[ { "id": 247161, "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": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 462, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "459\n\n4.67.\n\nCommercial\n\n62\n\n5708\n\nCore wif\n\n21\n\nSir,\n\nbi thông đường\n\nRECEIV\n\nEmigration\n\n1350 Aprument offices Victoria,\n\nJUA 1859.\n\nHoughtony, 20€ April, 1889.\n\nI have the honor in continuation\n\nof similar Reports to inform you that permission was given\n\nto two passenger ships, the \"Cyclone\" (British) and \"Kate Hooper\" (American), to clear with Free Chinese emigrants for Sydney and Melbourne, Chinese Doctors being provided, as European Surgeons were not to be procured.\n\nThe Right Honorable,\n\nSir Edward B. Lytton, Bt., M.P.,\n\n \n\nAc\n\nHo.\n\nNo.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 248105, "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": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "page_number": 177, "title": "CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859", "content_text": "Ho 13.\n\nConsulate\n\nMy Lord.\n\nMM\n\n184\n\nSan Francisco\n\n1/59\n\nOn the 4th I had the honor to forward a printed copy of an \"Act passed by the last Legislature to prevent the further immigration of Chinese into this state on and after the 1st October last\". On the 28th December the British Ship Cyclone arrived with eighteen Chinese Passengers and the master was arrested under the Act, but the Supreme Court discharged him, declaring the first...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 286058, "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": "CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871", "content_text": "## Hot Office of Commissioner\n| No. of Voucher | Date | £ | Amount | d. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| G. Court No. Sin A. Kennedy | | | | |\n| MINUTE | | | | |\n| M Hale, M'Holland, M'Herbert, SiriñogersB, MELROSS | | | | |\n| | 1871 FEB | Adm 1150 | H. Rong 13 | Const |\n| | Feb. 1871 | | | |\n\nI have to request that you will inform the Admin of the Gold Court that the voucher for the Cyclone Agt's Thave been sentenced to pay li... to the credit of Naval Series from Gold Bal Fund in their hands.\n\n18-4 Ka4217.04", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 292034, "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": "CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12]", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12]", "content_text": "Christ Church is one of large size (to which a chancel of large proportions is appended) and a number of them are panelled and decorated with White Ducts or Salon by White Ducts. In this Colony, almost from the day that a building is finished, the White Ant and the Carpenters are never out; the latter making good the damages of the former. This unfortunate phenomenon is unknown in other parts of the world to the same extent. Thus, an increase of work on the hands of the Surveyor General is scarcely to be realised by anybody who has not visited the Colony.\n\n## \n6. The violence of the yearly periodic Cal rains is so destructive to roads, streets, and bridges that the thorough repair of these in a yearly recurring task is work entailing a great deal more time and attention than would be necessary in less severe climates. Very long and considerable is the job of repairing the damage caused by the yearly typhoons, which are also destructive to roads and buildings, carrying away large portions of the stone sea defences of the City. The considerable job of repairing the frontage of the sea wall, which is four miles long, is no inconsiderable task, as nearly every part of it, one time or another, has been carried away by a cyclone. The repairs and erection have always been entrusted to ordinary and incompetent masons who are left without proper and constant scientific guidance. I mention this instance as an illustration of what has happened generally - for...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294248, "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": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "content_text": "## Registrar General to Colonial Secretary.\n\nWith reference to your Memo. of the 28th ultimo, I beg to report, for His Excellency the Governor's information, that up to this date the number of Deaths, occasioned by the Tyhoon, which have been registered, is as follows:\n\n| | CHINESE | DROWNED |\n|----------|---------|---------|\n| Male Adults | | 419 |\n| Female | | 152 |\n| Male Children | | 93 |\n| Female | | 712 |\n\n| | KILLED BY FALLING HOUSES |\n|----------|---------|\n| Male Adults | 52 |\n| Female | 15 |\n| Male Children | 12 |\n| Female | 5 |\n\nTotal Deaths, 796\n\nThe above refer to Chinese among whom, of course, the greatest number of Deaths occur. I may take this opportunity of reporting to His Excellency the great aid given by the Board of Directors of the Tung-Wa Hospital in the late serious emergency. The Board hired boats and engaged men through whose instrumentality as many as 193 bodies of those enumerated above were buried.\n\nFurther, they hired the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy steamer, and one of the members of the Board searched the neighbouring headlands and inlets, where they buried several other bodies of the countrymen, as well as those of two Europeans.\n\nThe energy displayed and the good work done by the Board deserves, I think, some recognition from the Government.\n\nBesides the Deaths among Chinese, and our returns will never show the actual loss of life, which may be roughly estimated at thrice that recorded, there were among Europeans and other than Chinese:\n\n## Surveyor General to Colonial Secretary.\n\n### SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 9th October, 1874.\n\nSIR,-Pending the completion of more detailed accounts, I have the honour to submit, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, the present brief memorandum of the damage done to the city and outlying villages by the typhoon of the 23rd ultimo.\n\nDoubtless the Harbour Master's Report will have contained a full account of all meteorological phenomena connected with the gale, and it will not therefore be necessary to repeat them here. It is to be regretted that no record should have been obtained of the pressure of the wind, as the Meteorological Station connected with the Government Hospital was swept away when that building collapsed, and no vestige was left of the Anemometrical register. That the island, however, was not miles distant from the focus of the cyclone is proved not only by the intensity of the wind, but by a feature known to exist only within such a focus, namely, the abrupt intervals of calm during the height of the gale. These lulls were instantaneous, often lasting as long as four or five minutes, and alternating with the most violent gusts, equally sudden, the conjoint action of the two became, as it were, that of a battering ram. To these sudden shocks, continued for three hours, buildings finally succumbed, that would have withstood the same pressure of the wind, had the latter been constant and steady.\n\nAlthough the gale is said to have culminated while blowing from E.N.E, I find that it must have been almost as severe from the North and North-East, for quite as many buildings, fences, and walls in Victoria were found thrown over towards the South as in the direction of the West.\n\nIt was not, however, until after 1 A.M. that the wind had attained a sufficient force to cause the havoc which followed, and as this force had abated very considerably before 4 A.M., the entire work of destruction in Hongkong may be said to have been accomplished within the space of three hours. This does not, however, refer to life or property afloat, for in many places, junks and native craft had already been blown adrift and were foundering shortly after midnight.\n\nThe villages in Kowloon were for a time sheltered by the mountains at the back of that Peninsula and enjoyed comparative immunity until the wind following the cyclonic curve took them in flank and blew down the houses towards the West and North-West.\n\nThe following is a tabulated statement of the deaths which have occurred from the fall of buildings, of the number of houses totally destroyed, and of the number of houses so damaged as to necessitate their reconstruction.\n\n| LOCALITY | HOUSES TOTALLY DESTROYED | HOUSES PARTIALLY DESTROYED TO BE PULLED DOWN | DEATHS FROM FALL OF HOUSES |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Victoria | 114 | 214 | 56 |\n| Yow Ma Tee | 29 | 60 | ... |\n| Stanley | ... | ... | 3 |\n| Aberdeen | 32 | 156 | 10 |\n| Ap-li Chow | ... | ... | 48 |\n| Sau-hi Wan | ... | ... | 22 |\n| Sa Hán | 10 | 29 | 10 |\n| Little Hongkong | 22 | 23 | 29 |\n| Tai Kok Tsui | 23 | 97 | 22 |\n| Mong Kok | ... | G | 5 |\n| Shek O | 15 | 43 | 15 |\n| Hung Hom | ... | ... | 43 |\n| | 273 | 740 | 109 |\n\nThus shewing a total of 813 Deaths registered.\n\nThe Surveyor General will report as to the destruction of houses belonging to Chinese, as I have furnished him with the details which I have received.\n\nCECIL C. SMITH, \nRegistrar General.\n\nRegistrar General's Office, Hongkong, 7th October, 1874.\n\nThe Honorable J. GARDINER AUSTIN, \nColonial Secretary, \nHONGKONG.\n\nThe Government Inspectors also report that the villages of Hok-Yun, Matowai, Tokawan, Matowkok, and Matowchung have been left without a house standing, and that the ruins of the two latter have been deserted by the villagers.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294255, "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": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "page_number": 225, "title": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "content_text": "## No. 156.\n\nRegistrar General to Colonial Secretary.\n\nWith reference to your Memo. of the 28th ultimo, I beg to report, for His Excellency the Governor's information, that up to this date the number of Deaths, occasioned by the Tyhoon, which have been registered, is as follows:\n\n| | Male Adults | Female Adults | Male Children | Female Children | Total |\n|------------|-------------|---------------|---------------|----------------|-------|\n| DROWNED | 419 | 152 | 93 | 48 | 712 |\n| KILLED BY FALLING HOUSES | 52 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 82 |\n| **Total Deaths** | | | | | 794 |\n\nThe above refer to Chinese among whom, of course, the greatest number of Deaths occurred. I may take this opportunity of reporting to His Excellency the great aid given by the Board of Directors of the Tung-Wa Hospital in the late serious emergency. The Board hired boats and engaged men through whose instrumentality as many as 193 bodies of those enumerated above were buried.\n\nFurther, they hired the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, steamer, and one of the members of the Board searched the neighbouring headlands and inlets, where they buried several other bodies of their countrymen, as well as those of two Europeans.\n\nThe energy displayed and the good work done by the Board deserves, I think, some recognition from the Government.\n\nBesides the Deaths among Chinese, and our returns will never show the actual loss of life, which may be roughly estimated at thrice that recorded, there were among Europeans and other foreign Chinese:\n\n## No. 223.\n\nSurveyor General to Colonial Secretary.\n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 9th October, 1874.\n\nSIR,-Pending the completion of more detailed accounts, I have the honour to submit, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, the present brief memorandum of the damage done to the city and outlying villages by the typhoon of the 23rd ultimo.\n\nDoubtless the Harbour Master's Report will have contained a full account of all meteorological phenomena connected with the gale, and it will not therefore be necessary to repeat them here. It is to be regretted that no record should have been obtained of the pressure of the wind, as the Meteorological Station connected with the Government Hospital was swept away when that building collapsed, and no vestige was left of the Anemometrical register. That the island, however, was not many miles distant from the focus of the cyclone is proved not only by the intensity of the wind, but by a feature known to exist only within such a focus, namely, the abrupt intervals of calm during the height of the gale. These lulls were instantaneous, often lasting as long as four or five minutes, and alternating with the most violent gusts, equally sudden, the conjoint action of the two became, as it were, that of a battering ram. To these sudden shocks, continued for three hours, buildings finally succumbed, that would have withstood the same pressure of the wind, had the latter been constant and steady.\n\nAlthough the gale is said to have culminated while blowing from E.N.E, I find that it must have been almost as severe from the North and North-East, for quite as many buildings, fences, and walls in Victoria were found thrown over towards the South as in the direction of the West.\n\nIt was not, however, until after 1 A.M. that the wind had attained a sufficient force to cause the havoc which followed, and as this force had abated very considerably before 4 A.M., the entire work of destruction in Hongkong may be said to have been accomplished within the space of three hours. This does not, however, refer to life or property afloat, for in many places, junks and native craft had already been blown adrift and were foundering shortly after midnight.\n\nThe villages in Kowloon were for a time sheltered by the mountains at the back of that Peninsula and enjoyed comparative immunity until the wind following the cyclonic curve took them in flank and blew down the houses towards the West and North-West.\n\nThe following is a tabulated statement of the deaths which have occurred from the fall of buildings, of the number of houses totally destroyed, and of the number of houses so damaged as to necessitate their reconstruction.\n\n| LOCALITY | HOUSES TOTALLY DESTROYED | HOUSES PARTIALLY DESTROYED TO BE PULLED DOWN | DEATHS FROM FALL OF HOUSES (Male Adults) | DEATHS FROM FALL OF HOUSES (Total) |\n|-----------------|--------------------------|-------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|\n| Victoria | 114 | 214 | 14 | 17 |\n| Yow Ma Tee | 56 | 29 | 3 | |\n| Stanley | 60 | 32 | | |\n| Aberdeen | 156 | | 10 | |\n| Ap-li Chow | | 22 | | |\n| Sau-ki Wán | 23 | 10 | 2 | |\n| Sai Ván | 97 | 29 | 16 | |\n| Little Hongkong | 5 | 22 | | |\n| Tai Kok Tsui | 43 | 23 | 16 | |\n| Mong Kok | | 15 | | |\n| Shek O | 32 | | 14 | |\n| Hung Hom | 30 | 18 | | |\n| **TOTAL** | 273 | 740 | 109 | |\n\nThus shewing a total of 813 Deaths registered.\n\nThe Surveyor General will report as to the destruction of houses belonging to Chinese, as I have furnished him with the details which I have received.\n\nCECIL C. SMITH, \nRegistrar General.\n\nRegistrar General's Office, Hongkong, 7th October, 1874.\n\nThe Honorable J. GARDINER AUSTIN, \nColonial Secretary, \nHONGKONG.\n\nThe Government Inspectors also report that the villages of Hok-Yin, Matowai, Tokawan, Matowkok, and Matowchung have been left without a house standing, and that the ruins of the two latter have been deserted by the villagers.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294678, "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": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "page_number": 645, "title": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "content_text": "633 \n\nof the finding of the court where regret is expressed that any deeply laden ships should be allowed to carry unsheltered or deck passengers. I am to point out that the \"Glenlyon\" holds a Passenger Certificate from this Board for twelve passengers only, and that it would appear that the Certificate alluded to in Paragraph 3 was issued at Singapore, Hongkong, and that the responsibility consequently rests with the authorities at that Port.\n\n764 290 \n\nWhen was the centre of the typhoon on 36°N and 124°E as the facts actually arranged for a trade cyclone and not with the Board of Trade.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour Obedient Servant", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301235, "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": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "page_number": 363, "title": "CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12]", "content_text": "HARBOUR OF REFUGE.\n\n1326447\n\n361\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER,\n\nHONGKONG, 23rd October, 1877.\n\nSIR-In accordance with the Governor's instructions contained in your Minute of the 7th of August, we have now the honour to lay before His Excellency the following Report upon the intended Harbours of Refuge for the boat population of Victoria.\n\n2. We would premise our remarks upon the main question by a few words, perhaps not out of place, upon the condition of life, and the requirements of the class whom the Project seeks to assist.\n\n3. We find that the boat population of Victoria comprises about three thousand craft containing in all over twelve thousand souls of both sexes and of all ages.\n\n4. Following the hereditary custom of other parts of China, these people live entirely afloat, forming by themselves a completely distinct and isolated industrial section of the Community, mingling and intermarrying, as a rule, only with one another, living under social observances peculiarly their own, and earning only with much toil and exposure a livelihood that is not always unattended by danger.\n\n5. Their boats are of all builds and sizes, varying from the frail sampan ten feet long to the first class cargo lighter of fifty tons, and are tenanted sometimes by as many as three generations. In these boats people are born and die, knowing no other home during their whole lives and only leaving them to procure those necessaries of life which are not purchaseable from other boats, or occasionally perhaps to visit a friend, and eventually to be buried.\n\n6. Of the sampans, a large number are equipped with masts and sails and are, as a rule, employed in carrying passengers about the harbour, or in fishing, but the cargo lighters which devote themselves entirely to the loading and unloading of ships and junks are propelled with considerable labour exclusively by sculls and are more helpless than the small sampan in consequence of their clumsy build which renders them difficult to manage even in a moderately strong breeze.\n\n7. On the approach of bad weather, all the larger boats having sails cross over, in the wake of the junks, to the North side of the Harbour, and anchoring close inshore either at Yan-ma-ti under the lee of the Peninsula of Kowloon or in the inlets on the North side of Stone Cutters' Island, secure for themselves, betimes, fairly safe positions.\n\n8. The smaller and less venturesome sampans, however, unprovided with sails or having very small ones, and the slow and unwieldy cargo lighters unable to follow this example, are forced to seek protection where they can on the Victoria side of the Harbour, and it is for these that a Haven of Refuge is required.\n\n9. On the advent of a typhoon, a number of the smaller sampans make for the Bowrington Canal, which is too small to contain more than a fourth of them, while others, together with the cargo lighters, work their way up to Causeway Bay. It often happens, however, that from over confidence or other cause, shelter is sought too late, in which case, the wind having already become too strong to beat against, the only chance for sampans is to run before it and beach at Belcher's Bay. The case of cargo lighters under similar circumstances is however more serious; of too great a draught and too heavy to beach with any degree of safety in so exposed a situation, no alternative appears left them but to be driven out to sea and most likely to perish with all hands.\n\n10. As the cyclones that pass over Hongkong are generally ushered in by strong winds from the North-East quarter of the compass, the most desirable place for a Harbour of Refuge would have been in the vicinity of Belcher's Bay, to leeward of the entire boat population, thus enabling them to reach it up to the last moment by simply going before the wind, but unfortunately the configuration of the coast line and the great depth of the soundings close inshore preclude the possibility of a Breakwater of adequate length in that locality, except at inordinate cost.\n\n11. We have, therefore, necessarily confined our attention to the only two places on the Victoria side of the Harbour affording any lee capable of being extended or utilised in a Project of the kind under consideration. These are: (2) the water to the South and West of Kellett's Island, and (i.) Causeway Bay.\n\n12. Upon a detailed examination of the first of these sites, it was found possible by means of two Breakwaters extending from opposite sides of the Island (as shown in the accompanying Survey) to make a Haven of thirty-three acres, well screened against all northerly winds between the North-East and North-West and with good anchorage for lighters and the largest class of sampans, but unfortunately possessing no sloping shore upon which smaller sampans might haul up.\n\n13. As upon the announcement of a typhoon the first anxiety and endeavour of the people inhabiting the smaller craft and constituting the larger proportion of the floating population is to land and haul up their boats out of harm's way, no plan can meet their requirements that does not carry with it as a first essential, adequate beaching facilities, and therefore owing to this want in the Kellett's Island Project, we are unable to recommend it whatever other merits it may possess.\n\n14. Turning to the second site at Causeway Bay, which has also been subjected to a careful and detailed survey, we find a small natural harbour sheltered on three sides by the land, and capable of being closed in on the fourth by means of a Breakwater completing its protection from all points of the compass.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-179 - Governor Hennessy - 1877 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301884, "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": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "## \n17 \n\nharbour lyzing towards the North \n\nque \n\nCast; this was one of the most destructive typhoons in the terrible ty-phoons of 1874 which also in regard to duration and intensity has been unequalled in Southern China. There \n\nis \n\nno record of typhoons culminating from the West or North West, from this quarter there is happily freedom from danger, and the mariner here knows that a westerly wind \n\nand \n\na falling glass \n\nindicate a cyclone to the South, pulling away from us in that direction. \n\n## \nSouth westerly direction. \n\nFrom the foregoing it will be seen therefore that the North East is the direction of exposure to which the subject is liable, and that even the wall is not safe from here. The waves only such as might be expected to form in a land-locked harbour under the lee of mountains, and make over... that the entire western half of the leilig poutage is saved from their direct action by the interception of Hung Hom Point. \n\n## \n\nAs the standards of stability of wall cannot well be determined with due regard to economy of material, the Engineer knows what is the severest possible trial to which its strength may be put at Hong Kong, I consider that the Great Typhoon of 1874 may be taken as a test and I cannot therefore do better than illustrate for the information... \n\n覆...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302996, "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": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 518, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "# \n\nI considered.\n\n**Hon. W. Keswick**: I have been much interested in the statement your Excellency has made on the subject, but at the same time, I cannot but express my regret that in fixing the line of the repairs the Praya has not been extended. Doubtless a very great advantage would have been gained if that line of Praya which the memorialists mentioned had been extended. I don't say the number of feet, but certainly greatly extended from the present line. The amount of traffic on the Praya renders it sometimes difficult to pass. Cargo is landed there as if it were a public quay and along all parts of the Praya inconvenience results. I cannot but feel the weight of the statements your Excellency has made, but at the same time I cannot but regret that in a work costing so much money and calculated to be of a permanent character, the extension should not have been made.\n\n**Hon. H. Lowcock**: May I ask if the Surveyor-General will state if the works that have been commenced and are almost approaching completion are being carried out at all on the scale recommended by the Commission that sat four years ago. There is an impression that that scheme has been considerably modified and it would be interesting if the Surveyor-General could give us information. The extension of the Praya in some parts suggested by the Commission amounted to ten feet and different styles of work were recommended for different portions. The scheme proposed was sanctioned in 1871 and in 1870 a vote was passed for it, which was afterwards altered, as your Excellency informed us, and I think it would be well if some information could be given as to the work at present being carried out.\n\n**The Acting Colonial Treasurer**: I regret, sir, that my hon. friend on the left (Mr. Lowcock) did not give notice of his question as I would then have been prepared with a more satisfactory statement. As it is I can only go into generalities and inform the Council that the history of the Praya has undergone great vicissitudes. There has been a constant interchange of dispatches, drawings, and designs with the Colonial Office, and unfortunately Her Majesty's consulting engineer has frequently been absent from England during the last few years, in Natal, Ceylon, and Australia, which caused great delay and ultimately we have had to put up with the advice of the second engineer, professional advice not a whit the less valuable, but which might have been given in 1875 instead of 1878. The plans have undergone such a material change as to be no longer recognisable. To mention only one item, they necessitate the employment of an extremely expensive material, Portland cement, where I, from my local knowledge, had recommended China lime-concrete, the cost of which is cheaper by three to one than Portland cement. And the foundations are no longer to be based on stones thrown in, but on piling and Portland cement. When it is considered that every barrel of Portland cement imported via the Suez Canal costs this Government $5 and that a great many thousands of them are required, I was not able, in the face of the enormous outlay that would have been involved, to recommend the alteration proposed in the memorial. I feel certain that if Your Excellency had referred the matter home it would have been rejected, and a counter proposition would have come out involving, roughly speaking, $240,000 of expenditure.\n\nUnder these circumstances I was unable to recommend your Excellency to carry out the proposal of the memorialists. Moreover, there is another very grave objection, which I have no doubt the gentleman who signed the memorial were not aware of. It is not in contemplation to reconstruct the Praya wall from end to end de novo. It is only proposed to take such portions as are too weak to stand and reconstruct them, retaining those constructed later and bank and strengthen them. Therefore, those portions which would have to be reconstructed could not very well be placed out twenty feet more, as that would at once destroy the continuity of the line of sea wall, and under the circumstances I at once thought that was an insuperable objection.\n\n**Hon. W. Keswick**: The memorialists never contemplated there should be indentations in the wall. Twenty feet was merely suggested; it would sometimes be more, sometimes less.\n\n**The Acting Colonial Treasurer**: No; precisely so, but there were portions which, if only repaired must necessarily remain where they are, and therefore if other portions to the right and left were to be removed twenty feet outward there must necessarily be indentations. In short the memorial involved the entire reconstruction of the Praya wall from end to end.\n\nThere is another matter which is of some importance, secondary importance perhaps, but which must be considered. The Government had waited since 1873 for some decision with regard to this work. I really don't know what fresh delays would have arisen from the reference home. It might perhaps be disrespectful to say a word as to the Home Government, but it is not always possible for the Colonial Office and other officials to do what is required at a moment's notice, and it seemed to me that while this question was being referred to Sir John Coode we might possibly become involved in a very serious catastrophe. It is true we have been exceedingly fortunate; most unparalleled luck has attended us in having no cyclone since 1874, but I think if a typhoon overtook us with the structure in its present condition the chances are some of the marine properties would be placed in great jeopardy, and it seemed to me very prudent not to paralyse the works, because there was no saying what the delay would be. Agreeing with the hon. member (Mr. Keswick) it is a great misfortune we should not have a wider road. I think it is the best thing to push on with the works and complete them before the next typhoon season. There are also other objections. They may not be important, but they had to be considered. One is that the Government had entered into contracts and these would have had to be cancelled, giving rise, possibly, to legal claims. I don't advance that as a very important consideration, but it had to be considered. These, with other considerations, led me to the conclusion that it is wisest to continue the works as now proposed.\n\n**Hon. P. Ryrie**: A number of people who signed that requisition did not confine their request to having the Praya widened twenty feet. They would have been very glad to have had it widened ten feet, according to the suggestion of the Commission. That was the idea of several, and they thought that might be done by following the plan of the Commission, leaving the present wall standing and putting the new wall twenty feet outside of it.\n\n**His Excellency**: It is under this vote that occurs the item of tree planting, on which I will say a word or two. You are aware that last year I made some observations as to the necessity of having a larger amount of tree planting on this island. Without recapitulating what then passed I will say we have now in the nurseries which my hon. friend the Surveyor-General took such pains to establish over six millions of seedlings, some of which we will be able to plant out immediately. My hon. friend has been able to utilise the money you were good enough to vote for tree planting in employing coolies to dig the holes necessary for this planting on certain portions of the hills and notably near the new road which is now called Plantation-road, but I may here tell you the estimate for planting the number of trees I was anxious to plant next year, one million or two millions, would have reached the amount of $36,000. It might be argued that to plant out in this colony a million and a half of trees it might be well to lay out $36,000, but I have resolved to proceed, as far as the expenditure voted by this Council goes, on a more moderate scale, and I am now in communication with certain Chinese who have expressed their willingness, if they are handed over certain hill tops, quite barren and otherwise useless portions of the colony, to undertake to plant out these trees at their own expense on certain conditions by which they should have, when the trees grow up, the benefit of the firewood which, according to Chinese custom, is derived from young plantations. My hon. friends are aware that wherever there is an old established Chinese village you will find plantations of fir trees, and on Lamma Island you will see plantations of fir trees round the hamlets which have sprung up there, all of which have been planted within the last few years by the inhabitants themselves. They collect the seed, spread it out on chunam floors to dry, and afterwards plant it. Some of the trees are now six or seven, or ten years old. The Chinese custom is that the lower branches can be taken for firewood. A certain portion of the tree must remain and they have very strict rules in their village communities on this subject and the system seems to be very fairly carried out on some parts of the coast opposite to us. The proposal to the Government is that we should allow something of the kind to be done on parts of the island which it was not the intention of the Government to utilise itself for tree planting. The subject has not been decided, but my inclination is to embrace the offer of the Chinese.\n\nPage 507", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309907, "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": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "(15)\n\n32\n\nDirector's Salary, $3,600\n\nFirst Assistant's Salary, 1,440\n\nSecond Assistant's Salary, 900\n\nSalary of First Clerk, 1,200\n\nDo. of Second Clerk, 900\n\nDo. of Time-Ball Assistant, 180\n\nDo. of Caretaker, 180\n\nDo. of Gardener, 96\n\nDo. of two Coolies and two Watchmen, 336\n\nStationery, Printing and Office Expenses, say, 300\n\nFuel, 100\n\nChemicals and Light, 500\n\nIncidental Charges for Instruments, &c., 268\n\nTotal Estimated Annual Cost, $10,000\n\nTo this will have to be added, after the first year or two, an average annual charge of about $... for repairs and maintenance of buildings, &c. Further, if it be resolved to undertake so thorough and marked an investigation of the phenomena of the monsoons of the China sea as seems to be suggested in Mr. BLANFORD's letter—a process which would involve the constant examination and abstracting of a large number of ship's logs—additional clerical help will certainly be needed. On account of the expense, I have most willingly refrained from making present provision for a Photoheliograph, but its addition at a future time is much to be desired.\n\nMost persons who know anything of these matters are aware that the epochs in which great solar energy is made apparent to us by an increase in the size and number of the solar spots are also epochs of unusual magnetic excitement on the surface of the earth, that violent disturbances of the sun's surface are generally accompanied by magnetic storms, and that auroral displays are similarly associated with magnetic activity. There are, perhaps, not so many who possess a knowledge of the periodic effects which are traceable to the heavenly bodies, and which take the form of variations recurring with strict regularity. That such influences do exist was, however, discovered many years ago, and it is now well established that, in addition to certain variations of long period, there are regular diurnal inequalities of the several elements of the magnetic force, varying with the hour of the day, that is to say, with the sun's position. They attain their maxima and minima at the same hours day after day, though some of the times vary slightly at the different seasons and in different latitudes, owing to the sun's changing position with respect to the meridian. Besides these solar-diurnal inequalities, small lunar inequalities have also been detected. These are semi-diurnal, going through their changes twice in each lunar day, and apparently depending on the moon's position.\n\nAs aids to investigation of solar physics and terrestrial physics, observations with this instrument are of very great value. Apparatus for observing Earth-currents would also be a desirable future addition to the equipment. In his despatch to Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, already quoted from, His Excellency the Governor drew attention to the advisability of Seismic observations. The necessary apparatus for this purpose would not be very expensive, and could be added at any time, as it requires but little space for its accommodation. Such observations would possess considerable value, for comparison with those taken in Manila and Japan. In Japan, the science of Seismology has excited great interest, and is being closely pursued both by Europeans and Japanese. Apparatus of the best description has been procured by the Imperial Government, and placed under the charge and observation of the officers of the Meteorological Bureau (Soku-rio-kwa); and I understand that not the least interesting fact which strikes the visitor to the establishment is that one of the most delicate and perfect of all the instruments—that by which the minutest tremblings are detected—is the invention of a Japanese gentleman. A Seismological Society of Japan has also been recently started, under the auspices of Professor MILNE, F.G.S., of the Engineering College in Tôkiô.\n\nAgain, it has long been known that solar changes affect the earth's meteorological as well as its magnetic conditions. Observers at many stations scattered over the globe have ascertained that years of maximum sun-spots are also years of maximum rainfall, at least upon the land; and that years of minimum sun-spots are years of minimum rain—years in which some countries suffer most heavily from drought and famine. The same axiom holds good with respect to wind, which, like the rain, is most violent in years of powerful solar action. West Indian hurricanes, the 'cyclones of the Indian Ocean, and the typhoons of this region are most numerous in years of sun-spot frequency, that is to say, years of greatest solar power. The statistics of marine disasters point to the same conclusion. It has also been shown that terrestrial temperature and barometric pressure are influenced more or less directly by changes of solar energy. Of the causes of sun-spot outbreaks very little is yet known, but the Kew observers have traced an interesting apparent connexion between the periodicity of solar spots and the configurations of the planets Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury.\n\nMy ideas as to the proper scheme for an Observatory of the class indicated in the official papers having been thus stated, I have only to repeat my conviction that such an institution, well begun and conducted, will fulfil a want that is greatly felt. To the sciences of Meteorology and Magnetism it will render valuable contributions, which cannot but redound to the credit of the Colony. Concerning Magnetic investigations, the Astronomer Royal not two months ago stated his belief that \"no branch of physics bears the same prospective importance\"; while the other departments—those for Meteorological and Astronomical observations—will possess a direct utilitarian in addition to their scientific value, in that they will be the means of affording protection to marine interests and to the lives of seamen navigating these coasts. No one, perhaps, has welcomed the project more cordially than the Rev. F. FAURA, S.J., the earnest Director of the Meteorological Observatory at Manila, who has favoured me with his views on the subject, and with a copy of the design for a Magnetic building which he hopes to add shortly to his own establishment. He writes:\n\n\"It is with the highest satisfaction that I observe the interest in the advancement of science which is taken by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong. Hongkong is, in my opinion, a place admirably suited for the observation and study of Meteorology and Magnetism, and I have no doubt that in a short time excellent results will flow from Sir JOHN HENNESSY'S Observatory project, and that the institution will be blessed by all mariners, who will recognise in it a safeguard to their lives and interests. The Meteorological observations in particular, when combined with those taken in this Archipelago, cannot fail to render the most beneficial service.\"\n\nThe present occasion is not the first on which the importance of extended scientific observation in these regions has been brought to public notice. Some years ago, Mr. ROBERT HART, C.M.G., the Inspector-General of Chinese Maritime Customs, to whom commerce is indebted for the admirable system of light-houses which cover the coast of China, and for other sagacious measures, wrote an able memorandum advocating the establishment of a series of meteorological stations at various points on the seaboard, and anticipating to some extent the arguments put forward last year by Mr. BLANFORD. It is much to be hoped that Mr. HART will take the present opportunity of renewing his advocacy, and will bring his best efforts to the accomplishment of that project. Such a series of stations, working in cooperation with the larger establishments in Japan, Shanghai, Manila, and Hongkong, would help vastly towards the achievement of those results which the meteorologists of the world so much desire.\n\nAnother relation which has been clearly established is that between electrical earth-currents and terrestrial magnetism. These have been shown, by long series of observations, to be strictly contemporaneous. Active magnetic energy is invariably accompanied by abnormal earth-currents, or electric storms, and calm magnetic periods are always calm earth-current periods. On the other hand, the electrical state of the air near the earth's surface, though exhibiting definite daily fluctuations, with double maxima and minima, seems to be unaffected by magnetic circumstances. Earth-currents are likewise known to have a well-marked diurnal inequality, with fixed hours of maximum and minimum.\n\nThe last recommendation I venture to make is that in due course an Actinometer of the kind be provided for the Observatory. It is not a costly instrument; and at this time, when much interest centres in sun-spots, all serial observations of solar heat possess great scientific value.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310976, "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": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "page_number": 558, "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "content_text": "545\n\n(14)\n\nMaintenance.\n\n$3,600 1,440\n\n900 1,200\n\n900\n\n180\n\n180\n\nDirector's Salary,\n\nFirst Assistant's Salary, Second Assistant's Salary,\n\nSalary of First Clerk,\n\nDo. of Second Clerk,\n\nDo. of Time-Ball Assistant,\n\nDo. of Caretaker,\n\nDo. of Gardener,\n\nDo. of two Coolies and two Watchmen,\n\nStationery, Printing and Office Expenses, say,\n\nFuel,\n\nChemicals and Light,\n\nIncidental Charges for Instruments, &c.\n\nTotal Estimated Annual Cost,.......... $10,000\n\nTo this will have to be added, after the first year or two, an average annual charge of about $500, for repairs and maintenance of buildings, &c. Further, if it be resolved to undertake so thorough an investigation of the phenomena of the monsoons of the China sea as seems to be suggested in Mr. BLANFORD'S letter—a process which would involve the constant examination and abstracting of a large number of ships' logs—additional clerical help will certainly be needed. On account of the expense, I have most unwillingly refrained from making present provision for a Photoheliograph, but its addition at a future time is much to be desired. As aids to investigation of solar physics and their connexion with terrestrial physics, observations with this instrument are of very great value. Apparatus and wires for observing Earth-currents would also be a desirable future addition to the equipment. In his despatch to Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, already quoted from, His Excellency the Governor drew attention to the advisability of Seismic observations. The necessary apparatus for this purpose would not be very expensive, and could be added at any time, as it requires but little space for its accommodation. Such observations would possess considerable value, for comparison with those taken in Manila and Japan. In Japan the science of Seismology has excited great interest, and is being closely pursued, both by Europeans and Japanese. Apparatus of the best description has been procured by the Imperial Government, and placed under the charge and observation of the officers of the Meteorological Bureau (Soku-rio-kwa); and I understand that not the least interesting fact which strikes the visitor to this establishment is that one of the most delicate and perfect of all the instruments—that by which the minutest tremblings are detected—is the invention of a Japanese gentleman. A Seismological Society of Japan has also been recently started, under the auspices of Professor MILNE, F.G.S., of the Engineering College in Tokio.\n\nThe last recommendation I venture to make is that in due course an Actinometer of the best kind be provided for the Observatory. It is not a costly instrument; and at this time, when so much interest centres in sun-spots, all serial observations of solar heat possess great scientific value.\n\nMy ideas as to the proper scheme for an Observatory of the class indicated in the official papers having been thus stated, I have only to repeat my conviction that such an institution, well begun and conducted, will fulfil a want that is greatly felt. To the sciences of Meteorology and Magnetism it will render valuable contributions, which cannot but redound to the credit of the Colony. Concerning Magnetic investigations, the Astronomer Royal not two months ago stated his belief that \"no branch of physics bears the same prospective importance\"; while the other departments—those for Meteorological and Astronomical observations—will possess a direct utilitarian in addition to their scientific value, in that they will be the means of affording protection to marine interests and to the lives of seamen navigating these coasts. No one, perhaps, has welcomed the project more cordially than the Rev. F. FAURA, S.J., the earnest Director of the Meteorological Observatory at Manila, who has favoured me with his views on the subject, and with a copy of the design for a Magnetic building which he hopes to add shortly to his own establishment. He writes:—\n\n\"It is with the highest satisfaction that I observe the interest in the advancement of science which is taken by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, Hongkong is, in my opinion, a place admirably suited for the observation and study of Meteorology and Magnetism, and I have no doubt that in a short time excellent results will flow from Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY's Observatory project, and that the institution will be blessed by all mariners, who will recognise in it a safeguard to their lives and interests. The Meteorological observations in particular, when combined with those taken in this Archipelago, cannot fail to render the most beneficial service.\"\n\n(15)\n\nThe present occasion is not the first on which the importance of extended scientific observation in these regions has been brought to public notice. Some years ago, Mr. ROBERT HART, C.M.G., the Inspector-General of Chinese Maritime Customs, to whom commerce is indebted for the admirable system of light-houses which cover the coast of China, and for other sagacious measures, wrote an able memorandum advocating the establishment of a series of meteorological stations at various points on the seaboard, and anticipating to some extent the arguments put forward last year by Mr. BLANFORD. It is much to be hoped that Mr. HART will take the present opportunity of renewing his advocacy, and will bring his best efforts to the accomplishment of that project. Such a series of stations, working in cooperation with the larger establishments in Japan, Shanghai, Manila and Hongkong, would help vastly towards the achievement of those results which the meteorologists of the world so much desire.\n\nIt may be appropriate, finally, to glance for a moment at the connexion, more or less strongly marked, that exists between the various branches of physical research which have been discussed or suggested in this report, and which lie within the scope of all well conducted and well supported observatories.\n\nMost persons who know anything of these matters are aware that the epochs in which great solar energy is made apparent to us by an increase in the size and number of the solar spots are also epochs of unusual magnetic excitement on the surface of the earth, that violent disturbances of the sun's surface are generally accompanied by magnetic storms, and that auroral displays are similarly associated with magnetic activity. There are, perhaps, not so many who possess a knowledge of the periodic effects upon the earth's magnetic force which are traceable to the heavenly bodies, and which take the form of fluctuations recurring with strict regularity. That such influences do exist was, however, discovered many years ago, and it is now well established that, in addition to certain variations of long period, there are regular diurnal inequalities of the several elements of the magnetic force, varying with the hour of the day, that is to say, with the sun's position. They attain their maxima and minima at the same hours day after day, though some of the times vary slightly at the different seasons and in different years.\n\nBesides these solar-diurnal inequalities, small lunar inequalities have also been detected. These are semidiurnal, going through their changes twice in each lunar day, and apparently depending on the moon's position with respect to the meridian.\n\nAgain, it has long been known that solar changes affect the earth's meteorological as well as its magnetic conditions. Observers at many stations scattered over the globe have ascertained that years of maximum sun-spots are also years of maximum rainfall, at least upon the land; and that years of minimum sun-spots are years of minimum rain—years in which some countries suffer most heavily from drought and famine. The same axiom holds good with respect to wind, which, like the rain, is most violent in years of powerful solar action. West Indian hurricanes, the cyclones of the Indian Ocean, and the typhoons of this region are most numerous in years of sun-spot frequency, that is to say, in years of greatest solar power. The statistics of marine disasters point to the same conclusion. It has also been shown that terrestrial temperature and barometric pressure are influenced more or less directly by changes of solar energy. Of the causes of sun-spot outbreaks very little is yet known, but the Kew observers have traced an interesting apparent connexion between the periodicity of solar spots and the configurations of the planets Jupiter, Venus and Mercury.\n\nAnother relation which has been clearly established is that between electrical earth-currents and terrestrial magnetism. These have been shown, by long series of observations, to be strictly contemporaneous. Active magnetic energy is invariably accompanied by abnormal earth-currents, or electric storms, and calm magnetic periods are always calm earth-current periods. On the other hand, the electrical state of the air near the earth's surface, though exhibiting definite daily fluctuations, with double maxima and minima, seems to be unaffected by magnetic circumstances. Earth-currents are likewise known to have a well-marked diurnal inequality, with fixed hours of maximum and minimum.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320098, "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": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "observing that much a system of frequent warnings has to be taken up by all the different Governments concerned, & that for carrying this object the assistance of the Deputy officer would probably be necessary.\n\n[Only recently considerable loss has been sustained at Hong Kong owing to the non-receipt of a warning of a typhoon which was sent from Macao/Manila?, and it is undeniable that very great encouragement should be given by all quarters of the world like the West Indies for the China coast, which are subject to cyclones/typhoons, so that storm warnings more reliable than elsewhere may be given in time].\n\nowing to the greater severity of such storms, valuable arrangements will be always made for signalling and new stations on hand.\n\nI have carried it out and registered it no. 34 Kory.\n\nwe should tell Kott (to whom I gave his device a few days introduction) that Mr Price has been told to communicate with Luis.\n\n25/3\n\nundertaken as a matter of course where the investigation is started?\n\nI have marked in pencil the papers for that department concerning unconvicted prisoners. Surely we ought to have a day by day jury.\n\na.a.2\n\nI doubt the Chinese have no extradition treaty, with this exception that people of value and a proviso that torture (as byal will not torture) be applied.\n\n29/3\n\nProceed as proposed.\n\nK Mar: ?", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320551, "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": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 515, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "## \nIn the Colony the Superintendent will no doubt be able to make many practical suggestions and on this ground, I cannot consider it in the light of a misfortune, that we should start on a reduced plan and increase the scope of the work of the observatory, step by step, as personal experience may hereafter dictate to the scientific officer in charge. Another omission in the list of instruments furnished by the Kew Committee is the Electrograph which would cost about £85 verified and erected in situ. In considering the reductions to be made, this instrument was only deferred, as being of less importance to the completeness of the meteorological branch than the others, and also because perhaps it is not too much to say (I speak subject to correction) that it has scarcely yet emerged from the experimental stage sufficiently to be indispensable and practical as an accessory to an observatory. The Electrograph can however be added now or at any future time without further expense than the cost of its purchase and erection. It will not entail any extra building expense, as I have left ample room for it in the same chamber with the Barograph and Thermograph.\n\nIn recapitulation I may again mention that the disposition of the instruments will be as follows: the Barograph, Thermograph and eventually, the Electrograph will be placed in the Meteorological Chamber which will be kept free from draughts, more specially to protect the Barograph; the Anemograph will go on the turret; the Sunshine recorder will be fixed on a stone block on the roof; and the rain gauge will stand in a corner of the lawn 100 feet distant from any building, at its maximum.\n\nOn the subject of the Anemograph I cannot help mentioning here my fear that the instrument in use in European observatories which I have examined, will scarcely stand the test of a Hong Kong typhoon. Experience will be sure to prove that a much stronger instrument must be designed if it is to outlive a cyclone and accurately record the wind pressure.\n\nWith regard to the horological instruments I should point out that the Sidereal Clock must be of the very best possible construction, for it will be under constant test by the remarkable inclemencies of temperature of the Hong Kong climate. The mean time clock need not necessarily be of the same high standard of excellence for it will be kept corrected from day to day by the Sidereal Clock and star observations.\n\nThe time ball included in the estimate at £400, is a ball of six feet in diameter discharged by an electric trigger connected with the clock. The apparatus will be of the same pattern as the time balls supplied by Farley to the Governments of Natal and of India for Port Elizabeth and Calcutta respectively. I do not suggest a ball of larger diameter than six feet because it would be unwieldy and the increased bulk would expose it to destruction by typhoons; besides, with an increased bulk, wind-pressure would make the drop sluggish.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 349442, "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": "CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7]", "page_number": 394, "title": "CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7]", "content_text": "# Enclosure\n393\n0.\n15021\nMECH\nPse 27 0 32\nThe Daily Press.\nHONGKONG, June 15th, 1892.\n\n## HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nA specially convened meeting of the Legislative Council was held yesterday. Present:--\nHis Excellency the Governor, Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, K.C.M.G.\nHon. G. T. M. O'BRIEN, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary.\nHon. W. M. GOODMAN, Attorney-General.\nHon. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Registrar-General.\nHon. F. H. May, Acting Colonial Treasurer.\nHon. F. A. COOPER, Director of Public Works.\nHon. R. M. RUMSEY, R.N., Harbour Master.\nHon. C. P. CHATER.\nHon. Ho KAI.\nHon. T. H. WHITEHEAD.\nHon. B. R. BELILIOS.\nMr. A. M. THOMSON, Acting Clerk of Councils.\n\n## MINUTES\n\nThe minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.\n\n## THE CYCLONE AT MAURITIUS: AN ASSISTANCE VOTE\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY said--Gentlemen, I am very sorry to have been obliged to summon you to meet again, so soon after the adjournment, so unexpectedly and in such a hurried manner, but I think that on the principle of Bis dat, qui cito dat, you will agree that I was justified when you have heard that my object in calling you together here this morning is to ask if you do not think it advisable that we should show our tangible sympathy with Mauritius in the dire misfortune which has befallen that colony. The hon. member who represents the Chamber of Commerce was good enough to send me some newspapers two or three days ago, and it would appear from them that the destruction to property and the loss of life has been too terrible to contemplate. I think that this colony might very well, although its finances are not in a very flourishing condition, mark its sense of this terrible calamity by voting a sum to the relief of those who are in distress there. The senior unofficial member kindly called a meeting of the unofficial members of the Legislative Council and I believe they are fully in accord with me that it would be very proper and appropriate for Hongkong--which is one of the Eastern colonies--to show its sympathy by voting some sum of money for the assistance of those who are homeless and starving. I shall be obliged if the hon. Colonial Secretary will move a resolution that the colony should vote 10,000 rupees for this purpose and I propose that the Telegraph Company should be asked to give us the use of their lines for sending a message to the following effect:--\"Hongkong deeply sympathises with Mauritius in its misfortune. Draw upon this Government for 10,000 rupees.\"\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY--I have very great pleasure in moving a resolution that a vote be granted for such an amount as would produce a sum of 10,000 rupees in Mauritius for the relief of those who are in distress there, and that the Telegraph Company should be asked to place its wires at the disposal of the Government free of charge for the telegraphic advice of that remittance.\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER--I have much pleasure in seconding the proposition of the hon. the Colonial Secretary that this Council vote a sum of 10,000 rupees towards a relief fund for the island of Mauritius, on which so terrible a disaster has befallen. I have no doubt that the whole of the British Empire has been stirred by this awful calamity, and we, here, share in the sympathy that is felt by all. I feel certain that there is no one in Hongkong, whether he be a British subject or not, who does not heartily agree to this measure, the object of which is to relieve a sister colony in dire distress and thereby further cement the ties which bind the Empire together. (Applause).\n\nHon. T. H. WHITEHEAD--I rise, Sir, to heartily concur in and support every word which has been said by your Excellency and the senior unofficial member. I think that we are fully justified in giving tangible evidence of our sympathy with a sister colony in the great loss of life and fearful destruction of property which has been caused.\n\nHon. Ho KAI--I express my hearty concurrence with the proposal that is before the Legislative Council. Not only every member of this Council but I am sure every British subject and every Chinese citizen in this colony must feel most sympathisingly with the inhabitants of Mauritius on account of the recent disaster, and I am also sure that every one here who can afford it would put his hand in his pocket to subscribe to any fund which is raised for this object, be he British or Chinese. Unfortunately this colony is passing through a financial depression and what it can do is far below, I am certain, what it would wish to do, but at all events I am sure this vote will be approved of by all the inhabitants of this colony without distinction of race or class. (Applause).\n\nThe question was then put and the vote was agreed to nem. con.\n\nThe Council then rose.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 349717, "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": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "content_text": "## \nObservatory work has been criticized for its lack of scientific observations, as well as for certain areas which, owing to the inadequacy of his staff, Dr. Doberck has hitherto not been able to give sufficient attention.\n\nThe Observatory seems to have been stored from the beginning, and the unsatisfactory state of affairs is at hand on a weak basis.\n\nIt seems to me that the people in the colony have insisted for some time on the practical side of the Observatory work, requiring scientific research for practical results. A discussion of the typhoons of the China Sea similar to that of the cyclones of the South Indian Ocean made by Meldrum at the Mauritius Observatory and presented to a Committee in London would be of great value to meteorological science and would probably also prove of great importance to the shipping interests centred in Hong Kong. Doberck has made a good beginning in this direction and I understand that his pamphlet on the law of storms in the Eastern Seas (which was thought... \n\nThis led to the Enquiry by a committee which resulted in an increased staff only last year. The staff is now just large enough to do the work properly and it seems absurd to propose a reduction immediately after making an increase.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366010, "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": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 345, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "## WEATHER-FORECASTS AND STORM-WARNINGS ISSUED FROM THE HONGKONG OBSERVATORY.\n\nA knowledge of typhoons and their paths is often required when you have to decide whether to remain at your moorings or to slip your cable and run; for instance, a vessel between Hongkong and Swatow in an anchorage sheltered against N and E winds will be safe while a typhoon is moving from E to W across the China Sea, but should the centre move northwards, the vessel might be thrown on a lee shore when the wind backs through W to S.\n\nA steamer at anchor, when a typhoon is approaching, should get up steam, and a sailer should, if possible, take down the top masts as soon as it blows a fresh breeze in the squalls. With reference to a sailing vessel, the time when to begin striking the top masts must, of course, depend upon the extent to which she is undermanned. Striking the masts increases the rolling. A sheltered anchorage must be selected, and when the centre passes very near, the berth may have to be changed to avoid being thrown on a lee shore.\n\n### METEOROLOGICAL SIGNALS.\n\nMeteorological Signals are hoisted on the Mast beside the Time-Ball at Kowloon Point for the information of Masters of Vessels leaving the Port. They do not imply that bad weather is expected in the Colony itself.\n\n| Signal | Meaning |\n| --- | --- |\n| **A DRUM** | Indicates a Typhoon to the East of the Colony. |\n| **A BALL** | Indicates a Typhoon to the West of the Colony. |\n| **A CONE, Point Upwards** | Indicates a Typhoon to the North of the Colony. |\n| **A CONE, Point Downwards** | Indicates a Typhoon to the South of the Colony. |\n\nRED SIGNALS indicate that the Centre is believed to be more than 300 miles away from the Colony. BLACK SIGNALS indicate that the Centre is believed to be less than 300 miles away from the Colony.\n\n### NIGHT SIGNALS.\n\n* **TWO LANTERNS Hoisted Vertically** indicate bad weather in the Colony and that the wind is expected to veer.\n* **TWO LANTERNS Hoisted Horizontally** indicate bad weather in the Colony and that the wind is expected to back.\n\nThe Signals are repeated on the Flagstaff of the Godown Company at Kowloon, and also, by day only, at the Harbour Office and on H. M.'s Receiving Ship.\n\n## LOCAL STORM-WARNINGS.\n\nThe Colony itself is warned of approaching Typhoons by means of the **TYPHOON-GUN** placed at the foot of the Mast, which is fired whenever a strong gale of wind is expected to blow here.\n\n### NOTICE BOARDS.\n\nNotice Boards placed at the Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company's Offices, Observations made at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. are exhibited shortly after 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Peddar's Wharf, at the Harbour Office, and at the Office of the Kowloon Godown Company. Weather-forecasts and Storm-warnings are exhibited daily about 11 a.m., and also at other hours, and at night, whenever necessary while Typhoons are raging in the Far East. The China Coast Meteorological Register is exhibited about Noon (Sundays and Government holidays excepted).\n\n## THE LAW OF STORMS.\n\nFurther information concerning the weather to be expected while signals are hoisted, and sailing directions, are given in \"The Law of Storms in the Eastern Seas.\"\n\nShipmasters may obtain by telegraph the latest information as to weather at any station reporting to the Hongkong Observatory by payment for a reply of at least ten words (2.6, twelve words including the address). Application may also be made for similar information to be telegraphed on some future specified day.\n\nWith reference to typhoon anchorages in China, beginning with Hainan, we have Backli bay (19° 41' N. 108° 39′ E.) with shelter against winds between NNE. and S. only. It is not a very good labour, and the natives are not to be trusted. In southern Hainan, we have Yulinkan bay 18° 12', ... Ga bay (18° 13', 109° 34′) may also be used. Manin harbour (19° 57', 109° 52') can be used when the centre is to the north of Hainan. Hunghom bay (20° 17', 110° 23′) is shallow and is not often used, except when no better place is within reach. Hui-ling-san (21° 34′, 111° 47') and Nan'ao bay (21° 35', 112° 34') are available between Hainan and Hongkong. Near Hongkong is the excellent harbour by Saint John's Island (21° 40', 112° 42'), which is commonly used. Vessels of great draught anchor to the S. of the position given. Tongku harbour (22° 35′, 113° 55') is used in case of typhoons crossing the China Sea. It offers no shelter against W. winds. This is at the mouth of the Canton River. Higher up the river, ships anchor under the Bogue forts, although typhoon centres pass that spot, but then it does not blow so hard as out at sea, when the centre is inland. Capsingmoon pass to the W. of Mahwan is shelter against typhoons, but Chingwan bay (22° 49' 114° 96') is one of the best harbours in China. In consequence, it is too crowded during a typhoon. To the NW. of Stonecutter's Island (22° 20' 114° 8') launches find shelter. Tytam bay to the SE. of Hongkong is an excellent harbour. Deep bay (22° 47', 114° 16') gives better shelter than Kors bay (22° 48', 114° 13'), but some vessels prefer the latter as the storm-signals can be seen from these. A position between Taipintong and the Channel Rocks makes the best anchorage. Mirs bay (22° 38', 114° 27′) under Pengchau offers shelter to vessels bound for Hongkong from a northern direction. Between Mirs bay and Swatow, there are no very good typhoon harbours, but shelter may be found against NE. winds. By Namoa Island (23° 28', 116° 57') is excellent anchorage. Tongsan bay (23° 47', 117° 35′) is much used, and also Amoy harbour. Making harbour (23° 32', 118° ...) by the Pescadores is excellent. In Pilquan harbour (24° 10′, 120° 31') there is good shelter from NE. winds to vessels under 15 feet draught. The Haitan Straits (25° 26', 119° 44′) are very ... There are several anchorages round Chusan. In Luzon, there is an anchorage at the entrance to Manila bay, N. of Corregidor Island (14° 25', 120° 33'). On the S. coast of Mindoro, we have Garza bay (12° 13′, 121° 11′).\n\nWhen the red drum is hoisted, the weather is generally fine in Hongkong, and settled fine if the typhoon moves northward, so that this signal does not by any means imply bad weather here. Steamers bound for northern, western or southern ports should then lose no time in starting, as they may expect more or less fine weather. Those bound for the Philippines should take precautions to avoid cyclones as explained above. Sailing vessels bound for western or southern parts should lose no time in starting, but those that are bound for the north or east ought to remain in the harbour awaiting information, should the wind be westerly here at the time, as they may expect to fall in with calms or contrary breezes after starting, even ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413360, "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": "CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3]", "page_number": 307, "title": "CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3]", "content_text": "## DRAFT.\n\n**MINUTE.**\n\nThe Secretary to the Treasury is requested to inform the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that, as a result of the disastrous cyclone which passed over Hongkong on the 18th of September 1906, causing great damage and loss of life, the question of constructing a breakwater to the west of the Kowloon Peninsula is to be further considered upon a report to be submitted early next State by the Governor in Council.\n\nFor Sir F. Swettenham's reference `71861/303`.\n\n22 May 1908.\n\nI am directed by the Earl of Elgin to request you to inform the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury...\n\nCopied to:\n- Mr. Antrobus.\n- Mr. Cox.\n- Sir C. Lucas.\n- Sir F. Hopwood.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418414, "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": "CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908", "page_number": 364, "title": "CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908", "content_text": "It is true that the present outbreak seems to be exceptionally severe.\n\nThe last serious outbreak was in September 1906, and I have thought that we got over the effects of that cyclone. However, since then, high exchange value rates followed, and the abolition of the revenue from opium has been a matter of concern for the Colony.\n\nI know of nothing that can justify such expressions of deplorable condition in funds. The Colony has barely acknowledged that the situation is requiring due consideration.\n\nRE 614 to whose representations I should acknowledge C.P.L. without comment.\n\n25 Park Lane, W.\n\n4th June\n\nDear [Name],\n\nAs you already know, the Hong Kong Colony is greatly perturbed at the proposal of the Home Government to close the opium houses.\n\nIt has been assumed that the action would be immediate. There can be no doubt of the serious difference which would be made in the finances of the Colony by an immediate prohibition of opium smoking.\n\nThe Colony is suffering severely from bad trade. The yarn trade with India is in a depressed condition, and the losses both of merchants and dealers are very heavy. Failures have occurred, involving many people in absolute ruin.\n\nThe volume of trade in tussore (the trade pass has also been bad) has been inflicted a heavy blow upon all who have their capital invested in the Colony.\n\nPlague and typhoons have accentuated the distress.\n\nI may possibly be seeing Mr. Sale shortly.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nLugard\n\nPage 11/6\n\n \nu.6", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453072, "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": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "page_number": 428, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "# The Caloocan Clarion\n\nThe fact that no issues of this paper have appeared lately is due to the fact that we have been off on a holiday? Who in the world wants to work all the time. We don't and we are compelled at times to put aside the scissors and the paste pot and take a trip to Heyman's home for weary ones on Calle Pinpin. We are now back on the job, a little bit the worse for wear and deucedly short of funds. We wouldn't mind having some of our delinquent subscribers come through as we sure feel that a plate of beans or wieners would improve our health. Our office is at the same old place and we still can write our name to a receipt. Don't crowd.\n\nThe war news from the front has been quiet lately. The French news censor licked the English news censor for trying to cop all the glory. General Joffre says that the French are tired of doing all the fighting and having the English claim all the credit.\n\nGeneral French has lost his powder puff. There will be a suspension of hostilities until a new one arrives from London.\n\nThe Portuguese army surrendered in a body yesterday to a corporal and seven men of the German army. They will be put to work making tamales for the export trade.\n\n## Advertisements\n\n**GORDON & Co's DRY GIN DISTILLERY, LONDON. APRIL 1, 1917**\n\nT. Graydon Moody has won the championship mile race at the International Athletic Meet at Dublin.\n\nCarl Hess called at the office last week and wanted to know if he owed anything. We got a dollar out of him on account.\n\nBacoor is now the most orderly town in the islands at the present time. The town received a thorough purification some years ago.\n\nThe Ananias Club of the Philippines held its regular annual meeting at Clarke's Saturday last and awarded the prizes for the three best liars in the islands. One went to Henry De Wolff and the other two were awarded to Joe Wolfson.\n\nThe Czar of Russia has conferred the Double Cross on his Imperial Allies King George of England and President Poincaré of France.\n\nJapan is trying to make an alliance with Germany and says that she is willing that, besides ceding back Kiaochau, Singapore and Hongkong should be turned over to the Germans.\n\n## O'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915\n\nNo. 50\n\nA number of prominent British citizens called at this office last night, but as we were entertaining a delegation of friends from the Caloocan Turn Verein and the Malabon Lodge A. O. H., they did not come in. We tried to persuade them to stay and promised them lots of fun, but they said they were out of training.\n\nMcCulloch Dick was arrested last night on the Escolta for masquerading in false attire. Dick had got himself up as a neutral.\n\nBy means of our own private wireless, we learn from the trenches in Europe that while the soldier boys appreciate the sacks and sweaters and scarfs and bands and such things the women are knitting for them, they would also like to have some one knit for (or otherwise produce) certain other things. Why not knit the boys a good pipe and package of tobacco? Why not knit them plenty of cigarette paper and tobacco? Why not knit them a lot of matches in waterproof match boxes? Why not knit them a few cans of beef extract for hot broth while they are in the trenches? Why not knit them a supply of stationery and pencils for writing home? And a lot of the brave boys would like to have some shattered bones knit for them. Why not knit them a few mending outfits?\n\n**GORDON'S Dry & Old Tom Gin**\n\nBest for Cocktails, Rickeys, Fizzes, etc.\nTake no Substitute\n\n**Kuenzle & Streiff. Ltd**\n343-347 SAN JACINTO\n\n**O'CONNELL'S, January 30, 1915**\n\n## Carnival Opens\n\nA Hint To Mack\n\nWe have received a copy of the new \"Agricultural\" monthly edited by that famed Kansas expert Mark Cretcher. We think that too much of the bureau's appropriation has been spent in paper and ink. If Mr. Cretcher would follow Cyclone Jim's plan and get out and try and make something of value come out of the ground, he would show more real intelligence and be of more value to the people. Incidentally, he would be less criticised. If Mr. Cretcher does not know anything about coconuts, he might start a bean farm or something of the sort. Cretcher has been roasted to a frazzle and from all reports, he is a very decent fellow. He perhaps needs the job he is at present holding and we have no objection to his staying on the payroll. We think, however, that he should stop fooling and get down to real business.\n\nToday is the day. Manila is in fiesta garb and worry and care have been shelved that revelry and merry-making may reign supreme. The big Carnival of 1915 is on and when the great carnival parade winds through the streets of the gay capital this afternoon, it will mark the opening of this famed celebration for which the Philippines are known all over the wide world. Already confetti is being scattered over our sidewalks and pathways, already the maskers are seen mixing with the laborers and the tradesmen. At eight tonight, the only people in the town who will be working will be the policemen, the car-conductors, and the engineers in the light and ice-making plants. Everybody else will be bound for the gay white city on the Luneta to partake in the merriment and have a good time. The carnival city is more beautiful this year than ever before and the Hubbub is full of wonderful attractions from Coney Island and other pleasure resorts. The big ball which will open the carnival this evening is the Devil's Raising Ball and the crowd that attends generally does it. It's merry hell long about midnight. Some elegant costumes will be worn at the ball this year, say the modistes, and it will be worth the price of admission to those who do not dance to go and look on. There will be lots of good things to eat and drink on the carnival grounds. Come early and stay long. Make this the best Carnival we have ever had.\n\nHe Was A Yid\n\nMacfarlane, the Insular Lumber Company manager, tells a story of a Jew soldier in the German army who had accomplished some gallant deed on the field of battle and had been mentioned for the Iron Cross. The Kaiser was present at the town when the Iron Cross was to be presented and decided to make the presentation himself. He asked if the Jew was a man of family and was told that he had a wife and six children and was quite poor. The Kaiser, thinking that the Jew might better appreciate a gift of money, asked him when he was brought up, whether he would rather have the Iron Cross or a hundred marks. The Jew said, \"Your Highness, what is the value of the Iron Cross?\" The Kaiser replied that it was worth a couple of marks, whereupon the Jew said, \"Well, Your Highness, I will take the Iron Cross and 98 marks.\" Mac does not say what the Jew got.\n\nDiscovered\n\nProfessor Waters has been discovered by the daily press. They are certainly getting wise to this Kansas faker at a pretty late day. Waters should be prosecuted by the Philippine government for estafa.\n\nThe man who flooded the German position on the Yser, says a cablegram, has been decorated with the Order of King Leopold. What's that, a rubber medal?\n\nThe entrance of Portugal into the conflict somehow reminds us of the By assisting old man Noah's elephant up the ark's gangplank.\n\nIt seems about time now for the employment of a couple of real tropical agriculturists in the bureau. Why not give Prautch and Lyons a show? Governor-General Harrison has made it pretty evident to everyone in the islands that he has some backbone and wants to do the right thing. He should compel the agricultural bureau to stop wasting its funds and commence to get results.\n\n## Portugal And The War\n\nThe resignation of the Portuguese cabinet was first announced on December 6th, 1914.\n\n...according to a dispatch received here from Lisbon, as stated in an official cablegram received by the German Consul here; but the same was not acknowledged and accepted by Reuter until January 26th, 1915, when he announced the fact in a cablegram dated London, January 25th.\n\nAnd there are still people who declare that the German news-service - official as well as unofficial--is badly informed and brings only faked news.\n\nThere has been so much talk about Portugal being on the brink of war against Germany and of sending an army to the aid of the allies, but we never heard anything of the accomplished fact.\n\nNow this wonder is cleared up.\n\nIt was on the Spanish mail between Hongkong and Singapore; on board were some Portuguese officers heading home from Macau. They were a miserable-looking lot. Their sadness caused the compassion of their fellow-passengers. One of these, a Spanish merchant, asking them for the reason of their sadness, whether or not they did not like to go to war, received this answer: \"We are longing for the war as we are soldiers, but say, isn't it a pity, thrice we sent a declaration of war to Germany but never even a confirmation of receipt.\"\n\nGermany has more to do than to acknowledge little Portugal's war-declarations!\n\n## Advertisements\n\n### THE CARNIVAL NEEDS That Ten Pesos YOU NEED A LITTLE FUN\n\n**RICHTER'S DRY GOODS STORE**\n114-116 ESCOLTA\n\n| Corsets | Description |\n|----------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| AMERICAN LADY | The Corset that braces, buoys up woman and beautifies the modern through the active hours... |\n| MADAME LYRA | ...soft, light and pliant- yielding to every demand of the wearer. |\n\n**E. E. ELSER INSURANCE**\nFIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT\nGeneral Agent\nNew York Life Insurance Co.\nKneedler Bldg.\nPHONE 129\n\n**MANILA GARAGE**\nAUTOMOBILES FOR HIRE\nTel. 1004\n665 NOZALEDA\nJOHN CANSON, Proprietor\n\n**DINE AT THE GAS KITCHEN**\n168 ESCOLTA\n(AT YOUR SERVICE)\n\n**Manila Foundry and Machine Works**\n(Successors to Ges. Y. Taylor Machine Shops)\nManufacturers and Dealers in Machinery and Supplies. Brass and Iron Castings\nRepair Work A Specialty\n500 to 520 Reiss Regents\nTel. 8543, P. O. Box 1055\nCable Address: \"MACHINIST\"\nCodes: Western Union, A. B. C. 5th Edition", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500223, "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": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 627, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "## THE DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 10TH, 1925\n\n### NEW ADVERTISEMENTS\n\n**HONGKONG HOTEL**\n\nCOMMENCING on MONDAY NEXT, the 13TH JULY, 1925, \n\n| Meal | Time |\n| --- | --- |\n| BREAKFAST | 8.00 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. |\n| TIFFIN | 12.30 p.m. to 2.00 p.m. |\n| DINNER | 7.00 pm to 8.30 pm. |\n\n2410\n\n**THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LIMITED**\n\n9th July, 1925.\n\n### INTIMATIONS\n\n**HAROLD WALLACE PETLEY (DECEASED)**\n\nPERSONS having Claims against the Estate are Requested to forward particulars At Once to JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors, Prince's Building, Hongkong.\n\n### NOTICES\n\n**ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB**\n\nTHE CLUB HOUSE will be OPENED on SATURDAY AFTERNOONS and SUNDAYS. No Meals will be Served, Ice and Drinks will be available.\n\n**PALACE MOTOR CO., LTD. (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION)**\n\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a WINDING-UP FINAL GENERAL MEETING of the Company, will be held at No. 21, POTTINGER STREET, Ground floor, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 12th AUGUST, 1925, at 2.30 P.M.\n\n1. Laying the Accounts before the Meeting\n2. Giving Explanations if required.\n\nWONG KAM YING, Liquidator.\n\nHongkong, 10th July, 1925.\n\n**THE HONGKONG SHAREBROKERS' ASSOCIATION**\n\nTHE JUNE SETTLEMENT Has Been POSTPONED.\n\nBy Order of the Committee, M. FERNANDEZ, Secretary. Hongkong, 4th July, 1925.\n\n**THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION**\n\nIT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that an Interim Dividend of £3 per share subject to deduction of Income Tax, has been declared for the HALF YEAR ending 30th JUNE, 1925, at Rate of 2/3d per Dollar.\n\nThe Dividend will be Payable on and after MONDAY, the 10TH AUGUST, 1925, at Offices of the Corporation.\n\nBy Order of the Court of Directors, A. H. BARLOW, Chief Manager. Hongkong, 7th July, 1925.\n\n**COAL**\n\nTHERE are Ample Stocks of COAL in the Colony. Those in need of Supplies should Communicate in Writing with the SECRETARY.\n\n**SPECIAL CONSTABULARY. PEAK DIVISION**\n\nALL ADULT MALES (other than Members of the Government, Naval and Military Services and of the Medical Profession) Resident in the PEAK DISTRICT who are not rendering Active Assistance to the Public in connection with the Existing Strike are hereby Called Upon to Attend before Magistrate at the PEAK CLUB at 6 P.M. TO-DAY (FRIDAY, JULY 10TH) for the purpose of being Appointed and Enrolled as Special Constables.\n\n**NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES**\n\n**THE EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.**\n\nTHE STEAMSHIP \"ST. ALBANS.\" LEFT SYDNEY, 18TH JUNE, 1925. CONSIGNEES of CARGO from AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND and SOUTH SEA ISLAND PORTS are hereby Informed that owing to the Existing Strike Conditions, Cargo for HONGKONG by the s.s. \"ST. ALBANS\" has been Discharged at SANDAKAN and/or MANILA.\n\nCargo landed at SANDAKAN has been Trans-shipped per s.s. \"HINSANG\" Due Here on or about the 18TH INSTANT while the following Cargo landed at MANILA, VIZ:- \n- €50 LEAD BARS.\n- 21 Boxes FRENCH BUTTER.\n- 6 Bales LEATHER.\n\nWill be Forwarded to Destination per First Opportunity.\n\nNo Insurance whatsoever has been effected by the Steamship COMPANY.\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., Agents. Hongkong, 9th July, 1925.\n\n**COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES**\n\nCONSIGNEES of Cargo from MARSEILLES, &c., Cargo from BORDEAUX ex s.s \"ETOUAN\" also Cargo from HAVRE and COGNAC ex s.s.\"COMTE DORISE.\"\n\nCONSIGNEES are hereby informed that their Goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, Kowloon.\n\nB. BODENFUSER, Agent. Hongkong, 7th July, 1925.\n\n**PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.'S STEAMER \"KASHGAR\"**\n\nARRIVED HONGKONG ON 9TH JULY, 1925. FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, GIBRAL.TAR, MARSEILLES MALTA, PORTSAID, ADEN, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.\n\nCONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above-named Vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR RISK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon.\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., Agents. Hongkong, 9th July, 1925.\n\n**TO LET**\n\n- GODOWNS in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS (Basement). Apply- SECRETARY, A. S. WATSON & Co., LTD.\n- COMMODIOUS SHOP and PREMISES, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, from SEPTEMBER NEXT. Apply- SECRETARY, A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.\n- OFFICE on 1ST FLOOR in UNION BUILDING-TWO. Apply- UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.\n\n### LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nA meeting of the Legislative Council was held yesterday afternoon when H.E. the Governor made a statement upon the present situation in the Colony.\n\nThe routine business of the Council comprised the first reading of the Ordinance relating to the postponement of the June settlement.\n\nThe Bill deals with two classes of contracts: contracts for the purchase or sale of shares for the June settlement and contracts for the carrying over of shares until the June settlement day.\n\n**FERRY BOAT PIRATED**\n\nNINETEEN PASSENGERS TAKEN PRISONER.\n\nThe coxswain of the steam launch Sian Hung On has reported to the Water Police that at about eight o'clock yesterday morning, whilst he was on a journey from Tai Lo So, in Deep Bay, he was informed by some JUNKIS in a passing sampan that the launch Po On, which is one of the ferry boats that runs from Hongkong to Cheung Chau, was being pirated at Wah Ha.\n\nThe coxswain saw that a sampan was being towed alongside the Po On. He blew four blasts on the whistle, but received no reply from the Po On.\n\nTwo watchmen on the Sian Hung On opened fire with revolvers on the Po On, but no notice was taken of the shots. A fishing junk which was near then fired on the Po On with a cannon, but again no notice was taken of the fire.\n\nThe Po On soon disappeared from sight. She was steaming towards Ling Ting.\n\n**TYPHOON WARNING**\n\nThe American Consulate-General received the following typhoon warning, by cable from the Manila Observatory at 9.05 a.m., July 9th:- \"Cyclone or typhoon near or over southern Formosa, moving N.W.\"\n\n### \"WANTED\" ADVERTISEMENTS\n\n- FOREMAN to Work All Night Shift. Experienced Machine Shop. Good Salary to Capable Man. Apply UNITED ENGINEERS, LIMITED, SINGAPORE.\n- EUROPEAN FLATS at Kow. LOON with Modern Sanitation. Apply to KAYAMALLY Co., 3 and 5, D'Águilar, Street, Hongkong.\n\n### ACKNOWLEDGMENT\n\nMrs. Ang and family wish to thank all friends for their kind sympathy, floral tributes and the many letters of condolence received in their recent sad bereavement.\n\n## CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA\n\nINCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER, 1868.\n\nHEAD OFFICE-LONDON\n\nPaid-up Capital ... Reserve Fund... Reserve Liability of Proprietors...\n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and FIXED DEPOSITS received for one year or shorter periods at rates which will be quoted on application.\n\nA. H. FERGUSON, Manager. 22, Das Voeux Road Central, Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500248, "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": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 652, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "# NEW ADVERTISEMENTS \n\n## HONGKONG HOTEL \n\nCOMMENCING on MONDAY NEXT, the Hongkong Hotel will serve meals at the following times only due to the strike:- \n- BREAKFAST......... 8.00 a.m. to 9.30 a.m.\n- TIFFIN ...............12.30 p.m. to 2.00 p.m.\n- DINNER ..............7.00 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.\n\n## HAROLD WALLACE PETLEY (DECEASED) INTIMATIONS \n\nPersons having claims against the Estate of the above-named Deceased are requested to forward particulars at once to JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors, Prince's Building, Hongkong.\n\n## HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK \n\nAn Interim Dividend of £3 per share has been declared for the half-year ending 30th June, subject to deduction of Income Tax. The Dividend Rate is 2/3 per Dollar and will be payable on and after MONDAY, the 10th August, at the Offices of the Corporation. Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.\n\nThe Register of Shares will be closed from MONDAY, the 27th JULY, to SATURDAY, the 8th AUGUST, 1925 (both days inclusive), during which period no transfer of shares can be registered.\n\nBy Order of the Court of Directors,\nA. H. BARLOW, Chief Manager.\n\n## HONGKONG GOLF CLUB \n\nUntil further notice, the Deep Water Bay Club House will be opened on SATURDAY AFTERNOONS and SUNDAYS. No meals will be served; light refreshments and drinks will be available.\n\n## PALACE MOTOR CO., LTD. (IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATION) \n\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Winding-up Final General Meeting of the Company will be held at No. 21, POTTINGER STREET, Ground floor, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 12th AUGUST, 1925, at 2.30 P.M., for the purpose of:\n1. Laying the Accounts before the Meeting\n2. Giving Explanations if required.\n\nBy Order of the Committee,\nWONG KAM YING, Liquidator.\n\n## SPECIAL CONSTABULARY. PEAK DIVISION \n\nALL ADULT MALES (other than Members of the Medical Profession) resident in the PEAK DISTRICT who are not rendering Active Assistance to Government or the Public in connection with the Existing Strike are hereby called upon to attend before a Magistrate at the PEAK CLUB at 6 P.M. TO-DAY (FRIDAY, JULY 10TH) for the purpose of being Appointed and Enrolled as Special Constables.\n\n## NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES \n\n### THE EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. \n\nTHE STEAMSHIP \"ST. ALBANS\" LEFT SYDNEY, 13TH JUNE, 1925. CONSIGNEES of CARGO from AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, and SOUTH SEA ISLAND PORTS are hereby informed that owing to the Existing Strike Conditions, Cargo for HONGKONG by the s.s. \"ST. ALBANS\" has been Discharged at SANDAKAN and/or MANILA at the Risk of the Owners of the Goods.\n\n| Cargo Landed | Destination |\n| --- | --- |\n| at SANDAKAN | Forwarded per s.s. \"HINSANG\" due on or about the 15TH INSTANT |\n| at MANILA | 650 LEAD BARS, 21 Boxes FRENCH BUTTER, Bales LEATHER. Will be Forwarded to Destination per First Opportunity. |\n\nNo Insurance whatsoever has been effected by the STEAMSHIP COMPANY.\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., Agents.\n\n### COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES \n\nNOTICE. CONSIGNEES of Cargo from MARSEILLES, &c., ex s.s. \"ETUAN\" and Cargo from HAVRE and COGNAC ex s.s. \"COMDT. DORISE\" are informed that their Goods are being landed and stored at their risk at Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon.\n\nBills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed after Monday, the 13th instant, at Noon, will be subject to Rent and Landing Charges.\n\nR. RODENFUSER, Agent.\n\n### PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.'S STEAMER \"KASHGAR\" \n\nARRIVED HONGKONG ON 9TH JULY, 1925. CONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above-named Vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed AT THEIR RISK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon.\n\nOptional Goods will be landed here unless Instructions have been given to the contrary six hours before arrival of the Steamer. Goods not cleared within 8 days will be subject to Rent.\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., Agents.\n\n## THE SHARE & REAL ESTATE BROKERS' SOCIETY OF HONGKONG \n\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the JUNE SETTLEMENT will be held on TUESDAY, the 14th day of JULY, 1925.\n\nBy Order of the Committee,\nM. FERNANDEZ, Secretary.\n\n## HOTELS, LIMITED \n\nWITH reference to the Offer of New Shares dated the 15th May, 1925 (made to Existing Shareholders of the Company), the Directors have decided to extend the Dates for Payment.\n\nThe Date for Payment of the First Instalment of $7.50 per share is extended to the 30th SEPTEMBER, 1925, and the Date for Payment of the Second Instalment to the 31st DECEMBER, 1925.\n\nBy Order of the Board,\nJ. H. TAGGART, Managing Director.\n\n## \"GLEN\" LINE, LIMITED \n\nCONSIGNEES of CARGO per s.s. \"BENAVON\" are hereby Notified that owing to the Existing Strike Conditions Cargo for HONGKONG is being Discharged at NAGASAKI where it will lie at the Risk and Expense of the Owners of the Goods.\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents.\n\n## LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL \n\nA meeting of the Legislative Council was held yesterday afternoon when H.E. the Governor made a statement upon the present situation in the Colony.\n\nThe Bill relating to the postponement of the June settlement has been published. It is proposed to extend the postponed settlement day over a period of four days, from July 14th to July 17th inclusive.\n\n## FERRY BOAT PIRATED \n\nThe coxswain of the steam launch Sian Hung On reported to the Water Police that the ferry boat Po On was pirated at Wah Ha. The pirates took 19 passengers prisoner and escaped towards Ling Ting.\n\n## P. & O. BANKING CORPORATION, LIMITED \n\n**PAID-UP CAPITAL** £2,594,160\n**RESERVE FUND** £185,000\n\n## \"KASHGAR\" and \"PEMBROKESHIRE\" \n\nNOTICE TO CONSIGNEES regarding cargo discharge at SINGAPORE and/or MANILA due to strike conditions.\n\n## TYPHOON WARNING \n\nCyclone or typhoon near or over southern Formosa, moving N.W.\n\n## WANTED \n\nExperienced Machineshop FOREMAN to Work on All Night Shift. Good Salary to Capable Man. Apply UNITED ENGINEERS, LIMITED, SINGAPORE.\n\n## TO LET \n\n- GODOWNS in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS (Basement). Apply SECRETARY, A. S. WATSON & Co., LTD.\n- COMMODOIOUS SHOP and PREMISES, in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, from 18th SEPTEMBER NEXT. Apply SECRETARY, A. S. WATSON & Co., LTD.\n- OFFICE in UNION BUILDING - TWO ROOMS on FOURTH FLOOR. Apply UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.\n\n## DEWAR'S \"WHITE LABEL\" WHISKY \n\nAwarded 50 Gold and Prize Medals. As supplied to the Houses of Lords and Commons.\n\n## LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL \n\nThe Governor's statement on the present situation in the Colony was published. The June settlement has been postponed.\n\n## ACKNOWLEDGMENT \n\nMrs. ANGUS and family wish to thank all their friends for their kind sympathy, floral tributes, and letters of condolence received in their recent sad bereavement.\n\n## WANTED \n\nLetters are lying at this Office for various Box numbers.\n\n## TO LET \n\nEUROPEAN FLATS at Kowloon with Modern Sanitation. Apply KAYAMALLY Co., 3 and 5, D'Águilar Street, Hongkong.\n\n## MARRIAGE NOTICE \n\nA marriage has been arranged and will shortly take place between Major Holand Lawrence M.C., Coldstream Guards, and Susan, third daughter of Sir Charles Watson & Co., LTD.\n\n## CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA \n\n**Paid-up Capital** £3,000,000\n**Reserves Fund** £4,000,000\n**Reserve Liability of Proprietors** £1,000,000\n\n## INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD. \n\nS.S. \"TAISANG\" LEFT CALCUTTA, 21ST JUNE, 1925. CONSIGNEES of CARGO for Hongkong ex the above Steamer are hereby Notified that the s.s. \"TAISANG\" is proceeding from SINGAPORE to KOBE direct.\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD, General Managers.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503174, "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": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "content_text": "248\n\n24\n\nLAKE, NOT VALLEY.\n\nResidents' Anxious Night.\n\nResidents at Happy Valley and the neighbourhood spent an anxious night with the flood which commenced to rise shortly after midnight.\n\nThe race course this morning was transformed into a lake and a raging torrent of water brought down from the hills flowed between the Police and Craigengower Clubs.\n\nA miniature Niagara Falls was created near the old scene of damage below the Yeung Woo Nursing Home last year. The deep drain measuring 14 feet across, which was built to deal with the water from the hills, was completely covered with mud and sand. Two waterfalls were seen later in the morning when the water flowed across the road into the drain and again from there to the race track.\n\nMore Confusion.\n\nBehind the Jockey Club stand, the Protestant Cemetery wall gave way for a considerable distance and the earth brought down with the torrent filled the premises to a depth of several feet. Cement boulders which lined the side of the course behind the small ticket office were bodily removed and placed on the course. Slabs of granite brought from the road were seen everywhere on the race track and inside the football grounds. What was left of a tea booth was seen against a portion of the race track railing. Flower pots which adorned the track edge were taken away by the flood together with the bank on which they stood.\n\nBridge Threatened.\n\nIt will take several weeks of toil to remove the mountain of sand and mud on the premises and race track. At the Craigengower Club, the water just reached the door and furniture left in the verandah was carried away and a part of it was recovered this morning. Garden furniture at the top of the granite boulders being washed away down the nullah, could be heard and a retaining wall threatening from above sounded like ominous explosions.\n\nSTORM VICTIMS.\n\n(No. 2998. July 22, 1926.\n\nin the direction of Hongkong, although it is thought that it may curve northwards in the direction of Swatow before it arrives here.\n\nThe rescue tug was to be observed with steam up and ready for emergency this morning and the funneless H.M.S. \"Ambrose,\" undergoing its annual overhaul was moved to the buoy for greater security.\n\nPolice Quarters Struck.\n\nThe chimney of Acting Chief Inspector Aris's quarters at the Police quarters in Caine Road was struck in the early hours of this morning and considerable debris fell inside the house. As the remaining portion of the chimney is considered to be in a dangerous condition, the quarters in question have had to be vacated.\n\nOLD MEMORIES.\n\nThat memorable flood of May, 1889, exceeded to-day's violence. Mr. Yee Cheong, the portrait painter whose studio is next door to the \"China Mail\" was an eyewitness.\n\nHe maintains that the torrents of water, which swept down Wyndham Street were even greater 37 years ago.\n\nAs to-day, clubs were reduced to useless wood. He said, the rain \"scraped out all the loose mud of the higher levels and deposited them in the flat streets. It took months to clear the mess,\"\n\nCraigengower collapsed and the masonry portion of the bridge started at this spot was swept away by the torrent flowing into the Bowrington Canal, a portion of the road at the end of the bridge near the Tramway offices opposite the Roman Catholic Cathedral was washed away.\n\nMr. Yee Cheong also says that the storm flood started at almost the same hour as that of the previous storm flood.\n\nThe railway track of the Sang Lee contractors on the other side of the canal also suffered considerable damage by the foundations being washed away.\n\nFACTORY IN DANGER\n\nThe paper mill at Aberdeen (Tai Shing Paper Mill Co.) is reported to be in danger owing to the private reservoir at the top of the building having been carried away.\n\nJuly 19. Two well-known members of the South China Athletic Association, Messrs. Ho Ka-lau and Yew Man-kit, who went out for a row on Saturday afternoon had a narrow escape from death as a result of the squall which sprang up towards six o'clock.\n\nThe boat was near Cust Rocks when caught in the squall and rowing became very difficult. The two occupants eventually determined to conserve their energy and let the boat drift and fortunately the set of the current was towards Kowloon Bay instead of the numerous rocks in the neighbourhood. They were able to reach the shore and after sheltering for a time in a farmer's house they arrived at Kowloon City.\n\nBy Courtesy of Wah Tsz Yat Po\n\nChinese cruiser \"Hai Yung\" which was to have left for Pratas yesterday at 1 p.m. with Hongkong officials aboard is still in harbour, wireless messages having been exchanged between the vessel and Pratas as a result of which it was decided that it would be dangerous to attempt to make the shoal for the present.\n\nThe typhoon had not, at the time of the message, reached Pratas but seas were very high and wind force 5 and increasing.\n\nPreliminary arrangements are that the party which is to witness the inauguration of the wireless station on the shoal will leave on Tuesday next.\n\nA village at Kowloon city, entirely inundated, with the top of a desolate matshed showing.\n\nreats both here and at the other er 37 years ago.\n\nTHE TYPHOON.\n\nJuly 17,\n\nIf the typhoon does not diverge from its present path it is expected here on Sunday.\n\nThe American Consulate received the following from Manila last night:-\n\n6.55 p.m.. July 16.-Cyclone in Lat. 19deg. N., Long. 119deg. E.. moving N.W.\n\na.m.\n\nLater.\n\n8.30\n\n17th, typhoon in about 116deg. Long. E.. 20deg. lat. N., moving W.N.W.\n\nThis morning in the harbour there were indications of anticipations of the arrival of the typhoon which is slowly moving towards the Colony from the East.\n\nNo. 1 signal gave place to No. 4 signal which means that the gale is likely to come towards the Colony from the East.\n\nNo. 2998. July 22, 1926.]\n\nTHE AFTERMATH.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA\n\nJuly 20\n\nWith the Peak isolated and the only means of access to Repulse Bay via the Aberdeen Road (even this has to be negotiated very carefully); with mud inches deep everywhere in the main thoroughfares and in banks where it has been removed for transit purposes, Hongkong has still much besides the memory of its severity to remind it of the terrific storm which raged on Sunday night and Monday morning,\n\nMuch, however, has been accomplished as a result of gangs of men working under supervision until a late hour last night and early this morning. A tram service to the King Edward Hotel was possible first thing this morning and later in the day a restricted service to all districts was run. The Roads Department is concentrating on the clearance of the main highways and is able to promise provisional clearances very shortly.\n\nStubbs Road.\n\nStubbs Road and Magazine Gap Road have suffered more than any others, Stubbs Road more particularly between Bowen Road and Morrison Hill Road. Here, there are numerous landslides the worst slip being where the sand shooting goes across. This will require the clearing of enormous quantities of earth and rock but it is hoped by Friday to get a passage sufficient to enable cars or \"buses to negotiate Stubbs Road.\n\nMagazine Gap Road.\n\nIn the case of most of the other roads it is expected that provisional arrangements will be made which will enable the passage of traffic within a few days. Magazine Gap Road at one part is breached to its full width and it will be necessary to erect temporarily a bridge. The Peak Road is also partly breached in one place. The only means of access to the Peak, in fact, is by negotiating on foot the old Peak Road and Wanchai Gap Road, in the case of the latter some nasty gaps having to be negotiated.\n\nBefore the Aberdeen portion of the road was cleared sufficiently to allow of traffic the footpath from the Peak to Pokfulam was used by some residents who took car as far as Pokfulam and walked up via the reservoir.\n\nRepulse Bay Road.\n\nGood progress has already been made in clearing the new road to Repulse Bay from Bowen Road onwards. This is very largely clear. There are numerous slips in the neighbourhood of Shaukiwan but it is anticipated that the whole of the round-the-island road will be open by the end of the week.\n\n('aime Road.\n\nThe lower portion of Caine Road is closed to traffic by the subsidence of the bank near the Roman Catholic Cathedral and the opening out of the road through the Cathedral grounds, which accounted for the flooding of Wyndham Street through Glenealy. It is now possible to go through Glenealy as far as Caine Road, by chair or on foot.\n\nA large gang were at work this morning clearing the obstruction at Caine Road. A stream of water which still flowed from the hill has now been diverted into the side channel of Arbuthnot Road.\n\nThe easiest way to reach Caine Road at present is for motorists to proceed up Garden Road as far as the Peak tram station. Then Tower\n\nPhoto by Yong Ming.\n\nMAIL\n\nREPULSE BAY CONDITIONS.\n\nthis morning.\n\n25\n\nAbout 85 bags of mail coming from foreign countries were damaged in the cellars of the Post Office. Most of the mail came from Singapore, Seattle, and the Straits.\n\nParticulars as to the plight of Repulse Bay residents not available yesterday on account of their being virtually marooned have since been received. At 3 a.m. on the night, or rather the morning, of the storm, the water rushed down the hills with terrific force and swept through the big dining room of the Hotel, carrying all before it. The upper level districts were deprived of their daily mail due to lack of transportation.\n\nResidents in the Peak and the staff were early on the scene but until practically powerless to save the carpets and furniture from being damaged. At eight o'clock yesterday morning the lower floors and passages were flooded to within five inches of water, and with the kitchens under water breakfast was part of the dining room floor has sunk badly and it looks as though it will be some time before the former polished surface will be regained.\n\nThe \"President Madison\" and the \"Empress of Russia,\" tried all roads at an early hour, were scheduled to arrive in Hongkong last Sunday, The Shaukiwan Road was obstructed yesterday afternoon.\n\nLooking along Des Voeux Road Central, on July 19, eastwards, along the Hongkong Hotel front and the new Realty building, with Alexandra Building on the left. The mud and height of the flood left visible marks on the surroundings.\n\nAlbert Road, along Wyndham Street past the Dairy Farm to the Central Police Station, and up Arbuthnot Road. The junction at Caine Road has now been sufficiently cleared for both up and down traffic through Arbuthnot Road.\n\nKowloon Roads.\n\nWith regard to Kowloon, both the coastal and Taipo Roads are closed, the worst slips being the other side of Tsin Wan. Two bridges have been carried away. Temporary bridges will be erected and it is expected to make provisional arrangements for passage of traffic by the end of the week.\n\ned by landslides which made passage impossible, and the new road to Hongkong was found to have a gaping hole halfway across the road just at the top of the hill leading to Repulse Bay.\n\nTHE POST OFFICE.\n\nThe General Post-Office was arrived only\n\nThe delay was due to the typhoon which the liners encountered.\n\nby\n\nPRINTERS LOSS.\n\nDamage of $10,000 was suffered by the Ye Olde Printerie Ltd.\n\nwhose establishment is located at the basement of the China Building.\n\nThe damaged goods consisted mostly of cover papers, art papers, and coloured papers and machinery, approximately valued at $10,000.\n\nThe damaged goods are only insured against fire but not against water. The Fire Brigade was called to the scene to pump the water and which was over 4 ft. deep.\n\nat the time of going to press, the Brigade was still at work.\n\nMED-\n\nIt will probably take the management over a week to clear the place from water and debris, and to completely resume business.\n\nWANCHAI DISTRICT.\n\nIn the long list of damage in the Wanchai district no one is reported to have been killed or injured as a direct result of the flood.\n\nA Chinese electrician was taken to hospital yesterday with injuries received in a fall from the first floor verandah of a house at Stone Nullah lane. He was repairing an electric light wire by leaning over the verandah and fell to the ground on receiving a shock.\n\nBAY VIEW DISTRICT.\n\nA feature of the damage in the Bay View district was the disappearance of the market at Tai Hang village. The structure, about 100 feet long and standing on stone pillars, is stated to have been carried away by the flood.\n\nThe assistance of the Fire Brigade was obtained to pump out the water. They worked from 2 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. but owing to the numerous calls on the services of the Brigade they had to abandon the work and resume it after the water had subsided there.\n\nWhen", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 528371, "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": "CO129-531-13 Proposed reorganization of the medical and sanitary services 18-11-1930 - 7-7-1933", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-531-13 Proposed reorganization of the medical and sanitary services 18-11-1930 - 7-7-1933", "content_text": "# Kong's climate is very materially influenced by the direction of the winds prevailing. \nThe North East Monsoon blows from November until April and during this period the weather is dry, cool and invigorating. From May until October, the season of the South West Monsoon, the air is highly charged with moisture and the climate is hot, muggy and enervating. July, August and September are marked by atmospheric disturbances which now and then culminate in typhoons or cyclones accompanied by blinding sheets of rain.\n\nThe mean annual temperature is 72. During the summer months the average temperature is 87 and there is little variation throughout the 24 hours.\n\nSituated on the north side of the Island the City of Victoria gets all the heat and moisture of the South West Monsoon but not the benefit of the breeze which is cut off by the mountain behind the town. During the winter months the range of temperature is between 70 and 45 with an average of 66, necessitating for comfort the wearing of warm clothes and the provision of fires in the houses.\n\nThe average yearly rainfall is 85.72 inches. As might be expected, most of the rain falls in the summer months.\n\n## Population and its distribution\n\nWith regard to the population, there are no accurate statistical figures, the great movement to and from the Colony and the facility with which the border is crossed preventing accurate checking.\n\nHong Kong being the principal entrepot for South China and its harbour one of the busiest in the world, every day on an average 4,000 to 5,000 individuals pass to and from China by river steamers or by rail and there are many others who arrive and depart by junks and smaller vessels. During times of political unrest in China, many thousands from the mainland sojourn in the Colony, some to return to their homes when the conditions are more settled, others remaining attracted by the opportunities offered for employment.\n\nIt is estimated that the civil population of the Colony is 1,047,260, of which 588,000 reside in the City of Victoria, 310,000 in the City of Kowloon, over 100,000 on boats in the harbour and the remainder in villages. The Chinese outnumber the rest by fifty to one, the great majority being illiterate working people who reside in Hong Kong because of the facilities offered for employment but who return to their native towns and villages when too ill or too old for labour. Through this exodus, the death rate of the Colony is considerably lower than it otherwise would be. The Chinese of the upper classes, many of whom have received a Western education, are mostly engaged in commerce, but there are among them a number of professional men, including both lawyers and doctors.\n\n### Housing Conditions\nThe site on which Victoria stands is a narrow strip of land 4 miles long by 1/5th to 2/5ths of a mile broad, lying at the northern foot of the mountain called the Peak and separating it from the sea. The total area of available space is about one square mile or 1/32nd of the whole island. Limited in front by the sea and behind by the steep slopes of the mountain, there remains hardly an inch of space which has not been occupied for one purpose or another. The residential portion where the masses live does not exceed 400 acres. In this space, 500,000 individuals find accommodation, giving a density of 1,250 per acre.\n\nThe conformation of the site, with its rapid rise of land near the sea shore, led in the early days to the erection of houses on the narrow strip of land near the harbour and extending a little way up the lower slopes of the mountain, the houses being separated by narrow lanes and alleyways. When the population was small and the houses only one and two storeys in height, the situation was not unsatisfactory. As the population grew, the houses were heightened to four and even five storeys without corresponding widening of the spaces separating them.\n\nWriting in 1882, when the population was 160,000, the area much the same as it is to-day and the density 400 per acre, Chadwick stated: \"Overcrowding of houses on the ground occurs to a serious extent and so does overcrowding of houses with humans.\"\n\nBy 1901, when Chadwick visited again, the density had risen to 700 per acre. In his report, he said the housing conditions were rather worse than better than they were in 1882. As regards area per person, they were the same, but as regards ground area, they were worse owing to the large number of lofty houses which had been built during the interval.\n\nYear by year, the population continued to increase, immigration being accelerated by unrest in China. Victoria was the centre of trade and therefore the centre of attraction. There was no room to build further accommodation and the new comers had to squeeze into the already overcrowded tenements. Rooms were divided into cubicles, which to a certain extent provided privacy but which interfered both with lighting and ventilation.\n\nYear by year, the Sanitary Department and the Building Authority made efforts to deal with the situation and with a certain amount of success. The task, almost Sisyphean in itself, was rendered more difficult by paucity of water and by opposition put forward by both property owners and occupiers.\n\nThe position to-day is that 500,000 people are being accommodated in an area not exceeding 400 acres in extent, where the streets are narrow and the houses four and five storeys high. They are packed together like steerage passengers on an emigrant ship. In some cases, like in the old-fashioned ships, there are tiers of bunks placed against the walls; in others, the rooms are divided into cubicles or cabins, perhaps eight feet by eight feet and having partitions six feet high. These cabins are not the temporary abodes of persons on a voyage but the more or less permanent homes of the people. There is little or no room for kitchens and latrine accommodation is limited to pail closets on the roofs of the buildings.\n\nIt goes without saying that the maintenance of a satisfactory standard of sanitation under such conditions is a most difficult problem and one which cannot be solved without the willing co-operation of the people. One thing is certain: so long as buildings are overcrowded and insanitary, no amount of external sanitation will give immunity from disease.\n\nWith regard to Kowloon, the case is different. This city, which is comparatively new, has been laid out in accordance with modern town planning principles. It has a density of 300 per acre and the water supply is adequate except in periods of great drought.\n\n## Influence of traditional beliefs\nThe traditional beliefs of the Chinese as to the cause of diseases, their means of spread and the factors which effect their courses are so at variance with modern teaching that there is little chance of promoting voluntary co-operation between them and the authorities in the matter of the prevention and control of disease, until they can be brought to understand the true nature of the problems and are conscious of the usefulness of the measures advocated.\n\nThe proximity of China and constant intercourse between the two countries makes it harder to overcome prejudices than is the case with Chinese in Malaya and Java. However, leaders of opinion in China and leaders of Chinese thought in Hong Kong are making vigorous efforts to promote public health and public welfare along lines which have proved successful in the Occident, and the outlook is far more hopeful than was the case a few years ago, when Chinese thought on matters of health was unduly swayed by old traditions and theories.\n\n## Quarantine impracticable between Hong Kong and the River Ports\nSo closely related are Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, and the River Ports in the matter of trade, and such is the amount of traffic, both human and goods, which pass between them that, up-to-date, it has been found impossible to devise any system of Quarantine which would effectually safeguard one city against the introduction of disease from the other and at the same time preserve that freedom of commercial relations on which these cities depend for prosperity. It has been deemed best to treat them as forming one unit, as suburbs the one of the other, and to strive for a working agreement between the various health organisations to the end that some means, other than imposing restrictions against a whole port, may be found to prevent the spread of infection.\n\n25", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-531-13 Proposed reorganization of the medical and sanitary services 18-11-1930 - 7-7-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531647, "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": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "page_number": 139, "title": "CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933", "content_text": "166\n\nTHE BLUE FUNNEL LINE\n\nREGULAR AND FAST \"PASSENGER SERVICES FREIGHT AND LONDON SERVICE\n\nBLUE FUNNEL LINE\n\nLIVERPOOL SERVICE CRUHLUS\n\nFor part fail, blueponi, Karm, T'kam & Hamborg Par Port Nauč, Tärnepool & blavzi\n\nNEW YORK SERVICE\n\nCICKOJ\n\ntutor\n\n» York & Nemeč\n\nsta Pilipponen langen\n\nPACIFIC SERVICE\n\nTM Robe mod. Takohem)\n\nFRITHILA ON IRION\n\n**411\n\nINWARD SERVICE\n\nPie Faria, Van'rre à Monani\n\nBet Finans. Van'vor & Selle\n\nKEENEA D\n\nrahu, Kobu & Tokohama\n\nOLTRES Dus der For Mangiai, Kobe & Yekekrana\n\nLik megy Manman artą landed pestskapar segon macalarn\n\nspomaly rudsand furni\n\nPar fright, manage ena nad mačkemaluan apply sa tạo waedne.\n\n4:1 karkiam per abjani, tu så peersings of the Compania 'a\n\nBul al Coding\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE\n\nJEPA\n\nBARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE.\n\nTHE PREMIER ALL WATER ROUTE 10 NEW YORK and other U.S. Atlantic Purta via Pam\n\nAli Vessels call at SAN FRANCISCO and L.OS ANGELES route\n\nPassengers desiring to travel, by this interesting Route will Nad the accommodation provider! well to to their nicpeovations, up at a cost TRDNÍ reasonable\n\nPar Passenger and Freight information pinnas apply —\n\nDODWELL & CO., LTD.\n\nQuan Blingy\n\nAge\n\nTelephone 2002:\n\nNY.K.\n\nLINE\n\nREDUCED THROTONTEES TO COLORE VIL VIA\n\nVAITING PRON JETA 10 ZIMO-ON BALE\n\nMAN VILAMÓCA vu Bhanghai, Japan Porte à Bouvindo\n\nWednesday, 28th Chalobar Cheboku Hagu\n\nWednesday, 11th Nov.\n\nPaula Maru\n\nBATTLE, FANCHEVET TA Mazgirt à Japon Potte\n\nHiye Mucu\n\nHan Mar\n\n...\n\nTuesday, November\n\nTue, 10% Kovanciar\n\nDAMBAN, MARSHOLES, ANTWERP & COTTURkkar via Bergspare.\n\nno & Semi\n\nKabar\n\nKe Mau\n\nSaturday, 30th Coleber\n\nSaturday, 14th November\n\nSTONET & MELBAUENI Can Kamila à Marse\n\nKamu Maru\n\nKado Mar\n\nBang, 24th October\n\nSaturday, 21st Novačakar\n\nDAWNĀTOS Mincipars. Fotang Daimle\n\nMam Mar\n\nToki HA\n\nr\n\nSunday, Schaber\n\nFriday, 10th Cetaker\n\nBANE ARBOGA. – Tan Ömat) Tin Japan. Hapalulu Gora je spadea,\n\nProda\n\nOTO Mar\n\nNEW YORK & Benson via Panama\n\nTAUT Haru\n\nTueday, 30th November\n\nWednesday, 11th Nov.\n\nLIMPERIAL na Pars zinad. Binnekami «Canolamiragley, 4 frames de\n\nToyok Mare\n\nFriday, 14th November\n\nCALCUTTA A Sumpspoes, Pmany 4 Koljone\n\nMalers Maru\n\n+Macera M\n\nSHANKKI, KAR & YOKURASA\n\n*me Maru.\n\nYe Men\n\nha Maru\n\n12\n\n1\n\nBaturday, 7th Novembar\n\nThursday 2 Peter\n\nMAP October\n\nVeda, 5 th Chekkur\n\nYOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nRIVETLESS SHIPS.\n\nWelding Processes at Olympia.\n\nSTRIKING EXHIHITA\n\nSeveral sinking exhibita si Thư Exhibém, ut Olympia, den: with\n\nKADING QUERIES.\n\nHarbour Master Gives Full Details.\n\nWORK IN TYPHOON.\n\ncomathe\n\nreldme sal show how the woman Harbor Master zero fall detalla an The Strat, wolded ming the Zyllgur, Phim 34 mmững kết Legislative\n\nakk han kom made pratīb\n\npertise with Kosen, T. in d. Berki ris and Hala Hania to be renamed | Shika by Du Brunk Colombia Co\n\nPue further (afvenation apply to—XIPPON TUSEN KABHA\n\nPlana bella (Peivave sachange be all Degin)\n\nmenu Ch. of Victoria. She has had\n\n• few accidenta, bent no hall Jenk\n\nRegister agrees to a ten-ysing a Med at an annual verity. Than A - it roi ma by the\n\nLa Manasa ndition to CAN CA\n\nakar mal the ing on the day in die Thịthe serenor of Mr. Tonies. The graphing were, saker en jou behalf, by the Bank Str. 8. W. Tu\n\n1931.\n\nSOVIET BOYCOTTED.\n\nGerman Owners Decide to Send No More Ships\n\nSTRIKES PERMITTED.\n\nBari, Qet, It\n\nto\n\nThe German Ship-owners' Asunc|4- sslystig barerell ngulmet the Soviel sad decided not to send ship Soviet Russia in the ground chas the murikin which harta kökurred cantly\n\nGerman skipa parkiet by the Soviet amikoritas Den and Galenus war wit wly but even supported by the\n\nAt the prime moment, the crewe ur 43 Guests visuale lying la. Han Thor karbours sex mirskiing IN SYMPANY\n\nwith the kṣaven's maziem vāch' they reft we doelwit\n\nbullets to hava benken met lej vazala the bid fastenber\n\nparty of Germany, The German nag- RE DE Kaming frame-(a) WA\n\nRigtig Ponderand have Taubered t\n\nLA VILAs med ia taka proseed- Inga kënnt shem for mutiny. Valon-\n\ntar wat all the Khaninger\n\nI, I'sw mu rơi Trên Merc\n\ntyka Tha Arm has one of the ad for Enzweer Offen fer, anlatanca” Informative, welding stande ko khai char passo on to the Kanday? thu camibiting hi sera mander 10 ha, a these mig prora af ketina - Per at wilding vela and several of\n\nthe taal pingen an view papriest the\n\nWhich Lloyd's Router\n\nBruk forpočutien pano keir Approval for welded by mana' Hà. -\n\nActual Coperation. Two lena than 15\n\n* \n\nThe\n\nmay be applied to marke Notinoble spally azn the axleb\n\n¦ \n\n|| \n\nTruch bark the Grepen proseka.\n\npaliaty repertoir Portal Ligt same\n\nKabina Janka had book Wreaked mm\n\nThe Lema Talange in plaase Trai wasy. Uwing in a temporary delvet\n\nin Kansing's wirekes selegraph it was\n\npeynd improbavit to get a moD-AACO through bé bet and Du Naval Authori M.A Vary kindly\n\nFlak a fact that the Kaming Anchored in Kowloon Bay sharing aftersama at til Sostenker when Pak woon vonk in various pazia Di uchet de Hackerel 12 in, between what\n\nMuch Haval analatanes_m-cloud_vy_ the Naval Authorslin the NË\n\nfe \n\nBritish Oxygen Co., Ltd, Surat Tikka Une Processes, Ld, the Trampen\n\nSturmelend in ourzy wet – Lie rasense of takartak M Wing, after the 1790NT CONDE DEL\n\nThere are en lí types of myth 2. 14 Are the bative of the Priding and WXy-pentylane, making Kuualle during the patentada vampestada en Que stand of the Bellah – tyskeren in Du Celery!\n\nAl-Litovidgr. Lal), and\n\nran da açan in the shoud be actual, or dong the Master ket na bin iuttle\n\nHive!\n\nMaren Weltor Procent, lik|15 ta the Kooning esly intended to Kina daplay very posesont émet kalp Tanja vaakain at may alas of that work. This fem imetrymates | requiring amul\n\n110. What act of quariamen Alley Waldine. Praenza, 104, and\n\nThe Men Cdr. Bole zepřed\n\nThuar have ve výew at the exhibition = | 1yphons at the 204 September 2 including the Inkarl slemen of stor Deletions are generator w elven dally in the vớt of their psein? victrade, and include the welding at variom vindalada acaria And Alleys on The market\n\nkitt\n\ndil\n\nTWO trading, Jordan, A third towed seina Gaine Sal the tangkan escher parked my was CUG. | The Jafar in sumpseted bronne the Kawat teer At very low Abecher striking mand, with a Ho the rank people complain SEAL Tsawa (on fait, Á V TH sland made the Kaina je Phalkek, zerials farther notable de thee ja fourth june but withough volemme le Brak wolkig werk, CHENG,a ni made feat. (3) Mana ker rangu beats. Approach\n\n10 le pegnized by Brides Belated | kids by Bruning, mere found in vend KARATAN THE 14 salomatic ball\n\n| welder introduced some SOUTH 189, AN\n\n mote well vstablished in mak branchen of anginaaring, TE IN WAR IN That\n\n4. Po from Island where two small andma wyan offered ansistance\n\nIm. Tiku mlecznam tenky\n\n| yard for wekking Hanges du bë piga mano v Du\n\nwagle rette of all the scriptions.\n\nBy maing ane sling maablont 1 wʻqaimed that up to bò per eat, in\n\nStormċjail to larostirnin. Árling an A ZDIEL Opalvol Irsat the Shie\n\nHarbour Magar seat VAI TRA kuang 48 104 magang si September i ta CRETS PEL - Tantanga akech. Th PRng arrived baca IN THE OVARIE having Innensa 12 persons. No repočí kam kean rubVAR KE ANy masalty karing weary on Lammin läiked.\n\n7.\n\nTrpha Ozitza.\n\nA copy at the volens for the\n\n| denwa, up in July 1ướ by the fourrura Mater Lider Harbour [Ukakama†, J. Sutherland, Esquece, 1. N. Ikan, kajuite, raprasasting the Cinare Chament at ĻOBLEMON, | Lajtad 1. 2. Muta, ka ZADACIA- Ca. 166, Lapagim 1. Erika, Kansa\n\nWaaronger, nigkong and Kawam Yaari and Godena Vas in Savel\n\nThe Master pruria under the pener baltkatika\n\nL\n\nBahar Olsa Ezo posed to him sa\n\nThe Earbour Master účĩa khi gangg mingilega from the Katheer MASAT\n\ndesi mačke bit to cha patantivi nad Judgment of the messer who in the\n\nsa Jaden Lie ospatukone of the ha\n\nCung In One winskar somalizima_slan\n\nin na alle.\n\n1. All ců), megardene of the\n\nthe Xevieon Gadows Compeer | alone gevonder và THE SEVERE, NE MOR\n\nle the knez la bow some igraci\n\nB. Thu + Đmorpgd by Em Apr\n\nel of rhw marial may free of Kambour Wharf to Thumati in quantión 1. with ern spong conta Ime machining.\n\nredelana\n\nTxa praped to Kayang\n\n- man Ünkan as there m\n\nAchanak Teken moldin bad pound to be we funger to Un-Tr ter wh rentage, it le paly in receść zamia Duất jagat then testam has been paint 10 AM mandkod mechai et production\n\nLA MA MD mer beim Wanted so tha joining tagalber of mariale in cerpen\n\nen with some athar promo, más se blind soaking, Wite drawing, timmati work we in the handgere ledsaker, hit now in a large number af maven 14 in sand for joining machined parta to !cow which personly, wady saked * the sewal mechanical methods at PETANCAT Expense.\n\nSHANGHAI SEARCH.\n\nKusor\n\nthem\n\nwww.ime.\n\n3 regami wka zuenivad fr\n\npng to Luwee kg\n\nPo Yamal Ad by Kaung had precended La La Li end of the harbour 16 WAL vedere se les reprenanties that pers\n\nAlba won having had Qur saaneity be le samed to sing it Saat la back in cook the Kawsang team - 20 and so deprime BAT cuft n the Bart, who might be in wood lakkór, at their upper- tatuit, la mareal, townge. The request vas ins passed to Khadkng.\n\nCel A report was received that some : ehters belonging to Bablerbeda and 5wiem were in trouble\n\nAs the Kang ked Batons plewçunded to the Ext for the panami ke set Cart\n\n07.\n\nCONSIGNEES' NOTICE.\n\nHAMBURG ANKOIA LIVIR\n\nThe Metacramel,\n\nRAMSES-\n\nbering weervol Demognem of Cago kee karaby metaled that their precis Las Mong Sasam and pissed at the Thik in The Baghyng and Ho Whalf and Orari CompTRY'S DA Appena al kamjone, whom deltary zam he abschonë se the menda kou JAKÉNT\n\nCybiškai vaga will be inGOS, KR- Jana\" Matiče ka jaus given prisë sa Beemer s karval.\n\nEngineer Jumps Overboard art weet med lathe Kings Gouda kave left the Undemia an\n\nOf Woosung.\n\nAn I'd uk, Grupert was received From the Green Gland Cement Co. Saat moun laukters more in diatreon of Hak Your Region Bay). Thit mogę www popond to Kuning Un riyal ké dák Thon kung sa bad member, rondle the Master decided that k\n\nOBSYED AN IMPULSE.\n\nHangkal police warn laat most Jooksum fer á fecoigner, who, it was believed, was comming Wessang renda,\n\nThe expian để she mammer Dalero be an ardua risk to take the\n\nMain Imported sa tha, karbon master's son shortly after ka arrival from being this pac af kla ungimo Sammad vrachaard si Wevelg. Tha\n\nrarily A\n\nKuning to Lo Qia lighters & dimension with Wheck the Bubou Xiater rura\n\nPOT A Tapart was received that a bale wenn sie king inaade Källeti TalÊN. Thai Muangt visa paanud va Kuumugo\n\n10Wemen Dan Marine Woman On smaller Kellele faland en sign\n\nThe exscale deal. Taken this fellow | Bich funk could\n\ncamda tinning from his quarters wage Hamm di net aanich knalde Kabeli\n\nNo will be nakled after\n\nkit perda remaining vadadvend dur the 28th October, 1931, will be subject\n\nAll broken, chafod, and damaged Gaola ara sa be left in the Gelerta when they will be staminad en meth Gaber, 1931 na 16 mm by our San veporn, Masara. Goddard mad. Dongma\n\nAll Flame must reach me hoćeni sku Ende zeroeder, 1931, je vezan na\n\nHe Israe\n\nVVACATION\n\n18\n\nPHILIPPENSES\n\nLADO-CHINA\n\nTEAM\n\nNAVIGATION CO., LTD.\n\nHAFLINGEN SCHURF VEERATION.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nCONSIGNEES NOTICES.\n\nTHE WEATHER.\n\nYesterday's Advices and Evening Forecast.\n\nGLOYD TRIESTINO SAY CO.\n\nProM TRIESTE, VENICE, BLINDI, PORT HARD, ADER.\n\nBOMBAY, COLOMBO\n\nSINGAPOR\n\nThe Steamer.\n\n\"PILSNAT\n\nCONSIGNEES' NOTICE CHINA\n\nNORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN.\n\nThe Acamer\n\n\"DREFFLINGK\"\n\n23\n\nNAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\n...\n\nSZECHUEN\n\nS\n\nOok. 25, 10 m ........KWANGCHOW Det, 25ch, 20m.m.\n\nBOOCHOW\n\nUm 271, 10 m\n\nOn 26th, 5p.k.\n\nFor\n\nHous En, Pam à HAIBONG... KINGYUANTO-DAY, 3 bp-m Aany HwAMAL\n\nTAIYUAN ...I-LAY. haring and from Broman, Bam Swami Shamanął\n\n↓ P. XITSOCHOW..ah Bià, la berg, and peči, romignese if enegs | Amor, Swatum & bixmarama |ma|kunky_peille Mat their mi Swazow, Biciscanu à Tauro Langyċude of Hongkong, 114′′ 17′′ 17′′\n\nAls lesbig landed it their rự Labida Hongkong, 12' 1\" Coalguem of Curse see hereby in- Komikoa Wharf and Godown Chu Lag SWATO, SASA & Tins\n\nthe godown at The Smaking sal\n\nHwarow a Basuvok firmed that sil Good as being, Kawings, wheece delvery Shaxandi, Nowenwang lonzed at thole Tini. Hits the Onde chiame of the Hanging and Xylem Whart Noom Dether 994. 18%, AskThe anti Godow Company, at Kww-the -Dentha watow, Wangen, Charou\n\nAmor & FrapoRAI Gonnesara ser further pačißel that cyclone i now central, wona Paking it, whonen sadise from the velarves at Hambre Bemm through and in spranding east-north-amat! delivers may be illained,\n\n* Opcional parts will not be sanded ka. \"Ovtar Jarl,\" na \"Gencer, SWATIN, Haanama & Tu BRANTUNG NOT pago lay hanghang o sa “Bignit\" H&K There are inflation of a typkanı – Jara, malena metien kan han geran, METAISM\" un \"ka. \"Herewe\" from\n\nbours prior sa vaderl's wife), but hey, Eregea sai Wang,\n\nAWATON & Hamaros N.W. NOW. Yania warsing. 29, DA, DAS-TY- Mead part or will to which is optics after the zich af October, 1931, wil - Hwaton, Shanukala TRING\n\nFoto, Passon & Hairloge... Na Piza Inweer will be efcand|| Framw, Hassanan & TeproTAO\n\nSwamwe. Wouwką. Charno\n\nway.\n\nTHE\n\nD\n\nT⚫ TSINGTAU vin SWATOW\n\n* SHANGHAI\n\nTO SINGAPORE, PENANG\n\n4 CALCUTTA\n\nTO OSAKA TI AMOY, SHAI.\n\nNORE\n\nKlekomers\n\nFailing DAVIKEN Hum, 264) Beta. KWAIBANG Wəl.. 2013 CHILL, HOTELANGE\n\nJet Kay.. YAISHING Wed, tih Nov.. YVENSANG MƐun. 206k Del KUMSANO Fn.. Mi Nor.. BUIBANG Fri., Nov.,\n\nRak 104 Det\n\nWed, 15th Nov.,\n\nTu DRAMA win AMOY & KOBE HOSANO Fo. 37 Now\n\nFINBASO TO KANDAKAN\n\nPr. Cel KAUBANG Wed.. Lith Nov, CHIPSNIO Trum, 295 Cek..\n\nA\n\nTIM\n\n7LM. 74.m\n\nSOUTH 4 NOT KUTANO\n\n& p.m.\n\nTam\n\n74.2.\n\nTA.M.\n\nNoon-\n\nmarine N.N.W. Bod. The P. DE 3p.. Skangkat warning. 114, 306. 1a) Tynkoen nú vażkown intona ly with-\n\nHompitong kabufall einen January 14, 24 85 Juden, muRTRAG AN AYUTART of 7 inches.\n\nbefore the 7th Neved 19 (len priodolog to the mid-ra\n\nwill not be recognised,\n\nS.S. \"PRES. CLEVELAND\"\n\nMANILA\n\nH\n\n6.00 p.m.\n\nKENDAT, OC 13.\n\nDOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE\n\nNORD\n\nDEUTSCHER\n\nLLOYD\n\nFAR EASTERN PAILENDER & FATIGHT SEVICE.\n\nThema HoskinJA AR London Cabin Clase only. Tarragh kontunya sa AMERIÇA ca Budd1⁄2 and baKUROPE vs AMARICA\n\nNEXT SAILING TO EUROPE\n\n+-\n\nPASS AN\n\nFre\n\nPAY\n\nHATA\"\n\nSEEFLIYER\" - KALBARLICKAN\n\nKLEN\n\nbeparveen ich 2 member\n\ndag/km 124 December\n\n- 2pm, 200g\n\n*Contem\n\n* Culting me Lubern. Passager dearen emang re Monita med Pond Glava Battainde,\n\nAlberta. Betgandam, Handbourg und Bremen\n\nAmsterdam Betuwdim, Hepburg und Bruma.\n\nNEXT ARRIVALS FROM EUROPE:\n\nBAILINGS TO SHANGILA I & II SRL ISSZA MARUY\n\nFreight 18 19\n\nZAM 16 ORA AMOR ÜLEKEN PASS, SACOBLENZ\"\n\nZuzkare Bar Upsalag\n\nder het With Kovember\n\nHoge Hak 1-anambar\n\nHONGKONG-NEW GUINEA.\n\nNext BABAUL ad Porin.\n\n4.E, HAREMBAN (VEN” on or shout ded penamber 1981.\n\nMELCHERS & CO..\n\nAgusta, Manglong\n\nBill of Lading will be conntersign- ed by the unde\n\nJINSIN & Co.\n\nAgesta Hongkong, Th Chelaber, Luca,\n\nTelephone 162,\n\nCanon Again'\n\nJBSEN & CO.\n\nShameez, 8.0.\n\nAT A TER DORT Fer un padrone, Joped as there werent water CAPT. T. G. PURVIS\n\nHERALD THe how at the sang, Jing, der sata mariquile at the Kew-\n\nclared back at the hedge for a mai\n\nspot, and then proceeded to unbučiam\n\nkan slicked, while in perched en te nag as stated\n\ne taken in contained in the leg.\n\n***We hellered at \" me the ones of noth the Check Low and\n\ncaptain. \"hat, ka, wou'd pay w\n\nLestion, Ho Jimt kapt nufumiening the -\n\nWire Telegraph Log are produced.\n\n4A large number at Job\n\nMARINA ARTIs.\n\nSahlbiter, Repul Svciety of\n\nArtista and Reyni Hibernia Jandarmy\n\nif you require un 40 se Water\n\nColor Painting of Stammer,\n\nalicker. Piried toward the force basta matinated at show 100 Yacht, Sailing Salp or any of were lying lengide the proyek, ko mocha come sour Kim, ka Likew of 1 shame. Each sway we won the die Clippers, (Önnuk ar\n\n| wwed end of the hous, but bufera Bag\n\nTelephone 17867.\n\nim slicker a leaped over the klant ten van Same mat deemed sveću | Amen).\n\nAccording to the emplata, the wipe, Į Įgenstad, the siter. No TECIDÍ, THE maiken were ordered dressed at dete i pl. Az order has now been immund\n\n|ka weld coming the men with the\n\nPapelar\n\nrag under the water, Une tik buat\n\nup hope of mammitting\n\nPLANETARE of the Daly\n\nMüller dechend\" \"A sampa\n\nMIL\n\nwho had born looking on with Mr-\n\nBhat auth a verset with be kept in\n\nPraya Wall Donger.\n\nThe Kamwing dee_la_wanther\n\n+ \n\nKowloo Bà 1 AL 100 ya anchor was weighed but at 6-10 pay the Ex\n\nent, came when the mean: behar. | gnezda mother was again tramped wmil\n\nKuning remained at anchor\n\nwat\n\nWe had driftas down-ram when the weather modeling\n\nteam, but, seeing the gineer was hesin pat under way.\n\npału, we ristled in Ut elverline kitch\n\nand preceeded ja Shanghai.\n\nhave been made by Pe\n\nMost of the crab wank or broken\n\non Parkas Dja penyu wall met thri\n\nTate bmtween the piers to the west at\n\nThe Harbour Diler katmer: 234 pm\n\nAnd 430 pm. Had the Kaming Been Sadat alễ khône piers the mould\n\nLorrie koma cando Piran ta | Masa boom unable to jen kan kan them\n\nBeth Elmer of kinecovery of\n\nThe Peter P\n\n110 Pa\n\nPERTE DA SE MUa kesä kam rumNE\n\nja grove Haly of booming katanut ai\n\ndegree 50 N. 7 Wat, amit ca.\n\n199 paront bal gran bir 2-rk, 25\n\nDegrees At West. The blanda\n\nsaid to len very dangerous for shipping.\n\n...\n\nEn Repumber 3 w Che\n\nNg Mai being empleyst AMITY-\n\nand the Ger\n\nRAN\n\nD7\n\nTILAGE\n\nGO\n\nFONGKONG\n\nPRINCE LINE\n\nFRBODENT SERVICE\n\ntu\n\nBOSTON AND\n\nNEW YORK\n\nCALLING AT NAPLES\n\n\"CINGALESE PRINCE\"\n\n· JAVANESE PIINJE\"\n\n5th November\n\n1st Dober\n\nEnna leak Jegginsaciation for a limited number of Passer park s\n\nusadeemia a\n\nFare-Hongkong to Naples... £50\n\nFor other Pazarge mitos, Freight, eto,, apply to :—\n\nFIRNESS (FAR EAST) LIMITED.\n\nTO TIENTSIN via S'TW,\n\nFLUCHOW A CHE DO CHEONGSHIKU Sun, Nov., 7am.\n\nBut longba un passage apply s\n\nJARDINE MATHESON & CO., ITD.\n\nTalpmed.\n\nĶnopen) Měnangetu\n\nGLEN LINE\n\nPARES HONGZONG TO LONDON.\n\n10 June/ Harber\n\nLift Degenber/31 May\n\nALDEAK\n\nTO LONDON. ROTTERDAM & HANBULE VIR STRAITS & COLONNO.\n\n9tomer-b.p\n\nPULEN|FFER\"\n\nTO SHANGHAI, KÖNÉ, YOKOHAMA & YLÄPIYOSTOCK.\n\nMeter Vonal (GLENOGLE”\n\nMotor Vonne\n\nGLENBEG\"\n\nMoker Vignani “'IEBNAPP\n\nTEINAN.... Cel seth, Spa\n\nA TANTON BUCHOW.....Ol. 20, N\n\nKWEIYANG\n\nabout. 200 mľne nerik of Yaji mer varied so from pect to port to the AA rende remaining modelirana | Bananai, Nekelwang & DALY CEFERAN\n\nA 2, m\n\nما امام بن\n\nNy thêm yê hy sinha Altar Che (inch hem left the End then i say one whatever. 19th October, 1892, will k\n\nrumclnlng undzivala sather tha | Dunaren pachagua must be Jud's in thjort to the godown for excɔination by the |consignem, and the Company\",\"be matvejen, Ne Anderson and Alle shay - 1932\n\n• 10 .. the led el Dobokar, Ka dalam bell be adult star All broken, ekataga Lamangai. The gunda kawa left the puddies pa Goods are to be left bị lập Cambodia, al dimana senat de pensantal W where they will be we pled on the two wooks, of the chip's arrival het, The Ulegram quoted below was p. 29th October 1951, at 15 2 by our | khan which date Pasy wil met be her\n\nandred Truthe Manila Obwalory survogars Stari ting eller and anguinot, at the Amarisan Commulate Gensen! | Douglas,\n\nMaxila Yarulog.\n\nCraiguen nece requested to man No Fire Insurance her baan ollastad, render Dale Men of Lading to the Billo of Laglegg will be sousarviga, unattalgiai čec countersignatur.\n\n130°, Lang. E, AS IT FALK, alky moving NW,\n\nBrembur BarkBol\n\nOut. 21, 6 –The typhoon for patt then 200 selles N. of Yap, ENNE M.W.\n\nThe anti-ggelama sa sentral she the\n\nworth of Korea,\n\nDODWELL & CO., LTU\n\nÄgenu\n\nBRITISH INDIA SN, DO, ITU From CALCUTTA RANDBOOM. PENANG KINGAPORE\n\nLatal forectal-E winds, fraki | The Simm TALNA\"\n\nMETEOROLOGICAL.\n\n20h Nervesaba\n\nBir tebe\n\n5th November\n\n10th November\n\n4th December\n\nBagland DearYLINE), VİNE DAker\n\nJay\n\n201\n\nPre Pretti, pomaga und freiber parkiaulien spjoj bo\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON GO., LTD.\n\nAEP THE GLEN LIKE, LTD\n\nTRAVEL A.-O. LINE.\n\nENTRALIA, Calling så Mamiễn (P. l.). Thursday L..\n\nCharna, Tawpavilla, Beshana, Bydony and Malbearna. BUTIK STEAMERE CHANGTE-TAIPING (...) PARTEFT MORT TE TO DATE STEAMERS IN THE SERVICE KLECTRIC LAL MORY, BARBER SHOP, BUMATON U\n\nFELWARDEN OKK\n\nD\n\nM\n\nr\n\nJun\n\nн\n\nJ\n\nhatine arrived from the shoes par Kamagra of Corps me hanby j formed that Chetr Guade 120 bring the Hongkong und Kowlem. When and Gedown Oomane's Galewno al —\n\n14h hay H chained de soju ja\n\nGrodkar Thöded\n\n1231, will be subjekt 1. rent.\n\nNice vil se ofonbed\n\nby the jah hay man whatever.\n\nTamegri Parkagen must be left in\n\nF\n\n\"\n\n1\n\ncha Getaman tur 2men by the\n\n·\n\nmuaj nga me Zemperaboen van de kan je\n\nat 10 ham on Masdays and TheDENJE. home Man to presented with-\n\n1. The days of the espapa's merival ¦herr, after why mat\n\nbe repemand\n\nMELORERS & CO.\n\nAgwia Norddeuwcher Laaye, Bing Hongkong, Th Ortaber, 1921.\n\nNOTICE\n\nPROF. I. KETO'S, Massage staklenogors moved from 1. Queer's Head, G\n\nU. Hamer Load, Maschall\n\nTelephine 220SE (Pacing Orient Building..\n\nASAHI BEER\n\nBal Agents\n\nITSUI\n\nBUSSAN\n\nKAISHA\n\nLTD.,\n\nHAUKINNON MAUL, 202 & Co.\n\nHONGKONG\n\nAgrsta\n\n--\n\nHONGKONG TIDE TABLE.\n\nTAINL GERANG TE.. The 11th Der k TAIPING\n\nJan. 17\n\nIng 15th\n\nNow 201\n\n1 Dee Bab\n\nMb Fab. d\n\n15w\n\nFor MIT KING\n\nvha ♬\n\nEnjoy Your Sher! Laany in Australia and Nave Loviand. Hong Kong Sydney 19 Daya. FIRST VLABS FARE TO AYONET, 276 METUUN\n\nLONDON 194 Australia; from 11:36:13\n\nqur lekese Taira l'hora Lacuna donna. Dea Beypa\n\nOBANCTE\n\n10\n\nAUSĪGALIAN- ORIENT L LIKE LIMITED BUCKSIDE MONTILE. Again HOND INDI\n\nO. S. K.\n\nANTHON BANDWID\n\nAND ANTWERP DEL Bog\n\nJANELİNİ KANTES R IRENES ALEKS\n\n-7\n\nMULIACENE VILISANE SARMAY\n\nTÄCCKLAND & WELLINGTON\n\nMar\n\nmanda AY\n\nMOMBASA ZANZIBAR. PANTS SALAAN. APIRA 19URANCE KARATES, BLAIAN PORT EL. ZABETH & CAFETERN 1 chên 121 BX JANRING BANTING J BUENAS AIRES\n\nmen\n\nCALAUTTA VIAMonpapan, Kalymns\n\nDe Bang\n\nNEW YOK, in Japan pod l\n\nAngelie a Panama Call Trimetal Bom Phila alge in d. Maltalk. JAPAN PORTS (Prequent Harved |\n\nKAIPHONG Som Top & Fakha\n\nCEILING L Batam ad\n\n(day 1\n\nTATAI V Sundew and Away.\n\nTetaphily (10\n\nW\n\nMonada Moru\n\nblue sky, imelendz, d=dziugļu, ==folghtning, ist, The Lionde hai jadi ing (odpora Gravelcard, perpasaling showera, equatio, so, sathunder.\n\nALIURATHA\n\nkt: ne\n\nthn\n\nS\n\n: !!!\n\nFr\n\nT'h Ker\n\nTues Non\n\nWed\n\n1st Nat\n\nToda Mari\n\nFr\n\nShed Cri\n\nMito\n\nThu, 29th Chel\n\nB 25 Öel\n\nThum, 5th No\n\nsalon M\n\nTh∙li har..\n\nFor further particulars please apply to:-\n\nOSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.\n\nTel.\n\nTHE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD., COPENHAGEN.\n\nThe M.S. \"SIAM\"\n\non or about 24th October\n\nIne\n\nPORT SAID, HAVRE, MARSEILLES, ANTWERS ROTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM BAMBURG COPENHAGPS & OTHER RCANDINAVIAN & BALTIC POS\n\n1.\n\nPAWA\n\nMIATA\n\nANNA JU\n\nMAILING LIT\n\nthe f\n\nDet\n\nThe 3 of Lolk er um from the na GW Ila ka baba zaporini.\n\n\"GLEN\" LINE (DIFTED.\n\n7 Motory AAA,\n\nPELENOGI I And fre Cumerenees of mange b;\n\nint that\n\nTar Ind me ther risk tr\n\n-\n\nwer extre bargado,\n\nDen Bmekan\n\nH Kiedmans\n\nwe por\n\n¡ MTC Ping\n\nhaxard\n\nGodmen at Toon What\n\nlimited\n\nmp and a fewn the whačem, de\n\nAng may kaszaimed\n\nASAHI\n\n1971, at 10\n\nin th\n\nLAGER\n\nALE PONgg Inrindag these\n\npolice by Mr G. 1. Ger, the provvind, and muit ako se rabattil seand beer, who lakimakes that the day of meriv... elhel weapon mas handed in the Chinese, they will not be redigini il martermastar to theum on October 1, No Flee Intard wat be effeted;\n\nwas dismissed at Switem, Sa\n\nBit of Lang wiD He\n\nmapected að karlng inken. Che revolver of l\n\nThe what discover: JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD notil the ship'n gemak was checked saarival in Hongkong.\n\nweek, the Dutybar, IM1.\n\nExport\n\nCOM\n\nBANK LINE LTD.\n\nAGENTS FOR\n\nELLERMAN & BUCKNALL 5.8.\n\nCO., LTD.\n\nKATLINGS. STIRJEST TO ALTERATION WITHOLT FOTICE. UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT\n\n8.6. \"ITY OF WINDSOR\"\n\n8.8. \"CITY OF HOUBAL\"\n\nFAST\n\nOD\n\nLITY\n\nELLER WAN LINE.\n\nLondon, Katteplam, Bamburg & Glasgow.. Havre, London, Rotterdam & Hamburg\n\nH p + Tith Yember\n\nNEW YORK, BOSTON & BALTIMORE AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE.\n\nALSO WOINTI POR\n\nANDREW\n\nWEIR & CO.\n\nHER FACT tho\n\nAMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE.\n\nMV. \"IRIKBANK\"\n\nat Now\n\nI'\n\nBeaton. Now Yark & Baltimaa MY POYLEBANK\" Boston, New York & Ballimato MAGRITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA\n\nSTINEOW-\n\n\"ob Jam 14'?\n\nBANGXING BANGVON SKILICE MAPITAINED BY THE FAST BATON RESSAL V.\n\nPINTANDO\n\nW\n\nKnee Booting.\n\nTriophene 2505,\n\nIelegram. \"Fumanc-e\n\nThiepveno 14871.\n\n;\n\n\"\n\nLer\n\nES OUTÖRER. 1951.\n\npirate apple te JOHN MANKENS & CA LH.\n\n...\n\nBehaven.*.\n\nich Navebuv\n\nORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE.\n\na dlak Chak ber Ma \"etla.. Kantan, Prologoa day. Exat 1-8d – Ak Day Fort Mnet àlay, anzi Capriona Through Hub of Jamag mind to Bary, quicus me. To Peet Atverk. Mozambique, Code. Ixhaminas, Zanabar. Monsassa, Kundra, Id Nagok, Tum Bay, Wade Pay apd Hedagow.\n\nfraight phanage on xay of the abera lisel\n\nMeranie Bank Baldin.\n\nTelephone 7.\n\nTHE BANK LINE, Ltd.\n\n10\n\n...\n\nNOT\n\nI 10.\n\nKAYIKO SUITANG\n\n„Kov. Si, Ap\n\nKey E EUROCHOW Now, Hà. 110 p. BUNNING\n\n*,, Nov. 8th, LUPA. TISTS XOXICROW Nov 19th 10m 10.\n\n* Caling at Away for Pasoengues only\n\nBalinge Bunjach to Alteration\n\nFor Fregul or Fanvagn apply to—BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE\n\nTalophon 3)\n\nAgrate\n\nChers and keppage san lor Enement at ima Ullared Vottarhald\n\nHAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE\n\nYAPPEL.\n\nFAR EASTER MAIL-FREIGHT- = PARBENGER SERVICE between. JAPAN, CHINA, BOSALONG, PAI LIPPINES, STRAITS SETTLEHENIS. COLOMBO and BUROPE.\n\nSAILINGS 10 UROPE.\n\nMIT KHADELAND\"\n\nMT\n\nKANGRA\n\nAV-LEVERS FEN\"\n\n39\n\nRAARLAND\n\nDEITINATION.\n\nTees, Kastırdım i\n\n(3) Oman, Mattosklen, Kostarda\n\nLEAVING\n\nING\n\nHamburg Ni Novencher\n\nBird Nesebar\n\nGia Dovember\n\nBreedtem, Mosterdam\n\n+ Hamburg\n\n(1) Gam, Matsuším, Recordem\n\n4 Balang\n\nmikku ja varapova 1NI JEUNG JA Goj arīkoj\n\nARNIVALS FROM EUROPE,\n\n· LEVERKUSEN\n\nNYELMELLAND'\n\nTh\n\nBAJOČNOM ME\n\nD\n\nMY\n\nKM SAARLAND\"\n\n176\n\nBjects ratios tulkost. Nolum (T) Exellent Acunmodation fur Passenger, Qualiħad Burgwom\n\norczled.\n\n25 Limited Passenger Abgommedaliva, Qulided Surgeca saznION (3) Cargo Brat\n\nFaraghodig in Semon from £70.0.0. Par (tylko particulars please apply to diguda ——\n\nJEBSEN & CO.,\n\n37. Poddar ásamt, Hongkong.\n\nAGJENTA\n\nTad iz\n\nLLOYD TRIESTINO\n\nPertuightly Pasangan and Freight Hervice for\n\nBRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE\n\nris Žagapers, Columbs, Bombay, Jules, Bam, and Port Bald.\n\nTak Curges through Hilla of Lading to Fitaner, Gans, Al HallAN,\n\nAdelaide, Liries, Blask doa sud Dumbo Parla\n\nFamasgera to LONDON (Overh\n\nNEXT BAILINGS FROM HONGKONG\n\nB.B. MONCALIEKI (Cargo boek, NN, CARIONANO (Carga bouti\n\n5.8. PILNA\n\n8. GANG\n\n(Pamerogor mos\n\n[Passenger boat)\n\n5.8 VENEZIA L (Pam & enzym konto\n\nMV. BILDA\n\n(Large boat)\n\n8.8. CRACOVIA || Passenger busty\n\n* Ünļmayıl vayaju se Kamples vały.\n\nthad Sut\n\n315 Ok\n\n2012 Del\n\nInh Em .. Bộ GT\n\n18th Mar\n\n2003 Hea\n\n14 Der 17th Jan> \n\nLa The\n\nLariamlar Attentam in called in shaka “GARGET MAANA MAI Makhu thu veg zân Hongkong/Hade em 30 days, than sibering passengers to nuk benda\n\n♫k duya ən koma for the Chelatarna Heli dogr Badung Duam vekjes së akomadian pikkeni merusa\n\nFor Fartendere, simae sapit ka v\n\nQueen's Belshing\n\nPol Speci\n\nDODWELL & CO., LTD.\n\nAgenu\n\nKLAVENESS LINE\n\nPACIFIC\n\nCUAST ASIATI\n\nSERVICE,,\n\n..EGI LAR TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE\n\nPALEOAL est for LOS ANGELES,\n\nSAR FRAMASCŲ, PORTLAND INEGON, PREET SOUND BATTLE TACOMA\n\n3BNFVILLE\n\nBaling ni Kar\n\nm. Lần making paper::: 'I: ANUKLA64 by Herat nypornAMŲ SOUTH BOUND\n\nYL1E\" dow Hlong lịch minh lên th Adressing cargo, la MINDAPURA AJAYA PORTA\n\nLantagh Funnger Amummaanting kallakka bar Fragma Paangs Haim and all sikar tabernet\n\npe\n\nTHORESEN & CO. LTD.\n\nkam v Benám.\n\nAparta\n\nTN\n\nMES.\n\n. Lop đưa\n\n147\n\nE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-536-1 Estimates- 1932 3-9-1931 - 16-6-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533628, "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": "CO129-539-13 Proposed transfer of Government Wireless Service to Imperial and International Communications Ltd. 11-4-1932 - 17-6-1933", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-539-13 Proposed transfer of Government Wireless Service to Imperial and International Communications Ltd. 11-4-1932 - 17-6-1933", "content_text": "We do not want to raise hopes or kill them if they are.\n\nThe trouble is that we want communication and the Japanese will be annoyed.\n\nThat the Company will probably have to rely upon cable and Isha be inclined to get a bit more certainty before writing.\n\nSaying that the sending copy of cyclones S.q.s. finds 70 and to foretell Les refce. (48) in 82765 to (1) and Former in suggesting to A reply difficulty the Japanese Ambassador, is to touch the Controversy, until they are in possession of the Company likelihood of same definite to the pursuing the wireless arrangement with Japan: (48) suggesting at once that the matter is stale and What it is open time closed on the ground that cables are expected to suffice.\n\nI think we should inform Japan that it is anticipated text than Hay Kay require 1 will be teams found lafu lay to be), C. L it is thought that it will be more convenient the services should be negotiated with that (\" when the transfer has completed - send copy of commp\" to I.C.C. L.F.\n\nTo F.O. Louse. 27 30 Ark 932", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-13 Proposed transfer of Government Wireless Service to Imperial and International Communications Ltd. 11-4-1932 - 17-6-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543247, "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": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "# The Climate\n\n5. Situated just within the northern limits of the tropics and occupying an insular position immediately south of the great land mass of China, Hong Kong's climate is very materially influenced by the direction of the prevailing winds. The North East Monsoon blows from November until April and during this period the weather is dry and cool and invigorating. From May until October, the season of the South West Monsoon, the air is highly charged with moisture and the climate is hot, muggy and enervating. July, August, and September are marked by atmospheric disturbances which now and then culminate in typhoons or cyclones accompanied by blinding sheets of rain.\n\n6. The mean annual temperature is 72°F. During the summer months the average temperature is 87°F and there is little variation throughout the twenty-four hours. Situated on the north side of the Island the City of Victoria gets all the heat and moisture of the South West Monsoon but not the breeze, which is cut off by the mountains behind the town. During the winter months the range of temperature is from 70°F to 45°F with an average 66°F necessitating for comfort the wearing of warm clothes and the provision of fires in the houses. Frost is practically unknown.\n\n7. The average yearly rainfall is 85.72 inches. As might be expected most of the rain falls in the summer months,\n\n## Population and its distribution\n\n8. Hong Kong, which depends for its prosperity on its trade with China, has three-fourths of its population concentrated in the cities of Victoria and Kowloon, which may justly be described as one city divided into two by the harbour. Outside this city there is little of commercial importance and Hong Kong as a Colony might almost be termed the city and port of Greater Hong Kong.\n\n9. With regard to the numbers, except in census years, there are no accurate statistical figures, the great movement to and from the Colony and the facility with which the border is crossed preventing accurate checking. Hong Kong being the principal entrepot for South China and its harbour one of the busiest in the world, every day on an average 5,000 to 6,000 individuals pass to and from China by river steamer or by rail and there are others who arrive and depart by junks or smaller vessels. During times of political unrest in China many thousands from the mainland sojourn in the Colony, some of whom return to their homes when conditions are more settled, others remaining attracted by the opportunities offered for employment.\n\n10. The total civil population of the Colony is estimated to exceed 900,000, of which some 400,000 reside in the City of Victoria; 280,000 in the town of Kowloon, over 100,000 on boats in the waters of the Colony and the remainder in villages.\n\n11. There are over 20,000 local boats registered at the Harbour Office, the occupants of each of which vary in number from four to forty according to the size and character of the craft. The Harbour Authorities believe the population to be 150,000 and certainly 100,000 cannot be an over-estimate.\n\n12. Of the total population over 97 per cent are Chinese. According to the Census Report one-third of the whole were born in the Colony. The remainder are mostly those who have come from China attracted by the facilities offered for employment. Many return to their native towns or villages when too ill or too old for labour. Through this exodus the death rate in the Colony is considerably lower than it otherwise would be.\n\n13. The masses are working people belonging to what is commonly described as the coolie class. The Chinese of the upper classes, many of whom have received a western education, are mostly engaged in commerce but there are among them a number of professional men including both lawyers and doctors.\n\n## Housing Conditions\n\n14. The town plans of Victoria and Kowloon are widely different, the former may be described as old-fashioned and irregular, the latter as modern and regular.\n\n15. The site on which Victoria stands is a narrow strip of land 4 miles long by 1/5th to 2/5ths of a mile broad lying at the northern foot of the mountain and separating it from the sea. The total area of available space is about one square mile or 1/32nd of that of the whole island. Limited in front by the sea and behind by the steep slopes of the mountain there remains hardly an inch of space which has not been occupied for one purpose or another.\n\n16. That portion of the town where the working classes reside and described in the Census Report as 'Health Districts 4, 5, 6, 6A, 7, 7A, 8 (restricted), 9, and 10A (restricted), forming the lower part of the town fronting on Victoria Harbour' has an area of roughly 200 acres and in this space nearly 200,000 individuals find accommodation giving a density of approximately 1,000 per acre.\n\n17. The conformation of the site with its rapid rise of land near the sea-shore led in the early days to the erection of houses on the narrow strip of land near the harbour and extending a little way up the lower slopes of the mountain, the houses being...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556207, "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": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "content_text": "ENCLOSURE 2.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST.\n\nFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1937.\n\nHONGKONG'S WORST TYPHOON\n\nWIND REACHES 164 M.P.H.\n\nFIRE DISASTER DEATHS EXCEED 100\n\nTHIRTY-ONE PERSONS BELIEVED DEAD\n\nAN ENTIRE BLOCK INVOLVED\n\nFIERCE GUSTS DRIVE BIG SHIPS ASHORE\n\nWEST POINT BLAZE SEVERAL VESSELS BELIEVED TO\n\nThe heaviest loss of life throughout the period of the typhoon was that in the disastrous fire which broke out in nine four-storey buildings in West Point during the height of the storm. Thirty-one persons were afterwards reported missing, and of these seven have been definitely found dead. As the bodies were brought out of the blazing buildings they were piled on the Praya preparatory to being removed to the Public Mortuary, but huge waves swept them all into the sea, and only seven bodies were recovered yesterday.\n\nThe premises involved were 131-139 Connaught Road West. The Central Fire Station received the first call shortly before 4 a.m., and fire appliances were immediately rushed to the scene, under the supervision of Mr. J. C. Fitz-Henry, Acting Superintendent.\n\nThe outbreak started, it is believed, at No. 131, the ground floor of which was occupied by the Tak Sang, rice-dealer. On the arrival of the fire engines, the blaze had already spread to the adjoining two houses. The fire-fighters were rendered helpless by the strong winds, but eventually succeeded in bringing two hoses into action. Unfortunately, by this time, the other houses had also been ignited, while those where the outbreak started were burning through. The street was flooded and the handicap under which the members of the Fire Brigade had to work could be gauged by the fact that the water was at one time up to the waists of the men.\n\nAs the fire engines arrived, a woman with a baby on her back was seen to jump from the top-storey of one of the buildings. Both she and the child were killed instantaneously. The ground floors of the buildings in question were occupied mostly by rice-dealers, and there were also two garages.\n\nTribute to Police Interviewed, Mr. Fitz-Henry paid great tribute to the splendid work and assistance given by the Police under Sub-Inspector Nolloth. The tremendous force of the wind made the work of subduing the fire almost impossible. Water in the roadway was waist-high; and it was found impossible to send the jets of water more than a few feet into the air, as the wind immediately transferred them into spray. It was two hours before anything could be done, and another three hours before the fire could be controlled. The collapse of Jubilee Street at one time during the night threatened to prevent the fire engines and ambulances from coming out of the station. A gang of coolies, however, were soon on the job and cleared it away partly, so as not to interfere with the work of the Brigade.\n\nMANY COLLAPSES\n\nSeveral Killed on Island And in Kowloon\n\nTHE BE TOTAL LOSSES\n\nMANY KILLED IN FIRE\n\nHongkong is recovering again from another typhoon. The swift-moving cyclone which formed east of Manila a few days ago lashed the Colony from midnight Wednesday until after dawn yesterday. Irresistible gusts continuously swept the streets, smashed plate glass windows, tore heavy signboards adrift, ripped and overturned parked motor cars and shifted everything movable.\n\nThe Observatory states it was the fiercest typhoon yet experienced in Hongkong. At 125 miles per hour the wind instruments at the Observatory ceased attempting serious register. An unofficial recorder declares the force reached 164 miles per hour. The barometer dropped to the low record of 28.298.\n\nHuge waves surged over the Praya, reaching almost to Queen's Road. Mariners on the harbour spent a night of unrelieved labour and anxiety. Among the many ships in harbour were some laid up because of the war, or under repair at docks and without steam. A score of these broke loose from their doubled moorings and careered drunkenly about the harbour in a macabre dance. Among them was the Van Heutsz with 1,260 passengers on board. Most of them grounded comfortably. A few are in bad position. One, the coaster An Lee, after colliding with three warships crashed stern first on the Central Praya wall and remained there poised with forepart in the water.\n\nAt the height of the storm a tenement block of nine four-storeyed houses in the Western District went afire and 15 inmates perished.\n\nRain, totalling 5.5 inches, persisted until 10 a.m., while relieved residents ventured from barricaded dwellings to survey shambles debris everywhere, much damage to property, some 20 ships ashore, scores of smaller craft sunk, and thoroughfares, with drains choked, a foot deep in water.\n\nThe shore damage, as usual, is largely superficial, but in the aggregate very great. Several buildings were unroofed, old houses collapsed, garden walls were blown down, roads blocked by landslides, fallen telegraph poles and uprooted trees.\n\nNo estimate of total damage is possible. Casualties are estimated at more than 100.\n\nWIDESPREAD DAMAGE\n\nA spectacular effect of the gale was this huge lattice-work formed by the scaffolding on the Central Fire Station, blown down into the street by the strong gusts.\n\n--Staff Photographer.\n\nCASUALTY LIST\n\n \n An Lee,\n aground on Praya;\n back broken and complete wreck.\n \n \n Asama Maru,\n aground in Sai Wan Bay,\n no passengers; expected to be refloated shortly.\n \n \n Bonneville,\n hard on Stonecutters Island;\n little damaged.\n \n \n Dashing,\n high on rocks,\n Ching Hue Island.\n \n \n Eng Lee,\n hard aground,\n Kowloon Football Ground.\n \n \n H.M.S. Cornflower,\n aground\n Tonnochy Pier, Wanchai.\n \n \n Gertrude Maersk,\n aground Green Island\n but later towed to Kowloon Dock; damaged in collision.\n \n \n Feng Lee,\n high on rocks adjacent to\n Kowloon Dock.\n \n \n Hong Peng,\n ashore at\n Taikoo Sugar Refinery.\n \n \n Hsingking,\n aground at\n Capsing Island lighthouse.\n \n \n Hunan,\n ashore at\n Ping Chau.\n \n \n India,\n S.O.S. for assistance when drifting in harbour\n but later safely moored.\n \n \n Kalgan,\n drifted from\n Cust Rock west of Macao. After passing Pratas and moored at Kowloon Wharf with severe damage from collisions.\n \n \n Kausing,\n total wreck on\n Hue Island; all crew saved.\n \n \n Kwangchow,\n ashore on\n Lamma Island, probably a wreck.\n \n \n Luhsing,\n aground off\n Lower Laichikok Road.\n \n \n Mao Lee,\n sunk off\n Kellett Bank.\n \n \n Severn Leigh,\n S.O.S. for assistance\n \n \n \n Sheng Lee,\n hard aground off\n Chinese bankers' bathing shed, North Point.\n \n \n Shuntien,\n adrift in harbour\n but later moored.\n \n \n Shenandoah,\n sunk off\n China Light Company and Power Company's works.\n \n \n Talamba,\n aground in\n Lyeemoon Pass.\n \n \n Tymeric,\n aground at\n North Point.\n \n \n Tensing,\n aground at\n Stanley Bay.\n \n \n Van Heutsz,\n sunk off\n Green Island.\n \n\nTHREE DROWNED\n\nForeigner Loses Life When Launch Sinks\n\nSOLDIERS' FINE WORK\n\nThe captain, owner and two members of the crew of the Portuguese 180-ton motor-boat, Perola, drowned, when the vessel sank in Cheungshawan Bay about 3 a.m. yesterday.\n\nThe casualties were: Drowned: Manuel Rodrigues, Master, aged about 36; Li Lam, seaman, aged 56; Leung Khai-shui, Second Engineer, aged 31.\n\nMissing: Francisco Xavier Guerreiro, Owner and Chief Engineer, aged 39, of Woosung Street.\n\nSaved: Kam Hing, cabin boy, aged 21.\n\nThe last-named had a remarkable escape, for he clung to a piece of the wreck until he was rescued about four hours after the sinking.\n\nThe boat was built by the Kwong Fook Shing shipyard only last year. After making one trip to Macao, she returned to the Colony, sometime ago, and was lying off Cheungshawan Bay.\n\nThe bodies of the Captain and the two Chinese were recovered shortly before noon near the vicinity of the Ching disaster.\n\nThe three Chinese rescued were loud in their praises of the excellent work of the soldiers at Shamshuipo who made indefatigable efforts to save the boat's crew.\n\nMR. C. W. JEFFRIES, DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY\n\nWhen issuing his official report on the gale yesterday morning, Mr. C. W. Jeffries, Director of the Royal Observatory, declared that it was the most intense he had ever known.\n\nIt is doubtful if a storm of greater severity has ever visited the Colony.\n\nThe wind force was of such an intensity that the register of the Observatory's anemograph was incapable of recording the gusts. The barometer minimum of 28.298 was the previous lowest reading of 28.590 on August 18, 1923.\n\nShortly after dawn yesterday morning the instrument recordings showed that the wind did not drop below 140 m.p.h. Two gusts in the early morning topped the index paper and it is estimated they were approximately 164 miles an hour.\n\nOne record, at least, was proved, as .292 lower than the existing low record established on August 18, 1923.\n\nMr. V. Sorby, General Manager of the Hongkong Electric Company, stated yesterday that his anemograph recorded 160 miles per hour.\n\nBetween 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. in Hunghom, near Bailey's shipyard, three were killed and one injured in another collapse yesterday morning.\n\nCollapses on the Island occurred at 234 Queen's Road Central, 11 Nullah Lane, 1B, Western Street, 1A Centre Street and 47 Third Street. In all these accidents there was only one fatality, at the collapse at Third Street. One man was killed and four were injured.\n\nTIMELY EVACUATION\n\nCOURAGEOUS ACTION\n\nEuropean Saves Six Chinese From Shenandoah\n\nThe hulk of the Shenandoah, once a luxurious yacht, ran aground near the wharf of the China Light and Power Co., Ltd. in Kowloon Bay, with ten Chinese aboard.\n\nDozens of trees were uprooted by the gales during yesterday.\n\nWASHOUTS\n\nNathan Road Blocked In Many Places\n\nRESCUE HEROISM\n\nPolice and Civilians Do Good Work\n\nCHINESE SAVED\n\nSome splendid rescue work carried out by a party of Revenue Officers and Police sergeants along the Praya. Seven of them—C. P. O. Buller, Mr. W. Ward, Sub-Inspector Goddard, Sergt. Davis, Sergt. Scott, Sergt. Hayward and Mr. Ellis linked together by ropes ventured out in treacherous weather to rescue crews from ships, and to save little children who were stranded in huts along the Praya.\n\nDarkness added to the terror of the night and the tremendous difficulties confronting the rescue party. Nevertheless, they succeeded in saving some 70 lives, all of whom received treatment for various injuries, none of them very serious, in the Imports and Exports Department.\n\nUnhappily it was found impossible to obtain enough dry clothes and several of the unfortunate men had to spend the early hours up to dawn in blankets.\n\nOne of the most dramatic episodes occurred about 5.30 a.m. when one of the Taikoo tugs was sunk as it approached the An Lee which had been driven ashore on the Praya. The line of the rescue party rushed to the scene and took six of these men off.\n\nAt the De Luxe Garage in Nathan Road employees had a narrow escape when the roof collapsed.\n\nA man and a child were killed when a house collapsed at the corner of Ma Tau Wei and Po Wah Wan Road.\n\nAt 7.20 a.m. the No. 8 signal (gale expected from S.E.) was hoisted. When the barometer read 28.298 it was .292 lower than the existing low record established on August 18, 1923.\n\nOver 160 M.P.H\n\nRAILWAY\n\nThe Kowloon-Canton Railway suffered damage from the gale, although the extent of the damage is not yet able to be accurately estimated.\n\nTwo washouts on the line were reported between Shatin and Taipo, but the entire train service has been suspended indefinitely and the head office is awaiting fuller reports as to the extent of the damage.\n\nARMY OFFICER'S BRAVERY\n\nCaptain Rybot, of the H.K.S.B.R.A., was responsible for an act of extreme bravery.\n\nA Great Name and a Great Gin—GORDON'S DRY GIN\n\nDISTILLERY, LONDON, ENGLAND\n\nKelly & Walsh, Ltd., Chater Road, Hong Kong.\n\nTHE CITADEL $6-50\n\nDr. A. J. Cronin's new novel\n\nThe unoffending profession of medicine has in these days sustained attack by two novelists of distinction, Sinclair Lewis and Dr. Cronin. Mr. Lewis wrote from without; Dr. Cronin's assault is upon interior lines. In \"The Citadel\" there are presented three types of good doctor: the general practitioner possessed of competent knowledge and a big heart, the physician or surgeon possessed of special qualifications, also with a big heart, and the bacteriologist, who, being less subject to temptation, needs, perhaps, less cardiac capacity. Against these stand the pompous old humbugs of the villages and country towns and the ill-conditioned sharks of the great cities.\n\nAll this is doubtless very true. But it is true not only of the doctors but also of humanity. What is not true is that a district of London called \"Harley Street\" is shark-infested, so that an honest man practises there at his peril. Dr. Cronin would deny, certainly, that he had made any such suggestion; but it is in this sense that his indictment has been read by many.\n\nIt may be conceded that, within limits, Dr. Cronin has presented a lively tale full of more or less dramatic incident.\n\nHONGKONG FOOT\n\nRINGWORM\n\nBAYER\n\nTRADE MARK\n\nFUNGOL\n\nSPECIFIC FOR HONGKONG-FOOT RING-WORM AND OTHER MYCOTIC INFECTIONS OF THE SKIN\n\nBayer Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, Leverkusen, Germany.\n\nONLY FOR EXTERNAL USE.\n\n'FUNGOL'\n\nA scientifically prepared specific for the treatment of Fungus Skin Infections\n\nThe new 'Fungol' cure for Hongkong Foot, which is now obtainable from all pharmacies, quickly stops itching and prevents the infection from penetrating further into the tissues.\n\n'FUNGOL' is a colourless preparation which leaves no stain, greatly simplifying the treatment of Hongkong Foot, and, above all, destroys the causal agent preventing the further spread of the infection.\n\nREACHES MACAO\n\nHeavy Damage To Fishing Craft\n\nMacao, Sept. 2. A severe typhoon struck Macao in the early hours of the morning after causing great damage to fishing craft here and ashore also.\n\nJunks sheltering in the inner harbour were torn loose and wrecked on the shore in many places.—Our Own Correspondent.\n\nROBBERY DURING STORM\n\nDuring the height of the typhoon at 4.30 a.m. yesterday, three men entered the first floor of 1080 Canton Road and robbed Lo Shiu-yuen, described as a kept woman, of money and jewellery to the total value of $540. Some loss of life is feared.\n\nThere were three other inmates of the house at the time. One of the robbers was stated to have carried a revolver.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 365\n\nPage 365", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563961, "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": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "page_number": 252, "title": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "content_text": "## Date imported \n## Description \n## Country \n## Value \n## Date exported \n## Name of dealer \n## Exported to \n## Authority \n## origin \n\n12.8.33 \n240 cases containing 6,000 Mauser rifles, 7.92 mm. \nBelgium \nunknown \n29.8.38 \nSouth West Transportation Co. \nCanton-Military Council, A.0.115 National Govt. of Republic of China. \nin 174 \n\n30.7.38 \n40 cases containing 2,000 Browning pistols 9mm. \nBelgium \nunknown \n15.6.38 \n9.6.38 \n400 cases containing 1,000,000 rounds pistol cartridges, 9 mm. \n250 cases containing 500,000 rounds cartridges 7.9 mm. \n250 cases containing 500,000 round a cartridges 7.9 mm. \n77 cases detonators 4.8 tons \n1 case aeroplane engine parts U.S.A. (Model VII Vultee) \n8 cases containing 8 Cyclone Model GR-1820-G-2 aeroplane engines. \n16 cases Hamilton Standard aeroplane propellers \n2 cases aeroplane parts \nU.S.A. \nU.S.A. \nunknown \n30.8.38 \nSouth West Transportation Co. \nCanton-Military Council (A.0.99) National Govt. of Republic of China \n24.6.38 \n1,863 cases containing 7,610 Bombs \n18.7.38 \n2,586 cases containing 4,668 Bombs of 30 lbs. each & parts. \nA.0.111 in 174 \nA.0.95 in 174 \nA.0.92 in 174 \nU.S.A. \nunknown \n26.8.38 \nSouth West Transportation Co. \nCanton-Military Council, A.0.95 National Govt. of Republic of China \n\n| Date imported | Description | Country | Value | Date exported | Name of dealer | Exported to | Authority | origin |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 30.7.38 | 354 cases containing 5,000 Mauser rifles, 7.9 mm. | Germany | | 18.7.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council (A.0.99) National Govt. of Republic of China | | |\n| | 1,251 cases containing 1,175 Bombs of 100 lbs each & parts. | | | 25.8.38 | | | A.0.118 in 174 | |\n| 12.8.38 | (§ declared to be of American origin, not German) | | | | | | A.0.131 in 174 | |\n| 24.8.38 | 212 cases containing 53,000 rounds Cartridges 13.2 mm. | Britain | £3,922. | 31.8.38 | | Canton-Military Council, A.0.52 National Govt. of Republic of China. | A.0.115 in 174 | |\n| 12.8.38 | 300 cases containing 15,000 rounds cartridges 20 mm. | | | | | | | |\n| | 70 cases containing 1,750 Mauser rifles, 7.92 mm. | Belgium | | 26.8.38 | | | A.0.16 in 174 | |\n| | 320 cases containing 80,000 rounds cartridges 13.2 mm. | | | | | | A.0.122 in 174 | |\n| | 1,000 cases containing 2,000,000 rounds cartridges 7.92 mm. | | | | | | A.0.16 in 174 | |\n| | 20 cases containing 100,000 rounds revolver cartridges | Germany | unknown | 1.9.38. | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, A.0.122 National Govt. of Republic of China. | in 174 | |\n| | 2 cases containing 200 revolvers | | | | | | | |\n| 30.7.38 | 42 cases containing 2,100 Mauser pistols | Germany | | 12.8.38 | | | A.0.113 in 174 | |\n| | 10 cases containing 50,000 rounds pistol cartridges | | | | | | A.0.117 in 174 | |\n| | 334 cases tetryl 9 tons | | | | | | | |\n| | 8 cases containing 4 Hawk 75 Aeroplanes | U.S.A. | | 12.8.38 | | | | |\n| | 8 Cases containing 4 Hawk 75 Aeroplane a | | | | | | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563963, "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": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "page_number": 254, "title": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "content_text": "## Authority \n## Date imported \n## Description \n## Country of origin \n## Value \n## Date exported \n## Name of dealer \n## Exported to \n\n| Date imported | Description | Country of origin | Value | Date exported | Name of dealer | Exported to |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 18.7.38 | 350 drums T.N.T. 37.1 tons | Germany | unlo | 7.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Panton Military Council, Republic of China. in 174 |\n| 24.6.38 | 500 drums T.N.T. 53 tons | | | | | |\n| | 350 drums T.N.T. 37 tons | Sweden | | 26.8.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. in 174 |\n| | 500 drums T.N.T. 53 tons | | 4.0.99 in 174 | | | |\n| 18.7.38 | 1,000 drums T.N.T. 106 tons | | k.0.122 in 174 | 7.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. in 174 |\n| | | | 4.0.16 in 174 | | | |\n| 3.9.38 | 101 cases containing 100 light machine guns 7.9mm | Denmark | unknown | 10.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. 1.0.51 in 174 |\n| 6.9.38 | 40 cases containing 200 light machine guns 7.9″ | Germany | | | | |\n| | 100 cases containing 500 machine guns 7.9mm | Belgium | Hin 174 | | | |\n| | | | 1.0.126 in 174 A.0.125 in 174 | | | |\n| 6.1.38 | 5 cases aeroplane parts | Britain | unmom là 9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, | |\n| 18.2.38 | 3 cases parts for Dragon Rapide aeroplanes. Ex stock of Hong Kong Sporting Aims Store | | | | | |\n| | 200 revolvers S. & V. | U.S.A. | HK$17,000 | 13.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. A.0.87 in 174 |\n| | 64,000 rounds revolver Cartridge B | | HK$5,120 | | | National Govt. of Republic of China in 174 |\n| | 10 cases safety fuse | * | 0.26 Min 174 A.0.43 in 174 | | | |\n| 6.9.38 | 10 cases containing 5 Hawk 75 aeroplanes, complete. | U.S.A. | unknown | 15.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. A.0.127 in 174 |\n| 29.8.38 | 477 cases containing 10,000 Kanser rifles, 7.92mm. | Czecho Slovakia | | 16.9.38 | | |\n| | 200 cases containing 5,000 Mauser rifles, 7.9mm | Belgium | | 11.9.38 | | |\n| | 31 cases containing 100 machine guns | | LA.0.48 in 174 | | | |\n| | 250 cases containing 250 guns, 81 m. | | A.0.128 in 174 | | | |\n| | 1,500 cases containing 3,000,000 rounds cartridges 7.92 m. | | • | | | |\n| | 40 cases containing 2,000 Broming automatic pistols | | | | | |\n| | 400 cases containing 1,000,000 rounds pistol cartridges, 9 mm | Belgium | | | | |\n| 29.8.38 | cases containing \"Fleet Aeroplanes & parts. | Canada | unknown | 17.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. A.0.63 in 174 |\n| 28.8.38 | 400 cases mokeless powder 26.4 tons | Germany | | | | 4.0.122 in 174 |\n| 30.7.38 | 2,907 cases containing 4,000 howitzer shells, 15 cm. | | | | | |\n| 30.7.38 | 2 cases containing 2 Cyclone G-3 aeroplane engines | U.S.A. | | 16.9.38 | | |\n| | 12 cases of aeroplane parts | | | | | |\n| | 6 cases of aeroplane parts | | | | | |\n| | 2 cases containing 1 Hawk 75 aeroplane & parts | | unknown | 21.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China. 4.0.113 in 174 A.0.111 in 174 A.0.130 in 174 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563964, "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": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "page_number": 255, "title": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "content_text": "## Date imported \n16.9.38 \n29.8.38 \n3.9.38 \n\n## Description \n| Date imported | Country of origin | Value | Date exported | Name of dealer | Exported to | Authority |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 16.9.38 | U.S.A. | | 21.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | National Govt. of Republic of China | A.0.130 in 174 |\n| 29.8.38 | | 13 cases aeroplane parts | 12.3.38 | | U.S.A. | |\n| 3.9.38 | | 22 cases aeroplane propellers 5 cases containing 5 Wright Cyclone engines (aero.) | 22.9.38 | | unknown | |\n| | | 44 cases aeroplane parts | 14.9.38 | | U.S.A. | |\n| | | 39 cases aeroplane parts | 13.8.38 | | unkn | |\n| | | 5 cases aeroplane parts | 23.9.38 | | U.S.A. | |\n| | Britain | 1 case containing 1 Wright Cyclone GR-1820-G2 engine (aero.) | 24.9.38 | Ex stock of Jardine Matheson & Co. | | A.0.63 in 174 |\n| | | 3 cases containing 3 Pratt & Whitney aeroplane engines | 7.9.38 | Ex stock | | A.0.124 in 174 |\n| | | 4,997 chils safety, fuse (16 cases) 400 cases dynamite, 20,000 lbs of thewan | 23.7.38 | Tomes & Co. | | A.0.117 in 174 |\n| | | 400 cases dynamite, 20,000 lbs. | | | | A.0.129 in 174 |\n| 11.9.38 | Britain | 627 cases containing 29,469 rounds Madsen cartridges 20. | | | | A.0.82 in 174 |\n| | France | 151 cases containing 6,300 shells, 37 mm. | | | | A.0.127 in 174 |\n| 26.8.38 | Belgium | 40 cases white fuse | | | | A.0.109 in 174 |\n| | Germany | 30 cases white fuse | | | | A.0.87 in 174 |\n| 12.8.38 | Germany | 82 cases tetryl 2.4 tons | | | | |\n| | U.S.A. | 3 cases aeroplane wings | 14.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | National Govt. of Republic of China | A.0.127 in 174 |\n| 30.7.38 | | 10 cases aeroplane propellers | 26.9.38 | | unknown | |\n| 19.9.38 | Germany | 3 cases aeroplane wings | | | | A.0.67 in 174 |\n| | Britain | 44 cases containing 2,200 Mauser pistols, 7.63 mm, 152 cases containing 760,000 rounds cal.7.63 cartridge | | | | A.0.128 in 174 |\n| 15.9.38 | | 16 cases containing 800 Mauser pistols 7.63 | 19.9.38 | | | A.0.122 in 174 |\n| | Germany | 1 case tank spare parts | | | | |\n| 11.9.38 | Britain | 45 cases containing 2,115 rounds Madsen cartridges 20. | | | | A.0.117 in 174 |\n| 19.9.38 | Germany | 1,062 cases containing 15,000 Mauser rifles, 7.9 mm | | | | A.0.129 in 174 |\n| | | 1 case containing 100 pistols cal.7.65 mm | | | | A.0.113 in 174 |\n| 20.7.38 | Britain | 68 cases containing 32 Lewis guns | 24.9.38 | | unknown | A.0.31 in 174 |\n| | | £6,160. | | | | |\n| 10.7.38 | Germany | 47 cases containing 235 light machine guns 7.9 mm. | | | | |\n| | U.S.A. | 4 cases aeroplane parts | 29.9.38 | South West Transportation Co. | National Govt. of Republic of China | A.0.31 in 174 |\n| 13.8.38 | U.S.A. | 2 cases containing 2 \"Fleet\" Aeroplanes & parts. | 28.9.38 | | Canada | A.0.131 in 174 |\n| | | 5 cases aeroplane parts | 14.9.38 | | U.S.A. | A.0.67 in 174 |\n| | | | | | | A.0.81 in 174 |\n| | | | | | | A.0.74 in 174 |\n| | | | | | | A.0.132 in 174 |\n| | | | | | | A.0.107 in 174 |\n| | | | | | | A.0.129 in 174 |\n| | | | | | | A.0.82 in 174 | \n## Page 252", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569134, "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": "CO129-583-13 Traffic of arms to China 31-1-1940 - 21-1-1941", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-583-13 Traffic of arms to China 31-1-1940 - 21-1-1941", "content_text": "13.6.39 17 cases aeroplane propeller blades. U.S.A. unknown 16.8.39 South West Transportation Co.\n\n19.5.39 17 cases aeroplane propeller blades.\n\n14.10.38 1 case aeroplane propeller\n\n29.10.38 4 boxes aeroplane internal combustion engine parts,\n\n18.7.39 *\n\n29.1.39 28.7.38 . 8.10.38 1 c/s tools 7 cases containing 7 aeroplane engines. cases aeroplane propeller hubs. 17 cases aeroplane propeller blades, 4 cases containing 4 Wright Cyclone engine a 5 cases aeroplane engine parts\n\n22.12.38 2 cases aeroplane propellers\n\n11.8.37 2 cases aeroplane propellers\n\n9.1.39 1 case aeroplane propellers\n\n24.2.39 * 5,000 cases containing 10,000,000 rounds cal.7.9 cartridges. Germany\n\n3.9.39 26.6.39 5,000 cases containing 10,000,000 rounds cal.7.9 cartridges, 27.3.39 1,500 cases containing 3,000,000 rounds 7.9 cartridges.\n\nEx local stock 1 revolver cal.38 1 revolver cal.32. 2,200 rounds revolver cartridges 200 rounds revolver cartridges 30.11.38 1 case containing 100 Pistols 21.11.38 19.5.39 16 cases containing 80,000 rounds revolver cartridges. 1 case containing 60 Pistols 1 case containing 4 signal pistols à 300 rounds cartridges for same U.S.A.\n\nHK$880. HK$80. HK$176. HK$16. Germany unknown \" U.S.A.\n\n72 Authority Exported to 72 Rangoon en-route to A.0.82 in 174 China (for Military Councilationl Govt. of Republic of China). A.0.156/174 A.0.140/174 # A.0.95/174 A.0.138/174 A.0.113 in 174 A.0.144/174 A.0.108/174 4.0.118/174 A.0.LBB/174 C.8.0.11/24/39c Rangoon, en-route te A.0.5/174 China (for Military Council, lationi Govt, of Republie of china A.0.68/174 0.5.0.11/24/39c 4.0.122/174 C.5.0.11/24/396 A.0.239/174 C.$.0.11/24/39* |A.0.103/174 Ex local stock\n\n12 cases fuse Britain HK$2,628), 6 cases fuse Germany HK$1,305) 29.8.39 1 case spare parts for Tanks Britain £1,390. 10.9.39 Jardine Engineering Corporation.\n\n8.10.38 3 cases aerial camera equipment U.S.A. unknown) 27.9.39 26.7.38 5 boxes aeroplane part a # South West Transportation Co. A.0.139/174 Haiphong en-route to 4,0,61 in 4 China (for Military Council, National Govt.of Republic of Chinm). C.9,0,13/24/39 14.11.38 10 cases airscrew for Mercury engines. Britain 27.4.38 8 cases aeroplane parts for 31.1.39 Gladiator aeroplanes. 12 cases aeroplane propellers U.S.A.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-583-13 Traffic of arms to China 31-1-1940 - 21-1-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569135, "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": "CO129-583-13 Traffic of arms to China 31-1-1940 - 21-1-1941", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-583-13 Traffic of arms to China 31-1-1940 - 21-1-1941", "content_text": "Datu imported\n\nEx stock\n\nDescription\n\n9 cases containing 900 Verey light pistols.\n\n4 cases containing 200 Mauser pistols.\n\n18 cases containing 90,000 rounds pistol cartridges,\n\nCountry\n\nValue\n\norigin\n\nDate exported\n\nName of dealer\n\n \n Britain\n HK$36,000\n 27.9.39\n Hong Kong Sporting Arms Co.\n \n \n Germany\n HK$11,000\n \n \n \n \n \n HK$7,200\n \n \n \n\nExported to\n\nRangoon, en-route to China (for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China.)\n\n73\n\nAuthority\n\n73\n\nC.S.O.15/24/30\n\n17.1.38\n\n1 case aeroplane parts\n\n28.9.38\n\n21.7.38\n\n8.6.39\n\n1 case aeroplane motor parts\n\ncases containing 6 Wright Cyclone engines,\n\n1 case aeroplane engine tools\n\n1 case containing 1 Link Aviation Trainer for indoor training.\n\n1 box aeroplane parts.\n\nU.S.A.\n\nunknown\n\n10.10.39\n\n9.9.38\n\n13.8.38\n\n1 box aeroplane fuel valves,\n\n18.4.38\n\n526 cases containing 132,000 rounds 13.2mm cartridges,\n\nBelgium\n\n17.10.39\n\n28.5.39\n\n28.5.39\n\nEx local stock\n\n20 cases containing 10,000 rounds Mauser pistol cartridges cal.7.63.\n\n1 case containing 6 shotguns\n\n20 cases containing 10,000 rounds shotgun cartridges.\n\n \n 9,005 cases containing 18,010,000 rounds cal.7.9 cartridges.\n Germany\n \n unknown\n 26.4.20\n \n \n 4,150 cases containing 8,308,000 rounds cal.7.92 cartridges,\n \n 23.38\n \n \n \n \n 200 cases containing 304,420 rounds 7.92mm.cartridges.\n Britain\n £1,614\n 26.12.38\n 1 case containing 2 cal.7.9 Rifles.\n \n \n 29.11.38\n 1 box aeroplane motor parts\n Belgium\n \n U.S.A.\n \n \n 20.10.39\n 14.10.38\n 10 boxes aeroplane motors\n \n 18.7.39\n \n \n 1 case aeroplane parts\n \n 22.11\n \n \n \n\n200 cases containing 13.4 tons smokeless powder.\n\nGermany\n\n27.10.39\n\n600 cases containing 39.6 tons smokeless powder.\n\n500 cases containing 30.6 tons smokeless powder.\n\n23.8.38\n\n180 cases containing 5.4 tons smokeless powder.\n\n1,000 drums T.N.T. 106 tons\n\n400 drums containing 42.4 tons T.N.T.\n\n2,859 cases containing 75.2 tons T.N.T.\n\n200 cases containing 13.2 tons smokeless powder.\n\n200 cases containing 13.2 tons smokeless powder.\n\n200 cases containing 13.2 tons smokeless powder.\n\n \n South West Transportation Co.\n Haiphong en-route to China (for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China).\n C.S.O.16/24/35\n \n \n \n Rangoon en-route to China\n \n \n \n Council on\n of Govt. of Republic of China).\n C.S.O.14/24/39\n \n \n \n Haiphong en-route to China for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China).\n C.S.O.141/174\n \n \n \n Rangoon en-route to China (for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China).\n C.S.O.14/24/39", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-583-13 Traffic of arms to China 31-1-1940 - 21-1-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575544, "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": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 186, "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "## \nMiss Hampson's picture of \nher voice crying out during his \nhell as \n\nDay: 9 \n\nEscape \n\nGertrude Bolly H. dam; \nin days \n4 \nwas \nis not \n185 \nthe \n\"diary\" per tim \ncertainly been written in \nIndia; but in case anyone \nis inclined to take Miss Hampson seriously I had better say \nat \nCYCLONE \nFat the Pianoforte \nEvans was rated by those \nCompetent to judge \nas \nthe \none \n7 \nthe \n\nThe outstanding successes of Siege. The Gov. of course and the Police had to revert to civil status in an effort to spare the civilian population from reprisals. Bouk Miris H. wouldn't know anything. \nThat She wasn't in a position really to know. \nThe fact is in line that the statues have been removed from Statue Square \n## \n27/5-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584135, "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": "CO129-598-4 Salaries Commission 11-1-1947 - 5-12-1947", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-598-4 Salaries Commission 11-1-1947 - 5-12-1947", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nTo \n**C. F. CHUANG** \nGeneral Merchant \n6th floor National Bank Building \nHONG KONG \n\nOctober 16, 1948 \n\nThe Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong.\n\nPermit me to report in writing regarding my plans and recommendations for accomplishment of the two important victories of World Wars I and II as below. That instantly while World War I broke out on August 4, 1914, it was I who counselled Italy to part her alliance from Germany for declaration of independence and subsequently to join the Allies in war.\n\nAs it was then a common knowledge that while the Allies made no progress in their warfares, and their offers for peace were all rejected by Germany, the war situation was so gloomy and that it was I who found it necessary to have America, China and Japan to join the war in order to carry out my plan to secure the final victory.\n\nIt was, however, a very difficult task for me at the beginning, and eventually I succeeded in convincing all these nations to join up for the common aim and object of achieving my guaranteed victory.\n\nNevertheless, in June, 1918, many Americans, and especially Mr. R.S. Routh, complained to me seriously on their losses in the war and insisted that the Americans should withdraw all their troops from the European Theatre before Christmas, 1918, because according to the reports to hand it would be entirely useless to pursue the conflict with such heavy casualties amounting to about 200,000 soldiers wounded and killed every week, as also determined by their Government, and unless my plan could effectively enable them to carry their campaign to the final success as encouraged by me.\n\nThereupon I recommended that the Allies should fight their way into Germany in penetration of Italo-German lines which were not so strongly fortified as compared with those long and wide, well-guarded and powerful trenches in the Western Fronts, and also to manoeuvre the Allied troops marching in zigzag columns and tactics like cyclones in order to prevent German surrounding in their country as it was at first feared by the Allies.\n\nBetween the end of October and early November, 1918, my plan of penetrating Germany, and on which I spent nearly four months with Mr. R.S. Routh, an ex-secretary of New York Chamber of Commerce, worked out so successfully, and at last the war was won according to my plans and predictions.\n\nAs to World War II, it can also be briefly stated as hereunder that it was my original plan that Soviet-Russia should encircle Germany and Japan at their backs, instead of close allies standing back to back. My principal object was to frustrate Nazi scheme of extending their campaigns on the Western Fronts, and to prevent their troops from landing on British Isles, and by altering and opening such vast warfields in Eastern Front for Germans to exhaust themselves before they could turn back and use their main resources on the Western Fronts again.\n\nI would also add that during the retreats and defeats of the Allies in North Africa in 1942 summer campaigns, it was I who suggested that the Allies should land on Morocco for a turn of the ...\n\nPage 20 \nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-598-4 Salaries Commission 11-1-1947 - 5-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584164, "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": "CO129-598-4 Salaries Commission 11-1-1947 - 5-12-1947", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-598-4 Salaries Commission 11-1-1947 - 5-12-1947", "content_text": "Via Airmail\n\n**RADIO & CABLE ADDRESS** \n\"RADER\" \n\n**PHONE NO.** 20196 \n\n**CODES USED:** \n- BENTLEY'S \n- ACME \n- A.B.C. 5TH & 6TH EDITIONS \n- PRIVATE (CHUANG CHU FENG) \n- C.F.F. \n- CHUANG \n\n**GENERAL MERCHANT** \n6TH FLOOR, NATIONAL BANK BUILDING \nHONG KONG \nRoom No.601 \n\n**COPY** \n**ESTD. 1912** \n\n**BRANCH OFFICES:** \n| City |\n|----------|\n| SHANGHAI |\n| BANGKOK |\n| SWATOW |\n| AMOY |\n| CANTON |\n\n**Confidential**\n\nJune 4, 1948\n\n49\n\n昌華公 \n銀行七樓六〇一室接上 香港德輔道中八號大國銀行 \n上式\n\nTo \nClement Attlee, Esquire, \nHis Majesty's Prime Minister, \n10, Downing Street, \nLondon, S.W. England \n\nHonorable Sir, \n\nMay it please Your Honor to permit me to report in writing regarding my plans and recommendations for accomplishment of the two important victories of World Wars I & II as follows: that instantly while World War I broke out on August 4, 1914, it was I who counselled Italy to part her alliance from Germany for declaration of independence and subsequently to join the Allies in war.\n\nAs it was then a common knowledge that while the Allies made no progress in their warfare, and their offers for peace were all rejected by Germany, the war situation was so gloomy and that it was I who found it necessary to have America, China, and Japan to join the war in order to carry out my plan to secure the final victory. It was, however, a very difficult task for me at the beginning, and eventually I succeeded in convincing all these nations to join up for the common aim and object of achieving my guaranteed victory.\n\nNevertheless, in June 1918, many Americans, and especially Mr. R.S. Routh, complained to me seriously on their losses in the war and insisted that the Americans should withdraw all their troops from the European Theatre before Christmas, 1918, because according to the reports to hand, it would be entirely useless to pursue the conflict with such heavy casualties amounting to about 200,000 soldiers wounded and killed every week, as also determined by their Government, and unless my plan could effectively enable them to carry their campaign to the final success as encouraged by me.\n\nThereupon I recommended that the Allies should fight their way into Germany in penetration of Italo-German lines, which were not so strongly fortified as compared with those long and wide, well-guarded, and powerful trenches in the Western Fronts, and also to maneuver the Allies troops marching in zigzag columns and tactics like cyclones in order to prevent German surrounding in their country, as it was at first feared by the Allies.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-598-4 Salaries Commission 11-1-1947 - 5-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584182, "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": "CO129-598-4 Salaries Commission 11-1-1947 - 5-12-1947", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-598-4 Salaries Commission 11-1-1947 - 5-12-1947", "content_text": "# \n673.\n\nVia Airmail\n\n**RADIO & CABLE ADDRESS**\n \n+ \n\"RADER.. \n\nONE NO. 20196\n\n**CODES USED:** \nBENTLEY'S \nACME \nA.B.C. 5th & 6th EDITIONS\n\n**(CHUANG CHU FENG)** \n**PRIVATE & Confidential** \nC. F. CHUANG \n**GENERAL MERCHANT** \n6TH FLOOR, NATIONAL BANK BUILDING \nHONG KONG \nRoom No.601 \nTel. Pumpliacy to see \n**ESTD, 1912** \n**BRANCH OFFICES:** \n| Office |\n|---------|\n| SHANGHAI |\n| BANGKOK |\n| SWATOW |\n| AMOY |\n| CANTON |\n\nJune 4, 1948\n\nTo \nClement Attlee, Esquire, \nLetters \nc/o \nHis Majesty's Prime Minister, 10, Downing Street, \nLondon, S.W. England \n\nHonorable Sir, \n\nMay it please Your Honor to permit me to report in writing regarding my plans and recommendations for accomplishment of the two important victories of World Wars I & II as follows: that instantly while World War I broke out on August 4, 1914, it was I who counselled Italy to part her alliance from Germany for declaration of independence and subsequently to join the Allies in war.\n\nAs it was then a common knowledge that while the Allies made no progress in their warfares, and their offers for peace were all rejected by Germany, the war situation was so gloomy and that it was I who found it necessary to have America, China, and Japan to join the war in order to carry out my plan to secure the final victory. It was, however, a very difficult task for me at the beginning, and eventually I succeeded in convincing all these nations to join up for the common aim and object of achieving my guaranteed victory.\n\nNevertheless, in June 1918, many Americans, and especially Mr. R. S. Routh, complained to me seriously on their losses in the war and insisted that the Americans should withdraw all their troops from the European Theatre before Christmas, 1918, because according to the reports to hand, it would be entirely useless to pursue the conflict with such heavy casualties amounting to about 200,000 soldiers wounded and killed every week, as also determined by their Government, and unless my plan could effectively enable them to carry their campaign to the final success as encouraged by me.\n\nThereupon I recommended that the Allies should fight their way into Germany in penetration of Italo-German lines, which were not so strongly fortified as compared with those long and wide, well-guarded, and powerful trenches in the Western Fronts, and also to maneuver the Allies troops marching in zigzag columns and tactics like cyclones in order to prevent German surrounding in their country, as it was at first feared by the Allies.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-598-4 Salaries Commission 11-1-1947 - 5-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 584185, "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": "CO129-598-4 Salaries Commission 11-1-1947 - 5-12-1947", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-598-4 Salaries Commission 11-1-1947 - 5-12-1947", "content_text": "## Via Airmail\n**RAS & CABLE ADDRESS** \n\"RADER\" \n**PHONE NO.** 20196 \n**CODES USED:** \nBENTLEY'S \nACME \nA.B.C. 5TH & 6TH EDITIONS \n**PRIVATE** \n(CHUANG CHU FENG) \nC. F. CHUANG \n**GENERAL MERCHANT** \n6TH FLOOR, NATIONAL BANK BUILDING \nHONG KONG Room No.601 \n\n**COPY** \n**ESTD. 1912** \n**BRANCH OFFICES:** \n| City | \n|---------|\n| SHANGHAI|\n| BANGKOK |\n| SWATOW |\n| AMOY |\n| CANTON |\n\n**Confidential** \n\nJune 4, 1948 \n\ni \n中八 \n\nTo \nClement Attlee, Esquire, His Majesty's Prime Minister \n10, Downing Street, \nLondon, S.W. England \n\nHonorable Sir, \n\nMay it please Your Honor to permit me to report in writing regarding my plans and recommendations for accomplishment of the two important victories of World Wars I & II as follows: that instantly while World War I broke out on August 4, 1914, it was I who counselled Italy to part her alliance from Germany for declaration of independence and subsequently to join the Allies in war. \n\nAs it was then a common knowledge that while the Allies made no progress in their warfares, and their offers for peace were all rejected by Germany, the war situation was so gloomy and that it was I who found it necessary to have America, China, and Japan to join the war in order to carry out my plan to secure the final victory. It was, however, a very difficult task for me at the beginning, and eventually I succeeded in convincing all these nations to join up for the common aim and object of achieving my guaranteed victory. \n\nNevertheless, in June 1918, many Americans, and especially Mr. R. S. Routh, complained to me seriously on their losses in the war and insisted that the Americans should withdraw all their troops from the European Theatre before Christmas, 1918, because according to the reports to hand that \"It would be entirely useless to pursue the conflict with such heavy casualties amounting to about 200,000 soldiers wounded and killed in every week, as also determined by their Government, and unless my plan could effectively enable them to carry their campaign to the final success as encouraged by me.\" \n\nThereupon I recommended that the Allies should fight their way into Germany in penetration of Italo-German lines which were not so strongly fortified as compared with those long and wide, well-guarded, and powerful trenches in the Western Fronts, and also to maneuver the Allies troops marching in zigzag columns and tactics like cyclones in order to prevent German surrounding in their country as it was at first feared by the Allies. \n\nPage 70 \nPage 71 \n\n**RAS & CABLE ADDRESS** \n\"RADER\" \n**PHONE NO.** 20196 \n**CODES USED:** \nBENTLEY'S \nACME \nA.B.C. 5TH & 6TH EDITIONS \n**PRIVATE**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-598-4 Salaries Commission 11-1-1947 - 5-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 587790, "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": "CO129-606-1 Treasury control over Hong Kong finances 28-9-1944 - 23-12-1947", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-606-1 Treasury control over Hong Kong finances 28-9-1944 - 23-12-1947", "content_text": "J\n\n34\n\nMiscellaneous No.46CB.\n\nAmended instructions regarding the procedure to be followed in connection with the Accounts of certain Colonies, Protectorates, and Mandated Territories falling under the medial control of His Majesty's Treasury, as from the year 1st April, 1941 (or 1941-42) inclusive.\n\nThe institution of financial control by His Majesty's Treasury normally follows the receipt by a Colony from United Kingdom funds of a grant in aid of its revenues, whether by way of free grant or loan; such control may, however, be instituted for other reasons. The control will continue for such period after the cessation of the grant as may be considered necessary in particular cases, not exceeding three years save in exceptional circumstances. In all cases where it has been decided that Treasury control shall be imposed, the institution and cessation of such control is governed by an official letter to the Colonial Office from the Treasury, a copy of which will be sent by the Treasury to the Director of Colonial Audit.\n\nIn the case of Accounts falling under the financial control of His Majesty's Treasury, the Accounting Officer of the Vote for Colonial and Middle Eastern Services will ascertain that authorities from the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have been obtained as laid down in the succeeding instructions.\n\nThe receipt of grants from the Development and Welfare (Colonies, etc.) Vote, will not bring a Colony under the financial control of His Majesty's Treasury, and the following Instructions apply to expenditure of the Colony excluding expenditure on schemes financed in whole or in part from that Vote.\n\n2. The following authorities from the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury will, subject to the provisions of the preceding Instruction, be required in all cases in which the accounts are subject to the financial control of Treasury:\n\n(1) Approval of the estimates of the Colony for the year.\n\n(11) Prior sanction for provision for expenditure under any head of the approved estimates which will cause the total provision under the head to be exceeded by more than ten per cent; provided that in the event of some unpredictable happening necessitating abnormally high expenditure (e.g. hurricane or cyclone damage) sanction for supplementary provision for such expenditure should be sought separately and without regard for the ten per cent margin referred to above.\n\n(111) Prior sanction for any changes of the following nature affecting the pensionable establishment provided in the approved estimates of the Colony, viz:\n\n(a) the creation of additional posts carrying an initial salary of £600 per annum or over, or any reorganisation of posts carrying an initial salary of £600 per annum or over which will cause a net increase in the annual expenditure on the particular items of the pensionable establishment involved;\n\n(b)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-606-1 Treasury control over Hong Kong finances 28-9-1944 - 23-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]