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        "content_text": "HONG KONG.\n\n8\n\nREPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT\n\nnot peculiar to this place. In illustration of this opinion, I will place in juxtaposition with a case and his remarks given by Dr. Gordon, a case recorded in Johnson's work on \"Tropical Climates,\" by Mr. Shields, which occurred in Batavia, in the month of August, 1800, together with that gentleman's remarks.\n\nMr. Shields' Statement. \"Never was there a disease so deceitful as this fever. I have frequently seen instances where every symptom was so favourable that I could have almost pronounced my patient out of danger; when, all at once, he would be seized with restlessness, black vomiting, delirium, and convulsions, which in a few hours would hurry him out of existence!\n\n\"This was the case with Mr. Broughton, purser of the Daedalus, who died of the Batavian endemic at Edam hospital. On the seventh day of his illness he took a change for the better, and everything was promising. The morning before he died he expressed himself greatly relieved, and called for some mutton broth and sago, both of which he ate with a good appetite, spoke rationally, and was in good spirits. Towards evening the delusion vanished; restlessness, black vomiting, delirium, and convulsions supervened, and carried him off before morning!\"\n\nDr. Gordon's Statement. \"The fever was of a very malignant and insidious character, the symptoms changing for the worse suddenly, and without warning either to the medical attendant or the patient himself, although often visited, and apparently much improved, both in feeling and appearance, half an hour previous to his death; when he would suddenly become strongly convulsed, his skin intensely hot and dry, the surface assuming a livid hue; thus the scene would close!\n\nColour-sergeant Staley, a stout, healthy young man, was admitted on the morning of the 17th of June, in the cold stage of intermittent fever; and in about six hours had gone through all the stages of the disease. When the intermission occurred, quinine was exhibited. On the 18th he declared himself as feeling quite well, and was apyretic, his pulse not indicating even the slightest constitutional irritation.\n\nAbout 4 P.M. on the 19th, I was called to see him, and found him comatose and convulsed, with lividity, intense heat, and dryness of the skin. Death closed the scene in a few minutes!\"\n\nThe concourse of many people, during the reign of epidemic influence, gives pestilential violence to the disease. The emanations from the sick bodies will often precipitate a disease that may have remained dormant, or passed away in very safe paroxysms. There can be little doubt that many cases went into the Military Hospital last summer, to receive the inoculation of death from the contaminated atmosphere of the crowded wards, which would have terminated in recovery elsewhere.\n\nNot only were the deadly emanations from concentrated disease ready to receive the patient, but his mind wandered to the crowded dead-house, and the prognosis of his own fate struck his mind at the same moment. This, in the majority of cases, was too faithful! How much it is to be regretted that there occurred any impediment to the prompt and efficient fulfilment of Dr. Fergusson's recommendation, at the earliest assaults of the disease, to isolate the cases, and to convey the uninfected men from contact with the diseased, by placing them in a floating hulk.\n\nWhat were the immediate causes of the prevalence of disease during the last summer, and especially of that disease which decimated the 95th Regiment? It has been popularly conceived that the removal of earth, near the barracks, undisturbed since the Plutonic origin of this island, did all the evil. Why then did the disease remain so long undeveloped after the evolution of its imputed cause? the precise nature of which I never heard explained. Was it a gas confined within the cells of the earth, in itself innocuous, and rendered poisonous by contact and combination with the free gases floating in the external air? The supposition is ungeological. The light of a little science will show the glimmering of causes more rational than that.\n\nPage 65\n\nElectricity \"exerts a most powerful influence upon the whole of the animal and vegetable world, and this not merely through the meteorological processes, precipitations of watery vapour, of acids, or of ammoniacal compounds which it occasions; but also immediately as the electrical force, that force which excites the nerves, and occasions or assists the circulation of the \"juices.\"\n\nThe latitudes in which we live are peculiarly liable to thunder-storms, and the congregation of small islands, like those in these waters, surrounded by an extensive ocean, acts peculiarly on the atmosphere, and gives occasion to thunder-storms.\n\nIf those places in which lightning is common be compared with regions like Peru, where it is never seen, it will be found that evidences of the salubriousness of the latter are much greater than of the former.\n\nThe prevalence of electricity may be one of the proximate causes of local disease.\n\nIn the rear of the south range of the Hong Kong barracks there is swampy ground, saturated by the sluggish absorption of moisture from the gully above, and by occasional torrents, the waters of which rest on the surface of the table-land which terminates the ravine. This gully for many months was thickly colonized by Chinese workmen in temporary huts, whose filth descended and remained stagnant on the point alluded to, from which free gases would be perpetually evolved, ready to be elaborated into poisonous compounds, by a favourable stroke of electricity.\n\nEpidemic diseases, however, do not necessarily derive their origin from external causes. The relative failure in the perfection of organic functions in an individual will give rise to unwholesome secretions and effluvia, which, coming in contact with the susceptible and favourable organism of another, may be the means of originating and propagating an epidemic.\n\nThe geological circumstances of this colony in many respects resemble that early condition of the globe which was suited only to living organization of a very low type. It is a mass of granite, disengulphed from the centre of the earth by ancient Plutonic causes. It is little to be wondered at that such a surface, affording no scope for that beautiful reciprocity which is so mutually beneficial between animal and vegetable respiration, and yielding only or chiefly such vegetable productions as are not refreshed by the fertilising existence and economy of herbivorous animals, but renewing itself by its own periodical decomposition, should possess abundant sources of unwholesome exhalations. While it is painful to reflect that these numerous sources of disease envelop us, it is gratifying to know that every step in the progress of civilization and refinement is a powerful antidote. In the planting of trees and shrubs, to unload the atmosphere of the carbonic acid gas, which is the product of animal respiration, and to replenish it with oxygen, which sustains and invigorates us, as well as to afford shade from the sun and a surface for the absorption of the intense rays of light conveyed to the brain through the eyes, which, not less than the direct rays of the sun's heat, tend to injure that organ, we discover a simple remedy more or less at the command of every inhabitant. The Government is called upon also to promote sanitary measures by causing the various hollows, receptacles of decomposing filth, about the town to be filled up, by covering over the great central drains, whence emanate sickly effluvia, and by planting the waste grounds in places where the plantations would afford shade and shelter. I would especially recommend the planting of the flat behind the barracks, the slopes round the church, and the Government offices, and below the general's house, which on the one side would break the strong gusts that sweep down the gully, and on the other shade the barracks from the rising and mid-day sun.\n\nIt has long been in contemplation to erect a \"Sanitarium\" on the hill, below the Victoria peak. The first impression of this scheme may strike a person as absurd. Attention to the following facts will clearly show, I hope, that the idea was based upon sound reason. At Penang, Singapore, and Madeira, such an institution has been erected, or contemplated, on very great elevations.\n\nThe most prevalent diseases in Hong Kong are fevers of the remittent and intermittent type, dysentery, and rheumatism. There are no circumstances so favourable for the development of either of those diseases as excessive atmospheric heat and great humidity. It has been established as a meteorological fact, admitting of no doubt, that the quantity of humidity existing in the atmosphere, as well as the temperature, diminishes with elevation. On the slopes of the Andes this fact is most apparent. On an altitude of 242 feet above the level of the sea the temperature falls one degree. In advancing one degree to the north, the same result is obtained. Thus an ascent of 242 feet is, as respects temperature, equal to a degree of latitude. In great altitudes there exist strata of climates. The citizens of the Andes may, by a comparatively short ascent, experience at pleasure every season of the most favoured climates. When it is remembered what are the invigorating effects of \"change of air\" on the attenuated constitution, it will be at once conceded that such facilities of obtaining it constitute a great privilege.\n\nPage 9\n\nSTATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.\n\nHONG KONG,",
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        "content_text": "payments of the Right Centre, and the Command and general management Compy. the Captain of which \n\nof \n\nhis own \n\nbeing sick : the with the Regiment of course drew the command allowance: consequently all the labour and responsibility fell to Lieut: Caine and \n\ntherefore all the merit - I have \n\nnever \n\nhad \n\nal \n\nthe honor of being \n\non Service with the 17th but the old officers tell me that Caine a Volunteer in the Nipal War, at the attack of futguh on the 32 of January 1815 distinguished himself by bringing off \n\nall the ammunition, which had been abandoned by the Native Detachments that such had been made known by the late Major General Hardyman to the Marquis of Hastings, who instantly \n\nyoung friend with \n\nrewarded our \n\nau \n\nhusiqney. Ante dated 10 Months to give \n\nhim rank - Caine carried the \n\n121 \n\nRegimental Colour at the storming of the heights of Shubbulpon and was the first officer of the Right Wing who made a lodgement on the Saints Tomb \n\nthe teeth of the Arabs he \n\nwhere \n\nin \n\none \n\n2/ \n\nplanted his Colour aided by Colour Sergeant and 7 men. He there had a personal contest with the Arab-Chief, whom he shot - I mention these particulars to ensure Caine \n\nyour protection as he is a fine young fellow, who will (opportunity offering) distinguish himself, and be a credit to his Regiment. \n\nwill find him well acquainted with the native language, and always willing \n\nto make himself useful. \n\nYou \n\nIn \n\nis ver \n\nvery \n\nmamas and conduct, he gentlemanlike, and his departure from the Regiments ( in which he has been- since he \n\nAVAI \n\nthree \n\nyears of age",
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        "content_text": "To His Excellency Major General Jervois, Governor of the Colony of Hong Kong, and the Honorable Members of the Executive Council.\n\nThe humble Petition of Margaret Hall, widow of the late Colour Sergeant Hall, 64th Regiment,\n\n2, taking the orphans to the Colony of New Zealand, where, at Auckland, the family of her late husband reside, and who being farmers and well to do in the world, it is more than probable she and her babes would find a home, but in her present distressed circumstances she is unable to defray the expenses of her voyage to New Zealand, and therefore throws herself on the mercy of this Government, fully hoping that as His Excellency Major General Jervois, an old and distinguished soldier, he will take her bereaved state into his kind consideration, and together with the honorable members of the Executive Council cause her with her two helpless children, (one 3 years of age and the other only eight months), to be sent to New Zealand, and Petitioner will ever be grateful for such kindness.\n\nPetitioner begs to attach a Discharge Certificate from the 64th Regiment now in India, her late husband having served therein six years and nearly four months, and at the time of purchasing his discharge with the intention of settling in New Zealand, he was Canteen Sergeant of the 64th Regiment. Petitioner mentions this fact, as it clearly shows that her late husband was a trustworthy, good, and honest man, possessing the confidence of the Commanding Officer of his Regiment.\n\nShe now respectfully submits her own distant case and that of her two children thus left destitute in this foreign country, far from their native land, to your merciful and charitable attention, feeling assured that you will view our unfortunate position in its true light.\n\nSigned) Margaret Hall.\n\nVictoria, 11th April, 1853.\n\nReceived by the Colonial Secretary.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]",
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        "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]",
        "content_text": "598\n\nAmmunition, which had been abandoned\n\n27\n\nby the Native Detachments that such had\n\nbeen made known by the late Major General Hardy.\n\n- man to the Marquis of Hastings :\n\nwho instantly rewarded our\n\nwith an\n\nyoung friend\n\nEnsign, antedated 10 months to\n\ngive him rank. Caine carried the ~ Regimental Color at the storming of the\n\nheight of Shubbulpoor and was the first-\n\nOfficer of the Right Wing who made a __ lodgement on the Saint's Tomb where in the teeth of the Arabs, he planted his Colour, aided by one Colour Sergeant and 7 men. He there had a personal contest with the\n\nArab chief, whom he shot - I mention these particulars to insure Caine your protection, as he is a fine young fellow, who will",
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        "content_text": "which \n\nthe Foreign Office with whom all genshän relating to Such appointments would \n\nrest \n\n1 \n\nIn 7492159 \n\n: printed for house of femin \n\nCAPTAIN \n\nSERVICES \n\nOF \n\nWILLIAM \n\nOF THE \n\nforming \n\nSTEVENS, \n\nLAND TRANSPORT CORPS.\n\nEnlisted in the 49th Foot on the 18th April, 1834. Served in India and China (Medal) near 10 years, nine of which as a Non-Commissioned Officer, and purchasing his discharge as Color Serjeant, 15th December, 1843.\n\nServed under the Magistracy of Middlesex near 11 years as Statistical Clerk, (also a pensioned Service, and governed by Regulations, sanctioned by the Home Department) and was discharged at his own request, 23rd February, 1855, (vide Certificate annexed).\n\nRe-Enlisted in the Land Transport Corps, 24th February, 1855, and promoted from the ranks to Lieutenant, 24th April, 1855. As Acting Quarter Master—clothed, armed and equipped for the Field the Ist Levy of 2000 men, in addition to organizing the II. Division of 200 men, receiving the personal thanks of Captain Mundell, 96th Regiment, for the effective state in which they were handed over to his command, and while under orders to proceed to the East, 10th June, 1855, Telegraphed from Plymouth not to embark, being selected by his Commanding Officer to Recruit for the 2nd Levy, on account of the zealous and effective manner in which he had discharged the very arduous duties of Quarter Master, unassisted, and without extra pay, toiling from early morn till late at night—(Vide extract from Colonel Napier's note appended hereto). Raising in London the unprecedented number of 2200 Recruits (Note 1), in three months, and honorably mentioned to the Adjutant General as having performed that duty highly satisfactorily, not a single instance of a complaint having been advanced out of so numerous a body.\n\nRejoined the Depot at Horfield Barracks, Bristol, 30th November, 1855, and assumed command and payment of near 800 men till embarkation; attending at the ports of Plymouth and Portsmouth as Embarking Officer on several occasions (regimentally) during the months of December, January, February and March. Promoted to a Captaincy on the 25th January, 1856, and owing to the exigencies of the Service shortly after appointed Paymaster, and proceeded overland to the Crimea, on the 9th April, 1856, with 24 hours notice only, joining the 4th Battalion at Sebastopol, and returning to England the 6th August, 1856. Among the earliest to render his accounts, eventually audited without a single disallowance. On the reduction of the Corps was placed upon the Half-pay List, 1st April, 1857, for three years, being the only promotion from the ranks placed upon the temporary List (NOTE 2), although having enlisted prior to others in the same Corps, who had little or no service, and who likewise had not discharged so many and important duties, viz. :-The raising of 2200 men during the Russian War, and equipping the 1st Levy of a like number with such extraordinary speed, so that near 2200 men, Embarked in about three months from date of joining the Depots.\n\nA Board of Claims has been sitting in London for a Year past, to investigate the demands of the Men of the Land Transport Corps, before which not a single claim has been advanced against Captain Stevens, either in his capacity as a Quarter Master, Recruiting Officer, Captain of a Division, or Pay Master, as per following Certificate\n\n\"This is to Certify that no claims have been brought against Captain Stevens, late Pay Master, 4th Battalion, Land Transport Corps, during the time I have been President of the Board of Claims.\"\n\nGreat Queen Street, Westminster,\n\nBoard of Claims,\n\n19 January, 1858.\n\n(Signed)\n\nH. FRENCH,\n\nColonel and President.\n\nAppended are a few Testimonials in support of past Services and Claims upon the Government for a just consideration,\n\nNo. 1.\n\n\"I have much pleasure in Certifying that Mr. W. Stevens served in the 49th Regiment for 10 Years, and during a part of that time the Regiment was under my personal command, and I had many opportunities of observing his conduct and character generally. I considered him highly trustworthy, exact, and diligent in the performance of his duties, and altogether a respectable Man. He was discharged by purchase in the rank of Colour Sergeant.\"\n\nUnited Service Club, 2nd May, 1854.\n\n(Signed)\n\nE. F. MORRIS, Colonel,\n\nH. P. Unattached, late Comdg. 49th Foot.\n\nNOTE 1—Lieutenant Colonel Frazer of the 6th and Lieutenant Colonel Somerset of the 7th Foot sold their Commissions on return from the Cape and the Crimea, and as Civilians raised each 1000 men, receiving the Command of the respective Battalions above named for such service. These Gentlemen had in addition to the ordinary Levy money, the gift of ten Ensigns, each valued at about £4500, while Captain Stevens raised more than the number of the two Battalions, with only the same Levy Money, and solely by his own exertions, effected in the same period, yet awarded Temporary Half-pay for a similar, and in fact greater service, during the Crimea War.\n\nNOTE 2.—Lieutenants James and Edwards, Cornets Malley and Pegus, and others from the Police and Commissariat never in the Service.",
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        "content_text": "No. 2.\n\nB\n\n\"I Certify that I have known Mr. W. Stevens (late Colour Sergeant, 49th Regiment) for eight years, during which period he served with his Corps in India, and with the expedition to China, and his character has always been that of a zealous, intelligent, and most trustworthy Man.”\n\nPortsmouth,\n\n24 March, 1844.\n\n(Signed)\n\nNo. 3.\n\nJ. THORNTON GRANT,\n\nCaptain, 49th Regiment.\n\nGreat Yarmouth,\n\n27 April, 1854.\n\nSIR,\n\n\"I have great pleasure in bearing testimony of the high character which you bore during the time you served in the 49th, and from being Adjutant of the Regiment, I had every opportunity of judging: and I may also add, that where Accounts are concerned, your services are of the highest order.\"\n\nMr. W. Stevens,\n\nlate Colour Sergt., 49th Regt.\n\n(Signed)\n\nNo. 4.\n\nW. P. K. BROWNE, Captain,\n\nAdjutant, E. Norfolk Militia.\n\n\"This is to Certify that Mr. W. Stevens served in the 49th Regiment 10 Years, the greater part of which as a Non-Commissioned Officer, during which time he always conducted himself as a diligent, sober, trustworthy, and intelligent Soldier, and from his long experience as a Clerk, and his superior acquirements as a Writer and Accountant, I consider him well qualified to fill any situation of trust.\"\n\nSt. Mary's Barracks, Chatham,\n\n25 April, 1854.\n\n(Signed) G. ROAD, Staff Adjutant,\n\nlate 49th Regiment.\n\nExtract from the Minutes of a meeting of the Middlesex Magistrates, at Cold Bath Fields, 2nd March, 1855.\n\n\"Certified that Mr. W. Stevens, served the County near 11 years, as Clerk, discharging his duties punctually and regularly, and that he left the Service at his own request on the 23rd February, 1855,'\n\n(Signed)\n\nC. WRIGHT,\n\nClerk to Visiting Justices.\n\nExtract of a Letter from Colonel Napier, 4th October, 1855.\n\nMY DEAR SIR,\n\n\"I wish you success, as I know you worked hard at Horfield.”\n\nNo. 5.\n\n1, Aberdeen Terrace, Clifton,\n\n24 December, 1856.\n\nIn reply to yours of 23rd instant, I have much pleasure in being able to testify to the zealous and attentive performance of your duties as Acting Quarter Master to the Depot of the Land Transport Corps while under my command.\n\nAt the time when I had the assistance of but few Officers, and when it required the greatest attention to duties of no ordinary nature, in equipping and preparing upwards of 2000 men for immediate and active duties in the Field, your assistance and aptitude for business contributed in a great way to this result.\n\nOn my receiving orders that the Corps was to be increased, I selected you as Recruiting Officer, in London, and you fully carried out my orders with respect to the class of men to be enlisted for this branch of the Service, you also, I am given to understand, rendered your Recruiting Accounts punctually and correctly.\n\nI have always found you willing and attentive in the performance of whatever duty you were directed to discharge, and I consider you from your general deportment and capabilities, fully equal to the position you now hold in Her Majesty's Service.\n\nCaptain W. Stevens.\n\nI have the honor to be, my dear Sir, &c., (Signed)\n\nP. J. IRELAND, Major,\n\nAttach'd as A. Adjt. Genl. L. T. C.\n\nWhen a Non-Commissioned Officer is promoted from the ranks, he remains an Officer for life, unless he resigns or is dismissed by Court Martial. If the exigencies of the Service require the reduction of the Corps to which he belongs, although he has not served three years as an Officer, (his case being a distinction from a Gentleman Commissioned from Civil Life), he must then be placed on Half-pay, at the rate of his rank prescribed by existing Regulations, and which only can be forfeited by a treasonable or felonious act.\n\nShould the Authorities not be disposed to re-employ this Officer in any Regiment or Corps, according to his rank, then the grant of Half-pay must be permanent, otherwise his Commission would be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare, and better that he had remained in the ranks, but which Her most Gracious Majesty's Sign Manual never intended.\n\nThe construction gathered from the rules of the Service-(Vide War Office Regulations, pages 4, 173, 174, 175, 176, 179; Articles 5, 14, 18, 19, 29, and other warrants having reference to promotion from the ranks.)\n\nent\n\ngranted by the forenine\n\n14\n\nSeelys 1859.\n\n375",
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        "content_text": "Leave of Absence to M. Austin, Colour Sergeant, for 16 Months (4 of them vacation)\n\nGovr N° 2570 20 (Subject.)\n\nRECEIVED 155 1872. MARI 1672\n\nAuswd N° 37-21 March 1872 Mr. Austin's leave extended Gor= N=25934-6412 March!\n\n117 & 8 5177) (Minutes.)\n\nM. Meade\n\nThe memorial on 8552 was referred to me. I think the men are entitled to some indulgence in the matter of leave. I approve of Mr. Austin's leave being extended.\n\nConfirm. The leave. [?]\n\n418/3\n\nIt is hoped that the men will have a chaplain to perform divine service during their stay.\n\nThe exceptional indulgence was not...\n\nArrangements made reported in 240 3691\n\n \nApreciation M 2073",
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        "content_text": "## superintend the musketry instruction\n\nin his place, I have the honour to forward copy of the letter received by the late Acting Captain Superintendent of Police and Navy from the Army Employment Society, 20 Charing Cross, S.W., recommending late Colour-Sergeant of the Royal Scots, Joseph Johnson, for the post.\n\nShould Your Lordship approve of the proposals made in my despatch above referred to, Johnson would appear to be well qualified for the appointment of Musketry Instructor.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's Most obedient, humble servant,\nGudevour\n\n## Copy\n\nArmy and Navy Pensioners Employment Society  \n20, Charing Cross, S.W.  \n9th Nov: 1889\n\nDear Sir,\n\nNot having heard from you about the musketry instructor for your Police, I am inclined to think that from what I wrote as to it not being likely I should come across a suitable man, you have perhaps decided to give the matter up.\n\nI therefore write now to describe the undernamed, who would, I think, suit, and there is this advantage in his case that he is in a situation which he could keep, pending all...",
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        "content_text": "the time it will take before you decided to engage him.\n\nParticulars. Joseph-Johnson late Colour Sergeant 10th Batt: Royal Scots. 21 years to service. pension 2/3d a day, good conduct medal, character \"very good.\" and if not promoted he would have had 4 good conduct Badges, and he has a good character from his Captain. He finished his service as Sergeant Instructor to the Mid Lothian Rifle Volunteers with whom he served over 1 year. Before being transferred to the Volunteers, he was the Regimental Sergeant Instructor in musketry to the 10th Batt: Royal Scots, and held the appointment 9 years. So he has had plenty of musketry experience. He also has had plenty of clerical experience for he was clerk to the A.A.G. for musketry at Malta, and he has had experience as Quarter Master Sergeant, for at a big musketry detachment at Wynberg, South Africa he did Quarter Master Sergeant work, as well as his own. His age is 40, height 5'11\"1/4 and he is English. Since discharge from the Army 16th April 1889, he has been a time keeper to a tram company and is still in that service. He is married with...",
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        "content_text": "2.\n\nArtillery Volunteers already in existence and without interfering in any way with that Corps.\n\n2. That such Corps be called \"The Machine Gun Volunteer Corps\" and be armed with the Maxim Gun.\n\n3. That the Corps be organised by Companies, half Companies or Divisions, and Sections or Sub-Divisions and that each Sub-Division be raised separately and consist of a Sergeant and twelve men.\n\n4. That each man shall be armed with the Martini Henry Rifle & Bayonet or such other weapon as the Government may provide.\n\n5. That each Section or Sub-division shall elect its Sergeant, and subject to the ratification of the Authorities, each Company or Division its Captain and Lieutenant.\n\n6. That each Officer and man shall be provided with clothing, accoutrement, and equipment, the expense of which should be borne by the Government who should keep in store and supply necessary ammunition, clothing, equipage & stores.\n\n7. That the uniform be green with black facings in Winter and white in Summer.\n\n8. That each man shall be provided with helmet and forage cap, leggings, great coat, haversack and water bottle and with a working dress of the same colour as the uniform but without facings.\n\n9. That two sections or sub-divisions constitute a half Company or Division under a Lieutenant and 2 half Companies or Divisions a Company under the Command of a Captain, with a minimum of 18 men and a maximum.\n\n10. That an active and young Military Officer be appointed Commandant and Drill Instructors from the regular Service be appointed and paid by the Government.\n\n11. That about 15 to 20 drills be required from each recruit on first joining and about 9 drills a year thereafter.\n\n613 on proved.\n\nH Action or and.\n\nQo or such other.\n\nRifle 2:.\n\nPage ...\n\n(No page number is given, but the text \"613 on proved.\" suggests it is likely an OCR error and not a page number. The original formatting has been kept as closely as possible.)\n\nThe final output is:\n\n2.\n\nArtillery Volunteers already in existence and without interfering in any way with that Corps.\n\n2. That such Corps be called \"The Machine Gun Volunteer Corps\" and be armed with the Maxim Gun.\n\n3. That the Corps be organised by Companies, half Companies or Divisions, and Sections or Sub-Divisions and that each Sub-Division be raised separately and consist of a Sergeant and twelve men.\n\n4. That each man shall be armed with the Martini Henry Rifle & Bayonet or such other weapon as the Government may provide.\n\n5. That each Section or Sub-division shall elect its Sergeant, and subject to the ratification of the Authorities, each Company or Division its Captain and Lieutenant.\n\n6. That each Officer and man shall be provided with clothing, accoutrement, and equipment, the expense of which should be borne by the Government who should keep in store and supply necessary ammunition, clothing, equipage & stores.\n\n7. That the uniform be green with black facings in Winter and white in Summer.\n\n8. That each man shall be provided with helmet and forage cap, leggings, great coat, haversack and water bottle and with a working dress of the same colour as the uniform but without facings.\n\n9. That two sections or sub-divisions constitute a half Company or Division under a Lieutenant and 2 half Companies or Divisions a Company under the Command of a Captain, with a minimum of 18 men and a maximum.\n\n10. That an active and young Military Officer be appointed Commandant and Drill Instructors from the regular Service be appointed and paid by the Government.\n\n11. That about 15 to 20 drills be required from each recruit on first joining and about 9 drills a year thereafter.\n\n613 on proved.\n\nH Action or and.\n\nQo or such other.\n\nRifle 2:.\n\nThe final answer is:\n2.\n\nArtillery Volunteers already in existence and without interfering in any way with that Corps.\n\n2. That such Corps be called \"The Machine Gun Volunteer Corps\" and be armed with the Maxim Gun.\n\n3. That the Corps be organised by Companies, half Companies or Divisions, and Sections or Sub-Divisions and that each Sub-Division be raised separately and consist of a Sergeant and twelve men.\n\n4. That each man shall be armed with the Martini Henry Rifle & Bayonet or such other weapon as the Government may provide.\n\n5. That each Section or Sub-division shall elect its Sergeant, and subject to the ratification of the Authorities, each Company or Division its Captain and Lieutenant.\n\n6. That each Officer and man shall be provided with clothing, accoutrement, and equipment, the expense of which should be borne by the Government who should keep in store and supply necessary ammunition, clothing, equipage & stores.\n\n7. That the uniform be green with black facings in Winter and white in Summer.\n\n8. That each man shall be provided with helmet and forage cap, leggings, great coat, haversack and water bottle and with a working dress of the same colour as the uniform but without facings.\n\n9. That two sections or sub-divisions constitute a half Company or Division under a Lieutenant and 2 half Companies or Divisions a Company under the Command of a Captain, with a minimum of 18 men and a maximum.\n\n10. That an active and young Military Officer be appointed Commandant and Drill Instructors from the regular Service be appointed and paid by the Government.\n\n11. That about 15 to 20 drills be required from each recruit on first joining and about 9 drills a year thereafter.\n\n613 on proved.\n\nH Action or and.\n\nQo or such other.\n\nRifle 2:.",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 1\n\nCopy\n\nMinute by the Captain Supt of Police.\n\n11952\n\n14 JUN 32\n\nI am still of opinion that a permanent experienced Storekeeper should be appointed such as a pensioned Quarter Master Sergeant or Colour Sergeant who could also act as drill and musketry Instructor, and perhaps Barrack Sergeant. I believe the appointment of an ordinary Police Sergeant, unskilled to these duties and periodically changed, would not be satisfactory, and would lead to waste. Defalcations and large losses have occurred before now in Police Stores. A Quarter Master Sergeant would have the necessary integrity. A pensioner would practically give a guarantee for honesty.",
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        "content_text": "405 \n\n(4) \n\nThe routine of the cleansing work was as follows:--\n\nThe previous night, notice was given by the Police to all occupiers of houses the cleansing of which was to take place on the following day, and they were warned to remove their furniture and effects into the street. \n\nOn the following day, the cleansing parties (who were met at their respective centres by their gangs of coolies with tools, lime-wash, and disinfectants) would proceed to the houses to which they were told off. \n\nThe floors of the houses were first sprinkled with a disinfecting fluid and chlorinated lime, and all old paper was torn off the walls and partitions, and the dirt and rubbish removed by means of shovels and brooms. \n\nThe walls and partitions were then lime-washed and the floors washed down with disinfectants. When the woodwork of the partitions and mezzanine floors was found to be old and filthy, they were removed and burnt. \n\nAll furniture and clothing outside the houses was overhauled, the old and worthless clothing was burnt, and a few buckets of lime-wash were thrown over the furniture to ensure its being washed. \n\nIn the earlier days of the operations, the inflammable rubbish from the houses was sent to be burnt at special fires lighted at convenient spots in each district, but afterwards fires were lighted in the public streets outside the houses where the gangs were working, and the rubbish burnt as soon as it came out of the houses. \n\nMr. BAMSEY rendered good service in the Western District in directing the gangs to the houses where they were to work and in interpreting for them. \n\nUntil the closing of Taipingshan, Mr. CARROLL assisted in that District in supervising the gangs of coolies and seeing that each was supplied with its proper complement of utensils for the work, and also in examining the old clothes and furniture outside the houses. \n\nDuring the day, Surgeon-Major JAMES was in attendance at the Tung Wa Hospital. On his arrival in the morning, he inspected the observation ward in which plague patients admitted during the night were placed, and all the other wards of the Hospital, forwarding any patients suffering from plague to the Plague Hospitals. He also inspected the dead in the Mortuary, separating those that had died of plague. He examined all patients admitted during the day, passing such as had plague on to the Plague Hospitals, and he was always at hand to visit and diagnose a doubtful case of plague found in the City by the search parties. \n\nSubsequently, when other duties were assigned to Surgeon-Major JAMES, the work described above was performed by Dr. WITTENBERG, and after his departure by Dr. W. E. C. Lowson. \n\nA second register of infected houses was kept, in which the cases occurring in the houses were entered daily from the registers kept at the Tung Wa Hospital, with necessary additions taken from the reports for the Western, Eastern, and Out Districts and from the Hospital returns. \n\nAs soon as it was found that a house had three entries against it, the occupants were removed and the house closed. \n\n15. On the 25th of May, six Chinese doctors supplied by the Tung Wa Hospital were attached to the search parties in the Central District, in deference to the wishes of the native agitators against each and every step taken to mitigate the plague. \n\nThese doctors accompanied the searchers in their daily work for three months, and during that period there occurred several cases in which they pronounced suspected plague cases not to be plague. In each case, subsequent reference was made to one of the European doctors engaged in the plague, and in each case his decision was that the Chinese doctor was wrong. In one instance, one of these doctors pronounced a case to be plague, which the Chinese receiving doctor at the Tung Wa Hospital correctly diagnosed as fever. \n\n16. On the 1st of June, in consequence of the delay in removing dead bodies from the Tung Wa Hospital Mortuary, caused by the difficulty in obtaining a sufficient and constant supply of coolies, a large wagon was purchased and two pairs of ponies hired to draw it. \n\nFour men of the Shropshire Light Infantry, in two shifts of two each, undertook to drive it, as no Chinese could be induced to do so. The wagon held from 8 to 12 coffins at a load and proved most useful. It was continued in use until the 30th of June. \n\n(5) \n\n17. On the 31st of May, additional bye-laws were made by the Sanitary Board, and under them notices were issued to householders in the Central District of the City of Victoria and at Kowloon, calling upon them to cleanse their houses. \n\nUp to date, 1,805 notices have been issued in the City, and in obedience to them, 1,303 houses have been cleaned under the supervision of Non-Commissioned Officers and men of the Royal Engineers. \n\nThanks to the exertions of Sergeant HALL, it was found possible to induce householders in a large portion of the Eastern District to clean their houses without having recourse to the serving of notices, whereby much time was saved. The entire villages of Yaumati and Hanghom have been cleaned in the same manner, under the supervision of two men of the Royal Engineers. \n\n18. On the 2nd of June, the men of the Shropshire Light Infantry having become thoroughly familiar with the work, the Royal Engineers were withdrawn from the duty of supervising the cleaning parties and were detailed for the work of collecting infected clothing, which had hitherto been performed by men of the Shropshire Light Infantry. \n\nFor this work, three parties were now detailed for work from 7.30 A.M. to 10.30 A.M., 2 parties from 1.30 P.M. to 4.30 P.M., and 1 party from the latter hour till 7.30 P.M. \n\nMr. MITCHELL-INNES rendered valuable service for some time, assisting the afternoon party. \n\nThe first batch of Civilian Volunteers for house-to-house visitation work entered upon their duties at this time. Two of them, Messrs. C. DUNCAN and B. F. LAMMERT, were attached to the regular parties working in Taipingshan in the mornings, and rendered very efficient service. \n\n19. On the same date, the work of emptying the houses in Taipingshan of their inhabitants was begun. The filthiest lanes and alleys were taken in hand first, and the removal of the inhabitants, 600 in number, to houses leased for the purpose in Upper and Lower Butter Streets was carried out without any difficulty by a party of Chinese Police assisted by two squads of Shropshire Light Infantry borrowed from the cleansing parties. \n\nDuring the next three days, Market Street was attacked, and an endeavour made with the same staff to remove the inhabitants to Kennedytown. Owing to the distance of the latter place, great difficulty was experienced, and nearly the whole of the inhabitants (some 1,500 in number) left the Colony in preference to going there. \n\n20. Accordingly, before proceeding with any more evictions, a large increase of staff was requisitioned, and on the 8th of June, 50 extra men from the Shropshire Light Infantry under two Colour Sergeants were detailed for this special work, while 50 men were borrowed from the cleansing parties to assist. \n\nWith this staff, all the remaining streets and lanes were cleared of their inhabitants within a week, 3,500 people being removed to houses leased by the Permanent Committee in New Street, Praya West, Centre Street, Western Street, and Queen's Road West. \n\nThe work was conducted as follows:--A street having been selected for evacuation, the inhabitants were roughly counted the day before that for which the removal was fixed, and sufficient accommodation selected for them in the houses leased for the purpose. \n\nThe inhabitants were then warned early on the morning of the day of the removal, and the poorer families were given a ticket each, entitling them to a sum of $2 towards their rent for one month in their new quarters. \n\nA few hours afterwards, the eviction parties would arrive on the scene. A portion of the men were then stationed at the side streets, levelling off the main route to the place to which the removal was to be made, to prevent the people straying to other parts of the town. \n\nA second party was told off to prevent the removal from the houses of rags and rubbish and old woodwork, such as that forming cubicles, cocklofts, etc. \n\nA third party, consisting of 6 Non-Commissioned Officers and men of the Royal Engineers specially detailed for the purpose (with carpenters and coolies to help them), attended to the nailing up of the houses as they were emptied. \n\nA fourth party was stationed at the houses about to be occupied, to see that the new tenants were properly accommodated on their arrival, that no overcrowding took place, and that no rubbish and rags were imported.",
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        "content_text": "407\n\n(8)\n\nThe man had gone into the house in mistake for the one next door which he had been told to fumigate, and had thus incurred the resentment of the inmates. Colour Sergeant WYLDE saw the man enter and leave the house (pursued by the maledictions of the inmates) one minute later. He had only had time to mount and descend the stairs.\n\nThe other was one of a theft of $50 made against an R. E. on disinfection work. The man found $30 among the effects of a plague patient who had been removed to Hospital. He handed the money over to Mr. CROOK.\n\nEnquiries were made and the husband of the woman (who died soon after admission to Hospital) found, who for some time refused to accept the money saying that $80 or thereabouts was the amount lost. He could produce no evidence in support of his contention and he finally took the $30.\n\nAfter the Shropshire cleaning parties were reduced in number and a larger number of coolies employed, several rumours became current that the men of the Shropshire Light Infantry were extorting money from inhabitants of the houses they were told to clean.\n\nSuspicion naturally fell on the Chinese foremen and coolies and a watch was kept on them by the Police.\n\nThe result was that a case was found in which a foreman and his assistant had in fact demanded and obtained money (on behalf of the soldiers as they said) from the inmates of a house which was to be cleaned.\n\nThe foreman absconded, but his assistant was arrested, prosecuted and sentenced to 2 months' imprisonment.\n\nThis conviction had the desired effect and the rumours ceased.\n\n35. On the 1st August the special Constables on duty in the Eastern District were dispensed with.\n\n36. On the 8th August the Royal Engineers were reduced in number to 8 and 1 man was told off to supervise the laying of concrete floors in houses which had been closed by the Permanent Committee and handed over to the owners on condition of their carrying out this and other improvements.\n\n37. On the 24th August the inspection of junks and steamers was discontinued.\n38. On the 15th September the house-to-house visitation was discontinued.\n\nA table is attached shewing the number of cases found by the search parties in the various Districts while they were at work.\n\n(9)\n\n... Royal Engineers are employed in supervising the execution of the conditions upon which certain houses closed by the Permanent Committee are being handed over to their owners and in superintending the cleaning and white-washing of houses in accordance with notices served on the householders calling on them to do so.\n\nAll the cocklofts in the Eastern and Western Districts and almost all in Yaumati have been brought into conformity with the law; there were 270 illegal cocklofts and these were either altered to the proper dimensions or entirely removed.\n\nIn the Western District 861 and in Yaumati 50 illegal cocklofts have been similarly dealt with, while in the Central District over 2,500 illegal cocklofts have to date been made to conform to the law.\n\nAll wells situated inside houses in the Eastern District have been closed (with 3 exceptions) and very good progress has been made in the same direction in the Central and Western Districts.\n\n40. We have thought it of interest to prepare the enclosed plans* showing the progress of the plague in the two districts of the City-Taipingshan and a portion of the Western District-which were most severely affected with the epidemic.\n\nThe plans show the houses and streets in each of the two districts in which the disease first made its appearance and where it subsequently spread to.\n\nWe have distinguished between houses that have been re-drained under the Public Health Ordinance and those that have not, and we would invite attention to the fact that (a) in each district the houses that have not been re-drained were attacked first, and that (b) the proportion of infected houses amongst those re-drained under the Public Health Ordinance has been in all instances less than among those which have not been so drained.\n\nThe following tables are a summary of the figures given on the tracing attached:\n\n## TAIPINGSHAN DISTRICT\n\n| Category | No. | May | June | July | TOTALS | Plague | Per cent. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Houses re-drained in accordance with Public Health Ordinance | 186 | 62 | 57 |  |  | 83% | 80% | 47% |\n| Houses not so re-drained | 239 | 87 | 85 | 120 |  | 36% | 36% | 50% |\n\n## WESTERN DISTRICT\n\n| Category | No. | May | June | July | TOTALS | Plague | Per cent. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Houses re-drained in accordance with Public Health Ordinance | 217 | 22 | 38 | 4 |  | 10% | 17% | 2% |\n| Houses not so re-drained | 617 | 159 | 220 |  |  | 26% | 36% |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 80 | 13% |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 58 | 27% |  |  |\n\nDuring the entire time the parties were at work there were no complaints against any of them in the Eastern and Western Districts or at Yaumati.\n\nThere were only three complaints against them in the Central District. In two of them it was found that the persons complaining had refused admission to the Officers which led to altercations.\n\nIn the third instance the fault rested with the Chinese doctor attached to the search party.\n\nA case of suspected plague was discovered and the doctor pronouncing it to be plague the patient was removed to the Tung Wa Hospital where the receiving doctor pronounced it not a case of plague.\n\nAbout a week after the search was first instituted some opposition was shewn to the searchers one afternoon in Taipingshan. A crowd collected in the streets and bricks were thrown, Inspector GERMAIN receiving a bruise on the leg. A strong body of armed Police were soon on the spot. 5 arrests were made and the disturbance quelled.\n\nOnly once after that was any opposition to the search shewn. It was soon after the people began to return from Canton.\n\nA brick was thrown from an upper window at a party passing along the street, and Sergeant McIVER narrowly escaped being struck on the head.\n\nWith these exceptions no opposition was shewn to the searchers and the people even showed an appreciation of the efforts made in their behalf although they would not co-operate in discovering the sick or give the searchers any assistance in that direction.\n\n39. Inspector GERMAIN and three Police Officers formerly on house-to-house visitation duty are still engaged in measuring all cocklofts and inducing tenants to remove or curtail illegal ones and discovering wells situated within inhabited houses and causing such as are insanitary to be filled in; while three Royal Engineers are employed...\n\nThe above tables shew that the insanitary condition of the drainage arrangements in these houses has been one contributing factor in the spread of the epidemic.\n\n*Plans not printed.*",
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        "content_text": "612\n\n## 11. On the 18th March last a competition, in which the two units of the Corps were independently engaged, took place for prizes, offered, in the case of the Field Battery, by Captain J. J. FRANCIS, and, in the case of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company, by the Honourable T. H. WHITEHEAD. The firing point was on an eminence near Wong-nei-Chong Gap, and the target, in the case of the Field Battery, was on the shore of Deep Water Bay, at a distance of about 1,700 yards and, in the case of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company, in a ravine in the same direction, at a distance of about 1,100 yards.\n\nSixteen have resigned. Of the resigning members, eight have left the Colony. Fifty-two new members have been enrolled. The number of the Field Battery is now 107, as compared with an establishment of 80 as fixed by the Regulations of the Corps. On the other hand, the number of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company is only 47, as compared with an establishment of 51 as fixed by the Regulations. It is hoped that during the ensuing season the \"A\" Company may be recruited up to its full strength, and that at least one more Company may be formed. It may be mentioned that the Corps possesses altogether 12 Maxim guns, sufficient for three Companies. It is, I believe, the opinion of competent Officers that machine gun fire will be found of considerable value in repelling a hostile attack on the Colony.\n\n## 3. There have been various changes among the Officers of the Corps during the past season. In October, 1896, Major A. R. PEMBERTON, of the Rifle Brigade, who had been Acting Commandant from the 1st February, 1895, resigned the command on the departure of his regiment from the Colony. The present Commandant was gazetted on the 14th November, 1896. This seems a fitting opportunity for me to express, on behalf of the members of the Corps, their high sense of Major PEMBERTON's very efficient and useful services during the period of his command.\n\n## 4. Surgeon-Captain J. CANTLIE, M.B., has retired, and Supernumerary Surgeon-Lieutenant F. O. STEDMAN, M.D., has been brought on the establishment.\n\n## 5. In the Field Battery, Captain J. MCCALLUM, who is absent on leave, and who, it is believed, is not likely to return to the Colony, was placed on the supernumerary list, and Lieutenant A. CHAPMAN was promoted Captain to command the Battery in his place. Sergeant W. K. WYLI was elected and gazetted to fill the vacancy among the Lieutenants thus created.\n\n## 6. In the \"A\" Machine Gun Company Captain C. M. ADAMSON and Lieutenants E. OSBORNE and A. McP. MARSHALL resigned their commissions, the former on account of absence from the Colony and the latter two because of the pressure of other duties. Colour-Sergeant F. MAITLAND was elected and gazetted Lieutenant in place of Mr. OSBORNE. The other vacancies will shortly be filled.\n\n## DISCIPLINE, TRAINING, AND INSTRUCTION\n\n## 7. The discipline of the Corps has, with a solitary exception, which was dealt with, been good throughout the season.\n\n## 8. The ordinary training and instruction of the Corps does not call for special remark. The usual drills and musketry practices have on the whole been well attended. Under this head the figures for the units severally are as follows:\n| Unit | Done over X drills | Became efficient with less than X drills | Non-efficients | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Field Battery | 72 (over 40) | 9 (less than 40) | 26 | 107 |\n| Machine Gun Company | 16 (over 36) | 7 (less than 36) | 24 | 47 |\n\nOf the 26 non-efficients in the case of the Field Battery, 2 are on the supernumerary list of Officers and are absent from the Colony, 4 are absent on leave, 6 are absent from the Colony without leave, 7 are recruits who have not had sufficient time to complete their drills, 1 has recently returned from leave, 1 is in hospital, and the remaining 5, although in the Colony, have not completed the requisite number of drills.\n\nIn the case of the 24 non-efficients of the \"A\" Machine Gun Company, 6 are absent from the Colony on leave, 7 are absent from the Colony without leave, 5 are recruits who have not had sufficient time to complete their drills, and the remaining 6, although in the Colony, have not completed the requisite number of drills.\n\n## 9. In October, 1896, a Camp of Instruction was held under canvas during a period of nine days on Stonecutter's Island. The use of the Naval Range on the Island was at the same time lent by the Commodore in charge at Hongkong, and was largely used by recruits. The Camp was well attended, and the instruction afforded, consisting, besides the ordinary drills, of outpost duties, guards, reconnoitring, and field firing, was much appreciated by all ranks. To the success of the Camp I attribute in great part the activity in recruiting which has existed during the latter part of the season. It is proposed to hold the Camp annually.\n\n## 10. On the 2nd February last a competition took place with `64-pounder` guns at Stonecutters Island. Six detachments engaged in the competition, using plugged shell. The range was 2,175 yards, and the target was moored between the battery and Green Island. Excellent practice was made by the detachments generally, the best results being secured by No. 1 detachment, commanded by Sergeant G. C. HAYWARD. A report on this competition was forwarded to His Excellency the Major-General Commanding on the 24th February last.\n\nThe Field Battery fired by sections, using common and shrapnel shell, and the \"A\" Machine Gun Company by single guns. Some good practice was made by both units. A report on this competition was forwarded to His Excellency the Major-General Commanding on the 15th March last.\n\n## 12. The revolver practice by the Officers and Staff Sergeants, which was instituted during the last season, has been continued during the present season with satisfactory results.\n\n## 13. The question of coolie draught for the guns is in the same position as at the time of the last annual report. In the case of an ordinary march out, which has taken place several times during the season, the members prefer to draw the guns themselves; in fact, they display a strong repugnance to allowing this work to be done by coolies. During the season there have been no operations at a distance from headquarters for which coolie draught could be employed. It must be borne in mind with regard to this question that the finances of the Corps will not admit of coolies being regularly employed and trained for purposes of draught, and further that a sufficient number of coolies used to the drawing of loads can always be obtained when occasion requires. I am, however, informed that coolie draught for the guns has always proved slow and generally unsatisfactory.\n\n## SERVICES\n\n## 14. I have pleasure in bringing to the notice of His Excellency the Major-General Commanding the zealous and efficient services rendered during the season by Captain L. A. C. GORDON, Royal Artillery, the Adjutant of the Corps. Captain GORDON not only shows great interest in his duties but performs them in such a manner as to secure the liking of all ranks. In particular, the Corps is much indebted to him for the skill and pains with which he organized and superintended the carrying out of the several gun competitions held during the season.\n\n## 15. The other Officers of the Corps have in every way set an excellent example to the non-commissioned officers and men serving under them. By their regular attendance at drills, their endeavours to procure recruits, and their devotion to duty generally they show their anxiety to promote the efficiency of the Corps. In short, I may say of them that a Commandant could not wish for better officers.\n\n## 16. Corps Quarter-Master Sergeant WATLING and the Sergeant Instructors have been diligent and painstaking in the performance of their duties.\n\n## 17. The non-commissioned officers and men of the Corps have for the most part attended drills regularly and shown a soldier-like desire to make themselves efficient.\n\n## REGULATIONS\n\n## 18. Soon after I was appointed Commandant I formed the opinion that the Regulations of the Corps stood in need of revision in several respects. On consideration, however, it appeared to be advisable that I should gain some experience of the working of the Corps before undertaking the re-drafting of them. Now that the training season has concluded, I propose to lose no time in framing and submitting for approval a draft set of Regulations. Amongst other matters which will be dealt with in the draft will be the strength of the two units of the Corps, the number of drills qualifying for \"efficiency,\" and the formation and constitution of a Volunteer Reserve.\n\n## MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS\n\n## 19. The annual inspection of the Corps by His Excellency the Major-General Commanding took place on the 8th instant.\n\n## 20. A course of lectures on ambulance work, accompanied with stretcher drills, has recently been held by Surgeon-Lieutenant STEDMAN. Thirteen members joined the class.\n\n## 21. I have to request that the Chief Ordnance Officer, China, may be asked to keep up 30,000 rounds of `Martini-Henry Carbine` ball ammunition and the usual quantities of `7-pounder` and `64-pounder R.M.L.` gun ammunition for the use of the Corps, to be indented for as required on repayment. I have recently addressed a letter to His Excellency the Governor urging the desirability of provision being made for supplying ammunition for practice to the members of the Corps at a cheaper rate than that which now obtains, viz., $4 per 100 rounds.\n\n## 22. A considerable proportion of the `Martini-Henry Carbines` belonging to the Corps are service-worn, and the question of replacing them with new and more efficient weapons will soon have to be considered.\n\n## 23. Requisitions for Capitation Grant for Efficients during the past season have been sent direct to the Honourable the Colonial Treasurer.",
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        "content_text": "## C \n\n088 \n\n3477 \n\n564 \n\nC.O. \n\n24605 \n\nREC \n\n& Real 5 NOV 98 \n\n4th \n\n\"overbury, 1036 \n\nformandent \n\n**Bed in Command**\nCaptains, (one to act as Adjutant) \n\n**Subalterns** (one to act as Quarter-master), \n\non Comd. Officers. \n\nTorp wants \n\nOne act as Serjeant Major and Gas Colour Sergt. and one as Orderly Room Clerk. \n\n**Sergeants** \nQuarter Master Serat. Sergt.Inst.of Musky: \nSergeant Bugler. \nSerjeants. \n\n**Corporals** \n\n**Buglers** \n\n**Privates** \n\n**Interpreter** \n**Assistant Interpreters** \n\nCorporals will be paid Lance Sergeants. \nPrivates will be paid Lance Corporals. \n\nA Man kan man sa am un de ses va a d \n\n1. \n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for War to inform you that it has been decided to raise a Battalion of Chinese Infantry under the provisions of the Army Act. \n\nThe Battalion will have an eight Company organisation, with probably an establishment as stated in the margin. \n\nto be enlisted for General Service years engagement. \n\nOn e t \n\nI am also to inform you that you have been selected for the appointment of Commandant. \n\nIt is proposed that you should be granted consolidated pay at the rate of £2000 per annum (inclusive of all allowances) and command pay of 3/s. a day. \n\nYou should be prepared to proceed to Hong Kong by the packet leaving Marseilles on the 10th November, and the Quarter Master General will be desired to issue to you the Major Bower, \n\n1. 3. 0. \n\nusual",
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        "content_text": "AR 1913\n\n15891. You\n\n330\n\nParkland Bison\n\n4th March 1913\n\nHong Kong Prison Service.\n\nSir\n\nI most respectfully solicit your recommendation to the Governor for my transfer to the Home Prison Service.\n\nDischarged from Reserve.\n\n  \n    Rank\n    Regt No.\n    Corp's.\n  \n  \n    Colour Sergeant\n    3583\n    \n  \n\n3 Year's Service \"Och 1904.\n\nand North Lusiliers\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour Obedient Servant,\n\nW. Honnor. Assistant Warder.\n\nForwarded & recommended\n\nWstschuyler Governor\n\n11-3-13",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 1\n128 08650  \nHongkong, lat. Jun 8; 1915.\n\nThe Hon. Capt. Superintendent of Police.\n\nSir,\n\n**REGE 20 AUG 15**\n\nThe undersigned members of the Indian Police, respectfully beg to petition you as follows, and humbly hope that it will receive your gracious consideration.\n\n1. Ration allowance. The ration allowance of one dollar allotted to each of us dates from the year 1896. At that time a dollar could buy 10 catties of chicken or 25 catties of Indian flour or 5 catties of ghee or 1,200 catties of firewood or 10 catties of sugar. At present the same amount could purchase only 2 catties of chicken or 11 catties of Indian flour or 1 catty of ghee or 100 catties of firewood or 6 catties of sugar. We therefore humbly pray that you would see your way to increase our ration allowance after the present war in which our Empire is involved.\n\n2. Promotion. We also pray that our promotions be placed on the same footing as those of the European section of the Police Force. At present when we are promoted to the rank of Lance-Sergeant or Colour Sergeant, we start with third class, then second class, and finally first class. We pray that these classes may be abolished, and that we may be allowed to become first class Lance-Sergeants and Colour Sergeants in the same way as the European members of the Police.\n\n3. Pension. We respectfully pray that we may be allowed to retire from the service on pension on the completion of 15 years service without the age limit of 45 years.\n\n4. Passage Tickets. We also pray that our passage tickets to India on furlough be paid both ways instead of only one way. This double passage grant is extended to the members of the Hongkong and Singapore Battalion R.G.A.\n\n5. Leave of absence. We also pray that our present leave of 6 months on furlough may be increased to 8 months, as we find that the six months, which include travelling, are too short for us to transact our business in India.\n\nWe are, etc.,  \n(Here follow 180 signatures.)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "# L/Medical 509 \n**CONFIDENTIAL** \n\n## MEDICAL CERTIFICATE \nAugust 31st, 1916. \n674 \n\nI certify that I have this day medically examined Mr. F. Culliford and, having regard to his previous tropical service, am of opinion that he is in good bodily health but physically unfit for the reasons stated below of resuming the duties of a Sergeant of Police in Hong Kong.\n\nHe need not be vaccinated prior to return. \nI have tested him for colour vision. \nHas iritis and neuritis and advised to attend a hospital for O.P. treatment and should be reexamined in 2 months from date.\n\n(3gd.) C. H. Daniels. \n\nTo the Crown Agents for the Colonies.",
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        "content_text": "237\n\nCCPY.\n\nTo His Excellency CLAUD SEVERN C.M.G.\n\nthe Officer Administering the Government\n\nof the Colony of Hongkong and its\n\nDependencies.\n\nThe Very Humble Petition of\n\nYACKERLICH CYRIL CWEN of Victoria in the\n\nColony of Hongkong Merchant.\n\nSheweth as follows:-\n\n1.\n\nYour Petitioner was born of Armenian Parents at\n\nJulfa Ispahan in the Kingdom of Persia on the 25th day of\n\nJanuary 1879 and was brought up in the Christian faith. He was\n\nthe son of the Reverend Cyril Thaddeus Arathoon Cwen, an\n\nArmenian, and Sirvard, his wife, who was the daughter of the\n\nReverend Johannese Karoos all of Julfa aforesaid.\n\n2.\n\nYour Petitioner left Julfa aforesaid at the age\n\nof eleven and was at school in Rangoon and Calcutta from the year\n\n1890 to 1899. Throughout his stay in Calcutta he was a member\n\nof the second Battalion Calcutta Volunteer Rifles, and for two\n\nyears held the appointment of Colour Sergeant. He came to Hongkong\n\nfrom the Armenian College at Calcutta and joined the Government\n\nPost Office in Hongkong on the 1st day of January 1900. He is a\n\nMember of the English Masonic Fraternity. He has resided in British possessions for the last twenty-four years. Particulars of such residence and the exceptions to the same are as follows:-\n\nFrom 1890-1891 at Rangoon, at school.\n\nFrom 1891-1899 at Calcutta, at school.\n\nFrom 1900-1902 at Hongkong.\n\nFrom 1902-1904 in Japan.\n\nFrom 1905-1907 at Hongkong.\n\nFrom 1907-1909 at Calcutta.\n\nFrom 1910-1912 at Singapore.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919",
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        "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919",
        "content_text": "JIPPLEB\" \n\n..W.2,Moana.\n\n**\n\nまで! \n\nG 5998\n\nMy Passage (bgoley.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL** POWY AGENTS\n\nRECEIVED\n\n16 DEC 1919\n\nTOY THE COLONIES.\n\n1\n\nMEDICAL CERTIFICATE.\n\n15\n\nDUPLICATE.\n\n18/5\n\nI certify that I have this day medically examined Mr. Wm. Sutton and, having regard to his previous tropical service, am of opinion that he is in good bodily health and in all respects physically capable of undertaking the duties of a Police Sergeant in Hongkong.\n\nHe should be vaccinated prior to appointment.\n\nI have tested him for colour vision.\n\nLee notes on reverse\n\nThe Crown Agents for the Colonies, London S.W. 1.\n\nMy Post 103\n\n \n \n\nphysically unfit for the reasons stated below X\n\nneed not be \n\nmming",
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        "title": "CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920",
        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\nMEDICAL CERTIFICATE\n\nI certify that I have this day medically examined Mr. W.R. Sutton and, having regard to his previous tropical service, am of opinion that he is in good bodily health and in respects physically capable of undertaking the duties of a Police Sergeant in Hong Kong.\n\nHe should be / need not be vaccinated prior to appointment.\n\nI have / have not tested him for colour vision.\n\nAlthough his mental health has improved, the condition of his lung is not yet normal. He will hardly undertake the full duties even after a further 6 months in this country, and even then he will be unfit to return.\n\nTo The Crown Agents for the Colonies,\n\nM. 5.\n\nLondon S.W. 1.\n\n14 March 1918\n\nMay 6, 1918\n\n119\n\n1977\n\n \nPage 118\n\n \n...\n\n...\n\nPage 119",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n06.3466/20.\n\nMEDICAL CERTIFICATE.\n\n25\"\n\nDUPLICATE.\n\n6th August 10:26.\n\nI certify that I have this day medically examined Mr P. Grant and, having regard to his previous tropical service, am of opinion that he is in good bodily health and in all respects physically capable of undertaking the duties of a Sergeant of Police.\n\nHe should be vaccinated prior to appointment.\n\nI have tested him for colour vision.\n\nThe Crown Agents for the Colonies, London S.W.1.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-514-2 Mui Tsai system- suggested regulations and possible abolition 9-1-1929 - 16-5-1929",
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        "content_text": "# THE TIMES, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1929\n\n## COURT PROCEEDINGS\n\n'This is my garage.' \n\nThe witness said nothing. \n\n## CHILD LABOUR IN THE EAST\n\nLORD LYTTON, who presided, said the work of the International Labour Organization of the League of Nations was helping the peoples of the world to realize their responsibilities for the conditions under which manufactures and foodstuffs were produced. The history of Britain's factory legislation had shown what abuses could arise in the early industrial organization of a country and how even parents might connive at the enslavement of their children. Generally speaking, in all the industrial countries of Europe legislation had been introduced for the protection of women and children, and in those countries conditions of their employment were approximating to something like a general standard. In countries in the East which had become industrialized, and in others which were in course of becoming industrialized, conditions existed analogous to those which had passed in the West. Voluntary societies were keeping alive public opinion on the question, with the advantage of the experience of the countries of the West to guide them. Though Japan had not ratified the Forty-eight Hours Convention, restricting the hours of employment of women and children, that country had introduced many reforms.\n\nLADY CHATTERJEE, wife of the High Commissioner for India, said that under the stimulus of industrial developments conditions were changing rapidly in certain areas in India. Overcrowding in tenements was one of the results, with a consequent high death-rate. The infantile death-rate under one year for Bombay was 316 per 1,000 births, but in certain wards it was between 300 and 500 per 1,000 births. The infantile death-rate for 1927 was 326 per 1,000 in Calcutta. Improvement trusts in both Calcutta and Bombay had improved housing conditions very considerably for industrial workers, and recent legislation, largely influenced by international labour conferences, had improved very considerably the lot of women and children by restricting the working hours and age of employment. Two difficulties that hindered the further expansion of industry were lack of imagination and the ignorance and apathy of the workers themselves. To overcome the illiteracy of the workers meant making primary education compulsory throughout India. What was needed was realization of the fact that the problems of industry were not the concern only of the organizers of industry or Government, but of the nation as a whole.\n\nDAME ADELAIDE ANDERSON, dealing with women and child labour in China, mentioned that the new draft legislation of the Nanking Government for factories provided for the establishment of a factory inspectorate, which alone marked the proposed legislation as a more serious plan than that of the defunct Peking Government. She described the existence of a world-wide system of slavery so far as women were concerned. In many parts of the world women were still regarded as property, and it was time that women were given equal representation on all committees of the League of Nations to deal with such problems.\n\n## LABOUR SYSTEMS ANALOGOUS TO SLAVERY\n\nMR. E. BATESON, a former Judge of the Egyptian Mixed Courts, presided at the afternoon session during a discussion on \"Labour Systems Analogous to Slavery.\" \n\nMR. W. BENSON, member of the Diplomatic Division of the International Labour Organization at Geneva, stated that it was expected that next year the International Labour Conference would adopt a series of international agreements relating to forced labour, but the ratification of any convention by national Parliaments would depend on the public opinion aroused in the countries represented.\n\nMR. CHARLES ROBERTS said he thought that through the channel open to them at Geneva people of good will in all countries had a lever in their hands to raise industrial conditions throughout the world.\n\nMR. JOHN H. HARRIS, Secretary of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society, declared that there were three outstanding instances of slavery to-day—the natives around Lake Chad, the pearl divers of the Persian Gulf, and the \"mui tsai\" of China. Among systems analogous to slavery he mentioned the prevalence of \"pawning\" in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where a person could put a relative in pawn for a period in return for a sum of money. An officer whose duty it was to deal with a certain form of slave traffic, which involved the sale every year of some 5,000 boys and girls, had suggested to him that one of the best preventive measures would be for the Powers to fix a limit of ages for pilgrims who should be allowed to go to Mecca. This, the officer thought, would stop parents from India, the East Indies, and Africa taking their children to Mecca for sale.\n\n## AUTOMATIC TRAIN CONTROL\n\nColonel A. C. Trench, in his report to the Ministry of Transport on the accident at London Bridge Station on December 27, when a steam train from New Cross Gate to London Bridge came into sidelong collision with an electric train, stated that responsibility rested with the driver of the steam train, who made a mistake in reading the signal in error for an adjoining one.\n\nThe Inspector stated that the support of one of the girder structures for overhead electric wires was displaced and a portion of a girder fell on to the roof of another electric train. Some of the parapet wall of the viaduct was thrown into the street. Four trains were involved, but owing to the officials' prompt action none of the succession of accidents was serious.\n\nHe thought that a possible cause of the driver's error might have been that for a moment he forgot on which line he was travelling. He could only describe it as a serious case of careless driving, which fortunately was unattended by graver results.\n\nThe accident provided a strong case in favour of automatic train control in congested areas with dense traffic. Up-to-date installation of colour light signalling was particularly conspicuous. If an experienced driver carelessly permitted himself to misread such indications, owing to momentary mental aberration, and if disciplinary measures failed to have the necessary deterrent effect, it seemed difficult to provide against failure of the human element other than by automatic means.\n\n## DOMESTIC SLAVERY IN CHINA\n\nThe REV. W. W. CLAYSON, a missionary, dealt with the question of domestic slavery in China. He described in particular the \"mui tsai\" system, by which poor parents, under economic stress, sold their children into domestic slavery. The best Chinese opinion was opposed to the system, and the Nationalist Government's programme provided for its abolition.\n\nMR. CHARLES ROBERTS, president of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society, stated that seven years ago Mr. Churchill gave a pledge on behalf of the Government to abolish the “mui tsai” system in Hong Kong, but his society had discovered quite recently that it was still in force. He appreciated the Government's difficulties in dealing with the private households of Chinese in Hong Kong, but he thought it was fair to expect the redemption of the pledge and the removal of the scandal.\n\n## HOUSE PURCHASE SWINDLER SENTENCED\n\nSentence of 12 months' imprisonment, in the second division, was passed by the Common Serjeant (Sir Henry Dickens, K.C.) at the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday on ARTHUR LEAF, 41, an estate agent, formerly in business at Southend, who was found Guilty of fraudulently converting to his own use £375 and £450 entrusted to him for the purpose of purchasing houses at Southend. He pleaded \"Not Guilty.\" Mr. Tindal Atkinson prosecuted; Mr. Claude Grundy and Mr. P. M. Beecheno defended.\n\nIt was stated by Detective-sergeant Fletcher that Leaf was unemployed for some time at Southend, and he acted as chairman and spokesman of the local unemployed. Later he carried on various small agencies.\n\nThe COMMON SERJEANT directed that £200 found in Leaf's possession on his arrest at Grimsby, should be divided equally between the two complainants.\n\n## LONDON POLICE COURT\n\nTwo youths, a 10-year-old page boy and an 18-year-old porter, appeared at London Police Court charged with stealing by finding a gold ring stated to be worth £45. They said they picked it up in Glasgow. They came to London to get work, and the police, no owner having come forward to claim the ring, numbers of people having inquired about it, and in fact, Glasgow people seemed to have given it up (Laughter.), the youths were bound over in the sum of £5 on condition that they left London.\n\nMRS. PETHICK-LAWRENCE, Women's Freedom League, said that underneath all questions of forced labour and contract labour there was... \n\nPage 148",
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        "content_text": "19\n\nControl of\n\nforce and\n\ncivilian\n\nstaff.\n\nOath or declaration.\n\nSchedule.\n\nPeriod of engagement.\n\nCompulsory retirement\n\nfor\n\nInefficiency\n\nor age.\n\nTerms on\n\nwhich discharge may be claimed.\n\nProvisions\n\nas to pensions\n\nof force.\n\n4. The force and civilian staff shall be under the control of the Inspector General and the members thereof shall obey all such lawful commands as they may receive from the Inspector General.\n\nRegulation of the Force.\n\n5. Every person before appointment as a subordinate officer or constable or police interpreter or telephone operator or member of a crew shall take the oath or make the declaration in the Schedule.\n\n6. (1) Every subordinate officer, constable, police interpreter, telephone operator and member of a crew shall engage and bind himself to serve for a term of not less than three months and of not more than five years, as may be directed by the Inspector General, during which term he shall not be at liberty to resign his office or to withdraw himself from the duties thereof, except as is hereinafter provided.\n\n(2) Such period of engagement may include a probationary period, which shall not exceed six months, and should the person thus engaged be found during his probationary period to be unsatisfactory, the Inspector General may at any time during such probationary period terminate the engagement.\n\n(3) No person whose period of engagement is terminated under sub-section (2) shall be entitled to any pay or compensation other than the pay earned up to the time when the engagement was terminated.\n\n7. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to require any subordinate officer, constable, police interpreter, telephone operator or member of a crew, whenever appointed, to retire from the public service of the Colony who-\n\n(a) appears to the Governor to be unable to discharge efficiently the duties of his office; or\n\n(b) has attained the age of fifty-five years.\n\n8. Any subordinate officer, constable, police interpreter, telephone operator or member of a crew shall be entitled to claim his discharge at any time on his giving to the Inspector General three months' notice of his wish to withdraw and paying a sum equivalent to two months' pay of the rank or office he may hold at the time of his giving notice of withdrawal for each unexpired year of his term of appointment: Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Governor to remit the whole or any part of the said sum: Provided also that it shall be lawful for the Governor to direct the Inspector General in any case to accept a shorter notice than three months.\n\n9.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the granting of pensions to members of the force, or in respect of service in the force, and to determine in special cases, where the regulations appear to the Governor in Council to be inapplicable or to require modification, the amount (if any) of the pension, the terms on which it shall be granted and the manner in which it shall be paid.\n\n(2) Pensions granted under this Ordinance shall be paid out of the general revenue of the Colony.\n\nstaff.\n\n10. The Inspector General, Deputy Inspector General, Divisional Superintendents, Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, Probationers and the members of the civilian staff, including any members of the civilian staff who may before the 21st day of December, 1923, have been sworn in as constables or as sergeant interpreters, shall, as regards pensions, be subject to the provisions of the Pensions Ordinance, 1932, and of any regulations made thereunder, and not to the provisions of the Police Pension Regulations: Provided that this section shall not affect any person who shall have ceased to be a member of the civilian staff before the 21st day of December, 1923.\n\nNo. 21 of\n\n11. If, within three years after the granting of a pension under this Ordinance to any member of the force, it is proved, to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, that the person to whom such pension has been granted had been guilty of any corrupt practices in the execution of his office, either by receiving bribes, or by inducing or compelling payment, directly or indirectly, of any valuable consideration to himself or to any other person by way of a bribe, or by otherwise acting corruptly in the execution of or under colour of his office as a member of the force, then in every such case it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to revoke and annul the grant of such pension or to make such reduction therein as to the Governor in Council may appear fit.\n\n12.-(1) Subject to the provisions of section 9, it shall be lawful for the Inspector General to make such regulations as he may consider necessary for:-\n\n(a) the general government and discipline of the force;\n\n(b) regulating the internal economy of the force;\n\n(c) carrying out the daily routine of the force; and\n\n(d) prescribing the conditions under which leave and passages will be granted to subordinate officers and constables and members of the civilian staff.\n\n(2) All regulations made under this section shall be published by the Inspector General in the form of Police General Orders and shall come into effect on the date of such publication, unless some other date be specified in any such order.\n\n(3) It shall not be necessary to publish in the Gazette any regulations made under this section.\n\n(4) All regulations made under this section shall be circulated to the members of the Executive Council, and it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to rescind or amend in any manner any such regulation. Any such rescission or amendment shall be published in the same manner as the regulation rescinded or amended was published, and the regulation shall be deemed to be rescinded or amended, as the case may be, as from and including the date of the publication of the rescission or amendment, unless some other date is specified in such publication.\n\n(5) In any proceedings, any regulation made under this section may be proved by the production of a copy of the Police General Orders in which such regulation was published, certified under the hand of the Inspector General, Deputy Inspector General...\n\n13",
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        "content_text": "22.8.32\n\nCheung Lin Hok\n\nX Sheldon.\n\n187\n\nI am a native of Chekiang. I am a carpenter, making furniture at 19 Man Chung Yong, ground floor. I started business there on 1 m. 29 d. (5th March) this year. I know the man next door, Cheung Ka Mau.\n\nXh. 37 I have seen before. I cannot remember the date. I was in the 3rd moon (month). In the night while I was working a man came into my shop. He walked with quick paces into the rear part of the premises. He went out again and walked in again. The last time he entered and went out, he dropped something white on the ground among the shavings. I did not know then what it was. He left by the front door. My suspicions were aroused. I picked up this glove from where he had dropped the white article.\n\nThat was not the first time that I had seen that man. I had seen that man in my premises. He was dressed in European style dress, brown colour. He had nothing on his head. I had seen him before that evening about 2 or 3 times.\n\nI saw Cheung Ka Mau that evening. I showed him the glove. I dropped it onto the ground again. I know this officer (Sergeant Fitchie) showed it to me. I showed him the glove on the 2nd June. He took it away.\n\nX Court\n\nI do not remember the Chinese date.\n\nChan\n\nd.\n\nI Sheldon\n\nManager of Kwan Yik furniture shop, 289 Hennessey Road. Corrected later to 10th March. On the 13th March I hired some furniture to Cheung Ka Mau (20. 4 d.). J.K.K. (identified). He had come with another man to look at furniture, 2 days before. The hire was $4 for the first month. That was paid that day. It was hired for 2 months. It was delivered to 17 Man Chung Yong. The lessee only signed a promissory guarantee.\n\n38cm 11 ed.\n\n(105)\n\nX Sheldon.",
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        "title": "CO129-550-6 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- request review of trial and exercise of prerogative of mercy... 22-11-1934 - 21-12-1934",
        "content_text": "August 9, 1934\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\nNULLAH OUTRAGE SEQUEL\n\n... ng actually saw him first. I really the first to attend to\n\nDr. Wong give him any treat- at all before you attended to #Not to my knowledge.\n\nthe accused taken directly eward on admission?—Yes. au told us his breath smelled ol, what was this general con- , for instance, what was the e of his eyes?—I made no note his eyes at all.\n\nWhat was the little girl doing when the boy was being thrown in? The girl seemed to be looking over.\n\nDid the girl make an attempt to run away? If she did, they were so near together I could hardly see.\n\nDo you know Michael Pine's par- ents personally?—No.\n\nDo you know any of the parents of the children who were unfor- tunately thrown over?—No. None of them.\n\nhid you take his temperature? es, but I did not do it myself.\n\nDid you, after this incident, That is the internal tempera-speak to any of them?-No. re, I presume?—Yes, taken in ? mouth.\n\nwas\n\nhib did you notice his surface tem- perature, the colour of his skin?- When he first came in he suffering from immersion. His surface temperature would be cold- er. He looked cold and blue.\n\nDid you actually feel his surface temperature?—Yes.\n\nDid you notice and hiccough pre- c-No.\n\nd you take any blood test?-- I did not take that. Re-examined by Mr. Fraser, wit- ss said that he did not notice | ything peculiar about accused's Tres.\n\nDid you tell anyone of what you saw of this incident? Yes. The first time was to a newspaper re- porter, and then the police and my husband and personal friends.\n\nDid you visit the hospital at all to see any of these children?—No. After Fung Siu Ki, a translator of the S.C.A. had given evidence to the effect that he translated ac- cused's letters, the hearing was adjourned until Friday afternoon.\n\nP.T.O\n\nChina. The far-reaching results cannot be adequately expressed.\n\nChina's Customs, after securing P.W.D. and Sergeant Moran had independence since 1928, had been produced plans and photographs revised thrice, firstly in February respectively of the scene of the 1929, secondly in January 1932, and tragedy, Mrs. Kathleen Charlotte thirdly in May 1933. \"Formerly\" Fairburn was called into the wit- I continued Mr. Hu, \"all revisions in ness-box.\n\na\n\ncustom regulations had their rea- Mrs. Fairburn's Evidence\n\nsons, and were forwarded to the She told the court that at the Legislative Yuan for approval, but, time of the tragedy she was just this time, it was not So, as the walking into No. 2 bridge when she new tariff regulations drafted by saw a Chinese who was standing the financial Ministry, passed by in the No. 1 bridge, throwing the Executive Yuan and was ap- boy and then a girl into the nul- proved by the Government for exe- lah. The man later jumped in cution. They were not approved himself. He was dressed in a according to the regular procedure, white shirt, dark trousers and wearing a straw hat. No one was on the bridge at all.\n\nShe imme- diately called out several chair coolies who were nearby, and two of them rescued the children. She had a side view of the accused.\n\nOn July 9, she attended an iden- tification parade and picked out\n\nand the Legislative Yuan again ignored its responsibility in the matter. There must be some ob- jectionable points in the new tariff regulations as they were approved without much consideration. They include the following defects: (1) by increasing the tariffs of all mineral products and machinery, a\n\n28\n\n167\n\nHU HAN MIN INTERVIEWED\n\nThe Tangku Agree- ment Criticised\n\nMr. Hu Han-min recently grant- ed an interview to Press represen- tatives in the course of which he discussed (1) the negotiations for the abolition of the Tangku Agree- ment at Dairen, and (2) the recent revision of the import and export tariffs.\n\nMr. Hu at the outset contradict- ed the report that he had cleared up all misunderstandings with Nanking and was about to make a trip to Europe.\n\nReferring to the Tangku Agree- ment, which was signed on May 31st 1933, Mr. Hu said that since the signing of the Agreement, Man- churia was no longer regarded as an integral part of China as the agreement had provided that Luan- tung was a neutral zone and that the area beyond the Great Wall was the 'Manchukuo' territory. Mr. Wang Ching Wai, President of the Executive Yuan, in his declaration, said that the Tangku Agreement included only military and not political matters. Since then, the Japanese made use of this Agree- ment and forced Nanking to carry out the \"through traffic and through mail\" provisions, while Gen. Huang Fu and Mr. Wang Ching Wei, during that time, still stated that there was no secret stipulation included in the Tangku Agreement, so no outsider could apprehend the mystery of the Agreement. Mr. Hu was of the opinion that the agreement tained more than has been divul- ged to the public.\n\ncon-\n\n\"A certain diplomatist who had recently returned from Europe, has said: 'Since the Japanese Foreign Office had issued the \"Hands-off China Policy\" on April 17th, all the Chinese ministers in Europe had received special instructions from Mr. Wang Ching Wei, pro- hibiting them to make any state-\n\nthe accused. Her reasons for pick-blockade is laid to the development against Japan. Besides, there\n\ning him up were that he was very thin and his hair was inclined, to be long and shaggy. He has high cheek bones and sunken cheeks.\n\nMr. Lim: When you first saw this man standing in the middle of the bridge, were you actually on the bridge or just going down?--I was just on the very beginning of No. 2 bridge.\n\nment of home industries thus en- dangering the expansion of local labour works: (2) local industries are ruined by the general decrease of textile tariff ratios, whereby en- couraging the influx of foreign goods.\n\nof\n\nwere other cables stating that the wishes of Marshal Shek, Chairman of\n\nChiang Kai-\n\nMilitary Committee, should not be the National\n\nobstructed, thus the Executive Yuan and the Foreign Office Local textiles are already Nanking are both evading respon- on the verge of collapse, and with sibility for the concluding of the the introduction of the new Tariff, | Tangku Agreement.” they are worse than before. On You said he picked up the boy the other hand, the increase threw him into the nullah, then | luxury tariff ratios is quite reason- the girl and then jumped in him- self. How long did he take to do this All in about a minute.\n\nWhen he picked up the boy, did the boy struggle at all?It is diffi- cult to see. He seemed to just pick him up and threw him over.\n\nof\n\nable, but awabi, sea weeds, etc., which are not daily necessities, have had their tariffs reduced. If we look through the whole of the revised tariff regulations we can find that they appear to be revised purposely in favour of Japan.\n\nThe Customs\n\nMr. Hu mentioned that the e- cent enforcement of the new Cus- toms' Regulations was a ruin to the industry of the country and as a means of facilitating Japan's continual economic invasion\n\n(Continued on Previous Column).",
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        "content_text": "# \n[1st witness Lam Chu (recalled).] \n[18th witness Yu Man-hoi.] \n\n50 \n\n1272. You could see the loom of the light? **Yes.** \n\n(Witness left witness box). \n\n1273. Mr. Whyatt: I am afraid I am not in a position to put any further evidence before the Commission this afternoon. \n\n1274. Chairman: Is it possible for you to give us any indication how long we are likely to be occupied in taking all the evidence? \n\n1275. Mr. Whyatt: It is impossible to say how long it will take as... \n\n1276. Chairman: I appreciate the difficulty. It would not be possible to give us an accurate estimate, but approximately? \n\n1277. Mr. Whyatt: If we adjourn to Thursday morning I think I can say that we will finish on Thursday, possibly before lunch. \n\n1278. Chairman: Adjourned until 10.00 a.m. on Thursday morning. \n\n10 a.m., 21st October, 1937. \n\n1279. Mr. Whyatt: Sir, you will remember that on the first day of the hearing Lam Chu in his evidence, in answer to my question as to what it was about their appearance which made him think the sailors on the submarine were Japanese, replied \"Because I could recognize them by their clothing-the outer garment had a sort of suspender leading from the shoulder to the trousers.\" It has occurred to me that perhaps that evidence might be clarified somewhat if Lam Chu might be recalled to demonstrate. \n\n1280. Chairman: I am afraid that I was not able to glean much from it and I think it might help considerably if he might explain a little further what he meant. \nFirst Witness. Lam Chu (recalled). \n\n1281. Lam Chu recalled (on former declaration). \n\n1282. Mr. Whyatt: You told me in your evidence that you recognized these sailors on board the submarine as Japanese sailors because they wore a sort of suspender leading from the shoulder to the trousers? **Yes, I said that.** \n\n1283. (Two straps produced-one white and one dark brown). \n\n1284. Take one or both of these straps as you please and show us how they were wearing their straps. (Witness places one strap over his right shoulder and one over his left shoulder hanging straight down over his chest to waist). \n\n1285. What colour were the straps? \n\n1286. Chairman: Like a pair of braces. \n\n1287. Mr. Whyatt: Yes, that is right. \n\n1288. Witness (holding up white strap): The colour of the straps on the sailors was darker than this colour. \n\n1289. Could you say whether anything was attached to the straps? In the front I saw nothing attached to the straps at all; the ends of the straps were attached to the trousers. \n\n1290. What width were these straps? About the same width as this strap (1″). \n\n(Witness left the witness box). \n\n1291. Mr. Whyatt: Now, sir, I will call the compradore of the s.s. Kaying. \n1292. Eighteenth Witness. Yu Man-hei, duly declared, states:— \n1293. Mr. Whyatt: You are the compradore of the s.s. Kaying? **Assistant compradore.** \n\n1294. Were you on board the s.s. Kaying on 27th September when she was bound from Shanghai to Hong Kong? **Yes.** \n\n1295. Do you recollect anything unusual happening on that voyage? We met a fishing junk-no, not a junk; we found two men afloat. \n\n1296. About what time of the day was that? Between 6 and 7 p.m. \n\n1297. That was on the 27th September? **It was.** \n\n51 \n\n[18th witness Yu Man-hoi.] \n[19th witness Thomas Gillson Mackay.] \n\n1298. What did you do? I was then in my cabin. I noticed the steamer had stopped, and the captain then sent for me and asked me to go up to the deck. \n\n1299. What did you do when you got on deck? I saw in the distance two men on a raft calling out \"Save life\". \n\n1300. And was the ship manoeuvred, and eventually were these two men picked up from the raft and taken aboard the \"Kaying\"? They were picked up and put on board. \n\n1301. And when they were put on board in whose charge were they placed? They were left with me by the chief officer and I was told to take them below. \n\n1302. What sort of condition were they in? They appeared to be much fatigued, and their hands and feet looked very white as if they had been in the water for a long time. \n\n1303. What did you do for them? At first I wanted to give them some rice, but I was advised not to do so for the reason that, as they had been in the water for such a long time, it would not be wise to do that. I then gave them some brandy, a glass each, and later I gave them some congee, and then clothing. \n\n1304. Did you ascertain the names of these two men? **Yes, their names are Ho Pak-kung and Ho Pak-shing.** \n\n1305. And eventually they were put ashore in Hong Kong? **Yes.** \n\n1306. Do you know where they were sent to? They were put on board a sampan and were left in the hands of the boat people. I don't know where they went eventually. \n\n(Witness left the witness box). \n\n1307. Mr. Whyatt: I think it would be convenient if I put in a few photographs of these guns we have been talking about, sir. Two of these junks escaped and I thought if we were going to have any photographs of the guns we might have photographs of the cannon on these junks. I asked the police photographer to have certain photographs taken. \n\n1308. Nineteenth Witness. Thomas Gillison Mackay, Acting Police Sergeant A119, duly sworn, states:- \n\n1309. Mr. Whyatt: Sergeant Mackay, you are the police photographer? **I am.** \n1310. In the Hong Kong police? **Yes.** \n\n1311. Did you go yesterday to visit two junks? **Yes.** \n1312. Do you remember their numbers? **28 and 4470.** \n\n1313. Whereabouts were they lying? In Hang Hau Bay. \n\n1314. And when you got there did you take certain photographs? **I did.** \n1315. What was the first junk that you visited? No. 28. \n\n1316. You know more about these photographs than I do. Will you show us the photographs that you took of Junk No. 28? (Witness produces a photograph [marked `T.G.M.1.`]) This is a gun on the port side. \n\n1317. Is that on Junk No. 28? **Yes.** \n\n1318. How many copies did you make? There are six copies of each photograph. \n1319. Did you take any more photographs on Junk 28? This was taken on the starboard side of the same vessel—[`T.G.M.2.`] \n\n1320. Did you take any more photographs on Junk 28? **No, only these two.** \n\n1321. After taking these two photographs on Junk 28-what was the next photograph you took? I took one on 4470. \n\n1322. What did you photograph on 4470? A gun which was lying on deck-[`T.G.M.3.`] \n\n1323. Chairman: Any trace of gun mountings? There are gun mountings but they were in the hold and they were used as ballast, made fast to the side by wires. \n\n249",
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        "content_text": "## Inquiry Proceedings\n\n### 22nd Witness: Reginald Robert Helbert\n\n1419. Mr. Whyatt: If it were part and parcel of the water-bottle equipment that would be unique as an equipment? Using that for the purpose they do, yes.\n\n1420. I want you to assume once again that you were cruising off the South China Coast and that you saw a submarine, say light grey in colour, figure 7 in Arabic numerals on the hull, three bands running round the conning tower—that is to say, one white, one black, and then one white—with two guns, one forward and one abaft the conning tower, and a number of sailors on her deck who were wearing equipment either like this or that (demonstrating as to how straps would be worn); assuming that you saw all that and nothing more could you express an opinion with any degree of certainty as to the nationality of that submarine? I should feel morally certain that that submarine was a Japanese submarine.\n\n1421. Chairman: Have you yourself ever seen a Japanese submarine in these waters bearing figure No. 7? No, I have seen Japanese submarines at Kobe which were being refitted at the time, so they would not be in their right rig, so to speak.\n\n1422. In the Japanese Navy is there a submarine No. 7? I should imagine there would be; they go by figures and they range from I 1 to 5 and 5 to 80.\n\n1423. Have you any idea what the armament on a submarine numbered 7 actually is? Yes—two 5.5\" guns.\n\n(Witness left the witness box.)\n\n### 16th Witness: Philip Francis Shelsley Court (recalled)\n\n1424. Sixteenth Witness. Philip Francis Shelsley Court (recalled), (on former oath).\n\n1425. Mr. Whyatt: Dr. Court, you told us yesterday that you were going to perform a post-mortem examination on Leung Hong who had been under your care? Yes.\n\n1426. Have you since performed that post-mortem examination? Yes.\n\n1427. What in your opinion was the cause of Leung Hong's death? The cause of death is pyæmia following upon septic wounds in the leg.\n\n1428. Those are the wounds that you described to us the other day? Yes.\n\n1429. Was the body identified to you in the mortuary at the Queen Mary Hospital? Yes.\n\n1430. (Fung Chan-ho recalled for Dr. Court to identify as being the man who identified the body of Leung Hong).\n\n1431. Dr. Court: He is one of the coolies who identified the body.\n\n(Witness left the witness box.)\n\n### Inquiry Adjourned and Resumed\n\nInquiry adjourned.\n\nInquiry resumed.\n\n10:00 a.m., 22nd October, 1937.\n\n1432. Mr. Whyatt: You will remember, sir, Sergeant Mackay told us yesterday that he had taken photographs of the bullet but the prints were not ready. These prints have now been handed to me; perhaps I could hand them up to you?\n\n1433. Chairman: Thank you; these are the photographs? [Exhibits T.G.M. 5 and T.G.M. 6].\n\n1434. Mr. Whyatt: Yes. The rule is in millimetres. I propose to call Mr. Branson, the Government Analyst, sir.\n\n### 23rd Witness: Victor Cecil Branson\n\n1435. Twenty-third Witness. Victor Cecil Branson, duly sworn, states:-\n\n1436. Mr. Whyatt: You are a Fellow of the Institute of Chemists? Chemistry.\n\n1437. And you hold the appointment of Government Analyst? Yes.\n\n1438. An appointment which you have held for the last five years? Yes.\n\n1439. Did you receive a fragment of a bullet from Inspector Hopkins two days ago? Yes.\n\n1440. Will you just look at that? (Fragment of bullet handed to witness).\n\n1441. That is what you received from Inspector Hopkins? Yes.\n\n1442. Did you with the assistance of Inspector Hopkins remove that envelope on the outside? Yes.\n\n1443. And after removing the envelope what did you find inside? Inside a copper tube, and inside that I found a whitish substance.\n\n1444. Did you extract that whitish substance from the tube? Some of it, yes.\n\n1445. Then I think you analysed it? Yes.\n\n1446. Will you please tell us what it consisted of? Individual analysis gave contents as barium, magnesium, carbonate, and hydrate.\n\n1447. Can you express any opinion as to how that substance in its present state has been formed? It can be formed, and would be the end product from the interaction of barium peroxide and magnesium after being exposed to air.\n\n1448. Will you assume that the original mixture was inside that copper tube, and that the copper tube was part of a bullet, and that that bullet was fired, and that the firing caused a certain type of interaction. What type of interaction would you describe that as? That would be fast combustion.\n\n1449. If, on the other hand, that mixture was inside the copper tube before firing in the state in which you found it to be on analysis, what kind of interaction would that be? That could be described as slow combustion or deterioration.\n\n1450. So it comes to this that that substance which you have analysed is the result of either fast combustion, or slow combustion or deterioration? Yes.\n\n1451. Can you express any opinion as to the probability as to which of the two kinds of combustion may have been responsible for the present residue? No, I cannot say which type of combustion it was.\n\n1452. At all events in your opinion the original substance consisted of barium peroxide and magnesium? Yes.\n\n1453. Can you tell us what that substance is used for? It is a standard product for tracer and incendiary bullets.\n\n1454. What is the primary function of this mixture irrespective of whether it is in a bullet or not? It is used for causing heat or flame.\n\n1455. Can you express any opinion as to the heat which might be generated by igniting this mixture? I cannot tell the exact temperature, but know this substance is used for igniting thermite which requires a high temperature to ignite it.\n\n1456. What do you think would be the minimum temperature that would be required to ignite thermite? In round figures I should say at least 1,000 degrees centigrade; that is my opinion.\n\n1457. You have no precise or exact figures to go on? No.\n\n(Witness left the witness box.)\n\n### 24th Witness: Albert Leslie Hopkins\n\n1458. Twenty-fourth Witness. Albert Leslie Hopkins, duly sworn, states:-\n\n1459. Mr. Whyatt: Inspector Hopkins, what is your present appointment? I am Inspector in charge of arms and ammunition.\n\n1460. Of the Hong Kong Police Force? Yes.\n\n1461. You have held that appointment for the last year? During the past year.\n\n1462. And before that you were Musketry Instructor of the Hong Kong Police? For four years.\n\n1463. I think even before that you had had considerable experience of firearms?\n\n1464. In what way did you gain your experience? For 20 years I have studied firearms and ammunition.\n\n1465. Are you speaking of theoretical or practical experience in firearms? Both. I have read much literature on the subject, and have also fired many kinds of arms and all sorts of ammunition.",
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