[ { "id": 280460, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "page_number": 363, "title": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "content_text": "addressed to Sir Rutherford Alcock\n\nin reply to his despatch of the 13th\n\nof July\n\nas to the interpretation to\n\nbe given\n\nto Articles XV and XVI\n\nof the Treaty of Tientsin\n\nwith respect to the question of\n\ndirect communication\n\nAuthorities at Kowloon.\n\nI\n\nYour\n\nobedient\n\nhumble servant,\n\nColten Olmaz(?)\n\nbetween the Colonial Authorities\n\nat\n\nHoughing(?) and the Chinese\n\nAuthorities\n\nPage 361\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format requested:\n\naddressed to Sir Rutherford Alcock\n\nin reply to his despatch of the 13th\n\nof July\n\nas to the interpretation to be given to Articles XV and XVI of the Treaty of Tientsin with respect to the question of direct communication Authorities at Kowloon.\n\nYour obedient humble servant,\n\nColonel Olmstead(?) between the Colonial Authorities at Hongkong(?) and the Chinese Authorities\n\nPage 361\n\nLet's correct and reformat according to the given rules and requested output format:\n\naddressed to Sir Rutherford Alcock\n\nin reply to his despatch of the 13th of July as to the interpretation to be given to Articles XV and XVI of the Treaty of Tientsin with respect to the question of direct communication between the Colonial Authorities at Hongkong and the Chinese Authorities at Kowloon.\n\nYour obedient humble servant,\n\nColonel Olmstead\n\nPage 361\n\nRevised to fit the exact output and rules more closely, correcting \"Colten Olmaz\" to a likely \"Colonel Olmstead\" and \"Houghing\" to \"Hongkong\":\n\naddressed to Sir Rutherford Alcock\n\nin reply to his despatch of the 13th of July as to the interpretation to be given to Articles XV and XVI of the Treaty of Tientsin with respect to the question of direct communication between the Colonial Authorities at Hongkong and the Chinese Authorities at Kowloon.\n\nYour obedient humble servant,\n\nColonel Olmstead\n\nPage 361\n\nHere is the final version in HTML format as requested:\n\naddressed to Sir Rutherford Alcock\nin reply to his despatch of the 13th of July as to the interpretation to be given to Articles XV and XVI of the Treaty of Tientsin with respect to the question of direct communication between the Colonial Authorities at Hongkong and the Chinese Authorities at Kowloon.\n\nYour obedient humble servant,\nColonel Olmstead\n\nPage 361\n\nHowever, the most simplified and corrected version is:\n\naddressed to Sir Rutherford Alcock\nin reply to his despatch of the 13th of July as to the interpretation to be given to Articles XV and XVI of the Treaty of Tientsin with respect to the question of direct communication between the Colonial Authorities at Hongkong and the Chinese Authorities at Kowloon.\n\nYour obedient humble servant,\nColonel Olmstead\n\nPage 361\nPage 361\nPage 361\n\nLet's put it in the exact format:\n\naddressed to Sir Rutherford Alcock\n\nin reply to his despatch of the 13th of July as to the interpretation to be given to Articles XV and XVI of the Treaty of Tientsin with respect to the question of direct communication between the Colonial Authorities at Hongkong and the Chinese Authorities at Kowloon.\n\nYour obedient humble servant,\n\nColonel Olmstead\n\nPage 361\n\nPage 361\n\nPage 361\n\nThe final answer is: \n\nPage 361\n\naddressed to Sir Rutherford Alcock\n\nin reply to his despatch of the 13th of July as to the interpretation to be given to Articles XV and XVI of the Treaty of Tientsin with respect to the question of direct communication between the Colonial Authorities at Hongkong and the Chinese Authorities at Kowloon.\n\nYour obedient humble servant,\n\nColonel Olmstead\n\nPage 361\n\nPage 361\n\nPage 361", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577016, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "content_text": "Major W. C. Donaldson, 36, New York City, N. Y., Executive Officer, and the heads of six G-5 branches: Colonel Carl Junge, 45, Lincoln, Nebr., Lieutenant-Colonels Herman A. Hauch, 35, Marathon, N.Y., Walter G. Sylvester, 31, Jersey City, N.J., Paul J. B. Murphy, 55, Staunton, Va., A. J. Binsfield, 45, Des Moines, La., and Wesley B. Edwards, 32, Washington, D.C.\n\nThe G-5 offices in Chungking are the nerve centre of a network of activities that affect or are affected by every military action in China. From here decisions come that reflect the desire of the Theatre Commander to exploit every opportunity to improve military strategy by improving civilian relationships and by increasing the volume of Chinese-produced war materials and essential civilian goods.\n\nTo carry out this policy, the G-5 section has been sub-divided into six branches, each with independent as well as many inter-locking functions and each in turn co-operating with United States and Allied civilian agencies, such as the United States Office of War Information, the Office of Strategic Services, the American Production Mission, British and French Information Services and Missions, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency, and numerous Chinese civilian and government organisations.\n\nRequirements and Assignments Branch.\n\nThe first of the branches is Requirements and Assignments under Lieutenant-Colonel Hauch, which was primarily organised to meet problems of military lend-lease aid to China. However, since the main and almost the only means of transporting commodities into China is controlled by the United States army, G-5 is responsible for determining through G-4 (supply) the total military needs, so that a ceiling may be placed on civilian lend-lease shipments.\n\nOfficers of this branch work in conjunction with civilian experts of the United States Foreign Economic Administration (F.E.A.), who screen civilian requests to determine the priority according to need, and submit requests, based on their studies, for approval by G-5.\n\nProduction Branch.\n\nThe Production Branch is directed by Lieut.-Colonel Sylvester and is assigned to stimulating Chinese industry with the immediate object of securing all possible military supplies from China itself, thus reducing the long haul and expensive procurement problems which must otherwise be met.\n\nHelping the Production Branch in this programme are some 25 civilian production men from all fields, in China as members of the American Production Mission, successor to the Nelson Mission. The American Production Mission has the primary duty of supplying qualified technical advisers to the Chinese War Production Board which was set up last fall on the pattern of the W.P.B. in Washington.\n\nVery encouraging results have been attained through these efforts. Production of both military and essential civilian goods has already shown some improvement, and while the greater part of the military requirements still have to come over the Hump or Stilwell Road from India, China's industry is assuming more and more of the burden.\n\nSpeaking of this aspect of the G-5 programme, General Olmsted points out that it has a long range as well as a short range application. Besides meeting immediate military needs, the increased production skills and industrial knowledge that result are the best kind of guarantee for a strong and united China after the war.\n\nBy stimulating Chinese interest in their own capabilities and natural resources, the Production Branch has done much to encourage an economically sound China for the years to come.\n\nProcurement Branch.\n\nThe third of the branches, Procurement, led by Lieutenant-Colonel Paul J. B. Murphy, is closely allied to the Production Branch, since it is usually the job of Procurement to obtain supplies that have been manufactured through the efforts of the Production Branch.\n\nThe policy followed by the Procurement Branch in making purchases in China is to buy as much as possible on a reverse lend-lease basis. Selling in this way, China is approaching, to some degree at least, a pay-as-you-go economy in wartime; post-war debts should be greatly reduced through this means. However, the application of reverse lend-lease is greatly complicated by China's rather unsteady finances and spiralling inflation.\n\nThis branch works closely with relief agencies, notably U.N.R.R.A., in achieving maximum co-ordination in the solution of specific problems, such as the refugee situation existing to-day in Kweichow Province.\n\nAnother activity of the Procurement Branch also made more difficult by inflation is handling fiscal problems met by United States Forces in buying from China. One problem is the tax remission which is paid by the Chinese Government on all military purchases. Ferreting out and determining the taxes, particularly the indirect taxes, on any given purchase, is a hard job.\n\nClandestine Branch.\n\nThe last of the G-5 branches is the intriguingly-named Clandestine Branch, under Lieut.-Colonel Wesley B. Edwards, which is the co-ordinating organisation for all quasi-military activities.\n\nThe mission of the Clandestine Branch is co-ordination of the efforts of United States, Chinese and other Allied groups in order to combine their resources and achieve maximum striking power against the enemy through quasi-military means.\n\nThe results of the work of the G-5 section are relatively difficult to analyse although some of it appears in production statistics, more in the increasing volume of military necessities delivered by Chinese manufacturers, and even more in the costly yards gained and bases recovered in the present successful Chinese drives to clean out the corridor of occupation.\n\nHowever, the real gauge of the success of General Olmsted and his helpers, like the contribution of the other sections of General Wedemeyer command, lies not in single achievements or accumulation of achievements, but in the overall success of the military effort they all serve.\n\nCivilian Economy Branch.\n\nThe Civilian Economy Branch, under Lieut.-Colonel Binsfield, has as its main purpose the control of the inflationary process. There seems to be little chance that inflation in China can be stopped altogether and efforts at the present time are mainly intended to hold back until more normal times in the post-war era permit China to reestablish her finances and assume the command of the economic structure of the country that the present situation makes impossible.\n\nIn April, General Olmsted, accompanied by Dr. T. V. Soong, now President of the Executive Yuan and then Minister of Foreign Affairs, went to Washington to secure economic advice and sanctions to carry out this objective. As a result, several changes have been introduced into China's economy. The gold policy has been corrected and the flow of gold into China has been resumed. Some civilian consumer goods have been brought in and have been used to barter for more essential supplies in areas where finances are particularly critical.\n\nA second function of the Civil Economy Branch is developing measures to combat hoarding. Rationing and price control have proved impossible without the more closely organised machinery of the western world. China, for example, has no accurate census, and setting up a rationing system would not only be impracticable because it wouldn't work. The only way to prevent hoarding in China is to make it economically undesirable to hoard and recommendations are now being prepared to enforce the registration of all holdings of essential materials, and it is hoped, by the use of taxes and other means, to achieve the same results that rationing would have in a more closely controlled economy.\n\nThe Civilian Economy Branch represents the theatre commander in relations with American and Allied business interests in China. Businesses now here often have access to facilities or materials that can be used in the military programmes and new corporate interests or those wishing to expand their trade in China are screened to insure that their activities will not interfere with the conduct of the war.\n\nThis branch takes an important part in representing the theatre commander in relations with United States organisations such as the O.W.I., or with Chinese and Allied organisations primarily concerned with civilian affairs.\n\nA less complex, though important, duty of the Civilian Economy Branch is the control of civilian traffic on military aircraft and transport in general. In transportation-starved China, civilian passengers find it difficult to move on anything other than military planes. It is the responsibility of the civilian traffic control officers and men to see that all civilian traffic is controlled and limited to that dictated by military necessity.\n\nPage 50\n\nPage 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577019, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "content_text": "53\n\n2\n\nMajor W. C. Donaldson, 36, New York City, N.Y., Executive Officer, and the heads of six G-5 branches: Colonel Carl Junge, 45, Lincoln, Nebr., Lieutenant-Colonels Herman A. Hauch, 35, Marathon, N.Y., Walter G. Sylvester, 31, Jersey City, N.J., Paul J. B. Murphy, 55, Staunton, Va., A. J. Binsfield, 45, Des Moines, Ia., and Wesley B. Edwards, 32, Washington, D.C.\n\nThe G-5 offices in Chungking are the nerve centre of a network of activities that affect or are affected by every military action in China. From here decisions come that reflect the desire of the Theatre Commander to exploit every opportunity to improve military strategy by improving civilian relationships and by increasing the volume of Chinese-produced war materials and essential civilian goods.\n\nTo carry out this policy, the G-5 section has been sub-divided into six branches, each with independent as well as many inter-locking functions and each in turn co-operating with United States and Allied civilian agencies, such as the United States Office of War Information, the Office of Strategic Services, the American Production Mission, British and French Information Services and Missions, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency, and numerous Chinese civilian and government organisations.\n\nRequirements and Assignments Branch.\n\nThe first of the branches is Requirements and Assignments under Lieutenant-Colonel Hauk, which was primarily organised to meet problems of military lend-lease aid to China. However, since the main and almost the only means of transporting commodities into China is controlled by the United States army, G-5 is responsible for determining through G-4 (supply) the total military needs, so that a ceiling may be placed on civilian lend-lease shipments.\n\nOfficers of this branch work in conjunction with civilian experts of the United States Foreign Economic Administration (F.E.A.), who screen civilian requests to determine the priority according to need, and submit requests, based on their studies, for approval by G-5.\n\nProduction Branch.\n\nThe Production Branch is directed by Lieut.-Colonel Sylvester and is assigned to stimulating Chinese industry with the immediate object of securing all possible military supplies from China itself, thus reducing the long haul and expensive procurement problems which must otherwise be met.\n\nHelping the Production Branch in this programme are some 25 civilian production men from all fields, in China as members of the American Production Mission, successor to the Nelson Mission. The American Production Mission has the primary duty of supplying qualified technical advisers to the Chinese War Production Board which was set up last fall on the pattern of the W.P.B. in Washington.\n\nVery encouraging results have been attained through these efforts. Production of both military and essential civilian goods has already shown some improvement, and while the greater part of the military requirements still have to come over the Hump or Stilwell Road from India, China's industry is assuming more and more of the burden.\n\nSpeaking of this aspect of the G-5 programme, General Olmsted points out that it has a long range as well as a short range application. Besides meeting immediate military needs, the increased production skills and industrial knowledge that result are the best kind of guarantee for a strong and united China after the war.\n\nBy stimulating Chinese interest in their own capabilities and natural resources, the Production Branch has done much to encourage an economically sound China for the years to come.\n\nProcurement Branch.\n\nThe third of the branches, Procurement, led by Lieutenant-Colonel Paul J. B. Murphy, is closely allied to the Production Branch, since it is usually the job of Procurement to obtain supplies that have been manufactured through the efforts of the Production Branch.\n\nThe policy followed by the Procurement Branch in making purchases in China is to buy as much as possible on a reverse lend-lease basis. Selling in this way, China is approaching, to some degree at least, a pay-as-you-go economy in wartime; post-war debts should be greatly reduced through this means. However, the application of reverse lend-lease is greatly complicated by China's rather unsteady finances and spiralling inflation.\n\n3\n\nThis branch works closely with relief agencies, notably U.N.R.R.A., in achieving maximum co-ordination in the solution of specific problems, such as the refugee situation existing to-day in Kweichow Province.\n\nAnother activity of the Procurement Branch also made more difficult by inflation is handling fiscal problems met by United States Forces in buying from China. One problem is the tax remission which is paid by the Chinese Government on all military purchases. Ferreting out and determining the taxes, particularly the indirect taxes, on any given purchase, is a hard job.\n\nClandestine Branch.\n\nThe last of the G-5 branches is the intriguingly-named Clandestine Branch, under Lieut.-Colonel Wesley B. Edwards, which is the co-ordinating organisation for all quasi-military activities.\n\nThe mission of the Clandestine Branch is co-ordination of the efforts of United States, Chinese and other Allied groups in order to combine their resources and achieve maximum striking power against the enemy through quasi-military means.\n\nThe results of the work of the G-5 section are relatively difficult to analyse although some of it appears in production statistics, more in the increasing volume of military necessities delivered by Chinese manufacturers, and even more in the costly yards gained and bases recovered in the present successful Chinese drives to clean out the corridor of occupation.\n\nHowever, the real gauge of the success of General Olmstead and his helpers, like the contribution of the other sections of General Wedemeyer command, lies not in single achievements or accumulation of achievements, but in the overall success of the military effort they all serve.\n\nCivilian Economy Branch.\n\nThe Civilian Economy Branch, under Lieut.-Colonel Bainsfeld, has as its main purpose the control of the inflationary process. There seems to be little chance that inflation in China can be stopped altogether and efforts at the present time are mainly intended to hold back until more normal times in the post-war era permit China to reestablish her finances and assume the command of the economic structure of the country that the present situation makes impossible.\n\nIn April, General Olmsted, accompanied by Dr. T. V. Soong, now President of the Executive Yuan and then Minister of Foreign Affairs, went to Washington to secure economic advice and sanctions to carry out this objective. As a result, several changes have been introduced into China's economy. The gold policy has been corrected and the flow of gold into China has been resumed. Some civilian consumer goods have been brought in and have been used to barter for more essential supplies in areas where finances are particularly critical.\n\nA second function of the Civil Economy Branch is developing measures to combat hoarding. Rationing and price control have proved impossible without the more closely organised machinery of the western world. China, for example, has no accurate census, and setting up a rationing system would not only be impracticable because it wouldn't work. The only way to prevent hoarding in China is to make it economically undesirable to hoard and recommendations are now being prepared to enforce the registration of all holdings of essential materials, and it is hoped, by the use of taxes and other means, to achieve the same results that rationing would have in a more closely controlled economy.\n\nThe Civilian Economy Branch represents the theatre commander in relations with American and Allied business interests in China. Businesses now here often have access to facilities or materials that can be used in the military programmes and new corporate interests or those wishing to expand their trade in China are screened to insure that their activities will not interfere with the conduct of the war.\n\nThis branch takes an important part in representing the theatre commander in relations with United States organisations such as the O.W.I., or with Chinese and Allied organisations primarily concerned with civilian affairs.\n\nA less complex, though important, duty of the Civilian Economy Branch is the control of civilian traffic on military aircraft and transport in general. In transportation-starved China, civilian passengers find it difficult to move on anything other than military planes. It is the responsibility of the civilian traffic control officers and men to see that all civilian traffic is controlled and limited to that dictated by military necessity.\n\n54", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577028, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "content_text": "COPY\n\n(F4100/917/10)\n\nWith the Compliments of the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs\n\nNo. 682 (5/13B/45).\n\n7th June, 1945.\n\nSecret:\n\nSir,\n\nBRITISH EMBASSY, CHUNGKING,\n\n20th June, 1945.\n\nOn receipt of your telegram No.470 of 29th May, from which it was clear that the scheme propounded in my despatch No.411 of the 12th April, to appoint an Economic Liaison Officer to work with American Army Headquarters in Chungking, had met with your approval, it was decided to approach General Olmsted with a request that we be allowed to obtain some insight into the working of the section with which the new officer would be primarily concerned. As a result, my Assistant Military Attaché, Colonel E. J. Cowell, called on General Olmsted on 8th June and was given full facilities to inform himself of the activities of the G-5 section of United States Army Headquarters.\n\nI now have the honour to transmit to you a copy of an interesting report prepared by Colonel Cowell on his conversations with the officers of this section.\n\n2. I think it advisable that you should have this report before you as soon as possible, particularly having regard to the possibility that the officer to be appointed to the post of Economic Liaison Officer may not yet have left London by the time this despatch reaches you.\n\nThe following comments on the despatch are therefore of a tentative nature, and the implications of Colonel Cowell's memorandum will be further studied here and reported upon in due course. I would propose that an attempt should be made to draft here, for consideration by you and other departments concerned in London, a general directive for the Economic Liaison Officer, which would presumably be issued by the War Office to the G.O.C. British Troops in China.\n\n3. It is clear from Colonel Cowell's report that the Economic Liaison Officer is likely to be fully occupied with important work and I do not doubt but that the view expressed in paragraph 4 (f) of the memorandum that he will require more staff will prove to be correct. I suggest that steps should at once be taken to consider suitable candidates for appointment to the Liaison Office.\n\n4. On paragraph 3(e) of Colonel Cowell's memorandum, while we shall have to await Colonel Junge's views when he has had time to familiarise himself with his new job, it is of interest that General Olmsted informed a member of my staff...\n\nThe Right Honourable,\n\nWinston S. Churchill, P.C., C.H.,\n\netc.,\n\netc.,\n\netc. Foreign Office,\n\nLondon, S.W.1.\n\nRECEIVED\n\n24 JUL 1945", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577029, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "content_text": "64\n\nstaff a few days ago that it was his intention to set up a school to train Chinese officers for civilian affairs administration. I trust that the General is not being rather too optimistic in taking on this very difficult task.\n\n5. I agree generally with the conclusions drawn by Colonel Cowell under paragraph 4 of his memorandum, and more specifically with his sub-paragraphs (b) and (d). With regard to sub-paragraph (c), I think that, provided the Economic Liaison Officer is able to achieve satisfactory personal relations with the G-5 section as a whole, and with General Olmsted in particular, we may be justified in hoping for a measure of positive American assistance in such matters as the re-occupation of British properties as they are cleared of the Japanese. Any such assistance would be of real advantage and might be of major importance, particularly where ownership is challenged by an occupier.\n\n6. On paragraph 4(d), my only comment is that it may be found that both Mr. Asquith and Dr. Needham may be able to provide useful suggestions to the procurement division of G-5, as they have acquired a considerable knowledge of the Chinese potential. The ground has, indeed, been very fully covered by the many American advisers who have recently investigated almost every aspect of Chinese economic life, but there may still be ideas available on the British side, and the Economic Liaison Officer would, of course, establish early and close contact with the officers both of the Allied Supplies Executive and of the British Council Scientific Mission here.\n\n7. Paragraph 4(e) of the memorandum raises a rather complex issue: the appointment of the Economic Liaison Officer will, of course, have to be notified to the Chinese authorities and I agree with Colonel Cowell's suggestion that he should work with Chinese organisations through the agency of the relevant division of G-5, at least at first. Provided, however, that the forms are properly observed, I do not anticipate that there would be any difficulties on the Chinese side; and in particular, I feel that General Yu Ta-wei at least will prove to be understanding.\n\n8. I also agree generally with the recommendations made in paragraph 5 of Colonel Cowell's memorandum. On sub-paragraph (a) of that paragraph, my feeling, as stated above, is that it would probably be better for the original directive to be drafted here in Chungking for submission to you and thus to other departments concerned in London.\n\nWith regard to paragraph 5(b), I agree that it is important that information be made available as it is forthcoming; and the sooner a start can be made, the better it will be. You will no doubt consider how best to provide for the collection and communication of the information to be passed to G-5 from the London end. I believe, in this connexion, that prior to Pearl Harbour, a considerable quantity of information was collected in Shanghai from British firms and sent to you: and I imagine", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577030, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "content_text": "65\n\nimagine that the whole problem of the communication of this information to the American military authorities will be discussed by you with the China Association. I also understand that the Inter-Services Topographical Department of the War Office may also have available a quantity of general information regarding China from a military operational standpoint, and you may wish to consider whether any papers prepared by this Department might be suitable for communication.\n\n9. On the question raised in sub-paragraph (c) of Colonel Cowell's memorandum my feeling is that we would be well-advised to rule that everything received by the Economic Liaison Officer should be communicable, except where a specific warning is given in respect of any individual item.\n\n10. Finally I consider that the recommendation in paragraph 5(c) of the memorandum, that early action should be taken to contact the local representatives of British firms and British missionary societies and to seek their cooperation, should be followed up.\n\nI see no disadvantage in parallel approaches on this matter both here and in London, and I would propose to instruct His Majesty's Consular Officers in Chungking and Kunming to call meetings of British businessmen and British missionaries at which the Economic Liaison Officer or if his arrival is to be delayed, Colonel Cowell, can give them a general picture of what is proposed and ask them, after consulting their head offices if they so desire, to prepare briefs on their properties and other physical assets in China for communication by the Economic Liaison Officer to General Olmsted's organisation. I consider that there can be no possible objection to our passing on now all information regarding British property in or near Chungking; and it would show goodwill if we could at once provide some of the information that has been requested. I shall not, however, take any action here until I have your telegraphic authority.\n\nI have the honour, etc.\n\n(Sgd.) H. J. Seymour.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577031, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "content_text": "SECRET\n\nH. M. Ambassador, G.O.C.\n\nOFFICE OF H.B.M. MILITARY ATTACHÉ,\n\nBRITISH EMBASSY,\n\nCHUNGKING.\n\n18th June, 1945.\n\n66\n\n1.\n\nEconomic Liaison with U.S. G 5 Chungking.\n\nAs instructed I reported to General Olmsted on the 8th June. He gave me an outline of the circumstances necessitating the establishment of G 5, its functions and the manner in which local conditions made those functions rather different from those of G 5 in other theatres. It was then arranged that I should meet the heads of the various branches of G 5, and I completed my round of the offices concerned during the past week. This was arranged to enable me to receive from each officer a more detailed survey of the work of his branch, and to ascertain what assistance, if any, he required from British organisations now and in the future.\n\n2. G 5 is organised as follows:-\n\n8\n\na) Overhead\n\nb) Requirements and Assignments Branch - Brig. General G. Olmsted, Lt. Col. W. W. McCrae\n\nc) Procurement Branch - Lt. Col. P. J. B. Murphy\n\nd) Civilian Economy Branch - Lt. Col. Binsfeld\n\ne) Production Branch - Lt. Col. W. G. Sylvester\n\nf) Military Government Branch - Lt. Col. Junge\n\ng) Clandestine organisations Branch - Lt. Col. Wesley B. Edwards\n\nMr. C. N. Joyner is attached to G 5 as liaison officer from F.E.A.\n\n3. I have now talked to the heads of all the above branches of G 5 with the exception of Colonel Junge (Military Government) who only took up his duties on the 14th June and therefore will see me after he has settled in, and Colonel Edwards with whose Branch I am not authorised to liaise. I summarise my discussions below:\n\na) Requirements and Assignments Branch.\n\nThis Branch is responsible for the screening of Chinese requisitions, for the assignment of lease-lend supplies and for determining the priority of such supplies. It works closely with the F.E.A. and the appropriate Chinese Ministries and Departments. At present its policy is to give priority to the requirements of the American-sponsored Chinese Divisions.\n\nFrom the British angle Messrs. Asquith and Watterson maintain close liaison with this branch. It does not appear as if the Economic Liaison officer will be required...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577038, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "content_text": "M.05731/45\n\n12th July 1945\n\n73\n\nDear Sterndale Bennett,\n\nPlease refer to your letter of 23rd June concerning General Olmsted's suggestion that a British officer should be appointed for liaison on questions arising out of the re-occupation of Chinese territory.13\n\nYou may like to know that Colonel Burkhardt would not be willing to take up this appointment.\n\n2. We have also considered the other suggestions and agree that an interdepartmental meeting would be useful. Our preliminary views are that a Naval officer should be appointed to the British Military Mission at Chinese G.H.Q. for work in connection with shipping and the re-occupation of the Treaty ports.\n\n3. We also think that an officer should be appointed for the purpose mentioned in para. 5 of Chungking telegram No. 379, namely liaison with the seaborne invading forces. He need not necessarily be a Naval officer but would probably require a Naval assistant. It would be premature, of course, to do anything more about this appointment at present, and when the time comes it had best be arranged on the spot between the Chinese and the British Commander concerned. As, however, the question has been raised in the form of a request from U.S. Army Headquarters, it will be advisable to accept in principle now.\n\n4. I am sending copies of this letter to the recipients of yours.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\n(sgd.) O. H. M. WALDOCK,\n\nC.B.E., M.C.,\n\nJ.C. Sterndale Bennett, Esq.,\n\nForeign Office, S.W.1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577041, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "content_text": "With the Complimenter Gent\n\n13876\n\nof State\n\nColonial Office\n\nUnder\n\nfor Foreign Affairs\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.\n\n(F3750/917/10)\n\n23rd June, 1945.\n\nSECRET\n\n6\n\n20\n\n7*\n\nDear Molony,\n\nRECEIVED\n\n26 JUN 1945\n\nC. O. REGY\n\nYou will have seen the recent correspondence about General Olmsted's suggestion that a British officer should be appointed for liaison with him on questions arising out of the reoccupation of Chinese territory and more particularly those affecting British properties in that territory. The most recent paper on the subject is Foreign Office letter No. F2712/917/10 of the 12th May last covering Chungking despatch No. 425 of the 17th April.\n\n2. I do not know whether this subject falls entirely within your competence so far as the War Office is concerned but, if not, I hope you will guide it into the proper channel.\n\n3. We think that General Olmsted's suggestion is a most useful one and we should like to deal with it in advance of the more ambitious liaison scheme put forward in Chungking telegram No. 379 and developed in more detail in Chungking despatch No. 424 of the 17th April. It is a concrete proposal emanating from the American side and we feel it would be advisable to close with it promptly.\n\n4. The Ambassador, who is acting in the closest accord with Generals Carton de Wiart and Hayes, has expressed a wish that the officer selected shall be sent out at the earliest possible moment and we have exchanged telegrams with him about suitable candidates. As a result, we should like to put forward three names for consideration:\n\nLieutenant-Colonel C.J.C. Molony, M.I.2., Office (a)\n\nPage 6\n\n...\n\nPage 7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577052, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "content_text": "we assume, \n\ndespatch supersede/the suggestion made by \n\nGeneral Olmsted that a British Economic \n\nLiaison Officer should be appointed to \n\nGeneral Olmsted's section at United States \n\nArmy Headquarters, and in fact the proposed \n\nLiaison Mission would provide inter alia the \n\nEconomic Liaison which was the object of the \n\nGeneral's proposal, but perhaps this point \n\nmight be confirmed. \n\nWe shall be glad to be kept in close \n\ntouch with developments in this matter. \n\nI am sending a copy of this letter to \n\nLieutenant Colonel C.J.C.Malony.\n\nJou \n\nSurel \n\n(Carl) y.E.1.4. \n\n87", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577060, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945", "content_text": "With the Compliments\n\nof the\n\nUnder Secretary of State\n\nfor Foreign Affairs\n\nCopy.\n\n10 MAY 1945\n\n(F2496/917/10),\n\nNo. 411 (1/13B/45).\n\nColonial Office\n\nMr Gent.\n\n275-\n\ncopied\n\nBRITISH EMBASSY,\n\nCHUNGKING.\n\n12th April, 1945.\n\nSECRET\n\nSir,\n\nIn my telegram No. 357 of April 11th, I outlined a suggestion made by Brigadier General Olmsted, chief of the G5 section of United States Army Headquarters, China, that it would be useful to him were the services of a British military officer to be made available for consultation on problems arising out of the re-occupation of Chinese territory and, in particular, of British properties, in that territory. General Olmsted's views, which were first enunciated in a tentative fashion in a conversation with my Military Attaché, are elaborated in the enclosed memorandum of a discussion of the scheme between the General and my Counsellor.\n\n2. You will observe that the project has not yet been cleared with General Wedemeyer (who returned to Chungking on April 10th) but there is, I think, little doubt that it will be approved. Meanwhile, I am favourably impressed with the scheme and suggest that it should receive early and favourable consideration.\n\n3. The most difficult problem may be the selection of a suitable person for the appointment. While it would undoubtedly be possible to appoint a relatively junior and inexperienced man to the job and to allow him to function merely as a sort of post office, I feel that it would be better from every point of view if it were possible to find a man who has had experience in China, especially in Shanghai and/or Hong Kong; his value would be still further increased if he had had practical experience in business or, for instance, banking such as would give him a general insight into the scope and ramifications of British interests in China. If such a person can be found, he should, in our opinion, be given the rank of Colonel or Lieutenant-Colonel, which would give him sufficient seniority to speak with authority. It is difficult to assess what assistance he would need; but I do not think it would be necessary to appoint more than a clerk to his staff in the first instance and until we see how the scheme works out in practice.\n\n4. Any officer appointed to the post would presumably be under either the British Military Mission or my Military Attaché for the purposes of discipline. As his work will be mainly connected with the provision of information about British civilian facilities for the planning sections of the Chinese and American commands, it would seem that his contacts at the London\n\nThe Right Honourable,\n\nAnthony Eden, M.C., M.P.,\n\nForeign Office,\n\nLondon, S.W.1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-14 Military Administration- liaison with Chinese and American forces 11-4-1945 - 25-7-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]