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        "id": 244348,
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]",
        "content_text": "## NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE, \n\n**Mr. GEORGE STRACHAN, ARCHITECT and SURVEYOR,** \n\n地出屋式 \n\nGage Street, Victoria, 1st May, 1858. \n\n月戊問士治額如地士未十午便荡街請貴八年可即到燉三行結光\n\n**JUST LANDED AND FOR SALE.** \n\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 12 | Patent WATER CLOSETS |\n| - | Also, Patent Electro-Plated Nickel Silver FORKS, and SPOONS. |\n\nThe Hongkong Register. (No. 18-May 4, 1858)\n\ndon't hamper selves with many goods for we fear he wanting. A small county town acquitted by the committee appointed to investigate...\n\nThe Hongkong Register. (No. 18.-MAY 4, 1858)\n\nthey give is.\" Be prepared for an outbreak in the successful carrying out the scheme will seem to be on the point of being frustrated. Mr. Bott has been using thin verdict will be flat Mr. Butt Tips, in the of Sitara and Coora Ameer of Scinde, and a King of load contemporary was taken to task by one of large stockholders on Hon... and comfortably quartered, the present. Few people believe the rumors of home has its hospital and its charities of ever great conduct, and we hope Dr. Bridges will... with the privileges of the foe of us, were that if he were to do a Court of Appeal from Hwang's aerial cognizance. He is supposed to heart; each party vies with its neighbor to advance also be acquitted were a committee appointed to investigate his connection as standing...\n\nvery near, and it seems even against Chinese common sense, that a person specially deputed is an event of the greatest importance; there are fairs to raise the small fund required, in which every one, gentle and simple, for miles around are interested. Here, where many cur...\n\na few days, we are sorry to say there is not a hospital.\n\ncurrent for the Opium monopolist. There, unfortunately for Dr. Bridges, there is no committee appointed, and so the clamor goes on unrefuted and slander of this kind never dies. We fortunate...\n\nto settle the affairs of foreigners, the news of the fall of Canton being now by those who accredited him, should not on learning the absence of the plenipotentiaries at the math, which news of money for a good purpose could be raised immediately are not the guardians of Dr. Bridges's good name must have reached him from Shanghae-in such a case, he would stride into Canton in all pomp and openness who would feel the least interest in the subject black as his gown for anything we or the public may be, and as simple barrister his name may be, and say Here I am, ready to arrange matters, after he had paid his subscription. We trust...\n\nwhere are your plenipotentiaries? A diplomatic may not continue, but that some of our principle the British Government representing British catch like that would not be...\n\nmissed by a Chinese man will try and do something, by giving both justice to the Chinese, we could less to a more diplomatist. A ranguotic telegraph is being laid their time and money to help forward to perfection tender care of it. He stands in the position down from the Magazine Hill to the Allied Wharf, so good a work as the establishment of a general of Caser's wife, he should not only be-not guilty. If he should not even be suspected. We publish the following minutes of a meeting are happy to believe, but that he is suspected we that Dr. Bridges bite Mr. Butt is not guilty we held on Thursday 29th ultimo for the purpose of establishing a General Hospital.\" We are impressed on the Chinese mind, and we more urgent business. Having inspected the opium monopolist were invited to attend, but were prevented by understand openly stated by Chun-tai-kwong, the buildings which it is intended to appropriate to clever men, all powerful with the governor or the government; that he can take, unmake, or \"That Dr. Bridges is a very adapted for the purpose. Of the skill of the superintending Physicist, Dr. Kenny, we need not and propitiated. All this may be true. say nothing as it would be presumption in us no and the Acting Colonial Secretary may still be a medical men to comment on the abilities of worthy, honest, hard-working government servant, gentleman so well and known esteemed. If the establishment of a general civil hospital alluded to in a previous article does not come to pass, the press...\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1858.\n\nTHOS. HUNT & Co.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nRHOD...\n\nULES FOR STANSBURY'S MEASURING\n\nPRICE-25 Cents each, on Pasteboard,\n\nApply to\n\nMr. M. Hoza,\n\nat the \"Hongkong Register\" Office.\n\nthe late mailings out intelligence of the appointment of Dr. Harland as Colonial Surgeon, and as the salary is stated to be £800 per annum,\n\nwe for Dr. Harlan! will be prohibited from undertaking private practice. If we are right in this supposition the government have got a good man cheaply, and the community lost a very able professional attendant.\n\nThe duties of the office have latterly become very heavy, and are likely to become still more so, and it is much to be doubted that one person can discharge them satisfactorily, even devoting his whole time to the work. We learn further, the instructions have been sent out that a new civil hospital is to be built and that nothing more is to be done in the affair of the Bowring Praya.\n\nHongkong, 4th May, 1858.\n\nSTOLEN.\n\nGOLD LEVER WATCH, with enamelled dial,\n\nand GOLD CHAIN-Maker's Name, Bund and Laut, 41 Cornhill. Number of Watch. The Watch, with a lanyard and set of Studs were, at is supposed, attracted from the case between this and Canton about January. A handsome Reward will be paid for the recovery of the same.\n\nHongkong, 3d May, 1858.\n\nApply at this Office,\n\nThe Hongkong Register,\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 4TH MAY, 1858.\n\nParties sending Advertisements to the \"Hongkong Register\" or \"Register's Advertise,\" phrase address to the \"Printer and Publisher of the respective Papers, which will secure early attention to their Communications.\n\nsent Galertising has our best wishes:—Fr. Angelo Fr. Reina, and Fr. Long Mesore Kup Present—Revds. Fr. Jerome Mangier, Fr. MacMahon Block, Kenes, Hassoon, Isam. Werden, F. Sustaining...\n\nthat some means will be adopted for the purpose If a new civil hospital is to be erected we hope of incorporating the seamen's hospital with it. The resident surgeon of the seamen's hospital at the following showing the details of the loss that a barrister should get what he asks; he is The meeting was opened by the Revd. Fr. Jerome certainly cannot look upon it as an improper thing might become the resident surgeon of the civil hospital, and this would relieve the Colonial Surgeon from a heavy duty, while it enabled him to...\n\nGENTLEMEN—I am extremely happy to see you all at this meeting for discussing the expediency, and the means between the seller and buyer, the attorney and client. I am convinced that cure, ponder of the hospitals, or two private hospitals have been called upon to remark on this subject, the effect will be derived from the amalgamation of all the civil...\n\nview and to which, I am couleur you will general and client. The only ground on which we feel that owing to the departure of the medical bent, and plentifully alone, have actuated you in business may who opened them, but it was well known they wish I was able to express any gratitude in language equivalent to my sincere interest for this our of your kind coming this night my welcome guest and I sincerely it has on the Chinese. We pointed out the dianess which will not be un great, I hope, by the weight fl Colonial Secretary, and were we have the evil and civil hospitals. We fear the want of efficiency, to give a no harsher name, still continues. It is so did of your valuable advice and suggestions I should not call for any primary assistance...\n\nrealized. Dr. Bridges is in the Chinese eyes a man 41 years, Master of the receiving ship Mahamoudie and for many years in the employ of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nOne complaint is, and in the first place I beg leave to submit a few of my that when the monopolist engages his services as that the site is an unhealthy one that point own propositions to your consideration.\n\nF. DE SENSA Jr.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nAt Macao, on the 7th April, the Wife of Mr. Joaquin...\n\nAt Macau, on the 1st May, Mr. Isnacracto D. VIRKIRA KIBKRO.\n\nAt Victoria, Hongkong, on the 1st May, Mr. I. P. COLL...\n\nTO THE BRITISH COMMUNITY AT HONGKONG\n\nThe undersigned begs to inform the community that the Office of the British Consulate, this day has been transferred from WANPAO to HOKAN.\n\nCHAе. A. WINCHESTER, H.B.M.'s Acting Consul\n\nBritish Consulate for Canton,\n\nAnnexe of Houa, 29th April, 1858.\n\na ground floor in any situation is not well adapted for the purpose of a hospital--still less when high a land is...\n\nIt is intention to establish a General Hospital, in unsel that there is, there can be, no back-stairs of corruption to resort to how; perhaps he may expect this: Gardens and S. Francis Hospital and which show however, the monopolist finds himself compelled my father intention to have it well furnished with all it in surrounded by growing trees, and is alut in necessary materials for a proper Hospital, and to be on all sides by hills except where it faces the provided with experienced Doctors: will us in art, but is informed that...\n\ncounsel to attend for him before the Magistrate's harbor. Be this true or false, there is another change which is a tangible one, and the one on which we base our most complaints. The charge is. changed by a sufficient staff of Hospital servants to attend to the patients.\n\nThe gentlemen I intend to appoint are Dr. Vande... and Dr. Kenny the former Gentlemen lately arrived in this Colony, is a bachelor of questionable own count. creasing their diseases or acquiring new ones. fool the set of several languages which Mandarin Bridges; and with great dignity oỀ references oedh as to professional accomplishments, and enough to English people, but to the Chinese the All this is staple and straightforward We have personal experience of this being true at a fluently, and which will be exceedingly useful in least in our instance and a respectable merchant and ship owner made the same complaints to us sometime ago with a request that we would The latter Gentleman, whose abilities she too well three characters—first, as one of the law-makers, commission where he may meet with patients of all place great power is associated. chant and ship owner made the same complaints to Dolor expose it. Thinking it improbable that either known and ustalised, to any better certium, then, as one of the granters, and finally, as tue That is the so in the present case when we have one man in the trustees or the resident surgeon would sane- apply to them as the hurt and most effective...\n\nFellow of the naval College of Surgeons of England-41 tion such a thing we recommended the party to\" and is proposed to be consulting Doctor to the legal adviser and supporter of the monopolist in course to adopt to put a termination to a rival propositions, I think it well to apprise you of a few...\n\nhis monopoly we see however by report of a meeting held will fin exercises there without distinction of creed on view of their extent. te great sunl, certain- Mr. Isang Batt is, we understand, a very...\n\nA manual number of Inquests have been during the past few days held before the Coroner—one of them however of particular interest: A Chinese was killed by the falling in during the heavy rain of the 20 of an out-building in the course of erection on a Marine lot. 4 Swede was drowned in the harbor while bathing on Sunday the 25th alto. A man, discharged from...\n\nIt is evident that whether this proceeds from patients noting in a way so prejudicial to their carelessness or health, it should be stopped, whether...\n\nRunt of means to prevent the trustees of the seamen's hospital close to carry out or amalgamate it with the civil hospital.\n\nthe appropriate in relieving Papers, who will be received into the Hospital at once; and in the case of time to try point is, that he appears as the paid advocate, at truly desite will also be admitted. stion. In the Civil Hospital a Chinese died from he hoped a properly constructed hospital will be of the airs as the lipizi; to supply this defect, ara perhaps a little stronger in his case.\n\nThe list is no doubt their best course, for it is to that being missionary, I cannot by any means devote ages in the cause. This is the case as nearly as Lufe teal it incurent upon me to remark herehe the same time he holds the position of one of the effects of a gun shot wound received when escaperected on an eligible site in a central spot, of Grand Prus sery kindly tendered his duable aerof Coranous not doubting the honor of its ing from the Western Coal sheds, he having been which there are many that it will be well! vises and M. Braga, roster of the Medal members is yet so jealous of its privileges that it myself entirely the management and perintended. we can understand it of Dr. Bridges, if it be not there committing robbery. A verdier of wilful secured and watched, so that no such abuses can murder has been taught against some parties win!\n\nThe House made a particular attack on a conveying fel...\n\nHail,) deo will take an interest in it. to this market. Iu dar obituary there is the two hospitals would also enable the directors to means as way enable me to cry on these desigua...\n\nThe combination of the means of the to your very own hands to save and suggest such a imputation, and in this the curatituencies In couches, Gentlemen, I consign das proposals will not enfer a member to underlie the shade of...\n\nmamme of Cayman Cole of the Courser, lately wrecked on the Pratas.\n\nWe may have point out two of face—Ã mom- carry out one or two very necessary improvements. fortable set of sick rooms available for the young men of the colony, whether belonging to govern...\n\nwhich it has \n\nHuid Prẻ be the derrotary, \n\nTas news from Canton both public and private are of the most conflicting nature. One be treated for serious diseases with more care and attention than they can obtain in their wet houses set up at Fur Shan, and that it is assembling in the houses of their employers, where their press might be dangerous in cases of infectious another equally positive says No such a thing diseases to the atlier intrares-A portion of the near Fat Shan and The spital to be act mort for the treatment Foldiers place is perfectly quiet. There me the Sade Famous sad counter rumors on the subject of aner only of a temporary character. The fantalony he unlie? pan to atroci the patients.\n\nof the insane, whether the disease be permanent urine of laces of the amal strength (40,000 to 50,000). On this point we see mu besimation...\n\nthere are \n\n3. Kenny proposed Mr Grand the store, Hore we have the close corporation--the are at the details of the object for the formation of as to it or its members underlying grave charge. That a Committee be selected from this meeting to Legislative Council, showing to great impatience ment or the mercantile class, in which they might, that Mosses in Black, it is population. Eat beand this is a popular Reed. Macinon ha aproated a Comunitar, Pr...\n\nalz. Grand Pré proposed and it was unanimously carried that they are perhaps joined by the respectable almost probably they do not believe the large and fucome to be President and Fr. de la Croix added this Mition British and Foreign, and native above all, \n\nPison of the Hospit Mr. Gal P proposed, and it was carried that the Rev. Fr. Jerome, lesit e Founder new is a \n\nwas unanimously wine exactly to think, and as every thing un- secuted, that the Sisters of Charity in the the very worst.\n\nRev. Fr. McMahon proposed Mr. Grand Pré perhaps prepared to tanke up their and to think supposed to be worse than it really is, \n\nposition was also monin shy carried, \n\nW sak, in conclusion, er general readers Proposed by Fr. Jerome and Seeded by air. Sade peruse with care the accompanying article Privalaute or thanks he given to the Gentlemen from the Daily News on Mr. Butt's care. We nek win sa kindly accepted to set at.\n\nProposed by Mr. Kup and seled by Mfr. A. rent whether or not it would not more.\n\nvote is thanks be given to the Secretary its list it end save ten sold ar opes and fair market, dew, to his able conduet in the Ensin Sifeira, that are of tanks to given to Revd. the Gets of the case as to granting a mest udinis liberati in su recuti apcepting the ties id Secretary as to the withdrawal of the first groot, and difconsort with their honor, and open: c'eating, if all Proped by Mr. Block unt seeded by Mr. Issand oppressive monopoly un scaled tenders, when Nothing farther being left for discussion, thermitely as to the regranting it on the same ternis Esalse to theer on Thursday gezi, the 7th May, ka the...\n\nto the same pers, were mady known. And we \n\nin speaking confidently; there is no such army.\n\ns to need fustare polating cut.\n\nthe \n\nWe hear there is much acquisition in villages around, no doubt a great deal of big talk,\n\nalso be isolated buildings for a small pox There hospital and a lock hospital.\n\nIf in ndition a sanatoriure copii, na way long ago proposed in this paper, he erected on the top of Victa Penk, we might consider ourselves well way from Canton to Macau and Hongkong. As we predicted, the Cantooreze pre rising from their fortified to withstand any amount of tiny defent with mere insolence than ere; stones; discne. laze been thrown at offices and soldiers not to mener-getting-the heads of society are so e...\n\nWe fear, however, public spirit is lost an speak of the murderous assault on the policeman paged to making money as fast as they can that Stewart, and it is considered very unsafe to enter they may get back to their own country, that they the western part of the city. In the face of this have us time to care for the rany poor aferra the Europeans are living in Honais in the park nates tied to the island for a very long day, if not houses without even a corporal's guard to pro- for ever. sect them. Goods still go up, and although there is some nceusinese felt by the principal Chinese traders who have returned, yet the only advice...\n\n| \n\nto the meeting and Committee. \n\nThis \n\nhomes of Mr. Buck, to draw Rules and Regiations for the the Hospital.\n\nA. GRAND PRE\n\nNerred \n\nActing Colonist Secretary to give the public. which pays him, sogte expérnation of the very doubtiul position in which he at present stands :—— (beily Never.)\n\nsource of the success of such a scheint, would be. 1. for Youghal and W. T. Bridgee. Eaqrektious peaard by the Committee of the Charnam Mr. \n\nWe do not think outy, one great cases of leave Butt, Esq., Barrister and wanting, but something more than money is. C. L., Harrister and Member of the close car-r's me, it may be informed that the dir. mester has wanting-personal superintendence und an interes portion—the Legislative Council of flugkong, tren aited of the charge of breach of pra ilege, \n\nFrom: what has been allow vú to trucepire respecting the \n\nTo \n\nna weit is a portion of the Naval Brigade. The troops the officers of that regiment: -- \n\nwere left on board the transports Lancashire Witch und Tax Benged Hathara, of the 20th March, says with Mooresfort. at Whampoa and the French Contingent remained on board their own ships, except a ousall party in conjeful occupation \n\nreference to two aditional Native Regiments for th \n\nice in China- \n\nPoutres hundred sepoy belonging to the 65th and #2th Regiments N. 1. are now wigh at island, 30 they have not already arrived ut ur in the visity of Barrack port. As we all know they are destined for service in Cuma, provided they can be clarked on the rearts all which possage us ofen signed these, but not being ralunteers for the screire, they canne! in the whole e Looked upon as very willing soldiers vayer for forel ware,\" nnd we sind be able to state the exact numifer that my he proceeding to China, only on the authority \n\n3. the 181, (reclved a communication from Ule Bariul Bizin und Baron Gros, stating that the reply the Contaistioner had been received that is was most antislactory, and inviting the aavel and milhors and-chief to a saference board the Aulaccuse, to consider what further steps aliulit be taken, in consequence of Keb's determination to resist the very nurse decade of the two Governments, \n\n4. Tur conference was held un the 21st it, when it was determined that the pienipotentiaries should \n\nDe knocking at the dors tie Iluase of Coumene\n\nthese prvi of the \n\nthe inverse of Tabs, it would be overwhelmed with adelage India. basic enough co ungrosa tile whole the ovidence selitted to the committee crabile us, \n\ntime of tho bare. And the tuulia eniture, who A Morril, vus of the four Ameere of Upper Selnic, we setertido a boradigazy faith in the nipotence frihe med of turving acquired the interstance of the of Las in judicial proceedings would besiege these members with; dengnes by the presuction of a legal document. The pretura, which if u come the intimation of die James dim Government appelated a commision of the their argir, it would be perfectly air for them to lost heas 4 Prestige de large judicially. The secept. It was nice aged at a Nahub of Arcot bu Cammons in tris pay of an artisan cum te tor conclusion that the charge was eight members of the Host \n\nTim Court of Directors therungen proposed that 1 Sudan bill be any degree resembling that of Lourd Faimers blogne should be deprived of the laude which he held us, is allowed to be low every bilan in-and der the surged decourt. The Presideur of the Bont of their now is leglus--an every wealthy Balno will have attel, for the Cana being, was of opinion that this contence has paid ur uz merabers in the loss of \n\nto lenient, and at bis sggesden Ali Moore was de This is anger gainer which the people of Bogland rised of the ends thus fraudulently bined, and also of have to murd, now that it to props to vrat illa governs \n\nof the pilots reports from the Sashes. Meanwhile, dan letter to the Eugerial High Couimper, started his crban\" laude, beaving him in pranes munt of falla exclusively on the Minsters of the tr \n\nwe dure suy, preparations are being mude for the restoring his Excelteney that, in consequence of his mom.compliance with the debody submitted for fas on of all his remaining and very valuable eruditary! \n\nWe publish the following despatch from the ception of those men to be taken to fight the battles of \n\nconsideration, the lurther settlement of the question the Goverment in a country distant and different from To win a reversal of this judgment, the Amger Putna to \n\nbeen transferred to the anal and military suites, that where as hrave and faithful soldiers their services Sugated. We pas Uver the minor personages in the dis- Government Gazette of last Saturday from the \n\nof State for Foreign affairs, which we ece fur toere required at would be most valuable, that me should sly address better to his silency stating the above faci, and that it, at the end of a further uded the Coffeys, and the alle lady who travelled \n\ntern of forty-eight hours, the eny saguld be perefully from London to Paris, and from Paris to Vienna, for the \n\nquived preparations are compite, nid the sea sust atenie purpose of sizing the deposed prace by paying \n\ncoussy be subject to temporary dependion before surdered into our hands, life and property would be es with it. Gar Lusiness is with the servant of the \n\nthey are sent away. Whether they are all to vents respected; but that, if the teras were out roepted, the English public, the bon, member for Youghal. \n\ntheir rus ad munition or not, we are not aware; city would be attacked. \n\nAll our efforts to avert the evils of war from the hot after the last false alarm, we think it would be \n\nกษ \n\nterested nu eympathising agency by which he was - Secretat, s:t the attention of persons who have Some days may be expected to elapse before the re- \n\ncommend \n\nbeen married in Macau or who propose being married rkare:- \n\nNo. 20. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nAch is established by Mr. Burt's corn statements. Hiviers were engagal for the Amar acu after that raine's rival in England Mr. Brat sits that he could \n\nWith reference to the Validity of Marriages sofem nie heered the passagement of the application furtius in the der's beauf le staves that he al-nize an Chana, otherwise that ja acendance with nys urged upon the Amer, Aut his lends art advisers, the provisions of the Act 12 and 13 Victores, Cap the bringing of his ca bure Parliament, as the m0268, His Excellency SR JOHN BOWRING, Kaight, relies are to pure. Ha actually used for propers, like \n\nproductive of which he theme obviated to promote the L., Her Majesty's Poipotentiary and Chief er's van. He coniterie the Pirator: the Superintendent of Frade in China &c., &c. has Kulit Company, and agon Mr. Turen faith, the Presisereived a Despatch front The Bight Hande bat the Bora of Control, la licit their nou wees on Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a Copy child of hie ciet. The result of these applicnída was a of which is hereby published for „euerai inforna- jetine on the Board of Directors in answer to the Amcera \n\nBy Order, \n\nG. W. CAINE. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858. Xo. 7 \n\n| \n\njudicious to let it be generally own where and how Chmese having walled, tough the obstinate deteriou the large reinforcement of Pay at the presidency hastian winch as chuterised the proceeding of the een lucnted. Three times the same nombe: of sepoya, Imperial Commissioner from October 21, 1956, oching with all the respectude cam-uds of Barnkport, could remained for the Commanders of the Allied Furces but 15 address the Imperia. Commissiouer, wai to muery into but little, even if they did their worst, but talve \n\ni nens and anuseless panes are any tring fat dignied execution the painful alternative of attacking Centon, Jerorols, would be more effectsly avoided by wich was conquced at daylight this ring. The da:ture of the pucket will prevent my giving say funk revelation of actual wrangements than j \n\ninither reports. I am now on the point of joining the studied reticence which only lends to mystification and forces asembarking at Kuyer's Talked for the zasault on surpicion, -nnd very often reduces the very offre it is \n\nthe city walls, intended a prevent \n\nTur Fagfxman of 23rd Mauch on the same subject, remarks \n\nThe 47th Regt. N. I have nerived, and are vuramped on the glacis of Fort William; they are about 379 strong \n\nof all grace, native officers mari sepoys, and is the Government have ordered Colonel Port, Command FOREIGN OFPics, Alarch 9, 1950. \n\ning, to rerait the Regiment with Malen. Brigadier SIR, eve under my consideration, and have | Corfich with this topiment and the 65th N. I. new en referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crow, the way down, will leave by the 16th proximo. your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of \n\nFLOWERS FROM THE INDIAN PAPERS. December and 9d of January last, on the subject of \n\nThe Athene reples mure we to our elrage of the doubts when hel arisen as to the Validity of the \n\nAs we cannot consent to sally our Marriages of British Sabjre's at Chinese Ports; and literary larceny. \n\nges with language ru is seldom beard erido I have to acquaint yaa, in reply, that the Statute i2 \n\nappliers, which on being bitted. se i noceary, for tim. de approvation of the Board of Controt, was materially al. by B1. Fordon sit The reply, as orglundly homed by the Court of Directors, was in vlect, that the Amy's care and on Judicially decided, and that they ans rezson to reverse the decision. The reply, as indi Sed by Me. Vernon Site, was in effent, that if the Amer would zezer his native country, and exert himself in half of the English Government, his real right he Argarable mitezinimesi. These series, fr. But declares, firmad gratully, and simply from his covention of the juice of the Ameer's cline. But in ariston to these parcier Mr. Gutt rent to posed to Failid to argo the Anect's Shell her. For the filter service Mr. Hah desit het theas to receive in all 19,1001, and thut off this She has actually received southing more than 2000. Mr. Butt deolares ther be still holds himself sound to proceed to hulin if the Ameer insists upon it; her in the event of Mr. Bart's aching latelet te lo be will and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, inponeering Consul topolhouse, our readers must be sausted with our report of fund the money recusat it he is dy preserred solomuze Mariages, does not affect the valulity of, the substance of it. Elis rejoinder is, that our charge of fum pracoding to tudi by the Ameer and his advisers or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which flebing terms the Sproutor is an unmitigated file- arriving at the conclusia thuc his services are not quired would have been valid independently of that Statute, ho,\" and he taunts with being no gentleman. it Here, he will retain the money received. This is, tho \n\nin which category are Mariages celebrated in Chiantik big too on the subject of horsewhips\" and best if our abilty, a tuir and eerut katement of the sub \n\nby Ministers of the Church of England, according horsepouts.\" Bur the strong point agniuss us, ju tja \n\nopis, is our want of gentility. Patial Lects prevad lutorg tår i omories of the House f \n\nto the forms of that Church. \n\nthur contemporary reminds one of the Bath fontman in Pickwick; he can endure anything low.\" When Now, to what do these facts a nuné? Mr. Batt is s Babe of the House of Commons, of a tribunal which and to the Validity of Marriages veiebrated by a \n\nthe public are at a loss for a referee on alkat concerus might intre lawn called aga to procence a verdict as to Clergymen of the Church of England, and not under a gentleman\" they will know wher, to had one. dre justice or injustice due treatment of All Marra by the At 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 66, at Macau \n\nLouisana \n\nadi nggala urged 16 Mourial to agipeal lo \n\nM. Mut, Leo, \n\nWith regard to the case fepecially referred to \n\nif \n\nThe deferee, we have already calist characteristic. \n\n6. I beg 10 es, close copies of two General Orders of the 26th instant, and of lemoranda issued by Major- General Van Straubensee, containing the monesancy arzangements for the struck, which I hage will put their lordships in full possession of our intended proceedings. 3. Í have pleasure in reporting that the most perfect umadinty exvts between the Commanders-in-thigï of The allied forces. \n\nI have, .. (Signed) \n\n31. SKY, Bea-Amira and Commanter-in-Chie?. \n\nTo the \n\nSecretary of the Admiralty, \n\nLoudon \n\nGENERAL ORDER. \n\nBefore Canton, December, 1857. The uvala nilitory commander-in-chief of the aisted forces before Cantun love agreed to the following ander of operativas against the city. First bombardme to conxuráce at daylight on Monday morning the 28th of December. \n\nThe sirps and vessels numed in the acte juoder, letter \n\nA) on the signed hereafter indient being made, wilt open fire on the south-west angica of the city wells, with a view to breach them, and impede the communication \n\nThe ships and vessels poused in the net (under letter \n\nThe Gina Cartumqui of India; a transsi which Nie. Baltsgain i Marsa is Chinese Territory, and not a Portuguest | The pickpochyt when arraignai before the Magistrate, of the Chinese troops along thei: parapets to the ent it would appear, actually took some initiatory reps, which precision, such Mauriages 11 be valid as being har generdly hur one answer to wake,-\"it's all a Fed wight have seen servince to the Ameer half as been galebrated in China, Pazar Country. If, however, your wushup.\" We are therefore no more surpriced at hunght be the tribusi of which he was ember. Macao is a possession of Portugal, then it has a the exam's coarse denial than at his blastering), wear the Dutch Folly, with a staritar osject, wit A me wither of the funer of Compune stonde in the core Christian Law of Marriage, as its lex moci,\" and threats, at that the pubic way judge on which ends breach the city walls opposite the Viceroy's residence; Inion to the pimenting even of any individui applying \n\nto met \n\n(Signed) MALMESBURY. \n\nSia Joy Bowring, \n\nBec., N., & \n\nTrue Cops. \n\n11. F. HANCE. \n\nthe mortare in the Dutch Fully, and the Niger and Avalauele, 1.kewise sbetting the city heights auf Gough three insicuess ont of many at our dispoed, in which the Aina has appropiated without actueledgment heights. \n\nThe ships and vessels named in the note (under letter whunt he found in journal. The racier of the ex wination of the Military Female phan Asylum C), beruse the Dutch Folly and the French Folly, will pubished by the Aham was made up entirely from apen fire on the Rooth-east ungles of the new and ell what had appeared the previous day in the Spector, elty walls, mud the walls ferning the east side of the city. These time several nacks will couuence simul without the slightest arkludgment the fuder's) Charge at the opsing the last Sessions repertet for taseously, wira a white csiga shall be hoisted at the fore the Ann, mail a yelaw dug us a corresponding this carnal, was similaris fched the reports of the trinis for funpiracy, the two of most interest, appeared sigral at the spule he listed at the fure of the in the Athena aise the day after they were publised Phugction. \n\nThe Horet end the Avalanche wild repeat these signals A still are at theit fore so long as the Angs shall remain Byug on \n\nthe before mentioned shipa \n\nsit j'fusion, that a judya iter in the run or Manages of British Sabjects anort, in order to be the guilt of \"falschod\" iles, with mension two or \n\nWet wein de said of judge widertunk valid, he adenized there esther in accordance with conse or saticier for a site who had brough, or such lex leci,\" or with the Provisions of the Act \n\nin bring, actions in de curt? The iniquity are mentioned.-1 am, &c., ach step in any incrad a little tem prave by the consider the lye har, or had not received re- mueratina f his seres ful bun pliced biawety in the wharf whition of being with by price that he be mil preciera remuneration for undertaking to as me $5. iend's sent before a tribuent of vehich he to \"use of the anashers. He has aceste promise of 10,0004, for his services, sart of thị sùm he estually trevived more anne ut The urging of the Amcer à aut span the ludia \n\nW take the following short notice of the Khang in the Spectator, almost verbatim, whion & single torrent is one este act, whether the erfarin \n\nflagrant case of Newspaper dishonesty, nceurred in on- ting, the insete the line of it, or has Spring Meeting from the North-Ching Herald whisper whence the apolis were stolen. the juce the tivard Camiral in Cannon-run. it of the 24th olim. The commis mun who so osion with the articultural Exhibition, when the serar di Tu say that make do improper for ft. But to aventry for urging a se before the Howe of ham sold people here at our anal meeting has been the revive the report of the Prizes from the cautioned day and night, net in exceed per each gun carrying off all the good things of Secretary, w the express coulition that he should, is employed 60 rounds during the Best 3 uurs, except f which it is in, but then it would be a right and fortanste \n\n\"We wander who rode our cormity with the usage of the Press on icse oc- the ships under letter C. which will fire 100 rounds. \n\nThey were proper for him to wipe the end beture the Ligure of Chanan, the Northern turt. \n\nCasics, end slips so the Speci \n\nfudiately the bunchardment open the landing of the attic forces will take place at the creek in' Küper an, of the man tinte, kifor a sane her trimmal, provided be ezig recessed reaeration, for the tertives let here the old friend raid. Yellow Jack and Tartar are with e, at the east of Leuils as well as of honesty. The \n\nThe dist heul mom is welcome to the use of vagulang words Pussage, when there the British and French dags will batur. His obvious that by such decision the door to abwe be found in the Hwek Stakes. art by rite oper. Nothing more would be tryniced never have been elsewhere --- \n\nwhich like utty her about he worbi did an enlty be planted in the following order, commencing a day- in eaing, if Palled upon to do so; we will conline onr \n\nlight- to end a remier if Parliament to pochert with perfect; \n\nThe mail, that apology for au many lanes, is urged by \n\nsives har fiets. It is of some consentence that safety a renumeration as Parliamentary agent, u \n\njon which he was onlied in devide as lielige by cerforming war sareporter as a plea for 101 furnishing 18, ki this the public should know that the journal which has won adition acres in his client cost of deces, et clurging issay, with the fall, time and parimer pronunt of the \n\nFor itself the reputation of being acivali in squerility Taxes that came off on Wednesday and Friday in this sproper timotely large for for them. We will not, in \n\ntatau kitowledge, afirm that the committee of \n\nThe stud was graced by the presence of many of car fair residents, and the intervals between the races were enlivened by the music of the of 11. M. S. Higher Adly tout for the occultat: \n\nFIRST DAY. \n\nThe Wung Plate-Spota, 1; Muischite, 2; Dred. 33 \n\nBlack Cockatoo, i. \n\nTHE CHINESE DESPATCHES. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAYTON. \n\nWAR OFFICE. Fra Mazt, February 15 \n\nThe Secretary of State for War but this day received & despute, of which the following is a copy, addressed is lord chip by Major Geveral C. T, Vas Strubeuzes, C. B., commanding are Majesty's Land Forces in Chan \n\nCenton, December 29, 1857. \n\nMy Lord-I have great satisfactios in reporting that Canton city was ermaisded muud eaptured this day at nine o'clock, with a more trifling losa das enuld have been expected. liceat emulatios was displaye 1 by the whole Allied Force, ten-st whom the greatest cordiality and god feeling into \n\nWe have to deplore the low Royal Suvy, els of Liestemt fiske, of the 59 Regie In stenaut Bowen, ct the me regiment, has tree seriously wounded, \n\nAll \n\nand misrepresentata, is as dishonest in soull thing as The Flea of Comes applied to inquire in Mr. Bersoek; we can therefore only give the places of the brass \n\nSpretter case has come to such a monstrous decisiour; but if it hits and ponies as they came in, which we do on the best. With fius exposure we leave him-Medran \n\nThe intimation arributed to Sir. Jaries Gesinam shut authority, sed promise a graphic report in or next. \n\nThe weather and ground was favorable on the whole, ties of the resolutions was an acquittal of Isan Sasho charge of inproperly enjoying bis prillon bach days, thongh there was a greas outrast; then e is a member of Le 1s of Con alyst day be hot, with a southerly with, and the ther- escuptible of ach an interpretation-it ili ose electors memeter in the shule at 80°, and on Friday, a cold nor- tur be an incir qurd visst the sing why we for strictherly wind was hiewing, and the hormoneter at 63. \n\nPiwili place himself sack $19- It had rained a god deal the night before, hat the wind jście position \n\nAnd dried the course pretty well.\" this tunction The part which Ms. Butt han played cannot be appruched less his negetation with the x-reshient of the art of Corral are taken into account. Mr Vermilch admits that he had repeated emmunications with Mr. Butt-vethal aud epilary-on the subject of the class of Ali Mvered. Of in excep Timock was kept me the lacters are said to have bren private autoosidential. It is possible, Therefore, bu learn with certainty what was the lure of the comuneulea- tions. But this is certain, il subsequently to these inter- Venom Sto altered a dras lurzer 1935 [ektors, Mr. nd the Court of Directors refusing to entertain the Ameer's application, iuro a letter couraging him to return to Sciarie by long at the lope Sut i li mi nital Ala to the Buglial Governinect something arigat he does to him. The only reasna, sseigned for too parišal revered fa inficial teuer, on the strengt of private, sureverteil enamiestis, is that the siteure appenced inrse; but M. Vernon Sanita gave the contest la stand Und Je very reluctant to have sue Ameer's new debaresi à l'aclinent while the Bengal insurrection was it progress, Mr. But having gives it frommilostared theit die hunt informed the ex-Pretent of the Beart of Country of his having tuged the user and his friends to bring the wise 'fore Parlia ne. We r TL entitled to say that Mr. Batt obtained the centerscica in favour of 32 Moured by hinting to the Prescrican of the Buned of Contro, but he had it is power Parliment to fore in a cebam As slin Amour' case; tot in the cherastonces succions will intrude themelsea which at in mot easy to disynd \n\nThe righe Flute-Cock Tail, 1; Peg Tupe, 2; Tiny, 3: \n\nTelegram. 4 \n\nThe ingken Cuga-Sydney, 1; Cheertal, 2 Vaugueril, 8. The dis-Touiz 1 Spot, ; Cock Tail 3, \n\nChelato, 4 72 Pailon, 1; Deuil. 2. \n\nThe finch Marks Rocket, Bay Midleton, 2. \n\nThe Shanghae Pork Cup —Syota, 1; Maiciite, 2; Tapas, \n\n3. \n\nSECOND DAY. \n\nThe fisher Flame-Tiege, walked oven, \n\nThe Swing Cry-Cacetent, 1; Cheerful, 2; Vanguard, \n\n3. \n\nThe China-sup-Blank Coelaten, 1: Topaz. 2; Lakin i \n\nThe T'antica Cap---Coverfil. 1: Shali, 2; Drutd, 8, The Hunt Strikellow Zack, Rocket, 2: Tartar, 3. After the figh vene, in the second day, a match was Parween, Mr. Recens guy Are pobytynen, and Mr. Benadier's black Cafe piny Tube, which was won \n\nGarne. \n\nWe pronoun an epilar in the count of 7%. Batsby mini iko es dreient of the board of Contd. We are will \n\nthat fact of both lisa hart ht \n\nThis will the deutet \n\narists cl \n\navember of the Homme Camus in a \n\nThe following extracts in the Hurkura wnd Englishmas. Calcutta papers, will be read with \n\nun riser as preferring a sai to the lease if interest anal satisfaction by the Colonists of be is lined to \"eir veneration from the air for a Hongkong, if the Pandies are landed here, and po \n\ning the sun elsewhere, if the mean He that doubt with equal satisfaction by General Van \n\nare il gratuitously in the Hour by the name tur \n\nStrasbenzre if such galbut and ready soldiers are placed under his charge. We do not like \n\nengaged is allen wat align and are public civic of the Chatte, whenleigh them drada a dealer fee site's claims in the flow of Corsake y comments, for it by n chase the regiments reach bare without racing their barge conectanapur his eliumiven conrægur dance of com region may be enfly tired by mandors th heers (insult them Pardy met vertaily will House of Come and in the Eccrtine Government, Such a state of stairs is const unsatisfactory even b we shall have some gallant ofboer of ours dawn maky now, star), But supposing that the entire itone Adastraling of India were vested in a single mon ne with the assertion that never was there Minister of the Corn she is to the House of a more loyal or better behaved regiment in Culosis, with wild traptations would the integrity of Our representatives in the legislature le tona feet Atler Majesty's service. We had a sample of it it is, wo have had at one time a Narab Susa, Rajans the other day in the case of the 70th, when a \n\nCaptain Hates, of the \n\nThe hophardment is to be in very low time, aud \n\n1. Suppers and Miners, 59th Regiment, Royal Artillery, stores and mention, \n\nThe French Nawai Brigale, stoves, &c. \n\n3. The Naval Brigade, under the ader of Commodore the 1o. 4. 6. 1, B Esot. \n\n4. The Naval Brigade from Cantun. \n\n5. Lieulcunt.Cola.et lemon's battalica of Royal Marines, & \n\nd. Cutearl Holowry's Brigade of Royal Marines, &c, (Waru last heet of No. £ has passed, No. 2 will com meece, and on with: the remainder \n\nThe duration of the French forces will be eritraded by Capta Reinan:], fg captein; the British troops and Royal Marines by Major the Bon. H. Cidord \n\nThe British Naval Brigade, by Captain W. K. Hall.\n\n... acutalo.\n\nThe following will be the disposition of the united forces after landing:\n\nBritish Naval Brigade on the right.\n\nCentre bridge, composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Lemon's provano instalion, 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Sapiers.\n\nPreucia bridge on the inft\n\nColonel Holloway's brigade in reserve, with Royal Marine Artillery,\n\nAfter getting into position the allied forces will remain still to cancuston, and the mail leaving; I must therefore defer instheer det üle to the next rpportunity. † in line of contianova elutus of brigade audil further...\n\nI bwe, &c.\n\nC. T. VAN STinerszre, M jur General,\n\nCommanding Traps in China,\n\nPort Gongh is now heng oerapied.\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nthe Secretary of Stue for \n\nWar, C., * \n\nADMIRAL SEYMOUR'S DESPATIUU.\n\nAdmiralty, Fuurorg 15. Despoteker, of which the following me cans, bure en verived by the Lords Commissioners of the! Astrahy Trout Kee-Sentral Sir Michael Seyavour,\n\nOrumates at CANYON \n\nNo. 357.\n\nHer Majesty's ship Coromandri,\n\nnt fan. De ch SirMy letter (No.343) of the 13th ist. courzved \n\nPuins to the fures of the Allied Power, and that u \n\nthe indigence of the raceable regation of ionsh letter had seen vent in t. You, the Lagerial High Cour mission, by the ass-furs of the Allied Powers, stating the deamus of the two Gavernitects, d rating ten days for a consideration of the same, lailing earnered against the city of Citati.\n\nplane with which, conise mesures would be 2. The Brigade of Royal Mears et igal Maries Actriery mere inediately wasis dought up to the i \n\nunders for an advaner, watch will be made to a position \n\nfor vise night, y reparatury to active service us the follow-\n\nnig andag. \n\nM. Skrmore, Rent.Adesiral. \n\nComander-in-Chief of Her Britannic \n\nMajesty's Noynt Purees. \n\nRear-Adesira \n\nC. HowerDA GENOT13.1.T \n\nComewi'kiet af 1Fix Emperial \n\nAlajesty's Naval Forces. \n\nCT VAN STRAL BENZ, Major Lien, Commanding the Alinary Force, \n\nGENERAL MEMORANDUM. Carouane), Canton, Deectner 26, 1857.\n\nThe Nuva! Brigade of seanien will be in three divisions. The divisions will be tald off into companies, each stvising gomorracing No. 1. md the last timber cop. rames is 1st tumi 2e devisions will be composed of boats' \n\ncrewy. \n\n(A) Actre, blgethon, and guulmate, \n\n() Me. Puade, Crnizer, Tornet, and a gunhast. \n\nNumrud, Surprise, 1 agone, Mares, a gunboals. After se p, the three fut-anted ships will after sheir genka 18 will, after one qui, aiter their fire to the north- east with gate. fire to the ty and Gough's Lighrere Alarmcast and \n\nSea Supplemen \n\n} \n\n} \n\n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nWith reference to the Validity of Marriages...\n\nHis Excellency SR JOHN BOWRING, Kaight, L., Her Majesty's Poipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China &c., &c. has received a Despatch from The Right Honorable Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...\n\nBy Order,\n\nG. W. CAINE. Superintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th April, 1858. No. 7\n\n| \n| --- \n| --- \n\njudicious to let it be generally own where and how Chinese having walled, tough the obstinate deteriou the large reinforcement of Pay at the presidency hastian winch as chuterised the proceeding of the een lucnted. Three times the same nombe: of sepoya, Imperial Commissioner from October 21, 1956, oching with all the respectude cam-uds of Barnkport, could remained for the Commanders of the Allied Furces but 15 address the Imperia. Commissiouer, wai to muery into but little, even if they did their worst, but talve \n\ni nens and anuseless panes are any tring fat dignied execution the painful alternative of attacking Centon, Jerorols, would be more effectsly avoided by wich was conquced at daylight this ring. The da:ture of the pucket will prevent my giving say funk revelation of actual wrangements than j \n\ninither reports. I am now on the point of joining the studied reticence which only lends to mystification and forces asembarking at Kuyer's Talked for the zasault on surpicion, -nnd very often reduces the very offre it is \n\nthe city walls, intended a prevent \n\nTur Fagfxman of 23rd Mauch on the same subject, remarks \n\nThe 47th Regt. N. I have nerived, and are vuramped on the glacis of Fort William; they are about 379 strong \n\nof all grace, native officers mari sepoys, and is the Government have ordered Colonel Port, Command FOREIGN OFPics, Alarch 9, 1950. \n\ning, to rerait the Regiment with Malen. Brigadier SIR, eve under my consideration, and have | Corfich with this topiment and the 65th N. I. new en referred to the proper Law Advisers of the Crow, the way down, will leave by the 16th proximo. your Despatches Nos. 452 and 7 of the 26th of \n\nFLOWERS FROM THE INDIAN PAPERS. December and 9d of January last, on the subject of \n\nThe Athene reples mure we to our elrage of the doubts when hel arisen as to the Validity of the \n\nAs we cannot consent to sally our Marriages of British Sabjre's at Chinese Ports; and literary larceny. \n\nges with language ru is seldom beard erido I have to acquaint yaa, in reply, that the Statute i2 \n\nappliers, which on being bitted. se i noceary, for tim. de approvation of the Board of Controt, was materially al. by B1. Fordon sit The reply, as orglundly homed by the Court of Directors, was in vlect, that the Amy's care and on Judicially decided, and that they ans rezson to reverse the decision. The reply, as indi Sed by Me. Vernon Site, was in effent, that if the Amer would zezer his native country, and exert himself in half of the English Government, his real right he Argarable mitezinimesi. These series, fr. But declares, firmad gratully, and simply from his covention of the juice of the Ameer's cline. But in ariston to these parcier Mr. Gutt rent to posed to Failid to argo the Anect's Shell her. For the filter service Mr. Hah desit het theas to receive in all 19,1001, and thut off this She has actually received southing more than 2000. Mr. Butt deolares ther be still holds himself sound to proceed to hulin if the Ameer insists upon it; her in the event of Mr. Bart's aching latelet te lo be will and 13 Victoria, Cap. 68, inponeering Consul topolhouse, our readers must be sausted with our report of fund the money recusat it he is dy preserred solomuze Mariages, does not affect the valulity of, the substance of it. Elis rejoinder is, that our charge of fum pracoding to tudi by the Ameer and his advisers or in any way interfere with, any Marriages which flebing terms the Sproutor is an unmitigated file- arriving at the conclusia thuc his services are not quired would have been valid independently of that Statute, ho,\" and he taunts with being no gentleman. it Here, he will retain the money received. This is, tho \n\nin which category are Mariages celebrated in Chiantik big too on the subject of horsewhips\" and best if our abilty, a tuir and eerut katement of the sub \n\nby Ministers of the Church of England, according horsepouts.\" Bur the strong point agniuss us, ju tja \n\nopis, is our want of gentility. Patial Lects prevad lutorg tår i omories of the House f \n\nto the forms of that Church. \n\nthur contemporary reminds one of the Bath fontman in Pickwick; he can endure anything low.\" When Now, to what do these facts a nuné? Mr. Batt is s Babe of the House of Commons, of a tribunal which and to the Validity of Marriages veiebrated by a \n\nthe public are at a loss for a referee on alkat concerus might intre lawn called aga to procence a verdict as to Clergymen of the Church of England, and not under a gentleman\" they will know wher, to had one. dre justice or injustice due treatment of All Marra by the At 12 and 13 Victoria, Cap. 66, at Macau \n\nLouisana \n\nadi nggala urged 16 Mourial to agipeal lo \n\nM. Mut, Leo, \n\nWith regard to the case fepecially referred to \n\nif \n\nThe deferee, we have already calist characteristic. \n\n6. I beg 10 es, close copies of two General Orders of the 26th instant, and of lemoranda issued by Major- General Van Straubensee, containing the monesancy arzangements for the struck, which I hage will put their lordships in full possession of our intended proceedings. 3. Í have pleasure in reporting that the most perfect umadinty exvts between the Commanders-in-thigï of The allied forces. \n\nI have, .. (Signed) \n\n31. SKY, Bea-Amira and Commanter-in-Chie?. \n\nTo the \n\nSecretary of the Admiralty, \n\nLoudon \n\nGENERAL ORDER. \n\nBefore Canton, December, 1857. The uvala nilitory commander-in-chief of the aisted forces before Cantun love agreed to the following ander of operativas against the city. First bombardme to conxuráce at daylight on Monday morning the 28th of December. \n\nThe sirps and vessels numed in the acte juoder, letter \n\nA) on the signed hereafter indient being made, wilt open fire on the south-west angica of the city wells, with a view to breach them, and impede the communication \n\nThe ships and vessels poused in the net (under letter \n\nThe Gina Cartumqui of India; a transsi which Nie. Baltsgain i Marsa is Chinese Territory, and not a Portuguest | The pickpochyt when arraignai before the Magistrate, of the Chinese troops along thei: parapets to the ent it would appear, actually took some initiatory reps, which precision, such Mauriages 11 be valid as being har generdly hur one answer to wake,-\"it's all a Fed wight have seen servince to the Ameer half as been galebrated in China, Pazar Country. If, however, your wushup.\" We are therefore no more surpriced at hunght be the tribusi of which he was ember. Macao is a possession of Portugal, then it has a the exam's coarse denial than at his blastering), wear the Dutch Folly, with a staritar osject, wit A me wither of the funer of Compune stonde in the core Christian Law of Marriage, as its lex moci,\" and threats, at that the pubic way judge on which ends breach the city walls opposite the Viceroy's residence; Inion to the pimenting even of any individui applying \n\nto met \n\n(Signed) MALMESBURY. \n\nSia Joy Bowring, \n\nBec., N., & \n\nTrue Cops. \n\n11. F. HANCE. \n\nthe mortare in the Dutch Fully, and the Niger and Avalauele, 1.kewise sbetting the city heights auf Gough three insicuess ont of many at our dispoed, in which the Aina has appropiated without actueledgment heights. \n\nThe ships and vessels named in the note (under letter whunt he found in journal. The racier of the ex wination of the Military Female phan Asylum C), beruse the Dutch Folly and the French Folly, will pubished by the Aham was made up entirely from apen fire on the Rooth-east ungles of the new and ell what had appeared the previous day in the Spector, elty walls, mud the walls ferning the east side of the city. These time several nacks will couuence simul without the slightest arkludgment the fuder's) Charge at the opsing the last Sessions repertet for taseously, wira a white csiga shall be hoisted at the fore the Ann, mail a yelaw dug us a corresponding this carnal, was similaris fched the reports of the trinis for funpiracy, the two of most interest, appeared sigral at the spule he listed at the fure of the in the Athena aise the day after they were publised Phugction. \n\nThe Horet end the Avalanche wild repeat these signals A still are at theit fore so long as the Angs shall remain Byug on \n\nthe before mentioned shipa \n\nsit j'fusion, that a judya iter in the run or Manages of British Sabjects anort, in order to be the guilt of \"falschod\" iles, with mension two or \n\nWet wein de said of judge widertunk valid, he adenized there esther in accordance with conse or saticier for a site who had brough, or such lex leci,\" or with the Provisions of the Act \n\nin bring, actions in de curt? The iniquity are mentioned.-1 am, &c., ach step in any incrad a little tem prave by the consider the lye har, or had not received re- mueratina f his seres ful bun pliced biawety in the wharf whition of being with by price that he be mil preciera remuneration for undertaking to as me $5. iend's sent before a tribuent of vehich he to \"use of the anashers. He has aceste promise of 10,0004, for his services, sart of thị sùm he estually trevived more anne ut The urging of the Amcer à aut span the ludia \n\nW take the following short notice of the Khang in the Spectator, almost verbatim, whion & single torrent is one este act, whether the erfarin \n\nflagrant case of Newspaper dishonesty, nceurred in on- ting, the insete the line of it, or has Spring Meeting from the North-Ching Herald whisper whence the apolis were stolen. the juce the tivard Camiral in Cannon-run. it of the 24th olim. The commis mun who so osion with the articultural Exhibition, when the serar di Tu say that make do improper for ft. But to aventry for urging a se before the Howe of ham sold people here at our anal meeting has been the revive the report of the Prizes from the cautioned day and night, net in exceed per each gun carrying off all the good things of Secretary, w the express coulition that he should, is employed 60 rounds during the Best 3 uurs, except f which it is in, but then it would be a right and fortanste \n\n\"We wander who rode our cormity with the usage of the Press on icse oc- the ships under letter C. which will fire 100 rounds. \n\nThey were proper for him to wipe the end beture the Ligure of Chanan, the Northern turt. \n\nCasics, end slips so the Speci \n\nfudiately the bunchardment open the landing of the attic forces will take place at the creek in' Küper an, of the man tinte, kifor a sane her trimmal, provided be ezig recessed reaeration, for the tertives let here the old friend raid. Yellow Jack and Tartar are with e, at the east of Leuils as well as of honesty. The \n\nThe dist heul mom is welcome to the use of vagulang words Pussage, when there the British and French dags will batur. His obvious that by such decision the door to abwe be found in the Hwek Stakes. art by rite oper. Nothing more would be tryniced never have been elsewhere --- \n\nwhich like utty her about he worbi did an enlty be planted in the following order, commencing a day- in eaing, if Palled upon to do so; we will conline onr \n\nlight- to end a remier if Parliament to pochert with perfect; \n\nThe mail, that apology for au many lanes, is urged by \n\nsives har fiets. It is of some consentence that safety a renumeration as Parliamentary agent, u \n\njon which he was onlied in devide as lielige by cerforming war sareporter as a plea for 101 furnishing 18, ki this the public should know that the journal which has won adition acres in his client cost of deces, et clurging issay, with the fall, time and parimer pronunt of the \n\nFor itself the reputation of being acivali in squerility Taxes that came off on Wednesday and Friday in this sproper timotely large for for them. We will not, in \n\ntatau kitowledge, afirm that the committee of \n\nThe stud was graced by the presence of many of car fair residents, and the intervals between the races were enlivened by the music of the of 11. M. S. Higher Adly tout for the occultat: \n\nFIRST DAY. \n\nThe Wung Plate-Spota, 1; Muischite, 2; Dred. 33 \n\nBlack Cockatoo, i. \n\nTHE CHINESE DESPATCHES. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CAYTON. \n\nWAR OFFICE. Fra Mazt, February 15 \n\nThe Secretary of State for War but this day received & despute, of which the following is a copy, addressed is lord chip by Major Geveral C. T, Vas Strubeuzes, C. B., commanding are Majesty's Land Forces in Chan \n\nCenton, December 29, 1857. \n\nMy Lord-I have great satisfactios in reporting that Canton city was ermaisded muud eaptured this day at nine o'clock, with a more trifling losa das enuld have been expected. liceat emulatios was displaye 1 by the whole Allied Force, ten-st whom the greatest cordiality and god feeling into \n\nWe have to deplore the low Royal Suvy, els of Liestemt fiske, of the 59 Regie In stenaut Bowen, ct the me regiment, has tree seriously wounded, \n\nAll \n\nand misrepresentata, is as dishonest in soull thing as The Flea of Comes applied to inquire in Mr. Bersoek; we can therefore only give the places of the brass \n\nSpretter case has come to such a monstrous decisiour; but if it hits and ponies as they came in, which we do on the best. With fius exposure we leave him-Medran \n\nThe intimation arributed to Sir. Jaries Gesinam shut authority, sed promise a graphic report in or next. \n\nThe weather and ground was favorable on the whole, ties of the resolutions was an acquittal of Isan Sasho charge of inproperly enjoying bis prillon bach days, thongh there was a greas outrast; then e is a member of Le 1s of Con alyst day be hot, with a southerly with, and the ther- escuptible of ach an interpretation-it ili ose electors memeter in the shule at 80°, and on Friday, a cold nor- tur be an incir qurd visst the sing why we for strictherly wind was hiewing, and the hormoneter at 63. \n\nPiwili place himself sack $19- It had rained a god deal the night before, hat the wind jście position \n\nAnd dried the course pretty well.\" this tunction The part which Ms. Butt han played cannot be appruched less his negetation with the x-reshient of the art of Corral are taken into account. Mr Vermilch admits that he had repeated emmunications with Mr. Butt-vethal aud epilary-on the subject of the class of Ali Mvered. Of in excep Timock was kept me the lacters are said to have bren private autoosidential. It is possible, Therefore, bu learn with certainty what was the lure of the comuneulea- tions. But this is certain, il subsequently to these inter- Venom Sto altered a dras lurzer 1935 [ektors, Mr. nd the Court of Directors refusing to entertain the Ameer's application, iuro a letter couraging him to return to Sciarie by long at the lope Sut i li mi nital Ala to the Buglial Governinect something arigat he does to him. The only reasna, sseigned for too parišal revered fa inficial teuer, on the strengt of private, sureverteil enamiestis, is that the siteure appenced inrse; but M. Vernon Sanita gave the contest la stand Und Je very reluctant to have sue Ameer's new debaresi à l'aclinent while the Bengal insurrection was it progress, Mr. But having gives it frommilostared theit die hunt informed the ex-Pretent of the Beart of Country of his having tuged the user and his friends to bring the wise 'fore Parlia ne. We r TL entitled to say that Mr. Batt obtained the centerscica in favour of 32 Moured by hinting to the Prescrican of the Buned of Contro, but he had it is power Parliment to fore in a cebam As slin Amour' case; tot in the cherastonces succions will intrude themelsea which at in mot easy to disynd \n\nThe righe Flute-Cock Tail, 1; Peg Tupe, 2; Tiny, 3: \n\nTelegram. 4 \n\nThe ingken Cuga-Sydney, 1; Cheertal, 2 Vaugueril, 8. The dis-Touiz 1 Spot, ; Cock Tail 3, \n\nChelato, 4 72 Pailon, 1; Deuil. 2. \n\nThe finch Marks Rocket, Bay Midleton, 2. \n\nThe Shanghae Pork Cup —Syota, 1; Maiciite, 2; Tapas, \n\n3. \n\nSECOND DAY. \n\nThe fisher Flame-Tiege, walked oven, \n\nThe Swing Cry-Cacetent, 1; Cheerful, 2; Vanguard, \n\n3. \n\nThe China-sup-Blank Coelaten, 1: Topaz. 2; Lakin i \n\nThe T'antica Cap---Coverfil. 1: Shali, 2; Drutd, 8, The Hunt Strikellow Zack, Rocket, 2: Tartar, 3. After the figh vene, in the second day, a match was Parween, Mr. Recens guy Are pobytynen, and Mr. Benadier's black Cafe piny Tube, which was won \n\nGarne. \n\nWe pronoun an epilar in the count of 7%. Batsby mini iko es dreient of the board of Contd. We are will \n\nthat fact of both lisa hart ht \n\nThis will the deutet \n\narists cl \n\navember of the Homme Camus in a \n\nThe following extracts in the Hurkura wnd Englishmas. Calcutta papers, will be read with \n\nun riser as preferring a sai to the lease if interest anal satisfaction by the Colonists of be is lined to \"eir veneration from the air for a Hongkong, if the Pandies are landed here, and po \n\ning the sun elsewhere, if the mean He that doubt with equal satisfaction by General Van \n\nare il gratuitously in the Hour by the name tur \n\nStrasbenzre if such galbut and ready soldiers are placed under his charge. We do not like \n\nengaged is allen wat align and are public civic of the Chatte, whenleigh them drada a dealer fee site's claims in the flow of Corsake y comments, for it by n chase the regiments reach bare without racing their barge conectanapur his eliumiven conrægur dance of com region may be enfly tired by mandors th heers (insult them Pardy met vertaily will House of Come and in the Eccrtine Government, Such a state of stairs is const unsatisfactory even b we shall have some gallant ofboer of ours dawn maky now, star), But supposing that the entire itone Adastraling of India were vested in a single mon ne with the assertion that never was there Minister of the Corn she is to the House of a more loyal or better behaved regiment in Culosis, with wild traptations would the integrity of Our representatives in the legislature le tona feet Atler Majesty's service. We had a sample of it it is, wo have had at one time a Narab Susa, Rajans the other day in the case of the 70th, when a \n\nCaptain Hates, of the \n\nThe hophardment is to be in very low time, aud \n\n1. Suppers and Miners, 59th Regiment, Royal Artillery, stores and mention, \n\nThe French Nawai Brigale, stoves, &c. \n\n3. The Naval Brigade, under the ader of Commodore the 1o. 4. 6. 1, B Esot. \n\n4. The Naval Brigade from Cantun. \n\n5. Lieulcunt.Cola.et lemon's battalica of Royal Marines, & \n\nd. Cutearl Holowry's Brigade of Royal Marines, &c, (Waru last heet of No. £ has passed, No. 2 will com meece, and on with: the remainder \n\nThe duration of the French forces will be eritraded by Capta Reinan:], fg captein; the British troops and Royal Marines by Major the Bon. H. Clidord \n\nThe British Naval Brigade, by Captain W. K. Hall.\n\n... acutalo.\n\nThe following will be the disposition of the united forces after landing:\n\n| Unit | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| British Naval Brigade | Right |\n| Centre bridge | Composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Lemon's battalion, 19th Regiment, Royal Artillery, and Sapiers |\n| Preucia bridge | Left |\n| Colonel Holloway's brigade | Reserve, with Royal Marine Artillery |\n\nAfter getting into position the allied forces will remain...\n\nC. T. VAN STRAUBENZEE, Major General,\n\nCommanding Traps in China,\n\nPort Gongh is now being occupied.\n\nThe Right Hon.\n\nthe Secretary of State for \n\nWar, C., * \n\nADMIRAL SEYMOUR'S DESPATIUU.\n\nAdmiralty, Fuurorg 15. Despoteker, of which the following me cans, bure en verived by the Lords Commissioners of the! Astrahy Trout Kee-Sentral Sir Michael Seyavour,\n\nOrumates at CANYON \n\nNo. 357.\n\nHer Majesty's ship Coromandri,\n\nnt fan. De ch SirMy letter (No.343) of the 13th ist. courzved \n\nPuins to the fures of the Allied Power, and that u \n\nthe indigence of the raceable regation of ionsh letter had seen vent in t. You, the Lagerial High Cour mission, by the ass-furs of the Allied Powers, stating the deamus of the two Gavernitects, d rating ten days for a consideration of the same, lailing earnered against the city of Citati.\n\nplane with which, conise mesures would be 2. The Brigade of Royal Mears et igal Maries Actriery mere inediately wasis dought up to the i \n\nunders for an advaner, watch will be made to a position \n\nfor vise night, y reparatury to active service us the follow-\n\nnig andag. \n\nM. Skrmore, Rent.Adesiral. \n\nComander-in-Chief of Her Britannic \n\nMajesty's Noynt Purees. \n\nRear-Adesira \n\nC. HowerDA GENOT13.1.T \n\nComewi'kiet af 1Fix Emperial \n\nAlajesty's Naval Forces. \n\nCT VAN STRAL BENZ, Major Lien, Commanding the Alinary Force, \n\nGENERAL MEMORANDUM. Carouane), Canton, Deectner 26, 1857.\n\nThe Nuva! Brigade of seanien will be in three divisions. The divisions will be tald off into companies, each stvising gomorracing No. 1. md the last timber cop. rames is 1st tumi 2e devisions will be composed of boats' \n\ncrewy. \n\n(A) Actre, blgethon, and guulmate, \n\n() Me. Puade, Crnizer, Tornet, and a gunhast. \n\nNumrud, Surprise, 1 agone, Mares, a gunboals. After se p, the three fut-anted ships will after sheir genka 18 will, after one qui, aiter their fire to the north- east with gate. fire to the ty and Gough's Lighrere Alarmcast and \n\nSea Supplemen \n\n} \n\n}",
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        "content_text": "ESS\n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE NEWCASTLE CHRONICLE AND NORTHERN COUNTIES ADVERTISER, JUNE 25, 1859.\n\nCallwell for his sucenda cbr si ku\n\nTlus\n\nsery Betro and a very indies direction was giben to Tay Filati and Clines, in every part of this clogy and the and lathe ca le game complete em 16 happened rideanly under the time is wan movement forming is that they were about to prossud-on province, which Loval Elgin, at willow was, at teplo\n\nthat Mr. Davis, the Govermens printer, who is tho pro earplugin diétly of arrangement that race o coafated to me to effect any period by the position of affis m pinions by those who must to bato Lucy bettoni Clima nets, that Stone Thin si formar Mahebos Wong In the heat setupon I ftowed their dircase, Rod 1 ceased fole solated way way with My Caldar. pr bay of all, but acted with erent tas made Hoes it a rate the deceatens of the Executirs Council, led quietly and won that treaty of peace which he has rectly\n\nor with the Hong Kong putice: 1 zece monded tomto prema, ected thỏ China Mark watch out, but not to Chin te written on pops of 7 eur, tamparately, list I would be very happy to attaul the Ryecond with China--1 Buy it apours to be not ply Bonn fernd, what will cal by the militar term\n\nDamer the Feng Kong Govt tiszts, heard ally rest, and the rod po del doblard' tras sutive Council whenever ont laid upon the Queen's previointion of that treaty, bat a violate of the p poble, deir riske, and I reported to Gem and apply to two pes of big authority is that of a\n\nwith any clut priests war in piracy, Sir, Andry Tui is wherever the auilt as it was sat in a porta Gercent coner. I forged chai to the. Specibody dline TheRD RET, we bag made to er en Cum 21 of all the no person che serpent\n\nxecutive, a repartol in the recently teavad China hours periment. I pushed my inquiries furter, best, it was a Puties, who had been 3 year in a dy, and he Wide, part, a thirds. Mr. C til 1 had been the colony about a year and fed that magistrate, 291 tl korubarist ler Blojek:yol, Ar Mr. Caldwe. tr. U the \"onsel for #1 pol. ) widet. that. It lirat Cell: ano die atramentis le lle [ from an all-ce of lam kipe willwal heing tre\n\nConnell, however, proasted my lace and without giving pera, the turks by Saglish vowele në wa un village va the real state of the case bow and, but 30, a purte: acl & auf: er, at du head of youto! Umi. Mr. Calendars it at the yangperty of being rist Preng the gross in f\n\nhsburs, on the plesat they had earlcared pices Triviy de hocen to me by the fovercrant printer of 2 let this goal of how Wong depend on the report remember chest as you we who Dr. Bridges was er 1,000 Gollers raiving to and therrunt 50 dus een which they were proceeding, di suport\n\nwhich ore pentlemen, when called opon, ali ratke to barciales, ut, as he calls huself, a legal pencationer feat. Coldwellers and items which reqmen, with a the line pod nadering complnews\n\nHac plutter money aget of ir. Caldwell-tas ufficere Kong, all Covernment officer, whu permitted ans le\n\ncod vessels ringte c his name, wao hat piren tidetres of something 26 tim you. This document anting bera land bucre the Caldwell untie the functions: attracy and brister, and culting less crevicted bobow Wang of pirney and of being appendel, was fed l huew of the\n\n\"\"\"\"The misunsorted catury of Colwell toffees, and who I believe is at tila murent Sau Compilation to the subject to the then vry indiferently wells practitioner, in fat, called engaged in the den Trade,\" \"online! This trade maltet. But, gertlemen, there was netuin which ne\n\nwas hail chwired with compliory with praus Old Daney practiones; and his practice lay shot the salve trades every effort made by Sir Je pred the course of the equity, and which has led simme land; artiny his not la Hong Kong. Tee of opinia Hong Kong papers and allowed to be perated by any\n\nms is out these proceedings blr. Caldwell was the dups of stranger who is have the carically to read it. Iture Chise, abest cutirely, and he was greatly indebted to Mr. Bring to shark any faded millise read eile verr subscrit and indepent quiries befinnestesion the curble genting\n\nbelove luve answared the cations which can ge labelu Wang, that he was rulla scecmplici--his will format 18 a dreamed to longer peizeted by f leg and renneita ascota plice, objectcà dílication which estes, but pulslsked by stance of her Majesty Hóux Koaɛgen; fema watsentations among that body. This doesmeat when fails thaioninate pleinls warga duty Iribunes of quite soother falion Lann a parko Camisin\n\ntrous Lavalon 10 answer. I lepe I have decu suflies dated to All the oflice of Con is is és clear the onia elips and the migrat sipeof Hong Kong icials appointed by a dishonest man. 1 Hy\n\namie Ant in lieu de not what Goschent. They dI makerelerence withose two kentk chlor, and Neting Cokersin! Aureurs 3 bed of rik: the Cene siger cut to whether it is in the course of this savastiguin Liga ti Set time for one your that I have aldened ajab 20 prevented me from coming to lie same siomablá consis\n\nEurope, he retailing the besty the labour contracts in Culan ve réxionable or they age of the tuiszton in theit repor- that previous :0 in, king in and statements as true, and he smitted to, 22 (Dave wagertenice dil return their reports and the Celudis Secheterg the difficulter id exist, and tho ba latterly bemorijay went tur begantu 'he points as wel: I la ramended at 1vano Came of polenta piemetine dating as while of the\n\nsiginta melni y la givere, engin of jingle, the sugoistens of the Camicies, sortsin papers comunes steady no que fully salarised, that when bow instider. trouble with doubts. 1 lien auk apan my the depth overnacht to them. They armed my state perind of his trunce et odice. Chargenti, every Chamwig te taky is overall, a tota aurten with 3\n\nWerg's frin, and which might be but 20derstood, that any gardians yo\n\nsolicita farlor infamathai vil, siguity his wear to c man tho give tim b's versiout had che right to conzerve, ce state of the Colica where it to be stupreetervslus to the Countiesien, lost be dotzegel it find trap- ot trans the plate hume, of speaking of Marlow Wegretta tus com the fast of Mchoho, and they in 2nd Di baling is conviction, but try antepriri culpated very procedony Mr.Childwell. odorandut bich End did sure, that is zeliter had both innuente: iseczunder the\n\nof Corps from Cibo to ong Kong bow toket moest kept the act ever contiment. -\n\npire, but the Ceramic forgot to say 18ct the G-fly it wil eeply with. Br. Asey\n\nsmuted dea seat assist Loud appren50. clerance obtain infertilen veto woke on the cape rock of which, diy had harkeen on citythone wid hato zatit, ClineRoy Government. Tola gelen placed me t\n\nStr. Chawalay salt only remained now the he It has been swurn to the chief, M. Levis the bent of the 'wament te blanche perdon of 3aadow plure. Then there is also number of entries relating some pele. It was iftowards wam to by kir 1 hare before spoke, hauling of the Chine\n\ngunpowder, cufim balls mushais, silk peta, everly, Mr. Dixies, others, in flea kuotave the alterom whics hail for Rive vidence against the gres! Jannthon Wild of England USB come the Cowlingly, herwarde #gured enz. Mr. the bed shon this the evilred a little purchases\n\nagainst Tarrant,” and why were piressaar as Lisé Goundli Bjørð, pap by wit'wet lukorg op ee were in their junes ko\n\nhave that statetent jár before Parliamecut. (Applause.) To me in wel: dolezas witute in the Folies Curt is the \"Cura plustering to the past tween Mulicho Wong is all of tens of war thire se reference call\n\nBevel us Tarrant, by then Clankins of the Comics, terms, and air. Caldwell, and, steve, ilere upprated the uskus tunccties with the Saudiar with ag solenyalur the depare cok place, that Air Joh. Bowring and 1. I reduced his pene in writing in the orthography of t Chicos printing, and 1 kept it on the wall before my desk who was 'cient duly a wine at the Police Chart pater a ser elaborate article September, 1857, & unicat, sie which tice, unter I read Beiges noth awe 10 te consail then on the table one to bem chuqur of a tition by Alt Aut\n\nakutsent in Calia, in which of Manche Wu's he hates, world bat underētur This but an index under and guix on the 14th, reler to lure Aide, statement, a petition to be saloptert to the Queen, Landa, Ban Dat also al tipo ili te pra Chert in the and day from the perind my fras receving e fertation down to the day when the Serenowende of caus They desired walk was pridwally crimes were eatmerated and it was adeffus is to be for the prose of tabling the great to see the\n\nand to cry one of the books and papers as existing denominona, foliowa:-- Whold of the pirater boolé àvul phitest. It ja vakit valuable, nculpated by the reports 'bent in by those ta reperierend pardoned for title that this with ke guilt of many aller\n\nes dy sick that notedy 14 av hea soppra but a Navester, JR, \"Police called upon the, and coke You have cried your\n\nés paid offices, ut lite sails or Tiger nature, po bioause there boil un puhe, a have now been destroyed by\n\nlam ny big which feil fron D. Bulgea or frran Si: Jake at Wil Tarrat, publishes of the Long Kong pois as a ave arrested the sedel, and liavoces, and that hardins erment an oath, Pain\n\npill the end of Chin, was in the 'the' hårda\" of the Hung Kane Covergent, this meinenze\n\nBlock Cum by Liu Govername of t that. Quo him to study on two charges of piracy, Applause). I sony to it by Dr durs, oth nemain the Acting his ca, me of whey be provad is dancreationa\n\nthere was any atention to doutor them. On the stray, lbited by the police count and at die trial were looked \"to prelom leninitim. Sorrest replicationswmulleritsbea Laaksi, Will diese papers be forthcoming the is wht hely a mally Trong and public At that very women bu application is 150 pardon was made, but they all lod. The public age when war awer was Coctaily, tasy will ho forthesising Chetumal miny, of a cele d Governint of Hong Kong, to fit the the i pendina brez the Executive Council, bad baľova a do- up in 196 101minant. 1 Setinal From Callejattu.\n\nwat rond to you this watch of Mr. Dixon, printed Celóuipi Seref.tg-roat will be-1 don't say état with hefurret aby Cian, the pepers en bools which šúré éx bdag too mackerel for Sir Juiz Bowring Stahoe Fogg that these utsnoruuda'ha dolroyd, et troch nieruction cangad the apud Wilham Tut\n\nWithin one week triad crossed that 1 u raken\n\nWaficul reported to me that had upperolie\n\nimoweh, af Tan, aldussed an offels, ferie, tu the goverment\n\nmistion zutenu 57th May. 1 cdled for flow, papers, 014\n\nthe sewer still was, huy s pro3acer May,\n\nthe Chairman of the Come-speaking to what\n\nCarls\n\nren ufereeing one of the LM-\n\nTutte and Within Tarrat peale not pully mil. jabetu, te the Willing Thon BOS, 10\n\nCotinal Sury-by umiva with 517 3 wing, do Govern, duce auch pal and coetic pubic papera a vecius cụ #8 burn, le prevent than tror në tuladhand of teatriinal\n\nThomus Bridgun act\n\nin\n\nJUN PO\n\n1.9\n\nby Sir John Bow-no, not thatatemens 6 M Dixson, the truth-bat ecide not beenvelded by them wil'honey, hit which beleg rund him no the tecore of what had or ne'sunted for in any way on the sapotion of an from wat taken older, M.. Disnou stated was purfacily tree-Theese. You are the kratay of my words, Wall, geûtie- Ch'oet were in luence of their liveandbence begins of e, what did the Govereat do! Nacida That term katson hid in ace to that the parden abel to Premye at Hong Kong The Sup of Police\n\nthe Superintendent of Police, vel sia papers they were, in glee taustmankt Midland. Vältweite Regattar tenor of the Water y lo had the police of the long smakt at his dis in the month of July, 1857. We are now in the sofaxuated; hat the articlo was oothie, for the Fals were\n\nang silence, tid, I can't go on wirdwat my papers. wture Colany, Lotion gave a collops plan\" pesul though, the blud frastarlet: Mr. Calder report fort. 1808 after the firfficial repost do mora, but it be dry for Jorn Rawing an\n\nwale wasiporadia Court as a bit of the Queen again\n\nwhich had bain perferred against hum--to the ellệch that de at the Goved mud of twich ought to have beea pend Hic exartition of Flapot, kiha of re\n\nThay ate prodlacil I will pursue my culence. The answer No one of them cool to lay information apolo\n\nback beca u ursave win ons Machowe Wong lan lo hurtu appene ja support of she another when wrong y cotisidered sacou to disqually Me, Ozidwell from the Cicating letter Was oderossed to the peper of the Tarrant, van de turney General &quited that ever wor, \"They all he rearly 1 C\n\nLa participated in los sela of prasy grof, dasiting him to attend Le Coute (they had set power seruitrios cul ales o cursale should eat feralga, and one morning win ga tuy way to 14- accused 171. Ile was the Jattham Wie de ce. Dission of the event; and still be in there, hod\n\nto try him, tot he was the Goverɔment priaser, Real de night aliteed to tempire 10 Ms. Caldri og Ang'oiler friade of head as a speculturefor I was tune ure Espe when The people were inkry out of thick boats, delube and\n\nhe made these repusta are wet cullat\n\nbave lost cle Govorodent CRITIC). And why? To gite Marchew Weg. Iudouter I got was, that my\n\nappeared as a walness at the diting of the Comarisuon * liberated atmost as he thought. He was I league 10 explain their code is making them, or to dalend\n\nKformation whien manche ebatte ilem to judge of the pro- dalien was on hingartuus and nad għɔeld rescivo apery sten- the worst of proles west theic waters and them; ed on deve at the moment this citron frat, villamenters of Aude. He was the rod of the is the outer and the sccused wit together on the same priety of dehang chow Wos? : ut in followed it up by a cheinending Tetter, and the last to by is gentlenus thut was for the Cen va Berriers of State Bar the Clay time derved probe, and the arreman who repeat to the sarafatio of the Count the gly offend it was my own but in the following teoksile into the Coversio's own verlas d 1st the nad Duiel Dichard Aldest a 1stcat and store. Be informatie and his piratea\" The bad out a speed ease forsoort pesed loss to Sale Whig, wich had a proppo. E in Chatwill interfered with the Bantuñer the rot. The papere leve uit bee a burnt.\" I said, ut papula and then: the publication was for the palie The wil, \"Xo the Governor says he bene in der 11 the lawsti poobslupent of che saith Wa poo them the forgot ng se vitut an exquiry.de fast bivice, Me. Dixon It becued as if a pattiouimely dan pocah as where these the Though the Gerranean'dak noriver, stre Chinese di cozel.. bad be used by may trial. My. Dixon, berdear, while it in the \"realevikov ning meirande; but that the cable\n\nelius amgunnelled to try the sald inferrinse,\n\nvolens be the ustuution qu' bothering til legit, apeared, and with a good deal of virgstol good, we sitesine, to the moverslerved to be ail book burne By wum? I did. An licces Scottir warinda, ses to here for borb the G-scrion fine 'statud jrry the guest relay say his order. I sat Very wel; we ra dialed fa verdict for tlu edenduť sa bech plans; unos ellskog palmat Maheton Wong by Chumer, and upon the first termoz at the out the mad, and said that unicos they tinted be tat me, but yet was zur Tega aga leirit. We have a win in our low that against truth of the churges brought against she al\n\nspoliation navirense da things are to be presumed, and i meat Hong Kong, and that it was for the Tabakor\" of these fay be as convicted, and on the weakest of the behaved to Yew with binabar décenay to would give them one, baterie Pentaton se s tamuuttori 10 'miére jäi prisbas\n\nsil psk you as an hormmable man to 3708 That thesa\n\nIs to jure:nlicy Judge anal coul\n\nthose cinga lid on printed and Lwcase, the stroper ese being fat of all hepsi res information to which they expressed a wish to behet for a cuine of genes; and at lie samé tanie a controa\n\nugulaste si Welt: redentes y lisaks formed me sy se Ori- better informed, and he then third them he could per i prestitute of the town Cathie proton-copale au raping too evides of the gall of the Gospeter Gavravent\n\n4' principal for those il Chizes to the deptpl' süter of the Chis wo\n\narxistence. It is 10 luge, eramus justice, and sound That deal. Machow Wong was marred Sister pered with the tatereating investigation into Mahonjw cl.argue is the publikācá odalineseľ pupure of\n\nneut of Latin. had anguired by consulting' lud nine ended inedin pawnslegs the sem bone Hanece dolars, because sea- Weng'e caso had neily reached itu eczaleca in the Pelico\n\ncgrbury evidence of their cutems, through weld e- zuota, prepared, fre the purpose of tildides kehitet Matolaw innen the pawroker who clonged the scen Court. very last day I was suffering excediating paip\n\nfair in yen to sit it, there are 2 us who can kissin\n\ner (Le 2ad way of led by the \n51 Police, Mr. May. Acsonlingly Malay wis keat for sind be the calvo a farette suni unily Dollars for her person celiginal to hout it. I only to the neuted aleht saiut the aid Duum. Richard Cabluit, it me Jame and bropl his mud with dai, and Ure to nie mate. The coins and it proval batus est quicy. The shain so to be of uly proeid tust a long and iniunaté euangetan\" ja esitt\n\nbetween the Last tratat the whi to mars war Connise Terdila, namen Stieg Lol, who had bees in frequene opinion. I did, 'As to the Tetonada, that is a re publishra, the mud contests of the papers, 27.se, youclow witte : Caldwyn in corted, but rust Calanbend, for they are now Lural, en tan Garethe 2016\n\nallen version had been gled zipost ity Mt. Caldwe-insed to be a hacer by Clause Longe of Mrs Calcon, egg where they are, for they beat Lugu in bis 10 ::fic Governor, to the effect that the entries la Cie Laake reteived from his pawshop Lead a of nonly. Th were mi pogut entrcs, that there was curing leatp dildof the fact wing which they ray n tha hery of the pizate to them-acting whatever, and jority of the Commission are of opinion but it wank het\n\nthis bold step, tw zdevastorm of Tresh crimen were fail\n\nthe Chitovas; they always coupled time with seentza, a less tekig climate the Hong Kong: so the ety-f-every one of the Factz; because of the piestembe: vom Ur.l. for weed trout le Fou Tsepse. You have uses 1392 meat what is culed 1867, ad pracy, went transgrated for 1:15 to the purl 160\n\nMr. May, the Superintendent Police as magistrate or Hog Snar, M. Mar hee nos bem suaded for giving evidence al Mr. Catdoll, and he says konw the a, kowa ce allow Wook, was 57. Caldwell'in pol and trees relied upon to formar. During the whole oftaistime-that leave 1980. never reĥrened wa mate to biolohow Wong, either by the subordinate oleum of the police, ky old kuropan dents, or by\n\nepithetlaring selezenne to his bad chamater. Aes multimel repute and retoriety, I know the Mabel Wong hos for Jezz bron vorsiderad sectortionet, & respect of mines 3. from gambling-house keepers, a condectrale of pirates, SON recrow of telek gooo I Mama plastist nerause of ca 1. work bom postiar witlitegazu to Mr{akdwell—winters\n\nCimen in the coinsy very well knew-that Matchc .. Wong wat sopposed to da in possesion of great down, a ut wan belil in gest dread. Ot the exteat of us dread.\n\nbeste faly aware whenever it was my duty tu laverigune the case ignibet him. Igoko to maug Chinese of stundige 1. and property, and shey all exhuired a bowledge of his\n\neni curacter, but a relualase to do more tia This gentleman was a picnes of a juste vľ the porco, wlas navenbetes is considered a proper person to remain in tikt Chu). Geaca, en son as Sir Walter belt dhe\n\n• covered that 3. Gilbert Alusz, tas Laird of Pargowa, had been code of the press D.nks Flatserais, Book vilectual mesum to hee the Commicion of Price i\n\nBland From !be d'agence of his novion; and foetal y that a literary character like Sir Jatin Bos ring might have very robiy been expected to fellow the exacte setli by Bir Walter Scott. App, chinmay\n\nE Mackow Potrg seded ahir vonviction sp\n\ntraneporation. But no mark the prosem, beause this\n\nbring the a bow head of aging, which, theagh\n\nip of two onlilery others to the court clost 1 might dear the ovalent of the pirate book, andard shose hooks send in the Police Court de slag purled open the dose collow me to pass frena the the is on which was carried into the const; so I hoped to Potion Court interpreter in a loud waies, that it the world, motulit. hack him it in interpretation more wrong, read 11:\"Fə\n\n·Sam Kwei' (bet ie, dr. Calduril, the torturing or kerkida, Need) toey\" ist was an estry, earleazen; ju\n\neate an the all to particular\n\nvaid, \"I will go in again.\" He woak in, and the Governor\n\nI share Caldava 1 cher Wong mad the sail\n\n10, soma, by the said commuistion, Dalit Dad Richard Coldwed bad been, until very best À parter with the sad omviet in a lɔrelia, zrul the mirë,\n\nfursher show that the yard She of the sail.com clas\n\n1a jike parcneshly Jai! 16 between basi and the said venyter met lecat fenci yessels, and that a number of una in their day deơn, at vagina timas, guilty of pray\n\nThat die restliny Eve under the sail Cerriku was gevately printre and culo by truong sung Tern, but väheul indoegmentary videtza Taller! ski the sitesi, el coatiars to the protes of th been the, as was statel oa onth by the arimarenie\n\na. Lan, DONT MICRO, T\n\nQty of Sambon, in Suno which, after a calmed\n\nthe\n\nding, resulted in, obra vùng tha prasiat pagundy pic\n\nsud, \"I kus ibing of the benene of the papera. durd calew ware bort, they were bucat by Dr. Hridge, and not lag sa La broke of the pirate then conter excisation. Olier her speed that own the stricle in the China harsh lemore Mr. Careil on the Commisions for lie sansauranda, 3 know nothing of Lin\" \"he w\n\niesasperateri ilia'j aiges, exspe- hear da the eye of the Govenor, he had applied This? stein is to her gun sence to arcs of various kloun; dietasloudly sessionis flat bosh aya sud see if there were taled 194, and its proton avery' Inquest amus alb sead, it daw was open, nant I could boar hits, stud be was very \"C.\n\nany swab cutes in thdia, And why do you tilus be up theur vers partionfctly Tirumakt. itemquatracce e il ficus imputenbel to neve he solint wort of projectile kunwa drog Paliced by this 1000\n\n2. 118 425 of the the to? Wit, of all men, do you this he employed on the subject, and was again divined to fold is proce The Soaking Berhey mast have own full well had been about of stinkt pat\". payee of Life You a rezolves the book thay cured this var tuusuciata winxber there were any entries in the truth in that Dr. Bridge the Acting Unlonal Secretary tune unsay shout thuthum, Laven Laborants pargnuts,Gestalo Bub Sigler's coins, winch pirate's books incupatory either of the pirate the part who advised the censur, id, sir. Davel was eppo wapiz, then he gitty as, Dr. Bojes, Mid Commission on the ane tril of the Quetu . T\n\nareas were ação by the Canis Eigh me as instants need by picator Sam thaques. Why die parmer, gentediet? This fhda. Lattez to whom he apples wx All this was petal catfury ma vida e con exile in\n\nColwell, after the conviction of tar sa Machow 5 appointment discoting to acting Chineze scoretary to go berwuda before the Commission that let linge was aleau works heftest be wrong thement of the si sūdens 118 parla. immanian theme soboto prazposes of desunto. They\n\nand assist - Durdwell in the inquiry which heal. Can a casing about for a further opportunity and relega pole back paneme ta por seul as other this extructed to the api lagi. profile a catcmple as to bewilder their oppo-\n\nmily had been ducted to make sure prudineert bother the afbringing the Government to save tried sidi de pequena co muy first preferring rise toer hie darges against Mr. Rielar wel! bu is expecially charged with did cre nesta a leg who are about to board, in slu anpe of setting in to tie voocel. kere were numero Commission of Inggning, out in my leg, bead aguchi veu dus sirenastade med. The Government at Caldwell and piles in my place in the Legisle is Majesty's cura in motion against persons whol\n\nall vessels wi entries us of dortrustion as illa, and over sidste to be the witness for the Uras, on the trial one disproved of the chair power confered spend Theftey were they me butt with alleges the pirates, and against all\n\nto je, na galust all places where he algimin· anou een oudceived from Skor Koneen spinet Tarerne, and there a bean doubt of the aduc Mr. Caldwell, and we were able to recourt knowles they were och be useful to Path, go drabt, un videre-thane to fact-Mr. Under the related vend kid mal was in committa the accusel sy wers bau after produ\n\nTait in the pic af ar Malety's outers - I have mest enamcuted them to 300 so I went on, I leave\n\ncott Bad Kwag na he is called, of any purchase of and Mr. Mans asked to must fan and Mr. Modzin when I received fine in peritcedent of bien a letter to presturs them had to have them bed by fur produccion vice plus sole multial inflation of the el aladdy hops in my to: The way was thila—A young\n\nGen ego. And what you they deal and Caldwell in all arch of lige Tak Art of educadou, ef grea: personal-I Acer of Jerodox.0, thein arapaiment, there is LLC chart det til him by tomatogne sunce mages of evidcide to the eff chat held i\n\nTai since the signing of che la ray of p asy beunty, her his aprestake was as that of a fede abondamen there to w Any ROVEor, zealous for herpes to lines that no bundle was very hierdie wise his power for Wing, unfortunely, long\n\nGlina, uvasis of the, Chape coast, in violation IT MA one of it, thus the man who had at all, and that ou the other bundle the bestowed what he abuser of thels in this way, hili he was granting the acting Chinese secratur;) is mee to cama inter car\n\n1rea, lava berume Publiwa, guided and directed by Gešti ... of 1925-lure description in kv 63 2. Was\n\nChina **U WIScuration.\" He says is the dish to bredelskont of his down property, and prae- ryceriu desunie mors, fouad to encumber pas Denici Richand Cudil Brave Cock thick acidéy (tor Mr. Cool: wat pituus elite-341 h a secured wae 220; fix to ra\n\nnot cause all the textements he pub to Mr. Cromwell, eating with effect ultricies that there untied, to se ging Clumése Ofies. They diù in bing to the Chase Ofe 15 the following mes ocurral in the wqeriş il 2. At Une trial in Lile book which he beat writea oui Ciminin Quotes of the Fuzon (Apple)\n\nand he does not think Me: Cafdwell torstited tum, chance our prasowe property. According tid The Leugd de Palin fce, it is true might Apr: st: u of uret, as evide and where we believe, was inckie oue stated like being the Ostwall Commi, nd Mr. ther be gh: mot disse his fly in Anzies, she Davies, wind, and when the oil age to know that Mr. Caldwell was bore Wirk, berise se thakter, with the wires, believe sunt them there and ought to take the pubes her Majesty's valicza plesal the sole er upperial allegat of th were of the best cepeccability-in Earth me of Este, even to the poial of the full towards with a number of the when Ireland Council, and I sakithar duodin ruveta test faluzea du bat i asked tise Guarner and he told\n\nDaniel Ric Caldwelt: he had cuker and give to Mic Morgan to perse and Mr. the ordinate for the purse veftig das Legistar merak The Bulger, and De. Trigga yaki • Thụp only ruchan, 1 expediu 10th of Mr fast ga Boys, and he was to my proseptic, at Attorney Genry), I rekla ile ago, at de woods [aan? to tried and evicted-1 au sorry to y, c the 4 were defano I went into the court resapan, without staring them with the date\n\nto heridong any pecay void the ral aid \"Tyler is ofte the dus of the Ladeperdendof the enuio of piracy, the xys this The Antorery Geotul's shot when our they were all rigs and the report was diawn up and eat from the for! size string to aty ko mase Ti said be Tacy are mere end undertaler were banale\n\nwastog : Weng grunt-end volevo che grad-very properly not be Mr. Nenu,\n\nof the power ferret an M. Caldweb...) Deaked wat was uneven plan is the site out of bagi the Loring of opinion dit he had not convicted e\n\nis is feetly opmeet. We has only wired ac, Mr. Chudwell. Mr. Clewell reported to the Govi moric motely, but Me Colwell spent. A lire put of the day due to create der is so that he was merely convicted of piracy, smal\n\nEst addressed her pabely happen ontiment which have sexa, aut wiret 1 hp will be and reported Shubho was hity the azett. Est de properly sting of the cuss in depatruling w \nke,\" Free which cut is Chinnan Day the\n\nvaez the Funga V Danë newspaper, qüuhag fas published at less eleverd het book. You may chuka urtean city of Wade Wig Tit Sourke,\n\n--Fast flokit - statuiest, teic, \"Tuus the pinaka charge, it ALANYAGİLİNDARION I am labouring & avatare wies) 43 30 pacer. w you wish to set pure so to sey e vet toptir He began in crale\" vie\n\n@miate or uw why I did it. We crmitory, o'i chy' way incapatory; if bind when I was spinel Libes Way, seven weeks at that knd la that safe of as they\n\nDodwell come all took us session the Hundwist Bisur ne lastics tim this, bet no cler yet, it is lyriba for his was consolib and date ich t kad mad prizes old bundy, watery Chinese Jesele and good, but of ureja veeeels and get porter on the art flow Cart Mr. Called Buklear?But it get farther on this. Megan, on stated alub, Le way adding the Guercituent, whi\n\n- Thi ly ra cho tiện, việc nghind: 1 Júlio Kucose, is 'nce, 'crite end to abile,\n\nestiollant Wind in partueze of: che meses\n\nhunder to avitas tenser sind, herefte We\" who ale to be thic ecofioing theres to tlit \"bom juscy wi it is entered vesla og Chistice, eye care, trig winds to how were wilt duration et dedans want. 11 ist fuch has evo sing the appointment in these Le\n\nA proceeded to take aud' wakt prizes of Potgier and even of English It could be .icd-bigbut them we were duething to stay away or tu forges they to ir healthy why do te dore Sime' and look us et Mens specifice- these day a wine to the Crown site pircle beta oponed and face way, that even casi toto hepere forts had básn ichkir tó\n\nHe, Caldwell out on so Desk While the Chief Maglenkad bet akarate the dress of pure atentia to the age of her with tweed in the driting, and who was the marterly speeches I ever lado ati ang dile-iliat did no Berred; baie wuld he lied dot the listed og bin rated 1.16 118 REBOZDey-Centrul Zur the Crown, were] Lind Hberation of Mahshow 'Won, fecia the clucose that Fredd2 attunewars I'died the confoluit of Vedelendum is, these referral to, in this case of the Conferuerteve) Non him by a pirate und ( nviting atmose tire pel the bar and file wiends toere le cos hand that i helion well to Sir Bowl of 9. Jest Tarar chat him out from his chues of just\n\nla reging by \"verbering to her Majesty the can.\" -¿Lead cyplinsé:)' Wit By such they preted to ocnyvaz editions, thors bei gwa sila, and otheeatunc\n\ncant Ohmamen ging video liber was the peper or fabricion of do you think the govt to my of Intent freibe becaues te jugs, who always to grow ranting i\n\nsideration they were struck with the vente of barget, or confort of main, lad deteraped that gul angle, jugil a Lehmkomptly honnante unek bad been re- Mr. Davies is an pourable and opright, but u moet olen and that\n\nbuk shio was deo much uses on a Torted in enter to procure the lure or Latest they new grups to into iteme tarp barat tify a splations liel, soit un\n\nLiyur petitioners ate infor not the public pessa ut excuse to for you to judge af ik validity. Bat I have a\n\nthe commutes at the ears Mspite a Grown wines add beca bring to to say the Bar appened to Car, nodingly this was declare is a pufed with the bobeer defence. Br what actity\" do you, the men of\n\nbit, thend or hisgistrate who was on the Benus, said to me the Cow 489, nd he was akhez of lore furodde teulement of ants or inphns; fest to bring the avertent isto uttal i con- Hong Kong was with the gravest sharges against her uro Ebook, I think you ought torkowest Mank is an generally falls ad the fut of Hong Kong sila, banghts one in Secretary of State se ga je ten, Sw, Mr. arrunt ipad vg for alué deine, 1 blogg's local unit, suising out of the sets of the ni Tunel Fabia Caldwell, witasub ny stopa bʊng teken Hong Kong, prosamo to tyo, ka Ararian cisÓN, DE\n\nrest in which ouius fi torebet upan hi h serious, and he been cool of he told the that Me.\" Mag'a ↑ W Many palmerit; trest, siunt is prasandhang no, preg as\n\nAriel enly echte boned having followed the ukamulu saslim\n\njusty's Gurraient at horny, Jby the British comede e period of Jig de good)Malawidity rephormorandy were to the Courel, de milite of should says, whenever let me extence: not a tal on w, by tur ecce as\n\nulo kauly, Theta quite a misuke, Nix. Eug in ne subtitri Coupe,\" ays My Dixsongengrene, mm, Fabere ready to righend what was sad, ra, wana boju til, denying to That you diners e farther informa chot ́́s Youlo en ability hoy resucher: sis cake of Mr. Caldwell, who she promett, Alferplant in Jeppe.tjie\n\nin consequence or be acts Court. The young picafe turbel, un lam with TRON\n\nhar for life. This pewnią kair, whose appearance oply ja ¿very respect most preprenenting, lidil, nesici furlega, \"Litez +the cance of this phraga ditere perods\n\na from the are 1855, 1856, ADG 1857, for as long an x-\n\nde, hoving her treat it the posite by what, gezišlą miejų a\n\nsoftly exjoyment out of a lui Delagian\n\nNalci Poiy,\" and supped fra te te sime with\n\npas pedagowa by the struct\n\nsul collars in money, and welty for cos janda\n\nof those from. Mol whore willing the\n\nof to re\n\nShu or anong gani, the tuik of whic\n\nand Led by resi\n\nHow was unt invest gatal. Batore The Beaton Bona's a li\n\n· Mu brei, nad who exprend is read\n\nto\n\nadjuskuse on the case, and it new apposes fram, eisal decoration of the Case Castor At B\n\nLut the legal piracy Ye\n\nJaw jacc\n\ndatid cerfi-zion of a Sales\n\nat the corn the gastropod the test -1, exquis ook pult, I was pureaued tri the Atrey-\n\nyies distant from Peng Kang, viktse\n\nFWninos 4 ใน Mu\n\nJun+\n\nacity were onwering the waller or city with Chinese cứ duratione pre by me, they m;,\"store, L'insverfus Ceageer be thhed infuñà÷hoi si't the very chané de \"wasture Legs undertaken atlasswise păzi şJelitoraizly, quid rich di alluzbi àltevės ro angelu salt into the saidilir. and dezambiaron und muraus où desituelium and deadh, tiež pevaaja this most Ring'hérorë · Henriečkkaemisă when'] Conkeret ón metody. (Rudnnà těšiai vah tribal with bad de Guabip. Processing wers commod in the Pulica / voliars were under preple\n\nCual will your to a prosecution ser libel of the sail towns with two hours,\n\nlisa proprietor of that jupur Sir Th\n\nasenBalion Charmy of Expeti funt:c:ky m5- per with British dominion), tor property hall 19 bapa luier. tu2+)?) \n\n| peurs ing Lo maid mutes u flazbe Woo), but willing any peccf, or injẢ ĐỀ\n\npref, 13 coline; the sald sewn with this ad allest\n\nto petablish the truth of such si logetion. Towing the said verds in thus suidtuint of\n\nand the prizeutics of clues weioner's Report, i\n\nquica by bis partadi, Sri Culkin Ayplay.j'. Pagkus Mache Wang, M. Caldwelź ext 20 the Bestivité decurrente, the fin# Peľ was tete 10 där fets, abg no wories of hopeat knutý, Ahri saytigt, on rebooveything in the law tit jouds to the liberty or places Five Queed to Ja!! Rhad calli\n\nzeli yua win he riv \"Yes, graden.cu buld centered these pirnoje, I basoetatud may\n\nwell, you shoổ tut teava, the Coat. It 1 sog\n\n- In\n\n-1\n\ncontinue to bold la ulices of epistur-Borland Pro-\n\nfasten object, and Justion of the Pen\n\n-\n\nopas\n\nThat one piles huully pray your Maganly tost The Dichand Sawell as the anodica phed from extresings said does of gist-renca\n\nyour Majesty was fiber, state such sy\n\nut your Alaiys Critical. -\n\ne naved\n\nThis yields totank to tini) zei; flua elitize\n\nTeplagent on board'éco ether piste junk, dist c£5 on krainie Mchoben Wong. I day day i dennepéviter is primasda eru re” Cure of 9.964 Kiz the toho, ability;\">ub' #1 to Flis millest was 13, 11 to jrove the justi ofera zné 'bu fiɔmė gl Gran Maxis, he adopted, amig\n\noy the Mayur se belesif of 11e meetings una chut the See petilien to clean, Lyk Lyness to the fart Bluts for biome Afain the requested to press the abu Bin Silben : the Ainge of Commiting\n\nBog ur Neeraden cephes, 1 for F and Northumberless be formed with appien se sa notition, and requested to support is pron,\n\nthe\n\nNar\n\nsinty ever happened. Toward the end on aller case der is met. Promate. Cats?#eliftektálation Jowy cerunkenyíčel, † sleges vanitý tu da in Boug Kong. · (Apple) I kids in, but afttraing that he wrote dijose only of a 3k)- j offiser of known el which your petitions - Bohinch 1 new before saw equales, and it ben boxks pered to sa ikat is, the Ott hectate)-Mr. ULIENTE This front mas altérfi sa' Mr. Beyond wilmot hafte u work I stukut bajene it. vienmant sälja vasant clue $2000 18 Guseramcul, all hasing ban aakrod to: recueile unencre, - nepest of tetth He Mind My Cali-Gadwol in Mashow Wong's adapter. 2, in may have dr. Moun n this white car; oist I live desires norieteni which sa stuffziest to gue secres, such as, e con las cerefore ether nigrisane ne kely to low.\n\nmil adoped father, I do know 1-made of the teak up del did I bet white m\n\nTelit for the subjput of the thugplit his to take up that they rely institute en iy te teece to have entered this Et any or stannak a the time but the end of the case al beat fit to hy weed the traits de trait in and tie was, beet this honour last selgus, and the Judge of the culpis hold the rare of the petition to the Bouses of Lek's bu Ame of thee. bis are here, you, who quietly to br. Caldwed, are heard thank Mrforcuccino w This is of the resty je dny, day in atribut to delete the honour, Crown gut ferised: me time this career of orhng thall be caldwell, abent, your patios with the vase, was there wadh son why He bave tent with the date the 17th of May, 1938 verli, by the Crava prassence, wild as suid was opes Justine, but the prayer of the polition to the Queen was us aland with the exceeded, wit alig volubility. were sur stod say they wereteeming of nettur-argir the nor this roler received master tour the Secretary or to trove (by gality of the cavenient, and having fo\n\ntions contéptet ut per the indin dietider Sveces of Bahar One you Brus kete but in jautify the bed, for it woul A late costance będe tamu Walbe present at the inquiry, the you le coună-\n\nder wet br, 1 of the you struction by us that promet, pa ih the more in loved in reported. ll, gentlesser, e il be. For m piece of polios of European xures, such pe chara\n\nlierter thing, tid old role puude hink you go. Prot. I said no more excel, had her mull I have no large, penta Tanpired the trial sint tag were decle of in the Chincre, 'and 'which has said lid al com from Mi. chatyour penceration I have inter reeds graminacey kist ever themiubit of ang us Job By illegal enguant nur short pet she hinten, end Faction of ds: Pease pu Caldwell. Els declared his red padon, and I bar. 22201 Wes 11. ca corte e (9-12 chapter conveyed in the hose leidu libus petition is at to the cold try me that tetece prated suit circuled, but nav ar pilkul in the berzerie, in deferi he had shton s prson, popne in which altere med acts. Doudy, Jay, the mind one part of the needs office. I let it has previouidered themed parts as at the agreeing \"The información rize is functions were detepeisles de Messina. *Caldwellende brother, Mulishow Wong, boating Colonel Mexicozy requetudo so take a vase pooch Ms. Monpais. 19isit there is how to me hall work in the Maglażba përt of cha\n\nErs Lovereanett warno longer thrë qi | er himself to have bòân”- chicago-wiens, M. Card it as is May's case. Day Bekles, the Aoting Colegiary'sy And Siver : \"they clä salis dots i had e, mladinkoneiden 2011 (5)\n\nwellen into a sent, ithead of bustin By original par Services, axplained to me that ho-bellevad bir. Any toe papers entrere, but netan ere were states are with her disputs this postion the did not prove it by ban wings, me he was sing Folded in the magnity of policing & levels -pose, and leaving the conce, or pyvalme to the curt te 10 rowe way pajudined sponu (whom day-thak, penele tormeil the subject of agres' o'what's the ahy, for while, at the word things, tien j\n\nditions viice cheek Crowu wănesiép, far, Irlikes, T. Môngán, 1. Youll here: China bưng v? tự nghe Hob Reig I new nit! new show h, tht to chat retr -proteo! kin, or askroje leuve for one in Mr. Calovali? No † sgaipet).MuleLow Wang.\n\nBet him in the end i Amk fasi ya desch wert hate Bowed it, arc wies and a Con Me two tur conuicted to theke animement when the retele dena; be ligicha zaid against in. Caldeuil sound he beerture\n\nstein and tornou mierer the fuse \"szért made bye debet my Bi peace, une with a head & mods Setween fives, and couple it very cosible that would take my are John Bosdag Mi. Wade's reporte feicis alliesenstar and piratant explain is al even un acknow\n\nFred, nad valeur was giche che il sola hile manner carrying witle is convxtion of the truth of the bention to doing so had solely we tras sie dasise: Vitalne the Chilies State Stad ductinenda, no he is bunds: llame Gentieren bi the charse of this wel die tui rilaktin senfessions of Dr. Bridgy instit, Lord Lyndhurst tank they, interes, it is not\n\nSecretaty a theory, lemort me cretary gra street. ket ky eye'sed en thas unter -May focuya sheld poke hazz, nach ki mua jimata'y Ark whit a Na\n\nin the inghest terms the petitions freia this tea Pannte man, an his sat there under the allerlag demanesi\n\narranged that we zi.ould hath with Then it big avil swenney-General Mi; Aditz? tals Rated; wart referred 'te li kiengrity whel, masel tuplasente, at å which they acheidint The jury issing of the morient I 2054 to live Twish His Old Crawstway's) Buty cümiselled h ting if the young pirate, and I saw in's deco the\n\naridanse ho goes on to say shas Mr. Catwell, corac! ene basereperietes bere thou and Bi. \"Caldwell's tagdermit sipan 1992 finds of them on seat or é difractal We donder the bulȚ most abject ped the most complete ecofen his guit, use of the sopranotation which have to the gut being discovered, but on when do that'dule the kit, and which they reledere etract fra jast bed by the evidite of the Chow it to remind apture from the primary f The Fout Atheriyan te vektoriced and prukaḥed, bas it\n\nCoperto, adul not to alter a future, as a note his eye. Note that it is tuc late for a while but when & boy well lavori Urresting bars for the brought to pressure politi\n\nbe maling; and taped that Mr. Edila Janes Skul jameting, thinkingrachtdi duetzibál, eď trials Enlu Karena lester to clears pederskil to inquirero\"\". (Apple) libre o letroduced during de tre petiolo probability which is, you wil of my career what was gutted to Bir Jolin Howalny ió qu consider a very probablu jebak de Walpole, and who is full order dứt the I put me in the of the Combat is the defence et gallly even notice in a los 67 Court on this He herbure, poskirted skal pla ne, was committing to the huge of lesbiete or inferabuty, rape they iron going to jure in the dataset made pés justa 2 Wand they uid, que\n\nquestions of etiquette agits zu Lin waived, st that it Tầng ki the tiásẽ of every mandlily édes of the\n\ndece did de desert-lum Att. Ha di 201 forell possinterpret the Hugh find withly my enter the Ses of Bret' I' prutekidit in die name or Theron appisil to the judge for costs, all. eet the low/high af te dzieje 1.5in pha Sapd bubbly fut he had hail and who had the bài)? Panimadiratokeo Motion Manama wakiel cortese again it that-ridistrikt, The viler bf the | gj\n\n\"Well, under Lord Cupbell's Ko, and appe be there did so the court sec on this Calls. And what bids Mr. Caldwed, aduca be the feat-by-1 Patio, Ingileifilutleie het urituli eie se lest is labele se ili beg capered he wwn sees of the car by giving their day siege the harsin af Mr. Jones. Ep erine Fant doch and maile report of thuto welched magicTalen top? Way, clasped Co. by one dette noen taryf die stider in or on Bareng dati, bis spits against the Crown (ie will it pr. A skal med to add, but Afr. Zuniga, Devoting theesin the principal portion to the trial of mion--. 19 old do not forex Burette, user einiglitz traway! -it we never intended to a tie mors will repect to the asthey sweary of longer euitendag with the misrule of the British\n\ndaily in runt litet habeating cocutare. hát to thee tới mướn that the demandar obale trave power to intulegt at, mal bei 1 600 6. Every harding will invest at long Rog, had exchang Bags, the barone of what the sail, ed I desired, found that the magistrato was in kyler Milmiy's later, and bore the com\n\nsha mabject of a terrenet to Mr. Whe, the belt Crizelse i uthe Sometime of Moet dank the sulfat peckers the pot of the clung being tiled fur by: of han ritate infesty or be a corp\n\nImperio Major the inspaene på.China, al luced by Mr. Gibidwalk to syrept of dreindly low. Ieder\n\nand Ferlinuculary grant. is not er mis to nevid Passion of the peace ng Kai-for 1 yo amend in vana, de haciz Mahshow Wong Seo have here ofered in whichrit-lan at leiðarokk of isim num amzkurt, and then\n\nJr. Pouncilor Disparas had great paying -the grace of attlag is the same commission with Mr.\n\nJuden in your for debt for a few days storm which was, wiesenet was the thing trial selbe just denial, the wasthead like on of Xeconds whey should Gard well stated, I say, die sold pity the time previous levertheless, Mahshow Tong was conan the inquirix: 2 . Monti Multish Mit John da to re e thuit made of this Bits This la cuve of the meta, mut had lead her than su\n\nPA Take y ethere of serall be real, and all\n\nmatic aire dent where of Mr. Anne, Justy par foto bn up and vend au wordt had his bovision, tabe ploca examination every and the by, beg byg\n\n·Topptation and Palipahoy world i purua exopt up this line got store' Jer, that public sandal bed but unt evary at: was made By 31s. Caldwell specə > where: Weijl.\n\nlowers and now; & fou verds buice's lake wave of you a The motion was carried shotiniously. Moines unlock to do this there by the look of saying Whit cheaped in Net of begin by requatuo: there in\n\nMr. To HET. LE. Weid bus tree the ter seun which the-hop gelo x want wien, si mor of 16 slet Buc me to my how much ist das picot's stal\n\nbeing met. Et the dayvalter I had that vidunderlie the prevés szacujalise Kaving Goch. RIMI, o l'alvo,amt ákotek Mr. Caldwell'; but the I imew\n\nMelchion, Fung may Birthink that by as: Alengan akute todo che continue miter which has earninus of miley clite Tr wickelly of churae, that it win pofidetty true that Max. Los reparted LTE WHICH TO: + with lenth of coma de double all ye hi! I want to perfore by suols Bands Racid, the pipe that having bags to the May, des -terpie fri eventibử with the Afti dhanon or getting off???ed:hu nad a perk von Grace | Pelketeart' scathifi. Mit Pulbosat sitt which in med tobeat du the puLE U VARse to you by Mr Crświley. Yən muşť 1.22 sagpry this term\n\nhew Werk, who was storeddy beefed with\n\nTechpod, 30 in abm.com. To juman who actuel far as 37. 3. Tinker went the not by let the great chase motor and bridal suites and find a bygons matter. 1 were, hub is me rent Why 5, whethe\n\ncoction, plow, stall be same. The Constant at se injured into, and the guilty paulühe becue, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TINE: Maya cha kar moer Urinalty.” The » de is a liesing sakit and in werial agent, if\n\nIf not 'somotáing more than my Kingsky was a young maling in\n\n- Str. Gæstwa Pradoodle for disproves in cybe long ng this first of things last né make up r impant, fur Nejeng's Arte Karilor; and (riffet laat, if so vary w pipe of stem of\n\n• A Lake? Kako se kockat ng ma¦¦:00 Unilure - Chelausen | *apen som to neposers' Chaetesi Por jo mirik, kalya Aith is shorty sit bonarofublimitlam of\n\ndot pri e nuhrer, in the jolske dit Manwhere. hald rentours/niche e victime to the fokus, or out apposte, 1 won by oral by allies in a hit doe\n\nGoverment aut tømn-it. Nag hat dare to train so my lets tred that di Ihres most prouxing toidetle in which a slaan Kong. I maat, kovretta, say 'dolara, `· Eltem, hear dibéo be a f“ „Antikks sward and spank the broth, and I näded: \"Thein sa det aru Koz brady, given\n\nEd 9 wat gate yek böcker at Fangio go that they considerare ding with Mr. Cash has drawn ittich, whit szer kle bir that choctagonar Dagisee. Wain of A Kimpoti in his shade-tzat, lac did lesa quets At ja pelamath now to be to ice for Age in weid, and 70 at hall to say one of the praling the last 92 ci ad pedas entry-it-14) beendal this is (open toyiq queue o to me to be not vil poting that stenty of\n\n· Kgreat improvements Fita a intrbelicëdürzatean of GTE\n\nto\n\nis\n\nreach Een the book in the Kunde DL.\n\njust-abs that they havʻstake' is \"die\" \"chinë '18 Do ↑ Deen ashamed to' hace punimi, sext which I povedled agains l'stä! Is your variet 11 yes that ly | Phèz họ to come how chèt couhl as the objects of\n\ncbeth\n\nונו\n\nMaliciru: w' pa oval 10 joule the supension of this en de 1e eit.al Crown gut áľ sestdise Prielled it 4, Grey Strare, by. WALK Winajan k\n\nresiding eV hit; and publisket by biel Atistis Sunet Neroun-Xn-Tymer, 50, Hommed B Sieci: Digli Studi Samiecians; and Kesant g Durban, i am as gunu gharama\n\nSaturday, Jun 25, 1959.\n\n3974\n\n229\n\n\"Hirveastly for 27 1854\n\nI have the honor\n\nto forwurdt\n\nBook Prst le\n\nZen\n\nAug\n\nby\n\n& Pettern\n\nfrom the down yerrwonath\n\nther Miprsty, which\n\non behalf of the public meeting, at which it was allatibit.\n\nA is\n\nmy duty respectfully to mequest",
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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": "placed Colonel Haythorne, under orders to proceed with an expedition for three or four days to Heng Shea without having intimated the same to him, an omission most unintentional on my part, I have the honor to transmit for Your Excellency's information an extract from my reply, requesting your sanction to the arrangement therein proposed, viz:- that the Garrison of Hongkong, the Royals, and one company of Royal Artillery should not be moved on any account without the express sanction of Your Excellency, but that the remainder of the Troops being sent out for an Imperial, and not local purpose, should be moved, the Officer commanding reporting for your information the changes being made.\n\nI would also add that the Native Infantry",
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        "title": "CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4]",
        "content_text": "## 3\n\n434\n\n**Chinese Commissioners:-**\n\nWhing-hoeas-ju,  \nMagistrate of the District of Hsin-ngan.\n\nAssisted by  \nFeng-wen-hai,  \nSub-Magistrate of Kow-loon;  \nWheng Yu-tang,  \nColonel Commanding of Taiping.\n\nAt the first meeting to arrange the mode of proceeding, the Kowloon Magistrate intimated that he had few or no records in his office of the Land within the District, for the greater part of it was waste which had been squatted upon many years since, and on which no Government tax had been paid, nor had the transfers from squatter to another been registered. The British Commissioners urged the necessity of obtaining some information on the subject, and requested the Magistrate to supply a list of the bona fide Proprietors and Sub-Tenants with their holdings. Subsequently, the Magistrate handed in documents: Return of the Population - Names of the People - the places occupied - the rate of taxes paid - Names of Tenants - rate of premium paid for Land in Kowloon. Squatters without license, but in a measure recognized by the Local Authorities. Houses in the Village of Chim-sa-choi not authorised by...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12]",
        "page_number": 181,
        "title": "CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "179\n\nthe bh'in clan have made large purchases of arms and munitions in Hongkong, including even Cannon, and its warriors are in the habit, it is further stated, of going out to battle with their enemies of the Tsing clan in shirts of mail, constructed of scales of brass.\n\nThese facts being known to exist, Colonel Peng Yi, the Military Officer referred to above, came to the conclusion that the letter purporting to come from the chiefs of the bh'in clan had been fabricated with some hostile design against the alleged writers, and when, on the appearance of the man Ying Ka, by whom it was said to have been intercepted, it was found that his surname is in fact Rong, and that he belongs to the second of the two hostile clans, there appeared to be still further grounds for suspicion.\n\nRong Ying Ka was interrogated in my presence by Colonel Peng Yi, and, although he persisted in the story previously told as to the manner of intercepting the letter and with reference to the subsequent offer of $200 for its return,",
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        "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]",
        "content_text": "影 \n\nBritish Consul, it should be attended \n\n\"lor_ \n\n6. \n\nIt also appears from W. Smith's Report that Colonel Pang Yuk, before cessation of his visits, had shewn a desire to discuss with W. Smith the possibility of devising some plan to check smuggling in Song Thong:- \n\n7. In the \n\nIn the early part of last month Mr. Smith, having received a request from Pang Yuk to introduce him to our Admiral, learned from him then that he was still unable to visit Songthong as formerly, because the Vice Roy continuing of opinion that as the British Consul objected, the less he came to Song Kong, the better for continuance of existing friendly relations. Mr. Smith, being aware of the general nature of the instructions sent to Consul Robertson, assured Pang Yuk that where the exigencies of his case required it, Her Majesty's Government had no objection to direct communication between Kowloon and Hong Kong. Pang Yuk thereupon not unnaturally asked for a Chinese version of the despatch on which Mr. Smith had relied, so that he might have a copy to hold for his protection. \n\nUnder these circumstances, I requested Sir Rutherford Alcock to interfere, and in an interview with",
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        "content_text": "12.\n\nI think it would be very unfair to Erionel Pang Yuk, who has always acted in a friendly and straightforward manner towards the Authorities here - if I were not to point out to your Lordship that from Consul Robertson's own resume, chequing the former had every reason to believe the influence of the British Consulate was exerted to interrupt the previous neighborly inter-courses between the Kowloon and Hong Kong Authorities.\n\n13. Your Lordship will observe that the Consul states he had heard that Colonel Pang Yuk had put himself forward as empowered by the Tsungli Yamen to fix the Revenue Stations; that he had \"interviews with me and in fact was doing a little negotiation on his own part and in a matter which was a subject of anxious consideration between himself (the Consul) and the \"Vice Roy\"... Mr Robertson thereupon asked the Vice Roy if he had authorized Pang Yuk's proceedings. He, the Vice Roy, promised at once to stop that Officer's interference, and the Consul adds \"I presume he did so\" and hence the complaint of the \"Governor of the Hong Kong\".\n\n14. If their Lieutenant at Canton is in the habit of often applying to the Foreign Office, and Her Majesty's",
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        "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]",
        "content_text": "details had been concerted with such \n\nAuditors secrecy \n\nbetween Her Majesty's \n\nMinister the Consul and the Vice \n\nAdmiral, that the whole was matured, and the period for \n\ncarrying it into execution fixed, such before I learned that \n\nany scheme was in contemplation. \n\n16. If however Colonel Pang Yuk, ascertained by Mr Robertson, had engaged in negotiations with myself as to the most suitable position for the projected Revenue Stations, there is no doubt that I would have brought the matter to the notice of Her Majesty's Minister.\n\n17. It is quite clear however that this Government never obtained from Pang Yuk any information interesting to it. Notwithstanding which Mr Robertson unhesitatingly, Enclosure 1s declares Mr. Smith's memo: affords \"ample evidence that the Reports \"which had reached him of Pang Yuk's doing were correct.\" Mr. Smith's Memo: merely contains an allusion to some communication five years previously of an official to Mr. Smith and mentions that in conversation with Pang Yuk, the latter had reopened the question as to what would be the\n\nPage 69",
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        "content_text": "18. This surely is not \"ample evidence\" & Pang Yuk's \"interviews\" and discussions with myself of questions then engaging the serious attention of the Vice Roy and the Consul\". On the contrary it seems more probable that as Colonel Pang Yuk had never really attempted the negotiations attributed to him by the Vice Roy & the Consul, and as nevertheless, on the Consul's suggestion did interfere and recommend Pang Yuk to discontinue his previous action, the latter must have supposed that he was thereby forbidden to have intercourse even of any ordinary kind with the Hongkong Authorities.\n\n19. This appears more clearly by reference to the Mems: of Mr Mayer who gives a still more circumstantial account than the Consul of Pang Yuk's conversations and negotiations with myself - though they were all imaginary - and of the Vice Roy's disapproval of such conduct.",
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        "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]",
        "content_text": "105\n\nway, directly or indirectly, interfered to stop such communication, for\n\nalways considered that in matters of police the authorities\n\n071\n\nthe\n\nborder's had best be left to make such amicable arrangements\n\nas seemed convenient to promote the\n\nends of Justice.\n\nAs regards Colonel Peng,\n\nwhen the Viceroy first contemplated the establishment of Opium lax stations in the vicinity of the lodging of Hong Kong, I considered it my duty to see they were not placed\n\nin such positions as would lead to disputes with the Colonial Government and was in close and anxious communication with His Excellency on the subject; in fact, the places on which they were to be created were settled between us,\n\nin this case.\n\nIt was necessary as I knew the establishment of these stations would produce an explosion of wrath from the Governor,\n\nand which subsequently took place whilst the negotiation was proceeding.\n\nI heard that Colonel Peng was at Hong Kong making himself busy with the matter, having called upon and had interviews with the Governor, and put himself forward as empowered to fix upon the spots for the stations; in fact, he was doing a little negotiation on his own part, for me.\n\n077",
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        "content_text": "b.\n\nJ\n\n1\n\n106\n\nand in a matter which was a subject of anxious consideration between the Viceroy and myself.\n\nOn hearing this, I asked the Viceroy whether he had authorized Tuck to communicate with the Governor of Hong Kong. His Excellency appeared to be much surprised and said \"certainly not\".\n\nI then told the Viceroy what I had heard, and he said he would at once stop Colonel Peng Tuck's interference. And I presume he did so, and hence the complaint of the Governor of Longthong.\n\nMr. Cecil Smith's memorandum affords ample evidence that the reports which reached me of Colonel Peng's doings were correct. Further than that, he states that some five years since, an official had been sent to him to find out the feeling of the Colonial Government regarding the establishment of these revenue stations and the appointment of Chinese Consul at Ping. Ink reopened these questions, and if he had been left alone, there would have been no cordon stations round the Island.\n\nThe Viceroy of Ava does not appear to be anxious to do anything unfriendly toward the Colonial Government, and yet at this time, I was debating with the Viceroy...",
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        "content_text": "Memorandum.\n\n112\n\nWith reference to the position of Peng Yu (Tang Yok), at present acting Commandant of the Military division of Fa-ping, the head quarters of which are at Howloong, opposite to Hong Kong, - his communications with the Colony, and his connection with the Opium farm in part the subject of Mr Registrar General Smith's Memorandum of December 16th, I have to state that Colonel Ping - as he is usually called - originally came into favourable notice as a useful officer for gunboat...",
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        "content_text": "117\n\nvery. and to tell him, that grounds for serious complaint had been given by the above detailed measures, and that the office opened in Hong Kong, in direct contravention of the understanding between Her Majesty's Consul and himself, must be immediately closed and all connected with it dismissed, The Viceroy, who had, apparently, been but partially informed of this action on the part of his subordinates, at once assented to this, and the agency in Hong Kong was closed within 48 hours after the news of its establishment reached Canton. The man (Webster) was also dismissed, the Viceroy (who had known nothing of this individual's engagement)... foreseeing plainly that the employment of a European searcher was likely to give rise to objections on the part of the Colonial government.\n\nThe whole of this scheme - the virtually collecting of the opium tax within the limits of Hong Kong - originated, there is reason to believe, either in connection with Colonel Feng, and it was subsequently spoken of in connection with the salute at Macao, that Br... on the occasion of making me a visit one day, and",
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        "content_text": "of the influence which he has hoped to acquire with the Colonial Authorities. This, at least, is the opinion I have held for some time past with reference to his proceedings. The present Viceroy appears to understand his true character thoroughly, and a short time ago, on some mention of Colonel Feng taking place in connection with a medal he had proposed conferring upon Lieutenant Commander Lloyd R. N., after a cruise in the Gulf of Tonquin, His Excellency said of him - \"He is too serviceable not to be employed, but very dangerous withal. I keep a sharp eye upon him, however.\" There can be no doubt that in activity and energy Colonel Feng compares very favourably with the majority of Chinese Military Mandarins. His early years were passed at sea - among pirates, the Viceroy has been drily observed - and he engaged in trade in Siam, so that his antecedents have disposed him to a more bustling, enterprising course of life than is usually preferred by the class to which he now belongs.\n\n(Signed) W. F. Mayers.\n\nCanton, December 27th, 1869.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nPage 120\nPage 121",
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        "document_key": "CO129-147 - Public Offices - 1870",
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        "content_text": "438\n\nof stations round the Island as the Viceroy was anxious to do nothing unfriendly towards the Colonial Government, and yet just at this time I was debating with the Viceroy the points proposed placing them, and Assented in several instances in having them removed as being too close to the Colony.\n\nOne thing in Mr Smith's Memorandum surprises me: he states he communicated to Colonel Peng Yuk the receipt of a despatch from the Chief Authority in England notifying to the Colonial Government that there was no objection to a direct communication between Kowloong and Hong Kong should the necessities of the case require it. Peng Yuk expressed his pleasure at this, and requested a translation of the Despatch for his protection.\n\nI am not aware whether this was done, but in all probability it was given him.\n\nNow it appears to me, that proceeding of this nature is highly objectionable and certainly goes beyond the interchange of friendly relations which the Governor now lays such stress. It is opening up a field for negotiations in matters of public polity which might lead",
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        "content_text": "## 444\n\nDuplicate...\n\n1 in C. J. O'Ne 128.\n\nCanton\n\nDecember, 1869\n\n**Memorandum**\n\nD. B. Robertson, Esq., C.B.\nH.B.M.'s Consul\n\nColonel Pin York of Ken Com.\n\n**Observations on - Proceedings of -**\n\nEnclosure in Governor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell's Despatch No. 845 of 5... 1870\n\nDuplicate.\n\n**Memorandums:**\n\nWith reference to the position of King Gee (Pang Ti/Fang Tok), at present acting Kommandant of the Writing... of Ia ping, the head quarters division of which are at Phong Trong/Howlving, opposite to his communications with the Colony, and his connection with Opium-tax Stations, which form part of the subject of the Registrar General Smith's Memorandum.\n\nDecember 16th, I have to state that Colonel Song originally came into favourable notice. He is usually called a useful officer for gunboat expeditions during 1865 and 1866.",
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        "content_text": "449 \n\nThe Viceroy, who had apparently been but partially informed of this action, assented to this, and the Agency in Hong Kong was closed within 118 hours after the news of its establishment reached Canton. Webster was also dismissed, the Viceroy (who had known nothing of this individual's engagement) foreseeing plainly that the employment of a European stonemason was likely to give rise to objections on the part of the Colonial government. The whole of this scheme of virtually collecting the Opium taxes within the limits of Hong Kong originated, there was subsequently reason to believe, with Colonel Peng, and it was either in connection with this affair or that of the salute at Macao, that I spoke to him on the occasion of his paying a visit one day, and told him plainly that unless he abstained from meddling with Hong Kong he would get himself into serious trouble. I have seen him since, as he has sedulously kept out of my way, but through a variety of sources I know that he is continually in the Colony and in constant communication with the...",
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        "content_text": "Colonel Peng Yii has been ordered to take command of the Steamers and native Gunboats acting as Revenue Cruisers. The rules for the cooperation of the Lekin and Customs Stations, in the collection of Lekin and duty, and for the prevention of smuggling ought to be duly settled and issued.\n\nThey have now been arranged by the Governor General and Hop Wan and are twelve in number. Let them be at once communicated to the Deputies at the Customs Stations for their guidance. If any change or addition is requisite, the Deputies are to consult together, report their views and await further orders.\n\n1. The Officials in charge of the Opium duty and Lekin Stations are to act together in a conciliatory spirit. They must not injure the public service by obstinately adhering each to his own views. They must be fair and...\n\n2. Both offices are to cooperate in seizing Smuggled Opium - the Lekin Office is to have the assistance of the Customs Cruisers and the Customs of the Military attached to the Lekin Office. Mutual help will benefit both. The Accounts of their daily receipts are to be...\n\nPage 432\n\n \n\nhas been replaced with \n...\n\nto \nColonel Peng Yii has been ordered to take command of the Steamers and native Gunboats acting as Revenue Cruisers. The rules for the cooperation of the Lekin and Customs Stations, in the collection of Lekin and duty, and for the prevention of smuggling ought to be duly settled and issued.\n\nThey have now been arranged by the Governor General and Hop Wan and are twelve in number. Let them be at once communicated to the Deputies at the Customs Stations for their guidance. If any change or addition is requisite, the Deputies are to consult together, report their views and await further orders.\n\n1. The Officials in charge of the Opium duty and Lekin Stations are to act together in a conciliatory spirit. They must not injure the public service by obstinately adhering each to his own views. They must be fair and ...\n\n2. Both offices are to cooperate in seizing Smuggled Opium - the Lekin Office is to have the assistance of the Customs Cruisers and the Customs of the Military attached to the Lekin Office. Mutual help will benefit both. The Accounts of their daily receipts are to be...\n\nThe final answer is: \nColonel Peng Yii has been ordered to take command of the Steamers and native Gunboats acting as Revenue Cruisers. The rules for the cooperation of the Lekin and Customs Stations, in the collection of Lekin and duty, and for the prevention of smuggling ought to be duly settled and issued.\n\nThey have now been arranged by the Governor General and Hop Wan and are twelve in number. Let them be at once communicated to the Deputies at the Customs Stations for their guidance. If any change or addition is requisite, the Deputies are to consult together, report their views and await further orders.\n\n1. The Officials in charge of the Opium duty and Lekin Stations are to act together in a conciliatory spirit. They must not injure the public service by obstinately adhering each to his own views. They must be fair and ...\n\n2. Both offices are to cooperate in seizing Smuggled Opium - the Lekin Office is to have the assistance of the Customs Cruisers and the Customs of the Military attached to the Lekin Office. Mutual help will benefit both. The Accounts of their daily receipts are to be...\n\n432 \nhas been kept as is, assuming it is a page number. The corrected text is presented in HTML format as requested.",
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        "content_text": "26\n\n27\n\narrival at the port of departure in the case of reports and at the port of arrival in the case of imports - But said the Hopkwo \"I should lose by such arrangement as the sum of the two duties in the case of many articles would not: Wheat I am still led to levy\" and he instanced the case of white sugar.\n\n20. The Grain Commissioner is said to have asked the Hong Kong Merchants if they could suggest any plan - and they said \"the Macao plan would answer their purpose as they would have their goods conveyed between Hong Kong and Macao by sampan and make the latter the port of report to and export from places on the coast of China, and thus merely pay the low 'Rech shue daie'.\"\n\nAs arranged?\n\nd. This proposed wavering took the Hoi Hwan by surprise. Colonel Pang was deputed to bring them to reason \"_ Colonel Pang has not succeeded for as stated in page 8 it appears that the piece goods trade with the West Coast has migrated to Macao somewhat spoils the inferences which one has in figuring the actors in that little drama - one is obliged to leave out the two principal ones the Hopkwo and...",
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        "content_text": "Alongthing... \n\nFormosan trade from Lokings tortingsing \n\n* Vici veren - Evidence of Choy. sting min - nothing but lekin tax on Camphor lea on Formsan exports.\n\nAg Man Kwan 11015 76 tales the principal chinese hongs were The owners 467 of at Songrong invited by Mandarin Fang Yuk- the commandant as Kowloon to send the representatives to Canton to discuss Blockade question. The hongs marginally enumerated sent representatives. They The yüne Far Song Sang yor saw Colonel Iro at private house at Canton Enclrence W9.\n\nHop Hing 4 Man Juke sing F and be suggested that L Sak mee Hop Hee then should petition Luck me song the Hor sin-conj to 4 + 爷 Thin Hai keing Hong establish a bustion Henne M Es tai 4 Hong in Hongkong pust 4 Ee Jung Hong the same the way ho 4 Kwan sting Cheung Sony Macao merchante had Whaw bheung. Wing Ohran Fun 450 Juk Man being Zrine on Jai Wo Dai Hong\n\n# 4 Them Den hung tone hung stong petitioned for a custom house at attress_they refused to do only saw They 00. They Pang yake. the did not see Veceroy",
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        "content_text": "received not only in England, but in India, and in the British colonies; wherever, in fact, I have met Englishmen, I have met nothing but courtesy, hospitality, and good will to myself and my country. As you have said, I am about to leave the British and pass into the Chinese Empire. I have met no gentlemen so kind as the gentlemen of England. For this reception, more especially for the reception in Hongkong, I am grateful, as I know my friends and countrymen at home are grateful for the kindness that I have been honoured with during the last two years. I do not know that I can say anything better, nor anything which is nearer to my heart, now that I am leaving the British Empire, than to ask you all to unite in this sentiment: The perpetual friendship and alliance of the two great English-speaking nations of the world-England and America.\"\n\nThe General's toast was drunk by all the guests upstanding. Soon after, the ladies retired to the large drawing room, and at ten o'clock General Grant, the Governor, and the Aide-de-Camp, with Mrs Grant and Mrs Hennessy, proceeded to the vestibule, where every person on arrival was received and presented to the General by the Governor. These presentations lasted for more than an hour.\n\nThe guests on arriving were met in the hall by the Governor, and were presented to His Excellency by Major Palmer, A.D.C.; the Governor presented his guests to General Grant; Mr C. V. Creagh presented them to Mrs Hennessy, by whom they were introduced to Mrs Grant.\n\n## The Reception\n\nThe Government House grounds were brilliantly illuminated. On both sides of the numerous walks, slight bamboo frames had been erected, and cords, invisible to the eye unless carefully looked for, ran from one to the other all the way round, one cord three feet, another six, from the ground. Every four feet or so a Chinese lantern was suspended from the cords, these being fixed alternatingly on the high and low line. The effect was brilliant and beautiful and striking in the extreme, and the large company seemed greatly to prefer roaming about amid those thousand lights to staying in the Reception rooms. The Governor and Mrs Hennessy walked round frequently amid their numerous guests, His Excellency with Mrs Grant, and General Grant with Mrs Hennessy. The American Star, a large design in gas, on the north side of Government House, was greatly admired. The fairy-like beauty of the scene could scarcely have been enhanced. The lovely dresses of the ladies, the bright and varied uniforms of the officers of different nationalities present, the delightful music of the band, the merry laughter coming from various groups in different portions of the grounds, altogether made up a pleasing, lively and beautiful scene. It was not till nearly midnight that the company began to thin, and by a few minutes after that hour the guests had departed, the visitors were indoors, the lamps \"burnt low, and silence and darkness again assumed their sway. The gathering was in every way most successful, and every one seemed heartily to enter into the spirit of the occasion, and honour the General they had been invited to meet.\n\nThe following programme was performed by the band of Her Majesty's 37th Regt. (Inniskillings) under the direction of Herr Werner, during the course of the evening:\n| No. | Piece | Composer |\n|----|-------|----------|\n| 1  | Overture, Emma di Rosborgo | Meyerbeer |\n| 2  | Quadrille, American | Julien    |\n| 3  | Selection, Beatrice di Tenda | Bellini   |\n| 4  | Valse, London Society | Coote     |\n| 5  | Selection, Irish Airs | Godfrey   |\n| 6  | Polka, Lieb und Treu | Welcker   |\n\nThe following officials and others were invited to the Reception:\n\nBishop Burdon, Bishop Raimondi, the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Hon. W. Keswick, Hon. O. B. Plunket, the Acting Puisne Judge, the Captain Superintendent of Police, the Postmaster-General, the Acting Harbour-Master, the Colonial Chaplain, the Colonial Surgeon, the Inspector of Schools, the Acting Registrar General, the Hon. K. O. Fuller, United States Secretary,\n\nMessrs Barretto, Corrales, Denny, J. M. Forbes, Levysohn, Mencarini, Colonel Moaby, Plichos, Reiners, Scherzer, and Baron von Soden, of the Consular Services.\n\nStaff Com. Heather, R.N., and officers R. N. Yard.\n\nThe officers H.M.S. Victor Emanuel Comr. Cochrane and officers H.M.S. Lily. Comr. McNeile and officers H.M.S. Fly. Lieut.-Com. Grey and officers H.M.S. Mosquito.\n\nLieut.-Comr. Carey and officers H.M.S. Moorhen.\n\nPerkins and officers U.S.S. ... \nComr. Ashuelot.\n\nCapt. von Nostitz and officers H.I.G.M.S. Freya.\n\nCapt. Schering and officers H.I.G.M.S. Luise.\n\nCapt. Kasamos and officers H.I.J.M.S. Nisain.\n\nComr. von Schuckmann and officers H.I.G.M.S. Cyclop.\n\nCapt. Cocker and officers H.I.O.M.S. Feinco.\n\nDeputy-Inspector-Gen. Wells and officers R. N. Hospital.\n\nCapt. C. H. Palmer, H.I.C.M.S. Peng-chou-hai.\n\nCapt. St. Clair, Brigade Major. Capt. Barton, A.A.M.S.\n\nLieut.-Col. Hall and officers R.A.\n\nCol Stuart and officers R.E.\n\nLieut. Col. Geddes and officers 27th Inniskillings.\n\nLieut. Col. Shervinton and officers Commissariat Dept.\n\nComy.-Gen. Moore and officers Ordnance Store Dept.\n\nCapt. Muskett and officers Army Pay Dept.\n\nSurgeon Major Hungerford and officers Army Medical Dept.\n\nRev. J. Houderson, Acting Military Chaplain.\n\nMr J. Fleming, R. E. Dept.\n\n## Ladies Invited\n\nMrs. Adams, \n\" Arnhold, \n\" Anton, \n\" Armstrong, \n\" Burnie, \n\" Bird, \n\" Ayres, \n\" Ball, \n\" Bain, \n(G. Murray) Mrs Burdon, \n\" Barff, \n\" Belilios, \n\" Beyer, \n\" Bowdler, \n\" Caldwell, \nMiss Caldwell, \nMrs. Clouth, \n\" Coughtrie, \n\" Dunn, \n\" Deane, \n\" Edge, \n\" Eitel, \n\" Falconer, A. \n\" Fleming \nMrs Grobien, \n\" Brereton, \n\" Bright S. (Rochdale) \n\" Coxon, \n\" Crawford, \n\" Crombie, \nd'Almada e Castro \n\" Dickie, \n\" Eastlake, \n\" Ede \n\" Forbes, W. B \n\" Froncio, \nMrs Geddes, \n\" Hall, \n\" Hauschild, \nMiss Hall, \n\" Hazeland, \nMrs. Hancock, \n\" Heaton, \n\" Hanlon, \n\" Holmes, G. \n\" Harton, \n\" Inglis, \n\" Jackson, \nMiss Johnston, \n\" Johnson, \nMrs. Judah, \n\" Kier, \n\" Kerr, \n\" Keswick, \n\" Kidd, \n\" Lai-Kam, \n\" Lister, \n\" McEuen, J. P. \n\" Metcalfe, \n\" Macfarlane, \n\" Marsh, \n\" May, A. J, \n\" Moore, J. \n\" McEwen, A. P. \n\" Murray, \n\" Noate, \n\" Newton,",
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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": "172 \n\nprivately to express his anxiety that these ferocious criminals should not be allowed to escape, and Corporal Pang has called upon me this morning to request on behalf of the Viceroy that the preliminary hearing be held and the examination of the criminals surrendered with as little delay as possible. Sergeant Tang went down under the direction of the Viceroy on Saturday (with a semi-official note from this office to the Captain Superintendent) in order that he might be of service in securing the arrest of all the prisoners.\n\nIn the early...\n\nI have telegraphed to H. M. ...\n\n(signed) W. F. Hance, \nActing Consul.\n\nTranslation \nN. 76. \nViceroy to H. M. Consul. \n25th May, 1879. \nRendition of 13 Murderers \n\nOn the 24th of May the Viceroy received a Petition from Tang-On-Pang, Acting Colonel of Canton, to the effect that in connection with the case where Hung-Ch'in-pat and other injured parties residing in the Pinesi magistracy had lodged accusations of murder, abduction, and robbery with violence against Hung-hai-lin and a number of other ferocious scoundrels, repeated instructions had been received from the Viceroy to have the Criminals brought to justice within a reasonable time; that the Colonel had...",
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        "content_text": "# BANQUET AND RECEPTION AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE\n\nHis Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy entertained the following guests at dinner in the evening at Government House:- Professor Nordenskiold, Captain Palander, R.S.N. Vega, His Excellency Major-General Donovan and Mrs. Donovan, Chief Justice Sir John Smale and Lady Smale, Commodore Smith, R.N., Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. Pollock, Hon. J. Russell, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. M. S. Tonnochy, Colonel and Mrs. Geddes (27th Inniskillings), Surgeon-Major Max Grant, Mr. and Mrs. Taro Ando, Mr. F. D. Sassoon, Lieut. Bove (Vega), Dr. Almquist (Vega), Lieut. Nordquist (Vega), Lieut. Hovgaard (Vega), Dr. Stuxberg (Vega), Lieut. Drummond, A.D.C. to the General, and Mr. C. V. Creagh, Acting A.D.C. to the Governor.\n\nThe following, to whom invitations had been sent, were unable to attend -- Right Rev. Bishop and Mrs. Burdon, Right Rev. Bishop Raimondi, Hon. W. Keswick, and Col., Mrs., and Miss Hall. The band of the 27th Regiment was in attendance and played the following selection, under the direction of Herr Werner, bandmaster: Overture... \"Fra Diavolo\" Auber, Polka \"O Katchke\" Stasey, \"Swedish Air\" Anon., Selection \"Beatrice di Tenda\" Bellini, Valse \"First Roses\" Werner, Jun., Reminiscences of Ireland... Godfrey.\n\nAt the close of the dinner His Excellency the Governor proposed the toast of \"The Queen,\" which was most loyally received, the band playing the National Anthem.\n\nImmediately afterwards His Excellency rose and said- Professor Nordenskiöld: In the name of my Sovereign, Queen Victoria, I have the honour to welcome you and your companions to Her Majesty's dominions.\n\nSix centuries ago Marco Polo came from Europe to China. Two centuries later, the Portuguese crossed the Indian Ocean, entered these seas, and landed within a few miles of this Island, and subsequently the direct voyage across the Pacific was undertaken. The nineteenth century can now add to the roll of its triumphs the fourth and final route from Europe to Asia. It is our privilege to-night to behold the illustrious man who has done this-who left Europe fifteen months ago and is received by us after sailing through the Arctic Seas and accomplishing the North East passage. No generation to come can witness the completion of a voyage rivalling this. We be bold as it were in this remote outpost of Europe the writing of the last words in the last chapter of heroic maritime discovery.\n\nI congratulate the Sovereign of Sweden on the gallantry and success of His Majesty's sailors, led by Captain Palander and the officers of the Vega; I congratulate that great republic - the World of Science - on the achievement of one of her choicest citizens, Professor Nordenskiöld. Ladies and gentlemen, let us drink his health and that of his companions.\n\nHis Excellency's toast was received with enthusiasm, and the band played the Swedish National Air.\n\nProfessor Nordenskiold then rose and replied in Swedish. He has favoured us with the following translation: I have to thank your Excellency, on behalf of my comrades and myself, for the kind words you have used in proposing our healths, and the ladies and gentlemen present for the kind manner in which they have received the toast. Already to-day, in another place, I have had to thank the Inhabitants of Hongkong for the handsome way in which the Swedish expedition has been received in this Colony, and I then stated our visit here would be one of the pleasantest remembrances of the Vega's voyage. To your Excellency's guests on the present occasion I beg to repeat the same thing, but especially I have to thank your Excellency for the munificent hospitality you have extended to myself and Captain Palander at Government House, where we have been guests during our stay here. I now beg to propose the health of His Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy.\n\nThis toast was duly honoured.\n\n## Reception\n\nHis Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Hennessy held an \"at home\" and a brilliant and numerously attended reception after dinner, in honour of their distinguished guests. The following received invitations:\n\n### Officials and Military Officers\n\n| Name | Title/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hon. C. B. Plunket | Acting Puisne Judge |\n| Captain Superintendent of Police |  |\n| Postmaster-General |  |\n| Harbour Master |  |\n| Colonial Surgeon |  |\n| Inspector of Schools |  |\n| Acting Registrar-General |  |\n| Staff Commander Heather, R.N. | and officers R.N. Yard |\n| Lieut.-Commander Annesley | and officers of H.M.S. Vigilant |\n| Lieut.-Commander M. L. Bridger | and officers H.M.S. Sheldrake |\n| Commander A. L. Douglas | and officers H.M.S. Egeria |\n| Lieut.-Commander W. Nowell | and officers H.M.S. Foxhound |\n| Don. F. Alarcon | and officers of H.C.M.S. Vencedora |\n| Deputy-Inspector-General Breen | and officers Royal Naval Hospital |\n| Captain Palmer | H.I.C.M.S. Peng Chan Hai |\n| Captain St. Clair | Brigade Major |\n| Captain Barton | A.M.S. |\n| Colonel Stuart | and officers R.A. |\n| Officers | 27th Inniskillings |\n| Lieut.-Colonel Shervinton | and officers Commissariat Department |\n| Commissary-General Moore | and officers Ordnance Store Department |\n| Captain Muskett | and officers Army Pay Department |\n| Deputy-Surgeon General Mackinnon | and officers Army Medical Department |\n| Rev. J. Henderson | Acting Military Chaplain |\n| Mr. J. Fleming | P.W.D. |\n\n### Ladies and Gentlemen\n\nMesdames Armstrong, Anton, Ayres, Arnhold, Murray Bain, Ball, Barff, Belilios, Beyer, Bowdler, Burnie, Bird, Brereton, Breen, Caldwell, Clouth, Coughtrie, Coxon, Crawford, Dunn, Deave, D'Almada & Castro, Edge, Eitel, Eastlacke, Ede, Fleming, Ford, Grobien, A. Hancock, Hanlon, Hauschild, Hazeland, Heaton, G. Holmes, Hurton, Jackson, Johnson, Kier, Kerr, Lister, A. P. McEwan, J. P. McEuen, A. J. May, Murray, Musso, Neate, Newton, Plunket, Piercy, J. H. dos Remedios, Robinson, Ridgway, Rogers, Romano, J. A. dos Remedios, St. Clair, E. Sharp, G. Sharp, Squier, Stephens, Sangster, Seth, G. L. Toudin, Thevenin, Thomsett, Vaucher, Vägel, Vernon, Wilcox, Wilson, Wharry, Windram, M. Young.\n\nMisses Caldwell, Johnston, Rogers, Robinson, Rowe, Shervinton, Thomsett, Wells, Walker.\n\nMessrs. E. Barghignoli, Dr. Chalmers, E. Davys, J. C. Edge, Dr. Eitel, F. B. Heroo, R. Lechler, B. Lemonnier, E. Klitske, B. Vigano, Doctors Eastlacke, Von der Horck, Lochhead, O'Brien, Clouth, Rogers, Wharry, Gomes, Young.\n\nMessrs. E. Alford, A. F. Alves, P. M. Alves, J. M. S. Alves, E. J. H. d'Aquino, F. H. Arjanee, J. M. Armstrong, J. R. Anton, W. M. B. Arthur, S. Ashton, H. Arnold, J. Arnhold, J. L. do S. Aivoa, J. Abraham, G. M. Bain, J. D. Ball, Barff, F. W. Barff, Battles, Beart, Belilios, Boris, Beyer, Blackwell, Blogg, Bottomley, Bowdler, Burnie, J. A. Barretto, Blanchard, von Bobers, Botelho, Boyd, Braddon, Bird, Brereton, Brooke, Ban Hap, W. A. Caldwell, Chastel, C. P. Chater, Cheyne, Cohen, Cope, Coughtrie, J. H. Cox, Coxon, Crawford, Cottell, A. L. Carvalho, J. A. de Carvalho, Chapuis, G. C. Cox, Corrales, Chamberlain, G. de Champeaux, Cuff, Chan Afook, Ching Ayu, Chan Soy Sang.\n\nPage 529",
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        "content_text": "539\n\naccordingly, addressed repeated communications to Mr Anstey, The British Consul at the time requesting him to monish the Governor of Hong Kong to hand over the criminals, and at the same time instructed Li Ping-tai, Second Captain, deputed to Hong Kong to procure the rendition.\n\nSubsequently, a communication was received from Acting Consul Hennessy stating that the Governor of Hong Kong was in communication with the British Minister, Sir Thomas Wade, on the subject, while a report from Li Ping-tai, which was forwarded through Colonel Feng, the Taotai of ..., was to the effect that the feeling against ... was strong.\n\nIn reply, stating that a telegram had been received from His Excellency Kuo, Chinese Minister in England, to the effect that the British Foreign Office had consented to send telegraphic instructions to the Governor of Hong Kong, directing him to hand over the criminals in question.\n\nAgain,",
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        "content_text": "296\n\nH\n\ncœtradition, at the same time sending a Mai Yuan to the Colony to take charge of the prisoners. Later on Dr. Nance, then H. M. Consul, informed by Despatch that the Governor of Hong Kong had, after the prisoners had been brought up for trial, released them. I further requested B. Hance, then H. M. Consul, to convey to the Governor of Hong Kong my desire that the men should be arrested and held in close custody, and handed over.\n\nThe Acting Colonel of the Tai Pang Regiment, Kai Vien-pin now reports to me that he has learnt that the above criminals, Yeung Ming hong and others, are now hiding in Hongkong, and he forwards a list of the false names and surnames under which they are passing in the Colony, and begs that they may be brought before the Court for trial; it is my duty therefore to despatch an officer to go and receive them into his custody. I have accordingly deputed the Acting Colonel of the Tai Pang Regiment to proceed to Hong Kong, there to take charge of the said criminals Yeung Hing hong and others, and convey them in custody to Canton, to be forwarded to my Yamun by yourself, so that I may be enabled to give orders that they be placed on their trial.\n\nI have the honor to express my hope that you will hand to the officer, deputed,",
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        "content_text": "311\n\nalready made for the arrest and extradition of her person,\n\nwas made\n\nby Sai Chan-pin, the Acting Colonel of the Cai Pang Regiment, stating that persons implicated in the case, namely Tung Sing-Wing, Quing Ii-té, and this,\n\nhad already\n\na communication should be sent to you to move His Excellency the Governor of Trong long to give orders for the arrest and extradition of the prisoners\n\nI now find that in one Despatches to you on this subject has been made in the name of one criminal, The characteristics of Yeung 2. sing escaped at the same time. Accordingly I requested Si csé in writing for Yeung",
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        "content_text": "Stewarts Reply, and the speeches of \n\nDr Bokai, of the Chief \n\nof the Chief Justice, and \n\nof.) \n\nof Mr. Buckeley Johnson, will be \n\nfound to contain interesting \n\nmatter. \n\nI have the honour to be \n\nMy Lord, \n\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient \n\nHumble Servant, \n\n5. Mowen \n\nPRESENTATION OF THE STEWART SCHOLARSHIP AT THE CENTRAL SCHOOL. \n\nAn interesting gathering took place at the Central School on Saturday, when the old Chinese scholars met together to present an address to the Hon. F. Stewart, LL.D., the former Head Master, and to present to the school a scholarship to be called, in his honour, the \"Stewart Scholarship.\" His Excellency the Governor presided, and a large number of guests were present, who were subsequently entertained at luncheon, when covers were laid for the following:-His Excellency the Governor, Sir George Bowen, G.C.M.G., Major General Sargent, C.B., Sir George Phillippo, the Hon. W. H. Marsh, C.M.G., Hon. F. Stewart, Hon. A. Lister, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. F. Bulkeley Johnson, Hon. T. Jackson, Hon. F. D. Sassoon, Hon. Wong Shing; Mr. Justice Russell; Lieut.-Colonel Crawford, R.A., Lieut. Col. Barton; Major Lloyd, R.E., Captain Thomsett, R.N., Lieuts. Vyvyan and Portor, A.D.C.'s.; Dr. Eitel, Chalmers, Young, and Ho Kai; Messrs. Wei Yuk, Luk Sau-tin, Cheung Luk-ü, Ip Piong-kwan, Fang Shui, Chan Un-fai, Cheung Kut, Un Man Choy, A. Molver, J. B. Coughtrie, Chung Shing-wong, R. C. Wilcox, J. Thurbura, J. J. Francis, J. H. Stewart-Lockhart, Yam Kwai-in, W. McKinney, Chan Chan-fat, G. H. Bateson Wright, A. Falconer, Lau Hip-chu, Wong Yat-sou, Ng Pui, Kain Cha-sheung, W. D. Hutchison, Chang Long-bin, G. A. Caldwell, Chau Chi, W. N. Bain, R. Maguire, E. Mackean, J. D. Hutchison, J. Bulgin, Chan Kai-ming, W. M. B. Arthur, Tan Tuan, E. J. Ackroyd, Ho Chung-shang, H. E. Wodehouse, Hu Tuk, Ho Chu, Hung Kam-sing, Sia Sin, and Woo Lia-in. \n\nDr. Ho KAI made the presentation in the following terms:-May it please your Excellency- Dr. Stewart, I have the honour and pleasure to address you on behalf of a large number of your old Chinese pupils, some of whom have met together to-day to present you with an address, and to ask your permission to the founding of a scholarship at the Government Central School in your name, as a slight token of the high esteem and affectionate regard which they, each and all, cherish towards you. Your long connection with the School, extending over a period of more than twenty years, has made you the benefactor of thousands of youths in this colony and elsewhere, many of whom owe their success in life mainly to your liberal education, wise discipline, and careful training. As Head Master you have laboured long and perseveringly for the school, sparing neither time nor pains, and it must be gratifying to you to witness the satisfactory results of your arduous labours in seeing so many of your old pupils occupying numerous important and useful positions in this colony and other parts of the world. (Applause.) It is no less gratifying to you, I am sure, to meet such a number of them this afternoon in this old school-room where we have so often met before, and to receive from them their personal assurance of their deep appreciation and grateful acknowledgment of your valuable services, rendered to them and to their fellow countrymen. I assure you it gives us all very great pleasure to meet you here to-day, and you will do us much honour and favour by accepting from us the small token of regard and affection we now present to you in the shape of a scholarship founded in your name. May you long be preserved to the service of your country, and to the welfare and prosperity of this Colony. (Applause.) I now crave leave to read the address:— \n\nHongkong, February, 1884. The Honourable FREDERICK STEWART, LL.D., late Head Master of the Government Central School, Hongkong, \n\nDEAR SIR,—There has been a general and spontaneous feeling amongst your old pupils that some means should \n\nbe devised to express in some measure their grateful and profound esteem for yourself personally, and your most valuable services and work in connection with education in this Colony during a period of more than twenty years. The scope and value of your past services can only be adequately estimated or properly appreciated by those whom you sought to benefit by your learning, high personal example, constant kindness, indefatigable energy and wise discipline, and so we, who have been among the fortunate recipients of the fruits of your labour, wish to express our grateful remembrance and appreciative recognition in a becoming manner. \n\nThis is our object in coming before you to-day, and it is our desire in the first place, to give expression to the deep feelings of personal regard and high esteem which we in common with those of your pupils who are prevented by unavoidable causes from signing the address \n\nEnclosure \n\nC O. \n\n4283 \n\nROD \n\nor being present to-day, cherish towards you, and, secondly, to ask your permission to the founding of a scholarship at the Government Central School to be called \"The Stewart Scholarship,\" the funds necessary to endowing it having been subscribed for this express purpose by late pupils and scholars, who saw in this a way to give you a slight token of the honour and affectionate remembrance in which your distinguished connection with the School as Head Master for more than twenty years is held by them. We remain, yours very faithfully, \n\nHo Kai, Chairman \n\nWei Yuk, Hon. Treasurer Wong Yat Sun, Hon. Secretary Chun Shing Kong, Hon. Secretary \n\nCOMMITTEE. \n\nChan Shun Fat Ng Pai Wei Leon Ho Chang Sang Sin Siu Choang Lak Y Leong Su Kwong Yoon Mun Choy Chan Kai Ming Cheang Yu Koot \n\nLak Hing Nam Kom Cha Seung \n\nIru Yow \n\nHo Chi \n\nHa Pak \n\nChow Chu \n\nFung Shui \n\nU Lai Un Chan U Fai \n\nSUBSCRIBERS. \n\nChoy Tan Chong Tam Tsun \n\nHo Tsun Tsang Kit Fan Kan Shin Fo Chan Long Hica Wong \n\nApat Chan Achew Lo Aruck \n\nTip Ping Kwan \n\nWong Saik Chee \n\nTam I Nam Luk Tit Fo Fang You Lai Kau Lam Yat Chun Kin Wing Chan Pau \n\nKwan Chak Lam Leong A Than \n\nChoong Ho \n\nTan Kwan Un Chan Ree Kwok Chik Kan \n\nHo Kun Moon \n\nHo Tsink Sin \n\nTeau Ying Koa \n\nYoung Kit Chaen \n\nChan A Sang Kwok Yang Kam \n\nChan Wing Yim \n\nChan Won Fun Trang Kum Chiu Ko Chim Yuen Ho Ha Sing \n\nLie Yne Foong Choung Shing Chan Ngui Him Chang Shan Pang Ting Ching Want Hin Chong \n\nFILE YRG \n\nNg Yaoi Wei Sung Wei Took Wei Kut \n\nSoo Kwai Sang \n\nHo Fus \n\nTang Wing Shing \n\nHung Kam Shing Hong Kam Ning Lam Su \n\nLam Ping Young Fung Chuen Chan Taung Fat Chau Pak \n\nDr. STEWART, in accepting the address, said Dr. Ho Kai and gentlemen, I thank you most heartily for this memorable token of your good will, and for the gracious terms in which you have presented it. Those \"deep feelings of personal regard and high esteem,\" to which you have given expression in this address, I most cordially reciprocate. There is no portion of my past life to which I look back with greater pleasure than the years I spent at the Central School. When I think of the support which I invariably received from the community, and the untiring efforts of my scholars to profit by the instruction they received, I feel that I should be wanting in my duty if I did not avail myself of this opportunity to convey to those who treated me with such forbearance and confidence the assurance of my sincerest gratitude. But apart altogether from the honour you have this day conferred on me personally by endowing this scholarship and calling it by my name, I desire to assure you that it would have been impossible for you to have done anything which I appreciate so much as this substantial boon which you have bestowed upon the old school. I trust that those who may hereafter be successful in winning it will do as much as you have done to uphold the credit of the school, and continue to manifest the same feelings of regard towards it and towards all who are called upon to take part in the instruction of your successors. \n\n(Applause) \n\nThe company then adjourned to luncheon in an adjoining room, and a number of toasts were afterwards drunk, \n\nHis Excellency the GOVERNOR,\" in proposing \"The Queen,\" said-Gentlemen, as you all appear to have done full justice to the ample fare placed before us by our kind Chinese hosts and I am sure you will all agree with me there could not have been a better luncheon served on any table in any part of the world-- (applause)-I say after such a luncheon it is time we should proceed to the less substantial but perhaps more intellectual part of the proceedings. When I was asked by the old scholars to preside on this occasion I gladly consented to their request, partly out of respect to them and partly because I wished to show my sympathy with the graceful and gratifying mark of honour which they are paying to-day to my distinguished friend opposite, Dr. Stewart. (Loud applause). Of course it is my first duty as chairman to propose that toast which is the first toast in every assembly of British subjects",
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        "content_text": "295\n\nCriminals in the case having been arrested should be dealt with in the regular manner by the Huang Ting Provincial Authorities.\n\nI presume that His Excellency, the Governor must also at this time be in receipt of instructions to surrender the prisoners in the similar manner. I have to press for this extradition in accordance with precedent.\n\nI have accordingly instructed Colonel Lai, of the Tai Pang Regiment, to proceed to Hong Kong to take charge of the men in question, and I would request you to prepare a despatch to be handed to the above officer, Colonel Lai, with which he may go to Hong Kong and take charge of and convey the criminals.\n\nI would also ask you to communicate with His Excellency, the Governor of Hong Kong, so that orders may be given on the arrival of Colonel Lai, that...",
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        "content_text": "Pwilemation, both display a cordial desire for Friendly, relativix and on caruest regard for the prerai interest,\n\ngementi for which I am deeple grateful.\n\nI have recently received a report from Admiral Fong, and a Report from Colonel Lai, the acting Commandant of the Kai Pang Brigade, informing me of the energetic political and seizure\n\nof several untanique shipments in The Colony, and I appreciate beyond measure the help taken. In acknowledging your despatch on the subject I beg you to convey to His Excellency the Governor of Shanghai my most sincere thanks.\n\nConvoluted by.\n\nI have to\n\nC.\n\n(0) S. E. Hopkins\n\n443",
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        "content_text": "to be radically changed, and the entire system of administration reorganised.\n\nSENTENCE UPON THE OFFICIALS IN THE SOUTH. On account of the war with France in Annan, the frontiers of Kuangsi have required special measures of defence. We therefore promulgated a Decree, ordering the Fu-t'ai Hsi Yen-hsi to march out of the barriers and command the garrisons for the purpose of thoroughly protecting the boundaries of the Empire. The said Fu-t'ai, however, delayed his advance, contenting himself with holding Liang Shan, and instructing the General Huang Kuei-lan, the Tao-t'ai Chao Wo and others to guard the Annanese town of Bac Ninh. When the French attacked that place, the General referred to failed to exert himself, and Bac Ninh was lost through his running away; a most deplorable fact, indeed! The evacuation of Bac Ninh was reported to Us by both Chang Shu-sheng and Pan Yen-hsi; the latter of whom himself memorialised Us to award him the severest punishment. Chang Shu-sheng, also, has petitioned Us to consider the penalty to be visited upon him without leniency. We have already issued a Secret Decree commanding Pan Ting-hsin to leave Kuangsi by the Chen Nan Barriers with a special commission to degrade Hsü Yen-hsi and Kuei-lan and Chao Wo and deprive them of office, and place them on their trial too. By this time Pan Ting-hsin must have reached Kuangsi. Let him immediately seize Hsi Yen-hsi, forward him to Peking, and hand him over to the Board of Punishment for the determination of a penalty. P'an Ting-hsin, acting in concert with Wang Tê-pang, will enquire into the causes of the defeat sustained by Huang Kuei-lan and Chao Wo, and if it be satisfactorily proved that they abandoned their post and took to flight, let a Memorial be presented to Us instantly, requesting Our permission to inflict penalty; they need not be handed over to the Board. The Captain Chiến Takuai, who has been already degraded, and who was entrusted with the Fo Lin fortress, lost it on the first onset of the French. The Colonel Pang Min-hsüan showed his cowardice by not daring to advance to the front, but stationing his battalion in the rear. These two are to be decapitated immediately in front of the army. The other officers who were defeated on the same occasion must be discovered, and their penalties must be decided according to the deserts of each. A Memorial will be presented to Us petitioning Our pleasure with regard to the execution of these punishments. Let there be no partiality or concealment! The position and responsibility of Chang Shu-sheng are such that he cannot be held exempt from blame; but as he was stationed too far away to afford assistance, We by a special Act of Grace commute his punishment, and order the Board of the Civil Office to consider his misdemeanour. Pan Ting-hsin will assume the Fu-taiship of Kuangsi; Pang Chi-yu will be Acting Fu-t'ai of Hunan; and Wang Tê-pang Acting General of the Kuangsi Forces.\n\nReverentially obey!\n\nOn account of the Franco-Annamese struggle, the border defence of Yunnan became especially important. We therefore ordered Tang Chiung to march out of the barriers with an army to afford the necessary protection. The said Governor, without obtaining any Decree from Us, returned to his province of his own accord, disregarding the affairs of the frontier; an act which caused the soldiers under him to retreat and station themselves at Shan Hai city, thus incurring the loss of their positions. The hesitating policy of Tang Chiang in every matter of importance, and his incapability to distinguish matters which require promptitude from those which are not so pressing, are deplorable indeed. A Secret Decree has been handed to Chang K'ai-sung ordering him to start immediately for Yunnan with special powers to degrade Tang Chiang and apprehend him for trial. By this time Chang K'ai-sung ought to have reached Yunnan; let him at once depute an official to bring the degraded Governor to Peking, that he may be handed over to the Board of Punishment for a severe penalty. Chang K'ai-sung is hereby appointed Governor of Yunnan, and Li Jong-ching Acting Governor of the province of Kuei-chow.\n\nReverentially obey!\n\nPage 568\n\n24",
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        "content_text": "131\n\n43\n\npaid me a formal visit at the Government House with much pomp and circumstance; being attended by a suite of some thirty Civil Mandarins, and Chinese Naval and Military Officers of various ranks; forming a most picturesque group with gorgeous robes of many colours. The plain and sober uniforms of General Sargent, Commodore Morant, and of the other principal English Officers, who surrounded me when I received the Viceroy, made a striking contrast.\n\nThe ceremony is described with sufficient accuracy in the subjoined report extracted from the local newspapers :-\n\n## RECEPTION OF THE NEW VICEROY OF CANTON BY H.E. THE GOVERNOR.\n\nHis Excellency Chang Chih-tung, the new Viceroy of the Two Kwang, arrived here yesterday morning on board the China Merchants' S. N. Co.'s steamer Kwang Lee, on his way to Canton, where he will take the reins of Government from the hands of H.E. Chang Shu-sheng. With His Excellency was a large retinue, and 329 Chinese soldiers. During Sunday a number of small Chinese gunboats arrived in this harbour to meet the new Viceroy, and the Peng Chao Ha, Anton, and two smaller cruisers, met the Kwang Lee outside the harbour, and followed her in. The Kwang Lee was also followed by the Chinese men-of-war Chen Chin, Chai Hai, and Kang Ching, the latter of which is a large corvette and brought 800 troops for Canton. The Chinese gunboats all gave the usual Chinese salute of three guns as the Kwang Lee passed them, and their yards were manned with seamen, while during the morning a dropping fire of three gun salutes was kept going until the new dignitary landed.\n\nThe Acting Colonial Secretary went on board his steamer at 10 a.m. to invite him to pay his respects to His Excellency the Governor. Accordingly, the Viceroy landed at 2.30 p.m. under the customary salutes from the Victor Emmanuel and the Shore Battery, and was received at the Murray Pier by a guard of honour of the Buffs, and by Capt. Lewis, A.D.C. He then proceeded to Government House, accompanied by a suite of about 30 officers and attendants. He was received in the hall by His Excellency the Governor, who was surrounded by Major-General Sargent, C.B.; Commodore Morant, Colonel Crawford, R.A.; Colonel Graves and Colonel Hobson (of the Buffs), and several other Naval and Military officers; and by the Acting Chief Justice.",
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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": "448 \n\nthe same subject to the right of the Governor in Council to grant personal licences to kill birds and game in particular districts for a limited period.\n\n(Sd) Edward L. O'Mathy \n\nDRAFT.\n\nNo. 344 \n\n267 \n\n15067 Hongkong.\n\n(Sd) J. G. Jr. Bowen Geng \n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Lucas 21.\nMr. Wingfield.\nMr. Bramston.\nX Mr. Meade.\nX Sir R. Herbert.\nLord Dunraven.\nMr Ashley.\nColonel Stanley.\nLord Derby.\n\n21 \n2.\n\nPall Mall 12th August 1878 \n\nRetd Grid 25 Aug 85 \n\n...farming to my dep...\n\ninst no 25. the 4 in which I conveyed to you H.M.'s gracious confirmation & allowance of Ord no. 15. 5th g 1885 entitled \"The Preservation of Wild Birds and Game Ordinance.\" I have the honour to call your attention to the enclosed copy of an article...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-222 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [7-10]",
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        "content_text": "297 \n\nHe is senior to the majority of them in age and length of service. In these circumstances I have no hesitation in recommending to the favorable consideration of His Excellency the Governor, that in addition to his personal allowance of $2410, M. Gutierrez should be paid at the same rate as all the other First Clerks, some of whom also have personal allowances. \n\n(Sigurd) I. Hall Price \nSurveyor General \n7th September, 1885. \n\nDRAFT. \n\n365 \n\nNo.83 \n`19311 Sie. G. Bowen. Geng` \nG \n\nMINUTE. \n\nMr. Lucas \nMr. Be Robert I \nMr. Wingfield. \nMr. Bramston. \n† Mr. Meade \nSir R. Herbert. \nLord Dunraven. \n# Colonel Stanley. \n\n* I think the increase should not begin till the New year. \nSalary being fixed from the 1st Jan next. \n\n`Tele Hongkong` \nJ \n10 No.85. \n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No.365, enclosing an application from M. Gutierrez, first clerk in the Public Works department, recommending an increase of pay. I assure you of his being allowed to receive the pay of his rank $1920 per annum.",
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        "content_text": "The China Mail.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1886.\n\nCRIME IN KWANTUNG. The following translation of a memorial which appeared in the Peking Gazette on the 28th March is taken from the N.-C. D. News. It will be seen that the memorialists consider that the adjoining city of Kowloon is a head centre of the Secret Societies, and that Hongkong is made a refuge of the criminal classes of Canton and neighbourhood. If the statement regarding the secret societies be true, there can be little wonder that there are so many members of them in Hongkong, nor is it wonderful that our Colony has been infested of late by so many of the criminal classes. Rather is it to be wondered at that there has been so little serious crime here. This result is no doubt due to the activity and efficiency of the Police.\n\nA joint Memorial from the Governor General and Governor at Canton, calling attention to the growing danger that exists in that province in the increase of the criminal classes, the extirpation of the most prominent members of which they propose to compass by an organised system of search.\n\nThey commence with the assertion that the bad characters who are a pest to the country may be divided into three classes: one, highwaymen or burglars; two, members of secret societies; three, fighting men. The first class rob and plunder, the second form into seditious factions, and the third commit acts of arson and murder; and all three come under the general term \"fei\" or criminal class. When the members of a secret society become numerous, they take to brigandage; when highwaymen flourish, they join in faction fights; and when faction fights continue for any length of time, the whole of the three classes above described join in, to the immense injury of the agricultural and mercantile class and the subversion of law and order. Brigandage or highway robbery is specially rampant in the littoral district of the Canton Prefecture, the riverine Districts of the Chao Ching and Shao-chou Prefectures, and the coasts of Lien-chow Fu and Ch'iung-chow Fu in Hainan.\n\nThe secret societies prevail most in Hui-chou Fu and the Kowloon Township, adjoining Hongkong, and are gradually spreading over the Kao-chou and Lien-chou Prefectures, while faction fights are specially prevalent in the three Prefectures of Hui-chou, Ch'ao-chou (Swatow), and Canton, Lien-chou and Ch'iung-chou coming next in the list. The criminal classes of Canton, Hui-chou, and Ch'ao-chou find a harbourage in Hongkong and Macao, those of Lien-chou and Ch'iung-chou taking refuge in Annam.\n\nIt should be observed that previous to the reign Tung Chih, the Swatow Prefecture bore the worst reputation for unmanageableness, arson, and internecine feuds, the country being devastated to such an extent that the commercial classes were sorely straitened. Payment of taxes was resisted, and so little was authority respected that the country was in a semi-barbarous state. In the year 1868, Jui-lin, who was then Governor-General, after reference to the Throne, deputed Fang Yao, who was acting at the time as General of the Ch'ao-chou Division, to make a raid upon the disaffected classes, and that officer, supported by a military force, made an inquisitorial tour through all the rebellious districts, disposing of the long list of arrears of criminal cases that had accumulated. In the course of this tour, he seized and executed over eleven hundred prominent criminals, to the great satisfaction of the people, and for the past ten years and more, the Ch'ao-chou Prefecture has enjoyed tranquillity. Similar expeditions were taken against local rebels or faction fighters in the Shao-chou and Canton Prefectures in 1871; in 1873 against the remnants of the great rebellion, who had established themselves in Kao-chou and Lien-chou on the borders of Kuangtung and Kuangsi, and in 1877 against the Hui-chou rebels. These expeditions had in every instance a wholesome effect, but the measures taken were not sufficiently drastic, so that on the withdrawal of the troops, secret societies were again formed, and robberies and faction fights continued to take place as usual.\n\nDuring the last few years, the question of coast defence has occupied attention to the exclusion of the interior, and in 1882 and 1884 risings occurred at Lei-po in Kao-chou Fu and Nion-shan in Hui-chou Fu respectively. In both instances, the measures adopted were not radical. Added to this, vagrant irregular soldiers who had been disbanded, pirates, salt smugglers, members of secret societies, pugnacious villagers, and aggressive clans banded together and mutually incited or assisted one another, thus increasing materially the criminal classes above categorised, with the result that murders from motives of revenge occur with increasing frequency, and fights are waged with fire and sword, scores of villages and towns becoming involved in them, and scores of cases of pillage and robbery occurring month by month. The more powerful clans tyrannise over the weaker at will, and resistance to official authority is a matter of ordinary occurrence, the evil being beyond the power of proclamation or despatch to put a stop to, or of local authorities or police to cope with. If the present opportunity be not seized, when there is a slight relaxation from the occupation of war, to make inquisitorial tours, backed by a sufficient armed force, at the discretion of the high authorities, in the course of which the good may be separated from the bad, and the power of the military arm be displayed with a view to compelling the surrender of criminals and arms, and the wholesale punishment of vice, there is every reason to apprehend endless disaster in the future. Harbourers of bad characters should also be punished with severity, while restraint should be exercised by means of Treaty provisions, which should be conned and strictly enforced, exhortation being applied at the same time.\n\nThe opinions above expressed by the Memorialists are fully shared, it may be stated, by Fêng Tzŭ-ts'ai, commander-in-chief of Kuangsi, Admiral Fang Yao, and Chêng Shao-chung, Acting Commander-in-chief (of Kuangtung), and it is now proposed to institute a thorough search through all the notoriously disaffected districts of the Canton provinces with a view to clearing them of the three classes of criminals above described. This scrutiny will be conducted in three different directions; one line will embrace the Hui-chou and Ch'ao-chou Prefectures; another the Canton Prefecture, and a third the Lien-chou Prefecture. The two Districts of Hai-fêng and Lu-fêng in the Hui-chou Prefecture, as bearing the worst reputation, will be dealt with first, and will be entrusted to the sole management of Fang-yao. The Ch'ao-chou expedition will be entrusted to Chêng Shao-chung, and the Canton Prefecture will be attended to by Chêng An-pang, Acting Colonel of the Canton regiment, acting under the Memorialists' orders.\n\nAfter explaining in considerable detail the system upon which these expeditions will work, the Memorialists conclude with a promise of a report to the Throne upon the progress that is made.\n\nBy a Rescript appended to the Decree, the proposed arrangements are sanctioned.\n\nPage 124",
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        "content_text": "I have forwarded a copy of the document to Ster Mapedy's Minister.\n\nI have... of Chal. Alabacter. Covent... elationi... Ta...\n\n(Copy.) Colonel stationed at To Thug te Viceroy 207 Ping Sii With regard... od to the prisoner Hou B Feng-hour, a member of the Triad Society, for whose arrest detectives were employed, and who was taken under a special escort to the General's temporary camp, where instructions for his trial were received.\n\nI have the honour to state that on October 28th, I received a despatch from the General, in reply to my... tart... my... named. She Ting-heni, a noted head member of the Triad Society had been arrested and forwarded to his camp for trial. Stating that the arrest had been thoroughly carried out and deserving of all praise.\n\nThe General states that he forthwith deputed Wei Quan to investigate the case. The prisoner confessed that his name was... sury...",
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        "content_text": "کچھ \n\n5\n\nproposes to do-what? Not to make them a handsome present, not to do anything pleasing to them, but to put his hand into his pocket and make himself a handsome present. The park is for our own amusement and gratification, and probably certainly not for the recreation of the whole community, but only a section of the community—the section which you expect to put their hands in their pockets and subscribe towards the rejoicings. The Government have voted the money, the land is the property of the Government, and only the Government can do the work. The only thing we can do is to urge the Government on and say that if they will be so good as to get the work done this year and pay out the moneys voted for it we will put our hands into our pockets and pay the balance it may stand in need of. I put it the thing is utterly inadequate, utterly unworthy of the community, and almost ridiculous. The park would be a useful thing, but not for the jubilee celebration of Her Majesty. If we do anything let us do something that will be a credit to ourselves. I simply moved the amendment to the second resolution with a view of eliciting the opinions of the meeting. I loyally accept the decision. We are to have a permanent institution, but let it be something worthy of the occasion. As Mr. Ryrie says, we are wealthy enough to put our hands in our pockets and establish a well-endowed charitable institution of some kind, and if we are to have a permanent institution I do urge upon you, gentlemen, that this meeting should do something worthy of the occasion and of Her Majesty. I have much pleasure in seconding the amendment moved by Dr. Ho Kai. With regard to leaving the exact nature of the institution to the decision of Her Majesty, of course something must be suggested. Nothing can be left to Her Majesty except that perhaps half a dozen schemes may be submitted to her with suggestions, and she may choose one of them as most acceptable to herself. But with the broad general principle of the amendment I do most sincerely hope you will concur—that the permanent memorial take the form of a charitable institution the nature of which shall be in accordance with the wishes of Her Majesty the Queen.\n\n€ 189.\n\nMr. R. FRASER-SMITH—Your Honour and gentlemen, although there may be some difference of opinion as to the form the permanent memorial should take, I think there cannot be two opinions as to the pliability of conscience displayed by the learned Queen's Counsel who has just taken his seat. About ten minutes ago we had him contending the proper mode of celebrating the occasion would be to subscribe to the institution in London, and now we hear him advocating a charitable institution. There is certainly a great inconsistency in this as the two things happen to be as opposite as the poles. With reference to the only sensible objection raised to the Park by Dr. Ho Kai, which was that it had already been named the Bowen Park, that does not happen to be the case. I happened to be present at the little amusing farce which took place in Happy Valley two years ago, and what took place was that the Surveyor-General said it was the unanimous opinion of the people of the colony that the park should be named the Bowen Park. But the Surveyor-General had never had the sanction of the community to make that statement; and all Sir George Bowen said was that he was very glad to hear it. It was perfectly well understood that when the park was completed it should be named the Bowen Park, but it has never been so named, and therefore the objection is the merest phantasy. With reference to what Mr. Francis says as to its not being a suitable memorial, not good enough, I think nothing more suitable could be devised. A thing that is to tend so much to the health and recreation of the community is better than a charitable institution, which can only cut one way. The objection of a few Chinese is that the Chinese will not benefit by it. Who will benefit by a charitable institution? The Europeans? Certainly not; the Chinese and the Chinese alone. (Hear, hear). But the Chinese will benefit by this park; they benefit by it now. Anyone who frequents the Race-course as much as I do will see hundreds of children playing on it now. How many more hundreds will go there when it is put in proper order! I am certainly in favour of Mr. Chater's proposal until something else of a definite nature is put before the meeting. Nothing else definite has been put before the meeting, and until something better has been put forward I will certainly support Mr. Chater's proposal. (Applause).\n\nHon. A. LISTER—May I be allowed for one moment to protest against the idea that the Government is in any way pledged to complete the Park at Wong Nei-cheong? A very singular delusion seems to run in the minds of Dr. Ho Kai and others that when a certain sum of money is written down on paper it represents so much cash. A sum of $25,000, I think, was, in a moment of enthusiasm, put down as a possible sum which might be spent on a public park; but that sum was very quickly withdrawn, and the idea of spending anything was given up. Then the modest sum of $5,000 was put down and was spent. And what did it do? It reclaimed that little corner as you go into the valley, and that was all the Colony got for $5,000. A proposal was made to spend another $5,000, but the Surveyor-General said he preferred to do the whole thing or nothing, and he declined to do any patchwork. (Applause). He declined to spend $5,000 this year and $5,000 next year. He said it would simply be making matters worse; creating mud heaps was, I think, his expression. The Government has spent $5,000 to put a little corner in order, and it may in future years, if there is any available surplus, devote a little more to the same purpose. I should say that may occur, if nothing unforeseen happens, in fifteen years, or may be twenty years. (Laughter).\n\nHon. A. P. MACEWEN—Sir, I would simply say I do not consider any scheme which has been included in the Government estimates as fit and proper for the present occasion. Mr. Fraser Smith has said that no other definite scheme has been put before us, but I may say that shortly before I came into the room this evening I received a communication from a mutual friend who asked me to propose the following. I am sorry he is not here himself. He suggests, and I to a very great extent agree with him, that subscriptions to the jubilee commemoration should be devoted to the enlargement and restoration of the City Hall, which should hereafter be called the Victoria City Hall, and that a Committee be appointed to obtain plans and estimates, the same to be submitted to the subscribers. I may perhaps state the cost would amount to something like $30,000, and there is no doubt that sum could be very easily subscribed in this colony. It would at the same time benefit the Chinese and be a great source of pleasure to many Europeans, and it is a scheme I should support.\n\nThis proposition was not seconded.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN, in putting the amendment proposed by Dr. Ho Kai, said—Considering that we have declined to consider the proposal put forward by the Prince of Wales to subscribe to the Institute for Great Britain, India, and Colonies, perhaps the next most graceful thing we could do would be to leave the disposal of such funds as we may subscribe to the decision of Her Majesty herself, and that the Committee which may be appointed should be empowered to make out a list and forward it to Her Majesty, or it might be submitted hereafter to another public meeting. However, the resolution and amendment have been proposed and seconded, and it is a question for your consideration.\n\nThe amendment was then put and lost, and Mr. Chater's resolution for the formation of the Victoria Park was carried by a large majority.\n\nMr. FRANCIS proposed the appointment of the following gentlemen as a general Committee: Major-General Cameron, Vice-Admiral Hamilton, Sir Geo. Phillippo, Commodore Morant, Colonel Storer, R.E., Colonel Ryan, R.A., the Right Rev. Bishop Burdon, Dr. Chalmers, Rev. A. Gase; the Consuls for France, Japan, United States, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Peru, Siam, and Spain; Messrs. Ackroyd, Ayres, Bell-Irving, Bottomley, Chater, Coughtrie, Crawford, Darby, Deane, Francis, Grote, Hoppius, Huntington, Inchbald, Lister, Humphreys, Li Shing, MacEwen, Mackintosh, Marty, Mehta, Mody, Poesnecker, Rano, Ross, Russell, Ryrie, Rutter, F. Stowell, Shellim, Stiebel, Thomsett, Thorburn, Walter, Whitehead, Wodehouse, Wong Shing, Von Bose; Colonel Anderson, Captain Bunbury, Major Chaytor, Messrs. Danby, Ford and Gillies, Dr. Ho Kai, Messrs. H. MacCallum, voQubae, Mitchell Innes, Orange, Price, Turner, Wai Yuk, Travers, Lockhart, Chan Kwan-i, Yeung Pun-nam, Ka In-tong, Lai Ling, Choi Chee Bee, Chan Ping, Wong She-tai, Ho Kwan Shan, Leung On, Lo Hok-pang, Kaw Hong-take, Lau Yam-tsun, Tseng Sz-kai, U Lin-nn, Lau Wai-chan, and Fung Wa-chun.\n\nHon. A. LISTER seconded, and the resolution was carried.\n\nOn the motion of the Hon. P. RYRIE a vote of thanks to the Chairman was carried by acclamation.\n\n431",
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        "content_text": "I immediately examined each case and directed the respective civil and military authorities to make careful inquiries and report.\n\nI have now received replies from Feng, Acting Colonel of Kwang-chow; Li, Colonel of Tung-kuan; as well as from Chang, and Ch'ên, acting Magistrates of the Nanhai and Panyü Districts respectively; from Wei, Magistrate of Shuntê; and from Huang, Acting Magistrate of the Hsiang-shan District.\n\nOn examination of the statements which I have received of the different crimes in which these persons have taken part, I find that those criminals are all notorious robbers who have escaped to Hongkong, for whose arrest rewards have been offered, and that their escape to Hongkong is not of recent date.\n\nThe statement in Mr. Consul Alabaster's Dispatch that the Acting Governor of Hongkong is prepared to hand over these criminals, shews clearly a praiseworthy desire to have criminals punished, and it was my duty to use all despatch in inquiring into the matter and in reporting, so that a reply might be sent, and the criminals might be arrested, punished, and prevented from reaping benefit.\n\nThose forty criminals now in Hongkong are all notorious and their crimes are of long standing and complicated.\n\nI am forwarding such particulars as I have received of their crimes to show that they ought to be dealt with. The dates and the crimes committed by these persons, as well as the names of the persons on whom these crimes have been perpetrated, are forwarded in obedience to instructions, for your consideration.\n\nI beg that you will reply to Mr. Alabaster, British Consul, so that he may comply with the request.",
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        "content_text": "as yet reached me. received A But I have\n\nreport from Colonel Was at- To Pông stating that a man\n\nnamed the Feng-hom, one of\n\nmembers of the\n\nHe head\n\nTriad Society has been found out & arrested. Whether this\n\nis\n\nHu Teng\n\nor another\n\ncannot be known until\n\nthe report of the investigation\n\nhas been called for\n\nWhich\n\nhas\n\nbeen received, &\n\nno\n\nsettlement can be effected until\n\nthe arrival of the report.\n\nI have forwarded\n\nthe facts detailed in\n\nMr.\n\nFrater's despatch to the\n\nProvincial judge\n\nMuin\n\n& directed\n\nto investigate of report\n\nupon\n\n265\n\nupon the\n\ncase,\n\nI beg to address to\n\nabove reply for your\n\ninformation.\n\nI have,\n\n(34)\n\netc.\n\nChang Chitung\n\nGov. Gen. of the Tumo Kwang",
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        "content_text": "refuge\n\nHang bong. The second Paper relates to the capture.\n\nexecution of Wo a. Fung\n\nd\n\ngreat credit is given\n\nKo those who planned his\n\narrest & seizure.\n\nIt is addressed to\n\nThe Viceroy by a Colonel in the Chinese Army who is stationed at Ta-Peng, the place mentioned in the first report, & contains the riders of the event above referred to as to\n\nthe\n\nthe manner of carrying\n\n268\n\nout the sentence of death\n\nW.A. Fung.\n\npassed upon\n\nThis paper is dated the 31st and states that the execution took place on the 28th.\n\nWhen the Viceroy of Canton wrote to Her Majesty's Consul Alabaster, a copy of which forms an enclosure in my preceding despatch, H.E. must have already received",
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        "content_text": "the enclosed extract from the \"Daily Press\" of this date containing a report of the proceedings at the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new home for women and girls which is about to be built by the Po Leung Kuk Society.\n\nAt the request of the committee of the Society, I consented to perform this pleasing duty.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient humble servant,\nWitham Robinzoy\n\nEnclosure 4. Jan 4 1896\n\nEnclosure.\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, JANUARY 20TH, 1896.\n\nTHE PO LEUNG KUK SOCIETY'S NEW HOME.\n\nLAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, His Excellency the Governor, Sir William Robinson, K.C.M.G., performed the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new home for women and girls which is being built by the Po Leung Kuk Society. Special arrangements had been made in connection with the ceremony, the complete success of which foretells a prosperous future for this worthy Society. His Excellency and suite were escorted from Government House by four mounted troopers, and throughout the entire length of the route, large crowds of people assembled on each side of the street. Punctually at the appointed time, 2.30, His Excellency arrived at the site of the new home, and he was received by a guard of police under Chief Inspector Corcoran. A very large number of ladies and gentlemen had assembled in response to the Committee's invitation, amongst those present being His Excellency Admiral Buller and Mrs. Buller, Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart and Mrs. Lockhart, Hon. W. M. Goodman and Mrs. Goodman, Hon. F. A. Cooper and Mrs. Cooper, Hon. F. R. Belilios, Hon. A. McConachie, Hon. J. J. Bell Irving, Colonel Austen, Major the Hon. E. Noel and Mrs. Noel, Hon. Commander W. C. H. Hastings, Hon. A. K. and Mrs. Travers, Hon. T. H. Whitehead, Hon. Ho Kai, Captain Stirling, A.D.C., Dr. and Mrs. Wright, Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., and Mrs. Francis, Rev. Dr. Chalmers and Mrs. Chalmers, Captain Anderson and Miss Anderson, Mrs. Milward, Mr. G. W. Playfair and Mrs. Playfair, Miss Van Buren, Mrs. Tomes, Mrs. Droeze, Mr. and Mrs. Byramjee, Mr. A. G. Romano, Mr. C. C. Platt, Mr. T. Jackson, Mr. A. B. Johnson, Mr. A. Denison, Mr. and Mrs. Mehta, Mr. C. Ford and Mrs. Ford, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Cox, and Messrs. Ho Amei, Ho Tung, Ho Fook, Li Sing, Lau Chu-san, Feng Ming San, Cheung Si Kai, Chang Tang, Wai Yuk, Kwok Chik, Sin Tak Fan, Kau Hung Tak, Tam Chuen Shu, Lan Wei Chun, Chui Chi Yuen, La Chi Ting, and many others.\n\nThe proceedings were opened by Hon. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, the President of the Committee, who said: \"Your Excellency--On behalf of the Po Leung Kuk Society, I have the honour to request you to lay the foundation stone of the new home for women and girls, and in doing so, I desire to express on behalf of the members of the Society their high appreciation of the honour which your Excellency has done them in coming here to-day to perform this ceremony.\" (Hear, Hear.)\n\nHis EXCELLENCY: \"Mr. President of the Po Leung Kuk Society, you and your committee have asked me to lay the foundation stone of the new home for women and girls which it is proposed to erect on this site. I have the greatest pleasure in acceding to your request and am glad to have my name in any way associated with the admirable institution you represent. Before completing the ceremony, however, I should like, for the information of the spectators and of the invited guests, to make a few remarks as to the origin and past success of the Society. Some seventeen years ago, the attention of the public was called by the Chief Justice to the evil practice of kidnapping which was rampant in the Colony and of selling the kidnapped women and children as if they were mere chattels. The principal Chinese residents (all honour be to them) were so impressed with the scandalous state of affairs in this respect that they memorialized the Governor, and through him, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and they asked for permission to form an association for the purpose of suppressing this terrible crime; of protecting women and girls, and of restoring those who had been kidnapped to their friends or relations. This permission was granted, and the Committee of the Tung Wa Hospital kindly placed at the disposal of the Po Leung Kuk Society a portion of their hospital for the temporary accommodation of the destitute women and girls who had been rescued or might be rescued from the terrible fate which was intended for them. I hold in my hand a return which shows that during the four years ending in 1891, no less than 2,751 persons have been dealt with by the Society, and I have in my possession another return which shows that from 1888 to the end of 1895, the large number of 5,543 persons have been rescued by this Society, the greater number of whom have been sent to their homes or handed over to their relatives. This is, indeed, a record of good work. It is one which must recommend itself to every honest and respectable resident in the Colony. I cannot myself imagine any more useful, charitable, and Christian-like work.\n\n\"It has been well said by Adelaide Procter that 'God has glory when His children bring His poor ones joy and peace.' Well, joy and peace must have been brought to many a troubled household by the restoration of girls by this Society to their own relatives and their own homes, and who dare assert that God has not been glorified thereby? And let me say here that the rules and regulations under which the Po Leung Kuk Society have so long and so successfully worked were drawn up by our eminent Q.C., Mr. Francis, whom we are all glad to see amongst us again restored to health after his serious illness. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you can easily understand that with so much work to do, it was impossible, and it is impossible, for the Po Leung Kuk Society to do that work well and effectually in the cramped and unsuitable premises lent to them so liberally by the Tung Wa Hospital Committee. I consider that the Government and the community are much indebted to the Tung Wa Hospital Committee for the charitable assistance they have for so long given to the Po Leung Kuk, and we, the Government and the community, are still further indebted to the Tung Wa Hospital Committee for handing over to this Society, for their new building, a site which was granted to the Tung Wa Committee some years ago for charitable purposes. You will wish to know how this new home is to be paid for. I will tell you. The Chinese residents have subscribed amongst themselves the handsome sum of $30,000 towards it, and the Government, recognizing the utility and value of the Po Leung Kuk Society's efforts, has added to that amount a further sum of $20,000. With that $50,000, new and suitable buildings will be erected for the purposes of this institution on the site on which we now stand. Ladies and gentlemen, I am glad to lay this stone this afternoon. You must agree with me in thinking that the past success of the Po Leung Kuk Society has been very great. It would be impossible to run such an institution on European lines or under European management. The Po Leung Kuk Society has proved itself worthy of confidence, and I ask you to concur with me in the hope I now express that its future success may be greater still, that it may be the means of minimizing, if not entirely of suppressing, this disgusting traffic, and therefore may be a permanent blessing to the present and future generations of Chinese women and girls.\"\n\nHon. Ho KAI then handed a silver trowel and a silver-mounted mallet to His Excellency, who thereupon smoothed the mortar and the stone was placed in its proper position under the supervision of Mr. Denison, the architect. After tapping the stone, His EXCELLENCY said: \"Ladies and gentlemen, I declare this stone to be well and truly laid, and I ask you now to adjourn to the Tung Wa Hospital Committee Room.\"\n\nA photograph of the group was then taken, and Hon. Ho KAI called for three cheers for His Excellency, which were heartily given.\n\nPage 57",
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        "content_text": "CCHINA FINANCES.\n\n1.6\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nCo\n\nxref.\n\n16093\n\n[August 22\n\nSECTION REO 19 AUG 17,\n\n(No. 75.) My Lord,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir C. MacDonald to the Marquess of Salisbury.—(Received August 2.)\n\n359\n\nPeking, June 14, 1897. IN continuation of my despatch No. 69 of the 3rd June last, I have the honour to inclose herewith to your Lordship copy of a despatch which I have received from Mr. E. H. Fraser, giving an account of his return journey from Wuchow to Canton in Her Majesty's ship \"Tweed.\"\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) CLAUDE M. MACDONALD.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nConsul Fraser to Sir C. MacDonald.\n\n(Separate.) Sir,\n\nCanton, May 31, 1897. IN continuation of my separate despatch of the 14th instant, I have the honour to report on my voyage in Her Majesty's ship \"Tweed\" from Wuchow to Canton.\n\nHaving surveyed the Wuchow reach, we left on the morning of the 16th instant, and, after stopping three hours off Feng-Ch'uan, where we were disappointed of an expected supply of local coal, anchored at 5 P.M. at Tê-ch'ing. A walk through this city and its suburbs gave no reason for altering my opinion as to its want of trade. The district produces rice and some tea and silk, but not enough for export. Brush-wood was the only article that we noticed being loaded on boats. A certain amount of yarn and cotton is imported from Canton, Fatshan, or Sainan, but foreign piecegoods cannot compete with the native cloth. There is no Li-kin Office here, nor any local duties on merchandize. The surrounding country is very hilly, rice being grown in every valley, sweet potatoes and sorghum on the higher slopes, and mulberry on the sandy patches. In spite of this careful cultivation the people looked poor and ill-fed.\n\nNo cassia is produced or dealt in at Tê-ch'ing, the only two centres of this trade being Lo-ting and the thriving village of Luk-po, where we anchored on the evening of the 18th May amidst a great number of salutes from the gun-boats lying at this the head-quarters of Upper West River Patrol Division. Liu Pao-ch'an, a Hunan military official with the rank of Brigadier, is in charge of this division, which extends from Chao-ch'ing to the frontier of Kuangtung. He has thirty-two vessels and some 300 men under him, a force quite insufficient to keep down piracy, here very rife. Mr. Liu called on us, and was kind enough to escort us through the village, which contains some 3,000 inhabitants. The shops seemed thriving, and I noticed kerosene, Japanese matches, and printed cloth, together with some yarn and a few piecegoods, for sale therein. Occasionally jewellers' shops showed that the people could afford luxuries, as did several good temples and a well-built college. The chief export is cassia bark and twigs. The good quality of bark pays a loti of 5 mace per 100 catties, and is then free to Canton, where it is sold to foreign firms. The annual trade in bark is said to be of at least 30,000 taels value. The other products exported are silk and incense sticks. There is no import li-kin or duty of any kind.\n\nHere we\n\nChao-ch'ing Fu was reached on the afternoon of the 19th May. exchanged calls with the Taotai, Colonel, and Magistrate, who were very polite. city showed signs of former grandeur, but the only trade now is in coarse mats made by the women. The men are either hangers-on of the officials or employed on junks. Trade, so far as I could ascertain, there is none. The Magistrate declared that 20,000 taels would buy up the whole place, a state of things which he ascribed to the bad feng shui, to counteract which many pagodas have been built on the surrounding hills, where are no local duties, the Ch'ien-ch'ang and Hou-lik stations above and below levying the taxes on merchandize.\n\n[1552 -1]",
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        "content_text": "## \nThe range of the mountain terrain of the San On district presents an imposing appearance. Containing lofty peaks, the highest of which rises to 3050 feet in height.\n\nThe two flourishing towns in Lantao are Lung Chung, which contains villages, the inhabitants of which are engaged in agriculture and fishing, and Jai O, the busiest town on the island, with a population of 3000. It is a great fishing centre and, owing to the large number of fishing junks and vessels that visit it, the shopkeepers live by doing business.\n\nThe military represents the Chinese Government with two military officers, a captain stationed at Quy Chung, and the other, a sergeant, stationed at Jai O, subject to the Colonel commanding stationed at Tai Pang.\n\nThe island of Lantao contains magnificent building sites, and as it is only 5 miles from Hongkong and open to the South during the hot months, it is likely...",
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        "content_text": "15876\n\nThe whole district of San On and the islands adjacent thereto. His original headquarters were at Tai Pang (see Map VII, showing residences, and this official designation is still used in the Returns of Specials). Tai Pang was the place where Colonel [name] was stationed, and at which place he shall maintain his official quarters. The reason for his having taken up residence within the City of Kowloon was to place him in closer relations with the Colony of Hong Kong.\n\nAs the garrison now under the Command of the Colonel is maintained for the defence of the district of San On and the adjoining islands, and as most of the islands are occupied or leased by the British Government, most of the soldiers now employed under the Colonial Command will be disbanded or transferred elsewhere. Whilst the services of those men are well required, not within but outside the territory referred to in the proclamation, the residence of the Colonel Commanding and of his troops within the city of Kowloon is entirely unnecessary. But it is written that the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong must surely render it impossible to allow the extension in the very heart of the Kowloon boundary.",
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        "content_text": "# FRUITS.\n\nThe fruits are puneloes, pineapples, oranges, lungngans, pears, lichis, persimmons, pomegranates, nongp'is, and mangoes.\n\nJaims Shan\n\n## VEGETATION.\n\nThe mountain ranges and lower hills are covered with vegetation, and cultivation is to be found high up on the hill sides. In some places a crop of rice was found growing at an elevation of 1,300 feet, and on the northern slope of the Tai Mo Shan range, tea and pineapples were seen growing at an elevation of 1,500 feet. The range of Tai Mo Shan, stretching to the west towards Castle Peak Bay, is covered with good grass, which appeared to be such as would suit cattle, horses, and sheep, many thousands of which could find pasturage on the slopes of these hills. At present, cattle are used entirely for agricultural purposes. The animals seen were small and well-shaped, and generally black or red in colour. Their good condition showed the excellence of the pasturage. In the poorer and rocky soil, the hills are covered with bracken and ferns, and in the sheltered ravines with brushwood and scrub jungle. There are no extensive forests, but some of the lower hills are clothed with pine trees, and round many of the villages are found thick clumps of well-grown trees and groves of bamboo.\n\n## CULTIVATED LAND.\n\nThe valleys between the hills and the land between the bases of the hills and the sea are all under cultivation. It is impossible, in the absence of any reliable statistics, to form an accurate estimate of the extent of land under cultivation. The land registers of the district, which ought to be a reliable guide, are worse than useless, as they contain not more than half the land under cultivation. When the Chief Secretary of the Land and Revenue Department of the District was pressed on this point, he stated that the land under cultivation was about double the amount shown in the registers.\n\nThese give the land under cultivation in the San On District, on which taxes are paid, in round figures, as 420,000 mau,† or, say, 60,000 acres, the double of which would make 840,000 mau, or 120,000 acres. Taking the area to be leased as three-fifths of the whole of the district of San On, the total extent of land under cultivation in that area would amount to 504,000 mau, or 72,000 acres. The total area of the new territory is 376 square miles, or 240,640 acres. Deducting the land under cultivation, viz., 72,000 acres, from the total area, 240,640 acres, leaves a balance of 168,640 acres available as Crown land.\n\nThis calculation presumes that all the land under cultivation is owned by private individuals, but from inquiries made, there is reason to believe that a considerable portion of cultivated land is held without any proper title, and that most of, if not all, the land reclaimed from the sea has never been officially reported to the Government. Both classes of land, though fairly large in extent, have hitherto, it is understood, evaded the payment of taxes.\n\nThe land question will be a difficult one to deal with, and as it will affect practically the entire population, the members of which are particularly sensitive on the subject of their holdings, it should be taken in hand at once, and settled as quickly as possible.\n\nTo do this effectively, and in a manner that will be satisfactory to both the Government and the owners of property, it will be necessary to hold an inquiry into each title. Such inquiry will involve an accurate survey of each holding, and, as the quantity of land held by individuals is, as a rule, very small, it will require much time and labour to complete the necessary surveys.\n\nI recommend that, as soon as the territory has been taken over, a notice be issued informing the inhabitants that all claims to land must be filed in the Land Office within a period of six months, and that all lands not claimed within that period will revert to Government.\n\nWherever a claim is lodged, an inquiry into the title of the claimant should be held, and, if that is satisfactory, a survey of the land in question should be made.\n\n* For Views of Valleys, see `Album I.`, Nos. 10, 17, 20; `Album II.`, Nos. 9, 10, 12, 16, 17, 23.\n† 661 mau = 1 English acre. For convenience of calculation, 7 mau have been taken as the equivalent of 1 acre.\n\nTo facilitate a speedy settlement of the land question, a large staff of surveyors should be engaged for the first year or two.\n\n## ISLANDS.\n\nThere are thirty-three islands within the leased territory. Some of these are uninhabited, and most of them are very small and of little or no importance.\n\nThe total area of the islands is 90 square miles, and the estimated population is 3,720.\n\nThe small islands, if inhabited, contain a few fishermen only, and are not cultivated. The six chief islands are:\n\n| Island | Population |\n| --- | --- |\n| Paing Chau | 400 |\n| Ma Wan | 400 |\n| Lantao | 6,860 |\n| Ping Chau | 600 |\n| Cheung Chau | 5,000 |\n| Lamma | 460 |\n\nThe island of Lantao is about 15 miles long and 5 miles wide, being considerably larger than the island of Hong Kong, which is about 9 miles long and from 2 to 5 miles broad. Along the west coast are several towns and some cultivated land up to the base of the hills. These hills, which are really a continuation of the southern range of the mountain system of the San On district, present a most imposing appearance, and contain lofty peaks, the highest of which rises to an elevation of 3,050 feet. The two most flourishing towns in Lantao are Lung Chung, containing nine villages, the inhabitants of which are engaged in agriculture and fishing; and Tai O, the busiest town on the island, with a population of 3,000. It is a great fishing centre, and owing to the large number of fishing junks and other vessels that visit it, the shopkeepers seem to do a flourishing business. The only representatives of the Chinese Government on the island are two military officers, one, a captain, stationed at Tung Chung, the other, a lieutenant stationed at Tai O, subject to the colonel commanding stationed at Tai Pang on the mainland. The island of Lantao contains magnificent building sites, and, as it is only five miles from Hong Kong, and open to the south-west monsoon during the hot months, it is not unlikely that the residents of Hong Kong may during the summer make use of the island, the fine white sandy beaches of which afford excellent sea-bathing.\n\nThe island of Cheung Chau is a busy place, at which many of the steamers, boats, and junks plying between Hong Kong and Macao call. There is a station of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs on this island, as there is also on the island of Ma Wan, commonly known as the Kap Shui Mun Station (see `Map XI.`). The anchorage at Cheung Chau affords good shelter, especially during an easterly gale.\n\nThe island of Lamma, called by the Chinese Pok Liu, is four miles long and two wide. Near its centre, it is so narrow that it is only a quarter of a mile across. The best bay is Picnic Bay, on the east side, which affords secure anchorage for a vessel in about 6 fathoms of water. The island has four villages, the largest of which has a population of about 250.\n\nThe island of Waglan, situated to the south-east of Hong Kong, has a lighthouse on it, which is at present under the control of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, and which will, I presume, in future be placed under the Harbour Master of Hong Kong.\n\n`Admiralty Chart No. 1180` (`Map V.`) gives clearly the size and position of all the islands within the new extension.\n\n## POPULATION.\n\nThere are no reliable statistics possessed by the Chinese Government of the present population of the San On District. No census appears to have been taken for many years. It has, therefore, been necessary to base an estimate of the population on inquiries made from the inhabitants of the villages and on personal inspection of the villages themselves. With these as guides, it is estimated that the population of the new territory, including the Sham Chun and Sha Tau Kok divisions, and allowing 5,000 ...",
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        "content_text": "# In\n\n## 209\n\nIn the boundary, running along the crest of the hills, is easy of defence, and would help to check smuggling. It renders unnecessary the separation of villages hitherto united, removes all danger of disputes about water rights, and obviates any interference with the present system of local self-government, on the support of which the success of British administration in the new territory must to a great extent depend.\n\nIt should also be noted that, according to the map attached to the Convention, this places the south-west part of the island of Lafftao outside the area to be leased as the 113° 52′ E. longitude is the western boundary of the new territory. To obviate such an untenable position, 113° 50' E. longitude should be taken as the limit of the western boundary.\n\n## PREVENTION OF SMUGGLING\n\nThe question of smuggling from Hong Kong is one which has given more trouble than almost any other ever since the foundation of the colony. Steps have been taken again and again to prevent smuggling, and to aid China in the collection of its revenue, and all the return the Government of Hong Kong has received from the Chinese for these attempts to assist them has been the establishment of Customs barriers at the creeks to the harbour of Hong Kong (see `Map XI.`), and a watchful patrol of the waters adjacent to the colony by cruisers and launches of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, ever ready to overhaul the native shipping going to and from Hong Kong. Those who treat the question of smuggling from the Chinese point of view seem to forget what has been done in the past by Hong Kong on behalf of China. They are fond of describing the colony as a centre of smuggling, and drawing very exaggerated pictures of the smuggling operations carried on from there. The accounts of such persons should be largely discounted.\n\nThe whole difficulty lies in the geographical position of the Colony of Hong Kong, which is so situated that smuggling into China may be checked, but can never be altogether prevented. It is obvious that the extension of the colony will not decrease the facilities for smuggling, especially if a mere stream instead of a well-defined range of hills is selected as a boundary.\n\nOpium has always been the chief article smuggled. To prevent the smuggling of it, special legislation has been introduced by the Government of Hong Kong, which has resulted in a considerable decrease of its revenue, whilst China still maintains around Hong Kong a fleet of cruisers and launches.\n\nIf it is considered desirable, in view of the pledge given by Great Britain to China to prevent, so far as possible, smuggling, to still further control the export of opium from Hong Kong, I am of opinion that this can be best effected by a bonding system.\n\nAll opium, on its arrival at Hong Kong from India, should be bonded, and no opium should be allowed to be removed from bond except under proper guarantees as to its destination, or shipped without the harbour master being furnished with a copy of the bill of lading.\n\nThe Customs of China should be supplied with regular returns of all shipments. The Opium Farmer of Hong Kong should be made to account clearly for every chest of raw opium supplied to him, and should not be allowed to handle more raw opium than is necessary to meet the opium-smoking requirements of Hong Kong and of the new territory, and the demands of the prepared opium export trade to Australia, America, and elsewhere.\n\nThese precautionary measures are sure to decrease the revenue of Hong Kong. If they are adopted, the Government of China should not hesitate either to lease the whole of the `San On` district or to adopt that boundary line which is the best in the interests of all parties concerned.\n\n## KOWLOON CITY\n\nThe city of Kowloon is called in Chinese `Kaufung Shing`. The term `Shing` is the ordinary one used for a city by the Chinese. It originally seems to have signified a rampart surrounding a space; but it is now always applied to a city surrounded by a wall or rampart, as all Chinese cities are. The Convention refers to the retention of jurisdiction within the city of Kowloon, thus clearly showing that the walled city is meant.\n\nKowloon is situated about a quarter of a mile from the sea shore. It is enclosed by a stone wall built in 1847, forming as nearly as possible a parallelogram, measuring 700 feet by 400 feet, and enclosing an area of 6 acres. The wall is built of granite ashlar facing, is 15 feet in width at the top, and averages in height 13 feet. The wall has six watch towers, at present occupied as family dwellings, and two gateways, with doors made of wood and lined with iron sheeting. The parapet wall is built of granite, and has 119 embrasures. It is approached by four flights of stone steps. (See Sketch Plans of Kowloon City and Neighbourhood, `Maps VIII.` and `IX.`, and photographs.)\n\nAccording to a return (see `Appendix`) furnished by the Deputy Magistrate, the total population of Kowloon city is 744; the garrison amounts to 544; the civil population to 200. The officials stationed within the city are, with the exception of one civil officer, a Deputy Magistrate, military officers, the head of whom is the Colonel Commanding. This officer is the chief military officer in the district of `Say O`; is immediately subordinate to the `Ti Tu`, or General in Command of all the land forces in the province of `Kwong-tung`. The Colonel's jurisdiction is purely a military one, extending over the whole district of `Say O` and the islands adjacent thereto. His original headquarters were at `Tang` (see `Map VII.`, showing residences of officials), and his official designation is still `Tai Pang Hip`, or Colonel stationed at `Tang`, at which place he has a yamên, or official quarters. The reason for his having taken up a residence within the city of Kowloon was to place him in closer relations with the Colony of Hong Kong.\n\nAs the garrison now under the command of the Colonel is maintained for the defence of the district of `Saf O` and the adjoining islands, and as the larger portion of that district and most of the islands are to be leased by the British Government, most of the soldiers now supposed to exist under the Colonel's command will be disbanded or transferred elsewhere, whilst the services of those retained will be required not within, but outside the territory referred to in the Convention. The residence, therefore, of the Colonel Commanding and of his troops within the city of Kowloon is entirely unnecessary. But even if it were necessary, the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong must surely render it impossible to allow the retention in the very heart of the territory of a garrison of soldiers belonging to a foreign power, however friendly that power may be.\n\nThe only civil officer resident within the city is a Deputy Magistrate. He is appointed not to control the 200 civilians resident within the city, who are really subject to the military, but to exercise a somewhat extensive jurisdiction outside the city, throughout a large portion of the new area. When that area has been taken over, there appears to be no reason why this office of Deputy Magistrate should continue to exist, as the jurisdiction now exercised by him will be merged in the administration of the territory under British rule.\n\nThe civil population within the city of Kowloon, amounting to 200, lives there simply because it is dependent on the military. It does not engage in trade, there being no shops of any kind within the city. If the military remove from the city, the civil population is sure to follow, so that there will be no one remaining over whom a Chinese officer could exercise jurisdiction.\n\nIn any case, it appears to be entirely inconsistent with the military requirements for the defence of Hong Kong to allow a garrison town like Kowloon to be occupied permanently by Chinese military officers and troops. If that view be accepted, there seems to be nothing to justify the retention of Chinese jurisdiction in any shape or form within the city, for without the garrison the population will, it is certain, be reduced to nothing.\n\nShould any civilians remain after the removal of the military, they might be allowed to establish a native tribunal presided over by the elders and gentry, but subject, of course, in the same way as the other native tribunals throughout the territory, to the control of the travelling magistrate, and possessing the right of appeal to the Council of the `Tung`, and finally to the Resident Commissioner.\n\nIn conclusion, it may, I trust, be gathered from the account of the new territory that it will form a valuable extension of Hong Kong. It is favourably situated, has good harbours, with safe anchorages, possesses a rich soil, and is inhabited by an industrious, hardy, and frugal race. Under Chinese rule, enterprise has been at a discount, and progress has been at a standstill for centuries. The `Sap O` district of to-day must be much the same as it was four or five hundred years ago. But when British rule is established, and the people realise that justice prevails, that they are allowed to pursue their avocations in peace and freedom from illicit extortions, and that there is no unnecessary interference with their manners and customs, the spirit of enterprise will soon manifest itself, capitalists will be attracted to a region where their capital is not liable to official \"squeezes,\" the resources of the country will be developed, and its prosperity will continue to increase.\n\n## 638\n\nJ. H. STEWART LOCKHART.",
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        "content_text": "Government House, \n\nHong Kong, 9th June, 1899.\n\nI have the honour to report that on the 30th May, the Reverend Mr. Schaub, the principal of the Basel Mission in the Tung-Kun district, north of Sham-Chün, informed Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. O'Gorman, who is in command of the troops in Sham-Chün valley, that the inhabitants of Peng-Shen had issued a circular calling upon the people of the district to arm for the purpose of attacking the British Troops, and that he and the other missionaries were alarmed, as he had reason to believe that an attack would also be made upon the Christian Missions. He requested that I would apply to the Viceroy of Canton to send protection.\n\n2. On the 31st, I wrote to Her Majesty's Consul at Canton enclosing a copy of the Reverend Mr. Schaub's letter for the Viceroy's information and requesting him to say to His Excellency that it would be painful to me if any attack upon the British Troops or upon the German Missions necessitated the movement of British Troops to the north.\n\nThe Right Honourable \n\nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.\n\n&c. &c. &c.\n\n3.",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure in No. 14000\n\n**N. Rec. 7 MAY 00  \n369  \nTranslation**\n\nFrom Viceroy Li.\n\nSir,\n\nMarch 17, 1900.\n\nI have the honour to state that I am in receipt of a communication from Admiral Ho, in which he informs me that Colonel Chang Lien Chi, Acting Hsieh T'ai at Ta Peng, has sent in a petition to the following effect:\n\nThe offices of the Colonel in command at Ta Peng, of the First and Second Captains, as well as the other large and small public buildings were formerly established inside the walls of Kowloong-chai for the transaction of public business. On May 16 and 18 last, Englishmen suddenly entered Kowloong and Tung Chung. This has already been reported by the late Acting Colonel Li, as is on record. The Officers and soldiers of the left and right regiments were ordered to return to Ta Peng city and to remain there. The Acting Colonel Li conducted the petty officers and soldiers of his command to Ta Peng and quartered them in that town. But for many years past, the official buildings in Ta Peng have fallen down and there are none remaining. My office is in an ancestral temple which I have borrowed. The First and Second Captains have also borrowed temples to live in. The guard houses are only established in temporary quarters, and it is impossible to transact public business properly. Every one says that, although Kowloong has been leased to Great Britain, still according to international law, if an official communication is made to the British Government, a valuation of the public offices can easily be made and the value paid. I beg that your Excellency will write to the British Consul that an estimate...",
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        "content_text": "## 370\n\n: It is requested that an estimate or the value of the public offices of the Colonel in Command, the First and Second Captains, Lieutenants and Sergeants, the forts, the parade ground and guard houses, &c. taken possession of in Kowloong last year, be made and their value paid over to meet the cost of erecting new offices in Ta Peng. If making an estimate and paying compensation is not consented to, then it would be considered a favour if we were permitted to pull down the buildings ourselves and convey the bricks, tiles, wood, stone, &c. to Ta Peng, there to erect Yamens and guard-houses for the convenience of transacting public business. That this is in accordance with international law cannot be disputed. The Admiral adds that, having received the above, it is his duty to forward it to me for my consideration. All the buildings of the Civil and Military Officials and the Customs station within the limits of the territory leased at Kowloong ought to be returned to the Chinese Government either by paying them their estimated value, or we should be allowed to pull them down and take away the material. Either of these courses would do.\n\nI have the honour to request that you will communicate the foregoing to His Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong that satisfactory action may be taken. I trust that a reply to this despatch will be sent to me.\n\n(Seal of Viceroy.)",
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        "content_text": "# Minute by Officer Commanding Royal Artillery\n## 545\nThe Chief Staff Officer,\n\nWith reference to the attached correspondence I have the honour to state as follows:\n\n1. I entirely concur with the proposals put forward by the Commandant Heng Kong Volunteer Corps in the accompanying letter and think that they best meet the requirements of the case. They meet the views of the late Officer Commanding Royal Artillery, Colonel Johnson, in paragraphs 1-7 of his letter (`No 3`) with which I also agree, particularly paragraph 3 as to the suitability of the Volunteers for manning the artillery, fixed or movable, of the fortress.\n\n2. These proposals also agree with the view expressed in the end of paragraph 8 of confidential letter `No 311 R` of the Colonial Defence Committee. I understand that all members of the Corps receive a musketry training, and will therefore be available for employment in quelling local disturbances. I am of opinion therefore that the main objects mentioned in paragraph ... of letter `No 311 R` will be complied with.\n\n3. The system proposed is an elastic one. The actual allotment on mobilization will depend on the needs of the armament and would be:\n| Category |\n|----------|\n| (a) rate as Garrison Artillery |\n| (b) Movable Armament |\n| (c) Machine guns |\n| (d) Any sort of infantry work (e.g., cyclists) if required. |\n\n4.",
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        "content_text": "245\n\n2\n\nis a moral for the Mandarins in the fact that goods destined for consumption in China will always endeavour to approach their markets, as far as possible, by foreign routes.\n\nAfter leaving Wu Ting, we turned north-west up a narrow valley and into some very mountainous country, inhabited chiefly by Lolos, but with some well-watered, and therefore well-peopled, valleys; on the second day from Wu Ting, we passed the backbone of the range which forms the west limit of the basin of the An Ning River, Shih T'a La (8,000 feet), and descended through bare imposing mountain scenery to the ridge of Hao Chi Pa, where we camped with no water nearer than 700 feet below us. The country resembles the Wa hills, on the Burmah frontier.\n\nFrom Hao Chi Pa there is an easy descent down to the valley of Yuan Meng Hsien, but the city having been partially destroyed by the rebels, the officials' residence has been moved further down the valley to Ma Kai, a busy market of 400 houses, where there is a considerable traffic. The valley is well cultivated down to the Yang-tsze, which is 25 miles distant on the Chien Chang road. This valley is almost tropical, the height of Ma Kai being only 4,000 feet; sugar is grown in considerable quantities, and the whole look of the place is Szechuanese rather than Yunnanese. Leaving Ma Kai, we entered the hills to the west of the valley, and after a long march across the river whose head waters flow sluggishly across the plain of Chu Hsiung on the main Burmah road, and over a waterless range (5,900 feet), we descended into the narrow and poor valley of Miao Men (li-kin station and 150 houses in the principal village), and then passed by a defile into a narrow, but fertile, valley, with a number of Chinese villages. Here we put up at the Lung Ch'uan Temple (\"dragon spring\"), which has been restored by Colonel Li, formerly Commandant of the Lin An brigade in South Yünnan, who has beautified his ancestral home with the spoils, if not of war, at least of peace. Hence a climb over another main north and south range (7,200 feet) brought us down to the valley and busy city of Ta Yao, which contains about 5,000 inhabitants and is a busy market. It is one of the places which the opening of the Teng Yueh customs has brought within the sphere of Burmah trade influence. Much of the through traffic between West Yünnan and Szechuan passes this way, and there is a main road from Ta Yao to Jen Ho Kai, an important market and li-kin station near the Yang-taze, whence trade goes across to the Chien Chang Valley. Silk, ponies, tobacco, sugar, and Szechuan cotton cloth are the chief imports into Yunnan by this route.\n\nThree-quarters of the country hitherto traversed had been mountainous; the hills are mainly populated by Lolos, who form the majority of the crowd at the Ta Yao market. The Chinese have, however, already occupied most of the good valley lands, and will, no doubt, in time gradually extinguish the Lolos. The only product of the country besides mules and ponies which is worth mentioning is hemp, which the Lolos use for their coarse garments. It sells raw for 50 cash a catty (1 lb.) on the market at Ta Yao, and some of it finds its way to Teng Yueh.\n\nFrom Ta Yao as a centre, a number of cultivated valleys penetrate in various directions into the surrounding hills. Following one of these for 12 miles we crossed another low range running north and south, and looked down into the valley of Pei Yen Tsing (\"white salt wells\"), and across it on to vast confused mountain masses.\n\nWe camped 3 miles short of the wells; a sharp white frost fell in the night and nearly every other night for the rest of our journey.\n\nPei Yen Tsing is a filthy town of about 6,000 inhabitants, consisting of one long street in a close gorge, where brine wells have been bored. The output of salt is about 2,000 catties per day, and there is an official of the Salt Department in charge. The brine is brought up in leather buckets, let down by hand and then boiled in large open pans over charcoal fires.\n\nImmediately after leaving Pei Yen Tsing in a westerly direction, an abrupt and tiring ascent over a main range has to be made; from the summit of the Kuan Yin Miao pass the traveller descends through wild country to the K'ung Hsien Bridge by the banks of the K'ung Hsien River. This is a mountain stream which flows down to the Yang-tsze, and we ascended it for 19 miles through a magnificent defile, densely wooded, and with the side valleys finely terraced with rice-fields. The road from Pei Yen Tsing up over the mountains and along this gorge was once paved, and as there are clearly not enough inhabitants in the vicinity to have undertaken such a work, it seems, probably, that this was once a main trade route between Ta Li and Szechuan.\n\nLeaving this romantic valley, we ascended to the open plateau of Mi Tien, whence a level road to the south-west leads in two days to Yunnan Hsien on the Burmah high road, while another road to the north-west leads, through a defile in the hills, past the fertile valley of Chiao Ting, and so out on to the wide plain of Pin Chuan, which is the most important rift in the mountains between Ta Li and Yunnan-fu. This plain is about 3 miles long and 14 miles to 3 miles broad.\n\n3\n\nIt debouches on to the Yang-tsze at the important market of Chin Chiang Kai, one long day's march from Pin Chuan city; thence the high road leads to Yung Peh. Of recent years a considerable and lucrative trade has sprung up between West Yunnan and the trans-Yang-tsze Yung Peh district, specially those parts of it which are near the Yang-tsze and to the Szechuan border. The people of West Yunnan is supplied with sugar from this source, and also with tobacco; paper, oranges, and Shasi cloth are other objects of commerce, while opium, cotton, and gams move east in return across the Yang-tsze.\n\nThe south of the Pin Chuan Valley is divided by an easy col (7,250 feet) from the extensive plain of Yunnan Hsien, and this again is divided by one range from the valleys of Mi Tao and Meng Hua, which brings us near the Mekong River; the railway engineer who had got his alignment over on to the east bank of the Mekong would have an easy task to reach the Yang-tsze north of Pin Chuan.\n\nA great part of the Pin Chuan Valley is barren, owing to an insufficient supply of water; here, as in so many parts of Yunnan, scientific irrigation would work wonders. The city of Pin Chuan contains only one business street and a number of ancestral temples, and not more than 4,000 inhabitants, but there are two busy little markets in the plain, at Niu Kai, 7 miles north of the city, and at Pin Chi, 6 miles to the south-west. This valley, together with Yung Peh, ought now to get its foreign supplies wholly from Teng Yueh.\n\nIndian yarns of the coarser counts are likely to remain for many years the staple Note on cotton imports of Teng Yueh. I therefore append some notes on the cotton trade generally trade in Yünnan:\n\n(a.) Raw cotton is imported almost solely for the purpose of wadding garments and quilts.\n\n(b) The imports of Manchester goods are small, the annual value being from 55,000 to 100,000. The well-to-do inhabitants of the towns are Manchester's chief customers, and they do not form a large class in Yünnan, where there is only one town (the capital) of over 60,000 inhabitants, and only three others (Yung Chang, Chao Tong, and Chù Tsing) of over 20,000.\n\nThere is, however, a chance of extending the foreign piece-goods trade in the Yung Chang and Teng Yueh Valleys, where many people have travelled in Burmah, and have a taste for foreign cloth, and in many parts of Yunnan I think American drills may find favour.\n\n(c.) The Shasi cloth, so well known along the Yang-tsze, comes into Yünnan from Szechuan by Lao Wa Tan; it is still the principal clothing of the people in the Chao Tong district, but is losing ground almost everywhere on account of its price.\n\n(d.) All other cottons have in the last twelve years rapidly yielded in public favour before \"yang sha pu,\" or cloth locally woven from imported yarns. The great centre of this industry is the Hsin Hsing Valley, three days south of Yunnan-fu. This valley and the country near it take some 40,000 piculs yearly, and the manual dexterity of the weavers has attained so high a standard that Hsin Hsing cloth is distributed all over the province, especially in the Ta Li district; the reason for the establishment of this industry at Hsin Hsing is that the population is dense and is near a foreign custom-house, so that goods can be brought in cheaply under transit pass from Mengtse.\n\nHad we been wise in time, Teng Yuch would have been an open port ten years ago, and with the cheap and regular Tariff of the Imperial Customs, the weaving industry would certainly have established itself in the Yung Chang or Teng Yueh Valleys. The disadvantage to us of its being at Hsin Hsing is that there Japanese and Tonkin yarns can compete with Bombay on favourable terms, while near Teng Yueh the yarn would all be Indian.\n\nYunnan-fu takes about 15,000, and Chủ Tsing, in East Yunnan, about 12,000 piculs of yarn annually; these, however, are consumed locally, and there is no export of cloth to speak of from these districts.\n\nI was glad to observe that attempts are now being made to start weaving all over West Yunnan, notably at Yung Chang and Hoching Chou, and even that yarns can now go from Teng Yueh into South-west Szechuan and return thence to Yung Peh in the form of woven cloth.\n\nFashions, of course, vary, and there are many districts which could be supplied more cheaply from Teng Yueh which at present prefer Shasi or Hsin Hsing goods, and from the point of view of wholesale manufacture for export to other districts, as apart from merely supplying local demand by local domestic industry, merchants complain that trade and mule...",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n# SOUTH-WEST CHINA..\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[2511]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nC.\n\n4680\n\n[January 20.]\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\nRed? Rec 9 FEB 0\n\n132\n\nActing Consul Litton to the Marquess of Lansdowne.—(Received January 20, 1906,)\n\n(No. 17.) My Lord,\n\nTengyueh, December 19. 1905.\n\nIN continuation of my despatches No. 15 of the 9th September and No. 16 of the 1st October last, I have the honour to submit a copy of a further Report (No. 23 of to-day's date) which I have addressed to Sir Ernest Satow, on the subject of the recent lama disturbances in North-west Yünnan.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nG. LITTON.\n\n## Inclosure in No. 1.\n\n(No. 23.) Sir,\n\nActing Consul Litton to Sir E. Satow.\n\nTengyueh, December 19, 1905.\n\nREFERRING to my Reports No. 18 of the 9th September and No. 19 of the 1st October last, I understand that the Consul-General has kept you informed of the progress of events in connection with the suppression of the lama disturbances in North-west Yünnan.\n\nIn the course of my recent journey up the Salween I passed over to the Mekong, which I reached at a point only three stages south of Wei Hsi. I have also received several letters from the French missionaries. I may therefore submit a summary of the information which I have gathered, together with some observations thereon.\n\nThe rebellion collapsed in North-west Yünnan chiefly because it had been so vigorously suppressed in the Batang district of Szechuan. This cut the ground from under the feet of the Yunnan lamas, and left no course open to them except retreat into Thibet. The French Bishop of Tachienlu journeyed in October from Batang to the Yang-tsze frontier near Atentse. He writes that in many districts the lamas, and indeed the whole male Thibetan population, have been practically exterminated. It is further credibly reported that the villagers, as soon as they found that things were going badly for their lama oppressors, turned against them, and in several cases arrested and handed over to the Chinese the rebel leaders.\n\nChang T-tai, the provincial Commander-in-chief, advanced from Wei Hsi to Atentse in October without any fighting, but his troops impartially pillaged the villages of friends and foes alike, while the General himself made no difficulty about granting a free pardon to any one who could pay for it. The only serious military operation was the capture of the important lamasery of Tung-chu-lin (situated between Peng-tzu-la and Atentse, on the Mekong-Yang-tsze divide) by a body of Kwangsi braves under Colonel Elsieh, the newly-appointed Colonel at Wei Hsi. This is a very large and rich lamasery, and its capture seems to have crushed any further resistance on the part of the lamas. The Kwangsi men, though wholly without discipline, are undoubtedly ferocious when there is a chance of plunder, and horrible stories are circulated of how they ripped open their wounded enemies, devoured their hearts and livers, and so forth.\n\nIt is believed that the Yünnan Government has now been brought to see the necessity of inflicting severe punishment on all the lamas and Headmen guilty of murder and outrage. Prefect Li, the former Li Chiang Prefect, now temporarily degraded, has been appointed on a special mission to restore order and negotiate with the French fathers.\n\nThe surviving French priests have now returned to their posts. The country has been pillaged by both lamas and Chinese, otherwise quiet seems to have been restored.\n\nThanks to the prudence of its Sub-Prefect, who absolutely refused to allow Chinese ...\n\n[1838 -1]",
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        "content_text": "640\n\n4\n\nLiu Kuo-liang, Captain of the City Guard; Yen Shang-Chung, sergeant in the Guard of the Hsin-chien Magistrate; Wu Ting-k'uei, sergeant in the right battalion, are to be cashiered. Li Hung-yüan, sergeant in the left battalion; Liu Ching-t'ai, Commandant of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Brigade of the Territorial Army; and Wei Ting, Captain in the same battalion, are to be deprived of their buttons; Cheng Yün-hsien and Hsiang Kuan-pang, who both possess hereditary ranks, are to be fined one year's emoluments, and the expectant Magistrate, Huang Chung, of the South Police-station in Nanchang city, has three entries of default recorded against him.\n\nIn addition to the punishments of the ringleaders and officials above mentioned, their Excellencies stated that a Proclamation would be issued by the Governor of Kiangsi, acknowledging that the late Magistrate of Nanchang, Chiang Chao-t'ang, had committed suicide, and that an undertaking had been given by the Chinese Government not to permit the local officials, gentry, or people to do honour to his memory.\n\nYour Highness is aware that in the month of March last, as the result of an inquiry conducted while Mr. Werner, His Majesty's Consul at Kiukiang, was at Nanchang, it was arranged that the following punishments should be inflicted on the persons concerned in the murders of Mr. and Mrs. Kingham, and in the destruction of their property :--\n\nNamePunishment\n\nHsü Tê-fên, Deputy in the Industrial School, Wa Chên-jo, Deputy in the Foreign Bureau. Kêng Ch'ao-t'ai, Superintendent of the Mint. Hsiung Lan-sên, Ch'ang Pei-Chün (Regular Army). Hsiung Yi-Shêng, Ch'ang Pei-Chin (Regular Army). Pao Chiêng-huang, Chiêng Shou Ying (City Guard). Pao Pu-k'uei, Chêng Shou Ying (City Guard). Chang Yu-ch'uan, Ching Ch'a Chü (Police). Lu Chin-piao, Ching Cha Cha (Police). Shen-Fu-hàng, Ching Cha Chủ (Police). Chi-Ping-k'an, Ching Ch'a Chu (Police). P'an Têng-hsien, Lieutenant of Cavalry. Ho Han-wên, Lieutenant of Cavalry. Wang Hsi-lin, Lieutenant of Cavalry.Decapitation.\nHsü Tso-chün, sergeant of the Provincial Guard.Eight years' imprisonment.\nSix years' imprisonment.\nHsieh Yu-lung Tan Chin-kang Wei Tê-sheng Chou Lao-érh ÏIsiao Fa Li La-tzü Hu Tang-poo Li Hslich-pêng Wang Mu-shui Li Kuang-hua Chih Hsin-p'u Wang Wei-lin Hsing Tsai-kn. Heiung Ping-nao.. Chên Hsi-feng Yang Lia-chin Ch'en Sheng-luTwo years' hard labour.\nOne year's hard labour.\n\nI have great pleasure in submitting these names to your Highness, and to request, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, that a substantial reward may be given to each for his courageous and highly meritorious conduct.\n\nIf your Highness will be so good as to inform me that the punishments above mentioned will be faithfully carried out, that the sum of 4,700l. will be paid to His Majesty's Consul at Kiukiang (either in Kiukiang or Shanghae, as he will select), and that the officers and men whose names I have indicated will be rewarded, I shall at once inform His Majesty's Government and recommend that the case be closed.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Signed) LANCELOT D. CARNEGIE.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nSir,\n\nIt was also arranged verbally by Sir Ernest Satow with the Wai-wu Pu that the Kiangsi authorities should pay a sum for the maintenance of the surviving infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Kingham, in addition to compensation for the house and property destroyed by the mob, and the total amount required for these purposes has now been fixed by His Majesty's Government at 4,700l. This sum is exclusive of certain small claims for the destruction of property belonging to British missionaries, which have already been satisfied by the Provincial Government of Kiangsi.\n\nI should add that Mr. Werner has brought to the notice of His Majesty's Government the names of the following officers and men in the service of the Chinese Government who exerted themselves to protect the lives and property of foreigners during this lamentable occurrence :--\n\nHung Wei-lin, Commodore of the River Fleet.\nWu Mei-t'ing, Captain of a gun-boat.\nLin Kuo-tung, Squadron Commander.\nChiến Chin-tang, Commandant in the Chang Pei-Chúa.\nHung Chan-k'uei, Major in the Right Battalion.\nLiu Chu-shu, Lieutenant-Colonel in the City Guard.\nWang Tê-sheng, Captain of the City Guard.\nLiu Hsin-ch'uan, Captain of Cavalry.\nTs'ao Tê-fu, Inspector of the 1st Battalion of the Territorial Army.\nSun Lang, Police Deputy.\nHsu Hui-ch'uan, Police Deputy.\n\nPrince Ching to Mr. Carnegie.\n\nKuang Hsü, 32nd year, 5th month, 9th day (June 30, 1906).\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your note of the 27th June on the subject of the Nanchang missionary case [note of the 27th June quoted at length].\n\nI have the honour to state, in reply, that this Board will not fail to communicate to the provincial authorities of Kiangsi the punishments to be inflicted on the persons found guilty of participation in this outbreak, in accordance with the list in your note, and with instructions to give due effect thereto.\n\nAs regards the sum of 4,700l. to be paid as compensation and for the maintenance of the infant survivor, payment will be made to His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Kinkiang within three months; while we are also communicating to the Governor of Kiangsi the list of officers who exerted themselves in this case in affording protection, with instructions that they should be granted suitable rewards.\n\nThe harmonious settlement of this case affords an eloquent testimony of your country's friendship, for which my colleagues and myself desire to express our profound appreciation.\n\nWhile trusting that you will communicate this reply to His Majesty's Government and recommend that the case be closed, I avail, &c.\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nAgreement between Wai-wu Pu and French Minister at Peking.\n\nDES troubles ayant récemment éclaté à Nantchang, au cours desquels des Français ont trouvé la mort et l'école et la mission ont été incendiées, les Gouvernements Français et Chinois, désireux d'arranger cette affaire conformément à la justice et à l'équité, afin de confirmer les relations d'amitié qui existent entre les deux pays, sont tombés d'accord pour nommer des Délégués chargés de faire une enquête.\n\nOnt été désignés :\n\nDu côté Français, le Vicomte du Halgouet, Secrétaire d'Ambassade, &c.;\n\n[2102 dd-4]",
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        "content_text": "## [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n79\n\n4. Expenditure.--Statements of expenditure under various headings up to the 30th June current, and amounting to 22,151.80 Haikwan taels in all, are handed herewith.\n\nJUI CH'ENG,\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[December 29.]\n\n## SECTION 6\n\nC.\n\n(Signed)\nH. E. HOBSON,\nMembers of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board.\n\n753\n[43524]\n\n### No. 1.\n\n#### Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n**STATEMENT of Receipts and Expenditure during March and June Quarters, 1906, respecting Conservancy of Whangpoo River.**\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received December 29.) (No. 470.)\n\nSir,\nPeking, November 13, 1906.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose herewith copies of Reports on the Peking-Kalgan Railway which have been furnished to me by Lieutenant-Colonel Pereira, the Military Attaché to this Legation.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed)\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n|          | March Quarter | June Quarter |\n|----------|---------------|---------------|\n| RECEIPTS | Hk. Taels     | Hk. Taels     |\n| Balance from previous quarter, 1905 |  | 18,208.26     |\n| (A.) Superintendent on account of grant | 4,910.84      |               |\n| (B.) Unclassed: sundry receipts       |               | 6.14          |\n| (C.) Gain by exchange                 | 227.30        |               |\n| (D), (E.)                             |               |               |\n| Total net receipts                    | 4,910.84      | 18,214.40     |\n| Advances repaid                       |               | 319.83        |\n| Total                                 | 4,910.84      | 18,761.53     |\n\n#### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**Report respecting the Peking-Kalgan Railway.**\n\nMAJOR WILLOUGHBY (2nd Lancers, Indian Army) and myself travelled on the Peking to Nan-k'ou line on the 1st and 3rd November, 1906, and we inclose the following report:-\n\n| EXPENDITURE | Hk. Taels |\n|-------------|-----------|\n| 1. Salaries | 2,382.56  |\n| 2. Transport | 46.44     |\n| 3. Rent | 291.62    |\n| 4. Plant: cost and maintenance | 607.08    |\n| 5. Houses, furniture, &c. | 689.17    |\n| 6. Ordinary stores, &c., miscellaneous | 4,016.87  |\n| 7. Special | 666.67    |\n| 8. Loss by exchange |           |\n| Total net expenditure | 13,178.08 |\n| Advances (lent) | 306.40    |\n| Balance carried forward | 278.29    |\n| Total | 17,184.92  |\n|               | 333.34    |\n|               | 17,468.26 |\n|               | 1,293.27  |\n|               | 4,910.84  |\n|               | 18,761.53 |\n\nPrepared by J. H. Macound, Accountant.\n(Signed)\nH. E. HOBSON, Commissioner.\n\n### Time Table\n\n#### DOWN\n\n| Station        | No. 1 | No. 3 | No. 5 |\n|----------------|-------|-------|-------|\n| Nan-k'ou       | depart | 8.45  | 12.10 |\n| Sha-ho         |        | 9.32  | 12.57 |\n| Hsi-chih-men   |        |       |       |\n| Fo-ch'ing-men  | arrive | 10.8  | 13.33 |\n|                | depart | 10.13 | 13.38 |\n| Kuang-an-men   | arrive | 10.40 | 14.5  |\n| Feng-t'ai      | depart | 6.30  | 10.50 | 14.15 |\n|                | arrive | 6.36  | 10.57 | 14.22 |\n|                | depart | 6.39  | 11.0  | 14.25 |\n|                | arrive | 6.51  | 11.12 | 14.37 |\n|                | depart | 6.56  | 11.17 | 14.42 |\n|                | arrive | 7.14  | 11.35 | 15.0  |\n\n#### UP\n\n| Station        | No. 2 | No. 4 | No. 6 |\n|----------------|-------|-------|-------|\n| Feng-t'ai      | depart | 8.40  | 12.10 | 18.25 |\n| Kuang-an-men   | arrive | 9.8   | 12.28 | 18.43 |\n|                | depart | 9.8   | 12.33 | 18.46 |\n|                | arrive | 9.20  | 12.45 | 18.58 |\n| Fo-ch'ing-men  | depart | 9.23  | 12.48 | 19.0  |\n|                | arrive | 9.30  | 12.55 |       |\n| Hsi-chih-men   | depart | 9.40  | 13.5  |       |\n|                | arrive | 10.6  | 13.31 |       |\n| Sha-ho         | depart | 10.11 |       | 14.3  |\n|                | arrive | 10.38 | 14.3  |       |\n| Nan-k'ou       | depart | 10.48 | 14.13 |       |\n|                | arrive | 11.35 | 15.0  |       |\n\n[2263 ƒ-6]",
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        "content_text": "# Trains cross at Ch'ing-ho.\n\nLine only metalled from Feng-t'ai to Fo-ch'ing-men, and ballasting (of earth) only a short way further on. Nan-k'ou is very stony, and metalling is being taken down from it. Perhaps the greater part of the line is on the level, or nearly on the level, of the Peking plain, which the line crosses up to Nan-k'ou. In places there is an embankment, which is not revetted, and which occasionally shows signs of crumbling. Occasionally line passes through low cuttings—a low trench on sides for drainage.\n\nConsidering the funereal pace at which we moved, I do not consider the line runs very smoothly, or that in its present condition a great rate of speed could be obtained.\n\nThere are thirteen sleepers under each pair of rails; sleepers 18 to 20 inches apart, except under the fish-plates, where they are only about 8 inches apart. Rails spiked to each sleeper, four bolts to each fish-plate.\n\nAt Feng-t'ai the line starts from the outer siding of the Chinghan line. There are three sidings at Kuang-an-men, four at Hsi-chih-men, two or three at Ch'ing-ho, three at Sha-ho, and three at Nan-k'ou.\n\nThere is a water-tank at Hsi-chih-men, another at Sha-ho on piled sleepers, another at Ha-pa-t'un, half way between Sha-ho and Nan-k'ou, and another on a truck at Nan-k'ou.\n\nThe platforms vary in size; perhaps the largest is the one at Hsi-chih-men, 280 yards long by about 10 yards wide, and 3 feet above the line.\n\nStations buildings, single storied of grey brick and well constructed.\n\nThere is an engine-house of grey brick at Hsi-chih-men, about 53 yards long by 18 yards wide, with two sidings, and it can house at least four Dubs' large engines with tenders (smaller engines are Baldwin's).\n\nRailway buildings at Nan-k'ou in construction.\n\nCarriages were made at the Tong-shan works; 3rd class are stand-up covered waggons.\n\nThere are five composite 1st and 2nd class carriages on the line, two for each train and one in reserve. They have hand brakes and are corridor cars, the 1st class portion consisting of two compartments, each holding eight people, whilst the 2nd class can seat five people; 1st class compartments very well fitted up, and with light luggage racks. Lavatories attached to compartments.\n\nOpen trucks have 30-ton capacity.\n\nOur train consisted of two composite carriages (one 3rd class), three trucks, and a van.\n\nDirection of line mostly north up to Sha-ho, then north-westerly. Telegraph near the line.\n\nNorth of Sha-ho station the line crosses a stream by a bridge of seven stone piers.\n\n| Class | Fare (Dollars) |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st | 2.40 |\n| 2nd | 1.60 |\n| 3rd | 0.80 |\n\nGoods (luggage parcels) rate per ton per `li` are—1st class, 2 cents; 2nd class, 1 cent; 3rd class, 16 cents. Dangerous goods, 4 cents; minimum distance, 50 `li`.\n\nHorses and cattle, 2 cents per `li`.\n\nNan-k'ou is the limit of traffic. The line has been laid for a mile or two, where it sweeps round to the north of Nan-k'ou and enters the pass.\n\nThe pass is about 11 miles long, culminating in the Pa-ta-ling, where the branch of the Great Wall crosses it. Valley narrow and stony—only a short piece of embankment has been made at the entrance. There is then no work done till approaching the summit, perhaps for the last mile or two. The work begins with the first tunnel at Wu-kuei-t'un, which has been pierced, wall of stone and cement completed, and the arch, which is to be finished off with square stones of German cement, has just been commenced.\n\nThe second tunnel at Shih-fo-ssu has been pierced, and wall is also completed, but the cementing of the arch has not been begun.\n\nThe third tunnel, which is to pierce the Pa-ta-ling, has not been commenced, as regards boring from the east side.\n\nEarth embankments, unrevetted like those on the plain, connect the tunnels. Time plays little or no part in a Chinaman's calculations, and in the journey up to Nan-k'ou we left several stations ahead of time, and reached our destination three minutes too early; whilst in the down journey we were mostly a quarter of an hour too late.\n\nThe Chinese station-masters and traffic managers, arrayed in startling uniforms, are most civil and obliging.\n\n(Signed)\n\nPeking, November 3, 1906.\n\n**G. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel, Grenadier Guards, Military Attaché.**\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n## Supplementary Notes on Peking-Kalgan Railway by Captain Leonard, United States' Military Attaché.\n\nThe total length of the line, 34.11 miles. Distances between stations:\n\n| From | To | Miles |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Feng-Tai | Kuang-an-men | 4.49 |\n| Kuang-an-men | Hsi-chih-men | 4.54 |\n| Hsi-chih-men | Ch'ing-ho | 6.86 |\n| Ch'ing-ho | Sha-ho | 6.59 |\n| Sha-ho | Nan-K'ou | 11.63 |\n\nRails, flat-bottomed, weighing 85 lb. to the yard. Sleepers are Japanese hardwood, 8 feet long by 9 inches wide by 6 inches thick.\n\nThe width of the embankment is 20 feet on the top with 1 to 1 slopes.\n\nThe road from Feng-t'ai to Hsi-chih-men is practically level with the exception of a short 1 in 100 grade, where the line crosses the Ching-han Railway, at each side of the latter, opposite the Hsi-pien-men.\n\nFrom Hsi-chih-men to Nan-k'ou the line rises gradually; the stiffest grade is a 1 in 70, just before Nan-k'ou is reached.\n\nThe cars ride very easily where the road is ballasted, and there is no serious rocking; the speed is, however, extremely slow.\n\nThere are no tunnels between Feng-t'ai and Nan-k'ou. The bridges are not very numerous, there being about 50 feet of opening to the mile; they are all 20 feet and 30 feet spans, except one near Sha-ho, over the river of that name, which is made up of one 110-foot span and three 30-foot spans, at each side of same.\n\nAt present there is little or no goods traffic, owing to the fact that all trade comes to Feng-tai by camels; when the contracts for carrying goods this way expire—probably in a few months' time—there is sure to be a very heavy traffic over the railway. The passenger traffic is very light at present, about fifty passengers per train; this will improve greatly when the line is better known to the Chinese.\n\nThe principal goods which will ultimately be hauled by the railway are wools, skins, hides, &c., from Kalgan, Nan-k'ou to Feng-t'ai, and on to Tien-tsin, and tea and general goods from Tien-tsin, via Nan-k'ou to Kalgan.\n\nThere are four tunnels in the Nan-k'ou Pass, 180 feet, 264 feet, 1,000 feet, and 3,450 feet long respectively. The two short ones are nearly completed, and the other two are well under way.\n\nThe steepest grade in the Nan-k'ou Pass is 1 in 30; there is a stretch of about 4 miles of this, and then another of about 2¼ miles; after that the grade is 1 in 40, of short distances, at intervals.\n\nAll the rolling-stock was built in the workshops of the North China Imperial Railways at Tong-shan, and all the rest required will also be built there.\n\nOf course, all the iron and steel for same is imported from Europe.\n\nAll the girders for the bridge have been constructed at the North China Imperial Railways Bridge Works at Shan-hai-kuan, with the exception of one 110-feet span, which came from England in pieces; the steel plates, &c., for the other girders, of course, come from Europe.\n\nThe locomotives for the line will be built in the North China Imperial Railway Works at Tong-shan entirely, with the exception of the wheels, axles, and springs.\n\nAll the bridges up to Nan-k'ou (abutments and piers) are constructed of cement concrete, below water German cement being used, above Tong-shan cement is employed.\n\nThe top of the Nan-k'ou Pass is about 2,100 feet above Peking, and Kalgan is about 500 feet above that.\n\nPeking, November 5, 1906.\n\n(Signed)\n\n**G. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel.**",
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        "content_text": "# CONFIDENTIAL\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n\n### No. 1\n\nPeking, November 23, 1906.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey,-(Received January 12, 1907.)\n\n**(No. 485.)**\n\nSir,\n\nWITH reference to my telegram No. 225 of yesterday's date, I have the honour to forward to you herewith copy of a despatch which I have received from the Acting British Consul at Newchwang, reporting on the progress of the Chino-Japanese negotiations respecting the rendition of that port to the Chinese Government.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) **J. N. JORDAN**\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1\n\n**(No. 61.)**\n\nNewchwang, November 19, 1906.\n\nActing Consul Tebbitt to Sir J. Jordan,\n\nSir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that Taotai Liang Meng-ting arrived here on the evening of the 14th instant, and is now negotiating with the Japanese authorities the details for the rendition of Newchwang.\n\nMr. Segawa, the Japanese Consul, informed me that the Japanese negotiators are Mr. Abe, Secretary of the Japanese Legation, Peking, Lieutenant-Colonel K. Yokura, the Military Administrator of Newchwang, and Mr. Segawa himself. He proceeded to state that the main points had already been settled in Peking, and that the handing over should take place on the 1st December. The negotiations here must, he added, be concluded by that date, but both sides have agreed to keep the details of the final Agreement secret.\n\nTaotai Liang has just called on me, and stated in conversation that the negotiations were progressing smoothly, that he found the Japanese very reasonable, and that the 1st December was fixed for the handing over. The question of the Japanese settlement, however, had not yet been alluded to, and he thinks it must have been arranged in Peking, as he was only concerned with the taking over of the town of Yingkow itself.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) **R. T. TEBBITT**\n\nPage 204\n[2310 m-3]",
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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": "## This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n340\n\n2\n\nChinese. However, like all Chinese, they are of an inflammable nature, and, as in the case of peaceful natures, when once aroused they may go to further extremes than more turbulent spirits, as happened in 1900.\n\n4. Opium Smoking.--Shan-hsi is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of the opium-smoking provinces of China. Mr. Sowerby assured me that in and around Tai-yuan Fu, though there might be a slight decrease, it was not very appreciable. He said that sometimes, when he goes into a village and asks how many non-opium smokers it contains, an inhabitant will smile and point to one or two small children, whilst in another a native will state with some pride that 110 per cent. [sic] are opium smokers. He thinks, however, that less opium is grown in the district.\n\nGoing north, I found at Ta-tung Fu that the evil was much less, and in that city the Magistrate stated, and the local missionary corroborated, that under 50 per cent. were opium smokers. The Magistrate, himself an inveterate smoker and possibly unreliable (I had no means of checking his statement), stated that only one-fifth of the area given up to the poppy in his district last year was now utilized for the same purpose.\n\n5. The Irish potato was introduced by Dr. Attwood, an American missionary, residing at Feng-chou Fu, some twenty years ago and has proved a great success. I found them in abundance in the Ta-t'ung Fu region.\n\n6. Secret Societies. The great anti-dynastic Secret Society known as the Ko-ming-tang is, local missionaries assured me, very strong in the parts of the province I visited, and many of the officials are believed to belong to it. At Hsin Chou, 47 miles to the north of T'ai-yuan Fu, it was rumoured that there would be a great rising in Southern China this August, that the troops in the north would be dispatched to put it down, and that when they were gone the north would seize the opportunity to rise. This, of course, is only a type of the sensational and ridiculous rumours one hears at times in the country, but it shows that the feeling of unrest is very extended.\n\n7. Robbers flourish in the hills to the north-east and to the west of Ta-t'ung Fu, but they usually avoid the main road, and, as is always the case, they are not likely to attack a passing foreigner. It is only a matter of surprise that with such poorly trained soldiers as the provincial troops (the Hsun-fang-tui) the robbers are of such minor local importance.\n\n8. Poorness of the Province. Shan-hsi is a very poor province, and T'ai-yüan Fu is very inferior in population and importance to any provincial capital I have yet visited. (I have visited fourteen out of eighteen.) I estimate the population at between 50,000 and 70,000 inhabitants, whilst the officials put it at only 40,000. I believe that as regards population Ta-tung Fu has the largest population of any city in the province. The railway is, however, attracting people to Tai-yüan Fu, and it is bound to improve on its present stagnant condition. Through the energy of Taotai Ting, the Judge, a fine new road is being made, and they are even reported to be in possession of a steam-roller, which, however, I did not personally see.\n\n9. Russian Colony at Kalgan.--Consists of one Russian clerk in the Russo-Chinese Bank, and three Siberian Russians (viz., one postmaster and two tea merchants), who have not much in common with their European compatriot.\n\n10. Japanese Instructors at Tai-yuan Fu.-There are ten in the various schools, including one officer in the military school and one sergeant-major.\n\n(Signed) G. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel, Grenadier Guards, Military Attaché.\n\nPeking, August 24, 1907.\n\n## CHINA TRADE\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[36185]\n\n[November 2.]\n\n### SECTION 3.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received November 2.)\n\n(No. 443.) Sir,\n\nPeking, September 17, 1907. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 260 of the 4th July transmitting copy of a letter from the Colonial Office respecting a suggestion by the Hong Kong Government that, in view of the acute currency crisis existing in Canton and Hong Kong, the Chinese Government should be urged to carry out its obligation under the Mackay Treaty to establish a proper currency in China and instructing me to report, should no practical steps have yet been taken, whether the time is opportune for making further representations to the Chinese Government on the subject.\n\nIn my despatch No. 363 of the 24th July, I had the honour to transmit to you copies of a note which, in pursuance of a representation received from the Chambers of Commerce of Hong Kong, Shanghae, and Tien-tsin, the doyen of the Diplomatic Body addressed to Prince Ch'ing and of His Highness's reply that a Commission had been appointed to deal with the question and report to the Throne. Since that time I have frequently asked the Ministers of the Wai-wu Pu whether the Commission had presented its report, and have been informed that, owing to the divergent views of its members, no satisfactory scheme for a uniform currency has yet been decided upon.\n\nWhile the want of a uniform silver coinage is a serious obstacle to the foreign and internal trade of China, the difficulties attending its introduction, although not insuperable, are by no means light. That a suitable coin in the shape of a silver dollar can be made in China is evidenced by the fact that the dollar issued by the Pei-yang Mint at Tien-tsin holds its own here with the British dollar and that both are at a premium as compared with the Mexican dollar; but the aim of the Chinese provincial mints is not so much to coin as to make money, and this object is facilitated by the lax way in which they are controlled by the Central Government. A dollar coined in one province is accepted in the next only at a considerable discount. The coining of a dollar of the proper fineness, weight, and finish is not a gain but a cost to the mint from which it comes, and it is not unnatural that the mint should wish to recoup itself by the profitable coinage of subsidiary silver coins, the over issue of which, combined with the natural law that the coin of less will always oust the coin of greater intrinsic value in a country where the coinage is not sufficiently protected by law, has been specially felt in South China. What has occurred in the silver coinage of the south is at present taking place in the copper coinage all over the Empire, the new copper coins are fast displacing the old copper cash.\n\nBy the laws of China land and other taxes are payable in Treasury (Kuping) taels, while the Treaty Tariff calls for Customs duties in Haikwan taels, so that, if the proposed silver dollar is to be the uniform coinage of China, it will be necessary to fix the rate of exchange between it and Kuping and Haikwan taels, and, what is still more desirable, between it and the new copper coinage which is the retail trade currency of the Empire.\n\nThese are some of the difficulties with which China has to grapple, and, although from a European standpoint they are not insurmountable, the ignorance of even the highest officials on the subject of finance and currency is so great that their speedy solution can hardly be looked for; but I shall continue to make representations to the Chinese Government for the fulfilment of its Treaty engagement.\n\nWere the coinage of this new dollar restricted to three or four mints under the direct control of the Ministry of Finance, identical dies supplied to them, the defacement or destruction of the coin made a penal offence, the issue of subsidiary coins restricted as in the case of copper with a fixed legal tender, and only the new coins accepted in payment of...",
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        "content_text": "## Inclosure 2 in No. 1, July 11-21, 1907\n\n### LIST of Chinese Troops on or near the Peking-Shanhaikuan Railway Line\n\n| Date of Arrival | Place | Number of Men | Detail |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Pei-tai-ho | 5 | Of the 2nd cavalry regiment of the 2nd Division of the Lu Chun, detached from Fu-ning Hsien. Armed with Mauser carbines |\n| November 1906 | Tang-ho | 100 | Of the 2nd cavalry ying of the Hua Chun, under Captain Ting, at Hai-yang, 2 miles north of Tang-ho. Armed with Mauser carbines |\n| November 1906 | Shanhaikuan | 20 | Of the 3rd ying of the Huni Chun, under Colonel Wang. Armed with Mausers |\n| 30 June 1907 | Lu-t'ai | 30 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Second Lieutenant Tuan. Armed with Mausers |\n|  | Total | 100 |  |\n|  |  | 1,035 |  |\n\nThe above Huai Chun troops are all of the Le-tzu brigade of the Huai Chun, except those at Ta-ku, who are of the I-tzu brigade. The Le-tzu brigade is commanded by Brigadier-General Lei, who lives at Chang-li, the I-tzu brigade by Brigadier-General Fan, who lives at Hsin-ch'eng, 12 miles east of Tien-tsin.\n\nThe Huai Chun are badly trained and badly disciplined, but they are soldiers, not policemen. A police force, quite separate from the Huai Chun, also armed with rifles, which they carry at night, exists at all the railway stations and at all the principal towns along the line.\n\nIt will be noticed that, of the total of 1,035 men on or near the line, 350 were new arrivals in June 1907. These 350 men have been taken from the 5th infantry ying at Han-liu-shu, near Tien-tsin, and from the 6th infantry ying at Kou-pang-tzu, in Manchuria.\n\nThe only troops of the Lu-chun are the five men at Pei-tai-ho.\n\n(Signed) H. K. DAVIES, Major, General Staff, North China Command\n\n### Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n| Date of Arrival | Place | Number of Men | Detail |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| June 1907 | Yang-ts'un | 100 | Of the 6th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Captain Wu. Armed with Mannlichers |\n| 1904 | Ta-ku | 200 | Of the 3rd infantry ying of the I-tzu Huai Chun, under Captain Tsao, in Hai Ta-ku (Western Ta-ku) |\n| 1904 | Ta-ku | 200 | Of the 4th infantry ying of the I-tzu Huai Chun, under Captain Hsia, in Tung Ta-ku (Eastern Ta-ku) |\n| June 1907 | Tang-fang | 45 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Chang. Armed with Mannlichers |\n| June 1907 | Wang-lien-chuang | 77 | Of the 6th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Fan. Armed with Mannlichers |\n|  | Tang-fang | 30 | Of the 6th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, ander Lieutenant Fan, at Wang-lien-chuang, 2 miles south-east of Tang-fang. Armed with Mannlichers |\n|  | T'ang-shan | 25 |  |\n|  | K'ai-ping | 10 | Of the 3rd infantry ying of the Huai Chun. Armed with Mausers |\n|  | Ku-yeh | 40 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Yang. Armed with Mannlichers |\n|  | Lan-chou | 40 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Wang. Armed with Mannlichers |\n|  | Chang-li | 80 | Of the 1st infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Brigadier-General Lei, who lives here, and commands the whole of the Le-tzu Huai Chun. Armed with Mausers |\n| 1906 | Chang-li | 40 | Of the 2nd infantry ying of the Huai Chun. Armed with Mausers |\n|  | Liu-shou-ying | 10 | Of the 5th infantry ying of the Huai Chun, under Lieutenant Tang, in Chang-chuang, 1 mile north-west of Liu-shou-ying. Armed with Mausers |\n|  | An-shan.. | 30 |  |\n\n### Clause 6 of Report by the Commanders of the Allied Forces, dated April 12, 1902\n\n**LES GARNISONS CHINOISES** qui sont actuellement à moins de 30 kilomètres de la voie ferrée de Pékin-Tong-kou-Chan-hai-kouan ne devront être augmentées en aucune circonstance. Le Gouvernement Chinois en fera connaître les emplacements et les effectifs à la date du 1o Avril.\n\nCertified true copy:  \nH. K. DAVIES, Major, General Staff, North China Command\n\n## Sir J. Jordan to General Waters\n\nPeking, August 17, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 13th instant, in which you quote a clause from the terms laid down in 1902 by the Allied Commanders in connection with the handing over of the native city of Tien-tsin, to the effect that the Chinese garrisons within less than 18 miles of the Peking-Shanhaikuan Railway were under no circumstances to be increased, and state that it has recently come to your knowledge that small bodies of Chinese troops have been stationed since 1904 at thirteen different points close to the railway, the total number now being 1,035, 350 of whom had arrived since June last.\n\nYou add that there is no record in your office to show that the terms formulated by the Commanders were communicated to or accepted by the Chinese Government.\n\nIn reply, I have the honour to inform you that, so far as I can ascertain, the",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty]\n\n4\n\n\"Tung Feng,\" belonging to Mr. Fisher, left Canton for Tseng Cheng, that on arrival at Tun T'ou, below Whampoa, she was pirated by pirates disguised as passengers, who took her to a place near Ma Ch'ung, where they disappeared with their booty. The losses in money and clothes were estimated at 5,000 taels, and you requested me to order the arrest of the robbers and the recovery of the property stolen.\n\nIn reply I have the honour to state that on receipt of your previous message by telephone, by Taotai Wen, of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, I at once sent stringent instructions to the Magistrate and military officer at Tseng Cheng, to the Pun Yu and Tung Kun Magistrates, and to the Kuangchow Colonel, as also to all the forces, naval and military, along the waterways concerned, to at once secure the arrest of the pirates and the recovery of the property. On this being done, and after the interrogation of the pirates, I will communicate with you again.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\nDear Sir John,\n\nInclosure 7 in No. 1.\n\nSir R. Hart to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(Seal of Viceroy.)\n\nPeking, November 15, 1907. I have just read the inclosures in yours of the 14th concerning the piracy question.\n\nThe business is really of a territorial rather than a revenue description, and, as the officials now seem stirred up to activity, I think it would be well to leave things in their hands till it is seen whether their method is effective or not. I am glad to see the Viceroy offered to forgo the 200,000 taels sum the Customs seemed called on to provide, and I shall be more pleased still if we can get out of the position the Wai-wu Pu now wants to create, viz., the Customs to provide and support two cruisers, for I fear their action would either waste money by being useless or cause friction and unpleasantness by over-officiousness in matters not fiscal.\n\n0\n\nSincerely yours,\n\n(Signed) ROBERT HART,\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[2702]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[January 25.]\n\nSECTION 1,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received January 25, 1908.) (No. 568.) Sir,\n\nPeking, December 9, 1907. WITH reference to my despatch No. 525 of the 12th ultimo, I have the honour to forward to you herewith a summary of events which have occurred in China since that date, and of the more interesting newspaper comments on current topics.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n-(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\nInclosure in No. 1,\n\nMonthly Summary,\n\nTHE following extracts from recent daily newspapers published in Peking are of interest :-\n\nNaval Affairs.\n\nNovember 20.—“After further discussion of the question of reviving the navy and the financial difficulties which stand in the way, it is now proposed to direct the Maritime Customs to contribute to the expenses as under the old Rules. The sum provided by the Customs under the old Rules was 240,000 taels per annum, but it is not known whether this would be sufficient.\"\n\nDecember 4.-\"The want of a navy having caused China to be ranked below the first-class Powers at the recent Hague Conference, the navy question has again come to the front, and an Imperial Edict was recently issued requiring Chang Chih-tung and Shih Hsu to devise means and setting aside 5,000,000 taels from the Imperial Treasury for the purpose.\n\nAfter consultation with the Army Board and the Board of Finance and Communications, it has been decided to establish a separate Navy Board within the current year, to defray the initial cost by a contribution from each province of 10,000,000 taels in addition to the 5,000,000 taels already found, and to meet the annual expense by a stamp tax and increased passenger fares. Admiral Sa is to be temporarily appointed Acting President of this Board.'\n\nJapanese Buddhists.\n\nNovember 24.\" The Japanese Minister is being gradually brought over to the view of the Wai-wu Pu that the Japanese Buddhist priests in Fukien should be on the footing of travellers, not of missionaries, and should not be allowed to trespass within the proper sphere of the Local Government.\"\n\nDecember 2.-\"The Japanese Minister has requested the Wai-wu Pu that special Regulations may be made for Buddhist missionaries in China.\"\n\nRailways.\n\nNovember 17. Kalgan-Urga Line. The preliminary surveys for the Kalgan-Urga Railway are to be undertaken next spring. The funds required will be found by China proper and Mongolia conjointly.\"\n\nDecember 1. Line in Kansu.\" The Government is very anxious to press forward the construction of a railway between Lanchow and Hsinming in Kansu. The scheme was sanctioned before as a purely commercial concern, but fell through owing to insufficiency\n\nIt is now intended to undertake it as a joint official and commercial business, and corresponding instructions have been sent to the Shen Kan Viceroy.\n\n[2818 bb-1]\n\nof funds.\n\nB\n\n53",
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        "content_text": "485 C.O. 33035\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government:\n\n2\n\nThere is a round-house for six engines and coaling-station at Ta-shih-ch'iao. There is another brick bridge, 250 yards long, under construction, half-a-mile south of Hai-ch'êng, which will replace the old bridge.\n\nA bridge, 100 feet long, 1 mile to the south of An-shan-chan is a quarter completed. Half-a-mile north of Li-shan-chan there is a double brick pier bridge, about 200 yards long, under construction. There is a double brick pier bridge, about half-a-mile long, with 14 spans, over the Tai-tzu Ho, just north of Liao-yang. The big bridge over the Hun Ho (south of Mukden) will not have a double track for the present.\n\nIt is expected that the line will be completed by November 1908, when the double track will be finished, and first-class carriages, with dining-cars attached, will be put on the line.\n\nThe new engines for the broad gauge line are partly Baldwin and partly from the Pittsburg works, whilst the new passenger corridor carriages are also from America. The latter have no mark on the outside to denote the class. At present carriages with small wooden benches are used for the second class, whilst the third class have to be content with the floor. The cheapest types of carriages have been bought, and the general impression is that they will soon be shaken to pieces; the wood is not seasoned, and the fittings generally are very cheap and bad. As an American engineer remarked: \"The Japanese wanted to get nothing for nothing,\" and they have certainly got it.\n\nThe new time-tables came into force on the 1st June, 1908. As a result of numerous complaints, the Japanese railway employés have now become civil. A passenger between Dalny and Mukden told me that that part of the line was now very well managed, but this was not my experience on the part between Mukden and K'uan-ch'êng-tzu; and interminable delays occur over the registration of baggage or in securing it on arrival. Each station has a superfluous crowd of Japanese inspectors, who loaf about and do nothing. Insufficient accommodation is provided for the Chinese third-class passengers, nearly every one of whom travels with a large bundle of bedding from which he always refuses to be parted.\n\nThe Japanese, following the precedent of the Russians (who only take roubles on their section north of Kuan-ch'eng-tzu), will only accept Japanese gold yen, so that on arrival at a station it is necessary to have recourse to some local harpy in the shape of a money-changer.\n\nA second-class ticket from Ch'ang-t'u Fu to K'uan-ch'êng-tzu, a distance of 104 miles, costs 590 yen, or at the local rate of exchange, 842 dollars. Putting the dollar at 1s. 10d., this would be 148. 74d., or at a rate of over 3 d. a-mile.\n\nPassengers going by the Siberian mail go through to Erh-tao-kou (called by the Japanese K'uan-ch'êng-tsu Station, where they change into the Russian train. This station is about 24 miles north-north-west of K'uan-ch'êng-tzu.\n\nPassengers for that city used to get out at Hsi-k'uan-ch'êng-tzu Station, about half-a-mile south of Erh-tao-kou. The new branch line has now been opened, and passengers now change carriages at Meng-chia-t'un, about 7 miles south of Hsi-k'uan-ch'êng-tzu, and, leaving the old line about 6 miles further on, make a bend round to the new station at Ch'ang-ch'un Fu, three-quarters of a mile north-north-west of that city and alongside of the Japanese Settlement. No work has yet been begun on the line which is to run from this station to Kirin.\n\nThe Japanese have thrown up an embankment to connect Erh-tao-kou with this new station, and one of the subjects of discussion, I believe, at the recent Conference in St. Petersburgh was with reference to the Russians using this new embankment and the Japanese taking up the old piece of line south of Erh-tao-kou.\n\nThe country west of K'uan-ch'eng-tzu is slightly undulating with deep nullahs, and abominable roads lead across it from the city to the Russian and old Japanese stations.\n\nThere is a Decauville line for push cars from Chang-t'u Fu (further south) to Ch'ang-t'u Fu Station, a distance of 7 miles over the downs; fare, 40 cents. It was put down by the Japanese during the war, and is said to be still owned by them.\n\nAt Mukden there is a horse tram-line from the station to the city. It is jointly owned by the Japanese and Chinese, but I was informed that it was running at a loss.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) G. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel, Grenadier Guards, Military Attaché.\n\nTien-tsin, June 26, 1908.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[29328]\n\nREC? [August 24\n\nSECTION 1,\n\n9 REF 08\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 24.)\n\n(No. 297.) Sir,\n\nPeking, July 6, 1908. I HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copies of despatches from His Majesty's Consuls-General at Tien-tsin and Mukden on the subject of recent judicial reforms inaugurated by the Chinese Provincial authorities.\n\nThe measures which have been taken towards the introduction of a better judicial system, both at Tien-tsin and in Manchuria, are no doubt due to the influence of enlightened officials, such as Yuan Shih-k'ai and Tong Shoa-yi, who wish by these means to raise the standard of Chinese justice and thus prepare the way for the eventual abolition of extra-territoriality. But it is to be observed that at Shanghae, which would be the most fitting place to provide an object lesson in reforms of this description, little or nothing has been attempted.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n(No. 32.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Ker to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nTien-tsin, June 25, 1908. I HAVE the honour to submit, for your consideration, copies of the following correspondence that has passed between the Customs Taotai and the Consular Body at Tien-tsin on the subject of the Shen Pan Ting, the Chinese District Court for the decision of civil cases in which foreigners are plaintiffs :-\n\n1. Copy and translation of despatch from Customs Taotai to Mr. Hopkins, as senior Consul, dated the 16th January, 1908, announcing the establishment of the Court and transmitting the Regulations;\n\n2. Copy and translation of the Regulations inclosed in above;\n\n3. Copy (in English and Chinese) of despatch from Mr. Hopkins to Customs Taotai, dated the 27th March, 1908, communicating certain suggestions made by the Consular Body on the proposed Regulations;\n\n4. Copy and précis of despatch from Customs Taotai to Mr. Hopkins dated the 16th May, 1908, communicating the reply and explanations offered by the Shen P'an Ting in regard to the above suggestions.\n\nThe Consular Body has now drafted (Inclosure 5) a reply which it is proposed that Mr. E. T. Williams, as Senior Consul, shall send to the Customs Taotai, agreeing to accept the regulations in question, subject to the approval of the foreign Representatives in Peking, on condition that certain further slight amendments are made.\n\nAt a meeting of the Consular Body held on the 19th instant it was decided that before sending in this conditional assent to the regulations, the whole matter should be submitted by the Consuls to their respective Ministers, and the approval of the Diplomatic Body obtained.\n\nI have the honour accordingly to request your instructions as to joining in the proposed action of the Consular Body.\n\nI may say that although I have not been long enough in Tien-tsin to watch the working of this Court, Mr. Hopkins before he left expressed to me the opinion that on the whole it was working satisfactorily, and that there was nothing particular in the regulations to which objection should be taken.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) W. P. KER.\n\n[1905 aa-1]",
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        "content_text": "2\n\nhensible how a civilized race like the Japanese can be indifferent to such a national degradation. On more than one occasion I have seen Chinese coolies treating them with a contemptuous familiarity they would not display to their own women.\n\nNorth of Mukden the Japanese are of course much in evidence at all the railway stations. At Tieh-ling they have an exceptionally large and apparently flourishing Settlement, covering the ground between the station and the city, but away from the railway they are not much in evidence, except at Kirin.\n\nGoing west-north-west from Ssu-p'ing-chieh station I did not see any till I reached Chêng-chia-t'un, where, not counting a party of Japanese surveyors, there is a Japanese shop, in which I bought a tin of biscuits, with the well-known pattern and the side notice of \"Hundley and Palmier's Superior Reading Biscuits.\" At K'u-lun-chieh two Japanese merchants from Hsin-min Fu have recently been investigating the conditions of trade. At Fa-k'u-men there are two Japanese doctors who—with a race addicted to medicine like the Chinese—are able to carry on a thriving trade, besides several low-class shop-keepers. I did not see any more Japanese till I reached Hsin-min Fu, where the Japanese have a Consulate and gambling dens.\n\nWherever I went in Manchuria, I was told trade was in a bad way. In Fa-k'u-men many firms, affected by the big failure of a Chinese bank at Newchwang last year, had come to grief, whilst in Kirin Province the native banks, who are under no Government supervision, had issued too many notes. The country people, owing to lack of funds, were making no purchases, and business was generally at a standstill. The Japanese were therefore suffering by the general depression of trade.\n\n3. Robbers in China. The Hung-hu-tzu are generally armed with modern rifles. At K'uan-ch'eng-tzu the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha sells rifles to the Chinese farmers, much against the wishes of the Chinese officials, and many of these rifles find their way into the hands of the robbers. The Hung-hu-tzu, who are indiscriminately Chinese, Manchu, or Mongolian (in the west), are often old soldiers, and generally belong to the farmer class. Often a family elects to send one member to join a neighbouring band, so as to enjoy the benefits of its protection. Wherever I travelled in Feng-tien Province the country was reported to be tranquil, but I was informed that small parties of robbers were still giving trouble some 12 or 15 miles north of Feng-hua Hsien, and that Mongol mounted bandits had been raiding the country to the west of K'u-lun-chieh earlier in the year. In Kirin Province, which is more thinly populated, I heard they were still giving some trouble in the hills, 80 or 100 miles to the south of Kirin.\n\nGenerally when Chinese soldiers are sent out against robbers, they complain very little, and the Chinese often secure repose by promoting the robber chiefs to official rank and taking their bands into their service. Thus the Hung-hu-tzu chief, named Chang-tso-lin, was given the Hsin-min Fu military district last year. To show his zeal he invited a brother chieftain, called Tu-li-san, to a feast, and then treacherously put him to death. He has now been promoted to a red button, and given the command of the Chêng-chia-t'un district. Feng-ling-kê, well known before the war as the great robber chief of Liao-yang, was captured by the Russians and sent to Saghalien, whence he escaped, and worked for the Japanese during the war. He is now commanding the district of Chang-wu Hsien, to the west of Fa-k'u-men. Unfortunately, he was absent from the city when I passed through. Many of the soldiers of the provincial armies of Manchuria (viz., Feng-chün, Chi-chün, and Ch'i-chün) have been Hung-hu-tzu, who have now changed sides with their chiefs, and settled down to the reposeful life of a Chinese soldier. As the soldiers of the Lu Chün are Manchus of the cities, or Chinese from other provinces, there are probably no ex-Hung-hu-tzu amongst them. A soldier told me that the reason why they were recruiting only Manchu soldiers for the local Lu-chün at Kirin and Mukden was because if a Chinese deserted he could probably escape, but the Manchu could not desert so easily. This is probably partly the case,\n\nAnother difficulty in Manchuria is that the Chinese police themselves often rob and squeeze the inhabitants.\n\nDuring the Manchurian campaign, the Hung-hu-tzu were of considerable use to the Japanese. The Russians used to have large supplies of cattle, &c., sent across Mongolia to them, and the Hung-hu-tzu were employed to waylay these convoys and divert them to the Japanese.\n\nI do not think that Japanese officers would do well in command of Chinese soldiers, as they would be too harsh and unsympathetic, whilst the Chinese have the old prejudice against the Japanese, whom they always looked upon as inferior to themselves till they were partially disillusioned fourteen years ago. On the other hand, I believe that the mounted bandits of Western Manchuria, if trained and led by European officers, who knew their language, could be made very useful in guerilla warfare.\n\n1\n\n3\n\n4. The Chinese in Manchuria.—The population is mostly composed of Chinese, who have emigrated from Shantung and Chih-li Provinces during the last 200 or 300 years. Some have been settled so long that they call themselves natives of Manchuria, so they can always tell how long it is since their families emigrated. The Manchus are principally found in the big cities like Mukden and Kirin.\n\nAs the population of Shantung and Chih-li increases, the necessity for emigration grows greater, and this overflow finds an outlet in Manchuria or Mongolia. In the past, the population of China has often been kept in check by wholesale massacres, such as the appalling destruction of the Tai-ping rebellion, the Mahommedan rebellions in Yunnan and Kan-su, and the more recent disturbances in Kuang-si, also by great famines and the inundations of the Yellow River; but as civilization increases, railways are built, and European methods of engineering adopted, these evils should be reduced, and the population will increase more rapidly than at present. The colonization of Manchuria is still in its infancy. Taking a line roughly from Tieh-ling to Fa-k'u-men in the south, I was struck by the smallness of the villages and the scantiness of the population as I proceeded north. In Kirin Province, this was still more apparent. On the main road between Kirin and K'uan-ch'eng-tzu, the two principal towns of the province, a distance of 77 miles, there are only 3 villages with over 40 or 50 houses, viz., one with 250, another with 100, and another with 60 houses. Sungari, between the railway and Kirin, the country is even more thinly populated.\n\nMeanwhile, the Chinese are gradually pushing forward the boundaries of Chih-li to the north, and of Manchuria to the north and west, buying land from the Mongol Princes, and pressing the Mongols back. Within the last twenty years, a great tract of land on the western side of Manchuria, called the Shu-lu-huang, or Imperial grazing ground, has been thrown open to colonists, and the land is now mostly given up to cultivation. Towns, as they become of sufficient importance, are granted official status, and Chinese Magistrates are sent to govern these budding colonies.\n\nOn the\n\nWhilst natives come and go in Manchuria with much noise, drawing the attention of the whole world upon themselves, the Chinese peasants quietly push on unnoticed, armed only with the primitive agricultural implements used in the time of Abraham; but they have arrived with the full determination to stay, until necessity compels their descendants to push on still further ahead and carry on the silent and real invasion of Manchuria. The Mongols are a very different race from the Chinese, and are stupid and indolent, readily offering themselves as victims to Chinese cunning and craft.\n\n5. The disputed Territory of Ch'ien-tao.—I was unable to visit this region. The Japanese Consul at Kirin told me the Chinese had already sent four battalions of infantry of the Lu Chün (about 2,000 men) to the neighbourhood of Yen-chi Ting, and that they proposed sending the rest of the Kirin Lu Chün brigade (another 2,000 men) there this autumn.\n\nIn addition to the Lu Chün, the Chinese have one part of their Kirin provincial troops (Chi-chün Chien-lu), nominally 1,566 officers and men, stationed in the district. The latter are really untrained constabulary, employed for service against the Hung-hu-tzu, and unorganized for war, whilst of the Lu Chün 3,000 out of the 4,000 belong to the Kirin Brigade, which only started training last spring. The remaining 1,000 men belong, apparently, to the 3rd Lu Chün Division, which is scattered around K'uan-ch'eng-tzu, Kirin, and Ch'ang-t'u Fu, and is commanded by a very inefficient Major-General, Ts'ao-k'un. The division, when it was at Pao-ting Fu two years ago, shared with the 1st Manchu Division the honour of being the best division in the Chinese army, but it has deteriorated very much since it was sent to Manchuria.\n\nG. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel,\n\nGrenadier Guards, Military Attaché.\n\n(Signed)\n\nPeking, July 4, 1908.\n\n553",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## SECTION 1\n\n[44935]\n\n**(No. 543.)**\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received December 24.)\n\nPeking, December 4, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copies of three Reports, one by the Military Attaché and two by His Majesty's Consul at Wuhu, on the recent mutiny of some Chinese troops at An-ching, the capital of the Province of Anhui.\n\nThe movement, which was confined to about 1,000 men, was only of importance as showing that a considerable amount of disaffection still exists in this province, the former Governor of which was, it will be remembered, assassinated by a band of revolutionaries in July 1907.\n\nThe revolt was quickly suppressed, thanks to the energy of the Governor, a protégé of Yuan Shih-k'ai, who hurried back from the manœuvres just in time to prevent the city from falling into the hands of the insurgents. This is the solitary instance of any disturbance so far reported in connection with the change of reign, and the promptness with which it has been met is likely to have a wholesome effect in restraining the forces of disorder generally.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nLieutenant-Colonel Pereira to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nPeking, December 2, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose a Report on the recent mutiny at An-ching-fu, the capital of Anhui. Very little is known about the doings of the Secret Societies of China, but, as far as can be gathered, there appears to be little or no proper organization to work up a general outbreak, and up to the present each outburst has been merely local, without any competent leaders or any sane plan of action. In the present case the sympathies of the inhabitants of An-ch'ing were on the side of the Government. Captain Hsiung, who is reported to be the leader of the mutineers, and for whom a reward of 2,000 taels has been offered for his head, belongs to the Secret Societies; but the men were probably more actuated by a chance of plunder than by any other reason. Central China at the present time the Secret Societies appear to be most active in the cities of An-ch'ing-fu and Nanking and in the Province of Hunan.\n\nViceroy Tuan-fang, of Nanking, appears to have lost his nerve, and to be in great terror of being assassinated.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) GEORGE PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel, Grenadier Guards, Military Attaché.\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nReport of a Mutiny at An-ch'ing-fu (Capital of Anhui Province).\n\nAN-CHING, a city of probably 150,000 or 160,000 inhabitants, has for some time been a centre of anti-dynastic Secret Societies, such as the \"Kê-ming Tang.\" In July 1907 the Manchu Governor, En-ming, was assassinated, but an abortive attempt at rebellion was crushed. Governor Feng, who succeeded, was very weak, and afraid to act vigorously against the malcontents. The leader of the recent mutiny, Hsiung-nai-tzu, a Captain in the artillery, got into trouble with the police and was arrested, but the Governor released him without punishment. Fortunately a month ago he was succeeded...",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## SECTION 1\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey**.-(Received November 26.)\n\n(No. 103.)\n\nPeking, November 7, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from the military attaché to this legation on the subject of the reconstruction of the Antung-Mukden Railway.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n\n(No. 17.)\n\n**Lieutenant-Colonel Willoughby to Sir J. Jordan**\n\nPeking, November 4, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit herewith three copies of the report on the reconstruction of the Antung-Mukden Railway (viz., one copy for the Foreign Office, one copy for transmission to the War Office through the Foreign Office, and one copy for record in the Chancery).\n\nI have, &c.\n\nM. E. WILLOUGHBY, Lieutenant-Colonel,  \nMilitary Attaché.\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n**Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Willoughby respecting the Antung-Mukden Railway Reconstruction**\n\nI TRAVELLED over the Antung-Mukden Railway on the 27th and 28th September, and back on the 30th September and 1st October.\n\nThe Present Track.-The present track is 189 miles and 2 ft. 6 in. gauge. The following are the stations along it and their distance from Antung, viz. :-\n\n| Stations        | Miles | Remarks                                                                 |\n|-----------------|-------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Antung          | 0     | In the Japanese concession, close to the bank of the Yalu,              |\n| Sha ho Chên     | 3     | The station for the Chinese city of Antung-hsien.                       |\n| Wu-lung Pei     | 17    | Hot springs,                                                            |\n| Tang Shan Cheng | 22    |                                                                         |\n| Kao-li Mên      | 31    | Where the line goes through the line of the old \"willow palisade,\"      |\n| Feng Huang Ch'êng | 39  | but no sign of this now exists.                                         |\n| Szu T'ou-tzn     | 46    | The station, with its little Japanese settlement around it, IS some 8 miles distant from the city. |\n| Chi Kuan Shan   | 53    |                                                                         |\n| Erb Tao K'on    | 59    |                                                                         |\n| Chiu Mu Chuang  | 69    |                                                                         |\n| Liu Chia Tai    | 78    | The trains, each way, stop here for the night. There are several Japanese and Chinese inns. |\n| Tung Yuan Pu    | 85    |                                                                         |\n| Ts'ao Ho Kou    | 93    |                                                                         |\n| Lien Shan Kuan  | 106   |                                                                         |\n| Haia Ma Tang    | 111   |                                                                         |\n| Nan Fên         | 121   | 5 miles east of the Mo-Tien-Ling.                                       |",
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        "content_text": "12\n\nOfficers appointed to investigate Military Matters.\n\nLiang Pi (brigade-general, 1st brigade Imperial guards).\n\nWên Hua (inspector of ordnance).\n\nYao Pao-lai.\n\nPêng Tsan-ch'ang.\n\n(Lieutenant-colonel) Liu En-yuan. (N.B.-Speaks a little English).\n\nTien Hsien-chang.\n\nChang Ch'ing-t'ung.\n\nTang Pao chao.\n\nChông Ching pang\n\nHsu Chih-shan.\n\nTung Chang.\n\nInterpreters to Mission.\n\nSecretaries.\n\nAttachés.\n\n(Lieutenant-colonel) Chiang Shao-yuan. (N.B.-Speaks English well; reported in charge of travelling arrangements).\n\nWu Wei-yu.\n\nSpecial Attaché to Japan only.\n\nT'an Hsio-k'uei.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[April 14,\n\nCO\n\n14294\n\nSECTION 12 MAY 10,\n\n[12862]\n\n(No. 62.)\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Mr. Mac Müller. (Telegraphic.) R.\n\nForeign Office, April 14, 1910. CHINESE Minister has urged strongly that removal of Bredon from an active to a nominal post is taken with desire to be agreeable to us, and that it will soon be apparent that he does not control Customs.\n\nI have replied that, if new post is really nominal, there was no need to appoint him to Revenue Board, which controls Customs; that this appointment has produced impression at Peking that Chinese Government are acting disagreeably to us, and that I do not see how this impression can be removed, except by Bredon being appointed somewhere else.\n\nMinister appealed to end of to-day's Peking telegram in \"Times\" as proving that impression at Peking was satisfactory. I said you were not at all satisfied, and I could only regard our conversation to-day as having made no progress.\n\nWith regard to Chinese Mining and Engineering Company, I said I understood that, if negotiations failed, Chinese would agree to arbitration on whole case, which I thought it fair should include validity of title. I also wished it to be understood that Chinese would not take aggressive action and attack Portuguese territory without resorting to arbitration. Portuguese, of course, must not disturb status quo or provoke attack.\n\nI gather from your telegram No. 70 [of 12th instant] that Chinese Mining and Engineering Company question is now on satisfactory footing, But I think Chinese should also agree to position as regards future contingencies at Macao, as put in this telegram, and we shall certainly decline to receive Chinese Prince till we are assured by you that arrangements about Bredon are satisfactory.\n\n[2729\n\nQwww\n\n-1]",
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        "content_text": "bought across the Maru range at one ounce for three ounces of silver. There is one point of considerable interest in connection with these mineral deposits. In the autumn of last year the Chinese trader Li Lao-pan applied for and obtained through the Tengyuch Taotai a written permit to work the silver and salt of the Pienma district. He proposed to bring over men from the Mingkuang mines, but the excitement following the raid was so great that none dared to enter the country, and it is not improbable that the information supplied to the Taotai on this occasion may have proved an added incentive to the Chinese in their resolve to make a final bid for the possession of the unadministered territory.\n\nThe Chinese Li Fo-ming. It may be of interest to give some account of the Chinese trader Li Fa-ming or Li Lao-pan (known by the tribesmen as Li San-pao), who might be one of our necessary acquisitions should the Government of Burmah decide to undertake the immediate administration of this territory. He speaks Kachin and Maru, and evidently carries on a thriving trade throughout these districts, where he has considerable influence with the people, who travel little beyond their homes and depend on him for the news and the products of the outside world. He brings into the country Chinese cotton-cloth, opium, beads, buttons, needles and oxen, and sends out gold, musk, bears'-galls, huang-lien (a drug), beeswax, and coffin planks. He was very anxious that I should expel Tengkeng's tax-collectors from Kang-fang, visit the twenty-six villages, and appoint headmen both in them and in the Pienma group. He also urged me to go with him on a journey of three days to the country of the wild Maru, where he assured me of a warm welcome. I did not, however, feel justified in accepting any of these offers. He reports thirteen salt springs at O-mi-o-tze, in the Maru country, and evidently has great faith in the potentialities of that land. He was of great assistance to me on my journey, and, although I have no doubt that he manages to keep well with the Chinese authorities, I think he might prove useful, as he is one of the many Yunnanese traders who know Burmah well, and who welcome British rule with its open roads, its security for property, and encouragement of trade. He did not hesitate to press for a ratification of the mines concession granted by the Taotai, but I explained that I could offer him no assistance in this direction, and that I was merely on a tour of enquiry.\n\nJourney to Tengkeng. On the 18th April the weather showed signs of clearing, and we said good-bye to Pienma, whilst the whole population turned out to speed us on our way and to urge an early and a permanent return. The top of the pass (10,500 feet) was covered with whirling mist-wreaths, and at intervals could be seen miles of snow-peaks stretching far away in a long unbroken line, as the great mass of the Irrawady-Salween watershed vanished into the white clouds towards the north. All round the pass were masses of primulas, great blooms of a brilliant azure blue, and to the east the Valley of the Ku-tan Ho ran steeply down in sunshine to Tengkeng and the Salween, backed by the great range dividing it from the Mekong, which is almost as perfect and symmetrical as the peaks on its western bank. Along the track were gangs of men \"making a road for the Paoshan magistrate,\" and at the little homestead where we stayed the night an intimation had been received that supplies would be required in the course of the next few days. On arrival at Tengkeng the magistrate appeared in person, a heavy, genial officer, who leapt into the midst of affairs without introduction or warning. He had been sent by the Yungchang Prefect, his superior, to look after his subordinate Tengkeng; the Prefect feared I should require information which the Sawbwa could scarcely be trusted to give; it was very hard on a man of his weight this journey into the Salween Valley at this season of the year, and his chair-bearers had given out already; he was leaving for Pienma at once, but suggested that I should stay a few days and rest; did I need any information? He unfortunately recovered his breath before I had time to speak, and I left him the next day, having only been able to tell him that he would be ill-advised to cross the range at the present juncture; that the question of the frontier in this district was under the consideration of our two Governments; that I was telegraphing to Yunnan-fu to the effect that I had requested him to await further orders before proceeding, and that, if he persisted in crossing without further instructions, he might embarrass his Government. With some reluctance he promised to communicate with the Yungchang Prefect, who was believed to be awaiting my return in Tengyuel, and he undertook to delay his departure until a reply had been received, explanations and ejaculations being shouted at me across the hills long after they had ceased to be intelligible. A secretary who accompanied this active officer informed my writer that the magistrate had been instructed to hurry up to Pienma to establish a school and to appoint headmen, and that there had been great trouble about the destruction of the frontier pillar in Lungchuan, but that the Viceroy had telegraphed from Yunnan-fu that he had received assurances that the Government of Burmah did not propose to make an incident of the matter, and that the magistrate had been ordered to leave the next day; the Viceroy's message had concluded with an injunction to lay aside all fear of the foreigner. This information was almost as breathless and inarticulate as the magistrate himself, but it appears to throw some light on the fact that the Tengkeng raid and the activity of the Prefect in regard to the southern frontier are all part of one scheme resulting from a sudden access of frontier activity; that the action of the Prefect in destroying the pillar (reported in my despatch of the 15th February) caused a certain disquiet lest it had carried things too far, but that some assurance had been received which had allayed their uneasiness, and on the strength of which they were losing no time in laying the foundations of administrative control beyond the disputed line of the north-eastern frontier. At the same time, it confirms the reports which reach me on all sides that the destruction of the Lungchuan pillar was regarded by the Chinese as a matter of considerable importance, and that they anticipated a rebuff from the Government of Burmah with some anxiety.\n\nFrontier Chiefs. The Tengkeng Chief (Sawbwa, Fu-yi or Tussu) called to see me in company with his superintending officer, but he was so much overwhelmed by the presence of the magistrate that he was unable to speak, except to mention that he was Chinese by descent, and of the name of Tuan. He is a slight, nervous-looking lad of about 20, and by no means the blustering desperado I had expected to find, locally known as a fool, and there seems little doubt that in the matter of the raid he was merely a tool of the Paoshan magistrate and his energetic superior, the Prefect Peng. Five chiefs of the same Tuan family hold the neighbouring Lisu posts, and none of them appear to have the personality or power to band men together on their own initiative, though they form a powerful combination, and could doubtless raise a considerable force and prove very troublesome if once convinced of the backing of the Chinese officials, of whom they have a wholesome dread. The last I saw of the neighbouring Sawbwa Tuan of Lao-wo was a crouching, sobbing figure in the consulate gatehouse, clad in a highly-decorated Japanese uniform and a pair of ladies' brown boots, who had been \"beaten to death\" by Colonel Chiang for daring to claim a tiny share in the credit of avenging last year's German murder. The two Mingkuang Sawbwaships from whose districts came the opposition to Mr. Hertz's column in 1900 are now represented by very feeble rulers, and I think that little trouble need be feared from their direction, as the Chinese have ousted or absorbed the Lisu population in their districts, and their titles are little but a name. The advance of the Chinese farmers northwards along the Salween has also had serious effects for the Sawbwa of Tengkeng, who is obliged to walk warily in taxing the pure Chinese, lest he be called to book in the magistrate's yamen; his poppy cultivation has also been stopped—meaning a loss of from 16 to 20 ounces of opium from each house—and his total annual income on the Chinese side of the frontier is believed to have been reduced to about 2,000 rupees, a fact which is well borne out by the poverty and squalor of his capital and his yamen, qualities in which those of his neighbours enter into active competition. With the reduction of their revenues they are year by year less able to meet the demands of the magistrate for his annual perquisites, and there is no doubt that the chiefs have felt tentatively, and the magistrate has indicated actively the necessity for some new resources if they are to retain their posts.\n\nThe Salween Valley. On learning of the object of the Paoshan magistrate's proposed visit to Pienma, I was much tempted to return across the pass and await there an assurance from His Majesty's Consul-General at Yunnan-fu that the magistrate would be deterred from crossing, as it appeared important that he should be prevented from taking any steps towards the administrative control of the country at the present juncture. I felt unable to do this, however, as my little party had been severely tried by the hardships of the journey, and a return of the rains would possibly have delayed my return to my post for an indefinite period, a risk which appeared inadvisable at the present time. I therefore took the road by the banks of the river, which reaches Tengyuch in seven marches after leaving Tengkeng. The weather was fortunately bright and clear during the march along the Salween, which was in its full glory of early summer, and, although intensely hot, a pleasant change after the hard journey in the mountains. The river still ran green and clear, flecked with foam as it formed in eddying rapids or rushed over its hidden rocks. On either side rose the forest-clad mountains, their luxuriant tropical green sprinkled with brilliant flowering shrubs and trees, whilst the whole was crowned by the snow-clad peaks stretching up to the...\n\n[2788 d-2]\n\nD\n\n326",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n344\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA,\n\n[June 20.]\n\n0\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nSECTION 8,\n\nC\n\n21654\n\n[22019]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nRECO Regs 15 JUL 10\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received June 20.)\n\n(No. 180.) Sir,\n\nPeking, June 2, 1910.\n\nIN my despatch No. 166 of the 21st May I indicated that, in my opinion, based on a careful study of the various despatches received from His Majesty's consular officers, the persons most deeply implicated in the recent outbreak at Changsha, and therefore most deserving of punishment, were the treasurer, Chuang Keng-liang; the customs taotai, Chu Yen-hsi; and three members of the gentry, Kung Hsien-chiao, Yang Kung, and Yeh Te-hui. I have the honour to enclose a short précis of the evidence in my possession against these five individuals.\n\nIn my telegram No. 105 of the 31st ultimo, I reported that a decree had been issued cashiering and degrading certain guilty officials and members of the gentry, and I now beg to enclose translation of a note communicating three decrees issued on the 27th ultimo, as well as a translation of a further decree issued on the 31st ultimo, containing the decisions of the Board of Civil Office as to the penalties to be awarded in the cases specially submitted to them.*\n\nThe decrees are based on a memorial presented by Jui Cheng, Viceroy of Hankow, and Yang Wen-ting, the Acting Governor of Hunan, who were, as I have previously stated, specially deputed to hold an enquiry into the causes and circumstances of the outbreak.\n\nThe punishments inflicted are as follows:-\n\nOf the officials, the Governor of Hunan, Ta'en Ch'un-ming; the treasurer, Chuang Keng-liang; the police taotai, Lai Cheng-yü; the customs taotai, Chu Yen-hsi, Captain Kuei Ling, Lieutenant Chou Chang-tai, Major P'ei Lin, and the magistrate, Chou T'eng, are cashiered; the Changsha magistrate, Yu Ping-yuan, and the Shan Hua magistrate, Kuo Chung-kuang, are cashiered and left at their posts. The judge, Chou Ju-ch'en, and the Changsha prefect, Wang Feng-ying, are degraded three steps and kept at their posts as an act of grace; while Colonel Yang Min-yüan, who, to judge from all the accounts received, really behaved well, loses his button.\n\nOf the gentry, Yang Kung and Yeh Te-hui are to be immediately cashiered and handed over to the strict surveillance of the local authorities, and Wang Hsien-chien and Kung Hsien-chiao are degraded five steps and transferred to other posts.\n\nIn my despatch No. 166 of the 21st ultimo I expressed the opinion that His Majesty's Government should insist on adequate punishment of the guilty officials and members of the gentry, though I have always felt that it would be far preferable that the Chinese Government should take the necessary action to this end on their own initiative without pressure from foreign Governments. This was the attitude I had taken up in the various informal conversations I have had with members of the Wai-wu Pu, and in reply I was informed that a strict and impartial investigation was being held, that the Prince Regent was taking the keenest personal interest in the matter, and that the guilty would be punished without respect to persons.\n\nI had intended to furnish the Wai-wu Pu privately with such evidence as I possessed, but when I came to sift it down and to separate facts from hearsay and generalities, I felt that I was not in a position to give them any reliable information which could not equally well be procured by the Chinese officials on the spot, especially as I knew that His Majesty's consul-general at Hankow had been in communication on the subject with the Viceroy.\n\nAs to the adequacy of the punishments, it is difficult for me, after my short residence in China, to form an opinion, but in comparing them with punishments inflicted under similar circumstances on previous occasions, we have to remember, firstly, that no foreign lives were sacrificed, and, secondly, that the Central Government are lamentably weak, and probably dare not deal more severely with the Changsha gentry. I notice that, out of the five individuals whom I considered as most to blame, four receive the severest penalty, viz., cashiering, which, of course, * Not printed.\n\n[2788 u-6]",
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        "content_text": "ISA\n\n3GPF!};!\n\ntolIMM x24 .D.W\n\n1\n\n(bergið)\n\nEnclosure in Mr. Max Miller's No. 390 of October 29, 1910.\n\nBANQUET TO THE GOVERNOR\n\nOF HONGKONG GIVEN BY CHINESE EDUCATED IN\n\nGREAT BRITAIN,\n\nA most interesting and successful dinner took place last Saturday, when the Chinese returned students educated in Great Britain assembled at the Students' Club to welcome Sir Frederick Lugard, the Governor of Hongkong, on his visit to Peking. The spacious courtyards were brilliantly lighted with arc lamps, whilst innumerable Chinese lanterns hung from the different verandahs and passages. The dining room was beautifully decorated with large pots of chrysanthemums, now in full bloom, and on the walls, the Union Jack and Dragon flags floated prominently. Captain Tan Hsiao heng, Vice-President of the Admiralty, received the guests in the sumptuously furnished drawing-room.\n\nThe guests invited, besides Sir Frederick Lugard, were Mr. Max Muller (Chargé d'Affaires); Lieut-Colonel Willoughby; Sir Alexander Hosie; Captain J. C. Hart, R.A.M.C.; the Hon. E. S. Scott; Messrs. H. H. Fox, H. Phillips, and W. P. Frazer; Rev. F. L. Norris; Captain D. Pudsey; Dr. Gray, of the British Legation; Lord ffrench; Mr. D. D. Braham (Assistant Foreign Editor, London Times); A. E. Wearne; Dr. T. G. Gibb, Mr. F. R. C. S. The Chinese guests present were - H. E. Chang Teh-yi (sometime Minister to Great Britain), H. E. Hu Wei-teh (Senior Vice President), H. E. Tsao Ju-lin (Junior Vice President), H. E. Saoke Alfred Sze (Deputy Vice-President) and Dr. W. W. Yen, all of the Wai-wu Pu. The military officers were in brilliant uniforms.\n\nH. E. Tan Hsiao heng took the chair; on his right was Sir Frederick Lugard and on his left H.E. Chang. Opposite him sat H. E. Yen Fu, as the senior member. On November 7, 1910, the party, Mr. Max Muller being on his right and Sir Alexander Hosie on his left. Altogether fifty-one sat down to dinner, the catering being in the hands of the Hotel des Wagons Lits.\n\nH. E. Tan first proposed the toast of their Majesties the Emperor of China and the King of England, and then, in welcoming Sir Frederick Lugard, made the following speech.\n\nHe said: As chairman this evening of the party of those who have been educated in Great Britain, I rise to propose the health of Sir Frederick Lugard. It is a long time now since I last had to make a speech in English, so I fear I cannot do enough justice to our distinguished guest and his excellent scheme for establishing a university in Hongkong. Sir Frederick's name is not new to us. As far back as thirty years ago, he had already fought wars in Afghanistan where he won honors. Later on, he fought battles in the Soudan, in Burmah, in West Africa, and in Central Africa, and at all these places his name was mentioned in dispatches. He was then appointed High Commissioner of Northern Nigeria, where he stayed for six years before he became Governor of Hongkong. As Commander-in-Chief of the latter place, he first brought out his proposal for the establishment of a modern university, mainly for Chinese - a proposal which has endeared him and the great country he represents to all of us (loud cheers). Now, gentlemen, I would ask you for permission to introduce to you my friend, Dr. Wu, who will finish the rest of what I have to say regarding the University of Hongkong (cheers).\n\n422\n\nC O\n\n36073\n\n25 IN 10!",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCO39116\n\ndeep\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nRegE23 FC10\n\n[October 22.]\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nSECTION 1,\n\n[38550]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n(No. 171.)\n\nMr. Max Müller to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received October 22.)\n\n(Telegraphic.) P.\n\nBURMAH frontier. Expedition to Pienma.\n\nPeking, October 22, 1910.\n\nI have received the following telegram from His Majesty's consul at Tengyueh in reply to the enquiries which I addressed to him through His Majesty's consul-general at Yünnan-fu on receipt of your telegram No.134 of the 18th October:\n\n\"I adhere to the views expressed in my memorandum of the 24th May. Though the expedition is, according to my information, anticipated by the Chinese authorities, there are now hardly any troops left in Tengyueh, as 200 have been sent eastwards to reinforce Talifu, on account of the rebellion at Chungtien, and many others are scattered over the district for local purposes. Modern troops were to have been stationed during this year at Tengyueh, but, owing, I believe, to lack of sufficient funds, no accommodation has been provided nor preparations made for them.\"\n\nThe above was received through His Majesty's consul-general at Yunnan-fu, who added no further information.\n\nMilitary attaché is not aware that the Chinese Government have any intention of moving modern troops to the frontier from Talifu. It would on the contrary appear that, in order to cope with the mutiny reported in my telegram No.169 of the 14th instant, troops are being moved to the north away from Yungchang, Talifu, and Tengyueh.\n\nColonel Willoughby estimates that Chinese troops could probably march from Talifu to Kulikha, on the Bhamo-Tengyueh route, in fifteen or sixteen days.\n\nWith regard to Mr. Rose's route No.7, I understand that Chinese troops could reach Teng-Keng from Talifu by three different routes in between nine and twelve days according to the route taken. It is also possible that there exist tracks across the frontier south of the Teng-Kong-Pienma route, but they would make the distance to be traversed from Talifu greater. A memorandum on the subject has been forwarded to India and the War Office by the military attaché.\n\n[2958 y--1]\n\nre\n\n532\n\nPage 1\n\n...\n\nPage 1",
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        "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[March 20,]\n\n### SECTION 6.\n[10118]\n\n**(No. 91.) Sir,**\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received March 20.)**\n\nTHE Pienma incident has formed the subject of frequent notices in the vernacular Peking press for some months past, but the majority of the comments have shown little knowledge of the question, and have given but slight indication of the attitude of the Chinese Government.\n\nThe two articles which I have the honour to enclose herewith in translation are better informed than the usual run of newspaper criticism. The first, which appeared on the 15th instant, shows a tolerably fair acquaintance with the situation, and confirms the general impression that the Chinese Government are in no mood to resort to forcible measures.\n\nThe second is the text of an appeal which the Viceroy of Yunnan issued on the 26th January last to the Viceroys and Governors of the different provinces in the Empire. This statement, which is apparently intended to explain the Viceroy's position, and to serve as a sort of apologia for his enforced inaction, is especially interesting, as clearly showing that he had been commanded by Imperial edict to avoid the use of force. He adds, pathetically, that it is a matter of common knowledge that the slender forces at his command render the adoption of this course a necessity, but this frank admission does not prevent him from holding that it would be nothing short of a national disgrace not to make the withdrawal of the British troops a condition precedent to the discussion of the boundary question.\n\nIt is perhaps noteworthy that his appeal for advice is especially addressed to the Viceroy of Szechuan, whose province stands in close relationship to Yunnan in this matter.\n\nA copy of this despatch is being forwarded to the Viceroy of India.\n\nI have, &c.\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n**(Translation.)**\n### Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\nNewspaper Extract.\n\nPIENMA. The \"Chung Wai Jih Pao\" of the 15th gives a short description of the situation in Yünnan. It states as follows:-\n\nOn the British troops setting out to occupy Pienma, the Viceroy of Yunnan instructed two battalions of the brigade quartered at Tali Fu to proceed towards the frontier to oppose them. We now hear from Peking that the British troops have already reached Pienma, having arrived by two different routes from Mi Chih No (Myitkyina). There are 2,000 men, 2,500 horses, besides engineers and transport. The military commander is Colonel \"Fo Meng,\" but the magistrate, Mr. \"Lang Tz'u,\" is in supreme command. They say that all the country west of Kao Li Kung Shan belongs to them, and they have compelled the three villages of P'ai Lai, Tzu Chu, and Pienma to submit to them. They are already erecting fortifications at Pienma, as though they intend to make a long stay there. The provincial troops left Tali Fu about the middle of last month, and the march ought to take about twenty days, but there has been no news of any fighting yet.\n\nThe greater portion of the Burmah-Yunnan frontier has not yet been delimited. As to the portion at present in question, China regards the En Nai Ch'ia River (Nmai Kha) as the boundary, while Great Britain affirms that it should be the Kao Li Kung Shan. In the additional Burmah-Yunnan Frontier Treaty it was laid down that latitude 25° 35′ north should be regarded as the southern boundary of Yeh Jen Shan (the same place as the British call Kao Li Kung Shan), and by the treaty the frontier was to run north from this point, and was not to veer round to the east. Now when... \n\nPage 150",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\n**Note by the Military Attaché, Peking, dated March 7, 1911, on Despatch No. 7, dated January 31, 1911, from His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General, Yünnan-fu, forwarding a Despatch (regarding the line of the frontier) from the Administrator of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, Yünnan-fu.**\n\nThe little map showing the line claimed by China (which accompanies Mr. O'Brien-Butler's despatch), the outcome of his investigation of maps with Mr. Hsia, shows the line, in the main, as claimed by the Wai-wu Pu, except that it concedes as British territory the whole of the basin of the Chipway Kha, whereas the line claimed in Prince Ch'ing's despatch of the 30th August, 1906, as well as the line proposed by Taotai Shih crossed that river instead of skirting its basin. The several lines proposed are shown on the sketch map which I attach to this note.\n\nIt must be noted that the map now sent by the consul-general was made by him, and is not signed or in any way vouched for by Mr. Hsia.\n\n## Enclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\n**Memorandum by Lieutenant-Colonel Willoughby.**\n\nA point worthy of note is that the maps produced by Mr. Hsia were the War Office map of Yunnan of 1906 (compiled by Major Davies) as well as a Chinese map; from which it is evident that the Yunnan authorities were well aware of Pienma being within the boundary claimed by Great Britain.\n\nAnother point, however (and perhaps a somewhat unfortunate one), is that the War Office map in question shows (and I think fairly and with reason) a very considerable stretch of the Irrawaddy basin, further north, viz., some 55 miles of the head waters of the N'mai Kha itself (latitude from about 27° 38′ to 28° 23′ north) in the neighbourhood of Chamutong, as well as the sources of the Meh Kha, its eastern large affluent, in the Chiutzu country (Khanung), as being within Yunnan, i.e., on the Yunnan side of the as yet undelimited frontier (marked only by a dotted line). I think it will be found that the Chinese claims to this Chiutzu region will, later on, when the question comes up for discussion, be found to be at least as strong as those put forward with regard to Pienma. In this connection, I would draw attention to the report of M. Gaston Péronne, mentioned in consul Rose's despatch No. 15, dated Tengyueh the 11th May, 1910. M. Péronne's head-quarters had been for the past year at Atuntzu, \"which is now the centre of activity for the Chinese along the north section of the Yunnan border.\" One of His Excellency Chao Erh Feng's agents was then at Atuntzu on special duty; said to be a man of considerable intelligence and activity and believed to be pioneering the proposed \"Third Province\" (comprising parts of Szechuan, Yunnan and Thibet) in an endeavour to include territory as far south as the Atuntzu district, which would strengthen the hold of the Chinese on the tribal lands dividing China from the sphere of British administrative control.\n\nHe went with a considerable escort into the \"inner country\" in the autumn of 1909 and remained three months. \"There seems little doubt that he penetrated at least as far as the Hkamti Shans.\" Since his return, he had been busy making the Atuntzu-Chamutong road, and there were many evidences of the intention of the Chinese to push forward their influence in these regions, which until the last few years were entirely beyond their control. They were sparing no pains to restrict lama influence: establishing schools at the larger centres, and insisting on a regular return of presents from the tribespeople, who include \"black Lisu,\" Lutzu and Chiutzu, in addition to the Thibetan groups. From other sources Mr. Rose learnt that deputies sent out by the sub-prefect of Wei Hsi crossed to the Chiutzu country on the west bank of the Salween and collected tribute during the autumn of 1909; also that two companies of Likiang troops were under orders for the Wei Hsi district (one to be stationed on the Salween and one at Atuntzu).\n\nIt is satisfactory to know that Mr. Barnard's expedition to Hkamti (at the head-waters of the Mali Kha) started from Kamaing on the 10th December, to confer a \"sanad\" (patent of rulership) on the present Sawbwa of that State. Here, at any rate, we are on quite firm ground, as there is ample documentary evidence in support of British suzerainty over Hkamti. As far back as 1892, the then chief was in possession of a document from the deputy commissioner of Bhamo acknowledging his right to the protection of the British Government, and proclaiming his territory to be part of the district controlled by the deputy commissioner of Bhamo.\n\nA point of considerable importance in connection with the question of the upper waters of the Irrawaddy is brought out by a journey made by Mr. E. C. Young from Yünnan through Pienma and Hkamti to Assam in the winter of 1905-6 (vide \"Geographical Journal\" for August 1907). According to his diagrams, the volume of the N'mai Kha considerably exceeds that of the Salween, in about the same latitude, and both are much bigger than the Mali Kha. The measurements are so remarkable that they leave room for doubt as to the sources of the N'mai Kha being within such reasonable distance as to admit of our claiming the whole of the head-waters of the Irrawaddy basin as being in Burmah, and so in British territory. Unfortunately, our knowledge of the geography of the upper waters of the N'mai Kha is very limited, but, at any rate, it would seem to be impossible that its source can be north of a point somewhere in the latitude of Mekong, as the Indian explorer Krishna (A. K.), in crossing to Rima from the Salween, not far north of Mekong, seems to have found no other large stream in his path, but \"proceeded up a small affluent of the Salween, over a 'divide by the Ti La pass (16,100'), and finally down an affluent of the Zayul or Lohit till he reached Rima without much difficulty. We thus possess certain information that between the head of the Assam valley and the Salween, there is but one pass.\"-(Sir Thomas Holdich's \"Thibet the Mysterious,\" p. 213.) No such doubt exists with regard to the head-waters of the Mali Kha, the high snowy barrier of the Nam Kiu mountains, which separates them from the Lohit basin, precluding any possibility of any of them taking their rise farther north. This snowy range seems obviously indicated as the boundary line between Upper Burmah and Thibet along the north of the Hkamti State.\n\nTo revert to the question of the delimitation of the boundary from the southern end of the undelimited portion: I anticipate the most strenuous resistance on the part of the Wai-wu Pu to admitting the Irrawaddy-Salween divide as the boundary northward--at any rate, of the southern confines of the Chiutzu country, about latitude 27° 35' north (for the reasons I have given above, and other reasons set forth below); and it is possible that they may even be able to put forward reasonable claims (that we as yet know nothing of) to some measure of control over portions of the intervening Mara country between the Khanung and Pienma.\n\nThe eastern branch of the head-waters of the N'mai Kha (the Chiu-chiang) appears, as I have mentioned above, to rise in the Tsarong district of Thibet, somewhere near Mekong (on the Salween, in latitude 28° 35′ north), and for three marches up-river from Tulong, the inhabitants of the valley (Chiutzu) pay tribute to the Yei-chih \"mokua\" (in the Wei Hsi sub-prefecture of Yunnan), and northward of that point, they are tributary to Tsarong (Thibet). (See \"From Tonkin to India,\" by Prince Henri d'Orleans, pp. 413, 414.)\n\nI think, therefore, it must be recognised that we may be unable to claim the whole of the waters of the Irrawaddy basin--in fact, that it may be necessary to recognise the \"southern confines of Thibet (mentioned in Sir F. Satow's despatch of the 1st May, 1906, to the Wai-wu Pu) as being somewhere about the latitude of Chamutong, i.e., approximately latitude 28 north (so far as the head-waters of the N'mai Kha are concerned). Furthermore, as below that point proceeding down-river to at least the Chiu Chiang Telo confluence, the inhabitants are tributary to Yei-chih and Wei-Hsi; at Tulong, in 1895, Prince Henri d'Orleans found a deputy from the Wei-Hsi sub-prefect), it would seem, perhaps, the simplest plan to consider that point, viz., the confluence, as a suitable point of departure of the frontier line west-wards from the river N'mai Kha.\n\nDuma on the Reun-nam (which is apparently the most easterly affluent of the Mali Kha) also appears from Prince Henri's narrative to be tributary to a Lisu chieftain subject to Yunnan, but this claim, at this rate, ought, I think, to be contested or compounded for by a payment or some compensation elsewhere. The Reun-nam (affluent of the Mali Kha (?)) is separated from the Telo (affluent of the N'mai Kha) by a very few miles only, and by a single mountain ridge, and it is along this ridge that a suitable frontier line might perhaps be found. From the top of this ridge, Prince Henri remarks \"in the west, a high white range running north-east and south-west was identified by us as the alps of Zayul, on the other side of which lies the basin of the upper Brahmaputra in Thibet. This high white range,\" the Nan Kiu mountains is not more than about 50 miles distant, in a straight line, from the Chiu chiang (N'mai Kha)-Telo confluence.\n\nPage 5\nPage 164",
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        "content_text": "# SKETCH MAP \nto show \n## SUGGESTED LINES OF DEMARCATION \nof the \n### BURMA-CHINA BORDER.\n\nT IBET \n28°N \n\nBrahmakund \nLobit R \n15220' \nSati \nWalung \nRima \nShirong \n“Nam Kiu“ Mts \n2 \nDaphapan \nR.. \nDapha Bum \n-227° \n26 \nDihing R. \nHukong Valley \nManse \nH \na \nx \nPatau \nTalo R \n. Intaw \n.Kachala \n98 \n\nam Kiu or Malihka \n+ \nChiama Ngu Chu \nSor Salween R, \n-Chin Chiang \nU t.z \nkhanung \nNmai Hka \nButang \nNakalo \nDa Chu or Mekong R. \n\nDOKERLA \nChamutong \nMeh Hka \n1360 \nTowgaw \n12800 \nMakuan \n-25 \n\n| Description | Line |\n| --- | --- |\n| Frontier line already demarcated. | va vam van man van. |\n| Ideal line onwards (taking in all the upper basin of the Irrawady). |  |\n| This is the line laid down by Sir E. Satow. \"As far as the confines of Tibet\" |  |\n| Suggested modified line. | Ditto. |\n| Line claimed by Wai Wu Pa | RL 'LT FROM |\n| Line suggested by Tavtai Shih. in 1905. |  |\n| Line said to be now claimed by Mr. Hsia. | (Foreign Affairs Bureau, Yünnanfu.) |\n| Limit of British “administered territory,\" |  |\n\nIRRAWA \nTAPINGA \nKa \n*Laika \nMYITKYINA \nSima \nManyun. \nTaping \nSadon \nn \nNai \nKha \nWanghte \nManung Pum \nChan-baity \nΚαι \nMe Sih Ho \nMien Chin Meng Peng \nTENG YUEK Ting \nMONG HUM \nMONG YANG \n(100.4111.1380)F0.1974 63 China \n\nOBHAMO \nAtuntzu \nnma) \nTêng \nKAO LI \nLu Chiang or Salweed R. \nh \nu \na \nYangtse \nYei Chih \nWEI-HSI-TING \n\n# \nn \n100° \n165 \nN \nYangtse R \nN \nCHIEN CHUAN CHOU \n\nப \n29 \n\n28 \n27 \nLI-CHIANG \nล \nHO CHING CHOU \n虫 \n269 \nTeng Chuan u \nYUN LUNG CHOU \nTALIFU l \nKai t'ou \nK \n20 \nScale of miles. \nHKWAN \nLung Chuan \nChế tạng \nMONG \nMeng-ka \nNASANJA & Dand, 1,19 as MAPPING LAYEW,C \n\nen R \nLung-Ling-Ting, \nYUNG-CHANG FU \nm \n• Yao Kuan \nYu-tien \nHAI \nHsia kuan \nChao Chou \nTameng-tung SHUN NING FU \nEYUN CHOU \n\n(Signed) **M. E. Willoughby, Lt.-Colonel, Military Attaché, Peking- 8th March, 1911.** \n25",
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        "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n**OPIUM, 14357**\n\n[April 10.] 193\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[13304] REC DROP & SECTION 3. No. 1.\n\n(No. 2.\n\nSir,\n\n**Acting Consul Rose to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received April 10.) Confidential.)**\n\nTengyuch via Bhama, Upper Burmah, March 9, 1911.\n\nI HAVE the honour to enclose a report on the opium crops of Western Yunnan for the season 1910 to 1911.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**ARCHIBALD ROSE.**\n\n## Enclosure in No. 1.\n\n**Report by Acting Consul Rose on the Opium Crops in Western Yünnan for the Season 1910 to 1911.**\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\nGeneral Condition of Crops.-In my reports of the 9th June, 1909, and the 9th June, 1910, I have endeavoured to outline the general opium situation in Western Yüuman, and the information which has been available during the present season shows little change in the main conditions, though I am unable to report such satisfactory results from the measures of opium prohibition as have marked the course of the two former years. There appears to have been a decline in the vigour and sincerity of official action resulting in an increase of production, and, whilst last year's figures probably indicate the low-water mark in the supply available on the markets, the extent of cultivation shown during the present season appears to mark a more normal situation, and may thus serve as a clue to the probable future of the poppy crops in the frontier districts. In submitting the present notes I propose to adhere to the general lines of my report of the 9th June, 1910, indicating the changes which have come under my observation in the course of the present season.\n\nLimit of Prohibitive Measure.-I have recently returned from an annual frontier tour, which took me through many of the tribal districts, and the frequency of the poppy crops along the route evidenced a falling off in the severity of the preventive measures. The district officials have made tours throughout their districts, but have confined their observations to the main roads; bodies of troops have patrolled the country and established temporary camps in the hills bordering the Shan States, whilst the deputies from the provincial capital have followed the lines of local action as in the two former years. All, however, are reported to have benefited financially from their efforts, and the flourishing crops awaiting harvest in many of the districts through which they have passed are abundant proof that their vigilance has been devoted to personal rather than to public ends. In the plains surrounding the cities there is no trace of the poppy, nor is there any extensive cultivation in the hills of the purely Chinese zone, but the tribal area shows a considerable increase of crops, and the plains of Mengting and Kengma are largely devoted to the poppy, whilst the hill districts of Kangai, Nantien, Changta, Lungchuan, Mengmao, Ta-Meng-Tung, Hsiao-Meng-Tung, and Lu-Chiang Pa (the Salween valley plains) will produce considerably increased supplies.\n\nTribal Belt.--A feature of the cultivation in the tribal belt during the present season is the number of Chinese cultivators who have migrated to the Kachin hills surrounding the Shan States, thus introducing more thorough and more organised methods than were known to the tribesmen, whilst presenting a stronger opposition to official action. These emigrant Chinese band themselves into groups, many of whom are well armed and who understand the financial weaknesses of the preventive agents. I travelled through one district, where a colonel and about 150 men were engaged in enforcing the prohibition measures, and was surprised to find an extensive belt of cultivation still awaiting the harvest in their immediate neighbourhood. The commandant is a good soldier, much respected in the district, and neither he nor any considerable number of his men use the drug. He told me that he estimated his...",
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        "content_text": "# Mr. H. A. Thornton, I.C.S., superintendent, Northern Shan States; Mr. W. H. L. Cabell, I.C.S., deputy commissioner, Bhamo; Mr. D. W. Rae, assistant superintendent, Sinlumkaba; Mr. D. W. Kiernander, assistant superintendent, Kutkai; Captain B. E. A. Pritchard, I.A., battalion commandant, Lashio; Mr. Smart, R.A., Bhamo Battalion; and \n\nThe consul. \n\nColonel G. Pereira, C.M.G., D.S.O.; Captain Blackwell, R.A.M.C.; and Mr. Morris, \nof the East Surrey Regiment, also visited the camp. \n\nThe Chinese representatives were: \n| Name | Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Keng Pao-kuei | Tuotai of Tenguch |\n| Chao Kai-bsuan | Frontier deputy |\n| Hsu Chai-yu | Sub-prefect of Lungling |\n| Kuang kuei-yuan | Newly-appointed assistant frontier deputy |\n| Colonel Wang Kuei-ching |  |\n\nColonel Chung was also under orders to attend, but was retained at his post owing to the northern unrest. \n\nThe meeting commenced very satisfactorily, the Chinese party calling upon us first with a large escort and considerable state. The Burmah officers, who have been responsible for the British camp during the last two years, have carried out the plans in a way which certainly did credit to their Government, and it was evident that the Chinese had been impressed, for the taotai had spared no pains this year in arranging that his staff, his retinue, and his banquet should be worthy of his post, and that he should not be eclipsed on this occasion of international meeting. \n\nAfter the unsatisfactory relations which had existed at Tengyuch during the past year, the first meeting was anticipated with some interest, and the taotai lost no time in endeavouring to establish a better understanding, for he at once offered a full and frank apology for his previous behaviour. He was unfailingly courteous throughout our stay at Namkham, meeting us practically every day either at public or private discussions or at those social functions which form part of the usual programme, and he interested himself in all that was passing, showing the greatest keenness to behave in a manner which was correct. \n\nThe different courts were constituted as usual, and the junior Chinese officers met their British colleagues on satisfactory terms, a heavy roll of cases being settled during the three weeks' conference, which involved long and unbroken sittings, and must have proved very trying for Mr. Rae and Mr. Kiernander, who were constantly in court. When it is remembered that the British and Chinese officers on the bench have not only to convince themselves and one another of the desirability of certain settlements through the medium of interpreters, but that the British officers must marshal their witnesses and sift their evidence in the dozen different languages of the frontier tribes, it will be realised that the settlement of a long case-roll in the mixed courts of the frontier is no easy matter, and calls for an endless patience and unflagging persistency of purpose. Our officers are sometimes discouraged at the fact that their Chinese colleagues have so little perception of abstract justice, and that they find difficulty in resisting a temptation to bargain over the settlements when monetary compensations are awarded by the court. Such bargaining is, I think, inevitable to the mind of the Chinese magistrate, and when it is remembered that the awards come first of all from his own pocket, and that he is dependent on the recovery of his outlay from numerous other officials and loosely-held tribal villages—a process requiring another long and enduring struggle—these shortcomings may perhaps be charitably forgotten. Judging by their results, it is evident that relations were entirely satisfactory, for their settlements were excellent, and they parted the best of friends. \n\nIn the appellate court, the taotai sat with Mr. Thornton or Mr. Cabell and myself, and we realised at an early date that he was not prepared to do business. I am inclined to think that he had tied his own hands; that he had boasted to the Viceroy that he would show a bold face to the British at the frontier; and that he found himself bound to justify his promises, but placed in consequence in a foolish and undignified position from which he would gladly have retired had it been possible for him to do so without loss of prestige with the authorities at Yunnan-fu. The fact remains that he refused to settle any case which came before him, and by so doing, he cut at the root of the joint court and compensation system which had been accepted formally by China as our basis of procedure at last year's meeting. \n\nIn the settlement of frontier cases, old-established custom, reduced to writing in the frontier agreement of 1910 (attached to my last frontier report), has decided that trans-frontier thefts, bodily injuries, and murders shall be paid for on a fixed scale of compensation by the offending country, in addition to the arrest and punishment of the offender, and that the compensation account shall be balanced and settled before the representatives of Burmah and Yunnan leave the meeting. It not infrequently happens that we have to pay more than China, but we never quibble over a case which has been proved. \n\nThis year, however, the taotai set custom and agreement at defiance. There were five murder cases before him—murders of British subjects by people whom we claimed to be Chinese. I had brought the cases to his attention again and again during the year, asking him to make some attempt to arrest the culprits; but his only replies had been either that the murdered men were Chinese subjects or that the murderers were British, and as he offered no reasons for his statements and frequently worded them in unfriendly and discourteous terms, there remained no alternative but to await the results of the frontier meeting. The cases came up in due course to the appellate court, and the British evidence was produced—in each case full, satisfactory, and to us entirely convincing. The natural course would have been for the taotai to produce any counter-evidence, but he made no attempt to do this, nor did he produce the offenders or witnesses who could rebut the evidence in any way. We therefore claimed compensation on the fixed scale, which he flatly refused. The cases had been through all the stages of the frontier courts, and there seemed no hope of settlement. The object of the frontier meetings is to replace those old blood feuds, in which the Kachins settle such matters amongst themselves, by properly organised courts and by settlements which would be enforced if necessary. The result of the meetings and of this procedure has been a steady decrease of lawlessness along the frontier, to the benefit of both nations concerned; but, earnestly as we tried to persuade him to better counsels, the taotai appeared determined to set all precedent at defiance, and thus to undo the effect of many years of steady work and mutual co-operation. This was the situation in regard to case work on the last day of the meeting. \n\n## Trans-frontier Cultivations \n\nThere remained another matter of importance—the question of trans-frontier cultivations. This subject has been discussed and dealt with perfunctorily for several years past, but it was surrounded with difficulties, and it was not until the last twelve months that our information was sufficiently full to render a settlement possible. I have had the honour to address you on several occasions in regard to this question, but it may be well to recapitulate the position briefly in view of the settlement which has now been effected. \n\nIn delimiting the middle section of the Burmah-China frontier, it was found by the commissioners that the acceptance of their line, which frequently followed a zigzag course between paddy fields and irrigation dykes, would occasionally have the result of placing a village on one side of the border whilst the whole or part of the lands worked by the villagers would belong to the other side. They therefore made specific arrangements in the joint \"Description of the Boundary\" safeguarding the rights of the villagers in such cases to their original cultivation rights over the land in question. This was the commencement of the trans-frontier cultivation. As time went on, however, the original claims became considerably extended, for the farmers on the China side—mainly inhabitants of the Shan States—found that they could escape from the exactions and oppression of their own sawbwas by removing their homes to Burmah while continuing to cultivate their original fields in China. On the strength of the fact that they became subjects of Burmah by frontier custom of domicile, they now refused to pay taxes for their land to the Chinese suwbwas, and from this fact has arisen the matter in dispute. \n\nFor the past three or four years, the Yunnanese authorities have shown an active interest in the question. They have found that in the worst administered of the States—notably in Lungchuan and Mengmao—a great number of Chinese cultivators have moved their domicile to Burmah, and thus avoided payment of all taxes to China, with the result that the revenues of the Shan sawbwas in question have been considerably affected; the sawbwas themselves reported that their subjects are crossing to Burmah and \"taking their fields with them,\" thus touching the Chinese on their most sensitive spot, the possible alienation of Chinese territory. \n\nPage 436",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n0.0.\n\nmarkets of this year's raw opium. As to Western Szechuan, the cultivation of the poppy has been resumed in the prefectures of Ya-Chou Fu and Hing-Yuan Fu, whence it has spread to the hill tribes bordering on Yünnan. As to Eastern Szechuan, from Wan Hsien and all along the river to Wu Shan, the prohibition proclamations have been entirely disregarded, and in Fu-chou, Feng-tu, and Tien-chiang as many poppies have been planted as before the issue of the Imperial edicts; indeed a British official, Mr. Teichman, travelling recently from Chengtu to Ichang, found between Peng-tu and Chung-chou that the poppy was the predominating crop on all sides. Liang Shan, T'ung Chuan, Shih Chu-t'ing, and Wan Hsien have also planted poppies, but in much smaller quantities than before the publication of the edicts; K'ai Hsien and the districts to the north have also planted a good deal, which has been ruined by weather.\n\nIn Shansi, British missionaries returned to their stations report that opium is now being largely cultivated in the central and southern parts of that province.\n\nHis Majesty's Minister has dealt only with Szechuan and Shansi, but he is continually receiving reports of the recrudescence of opium cultivation in other provinces. For example: Kansu, where Colonel Pereira, lately military attaché to this legation, has seen the poppy planted round Lanchow Fu and Liang-chou; Shensi, where it is reported to be widely cultivated; Yunnan, in the east and west of which province as much opium is grown as before the Imperial edicts; Hunan, where poppy seems to be grown everywhere; Fukien, where poppy fields are to be seen in all directions near Amoy and in other districts; Chekiang, where poppy has been replanted in at least two prefectures, and Kueichou, where, according to a telegram just received from His Majesty's consul at Chungking, the opium prohibitions have been cancelled.\n\nHis Majesty's Minister admits the difficulties imposed on the Chinese Government in their policy of suppressing the cultivation of the poppy by the present unsettled conditions in the interior; but the very fact that circumstances render them unable to fulfil their obligations in that particular makes it all the more incumbent on them to prevent breaches of the agreement in other particulars being deliberately committed.\n\nPeking, May 31, 1912.\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[27289]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n211\n\n[June 27. Ent 2 AUG 12]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n(No. 103.) (Telegraphic.) R.\n\nForeign Office, June 27, 1912. PROCLAMATION said to have been issued in Kiangsi province to establish monopoly of sales of opium from 1st July, and to suppress trade in December next.\n\nYou should make a strong protest to Chinese Government.\n\n[2519 dd-1]",
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        "content_text": "Sir,\n\n...\n\nCOPY.\n\n...\n\n(Translation.)\n\n(To accompany no. 2.)\n\nMilitary and Civil Governors to H.M. Consul-General.\n\nFebruary 1, 1914.\n\nOwing to the proximity of Hongkong to Canton legal cases are numerous and under the late empire a special officer was appointed to conduct extradition proceedings in Hongkong to clear off outstanding cases and to further friendly relations. Now that the republic has been established and Great Britain, in common with other friendly powers, has recognised it, it becomes necessary to continue this procedure. We have accordingly requested the British firm of lawyers, Messrs. Dennys and Bowley, in co-operation with Mr. King, the Assistant Superintendent of Police, to manage these cases for a period of one year. We have further requested Colonel Ma Te-hsin, late of Heiang Shan, to act as 'Hongkong extradition consulting officer' and we have specially appointed Teng Yao-kuang, head of the Canton Police, Ts'ai Ch'un-heng, head of the water police, Captain Yang Ying-lu, late of Ta Peng, and Yen Ch'i-han, delegate of the Kuangtung Tutu's office, as extradition officers. The heads of the land and water police will for the future appoint detectives to co-operate with Yang Ying-lu who will request the British lawyers to obtain warrants on his behalf. On the arrest of the criminals he will further bring witnesses to give true evidence for their extradition.\n\nWe have the honour to request you to inform H.E. the Governor of Hongkong, for purposes of record, of these arrangements made for the public advantage.\n\nWe have etc.,\n\n(signature and seal of) Lung Chi-kuang, Tutu of Kuangtung.\n\nLi K'ai-hsien, Min Cheng Chang of Kuangtung.",
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        "content_text": "## ENVELOPE\n39 stamped \"**JAPANESE CONSULATE GENERAL**\" and addressed to 溫宗堯 (Weng K'ai Ch'iu)\n\n## LETTER\n**Japanese Consulate General**  \nHong Kong 5th May 1916,\n\nDear Mr Weng,\n\nI am just now in receipt of a telegram from Shiu Hing which says that he put off his departure to Japan. Colonel Tang also telegraphed me to ask if he will not be able to postpone his departure till the 7th inst, as the Colonel is coming here expressly to see him. Any reply he gives me will be sent to him by wire.\n\nMr Yuen Kwian Pn Kwan has left this morning for Macao, defeated in argument not to write with me.\n\nI intend to call on you and press strongly for them to take the same action with Mr 岑. I think I can succeed in sending Mr 文羣 (Feng Chun) to Shiu Hing to discuss directly with Kr Sham.\n\nThe situation is most delicate and I am afraid that Kr Sham does not fully understand the present situation so far as it concerns you and Mr Yuen. Your and Mr Yuen's cordial letter to Mr Sham on the subject will be most effective.\n\nYou will greatly oblige me by recalling Mr 文羣 here to communicate and to be constantly in touch with me.\n\nYours very truly  \n(signed) S. Imai",
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        "content_text": "544 \n\n108 \n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 46.\n\n**Mr. Clive to Wai-chiao Pu.**\n\nSir, \n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's letter of August 13, 1920, the 2nd August on the subject of poppy cultivation in Fukien, and propose in this reply to show that the information transmitted to me as coming from the Military and Civil Governor of that province is a tissue of deliberate misinformation only confirming the doubts which this Legation has previously been compelled to express regarding the information furnished to it by your Excellency's Ministry as to poppy cultivation in China generally. \n\nThe Governor states that he has not been insincere in his efforts to suppress opium. In evidence of this, he quotes a report by two officers who left Foochow for one of the producing districts on the 1st June and discovered not so much as a trace of a single poppy. The failure to discover the plant was not surprising, in view of the fact that the opium harvest was completed in that region during the last ten days of April; it merely shows that during the succeeding month the ground had been ploughed up for the cultivation of other crops, as was to be expected, and not that any efforts had been made to suppress cultivation during the period when cultivation was possible.\n\nThe two officers delegated by the Governor are forced to admit that a certain amount of poppy had been cultivated, but endeavour to show that this only occurred in out-of-the-way places not visited by the Governor's troops. This information I can only describe as a deliberate falsehood. Cultivation of the poppy has in many cases taken place in the immediate proximity of, in full view from, the quarters of the detachments of the Governor's troops, and in full view of roads constantly traversed by military and other officers under the Foochow authorities. Moreover, I have abundant evidence, collected from British eye-witnesses, that cultivation was general in the districts of P'u-t'ien, Fu-an, and Hui-an. As a proof of the truth of this fact, I need only say that the price of opium has fallen in that region during the last two years from 16 dollars per oz. to 0.90 dollar per oz.\n\nIn case this be considered insufficient proof, I have the honour to enclose six further photographs of poppy-fields, of which some are taken inside and some outside the walls of Hui-an city.\n\nFurthermore, the statement in the report quoted by the Governor that the district magistrate of P'u-t'ien Hsien discovered that opium was being grown, and on the 28th April requested Colonel Wang Hsien-ch'en to send an officer to the locality for the purpose of uprooting the plants is an untruth. I am unable to believe that a magistrate in whose district opium was being widely cultivated under express encouragement of the office of the Military Governor, whose chief aide-de-camp, Colonel Wang Hsien-ch'en, had been enforcing the payment of tax thereon, had to wait until the harvest was complete before he knew anything about it.\n\nI trust that your Excellency will communicate the above to the Military Governor of Fukien, and will recommend him in future to draw up his reports in a manner which will bear a greater resemblance to the truth than that which was forwarded to me in your letter under reply.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n109 \n\n## Enclosure 1 in No. 47.\n\n**Consul Coales to Mr. Clive.**\n\nFoochow, October 5, 1920.\n\nWITH reference to previous correspondence on the subject of opium, I have the honour to enclose copy of a despatch I have written to his Excellency Li Hou-chi, Military and Officiating Civil Governor of Fukien, requesting him to prohibit the sowing of the poppy during the coming autumn.\n\nIn view of the near approach of the period for sowing the poppy, the local anti-opium society, of which His Majesty's consul is ex officio chairman, decided to meet and discuss the measures to be taken to prevent a recurrence of the lamentable neglect of the past winter. It is a regrettable fact, however, that the Chinese gentry of Foochow take little interest in the anti-opium campaign, with the result that the only Chinese representatives who attended the meeting were of the official class. It was therefore not surprising that after nearly two hours' discussion the only business transacted was a resolution to write to the Governor asking him to prohibit poppy-sowing this season. An unexpected development, however, has since greatly helped the cause. A certain Mr. Chen Chia-keng, a native of Amoy, has returned to his native town and is there setting on foot various philanthropic projects. Among them, he has started an energetic anti-opium crusade, for which purpose he has subscribed large sums of money and published numerous tracts.\n\nAt the order of Mr. Chen to push the campaign, he and two other members of the new Amoy anti-opium society recently visited Foochow. An interview with Governor Li was arranged for them, and, learning of this, the Foochow society held a meeting the evening before, to which the visitors were cordially invited. At this meeting, it was proposed that representatives of the Foochow society should accompany Mr. Ch'en to see the Governor and make joint representations on behalf of the two societies. This was strenuously opposed by the Chinese members, who were undoubtedly acting in the interests of the Governor, it being plain that a deputation from Amoy alone would be less distasteful to him and less weighty than one representing, at least in name, the whole province. However, the insistence of the foreign members carried the point, and it was decided to depute two foreigners and two Chinese to go with the Amoy delegates.\n\nThe interview appears to have been very satisfactory from the point of view of the societies. Mr. Ch'en did not at all mince matters with the Governor about the occurrences of last winter, and expressed a determination to see that every infraction of the law in the Amoy district was taken up. The Governor was compelled to express his disapprobation of poppy cultivation and to give a promise that he would uphold the law and issue the strictest instructions that it should be enforced and the sowing of the poppy prevented. He is therefore definitely committed to anti-opium action this autumn, and any slackness in this respect will involve him in grave loss of prestige among the people, to whom the facts of this interview are generally known.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nO. R. COALES.\n\n## No. 47.\n\n**Sir B. Alston to Earl Curzon.** (Received March 1, 1921.)\n\nHIS Majesty's Minister, Peking, presents his compliments to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and transmits herewith copies of despatches from His Majesty's consul at Foochow, dated the 5th October, 1920, and the 15th November, 1920, respectively, on the subject of opium cultivation in Fukien province.\n\nPeking, December 16, 1920.\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 47.\n\n**Consul Coales to Li Hou-chi (Military Governor of Fukien).**\n\nFoochow, October 5, 1920.\n\nAS you are aware, His Britannic Majesty's Government, at the request of the Chinese Government, has by various conventions agreed to and enforced the cessation of the importation of Indian opium into China. It was a condition of my Government's assent that the Chinese Government on its part should prohibit and effectively put a stop to the cultivation of the poppy throughout the Republic. It is a matter of common knowledge and one that was repeatedly brought to your notice by my predecessor, Mr. Combe, that this obligation imposed on the Chinese Government both by treaty and on moral grounds was to a very great extent ignored in all parts of this province, whether under your control or in the hands of the Southern generals.",
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        "content_text": "118 \n\nI regret to state, however, that there is no indication that the Fukien authorities have paid any attention to such admonitions as may have been addressed to them by the Central Government, the latest reports received from His Majesty's consul at Foochow tending to show that opium cultivation is at least as widespread, and as free from official interference, as it was last year. Copies of three despatches on the subject from His Majesty's consul at Foochow are enclosed for your Lordship's information.\n\nWhilst realising that under existing political conditions but little effective control can be exercised by Peking over recalcitrant provincial officials, I shall continue to impress upon the Chinese Government its responsibility for the flagrant neglect of duty in the matter of opium suppression displayed by the high authorities of Fukien and other provinces.\n\n119 \n\nThe Anti-Opium Society is supposed to be collecting further evidence of the existence of the poppy, but their report is still not yet ready.\n\nIt is doubtful whether the Governor is really willing or able to exercise any real power over his subordinates who, waxing rich on their gains, seem determined to ignore his orders, and unless the Central Government can find some way of putting on the screw there would appear no probability of this province being free from opium cultivation at an early date.\n\nI have, &c. \n\nH. PHILLIPS, \n\nI have, &c. \n\nB. ALSTON. \n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 53.\n\n### Consul Phillips to Sir B. Alston.\n\nSir, \n\nFoochow, March 14, 1921. WITH reference to my despatch of the 28th January upon the subject of opium prohibition, I have the honour to forward a map of the province of Fukien, in which the areas under cultivation are marked in red.\n\nOther evidence has been supplied to the American consul by Mr. George W. Hollister, an American missionary, in the shape of four photographs, enclosed herewith, showing poppy under cultivation in fields between the villages Shih-ma and Yu-tang, Fukien. Mr. Hollister wrote to the American consul as follows:-\n\n\"All four of the pictures were taken on the 23rd December, and all were taken between Shih-ma and Yu-tang. I think I only saw one field with poppy between Yu-tang and Hsinghua. Yu-tang was the boundary between the Northern and Southern territory during the recent trouble.\n\n\"Although these pictures were only taken in that comparatively small stretch, it would be possible to take any number of pictures in almost any part of the county. There is very little up in Hingtai, and there are but few fields in the western part of the county. The soil in these places does not seem best for growing the poppy. The entire eastern section, including Dang-hau, Kuei-ting, Hsiang-ting, Fen-ting, Tze-hsiao, contain thousands of acres of poppy-fields. I doubt if there has been more planted than was planted last year, but I think there is as much,\"\n\nI also enclose a photograph taken at Hsien Yu in the Hinghua district in February last by a C.M.S. missionary giving very clear evidence of the cultivation. I have sent a copy of this photograph to the Governor.*\n\nIt is to be observed that the poppy is to be found chiefly in the south of the province. That district has now been in Northern occupation for two and a half months, so that the Tuchun can have little real excuse for his failure to get his orders obeyed. At the same time he is in a difficult position. As the Southern forces and the bandits reaped vast sums from opium in Hsien Yu district the bandits are credited with having made 1,000,000 taels last year, and the Northern troops naturally looked forward to their share of the plunder. Add the fact that the forces generally are only receiving half-pay, and it is scarcely to be wondered at that proclamations ordering prohibition are openly ignored. Of late, and for the first time, it is said, General Li has now issued direct orders to the military commanders throughout Fukien holding them personally responsible for preventing opium cultivation. He has found that the civil officials were powerless in the matter owing to the fact that the soldiers were practically ordering the farmers to plant opium. This action, however, may be due to the presence in Foochow of four opium inspectors sent down by the Central Government. The story goes that these men, whose names are Wang Ta-heng, Ch'en Te-i, Ch'iu Kung-K'uei and Lin Hsiang, received 3,000 dollars from Peking for expenses, and that on their arrival here were given another 3,000 dollars by General Li, who has also entertained them. These men arrived two weeks ago, and have not yet commenced their investigations. The Anti-Opium Society tried to arrange a public meeting to welcome them, but after accepting, and when all arrangements had been made, the inspectors managed to back out of it, and the meeting fell through.\n\n*Not received.\n\nSir, \n\nFoochow, April 18, 1921. WITH reference to my despatch of the 14th March last, have the honour to report further upon the subject of opium cultivation in this province.\n\nGeneral Li Hou Chi does not attempt to deny that cultivation is taking place, but on the contrary frankly admits that such is the case in the southern part of the province. I enclose a copy and translation of his reply to me of the 6th April in which, while expressing his shame at what is happening, he lays all the blame upon the bandits. He holds out hope of their speedy capture, but their mere presence at all is of course nothing more nor less than a heaven-sent excuse for failure to root up the poppy.\n\nAnother side of the picture is afforded by a letter sent to me three days later than General Li's letter by Wu Wei, the bandit chief of whom the general complains. Wu Wei in his letter, which is addressed also to you and various foreign Ministers as well as the consuls in Foochow and Amoy, practically accuses General Li of direct connivance in the trade. The latter's agent is said to be Colonel Wang Hsien-ch'en, a man who owes his present rank and position entirely to General Li, since he was previously only a petty official. Rumour also states that he married a slave girl from General Li's family, so that the close connection between the two is thus easily understood.\n\nThe brigand chief Wu Wei's charges are to some extent supported by a letter I received from the Rev. S. J. Nightingale, C.M.S., of Hing Hua city, dated the 29th March, who wrote as follows:-\n\n\"Undoubtedly, there is a very large crop being gathered in the Hsien Yu county. The only new element in the situation is that the Northern officials are levying a tax on each mow. Common report says the military under Colonel Wang first of all demanded 15.00 dollars per mow, but later this tax has been reduced to 12.00 dollars per mow.\"\n\nIn the districts around Kienning-fu there seems to be a plentiful supply of opium as almost every sizeable village has a den for its consumption. This is most noticeable in travelling by Sedan chair. Chair bearers almost without exception are addicted to the drug and must have their pipe at least once a day.\n\nI am informed that the opinion prevalent among all classes is that there is a well-established underground supply line from Amoy by way of Ting Chou-fu and Yungan and thence throughout the northern part of the province. It is reported that this line of supply is organised if not actually operated by the Japanese, who import the drug from Formosa.\n\n### Translation.\n\nSir, \n\n## Enclosure 3 in No. 53.\n\n### Civil Governor Li Hou Chi to Consul Phillips.\n\nApril 6, 1921. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, in which you enclosed for my inspection a photograph of opium cultivation in the Hsien-yu district sent to you by the Fukien branch of the International Anti-Opium Association. I state that reports received from all sides indicate that cultivation exists in Hing Hua and the southern part of the province, and that since the Southern troops have evacuated three months ago the territory they occupied, there should now be no...",
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        "content_text": "## VENEREAL DISEASE\n\n### Proposed Commission of Inquiry for Malaya\n\nMalaya branch of the British Medical Association had a conference on the instant, in the Municipal Council chamber with the Commissioners of the National Council for Combating Venereal Disease.\n\nMalcolm Watson, president of the Malayan branch of the Association, presided over the gathering numbering 37, in his opening address welcomed the presence of the Commissioners and impressed on them the importance of venereal disease on the community at large.\n\nDr. Hallam put before the meeting the objects of the Commission, viz.:-Conference with the local authorities in the Eastern ports with regard to the best measures which might be undertaken to reduce the incidence of venereal disease. He reminded the members of the fact that the question of the provision of free diagnosis and treatment for the seafaring population of all nations was to be discussed at the conference of the health section of the League of Nations to be held at Geneva in February, 1921. Dr. Hallam then outlined the recommendations which have been approved by the National Council for Combating Venereal Disease, namely: the provision of free diagnosis, the provision of free treatment, early treatment centres, and a campaign of education of the general public. He pointed out that on matters of prophylaxis and prostitution, personal opinion and the opinion of the Society were in favour of early treatment rather than personal prophylaxis, and suppression rather than segregation. In support of these views, he quoted a letter by Colonel Harrison on the results of the experiences with prophylactic packets in Rhine Army and he also drew attention to Flexner's views on the subject. He pointed out that in all countries where a public health policy was adopted, very active measures were being taken to provide modern treatment for venereal diseases and also the segregation of prostitutes. He cited the fact that even in Japan, the public health department were in favour of suppressing brothels, and cited as an instance the improvement in one of the counties of Japan in which the law had been already enforced.\n\nDr. Hallam realised that the conditions in these Far Eastern ports differed considerably from those found in Europe, nevertheless he wished to impress on the members of the medical profession here that the views of many experts were opposed to recognised methods, and that these views were supported by many recorded facts which were worthy of the most profound consideration before coming to a final opinion. In conclusion, he asked for the approval of the members of the Association in giving approval to the proposals mentioned above.\n\n### Position in Malaya\n\nDr. Galloway in his reply gave full approval to the establishment of free diagnosis and free treatment, and although approving of a campaign of education of the general public in principle, he was of opinion that little could be done on that score in Singapore. He then proceeded to point out the great divergence which existed between the actuality as existing here and the commonly accepted ideals, which were held on this subject in civilised countries. He laid stress on the fact that the social and economical conditions in the Straits and F.M.S. were probably unique and that it was futile to attempt to apply methods based on evidence or experience gained in other countries to the conditions which obtained here. He urged that the only way by which any useful measure could be evolved to deal with the evil was by a careful study of the local conditions and, to that end, he moved the resolution:-\"That this Association do memorialise the Government of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States to cause full inquiry to be made as to (a) the prevalence of venereal disease, (b) the cause of that prevalence, (c) means of treatment, (d) means of prevention, and (e) the subject of prostitution generally.\"\n\nDr. Rattray, in seconding Dr. Galloway's proposal, stated that for the past year he had been making efforts to establish a kindred society in Malaya, viz., the S.P.V.D. These efforts had been crowned with success and his society is established here on a sound foundation. Dr. Rattray considered that his society went a necessary step further than the N.C.C.V.D., namely, in giving greater prominence to the value of disinfectants as a preventative of venereal disease.\n\nDr. Hoops joined the discussion and thought that the seafaring population should receive greater attention. He gave his experiences of the value of anti-venereal clinics which he had established in Kedah.\n\nDr. Hacker gave an account of his experiences with the Garrison in Singapore. He was in favour of early treatment.\n\nIn the subsequent discussion, Dr. Candrick, Dr. Glass, Dr. Dawson, and Dr. van Dort joined.\n\nDr. Hallam replied briefly and the proceedings were terminated by the unanimous adoption of Dr. Galloway's resolution.\n\nThe council and members of the Malaya branch of the British Medical Association entertained the Commissioners to dinner at the Europe Hotel at night. There were present:-Dr. Malcolm Watson (President, Malaya branch B.M.A.), Mrs. Rolfe, Miss Grant, Dr. Hallam (Commissioners of N.C.C.V.D.), Mr. Haynes (Secretary to the High Commissioner, Malay States), Mrs. Haynes, Dr. Hoops, Mr. and Mrs. Cavendish, Dr. and Mrs. Brooke, Dr. Lim Boon Keng, Dr. Hunter, Dr. Fry, Dr. and Mrs. Taylor, Dr. Dexter Allen, Dr. and Mrs. Black, Dr. and Mrs. Rattray, Dr. Stookes, Dr. Scharff (hon. sec. Malayan Branch, British Medical Association), Dr. Gray, Dr. Wilson, Dr. Leicester, Dr. Van Dort, Dr. Orahay, Dr. Conrad, Dr. Weerekoon, Dr. Murison, Dr. Gibbs, Dr. Hoahing, Dr. Glass, Dr. Webster, Dr. Fitzgerald, Dr. H. L. H. Lim, Dr. Lim Han Hoe, Dr. McGregor, Captain Hacker, Dr. Noel Clark, Mr. Quentzer, Dr. P. L. Loh, Dr. Jap, Dr. Sayers, Dr. Dawson, and Dr. Macalister.",
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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": "Li Fu-lin to Consul General, October 3rd, 1924.\n\n316\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that on information being received from informers that at Haien village, and Pingshan and Kupao bandits were collecting, on the 25th and 29th September I despatched Colonel Li Chan-peng and Captain Li Lin to go to those places and surround and capture them. Colonel Li caught Li Jung and 13 others at Sieh village, while Captain Li caught the notorious bandits Kuo Ming, Huang Kuei-ye, and Huang Kei-sheng at Pingshan and Kupao. The local militia leader and the natives stated that Kuo Ming is a well-known local robber, and his capture is a good thing for the district. These three places adjoin Shekpik where there are frequently piracies of the passenger boats passing. Now these men have been captured the pirates will keep in the background for a time.\n\nTroops will be sent at intervals, and in the mean time I have the honour to report as above.\n\nI have etc.\n\nLi Fu-lin\n\nOfficer Commanding 3rd Cantonary Army.",
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        "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]",
        "content_text": "Is it necessary or worthwhile to print all these voluminous despatches and enclosures?\n\nPage 616\n\n14.2.26.\n\nI have spoken to Birkenhead; and think on the whole it is better that these despatches & enclosures (dealing with situation in the Kory) should be printed. The memorandum for the Cabinet should be prepared as practicable.\n\n15.2.26\n\nMr Hobson\n\nWe can\n\na- 200\n\nafter\n\nscheme 2081 2082.\n\n3165 and 3927. the printing of\n\nwhich has been authorised\n\n3.3.26\n\nNo.\n\nSECRET.\n\nNUMBER AND DATE TO BE QUOTED IN REFERENCE TO THIS LETTER\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONGKONG,\n\n15th January, 1926\n\nWith reference to the second paragraph of my secret despatch of the 14th January, His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow informs me that, so far as he knows, General Wu Pei-fu is at present concentrating on an advance to Lo-yang as a step towards Peking; that his avowed policy is to put down Communists and to head a Government in Peking; that his financial and military resources are very precarious; that he relies on the support of the fourteen provinces which he claims to represent; that he is in close communication with Marshal Chang Tso-lin, who still holds the three Manchurian provinces, and with Marshal Sun Ch'uan-fang, who holds the provinces at the mouth of the Yangtsze; that he is probably also in communication with General Chao Heng-ti, the Tupan of Hunan province; but that nothing has been heard of a contemplated attack by him on the South. I think it may be taken as practically certain that both Wu Pei-fu and Sun Ch'uan-fang have their faces turned towards Peking and are unlikely for the present to attack Kuang-tung.\n\nAs regards Mr. Sun Fo, who is now in Canton, it is not easy to forecast his policy.\n\nI enclose\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nPage 190",
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        "content_text": "Mongol Revolutionary Government\" agreed mutually to respect each other's territory. China protested in May, 1922, but without avail. Outer Mongolia is now, it seems, completely dominated by Bolshevik influence; and, according to a despatch from Mr. S.O. White, His Majesty's Consul at Dairen, dated the 13th January last, Colonel Yendo, the leader of a recent Japanese expedition into Mongolia was impressed by the degree of cohesion attained by the Government of Outer Mongolia under Russian tutelage. It was noteworthy that orders from the Central Government in Urga were effective in Ikujur. Judging from the presence of Russians and the frequent arrivals of Russian men and even women, Russian influence appeared to be strong.\n\nInner Mongolia is at present occupied by the Kuo-min-chun, of which army the \"Christian General\" Fêng Yu-hsiang is still the titular leader; and Colonel G.V.R. Steward, Military Attaché of the British Legation at Peking, reported as follows on the 15th September, 1925:-\n\n\"Considering the relations of the Soviets with Fêng Yu-hsiang and their activities in Mongolia, it is apparent that the intentions of the Soviet Government are the following:-\n\n(a) to gain complete control of the Mongolian Government, which at present is almost an accomplished fact;\n\n(b) to get the complete monopoly of all trade, import and export in Mongolia, with the exclusion of all other nationals;\n\n(c) to get the monopoly in the exploitation of the natural resources of Mongolia;\n\n(d) to gain complete control of the north-west of China, with Feng Yu-hsiang as the figurehead, to counteract the influence of Japan with Chang Tso-lin in Manchuria;\n\n(e) to make Fêng Yu-hsiang the strong man of China, and in that manner gain control over China and so strike a blow at all other interested powers\".\n\nManchuria had been practically lost to the Manchu dynasty",
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        "content_text": "NO\n\nSECRET\n\nC.17780\n\n17 SEP 1926\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nHONGKONG.\n\n12th August, 1926.\n\n449\n\nEneto, No. 1.\n\nPancho's No. 2.&\n\n3.\n\nWith reference to the 5th paragraph of\n\nmy secret despatch of the 31st July, 1926, in which I mentioned the dispute between the authorities of the Kuang-tung and Fukien provinces concerning the Chiu-on district, I have the honour to forward for your information translation of an extract from the Tsun Tan Yat Po of the 10th July and of two extracts from the Chung Wa Man Po of the 3rd August. It appears that Chiu-on district is of strategic importance, and that Fan-shui-kan (1⁄2 KM), a pass in this district has a great military value, which no commander can afford to neglect. Originally this district was under the jurisdiction of Fukien; but last year, when the army of General Cheung Kai-shek defeated General Ch'an Kweng-meng in the valley\n\nof the East River in Kuang-tung, the latter retreated\n\ninto the Chiu-on district, whither he was pursued by\n\nthe Cantonese Revolutionary Army, which proceeded to\n\noccupy the district and included it within the jurisdiction of Kuang-tung. Subsequently the tupan of\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,\n\n&c..\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nFukien",
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        "content_text": "...\n\nLL AS mt\n\n17105\n\n& Enclo. No 4\n\n450\n\nFukien, General Chau Yam-yan, agreed with General Chiang Kai-shek that Chiu-on district should be a neutral zone between the two provinces. Now, however, that the Canton Government has launched its northern punitive expedition, the Defence Commissioner of Southern Fukien desires to avail himself of the opportunity to recover Chiu-on and has concentrated more than 2,000 men at Wan-shiu (*) and Ma-shan (‡) for the purpose. The Fukienese are reported to have made several fierce assaults on Chiu-on, which were all repulsed; and it is said that, \"if the trouble at Chiu-on continues, the area involved is bound to spread until this spark has involved Kuang-tung in a war with Fukien.\"\n\n2.\n\nWith reference to the 4th paragraph of my secret despatch of the 2nd August, concerning the attitude of the Chinese Navy in the conflict between Kuang-tung and Fukien, I enclose translation of an extract from the Man Kok Yat Po of the 5th August. This newspaper, which is the organ of the Canton Government, reports that there has been a dispute about the Fukien Provincial Bank between General Chau Yan-yan, the tupan of the province, and Admiral Shen Chen-ping Sah, K.C.M.G., († yk), a native of Fukien, who in 1922 was Civil Governor of the province. It is alleged that the Chinese Navy has taken sides with Admiral Sah in this matter; but I have no authentic information on the subject. No vessels of the Chinese Navy are at present at Hong Kong or off the Kuang-tung coast.\n\n3.\n\nBy our own naval wireless, I learn that General Chiang Kai-shek arrived at Heng-chou in Hunan province on the 9th August; and from Colonel Hayley Bell, in a message dated the 10th August, I hear that the military information from...",
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        "content_text": "from the front is to the effect:-\n\n451\n\n(1) that Marshal Wu P'ei-fu is prepared to attack Chang-sha from three directions and will appoint General Chao Heng-ti (1915), a former tupan of Hunan, to be commander-in-chief of the allied forces to repel the attack on Hunan;\n\n(2) that Marshal Fu intends to remove the Hupeh Military Governor for his hesitating attitude towards the situation in Hunan; and\n\n(3) that the Honanese bandit general, Fan Chung-siu, who is a partisan of the Canton Government, is concentrating his troops between the Honan and Hupeh provinces for an attack on K'ai-feng-fu.\n\nOther information, obtained by Colonel Hayley Bell from different sources, indicates that Chang-sha has been recaptured by the northern troops with the assistance of naval craft in the Tung-ting lake. It is said that the combined forces of General T'ang Sheng-chih and of the expeditionary army from Canton have been put to rout with heavy loss. It is even said that the casualties totalled more than 20,000 and that the Cantonese 4th Army under General Li Chai-sum suffered most.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\nGovernor, &c.,",
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        "content_text": "Telegram from Shanghai, dated the 9th August, states that General Fan Chung-siu (#), to whose activities reference was made in paragraph 3 of my secret despatch of the 12th August has captured Hsu-chou-fu in Honan province and thus cut the line of the Peking-Hankow railway. This, of course, if true, will seriously embarrass Marshal Wu in a campaign for the defence of Hupeh, Hunan and Kiang-si. On the other hand, it is reported that the troops of General Tang Chi-yao have reached the frontier between the Yunnan and Kuang-hsi provinces: but from a despatch of His Majesty's Consul General at Yunnanfu I learn that on the 5th August the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs of Yunnan, informed Mr. G. A. Combe that Marshal Tu, hard pressed between the Kuo-min-chun in the north and the expedition of the Cantonese in the South, had telegraphed to General T'ang for support, but that owing to lack of funds General T'ang was unable to help. It seems quite probable that, owing to lack of funds all round, the campaigns now in progress may nowhere be fought to a finish and that a position of stalemate may ensue. If so, trade conditions in China, especially in south China, may be expected to become much worse than at present.\n\nInformation reaching Colonel F. Hayley Bell from military sources is to the effect that General Cheung Kai-shek will proceed from Heng-chou to Chang-sha with the First Revolutionary Army under his command; that definite plans for attacking Tuchang and Hankow have been made and that there will be a new development of the situation at the front after General Cheung reaches Ch'ang-sha; also that troops from Kuei-chou and Ssu-ch'uan provinces have entered Hunan to co-operate with the Northern Punitive Expedition. It is further reported that General Cheung Kai-shek...",
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        "content_text": "PANDA L.\n\n10 Juoiéra mita\n\ntykane.Ï pnsi Iudrea piva strodel. I spirit\n\n-7.\n\nU\n\n310ktao .D (bangıő}\n\n535\n\nNo\n\nSECRET\n\nCopies to:\n\nCanton No.184\n\nPeking No. 25\n\nSir,\n\nC. 18446\n\n29 SEP 1926\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\n24th August, 1926.\n\nI have the honour to forward for your information the enclosed article extracted from the Hong Kong Telegraph of the 24th August concerning a secret treaty alleged to have been signed at Moscow on the 5th August by Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang with the Russian Soviet Government.\n\nEnclo. No. 2 I enclose also translation of an article from the Wa Taz Yat Po of the 18th August on the same subject.\n\nWhether authentic or not, this information is very interesting as an indication of Bolshevik policy in China. If the Bolsheviks succeed, they apparently desire to govern China by means of five Communist Committees organized on Soviet lines, each exercising regional control under a military dictator, as follows:-\n\n(a) The three Manchurian provinces (Feng-tien, Kirin and Hei-lung-chiang) and Jehol are assigned to Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, who, however, will have to conquer them from Marshal Chang Tso-lin.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C..S. AMERY, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c..\n\nL.C.\n\n(b)\n\nPage 540\n\nPage 541",
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        "content_text": "Page 540\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHong Kong.\n\n24th August, 1926.\n\nI have the honour to forward for your information the enclosed article extracted from the Hong Kong Telegraph of the 24th August concerning a secret treaty alleged to have been signed at Moscow on the 5th August by Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang with the Russian Soviet Government. I enclose also translation of an article from the Ta Tzu Yat Po of the 18th August on the same subject.\n\n2. Whether authentic or not, this information is very interesting as an indication of Bolshevik policy in China. If the Bolsheviks succeed, they apparently desire to govern China by means of five Communist Committees organised on Soviet lines, each exercising regional control under a military dictator, as follows:-\n\n(a) The three Manchurian provinces (Feng-tien, Kirin and Hei-lung-chiang) and Jehol are assigned to Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, who, however, will have to conquer them from Marshal Chang Tso-lin.\n\n(b) The provinces of Hunan, Hupeh, Kiang-si and Chekiang are assigned to Chiang Kai-shek, the Cantonese generalissimo, now campaigning in Hunan. He is a native of Chekiang: but he will have to conquer his native province as well as Kiang-su from Marshal Sun Ch'uan-fang and Hupeh from\n\nRight Honourable\n\nLieutenant Colonel L.C.M.S. Amery, M.P.\n\netc.\n\netc.\n\netc.\n\nPage 541",
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        "content_text": "TOP SECRET\n\nU.20964\n\n10 NOV\n\nCopies to:\n\nCanton No. 238,\n\nPeking No. 44\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONGKONG. 4th October, 1926.\n\n354\n\nGov 20545/26\n\nEnclo. No. 1.\n\nEnclo. No. 2\n\nEnclo No. 3.\n\nRIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nIn continuation of my secret despatch of the 30th September, on the subject of the civil war in South China, I have the honour to enclose translations, taken from the Taun Wan Yat Po of the 29th September, (a) of a letter written by General Chiang Kai-shek on the 26th to Mr. Ch'iu Wai-sang (†), president of the Che-kiang Public Association, and (b) of a letter dated the 17th September written by Marshal Chang Tso-lin to Marshal Sun Ch'uan-fang.\n\n2.\n\nThe position of the present Canton Government in Kuang-tung itself appears to grow increasingly precarious. I enclose a cutting from today's issue of the South China Morning Post which states that, according to a reliable report received from Canton yesterday, Wai-chow on the East River has been captured by the forces of General Ch'an Chi-eng-meng, which are advancing towards Shek-lung on the Kowloon-Canton railway, and further that Shok-ki, a township of the Hengshan district, just north of Macao, has been captured by a band of 3,000 bandits under Ngai Pong-peng. If these reports are true, hostile troops are operating in districts not far to the east and to the South of Canton city.\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\n3.",
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        "content_text": "# APPENDIX I.\n\nGovernor, Hong Kong, to Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n(O.C., No. C. 15383.) Sir,\n\nHong Kong, June 30, 1926.\n\nI HAVE the honour to invite your attention to my secret despatch of the 20th January last, concerning the capture of steamship \"Tung Chow\" by pirates, and particularly to the sixth paragraph, from which you will see that on the 9th January Mr. Fu Peng-sheung, then Commissioner of Foreign Affairs at Canton, wrote that this outrage \"should be dealt with by the Nationalist Government themselves, who would certainly be able to exterminate these pirates. Moreover, they had already begun to move in the matter, and there was no need for foreign assistance.\"\n\n2. Not only has no attempt whatever been made from that day to this by the Canton Government to exterminate the Bias Bay pirates, but, since the seizure of steamship \"Tung Chow,\" three more piracies have been committed by the Bias Bay gang. I attach a report (Enclosure No. 1) by Mr. T. H. King, deputy superintendent of police, describing these piracies. Bias Bay is in a sort of \"No Man's Land,\" in which the writ of the Canton Government does not run, and which is dominated by pirates and brigands from the large village of Fan Lo Kong at the north-east corner of the bay.\n\n3. In view of the fact that a French vessel, the steamship \"Jade,\" was captured by Bias Bay pirates in February last, I was fortunate enough to secure the co-operation of the French naval commander-in-chief, Admiral Basire, with the British naval commander-in-chief, Admiral Sir E. Alexander-Sinclair, in a scheme whereby it is now arranged that, as a matter of routine, all British and French men-of-war on their way up and down the China coast between Hong Kong and Shanghai put into Bias Bay and steam round it, and, further, that they carry out their gunnery and torpedo exercises, as often as occasion permits, in this bay. The object of this scheme is that the pirates should so frequently see men-of-war in and about Bias Bay that they may be forced to consider it a hazardous place from which to organise piracies or to which to bring vessels which they have seized. I have endeavoured to interest the United States navy in this scheme through the United States Consul-general at Hong Kong and through the Counsellor of the United States Legation at Peking, who was recently on a visit to Hong Kong. But I have not yet had an opportunity of discussing the matter with Admiral Williams, the United States naval commander-in-chief in these waters, and I do not know what view he takes of the proposal.\n\n4. I regard it, however, as most important that these Bias Bay pirates should not be allowed to commit any further outrage with impunity. They have a long record of successful crime behind them, and I attach a précis (Enclosure No. 2) of piracies committed by them since 1921. The pirates, I may say, are led by daring men with a good knowledge and experience of ocean-going ships. I therefore took advantage of the recent presence in Hong Kong of Mr. O'Malley, Counsellor of His Majesty's Legation at Peking, to arrange for a visit of inspection to Bias Bay on the 16th June in H.M.S. \"Despatch.\" Our party, in addition to Mr. O'Malley and myself, consisted of Commodore Stirling, Colonel Montague-Bates (at present officer commanding the troops in Hong Kong), Colonel Coates, Mr. W. T. Southorn (Colonial Secretary) and several military and naval officers. We had also with us Captain H. F. Bloxham, acting assistant-superintendent of police, and Lieutenant-Commander Ingham, Royal navy, who had both participated in the raid made upon the Bias Bay pirates in co-operation with the Chinese authorities in January 1925, and described in Captain Bloxham's report, which forms an enclosure in my predecessor's despatch No. 81 of the 3rd March, 1925.*\n\n5. We made a careful inspection of Bias Bay, noting especially the anchorage to which the pirates take captured vessels, and viewing the village of Fan Lo Kong from the waters of the inlet on which it is situated. Consequent on this inspection, I have received the attached letters (Enclosures Nos. 3 and 4), dated the 24th and 25th instant, from Commodore Stirling and Colonel Montague-Bates respectively, indicating the nature of the operations which would be necessary, if a punitive expedition were to be undertaken. It is clear from these letters that prior authority from the Admiralty and War Office will be needed, and I have the honour to suggest that the consent of those Departments and also of the Foreign Office should be obtained to action on the following lines:—\n\nWhen next a piracy in Bias Bay is reported, it is proposed that two companies of a British regiment should be immediately despatched with such naval escort as may be available in accordance with a plan which is being prepared by the naval and military authorities. The expedition would proceed at once to the anchorage in Bias Bay, where pirated ships are moored, and would there land and endeavour to waylay the pirates while removing their loot. The troops would also search the pirate villages, and, if necessary, destroy them.\n\n6. Such a punitive expedition would, of course, be a warlike operation undertaken in Chinese waters and on Chinese soil. If, therefore, the co-operation of a Chinese cruiser, should one happen to be in or near Hong Kong at the time, could be obtained, this would be a great advantage. But it is not unlikely that no Chinese cruiser might be at hand, and the essence of a punitive expedition into Bias Bay is that it should follow immediately upon the report of a piracy. In such case, having regard to the fact that the Bias Bay area is outside the effective control of any administration in Canton, and having regard also to the numerous depredations committed by Bias Bay pirates in recent years, the de facto Canton Government when presented with the fait accompli might, of course, loudly protest against it as an act of war carried out by British armed forces in Kwangtung, but would, I believe, secretly rejoice at the extermination of this nest of pirates, and might even be encouraged thereafter to exert its own authority by stationing troops in this area and driving out the brigands who infest it. The result, as a whole, would I feel sure be salutary, and would not be misunderstood by the Chinese people either in Canton or in Hong Kong. It would certainly be welcomed by the Cantonese seafaring folk, and it would serve to vindicate British prestige.\n\n7. I have shown this despatch in draft to Commodore Stirling and to Colonel Montague-Bates, who concur in the practicability of the proposed punitive expedition. Accordingly I have the honour to request that, if these recommendations meet with the approval of His Majesty's Government, the necessary instructions may be sent to Hong Kong by telegram.\n\n8. I have sent a copy of this despatch to His Majesty's Minister at Peking and His Majesty's consul-general at Canton.\n\n9. I enclose a chart showing Bias Bay and its contiguity to Hong Kong waters, and I have indicated on the chart the anchorage to which pirates have in the past taken the vessels which they have seized.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nC. CLEMENTI, Governor.\n\nEnclosure No. 1\n\nPrécis of Piracies committed by Bias Bay Pirates, 1926\n\n1. Steamship \"Jade.\"-Shun Cheung Steamship Company, 6, Connaught Road, Central, 2nd floor, running between Haiphong, Kwong Chau Wan and Hong Kong. Was pirated on the 8th February, 1926, eight hours out from Kwong Chau Wan on her way to Hong Kong. She is a cargo ship, and was carrying 100 tons general cargo and bullion valued $82,900. There were ten third-class passengers. Seven of these were the pirates. They took the ship to Bias Bay and arrived off Fan Lo Kong at 10 A.M. on the 10th February. The ship was taken right up the creek, where it was in 3 fathoms of water and about 500 yards from the shore. The pirates called two sampans, which took off all the pirates and the bullion. The pirates boarded the ship at Kwong Chau Wan.\n\n2. Steamship \"Hsin Kong.\"-China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company. Was pirated on the journey from Shanghai to Canton, when she was near Swatow on the 25th March, 1926. The pirates took the ship to Bias Bay and transferred ashore cargo and loot from the passengers by means of a boat which was lying in readiness at an arranged spot. (\"South China Morning Post,\" of the 1st April, 1926.) (Hong Kong police have no report or details of this piracy.)\n\nPage 367",
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        "content_text": "APPENDIX I.\n\nGovernor, Hong Kong, to Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n(C.O., No. C. 15383.) Sir,\n\nHong Kong, June 30, 1926.\n\nI HAVE the honour to invite your attention to my secret despatch of the 20th January last, concerning the capture of steamship \"Tung Chow\" by Bias Bay pirates, and particularly to the sixth paragraph, from which you will see that on the 9th January Mr Fu Peng-sheung, then Commissioner of Foreign Affairs at Canton, wrote that this outrage \"should be dealt with by the Nationalist Government themselves, who would certainly be able to exterminate these pirates. Moreover, they had already begun to move in the matter, and there was no need for foreign assistance.\"\n\n2. Not only has no attempt whatever been made from that day to this by the Canton Government to exterminate the Bias Bay pirates, but, since the seizure of steamship \"Tung Chow,\" three more piracies have been committed by the Bias Bay gang. I attach a report (Enclosure No. 1) by Mr. T. H. King, deputy-superintendent of police, describing these piracies. Bias Bay is a sort of \"No Man's Land,\" in which the writ of the Canton Government does not run, and which is dominated by pirates and brigands from the large village of Fan Lo Kong at the north-east corner of the bay.\n\n3. In view of the fact that a French vessel, the steamship \"Jale,\" was captured by Bias Bay pirates in February last, I was fortunate enough to secure the co-operation of the French naval commander-in-chief, Admiral Basire, with the British naval commander-in-chief, Admiral Sir E. Alexander-Sinclair, in a scheme whereby it is now arranged that, as a matter of routine, all British and French men-of-war on their way up and down the China coast between Hong Kong and Shanghai put into Bias Bay and steam round it, and, further, that they carry out their gunnery and torpedo exercises, as often as occasion permits, in this bay. The object of this scheme is that the pirates should so frequently see men-of-war in and about Bias Bay that they may be forced to consider it a hazardous place from which to organise piracies or to which to bring vessels which they have seized. I have endeavoured to interest the United States navy in this scheme through the United States consul-general at Hong Kong and through the counsellor of the United States Legation at Peking, who was recently on a visit to Hong Kong. But I have not yet had an opportunity of discussing the matter with Admiral Williams, the United States naval commander-in-chief in these waters, and I do not know what view he takes of the proposal.\n\n4. I regard it, however, as most important that these Bias Bay pirates should not be allowed to commit any further outrage with impunity. They have a long record of successful crime behind them, and I attach a précis (Enclosure No. 2) of piracies committed by them since 1921. The pirates, I may say, are led by daring men with a good knowledge and experience of ocean-going ships. I therefore took advantage of the recent presence in Hong Kong of Mr. O'Malley, Counsellor of His Majesty's Legation at Peking, to arrange for a visit of inspection to Bias Bay on the 16th June in H.M.S. \"Despatch.\" Our party, in addition to Mr. O'Malley and myself, consisted of Commodore Stirling, Colonel Montague-Bates (at present officer commanding the troops in Hong Kong), Colonel Coates, Mr. W. T. Southorn (Colonial Secretary) and several military and naval officers. We had also with us Captain H. F. Bloxham, acting assistant-superintendent of police, and Lieutenant-Commander Ingham, Royal Navy, who had both participated in the raid made upon the Bias Bay pirates in co-operation with the Chinese authorities in January 1925, and described in Captain Bloxham's report, which forms an enclosure in my predecessor's despatch No. 81 of the 3rd March, 1925.*\n\n5. We made a careful inspection of Bias Bay, noting especially the anchorage to which the pirates take captured vessels, and viewing the village of Fan Lo Kong from the waters of the inlet on which it is situated. Consequent on this inspection, I have received the attached letters (Enclosures Nos. 3 and 4), dated the 24th and 25th instant, from Commodore Stirling and Colonel Montague-Bates respectively, indicating the nature of the operations which would be necessary, if a punitive expedition were to be undertaken. It is clear from these letters that prior authority from the Admiralty and War Office will be needed, and I have the honour to suggest that the consent of those Departments and also of the Foreign Office should be obtained to action on the following lines:--\n\nWhen next a piracy in Bias Bay is reported, it is proposed that two companies of British regiment should be immediately despatched with such naval escort as may be available in accordance with a plan which is being prepared by the naval and military authorities. The expedition would proceed at once to the anchorage in Bias Bay, where pirated ships are moored, and would there land and endeavour to waylay the pirates while removing their loot. The troops would also search the pirate villages, and, if necessary, destroy them.\n\n6. Such a punitive expedition would, of course, be a warlike operation undertaken in Chinese waters and on Chinese soil. If, therefore, the co-operation of a Chinese cruiser, should one happen to be in or near Hong Kong at the time, could be obtained, this would be a great advantage. But it is not unlikely that no Chinese cruiser might be at hand, and the essence of a punitive expedition into Bias Bay is that it should follow immediately upon the report of a piracy. In such case, having regard to the fact that the Bias Bay area is outside the effective control of any administration in Canton, and having regard also to the numerous depredations committed by Bias Bay pirates in recent years, the de facto Canton Government when presented with the fait accompli might, of course, loudly protest against it as an act of war carried out by British armed forces in Kwangtung, but would, I believe, secretly rejoice at the extermination of this nest of pirates, and might even be encouraged thereafter to exert its own authority by stationing troops in this area and driving out the brigands who infest it. The result, as a whole, would, I feel sure, be salutary, and would not be misunderstood by the Chinese people either in Canton or in Hong Kong. It would certainly be welcomed by the Cantonese seafaring folk, and it would serve to vindicate British prestige.\n\n7. I have shown this despatch in draft to Commodore Stirling and to Colonel Montague-Bates, who concur in the practicability of the proposed punitive expedition. Accordingly, I have the honour to request that, if these recommendations meet with the approval of His Majesty's Government, the necessary instructions may be sent to Hong Kong by telegram.\n\n8. I have sent a copy of this despatch to His Majesty's Minister at Peking and His Majesty's consul-general at Canton.\n\nI enclose a chart showing Bias Bay and its contiguity to Hong Kong waters,* and I have indicated on the chart the anchorage to which pirates have in the past taken the vessels which they have seized.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nC. CLEMENTI,\n\nGovernor.\n\nEnclosure No. 1\n\nPrécis of Piracies committed by Bias Bay Pirates, 1920\n\n1. Steamship \"Jade.\"—Shun Cheung Steamship Company, 6, Connaught Road, Central, 2nd floor, running between Haiphong, Kwong Chau Wan and Hong Kong. Was pirated on the 8th February, 1926, eight hours out from Kwong Chau Wan on her way to Hong Kong. She is a cargo ship, and was carrying 100 tons general cargo and bullion valued $82,900. There were ten third-class passengers. Seven of these were the pirates. They took the ship to Bias Bay and arrived off Fan Lo Kong at 10 a.m. on the 10th February. The ship was taken right up the creek, where it was in 3 fathoms of water and about 500 yards from the shore. The pirates called the pirates boarded the two sampans, which took off all the pirates and the bullion.\n\n2. Steamship \"Hsin Kong.\"—China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company. Was pirated on the journey from Shanghai to Canton, when she was near Swatow on the 25th March, 1926. The pirates took the ship to Bias Bay and transferred ashore cargo and loot from the passengers by means of a boat which was lying in readiness at an arranged spot. (\"South China Morning Post,\" of the 1st April, 1926.) (Hong Kong police have no report or details of this piracy.)\n\nPage 375",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG.\n\n11th April, 1927.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your confidential despatch dated 20th December, 1926, enclosing copy of a memorandum on the subject of steam navigation on the Upper Yang-tsze.\n\nThis Government has no knowledge of the cases referred to in the second paragraph on page 6 of the memorandum where Chinese are said to have attempted to incorporate companies in Hong Kong with the object of owning ships to ply on the Upper Yang-tze under the Red Ensign.\n\nEvery possible care is taken to see that the registration of ships in Hong Kong is allowed only within the provisions of the law.\n\nThe steamer referred to as registered in Southampton and owned by a company composed of Chinese, incorporated in Hong Kong is, I presume, the S.S. Fushun, built at Southampton, which appeared on the Yang-tze in 1926. This vessel did not belong to any company incorporated in Hong Kong, but to a British-born subject named Fung Keng Yu (544, 4). It is said to have been sold to the Chung Yi Company, a Chinese company of Ichang, the sale having been put through at the British Consulate at Hankow about December 1926. Mr. Fung Keng Yu thinks that the \"Fushun\" is now under the Italian flag, but states that he has nothing to do with it.\n\n...\n\nTo Your\n\nConf\n\nfor conf\n\nDec\n\n11 Api (replies 1702)\n\nWe can leave it KM. Toller to try and substantiate his final statement if he adheres to it.\n\nCopy to FO with Conf L.F. ref No 1\n\nTAlmussuck 2575-\n\n31/5\n\nCopy 2+3\n\n70. Comp 2 June 27. LE.\n\nComo to Comp\n\nRIGHT HONOURABLE LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P., &c. &c., &c.\n\nPage 675\n\n13.17-76\n\nG.B\n\n \nPage 675\n\n \n3\n\n \n2",
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        "document_key": "CO129-498-23 Raising of money for coup d'etat in Canton 24-9-1926 - 3-1-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-498-23 Raising of money for coup d'etat in Canton 24-9-1926 - 3-1-1927",
        "content_text": "**TOP SECRET.**\n\nSir,\n\nC.20101\n\n27 OCT 1926\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,  \nHONGKONG,  \n24th September, 1926.\n\n2.\n\nI have the honour to address you on a matter which has caused me some concern since it was first brought to my notice at the end of last year.\n\nIt appears that about the middle of August, 1925, an emissary of Ngai Pong Ping, formerly a General in the service of Ch'an Kweng-meng, ex-Governor of Kuang-tung, came to Hong Kong to raise money for a coup d'état which it was hoped would re-establish in Canton a Government friendly to Hong Kong and so end the boycott. A sum of $100,000 was aimed at, of which $50,000 was required at once. The emissary saw the two Chinese Members of the Legislative Council (Mr. Chow Shou-son (now Sir Shouson Chow) and Dr. Kotewall) who reported the matter to the Governor (Sir R.E. Stubbs) at an interview at which there were also present the Colonial Secretary (Sir Claud Severn), the Assistant Colonial Secretary (Mr. Fletcher) and the Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Mr. Tratman). According to the information given to me, Mr. Chow and Dr. Kotewall said that, if the Government saw no objection, the Chinese merchants would endeavour to raise the money, and they\n\nThe Right Honourable  \nLieutenant Colonel L.C.M.S. Amery, M.P.,  \n&c.,  \n&c.,  \n&c.  \nwere",
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        "document_key": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927",
        "content_text": "- 2 -\n\nThe s.s. \"Tungshan\" was escorted by H.M.S. \"Cicala\". The valour of the aforesaid troops proved unequal to the prospect of serious retaliation and no further firing took place.\n\nFacios Nos 1 & 2\n\n2027\n830001 B\n1027 of 30001 B\n137\n\nI enclose two further reports of the result of the invitation to the Hong Kong press described in paragraph 2 of my secret despatch of the 13th May.\n\nThe replacement of the author of the invitation by a subordinate, in order that any inconvenient question might be burked and unfortunate statement repudiated, is too typical of Chinese diplomatic methods to require further comment.\n\n3.\n\nThe matter of the demand on the steam-launch \"Tai Pang\" (see paragraph 6 of my despatch of the 13th May) appears to have closed with Mr. Brenan's representations. The District Officer, Mr. J.A. Fraser, with the kind assistance of Colonel F. Hayley Bell, Commissioner of Chinese Customs for the \"Kowloon\" district, endeavoured to get into personal touch with the author of the demand (Mr. P'ang Ching-hin) at his headquarters in Bias Bay but found Mr. P'ang absent in Hong Kong. Mr. Fraser, however, established friendly relations with the Chinese District Inspector of Police at Nam O (on the Mirs Bay shore of the Peninsula separating that bay from Bias Bay) and was given to understand that the position was realized and the demand would not be repeated. The launch has since called at Tip Fuk without molestation.\n\n4. My hopes for the resumption of through traffic on the Kowloon-Canton Railway have only partially been realized, the damage to the locomotives seized by the Communist railway staff having left the railway unready. Since then the Chinese...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-500-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 30-6-1927 - 8-11-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-500-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 30-6-1927 - 8-11-1927",
        "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG.\n\n10th August, 1927.\n\n**(Secret.)**\n\nSir,\n\nThe tension at Canton appears to be increasing, though the threatened storm has not yet broken. It is stated that a second attempt was made on the life of General Li Chai-sum on the 30th July, this time by means of a mine laid in the usual course of his motor-launch; but there is some doubt whether this outrage may not be one of a series designed to intimidate passenger junks into compliance with the demands of pirate gangs. Piracy by means of electrically-controlled mines laid in the channels of the West River delta is the latest innovation of Chinese desperadoes. One enterprising gang actually stated, in a letter of intimidation received by a local Chinese steam-ship company, that it employed a graduate of the School of Submarine Mining. Anyhow, there seems no doubt that an attempt was made on the 2nd August, to shoot Mr. Feng Tso-wan, who succeeded the extremist Ch'an Fu-muk as Commissioner for Labour, and there has been a bomb outrage in a tea-house at Canton connected in some way with the reorganization...\n\nThe Right Honourable  \nLieutenant Colonel L.C.M.S. Amery, M.P.,  \n&c.,  \n&c.\n\nPage 55  \nNO SECRET.\n\nCopies to:  \nCanton No. 299  \nPeking No. 8.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-500-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-9-1927 - 24-11-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-500-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-9-1927 - 24-11-1927",
        "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG.\n13th October, 1927.\n\nDespite repeated protestations of loyalty and amity towards General Li Chai-sum I am by no means sure that General Cheung Fat-fui will not endeavour to supplant his colleague in the control of Canton and Kuangtung, and that the programme for a duumviral control outlined in paragraph ten of the Governor's secret despatch of the 15th September will not turn out to be a typical War-Lord's stratagem. Having sent his subordinates Ip Ting and Ho Lung to Swatow to draw off the Canton garrison General Cheung arrives to save the city from internal disorders and promptly takes steps to see that the Swatow expeditionary force shall not return.\n\n2. General Cheung's first step was to remove General Li's adherents from all the important offices and set up his own men in their stead. Among the first to go was Mr. Feng Tso-wan, who fled from the Treasury with much the same precipitancy as his predecessor Mr. Ku Ying-fan, thus fulfilling the forecast contained in paragraph 6 of Sir C. Clementi's secret despatch of the 30th September. Later reports are to the ...\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P., \n&c., \n&c., \n&c.\n\nNO SECRET.\nCopies to: \nCanton No. 3bl \nPeking No. G4.\nJupitto 30 NOV 1922\n\n30001₤ \n8 \nREOP \n14 NOV 1927 \nOOL.OFFICE \n148\n\nPage 150\nPage 151",
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        "document_key": "CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927",
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        "title": "CO129-504-11 Chinese communist inspired conspiracies- banishment of political revolutionary agitators 24-3-1927 - 20-7-1927",
        "content_text": "## Enclosure No.1 in Consul-General Crosby's No.54 secret of 28/4/27\n\n**TRANSLATION**\n\n| Name | Position | Location | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Long Tong Kongsi | 1st Treasurer | Tegal (Java) |  |\n| Tan Pia Teng | do. | Batavia |  |\n| Lim Tjoei Keng | do. | Batavia |  |\n| Soedarso | do. | - |  |\n| Mochmad Gani | do. | - |  |\n| J.E. Hoof | (Trader) | Sourabaya | (Dealer in bicycles at Pintoe Besar) |\n| Lochji Ketjil |  | (Djocja) (Java) |  |\n| Lim Soe Oen | General | Canton | Military Department |\n| M.E. Chow | Secretary |  |  |\n| Wongsosemito |  |  |  |\n| D. von Faber | Colonel | Bandoeng (Java) | ) via Australia to Bandoeng |\n|  | Lieutenant |  | ) |\n|  | Secretary | do |  |\n| Natadisastra | Major |  |  |\n| Soedarso F. | Captain |  | to go to Java on 21/3/27 |\n| Kalaway | - |  | via Singapore to Batavia |\n| F. Doresky |  |  | via Macassar to Batavia |\n| Lim Yang Soen | Captain |  | ) to Bandoeng |\n| Sastroredjo | Lieutenant |  | via Singapore to Padang |\n| Soetan Hajat | do. |  | via Singapore to Kedan |\n| Hamid |  |  | via Hongkong to Macassar |\n| Li Yi San |  |  | to go to (Dutch) India on 21/3/27 |\n\n**Technical** \nCepheine",
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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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        "document_key": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928",
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        "title": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928",
        "content_text": "VB 1928\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nSir,\n\nRROE\n\n21 JAN 1928\n\nZIDAN\n\n141\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONGKONG. 24th December, 1927.\n\n37\n\n30014/27\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your confidential despatch of 9th November requesting my observations on a case of extortion from a British subject of Chinese descent named Low Feng Kiah by Chinese officials in Swatow.\n\n2.\n\nMr. Kirke's despatches make it abundantly clear that Low Feng Kiah was a British subject of the 3rd generation, previously recognised as such by Chinese Authorities, and that the Consul's protests against the entirely unjustifiable treatment accorded to him were consistently ignored. The condition of China being what it is, I can only note my approval of the Consul's action throughout the negotiations and my regret that it was impossible to carry the protests further.\n\n3.\n\nUntil the time when some semblance of order is restored in China, there seems little possibility of affording effective Consular protection to Chinese British subjects in the face of \"authorities\" such as control the country today; but even if a protest should prove unavailing, it is of importance that no proper opportunity of entering one for record should be omitted.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble servant,\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL C.L.S. AMERY, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nGovernor, &c.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-511-12 Staff list for Hong Kong- approval for staff increase in Colonial Secretary's Office 15-6-1928 - 15-6-1928",
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        "title": "CO129-511-12 Staff list for Hong Kong- approval for staff increase in Colonial Secretary's Office 15-6-1928 - 15-6-1928",
        "content_text": "38\n\n28\n\nHONG KONG,—Continued.\n\nEDUCATION DEPARTMENT,— Continued.\n\nMistresses, Contil.\n\n£300-£20-£400\n\nC. Peyton, Mar. 17, '25.\n\nthen £410-£10-£600.\n\nC. C. Munro, July 31, 25. D. M. Jaques, Jan. 14, '27. A. E. E. Steele, Sept. 9, '27. H. Gilmore, Sept. 9, '27. M. B. Watts, Sept. 9, '27. D. S. Smith, Sept. 23, '27. 1 vacancy.\n\nHONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.\n\nCommandant.....\n\nAdjutant\n\nCorps Sergt. Major\n\n.. $900\n\nAllowance L. G. Bird, D.S.O., Lieut.-\n\nColonel, Mar. 26, '20.\n\nper annum,\n\n$10,200 per annum. R. A. Wolfe Murray, Bt-\n\nMajor, D.S.O., M.C. (The Gordon Highlanders) Dec. 31, 26,\n\n£320-£10-£400... H. Westlake, D.C.M., Apr.\n\n10, '22.\n\nPUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.\n\nDirector of Public £1,250-£50-\n\nWorks.\n\n£1,500.\n\n3 Assistant Directors £1,050-£30-\n\nof Public Works.\n\n1 Engineer\n\n8 Engineers\n\n3 Engineers\n\n£1,200.\n\n£1,050-£30-\n\n£1,200,\n\nHarold T. Creasy, C.B.E.,\n\nAug. 30, '23.\n\nH. T. Jackman, June 1, 21. E. W. Carpenter, Jan. 1, '25. H. E. Goldsmith, Sept. 3, '26.\n\nA. E. Wright, Jan. 1, '25.\n\n£725-£25-£1,000 | R. M. Henderson, Jan. 1, '23. Charge Allow- A. G. W. Tickle, Jan. 1, '23. ance at $2,400. E. Newhouse, Jan. 1, 23. H. C. Lowick, Jan. 1, '23. L. H. King, Nov. 29, 23. H. S. Rouse, Jan. 1, '24. P. D. Wilson, Jan 1, '25. Adam Anderson, Jan, 1, '27. A. B. Purves, Jan. 1, '25. 12 increments of | H. H. Pegg, Jan. 1, '25. £20 and 12 of H. J. Pearce, Jan. 1, '25. £25 each.\n\n£460-£1,000 by\n\n29\n\nHONG KONG,-Continued.\n\nPUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT,—Continued.\n\n3 Engineers....\n\n29 Engineers,\n\n1 Mechanical Engineer.\n\n£460-£20-£700. R. P. Shaw, Mar. 27, '20.\n\nR. S, Logan, Mar. 27, '20.\n\n£460-£20-£600. Charge Allow\n\nance to 1 £100.\n\nat\n\nE. S. Carter, Aug. 21, '20. C.B. Robertson, Nov. 22,'20. A. Nicol, July 30, 21. A. Kirk, Sept. 9, 21. W. Woodward, Nov. 22, '21. C.W. E. Bishop, Feb, 18, '22. S. C. Feltham, Jan. 5, '23. A. E. Lissaman, Feb. 19. '28.\n\nW. J. S. Key, Sept. 15, '23. G. S. Graver, Dec. 7, 23. D. S. Edward, Dec. 21, 23, R. J. B. Clark, Jan. 4, 24. R. S. W. Paterson, May 9, '24.\n\nJ. Bottomley, May 23, 24. S. O. Hill, July 5, '24. R. Cryan, Nov. 17, '24. A. W. Hodges, Jan. 3, '25. C. J. Waddell, Jan. 3, '25. W. H. Owen, Jan. 29, '25. A. H. McBride, Feb. 28, '25.\n\nR. J. Vernall, April 18, '25.\n\nG. S. Brown, June 13, 25,\n\nJ. Ring, July 1, '25,\n\nN. K. Littlejohn, Sept. 1, '26.\n\nK. S. Robertson, Aug. 1, '27.\n\n5 vacancies.\n\n£500-£10-£60... E. P. Fletcher, June 5, '25.\n\nSupt. of Crown Lands. £900-£25-£1,000 | L. C. P. Rees, Jun, 1, '22.\n\nCharge Allow- ance £100.\n\n1st Asst. Supt. of £700-£25-£875...| II. West, Jan. 1, '26.\n\nCrown Lands.\n\n1\n\n2nd Asst. Supt. of £650-£25-£750... E. Larmour, Jan. 1, '26.\n\nCrown Lands.\n\n39",
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        "document_key": "CO129-512-1 Political situation in China- and Canton 30-11-1928 - 23-5-1929",
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        "title": "CO129-512-1 Political situation in China- and Canton 30-11-1928 - 23-5-1929",
        "content_text": "NO SECRET.\n\nCopies to:-\nCanton No.70.\nPeking No.21.\nSingapore.\n\nCopy 7.0.24\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\nHONG KONG.\n26th April, 1929.\n\n22 62793 41\n\nIn continuation of my secret despatch, dated 18th April, I have the honour to inform you that news has reached me today from a very reliable source, throwing light on the present political situation in South China.\n\nI am told that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has instructed Cheung Fat-fui, the Commander of the 4th Army, and Ho Chien, the Commander of the troops in Hunan to attack and capture Kwangsi province at latest by the 10th May, and that he has also given positive orders to the Canton Government to join in the attack upon Kwangsi, his object being to make a clean sweep, if possible, of his Kwangsi opponents before he tries conclusions with Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang.\n\n2. These orders have placed the Canton Government in a position of great difficulty. The leader of the Canton Government, General Chan Ming-shu is at present convalescing in the Government Civil Hospital at Hong Kong, from which he is due for discharge next week. General Ch'an Ming-shu has, however,\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,\n&c.,\n&c.,\n&c.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-516-8 Survey of Hong Kong 24-4-1929 - 11-11-1929",
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        "title": "CO129-516-8 Survey of Hong Kong 24-4-1929 - 11-11-1929",
        "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 1\n\n21\n\n**Presents letter to Survey Department.**\n\nSee $\n\nHon. Director of Public Works,\n\nI now forward further information asked for in Secretary of State's despatch No.390 of 27th November, 1928, as follows: -\n\n(1) Diagram showing triangulation connecting Royal Observatory Trig Station with existing work.\n(2) Observed angles.\n(3) Notes as regards log. distances, and azimuth &c.\n(4) Details and notes as regards longitude.\n\nAll the stations have now been permanently fixed, but field observations on Lantao not yet completed. The stations are periodically visited and kept in repair and a revised list of all stations is now being prepared giving a short description of each and the easiest means of approach, for future reference.\n\n2.\n\nWith regard to 20,000 map now in course of production the key plan of which is referred to in Colonel J. St. Winterbotham's letter `M.I.4/C/248` of 3rd December, 1928, I would draw attention to the fact that no sheets appear to have been taken up to include \"Peng Chau\" and \"Gau Tau\" Islands and a portion of the coast of Mirs Bay as far as Mirs Point, the latter being the extreme Eastern boundary of the leased Territories. This however is probably an oversight.\n\n3. I would suggest also that the Geographical Section General Staff be asked to forward copies of the sheets as produced to this Government; Nos.6 & 9 are already published.\n\n(Sd.) E. B. Reed,\n21st March, 1929.\n\n**Superintendent of Surveys**",
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        "document_key": "CO129-520-1 Chinese situations 20-12-1929 - 27-1-1931",
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        "title": "CO129-520-1 Chinese situations 20-12-1929 - 27-1-1931",
        "content_text": "13\n\nKwangsi leaders began their retreat from Hunan by different routes early in the month. Both came up against Cantonese troops that had been sent in pursuit. Cheung Fat-fui met with resistance at Yu Hsien and Tu Ling when both sides suffered heavy losses. Eventually he managed to force his way into Kiangsi and at present his whereabouts are uncertain. The force retreating under Li Tsung-jén, Pai Chung-hsi and Huang Shao-hsiung engaged the enemy at Heng Chow, where it appears the Cantonese were outflanked and suffered heavier losses than their opponents. Li Tsung-jén is now supposed to be in Kweilin, Pai Chung-hsi is in Lui Chow and Huang Shao-hsiung in Pin Yang. Nanning is in the hands of Kwangsi adherents under Colonel Wei Yun-sung. It is said that the Canton Government is planning a concerted attack on Nanning with the help of the Yunnanese, who are at Lungchow. But the latter are anyhow an uncertain factor, and as it is unlikely that Nanking will be able to spare them the promised funds, they are quite unreliable.\n\n3.\n\nWang Ching-wei's emergence from obscurity and his arrival in Peking on the 23rd of July indicate that the Leftists do not despair of dominating the Northern Confederacy, and in the event of Northern success, it seems not unlikely that he would be de facto President of China. He is in more senses than one the heir of Doctor Sun Yat-sen, and it was he who wrote down (some say composed) Dr.'s famous will. He has recently written",
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        "document_key": "CO129-553-3 Anti-piracy measures 7-3-1935 - 4-11-1935",
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        "title": "CO129-553-3 Anti-piracy measures 7-3-1935 - 4-11-1935",
        "content_text": "16. On passage to Tsiech Point he expressed his intention to resign his post 3 weeks hence as the work was too hard.\n\n17. He appeared to cherish every hope of marching to Tai Sami from Tsiech Point, being re-embarked there and conveyed back to Autan before dark the same day with the object of meeting Colonel Chen: The military object gained by this plan of campaign appeared to be somewhat obscure. Indeed his plans generally appeared vague in the extreme.\n\n18. Another expressed hope was to be in Hong Kong on 3rd February to meet his brother for Chinese New Year celebrations.\n\n19. At 1230 communication was established with \"WU FUNG\" and Major Ma directed her to proceed to Tai Sami. She reported \"sailing now\".\n\n20. At 1310 \"DECOY\" arrived off the eastern end of the sandy beach opposite the road leading inland (Chart 1962, plan of Goat Island) but the surf being obviously too much to permit the safe disembarkation of Chinese soldiers. I proceeded 2.3 miles westward.\n\n21. The party was landed there safely though they displayed no very evident signs of enthusiasm.\n\n22. Before landing I acquainted Major Ma with the latest information received from \"DEFENDER\" who had visited Tai Sami and he informed me that he would not require my services further.\n\n23. He especially asked me to convey his thanks to the Commodore and expressed deep gratitude for the trouble taken and regrets the trouble imposed by the piracy.\n\n24. At 1502. \"DECOY\" proceeded southward to the traffic route in anticipation of Commodore's approval.\n\n25. \"DEFENDER\" who had joined me from Tai Sami was directed to resume patrol and in doing so was instructed to show herself well inside Hei Chi Chin Bay until dark.\n\n26. This disposition insured the patrol area being adequately guarded until dark.\n\n27. At 1939 when in position 133 deg:, 9.2 miles from Mirs Point \"DEFENDER\" passed to \"DECOY\" a message from S.S. \"SEISTAN\" reporting a steamer standing in towards Mirs Bay looking suspicious.\n\n28. At the same time \"SEISTAN\" was sighted and the above information confirmed by V/3.\n\n29. Course was immediately altered for Mirs Bay and speed increased to 24 knots. Very shortly after this the visibility became greatly reduced and as no fixes were possible speed had to be reduced to slow until land could be observed, which it was at close range. Asdics were beneficial as a check in feeling my way in.\n\n30. Ship established W/T communication with Police Launch No.4 and anchored in Peng Chau Roads at 2010 having observed no ships on passage.\n\n31. In the mist the searchlights proved ineffective for searching the Ha Sha beaches: this was accordingly carried out by an armed motor boat but nothing suspicious was to be found.\n\nPage 80\n\nPage 81",
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        "document_key": "CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943",
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        "content_text": "184\n\n-15-\n\nMIB's lay to West of Aberdeen Island or Tolograph Bay for the night, those going out of harbour attracting a few rounds from the field gun which was preferable to the route by Aberdeen Channel where machine-gun fire was encountered probably from Benott's Hill.\n\nDecember 25th. Thursday, December 25th, opened with a bomb dropped on West side of Aberdeen Island near MTB berth, anchorage then being shifted close inshore, and it was discovered that Aberdeen Harbour was commanded by field gun fire and Aberdeen Channel by machine-gun fire from Bonnott's Hill.\n\nMTB 10's transmitter broke came out of order and could not be put right so all signals had to be passed visually to another boat for transmission; in addition coding with an emergency 'playfair' code had to be done by Officers, so that on this day when speed was vital I was considerably handicapped. At 1515 I received from DO the single word \"00\" T.0.0. 1315, later receiving \"Co all boats T.0.0. 1555\". As I had not got the two important Chinese personages, Admiral Chan Chak and Colonel S.K Yee on board and had no news of them, and as also movement by daylight would be obvious to the enemy, I consulted with Mr. F.V.K. with whom I had been told by the Commodore and IDO to collaborate closely in the matter of escape from Hongkong and I decided to wait, delay being of mutual advantage. In view of Commodore's signal 1540/20/12/41 to S.N.O. \"Should you be forced to withdraw from Aberdeen send all you have afloat to Sandy and Tolograph Bays\" I kept MTB's 07 and 09 together. MTB 11, MTB 10 and 27 (transmitting boat for 10) kept together thus putting MTB's at several possible picking up points. I sent the following signal to XDO \"Propose go after dark must pick up two Chinese at Aberdeen Dock. Can I enter after dark 1530/25\", and receiving no reply I sent the following signal to Commodore \"Ask Commissioner of Police for Chan and Yee to rendezvous Queen Mary Hospital entrance from seven p.m. important 1655/25\".\n\nThe following reply from Commodore was received \"Your 1655 not approved proceed immediately with K.1830/25\", but by the time this was received and decoded I had already made contact with part of Admiral Chan Chak's party and had them to complete the operation if feasible and advisable as I so considered it from my knowledge of the conditions obtaining.\n\nAbout 1830 Lieutenant Commander Moorath of DO's staff with a Mr. Halliday, Merchant Service Engineer, appeared in a rowing boat from Aberdeen Harbour, with verbal instructions to me from XDO to go but at this time MTB 27 signalled to me that a man was swimming out to us from Aberdeen Island and he proved to be the advance party of Admiral Chan Chak's party whose motor boat had been machine-gunned while mistakenly passing Bonnett's Hill (military officers were on board who must have known enemy was in occupation) on their way to join MTB's by Aberdeen Channel instead of by the safer route by Aberdeen Harbour where only shellfire could have been encountered. Lieutenant Commander Moorath had come by that way and encountered only desultory shellfire. The latter having delivered his message to me, elected with Mr. Halliday to join the escape party.\n\nI was informed that Admiral Chan Chak and party were hiding and that Colonel Yee was believed killed. I then sent MTB 11 to contact the other MTB's 07 and 09 as W/T communication was not satisfactory, with instructions to them to suit my orders. MTB 11's starters would not work and MTB 10 had to lash alongside and \"tow her engines in\" both boats passing in range of field gun on way to Tolograph Bay. On return MTB 10 received one or two shots close and so I concluded that no surrender or immobilisation of craft could have taken place or fire would have ceased; thus no scruples about escaping after possible surrender were felt.\n\nDecember 25th. About 1900 MTB 10 and 27 then proceeded to take escaped party from Headquarters on board by skiff from Aberdeen Island, party consisting of Major Goring, Squadron Leader Oxford, Captain MacMillan, Captain Guest of the Staff, also Mr. Robinson of Indian Police, Messrs. MacDougal and Ross of the Ministry of Information and Admiral Chan Chak's Flag Lieutenant Commander Hsu Hong and his coxswain. Admiral Chan Chak was said to be hiding in a cave wounded and without his artificial leg and Commander Hsu Heng with Able Seaman A.L.Downey S.T. D/J109308 went in a skiff into enemy's field of fire to pick him up, but could not find him and returned; Lieutenant Commander John Humphroy.",
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        "title": "CO129-592-6 Reports on current situation- including weekly intelligence reports 18-9-1945 - 20-12-1945",
        "content_text": "SECRET.\n\n53\n\n(vii) The recent coal shortage affected local shipping considerably, even the various ferry services having to curtail their traffic in some degree. The position now is somewhat easier but stocks are still very low.\n\n11. VISIT OF H.M.S. \"BERMUDA\" TO TSINGTAO.\n\nAn interesting report, dated 10th October, has just been received from the Commanding Officer of H.M.S. \"BERMUDA\" which paid a visit to TSINGTAO from September 20th to October 8th inclusive. During this time strong liaison and very good friendship were established with senior U.S. Navy and Army officers ashore, and excellent relations between the officers of \"BERMUDA\" and those of U.S. ships and the U.S. Army resulted.\n\n17\n\nVery fine work on behalf of the R.A.F. was done by Colonel WYNTER of the U.S. Army (in charge ashore) and especially his assistants Captain KRICK and Lieut. KENDALL who worked permanently in TSINGTAO. Co-operating with and assisting the U.S. Army officers was a very great pleasure, and \"BERMUDA\"'s Commanding Officer has recommended that they should eventually be officially thanked for their good and impartial work with the 1,500 R.A.F. at, or in the vicinity of, TSINGTAO, the majority of whom were British subjects.\n\nThe Swiss, Danish and French Consuls were most helpful in every way. In the past few years they have done a great deal towards helping the internees, especially Mr. ECKER, the Swiss Consul, whose efforts have been untiring. He often bluffed his way past the Japanese guards at the Internment camp to bring the internees cheering news, medical comforts and papers. This was done at great personal risk and discomfort to himself.\n\nFirst-rate liaison was established between the local Chinese authorities and the Military Mission, especially with the Mayor of TSINGTAO, the local Flag Officer and the Chamber of Commerce. When the ship eventually left the port, it was with many requests from these authorities that she should return or ask for another British ship to visit TSINGTAO at an early date. This would undoubtedly be an excellent move in the re-establishment of good relations and confidence in North CHINA.\n\nNo trouble at all was experienced with the Japanese authorities at TSINGTAO.\n\n12.\n\nSUMMARY OF THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN CHINA.\n\nCONTD.\n\nThe general fear in CHINA a few days ago that there might be another disastrous civil war, which would probably have been the most serious since CHIANG KAI-SHEK's war against the YEN HSI-SHAN and FENG YU-HSIANG coalition government in PEKING in 1930, plus KUOMINTANG-Communist relations reaching breaking point, has now been somewhat relieved by reports of a resumption of peace talks. Whether this alleged resumption is CHUNGKING propaganda to gain time and permit more Central Government troops (at present being lifted by British ships) to reach SHantung and SOUTHERN JEHOL, or whether there is a genuine desire on both sides to avoid an open split, the next fortnight will show.\n\nIf the Communist Supreme Commander, General CHU TEH had failed to accomplish anything with the KUOMINTANG leaders after a stay in CHUNGKING of over three weeks (this was immediately after the Japanese defeat) the present renewed discussion for peace between KUOMINTANG and YENAN representatives does not promise to bring the differences of the two camps any...",
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        "title": "CO129-616-1 Correspondence on the production of a Cantonese-English dictionary; Report on a tour of South East... 1-1-1946 - 31-12-1947",
        "content_text": "## 3. \n\n### (a) REPRESENTATIVES OF SERVICES **HONGKONG**\n\nBlakeley, F/Lt. J.D., SIO, Air HQ, Hongkong.\nChauvin, Major, OC Labour Commission, Hongkong.\nHayle, Captain D., RN, Land Forces, Hongkong.\nHughes, Commander RN, Land Forces, Hongkong.\nLambert, S/Ldr. -, Air HQ, Land Forces, Hongkong.\nPurnell, /Cdr. A.G., AIRI, Air HQ, Land Forces, Hongkong.\nStables, Colonel F.H.A., GSOI (Int.) Land Forces, Hongkong.\nVedemiah (or Vedemiapine, unclear), Captain A.P., Parachute Regiment, GSO III Int. HQ, Land Forces, Hongkong.\nWebster, Air Vice-Marshal S.N., C.B.E., D.F.C., AOC, Air HQ, Land Forces, Hongkong.\n\n### (b) CIVILIANS\n\nBoxer, S.W., B Sc., Registrar, University of Hongkong.\nChan Kuan Po, Librarian, Feng Ping Shan Library, University of Hongkong.\nFergusson, J., Principal, Northcote Training College, Hongkong.\nHolmes, R., Assistant Colonial Secretary, Secretariat, Hongkong.\nHorse, Hon. A., C.B.E., Director of Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, Hongkong.\nMa Chan (Kian), Department of Chinese Studies, University of Hongkong.\nRowell, T., Director of Education, Hongkong.\nSidgwick, -, Secretariat, Hongkong.\nSimpson, Professor R.L.M., M.C., M.A., University of Hongkong and Member of Hongkong Interim Committee.\nSloss, I.J., C.B.E., M.A., Vice-Chancellor, University of Hongkong and Chairman, University of Hongkong Interim Committee.\nTodd, -, Acting Colonial Secretary, CSO, Hongkong. (Formerly Secretary for Chinese Affairs.)\nWalton, A.St.G., Assistant Director of Education, Hongkong.",
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