[ { "id": 258070, "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": "CO129-096 - Others - 1863", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-096 - Others - 1863", "content_text": "& Colonel Rich, the first to \n\nindicate the trade \n\nZ \n\n69 \n\n\"Communicates & the form which he states of \n\nbooth in \n\nof we the undert \n\nJulstane at least aîle \n\npertinently communicated \n\n9 \n\n# \n\nit is surprising - expecting that H.S. \n\na in Cathay, it seems round \n\nwith regard to the last question, a subsequent letter. \n\nThen \n\nIn \n\nJ. did not \n\nJ. did or \n\nRedeihoji \n\nand copy to His R. up to Hilly's precincts \n\nJ. \n\nitems to me as \n\nMuwa. \n\nwith deep \n\n1206 317. H. Rosj \n\nH \n\nL", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-096 - Others - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311242, "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": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "page_number": 263, "title": "CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2]", "content_text": "Assistant for the Observatory - List of posts, be obtained from archives\n\n\"s, the Royal Engineers & Officers of the Survey Companies of the\n\nR.E. & Engineers; and subsequently wrote a private letter to my friend, Colonel Booth, the present Director of the Ordnance Survey, asking him to\n\ndo his best in the matter, should be hereafter made to him. He has, however, expressed to me in a reply his regret that, owing to a recent decision to double the strength of the Survey force and hasten the completion of the work, it would be impossible,\n\na Non-commissioned Officer for Hongkong. Every man capable\n\n262\n\nof the higher duties must now be retained, and Colonel Booth has been obliged of late to refuse several similar applications from Cyprus, Mr Astronomer Royal, the Palestine Exploration Fund, and in Cape of Good Hope.\n\nBut, although the Royal Engineers are thus closed to us, I am still sanguine that good men for the posts of both Dr P and Second Assistant can be found amongst the other Corps, and that the Inspector General of Fortifications, to whom also I have written on the subject, will not be unwilling to spare such men to the Colony. Both of them should in every...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488968, "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": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 116, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## \nof opium available for export to China, while the general result will be that we shall be pushing further eastward the boundary line between effective and non-effective control of opium manufacture and consumption. The further that line advances to the east the more difficult will it be for smugglers to carry on their operations, and the more possible it will be to make an effective reply to any complaints on the part of the Chinese Government. This seems as far as it is possible to go at present. We can do little for years to come in respect of the trans-Salween States and the check of smuggling from there into China. Moreover, although article 15 of the Convention lays down that the contracting Powers shall take all necessary measures to prevent the smuggling of opium into Chinese territory, compliance with this article appears to be dependent on the co-operation of the Chinese Government; and as far as can be judged from a perusal of the correspondence on the subject, China is prepared to do very little to suppress the smuggling of opium from China into Burma. We are, therefore, certainly not called upon to adopt in the interests of China a rash policy of intervention in the trans-Salween States, or to take costly and almost impracticable measures to control smuggling operations along a frontier many hundreds of miles long.\n\n## \nThe same difficulties which prevent any effectual check of the smuggling of opium from the trans-Salween States into China also operate to prevent any effective check on the smuggling of opium from the trans-Salween States into Siam, and though, in the case of Siam, as appears from the correspondence forwarded with Mr. Lewisohn's letter, dated the 17th December, 1919, the Siamese authorities have expressed themselves willing to co-operate in any measures which may be practical for the suppression of the traffic, the control exercised by them over the Shan States on their side of the frontier is probably even less effective than our control over our own trans-Salween States. The measures proposed above should operate to reduce the amount of opium available for smuggling from the trans-Salween States into Siam, and beyond this nothing more seems possible at present. Letter dated the 12th June, 1920, from the Commissioner, Tenasserim Division, to the Excise Commissioner, which forms an enclosure to Mr. Brander's letter, dated the 24th June, 1920, indicates that little or no smuggling takes place from the districts of the Tenasserim Division into Siam.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**E. H. JONES**, Secretary to the Financial Commissioner, Burma.\n\n## ANNEX 1\n\n**Lieutenant-Colonel Aplin** (Commissioner, Mandalay Division) to the Assistant Secretary to the Financial Commissioner (Burma).\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\nFebruary 17, 1919.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward a copy of letter dated the 7th February, 1919, from the Deputy Commissioner, Bhamo, on the subject of poppy cultivation in the Kachin Hill Tracts.\n\n2. The latest orders of Government are that no action should be taken regarding the prevention or restriction of poppy cultivation in these tracts during the war. As the war is over, Mr. Booth-Gravely is in order in raising the question afresh, though I think it is probable Government may not consider that the time has yet arrived for action to be taken. As this, however, is a matter for Government to decide I am submitting Mr. Booth-Gravely's letter for orders.\n\n3. I do not propose to comment on Mr. Booth-Gravely's letter beyond remarking that I agree with him that repressive action should be taken as soon as is practicable. I think so because of the large increase in poppy cultivation that is taking place. This I consider should be stopped as soon as possible, for every year that the cultivation continues will make its suppression more difficult eventually. But I am not in favour of any sudden measures of a drastic nature, nor does the present time appear to be a convenient one for any measures to be taken which might lead to trouble or unrest. I would prefer to wait until the operations on the Assam frontier are over and the Bhamo Military Police Battalion is at full strength.\n\n4. There is, however, no objection to a reconsideration of the measures that should be taken when a suitable time for their introduction arrives. Suggestions have already been made, but this was four or five years ago. It appears to me, therefore, that the first step that should be taken now is to review these suggestions in the light of the further experience we have gained during the years of the war. I would therefore recommend that the Deputy Commissioners be invited to take this step now as Mr. Booth-Gravely suggests so that there may be no avoidable delay when the time arrives in the introduction of the scheme or schemes that Government may approve.\n\n5. Any wholesale destruction of the poppy crops should certainly not be attempted by the Assistant Superintendent, Sinlumkaba, this season. As a matter of fact it is too late, as the crop, I understand, will be gathered in March. But in any case it would be impolitic to attempt it at the present juncture. I am therefore informing Mr. Booth-Gravely that the instructions given by him (paragraph 16 of his letter) are approved.\n\n**Mr. Booth-Gravely**, Deputy Commissioner, Bhamo, to the Commissioner, Mandalay Division.\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\nBhamo, February 7, 1919.\n\nI HAVE the honour to address you on the subject of poppy cultivation in the Kachin Hill Tracts in the Bhamo District.\n\n2. This is a question which has seriously exercised the minds of former Deputy Commissioners, and in recent years it has on several occasions been urged upon the consideration of the Local Government at their instance. I propose in the first instance, therefore, to summarise briefly the course of the previous correspondence on the subject.\n\n3. A convenient starting point is to be found in the Revenue Secretary's letter to the Financial Commissioner, dated the 25th April, 1913, of which a copy was forwarded to this office with your Revenue Department endorsement, dated the 16th May, 1913. The main point of this letter was that the situation in respect of the production and distribution of raw opium in Burma had been completely altered by the accession of the British Government to the International Opium Convention of the 23rd January, 1912. In the words of the letter, this Government is now bound to control the production of opium in the tracts adjoining the Burma-China frontier and to prevent the smuggling of opium into China. The letter also drew attention to a remonstrance which the Chinese Government had addressed in January 1913 to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, and although the allegations on which the remonstrance was based were not wholly ingenuous it was admitted that there was some basis for complaint in respect of opium cultivation in the Shan States. A full report on the subject was called for, to be supplemented by \"detailed recommendations regarding the steps which should be taken to (a) control the production of raw opium, (b) prevent its export, and (c) check the smuggling of it across the frontier into China.\" It was clearly intimated that a non possumus attitude could not be assumed, though the difficulties were not to be underrated.\n\n4. Mr. Lewisohn's views were submitted in his letter dated the 3rd June, 1913, and amounted to a cordial acceptance of the policy laid down in the Revenue Secretary's letter above quoted. He stated that poppy cultivation was increasing in the Kachin Hills, largely by Chinese immigrants from over the border, and recommended that the Kachin Hill Tribes Regulation should be amended so as to make the cultivation of the poppy and the possession of opium illegal in the Kachin Hills of the district. He reported and concurred in the opinion of Mr. Scott, Assistant Superintendent, Sinlum, that the use of opium meant moral and physical ruin to the hill Kachins and that total prohibition could be enforced without difficulty. He also pointed out that the prohibition of the cultivation and possession of opium in the hills would greatly facilitate the suppression of opium smuggling both to the plains and to China, and suggested that no special measures were called for to check illicit export across the frontier. In conclusion, Mr. Lewisohn very earnestly urged that, whatever decision should be reached on the general question, the Government should authorise the enforcement of total prohibition in the Bhamo Hill Tracts.\n\n5. In due course the Local Government's orders were communicated in letter from the Assistant Secretary to the Financial Commissioner, dated the 8th January, 1914, a copy of which was forwarded with your Revenue Department endorsement, dated the 10th January, 1914. It was intimated that the Local Government had decided with regard to the Bhamo and Myitkyina Districts that the only feasible way of restricting the production of opium was by prohibiting entirely the cultivation of the poppy, and that possession should also be prohibited as soon as the Chinese...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499757, "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": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "## \n155 \n\n**Hon. Capt. Supt. of Police**\n\nActing on previous instructions the following party left the Royal Naval Dockyard at 16.45 hours on 17th January, 1926, on board His Majesty's Tug \"St Monance\" – \n\n* Mr. Booth, Assistant Director of Criminal Investigation.\n* Captain Bloxham, Assistant Superintendent of Police.\n* Inspector Pincott, Detective Staff.\n* Police Sergeant Chester Woods, Detective Staff.\n* Inspector Chu Houng, Chinese Detective Inspector.\n* Five Chinese Detectives.\n* Lieutenant Commander Ingham, Royal Navy.\n* Lieutenant Drake Brockman, East Surrey Regiment.\n\nWith us was Colonel Wong Fuk Chi and Mr. Neal (late of Hongkong Police), who is working with the Colonel in Piracy and Bandit Suppression.\n\nWe proceeded to Mira Bay and anchored in Long Harbour at 18.30 hours as it was impossible to make Bias Bay before dark.\n\nWe weighed anchor at 05.30 hours on 18th January, 1926, and proceeded to Bias Bay and anchored at 07.30 hours, 1 mile off Hachung Village where Colonel Wong Fuk Chi was to collect 200 of his troops.\n\nAs no junks or sampans came near us, Mr. Booth, Police Sergeant Chester Woods and Colonel Wong Fuk Chi rowed ashore in the Tug's life boat. On arrival there they found that the troops had left for a village called Pak Mong Fa about 1.5 miles inland, some three hours before they landed. Colonel Wong Fuk Chi then despatched a man on horseback to order them to return at once.\n\nMr. Booth and Police Sergeant Chester Woods then returned...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499761, "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": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 165, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "159 \n\n(d) One new brown waistcoat. \n\n(e) One new brown Chinese silk long coat. \n\n(f) One pair new female beaded slippers (Singapore Pattern). \n\n(g) One gold ear pick. \n\n(h) One pair European black evening trousers with tailor's name and Singapore marked on buttons. \n\n(i) Four gold hair clips. \n\n(j) One new travelling rug. \n\n(k) Four new red blankets \n\n(l) One new metal Thermos flask. \n\n(m) Two sets of buttons made from Dutch East Indian coins and Straits Settlements coins. \n\n(n) One gilt badge and chain. \n\nThis prisoner was asked to explain his possession of these articles and stated that his uncle had given them to him that morning to take to a village nearby. He was then sent under escort to the address given by him as his uncle's residence. The prisoner and escort returned about 17.00 hours and the Officer in charge reported the prisoner's uncle had left the village some six weeks before, and that he had not returned or been seen since. He also was then subjected to the \"3rd degree\" but refused to give any information. Wong Fuk Chi got very angry at this and at one time I certainly thought that he would shoot him himself on the spot. However, he was eventually sent away under escort, the Colonel remarking to me that they would probably make him talk later on. \n\nAs Mr. Booth and the remainder of our party had not turned up yet, I wrote a note to Mr. Booth telling him what had happened, which was taken back to the ship by the Chief Officer. I then took photos of these prisoners and we then walked", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503111, "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": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "page_number": 186, "title": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "content_text": "Page 181\n\nmid tot (vs ITLAM 11) Akne Mountd vol sepasang ar malkonu prostog › voiɔssoxa ton) zozbitdo ba.. alatie vin upffet to mid quaquosda vodi 71 (1.e-\n\nblues or banks. Teollis sit stongest radio al\n\nent 5ne waoituluzek Istimoloð var að Jumla:\n\nto maingo „tanmoreveü şned ynoll edi lo ataŭTÜ KUT\n\n~ 2110 sănd to gundbi sat ai betosquni ad zau TOLLY TA JJ5i a le vɛoɔ « seelome et ouis ma 1\n\nJCOM TUGY\n\n€319-\n\nPage 185\n\nSir,\n\n.II=X.T* of besserbly u\n\n1 I\n\n+\n\nlosure\n\nLosure J\n\nholl\n\nFive 17963\n\nBask\n\n21299-bast\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nHONGKONG. 10th July, 1926.\n\nC. 16182\n\n20 AUG 1926\n\nI have the honour to address you on the subject of the staff of the Harbour Master's Department, and to enclose a copy of a report on the subject by the Harbour Master with whose conclusions I am in general agreement.\n\n2.\n\nThe present staff of the Department is shown on the enclosed extract from the Staff List for 1926. The post of Assistant Harbour Master, now rendered vacant by the resignation of Lieutenant Commander Hake as stated in your telegram of the 28th of June, is being filled temporarily by Mr. L. H. V. Booth, Assistant Superintendent of Police who was seconded from the Police Department when Lieutenant Commander Hake went on leave.\n\n3.\n\nEven with the amount of shipping below normal, as it is at present owing to the boycott, the Harbour Master considers that the staff is not adequate for the efficient performance of the work of the Department. It is to be expected that, once the boycott ceases, the trade and shipping of the Colony will return at least to previous dimensions, and I consider it essential that the staff should be strengthened to an extent which will enable it to deal efficiently with the work involved.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P..\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\n4.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]