[ { "id": 437000, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2]", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2]", "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\nHONGKONG. 5th January, 1912.\n\n12\nJo 1714!!\n\nIn continuation of my Confidential Despatch 72 of 11th December, I have the honour further to report progress of events in this Colony in connection with the crisis in China.\n\n2. I enclose a further list of cases in which attempts have been made to rescue prisoners or to obstruct the Police in the discharge of their duties. You will observe that in no case did an attempted rescue succeed.\n\n3. While the obstruction of the Police still continues although it is less aggravated, I am glad to say the molestation of Europeans in the streets and elsewhere has almost ceased. Subsequent to the cases of this kind reported in my previous despatch, arrangements were made for detectives as far as might be possible to follow European ladies when shopping and a printed circular was issued by the Captain Superintendent of Police requesting them to carry a police whistle as a means of communication in case of need.\n\n4. In order to bring the Police Staff up to full strength I appointed Mr. R. O. Hutchison on 14th December to act as extra Assistant Superintendent of Police; Commander C. T. Beckwith will in the meantime assist him in the discharge of the duties of Superintendent of Imports and Exports.\n\n5. I enclose a report dated 18th December by Lieutenant-Colonel Stacpole who was at my request detailed by the General...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\nLEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,\n&c.,\n&c.,\n&c...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437001, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2]", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2]", "content_text": "Confidential\n\n52\n\nGeneral Officer Commanding to witness and report on a case of corporal punishment inflicted with the \"cat\" together with a minute by the Principal Civil Medical Officer dated 22nd idem, in which you will see he agrees with the conclusions arrived at by Colonel Stacpole. I desired to have these reports in order that I might be assured, on the one hand, that the instrument and the method of its administration were not unduly severe, and on the other, that they were adequate for their purpose and similar to those employed elsewhere.\n\n6.\n\nIn view of the improvement in the state of internal affairs, I informed the General Officer Commanding the Troops on 23rd ultimo that the route-marching of troops through the City and Kowloon could be discontinued for the present. It is possible that on the approach of Chinese New Year or in the event of any special news arriving from the North calculated to excite the populace, it may become necessary to re-establish these patrols.\n\n7.\n\nOn 6th December, the Captain Superintendent of Police reported that he considered it advisable to put into operation Sections 24 and 25 of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1900 (No. 2 of 1900), which give the Governor power to establish a central store for arms and ammunition and the Governor-in-Council power to order their removal to such store. After consulting the Executive Council in the matter, I caused the four firms who deal in arms to be informed that the Governor-in-Council considered it advisable, owing to the unsettled state of China, the constant accusations made alike by Imperialist and Republican Party of the supply to either of arms and ammunition by the authority of Governments or by private firms, the temptation which the large stocks offered to robbery, and the inability of this Government to attach special guards to each godown, that the Government should assume charge of the bulk of their", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437006, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2]", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2]", "content_text": "Report by Lieutenant-Colonel H. D. Stacpole on a case of corporal punishment witnessed in Victoria Gaol.\n\nOn the 13th December, 1911, I was present when 24 lashes were inflicted on a prisoner. The method differed in many respects from what I have seen in the Army and I have seen many cases when flogging was a recognised punishment on active service.\n\nThe cat so used consisted of nine strings of whipcord about eighteen inches long, attached by a keeper to a drumstick. On each string were nine knots some two inches apart. The effect of the knots seems to be to draw the blood to the surface very quickly and to break the skin, causing much laceration traces of which remain permanently. Some consider that the release of the blood and collected serum relieves the pain. The back of a man so flogged was always treated with carbolic dressing, and he was detained in hospital in some cases as long as five or six days. It depended on the number of lashes given. The cat when used was held above the head not drawn behind the back of the user.\n\ndifferences:\n\n1.\n\n2.\n\n3.\n\n4.\n\n5.\n\nIn the case witnessed in the Gaol I noticed these differences:\n\n1. The prisoner's arms were drawn up so high in the framework that he was resting on his toes.\n\n2. The strings (nine in number) of the cat used were some two feet (or more) long and although without knots were some three times as thick as the whipcord of the Military cat.\n\n3. In consequence of the length of the strings, and the necessity of disentangling them after each stroke, the time occupied was at least three times as long as a Military punishment would have taken.\n\n4. The warder using the cat drew it back as far as his arm would reach and this combined with the length of the lash and the distance he stood away from the prisoner, doubtless made the stroke a severe one.\n\n5. The skin on the prisoner's back was not broken, but it began speedily...\n\nPage 57\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nC 3503.\n\n12", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-388 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1912 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]