[ { "id": 406924, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "page_number": 220, "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "content_text": "2\n\nfrom any priority arising from the fact of such registration; and the day after the new Regulations of the present project became effective, if each of these American firms shall file application for registration of these marks, it may meet upon that day a demand of registration filed by a subject or citizen of one of the European Powers named, whose demand, filed that day, will be entitled to a priority of four months by reason of a demand of registration filed within that period in some European trade mark registry bureau.\n\nIn such case the actual legal right already secured and vested in this American firm by reason of its prior actual registration under the provisional Regulations in China is destroyed, while an effective and controlling priority will be given by virtue of section 7 to this European competitor, whose registration in Europe has been effected in Europe many months later, for it is to be observed that this project is to take effect one year after its publication in the \"Gazette\" of Peking.\n\nThe priority provisions of section 7 correspond to the priority provisions of the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, and are intended to furnish a limited working period within which any unjust advantage derived from geographical proximity may be overcome. I am not disposed to question the general utility of this kind of delayed priority, but its value and existence bear no possible relation to the concomitant demand embodied in section 25 that the existing property rights of American citizens should be struck down,\n\nThis Government can see no ground for apprehension on the part of other Powers that there will be grave dangers for their trade interests if section 25 is omitted. On the other hand, grave dangers may be feared to the financial interests of the twenty American firms heretofore referred to if their existing rights be swept away by section 25 of the project. This Government propose as an amendment to section 25 the following:\n\n\"All demands of registration made by means of the competent Chinese authorities before the going into force of the present Regulation shall be considered as assimilated to the right of priority provided by section 7, and shall be effective from their dates.\"\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) ELIHU ROOT.\n\n2161\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[6599]\n\nC.O.\n\n11556\n\n[B]\n\n[March 2\n\nSHOTION REC 3 APR OE\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Count Metternich.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nForeign Office, March 23, 1906. WITH reference to our recent conversations respecting the mutual protection of British and German trade-marks in China, I have the honour to state that under the Order in Council of the 2nd February, 1899, it is open to a German whose trade-mark has been infringed by a British subject in China to take proceedings against the latter in the British Court, provided—”\n\n(1.) That the consent in writing of His Majesty's Minister or Chargé d'Affaires be obtained to the prosecution; but\n\n(2.) Such consent may be withheld unless His Majesty's Minister or Chargé d'Affaires is satisfied that effectual provision exists for the punishment in the German Consular Court of German subjects infringing British trade-marks.\n\nI have the honour to inform your Excellency that it is not open to doubt that in practice the consent of the British Minister would be given in any and every case where full reciprocity could be and was granted by Germany.\n\nHis Majesty's Representative at Peking will be instructed accordingly, as soon as the German Government inform His Majesty's Government that it is open to British subjects to take proceedings before the German Consular Courts in China against persons subject to German Consular jurisdiction who infringe trade-marks duly registered in Germany, and that the German Consuls in China have received instructions in that sense.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) EDWARD GREY.\n\n[1906 - -1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 407009, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "page_number": 305, "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n16309\n\n299\n\n# CHINA TRADE\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[April 19]\n\nRec 8 MAY 06. SECTION 1,\n\n:\n\n[13319]\n\n(Translation.)\n\nNo. 1.\n\nCount Metternich to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received April 19.)\n\nSir,\n\nLondon, April 17, 1906. IN accordance with my instructions and with reference to your note of the 5th instant, I have the honour to inform you that the Imperial Minister at Peking has been instructed to notify the Imperial Consular authorities in China who are invested with jurisdiction of the Agreement concluded between the German and British Governments in regard to the reciprocal protection of trade marks in China, and to provide them with instructions in accordance with the Declaration contained in my note of the 26th March last.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) P. METTERNICH.\n\n[1951-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 412658, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 418, "title": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "# P 1\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's for \nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[35815]\nNo. 1.\n415\n[October 29.]\n\n## SECTION 1\n\nSir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n**(No. 432.) Six**\n\nForeign Office, October 29, 1907.\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 420 of the 24th instant, I have to inform you that the German Ambassador called at this Office on the 18th instant, and stated that his Government had heard that you were opposing the signature of the Final Agreement for the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze Railway unless that for the Suchow-Ningpo line were signed at the same time. The German Government understood that, whereas the negotiations for the former line were practically concluded and the Chinese were ready to sign an Agreement, the negotiations for the Suchow-Ningpo line were still in an early stage only, and that unless the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze Agreement were signed shortly, there was a risk that the Chinese might change their minds, and that the fruits of many months' negotiation might be jeopardised. His Excellency added that he believed that the British Syndicate, who were interested in the undertaking in conjunction with the German Syndicate, were entirely of this opinion.\n\nCount Metternich was informed in reply that he had not misunderstood the views of the British Syndicate, but it was pointed out to him that it had already been explained to the German Government that His Majesty's Government, while most anxious for the success of the Anglo-German negotiations, could support them only in so far as they did not endanger the realization of the purely British Suchow-Ningpo Railway enterprise; that you had consequently from the outset insisted that the Agreement as to the latter railway should be signed before, or at the same time as that for the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze line; that so far from the negotiations for the Suchow-Ningpo line's being in a preliminary stage only, it had been settled that the draft for the Suchow-Ningpo Railway Agreement should, mutatis mutandis, be copied from the Tien-tsin-Yang-tsze Railway Agreement, and be identical with it; and that you feared that, if this course were not maintained, you would be parting with the only lever which you possessed for securing the conclusion of the Suchow-Ningpo Agreement, the signature of which might then be indefinitely delayed. For these reasons His Majesty's Government thought that things must be left as they were for the moment, though they were most anxious, Count Metternich was again assured, to see both negotiations brought to a speedy conclusion.\n\n&c.\n\nI am,\n(Signed)\nF. A. CAMPBELL.\n\n[2691 #-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416080, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 245, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[March 20.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n[10143]\n\n(No. 81.) (Extract.)\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Sir F. Lascelles.\n\nForeign Office, March 20, 1908.\n\nCOUNT METTERNICH took the occasion of being here to-day to say to me that a misunderstanding had arisen in the Far East.\n\nThe Russian Government had the right to control a certain amount of land on each side of that part of the Manchurian Railway which was in their hands. It had been reported that Germany was disputing this right. But, as a matter of fact, all that had happened was that one German trader had been subjected to severer treatment than was accorded to others in the territory adjoining the railway, and the German Minister at Peking had taken up his case on that ground.\n\nI told Count Metternich that I had, of course, heard of what had taken place in Persia, but this was the first I had heard of any misunderstanding having arisen elsewhere. It sometimes happened in Eastern countries that the inhabitants did not give to the Representatives of one foreign nation accurate accounts of the action taken by the Representatives of another foreign nation.\n\n[2895 u-1]\n\n242", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 416460, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 625, "title": "CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "C. 0.\n\n20001\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[15144]\n\n(No. 203.) Sir,\n\nNo. 1,\n\nP 1 JUN 08\n\n618\n\n[May 4.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir F. Lascelles to Sir Edward Grey,-(Received May 4.)\n\nBerlin, May 1, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit herewith copy of a note which I have addressed to Herr von Schön on the subject of the altered terms of the Order in Council relating to the protection of trade-marks in China and Corea, in accordance with the instructions contained in your despatch No. 119 of the 29th ultimo.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) FRANK C. LASCELLES.\n\nInclosure in No. 1.\n\nSir F. Lascelles to Herr von Schön,\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nBerlin, May 1, 1908. AS your Excellency is aware, Count Metternich was informed on the 23rd March, 1906, of the provisions of the Order in Council of 1899, respecting the protection of trade-marks in China and Corea, by which the consent of His Majesty's Minister at Peking had to be obtained before a foreign subject could bring an action in the British Consular Court against a British subject for pirating a trade-mark which was the property of the plaintiff; his Excellency was also told that it was not open to doubt that the consent of His Majesty's Minister would be granted to German subjects in every case where reciprocity was granted by Germany. Count Metternich replied on the 25th March, 1906, that the German Consuls in China would be instructed to take proceedings against the infringement by German subjects of British marks in China, provided such were duly registered in Germany. Sir E. Satow was then instructed on similar lines and Count Metternich informed.\n\nI have now the honour, under instructions from His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to inform your Excellency that by the terms of a new Order in Council of the 11th February, 1907, the consent of the British Minister to proceedings against a British subject in the British Consular Courts is no longer required. The only condition precedent to proceedings being taken is now either (a) that an arrangement should be in force between His Majesty's Government and the Government of the State or Power to which the prosecutor or plaintiff belongs, or (b) that the Court should be satisfied that effectual provision exists for the protection in Consular or other Courts in China or Corea of the rights and interests of British subjects in copyrights, trade-marks, patents or designs, infringed by the nationals of such a State or Power.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nFRANK C. LASCELLES,\n\n[2967 d-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423466, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nNo. 1.\n\n## SECTION 2\n### Note communicated to Count Metternich, November 1, 1909\n\nTHE question now at issue in the matter of the Hukuang loan is the redistribution of the engineering sections on the Hankow-Szechuan line in such a way as to admit of the American claim to appoint an engineer on one-half of the extension without doing violence to the existing equilibrium of parties.\n\nOn the 27th September Sir E. Grey had the honour to inform Herr von Kühlmann that it appeared to His Majesty's Government that, under the arrangement proposed by the German financiers, i.e., that should the Hankow-Szechuan line be divided into four, the Hankow-Canton line should also be divided, the British group would be making a double sacrifice, one on the Hankow-Szechuan line and one on the Canton-Hankow line, while the German group would be compensated for the sacrifice they made on the Hankow-Szechuan line by what they gained at the British expense on the Canton-Hankow line, and would thus be making no sacrifice at all.\n\nThe British group therefore consider that they are doing all that can fairly be asked of them by offering to make the sacrifice on the Hankow-Szechuan line and expecting the Germans to do the same.\n\nBy the Berlin Agreement of the 14th May one-third of the Hankow-Szechuan line, namely, the Hankow-Ichang line with branches to Hsiangyang and Kuangchui, was allotted to the German group, and the remaining two-thirds, namely, the extension from Ichang or Hsiangyang to Chengtu, were allotted to the Chinese Central Railways (Limited), an Anglo-French company constructed ad hoc and representing the British and French groups.\n\nIn order to satisfy the American claim to appoint an engineer on one-half of the extension, which is assumed to be 1,600 kilom. in length, it would seem that the German group and the Chinese Central Railways (Limited) should in strict equity therefore surrender 267 and 533 kilom. respectively.\n\nIt may be admitted, however, that the German section, as the first to be constructed, relatively of greater value than the deferred section of the Chinese Central Railways (Limited), and in order to promote a settlement His Majesty's Government would be willing that the Germans should surrender only the Hsiangyang-Kuanghui section to the Chinese Central Railways (Limited), estimated at 200 kilom., as a contribution to the sacrifice of some 600 kilom., imposed upon the latter by the American claim, to one-half of the Ichang-Chengtu extension.\n\nThe relative strength of the three groups over the whole line with its extensions would then be----\n\n| Group | Kilom. |\n| --- | --- |\n| Germans | 600 |\n| Americans | 800 |\n| Chinese Central Railways (Limited) (this includes the British and French shares, which thus amount to 500 kilom. each) | 1,000 |\n\nThis proposal has been submitted to the French and United States Governments, and His Majesty's Government would be glad to learn that it would be favourably entertained by the Imperial German Government.\n\nForeign Office, November 1, 1909.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423601, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 205, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS.\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Memorandum by German Government.**―(Communicated by Count Metternich November 9.) (Translation.)\n\nTHE Imperial Government regret that they are not able to agree to the proposal communicated to them in the memorandum of the British Government of the 1st instant on the subject of the Chinese railway question. The proposal is based, according to paragraph 2 of the memorandum, on the following assumptions:\n\nThe British group would be making a double sacrifice-one on the Hankow-Szechuan line and one on the Canton-Hankow line-while the German group would be compensated for the sacrifice they made on the Hankow-Szechuan line by what they gained at the British expense on the Canton-Hankow line, and would thus be making no sacrifice at all.”\n\nThese assumptions are inaccurate. They entirely overlook the fact that the Hunan section of the Hankow-Canton line was granted to the German financial group by the preliminary agreement with China of the 7th March, 1909. This section has a length of about 900 kilom. Inspired by the wish to come to an understanding with their English friends, who had been associated with them in previous loan agreements, the German financial group surrendered to the English financial group the rights which they had acquired to the Hunan section by the preliminary agreement above referred to after the latter group and the French group associated with them had undertaken to concede to the German financial group the construction of a section of the Hankow-Szechuan line of a length of 800 kilom., situated in the Province of Hupeh. In order to render possible this exchange of sections the loan of 3,000,000l., provided for in the agreement of the 7th March, 1909, for the Hankow-Canton business, was increased with the consent of the Chinese Government, and the sections of the Hankow-Szechuan Railway, of which the construction was assigned to the German financial group in the Berlin Agreement of the 14th May, 1909, were included in the agreement to be concluded with China, which was then ready for signature.\n\nThe exchange of these two sections stands—as is not open to question—as an entirely separate transaction. If from one of these two sections, together of a length of about 1,700 kilom., a portion has subsequently to be conceded to a third person, it is only fair and right that both contracting parties should participate in the sacrifice. This is the case which has now arisen. America makes a subsequent demand for a share in the Hankow-Szechuan section which is reserved for the German financial group. If this demand is to be satisfied, the English group ought not to avoid contributing to its satisfaction. If the American claim had fallen upon the Hankow-Canton section, reserved for the English group, it would be the duty of the German group to contribute towards meeting the demand. In regard to the form of the contribution to be made the way to an understanding is open.\n\nIt is asked in the memorandum of the 1st instant that the German financial group shall surrender to the English group 200 kilom. of the section already conceded to them and already sanctioned by China, so that the latter group may make a concession for the participation of America in a future section. If this request were acceded to the result would be that, by virtue of the agreement now to be concluded, England would have as her share about 1,100 kilom. and Germany only about 600 kilom. In face of such a distribution there could be no question of maintaining the balance between the groups.\n\nThe German financial group do not wish for any advantages over their English associates and in no wise intend to gain at the British expense on the Canton-Hankow line and thus to make no sacrifice at all.\" They only claim that, in the agreement now to be concluded, into which they are bringing their rights under the agreement of the 7th March, 1909, they shall either take up a position of approximate equality with the English group or be compensated by the latter.\n\nBerlin, November 5, 1909.\n\n[2486-2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423670, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 274, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n[B]\n\n273\n\n36899\n\nRec\n\nM 9 DEC 09\n\n## CHINA RAILWAYS.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[November 24.]\n\n### SECTION 2.\n\n[42419]\n\nYour Excellency,\n\n#### No. 1.\n\n**Sir Edward Grey to Count Metternich.**\n\nForeign Office, November 24, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's memorandum of the 5th instant, giving the views of the Imperial German Government in regard to the proposal made to your Excellency on the 1st instant, for the redistribution of the engineering sections on the Hankow-Szechuan line in such a way as to admit of the American claim to appoint an engineer on one half of the extension without doing violence to the existing equilibrium of parties.\n\nOn the 12th instant the United States Ambassador informed me that the settlement of the Hukuan loan proposed by Mr. Straight, the representative of the American group in China, viz., that an American engineer should be appointed for the Hsiang-Yang-Kuangshui section of 200 kilom., to co-operate with and be subject to the general direction of the German chief engineer, and that by private arrangement the Szechuan line is to be divided as follows--\n\n| Section | Kilom. | Chief Engineer |\n|--------|--------|-----------------|\n| 1st | 500 | French |\n| | | American |\n| | | British |\n| 2nd | 600 | |\n| 3rd | 500 | \" |\n\nwas acceptable to the Imperial Government, on condition that the American engineer for the Hsiang-Yang-Kuangshui section would not interfere with the judgment of the German chief engineer in respect of the purchase of materials. His Excellency expressed the hope that as a settlement on the above lines was understood to be in harmony with the proposals of His Majesty's Government the latter would invite the British group to sign the agreement.\n\nA reply was returned to this communication to the effect that an arrangement of the kind described was in fact agreeable to His Majesty's Government. It was, however, pointed out that information furnished by Mr. Whitelaw Reid did not appear to be in accordance with the views of the Imperial Government as given in your Excellency's memorandum of the 5th November, but the hope was expressed that the former was of more recent date, as the arrangement proposed by Mr. Straight was one to which His Majesty's Government would have no difficulty in adhering.\n\nI am in the circumstances prepared to send instructions to His Majesty's Minister at Peking to concert with his colleagues as to obtaining the extension from the Chinese Government, and I have the honour to inquire whether the German representative at Peking will receive similar instructions.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nE. GREY.\n\n`[2486 aa--2]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428335, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 260, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "2\n\nwriter points out that the surrender of the Manchurian Railway means the surrender of Manchuria, which Japan, while admitting China's sovereignty, requires as a field for emigration, and the development of which, ineffective unless Japan-directed, is for her a necessary guarantee of future peace. The press has been quick to point out, as with one voice, that if the neutralisation principle is to apply in Manchuria, it must be applicable to foreign railways throughout the Chinese Empire—to German lines in Shantung, to French in Yunnan, to English elsewhere; and both Japan and Russia must be admitted on equal terms to join in the Hankow line, in which four Powers are now concerned.\n\nThe \"Kokumin,\" generally pro-Government, and supposed sometimes to reflect Marquis Katsura's views, writes in its English column as follows:—\n\n'Japan will deal with the neutralisation proposal in a friendly manner, as it comes from a friendly country, no matter whether Japan consents thereto or not. The argument that the neutralisation scheme will guarantee the peace does not apply to Manchuria, in view of the fact that it infringes China's territorial right already established and deprives others of the privileges properly acquired there. It will lead to further complications. Russia's loss of the Chinese Eastern Railway will threaten her Siberian territory. It is also improper now to neutralise part of China's territory, in view of the fact that China may recover the railways in Manchuria upon the expiry of the concession. The Americo-Japan Agreement of 1908 is based upon the maintenance of China's independence and territorial integrity and the preservation of the common interests of the Powers in China. If the Japanese and American Governments always stick to this determination there will be no trouble at any time. It is unnecessary so seriously to discuss the American proposal, as it is absolutely impracticable. It depends upon the consent of China, Japan, and Russia, but they will not consent. Russia's maintenance of the Chinese Eastern Railway, even at an enormous cost, is to preserve the basis of her Oriental policy. If China is now to bear a big loan to recover the Manchurian Railway her finances will be imperilled at once. The proposed railway neutralisation will be better applied to China proper than in Manchuria; but will France and Germany, among other Powers, easily abandon their railways in Yünnan and Shantung?' \n\nSuch, generally speaking, are the views which the first announcement of the internationalisation scheme has elicited from the Japanese press. With each day's utterances disapproval has so far tended to grow rather than to diminish.\n\nBritish Embassy, Tokyo,\n\nJanuary 11, 1910,\n\nC258 4810\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA RAILWAYS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[1696]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Count Metternich.\n\nREG 18 FEB 10\n\n[February 2.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nWITH reference to the memorandum communicated by the German Embassy on Foreign Office, February 2, 1910. the 30th November last relative to the Hukuang Loan negotiations, I have the honour to inform your Excellency that I have now been informed by the French Embassy that the proposed division of the Szechuan Railway (Hankow-Chang) into four equal parts among the four groups is not unacceptable to the French Government, provided that the principle of equality between the French and British groups be extended to the Hankow-Canton Railway by the appointment of a French sub-engineer, and that, in the event of China granting the concession for the extension beyond Ichang, the French group receive, as compensation for the section they are giving up to the American group, the fourth or most westerly section of the Hankow-Szechuan line, which was allotted to the British group by the agreement of the 14th May last, made at Berlin, and subsequently ratified in London.\n\nI have informed the French Government, in reply, that, while noting with satisfaction their acceptance of the proposal in regard to the division of the Szechuan line, I see no reason for departing from the understanding arrived at last spring in regard to the two points above alluded to, since the inclusion of the American involves equal sacrifices on the Szechuan line for all three groups, and cannot therefore be held to affect the distribution of engineering sections on either line in the manner suggested by the French Government. I added that, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, the reopening of these questions was to be greatly deprecated as tending to the conclusion that there was to be no finality in any of these negotiations.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nE. GREY.\n\n[2631 6-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429622, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 359, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "358\n\n(41332/10)\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE\n\non this point and communicate the result to Sir John Anderson. Sir E. Grey is informing Count Metternich that this will be done.\n\nI am,\n\nsir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,\n\nWrangler", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434572, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 573, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# 571\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## OPIUM\n\n10673 IREC March 13 PR\n\n### SECTION 1\n\n#### No. 1\n\nNote communicated by Count Metternich, March 13.\n\nThe Imperial Government would like to be informed whether the British Government agree to the adjournment of the date of the Opium Conference to the 1st July proposed by the Dutch Government; furthermore, the Imperial Government would be thankful for information as to the intentions of the British Government in respect to regulating the trade in morphia and cocaine.\n\nGerman Embassy, March 13, 1911.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434573, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 574, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n10673 572\n\n**[B]**\n\n## **OPIUM.**\n\n## **CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n[9313]\n\n**No. 1.**\n\n[March 22.]\n\n### **SECTION 1.**\n\nSir,\n\n**Sir Edward Grey to Herr von Kühlmann.**\n\nForeign Office, March 22, 1911.\n\nWITH reference to Count Metternich's communication of the 13th instant, I have much pleasure in forwarding, for the information of the Imperial German Government, a copy of a note which I addressed on the 31st January last to the Netherlands Minister in reply to an enquiry as to whether His Majesty's Government still made their consent to participate in the proposed Opium Conference, to be held this summer at The Hague, conditional upon an assurance from the Governments of the Powers concerned that they were prepared to adopt severe measures with a view to prohibiting the trade in, and manufacture of, morphia and cocaine in their respective countries. I trust that this note will make the views and intentions of this Government clear in regard to the treatment which they consider should be accorded to the said drugs at the coming conference.\n\nI should perhaps add that His Majesty's Government are still of opinion that it would be useless to convene a conference at all unless the participating Powers are agreed in principle as to the necessity for placing effective restrictions on the manufacture, sale, and distribution of morphia and cocaine, so as to enable Eastern countries which place restrictions on the opium habit to check contraband importations of these drugs.\n\nHis Majesty's Government have not, so far, received any formal application to agree to the 1st July for the date of meeting of the conference, and though they would not raise objections to that date, it is doubtful whether adequate particulars respecting the morphia and cocaine trade in this country will be available by then.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n*To Baron Gericke, January 31, 1911.*\n\n[1930 y-1]\n\n2.\n\n**E. GREY.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435515, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 293, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote `No. 30763/11` and address The Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, immediate.\n\nSir:-\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE \nLondon, \nAugust 10 1910 \n290 \n\n30. 14 GeF \nformen ben July 18 \nWhile Can Read August 3 \nbr \n1260 \n\nWith reference to the letter from this Office of May 5th `No.16412` I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you, for any observations which Mr. Secretary Harcourt may have to make, copy of a memorandum communicated by the German Ambassador, and of a note from the United States Ambassador respecting the proposed Opium Conference.\n\nSir E. Grey proposes, subject to Mr. Harcourt's concurrence, to express to Count Metternich pleasure at learning that the German Government are collecting data in regard to the trade in morphia and cocaine, which His Majesty's Government are so anxious to see effectively dealt with by a Conference, but that His Majesty's Government still consider that it would not advance matters much further if the Conference were to meet without all the Powers concerned being in \n\nUnder Secretary of State, \nColonial Office. \nAugust 10 1911. \n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435565, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 343, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# [This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n## **CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## **OPIUM**\n\n### SECTION 3\n\n**No. 1.**\n\n**Note communicated by Count Metternich, July 29, 1911.**\n\nTHE United States Embassy in Berlin having enquired if the Imperial Government will be ready for the Opium Conference by the 1st October, the American chargé d'affaires has been informed that the Imperial Government is in favour of the conference meeting on the 1st October, and that the Imperial Government approve in principle of the propositions made by Great Britain. The Imperial Government expressly agree that the conference shall treat the questions relating to morphia and cocaine, and has undertaken to collect as far as possible statistical data. The sale of morphia and cocaine is, in Germany, very strictly regulated by law, and further legislation to make the regulations more stringent are contemplated. It is obvious that, pending the new regulations being drafted, the Imperial Government could not enter for the present into binding international agreements about this last point.\n\n**German Embassy, London, July 28, 1911.**\n\n[2106 ƒ→3] \n7520 \nRece Rro 22 AUG \n340 \n[July 29. \n[B] \n[29888]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435595, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 373, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## SECTION 1\n\n### No. 1. Foreign Office to India Office.\n\nSir,\n\nWITH reference to the letter from this Office of the 5th May, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you, for any observations which the Marquess of Crewe may have to make, copy of a memorandum communicated by the German Ambassador, and of a note from the United States Ambassador, respecting the proposed Opium Conference.\n\nSir E. Grey proposes, subject to Lord Crewe's concurrence, to express to Count Metternich pleasure at learning that the German Government are collecting data in regard to the trade in morphia and cocaine, which His Majesty's Government are so anxious to see effectively dealt with by a conference, but that His Majesty's Government still consider that it would not advance matters much further if the conference were to meet without all the Powers concerned being in full possession of the necessary statistics and information, and that they would be glad to know at what date this information is likely to be forthcoming before agreeing to a definite date for the meeting of a conference.\n\nA similar reply, as regards the views of His Majesty's Government, would be sent to Mr. Whitelaw Reid.\n\nSir E. Grey hopes, however, that it may be possible to say that the statistics with regard to the trade in morphia and cocaine in this country will be available by the 16th October, if those of the other Powers are ready by that date, and enquiry is accordingly being made on this point.\n\n* Also to Colonial Office, *mutatis mutandis*.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nF. A. CAMPBELL.\n\n+ Memorandum communicated by German Ambassador, July 28, 1911.\n\n+ Mr. Whitelaw Reid, August 3, 1911.\n\n[2155 --1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435596, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 374, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n371\n\nCO 27903\n\nReceived August 25, 1911\n\n## SECTION 2\n\n### No. 1\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office to Board of Trade.\n\nForeign Office, August 9, 1911.\n\nWITH reference to the letter from this Office of the 5th May, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you, for any observations which the Board of Trade may have to make, copy of a memorandum communicated by the German Ambassador, and of a note from the United States Ambassador, respecting the proposed Opium Conference.\n\nSir E. Grey proposes, subject to the Board's concurrence, to express to Count Metternich pleasure at learning that the German Government are collecting data in regard to the trade in morphia and cocaine, which His Majesty's Government are so anxious to see effectively dealt with by a conference, but that His Majesty's Government still consider that it would not advance matters much further if the conference were to meet without all the Powers concerned being in full possession of the necessary statistics and information, and that they would be glad to know at what date this information is likely to be forthcoming before agreeing to a definite date for the meeting of a conference.\n\nA similar reply, as regards the views of His Majesty's Government, would be sent to Mr. Whitelaw Reid.\n\nSir E. Grey hopes, however, that it may be possible to say that the statistics with regard to the trade in morphia and cocaine in this country will be available by the 16th October, if those of the other Powers are ready by that date, and I am accordingly to enquire whether the Board are yet in a position to state approximately at what date the preparation of their statistics will be completed.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nF. A. CAMPBELL.\n\n* Memorandum communicated by German Ambassador, July 28, 1911.\n† Mr. Whitelaw Reid. August 3, 1911.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435776, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 554, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n30841\n\nMet 2 SEP\n\n[B]\n\nOPIUM.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[September 6.]\n\nSECTION 5.\n\n[34424]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Count Metternich.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nWITH reference to the memorandum communicated by your Excellency on the 29th July last on the subject of the proposed opium conference, I have the honour to inform you that I received a note from the Netherlands Minister on the 16th ultimo stating that the Netherlands Government had not been able to comply with the desire of the United States Government that invitations to the conference should be issued for the 16th of October next. They thought it possible that the meeting of the conference might take place at some date to be subsequently fixed during the spring of 1912.\n\nI have since learnt that the United States Government are taking further steps with a view to the meeting of the conference before the end of this year, and I have the honour to transmit to your Excellency a copy of a note which I have consequently addressed to Baron Gericke indicating the attitude of His Majesty's Government in the matter.*\n\nI have, &c.\n\nE. GREY,\n\nTo Baron Gericke, September 5, 1911.\n\n[2182 ƒ~5]\n\n551", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 436082, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 292, "title": "CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "20012/11.\n\nFOREIGN OFFICS.\n\nDecember\n\n39411290\n\nRECEIVED\n\nREGD 9 DEC 11\n\n1911.\n\nYour Excellency:-\n\nWith reference to my note of August 28th last,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that I am now in possession\n\nof the views of the Secretary of State for the Colonies and\n\nthe Postmaster General upon the proposal of Your Excellency's\n\nGovernment that the German Post Office at Canton should be\n\naccorded the privilege of transmitting letters to Hong Kong;\n\nat the same rates to apply in the case of letters sent\n\nthrough the British, French and Chinese Post offices at that\n\nTreaty Port, viz: Two cents per half-ounce.\n\nI am informed that the existing postal concessions\n\nhave been granted for the following reasons.\n\n(a)\n\nto the Chinese Post Office because it is the only\n\npost office which conducts a service, and accepts letters\n\nfor delivery, outside the limits of the Treaty Ports; and\n\n(b)\n\nto the French Post Office (which is in the French\n\nConcession)\n\nCount Metternich,\n\n80.\n\n80.\n\nSettlement", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-385 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]