he will issue his warrant for arrest. 3rd—If, whilst investigating a charge against A already in custody, it transpires that A is a Chinese fugitive criminal, then he may investigate the crime that he is charged with in China. Again, under section IV, an order of arrest may be issued by the Governor corresponding to a Secretary of State's warrant under the Act of 1870—which may put the magistrate in motion.\n\nNow, by the terms of the ordinance, if at the end of his investigation, which must be conducted as if it were an indictable offence, the magistrate should find that \"there is reasonable and probable cause for believing &c.\" he is required to commit to prison pending the orders of the Governor; and he is also required to forward to the Governor all the proceedings in the case—Sec. III. It has been pointed out by the learned Chief Justice that the prisoners were not before the Magistrate in any of the four ways warranted by the ordinance, and the papers returned under the writ of certiorari do not show that the proceedings were forwarded.\n\n534",
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        "content_text": "## FIRES AND ALARMS DURING THE YEAR 1887\n\n| No. | DATE. | TIME. | SITUATION OF FIRE. | No. of BUILDING DESTROYED, | DAMAGE. | CAUSE. | REMARKS. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Jan. 2 | 12 Midnight | A wooden hut in Garden Lane, |  | Trifling | Unknown. |  |\n| 2 | 3, 4 | 3, 43 | Grass on the hill-side at Mount Davis, |  | Do. | Do. |  |\n| 3 | 4, 8 | 37 | Grass on the hill-side above Kennedy Road, |  | $10 | Do. |  |\n| 4 | 5, 9 | 94 p.m. | A stack of grass at No. 207, Shaukiwan, |  | $100 | Trifling |  |\n| 5 | 6, 12 | 1 a.m. | A partition on the ground floor of house No. 199, Hollywood Road. | 1 | $1,400 | Incendiary. |  |\n| 6 | 7, 12 | 12.15 a.m. | House No. 16, Sai Woo Lane, top floor, |  | Trifling | Ignited by the burning husks. |  |\n| 7 | 8, 13 | 4.50 a.m. | Some clothing in No. 39, Tank Lane, |  | Do. | Accidental while cooking. |  |\n| 8 | 9, 13 | 9.30 p.m. | A straw shed at the back of No. 146, Third Street, |  | $14,000 | Upsetting of a kerosine lamp on a quantity of hemp bags. |  |\n| 9 | 10, 14 | 9.30 a.m. | No. 142, Second Street, ground floor, |  | Trifling | Unknown. |  |\n| 10 | 11, 14 | 4 p.m. | The verandah of No. 115, Queen's Road West, |  | None | Do. |  |\n| 11 | 12, 15 | 5 a.m. | Gallery of the Ko Shing Theatre, |  | $23,000 | Capsizing of a kerosine lamp on a quantity of paper, straw and shavings. |  |\n| 12 | 13, 15 | 9 p.m. | No. 48, Queen's Road West, cock-loft, ground floor, |  | None | Incendiary. | A large number of young trees were destroyed. |\n| 13 | 14, 16 | 3 | A quantity of mattings at the back entrance of No. 215, Queen's Road East. |  | $2 | Accidental. |  |\n| 14 | 15, 16 | 7 | A mosquito curtain at No. 172, Wellington Street, |  | Trifling | Unknown |  |\n| 15 | 16, 17 | 9 a.m. | Some papers and old baskets at No. 230, Queen's Rd. Central, |  | None | Incendiary, |  |\n| 16 | 17, 18 | 4.30 p.m. | A kerosine lamp at No. 117, Queen's Road Central, |  | $30 | Accidental, |  |\n| 17 | 18, 20 | 6.30 p.m. | Grass on the hill-side at Deep Water's Bay, |  | None | Unknown |  |\n| 18 | 19, 20 | 8.15 p.m. | A number of mat bags saturated with kerosine on the roof of No. 5, Bonham Strand. |  | $5 | Incendiary, | The man who set fire to the bags on the roof was seen running away by a boy. |\n| 19 | 20, 21 | 11 a.m. | Some papers and a wooden box at Man Mo Temple, |  | Trifling | Unknown. |  |\n| 20 | 21, 22 | 5.8 a.m. | House No. 103, First Street, |  | None | Do. |  |\n| 21 | 22, 22 | 11.20 p.m. | A stack of grass on the hill above Man Ming Lane, |  | Do. | Do. |  |\n| 22 | 23, 25 | 2.45 a.m. | The chimney of No. 31, Lyndhurst Terrace, |  | $25 | Do. |  |\n| 23 | 24, 26 | 1 p.m. | Ground floor of house No. 59, Queen's Road West, | 1 | $3,000 | Do. | Was insured in Messrs. Siessen & Co.'s Office for $8,000. |\n| 24 | 25, Feb. 3 | 8 p.m. | Ground floor of house No. 3, Bonham Strand, |  | $12,000 | Dropping of a kerosine lamp, | Was insured in Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Co.'s Office for $5,000. |\n| 25 | 26, 13 | 53 | The grass on the hill-side at Kai Lung Wan, |  | Trifling | Unknown. |  |\n| 26 | 27, 17 | 5.40 a.m. | Ground floor of No. 129, Queen's Road West, | 1 | $2,900 | Accidental, | Was insured in Messrs. Schellhass & Co.'s Office for $3,200. |\n| 27 | 28, 22 |  | Grass on the hill-side near Stanley, |  | Trifling | Unknown, |  |\n\n## FIRES AND ALARMS DURING THE YEAR 1887,-Continued.\n\n| No. | DATE. | TIME. | SITUATION OF FIRE. | No. of BUILDING DESTROYED. | DAMAGE. | CAUSE. | REMARKS. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 29 | Feb. 22, | 7.20 p.m. | Some clothing on the ground floor of No. 81, Hollywood Rd., |  | Trifling | Incendiary. |  |\n| 30 | 24, | 71 | A shed on the roof of No. 17, Salt Fish Street, |  | Do. | Unknown. |  |\n| 31 | March 4, | 3.45 p.m. | The shrubbery under one of the matsheds at the Race Course, |  | None | Do. |  |\n| 32 | 7, | 12.30 a.m. | Chimney of No. 68, Bonham Strand East, |  | Do. | Do. |  |\n| 33 | 9, | 5 a.m. | A wooden partition in house No. 22, Queen's Road West, |  | $19,000 | Do. |  |\n| 34 | 11, |  | No. 15, Sz Mi Lane, ground floor, |  | None | Incendiary. |  |\n| 35 | 12, | 8.50 p.m. | A cooking stall in Chinese Recreation Ground, |  | Trifling | Unknown. |  |\n| 36 | 15, | \" | No. 76, Jervois Street, ground floor, |  | Do. | Do. |  |\n| 37 | 16, | ** | Chimney of No. 276, Queen's Road Central, |  | None | Do. |  |\n| 38 | 22, | 10 a.m. | Matsheds at Taitum Water-Works, | 14 | $550 | Unknown, | Property of Government. |\n| 39 | 23, | 4.25 p.m. | Two matsheds at Tsimshatsui, |  | $10 | Careless use of fire, |  |\n| 40 | 24, | 3.50 a.m. | No. 17, Wing Kut Street, | 1 | $2,500 | Upsetting a kerosine lamp, | Insured for $2,000 at Messrs. Schellhass & Co. |\n| 41 | 25, | 5.20 p.m. | Chimney of No. 135, Queen's Road West, |  | None | Unknown. |  |\n| 42 | 26, | 9 p.m. | No. 84, Bonham Strand West, | 1 | $1,800 | Falling of a kerosine lamp, | A large quantity of paper, a number of books saturated with kerosine were found, and also a chatty and a tin containing some kerosine. |\n| 43 | 27, | 10 a.m. | Wood-work in the cook house of No. 36, Bonham Strand West. |  | Slight | Accidental while cooking. | Three small pigs roasted alive. Insured for $2,000. |\n| 44 | 27, | 12 a.m. | Grass on the hills between Stanley and Tai Tam Tuk, |  | Do. | Incendiary. |  |\n| 45 | 27, | 1 a.m. | No. 143, Queen's Road Central, |  | None | Attempted arson, | A quantity of kerosine was found poured over the staircase. |\n| 46 | 31, | 4.30 p.m. | A kerosine lamp at No. 111, West Street, |  | Do. | Accidental. |  |\n| 47 | April 3, | 11.15 a.m. | Grass on the hill-side at Mount Davis, |  | Do. | Unknown. |  |\n| 48 | 5, | 2 p.m. | The chimney of No. 4, Wellington Street, |  | Do. | Do. |  |\n| 49 | 5, | 5.30 p.m. | No. 13, Tank Lane, ground floor, |  | $70 | Upsetting a kerosine lamp. |  |\n| 50 | 5, |  | No. 8, Tai Tam Tuk, |  | Trifling | Accidental. |  |\n| 51 | 5, |  | Grass on the hill-side at No. 2 Bridge, Pokfulam Road, |  | None | Unknown | A number of young trees were destroyed. |\n| 52 | 5, |  | Grass on the hill-side near Whitfield, |  | Do. | Do. | Some young trees were destroyed. |\n| 53 | 5, |  | Grass on the hill-side near Shaukiwan Village, |  | Do. | Do. | Caught fire while some Chinese were worshipping at the graves, |\n| 54 | 5, |  | Grass on the hill-side at Stanley, |  | Do. | Do. | Three men were arrested and ordered by the Magistrate to pay the damage. |\n| 55 | 5, |  | Messrs. Blackhead & Co.'s coal shed at Tsimshatsui, | 1 | $125,000 | Combustion of accumulated coal gas. | Insured for $20,000 in Messrs. Meyer & Co., and $20,000 in Messrs. Pustan & Co. |\n| 56 | 5, |  | No. 37, Market Street, |  | Trifling | Burning of joss paper. |  |\n| 57 | 5, | 4.30 a.m. | A quantity of firewood on the ground floor of No. 19, Sheung Fung Lane. |  | $7 | Accidental, | Caught fire while worshipping at graves. Caught fire while worshipping at tombs. A number of trees and shrubs were burned. |",
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        "content_text": "mace \n\nof \n\nthe \n\n122 \n\nbook opium, without any \n\neffect observed on him what ever he' \n\nchatty and lively the whole time. \n\nI smoked \n\nmapely \n\nthe \n\ntamil. \n\nbetween two or three mace \n\nwwerhalt \n\nfeeling any effect whatever I have \n\nsmoked hundreds \n\nof \n\ntimes in the last \n\nI have been in China and \n\ntwenty years \n\nmy \n\nnever felt any effect at all - See Annual Report with the Government Analyst's Report \n\non \n\nappendix \n\nEver reaches \n\nexperiment made at my request which is added as an appendix. I do not believe that morphine reaches the smoker; the length of the pipe is about 18 inches and before the morphine in the smoke reaches the smoker's lips it is thrown out.\n\nthe smoke onto the stem. \n\nCertainly not. The great majority of \n\nQuestion No. \n\nof in caters and smokers are in their consumption - see my \n\nAnnual \n\nReport where I have given two cases, one \n\nof \n\nexcessive and one \n\nof \n\nmoderate opium smoker. \n\nQuestion No. Y. \n\na \n\nQuestion No. 8. \n\nNo. It's a minority in all cases and \n\nsmall minority \n\nat that and it \n\ncalls for \n\neffect whatever on their calling \n\nand they are just \n\nas keen as a non consumer \n\nin looking after their own interests. \n\nThere is no comparison as any observer in the East could tell you. A drinker",
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        "content_text": "## 12. I now reach the subject of solicitation. I have already noted some of the acts proved to have been done in this direction, but I will give some further evidence I have procured.\n\nIn reply to my enquiries, one of the memorialists deposes to having been accosted in as public a thoroughfare as Montgomery Street by the Railway Station. He produced a letter in Burmese and English addressed to him by his official title and forwarded by hand in December 1893: \"Please come to-night to Barr Street, Rangoon, house No. 29.\" Another piece of evidence from a memorialist is the following which happened in December 1893: \"On a recent Sunday morning I was walking up the middle of Phayre Street about 7-8 A.M., when I observed a woman, either Eurasian or fair-complexioned native, standing under the trees at the corner of Dalhousie Street, who was beckoning to me to come. As I took no notice, she lifted the skirt of her dress and exposed her person almost up to the waist.\" Now it cannot possibly be urged that a man would be laying himself open to such conduct as this in walking down such a thoroughfare as Phayre Street by day or night, but the next bit of evidence explains it. Another correspondent living in the town writes in reply to enquiries: \"I have myself been solicited in Montgomery Street at the end of 33rd Street by women in that quarter. On December 20th, three young men were solicited in the middle of Lewis Street between Dalhousie Street and Merchant Street. Solicitations a few months ago were systematically carried out in Phayre Street at both Dalhousie Street and Fraser Street corners by women living in 37th Street. I have seen women in the neighbourhood of Canal Street walk into the street and take men into their houses.\" Yet another correspondent similarly writes: \"During the hot season just passed (1893), on several occasions I have seen Japanese women on the wharves and jetties of an evening while I was down there for a breath of fresh air. And more than once their actions with the people of some of the British India steamers was far from right. In fact, its familiarity and publicity was such that no women of purity would tolerate.\"\n\nAn officer of the S.S. told me that \"while lying at Sule Pagoda Wharf in October, two European women drove up to the wharf and sent their cards to the officer on duty, and he, thinking it strange that unknown ladies should send their cards to him, asked Mr. ... to accompany him. The women enquired if it was the Calcutta steamer, and on being informed she had gone, gave them to understand that they would do as well as anyone from the said steamer if they would come home with them. While going down Sule Pagoda Road about 10 p.m. on a night in November in company with two other men, I myself, with them, was most publicly and persistently solicited by a Burmese woman who seemed to be prowling about the streets for that purpose.\"\n\n## 13. It is of course necessary in an enquiry like this to procure actual facts as to the extent and nature of the nuisance of solicitation in this town, and I think the above instances are sufficient to establish the fact that solicitation is carried on in Rangoon constantly and openly in places and at times when the users of the public streets have a reasonable right to expect to be free from it.\n\n## 14. Now, no doubt the acts above described, or some of them, come under the definition of \"a public nuisance\" in section 268 of the Indian Penal Code, namely, they are acts which cause annoyance to the public or which must necessarily cause annoyance to persons who have occasion to use a public right, and are therefore acts punishable under section 290 of the Code. But offences under section 290 are not cognizable offences, and in order to procure the punishment of a woman for any of them, the following processes under the existing law would be necessary: \n1. ascertaining the woman's address;\n2. establishing her identity;\n3. complaining to a Magistrate;\n4. giving evidence in court against her.\n\nIt is a fair question to ask: How many persons annoyed by solicitation would undertake all this? The Committee may take it for granted that the law, as it stands, will remain inoperative so far as regards the prevention of public solicitation.\n\n## 15. It has not been suggested to me that any other existing law applies to solicitation, and it appears to me that it is necessary to ask for special legal powers for its suppression. Legislation in this direction, to be effectual, should, I think, take the following form:\n1. it should give a definition to the word \"solicitation\" wide enough to cover the many forms which solicitation can take;\n2. it should make solicitation a penal offence;\n3. it should make solicitation a cognizable offence.\n\nI suggest here a section to cover the above points: \n1. Whoever importunes, solicits or molests any person, or sits or loiters, for the purpose of prostitution or on behalf of a prostitute, or performs any act which amounts to solicitation for the purpose of prostitution or on behalf of a prostitute, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees or with imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen days for every breach of this section.\n2. Whether any act that has been performed amounts to solicitation for the purpose of prostitution or on behalf of a prostitute shall be decided by the Magistrate having jurisdiction in each case.\n3. Every breach of this section shall be a cognizable offence.\n\n## 16. To sum up:\n1. I do not think it necessary for the Municipality to take any steps in reference to the alleged enslaving of women or to the alleged traffic in girls for prostitution.\n2. I think it established that the brothels of Rangoon and solicitation in its streets and public places are a public nuisance of sufficient gravity to demand public control, and the existing law does not provide sufficient machinery for such control.\n3. I therefore think it advisable for the Municipal Committee to apply for legal powers sufficient to make such control effectual, and I suggest that it should ask the local Government to take steps to amend the Lower Burma Municipal Act, 1884, to the extent above indicated and to some such effect as I have above suggested.\n\n**R. C. TEMPLE, MAJOR,**\nPresident, Rangoon Municipality.\n\n**RANGOON:**\n**The 20th January 1894.**\n\n| Serial No. | Street | List of Brothels | Owner's name | Nationality of occupants |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Fraser | Thirty-third | B. Mine Kana | Burmese and Shans |\n|  | Ditto | 18 | Ebraham Esnafjee | Natives of India |\n|  | Ditto | 23 | Mayeth Nacoda | Burmese and Natives |\n|  | Ditto | 24 | Mahomed Saib | Ditto |\n|  | Ditto | 32 | B. Amyee | Natives |\n|  | Ditto | 8 | Dawoodjee Abbo | Natives and Burmese |\n|  | Ditto | B | E. G. Man | Burmese |\n|  | Ditto | 10 | Ditto | Natives |\n|  | Ditto | 26 | Steven Gnanamooto | Ditto |\n|  | Ditto | 11 | Esoof Abined Patail | Natives and Burmese |\n|  | Ditto | 30 | Maung On Gaing | Burmese |\n|  | Montgomery | Thirty-fourth | Em. Amedjee Waker | Barrause |\n|  | Ditto | 15 | E. G. Man | Asiatics |\n|  | Ditto | 17 | Ditto | Ditto |\n|  | Twenty-ninth | Sooratti Bazaar Co., Ltd. | Burmese and Natives |\n|  | Ditto | 18 | Fatma Bee | Japanese |\n|  | Ditto | A. E. 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        "content_text": "299 \n\n6 \n\nmust in equity bear the burdens incidental to its ownership and not throw such burdens on their trustees.\n\nThe short report of Balsh v. Hyham as given in 2 Eq. Ca. Al. 741 fol. 8 shows that this general rule was well recognised and that the decision was only an illustration of its application to the facts then before the Court.\n\nIt is impossible to read the judgment of Vice-Chancellor Wigram in Phené v. Gillan 5 Ha. 1 without coming to the conclusion that he also regarded the general rule as well established.\n\nThe principle acted upon in Balsh v. Hyham was reconsidered and most strikingly illustrated in the well-known case of the German Mining Company Ex parte Chippendale 4 De G. Mc and G. p. 19 where the shareholders of a mining company were held liable personally to indemnify the directors against payments made by them in discharge of debts contracted by them but which payments created no legal obligation on the company enforceable at law and could not be recovered by the directors from the company by any action at common law. The shareholders in vain contended in that case that the directors had only a right to indemnity out of the assets of the company. See page 54.\n\nWhere as in Balsh v. Hyham a trustee seeks indemnity in respect of transactions in which he need not have engaged and which were not within the scope of his trust he must prove that his cestui que trust either authorised or ratified such transactions. But if he has incurred liability within the scope of his trust and for the benefit of his cestui que trust Ex parte Chippendale shows that nothing more is required.\n\nWhen a trustee seeks indemnity from his cestui que trust against liabilities arising from the mere fact of ownership there is neither principle nor authority for saying that the trustee need prove any request from his cestui que trust to incur such liability. In the case supposed the trust involves such liabilities and the trustee whilst he remains such cannot get rid of them. He is subject to them as legal owner; but in equity they fall on the equitable owner unless there are good reasons why they should not.\n\nAs regards shares this right of a trustee to be indemnified by his cestui que trust against calls has been repeatedly recognised and enforced on the principles applicable to the equitable ownership of property, and without reference to the principles applicable to contracts or specific performance or any other legal or equitable doctrine. Nothing can be plainer or sounder than the language of Vice Chancellor James in Castellam v. Hobson L.R. 10 Eq. 47; and of Chitty, J. in Loring v. Davis 32 Ch. D. 634. James v. Way L.R. 6 Ho. Lo. 328 proceeded on the same principle. Other cases to the same effect might be cited but it is unnecessary to refer to them. No case has been found, nor as their Lordships believe can be found, which is opposed to these authorities.\n\nThe principle was recognised by Mr. Justice Fry in Hughes Hallett v. The Indian Mammoth Gold Mines Company L.R. 22 Ch. D. 561 although he there held that the application for indemnity was premature.\n\nIt is true that the facts of this case are not in all respects like those in the cases above alluded to. But although the facts are different the result of them is the same; i.e., the facts were such that the relation of trustee and cestui que trust was created. In this case the Defendant did not create the trust on which the Plaintiff originally held the shares. The Defendant had nothing to do with procuring their registration in the Plaintiff's name as trustee for Benjamin and Kelly and their assigns.\n\n14017. \n\nC \n\nIndia.",
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        "content_text": "# 366 DOMESTIC.\n\n## fies er Individual privign 1909 6. Sapt\n\nst Previous Paper. 14295 HONG KONG 29881 Canton Kowloon Railway 29881 RECO 7 SEP(\n\nIns copy coves with Sir J. Jordan respecting difficulties on Chinese section owing to possibility of the country people and inaction of magistrates and steps taken to remedy state of affairs\n\nMr Chitty Collins for Modder's mention on 14295.\n\n## Subsequent Paper\n\n| G. | 33408 |\n| --- | --- |\n\nA. & E. W.-`SUN62/27` 23000-11-05 \n## 2 \n\nPatty, j Rz \n\n2 9",
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        "content_text": "Fr\n\n100/38831/10\n\nSheary\n\n16 an\n\n213\n\nJam se to ach:\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe Director of the\n\nreceipt of\n\nYou\n\nletter\n\nof the\n\n19th Dec Asfactory\n\nMr.\n\nA Gardens, Kew.\n\nMINUTE.\n\n317. 29 Herding 11/1 4/5\n\nMr. Fiddes.\n\nMr. Just.\n\nMr. Cox.\n\nSir O. Lucas.\n\nSir F. Hopwood.\n\nCol. Seely.\n\nForth or care.\n\nAund. 19/11/96\n\nfrosty offering him the post of Asst Tuff of the Colonial Bretdy Dept of Athay, the Brush trab Jedan wall cause the accr bath is the Cette offers hom afft & be handed dos St Green deseri for the\n\n3. Mer starcourt to thank you Mr. Harcourt. also mmuni cale to arh Khat you Mr. Gre not already, lift, no to been house Commodation matines\n\nThe paper of sticulars of the unorthing Chetty to the seals Laft of to Grible which you have been so good az Dys Cate Cant regard to the",
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        "content_text": "## HONG KONG EASTERN\n36069 Rec2 C.O. 36062 Rs 15 NOV 12\n\n**Oferim Conference**\n\nLeuss recrie of report of delegates which it is proposed to present to Parliament for early observations.\n\nMo Chitty Abo S 4.7.20\n\nThis is the report, signally sent in confidentially by the delegates, which has been edited so as to remove references to the cantankerous behaviour of the American delegate (Hamilton Wright) and other persons, including the Persian delegate.\n\nIt has been through it carefully, and there is nothing which calls for remark. The note in Appendix III as to Canadian legislation which was prepared (`(48,244)`) is mentioned.\n\n`Wt.25,940-17`. 40,000. 11/11. A.&E.W.\n\nL \nDate: 1912 \n14 hor \nut previous Paper: 35-927 \nNext subsequent Paper: 138541",
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        "content_text": "7612 Italy\n\nText\n\n20th March\n\n87\n\nDRAFT.\n\n(\"S. S. Monte\")\n\nin Leyland Lauff\n\nMINUTE.\n\n26th\n\n26r. A D Alle 30/3/01\n\nSir G. Fiddes,\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nLord Emmott.\n\nMr. Harcourt.\n\n2\n\n26\n\nAds\n\nNo O'dad, Was Mas louf 25 Left 13\n\n(2892 3/13 Premadas)\n\nI have to transmit to you for\n\ncopy\n\na despatch recently addressed\n\nto the\n\nSecretary of State\n\nregarding certain\n\ninstructions\n\nwhich\n\nI indicated\n\nthe\n\nGeneral Policy\n\nto be\n\nfollowed\n\nat\n\nregards\n\nRaff. Chitte Keul Dept brote\n\nbh. α\n\n[136] WE$1,086—18. 45,000, 19/13. A\n\nthe reaffirmation of",
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        "content_text": "## II. \"Bona Vacantia\"\n\nThere remains the question as to bona vacantia, in respect of Ford's moveable property.\n\nThe doctrine laid down in Re Barnetts Trusts 1902 (Ch 84) is that the right to bona vacantia is a right of occupatione and not of succession. Therefore, such property falls to the State in which the goods are locally situate, not to that in which the intestate was domiciled: the maxim mobilia sequuntur personam not applying in such a case.\n\nFord's moveables consisted, as far as we know, of 66 shares in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. This Institution has its Head Office in Hongkong, and the shares...\n\n382\n\nTo suppose that such a doctrine, simply by reason of the existence of extra-territoriality can be imported into China or Japan, and that His Britannic Majesty is to be regarded as the chief lord of the fee, who had originally granted out Chinese or Japanese land to its English owner, seems rather an extraordinary proposition: and difficult to reconcile with principles of international law.\n\nNo species of property, which did not lie in tenure, could be subject to escheat (Chitty on the Prerogatives of the Crown pp.226, 233).",
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        "content_text": "## JOHN SIMON\n\nI agree with the view expressed by Sir Edward Davidson and Mr Malkin.\n\nThe effect of residence by an Englishman in China on his civil domicile was fully considered by Chitty J. in In re Tootal's Trusts 23 Ch. D. 532.\n\nThere it was contended that the jurisdiction of the English Courts and England's other treaty rights resulted in such residence conferring an \"Anglo-Chinese domicile\". Chitty J. held that these extra-territorial privileges did not affect the question of domicile, as the sovereignty over the soil at Shanghai remained vested in the Emperor of China.\n\nThis decision was approved in Abd-ul-Messih v. Farra 13 A.C. 451.\n\nThere is no authority for the suggestion that these extra-territorial rights affect commercial domicile any more than they do civil domicile.\n\nSo to hold would be to introduce a new distinction between civil and commercial domicile which has never been suggested by any authority.\n\nOct. 6th 1914",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure to Despatch No. 7\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,  \nC.O. 22664  \n**REG** 17 MAY 15  \n**IREC**\n\n1. Two points have emerged in recent discussion on the subject of the German Firms which were perhaps not sufficiently emphasized before.\n\n2. The first point is as to the legal effect of a licence to enemy subjects to remain in our territory during the war. Hall, International Law, 6th edition, page 388, states the position thus:-  \n\"When persons are allowed to remain, either for a specified time after the commencement of war, or during good behaviour, they are exonerated from the disabilities of enemies for such time as they in fact stay, and they are placed in the same position as other foreigners, except that they cannot carry on a direct trade in their own or other enemy vessels with the enemy country\".  \nThis statement of the law can be supported by various cases, some of which are cited in a note on page 184 of the latest edition of Chitty on Contracts.\n\n3. This point is of immediate importance here in view of the permission which has been given to enemy subjects to remain in the Colony. The exact legal effect of the permission which has been given may be a matter of much doubt, but there can be no doubt that it does confer some rights, and it probably confers very full rights while it remains unrevoked. The question has become of increased importance since the receipt of the telegram from the Secretary of State approving of the policy of allowing enemy subjects to remain here, a telegram which, I understand, was received after the despatch of the long telegram to him last Saturday week on the subject of the German firms. The position now seems to have got beyond the stage of a local and temporary measure.\n\n4. The other point is that there is some authority for...",
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        "content_text": "## 334\n\nsaying that a rule or usage of international law is growing up to allow enemy subjects who were in the belligerent's territory at the outbreak of war to remain there during good behaviour. This proposition is enunciated by Hall, op. cit. pages 387 and 388, but he admits that \"there can be no doubt that it is not yet firmly established.\"\n\n5.\n\nFrom the above the following position is sought to be deduced. We ought, in accordance with the above growing rule of international law, to allow these Germans and Austrians who were here at the outbreak of war to remain here during good behaviour, but we expel them at any moment. If we do allow them to remain here during good behaviour they are placed, by implication of law, in the same position as other foreigners, subjects of friendly states, and, with certain unimportant exceptions such as the ownership of British ships, in practically the same position as resident British subjects; but we can limit their rights here in any way we please by giving them special and limited licences instead of a general licence to remain here.\n\n6. The advice which would be given on the above view of the law would be as follows. The Governor should ask for authority \"to issue to those Germans and Austrians who have been permitted to continue residence here licences revocable at the will of the Hongkong Government to carry on trade upon the same footing as other foreigners in accordance with the principles stated in Hall's International Law, page 388, and the cases cited in Chitty's Contracts, page 184\". Having obtained such authority he would probably begin by issuing limited licences for the purpose of completing transactions already embarked upon, but would probably later on, as a matter of policy, grant licences to trade in the same way as any other foreigners are entitled to trade. There is of course no doubt that if the above view of the law be sound, and if the authority in question could be obtained, the Governor's hands would be perfectly free to deal with each local problem as it arose. This view, however, makes no distinction between future trading and the completion of transactions already entered into.",
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        "content_text": "## 336\n\neven in the case of an enemy subject, for the purpose of limiting his ordinary civil rights.\n\n8. The view which I submit of this difficult subject is as follows. Allowing the Germans and Austrians to remain here gives them the same rights as other foreigners and we cannot limit those rights by giving them any special form of permission. This does not mean, of course, that they can trade direct with Germany, and their right to trade is only a right to trade on their own account and not a right to trade on account of their branches or partners in German territory. This right, however, flowing from the permission accorded to them to remain here, does not enable them to trade in goods in which their present partners in Germany have an interest as that would be trading with the enemy in that the contracts entered into would ensure for the benefit of persons resident, carrying on business, and being, within the German Empire and in some cases they would probably be trading in goods coming from the German Empire. I think therefore that a licence is required to enable them to dispose of their stocks in the Colony and their goods due to arrive, and the granting of this licence has been asked for because of the large British and local interests at stake in connection with those goods. I therefore think that the action of this Government has been quite correct in sending the telegram of Saturday the 15th instant.\n\n9.\n\nThe urgency of the question as regards the transactions last referred to can scarcely be exaggerated. The Banks do not know where they are, loyalty is being penalised, and it is to be feared that some of the German firms are trying to evade the law by sheltering behind new firms with British names.\n\n10. At the same time I think that a telegram might be sent, referring to the Secretary of State's telegram approving of Germans and Austrians being allowed to remain here, to the effect that it is understood that the probable effect of this permission will be that these persons are placed in the same position as other foreigners in accordance with the principle stated in Hall's International Law, page 388, and the cases cited in Chitty's",
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        "content_text": "Colonies 6488/14.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 3\n\nRECEIVED 29 MAY 16\n25202 546 Reg\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Singapore, 14th January, 1915.\n\nIn reply to your letter 1949/10 of the 14th December last I am directed to state that the Public Servants Liabilities Ordinance was experimental. The Attorney General in introducing the Bill in 1888 described it as of a \"peculiar and exceptional character\". The experiment could not succeed without some measure of co-operation with the Government on the part of those in whose interest the Ordinance was passed. It seems doubtful whether Government ever secured that co-operation even to a small extent. The experience of Heads of Departments was that it was not long before the money-lenders discovered that many clerks when in temporary difficulties were only too willing, in exchange for a prompt loan, to make terms with them which would nullify the intention of the Ordinance. Whenever a good surety for the borrower could be found, the money-lender required it, and he charged an extra high rate of interest, to counterbalance any loss arising from his inability to sue the principal in case the matter came before the Court.\n\n2.\n\nThere good security was not available, as was frequently the case, the Chetty protected himself against the Ordinance by arranging that the wife or some near relation of the borrower should act as surety. In these circumstances the clerks\n\nThe Honourable,\nThe Colonial Secretary,\nHONGKONG.",
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        "content_text": "## \n547\n\nwhen threatened with a Court summons preferred to pay an instalment rather than to subject their female relatives to the necessity of attending Court, and possibly of giving evidence in the suit.\n\n3.\n\nIf a clerk who was deeply indebted trusted to the Ordinance and refused to continue his payments, the Chitty brought the matter into Court and endeavoured to obtain for it as much publicity as possible. If the clerk was in a responsible position, for instance in a revenue-collecting Department, it became a matter of great difficulty for Government to decide upon its course of action in the matter. To dismiss him from the service would be to play into the hands of the money-lenders who would be in a position to hold this instance in terrorem over the heads of their other debtors in the public service and to threaten them with a loss of their position if they made default in their instalments. To leave the matter unnoticed was subversive of discipline, and would impair the credit of the clerical service in the view of the public.\n\n4.\n\nOn the whole therefore it was felt that the Ordinance had not strengthened the hands of the Government in dealing with the difficulty at which it was aimed, viz, a racial weakness of character which frequently takes the form of extravagance in living, and a subsequent recourse to an accommodating money-lender as an easy temporary solution of difficulties created by this extravagance and the Ordinance was accordingly repealed.\n\n5.\n\nThe Bill for the repeal of **\"The Public Servants Liabilities Ordinance 1889\"** was submitted, before its introduction into Legislative Council, to the consideration of the Chambers of Commerce, the Bar Committees and the Presidents of the Municipalities of Singapore and Penang and met with approval in all these quarters.\n\n(SD.)\n\nI have etc.,\n\nS. McArthur,\np. Colonial Secretary,\nStraits Settlements",
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        "content_text": "# Reasons for Affording Government Assistance to Members of the Subordinate Service in paying off their debts to non-native money lenders to supplement the passing of an ordinance to protect Public Servants from legal Proceedings in respect of certain Liabilities.\n\n413\n\nI have already suggested the passing of an Ordinance on the lines of the Public Servants (Liabilities) Enactment 1897 in the Federated Malay States. Such an Ordinance should not, however, be made retrospective and I think something more is required.\n\nI attach Straits Settlements Circular No. 20, which provides for making advances to members of the Subordinate Service to meet cases of bona fide misfortune - I understand that some clerks when applying for advances under this Circular entered among their liabilities extravagant expenditures upon a funeral or a wedding, and there were others where misfortunes had been caused by standing security for friends.\n\nI propose that some such scheme might be adopted in Hongkong, but before proceeding to outline a scheme I would point out that so far as I am able to judge from the cases that have come under my notice here, the Indian money lenders, into whose hands a clerk falls in Hongkong, is more rapacious and drives more unconscionable bargains than the Indian money lender in the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States. The latter is nearly always a member of the Chetty Caste, with whom usury is practically part of his religion and the rates of interest charged vary from 18% to 56% nominally, that is, the principal sum lent is repayable by instalments either daily, weekly or monthly, which give the return stated. The fact, however, that each instalment bears interest at the same rate makes the actual annual interest considerably higher. For example, a Chetty will lend without security a sum of $100 repayable by twelve monthly instalments of $10, and a promissory note is signed for $120, no interest appearing on the face of the note. This is quite fair but in Hongkong owing to the short periods for which loans are made and the rapacious terms...",
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        "content_text": "the Seven\n\nobserved that\n\nmachine fears\n\nfrom Hong Kong from which here its\n\nthe ammunition)\n\nth\n\nar\n\nMe meurt\n\nE\n\nword\n\nA l\n\nthe\n\nmemoranda from\n\nChitto\n\nDevis this\n\nthird\n\nin the letter from this Dept.\n\nI t\n\ntt t\n\n31 at 15 f\n\nhad been prepared\n\nthem\n\nPA\n\n★ deal with\n\nL\n\nSo the\n\nA\n\nstate\n\nBene\n\nthe\n\nImperial Ent. I th\n\nUnion Eat.\n\nduring the war,\n\n(para). 9. Grundle\n\n1\n\n275\n\n1919\n\n29th Nov.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nAlso 39. 16 kb\n\n-\n\nHONG KONG\n\n6104.\n\nDeficit in the Commissariat\n\nReports\n\n-\n\nTRESS\n\n6104\n\n22/48\n\n[REL 4 FEB 20]\n\naccounts\n\nPost Office\n\nof $3,697, 37.\n\nReport that in\n\nparagraphs must regard Postmaster Gent, Fur Ross\n\nbe responsible for safe deficit\n\nbe as such as to achieve which I q20\n\nSuggests that Fur. Ross shall\n\ntake\n\nand half the\n\nThe Beg\n\nthe Ross seems\n\nof carelessness.\n\nHave\n\nyou any\n\nto have been guilty\n\nunfortunate that the fund fuente\n\nfund, which is\n\nsuch as,\n\nintended to create\n\nwould be needed here.\n\nfor a sum of $7,920.00 we are concerned lenders find it there is nothing, except a sort we are a negative short of excess elimination,\n\nthat the Commander exec had these stamps.\n\nNo doubt what happened\n\n(24132—41.) Wt. 11440–22. 28,000. 8/19, D&S. G. 122/41.",
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        "content_text": "347\n\nTHE PREROGATIVE POWERS. The Prerogative powers claimed could only compel rights of the kind existed at common law had. The answer of the suppliants to the claim made under the Prerogative was, first, that whatever (if any) rights were in question should have been abrogated by modern legislation. Reliance was placed upon a series of enactments, temporary and permanent, enacted at intervals from 4 Henry VIII to 38 George III, and, among others, the Defence Act, 1842 to 1875, but more particularly the Defence Act, 1843. The jurisdiction of the Court was no greater than it was in the 17th century. Four things had to be ascertained—namely, the true state of facts as to the alleged agreement; the rights of the Crown, if any; whether the rights of the Crown were not taken to be abated by the statute unless the intention of the Legislature to that effect was clear and unmistakable (see per Lord Lindley in Wheaton v. Maple (1894) 3 Ch. 48, at p. 64), Coomber v. Berkshire Justices (1883) 9 App. Cas. 61, at p. 76), and per Mr. Justice Day in Gorton Local Board v. Prison Commissioners (1904) 2 K.B. 165, at p. 187). That the temporary statutes could be cited in the language of the Defence Act, 1842, to suggest that the premises were being occupied by the Government under an agreement between the Crown and the suppliants was impossible. And there was nothing to suggest any intention to deprive the Crown of any of its common law powers.\n\nTHE STATUTORY POWERS.\n\nHis Lordship said that the contention with regard to the Royal Prerogative seemed to him to be unsustainable; he proceeded to deal with the Crown's argument for the Crown was in effect that at law there was in the Crown the duty of defending the realm, that this duty carried with it all necessary rights for the doing of things incident to the performance of that duty. The Attorney-General justified the possession complained of, not only by the Royal Prerogative, but also by the powers conferred by the Defence of the Realm (Consolidation) Act, 1914, and the regulations thereunder. The effect of section 1 of the Act was considered in R. v. Halliday (1917) A.C. 200, dealing not with rights of property but with the liberty of the subject, and it was held that the powers reposed in the Crown by the section must be exercised honestly, but there was no other limit upon the acts authorized by the regulations made thereunder (see per Lord Wrenbury in R. v. Halliday, A.C., at p. 307). Regulation 2 made it lawful for the competent naval or military authority to authorize the taking possession of land wherever military necessity required it. As to legality, it was said for the Crown that Parliamentary occupation for defence was not within the prohibition of Magna Carta. As to necessity, it was contended that the Sovereign was constitutionally the arbiter.\n\nThe common law duty of the Sovereign to defend the realm appeared clearly from Hampden's case (3 Howell's State Trials, 825). The right of the Crown to enter upon lands of a subject for purposes of public defence was affirmed by the unanimous opinion of the Judges given consultatively to the Crown in the case of Saltpetre (12 Co. Rep. 13). The Judges in Hampden's case (the case of ship money), although divided as to the matter immediately to be decided, were unanimous on questions which were material here. Thus Mr. Justice Crooke, whose opinion was adverse to the Crown's claim, said (3 Howell's State Trials, at p. 1134), in discussing the Prerogative:—\n\n\"The law provides a remedy in case of necessity and danger, for then the King may command his subjects without Parliament to defend the kingdom. How? By all men of arms whatsoever, for the land; and by all ships whatsoever, for the sea, which he may take for his Navy, which hath been the practice of all former kings.\"\n\nHis Lordship then referred to the judgment of Mr. Justice Hulton on the argument of Mr. St. John in the same case, and said that one of the grounds on which Hampden's resistance to ship money was based by Mr. St. John was the existence of the many Prerogatives which the law hath settled in the Crown for the defence of the kingdom.\" A right to summon all subjects to defend the realm by personal service—Foster, 157, 158, and Co. Litt. 75, 76; the power of the Sovereign to issue commissions for the impressment of ships and men for the Navy; and the power to erect fortifications (Comyns' Digest, Tit. Prerogative) had been considered clear instances of Prerogative rights which existed at common law.\n\nThe right to enter upon land within the realm as and when military defence required it was claimed in this case as such a right; and it was said to be exemplified in the decisions of various Courts of Law, which were cited in re a Petition of Right (31 The Times L.R. 596; (1915) K.B. 649) with regard to the raising of bulwarks to repel invasion.\n\nIt was said that where it was necessary for the public safety or the defence of the realm, it was lawful (a) to take and (b) to take possession of any land, and that the possession of any land, suppliants had not challenged the action of the Government was founded on the ground of absence of power given by the regulation to cases where, for the purpose of securing the public safety or the defence of the realm, it was necessary; and it was said that possession without compensation could never be of compensation, and the test of necessity was inconceivable. The answer was that the words had no relation to the question testably established.\n\nTHE SUBJECT AND THE CROWN.\n\nHis Lordship then referred to the absence of reported cases of litigation between the subject and the Crown in this connexion and of records of payments or other admissions of liability by the Crown, and said that the records seemed to him not to support the suppliants' case, but rather to tend to destroy it. The cases between subjects in which the plea of necessity in time of war for public defence was raised in early times in actions of trespass were fairly numerous. In the Year-book 8 Edward IV, 11, 41, a custom in Kent \"when the enemy come to the Coast to enter upon land adjoining the same coast in defence and safeguard of the realm and then to make there trenches and bulwarks for the defence of the realm was held to be well pleaded. In the Year-book 27 Henry VIII, T. 276, the entry upon land in time of war to make bulwarks in defence of the realm was held to be justifiable as a thing necessary for the Commonwealth, though otherwise illegal.\" In 14 Henry VIII, pl. 18, the opinion of the Court of Common Pleas was recorded to the effect that suburbs might be pulled down in time of war \"pur ceo que ceo est pur le Commonwealth\". This alleged right was confirmed in Chitty on the Prerogative.\n\nThe case of Saltpetre (supra) declared the opinion of all the Judges in 1607 that there was in the Crown a right of entry on all lands for a purpose essential for defence, though the purpose originated within the time of legal memory.\n\nIn his Lordship's opinion, the law was before the Defence Acts, and now was, that in case of necessity for public defence the Crown might of right enter upon the land of the subject and might remain in occupation while the necessity continued. So decided in re a Petition of Right (supra), and the observations of Lord Parker in the Zamora (32 The Times L.R. 526; (1916) A.C. 77) indicated the concurrence of the noble and learned lord in that view.\n\nIt was said that the reflections naturally provoked by insistence upon prerogative rights at a time when most of the relations of the subject with the Crown had for centuries been determined by statute. That consideration related, however, to public policy and not to legal rights.\n\nAny restriction of the powers of the Executive Government in times of public peril was properly subjected to careful scrutiny. Powers which under conditions of personal autocracy might be regarded as invidious, might under modern conditions be not only valuable, but essential to prevent an oppressive exercise of such powers by the Executive.\n\nParliament was well aware of this.\n\nTHE POSITION OF THE HIGH COURT.\n\nHis Lordship, continuing, said that he proposed to consider what were the powers of the High Court of Justice in respect of demands made against the Crown by petition of right. This process was available to the subject for the recovery of real or personal property which was wrongfully in the possession of the Crown, and for obtaining judicial authority for payment out of the Exchequer of money due upon contractual obligations of the Crown.\n\nAs to the former class, Chief Justice Holt pointed out in the Bankers' case (14 Howell's State Trials at p. 34) that the function of a petition of right was \"to destroy the King's title.\" As to the second class, the decision of the House of Lords in the Bankers' case (L.R. 10, Q.B. 31) established the authority of English Courts of law to examine upon petition of right claims of the subject against the Crown provided they arose out of contracts.\n\nBeyond these two classes of cases, the jurisdiction of the Courts upon petition of right did not extend.\n\nSpeaking generally, the long series of enactments from the Statute of Westminster the Second (13 Edward I, c. 24) to the Judicature Acts did not give any rights to the subject against the Crown. The amendments made by the Petition of Right Act, 1860, were amendments of procedure only.\n\nIn the present case, the suppliants were not proceeding under the petition of right for the recovery of property. They sought to recover payment of a debt upon one or other of the grounds of claim on which they relied. The claim of the suppliants for money due for use and occupation was rightly disallowed by the learned Judge at the trial. Agreement for such a payment could not be implied when the occupation had been against the will of the claimant or when the circumstances were inconsistent with a contract for payment (see Churchward v. R. (1865) H. & N. 446) and Sloper v. Saunders (1850) 20 L.J. Ex. 278).\n\nThe claim of the suppliants that an entry upon land in the exercise of the Prerogative gave a right to compensation was not supported by reference to any authority, but was said to be warranted by the past practice.\n\nPage 360\n\nPage 361",
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        "content_text": "The Attorney-General by his answer claims that possession of the said premises was lawfully taken by or under the authority of the competent Military Authority for the use of His Majesty, by virtue of His Majesty's Royal Prerogative, as well as by virtue of the powers conferred by the Defence of the Realm Consolidation Act, 1914 and of the Regulations issued thereunder by His Majesty in Council,\n\nThe Attorney-General further states that His Majesty claims as against the Suppliants no right or interest in the premises beyond the right to take and use them for so long as may be necessary for securing the public safety and the Defence of the Realm during the continuance of a state of War between His Majesty and any foreign Power. The Attorney-General denies that any rent or compensation is by law payable to the Suppliants either under the Defence Act, 1812, or at all.\n\nIt is therefore necessary to consider what powers are by law vested in the Sovereign, and exercised by the Executive Government, over the lands and houses of subjects required for the defence and security of the Realm.\n\nThose powers which the Executive exercises, without Parliamentary authority are comprised under the comprehensive term of the Prerogative. Where, however, Parliament has intervened and has provided by statute for powers previously within the prerogative, being exercised in a particular manner and subject to the limitations and provisions contained in the statute, they cannot be so exercised. Otherwise, what use would there be, in imposing limitations, if the Crown could at its pleasure disregard them, and fall back on prerogative. Indeed, it was expressly admitted by the Solicitor-General (Sir Ernest Pollock) that where a matter within the prerogative is provided for by statute, the prerogative is merged in the statute. In Ex parte Postmaster-General, 10 Chancery Division 595, Sir George Jessel, Master of the Rolls, said: \"The general rule as expressed in Bacon's Abridgment (7th edition, at page 462) is that where an Act of Parliament is made for the public good, the advancement of religion and justice, and to prevent injury and wrong, the King shall be bound by such Act, although not particularly named therein.\"\n\nAs instances of the exercises of the Royal Prerogative in the past, which are dealt with in the law books, the Crown relied particularly upon the right of entering upon the land of a subject to dig trenches and make fortifications: and to the right to take saltpetre for the purpose of making gunpowder. Various passages from writers of authority were cited dealing with these matters. Thus in Chitty on the Prerogative of the Crown:\n\nAs the constitution of the country has vested in the King the right to make war or peace, it has necessarily and incidentally assigned to him on the same principles the management of the war, together with various prerogatives which may enable His Majesty to carry it on with effect. Chitty on the Prerogatives of the Crown, Chapter IV., Section V., page 41.\n\nThus the King is solely entitled to erect, fortify, and govern forts and other places of strength within his dominions. (2 Institute 30, 1 Ibid 5). In case of necessity, the King may enter on the land of his subject to make fortifications (1 Rolle Reports, page 152). In the Saltpetre Case (1607) (12 Reports, 12) it was resolved: \"When enemies come against the realm to the Sea Coast it is lawful to come upon my land adjoining to the same Coast, to make trenches or bulwarks for the defence of the realm, for every subject hath benefit by it. And therefore by the common law, every man may come upon my land, for the defence of the realm, as appears by 8 Edward IV., Chapter 23, and in such place on such extremity, they may dig for gravel, for the making of bulwarks; for this is for the public, and everyone hath benefit by it; but after the danger is over, the trenches and bulwarks ought to be removed, so that the owner shall not have prejudice in his inheritance; and for the commonwealth, a man shall suffer damage: as for saving of a city or town, a house shall be plucked down, if the next be on fire; and the suburbs of a city in time of war for the common safety shall be plucked down; and a thing for the commonwealth every man may do without being liable to an action, as it is said in 3 Henry VIII. Fol. 15.\" Although it thus appears by the Saltpetre case that at common law even the public were entitled to enter upon another man's land to dig for gravel to make bulwarks, a statute to the same effect was passed in 1512—4 Henry VIII., Chapter 1 (Extracts, page 436). This provided that it should be lawful for all the King's subjects by the advice and assignment of the justices of the peace or sheriff to make all manner of bulwarks in every man's ground and to dig and delve for earth and stones for the making of the bulwarks and without any manner of payment, or any manner of action by anyone, against any of the King's subjects for any such matter or cause. The Act was a temporary one to endure to the next Parliament.\n\nThe power to enter to make trenches and erect bulwarks obviously has reference to preventing or repelling invasion, when enemies come against the country and when active measures are necessary at or along the coast, and particularly at or near the places threatened.\n\nWith regard to saltpetre, this was a matter of \"Purveyance,\" and was paid for. The first warrant for searching for it, in evidence in these proceedings, is 7 Henry VII. (1492); it assigned to James Hede to take material \"suitable and requisite for the making of saltpetre for our ordnance, wheresoever they can be found, as well within liberties as without, the fee of the Church only excepted, for our moneys in this behalf reasonably to be paid.\" Another warrant, in the 6 Henry VIII. (1515), granted to Hans Wolf for the like purpose (Extracts, page 400) provides for all damage being agreed and paid for. Another warrant, 31 Elisabeth (1589)—(Extracts, page 407), requires the petre or powder-makers to make good all damage making up all places digged or overthrown in as good perfection and state as they or any of them did find the same.\" A similar warrant, of much greater length (Extracts, page 400) was issued under the Privy Seal, in 41 Elisabeth (1599). This requires the grantee, at their own proper costs and charges to make up and repair every place \"hindered or defaced by their operations; and concludes by a clause which should satisfy those who contend for the greatest prerogative—\"notwithstanding any statute, Act of Parliament, Order, Proclamation, Ordinance, law, usage, custom, or any other matter whatsoever to the contrary.\" In the Book of Extracts there follows a warrant by King James I., and the last of the series was granted by King Charles I. on the 28th April 1629. (Extracts, page 431.) This recites that: \"At this present time, we have more than ordinary occasion to provide good and sufficient saltpetre and powder to furnish our stores for the defence and safety of our realms and dominions.\" It then grants powers to take all material fit for making saltpetre and to make the saltpetre into gunpowder and for that purpose \"to have and take workhouses for our said service, and houses and stables, outhouses and yards, of any of our subjects and therein to set up vessels and to bestow their servants, cattle, and other necessary provisions for the effecting the same our service, paying unto the owners or present possessors of such houses, barns, stables, yards, and outhouses, reasonable rents and rates for the same for the time they shall be used for our service.\" It will be noticed that this grant was not a private monopoly. It was made after the abolition of monopolies by the statute 21 James I., chapter 3. It was for the obtaining material for the defence of the realm, and the occupation of all lands and buildings was to be paid for. We were told that after the year 1665, or thereabouts, there are not...",
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        "content_text": "possible. I pause to add that on the principle laid down in Thomas v. Reg., Law Reports, 10, Queen's Bench, page 31, upon the authority of The Bankers Case (Howell, 5 Mod. Skinner), an affirmative finding upon the suppliants' allegation of an agreement between them and the Crown would have entitled them to the judgment of the Court, and that my ultimate opinion upon their appeal depends in the first place upon the fact that there was no such agreement.\n\nThe right of the Crown to occupy the suppliants' premises for necessary purposes of public defence in time of war was based by the Attorney-General upon the royal prerogative, and, alternatively, upon the Defence of the Realm (Consolidation) Act, 1914, and the Defence of the Realm Regulations. The ground of prerogative was the ground most elaborately discussed before us. The argument for the Crown was in effect that at common law there is in the Sovereign the duty of defending the realm, that this duty carries with it all necessary rights for the doing of things incident to the performance of the duty, so far as they are not unlawful, and that one of these incidental things is the occupation of land whenever military necessity so requires. As to legality, it was said for the Crown that temporary occupation for defence is not a disseisin within the prohibition of Magna Charta. As to necessity, it was contended that the Sovereign is constitutionally the arbiter. The common law duty of the Sovereign to defend the realm appears clearly in the arguments and judgment in Hampden's Case (Howell's State Trials, volume 3, page 826) in the Case of Shipmoney. The right of the Crown to enter upon lands of a subject for purposes of public defence was affirmed by the unanimous opinion of the Judges, given consultatively to the Crown in the Case of Mr. St. John's argument against Saltpetre. 12 The Reports, page 13.\n\n\"the Crown in the Case of Shipmoney throws a clear light upon the class of questions here under discussion, and the Judges there, although they were divided as to the matter which was immediately to be decided, were unanimous as to certain questions which are material to the present case. I shall refer only to the judgments of two of the Judges whose opinions were given adversely to the claim of the Crown. Mr. Justice Crooke said in discussing the prerogative: \"The law provides a remedy in case of necessity and danger, for then the King may command his subjects without Parliament to defend the kingdom.\" \"How? By all men of war whatsoever for the land, and by all ships whatsoever for the sea, which he may take from all parts of the kingdom and join them with his own Navy, which hath been the practice of all former kings.\" Mr. Justice Hutton said: “The King is bound to defend the kingdom.\" Mr. St. John for the defendant had said, \"It must needs be granted that in the business of defence the suprema potestas is inherent in His Majesty. Neither hath the law only entrusted the care of defence to His Majesty, but it hath likewise put the summa potestas and means of defence wholly into his hands\n\nNeither is His Majesty armed only with his primitive prerogative of generalissimo and commander-in-chief, but also with all other powers requisite for the full execution of all things incident to so high a place as well in times of danger as of actual war.” One of the grounds on which Hampden's resistance to shipmoney was based by Mr. St. John was the existence of \"the many prerogatives which the law hath settled in the Crown for the defence of the kingdom.\" A right to summon all subjects to defend the realm by personal service; Foster, 157, 158, Fitzherbert, Nat. Prov. Coke on Litt. 75, 76; the power of the subject to issue commissions of array, Parliament Rolls, 2 Rush 1229; power of impressment of ships and men for the Navy, Chitty, cap. lv, Selden Mare Clausum, cap. xx.; 1 Blackstone, cap. 419; 51 R. 276; and the exclusive authority to erect fortifications (Comyn's Digest: Prerogative), have been considered clear instances of prerogative rights which existed at common law. The right to enter upon lands within the realm, as and when military defence requires it, is claimed in this case as such a right, and is said to be exemplified in the decision of various courts of law, which were cited in the Shoreham Case with regard to the raising of bulwarks to repel invasion. As was pointed out for the Appellants, these were all decisions in litigation between subjects and not express determination as to the rights of the Sovereign. Litigation upon such a question as between the subject and the Crown could hardly occur. The subject would not be likely to ask or get the royal fiat for a petition of right, and the Sovereign, obstructed in what he deemed the necessary defence of the realm, would probably not resort to a prosecution for misdemeanour. The absence of legal records was relied upon by the suppliants as proof of non-existence of the alleged right. It is true that the Year Books, the more modern Reports, the Parliament Rolls, and the public accounts show no trace of a previous occurrence of such a controversy as this. It is equally true that, within the time of legal memory, armies arrayed under the authority of the Crown have repeatedly occupied large areas of land in all parts of the country to the exclusion, for longer or shorter periods of time, of the owners of the land. There are no records of complaints by action at law, or, so far as I know, by petition to the Crown, or by parliamentary protest, and the searches made by the parties in the Record Office produced no proofs of payment except for lands purchased or rented under statutory powers or by agreement. On the whole, the absence of decided cases and of records of payments or other admissions of liability by the Crown seems to me not to support the suppliants' case in this regard, but rather to tend to destroy it. The cases between subjects in which the plea of necessity in time of war for public defence was successfully raised in early times in actions of trespass are fairly numerous. In 8 Edward IV. a custom in Kent, when the enemy came to the coast, to enter upon land adjoining the same coast in defence and safeguard of the realm, and then to make there trenches and bulwark; for the defence of the realm, was held to be well pleaded. In 21 Henry VII. entry upon land in time of war, \"pur faire bulwarke in defence du Roy et le Realm,\" was held to be justifiable as a thing necessary for the commonwealth though otherwise illegal.\" In 1 Henry VIII. the opinion of the Court of Common Pleas is recorded to the effect that suburbs of cities seront plucked down in temps de guerre; pur ceo que ceo est pur le commonwealth chescun poit faire sans aver action. This alleged right is affirmed in Chitty on the Prerogative. The Case of Saltpetre declares the opinion of all the judges in 1607 that there is in the Crown a right of entry on all lands for a purpose essential for defence, though the purpose originate within the time of legal memory. That is to say, the right is not limited to cases in which it has from time to time been exercised. Not the nature of the user, but the fact of necessity, is the decisive consideration which governs the right. In my opinion the law was before the Defence Acts, and now is that, in case of necessity for public defence, the Crown may, of right, enter upon the land of the subject, and may remain in occupation while the necessity continues. This Court so decided in the Shoreham Case, and I think that the observations of Lord Parker in the Zamara indicate the concurrence of the noble and learned Lord in the view of the law expressed in that decision.\n\nThe answer of the suppliants to the claim made under the prerogative was, firstly, that whatever rights of the kind in question existed at common law—not admitting them—such rights have been abrogated by modern legislation. Reliance was placed upon a series of enactments, temporary measures enacted at intervals in the period from 1 Henry VIII. to\n\nPage 358",
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        "content_text": "# 10. Inebriates & Narcotics\n\nI might add that some of the Indian British Subjects she also communicated to raise the same points as Mr. Lau. This action on their part will further complicate the situation as except for a few Sindhi shopkeepers and Chetty money-lenders, the majority of such immigrants are illiterate coolies. On the other hand, the Chinese British Subjects are mostly well-educated commercial men possessing considerable capital. Both classes are of course equally British and entitled to the same treatment. At the same time, it is clear that the educated immigrant possessing a certain commercial status should not be subjected to all the restrictions imposed on the illiterate coolie immigrant.\n\nSubject:\n\nI have written the above without obtaining any reply from the French authorities as I am leaving Saigon to work on a month's visit to Tonkin. I am, however, addressing a letter to the Officer of Cochin-China in the same indication in the second paragraph of your letter, and it is possible that an answer may be received on my return.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nWith the highest respect,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's most obedient\nhumble Servant,\n\nTo His Excellency...",
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        "content_text": "# DRAFT\n\n15 Dec 23\n\nMaster of the Court\n\nMyaw\n\nMINUTE\n\n146, Harman 12.17\n\nfeat 12\n\nMr. Willes Chitty\nSir C. Davis\nBir G. Grindle\nBir H. Read\nBir J. Masterton Smith\nMr. Ormeby-Gore\nDuke of Devonshire\n\nTo acknowledge receipt of your letter of 4th December relative to the Hongkong Judgments (Facilities for Enforcement) Ordinance, 1923.\n\nI am directed to express thanks for observations, in which there are 2 drafts.",
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        "content_text": "# \nJ.M. Delwingue.\n\n**CIRCULATION:** \n\nTo the Government of HONG KONG, HONG KONG.\n\n**DATE:** 12th April.\n\n**SUBJECT:** Opium requirements of 1st. quarter 1924.\n\nStates that it is very desirable that the information be furnished as soon as possible to the L/N.\n\nRecommends that sub-rule 20 of the draft rules be deleted, and that the Registrar of the Supreme Court be directed to follow the practice which, as Sir I. Willes Chitty indicates, will be adopted in the Central Office of the Supreme Court in this connection.\n\n**Distribution:**\n\n* Mr. Grindle\n* Sir H. Lambert\n* Sir H. Read\n* Sir J. Masterton Smith\n* Mr. Wood\n\n(Signed) DELVOISAIR\n\n**Previous Paper:** `16880/23`.\n\n## MINUTES\n\nI have referred to the Gui's despatch (`16880/23`); I will write about it later. I have given a short history of this controversy.\n\nIt is a point of some importance. We may get references from General Daming Day which may be useful.\n\nThe Secretary is telling each department to inform the L/N whether they are being asked to supply information to the League.\n\nYou will see that the application subsequent to this is `13553/24`.\n\n**Subsequent Paper:** `13553/24`.",
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        "content_text": "## Article XXII of the Royal Instructions\nwhich are constitutional limitations on the action of the Governor as a branch of the Legislature,\n\nIn support of his argument and as showing the limitations on the power of action of the Governor Mr. Jenkin referred to `Cameron v. Kyte 3 Knapp P.C. Cases p.352`, `Musgrave v. Pulido 5 A.C. p.102`, and the `Colonial Acts Confirmation Act, 1894`. In my opinion those cases refer to executive acts of Colonial Governors and merely lay down the accepted principle that his powers in that respect are limited to those which are conferred on him and that he has not the full powers of sovereignty possessed by a Viceroy.\n\nThe preamble to the `Colonial Acts Confirmation Act, 1894`, appeared, at first sight, to lend considerable support to the case for the Plaintiffs, but I think that the note to that statute in Vol.2 of `Chitty's Statutes (5th edition)` clearly explains the reasons for its enactment. The various laws which were confirmed by it dealt with the reform of the electoral law of the various Colonies mentioned in s.2(2) of the confirming Act, but serious doubt arose as to their validity because two Acts of the Imperial Parliament required in express terms that Colonial Acts of that nature should be reserved for the Queen's approval. In the absence of such reservation, it might well have been that the local Acts were repugnant to the provisions of an Imperial Act extending to the various Colonies and therefore void for repugnancy.\n\nI have always understood the correct view as to the power of a Colonial legislature to be that it has full power to legislate over all matters falling within the territorial limits of the Colony except in so far as any such legislation is repugnant to an Order of His Majesty in Council, in the cases of Colonies in which power to legislate by Order in Council has been retained, or to an Act of the Imperial...",
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        "content_text": "4\n\n5 To 5.o'clock + Defy/2y.)\n\n6 to am 7 to Wo\n\n8 To Admy\n\nar\n\n9. FO\n\nit\n\nufe 2, 4, Stupenda) in? HU\n\n+27\n\n3 August 27\n\n(Tel. to Peking + Desp for: Canton)\n\nX is\n\nAn alternative\n\nTo removal\n\nas\n\nIf it facilitates\n\npara\n\nComp\n\nnot an addition\n\nRoles that pain chatty shows.\n\nremoval 18th fronting the land\n\nwould form a line for the frontage to Hong Kong\n\nI worked s\n\n$\n\nthe company.\n\nof liking the office\n\nremain\n\nThe alternative\n\nith and\n\nCantonese, instead of Pekingese,\n\ngiving\n\n11:\n\ncontrol of it\n\nis\n\nlikely\n\nto commend\n\nitself to Hong Kong.\n\nhave raised\n\n1½ makes\n\nOpportunity for securing\n\nand if he is given\n\na\n\n(over his Sep. within) may\n\nthe weakest fit.\n\nNow that the Cantonese\n\nThis is\n\na\n\nmagnificent\n\nremoval from frontage\n\nfrom Land M. Brenan\n\nI trusted to make\n\ndoubtless\n\nAs M. Brenan has been told by\n\nConsul for.\n\nno need not\n\n?\n\nIn\n\nhands\n\npronounce of to dination,\n\nI think\n\ntel.\n\nat this stage.\n\nawait developments M. 5/8\n\nPAlmacsuck\n\n4/8 101408",
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        "content_text": "## (b) In regard to the suggested influence of the Crown's discretion by considerations of the possibility of the receipt or denial of money.\n\nOn this matter, there is little direct authority; the assumption that the Crown is entitled to make a stipulation that when a Government steamer assists a merchantman, it shall be reimbursed all expenses arising from damage to the Government steamer, is to be found in the case of the \"Lustre\" (`3 Haggard, page 154`), in which Sir John Nicholl, in the course of his judgment, said: \"It is a mistake to suppose that the public force of the country is to be employed gratuitously in the service of private individuals merely to save them from expense\". This was clearly a case where the discretion whether the Government steamer would or would not be employed in a particular matter of salvage was decided upon an express stipulation that the owners and underwriters would be answerable for certain payments. So also in the \"Ewell Grove\" (`3 Haggard, page 209`), later authorities and statutes as to salvage, such as the case of the \"Ulysses\", do not, in my view, affect the principle.\n\nIf the argument of the Appellants here were right, such a consideration was improper, for, as was stated by Lord Stowell, in the \"Mary Anne\" (`1 Haggard, page 158`): \"There is an obligation upon King's ships to assist the merchant vessels of this country\". In that case, salvage remuneration was claimed after service had been rendered, but in the \"Lustre\", a stipulation for payment to cover damage was made before the commander exercised his discretion to allow the use of the ship.\n\nIn Chitty on Prerogative of the Crown, 1820, page 6, it is said: \"In the exercise of his lawful prerogatives, an undoubted discretion is, generally speaking, allowed to the King\"; and at page 44: \"The King is at the head of his Army and Navy, is alone entitled to order their movement, \n\n## 20.",
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        "content_text": "# 34\n\nwhere there is no absolute duty a demand for payment is not necessarily contrary to public policy. The duty here being of imperfect obligation, is not so absolute as to preclude a charge. I would add that, in any event, I have grave doubts whether the duty of imperfect obligation to defend the subject from enemies by the use of troops extends to the suppression of piracy on the seas. By 11 & 12 William III., chapter 7, section 11, an Act for the more effectual suppression of piracy, specific power is given to the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty and other persons to raise and levy upon the owners of a ship and goods defended by officers, seamen, and mariners, against pirates, enemies, or sea rovers, money to be distributed among the defenders, their widows, and children. And, although for certain statutory purposes a pirate is to be deemed to be an enemy, (`Naval Discipline Act, 29 & 30 Victoria, chapter 109, section 49`) yet the definition of a pirate stated in Hawkins Pleas of the Crown, chapter 20, at page 251, still stands, \"that a pirate is one who to enrich himself either by surprise or open force sets upon merchants or others trading by sea, to spoil them of their goods or treasure.\"\n\nA pirate at the common law is a person who commits any of those acts of robbery and depredation upon the High Seas, which, if committed on land, would have amounted to a felony there.\n\nWere there no other obstacle in the way in the argument of the Appellants in contending for the duty of the Crown, this consideration would have to be considered: whether the obligation of the Crown, such as it is, to protect the subject extends to a protection against pirates upon the High Seas, and if so, whether it is not a duty cast upon the Navy and not the Army.\n\nThe duty of the King to protect his subjects is stated in Chitty on Prerogative, thus: \"Protection, that is the security and governance of his Dominions according to law, is the duty of the Sovereign\". Blackstone, page 262, indicates that monarchial government has for one of its purposes the protection of weakness of individuals by the united strength of the community. But as regards the duty of protection by sea, I do not know that such a duty can be put higher than is stated by Lord Stowell in the \"Mary Anne\", that there is an obligation upon King's ships to assist the merchant vessels of this country; see also the observations of Sir J. Hannen in the \"Ulysses\", 13 Probate Division, page 205, at page 208, which indicate that the Admiralty is the normal protector of the subject against pirates. Piracy is robbery within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, (`Attorney-General for Hong-Kong v. Kwok-a-Sing`, (Law Reports, 5 Privy Council, page 180, at page 200); `R v. Dawson` (13 State Trials, page 454).\n\nI can find no obligation upon the Army to protect merchant ships. If there be any such duty in the Crown, it would appear to be imposed not upon the Army but upon the Sea Forces of the Crown, for the use of which there is no complaint as to charge in the present case. In any event, in such a case it is for the Crown to decide what resources in its armoury, Naval or Military, it will employ.\n\nFor all these reasons I am of opinion that this appeal must be dismissed.\n\n23.",
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        "content_text": "58\n\nHONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n(a) the expression \"bailiff or other officer\" has been substituted for \"sheriff, high bailiff or other officer\", as there are no sheriffs or high bailiffs in Hong Kong,\n\n(b) the words \"except as provided by section 46 of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1931\" have been substituted for the words \"except as provided by the Bankruptcy Acts, 1883 and 1890.\" The Act of 1913 referred to sections 145 and 146 of the Act of 1883, and to section 12 of the Act of 1890. The local section is section 46 of the 1931 Ordinance which is based on section 41 of the Act of 1914.\n\n(c) the words \"or purchaser\" have been added after \"bailiff or other officer\" at the end at the suggestion of the Incorporated Law Society of Hong Kong. As the editor of Chitty's Statutes (Vol. 17, p. 590, note (j)) points out, if the claimant can recover the goods from the purchaser the provision in the earlier part of the section that the purchaser of the goods shall acquire a good title is of no avail.\n\nPROBATES AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1933.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to amend further the Probates Ordinance, 1897.\" He said: This Bill makes a number of amendments, explained in detail in the memorandum of Objects and Reasons, in the Principal Ordinance dealing with the administration of estates, which have been suggested by the Official Administrator and approved by His Honour the Chief Justice.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded and the Bill was read a first time.\n\nObjects and Reasons.\n\nThe \"Objects and Reasons\" for the Bill were stated as follows:- 1. Section 2 adds two sub-sections to section 11 of the principal Ordinance. The new sub-section (3) authorising the Official Administrator to employ a solicitor or other agent with the sanction of the Court is derived from section 24 (10) and 61 (c) of Ordinance No. 10 of 1931. The new sub-section (4), regulating applications to the court by the Official Administrator, follows the procedure laid down for such applications by the Official Receiver under Bankruptcy Rule No. 156 published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of the 18th November, 1932.\n\n2. Section 3 substitutes for sections 18 and 19 of the principal Ordinance redrafted sections making it clearer that an intestate's estate in the Colony is to vest in the Official Administrator, until administration is granted, whether the intestate died in the Colony or elsewhere and that the limit of $250 referred to in section 19 of the principal Ordinance applies to the value of the whole estate in the Colony and not to the whole estate wherever situate.\n\n408",
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        "content_text": "2\n\n(to which two files should be connected)\n\nSee however (2) which has just arrived.\n\nFRur 11.8 / Gou 328 In Oracl 30.6. together with report lay The Attorney General.\n\nSee minutes correspondence which authority 92600/32 was on given Ondar to proceed with the first stage of a scheme which includes in this first stage the acquisition of the City Hall & City Hall site.\n\nIn forwarding Andaes HongKong frequently omit reference to previous correspondence. We recently drew attention to this when sanctioning Orace No 10 of 1932 (see (2) on 92583/11).\n\nSubject to legal objections ? Sanction on lines of G3 again commenting with a ref to (2) on 92583/11/32 on the omission to refer to previous correspondence.\n\nПровриеной the gamersh 10.8.32 2 DAG Conf 77.32 einy Han estet.\n\nParés tan in view of since indicated it was unnecessary to regularise the position (osiyon 92600/32)\n\nIn view of (2) ? Sanction G3 without comment\n\nThe Jameson 71.8.30",
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        "content_text": "Keula under I doubt whether the the Gout could the terms the leave.\n\nThe Milding in ust benin wal for pursues ther than those ja city hall\n\nIt is not being wad at all, But thin paix & J(1) on 92600/32\n\nIt is dialed that the committer are understood I he willing daved mout to tu tent\n\nHe land Sour e if thi = tu Care Ine objection.\n\nPresumably agre Ե this committer dr hand to the fork the fitting with mentioned in 54(1), to many I which the fort would afhear I han woon if they reenters lease but no information Chr\n\nIf they do not agree title whatever washer thes & han the pant.\" little putification for 4(1).\n\nπ/9/32 *g gatten ofran the deaf of 7/7/82 that in Committer han agreed.\n\nKaddung. 1/9/32\n\nPage ...",
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        "content_text": "I do not think we need go into the question whether the Government could legally have re-entered under the terms of the lease. There is no doubt of their legal right to proceed by Ordinance as they have done. As to the moral justification of the various items in the Ordinance, the Government have given an explanation which is convincing on the face of it, and no complaints have been received from other parties concerned. If the City Hall Committee were not satisfied, it was open to them to make representations either to the Governor or to the Secretary of State.\n\nSanction L.F.",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n7th July, 1932.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to paragraph 2 of Sir William Peel's confidential despatch of the 17th December, 1931,\n\nI have the honour to invite your attention to my despatch No. 328 of 30th June, 1932, forwarding an Ordinance for the resumption of the City Hall property.\n\nThe circumstances which led to the introduction of this Ordinance are set out in the Report of the Attorney General which accompanied my despatch. In view of the fact that the Government has accepted the responsibility of providing accommodation for public amenities as part of the general scheme of town planning which will be undertaken in connection with this resumption, and has taken over the custody of the Museum and Library, it became unnecessary to regularize the position of the City Hall Committee, which ceased to function after the passing of the Ordinance. The Bill for the incorporation of the Committee has accordingly been abandoned.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\n(sd). W.T. Southorn.\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\nSIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.P.\n\netc.\n\netc.\n\netc.",
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        "content_text": "No.\n\n328.\n\n92573\n\nRECEIVED\n\n1 AUG.1932\n\nFICE\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG. 30th June, 1932.\n\nEncl. No. 1.\n\nEncl. No. 2.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to submit for the\n\nsignification of His Majesty's pleasure the following\n\nOrdinance intituled: -\n\n\"An Ordinance for the resumption of the City\n\nHall property\".\n\n2. The enclosed report by the Attorney General\n\nexplains the objects and reasons of the Ordinance.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nW.D. Southorn\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nSIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\n6",
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        "content_text": "L.S.\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nNo. 22 of 1932.\n\nI assent.\n\nW. T. SOUTHORN,\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\n24th June, 1932.\n\nAn Ordinance for the resumption of the City Hall property.\n\n[24th June, 1932.]\n\nBE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the City Hall Resumption Ordinance, 1932.\n\n2. The Indenture of Crown Lease of Marine Lot number eighty-two dated the sixth day of March, 1866, and made between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, of the one part, and Alexander Turing, John Macdonall and Phineas Ryrie, of the other part, is determined; and the premises thereby demised together with all buildings now standing thereon revert to the Crown free from any restriction whatever, and the Governor shall have power to deal with the same and to dispose of the same for building or any other purpose in the same way and to as full an extent as in the case of other Crown lands; and all trusts, property, estate, rights, claims and easements or supposed trusts, property, estate, rights, claims or easements of any persons or class of persons, whether Crown leaseholders, shareholders in the City Hall or licensees or otherwise, whether inter se or in any other respect to the user or possession or occupation of, in, over, or in any way in relation thereto are absolutely extinguished and determined.\n\n3.- (1) The treasurer of the Committee, hitherto known as the City Hall Committee, shall pay to the Colonial Treasurer any unexpended balance remaining of the Committee's funds; and the Colonial Treasurer shall thereupon transfer such balance (if any) to the general revenue of the Colony.\n\n(2) The provisions of sections 10, 11 and 12 of the Unclaimed Balances Ordinance, 1929, shall apply to any money so transferred to the general revenue of the Colony to the same extent as if such money had been transferred under the provisions of the Ordinances mentioned in the said sections except that no petition under section 10 or section 11 shall be entertained unless presented within one year after the commencement of this Ordinance.\n\nPage 7",
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        "content_text": "8\n\nI\n\nGJ\n\nProvision as to disposal of library and museum and furniture and effects.\n\nSaving of the rights of the Crown and of certain other persons.\n\n(3) Subject to the provisions of this section all claims of any person against the Government, the City Hall Committee or any member or officer thereof in respect of such money as well as all trusts in respect thereof are absolutely extinguished and determined.\n\n4. (1) The City Hall Committee shall hand over the furniture, fittings, book-cases, books, show-cases, specimens, exhibits and other effects of the City Hall, including the library and museum, to the Director of Public Works who shall dispose of them, or any of them, as the Governor in Council may direct.\n\n(2) Subject to the provisions of this section all claims of any person against the Government, the City Hall Committee or any member or officer thereof in respect of the property to be transferred to the Director of Public Works as well as all trusts in respect thereof are absolutely extinguished and determined.\n\n5. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs or Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or of any other person except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 23rd day of June, 1932.\n\nR. A. C. NORTH,\n\nDeputy Clerk of Councils.\n\nPage",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2.\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\nHong Kong\n\n24th June, 1932.\n\nREPORT ON ORDINANCE No. 22 of 1932.\n\n1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled \"An Ordinance for the resumption of the City Hall property,\" and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.\n\n2. A print of the Memorandum of objects and reasons is attached.\n\n3. In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.\n\nAlabaster\n\nAttorney General.",
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        "content_text": "Objects and Reasons.\n\n1. The Buildings known as the City Hall are situate on Marine Lot No. 82.\n\n2. By Indenture of Crown Lease the Lot was granted by Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, subject to the payment of the nominal sum of five dollars and reserved rental of one dollar per annum for the term of 999 years from the 1st March, 1866, to three individuals as lessees—A. Turing, J. Macdonall and Phineas Ryrie.\n\n3. The usual lessee covenants in the Indenture (including a ten thousand dollar building covenant) were preceded by the following words:-\n\n\"And in order that the covenants hereinafter contained on the lessees' part may attach to and run with the said land and the tenancy thereof and be obligatory on the lessees their Executors Administrators and Assigns so long only as they shall be in actual possession of the premises but not further or otherwise the said lessees do jointly and severally for themselves their heirs executors administrators and assigns ......covenant promise and agree, etc.\"\n\n4. The final covenant is varied, however, by the insertion of the following words:-\n\n\"And further that the said lessees their executors administrators and assigns or any other person or persons shall not nor will during the continuance of this demise use the said demised premises otherwise than as and for a City Hall.\"\n\n5. The final clause in the lease is as follows:-\n\n\"And whereas the demise hereinbefore contained has been made by Her said Majesty in order that a fit and proper site may be had solely for the purpose of the said City Hall, and although the value of the said site is considerable, the said demise has been made (of Her said Majesty's favour) without pecuniary consideration but upon the condition next hereinafter expressed, that is to say, Provided lastly that the said demised premises shall not nor shall any part thereof be used for any other purpose than for a City Hall and that in case the said demised premises or any part thereof shall thereafter be used for any purpose other than for a City Hall, then in every or any such case the term estate and interest thereby demised in the said premises shall thereupon absolutely cease and determine and it shall and may be lawful for Her said Majesty, Her Heirs Successors and Assigns by the Governor of Hong Kong for the time being or other person duly authorised in that behalf into and upon the said demised premises or any part thereof in the name of the whole to re-enter and the same to have again retain repossess and enjoy as in Her or their first or former estate and as if these presents had not been made and the said lessees their executors administrators and assigns and all other occupiers of the said premises thereout and thence utterly to expel put out and amove, this Indenture or anything contained therein to the contrary notwithstanding.\"\n\n6. It is believed that of the three lessees the last survivor was Phineas Ryrie, who in Suit No. 93 of 1890 unsuccessfully claimed an injunction against the Government from proceeding with the Praya reclamation opposite Marine Lot 82, and who died on the 21st February, 1892, devising to the trustees of his will, their heirs, executors and assigns, subject to the trusts and equities affecting the same, all estates vested in him as trustee. Letters of Administration with the will and codicils annexed were granted on the 14th April, 1892, to A. W. Walkinshaw, attorney for C. Car...\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "Smith, one of the trustees of the will. The Letters of Administration were not registered against the title in the Land Office and since that date none of the representatives of the lessees seem to have concerned themselves with the property in any way.\n\n7. The buildings appear to have been erected by public subscription, commencing in 1865, each individual, firm or corporation subscribing $100 received a so-called \"ordinary share\", and 216 of such \"shares\" of a total nominal value of $21,600 were issued to 61 \"shareholders\". As the building proceeded it was found that the sum subscribed was insufficient and Sir Robert Jardine, whose firm held fifteen \"ordinary shares\" appears then to have subscribed $50,000 and to have received 105 so-called \"preference shares\" of various denominations but totaling $50,000.\n\n8. If these \"shareholders\" are to be regarded as an association for the purpose of carrying on any business having for its object the acquisition of gain by its individual members it will be illegal under the Companies Ordinances of 1865 and 1911. No interest or return has ever been paid, however, to the holders of any of these shares, the whole income, supplemented by occasional government grants, having been devoted to the upkeep and improvement of the building, with the exception of a small reserve fund which now amounts to about $4,000.\n\n9. The buildings have been managed hitherto by a committee which appears to have been elected by the original subscribers with power to add to its number. None of those originally elected remain, the present members having been co-opted as occasion arose. The senior member in Hong Kong of the firm of Jardine, Matheson & Co. is chairman of the committee.\n\n10. The buildings consist of a theatre on the western portion of the lot and of certain halls and rooms on two floors on the eastern portion. Those on the upper floor have been used for halls, receptions and meetings and those on the lower floor for a free library and museum, and latterly also as a Y.M.C.A. Club for the Naval, Military and Air Forces.\n\n11. The buildings are old and the committee are now faced with the problem of having to spend a sum of money far in excess of any that they are in a position to command to modernise them and to put them into a proper state of repair and of safety against fire or into the state required by law for buildings to which the public have access. They have therefore closed the premises and it becomes necessary for the Government to intervene.\n\n12. In all the circumstances of the case it is considered better for the Government to resume possession of the property by means of an ad hoc Ordinance rather than to proceed under the powers reserved by the Crown Lease.\n\n13. It is not the intention of the Government to re-erect a City Hall on this site, part of which will be sold and part developed to accord with a general scheme of town planning; but as a part of that scheme it is the intention of the Government to make provision for public amenities of the kind hitherto provided by the Committee of the City Hall.\n\nC. G. ALABASTER,\n\nAttorney General.\n\nENB\n\nMay, 1932.",
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        "content_text": "1. F.D. (F.5301/2378/10)\n\n(Tw. copy of telegram from 10th August, 1933, H.M. Repr. Peking regarding scheme of construction of public park in Kowloon City)\n\nSee (3) on 13781/33. S a my 13781/33 12.8.33 then con.\n\nMinutes of 12th August 1933: The matter is being investigated by the Gov't of Hong Kong & I do not think that we can take any action at present. We are not in possession of the facts.\n\n? Putly 22nd August 1933: Agreement of 1878 & Ex. Lease in 1898-99 are available. We can look up any particular arrangements. Govt. orders in certain cases certainly suspect that... \n\nYou should, I think, be able to can...",
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        "content_text": "# \na public park may not be within au Special purpose the meaning of The Agreement, that this Oin C did 207- affect that particular point. Ment 1518.\n\nThis all looks very odd. It is not clear whether the Order in Council of 1599 was made after any negotiations with China for the variation of the Convention of 1890, the provisions of which it materially affects. There is also the question which it raises as to the provision of the Convention governing the expropriation or expulsion of the inhabitants.\n\na I doubt if a public park is an official purpose. I do not like to ask for observations, and we can await the result of the correspondence between Sir Lampson and the Governor. The correspondence of 1899 can be looked up at leisure.\n\n17.8.",
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        "content_text": "## 23. 8: \n### Removal of Chinese residents in Kowloon City.\n\nThe letter from the Foreign Affairs Department at Canton to His Majesty's Consul General in that city is of an earlier date than His Majesty's Minister's telegram No.1, and we cannot be sure that the basis of the protest by the Nanking authority is the same as that of the Canton Government. The latter take their stand on the third clause in the 1898 Convention. If so, that may be a necessary face-saving step in the diplomatic game - a formal protest necessary for the reason that the Chinese authority has never recognised any modification of the 1898 Convention.\n\nThe facts are that after the conclusion of the Convention, steps were taken by the Hong Kong Government to assume British control over the new territory in April 1899. The British party met with armed resistance in the village of Kowloon and a certain amount of fighting and violence took place before the British position was established. We were satisfied that this resistance was attributable to the Chinese authorities in Canton and we decided not to permit the resumption of Chinese Civil authority in Kowloon. The Chinese Minister in London was told of this decision by the Foreign Office in a Note of the 30th May, 1899 (flagged in `Eastern 66` below).\n\n### F.O. 5490/2398/10 \n### Peking 967. \n\nOn",
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        "content_text": "## \nOn the 27th December, 1899 an Order in Council was signed which revoked Article 4 of the Order in Council of 20th October, 1898, and assimilated Kowloon with the rest of the leased territory as far as British administration was concerned. We can therefore meet any claim by the present Chinese Government on the strength of the notification made to the Chinese Government on the 30th May, 1899 by the Foreign Office.\n\nBut there is another point where the Chinese may seek firmer ground for a protest: viz. the 6th paragraph of the 1898 Convention runs: - \n\"it is further understood that there will be no expropriation or expulsion of the inhabitants of the district included within the extension, and that if land is required for public offices, fortifications, or the like official purposes, it shall be bought at a fair price.\" \n\nThat 'understanding' of course relates not only to the walled village of Kowloon but to the whole leased territory, and this would not be the first time that villagers in the leased territory have been displaced to make room for public works e.g. the construction of the Shing Mun dam has meant the clearing of villages in the Shing Mun valley, and we can therefore point to precedents",
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        "content_text": "precedents to show that displacement of the inhabitants with proper compensation for the purpose of constructing public works has not been hitherto regarded as an infringement of the letter or the spirit of the Convention.\n\nI would reply to the Foreign Office that it is observed that the Acting Consul General has asked the Governor for his observations on a protest by the Provincial authority at Canton which appears to be based on the special provision for Kowloon City contained in the third paragraph of the Convention of 1898: refer to the Foreign Office Note to the Chinese Minister of 30th May, 1899, and say that as far as the Secretary of State is aware there has been no question since that date of withdrawing from the policy then adopted, and that the Governor no doubt assumed in the reply which he gave to Sir M. Lampson as reported in No. 1 that the protest of the Nanking Government was based on the same provision in the Convention.\n\nAdd that it appears possible to the Secretary of State that the Chinese may base a claim to protest on the ground of infringement of the understanding contained in the sixth paragraph of the Convention, which relates to the leased territory in general, but that since other works of a public character involving a disturbance of villagers with proper compensation e.g. the large scheme of water conservation in the Shing Mun Valley in the New Territories are being and have in the past been undertaken without any similar protest from the Chinese authorities the Secretary of State is not of the",
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        "content_text": "the opinion that the Convention could be interpreted in any sense so restricted as to justify the view that there was an infringement in the present instance; and say that a copy of this is being sent to the Governor with a request for his observations on the general question and particularly on the scale of compensation to the villagers who would be displaced by the proposed scheme for constructing a public park, and on the arrangements for accommodating them elsewhere, and copy above to Governor LF. confidential for consideration.\n\nAs  \n(sd.) G.E.J. Gent  \nfoo posed.  \n16. 8. 33.  \n30.8.33  \n\n519/33  \n15 SEP 1933  \n5 to boys 2398.10  \n19.9  \nPeking  \n1060. Removal of  \nCamere.  \nKowloon Eliz  \nchubertants me",
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        "content_text": "## Page 8\n\nIn his ... No doubt this is the note from Waichinoper to which Sir M. Lampson referred to (encl in 11). The representations made, like those made by Canton, appear to be based only on the third clause of the 1898 Convention. A copy of the Waichiao letter has been sent to Hong Kong. The question raised has already been dealt with in our letter to the F.D. (3) I think we can await the Hong Kong reply (4).\n\n## Page 9\n? Remind Gov... hf. refce (4). \n| Date | Initials |\n| --- | --- |\n| 16/1/34 | Molalan |\n| 16/1/34 | ArGaut |\n| 17 | isa Davies |\n\n35 & So Hong Kong. bond(2). cons $25 \n\n25 JAN 1934 \n\nOther text on the page:\n- `279.77`\n- `2874`\n- `6\" $.0.6142.2398.10`\n- `Peking 1048.`\n- `70.625-523`\n- `7 2398.10 Peking 1122.`\n- Note to War. Chrow. In Purley - Kew Jameson 29.9 \n- `26.9. stance 29.9 British fansdiction cowlson Mis an interesting a useful men o`\n- `Putley 3/10 abri Jameson 3410.33`",
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        "content_text": "In further communication on this subject, please quote any `F6255/2398` and address—not to any person by name, but to \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office, 29th September 1933\n\n## Reference to previous correspondence\n\n| Description | Name and Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Foreign Office letter | No. F6172/2300/10 of 26th September 1933 |  |\n| HM Representative | No. 1122 of 18th August | British jurisdiction in Kowloon City |\n\nRECEIVED 30 SEP 1933 O. RECY\n\nSimilar letter sent to \n\nPage 10\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "Copy to: USUL on 14/8/33.\n\nBRITISH LEGATION, \nPEKING \n10th August 1933.\n\nI have to request that the Legation's despatch No. 1086 of the 20th July regarding representations made to your Excellency in connection with an alleged scheme for the occupation of a public place in Kowloon City, involving the evacuation of Chinese residents, be referred to.\n\nThe proposal, as your Excellency is aware, contravenes the terms of the Agreement.\n\nI have the honour to enclose a memorandum, setting forth the circumstances in which the matter came to the notice of His Majesty's Government.\n\n**MEMORANDUM** \n(CD)11",
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        "content_text": "## MEMORANDUM\n\n**Sir Claude MacDonald to Yamen Despatch No.12 of 13/2/1899. Yamen's reply Despatch No.9 of 19/2/1899.**\n**Sir Claude Macdonald to Yamen Despatch No.16 of 15/2/1899.**\n**Sir Claude Macdonald to Yamen Despatch No.31 of 10/6/1898.**\n**Mr. Bax-Ironside to Yamen Despatch No.30 of 6/4/99.**\n\n### KOWLOON CITY: CHINESE JURISDICTION IN, SUMMARY OF POSITION\n\nThe Convention for the Extension of Hongkong signed on the 9th June, 1898, provided for the continuance within Kowloon City of the jurisdiction of Chinese officials so far as was not incompatible with the military requirements for the defence of Hongkong.\n\nThe appointment of officials on both sides for the joint survey of the frontier of the new territory was the subject of correspondence between the Legation and the Tsung Li Yamen in February 1899.\n\nOn the 15th of February Sir C. Macdonald communicated to the Yamen Majesty's Government's proposals to implement their undertaking (given on 10th June 1898) to prevent the leased territory from being used for smuggling into China. The methods proposed included the withdrawal of Chinese Customs stations and officers from the colony and leased territory and its immediate vicinity.\n\nThis at once aroused the opposition of the Yamen, which expressed its objections in various interviews and despatches dated 1st March onwards. The Yamen's views were reported to the Foreign Office who replied that they regretted that they could not agree to the exercise of any form of Chinese Customs jurisdiction in the Colony or its extension. The Yamen was informed of this ruling on the 6th April, and replied on 10th April requesting that \"the circumstances which made it so hard for China to remove her Customs stations be represented to His Majesty's Government\".\n\nOn the 12th April His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires informed the Yamen that His Majesty's Consul at Canton had ...",
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        "content_text": "## Mr. Bax-Irving to Yamen\nRed letter No.47 of 4/4/99 asks Viceroy be ordered to prevent obstruction, and Yamen's reply (Red letter No 49 of 6/4/99) agreeing to issue orders.\n\n2 \n\nreported that he had received a despatch from the Viceroy of Canton to the effect that \"on account of the Chinese Customs having to be removed\" he would not hand over the new territory on April 17th. His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires requested that immediate telegraphic instructions be issued ordering the Viceroy to hand over on the date named. Again on April 15th the request was repeated, with the additional statement that the Governor of Hongkong was prepared to allow certain of the Customs stations to continue to function pending other arrangements, though their withdrawal was not to be delayed beyond October at the latest.\n\nIn the meantime local opposition to the transfer of the new territory was becoming more intense. On April 3rd an officer of the Hongkong Government was attacked at Taipohu where mat-sheds had been erected for the accommodation of police and officials of the Hongkong Government who were to be sent to keep order in the new territories. This outrage led the Governor of Hongkong to invite the Viceroy of Canton to give protection to the mat-sheds and preserve the peace of the territory until taken over. The Viceroy accordingly sent soldiers into the territory but the protection given was clearly inadequate, as on 14th April the mat-sheds were burnt down. Representations were then made by His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires impressing upon the Yamen the necessity of taking adequate precautions against further troubles. Fearing an outbreak on the 17th (the date for taking over originally fixed), the territory was taken over by the Hongkong Government on the 16th. On the same day the Governor...",
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        "content_text": "### (Governor of Hong Kong reported that the officer in command of the troops at Taipohu had found posted on the opposite hill a large Chinese face, which had fired at the British troops. Further attacks were made on the 17th and 18th. On the 18th the Governor of Hongkong reported that the Viceroy of Canton had refused to reply to a request which he had sent to him via His Majesty's Consul at that port that the Chinese officials and troops should be removed from the territory leased to Great Britain. \n\nThe Governor further stated that a force of 600 Chinese troops had been sent into Kowloon City, where they were not required, the need for protection being on the northern frontier. His Majesty's Chargé d'Affairs was thereupon instructed to urge the Tsungli Yamen to send stringent orders to the Viceroy for the removal of the troops and to impress on them that the results of neglect to observe the stipulations of the Convention would be serious. \n\nThese instructions His Majesty's Chargé carried out on the 20th April at an interview with the Yamen. In consequence of further reports from the Governor of Hongkong, His Majesty's Chargé was instructed to inform the Yamen that His Majesty's Government had been most painfully impressed with the recent occurrences at Kowloon and the resistance which had been made to the execution of the provisions of the Convention, that His Majesty's Government were convinced that the repeated attacks made on the British forces by Chinese troops in uniform could not have occurred without effective concurrence on the part of the Chinese local authorities, and that this view was confirmed by the refusal of the Viceroy of Canton to remove his troops from the territory leased to Great Britain, and by the capture of Chinese military flags. On the 29th April, His Majesty's Chargé communicated the above to the Yamen in a side interview on 29/4/1899. Yamen was added that \"His Majesty's Government would be compelled... \n\nMr. Bax-Ira- `/compelled`",
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        "content_text": "## Yamen to Mr. Bax-Ironside Red Letter No. 56 of 1/5/99.\n\nMr. Bax-Ironside to Yamen Despatch No. 36 of 1/5/99.\n\nIS compelled to ask for satisfaction for the se grave injuries and reserved their demands pending further consideration of the form they should take.\" In reply the Ministers denied that the Chinese authorities were responsible for the attacks by local mobs on British troops or that soldiers had formed part of these mobs; they contended that it was \"matter of common notoriety that the villagers of Kuang-tung in their constant fights with each other were always erecting forts, using guns and cannons and wearing uniform. The Yamen stated that they had telegraphed to the Viceroy to withdraw his troops as requested by the Governor of Hongkong.\n\nOn the 1st May, under telegraphic instructions dated 30th April, His Majesty's Chargé informed the Yamen that unless proper consideration be given by the Chinese Government to the representations of His Majesty's Government, His Majesty's Government would be obliged to conclude that the Chinese Government were ignorant of, and had no control over, the proceedings of the Viceroy of Canton and the local authorities, and would have to deal locally with the questions at issue in regard to the Hongkong Extension without reference to the Peking Government.\n\nThese repeated representations to the Yamen led to no result and after more than a week had elapsed, the Viceroy of Canton not having removed the Chinese troops from Kowloon City, and information having been received by the Governor of Hongkong of preconcerted plans for the invasion of the leased territory by large numbers of troops from the northern boundary, the Governor was authorised to deal with the matter locally, and, with the approval of His Majesty's Government, Kowloon City and the Valley of Sham Chun were occupied by the British forces.",
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        "content_text": "## Correspondence Regarding Kowloon Occupation\n\nYamen to Mr. Bax-Ironside Despatch No. 32 of 21/5/99.\n\nMr. Bax-Ironside to Yamen No.43 (Despatch) of 23/5/99.\n\nThe Marquess of Salisbury to Lo Feng-luh, Chinese Minister to London, Note dated 30/5/1899.\n\nOn the 16th and 17th May, certain events took place. The Yamen protested on the 21st May that this was in direct contravention of the Convention and requested that His Majesty's Chargé telegraph to His Majesty's Government to order the withdrawal of the occupying forces. His Majesty's Chargé replied on 23rd May, reiterating the arguments expounded to the Yamen at the interview of 29th April and the views of His Majesty's Government as communicated to the Yamen on May 1st, and stated that the local measures referred to in that communication were now being taken without reference to the Peking Government.\n\nThe Yamen had excused the Viceroy as not being responsible (for the attacks on British officials and troops) but it was impossible for His Majesty's Government to accept that view. His Majesty's Chargé therefore did not feel justified in telegraphing to His Majesty's Government in the sense desired.\n\nOn the 30th May, the Marquess of Salisbury handed to Lo Feng-luh, in reply to a telegram from the Yamen which Lo had left at the Foreign Office, a Note reviewing the facts from April 3 to the date of the occupation of Shan chun and the expulsion of the Chinese troops and officials from Kowloon and stating that \"in view of the fact that the Chinese Government do not hold themselves responsible for attacks by local mobs on British troops, the obligation falls on His Majesty's Government of performing the duty which is usually performed by the sovereign of the country, but which the Chinese Government decline. After the recent experience which they have had not only of the worthlessness of the protection extended by the Chinese garrison at Kowloon, but of the additional danger involved in its presence, it is impossible for...",
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        "content_text": "# \n## Mr. Bax-Ironside to Yamen Despatch No. 54 \n26/6/99.\n\n## Yamen to Mr. Bax-Ironside Despatch No. 45 of 1/7/99.\n\n## Yamen to Mr. Bax-Ironside Despatch No. 57 of 1/10/99.\n\n## Mr. Bax-Ironside to Yamen Despatch No. 73 of 6/11/99.\n\nHis Majesty's Government to allow the resumption of Chinese authority within the walls of that city\". (The question of Samchun was reserved for future consideration).\n\nOn the 26th June, His Majesty's Chargé presented to the Yamen a claim for $150,000 as compensation for expenditure incurred in consequence of Chinese opposition to the occupation of the Kowloon extension. This claim was rebutted by the Yamen, who denied that there had been any opposition, the disturbances being due to the natural alarm of the common people when British troops were sent to take up their quarters prior to the handing over of the territory.\n\nAt interviews on the 27th June and the 6th July, the Yamen was informed that His Majesty's Government would consent to the withdrawal of troops from Samchun provided that certain other matters (e.g., the Fleming murder, etc.) were satisfactorily settled. On the 1st October, the Yamen informed His Majesty's Chargé that these matters had been satisfactorily settled, requested the withdrawal of troops from Samchun accordingly, and reiterated the demand for the restoration of jurisdiction in Kowloon City. On November 6th, His Majesty's Chargé replied stating that the Governor of Hongkong had been instructed to withdraw the British troops from Samchun within the boundary previously delimitated and referring to the Note addressed by the Marquess of Salisbury to the Chinese Minister in London on the 30th May, in which \"the reasons why His Majesty's Government cannot allow the resumption by Chinese authorities of jurisdiction in Kowloon City\" were set forth. His Majesty's Chargé stated that \"a copy of this Note was doubtless forwarded to the Yamen\".",
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        "content_text": "Yamen to Mr. Bax-Ironside Despatch No.65 of 15/11/99.\n\nMogie 41191\n\nYamen to Mr. Bax-Ironside Red Letter No. 118A of 24/12/1899.\n\nSir C. MacDonald to Yamen\n\n7\n\nYamen and His Majesty's Government adhere to the decision therein contained. \"The Yamen returned to the charge on 15th November stating that the Convention required the continuance of Chinese jurisdiction within the City of Kowloon. They repeated their arguments at an interview on the 14th December when His Majesty's Chargé promised to communicate their views by telegraph to the Foreign Office. Again on the 24th December the Yamen addressed a secret letter to His Majesty's Chargé setting forth a new argument, namely that \"the position as regards the city of Kowloon is without doubt analogous to that of the city of Kinchow situated within the leased area of Port Arthur. If the city of Kowloon be not administered by Chinese officials, it is to be feared that Russia will in consequence conceive designs which will certainly be greatly to the detriment of China.... We are of the opinion that the British Foreign Office would be unwilling that another nation should have a pretext on account of the Kowloon affair........ Should there be fear of any prejudice to the military requirements of Hongkong, we would be most willing to discuss and arrange such measures as might be advisable .....\n\nOn the 2nd January 1900, Sir Claude MacDonald addressed a red letter in reply reviewing the whole course of the representations in Peking since the 4th of April and enclosing a translation of the Marquess of Salisbury's Note of the 30th May, in case the Yamen had not seen it. He stated that he had already telegraphed to the Foreign Office the arguments given by the Yamen in their secret letter of the 24th December and did not feel justified in again telegraphing on the subject.\n\n18",
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        "content_text": "Not: the date of the Order in Council revoking Article 4 of the Convention is 27/12/1899.\n\nSir Claude MacDonald to Lord Salisbury Despatch No.2 of 5/1/1900.\n\nCanton Despatch to Peking\n\n8 | 19\n\nThis appears to have ended the official correspondence with the Yamen. In an interview however with Sir C. Macdonald, Li Hung-chang, newly appointed Acting Viceroy of Canton, urged very strongly the views expressed by the Yamen. To quote His Majesty's Minister's report to the Foreign Office, \"... Li contends that the Viceroy T'an, the cause of all the trouble, having been removed by the Chinese Government and he himself having been appointed in his place, full reparation has been made for T'an's behaviour, and that the Convention should now be faithfully observed on both sides. He contended that his record should satisfy His Majesty's Government that he would keep proper order in all places under his jurisdiction. I could not agree with His Excellency's views, but advised him to discuss the matter with the Governor of Hongkong upon which he intends to call en route for Hongkong.\"\n\nThe interview between Li Hung-chang and the Governor of Hongkong took place on the 15th of January 1900. Li asked whether Kowloon city would be handed back to China. The Governor replied that this was a matter concerning which he could not decide, as he had taken possession of Kowloon solely under instructions from His Majesty's Government. Kowloon was a very small town, containing only a Yamen and barracks, and if Viceroy Li would depute officers to look at the place, he could easily satisfy himself as to its insignificance. Viceroy Li pointed out that one of the chief reasons for asking for the retrocession of Kowloon was to deprive the Russians of any cause of complaint. Sir Claude MacDonald was acquainted with all the circumstances connected with the retrocession of Kiu Chow by the Russians. That power having... /relinquished",
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        "content_text": "## Carta Despatch to Peking No. 9\n\nrelinquished the place in question, might object to England's retaining possession of Kowloon, as complications thus might easily arise. The Governor of Hongkong again insisted on the insignificance of Kowloon, and pointed out that Viceroy T'an had stationed 600 men there, which necessitated the stationing in the neighbourhood of a corresponding number of British troops whose services were thus lost to the Colony.\n\nGascoigne corroborated the statement as to the insignificance of Kowloon and the absence of population. Vice-consul present at the interview characterised Li's reference to Kowloon as more or less perfunctory and showing little insistence on the subject.\n\nHowever on the 22nd of January at an interview with His Majesty's Consul, Canton, Li reverted to the question and his argument as to the analogy with Kinchow, stating that \"England had always been inclined to regard Russian demands as unreasonable, but in the present instance the situation was reversed... The question had been discussed between the Chinese Minister in London and the Foreign Office but without satisfactory result\" and Li therefore requested that His Majesty's Consul would address the Foreign Office with a view to attaining the retrocession desired. His Majesty's Consul pointed out that this was entirely beyond his powers but agreed to convey Li's views to His Majesty's Minister in a despatch.\n\nThe latest reference to the question that I can find is a letter from the Foreign Office to the Colonial Office dated the 2nd March, transmitting copies of despatches from His Majesty's Minister at Peking relative to repeated requests made by the Chinese Government for...\n\nForeign Office to Colonial Office March 2 1900.\n\nPage 20\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "## \n21 \n10 \n\nthe consent of His Majesty's Government to the resumption of Chinese jurisdiction in the city of Kowloon, \nand stating that \"Lord Salisbury does not propose to \nsend any further reply to the Chinese Government on \nthe subject\". \n\nThe matter seems to have been shelved by the \nincidence of the Boxer Rebellion. \n\n`Intl G.R.T. 14/8/33`",
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        "content_text": "622\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote No. `F6172/2398/10`, and address—not to any person—\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copies of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office, 26th September, 1933.\n\n26 SEP 1933 C. O. REGY\n\n| Reference to previous correspondence | Description of Enclosure | Name and Date | Subject | Am. Representative |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 13832, Foreign Office letter no. F 6074/2398/10 of 19 September, 1933 | 40.1078 of 10th August | Pelling | Evacuation of inhabitants of Kowloon City |  |\n\nSimilar letter sent to...",
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        "content_text": "No. 1078 (7/89.A/1933)\n\nHis Majesty's Minister, Peking, presents his compliments to\nHis Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and transmits\nherewith three copies\nof the undermentioned paper.\n\nPeking.\n10th August, 1933.\n\nReference to previous despatch:\n| Name and Date | Description of Inclosure | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Note to Wai Chiao Pu of 6th August, 1933 |  | Kowloon Evacuation of Chinese |\n\nTo Foreign Office Printed Letter despatch No.1060 of 3.8.33.\n\nCopied to:\n(see enclosures)",
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        "content_text": "(7/99.5/1933)\n\nP.\n\nCopied to: F.O., Hongicons, Benton, Jub-legation.\n\n6th August, 1933.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of Your \"aide-memoire\" late of July 27th on the subject of affairs connected with Kowloon City and to inform you in reply that I am consulting with My colleague the Governor of Hongkong at the matter.\n\nI avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration.\n\n(Signed) K. V. LAMPO - \nDoctor Le A-ko, \nMinister for Foreign Affairs, \nH.A.V.\n\n24",
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        "content_text": "## \nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote No. `60 74/2398/10` and address - not to any person by name but to - \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copies of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office, 19th September, 1933.\n\n**RECEIVED**  \n20 SEP 1933  \n**6.0. REGY**  \n3\n\n| Reference to previous correspondence: | Description of Enclosure:                | \n| ------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | \n| Colonial Office letter No. `138 32/3` of 5th September, 1933. | Name and Date. | Subject. | \n|                                       | His Representative Peking, no 1060 of 3th August. | Removal of Chinese inhabitants in Kowloon city. | \n|                                       | `14-6130 8931(2)` |  |\n\nSimilar letter sent to...",
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        "content_text": "No.\n\nto `1060 (7/89A/1933)`\n\n**His Majesty's Minister, Peking**, presents his compliments to **His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs**, and transmits herewith copies of the undermentioned paper.\n\nPeking, 3rd August 1933\n\n## Reference to previous correspondence\nDespatch to Foreign office P/L 0.967 of 11/7/33.\n\n## Description of Enclosure\n| Name and Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- |\n| Note from Wai Chiao Pu of 27/7/33 | Kowloon. Evacuation of Chinese. |\n\nCopied to: Sub-Legation, Hongkong, Canton.\n\n26",
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        "content_text": "# WAI-CHIAO PU \n## TO \n### H.M. MINISTER. \n27 \n\n**TRANSLATION.** \n\nGa. 31/7/35 . \nNANKING. \n1995 \n\n27th July (Received 31/7/33). \n\nSir, \n\nI have the honour to inform Your Excellency of the receipt of the following report from T.A. Chih-hou, the Ministry's special inspector for foreign affairs:— \n\n\"I was in receipt of a verbal report by representatives of persons resident within the city of Kowloon to the effect that the persons in question had for many years been living peacefully in Kowloon city as their ancestral home; that the lease of Kowloon by China to Great Britain in the time of Huang Hsu of the late Manchu Dynasty was from the first confined to the district outside the city while those within the city remained under Chinese administration; that the people had continued to live undisturbed and content with their lot as before; that recently however, the New Territories District Office (Southern District) of the Hongkong Government had suddenly decided to construct a public park and issued an order whereby residents of Kowloon city were to register with the District Office before September in order to receive new lane numbers with a view to removal. I have been requested to enter upon negotiations in accordance with justice. I have the honour to request the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to give the matter their consideration and take appropriate action.\"",
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        "content_text": "28\n\nini.\n\nMinistry has already instructed the special Inspector of Foreign Affairs with all speed to approach His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton with a view to requesting the Hongkong Government to abandon their original scheme. In reply, the special inspector has informed this Ministry that he has not as yet received any reply from the Hongkong Government.\n\nI have the honour to observe that the Convention for the Extension of Hongkong Territory concluded by China and Great Britain on the 1st day of the 4th month in the 24th year of Kuang Hsu (i.e., the 9th June, 1898) contained provision that \"within the city of Kowloon the Chinese officials now stationed there shall continue to exercise jurisdiction except so far as may be inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hongkong. Within the remainder of the newly-leased territory Great Britain shall have sole jurisdiction\". In as much as within the city of Kowloon the Chinese officials are still permitted to exercise jurisdiction, it is clear that although the extended territory is leased to Great Britain, yet within the city of Kowloon remains under the jurisdiction of China. The phrase \"within the remainder of the newly-leased territory Great Britain shall have sole jurisdiction\" contained in the text constitutes still further evidence of the real meaning of the Convention at the time of its conclusion.\n\nUnder the Manchus there were stationed within the city of Kowloon as civil officials a Magistrate and Assistant District Magistrate and as military officials a Colonel, Captain and Second Captain. The Kowloon Governor after taking over the administration of the leased territory outside the city of Kowloon, compelled the Chinese officials within the city to withdraw. On the establishment of the public... \n\n/(Chinese text reversed to left-to-right)",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n(Chinae) Government has not stationed officials there. \n\nAt the withdrawal of the Manchu officials and the fact \nthat no officials have been stationed there since the Republic cannot alter the meaning of the Convention at the \ntime it was concluded; still less can rights reserved by the \nConvention be cancelled. Since in accordance with the Convention the city of Kowloon remains under the jurisdiction \nof Chinese officials, then Chinese persons living within \nthe City naturally have the right to reside freely there. \nThe present order of the Hongkong Government constraining \nresidents within the city to remove is badly in conflict both \nwith the explicit text of the Convention and the original \nintention at the time of its conclusion. \n\nMoreover, the relations between China and Great Britain having always been \nso friendly, it would scarcely appear expedient to stir up \na treaty dispute - in addition to causing suffering to many \ncitizens simply for the sake of constructing a public \npark. \n\nIn calling Your Excellency's attention to the above, \nI trust that Your Excellency will as soon as possible request \nthe Hongkong Government to cancel their determination to \norder persons residing within the city of Kowloon to remove. \nThe favour of a reply is requested. I avail myself \nof this opportunity of renewing to Your Excellency the \nassurance of my highest consideration. \n\n**Your Excellency**  \nCHEN VI-KAN  \n**VICEMINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS**",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nDowning Street,  \n15 September, 1933.\n\nI have etc. to refer to despatch No.66 of the 3rd of July addressed to you by the Acting Consul General at Canton, a copy of which I have received from the Foreign Office, regarding a petition from the inhabitants of Kowloon City concerning their proposed removal in connection with the construction of a Public Park, and to transmit to you a copy of a telegram from Sir Miles Lampson to the Foreign Office together with a copy of a letter to that Department on the subject.\n\n2. I shall be glad if you will furnish me with your observations on the matter generally and particularly as regards the scale of compensation to be ...\n\n| File Reference | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| 13832/33 |  |\n| Despatch No.66 | 3rd July |\n| Fr.Sir M.Lampson | 8.8.33 |\n| To Foreign Office | 5.9.33 |\n\nPage 30  \nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "31\n\nbe paid to the persons who would be displaced by the proposed scheme, and as regards the arrangements for accommodating them elsewhere.\n\nI have, etc.\n\n(Sgd.) P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER",
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        "content_text": "33\n\nthe Chinese Minister in London on the 30th of May, 1899, and to say that in so far as the Secretary of State is aware there has been no question since that date of withdrawing the policy which was then adopted at the instance of Hong-Kong.\n\nIt appears from the terms of the reply which was given to Sir Miles Lampson, as reported in the enclosure to Foreign Office letter `F.5301/2392/10` of the 10th of August, that the You-chai's play was based on the assumption that theanking Government has made (for Kowloon City contained a Special provision in the Convention).\n\nHowever, it appears to the Secretary of State further that the Chinese may possibly base a claim to protest on the ground of infringement of the understanding, contained in the sixth paragraph of the Convention, which relates to the leased territory in general.\n\nHowever, since other works of a public character involving a disturbance of villagers, with proper compensation, e.g., a large scheme of water conservation in the Shing Mun Valley in the New Territories, are being and have been carried out.",
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        "content_text": "## C.O. 34\n\nMr. Parkinson.  \nMr. Tomlinson.  \nSir C. Bottomley.  \nSir J. Shuckburgh.  \nPermt. U.S. of S.  \nParly. U.S. of S.  \nSecretary of State.  \n**DRAFT**\n\nIn the past been undertaken without any similar protest from the Chinese Authorities, the Secretary of State is not of the opinion that the Convention could be interpreted in any sense so restricted as to justify the view that there was an infringement in the present instance.\n\n4. correspondence copy of the letter is being sent to the Governor of Hong Kong, with a request that he should furnish his observations on the general question, and particularly the scale of compensation to be paid to the villagers who would be displaced by the proposed scheme for constructing a public park, and on the arrangements for accommodating them elsewhere.\n\nI am, etc.\n\n(Sd.) ANTHONY BEVIR",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote `No. F5490/2398/10` and address—not to any person by name, but to The Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\nE H K\n\n**RECEIVED**  \n12/11 235  \n**UG 1933**\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copies of the under-mentioned paper for such observations as may desire to offer.\n\nForeign Office,  \n23rd August 1933.\n\n**ANSV**  \nReference to previous correspondence:\n\n| Foreign Office letter | Name and Date | Subject | Description of Enclosure |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| `No. 15781/33` Secret: `F5113/2398/10` of 4th August 1933 | Am Representative Pelling No 969 of 11th July | Removal of Chinese residents in Kowloon City | 15-7983 |\n \nSimilar letter sent to...",
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        "content_text": "967(4/89A/1933)\n\nHis Majesty's Minister, Peking, presents his compliments\nto His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,\nand transmits herewith three copies of the undermentioned paper.\n\nPeking, 11th July 1933.\n\n| Reference to previous correspondence: | Description of Enclosure |\n| --- | --- |\n| Printed Letter Despatch to Foreign Office No.847 of 15th June 1933. | Despatch from Canton No.84 of 3rd July 1933. |\n|  | Kowloon: Chinese removal from | \n  \n19............ \n36",
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        "content_text": "# BRITISH LEGATION. PEKING.\n\nCanton Printed Letter Despatch No.84 (72/33) of 3rd July 1933, to His Majesty's Minister, Peking.\n\nTransmitting:\n\n## KOWLOON\n\nChinese removal from - I.G.F.A's request for cancellation of Hongkong's decision re\n\n| Reference | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| British Consulate-General | No.66 |\n| Copies to | Peking No.84 Sub-Legation, I.G.F.A. |\n| Date | 28.6.1933 |\n\nSir,\n\nCANTON.\n\n3rd July 1933.\n\nWith reference to my despatch No.35 of April 8th, I have the honour to forward herewith copy, with translation, of a letter which I have received from Mr. Kan Chieh-hou, Inspector-General for Foreign Affairs, in regard to a petition from the inhabitants of Kowloon city.\n\nI shall be glad if, in due course, I may receive Your Excellency's observations on the matter so as to enable me to reply to Mr. Kan.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour Excellency's most obedient, humble servant,\n\n**(SGD) E.J. JAMIESON**\nActing Consul-General.\n\nHis Excellency,\nThe Governor,\nHONGKONG.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nTo: \n**Inspector-General of Foreign Affairs** \n**H.M.Consul-General, Canton** \n\n28th June 1933 \n\n38 \n\nSir, \n\nWith reference to the orders of **Hongkong Government** requiring the removal of all residents from Kowloon City, I have the honour to inform you of an appeal made to me by representatives of these residents. These people stated they have been inhabitants of Kowloon for generations without trouble. In the reign of Kwang Hau of the late Ching Dynasty, Kowloon was leased to Great Britain, but it was stipulated then that only areas outside the city were leased, the city itself being retained under Chinese control, and the inhabitants continuing to attend to their pursuits as usual. Lately, however, the District Officer for the Southern District of the Hongkong Government issued orders requiring all these inhabitants to move their houses to enable the laying out of a public park. They accordingly appealed for negotiations to be conducted for the protection of their interests. \n\nI have, accordingly, transmitted their application to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from which I am now in receipt of a reply ordering me to conduct investigations and to take up negotiations in accordance with treaty provisions. I have also received a communication from the Kwang tung Provincial Government informing me of a similar appeal from the Kowloon City residents. The Provincial Government, besides ordering the Magistrate of Po-ün to conduct investigations, has also requested me to take up necessary negotiations. \n\nI have the honour to refer to the Sino-British Treaty concluded on the 21st day of the 4th Moon, 24th Year ...",
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        "content_text": "39 \n\nof Kwang Hau (9th June, 1898) for the expansion of the Hong Kong Territories, one article of which states:- \n\n\"It is at the same time agreed that within the City of Kowloon the Chinese Officials now stationed there shall continue to exercise jurisdiction except so far as may be inconsistent with the military requirements for the defense of Hong Kong. Within the remainder of the newly-leased territory Great Britain shall have sole jurisdiction\". \n\nAs Chinese officials may continue their duties in Kowloon City, it is quite plain that though the extended territory was being leased to Great Britain, Kowloon City was to be under the control of Chinese. The further provision in the article that the rest of the territory would be controlled by Britain further confirms the fact that it was the intention at the conclusion of the treaty that Kowloon City was not to be controlled by Britain. \n\nIn the late Ching Dynasty, one civil official, the sub-magistrate, and a colonel and his subordinate military officers were stationed in Kowloon City. When the Hongkong Government took over the newly-leased territory outside of Kowloon City, these officials were made to withdraw by force. Since the establishment of the Republic, no officials have been stationed in the city. \n\nBut the withdrawal of the officials in the Ching Dynasty, and the non-appointment of officials during the Republic, do not alter the meaning of the Treaty then concluded, nor do they cancel the rights provided by the Treaty. Kowloon City is to be controlled by Chinese Officials, then Chinese residents inside the city should have free residential rights. The Hongkong Government's orders for all the residents in the city to move out therefore are not all in conformity with the text of the Treaty or with the spirit prevailing at the conclusion of the Treaty. \n\nComing to actual facts, I have personally investigated",
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        "content_text": "## \n40\n\nI have investigated conditions in Kowloon City. There are 64 houses (including wooden structures) with 436 inhabitants. These people are generally farmers, hawkers, masons, and coolies, and their activities are confined to the markets in the vicinity of Kowloon City. If they move to Kau Shut Ling, the district is very distant from the markets, and the livelihood of these people will be greatly affected.\n\nBesides, all the residents in Kowloon City are poor people without any savings. The present orders require them to move to Kau Shut Ling, where houses are to be constructed at the cost of not less than $500. The District Officer for the Southern District, however, only grants to the residents compensation ranging from a few tens of dollars to $200. Though these residents are nominally given land and asked to move their residences, they have actually no means with which to build houses. The result will be that these people will be rendered workless and homeless.\n\nAs relations between China and Great Britain have all along been cordial, it does not seem that the construction of a public park on a small scale should cause disputes over Treaties and create misery for hundreds of people. Should the Hongkong Government intend to introduce measures for the promotion of sanitation and peace in Kowloon City, the Chinese Government will certainly be ready to take up discussions most heartily.\n\nI have, therefore, the honour to write to you as above and to request you to transmit our request to the Hongkong Government to cancel the decision requiring the removal of the Kowloon City residents for the promotion of cordial relations.\n\nI have the honour to request the favour of a reply.\n\nI have, etc., etc.,\n\n**KAN CHIEH-HOU**\n\nInspector-General of Foreign Affairs for 5 Provinces.\n\nPage 40  \nPage 41",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote `No. 65301/23.28/10` and address - not to any person, name, but \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office, 10th August, 1983.\n\n| Reference to previous correspondence: | Name and Date | Description of Enclosure | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | HM. Representative, Peking | Telegram No.862 of 8th August | Scheme of construction of public park in Kowloon City |\n\nSimilar letter sent to `14-6130 8755(2)`",
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        "content_text": "(F5301/2398/10)\n\n**NO DISTRIBUTION**\n\n**Decode**\n\nSir M. Lampson (Peking)\n8th August, 1933.\n\nD. 7.25 p.m. 8th August, 1933.\n\nR. (Wireless) 3.25 a.m. 9th August, 1933.\n\nNo. 862. **(R)**\n\nMy despatch 967 July 11th.\n\nI have received note from Waichiaopu (copy sent by post to you) requesting me to make urgent representations to His Majesty's Government to abandon scheme for construction of public park in Kowloon City involving evacuation of Chinese residents and contending that proposed action is contrary to convention of 1898. In reply I am acknowledging receipt and stating I am communicating with Governor of Hong Kong on the matter.\n\n2. Governor states in reply to my telegram that Order in Council of 1899 revoking special status of Kowloon City seems to have been overlooked; that in any case removal of inhabitants will not be required until 1934 and that he is investigating the matter further and will let me know decision in due course.\n\nI am not aware how far Chinese government ever acquiesced in our taking over jurisdiction in Kowloon City or how far Order in Council was based on Chinese acquiescence; or if not on what ground our action was based. These points will be looked up as being cardinal to the issue now raised by Chinese government.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office 862, copied to Mission and Canton.",
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        "content_text": "## Confidential \n13-X-2 \n\nRequests authority to treat the scheme as a separate account and requests reply by telegraph, stating reasons.\n\n### Minute by H. Harding \n\nH. Harding's minute, which is now attached as (2) on the file, was written before the receipt of 117. His discussion with the Treasurer was arranged in view of the somewhat contradictory statements in the speech/text/notes of the Acting Colonial Secretary introducing estimates for 1934 regarding the creation of a separate, self-contained fund (see pp 1-3 of copy of speech attached).\n\nThe proposal to create a separate fund appears to be a method of ensuring that the requisite funds will be available at each successive stage of the work, as to which he was asked to give an assurance in para 2(2) on `92600/32`. It is clear...",
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        "content_text": "... however from the last sentence of 4MT Lowell's minute of 2.2.32 on that file, it is clear that there was no intention at the time to suggest the creation of a special account.\n\nThe reasons given by the Governor in (2) for adopting the procedure proposed do not seem to me to be decisive, but the matter seems to me to be mainly one of administrative convenience. Unless, therefore, there are strong objections to the proposed procedure on grounds of accounting or financial propriety, I think the Governor might be allowed to deal with this matter as he proposes.\n\nWe should suggest that in the first place, they refer the question to ...",
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        "content_text": "The ACA \nagreed to Sir John Campbell's proposal \non 15.11.33.\n\n4 \nI agree. \nThis reorganisation will be free from interference \nin May due to the Land Sales. \nA sum is being derived from Defence Contract.\n\nIn view of the explanations in the \ndespatch, do you raise any objection to \nthe proposal. \nIt seems to me no different in principle to what has been frequently done in \nother Colonies, where a lump sum has been \nvoted to form a fund from which expenditure \non specified objects can be met. The \ntransfer to the special account of the \none and a quarter million dollars already \nreceived will presumably require a vote \nof Council, which can authorise in advance \nthe similar transfer of other similar \nreceipts.\n\n#R. Lowell \n17.11.33",
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        "content_text": "## No.3477/15.\n\nNo. I referred to funds like that set aside for establishment of a University in Ceylon. Hal... Mr. Cowell,\n\nThe comparison which you make with funds in other Colonies refers, I suppose, to such funds as \"Renewals\" and \"Depreciation\", and it is true that in such cases lump sums are appropriated out of general revenue to the funds and are then spent in accordance with the rules laid down to govern the funds. There is, however, a great difference between funds such as these and a fund such as that now proposed for the Hong Kong scheme which involves the execution of a large scheme of public works to be financed by realising some of the capital assets of the Colony. A truer comparison, though not an exact one, would be to the proposals put up by certain East African Colonies to account through special funds for special taxes or cesses and expenditure therefrom (`T.T. X.29757/30`, `X.30231/31`, `Nyasaland 5303/33`). But in all these cases the Secretary of State held that the receipts should go to general revenue and that the expenditure should be accounted for as such in the Colony accounts.\n\n2. I have discussed the matter again with Mr. Taylor, the Treasurer, and we are agreed that the Governor's proposal should not be accepted. As it stands the proposal is that revenue receipts from the sale of lands should pass to a special fund instead of to revenue and that the expenditure on the scheme should be met from the fund and authorised by Resolution in Legislative Council, and this involves two breaches of the ordinary rules of Colonial Accounting, viz: the diversion of true revenue to...",
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        "content_text": "to a special account and the authorisation of revenue expenditure without appropriation.\n\n6\n\n3. It did not appear to us that the Governor's objections to carrying out the scheme through revenue and expenditure are at all convincing; but, if the Secretary of State considers that a departure from the normal accounting procedure is necessary, we consider that the scheme should be conducted under a special law which would legalise the diversion of the revenue from Land Sales from general revenue to the fund and would also appropriate the expenditure on the scheme for such special works as might be approved by resolution of the Legislative Council and by the Secretary of State.\n\n4. This procedure would put the special fund on a proper and legal footing and the detailed expenditure would be regulated by means of an Appendix to the Estimates as suggested by the Governor.\n\n29-12\n\nA. J. Staring  \nDirector of Colonial Audit.\n\n33\n\nI kept this to look at the arrangements under which the Ceylon University Fund is held. I find that a sum was voted by the Council to be invested as the nucleus of a building and endowment fund, and that it is apparently intended that the fund will be expended under the provisions of the Ordinance which will be passed to establish the University. This is parallel with Mr. Harding's suggestion above.\n\nWrite to Governor on the lines of marked",
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        "content_text": "## RESTRICTED\n### AIR MAIL\n\nTo Tell  \nGov. Hong Kong Ill N° 3 bouf 5 to H. Kong - Conf (1 Anne).\n\npassage of ir arding's minute, suggesting \nthe passing of an ordinance.\n\n4.1.34  \n`ATUTE 97/1.34`  \n12 JAN 1934  \n34",
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        "content_text": "## C. O.\n\nMr. Travers.s/  \nTraverts s  \nMr.  \nMr. Gear - 8.0  \nCowell  \nMr. Parkinson.  \nMr. Tomlinson.  \n13862/1933 Hong Kong.  \n`m 33800/20/34`  \n•  \nDowning Street,  \n**AIR MAIL**  \n58  \n\nSir C. Bottomley.  \nSir J. Shuckburgh.  \nSir,  \nPermt. U.S. of S.  \nParly. U.S. of S.  \nSecretary of State.  \nJanuary 12, 1934.  \n\nI have etc. to refer to your **Confidential** despatch of the 13th October last, which you numbered 126 of 9... (1) regarding the proposal to treat the schemes for developing the sites of the City Hall and Government House as a separate account, paying into this account all receipts, and paying out of it all expenses in connection with the scheme, and to my telegram of January, 1934, in which I informed you that I proposed to address you by despatch on this subject.\n\n2. Your proposal that revenue receipts from the sale of lands should pass to a special fund instead of to revenue, and that the expenditure on the scheme should be met from the fund and authorised by Resolution in the Legislative Council, involves two departures from the ordinary rules of Colonial Accounting, viz:- the diversion of true revenue to a special account and the authorisation of revenue expenditure without appropriation.\n\n3. The objections put forward in your despatch to conducting the scheme through ordinary revenue and expenditure are not convincing, but while I am willing to agree to a departure from the normal accounting procedure in respect of these schemes, I consider that the scheme should be conducted under a special ordinance law which would legalise the diversion of the revenue from Land Sales from general revenue to the fund, and would empower the Governor to appropriate the expenditure on the scheme for special works subject to approval by Resolution of the Legislative Council by the Secretary of State. This procedure would place the special fund on a proper and legal footing, and the detailed expenditure would be shown in an Appendix to the Estimates as suggested by you.\n\n4. I suggest for your consideration the introduction of legislation on these lines, as outlined in the previous paragraph.\n\nI have, etc.  \n(Signed) **PLYMOUTH**  \n(for the Secretary of State)\n\nPage 9  \nPage 10  \nPage 11\n\n## FURTHER ACTION\n(Insert date of despatch)  \n\n| Ref     | Name                |\n|---------|---------------------|\n|         | Mr. Parkinson.      |\n|         | Mr. Tomlinson.      |\n|         | Sir C. Bottomley.   |\n|         | Sir J. Shuckburgh.  |\n|         | Permt. U.S. of S.   |\n|         | Parly. U.S. of S.   |\n|         | Secretary of State. |\n\n`13862/1933 Hong Kong`  \n`m 33800/20/34`  \n`XCR(85)72` is not present, but `GR1178/1922/32(III)` is not present either, however `13862/1933` is present. The text `126 of 9... (1)` seems to be a file reference and could be written as `126 of 9...(1)`. However, the original does not contain `XCR(85)72` or `GR1178/1922/32(III)`. The closest is `13862/1933`. \n\nThe final output does not include the line \"The text `126 of 9... (1)` seems to be a file reference and could be written as `126 of 9...(1)`. However, the original does not contain `XCR(85)72` or `GR1178/1922/32(III)`. The closest is `13862/1933`.\" as it is a commentary. The file reference is already wrapped in backticks where necessary.",
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        "content_text": "Sir,\n\nSubclosure no 6.\n\n2\n\nI rise by Your Excellency's command to move the first reading of a Bill intituled \"**An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding $27,029,235 to the Public Service of the year 1934**\".\n\nThe Budget for the present year was described by the Colonial Secretary as \"colourless\". The Budget I am not submitting does not, I fear, contain any large amount of colour either. This will probably come as an unpleasant surprise to many in this Colony.\n\nI do not refer to those who have built high hopes on the monthly financial statements issued by the Treasurer. These statements have to be reviewed in the light of our experience of the movements of the revenue and expenditure over a whole year. Our income is largest in the first half of the year, our expenditure in the second half. But apart from the somewhat misleading figure of $16,000,000 which these fluctuations have caused to appear as surplus in the statement for May, this Council may have some difficulty in appreciating the grounds for the Government's attitude of restraint when it is seen that the estimated surplus of assets over liabilities at the end of 1933, is now put at over $13 millions instead of the $10,600,000 odd anticipated in the Estimates for 1933. But the fact is that our revised estimate of Revenue for 1933 - $33,027,000 contains two abnormal items; first a sum of 1.8 lakhs in death duties from Lord Inchcape's estate and secondly a sum of $1,250,000 accruing from the sale of a portion of the City Hall site, to which is to be added a sum of $4,000 representing the sale price of the demolished",
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        "content_text": "## \n2 buildings. This sale, as Honourable Members are aware, constitutes the first stage in a new development scheme embracing all the Government property lying between Queen's Road and Upper Albert Road on the North and South and Garden Road and Ice House Street on the East and West. \n\nA tentative lay-out for this scheme is shown on the plan which is among the papers I have just laid on the table. It is a scheme of the first magnitude involving, inter alia, the removal of the present Government House and the erection of a new Government House at Magazine Gap. \n\nI shall deal later with the reasons for this particular step in the scheme. For the moment I am only concerned with the Government's views for its finance, which are, subject to the observations of Honourable Members, that it is desirable to treat the scheme as a separate and self-contained financial unit holding on the credit side the $1,254,000 I have just mentioned and the proceeds of the future sales of the Beaconsfield Arcade and Government House sites, while on the debit side will appear the cost of forming new sites and roads and of building the new Government House, new City Hall, new Government offices, and similar outgoings. This, however, is a somewhat unusual procedure in respect of schemes financed out of revenue, and before it can be definitely adopted, it will be necessary to obtain the special sanction of the Secretary of State. For the present, therefore, the item of $1,254,000 is being retained as ordinary revenue for 1933, and the first item of expenditure, $100,000 for the preparation of the new site for Government House, is shown as a separate Head No. 35) of expenditure for 1934. Nevertheless, we must be pre-",
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        "content_text": "## \npared for the transfer of the credit to a special account and when that has been done and the Inchcape estate duty deducted it will be seen that our ordinary revenue for 1933 cannot be set higher than about $30,000,000 as against an original estimate of $34,000,000 and that the maintenance of our surplus balances at the same level as at the opening of the year is due to our revised estimate of expenditure for 1933 being $32,564,261 as against an original estimate of $35,199,247. The main factor in this saving is the reduced cost of our sterling commitments, including officers' salaries, arising from the difference between the current exchange rate and the rate ($1 = 19/29 adopted in framing the estimates.\n\nThe difference in exchange has also of course a depressing effect on certain items of revenue which have been placed on a sterling basis, but this is a very limited reduction in no way comparable to the reduction in expenditure arising from the same cause. Another source of anticipated saving lies in the sum of $500,000 set down in the Estimates as the final payment by the Colony in respect of the removal and reprovisioning of the Naval Arsenal and Kellet Island. The reprovisioning is taking longer than was anticipated and it is considered equitable that, having financed the work to the extent of three quarters without any return, the Colony should retain the final quarter in its balances until it can be given possession of the old site.\n\nA third item of saving which may be mentioned",
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        "content_text": "## \nhere lies in the adjustment of Military contribution the original estimate of 1933 being $5,832,271 and the revised estimate $5,694,559. Part of this reduction is due to over payment in respect of 1932 and part to certain concessions in respect of revenue exempted from contribution of which I shall say more at a later stage.\n\n14\n\nThe main factor in the falling off of our ordinary revenue lies of course in the general depression from which the world at large has been suffering for some years past and which is now hitting the Colony in earnest. The import duties on liquor and tobacco for the first half of 1933 have been only $1,883,876 as against an estimated figure for the same period of $2,950,000. Stamp duties are similarly $1,111,731 as against $1,300,000. Opium revenue for the half year stands at $643,030, instead of $1,250,000 but only a very small part of this fall is attributable to the decreased means of the addicts. The bulk of the loss is attributable to the new arrangement instituted on the recommendation of the Bangkok Conference by which this Government's Monopoly draws its supplies of prepared opium from the factory of the Straits Settlements Monopoly. The Hong Kong addict does not like the Singapore brand. The grounds of his dislike are somewhat obscure at any rate for the moment and are being further explored; what is clear is that he will not buy the opium that the Hong Kong Government offers him. If this state of affairs indicated a genuine step towards the liberation of the addict from his addiction, it would not only not be a subject for regret; it would be a matter for positive congratulation. The Hong Kong Government abides by its",
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        "content_text": "- 5 -\n\n**declaration** that considerations of revenue shall not stand in the way of its co-operation in the obligations of His Majesty's Government accepted at the Hague and later confirmed at Geneva and Bangkok to suppress the smoking of opium in its territory. Unfortunately, there is abundant evidence that the distaste of the Hong Kong addict for the Singapore brand has merely swelled the ranks of the smokers and the profits of the purveyors of illicit opium. Shortly after the new arrangement came into force, the Superintendent of Imports and Exports instituted an intensive campaign against opium divans, which are not only illegal in themselves but invariably supply their customers with illicit opium. The results more than fulfilled our worst fears.\n\nDuring the first three months of the campaign, no less than 632 divans were discovered and raided, while 661 persons were convicted for keeping or assisting in keeping divans. 4,044 persons were found smoking in divans but were not placed before the Courts, as the number of prisoners on the more serious charge was already as much and more than our Gaol could contain; in every case, illicit opium was being smoked.\n\nThe only head of revenue which we can view with any satisfaction is that of the Kowloon Canton Railway, which for the first half of the current year has amounted to nearly eight lakhs, as against the estimate of nearly thirteen lakhs for the whole year.\n\nThat, therefore, is the revenue position for 1933. For 1934, we should not be justified in assuming that the forces which have been depressing our revenue \n\n15",
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        "content_text": "- 6 -\n\nIn 1933 will relax their pressure and our estimate of revenue for 1934 is accordingly set at $31,731,625, a figure which can hardly be called over-pessimistic when it is remembered that, as I have just said, our revenue of 1933 apart from windfalls cannot be expected to go much above $30,000,000. On the contrary we may have tended to optimism in some of our items. Import duty on liquors and tobacco are set at $1,000,000 and $2,300,000 respectively; opium revenue at $1,300,000 whereas the revised estimate of receipts for 1933 under these items only amounts to $900,000, $2,600,000 and $1,200,000.\n\nAs regards the less speculative items of increase for 1934, I may mention $25,000 on motor spirit where the reduced price should send up consumption; $35,000 from the new Ferry franchise under Licences and Internal Revenue and a further sum of $23,750 under Miscellaneous Receipts (Royalties): $240,000 under the same head in respect of the new Land Transport franchises; $600,000 increased water revenue: and $200,000 increase in Assessed Taxes, commonly known as Rates. The last item is inserted with less confidence than the others as although a good deal of new building is still going on there is reason to think we may be overbuilt and such a position though it makes for public health by spreading population brings in its train empty houses and flats on which rates have to be refunded.\n\nI now turn to the expenditure for the coming year and before going into details feel bound to say a further word on a point of general structure which occupied a prominent place in the Colonial Secretary's speech when he introduced the Budget for the present year, namely the allocation of what I may call general staff, i.e. Cadet Officers and Clerical Officers, to individual departments. The drawbacks \n\n16",
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        "content_text": "7 \n\n- \n\nof this arrangement were very clearly set out by Mr. Hallifax, but I wish by a concrete instance from the 1934 Estimates to show to this Council how obfuscation rather than clarification results from it. The Personal Emoluments Vote for the Treasury has for 1934 to bear: -\n\n(i) The salary for the year of the substantive Treasurer who is on leave and will remain on leave till the spring of 1934.\n\n(ii) The salary of my Honourable friend the Acting Treasurer.\n\n(iii) The salary of two Class II Cadets who are at the moment filling the posts of Assistant Treasurer and Assistant Estate Duty Commissioner, either of whom (or both for that matter) may have to be transferred for duty elsewhere when the leave programme for 1934 is finally settled, and other Cadets on quite different salaries taking their places.\n\n(iv) The salary of a third Class II Cadet formerly Assistant Estate Duty Commissioner but now on leave, whose destination on return from leave cannot be determined at present.\n\nLest we be accused of lack of foresight in our programme of leaves and appointments, I must remind Honourable Members that in small cadres like the Cadets and the European Clerical Staff, a single unforeseen \n\n17",
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        "content_text": "- 8 \n\nA casualty may upset a whole range of dispositions. \n\nComing now to the Departments, it will be observed that a new item \"Unpassed Cadets in training\" has been entered under the Colonial Secretary's Office. This, as was explained at the introduction of the Budget for 1933, is to meet the cost of the new arrangement by which recruits for the Colonial Administrative Service undergo a year's preliminary training at home. As regards the provision of two such allowances against anticipated requirements, I may inform the Council that the Government has just been notified that one of its junior Passed Cadets, now on leave, is medically unfit for further service in Hong Kong. I have also to announce with deep regret, both official and personal, that my Honourable friend the Secretary for Chinese Affairs has applied for and received His Excellency's permission to retire from the Service next year. \n\nAudit Department. \n\nUnder the Audit Department, an increase of one Class III Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff post is considered essential. New forms of revenue and expenditure have been steadily added to the accounts over which that department must maintain a survey, and it is no longer possible for the work to be done with any margin of safety without an increase of staff. For some years to come, the Auditor will have, in addition to his ordinary responsibilities, to carry a special and heavy burden in the shape of the Accounts and Stores of the Shing Mun Gorge Dam. \n\n- 18",
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        "content_text": "## \nPost Office.\n\nThe postal facilities available in New Kowloon and other parts of the New Territory are behind the times and to remedy this provision has been made for five more postal clerks and eleven more postmen. For the same reason a further vote for new pillar and letterboxes appears under \"Special Expenditure\". In addition funds are provided under Public Works Extraordinary, New Kowloon, for two new Postal Kiosks to be erected at Sham Shui Po and Kowloon T'ong respectively. The Post Office also claims another important item under Public Works Extraordinary Kowloon, namely a new Post Office at Kowloon Point. I need hardly remind the Council that complaints from the public of the inadequacy of the present Kowloon Post Office have not been few. At the same time complaints from various Government Departments that their office accommodation is quite inadequate for their expanded and expanding activities have been equally insistent. Government therefore proposes as soon as funds will permit to erect probably on the lot of Crown Land of which the present Kowloon Post Office occupies one corner a block of office buildings seven or eight stories high which will hold not only an enlarged Post Office and Fire Station but a sub-treasury, a branch of the Medical Department and several other sub-departments. As this scheme could not be started without first removing the present Post Office and the need for a larger Post Office is pressing it is proposed next year to erect on the corner site lying between the Children's Playground and Nathan Road a temporary Post Office building.\n\nPage 20  \nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "- 10 - \n\nat a cost of $30,000.00 as shown on page 102 of the estimates.\n\nImports & Exports Department.\n\nFor some time past it has become increasingly evident that smugglers are taking advantage of the absence of any regular preventive service along the land frontier and that as a result not only is the population of the New Territories evading its share of taxation but there is a steady infiltration of illicit goods, especially tobacco and opium into the urban areas. It is accordingly proposed to engage eleven additional Chinese Revenue Officers and to station them in the New Territories under the European Revenue Officer in charge of the New Territories who at present works his district from Hong Kong but will in future live near Fan Ling. A sum of $1,560 to cover the rental of the necessary quarters is inserted under \"Other Charges\" for this Department.\n\nHarbour Department and Air Services.\n\nCertain additions to the staff of the Government Marine Surveyor's sub-department are rendered necessary by the forthcoming application to the Colony of the new Safety and Load Line Conventions. The extent of those increases has been discussed locally with the Shipping Committee of the Chamber of Commerce and subsequently by the Harbour Master with the Board of Trade. The verdict of the Board is that to fulfil the obligations which those Conventions will impose a minimum increase of one Ship Surveyor and two Engineer Surveyors is necessary.\n\n20",
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        "content_text": "## Air Services \n\nOne of the latter posts will be supplied by filling the vacancy which arose on the retirement at the end of last year of the former head of this sub-department. The other two will be new appointments and will, like the first, be on the permanent establishment, the Board being satisfied that the Convention will involve a permanent increase of work of a volume calling for at least this increase of staff. Whether a further increase is necessary to maintain the status of Hong Kong as a first-class port of survey, the Board is not prepared to say at present, but recommends that the question be further studied six months after the application of the Conventions to Hong Kong has taken place. These increases in work and staff will, of course, be reflected in the fees received for surveys, but the amount receivable in this respect cannot be gauged with any accuracy until the surveys begin, and the increase of $5000 under this item is therefore a mere guess.\n\nAs regards other sub-heads of the Harbour Department Vote, it will be noted that \"Other Charges\" show a reduction on last year's estimate of over $60,000. Further, it has been decided that the sum of $50,000 provided for an Infectious Cases Launch under Special Expenditure can be saved by a change in transport arrangements, which I shall explain in dealing with the Prisons Department.\n\n## Air Services\n\nUnder Air Services, provision is made for the staff that will be necessary for the proper operation of our aerodrome as a Commercial Airport. When regular air",
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        "content_text": "services to and from Hong Kong will come into existence I am unfortunately not yet in a position to say. China is not a party to the International Air Convention and the question of granting rights of transit and landing rights in their Country to non-Chinese air lines is still unsettled. While traffic with or over China will not constitute the whole of the trade we may hope to see at our airport, it will occupy a very large place at any rate in the early stages. Until therefore the matter of landing rights has been arranged commercial air services to and from Kai Tak must hang fire. It may seem premature in these circumstances to engage an Assistant Superintendent for the aerodrome but the Superintendent is due for leave next year and even with the traffic now existing or in sight it is impossible to leave the aerodrome without a trained officer in charge. As regards traffic in sight Honourable Members will notice that the subsidy to the Flying Club again appears under Other Charges for this sub-department and I am glad to be able to inform them that there is every reason to expect that the Club will be restored to life in the near future. After considerable persuasion the Air Ministry has withdrawn its objections to the establishment of a Flying School at Kai Tak and the Government has agreed to allow the Far East Aviation Company the use of the aerodrome for this purpose for an experimental period of two years and to pay it a subsidy not exceeding the $30,000 now to be voted and a similar sum for the second year in return for the free training of a certain number of... \n\n22",
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        "content_text": "- 13 -\n\n23\n\nVolunteers from the Defence Corps and the provision of cheap flying to the Club. I need hardly point out that apart from spreading air-mindedness among the residents of this Colony, the establishment of the School will provide a valuable opportunity of exhibiting the capacities of the British aeroplane.\n\n## Legal Departments\n\nThe only item calling for comment under the Legal departments is the provision of an additional Crown Solicitor. As Honourable members will be aware, the staff of the Crown Solicitor's Office, the Land Registry, the Court Registry, and the Official Receiver's Office is to a certain extent interchangeable, but even so, it is not possible to keep these offices manned and allow for regular home-leave without overworking those left behind. The work of the Legal departments, like that of all other Government departments, has greatly increased in recent years, and the minimum senior staff necessary for the adequate discharge of their present duties is Crown Solicitor and one Assistant, Land Officer and one Assistant, Registrar and one Assistant, and the Official Receiver; total seven officers.\n\nAt present, the authorised establishment is eight only, and it will be obvious that a regular rota of leave requires at least two men to be absent every year. This year, three have been due for and have taken leave, and the position has only been tenable by the fact that a member of the Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff who has recently qualified as a solicitor has been available to act as Assistant Land Officer. It is now proposed to make this appointment permanent and for convenience.",
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        "content_text": "## Head 20 Police Department\n\nThere is a total increase in the European Contingent of 1 Sub-Inspector, 3 Sergeants, and 2 Lance-Sergeants, in the Indian Contingent of 1 Lance-Sergeant and 14 Constables, and in the Cantonese Contingent of 3 Sub-Inspectors, 1 Lance Sergeant, 19 Constables and 1 Female Searcher. The allocation of these posts to the different branches of the Force is given in the explanatory foot-notes, and does not, I think, call for any special comment. Our Police Force must grow with the times. I would, however, invite the attention of Honourable Members to the new grade of Sub-Inspector in the Cantonese Contingent. It is hoped to recruit for these posts young men of good education who will, after a few years' probationary training, be competent to take their place in the commissioned ranks. Hitherto, recruitment has only been of men, who, however efficient they may be in other respects, are not the type that makes Assistant Superintendents. It is proposed next year to make three appointments only. If these give indications that the scheme is likely to be a success, the number will be increased in the following year.\n\n$23,000.\n\nThere is a net reduction in Other Charges of ...\n\nThe greater part of Special Expenditure is in the nature of replacement. The question of the revision of Police Regulations has already been before Finance Com-",
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        "content_text": "## Head 21. Prisons Department\n\nLast year Mr. Hallifax expressed the hope that three more European Warders and ten temporary Indian Guards would have been retrenched by the end of the current year.\n\nIf allowance is made for the additional temporary block at Lai Chi Kok Gaol requiring a staff of one European Warder, four Assistant Indian Warders, and two temporary Indian Guards, which was approved by Finance Committee on 3rd August last, this promised reduction will have been made. The only other matter calling for comment under this head is the change in the transport arrangements with Lai Chi Kok. At present, prisoners are conveyed between Lai Chi Kok and the Island by a Prisons Department Launch.\n\nNext year, it is proposed instead to transport the prisoners by motor van using the vehicular ferry. It will be necessary to purchase an additional van for $4,000, and to provide for its running expenses, which will be greater than those of the existing van as the distance to travel will be very much greater. The sub-heads affected are 21 and 22 under Other Charges and 25 under Special Expenditure.\n\nThe Prisons Department Launch will be converted into an infectious cases launch, which will save building the new launch for which $50,000 has been provided in the current year's Estimates under Head 10, Harbour Department. Apart from this considerable saving in capital cost, the annual... \n\n25",
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        "content_text": "- 16 - \n\nRecurrent charges of motor van and ferry transport will be considerably less than those for launch transport. \n\nProvision is also made for a second linotype machine. The amount of printing done by the Government for departments continues to increase. The two small printing machines are replacements of existing machines worn out.\n\n## Medical Department\n\nIt is a matter of great regret that the Medical Department's schemes have been among the worst sufferers from the pruning process which the Government, in the interests of financial caution, has felt bound to apply to its expenditure. The regret is the greater in that these cuts cannot but be a heavy disappointment to the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, who has been and is devoting so much effort to bring the Medical and Health services up to the best modern standards.\n\nAs Honourable Members are aware, we have been obliged to shelve again the provision of a really modern Health Centre; the Dispensary Launch has had to share the same fate. Among minor sacrifices, I may mention that the proposals for a Government Ophthalmic Surgeon and Dental Surgeon have been revived only to be cut out again, and that an additional Sister for Public Health work and a staff of four Chinese Health Nurses to make a start with health visiting have had to be foregone.\n\nNevertheless, it would be unjust to say that the cupboard is more bare for the Medical than for other Departments. For despite the considerable saving represented by an exchange rate of 1/3 to the dollar as against 1/2, the Department's \n\n- 26 -",
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        "content_text": "- 17 - \n\n27 \n\nThe total charges for 1934 are a lakh and a half higher than for 1933. In the matter of Public Works also, the department cannot be said to have been starved. Apart from the new Civil Hospital, the accommodation of Kowloon Hospital has been very materially enlarged and $70,000 towards the building of a new out-patients department is down for next year.\n\nAs regards increases in personnel, in the clerical staff, there is an increase of seven posts, which are required for the Births and Deaths Registration, which is now enforced in the New Territories; the Administrative staff, the work of which has considerably increased as a result of the steady expansion of the Department, and the Kowloon Hospital. The Radiology branch is strengthened by the addition of one new post of Radiographer, and a sum of $10,000 has been inserted under Special Expenditure for X-Ray apparatus; part of this is for new machines and part for replacements. The Nursing Staff shows a considerable increase which is required for the new blocks of the Kowloon Hospital. School Hygiene and Maternity and Child Welfare also show slight increases. Finally, Honourable Members will notice on the last page a new sub-heading Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital. This hospital, which was first opened in 1922 by the Chinese Public Dispensaries Committee, has proved such a success that it was growing beyond the resources of the Committee, who have therefore offered it to Government. The offer was accepted with the approval of the Secretary of State, and the hospital",
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        "content_text": "- 18 -\n\nThe vill in future be run by Government though not without some regret at the disappearance of so shining an example of voluntary effort, in which a very devoted part was played by my Honourable friend the second Chinese Unofficial member of this Council.\n\n## Head 23, Sanitary Department\n\nThe continued growth of Kowloon makes it necessary to carve a new Health District out of two existing districts. This entails the appointment of an additional 2nd Class Sanitary Inspector, one Class VI3 Interpreter and four Foremen, which however in no way prejudices the scheme for replacing European by Asiatic Inspectors. The latter are still under training and not yet ready to take their place in the field. The additional Motor Drivers, Steersmen and Bargemon are required for the new lorries and lighters provided for under Special Expenditure. There is a net increase in Other Charges of some $5,000. As regards the motor hearse provided under Special Expenditure, I should explain that one of the main functions of this vehicle will be the collection of dumped bodies, which unfortunately continue to be all too numerous. It is not anticipated that, when due weight has been given to the saving on the time and labour involved in the present hand cart system, the new method will be appreciably more costly. Under Public Works, although it has not been possible to provide for all the new buildings which the growth of the urban areas makes desirable, the Department has a fair share of the cupboard's contents. Four of the eight items under Buildings in Hong Kong are for this department.\n\n28",
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        "content_text": "19\n\nthe most important being a starting vote for the reconstruction of that long standing nuisance, Wanchai Market. Two more markets and a new latrine are also provided in Kowloon.\n\n## Head 25 Education Department\n\nThe staffs of the Ellis Kadoorie School for Indians, and Belilios Public School are strengthened by the addition of one University Trained Master for the former and one University Trained Mistress for the latter. Provision is made for two University Trained Masters for the Junior Technical School, for which there are also three subheads totalling $5,984 under Special Expenditure. There are now three full time Physical Training Mistresses. To reap the full benefit of their work it is necessary to purchase more gymnastic gear and $4,500 has accordingly been inserted under Sub-head 28.\n\n## Head 26 Kowloon-Canton Railway\n\nUnder this head I may draw attention to the following points: The Clerical Services are shown under the different sub-departments instead of being grouped together at the end. There is a net reduction of one Junior Clerical Service clerk. With the retirement of one of the two European Traffic Inspectors the vacant post was filled by a Chinese and the salary changed from sterling to dollar. The considerable and gratifying increase in passenger traffic necessitates the appointment of a third Inspector who will also be Chinese. The responsibilities attaching to the terminal railway\n\n29.\n\nPage 30  \nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "- 20 \n\nThe expenses of the station at Kowloon are so much greater than those of any of the other stations that it has been decided to raise the salary scale of the Kowloon Station Master. \n\nMost of the items under Special Expenditure are sufficiently explained by the foot-notes. Goods traffic at Yaumati has increased, necessitating an extension to the present yard. The Station buildings at Sheung Shui are in a bad way and must be re-conditioned. A new permanent structure is very desirable but must be postponed till better times. The sub-head \"new bodywork for 4 coaches\" has appeared regularly for the last few years. The provision now made will complete the programme. All coaches will have been rebuilt. At present we have not a sufficient number of second class coaches to meet the traffic needs and we are losing revenue thereby. It is proposed to purchase two next year. The six coaches which are without lighting equipment are not used as much as they should be, because of the difficulty of combining them with other coaches. This is uneconomical and it is proposed next year to equip them properly.\n\n## Miscellaneous Services\n\nIn all $22...\n\nUnder this Head the only item to which I need to refer is sub-head 26, Broadcasting, which shows an increase of $12,600. It is hoped that next year it may be possible to have simultaneous transmission of European and Chinese programmes. This will necessitate the engagement of more announcers both European and Chinese and other expenses. Whether this dual programme is to be a permanent feature or not depends on the support given to it, particularly by the Chinese community. The only test by which it is pos- \n\n30",
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        "content_text": "It is possible to judge the popularity or otherwise of broadcasting is by the number of radio receiving licences taken out. At present the number of licences held by Europeans is 1,571 and those held by non-Europeans, of whom 95% are Chinese, is 1,311.\n\n## Charitable Services\n\nThe attention of the Government has recently been drawn to the widespread and increasing distress which the bad times have brought upon officers of the Mercantile Marine. His Excellency accordingly appointed a Committee under the chairmanship of the Attorney General to investigate the facts and make recommendations for the future. Among the recommendations of this Committee is the creation of a permanent committee to deal with deserving cases and the appropriation annually of an adequate sum for that purpose which has been fixed provisionally at the $20,000 shown as sub-head 17 of this head. I feel sure that Honourable Members will agree that in a port like Hong Kong such a step is fully justified.\n\n## Defence\n\nIt will be observed that the scheme for a Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve rejected in 1929 has been revived. As already announced in the press considerable enthusiasm for this scheme is being shown by the sea-minded section of the community and being advised in the light of closer examination that competition with the land corps need not assume serious proportions, the Government has felt justified in bringing the scheme before the Council afresh. I may add that if the Council shares the Government's views it is hoped to introduce the necessary legislation at a very early date.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\ndate so as to enable those on the waiting list to start work and training this year, in which case a Supplementary Vote for the necessary expenditure will be requested. The only other point that calls for mention under this section is the revision of the salary scale of the Quartermaster of the land corps. It will be recalled that a few years ago a personal allowance of £50 per annum was granted to the present holder of this post. It is now felt that the responsibilities of the post itself call for higher emoluments and it is accordingly proposed that the salary scale shall be continued beyond the £470, which was the former maximum, to £600. The present holder will enter the scale at a point which will cover his personal allowance, which therefore disappears from the Estimates.\n\nIn connection with the other section, Military Contribution, it gives me great pleasure to be able to announce that after prolonged negotiation with the War Office, the Secretary of State for the Colonies has secured for the Colony very material increases in the items of revenue exempt from contribution. I need not enter here upon the details of these exemptions, which are to a certain extent retrospective and will reduce the expenditure for the current year. They have been embodied in a draft amending Ordinance which is now before the Secretary of State and will, when approved by him, be introduced into this Council in the usual way. In addition to relieving the annual expenditure, the concessions should also release a certain portion of the liability under this head, which appears as a Suspense Account in the financial statement.",
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        "content_text": "## Pensions.\n\n33\n\nThere have recently been a number of retirements among the more senior members of the Service and more are marked to occur in the near future. The Pensions Ordinance, 1932, moreover has introduced for this Colony the system, in force in many other Colonies, by which an officer can commute a portion of his pension for a cash gratuity. For the time being therefore an increase in the vote is necessary.\n\n## Head 32, Public Works Department\n\nUnder Personal Emoluments the only two items that stand out are the increase in the number of Architects by two and a similar increase in the number of Overseers. This matter has already been before and approved by the Finance Committee. As explained at the time, the posts are of a temporary nature and designed to cope with the large programme of Public Works Extraordinary. I might remind you that it was one of the recommendations of the Retrenchment Commission, that for Public Works of more than ordinary magnitude special temporary staff should be engaged; this it is now proposed to do and has been done on a much larger scale in the case of the Shing Mun Gorge Dam.\n\nTo cope with the greater number of meters and motor accounts it has been found necessary to create 3 more posts of meter readers and to increase the clerical staff of the Water Works Office by five posts. The proposed new Crown Leases Ordinance has been abandoned and the staff which would have been required for its working is deleted. As a result of the decision that the Colony is to retain and operate its commercial wireless services,",
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        "content_text": "## Gov. Conf.\n\n9 Jan.\n\n34.\n\nThere were 2 copies of plans, together with general observations, & proposed schemes for compensation of displaced \"owners\". \n\nThe crux of the question at issue is summed up in the last paragraph of the Governor's despatch in these words: \"As to whether the Chinese Government is concerned or not with the rights which China conceives herself still to retain under the Convention signed at Peking 9.6.1898 vide page 293-4 Hertslet's Treaties Vol. XXI and until this issue is disposed of it seems inadvisable to display a more conciliatory attitude, even though based on quite different grounds. For the same reason it seems inadvisable to postpone the scheme and renew the leases of the property affected.\"\n\nThe proposition contained in the last sentence may be open to the objection that until it is decided whether or not the Hong Kong Government has the right to compel the \"owners\" of the property concerned within Kowloon City to evacuate that property, it would be tantamount to prejudging the main issue to attempt to compel or induce them to do so. It may in fact be necessary to postpone the scheme until the main question has been disposed of.\n\nThe main question is: What rights has China under the Convention of 1898 read in conjunction with the Orders in Council of the 20th October, 1898, and the 27th December, 1898, pages 589-590 Hertslet's Treaties Vol. XXI?\n\nBefore examining the actual grounds on which the claim of the Chinese Government is based, it is necessary to dispose of the alternative basis on which that...",
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        "content_text": "3\n\nthat claim might be put forward, namely the \"understanding\" in the Convention of 1898 \"that there will be no expropriation or expulsion of the inhabitants of the district included within the extension\".\n\nAs Mr. Gent pointed out in his minute of 26/8/33 on `13832/33`, the occasions on which villagers within the leased territories have been displaced to make room for public works have not been regarded as breaches of the Convention of 1898.\n\nThe claim of the Chinese Government is implicit in the following extract from the note from Wai Chiao Pu to His Majesty's Minister, Nanking, Sub-enclosure to 5 on `13832/337`: \"Since in accordance with the Convention the City of Kowloon remains under the jurisdiction of Chinese Officials, then Chinese persons living within the City naturally have the right to reside freely there. The present order of the Hong Kong Government constraining residents within the City to remove in a body conflicts both with the explicit text of the Convention and the original intention at the time of its conclusion...\"\n\nOur case is this:\n\n(i) The third Section of the original Convention reserved jurisdiction within Kowloon City to the Chinese Officials stationed there \"except in so far as may be inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong\".\n\n(ii)",
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        "content_text": "## (ii) Shortly after the signing of the Convention, the British Government decided that it was \"inconsistent with the military requirements of the defence of Hong Kong\" that the Chinese should retain any jurisdiction within Kowloon City.\n\n## (iii) The Chinese Government was informed of this decision (which did not conflict with the original agreement as reflected in the Convention) by the Foreign Office note of 30th May, 1899, vide paragraph 5 of the Memorandum u/c `13832/33` and Mr. Gent's Minute of 26.8.33 idem, and the decision was made effective by the Order in Council of the 27th December, 1899, in the following words:\n\n\"And whereas the exercise of jurisdiction by the Chinese Officials in the City of Kowloon having been found to be inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong, it is expedient that the Chinese Officials within the City of Kowloon should cease to exercise jurisdiction therein, and that the said City of Kowloon should become part and parcel of Her Majesty's Colony of Hong Kong for all purposes during the continuance of the term of the lease in the said Convention mentioned.\"\n\n## (iv) The Chinese Government at the time did not, apparently, contest the propriety of the action adopted by Her Majesty's Government, nor has it apparently been contested until now.\n\n## (v) The basis of the present claim of the Chinese Government is unsound insofar as it ignores the steps recorded in (ii), (iii), and (iv) above.\n\n?(a)",
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        "content_text": "## \nUnnecessary things.\n\nHole.\n\nو\n\n? (a) Forward a copy of (1) to the Foreign Office ref. on `13832/33` under cover of a letter reaffirming the view expressed in paragraph 2 of that letter, setting out our views at greater length, and requesting that the Chinese Government may be informed accordingly.\n\n(b) Telegraph to the Governor requesting him not to proceed with the \"Evacuation\" of the property owners in Kowloon City until the negotiations with the Chinese Government are concluded.\n\n(c) Forward copy of letter to the Foreign Office to the Governor u/c despatch confirming above telegram.\n\nIre Bades  \n15/2/34\n\nOff submitted. I shall be glad if you concur with my observations on the interpretation of the Convention.\n\nMr. Duncan.  \nMr. Cowell.\n\n## \nThe only doubt that arises as regards the interpretation of the Convention of 9/6/98 is the one which you expressed in your minute of 17/8/53 on `H.K. 13832/33`, namely, as to whether the construction of a public park could properly be said to come within the words \"official purposes\" in paragraph 6.\n\nI have altered the draft accordingly.\n\n21/2/34  \nJ.R. Duncan.  \nCowell.\n\n### \nYES.  \n22/2/34  \nat once",
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        "content_text": "## 26 FEB 1934\n\n**3 F.O. F 1099/1099/10.**\n\nSubmit's observations. Requests that Govt. be asked to consider whether scheme could be carried out with consent of Chinese owner concerned. Has telegraphed Sir A. Cadogan as to probable reaction of Chinese Govt. if expropriation scheme is proceeded with.\n\n**4. ED. F1099/1099/10.**\n\nTo tel. 6. F.O. re scheme. Sir A. Cadogan conf. re expropriation. Ref 3.\n\nThe F.O. consider the various arguments which might be used in justification of the present and future exercise by HM's Government of jurisdiction over Kowloon City. The conclusion is reached (para 2) that, while there are arguments in justification of the present exercise of jurisdiction over Kowloon City, the case for future exercise of that jurisdiction, in the face of a demand for the restoration of Chinese jurisdiction, would not be equally strong unless it could be established that the exercise of Chinese jurisdiction in Kowloon City is still inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong.\n\nGenerally, the F.O. take the view that the right of HM's Government to exercise jurisdiction over Kowloon City is dormant and that it should, if possible, be allowed to remain dormant.\n\nThe only means whereby this result can be achieved without abandoning the project for the clearance of unsanitary buildings within the city and for the establishment of a park,",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nIt is to be noted that the owners concerned are to be approached to obtain their consent to the abandonment of their buildings thus enabling the E.E. to occupy the site. This was favoured by the Governor.\n\nIn paragraph 5 of (1) the Governor considered that the offer of generous terms to the \"Owners\" may lead to their voluntary removal from the site. He thought, however, that if the Chinese Government were primarily concerned with their rights under the Convention of 1898, it would be a mistake to attempt to induce the \"owners\" to remove voluntarily until the major question of the rights of the Chinese Government had been disposed of.\n\nThe F.O., on the other hand, considered that it may be possible to avoid raising that major question by effecting the voluntary removal of the owners of property by the offer of generous terms referred to in para 5(1). They prefer that that possibility should be put to the test.\n\nThe dispatch to the Governor reiterates the substance of paragraphs 2-4 of (3), asking him to consider the possibility of inducing the \"owners\" to remove voluntarily from Kowloon city by offering them the generous terms of compensation referred to in para 5(1), thus avoiding discussions with the Chinese Government concerning the question of the right of H.M.'s Government to continue to exercise jurisdiction within Kowloon City.\n\n`HeBader 16-3-34`",
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        "content_text": "The Chinese walled village, small and known to few, stood on a hill near the City of Kowloon. It came into being in the 19th century, but with the growth of a modern Kowloon city of great flocks of stone buildings and wide streets, the old Chinese village has at last ceased to exist. It has given way to a small part of the modern city that has appeared in its place.\n\nThe new Kowloon is marked with large harbour facilities and military establishments. The chief docks and the terminus of the Canton railway are located in modern Kowloon.\n\nLocated on the eastern side of the village lies the aerodrome, which the Air Ministry is now developing for the accommodation of air-craft service. In this...",
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        "content_text": "## Circumstances\n\nIt seems to me inconceivable that Chinese jurisdiction should be readmitted within the village boundaries and that we should even open the view that there can be any question about it.\n\nThe Admiralty, W.O. agree with all defence considerations that have been put out. Any question of restoring jurisdiction in this area to the Chinese without proviso is not assented to.\n\nI think copy of No. 3 should be sent to the Depts for their absentees. I am writing to the Governor on the defence question.\n\nJ. Rowand  \n2136  \nM. Man.t.  \n16.3  \nJame agrees with the action proposed to Mr. Geur.\n\n27/3/39  \nJ. Duncan",
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        "content_text": "## 6. Foreign Office (3.1681/1099/10)\n\n28 Mar. 1934\n\nTwo copy Tel. No. 214 from H.M. Rep. Peking re proposal to expropriate certain properties of Chinese tenants in Kowloon City.\n\n(7.1670/1099/10)\n\n26 Mar 1934\n\nIs copy tel. no. 2/5 from H.M. Rep. Peking re proposal to expropriate certain properties of Chinese tenants in Kowloon City.\n\n**DESTROY UNDER STATUTE**\n\nNo. 6.\n\nIt is proposed to put by the community to the Chinese authorities that suitable terms be agreed to be studied to compensate villagers displaced from Kowloon City.\n\nIn para. 5, No. 1, it is explained that H.M. Govt. in the proposal & communication have taken the line outlined in Ingram's telegram No. 214 to Ho Chuen Yiu, the Chinese authorities in the area.\n\nM.M. Gaur 20/4 agrees.\n\nPage 10  \nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "## \nat 20 7.0.\n\n6 Arad: \n17 APR 1934 \n9.7.0 (7.1909/1099/10) \n10th April 1934 \n\nacks N.5, states concurs in proposal to communicate to Admy, C.O. & AirMin. copy of 123's relative corres & to ask for their obsons.\n\n## \nRoom So \nPhase prepare a draft to Is the Admirally forwarding the ebens \n2/ Wo \n3/ The M. copies of (1), (2) and (3) and for thes with Mr Gent's obsons Med accordanc Minuts \n9 He Bader 16.3.34 19.4.34 / 20 Admy 20 W.O. wy (2) and (3) -love: \n30 APR 1934 \n\n## \n15 to 20 April. \n3310 \n13. F.O. (F2158 (1099/10) \n19 \n20th April 1934 \nTwas copy of treegram 129 of 19th April to Peking (Baking) approving suggestion in telegram 214 of 2324 March from Peking.\n\n(8) we approved the proposal in Telegram 214 of 2324 March (vide 6) from Peking, that a letter should be sint to the I.J. of Foreign Muirs informing him of the necessity for Removal how been Land y bu very generous terms offered to donors (vide). This proposal has been carried out in the Filigram 4/1⁄2 (3) ? Put \n4 HE Bader 1-5-34",
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        "content_text": "## Pably \n\nI Lowell to see \n\n2.5° \n\nI :. \n\n14 W.O. [s] \n\nJueves diction with 11 ansd, 16. 5. 34. is of opinion Chinese nat ... consistent in Howloon city military requirements for defence of H.King. \n\n? await replice from Adm: and A/m to (10) » (12) \n\nJE Buder \n\nThis M How and To selu 18.5.34 deare out May 25 view on Gaut 23 \n\n## OVER-",
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        "content_text": "## IS Ga tel. 82 \nRef \n\ngrounds for agitation against children on 2.6.34. Canton, considers states Central Band ... has disappeared of he ... necessity for removal mopecia Govt. for dealing with affairs for removal sanguine, but He (below) states not $0 for expenses annulled subject to affairs there concerned. S. of state For the Concur Action can then be considered in light of (13) u/e when then reception. \n\nThere is a telegram to his Excellency Cadogan (Peking) approving the suggestion contained in the Enclosure to (6) to the effect that a communication should be sent to the IG. for Foreign Affairs informing ... necessity for removal from Kowloon City and its owners (vide infra). It would ... fines on the owners. I think it be a mistake for the Governor to make more favorable use of the offer to the inhabitants of Kowloon City until the result of the letter to the IG. for Foreign Affairs is known.\n\nThe Governor in reply to (15) that Consul General at Canton has been authorized to wire telegraph to the IG for Foreign Affairs informing him of the necessity for removal and querious terms & terms described in W. Add that it appears undesirable to announce the offer to those concerned until the IG. or later Foreign Affairs has replied to the Consul General Canton. \n\nTo this letter from (16) in the Enclosure to (16) the Consul General assumes that the \"very generous terms\" have been \"in fact\" offered to owners. [In fact they have not yet been offered, as per para 5 & 8/109]. He added that it was 6/6/34.",
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        "content_text": "# zejoling from Alin \n\non the into FIN-by \n\n14 \n\n2 km \n\nbutter \n\nGov's portal \n\nthe \n\n32 For in \n\nclearly nothing in consultation with \n\nJes \n\nTowal General. \n\nMant. `7/6174` `7/5/3`. \n\nThe terms are accepted by those to be expropriated, any subsequent protest by the Chinese foot will fall a little flat. \n\nHowell to factored. City Con `4 7.0.`, `7.0. y.`, `8/6/34` at nee `11.6.34`. \n\n16 To Gov Hong Kong Tel No 52 \n\nÜbölüm Den OTATUJE \n\n17 20 70. w/c (15) and (16) – A./2. b. **13 JUN 1934** \n\nAdmiralty [0.0]. \n\nextension \n\n19 Admiralty \n\n13.6.34. \n\nRelais ms with of H K. Chanks brundaries, Co print about 16 ausd considers ud. prejudice any defence Chinese \n\n13.6.34 jusscheclion requevements.\n\n## Kawlean \n\nMc Stewart Lockhart's report of 8th October 1878 is at 38 (page 34) of `Eastern 66`. \n\nThe Admiralty agreed in that the racorite of Chinese jurisdiction in Kowtvan.\n\n## Agement with Crus Crus \n\n`P30`",
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        "content_text": "## \nNr cons referred to City would be inconsistent with the defence of Hong Kong.\n\n... aware of the implications of the action in (15) and (16). ? Put by.\n\n118 Baser 18.6.34 Horiz 19/16 Pl.\n\nI reached the A/M by telephone. Shin many expect then. And we want the F.O. to know what attitude the Service Depts have taken up towards the F.O. suggestion that Officials thru Chinese might be allowed to re-enter Kowloon immediately.\n\nIf there is no prospect of reply from the A/M, she will send the W-O 1 Admy new without waiting longer.\n\nC Whant. 19/16 Truphoned to Mon 22/6. They will let us know when an answer is expected. 118 Bader.\n\nThe A/M informed this morning that they are replying to (12) semi-officially and that the letter will be sent immediately. 118 Boar will await letter from Mr. 26/6.",
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        "content_text": "## \nuntil end of week.  \nM Cowell to see  \n19  \n16  \n26.6.  \nRef. 12.  \nAir Ministry  \nDraft letter  \n20. Evans (Air Ministry)  \n5/0  \n26  \n6 June, 1934.  \n12. Unless protection of the aerodrome is involved, will not have much to say in matter.  \nH&Badur to the S.O. ut(9) 15 Submitted 28/6/34  \nMhant  \n38.6.  \nstate's  \n7/20 20.- w/c (14) and (19)  \n22 you. tel. 98.  \nRef 16.  \naccepted  \naddressed  \nOffer has majority, beat Minister  \nserberating charge of  \n(19) - 10 JUL 1934  \n6.7.34  \nbeen  \ncommunicated d  \nChanere  \nGovt-  \nhave  \nreach  \n&  \nTreaty  \nna  \nimpossible  \nit might be  \nrecessary  \nChinese  \ndo  \nabandon  \nAction for 200  \nwithdraw  \nWe.  \nfirm level  \nclaim  \nprinciple  \n\nIf the Chinese Government presses its claim to exercise jurisdiction within Hong Kong City, we shall have good ground in arguing that the exercise of such jurisdiction would still be inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong.  \nWe should send draft reply h/o to them to whether they agree with the Arms of the reply.  \n8 (22)  \n(22) and 9  \nuthors asking Bad  \n36",
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        "content_text": "## \nFv. view \n3 No. last part of set out presently the \nWe obviously cannot agree that the whole scheme being held up because of two recalcitrant owners/ absentees; \nSay so ↳ F.O. in addition. \nAnd proposed with that, \nWhat \n7:34 \nDft to F.O. accordingly \nDraft submitted to Secretary \n11.7.34",
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        "content_text": "## \n19 \n\n27 1.0. bur [25] 20-7.34 \n\n> agrees with Gov's. Lilae li consult Chinese authorising Su W. Reel. pcgramme, Peking menestà furst regard Sad, before fenally Juds chaft. tel. fra appraisal suggests серу la Sent JP. \n\nExcept that I in paragraph 2, I doubt the advantage of the Words draft Tellgram to Ilm. Minister in Patting, the proposal in (27) appears to be acceptable. We can inform Fo. that we concur in the terms of their draft and ask to be informed when it is to be despatched so that we can despatch, simultaneously, telegrams as in drafts `W/w` (which should be sent for F.O. concurrence).\n\n21.7.34 \nSol Cent. You spoke to ... about this, now amended. drafts are th dft tel can so 15 F.O. has been When we get Lee, copy of as fut? > Thrink When the despatched] 2-3 23 \n\n1. \n2 to 7.0.- 27 Aued: - bans. \n\n**Page 25 JUL 1934**",
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        "content_text": "## \nThe letter of which a draft is sent herewith may be despatched to Peking.\n\nI have slightly altered the wording at the beginning.\n\n30.7.34 tel. 259\n\n20 \nJuds carry to Peking ? \n\nNo 67, August 27.0 - nos (30) B.12b.\n\n7 AUG 1934 \n32 Gu. sell 112. 9.8.34 2.4. on (21).\n\nDofsa stales Minister how informed him of Creamy ance.\n\nLAM COUNSEL taking stejn have fust black proposed by F.o., black of new houses erected.\n\nCopy to Fo. L.F. ref. (31).\n\nH.E Badir val Movell To su 9/8/34 \n\nNV2. Yank after actio\n\nPage 20\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "## \n37 2 7.0. rope (32) B12. b. 10 AUG 1934\n\nLi Zig. To H.K. Lee (no/c 3.5921), 23 AUG 1934\n\n7.30\n\n$5. 3.0. F.5002/1099/10.\n\nRef 28 2 17 Aug. 1934. 20. of Kel 542 from Peking agreeing with proposal curtained in end. in 29.\n\n36 J.O. ? Put br. 11.8. Badur 24/8. 25 14.9.34 590 • 591 treatment Justs. C^^ coquas Reling contention of Worchiaqu of inhabitants.\n\nIn his telegram No 542 (u/c) (35) the Minister at Peking reported that he was forwarding Waichiaopu's reply which contests the accuracy of the facts as set out in the first paragraph of the F.O. telegram No 259 (u/e '(29)).\n\nIn 6 (36) the Governor of Hong Kong has been asked for Suggestions as to the reply which should be sent and we shall no doubt be consulted before that reply is sent.\n\n1.8. Baser Carr: Surent. 28 am 24/9/34.",
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        "content_text": "## \nContinuation of (36).\n\n(36)\n\nNothing has been received from the FO.\n\nWe should first ascertain if the FO. have received anything further and if not: \n\nTelegram to 184 asking what reply the FO proposes to make to Governor has made.\n\nFile No. `5271` from the Minister at Peking (Second End, to (36)).\n\nH. E. Bader `2/10/3`.\n\nFor about any further tel on 36.\n\nThat π Cowell in the balance time. \n\nIn Peking.\n\nThis may be much inspired by the evicted Line the derive to is nothing. The FO. \n\nand any \n\n21/9/34 a wit-of bluff get better terms for Cowell from Sir Cadogan.\n\ntrampling that there is 4 HK W.\n\nA cared to August.\n\nRef 27 desp. chioc Pu.\n\nH. E. Bader fuels. copy sul. legation 22 14.9.34 Peking unith même. desp. \n\n31 as directed Morell hotel 25/9. \n\n37 36 on return. What 2519 am Received 20 anected.\n\n1130- for Wai.\n\nx X 37 3.0. ú ? Put 4.\n\nbat meire т \n\ndesp. \n\n> Ranasled \n\nó fu \n\nIn Sant.\n\nPel in \n\nThis be mesch \n\nthe evicted Zine \n\nany \n\nAunetu bout",
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        "content_text": "## \nWai Chia Pu \n\nThe hope that the question of repatriation of the inhabitants of Kowloon City will die a natural death if we answer returning to prove to be forlorn. The Wai Chia Pu may prove to be more and more anomalous.\n\n### \n`Ref: 27` \nWas handed to Mr. Bader on `8/10` by `Ks Bader` on `5.10.34`. \nJuds corres statements.\n\n### \nPeking memo. \n`16-10-34` \nDehung derp \nWaichiaopu te meme `37`. \n`1248` \n? Put by. \nHr. Badr `17/10/13` SWEW.\n\n### \n`24.10.34` \nWai Chia Pu asked expressly for an answer. \n`26/10/34` \n? Putly \n`XCR(39)` \nB2 Bader Bu \n\n### \n`4030` cm \nWachiaopu \nJuds lil \n\n## \nPage...? \n\nHeer of mants \nMyout \n/xam \n38 3.0. \ndesp \n1178 \nWas chino pr. \nfuds easy \n? Put br. \nKs Bader \nhanded \n7 \n8/x. \n\nདོན་པོ་མེད་ \n\n\" \nind \n\nに \n34 JO \n8710 \nJuds \nсеру \nперву \n\nm \n? Put by. \n\nSWEW",
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        "content_text": "## Mr Hanson\n\nIn telephone conversation with the EE Dept, F-O asked my opinion on a matter of urgency, namely whether we should take any action in connection with the Caving-in Section. I replied that I did not think it was the chief thing to do at present.\n\nMr Hanson said that the delay in leaving out of it the inhabitants of the present slum buildings (which constitute the Chinese \"City\" of Kowloon) was largely due to the fact that after the site has been cleared, it will be used as a \"preserved area\" or a place of popular historical interest. The Chinese claim special jurisdiction in de facto recognition of this.\n\nThe area must become even more crowded than it is at present.\n\n26  \nEn Gent.  \n26/x  \n6/x",
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        "content_text": "## \nFile had been sealed \n(41) 7.0. \nbundle forwarded \nto \nEstimate \n\nJudge's copy \nclasp. \nPeking \nfrom Sov. J. King \ndifficulties \n28.12.34 \nPeking desp. 142 \n\nThe \ndespatch \nenclosed \nin `(UN)` was \nwritten \nin Berlin \n\nsent \n& \nJune \n1.6 km \n15.1.35 \nin Manchukuo \n16. Wh...",
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        "content_text": "## Made on 26\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote `No. F.1565/1099/10` and address - not to any person by name, but to - \"The Under-Secretary of State,” Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office, 28 Dec. 1934.\n\n| Reference to previous correspondence | Description of Enclosure | Name and Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| F.6265/1099/10 (40) |  | 2 Dec 1934 |  |\n|  |  | J.M. No. 1420, 20 Nov 1934 | Expropriation of Properties in Kowloon |\n\nSimilar letter sent to... \n\n`C.O. REGY`\n`14--6130 10292 (2)`",
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        "content_text": "No. 1420 (22/63.A/1934)\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL BAG**\n\nHis Majesty's Minister, Peking, presents his compliments\nto His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,\nand transmits herewith three copies of the undermentioned paper.\n\nPeking, 20th October, 1934.\n\n| Reference to previous correspondence (40) | Description of Enclosure                         | Subject      |\n| ------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------ | ------------ |\n| Telegram to Foreign Office No.659 of 20.10.34 | Despatch from Governor, Hongkong, No.32 of 1.10.34 (without enclosure) | Kowloon City |\n\nCopied to: \n\nPage 27",
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        "content_text": "# CONFIDENTIAL\n## No.32.\n### T/S/E: FW.\n\nBy Safe Hand.\n\nCopy to Canton (49) Copy to Nanking (34) (39) (3) Sir.\n\n28\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG.**\n1st October, 1934.\n\nI have the honour to confirm my telegram No.25 regarding Kowloon City reading as follows:-\n\"Your telegrams (57) and (58) and note No.81 `(20/63A/1934)` Kowloon City. I have since received copy of further correspondence between home departments concerned. Please await despatch\".\n\nand to forward for your information a copy of the correspondence there mentioned. As you will see this correspondence has been sent to me by the Colonial Office for information only and I am not clear what line of action is indicated in respect of the Wai Chiao Pu's note of 7th September. The course of persuasion advocated in the last paragraph of the letter from the Foreign Office to the Colonial Office dated 9th March, 1934, is precisely that pursued by this Government with, it was thought, success. It is however clear that someone with a grievance against the Colonial Government's land policy has a wire to the Wai Chiao Pu which he is pulling vigorously. This person cannot at present be identified.\n\nIt seems probable from the mention of Kowloon Tsui that his grievance does not arise from action over Kowloon City at all. \"Kowloon Tsui\" is probably a mistake for \"Kowloon ...\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Minister, PEKING.",
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        "content_text": "## 2.\n\n(22) (24)\n\n9\n\n\"Kowloon Tsai\" - a small village a mile or so from Kowloon City. This village was resumed in 1933 for town planning purposes on far less favourable terms than are offered for Kowloon City and the wire-puller may be one of the ex-owners. In any case, his statements regarding \"daily threats\" are totally untrue and indicate a determination to embarrass the Hong Kong Government at all costs. I may add that the District Officer New Territories (South), a member of the Hong Kong Cadet Service, has discussed the question of removal several times during the past eighteen months with the inhabitants of Kowloon City and reports that they have been exceedingly friendly. The results of these discussions are set out in my telegram to the Secretary of State for the Colonies of 6th and 16th July, 1934.\n\n## 2.\n\nOn the one hand, therefore, we seem to have an implacable enemy determined to make trouble. On the other, we have the Chinese Government stating plainly that \"The rights of jurisdiction within Kowloon City have always been patently distinct from the newly leased territories outside the city which are exclusively under British jurisdiction; the people within the city therefore without exception come in every respect under the control of the Chinese Government and the authority of His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong cannot of course be exercised within the City.\" To which it must be added that the known attitude of the Chinese Authorities towards private property when \"development\" is in hand, is such as to make preposterous any case based by Nanking on the alleged meagreness of this Government's terms which are, in fact, extremely generous.\n\n## 3.",
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        "content_text": "## 30\n\n(1)\n\n3. I am accordingly confirmed in the view expressed in the final paragraph of my **Confidential** despatch of 9th January, 1934, that the Chinese Government is determined to extract an admission of their special right over Kowloon City. In my opinion no such admission can be made without incalculable damage to British interests not only in this Colony but throughout China.\n\n4. You will no doubt wish to obtain definite instructions from His Majesty's Government before answering the Wai Chiao Pu's note, in which case I shall presumably receive a further communication from the Colonial Office. In the meantime I propose to proceed with the building of the new village but to hold no further converse with the present owners unless pressed, in which case I would propose to state that this Government's plans are unchanged.\n\nI have the honour to be,  \nSir,  \nYour most obedient servant,  \n(Signed) **W. PEEL**  \nGovernor, &c.\n\nPage 30  \nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote `No. Fu265/1099/10` and address—not to any person by name, but to— \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S. W. 1.\n\n31\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n40\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to The Secretary of State for the Colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office, 24 Oct. 1934.\n\n2\n\n| Reference to previous correspondence | Description of Enclosure | Name and Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| `F.D. Lowe F. 5500/1099/0` [36] |  | 19 Sept 1934 My Minister Pening Farm 659 of 2000 | Expropriation of Chinese properties in Kowloon |\n|  |  | Jo 364. 23001 14-6130 10292 (2) Similar letter sent to |  |",
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        "content_text": "## NO DISTRIBUTION \n\n**Decypher**\n\nSir A. Cadogan (Pekin).\n\n20th October 1934.\n\nD.\n\n20th October (By Wireless).\n\nR.\n\n4.00 p.m. 20th October 1934.\n\nNo. 659.\n\nMy telegram No. 50 to Hongkong (repeated to Foreign Office telegram No. 591).\n\nThe Governor of Hongkong has replied that statements in petition referred to by Waichiaopu regarding \"daily threats\" are totally untrue. District officer of New Territories (South) has discussed question of removal several times during the past eighteen months with the inhabitants of Kowloon City and reports that they had been exceedingly friendly.\n\nThe Governor considers the complaint is due to some (unidentified) person who has a grievance against Colonial Government land policy. Mention of Kowloon Tsui, which is probably a mistake for Kowloon Tsai, suggests that the person was one of the ex-owners in the latter village when it was resumed in 1933 for town planning purposes on less favourable terms that are offered for Kowloon City.\n\n3. The Governor adds that he is confirmed in his view that the Chinese Government are using this case to extract an admission of their special right over Kowloon and he considers that no such admission can be made without incalculable damage to British interests. He proposes to proceed.... \n\nSee Hongkong telegrams to Colonial Office Nos. 93 and 103.",
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        "content_text": "## 2. \nproceeded with building of the new village but to hold no \nfurther converse with the present owners unless pressed \nin which case he would state that the Government's plans \nare unchanged.\n\n4. \nI request instructions as to what reply to return to Waichiaopu.\n\n5. \nCopy to Hongkong, despatch follows by first available safe opportunity.",
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        "content_text": "**(F6265/1099/10)**\n\n34\n\n1\n\n**NO DISTRIBUTION.**\n\nCypher telegram to Sir A. Cadogan (Peking).\n\nForeign Office, October 23rd 1934.\n\n5.45 p.m.\n\nNo. 364.\n\nYour telegram No. 659 (of October 20th: Expropriation of Chinese property in Kowloon).\n\nSubject to any views you may hold, I am inclined to suggest that no reply should be returned to the Waichiaopu, in hope that matter may die a natural death.\n\nRepeated to Hongkong No.99.",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote \n`No. F6068` \n`1099/10` \nand address - not to any person by name, but to - \n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\n39 \n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his \ncompliments to the Officer Administering \nthe Government of Hong Kong \nand, by direction of the Secretary of State, \ntransmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper. \n\nForeign Office, \n24th October, \n1934. \n\n35 \n\nReference to previous correspondence: \n\n| Description of Enclosure | Name and Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Peking telegram of 19 Sept 1934 | JAM... Minister | Expropriation of certain Chinese properties in ... Kontoon Cin |\n\nSimilar letter sent to ... \n\n`F. 5560/107`... \n`GR155/1554`\n`14-6130 10292(2)`",
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        "content_text": "No. 1248 (20/63A/1934) VIA SIBERIA.\n\nHis Majesty's Minister, Peking, presents his compliments\nto His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,\nand transmits herewith three copies of the undermentioned paper.\n\nPeking, 15th September 1934.\n\n[2]\n\n## Reference to previous correspondence:\n| Description |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Telegrams to Hongkong | No. 57 and 58, repeated to Foreign Office No. 590 and 591 of 15.9.1934. |\n\n## Description of Enclosure\n| Name and Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- |\n| Memorandum from Wai Chiao Pu of 7.9.1934 | Kowloon City expropriations. |\n\nCopy to:-\nHongkong, Canton, Sub-Legation.",
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        "content_text": "G.R.T. 10.9.34.\n\nFROM WAI CHIAO PU\nTO H.M. MINISTER.\n\n37\n\nXXXXXX NANKING.\n\n[31]\n\n**MEMORANDUM**\n\n7th September\n(Received 10.9.1934)\n\nThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs present their compliments to His Majesty's Legation and have the honour to acknowledge receipt of a memorandum dated the 14th August on the subject of the eviction by the Hong Kong Government of the residents of Kowloon City. The Ministry, however, find that there are considerable discrepancies between the facts as reported to them and the statements contained in the memorandum under acknowledgment, and has the honour therefore to submit the following statement:-\n\nThe Ministry for Foreign Affairs has received a petition from the inhabitants of Kowloon City as follows:\n\nSince June last, when we received the notification dated the 20th June issued by the New Territories District Office (South District), we have been subjected to daily threats to the effect that 'unless action were taken in accordance with the prescribed arrangements, our houses would be demolished without our consent and we would be expelled'. We residents, having regard to the precedent of the oppressive treatment imposed last year by the Hongkong Government on the residents of Kowloon Tsui (1), were extremely alarmed.\n\nFor in that instance, owing to the fact that the residents of Kowloon Tsui did not accept the terms of the /Hongkong",
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        "content_text": "38 \n\nHongkong Government, when the time appointed for evacuation arrived, police were sent to demolish the houses, and, on the grounds that the residents had refused to comply with the prescribed procedure, no other land was set aside for them after the demolition of their houses, nor was the value of their houses refunded to them. As a result, the said residents had no place to lay their heads. We residents therefore, with the object of avoiding falling into a similarly distressful situation, were impelled to make representations as to our grievances.\n\nThe New Territories District Office (South District) has announced that there are now only two alternative arrangements between which the people are free to make their choice. The first is that new houses will be built for the residents free of charge on the new building land designated last year; the other consists in the refunding of the value of the houses in accordance with the Notification of 10th June 1933 assessing their value. We, coerced as we were by a display of authority, could not but give our oral consent and express our willingness either to recover the value of the houses or to accept the new houses built for us. But sixty-four households within the City have maintained an undisturbed residence there over several generations. Moreover the Kou Shih Ling (嶺) land is an entire wilderness, and very distant from the market, while the value fixed for the houses again is very...",
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        "content_text": "## 39\n\nvery low when compared with what they would fetch in the market. Protection is therefore requested, so that we may live in peace.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also in receipt of a copy of the Notification issued by the New Territories District Office (South District) under date 20th June 1934, forming the enclosure to the above petition.\n\nThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs have the honour to observe that the proceedings of the Hongkong Government in this case having obviously been at variance with the spirit of the treaty stipulations, this Ministry has already, in a Note dated the 27th July 1933, requested that the Hongkong Government be moved to withdraw their original design, as is on record. In June of this year (`13832`) however further reports were received that the Hongkong Government had notwithstanding the above request, again issued a Notification setting a time-limit for the forcible eviction of the residents, in apparently complete disregard of the intentions of the treaties and the sense of this Ministry's previous Note. The rights of jurisdiction within Kowloon City have always been patently distinct from the newly leased territories outside the city which are exclusively under British jurisdiction; the people within the city therefore without exception come in every respect under the control of the Chinese Government and the authority of His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong cannot of course be exercised within",
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        "content_text": "40\n\nwithin the City.\n\nIn His Majesty's Minister's Note under acknowledgment it is stated that \"the vast majority of the residents of Kowloon City have gladly accepted the Governor's offer\" but according to the reports quoted above they were in fact overawed by a display of authority and did not gladly accept the terms offered.\n\nThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs have the honour therefore to reiterate their request that the Hongkong Government be moved to reconsider the matter in a spirit of equity and immediately withdraw or suspend the orders issued regarding the residents of Kowloon City, so that friendly relations may be strengthened. The favour of a reply is requested.\n\n**STAMP OF MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS**\n\nPage 40\nPage 41",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote No. F508/1099 and address—not to any person by name, but to— \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. I.\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office, 30th March 1934.\n\n## Reference to previous correspondence\n| Description of Enclosure | Name and Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| F5646/1099/10 | Minister... of 29 Aug 1934 | Proposed expropriation of Chinese property in Kowloon |\n\n14-6130 10292 (2)\n\nSimilar letter sent to...",
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        "content_text": "No. 1178(18/63.A/1954)\n\nHis Majesty's Minister, Peking, presents his compliments to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and transmits herewith three copies of the undermentioned paper.\n\nPeking (at Peitaiho) 29th August 1934.\n\n## Reference to previous despatch\nDespatch to Foreign Office P/L No.1130 of 15.8.1934. Telegram to Foreign Office No.542 of 15.8.1934.\n\n## Description of Inclosure\n| Name and Date | Subject | From |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| No.141 of 23.8.1934 | Kowloon City | Sub-Legation, despatch |",
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        "content_text": "NO. 141 (29/110μ/1934)\n\nCopies to:\nHongkong No. 4 Canton\n\n# \n\n9\n\nSir,\n\n**BRITISH SUB-LEGATION**\nNANKING,\n23rd August, 1934.\n\n[37]\n\nWith reference to your despatch No. 936 of 14th August, regarding the expropriation of Chinese tenants in Kowloon City, I have the honour to inform you that I handed the memorandum enclosed therein to the Head of the European and American Department at the Wai-chiao-pu today.\n\n2. In handing the Note to Mr. Liu Shih-shun, I emphasised that no notice fixing the time limit for evacuation had been issued by the Governor, and that the inducement offered had been an extremely generous one, as was shown by the fact that all the inhabitants except one had gladly accepted it.\n\n3. Mr. Liu confined his reply to stating that he would communicate the memorandum to Mr. Wang Ching-wei.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n(Signed)\nR.G. HOWE\n\nThe Honourable\nSir Alexander Cadogan, K.C.M.G., C.B.,\nHis Britannic Majesty's Minister,\nPEKING.",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote `No. 15646/1999/0` and address—not to any person by name, but to—\"**The Under-Secretary of State**,” Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\nN.D.\n\nPage 44  \nPage 37\n\n**THE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs** presents his compliments to ...\n\n... transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper, and, by direction of the Secretary of State, ...\n\nForeign Office, 24 Sep 1934.\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\n| Name and Date | Description of Enclosure | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| ... [29] ... of 30 July 1934 | Despatch No. 1130 of 15 August 1934 | Proposed expropriation of certain house properties in Kowloon City |\n| F. 456 5/1099/W | 14-6130 10292 (2) |  |\n\nSimilar letter sent to ...",
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        "content_text": "No. 1130 (17/63A/1934)\n\nHis Majesty's Minister, Peking, presents his compliments\nto His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,\nand transmits herewith three copies of the undermentioned paper.\n\nPeking, (At Peitaiho) 15th August 1934\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n[29] Telegram from Foreign Office No.259 of 27/7/1934.\n\n| Description of Enclosure | Name and Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Despatch to Sub-Legation, Kowloon City. | No.936 of 14/8/1934 |  |\n\nCopied to: Bee enclosure 45 \n\nPage ... (if needed, but not in this case as there is no clear page number in the original text)",
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        "content_text": "# No.936 (17/634/1954)\n\nCopied to: Hong Kong, Canton, Foreign Office.\n\n**BRITISH LEGATION, PEKING**  \n(at Fei-tai-ho).\n\n14th August 1954.\n\nSir,\n\n**Memorandum**\n\nWith reference to Hongkong telegram No.17 of the 9th August regarding the expropriation of certain Chinese tenants in Kowloon City, I transmit to you herewith a memorandum replying to the telegram from the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the subject which was, at the request of the Wai Chiao Pu, transmitted by Mr. Holman in his telegram No.186 of the 26th June and was also addressed to me direct by His Excellency (see my telegram No.42 to Hongkong repeated to you as my telegram No.518).\n\n2\\. I shall be glad if you will communicate the enclosed memorandum to the Wai Chiao Pu, and I leave it to your discretion whether you think it necessary to support it by any verbal communication.\n\nI am,  \nSir,  \nYour most obedient, humble Servant,  \n(SGD) ALEXANDER CADOGAN.\n\nSub-Legation,  \nNANKING.",
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        "content_text": "`(17/63/1934)`\n\nCopy to: Bu-Legation, \nF.O., Canton.\n\n**MEMORANDUM**\n\n47\n\nHis Majesty's Minister has the honour to refer to the telegram of June 26th from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the subject of reports which had reached His Excellency in connection with certain measures undertaken by the British Authorities affecting Chinese residents in Kowloon City.\n\nOn receipt of the telegram above referred to, inquiries were instituted by the competent authorities and His Majesty's Minister is now able to state in reply that the reports in question were based on a misapprehension of the true facts. In the first place, the Governor of Hongkong did not issue any notice to the inhabitants of Kowloon City in question setting a time limit for their evacuation but communicated to them the terms of a generous offer with a view to carrying out a scheme conceived in their interests for improving sanitary conditions. In so doing, the Governor was clearly acting within his rights and no question of breach of treaty stipulations has arisen.\n\nHis Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs appears also to have been misinformed as to the attitude of the inhabitants of Kowloon City, for they are neither frightened nor disturbed, but on the contrary, the vast majority of them have gladly accepted the Governor's offer. It would be most unjust, as His Excellency will understand, to withdraw the offer now and the Governor will therefore proceed to carry out the scheme. His Excellency agrees with His Majesty's Minister...",
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        "content_text": "## Page 48\n\n48\n\nmay however be assured that the utmost consideration \nwill, as heretofore, be shown for the interests of \nthe Chinese inhabitants.\n\n**British Legation,**\n**PEIPING (at Peitaiho)**\n14th August, 1924.",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote \nNo. `F5560` \n`5560/1099/10` \nand address - not to any person by name, but to - \n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his \ncompliments to the ... \nSecretary of State for the Colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, \ntransmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned papers \nForeign Office, \n19 Sept, 1934.\n\nReference to previous correspondence : \n`F.5002/1099/1(35)`\n\n| Description of Enclosure | Name and Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Telegram | H.M. Minister, Peiping | Proposed expropriation of certain Chinese properties in Kowloon City |\n| 590 of 15 Aug 1934 |  |  |\n| 591 of 17 Aug 1934 |  |  |\n\nSimilar letter sent to... \nPage 36 \nPage 49",
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        "content_text": "# 50\n\n**NO DISTRIBUTION**\n\nDecode. Sir A. Cadogan (Peking).\n\nSeptember 15th 1934.\n\nD.\n\nWireless.\n\nSeptember 15th 1934.\n\nR. 7.00 p.m.\n\nSeptember 15th 1934.\n\nNo.590.\n\n(R).\n\nAA\n\nAddressed to Hongkong No. 57.\n\nWaichiaopu have replied that there are considerable discrepancies between facts as reported to them and statements contained in my memorandum of August 14th. They have received a petition from inhabitants of Kowloon city stating that since last June they have been subjected to daily threats that unless action were taken in accordance with prescribed arrangements their houses would be demolished without their consent and they would be expelled. Recalling oppressive treatment accorded last year by Hongkong government to residents of Kowloon, these inhabitants felt compelled to accept one of the two alternatives offered by the government. They point out however that 64 households within the city have maintained an undisturbed residence there over several generations, that Koushihling land is a wilderness and very far from market, and that the value at which houses have been assessed is considerably below the market price.\n\nWaichiaopu conclude by reiterating arguments expressed in their previous notes on this subject, including reference to treaty stipulations and claims that Chinese residents in Kowloon city are under the control of the Chinese government, and request withdrawal or suspension of measures in question. Waichiaopu memorandum follows by post.\n\nAbove refers to my telegram No.542. Repeated to Foreign Office No.590, Canton, and Mission.\n\nCopy of \n\nPage 50\nPage 51",
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        "content_text": "(F5560/1099/10)\n\n**NO DISTRIBUTION**\n\n**Decypher.**\n\nSir A. Cadogan (Peking).\n\n15th September, 1934.\n\nD.\n\nWireless.\n\n15th September, 1934.\n\nR.\n\n7.30 p.m.\n\n15th September, 1934.\n\nNo.591.\n\nAddressed to Hong Kong No.58 of 15th September.\n\nMy telegram No.57.\n\nI should be glad if Your Excellency will inform me in due course what reply you suggest should be returned to Waichiaopu. I will then consult Foreign Office as to whether they concur.\n\nRepeated to Foreign Office No.591, Canton and Mission.\n\n51",
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        "content_text": "## COPY REGENERATION\nE 9-AUG 1934\n\n**CYPHER TELEGRAM** from the Governor of Hong Kong to the \n**Secretary of State for the Colonies**.\n\nDated 9th August.  \nReceived 9.40 a.m. 9th August, 1934.\n\nNo.112.\n\n[30]\n\nYour telegram No.67. Kowloon City. Minister has notified me of concurrence in course proposed by Foreign Office and I am taking steps to have first block of new houses erected. \n\n[32]  \n[52]",
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        "content_text": "## PARAPHRASE TELEGRAM from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong\n(Sent 2:30 p.m., 2nd August, 1934.)\n\n**No. 67**\n\nKowloon City. Foreign Office have furnished (encl. in a reply to the Minister's telegram No. 473 and have asked that it may be repeated to you). I agree with Foreign Office that the programme outlined in your Confidential despatch 9th January should be carried out but that its execution should not be proceeded with until the views of His Majesty's Minister Peking have been ascertained regarding the steps which should be taken by His Majesty's Government vis-à-vis Chinese Government.\n\n(2 drafts).  \nCopy `F.0. LF.` \n\nMr. Bader 21/7  \nMr. Gent 23  \nMr. Cowell. `H.R.C.2/8` at once.  \n`33744/34`  \n\nsee  \n`[32]`  \n\n3  \n30  \n53",
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        "content_text": "## \n3.2 \n\n33744/34/H.K.\n\n[29] \n\nMr. Parkinson. \nSir G. Tomlinson. \nSir C. Bottomley. \nSir J. Shuckburgh \n\nPermt. U.S. of S. \nParly. U.S. of S. \nSecretary of State. \n\n25 JUL 1934 \n\n54 \n\n2 \n\n**DRAFT** \n\nI am to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 20.2 of July (F4337/1099/10) regarding certain Chinese inhabitants from Kowloon 'City' in Hong Kong, to inform Sir Isaa Simon of further action.\n\nTo request that he concurs in the action proposed in the letter under acknowledgement.",
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        "content_text": "I would be glad if the despatch to H.M.'s Representative at the Court of Siam were repeated to the Gov[ernor] of H.K. to be communicated to the Siamese informant.\n\nI am to request that a copy of the tel[egram] as sent may be furnished to this Dept. in due course.\n\n(Signed) H. R. COWELL",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote No. `F4337/1099/10` and address not to any person by name, but to \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\n[25]  \n[23]\n\nSir,\n\nDUP ALL Anse (28)\n\n**FOREIGN OFFICE.**  \nS.W.1.  \n56  \n27  \n20th July, 1934.\n\n**RECEIVED**  \n21 JUL 1934  \nC. O.\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir John Simon to refer to your letter No. `33744/34` of the 17th July enclosing a copy of a telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the proposed removal of the Chinese inhabitants from Kowloon City.\n\nSir John Simon agrees with Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister's view that the programme outlined by the Governor of Hong Kong in his despatch of the 9th January should be carried out, but before His Excellency is finally authorised to proceed he would like to consult His Majesty's Minister in Peking as to the steps to be taken vis-à-vis the Chinese Government.\n\nI am to enclose therefore the draft of a telegram which, subject to Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister's concurrence, it is proposed to send to Sir Alexander Cadogan in reply to the request for instructions in his telegram No. `473` (see Foreign Office letter `F4191/1099/10` of 13th July) and to suggest that in the first instance this telegram might be repeated to the Governor in lieu of sending the telegram, draft of which was enclosed in your letter under reference.\n\nI am,  \nSir,  \nYour obedient Servant,  \nC.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,  \nColonial Office.",
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        "content_text": "F4337/1099/10\n\nJuly 57\n\nSir A. Cadogan, PEKING.\n\n**Telegram.**\n\n[23]\n\nYour telegram No. 473 (of the 10th July; expropriation of Chinese owners in Kowloon City).\n\n1. You should if you see no objection reply to telegram from Minister for Foreign Affairs to the effect that on enquiry you find that his telegram was based on a complete misapprehension of the true facts; the Governor did not issue any notice setting a time limit for evacuation but merely communicated to the inhabitants of Kowloon City the terms of an extremely generous offer with a view to carrying out a scheme, conceived in the interests of the inhabitants themselves, for improving sanitary conditions. The Governor was obviously acting entirely within his rights and no question of breach of Treaty stipulations can arise. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has also been misinformed as to the attitude of the inhabitants of Kowloon...",
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        "content_text": "## \nKowloon City. They are neither frightened nor disturbed. On the contrary the vast majority of them have joyfully accepted the Governor's offer. It would be most unjust now to withdraw the offer and the Governor will therefore proceed to carry out the scheme. The Minister for Foreign Affairs may however rest assured that the utmost consideration will as heretofore be shown for the interests of the Chinese inhabitants.\n\n2. I am suggesting to the Colonial Office that the Governor might proceed gradually with the removal to the new site postponing as long as possible actual expropriation of the one remaining recalcitrant.\n\n3. Please telegraph whether you concur in this method of dealing with the matter.\n\n4. War Office and Admiralty have expressed view that resumption of jurisdiction in Kowloon City by Chinese Government would be... \n\n58",
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        "content_text": "59 \n\nbe inconsistent with military requirements \nfor defence of Hong Kong. See my despatch \nNo. 495 of the 13th July.",
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        "content_text": "33744/34.\n\nSir,\n\n60\n17 July\nTel. fr. H. Kong\n6.7.34.\n\nWith reference to correspondence on the subject of Kowloon City, Hong Kong, terminating in a letter from this Department dated the 10th July, I am directed by Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister to forward for the information of Secretary Sir John Simon a copy of a telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong from which it will be observed that, with the exception of absentees and two recalcitrants, all the owners of property within the city of Kowloon have accepted one or other of the offers which were outlined in the Governor's **Confidential** despatch of the 9th January which formed an enclosure to a letter from this Department of the 26th February, but that the Chinese Government has reiterated the charge of breach of Treaty. I am to say that Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister does not consider\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE, FOREIGN OFFICE.\n\nthat\n\nPage 60\nPage 61",
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        "content_text": "that the fact that two recalcitrants and certain absentee owners have not signified their acceptance of the terms offered should be allowed to interfere with the programme for the removal of insanitary conditions in Kowloon City, and I am to enclose a copy of the draft of a telegram which it is proposed to send in reply to the Governor's telegram of the 6th July, unless Sir John Simon has any objection to offer.\n\nI am,\nsir,\nYour most obedient servant,\n**(Signed) H. R. COWELL**\n61",
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        "content_text": "## Confidential\n### Governor, Hong Kong\n\n62\n\nYour telegram 6th July Kowloon City.\n\nIn your telegram, I note that there is an offer by a large masonry firm to remove the inhabitants to new sites indicated in paragraph 5 of your confidential dispatch. I concur with your decision.\n\nYou should proceed with removal to new sites irrespective of the claim by the Chinese Government, which must be contested.\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nC. O. \nMr. Badus 10/7 \nMIY. Gent \nMr. Parkinson. \nMr. Tomlinson. \nSir C. Bottomley. \nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nPermt. U.S. of S. \nParly. U.S. of S. \nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT. \n\n(For concurrence & to) \n\n(22)",
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        "content_text": "## \n64 \n\nThe citr of Kowloon have occupied Offers one which Pascapeph (1) despatch (2) formed an fi the 7 were other of the outhed in Governors Confidential the que Tomary which Inclosure to this Department q but that the ruterated addolved a letter from the 26th February, \n\nThe Chinese Government has th Chesape of breach of treaty. am to say that Sie Philip Cunliffe-Lister does not consider that the fact that live recalcitrant and Cintans absentree Fowners have not Signified their acquiescence Firm's offened Simon a copy Of the draft of lilegram which, it is proposed to send in reply to the Governors telegram 么 the Tahn John cultes Simon has any objectin brade acceptance of ten Jus \"by the Hong Hong Government Should be the proy \n\nJam moquitury to b 6'4 July, Jam o te t \n\n(Signed) H. R. COOLind/\n\nallower to interfere with for the unoval Kowloon City, Con Actions in enclose bedore for the boons of his John \n\nlo 7.0.6 \n\n## Reconstructed Text\n\nThe city of Kowloon have occupied. Offers one which  \n(1) despatch \n(2) formed an ... the 7 were other ... outlined in Governor's Confidential ... the query Tomary which Inclosure to this Department ... but that the reiterated addolved a letter from the 26th February.\n\nThe Chinese Government has ... the Chesape... of breach of treaty. I am to say that Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister does not consider that the fact that live recalcitrant and Chinese absentee owners have not signified their acquiescence ... Firm's ... offened Simon a copy of the draft of telegram which, it is proposed to send in reply to the Governor's telegram ... the ... John ... Simon has any objection to acceptance of ten ... \"by the Hong Kong Government. Should be the ... proy \n\nJam ... moquitury to be 6'4 July, Jam o te t \n\n(Signed) H. R. COOLind/\n\n... allow ... to interfere with ... for the removal Kowloon City, Con Actions in ... enclose ... before for the boons of his John \n\nlo 7.0.6",
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        "content_text": "## CYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nDated 16th July, 1934.\n\n(Received, Colonial Office, 12.4 p.m., 16th July, 1934.)\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, No. 103. Repeated to Pekin Mission.\n\nMy telegram No. 98. Kowloon City absentees and one recalcitrant have now accepted reprovisioning with regard to remaining recalcitrant only purchased property 15 years ago.",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote `No. F41G//1099/1` and address—not to any person by name, but to \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\n23\n\n66\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to The Colonial Office and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper for such observations as may desire to offer.\n\nForeign Office, 13 June 1934.\n\nReference to previous correspondence | Name and Date\n| --- | --- \nColonial Office letter | 473 of 10 July 934\n | 474 \nHM Minister Peking | \nFO 33744/34 [17] | \n\nDescription of Enclosure | Subject\n| --- | ---\n | Expropriation of crime properties in Kowloon City\n15-7983\n\nSimilar letter sent to ...",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\n67\n\nFrom **CHINA**.\n\n**Decypher**.\n\n**Sir A. Cadogan (Peking)**.\n\n10th July, 1934.\n\n**Do**  \n(Via W/T.) 10th July, 1934.  \n**R**. 9.30 a.m., 11th July, 1934.\n\nNo. 473.\n\nHongkong telegram No.98 to the Colonial Office. My immediately following telegram contains translation of telegram received from Minister for Foreign Affairs protesting against offer made by Hongkong Government to inhabitants of Kowloon City. Governor of Hongkong has pointed out that only time limit set was that for reply to new offer.\n\n2. I am informing Minister for Foreign Affairs that I have transmitted his message to Governor of Hongkong and His Majesty's Government for their consideration and request instructions as to what reply His Majesty's Government wish me to return.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No. 473 of July 10th; repeated to Mission, Canton and Hongkong.",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]\n\nFrom \n**CHINA**\nDecode.\n\nSir A. Cadogan \n(Peking) \nJuly 10th, 1934.\n\nD. (by wireless) July 11th, 1934. \n9:30 a.m. July 11th, 1934.\n\nNo. 474. (F).\n\n68 \n13781 \n33 \n[Seaver]\n\nMy immediately preceding telegram. Report has been received that Nanyueh \"magistracy\" of Hongkong has notified inhabitants of Kowloon City to move to Koushihling within the limit of one week. Although Hongkong Government has built new houses for people free, this denies them the right of free residence within the city and therefore people are all in a state of panic.\n\nI have already asked you, according to Treaty, in a note of July 7th last, immediately to request Hongkong Government to withdraw proposal ordering people to evacuate and to this I received your reply. Now Hongkong Government have again issued a notice to force people to evacuate within a given period, and this is obviously an infringement of treaty stipulations and of the spirit thereof. In consequence, people in the said city are very frightened and disturbed, and I have the honour to request you to telegraph as soon as may be to Hongkong Government to abolish this proposal and thus to allay the fears of the people and maintain friendly relations.\n\nI also have the honour to request favour of a reply.",
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        "content_text": "## CYPHER TELEGRAM\nfrom the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 6th July.  \nReceived 12.52 p.m. 6th July, 1934.\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies No.98  \nRepeated to Pekin Mission Canton.\n\nYour telegram No.52. Kowloon City. Offer has been communicated and either it or the former offer (which is regarded as more favourable in certain cases where site of area is more important than simple reprovisioning) has been accepted by all concerned except absentees and two recalcitrants.\n\nChinese Government has however addressed Minister reiterating charge of breach of Treaty.\n\nApart from danger inherent in any acquiescence in this repeated claim to imperium in imperio it is impossible for Colonial Government now to withdraw offer accepted by great majority (corrupt group) of inhabitants and allow Treaty issue to drop by leaving them in statu quo and unless the above facts regarding acceptance induce the Chinese Government to abandon their claim in principle I see no alternative but to come into the open and take a firm line.",
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        "content_text": "## C. O.\n\nNr. Beau 29/6\n\nMr. Gust 30\nMr. Cowell 3.7.\n\nMr. Parkinson.\nMr. Tomlinson.\nSir C. Bottomley.\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\nPermt. U.S. of S.\nParly. U.S. of S.\nSecretary of State.\n\n**DRAFT**. Confidential\n\n33744/34 Hong Kong\nDourning Street, 20 July 1934.\n\nWith reference to Foreign Office Telegram No 1909/1099/10 of the 10th April, I am directed to forward for the information of John Simon copies of letters from the Admiralty and the War Office, and the views of those Departments on the question of the resumption by the Chinese Government of jurisdiction in Kowloon City.\n\n- Admiralty 13.6.34 (19)\n- War Office 16.5.34\n\nSir John Simon will observe that The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and the Army Council...\n\nPage 70\nPage 71",
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        "content_text": "## Proofread Text\n\nRegarding resumption  \n9 Furstition to the Chinese  \nInverwant  \nasut  \nas being inconsistent  \nprejudicial to  \nwith the military requirement for the defence of Hong Kong  \n\nI am etc.  \n(Signed) H. R. Cowell",
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        "content_text": "# AIR MINISTRY, ADASTRAL HOUSE, 20 KINGSWAY, W.C.2. 26 June, 1934.\n\n72\n\nDear Cowell,\n\nWe are rather at a loss in regard to your official letter of the 30th April (`33744/1934`) on the subject of the possible exercise of Chinese jurisdiction in Kowloon City. I understand that you have also asked the War Office for their opinion on the matter. Our view would be that broader questions of general defence policy at Hong Kong in which no specific air interest was involved were matters on which the Colonial Office would naturally be advised by the G.O.C., Hong Kong, and the War Office rather than by the Air Ministry.\n\nYou may, however, have in mind that the exercise of Chinese jurisdiction in Kowloon might result in the approaches to the aerodrome being interfered with. That, of course, is a matter of very direct interest to us, and it is one on which some correspondence has taken place between the Officer Commanding, R.A.F., Far East, and the Colonial Secretary's Department, Hong Kong Government.\n\nH.R. Cowell, Esq., C.M.G.,\nColonial Office,\nS.W.1.\n\nWe are expecting to hear further/",
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        "content_text": "73\n\n! \n\nThere is nothing further on this subject from Group Captain Smith, who has lately been visiting Hong Kong from Singapore, and who has promised us a further report; but unless the protection of the aerodrome and its approaches is directly or indirectly involved, as the correspondence attached to your letter of the 30th April suggests, it does not seem to us that the Air Ministry would have very much to say in the matter. Prima facie, the views of a Service Department would naturally be against enlarging the sphere of exercise of non-British jurisdiction in an area of possible defence importance.\n\nYours sincerely,\nC. G. Euan\n\n12.\n\nP.S. As you are probably aware, the possibility of strengthening the defence arrangements of Hong Kong is under discussion, and it is felt that any additional facilities for aircraft would be within the Harbour area.",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n### JONATIONAL DISABLED MEN SCHEME\n\nAdmiralty, S.W.1.  \n13th June, 1934\n\nWith reference to your letter No.33744/34 of 30th April, 1934, concerning the proposal of the Government of Hong Kong to expropriate certain Chinese tenants of properties in Kowloon City, I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to offer the following observations for the consideration of the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nMy Lords note from Mr. Stewart Lockhart's report dated 8th October, 1898, the text of which is given in `Colonial Office print Eastern No.66`, that before the lease, the only Chinese officials stationed within the walled city of Kowloon who exercised jurisdiction there were military officers, since the only civil magistrate was expressly stated to have no jurisdiction within the city. My Lords would of course regard any resumption of military jurisdiction by China as being inconsistent with military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong; and They find it difficult to conceive what jurisdiction might be exercised by China within the City of Kowloon without prejudice to defence requirements, since even the exercise of a minor judicial jurisdiction such as that presumably enjoyed up to 1899 outside the walls by the Chinese Deputy Magistrate might give rise to petty oppression and consequent unrest or provide a cloak for subversive activity.\n\nI am, Sir,  \nYour obedient Servant,  \nI.S. Barnes\n\nCopy to C.O.\n\nAny further communication should be addressed to:-  \nThe Secretary of the Admiralty, London, S.W.1. quoting `M.01213/34`. \n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,  \nCOLONIAL OFFICE, S.W.1.",
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        "content_text": "## RECEIVED FOR REGISTRATION\n4 JUN 1934\n\n**CYPHER TELEGRAM**\nFrom the Governor of Hong Kong to the \nSecretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 2nd June. Received 6.20 a.m. 2nd June, 1934.\n\n15 75\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies No.82 \n2nd June\n\nRepeated to Peking and Canton Mission.\n\nMy despatch 9th January 1934 Kowloon City. Consul General at Canton considers it probable that grounds for raising any agitation would to a great extent disappear if he were to address Inspector General for Foreign Affairs informing him of the necessity for removal and the very generous terms which Hong Kong Government is now prepared to offer. I do not feel quite so sanguine but subject to your concurrence I propose to announce new offer to those concerned. Further action can be determined in the light of their reception of offer.",
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        "content_text": "# THE WAR OFFICE\n## LONDON, S.W.1.\n### 16 May, 1934.\n\nTel. No.-Whitehall 9400.\n\nAny further communication on this subject should be addressed to:-\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\nThe War Office,\nLondon, S. W.1,\nand the following number quoted.\n`083/5913.(M.0.2)`.\n\nSir,\n\n**SECRET**\n\nI am commanded by the Army Council to acknowledge the receipt of Colonial Office letter No.`33744/1934`, dated 30th April, 1934, on the subject of a proposal by the Government of Hong Kong to expropriate certain Chinese tenants from their properties in KOWLOON City, and in reply to state for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies that they are of the opinion that the exercise of Chinese jurisdiction in KOWLOON City is not consistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong, as not only is a proportion of the garrison now quartered in KOWLOON, but also the city is adjacent to KAI-TAK which forms the site of the only existing aerodrome. Although the Council understand that there is no likelihood of any new construction being undertaken in the event of Chinese jurisdiction in the City being recognized, yet they desire to point out that once that principle was accepted there would legally be nothing to prevent the erection of tall buildings, power cables on pylons, or other construction which might seriously impair the usefulness of the aerodrome.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nAt Widdows\nUnder Secretary of State,\n**COLONIAL OFFICE**.",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote `No. 12158/1099/10` and address—not to any person by name, but to \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S. W. 1.\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office,  \n20 April 1934.\n\n## Reference to previous correspondence:\n\n| Description of Enclosure | Name and Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Telegram | No. 127, 19 April 1934 | Proposal to expropriate certain properties of Chinese Communists in Kowloon city |\n\nSimilar letter sent to ...\n\n33744/34  \n14-6130 9508 (2)",
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        "content_text": "(F2158/1099/10)\n\n**NO DISTRIBUTION.**\n\nParaphrase telegram to Sir A. Cadogan (Peking)\n\nForeign Office, 19th April, 1934, 3.00 p.m.\n\nNo.127.\n\nYour telegram of March 23rd No.214.\n\nExpropriation of Chinese property in Kowloon. I approve suggestion made by His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton if he is of the opinion that letter would have good effect.\n\n78",
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        "content_text": "## C. O.\n\nMr. Maynard. 2514  \nBricks  \n\nMr.  \nMr.  \nGent. 26  \nMr. Parkinson.  \nMr. Tomlinson.  \nSir C. Bottomley.  \nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\n33744/1934 Hong Kong.  \nPermt. U.S. of S.  \nParly. U.S. of S.  \nSecretary of State.\n\nSir,\n\nDowning Street,  \n30 April, 1934  \n\nI am directed to transmit to you, to be laid before the L.C's Council, a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the proposal of the Govt of Hong Kong to expropriate certain Chinese tenants of properties in Kowloon City, and a letter from the Foreign Office sent in reply.\n\n1. To (1) THE ADMIRALTY.  \n   (2) WAR OFFICE.  \n   (3) AIR MINISTRY  \n\nTo F.O. 26th Feb. (2) (with encl.)  \nFr 11 9th March  \nFURTHER ACTION.  \n(3) To (1) or to the F.O.  \n\n2. Before proceeding further in the matter, the S. of S. would be glad to learn whether their Lordships of the Admiralty, the Army Council, the Air Council would regard the exercise of Chinese jurisdiction in Kowloon City as being inconsistent...",
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        "content_text": "# Page 80\ninconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong.\n\nThe S. of S. would also be glad to be furnished with any observations that their Lordships of the Council may have to offer from the aspect of defence.\n\nI am, etc.\n\n(signed) H. R. COWELL\n\nTo (1)  \n(2)  \n(3)  \n\nPage 80\nPage 81\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote `No. F 1909/1099/10` and address, but to \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S. W. 1.\n\nSir,",
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        "content_text": "## \n**FOREIGN OFFICE**  \nS.W.1.  \n10th April, 1934.  \n\nWith reference to Colonial Office letter No.`33744/34` of 5th April, I am directed by Secretary Sir John Simon to state that he concurs in Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister's proposal to communicate to the Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry, respectively, copies of Foreign Office letters No. F `1099/1099/10` of 9th March together with relative correspondence on the subject of the expropriation of certain properties of Chinese tenants in Kowloon City and to ask for their observations upon the matter as it affects them.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant\nGw. One\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\nColonial Office.",
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        "content_text": "## DRAFT.\n\n**THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE, FOREIGN OFFICE.**\n\nSir,\n\n**33744/34 Hong Kong.**\n\n82.\n\n16 AP \n\nD161 \n\nDowning Street, 17 April, 1934.\n\n**FURTHER ACTION.**\n\n(6)\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, No. `F1681/1099/10` of the 26th of March, enclosing a copy of a telegram dated the 23rd of March from His Majesty's Representative at Peking on the subject of the proposal to appropriate certain properties of Chinese tenants in Kowloon City, and to request you to inform Secretary Sir John Simon that he concurs in the proposal that a communication should be sent to ...",
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        "content_text": "83\n\nChinese Authorities in the sense \n\noutlined in the telegram under \nreference.\n\nI am, etc.\n(signed) G. E. J. Gent,",
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        "title": "CO129-546-11 Kowloon city- expropriation of Chinese owned land 9-1-1934 - 28-12-1934",
        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote `F1681 1099/12` and address—not to any person by name, but to \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper for such observations as they may desire to offer.\n\nForeign Office, 26 March 1934.\n\n| Reference to previous correspondence: | Name and Date | Description of Enclosure |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| F.1099/1099/12 | of 9 March 1934 | HM Representative Peking Telegram No 214 of 23 March 1934 |\n| Subject | Proposal to expropriate certain properties of Chinese tenants in Kowloon Walled City | 15-7983 |\n\nSimilar letter sent to ...",
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        "title": "CO129-546-11 Kowloon city- expropriation of Chinese owned land 9-1-1934 - 28-12-1934",
        "content_text": "**NO DISTRIBUTION.**\n\n## Mr. Ingram (Peking)\n### 23rd March, 1934.\n#### D.\n#### W/T\n#### 23rd March, 1934.\n#### R. 7.00 p.m.\n#### 23rd March, 1934.\n#### No. 214.\n\nFollowing received from Canton.\n\n### Begins.\n\n## 85 \n### No 1 Mission.\n\nAddressed to Peking No.19 March 18th, repeated to Foreign Office telegram No.6 Tour.\n\nForecast of attitude of Chinese authorities at date is difficult when removal of Chinese residents is planned to take place, namely at the end of 1934. I feel, however, that grounds for raising any agitation would disappear to a great extent by a letter sent by me to Inspector General of Foreign Affairs informing him of necessity of removal and of very generous terms offered to owners as described in **Governor of Hong Kong's confidential despatch to the Secretary of State for the Colonies** dated the 9th January, 1934. Such reply would avoid any reference to the question of jurisdiction.\n\nThe only reply sent up to now was a letter on August 4th stating that Governor of Hong Kong was investigating the matter. The Inspector General has not referred to the case since that date and he is probably under the impression that removal will not take place.",
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        "content_text": "## 86 \n5 APR 1934 \nC. O. \n\nMr. Bam 28/3 Mr. Pent \nMr. Parkinson. \nMr. Tomlinson. \n337ua 134 Hong Kong. \n\nSir, \n\nWith reference to Foreign Office No. F1099/1099/10 of the \nSir C. Bottomley. \n55 \nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nPermt. U.S. of S. (3) \nParly. U.S. of S. \netc. \nI am to inform the Secretary of State. \n\nDRAFT. \n\nThe U.S. 95. Foreign Police, Hong Kong. 34. \nYou are informed that Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister would \nwish to be informed whether, in present circumstances, \nthe \"W/D, Admiralty, A/M\" regarding the \"exercise of \nChinese jurisdiction in Kowloon City\" is considered \nbeing inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence \nof Hong Kong. Before proceeding further with \nthe matter, it is desired to ascertain whether any \nobjection would be raised by the departments concerned. \n\nTo this end, copies of the Foreign Office Minute (under reference) \ntogether with relative correspondence are being \nsent to the departments concerned for their comments from \nthe aspect of defence. \n\n## FURTHER ACTION. \n2. The papers to...",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote \n`No. Flog9/1039/10` \nand address—not to any person by name, but to \n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S. W. 1. \n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his \ncompliments to \nThe Under-Secretary of State \nfor the Colonies \nand, by direction of the Secretary of State, \ntransmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper. \n\nForeign Office, \n4.8.7 \n7 March, 1934 \n\n## Reference to previous correspondence: \n\n| Colonial Ref | Description of Enclosure | Name and Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 33744/34 | Telegram No 6 (To be repeated to Nanking) | 26 July 1934 | Proposal to expropriate certain properties of Chinese tenants in Kowloon City |\n\nSimilar letter sent to... \n`14-6130 9508(2)`",
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        "content_text": "`GR1099/1099/10`\n\n**NO DISTRIBUTION**\n\nCypher telegram to Sir A. Cadogan, (Nanking),\n\nForeign Office, 8th March, 1934, 3.40 p.m.\n\nNo. 6 Tour.\n\nHongkong despatch of January 9th copies to Feiping No. 3. (British jurisdiction in Kowloon City).\n\nPlease report by telegraph on probable reactions of Chinese authorities if expropriation scheme is proceeded with.\n\n88",
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        "content_text": "`F1099/1099/10`\n\n**NO DISTRIBUTION.**\n\n89\n\nCypher telegram to Sir A. Cadogan, (Nanking),\n\nForeign Office, 8th March, 1934, 3.40 p.m.\n\nNo. 6 Tour.\n\nHongkong despatch of January 9th copies to\nPeiping No. 3. (British jurisdiction in Kowloon City).\n\nPlease report by telegraph on probable reactions\nof Chinese authorities if expropriation scheme is\nproceeded with.",
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        "content_text": "## to Adus \n\nwest g \n\nIn any further communication \non this subject, please quote \nNo. `F1099/1099/10` \nand address- \nnot to any person by name. \nbut to- \n**The Under-Secretary of State**, \nForeign Office, \nLondon, S.W.1. \n\nW.O \n2. \n\nFOREIGN OFFICE, \nS.W.1. \n9th March, 1934. \n\n### Sir, \n\nI am directed by Secretary **Sir John Simon** to \nrefer to your letter No. `33744/34` of the 26th February \nlast enclosing a copy of a despatch from the Governor of \nHong Kong on the subject of the proposal to expropriate \ncertain Chinese owners of property in Kowloon City. \n\n2\\. Sir John Simon is advised that there are three \npossible grounds on which it could be argued that the \npresent and future exercise by His Majesty's Government \nof jurisdiction in Kowloon City is justified. In the \nfirst place it might be possible to establish that the \nexercise of Chinese jurisdiction is still inconsistent \nwith the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong. \nSir John Simon however is not aware to what extent support \ncould be found in local conditions for this argument. \nAlternatively it might be argued that paragraph 3 of the \n**Convention of 9th June, 1898**, did not require a continuing \nstate of necessity for British jurisdiction on grounds of \nmilitary requirements but that, the original assumption \nof jurisdiction being clearly justified, His Majesty's \nGovernment were thenceforward entitled to continue to \nexercise that jurisdiction. It seems however doubtful \nwhether on the strict wording of paragraph 3 this argument \ncould be established. The third ground is that a \nprescriptive right has been established for the exercise of \nBritish jurisdiction.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nColonial Office.\n\nPage 90\nPage 91",
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        "title": "CO129-546-11 Kowloon city- expropriation of Chinese owned land 9-1-1934 - 28-12-1934",
        "content_text": "## 91 \n\nThe Chinese **British jurisdiction in Kowloon City**. The Chinese \nGovernment having tacitly acquiesced for over thirty years, \ncannot now say that we are not rightfully there. The \noriginal assumption of jurisdiction having been clearly \njustified we should be on strong ground in arguing that, \npending at any rate a demand for the restoration of \nChinese jurisdiction, we have a right to continue to \nexercise jurisdiction and hence to expropriate. We should \nhowever be on less strong ground in resisting a demand \nfor the restoration of Chinese jurisdiction. \n\nGovernment have so far made no such demand. They have \nbased themselves on the contention that *de jure* their \njurisdiction in Kowloon City has never ceased, thus \ninferring that our original assumption of jurisdiction \nwas not justified. There would be no difficulty in \nrebutting this assumption but difficulties would arise \nif the Chinese Government were to shift their ground and \nsay that, although the original assumption of jurisdiction \nmay have been justified, its continued exercise is not. \nThere would seem to be a fairly strong case for the \npresent exercise of British jurisdiction in Kowloon City \nbut the case for the continued exercise in future of such \njurisdiction would seem to be less strong unless it can be \nestablished that the exercise of Chinese jurisdiction in \nKowloon City is still inconsistent with the military \nrequirements for the defence of Hong Kong. \n\n### 3. As regards paragraph 6 of the Convention \nSir John Simon is advised that, although the creation of a \npublic park would appear not to come under the heading \n\"the like official purposes\", if in fact land in other \nparts",
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        "content_text": "## 92\n\n5. On the grounds that parts of the leased territory have been used, without any protest on the part of the Chinese Government, for the creation of public parks or other purposes not comprised amongst those mentioned in paragraph 6, it might be possible to establish that the Chinese Government had tacitly accepted the position whereby any public work or development scheme which was in the general interests of the area was regarded as being permitted by the terms of paragraph 6 of the Convention. In any case, although, on the strict wording, it is doubtful whether anything else was intended than such things as public buildings, fortifications, necessary roads and communications etc., it would seem to be possible to make out a colourable argument to the effect that a public park, if undertaken officially, financed out of public funds and clearly in the interests of the area as a whole, would be permissible under the terms of paragraph 6.\n\n4. The Chinese Government have not raised any contention under paragraph 6 of the Convention, probably because to do so would be to admit by implication that His Majesty's Government are entitled to exercise jurisdiction in Kowloon City, which would in their view be inconsistent with the claim which they are making under paragraph 3.\n\nThe attitude of the Chinese Government, revealed in the note, copy of which was communicated to the Colonial Office in Foreign Office letter No. `F6074/2398/10` of 19th September last, appears to be that legally they are entitled to exercise jurisdiction in Kowloon City, that they have not done so for many years past and would be quite content to leave the matter in abeyance.",
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        "content_text": "# 93\n\nNo.1\n\nabeyance but that if His Majesty's Government persist in \"stirring up a treaty dispute\" then they must challenge the right of His Majesty's Government to continue to exercise jurisdiction in Kowloon City. Although there would appear to be a strong case as regards the present exercise of such jurisdiction and at least an arguable case as regards its future exercise, Sir John Simon would prefer to avoid if possible embarking on discussions with the Chinese Government which would necessitate the use of the arguments referred to in paragraph 2 above.\n\nHe does not suggest that the Government of Hong Kong should abandon or postpone their plans for the removal of insanitary conditions in Kowloon City, but he would be glad if His Excellency could be asked to consider whether it would be possible to carry out the scheme with the consent of the Chinese owners concerned, on the lines suggested in paragraph 5 of his despatch enclosed in your letter under reference, without actually resorting to expropriation. In the meantime Sir Alexander Cadogan is being asked to report by telegraph what the probable reaction of the Chinese Government would be in the event of the expropriation scheme being proceeded with.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nC.W. Orde",
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        "content_text": "## C. O.\n\nMattel 17.2.34\n\nMr. Parkinson.\nMr. Tomlinson.\nSir C. Bottomley.\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\nPermt. U.S. of S.\nParly. U.S. of S.\nSecretary of State.\n\n22/2/34 on the file. 11.D. f.s.\n\n26 FEB 1934\n\nDRAFT.\n\n13832 4.3.\n\nWith reference to the letter from this Dept. of the 5th Sept. 1922, I am directed to transmit to you, to be laid before Sec. Sir Simon, a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the proposal to expropriate certain Chinese tenants of properties in Kowloon City.\n\n9th Jan.\n\nW.O.\n\nwhile it is doubtful if the construction of a public park can properly be said to come within the words \"the like official purposes\" in that...\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nI am to point out that, in view of the terms of the Order in Council of the 27th Dec. 1899 and of the correspondence with the Chinese Govt. in connection therewith, it is not possible at this date for the Chinese Govt. to base any claim on the third clause of the Convention of June 9th, 1900.\n\nAs regards the sixth paragraph of that Convention, it would appear that the Govt. of Hong Kong is justified, in the interests of the good government of the Colony, in acquiring compulsorily, with fair compensation, property required for the removal of insanitary conditions.\n\n(signed) H. R. COWELL",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nCopies to:-\nPeiping (No.3). Canton (No.3). Nanking.\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\nHONG KONG,\n9th January, 1934.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Confidential despatch of 15th September, 1933, regarding Kowloon City.\n\n13832/33. Copy w/o encl. to Admny. W.O.\nDup: Desp: & plans to S.O.\n\nI enclose two plans, that on the larger scale shewing the \"city\" itself and buildings within its walls, and that on the smaller scale shewing the \"city\" in relation to the town-plan of the area. Of the buildings within the city the large blocks numbered 6620, 7334, 7335, 7336 and 6625 formed, with the ruins to the eastward, the official seat of the Chinese Government which held sway over the district at the time of its lease to His Majesty's Government. They were held on short term lease expiring 31st December, 1933, the first four by the Church Missionary Society which uses them as a school and orphanage, and the last, No.6625, by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs who uses it for a free school supported by funds from a neighbouring temple. The buildings are kept in good order and repair by the lessees and it is proposed to renew their leases. The other numbered lots are domestic buildings mostly in very bad repair and held on similar terms by various Chinese whose main source of livelihood is pig-rearing conducted in even more dilapidated and insanitary sties, some of which are...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\nSIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,\n&c.,\n&c.,\n&c.",
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        "content_text": "## 2.\n\n96 represented by the unnumbered blocks ranged beneath the walls.\n\n## 2.\nThe reason why the \"owners\" of these houses received only short-term leases instead of the long-term lease co-terminous with our lease of the New Territories which was granted to other owners of property in the leased territory, lies in the fact that Kowloon City was occupied by force of arms in circumstances which were held to be \"inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong\" and therefore to justify the rescission effected by Her late Majesty's Order in Council of 27th December, 1899, of the provision for the continuance of Chinese jurisdiction in the \"city\" contained in the Order in Council of 9th June, 1898, and the Convention between Great Britain and China of the same date.\n\n## 3.\nThe distinction in tenure thus made may in a sense be technical, if not arbitrary, so far as the non-official buildings are concerned, although their owners at the time of the capture of the \"city\" probably included officials or families of officials whose jurisdiction it was considered necessary to terminate. Be that as it may, steps had to be taken sooner or later to remove these insanitary dwellings and their adjuncts, and it was considered convenient to take them in connection with the expiration of the current five-year term on 31st December, 1933, a year's grace being given in which to make arrangements for the change.\n\n## 4.\nThe Government's original proposals were:\n- (a) To form a site for a new Chinese village at the point marked \"A\" on the smaller scale plan.\n- (b) To grant suitable blocks of land on this site to the \"owners\" of houses in the \"city\".\n- (c) To pay cash compensation to the \"owners\" equal",
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        "content_text": "## 3.\n\n97 on 13832133 3 to the value of their present leased buildings. (d) To clear away the houses (exclusive of the five blocks mentioned in paragraph 1) and preserve the \"city\" as \"a place of popular resort and antiquarian interest\" similar to the Sung Wong Toi (see Hong Kong Ordinance No.? of 1899).\n\nSubsequently it was decided to offer more generous terms to the \"owners\" on similar lines to those adopted in the case of the resumption for the Shing Mun Water Scheme, i.e., to provide not only new sites, but new houses of village type, with full New Territory tenure and in addition properly constructed pigsties to be used under permit.\n\n### 5.\n\nThese terms are of course vastly more generous than anything the Chinese Authorities grant to owners of property which stands in the way of their development schemes, and may lead to a voluntary removal to the new site. They have not, however, been communicated to the \"owners\" because it seems obvious, as stated in the note of 5th September from the Colonial Office to the Foreign Office, that the Chinese Government is concerned not with the hardships to the \"owners\" of these houses, but with the rights which China conceives herself still to retain under the Convention, and until this issue is disposed of it seems inadvisable to display a more conciliatory attitude, even though based on quite different grounds. For the same reason it seems inadvisable to postpone the scheme and renew the leases of the property affected.\n\nI have the honour to be,  \nSir,  \nYour most obedient, humble servant,  \n**Governor, &c.**",
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        "content_text": "teran of the Orda?\n\nYou will no doubt have to hand a copy of the order when circulated.\n\nWhent \n11134",
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        "content_text": "# No.3477/15.\n\nMr. Gent,\n\nSection 4 of the Ordinance appears to be satisfactory.\n\nI should be glad to have a copy of the Ordinance when non-disallowance has been signified.\n\nQ1. Harding\nDirector of Colonial Audit.\n\n6/12/34\n\nSametin\nLF\n\n7-12\n320 DC. Audit - w/c Ordce: mi(1) - B.12.b.\n\n11 DEC 1934\n13/12/34\n12 DEC 1934",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 4th October, 1934.\n\nWith reference to your confidential despatch of the 12th January, 1934, regarding the proposal to treat the schemes for developing the sites of the City Hall and Government House as a separate account, I have the honour to invite attention to my despatch No.513 of the 4th October, 1934, submitting an Ordinance which places the Special Fund on a legal footing.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n**B**\nGovernor, &c.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,\n&c.,\n&c.,\n&c.",
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        "content_text": "# HONG KONG.\n\n## No. 30 OF 1934.\n\n**I assent.**\n\nW. PEEL,  \nL.S.  \n**Governor.**\n\n28th September, 1934.\n\n## An Ordinance to make provision for financing and carrying out a scheme for a new Government House and for the development of a portion of the City of Victoria.\n\n[28th September, 1934.]\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the **Government House and City Development Scheme Ordinance, 1934**.\n\n2.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor to undertake the following works :-\n   (a) the preparation, development and carrying out of a scheme, to be known as the \"Government House and City Development Scheme\", in general accordance with a plan dated the seventh day of August, 1934, signed by the Director of Public Works and deposited in the Land Office; and\n   (b) all accessory works which may be necessary or desirable for or on account of the preparation, development and carrying out of the said Scheme and the adaptation of the adjoining areas and approaches.\n\n(2) Any work undertaken before the commencement of this Ordinance, which either was, in the opinion of the Governor, undertaken in contemplation of the said Scheme, or is hereafter adopted by the Governor and made use of for the said Scheme, is hereby legalized and validated for all purposes as if it had been undertaken under this Ordinance.\n\n(3) The powers conferred by this Ordinance shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, any other powers possessed by the Governor, or the Governor in Council, or any public officer.\n\n3.-(1) The Governor shall decide from what sources the materials required in carrying out the said Scheme are to be obtained, and shall have full control over the execution of works.\n\n## Control and prosecution of works.",
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        "content_text": "# \nDefraying \ncost of the Scheme. \nEvidence of Governor's decision or opinion. \n\nthe works and over all persons employed in connexion therewith; and he may appoint such persons as he may think fit to execute such works, and may determine the remuneration and conditions of employment of such persons.\n\n(2) In carrying out the said scheme it shall be lawful for the Governor to authorise such alteration, amendment or revision of the plan referred to in section 2(1)(a) as he may consider desirable, and to make the consequential deviations from the said plan.\n\n(3) It shall be lawful for the Governor to suspend, abandon or terminate the scheme at any point at which he considers it advisable so to do.\n\n## 4. \n(1) The expenditure required for preparing, developing and carrying out the said Scheme shall be authorised and appropriated from time to time by Resolutions of the Legislative Council, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, and shall be defrayed from a Fund, to be established and kept at the Treasury, into which shall be paid all sums which have been or may be received by the Government in respect of the sale of the City Hall and Beaconsfield Arcade sites as well as all sums to be received from land sales in connexion with the Scheme.\n\nShould the Fund at any time be insufficient for carrying out the Scheme or any portion thereof, advances or appropriations from the general revenues of the Colony shall be authorised by Resolutions of the Legislative Council, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, in order to make good the deficiency.\n\n(3) When the said Scheme is completed or is abandoned or otherwise terminated, any balance there may be standing to the credit of the Fund shall be appropriated by the Treasurer to the general revenue of the Colony under the heading or classification of Land Sales.\n\n## 5. \nA certificate under the hand of the Colonial Secretary shall be conclusive evidence for all purposes whatsoever of any decision or opinion of the Governor under this Ordinance and of the terms and effect of any such decision or opinion.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 27th day of September, 1934.\n\nH. R. BUTTERS, Deputy Clerk of Councils.",
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        "content_text": "# No. 513.\n\n**REC**\n\n## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG, 4th October, 1934.\n\n**YED**  \n5 - NOV 1934  \n**C. O. REGY**  \n7\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to submit for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure the following Ordinance intituled:-\n\n### Enclosure No.1\n\n`(+1)`  \n**bopy Ordce to DC.A.**  \n**Ausse**\n\n\"An Ordinance to make provision for financing and carrying out a scheme for a new Government House and for the development of a portion of the City of Victoria.\"\n\n2. The enclosed report by the Attorney General explains the objects and reasons of the Ordinance.\n\nI have the honour to be,  \nSir,  \nYour most obedient, humble servant  \n**Governor, &c.**\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE  \n**SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,**  \n&c.,  \n&c.,  \n&c.",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure No.2.\n\n8\n\n**ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,**\nHong Kong,\n28th September 1934.\n\n**REPORT ON ORDINANCE No. 30 of 1934**\n\n1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, intituled an Ordinance to make provision for financing and carrying out a scheme for a new Government House and for the development of a portion of the City of Victoria, and am of opinion that it is an Ordinance which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.\n\n2. The Government House and City Development Scheme authorised by this Ordinance is essentially a self-contained unit which will be proceeded with as circumstances permit.\n\n3. The Scheme involves the sale from time to time of building sites which it is anticipated will yield more than sufficient to pay for the entire undertaking, although it may be necessary at certain stages to obtain advances from the revenues of the Colony.\n\n4. To pay into the general revenue of the Colony the large sums which have been or will be received from time to time in connexion with such land sales would result in apparent fluctuations in the normal revenue of the Colony which it is desirable to avoid.\n\n5. As, however, the proposal that revenue receipts from such land sales should pass into a special Fund, instead of to revenue, and that the expenditure on the Scheme should be met from the Fund and authorised by Resolutions of the Legislative Council, involves a departure from the ordinary rules of Colonial Accounting, the Secretary of State, in approving the proposal, has required that the Scheme should be conducted under a special Ordinance which would legalise the diversion of the revenue from land sales from general revenue to the Fund and would also empower the appropriation of the expenditure on the Scheme by Resolutions of the Legislative Council.\n\n6. Accordingly, sections 2 and 3 of this Ordinance authorise the works necessary to carry out the scheme and empower the Governor to decide from what sources the required materials are to be obtained and give him control over the appointment and employment of all persons engaged in carrying out the scheme, while section 4 gives effect to the directions of the Secretary of State as regards the financing of the scheme.\n\n7. In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.\n\nD. Jowell  \nAttorney General.\n\n9\n\n**END**",
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        "content_text": "$250,000 should be provided for Expenditure in 1935.\n\nThe proceeds of the Sale of the City Hall Site amounted to $1,257,500 and that amount appears in the Balance Sheet liability. Presumably, in future, only the unexpended amount at a particular time will appear in the Balance Sheet as a liability (i.e., the balance in the City Development Suspense account).\n\nSubject to legal approval, the estimates should be dispatched. (We might disallow certain items). \n\nM. Harding, 14/11/34.\n\nThis explanation follows your suggestion on `13862/33`. Have you my comments on...",
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        "content_text": "& question of dealing with three or four recalcitrant owners but that there may be the organised hostility of a crowd to be overcome if, as he recommends, the owners are proceeded against in the Courts with a view to their compulsory removal from the walled city.\n\nOn the question of the binding nature of the Order-in-Council of 1899 on the Hong Kong Courts it is scarcely a matter for the Foreign Office, and, subject to Mr. Bushe's advice, there would seem to be no risk to the success of the Govt.'s case.\n\nBut we should carry the Foreign Office with us, as we have done hitherto, in facing the possible consequence of any such measures, viz: not only that there may be minor disturbances in the area concerned but that this may lead to more important trouble with the Cantonese Govt. and even with the central Chinese Govt. at Nanking. In sending copies of 4 and 5 to the Foreign Office I suggest that it would be as well to say, if Mr. Bushe so advises, that the Secretary of State is advised that the Governor's presumption at the end of his telegram No.4 is correct and that, subject to any observations the Foreign Office may offer, it is proposed to raise no objection to the Governor's intention to proceed against the recalcitrant owners by law.\n\nPage 23\n\n22.7",
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        "content_text": "26/1\n\nThe legal position of the fort of Hong Kong in this matter appears to be unassailable. It is for the Chinese to say whether attention is to be paid to diplomatic protests by the Chinese Government regarding the fort, as proposed by Merkent.\n\n#lowell 21.23/7/35 23-7-35\n\nSi I. Maffey to see after action has been taken.\n\n24 Dh Bolovan 2447 20 F.O.(cope 445) 86 991 49.0 Curs 24 JUL 1935 1.8.35\n\nRefly Enclosing copies of selling dele & refly herch D.L. for sasen.\n\n876 Mrs. 8/8/35 at once\n\n \nPage 5",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. F5822/4264/10\n\nand address—not to any person by name, but to—\n\n“The Under-Secretary of State,” Foreign Office, London, S. W. 1.\n\nسهیلا\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his\n\ncompliments to The Under-Secretary\n\nfor the Colonies\n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State,\n\ntransmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office,\n\n16 Sep 1985.\n\nReference to previous correspondence :\n\nF.J. Letter\n\n8 F. 4802/4264/10\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\nName and Date.\n\nSubject.\n\nDespatch No 1250\n\n14-6130 11941 (2)\n\nSimilar letter sent to\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and to correct the text according to the rules:\n\n1. The date \"16 sepi, 1985\" should be corrected to \"16 Sep, 1935\" as the context suggests it's from the same era as \"5 Aug 1935\".\n2. \"compliments to The Undie derretary\" should be corrected to \"compliments to The Under-Secretary\".\n3. \"transmits herewith cops\" should be corrected to \"transmits herewith copy\".\n4. \"of siare\" seems to be a typo or OCR error and should be ignored or corrected if possible, but it's not clear what it should be; it might be part of a larger error or unrelated text.\n5. The text \"سهیلا\" appears to be unrelated to the rest of the document and may be an OCR error or misplaced text.\n\nHere's the corrected version in HTML as requested:\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. F5822/4264/10\n\nand address—not to any person by name, but to—\n\n“The Under-Secretary of State,” Foreign Office, London, S. W. 1.\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his\n\ncompliments to The Under-Secretary\n\nfor the Colonies\n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State,\n\ntransmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office,\n\n16 Sep, 1935.\n\nReference to previous correspondence :\n\nF.J. Letter\n\n8 F. 4802/4264/10\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\nName and Date.\n\nSubject.\n\nIs. Representative Expropriation of certain\n\nPeking expering in Kowloon Cry сит\n\nDespatch No 1250\n\n5 Aug 1935\n\n14-6130 11941 (2)\n\nSimilar letter sent to\n\nCorrected and formatted according to the rules, the output remains largely the same due to the specific instructions to not alter the content significantly and to preserve the original text as much as possible. The main corrections were made for obvious typos and OCR errors.",
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        "content_text": "No.\n\n1250 (6/63A/35).\n\nAMBASSADOR\n\nHis Majesty's Minister, Peking, presents his compliments to\n\nHis Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and transmits\n\nherewith three copies of the undermentioned paper.\n\nPeking.\n\nAugust 5th, 1935.\n\nReference to previous despatch:\n\nTelegram from Foreign Office No. 295 of July 31st, 1935.\n\nName and Date. Description of Inclosure Subject.\n\nNote to Wai Chiao Pu of\n\nKowloon City.\n\n5th August, 1935.\n\nCopied to: See Enclosure.\n\n9",
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        "content_text": "NexxX8 (6/63A/1935).\n\nCopied to:-\n\nHong Kong, Diplomatic Mission,\n\nNton,\n\nForeign Office.\n\nPEKING.\n\nAugust 5th, 1935.\n\nPage 10\n\nI have the honour to inform Your Excellency that I have communicated to the Governor of Hong Kong the contents of your telegram, addressed to the Waichiaopu on the intimidation of certain residents of Kowloon City in connection with the boycott.\n\nThe Government of Hong Kong have published that the four persons concerned have accepted, and have acknowledged their loyalty to their Sovereign, China.\n\nI am now informed that they are only just over the border and are daily brought back by motor traffic.\n\nI avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration.\n\n(SGD) ALEXANDER CADOGAN,\n\nHis Excellency,\n\nMonsieur Wang Ching-wei,\n\nMinister for Foreign Affairs a.i.,\n\nNANKING.\n\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. FSHHS/42\n\n4264\n\nAnd address—not to any person by name, but to—\n\n164/10\n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to\n\nColonial Office,\n\nForeign Office,\n\nAug. 27, 1935.\n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State,\n\ntransmits herewith copy\n\nof the under-mentioned paper.\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\nName and Date.\n\nF4524\n\n24/4264/10\n\nDescription of Enclosure\n\nJuly 16.\n\nSubject.\n\nHM Representative\n\nPeking\n\nExpropriation of property in Kowloon City certain Chinese\n\nNo. 114H.\n\n15 July.\n\n14--6130 11686 (2)\n\nSimilar letter sent to",
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        "content_text": "No.\n\n1144 (2/63A/1935)\n\nAMBASSADOR\n\nHis Majesty's Minister Peking, presents his compliments to\n\nHis Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and transmits\n\nherewith three copies\n\nof the undermentioned paper.\n\nPeking. (at Peitaiho)\n\n15th July\n\n........... 19...35.\n\nReference to previous despatch:\n\nTelegram to Foreign Office No. 648 of 2.7.1935\n\n  \n    Name and Date\n    Description of Inclosure\n    Subject\n  \n  \n    Despatch from H. M. Consul-General at Canton No. 99 of 4.7.35.\n    \n    Kowloon City. expropriation of certain Chinese tenants.\n  \n  \n    Despatch to H. M. Consul-General at Canton No. 108 of 15.7.1935.\n    \n    \n  \n\nCopied to:- See enclosures.\n\n12\n\n \nPage 12\n\n \n\nPage 12",
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        "content_text": "REMOVAL OF CHINESE RESIDENTS FROM KOWLOON CITY:\n\nImmediate factor from: Special Delegate\n\n13\n\nH. B. M's Consulate-General,\n\nCANTON,\n\n4th July, 1935.\n\nSpecial Delegate for Foreign Affairs\n\nto\n\nEs June 1936\n\nwith reference to Your Excellency's despatch No. 140 (25/63/1934) of the 20th October last and to previous correspondence relative to the expropriation of certain Chinese tenants in Kowloon City, I have the honour to transmit, herewith, copy and translation of a letter dated the 29th June 1935, which I have received from the Special Delegate for Foreign Affairs at Canton, pointing out that the Kowloon City is Chinese territory and has not been leased to Great Britain, the Government of Hong Kong has no power to remove the Chinese residents.\n\nI propose to send a formal acknowledgment to H. Kan Chao pending receipt of Your Excellency's instructions.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Excellency's most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\n(Signed) Herbert Phillips.\n\nConsul-General.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nThe Hon. Sir Alexander N. L. Wigram, K.C.I.E., C.M.G.,\n\nHis Majesty's Ambassador,\n\nBritish Embassy,\n\nPEKING.",
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        "content_text": "JA VANTAN despatch to Peking No. 99 of\n\n4th July, 1935\n\n14\n\nTRAVELATION:\n\nSir,\n\nFROM: Special delegate for Foreign Affairs\n\nTO:\n\nH. M. Consul-General, Canton.\n\n29th June, 1935.\n\nI have the honour to refer to the Hong Kong Government's orders to the residents of Kowloon City to move out and to my letter of 28th June 1935, which was based on the Anglo-Chinese Treaty for the Extension of the Territory of Hong Kong concluded on 9th June 1898, wherein it provided that Kowloon City shall remain under Chinese jurisdiction and in which I asked that the Hong Kong Government may be requested to cancel its original proposal ordering the removal of the Kowloon City residents, as is on record.\n\nI have the honour to inform you that certain residents of Kowloon City have appeared personally at my office and made the following statement: ---\n\n\"Owing to the fact that six of the new houses built at Kau Shut Ling have been completed, the District Officer, Southern District, has notified Ng Cheong and five others to remove (to the new houses) within one week and that dissension will not be permitted. The whole body of the remaining residents will also have to move out when all the new buildings are completed. In addition, all the residents have, in the course of a month, been warned by the District Office, Southern District, for enquiries several times. This obstructs their work and affects their livelihood.\n\nIt is recalled that in the proclamation issued in the previous year by the District Office, Southern District, only two courses of action were open for selection. The first was that new houses would be built (for the Kowloon City residents) at Kau Shut Ling free of charge. The other was the payment of compensation for their houses in accordance with the notification of June 10th in the year before last, wherein the values of the houses were assessed.\n\nA portion of the residents of the city, terrified...",
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        "content_text": "The \n\n\"terrified by the fate of the Kowloon Tsui residents had but to give an immediate answer in the affirmative. Residents, however, now understand that Kowloon Tsui is included in the leased territory, whereas Kowloon City remains under Chinese sovereignty. They have been living there for generations. Moreover, the area at Shut Ling is a piece of desolate country, far away from the town, wherefore it is difficult to make a living.\n\n15\n\nThey therefore request that the Hong Kong Government may be requested to instruct the District Office, Southern District, to stop giving orders for removal, and to cease from issuing frequent summonses for enquiries, so that they may live in peace.\n\nI have the honour to refer in this connection to (a copy sent me by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) of a Memorandum sent to the Ministry by H.M. Minister wherein it was stated \"The Governor of Hong Kong has not issued any orders to the Kowloon City residents requiring their removal within a specified time limit. Only a notification was sent to them, proposing a very generous offer, which most of them have been glad to accept.\" The statement that most of the residents had been glad to accept the offer refers presumably to the verbal consent given by a portion of the Kowloon City residents. Such consent, however, was given solely due to their being frightened at the fate of the Kowloon Tsui residents.\n\nThey have now understood that Kowloon Tsui is within leased territory, whereas Kowloon City still remains under Chinese oversight.\n\nThe orders issued to Ng Cheong and five others by the District Office, Southern District, requiring their removal within a specified time, such action evidently is at variance with the spirit of the statement in H.M. Minister's memorandum that the Governor of Hong Kong has not issued orders to Kowloon City residents requiring their removal.\n\nI have the honour to point out that as Kowloon City",
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        "title": "CO129-552-8 Kowloon city- expropriation of Chinese property 2-1-1935 - 1-8-1935",
        "content_text": "The city is Chinese territory and has not been leased to Great Britain, the Government of Hong Kong has not, under any circumstances, the power to order its residents to move elsewhere. As to the frequent summonses issued to the Kowloon City residents by the District Office, Southern District, apart from the consideration of travelling expenses from Kowloon City to Hong Kong, all the residents in that city earn their living by manual labour, and each day they suspend work, they lose that day's income. They consider this a hardship.\n\nIn view of the above, I have the honour to write you accordingly and to request that the Government of Hong Kong may be asked not to give further orders to the Kowloon City residents requiring their removal, and that the District Office, Southern District, may be instructed not to issue summonses except in cases of absolute necessity, in order to promote our friendly relations.\n\nI have the honour to request the favour of a reply.\n\nI have etc. etc.\n\nLa Chia-tou\n\nSpecial Delegate.",
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        "content_text": "0.106 (2/63.3) 1935\n\nCopy to: 7.0.\n\nDip.Mission, Hong Kong.\n\nSir,\n\nBRITISH LEGATION.\n\nAT PEITAI HO\n\n15th July, 1935.\n\nIn reply to your despatch No.99 of the 4th July, regarding the expropriation of Chinese tenants in Kowloon City, I have to inform you that, if possible, I should prefer Dr. Kan Ohia Kou's letter to remain unanswered other than by a formal acknowledgement. If, however, he presses you for a reply you should state that the question is one which is being dealt with directly between myself and the Chinese Government.\n\nH. Phillips,\n\nC.M.G., O.B.E.\n\nHis Majesty's Consul-General,\n\nCAB PC.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\n(SGD) ALEXANDER CADOGAN",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote \n\nNo. 4.800 \n\nand address—not to any person by name, but to— \n\nI dup \n\n4264/10 \n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S. W. 1.\n\n18 \n\n10° \n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his \n\ncompliments to \n\nthe Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office, \n\n30 July, 1935.\n\nRECEIVED \n\n6 \n\nE \n\n5 \n\nC.O. COPY \n\nFile \n\nTo \n\nReference to previous correspondence \n\nand Minute thereon.\n\n(6) \n\nName and Date.\n\n5355235.\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\n15. Representative \n\nTelegram No. \n\nof \n\n246 In my 1935 \n\nTelegram No 289 \n\nof 27 May 1935 \n\n694 \n\nof 24 July 1935 \n\nSubject.\n\nExpropriation of certain Chinese property Kowloon Walled City\n\nSimilar letter sent to \n\n14--6130 10712 (2)",
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        "content_text": "(F1800/4264/10)\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION\n\nDecypher.\n\nSir A. Cadogan (Peking).\n\n24th July, 1935.\n\nD.\n\nBy wireless\n\nR. 9.30 p.m.\n\n24th July, 1935.\n\n24th July, 1935.\n\nNo.694.\n\n19\n\nHongkong telegram No.41 to Peking repeated to Colonial office. Kowloon evictions.\n\nSubject to your concurrence I would propose to reply to the Waichiaopu in the sense of the last two paragraphs of Hongkong telegram No.41 to me but omitting reference to \"frequent summonses\" and \"travelling\" regarding which complaint was made not by Waichiaopu but by Canton Special Delegate for Foreign Affairs in a letter of which copy is on its way to you.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No. 694, repeated to Hongkong.",
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        "content_text": "(+4800/4264/10)\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION,\n\n20\n\nCode telegram to Sir A. Cadogan (Peking).\n\nForeign Office, July 27th 1935.\n\nNo.229.\n\n(R).\n\n8.45 p.m.\n\nYour telegram No.694 (of July 24th. Kowloon evictions).\n\nI concur except that as it reached us last three paragraphs of Hongkong telegram No.41 (from \"I suggest\") seem indicated.\n\nPage 20\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "Mr. Costar 8.8.\n\nMr. Gent 8.\n\nSir J.Shuckburgh 8.8.35. at once.\n\nCopy F.O. L.F.\n\n1 (4)\n\n53552/35.\n\nPARAPHRASE TELEGRAM from the Secretary of State for\n\nthe Colonies to the Officer Administering the\n\nGovernment of Hong Kong.\n\nSent 12.15 p.m., 9th August 1935\n\nNo. 126.\n\nSecret.\n\nI approve your proceeding in Courts if\n\nnecessary against recalcitrant owners. Am advised\n\nthat you are correct in your presumption regarding\n\nOrder in Council of 27th December 1899.\n\nYour telegram No. 172, Kowloon City final\n\nparagraph refers.\n\n21",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote 0. F4802/4264/10, and address—not to any person by name but to—“The Under-Secretary of State,” Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nSir,\n\nRECEIVED 2-AUG 1935 FOREIGN OFFICE. S.N.1. C. O. RTM 1st August, 1935.\n\nWith reference to Colonial Office letter No.53552/35 of the 24th July regarding the proposed eviction of Chinese from the \"walled city\" of Kowloon, I am directed by Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare to state that he concurs in the attitude which Mr. Secretary MacDonald proposes to adopt towards the question of the recalcitrant owners.\n\n2. In this connexion I am directed to enclose for Mr. MacDonald's information copies of a telegram received from His Majesty's Ambassador at Peking on this subject and of the reply which has been sent to Sir Alexander Cadogan.\n\nI am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, Alvar Jaresigne The Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\n22",
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        "content_text": "(F4800/4264/10).\n\n23\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION.\n\nDe cypher. Sir A. Cadogan (Peking).\n\n24th July, 1935.\n\nD. By wireless.\n\n24th July, 1935.\n\nR.\n\n9.30 p.m.\n\n24th July, 1935.\n\nNo.694.\n\nHong Kong telegram No.41 to Peking repeated to Colonial Office. Kowloon evictions.\n\nSubject to your concurrence I would propose to reply to the Waichiaopu in the sense of the last two paragraphs of Hong Kong telegram No.41 to me but omitting reference to \"frequent summonses\" and \"travelling\" regarding which complaint was made not by Waichiaopu but by Canton Special Delegate for Foreign Affairs in a letter of which copy is on its way to you.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No.694, repeated to Hong Kong.",
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        "content_text": "NO DISTRIBUTION.\n\nCode telegram to Sir A. Cadogan (Peking).\n\nForeign Office, July 27th 1935. 8.45 p.m.\n\nNo.289. (R).\n\nYour telegram No.694 (of July 24th. Kowloon evictions).\n\nI concur except that as it reached us last three paragraphs of Hong Kong telegram No.41 (from \"I suggest\") seem indicated.\n\n24\n\n \nPage 24\n\nPage 24\n\nPage 24",
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        "content_text": "C. O.\n\n53552/35 Hong Kong.\n\n25-\n\nMr. Costar.\n\n2/7/35.\n\nC.O.\n\nMr. Gent.\n\n/7/35.\n\n24\n\nMr.\n\nR 24 J\n\n1024\n\nSir C. Parkinson.\n\nSir G. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,\n\nSir,\n\nDowning Street,\n\n24 July, 1935.\n\nWith reference to Foreign Office letter No. F.4524/4264/10 of the 16th July, 1935, and previous correspondence, on the subject of the proposed removal of certain Chinese inhabitants from the walled city of Kowloon City, in the Colony of Hong Kong. I am etc. to transmit to you copies of two telegrams from the OAG Governor of Hong Kong.\n\n2. Mr. MacDonald is advised by the D'AG that the Governor's presumption, that the courts in Hong Kong will be obliged to accept the Order in Council of the 27th December, 1899, as giving the Hong Kong Government full authority...\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE.\n\n(3)\n\nNo.4. Fr.0.A.G. Tel. No.172 18.7.35.\n\nNo.5. Fr.0.A.G. Tel. No.173 18.7.35.\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nSir John Happy 15 sel.\n\nJon...",
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        "content_text": "26\n\nin the area in question authority euar Kowloon City\n\nམཚན་མ་མང་པ་ད་དག་ས་ག་ར་ས་མ་ས་\n\neer City/(see final paragraph of telegram No.172) is correct, and subject to any observations which Sir Samuel Hoare may wish to offer,\n\nit te proposed to raise no objection to the Government's intention to proceed against the recalcitrant owners by law necessary;\n\nI am, etc.\n\n(Signed) H. R. COWELL",
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        "content_text": "NOTE.\n\nSA\n\n27\n\n«<<\n\nThe present territory of the Colony of Hong Kong has been acquired in three stages: first, the Island, ceded to Great Britain by China in 1841; the second, a small peninsula on the northern side of the harbour called Kowloon, which was ceded in 1860; the third, a considerable area behind Kowloon (called the \"New Territories\") which was leased for 99 years in 1898 from China as a defensive frontier line.\n\nThe first two are British Colonial territory in perpetuity, the third is, however, in a different position although for the period of the lease it is in all respects assimilated with the rest of the territory of Hong Kong and administered as part of the Colony. The laws of Hong Kong apply to it and the Chinese born in it during the British lease are British subjects.\n\nIn the Anglo-Chinese Convention of 9th June 1898, in which the \"New Territories\" were declared to be \"part and parcel of His Majesty's Colony of Hong Kong in like manner and for all intents and purposes as if they had originally formed part of the said Colony\", there were two restrictive clauses which should be mentioned-\n\n(a) It was agreed that within the City of Kowloon (which formed part of the leased territory) \"the Chinese officials now stationed there shall continue to exercise jurisdiction except so far as may be inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong\".\n\n(b) \"It is understood that there will be no expropriation or expulsion of the inhabitants\" of the ...",
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        "content_text": "28\n\nthe leased territory and that \"if land is required for public offices, fortifications, or the like official purpose it shall be bought at a fair price\". The first of these restrictions duly appeared in the British Order-in-Council of 20th October 1898 which provided for the government of the leased territories. Article 4 of that Order-in-Council reads:- \"Notwithstanding anything herein contained the Chinese officials now stationed within the City of Kowloon shall continue to exercise jurisdiction therein except in so far as may be inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong\". \n\nWhen in the following months the Hong Kong Administration proceeded to take over the leased territory they were met with armed resistance in the City of Kowloon and the place had to be captured by troops. It was clearly established at the time that this resistance was fomented by the neighbouring Chinese Provincial Authorities at Canton and it was decided that any retention by Chinese officials in the City of Kowloon of their jurisdiction was incompatible with the defence interests of the Colony. Accordingly a new Order-in-Council of 27th December, 1899, was issued which revoked Article 4 of the previous Order-in-Council and declared (Article 2): \"The City of Kowloon shall be and the same is hereby declared to be for the term of the lease in the said Convention mentioned (the Anglo-Chinese Convention of 1898) part and parcel of His Majesty's Colony of Hong Kong in like manner and for all intents and purposes as if it had originally formed part of the said Colony.\"\n\nFollowing",
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        "content_text": "29\n\n+1-e. the Bricksh Peminenka\n\nFollowing this revocation of the special status of the City of Kowloon it was therefore the case that in the walled city no less than elsewhere in the \"New Territories\" all the laws of Hong Kong applied and the Governor's jurisdiction was in no way specially limited.\n\nIn the revival of Chinese nationalist sentiment after the War an irredentist attitude regarding the \"New Territories\" of Hong Kong has mildly manifested itself. The development of Kowloon into a large modern city with wide streets of stone buildings has reached and passed the old Chinese walled city and it has for some time been clear that the continued existence of that small area could not long be exempted from the building and town-planning developments in the surrounding area.\n\nThe leases of the small Chinese pig-keepers and others who reside in the area expired at the end of 1933 and the Govt. resolved not to renew the leases but to allow a year's grace for the inhabitants to take up other (and superior) accommodation elsewhere on favourable terms.\n\nThe intention was to devote part at any rate of the walled city site to be laid out as a public park. This provided the occasion for an agitation to be whipped up amongst certain Chinese in Canton and the walled city against an alleged infringement of Chinese rights in the area, based upon the Anglo-Chinese Convention of 1898.\n\nThe position in the walled city and the intentions of the Govt. are set out in the Governor's despatch of Jan. 1934, No.1 in XCR(34)33744/34. The Foreign Office (No.3 in the same file) gave us their views as regards the strength\n\n...and",
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        "content_text": "30 \n\nand possible grounds of criticism of Hong Kong's \n\nclaim to \"expropriate\" the owners and dispose of the \n\nsite of the walled area. Their conclusion was that \n\nthe claim was a strong one but in order to avoid \n\ndispute with the Chinese Govt. every endeavour should \n\nbe made they suggested, to secure the consent of \n\nthe Chinese owners concerned. Very favourable \n\nterms have been offered by the Hong Kong Govt. and \n\nall except a very small minority of the inhabitants \n\nhave accepted them. To the Chinese Govt. itself \n\na reply was returned by H.M. Minister that the Governor \n\nof Hong Kong was clearly acting within his rights and \n\nno question of breach of Treaty stipulations was \n\ninvolved. \n\nJM Cont \n\n22/1 \n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "C. O. REGY\n\n3/\n\nCYPHER TELEGRAM from the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 19th July, 1935.\n\nReceived in the Colonial Office at 11.59 p.m. on 18th July, 1935.\n\nNo.173. 18th July. Following is text referred to in my immediately preceding telegram.\n\nPeking Telegram No.41.\n\nBegins.\n\nAddressed to Your Excellency. Repeated to Canton Mission.\n\nReference my telegrams Nos. 57 and 58. Hong Kong Government takes its stand on Order in Council of 27th December 1899 and unless otherwise instructed by His Majesty's Government cannot admit that the Chinese Government has any rights over Kowloon City.\n\nI suggest that Wai Chiao Pu be informed that there has been no intimidation and that this Government expects inhabitants who accepted its very generous terms loyally to adhere to their acceptance.\n\nThe issue on the point has been unnecessary; frequent summonses to Kowloon City residents to attend at the District Officer are paid for by this Government, and travelling expenses are paid by this Government.\n\nNew site is neither desolate nor far from town, being on a motorable road and only just over one mile from Kowloon City.\n\nCopy to...",
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        "content_text": "4264/10\n\nAny further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. 4524,\n\nand address—not to any person by name, but to\n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to\n\nthe Colonial Secretary,\n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State,\n\ntransmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office,\n\n3rd February,\n\n \n16 January 1935.\n\nRECEIVED 17 JUL 1935\n\nC.O. Reference to previous correspondence:\n\nFO. Letter\n\nName and Date.\n\nF.4264/4264/10\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\nfor Representative\n\nPeking\n\n648\n\nTelegram No. but\n\n3 July 1935\n\nof 3 July\n\nSubject.\n\n(2)\n\nof 8 July 1935\n\nExpropriation of Chinese property in Kowloon City\n\n14--6130 10712 (2)\n\nSimilar letter sent to ...",
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        "content_text": "CYPHER TELEGRAM from the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 18th July, 1935. Received in the Colonial Office at 11.59 p.m. on 18th July, 1935.\n\nNo.172.\n\nNo.172 of 18th July. Addressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies Repeated to Peking and Canton Mission.\n\nYour secret despatch of the 23rd August 1934 and connected correspondence regarding Kowloon City.\n\nThe matter has been quiescent for the last few months. First six houses have been built and early in June and again on 24th June six of the city residents who had accepted houses were requested to move into them in accordance with their acceptance of this Government's generous offer.\n\nThis has led to further laws received through the Consul General Canton and His Majesty's Ambassador in which claim to Chinese sovereignty is again put forward. I have been asked what reply should be sent to the Chinese Government and my immediately following telegram is copy of my reply to the Ambassador.\n\nSince our visit to the new houses in February last District Officer was met by a distinctly hostile crowd. No actual disturbance took place but it looks as though agitators are endeavouring to stir up trouble. Individual owners whom District Officer has seen at his Office though not anxious to move appear ready to do so peacefully.\n\nIt remains to be seen if the inhabitants will move. If they refuse I recommend that I be authorised to proceed against them by law. Presumably Courts here will be obliged to accept the Order in Council of the 27th December 1899 as giving this Government full authority over Kowloon City.",
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        "content_text": "234\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo.\n\nF4264/4264/10\n\nand address—not to any person by name, but to—\n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to The Under Secretary for the Colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the undermentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office, 8 Jan 1935.\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\nF4264/4264/10 (41) in 33744/34\n\nName and Date: F.D. Letter\n\nRECEIVED 5.7565/1099/10\n\nDescription of Enclosure: тр 28\n\nSubject: British Representative -9 JUL 1935 C. O PEGY 1934 Peking Telegra N 647 of 3 July 1935 14-6130 10950 (2)\n\nSimilar letter sent to\n\nExpropriation Chinese property in Kowloon City",
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        "content_text": "(F4524/4264/10)\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION\n\nDecode.\n\nSir A. Cadogan (Peking).\n\n3rd July, 1935.\n\nD.\n\n(By Wireless)\n\n3rd July, 1935.\n\nR.\n\nNo. 648. (R).\n\n7.00 p.m.\n\n3rd July, 1935.\n\nXXXXXX\n\nXXXXXX\n\nAddressed to Hongkong No. 58.\n\nMy telegram No. 57.\n\nI shall be grateful to learn what reply you suggest should be returned. On receipt of your reply I will consult Foreign Office as to whether they concur.\n\nRepeated to Foreign Office, Canton Saving to Mission.\n\n35",
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        "content_text": "NO DISTRIBUTION.\n\nTelegram (en clair) from Sir A. Cadogan (Peking)\n\nR.\n\nNo.\n\n47.\n\n3rd July 1935.\n\nm33744\n\nJuly 1st.\n\nFollowing is translation of telegram from Waichiaopu\n\nBegins: Your Excellency, it is reported by representatives of persons resident within Kowloon City that the Hongkong government, on the grounds that six of the new houses at Koushihling are now completed, has through the New Territories District Office Southern District, notified Wu Hsieng and five other persons that they are to move in within a week, while the remainder are all to move in as soon as the new houses are built. Owing to this intimidation, the residents are unable to live in peace.\n\nMoreover the houses are too far from the market and it is difficult for the inhabitants to seek a livelihood. They have therefore telegraphed imploring assistance. It is hoped Your Excellency will refer to the Waichiaopu's memorandum (89) dated the 7th September 1934 and telegraph with all speed to the Hongkong government moving them to consider the matter in the light of equity and immediately withdraw or suspend the order issued relative to persons resident within Kowloon City, so as to strengthen friendly relations, and the favour of reply is requested.\n\nWaichiaopu. Ends.\n\n36",
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        "content_text": "SECRET.\n\nSir,\n\nOrig\n\n(0)\n\n53546\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHong Kong.\n\n2nd January, 1935.\n\n37\n\nI have the honour to forward for your information the accompanying copy of notes supplied by His Britannic Majesty's Minister, Peking, on questions discussed with me during his recent visit to the Colony.\n\n2. Subject to the following observations I concur in these notes which represent accurately the course of the discussions and the conclusions reached:-\n\n(a) The paragraph headed \"Export of arms from Hong Kong to China\" contains the words \"samples were in any case allowed to go forward\". This refers to instances where an individual weapon or a few hundred rounds of ammunition were concerned. There have been recent instances when application has been made for whole cases of weapons of different kinds and some thousands of rounds of ammunition to go forward as samples. In such cases a Nanking Huchao has been called for.\n\n(b) My concurrence referred to in the second paragraph of the note relating to the Customs Agreement must be taken to refer\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nSIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nmerely",
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        "content_text": "38\n\n3.\n\nmerely to the statement of fact made in the first part of that paragraph.\n\nIn the event of China again raising the question of the Customs Agreement the attitude indicated in the first paragraph of the note under reference will require careful consideration.\n\nReferences to previous correspondence on the questions raised have been inserted in the margin.\n\nI have the honour to be, sir, Your most obedient humble servant, (sd.) W. Peel. Governor, &c.",
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        "content_text": "Copies to:\n\nPeking D.M.\n\nShanghai Canton\n\nHong Kong\n\n# NOTES ON QUESTIONS BRIEFLY DISCUSSED BY H.M. MINISTER WITH H.E. THE GOVERNOR AT HONG KONG (SIR T. SOUTHORN & SIR E. TEICHMAN ALSO BEING PRESENT.)\n\nNOVEMBER 28th and 29th.\n\nKowloon City Evictions.\n\n39\n\nHis Excellency said that the Colonial authorities were going ahead with the new buildings and that when these were completed they would offer the present occupiers the option of monetary compensation or new houses. Out of two or three hundred of these occupiers practically all were willing to accept the terms offered and there seemed to be no difficulties locally.\n\nIn the course of further conversation and in reply to H.M. Minister's enquiry as to whether he could continue to refute the Wai Chiao Pu's arguments and state categorically that all the occupiers were willing to move and challenge them, the Wai Chiao Pu, to name any dissentient, it was stated that there appeared still to be one, but only one, recalcitrant, who was a newcomer, having only been in Kowloon City a matter of fifteen years.\n\nIt was agreed that, as suggested by the Foreign Office, the matter should be allowed to rest in the hope that the Wai Chiao Pu, whose last note on the subject was still unanswered, would be willing to let it drop. If, however, they did revert to the question and press for an answer, H.M. Minister would consider replying, possibly verbally in the first instance, on the above lines.\n\nAs regards the history of the case and the arguments in justification of our action in 1900 and since, there was nothing to add to the points made in the recent Foreign Office despatch on the subject.\n\nReference: Secretary of State's despatch (Secret) of 23.8.34.\n\n33744/34",
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        "content_text": "53552 CLOSED UNTIL 987 Previous 1936 53552 KOWLOON CITY C0129/356/15 33332/35 Subsequent 53557 Mr Le/essss. 83 Mr Rogers... 26 2.2.. Ah.... Mr Gent 2.8. M Cowell 30 Mr Rogers T 30.X16 1-1-37 m Geart M'Lowell PUT BY Sin July, 10/11/36 Mr Rogers R. 83 27 12/12 83 12 83 8/4 Mr Rogers. M Kankin 87 Av. Gut M Cowell 9 Id Sec. 9/7 P.85 hh my 4 The Dennis Jul 14 Mu Cowell Q. XIL 1 14 Som J. Shane te bring ? 14/1.1/36.. R.83 14 In Rogent 14:8!! w Gaast 298 Aw Geart 83 2/ 7.1 7 PUT BY Requcky ONKOLU TUverõõmu (OMNISODOENADIO-AROUN C.D.297 15/12 22/ B PUT BY R77 83 19/2 83 18/1/2 839/ Mi Rogers 13.81 14 M's well 83 FILE A. PUT BY Mr Rogers. 18.71). me Gent 19 83 PUT BY 23 12 Mr Rogershy 24 Repirty 30/12 (13119) 26247/34 6,000 12/35 M. & S. Ltd. Gn. 641 1",
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        "content_text": "For Secut\n\n22/6/36\n\nReports that all occupants have accepted terms of compensation as offered. Proposes to approach Legislative Council for a vote - desires telegraphic approval.\n\nSee the Note filed under No.5 in 53557/35.\n\nThe expropriation of the mass of property in the walled city has been satisfactory complete.\n\nWe may approve the proposal in para. 3 as in draft.\n\nChungking\n\n8/7/36\n\nCopy to F.O.\n\nDurant\n\n9-7\n\nTo Gov. Hong Kong. Tel. no. 104, dated 9/7/36\n\nDESTROYED UNDER STATUTE\n\n3140 (412) of 4/22/36",
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        "content_text": "4 F.O.\n\nPeking telegram No 821\n\n13/11/36\n\n821 of 10/11/36\n\nRe: expropriation of certain Chinese property in Kowloon Walled City.\n\nAwait communication from Hongkong.\n\nP. Roger\n\n13.11.\n\nGov Secret\n\n10/11/36\n\nCorrespondence re jurisdiction over Kowloon City. States his views on the removal of the inhabitants.\n\nThere would be little disturbance if the object is humanitarian (see the proposal that \"the whole Kowloon City should be made into a Public Park, under Chinese sovereignty\").\n\nWe should acknowledge the despatch and approve the action made by You, as well as caution his protest (we are not in the proper step to take).\n\nWe should make other enquiries, e.g. about the willingness of the Kowloon inhabitants.\n\nP. Royer 27.11.",
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        "content_text": "This is a purely political move by a new official seeking to justify his existence and ingratiate himself with his new associates. His attitude is shown to be insincere. His representations on this matter are based on the claim by the residents of The City that their ancestral homes should be undisturbed. He then proceeds to suggest the creation of an area as a public park, and Chinese Sovereignty. I will simply send a copy to the F.O. in connexion with my despatch regarding the monetary claim. The Gov's reply is a proper rebuke to Kowloon for extending an invitation without the consent of the Colonial Govt.\n\nA Gent 28741",
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        "content_text": "I don't wonder \n\nthat the Japanese \n\nfelt annoyed with Chinese official \n\ncaprices - though they \n\nwere able to act in kind.\n\n \nWe can \n\nignore these vain repetitions.\n\nD.F.\n\nMaclellan\n\n30.11.36\n\nYou Secret (2)\n\n30/11/36\n\nat mel\n\n18/11/36\n\nIns. X copies of telegraphic correspondence with Peking re request of Waichiaopu to \n\nstop removal.\n\nF.O. Immediate\n\n \n4/12/36\n\nIno. copies of four further telegrams re subject of removal of Kowloon City.\n\nThe latter\n\n \nare copied \n\nto 7.\n\n6 may be sent to my \n\n7. To 7 \n\nshould reply 612.7.D.F.\n\nafter ringing \n\nIn \n\nthe telegram \n\nwe \n\nfollowed the reply to the Chinese Govt suggested \n\nby Sir Knatchbull Hugessen\n\nLetter to be marked Immediate.\n\n \nP. Ropes. 12.12.36.\n\nas proposed later\n\nReply \n\nsubject to \n\nany \n\ncomments by \n\nthe Gov \n\nof \n\nHK may \n\nsend\n\n9\n\n10 H.M. Ambassador.",
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        "content_text": "Enclose copy of N.O.S.\n\nD. H. htt\n\nM.Gant.\n\n14/12\n\nHalowell\n\n2\n\n1ve\n\n14/14/36\n\nat once\n\nNo S. has already been copied for transmission to the F.O., but has been held up pending action now to go as a 2o7. an enclosure.\n\n? It may\n\nP. Roger. 14.841.\n\n6\n\n8 To F.O. (w/ 55 encl.) (7 avod.) 15/12/56\n\nq\n\nF.O.\n\n17/12/36\n\nTo Nanjing Air 143 Four of 10/12/30 expropriation of certain Chinese property in Kowloon\n\nF.O.\n\n10\n\n17/12/36\n\nPeking desk. 1169 of 11/14/30 re above\n\nThere are the objections referred to in the reply which we camped i\n\n? Put\n\n尸\n\n8.\n\nRoger. 18.X11.\n\n19 wh L. Ropes.",
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        "content_text": "F.O.\n\nTanking tel 249 Four of 19/12/56 re expropriation in Kowloon of certain Chinese property\n\n22/12/56\n\nWait until after Christmas holiday\n\nI have no particular news from an Ambassador, in the strict confidential proceeding You have F.O. covenant, as it seems to definitely unclog that there'll be an indefinite hold up\n\nReine on Wed 30th Inst.\n\nSett. Seltent\n\n24. x\"\n\nMr Rogers\n\nRecirculated v. Mr. Gent's minute of 30/12 above, please\n\nDJ Chapman\n\n3/1/37\n\nI how courteously F.O. the 5th\n\nI consider it desirable that the removal of the inhabitants should not be held up\n\nThat subject to the Eden's is preferred to act with the evacuation\n\nI concurred if he sees it\n\nH.K.'s calmness\n\nLauterpacht Abemated to 1. Roger. 30.XI.\n\nSnackest with- bel to Yor.\n\nas in d.b.\n\n1/1/37",
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        "content_text": "TCC. to Gos., Hong Kong, No.5) bons\n\nSecret\n\nDE PATUTA\n\nGov tel 3 Secnet\n\n7/1/37\n\n12 andd. Air mail despatch leaves Kinghting\n\n8/1/37\n\n? Wait\n\n?. Ropes.7%.\n\nHEEL ORDER STATUTE\n\nBehint 7\n\nтамы",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. 1842434\n\nand address—not to any person by name, but to—\n\n“The Under-Secretary of State,” Foreign Office, London, S. W. 1.\n\n53552\n\n11\n\nof simi\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his\n\ncompliments to The\n\nfor the Colonies,\n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State,\n\ntransmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office,\n\n22 Dec, 1936\n\n23 DEC 1936\n\nC.O REGY\n\nReference to previous correspondence :\n\nF 7724/16 24 34 /10\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\nJ 1700 1936\n\nName and Date.\n\nSubject.\n\nMy Representative\n\nNanking\n\nTelegram No. 249\n\nJ\n\n19 Dec 1936\n\n14-6130 13667 (2)\n\nSimilar letter sent to\n\nExpropriation of certain\n\nproperty\n\nChinese &\n\nKowloon\n\nin\n\nPage 10\n\nCOPY\n\nF7855/4434/10).\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION\n\nPage 10\n\nDecode.\n\nSir H. Knatchbull Hugessen (Nanking).\n\n19th December, 1936.\n\n(Via W/T.) 19th December, 1936.\n\nD.\n\nR.\n\n4.00 p.m.\n\n19th December, 1936.\n\nNo. 249 Tour. (R).\n\nYour telegram No. 143 Tour.\n\nAs Governor of Hong Kong has suspended removal of\n\nresidents pending reference to Secretary of State for the\n\nColonies I have so informed Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs\n\nsemi-officially and will continue to hold up proposed reply\n\nuntil I hear further from Hong Kong.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No.249 Tour; repeated to\n\nPeking and Hong Kong.\n\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. 77716/4434\n\nand address—not to any person by name, but to—\n\n4/10\n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\n53552\n\n10\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his\n\ncompliments to\n\nThe\n\nfor the Colony\n\ntransmits herewith copy\n\nForeign Office, 17 Dec.\n\n4\n\n193...\n\nand, by direction of the Secretary of State,\n\nof the under-mentioned paper.\n\nR~...\n\n18 DEC 1936\n\nC. O. REGISTRY\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\nF. 6870/4434/10\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\nof 13 Nov. 1936\n\nName and Date.\n\nSubject.\n\n11\n\nHis Representative\n\nDespatch No. 1169\n\nof 1 Nov. 1936\n\n14-6130 13667 (2)\n\nSimilar letter sent to\n\nExpropriation of certain\n\nChinese property\n\nin\n\nKowloon City",
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        "content_text": "No. 1169 (2/63A/1936)\n\nKaba sBy\n\nits\n\nHis Majesty's Ambassador Peking, presents compliments to\n\nHis Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and transmits\n\nherewith\n\nthree copies\n\nof the undermentioned paper.\n\nPeking.\n\n11th November\n\n19... 36\n\nReference to previous despatch:\n\nPeking telegram No. 62 to Hong Kong repeated Foreign Office No.\n\n821 of 9th November 1936.\n\n  \n    Name and Date\n    Description of Inclosure\n    Subject\n  \n  \n    Note from Wai Chiao Pu dated 26th October 1936\n    \n    Requests that Hong Kong Government should be asked to cancel or suspend decision for removal of residents.\n  \n\nCopied to:-\n\n12\n\nKowloon City.\n\nHong Kong,\n\nH.M.Ambassador on Tour,\n\nCanton.",
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        "content_text": "H.M.\n\nA. B. B.\n\nNOTE\n\nSir,\n\nFrom\n\nWai Chiao Pu to\n\nXXXXXXXXXX AMBASSADOR\n\nXXXXXXX NANKING.\n\n26th October, 1956.\n\nI have the honour to inform Your Excellency with reference to the enforced removal by the Hong Kong Government of the residents of Kowloon city that I have received a report from the Special Delegate for Kwangtung and Kwangsi to the following effect:-\n\n\"According to an oral statement made at this office by representatives of the residents of Kowloon city the District Office, Southern District, Hong Kong, has altered the place to which they have to remove to Ya Ch'ien Tsui and has fixed the end of the present year as the date before which all the residents must remove, and they accordingly request that the matter be taken up with the appropriate authorities”.\n\nIn this connexion I have the honour to refer to Sir Alexander Cadogan's Note of 8th August 1935, communicating the contents of the reply received by him from the Hong Kong Government. On receipt of that Note my predecessor referred the matter to the Special Delegate stationed in Canton and the foregoing report has now been received.\n\nI have the honour to observe that it is evident that the residents in question are not yet willing to accept removal within a definite time limit, and that...\n\nPage 13",
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        "content_text": "that as Kou-Shih-Ling (Kau Shut Ling) and Ya-Ch'ien-Wei are both outside Kowloon city, the residents, if forced to remove, will still inevitably incur the hardship which attaches to homeless persons. I have therefore the honour to refer to the numerous notes and telegrams sent by this Ministry and to request that Your Excellency will without delay request the Hong Kong Government to cancel or suspend the original decision for the enforced removal of the residents of Kowloon city, thus giving peace to the people and strengthening friendly relations.\n\nI have further the honour to request the favour of a reply.\n\nI avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration.\n\nStamp Signature of Chang Ch'un.\n\nSEAL OF MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.\n\n14",
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        "content_text": "21\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote No. FA24/44 24/10\n\nAddress-not to any person by name, but to— \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\n1\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office, 17 Dec 1936\n\nRECEIVED 18 DEC 1936\n\nC.O. REC\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\n  \n    Name and Date\n    Description of Enclosure\n    Subject\n  \n  \n    53552/36 of 15 Dec 1936\n    Telegram No. 143\n    Expropriation of certain Chinese property in Kowloon\n  \n\n16 Dec 1936\n\n14-6130 13667 (2)\n\nSimilar letter sent to",
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        "content_text": "(F7724/4434/10)\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION.\n\nCode telegram to Sir H. Knatchbull Hugessen (Nanking).\n\nForeign Office, December 16th 1936.\n\n6.20 p.m.\n\nNo.143. Tour. (R).\n\nYour telegram No.206 Tour (of 27th November.\n\nExpropriation of Chinese property in Kowloon City).\n\nI approve proposed reply subject to any observations\n\nwhich Governor of Hong Kong may offer.\n\nRepeated to Peking No. 375.\n\nPage 16\n\nPage 16\n\nPage 16",
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        "content_text": "C. O.\n\n17\n\n8\n\nMr.\n\nRoyes. 14. x41.\n\nMr. Gent 14\n\nMr.\n\nSir C. Parkinson.\n\nSir G. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nTo be marked \"Confidential\".\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe U.S.JS.\n\n7.0.\n\nNo\n\nNO J\n\nCrobery aloudy\n\n...\n\nd\n\n1:15\n\n53552/36. Hay Kony\n\nhung deale ungdrate\n\n15 Dec\n\n136.\n\nI am directed to acknowledge\n\nthe receipt of your letter No.\n\n(7) F.7416/4434/10 of\n\nthe 4 December regarding the removal\n\nof inhabitants of\n\nKowloon City to\n\na different site, & to request you to inform\n\nthe Secretary of State that he\n\nconcurs in the reply to the\n\nEden's ...\n\nthis matter.\n\nTo arrange for the reply to the",
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        "content_text": "18\n\nsuggested by HM Ambassador.\n\nChivers Gort proforest by bit\n\n4. Knatchbalt Hapewea\n\n+\n\nbacógrafo has\n\nLo 206 Tour\n\nliteg\n\n*Com\n\nthe\n\n27h of 2N.\n\nsubject to\n\n(End to 7)\n\nany\n\nH. K.\n\nobservations which the\n\nmay sent to offer.\n\nH.M. Combos ador.\n\n3\n\na\n\nwhich was then returned\n\ndespatch from the Gov.\n\nthe subject\n\nthe Gov. H.K. (5)\n\nenclosed 10\n\nThe Eden's information\n\n10.11.36.\n\n(copy 5 - already done for\n\nhaus missin\n\n(Signed) M. K. C",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote No. F7416/4434/10, and address—not to any person by name but to—\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nIMMEDIATE. 53552\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1. 4th December, 1936.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the telegram from His Majesty's Embassy at Peking No.821 of the 10th November, a copy of which was communicated to the Colonial Office in Foreign Office letter F6870/4434/10 of the 13th November, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Eden to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State, copies of four further telegrams on the subject of the removal of inhabitants of Kowloon City to a different site.\n\nAs it would seem to be preferable at the present stage to avoid any reference to the question of jurisdiction or to the note to the Chinese Minister of 30th May, 1899, Mr. Eden proposes, subject to the concurrence of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to approve the reply to the Chinese Government proposed by Sir H. Knatchbull-Hugessen in paragraphs 2 to 5 of his telegram No.206 Tour of the 27th November.\n\nI am, Sir, Your obedient Servant,\n\nT.W. Ingram(?)",
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        "content_text": "(F7305/4434/10)\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION.\n\nDecypher.\n\nMr. Howe (Peking)\n\n27th November, 1936.\n\nNo.860.\n\nD.\n\nR.\n\nW/T 27th November, 1936.\n\n5.00 p.m. 27th November, 1936.\n\nFollowing received from Hongkong telegram No.51 of November 17th.\n\nBegins.\n\nAddressed to Peking telegram No.51 of November 17th, repeated to Mission.\n\nSecret.\n\nMy telegram No.50.\n\nPersonal.\n\nInspection of sites convinces me that meaning of representations regarding Kowloon City must be political.\n\nPlease see enclosures to my notes dated November 9th and November 10th.\n\nPage 20\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "F7367/4434/10)\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION.\n\nDecypher.\n\nMr. Howe (Peking),\n\n27th November, 1936.\n\nD. W/T\n\n27th November, 1936.\n\nR.\n\n5.30 p.m.\n\n27th November, 1936.\n\nNo.860A.\n\n2.1\n\nFollowing received from Hongkong No.50 November 17th.\n\nBegins.\n\nAddressed to Peking No.50 November 17th, repeated to Mission.\n\nYour telegram No.62.\n\nYour air mail not yet received but Waichiaopu is misinformed.\n\nKowloon city residents are not being removed to Ya Chien-wei but to prepare site at Kakhang within the town planning area about quarter of a mile from Kowloon city. I inspected both places personally yesterday and cannot cancel or suspend orders which are dictated by sanitary principles.\n\nResidents agreed to move and compensation enables them to build houses on the new site where foundations are already being dug. Nobody is holding out and 2,000 dollars already paid in first instalments of compensation; further instalments will be paid as building progresses.\n\nNew site admirable and conveniently situated; evacuated Kowloon city area converted into public park. Ends.",
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        "content_text": "(F7417/4434/10)\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION.\n\nDecode.\n\nMr. Young (Nanking).\n\n30th November, 1936.\n\nD.\n\nBy Wireless 30th November, 1936.\n\nR.\n\n4.05 p.m.\n\n30th November, 1936.\n\nNo.11 (R).\n\nFollowing from His Majesty's Ambassador;\n\nMy telegram No.206 Tour.\n\nI have received a further memorandum from Waichiaopu renewing request that removal order be cancelled. In this document treaty is referred to in following phraseology: \"in thus persisting Hongkong Government appears to be acting without due consideration for treaty provisions, friendly feeling and people's liberty of residence\".\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office No.11; repeated to Peking and Hongkong.",
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        "content_text": "De cypher.\n\nD.\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION\n\n27th November, 1936.\n\nSir H. Knatchbull Hugessen (Nanking).\n\n(By Wireless) 28th November, 1936.\n\nR.\n\n6.00 p.m.\n\n28th November, 1936.\n\nNo. 206. (Tour).\n\nPeking telegram No. 62 to Hongkong and Hongkong telegrams Nos. 50 and 51 to Peking.\n\nDo you see any objection in reply to the Waichiaopu to say that I could only recognize that the Chinese Government have any standing in this question in so far as it affects treatment of Chinese citizens within British jurisdiction and if Waichiaopu pursued matter further to fall back on note from Secretary of State to Chinese Minister of May 30th 1899 and adding that I was not at liberty to discuss matters of jurisdiction further.\n\n2. On the whole however I think it is safer not to raise the question of jurisdiction particularly as the Waichiaopu have not themselves raised it directly in present instance and subject to your approval and to that of Governor of Hongkong I propose to reply as follows, begins: Paragraph 1. Acknowledgment etc.\n\nParagraph 2. I am now in receipt of a reply from His Excellency the Governor in which he authorises me to assure Your Excellency that while it is necessary for sanitary reasons to proceed with moving persons in question, every possible consideration has been extended to them. Paragraph 3. Moreover, the special delegate for Kuangtung and Kuangsi is misinformed as to place to which present...\n\nPage 23\n\n \n(No further text is given on this page)",
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        "content_text": "24\n\npresent residents are being moved. This is not Yachienwei but a prepared site at Kakhang about a quarter of a mile from Kowloon City.\n\nThe Gov AMY Consul General states that after personally inspecting the new site and after carefully re-examining the whole question he is satisfied that the new site is excellent and conveniently situated and that compensation paid to residents enables them to build suitable houses there. His Excellency adds that residents originally accepted the terms offered by Hongkong Government and agreed to move and that none of them is now refusing to do so; indeed $2,000 has already been paid out in compensation and arrangements have been made to pay further instalments as building progresses.\n\n5. His Excellency is accordingly unable to cancel or suspend his orders which, as I have already indicated, are based entirely on sanitary grounds. Ends.\n\nAddressed to Foreign Office, repeated to Peking and Hongkong.",
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        "content_text": "RECEIVED\n\nXXX SECRET (2).\n\nC. O G\n\nAIR MAIL.\n\n1\n\n6\n\n25\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG,\n\nCopies to: H.B.M. Ambassador, Peking (46)\n\nH.B.M. D.M., Nanking. H.B.M. Consul-General,\n\n18th November, 1936.\n\nCanton\n\n(85)\n\n3 encls.\n\nA\n\nSir,\n\n53552\n\nIn continuation of my Secret despatch dated the 10th November current on the subject of the evacuation of a part of the old walled City of Kowloon I have the honour to transmit copies of Peking telegram No.62 (which reached me after signature of my despatch) and of my telegraphic replies thereto.\n\n2.\n\nYou will notice that I have made a personal inspection both of the old walled city and of the excellent new site at Kak Hang. It is inconceivable that any serious plea could be made for the conservation of a line of squalid hovels whose tenants are being provided with airy and commodious sites only a quarter of a mile away, and with the money to build on them, unless indeed the plea is actuated by a political motive. It now remains to be seen whether that motive will be disclosed or whether the Waichiaopu will let the matter drop.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nCaldecot\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nW.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nGovernor, &c.",
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        "content_text": "Governor H.K. 62 (R) F.O.821, H.M.Ambassador FROM B.L.Peking.\n\nNanking 436.\n\nAddressed Hong Kong No.62 Repeated to F.O. 821 H.M.A. 436\n\nDespatch No.78 of 5th August 1935.\n\nPeking.\n\nNote dated 26th October has been received from the WAI CHIAO PU in regard to instructions said to have been issued for the removal of certain residents in KOWLOON CITY to YA CHIEN WEI (Giles 12831 1737 12529) before the end of the year instead of KOU SHIH LING as previously arranged. 2 Stop.\n\nWAI CHIAO PU state that it is evident that the residents in question are not yet willing to remove and as both places named are outside the city they may if forced to remove become homeless. 3 Stop. WAI CHIAO PU therefore request that the Government of Hong Kong be moved to cancel or suspend the original proposal to force the residents of KOWLOON CITY to remove. Reply is requested. 4 Stop\n\nCopy and translation of note follows by air mail.\n\n5 Stop\n\nWhat reply would Your Excellency wish me to return.\n\nHOWE\n\n(1645/10)\n\nChit No.205 P/L W/T T.O.R.\n\n1851\n\n10/11/36",
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        "content_text": "From:-\n\nGovernor, Hong Kong.\n\nCypher.\n\nTO:-\n\nB.E. Peking (50)\n\nRepeated to:-\n\nD.M. Nanking (38)\n\nDate:-\n\n17th November, 1936.\n\n27\n\nYour telegram 62. Your air mail not yet received but Waichiaopu is misinformed. Kowloon City residents are not being removed to Ya Chien Wei but to a prepared site at Kak Hang within the town planning area about a mile from Kowloon City. I inspected both places personally yesterday and cannot cancel or suspend orders which are dictated on sanitary principles.\n\nResidents agreed to move and compensation enables them to build houses on the new site where foundations are already being laid. Nobody is holding out and $2,000 already paid in first instalments of compensation; further instalments will be paid as building progresses.\n\nNew site admirable and conveniently situated. Evacuated Kowloon City area will be converted into a public park.",
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        "content_text": "SECRET\n\nFrom: Governor, Hong Kong.\n\nTo:-\n\nB.E. Peking(51)\n\nRepeated\n\nto:- D.M. Nanking(39)\n\nDate:- 17th November, 1936.\n\nCypher.\n\nMy telegram 50.\n\nPersonal inspection of site\n\nconvinces me that motive of representations regarding Kowloon City must be political. Please see enclosures\n\nto my notes dated 9th November and 10th November.\n\nPage 28\n\nPage 28\n\nPage 28",
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        "content_text": "Page 5\n\n29\n\n.S\n\nSdt midt iW Svad of sId 122oqni stimp ei Ji ¡baadtto batoster ev\n\negnites 929sqel-itns steds 891: 16 3rox gol to enoitsoflitrof Fae attooyod,zadata inemot of yfgxti ezaitedteg 1gito 10 tingiensyos 9a9dinh 196au bien so huợc 9369q sit to a at Lettere besbai zi JI .noitɔibziwi awo me -blatuo Laz\n\ne an somnunitaoo Iutsossq ati of bas go to ht\n\nsáð yď yllanit ɓas ylmit fineta broda w teás poính VİE\n\n1838,Isɗnann@ dt\\S edit Getab Ironwoð at asery sa to t\n\nt\n\nit at 1stten sit neter Liw usy\".10 15 A÷W\n\nI bu ugpallioba ait,berster ca ti,Tontech Dan B ontezi Istǝase todd I jest I Visa of sidson I qu ti sist\n\nto ti bealer givad e'way! .10 sjatena.\n\nnoitosanoo ni en ct Dattimbs tiezoid\n\nMKX SECRET.\n\nAIR MAIL.\n\nRECEIVED\n\nMY1077\n\n6. O. REGY\n\nCopy to Peking (44) Copy to D.M. Nanking. Copy to C.G. Canton (80)\n\nSir,\n\n2\n\nEncl. No.1.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n10th November, 1936.\n\nWith reference to previous correspondence ending with your telegram No.104 of the 9th July last I have the honour to forward for your information a copy of a letter, with its enclosure, from His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton, dated the 21st October, and of my reply thereto, dated the 9th November, 1936.\n\nCső bet arabs\n\nEncl. No.2.\n\n2.\n\nDr. Philip K.C. Tyau (already well known to me as late Chinese Consul-General in Singapore) was one of the officials who took part in the recent visit, which is being reported by me in a separate despatch, of His Excellency the Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government and His Honour the Mayor of Canton on the 4th and 5th November, and I therefore delayed my reply in case Dr. Tyau should see fit to supplement his letter by verbal representations.\n\nThe Canton newspapers had foreshadowed such a possibility, but in the event Dr. Tyau never even mentioned the matter to me at any time during the visit.\n\n3.\n\nHe did, however, mention it to the acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Mr. W.J. Carrie, and put forward unofficially the novel suggestion that the whole of Kowloon City should be made into a Public Park and the area, thus rendered free of any inhabitants, recognised by us as being under the sovereignty of China. If ever any such proposal is put forward officially by the Waichiaopu it must of course\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nW.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P. &c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nPage 29",
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        "content_text": "30\n\n.aзuoн THOMMABVOD\n\nOHON DHOK\n\nG\n\nтe dnevoй Jor\n\n.DEЯOGE XANE\n\nIIAM REA\n\n(44) gnids9 cf #go .yaidasń „K.I of goo (06) \"aotas 2.0 of yo\n\ngaitas sonebaoqzerros 2 voivsng of spasister dijë\n\nsdf wed I tasi yivɩ dite sit to Mor.cli mergeist woy diiw\n\nettel a to yŋquo a noite motal xwby TỢI DIBwTot of wenod\n\n2\n\n1\n\nvacions ati dttw\n\nviger ym to bus,Isdato Ja†S and betвb,notas) Je IBïsasú\n\n.JƐet,Iodmevoll ritƐ art batsb\n\ns of wood [197 W397[6) voyT .D. qilid¶ .xⱭ\n\nt\n\n.:\n\nand to suo sow (sacqegnil at Lensasû-Iveno0 sesai: stal ze galed et doldw,Jłaiv Jasoet sit ni treq Xoot od zisioitto\n\n..oй\n\nIona\n\nsit yons Deoxã zië to,dotsqzab otereqɔe e ni sa yd betroger sy\n\nall me taemu svoð. Leimivon? gutzaawx adt to newxIANO bne, drevok d‡ë has dji sdt zo modneƆ to royal sdf woαol zaz bizena pay2 .nⱭ 9289 at yiqet yɛ boyslab smtsrait I . moitetngasıqsı ladrev yớ nsttál aki tas oiqque of and,g$l£Miszog e dona bewobedesuch bin zloqagawea notasƆ en of zettae sit Deoitasu mevs 19750 UBET,20 Jasve edt ni thaiv od iwb sit via de\n\nwalter wit of tacitzer Tevstod,bib sil\n\nvick Jug ins,siri).L.W .N ̧erbSTTA 929MINO tel prster092 Bevival de əlçde sit tait moitasygua Isvo edt tilsisitionu eeme al ban: X78¶ otIdw¶ s ohi obem ad Lluoda vio alled ga uu yu boeingoner, zkest tíadui yas to sert beicher fare in die ys 19% DI • wido to ytagionsvoe sat teher flot to brawio toy si samoo to tan■ ji uqosidotal\n\noit at lave poppad\n\n4.\n\nbe rejected offhand; it is quite impossible to have within the\n\nfortifications of Hong Kong an area where anti-Japanese meetings\n\nor other gatherings likely to foment strikes, boycotts and\n\nbreaches of the peace could be held under Chinese sovereignty\n\nand outside our own jurisdiction. It is indeed essential to\n\nthe safety of Hong Kong and to its peaceful continuance as a British Colony that we should stand firmly and finally by the\n\nOrder of the Queen in Council dated the 27th December, 1899.\n\nWhether Dr. Tyau will refer the matter to the\n\nWaichiaopu and whether, if so referred, the Waichiaopu will take it up I am unable to say. I feel sure that Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek will deprecate Dr. Tyau's having raised it at this juncture but, as he himself admitted to me in connection with the loop line, even the Generalissimo feels it necessary on occasion to bow to current opinions in Canton.\n\nWith some Cantonese the demand for jurisdiction over Kowloon City will always remain an obsession of much the same nature, persistency and recurrence as that which King Charles's head possessed for Mr. Dick. It would be a mistake therefore to exaggerate its importance, but the resuscitation of the question by Dr. Tyau at the present moment is a useful corrective for any who might be inclined to set too great a value on the superficially unqualified success of the Cantonese visit to Hong Kong.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nCaldecott\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\nKor-Taco .A.D.N\n\n€32.\n\nیز\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "No.103.\n\nEnclosure No.1.\n\nCopies to:\n\nPeking No.135. (and 3 copies)\n\nDiplomatic Mission No.109 Commerical Counsellor No.97.\n\nH.B.M. Consulate-General,\n\nCANTON\n\n21st October, 1936.\n\nSir,\n\n31\n\n1\n\nWith reference to your Secret despatch of the 22nd June, 1936, addressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and to previous correspondence on the subject of Kowloon City, I have the honour to forward herewith copy and translation of a letter which I have received from Dr. Philip K.C. Tyau, Special Delegate for Foreign Affairs, in which he requests that, in order to promote friendly relations, the Hong Kong Government should abandon its proposal to remove certain residents of Kowloon City on the ground that they are unwilling to move elsewhere.\n\n2.\n\nThe Special Delegate also asks that he may be informed regarding the original motive of the Hong Kong Government in ordering the removal of the residents and the manner in which the Kowloon City district is to be utilised. I am further requested to transmit his letter to the Hong Kong Government and to obtain the favour of a reply.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Excellency's most obedient, humble servant,\n\nsd. HERBERT PHILLIPS\n\nConsul-General.\n\nHis Excellency\n\nSir Andrew Caldecott, Kt., C.M.G., C.B.E.\n\nGovernor,\n\nHONG KONG.",
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        "content_text": "32\n\nEnclosure in Canton despatch to Hong Kong No.103 of 21st October, 1936.\n\nFrom:\n\nSpecial Delegate for Foreign Affairs\n\nTo:\n\nH.M. Consul-General, Canton.\n\nTRANSLATION.\n\n20th October, 1936.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to refer to the case in which the\n\nHong Kong Government ordered the removal within stipulated time\n\nof the Kowloon City residents, and to inform you that representatives\n\nof the residents of Kowloon City have come before me\n\nstating that the District Officer, South District, has again\n\nordered their removal, and requesting me to take up negotiations.\n\nAccordingly I despatched Secretary Ling Shih-fun to Kowloon City\n\nto investigate. Secretary Ling has now reported that in compliance\n\nwith my orders he visited Kowloon City and called a meeting of the\n\nresidents to obtain their views. They all stated that the locality\n\nbeing their ancestral home, they do not want to move elsewhere.\n\nI have the honour to state that among the documents\n\n(of this office) that I have taken over, is copy of a Memorandum\n\nfrom the former British Minister to the Ministry of Foreign\n\nAffairs, in which are the following words. \"..... very benevolent\n\nterms which are gladly accepted by the residents\".\n\nThis appears\n\nto be slightly different from facts. The former British Minister's\n\nmemorandum also states that \"the Governor of Hong Kong has not\n\nissued orders to the Kowloon City residents requiring their removal\".\n\nNow the District Officer South District, Hong Kong, has\n\nagain ordered the Kowloon residents to move out by the end of\n\nthe year.\n\nThe statement quoted is also thus contrary to facts.\n\nAgain, on the 19th December, 1935, the circular order for\n\nremoval issued by the District Officer, South District, New\n\nTerritories, contained these words: \"..... this property being\n\nleased to you annually by H.M. the King.....\" Studying the\n\nmeaning of these words, it appears they do not fully agree with\n\nthe provisions of the Lease Treaty.",
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        "content_text": "33\n\n2.\n\nAt the present moment when the relations between our two countries are daily becoming more cordial, it seems necessary for the Hong Kong Government to give up its original proposal to order the removal of Kowloon City residents so as to tally with the spirit of friendliness. As to the original motive of the Hong Kong Government in ordering the removal of the Kowloon City residents and the manner in which the Kowloon City district is to be utilised, I have yet to be informed, and I have the honour to request that you will kindly transmit the enquiry to the Hong Kong Government for a reply.\n\nIn view of the above, I have the honour to address you this letter and to request that it may be transmitted to the Hong Kong Government for attention and the favour of a reply.\n\nI have, etc.,\n\nPhilip K.C. Tyau\n\nSpecial Delegate.",
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        "content_text": "79.\n\nEnclosure No.2.\n\nGovernment House,\n\nCopy to Peking (43) Hong Kong, 9th November, 1936. Copy to D.M. Nanking.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.103 dated the 21st October, 1936, forwarding a copy of a communication addressed to you by Dr. Philip K.C. Tyau, Special Delegate for Foreign Affairs. Inasmuch as the subject of that letter has been also the subject of previous correspondence between the British Embassy and the Waichiaopu I am not prepared to enter into a subsidiary correspondence thereanent with the Provincial authorities. I can see however no objection to your informing Dr. Philip K.C. Tyau what is common knowledge, i.e. that the removals are being effected for sanitary reasons, that the intention is to lay out the evacuated space within the walls of Kowloon City as a public park and that generous compensation is being awarded. Having been recently privileged to see with my own eyes what has been, and is being, done in Canton along the lines of modern hygienic urban development, the suggestion that lessees whose main source of livelihood is pig-rearing should, after the expiry of their leases, continue to be accommodated in Kowloon City \"so as to tally with the spirit of friendliness\" between Hong Kong and Canton has caused me considerable surprise and disappointment. It seems indeed the very negation of cooperation.\n\nFor your personal information I may add that I consider Dr. Tyau's action in sending an emissary to Kowloon City without the cognisance of the Hong Kong Government was both discourteous and improper; and in the event of this correspondence being pursued through diplomatic channels, or if there should be any recurrence of the incident, I shall feel it necessary to protest. For the present however I am content to ascribe it to Dr. Tyau's unfamiliarity with his new duties.\n\n2.\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Consul-General,\n\nCANTON.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir\n\nYour most obedient servant\n\nsd. A. CALDECOTT.\n\nGovernor, &c.",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. F6870\n\n6875 4434/12\n\nand address—not to any person by name, but to—\n\n“The Under-Secretary of State,” Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\n35\n\n4\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his\n\ncompliments to the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State,\n\ntransmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office,\n\n13 Nov 1936\n\n3\n\nPage 35\n\nRECEIVED\n\nDEC 1936\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\nName and Date.\n\n53552/36\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\nNo. 821\n\nH.M. Representative,\n\nPeking\n\nTelegram\n\nof 22 July 1936\n\nof 10 Nov 1936\n\nSubject.\n\nExpropriation of\n\nChinese property in Kowloon City\n\n14-6130 13667 (2)\n\nSimilar letter sent to\n\nPage 36",
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        "content_text": "(F6870/4434/10)\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION.\n\nTelegram (en clair) from Mr. Howe, (Peking).\n\n10th November, 1936.\n\nD. (by W/T)\n\n10th November, 1936.\n\nR. 4.15 p.m.\n\n10th November, 1936.\n\nNo. 821.\n\n36\n\nAddressed to Hongkong No.62.\n\nPeking despatch No. 78 of 5th August, 1936. Note dated\n\n26th October has been received from the Waichiaopu in regard\n\nto instructions said to have been issued for the removal of\n\ncertain residents in Kowloon city to Ya Chien-wei (Giles\n\n12831-1737-12529) before the end of the year instead of\n\nKou Shih-ling as previously arranged.\n\n2.\n\nWaichiaopu state that it is evident that the\n\nresidents in question are not yet willing to remove and as\n\nboth places named are outside the city they may if forced to\n\nremove become homeless.\n\n3. Waichiaopu therefore request that the government of\n\nHong Kong be moved to cancel or suspend the original proposal\n\nto force the residents of Kowloon city to remove. Reply is\n\nrequested.\n\n4.\n\nCopy and translation of note follow by air mail.\n\n5. What reply would Your Excellency wish me to\n\nreturn?\n\nRepeated to Foreign Office No.821 and His Majesty's\n\nAmbassador No. 436.",
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        "content_text": "SECRET.\n\nAIR MAIL.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG\n\n22nd June, 1936.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to your Secret telegram No.126 of the 9th August, 1935, and to previous correspondence on the subject of Kowloon City I have the honour to inform you that, as a result of negotiations conducted by the District Officer, all occupants of this area have accepted terms of compensation offered by the Government.\n\n2. The terms include the free grant of sites on Crown Land in the neighbourhood, together with cash compensation totalling approximately $45,600. Raising the site for the new village to a level conforming with that required under the town-planning scheme will require the expenditure of a further $8,200. The sum provided under Head 34 Sub-head 67 (page 104 of 1936 Estimates) is $34,000 only, and I therefore propose, subject to your approval, to approach the Legislative Council for a revote of approximately $20,000, being part of the sum of $30,000 provided but not expended in 1935.\n\n3.\n\n4. It is in my opinion advisable that the opportunity should be taken without delay of disposing of this troublesome question, and I shall accordingly be glad to be informed of your approval, if granted, by telegraph.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nA Caldecot\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nW.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.",
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        "content_text": "57\n\nN 8 -\n\nfrom the latter. Such a survey has the advantages of bringing up to date our knowledge of local bamboos and of affording Dr. McClure an opportunity of increasing his knowledge of bamboos in this section of the Chinese zone. In the interests of the Colony generally, the offer was accepted by Government and the survey was in progress at the end of the year. When the survey is complete and the material worked out, Dr. McClure proposes to publish an account of the survey and of the species collected.\n\n39. Botanical Collection of Bambuseae (Living Specimens).— On the advice and with the assistance of Dr. McClure, it was proposed to build up a living collection of Bamboos for Botanical purposes. The first steps were taken and a number of plants of different species (supplied by Dr. McClure) were housed temporarily at the Sheung Shui Experimental Nursery. It is hoped to make this collection as complete as possible, at any rate, in respect to Chinese and Tropical species generally and to this end assistance was sought from various botanical centres. Such a collection will be very valuable from a scientific point of view and will take some years to build up. It is hoped to obtain material from many sources, chiefly on an exchange basis. (Note. An excellent site for this collection has been decided upon and it is proposed to have this area surveyed and to draw up a plan for systematic planting of the collection).\n\n## AGRICULTURE, ETC.\n\n40. Fan Ling Experimental Garden.-The Citrus plots again produced a good crop of fruits but they were all blown away by the typhoon in September. The typhoon caused considerable havoc amongst the various fruit trees and all fruits on the remaining trees were blown away. Foreign vegetables of good quality were again cultivated for demonstration purposes and for exhibition at the Annual Show of the New Territories Agricultural Association, which was held at Shek Wu Hui on January 9th & 10th.\n\n41. Inspection of Nursery Stock and Vegetable Products.- The following shipments were inspected and certified for export: 54 dried and fresh vegetable consignments, for export to the Philippine Islands; 19 consignments of Narcissus Tazetta L., containing 57,000 bulbs for export to Britain, Canada, Honolulu, India, Australia, Burma, and Mexico; 24 consignments of Sugar Cane containing 193,500 canes exported to Singapore; 16 small lots of miscellaneous seeds and plants exported to various countries.\n\nN 9\n\n## SEED COLLECTION.\n\n42. Seeds of the following species were collected for local use and for the purpose of exchange: Albizzia Lebbek Benth., Artocarpus hypargyraea Hance, Atalantia Hindsti Oliv., Bauhinia glauca Wall, Bauhinia variegata L., Biota orientalis Endl., Bombax malabaricum DC., Callistemon rigidus R. Br., Camellia hongkongensis Seem, Cassia glauca Lam., Cassia fistula L., Casuarina equisetifolia L., Celtis sinensis Pers., Cunninghamia sinensis R. Br., Delonix regia Rafin., Diospyros Morrisiana Hance, Ficus retusa L., Garcinia oblongifolia Champ., Glyptostrobus heterophyllus Endl., Grevillea robusta A. Cunn., Hibiscus Abelmoschus L., Iris speculatrix Hance, Leucaena glauca Benth., Melaleuca leucadendron L., Paulownia Fortunei Hemsl., Quercus cornea Lour., Quercus Edithae Skan, Quercus Harlandi Hance, Quercus salicina Bl., Rhodoleia Championi Hook., Sapium sebiferum Roxb., Sapium discolor Muell-Arg., Strychnos angustiflora Benth., Strychnos paniculata Champ., Strophanthus divergens R. Grah., Tristania conferta R. Br.\n\n## EXCHANGE OF SEEDS.\n\n43. The Department is indebted to the following donors of seeds, plants, etc.: India: The Superintendent, Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta; New Zealand: The Curator, Botanic Gardens, Christchurch; R.O. Dalrymple; Australia: W. Dixson, Sydney, H. J. Ludowici, Sydney; China: Professor Woon-yung Chun, Canton; Japan: The Director, Botanic Garden, Taihoku, Formosa; Local: Lady Northcote; Dr. G. A. C. Herklots and Messrs. Andrew Tse, Shau Mayer, and Kwok Ping Lau.\n\n44. The following were the principal recipients: Britain: The Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Australia: The Director of Plant Breeding, Sydney; W. Dixson, Sydney; New Zealand; R. O. Dalrymple; New Guinea: The Director, Department of Agriculture, Rabaul; India: M. K. Sitaram Chetty, Bangalore; U.S.A.: The Superintendent, Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum, Cuba; Mrs. Elice Burr, Overstreet, California; Indo-China: The Director, Jardin Botanique, Saigon; France: Mon. L. Pompoy; U.S.S.R.: The Director of Introduction and Naturalisation, Batum; China: Professor Woon-yung Chun, Canton; Rev. G. L. Russell, Pakhoi; Local: Mrs. E. L. Agazzis, Messrs. A. W. J. Simmons, Andrew Tse, and Kwok Ping Lau.\n\n## REVENUE AND Expenditure.\n\n45. Statements of Revenue and Expenditure of the Department are given in Tables III, IV & V.\n\n58",
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        "title": "CO129-579-11-2 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940",
        "content_text": "Special Secret Intelligence Reports No.5. 7th March 1939.\n\nIntelligence Report from Shanghai by telegram 31 X....\n\nThe North China Military Secret Service Organisation has sent Colonel OHIOTO to the South and establish organisations in Shanghai, Amoy, Swatov, Kwangtung and Hong Kong. Accompanying the Colonel are Ho Tung Sau, Kwok Chun Fu and Tse Lung Yun.\n\nIntelligence report from Hong Kong. 10/10/\n\nJapanese making preparations prior to the invasion of Kwangtung. The Japanese Ronins and spy TAKEJI TSUDA in Hong Kong are in receipt of secret instructions from the Japanese Navy to be ready by the 6th instant, to leave Hong Kong and board gunboats to act as guides and interpreters. Ishino proceeded to Macau with the Italian Consul on the 5th, had discussion with the Macau Governor for several days in succession. The topic of conversation was use Lapp Island as a temporary military station and to obtain an understanding from the Macau authorities.\n\nIntelligence reports from Hong Kong. Telegram dated 11.10\n\nIshino has proceeded to Macau to negotiate with the Macau authorities regarding the relief of the enemy in its attack on Kwangtung.\n\nSpecial Secret Intelligence Reports No.20. dated 15.5.39\n\nOrganisations in Rangoon which are used by the enemy for its activities.\n\nGovernment Organisation.\n\nPublic Organisations.\n\nConsulate.\n\n1. Branch of the Japanese-Burmese Association.\n\n2. Japanese Club. 3. CHITTA shop. 4. Central Commercial or the National Defence Trading Co.,\n\nCommercial Organisations.\n\n1. M.B.T. 2. Branch of the M.S.K. 3. Japanese cotton Co.\n\n5. 旗 Shop. 6. TAI SHIN firm. 7. 南洋 firm. 8. 金塔 Commercial Association.\n\n9. TASHULA shop.\n\nImportant personnel of the enemy's Secret Service in Burma.\n\nThe Japanese Trade Commissioner TADASHI OHBA is really a spy",
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        "document_key": "CO129-581-16 British propaganda in Hong Kong 18-4-1939 - 29-10-1939",
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        "title": "CO129-581-16 British propaganda in Hong Kong 18-4-1939 - 29-10-1939",
        "content_text": "Telephone No. : EUSton 4321\n\nInstitute of Education.\n\nMINISTRY OF INFORMATION,\n\nSENATE HOUSE.\n\nLONDON UNIVERSITY BUILDING,\n\nMALET STREET, W.C.1.\n\n29th October, 1939.\n\nDear Ridgway,\n\nMany thanks for sending me a specimen copy of the\n\n\"Weekly London Letter\". It is well written, and it seems a great\n\npity that the venture has lapsed. I agree that something of the\n\nsame kind is badly needed, and I have tried to meet this need in\n\ntwo ways.\n\nAs you probably know, the British Council produces a chatty\n\n\"London Letter\", which they distribute bi-weekly to individuals in\n\nneutral countries. They are, I understand, making efforts to increase\n\nits circulation in the Empire.\n\nThe second method took the form of a proposal from myself that a\n\n\"Weekly Commentary\" might be compiled and sent out to all Information\n\nOfficers in the Colonies. Such a commentary could provide background\n\nmaterial for local leaflets, broadcast talks and press articles. My\n\nidea was that this might be done here from the material which comes in\n\nfrom a variety of sources, but, of course, in the closest\n\nassociation with the Colonial Office. In fact, it would be prepared\n\nunder a sort of joint editorship by a Colonial Office official and\n\nmyself, the former referring any point about which he felt doubtful to\n\nhigher authority in the Colonial Office.\n\nThis suggestion was put up to the Colonial Office some time ago,\n\nbut I have not yet heard what view has been taken about it. If the\n\nproposal commends itself to you, perhaps you would be good enough to\n\nmake enquiries on the subject.\n\nA. Ridgway, Esq.,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nDowning Street, S.W.1.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nVincent Harlow.\n\nEMPIRE PUBLICITY DIVISION.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-614-1 Commission of Inquiry into fire at West Point- report 26-5-1949 - 22-12-1949",
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        "content_text": "## Ri 88 Sample 4941\n\nIt therefore appeared that the drum had been \"burnt\" by an electrical short-circuit from a rubber-insulated wire. Only one outside the building could have caused this, and this was the heavy wire electric cable running along the outside wall, already referred to, and of which a piece was found down on the pavement. The portion of this wire crossing above the hole in the wall showed no signs of short-circuiting; it was therefore conjectured that the drum had passed this wire safely.\n\nFrom this it was reasoned that the drum had been short-circuited and burnt within the godown; this would of course provide the origin of the fire.\n\nThe technical staff of the Hong Kong Electric Co. Ltd. examined the installation and carried out tests, at which Insp. Shaw and I were present. It appeared that the fuses of the godown installation had \"blown\" and would \"blow\" at 30 amps current, whereas more than twice this current would be required to burn the hole found in the drum.\n\nInsp. Shaw further pointed out that the drum might have been blown out only on to the pavement, where one end of the electric cable had afterwards descended on it and caused the hole.\n\n**(b)**\n\nThis theory was therefore abandoned.\n\n## Theory of ignition by material descending the flue-pipe\n\nOn 30 Sep. 48, as we were examining the material of Stack 38 (Plan No. 1), Insp. Shaw noticed a small hole in the ceiling above, of which the position is shown on the plan. This was found to lead to a flue passing through the upstairs flats to the roof, and was evidently a relic of the original intention, that the ground floor of the building should be occupied by shops.\n\nOn the floor of the godown under the hole were fragments of a Chinese stove or \"chatty\". The flue pipe appeared to have run downwards to godown ceiling level, where it had originally been blocked by a thin covering of cement floated over the hole. Two side holes or entrances to this pipe were discovered in the upstairs flats.\n\nWater was poured through the pipe from first floor level in order to discover whence it led, and a great quantity of soot and miscellaneous rubbish descended; this appeared to have been blocking the pipe.\n\nIt was therefore concluded that the fire had cracked away the cement and exposed the hole, allowing some of the accumulated rubbish in the pipe-end to fall; the theory was accordingly abandoned.\n\n**(c)**\n\n## Theory of ignition by human agency\n\nAll godown doors were found locked, and no bodies were found inside the godown. No pieces of any suspicious mechanism or similar material were found,\n\nThere is, accordingly, no evidence to support this theory.\n\n**(d) Theory of ignition through the agency of Calcium cyanamide**\n\nThis theory is only included for the sake of completeness. Stack 41 (on Plan No. 1) consists of calcium cyanamide, a synthetic fertilizer which gives off a small quantity of acetylene gas in contact with damp air.\n\nThe theory that such gas might have become ignited outside the godown is most unlikely, as in that case an explosion would have occurred throughout the godown, or at the doors.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-618-1 Institute of Medical Research- proposed construction 21-4-1947 - 5-12-1947",
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        "title": "CO129-618-1 Institute of Medical Research- proposed construction 21-4-1947 - 5-12-1947",
        "content_text": "## 5- Appendix C.\n\n(iv) Refuse chutes.\n\nDisposal of refuse by means of chutes appears to be the best method; as the carrying of dust bins through the public stairs is not satisfactory as there is liable to be garbage left in the staircases.\n\n(v) Access to kitchens and lavatories.\n\nAccess to kitchens and lavatories is best through open balconies at the rear of the building; smell and smoke will have an outlet to the external air. Electricity, gas or coal for cooking are beyond the means of the poorer classes as normal cooking is done on a chatty under a hood.\n\n(vi) Tenements with brick partitions.\n\nThe normal tenement is a big open room with wooden partitions or screens to form cubicles, a flat is normally shared by two or more families. Fixed brick partitions would give better comfort and privacy, a point which the Hong Kong Buildings Ordinance does not insist upon.\n\n(vii) Roofs.\n\nFlat roofs can be utilised as small gardens or terraces.\n\n(viii) Balconies and scavenging lanes.\n\nProjecting balconies are improvements over the ordinary verandahs with piers, the 10 feet scavenging lane as required by the new Ordinance in force is another decided improvement.\n\n(ix) Open space for 40 feet lots.\n\nThe building regulations allow 1/4 open space for lots under 40 ft. deep for old lots, and 1/3 for lots above 40 ft. In rebuilding programmes of old tenement houses, perhaps some concession or consideration will be given to property owners by amendments to s. s. 1 and 7 of Section 82 of the Building Ordinance.\n\n(1) \"Forty Feet\" to be substituted by, say \"Forty-five feet\" (s.s.1)\n\n(2) Concession to cover buildings having verandahs or balconies.\n\n(x) Plan B and C.\n\nPlan B and C show a suggested type of tenement designed to remedy, as far as possible, the faults found in present standard types.\n\n(Signed)\n\nI. N. Chan.\n\n39",
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