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        "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843",
        "content_text": "\nwill be found in the 10th Volume of larchives that Thansmitted by \n\nLocut. Colonel Malcolm. \n\nFrom these letters Your Lordship will \n\nsee, that my full impresion cons, that by \n\nLocations for the Turrison Education assigning a Loc. Society, I had done every thing that could be judly expected, or required, and I am stilt of this opinion; and cannot help considering the plaus skelched in the better now submitted to be altogether fremature, and uncalled for; to say nothing of the self svident political djections which exist to some parts of them \n\nIt seems \n\nto \n\nAne \n\nthat it will be quite \n\nan \n\ntime enough to talk of founding on longle Chinese College, when the success of the Morrison Education Society shall have proved that it is likely to be useful, and even then it should. \n\nideas, be amalgamated with that \n\nin \n\nany ideas, \n\nInstitution \n\n- any respectable \n\nInstitution, as hoo Institutions of the sort in a small place like Hongkong - where I conceive it ble Extremely doubtful whether Chinese will ever voluntarily avail themselves the intended boon-will be totally superflucans. \n\nI hope Her Majesty's Fonument will nnot imagine from the spinions Iffer in this -letter, that I am opposed wither to the diffusion of Enspian Kunwledge and Education, or the spread of Christianity, amongst the Chinese - but I think that there and ill digested measures are not only -likely to defeat their non Grupore, but may involve the Governments in disagreeable, if \n\nEarly \n\nanot \n\nvery \n\nangry discusims, and I have myself \n\nconsiderable doubts whether it would be Either right or politic to extend the protection of our Consuls to any persons, who \n\nmay",
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        "content_text": "80\n\nBRITISH POSITION\n\nof subsistence; by the invention of machinery, which daily diminishes the demand for human labour; by a constant accumulation of capital which requires profitable investment; and by a general system of education, which, while elevating the whole of the nation, renders mere animal toil irksome, and demands a higher grade of occupation, at home or abroad, for the intelligent masses of society.\n\nThe premises thus set forth being granted, a statesman will survey the field on which he has to operate. He beholds in Europe and in America a career of successful competition with Britain in the manufactures and produce which the British empire can abundantly furnish; he sees little or no reciprocity of free trade; but on the contrary, the adoption of a more exclusive system; he ascertains that foreign manufactures now not unfrequently displace our goods in distant markets, of which we had heretofore a complete monopoly.\n\nTo the British colonial possessions, and to new and unexplored regions, must England look for the increase of her commerce. The East and the West Indies, the Canadas, Australasia, and Africa, afford valuable and permanent markets within our control; but, excepting India, their expansion is of slow growth, and inadequate to meet increasing exigencies; the opening, therefore, of the vast and populous territories on the borders of the Northern Pacific, is a matter of vital consequence to Britain.\n\nHave we availed ourselves of the advantages which this opening affords? Have we not by a mistaken policy, and by a non-appreciation of the true interests of England, almost shut the door against ourselves which we had been so long anxious to open, and voluntarily excluded the British nation from a country where it is palpably our interest to have a decided permanent influence, and where by our science, intercourse, and commerce, we may exert a beneficial effect on many millions of mankind?\n\nThe solution of these questions is deserving of early and serious investigation.\n\nAt the close of a desolating and expensive war, in August, 1842, in a position to dictate our own terms, and when all negotiation was unnecessary and set aside by the Chinese authorities themselves*, the British plenipotentiary adopted the printed draft of a treaty framed in Downing-street, and sent out to Captain Elliot for his guidance at Canton. This treaty was prepared at a time when we were ignorant on various points connected with China, and great allowance must be made for its framers. Without therefore that diplomatic tact or foresight which an acquaintance with European policy, and British domestic, as well as foreign interests would have conveyed, and without reference to the new position in which we were at Nankin, and to the greater knowledge we had obtained of the people and country in the north of China, we imposed only the terms sketched in the draft treaty, and filled up the blank after the word \"islands\" in the draft with \"Hong Kong,\" and\n\nIt is perfectly well known that when Lieut.-Colonel Malcolm was sent on shore at Nankin, with the terms on which peace would be granted, the imperial Commissioner was surprised that so little was asked, and inquired, \"Is that all?\" which being answered affirmatively, he immediately replied, \"All shall be granted.\"\n\nAND PROSPECTS IN CHINA.\n\n81\n\nexcluded Chusan—the only valuable island on the coast of China, adapted for the purposes which England ought to have had in view.\n\nA primary condition of the treaty was the payment by the Chinese Government of a sum of money then deemed adequate to the expenses of the war; it is now, however, confidently stated by commissariat officers, that the sum of money thus obtained will not cover the mere pecuniary expenditure incurred by Great Britain, after paying for the alleged destruction of opium, for the Hong debts, and the prize-money to the army and navy, and irrespective of the loss of troops by sickness, each of whom costs the state £100. But it having been agreed that the so-called indemnity money should be paid by the Chinese Government in half-yearly instalments, spreading over a period of three years and a half, the maintenance of a naval and military force in China, at a cost of nearly £500,000 sterling annually, was deemed necessary. It can scarcely therefore be contended that the \"indemnity money\" was to the extent alleged of such great advantage, and that the British exchequer has not suffered considerable diminution by the war with China.\n\nThe next great advantage which it was supposed we had gained, was the establishment of four new ports for British trade, as named in the printed draft treaty sent from Downing-street.\n\nOur obvious and natural policy was to cause every port in China to be opened to us, and to have obtained perfect freedom of ingress and egress to and from any city, town, or place in China, with secure guarantees for life and property, and the peaceable and unrestricted prosecution of commerce. This would have enabled our traders to seek out the best spots for mercantile settlements, and time and circumstances would thus have indicated and proved the most suitable marts for extended traffic.\n\nBut if it had even been resolved to restrict the maritime trade to a few ports, in order that the Chinese customs' revenue might have been more readily collected, it was our duty to have selected very different ports from those which, through want of information, were selected in Downing-street, and which, at any rate, ought to have been preceded by a commission of inquiry as to their eligibility for European traffic.\n\nNankin, the great central mart of the Chinese empire,—Yang-choo-foo on the north bank, and Chin-kang-foo* on the south bank of the great Yang-tze-kiang, were neglected, together with the numerous cities and towns bordering on this vast artery, which it is said extends through the richest regions of China for 1800 miles; so also Chapoo, the port of Hang-chow, as large as Canton, and the seat of trade with Japan; Kaou-choo-foo on the northern, and Ting-choo-foo on the southern part of the Shantung promontory; Tientsin on the Peiho, the port of Pekin; Kichu and Kinchu on the northern part of the Gulf of Petchely in 40° to 41° north, rich in agricultural productions, and good stations for trade with Tartary.\n\n* These cities communicate with the richest and most populous districts, by means of the great canal, which is 900 miles long and 35 feet broad. Reckoning the southern with the northern branch, it is 1300 miles long. This will indicate the great importance of our having a Consular station at its central port.",
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        "content_text": "dmira \n\nto allow any reductions; partiality will be displayed, or if not actually displayed people will say so, and there would be a consequent discontent. If any reductions are made, some unreasonable selfish men will think they have claims to abatement, when in point of fact they have not the slightest, and the result will be pretty general dissatisfaction.\n\nIt may be questioned whether it is not politic to reduce all the rents—taking 25 to 50 per cent from the whole of them—and offering the unsold land on the same terms in order to encourage settlers. But we doubt whether this would answer immediately; for some years a shortcoming would result, and if we must pay the civil establishment, taxes would be levied on articles of consumption. The land rates will not deter merchants from building, if the place offers other advantages; many of them do all their business in Canton, and a house at Macao or Hongkong is a mere luxury to them, not an essential. If driven from Canton, they must settle down in Hongkong like a hive of bees; £50 more or less of rent will not have the slightest influence. It is much the same with the Chinese; our suicidal law ordinances, our petty monopolies of articles of traffic, the corruption of the police, and the arbitrary disposition of the government, were the means of driving many decent people away, and deterred others from settling. They had no confidence in the government, nor will they feel secure from oppression until some of our old officials are removed. Sir John Davis is gone; but his evil advisers are still here, their presence has a worse effect, as regards the Chinese, than the land rents.\n\nAs a financial scheme reduction would be a dangerous experiment at present; five years ago the colony was in a better position, and we are inclined to think that with a liberal, just Executive, and sound commercial policy, it would then have succeeded. The people were harassed by local ordinances, and their trade crippled by the introduction of antiquated fiscal laws—monopolies, poll-taxes and a variety of other injudicious measures. The colony has somewhat improved no doubt, and would improve still more were the retail farms knocked on the head, but a reduction in ground rent will certainly take a heavy slice out of the revenue for years.\n\nWe read comparisons between the rate of land in Hongkong and the \"choicest and most exclusive sites in Mayfair.\" That the price is high for a new colony is unquestionable, but it is a mere trifle to what land sells for in large cities at home; it is not a third of the cost of good building allotments in Sydney N. S. Wales—a town of some sixty years' growth.\n\nIf our ground rent, and consequently house-rent is high, we are favoured in other ways. Our wines, our malt, our tea, coffee, sugar, tobacco and a number of articles of daily consumption are all untaxed. We have but one assess tax—a heavy one however—in England people have the pleasure of paying half a dozen. Ships pay neither port charges, light money, nor any of the imposts which are levied elsewhere. For the support of the government, commerce is not burdened in any one way (always excepting the retail monopolies), and take it all in all, if a local revenue must be raised, there is no fairer way than by putting it on the building ground. It thus falls upon everybody,—heaviest upon those who must keep up a genteel appearance on a limited income, and upon others who require expensive premises upon which they conduct a small business—but these are the people who grumble least. Englishmen in China have got into an expensive way of living; if they paid the government two or three shillings for every cork drawn at their sideboard, many of them would be less free with their wine—such will be the inevitable result of a serious reduction in the land rent. If people wish to live altogether free of taxation, they must seek the wilds of some barbarous country and associate with savages. Taxation is the price paid for civilization and no money is invested to greater advantage.\n\nOverland China Mail.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 29TH NOVEMBER, 1849.\n\nBIRTH. At Spring Gardens, Victoria, on the 30th ultimo, Mrs T. W. L. MACKEAN of a Son.\n\nBIRTH.—At Victoria, on the 6th inst., Mrs WILLIAM MORRISON, of a Son, still born.\n\nMARRIAGE.—At St John's Church, Victoria, Hongkong, on Wednesday, 14th November, by the Reverend Vincent Stanton, Colonial Chaplain, Major WILLIAM HILL, Madras Fusileers, to SIBELLA, eldest daughter of Lieut. Colonel Phillpotts, Commanding Royal Engineer in China.\n\nDEATH.—At Chusan, on board H. M. Brig Arab, on the 28th ultimo, Assistant Surgeon RICHARD BUTLER.\n\nDEATH.—At Victoria, on the morning of the 1st inst., the Wife of Mr J. A BROOKS—his Infant Son having died two days previously.\n\nDEATH.—At Victoria, of dysentery, on the 20th instant, Mr DALLIN, late Chief Officer of the Schooner Hellas.\n\nPASSENGERS per BRAGANZA, to sail to-morrow the 30th instant. For Southampton, Messrs A. Price, W. Potter, G. E. Bruce. For Madras, Mrs Dent and 2 Native servants.\n\nH. M. SHIPS Cleopatra, 26, and Reynard, 11, the latter fitted with an auxiliary screw propeller, arrived here on the 15th instant from England, via Rio de Janeiro, Singapore, and Labuan. The Reynard will proceed to Amoy to succeed the Pilot, which has sailed for Loo-choo, and thence to Shanghae and Ningpo. The Columbine sailed this morning for Singapore and England, and the Medea is said to be under orders for home.\n\nLAND SALE.\n\nTHE following is the result of the Land Sale which took place on the 27th inst. :-\n\n  \n    Numbers\n    Sold at Advance\n    £\n    s\n    d\n    Names\n    Upret price\n    £\n    s\n    d\n  \n  \n    1.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    A. Scott\n    \n    12\n    4\n    8\n  \n  \n    2\n    Shaik Adam\n    1\n    8\n    7\n    \n    1\n    8\n    7\n  \n  \n    3\n    Abdool Currim\n    1\n    7\n    3\n    \n    1\n    7\n    3\n  \n  \n    4\n    A. J. Burley\n    13\n    2\n    \n    13\n    2\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    7\n    Mahomed\n    5\n    2\n    \n    5\n    2\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    15\n    18\n    10\n    \n    15\n    18\n    10\n  \n  \n    NE\n    \n    1\n    13\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    A\n    \n    9\n    5\n    2\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    16\n    7\n    2\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    2\n    5\n    10\n    \n    2\n    7\n    0\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    5\n    1\n    4\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    4\n    A. J. Burley\n    18\n    5\n    \n    8\n    6\n    8\n  \n  \n    \n    C. Markwick\n    9\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\n* One occupied by Squatters houses, mostly Indian Policemen. With a good house, occupied by the Mahomedan Priest.\n\nAll the Lots sold, except the first, were more or less built upon by Squatters, but only a few of them had erections of any value. The unfortunate occupier of Lot 6, was the Mahomedan priest attached to the Mosque, who bid as high as he could to retain his home, and excited competition by his eagerness, which sufficiently accounts for the great advance on that Lot. We presume the purchaser was not aware of the circumstance, as he has since considerately determined, for the poor man's sake, to forfeit his deposit and allow the Lot to be resold, when it will probably be knocked down at the upset price, unless competed for in a friendly way.",
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        "content_text": "62\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nCharitable laaits\n\n3.1.\n\nleads to the conclusiva that the expense\n\nIV—Provided always that all religious edifices, hospitals, jeme exempted from teries, and buildings strictly and exclusively appropriated tahari- of maintaining and extending it, if self- table purposes, and not being used as dwelling-houses, sall be imposed, would be less grudgingly paid, exempted from assessment under this Ordinance.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNotice is hereby given, that the exclusive right of dealing in laun, Betel, and torment of col with the advice of the excentive Council, shall have powers apment. Betel Leaf, in the Colony of Hongkong, will be disposed of to the highest bidder at: Public Auction on the 20th day of June, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police.\n\n[1]\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\n16\n\nProvisions for the\n\nJoctors,\n\nCollectors to malo\n\npoint such officer or officers as may be deemed requisite for te col- lection of the Rate leviable under this Ordinence, allowing in or them as remuneration for this service such a per Centage at the Governor in Council shall seem fit.\n\npaper the Report of a Trial on Appeal\n\nWe have extracted from an Edinburgh before the Louse of Lords, the subject being one of great importance to alt British colonists. The statule establish- ing dutics on legacies equaily affects England and Scotland, and the present decision settles the law, that such duties are not payable on\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained, that as soon afer the casual reters and first day of January in each year as may be founul practicale, the pablish officer collecting the assesstrent under this Ordinance shall gepare a detailed statement exhibiting the sums collected during de pre- ceding year, and the said statement, duly attested by the said ficer, shall be inserted in some newspaper published within this Clony, officer for one month from and after the date of its publicatio\n\nby a person re\n\nVI—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that the saf rate such property being subject to the law of\n\nsiding in one of its possessions abroad- Quarterly in advance shall be payable quarterly in advance, unless otherwise prefribed the colony where the deceased\n\nand directed, as hereinberare mentioned, and that it shall be charged ciled. This judgment is not only impor was domi- and chargeable on the lands, dwelling-houses, and premises repect- ively assessed, at the time of such assessment.\n\nand shall also be open to general inspection at the office & such | England, if bequeathed invested in\n\nException as to\n\ncapted, or used\n\nFREDERICK W. A. BRUCE,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n憲。 告\n\nRate payalde\n\nT\n\n赴人在榔茲\n\n賣\n\n辦正等港\n\n此堂物等\n\n事衙於處\n\n者署五招\n\n特 THAA\n\n示 於投十包\n\n是如六質\n\n該要巡簍在\n\n署包理葉\n\n投\n\nB\n\n# B &\n\nexetorted.\n\nN\n\n一千八百四十五年五月 三 十\n\n日\n\n年四月\n\n二十六日\n\nFJ\n\ntant to British colunists, but may be\n\nΠΟΣ\n\nnot unwillingly substitute the following from a correspondent:-\n\nof benefit to England, by encouraging\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained that the omber of investments there. So important aid the property mat let, or any land, dwelling-house, or premises assessed, which may fot be\n\nlet to any tenant, shall be deered the occupier thereof. privided this question, that though neither he always, that if such owner can shew that the property las nt been the other low lords entertained any inhabited for a period of three months or upwards in any year, he doubt, it was submitted as an A. B ques- shall be entitled to a proportional abatement of assessment leted on the same for the said year.\n\ntion to the Judges, because, as the law\n\nAppeal against as\n\nwas to be stated definitively, for the\n\nVIII—Provided always, that if any person from whom payment British Islande, and for all its colonies, esten der pay- of the assessment leviable under this Ordinance may have been the Lords deemed it proper that the meo the\n\ndemanded, and who shall have already paid in the amount demanded decision should have all the weight of him, ohjects to the demand on any other ground than that of which the concurrent opinions of the valuation, it shall be competent to such person, after payment of Judges and of the Lords could give it.\" the amount demanded, to appeal against such demand to the Chief' Justice of the Supreme Court at such time and place as the said:\n\nWe had proposed to give a short critique\n\nChief Justice may be pleased to direct, or that if any person be dissa on the Concert of Thursday last, but tisfied, or objects to any valustion to be made under this Ordinance on the ground of over-valuation, he or they may, within the period of three calender months after such valuation, or when the said Chief: Justice may appoint or direct, appeal to him against such valuation, and that it shall be lawful for him, if he deem it advisable or neces- sary to have any three persons taken from the existing let of special jurors to assist him in ascertaining the question of value which may arise on\n\nDistricts may be\n\nIX—And be it further enacted and ordained, that it shall and n any such appeal. may be lawful for the said Governor, with the advice of the said Executive Council, to exempt such districts or portions of the said Island from the operation of this act, or from the payment of the said rates, as to him and them may seem advisable.\n\nX—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that un asessment made under the authority of the Ordinance shall be impeached or affected by reason of any mistake in the name of any person liable to assessment, or of any thing chargeable with assessment, provided the directions of this Ordinance be in substance and effect complied with.\n\nclause.\n\nTriplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nHis Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade, &c. &c., is pleased to direct that the sunexed Circular to the address of Her Majesty's Consuls in China he published for general information.\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nCIRCULAR No.\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nI have to acquaint you, that I have received the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty, conveyed through the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, sanctioning and confirming Ordinance No. 6 of 1844, intituled, An Ordinance to authorize the execation of the Process of the Supreme Court of Hongkong in certain Parts within the Dominions of the Emperor of China.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. F. DAVIS.\n\nTrue Copy:\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE,\n\nTo Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at\n\nTisle.\n\nPreamble.\n\nClovernor to p\n\nIsland.\n\nHONGKONG,\n\nANNO OCTAVO, VICTORIE REGINE. No. 2 of 1845.\n\nBy His Excellency JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Esquie, Go- vernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong jad its Dependencies, lur Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Sperin tendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the idvice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAn Ordinance to raise an assessed Rate on Janda, houses, and premises, within the Colony of Hongkong, for the upholding of the requisite Police Force therein.\" WHEREAS it is deemed expedient and necessary that the Colony of Hongkong should defray the Expenses attendant on the upholding and maintaining the Police force thereof.\n\n--Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of point haters of the Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof that lands. house it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor, with the mies within the advice of the Executive Council, from time to time to appoint two ar more persons for the purpose of estimating the annual vaide of the lands, houses, and premises within the said Island, or within any particular district thereof, which shall be in the tenure or occupation of any person or persons; and the said valuator or valuators shall, when thereunto required, make a retum in writing and on oath of such valuation to the said Governor and Coureff; and also at the time of having valued each property respectively, he proprietor thereal, a written Notification of their having made such or they shall leave or cause to be left with some inmate or the valuation, sod of the Amount thereof.\n\nIl—And be it further enacted and ordained that for the purposes of this Ordinance, the said Governor and Council may cause a new valuation to be made annually.\n\nILL--And\n\nValuation may be made anually.\n\nAssessment to he Trade on the d\n\nJyment, andromedy for nonpayment.\n\nbe\n\n|\n\nInterpretation\n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained, that this Ordinaner shall come into operation and take effect, from and after the first day of Julf next ensuing.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong this 93d day of May, 1845. ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,\n\nClerk of Councila.\n\nJ. F. DAVIS, Governor, &c., &c.\n\nour present rulers every thing will be done with the utmost economy: but that does not affect the principle, against which we conter.d.\n\nThe right of the mercantile commu- pity to a voice in the Legislative Council has frequently been urged, not, we think, with much force of reason; for until the revenue of the colony is sufficient to pay its expenses, we do not ace that the in- habitants can claim representation as a right, and upon any other grounds it\n\nMessrs Fiebig and lavac's Concert took place according to announcement on Thurs day evening last, and the attendance was in very respect calculated so answer the ex pectoris of the originators, who well de Berve encouragement for their attempt to the ennuyés of Victoria. afford an evening's rational entertainment to deservedly applauded for his brilliant ex\n\nM. Rarac was eeution of the very difficulty picces allotted to him, sad met with an unanimous encore in the Caroival of Venice.\" His notes are remarkably clear and expressive, and by a himself of a few mannerisms, he might with little attention to his style, in order to divest study become a first rote performer on this most difficult of instruments. M. Fiebig was not so felicitous; his well known skill and tirely unworthy of his efforts. The \"Bella\" execution, were expended on a theme on- he dimittel. le proved himself to possess\n\na correct judgment and highly cultivated\n\ntaste, by the simple yet appropriate manner in which he accompanied M. Ravac, instead of displaying in mastery over the instrument by profuse ornament, at the expense of the melody itself, a fault too common among musicisms. The programme was a striking example of the lied taste which is unfortu Dately I too prevalent in the days with thrown aside for the modern Italian school, regard to music. The great masters are new The Messiah must give place to the Stabal Mater, and Iton Giovanni to Don Pasquale. Verily, Rossint, Donizetti, Belliei, Pacini, Auber, &o, ae but peor substitutes for Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Fiebig and Barac should favour the inhabi tots of Victoria with another Concert, or Gluck, Cimarosa, or Parsiella. If Messrs\n\neven a series of Concerts, and we think they have ample encouragement for so doing, what\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 8TH JUNE, 1245. Is another part of to-day's paper will be found an important Ordinance by the Governor in Council for assessing the inhabitants with the expenses of the Police establishment. The advantages\n\nwhich the community derive from a well organized system of police are so self-evident, that a reason- able rate for its support is perhaps one of would be worse than useless. the few direct taxes that in civilized the case is different with municipal of his great countryman the composer of countries are submitted to without affairs. Here, it is proposed that the Fidelio, or M. Ravac delighting his auditors de tot anticipate whole charge of upholding the police or Vietti; and, if the prevailing taste is so that even those who, like ourselves, should be defrayed by the inhabitants, strongly expressed in favour of modera with the touching compositions of Corelli maiorain that it is a mistake\" policy who thereby, we conceive, establish a music, let us have it good at least, something to overburden the youthful energies of just claim to avail themselves of the con- by Spohr, Cherubini, Mendelssolu, er the colony with taxation, will find much stitutional right of British subjects to be Beyerbeer, for instance. to complain of in being called upon consulted both as to the levying and dis- to contribute their quota for uphollingposal of the fund. In London, though\n\nmormer; and WH\n\na treat it would be for a true lover of nute to hear M. Fisbig displaying his taste nad But exception on some of the majestic sinfonias\n\nPEKING GAZETTE.\n\nhridegroom was\n\nthat\n\nthe force requisite for the protection, nearly one-fourth of the expenses of the health, and comfort of the community. police establishment is paid out of the Con-rial Princess with one of the Mangal chieft THE COURT—The marriage of an Imps- amble of the Ordinance, we conocive to watch over the interests of the rate But though we thus concur in the pre-solidated Fund, there are commissioners has given rise to not a little trouble. The that its enacting clauses are objectionable peyers; and in Edinburgh and (ilasgow, riage celebrated without delay, and he mast defining the power and jurisdiction of the assessment on the inhabitants, they at- to the customary rule, directed that astronu- on two grounds, First, not clearly where the whole amount is raised by an\n\nan early day should be fixed for the core. police, a term of wide signification, and Dually elect representatives,\n\nmony. The Emperor, however, according which in the three United Kingdoms to the sale power of determining the per Board, to ascertain when the heavens would\n\nwho have made to include very different classes of centage, as well as its appropriation. be propitions for the celebration of the nup mical observations should be made by the functions. The Ordinance does not in- These Commissioners have, properly, tials. Unfortunately the members of the for us whether this preventive branch judicial functions; but except that the Board ware not mautious in reading the of justice is to be rendered so efficient in appointment of Superintendent is lodged agus of the stars, and after a great many Hongkong as to supersede the necessity in other hands, they are onnipotent calculations, drawing of horoscopes, and con- for the individual tax which the inhabi as regards the extent and remunera tants have hitherto been compelled totion of the force, as well as in all that persofthe day, they fixed on the 23d April at submit to in maintaining private watch relates to lighting, cleansing, removal\n\nthree o'clock in the morning as the most tion is the more pointedly directed by arrangements of the fire brigade. And at that hour. This is said to be the earliest men--a circumstance to which our atten- of nuisances and obstructions, and the able for that ceremony. The Royal pair joined in drinking from the nuptial cup the intimation from the Chief Magistrate we which appeared in the Cuts MALL only Geomy, these matters are nowhere the celestial empire,\n\nbelieve that in efficiency and hoar at which a marriage has taken place in better managed out of London, if indeed The King of Korea has again asked the the metropolis is an exception. tants who might consider them worth $10\n\nEmperor to sanction is marriage with one a-month. It seems necessary to under-there aced be no fear about the sua patent for that pa pose. The Emperor Were such a plan adopted in Hongkong, of the damsels of the Court, and to grant but stand whether we are to have a police ciency of the supplies, and we should look have hitherto been carried by a body of so generally effective as to supersede the confidently to a gradually improved sys Mandarins deputed by the Emperor for has acceded to his requeat. Such documents\n\na fortnight ago, tendering the services of\n\na night constahle to any of the inhabi-\n\nsultatious with the most celebrate! philosu-\n\nThis will add\n\nit further enacted and ordained, that for the purpose valiation and provi. of levying the said rate, a per Centage at such an amount in the sic:t for periods of hundred as muy annually be determined on by the Governor with the payment, notice of advice of the Executive Council, not exceeding such a sum as sball assessment, period of be equal to the expenses of the Palice establishment, shall be as- necessity for private watchmen, or if, betem from the suggestions of a body of that purpose, but on the present occasion a sessed and paid in respect of every such valuation by the occapier sides this heavy tax, we are to be called judicious and interested commissioners, single civilian only has been despatched or owner of cach parcel of ground, house, or building, within such upon to contribute to the support of a Protection of life and property, sanatory with it to the Prince. time and times as the said Governor, with the advice of the said Council, shall direct, or as is hereinafter provided. In the absence of auch direction and in default of the same being so paid, it shall be Jawful for any person or persons oppainted to collect the suid tax to apply to the Chief Magistrate of Police of the Island, who shall, on satisfactory proof of the same having been duly demanded and being due and\n\nJunsatisfied,\n\ngrant his Warrant to levy the same by distress of any goods on or in the lands, houses, or premises so rated; and that any such\n\nrate, while unpaid, shall be a lien on the property so assessed, or charged therewith, Provided always that when and so often as any assessment shall be made on any such valuation, the particulars and nature of such assessment shall be published in one or more public newspapers of the said Colony.\n\nforee, which, from the intimation alluded regulations, and whatever tends to the another Queen to the numerous Ilarem to, it may be inferred the authorities do comfort and convenience of the public, of bis Royal Highness. not consider to be entirely efficient. are matters of imperative necessity, Tau Lord Mayor of Puking reported, that The other objection we have to the acknowledged by every friend to public beavy showers of snow had fallen in the measure is that the inhabitants are not safety and good order; and the adminis-, during the beginning of March; and allowed a voice in fixing the rate, or tration of the law for securing these ends be looked for, he suggests that a day of public as a good wheat harvest might accordingly io determining the modo in which it is to be applied no other limit being pro- those of the community who are to enjoy Emperor has received his suggestion favour\n\ncan never be placed in better hands than thanksgiving should be appointed. The posed than what may seem to the Co-the benefits, and who are caliel upon to ally. vernor, with the advice of the Executive contribute the means of securing then, Council, sufficient for upholding or main- Without forgetting or under-vaining the taining any extent of force that may he salutary efforts of our rulers to provide an appointed. We have no doubt that with organized protective force, experience\n\nSome Mandarins, of high rank, arrived\n\nfrom Kwang-tung and Yan-an, whose baggage consisted of no less than one thou- ordinary quantity, they were interrogated sand packages. This being rather an\n\nBA-\n\nas to the contents, and the reply that they contained letters and despatelies for the tribunals, no being satisfactory, they were ordered to he opened and inspected. Ten were found to contain documents, but the contents of the remaining 990 have not been made public.\n\nP\n\nOn releasing the Petit Jary from their long and fatiguing labours the fan. Recorde complimented them on the zeal and jade ment which they had displayed, and his Honour stated, that he coincided in every verdict they had given.\n\nlfonso of Lorda, February 17. THOMSON LORD ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND.\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nSITTING OF THE SCPI Colar, 2 June, 1945,\n\ndesired to name a son, he named 105 dollars,\n\n63\n\nA difter-\n\nstating the Admiral's desire to pay any c FOREIGN Goops with a Britist Chance- munendon for the services of the vossal\n\nT—During the past year numerous in- which Matheson might think G and stonees have occurred of goods buying bren (From the Hongkong Register] This was a writ of error against a judg\n\nA Special Jury was empanneled for thre meat of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland trial of an action raised as the instance of the manensient, but expressed his willingness to\n\nreason. Mr Matheann refused any ve brought to this country for home use or ex- The facts of the case are those John\n\nportation to foreign puits, with labek attach- Grant, a person born in Scotland, but who Crown against the Editor of the Friend of acccptacy couneration on the part of the ed, giving, or purporting to give thean, a had left that cuantry sad become domiciled: Ching, for the publication of the following\n\ncrew might think proper. When desired British character in a foreign market s in Demerara, died in that colony, in the\n\nto name a sum, be said, the Admiral may this, if allowed, would be highly detrimental Article in his 'isue of the 13th July last, Treasurer Tang-ting-ching, the late Gover-year 1887. He had acquired considerate, which was alleged to contain a libel against think very different from us and being to the British manufacturer, the goods have nor of Canton, and who will probably property while in Demerara, and had trans- Sir Thomas Cochrane:-\n\nin every instance been detained by the Reve- reesive the first van Governorship, osmitted saare portion of it to Scotland, at It will be in the all-rtion of many of our The letter M Me Matheson stated that the me officers, as being impuited contrary to recommended his inferiur officers, whe no- the time of his death, a banking house there Loaders, that Her Majesty's ship Wolf, got on a schooner had been detained 18 hours in conve the provisions of the act in that regard; the terially assisted bin in clearing large trace held property of his to the amount of\n\nbank somewhere below Woosneg, and has for the quence of the service rendered to the Wolf only relief given having been that the goods of land in Kan-sub, to the notite of govera- £18,000. Probate of his will was taken timely aid of the Schooner Fetes, Capt. Caer, sier Goddard in addressing the Jury for Mr have been allowed to be returned to the purt ment, as worthy of promotion.\n\nont in Scotland, by tho present appellant, as\n\nwould have been obliged to acrifice he cons and Carr, ill be felt eansiderable difficulty of shipment, the labels or other mode of in shot before she curld here'got n The Wolf took appearing before them in such circumstances.fringement having been firstromovel. These bis executor, and payment of the money due\n\nthe bank at high water, mud and not possibly have Mr Cur bad been accused of publishing a labels have usually contained the Royal arms having boea brained, in was transmitted to It is with touch regret we learn, from a\n\nbocu fiased again, without grandly reducing the dead hel, \"toulously, winkedly, and malicious of Enghel, will the name, in English, of Demerara. The law officers of the Crown weight on board. Then fast descried by the Fern, y\" Mr Carr, he believed, knew very little the importer in London, or other place in lang memorial of Lea, Governor-Genersi of\n\nclaimed from the executor the son of £1800 ahr, the Way had a sign.d of distress lying, ani Che-eang and Fo-keen, that the rise arup as legacy duty duo from him in respect of there can be no doubt that, hack it came in to be high and in these seas Sir Thomas, except on a person holding a the United Kingdom, ss the case may be, the in Pormasa hoe failed, also that the Granary the property of the testator existing in Scot- whilst she was lying in a mitical position, she\n\nname and description of the contents bring is now exhausted, and that the price of grain Lad. The case went before the Court of\n\nwand ham gore bo pres. The Pinot Pan niongailia, however, in this case did not act as a judge, also given in the English language, evidently is daily rising in Fo-keen. Leu has ardered Exchequer in Scotland, where Ford Gillies and took out all ver artament, 15 send 41,42 th. The ly Judge of Admiralty here is the intending to envey the impression in a extensive purchases to be made in Che-keang delivered a judgment declaring that the\n\nshot, and it was net wat relieved of this weight clut | Lord Chief Justice. Neither does he accuse foreign market that the goods were of British and other places, and wishes that the public legary duty as payable in the manner de ser altercaties fabu to the her guns overhard, either in his publie or his private character, time since of a parcel of esses containing se again loated; without this since she had no bin ofhay rbing eriminal, or of an offence mamifacture. An instance occurred a short granaries should be opened.\n\nmanded. The prosent writ of error was then brought. The ease bad been argued vage, and before any Adiralty socte sum\n\nor go to pisees on the ink. This is a clear case of which implied guilt. He never acted him paper for letter-writing being brought for of coruption. He only accuses him that he CANTON—Rumour states that the light two years ago, and now came on again for awarded the Foren for for aid would be siderable.\n\nexportation, etch sheet of paper having thos was not so bieral as he ought to be, A\n\nword Barle\" primed in the usual manner at ning struck the palace of Lieutenant-Gver. argument by one counsel on a side.\n\nAt the time the affair occurred, tar Admisal Sir Me Kelly, on the part of the appellant\n\ncriminal libel has been filed against Mr Carr, the left hand corner, and the packages them- nor [wang, and damaged, bis snutf-box. Themas Duebrang was at Chusni, when it arced. In consegnace of the way the accusation selves containing the paper the Brilish aras This, it is said, has made so strong an impres¦ (Mr Anderson was with him,) fosisted that between him are the Cipam of the Vares, that the has been brought, he was pot to great ex- einblazoned thereon. They were, of course, sion upon the grandee, that he has since been the legacy duty was not payable here. The question: of compensation atould be lett open ancil duty was demanded under 36 Geo. III, c. wrapt in deep thought and revery.\n\nSir 1 homas Cochrane avtored to this enlony. Altor penser, as the frown pays on costs; and if immediately detained, and application WAY he seeds, as I aux sure he will, he will made for permission to retard them to the 152, sec. 2, which enacted, that all legacies Thonan return, the cwners generaly waived\n\nabove the amount of £20, given by any will\n\nall claims fre salvage, marely requesting the Rear rill here to pay all his own expenses. Be port of shipment, but the intention in this (From the Singapore Free Press, 1st May.) or testamentary instrumcat, shoald pay le-\n\nAdmiral to remouense the Captain and eve for their sides the case has been deferred from time instance being so evident, the goods wer The Criminal Sessions were finished on gacy duty. Fe submitted that thang those elite similar te their own, Sir Thomas Cachane on long ago. Fir Thomas might have put ed, which was accordingly done,\n\ntrouble, never doubling then retunded by a spirit to time, whereas it might have been brought ordered to be seized and the parties prosecut Saturday Jast, the 28th ult. having lasted words were of the most extensive and gene rash hudumaly reward de vore of Fist himself into the witnesa box, and so might ence is made where the name and inscription four weeks, 18 persons were discharged on ral kind, the aut did not apply out of Great Majesty's slig. In doing thy they committed a Mr Waller, and thee we should have had an on the label is in the French or other foreign Saturday, no witnesses coming forward Britain. The aut could not extend even to\n\ncapital cere, to who justice and magnanimity opportunity of seeing what was right and language, although the British armus may be against them. No blame attaches to the our colonies, without some word expressly ey had entrusted the liquidatio of the cases what was wrong, or at least we should have Police in this instance, as the parties had including them, and there were no anche Captain and are of the Kareemid not fi\n\nengraved thereon, it being considered that words here. That being the case, the gene print much ganeanu facdage, and taking advantage\n\nhad an opportunity to cross-examine them, the act is not thereby infringed in const- been regularly bound over to appear nord\n\nquence. Timca. give evidence. In some cases there is leral rule of law applied that the personal pro- of the antideles is displast, he offered to award and of proving that Mr Matheson was not informed of the facts. Mr Bradshaw, the doubt that bribery has been resorted to inperty followed the fair of the domicile of its all $10, in the proportion of $4 for the quain\n\nfirst officer of the Fire, was on beard when I\n\nTHE HOPELESS SESSION. order to keep back evidenco. In van oase, a owner, and consequently as the domicile of $20 Ckiy Oficer; $16 Gunnar; $1 each for the Crew- charge of murder, the widow of the murder the testator here was Demerara, the low of take advantage of us Iter &iral's meannes, ant dewee was tatran in this court before a Com\n\nWe need actualy gette tha: Catón Carr would not the Wulf hoisted sigands of distress: his evi-\n\nWhat change has come over the public ed person, though she had appeared before that place unst govern the administration of\n\nwithin these few years Where be all the in is instance Her Majesty's ship has got off missioner. Mr Carr did not ferret out the the Grand Jury, was not to be found when his assets. Prubate but necessarily been fie fad the Fizen been the party cunt talon out in Scotland, because the Bankers\n\neager conjectures regarding the grent mea cireunastanees; \"hey were brought to him by the case came on for trial.\n\nwan in expardy unit the readers a Captain Carr, who complained of the waut Parliament aas supposed to lie pregnant? sares with which to coming session of who were the debtors had not honestly paid aquistanes, we would have had the matter certleil 1\n\nof liberality. F. M's Ships are generally People do not even take the treble to fore had been paid, but the claim here was what was due, and the probate duty there a very different mumer. Sie Thores mental op-\n\nvalued at £1000 per gan-the Wolf has 18 So which at times appear scleri -wor for legacy duty, which was clearly not pay\n\nguess what may be coming. Suficient for guns, nod may, therefore he vained at able As a very strong instance of the mis\n\nLeco fally opened to the importance of the service,\n\nThe day is the evil thereof. They will see and if such a question were left to his award, wo har 18,000, and for saving her 100 dollars are\n\nthe debates when they begin. Public emio- chief that would arise if the doctrine now\n\nIf Sir Thomas close to take ou nat the slightest doubt that the which awardedi. contended for by the Crowe could be sup\n\nsufficient for the 'em, would hure aweled bits himself the office of fixing the reward, be it is as languil is the opening of St A Chinese was executed on Monday week ported, it was only necessary to mention this\n\nchongauls for the War. We regret exeedingly to\n\nought to have exercised the strictest care to Stephen's as it has long been at the opening for murder. He taule a long speech when case, Suppose an Englishman resident They injure the dignity of the series not a litte: Carr, hearing that Sir Thomas was about to\n\nnatice such a crtions is the me now mantined. make himself acquainted with the facts. Mr of the patent theaires, No new pieces are the scaffold, protesting is innocence, abroad, or a foreigner traded with a person\n\nronounced as in preparation. Somo leading danouncing the witnesses against biu for in England, and at the death of the former a\n\nand alcough no thinking man would jrdys unferour-\n\nactors have cutired, and no onw ones ara commener an action against him, made every advertised. Nobody asks wht is to succeel perjury and threatening to beat them bill of exchange accnpted by the person io\n\nably of those whose merits Eater zee: so often tested, enquiry, in order that if he had done wrong. Lol Stanley in the Tybalt line, or Mr in conacquence of the lile minded actions of their afer his death. He acquitted the Judge this conmry was ranning, no parment of peat Chief, we are bound to acolodge, that to\n\nbe might rearess it by making an ample adstone in the heasy tragedy. There are and fury of all blame, as they had only acted that bill of exclange could be made without\n\napology but the more he did enqore, the to be rehearsals on Monday at Sir Robert the thoughtless and ipsmant, such tr.les uvey an according to the evidence, and be declared a deduction from the legacy duty. No one unfavourable, though file impression of the nasal stronger be found the facts. To costine Peri's (in full dress) and the Dake of Well- that in order to remove all cars from the cook pretend that a rale so mischievous to chare. Si Theme Cochrane, if we recoller Jibel it most the show that the party is Judge's mind, he, the prisoner, would bang commerce could exist, and the Hanse must, right, has been a candidate for parliamentary hưn charged with something that is criminal.ington's but the maies of the pinses in himself and he accordingly placed his head in therefore, act on the Authorities already des\n\npar: once, at least, he stood for a seaport, Mr Bradshaw's evidence is to this effect has invited his friends to be early in their\n\npreparation are not asked. the balter. He was very collected, and took cided, which had settled that the law of the\n\nthe pret buffetini inhalants of which are slip The Wolf was in great distress, firing gutus, attendances but the Opposition Fader a polite leave of those near him by bowing place where the testator died nust goverato distinguish himself in the nature of his country dwares; should the gallant Adunai ever again sek\n\nand baving her ensign with the Uniou down, ems to dust whether it is worth the to them, and at last, shaking hands with the the adutinistration of his personal property.\n\nThe Fire stood in and sent her boat to the while of his friends to we trust the affair we matrate will be prestained off to offer assistance. The Fixes had a 'Comeli whether it is worth tas while ot come, and Mr exceptioner, was launched off.\n\nThe Solicitor-General (with whom was bit the hastings, as we ate afrail would shin large pantity of specie on board. She re- bis to stay away. The Three Mays convinted of the rauder Me Crompton) did not deny the existence of in the eyes of any consergy intarestol in the\n\nThe tradesmen evince ceived 16 guns and 500 shut, and he consime animation in farbisting up the Houses, of Captain RBIsos of the Bluck twt, were some general rule as to the law of domicile, mesutile -hipping of Geet Britain.\" executed on Saturday last, and acknowledged but cuntended that it had nothing to do with\n\ndered the Voit would have been in extreme The following were the Jurymen on the\n\nand the grooms in exercising the cream- their guilt.\n\na case like the present. The principle of case,Thos. Jones, Esq., Duacan Flether, danger bl a gale come out. law that raust govern this case was, that Es, Angus Fletcher, Bay. F. T. Bush, Esq. aliona tendency to prevent others from giving pervade th actors and spectatus. Never coloured horses of the state-carriage; int TheJulge here asked, \"had not this public with these exceptions, apathy and langu where the property was balaistered the J. Leffler, Esq. and George Findlay, Esq. TRULY SEAMAN-LIKE CONDUCT. Captain legacy duty must be paid. If there had beeu The attorney-fineral in opening the case chassistance?—Mr Goddard said he thought before it the public appear to expect so Captain Caldwell, fate of the ship Durchester, of a specifs appropriation of the property in stated that this was an information on the ! \"xpressly the reverse, as it showedsuch per- little from a session will it be possible to Boston, tas pebliched the following amount: Sotland, this rule would not have applied, part of the Queen, to defend the character\n\nsous their age would be taken up by the press disappoint that little? Our faith in the Mr Bradshaw's videuce was then read. disappointing powers of Parliament is great. Captain Brition, of the Rochester, fell ja | but there was no appropriation The money of Sir Thomas Cochrane, who had awarded with the Dorchester at sea, a pertent Greek, recoveral there formed part of the general a sum of 100 dollars for services rendered and at great hazard rescued her officers, crew, assets, and was therefore liable to the lagney by the Fire to the off, as the fall salvage\n\nto an anchor near her. She had 144,000 severely trial-Sperlotur. and passengers from an untimely fate. duty. He contended that all the cases which claimed that Mr Car, well knowing the Caphan Caldwell says, \"The Rochester was bad been dated on this subject did not premises, took the occasion to vilify the stroring a course which would bare carried touch the subject of duncile, but related Commander-in-Chief as having acted aritra her about three miles north of us. The mo❘ wholly to that of the appropriation artit that when services were rendered to H. M. Barisfied with the award—He thinks the ons example of official economy. A crea-\n\nor non- rily, haughtily, and unjustly, and to state\n\nLouis Philippe's Ministers have get a tort- ment the wreck was seen, the course of the appropriation of the property, The Rochestor was altered for one directly for us. gentleman farther contended, that where a Ships, no adequate reward would be paid, remuneration illiberal, and injurious to other tion of Peers was intended, and the names of At that time,\" said Captain Britton to one party acted in the discharge of dutios of To this charge Mr Care at Girst pleaded vessels requiring assistance—Thorew help the Pencs were almost authoratively an afterwards, I had no idea that there could administration to a deceased person, the Not Guilty, but to-day he has added as a to take the guns, &c., on board—Witness nounced. Thone persons, of course, would be a living being on board of her; but I legacy daty is payable in respect of the money farther plea, that all he had stated was true, did so, and was powell in consequence—The be bound to Ministers for the coming session; have made it au invariable rate through life, he received and dealt with in that charseter, and published for the benefit of the pallie acevant in the Friend of China was not enig but what a waste of the coin of Court fa whenever I see a wreck, to get as near her The Lord Chancellor put the following Hy was aware that whenever there was angered The Fizen was detained 24 hours- vour! Ministers take second thought, and A. Matheson, Esq., being called as a vit postpone their creation until after the dis- as possible, and ascertain all I can about her, questions to the Judges:A B., a British Fattempt to check such objectionable publica- and make sure that there is nobody aliva on subject, born in England, resided in a Bri- tions, there was raised an outery that it was\n\nnews and sworn, deposed, that the Fizm be-\n\ncussion on their whole policy in the Cham- board before I leave her. We supposed, hetish colony, made his will, and died domiciled for the purpose of curbing the fibres and the chip of Jardine, Matheson, & .. hers. This is the true economy: every sup\n\nawarded nothing to the Crew continued, it was some timbership which there. At the time of his death debts were Press. The Government bero had no wish\n\nporner will wat himself down for a peerage, Secretary of Sir Thomas Cochrane called and each one prize will attract many gamblers had been drifting about here for months;awing to him in England; his executor in to do so.--an ollicer discharging the high and wished him to do so—the Viren bad for it. As if to show practically that the but resolving that I would adhere to my rule, England collected these debts, and out of duty of Admiral, and in this case acting as a I altered my course, although we all thought the money he collected paid legacies to cars\n\nJudge of the Admiralty, is complained of it useless at the time. Thus, by following tain legatees in England are such legacies a partial statement of the frots is brought the service rendered by hue was very made one sample Peer—M. Jaubert, an Op. this noble rule, Captain Britton was the able to the payment of the legacy daty? forward; for if the whole facts had been slight, and the crew were not employed at positionist. Spectator.\n\nAll—Captati Care was not satisfied with the mexas, in the hauds of God, of saving the He had fransed the question in this general stated. Sir Thomans Cochrane would have\n\nAdmiral's award, but did not ask witness's lives of 45 human beings, and in the circle of form, beranse the statute equally affected suffered no damage. A persoa in such vir-\n\nadvice as the course he ought to punue their friends and acquaintance, of making the England and Scotland,\n\ncumstances ought not to be so negligent as hearts of hundreds sing for joy. Captain The Judges requested short time to to pablish partial statements. The Admiral he is the assistance he gave was very im- portaut—Mr Waller did not make his state- Britton received me on board \"his ship with consider their answer. They retired for is charged with gross partiality and verup-\n\nment a upoo bis own knowledge, but na a welcome and a shake of the hand which this purpose, and at the end of about half an tion as a judge. You\" (the Jury) will not\n\nwhat he noderstood--Witness thinks that ac went to the heart, and spoke at once the sea- hour returned, when\n\nfail to perceive the motive on the face of the man and the gentleman. So long as memory Lord Chief Justice Tindal read their article.\n\ncording to Captain Carr's statement of the ser Will you ever believe chat Sir\n\nvices reutered, 100 Dollars was ootanfficient, retains her seat, I shall not forget his kind- answer, to the effect that, though the words Thomas was influenced by such motives, and ness. Taking me into his cabin, Consider,' of the statute could not apply everywhere, that this was published for the beaclit of the\n\nCross-examined by the Attorney-General said he, everything here at your service, the principle which ran through all the le public, and not to gratify some private feeling saw nothing on the part of Sir Thomas or Here are my clothes, use as many of them asided case was, that the domicile of the de- against him? It may produce the most\n\nMr Waller to lead him to believe they wished you need. And such was his treatment of ceased party gave the law which regulated prejudicial effoot for if this article is ciroz\n\nto retreat from their offer to give a proper us votil we arrived at New York, and then, the distribution of the personal property; lated among the mercantile wavy here, should remuneration. When asked to manie a sunt, witness said high Government officers were said he, Here is my purse at your service this ride was not affected by the situs of the another of Her Majesty's Ships got inte\n\nften stingy, and he believed Sir Thomas was for what moung you need? flow different personal property itself, or by the place tu similar circumstances, it would deter them the result, and how diferent must be the fee which the administrator received that pras from residering their services. I have au particular trouble. ings of Captain Britton from what they porty, and that, consequently, the law appli- thing to say against the serving rendered by\n\nThe Attorney-General said that Sie Thomas was of necessity discharging an office of high wonid have been, if he bad passed by and re-cable to this case was the law of the colony the Vire taking out guts, shat, &n. ported, Lat. 50 N., long. 20 W, saw a ship, where the deceased was domiciled at the This, I admit, it was a clear caso of salvage, Ministerial duty, se at that time there was no Totally dismasted, sea, making a complete time of his death, and was not the law of Sir Thomas bad to wish to deny this. Te Court of Admiralty here, breach over her: weather equally, and im England, consequently that the legacy daty said to his Secretary, Mr Waller, I know The Judge, in susuming up the case, said ing on night; could ascertain nothing further was not payable here.\n\nnothing of this case you will call on Methe bel was divided into two parts first a that the Lord had sent at thers to marry her, abour ber. Such are too often the reports, The Lord Chancellor expressed his fall Matheson and learn what be claims.\" Mrtement of facts, and secondly a commen! Betty, without much hesitation, replied,The but I hope we shall see no more of them. coneurrence with this opinion, and went Waller did call, and Mr Mathieson very tary on these facts. The first was passed Lord's will be done.\" Edinburgh Evening Courant.\n\ninto a very exact examination of the cases liberally refused to receive anything. Mr over. It was for the Jury to judge if there\n\nThe Premier\n\nThe Fixes was ordered by the Wolf to conte but on the present vesion they will be Tarls of silver on hoard. Thinks it was in\n\nsequence of the relief afforded by her that\n\nthe Wolf got off. Two vessels bave sincr bero wrecked there. The crew were all dis-\n\nHOW TO MAKE A PEERAGE GO VURTHEST,\n\nnot then returned to Hongkong Me Waller competition is open to all, Ministers have\n\nAN AMRICAN CONE AND 19 Swann, A Colonel of the Chised Sanes Army having rofused to obey the esmuunds of his superior cfficer, with sentenced by the courbeartial in↔ be deprised ní his sword for one month.\" On his weapon being demanded of her, he aroes, and in the mud gale and solema amer declared, that he didn't own one: that the sword be had been accustomed to wear Giln't being to him; but he had no dobi Mr Baker, the jeweller, f whow be hired it B waining days, would int it to the Court for the re quired mouth on the most reasonable terras 1\n\n'rovidence Guzeite\n\nFace ResigNA CON,-Deacon Mavis of Lyne Crevicu, Farge alludder and exemplary man, was exceedingly cocentre in some of his noticus. His courtship is in sus, was as follows:-aving The any pointed his horse, with only a nap-ssin fer a sad, be rede in front of the hause wherea Betty Lec lived, and, without dismounting, reguesial\n\nJetty to come to linn; on her eing, he told her\n\nyu this subject, which, he said, completely. Waller natted what compensation would be was a necessity first to publish these facts; AN EYE TO THE FUTURE—At a meeting, von justified the opinions of the learned Judges enough for the crew of the Vixen. Mr secondly was it necessary to publish this red by the friends of Clay, held in Woodstock, All sorts of people are plunging into the He begged to add, that the reasons why the Matheson said about 105 dollars, to which cotourstory. Had Mr Carr rested with a Vend, e ele oratore grew arazingly exontent, frightful whirlpool of railway speculation.Judges had been summoned to give the Mr Waller answered, say in round numbers statement of facts, it is probable you exchiring, ever heard of a woulan's warning Bankers and merchants, barristers and baber-House their resistance in this case was, tint 100 dollars. Mr Care puts an imaginary would not have been troubled with this paper sun after Jana K. Polk P\" and den pude a dashers, bankers' clerks and doctors of divi- as the law was to be stated definitively for case to injure Sir Thomas. Ho says, bail secution. Sir Thomas was not likely to have sig diffene pause, if inviting an awwer. nity, Members of Parliament and keepers of the British islands and for all our colonies, the Vixeu been the party that was in jeopac brought an autiou, and he was sure his friend did exclaims a fair decorat in the cred, win gambling-houses, old oren and young lads, the Lords had deemed it proper that the de dy,\" &. The last paragraph could only be the Attorney-General would not have taken hd boy married about six months proves, Bat married women who desire to have a good cision abould have all the weight which the pennet by some person who had a personal up such a case. But this was not the sting have en tha! intends to.\" speculation on their own account, and spin-concurrent opinions of the Judges and of spleen against the admiral. If any of you of the libel. It is for you to say whether Sir sters who think that an addition to their their Lordships could give it. He moved had been called on to act as arbiter, and ia: Thomas is charged with corruption, and if soị\n\nMas Lova, Harmony House, Concord, near fortune might give them an opportunity of that the judgment should be given for the consequence of your award had been accused it is a huel. To order that words may con- Kusing Pains,” is the adureas of a school stress in sharing it with another-all, all are rushing plaintiff in error.\n\nNew South Wales. of corruption, you would feel what damages stitute a libel, they must charge a man with on in the same course-dying after the wheel\n\nLord Brougham and Lord Campbell save ought to be given in the present case. The something criminal: but in writing whatever of fortune, which for the present is laden at rally expressed their concurrence with the affidavit of Me Walle, which will be read to, tends to bring a man into contempt is a libel. every spoke with the shares of some railway motion of the noble and leverned. Lord. you, states, that he wrote to Mr Malevon The Jury, after a short consultation, res company—Morning Post.\n\nby the direction of Sir Thomas, a letter torneil à verdict of not guilty.\"\n\nJudgment for the plaintiff is error.\n\nFon—Never tell a mun he's a frol. In the Grat place he won't believe you; in the next beŋl be sure i think you one jou buying 10,",
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        "content_text": "1: May\n\nLt. La Goo\" Caine.\n\nSchedule of Despatches from Marseilles\n\n15 69 Prostitution\n\nProstitution in the Colony.\n\n19 7. and its attendant evils.\n\nNo 86.\n\nVide Mr Franz Knook Appointment as Netherlands Consul-. Reports Gazetting thereof in Gazette of 28 April 1855. — Sir John Bowring's Return Announced.\n\n20 72 Lieut Cope Graham's Appointment to Executive Council announced in place of Colonel Griffin, who has left the Colony.\n\n20 73 Liberation of 16 Prisoners on the Queen's Birthday Announced and encloses description List of them.\n\n74 Acknowledges Despatches to 2° of April.\n\n31 75 Office of Registrar of Supreme Court. – Encloses application from M.W. H. Alexander for the Appointment",
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        "content_text": "353 2\n\n1855\n\ncont & 122ep 13.5\n\n11/33\n\n130\n\n137\n\nGoo\" Bearing\n\nMates the cause of the difference between the proposed Estimates sent on 8 August and the approved Estimates by this mail.\n\nEmigration Proclamation of 28 February 1855. Reports recall of a fresh one on 20 August.\n\nApplications for Leaves of Absence from Colonial Secretary and Surveyor General, on account of Health encloses.\n\nMr Hilliers' transfer from the Colonial to the Consular Service.\n\n13 Approved. Estimates to 1856 Encloses & Copies, with explanatory statement of the Colonial Treasurer.\n\n139 Leave of Absence to Colonel Caine. Reports grant of for 2 1/2 Months to visit India.\n\nEmigration",
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        "content_text": "Provisions sent to us. Climate. R. \"Poo-ho.\" Troops. Coast and interior country. CL Yun-ping-foo.\" Mirage great. Country to the southward flat and wet.\n\n12 The men were all cavalry, and armed with spears or matchlocks. Understanding that we had asked for some provisions, they sent us a few fowls and melons, for which they refused money, but eventually someone took it.\n\nThere is a small fort about a mile W. of the river's mouth, but, as it evidently does not command the entrance, it is probable that a road passes near it. It is an insignificant little thing.\n\nThe description they gave of the climate is as follows:-There is cold weather with ice in the 10, 12, 1, 2 and 3 months, during which time the rivers are frozen, and occasionally the Bay also for two miles out. Snow falls to a depth varying from 2 inches to 2 feet. The ice breaks up in the third month.\n\nThey notice no difference in the level of the sea in the summer and winter months. Some say the water falls very slightly after a continuance of north wind.\n\nThey said that in 21 days they should commence wearing warm clothes. The soldiers were said to have come from “Yim-ping-foo.\"\n\nAugust 4th.--Moved down to the mouths of the Poo-ho,\" which is a short shallow river, which winds from the S.W. It is not navigable. Junks unload about 3-mile from the bar, and this spot is protected by an earthen fort of no great size.\n\nOn our arrival, we saw that the guns were manned. There might have been 6 or 7, from the number of sponge-heads I saw over the parapet. Troops also turned out and formed, just behind some hills. Some cavalry came down when we landed; amongst them a colonel, who, they said, came from a camp 50 le off.\n\nLanding at another spot, we saw a camp, distant about 2 miles from the landing place. There is evidently a road from this place; and as this river and the Yang-ho\" are both so small as to admit of only a few junks unloading at the same time, they are possibly both used to supply the same district; and it is, therefore, likely that a road leads from the \"Poo-ho\" to the road by which the corn from the \"Yang-ho\" is carried to the great road, and that this road passes by the forts mentioned as being near the latter river.\n\nBetween these rivers sandhills exist along the shore, about 30 feet high, and running back into the country for about a mile, Within them the country is flat.\n\nA range of hills, which run N.E. and S.W., terminates S. of the river's mouth, at a distance of about 7 miles. The country up to them being flat, cultivated, and with rows of trees, and some villages.\n\nThere is said to be a town called \"Yun-ping-foo,\" about 150 le N. of this and the other side of the mountains,\n\nAugust 7th. The horizon being always so distorted here, we landed to take the altitude with artificial horizon.\n\nSketched the country S. of the mouth of the \"Poo-ho.\" The same sand-hills run parallel to the coast, also the \"Poo-ho,\" which receives its water apparently from a vast extent of flat and swampy ground. The country here is so flat that it is possible it may to a considerable extent be affected by the tide, either by being actually flooded or by the river which drains it having its course dammed up by the tide.\n\n9th.-Landed some miles farther to the south. There is here a large flat, which is covered, at very high tide, to an extent of 4 miles inland. It is composed of sand and mud. At one spot, near where the tide enters, to get over the flat, boats unload. Horses are sent down here to graze.\n\nWe were accosted by a Mandarin. We got the following information from a soldier:-\n\nNot many miles to the S. of this spot, a considerable river runs into the sea, which, a short distance above its mouth, receives the waters of the \"Chin-lung-ho,\" and \"Lan-ho\" and is then called the \"Laon-moo-kaon.\" The town of \"Yun-ping-foo\" is on the \"Chin-lung-ho,\" distant from the mouth 150 le.\n\nThe city is described as having 4 gates. It is of considerable size, but not very large. The great road runs within 1 le of the south gate, and the \"Chin-lung-ho\" outside the west gate, and close to the walls. The river here is said to have an embankment.\n\n\"Yun-ping-foo\" is distant from Pekin 490 le, and from the Great Wall 190 le.\n\nGoing along the road from \"Yun-ping-foo\" to Pekin, you pass the following places:-\n\nTung-jen-lisien\n\nChechou\n\nSan-ho\n\nTung-chaon\n\nLe.\n\n160\n\n80\n\nThe great road is partly sandy and partly stony. It passes near woods or groves of trees, but does not go through any. There is a great deal of traffic on the road (so much so as to prevent there being any game near it). There are no large cities or important places on the road.\n\nGoing from \"Yun-ping-foo\" to \"Tien-tsin” you pass-\n\nYun-ping-foo\"\n\nTung-tai (apparently a fair)\n\nPang-uhr-chwang (a halting place for travellers)\n\nTec-tao\n\nTien-tsin\n\nLe.\n\n220\n\n70\n\n50\n\n23\n\n20\n\n360\n\nWith regard to the climate, they say the autumn commences on the 9th day of 7th Moon (8th August). The wet months are from the 4th to 8th, but the rains are not continuous. The snow and ice months are 11, 12, 1, and 2, The coast is frozen in these months more or less.\n\nPage 358\n\nPage 359\n\nPage 360\n\nPage 361",
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        "content_text": "# NOMINAL RETURN of Casualties in the Force under His Excellency Sir J. Hope Grant, G.C.B., Commanding the Forces in China, at the Action on the Chow-Ho, September 18, 1860.\n\nProbyn's Horse -\n\n  \n    Corps\n    Killed\n    Dangerously\n    Severely\n    Slightly\n    Missing\n  \n  \n    1st King's Dragoon Guards\n    1\n    \n    1\n    5\n    \n  \n  \n    Fane's Horse\n    \n    1\n    \n    4\n    \n  \n  \n    1st Battalion Military Train\n    \n    \n    \n    1\n    \n  \n  \n    15th Punjaub Infantry\n    1\n    \n    1\n    2\n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    2\n    1\n    2\n    12\n    \n  \n\nForty-three guns were taken during the action, and the loss of the Chinese was very severe. On the right and left were their heaviest losses, but all along the centre, small groups of dead showed the effect of the artillery fire, which had followed their movements till they finally retreated. Our loss is two killed and 29 wounded-chiefly slightly.\n\nI should wish most particularly to bring to notice the very excellent service of the King's Dragoon Guards. The country is extremely unfavourable for cavalry at present, partly from the number of ditches, and partly on account of the crops of maize and millet having been recently cut, leaving sharp-pointed stubble, most injurious to horses, and rendering their rapid movement very difficult; their charge was, however, most effective, and they surmounted these obstacles in a most creditable manner.\n\nI have, &c., (Signed) J. HOPE GRANT,\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nCommander of the Forces.\n\nThe Secretary of State for War, &c.\n\nPage 7\n\nNOMINAL RETURN of the Casualties in the Force under His Excellency Sir J. Hope Grant, G.C.B., Commanding the Force in China, at the Action on September 21, 1860.\n\nSIR,\n\nDESPATCH from Sir J. HOPE GRANT to Mr. Secretary HERBERT.\n\n(No. 47.)\n\nHead Quarters, Camp near Tangchow, September 22, 1860.\n\nI HAVE the honour to report, that after the action of the 18th inst. I remained in Chang-tsia-wan for two days, during which time the 1,500 French troops left at Hoo-seiwoo joined us, and some convoys arrived in camp, together with intelligence of a flotilla of junks coming up the Peiho with further supplies. From reconnaissances on the 19th and 20th, we had ascertained that the Chinese army was encamped in very large numbers about four miles off, on the road between Tangchow and Pekin, and on both sides of the canal which runs from the Peiho to the latter city.\n\nAt daybreak on the 21st I marched from Chang-tsia-wan, and parking the baggage in a village two miles in front, I was there joined by the French who advanced on the right. Soon after passing Tangchow the French troops got under fire of the Chinese works thrown up to protect a fine bridge crossing the canal, and on the Imperial high-road to Pekin. At this point the enemy's infantry appeared in considerable force. On the left, the Tartar cavalry showed in large masses, and advanced rapidly until within 200 yards of our guns, which, hastily unlimbering, drove them off with a fire of canister, assisted by skirmishers thrown forward from the 2nd (Queen's). The Cavalry Brigade, which I had kept échelonned away on the left to guard that flank, was now moving up, and the enemy's cavalry driven away from the right by our fire, hung in large masses on our left front, affording an excellent opportunity for our cavalry to charge, which they promptly seized, the King's Dragoon Guards, under Lieutenant-Colonel Sayers, in particular inflicting a very heavy loss on the enemy. On the left Fane's Horse charged a similar body with great gallantry, whilst the 1st Sikh Cavalry, under Major Probyn, supporting Fane's Horse, effectually turned the right of the Chinese army.\n\nThe enemy, though defeated on the spot, yet still remained in front, in clouds of horsemen, who, though constantly retiring from the advance of any party of our cavalry, however small, never allowed more than 1,000 yards to intervene between us, and showed a steady and threatening front. At this time I had with me the cavalry, the 4th infantry brigade, and three Armstrong guns; the rest of the artillery, with the 2nd brigade, having been left in the centre, with directions to feel the French left. With the three Armstrong guns, under Capt. Rowley, we fired occasional single shots on their thickest masses. These shots, fired singly, at slow intervals, served admirably to illustrate the good qualities of the Armstrong gun; not one failed to strike the thick masses of the enemy, at once dispersing them from the spot.\n\nThus advancing, the cavalry was brought to a check by the fire of a camp, which was taken by the 99th regiment, under Major Dowbiggin, and which proved to be the head quarters of some of the Imperial princes. This, with several others in the neighbourhood, was burnt by our troops, and the Chinese army retired upon Pekin.\n\nWe then rejoined our right, which had kept in line with the French, who had carried the bridge, inflicting much loss on the enemy.\n\n  \n    Corps\n    Killed\n    Dangerously\n    Severely\n    Slightly\n  \n  \n    1st King's Dragoon Guards\n    1\n    \n    1\n    3\n  \n  \n    1st Sikh Cavalry\n    \n    \n    \n    5\n  \n  \n    Fane's Horse\n    \n    1\n    \n    1\n  \n  \n    2nd Queen's\n    \n    \n    \n    4\n  \n  \n    15th Punjab Infantry\n    2\n    \n    1\n    2\n  \n  \n    Total\n    3\n    1\n    2\n    15\n  \n\nSIR,\n\nAdvance on Pekin.\n\nDESPATCH from Sir J. HOPE GRANT to Mr. Secretary Herbert.\n\n(No. 51.)\n\nHead-Quarters, Bivouac, outside Pekin, Oct. 9. 1860.\n\nIn continuation of my letter* of the 4th instant, I have the honour to report that, on the 5th of October the Allied Forces advanced from Tungchow, leaving the heavy guns, tents, and baggage stored about three miles from that place. We halted for the night about three miles east of the north-east angle of Pekin, and the following morning resumed our march in a north-westerly direction, so as to pass along the northern face of the city, but out of gun-shot of the walls, and attack Sang-ko-lin-sin's army, which was supposed to be encamped directly in our front.\n\nThe country about here is not good for cavalry, from the great number of trees, villages, and hollow roads. I accordingly despatched the Cavalry Brigade with two 6-pounders with mounted detachments, with orders to advance on the road leading to the Emperor's Palace at Yuen-min-Yuen, with a view of cutting off the retreat of the enemy in that direction. The French were on our left, while the English force moved along the outside of an old rampart which runs parallel to the north face of the city. At this time we received information that the Chinese army were in full retreat, having commenced moving the night before. I therefore sent a message to General de Montauban, that I should advance at once to the Emperor's Palace. On the road, however, we came across the rear-guard apparently of the enemy, with whom a few shots were exchanged before they fled towards the city. As they appeared to be in considerable force in the suburb, I determined on halting on the northern road to prevent their moving out in that direction.\n\n*Not received.\n\nPage 406",
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        "content_text": "Kow Loo!!\n\nHONG-KONG\n\nWater\n\nReport dated March* 1861.\n\nThe blue letters mark points referred to in the Report.\n\nThe blue figures mark heights in feet above High Water.\n\nKow-loon\n\nKOWLOON PENINSULA\n\nScale 1 Mile = 1700 11/4 yards.\n\nSurveyed and partly sigut by John Borlar, Captain, H.M.S. Starling.\n\nSurveyed by G. F. Maughan, Lt. Colonel, R.E.\n\nPhoto litho\n\nS.G.",
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        "content_text": "324\n\nto consider thi\n\nArmy\n\n(China) for 1882.\n\ncase\n\nSelematis\n\nhowever, that\n\nA new and permanent Board\n\nshould be determined ou\n\nExconsider the subject. I\n\nwould\n\nthe War Department in\n\nthe\n\nof\n\nFoo\n\nways-\n\nEither\n\nthe\n\n(s) by a portion of Crown Lands being appropriatit\n\nt\n\nby the Governor\n\nAs\n\nwish to point out\n\nthat the sale of Military\n\nReserves by the Har\n\nDepartment\n\nas\n\nby Colonel Moo\n\nconteurplated\n\nbe inadmisible. Lund\n\nEnquired in\n\nCar\n\nwould\n\nbe\n\nonly Hongkong by\n\nthe\n\na\n\nMilitary\n\nReserve and handed over.\n\nto the charge of\n\nthe department,\n\no\n\nthe\n\n(2)\n\nby the purchase from some\n\nprivate individual of the Unexpired terms of a\n\nLease.\n\nCoun\n\nRights acquired\n\nby the War Department by\n\npurchase can\n\nof\n\ncourse\n\nbe\n\nPage 330\n\nPage 331\n\n1\n\nbe resold at\n\nJohen no\n\narry\n\nteine\n\nlonger required, but\n\nwhen Crown Land which",
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        "content_text": "14\n\n75\n\n323\n\n[(Boppy)\n\nA. M. G. B. Bustard.\"\n\nFoochow November 11th. 1853.\n\nSir,\n\nIn answer to your letter (M.176) of the 10th instant I have the honor to inform you that in consequence of some slight defects, now being made good, the \"Bustard\" will not be ready for service until about the 18th instant when I propose to communicate with Colonel Lew, the mandarin in command of the Min-gan.\n\nChas: A Sinclair, Regre\n\nA. B. Mis Consul,\n\nFoochow foo Station",
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        "content_text": "part of the Acting Viceroy for cooperation \nin this respect. \n\nI learn that troops to the number of 1200 have been detailed for this undertaking, \nwhom the principal division will, I believe, proceed down by the river waters towards \nthe mouth of the River behind the piratical haunts at Past ohuei and Sam Isc. A \ndetachment of two or three hundred men, under the command \nof a Lieutenant Colonel, \nwill be in readiness to proceed by Junks \nfollowed by the P&O's steamer; the \nrendezvous being \ndetermined upon. \n\n450 \nwill be associated as Civil Commissioner with the Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, and, at the request of the Acting Viceroy, I have instructed Mr. W. J. Mayer, Acting Vice Consul and Interpreter at this Port, to accompany that functionary for the purpose of lending his official \nservices in case of need. I have to request that His \nExcellency the Governor will be \ngood enough to \ncause instructions to be \nissued \nto the Officer commanding H. M's. Naval forces on this \nstation to receive and \naccommodate Mr. Mayers on board his \nsuitable \nVessel \non \nthis occasion.\n\nI have, too, \nintelligence is received of readiness on part of H. M's. Vessels to meet them at the appointed spot. \n\nThe Prefect of Kuang-chow-foo \n(signed) D.B. Robertson",
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        "content_text": "## THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH. [AUG. 13, 1867.\n\nA certain individual went out of his course into eternity. Such is the fact as narrated to us, and we are further informed that the body of the deceased has not yet been found. The incident occurred near an island, and the effects were also felt here, but caused no important damage.\n\nIt is learned that certain benevolent and liberal Chinese are contemplating the erection of a hospital for the benefit of the poorer class of their own nationality in Hong Kong. They have already purchased a large piece of ground upon which to build and have asked the permission of the Surveyor-General to commence work at once. The petitioners are prepared to defray the entire expense at their own cost, and their intention, so far as we presently understand, is to place the establishment under purely native conduct.\n\nThe report of the case of Olyphant and others v. Loo A-hung, for breach of warranty on a sale of sugar, contains the following extraordinary proceedings:\n\nShortly after this case commenced, and while Mr. Whyte was cross-examining the plaintiff's compradore, some reference was made to another Chinaman, also in the plaintiff's employ, and the Chief Justice said, \"Put him in the box.\" The following conversation ensued:\n\n**The Chief Justice**: As the man is a servant of the plaintiff, they should produce him.\n\n**Mr. Pollard**: You cannot produce him like a piece of paper. Let him be subpoenaed in the usual way.\n\n**Chief Justice**: Do you mean, Mr. Pollard, to put them to the trouble and expense of subpoenaing him? Well, if you don't produce him, I will take that into account in my direction to the jury.\n\n**Mr. Pollard**: I will put only those witnesses in the box which I, as counsel for the plaintiff, may see fit. I may make a mistake, but I will not be dictated to or talked down by anyone as to what I am to do.\n\n**Chief Justice**: I am not talking you down, Mr. Pollard. You will do your duty, and I will do mine.\n\n**Mr. Pollard**: That's all right, if we would only stick to it.\n\n**Chief Justice**: Now, Mr. Pollard, you will always have the last word; and I think it is most disrespectful to the Court to use language you are in the habit of using.\n\nThe Chief Justice then left the Bench but returned after an interval of a minute or two.\n\n**Chief Justice**: Do you apologise, Mr. Pollard?\n\n**Mr. Pollard**: For what, my lord?\n\n**Chief Justice**: You know what has passed; you know what...\n\n**Mr. Pollard**: If I have offended in any way, there is no man more willing to admit it and to apologise. Will you hear me?\n\n**Chief Justice**: For an hour, if you like.\n\nMost of the damage caused by a recent earthquake in Java was not in Hong Kong but in other districts, especially Djocjacarta, where several indigo and sugar manufactories sustained injury. The sugar mills are again in operation, while others will be able to commence grinding within a month at the farthest.\n\n### STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.\n\n#### SINGAPORE.\n\nThe London mail of the 27th May arrived out on the 27th June, and London telegrams had been received to the 14th June. During several sittings of the Legislative Council, the chief subject for discussion had been the purchase of a steamer or steamers for the service of a local marine. It was decided that a paddle steamer of about 300 tons, with special adaptations to the service, should be procured from England, together with a Tender and a steam launch for shallow river operations.\n\nIt was decided by the Government to give a subsidy of £100 per month to the British India Steam Navigation Company for the maintenance of the present mail line between Calcutta, British Burmah, and the Straits Ports.\n\nColonel Anson, the Lieutenant-Governor of Penang, had arrived there and relieved Colonel Man of charge. Mr. W. W. Cairns, the Lieutenant-Governor of Malacca, had been sworn in and proceeded to Malacca to relieve Major Barn.\n\nSir William Hackett, Acting Chief Justice, had arrived from Penang and would open the third criminal session of the year on the 9th July. The calendar was not large.\n\n#### PENANG.\n\nDates are to July 1. The Penang Gazette gives the following account of an expedition by H.M.S. Wasp to the Nicobar Islands:\n\nH.M. steamer Wasp left on the 12th June for the Nicobar Islands to investigate the murder of the crew of the brig Futtek Islam of Penang. The return of the Wasp gives a miserable story connected with the Nicobar Islands. To say that a nest of pirates has been discovered is almost too mild a term.\n\nAt Trinkut, the Wasp met two vessels, the Rattlesnake and the Harriet, of Penang, both at anchor and trading with the natives. It is reported that the natives threatened to attack the Rattlesnake on the departure of the man-of-war. The captain of the Rattlesnake stated that he had seen a white (European) woman on the island about eight months ago. It appears that about six years ago, a ship was wrecked on these islands, the captain and crew were murdered, and the wife of the captain and two children were taken on shore. The fate of the poor woman was sad; she was passed about from one to another through the whole tribe. When the poor lady was seen and spoken to by the captain of the Rattlesnake, the natives probably got alarmed, and it is said that they gave her poison, which was not sufficient to kill her outright. The Wasp has brought over three men and one woman as prisoners.\n\nAbout two and a-half years ago, another brig was seized at the Great Nicobars, the captain and crew murdered, and a lady with two children taken on shore, probably treated in the same way as the former one.\n\n### EXPORT OF TEA AND SILK TO GREAT BRITAIN. 1866-67 AND SEASON 1867-68.\n\n| From | Tea-lbs. | Silk Bales |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Shanghai, &c. | 1,138,727 | ... |\n| Foochow | 1,015,000 | ... |\n| Canton | 969,110 | ... |\n| Hankow | 1,255,041 | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... |\n\n### EXCHANGES ON LONDON.\n\n| At | 4 months' sight | Bank |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Yokohama | 4s. 8d. to 4s. 9d. | ... |\n| Shanghai | 4s. 8d. to 4s. 9d. | ... |\n| Canton | 4s. 8d. | ... |\n| Hong Kong | 4s. 6d. to 4s. 7d. | ... |\n\n### COMMERCIAL REPORT.\n\nA considerable improvement has taken place in the market for Grey Cotton Goods, and the Chinese have been buyers to a large extent. Sales of Yarn have been on a large scale, particularly in the first part of the fortnight. Grey Shirtings have been in great demand and have been sold to the extent of about 82,000 pieces.\n\n### BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.\n\n#### BIRTHS.\n\n- On the 9th August, at Larkbeare, Exeter, the wife of John C. Bawring, Esq., of a son.\n- On the 28th June, at Hong Kong, the wife of Mr. Charles Collins, of a son.\n- On the 20th June, at Hong Kong, Mrs. D. R. Crawford, of a daughter.\n\n#### MARRIAGE.\n\n- On the 7th August, at the parish church of Wakefield, Yorkshire, Mr. Joseph Leach Wood, of Barnsbury, London, and late of Foochow, China, to Eleanor, youngest daughter of the late Joseph Benton Rorbury, near Wakefield, Yorks.\n\n#### DEATHS.\n\n- On the 19th June, at Shanghai, Edward Burdett, aged 86 years.\n- On the 19th June, at Shanghai, David Paton, aged 81 years.\n- On the 17th June, at Shanghai, John Woolley, aged 30 years, major in the Imperial service.",
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        "content_text": "# The Daily Press\n\n## HONGKONG, MAY 13TH, 1879\n\n### DEPARTURE OF GENERAL GRANT\n\nAt ten o'clock yesterday morning a deputation from the Chinese community, consisting of Messrs. Ng Choy, Leung On, Fang Tang, Hop Koe, Ho Amei, Lee Sing, and Chong Tsin Yeong, waited upon General Grant at Government House, to present him with an address previous to his departure.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor introduced the deputation to General Grant, and the Hon. A. E. Bois, Colonel Mosby, and Major Palmer, A.D.C., were also present.\n\nMr. Ng Choy, who had been deputed to present the address, began by saying a few words regretting that, owing to the time necessarily taken in preparing it, they had been unable to wait sooner upon the General for the purpose of presentation. He then handed him the address and read the translation of it, as follows:-\n\n**(Translation)**\n\nTo General Ulysses S. Grant, late President of the United States of America and Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army.\n\nOn the occasion of your honouring Hongkong with your presence we, the undersigned, on behalf of the Chinese Community, approach you to give you a hearty welcome and beg to present to you an address expressive of our high esteem and respect for you.\n\nDuring your Presidency, your great name and noble qualities were well known far and wide, and by the carrying out of laws and respect from you commanded admiration from all classes of people under your rule, we have been delighted to learn that in international questions you have shown a spirit of impartiality and fairness, treating Americans and Foreigners alike, and the Chinese who have been trading in the United States have sung, and continue to sing, praises of the many good actions done by you while in office. We had longed to see you, but being far away we were hitherto not permitted to realize our wish. Now that you have honoured us with a visit, we avail ourselves of the opportunity to present you with a scroll inscribed with these four words \"Benefit to Chinese People\" which we hope may serve as a souvenir of your interview with the Chinese Community of Hongkong.\n\nNg Choy  \nO Man Chai  \nKwok Aubeong  \nChing Sing Yeong  \nWong Kwau Tong  \nLoong On  \nKon Moon Walt  \nChum Sui Shug  \nSee mee Sang Kai  \ning Sart Yeong  \nYo Wni San  \nPan Fong Poo  \nPow Chung Hung  \nCha Sit Chuen  \nPoon Chi Kai  \nLee Sing  \nHo Amei  \nLeo Tuck Chong  \nFung Tang  \nChow Shing Lam  \nTung Ting Kam  \nLoo Lai Pang  \nWong Yu Yee  \nLee Pun Chee  \nSay Yeon Man  \nMing Koo  \nTung Tack Chan  \nLai Hong Chunan Yuen  \nCheong Wing  \nWing Mow Cheong  \nChong Woo Chan  \nLong Cheong Chan  \nWing Cheong Chan  \nYa Sang Cheong  \nMee Fook  \nMesa Cheong Wo  \nKwan Choong Lung  \nTeu Cheong Lang  \nKwong Lee Cheong  \nWing Cheong Phing  \nTon Hing Lung  \nKwong Man Fung  \nChun Wing... Wo  \nHee Chong Ching  \nChoy Chong Lang  \nKwong Yuen Tai  \nWing Wo Yuan  \nWo Kee Chap  \nKwong Sun Lung  \nYow Hing Chong  \nKuni Chong Tai  \nWing Chong Kut  \nTrong Chong Lung  \nTuck Wing Ynen Lang  \nTai Yuen  \nKwong Tong Sang Wo  \nKwong Hip Wo  \nTai Chuca  \nWing Yoe Yuon  \nKee Kee  \nin Trong Tai Chong  \nKwong Nam Hing  \nLing War  \nTack Lung On  \nKwok Nam Ping  \nHoong Chenk Won  \nChow Chec Tin  \nLook Me Kui  \nChai Leong Hing  \nChun Heong Poo  \nPang Kee Chow  \nChun Kun  \nChung Yust Kai\n\nGeneral Grant, replying, said - Mr. Ng Choy and Gentlemen, I thank you for this valuable address. It will be kept by me as a pleasing memento of the Chinese community of Hongkong. In other colonies during my recent travels I have also met countrymen of yours, and I have found the rulers of those colonies recognising your good qualities of frugality, industry, and enterprise. Such qualities go far to account for the prosperous condition in which I see you all here. I am now leaving Hongkong to visit your country, and I am sure I shall see much that will be very interesting to me. For this handsome address I must again thank you most sincerely, and I shall never forget the kindness shown to me by the people here. I wish that prosperity may continue to be enjoyed by you.\n\nAt the request of His Excellency the Governor, Mr. Ng Choy introduced the other members of the deputation to the General.\n\nThe deputation then withdrew. The address, which was sixteen feet long by four feet wide, an extremely handsome scroll, was embroidered in gold on a strip of crimson satin about ten feet long, with a rich deep border, exquisitely embroidered. The characters are written in Chinese. On the top of the scroll is written the address, on the right side is General Grant's name in Chinese, and on the opposite side are the signatures. In the centre are four large Chinese characters, viz:- \"Wai Kap Wa Man\" (Benefit to Chinese people.) The scroll was packed in a teak wood box.\n\nIn response to the invitation of His Excellency the Governor, the officials, naval, military, and civil, as well as a large number of the general community, assembled shortly before eleven o'clock a.m. at Murray Pier to see General Grant and party embark for the U.S.S. Ashuelot. There were present the Chief Justice (Sir John Smale), His Excellency Major-General Donovan; Commodore Smith; the Hon. W. H. Marsh, Colonial Secretary; Hon. J. Russell, Attorney-General; Hon. M. S. Tonnochy, Acting-Colonial Treasurer; Hon. J. M. Price, Surveyor-General; Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. W. Keswick, and Hon. H. B. Gibb, Members of the Legislative Council; the Acting Puisne Judge; Hon. C. B. Plunket; Colonel Geddes, 27th Regiment; Colonel Sherwin-ton, Assistant Commissary-General; Colonel Moore, Commissary-General of Ordnance; Colonel Mosby, U. S. Consul; Mr. Taro Ando, Japanese Consul; Captain Kasama, H.I.J.M. corvette Nissin; a good sprinkling of naval and military officers and a number of the residents. The police, under Captain-Superintendent Deane, lined the road from Government House to the pier, upon which was drawn up a company of the 27th Inniskillings with their colours and band. Punctually at eleven o'clock the General and his party, with His Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy, arrived at Murray Pier, when General Grant gave his arm to Mrs. Hennessy while the Governor escorted Mrs. Grant to the head of the pier. The guard of honour presented arms, and the band played as they passed. Arrived at the steps, the General and his party exchanged adieux with those present, and as they stepped into the Government launch Mr. Hennessy called for three cheers for General Grant, which invitation was warmly responded to, and one cheer more for Mrs. Grant added. His Excellency the Governor, Mrs. Hennessy, Colonel Mosby, Major Palmer, R.E., A.D.C., and Dy. Paymaster Eastlake accompanied the party to the Ashuelot. As the launch steamed away from the pier the band of the 27th played their Farewell March to Gosport, which included \"Over the Sea\" and \"Good bye, Sweetheart.\" On passing the Spanish gunboat Marques del Duero, and the German corvette Luise, the marines on both vessels were drawn up and saluted the launch, the band on the Luise playing \"Hail Columbia.\" Captain Mortimer L. Johnson, the new commander of the Ashuelot, received the General and party on board and conducted them to the hurricane deck, where there were in waiting Mr. and Mrs. Forbes, Admiral Polo (Spanish Navy), Captain Sobering (H.I.G.M. Navy), Dr. Von der Horck, and Mrs. Eastlake. After the final farewells had been taken, the Governor, Mrs. Hennessy, Colonel Mosby, and Major Palmer left in the Government launch. On His Excellency leaving the Ashuelot he was saluted by that vessel. The Ashuelot shortly afterwards left for Swatow.\n\nMr. Afong, the photographer, has taken an excellent view of the embarkation.\n\nPage 338",
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        "content_text": "by Captain W. de Hedemann, who had hitherto transacted agency business for the Company at St. Petersburg. The successors of Mr. Pallissen's firm would continue to be the Company's Bankers.\n\nThe Company had acquired new and more suitable premises for its stations at Libau, Nystad and Shanghai. With regard to the latter, it might be mentioned that they are situated in a very convenient and central position, and that the Chinese Government Station is located in the same.\n\nThe Company's instrument workshops at Copenhagen had been largely extended, and could now favourably compare with the best foreign establishments.\n\nReverting to the accounts, the Chairman referred to the Balance Sheet, and showed that the result of this year's working was that after £55,555 11s. 1d. had been added to the Reserve Fund—which Fund now, after the outgoings of the past year, would stand at £210,151 7s. 10d.—and after 7½ per cent. had been paid to the Shareholders, a cash balance of £19,688 18s. 7d. would be carried forward to next account.\n\nWithout discussion, the Report was then unanimously adopted, the Accounts were passed, and discharge given to the Board of Directors.\n\nThe retiring Director, Monirz G. Mulcahon, Esq., was re-elected.\n\nThe Shareholders' Auditors, His Excellency Admiral BILLE, and A. Berner, Esq., were also re-elected.\n\nA Shareholder proposed a vote of thanks to the Board of Directors generally, but especially to the Chairman (C. F. TIETGEN, Esq.), and to the Managing Director (Captain E. SUENSON), for the great ability shown in the management of the Company's business. The resolution being put to the meeting was heartily responded to.\n\nThe final Dividend of 5s. per Share for 1881 is now payable at the Company's Bankers, Messrs. C. J. Hambro & Son, 70, Old Broad Street, London, E.C.\n\nCopy of Correspondence 503\n\nExtract from Superintendent's letter dated:-\n\nHongKong, March 11/82\n\nGovernor Hennessy left for Europe by last English mail and it is said that he will not return. There is a general feeling of relief at his departure.\n\nI wind you on 2nd instant that the prospectus of this Company had been issued and I have posted Copies of local Papers mentioning the same.\n\nThe following are promoters:-\n| Name | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hoo Shaw Chee | Factai Cantor, Canton |\n| Chow W Ting | Capitalist, Hong Kong |\n| Chaw Cheur Teen | Merchant, Hong Kong |\n| Too Quan Thang | ... |\n| Kee Tuck Cheong | Manager, Insurance Coy |\n| Lee Yeok Hang | Merchant and Director, Yangtze Insce. Coy. |\n| Pang Kee Chow | Brother of Colonel of Kowloon City |\n\nCapital $300,000 in three ...",
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        "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nMy Rory  \nMio. √55  \nBowen  \nJ. B  \n\n**MINUTE.**\n\nMr.  \nMy  \nGrad Hory Kong  \n16431  \nDolling  \nPrass on 16 left:  \nX Mr. Wingfield. K  \nMr. Bramston.  \nMr. Meade.  \nSir R. Herbert.  \nLord Dunraven.  \nColonel Stanley.  \n\nFor conson:  \nMache 15 teph:  \n19015  \nPii,  \n303  \n19 Seth : 85  \n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Major General Cameron's Despatch No. 310 of the 22nd of July, forwarding copies of Revised Quarantine Regulations made under...",
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        "content_text": "# DRAFT\n\nThe Ayanto Сусло \nfoo: Hory Kory \n5042 \n139 \n\nfi Crown Gegants. 30 March: 86. \n\n## MINUTE\n\nGentlemen, \n\nwith referm to the letter \nMr. Wingfield. \nMr. Bramston. \nMr. Meade. \nSir R. Herbert. \nMr. Osborne Morgan, Lord Dumaroane \nLord Granville. \nColonel Siticatey \n\nAusd `12618` \nGov: `44-6` Feb. (original) \n\nfrom this Office of the 4 of Feb. Belonging the copy \nwhich of a Despatch had been addressed to the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the Ty tam Bater",
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        "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]",
        "content_text": "I have the honour to be \n\nYour most obedient Servant \n\nFir \n\n13766. \n\ncilabaster Conwell. \n\nquslation 319 \n\nViceroy to R. M. Consul \n\nCanton 7th September 1857 \n\nSir, \n\nI have the honour to inform you that I have received the following dispatches from Colonel ... of them to Acting Captain ... hau reports that having received instructions to proceed to Hong Kong to take notorious criminal Thing Sam alias São Shv-lien, he started on the 22nd of June, taking with him the Complainant Stevan Shih-erh, the watchman Thou-mao and an accomplice [of Thing Sam] named We mai kuan, that the witnesses and complainant were summoned by the foreign authorities to confront Thing San,",
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        "document_key": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893",
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        "title": "CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893",
        "content_text": "DOMESTIC.\n\n159\n\nB & L (1211)—25231-3000-4-9CI.\n\nFee u Individual\n\nHome\n\nDate.\n\n1893\n\n6 Apr\n\nHong Kong No. 3441\n\n(Subject.)\n\nPetroleum in Bulk\n\nst previous Paper\n\nwhich be states.\n\nYour\n\n2846\n\nIREC\n\nC.O.\n\n5741\n\nRed 7 PR 33\n\nby Chief Insp.\n\nRusd\n\nCopy for 62:\n\n14 April\n\nSetal bom lug. 20 July!!\n\nxt subsequent Paper\n\nforwards memo\n\nExplosives prepared after perusal of cones, in\n\nhis opinion as to the restrictions\n\nimposed by the Col. Govt.\n\n... Send copy\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nMr Fairfield\n\nto the\n\ngovernor\n\nin answer to 2846;\n\nSending at the same time Messrs? Samuel's the 8th Feb [2338]. Tell the governor\n\nletter\n\nto\n\nstrong\n\nguide himself, unless there is some tead objection to any point on local grounds, by\n\nColonel Majendie's\n\nmemo: and to inform Messrs?\n\nWat\n\nArnhold Karberg & Co that their petition\n\nto H.M.\n\nhave guided\n\nChief Inspector of Explosives, a that\n\nreferred.\n\n1. goo at\n\nHm.\n\nthemselves by his advice.\n\nby\n\nTell Messrs? Samuel that Col Majendie's advice has been obtained on their letter, a that\n\nHighblbee lus views will be communicated\n\nWill\n\n0153\n\n?",
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        "document_key": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]",
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        "title": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]",
        "content_text": "Haykery Daily News\n\n77.7.99\n\n(15)\n\n0.0. 413 22304\n\nRece\n\n^\n\nRa 21 AUG 9\n\nbut\n\n7\n\nlo\n\nKinh\n\nthis\n\ncrisis\n\nthe\n\nhno\n\nSamad lately,\n\nthat at\n\nhere\n\nfrom temperament\n\nthe\n\nExperience\n\nthey\n\nLan\n\nbe\n\nhone\n\nKhan\n\nhoops\n\nhes\n\nto\n\nthe conditions\n\nX\n\nsursandings.\n\n(imm harga Mandergent RE).\n\nCANTON NOTES.\n\n[FROM THE \"CHUNG NG SAN PO.\"]\n\nA clan fight has broken out between the village of Wanghan and the village of Wantong, in Tungkun district. Over four thousand people took part in the conflict and great slaughter was effected on both sides. The local Magistrate went to the scene personally with some yamen runners to stop the fight, but to no purpose, the villagers taking no notice of him and continuing their fight under his very eyes. The circumstances were reported to the Canton authorities and on the 11th instant Colonel Chong Wai-lum was sent with a number of soldiers to restore order. When the Colonel arrived on the scene the fight was discontinued, but the fighters, being still in a very vindictive spirit, intend to resume hostilities as soon as the soldiers have left the scene.\n\nOn the 10th instant about a thousand robbers under the leadership of Foo Tsan-hoi, An San, and Wau Kan, all well-known robbers, plundered all the houses, big and little, in the market town of Loktsung, in Santak district, where there are in all about three hundred houses. The people of the town had made every preparation to meet the robbers, but as the latter greatly outnumbered them, they were no match for them, so that the robbers were able to carry away the valuables from all the houses. They also burnt some houses. Some days previously to the attack the leaders of the robbers had written to the town demanding a large sum of money under threat of burning and plundering all the shops if the demand was not complied with.\n\nThere are now about ten thousand bad characters banded together under the style of the Sam Tim Society, in the Hingling district, in the prefecture of Kaying. They all reside in the fastness of the mountains and occasionally issue forth to commit robberies or demand money by force in broad daylight. The villagers have had many encounters with them and mostly came off second best, as the robbers generally have a superiority of numbers. A few days ago they made an attack on the city of Hingling, the Magistrate of which, having no sufficient force, was obliged to shut all the city gates to prevent the attack. The Canton authorities have been telegraphed to and a military officer named Mok Shin-chek has been sent with several hundreds of soldiers to cope with the bad characters, who are about to raise the standard of rebellion.\n\nSeveral days ago thirty prisoners made their escape from the prison of the district of Kwai-ain. Twenty of them have been recaptured, but the rest have made good their escape. The superintendent of the gaol has been ordered to go to Canton for trial on account of his neglect of duty.\n\nOn the 10th instant a junk heavily laden with silk valued at about four thousand dollars was despatched from Patlai for Canton. When she was sailing near Samshui, on the West River, nine boats carrying robbers rowed up to her and carried away all the silk from her. The robbers did not molest the passengers nor plunder their luggage.\n\nPage 31\n\n \n \n\n \n\n \n\nPage 31",
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        "title": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899",
        "content_text": "33562 Race\n\nReed 4 140 09\n\n102\n\nDix nog wearo\n\nveof and anal oito ka Lobby L matjnog att as his!\n\n#bw\\\" noien et o.\n\nhoe bustyID\n\n19 ammos mà une fat are ce aretamis\n\n.CHOD 0.10 30\n\nod aut t\n\narð 0% vo exbe hor's one wo€ 20% vld hem, bu flen\n\nT\n\nelle 20 ectos citu „Jeine adiabt caruruelo Potty sure booĹ KAPRINTEC Von oua ore morada\" molaivih to 2000s 20% bra! #dʻytä een neto edd or deskim ea subir ulu ed otvore\n\n* vead **3 03 :: boulou read tvitt adduob eno\"\n\n**If cats blog aftrolle troudager\" **\n\nA revisted hebivih od sym blco robie to eu fav\n\n* pra fitar malas jog burou xoidasiy onli\n\nod b felw ben bul edo not pay my faut ou buf dheDŽIAI (\n\n.i to oaogeth Br 84 708 fasuolon cila paso YOUR I\n\n(1) may nо bul de emract of emit ødð svart binoda\n\ntalk onu er be and branio qilarigino wm Lundon erit to\n\n- to (0) iwa,bust on to eaing end &fiawod treudruge €\n\nTo be quiet to cmis edt de nulov beange add to abİTE 3\n\n*@grilled ord\n\nin printed espondence\n\nA.385.\n\n年\n\nIn the opinion of the Conference, in cases where land has already been handed over to the War Department free of charge by the Colony, the Colony should resume possession without payment whenever the War Department have no further use for the land, subject to paying over to the War Department the then value of any buildings originally erected at the cost of the War Department.\n\n4. When it is necessary to buy land from private owners, the rule, in the opinion of the Conference, should be that the War Department should not carry out the purchase itself, but should leave this to the Colonial Government, which possesses special powers of resuming land under a legal ordinance and could probably buy cheaper than the Military authorities.\n\nAs was agreed in the case of the joint scheme (as in War Office letter to Colonial Office dated 24th July 1894), the plans and estimates for new buildings, of which the Colonial Government is to pay a part of the cost, should be submitted to the Governor. The War Office would consider any suggestions made by him, reserving to itself, however, in consultation with the Colonial Office, the decision on any points raised. The Governor should have a similar voice in the selection of sites.\n\nThe Conference desire in conclusion to record their appreciation of the helpful services of Mr. A.H.B. Allen, as Secretary.\n\nC.I. Watson, Colonel.\n\nRobert Chalmers,\n\nGeorge W. Johnson.\n\nA. H. B. Allen, Secretary.\n\n29th July 1899.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]",
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        "title": "CO129-323 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1904 [6-7]",
        "content_text": "No: 348\n\nHongkong.\n\nMYRO PER USE ON.\n\nEISTERN\n\n93 CONIAL\n\nOFFIC\n\nwo\n\nC.0\n\n36500\n\nGoverment House, 24 OUT 1904.\n\nHongkong, 23 September 1904.\n\n(23/9/1904.)\n\n560\n\nFoo\n\n27321\n\n1052-1\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the telegrams as per margin, on the subject of 4 Officers and 61 men of the Russian Torpedo Boat Destroyer \"Burni\" who arrived in this Colony on H.M.S. \"Humber\" on the 22nd ultimo, I have the honour to transmit for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure an Ordinance to regulate the Internment of refugees belonging to the Russian and Japanese Forces, which was passed through all its stages at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held on the 15th instant.\n\n2. I enclose also a copy of the usual report by the Attorney-General and copies of the Regulations made by me in Executive Council immediately after assenting to the Ordinance.\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\n15 September, 1904.\n\n3. I take this opportunity to transmit for your information a copy of a Memorandum of arrangements for the charge of the Russian Officers and men from the Torpedo Boat Destroyer \"Burni\", which after consultation with Major-General Villiers Hatton, I issued on the 5th instant to Colonel L.F. Brown, now temporarily in command of the Troops in South China.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nALFRED LYTTELTON, M.P.,\n\n&C.\n\nNo 24\n\n&C.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907",
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        "content_text": "## The Chaochowfu Railway\n\nThe stations (Mandarin rendering in brackets) with the times of departure were as follows:-\n\n| Station | Mandarin Rendering | Departure Time |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Swatow | Shan-tou | 7:02 AM |\n| Am-pou | An-p'o | 7:27 |\n| Tshua-tng-chhi | Ts'in-tang-chih | 7:50 |\n| Phu-ien | Fou-yang | 8:11 |\n| Pang-khoi | Feng-ch'i | 8:21 |\n| Tie-chin Hu | Chao chon Pu | 8:27 |\n| Ch'ao-chou Fu |  | Arrive 8:36 |\n\nIn addition to the new terminus at I-khoe, it is intended to make new stations at Tou-men-ch'iao and Chin-shih-kung.\n\nFares, first-class, 1 dol. 25 c. each way; third-class, 50 cents or 90 cents for the return journey.\n\nA great many Chinese travel by the line, and on my train I noticed two or three Japanese passengers.\n\nAt Swatow and Ch'ao-chou Fu the railway stations are single storied and built of mud and cement and whitewashed. They each contain several rooms. At the other stations there are only small wooden huts, open at the sides, with small mud-houses for the railway employés.\n\nThe wooden post sunk into the ground is a perilous venture in this land of white ants.\n\nThe platforms of the stations are raised about 2 feet above the line, built of sand and earth, and faced along the line with stone. Each platform is about 80 yards long by 6 yards wide.\n\nAt Swatow there are six sidings, with an additional four, which run into two goods sheds. There is also an engine-house and a water-tank.\n\nAt Am-pou there is only one siding. At the other stations there are two sidings, the longer one being from 100 to 150 yards long. The terminus at Ch'ao-chou Fu is about 200 yards beyond the station and close to the city wall.\n\nCh'ao-chou Fu is estimated to have a population of 300,000 inhabitants.\n\nThe train stops to water about 2 to 3 miles south of Tshua-tng-chhi, at a huge raised water-bucket, supplied by cans from a stream close by. There are two additional water-tanks at Tshua-tng-chhi station and one at Ch'ao-chou Fu.\n\nTwo telegraph lines ran on the right (east) side of the line, a single strand being presumably the railway telegraph, whilst beyond it is the Government telegraph.\n\nExcept for one or two very short cuttings beyond Pang-khoi station, the line runs along an embankment the whole way. It is usually from 2 to 4 feet above the surrounding country, though at the Swatow end it is raised about 6 feet for the first few miles.\n\nThe line is standard gauge and single, and very little width of embankment is allowed on either side of the rails. The embankment is made mostly from field mud, dry out of a trench, close to the left (west) side of the embankment. The soil is mostly alluvial clay, though in some places beyond Tshua-tng-chhi it is sandy. The line throughout is ballasted with a very thin layer of sand. Before reaching Am-pou many small streams from 3 to 10 yards wide are crossed by culverts, all faced with stone, whilst two small branches of the Han River, respectively 30 and 40 yards wide, are also crossed by bridges of one and two stone piers. These small streams and water outlets were the greatest difficulty encountered in the construction of the line.\n\nThe embankment is not revetted, and no grass or trees have been planted along it.\n\nThe line appears to have been done in a hurry, and also to have been done too much on the cheap. A siding could easily have been run into the hills 2 or 3 miles to the west, and ballast of disintegrating granite obtained. The railway was opened in the driest season, and the general opinion is that it will not be able to survive a storm or the rainy season that is usual from May to August. A missionary told me that there had only been one shower since the line was opened, and it was followed by an accident on the line. He also said that the embankment was so rotten, that he was able to run his umbrella for some distance under the sleepers. Beyond one small party throwing up a few clods of earth, I did not see any steps being taken to strengthen the bank.\n\nI also found the line very shaky.\n\nThe rolling-stock is sufficient for present needs; they have at present three American locomotives, one at least of which has done duty elsewhere. My train was small, and marked **American Brooks Works, 1904**.\n\nThere are about twenty-two passengers' coaches, constructed in Japan, and marked `K.S.K. Osaka`. My train consisted of two vans, two composite first- and third-class carriages, and eight third-class carriages. The composite cars can seat twelve first-class passengers, and eighteen third-class passengers, whilst the third class seat fifty-two passengers on small wooden benches. All the carriages are corridor compartments. The first class are comfortable with reversible backs on the benches, though there is a good deal of shoddy, rough castings, inferior veneer, and imitation leather on the cushions.\n\nThe rails, which are about 30 feet long, appear to be second-hand, as they are very rusty, and I could not decipher the name on them. They come from America, and are laid on Japanese hard-wood sleepers, each rail being fixed to the sleeper by two rivets, whilst each fish-plate is attached by four rivets.\n\nThe construction of the line has taken two years to a day, and has cost up to date close on 3,000,000 dollars. A first-class English firm (I believe **Jardine, Mathieson**) tendered to do the whole for 1,750,000 dollars, but the Chinese elected to give carte blanche to a Japanese Company with the present result. It has been planned and entirely carried out by Japanese and Chinese. The line is managed by Japanese, and they supply the station-masters at the termini and the guards on the trains. Permission was also given to them to supply the engine drivers, until the Chinese ones were trained, but I believe the train I travelled on was driven by Chinese.\n\nThe line belongs to a private Company, and is supposed to be entirely financed by Chinese, though possibly there is some Japanese money in it. The Chinese admit they are losing money over it, and the receipts are barely enough to cover their daily expenses, and are not sufficient to pay the interest on the 3,000,000 dollars spent in constructing the line.\n\nIt is intended to eventually connect the line with the trunk line from Canton to Hankow, and also with the coast line from Canton to Foo-chow, but all these lines remain to be built, and the Swatow line will no doubt have gone through some serious vicissitudes before this happy consummation is arrived at.\n\nThe railway offices are in the town of Swatow, where I saw several stands of **Mauser (1888)** repeating rifles for nine rounds. The clerk at the office told me that the line is guarded by 300 \"Fu-yung,\" or protecting Braves, men raised locally by the Company to protect the line. I only saw a few of them at Ch'ao-chou Fu station. The clerk also said that the people had shown a good deal of animosity to the construction of the line, which was now, however, dying out, as they became accustomed to it. There was also a good deal of difficulty in the purchasing of the land.\n\nI am appending a tracing of the line which I copied from the one in the railway offices.\n\n**G. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel, Grenadier Guards, Military Attaché.**\n\n(Signed)\n\nHong Kong, December 23, 1906.\n\nPage 620 \nE",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 5 in No. 1\n\n### The Viceroy of the two Kuang Provinces to Mr. Mayers\n\nCanton, May 30, 1869.\n\nTHE Viceroy received, on the 25th instant, a Report from Lieutenant-Colonel Shang Chang-mao and Pao Ying-hiung (Superintendents of the gun-boat squadrons) to the following effect :- \n\n\"The Acting British Consul, Mr. Mayers, having personally represented the occurrence of acts of piracy among the islands to the eastward of Hong Kong, and requested that a gun-boat be dispatched in company with a British vessel of war, and to cruise in that direction, we hereupon directed Major Fan Kan-ting, Commandant of the gun-boat 'Chên-to', to proceed on the 12th instant to Hong Kong for this purpose, and after visiting the neighbourhood of Mirs Bay, &c., to go on to the coast in the vicinity of Cupche, and use every effort conjointly (with the British force) for seizing any pirates met with during the cruise. These particulars have already been reported to your Excellency, and Major Fan Kan-t'ing has now reported his proceedings as follows :--\n\n[Report of cruise in vicinity of Mirs Bay omitted as unimportant.]\n\nOn the 15th the two gun-boats ('Chên-to' and His Majesty's gun-boat 'Bouncer') anchored together at Ta Sing Bay, near Ping Hoi, and it was thereupon agreed, on the proposition of Lieutenant Lloyd, that we should proceed on the following day to the Pratas Shoal, lying about 150 miles to seaward from Cupche, and overhaul the neighbourhood in search of pirates. Leaving our anchorage on the following day, accordingly, we proceeded in that direction, and, by keeping under way through the night, arrived at the Pratas Shoal at 10 A.M. on the 17th instant.\n\n\"I have to remark that, although the Pratas Shoal is described as lying 400 or 500 li from the coast of Cupche, it is in reality an isolated shoal lying in the midst of the China Sea, semi-circular in shape, the hollow of its curve facing the north-west, and some 100 miles or more in total circumference. (The rocks of which it consists) are alternately covered and left dry by the tide. Near the edge of the shoal is a small sandy island, barely 3 miles in length, where, although a certain amount of herbage does exist, there are no inhabitants. The whole place is studded with rocks in all directions, the winds and tides are variable and not to be depended upon, and an extraordinarily heavy sea prevails all around. The spot is scarcely ever visited either by Chinese or foreign trading-vessels. Having ascertained, in concert with Lieutenant Lloyd, that there were no traces of pirates making this their resort and plundering trading-vessels, we left the Pratas on the 19th instant and proceeded on our return voyage, arriving at Hong Kong on the 20th, and, after reporting to the Commodore, proceeded to Canton,\" &c.\n\nOn receipt of the foregoing Report, the Viceroy has to communicate the same for the honourable Consul's information, and avails, &c.\n\n## Inclosure 6 in No. 1\n\n### Mr. Mayers to the Viceroy of the two Kuang Provinces\n\nCanton, June 1, 1869.\n\nTHE Undersigned has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's despatch of the 30th ultimo, forwarding copy of the Report made by Major Fan Kan-ting respecting the visit of the gun-boat \"Chên-to\" to the Pratas Shoal, &c., which he has perused with attention.\n\nHe begs to observe in reply that the Pratas Shoal, lying as it does some 170 miles eastward from the coast of Kwangtung, occupies a position in the midst of the China Sea precisely in the track of vessels sailing north or south from the Chinese ports, as a result of which it frequently occurs that vessels are lost upon it when deviating, in even the slightest degree from their proper course, owing either to tempestuous weather or defective observations.\n\nSuch avoidable disasters occur on an average two or three times in the course of the year, and it has become a practice with the junk people of this province to lie in wait at the shoal for cases of shipwreck. The moment a foreign vessel strikes they rush on board and commence, regardless of all remonstrance or resistance, to strip her of everything they can lay their hands upon. It is highly necessary that measures be taken to put a stop to this lawless state of affairs. Ere long, undoubtedly, a lighthouse will be constructed at this spot, which will enable vessels to avoid the danger of the shoals, but an undertaking of this description will be a work of time, and in the meanwhile steps should be taken for affording efficient protection to vessels in distress, as is the duty of every civilized and humane Government. The Undersigned would point out to your Excellency that an island exists in the midst of the shoal which is about 3 miles in length, and where, although the island itself is not inhabited, vessels may be anchored and used as a place of residence. He therefore begs that your Excellency will take into consideration the propriety of stationing one or two war-junks at this locality, where their presence will both serve as a check on the desperadoes who live by the plunder of foreign vessels and will also enable your Excellency to carry out the provisions of the 20th Article of the Treaty of Tien-tsin, where it is stipulated that if any British vessel be wrecked or stranded on the coast of China the Chinese authorities shall adopt measures for its relief and security and extend friendly treatment to those on board. Such a consummation will be worthy of your Excellency's benign disposition.\n\nWith reference to Major Fan Kan-t'ing's Report, the Undersigned begs leave to observe that it does not tally in all particulars with that made by Lieutenant Lloyd, R.N., commanding His Majesty's gun-boat \"Bouncer,\" who mentions that on reaching the Pratas he found in the lagoon a Chinese junk, having sixteen men and five women on board, and that on searching her in concert with Major Fan Kan-t'ing and Captain Edwards, Commander of the \"Chên-to,\" he found her to be filled with articles forming part of the equipment of foreign vessels, besides a quantity of miscellaneous cargo. The master of the junk, on being interrogated, stated that he had been at anchor there for two months. It is plain therefore that this vessel was lying at the shoal on the look-out for cases of shipwreck, and the Undersigned is surprised to find that Major Fan Kan-t'ing makes no mention of her in the Report sent in.\n\nHe avails, &c.\n\n## Inclosure 7 in No. 1\n\n### The Viceroy Jui-lin to Mr. Mayers\n\nCanton, June 6, 1869.\n\nTHE Viceroy has to acknowledge the receipt on the 1st instant of the honourable Consul's despatch relating to the Report made by Major Fan K'an-ting respecting the Pratas Shoal (despatch requoted in full), and, in reply, he has to state that, of the shoal in question, the outer side is under the jurisdiction of the right battalion of the brigade of Lung-men, and the inner side under that of the left battalion of the above brigade, and also of the district magistracy of Ho-p'u, but in the despatch now received the Viceroy finds that no distinction is drawn as to either \"outer\" or \"inner\" side. In all cases, however, of shipwreck on the part of foreign vessels along the coast, it is incumbent upon the local authorities, in fulfilment of the Treaty, to take measures for affording them protection and assistance; but the request contained in the despatch now under acknowledgment, to the effect that steam gun-boats may be stationed at the Pratas for the purpose of affording such protection, has not the support of any Article in the Treaty, and it is not expedient to accede to it.\n\nThe Viceroy issues orders to the district Magistrate of Ho-p'u for the latter's guidance, and also to the above-mentioned military departments, to the effect that in the event of any foreign vessel being hereafter wrecked upon or near the Pratas Shoal, measures must be taken in accordance with the Treaty for affording them protection, and also that efficient steps must be taken without intermission for seizing and bringing to trial the piratical characters who resort to that locality, as a necessary part of the proceedings for affording the protection in question. The Viceroy also instructs Colonels Pao and Shang, the Commandants of the gun-boat squadron, to examine into the discrepancy pointed out in the despatch now under acknowledgment.",
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        "content_text": "SIA\n\n413\n\n#LuvTono: T\n\nat erineb I done we be quand edi v...d I,owila da, ent 90 -pulov en roli „srebremoƆ la dɛog e enliers I done or icerique cré de Viel of 1001 107) anicy red not bler I oids „egrob Tood- Jo esveitɛ vnos end not yi pored rib qon 'Icox2 ein vɔ decupeT im „Petɗd erg to noidezİngrœT CAJ odvdilicet of troumovoð orð prema to ziurt you of ouk Joa cer drog en to nokiloda ont dand nicbert „VI9. pm NOI To modded June to & „ornq yď morezi nim Tuo me moidoɛ fær reit on mi cà ognením odd\" dans (dude moy Try eprol and to im moo qual no to „tinuqro\n\nno torte voð ert win medan det vidt de dest\n\nIvor 1 bedt em brunotni yletinitek pmoloz ziH TIGI AN HOT end geite lærtilem no reɔi yakinocoq yon qilure of Coroll. ea Pam meddel yr ei od fernsten eim dnomat de sist .egro end to brumade or I or met er one Viel y mul to dog + .benoit noup\n\n- [ne z king r\n\nTO RECOVER\n\n1200 evidendeirieră” milk to \"control [A Frz wo0* 2 Dedmang ni eqroð sonatal zrɔxjnoś\n\nod mojite ni waone seg 300% ?, son mo. Je vuod\n\n* Teg nitesine soery end corje mødt [ponową Lehm yoq yard \"INT\n\nMy\n\nEq:00 on 10 ‚veiðinlưà predili en muhru Frariq reed even ccinequod nooniyni equo elor en) to fondnos srične enð bød I speтAN?\n\nFry mo5* r von Leviever I nniteroNULET EFT\n\nat toviy pen or drvon, care end i mocnu Teg 3048 to \"conwolk\n\neach of the two Officers referred to above for house allowance. From the outbreak of War until my resignation (with the exception of the first month when I was paid at the same rate as an Infantry Lieut.-Colonel) I was granted an allowance of $85 per diem plus\n\nration allowance, in addition to the com.and allowance.\n\n4.\n\nThat I have always taken an active interest\n\nin the Volunteer movement, and have had nearly 37 years service at home and in Hongkong. With what measure of success my period\n\nof command was attended is shown by the very large number of\n\nformer or present members who had served under me at one time or\n\nanother who fought on the different Fronts in the late war. In the\n\nabsence of statistics, not yet complete, it is estimated by the\n\nAdjutant that 400 or more former or present members of the Corps,\n\nof whom at least 25 per cent were given Commissions, joined His\n\nMajesty's Forces. One V.C., five or six D.S.Os., and ten or\n\ntwelve M.Cs. are among the Honours won which are already known.\n\n5.\n\nIn view of the points mentioned above and of\n\nmy long service of more than 24 years in the Corps, I have the honour to ask His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government may be pleased to recommend to the Secretary of State that I be granted an additional personal allowance of, at least, the $900 per annum formerly drawn by me, instead of the $300 per\n\nannum proposed.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sa.) Arthur Chapman,\n\nLieutenant-Colonel,\n\nlate Commandant, Hongkong Volunteer Corps.",
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        "content_text": "## official class in Yunnan, we may expect no co-operation in preventive measures from that side.\n\nAt the frontier meeting of 1916, I communicated to Chang I Shu, the best type of Taoyin I have had the good fortune to meet at the different frontier meetings I have attended, particulars of certain Chinese merchants who were suspected of being concerned in the traffic of opium into China, but against whom I could get no sufficient information to justify action. Nothing was done by the Chinese as the result of that information, though it is certain that, if the firms concerned had been properly watched, I should have got information which would have enabled me to expel the representatives of the firms from the States.\n\nAgain, in 1917, I supplied His Britannic Majesty's consul, Tengyueh, with the names of a number of Chinese traders who were found with large sums of money in one of the principal opium markets of West Manglun and who were obviously there for the purpose of buying opium. Mr. Eastes thought it best not to use that information, as, from his knowledge of the Chinese officials, he believed that the Chinese administrations would not take any action except possibly in the way of wholly illicit extortion.\n\nAgain, though the import of opium into China is forbidden, the Chinese officials have arranged a revenue station at Shunning which is out of the way of any consular or European customs officer's observation, where fees are regularly levied on all consignments of the drug which pass through.\n\nEven if, for the sake of argument, it were possible to block the frontier from Namhkam to the Salween and again along the northern and eastern border of Kokang to near the Kunlong Ferry, it is quite impossible to take any action at present east of the Salween from the Kunlong Ferry to Panghsang Nalawt. This frontier is over 150 miles long; it encloses the unadministered Wa States, and the actual border line is in dispute with China. Preventive measures taken in this area, which produces large quantities of opium, will revive the dispute with China about a part of the frontier which is of very little importance and will undo all the work which has been quietly done for years to disarm the suspicions of the unadministered tribes and to induce them to look more and more regularly to Lashio for the settlement of their disputes. Yet, if this part of the border is left open, it is entirely useless blocking the northern frontier.\n\nAll the indications point to the fact that the Yunnan officials mean to relax the opium restrictions when it suits them. The destruction of crops was this year carried out along our border in a very arbitrary way. In the Mong Mao State, the Sawbwa levied a tax on cultivation. A Chefang official told Mr. Gaudoin that the Kachins had been informed that they would be permitted to cultivate opium for the season 1919-20 onwards. On the other hand, on the Chengkang Mong Ting border, crops were destroyed by the Chinese, which incidentally were within our frontier line and belonged to our own men. If, however, as seems likely, cultivations will increase in China, our problems become easier—there will be practically no smuggling, as the crop can be grown more easily nearer home.\n\nIt is essential for us to fulfil our treaty obligations, and it is also essential to take action for the sake of the Shan States themselves, to prevent them being ruined by the extension of cultivation of opium in place of food crops.\n\nI believe, however, that we shall succeed more faithfully in carrying out our obligations to China and our duty to our own people if the whole question is tackled systematically and quietly as a revenue matter of the States themselves and not by the exercise of the force at the disposal of the paramount Power. The use of this can only be oppressive and arbitrary under the conditions which prevail, and will cause a blaze of resentment which will make the whole of our administration more difficult.\n\n### ANNEX 5\n\n**Mr. Cabell (Officiating Commissioner, Mandalay Division) to the Assistant Secretary to the Financial Commissioner, Burma**\n\nNovember 15, 1919\n\nWITH reference to the correspondence ending with your letter dated the 9th May, 1919, on the subject of poppy cultivation in the Kachin Hill Tracts, I have the honour to forward copies of letters received from the Deputy Commissioners, Bhamo, Katha, Myitkyina and the Ruby Mines.*\n\n*Not printed.\n\n2. There has been some delay in replying to your letter, because all the Deputy Commissioners of the frontier districts, with the exception of Mr. Wilkinson at Katha, were new to their charges, and it was desirable that they should have some time to consider the result of any changes which it was proposed to introduce. Moreover, the death of Mr. Scott has removed from the Sinlum Tracts an officer who was looked upon as a father by the people. His successor should have at least one season to make the acquaintance of his people before he puts any restrictive measures into force.\n\n3. It would be useful to summarise the proposals which have already been made for the control and suppression of the cultivation of the poppy in the Kachin Hills on the Burmese side of the frontier. Up to the year 1913, there was no prohibition of the cultivation of opium and nothing was attempted. In 1913, owing to the accession of the British and Chinese Governments to the International Opium Convention, which was signed at The Hague early in 1912, the Wai-chiao Pu brought to the notice of His Majesty's Minister at Peking the difficulty of suppressing the consumption of opium in Yunnan owing to the fact that opium was cultivated in the Kachin Hills and Shan States on the Burmese side of the frontier, and the local Government asked for recommendations regarding the steps to be taken to control the production of raw opium, to prevent its export and to check its smuggling across the frontier into China. Apart from the obligations of this Government under the Opium Convention, it was represented by several officers that the consumption of opium among the Kachins was on the increase, that it was doing them considerable harm and that the cultivation of the poppy ought to be suppressed for this reason alone. In this connection, I must point out that the opinions of various officers who know the Kachins really well are diametrically opposed to one another. Mr. G. W. Dawson and Mr. Rae say:\n\n\"In malarious tracts such as Kaukkwe, Sinkan (Bhamo), Jade Mines, Hukawng and Mogaung valleys (Myitkyina) it (opium) has become indispensable as a febrifuge. These tracts are not on the border. But the proposed prohibition does not distinguish between border Kachins and others. It is my settled belief that many will die for want of it or if they are sent to jail for having it.\n\nExcept possibly among the Kauris, its consumption has no evil results whatever. It is very seldom taken to excess, and in the case of men in regular work can be taken in considerable quantities with astonishing results in the way of physical endurance.”\n\nOn the other hand, Mr. Scott says:\n\n\"A Kachin who uses opium is ruined both morally and physically, and whereas its use can be justified in fever-stricken tracts in the plains, its use in the hills can only be described as a curse.\"\n\nThere is no one with better knowledge of the Kachins than these three officers, Messrs. Rae, Scott and Clerk, and I can only make the suggestion that in Mr. Rae's time the poppy was not cultivated in the Sinlum Tracts to anything like the extent to which it is now under the commercial stimulus afforded by the repressive policy in Yunnan and that excessive use of opium was rare. Moreover, cultivation in the Myitkyina Tracts is not yet extensive, so that excessive use of opium is, I believe, rare also in those tracts. Mr. Scott's opinion as to the ruinous effects of the use of opium is the latest and may be confidently accepted.\n\n4. It was reported in 1913 that except in Bhamo there was little cultivation for the purposes of export, but that in Bhamo poppy cultivation was decidedly on the increase in the Kachin Hills, and that the cultivation in that district was on a commercial scale and amounted to about 2,000 acres. Such cultivation as existed in the Ruby Mines and Katha Districts was in small patches and the total extent of the cultivation was so small as to be practically negligible. In his letter dated the 1st July, 1913, Colonel Aplin summarised the position and made certain proposals to carry out the policy indicated by Government. These proposals were that in the Bhamo District there should be total prohibition of cultivation, but that no action should be taken as regards possession of opium until the effect of the total prohibition of cultivation has been carefully examined.\n\n*Not printed.\n\nPage 120\nPage 121",
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        "content_text": "# HONG KONG 13555\n## IREC 13555 REL 21 M 21 165 1921\n\nMerch Last previous Paper. po 20 14921\n\nTwo copy from 406, Hong Kong, Mr Burett Putting. Me Clawson Burn **the was often received this from Colonel sent it to to me.**\n\nLi request sent CL A Jonny ap a copy of para: of our Ain Plean su ter 14th que `(60509)` CA Wilson's minty on 37499 (2ct page).\n\nThe hams come represented that Goc agret o th onc consequently LUB prepared to affirms the Next subsequent Paper, Goo 21326 site though pointing out the risk.\n\nW ham not brandt got from Admit regarding the hejorations with the A-5- Petriteam in, but prem are still proceeding.\n\nthing General Wilson shtree for trous, before action is Tanter `(x2) (65404)` Ws. bx136/24 Gp. 163 250 8 20 W&S Ltd. `(01177: 22646,32)` 500GJ 10-20 *",
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        "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]",
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        "content_text": "September 3rd, 1921.\n\nST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE.\n\nIMPORTANT EDUCATIONAL EXTENSION.\n\nThe new class-room of St. Joseph's College form a striking addition to the architectural features of the Peak's lower slopes.\n\nWith the practical completion of these class-rooms the directorate of St. Joseph's College see the fruition of a scheme which has caused them anxious deliberation for a long time past. The old problem of \"cutting the coat according to the cloth\" has been an acute one, in this instance. Education, unfortunately, is not a form of enterprise for which unlimited supplies of money are available. The price of materials has risen so greatly of late that first one part of the scheme and then another has had to be sacrificed and, even then, the original estimate of $80,000 has been exceeded by about $30,000, and St. Joseph's are obliged to ask the Government to supplement its original generous grant. The Government promised $40,000, half the amount of the estimate and, as the total cost is larger than $80,000 through causes over which the directors have no control, and which they have done their best to counter-balance, by making cuts in the original scheme, it is hoped that the Government will see its way to increase its contribution so as to pay half of the final, instead of half of the estimated sum.\n\nIt had been hoped to provide laboratories for science teaching, but this very necessary acquisition to the College must await the generosity of Old Boys of St. Joseph's or other friends of education. A recreation hall and gymnasium is, also, urgently needed to accommodate the boys in hot or rainy weather. If funds had permitted, this would have been constructed, so as to join the old school buildings to the new, the whole forming three sides of a square.\n\nBut enough, for the nonce, of what might have been.\" It must not be supposed, from the foregoing hints of the aspirations of St. Joseph's, that what has been accomplished is a truncated and inadequate achievement. Far from it.\n\nOn the top storey, the ceiling is of moulded teakwood, which gives a very handsome effect. It would have been very pleasant to St. Joseph's, we imagine, to make an inaugural bonfire, this afternoon, of all their antiquated school furniture, and, after the fashion of the newly-married, have nothing but new furniture in the new home. Funds would not run to it; but one or two rooms are resplendent with new furniture—perhaps in the hope that some of to-day's visitors may be touched by the contrast and rise to the occasion.\n\nIt should be said that eighteen of the rooms will be used as class-rooms, one as a reception room and one as a scouts' hall. There are, in addition, in the towers at either end of the main building, masters' rooms, luncheon rooms for pupils and cloak rooms and lavatories, provided with the water carriage system.\n\nAN EARLY EDUCATIONALIST.\n\nThe exterior of the building is imposing. In a niche, on the level of the top floor, is a statue of St. John Baptist de la Salle, teaching a youth from an open book.\n\nThe sculpture is a copy, made in France, of the well-known statue by Falquière. De la Salle, who lived at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century, was the founder of popular education in France. He founded the Society of the Christian Brothers—devoted entirely to the furtherance of education—which has now extended over a great part of the world.\n\nThe original design of the building provided for facings with rubbed-red brick work, so that its appearance would have been in keeping with the French Fathers' Mission House near by. The cost proved prohibitive, however, and the exterior had to be plastered, instead. Such sacrifices as this, of course, grieve nobody more than the architects in this case, Messrs. Little, Adams and Wood—who, whenever they see the finished work, will probably be tempted to sadly contrast the real with the ideal.\n\nBANK OF EAST ASIA.\n\nNEW PREMISES COMPLETED.\n\nThe Bank of East Asia moves to its new offices, No. 10, Des Voeux Road Central, on Sept. 5th.\n\nThe term \"new offices\" seems permissible, in the circumstances, for, although the shell of the old building remains, the place has undergone such a complete transformation, under the direction of Messrs. Little, Adams & Wood, architects, that recent arrivals in the Colony might very reasonably suppose the building to be an entirely new one.\n\nWhat happened was that, after the Bank acquired No. 10, Des Voeux Road Central, the whole of the interior was gutted, and the place was given a new inside.\" Walls, roof and facade are the same; the facade, revealed to public view in the last few days, looks new, it is true, but this is because the granite has been \"punched.\" The roof, has been extensively re-laid; walls have been strengthened and new stanchions have been put in, so that the building, if not new, in the full sense of the word, is as good as new.\n\nThe building has, now, teak-covered concrete floors. The ground floor is arranged as banking premises for the Bank of East Asia, with treasury, book safe, and safe deposit vault of reinforced concrete construction and provided with Chubb's treasury doors. The brass counter fittings and much of the other metal work is locally made.\n\nThe two offices floors above are fitted as offices. All woodwork is of teak and is fitted with swinging, wall blackboards of American construction. All woodwork is of stained teak; the floors are of concrete, covered with teak, but, on the top floor, mosaic tiling in the public space is supplied by Messrs. Malkin, of London. Modern sanitary arrangements are installed throughout the building.\n\nTHE BANK OF CHINA.\n\nHONGKONG SKY-SCRAPER COMPLETED.\n\nAn enterprise which forms a landmark in the history of Hongkong—the Colony's first \"sky-scraper\"—entered on its final stage, this week and the Bank of China, in Queen's Road Central, is ready for occupation.\n\nMessrs. Little, Adams and Wood are the architects who have supervised this great project, which has cost $200,000, and has occupied the period since March 1920,—about 18 months. Mr. Foo Sik, the builder, is also the owner of the site.\n\nThe building is a six-storeyed one, reinforced concrete framed. It is 90 feet high, and when the next-door building is completed, in the same style, the whole block will measure a hundred feet square. To all intents and purposes, the two buildings will form a monster cube, within a few feet of being 100 feet wide, by 100 feet deep, by 100 feet high. The adjoining premises are being rebuilt, to the same height, for the Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank.\n\nThe ground floor of the new building is arranged as banking premises for the Bank of China, and the upper floors are available to be let as offices. The bank treasury, in the basement, is built entirely of reinforced concrete, with walls 2ft. 6ins. thick, lined with asphalte to keep the place dry, and further lined with pointed brickwork.\n\nThe building is faced in stone, up to the first floor level, and above that in rubbed green brickwork. The general effect is admirable and imposing. The green rubbed facing bricks form a new feature in building decoration, so far as any large building in Hongkong is concerned. All the floors and roof are of concrete, and the whole of the woodwork is of teak.\n\nThere are two handsome entrances to the building; one, in Queen's Road, to the Bank of China, and the other, in Duddell Street, for the use of tenants of the upper floors. Two Penrose passenger lifts serve the tenants. The building has a flat roof, so we may yet see the example of New York followed in Hongkong and have roof supper-dances beneath the stars.\n\nACCOMMODATION FOR 600 PUPILS.\n\nThe new class-rooms, erected at the northern end of the school playground, parallel with the existing buildings, provide upwards of 20 rooms and will comfortably accommodate 600 pupils, or 750 with only a little squeezing. The building is a four-storey one, of reinforced concrete, with five class-rooms on each floor, and verandahs giving, at one and the same time, access to the class-rooms and protection from sun and rain. The verandahs and corridors are paved with red quarry tiles, supplied by Messrs. Malkin, of London. The staircases are of concrete, each tread being ribbed to prevent slipping when exuberant youths are released from class and race downstairs, treading close on one another's heels.\n\nThe class-rooms are of an ideal size from an educational point of view, neither too large nor too small. Each room is fitted with ...\n\nSHENSI BRIGAND SHOT.\n\nReuter's Peking correspondent writes: A report from General Yen Hsing-wen, Tuchun of Shensi, says that Colonel Kuo Chien, the leader of the bandits who recently imprisoned Mr. Stevens, the English Missionary, has been executed. Kuo was the last of four bandit leaders who have terrorized various regions in Shensi for several years. Sometimes a partisan of General Chen Shu-fan, and at other times an open enemy of the Provincial Government and the people alike, Kuo is believed to have maintained close relations with Kuangtung for many years.\n\nWhen General Feng Yu-hsiang entered Shensi in June, Kuo came forward with an offer of assistance and subsequently requested permission to enter Sianfu. General Feng did not accept his offer of help, but allowed him to go to Sian.\n\nMeanwhile, however, Generals Yen and Feng had made close inquiries into the records of Kuo and other suspected characters.\n\nConvincing evidence of many crimes carried out by Kuo was secured, and he was summarily shot by order of the Tuchun.",
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        "content_text": "## 2\n\nSzechuan and the expulsion of Sun Yat-sen from Canton, the overthrow of Tang Ch'i-yao in Yunnan and of the Anfu leader, General Lu Yung-hsiang, in Chekiang, and finally, after most of the provinces have been thus dominated, an attack in force on Chang Tso-lin in Manchuria this summer. Tsao Kun is to become President, and he and Wu Pei-fu are then to proceed to the reorganisation of a unified China. It is of course notoriously difficult to forecast events in this country, but one cannot help feeling doubts as to the ability of Wu Pei-fu to succeed where Yuan Shih-kai failed. Perhaps the former, if checked in his plans at Canton, will abandon the attempt to unify the country by force, but for the moment at any rate all schemes for peaceful reunification appear to be relegated to the background, and we are faced with the prospect of continued turmoil and internal warfare throughout the country.\n\n## 7\n\nIn the meantime local rumours of the impending resumption of civil war in North China between Chihli and Manchuria continue to be prevalent, and certain movements of troops on both sides of the frontier between the Metropolitan Province and Manchuria have given colour to these rumours. Wu Pei-fu himself, however, denies any intention of attacking Chang Tso-lin as long as the latter remains within his own dominions, and he spoke in this sense to the military attaché during a visit which the latter recently paid to Loyang. A copy of Colonel Orpen-Palmer's report on this visit is attached to this despatch. As for Chang Tso-lin, he also denies any aggressive intentions, but professes to have conclusive proof that he is about to be attacked by Wu Pei-fu. I have the honour in this connection to enclose copy of a despatch (enclosure No. 3) from His Majesty's consul-general at Mukden, reporting on a conversation which he had with Marshal Chang on the subject of the Peking-Mukden Railway, in which the latter expressed himself in the above sense.\n\n## 8\n\nIn paragraph 9 of my despatch above referred to I mentioned the application, made to this Legation by the Wai-chiao Pu on behalf of Wu Pei-fu for permission for certain ships of the Chinese fleet now in Canton waters to refit at Hong Kong with a view to coming North. A curious development, indicative of the political plottings and counter-plottings which are now going on all over China, occurred in connection with this matter soon after, when the Minister of the Navy conveyed to me a secret message urging that permission for the ships to refit be refused on the grounds that the application had been made against the wishes of the nominally responsible Department, the Ministry of the Navy, and that no matter what guarantees were given, the vessels would after their refit be employed in the furtherance of Wu Pei-fu's military plans. A similar message was also delivered by Admiral Tu, the nominal Commander-in-chief of the Chinese navy, to His Majesty's consul-general at Nanking. I accordingly advised his Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong by telegram that, in view of the above and the strong opposition to the proposal shown by Sun Yat-sen (who had been sounded indirectly on the proposal) the matter had better be dropped, and received in due course his Excellency's reply expressing the hope that it might be possible to induce the Chinese Government to withdraw their application, which would otherwise have to be refused. The fact that hostilities had in the meantime broken out in the South afforded a suitable pretext for regarding the matter as closed, and I accordingly caused a private message to that effect to be conveyed to the Vice-Minister in charge of the Wai-chiao Pu, with an intimation that under the circumstances it was impossible to give any further consideration to the application, which we preferred to regard as withdrawn.\n\n## 9\n\nThe position of the Chinese navy in connection with the general political situation is somewhat as follows: The main flotilla, under the Commander-in-chief, Admiral Tu Hsi-kuei, remains in the Yang-tze in the neighbourhood of Nanking. It will be remembered that in last summer's civil war Admiral Tu supported Wu Pei-fu and the Chihli party in their fight against Chang Tso-lin and sent ships to Shanhaikuan to bombard Chang's line of communications on the Peking-Mukden Railway. From the developments recounted above, however, it is apparent that, like many other of Wu's former supporters (e.g., Feng Yu-hsiang), Tu has now become to some extent estranged from Wu, and, though he may not take the field against him, does not intend to further his military plans, at any rate as far as his operations against the South are concerned. The Chinese Ministry of Marine and the Chinese navy are very largely staffed and officered by Fukienese, and Wu Pei-fu's action in forcing a Northern Governor on Fukien has naturally aroused their opposition. Admiral Tu recently made another threat against the Yang-tzu salt revenues (as he did last spring) owing to the non-receipt of the monthly subsidy of several thousand dollars which he was supposed to draw therefrom for the payment of his men. It was fortunately not found necessary for the Legations to intervene, and the matter has, I understand, now been settled by the renewal of the subsidy. Another portion of the Chinese navy, consisting of the ships at Shanghai, have declared their independence of Peking, and appear to have placed themselves at the disposal of the Anfu leader, General Lu Yung-hsiang of Chekiang. A third portion, the five ships under Admiral Wen Shu-te in Canton waters, which the Central Government desired to refit at Hong Kong with a view to recovering them in Northern interests, had, I am informed, been heavily bribed by Wu Pei-fu to desert Sun Yat-sen, but permission for them to refit at Hong Kong having been refused, their commander will presumably now await developments with a view to joining the winning side.\n\n## 10\n\nIn Peking the prestige and authority of the Central Government continue to deteriorate, and the collapse of the Cabinet, which is as usual in extreme financial straits, is expected at any moment. Opposition to the Administration is becoming more and more apparent in Parliament, partly no doubt as the result of Sun's return to Canton and the outbreak of hostilities between him and forces representing Peking, and there have been unruly scenes in both Houses in connection with attempts to pass a vote of non-confidence in the Chang Shou-tseng Cabinet. Wellington Koo, who is still in Peking, was appointed Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs by mandate in the middle of April, but he has so far refused to accept the appointment, and the Wai-chiao Pu remains without a responsible head.\n\n## Enclosure 1 in No. 1\n\nI have, &c.\nR. MACLEAY.\n\n## Mr. Mayers's Notes of Conversation, April 18, 1923\n\n### Political Affairs: The Chihli Party's Programme\n\nThe following is a note of what was said to me on the 15th April by a Chinese official, who professes to know the policy of Tsao Kun and Wu Pei-fu:\n\nThe plan of dominating Szechuan has already succeeded. Chungking and Chengtu are occupied. The next step in the West and South-West will be to fight T'ang Chi Yao, the Tuchun of Yunnan, but this is less important than the movement against Sun Yat-sen at Canton. Within a month Shen Hung Ying (Shum) and Ch'en Ch'iung Min will drive Sun out of Canton, while Sun Chuan Fang - who is already in Foochow - with the assistance of forces now advancing from Kiangsi, will attack the Chekiang Tuli (Tuchun) Lu Yung Hsiang, and will then have the open support of Tuchun Ch'i at Nanking.\n\nWithin three months the Chihli party will dominate all the provinces south of the Great Wall except possibly Yunnan and Kueichow. Wu Pei-fu himself will probably go to Szechuan, to bring the province into order and smash Tang Chi Yao of Yunnan.\n\nAt the same time, say, in June, Generals Wang Huai Ching (Jehol), Peng Shou Hsin (Shanhaikuan) and Feng Yu Hsiang (Peking) will attack Chang Tso-lin (Mukden). The latter's generals and regimental commanders are nearly all Chihli men, and will come over to the Chihli side. It is all arranged.\n\nBy the autumn all will be over. It is all arranged. Tsao Kun will be elected President by the present Parliament or, if the present Parliament proves unmanageable, it will be dissolved and a new one will be elected, which will elect Tsao Kun as President. There must be a Parliament, because China is a republic, and it must be a large body of many hundreds of members because China is a large country. So Tsao Kun will be President, and the country will be unified. There will be no punishment or persecution of defeated rivals. They will become yuan lao (elder statesmen) and receive salaries. Chang Tso-lin will be required to live in Peking, but Sun Yat-sen can live where he likes.\n\nThe Cabinet will be formed of the most suitable men. Liang Shih Yi is a bad man, but suitable for Minister of Finance. He may be Minister of Finance. Yeh Kung Cho is also a bad man, but he has experience of railways. He may be Minister of Communications, because if Liang is Minister of Finance, Yeh must be Minister of Communications.\n\nLiang Ch'i Ch'ao will be Minister of Education. Wellington Koo or W. W. Yen will be Minister for Foreign Affairs. The difficulty is about the Premier. The most suitable man would be Tuan Ch'i Jui, but he cannot serve under Tsao Kun, as he is senior to the latter. Perhaps it will be Chou Tzu Ch'i. He is a ...",
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        "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL(2)\n\nSir,\n\n34204  \n27 JUL 25  \n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,  \nHONGKONG.  \n26th June, 1925.\n\nWith reference to my telegram of the 26th June, I have the honour to report the course of events in connection with the strike situation.\n\n2. The Shanghai incident, so far as could be seen, was entirely disregarded by the Chinese in the Colony. The Cantonese were in any event too busy with their own affairs, as they were about to make a supreme effort to oust the Yunnanese troops from Canton, an effort which was successfully accomplished on the 12th June. Mr. C. C. Wu, Minister for Foreign Affairs in Canton, Mr. Foo Ping-sheung, Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Sun Fo, son of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, were passing through Hongkong at the time, on their way from Swatow to Canton, and with my permission they were met informally at the house of one of the Chinese Members of the Legislative Council by Mr. Tratman, Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and Mr. Fletcher, Assistant Colonial Secretary. They professed an attitude of sincere friendship towards Hongkong and they appeared to be confident that they would be able to control the situation in Canton. It was suggested to them that the cumulative effect of the assistance already accepted from Russia in the shape of arms, money, Russian Officers, and Russian trained cadets would \n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE**  \nLIEUTENANT COLONEL **L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,**  \n&c., &c., &c.",
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        "content_text": "1 Powell L \n\nTelephone C. 457 \n\nUNDER NEW MANAGEMENT \n\nLADIES' \n\nLtd \n\nCHILDREN'S DEPTS. \n\nwe \n\nA \n\nTo make room for our New Goods, \n\nholding are SPECIAL CLEARANCE SALE in these Departments \n\nColossal reductions regardless \n\nof cost. \n\nBe sure you pay us \n\na visit during this week, August 22nd to August 29th. \n\nAN ENDOWMENT INSURANCE POLICY \n\nwill enable your family to redeem the mortgage \n\non your house if you die, and \n\nwill enable you to pay it yourself if you live. INSURE WITH \n\nCHINA UNDERWRITERS, LTD. \n\nAll Clauses of Life Insurance Business Transacted. \n\nLife Assurance Department. \n\n1. C. 1121. \n\nBt, George's Building. \n\nATTRACTIVE HANDBAGS \n\nFOR ALL OCCASIONS \n\nIN \n\nBATICK LEATHER \n\nSILK & SUEDE Also for Afternoon Wear and Many Dainty Novelties \n\nfor \n\nEvening Wear \n\nSMART NEW \n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING \n\n“PHOMENE” \n\nFIRE APPLIANCES. \n\n\"BRITISH THEREFORE BEST** \n\nTwo Gallon Type. Extinguishers as shown above are absolutely necessary in districts where water facilities are limited. Avoid risks and install \"Phomene.\" \n\nAsk for Particulars. Sole Agents \n\nMUSTARD & CO. 16-17 Connaught Road Central Phone 1126. \n\nACKNOWLEDGEMENT. \n\nPOST. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1926. \n\nPage 9 \n\nSHANGHAI ARMS SEIZURE. \n\nEX-ARMY OFFICER \n\nCHARGED. \n\nFRENCHMAN, GERMAN, AMERKAN AND CHINESE INVOLVED. \n\n(Our Own Correspondent.) \n\nShanghai, August 26. \n\nWEST RIVER PIRACY. \n\nSTANDARD OIL AGENT CAPTURED. \n\nTHE S.S. KWANG HUNG SEIZED AT KAU KONG. \n\nCANTON CHANGES. \n\nEFFECTS OF LIAO CHUNG-KAI'S DEATH. \n\n(From Correspondent.) \n\nCanton. August 23. It appears that the assassination of Liao Chang-kai, the late Bolshevik leader in Canton, is causing some serious changes in the political situation here. \n\nLu \n\n(An Occasional Correspondent.) \n\nWuchow, August 21. When the strike came into effect cutting off communication between \n\nIn connection with the French \n\nSongkong and Wuchow, the \n\nYau \n\naddition to the resignation of Wu \n\nder to recall him. Alternative \n\npolice seizure of arms and ammunition \n\nCompany of Hongkong Techen \n\nthe Police Commissioner, y, it can dismiss him directly. \n\ntion, estimated in value at $46,000 \n\nWuchow transferred several \n\nand the detention of Mei Kwang- \n\nThere are a number of cases in \n\nthere have been arrested Colonel \n\ntheir agents dying the Chinese \n\na Cantonese military consan \n\nwhich a diplomatic agent has \n\nJames Christie, a British \n\nany danger to the Canton-Wuchow \n\nservice. \n\nder, and several other military \n\nher recalled at the request of \n\nver, retired. Relegation \n\nCameral Daily \n\nadduhs have been maintain \n\nand police officers, as reported \n\nthe State in which he resides \n\nhavies \n\n15sch, alina Charles A. \n\ned. The weng Hung left Canton today, the case has also \n\ncatad for a breach of this rule. In \n\nNeed, an 1804, the Spanish Minister to \n\nperson & Frothman \n\nwatert ss usual, for Wuchow, striving of the City Executive Committee. \n\nAmerleen named on Tuesday morning August 18, the resignation of C. C. Wa, Chief \n\nthe United States, attempted to \n\nChrist formerly in the castonte \n\nser- Kan Keg at 9 are the same \n\nvenho tendered his resignation \n\nres- bribe a newspaper to publish \n\nan article in favour of Spain. with \n\nported to be the secretary of \n\nber of pirate ware travelling as its \n\nto accord protection to the de- \n\nroference to a dispute in \n\nGeneral Wong Tse-hua in whose \n\npassengers. When they opened fire \n\ncease high oficial press between \n\ntwe exuntries, aslan were discovered \n\n340,000 \n\nsimultaneously in various parts of; \n\nen the United Sutes anked for \n\nincluding a quantity of counter- \n\nthe ship, several steam launches \n\ntang party said to he suspected \n\nhis recall. For years later, the \n\ntatt tns which the police assert \n\ncame out from the river banks \n\n2 United States were again \n\nquesting the recall of a Minister \n\nas \n\nthe purchase money. The \n\nsarmmanded the steamer. In \n\nAmerican, French and British \n\nWix.] showong 1our \n\nThis time of Mr. Jackson, \n\nThe Courts when the eases \n\nBritish Ambasador, the charge \n\nbeing that in certain toaste given \n\nat pablle dinners he had charged. \n\nBREACH OF TRUST. \n\nAnother member of the Kucmin- \n\nby the authorities is \n\nCheckman \n\nJai, an aviator, formerly District Magistrate of Taungabau and a faithful follower of the late Dr. Sun Yur-ken. I \n\nis understood \n\nwith \"Talsehood and duplicity.\" \n\nSAPORE MAN GETS HEAVY \n\nand he well-to-do. \n\nAfter deliberation, the Ambasea- \n\nthe American administration \n\ndor was recalled, but the British Government duly placed on \n\nvocord that \"His Majesty's Guy- ernment has not marked with \n\nMrs. Lorne Murphy, of the \n\nany expression of displeasure \n\nStation Hot Kowloon, who has \n\nSENTENCE. \n\n· Our Own Correspondent.) \n\nSingapore. August 25. \n\nMr. Compton Cooper, ex-ciskier \n\nTa pirates nas ap apathat \n\nan order has been issued for \n\nsengers and by examining the \n\nthe arrest of Jai, who bas now \n\nhazds of the passengers made \n\ndis- tiretion between the working \n\nappeared, as the revolver used \n\nby the assasain in shooting Liau \n\nAs found with coarse hands were \n\nChunu-kai is Rileyed to being \n\nreleased, \n\nWounded Editor Dies, \n\ntuned. Those with lady dngers\" \n\nwere do- \n\nChan Chau-lam, who was with \n\nashore and the best was \n\nscrunchly \n\nLizo Coung-si and received for \n\ncleaned out. The Captcha was \n\nious wounds ciro, passed away \n\nThe Captain is a Bri \n\nalso taken. \n\njust returned by the imprese \n\nof does not appear to have \n\ncon- of Messra Job Liste And Co. \n\nWand has bees \n\nwary offlsiently for three days in a very critical \n\ntish ahjust noted \"Chen Kam,\" \n\nbital, where he had ocen lying \n\nThis tnorning at the Kung Yee \n\nCanada, destres to convey her \n\nmitted any international offence \n\nconvicted of a breach of trust \n\nin sincere thanks to Mr. H. P. White \n\nagainst the United \n\nthe navigation of this condition. \n\nStates,\" the sum of $4,000 \n\na yetenosil to meble steamer for the past several \n\nditor of the China News in Hong \n\ndueting Mr. Wiarson, Cant. Turnball \n\nAgain in 1871 the United States \n\nthree months hard labour in add \n\nChan was formerly \n\nand all officers of the Douglas \n\nrequests the recall of the \n\ntiva is a tire of $500 with the \n\nPears. All told about fisty \n\nDoug and after his paper was \n\nSteamatip Chowany and friends \n\nRussian Minister, fox inturail- \n\nernative of six mutha' ingrison, \n\nsengers were held captive. The \n\ni pressed he came back to Canton \n\nwe attended the fanem of her \n\nterence in its internal affairs, \n\nart in default as payment... \n\nsteamer was then allowed to \n\nand became an editor of the Min \n\nlato hachawdd und sent wreaths, \n\nand whilst most people will \n\nremen- \n\nber the comparatively recent \n\nWachon on the night of August 20th, \n\njast twants-war hours tale. $120,000 \n\nRansom Asked. Among those taken captive \n\nin her recent sad bereavement. \n\ncase of Dr. Danba, who was recalled by Austria from the \n\nThe Borning Post \n\nWEDNESDAY, Aveer 26, 1025. \n\nComrade Karakhan, \n\nground that he proposed to \n\nhis, government plane ic engineeri \n\nstrikes in American steelworks, \n\nwitich \n\nmanufacturing \n\nWern \n\nmunitions of war. A case of mutual dismissal of Ministara by \n\nFOOD SUPPLIES. \n\nPORE, MUTTON AND BEEF PLENTIFUL. \n\nReduced Demand. \n\nNeo Jia Pag. He was also an in- \n\nfacial ember of the Central Executive Committee \n\nof \n\nthe Kuomintang. \n\nof \n\nwei now chairman of the Brein- \n\nSiner the death of Mr. Liao \n\na number of prominent ciftens \n\nof Cheng-kai, the Soviel Representa- \n\ntire in Canton, who is now High \n\ntravelling as a third class passanger \n\nAdvisor in the Nationalist Govern- \n\nto avoid recognition, as he le well \n\nknow on the Wert River. Mr. Chap- \n\nof a man to succeed Liao in the \n\nLong in the Wochow agent of the \n\ntasks which the deceased and M. \n\nSuch har ter the improvement \n\nlard Oil Company and has \n\nBorngin had been jointly perform- \n\nWe have recently become so \n\nby Great Thilair and Spain in the \n\nfood stastion during the large \n\nancial de cesto. \n\naccustomed to the spectacle of \n\noccurred in 1848. Aravclution \n\npast for days, that restrictions \n\nofmediately recoguised and was \n\nsentative bax found Wang Ching- \n\nHe was ing. So far the Russian repre- \n\nSpain the Soviet Government \n\nviolating reverent in \n\nwas the slaughter if native rattle \n\nbave infurewd as spon payenere \n\ninternational law and exploiting! \n\ni wn to have the spinpality of \n\nzou been removed and the supply \n\n$120,000 he would be immediately \n\ntive Committee of the Nationalist \n\nthe huden diplomatic system \n\nthe British Forestry in a class \n\ntopping the denialet. His assistant and wife \n\nGovernment, the called parson. \n\nits-uture, TARE Tho rucent \n\nPalmerston. I was also \n\nConsumption is being that of \n\nwere wish him. The wife \n\nRussian known that Mr. Bulwer, the Bri- \n\nnormal times, owing probably to the \n\nreleased but the assistant was held. \n\nkecs Conference in the Eden-- \n\nrevolations of the \n\nwas When Wang atleaded the Wer- \n\nCorrespondent to the North \n\n(ish Mtalster at Madrid, het \n\nof people in the Mr. Chap- \n\ntour has been 1 for a \n\nChina Daily News, concerning the same tows as Lord Pabner \n\nCloux, bat uriously cough, this \n\nnumber of weeks non after a long \n\nterany a large number of Wham- \n\ncioual Association Buliding \n\nya- the Soviet's Ambassador to \n\nfan, although he had carefully \n\nis neve instint in beef \n\nBras D \n\nstay in Canton was \n\nreforming \n\nrape Codete escorted him. \n\nKong Paking, end his activities in \n\ntrained from expressing those \n\nany other mest. \n\nWarhow far trestuent. \n\nYing-fan promotiog Bolshevism in China, \n\nviews or from acting upon then \n\nKwangcharwad is now maintain. \n\nzasunod Other taken prisoner inclufofee of Conumissar of finance of \n\nnecasion very little surprise in \n\nany way during the revolting \n\na regalar supply of pigs and \n\non. Chiu Lau-tong, the Principal \n\nthe Provinia Government and \n\nMinister of Finance of the Nation. \n\nundoubtedly have to he a reckon \n\nexpert dismissed him, and return \n\nof more than 200, \n\nmer School of the Christian and \n\nis slat Government corrarently, \n\nand Palmeraton, reply, which \n\nexceets that for any one day \n\nlonary Alliance at Warhow \n\narissed the Spanish Minister in \n\nsince the commencement of the \n\nten Chinese preachers of this \n\nmia- ing these breaches of the \n\nusers onder. The distaiesal of \n\nLode. There are at Jones \n\n1,000sion Mr. Wong Ueno \n\nsut Mr. Lel \n\nAlavies the deceased Lino. \n\nof civilised nations, it is well to have \n\nou veront in what parti- \n\nSackville, the British Ambassa- \n\npigs in stock and this is being \n\nKip-chi. cats Comrade Karakhat has \n\ndor to Washington, in 1888 \n\nseems added a daily. \n\nThe abject of the attach \n\nan this. \n\ning with Russia one day, respect \n\nAUE.UUT \n\nagain offended, assuming what to \n\nbave been rather a straining \n\nNative cattle supplies exceed \n\nthe vessel serns to have been to \n\nobtain seama winest incontestable \n\nat the international right given \n\ndement and the dealers may now \n\na large shipment of money that \n\nwas During and market without restraint \n\nsupposed to re aboard for one f \n\nthat the documents published in \n\nto an offended State. \n\nHad \n\nTHE SANITARY BOARD). \n\nNEW BY-LAWS ADOPTEL. \n\n-- \n\nthe \n\nM. N. Smith presided over a \n\nthe North China Daily News are \n\nthe American presidential elee \n\nSanghat is applying sheep as \n\nare the lees; hanks, Silver \n\nicin and peeting of the Sanitary Bourd \n\nhet authentic. In their handling \n\nof \n\nthe situation in China the Bol- \n\nwas formerly British subject, \n\namount of local mutton is to be \n\ndomand in Wachow later and \n\nsince the embargo on wall cap \n\nfront. T. Groney, Dr. I. W. Tae. Dr. \n\nthe greatest skill and efficiency. \n\nThey have utilised every little \n\nhow he was to give his \n\nvoted but poultry eat eves \n\nshow a tendency whether Mr. Cleveland, if 23- \n\nA \n\nto increase. Vagetables and \n\na bank notes and anali coin have \n\ngood example of this is the atti- \n\nelectal, would support a policy \n\nage he obtained at little more \n\nbeen arriving daily from Canton. \n\ntude conveyed by their Embassy \n\nof friendliness to England. Lord \n\nto oimal rises and generally at \n\nPaking. The Foreign Powers \n\nSackville replied to vague and \n\nspeaking, the situation is extremely \n\nare represented in China by \n\nneral terms that any satiating \n\nand is cally becoming \n\nthe other more se- \n\nfavouring Ministers only, and not by \n\nfull pecly Ambassadors. The explanation \n\ncountry would inse popularity\" \n\nof this is the disturbed conditiou \n\nthat he boliavad Mr. Cleveland \n\nIt is a fact that a large hand \n\nat plates have been operating in the \n\nteretaty), Mr. D. Tavies \n\nand Mr. G. Kennedy kiten also \n\npresent. \n\nreserving \n\nThe dret by laws governing fond \n\nestablish pools and seruted water \n\nmanufactorios CAIDS months. The leader of this \n\nremarking that there was \n\nup for consideration, the chairman \n\nKau Kong weinig for everal \n\nSPORTS COATS \n\nof China, which robs the country \n\nwas desirous of maintain \n\nEnture is lisaged in an editorial \n\nCanton and Muceo. She is called \n\nBoar went into exilee. \n\nIN \n\nLIGHT-WEIGHT \n\nTWEEDS \n\nand WOOLLENS \n\nHAVE ARRIVED; \n\nALSO \n\nCREPE RUBBER SOLED \n\nGOLF BROGUES. \n\nLADIES' GOLF CLUBS. We have a large selection by leading makers. Prices $6 & $7. \n\nLANE, CRAWFORD'S \n\nPEDDER STREET, \n\nLADIES \n\nSALON \n\nhe \n\nIx reported to ese to be a women \n\nsession regarding them who frequently vita fongkong hocght it would he better if the \n\nof its full internation statusing friendly relations with Groat \n\nin the Gentini Chin Port. \n\nThey theyhinese is affectionate terms \n\nwas im-paper pins ont that the opinion \n\nThe Pirate Queen. She ensure \n\nwas no diariasier they might: When the Soviet turned its \n\nBritain, although it attention to Cbica, however, it \n\npossible to predict his course \n\nis held by Chinese that they can \n\ntainly seria now to be at leent \n\nthe \n\nDr. Petrse paid at the 'sat meet- \n\nrealised \n\nSHANGHAI INCIDENT, \n\nhe then ca bloc \n\nIf \n\nshould be made and these rensals \n\n[ead now been digrala bed. \n\nthat for Bulshevis beforehand.\" \n\nThis correspon- \n\ngo on strike jug! when they \n\nplease! \"qseen of the Wajk\" \n\naround Kaighe xare reasons why \n\nthe by-law \n\npurposes Peking would be the \n\ndie becoming known to the \n\nand when they come back \n\nreceive Kong. most important capital in the United States Government, \n\nFord their old jobs again and be paid \n\nworld. Accordingly the Sovint \n\nSackville was discussed by them, \n\nin full for the time when no work \n\nappointed as Chinese Ambassa- \n\nIt seems imposible to justify \n\nwas, done, a of which, the vaper \n\ndor (and not Mister) one of the \n\naction of the United States \n\nadds, ia pact and purest of the \n\nIts most capable agents. \n\nin this stance, since diplomatic \n\npresent Chisens belief that they \n\nA resnit of this, since usage and common sense allkej \n\ncan do what they wian with \n\nfor Ambassarlor takes precedence \n\nof sume that twn States wish to \n\ncizners, shoot them and all the \n\nMinister, Comrade Karakhan \n\nremain in friendliness with one \n\nrest of it, but retaliation in the \n\nwas placed at the outect in an \n\nanother until the contrary is \n\npart of the foreigners becomes a \n\nexceedingly favourable position, \n\nproved. These cases Ulustrate heinous crime. Whilst that state \n\nTo neutralise the advantage thus \n\nthe strictness with which a \n\nStatement correctly \n\nAs \n\nMER \n\nCalerpreted \n\nthe \n\nITALIAN MINISTER'S CONFERENCE. \n\nShanghal, Angust 20. On the 21st the Italian Minister called upon Shay Jai un stating that the Diplomatic Corps was asiti \n\nOn Dr. Macgown intimating that he wishna to discuss the by- laws nevemag the quality of water used in making aurated waters and le the matter of cleaning belts before they wwe died a second time, the chairman moved thus the Board go into committee, which was immediately done. \n\nOn the Board resuming, the by- \n\nlaws, siended, wern adopted. \n\nat the present time prueervan its Chinese viewpoint before the desirous of a speedy settlement af cleverly and legitimately obtain integrity from the activities of strike, is questionable whether the Shanghai incident and esposed el by the Bolsheviks, \n\nthe foreign diplomate agents accre that opinion is generally helt arst to negotiate the restoration of Ministers of the Powers reited to it. Since Gains wishes longkong to-day. In fack, the Mixed Court, leaving the other presented at Peking retained thei \n\nto be ensidered a member of pride ourselves on the fact that Heme to be discussed systematical Diplomatic Corps, which at the Farily of Nations, and is the strikers who have returnedy. Shum Jaalus priznised to take ority of 95005 per cent has been through the agency of the senior therefore bound by international have been taught a lesson they will the prosal into consideration-produced by the Hoope electrolyti Minister (who is at present the law to respect the usages of cot men farget \n\nIt is true that Tsui Wan Yat Po. Traian Minister) on all qacations \n\ncame back affecting the relations of the civilized States, its obvious when more of them: \n\nPowers with China. The duties ourze would be to investigate they had the audacity to ask for of diplomatic agent may be immediately these documents their full pay. but in no se, 20 de5ned as the prosecution of bia which inplicate the Soviet Am-far as our knowledge gou as country's interests diplomatical-assador en extensively, and, this conceded. \n\nly with the foreign government and the charges true, its only \n\nOn course is to dismiss him unma \n\ndiately. privileged \n\nAbinina chaited to have a \n\nje pessors, and is stated to differ \n\nvery materially from the ordinary \n\nPEKING UNIVERSITY. \n\n90 per cent aluminion sheet It is Parók shorter. Ik zemina notarnish \n\nOn the Aber haul! IN FAVOUR OF COMMUNISM. god uery were given the order! \n\nof the boot. Thanks to tas fra \n\natkiude zdoyted by the Govern \n\nThe \n\njed in air a long time, and is hee such greatly increased resistance lne szida anit other chemicals that Paklog, Angue: 8. \n\njis endines & week'a imuaersion in Minister of Education droolric acid with only slight ment and the community general Chang Szchas, stated at the Gabi effect, although the ordinary shest Ar. the retioned stikers have niet meeting that the Peking Uni-metal is hsscived completely in been completely disillusioned, and veralty was in favour of voor bath The chic parity there is a strict rule of inter- The important point of what thewe very much doubt whether they; uism and desired to sevOr connec-contained in the commercial TEKS national law, forbiding him to employer is going to do to safe-1 will be as anxious to ge ont agala' tion with the Ministry of Edutainhure is epper, the iron and silicon interfere in the hiternal politics guard houself from strikes in the uz they were ou this occasion, tion-Fun Wan Yat Po. \n\nhaing is very stall amousk \n\nio which he is accredited. account of the position which he enjoys in consequence \n\nof these duties, The Strike and After. \n\nOVER-NIGHT CABLES. \n\nANGLO-FRENCH CONVERSATIONS. \n\n\"PARTICULARLY CORDIAL ATMOSPHERE.\" \n\nFrance Asks Equal Treatment With Italy. \n\nParis, August 35. While expressing satisfaction at the \"parifcaleriy cordial etmospbare\" in the conversations between Mr. Churchill and M. Calllaux, the new siapers continue to urge the necessly of speciai | consideration for Prince. \n\nL'Ecko de Paris's London outrespondent anys that M Caillaux | insisted that Mr. Churchill give auge vgual treatment with Ealy. The correspondant hopes the impression will not gain ground that Britain it using the question of debts gain Italy's good graces. \n\nLe Petit Journal, referring to the heavy eenditions\" which the United States imposed on Balzium and the suggestion of the Limited Status impose harsher term on France, says that the foreign press and public appear to forget that all this wi crente a sale of economie inossibilĥouter. \n\nLondon, August 25. \n\nM. Caillaux spent the morning at the French Embassy with his experte. M. Caillax taler visited fancices in the city, meeting Mr. Churchill at the Teasury Tata is the afternoon.- \n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925. \n\nTHE \n\nCLEAR OUT \n\nBOLSHEVISTS. \n\nGREAT MASS MEETING URGES HOME GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION. \n\nPROMPT AND DECISIVE MEASURES URGED. \n\n\"THE CANGER MUST BE RUTHLESSLY CUT OUT.\" \n\nOpposition Speaker Heckled, \n\nA \n\nThe haii \n\nA peene of great enthusiasth we witnessed at the Theatre Royal last evening when a great mass meeting of Hongkong residents aicpted, practically uniously, a roselation urging the Home Gov- srument to deliver an affam to the Canton authorities. was crowded, fally one thousand people being present. The addresses made in support of the resolation were frequently ami fourty ap planded, but one speaker who ventured to votes appcaition, met with good deal of beckling. The proceedings, which lastet for chise \n\nBritish National Antham. upon two hours, were brought to a conclusion with the singing withe \n\nThe meeting has provided over the Governments at Hors \n\nHis \n\nthe spot. who know and realise; the exbrerse govily of the eitis- Etia (Applause). \n\nThe telegram we send to-night,. therefiae, whatever may be sɛid! jlo speechee, about! avolii any. \n\nthing like viient language in the Text and confine itself to isspres. give statements of farts and such [deinands as ure reasonably set Forth and yousible of viiment. is with this object, in view that the suggested telegram, which has tor sutne time appeared in the Press, that eigin receive matitve: gonsideration by you ali, hat been most carofully druited, and 2 trustj ithet ne material alteration to it I will be called for \n\nWaking up at Lask To epits of all that has been telegraphed, until a few days ako It compelled to helieve that the Government at Home still consi- dar that the liongkozy aus South China troubles are all part of the \"China onesting,\" whton propej after the \"Shanghet weilent\" or are bound up with that Sheldonti \n\nWhile M. aflux was busy at the French Embassy Mr. Church by the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyank, Fixuellency the fovernor in eirag and the Young Chine Nationalist was similarly engaged with his experts at the Treasury ludying the whe was supported on the plat upon this letter had authorised me Movement, and can be settled by French viewpoint. Owing to last atinute changes in the plans om by Sir Hoary Pollock, Hou to quote that portion of his letter cuees or socle special envy, hut Fon-csestations in Poking, confer- Ceilex week the Treasury at wes to sen Mr. Chrehjli.--Rezston i My, IT, W. Bird, Hon. Mr. G. G. \n\nwhich refers intimately to thisise recent shipping proclamations Alabaster, K., Mr. A. Macgowan pronunciation at the Canton Club: or the Canton authorities son at: (Swab), Mr. W. & Bailey, Mr. \n\nagree with Sie Jane Jamieson's Inst to be waking it up. Heat J. Owen Hughes, fr. W. A. Towies lection to the thily Pres art-hear). and others. \n\nfele, and should like you to an- \n\nOBITUARY. \n\nMAJOR GENERAL REGINALD C. W. E. MITFORD. \n\nThe death is announced of Mejut General Regina Beverley Mitford.--Mouder. \n\nDoes His Majesty's Government; The Chairman, before proceed-derstand that consider that still utterly disbelieve the reapon ing with the business for which his present Juncture Sir Jamesponsible statenate made in the the meeting bed bean culled, said: Jamieson has done everything any stream of eables of the gravest 1 desire to straighten out an incl- body in that position could do ature by the Governor of this dent connecteit with our original and I should greatly regret any Colony, and all the responsible! meeting. You will remuetaber that dea that there is a lack of entles already on the spot refer \n\nThe trouble red to, or do they seriously profess! KC that they are cuable any longer \n\nfiere \n\nof because \n\npared to shanden, the lights of in protect, or at any rate are pre-j British subjects secured to taem \n\nRoen at Waterloo Manor, Hants, February 20 \n\nthat neither General Mitford was the youngest son of the late 31. Join Words that original public noting operation bereen va barrister at law and the grandson of the historien of Greece. Based ot only a resolviton of \n\nanything, confidence in Sir Juanes Jamieson, do was educated at Rugby and was appointed en eusten in the India His Baleaty's Consul General inhing that other of us ca Army in 1855. He served in the Indian Mutiny during which he was Cantan, but we paid has a high the only people who can set severely wercdel and was mentioned in despatches, receiving the tribute. After that he was grill. His Majesty's Government G. G. O. He was recommended for the Victoria Cross by Lord Clyde and in the public Press. da October 29, 1358 Ia i Nogi West Frontier Expeditions, fericism was undebtedly largely and later in the Afghan War, be gained distinction and eventually due, if not entirely, to a sun- retired in 1826. He was a craui travetter and had toured the Orient-derstanding, wad I feel that it is Ladies and gentlemen, on the Authorities \n\nThe Chairman, proceeding, said: Ameries and civilised Karope and had pablished a number of books due to His Majesty's Consul 27th dealing with the countries visited and in the subject of the fran Geners in Canton that that itaing \n\nJuly Just Al \n\nMutiny. \n\nthis Theatre. \n\nRose Edouin, Actress. \n\nLandor, August 25. \n\nThu \n\n(Applause). \n\nThe Chairman's Speech. \n\nbeld ip \n\nmset- \n\nsolemn trsaties and will they supiusly automir, to the Javest hi-j Rofent challenges to Great Britain| of the present Canton Boisberlat \n\nI know well the difuuhtes they so hayo jo face in wont of unanimity: tion should be definitely cleared up crowded that very us ourd not and help from other \"Powers,\" an ad this meeting (Applanon). I may get in-smugst other thinge-His well as fire great industrial pro say that before leaking this state-Majesty's Government was urged bleins they have to deal willi et The death is announced of the cetogezarian actress Rose Fdouin muut I submitted it, because it is a strongly worded and gravely Home, but, unless this Canton who toured with the first English company in India and the Far Eartperry the Government to the considered rosetation that situation is tackled seriously and managed by her husband, Mr. Lewis---Rastor, \n\nINDIAN COTTON DUTIES. \n\nJAPAN CHARGED WITH DUMPING, \n\nGovernor, and I bave He consent İshould immediately inform the at once, not only will Brilish juler- ot only to make the stavovases but i de forte Governmet in Canton asts here and in South China be bis vermismos also to quote some that unlove it withdraws Rs sup-fcrippled for years to comes bus the remarks in a letter concerning th port of the attack upon British in Bolshevik pofamous propaganda A Newspaper Article. terupts, it will de regnaded un he will spread like fire, Soget through \n\nStratz \"The Consul General in a recent ny entered into a alete of busidity the \n\nSuttlements, 01 address, at the Clah, referred with the British Gayetä tuke , 20 \n\nthrough human and into Indu,! Receiving a depatation of Bombay mill-owners, the Viceroy hung Dalla Frege of the 1h inst. for reasons which it is impossible it be a tremendous conflagration. The leading artfela in the long- Almost a monta has passed and with the visa that not only will declared that the cotton ezelse dry cannot be abolished remediately under the handing of Sir James to understand, that vitally impur-for the nation to fight, but the for financini reascun, but the Government is pledged to abolition when Jamieson, which you have doubt tant telegram, which elemanly restrial problems at Hew and! finemial considerations perut. \n\nDincasing the suggested and-damping menseres apalast Japanid that it was based on 20 in throughout South China withersport trade will be increase the \n\nless read. \n\nThe Consul General cited existing conditions here sederployment through lack of the Vicorns admitted that he was prewed by the deputation's ecrrect appreciation of the situa- jone word of exaggeration, but fact, that must be faced statements regarding Japanese labour conditions, but the milers. He esglained that the Canparently been completely ignoret \n\nantrously. Streng words, but had not substantiated the charge of damping by definite facts andton Governani forwarded certain by His Majesty's Government.theless, and I wish we could ngures. He undertook to have the question examined if evidenre were decade following the shooting \n\nThere has been a sittle confusion route the people of England to \n\nafray et June 23rd fast, and these about these talegrams. \n\nunderstand and realise them. The cult densands, which were forwarded to Edential reply\" refered to lu me \n\n(ADDINERO). Lorden and Paris, were as follows: letter to the \"Press\", I should Cancer Must Be Rezoved. \n\nOsco and for all let it again he I. High Conmiasteners of the here explain, was a confidential; \n\nratione involved, to apologise, zaswer to one of the many tele clearly stated that no conference 2. Adaquate punishment of e arus sent Home by the Clumber in Peding, or any amber of them, General and the of Commerce, There has been no special comdesioner or envy. \n\nproduced.—Rextar. \n\nTHE LEAGUE'S OPIUM COMMITTEE. \n\nJAPAN TO RATIFY CONVENTIONS, \n\n------ \n\nGeneva. August 25. In the course of the proceedings in the Leagus d Nations Opium Committee, Docker Tsurum announced that Japan world ratify the Opfum Conventions elaborated at the rorent inferuational conferences. -Router. \n\nAMERICA AND NEW ZEALAND, \n\nA GENEROUS TOKEN OF APPRECIATION. \n\nAuckland, August 28. The American avai otticary and men hava donated $1,000 tu the) Institute for the Blind, in recogullion of the hospitality of the citizens of Auckland-Reuter. \n\nConsul \n\nSealer Naval Officer, \n\nanswer whatever to the telegram houver distingutahed and how \n\nthe 27th of July. \n\n3. No further troope or sum-of-feom the public neting held on ever much he may help the North- \n\nwar to come to Cantor. \n\n4. Withdrawal of wavahipa from \n\nen ureblem, can possibly settle \n\nTo-night, with conditions Infinite the prevent aluustion in Canton. Canton or delte, excett two worse than they were then and which is not a Chinees problem nespatch fosats for the use of with further declarations of the attack upon Hongkong and \n\nat all, but a Bolshevik ore and thaij the Consulate. \n\nhostility against Great Britain by British Interest in South Ce 5. Compensation for killed and the Canto authorities, we are Russian in its origin und that: \n\nwounded. \n\nmat in even greater unbere. they are using their Chinese dupes to further their conspiracy against \n\n6. Rerdition of balá Concessions endorse the options which have \n\nWhere is a cancer \n\nTo the Franxiang Govern-poured ions from every rep Great Britain. merk \n\nsible bady Government, Unofcial \n\nIn our midst which threatens the London and Paris replied to the inembers of both Counctie, Cham- effect that those derauds could be of Cmurarer backed by er must be ruthlessly cut out and then \n\nChinese 29 much as ourselves--it, not be considered. The new Car-large interest hore, Chuna Asrouls-sooner the better. (Applause). ten Government that assomed to and private telegram- \n\nLadies and gentlemon, with the cffice on July 1st, repeated these jhat is Majesty's Government hope that our legram to the demands and stated that no resto-cannot piesd ignorance upon the Prime Minister may assist him tel Seven negro soldiers of the thighth Infantry Regiment wersation of coral relations and eltuation. killed whan a howitzer burst during pracilce. Reuters American they had been discussed. \n\nsvaditions coule be aspected before Service. \n\nGUN ACCIDENT. \n\nNEGRO SOLDIERS KILLED, \n\nRockford. H., Aufust 25. \n\nCHINESE TARIFF CONFERENCE. \n\nwww.co \n\nBRITAIN WILL ATTEND. \n\nLondon, August 25. The British Government has now accepted the invitation of the Chinese Cuvornmunt attend the tariff conference on the 23rd October-Rauter. \n\nMOTOR ACCIDENT, \n\nDUTCH SOCIALIST KILLED. \n\nBrussels, August 25. M. Nan Kol, the Daich evetallet, ex-Scoater and colonial expert, has been killed in a motor zevident.-Reuter \n\nFRANCE AND SPAIN IN MONOCCO. \n\nOFFENSIVE TO BEGIN IN TEN DAYS. \n\nFOR BATHING PARTIES, \n\nPICNICS, etc. \n\nJAS. BUCHANAN & CO.S BLACK & WHITE WHISKY \n\nin FLASKS & FLASKS. \n\nFitted with glass stoppers, no corkscrew required. \n\nPRICE OF FLASKS \n\n55 \n\n+1 \n\n$2.10 $1.10 \n\nDONNELLY & WHYTE \n\nTel Contral 635. \n\nSole Agenta. \n\n2. Queen's Buildings. \n\nRid Your Home of Flies with \n\nFLYOSAN \n\nUPER-INSECTICIDE, \n\nAlso ills Roaches, Mosquitoes, Mathe, Azta, Redbugs, Lice. Fleas and other Insects. NON-POISONOUS \n\nto every other form of Animal Life. \n\nFOR SALE AT \n\nTHE CHINA DISPENSARY. \n\n32, Quang's Road t \n\nEast of Central Market, \n\nPhone 594 \n\nAre you still doing the \n\nwashing? \n\nIf so why not \n\nhave a gas wash boiler \n\nIt saves time \n\nmoney and \n\nclothes. \n\nFor sale or \n\nhire from \n\nHONGKONG & CHINA GAS CO., \n\n9 \n\nLTD. \n\nreside for the purpose of all steamship communication be carrying on the moreaufile tween Canton and Hongkong, bath pursuits, without molesta- direct and via Maeso, and also for loo or restraint, ut Chaton, the boycet in Cantor and other Amoy. Foochuw, Ningpc aud porta la South China as well a Article V of the Treaty of British subjecte ships and goods. Shanghai \n\nStrategy, Amoy and Foochons, of \n\nNanking which British They have also openly declared Merchants are permitted, er her intention of destroying by ail porta where Dhey mazy every means in their power, Hong- reside \"to carry on their kong, ts trade and prosperity. Tuercantile transa \n\nWith whatever sevsons they classes entering and elearing to inse.\" \n\nand from Hongkong wos 70,330 Article X of the Trozty of vesadis totalling 5,000,000 tons. Nanking authorising yoout From Jet January to 30th June belonging to British Mer-fast the average daily number of chard to be conveyed by yesek entering and caring Chinese Murchants to any Hongkong has been 60 vessels province or City in the averaging 99,600 to Since the Interior of China. \n\nerists started the average daily \n\nrealise the true position in Hong- The Gravity of the Slination, What \n\nkong and South Chica and so lend I confess I find in Gillealt do to prompt and decision action then has the craul General to \n\nIspunit without voicing L indigna- either in cogurt with other disease with the Canton over we all foui at the procrastina Powers or if need be, by Great) ner with H viwy to ending the \n\n[tion, hit 1 recoguise they Bus Britain stone, I beg to formally present situation. le he to discuss \n\ncitration is an gave that I desire amove thas the following telegram his own punishment or the ren- dition of the British Concession to avoid saying oue word which he sent from this meeting to Hir may be regarded, at Home, za Majests'e Prime Minister in Lor- Home Government faces theseterical or which may give or don \n\nmements to prempe and direct ac- It will be secunded by Mr. W. S1) Article XI of the Treaty of number of vessels entering and decauda? The mere fact of dig-tion, in Cantea, ecession to dia- Bailey, and after that has been feussing then: would be an AU- \n\nnission that the incident of June out our advice or undervalue done I shall be glad to bear ther unis meeting. No one who has reukors hefure putting the tale 123rd was greated by Shameer, been away from Hongkong and gram to the meeting. (Applause). \n\nwhich we kauss deinitaly to be South Ching, even for the last six \n\nThe Resciation. \n\n10. \n\nTientsin which also opened clearing Hongkong has been 1 Swatow and okker Southern russels totalling 36,579 tens only. Porta for Foreign trade and but these figures include \"P. & 0.\" stated that “il is agreed that \"Blue Funnel\" \"President\" and Brith aubjects are pertait. \"Empress vessels which are nat ted to carry an irade with affected by the buycolt. whomenever thay please, and proceed to and fro wt pleasure with their ve vels and merchandise.\" Chatton a Gateway. 1 \n\nThe obwrvance of these provi- \n\nOur Canton trade comprising some 12 large Passenger vessels has been entirely stopped. Since the lat Jaly the average daily number of skipa including river zieamars, held up through the boy- cost has been 5 of which 15 rre \n\nmentus, could possibly conceive | This Colony as a vital part of Dally Prem Knew Wothing \n\nhow dangerous the Bolshevik the British Empire, Haring aires ly now absolutely nothing about the on British Oterests, and I wishram unanunealy passed at \n\nThe Daily Prese states that they treat is. with its epelat attack vately appanded through le measures that are being taken to that a few of my own personal frea: Mass Meeting held on July bring the present deadlock to a friends who, until a very few years 1271b and passed on by the Gover- end and that as far as they are ago, huid the same responsible nor at its request. to Hils Murjesty's sware the Hongkong Goverment positions out here as those who Government, now appeals to His jare equally in the dark. The Con-to-day have drafted many of the Majesty's Prime 31ster to take sions of the Treaties is imperative \n\nsul General folvement as that important telegrams to which steps to have the following pro-fox the commoerusal prosperity of Britian, Paris, august 25. Reports from Madrid state that Guteral Prano do Rivers has Peking and \n\nropies of all his despatelos in hat already referred, were here visions of the Treaties of Nunking this Colony, seeing that Camson is the Foreign Office now to study the situation for 1942 and Tientsin 1858 betas ceu the principal gateway for British aaronneest that the offensive against the Riffs will begin in en dags have been forwarded to Bosghongshomssives, and they would quicke Great Britain and China carried trade into South Chine. tine-Renter, \n\nand the Hongkong Government realise how woefully and dia-out, amely: therefore know ail ifat the Congal astrously, the \"Cantou situation\" General has written. As the Con and the peril of Hongkong and aul General pointed out, there is South Chins are being misunder ne possible basis for discussion stood in London to-day and give 1 here, and the next move rexe with; leredence and ear to those, upos \n\nEVACUATION OF THE RUBK. \n\nDuested biên Aorus 25 \n\nThe French evacuation bas been completed. Router. \n\nTo-day there are 16 of which 22 are British. \n\nThe present Canton Authorities The recent proclamation by the Article II of the Treaty of teño are independent of the Cen Ganten Authorities with regard to Neaking watch provides tral Government at Paking and coastal Navigation later that that British subjecta, with have been in othee for less than Vessels of any Nationsity, reccot their families and establish months are directly and solely British and Japanese. may enter ments, chali be allowed to responsible for the cutting off of (Coutinaod on pige 10.) \n\nPage 10",
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        "content_text": "PEAK WATER.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nBy Saturday Peak residents should be assured of a full supply of water for a period of three to four hours a day, a \"China Mail\" representative who made enquiries this morning was informed. By that time it was expected that the new engine which was intact at the Pokfulam pumping house station would be connected up by piping underneath the boulder that has fallen.\n\nWhen it is possible to bring into operation another of the auxiliary engines which were being reassembled at the time of the disaster and several parts of which have been lost, then it may be possible to run a full service for eight hours during the day time.\n\nThis may be effected within a fortnight according to the time taken to replace the lost parts and connect up by means of pipe lines.\n\nThe greatest delay will be that in connection with bringing into operation the main engine of the Pumping station which has been greatly damaged. This has a capacity equal to the two others combined. The two dock engineers may be able to cast certain parts but in the words of an official approached this morning it will probably be \"months and months\" before this engine will be in service again. However, with the two auxiliary engines in operation the Peak will be assured of a regular daily supply, and it is on bringing these into service that the department is concentrating at present.\n\nAt present the Peak is restricted to the \"dribble\" which it is possible to get from the reservoirs which are cut off from the pumping station, and the Conduit Road level to the supply from a service reservoir into which a stream has been diverted. Within the next few days, however, the Conduit Road level will be assured of a better supply as the services of the Fire Brigade are to be available for pumping water up to this level.\n\nDifficult Task.\n\nThe task with which the water authorities are faced is one of considerable difficulty particularly in regard to the Eastern filter bed which has been damaged by the fall of a big boulder. Pipes have also been carried away which will entail considerable difficulty in replacing.\n\nCarrying pipes weighing a ton each up the hill has been a difficult task. In certain cases staging has had to be erected.\n\nWith regard to the lower level supply the work in connection with necessary repairs and clearances is progressing and it is expected that the next few days will see a return to normal.\n\nPage 363\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nPEAKITE'S LETTER.\n\nJuly 21. Received too late for insertion yesterday, a reader of the \"China Mail\" sends the following letter from the Peak.\n\nIt is typical of the experiences of residents from topside—and very modest.\n\nThe Peak, Tuesday,\n\nIt is very seldom that Peak residents are put to any inconvenience but this time they have been badly hit after the recent storms.\n\nLights went out about 8 at night when one could hardly see one's hand but fortunately it was only for a short time.\n\nRain was pouring down and some found that the chair shelter's telephone was out of order.\n\nI sent a coolie down to get chairs at the tram station only to find no cars running and chairs would be soaked through.\n\nIn spite of all weathers, the Dairy Farm milkman turns up at his appointed hour. He is a very old servant of the company and serves us faithfully. He gladdens many a mother's heart when bad weather is about.\n\nI arrived at the office soaked through, and had to remain so until dry clothes could be got.\n\nThe next drawback was the water shut off. This caught me napping and until the papers appeared in the evening they did not know how badly they were placed.\n\nIt was a great relief to get a telephone message last night to say that water would be turned on for one hour daily.\n\nFLOOD THIEVES.\n\nShops from two shops in the main Thoroughfare of Shek-tong-tsui, the Chinese locality in the western district, were carried away by the torrent of rain water on Monday.\n\nSuch was the flow of water, mud, rocks and debris from the hillside near No. 3 pumping station, that Queen's Road West was under several feet of water. Goods from exposed shops were swept away and two safes were embedded in the slime.\n\nWhen the \"current\" was high, a number of men are alleged to have salved one safe and made off with it.\n\nThey are accused of having pried it open. The report goes that they were arrested by detectives from No. 7 station when in the very act of dividing the contents.\n\nHousewives sent to the Dairy Farm, Wiseman's and Lane, Crawford's, only to find that there was nothing to be had.\n\nSome were expecting to do business at about 2 pm, but nothing was to be had all day.\n\nPhotos by Ice Fong.\n\nThis is a scene outside a Government market at Shek-tong-tsui, the Chinese quarter in the western part of the town. It is at the foot of the nullah below the pumping station. The rocks and rubble unloosened by the boulder have been swept down the nullah and accumulated in a pile, having \"jumped\" a high wall, on to the street.\n\n[No. 2998—July 22, 1926.]\n\nFREAK ARMOUR.\n\nAn ingenious device, as yet unheard of in Hongkong, has been adopted by up-country shipping, reported below:\n\n[From Our Own Correspondent.]\n\nPakkao, Kongmoon, July 17. The \"Tung Wo\" towboat has installed a set of machinery, comprising a system of iron netting which completely covers the ship and is charged with electricity. This is to safeguard against piratical attacks.\n\nAnother part of the defence consists of a powerful new searchlight on the towboat's bow.\n\nThe \"Tung Wo\" plies between Canton and Kongyick.\n\nA day after the \"Tung Wo's\" freak armour had been put on, pirates showed their utter contempt for such measures by successfully attacking the Shekki-Kongmoon towboat, when off Kongmei. The boat, all the cargo and passengers were taken away.\n\nNew Aircraft Carrier.\n\nOn July 14, we heard that Kwong Hoi had fallen into bandits' hands.\n\nMembers of the Kongmoon Red Cross who were attached to the punitive expedition lost all their effects, escaping with their lives only in the nick of time when the outlaws launched their offensive.\n\nAn armoured ship, as big as the ordinary Hongkong river steamboat, named the \"Chee Yau\" (meaning Liberty or Freedom) is acting as aircraft carrier for the Canton Government.\n\nIt arrived here on July 14 with an aeroplane from Canton, to be sent to Kwong Hoi to fight against bandits. The \"Chee Yau\" left the same day for Canton.\n\nGeneral Notes.\n\nH.M.S. \"Cicala\" arrived here on July 15. (This gunboat left and was at Macao on July 18.)\n\nOn July 14, the Customs launch \"Foo Moon\" arrived here with Col. F. Hayley Bell, Commissioner of Customs at Canton, and left with the Colonel on July 16.\n\nThe Sanwui magistrate has been ordered to provide 800 coolies for transport work with the Northern Expedition. The Tung Tak guild offered 400 volunteers.\n\nTelephone employees at Kongmoon are striking for higher pay. The service is being maintained and it is hoped that mediation will succeed.\n\nThe river flood has gone down gradually. On July 17, the sounding outside the Customs House was 9 feet 7 inches.\n\nNo. 2998—July 22, 1926.\n\nA MEDICINE DEAL.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nA curious dispute concerning a deal in medicines by the Yeung Yui Chung Medicine Depot of 201 Queen's Road Central, a firm having considerable interests throughout China and the Malay States, came before Mr. Justice Wood in the Summary Court this morning.\n\nThe above firm claimed for $299.16 for goods supplied to the Sui Cheong firm, of 41 Wing Lok Street.\n\nMr. Leo d'Almada represented the plaintiff firm and Mr. E. S. C. Brooks the defendant firm.\n\nMr. d'Almada explained that the plaintiffs had purchased the goodwill of the business from Yueng Wai-cheung, the former owner, for $3,000. There were certain subsidiary arrangements, one of which was that the purchasers were to provide Yueng with an annuity of $1,200, that they should have the right to use the figuration of Yueng's father (the founder of the business) on their trade labels, etc., that the Sui Cheong firm, defendants, should have certain concessions in dealings and that a debt of $1,000 owed by Yueng to the Sui Cheong should be paid by purchasers.\n\nThe terms under which the Sui Cheong was to obtain goods were that 45 per cent cash should be paid and 55 per cent discount allowed.\n\nPlaintiff went into the witness box and said that the agreement referred to by counsel had been drawn up in Mr. Hall Brutton's office.\n\nThe indebtedness of Yeung to the defendant firm had been met by the plaintiff firm. Goods had been supplied to the Sui Cheong firm on June 12 in accordance with order and payment was asked for by the foreman.\n\nHe was told that payment could not be made then but if he left the goods payment would be made later.\n\nThe bill submitted by the foreman was endorsed but on his return, the endorsement was erased by another representative of the Sui Cheong and the foreman was told that they had come to an arrangement with Yueng, whom they regarded as a partner of the firm, whereby they received 60 per cent discount.\n\nThe plaintiff denied that the chop on the receipt in question was the chop of the Yeung Yui Chung firm or that Yueng was a partner or had any authority to conduct transactions for the firm.\n\nHis Honour remarked that the whole point seemed to be as to whether Yueng was still a partner.\n\nYueng Wai-cheung gave evidence and deposed to being interested in the firm to the extent of $3,000 which had not been paid in full.\n\nA witness was called by the defendants who said that he was salesman and accountant of the Sui Cheong firm.\n\nHe understood he was a partner.\n\nMr. Brooks, in cross-examination of the plaintiff, asked him if it was not a fact that the purchase money was to be $6,000 and that only $3,000 of this had been paid.\n\nThis plaintiff denied.\n\nHe had then come to an arrangement with the plaintiff firm whereby he is to resume his interest in the business.\n\nHis Honour, after hearing further evidence, decided that there was no evidence as to Yeung being a partner and found for the plaintiffs with costs.\n\nPhoto by Ying Ming.\n\nHere is further evidence of the violence with which the death-dealing boulder charged down on the pumping station.\n\nThis is a nullah, by the public mortuary, all in confusion because of the debris which the landslide sent down.\n\nThe nullah leads from below the reservoir section to West Point.\n\nPhoto by A. Pong.\n\nOUR MAN SEIZED.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nA rumour is current in town that six Hongkong policemen have been \"captured\" by Canton strike pickets, together with a motor-boat, on the Samchun River.\n\nTwo of the six prisoners are members of the British section of the Force, viz., Lance-Sergeant Ryan and Lance-Sergeant Hughes, both attached to Lok-ma-chau station.\n\nThe other four were Chinese seamen, of the Water Police.\n\nThe motor-boat is also under the Water Police and is used regularly for patrolling the Samchun River.\n\nNo other information could be obtained, not even from people who had crossed the frontier and come in to Hongkong on the Kowloon-Canton Railway British section.\n\nIt is only known definitely that the men and launch were taken away by armed pickets.\n\nLok-ma-chau is the station that overlooks the frontier.\n\nBetween the New Territories and the Chinese district of Po On is the Samchun River, which is crossed by the steel bridge on which the railway runs.\n\nSamchun market is on the Chinese side of the border.\n\nA camp of strike pickets has been established there for a year.\n\nObviously some of their number met the Hongkong police launch, out on patrol on the river, and took them into custody.\n\nLater.\n\nThe \"capture\" was due entirely to the Police motor-boat running aground, on the Samchun River, during the flood.\n\nBoth the sergeants had gone ashore when the pickets took them into custody.\n\nThe boat was taken further up the River, and then into Chinese territory.\n\nA fairly strong detachment of infantry from the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, has been sent out to the frontier to recover the motor-boat and the captives.\n\nThe Peak Tram, at the Kennedy Road Bridge. On the left, the \"overhead track can be seen. The confusion in the middle and to the left shows why the delay is necessary.\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "ENCLOSURE NO. 4.\n\nExtract from Man Kvok Yat Po, Canton. 5.8.26.\n\nOpposition of the Amoy Squadron in Fukien to Chau Yam Yan.\n\n456\n\nGrowing dissension in the internal administration of Fukien\n\nWar preparations made by Chau Yam Yan against Shat Chan Ping.\n\n(From our own correspondent).\n\nChau Yam Yan and the Squadron stationed at Fukien have been on bad terms for a long time. Chau is particularly jealous of Shat Chan Ping. Now a telegram has been received from General Ho in Swatow dated the 27th to the effect that Colonel Cheung at Cheung Iam sent him a message on the 26th, which reads as follows:-\n\n\"On the 25th and 26th of last month, Chau Yam Yan \"had a dispute with Shat Chan Ping over the case of \"the Fukien Provincial Bank, Shat has fled to Ma Kong \"with his fleet, and Chau is mobilizing a large army \"at Foo-chow prepared to fight against him. At present the position is critical.\"\n\nThe following is a copy of the telegram from General Ho:-\n\n(Titles omitted).\n\nI am in receipt of a telegram from Colonel Cheung at Cheung Lam dated the 26th to \"the following effect,\n\nA dispute has arisen between Shat Chan Ping and \"Chau Yam Yan over the case of the Fukien Provincial \"Bank.\n\nShat has fled to Ma Kong and Chau is mobilizing \"a large force at the Capital and has had his guns aimed \"in the direction of Ma Kong. The position is at present \"very critical.\n\nDated 27th.\n\nHo Ying Yam",
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        "content_text": "125 \n\n(3) \n\nIf you agree, you may approach as British members: \n(1) Shanghai Manager of Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, \n(2) Dr. Maxwell, or if he refuses, Dr. Grey, \n(3) Colonel Young, \n(4) Miss Spicer or if she refuses, Miss Mackinnon, \n(5) a suitable person from Hongkong or Canton. \nAs regards (5), you should submit names for consideration here first, and state whether a representative from Hongkong or Canton is preferable. \n\nWhom do you suggest as secretary? British members here would like Johnston. \n\nYou should inform Koo and Chen as suggested.",
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        "content_text": "## Technical Department\n| Name | Origin | Notes |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Lim Boan Tji | Canton |  |\n| So Soey Liong | from Jemarang |  |\n|  | from Pekalongan (Java) | (Now in the Y.L.C.A. at Canton) |\n\n## Technical Department\n| Name | Destination/Location | Notes |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Java | will arrive in Java before 1/6/27 |\n| P.B. Dubinsky (false name) | Tasikmalaja (Java) | Engineer - Ammunition |\n| Fawlinson |  | (own name) |\n| J. von Kluck | Bandoeng (Java) | Engineer - Bombs |\n| Phoa Joen Ko |  |  |\n| Thio Hoo Koan |  |  |\n| Tan Kalaca | Sourabaya |  |\n\n## Political Department - Canton\n| Name | Notes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Alimin |  |\n| Engineer Bargama |  |\n| Bochtiar (Li Ba Ti) |  |\n| Thio Li Tjong |  |\n| Kran Heng Kwang |  |\n\n## Canton Committee\n| Position | Name | Notes |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| President | Colonel Lim Soe Oen |  |\n| Vice President | Engineer Bergama |  |\n| Secretary | D.L. Donsaky |  |\n|  | *.Chow (Dutch Subject) | English/Chinese/Malay |\n|  | J. von Paber | German/Faasian/French |\n| Bochtiar |  | Malay/Dutch/French/English |\n\n## Foreign Affairs - Shanghai\n| Position | Name | Notes |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Commissioner for Foreign Affairs | Dr. Twee Hing Tjiet |  |\n| Secretary | Li Ek Poen | Chinese born at ... |",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nNever before in the history of this Chamber have we enjoyed the distinction of doing honour to both the Chairman of the Provincial Government and to the Mayor of Canton at the same time. The occasion is indeed one that calls for a standard of eloquence far beyond my capabilities. I can but do my best and if, in the course of doing so, I should strike an occasional note which appears to our guests as too informal for the occasion, I would remind them that their visit is informal and the time is after dinner.\n\nIn introducing our official visitors I must of necessity be brief, for the full list of important posts they have already occupied would take far too long to record in the time at my disposal.\n\nHis Excellency General Huang Mu-sung is one of China's senior soldiers. He has been President of the National Military Academy and is entitled to regard most of China's present military officers as his pupils. He studied military tactics in Great Britain and Germany and has investigated military affairs on behalf of his Government in both Europe and America. He has the unique distinction of being China's first delegate at the International Disarmament Conference, and, as special Commissioner for Thibet and Chairman of the Thibetan Commission, he rendered service to his Government.\n\n## Mayor's Career\n\nHis Honour Mr. Tsang Yang-fu was a graduate of Peiyang and Pittsburgh Universities. During his brilliant career he has been Director of political training at Canton, Commissioner of Reconstruction in Kwangtung Provincial Government, Director of the political department of the Whampoa Military Academy, Vice-Chairman of the National Reconstruction Commission, Vice-Minister of Railways and a Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang since 1929.\n\nMr. T. L. Soong, the Commissioner of Finance, was to have been with us, but has unfortunately been prevented by illness from doing so. We wish him a speedy recovery.\n\nDr. Philip Tyau, the Special Delegate for Foreign Affairs, was previously Minister to Panama and Cuba and Consul General in the Straits Settlements. Being an old friend of mine, I am particularly pleased that circumstances have brought him to Canton. We first met one another when he was at Cambridge, more years ago than either of he or I care to remember. One of the subjects besides Law which he took up at Cambridge with enthusiasm was lawn tennis. Many are the games we have played together and too many are the times when, I regret to say, that powerful forehand drive of his left me standing impotent and disconsolate on the court. If Dr. Tyau's diplomacy is as forceful as his tennis, I foresee a period of great activity in H.B.M. Consulate on the Shameen, but knowing Philip Tyau and Herbert Phillips as well as I do, we can rest assured that the game will be played in a true sporting spirit from start to finish. (Applause).\n\nColonel Li Fang was well known to many of us when he was Commissioner for Foreign Affairs in Hankow, since when he has gained valuable experience as his country's Consul General in Siberia, at Novo Simbirsk.\n\nMr. Chang Yuen-nan, counsellor to the Chairman, was a graduate of Nanking University and the Military Academy of Japan, and he has held many important military posts in the capital.\n\nFrom that all too brief account of the distinguished careers of our official guests, it will be seen that they bring to their high offices a reputation and experience which justifies us in confidently looking forward during their administration to an era of recovery and progress. (Applause).\n\nWe are also honoured to have with us to-night a commercial delegation composed of Canton's leading business and professional men. The delegation is led by Mr. Ho Tsap-ping, the Chairman of the United Chambers of Commerce of Kwangtung, who, by a happy coincidence, is closely connected in business with your Chairman, a relationship which must surely facilitate that closer co-operation between our two Chambers which we all desire. (Applause).\n\nAs I mentioned during our Goodwill visit to Canton last year, Mr. Ho and I are colleagues in a company to which our Chinese friends long ago thoughtlessly gave the name of \"Teen Cheang,\" \"Heavenly Prosperity\". We frankly confessed that we wished our friends had given us some other name offering more promise of immediate reward, but this year we have every confidence that, in the merchants' paradise which Your Excellency is about to create by the stabilisation of the currency, we shall be able to discount on earth a little of the prosperity coming to us in heaven. (Laughter).\n\n## Stabilisation Benefits\n\nI am perfectly serious when I say that stabilisation of the currency would create a traders' paradise; stabilisation is his dream, violent fluctuation his nightmare and nothing, in the opinion of this Chamber, would be more conducive to recovery than a stable exchange in South China. We therefore look forward with confidence to the national dollar shortly becoming its recognised currency.\n\nBy a happy coincidence, there occurred to-day an incident which draws still closer the bonds of commercial union which inevitably link China and Hongkong. I refer to the first landing at Kai Tak of the aeroplane service which carries mails and passengers between Shanghai and Canton. It is most satisfactory to all of us that this very natural and sensible arrangement has now been made. Hongkong has always been given the benefit of the domestic rate in respect of charges on mail between here and China. I am glad to learn that a similar rule will apply to the air mail link now inaugurated.\n\nIt is a matter for great regret to us that we have not been able to show the commercial party industrial development in Hongkong on anything like the scale they showed it to us in Canton last year.\n\nThe remarkable progress we witnessed during our enjoyable visit fully bears out the description of it given by the American Economic Mission in their recent report that \"a vast change is coming over China, a modernisation that as compared with 10 or even five years ago, marks many centuries.\" That phrase, I think, aptly describes the great strides made in all directions and provides a striking contrast to the old exploded idea that a century of change in China is the equivalent of but a few years of change in Europe. If His Honour the Mayor succeeds, as I sincerely hope he will, in carrying out the great schemes he has in mind for the improvement of his City and the welfare of his countrymen, his administration in Canton will assuredly mark a further century of progress.\n\n## Unification Agreement\n\nBut, in my view, of all China's achievements, the unification of the country stands out above the rest. We used to think of unification as a dream that could never come true; to-day it is a reality—and a reality, Gentlemen, which pays a far greater tribute than any words of mine, to the outstanding leadership of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and to the wise policies of the Central Government. (Loud applause).\n\nAnd now a few words on a topic which I am accused of wearing threadbare. His Honour the Mayor said last week that the prosperity of Hongkong depends upon the prosperity of Canton and vice versa; we entirely agree with him, but in the light of the disastrous results of the attempts by almost all nations to create their own prosperity within their own borders, without the help of their neighbours, His Honour might have gone still further and said that no nation can sustain and develop its domestic prosperity without the assistance of an ever expanding world prosperity. In other words, neither national nor international recovery will ever be permanently achieved until economic reciprocity and co-operation will take the place of economic isolation and retaliation.\n\nI make no apology, above all in this Colony, for wearing this subject threadbare, for every time an opportunity occurs to raise it, I find fresh and encouraging evidence that Economic Nationalism as practised to-day, has been proved a failure.\n\n## Dr. Koo's View\n\nIn Dr. Wellington Koo's address, on behalf of China to the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva, is this significant paragraph:\n\n\"In view of the unrelaxed pursuit of the policy of seeking national self-sufficiency by methods of economic jugglery, it is doubtful that the road to economic recovery is already clear. The dream of economic nationalism has not yet lost its spell over the nations of the world. Barriers to trade of all kinds continue to hamper trade and impede development.”\n\nThe inference to be drawn from that statement is surely that if other nations are prepared to remove some of the barriers now obstructing international trade, such as quotas, prohibitive tariffs, monopolies and exchange restrictions, China will follow suit. Whether or not that inference is correct, it was never more essential in the interests of world peace, that the risk of misunderstanding between nations should be reduced to a minimum and every opportunity created for frank and helpful discussion of the many problems that arise. It is our earnest hope, so far as Hongkong and South China are concerned, that the personal contacts made between us during this exchange of visits may develop into friendships which will create such opportunities, and still further strengthen and promote the bonds of unity between this Colony and her great neighbour. (Loud applause).\n\nIn proposing the toast of the evening, I wish to offer a word of explanation to our other guests, who hold positions of leadership in Canton and Hongkong. We ask them to regard themselves on this occasion more in the light of hosts than guests. We thank them all for accepting our invitation to unite with us to-night in doing honour to \"Our Distinguished Guests from Canton,\" which is the toast I now ask them to join with us in drinking, coupling it with the names of His Excellency the Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government, His Honour the Mayor of Canton and the Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Chamber of Commerce.",
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        "content_text": "# \n\n325. Both German and Italian fliers are helped by the permission which is granted to them (and not to the fliers of other nations) to fly over Formosa and the Loo-Choo Islands.\n\n## Manchukuo\n\n326. The Czech Consul in Harbin and a Skoda representative have been conferring with officials in Hsinking, presumably with a view to concluding some sort of trade agreement. It would not be surprising if in the near future Czechoslovakia recognised Manchukuo, especially now that the former is so much in the German orbit.\n\n## The U.S.S.R.\n\n327. In a very outspoken address to a congress of munitions manufacturers, the Vice-Minister of War, Lieutenant-General Tojo, who is sometimes regarded as the leader of the \"young officer\" movement, warned his listeners that despite the successes in China the real test is yet to come. Japan must be prepared to fight both China and Russia simultaneously. Against that day she must continue to increase and strengthen her armaments.\n\n## Burma\n\n328. The new highway linking the Burma railway system with Yunnanfu is already featuring in the Japanese press and considerable supplies of arms are alleged to be entering China by this route. These accusations will doubtless increase both in number and virulence.\n\n## HOME AFFAIRS\n\n### The China Development Companies\n\n329. The North and Central China Development Companies opened for business on the 9th November. Both are semi-official organisations designed to supervise, control and co-ordinate smaller companies.\n\n330. The Central China Development Company at the present moment controls seven subsidiaries, the Central China Iron Mining Company, the Central China Electricity Company, the Central China Telegraph and Telephone Company, the Shanghai City Construction Company, the Inland Water Navigation Company, the Central China Marine Products Company, and the Central China Motor Car Company. It is hoped in the near future to start companies to operate the railways and the production of salt.\n\n331. The North China Development Company has but one subsidiary, the North China Telegraph and Telephone Company, but companies will soon be started to develop the following industries: coal, coal-liquefaction, salt, iron, electric power and transportation.\n\n### The Social Mass Party\n\n332. The development of the Social Mass party has been watched with considerable interest, especially by foreigners, since, unlike the two big parties, the Minseito and the Seiyukai, it professed a type of social democracy, appealed directly to the proletariat, and represented Liberal ideas in an age of reaction. Last November, however, under official suasion, it swung violently from the Left to the Right. Its new platform, which was adopted on the 20th of this month, is pure national socialism, with strong emphasis on the nationalism. The Social Mass party is now numerically the largest reactionary party in the Diet.\n\n### The Young Officers' Movement\n\n333. The army's spectacular successes in China have once more brought the young officers into the limelight in internal affairs with their ideas for \"national renovation.\" A large number of articles are appearing in the reviews under the name of the official spokesman of the Ministry of War, Colonel Sato, the reactionary violence of which is in inverse proportion to the respectability of the publication concerned. Renovation means the subservience of the entire nation to the military machine which, according to these exponents, is working for the salvation of Asia for the Asiatics.\n\n334. Under this pressure, a cautious plan has been drafted by the Government for the creation of a \"National Council,\" which is to be a federation of existing associations of all kinds: its object is to bring the country to take an active interest in State policy. Conservative resistance to radical reforms is still a force to be reckoned with, and the new council is not, at least for the present, to be exploited as a political machine. Nevertheless, it has long been clear that the maintenance or otherwise of the army's prestige through the outcome of the continental policy will be a determining factor in internal political developments in this country.\n\n### The Mobilisation Law\n\n335. Promulgation is expected shortly of a number of Imperial Ordinances under various articles of the National Mobilisation Law. They are all to be characteristically Nazi measures, and provide, amongst other things, for an expansion of productivity, for the training and enrolment of skilled workers, for the expropriation of machines and materials for military purposes, and for far greater governmental control of publications and the press.\n\n336. A first-rate dispute took place about the middle of the month between the Finance Ministry and the Ministry of War over article 11 of the Mobilisation Law, which concerns the disposal of private profits. At one time it looked as if the Finance Minister, Seihin Ikeda, might resign. The military wanted not only to limit profits, but to take away from private initiative the right to dispose of surplus profits. The financiers maintained that the important thing at the present moment was an expansion of Japan's productive capacity, and that any interference in the disposal of profits would achieve the contrary result. A compromise was reached whereby companies paying more than 10 per cent. are not allowed to increase their dividends any further. The question of Government control of the disposal of funds held by credit institutions has been temporarily shelved.\n\n### Profits from the War\n\n337. Certain sections of the population are undoubtedly doing well out of the war. All workers engaged in industries either directly or indirectly connected with the war are drawing higher salaries, and the amusement trade, far from having a slump, has been enjoying something of a boom. The number of geisha and machini (assignation houses) has increased enormously since the war started, although foreign-style amusements are doing badly. The factory worker and the town-dwelling bourgeois have money to spend. But there is a distinct cleavage between town and country in this matter as may be seen from the following paragraphs.\n\n### The Nation and the War\n\n338. A young British resident had an illuminating talk early this month with the keeper of a mountain hut, which throws some light on the attitude of the farmers towards the war.\n\n339. The Japanese, who was slightly the better for some sake, was a man of 37 who had been through middle-school and was, therefore, better educated than most Japanese of his class. He said that there was a great deal of discontent among the farmers regarding the war; prices, except those of farm produce, had risen; men were being taken for the army and for work away from the farms. Discontent was not apparent because they were prevented from giving voice to it. They had no interest in China. He called the war \"just annoying the Chinese.\" The farmers dislike fascism. They want to be as free as possible.\n\n340. It transpired that the chief product of the village was silk. The Englishman suggested that if the Americans got too annoyed, they might stop the import of silk, which would be unfortunate for the Japanese farmers. \"On the contrary. It might be a good thing as it would bring things to a head.\"\n\n341. His younger brother had just come home having been wounded in the advance on Hankow. The Chinese troops were much stronger than anyone thought. They had very good Czech machine guns, while the Japanese guns were always breaking down. There was also discontent amongst the Japanese troops. The Chinese troops were much keener about the war.\n\n276 \n## Page 276",
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        "content_text": "97\n\nthe House the Prime Minister read a letter from Mr. Campbell and announced that in view of its terms he would not, repeat not, lay the Drew letter. The relevant passage in Campbell's advice was as follows:- \"Mr. Drew's letter purports to give the effect of a number of confidential communications received by the Government of Canada from the Government of the United Kingdom, the disclosure of which was only consented to by the Government of the United Kingdom subject to specific condition that the disclosure was to be limited to the Commissioner and Counsel and solely for the purpose of the enquiry, and the Commissioner was not permitted to reproduce these communications in his report. Any disclosures, therefore, even to the House of Commons, would in my opinion be a violation of the substance of that condition. If therefore, Mr. Drew's communication is tabled by you before the House of Commons, I am of opinion that you will be violating a condition under which the Government of the United Kingdom consented to the disclosure to the Commissioner and Counsel of those telegrams.\" Campbell added as an additional reason against tabling the letter that it purported to contain extracts from evidence and reference to exhibits which do not appear in the published report of the Commissioner or its appendix, and that tabling the letter would therefore be condoning a violation of the order of secrecy with which the enquiry in camera was conducted.\n\n7\n\nThis refusal to table the letter has caused protests both in Parliament and the press. By this time in the expectation that the document would be laid on the table of the House, the press had secured copies of Drew's letter with a view to publication. There have in fact been some comments in various newspapers indicating various points contained in that letter, and following the publication of Campbell's advice to the Prime Minister there have been general references to the communications which passed between the U.K. Government and the Canadian Government, and to the fact that the U.K. Govt. had placed a prohibition on the publication of these. But I am not aware of any specific reference to the telegram of October 24th or its contents, though this may have been made in one or other of the numerous local newspapers published throughout the Dominion. But generally the voluntary guidance of the censor here has led newspaper statements purporting to give the contents of the Drew letter to be rather guarded.\n\n8. I understand that Colonel Drew or others acting for him have now circulated copies of his letter to large numbers of Members of Parliament. So that precise contents of his letter are very widely known,\n\nCopy to:-\n\nPart 2 follows.\n\nW.O.(M.0.2)\n\nF.O.\n\nW.C.O.\n\nCoo.(M.0.12)\n\nLt.Col.Spurling (4)\n\nCol. Dinwiddie\n\nMr. Ashley-Clarke\n\nSir E. Bridges\n\nLt.Col. Stirling\n\nMr. Monson.",
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        "content_text": "from lack of them.\n\nConclusion is that Canada sent forward an expedition well trained and, subject to what shipping facilities allowed, well provided with equipment. In spite of disaster it was an expedition of which Canada can and should be proud. Summary ends.\n\navailable.\n\nFull text of report will be sent to you as soon as 1.8.\n\nColonel Drew, leader of Opposition in Ontario Legislature, who started the agitation which led to the enquiry and van Os, Counsel on the enquiry, has issued a statement saying among other things \"I find it almost impossible to believe that the summary has any reference at all to the evidence. The only facts brought out in evidence were so blood-curdling that the public have a right to know what did take place. The privacy, for which there was no reason, of the hearings has served no purpose except to hide evidence of inexcusable blundering, confusion and incompetence\".\n\nEnquiry originated in desire of Opposition to use Hong Kong disaster as stick with which to beat Government over conscription issue. Some Opposition papers in disappointment again raise questions already disposed of in report, e.g. if trained men were available why were they not sent, and disclaim reliance on assertions of Chief Justice in expressing himself as satisfied. Montreal Gazette for instance \"Canadian confidence in the good judgement of our Chief Justice is or was very high but it was never as high as all that\".\n\nIn view of decisive terms of report I find it hard to think that Hong Kong disaster can yield much further political capital for opposition.\n\nCopy to:-\n\nF.O.\n\nW.C.O.\n\nO.O.\n\nMr. Ashley Clarke\n\nSir E. Bridges\n\nMr. Lloyd.\n\nPrime Minister's Private Secretary.\n\nW.Ü.\n\nW.O.(M.O.12)\n\nA\n\nW.C.O. CoO\n\nMajor Nicholl (4)\n\nLt. Col. Dinwiddie\n\nLt. Col. Stirling\n\nMr. Monson.\n\n100\n\nPage 100\n\nPage 101",
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        "title": "CO129-592-9 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 13-1-1945 - 4-3-1946",
        "content_text": "3111A) Wt. 15007/351 20m. 6/44 C.N.Ld. 748\n\nC. O.\n\nMr. Paskin\n\nMr. ...\n\nMr. ...\n\nMr. ...\n\n=14\n\n4.4.45\n\n8.\n\n54145/3/1/400\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\n1\n\n17\n\n6. April, 1945\n\n2 DRAFT. LETT.RS\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nSrb\n\nThe Director General,\n\nMinistry of War Transport,\n\nBerkeley Square House,\n\nLondon, W.1.\n\nReport (Printed copy in No. 1)\n\nGoo's Jovering Despatch 15/8/41 No. 7 on 53995/1/41)\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nACTION\n\nCopy to the Admiralty. Copy to Basil Sanderson, Esq, M.C. Port and Transit Control, Ministry of War Transport with draft herewith.\n\nCix to Mwin (HKAN, Par Sh.)\n\nCior to ti A.B.Comem (Singapore) to see.\n\nSir,\n\nI am etc. to transmit to you, for the consideration of the Minister of War Transport, the accompanying copy of a report on the future control and development of the port of Hong Kong which was presented by Sir David Owen in 1941, together with a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong, dated 15th August, 1941, proposing that, subject to certain minor modifications, the recommendations in Sir David Owen's report should be adopted.\n\nColonel Stanley has now had this matter under consideration in relation to the plans which are being prepared for the rehabilitation of Hong Kong, on its liberation, and he has come to the conclusion that the recommendations of Sir David Owen, subject to the modifications proposed by the Governor, should be adopted.\n\nIn particular he considers that steps should be taken to obtain the services of an officer suitably qualified to become the Planning Chairman of the proposed Harbour Trust.\n\n\"Not Millbann...",
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        "title": "CO129-611-2 Liaison with British Embassy and consulates in China- appointment of political advisor 1-9-1945 - 20-10-1947",
        "content_text": "# \n## AIR MAIL\n\nc/o The Peking Club, \nRue Marco Polo, PEIPING. China. \n4th February, 1947.\n\n98\n\nSir,\n\nI have noted from the local Press that there is a proposal under consideration for the establishment of an office in Hong Kong for the purpose of maintaining liaison between the Hong Kong and Chinese Government.\n\nIf such is the case, I have the honour to submit myself as an applicant for a post in such an office.\n\nI am aged 46. Both parents British. Born in China and resided in China since 1919. Speak fluent Mandarin. During the recent war I served in Chungking as a First Secretary to the British Embassy and concurrently held a commission as Lieut-Colonel in the British Army for the purpose of maintaining liaison with the Chinese, French, American, Dutch, and Russian military staffs, and successfully negotiated with the Chinese over many potential difficulties. I was awarded the O.B.E. for my work in this connection in the last Birthday Honours' List, and the Chinese Government have recently conferred on me the Order (with Rosette) of the Cloud and Banner.\n\nMao Tzu-tung, Chairman of the Communist Party, presented me with a Japanese sword on December 9th, 1946, as recognition of my cooperation with the Communists versus the Japanese.\n\nAmongst personal friends of mine I may mention Dr. T. V. Soong, Premier, with whom I worked for three years, Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, Foreign Minister, and General Ho Ying-ch'in, formerly Minister of War, and ... \n/General",
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        "document_key": "CO129-622-6 Claims of War Supplies to Eastern Group Supply Council 21-1-1949 - 23-12-1949",
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        "title": "CO129-622-6 Claims of War Supplies to Eastern Group Supply Council 21-1-1949 - 23-12-1949",
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