[ { "id": 435275, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## Enclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the Report on the Administration of the Excise Department in Burmah for the year 1909–10.\n\n43. Cocaine.-Thirty-six licences were issued during the year for the sale of cocaine and novocain by chemists on medical prescription, as against thirty-one licences in 1908-9. Licences were issued for the first time in the Hanthawaddy, Henzada, Toungoo, and Meiktila districts. The restrictions imposed in 1905 on the possession and sale of cocaine have not had the desired effect, a large illicit trade in the drug has grown up, and the cocaine habit is spreading rapidly in the province. The total seizures of contraband cocaine during the year of report amounted to no less than 939,685 grains or nearly 2,000 ounces, as compared with 389,636 grains in 1908-9. In Rangoon town seizures have increased from 313,191 grains to 778,281 grains, and some 400 persons were convicted in the town for offences relating to this drug during the year.\n\nThe collector, Rangoon, writes:-\n\nThe illicit trade is in the hands of Indians and Chinese, and the largest consignments are brought in by the crews of Chinese steamers plying between Rangoon and the Straits Settlements and ports in China. A small quantity is brought in by the native crews of the steamers of the Patrick Henderson and Bibby lines.\n\nThe continued and persistent raiding of dens in Rangoon has had the effect of reducing the number of them. The drug continues, however, to pour in and is no doubt speedily disposed of in the districts. The habit has taken a firm hold of the people which it will take years to eradicate. At present it can only be said that some slight check to consumption in Rangoon has been given. Till there is a larger staff in Rangoon we cannot expect more satisfactory results.\n\nIn the Hanthawaddy district, in which the seizures have risen from 4,617 grains to 5,648 grains, the deputy commissioner states that the taste for the drug is spreading amongst the lowest classes all over the district, and till the present staff is increased there is not likely to be any severe check put upon it. In the Pegu district seizures amounted to 43,200 grains as against 5,675 grains in 1908-9. The cocaine habit is reported to have spread there with alarming rapidity. An organised gang of smugglers which came to the district from Rangoon was broken up, the principals being convicted and imprisoned. Special efforts were made by the superintendent of excise to cope with the evil. Dens were constantly raided, and persons found resorting thereto were listed and kept under observation. In the Tharrawaddy district seizures increased from 39,230 grains to 64,708 grains. The taste is said to be certainly on the increase, and enormous quantities of the drug are believed to be imported into the district. The deputy commissioner states that the spread of the habit is so serious and so difficult to cope with that a change in the laws is imperatively needed. In the Prome district seizures have increased from 3,333 grains to 18,963 grains, and the habit is said to have taken quite a hold on Prome, Paungde, and a good many villages along the railway line, and villages adjoining the Tharrawaddy border. In the Irrawaddy division the habit was little known two or three years ago. In the Bassein district 255 grains were seized in the year of report, and the cocaine habit said to have come to stay. Small quantities were seized in the Myaungmya and Maubin districts, and the taste for the drug is said to be firmly established in the Yandoon and Danubyu townships of the latter district. In the Pyapon district, with seizures of 4,594 grains, the combined efforts of the excise and police have checked the habit in Kyaiklat town for the time, but attempts are being made to introduce the drug into other parts of the district. Seizures in the Henzada district have risen from 7,528 grains to 11,532 grains, the taste for the drug is said to be on the increase, and the habit is spreading to places outside Henzada. In the Toungoo district seizures have risen from 8,275 grains to 8,441 grains. Offenders were arrested in all the railway towns, but the drug is not yet known in the interior townships of the district. In the Yamethin district fifteen cases were detected during the year, and seizures have increased from 2,103 grains to 3,733 grains. The largest seizures were made in Pyinmana town, and the habit has not yet spread far north of Pyinmana. Vigorous and sustained efforts are being made by the excise staff in all the districts in which cocaine is found to prevent the smuggling of this drug and to stop the spread of the habit. So far the habit is said to be confined to the Pegu and Irrawaddy divisions and to the Toungoo and Yamethin districts on the line of railway, but there is a very real danger of further growth if additional preventive measures are not taken at once.\n\nAs stated in last year's report, more excise officers are urgently needed in Rangoon town and the adjoining districts, and provision for heavier punishments is required in the penal sections of the Excise Act relating to intoxicating drugs. No sanction has yet been received to the proposals made to these ends. Burmah is not the only country in which the abuse of cocaine has arisen, and the possibility of control over the centres in which the drug is manufactured seems worth consideration. Many of the cocaine consumers are people of the lowest classes who have hitherto been addicted to opium, but it is doubtful whether the restrictions on opium consumption have any close connection with the growth in the taste for cocaine. As pointed out by the deputy commissioner, Henzada district, with cocaine at such a high illicit price as 120 rupees per ounce, the ordinary 2-grain dose of cocaine costs 2 annas only, whereas little effect is to be derived from 2 annas-worth of illicit opium. If opium is to compete successfully with cocaine in the illicit market, the present restrictive policy must be abandoned, and even if such a course were practicable, it is doubtful whether there would be any real or permanent reduction in cocaine consumption. An expenditure of 2,344 rupees was incurred from secret service funds on the detection of cocaine smuggling, chiefly in the Rangoon town, Pegu, Tharrawaddy, and Henzada districts.\n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nExtract from a Letter from the Financial Commissioner, Burmah, to the Government of Burmah, dated August 15, 1910.\n\n6. Paragraphs 42 to 44.--The growth of the consumption of cocaine gives rise to much apprehension. In proportion of value to bulk and in portability it is superior to opium. It has no strong smell which needs to be disguised. The habit of consuming and the excise it is undoubtedly spreading. The drug is comparatively new, \n\n4. So far as our information goes, the chief firms exporting cocaine to this country are Messrs. E. Merck and Co., of Darmstadt; Messrs. John Dieder Bieber and Co., of Berlin; Messrs. Egmont Heydorn and Co., and Edward Bruckner and Co., of Hamburg; and Messrs. Burroughs, Wellcome, and Co., Burgoyne, Burbidges, and Co., and Lorimer and Co., of London. Nearly all the drug imported into Rangoon is manufactured by the firm first named. Formerly cocaine used to be brought into Rangoon by steamer, via Calcutta and Bombay; but the traffic appears to have since been partially diverted to the Singapore-Penang route, and consignments of cocaine are said to have come also from China and Japan, and by direct vessels from England. Packets are hidden in fruit baskets, cases of matches, and other cargo, and in the coal bunkers, holds, and other parts of the vessels. The drug is most commonly smuggled ashore by lascars and firemen, but European members of the crews have also been detected in the act of smuggling and prosecuted to conviction.\n\n5. These facts fully illustrate the difficulties of the situation in Burmah, and that the position in other parts of India is more or less similar will be seen from the extracts from the last excise administration reports from Bengal and Bombay which are also enclosed. In these circumstances we are convinced that our efforts towards the suppression of the cocaine habit in this country will be infructuous unless something is done to restrict the export of the drug and its congeners from the chief manufacturing countries (viz., Germany and the United Kingdom). We are aware that His Majesty's Government propose to bring the matter before the forthcoming Opium Conference at The Hague; but in view of the emergent and exceptional situation which has arisen in India, we consider it desirable that your Lordship should be placed in possession of the above information, in case any opportunity for taking action should occur in advance of that conference.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\nHARDINGE OF PENSHURST, O'M. CREAGH. \nJ. L. JENKINS. \nR. W. CARLYLE. \nS. H. BUTLER. \nSEYYID-ALI-IMAM. \nW. H. CLARK.\n\nPage 3 \nPage 64 \nPage 54", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438279, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "010-019%\n\non of admløg olt eze 1st on moldæadde mwertó va I -Is bed ow foldw omið Stona ont ¡noïdestobmu frow od: to 370aoJstorsio srow toav bas nemrievo” odé Louri Squabord ut ob ou doldw at Bowol :emob ed oJ 38W OIBIS now to JNIONS NA Ja:iw cœld ord (a conanŋomi mi\n\n·ynolod efis at galvaire ou Jnerodat ers Kotiw meltlvottið ode bra -91 eds bus Ţajnemfisqet edo vd notssoftiTOV A TOŤ valsaodon ers Tods Nomlevo\" ens to Leaut\n\n•DJBIOQ0-09 Oj\n\n-eb eдow aemulo? ed) 196te vlossibemmi eosiq food jariw où amoo won I asoomJisqet to absen caodd døds galfas odunla a erorw Jarł】 I .bezevil bivoria (tomwob to arodnek, erow outw abae.. .9.1) astqoo b:vleget bad oriw Los eToW oters 1 9ca o genentb10 mwo lodd dwords Mool or botas 3d -gɗba seria to motaalmo edu berevooath I \\laroonajlumta Jaomii .HTOTTƏ\n\nantzias como Js odoww bas eomentbтo quiqgqlds unsdotel odd to aetud bluoo I siv oa em of benwujet Das (wetbristw ed biwoda netqoa edo deris end JWQUB T3Jasɗall acts.aim erew orde dollw no 1098q ada JntiqOT -opaib need bas 30onezeten to axorro 9mon Jai om bɔmzotni omte opes .öðruenib70 eolo¶ eda ni glatim odr bavot bad er sal bng boxov OW TO VAD 1 .botevooalb new TMJO VNA Mi wort am Jel og bealmorq en hogol I bisa Imoon yn obis:so debnenov odd no mid qatoon (TSJAI aoy bist od torom yne bruot Jok-bad -1220 ed at sjala a aw oor! Ji Jiquot ex iquodu an,gutantng nord be,comsalütü sewaangła Lato 39dedaim djtw bomeod yiqmta nɔmulov arid daily bobba od,yanut todJ87 .Teddol a'meveå di bovloboy I abiswiojte viesstbomai Jaomi\\ amatotulo 9VBTS VIOy ow. od neqo at of Tojool aktú 00 DIS301 dute wa”\n\nbtw fromgbut to aroOTTS 218 VMO -ts to go froque ezom firiw nsa on neder sow eldvors on ♦90siq vasit o mi baðṛtanco ovɛd binow atist aezsjalm Jost ni sow amiavaim begells edu redueriw om to orkupne o. Ji vibnossa tuon exew mods to yram jado dort ni jug buring at bas em gnivig Juodsiw yslanoq «see a beozotno bas nolauIonos a os bequt -IJITO VĖSOris ovad I,sdelensa acsanim od galdsnq to yoidudroqqo w 38 \"2LIAran. Un A \" gotbeer at Noiy mubnetomom a*mosasɗBI\\ . botėp JON JONO 18/ zotnut, odr to reduen a toliw masorez Natbildo to coaəlq ? ou need even yag od boaselq revowo: ‚eaneqze ya da al beginbal ever oj .bisa VõGOTIs wać I Js:iw JBoɖɔt ou eldealvós at si „gałqqtaɔ om bait -ID10 10 xebnI\" edu ni enow aro\"Ts ooaaaibro oda to brild a merta enpl\n\nJdgit Jea meod eved bluos fist iw to IIs -ninq solltind Jaom stew emma shen old 10\n\n\"asonan \"abnegl1100\" adj bra\n\npatentiqen vd ayəb seule 31\n\nOMOR\n\nTOTIÐ AT\n\n46\n\nter's errors, some repeated what I already knew; in two instances one, alleged error was turned into two, and five were expressions of opinion which were of no value whatever. At the utmost 3 or 4 only were legitimate criticisms. The animus with which the list had been drawn up was manifest: to make it as long as possible in order to carry out the sarcasm of the heading.\n\nAnnexed to Mr Severn's letter was also a memo. from the Treasurer containing some criticisms, most of which were erroneous. As to the letter itself the hostile spirit which actuated it was manifested by the piling up one on top of the other the errors which I knew of and those which had been alleged but not inquired into. Further it laid to my charge the mistake of omitting the Railways Loan Ordinance which was omitted on the authority of Government itself. But piled together in this reckless way it made a famous list on which to frame the indictment of inaccuracy. But apart from this the letter was wanting in the most elementary courtesy. There was no occasion to play Bombastes; on the contrary, having in view the position of the author and the circumstances in which the work had been done, and the magnitude of it, it was essentially a case in which the greatest consideration ought to have been shown. The mistakes were regrettable; no one regretted them more than I, as I had shewn by withdrawing the Volumes in order that they might be corrected. The course which courtesy and gentlemanly feeling demanded was, not to jump into the breach and brandish a wooden sword, but to point out that it was impossible for the Council to approve the Volumes until they had been corrected and to request me to correct them; a course which not only I was bound to, but should have agreed to without demur. I was not a Chinese contractor who had done work badly and insisted on its being accepted, but I was treated like one, and a hostility displayed at once which was entirely out of place. For instance, Mr Clementi asked me \"how I accounted for the mistake in the Official Signatures Ordinance?\" There was no question of \"accounting\"; it was a mistake, and one which could have been easily rectified. Another instance of this hostility was the attempted Mr Clementi that the Railways Loan Ordinance had been printed as a slip which is a fact after consultation with the Colonial Secretary's Office, The mistake about the slip was that the printers had omitted a page number, but this could have been put straight by hand-stamping.\n\none,\n\ndenial by", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439778, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "page_number": 270, "title": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "content_text": "after it had been worsened by the additional security measures agreed with the CA, in Oct. & Nov. last.\n\n2. According to the latest returns in the Possession of the S.J.D. the same deposited in the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank by the Corporation is $15,000,000 which includes a sum of £100,000 sterling; while the sum deposited by the Chartered Bank in respect of its excess note cover is $2,000,000.\n\n(Signed) H. J. READ.\n\nEx/3608/12.\n\nC\n\n268 Gu4\n\nAgents.\n\n9883\n\nCost of Ammunition supplied to Col. Govt\n\nRece\n\n9883\n\nRS APR 12\n\n263\n\nDate.\n\n1912\n\nTe March.\n\nForwarding copy corres with WO respecting increased price charged because of defects in manufacture. Asks whether it is necessary to pursue matter.\n\n55951\n\nRM\n\nAnswd. (12th April 12)\n\nCommunicated to Mr Bibby Harris.\n\n2. Our practice is to charge cost price, including in that expenditure caused by things going wrong during manufacture (manufactory costs). Trade price is calculated at a rate & costs, without profit. By the W.O. say the Colony may set a heavy price again, but on the whole they probably get their stuff cheaper than if they went to the market, I see no reason to take the matter up with the War Office, so my CA.\n\n10\n\nNext subsequent Paper\n\nR\n\n9.0.15658.\n\n4\n\n(49,244). Wt.28,946-17. 40,000. 11/11. A.&E.W.\n\nThis is rather a general question.\n\nPage 270\n\nPage 271", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478706, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "content_text": "# EX-OFFICERS.\n## EX-OFFICERS.\n\n| No. | Rank | Regt. | Age | Medical Notes | Qualifications and Previous Employment | O.U.T.C. Courses | Present Locality |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| D.O. 859 | 2nd Lieut. | 21 London | | Fair | B. eye blind. Ed. privately. 4 yrs. journalistic exp. on provincial newspapers. | | London |\n| D.O. 212 | 2nd Lieut. | 42 R.E. | | Good | Certificate B. of T. Master Mariners. Seafaring, surveying, and mining. [Spanish.] | | Cheshire |\n| D.O. 888 | Private | 28 Suffolk | | Good | | | |\n| D.O. 962 | Lieut. | 46 Middlx. | | Good | 7 yrs. publishing and bookbinding business. Understands ledger work and office routine. [French, German.] | | Lond |\n| D.O. 19 | Lieut. | 32 R.E. | | Fair | Ed. privately. Served in Reg. Army, Engaged literary work Novelist. [French, German.] | | Kent |\n| D.O.1143 | Private | 24 R. Sussex | | Good | Ed. privately. 18 mcs. training all branches printing. 1 yr. course drawing Brighton School of Art. 1 yr. bookkeeper in nursery, Southwick. | | Surrey |\n| D.O. 388 | Commander | 60 R.N.R. | | Good | Ed. privately. 7 yrs. app. letterpress machine minder, 1 yr. machine minder. Joined army at outbreak of War. | | London |\n| D.U.1168 | Sergt. Maj. | 28 London | | Good | | | London |\n| D.O.1296 | 2nd Lieut. | 25 S.A.F. | | Good | Ed. S. Africa. 5 yrs. engineer priming office, P. Davis & Sons, S. Africa. [Zulu.] | | Oxford |\n| D.O. 487 | Major D.G. | 15 | 55 | Good | | | |\n| D.O.1263 | Private | 83 London | | Fair | Ed. Marlborough, Cambridge Univ. Joined staff Daily Mirror. Dramatic critic and editor weekly journal until outbreak of war. | | Middlesex |\n| D.O.1903 | Staff-Sgt. | 64 S. of M. | | Good | | | |\n| D.O.1459 | Lieut. | 51 R.D.C. | | Fair | Ed privately and Camb. Univ, M.A. (Math. Hons.) Continuously engaged artistic, literary pursuits. Exhibited Academy. Contributed articles philosophy, art. Travelled round world. [French, Spanish.] | | |\n| | Major | 59 | | Good | Ed. privately and Germany, 8 yrs. asst. manager needle and pin manufactory, William Avery & Son. Since 1891 writer fiction. Books published by Nelson & Sons, Read MSS. for publishers. | | Bailway, Shipping, and Transport |\n| D.O. 143 | | | | | | | |\n| D.O. 148 | Lieut. | 37 B.I.F. | | Good | Ed, Aberdeen Grammar, and Merchiston, Edinburgh. Served as cadet and 3rd Officer Merchant Service, Shaw, Savill, & Co. (4 yrs), J. M. Campbell & Sons (3 yrs.), and Jas. Nourse & Co. (3 yrs.). 7 yrs. Mid. and Sub-Lieut. R.N.R. 8 yrs. sugar planter with Sandbach, Tinne & Co., and Booker Bros., McConnell & Co. [Hindustani, Javanese, Chinese,] | | London |\n| D., 208 | 2nd Lieut. | 29 Labour Corps | | Fair | Ed. Liverpool Univ. Apprentice Holt & Co., shipbuilders, Liverpool. Experience shipyard and drawing office. Shipbuilding, Belfast. Mgr. construction works in China. [Chinese,] | | |\n| D.O. 536 | Capt. | North. Fus. | 40 | Good | | | Worcester |\n| D.O. 586 | Lieut. | 30 A.S.C. | | Fair | 35 yrs. transport commercial operative superintendent, Bombay, G.L.P., Railway; Also Dist. Traffic Supt | | |\n| p.o. 595 | Colonel | 67 A.S.C. | | Good | Ed. Armagh and Dublin Univ. 24 yrs. Reg. Army. Considerable administrative experience as adjutant, recruiting duties, etc. 5 yrs. an underwriter at Lloyd's 2 yrs. farming in Nova Scotia. Director of African Coal Co., Natal. Knowledge shipping, docks, method of handling consignments, stevedores, bills of lading, stowage of cargo, holds and decks. | | London |\n| .0. 398 | 2nd Lieut. | 28 Devon | | Fair | Ed. privately. | | Suger |\n| .0. 680 | Lieut. | 28 B. Irish | | Good | Ed Queen's Coll., Cork. 8 yrs. pupil electrical and mechanical engineering, W. G. Walker & Co., Westminster. 3 yrs. Best, engineer permanent way, Canadian Pacific Rly. 4yrs. resident engineer, Sudan Govt. Rlys. 2 yrs. district engineer Burma Rlys. Railway surveying and construction in Mesopotamia during present war. [Arabic, Hindustani,] | | Hants |\n| .0. 701 | Bombr. | 42 B.G.A. | | Good | Ed. Darham, 20 years Manager Morpeth Steamship Co., Director North Eastern Marine Eng. Co., Ltd., Director Sunderland Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., manager Sir T. Lipton Ship Stores Department, London. | | Devon |\n| | | | | | Ed. privately, Farming prior to war. Attached to Commissariat Dept. receiving, checking, supervising despatch of supplies. Good correspondent, accurate at figures, Can control labour, | | Ireland |\n| | | | | | Ed. Haileybury. Thorough knowledge of administrative staff duties in various capacities. Knowledge of transport. [French.] | | London |\n| | | | | | 19 yrs. G.W.R. Co., (Exeter goods dept.). Thorough knowledge of general railway classification. | | |\n| | | | | | Ed. Pembroke Coll, Dublin. railway clerk L. & N.W.R., Dublin. | | Northumberland |\n| | | | | | Ed. King's, Warwick, 8 yrs. agent for Vickers (Scotland), H. H. Vivian & Co. and John Bibby Sons & Co.; 12 yrs. securing contracts from railway companies and engineers. | | Wilts |\n| | | | | | 7 yrs. | | Ireland |\n\nH.Q. D.O.A.-29.7.18.\nE.Q. D.O./M-29.7.18.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505603, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 325, "title": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "319\n\nif family\n\nCranfirmary. 16.\n\nG.G\n\nBray/a\n\nPlease 3 pm. fr. Wo atid.\n\nCol. Bobby 2.0. spoke to me about this yesterday\n\nAnd\n\nI told him Ital from For. Sub Ital\n\nSupport him in\n\nthe\n\nanything\n\nbrz\n\nLad hot head\n\nalmost certainly\n\nwould\n\nbe said\n\nsecurity of the 'Cal. was concerned a taking position to judge\n\nC. B. said\n\nFinally\n\nOn receiving Schow and\n\nIkat wo us.\n\nKau\n\nfurthably\n\nSina what\n\nhe way\n\nObviously\n\nGuy\n\nconsult as\n\nthe atid. 3pm. I drafted the tel.\n\nread it over\n\nKCl. Norton wo\n\n(who is acting for CA.B. in the latter's absence).\n\nCol. Norton agreed that it\n\nthe position.\n\nIt is surprising\n\nto us.\n\ncorrectly represented\n\nKhyraphed\n\nBad Sir L.S. has ast\n\nAlthough the Malayan position has to\n\nbe carefully the temporary\n\nif Luceway\n\nwith be viewed\n\nwatched\n\nI should have thought that\n\nloss of 2 companies, who could be replaced by volunteer forms, need\n\nwill\n\nalarm.\n\nBut recent\n\nIn Malaya have caused special anxiety,\n\nNot being\n\ndevelopments & many\n\nthe Gor's change J\n\narind\n\nJinu\n\n19\n\napparently into one The fear that any further \"incident\"\n\nIn China\n\nhave\n\nmay\n\nWe need to\n\nGet Sir L.S.\n\naww\n\nM\n\ndefinite reaction in Malaya.\n\nI think Fd. KHK will\n\nreply.\n\nSir Clementi is fully\n\nthis with Bjected to the proposal to utilise\n\nIf emergency.\n\nJ. G. §.29-19.76. 1K has in China in\n\n29/12", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519600, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-517-5 The visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Hong Kong 2-5-1929 - 23-5-1929", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-517-5 The visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Hong Kong 2-5-1929 - 23-5-1929", "content_text": "# OUTSIDE THE CITY HALL.\n\n## CROWD AND ROYAL GUARD.\n\n(2)\n\n### Expectant Crowds.\n\nIn perfect unanimity, the blue-jackets and soldiers were called to attention. Then the crowd swayed expectantly as the noise of an approaching motor-cycle was heard. The arrival of a Chinese detective with a European colleague in the sidecar caused warning commands to be given. Long before the anticipated time of the arrival of His Royal Highness at the City Hall, little knots of spectators began to gather. At 10.15, a detachment of bluejackets arrived, led by a tall bearded Commander. The fickle sunshine glinted upon their polished bayonets and the brass fittings of their accoutrement. They lined the approaches to the City Hall and the crowd watched their movements with intent interest.\n\nA bevy of ladies took up a position of vantage on seats to the front of the parade ground opposite the City Hall, and employees of the various banking institutions in the vicinity forsook their desks and ledgers to watch the proceedings from verandahs. The rhythmic beat of drums, the skirl of pipes, and the measured tread of marching feet announced the arrival of the Royal guard provided by the K.O.S.B.\n\nThe swing of red kilts caught the eye as the detachment swung into the square formed by the blue-jackets, and the click of heels, slap of hands on rifle butts, and the crash of arms upon the ground followed the hoarsely-shouted commands as the guard came to attention at the halt, turned right and formed two-deep, ordered arms and stood easy.\n\nA brief respite, and then came a slight shuffling in the centre of the lines as the guard were called to attention and dressed by the right. \"Present Ar-r-r-ms!\" \"Swish! Click! Slap!\" As one man, the guard became galvanised into action, sloped arms, and stood steady, awaiting the next command.\n\n### Four Big Cars.\n\nAlmost silently, it seemed, four big cars swung into the square. Guards were called to attention as a tall, blue-sashed figure clad in white uniform, bedecked with medals, stepped out of the leading car, accompanied by His Excellency the Governor, their Aides-de-Camp, and Chiefs of Staffs.\n\nCame another command, rifles clashed as the Guard presented arms, the colours were lowered in Royal salute, and then the band crashed forth the strains of the National Anthem. The Duke had arrived. Followed an inspection of the Guard, and then the party entered the City Hall for the presentations of addresses of welcome.\n\nThe electric candelabra caused the gold braid of the naval and military officers on the platform to glitter and added brilliance to the scene. Obviously pleased with his reception, His Royal Highness took his seat after the band of the Punjabis had played the National Anthem. Came a brief hush as His Excellency the Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, rose and bowed to the Duke. The Governor then briefly introduced His Royal Highness and called upon Sir Henry Pollock to present the address of welcome from the British community.\n\nAs the moments passed, the crowd around the City Hall increased and the fortunate ones who possessed tickets of admission into the Theatre began to arrive in little groups, the brilliant dresses of the ladies setting off the trim morning coats, silk hats, and striped trousers of their consorts to the best advantage.\n\nLow-lying clouds swirled around the top of the Peak and many anxious glances were directed skyward. But rain held off and, occasionally, the rays of the sun penetrated the grey panoply overhead. The crash of guns broke the expectant stillness and reverberated among the hills, and the distant strains of the National Anthem, followed by echoed cheers, indicated to the crowd that His Royal Highness had landed at Statue Pier.\n\nAt similar functions at Home, one could exchange good-humoured badinage with the proverbial \"London Bobby,\" but, on this occasion, we who waited had to be content, for obvious reasons, to admire the pipe-clayed topees of the blue-jackets and the burnished instruments of the band.\n\nThe address was an exceedingly skilful piece of illuminated work on parchment. The casket containing it was contained in a silver and blackwood casket made by Messrs. Lock Hing from a design by Lieut. Col. L. G. Bird, D.S.O., O.B.E. The casket bore on its lid the Arms of the Colony, in silver, whilst the front was embellished with a representation of a Chinese junk in full sail, also in silver.\n\n## AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\n### GIFTS FROM CHINESE AND JAPANESE COMMUNITIES.\n\nOn arrival at Government House, Prince Henry inspected detachments representing the St. John Ambulance Brigade under command of Mr. E. Ralphs, the Girl Guides under Commissioner Mrs. W. T. Southorn, and of Boy Scouts under Commissioner the Rev. T. G. Waldegrave, who were drawn up on the lawn. The Prince stopped and spoke to Mr. Ralphs and enquired the strength of the Brigade and what work they were doing, and also addressed a few words to Mrs. Southorn and the Rev. T. G. Waldegrave.\n\nThe Royal Visitor was then entertained to tiffin at Government House, following which two presentations were made to him on behalf of the Chinese and Japanese communities. Sir Shou Son Chow on behalf of his compatriots presented a Chinese porcelain dinner service with a blackwood tray inlaid with silver and suitably inscribed. The Consul-General for Japan, Mr. Y. Murakami, presented, on behalf of the Japanese community, two albums of photographs of beauty spots of his country which the Prince will visit during his stay.\n\n## POLO AT CAUSEWAY BAY.\n\nThursday afternoon's polo games at Causeway Bay attracted a considerable number of residents to the scene. Of ten chukkas, His Royal Highness played in four. Rain threatened at intervals but did not fall in real earnest until the end of the ninth chukka. The ground made going hard for the ponies but, nevertheless, there were many thrills for the onlookers and riders.\n\nThe commanders of the naval and military detachments exchanged salutes and then both parties stood quietly at ease, awaiting the arrival of His Royal Highness.\n\nThe first chukka in which H.R.H. appeared resulted in a win for his side. Comyn took a shot passed to him by H.R.H. and scored neatly. The Duke's side scored the first goal in the next chukka but the Whites speedily equalised and scored a second time toward the end of the chukka.\n\nThe Duke rode a stocky grey and appeared to find it difficult to get fully away at times. He made some fine shots on occasion. His mount for the next chukka was a speedier animal and enabled H.R.H. to give a fine display of his riding powers. On one occasion, he took the ball and rode down the field with it at a fast pace and almost scored for the Reds.\n\nThe address from the Chinese Community was mounted on a massive blackwood screen of four panels, standing some six feet in height. This screen, which was specially made in Canton, was beautifully carved and on the opposite side of the panels bearing the Chinese text of the address there were typical embroidered silk designs representing birds, animals and rural scenes. Accompanying the Chinese version of the address was an English translation, enclosed in a blackwood case inlaid with silver. The address was read by the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow.\n\nDuring the brief interval which elapsed between this chukka and the next, H.R.H. chatted for a few moments with the umpire, Mr. W. D. Fiddes Wilson.\n\nIn the seventh and last chukka in which H.R.H. played, the Reds won by two goals to nil. The first goal was scored by Thomas, the Duke sending the ball between the posts for the second goal.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-5 The visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Hong Kong 2-5-1929 - 23-5-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557780, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-567-12 Hong Kong University 24-1-1938 - 24-1-1938", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-567-12 Hong Kong University 24-1-1938 - 24-1-1938", "content_text": "243\n\n8\n\nCONFERRING OF DEGREES\n\nNEED OF GIRL STUDENTS' HOSTEL AND PLAYING FIELDS URGED\n\nCHANCELLOR AND UNIVERSITY\n\nThe twenty-ninth Congregation of the Hongkong University for the conferring of degrees was held yesterday when His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote, acted for the first time at this function in his capacity of Chancellor.\n\nMr. D. J. Sloss, C.B.E., M.A., referred to the lack of a hostel for the girl students, who had increased in numbers, and the insufficiency of playing fields generally. In a generous tribute to his predecessor, Mr. Sloss mentioned that a considerable number of books had been donated to the University by Sir William Hornell.\n\nThe Procession marshalled in the robing room soon after the Chancellor arrived and then, led by the Mace Bearer, walked through the cloisters.\n\nThe Chancellor declared the Congregation open, and the Vice-Chancellor made the opening address.\n\nMr. Sloss said: It has been customary for the Congregation to comment upon the events of the preceding year. As I have been here only two months I cannot do this, and therefore I shall limit myself in the main to obvious and non-controversial issues.\n\nA Royal Patron\n\nHis Excellency said: The past year has been notably eventful. During its passage the University lost a Chancellor in Sir Andrew Caldecott who, though his tenure of his office was short, took a keen interest in the welfare of the University.\n\nThe General Library of the University has been enriched by a gift of about 2,000 volumes from Sir William Hornell. Many of the books in Sir William's gift would now be difficult to obtain, and they increase the value of the Library.\n\nThe Chinese part of the Library has also found friends. Two large collections of good books, some in rare editions, lent from Canton for long periods of use in this Library.\n\nTo this I would like to add a few words to recall Sir William's eminent services to education before he came here—the achievements, in fact, with which were the use of his coming to Hongkong. He entered the Indian Education Service early in life and after seven years' distinguished work in Bengal he was recalled to the Board of Education in London where he worked in the Department of Special Enquiries and Reports with distinguished colleagues such as Sir Frank Heath and Mr. C: W. Twenty-four years later he came to Hongkong as Vice-Chancellor.\n\nSir William's hospitality was a fine influence in the University. His genial and kindly nature endeared him to his friends, and the memory of his geniality and his \"fairy god-mother\" kindnesses, which endeared him to a wide circle of friends and, not least, to the students of this University.\n\nOne of the oldest of Sir William's colleagues writes of him: \"During his thirteen years of office as Vice-Chancellor Sir William Hornell had many perplexities and problems to face. Throughout all these difficulties he always tried to do whatever he could to make members of his staff more efficient at their work and more contended in their conditions of service.\"\n\nHe returned to India in 1913 as Director of Public Instruction in Bengal.\n\nThe story of this University has been a story of transitions from crisis to crisis, and Sir William worthily filled a Vice-Chancellor's place.\n\nWilliam's place has been worthily filled by a Vice-Chancellor whose ripe experience makes him peculiarly welcome at the present juncture.\n\nThe Chancellor made a studied reference to the deliberations of the Committee which recently published recommendations for changes in the University administration, but laid most stress on the need for greater attention to the teaching of hygiene and the need for accommodation for girl students.\n\nThe University's great annual event was favoured by the weather, and the number of graduates in the University in 1937 has risen from a normal 50 to an actual 77.\n\nSeating and standing space and inside the Great Hall was fully occupied long before 5 p.m.\n\nThe Deans of the Faculties of Medicine, Engineering, and Arts then presented their graduates in succession, and the Chancellor conferred the respective degrees on each graduate, as they stepped forward with new hoods, and afterwards shook hands with each of them.\n\nThe Vice-Chancellor next read out the names of students in absentia on whom degrees were conferred, and presented the scholarship winners, with whom the Chancellor also shook hands.\n\nThe Graduates\n\nThe graduates of 1937 were:\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery.—R. E. Alvares, Oni Kee-wan, Yang Ke, M. P. H. Itoh, W. Heng, H. L. Ozorio. Yeang Cheng-hin Kan Lai-to, G. A. V. Ribeiro, Yeung Wai-Wah; in Absentia; Tan Eng-gwa.\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering. Chan Sze-cheung, Chin Weng-kwan, Wong Yee-wah, J. da Silva, Tan Pek-eam. Chung Chang Chi-yin, Ching Yok-chong, Lo Hung-pok, G. Singh, Sung Sheung-hong, Tan Yong-nee. Tránh Kai-ng. E. T. Wood, Chak Fook-yat. Liauw Khoon-lim, G. C. K. Ma, A. L. N. da Silva, Sung Taoong-tub\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Arts: Au Yeung-chiu, Chan Kai-lau, Cheung Wing-ngok, Ho Ying-fwee, Law Chung-kam, Leung Sik-kwan, Li Shi-yt, Mok Hing-bun, Wong Man-la. Boon Yeon-fong. Mg Tily Shuen Fo-yuen,_ Miss_Tam Wai-chit, Miss Chan. Miss Helen Chu. Hung Mo-chiu, Kai kwani Fook-shu, Lo Bung-chun, Miss Helen Moore, Sze Chiten, Tang Chi-keung, Yu Kwok-ylm, Chan Jm-fut, Chau Sing-kan, Chung Hon-ki, In Absentia.—Lee Kuan\n\nScholarships\n\nFollowing were the Scholarship awards:\n\nThe Anderson Medal, Yeang Cheng-hin.\n\nThe Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming, 1st Medical Scholarship and the Ng Li Hing very ancient Scholarship, Daphne Chun.\n\nThe Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming 2nd Medical Scholarship P. R. T. Naidu and G. A. V. Ribeiro, the Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming Engineering Scholarship, G. M. Cornfeld.\n\nThe Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming Arts Scholarship, Wu Hei-tak.\n\nPhysical Training\n\nIn one respect, I am advised, student life at the University might be quickened and that is by devoting a little more time and thought to generally collective Physical Training.\n\nAs is well known, modern thought to-day, puts into practice a growingly closer alliance between the mind and the body, and it would be wise to encourage and help members of the staff to attend scientific conferences in other parts of the world and the students of the University to travel for purposes of study.\n\nChancellor's Address\n\nHis Excellency said: I turn for a moment to a material need of the University which is becoming more and more urgent year by year. 90 were women. For them the University so far, has not been able to provide a residential hall, nor even a hostel in which they could be housed collectively.\n\nThus on the one hand they are without the discipline and tutelage which are essential conditions of sound student life, and on the other they are deprived of the experience of a corporate life which supplies a great stimulus to, and widens the horizon of, those who are fortunate enough to live in University colleges.\n\nMr. Sloss, the Vice-Chancellor, has just spoken of Sir William Hornell's many services to education and I would like to render a tribute to those members of this University who engage themselves in social activities in the interest of other less fortunate than themselves.\n\nI refer, of course, to the Education Society, the Medical Society, the Christian Association and the other bodies within the University which have as their aim the betterment of the poorest classes of the community.\n\nTheir service of love builds better than they know: for love alone is creative and ever transcends its conscious objectives.\n\nCommittee's Report\n\nBefore I end this address I would like to render a tribute to those members of this University who engage themselves in social activities in the interest of other less fortunate than themselves.\n\nCertain of them, for example the advice to invest most of the Superannuation Fund in the general funds of the University, appear to me to be non-controversial and to call for immediate implementation.\n\nThe report contains, however, many suggestions and recommendations concerning finance and organization which pertain to the Finance Committee and the Council rather than to the Senate and I trust that these will be considered by the former authorities while those concerning the curriculum are being considered by the latter.\n\nThe Courage with which (Applause).\n\nHis Excellency then declared the Congregation closed.\n\nProcession List\n\nThe Procession which comprised Members of the Court, Council, Senate and Faculties of the University and Wardens of the Hostels, was as follows:\n\nHis Excellency the Chancellor, preceded by the Mace Bearer, and followed by the Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Dean, Faculty of Arts; H. E. Major-General A. W. Bartholomew and The Registrar; H. H. Sir Atholl Mac-Gregor and Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith: The Vice-Chancellor; Faculty of Medicine; Treasurer and Dean, Rt. Rev. Bishop R. O. Hall and The Rt. Rev. Bishop Valtorta; Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster and Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North; Hon. Sir Henry Pollock and Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewail: Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow and Hon. Dr. D. J. Valentine; Hon. Mr. Chau Tsun-nin and Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell; Hon. Com. G. F. Hole, R.N. (Retd.) and Hon, Mr. T. H. King: Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo and Hon. Dr. LI_shu-fan; Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro and Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson; Mr. Ho Kom-tong and Mr. Eu Tong-sen; Mr. Ts'o Seen-wan and Mr. Mok Ken-sang: Professor K. H. Digby and Professor C. A. M. Smith; Professor W. Brown and Professor G. T. Byrne; Professor M. H. Roffey and Professor L. Forster: Professor L. J. Davis and Professor W. Gerrard and Professor W. Faid: Dr. P. F. S. Court; Professor Hsu T-shan and Professor L, R. Shore: Mr. G. R. Sayer and Lt. Col. H. B. L. Dowbiggin; Mr. M.P. Talati and Mr. J. R. Masson: Mr. T. E. Pearce and Mr. F. J. de Rome; Mr. G. P. de Martin and Mr. P. S. Cassidy: Mr. D. Drummond and Mr. J. H. Seth; Mr. Sum Pak-ming and Mr. E. Cock; Mr. M. H. Turner and Mr. G. S. Archbutt: Mr. B. Wong Tape and Mr. Kan Tong-po; Mr. Li Jowson and Mr. Tang Shiu-kin; Mr. Li Tze-fong and Mr. J. K. Bousfield; Dr. G. A. C. Herklots and Mr. N. H. France; Mrs. M. Ring and Mr. Fung Kong-un; Mr. B. G. Birch and Mr. A. H. Fenwick; Mr. R A. Hill and Mr. D. F. Davies: Mr. A. H. Paterson and Mr. Ma Kiam; Mr. K. W. Salter and Mr. Baxter: Father B. C. Kelly, S. J. and Rev. Chan Kwan-po; Mr. S. V. Boxer and Miss G. K. Carpenter.\n\nThe programme of music was as follows:\n\nMarch. Triumph of Right, Lovell: Selection, Sandersons Songs, arr Hume; Waltz, The Golden Valse, arr Winter; Entr'ete, Thistledown, Hennessy; Selection, Lilac Time, Schubert.\" Processional March, Riengl, Wagner. Conductor, Mr. A. E. Judge.\n\nPage 8\n\nIMPROVISED BRIDGE\n\nWould-be Thief Falls Into Alleyway\n\nBOUND OVER BY COURT\n\nCharged with loitering in the alleyway between the St. Francis Hotel and Marina House at 3.30 a.m. on November 27, Ho Chik-sang. office coolie, appeared before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy yesterday and pleaded guilty.\n\nDet, Sergeant Davies stated that defendant was employed by a firm on the third floor of the Marina House. On the morning in question, he went down to the first floor and entered a vacant office where some electrical repairs were being carried and so forth. That done, he took two lead pipes and placed them across the alleyway to the St. Francis Hotel, and started to walk across to the hotel. Midway, the pipes gave way, and he fell, from a height of about 30 feet, and had to receive medical attention. The defendant admitted that his intention was to commit a larceny in the hotel.\n\nHis Worship bound defendant over in the sum of $50 to be of good behaviour for a year, and remarked that he had learned a good lesson.\n\nHOUSEBREAKING ATTEMPT\n\nMr. D. Keys, of 3 Cameron Road, reported to the police on Tuesday that some person attempted to enter his house between 10 p.m. on January 3 and 8 a.m. on January 4, by boring a hole in the front door. The intruder was apparently disturbed before he could enter the house, and ran away without taking anything.\n\nOPENING TO-DAY KING'S\n\nErrol Flynn wields a mean blade to save the prince—or is it the pauper?\n\nYou, too, can attend the coronation—and see the world's most impressive ceremony!\n\nSee how one boy's bravery saved the throne of Britain from the gangsters of the court!\n\nALSO LATEST COLOURED CARTOON\n\n“I'M A BIG SHOT NOW”\n\nOnly Mark Twain Could Have Written It!\n\nOnly These Stars Could Have Played It!\n\nOnly Warner Bros. Could Have Produced It!\n\nOnly Now Can The Screen Call Itself Great!\n\nPrince and Pauper\n\nMARK TWAIN'S greatest story, with ERROL FLYNN CLAUDE RAINS HENRY STEPHENSON BARTON MACLANE and the MAUCH TWINS ✩ BILLY & BOBBY ✩ Erle Portman Directed by WILLIAM KEIGHLEY Music by Erich Wolfgang Komgold · A Fine? National Picture Presented by Warner Bros.\n\nBOOKING AT THE THEATRE TELEPHONE NOS. 253 13, 25332.\n\nJust two kids playing hookey—and finding adventure!\n\nHe'd risk death for a reason, a lady—or for something!\n\nRomance-thrills-surprise—in 2 unforgettable hours!\n\nPage 9", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-12 Hong Kong University 24-1-1938 - 24-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]