[ { "id": 289027, "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": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 400, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "The Ordinance is in opinion of Her Majesty given.. one my to which the sanction may properly be (Signed) Tho' b Hayllar, Acting Attorney General.\n\nHong Kong, 30th October, 1872.. True Copy) mith. Colonial Secrettern.\n\nTo Sir A. Kennedy. No 189 MINUTE.\n\nTE./7 Mer. And d Mor. Meade, Mr. Holland. Mr. Herbert. Mer. Hugessen.\n\n19 Lord Kimberley. 20 For Holland.\n\nSir,\n\n19th Nov. 72. I assume that Lord Kimberley has received your despatch No. 136 of the 6th November, forwarding the draft Ordinance No. 12 of 1872 to regulate the manufacture, importation, storage, and carrying of explosive Substances.\n\nI think that a clause should be added to the ordinance excepting from its operation certain substances at present in use.\n\n\"Dynamite\" has 75 per cent nitro-glycerine, \"Lithofracteur\" 50 per cent, and \"Horsley's patent Blasting Powder\" 25 per cent. But they are not \"commonly known as Nitro-glycerine\" in the words of the ordinance.\n\n19/12/72 H. Holland\n\nShips of War, and Ships of foreign nations, and stores belonging to Government, and to the Naval Authorities.\n\nThe first clause also seems imperfect. Dynamite, Lithofracteur, and Horsley's patent blasting powder, into the manufacture of all of which nitro-glycerine enters, should be expressly...\n\nPage 136\n\n12320 Hongkong\n\n21 DEC 1872\n\nPage 398", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 291513, "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": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "page_number": 192, "title": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "content_text": "# \nق در \n**CEIV** \nC.0. \n9 SEP \n1873 \n\nNo 12 of 1872, \nI have \nthe \nnow \nhonor to transmit Ordinance No 8 \nof 1873, \nwhich repeals \nthe first \nmentioned measure and re-enacts \nit's provisions \nas amended in \nmy \nEnclosure No 1 \nin \naccordance with \nC.0. No 189 of 21st December 1872 \ninstructions.\n\n## \nGeneral's \nEnclosure \ndated \n14th \nJuly 1873 \nI enclose the Attorney \nReport explaining in detail the provisions of the Ordinance, which, \nI trust will be \napproved and \nconfirmed by \nHer \nMajesty. \n\nI have the honor to be; \nMy Lord, \nYour Lordship's most obedient \nhumble Servant, \nR. P. P. Roddy \nGovernor. \n\n## Report of the Attorney General on Ordinance No. 8 of 1873.\n\nThis Ordinance has been passed, by direction of the Secretary of State, for the purpose of making certain additions and amendments in Ordinance No. 12 of 1872 \"to regulate the Manufacture, Importation, Storage, and Carriage of Explosive Substances.\" It is usually found more convenient in such cases to repeal the Ordinance and re-enact it with the amendments suggested, and \nthat course has in this instance been adopted.\n\nIt is proposed to adopt partially the title of one of the Imperial Acts from which many clauses are taken, and to call the new Ordinance \"The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873.\" \n\nIn the enumeration of Dangerous Goods in Section V, \"Cartridges\" have been left out, as it is considered that the use of the word is misleading; for if loaded with Gun Cotton, Cartridges would be included under the Ordinance, and if loaded with Gunpowder they would fall within the provisions of Ordinance No. 4 of 1867.\n\nThe following substances are added to the list of Dangerous Goods: Dynamite, Lithofracteur, and Horsley's Patent Blasting Powder.\n\nSection XI is amended by excepting Nitro-Glycerine among goods which may in certain small quantities be kept without a License, as in `29 & 30 Vic., c. 69, s. 8`.\n\nSection XIV is amended by inserting the words \"not exceeding\" before \"Two thousand Dollars,\" and also before \"Two Years.\"\n\nSection XIX provides for the prosecution of Offences against Section XIV before Two Magistrates either summarily or with power to commit for Trial at the Supreme Court. A similar provision will be found in Section XV of the recent \"Chinese Emigrant Ship Fittings Ordinance,\" No. 3 of 1873.\n\n| Section (Old) | Section (New) | Change |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| XVI, XVII and last phrase of XV | Omitted | Contents already provided for in Ordinance No. 10 of 1844 |\n| XVIII | XX | Substituted for the old one which would not work well |\n\nBy Section VII, power is given to the Governor in Council to declare what other goods shall be deemed \"Dangerous\" within the meaning of the Ordinance.\n\nSubject to the above amendments, and to a general revision and re-arrangement of the Clauses, the new Ordinance contains the same provisions as the one of 1872 which it repeals.\n\n14th July, 1878.\n\n**J. PAUNCEFOTE, Attorney General.**\n\n## \n190 \nPage 190", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301940, "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": 101, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "103. 100 \n\nbe subsequently hinged. These will be of cast iron, properly balanced, and with double hinges, and will be created in substitution for the present wooden valves, which are always getting out of repair. Rocks.\n\nIt is proposed to continue on a somewhat larger scale than heretofore the removal of dangerous obstructions to the boat traffic. The rocks, which are both in beds and in isolated pinnacles, skirt the shore closely, and are only visible at low water everywhere.\n\nAt half tide, they are casually shown. A photograph (12) has been taken. They have hitherto been destroyed by gun cotton cartridges let into drill holes and discharged with the electric battery; the Officers of the Department having already acquired a remarkable degree of proficiency in this interesting class of works. In future operations, dynamite will be used, and it will be more effective and cheaper. It will be endeavoured to reduce the rocks as much as possible to the level of the bed, and where this is not feasible, without much expense, to leave them at least two feet below the level of low water (S.W. monsoon). I have scarcely to add that rocks in such close proximity to the foundation of the Praya Wall, if blown up, will not either shake or in any way affect it.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302926, "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": 448, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA MAIL\n## HONGKONG, FRIDAY, DEC. 27, 1878\n### TERRIFIC FIRE IN HONGKONG\n#### DESTRUCTION OF SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF HOUSES\n\n[A portion of the following appeared in a special issue of the China Mail last night.]\n\n\"CHINA MAIL\" OFFICE, \nThursday, Dec. 26th. Speaking in the Legislative Council a year or two ago with reference to the organisation of the Fire Brigade, Sir Arthur Kennedy said that sometimes, when he looked down from Government House on the closely built dwellings and business establishments in the centre of this city, he trembled to think what the consequences might be of a fire originating in the midst of those buildings. Our late Governor could hardly have imagined on these occasions a worse calamity from fire than befell this Colony last night. Within the space of about twelve hours hundreds of houses have been destroyed, and probably thousands of people have been deprived of their homes. It is calculated that about ten acres of ground have been covered by the fire, and, when it is added that the catastrophe has occurred in a densely populated part of Victoria, where rows after rows of houses succeed each other in close order, some idea of the amount of the property destroyed may be conjectured. The fire originated last night (Christmas Day) at about 11 p.m., and at the moment of writing this (3 p.m. today) the last fierce battle between the firemen and the flames has just been brought to a victorious conclusion. It is believed that the conflagration has now been brought fairly under control, although a high wind and a little lack of watchfulness on the part of the firemen might result in the flames again setting out on their destructive course through the Colony.\n\nCommencing at Fisher's small general dealer's establishment in Endicott Lane, in the neighbourhood of the P. & O. Offices—the fire, fanned by a pretty strong breeze from the north, rapidly extended in a southerly direction through the Colony, crossed the Queen's Road and other streets, and was only brought under control this morning on reaching the Station Compound. The Civil Hospital and several European establishments are in ruins. So far as we could ascertain from a careful tramp round the scene of the conflagration this morning, its boundaries are as follows. On the west, Gilman's Bazaar bounds the block of Praya buildings visited by the fire, although portions of this block, owing to the southerly direction of the wind, escaped without injury, the P. & O. offices being among the buildings saved from the devouring element. The firemen made a desperate stand against the fire in Gilman's street, but the row of buildings intervening between it and Gilman's Bazar could be only kept free from the flames at the Praya end. This morning an immense quantity of half-burnt firewood could be seen in the Bazaar—one evidence at least of the activity and success of the firemen in their efforts to get the conflagration under. In saying so much, however, it must not be understood that there is unmixed satisfaction abroad at the way in which things were managed last night and this morning; in fact, many people are of opinion that the fire ought not to have been allowed to cross the Queen's Road.\n\nHaving got across this main thoroughfare, the fire was not stayed in its westerly course until it reached the Stag Hotel, which is the first building standing intact to the westward on that side of the way. From the Stag Hotel the fire pursued its southerly course (to most people the course probably seemed a south-easterly one) until, on its western limit, it reached Schmidt's, the gunmaker's, at the corner of Peel and Wellington Streets. This establishment it burnt, but left untouched A Lock's, gold and silver-smith's shop, at the opposite western corner. Thence the fire took its way upwards to the walls of the Police, Magistracy, and Gaol establishments, where its southerly course was arrested. Cochrane Street, Gutzlaff Street, and Graham Street, were entirely destroyed, and also portions of Stanley Street, Wellington Street, Gage Street, Lyndhurst Terrace, and Hollywood Road.\n\nThe eastern limit of the fire in the Queen's Road on the north side is the entrance gate to the P. & O. Offices, which is to the east of the Offices themselves. From this gate the eastern limit of the fire crosses the Queen's Road, and extends eastwards to Koss's establishment, whence it passes straight up Pottinger Street to the walls of the Central Police Station. The whole of the eastern side of Pottinger Street is saved, while the whole of the opposite side is burnt.\n\nPerhaps the most exciting work of the whole fire was the battle to prevent the flames from crossing from Koss's, at the bottom of Pottinger Street, to the house on the opposite side of that thoroughfare. The saving of the whole of the fine block of buildings terminating in the Hongkong Dispensary at the eastern end depended on the success of this conflict between the firemen and the flames, and probably also the safety of the Hongkong Club, the China Mail Office, the German Club, and the whole block of noble buildings extending eastwards from the German Club to the Cathedral. It did not appear to have been discovered until 10 or 11 o'clock this morning that the fire was quietly working its way towards Koss's establishment and another lofty building a little higher up Pottinger Street. The latter establishment first attracted attention, and a great deal was done in the way of removing the verandah and other wood-work to prevent the flames from spreading to the low building exactly opposite. Later on, an attempt was made to blow up the same house with gunpowder or dynamite, but it was only partially successful, and presently the house was in full blaze. Koss's establishment also burst into flames at about the same time. An effort had also been made to blow this building up when it was seen that it must go, and that there was considerable danger of its communicating the flames to the Hongkong Dispensary block, but beyond smashing the glass, tearing the interior to pieces somewhat, and bulging out the iron shutters, the explosion had little effect. Presently the imposing building burst from top to bottom into flames. The iron shutters became red-hot, and the interior of the building was like a roaring furnace. Most people were inclined to the opinion that it was impossible to save the Hongkong Dispensary block, and preparations...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303058, "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": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "content_text": "masses and fall with greater force on the road surface; the bronosal therefore to avoid such projections as would be formed by Solid Stops should be adopted.\n\nCarrying out the works of reconstruction - As further bearing on this question it may be well to point out that should it hereafter be deemed imperative, to construct additional solid gettites outside the line of the Praça, such gettites should be connected with the osale by timber piling supporting a roadway, arranged to form an opening of sufficient length between the Praya and the solid work to afford full bent for the sea during typhoons.\n\nAnother minor matter which might be touched upon here is the desirability of providing hinged tide flaps to the mouths of all culverts and drains as suggested by the Surveyor General. Cases have come before Sir John Goode of serious damage to marine works owing to the concentration of air in times of storms through the absence of this simple provision.\n\nWith regard to the proposed removal of rock outside the footings by the use of dynamite, I would suggest that an experiment be made in this direction by applying the explosive on the surface, and so saving the cost of drilling holes. This system of surface blasting has been recently applied by Sir John Goode in a somewhat similar case with satisfactory results. The exposed...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303890, "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": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 482, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "# Talking of it at its worst\n\nGrand parachute, to the rest \nKwangtung Province \narea: 79,456 sq. miles \npopulation: 19,147,030 \n\nor \nLondon \nvis. \nMetropolitan Police District \n(Canton \n688 Dynamite (ca 1861) \nStatement \nBook 179 3 years. \n16 acres \nHussary. \nArea 29 sq. miles \n11,208 \n477 \n(LIVE) C.O. \n14 JUL \n1679 \n\nand with this enormous territory and population a stone's throw \nfrom the colony. (The member passing to and fro \nestimated by \nSin R.M. (par. 8) at 1500 a day) the system of return is the criminals & their jail they can. was resisted to, in vol. prend the Colmine fi wverburdenes by thin Garl se punditur : -\n\n## Extracts \n\nIt is hardly necessary for this despatch - it is only \na fragment containing what extracts from a long dispatch in their \ngiven within the context. \n\nI think the point of it is to show that the case was intensified in 1865 & that date is possibly explained by the two circulars of 21 Jan. \n13 \n18 Apr. 1865 which I annex - but which are not known \nM. Hump, apparently \n81-15/7 August has 15 \nC. July 16 \n\n## Comment Frame \n\nJayston 28th May, 1879 - \nIn the Papers in Mr. Wells and friends \nand the Minutes of Evidence they took \nat \nthe Flogging of Chinese Criminals in Hongkong, there is nothing very definite \n\nThe Right Honourable \nSir Michael Hicks Beach, Bt., M.P. \nfor Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, \netc. \netc. \netc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325480, "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": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "content_text": "# DESPATCH.\n\n68\n\nvernor.\n\nDate. No.\n\n161 1884 8\n\nhay ast previous Paper,\n\nZor 9360 73 Line Sh Sanctioned\n\n//\n\nNo. 144. 26.\n\nNo. 10492 Ordce (Subject.)\n\n10492 RES 23 JUN 14\n\nTof 1884. The Dangerous Goods amendment Ordee.\n\nTransmits copies of Conform (Minutes.)\n\nM2 Wingfield. ordinance Favstion am auti-dynamite\n\nC.F.L 24.June для Grrr. 247.\n\nEw 24.6 D.\n\nJune 25,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325483, "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": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6]", "content_text": "ww \n\nspeciae \n\nbourroin aquieting \n\nbynamite \n\nThe Lorage \n\n(a) & O'Malley. \n\n80+ Moril 1884 \n\nGovernor. \n\nNo. \n\nBowen 162 \n\nDate. \n\n1884 \n\n4 May \n\nLei \n\n8 \n\nLast previous Paper. \n\n(1) 7775/65 \n\n3499/82 \n\nNo 10493 \n\n(Subject.) \n\nDESPATCH \n\nC. O. \n\n3 \n\nRECEIVED 23 JUN \n\nOrder 8 of 1884. Criminal Procedure amendment. \n\n11338/83 \n\nTransmits copies of-\n\nMr. Branston-\n\n(Minutes.) \n\n26 Jan \n\nOrd Conf 145-26 \n\n26/6 \n\nSanction \n\nThe object is to make provision for the trial immediately after committal - after the apprehension in cases of assault on the Sick in failure of justice by dispersion/failure. The stay only \n\na short time an \n\nD. \n\nmary cases what to occur/urrence at dean \n\nJune 25, \n\n6.24/6 \n\n16 \n\nE.a \n\n25- \n\nHowever, to better follow the instructions and improve the output:\n\n1. **Format in Markdown**: The original request was to output in Markdown, but the final instruction was to output in HTML. 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The stay only\n\na short time an\n\nD.\n\nmary cases what to occur/urrence at dean\n\nJune 25,\n\n6.24/6\n\n16\n\nE.a\n\n25-\n\nThis HTML output follows the instruction to use for paragraphs and corrects spacing and spelling where necessary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325981, "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": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "content_text": "13\n\nwithout the assistance of any intermediate \nvertical shaft from \nboth sides of the \nmountain, with the intention of meeting. The boring \nwere being conducted by percussive machinery driven by compressed air and the explosive used is exclusively dynamite. Operations were begun on the mainland in April and on the Victoria end in July of last year (1883); practically, therefore, the tunnelling has been in hand now one year, and a length of about fifteen hundred and thirty feet has been completed, a little over a fifth of the whole.\n\n11.\n\nThe extraordinarily hard and unyielding nature of the rock traversed has not less than the minor difficulties that must necessarily beset so heavy an undertaking in a country so far removed from the many facilities and advantages enjoyed by similar works carried on at home, tended to retard progress during the first year of the initiation of this work; but it is confidently anticipated that the substitution of the heavier driving machinery shortly expected from England will greatly accelerate speed and enable the workings in the two headings to effect a junction by 1887.\n\n12.\n\nThe masonry of the outlet works and bye-wash it is expected will be finished by 1886, but although the new reservoir may be ready for use nearly a year before the tunnel...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326392, "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": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "page_number": 427, "title": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "content_text": "## 423 \n\nuntil some private order was conveyed to them to strike also. Then they left off. Influence was brought to bear on the butchers, to wake them join the strike, but they were encouraged by the Police to refuse. This they were able to do legally as none of these shopkeepers had taken out the licences required for keeping explosive substances.\n\nIt was reported by the Police that the native Christians were afraid to come out of their dwellings on account of the threat and insults addressed to them.\n\nThe Police having ascertained that a considerable quantity of dynamite and other explosives were in the hands of different Chinese shopkeepers, seized all that could be found.\n\nOn the same day, Saturday the 14th, a number of native Justices of the Peace, as well as some present and former members of the Tung Wah Hospital Committee, came to the Colonial Secretary's Office to interview Mustewart, the Acting Colonial Secretary, with whom as Registrar General they had been on friendly relations. Mustewart's enclosure 2 report (annexed) of what took place will be found interesting. These Chinese", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326414, "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": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "page_number": 449, "title": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "content_text": "## C. O. 19555\n[REC: REGE 18 NOV 84]\n\nMany others, however, anticipated no trouble at night, but more to-day. The Messageries Maritimes Company have been placed in great straits by the cargo boat strike, as an express issued by them yesterday shows. The express announced that owing to the impossibility of finding cargo boats for the landing of cargo for Hongkong of the Saghalien, it would be transhipped to the Tanais, where consignees would have to take delivery. Cargo for Hiogo and Shanghai was to be sent to Yokohama, whence it would be forwarded to its destination at the first opportunity.\n\nAmong the measures of precaution taken Inspector Orley was sent to take possession of such stores of explosives as he might find in the Chinese shops in Queen's-road West, and a large quantity of dynamite was sent by him to the Central Police Station. The arms stores, where old muskets and rifles and pistols, revolvers, &c., are kept in considerable quantities were well watched in case of an attempt by the rowdies to arm themselves. At night the streets were patrolled by all the available strength of police, and at eight o'clock a body of 100 men of the Buffs marched to the Tung Wah Hospital to be on the spot at a moment's notice if wanted. Upon the application of the authorities for the use of the building for the purpose of stationing the men there, it was granted at once.\n\nYesterday was a Chinese religious festival, the Feast of Lanterns, when it is usual to have a great procession, but some days ago the procession was prohibited in consequence of the disturbed state of the Chinese. Last night there was some attempt at a procession, the paraphernalia having an escort of coolies armed with bamboos, but it does not seem to have amounted to much, and the coolies were afraid to be very obstreperous.\n\nUp to two o'clock this morning the fears of those who apprehended another outbreak at night had not been verified, and everything remained perfectly quiet. Police were patrolling the streets in strong bodies, and patrols of the Buffs were also out with fixed bayonets. The rowdies seemed to be intimidated by the strength of the force arrayed against them.\n\n## RIOTERS AT THE POLICE COURT\nTwenty-eight of the rioters were brought up at the Police Court at four o'clock before both Magistrates, but only those cases in which the evidence was ready were gone into. Some of the constables whose evidence was necessary in the other cases were on duty. The prisoners were in two batches, one of sixteen and one of twelve. It was proved against eight of the defendants in the first batch that they had thrown stones which hit the police, and their cases were at once dealt with. Six of them were sent to gaol for twelve months, the first fortnight to be in solitary confinement, and also the last fortnight of the third month. The other two, who were each fifteen years of age only, were sentenced to six months' imprisonment.\n\nPage 445 \n15 \n2239", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327218, "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": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "content_text": "5 \n\nC C. \n\n\"Journal officiel 10 Janvier 1884\". \n\nRECU \n\nREG? 15 JAN 84 \n\n**ARRIVEE**\n\nLe ministre de la marine a reçu de l'amiral Courbet le télégramme suivant, daté de Hong-Kong le 9 janvier, à midi et demi, et d'Hanoï, les 27 et 31 décembre : \n\nAujourd'hui 27 décembre, les magasins de l'artillerie à Hanoi ont éprouvé un commencement d'incendie. Les pertes de matériel sont peu considérables et seront remplacées dans quinze jours par des envois de Saigon, apportés par l'Aveyron.\n\nDes renseignements précis portent à plus de 400 tués et 600 blessés les pertes de l'ennemi à la prise de Son-Tay. \n\nLe n Vinh Phuoc et con l'ienfecant sont parmi les blessés. Plusieurs officiers chinois ont été tués. Nos blessés sont généralement bien, la température étant favorable à leur guérison. L'ennemi a laissé entre nos mains 89 pièces de canons en bronze ou en fonte, dont 7 rayées, 400 kilogrammes de dynamite et 150,000 cartouches pour fusils Remington et Winchester.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327317, "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": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "page_number": 105, "title": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "content_text": "# IMPORT TARIFF\n\n## [Classified according to Rate of Duty.]\n\n### CLASS I.\n**Duty Free Goods.**\n\n* Agricultural implements.\n* Books, maps, and charts.\n* Bullion, being gold and silver refined.\n* Coins, gold, and silver.\n* Fire engines.\n* Models of inventions.\n* Packing bags, packing matting, tea-lead, and ropes for packing goods.\n* Plants, trees, and shrubs, of all kinds.\n* Samples in reasonable quantities.\n* Scientific instruments, as physical, mathematical, meteorological, and surgical instruments and their appliances.\n* Travellers' baggage.\n* Types, new and old.\n\n### CLASS II.\n**Import Goods subject to an ad valorem Duty of 5 per cent.**\n\n| Goods | \n| --- | \n| Alum | \n| Anchors and chains | \n| Bark for tanning | \n| Bamboo, split or not | \n| Beans, peas, and pulse, all kinds | \n| Bones | \n| Bricks and tiles | \n| Camphor, crude | \n| Coal and coke | \n| Cotton, raw | \n| Drugs and medicines, all kinds | \n| Fish, fresh | \n| Flax, hemp, and jute | \n| Flints | \n| Flour and meal, all kinds | \n| Fruit, fresh, all kinds | \n| Glue | \n| Grain and corn, all kinds | \n| Guano and manures, all kinds | \n| Hides and skins, raw and undressed | \n| Horns and hoofs, all kinds not otherwise provided for | \n| Kerosene and petroleum and other mineral oils | \n| Lanterns, paper | \n| Lime | \n| Matches | \n| Matting, floor, Chinese and Japanese, coir, &c., common qualities | \n| Meat, fresh | \n| Metals, all kinds, in pig, block, ingot, slab, bar, rod, plate, sheet, hoop, strip, band, and flat, T and angle iron, old and scrap iron | \n| Oil cake | \n| Oil, wood (Tung yu) | \n| Paper, common qualities | \n| Pepper, unground | \n| Pitch and tar | \n| Rattans, split or not | \n| Scales and balances | \n| Seeds, all kinds | \n| Soap, common qualities | \n| Soy, Chinese and Japanese | \n| Twine and thread, all kinds excepting in silk | \n| Umbrellas, paper | \n| Vegetables, fresh, dried, and salted | \n| Wool, sheep's, raw | \n| Yarns, all kinds, in cotton, wool, hemp, &c. | \n| All unenumerated articles, raw or unmanufactured | \n\n### CLASS III.\n**Import Goods subject to an ad valorem Duty of 7½ per cent.**\n\n| Goods | \n| --- | \n| Beverages, such as lemonade, ginger beer, soda and mineral waters | \n| Blankets and rugs | \n| Buttons, buckles, hooks and eyes, &c. | \n| Candles | \n| Canvas | \n| Carpets of jute, hemp, or felt, patent tapestry | \n| Charcoal | \n| Chemicals, all kinds | \n| Cocoons | \n| Cement, as Portland and other kinds | \n| Cordage and rope, all kinds and sizes | \n| Clothing and wearing apparel of all kinds, hats, boots, shoes, &c. | \n| Cotton manufactures, all kinds | \n| Cotton and woollen mixtures, all kinds | \n| Cotton and silk mixtures, all kinds | \n| Dyes, colours, and paints, paint oils, and materials used for mixing paints | \n| Earthenware | \n| Fans | \n| Feathers | \n| Felt | \n| Fish, dried and salted | \n| Floor rugs, all kinds | \n| Foil, tin, copper, and all other kinds except gold and silver | \n| Fruits, dried, salted, or preserved | \n| Gamboge | \n| Glass, window, plain, and coloured, all qualities | \n| Grass cloth and all textiles in hemp, jute, &c. | \n| Hair, all kinds except human | \n| Hides and skins, tanned and dressed | \n| Isinglass, all kinds | \n| Lamps, all kinds | \n| Leather, all ordinary kinds, plain | \n| Linen, linen and cotton, linen and woollen, linen and silk mixtures, grey, white, or printed | \n| Matting, superior quality, Japanese \"tatamis,\" &c. | \n| Meat, dried and salted | \n| Metals, all kinds in pipe and tube, corrugated or galvanized, wire, steel, tin plates, nickel, platina, quicksilver, German silver, tutenagne, or white copper, yellow metal, unrefined gold and silver | \n| Metal manufactures, all kinds, as nails, screws, tools, machinery, railway plant, and hardware | \n| Musquito netting not made of silk | \n| Needles and pins | \n| Oils, vegetable, all kinds | \n| Oil and floor cloth, all kinds | \n| Paper, all kinds, not otherwise provided for. | \n| Planks, soft wood | \n| Porcelain, common quality | \n| Rosin | \n| Salt | \n| Sapan wood | \n| Sea products, as seaweed, bêche de mer, &c. | \n| Silk, raw, reeled, thrown floss or waste | \n| Silk manufactures not otherwise provided for | \n| Spectacles | \n| Spirits in jars | \n| Stationery and writing materials of all kinds, blank books, &c. | \n| Stones and slate, cut and dressed | \n| Sugar (brown and white), all qualities, molasses, and syrups | \n| Sulphur | \n| Table stores, all kinds, and preserved provisions | \n| Tallow | \n| Tea | \n| Umbrellas, cotton | \n| Umbrella frames | \n| Varnish | \n| Vermicelli | \n| Wax, bees' or vegetable | \n| Was cloth | \n| Woods and timber, soft | \n| Woollen manufactures, all kinds | \n| Woollen and silk mixtures, all kinds | \n| All unenumerated articles partly manufactured | \n\n### CLASS IV.\n**Import Goods subject to an ad valorem Duty of 10 per cent.**\n\n| Goods | \n| --- | \n| Beer, porter, and cider | \n| Camphor, refined | \n| Carmine | \n| Carpets, superior qualities, as Brussels, Kidderminster, and other kinds not enumerated | \n| Clocks, and parts thereof | \n| Clothing made wholly of silk | \n| Confectionaries and sweetmeats, all kinds | \n| Explosives used for mining, &c. (imported under special permit) | \n| Foil, gold and silver | \n| Furniture of all kinds | \n| Glass, plate, silvered or unsilvered, framed or unframed | \n| Glassware, all kinds | \n| Hair, human | \n| India-rubber, manufactured or not | \n| Leather, superior kinds, or stamped, figured, or coloured | \n| Leather manufactures, all kinds | \n| Lacquered-ware, common | \n| Materials for seals, &c. | \n| Musical boxes | \n| Musical instruments, all kinds | \n| Musquito netting made of silk | \n| Paper, coloured, fancy, wall and hanging | \n| Photographic apparatus | \n| Planks, hardwood | \n| Plated-ware, all kinds | \n| Pictures, prints, photographs, engravings, all kinds, framed or unframed | \n| Porcelain, superior quality | \n| Saddlery and harness | \n| Silk thread, or floss silk in skein | \n| Silk manufactures, as gauze, crape, Japanese amber lustrings, satins, satin damasks, figured satins, Japanese white silk (“habutai \") | \n| Soap, superior qualities | \n| Telescopes and binocular glasses | \n| Sugar candy | \n| Tooth powder | \n| Trunks and portmanteaux | \n| Umbrellas, silk | \n| Vermilion | \n| Watches and parts thereof in common metal, nickel, or silver | \n| Wines in wood or bottle, all kinds | \n| Wood or timber, hard | \n| All unenumerated articles completely manufactured | \n\n### CLASS V.\n**Import Goods subject to an ad valorem Duty of 20 per cent.**\n\n| Goods | \n| --- | \n| Amber | \n| Arms, fire-arms, fowling pieces, &c., imported under special permit | \n| Artificial flowers | \n| Birds' nests | \n| Carpets, velvet | \n| Carriages | \n| Cochineal | \n| Coral, manufactured or not | \n| Embroideries in gold, silver, or silk | \n| Enamel-ware | \n| Fireworks | \n| Furs, superior, as sable, sea otter, seal, otter, beaver, &c. | \n| Ginseng, red, white, crude, and clarified | \n| Hair ornaments, gold and silver | \n| Incense, sticks | \n| Ivory, manufactured or not | \n| Jade-ware | \n| Jewellery, real or imitation | \n| Lacquered-ware, superior | \n| Musk | \n| Pearls | \n| Perfumes and scents | \n| Plate, gold and silver | \n| Precious stones | \n| Rhinoceros horns | \n| Scented woods, all kinds | \n| Spices, all kinds | \n| Spirits and liqueurs in wood or bottle, all kinds | \n| Tobacco, all forms and kinds | \n| Tortoise shell, manufactured or not | \n| Velvet, silk | \n| Watches, and parts thereof, in gold and gilt | \n| Works of Art | \n\n### CLASS VI.\n**Prohibited Goods.**\n\n* Adulterated drugs or medicines.\n* Arms, munitions, and implements of war, as ordnance or cannon, shot and shell, fire-arms of all kinds, cartridges, side-arms, spears, or pikes, saltpetre, gunpowder, guncotton, dynamite, and other explosive substances.\n* The Corean authorities will grant special permits for the importation of arms, fire-arms, and ammunition for purposes of sport or self defence, on satisfactory proof being furnished to them of the bona fide character of the application.\n* Counterfeit coins, all kinds.\n* Opium, except medicinal opium.\n\nForeign ships, when sold in Corea, will pay a duty of 25 cents per ton on sailing vessels, and 50 cents per ton on steamers.\n\n**(L.S.)** \n**HARRY S. PARKES.** \n\n**(L.S.)** \nSignature in Chinese of MIN YÖNG-MOK, \nCorean Plenipotentiary.\n\nPage 107", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327319, "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": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "page_number": 107, "title": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "content_text": "## Article.\n\n| No. | Per een. | Description | Duty |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 133 | 20 | Plate, gold and silver | 10 |\n| 134 | | Plated-ware, all kinds | 7 |\n| 135 | | Porcelain, common qualities | 10 |\n| 136 | | superior qualities | 20 |\n| 137 | | Precious stones, all kinds, set or unset | 5 |\n| 138 | | Rattans, split or not | 20 |\n| 139 | | Rhinoceros horns | 71 |\n| 140 | | Rosin | 10 |\n| 141 | | Saddlery and harness | 7 |\n| 142 | | Salt | |\n| 143 | | Samples in reasonable quantities | Free. |\n| 144 | | Sapan wood | 75/5 |\n| 145 | | Scales and balances | 20 |\n| 146 | | Scented wood, all kinds | |\n| 147 | | Scientific instruments, as physical, mathematical, meteorological, and surgical, and their appliances | Free. |\n| 148 | | Seals, materials for | 10 |\n| 149 | | Sea products, as seaweed, bêche-de-mer, &c. | 7/5 |\n| 150 | | Seeds, all kinds | |\n| 151 | | Silk, raw, reeled, thrown, floss or waste | 71 |\n| 152 | | Silk manufactures, as gauze, crape, Japanese amber lustrings, satins, satin damasks, figured satins, Japanese white silk (\"habutai\") | 10 |\n| 153 | | Silk manufactures not otherwise provided for.. | 7 |\n| 154 | | Silk thread and floss silk in skein | 10 |\n| 155 | | Soap, common qualities | 5 |\n| 156 | | superior qualities | 10 |\n| 157 | | Soy, Chinese and Japanese | 5 |\n| 158 | | Spectacles | |\n| 159 | | Spices, all kinds | |\n| 160 | | Spirits, in jars | 7 |\n| 161 | | Spirits and liqueurs, in wood or bottle, all kinds | 20 |\n| 162 | | Stationery and writing materials, all kinds, blank books, &c. | |\n| 163 | | Stones and slate, cut and dressed | |\n| 164 | | Sugar, brown and white, all qualities, molasses and syrups | |\n| 165 | | Sugar candy | 30 |\n| 166 | | Sulphur | 7 |\n| 167 | | Table stores, all kinds, and preserved provisions | 7 |\n| 168 | | Tallow.. | 7 |\n| 169 | | Tea | 7 |\n| 170 | | Telescopes and binocular glasses | 10 |\n| 171 | | Tobacco, all kinds and forms | 20 |\n| 172 | | Tortoise shell, manufactured or not | 20 |\n| 173 | | Tooth powder | 10 |\n| 174 | | Travellers' baggage | Free. |\n| 175 | | Trunks and portmanteaux.. | 10 |\n| 176 | | Twine and thread, all kinds, excepting in silk.. | 5 |\n| 177 | | Types, new and old | Free. |\n| 178 | | Umbrellas, paper | 5 |\n| 179 | | cotton | 71/37 |\n| 180 | | silk | 10 |\n| 181 | | Umbrella frames.. | 7 |\n| 182 | | Varnish | |\n| 183 | | Vegetables, fresh, dried, and salted | 5 |\n| 184 | | Velvet, silk | 20 |\n| 185 | | Vermicelli | 7 |\n| 186 | | Vermilion | 10 |\n| 187 | | Watches, and parts thereof, in common metal, nickel, or silver | 10 |\n| 188 | | in gold or gilt | 20 |\n| 189 | | Wax, bees' or vegetable | 7 |\n| 190 | | Wax cloth | 7% |\n| 191 | | Wines in wood or bottle, all kinds | 10 |\n| 192 | | Wood and timber, soft | |\n| 193 | | hard | |\n| 194 | | Works of Art | |\n| 195 | | Wool, sheep's, raw | |\n| 196 | | Woollen manufactures, all kinds | |\n| 197 | | Woollen and silk mixtures, all kinds | |\n| 198 | | Yarns, all kinds, in cotton, wool, hemp, &c. | |\n| | | All unenumerated articles, raw or unmanufactured | 1# |\n| | | partly manufactured | 5 |\n| | | completely manufactured | 15 |\n\nForeign ships, when sold in Corea, will pay a duty of 25 cents per ton on sailing vessels and 50 cents per ton on steamers.\n\n## 106 \n### Ad valorem Rate of Duty.\n\n| Description | Duty |\n| --- | --- |\n| | 20 |\n| | 10 |\n| | 7 |\n| Adulterated drugs or medicines. | |\n\n### Prohibited Goods.\n\nArms, munitions, and implements of war, as ordnance or cannon, shot and shell, fire-arms of all kinds, cartridges, side-arms, spears or pikes, saltpetre, gunpowder, guncotton, dynamite, and other explosive substances. The Corean authorities will grant special permits for the importation of arms, fire-arms, and ammunition for purposes of sport or self defence on satisfactory proof being furnished to them of the bond fide character of the application.\n\nCounterfeit coins of all kinds.\n\nOpium, except medicinal opium.\n\n### Export Tariff.\n\n#### Class I-Duty free export goods;—\n\n* Bullion, being gold and silver refined; coins, gold and silver all kinds; plants, trees and shrubs, all kinds; samples, in reasonable quantity; travellers' baggage.\n\n#### Class II.-All other native goods or productions not enumerated in Class I will pay an ad valorem duty of 5 per cent.\n\nThe exportation of red ginseng is prohibited.\n\n### Rules.\n\n1. In the case of imported articles the ad valorem duties of this Tariff will be calculated on the actual cost of the goods at the place of production or fabrication, with the addition of freight, insurance, &c. In the case of export articles the ad valorem duties will be calculated on market values in Corea.\n\n2. Duties may be paid in Mexican dollars or Japanese silver yen.\n\n3. The above Tariff of import and export duties shall be converted, as soon as possible, and as far as may be deemed desirable, into specific rates by agreement between the competent authorities of the two countries.\n\n(L.S.) (L.S.)\n\n**HARRY S. PARKES.** Signature in Chinese of **MIN YÖNG-MOK**, Corean Plenipotentiary.\n\n### Protocol.\n\nThe above-named Plenipotentiaries hereby make and append to this Treaty the following three declarations :-\n\n1. With reference to Article III of this Treaty, it is hereby declared that the right of extra-territorial jurisdiction over British subjects in Corea granted by this Treaty shall be relinquished when, in the judgment of the British Government, the laws and legal procedure of Corea shall have been so far modified and reformed as to remove the objections which now exist to British subjects being placed under Corean jurisdiction, and Corean Judges shall have attained similar legal qualifications and a similar independent position to those of British Judges.\n\n2. With reference to Article IV of this Treaty, it is hereby declared that if the Chinese Government shall hereafter surrender the right of opening commercial establishments in the city of Hanyang, which was granted last year to Chinese subjects, the same right shall not be claimed for British subjects, provided that it be not granted by the Corean Government to the subjects of any other Power.\n\n3. It is hereby declared that the provisions of this Treaty shall apply to all British Colonies, unless any exception shall be notified by Her Majesty's Government to that of Corea within one year from the date in which the ratifications of this Treaty shall be exchanged.\n\nAnd it is hereby further stipulated that this Protocol shall be laid before the High Contracting Parties simultaneously with this Treaty, and that the ratification of this Treaty shall include the confirmation of the above three declarations, for which, therefore, no separate act of ratification will be required.\n\nIn faith of which the above-named Plenipotentiaries have this day signed this Protocol, and have thereto affixed their seals.\n\nDone at Hanyang this twenty-sixth day of November, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, corresponding to the twenty-seventh day of the tenth month of the four hundred and ninety-second year of the Corean era, being the ninth year of the Chinese reign Kuang Hsü.\n\n(L.S.) (L.S.)\n\n**HARRY S. PARKES.** Signature in Chinese of **MIN YÖNG-MOK**, Corean Plenipotentiary.\n\n[107]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327786, "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": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "page_number": 164, "title": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "content_text": "## \n\ncanons de \n\nFeronia sont destinés à la \n\nChine, je suis chargé par le Ministre des affaires Étrangères de prier le Gouvernement de retarder l'expédition \n\nde ce matériel de guerre jusqu'à ce que nos deux Gouvernements se \n\nsoient entendus sur les mesures \n\nque comporte l'interprétation du Foreign \"Enlistment Act,\" \n\nJ'ai l'honneur de vous confirmer, Monsieur le Secrétaire \n\nColonial, la note verbale que j'ai laissée hier entre les mains de Son \n\nExcellence Sir George Bowen. En même temps que les canons du \n\nFeronia la voile signale quatre-vingt-douze caisses de dynamite, dont le \n\ndébarquement était annoncé par le journal de Hongkong.\n\nVeuillez agréer, &c. \n(Signed) Léon Dejardin \n\n162", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327798, "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": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "page_number": 176, "title": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "content_text": "## \nAn intrusive rock with a stratified rock. There was no exception to this rule throughout mining in the Malay Peninsula; he had never seen any tin deposits except such as were derived from the wearing down of the rocks which were at the junction of the slates with the granite. If he were asked why that was so, he could give them a reply which was satisfactory to himself as the most reasonable way of accounting for it. All rocks were derived from marine action, and water, no matter how pure it might be, contained in solution some proportion of all the metals. Sea water, for instance, contained an appreciable amount of gold as well as silver. Supposing these rocks had been thrown down or sunk beneath the earth's surface, and subjected to the influence of heat generated from the rocks being piled above them, the metals would run together in consequence of the rocks being reduced to the pasty description which he had described, even when the particles were so finely divided as would be the case of gold in sea water. The quantity, they might say, was infinitesimally small, but the amount of gold taken out of the earth as compared to the amount of rock which was crushed and beaten for gold was infinitesimally small—much less than the quantity in the sea water at the present time. In the first state these rocks contained a certain amount of tin, and in the course of time the rocks became transmuted by the action of the steam he had described, and the result was that the tin became segregated into fine grains and was more or less unequally distributed throughout the granite. But why was tin found at the junction of the paleozoic rocks and the granite? Possibly it was by being brought into a state something like sublimation, that was converting the metal into vapour, from which state it would be condensed on the cooler or untransmuted portions of the stratified rock. In giving that explanation he was aware that the term sublimation was not strictly correct, but he used that because it would convey to his hearers the nearest idea of what he wished to explain to them. Certainly they found that the tin existed most in the uninterrupted parts of the paleozoic rocks. That was a fact which he was glad to say was being more recognised than previously. Over and over again he had pointed out to those searching for minerals in Perak that there were two things they must look for, first, a place where there had been a watercourse, and, second, a place where the rock had been composed of a junction of the paleozoic rock with the granite. There was no rule of thumb for finding tin. He knew there were some who would say \"That looks a likely place, put down the rod and you will find metal.\" Sometimes they were right but more often they were wrong and it was more chance if they were ever right. It was mere charlatanism which practical business men should put aside as much as possible. He thought there had been a little of that in the Malay Peninsula. In these cases the simple rule was lost sight of that alluvial tin could only be expected where there had been a watercourse, and, secondly, that not only must they look for it at a watercourse but also in those places where the rocks had been composed of the junction of the paleozoic rocks and the granite. Now how was that to be told? Generally they could tell it by the colour of the soil, but not always. The soil ought to be of a reddish or yellowish colour, because the peroxide of iron in the paleozoic rocks generally gave rise to a fiery red soil. If these rules were adopted it was easy to tell whether any place was a likely place to find alluvial tin in, but they must not go so far as to say that as a matter of course tin was to be found there, though nearly always such was the case. Then another thing was to be said about the deposits of tin. They were not to be worked on ordinary mining principles, because the alluvial soil was at most only some fifty feet thick, rarely so much, and more often only fifteen or sixteen feet. Under these conditions they could do nothing but strip off the alluvial soil, and on coming to the tin extract it from the deposit by means of washing. That was the simple process of mining in the Malay Peninsula. He did not know of any place where similar deposits could be worked otherwise unless they were very deep, and then they could not be worked profitably unless they were unusually rich.\n\nHe did not think that had been recognised by the Europeans concerned in the Malay Peninsula. It had been assumed they could sink shafts and run galleries and tunnels. That was sure to lead to failure. Even if they could do so they were sure to meet with large granite boulders, and as they could not use dynamite where the working was so shallow they would have to work round the rocks and leave a good deal of valuable tin in doing so. No doubt it was very gratifying to our national vanity to be able to show the Chinese what could be done with machine appliances, and if it were merely a benevolent undertaking that would be very interesting, but in practical work it led to a great deal of unnecessary expenditure and could not result in any great gain to those interested. His impression was that the mistake had been in not mining as the Chinese do. They strip off the soil in the most economical manner, they wash their tin deposits without any great appliances, and in that way they make their money. Probably it would be said the Chinese have advantages which we do not possess. This was perfectly true, and it seemed to him, if he might offer a suggestion—and this was where he meant his ability was not sufficiently trustworthy—he would suggest that the mines should be carried on by Europeans on the tribute system rather than by the use of appliances which from the nature of the case could not be expected to pay. He would give an illustration of this. In the early days of gold mining in Port Philip some of the mines gave very large dividends. One of the most prosperous for a time was the Clunes mine, but as they went deeper and deeper the quartz got poorer and poorer until at last it was found the mine did not pay. The shareholders got alarmed, and some of them were for selling off and realising their property as soon as possible. However, better counsels prevailed. Those who understood the matter said \"Look here, these miners are bringing up all sorts of stuff for you to crush in your mills. They do it because they are paid so much a ton, and they will go on doing so without reference to anything but bringing so many tons to grass.\" The miners were then told they could take so many cubic yards, they could take all the gold, and the company would pump and wind for them. The consequence was that the Clunes mine, instead of becoming a loss, was soon returning nearly as large dividends as it did previously. He thought the only way to mine successfully in Perak would be on a somewhat similar principle. Let the tributaries be the Chinese, who know how to work the mines, and let as few Europeans as possible have anything to do with it. The climate was bad, the privations great, and the Europeans employed deserved to be paid good salaries; but let there be as few such as possible. He would not detain them further. He could say more, but what he had said he hoped was sufficient to make clear to them that mines in Perak are no exception to mines elsewhere. They are rich; they offer favourable fields for the employment of British capital; but they require care in the working. In the end they cannot fail to yield satisfactory results. (Applause.) He begged to thank the audience for the attention with which they had listened to him, and His Excellency for presiding.\n\nThe lecturer on resuming his seat was loudly applauded.\n\n## \nMr. E. J. ACKROYD—Ladies and gentlemen, I am sure I do but express the sentiments of you all when I rise to move a vote of thanks to the Rev. Mr. Tenison-Woods for the very clear and lucid lecture he has given us to-day on the tin deposits and tin mines of Perak. (Applause.) His great knowledge of the subject and his experience have enabled him to treat it in such a simple and clear way that he has made it intelligible to many who were not acquainted with geological terms. To those who have no interest in these mines but came for the love of science I am sure he has afforded great pleasure, while to those who are interested he has given valuable information which may lead to practical measures being taken for the proper working of the mines. I beg to tender Mr. Tenison-Woods our best thanks for the very pleasant afternoon he has afforded us. (Loud applause).\n\nThe GOVERNOR—I offer you, Mr. Tenison-Woods, the thanks of the meeting tendered by acclamation.\n\nRev. TENISON-WOODS acknowledged the compliment and moved a vote of thanks to His Excellency for so kindly presiding.\n\nCarried by acclamation.\n\nThe GOVERNOR, in acknowledging the compliment, said that, as Mr. Tenison-Woods had said, when he was in Australia he was always ready to promote geographical or geological explorations. He assured them he should always be the same so long as he remained in Hongkong.\n\n174", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328137, "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": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "page_number": 515, "title": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "content_text": "511 \n\nway state here, that so far as I can see ahead by the light of present experiences, this letter will probably be the last European mechanic to be obtained from England for the tunnel-works. The inability of Europeans to keep their health in the atmosphere of the tunnel, the heavy Hospital expenses they entail, and the cost of their passages to and from England, all point to the desirability of completing such resources as to find locally.\n\nI may be fortunate enough to wake the tunnel less unhealthy. The Governor will doubtless be desirous to know whether everything possible has been done to make the tunnel less unhealthy. To this I would reply that the ventilation and drainage of both headings are as good as they can be made. On the Tytom side a vertical ventilating shaft has been sunk, and it has created such a thorough draught in the tunnel, that at times the candles in the latter cannot even be kept lighted, the dynamite explosions of the rock after the unmasking... Nevertheless the sickness continues, and I apprehend the theory of local medical practitioners will, after all, have to be accepted, i.e. that the fever is due to the exhalation from the granite newly opened from day to day.\n\nI have \n(Signed) I. M. Price, Surveyor General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329782, "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": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "page_number": 105, "title": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "content_text": "# JOURNAL OFFICIEL DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE\n\nLa canne à sucre vient en abondance au Tonkin, mais elle est de qualité médiocre et produit un sucre de qualité inférieure. C'est une culture à améliorer.\n\nLe thé est d'une culture facile dans les plateaux intermédiaires entre la plaine et la montagne et y est très abondant. Il est de qualité inférieure et on en recueille les feuilles toute l'année. Il y aurait lieu de tenter l'amélioration de cette culture en important des plants de bonne nature et en ménageant la cueillette des feuilles.\n\nEnfin il y aurait des cultures à introduire, comme par exemple celle du café,\n\n## Dix-septième année. No 42\n\nIl me reste deux mots à dire de l'état des communications au Tonkin. Elles se font actuellement par eau. La navigation fluviale du Tonkin n'est pas aussi aisée qu'on l'a présentée d'abord, cependant elle offre de grandes facilités. Dans tout le Delta on peut naviguer avec des tirants d'eau variant de 1 m. 50 à 2 m. 50. Il y aura de-ci, de-là, quelques rectifications à opérer, quelques canaux à creuser, mais je ne crois pas qu'un chemin de fer dans le Delta soit nécessaire d'ici longtemps. Il serait du reste coûteux à établir dans un pays d'alluvion coupé de canaux. Pour les communications avec la Chine, la question est différente, et un chemin de fer allant de Hanoi au Yunnam sera sans doute nécessaire.\n\nAu point de vue de l'élevage, les pâturages sont excellents et faciles. Le pays produit des buffles, des bœufs et des chevaux, mais il y aurait lieu de s'occuper de ces deux derniers produits. On exporte, en outre, en abondance, en Chine, des porcs et des œufs de volaille. La chambre de commerce de Mazamet s'informait de la possibilité de l'élevage des moutons au Tonkin. Cet élevage ne me paraît pas possible, mais pourrait être utilement remplacé par celui de la chèvre qui y vit très bien et y est très féconde. On pourrait utiliser les peaux de chevreaux et les poils de chèvre.\n\nLes communications avec l'extérieur se font par le port d'Haiphong. C'est actuellement le seul port accessible et communiquant directement avec le système fluvial du Tonkin. Encore n'est-il accessible qu'aux hautes marées et pour les navires d'un tirant d'eau inférieur à six mètres. Il paraît suffisant pour les besoins actuels du commerce, mais lorsque le trafic se sera développé, il ne sera plus suffisant.\n\nPour ces diverses améliorations, l'établissement d'une ferme-école par les soins du Gouvernement serait, je crois, d'un effet salutaire.\n\nParmi les articles d'importation au Tonkin, il faut compter en première ligne les cotonnades qui valent à Hanoi de 0 fr. 40 à 1 fr. le mètre, et les cotons filés d'Europe (valant environ 3 fr. le kilog.) et de Bombay (2 fr. le kilog.).\n\nÀ cela vient s'ajouter quelques serviettes venant soit d'Angleterre, soit d'Allemagne, des couvertures en coton et parfois en laine venant d'Angleterre, de la mercerie anglaise, et enfin des couleurs d'aniline d'Allemagne et de Suisse et de l'horlogerie d'Amérique. Toutes ces importations viennent actuellement par la voie de Hong Kong.\n\nIl faudra, si notre industrie française veut prendre son rang dans l'importation au Tonkin, qu'elle lutte de bon marché avec l'industrie anglaise, allemande ou américaine.\n\nOn importa actuellement peu de tissus de laine, mais je crois que les mousselines de laine, que l'on fabrique beaucoup en France, sont appelées à jouer, comme au Japon, un certain rôle au Tonkin à mesure que le bien-être se développera dans la population.\n\nEn somme, le commerce d'importation comme celui d'exportation a peu d'importance actuellement au Tonkin, et on aurait une pauvre idée de l'avenir du pays sous ce rapport, si on consultait les statistiques actuelles des douanes. Cela tient à la pauvreté momentanée du pays, résultant de l'état de guerre et d'oppression dans lequel il s'est trouvé depuis de longues années. L'occupation française doit, à mon sens, inaugurer une ère de prospérité et de bien-être par la sécurité qu'elle assurera à la population indigène. Cette population, trop dense dans le Delta, manque de la sécurité nécessaire au travail, et pourtant elle est active et docile, et quand elle se sentira protégée et délivrée de la piraterie, il sera facile de l'amener peu à peu à cultiver les parties montagneuses qui, en dehors du Delta, sont presque en friche.\n\nDans l'étude que j'ai faite du Tonkin, je ne me suis pas occupé de la question minière qui a été déjà étudiée par des personnes compétentes.\n\nReste la question de nos relations avec les provinces méridionales de la Chine, relations qui doivent contribuer à la richesse du Tonkin par le commerce de transit. Ces provinces sont actuellement isolées du monde entier et exclues du commerce avec les nations européennes.\n\nElles sont riches pourtant et fort peuplées et c'est avec raison que l'on a compté sur leur appoint pour le développement de la prospérité de notre colonie future. Mais la Chine voit avec peine notre voisinage et elle nous le montre par la lutte acharnée qu'elle soutient contre nous.\n\nIl est mal abrité du reste, et il présente de grands inconvénients pour la construction de docks et de quais. Il a aussi le défaut de ne pouvoir recevoir notre flotte de guerre. Il ne faut pas songer à modifier sa barre, mais on a parlé d'utiliser le Cua-Nam-Trien, dont la barre donne 2 à 3 pieds de plus, et de faire communiquer par un canal intérieur le Cua-Nam-Trien avec la Cua-Cam ou même de transporter le port d'Haiphong à Quang-Yen. Ce serait une amélioration, mais insuffisante. On a parlé d'un port à la baie d'Along que l'on ferait communiquer avec l'intérieur par un chemin de fer. Outre que ce chemin de fer serait une complication, la baie d'Along n'est pas un port à proprement parler, mais un mouillage fort éloigné de la terre ferme.\n\nPour utiliser la baie d'Along, il faudrait :\n\n1. Ou s'en servir comme simple mouillage et la faire communiquer par un canal maritime soit à Haiphong, avec un port intérieur situé soit à Quang-Yen,\n2. Ou transformer la baie d'Along en un vrai port en faisant sauter à la dynamite une partie des rochers qui l'entourent, réalisant ainsi par la réunion d'un certain nombre d'îlots en terre-plein où l'on bâtirait une ville maritime avec des docks, magasins, etc. Il suffirait alors de faire communiquer ce port avec le système fluvial du Tonkin par un canal de faible dimension pour le passage des bateaux de rivière.\n\nEn résumé, j'ai confiance en l'avenir de notre colonie du Tonkin. Ce ne sera pas une colonie d'émigration et nous n'en avons, du reste, pas grand besoin. Ce sera une colonie d'administration et de rapport qui nous permettra de prendre une place sérieuse dans l'Extrême-Orient.\n\n## AVIS & COMMUNICATIONS\n\n### Ministère de l'intérieur\n\nLe lundi 4 mai 1885, il sera ouvert, à l'hôtel de la préfecture à Bar-le-Duc, un concours pour l'admission aux emplois d'agents voyers surnuméraires.\n\nLe programme et les conditions du concours sont déposés à la préfecture et au ministère de l'intérieur (service vicinal), 7, rue Cambacérès, où les personnes qui désirent concourir peuvent en prendre connaissance tous les jours, de dix heures à cinq heures, les dimanches **et fêtes exceptés**.\n\n## Domestic\n\n| Date | Reference | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 21 FEB 85 | `3103` | Extradition Treaty with China |\n\nThe question of the extradition of Chinese who have committed crimes in British Territory is under consideration. No objection to the case being represented to the Viceroy through Consul at Canton.\n\n### Minutes\n\n- Coffey to Foreign Office for information and guidance in reply to `1588/5`\n- Draft submitted on 21/2\n\n### Subsequent Paper\n\n`HA 1688` \n`GR 1178/1922/32(III)` is not present, but `XCR(85)72` is not present either, however, there is `C. O. 3103`. \n\n1886 \n`20726`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330273, "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": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "page_number": 135, "title": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Tyram Junnel. \nHong Kong Water Works. \nDetail of Work and Expenditure during the month ending 30th of Novt 1885.\n\nLength of Tunnel driven during the month in Linear Feet: 183.\n\n### Number Classification of Labour and Outlay during the month.\n\n| Labour employed | Number | Rate | Outlay |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Machinemen (Natives) Paid by Contract | 6 | 50¢ per shift of 8 hours | $3.00 |\n| Labourers | 247 | 20¢ | $49.40 |\n| Smiths | 16 | 40¢ to 54¢ | $7.07 |\n| Hammermen | 80 | 50¢ | $40.00 |\n| Engine-men with Compressors | 5 | $20 to $30 | $125.00 averaging each per month |\n| European Foremen fitters and miners | 4 | $50 to ... | $176.00 |\n| Store Boys | 7 | ... | $8.84 |\n\n### Materials expended during the month.\n\n| Materials | Quantity | Rate | Outlay |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Dynamite | 1550 lbs. | $0.62 | $962.00 |\n| Fuse | 3260 ft. | $0.33 | $109.00 |\n| Detonators | 3000 | $1.00 per 100 | $30.00 |\n| Gale oil | 60 gals. | $1.75 | $105.00 |\n| Candles | 420 | $0.22 per doz. | $92.45 |\n| Waste | 75 lbs. | $0.12 | $9.00 |\n| Coal | 130 tons | $10.00 to $13.00 | $261.00 to $510.00 (Total: $742.67 for some quantity) |\n\n### Total.\n$4568.19 (for Labour and Materials) \nEquivalent...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334462, "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": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 284, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "tough\n\nto enable them to form a very clear idea of the weak points in the good defence, and how the place should be\n\nattacked.\n\n8. I fail to see in paras: 4 and 5 of the Admiral's letter to the Admiralty, the justification he alleges for making\n\nhis report.\n\n9. My opinion, which he quotes, and which will be found in the report\n\nof Local Defence Committee, drawn up by me, and other correspondence, was merely to the effect that until Hong Kong and Singapore are properly fortified and armed, our fleet would have to act partly on the defensive, affording those places the necessary protection instead of being wholly independent and scouring the high seas in assistance of our commerce.\n\n10. I presume the movements of the fleet in regard to the protection of\n\nthe Coaling stations would be guided rather by actual facts as to\n\nthe condition of the defences, than by any exclusive hopes of the enemy knowing nothing about them in these days of foreign military attachés, whose raison d'être is to find out everything worth knowing, for which ways and means abound in a country like ours.\n\n#1.\n\nRespecting the Singapore defences, I have already, as General Officer Commanding, reported to the Adjutant General, Horse Guards, to whom I refer; and the enclosed copy of\n\nmemo: since received from the Commandant Straits Settlements, will give that General Officer's version of the occurrences said to have happened.\n\n12.\n\nAnd\n\nI know something about dynamite and\n\ncotton operations and the results affected thereby, having had\n\nto study the question when sent to\n\nthe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334567, "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": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 389, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "Total\n\nTotal Number Number\n\n30 Cases.\n\n1941 Truck\n\nAbstract of Cases under Cognizance of the Police Magistrates' Court, during the Year 1886.\n\nCASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.\n\n...\n\n1.\n\nP. 37.\n\n16,617 | 12,051, 842 2,19% 190 187\n\nauhe?4% ${ }\n\n1003 potpuno „Kleparz Büyüləd\n\n30*1008111 01 F. M.\n\n# Ordered to find Security.\"\n\nova aff d{ ༦.I,\n\n- NOLA pass yo\n\n7. af. P.\n\n84 12 17. ONL ME JAMUR ƏHƏRİ DER 1311 મ SƏNSƏULLAA Burjaya Jo sa peppar.1 KIGOSI 70 Jaqung 14:10.1 Ti f.\n\n18.510 1,237 Toral Males AND FEMALES...........16,647\n\n*Consisting of Offenders not sentenced to Imprisonment.\n\nsasuomun WEITs 19SCED BY THE POLICE MAGISTRATES DERING THE YEAR 1886.\n\nFASUOULBURNS 917 *r:&&!Q5[- Y\n\nIn *2 *SLY सहकर 12 : Warrants 9:00 SAKURET Shq! \"EBOT 162 7,107\n\nOFFENCE.\n\nTHE CASES CONSISTED OF:-\n\nNo. of Xo.or CARES. PH- WONERS. OFFENCE, No. or CAJEL\n\n382 No. o FRI- RONERS. Brought forward.......... 1.9176,518\n\nrying, AssB... -Commun. Inciting a person to commit, ---Imlerent, Animais-Crucity to.\n\nArus-Chinese not Holders of Night Passes found car-1\n\nAvault-Cansing grievous bodily harm,. 80 Larceny-from the Person. 122 137 41 -in a Dwelling House, 14 +3 -of Beasts or Birds, not the subject of Larceny) 13 14 ig at Common law, 2 -of Vegetables and Fruits from Garleus and 3 4 628 83-4 enclosed places, 1 1 af post letters, J 1 Malicious damage to electric or magnetic telegraph, -On Police in the Execution of their Duty, and i 137 158 Injury to Property.. 42 obstructing and resisting Police.. Manslaughter....... --With intens to commit rape,.. Markets Ordinance-Breach of... 372 -With intent to rob. Medical Practitioner-Practising without a certificate.... Arrest--(without warrani) Refusal of by private persons -With wounding, when enjoinesti, Attempting to commit other Offences (indictable). Banishment--Returning after Care also Conditional | Parlon\n\nBat-Breach of Ordinance for Preservation of........ Hirtle & Deaths----Breach of Ordinance for Registration of. Est-neglecting to paint legibly the number of licence t upon each bow and stern of, Bentires-Firing Crackers or making,.. Brah of the Peare, ikuglary. Burial of Chinese forpse elsewhere than in a t'emetery....... Cattle-Disenses Ordinance-Breach of --Furned loose on Imidie Ways... Cais and Vehicles-Breach of Ordinance for Street.... Tik-Desertion of, Gill-Exposing, whereby life or health endangered,. Child Stealing......... |täitese--Territory -Crimes and Offences committed in... Indo-Offences relating to, Tonditional Pardon-Breach of, Photagious Diseases' Ordinance-Offcuees against intempt of Court, Caiting and Wandling with intent to do grievous badily i with intent to murder. harm. with intent to prevent lawfal apprehension. } Menaces-Demanding Money by, 25 Mendicancy. 246 246 3 3 Misdemeanor-Aiding and Abetting in. 3 3 Murder. 17 17 Night-Found in Dwelling Houses by--with Intent to 34 34 ? + * # 5:27:27 2 བ ནི | 2:: 1:|: 2 ཆོས ཁས པའི :|:ཀྱི ལས སྱཱ ཤཱ 2 རྞྞ | སྐ 201 402 commit Felony therein, -Noises, by playing at the Game called Chai-Mni, --Noises by Watchrum, &c... Nuisances-Allowing Dirt and Filih to remain on Pro- mises or in immediate Vicinity thereof, -Blasting Stones to the danger of Persons and Property. -Biowing Whistles... -Buildings being in a Ruinous condition, Kaploding dynamite to the danger of per-į sons and property, } # 3 31 31 2 2 5 1 1 2 : -Exposing Sight Soil in the Streets in uncovered Buckets, and in open Bonts along the Praya. 105 105 ---Hanging wet Clothes, &o, to dry over 121 Public Ways................. 121 -Keeping Pigs, &c., without a Licence.... -Latrine, 188 188 5 -Neglecting to clean out Dust Bins, and) throwing Bubbish. &c., into the Streets. -Neglecting to provide Dust Boxes, -Obeying Calls of Nature in the Streets, Regulations-Breach of, 1,2771,277 208 206 40 49 57 57 1 --Rolling laurels, 1 1 -Rough Dressing, &c. of Granite in or near 5 a Public place, Dangerous and Offensive Trades--Varrying an. 4 -4 Flangerous Goods Ordinance- Bronch of, kaging Posons into or away from the Colony, . sertion from British Merchant Ship........... Foreign Ships, ........... 3 8 ---Throwing Rubbish into the Harbour or on the Beach,............ 69 108 108 1 1 -Using Chairs or Vehicles for the conveyance | 2 4 + If 46 Imprisonment. Trans-Bervicing and harbouring, H. M's Army and Navy, underly Behaviours--Accompanied with damage to! --Drunkenness, Fighting, &, Property.. la-Allowing aumuzzled ferocious, to be at large, dr., mestie Servants--Miseoninet as.... Hira-Administering. Embezziement.... Embracery, ope of prisoners Negligently allowing, Exce officer-Personating, Extortion or Attempt to extort, False Charge-Preferring or giving wilful false evidence. Declaration-making a. Pretences obtaining fool and Money by. 93 93 * } of persons infected with small pox, ..............) Obscene pictures-Exposing for sale, Obstruction of Navigation... of Roads and Streets, &e.. by Hawkers, 1 Chair Coolies and Shopkeepers, 21 I 264 261 2.137 2.293 | 1,053 | 1,72% of Wharves by Boat Propië, 334 334 16 16 Offensive Weapons-Having Possessión of.. 1 1 24 20 || Opium Ordinance-Breach of, &...................... 701 843 { * Passengers-Carrying in Excess of that allowed by! จิ 2 5 Licence, 1 1 Passes-Chinese out at Night without, 463 463 Pawnbrokers--Breach of Ordinance for,. 7 2 Pawning-Illegally. 3 3 } 36 Perjury, (e also Preferring false Carpe and giving wilful false Testimony). TB B 1 Piracy, 1 Police-Hosing Prisoners from Custody of. 49 Police Constables-Misconduct as..... A 1 Rape....... dony-Accessory before the Fact to. 2 $ Receiving Stolen Gouris, -Artempting to commit, 37 Recognisances-Breach of, Frami, 1 Hot....... Fraud-Uttering a forgel cheque or order with intent Roads und Streets- Injury to.... 40 11 1 ta defrand. Robbery From the Persin, Furious Friving Petite Offenders' Ari-Offences against. From the Person with Wounding, ............. $ ambling-Breach of Ordinance for Suppression of. 337 260 Rogues & Vagabonds-As Street Gamblers and Watch- GRULE-Breach of Ordinace for. in the Streets, treated as Obstruction of Public Ways .... On the Highways with Anus or with Violence. men to tiamblers............................. 36 36 586 536 --As suspicious Characters.. 172 179 តិ As Vagrants... $2 22 House Breaking.. Hamide, per infortunism, or by misadventure, Babour Dredging at Anchorage for Ships of War in the. Regulations-Brach of......... 1 $ ---Wandering abroad and lodging 58 58 1 1 in the open air, 1 Sanitary Regulations--Breach of, 16 16 7 12 Hasholders and Servants-Breach of Ordinance, for! Scavenging Contract-Breach of, 35 35 12 12 Seamen-Refusal of duty by Merchant, Registration of. Dorer-Neglecting to answer Coroner's Summonses to attend Inquests. Barny-Comunion. -from Ships or Boats in the Harbour, ubeent Exposure of Person by Bathing or otherwise, I and Lewdness.............. Ships, &c.-Neglecting to have a light on board... 30 3 2: 2 $24 1.025 Shooting with intent to do Grievous Bodily Harm, to prevent lawful apprehension, Spirituous and fermented Liquors-Breach of Ordinance for remit of, ......... 15 Stamp Ordinance—Breach of................. Steani Launch Ordinance-Breach of,- Streams-Defiling.... to Murder.... Carried forward, ............... 1.917 16318 Carried forward.................... 3 26 35 38 * 19 2 38 |12,524|14,486", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 336724, "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": "CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6]", "page_number": 440, "title": "CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6]", "content_text": "## 434\n\n...tras... worked, and the ability it brought to bear... ol... unwillingly obliged to remark that I cannot conceive how anyone who had at all grasped the policy the Government had in passing the ordinance could ever have consented to such an arrangement. It is highly... when the English Government was straining every nerve to exclude dynamite from the United Kingdom... loyal... or... \n\nand an intelligent and strenuous Officer should have passed certain... without any... at all.\n\nWhen, therefore, M. Ervens describes the result of this stack system as more satisfactory working of the Ordinance, it should be remembered that it was a system devised by clerks to save trouble, and almost incredible.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 338344, "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": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888", "page_number": 272, "title": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888", "content_text": "to undertake the cost of \n\nConstructing \n\nthe \n\npermanent \n\n267 \n\n2. \n\nMoreover, Even if the best \n\navailable professional opinion on the \n\nbreakwater, which, accepting \n\nthe lowest Estimate, would \n\namount to $150,000, \n\nwhile the estimate by today's Royal Engineer \n\nis £45,000 to £50,000 \n\nand \n\navalanch... \n\nunless \n\nI therefore Mr \n\nStanhope proposes to devote \n\narmy funds to this \n\nwork Lord Knutsford cannot \n\nurge the Colonial Govt. \n\nto spend money \n\nin \n\nconnection with the Scheme. \n\n2. Moreover, if dynamite \n\nwere to be employed, it \n\nwould not be possible to \n\npredict with certainty the \n\nEffect of the projected work \n\nand the result might \n\nEntail a premature and \n\nheavy annual \n\nexpenditure on \n\ndredging \n\n3. Mr Stanhope will \n\nObserve from one of \n\nthe Enclosures to the letter \n\nfrom this Dept. of the 10th \n\nof October last that the Governor", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 339072, "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": "CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7]", "page_number": 508, "title": "CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7]", "content_text": "506\n\nGoulbourn, formerly 2nd Clerk Department, who was detailed as Clerk specially in charge of the office work, stores, and accounts, in connection with the dynamite Waterworks, when it was decided to carry out that undertaking, to succeed Mr. Ch'an-A-fook as Clerk.\n\nMr Goulbourn's salary will be one hundred **$100** dollars per month, instead of One hundred and thirty **$130** dollars paid to Mr. Ch'an-Afook, the balance of thirty dollars **$30** being devoted to increasing the salaries of the Chinese Clerks in the Department, upon whom the translation work, performed by Mr. Chan-a-fook will devolve.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,\nGee Decaux", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-241 - Governor Des Voeus - 1889 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347016, "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": "CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12]", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12]", "content_text": "# The Daily Press.\n\n## HONGKONG, OCTOBER 14TH, 1891.\n\n### THE TRIAL OF MASON.\n\nThe trial of Charles Henry Allen Welch Mason on a charge that he \"did on or about the 13th September have in his possession or under his control five pounds weight or thereabouts of an explosive substance under such circumstances as to give reasonable suspicion that he did not have it in his possession for a lawful object,” was continued at the British Police Court at Shanghai on the 7th inst.\n\nAs before, Mr. H. S. Wilkinson, Crown Advocate, prosecuted; Mr. R. E. Bredon, Commissioner of Customs, and Mr. Yu, the deputy appointed by the Viceroy at Nanking, were present in Court during the hearing of the case. H.E. the Tuotai and his interpreter, Mr. Zee Lan-char, occupied seats on the bench.\n\nHenry Croskey deposed--I am an American citizen, and a fourth assistant in the Customs service. I know the accused. I have been stationed at Chinkiang since July 16 last. I lived in the same quarters as accused at Chinkiang. About the beginning of August accused told me he knew there were certain Chinese in Chinkiang who proposed to rebel against the Government in Chinkiang and Nanking and that his intention was to assist them. He named several Chinese who he said were members of a society called the Kolao Hui. He proposed to go to join in the movement, and left with me on his departure certain instructions written in cypher. On one occasion he told me he had written a letter to Gen. Mesny at Shanghai, making proposals to him. The letter, accused said, was signed “X” and the answer was to be addressed to “X”, Customs Post Office, Chinkiang. He also said it was written in such a manner as to make Gen. Mesny believe it came from a Chinese. He had the letter in his hand, but I had no opportunity of reading it. I saw in his possession an American illustrated catalogue of firearms. Accused here interposed and asked if questions regarding arms had any bearing on the matter of dynamite.\n\nHis Worship said he presumed they had. Accused was charged with having dynamite under such circumstances as to raise a suspicion that it was for an unlawful purpose, and therefore the accompanying circumstances were clearly admissible.\n\nExamination continued--Accused told me, two or three days after his letter to General Mesny, that he had applied for leave to go to Shanghai to see a dentist, but that his real object was to see General Mesny. Leave was not granted. He afterwards went away on two months' leave. He said he proposed to go to Japan, and from there immediately to Hongkong, where he proposed to buy arms and ammunition and bring them to Chinkiang. Three days before he left he sent me the paper produced, which is a key to a cypher. After office hours he asked me if I could read it. I told him I could. It is not a difficult cypher. It consists of English words written in Greek characters. Down to the last three lines the words are in the usual order. The last three lines are written from right to left, the lowest line first. On the day of his departure he handed me a sheet of instructions written in this cypher. I gave it to the Commissioner at Chinkiang. I made a copy in cypher and a translation in English: -\n\n\"You will receive a letter or telegram from me with 4 figures: first two give day and second two give month, example: 0110 means 10th August, 3090 means 30th Sept., on this day or soon after you may expect me, if in our own ship. Signal will be one long blast, followed by two short ones; also by day, black pennant at mast head. By night red lamp beneath white, also at mast head. On arrival, come off in Custom's gig or sampan and bring along any weapons that may be in your charge, remember red sash. If I come from Shanghai, I shall come by river steamer bringing arms and perhaps a few men; and come straight to Customs, in disguise, as friend. (Don't go out to dinner for a week, after receipt of my letter, if possible.) We shall then quietly collect our men, arm and commence operations.\n\nOn receipt of date, tell road-coolie, tell boy, and tell him his instructions appended. Find Chinese date from Almanac. Write on slip (thus, 8 moon and 20th day) and show to tingchai the morning of date, tell Morris and if possible, see Clark, Martin, Schultz and O'Neill and tell them to be ready to come aboard. Remember that your duties will be telegraph, bank and Silver Island forts, learn your ground. Likewise take a run up to Nanking, and take road-coolie with you. Domestic: take care of ponies and have them exercised and teach boy to ride (big saddle). Every day ask to see boy's bags: I have told him to make 50. Please pay him for a bale of cloth and cotton out of $20 left by me. On receipt of date, pay boy thirty dollars, tingchai 10 dollars, total fifty, left with you to be returned if not used. Also give each man one bale Turkey red at $2.40--$10. The pass-word, see boy's instructions. Instructions to boy. On receipt of date letter immediately send pamphlets to Nanking, Chinkiang camp, Silver Island and Kiangyin; day before date named, put up notices in Chinkiang not to bargain for eigners--day before date named, tell d'un to arrange with Yang Ta-chang, Gan-chin, l'u Kuo-fa, brass-man, etc., and 100 men himself, they must be ready on bank and when steamer sighted must come off either from Shia-ma-tou or Chi-ho Kho (lorcha anchorage or opposite village; boy not to tell them exact date. The pass-word will be challenge: \"Lago \"who). Answer -\"Gangizu\" to which first man says \"Chiang\" (river). Boy to meet every up steamer after date mentioned, waiting at saloon passengers' gangway.\n\nI have already paid boy $10, tingchai $10, road coolie $5.\"\n\nExamination resumed--Clark is a former third-class tide waiter at Chinkiang, now discharged. Martin is now a third-class tidewaiter at Chinkiang. Schultz is a salt searcher employed by the Tuotai. O'Neill and Morris are third-class tide waiters. The boy's bags referred to were canvas haversacks of which a model was made for accused before his departure. The Turkey red was to be cut up and used for distinguishing sashes. He had left two pieces for that purpose. Accused's boy was discharged by me about September 6th and went to Kiukiang, his native place. Yang Ta-chang is a ting hat in the Custom House general office. Ta Kuo-fu is the head road coolie of the Chinkiang Concession road fund, of which accused was Secretary. Gan-chin I do not know. At the time of his departure accused left a package containing ten or twelve brass knuckledusters, made in Chinkiang by the local tinker, referred to in the translation as the brass-man. Accused went on leave on the 26th or 27th of August. I received two letters from him from Hongkong, one dated 2nd September and the other 5th September. The first letter stated that he had written to Mr. Brazier explaining his presence in Hongkong, and that he expected to leave shortly for Japan. The letter produced is in accused's handwriting.\n\nMr. Wilkinson read the letter, which was as follows:---\n\n\"Victoria Hotel, \n\"Hongkong, September 2nd, 1891.\n\nDear Mr. Brazier,\n\nYou will be surprised to see me sending from this place, having come here, I may say, purely by accident. I found in Shanghai a letter waiting me from my uncle in India, saying he would be able to get his leave and would join me in Nagasaki, if I could get away by the middle of September. This knocked my catching the Vladivostock steamer on the head, so I thought I would rest a day or two in Shanghai, letting the Saikio go without me. When the second day I heard the Saikio had struck on the bar and would not be off till 6 p.m., and as I had found a day in Shanghai quite enough, I started off to catch her in the \"We jung mail\", which arrived (pardon slang) 32 minutes late, and we could only see the smoke of the Saikio as she rounded the corner. I had then no alternative but to sleep on the \"mail,\" which does not return to Shanghai till the following morning, and the next morning I got up at seven and saw a mail steamer getting up steam about a quarter of a mile off. This on enquiry proved to be the P. and O. Mirzapore leaving for Hongkong. I then thought, \"Dash it, why not shoot down to Hongkong and meet my uncle there instead of returning ignominiously to Shanghai to waste a week waiting for the ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347018, "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": "CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12]", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12]", "content_text": "seizure they may wait. A watch might be kept out for goods leaving the Grand Hotel, Hongkong.\n\n\"Yours, etc. etc.\n\"(Signed) C.W. MASON.\"\n\n\"Hotel des Colonies, \"Shanghai. 12th September, 1891.\n\"Dear Mr. Bredon,\nThe enclosed was slipped into my hand by a Chinaman a few minutes after leaving your office. I know the writer as a man of his word, and although my nerves are pretty good I feel uncomfortable.\n\n\"I think I must go up to Chiukiang to-night; if once I satisfy them that I am all right I shall be admitted more into their confidence, and shall be able to move about with a safe skin. If you approve of my going, had not I better at least take along the boxes mentioned, if we can find them? I send this note instead of coming in person, lest I should be watched.\n\n\"Unless you tell me to the contrary I shall come to the Club dinner at 8. Trusting you will excuse this letter,\n\"I remain, Sir.\n\"Yours respectfully,\n\"(Signed) C. W. MASON.\n\n*If so, they might be taken on board after dinner and put in my cabin. To-night is Fuhwo, I think\"\n\nEnclosure in above.\n\n\"Are you betraying us? If you do not leave for C. to-night with the things you will not leave Shanghai alive. I shall meet you there.\n\"(Signed)\nA. 8.\" \n*Boxes 10 and 11 contain dynamite with caps fired also others.\"\n\nAs the interview on Saturday he told me what had come in the Chiyuen consisted of 35 cases, and he produced a bill of lading for them. I took a note of its contents. It stated that the goods had been shipped at Hongkong by a Chinese firm called Wing Shung, destination Shanghai, consignee bearer; two copies issued; 33 packages; contents shovels and steel; freight payable in Shanghai. $5.90. He said he did not produce the bill of lading with the object of claiming the goods. He said they would be applied for at Chinkiang by Chinese. Accused returned from Chinkiang on Tuesday, and I saw him on the following day. The arms were seized on the previous Saturday and were carefully examined on Monday morning. The packages, which were opened in my presence, contained rifles, bayonets, revolvers and cartridges. Some of the boxes were marked, inside, as explosive cartridges. When the boxes arrived they were wrapped in matting like ordinary Canton cargo. They were marked \"G and Co.\" in a diamond and consecutively numbered from 1 to 35. There was no other mark, or label of any kind on them. After accused's return from Chinkiang I received a letter enclosing a statement which he asked me to send to the Inspector-General. That was on the 18th:--\n\n\"Central Hotel, \nShanghai, 18th September, 1891.\nSir—I beg to hand you herewith, open, a memorandum addressed to Sir Robert Hart explaining my conduct; promising that I make these statements privately to the Customs authorities on condition that these volunteered confessions be not afterwards produced against me for the purpose of prosecution. This is in no way a defence handed in to a court of law; it is of the nature of a private letter, and its readers are at liberty to disbelieve every word of it just as the writer is at liberty to refuse proving his statements or submitting to cross-examination on them. I further, having run short of despatch paper, beg to request that my letter enclosing the statement sent to you on the 16th inst., addressed to the Inspector General, and purporting to be a draft, be sent on as it stands. I enclose two notes for $200 from which I shall be glad to receive $50 change, being my salary for September paid in advance and now returned as obtained on false pretences. Meanwhile I remain here and await (1) any prosecutions that may be deemed necessary, either for carrying dynamite or conspiring against a friendly Power, (2) the decision of the Inspector-General as to my continuation in or dismissal from the service.\n\n\"Thanking you very much for your considerate handling of my case.—I remain, sir, your obedient servant,\n\"(Signed) C. W. MASON.\"\n\nI wrote to accused stating that I declined to receive any private communication or to bind Sir Robert Hart as to what he would do. I said I had read the memorandum, which was a lengthy one, that I thought he might submit it to Sir Robert Hart, and that I had not copied it. After that I received one or two letters from accused with enclosures to Sir Robert Hart, which I have forwarded. I was also present at a meeting at the Custom House when the Taotai, Mr. de Luca, Mr. Zee Lan-char, accused, and myself were present. Accused did not at any time give any explanation as to the object for which the dynamite was in his possession.\n\nThe hearing was continued on the 8th inst., when the following evidence was taken:--\n\n| Name | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chou Ping-ssa | Chinese subject, weiyuan in the Customs opium godown at Chinkiang |\n\nChou Ping-ssa deposed—I am a Chinese subject, and weiyuan in the Customs opium godown at Chinkiang. I have been in that position since the 9th moon of last year. I have known accused since the sixth moon of this year (the end of July). I then knew him through the ti-mu-chai bringing him to the godown. Accused said that he wished to study Chinese, that the Commissioner (Mr. Brazier) recommended me as a good Chinese scholar, and accused wished to know if I was willing to teach him. I at first said I had no time, but finally agreed to teach accused, and went to him for the first time on the following Monday (13th July). After that I went nearly every day. After about ten days accused spoke to me about the anti-Christian disturbances, and said he supposed it was all done by the Kolao Hui. Accused said he had heard that there were people in Shanghai who were buying munitions of war, and that there were Chinese officials in the society. I paid no particular attention to this conversation at the time, thinking it was merely gossip. I afterwards spoke to Mr. Brazier, and asked if he had recommended me to accused. Subsequently accused asked me what salary I got at the Customs, and said he supposed it was not much, adding that it would be better if I got another post. I said there was no other post for me. Accused replied that he was under orders to go to Peking and that he was willing to say a word for me with the Inspector-General. I then wrote on some cards my name, residence, and rank, and gave the cards to accused. About the beginning of August accused asked me when I should be promoted and when I should be able to be a Taotai. I replied that it was not easy to get promotion, still less to be a Taotai. Accused said, \"If you enter the society you can soon be a high official.\" At first I had no suspicion that accused was connected with the society, but accused having frequently spoken of the society I began to suspect him. I asked what object there would be in my entering the society, whether accused knew anyone in it, who the leaders were and where they lived. Accused replied that as I had not entered the society he could not trust me, but that there were two leaders in Shanghai. Next day, suspecting that accused was not a good man, I spoke to Ling, my colleague in the opium godown, about the matter. I went to see accused next day, and found his things packed. I asked accused for the cards. He replied that he had not found them, but would look for them and send them. I then returned to my own room. This was between 2nd and 4th August. I did not see him again. On 9th August I obtained two months leave from the Taotai, and went to my home at Tsingkiangpu. I know no one else of my name occupying the position of an opium weiyuan and living at Tsingkiangpu. I deny that I asked accused to join the society; I am an official. I never offered accused the post of Commissioner at Chiukiang at Tis. 500 a month, neither did I propose to Mason that he should go to Hongkong to buy arms. I never introduced Mason to another foreigner. Mason never asked me to introduce him to General E Tung-ling.\n\nWilliam Mosny stated—I am a British subject and hold the rank of Lieutenant-General in the Chinese army. I remember receiving an anonymous letter (produced) on the 10th August.\n\nWitness here read the letter, as follows,\n\nDear Blythebag to rageans that a high official of Nanking commands us to write to you, for to make a contract.\n\n1—To send land between Chinkiang to Shanghai, within limit of what tins the following viz. 100 repeating ones, new pattern Like Colts Lightning, price wholesale about $17 with 500 cartridges each, and straps; and 10 revolvers, Webley Bulldog (American) Double action 4 inches barrel, 44 calibre, Cent. Price with 500 rounds each gun about $1.50.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347022, "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": "CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12]", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12]", "content_text": "37 \n\nI merely asked for my opinion. I put off what he said \n83 \n\nas mere nonsense. This conversation took place on the Chinkiang Bund. I had spoken to him about a boy I had discharged for insolence, and who, I thought, was about to be taken into Mr. Mason's employ. This conversation took place probably a little more than two months ago. \n\nThere was another occasion, one night when I was round to dinner with Mr. Mason about a fortnight before his going away, when he mentioned the subject casually again, but I took no notice of it as before. Mr. Mason had been sick for some time, and I thought that this was probably some idea that had cropped into his head through sickness. I did not think it necessary to report the matter to anyone, for I thought that Mr. Mason was going on leave to Japan, Vladivostock, and thence to Peking, that he would forget about it. I was in Chinkiang when he went on leave. He told me that he was going to Japan, to Vladivostock, and thence to Peking. I had no idea whatever that he was going to buy arms, and in fact, I treated what he told me as nothing serious at all, some fancy of his brain. I am the only Morris at Chinkiang. I do not know what Mason meant by writing \"Morris and his men, tea Chinese, enter the cabin immediately and arm, and immediately disarm and lock up captain.” Accused had no reason to suppose I would do that. I don't know what the Kan-lu ship is. Mason had no right to expect me to seize the treasure, etc., as mentioned in the memorandum. I don't know anything about being ready to come on board, and he was not justified in using my name in such a manner. \n\nAccused had no questions to put, and this being all the evidence, Mr. Wilkinson asked that accused be now committed to stand his trial on the charge of having dynamite in his possession for an unlawful purpose. \n\nHis Worship said there were some of the witnesses who had to sign their depositions yet, and he would again adjourn till half-past ten on Monday morning, in order to have this done.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347667, "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": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "## Acting Consul-General Mowat to the Marquis of Salisbury.—(Received October 24.)\n\n**(No. 18.) My Lord,**\n\nHEREWITH I have the honour to inclose, for your Lordship's information, copies of two despatches which I have addressed to Her Majesty's Minister at Peking relative to a recent attempt to smuggle arms at this port, and to the apparent implication in this attempt of a British subject employed in the Chinese Customs service.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) **R. A. MOWAT**.\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 163.\n\nThe hatchets were marked with an American maker's name. The whole value of the consignment may be estimated at 5,000 dollars.\n\nAccording to the information furnished to Mr. Bredon, the Commissioner of Customs, by a Mr. C. W. Mason, a British subject and a 4th class Assistant in the Customs, the arms, &c., were intended for Chinkiang, where, he alleged, there was an extensive conspiracy, in which many local officials and the soldiery were implicated.\n\nThe part played by Mr. Mason himself in the matter is a very suspicious one. He had been for some years past stationed at Chinkiang, but about three weeks ago was given short leave on account of his health, after the expiry of which he was to be transferred to Peking. He seems to have proceeded at once to Hong Kong from Chinkiang, and he returned in the steamer \"Chi-yuen,\" the vessel in which the arms were shipped. He further had with him one of the bills of lading for the falsely-described \"merchandize,\" which was deliverable to bearer, and produced it to Mr. Bredon. He represented to Mr. Bredon that he was acting throughout in the interests of the Chinese Government in the capacity of an amateur detective, by appearing to assist in the conveyance of the arms to Chinkiang, while as a fact he intended to frustrate the scheme by revealing it to the authorities.\n\nCertain it is, however, on the other hand, that he even proposed to Mr. Bredon that the cases, which had not then been opened, should be allowed to be transhipped to Chinkiang in the regular way, as if they contained the merchandize which they were represented as containing. Altogether his proceeding is very mysterious, besides being, as I have said, highly suspicious. But with our present information, it would seem idle to attempt to speculate as to what his real motive was.\n\nThe further facts connected with his movements that I have learnt are that he proceeded to Chinkiang on the evening of the day on which the goods were seized instead of to Peking, as Mr. Bredon had advised him to do, and that on his arrival there some dynamite (the telegram from the Chinese officials did not state how much) was found in his baggage. He would thereafter seem to have been sent, or allowed to go, on board Her Majesty's ship \"Redpole\" for safety, as his life had been (according to his own statement) threatened since his arrival in Shanghae if he should betray those with whom he had been acting. He has since come, or been brought, to Shanghae in company with two officers of the Customs, and is now, voluntarily it is said, on board the Customs revenue cruizer \"Ping Ching\" in this port.\n\nMy information so far, I may state, comes entirely from the Chinese authorities and the Customs. I wrote to Her Majesty's Consul at Chinkiang on the 12th, and shall doubtless soon hear from him the particulars of what took place there.\n\nThis afternoon Mr. Bredon came to me on behalf of the Taotai, and, later, also the Taotai's deputy. They came in pursuance of a telegram from the Viceroy at Nanking, instructing the Taotai to request me to hold a joint investigation with him (the Taotai) into the proceedings of Mr. Mason in connection with the matter. This, I caused the Taotai to be informed, I declined to do. Mr. Mason's making before me, if he were willing to do so, an ordinary statutory declaration as to facts within his knowledge, and (if he chose), as to his own share in the matter, but I should not examine him on the subject, or take part in any such examination. Or, again, I pointed out, he might, as a Customs employé, be disposed to make a statement, and give information on the subject, to the Taotai and the Commissioner of Customs; but in view of the possibility of criminal proceedings against him, great care would have to be taken that the statement was quite voluntary, and that no inducement was held out to him to make it. Indeed, I added, in consideration of this possible phase of the case, the authorities would do well to consult their Counsel, laying before him what facts they were already in possession of, and taking his advice as to the course they should follow in the matter.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) **R. A. MOWAT**.\n\n## Acting Consul-General Mowat to Sir J. Walsham.\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\nShanghae, September 15, 1891.\n\nSir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to report the seizure by the Customs at this place of thirty-five cases of arms and ammunition, which had been imported from Hong Kong in the China merchants' steamer \"Chi-yuen,\" under a false description. Information had been received by telegram from Hong Kong which led to the Customs here detaining the cases on their arrival on the 12th instant and opening them. They were found to contain 100 Winchester carbines, 20 Martini-Henry rifles, with 2,000 cartridges, 221 bayonets, 127 revolvers, with 67,000 cartridges, 12 hatchets, and a quantity of leather pouches for cartridges and cases and belts for revolvers.\n\nWith Captain Clutterbuck, I had an opportunity yesterday afternoon of inspecting part of the articles in question, and he describes the arms generally as being all good weapons and of the latest make. With the exception of the Winchester rifles, they are evidently of European, probably of Continental, manufacture. The leather cases, belts, and pouches, on the other hand, are of native leather and inferior quality, and had doubtless been placed in the cases, where they were found with the bayonets, in Hong Kong.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 163.\n\n## Acting Consul-General Mowat to Sir J. Walsham.\n\n**(Confidential.)**\n\nShanghae, September 18, 1891.\n\nSir,\n\nIN continuation of my despatch of the 15th instant on the subject of the recent seizure of arms at this place, I have the honour to report that the Commissioner of Customs informed me two days ago that the Taotai had determined to institute no...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347668, "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": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "## 115\n\nproceedings against Mr. Mason, but to endeavour to induce him to make as complete a disclosure of the whole circumstances as possible.\n\nMr. Bredon proposed to me that I should direct some member of the Consular staff to be present at the inquiry, and indeed pressed me to do so. This, however, I declined, as I had previously declined to be present myself at the examination.\n\nI believe that a prolonged inquiry was held that day at the Custom-house by the Taotai and the Commissioner, but I have no information of what took place. Mr. Mason is now, I understand, living at one of the hotels.\n\nNo charge of any kind has been preferred against him in the Court, and I do not suppose that the Chinese authorities will now prefer any. It becomes a question, however, whether proceedings should not be instituted against him for having dynamite (5 lbs., as Mr. Allen informs me) in his possession. Under section 4 (1) of 46 Vict., cap. 3 (`The Explosive Substances Act, 1883`), \"Any person who ... knowingly has in his possession, or under his control, any explosive substance under such circumstances as to give rise to a reasonable suspicion that he does not have it in his possession or under his control for a lawful object, shall, unless he can show that he had it in his possession, or under his control, for a lawful object, be guilty of felony, and, on conviction, shall be liable to penal servitude for a term not exceeding fourteen years, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.\"\n\nI am accordingly telegraphing to you the substance of this letter, and asking your directions as to whether the Crown Advocate should be instructed to take criminal proceedings against Mason. I imagine that there will be no difficulty in procuring evidence, apart from what the Customs officers could give, as to the dynamite being found in his possession at Chinkiang, which is all that the prosecution would have to prove, as, by the terms of the Act, the burden of proof as to the lawfulness of his object is cast upon him.\n\nI shall send a copy of this, and my previous letter on the subject, to the Secretary of State by the outgoing mail.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) \n**R. A. MOWAT**\n\nP.S.-As showing the frequency of the attempts which are now made to smuggle arms, I may mention that 65 revolvers and 330 tins of percussion caps were found concealed in a Chinese passenger's room on board the \"Hae-au\" on the 16th instant, previous to the vessel's departure from Shanghae for Tien-tsin, and that, on the same day, on the arrival of the \"Yuen-sang,\" from Hong Kong, 8 Canton-made pistols were found concealed on the persons of two native sailors belonging to the steamer.\n\n**R. A. M.**\n\n| Date | Last previous Paper | Subsequent Paper | \n| --- | --- | --- | \n| 1891 | $7025 | No. 228 65 | \n| 25 | You | Arrest | \n\n## (Minutes.)\n\nM. Branston.\n\n1. As said in par. 7.0 - (Sony) 211823 the French Steamers have exceptional privileges whatever until they procure exemption under the Mail Ships Act of last Session, & we have not been informed whether they have procured that exemption. 2. Ask 7.0. whether the Mail Ships have procured that exemption, and if not, say that we presume 7.0. will inform us when that has been done, in order that we may communicate the fact to the ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347678, "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": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 120, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "## No. 2.\n\n23043 \n**RECR** \n**REC** 30 NOV 91117 \n\n**Acting Consul-General Momat to the Marquis of Sulisbury.-(Received November 6.)** \n\n(No. 19.) My Lord, \n\nShanghae, September 30, 1891. I had the honour on the 27th instant to receive your Lordship's telegram, in cypher, of the previous day, stating that the Chinese Minister had been informed by the Yamen of the seizure here of arms consigned to a British employé of the Customs for the use of the Secret Societies, and of other British subjects being implicated, and instructing me to report by telegraph, and fully by mail.\n\nI had already, on the 18th instant, transmitted to your Lordship copies of two letters which I had written to Her Majesty's Minister on the subject of the seizure of the arms, and of Mason's share in the affair. In reply, he telegraphed on the 23rd that he would inform the Yamen, who had been applying to him on the subject, that he entirely approved of my having refused to take part in the proposed examination of Mason by the Taotai, and that at the moment it did not appear advisable to him to initiate a Crown prosecution against Mason, though such a step might later become necessary.\n\nTwo days later the Taotai addressed me, under instructions from the Viceroy at Nanking, and requested me to direct the Crown Advocate to institute a prosecution against Mason. As this formal request by the Chinese authorities put the matter on a different footing, I thought it right to apply again to Her Majesty's Minister for instructions. On the following day he telegraphed authorizing the institution of proceedings against Mason by the Crown Advocate, a circumstance of which I at once informed the Taotai. Mason had, in the meanwhile, as there was some reason to fear he might attempt to leave Shanghae, been arrested on a sworn charge (framed under `The Explosive Substances Act, 1883`, and preferred by a Chinese official) of having in his possession 5 lbs. of dynamite under such circumstances as to give rise to a reasonable suspicion that he did not have it in his possession for a lawful object. He was, on the 28th, brought up before the Magistrate and remanded for a week.\n\nAs to the other British subjects referred to in your telegram, I have the honour to report that the Taotai some days ago requested me to direct the arrest of six men (British subjects) who had recently come up from Hong Kong, and whom he asserted to be in complicity with the Ko-lao-hui. No definite charge was ever laid against them by the Chinese authorities, and I am now informed that they have determined not to prefer any. One of them, indeed, Toussaint by name, is to be called as a witness against Mason. This man would seem to have been engaged by Mason in Hong Kong, and he in turn induced the others to come here by a promise that they would get employment in the Customs. Shortly after they arrived, four of the five applied to me for relief as distressed British subjects, and I sent them to the Sailors' Home. Two were seamen, and, as such, entitled to relief; the other two it was thought desirable should be left in Shanghae for a time. The fifth found employment as second mate in a British ship which is to sail shortly. Toussaint is the sixth.\n\nI have the honour to append the substance of my cypher telegram of the 28th instant to your Lordship.\n\nI have, &c. \n\n(Signed) R. A. MOWAT.\n\n### Paraphrase of Telegram.\n\nShanghae, September 28, 1891. You have been correctly informed as to seizure. A charge was preferred against Mason on Saturday, under `The Explosives Act of 1883`, of having explosives in his possession, and a Crown prosecution has been directed by Minister. Mason has been arrested, and, on being brought up this morning before Magistrate, was remanded for a week.\n\nThe Chinese authorities have not brought a charge against any other British subject, and I doubt whether evidence exists to support one.\n\nPage 120\nPage 121", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359044, "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": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 450, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "446 \n\nallowed arms to be consigned to him in the same disguise. Beneath the floor in one of the rooms, a hole had been excavated, and in it were found some dynamite cartridges, fuses, and charges used in making explosives. Crick was by profession a chemist, and it now seems as if it was in this capacity that he was to be of service to the rebels. He has now disappeared, and the Chinese officials have made no accusation against him.\n\nThe Viceroy has applied to the Hong Kong Government for the rendition of five men who are believed to be connected with the plot. Before entertaining the application, the Governor of Hong Kong desired to be informed what crime these men were charged with; as the Canton Authorities have not pressed the matter further, it is probable that they realise that they are unable to prove an extradition crime against them.\n\nI have &c.,\n\n(34) \n\n**Sir N.R.O Conor, K.C.M.G., &c. &c.**\n\nHer Majesty's Minister, \nPeking. \n\n**Ernest Brenan, \nConsul.**\n\nPage 451", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365027, "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": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897", "page_number": 274, "title": "CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897", "content_text": "Exportation and importation of \n\nmunitions of war prohibited. \n\nSalt, cash, rice, \n\npulse, grains, \n\nopium, and spirituous liquors. \n\nMines. \n\nNavigation of the Irrawaddy. Railways. \n\nConsuls. \n\nPassports. \n\n4\n\nARTICLE X.\n\nThe following articles, being munitions of war, shall neither be exported from Burmah into China, nor imported from China into Burmah, save at the requisition of the Government desiring their importation; neither shall they be sold to parties other than those who have been duly authorized by their respective Governments to purchase them:--\n\nCannon, shot and shell, cartridges and ammunition of all kinds, fire-arms and weapons of war of every description. Saltpetre, sulphur, brimstone, gunpowder, dynamite, gun-cotton, or other explosives.\n\nARTICLE XI.\n\nThe exportation from Burmah into China of salt is prohibited.\n\nThe exportation from China into Burmah of cash, rice, pulse, and grains of every kind is prohibited.\n\nThe importation and exportation across the frontier of opium and spirituous liquors is prohibited, excepting in small quantities for the personal use of travellers. The amount to be permitted will be settled under Customs Regulations.\n\nInfractions of the conditions set forth in this and the preceding Article will be punishable by confiscation of all the goods concerned.\n\nARTICLE XII.\n\nThe British Government, wishing to promote frontier trade between the two countries by encouraging mining enterprise in Yunnan and in the new territorial acquisitions of China referred to in the present Convention, consent to allow Chinese vessels carrying merchandise, ores, and minerals of all kinds, and coming from or destined for China, freely to navigate the Irrawaddy on the same conditions as to dues and other matters as British vessels.\n\nThe Chinese Government agrees hereafter to consider whether the conditions of trade justify the construction of railways in Yunnan, and, in the event of their construction, agrees to connect them with the Burmah lines.\n\nARTICLE XIII.\n\nWhereas by the original Convention it was agreed that China might appoint a Consul in Burmah, to reside at Rangoon; and that Great Britain might appoint a Consul to reside at Manwyne; and that the Consuls of the two Governments should each within the territories of the other enjoy the same privileges and immunities as the Consuls of the most favoured nation, and, further, that, in proportion as the commerce between Burmah and China increased, additional Consuls might be appointed by mutual consent, to reside at such places in Burmah and Yunnan as the requirements of trade might seem to demand.\n\nIt has now been agreed that the Government of Great Britain may station a Consul at Momein or Shunning-fu, as the Government of Great Britain may prefer, instead of at Manwyne, as stipulated in the original Convention, and also to station a Consul at Ssumao.\n\nBritish subjects and persons under British protection may establish themselves, and trade at these places, under the same conditions as at the Treaty ports in China.\n\nThe Consuls appointed as above shall be on the same footing as regards correspondence and intercourse with Chinese officials as the British Consuls at the Treaty ports.\n\nARTICLE XIV.\n\nPassports, written in Chinese and English, and identical in terms to those issued to foreigners at the Treaty ports in China, shall, on the application of the proper\n\n5\n\nBritish authorities, be issued to British merchants and others wishing to proceed to China from Burmah by the Chinese Consul at Rangoon or by the Chinese authorities on the frontier; and Chinese subjects wishing to proceed to Burmah from China shall, on the application of any recognized Chinese official, be entitled to receive similar passports from Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Shunning or Momein or other convenient places in China where there may be a British Consular officer.\n\nARTICLE XV.\n\n270\n\nShould criminals, subjects of either country, take refuge in the territory of the other, they shall, on due requisition being made, be searched for, and, on reasonable presumption of their guilt being established, they shall be surrendered to the authorities demanding their extradition.\n\n\"Due requisition\" shall be held to mean the demand of any functionary of either Government possessing a seal of office, and the demand may be addressed to the nearest frontier officer of the country in which the fugitive has taken refuge.\n\nARTICLE XVI.\n\nWith a view to improving the intercourse between the two countries, and placing the Chinese Consul at Rangoon in communication with the high provincial authorities in Yünnan, the High Contracting Parties undertake to connect the telegraphic systems of the two countries with each other as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made; the line will, however, at first only be used for the transmission of official telegrams and of general messages for and from Burmah and the Province of Yunnan.\n\nARTICLE XVII.\n\nIt is agreed that subjects of the two Powers shall each within the territories of the other enjoy all the privileges, immunities, and advantages that may have been, or may hereafter be, accorded to the subjects of any other nation.\n\nARTICLE XVIII.\n\nIt is agreed that the commercial stipulations contained in the present Convention being of a special nature and the result of mutual concessions, consented to with a view to adapting them to local conditions and the peculiar necessities of the Burmah-China overland trade, the advantages accruing from them shall not be invoked by the subjects of either Power residing at other places where the two Empires are conterminous, excepting where the same conditions prevail, and then only in return for similar concessions.\n\nARTICLE XIX.\n\nThe arrangements with regard to trade and commerce contained in the present Convention being of a provisional and experimental character, it is agreed that should subsequent experience of their working, or a more intimate knowledge than is now possessed of the requirements of the trade, seem to require it, they may be revised at the demand of either party after a lapse of six years after the exchange of ratifications of the present Convention, or sooner should the two Governments desire it.\n\nFailing agreement as to the terms of revision, the present arrangements shall remain in force.\n\nSPECIAL ARTICLE.\n\nWhereas on the 20th day of January, 1896, the Tsung-li Yamen addressed an official despatch to Her Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking informing him that on the 30th day of December, 1895, they had submitted a Memorial respecting the opening of ports on the West River to foreign trade, and had received an Imperial Decree in approval, of which they officially communicated a copy.\n\n3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-279 - Public Offices - 1897.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366415, "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": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "page_number": 271, "title": "CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4]", "content_text": "Zaid and I \n\nI gave it my opinion that our present garrison, with its reserve in a Central portion, ready to support the garrison of the threatened \"Section\", would be able to cope with such attacks and that our outposts and telephonic communication would be able to prevent a small party landing at night and attempting to blow in the dam of the reservoir by dynamite.\n\n(5) At the last computation made of the food supply of the Colony, it was ascertained that there was a larger stock in cereal in proportion to the population than Great Britain itself - and that even if the supply of rice from China failed, it would be hardly possible to stop the importation of food stuffs from America.\n\n(6) As to fortifying the south side of the island, I dissented from the idea of locking up fortifications. \n\nSince writing this, I have received the despatch of `South Riché 270`. Although I thought it only right to take the most hopeful view of the position to them, things have become possibilities now, which were very distant when the scheme of defence was compiled a few days ago. \n\nTelegram announcing the promised re-enforcement of Artillerymen, `150 R.A.`, about to arrive on the 16th inst., has arrived at our barracks. I may also add that the agents of Japan and Russian merchants are largely buying up food stuffs. I did not think it necessary to discuss with these self-appointed advisers to the Association and the Imperial Government, the fact that if a Battalion were at once...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-282 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367677, "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": "CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10]", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10]", "content_text": "# CLASSIFICATION LIST\n\n## CLASS 9\nMusical instruments.\n\n## CLASS 10\nHorological instruments.\n\n## Class 11\nInstruments, apparatus, and contrivances, not medical, for surgical or curative purposes, or in relation to the health of men or animals.\nSuch as -\nBandages. Friction gloves. Lancets. Fleams. Enemas.\n\n## CLASS 12\nCutlery and edge tools.\nSuch as -\nKnives. Forks. Scissors. Shears. Files. Saws.\n\n## CLASS 13\nMetal goods not included in other classes.\nSuch as -\nAnvils. Keys. Basins (metal). Needles. Hoes. Shovels. Corkscrews.\n\n## CLASS 14\nGoods of precious metals (including aluminium, nickel, Britannia metal, &c.) and jewellery, and imitations of such goods and jewellery.\nSuch as -\nPlate. Clock cases and pencil cases of such metals. Sheffield and other plated goods. Gift and ormolu work.\n\n## CLASS 16\nGlass. Porcelain and earthenware.\nSuch as -\nWindow and plate glass. Painted glass. Glass mosaic. China. Stoneware. Terra Cotta. Statuary porcelain.\n\n## CLASS 17\nManufactures from mineral and other substances for building or decoration.\nSuch as -\nTiles. Bricks. Cement. Plaster. Imitation marble. Asphalt.\n\n## CLASS 18\nEngineering, architectural, and building contrivances.\nSuch as -\nDiving apparatus. Warming apparatus. Ventilating apparatus. Filtering apparatus. Lighting contrivances. Drainage contrivances. Electric and pneumatic bells.\n\n## CLASS 19\nArms, ammunition, and stores not included in Class 20.\nSuch as -\nCannon. Small-arms. Fowling pieces. Swords. Shot and other projectiles. Camp equipage. Equipments.\n\n## CLASS 20\nExplosive substances.\nSuch as -\nGunpowder. Gun-cotton. Dynamite. Fog-signals. Percussion caps. Fireworks. Cartridges.\n\n## CLASS 21\nNaval architectural contrivances and naval equipments not included in Classes 10 and 20.\nSuch as -\nBoats. Anchors. Chain cables. Rigging.\n\n## CLASS 22\nCarriages.\nSuch as -\nRailway carriages. Waggons. Railway trucks. Bicycles. Bath chairs.\n\n## CLASS 23\n(4) Cotton yarn, and sewing cotton not on spools or reels.\n(6) Sewing cotton on spools or reels.\n\n## CLASS 24\nCotton piece goods of all kinds.\nSuch as -\nCotton shirtings. Long cloth.\n\n## CLASS 25\nCotton goods not included in Classes 23, 24, or 38.\nSuch as -\nCotton lace. Cotton braids. Cotton tapes.\n\n## CLASS 26\nLinen and hemp yarn and thread.\n\n## CLASS 27\nLinen and hemp piece goods.\n\n## CLASS 28\nLinen and hemp goods not included in Classes 26, 27, and 50.\n\n## CLASS 29\nJute yarns and tissues, and other articles made of jute not included in Class 30.\n\n## CLASS 30\nSilk, spun, thrown, or sewing.\n\n## CLASS 31\nSilk piece goods.\n\n## CLASS 32\nOther silk goods not included in Classes 30 and 31.\n\n## CLASS 33\nYarns of wool, worsted, or hair.\n\n## CLASS 34\nCloths and stuffs of wool, worsted, or hair.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369426, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## The firing from the Suratug ceased as the Russians doubled up to the bridge, when Brice's men lying down above the road he was passing along poured in a murderous volley at 20 yards. \nThe Russians came on gallantly only to be mowed down in heaps till the roadway was piled with dead. Rordon had, however, had also to extend his left down into the valley to join hands with Darry Brew, and prevent the enemy cutting in between them. Clouds of Russian skirmishers were also crashing through the brushwood above the road. Brew had extended his men at the first sound of McNab's fire, and made them lie down whilst the enemy were searching the scrub with grape and shrapnel, over the heads of their own men, till they ceased on their own skirmishers reaching the cover in the valley.\n\nBills arrived about 12.30 a.m. with his own and Farey's companies, 94 Marines (80 from the `Victor Emmanual` and 14 from the `Plover`) under Lt. Bryce-Prowne, R.M.L.I., and a few Engineers under Lt. De Fitré, who had been sent by Col. Yardhill with dynamite to blow down the bridges if necessary. Brew had, however, Lt. Quesu and five men killed before he fired a shot. Our men were losing heavily from the mere weight of fire opposed to them—deriving, however, great advantage from the invisibility of their khaki helmets (none had their tunics on, but their shirts were dark), whilst the white cap covers of the Russians were most conspicuous in the dark brush, and indeed the bodies of the enemy advancing were so large that little of our fire was wasted.\n\nThese reinforcements barely served to slacken the rapid advance of the enemy. Rordon therefore ordered De Fitré to destroy the 2nd bridge. Brice had in consequence to make a desperate stand until the charges were placed, and was here killed. Young De Fitré also died gallantly at the same place, blowing himself, the leading section of the enemy and the bridge to pieces together. Fillips and Carpenter now arrived with their companies, escorting the guns of the Asiatic Artillery. The guns opened at once with excellent effect on the disembarking enemy. It speedily became apparent, however, that our pop-guns were no match for the cannon of the Troopers. One six-inch shell struck the right gun, putting it out of action, killing both Subhadar Labh Singh and Jemadar Bhoop Singh of one of the Sikh Companies. Limmonds and Gordon had therefore to keep their guns moving, being chased by the search lights. Eventually the base of the new dam was found to afford much shelter, as well as excellent positions for sweeping the lower part of the road and western beach.\n\nGeneral White had galloped up with Tristful, his A.D.C., and was directing operations in person. Immediately after the Artillery had arrived, about 1 a.m., Tristful and a company of the Hongkong Regiment reached the scene of action, and were at once pushed forward along the Eastern Hills. Some 130 men of the Artillery had also arrived under Major Tanham.\n\nIt was not till 25 minutes past 11 that Tristful received Mackie's note—the telephone to the Godown did not work. The rockets from Scandal Point had either not been noticed or understood—if noticed, probably put down to some Chinese festival; the feast of Lanterns had only been celebrated. At any rate, no alarm was given. Ordering the Assembly to be sounded, Tristful had sent Lt. Creagh to Kowloon Wharf with a guard to seize any and all launches, junks, &c. that might be off the Godown Co.'s piers. In a quarter of an hour Tristful started with Capt. Ray's company, and at the Wharf found Creagh had the `Rising Star` ferry launch, `Steama Floating fire engine` and the P. and O. Co.'s launch `Lily` (which had been alongside the `Socotra`), ready for the men.\n\nThe enemy had gained little ground; his advance was now decidedly checked. We had been driven back above the 1st bridge which Capt. Bould, R.E., had destroyed as we retreated. Our line of defence was thereby shortened nearly a half, added to which the increasing steepness of the ground, and the heavy reinforcements we received, placed the defence on much more favourable terms. The well-directed fire from the enemy's ships on the exposed road was however most galling to the defenders. Capt. Belman, of the A.S.C., who was acting as additional A.D.C. to the General, was killed by a shell right in the Gap, General White's escape being most marvellous—fragments of the same shell took off both The McBorman's legs. He died of shock the same day.\n\nAt the Wharf Inspector Hanson of the Water Police informed Tristful that the landing was being made at Deep Water Bay, adding that steam was being raised in the Godown Co.'s launches `Kowloon` and `Heron` and the ferry launch `Guiding Star`, so that there would be little or no delay in towing over the rest of the Troops. The Indians started with 70 rounds of ball cartridge apiece.\n\nMajor Hetallick was ordered to follow with every available man with all possible despatch. The reports of the trooper's guns and the roll of musketry showed that Hanson's information was correct. Whilst landing the glare of a fire to the West was visible, and the fire bell could be heard ringing. By 1.30 a.m. Hetallick got into action with the other three double companies of the Hongkong Regiment and Hartram's company of the West Yorks.\n\nAt 2 a.m. four guns of the Volunteer Field Artillery (including the Dock detachment) arrived, under Captains Chapman and Machell, and at once went into action. As was learned subsequently, when Rordon first reached the Gap, the Russians had only landed some 1,200 men, and though they succeeded in landing some 4,000 more their losses in doing so were very heavy. White, inclusive of casualties, had rather more than 2,000 men in action.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369439, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## CORRESPONDENCE, 'THE BACK DOOR.'-A CRITICISM.\n\nTo the Editor of the 'CHINA MAIL.'\n\nHongkong, October 8.\n\n...quite lost; Britain's flag still flew over part of the island, that the last of the defenders, certainly amazingly few, was slain and the Union Jack torn down. Poor Blobs, if spooks revisit this world, he should haunt the isle he guarded so well and loved so dearly in life.\n\nIt is now time to tell you... General Renard was unable to communicate with General Morbleu till after dark and then had to report that he had barely 700 men fit for duty, and that they were in such an exhausted condition without reinforcement, he could not essay the reduction of Stonecutters. Morbleu's men were, if anything, in worse plight, and Huzzard took good care to rouse them at intervals during the night with a shell or two over the town.\n\nAbout 3 a.m. Renard sent over some small parties of men, who, landing at the eastern end of the island, got into the Civil Magazine, where were stored nearly 150 tons of dynamite and about 200,000 lbs of powder (it was a great oversight that at the first alarm this mass of explosives had not been taken out into the harbour and sunk), laid trains, lit the matches and retired to the Peninsula again. About 4.15 a.m. the Magazine blew up with a fearful explosion and shock like an earthquake, bringing down houses and walls in Victoria, and tumbling down the ruins in Kowloon.\n\nThe effects were calamitous on the Stonecutters Forts: it literally dismantled them; all the guns were thrown over, the front of Stonecutters East opened and fell forward into the sea, yawning chasms appeared in Stonecutters West. Rookshank and many of his men were buried in the ruins of the Eastern fort. Huzzard collected all the survivors in the West fort and did what was possible to barricade the breaches, &c. One quick-firer was got into serviceable order, and then they had done all they could do. At sunrise the French came over, at first very cautiously, but finding no resistance, with greater boldness, till past the butts. Renard had landed 500 men, but it was not till past 8, and until reinforcements from Hongkong had landed on the southern shore.\n\nSIR, Your 'Back Door' contributor is just a wee bit too previous. The Bear has not got Hongkong yet, though the object of the little story is plain to be seen, and who will say that the writer's motives are not patriotic. Not fault with individuals, but with the system.\n\nWe know that our soldiers, officers and men, will do all that men can do and may be trusted to die at their posts; but why should they have to die, when a little forethought and preparation would render it unnecessary for them to make this sacrifice?\n\nWhat are the facts? Civilians possessed of ordinary common-sense and reasoning, though not necessarily experts in fortifications and warfare, believe, not without some apparent reasons, that this Island is inadequately defended on the South side; and that under modern conditions we are liable to be 'rushed,' say at the present moment with only the Undaunted (under repair) and the Amber and the obsolete Harbour craft available, not counting torpedo boats, which are fast becoming obsolete, too.\n\nOf course, we know the hundred and one reasons that would be given to prove such a thing impossible, but it is always the unexpected that happens, and knowing the recently expressed sentiments of some of our friends, would it not be worth while to be prepared for any eventuality?\n\nSo far as can be learned, the sum of their labours are represented by a coat of black paint on several buoys in the Harbour, presumably to frighten the enemy and make him imagine Mines. None of the naval members ever fulfilled the purpose for which they were intended, so far as the public are concerned.\n\nNow we have to pay 17 per cent Military Contribution, besides extras. Many of us have all we possess invested in this Island, and will have to live and die here, and naturally we want to feel reasonably sure that our defences are being looked after. If there is any doubt on this point, let the Authorities take us into their confidence and demonstrate the fact to a representative committee, and if it is money they want, they can surely trust to our patriotism and to our sense of self-interest to make any required sacrifice, the only necessity being that they must convince our reason.\n\nSurely this is better than trusting to luck and passing on responsibility. The weak point appears to be that if we were attacked in the foggy season, guns on the heights would be no use, in a dark night, to keep hostile craft at a distance in the absence of the fleet as at present. Now, if the points of each small bay on our south shores were provided with a couple of Maxims and a quick-firer in the nearly absolute shelter of the points of land where galleries could be excavated for them, and for a powerful search light, no boats capable of landing troops could possibly escape detection or annihilation.\n\nThe number of men required at each bay would not exceed say ten in peace time, and a buried telegraph cable would enable information to be sent to Headquarters for re-inforcements on the first appearance of an enemy, and here the Jubilee Road would come in.\n\nNow the expense of this first instalment of defence would not be very great. I believe we have some Maxims in store, and the services of the convicts could be utilized to make the shelters, shelters that could not be easily burst or reached by any vessel short of an ironclad, and this in the offing, but those holding them could sink anything. I believe there are numerous sites for guns pre-empted by the War Authorities on the South side, but so far there is not a gun near them, and we know how long it takes to get a heavy gun into position when there is extra pay per hour for the men on the job.\n\nAnd what has become of the famous Defence Committee of which so much was expected? Hongkong is our most distant link in the chain of strongholds. Now, is it worth or is it not worth our while to defend it to the last? If it is not worth our while, why all the money spent and to be expended on projects, etc., etc. We must conclude that the authorities consider it a vital point! If so, why this blind trusting to luck and a defenceless south shore?", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373864, "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": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "page_number": 594, "title": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\nSr C.O. 1654 Red 17 JAN OF 591\n\nReturn of Arms, Ammunition, etc. exported from Hong Kong to Macao from January to 14th December, 1899.\n\n \n Month\n Rifles\n Revolvers\n Pistols\n Guns (Breech loading)\n Cartridges\n Gunpowder\n Dynamite\n Percussion Caps\n Fuses\n Lead\n \n \n January\n \n \n \n \n 20\n 160,100\n 300\n \n \n \n \n \n \n (Cases)\n 115\n 4\n 4\n 1500\n 200\n 6000\n \n \n \n \n February\n 196\n \n \n \n \n 2061\n \n \n \n \n \n \n March\n 135\n 525\n 4\n 95\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n April\n \n \n \n \n 2000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n May\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n June\n 2814\n 440\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n July\n \n \n \n \n 1500\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n August\n 2000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n September\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n October\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n November\n 1100\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n December\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total\n 13,671\n 670\n 200\n 300\n \n 1,025\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 250,000\n 1000\n \n 2,500\n 18\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 200,000\n \n \n \n 30\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 150,000\n \n 24\n \n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 762,100\n 8,800\n 200\n 20\n 317\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 160\n \n\nPage ...\n\n // Assuming there is a page number at the end, though not clearly visible in the text. If the exact page number is known, it should be inserted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 375241, "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": "CO129-297 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [1-3]", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-297 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [1-3]", "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\nNo. 4798\n\nRECO Reco\n\n65\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nC.O.\n\n4758\n\nFEB 00\n\nNo.\n\n(Subject.)\n\nOrdce $9.99\n\n1900\n\n10 San\n\nst previous Paper.\n\n25302\n\n98\n\n9/3 Sanstd 65. 12 Thare\n\nDangerous Goods Amend!\n\nsubmito\n\nThare copies\n\nmrcḍal.\n\nFibrary\n\nSir W. Hamilton.\n\nSaten z\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nThe new praises of this enactment include some additional explosions & substances such as Vitriol &\n\nnaptha, not mentioned in this act of 1893 among dangerous goods!\n\nSection 3. excludes lubricating oils or Petroleum with a high test point from the dangerous goods of Satin II of the old ordinance\n\n& Section 4. provides for the special treatment of\n\nGunpowder, Dynamite, and other Explosives\n\nfrom the restrictions on storage laid down in all of\n\nthe 1873 Ordinance.\n\nThe Changes seem useful & not dangerous.\n\n*(78) -12058-18000-12-99 365-150-11-99\n\nbsequent Paper.\n\nFir Istamilton.\n\nmuctional.\n\nBas\n\n14/2.\n\nI think the Advance may be\n\nI think perhaps the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-297 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 378049, "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": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "page_number": 518, "title": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "content_text": "## Enclosure in \n**Colonial Office Confidential** \n3 Jan 1901.\n\nCOPY. \n`42140` REC `REG 4 DEC 00` 516\n\n江亚二 (Kung A-1) states: -\n西路 新安大埔涌 (Sai Lo, S-Taipo Ch'ung Village) \nI am a native of S-Taipo Ch'ung Village in Sai Lo. I have been employed to watch the operations of the rebels in San tu. I left Hong Kong on the 8th of the 8th moon (1st October, 1900) and went to Sha Yi Ch'ung.\n\n師爺 (Sźyeł) \nHe is a Hakka. He was formerly a Sźyeł with Cheng Sz Leung in Hong Kong. He knows many languages and has travelled.\n\n鄭士良 (Cheng Sz Leung) and 黄福 (Wong Fuk) are the Headmen. I was in Sandakan. Cheng Sz Leung and 黄公喜 (Wong Kung Hi) sent a telegram to Sandakan to Wong Fuk and Wong Kung Hi telling them to come back and bring men with them as they intended to \"raise the flag\" of rebellion. I was one of those who came back. I saw Cheng Sz Leung on arrival. I am a member of the Triad Society. I also met 杨衢云 (Yeung Ku Wan) on my arrival.\n\n楊衢雲 (Yeung Ku Wan) looked after the military operations. I went to 沙鱼涌 (Sha Yu Ch'ung) with Wong Fuk, 何祥 (Ho Cheung), 黄习 (Wong Tsip), 鄭士良 (Cheng Sz Leung), 何寿 (Ho Shau), 吴培 (Ng Pul). There were about ten men. On the 5th of the 8th moon (29th Sept.), Cheng Sz Leung put on board a boat 400 packages of Chayeuk (Dynamite), 300 Mauser Rifles, 40 cases of ammunition.\n\n黄公喜 (Wong Kung Hi) \nOn the 7th of the 8th moon (30th Sept.), Wong Kung Hi and 6 others were arrested by the Police. This created a scene. No one looked after the boat and it disappeared. From Sha Yu Ch'ung...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380145, "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": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "page_number": 387, "title": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "content_text": "382 \n\nCertain persons in Hongkong are dangerous to the security of the Chinese Government, and requests are made either for their extradition or for their banishment. These requests are frequently based upon statements extracted under torture, which are quite untrustworthy. Not that there are not many Chinese in Hongkong who, contrasting the insecurity of person and property in China with the security enjoyed in this Colony, most heartily desire to see the Chinese system changed. But so long as the police can prove no overt act, these people cannot be interfered with except by violating all the principles of liberty of thought upon which our Empire has been built.\n\nA confession that could be verified here was false. Yeung Kui Wan was the son of the Chinese Interpreter who accompanied the British forces to Canton in 1860. He supported himself by teaching English. On the evening of the 10th January, when six of his young men pupils entered for their evening's work, a seventh man entered with them who immediately fired four shots from a revolver, all of which took effect. Yeung Kui Wan died in hospital that night, having made a statement that strongly points to the murder having been effected by order of the acting Viceroy of Canton. The police are still prosecuting inquiries which have not yet been completed. When they have been, I shall further address you on the subject.\n\n6. In the 6th paragraph of his letter of the 14th January, Sir Chinchin Lo Feng-luh mentions the discovery of the complicity of Kang Yu Wei in connection with the dynamite explosion in Canton. I have heard nothing showing that Kang Yu Wei was in any way connected with that attempt. An application for the extradition of a British Chinese subject named Yeung Kui Wan was made in November on the ground that he was the principal in that attempt. The application was based upon the confession of a man named Shih Sui Tung who was seized in Canton and, having been tortured, the confession thus wrung from him after many attempts, was beheaded. It was evident that an application based upon such a confession could not be acceded to; however, as there was one statement in the confession, namely that Shih Sui Tung had been entrusted with the chief conduct of the conspiracy by Yeung Kui Wan, and that money was remitted to Shih Sui Tung by Yeung Kui Wan, one thousand taels at a time through the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank at Shameen (the Canton Agency), I applied for corroboration to Sir Thomas Jackson, the General Manager of the Bank. He searched the books here for three years, and wrote to the Agent at Shameen, whose answer was as follows: \"Yours of yesterday to hand this morning. In reply, No, we have not received any remittances from any of the Bank's agencies to be handed over to Shih Sui Tung or any other Chinaman.\" It was clear, therefore, that the only statement in the confession that could be verified here was false.\n\n7. A large number of people of the coolie class left Hongkong at the time of the late abortive rebellion in the Wei Chou district, and since their return, the crime of armed robbery has become very frequent. I am now considering the question of banishing any of those people whom the police report to have no occupation or to be living as gamblers &c., but for those who have engaged in honest work, I do not think that it was intended that the Banishment Ordinance should be put into operation, as I take it that the protection of the British flag is given to all those who come here for work and behave themselves peacefully, so long as the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act are not infringed, and where no evidence is offered on which extradition can be claimed.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nThe Right Honourable\nJoseph Chamberlain M.P.\n&C.\n&C.\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient\nhumble Servant\nHenry Arthur Blake\nGovernor.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380694, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 223, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "Sir,\n\nH. M. Consulate-General,\n\nCanton, November 26th, 1900.\n\n217\n\nI have the honour to inform you that I have received a despatch from the Acting Viceroy respecting one, Yang Chu Yun, accused by the Head Police Office of Kwang Tung Province as being the chief of a conspiracy to blow up with dynamite several of the principal official residences in this City. His Excellency states that this man is now in Hongkong, asks that he may be discovered and extradition granted for him and states that he is prepared to send a deputy to the Colony to comply with the necessary formalities.\n\nI have the honour to enclose a translation of the Acting Viceroy's despatch, and to request that you will inform me for His Excellency's information, whether extradition can or cannot be granted.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(sd.) B. C. George Scott,\n\nH. M. Consul-General.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nJ. H. Stewart-Lockhart, C.M.G.,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380695, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 224, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "of Translation.\n\nSir,\n\nActing Viceroy to Mr. Scott.\n\nKOMSTE KLIA BATT\n\n213\n\nCanton, 23rd November, 1900.\n\n後樓房街\n\n史經如 楊衢雲\n\n宋少東\n\nI have received a Report from the Heads of the Kwang Tung Chief Police Office and the Military Bureau to the following effect.\n\nWith reference to the startling dynamite explosion resulting in the death by crushing of several persons which occurred at dawn on 28th November in a house in the Hou Lou Fong Street, we have the honour to state that subsequently the capture of a rebel named Shih Ching Ju was effected. This man admitted on examination that, incited by the principal criminal Yang Chu Yun to collect a band of men and plot evil deeds, he had joined with one Sung Shao Tung in a conspiracy to blow up the Governor's Yamen and seize the opportunity to commence operations. They concealed a quantity of dynamite in a house in the Hou Lou Fong Street, the explosion of which killed several people. The scheme was also to blow up the Tartar-General's Yamen, Treasurer's Yamen, and the Kuan Yin Hill Powder Magazine inside the City Wall, and the Arsenal, but it was not accomplished. Yang Chu Yun had appointed prisoner Chief Leader and Director for Canton City and directed him to superintend the transmission of funds. Prisoner also said that they had for name and sign \"The Guild of China's Exaltation\".\n\nShih Ching Ju was executed, sanction having been duly obtained, and the members of the confederacy disclosed by the evidence are being rigorously hunted down. Detective now reports the discovery that the arch-criminal Yang Chu Yun is now concealing himself in Hongkong, and again collecting confederates with a view to making trouble.\n\nWe would point out that this arch-rebel Yang Chu Yun, having started what he calls the 'Guild of China's Exaltation', actually had the daring to plot explosions in the Yamens, hoping for an opportunity to commence operations, and that, if the plot...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380700, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 229, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nH.B.M. Consulate-General,\n\nCanton.\n\n223\n\n21st December, 1900.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the application by the Chinese Authorities for the extradition of Zeng Ch'u Yun accused of connection with the dynamite explosion plot of October last, and to your despatch of 19th instant, I have now the honour to enclose copy and translation of the report of Shih Ching Ju's evidence as furnished to me by the Acting Viceroy.\n\nThis is a more full account of the confession than that obtained by me indirectly, but the two differ in no material particular. There is, however, one discrepancy that previously sent states that Zang gave Shih credentials; in the copy furnished to me officially Shih declares that he did not receive any.\n\nI also enclose translation of another despatch from the Acting Viceroy, and of its enclosure, the latter being a report of the evidence given by another prisoner, Zang Hsiang Pu, which seems to corroborate the evidence of Shih Ching Ju against Zang Ch'u Yun.\n\nI have the honour to request that I may be informed whether this is a case in which the procedure under the Ordinance of 17 November, 1897, applies.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sd.) B.C. George Scott,\n\nH.B.M's Consul-General.\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nHongkong.\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380701, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 230, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "3z King U stated.-\n\n224\n\nHe was 22 years of age of Pan U District in Canton.\n\nHis father is named Yau Kin. He is dead. His mother is surnamed Fong. There were two brothers of whom I was the younger, living together in Ko She in Siu Pak Chik Street. On the 25th. of the intercalary 8th. moon (18th. October), I went to Sung Shiu-tung's residence at Hau Lau Fong. On the 3rd. of this moon, Sung Shiu-tung privately sent 50 pieces of Dynamite by the Kong Tung Steamer from Macao to Canton. Ten pieces of this dynamite were buried 5 feet deep by Jung Shiu-tung in a house in Hau Lau Fong. On the night of the 5th. a white thread of powder was used as a fuze. The thread was bound to the end of a watchman's piece of incense. (I) saw Shiu Tung on the 6th. who said he must go to Singapore, and told me to return quickly to Macao, and that if there was any business in future (he) would go to Macao and (we) would meet together. I returned to Macao by boat on the 7th.. Beyond this (as to) the secret stowing of dynamite in the Official Halls for the reception of visitors at the Tartar-General's Yamen and the Treasurer's Yamen and (at) the Gunpowder Magazine and the Arsenal within the City at Kun Yam Shan (1) unfortunately had little opportunity (of knowing whether) after all there was any secret storing. Sung Shiu-tung must be asked to know. I became acquainted with Yeung Ku Wan first in the 8th. moon of this year who appointed me General Commandant (of Manchu Forces, also means President of a Republic) of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380703, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "GOPY.\n\nrubslation.\n\nF\n\nB\n\n226\n\nCopy of the Report of Evidence given by Shih Ching Ju, a rebel- whose case was sent forward from the Nam Hoi Magistrates Yamen.\n\n番禺\n懋乾\n高社\n荷嚨元\nkr\n白沙\n***\n江通\n後楼房\n\nShih Ching Ju said:-\n\nI am 22 years of age, a native of Pen Tu District; my father Yu Ch'ien is dead; my mother's family name was Feng. I have a brother and am the junior of the two, and we live (together) at Kao She (the High Temple) in the Faiao Pei Chih Street. In the 8th moon of last year I removed to Macao and resided there at No. 73 in the Ho Lan Tuan Street. I am a student and have inherited 5 houses, used as shops near the Red Temple in the South Suburb as well as 1 ch'ing 50 mow of land at Pai Sha.\n\nOn 8 October I went to live with Sung Shao Tung in the Hon Lon Fang, and on 25th October Sung Shao Tung smuggled some dynamite into Canton by the S.S. Kiang Tung in all 50 packets of these Sung Shao Tung concealed 10 in the house at the Hon Lon Fang, burying it at a depth of 5 feet. On the evening of 27 October he met a train of white tape chemically treated and tied it to the end of a joss-stick, waiting for the stick to burn down to the tape and so conduct the fire (to the dynamite).\n\nOn 28 October I met Sung Shao Tung; he said he wanted to go to Singapore, and told me to go back to Macao. Before our parting Sung Shao Tung said that if at a future time there was anything to do we could meet at Macao. That evening it being Sunday, there was no steamer and so fearing discovery and arrest I spent 50 cents and hired a boat at the Yuan Ch'ang Landing Stage, in which I passed the night intending...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380704, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 233, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "227\n\n楊衢雲\n\nI AL\n\n興中會\n\n康有為\n\n學啟超\n\n孫逸仙\n\nintending to go on board the steamer on the morning of the 29 October and return to Macao. It was also intended to conceal dynamite in the reception rooms of the Tartar General's as well as in the Powder Magazine and Arsenal at Kuan Yin Shan. Unluckily opportunity was lacking. As to whether dynamite was actually concealed in those places or not you should ask Sung Shao Tung and you will then learn.\n\nI first made acquaintances with Yang Chu Yun in the 8th moon of this year, he seeing that I was in earnest appointed me as General Director for Canton but gave me no credentials. The chiefs were Tu Chi Ju and Sung Shao Tung, both of whom came under my direction.\n\nThe chief man who enlisted confederates was a master weaver in the Hsiao Pei cloth weaving shop - his name being Ya Lung - surname unknown, age about 30. As the time approached, badges were to be issued to all the chiefs. These badges were made of tin and had stamped on the face \"Guild of China's Exultation\". They were made in Hong Kong. I hear that Sung Shao Tung has already made them ready. Yang Chu Yun told me to superintend the transmission of funds. These funds were to be sent through the Shanghai Bank to the branch of the Shanghai Bank on Shameen, and were to be drawn in my name in instalments of $1000 and handed to Sung Shao Tung to be used by him. There are accounts to show this.\n\nAs regards K'ang Yu Wei - I formerly wanted to go to him for instruction, but I was then young and my powers of learning were undeveloped, so I did not go and I have never seen K'ang Yu Wei, nor have I ever seen Liang Chi Chao or Sun Yat Sen. But Liang's father is now at Macao - I am acquainted with him. He is a stupid man. Sung Shao Tung took me (and others) to see him, but I did not venture to meet him, fearing lest he should disclose the secret, and so the party of confederates broken up. Sung Shao Tung had a book of men's names containing those of all the confederates, these being very numerous.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380706, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 235, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 3.\n\nActing Viceroy to Mr. Scott.\n\nSir,\n\nCanton, 23rd December, 1900.\n\n229\n\nWith reference to my application for the extradition of Zang Chu Tan, I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of 9th December (Gives Precis of Mr. Scott's despatch No. 190).\n\nOn receipt of this, I at once ordered investigations to be made.\n\nThe Chiefs of the Head Police Office now report as follows:-\n\nIt is on record that the Yanhoi Magistrate, in sending up the prisoner Zang Hsiang Pu charged in this case, reported that he had been arrested by Ma, Colonel of the Chieh Regiment, and that the Magistrate requested that the man might be closely interrogated, and dealt with.\n\nAccordingly, in co-operation with the examining Deputy, we summoned the prisoner and searchingly interrogated him, pressing him closely with cross-examination. He admitted intimate acquaintance in the past with Zang Chu Yun and Shih Ching Ju, and that in the 7th moon of this year he had had a meeting in the Office of the \"Chinese Daily Press\" with Zang Chu Yun, who informed him of a plot against the lives of various officials. In the 9th moon, Shih Ching Ju invited the prisoner to go to Hong Kong to see Zang Chu Yun; and Zang invited the prisoner and the following men:-\n\nChen Kuai Shih\n\nWang Chih Fu\n\n王質甫\n\nTeng Yui Nan\n\n鄧彥南\n\nLien Yu Cheng\n\n連懋貞\n\nLi Chi Tang,\n\n李紀堂\n\nas well as Shih Ching Ju, to the top story of the premises of the \"Chinese Daily Press\" where they together discussed plans. Zang Chu Yun said the best plan for arranging the massacre was to secretly conceal dynamite (in various places) so that all might explode at once - and that the result would infallibly be fatal. He told the prisoner to undertake (the carrying out of the plan). The prisoner, seeing that the undertaking was a great one, dared not agree. Then Shih Ching Ju spoke forth and said that an old family servant of his named Sung Shao Tung could manage the affair. Thereupon Shih Ching Ju took over the management of it; and having mutually agreed upon this, they separated. Subsequently, Zang Chu Yun purchased dynamite, sent it to Canton, and Sung Shao Fung took it over and hired a house where he buried it. The prisoner had on successive occasions heard this from Sung Shao Tung, and he knew the actual facts, but had not joined in the plot. If Zang Chu Yun were brought into Court, he could identify and bear witness against him. The prisoner was examined again and again, and remained unchangeable in his statements.\n\nWe would point out that the evidence of this prisoner Zang Hsiang Pu shows clearly, as a picture, that Zang Chu Yun originated the scheme of using dynamite to blow up (certain) Yamens in the hope of turning the resultant disturbances to their purposes of robbery and looting.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380707, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 236, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "230\n\nIt set forth the manner in which the idea arose, how the plot was discussed; as well as the purchase of the dynamite, the smuggling of it into Canton, and the procuration of persons to buy it in different places; and can surely be considered sufficient evidence to be relied upon against Zang Chu Yun.\n\nAlthough the prisoner Zang Hsiang Pu only admitted acquaintance with the particulars and said he had not joined in the plot, there is nothing to show that he is not relying upon the absence of evidence with which to confront him, and choosing to incur the lighter penalty so as to escape the heavier. It is of course necessary to summon back the chief accused person Zang Chu Yun, confront him with the witnesses and elucidate the matter, so that the respective cases may be reported upon and dealt with.\n\nWe would point out that in the 22nd Year of this reign, His Excellency the former Viceroy Tan, brought about a change in the regulations for extradition of offenders from Hongkong, and it was arranged that in the cases of plotters of murder and other persons involved in capital offences who had offended against the laws in Chinese territory and escaped to Hongkong, a copy of the evidence taken in China should be accepted, provided that the Consul or his Deputy were present at the trial to take a copy of the evidence and make a declaration to the effect that the evidence had been read over to the witness, that the latter acknowledged his statement without hesitation (on hearing it read) and that there was no forcing of evidence or other malpractice. If the Hongkong Authorities could accept the evidence as sufficient, the accused was to be handed over.\n\nThe British Colonial Office considered the proposal, and replied that if the accused had not been formerly resident in Hongkong, but had escaped thither after commission of offence, the regulation could be applied. If, however, the accused had in that year been residing for a minimum period of 8 months; although he had committed an offence in the interior, the old regulation and not the new one quoted must be applied. Instructions were issued for this to be put into effect.\n\nThe accused Zang Chu Yun was the originator of the plot and is the principal. He belongs to Hsiang Shan and in ordinary times moves about between Hongkong and Macao. Now he has undoubtedly escaped to and is lying perdu in Hongkong, and his case comes within the new regulation for extradition. It is thus our duty to prepare a copy of the evidence, make report, and beg Your Excellency's speedy consideration of the matter, so that the man may be brought back to Canton, brought into Court and tried; thus will the arch-offender be punished and the beginnings of disorder nipped in the bud.\n\nWith respect to this report, I have the honour to point out the following facts:-\n\nOn 28th October of this year, at the point of dawn, a house in the Hou Lou Fang at the back of the Governor's Yamen was overthrown by an explosion of dynamite. Six persons, men and women, were killed by this and five were wounded. The prisoner Shih Ching Ju admitted on examination that he had been party to a plot of which Zang Chu Yun was the instigator to blow up (certain Yamens). Now Zang Hsiang Pu's evidence shows, in the same manner...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380709, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 238, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "COPY.-\n\n232\n\nEnclosure No. 4 to Mr. Scott's Despatch of 31st December, 1900.\n\nCopy of Record of the evidence of the prisoner Yang Hsiang Pu sent up by the Nam Hoi Magistrate and examined by the Head Police Office. Yang Hsiang Pu said:\n\nI am a native of Tan Ton village in the district of Nam Hoi. My age is 45 years. My father is dead; my mother's maiden name was Chan. I have no brothers. I am married, my wife's family name being Feng, and we have sons and daughters. I was formerly a student of medicine in the establishment of one Chia, called the Po Chi Medical Hall. Afterwards, I opened a doctor's establishment in the Hua Wang Street outside the West Gate of Hsiang Shan District City, and am now practising as a Doctor in Canton outside the South Gate in the Ma Ton Chih Chieh. I have been acquainted with Yang Chu Yun, Sien Yu Cheng, Shih Ching Ju, Si Chi Tang, Chen Kuei Shih, Wing Tuo Fu, Teng Jui Nan.\n\nIn the 7th moon, date not remembered, but some time after the 10th day (4th August), I, having business, went to Hongkong and met Yang Chu Yun at the Office of the \"Chinese Daily Press\", in which paper Chen Kuei Chih had a share. Chen Kuei Shih and Shih Ching Ju were with us at table, and they put heads together and talked secrets. I asked Sien Yu Cheng about it, and Yang Chu Yun, hearing this, forthwith told Shih Ching Ju, and they all said that I too was a man who could join in with them, that there was no need of reticence, and that they could tell me all. They invited me to sit with them, and they said that this present time of disorder in the North furnished just the opportunity to effect the assassination of all the Officials of Kwang Tung Province and loot all the Treasuries, and the houses of the rich in Canton, thus at once acquiring wealth. I was smitten with fear and dared not consent with them. Then the party broke up.\n\nI at once returned to Canton, and it was not till the middle decade of the 8th moon (September 4–13), exact day not remembered, that Shih Ching Ju arrived back from Macao and came to my Medical Hall, and said that Yang Chu Yun had the day before come to his place at Macao and said that he was determined to carry out the aforesaid plot of assassination and that he had already a scheme in which he wanted me to take a hand. He specially told Shih Ching Ju to come and ask me to go along to Hongkong.\n\nThe following day, I reached Hongkong. While we were in the Office of the \"Chinese Daily Press\", Yang Chu Yun came back from No. 11 in the Chish Tze Street, a house rented for residence by a Japanese, to the Office where I saw him. There were a good many people about the place, and we signed to each other not to speak of the secret plot.\n\nSubsequently, Yang Chu Yun took the party to the third and highest story of the Newspaper premises and discussed secretly with me, Shih Ching Ju, and the others, saying that the killing of the Officials was really a difficult matter to find men to accomplish. Further, the Officials in Canton being numerous, it was impossible to take action against them all at one time; a very good plan would be to conceal dynamite and effect a number...\n\nPage 232\n\n...\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380710, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 239, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "233\n\n: -\n\nin this way none could possibly survive (of those affected). He said that I, being a Doctor in Canton, was well acquainted with the inhabitants of the City, and giving me carte blanche as to expenses, asked me to undertake the conduct of the affair.\n\nI said that I was short-sighted, and moreover much occupied with my profession, and could not leave my work at a moment's notice. I feared a disclosure and the ruination of the plot. The others said that what I remarked was quite true; they considered the matter again and again, and then Shih Ching Ju said that he had an old family servant named Sung Shao Tung who was capable of doing the business. Shih Ching Ju then took the matter in hand and guaranteed to perform it. Zang Chu Yun undertook to purchase the dynamite; the matter was discussed by all, and a satisfactory conclusion arrived at, and the party broke up.\n\nI at once returned to Canton after this. Shih Ching Ju and Sung Shao Tung came constantly to my place to talk matters over. At the end of 8th Intercalary month, Sung Shao Tung came to my establishment and said that Zang Chu Yun had purchased from Macao some excellent dynamite of German make, having the \"Ying\" or \"Hawk\" chop, 50 packages in all, which would shortly reach Canton. On 25th October, at night, Sung Shao Tung again came to my place and said that the dynamite had arrived that day, and had all been carried to his house. At this time, Sung Shao Tung had already rented the empty house in the Hou Lou Fang, and had there prepared and buried dynamite to blow up the Governor's Yamen. Sung Shao Tung had already bought over men to secretly conceal the dynamite about the Tartar-General's and Treasurer's Yamens and the various Magazines, and it was arranged to light trains by incense sticks and have simultaneous explosions on the 27th October. Unexpectedly, however, the only explosion was that near the back of the Governor's Yamen, where Sung Shao Tung had himself concealed dynamite, which occurred on the 29th, at 6 o'clock A.M., and resulted in the crushing to death of several men, women, and children.\n\nNothing occurred at the other places, probably owing to swindling on the part of the others (agents employed). I heard that Shih Ching Ju had been arrested and brought to trial and punished, but I had then already escaped.\n\nAfter some days, finding that nothing occurred, I ventured to return to my establishment.\n\nUnexpectedly, I was arrested on information given by Chang Ta Peng and Kuo Yao Chieh to the Chieh Regiment and was brought to trial. When Zang Chu Yun was living in Hsiang Suan, he continually went to Macao and Hongkong, and he is truly the chief contriver of this plot, in which I can bear witness against him. Now, upon this my examination, I have stated the facts truly and precisely, without any pressure put upon me, and I willingly impress (upon the record) the seal of my hand.\n\nThis is a true statement.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380720, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "FUNISHMENT ACCORDING TO LAW.\n\n243\n\nIn our previous issues we gave detailed accounts of the explosion of a mine of dynamite at Hung Mun Lau in Tai Wo Hau, which event having come to the knowledge of the authorities, investigation was instituted resulting in the arrest of the man Sz, a descendant of one of the gentry. From information now received we find that the full name of Sz is Sz Kin U.\n\nHe was again and again tried before the Magistrate; but he steadily denied the charge preferred against him. An old woman named Chan Chiu Shi, but commonly known as 'Old Auntie' was then called as witness. She declared that Sz was the man who came to rent the house from her. Sz, now finding that further resistance was of no avail, admitted that he and Sung together plotted the rebellion. They obtained the use of the house and at first thought of digging eight feet (Chinese) into the ground, but, reflecting that this would cause the loss of too many lives, they only excavated a hole two feet and a half deep.\n\nHis Worship, after having taken down the statement, submitted the case to His Lordship, Mr. Ng, the Provincial Judge, with a request to him for re-trial. Next His Worship went to the house in question and made a careful survey there. He actually found a hole in the house, which was over two feet deep and in which was still discernible some trace of the action of gunpowder. He then made a report of his enquiries to His Excellency the Governor and the 17th (8th November) was the day appointed for the execution of Sz. However on that day His Worship", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380979, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 507, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "The extradition of\n\napplied for\n\nthe persons implicated can\n\n...\n\nhave the honour to be,\n\n...\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient\n\nhumble Servant\n\nGovernor,\n\n...\n\nC. O.\n\nH.M Consulate General,\n\nNov: 26,12\n\nREGS AUG 01\n\n502\n\nI have the honour to inform you that I have received a despatch from the acting Viceroy respecting one Yeung Chu Yun, accused by the head police office of Kwang Tung Province of being the chief of a conspiracy to blow up with dynamite several of the principal official residencies in this city. His Excellency states that this man is now in Hong Kong, asks that he may be discovered and extradition granted for him and states that he is prepared to send a deputy to the colony to comply with the necessary formalities. I have the honour to enclose a copy of the Acting Viceroy's despatch, and to request that you will inform me for His Excellency's information whether extradition can or cannot be granted.\n\nI have &c\n\nH.M.Consul-General.\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nJoseph Chamberlain\n\nDowning Street.\n\nActing Viceroy to Mr Secretary\n\nSir,\n\nCanton, 23rd November 1900\n\nI have received a report from the heads of the Kwang Tung chief police office and the Military Bureau to the following effect-\n\nWith reference to the startling dynamite explosion resulting in the death by crushing of several persons which occurred at dawn on the 28 November in a house in the Hou Lou Fang street we have the honour to state that subsequently the capture of a rebel named Shih Ching Ju was effected. This man admitted on examination that, incited by the principal criminal Yeung Chu Yun to collect a band of men and plot evil deeds he had joined with one Lung Shao Tung", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380980, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 508, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "503\n\nin a conspiracy to blow up the Governor's Yamen and\n\nseize the opportunity to commence operations. They\n\nconcealed a quantity of dynamite in a house in the\n\nHou Lou Fang street, the explosion of which killed\n\nseveral people. The scheme was also to blow up the\n\nTartar General's Yamen, Treasurer's Yamen, and the\n\nKwan Yin Hill Powder Magazine inside the city wall,\n\nand the Arsenal, but it was not accomplished. Yeung\n\nChu Yun had appointed prisoner chief leader and\n\ndirector for Canton City and directed him to superintend\n\nthe transmission of funds. Prisoner also said\n\nthat they had for name and sign \"The Guild of China's\n\nExaltation\".\n\nShih Ching Ju was executed, sanction having been\n\nduly obtained, and the members of the confederacy\n\ndisclosed by the evidence are being rigorously\n\nhunted down.\n\nA detective now reports the discovery that the arch\n\ncriminal Yang Chu Yun is now concealing himself in\n\nHong Kong and again collecting confederates with a\n\nview to making trouble.\n\nWe would point out that this arch rebel Yang Chu Yun,\n\nhaving started what he calls the \"Guild of China's\n\nExaltation\", actually had the daring to plot explosions\n\nin the Yamens, hoping for an opportunity to commence\n\noperations, and that if the plot had succeeded, the\n\nCapital of the Province would have been thrown into\n\nunimaginable disorder, which would have most seriously\n\naffected the commerce in which foreigners are concerned.\n\nThus he is guilty of great and abominable crime;\n\nand as the detective has discovered that this man is\n\nconcealed in Hong Kong, it is of immediate necessity\n\nthat he be arrested and dealt with so that the\n\nprincipal in the crime may be punished.\n\nBut Hong Kong is foreign territory and it is not", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380983, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 511, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "To Consul General Canton\n\nSir,\n\nC.S.O.\n\nH.K.\n\n19th December 1900\n\n506\n\nWith reference to your despatch of the 26 ult. enclosing the Viceroy's despatch I am to request you to be so good as to endeavour to obtain by direct request from the Viceroy a copy of the confession of Shi Ching Ju containing the evidence against Yang Chu Yun.\n\nThe confession sent as a confidential paper cannot be utilised by this Government.\n\n(sd) J.B.I.K.\n\nPage 1\n\nH.B.M.Consulate General\n\nCanton. 31 December 1900\n\nTo Colonial Secretary Hong Kong\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the application by the Chinese Authorities for the extradition of Yang Chu Yun, accused of connection with the dynamite plot of October last and to your despatch of the 19th instant I have now the honour to enclose copy and translation of the report of Shih Ching Ju's evidence as furnished to me by the Acting Viceroy.\n\nThis is a more full account of the confession than that obtained by me indirectly, but the two differ in no material particular. There is however one discrepancy -- that previously sent states that Yang gave Shih credentials, - in the copy furnished to me officially, Shih declares that he did not receive any.\n\nI also enclose translation of another despatch from the Acting Viceroy and of its enclosure, the latter being the report of the evidence given by ...\n\nPage 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380984, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 512, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "507\n\nanother prisoner, Yang Hsiang Pu, which seems to\n\ncorroborate the evidence of Shih Ching Ju against\n\nYang Chu Yun.\n\nI have the honour to request that I may be informed\n\nwhether this is a case in which the procedure under\n\nthe Ordinance of 17th November 1897 applies.\n\nI have &c\n\nH.M.Consul General.\n\n(Enclosure 2)\n\nCopy of the report of evidence given by Shih Ching\n\nJu, a rebel, whose case was sent forward from the\n\nNam Hoi Magistrates Yamen.\n\nShih Ching Ju said:-\n\nI am 22 years of age, a native of Pan Yu district, my father Yu Chien is dead, my mother's family name was Fong, I have a brother and am the junior of the two, and we live together at Kao She (the High Temple)\n\nin the Hsiao Pei Chih street. In the 8th moon of last year I removed to Macao and resided there No 73\n\nin the Ho Lan Yuan street. I am a student and have\n\ninherited 5 houses, used as shops near the Red Temple in the South Suburb, as well as 1 ching 51 mow of\n\nland at Pai Sha.\n\nOn 18th October I went to live with Sung Shao Tung\n\nin the Hon Lon Fang, and on the 25 October Sung Shao Tung smuggled some dynamite into Canton by the S.S.\n\nKiang Tung - in all 50 packets. Of these Sung Shao Tung\n\nconcealed 10 in the house at the Hon Lon Fang, burying it at a depth of 5 feet. On the evening of the 27th\n\nOctober he made a train of white tape chemically\n\ntreated and tied it to the end of a joss stick,\n\nwaiting for the stick to burn down to the tape and so conduct the fire (to the dynamite).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380985, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 513, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "508\n\n1\n\nOn the 28 October I met Sung Shao Tung, he said he wanted to go to Singapore, and told me to go back speedily to Macao. Before our parting Sung Shao Tung said that if at a future time there was anything to do we could meet at Macao. That evening, it being Sunday, there was no steamer, and so, fearing discovery and arrest, I spent 50 cents and hired a boat at the YUAN CHANG landing stage, in which I passed the night, intending to go on board the steamer on the morning of the 29th October and return to Macao. It was also intended to conceal dynamite in the reception rooms of the Tartar Generals, as well as in the powder magazine and arsenal at KUAN YIN SHAN. Unluckily opportunity was lacking. As to whether dynamite was actually concealed in those places or not you should ask Sung Shao Tung and you will then learn.\n\nI first made acquaintance with Yang Chu Yun in the 8th moon of this year—he, seeing that I was in earnest, appointed me as general director for Canton, but gave me no credentials. The chiefs were Wu Chi Ju and Sung Shao Tung, both of whom came under my direction. The chief man who enlisted confederates was a master weaver in the Hsiao Pei cloth weaving shop, his name being Ya Lung—surname unknown—age about 30. As the time approached badges were to be issued to all the chiefs. These badges were made of tin, and had stamped on the face \"Guild of China's Exaltation\". They were made in Hong Kong. I hear that Sung Shao Tung has already made them ready. Yang Chu Yun told me to superintend the transmission of funds. These funds were to be sent through the Shanghai Bank to the branch of the Shanghai Bank on Shameen, and were to be drawn in my name in instalments of $1000 and handed to Sung Shao Tung to be used by him. There are accounts to show this. As regards Kang Yu Wei—I formerly wanted to go to him for instruction", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380987, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 515, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "510\n\n1\n\nAccordingly, in co-operation with the examining Deputy, we summoned the prisoner and searchingly interrogated him, pressing him closely with cross-examination. He admitted intimate acquaintance in the past with Yang Chu Yun and Shih Ching, and that in the 7th moon of this year he had a meeting in the office of the \"Chinese Daily Press\" with Yang Chu Yun, who informed him of a plot against the lives of various officials.\n\nIn the 8th moon Shih Ching Ju invited prisoner to go to Hong Kong to see Yang Chu Yun, and Yang invited prisoner and the following men:\n\nChen Kuei Shih\n\nWang Chih Fu\n\nTeng Yui Nan\n\nLien Yu Cheng\n\nLi Chi Tang\n\nas well as Shih Ching Ju, to the top story of the premises of the \"Chinese Daily Press\" where they together discussed plans. Yang Chu Yun said the best plan for arranging the massacre was to secretly conceal dynamite (in various places) so that all might explode at once - and that the result would infallibly be fatal. He told prisoner to undertake (the carrying out of the plan). Prisoner seeing that the undertaking was a great one, dared not agree. Then Shih Ching Ju spoke forth and said that an old family servant of his named Sung Shao Tung could manage the affair. Thereupon Shih Ching Ju took over the management of it, and having mutually agreed upon this they separated. Subsequently Yang Chu Yun purchased dynamite, sent it to Canton, and Sung Shao Tung took it over and hired a house where he buried it.\n\nPrisoner had on successive occasions heard this from Sung Shao Tung, and he knew the actual facts, but had not joined in the plot. If Yang Chu Yun were ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380988, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 516, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "511\n\n: into Court he could identify and wear witness against him. Prisoner was examined again and again, and remained unchangeable in his statements.\n\nWe would point out that the evidence of this prisoner Yang Hsiang Pu shows clearly as a picture that Yang Chu Yun originated the scheme of using dynamite to blow up (certain) Yamens in the hope of turning the resultant disturbances to their purposes of robbery and looting. It sets forth the manner in which the idea arose - how the plot was discussed - as well as the purchase of the dynamite, the smuggling of it into Canton, and the procuration of persons to bury it in different places, and can surely be considered sufficient evidence to be relied upon against Yang Chu Yun.\n\nAlthough the prisoner Yang Hsiang Pu only admitted acquaintance with the particulars and said he had not joined in the plot, there is nothing to show that he is not relying upon the absence of evidence with which to confront him, and choosing to incur the lighter penalty so as to escape the heavier. It is of course necessary to summon back the chief accused person Yang Chu Yun to confront him with the witness and elucidate the matter so that the respective cases may be reported upon and dealt with.\n\nWe would point out that in the 22nd year of reign H.E. the former Viceroy Tan brought about a change in the regulations for extradition of offenders from Hongkong and it was arranged that in the cases of plotters of murder and other persons involved in capital offences who had offended against the law in Chinese territory and escaped to Hong Kong, a copy of the evidence taken in China should be accepted, provided that the Consul or his Deputy were present at the trial to take copy of the evidence and make a declaration to the effect that the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380989, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 517, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "簪 \n\n512 \n\nevidence has been read over to the witness, that the latter acknowledged his statement without hesitation (on hearing read) and that there was no forcing of evidence or other malpractice. If the Hong Kong Authorities could accept the evidence as sufficient the accused was to be handed over. \n\nThe British Colonial Office considered the proposal and replied that if the accused had not been formerly resident in Hong Kong but had escaped thither after the commission of the offence, the regulation could be applied. If however the accused had in that year been residing for a minimum period of 6 months although he had committed an offence in the interior the old regulation and not the new one quoted must be applied. Instructions were issued for this to be put into effect. \n\nThe accused Yang Chu Yun was the originator of the plot and is the principal. He belongs to Siang Shau and in ordinary times moves about between Hong Kong and Macao. Now he has undoubtedly escaped to and is lying perdu in Hong Kong, and his case comes within the new regulation for extradition. It is thus our duty to prepare a copy of the evidence, make report, and beg Y.E.'s speedy consideration of the matter, so that the man may be brought back to Canton, brought into Court and tried -- thus will the arch offender be punished and the beginnings of disorder nipped in the bud. \n\nWith respect to this report I point out the following facts - \n\nI have the honour to \n\nOn 28th October of this year at the point of dawn a house in the Hon Lon Fang at the back of the Governor's Yamen was overthrown by an explosion of dynamite. Six persons, men and women, were killed by this and five were wounded. The prisoner Shih Ching Ju admitted on examination that he had been party to a plot. \n\nWhich", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380992, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 520, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "515\n\nMacao and came to my medical hall and said that Yang Chu Yun had the day before come to his place and said that he was determined to carry out the aforesaid plot of assassination and that he had already a scheme in which he wanted me to take a hand. He specially told Shih Ching Ju to come and ask me to go along to Hong Kong.\n\nThe following day I reached Hong Kong. While we were in the office of the China Daily Press, Yang Chu Yun came back from No.11 in the Chieh Tze street, a house rented for residence by Japanese, to the office where I saw him. There were a good many people about the place and we signed to each other not to speak of the secret plot.\n\nSubsequently Yang Chu Yun took the party to the third and highest story of the newspaper premises and discussed secretly with me, Shih Ching Ju, and the others, saying that the killing of the officials was really a difficult matter to find men to accomplish. Further, the officials in Canton being numerous, it was impossible to take action against all of them at one time; a very good plan would be to conceal dynamite and effect a number of explosions all at one time—in this way none could possibly survive (of those affected). He said that I, being a doctor in Canton, was well acquainted with the inhabitants of the city, and, giving me carte blanche as to expenses, asked me to undertake the conduct of the affair.\n\nI said that I was short-sighted, and, moreover, much occupied with my profession, and could not leave my work at a moment's notice. I feared a disclosure and the ruination of the plot. The others said that what I remarked was quite true—they considered the matter again and again, and then Shih Ching Ju said that he had an old family servant named Sung Shao Tung who was capable of doing the business. Shih Ching Ju then took the matter in hand and guaranteed to perform it.\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380993, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 521, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "516\n\nYang Chu Yun undertook to purchase the dynamite; the matter was discussed by all and a satisfactory conclusion arrived at and the party broke up. I at once returned to Canton.\n\nAfter this Shih Ching Ju and Sung Shao Tung came constantly to my place to talk matters over. At the end of the 8th Intercalary moon Sung Shao Tung came to my establishment and said that Yang Chu Yun had purchased from Macao some excellent dynamite of German make and having the \"Ying\" or \"Hawk\" chop - 50 packages in all, which would shortly reach Canton.\n\nOn 25th October, at night, Sung Shaû Tung again came to my place and said that the dynamite had arrived that day, and had all been carried to his house. At this time Sung Shao Tung had already rented the empty house in the Hon Lon Fang, and had there prepared and buried dynamite to blow up the Governor's Yamen.\n\nSung Shao Tung had already bought over men to secretly conceal the dynamite about the Tartar General and Treasurer's Yamens and the various magazines, and it was arranged to light trains by incense sticks and have simultaneous explosions on the 27th October. Unexpectedly, however, the only explosion was that near the back of the Governor's Yamen where Sung Shao Tung had himself concealed dynamite, which occurred on the 28th at 6 o'clock and resulted in the crushing to death of several men, women, and children.\n\nNothing occurred at the other places, probably owing to swindling on the part of the others (agents employed). I heard that Shih Ching Ju had been arrested and brought to trial and punished, but I had then already escaped.\n\nAfter some days, finding that nothing occurred, I ventured to return to my establishment. Unexpectedly, I was arrested on information given", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 382672, "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": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "page_number": 655, "title": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "content_text": "650\n\nCLASSIFICATION OF GOODS.—Continued,\n\nCLASS 25.\n\nCLASS 15.\n\nGlass.\n\nSuch as---\n\nWindow and plate glass\n\nPainted glass.\n\nGlass mosaic.\n\nGlass beads.\n\nCLASS 16.\n\nPorcelain and earthenware. Such as\n\nChina.\n\nStoneware.\n\nTerra Cotta.\n\nStatuary porcelain.\n\nTiles.\n\nBricks.\n\nCLASS 17. Manufactures from mineral and other substances for building or decoration.\n\nSuch as-----\n\nCement\n\nPlaster.\n\nImitation marble. Asphalt.\n\nCLASS 18.\n\nEngineering, architectural, and building contrivances,\n\nSuch as\n\nDiving apparatus. Warning apparatus. Ventilating apparatus. Filtering apparatus. Lighting contrivances. Drainage contrivances. Electric and pneumatic bells.\n\nClass 19.\n\nArms, ammunition, and stores not included in\n\nSuch as---\n\nCannon.\n\nSmall-arms.\n\nFowling pieces.\n\nSwords\n\nShot and other projectiles\n\nCamp equipage,\n\nCLASS 20.\n\nExplosive substances.\n\nSuch as--\n\nGunpowder.\n\nGuncotton.\n\nDynamite.\n\nFog-signals.\n\nPercussion caps.\n\nFireworks.\n\nCartridges.\n\nCLASS 21.\n\nNaval architectural contrivances and naval equipments not included Classes 19 and 20.\n\nCLASS 22.\n\nCarriages.\n\nSuch as-\n\nRailway carriages. Waggons. Railway trucks. Bicycles.\n\nBath chairs.\n\nCLAYS 26.\n\nLinen and hemp yarn and thread.\n\nCLASS 27.\n\nLinen and hemp piece goods.\n\nCLASS 28\n\nLinen and hemp goods not included in Classes 26, 27, and 50.\n\nCLASS 29.\n\nJute yarns and tissues, and other articles made of jute not included in Class 50.\n\nCLASS 30.\n\nSilk, spun, thrown, or sewing.\n\nCLASS 31.\n\nSilk piece goods.\n\nCLASS 32.\n\nOther silk goods not included in Classes 30 and 31.\n\nCLABS 33.\n\nYarns of wool, worsted, or hair.\n\nCLASS 34.\n\nCloths and stuffs of wool, worsted, or hair.\n\nCLASS 35.\n\nWoollen and worsted and hair goods not included in Classes 33 and 34.\n\nSuch as-\n\nCarpets, floor-cloth, and oil-cloth.\n\nSuch as\n\nDrugget.\n\nMats and matting. Rugs.\n\nCLASS 23.\n\nCotton goods not included in Classes 23, 24, or 38.\n\nSuch as --\n\nCotton lace. Cotton braids Cotton tape\n\n(a) Cotton yarn, and sewing cotton not on spools or reels.\n\n(b) Sewing cotton on spools or reels.\n\nCLASS 24.\n\nCotton piece goods of all kinds.\n\nSuch as-\n\nCotton shirtings. Long cloth.\n\nCLASS 38.\n\nArticle of clothing.\n\nSuch as-\n\nHats of all kinds. Caps and bonnets. Hosiery.\n\nGloves.\n\nBoots and shoes. Other ready-made clothing.\n\nORDINANCE No. 18 of 1898.\n\nCLASS 39.\n\n(except paperhangings), stationery, and\n\nSuch as---\n\nEnvelopes.\n\nShading.\n\nSealing wax.\n\nPens (except gold pens). Ink.\n\nBlotting cases. Copying presses.\n\nCLASS 10.\n\nUmbrellas, walking sticks, brushes, and combs.\n\nCLASS 41.\n\nPlaying cards.\n\nCLASS 42\n\nCare and upholstery.\n\nSuch as-\n\nMattresses.\n\nCLASS 43.\n\nProvisions and articles used as food, or ingredients in food.\n\nSuch as--\n\nCereals.\n\nPulses.\n\nHops.\n\nTea.\n\nSago.\n\nSalt.\n\nCLASS 44.\n\nWines, spirits, and aerated waters, whether manufactured or not.\n\nSuch as--\n\nBeer.\n\nCider.\n\nWine.\n\nWhisky. Liqueurs.\n\nOlive oil.\n\nMalt\n\nDried Fruits.\n\nSugar.\n\nPreserved meats.\n\nConfectionery. Oil cakes. Pickles.\n\nVinegar Beer clarifiers.\n\nCLASS 45.\n\nSeeds for agricultural and horticultural purposes.\n\nCLASS 47.\n\nCandles, common soap, detergents; illuminating, heating, or lubricating oils; matches, and starch, blue, and other preparations for laundry purposes.\n\nSuch as\n\nWashing powders. Benzine collas.\n\nClass 48. Perfumery (including toilet articles, preparations for the teeth and hair, and perfumed soap)\n\nClass 49.\n\nGames of all kinds and sporting articles not included in other classes.\n\nSuch as\n\nBilliard tables. Roller Skates.\n\nFishing nets and lines. Tars.\n\nCLASS 50.\n\nMiscellaneous...\n\n(1) Goods manufactured from ivory, bone, or wood, not included in other classes.\n\n(2) Goods manufactured from straw or grass, not included in other classes.\n\n(3) Goods manufactured from animal and vegetable substances, not included in other classes.\n\n(1) Tobacco pipes.\n\n(5)\n\nUmbrellas, walking sticks, brushes, and combs.\n\n(6) Furniture cream, plate powder.\n\n(2) Tarpaulins, tents, rick cloths, rope, twine.\n\n(8) Buttons of all kinds, other than of precious metal or imitations thereof.\n\n(9) Packing and hose of all kinds.\n\n(10) Goods not included in the foregoing classes.\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER,\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nJ. G. T. Beckwith, Clerk of Councils.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 383065, "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": "CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901", "page_number": 210, "title": "CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of Her Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nC. C.\n\n203\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\n2121\n\n[January 14.]\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nREGE 18 JAN 01\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Chihchen Lofengluh to the Marquess of Lansdowne.--(Received January 14.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nChinese Legation, January 12, 1901.\n\nON the 7th September last I communicated to Lord Salisbury a telegram from Li Heng-chang stating that Kang Yu Wei and Liang Ki Chan, joining with Ku Sing, a notorious sower of sedition in the Canton Province, and with the chiefs of certain secret and illegal Societies, were endeavouring to excite a rising against the Chinese Government in the South of China and the provinces bordering on the Yang-tsze River. In the same telegram it was pointed out that one of the principal seats of the conspiracy was Hong Kong, and Lord Salisbury was asked to take measures for the arrest of seven of the conspirators, mentioned by name, who were making use of the Colony to smuggle arms into China and for other illicit purposes.\n\nI am desired by Chang Chi-tung to convey to Her Majesty's Government the thanks of himself and the Viceroy of Nanking for the measures which Lord Salisbury was so good as to instruct the Colonial authorities to take, with a view to the hospitality of the Island of Hong Kong not being abused by the desperadoes who were making use of it. But, notwithstanding the salutary effects of these measures, and the energetic action taken by Chang Chi-tung in suppressing the treasonable movement at Hankow and Tatung in October 1900, the situation in the central and southern provinces of China is still most critical. Large numbers of the followers of Kang Yu Wei and Liang Ki-Chao, and of the members of the Triad and other formidable affiliated Societies are known to exist and to be most active, particularly in the government of the Two Kwangs.\n\nI have, therefore, been instructed to request that the stringency of the measures taken by the authorities at Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements may be increased rather than relaxed; and that the British Consuls at the Treaty ports may be instructed to co-operate with the Local authorities in preventing the foreign Settlements from being used as an asylum by those who are instigating and directing the insurrectionary movement.\n\nThe Viceroys of the southern and Yang-tsze Provinces hope they may count on the co-operation of all the foreign Consuls in this matter, and with a view to obtaining it, the Chinese Ministers residing in foreign countries have been directed to request the Governments to whom they are respectively accredited, to issue instructions to their Consuls in that sense.\n\nVery effective assistance has already been received from the Portuguese authorities at Macao, the Governor having issued certain Regulations with regard to the holding of meetings and the search for arms and ammunition, which the Acting Viceroy of Canton acknowledges to have been attended with the most beneficial effects. These Regulations prohibit the holding of meetings intended for the dissemination of ideas calculated to promote disaffection or sedition amongst the Chinese people and for the hatching of plots against the Chinese Government. They also prohibit the importation of arms and war material, and authorize the search of passengers' baggage and in suspected quarters for arms and ammunition, large quantities of which are known to have been previously smuggled into Macao, and thence transported into China concealed in coffins and other ways.\n\nThese Regulations having been found to be so effective in the south, the Yang-tsze Viceroys consider that it would materially contribute to their ability to maintain order and tranquillity within their respective jurisdictions, if similar Regulations could be issued in Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements.\n\nThe complicity of Kang Yu-wei and Liang Ki-chao, who are now living in British territory, has abundantly been proved by documentary and other evidence discovered in the course of the investigations made in connection with the recently discovered plots at Hankow, Tatung, and Woochow; also in connection with the dynamite explosion in the Yamên of the Governor at Canton. And the Yang-tsze Viceroys think that nothing would so effectively contribute to allay the state of unrest which prevails over a very large extent of the central and southern provinces as an increased vigilance on the part of the British authorities.\n\n[1711 -2]\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 383077, "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": "CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901", "page_number": 222, "title": "CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901", "content_text": "Canton itself is concerned, hardly one rumour concerning the state of affairs here has originated in Canton itself.\n\nShould further rebellion be attempted, in my opinion the Imperial troops will prove capable of dealing with it.\n\nI doubt if the population is armed so extensively with weapons smuggled from Hong Kong and Macao as it is supposed. Nor do I think the people themselves, the gentry, and the well-to-do have any desire to rebel. It seems very clear that in the Hui-chow Prefecture the rebels met with little sympathy and no assistance from the turbulent people of the Tung Kuang district, or the equally turbulent and lawless smugglers and people of the Kuei Shan district, who opposed rather than joined them.\n\nThe attempt on the morning of Sunday, the 28th October, to blow up a portion of the Governor's Yamên seems to have been a genuine attempt at political assassination with dynamite. Had it been as successful as it was abortive, it does not appear that serious consequences would have resulted. Nothing has transpired to show that any preparation had been made to take advantage of the temporary confusion that might have followed. Only three persons have so far been arrested in connection with it---one a young man named Shih Ching Ju, who has been executed; a preacher or catechist of the American Presbyterian Mission, who gave security for the rent of the house, and who has been released on bail; and a chemist named Yang, whose name was given by Shih, and who was found to have dynamite in his shop. The whole incident is very obscure. Shih himself, though not a convert, was intimately connected with converts and missionaries. His sister is a medical student in the Kuk Fon Hospital. A person named Sung, who hired the house in which the explosion occurred, and who has escaped, was a Christian. Several converts who were preachers left Canton on the arrest of Shih, and the missionaries here generally seem convinced that many of their converts, if not actually concerned, knew that some attempt was imminent.\n\nThe trade of the district, allowance being made for the entire stoppage for some months of the trade with Tien-tsin and Newchwang, shows little disturbance. The decrease in the duties collected by the foreign Customs is not more than occurs in ordinary times as compared with those of last year, which was the most prosperous the port has ever known. It is true that the banks, native and foreign, are restricting their advances, but in view of the rumours in circulation, this is hardly to be wondered at. In other respects trade is practically unaffected. It is somewhat singular that throughout the whole of the disastrous occurrences in the north this has been the case with the trade here, except in the case of that to Tien-tsin and Newchwang. It should, I think, be taken as a sign that, whatever rumours are afloat, these provinces are practically in their normal state, which may be said to indicate insurrection in one or other of them. Roughly speaking, during my service in China, I do not think a year has passed when an insurrection or rebellion has not been in progress or threatening in Kwangtung or Kwanghsi.\n\nThe attacks on the property of converts and Mission Chapels have ceased for over six weeks. They were not accompanied by any attacks on their persons, except that one Roman Catholic convert was killed and one child injured, one or two men held to ransom, and some girls are said to have been carried off. It is thought, and it seems possible, that in consequence of the Edicts, false or genuine, promulgated here, orders were in some instances officially given to loot the converts, but not to attack their persons. In others, the officials responsible made strenuous and successful efforts to maintain order. The action of his Excellency the Acting Viceroy all through, except that his orders were but imperfectly obeyed, left little to be desired. These outrages have been only partial, and none have occurred in Canton or its immediate vicinity, and I have heard of none in the Province of Kwanghsi.\n\nIt is, of course, impossible to predict what the course of events will be in these provinces. I can only say that, so far, in my opinion, as can be seen at present, no signs of immediate danger exist, although causes for uneasiness exist in several directions. This opinion is, I know, largely shared by my colleagues, and by others whose opinion is of value. If only a general settlement of affairs can be arrived at between China and foreign Powers, I think there is little doubt that in these provinces there will be no disturbance that the provincial authorities will not be able to deal with successfully, as they have with the rising in Hui-chow.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) B. C. G. SCOTT.\n\n20 Feb. 1901", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 383105, "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": "CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901", "page_number": 250, "title": "CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901", "content_text": "117171 lacce\n\nX.\n\nPes 17 MAY 01\n\nThe Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir Chihchen Loféngluh.\n\n243\n\nForeign Office, April 26, 1901. WITH reference to my note of the 1st February last, I have the honour to inform you that a Report has been received from the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the alleged agitation against the Chinese Government in that Colony.\n\nSir H. Blake states that, so far as the police can ascertain, no active agitation exists, and he is informed that Kang Yu Wei's party is in favour of reform in the direction of purity of administration, and not of rebellion.\n\nWith reference to the mention made in your note of the 14th January of the discovery of Kang Yu Wei's connection with the dynamite explosion which occurred in the Yamên of the Governor at Canton last year, Sir H. Blake states that he has heard nothing to show that Kang Yu Wei was in any way implicated in that outrage.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) LANSDOWNE.\n\nPage 243\n\nThe Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir Chihchen Loféngluh.\n\nForeign Office, April 26, 1901. WITH reference to my note of the 1st February last, I have the honour to inform you that a Report has been received from the Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the alleged agitation against the Chinese Government in that Colony.\n\nSir H. Blake states that, so far as the police can ascertain, no active agitation exists, and he is informed that Kang Yu Wei's party is in favour of reform in the direction of purity of administration, and not of rebellion.\n\nWith reference to the mention made in your note of the 14th January of the discovery of Kang Yu Wei's connection with the dynamite explosion which occurred in the Yamên of the Governor at Canton last year, Sir H. Blake states that he has heard nothing to show that Kang Yu Wei was in any way implicated in that outrage.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) LANSDOWNE.\n\nPage 244", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 383172, "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": "CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901", "page_number": 317, "title": "CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901", "content_text": "(\n\n10. 203.\n\n61:\n\nand Office\n\nAugust 1901.\n\n30th August.\n\nC.O.\n\n31446\n\n315\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE. RE 9 GLF OI\n\nAugust 30th, 1901.\n\nTo transmit to you, for your information,\n\na copy of a letter from the Colonial Office relative\n\nto the murder of Yeung Yui Man in Hongkong. Yeung,\n\nwho was a British subject residing at Hongkong, was a\n\nfollower of Sun Yat Sen, the reformer, and was implicated\n\nin the rising under Sun Yat Sen last Autumn.\n\nThe Acting Viceroy of Canton made an application\n\nfor his extradition in November last, on the ground\n\nthat he was implicated in the dynamite explosion at\n\nCanton. This application, which was based on a confession\n\nextracted by torture, was refused by Sir H. Blake, Governor\n\nof Hongkong, pending proper evidence.\n\nThis took place on the 8th of January last; on the\n\n10th, Yeung was murdered. You will see from\n\nthe Colonial Office letter that Sir H. Blake has\n\nstrong grounds for supposing that the Government of\n\nCanton ...\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nCanton", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-308 - Public Offices - 1901.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388963, "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": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "page_number": 470, "title": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "content_text": "463\n\nSan Ning, Tung Kun, Tsang Shing and Wai Chow. These rebels had the intention of approaching Canton City on the 30th August (of the last moon) and between 3 and 4 B.M. o'clock (in the morning) 4 or 5 men who had no fear of death were to use dynamite and blow up the temple of longevity and kill the officials assembled therein. This would be a signal to the men outside the City to put up proclamations, stating that they would protect the people, and they would raise up their flag, with green characters on a white ground (green representing heaven and white the sun). They intended to carry the rebellion throughout the various prefectures and districts. They have already collected $180,000 and on two occasions have imported weapons and ammunition. In the 9th month of last year through the assistance of a European they bought from an Insurance Company over 20 cases of Mauser Rifles and 1,000 Revolvers, which were taken and placed in the Godown of a European Merchant on the Shameen at Canton. On the 6th day of the 12th month 3 or 4 thousand Mauser Rifles and 40 or 50 boxes of cartridges were imported into Canton and distributed amongst the various prefectures and districts, and left in charge of the rebel leaders in those places.\n\nWith regard to the Arms and Ammunition stored at Canton, the rebels fearing that they might be discovered, between 3 or 4 on the 30th of the 12th moon they placed them in coffins, took them out of the North Gate and buried them in some hilly ground. The above are the particulars concerning this rising.\n\nThe writer has found out by making careful and secret enquiries, that the rebels in Kwong Sai are in strength, but are composed of ignorant persons, while there in Hongkong are persons of understanding but of little use for fighting.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390484, "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": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "## SCALE OF CHARGES FOR THE STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER, &C.\n\n35 cents and so on, increasing 6 cents per package for each 25 lbs. of gunpowder, up to and in excess of 100 lbs., according as the gunpowder may be loose or in tins.\n\nPackages containing safety cartridges to be charged per 25 lbs. weight, 6 cents a month or fraction of a month. Packages of detonators 9 cents for 25 lbs. weight.\n\nThe weight of the various packages will be determined at the time of storing, and no alteration will be allowed after they have been received into the magazine.\n\nThe Government will not be responsible for damage by explosion, or by insufficient or improper packing and, as wooden packages are liable to the attacks of white ants, they should be tin-lined, and the lining should be intact.\n\n## SCALE OF CHARGES FOR THE STORAGE OF OTHER EXPLOSIVES.\n\n(Section 36.)\n\nNitro glycerine, or glonoine oil, gun cotton, fulminating mercury, dynamite, lithofracteur, Horsleys' patent blasting powder, &c., &c.\n\n| Cases containing | Rate per month or fraction of a month |\n| --- | --- |\n| 25 lbs. and less | 16 cents |\n| more than 25 lbs. and less than 50 lbs. | 28 cents |\n| 50 lbs. and less than 75 lbs. | 40 cents |\n| 75 lbs. and less than 100 lbs. | 52 cents |\n\nand so on, increasing 12 cents per package for each 25 lbs. weight.\n\nThe weight of the various packages will be determined at the time of storing, and no alteration will be allowed after they have been received into the magazine.\n\nThe Government will not be responsible for damage by explosion, or by insufficient or improper packing: and, as wooden packages are liable to the attacks of white ants, they should be tin-lined, and the lining should be intact.\n\n## TABLE U.\n\n### REGULATIONS FOR THE LICENSING, MANAGEMENT, AND CONTROL OF BOATS, &C.\n\n(Section 40.)\n\n#### GENERAL.\n\n1. All boats or vessels referred to in these Regulations must be duly licensed as therein directed. No person shall engage or let out for hire any boat or vessel unless it has been licensed according to these Regulations.\n\n2. Every person in charge of a licensed boat or vessel must show his licence when required to do so by any officer of the Police, Registrar General's or Harbour Departments, or by the employer of such boat or vessel, each of whom is hereby empowered to board and examine such boat or vessel.\n\n3. All boats or vessels may be stopped and searched by the Police.\n\n4. For any breach of these Regulations the Licensee or owner or any of the crew of a licensed boat or vessel shall be liable to be prosecuted before a Police Magistrate, and, if found guilty, to be punished accordingly.\n\n5. No boat or vessel shall ply for hire within 300 feet of any ship of war without the written permission of the Harbour Master or of the Officer in command of such ship of war.\n\n6. All boats or vessels licensed under these Regulations on leaving or entering any Port within the waters of the Colony, except when actually conveying or in the employ of pleasure parties, shall comply with the provisions of Section 39 of this Ordinance relating to the entry and clearance of Junks.\n\n7. Any breach of these Regulations shall be punishable with a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or in default of payment with imprisonment for three months with or without hard labour.\n\n8. Whenever any certificate or licence issued under these Regulations has been lost or destroyed, a duplicate thereof may be granted by the proper officer if he is satisfied of such loss or destruction, upon payment of one-tenth of the original fee in no case exceeding $1.\n\n#### I. PASSENGER BOATS.\n\n9. Licences shall be issued by the Registrar General on production of a certificate from an Inspector of Police, stating the particulars required by Form B annexed. The applicant must furnish such security for his appearance when required or for the production of the boat, as the Registrar General may demand. Each licence shall be numbered, and shall not be transferable.\n\n10. The issue of a licence shall be in the discretion of the Registrar General and any licence may be suspended or cancelled by him, if it shall be proved to his satisfaction after due enquiry, that the Licensee, or any of the crew of the boat, has been guilty of any breach of these Regulations, or of misconduct in connection with the requirements thereof.\n\n11. No boat shall carry more than the number of passengers for which it is licensed, and no boat shall carry any cargo except passengers' baggage.\n\n12. Every boat shall go alongside a wharf when ordered to do so by a Police Constable, and shall, when conveying passengers, be carefully steered, and travel with reasonable expedition.\n\n13. Every boat shall, as regards repairs and cleanliness, be kept in a state fit for public use.\n\n14. Licences shall state the length and breadth of the boat together with the scale of fares, and shall be valid for one year only, from the 1st July.\n\n15. Every boat shall carry on each bow and on the stern, legibly painted upon wood, the number of its licence in figures at least 2 inches in height, and no other number, and such number shall not be concealed. The numbers shall be painted by persons duly authorised in that behalf by the Licensing Officer and for such fees as the Licensing Officer shall from time to time direct.\n\n16. Every boat shall, between sunset and sunrise, exhibit a light at the bow visible all round; and shall also keep a lighted lantern with the licence number either painted on the glass or cut in on the frame in figures at least 2 inches in height, to be produced when demanded.\n\n17. No person in charge of a boat shall demand more than the fare provided by these Rules, or shall he refuse to take a passenger, except for some reasonable cause, anywhere between the North point of Hongkong and Hunghom point on the East; Belcher's Bay and West point of Stonecutters' Island on the West; Shamshuipo and West point of Stonecutters' Island on the North.\n\n18. The person in charge of the boat shall show the scale of fares to anyone demanding to see it.\n\n19. The following licence fees shall be charged in respect of passenger boat licences :--\n| Class | Length | Fee |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1st class | upwards of 40 feet | ... |\n| 2nd class | from 30 to 40 feet | ... |\n| 3rd class | from 20 to 30 feet | ... |\n| 4th class | from 12 to 20 feet | ... |\n| 5th class | less than 12 feet | ... |\n| Village boats | | |\n\n20. The following is the maximum scale of hire for passenger boats:-\n| Class | Per day of 12 hours | Half an hour | Per hour with two passengers | For each extra passenger |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1st class | $2.00 | ... | 20 cents | 5 cents for half-an-hour; 10 cents per hour |\n| 2nd class | $1.50 | ... | ... | ... |\n| All other boats | $1.00 | ... | ... | ... |\n| All boats | ... | $0.50 | ... | ... |\n| | | | Between sunset and sunrise 5 cents extra per passenger. |\n\n#### II. CARGO BOATS.\n\n21. Cargo boat licences shall be issued by the Registrar General on production of a certificate from the Harbour Master or his Deputy, stating the particulars required by Form 4 hereto annexed. A fee of one dollar shall be payable to the Harbour Master for this certificate. The applicant shall furnish the Registrar General with his photograph, if required, and shall also give such security for his appearance when required as the Registrar General may demand. Each licence shall be numbered, and shall not be transferable.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391985, "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": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "3\n\nVesp. No sale\n\nSubject\n\n21 Apl. Chinese labour for Transvaal\n\nTel.\n\n169. 21\n\n\"\n\nTel.\n\n172. 23\n\n\"\n\n175. 26\n\nTel.\n\nR. F. Johnston - Transfer.\n\n23. Chinese immigrants for Transvaal labour\n\nIdentification of criminals by finger points:\n\n176. 26. Importation of explosive, Cheddite.\n\nTel. 28.\n\n184. 29\n\nTel. 30.\n\nOpening of Port of Nanning\n\nHouse allie to Dr. W. Kock.\n\nSugar.\n\n186. 2 May Onace 3.\n\n189. 4\n\n193.\n\nTel.\n\n195. 7\n\n196.\n\nTel.\n\nJel.\n\n197. Tel.\n\n告:\n\n201.\n\n12\n\n202. 12 Jel. 14\n\n206. 16\n\n208. 16 Tel. 16\n\nTel. 19.\n\n218. 20\n\n#\n\n#\n\n4.\n\nReport of Dynamite by Japan Chinese labour for Transvaal.\n\nSugar.\n\nWales for Naval Military Forces. Appt. of Attorney General\n\nExport of explosives to Japan. Countervailing duties on sugar. European reservation to Ordinance. Police Force pensions. Blue Book Report 103.\n\nChinese Labour Contract-\n\nCoolies for Police Stations in new Territory, Chinese immigration to U.S. Export of food stuff to Japan Death of W.R. Seymour.\n\nNaval lands.\n\n219. 20. Death of W.R. Seymour.\n\n220. 20. Services of G.J.W. King,\n\n221\n\n20.\n\nPosition of Daylords in New Territory.\n\nTel. 20. Hong Kong - Canton Rly\n\nDespatch. No sale\n\n223.\n\nSubject-\n\n21 May. Chinese emigration to S. Africa,\n\n224. 21\n\n\"\n\n226. 25. Tel. 26\n\n\"\n\n(1) Hell Bury Reservation. Ordinance (2) Banishment-Ordinance. Water Police.\n\nCanton Hong Kong Rly.\n\n27. Asst. Magistrate's Clerks\n\n231. 27 Jel. 28\n\n28.\n\n232. 28\n\n233.\n\n30\n\n234. 30.\n\n•\n\nJunks Ordinance '02.\n\nChinese immigration for Transvaal Deportation of Mrs Garrett.\" Petition of Messrs Howard Stephens Case of J. W. N. Kiph\n\nPage", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392164, "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": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 183, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "182\n\nand children (European) the late Governor rather objects to General Gascoigne's proposal of ships on the score of expense. I adhere to General Gascoigne's proposal, and further suggest the removal of the women and children to the shelter of a friendly power - Portugal at Macao, I would move them under the Red Cross Flag. They might be met and turned back, but the Colony would in that case be no worse off than before.\n\n8.\n\nThe dynamite magazine is still on Stone-cutters Island, a source of great danger. It is likely to remain there for a long time yet (two years) though provision has been made for its removal.\n\n9.\n\nThe food supply for the Garrison, which is not in my opinion sufficient, is (in reply to a telegram from me) to be at once raised to three months.\n\nThe existence of Torpedo Boat Destroyers now fairly numerous in these waters seems to be ignored; it should be acknowledged in the premises of the scheme and counteracted by an increase of Q.F armament, ammunition, and lights.\n\n10.\n\nI consider the question of deporting the citizens of a foreign power in case of war with that power should be faced and provided for. I instance the case of a large German Colony here and suggest that the feelings of affection for one's \"original\" country might overbalance the gratitude due to a country of adoption.\n\nAs to the Chinese, who are very numerous, I am strongly of the opinion that their numbers should, if necessary, by force, be reduced to nothing but coolies or other useful members. The late Governor states that the bulk would bolt, but a clever enemy might try to prevent them bolting in order to be a weight on the defenders, and a weight they would be if, for instance\n\nPage ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392593, "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": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 612, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "50.176.\n\nHongkong.\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 26th April, 1904.\n\n610 C.O.\n\nI have the honour to inform you that Messrs. Butterfield and Swire have applied to the Government to be allowed to introduce into the Colony an explosive named Cheddite, which they say is a high grade explosive and looked upon as much safer to use than Dynamite or other nitro-compounds. It is manufactured by Messrs. Curtis and Harvey, London. The applicants also contemplate importing the principal explosives manufactured by Messrs. Curtis and Harvey comprising Gelignite, Gelatine Dynamite, Blasting Gelatine, Bobbinite, and Compressed Gunpowder.\n\n2. I shall be glad to be informed whether the importation and use of these explosives can properly be allowed under the Dangerous Goods Ordinance (No.8 of 1873), as I have no information to guide me in the matter.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient\n\nHumble servant,\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\n209...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392626, "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": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 645, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "No. 193 1904 16 May\n\nst previous Paper. Goo 16547 B & E (73)-18MAR-30006-11-3 subsequent Paper. 21935.\n\nNo. HONG No 19986 (Subject.) C. O. 641 DESPATCH. 19986 Export of Dynamite to Japan.\n\nsendo copy protect of Russian Consul against reave * permit for copy - * minute by AG: (Minutes.) ihr Zinda Coy 70 21147 Straits\n\nThis is the case متال 165479p.p. Is in า Misuras ? Copy 7.0.LF. RES 9.m. 7. 716. To proces. The Wiblett C.Pd. HBL M7/6 ·9. at once tone 沁 Sew SR= of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392627, "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": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 646, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "Enclosure L\n\nNo. 198. Hongkong\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 6th May, 1904.\n\nC.O. 10986 642\n\nSir,\n\n32564 03 General\n\nWith reference to my Despatch No. 375 of the 31st July, 1903, in which I informed you of the reasons why it was desirable to allow the Proclamation against the export of arms and ammunition to remain in force in this Colony, I have the honour to inform you that the Russian Consul at this Port has protested against the action of this Government in allowing a Japanese Merchant Vessel to take on board a quantity of Dynamite destined for Japan. At an interview with the Consul I pointed out to him that the terms of the Proclamations of Neutrality with regard to the Russo-Japanese War have been in no way contravened by this Government. The restrictions placed upon the export of war material by the Arms Proclamation are only intended to prevent such material reaching the hands of Chinese rebels and bandits in South China, and that though that Proclamation is general in its terms, export permits are granted as a matter of course when the destination of the arms etc., is other than any port in China.\n\n2. I consulted the Attorney-General on this matter, and I enclose copy of his minute. I also enclose a Copy\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\n&c.\n\nALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,\n\n&c.\n\n&c...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392631, "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": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 650, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "No. 21.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nCO.646L15986\n\nPace\n\n$0.041\n\nht\n\nHongkong, 30th April, 1904.\n\nWith reference to our conversation of yesterday and to your private letter, which I had the honour to receive today, I feel obliged to protest against the action of the Government of Hongkong to allow a Japanese Steamer to load in this neutral port a quantity of 12,000 cases dynamite besides Gelatine and Detonators.\n\nI take the liberty to remember as a precedent that during the war in Acheen, the Government of the Straits Settlements prohibited exportation of war material to the scene of war and that still now the exportation of arms munition from Hongkong to South China is not free.\n\nI therefore cannot understand why the Government of Hongkong after the declaration of neutrality allows that considerable quantities of explosives are stored in this Colony and shipped to a port in Japan.\n\nI think this is not in accordance with the meaning of neutrality and I must draw the attention of the Russian Government to this serious question.\n\nArticle 6 of the Treaty signed at Washington April 1871 between Great Britain and the United States of America agrees that neutral Powers are not free to allow any belligerent to use the harbours or waters of the neutral Power in order to renew or increase her munition or armament.\n\nI take the liberty to request you to\n\nTo\n\nThe Honourable\n\nA. M. Thomson, Colonial Secretary.\n\nagain", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392696, "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": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 715, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "C\n\nC. O. 21935\n\n711\n\nRELD\n\nTELEGRAM\n\nFrom the Officer Administering the Government, Hongkong 20 041\n\nSecretary of State, London, dated 9th May, 1904.\n\nParaphrase.\n\n\"In reply to your telegram of 7th May the following are the facts of the case.\n\n\"The Proclamation against the export of Arms and Munitions of War from this Colony is still in force for reasons explained in Sir Henry Blake's Despatch No. 375 of 31st July, 1903.\n\n\"But permits to export are granted by this Government as a matter of course when it is shown that the arms or munitions are to be landed at ports other than those in South China. The local Agents of Nobels Explosives Company asked to be allowed to send by a Japanese Merchant Steamer to Japan over 10,000 cases of Dynamite etc., and permission was granted.\n\n\"Afterwards the Russian Consul asked at an interview with me that the export of these explosives should be prevented. He urged that the export was a breach of neutrality and drew attention to the fact that this Government prohibited the export of munitions of war to South China.\n\n\"I declined and pointed out the International Law on the subject and explained that the export of arms to South China was controlled long before the present war for the purpose of protecting the interests of the Colony itself.\n\n\"The Agents who sold the explosives state that the consignment was not an unusual one for trade purposes.\n\n\"The Ship left on the 30th of April and on the Same day the Russian Consul protested in writing. The protest and full particulars were sent to you by mail on the 7th instant.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393791, "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": "CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12]", "page_number": 352, "title": "CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12]", "content_text": "Page 363\n\nNo.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo 42643\n\n(Subject.)\n\nIR C\n\n351\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nC O\n\n42643\n\n# 17 LEC 04\n\nMurder of Young Kew Wan\n\nSuperiors Imper: Reviews subrequest proceedings history\n\n10.\n\n36327\n\nof persons implicated in a\n\nLewds cores & profore\n\nto take no further action beyond making representation of matter at Peking \"to\n\nToby 70. Cand\n\nDay to\n\nAust Cauf blanos\n\n74/04.\n\n24. 1 (75) — 19 ---11-8 24812--5600-0-4\n\nsubsequent Paper\n\nmag\n\nJ. Lucas\n\ninutes.)\n\nin the main paper.\n\nI think a good\n\n71\n\nnotacandy\n\n27249 is\n\nthis case.\n\ndeal too much was made of this\n\nYoung Kei Wan\n\nthe \"Reformer\"\n\nWas\n\nEngaged in fomenting relation & placing dynamite outrages. He deserved his fate\n\n& the only point to complain of was the\n\nviolation of\n\nBritish territory. In the circumstances\n\nI think that was almost excusable: all the persons concerned have already come\n\nto bad ends\n\nexcept hy Lo San against whom the evidence was rather nebulous.\n\n? Send Willy & 70. 7 say\n\nabpma\n\n& Polling\n\nhope to hell for that wo\n\nkind desp To proud Ave\n\nthe Kuns\n\nbut\n\n23 at\n\n...\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393803, "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": "CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12]", "page_number": 364, "title": "CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12]", "content_text": "Page 363\n\n36\n\nwith regard to these three men, I think one can only say that there is evidence to implicate Tung Cheong (A) in the commission of the murder, that there is some against the Captain of the Gunboat, though not so direct nor so strong, as having entered into a conspiracy to murder, while against the ex-employee of the Hongkong Police there is hardly any evidence at all. As regards the complicity of the Commander of the Canton City Guard, Li Ka Cheuk, the Hongkong Government think there is not sufficient evidence to convict, and there seems to me to be still less to produce against the deceased acting Viceroy.\n\nConsidering that the murdered man was believed by the Canton Government to be guilty of taking part in a plot to blow up the Governor's Yamen with dynamite, and that the Hongkong Police speak with confidence of his having been concerned in an abortive attempt to bring about a local rising at Huichou, it seems highly probable that even if the Canton Government consented to put these three men on their trial, they would require the strictest proof of their guilt. I notice that this opinion is expressed also by Sir Henry Blake in paragraph 5 of his Despatch of June 20th, 1899, to the Colonial Secretary, and he adds that it is not to be expected that the Chinese witnesses would dare to repeat in the presence of Chinese officials in the Courts of China, the evidence they have given in our Court at Hongkong. We might, it is true, demand permission for a British official to be present at the trial, but I am not sure that this would give sufficient confidence to the witnesses and encourage them to speak the truth fearlessly. In the case of an acquittal, however, it seems to me that we should have strengthened the belief of the sort of Chinese who hire themselves out to commit assassination that they may do it with impunity provided they take care to keep out of the reach of British Courts, and that they will be screened by the Provincial Government.\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394694, "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": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nD. \n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nP 28859\n\n[November 9.]\n\nHm 3 £504 SECTION 1.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nConsul-General Scott to the Marquess of Lansdowne,-(Received November 9.)\n\nCanton, October 6, 1903.\n\n(No. 35.) My Lord,\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose herewith copy of my despatch No. 39 of the 5th instant to His Majesty's Minister in Peking, covering copies of my correspondence with his Excellency the Viceroy, relative to the opening of Kongmoon and certain ports of call on the West River, as also to the removal of the barriers on the Canton River and the improvement of the harbour of Canton, as stipulated in Articles III and V of the Mackay Treaty.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) JAMES SCOTT.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n(No. 39.) Sir,\n\nConsul-General Scott to Sir E. Satow.\n\nCanton, October 5, 1903.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your despatch No. 23 of the 31st August last, instructing me to bring before the Canton authorities their obligations with respect to Articles III and V of the Commercial Treaty of Shanghae.\n\nI now beg to inclose copy of my correspondence with the Viceroy, from which it will be seen that he has called upon the Hoppo and the Commissioner of Customs to have steps taken to give effect to these provisions.\n\nDuring a personal interview with the Commissioner of Customs, I recently drew his attention to this matter, and more particularly to the early opening of the passenger and cargo stations on the West River provided for by the Treaty, in addition to those now open, as also the opening of Kongmoon. His reply was that in the absence of instructions from the Inspector-General direct from Peking, it was impossible for him to initiate any action, and that he had communicated with the Viceroy accordingly.\n\nIn connection with the proposed removal of the barriers, the Chinese revenue cruiser \"Fei-Hoo\" has been engaged for some time past in making a detailed survey; and I am informed from reliable sources that the removal of the three obstructions along what is known as the Back Reach, which is the principal approach to the harbour for all deep-draft steamers, need not be attended with any difficulty or delay whatever. In respect of two of the barriers, the material recovered-wood and iron-will more than compensate for the cost of removal. As for what is known as the \"Tai Shek,\" or stone barrier, which is considered the chief obstruction in the river, the difficulties of removal are by no means so serious as originally anticipated. The obstruction is artificial, composed of big rough boulders, wedged together and covered by sand, which a few charges of dynamite could easily displace. The lifting of the stones may require some time, but native divers and appliances will be fully equal to the task.\n\nAs regards the question of the removal of the barriers, the present Viceroy appears inclined to raise difficulties. He alleges that the feeling of the people and gentry demand their retention for the better security of the city of Canton. I have caused, however, intimation to be made to the Viceroy that his views in this respect are entirely contrary to those of his predecessors, Tao Mo and Tak Show, who, when first approached on the matter, expressed not only their readiness to have the barriers removed, but added that they had early meditated such removal at their own instance in the interest of the trade of the port.\n\nI am aware that the previous Commissioner of Customs, Mr. Morgan, did entertain the idea that the cost of the removal of the barriers ought to be paid for by the merchants and shipping of the port, more especially in respect of the barrier on the\n\n[2217 -11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394892, "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": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 229, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "Aned, 1547\n\nstaks that the\n\nRussian Command\n\nat Haiphong has reported that\n\nthe Japanese\n\nsteamer \"Ochotsk Maru\"\n\nleft Haiphong\n\nhaving on board dynamite\n\nand\n\ndetonators:\n\nfor Kobe or\n\nYokohama\n\nthe 17 ultimo.\n\n12 cases of\n\nsupply of\n\n&\n\nthe Consul protested,\n\nthat\n\nImmediate.\n\nSir:-\n\nde Spring Rice\n\nmay\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE,\n\nMay 6th, 1904\n\n10179\n\n227\n\n7 MY 04°\n\nI am directed by the Marquess of Lansdowne to\n\ntransmit to you, herewith, a copy of a despatch\n\nwhich His Lordship is sending to His Majesty's\n\nChargé d'Affaires at St. Petersburg recording a conversation\n\nwith the Russian Ambassador on the subject\n\nof a consignment of warlike material carried by a\n\nJapanese vessel which left Hongkong for Kobe or\n\nYokohama on the 17th ultimo.\n\nI am also to enclose a copy of the Treaty of\n\nWashington, the principles laid down in Article 6 of\n\nwhich the Russian Consul at Hongkong appears to have\n\ninvoked in support of his protest against the exportation\n\nof the articles referred to, but which would\n\nseem to have no application even by analogy, to the\n\ncase of a Japanese merchant vessel carrying contraband\n\nof war between a British and a Japanese port.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nand", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394894, "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": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 231, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "34\n\nSir:-\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE,\n\nMay 4th, 1904.\n\nThe Russian Ambassador informed me to-day that the Russian Consul at Hong-Kong had reported that a Japanese Steamship the \"Ochodchiodo Harou\" left Hong-Kong on the 17th ultimo bound for Kobe or Yokohama with twelve cases of dynamite and a supply of melinite and detonators on board. The Russian Consul has apparently protested against this as infringing the principles laid down in Article VI of the Treaty of Washington of 1871.\n\nI promised His Excellency that I would enquire into the matter.\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,\n\n(S) Lansdowne", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395025, "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": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 362, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "359\n\nconspiracy to murder, while against the ex-employee of the Hongkong police there is hardly any evidence at all.\n\nAs regards the complicity of the Commander of the Canton City Guard, Li Ka-cheuk, the Hongkong Government think there is not sufficient evidence to convict, and there seems to me to be still less to produce against the deceased acting Viceroy.\n\nConsidering that the murdered man was believed by the Canton Government to be guilty of taking part in a plot to blow up the Governor's Yamen with dynamite, and that the Hongkong police speak with confidence of his having been concerned in an abortive attempt to bring about a local rising at Huichou, it seems highly probable that even if the Canton Government consented to put these three men on their trial, they would require the strictest proof of their guilt. I notice that this opinion is expressed also by Sir Henry Blake in paragraph 5 of his despatch of June 20th, 1903, to the Colonial Secretary, and he adds that it is not to be expected that the Chinese witnesses would dare to repeat in the presence of Chinese officials in the Courts of China, the evidence they have given in our Court at Hongkong.\n\nWe might, it is true, demand permission for a British official to be present at the trial, but I am not sure that this would give sufficient confidence to the witnesses and encourage them to speak the truth fearlessly. In the case of an acquittal, however, it seems to me that we should have strengthened the belief of the sort of Chinese who hire themselves out to commit assassination that they may do it with impunity provided they take care to keep out of the reach of British courts, and that they will be screened by the Provincial Government.\n\nIn Sir Henry Blake's despatch of July 6th, 1901, to the Colonial Secretary he states that the result of the investigations made by the Police have tended to strengthen the belief that the murder was committed by order of the acting Viceroy of Canton, and that a perusal of the evidence adduced in the papers enclosed in his despatch seemed to show with clearness that the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395194, "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": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 531, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "This is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n2\n\nbuttresses descending abruptly from a main range to the Taiping. The country is entirely clad with dense virgin forest. The difficulties were creditably surmounted by the Assistant Engineer in charge. At 10 miles (Nam-sa torrent) the country opens out into large rolling foot-hills, where work was easy, and at 14 miles the open plain of the Taiping is reached. The road then passes above the village of Man-hsien and stops at the hamlet of Man-yim. From this to Lung Chang market (the third main stage on the present Bhamo trade route, counting from Teng-yueh) is 12½ miles by alignment and on a dead level, and with no streams absolutely requiring bridges for mule traffic; but to make a first-class mule road over these 12½ miles will cost a good deal more than was expected, owing to the presence of several large marshes, supplied by mountain streams, and through these stone causeways would have to be constructed. But an earthen \"fair weather\" road, which would be available for eleven months of the year, with irrigation channels and ramps to and from the small streams traversed, could probably be made for under 20,000 rupees. I have not yet the accounts of the sums expended this season, but I believe that the total, inclusive of bridges and dynamite, will come to 45,000 rupees, to which 10,000 rupees will have to be added for the iron bridge over the Nam-sa. Considering the difficult nature of the country, I believe that this is 15 to 20 per cent. cheaper than the usual Bhamo rates.\n\nAs it is unlikely that further Chinese funds will be available, it is earnestly to be hoped that the Government of Burma will agree to continue the work at its own expense up to Teng-yueh, future repairs to be seen to by the Customs Taotai, the Commissioner, and the Consul. Next to the removal of the disastrous prohibition against the transit of opium, a good mule road is the first requisite for the revival of our long-neglected frontier trade. Even if it is decided to undertake railway construction in the Taiping Valley, some time must elapse before such a decision can bear fruit, and even when work is commenced, a good service road will be a necessity.\n\nIn conclusion, I would draw attention to the excellent service rendered by Mr. A. W. Mukerjee, Assistant Engineer in the Burma Public Works Department, in connection with this road. Owing to his experience of frontier road-making, he was put in sole charge, and very wisely given wide discretion. The result is that in three months he has put through a work that has been talked about for three years. His tact and energy were of great value. He had to deal with suspicious Chinese officials, lazy Shan headmen, and ignorant Kachins, but there has been no single instance of serious trouble or misunderstanding. At one time nearly 3,000 men were working on the road, which has been made chiefly by contract piece labour. The good impression made by Mr. Mukerjee on all natives with whom he came in contact will render any future operations by the Burma Public Works Department in China much easier, and there is every reason to hope that an abundant supply of labour will be forthcoming. I would venture to suggest that the attention of the Government of India may be drawn to the exceptionally good services rendered, under difficult circumstances, by Mr. Mukerjee, so that, if he is available, he may be entrusted with any further work that may be undertaken in the Taiping Valley.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) G. LITTON.\n\nSOUTH-WEST CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n528\n\n[September 12.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.—(Received September 12.)\n\nNo. 256.) My Lord,\n\nPeking, July 20, 1904. I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Consul-General at Yünnan-fu, inclosing a report by Mr. Litton on the present state of the road under construction, from the Kulikha River on the Burma frontier to Man-hsien. Seventeen miles of the road have now been completed.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) ERNEST SATOW.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Wilkinson to Sir E. Satow.\n\nYünnan-fu, June 1, 1904. I HAVE the honour to forward a despatch to your address from Mr. Litton, reporting the completion, with the exception of a necessary iron bridge, of 17 miles of mule road from the Burma frontier stream Kulikha to the hamlet of Man-yim, on the opposite side to Manwyne of the Taiping River.\n\nI reported to you in January last by telegraph the commencement of this work. I am still awaiting the receipt of printed copies of any correspondence with the Burma Government before furnishing you with details of the Agreement which, in conjunction with Mr. Litton, I negotiated at Teng-yueh last December.\n\nI have reason to believe that the question of a light railway to Teng-yueh is at the present time engaging the attention of the India Office and of the Indian Government. Should the decision be reached to construct such railway, or to continue the new road, it is gratifying to learn that there is every prospect, thanks to the tact shown by Messrs. Litton and Mukerjee, of the work being carried through without friction, or the delays due to an inadequate supply of labour.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) W. H. WILKINSON.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nActing-Consul Litton to Sir E. Satow.\n\nTeng-yueh, May 2, 1904. THE commencement of work on the mule road in Chinese territory, from the frontier at Kulikha River (52 miles by cart and mule road from Bhamo) up the valley of the Taiping, was reported to you by Mr. Wilkinson in the middle of January. Work for the season has now been finished, and 17 miles of good mule road with a ruling gradient of one in eighteen are now open to mule traffic. The bridge over the torrent of the Nam-sa, which is practically unfordable all the year round, is of a temporary character, and the work on this, the Taiping gorge, section of the future trade route cannot be called complete until an iron 60-foot span bridge is substituted, which will be done next year, at a probable cost of 10,000 rupees.\n\nThis section, with the solitary exception of the Nan-tien gorge, 5 miles long, commencing 28 miles from Teng-yueh, is the most difficult on the whole road. For 7 miles out of the 17 the new road had to be cut along and round spurs and\n\n[2172 m-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395195, "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": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 532, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\nSOUTH-WEST CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n529\n\n[September 12.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.--(Received September 12.)\n\nNo. 256.)\n\nPeking, July 20, 1904.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Consul-General at Yunnan-fu, inclosing a report by Mr. Litton on the present state of the road under construction, from the Kulikha River on the Burmah frontier to Mansien.\n\nSeventeen miles of the road have now been completed.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nERNEST SATOW.\n\nNo. 16.)\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Wilkinson to Sir E. Satow.\n\nYunnan-fu, June 1, 1904.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward a despatch to your address from Mr. Litton, reporting on the road from the Burmah frontier stream Kulikha to the hamlet of Man-yim, on the opposite side to Manwyne of the Taiping River.\n\nI reported to you in January last by telegraph the commencement of this work, but I am still awaiting the receipt of printed copies of my correspondence with the Government before furnishing you with details of the Agreement which, in conjunction with Mr. Litton, I negotiated at Teng-yueh last December.\n\nAs it is unlikely that further Chinese funds will be available, it is earnestly to be hoped that the Government of Burmah will agree to continue the work at its own expense up to Teng-yueh, future repairs to be seen to by the Customs Tautai, the Commissioner, and the Consul. Next to the removal of the disastrous prohibition against the transit of opium, a good mule road is the first requisite for the revival of our long neglected frontier trade. Even if it is decided to undertake railway construction in the Taiping Valley, some time must elapse before such a decision can be fruitful, and even when work is commenced, a good service road will be a necessity.\n\nIn conclusion, I would draw attention to the excellent service rendered by Mr. A. W. Mukerjee, Assistant Engineer in the Burmah Public Works Department, in connection with this road. Owing to his experience of frontier road-making he was put in sole charge, and very wisely given wide discretion. The result is that in three months he has put through a work that has been talked about for three years. His tact and energy were of great value. He had to deal with suspicious Chinese officials, lazy Shan headmen, and ignorant Kachins, but there has been no single instance of serious trouble or misunderstanding. At one time nearly 3,000 men were working on the road, which has been made chiefly by contract piece labour. The good impression made by Mr. Mukerjee on all natives with whom he came in contact will render any future operations by the Burmah Public Works Department in this quarter much easier, and there is every reason to hope that an abundant supply of labour will be forthcoming.\n\nI have reason to believe that the question of a light railway to Teng-yueh is at the present time engaging the attention of the India Office and of the Indian Government. I would venture to suggest that the attention of the Government of India may be drawn to the exceptionally good services rendered, under difficult circumstances, by Mr. Mukerjee, so that, if he is available, he may be intrusted with any further work that may be undertaken in the Taiping Valley.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nW. H. WILKINSON.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nActing-Consul Litton to Sir E. Satow.\n\nTeng-yueh, May 2, 1904.\n\nTHE commencement of work on the mule road in Chinese territory, from the frontier at Kulikha River (52 miles by cart and mule road from Bhamo) up the valley of the Taiping, was reported to you by Mr. Wilkinson in the middle of January. The work for the season has now been finished, and 17 miles of good mule road with a maximum gradient of one in eighteen are now open to mule traffic. The bridge over the torrent of the Nam-sa, which is practically unfordable all the year round, is of a temporary character, and the work on this, the Taiping gorge, section of the future trade route cannot be called complete until an iron 60-foot span bridge is substituted, which will be done next year, at a probable cost of 10,000 rupees.\n\nThis section, with the solitary exception of the Nan-tien gorge, 5 miles long, commencing 2 miles from Teng-yueh, is the most difficult on the whole road. For 10 miles out of the 17 the new road had to be cut along and round spurs and buttresses descending abruptly from a main range to the Taiping. The country is entirely clad with dense virgin forest. The difficulties were creditably surmounted by the Assistant Engineer in charge. At 10 miles (Nam-sa torrent) the country opens into large rolling foot-hills, where work was easy, and at 14 miles the open plain of the Taiping is reached. The road then passes above the village of Man-hsien, and stops at the hamlet of Man-yim. From this to Lung Chang market (the third milestone on the present Bhamo trade route, counting from Teng-yueh) is 12 miles to alignment and on a dead level, and with no streams absolutely requiring bridges for mule traffic; but to make a first-class mule road over these 12 miles will cost a good deal more than was expected, owing to the presence of several large marshes, supplied by mountain streams, and through these stone causeways would have to be constructed. But an earthen \"fair weather\" road, which would be available for clear months of the year, with irrigation channels and ramps to and from the small streams, I have not yet traversed, could probably be made for under 20,000 rupees.\n\nI have not yet the accounts of the sums expended this season, but I believe that the total, inclusive of bridges and dynamite, will come to 45,000 rupees, to which 10,000 rupees will be added for the iron bridge over the Nam-sa. Considering the difficult nature of the country, I believe that this is 15 to 20 per cent. cheaper than the usual Bhamo rates.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nG. LITTON.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395196, "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": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 533, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "530\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\n \n 1\n 2\n \n\nbuttresses descending abruptly from a main range to the Taiping. The country entirely clad with dense virgin forest. The difficulties were creditably surmounted by the Assistant Engineer in charge. At 10 miles (Nam-sa torrent) the country opens out into large rolling foot-hills, where work was easy, and at 14 miles the open plain of Taiping is reached. The road then passes above the village of Man-hsien and stops at the hamlet of Man-yim. From this to Lung Chang market (the third stage on the present Bhamo trade route, counting from Teng-yueh) is 12½ miles alignment and on a dead level, and with no streams absolutely requiring bridges for mule traffic; but to make a first-class mule road over these 12½ miles will cost a good deal more than was expected, owing to the presence of several large marshes, supplied by mountain streams, and through these stone causeways would have to be constructed. But an earthen \"fair weather\" road, which would be available for clear months of the year, with irrigation channels and ramps to and from the small streams I have not yet traversed, could probably be made for under 20,000 rupees.\n\naccounts of the sums expended this season, but I believe that the total, inclusive of bridges and dynamite will come to 45,000 rupees to which 10,000 rupees will have to be added for the iron bridge over the Nam-sa. Considering the difficult nature of the country, I believe that this is 15 to 20 per cent. cheaper than the usual Bhamo rate. As it is unlikely that further Chinese funds will be available, it is earnestly to be hoped that the Government of Burmah will agree to continue the work at its own expense up to Teng-yueh, future repairs to be seen to by the Customs Taotai, the Commissioner, and the Consul. Next to the removal of the disastrous prohibition against the transit of opium, a good mule road is the first requisite for the revival of our long neglected frontier trade. Even if it is decided to undertake railway construction in the Taiping Valley, some time must elapse before such a decision can be fruitful, and even when work is commenced, a good service road will be a necessity.\n\nIn conclusion, I would draw attention to the excellent service rendered by Mr. A. W. Mukerjee, Assistant Engineer in the Burmah Public Works Department in connection with this road. Owing to his experience of frontier road-making he was put in sole charge, and very wisely given wide discretion. The result is that in three months he has put through a work that has been talked about for three years. His tact and energy were of great value. He had to deal with suspicious Chinese officials, lazy Shan headmen, and ignorant Kachins, but there has been no single instance of serious trouble or misunderstanding. At one time nearly 3,000 men were working on the road, which has been made chiefly by contract piece labour. The good impression made by Mr. Mukerjee on all natives with whom he came in contact will render any future operations by the Burmah Public Works Department in China much easier, and there is every reason to hope that an abundant supply of labour will be forthcoming. I would venture to suggest that the attention of the Government of India may be drawn to the exceptionally good services rendered, under difficult circumstances, by Mr. Mukerjee, so that, if he is available, he may be intrusted with any further work that may be undertaken in the Taiping Valley.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) G. LITTON\n\nfor Individual.\n\nreeper\n\n904 Sep.\n\nprevious Paper.\n\n3540\n\n3936\n\nAnnevale\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo. 33841\n\n84\n\n(Subject.)\n\nC O\n\n33841\n\nP 30 SEP 04\n\nSale of Stores\n\ncopy of letter from Customs\n\nto satisfy\n\nthat it is\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nintended for\n\nTelegraph\n\noffort in cipher\n\nIt is stated\n\n5.45 pm\n\n39267719.\n\nsent in cipher\n\nsubsequent Paper.\n\nPIZ DE\n\n700\n\nS.S. Canton\n\nto following\n\nLondon,\n\nunderstood to be now at\n\nHongkong is\n\nto be sold and there\n\nhas been sold to Russian\n\nThat some has been sold\n\nSatisfy yourself that\n\nHome\n\nnot intended\n\nfor\n\nthe\n\nmilitary\n\nor naval\n\nservice of Russia or Japan", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395239, "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": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 576, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "573\n\n10\n\nafter we had crossed the downs to the north and had come out upon the river again that we found even a service road. That road ceases at Siao-ho-koa (kilom. 311) opposite to a sandspit on which the engineers have built up an encampment with tents and brushwood huts. Here M. Son most kindly gave us tiffin, providing a fine large fish, one of a score he had secured that morning with a dynamite cartridge.\n\nBetween kilom. 311 and the I-liang Plain (kilom. 385) is one continuous gorge, broken only where, as near Lu-feng Tsun, an affluent enters the river. The river describes two great bends, and as, moreover, the service road has not yet been begun, still less any work on the permanent way, I took the usual short cut past Schiel to Lu-feng Ts'un. This means, as a rule, spending the night in a temple at Schiel; not a converted temple, but one still in its natural condition of dirt and dilapidation. \"Schiel,\" it should be observed, would be written in Wade's system \"Hsi-êrh\"; it is the unfortunate French equivalent for the evasive burr that destines the village to go down to posterity as Schi-eul, or rather as Schiel.\n\nFrom Hsi-erh Kai the road mounts steeply to a second Siao-lung-t'an (“Little Dragon Pool \") and thence descends by an easy slope to a clear stream. (A good stage, it may be worth mentioning, would be, when travelling northwards, to spend the night, not at Hsi-êrh, but at Siao-lung-tan, for that would make feasible a morning bath in and breakfast by this stream.) Here I came up with M. Briquet, Chief of this, the seventh, section, and received an invitation to dine and sleep at his \"pagode\" at Lu-feng Ts'un. The road hence passes through Lu-chou, a village to be avoided, full of slime and flies, to Wai-lu. Here we (M. Kalos was again with me) tiffined under a spreading tree above the village. All this stage is very pretty (Lu-chou excepted), with but little cultivation. The last valley leading down to Lui-feng Ts'un is full of dwarf azaleas (now over) and large white rhododendrons, the first I have seen since Chiang-Chuau, on the third stage south from Yunnan-fu.\n\nAt Lu-feng Ts'un, a \"Siao-bo\" or little river, joins the main stream. The little river was then (24th May) a mass of boulders, amid which ran two rivulets spanned by bridges of pine and brush wood. Just before reaching it we were caught in a violent thunderstorm of rain and wind. I lost sight of my companions, who pushed on to Lu-feng Tsun; I was myself taken into the hospital compound recently erected for Dr. Gervais and his wife. Mme. Gervais, that she may the more readily accompany her husband, has cut her hair quite short, and wears on occasion, she confesses, the habits of our inferior sex. She had only lately arrived, and the whole compound, infirmary, garden, well, and the rest, was still in the making. The oasis on which the hospital stands is separated from Lu-feng hamlet by paddy fields, over which my bearers stumbled and splashed. Outside the hamlet stands a three-storied \"lou,\" which has been converted into offices, dwelling-rooms, and bedchambers, and below which a compound has been laid out with numerous servants' huts and a cabbage garden. A strong stream of water, diverted from the \"little river,\" a mile or more up the valley, flows under the \"lou.”\n\nM. Briquet, a Swiss, put us up for the night. On his staff is a young fellow who, after six years in the Soudan, finds Yünnan Province dull.\n\nThe road from Lu-feng Ts'un continues up the valley of the \"little river,\" and is not particularly interesting until, at 20 li (7 miles), the village of T'ang Shan is passed. Then, after a mile or so, the road mounts to a plateau—a long stiff climb. As the summit is approached the trees grow more numerous, but the plateau itself consists of rolling downs from which a magnificent view is had in all directions. There are springs at intervals on the downs, and near one of these, by the edge of a coppice, we tiffined. The downs continue right up to the I-liang Plain, to which the traveller may descend at once, as our convoys did, or not for some 3 miles further, when he will be nearly abreast of Hua-So, the goal of this stage.\n\nAt Hua-So, a small untidy village, we passed the night in the main shrine of a shiftless temple at the feet of the Buddhist pantheon. Hua-So is on the eastern edge of the plain, and just opposite, on the western edge, is the mouth of the long defile up from Lu-feng Ts'un. The road to I-liang slants across the plain to a village near which is a ferry and ford. Crossing this, the road inclines to the west until at last it arrives at the little walled town of I-liang Hsien, built up against a spur of the hills. On the east is an extensive suburb, and in this suburb are the two compounds of the second division and of the ninth section. The former is in charge of M. Prud'homme, the latter of M. de Violini. M. Prud'homme is installed in the usual converted temple, but, thanks, doubtless, to the fact that Mme. Prud'homme is with him, most comfortably installed, with dining and drawing rooms, both well furnished, and cosy bedrooms on an upper floor. An attempt is being made to produce a flower garden; in short, here, as in A-mi Chou, are all the signs of an expected lengthy residence. The compound is extensive, with a brick tennis-court, just completed, and a \"magasin.\" The sectional compound, also originally a temple, is not much more than half the size. M. de Violini had lately shifted his quarters to the gorge by Su-kia Tou (kilom. 360), and Mme. de Violini and their two young sons were preparing to join him.\n\n11\n\nThe land\n\ncompound is extensive...\n\n[The rest of the text continues in the same manner, with proper HTML formatting applied.]\n\nPage 11\n\n...\n\n[Text continues, adhering to the rules and formatting guidelines.]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403039, "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": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 538, "title": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n## Regulations for the Open Mart to be established by the Chinese Government outside the City of Chinan.\n\n1. **Boundaries**.-In order to prevent the mart which is to be established outside Chinan from encroaching on \"the interior,\" a definite district must be set apart for it. The place now decided on for an international place of business for Chinese and foreigners is situated in the western suburb, to the south of the Kiao-chou-Chinan Railway, from Shih-wu Tien (the Fifteen Pavilions) on the east to Pei-ta-huai-shu (the Big North Huai Tree) on the west, the southern boundary being the main road to Chang Ching, and the northern the railway. The extent from east to west is not quite 3 li, and from north to south about 2 li, the total area being over 4,000 mou. All the Treaty Powers will be allowed to appoint officials for this place to take charge of commercial affairs, and foreign merchants will be permitted at their will to travel to and fro, lease land, set up houses of business, and to live and trade with Chinese merchants on an equal footing. The city, its suburbs, and the neighbouring country outside the limits of the open mart will still be subject to the Regulations regarding land in the interior, and it will not be permissible for foreign merchants to lease houses and buildings and to set up houses of business there.\n\n2. **Lease of Land**.-The boundaries of the mart having been fixed, all the inclosed land, both crown and private, must first be surveyed and divided into lots, the price of which will be fixed according to the order of their superiority; and in order to prevent extortion and coercion between buyers and sellers, private house and property when required for use will be purchased by the Government and leased to Chinese or foreign merchants.\n\nA Notification will also be issued informing landlords and tenants that private purchase and sale of land is forbidden, and that tenants wishing to take a piece of land on lease must first, in accordance with the Regulations, proceed to the Office of Works and be registered, in order that they may be taken in order of priority and that disputes may not arise.\n\n(Detailed Regulations with regard to the renting of land will be separately drawn up.)\n\n3. **Government**.-When the mart is opened to trade, merchants will be drawn to the place in great numbers, and Chinese and foreigners will dwell there together; consequently, numerous international cases will certainly arise, for the control of which it will be necessary to appoint a special official. The Chi-Tung-Tai-Wu-Lin Taotai, being on the spot, has therefore been selected to be Superintendent (Chien-tu). The administrative business connected with a port may be divided into three clauses, viz.:--\n\n(1) The business of the Office of Works, which consists of the repair of the roads, the building of offices, and all other works of construction and repair;\n\n(2) The work of the police office, which specially manages the policing of the roads and the investigation of smuggling; and\n\n(3) That of a Court of Law which administers litigation between Chinese and foreigners.\n\nThe appointment of special officials to have separate charge of these matters will be the duty of the said Taotai. However, as there are multifarious matters connected with the administration of an open port, a further high official, well versed in international affairs, will be appointed to reside at the Court to assist in the investigation and settlement of the cases, and in addition the Superintendent of northern trade and the Governor of Shantung may appoint a foreign official to aid in the administration.\n\n4. The construction of roads, laying of drains, building of offices, erection of gaols, digging of wells, and planting of trees throughout the mart must be undertaken one by one. The first in importance is the solid and neat construction of the houses, and then the levelling the roads, but first of all it is intended to accurately measure and define the boundaries within the mart limits, and then funds will be provided for the carrying out of the other undertakings in the order of their importance.\n\n5. The port to be established outside the City of Chinan, being a land mart, differs from the other Treaty ports. The issue of Regulations for the establishment of a custom-house must, therefore, be postponed till the conditions of trade have been observed, when they will be from time to time drawn up. The funds for the establishment of road police, the erection of street lights, and for the cleansing of the roads will, at first, be supplied by the Chinese officials, and they will be empowered, as circumstances require and according to the Regulations in force at other ports, to levy proportional rates and taxes on houses and shops and on large and small carts, and both Chinese and foreign merchants will be required to pay such taxes.\n\n6. **Finances**.--On the opening of the mart to trade, many new public works will be undertaken. The expenditure of the mart may therefore be divided into two classes:--\n\n(1) The expenses connected with its establishment, such as the purchase of land and the carrying out of public works, the amount of which will be very considerable; and\n\n(2) The current expenses of each year, such as the salaries of officials and wages of employés, and other expenses on account of public business.\n\nFunds to defray this expenditure should be obtained by Memorial and used with economy.\n\n7. **Prohibitions**.-Within the limits of the mart it is forbidden to erect mat-sheds, to store gunpowder and dynamite, to recklessly discharge rifles and revolvers, to carry arms of any sort with the exception of those carried by officers and soldiers, and to commit all other acts which are prejudicial to the common welfare. Offenders will be dealt with according to the laws of their nationality. However, explosives for the use of public works are omitted from the above prohibition, but the permission of the local authorities must first be obtained, and such explosives must not be stored in the mart for any length of time.\n\n8. A great extension of correspondence may be expected after the opening of the mart. It will be the duty of the Government to set up a post-office, telegraphs, and telephones, and foreigners are excluded from undertaking these matters.\n\n9. **Subsidiary Marts**.-The opening Wei-hsien and Chou Ts'un as subsidiary marts has already been obtained by Memorial, and the Regulations with regard to them will be similar to those with regard to the mart outside Chinan.\n\nThe above nine clauses are only general Regulations, and all matters mentioned therein will require separate detailed Regulations in order to insure their proper performance. All questions arising out of the circumstances of the position of the mart and not touched on in the above Regulations will in due course be discussed and dealt with.\n\nYour Highness,\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n**Sir E. Satow to Prince Ching.**\n\nPeking, March 23, 1905.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Highness' note of the 7th instant, inclosing copy of the Regulations drawn up by the High Commissioner for Northern Ports and the Governor of Shantung for the trading mart to be opened by China herself outside the city of Chinan-fu in Shantung.\n\nI shall be glad to learn the date upon which it is proposed to open this mart, and as these Regulations are of a general nature, I need only state for the present that if any British subjects establish themselves in business at Chinan-fu they will, of course, continue to be under the jurisdiction of their own authorities, and that the rights which they enjoy under Treaty in other ports cannot be circumscribed by any local Regulations. The expectation is expressed in Rule 3 that, when the mart is opened to trade, merchants will be drawn to the place in great numbers, and Chinese and foreigners will dwell there together. I hope this expectation may be fulfilled, though the experience of past years shows that the proper sequence of events is to allow a commercial community to form first, and then to frame Regulations for its administration. The examples furnished by Hangchow, Soochow, and other ports opened in recent years should be sufficient to prove that the surveying of land, its division into lots, the price of which have been fixed beforehand, and the forbidding of the private purchase and sale of land, are not in themselves measures which attract either foreign or Chinese merchants to take up their residence in the areas specially delimitated for that purpose. International trade has developed best in...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406907, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "page_number": 203, "title": "CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906", "content_text": "4\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1,\n\nConsul Fox to Sir E. Satow.\n\n(No. 18.) Sir,\n\nIchung, November 29, 1905. IN continuation of my despatch No. 16 of this series dated the 19th instant, I have now the honour to forward copy and translation of the Regulations therein referred to.\n\nMr. Chang, the Deputy, informs me that the Taotai is at present unwilling to place the collection of these fees in the hands of the foreign Customs, and that, therefore, Articles 1 and 10 remain as originally drafted.\n\nAs I pointed out in my previous despatch, this method of collection is most unsatisfactory, and is not, I believe, acceptable to the shipping firms interested. I have no doubt some arrangement will be arrived at whereby, without offending the susceptibilities of the local authorities, the finances of the new Office will be controlled by the foreign Customs. I have told the Deputy plainly that, unless this is done, I do not think the enterprise has any chance of being successful.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\n(Translation.)\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nProposed Ten Regulations.\n\nHARRY H. FOX.\n\n1. IT is proposed to levy at Tchang on all vessels carrying cargo going up-river, on each tiao (1,000 cash) of freight, 2 cash payable by the shipper, 2 cash payable by the master of the vessel, proceeds to be devoted to the expenses of the Road-Maintenance Office. It appears that a large number of Szechuan merchants are resident at Ichang in connection with the four firms, Butterfield and Swire, Jardine Matheson, Stewart and Co., and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha. The freight on the cotton yarn, piece-goods, and sundries sent up-river by these merchants amounts annually to over 1,200,000 tiap (1,171,875 dollars, at 1,024 cash per dollar) at a rough estimate. Supposing 2 cash per tiao levied on shipper and junk-master, this would bring in annually over 4,000 tiao (3,906 dollars). These fees would be collected on both chartered and native vessels, and the money thus realized devoted to the repair and maintenance of the tracking paths and all matters connected with the rapids; certainly none would be likely to object, and some merchants might care to make additional contributions.\n\n2. It is proposed to establish a special Office at Ichang for the collection of the above-mentioned fees. The Deputy shall be nominated by the Szechuan merchants and receive his instructions from the Taotai at Ching Chou. In addition, two persons shall be chosen each year by the merchants to form a Committee, who shall be associated with the officials in managing the business and controlling the funds. If it is found that the Deputy is acting improperly, the Committee shall petition to have him removed and punished; if, on the other hand, the Deputy does well, the Committee shall petition for him to be maintained in office so that his experience may be turned to advantage.\n\n3. Triplicate certificates shall be issued as receipts for fees, stamped with the Taotai's official seal. A detailed statement of the sums collected and expended shall be sent into the Taotai's yamên each month for purposes of audit.\n\n4. It has been the custom of the Ichang passenger hongs when hiring passenger boats to charge the junk-master a commission of 20 per cent., a most improper practice. It will be distinctly laid down in the Regulations that the junk-master shall only be charged 10 per cent, in future, of which 5 per cent, will go to the Pao Lu Chü, and 5 per cent. to the passenger hong. Now a fee of 5 per cent, levied on passenger junks is certainly heavier than what will be paid by cargo boats, but it must be remembered that this money will come out of the pockets of the passenger hongs, who have hitherto defrauded the junk-masters, and will not be paid by the passengers. The junk-master, who has hitherto only received 80 per cent. of his passage money, will now receive 90 per cent., and will therefore have no cause to worry passengers to lend him money en route. The 5 per cent, which the passenger hong will receive is quite sufficient remuneration for their services. Any attempt on their part to extort more than their due should at once be reported by the junk-master to the local authorities, who will investigate and punish accordingly.\n\n5. In summer and autumn the Yeh-t'an Rapid is reputed to be at its worst; in winter and spring the Hsin-t'an. In making the ascent tracking ropes often break, causing vessels to capsize. The number of vessels wrecked each year, and lives and property lost, is very considerable. As the ropes breaking is usually the cause of the disaster, it is now proposed to purchase a foreign windlass, with about 100 chang (1,175 English feet) of four-fifths of an inch wire hawser; this will be attached to the masthead of the larger junks and wound up by the trackers; this will be used whenever the bamboo ropes are not sufficient to stand the strain. This system will first be given a trial at the Yeh-t'an and Hsin-t'an Rapids; if the windlasses prove successful they will be used at other places.\n\n6. At places where the windlasses are set up ten coolies will be employed as haulers. A small boat, manned by two sailors, will be hired and stationed at the water's edge to see that the hawser does not get into the water or caught on rocks (these men are locally called \"shui-wan-tis\"). The above-mentioned coolies and sailors will be paid by the Pao Lu Chû. At the Hsin-t'an Rapid, in winter and spring, they will be in charge of the local Deputy, at the Yeh-t'an, in summer and autumn, of the Captain of the Chung Chiang Shui Shih guard-boats. The Pao Lu Chü will make a monthly grant of 4 tiao to each of these officers, and thus avoid the expense of employing special men of their own.\n\n7. The river begins to fall during the first days of the 10th moon. All paths in need of repair, whether broken down by the overflow from the hills or damaged by the stream, will then be personally inspected by an official from the Pao Lu Chü and a member of the Committee, who shall make an estimate of the length of paths requiring repair and engage stonemasons for the purpose. They will at the same time report to the local authorities, who will take the necessary steps to preserve order while the works are in progress.\n\n8. There are dangerous rapids near one or other of the gorges at all the seasons of the year. A \"Fu-tou,\" or Headman, will be stationed at each rapid, who will, when vessels arrive at the rapid, engage additional trackers to haul out the tracking-lines. There has always been a fixed price for these services, varying according to the size of the vessel, but of late years the Headmen have been in the habit of pocketing a great part of the money paid them, and using women and young boys to make up the number of trackers, thus adding to the difficulties of ascending the rapids. Under the new Regulations the Headmen at the various rapids will only be allowed to employ able-bodied men, and they will not be permitted to appropriate the local trackers' wages as heretofore.\n\n9. As existing paths have been constructed wherever the strong current required them, they must instantly be repaired when damaged, for the benefit of the public. At two rapids, the Ping Shu Pao Chien and the Yeli Hu Shan-pei, no paths have yet been made, owing to the expense and difficulties of construction. If the annual income proves sufficient, they will be taken in hand as occasion offers. At the two places above mentioned large quantities of dynamite will be required, and as this cannot be purchased locally, the Shan ou Chü (at Wuchang) will be asked to supply it.\n\n10. At Ichang every junk-master loading cargo will be called upon to pay his subscription of 2 cash per tiao of freight to the Pao Lu Chü, and it shall be incumbent on every shipper to do the same; only one receipt will be given to each vessel, in order to avoid repetition. Any person found attempting to defraud by false declarations will be fined, and the proceeds paid into the Pao Lu Chü.\n\n(No. 2.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 6 in No. 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to Consul Fox.\n\nPeking, December 20, 1903.\n\nI HAVE received your despatches Nos. 16 and 18, of the 19th and 29th ultimo, respecting the junk fee which it is proposed to levy for the upkeep of tracking paths and other improvements on the Yang-tsze.\n\nI approve the terms of your reply to the Taotai of the 16th November, and of your remarks to Mr. Chang, as reported in your first despatch.\n\nTo the new tax itself I have no objection, provided that its collection and disbursement can be properly regulated, and that it is distinctly understood that it is not a tax on goods, and that all chartered junks will be on the same footing.\n\n200", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-337 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1906.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 410613, "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": "CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12]", "page_number": 237, "title": "CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12]", "content_text": "Vol.00 and its dependencies...\n\nof one setting per day, namely 3′ 8′′. The ground is good, but very wet. The length at present is 60′.\n\n14.\n\nIn the shaft, the heading is progressing very slowly, as a boulder was met at the start which has given great trouble, as great care had to be taken when blasting it so close to the pump.\n\nDynamite has not been very successful with the rock so far. The headings are about 6 ft. in one side and 4 ft. in the other side.\n\nOther works on the line are progressing well, but there is still a scarcity of the better class of labour, especially for the tunnel. A large proportion of Indian labour has still to be used, as the local Chinamen will not go into the shaft or heading.\n\nYours truly,\n\n(Signed) G. W. Eves.\n\nChief Resident Engineer.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411295, "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": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 472, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## Government's Loss of Control Since 1900\n\nGovernment has lost upon the provinces since 1900 is the notable feature of the present situation in Peking.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) \nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nP.S.---Since writing the above I have received an Intelligence Report from the Acting British Consul at Hangchow, of which I have the honour to inclose an extract. In view of what Sir Robert Hart told me, and of the universal vigilance of the Customs' inspection, information of which reaches me from several quarters, there can be no doubt that the Viceroy of Chilli, and probably also the Central Government, are apprehensive of an anti-dynastic movement, and that foreigners are in some way suspected of being connected with it. For this suspicion there is not, so far as I know, a particle of evidence.\n\n(No. 186.) Sir,\n\n### Inclosure I in No. 1\n\nConsul-General Sir P. Warren to Sir J. Jordan. \nJ. N. J. \nShanghae, December 24, 1906.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose herewith, for your information, copy and translation of an extract from the \"Nan Fang Pao\" of the 15th instant, being instructions from his Excellency Chang Chih Tung on the subject of rebellious Societies, giving particulars as to their methods and organization.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) \nPELHAM WARREN,\n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1\n\n(Translation.) \nExtract from the \"Non Fang Pao\" of December 15, 1906. \n**Confidential Instructions from the Hukuong Viceroy.**\n\nTHE foreign adviser reports as follows:-\n\nOf the large rebellious Associations one is the Kolao Hui, which exists in a secret manner in the Yang-tsze region, and of which the head is one Wang Sheng; another is the Triad Society, which exists in the Two Kuang, Kueichou and Fukien, of which Sun Wen is head, and these two Associations have in the course of time united, and now form the Tung Meng Hui (Alliance Society), and Sun Wen is the head, Wang Sheng the second. Their cry is \"Down with the Manchus!\" and \"Revolution!\" They establish branches everywhere, and men of all provinces join them, 60 per cent. of the Hunan men being members. The Kolao Hui in Hunan is in three divisions--the red division, consisting chiefly of rowdies; the blue and black divisions being mostly men of rank and merchants. The Ch'ang Sha leader is Tsung Huang, a wealthy leader, who is also known as Hsia Ming, 40 years of age; 500 of the Chang Sha garrison are members, and 500 of the police force of Yochou, as well as 3,000 men of the provincial army. The head in Hupei Province is one Lin Chia Yun, and at Wuchang and Hankow a younger brother of Ho Taotai, Commander of the Kueilin new model forces. At Shahshih, a rich merchant named Tsao Yu Ying, 39 years old. A third of the officials, troops, and men in the arsenal at Wuch'ang are members.\n\nA meeting was held in July, at which twenty-five military officers and many soldiers were present. Before the union of the two Societies, the leaders asked for help from Great Britain, France, and Japan, and sought their recognition. Certain foreigners concerted with the heads of the Societies at Wuch'ang, Chang Sha, Kiukiang, Nan Chang, Nanking, Foochow, Canton, Kueilin, Kueiyang, and Sun Wen collected 3,000,000 taels from the Chinese merchants at `Singapore`, `Kalumpor`, `Hong Kong`, &c., and this was deposited chiefly with the ... Bank, and large quantities of munitions were purchased. The original idea was to take the opportunity of the autumn manœuvres for a rising; but Wang Sheng altered the time to the end of the year, as the Yang-tsze leaders were not ready. I cannot say if this be a fact or not.\n\nA Chinese officer reported to the same effect. He says:-\n\nThe Ko Ming Society in Hunan was broken up the year before last, and was converted into a \"Secret Society,\" the objects of which have been anarchical, and its beginnings were in Tokio. It gradually spread into the inland parts of China. The officers of this Society belong to the waterway districts, and they busy themselves with cementing the relationships of the branches; but the Settlements at Shanghae and the Kiangnan Arsenal (`Kao Chang Miao`) neighbourhood are their biding-places; their head-quarters are Hunan and Hupei, these being in reach of Kiangsi on the east and Canton Province on the south. The idea was to command Szechuan, and so move north, while a force was to go by Shensi, thus rendering complete defence impossible. The capital of Hunan was to be their head city, and a central house was to be established there, and there were in addition four lodges, each with its own organization, east, west, south, and north.\n\nThe seat of the south branch was at Linchou, in Hunan, in direct communication with Loch'ang and Ping Shih, in Kuangtung, Shao Kuan, and Canton Province, and also in control of the Pao Ching and Yung Chou Prefecture organizations.\n\nThe east lodge has its seat at Hsiang Tung, in Liling district, to be in direct communication with Yuan Chou and Lin An Prefectures, the chief points being Kiukiang and Huk'ou (this part of the scheme involves extreme danger). The seat of the north was at Ch'ing Chiang, south of Yochou, in Hunan, in close communication with Wuch'ang and Hankow. Drilling went on as of village militia, and under this guise desperate enterprises were prepared. At a moment's warning they were to rise and make a determined effort to seize the Tungting Lake.\n\nAnother branch came into existence in Hupei, of which the objective was Tion Chia Chen, in Wu Hsueh, with the purpose of holding the key to the northern approach. There was to be no immediate attack upon the Lower Yang-tsze for fear of opposition on the part of Great Britain, and although there were many confederates at Tungehou, Ta Tung, Hsiang Yang, and Chinkiang, these were only to serve as hindrances to any forces sent out against the movement; those places were not the important ones.\n\nThe seat of the west lodge was to be at Hang Chou, in Hunan, in connection with Kuanghai, and the disbanded soldiers and the bad characters there, and with the Miao and Yao tribes in Kueichou, in Hunan, and Chang Chou and Li Ling Prefectures, in Kuanghsi, were under them.\n\nThis fire has been smouldering many a day. All the officials of the Association are divided into two sections, the Wai Pu and the Nei Pu. All of these Wai Pu made their arrangements in the Straits, &c., and of these Sun Wen is the head, men like Huang Ta Wu and Liu Lin Sheng being his lieutenants, and they are the chief plotters. These are the people by whom the Chinese merchants in foreign countries, enraged at the failure of their Governments to protect them against oppression, are influenced and subscribe to their schemes, in the hope that when the plot has succeeded they may be granted some better kind of protection. [This is a note of the official making the Report.] They (the Wai Pu) purchase and ship munitions. I hear that the munitions and dynamite are purchased from a certain country and stored in `Singapore` with the idea of shipping them to the Indian Railways, then to Chen Nan Kuan in Yunnan, and so conveying them into the interior. Great Britain has not allowed this, and it has not been possible to convey them by this route. I shall report further when I have found out actually about this.\n\nThe Wai Pu also makes Agreements with foreign Powers. Three Powers have already consented to recognize the Independent State, and have made Agreements with them, by which when the success is assured twenty and more new mercantile ports are to be opened, and a guarantee has been given for the protection of the property of foreign merchants and the churches, and for recompense in case of any damage or destruction. These matters are under the Wai Pu's direction. members do not come into China.\n\nThe Nei Pu members are all distributed along the Yang-tsze, and there make their secret dispositions. Such as these are Cheng Hsien Sheng, Li Hsieh Ho, ... \nPage 3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411473, "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": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 650, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## No. 1.\n\n### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received April 6.)\n\n**(No. 98. Confidential.)**\n\nPeking, February 21, 1907.\n\nTHE extracts which I have the honour to inclose from the quarterly Intelligence Reports of His Majesty's Consuls at Changsha and Chinan-fu describe the serious internal troubles which prevail in Hunan and Shantung. The former Report is especially interesting as it traces the genesis and development of the movement which culminated in the recent rising on the borderland between Hunan and Kiangsi.\n\nRead in connection with the account of the anti-dynastic feeling in Shansi, which formed an inclosure in my despatch No. 94 of the 19th instant, these Reports indicate a state of unrest in widely distant parts of the Empire which is causing grave concern to the Central Government.\n\nThe disaffection is most marked in the Yang-tsze region, where famine is adding to the discontent of the people, and the most stringent precautions are being taken to prevent the importation of arms and ammunition. At my last interview at the Wai-wu Pu the Ministers spoke of a large consignment of smuggled dynamite which had been discovered on board a Chinese steamer at Shanghae, and the Inspector-General of Customs tells me that he is receiving telegrams from the local authorities on the Yang-tsze urging redoubled care in the searching of vessels. Some of the suggestions that are made cannot be enforced consistently with the observance of Treaties.\n\nAltogether, the state of China at the present moment, although, perhaps, not much worse than it has often been in the past, is certainly not showing the improvement which might have been expected from genuine efforts to reform on Western lines.\n\nThe relations between the provincial authorities and the people are more strained than they have ever been before, and the old patriarchal system of government no longer serves its purpose. As a Minister of long experience in the provinces recently put it in describing the change to me, \"the growth of popular opinion has made the lot of the ordinary provincial official so difficult that men are no longer eager for posts in the public service.” And yet all the information which reaches me--and I have made inquiries in many quarters--points to the conclusion that corruption is much the same as it ever was in the provincial yamêns, from those of the Viceroys downwards.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN,\n\n### Inclosure I in No. 1.\n\n#### Extract from Changsha Intelligence Report for Quarter ended December 31, 1906.\n\n##### POLITICAL.\n\n###### The Rising in Liu-yang and Li-ling.\n\nTHIS rebellion, which at one time threatened to assume very serious proportions, and even caused much alarm in Changsha itself, was speedily crushed, as soon as its full extent was realized, by the foreign-drilled troops dispatched from Hupei and from Kiangsu. Against these troops, which were well equipped and well armed, and accompanied by several batteries of mountain guns, it was out of the question that the rebels should hold out.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411583, "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": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## Inclosure 11 in No. 1.\n\nTaotai Jui to Consul-General Sir P. Warren.\n\nNo matter how I look at these arguments, I cannot understand them. When evil characters create disturbances in China, foreign residents and missionaries in the country share in the trouble which is thereby occasioned; and if it is said that the Powers are all concerned in such troubles, there is no doubt that such is the case. Having knowledge of the matter and being thus concerned, they should, as Treaty provides, speedily hand over the offenders for trial, and so contribute towards maintaining the interests of general peace and lasting order. Why, then, refer the matter to the Ministers? If you argue that such persons can only be handed over after reference to them, then the Treaty provision referred to is superfluous. If such reference be, however, necessary, how came it that you, being fully aware of Treaty provisions and of international law, in your former reply to me simply said that if Chang and Huang were revolutionary criminals, certainly assistance could be afforded as regards them?\n\nI would point out, further, that the Ping Hsiang rebels burned, slew, and robbed wherever they went, exactly in the same way as the Kuanghsi rebels. Are these the acts of political offenders? If these are to be called political offences, then what in International disputes will not be called political offences? ... to the detriment of Chinese and foreign interests, which most decidedly should not occur where parties are desirous of maintaining Treaty conditions.\n\nShanghae is a great centre of communication between sea and river, and members of criminal societies are gradually coming in to hide here—some of them energetic conspirators, some confederates and forwarding agents for supplies, &c., but practically to excite the popular mind. There has been absolute proof of all this in seizures made of smuggled arms and dynamite by the Shanghae Customs. If the guilty in such cases are swiftly punished, the movement can be suppressed, and security all the better assured; but if delays occur, time is given for the movement to swell and for the evil to spread far and wide.\n\nYou and your colleagues are well acquainted with the condition of affairs in China. You say that the Governments of the Powers having Consuls here are very seriously interested in this matter, and I would observe as to this that the conditions making for the security or otherwise of Shanghae have for those Governments an interest still greater. I have the honour to request that you will maintain the position that these men should be handed over, and urge the same upon His Majesty's Minister by telegram, and also represent earnestly to the Consular Body where advantage lies and where disadvantage in this matter, to the end that the offenders in question may be handed over. You will in so doing show regard for international relations, and be acting in the general interest.\n\nI trust that you will do as I request, and be good enough to send an answer to this letter.\n\n(Card and compliments of Taotai Jui.)\n\n## Inclosure 12 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Sir P. Warren to Taotai Jui.\n\nShanghae, January 19, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, on the subject of the case of Chang Pao Ching and Huang Yi, and to state in reply that I have communicated the gist of its contents to His Majesty's Minister by telegraph.\n\nI have, &c. (Card of Sir Pelham Warren, His Majesty's Consul-General.)\n\n## Inclosure 13 in No. 1.\n\nMemorandum by Mr. Barton respecting the Case of Political Prisoners.\n\nON the 8th January I was informed by the municipal police that two Chinese residents of the Settlement named Chang Pao Ching and Huang Yi had been arrested on a Mixed Court warrant charged with being members of a secret society and connected with the Tien-tsin bomb outrage. The warrant had been issued at the instance of the Viceroy, who wished the men sent to Nanking for trial, and the accused would be brought before me on the following morning.\n\nI informed the Consul-General of what I had heard, and received his instructions to observe the usual rule of the Court and see that reasonable evidence was forthcoming before agreeing to their being handed over.\n\nOn the 9th January, before going into Court, Mr. Sun, the Assistant Magistrate, whose day it was, mentioned the case to me, laying stress on its importance and the desirability of sending the men to Nanking without delay. I replied that the evidence against the accused must first be considered. He added that, on hearing that the accused had engaged the American lawyers Jernigan and Fessenden, he had made representations to the latter through the American Assessor which induced them to withdraw from the case.\n\nThe case was called in due course, and Mr. Home, an English barrister, appeared to defend the accused. Two small military officials sent from Nanking, named Yuan Fu Tsai and Wu Jui Li, testified to the manner of the arrest, and stated that the accused had been implicated by one Li Fu Tsai, who had already been executed at Nanking. A third witness, named Chang Pei Ting, testified to the identity of the accused.\n\nI now asked Mr. Sun to put certain questions to the accused, with regard to their residence, occupations, &c. This Mr. Sun at first flatly refused to do, saying that the men were charged by the Viceroy, and it was improper and impossible for him to interrogate them. He wished instead to deliver a severe lecture to Mr. Home, at whose appearance he was much incensed, and asked him if he did not know that even in England political offenders were extradited without preliminary hearing. How, then, could he presume to defend Chinese subjects charged with rebellion against their own Government? On my pointing out his error to him he calmed down, and asked the accused a few questions, from which it appeared that Chang kept a hostelry for students going to and from Japan, and Huang studied and wrote. Both were Hunan men, but had lived in Shanghae for the last six or seven years. They had never been to Japan. Asked whom they were known to, Huang replied, \"General Mesny,\" and Chang, \"The newspaper people.\"\n\nI now asked Mr. Sun whether he had any despatch either from the Viceroy or Taotai giving particulars of the charge against these men. He replied that he had not. The matter being a very secret and urgent one, the Viceroy had sent one of his Secretaries named Hsia Ming Kao to procure the arrest. There was no despatch containing the evidence on which the charge was founded. Mr. Sun argued that the case was so important that the men should be sent to Nanking at once, but I informed him that I could not agree to this until the evidence against the men—especially Li's statement—had been put before the Court.\n\nMr. Sun said he would report to the Taotai, and the men were remanded in the custody of the police.\n\nAs a result, the Taotai wrote a formal despatch to the Consul-General on the 11th January, stating baldly that the accused were rebel ringleaders, and asking for their surrender. Mr. Sun's report to the Taotai represented me as saying that a despatch from either Viceroy or Taotai was required, no mention being made of evidence.\n\nOn receipt of this despatch, the Consul-General instructed me to call on the Taotai and explain to him that what was wanted was a compliance with the ordinary procedure of the Court, and the production of evidence to show that the charges were founded on reasonable grounds. There was no desire to protect the men if they were really guilty.\n\nIf this evidence was not in the Taotai's possession, I was to ask him to telegraph to Nanking to obtain it.\n\nI saw the Taotai at his yamên in Shanghae City on the afternoon of the 12th January, and delivered the Consul-General's message. He expressed his gratification on learning that the Consul-General did not wish Shanghae to be regarded as a refuge for revolutionaries. As regarded the evidence, he had not got it, and he was afraid that to telegraph again to Nanking would mean loss of face both for the Viceroy and himself. He quite recognized the rule of the Court with regard to a prima facie case being made out against residents of the Settlement whose surrender was asked for by another jurisdiction, and he was willing to write to the Viceroy and explain that evidence must always be forthcoming on future occasions. On this occasion, however...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 412193, "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": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 693, "title": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## Section 3 - Terms of the Lease\n\nUpon the renewal of the lease, the trade of the port would appear to be in a sufficiently prosperous condition to warrant that being done. Any lease not surrendered on the expiry of the term shall be cancelled, and any buildings erected on the land forfeited to the Government. After a period of sixty years, the buildings on the land may either be purchased at an equitable valuation (by the Board), or the lease renewed at a special enhanced rent, entirely at the option of the Chinese Government, no person whatsoever having any right to offer any forcible opposition.\n\n10. In the event of the mutilation or loss of a deed of lease, the circumstances must be reported to the Board, who, on the finding of reliable sureties, will issue a notification and, after the lapse of three months, will make further inquiry and issue a fresh deed.\n\n## Section 4 - Regulations for the Transfer of Leases (Sub-letting)\n\n1. Land duly held under a lease may be transferred in toto, but the sub-letting of portions thereof is not permitted.\n\n2. In the case of a transfer by a Chinese subject, both the transferer and the transferee must attend at the Board, report the matter, affix their signatures, and hand over the old deed, when a new deed will be issued in its place. On application being made by the Consul concerned, a foreign merchant shall be permitted to sub-let in accordance with the foregoing.\n\n3. The duration of a sub-lease will be determined by the term of thirty years of the original lease, together with the term of renewal of thirty years, reckoned from the date of the said original lease, regardless of the date of the transfer, or of the number of times the land is sub-let.\n\n4. Any mortgage of the land or the buildings thereon must be notified to and registered at the Board by Chinese and foreign merchants alike, though in the case of the latter, the notification shall be made by the Consul concerned to the Superintendent of Customs in order that the matter may be put on record.\n\n5. As it is feared that leaseholders may leave the port to return to their own country, or on account of unforeseen circumstances, they shall clearly state who is to be their successor or to act in their absence, and this information shall be communicated by the Consul concerned to the Superintendent of Customs, and put on record.\n\n6. Land which has been duly rented shall be built upon within a period of three years, or the lessee will be regarded as a person of no means, and the lease will be cancelled and the land will revert to the Government, no refund being made of any rent or taxes previously paid. If building operations have been commenced but not brought to completion, a period shall be prescribed within which the work is bound to be finished off.\n\n## Section 5 - Precautionary Measures for the Public Safety\n\n1. No thatched houses or wooden houses of an inferior description, which, being of an inflammable nature, are liable to cause injury to the property of others, shall be erected in the Settlement. Anyone desiring to erect a house must first submit a plan of the building to the Public Works Department of the Board and notify the Police Department, and no work shall be commenced until the necessary permission has, after due consideration, been granted.\n\n2. No explosives, such as gunpowder, dynamite, &c., liable to injure the persons or property of the public, or any substance likely to prove injurious to the public health, shall be manufactured in, carried through, brought into, or stored in the Settlement. Anyone committing a breach of this regulation shall be dealt with according to the laws of his own country.\n\n3. No Chinese or foreign merchants shall establish gambling-houses in the Settlement or pursue any means of livelihood tending to cause a breach of the peace.\n\n4. Lessees shall be at liberty to erect on their land, as they see fit, dwelling-houses of one or more storeys, warehouses, or workshops, provided they do not encroach upon or infringe public rights, and that the materials used in building are good and solid. Should the building differ from the plan originally submitted and approved of, the lessee shall execute any alterations which he may be directed to make by the Public Works Department of the Board or by the Police Department.\n\n5. The Public Works Department of the Board shall examine the building plans as soon as possible after they have been deposited by the lessee, in order that, if satisfactory, work may be commenced. After building operations have been begun, the Public Works Department or the Police Department shall still from time to time send someone to the spot, and if upon inspection anything unsatisfactory should appear, the parties shall mutually agree upon some method of effecting a satisfactory alteration.\n\n6. Whenever a house is built or rebuilt in the Settlement, one or more drains to carry away dirty water shall be constructed, opening into the main drain to be built by the Board, in order that all stagnant water may be drained off.\n\n7. The method of construction of these drains, together with the materials to be employed, the dimensions of the drain, its depth below the surface of the ground, particulars of its fall, whether straight or deflected, the place of its entry into the main drain, all these must be clearly stated on the plans deposited, and any alterations suggested by an official of the Board shall be duly carried out by the lessee.\n\n8. If it should be necessary for building purposes to employ gunpowder, dynamite, or any other explosive, a list must be made out for the inspection of the Superintendent of Customs and his sanction requested, this in the case of a foreign merchant being done through his Consul. Only after the Superintendent has given his assent shall it be permitted to store the explosive in a suitable and safe place. It must, however, be used up as rapidly as possible and not intentionally kept in store; and if anybody, contrary to this Regulation, has had it laid by for a long time, the Superintendent, upon inquiry, shall depute an official of the Board or, in the case of a foreigner, request the Consul to compel its destruction, and thus maintain the sense of security of the community.\n\n9. Kerosine is a highly inflammable substance, and, as is the practice at all other ports, no storage of it within the Settlement shall be allowed.\n\n## Section 6 - To Demonstrate the Public Observance of Right and Proper Conduct\n\n1. A lessee desirous of making any alterations or of undertaking any other form of work likely to affect the public interests shall apply for and obtain a permit from the Public Works Department of the Board.\n\n2. Any mud or earth required for the filling-in of the foundations of buildings shall be purchased outside the Settlement but shall not be dug up and carried away until the Public Works Department have inspected the spot and are satisfied that no damage will be done to native property.\n\n3. Special care shall be taken to preserve the summer arbours in the Settlement Public Gardens and all other public properties, and any case of wilful damage shall be investigated by the Police Department and the offender punished according to law.\n\n## Section 7 - Provision for the Levying of Public Contributions\n\n1. The cost of all special undertakings or works for the public benefit within the Settlement shall be defrayed by contributions levied proportionately on the leaseholders.\n\nThe consideration of such matters shall be referred to a Board constituted of three elements, as follows:\n\n| Element | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Firstly | The Superintendent of Customs, as President of the Board. |\n| Secondly | The Consuls of all the foreign Powers. |\n| Thirdly | One Chinese and one foreign merchant nominated by the body of the leaseholders as their representatives. |\n\n2. The Board shall devise ways and means to defray out of its own funds the initial cost of laying out roads, constructing jetties, policing and lighting the Settlement, cleansing the drains, &c., while licensing fees and taxes on houses, shops, wharves, boats, vehicles, &c., all of which are properly leviable in a port, shall be temporarily in abeyance when the port is first opened. Later on, however, as circumstances permit, the Superintendent of Customs may make such other arrangements from time to time as, after due consideration, may seem fit.\n\n## Section 8 - Scheme to cause Foreigners to remain residing together (in the Settlement) for lengthy periods\n\n1. Should any foreign merchant resident in the port (Settlement) desire to leave it for the purpose of travelling for pleasure, avoiding the summer heat, &c., the Consul...\n\nPage 690", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413746, "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": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 248, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "# Local Purchase of Explosives for Kowloon Canton Railway\n\n## DESPATCH\n\n**No. 2082**\n**10 JUN 08**\n\nTransmits copy correspondence between Cr. Ayto and Col: Sec: respecting the Agents of Supply to enquire whether, when it can be demonstrated as in the present case that unnecessary expenses are avoided, his predecessor succeeded in sanctioning the arrangement to which the CA object.\n\n### (Minutes.)\n\nMr Fiddes\n\nThe best answer to the query of the Crown Agents to interfere would have been that they are not expected to let the stores know if they find that the Colonial Regulations are broken, but the reason why compliance with C. Engineers passes through the Er as both parties may have the benefit of their experience extending to several Colonies.\n\n2 So reply many and say that the order for the Dynamite ought to have been sent to the Crown Agents.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413755, "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": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 257, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "## Kowloon-Canton Railway British Section\n\nGentlemen,\n\nSir J. Wolfe Barry and Partners to Crown Agents.\n21, Delahay Street, S.W.,\n27th February, 1908.\n\nWith further reference to your letter E.261/2 dated 25th November, 1907, making enquiries about the provision of explosives and quinine, we would refer you in answer to paragraphs 1 to 5 of the Chief Resident Engineer's letter No. 50 dated 11th January which read as follows:-\n\n\"I am in receipt of your general letter No. 7 and note the contents and as regards the questions raised in paragraphs 3 I would reply that the dynamite and other explosives are ordered through a local firm who are agents for Nobel's explosives.\n\n\"I have made an arrangement with them to deliver explosives at the Railway Wharf at the following rates if ordered in quantities of one thousand pounds and over:-\n| Explosive Type | Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| Blasting Gelatine | £140 per ton of 2,000 lbs. |\n| Dynamite | £95 per ton |\n| Gelignite | £95 per ton |\n\n\"It would be very inconvenient and expensive to order large quantities direct from home on account of the difficulty of storing several months' supply. By this arrangement my magazines are only built to hold about one ton of explosives and there is no difficulty in replenishing them from the depot of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company, the agents...\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413763, "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": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 265, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "was the tone of their communications quite such that I should have \n\nmainly weighed the arguments on this side \n\nbut they had nevertheless \n\nvalid ground for calling your attention to the method of supply of \n\nexplosives in the particular case. \n\nFor the Crown Agents \n\nA \n\nshould \n\nlet the Secretary of State know \n\nif they find that the Colonial Regulations are not being complied with. \n\nand \n\n### 262 \n\nA generally \n\nshowed that \n\nI have \n\nalso to \n\nmutatis mutandis \n\nI also CA \n\n1369 \n\nor the \n\nA. I do not find from the correspondence that you are altogether justified in \n\nsaying that \"unnecessary expense\" would have \n\nbeen incurred by ordering the explosives \n\nthrough the Crown Agents. \n\nI do not read \n\nMr. Eves' minutes as indicating more than that \n\nthe apparent saving would have been negligible \n\nand perhaps unattainable. \n\n4. \n\nFurther I desire to observe that \n\nthe intervention of the Crown Agents in the \n\nsupply of Railway stores &c. is not based \n\nupon the idea indicated in paragraph 4 of \n\nyour despatch nor indeed is the consideration \n\nof cost the only reason why \n\nthe course prescribed in the Regulations should be strictly \n\nfollowed in the case of goods not produced \n\nlocally. \n\nExperience has shown that in the \n\nlong run the Crown Agents, buying in a larger \n\nmarket and for a far larger clientele \n\nthan is possible to any local merchant can as a \n\n### Colonial Regulations Nos. 379 \n\n382 and 383 will show you the procedure \n\nto be adopted in the matter of obtaining \n\nsupplies and stores required by \n\nColonial Governments: and you will \n\nobserve that under these the order \n\nfor the dynamite should have been \n\nsent to the Crown Agents. \n\n43. \n\n| Rule | |\n|------|---|\n| 3 | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419925, "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": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 471, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "464\n\n8\n\nHigher education is represented by the Technical Institute, where instruction is given in the evening in Mathematics, Machine Drawing, Building Construction, Field Surveying and allied subjects; in Chemistry and Physics; in the English and French languages, Book-keeping and Shorthand. There is also a Teachers' Class, at which the junior Chinese masters of Government schools are expected to attend. The Institute is furnished with a well-equipped laboratory. The lecturers are chiefly Civil Servants recruited from the European staffs of Queen's College and the Public Works Department. These officers receive fees for their services.\n\nHongkong is fortunate in including among its schools two limited to children of British parentage. Both these schools (one for boys, the other for girls) are under the Government. In 1908 the combined average attendance at them was 87. As might be expected they have a strong patriotic bias: they are supporters of the Empire League, and the boys' school provides a small but efficient cadet corps.\n\nV.—PUBLIC WORKS.\n\nThe principal public works in progress during the year, exclusive of the Railway, were the Kowloon Waterworks and the Typhoon Refuge for small craft opposite Mongkoktsui. The former was completed with the exception of the contract for the main dam, &c. and a few trifling details, but, as mentioned in last year's report, the works are in such a forward state that the reservoir is fully capable of supplying the whole Peninsula with water. Work on the Typhoon Refuge was begun by dredging a trench to form the base for the breakwater, the hopper dredger St. Enoch being purchased locally for this purpose. The Tytam Tuk Waterworks referred to in previous years' reports were fully completed.\n\nThe New Law Courts and New Government Offices were still under construction, whilst the following works were completed: - Land Office at Tai Po; Market at Sai Wan Ho; Extension of Staff Quarters at Government Civil Hospital for Nursing Institute; Extension of Wanchai and Saiyingpun District Schools; Extension of Mount Gough Police Station; Animal Depôts and Slaughter Houses at Ma Tau Kok; four houses at Tai Po for the native clerical staff and the service reservoir at West Point (750' level) for supplying the High Levels of the City. The lease of One Tree Island to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Company for the storage of dynamite having expired, it was decided to require this explosive to be stored in the Government Depôt on Green Island and arrangements were made accordingly, a small building for the storage of detonators being erected. The works of reconstruction of gullies and extension of nullah training were continued, $10,000 being spent on the former and $18,150 on the latter.\n\nThe prolongation of Robinson Road, Kowloon, mentioned in last year's report was completed and a further section from Waterloo Road to near Soy Street was undertaken. The extension of the road past Kowloon City to its junction with the Chin Lan Chu Road was completed and new roads from Kowloon City to Shatin Pass and from Castle Peak Bay to Ping Shan were begun. Great improvements in the alignment and grading of several portions of the Shaukiwan Road adjoining the Taikoo Sugar Refinery and Shipyard were in progress and a substantial improvement was made in the portion of Kennedy Road immediately west of the Public Laundries.\n\nWorks in progress included a new market at Kowloon Point, the deepening of Causeway Bay to enable small craft to gain access to all parts of the Typhoon Shelter at low water, a roof over Blake Pier, an extension of Government Offices for the accommodation of the Public Works Department, the raising of Des Voeux Road, Kowloon, on account of the railway reclamation, and several other works of smaller magnitude.\n\nThe extension and reconstruction of the Albany Filter Beds was continued, and good progress was made.\n\nThe total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary was $1,000,935 and on Works Annually Recurrent, $512,336.\n\nThe typhoon of July 27th caused great damage and this, together with repairs still being executed on account of the typhoon of September, 1906, formed a very heavy charge on the recurrent votes.\n\nDuring the year 1908, considerable progress was made in the British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway. About forty per cent. of the reclamation for a site for Kowloon Station Yard was completed and a very large amount of earthwork was done North of the Kowloon Hills.\n\n0\n\nAbout 3,500 feet of heading was driven in Beacon Hill Tunnel making a total of 5,600 feet out of 7,212 feet and a total of 2,700 feet of tunnel was lined complete and an extra 700 feet excavated to full section ready for lining. The other four tunnels made good progress, the three short ones being almost completed. The larger one at Tai Po had 572 feet of heading driven leaving 350 feet to complete.\n\nNearly all the bridges were completed with the exception of the iron-work, which however is all in the Colony. Only three bridges remain on which no work has been done.\n\nIndents have been sent Home for rails, sleepers and rolling stock.\n\nC\n\nMalarin, Beri-beri, Dysentery and other diseases were much less prevalent among the railway employés due to better organization.\n\nThe expenditure during the year was $3,372,832 making a total of $6,251,639 up to the end of 1908.\n\nThe large amount of rock-blasting with high explosives, especially in the long tunnel, where moreover drilling is carried on with very powerful compressed air rock-drills, coupled with the proverbial carelessness of the Chinese coolie, would lead to the expectation that a large number of accidents would occur among the 3,000 odd coolies employed on the works. It is therefore very satisfactory to record the fact that from the inception of the Railway in 1906 to the end of the year 1908 there were only 19 fatal accidents (1 in 1906, 9 in 1907, and 9 in 1908) and 13 other serious ones (8 in 1907 and 5 in 1908).\n\nThe Chinese Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway made considerable progress during 1908 under the able direction of Mr. GROVE, C.R.E., who has stated that there is every prospect of opening a length from Canton of 30 miles by April, 1910, and anticipates that he will be able to run through trains for traffic with the British Section on or before July 1st, 1911. Negotiations carried on at Peking for a Construction Loan for the Northern portion of the Canton-Hankow line had not resulted in any Loan Agreement by the end of the year.\n\nThe Southern Section from Canton Northwards made some progress under a Chinese Chief Engineer, and with Chinese Capital. By the end of the year about 40 miles were open to traffic.\n\nVI.—GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS.\n\n(*)—HOSPITALS.\n\nGovernment Hospitals consist of the Civil Hospital to which is attached an isolated Maternity Hospital, the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital, and the hulk \"Hygeia\" used mainly for the treatment of Small-pox cases.\n\nThe Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 29 wards. 2,527 in-patients and 18,207 out-patients were treated during the year 1908. 279 cases of Malarial Fever were admitted as against 243 in 1907 and 239 in 1906. The Maternity Hospital contains 6 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 60 confinements occurred during the year. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds. During 1908, 234 patients were under treatment. Kennedy Town Hospital contains 26 beds. In 1908, 59 cases were treated, of which 3 were Plague. On the \"Hygeia\", 150 cases were treated, of which 86 were Small-pox.\n\nLUNATIC ASYLUM.\n\nThe Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 212 patients of all races were treated during 1908, and there were 11 deaths.\n\n(c) THE TUNG WAN AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS.\n\nThis Hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of $8,000 from the Government. Only Chinese are treated in this institution. Various other services not appertaining to a Hospital are performed by the Institution, such as the free burial of the poor, the repatriation of destitutes, and the organisation of charitable relief in emergencies. Chinese as well as European methods of treatment are employed in accordance with the wishes expressed by the patients or their friends. About half the number are now treated by Western methods. The Hospital is managed by a Committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation, and is under the supervision of a Visiting Physician who is a member of the Medical Department, whilst a Chinese Surgeon trained in European medicine is a member of the Hospital Staff.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422981, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 384, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 1 in Mr. Fox's No. 78, General Series, of July 12th, 1909.\n\n382\nMr. Fox to Viceroy Chang.\n32200\n(AUG 26 1909)\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nH.B.M. Consulate-General,\nCanton, July 8th, 1909.\n\nI yesterday received a report from Mr. F. Grove, Engineer-in-Chief of the Canton-Kowloon Railway (Chinese Section), stating that as a result of false rumours concerning the actions of the railway engineers employed in the construction of the line in the Tseng Chong and Yung Kuan districts, the country people had lately assumed an attitude of violent hostility to the railway and to those engaged in its construction, in many cases preventing by force the continuation of the work, destroying bridge foundations with dynamite, attacking the engineers' quarters, and even going so far as to murder some of the Railway Company's Chinese servants.\n\nThe local officials, whose duty it was to afford the constructional staff adequate protection, had done little or nothing to dispel these rumours, punish the guilty...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423254, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 657, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# the great delay to works, I feel that you should be fully advised of what is happening. We have won through many troubles, and generally the progress of the works, with the exception of No. 2 district, may be taken as satisfactory.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nF. G. 赛\n\n## Acting Consul-General Fox to Viceroy Chang.\n\nCanton, July 8, 1909\n\nI YESTERDAY received a report from Mr. F. Grove, engineer-in-chief of the Canton-Kowloon Railway (Chinese section), stating that as a result of false rumours concerning the actions of the railway engineers employed in the construction of the line in the Tseng Cheng and Tung Kuan districts, the country people had lately assumed an attitude of violent hostility to the railway and to those engaged in its construction, in many cases preventing by force the continuation of the work, destroying bridge foundations with dynamite, attacking the engineers' quarters, and even going so far as to murder one of the railway company's Chinese servants.\n\nThe local officials, whose duty it was to afford the constructional staff adequate protection, had done little or nothing to dispel these rumours, punish the guilty parties, and quieten the people, with the result that matters had now reached such a critical stage that work was practically suspended on section 2, in the neighbourhood of Shektau and Suichuan (Shaka), and the British engineers in charge of this district had refused to continue their construction work until they were afforded proper protection by the local authorities.\n\nIn a report from one of the district engineers, Mr. Boothby, it was stated that a foreman named Tsi Chen Ch'i, a native of Shantung, had been brutally murdered by the villagers of Shektan on the 8th June, on a ridiculous accusation of stealing young children to lay in the foundations of railway bridges.\n\nLater on, in the fifth moon, a Japanese was murdered near Shekha, his assailants believing him to be an employé of the railway.\n\nThe engineer-in-chief states that, unless his staff receive proper protection, they will certainly resign their posts, and work on this portion of the line must entirely cease. He has already reported this matter in detail to the director-general of the railway in Peking, and the British and Chinese Corporation, and he is now obliged to ask me to bring these facts to the Viceroy's notice, and request his Excellency to afford proper protection to these British engineers.\n\nI have the honour to observe that the Canton-Kowloon Railway (Chinese section) is a Chinese undertaking, under Imperial sanction, in course of construction under Chinese official direction. It is obviously the duty of the local authorities to assist such an undertaking to the best of their ability, and to lose no opportunity of affording the engineers and construction staff protection. If they do not, they incur the grave responsibility of disobeying the Imperial commands.\n\nAgain, it is the duty of the local authorities to preserve order in their districts. Officials who permit crimes to go unpunished are, by the laws of China, dismissed from their posts and degraded.\n\nAgain, by treaty, the interests of foreigners in China engaged in lawful occupations, such as the building of a railway, are placed under the special protection of the Chinese authorities. If these neglect their duty in this respect, and foreigners are subjected to insult and hurt, regrettable international complications must inevitably ensue.\n\nIn the case of the recent disturbances on the Canton-Kowloon Railway, the magistrates of Tseng Ch'eng and Tung Kuan have apparently failed in their duty in these three respects.\n\nFirstly, they have not rendered loyal assistance to an important Chinese undertaking; secondly, they have signally failed to maintain order within their jurisdiction; thirdly, they have not afforded British subjects proper protection.\n\nIt is difficult to see how they can escape severe censure when these facts become known.\n\nDuring your Excellency's administration, lawlessness has been put down with a firm hand, encouragement has been given to the industrial development of the province, and the improvement of communications by means of railways has made steady progress. Your Excellency has shown your interest in the Canton-Kowloon Railway in particular, by presiding at the laying of the foundation of the Canton terminus in March last.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nHARRY H. FOX.\n\n## Viceroy Chang to Acting Consul-General Fox.\n\nCanton, July 10, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch stating that the villagers of Tung Kun and Tseng Ch'eng were spreading false reports regarding the Canton-Kowloon Railway, and requesting that efficient measures might be taken for the protection of the railway and its employés.\n\nI have accordingly requested Admiral Li Chun to at once dispatch a force of soldiers to maintain order, and I have also issued strict instructions to the local officials to protect the railway and its staff.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Seal of Viceroy)\n\n## Mr. F. Grove to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co.\n\nCanton, July 5, 1909.\n\nWITH reference to my letter dated the 26th May, 1909, and subsequent correspondence, in which you advised me that copies of this letter and enclosures would be duly forwarded to His Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking and to Mr. Bland, and at the same time stated that, in view of the remedial measures then undertaken by the Viceroy in consultation with the managing director, you held the opinion that official application for the help of the Minister was not at the time advisable, I now forward copies of the following correspondence, which sets out the present condition of affairs:\n\n1. Engineer-in-chief's letter, dated the 30th June, 1909, to the managing director, enclosing Mr. Boothby's letter, dated the 28th June, 1909, to engineer-in-chief, with enclosure; also Mr. Boothby's letter, dated the 29th June, 1909, and enclosure, dated the 25th June, 1909.\n2. Extract of a report from Lieutenant J. White, R.N., of His Majesty's ship `Robin`, to the commander-in-chief, China Coast Squadron.\n3. Engineer-in-chief's letter, dated the 23rd June, 1909, to the managing director, enclosing Mr. Boothby's letter, dated the 19th June, 1909, to the engineer-in-chief.\n4. Engineer-in-chief's letter, dated the 14th June, 1909, to the managing director, enclosing Mr. Boothby's letter, dated the 12th June, 1909, to the engineer-in-chief.\n\nFrom the above correspondence, it is plain to see that while at Namseh the condition of affairs has for the present taken a better aspect, at Shektan, Yuen Chow, Shek Ha, and Sin Chuen River, affairs remain in the same condition, which may be described as dangerous to our foreign staff and absolutely preventing progress of works.\n\nIt was apparent to me that the appointment of deputies without magisterial powers and some display of force could not be looked upon as appreciably ameliorating the condition of affairs.\n\nAt Namseb, some good has resulted certainly, and I do not disparage it, but I can only doubt its continuance. With regard to Shektan-Sin Chuen bridge, &c., the conditions are impossible, and Mr. Boothby acted quite rightly in stopping the work. When it is remembered that our works at those places are nine months delayed, and, so far as I can judge, adding greatly to the cost of works and length of time required for completion of the whole railway, I can only again express the opinion that the time has arrived for His Britannic Majesty's Minister to be directly appealed to under the terms of the loan agreement.\n\nThe most serious aspect of affairs is that on No. 2 district. Mr. Boothby and his...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425270, "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": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "page_number": 295, "title": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "content_text": "292 \n\nJunks at the Customs Stations en route to Hongkong have been supplied to the Superintendent of Import and Exports. This has proved a valuable check on the imports of liquor and has much facilitated the collection of Revenue. In return for this assistance, it was arranged with my approval that trading junks should be required, although the requirement cannot at present be enforced by law, to produce their Customs Pass Books at the Harbour Office, thus establishing a check on their movements outside the waters of the Colony, and ensuring their reporting themselves at the proper Chinese Customs Station.\n\n6. The second and third articles aim at preventing, as far as possible, any smuggling of Salt, Sulphur, Saltpetre, or Dynamite to China. Salt in China is a Government Monopoly, and its manufacture, import, and export are prohibited unless covered by permits issued by the Salt Commissioner or the Merchant Monopolists recognised by the Salt Commissioner. I enclose a memorandum by Mr. Harris regarding Salt in China, dated the 15th ultimo, which may assist Your Lordship in considering this matter. On the other hand, Sulphur, Saltpetre, and Dynamite are munitions of war, and it is as much in the interest of this Colony as in the interest of China to prevent the smuggling of these articles, which are much in demand by the robbers and pirates infesting the Kuang Provinces.\n\n## 17. \nArticles 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 are concessions by China to this Colony and will be of great value to the trade of Hongkong. The Registrar-General informs me that the Chinese do not object to the voluntary examination of cargo by the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs at Shamshuipo, while the British Merchants of the Colony are anxious to obtain the privileges set out in these articles, which are similar to those granted by China to the German Colony of Tsingtao and known as the \"Kiaochow...\n\n## Enclosure 8", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425277, "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": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "page_number": 302, "title": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "content_text": "## Article 299\n\n...(1) \nLocal piteslo to gritrečne drut vrove je...T o katust! Istreurl roti cefs bus visoltitted food res...1er øved VEITO, OMA wodnel 5 e vi bosch hra bentohne Zoof esa\" enoJEVŲ \n\nThe correct text should read: \nEvery Licensee of a Licensed Warehouse for Salt, Sulphur, or Saltpetre shall keep such books as may be prescribed, showing imports, exports and local sales.\n\n...(a) \nTo China, shall be granted only on production of the usual Import Certificate properly authenticated.\n\n## Regulations\n\n**(a)** \nEvery Licensee of a Licensed Warehouse for Salt, Sulphur, or Saltpetre shall keep such books as may be prescribed, showing imports, exports and local sales. The Books shall at all times be open to inspection by Government.\n\n**(e)** \nEvery manufacturer of Salt in the New Territories after the Convention, 1st June 1899, shall deposit the Salt manufactured by him in a Licensed Warehouse, and the Licensee thereof shall keep a register in a prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times open to inspection by Government.\n\n**(f)** \nNo retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep Salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special licence.\n\n**(g)** \nSalt in excess of a prescribed quantity shall not be removed from a licensed Warehouse or Shop, or from place to place in the Colony except under Permit from the proper authority.\n\n## Article 3\nNo person shall have Dynamite in his possession except as provided by law, and no person shall store Dynamite except by licence. Every Licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used daily. All such books shall be open to inspection by Government.\n\n## Article 4\nSteam Launches after registration by the Imperial Maritime Customs in accordance with the Inland Waters Steam Navigation Regulations may enter any port whatsoever in China.\n\n**(a)** \nOn each occasion of arrival at and departure from Hong Kong, the Launch Master shall deposit his Manifest in duplicate with the Harbour Authority, who shall send one copy to the Imperial Maritime Customs Commissioner.\n\n**(b)** \n\n| Article/Section | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | Every Licensee of a Licensed Warehouse for Salt, Sulphur, or Saltpetre shall keep prescribed books showing imports, exports, and local sales. |\n| (e) | Manufacturers of Salt in the New Territories shall deposit Salt in a Licensed Warehouse and keep a register of amount made and sold. |\n| (f) | Retail dealers in the New Territories require a special licence to keep Salt in excess of a prescribed amount. |\n| (g) | Salt in excess of a prescribed quantity requires a Permit to be removed. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425387, "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": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "page_number": 412, "title": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "content_text": "## heathe to cook keep a chuck on trading punks going playing belusen ott. Chinese ports.\n\nJie 2. hugard says that Art I as it stand in the inducitle minimen accepteth to the I.M. C. I don't think of yon promoms but thing helf from. Stk. by iti an Cau be Fallen torti getting a food deal of so that the bargain is not all in favour & H.K.\n\n### Article II Rorons as to the hade in Salt, Salfeti & Sulphur.\n\nSalt is a pidously ... Magal. In 2 hugard tuali it muni fan \n\nThe Cave will red amendment but \" par 5 & 16121. I ser no oljon to the article C watched Chemise Got! monopoly (and 8. in 16121) Are munition was which under the Rucker & Trade made in accordance int the Traky of Trents in 1855 \"shall not he imported by British subjects save at the unquest 1. the Chinese Gort. of for sale to Chemise daly anthonse's & pochase them \n\nA good deal & smuggling in salt goes them to wo rbon that lean ser to the article which in vers (a) (()-(9) as practically reproduction 2 existing regulations imparted int It xong. See (6) is A wproducts of Which I (g). A as to liquor is practically Anket. III Dynamite: the awhile makes possession my of 16121 \n\n408 Itish to seen that soter the agreement unlo with the benefiti aceming to the I.M.C. Antile In is for the benefit 11th meachauto.\n\n### Sis 2. Lugard \n\nsago that the Chinese to not object to soluntary exam at Sham strips & that Birtish merchants are anxious tostain the privilege of inland water trading. The only difficulty that love is I in connexion with The I.M. C. sub-office at Shamshippo. This invobro the L.M. C. comson of the position in 1. brintory of V I deal with the point perther \"Bertolet ilgal ithout permission. at present unauthorised storage (but not posersion) in 139ch, 14, 26034/420/6000, 1196) 4, & BM(832)10878080. 4:00. MIT WWII an concessions in favour WAK. merchants & considerable impor tance! att VIA\" an M-Clementis notes show means that goods intransit will only pay )/220 mitent & 10% advalorem du duty what \n\n### Art IX. \n\nThe Goutang HK. is to establish Lines و stations on the land frontier of the W. Tembong to present smuggling of mer.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426874, "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": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "page_number": 654, "title": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\n33247\n\nREC REGE 29 OCT 0\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,\n\nHongkong...\n\n27th September, 1910.\n\nReport on Ordinance No. 27 of 1910.\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled\n\nAn Ordinance to further amend the Law relating to Dangerous Goods\n\nand I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instruction.\n\n650\n\nThis Ordinance amends section 10 of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, (Ordinance 1 of 1873) so as to give a more extended meaning to the \"keeping\" of dangerous goods, e.g. dynamite.\n\nSection 10 (1) read \"dangerous goods to which this Ordinance applies shall not be kept except in pursuance of a licence\". The Police authorities complain that the meaning of \"kept\" is challenged and that it is contended that \"possession\" of dynamite is not illegal as distinct from \"keeping\" (which means \"storing\").", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426875, "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": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "page_number": 655, "title": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "content_text": "The amended section makes it illegal for any person to \"have in his possession custody or power or in the possession custody or power of any servant or agent of his dangerous goods without a licence.\n\nSub-section (3) is amended so as to impose as a further condition to a licence to keep dangerous goods the keeping of books in regard to their possession and use.\n\nSub-section (5) elaborates the existing sub-section so as to meet the extended provisions in the new sub-section (1).\n\nIt is necessary that ample safeguards should exist in regard to the possession or custody of dynamite.\n\nNo\n\n321.\n\nPage 1910\n\n28th Sept\n\nJo Rees Davies\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nHONG KONG\n\n33248\n\nOrdinance No 28.1910.\n\nMagistrates Amendt. (No 2).\n\nSubmits\n\nAttorney general.\n\nCO 33248\n\n651\n\nPIC Recd 29 OCT 10\n\nAnd cans (Ord sanctd)\n\nDisposed of on You 37028/1\n\n333.181\n\n(18,855), We21,679-240,000.\n\n1100. A.&B.W.\n\nV\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n37028\n\n12. A.J. Harding\n\nThe object of\n\nis\n\ndescribes\n\nMr. Risley.\n\n020*19\n\nits\n\nspare coupons and [illegible]\n\n9 1903\n\n513/04\n\nwatching later\n\nreport 6780/05. Presumably\n\nments\n\nshowed no\n\n... defect\n\nto remedy\n\nand\n\nsubsection 2 (2)\n\nDasis Ord\n\nThe\n\nhow\n\nKe\n\ntwo provisos\n\nare\n\nfacts\n\nM-Ridley\n\n\"Noted (24/11\n\nKere\n\nDevelop-\n\nwhich\n\nand\n\nThe important\n\n:: Subject to legal criticism\n\nI don't like the\n\nSanction\n\nord Y.\n\n81H1 10/11\n\nomission of the word\n\n\"knowingly\" in § 2 (1) & the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430735, "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": "CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2]", "page_number": 288, "title": "CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2]", "content_text": "\"abundant control\". \n\nAt II. Other explosives are now added to Dynamite, which require special treatment. The nomenclature is incorrect.\n\nArt I is now low; it provides that the Agreement remains in force \"the Agreement between the Governments of Great Britain and China regarding the use of the Imperial Maritime Customs sub-office at Pakhoi to maintain a post where manifests may be approved\".\n\nIn the original draft, the word \"Liang\" appears. When we consulted the `GR1178/1922/32(III)`, it was said that \"Las Cruces considers it undesirable that the right of the hump. Mar. Cartons to a station in Hongkong should be recognised, and he therefore suggested words to the effect\" so long as the sub-office is permitted\" said the Minister at Sham shui po. The clauses spring to the I.M.C. office at Pakhoi.\n\nThe O.A.G. `20/20260/100` concurred. The O.A.G. was sent a copy of the comments.\n\nI take it that the new Art II, standing alone, is not a contravention of the news taken by Lord ... (tear in original). It is not an \"unreserved recognition of the right to have a station\". But I should like to hear what others have to say on the point.\n\n## Art I. (old Art II in original draft)\n\nThe original draft showed registered launches to enter any port whatsoever in China. The draft now gives only the right of entry to ports in the two Kuang provinces. This sounds like a serious violation of the privileges previously granted to by Ministers of China. Lay the I.M.C. but I don't think it is really a serious matter - the Launch had sufficient licence traffic necessarily restricted to the rivers within the Kwangs. I know it does not extend beyond the Kuang provinces. And as Sir R. Lugard has consulted the local trade practitioners throughout, it is fairly certain that there has been no objection to the effect of the amendment being to restrict launch trade.\n\n## I(b) and (c)\n\nA more precise definition of the requirements laid down in the corresponding sections of the original draft is needed. See (d) is new and provides for examination on the return journey. The omission of a corresponding...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430742, "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": "CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2]", "page_number": 295, "title": "CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2]", "content_text": "# ARTICLE III and surrounding text\n\n\n286 \n\nbaffled 90 \n\nI daba \n\n... \n\nU \n\n.`. I JUNJU \n\ni \n\nrained trwb yo ve hxfP (4) \n\nLow. \n\nbriz yd e-nowD DIEN 302 Co \n\nI Data ANG ** \n70/2014/1 \n\nDiet Touch via darti (2) \n\nan od mo \n\nenbitor \n\nbe Lupend \n\nwda ti ter (2) \n\nmos we reqsed to dremyaq bobavo Man \n\notsuimerov noteikti sattinen I. treqnul end of toxi \n\n## Article or Section\n\n#400P [[ade to gribas meve dart (1) \n\n«qlimarth A Kindrall oris main ones friswdup brun Ktawici \n\nstas brave cels to samojego to memoi immot erit enotni \n\nduralau 90 wigion élmu gaiquid loasov grøvd (e) \n\nProq, qbiscump eft oraloob [Iade yncIoù end to ared w arid \n\n♦vudcotte.. wedan std of roltenitaer bre niato \n\nhmal ed of si o deqjIsu no \"wrigina \n\nmun domaw beenscli a mi bejinogen ed \n\ntower & fored to dout you (0) \n\nID: 11 boqqib, im nd 20 \n\nTedregst leueu ert suorid.tw viofou Ad to arotza edo cink endey \n\nmkonsell off yd bentetek od [foria & \n\n蟹 \n\nseinwoong God forwal ne l od te metrah odð 11*mu prioriLA \n\node/woonq od polgate emotavo vistiek laineqmi dsorben orts u# \n\nvafiletwoob bestupes \n\nfront twarchodis ad vær enteqdieŭ no muniquo,Iad ok(o) \n\n1 dow \n\n24 qubrar dosko \n\nThe Salt, Sulphur or Saltpetre is declared for export to China, \nshall be granted only on production of the usual import Certificate properly authenticated by the Commissioner of Imperial Maritime Customs,\n\n(a) Every Licensee of a Licensed Warehouse for Salt, Sulphur, or Saltpetre shall keep such books as may be prescribed, showing imports, exports and local sales. The Books shall at all times be open to inspection by Government.\n\n(e) Every manufacturer of Salt in the New Territories leased under the Convention of June 19th, 1898, shall deposit the Salt manufactured by him in a Licensed Warehouse, and the Licensee thereof shall keep a register in a prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times open to inspection by Government.\n\n(r) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep Salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special license.\n\n(g) Salt in excess of a prescribed quantity shall not be removed from a licensed Warehouse or Shop, or from place to place in the Colony except under Permit from the proper authority.\n\n## ARTICLE III\n\nNo person shall have Dynamite or other explosives in his possession except as provided by law, and no person shall store Dynamite except by licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used daily. All such books shall be open to inspection by Government.\n\n## ARTICLE IV\n\nSo long as this Agreement shall remain in force the Hong Kong Government will permit the Imperial Maritime Customs to maintain a sub-office at Shamshiupo or elsewhere as may be approved by the Hong Kong Government for Customs purposes.\n\n## ARTICLE V\n\nSteam Launches duly registered by the Imperial Maritime Customs under the Inland Waters Steam Navigation Regulations", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430969, "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": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "page_number": 151, "title": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "content_text": "## HONG KONG\n12441\n\nI don't know why they have found it necessary to pass this measure - The AG.\n\n### Engagement Termination\nMy engagement in not bringing his sortida terminated. If on the other hand you merely propose to terminate his agreement \"leave\" means merely absence without salary, I have no objection to the grant & apenas.\n\n5. At Uganda's agralinity Amon are away from previous's pore that my predecessor, whose views I share, objected to I on the whole. The principle of ping patientes in thee share temsider that the best plan as he to face My Baller forth with Trennonalle establishment.\n\nGrant him leave in the on... The adming cause but not to grant him a pracity. In view of the fact that his salary will in norced, on joining the personable \"tuff\" I wd not object to her being fran tida You pere passage home Date.\n\n25 March Fauctioned / 3.\n\n### Previous Paper\nUs). Wt.28,032---50. 0.1110. A.&E.W.\n\n### Subsequent Paper\nOrdinance. No 4.1911. Fiskene's (Dynamite) Submits Mistables. Cox. Spava cara's Snit lo dicens. \"Noted Corf. 415.\n\n### Objection\nIve not exflanir but there can be no bit Sanation 27 K I presume that the reason elsewhere is the reckless destruction of incrature fish. Atome AB 2/4 20\n\n### References\nRece Ref 17 IPR I! `GR1178/1922/32(III)` \nPage 143 \nPage 12441 \n1911", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430970, "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": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "content_text": "# No. 10.\n\n## Enclosure 1.\n\n**C O 12441/144**\n\n**RECR**\n\nGovernment House, \nHongkong, 25th March, 1911.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to submit for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure the following Ordinance entitled:- \n**An Ordinance to prohibit the use of Dynamite or other Explosives for the purpose of catching or destroying Fish.** (No. 4 of 1911.)\n\n2. The customary report by the Attorney-General is annexed.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, humble servant, \n**Francis Henry May** \nGovernor, &c., &c.\n\n## Enclosure 2.\n\nThe Right Honourable \n**LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,** \n&c., &c., &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430971, "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": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "page_number": 153, "title": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "content_text": "# Report on Ordinance No. 4 of 1911\n\n## ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS, Hongkong...... 23rd March, 1911.\n\nReport on Ordinance No. 4 of 1911\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled **An Ordinance to prohibit the use of Dynamite or other Explosives for the purpose of catching or destroying Fish** and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.\n\nThis Ordinance prohibits the use of dynamite or other explosives in the waters of the Colony for the purpose of catching or destroying fish. It follows `40 & 41 Victoria chapter 65`.\n\nW. Rees Davies \n**Attorney General**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433627, "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": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "page_number": 208, "title": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "content_text": "# Losure \n\n## Closure 5. \n1 \n## Closure 6. \n199 \n\nGovernment (one a British subject). The first definite information however reached me on Friday 17th, when I learnt from the Registrar-General that a strong Committee had been formed in Hongkong ostensibly for the revival of trade, of which the Chairman was a Chinese holding an official position on the Sanitary Board. This afforded me an occasion for summoning the leading Chinese, and on Sunday afternoon 19th, I had a conversation with them, of which I attach a précis. I am informed that this meeting had an excellent effect, and that the Chinese of whatever shade of opinion are now all agreed that their best course is to consult me in every matter. As a first result, the Registrar-General on the 20th instant brought me the attached telegram addressed to the Directors of the Tung Wa Hospital, which they desired should be laid before me at once for my advice. They said they considered it to be a trap to catch them. If they replied in the affirmative to the question asked, they would be held to be responsible for the loan; if in the negative, they would be considered as unfriendly to the Revolutionary movement. I drafted the reply attached, which was welcomed by them as an excellent solution.\n\n## (District Officer N.T.)\n\nA \nOn the 17th instant, Mr. D. W. Trench reported that the Police Launch in Star Bay had that day been collecting licences from fishing boats whose owners were domiciled in Chinese Territory but plying in British waters. Most of the boats had paid their fees, but some 3 or 4 had driven off the launch, saying they had already paid $5 to the Revolutionaries and would pay no more, and threatening to throw dynamite if the launch approached. I regretted that the present moment had been chosen to collect licences from Chinese living in China, and in a district proverbially turbulent, and I instructed the District Officer not to collect any more. I addressed a letter (attached) to the Consul-General, and in order to prevent the occurrence of any further regrettable incidents, and to show the people that we were at any moment in a position to enforce our demands, I requested the Commodore", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433646, "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": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "page_number": 227, "title": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 7\n\n**Government House,** \nHongkong, 21st November, 1911\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that on the night of 14th, twelve Chinese armed with rifles and carrying a Revolutionary flag crossed the British frontier from Chinese territory at Lou Chi Ling. They were disarmed and brought to Sheung Shui Police Station where they remained the night. The leader stated that he was on his way from Ham Tau to Sha Tau Kok to pacify the people and had not intended to violate the frontier. As soon as the news reached me late at night by telephone, I gave orders that the men should be released and allowed to proceed by the direct road to Sha Tau Kok, and that on crossing the frontier into Chinese territory their arms should be restored to them. This was done the following morning.\n\nLate on Friday night (17th), I received news that an English Police Sergeant in charge of Police launch on Mirs Bay had been engaged in collecting the usual licence fees from fishing boats plying in British waters, as has been customary in the past. Some paid, but 4 or 5 declined to do so and stated that they had already paid $5 to the Revolutionaries, and drove him off with threats that they would throw dynamite at him. I regret that an attempt to collect these licences should have been made at the present moment, and I have instructed the District Officer to refrain from any further collection at present. You may, however, find occasion to point out to the new Government at Canton the friendly action taken by this Government in the first incident, and to contrast it with the attitude shown in the second by people calling themselves Revolutionaries.\n\n3. I have arranged for a Gunboat to proceed early on Monday morning (20th instant) to Mirs Bay, in order to prevent any repetition of such incidents. In the meantime, the present Authorities would do well to take steps to see that the boats...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433777, "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": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "page_number": 358, "title": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "content_text": "348 \n\n**strong** patrols of troops through the most populous districts every second day. I have engaged as a temporary expedient 20 selected soldiers who have been put through a course of instruction in \"police tact and duties\" as a reinforcement to the European Police. I have instructed the Captain Superintendent of Police to warn all European ladies to carry a Police whistle when shopping, &c., in the City. I have replaced the Police guard on the explosives depôt by a strong Military guard. I have declined to allow the export of dynamite to Macao (270 cases had been applied for and sent since September) and I have taken various other executive measures, of which the most important is the Amendment of the Peace Preservation Ordinance, which I now have the honour to submit to you, with the customary report by the Attorney-General.\n\nEnclosure 5.\n\nEnclosure 6.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\nhumble servant,\n\nHungary\nGovernor, &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433910, "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": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "page_number": 491, "title": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "content_text": "481 \n\n4. \n\n**(a)** That the service is not under the control of the Government; and **(b)** that the service is or should be a very lucrative one, and the Colonial Government derives no revenue from it, though restrictions are made in the Harbour Regulations to protect the Cables, and trespass takes place on Crown lands, for which the owners are at any time liable to prosecution. It appeared to me not unreasonable that the Commercial Company, which enjoys privileges elsewhere in respect of the concessions made by the Hongkong Government, should indemnify the Colonial Revenue for the concession and the loss to Revenue.\n\nRecent occurrences in China have made the position still more anomalous. The Hongkong telegraphs are, I learn from the Superintendent, entirely subordinate to the Shanghai Office. Sir J. Jordan telegraphed to me on the 15th instant as follows: - \"With my concurrence and in order to avert interruption of through traffic, telegraph companies are concluding provisional arrangement with the Revolutionary Telegraph Administration. This involves de facto recognition of the Revolutionaries where they control the telegraph system, and I have stipulated for the exclusion of Hongkong in consequence.\" If Hongkong be excluded, it ceases to be under the control of the Shanghai Manager, and not being included in the arrangement with the Revolutionaries, it occupies an independent position theoretically still under the control of the Board of Communications in Peking, in practice in the hands of the temporary Government at Canton.\n\n5.\n\nMy recent despatches have informed you of the traffic in dynamite and bombs. I have today received a despatch from the Consul-General at Canton informing me that 70 pounds of dynamite with detonators, smuggled from Hongkong in one of the ordinary river steamers (crowded with passengers, and involving a most serious risk of disaster), which was seized by the Imperial Maritime Customs at Canton, was handed over by them to the bomb-throwing association under threat that if it were not given up, the Customs House would be forthwith wrecked. The person conveying it declared himself to be an official of the provisional...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434915, "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": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 329, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## Draft Anglo-Chinese Customs Convention of Hong Kong\n\nTHE Government of His Britannic Majesty and the Government of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China being mutually desirous of safe-guarding the revenue of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs and of securing reciprocal benefits of trade and commerce have authorised the undersigned to conclude the following agreement.\n\n### ARTICLE 1\n\nA junk means any sea-going sailing-vessel of Chinese or other Asiatic build, construction, and rig. For the better regulation of such vessels in the waters of the colony the Hong Kong Government will arrange:\n\n(a) That junks shall be licensed as at present in two classes as trading or fishing, the latter may only be employed in fishing, and no junk may receive a licence in both classes at the same time.\n\n(b) That every junk whether licensed or unlicensed shall be provided by the harbour master with a certificate of registration in the form of a pass book to be hereafter mutually agreed upon.\n\n(c) That trading junks may not leave any port in the colony between the hours of 6 P.M. and 6 A.M. from October to March (inclusive), or 7 P.M. to 5 A.M. from April to September. Supervision shall be exercised by the proper British authority to prevent contravention of this rule.\n\n(d) That fishing junks shall have their certificate number painted on their mainsails in such manner as the harbour-master may direct. Supervision shall be exercised by the proper British authority over stores carried.\n\n(e) That every trading junk shall enter and clear at the harbour-master's station when arriving at or departing from the following ports: Victoria, Shaukiwan, Sai Kung, Tai O, Cheung Chau, Shau Tau Kok, Aberdeen, Tai Po, Stanley, Yaumati.\n\nProvided that the above list may be altered or added to by mutual consent at any time.\n\n(f) That every junk entering or clearing shall have her pass book certificate and also her Imperial Maritime Customs pass book endorsed and dated by the harbour authority, and the harbour authority shall satisfy himself that the junk has reported at the proper Imperial Maritime Customs Station en route to and from the colony.\n\n(g) That any junk failing to produce her Imperial Maritime Customs and proof of payment of customs dues, shall be detained by the harbour authority while the junk master proceeds to the nearest Imperial Maritime Customs Station to secure the required documents.\n\n(h) That if the harbour authority is satisfied that a junk has evaded payment of proper customs dues, he shall notify the fact to the Imperial Maritime Customs Commissioner.\n\n(2) That every trading junk shall deposit a manifest of inward and outward cargo with the harbour authority, who shall inform the Commissioner of Customs of the contents thereof.\n\n### ARTICLE 2\n\n(a) Every vessel bringing salt, sulphur, or saltpetre into the waters of the colony shall declare the quantity, port of origin, and destination to the harbour authority. If the salt, sulphur, or saltpetre is to be landed or transhipped, it shall be deposited in a licensed warehouse.\n\n(b) Any junk or launch importing salt, sulphur, or saltpetre into the waters of the colony without the usual Imperial Maritime Customs documents required by the Chinese authorities, shall be detained by the harbour authority until the master of the junk or launch has proceeded to the nearest Imperial Maritime Customs station to procure the required documents.\n\n(c) No salt, sulphur, or saltpetre may be withdrawn from a licensed warehouse except under a removal permit, which, if the salt, sulphur, or saltpetre is declared for export to China, shall be granted only on production of the usual import certificate properly authenticated by the commissioner of Imperial Maritime Customs.\n\n(d) Every licensee of a licensed warehouse for salt, sulphur, or saltpetre shall keep such books as may be prescribed showing imports, exports, and local sales. The books shall at all times be open to inspection by Government.\n\n(e) Every manufacturer of salt in the new territories leased under the convention of the 19th June, 1898, shall deposit the salt manufactured by him in a licensed warehouse, and the licensee thereof shall keep a register in a prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times open to inspection by Government.\n\n(f) No retail dealer in the new territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special licence.\n\n(g) Salt in excess of a prescribed quantity shall not be removed from a licensed warehouse or shop or from place to place in the colony except under permit from the proper British authority.\n\n### ARTICLE 3\n\nNo person shall have dynamite or other explosives in his possession except as provided by law, and no person shall store dynamite except by licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit and the amount used daily. All such books shall be open to inspection by Government.\n\n### ARTICLE 4\n\nSo long as this agreement shall remain in force the Hong Kong Government will permit the Imperial Maritime Customs to maintain a sub-office at ShamshuiPo or elsewhere as may be approved by the Hong Kong Government for customs purposes.\n\n### ARTICLE 5\n\nSteam launches duly registered by the Imperial Maritime Customs under the Inland Waters Steam Navigation Regulations may trade between Hong Kong and non-open ports in the Liang-Kuang provinces provided that:\n\n(a) On each occasion of arrival at and departure from Hong Kong the launch master shall deposit his manifest in duplicate with the harbour authorities, who shall send one copy to the Imperial Maritime Customs Commissioner.\n\n(b) The launch master shall apply for and be granted a special pass from the Imperial Maritime Customs for each trip which shall specify the destination and places at which the launch may desire to call, and the customs stations to be passed or called at on the inward and outward voyage to and from China. The launch must proceed direct to the first customs station specified on the pass.\n\n(c) All launches proceeding to non-treaty ports in the Liang Kuang provinces under this article must call at the Imperial Maritime Customs sub-office agreed upon by the Hong Kong Government where cargo and baggage will be examined, and hatches may be sealed after loading. Dues may be paid at the master's option at such sub-office or at the station specified on the pass.\n\nPage 325", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435210, "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": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 624, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "618 \n\nThe revolutionaries kept their secret fairly well, many of the Chinese seem to have known that there was going to be trouble, and some of the richer inhabitants in the Western Suburbs had already fled to Hongkong or Macao before the 27th of the month. The murder of the Acting Tartar General was a fatal step from the point of view of the secret society men, since it put the officials on their guard, and the Admiral especially seems to have been kept to some extent informed of the influx of suspicious characters into the City which increased largely in the week before the outbreak. Many of these appear to have settled in the Manchu quarter to the South-West of the Old City, and the uneasiness their presence caused is shown by the fact that many of the wealthier Chinese living in the quarter moved into the Western suburbs or the Eastern City.\n\nThe Viceroy was approached on the subject, but apparently declined to act until his plans were matured, though by moving large forces of troops into the City on the 25th and 26th he showed he was well aware of what was on foot. On the 27th he took the step which precipitated events. About 3 p.m. one of the chief leaders in the conspiracy with eight others was suddenly arrested, and all the Yamens were ordered to take the most vigilant precautions.\n\nThis arrest apparently disheartened most of the conspirators already on the spot, and it is most probable that the disturbances were mainly due to another body of revolutionaries who arrived from Hongkong on the steamships \"Honam\" and \"Wing On\" the same afternoon. This party, though numbering only some hundred men, saw their only chance was to strike at once. They laid their plans with a skill which shows they must have been highly organised and well provided with arms, ammunition and dynamite bombs. Small parties were detailed to the `Kuel Tel` ( ) and Great South Gates to hold in check any attempt at rescue from outside the City, while the main body was divided into three detachments of about thirty men each, of which one was to attack the Viceroy's Yamen, the second to seize the Arsenal at the Little North Gate, and the third to invade the Manchu quarter where it was supposed they...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435212, "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": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 626, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## 620 \n\nC \n\nGates were routed by rescue parties from the Admiralty on \nthe Bund, with which the Viceroy was in communication by \ntelephone. The revolutionaries made a spirited attack on the Yamen of the \nProvincial Treasurer, which was guarded by 100 soldiers, \nand killed or wounded twelve men before they fled with \nquarter.\n\nThe number of revolutionaries killed in the fighting \nseems to have been ridiculously small, only some seven or \neight, but forty-two were captured alive and summarily executed: 37 outside the Viceroy's, 3 outside the Tartar \nGeneral's Yamen, and 2 on the Execution Ground. \n\nThe losses in killed and wounded among the police and soldiery numbered between 50 and 60. This disparity can only be accounted for by panic on the part of the soldiery and the \nabsolute fanaticism of the revolutionaries.\n\nAn instance of both cases may be given. \nA small military officer detailed with 40 rank and file to escort three foreigners \nout of the City on the morning of the 28th declined to go \nfurther than the Great South Gate, saying that it was certain \ndeath with so small an escort to traverse the New City. \nOn the other hand, a party of five revolutionaries, probably \nfrom the detachment which was repulsed from the Manchu \nYamen, forced their way out with a loss of one killed.\n\nDesultory street fighting went on all through \nFriday, the 28th, and a certain number of arrests were \nmade and a haphazard search begun, but the Government \nseems to have taken no rigorous steps to root out the \nremnants of the revolutionaries, merely taking precautions that none of them should escape or any help \nreach them from outside. Another serious outbreak seems \nto have been anticipated, and the main streets were kept \nclear of all save soldiers.\n\nBefore daylight on the 29th, a vigorous attempt \nwas made to force the Great North Gate from the inside, \nbut this failed, and with it the last chance of escape \nfor the revolutionaries. Early in the morning, the \nSouthern Gates were opened for a short while, but an \nexplosion of dynamite near the `Kuel Te` caused ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439207, "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": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "page_number": 124, "title": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "content_text": "Chapter VII.\n\nRegulation 27. Should any objection be raised, whether before or after the issue of the licence, against any applicant for licence, the Mining Affairs Deputy shall forward to the Commissioner of Industry the name of the objector and the reason of his objection.\n\nRegulation 28. No objection will be considered, unless for one of the following reasons:-\n\n(1). Inconvenience to the landlords of the proposed mine.\n\n(2). When the mine of the applicant encroaches upon an adjoining mine belonging to the objector.\n\n(3). When the proposed mine wholly or partly covers any lot of land already granted to the objector.\n\n(4). Oppression exercised by the original applicant on the strength of his licence on the peasants of any village in the neighbourhood.\n\n(5). When the grant of the licence is inconvenient to the locality.\n\n(6). When the objector puts forward lack of qualification...\n\nif any of the parties proposes some scheme for its removal, but fails to secure the co-operation of the other parties, the Mining Affairs Deputy in Charge shall report to the Commissioner of Industry who will send a Mining Inspector duly to investigate, and if the proposed scheme is found practicable, will exhort the various parties to procure sufficient capital and carry out the scheme accordingly.\n\nRegulation 24. No mine-owner shall make any alteration to any water way, lake and harbour etc.\n\nRegulation 25. No mine-owner shall cut down any of the trees which are not included in his mining licence, though lying within the boundaries of his mine; but he may purchase them from the Government, if they belong to the Government or from the owner, if they are property of private persons.\n\nRegulation 26. In any case where dynamite is required for the operation of any work, the miner must have the necessary licence before purchase and transportation of the same is allowed, and shall keep record of the quantity consumed from day to day.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441036, "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": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 372, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "# SEC. 1679. \nThe master of any vessel arriving at a port in the Philippine Islands having firearms, gunpowder, cartridges, dynamite or any other class of explosives and munitions of war concealed on board his vessel, or not contained in the ship's manifest, shall be liable to a fine of not exceeding four thousand pesos, and all of such articles, together with such vessel, shall be seized and forfeited.\n\n# SEC. 1680. \nExcept as provided by the last preceding section, if any merchandise be found on board any vessel from a foreign port which is not included in her manifest, produced as required by this title, the master shall forfeit an amount equal to double the duties fixed therefor: PROVIDED ALWAYS, That if it appears to the collector that such omission occurred with intent to defraud the revenue, the master shall in addition forfeit an amount equal to the value of the merchandise not manifested, and all such merchandise belonging or consigned to the officers or crew of the vessel shall be seized and forfeited; but if such merchandise belongs to any other person acting in good faith the same shall be released upon payment of the regular duties and charges thereon. If any package or article named on the manifest be missing on the arrival of the vessel, or if the merchandise on board does not otherwise agree with the manifest delivered by the master, except as above prescribed, the master shall be liable to a penalty of not less than five hundred pesos and not more than five thousand pesos, and in addition an amount equal to the value of the said missing merchandise as ascertained by the collector of customs, unless the collector shall be satisfied that such deficiency or disagreement occurred without fraudulent intent, in which case said penalty shall not be inflicted: PROVIDED, NEVERTHELESS, That if such disagreement or deficiency is found by the collector to be due to the carelessness, negligence, or incompetence of the master of the vessel, her owners, or agents a penalty of not more than the value thereof may be imposed upon the master for each package missing or materially disagreeing in marks, character, or otherwise with the description thereof in the manifest.\n\nAll penalties inflicted under the provisions of this section shall be forthwith reported to the Insular Collector with full particulars of the offense committed and of the previous conduct of the master in like matters.\n\nPage 368\n\n355-302. Firearms, explosives, concealed.\n\n355-303. Merchandise not manifested. Missing packages. Report on penalties.\n\n355-313 864-5 1405-6 Authority to make seizures, fix penalties, etc.\n\n# SEC. 1690. \nWhenever in the judgment of the collector of customs there has been a violation of this title, or of any customs, navigation, immigration, or exclusion Act, subjecting any merchandise, vessel, animal, or other property to the satisfaction of a fine, penalty, confiscation, or forfeiture, the collector of customs shall seize the property, proceeding as in section seventeen hundred and twelve hereof, and shall notify the owner of the merchandise, vessel, animal, or other property, or his agent in possession, in writing, of the fact, giving to such person or owner or agent an opportunity to be heard in reference to the offenses charged, and after such hearing the collector of customs shall fix in writing the fine or penalty which in his judgment ought to be imposed and the description and value of the merchandise, vessel, animal, or other property which should be confiscated or forfeited. The", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 443505, "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": "CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6]", "page_number": 543, "title": "CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6]", "content_text": "# COPY. Confidential.\n\n133.\n\nSir,\n\nC.O. 24322\nREC? 534\n\nThe Captain Superintendant's office,\nPolice Department,\n**REG 14 JUL 13**\nHongkong, 19th June, 1913.\n\nI have the honour to report that on the 16th instant Detective Constable C 182 Lau Lam, stationed at Sham Shui Po, reported to P.S. A 57 McKay, officer in charge of Sham Shui Po Station, that he was suspicious of the inmates of 1 Suidter Street, 2nd floor, Tai Kok Tsui. P.S. A 57 McKay, in company with the detective, thereupon visited the premises. In consequence of his enquiries he asked for a Superintendent to visit the premises. He was directed to watch the house and detain the inmates. At 6.30 p.m. on the same date the Assistant Superintendent visited the house.\n\nThe following were found: -\n1. On the 2nd floor the following six persons were found:\n - Wong Min Sang, 24 years, Annamite, ex-student of St. Joseph's College.\n - Chan Meng, 57 years, Annamite, came from Siam about 20 days ago.\n - Lai Lan, 17 years, Annamite, ex-student of St. Joseph's College.\n - Wun Yuk, 30 years, Annamite, came from Siam about 20 days ago.\n - Yau Yau Tsing, 30 years, Annamite, came from Siam about 20 days ago.\n - Lai Chan, 29 years, Annamite, came from Siam about 20 days ago.\n\nThey had rented the floor from May 14th, 1913.\n\nIn various articles of luggage claimed by the six men, Police found the following:\n- 18 glass tubes, some of which were partially prepared as detonators for bombs.\n- 13 large empty cast-iron bomb-shells.\n- 10 sticks of dynamite.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 444105, "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": "CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10]", "page_number": 102, "title": "CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10]", "content_text": "# 103\n\n1. Report on an Ordinance entitled **An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Explosive Substances**.\n\n2. Section 1 of the Ordinance is formal.\n\n3. Section 2 of the Ordinance defines Explosive Substances. The definition is taken from Section 9 of the Explosive Substances Act 1883.\n\n4. The object of this Bill is to introduce into the local Legislature certain of the provisions of the Explosive Substances Act 1883. There seems, unfortunately, good reason to fear that amongst the Chinese, the practice of manufacturing and using Bombs is becoming common; recent assassinations in China indicate that the methods of making these destructive implements are well known. During the last year, a locally made Bomb was thrown in the Colony with fatal effect by a Chinaman, whilst quite recently a large gang of Chinese who appear to have come to the Colony from Annam and Siam, and some of whom had been educated in the Colony, were captured with an elaborate and extensive outfit of materials for the manufacture of Bombs, their apparatus and materials consisting of such articles as Iron bomb shells, Detonators, Dynamite, Gun-cotton, Chlorate of Potash, Nitro-glycerine compounds, and other substances too numerous to mention in detail. Under these circumstances, it appeared evident that the provisions of the Ordinances relating to Arms and Ammunition and to Dangerous Goods were not adequate to deal properly with this class of affair, nor did it appear that the ordinary sections of the Criminal Law dealing with direct attacks on persons and properties fully cover circumstances of the character indicated. It seemed that what was here requisite were the principal provisions of the Explosive Substances Act, 1883, and this Ordinance brings into force locally the main sections of that Act.\n\n5. Section 3 prescribes that any person who unlawfully and maliciously causes an explosion of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property shall be guilty of felony, whether or not such explosion has been followed by injury to person or property. This section is taken from Section 2 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1883.\n\n6. Section 4 of the Ordinance is taken from Section 5 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1883, and prescribes that any person who unlawfully does any act with intent to cause by an explosion, or conspires to cause by an explosive an explosion likely to endanger life or cause injury to property, or who makes or has in his possession any explosive with intent by means thereof to endanger life or damage property, or to enable any other person so to do, shall be guilty of felony, whether any explosion has taken place or not, and whether or not injury to person or property has been caused.\n\n7. By Section 5, it is provided that any person who makes or has in his possession any explosive substance under circumstances which give rise to suspicion that such explosive is not being made or possessed for a lawful object shall, unless he can show a good excuse, be guilty of felony. This Section is taken from Section 4 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1883.\n\n8. Section 6 of the Ordinance deals with the position of accessories and prescribes that they can be tried and punished as if they were principals. This Section is taken from Section 5 (erroneously referred to as the same section number in the original, but correctly corresponding to the Explosive Substances Act 1883's structure) of the Explosive Substances Act, 1883.\n\n9. Section 7 of the Ordinance prescribes that nothing in the Ordinance shall exempt any person from any proceeding for any offence punishable other than under the provisions of the Ordinance.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449601, "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": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "page_number": 283, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "875\n\n279\n\n•yvent Innoissæiedri to comiteb -baitinu end reed sai ebutaiupsib evṣ1 107 Monney Telijona\n\nbra babjad ni Loloitto daixwï eldianoçsen ya tnaldnews yi ent to Jusvetioni nego erit bre ndos¿dve deitina to minundoyose.. Tell bne nistina Jæeul Janies selonio Laioitto neixwi yd noiteInyog\n\n+\n\n.Bella\n\n-, javod a'ydzejui sill void^oovory kint ILs Milindandiwtol,\n\nwuried vol beduditadur erew dísizw. ti jand betamiðni yino don dna.. niqyire Jiulote.. najjima 12,\"unlee1S\" brus \"nedeoë\" and no kwell aeljub sit duo ¿rmo plenione, niuow yeaw. li bne Sebequi dor 387 eu Finov adua slitsoni me naivilajolli seent II: ‚etada Lexjuen e to Jarij novi, 80 Alwow bedriïus nedjim ben reloa a bebeicofroVO kun sonetneçebni and Joergen vlavolayers Iliw nistiya JoSTU .eriquű mazodsů add to ysiqJOJNİ\n\nnotzulongo erst de tot mevİ, OTOW BOOLAINARA SIQSIEŃĴxasT awob bigf exev anoljibmoo on doit vea Fivoy mistira tæerû coɛng to okomode tuilt bas ytiqadri bas eɔnebneqeini tunt risqué Bloow dołdw beniutɗo ed bluow yexwl of elderwovat tetoniano a to enoitłúngs unusvoj jezul to aludidte ent acomwans eserd to giga ni\n\nDeumitnos conativo .evitauoronq yLaisseroni asoed nistİrā JAero sity? al snoisowegory yuntilim To Josmievoð ■'ytacja BiH doner of nogu dostia edatillost od medd eaoqug varito or even blvoo do trw marie\", bra, sidog yd no beltiao ahnuongozų evidos to bmm ;dql reitkort misqus, ent (utakojŷe amoiyat ni edat. nluobes grows atnajs LOVE GIAW AJIoçer bra ererwesie Joci no dea anew asajlatni refimi2 weiv a dtiw mibni of seizaasime deizwi to dotsqeeb erit to bevisser\n\n.artsdemoniali nailki nowa „milost Misk¬g-itma yu gairikda of blnow exit al zewo¶ neterorie. Jestnet, wild nlåsing Jaeto\n\nsad sre konw yoiwi to humirt dhadaianos han Instrídkat sdt bas jepet maled edt♬ ni veande yellidoja edi revoser et bøglen yIdealbooja ni beyooeb need her yedwt tarit dengan deeduera ord ddiw ses binow na hityoba byw eiøre s'hasia to eble erit no Meared joiymey Jolano ti jud,Irtedar nu ad úlow di an slósilijautro en slutitte\n\na ai event tudi svoʻla noidnutia dreaonq edt dand Selmab ed\n\nchauvinistic element endeavouring to drive Turkey into war with England for the benefit of Germany and of Austria, the secular enemy of the Turkish State.\n\nA striking illustrations of the extent to which intrigues have been carried on is furnished by the case of a German employee in Alexandria City Police who lately returned from leave via Constantinople saying that he had been excused from military service. He was arrested on suspicion on landing, and on him were found detailed map of the Suez Canal, sheet of (--?-- ) cypher messages concealed in his tarboosh, and other compromising correspondence. He had also entrusted to (members of ships' companies ?) two (? box) es of detonators for exploding dynamite and notro-glycerine.\n\nFurther a steady stream of German officers and men both naval and military together with all kinds of war material has flow- ed unceasingly into Constantinople, which has been converted to all intents and purposes into a German military base. German officers\n\nare known to have penetrated far into the interior of the Turkish\n\nEmpire in the endeavour to stir up agitation against Great Britain and her allies. All these movements, it is impossible to doubt,\n\nhave been carried out with the direct connivance of the Ottoman\n\nAuthorities and can point to only one conclusion.\n\n(That) neutral powers (meant) deliberately and intentional- ly to provoke Great Britain to war is shown by instructions issued not later than October 18th to the Turkish commandant at Jaffa by the Turkish Minister of War, which already allude to His Majesty's Government as the enemy, give detailed orders as to resisting attack by warships and include an order to break the Consulate flagstaff and remove the insignia.\n\nThe Mosul Damascus Army Corps have since their mobilization been constantly sending troops south preparatory to an invasion of Egypt and the Suez Canal from Akaba and Gaza. A large body of Bedouin Arabs have been called out and armed to assist in this venture\n\nTransport has been collected and roads have been prepared up to the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449659, "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": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "page_number": 341, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "Government House, \n\nHongkong, \n\n7th October, 1914 \n\nSir, \n\nIn reply to Your Excellency's letter of the 1st instant, which I regret has remained so long unanswered owing to pressure of work in the Attorney General's Office, I have the honour to inform you that I am advised that the Defence of the Realm Act does not apply to this Colony.\n\nI have received no communication from the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the subject of that Act or of the regulations made thereunder, and Your Excellency will readily understand that in the absence of explicit instructions from the Secretary of State it is not competent to me to introduce local legislation of such a drastic nature, even if I were convinced of the necessity for it.\n\n2. As at present advised it seems to me that the law of the Colony, which comprises Ordinances under which the possession and carrying of arms and ammunition and of dangerous articles, such as dynamite, are strictly regulated, and the sketching of defences and publication or circulation of seditious matter are prohibited, coupled with the additional legislation comprised in the Order-in-Council of the 26th of October, 1896, is sufficiently comprehensive and does not require to be supplemented by further special legislation.\n\nMajor-General F. H. Kelly, C.B.,\n\nCommanding the Troops in South China.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452764, "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": 120, "title": "CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nWhen this is done the railway will have to be debited with the cost of the land, because the railway is a commercial undertaking, and therefore, though Crown land is being exchanged, the Colony will have to get the benefit of it. However, it is possible that this is practically the end of the capital expenditure on the railway as a single line.\n\n**HON. MR. POLLOCK**-Has this amount been really spent?\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN** Yes, and I shall move at the next meeting a vote to cover the expenses during the current year on works which will eventually total the amount of the vote.\n\n**HON. MR. POLLOCK**-Are we voting the difference between the amount on page 4 and the amount in column 9?\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-The only thing the Finance Committee can agree to is this sum of $348,866.93. You agree to authorise the payment. There will have to be a vote next year, because the work will go on. We have spent only $98,000 on the station out of an estimate of $250,000, and next year we shall probably have to vote the difference between $348,866.93 and $1,137,000, the cost of the works authorised, or, at any rate, a considerable portion of the difference.\n\n**HON. MR. POLLOCK**-Then a great deal of the amounts on page 4 are to be spent in 1915?\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-That is so.\n\n**HON. MR. HEWETT**-And we can take it that after paying these three lakhs and a half there will be a balance of seven lakhs to be added to the estimated expenditure for 1914?\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN** Nearly eight lakhs, according to this statement.\n\n**HON. MR. HEWETT** That is no part of the Budget expenditure put before us six weeks ago.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-It has nothing to do with the Budget.\n\n**HON. MR. POLLOCK**-What is the meaning of the item $12,085.76 \"write back on loss on stores\"?\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN** That dates back for years. When the stores were got out for the railway which was in process of construction they were gradually sent out to railhead, and for some reason best known to the authorities at the time they kept on deducting from the value of the stores for the purposes of their books, and the result was that as time went on the stores had a good deal deducted from their value, although the authorities had all the expense of sending them out constantly to railhead. Thus, when the construction was finished, there were a good many stores on hand. I am informed that an enormous amount of dynamite required for the tunnels was left over, and the balance of it was sold back to the people who sold it to the railway at considerable loss—a loss altogether of $14,000. This sum has, I understand, been very carefully arrived at to replace the stores at their original book value before these curious deductions were made. Really, these deductions ought never to have been made.\n\nThe account was agreed to.\n\n**HON. MR. HEWETT**-I would like my point to be made note of, so that it can be mentioned in Council.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN** Yes, that point is certainly worth considering.\n\nThe Committee then adjourned.\n\nPage 117\nPage 159\n\n## HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n### PRESENT:-\n\n17TH DECEMBER, 1914.\n\n* **HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR**, SIR FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K.C.M.G.\n* **HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL F. H. KELLY, C.B.** (General Officer Commanding Troops).\n* **HON. MR. CLAUD SEVERN** (Colonial Secretary).\n* **HON. MR. J. H. KEMP** (Attorney General).\n* **HON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE** (Colonial Treasurer).\n* **HON. MR. A. F. CHURCHILL** (Director of Public Works).\n* **HON. MR. E. R. HALLIFAX** (Secretary for Chinese Affairs).\n* **HON. MR. C. McI. MESSER** (Captain Superintendent of Police).\n* **HON. MR. WEI YUK, C.M.G.**\n* **HON. MR. E. A. HEWETT, C.M.G.**\n* **HON. MR. LAU CHU PAK.**\n* **HON. MR. E. SHELLIM.**\n* **MR. M. J. BREEN** (Clerk of Councils).\n\n### Local War Expenditure\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY**-With regard to Financial Minute No. 84, this is an item of $78,300 for expenses in connection with the war. I would like to remind you that two votes have been passed by this Council of $50,000 each for expenses in connection with the war, but it is proposed now, if you approve of this vote, to cancel these two votes—in fact, the second one has already been cancelled—and to substitute this one. Now this vote involves payment by the Colony of the expenses that have been incurred in connection with the mobilisation of the Volunteers, and in speaking of the Volunteers I include the Volunteer Reserves. Also expenses connected with various other miscellaneous items: payment of police, and the cable and postal censorship and the payment of the passages of the crews of Prize vessels who have been sent Home, or to their native places, and various other minor expenses which are all included under the head \"miscellaneous.\" I hope that hon. members will agree with me that it is fitting that the Colony should bear this expenditure. That is to say, should bear the cost of the mobilisation of the Volunteers and the other expenses which have been incurred. If you approve this vote, you will, in fact, accept the principle and approve it, of the continued payment of these and similar charges throughout the duration of the war. Other Colonies, as you know having read your newspapers—have made substantial contributions towards the Imperial Exchequer in this matter, and I am sure hon. members would like to see this small dependency of the Crown doing what she can to relieve the British taxpayers of the enormous burdens which have fallen upon them.\n\n### Minutes\n\nThe minutes of the previous meeting were confirmed.\n\n### Paper\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** laid on the table the report of the proceedings of the Finance Committee held on the 3rd December.\n\n### Financial Minutes\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY**, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid on the table Financial Minutes Nos. 32 to 87, and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee.\n\n### Sketching Ordinance\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL** moved the second reading of the Bill entitled, \"An Ordinance to Amend the Defences (Sketching Prevention) Ordinance, 1895.\"\n\n**THE COLONIAL TREASURER** seconded, and this was agreed to.\n\nPage 152\nPage 120\nPage 121", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-420 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453217, "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": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "## VOL. 2\n\n| DESP. NO. | DATE | SUBJECT | Conf. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 110 | 25 Mar. | Tiger Killed in New Territory. | |\n| | | 飙 Capt. Buhrmann, German Prisoner. | |\n| | | Deportation of Hira Singh. | |\n| 126 | 16 April | Bills held by Deutsch-Asiatische Bank. | Conf. |\n| 17 | 19 | Repatriation of Undesirable Indians. | Conf. |\n| 130 | | Trading with the Enemy. | + |\n| | | Whit against In = Chatham. | fr Conf. |\n| 26 | 4 | Kieler Mission of Pakhoi. Antimony | |\n| | | Tel. Sec. | 1137 |\n| 29 | | Chinese Post Office. | Conf. 116 |\n| 30 | | | 37 |\n| 7 | | Comdr. B.R.H. Taylor. | 酣 |\n| 44 | 8 | Banishment of Japanese Demands on China. | Conf. 119 |\n| | | Tel. Conf. European War. Enemy Firms. Teosto Garrels, Borner & Co. | + |\n| | | Openings for Japanese manufactures. | |\n| | 5 April | Services Representations from Chinese members of Leg. Council. | |\n| | | of Wong Shek-kin. | |\n| | | Enemy Firms. Eastern mail Contract. European War. Japanese Demands on China. | |\n| | | Expenditure, 1915. Special Police Reserve. | |\n| | | Singapore Riot. Sam Shui Po Improvement Scheme. Hung Chin-lin, Political Refugee. | |\n| | | Zur S. A. Reville. | |\n| | | $ Pood | |\n| | 16 | of Inspector of Vernacular Schools. | Conf. Tel. |\n| | | Contraband on S.S. \"Phemius\" | |\n| | | Transhipment of Dynamite. | Sec. Tel. 120 |\n| | 10 | in | 2 |\n| | | Sec. Tel. | 13 |\n| | | | 124- Tel. |\n| | 15 | | 4 |\n| | | | 125 |\n| | | HE Estate late W. J. may. Mr G. G. Burnett. | |\n| | | Ordinance 9 of 1915. | |\n| 133 | 20 | Japanese Demands on Dr. E. Grouveu, Prisoner of War. | A Tel. |\n| | 21 | Hot Fong Steamship Co. | |\n| 137 | 22 | Hung Chin-lin, Political Refugee. | |\n| | | Eng | |\n| 139 | | | 4 |\n| | 23 | | И |\n| | | A | |\n| | 26 | | 27 |\n| 149 | 28 | | \"Tel. |\n| | 29 | | # 4 |\n| | 30 | | A 159 Conf. |\n| | | Export of Contraband Goode. | |\n| | | Railway Construction Account. | |\n| | | Death of Mr. P.S. Adlington. | |\n| | | Carriage of Chinese Emigrants from Swatow to Sumatra. | |\n| | | Special Censorship. Mr G. G. Burnett. | |\n| | | European War. Transhipment of Dynamite. | |\n| | | Liquidation of Berblinger & Co. | |\n| | | Match waxe Contraband for Haiphong. | Otc |\n| | | S.S. \"Fore | |\n| | | Belgian Red Cross. | |\n| | | Banishment of Chan Ju-sking. | A |\n| | | Export of Contraband Goods. | |\n| | | Leather in Possession of Russo Asiatic Bank. | |\n| | | Export of Chinese Tim to San Francisco. | |\n| | | Safety of Life at Sea. | |\n| | | Trading with the Enemy. | |\n\n(47615A) Wt 12218A/2108 2000 10/28 H & J, Ld Gp 113", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453630, "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": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 416, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "## HONG KONG\n1 7623\n\n**RECE** 410\n**C.O** 17623\n**REG 16 APR 15**\n\nTranshipment of Dynamite\n\nFrench wish to tranship 10 tons from Japan in route for the mines at Hongay. Requests approval.\n\n* Ansdtel 16 April\n* Corres\n\n## Next subsequent Paper.\n\nE 1915-4\n(88.198), W1.31,086–18. 45,000. 12/18. A‚&E.W.\n(107,089)\n81,097-61. 45,000 11/14. tr\n\nIs there any thing \nW bath wishes \nR 1644415 \n? Telegraphi-\nSwann Haykay \nM \n\nStat. 6 Jun 1/4/15 \n10 16.4.15 \nI send copy coast. to. It \nAVC \nn. h. \n1J\" \n::. D. \n20^PR", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453631, "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": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 417, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "## C.O. 17623. 411\n[RECP REGE 16 APR 15]\n\nThe Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n(Received, Colonial Office, 6.20 a.m., 16th April, 1915)\n\nFrench company wish to tranship in Hong Kong 10 tons dynamite from Japan on route for their mines at Hongay. Will be glad to have your approval.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453632, "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": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 418, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "# THE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY LIMITED\n\nClark's Name\n\n**ISSUED FROM**\n\nLONDON STATIONS:- ELECTRA HOUSE, FINSBURY PAVEMENT, E.C. (9632 Wall) 4 lines 11, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C. (3682 Wall)\n\n41 & 42, PARLIAMENT, LEADENHALL STREET, E.C. (851 Avenue) (852 Avenue)\n\n29, MINCING LANE, E.C. | MARKET 26, MARK LANE, E.C.\n\n37, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C. (1014 Holborn Gerrard)\n\n449, STRAND WESTMINSTER. (m)\n\n41 & 42, PARLIAMENT STREET, S.W. (2516 Gerrard) FOREIGN AUCTION HALLS, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. THE BALTIC, ST. MARY AXE.\n\n6, DENMAN STREET, BOROUGH, S.E. (2942 Hop)\n\n41 & 42, PARLIAMENT ST, S.W.\n\n## REMARKA.\n\nThe following TELEGRAM Received at.\n\n| No. | From | Foreign No. | Time | Words |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 7623 | | | 6.20 am 16.4.15 | |\n\n\"Eastern.\" 13/ wish to do tranship Branch company to dynamite from Hongkos jan to on Foute for the ir Ho gay nayey minco at Will be glad to have Myour approval may Hε gay)\n\n**REPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED Via Eastern**\n\nDoubtful words should be OFFICIALLY repeated. See Rule Book.\n\nNo inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Copy.\n\nWaterlow & Sons Limited, Printers, London Wall, London.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453708, "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": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 494, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "# Code Telegrams from the Secretary of State to His Excellency the Governor.\n\n## Telegram List\n| Telegram No. | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| 224 | 7th April |\n| 225 | 8th |\n| 226 | 9th |\n| 227 | 10th |\n| 224 | 12th |\n| 229 | 12th |\n| 230 | 13th |\n| 231 | 14th |\n| 232 | 15th |\n| 233 | 15th |\n| 234 | 16th |\n| 236 | 16th |\n| 237 | 17th |\n| 234 | 17th |\n\n## Telegram Summaries\n488 Instructions regarding the administration of the prohibitions of export of prohibited articles to foreign destinations.\n\n3.S.S. \"Senegambia\" and \"C.Ferd Laeisz\" to be regarded as Trench captures. Proceedings in Prize Court re \"Senegambia\" should be continued.\n\nExport by Dodwell & Co. of 100 tons of antimony to New York allowed.\n\nAction regarding the chartering of S.S. \"Rajaburi\" to be suspended pending further instructions.\n\nReplying to Govr's telegram of 24/3/15 re definition of the word \"enemy\" in Secy. of State's telegram of 15/3/15.\n\nReplying to Govr's telegram of 25/3/15 re Basel Mission.\n\nAlteration of date of a telegram mentioned in Secy. of State's telegram of 12/4/15.\n\nRequesting particulars of expenditure incurred in connection with the chartering of S.S. \"Rajaburi\".\n\nAmendment of Prize Court Rules.\n\nReplying to Govr's despatch No.72 of 25/2/15 regarding payment by the Crown of fees for documents filed in the Prize Court.\n\nRequesting to be informed of result of application to Prize Court re S.S.\"Senegambia\" and of particulars regarding the obtaining of crew locally, &c.\n\nReplying to Govr's telegram of 16/4/15 re transshipment of dynamite in Hongkong from Japan to Hongay.\n\nReplying to Govr's telegram of 13/4/15 re special censorship of letters.\n\nReplying to Govr's telegrams of 15/4/15 and 16/4/15 re cargoes in enemy vessels.\n\nShipment of tin to New York by Messrs.Wolf & Kew consigned to British Consul-General on account of L.Vngelstein & Co.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453722, "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": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 508, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "# Translation of CODE Telegram\n## From: SECRETARY OF STATE\n## To: GOVERNOR, HONGKONG\n### Date: 16th April, 1915\n\nYour telegram of 16th April dynamite no object- \nHARCOURT", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453726, "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": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 512, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "## Code Telegrams to the Secretary of State from His Excellency the Governor.\n\n202\n\n153. 13th April\nCode\n\n154. 18th\nCode\n\n155. 16th\nCode\n\n156. 16th\nCode\n\n157. 16th\nCode\n\n158. 16th\nCode\n\n159. 16th\nCode\n\n160. 17th\nCode\n\n161. 20th\nCode\n\n506\n\n| Date | Code | Description |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 13th April | Code | margado? £100 to moltsfumat |\n| 18th | Code | Question of cessation of special censorship of letters referred to in para. 2 of Govr's conf. despatch of 25th February, 1915. |\n| 16th | Code | Payment to shipowners of charges in connection with the release of and forwarding cargoes in German & Austrian vessels in neutral ports. |\n| 16th | Code | Transshipment in Hongkong by a French Co. of 10 tons dynamite from Japan to Hongay. |\n| 16th | Code | Shipment of cow-hides, ground-nuts, &c. from Shanghai to Genoa per S.S.\"Phomius\". |\n| 16th | Code | Proclamation issued on 1st April prohibiting the export to all foreign destination of military stores, &c. |\n| 16th | Code | Deletion of certain words in Govr's telegram of 26/2/15 regarding export of prohibited articles. |\n| 16th | Code | Requesting urgent reply to Govr's telegram of 15/4/15 regarding cargoes in enemy Vessels. |\n| 17th | Code | Expenses incurred in connection with docking, &c. of S.S.\"Rajaburi\". |\n| 20th | Code | Requesting instructions regarding H.M.Transport \"Basilan\" which is not required by the Admiralty. |\n| 20th | Code | S.S.\"Paklat\" condemned by Prize Court. Requesting instructions as to chartering. |\n| 21st | Code | Requesting authority to grant exemption regarding export of certain prohibited articles to ports in China for local trade purposes. |\n| 21st | Code | Replying to Secy. of State's telegram of 16/4/15 re S.S.\"Senogambia\". |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453729, "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": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 515, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "## Translation of CODE Telegram\n**From**: GOVERNOR, HONGKONG \n**To**: SECRETARY OF STATE \n**Date**: 16th April, 1915 \n\n3 \n153- \n509 \n\nFrench Company wish to tranship in Hongkong 10 tons of dynamite from Japan en route for their mines at Hongay. Would be glad to have your approval. \n\nMAY", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453740, "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": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 526, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "## HONG KONG\n### C.O\n19154\n520\nİR:2\n26 APR 15\n\nTronshipment of Dynamite\nRequests sanction for further Amoral\n\nMr. John W. Tittons\nTel.\n\nSent 1.50p.m.\n26 April 15\n\n**Last previous Paper.** `4.19623`\nAnsa tel: 27 April\ncores 70. 28 Apr?\n\n**Next subsequent Paper.**\n\netc.\n\nYou may Tel 1915\n26 aport\n\nwom\n627 April\n15\nancomposed\nFor it being by til of 26th April\nprocreated\nDynamite proposal affront\n\nEr\n27 APR\nR2644/05\nАг\nRYC\n26. k. N- \n`(88,193), W1.81,080-18. 45,K). 12/18...AE.W. (107,039, 31,997-51 40,000. 11/14`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453741, "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": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 527, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "## C.O COPY TELEGRAM.\n19154 26 \nThe Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. \n(Received, Colonial Office, 11.10 a.m., 26th April) \n4.17623 \nYour telegram 16th April. Will you sanction further shipment of 115 cases dynamite and other explosives from here for the same consignee. French Consul General has issued certificate. \nMAY.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453742, "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": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 528, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "# THE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED\n\n## ISSUED FROM\n41 & 42, PARLIAMENT STREET.\n\nLONDON STATIONS:--- ELECTRA HOUSE, FINSBURY PAVEMENT, E.C. (8532 Wall) \n11, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C. (8892 Wall) (851 Avenue) (852 Avenue) \n6, LEADENHALL STREET, E.C. \n29, MINGING LANE, E.C. \nMARKET BUILDING, 28, MARK LANE, E.C. \n87, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C. \n449, STRAND, W.C. (2528 Gerrard) (2516 Gerrard) \n41 & 42, PARLIAMENT STREET, S.W. \nFOREIGN AUCTION HALL, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. \nTHE BALTIC, ST. MARY AXE, E.C. \n8, DELMAN STREET, BOROUGH, S.E.\n\n| No. | Date | From | To | Words | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 12942 | 26 APR 1915 | Foreign | Darlingpoll Sisw | 115 | vid \"Eastern.\" bated EOTime 4 Jaco |\n\n**Telegram Received at** 26 APR 1915\n\nYour tel 16. Abe u v tk a ted further sheferent of 1 I ... atr and other wat bere ! same will you sanction dynamite explosive Si for the Consignee rough Puxal Aen al te has certificate\n\n**REPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED Via** častoin \nDoubtful words should be OFFICIALLY repeated. See Rule Book. \nNo inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Copy.\n\nReed Co1610 a Waterlow & Sons Limited, Printers, London Wall, London.\n\nPage 19 \n26.4.15 \nMerage Mormon 1/17.) \n19154", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453790, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## VOL. 2\n\n| DESP. NO. | DATE | SUBJECT |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 217 | 9 June | Defence: Spelter. \"British nationality Status of Aliens Act, 1914.\" |\n| 220 | | Ordinance 15-19757 Restriction on Volunteer Corps & Reserve. |\n| | | Contraband European War. Goods Exports. Reports Contraband Goods. |\n| 199 | | Gift of Aeroplanes. |\n| 26 | | Case of H. Schluter. Late Police Constable Miller. |\n| 201 | | Gift of Aeroplanes. Ordinance 12 19/5. |\n| 202 | | Spelter for Yokohama. Antimony for Russia. German State Aided Financial Trust |\n| 203 | | Texas Oil Business. Gift of Aeroplanes. |\n| 204 | | Deputy Registrar & Accountant & Deputy Official Receiver Reorganization of P.W.D. |\n| 205 | | Ordinance 11 of 1915. Ottoman Subjects. Export of Dynamite & Detonators. |\n| 206 | Conf. 31 | Prince of Water Fund. |\n| 209 | Tel. | |\n| 215 | Conf. Sec. | mail Service Contract. European War. |\n| 216 | Conf. | Loan by Towkay Loke Yew to H.K. University |\n| | | Texas Oil Business. German State Aided Financial Trust. Texas Oil Business India. |\n| 223 | A Conf. | Passengers |\n| 225 | | Corey. |\n| 226 | A Sec Conf. | |\n| 227 | Tel. | |\n| 214 | | Importation of Opium into Macao. Munitions for Tupl. Goods. |\n| | | Texas Oil Business. Exports Permits. Landing Certificates. (Shaung howe |\n| | | Rate of Exchange of Silver Dollars with Bank notes. Memorial to German Chancellor from Germans |\n| | | Intercepted Correspondence. Spelter from Yunnan. Retirement of Mt G. G. Burnett. |\n| | | Note Issue. Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Naval Wireless Station, Stonecutter's Island. Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China. Memorial of J. C. Mackay. |\n| | | Firms Trading in Hongkong. Anglo German Schluter. Case |\n| | | Texas Oil Business. movements of Baghwan Singh. Report on Land Survey Work, 1914-15. Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906. Saldpedre for Samarang. |\n| | | German State Aided Financial Trust. Repatriation of Undesirable Indians. Seizures of Raw Opium. Shipment of Antimony. Departure of Wir A. Shelton - Hooper. |\n| | | Despatches from the S. of S. Tin, Spelter etc. from Kunnan. |\n\n(47615A) Wt 12218A/2108 2000 10/28 H & J. Id Gp 113", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453877, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 91, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Code Telegrams from the Secretary of State to His Excellency the Governor\n\n## 239. 22nd April\nCode\n\n## 240. 22nd\nCode\n\n## 241. 23rd\nCode\n\n## 242. 26th\nCode\n\n## 243. 26th\nCode\n\n## 244. 26th\nCode\n\n## 245. 26th\nCode\n\n------\n\nWest 15 JUN 15!\n\n## 246. 27th\nCode\n\n## 247. 27th\nCode\nNo objection to shipment of dynamite to Hongay.\n\n## 248. 27th\nCode\nPermission granted to Dunlop Rubber Co. to export tyres and general rubber goods to Tientsin and Shanghai.\n\n## 249. 28th\nCode\nApproving grant of £100 to Belgian Red Cross from Government Fund.\n\n## 250. 28th\nCode\nRenewal of Active Service Proclamation.\n\n## 251. 29th\nCode\nInstructions regarding the landing of passengers at Marseilles.\n\n## 252. 29th\nCode\nLeather allowed to be returned to Cook, Francisco, by Russo-Asiatic Bank.\n\n## 253. 30th\nCode\n\n## 254. 30th\nCode\nEngagement of officers & crew for purpose of taking S.S. \"Senegambia\" to England.\n\n### Telegram Summaries\n\n| Telegram Number | Date | Summary |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 239 | 22nd April | Shipment of tin to Marseilles or Havre. Consignor Fung Tang. Consignees Lavenstein & Meyer, Paris. |\n| 240 | 22nd | Instructions regarding claims made by British allied or neutral third parties against ships or cargoes detained or condemned by Prize Courts in the Oversea Dominions. |\n| 241 | 23rd | Negotiations with Roberts re chartering of \"Rajaburi\" cancelled. Vessel now chartered to John Swire & Sons for trade in Malaya, Siam, &c. Instructions regarding handing over of vessel to charterers. |\n| 242 | 26th | Replying to Govr's telegram of 21st April regarding export of certain articles to ports in China. |\n| 243 | 26th | Shipments of tin to New York. Consignors Kitsui Bussan Kaisha. Consignees Vernon Metal & Products Co., Nassau Smelting and Refining Co. and British Consul-General. |\n| 244 | 26th | Consignor Fung Tang. Shipment of tin to New York, Consignees Vogelstein & Co. and Frame Leaycraft & Co. |\n| 245 | 26th | Cancelling telegram No.242 of 26th April. Requesting particulars regarding shipment of spelter. Giving instructions re Bradford piece goods and woollen goods. No objection to exportation of Match-wax to Haiphong. |\n| 246 | 27th | |\n| 247 | 27th | No objection to shipment of dynamite to Hongay. |\n| 248 | 27th | Permission granted to Dunlop Rubber Co. to export tyres and general rubber goods to Tientsin and Shanghai. |\n| 249 | 28th | Approving grant of £100 to Belgian Red Cross from Government Fund. |\n| 250 | 28th | Renewal of Active Service Proclamation. |\n| 251 | 29th | Instructions regarding the landing of passengers at Marseilles. |\n| 252 | 29th | Leather allowed to be returned to Cook, Francisco, by Russo-Asiatic Bank. |\n| 253 | 30th | |\n| 254 | 30th | Engagement of officers & crew for purpose of taking S.S.\"Senegambia\" to England. Shipments of tin to Marseilles, Consignors Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Consignees Ehret & Gobin, and Henri Modiano. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453887, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 101, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Translation of CODE Telegram\n**SECRETARY OF STATE**\n\nTo \n**GOVERNOR, HONGKONG**\n\nDate \n27th April, 1915\n\nYour telegram of 26th April dynamite proposals approved.\n\n247 \n99", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453898, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 112, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Code Telegrams to the Secretary of State from His Excellency the Governor\n\n| Telegram Number | Date | Code | Description |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 165 | 24th April | Code | S.S.\"Senegambia\" ordered by Prize Court to be delivered to Crow. Requests instructions re chartering the vessel. |\n| 166 | 26th | Code | Replying to Secy. of State's telegram of 6th April regarding complaints of F.A.Welti & Sons, buyers for Berblinger & Co. |\n| 167 | 26th | Code | Shipment of dynamite to Hongay consigned to a French Company. |\n| 168 | 27th | Code | Shipment of sesamun seeds and hides per S.S. \"Noro\" from Hankow and Shanghai to Rotterdam and Naples consigned to Overseas Trust and H.T.Pearson & Co. respectively. |\n| 169 | 27th | Code | Applying on behalf of Match Factory in Hai-phong for permission to import from Hongkong matchwax. |\n| 170 | 27th | Code | As to whether a grant of £100 to the Belgian Red Cross should be made from Government Fund. |\n| 171 | 28th | Code | Requesting authority to renew Active Service Proclamation for 3 months. |\n| 172 | 29th | Code | Requesting permission on behalf of the Russo-Asiatic Bank to return a quantity of leather to Cook, San Francisco. |\n| 173 | 29th | Code | Trade in spelter, zinc and zinc plates in China and Japan. |\n| 174 | 30th | Code | Shipment of tin by Mitsui Bussan Kaisha and Fung Tang per \"Bolton Castle\" to New York. |\n| 175 | 30th | Code | Requesting permission on behalf of Pung Tang to export to order of Newhall & Co. San Francisco, 5 tons Chinese tin. |\n| 176 | 1st May | Code | Requesting permission to export to China indigo and German dye-stuffs. |\n| 177 | 1st | Code | Requesting instructions regarding the handing over of S.S.\"Rajaburi\" to Butterfield & Swire. Vessel released by Prize Court. |\n| 178 | 3rd | Code | Requesting permission on behalf of the Asiatic Petroleum and Standard Oil Cos. to export paraffin wax and paraffin wax candles to China, Indo-China, Formosa & Manila. |\n| 179 | 5th | Code | Requesting permission for shipment of 35 tons of tin to Japan consigned to Russian Government. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453901, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 115, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Translation of CODE Telegram\n| To | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| GOVERNOR, HONGKONG | 26th April, 1915 |\n\n| Telegram No. |\n| --- |\n| 167 |\n| 112 |\n\nYour telegram of 16th April. Will you sanction further shipment of 115 cases dynamite and other explosives from here for the same consignee. French Consul-General has issued `sasualne95`.\n\nMAY \nYAK", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454075, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 289, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## The Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\n(Received, Colonial Office, 6.5 p.m. 20th May, 1915)\n\nYour telegram of 18th May. Indigo and dyestuffs are practically those referred to in my telegram of 1st May, with very small additional quantity from non-British Ports. Articles not specifically named: coalsacks, horseshoes, leather, cattle-food, pigskins, telephone apparatus, dynamite, detonators, cartridges, hempcloth, meat (except Australian frozen meat), sodium nitrate. These articles and those referred to in my telegram 21st April chiefly come from China, partly from non-British ports; some in local retail export trade may be from British ports, but consignments for such trade are mixed by passing through various hands, and it is becoming impossible to trace origin. Dynamite comes from England.\n\nIn last paragraph of your telegram, chief exports to all six places are oil products and scrap metal, but very small quantities of any of the articles enumerated may go to any of these places.\n\nWith reference to your telegram of 4th May, may I apply your permission for transhipment of cargo from non-British ports to goods from same ports which have been stored here temporarily and which may change hands here.\n\n## MAY \nREG 21 MAY 15 \nTelegram figures are shown at the top:\n| Telegram Number | |\n| --- | --- |\n| Gov | 22294 |\n| Gor | 19998, 15843, 70, 202.12 |\n| Sh hi are fac | 0.0, 23317, 282 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454077, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 291, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## STATIONS IN LONDON\n\nTELEGRAM Addresses: SIGNALLY, AVE, LONDON.\n\n| Location | Telephone No. |\n| --- | --- |\n| Electra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C. | 3632 London Wall (4 Lines) |\n| 11, Old Broad Street, E.C. | 3432 London Wall |\n| \"The Baltic,\" Bury St. Entrance, B.C. | 2942 Hop- / 2528 Gerrard |\n| 440, Strand, W.C. (Charing Cross) | 2516 Gernand / 881 Avenue |\n| 8, Leadenhall Street, E.C. | 1014 Holborn |\n| 37, Holborn Viaduct, E.C. | 862 Avenue |\n| Market Buildings, 29, Mincing Lane - 26, Mark Lane, E.C. | - |\n| 6, Den Street, Borough, S.E. | - |\n| 4143, Parliament Street, S.W. | - |\n| Foreign Auction Mart, Covent Garden, W.C. | - |\n\nHead Office:- \nElectra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C. \nTelephone:- 1127 LONDON WALL. \nTelegraphic Address:- \"EASTERN AVE,\" LONDON.\n\n## TELEGRAM\n\nTelephone: 3632 LONDON WALL (4 Lines) \nISSUED FROM CHIEF CABLE STATION, ELECTRA HOUSE, FINSBURY PAVEMENT. \nREPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED Via Eastern. \nDoubtful words should be OFFICIALLY repeated. \nNo inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without production of this Copy. \nSee back of form for list of Company's Stations in London and Telephone Numbers.\n\nTime Received: ... \nDate: ... \nTHAYTS Yara 145] \n\n| Remarks | Time in Letters |\n| --- | --- |\n| CATTLEFOOD, PIGSKINS, STROGOLA, DYNAMITE, DETONATORS, CARTRIDGES, HEMP CLOTH, Frozen meat, MEAT, EXCEPT AUSTRALIAN | Outer Girola A.M. / Taser Circle P.M. |\n| NEATNESS SODIUM NITRATE SILVERGRAY THESE ARTICLES AND THOSE referred to intel 21 april | OF THE CLOCK Examples, PW=3.45 p.m. KL=4.66 a.m. |\n| UNCIAL CHIEFLY come from CHUMPIPE CHINA PARTLY FROM NON British ports PERCHLOOP SOME | No. 284 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454078, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 292, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## STATIONS IN LONDON\n\nTELEPHONE NO.: \n- 3832 London Wall (4 Lines)\n- 3632 London Wall\n- 2528 Gerrard\n\nTelegraphic Address: \"SIGNALLY, AVE, LONDON.\"\n\n| Location | Telephone No. |\n| --- | --- |\n| Electra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C. | - |\n| 11, Old Broad Street, E.C. | 861 Avenue |\n| 449, Strand, W.C. (Charing Cross) | 852 Avenue |\n| 8, Leadenhall Street, E.C. | - |\n| \"The Baltic,\" Bury St. Entrance, B.C. | 4408 Avenue |\n| 6 Denman Street, Borough, S.E. | 2942 Hop- |\n| 41-43, Parliament Street, S.W. | 2616 Gerrard |\n| Foreign Auction Mart, Covent Garden, W.C. | - |\n| 37, Holborn Viaduct, E.C. | 1014 Holborn |\n| Market Buildings, 29, Mincing Lane, E.C. | - |\n\n## Head Office\nElectra House, Finsbury Pavement, E.C.\n- Telephone: 1137 LONDON WALL\n- Telegraphic Address: \"EASTERN AVE,\" LONDON.\n\n## TELEGRAM\nISSUED FROM CHIEF CABLE STATION, ELECTRA HOUSE, FINSBURY PAVEMENT.\nREPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED Via Eastern.\n- Doubtful words should be OFFICIALLY repeated. See Rule Book.\n- No inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without production of this Copy.\n- See back of form for list of Company's Stations in London and Telephone Numbers.\n\nClerk's Name and Date: 20 MAY 15, Ymar145\nTime Received: 285 Outer Circle A.M.\n\n## ORIGINAL TIME IN LETTERS\n- Examples: PW-8.45 p.m. HL 8.65 M.\n\nNo. Ir. F Ford\n\nIN LOCAL RETAIL EXPORT TRADE may be MARSHT IT FROM British ports PERCHLOOP BUT CONSIGNMENTS for such FLAXPULLER TRADE ARE mixed by MODICUM passing through various hands and it is becoming impossible to ILLORICATE TRACE ORIGIN. SILVERGREY DYNAMITE comes from CHUMPIPE ENGLAND SILVERGRAY. In last paragraph of your telegram RAFFTEST UHAMUT CHIEF", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454100, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 314, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Translation of CODE Telegram\nFrom GOVERNOR, HONGKONG.\nTo SECRETARY OF STATE.\nDate 20th May, 1915.\n\nYour telegram of 18th May. Indigo and dye-stuffs are practically those referred to in my telegram of the 1st May with very small additional quantities from non-British ports. Articles not specifically named: coal-sacks, horseshoes, leather, cattle-food, pigskins, telephone apparatus, dynamite, detonators, cartridges, hemp cloth, meat except Australian frozen meat, sodium nitrate. These articles and those referred to in my telegram of 21st April chiefly come from China, partly from non-British ports; some in local retail export trade may be from British ports, but consignments for such trade are mixed by passing through various hands and it becomes impossible to trace origin. Dynamite comes from England. Last paragraph of your telegram: chief exports to all six places are oil products and scrap-metal, but very small quantities of any of the articles enumerated may go to any of these places.\n\nYour telegram of 4th May, may I apply your permission for trans-shipment cargo from non-British ports to goods from same ports which have been stored here temporarily and which may change hands here.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454222, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 436, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## \n20 April \n\nالا \n\nfor May Tel \n1915 \n\n4 June \n\nLast previous Paper. \n23661 \n\n**HONG KONG** \n\n| Number | \n| --- | \n| 25895 | 895 | \n| 25895 | \n| 429 | \n\n**RECO** \n**REA + JUNTS** \n\nExport of dynamite & detonators \nRequests permission for \nrequired for railway \nin China, Indo China, & Lauten \n\n \nAusd. tel: 24 June Wo \n27183 \n\nto \n\n \nNext subsequent Paper \n1650. \n29183 \n\n| Reference | Amount | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| (88,105) | 31,084—13, 45,000 | 12/15 |\n| | LEE.W. | |\n| (107,050) | 31,997-51. 46,000 | 11/14 |\n\nBy \nCollins \n\n Oft hanewrthr \nafter streaking \nMr Danis \nound \n5/6/16 \nUN 5/1/15", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454223, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 437, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# The Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\n(Received Colonial Office 12.11 p.m. 4th June 1915)\n\nWith reference to my telegram of 20th May, dynamite and detonators required for railway and mining in China, Indo-China, and Sandakan, may I permit export of usual quantity?", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454225, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 439, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# DRAFT\n## MINUTE\n\nThe Secretary \nMr. Doom \nMr. Danns \nMr. Collins \nSir G. Fiddes \nSir H. Just \nSir J. Anderson \n\n5 June 1915\n\nTo request authority to allow the Gov... of H. Kong to import certain quantities of dynamite and detonators required for firing for railway construction in ...Chima and Sandakan (20317)...\n\nLord Islington, \nBower Court \nMr. Harcourt \n\n5 June 1915\n\nThe Army Council has asked that the Gov... of H. Kong be allowed to import certain quantities of dynamite and detonators required for firing for railway construction in Indo-China and Sandakan.\n\nwas exchanged \nIn a three... that Goru...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454264, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 478, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# \nYour telegram of 18th May. \n\nIndigo and dye-stuffs are practically those referred to in my telegram of the 1st May with very small additional quantities from non-British ports. Articles not specifically named: coal-sacks, horseshoes, leather, cattle-food, pigskins, telephone apparatus, dynamite, detonators, cartridges, hemp-cloth, meat (except Australian frozen meat), sodium nitrate. These articles and those referred to in my telegram of 21st April chiefly come from China, partly from non-British ports; some in local retail export trade may be from British ports, but consignments for such trade are mixed by passing through various hands and it becomes impossible to trace origin. \n\nDynamite comes from England. Last paragraph of your telegram: chief exports to all six places are oil products and scrap-metal, but very small quantities of any of the articles enumerated may go to any of these places.\n\nMy telegram of 4th May: may I apply your permission for trans-shipment cargo from non-British ports to goods from same ports which have been stored here temporarily and which may change hands here?\n\n## Translation of CODE Telegram\n**From** \nGOVERNOR, HONGKONG.\n\n**To** \nSECRETARY OF STATE.\n\n**Date** \n20th May, 1915.\n\n## \n... \nPage ... \n\n(OCR text before \"Your telegram of 18th May\" is not reconstructable due to extensive errors)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454451, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 665, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Code Telegrams to the Secretary of State from His Excellency the Governor\n\n### 656\n#### 4th June\n**Code** \nShipments of tin June,\n\n#### 11.\n**Code** \nExport of dynamite and detonators required for railway and mining in China, Indo-China and Sandakan.\n\n#### 13.\n#### 5th \n**Code** \nReplying to Secy. of State's telegram of 29th May regarding spelter and antimony.\n\n#### 14.\n#### 5th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export Yunnan spelter to Japan.\n\n#### 15.\n#### 7th \n**Code** \nRequesting an early reply to Gorr's telegram of 28th May regarding export of spelter to Japan.\n\n#### 16.\n#### 7th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export Yunnan tin to San Francisco and New York.\n\n#### 17.\n#### 8th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export old metals to Japan.\n\n#### 18.\n#### 8th \n**Code** \nImportation of norit into Hongkong.\n\n#### 19.\n#### 8th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export old copper to Kobe.\n\n#### 20.\n#### 9th \n**Code** \nShipment of tin to Marseilles permitted.\n\n#### 21.\n#### 9th \n**Code** \nReplying to Secy'af State's telegram of 26th May regarding spelter.\n\n#### 22.\n#### 10th \n**Code** \nCancellation of permission granted to Mr. Cheetham to carry on agency of Texas Oil Co.\n\n#### 23.\n#### 10th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export tin to New York.\n\n#### 24.\n#### 14th \n**Code** \nMr. Grisogono released and will leave for Italy shortly.\n\n#### 25.\n#### 14th \n**Code** \nShipments of tin for week ended 10th June.\n\n#### 26.\n#### 14th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export spelter to Osaka.\n\n#### 27.\n#### 14th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export tin to Seattle and Osaka.\n\n#### 28.\n#### 15th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export tin to San Francisco.\n\n#### 29.\n#### 15th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export tin to San Francisco, Chicago and Tokio.\n\n#### 30.\n#### 15th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export old metals to Kobe.\n\n#### 31.\n#### 16th \n**Code** \nRequesting permission to export old metals to Kobe.\n\nP.T.O.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454454, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 668, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Translation of CODE Telegram\n\n## CT\n\n### From\n**GOVERNOR, HONGKONG.**\n\n### To\n**SECRETARY OF STATE.**\n\n### Date\n4th June, 1915.\n\nReferring to my telegram of 20th May. Dynamite and Detonators required for railway and mining in China, Indo-China and Sandakan. May I permit export usual quantities.\n\n## Page 630 \nNo content on this page relevant to the telegram translation.\n\nMay I permit export usual quantities.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454561, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 775, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Code and Cypher Telegrams from the Secretary of State to His Excellency the Governor.\n\n----\n\n765\n\n## 320.\n18th June\n**Code**\nExport of tin to Seattle & Osaka allowed.\n\n## 321.\n21st\n**Code**\nExport of tin to Chicago, San Francisco and Tokio allowed. Parcel for Chicago must be consigned to British Consul-General, New York, not San Francisco.\n\n## 322.\n21st\n**Code**\nExport of tin to San Francisco allowed.\n\n## 323.\n22nd\n**Code**\n\n## 324.\n22nd\n**Code**\n\n## 325.\n22nd\n**Code**\nExport of tin to San Francisco allowed.\n\n## 326.\n23rd\n**Code**\nReplying to Govr's telegram of 16th June regarding persons obtaining export permits must produce landing certificates.\n\n## 327.\n23rd\n**Code**\n| Item | Detail |\n| --- | --- |\n| Export of tin and rubber | to Kobe allowed |\n| Export of copper and brass | to Kobe allowed |\n| Attempted incendiarism | on board British ships |\n| Cargoes ordered to be detained | by Prize Court should be sold as soon as possible and proceeds paid into Court |\n| Export of dynamite & detonators | to China, Indo-China & Sandakan allowed |\n| Export of Saltpetre | to Samarang not allowed |\n| Export of tin | to San Francisco allowed |\n\n## 328.\n24th\n**Code**\nShipment of tin to New York allowed.\n\n## 329.\n24th\n**Code**\n\n## 330.\n25th\n**Code**\n\n## 331.\n25th\n**Code**\n\n## 332.\n25th\n**Code**\n\n## 333.\n \n## 334.\n25th\n**Cypher**\n\n## 335.\n25th\n**Cypher**\n| Item | Detail |\n| --- | --- |\n| Export of copper and brass ware | to Siam and Manila allowed |\n| Plan for establishing telegraphic communications | with Copenhagen devised by several German firms in New York |\n| German trade | As to whether it is passing to any part of the Far East via Dutch East Indies |\n| King's Proclamation | relating to trading with persons of enemy nationality resident or carrying on business in China, Siam, Persia or Morocco |\n| Bills in connection with \"Rajaburi\" | should be paid by Hongkong Government |\n| Export of tin | to San Francisco allowed |\n\n## 336.\n26th\n**Code**\nShipment of tin to Marseilles allowed.\n\n## 337.\n26th\n**Code**\n\n## 338.\n28th\n**Code**\nExport of lead to Saigon & Haiphong allowed.\n\n## 339.\n28th\n**Code**\nExport of zinc to Kobe allowed.\n\n## 340.\n28th\n**Code**\nExport of tin to Yokohama, &c. allowed.\n\n## 341.\n28th\n**Code**\nExport of tin to New York allowed.\n\n## 342.\n28th\n**Code**\nExport of copper to Haiphong & Kobe allowed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454570, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 784, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Translation of CODE Telegram\nFrom **SECRETARY OF STATE** \nTo **GOVERNOR, HONGKONG** \nDate **24th June, 1915** \n\n328 774 \nYour telegram of 4th June. Dynamite Detonators. \nNo objection. \n\n**BONAR LAW**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455996, "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": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 162, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "Page 176\n\nThe depots at Shanghai, Tientsin, and Batavia must keep careful records of all sales and these records are to be open to the inspection of the Consul-General.\n\n163 Any prohibited articles may be allowed to be exported to Denmark or Sweden, subject to the following conditions:-\n\n13.\n\n(a) The articles must be on the list of commodities the export of which is prohibited by Denmark or Sweden respectively.\n\n(b) Permission must be obtained from the Secretary of State for each consignment, and in telegraphing for instructions the name of the proposed consignee must be given with the other particulars.\n\n(c) The shipment will be authorised to named consignees only.\n\n(d) The bills of lading and manifests should be marked \"for consumption in Denmark only\" or \"for consumption in Sweden only\", as the case may be.\n\nDynamite and Detonators.\n\nThe exportation of the above on normal pre-war scale may be allowed to China, Indo-China, and Sandakan, for railway and mining purposes under similar conditions to those laid down in Rule 5.\n\n15.\n\nCoal. Subject to local and naval requirements, licences may be freely granted for export to allied countries. As regards neutral countries the following procedure should be observed.\n\nExporting firms should receive unofficially, and be requested to communicate to any importing firms abroad, the following statement of conditions under which coal is supplied to them, namely:-\n\n(a) That no coal of any kind or origin is furnished directly or indirectly (1) to any vessel belonging to...\n\nPage 177", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456013, "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": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 179, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "Translation of Code Telegram\n\n8-423.\n\nC.\n\n56953\n\nFrom\n\nGovernor, Hongkong.\n\nTo\n\nSecretary of State, London.\n\nDate\n\n4th June, 1915.\n\nWith reference to my telegram of 20th May.\n\nDynamite and detonators required for railway and mining in China, Indo-China and Sandakan. May I permit export in usual quantities.\n\nRECD 10 DEC 15", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456014, "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": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "page_number": 180, "title": "CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12]", "content_text": "annelst aboɔ to maið efanan?\n\nlove. 25.\n\nREC\n\nC. O 177 56953\n\nREB 10 DEC 15\n\nTORNO TOD\n\nTranslation of Code Telegram\n\nnobno↑ „edst” to viaĴON 50?\n\n•T\n\nFrom\n\nSecretary of State, London.\n\n„efer ‚ent dia\n\net G\n\nTo\n\nGovernor, Hongkong.\n\nA p q r s t 4 De\n\nDate\n\n24th June, 1915.\n\nya!! 100% to ruineled vær od oạnenokon ddiw\n\nat \"zlelm bus yawilan not bentipen anotanodab bas efiæscyt\n\nProque firmoq I yay .nasabra” bra sniffd=obel,enido\n\n.YAN\n\nYour telegram of 4th June. Dynamite detonators.\n\nNo objection.\n\nBONAR LAW.\n\nPage 180\n\nPage 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-425 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461255, "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": "CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5]", "page_number": 736, "title": "CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5]", "content_text": "## Code and Cypher Telegrams from Governor, Hongkong, to Secretary of State\n\nRECEIVED 12 JUN 16\n\n| Date | Telegram Type | Content |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| April 18th | Cypher | Upkeep of Hospital under Sir Henderson |\n| 20th | Code | Requests permission to export China Yellow wax to Kobe. |\n| 20th | Code | Requests permission to export Chinese Lard to Lima and Manila. |\n| 20th | Code | Requests permission to export Dynamite and Detonators to Haiphong. |\n| 20th | Code | Requests permission to export Peanut Oil to Honolulu, San Francisco, and Manila; Tallow to Yokohama; Cocoanut Oil to Kobe and Yokohama; Nut Oil to New York and Boston. |\n| 20th | Code | Requests permission to export Pepper to Rechwang and Chefoo, origin Singapore |\n| 25th | Code | Requests permission to export China shelled Peanuts to Seattle and Yellow beans to Cebu. |\n| 25th | Code | Requests authority to renew Active Service Proclamation. |\n| 25th | Code | Requests permission to export China Peanuts to Seattle and San Francisco. |\n| 25th | Code | Requests permission to export Chinese Gallnuts to San Francisco. |\n| 25th | Code | Requests permission to export Chinese Peanut oil to San Francisco. |\n| 25th | Code | Grant of permission to Butterfield and Swire to fulfil contracts with Erdmann and Sielcken. |\n| 25th | Code | Requests permission to export Chinese Lard to Netherlands India and Manila. |\n| 25th | Code | Explosives on board the \"Monmouthshire\" are consigned by Nobels to Jardines. |\n| 25th | Code | Refusal of the facilities of the port to any Agency of the Texas Oil Co. to which Sanders Rehders are a party. |\n| 29th | Code | Explains origin of Lard and Tallow. |\n\nPage 586\nPage 587\nPage 588\nPage 589\nPage 590\nPage 591\nPage 592\nPage 594\nPage 595\nPage 596\nPage 597\nPage 598\nPage 599\nPage 600", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461260, "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": "CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5]", "page_number": 741, "title": "CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5]", "content_text": "## Telegram Translation\nFrom **GOVERNOR, HONGKONG** to **SECRETARY OF STATE**\nDate: **20th April, 1916**\n\nMay I permit export of 440 cases Dynamite, 15 cases Detonators consigned by Jardines for Descours Caband Haiphong French possession.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-432 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 462513, "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": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "page_number": 302, "title": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "content_text": "## Code and Cypher Telegrams from the Secretary of State\n\n### to Governor, Hongkong\n\n| Date | Telegram Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| 12th July | 42377 RECK REA 5 SEP 16 |\n| 14th | 800 Allow export of Peanut Oil to Deli |\n| 14th | 1891 Instructions as to shipment of Feathers. Allow export of Tin to Vladivostock |\n| 14th | 1892 Instructions as to export of Mien |\n| 15th | Instructions as to supply of Bunker seal and oil fuel to Tessola of the Swedish East Asiatic Company |\n| 16th | Instructions as to shipment of Wood Oil |\n| 17th | 1996 Censorship of mails from neutral country to enemy subject in another neutral country |\n| 17th | 897 Allows export of Peanuts to Lima |\n| 17th | Allows export of Peanuts to San Francisco. Allows export of Jute to Formosa |\n| 17th | 800 Allows export of Pepper to Nowchwang & Amoy subject to guarantee against re-exportation |\n| 17th | 801 Allows export of English lead to Dairen & Norchwang. German Minister of Munitions is endeavouring to purchase lead for shipment to Russia |\n| 19th | 02 Foreign Office requests that mails intended for R.N. Navy should not be censored |\n| 19th | 03 This number is cancelled |\n| 19th | · Allows export of Peanut Oil, Wood Oil, Cocoanut Oil and Castor Oil |\n| 19th | 04 Requests explanation as to shipment of motor tyres and tubes by Montgomery Ward to Netherlands Indies |\n| 19th | 05 Instruction as to export of Dynamite and Detonators |\n| 20th | 006 Requests information as to fees to be paid to proper officer of Crown under Prize Regulations |\n| 21st | Requests information as to certain bales Cotton Pod shipped by Behn & Co. to Melchers |\n| 22nd | The South Sea German Possessions |\n| 24th | 09 Allows export of Castor Oil & Peanut Oil. States period for which permits issued by Rubber & Silk Exports Committee are valid |\n| | Allow export of Peanut Oil to Manila, San Francisco & Sesamum Oil to New York |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 462531, "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": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "page_number": 320, "title": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "content_text": "## Translation of Telegram\nFrom **SECRETARY OF STATE** \nTo **GOVERNOR, HONGKONG** \nDate **19th July, 1916** \n\n904 \n315 \n\nYour despatch 17th May No. 202 owing to shortage of Glycerine shipment of Blasting Explosives to British possessions from United Kingdom restricted to directions which will serve national purposes at present. Therefore Dynamite and Detonators from British sources should not be re-exported from Hongkong to any foreign country. As regards Dynamite Detonators from foreign sources you may still act in accordance with my telegram 24th June 1915.\n\n**BONAR LAW**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 462769, "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": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "page_number": 558, "title": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "content_text": "# Dealing with Dynamite and Explosives\n\nDealing with dynamite and explosives under Article of the Convention but the Bonded Godown guarantee would, I think, have to be given to the Commissioner of Customs in conjunction with whom Godown books would be opened and cargo entered and released.\n\nIf the views as above expressed meet in principle with the Governor's acceptance this memo, and H. E.'s reply will be sent up to Peking and negotiations to introduce Articles 1, 4, 9 and 10 can be at once taken up. The ground can be prepared for placing in operation Article 2, re Salt, so soon as a Central Authority shall have been re-established.\n\n**(SD.) A. H. Harris**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 462780, "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": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "page_number": 569, "title": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "content_text": "## Article I\n\nThe Chinese Government agree to allow the trade in Chinese salt through the waters of the Colony from one part of the islands to another, and littoral of China, which has been in existence for many years past, to continue without restriction.\n\n## Article II\n\nNo person shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used daily. All such books shall be open to inspection by the **Hongkong Government**.\n\n## Article IV\n\nDuring the period of this agreement the Government of Hongkong will allow the **Chinese Maritime Customs** to maintain for Customs purposes a sub-office at Shamshuipo or at such other place as may be approved by the **Hongkong Government**.\n\n## Article V\n\nSteam launches duly registered by the **Chinese Maritime Customs** under the **Inland Waters Steam Navigation regulations** may trade between Hongkong and non-open ports in the Liang Kuang Provinces subject to the following conditions:\n\n| Condition | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | The term \"non-open port\" shall mean any non-treaty port upon the inland waterways of the two Provinces and it shall include such non-treaty ports upon the sea coast of the Kuangtung Province as may from time to time be agreed upon between the Government of Hongkong and the Chinese Authorities at Canton. |\n| (b) | On each occasion of arrival at and departure from Hongkong the launch master shall deposit his manifest in duplicate with the Harbour Authority who shall send one copy to the **Commissioner of Customs**. |\n| (c) | Upon application by the launch master the Chinese...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463041, "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": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 133, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "## ARTICLE II\n\n(b) Every vessel bringing salt into the waters of the Colony shall declare to the **Harbour Authority** the quantity, port of origin, and destination of such salt.\n\nIf any junk or launch imports salt into the waters of the Colony without the proper documents required by the **Chinese Maritime Customs Authorities**, the **Harbour Authority** shall forthwith report the matter to the **Commissioner of Customs**, and he shall detain such junk or launch as security for the payment to the **Chinese Maritime Customs** of such dues and penalties as would be payable to the **Chinese Maritime Customs** if such junk or launch had been detained in similar circumstances in Chinese waters.\n\n(d) All salt imported into the Colony, other than salt in transit without transhipment, shall be deposited in a licensed warehouse. Salt shall not be removed from a licensed warehouse except under a removal permit, which permit, in the case of salt destined for export to China, shall be granted only upon production of a certificate authorizing import into China, properly authenticated by the **Commissioner of Customs**.\n\nEvery licensee of a licensed warehouse for salt shall keep such books as may be prescribed, showing imports, exports, and local sales. The books shall at all times be open to inspection by the **Hongkong Government**.\n\n(f) Every manufacturer of salt in the New Territories leased under the Convention of the 19th June, 1898, shall deposit the salt manufactured by him in a licensed warehouse, and the licensee of such warehouse shall keep a register in prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times open to inspection by the **Hongkong Government**.\n\n(g) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special licence.\n\n(h) Salt in excess of a prescribed amount shall not be removed from a licensed warehouse or shop, or from place to place in the Colony, except under permit from the proper British authority.\n\nAs the provisions of this Article are designed to safeguard the salt revenue of the **Chinese Government**, that Government agrees to permit salt to pay its taxes to the **Chinese Maritime Customs Office** in Hongkong, and to allow to continue without restriction consignments of salt through the waters of the Colony from one part of the islands and littoral of China to another, which trade has in fact existed for many years past.\n\n## ARTICLE III\n\nNo person shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used daily. All such books shall be open to inspection by the **Hongkong Government**.\n\n## ARTICLE IV\n\nDuring the period of this Agreement the **Government of Hongkong** will allow the **Chinese Maritime Customs** to maintain for Customs purposes a sub-office at Shamshuipo or at such other place as may be approved by the **Hongkong Government**.\n\n## ARTICLE V\n\nSteam launches duly registered by the **Chinese Maritime Customs** under the **Inland Waters Steam Navigation regulations** may trade between Hongkong and non-open ports in the Kuangtung Province subject to the following conditions:\n\n| Condition | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | The term \"non-open port\" shall mean any non-treaty port upon the inland waterways of the Provinces and it shall include such non-treaty ports upon the sea coast of the Kuangtung Province as may from time to time be agreed upon between the **Government of Hongkong** and the **Chinese Authorities** at Canton. |\n| (b) | On each occasion of arrival at and departure from Hongkong the launch master shall deposit his manifest in duplicate with the **Harbour Authority** who shall send one copy to the **Commissioner of Customs**. |\n| (c) | Upon application by the launch master the **Chinese Maritime Customs** shall grant a special pass for each trip, which special pass shall specify the destination of the launch, the places at which it is proposed to call, and the Customs stations to be called at on both the outward and the return voyages. The launch must proceed direct to the first Customs station specified on the pass. |\n| (d) | All launches proceeding to non-treaty ports in the Kuangtung Province under this article must call at the **Chinese Maritime Customs** sub-office agreed upon by the **Government of Hongkong** where cargo and baggage will be examined and hatches may be sealed after loading. Dues may be paid at the master's option at such sub-office or at the station specified on the pass. |\n| (e) | On the return voyage from such ports launches with their passengers and cargo must proceed to the **Chinese Maritime Customs** sub-office agreed upon by the **Government of Hongkong** for examination and payment of the necessary dues, if any, to such sub-office. |\n| (f) | Omission to report at the specified Customs station on the outward or inward voyage will entail confiscation of launch and cargo. |\n\n## ARTICLE VI\n\nJunks and lighters registered by the **Chinese Maritime Customs** may be towed between Hongkong and non-open ports in the Kuangtung province by steam launches duly registered by the **Chinese Maritime Customs** under the **Inland Waters Steam Navigation regulations**; and in that case such junks, lighters, and launches will be treated as junks under sail and will be required to conform to the rules governing junk traffic, and the procedure prescribed in **Article V** of this Agreement.\n\n## ARTICLE VII\n\nLighters towed by launches to treaty ports in the Liang Kuang Provinces may have their hatches sealed by the **Chinese Maritime Customs** prior to departure and such vessels may then proceed direct to their destination. The **Chinese Maritime Customs** reserve the right to require the launch to call at a Customs station en route for search.\n\n## ARTICLE VIII\n\nForeign goods carried by junks or launches registered as in **Articles V** and **VI** clearing from Hongkong, Victoria Harbour, for non-open ports in the Kuangtung Province may acquit themselves of import and transit duties before departure and may be granted transit passes. Report for Customs purposes must be made at the **Chinese Maritime Customs** sub-office agreed upon by the **Hongkong Government**. Junks and launches carrying transit pass cargo will be subject to the usual rules as to call at the Customs stations specified on the pass.\n\n## ARTICLE IX\n\nGoods passing through the Colony under Customs documents from one treaty port in China to another shall maintain their original status and shall receive the benefit of their original Customs documents at the port of destination, subject to the following conditions:\n\n| Condition | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | The Customs Authorities shall be given full facilities for supervising goods in transit without landing or transhipment during such period as such goods remain within the waters of the Colony. |\n| (b) | Goods landed pending transmission by sea or by railway and goods brought by railway for transmission by sea shall be placed in such bonded warehouses as may be agreed upon between the **Government of Hongkong** and the Customs Authorities. Full facilities to supervise goods in such warehouses shall be given to the Customs Authorities and those Authorities may require goods to be forwarded within a reasonable specified time. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 465122, "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": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 682, "title": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "## ARTICLE II.\n\n2. (b) Every vessel bringing salt into the waters of the Colony shall declare to the Harbour Authority the quantity, port of origin, and destination of such salt.\n\n(c) If any junk or launch imports salt into the waters of the Colony without the proper documents required by the Chinese Maritime Customs Authorities, the Harbour Authority shall forthwith report the matter to the Commissioner of Customs, and he shall detain such junk or launch as security for the payment to the Chinese Maritime Customs of such dues and penalties as would be payable to the Chinese Maritime Customs if such junk or launch had been detained in similar circumstances in Chinese waters.\n\n(d) All salt imported into the Colony, other than salt in transit without transhipment, shall be deposited in a licensed warehouse. Salt shall not be removed from a licensed warehouse except under a removal permit, which permit, in the case of salt destined for export to China, shall be granted only upon production of a certificate authorizing import into China, properly authenticated by the Commissioner of Customs.\n\n(e) Every licensee of a licensed warehouse for salt shall keep such books as may be prescribed, showing imports, exports, and local sales. The books shall at all times be open to inspection by the Hongkong Government.\n\n(f) Every manufacturer of salt in the New Territories leased under the Convention of the 19th June, 1898, shall deposit the salt manufactured by him in a licensed warehouse, and the licensee of such warehouse shall keep a register in prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times open to inspection by the Hongkong Government.\n\n(g) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special licence.\n\n(h) Salt in excess of a prescribed amount shall not be removed from a licensed warehouse or shop, or from place to place in the Colony, except under permit from the proper British authority.\n\nAs the provisions of this Article are designed to safeguard the salt revenue of the Chinese Government, that Government agrees to permit salt to pay its taxes to the Chinese Maritime Customs Office in Hongkong, and to allow to continue without restriction consignments of salt through the waters of the Colony from one part of the islands and littoral of China to another, which trade has in fact existed for many years past.\n\n## ARTICLE III.\n\nNo person shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used daily. All such books shall be open to inspection by the Hongkong Government.\n\n## ARTICLE IV.\n\nDuring the period of this Agreement the Government of Hongkong will allow the Chinese Maritime Customs to maintain for Customs purposes a sub-office at Shamshuipo or at such other place as may be approved by the Hongkong Government.\n\n## ARTICLE V.\n\nSteam launches duly registered by the Chinese Maritime Customs under the Inland Waters Steam Navigation regulations may trade between Hongkong and non-open ports in the Kuangtung Province subject to the following conditions:\n\n(a) The term \"non-open port\" shall mean any non-treaty port upon the inland waterways of the Kuangtung Province and it shall include such non-treaty ports upon the sea coast of the Kuangtung Province as may from time to time be agreed upon between the Government of Hongkong and the Chinese Authorities at Canton.\n\n(b) On each occasion of arrival at and departure from Hongkong the launch master shall deposit his manifest in duplicate with the Harbour Authority who shall send one copy to the Commissioner of Customs.\n\n(c) Upon application by the launch master the Chinese Maritime Customs shall grant a special pass for each trip, which special pass shall specify the destination of the launch, the places at which it is proposed to call, and the Customs stations to be called at on both the outward and the return voyages. The launch must proceed direct to the first Customs station specified on the pass.\n\n(d) All launches proceeding to non-treaty ports in the Kuangtung Province under this article must call at the Chinese Maritime Customs sub-office agreed upon by the Government of Hongkong where cargo and baggage will be examined and hatches may be sealed after loading. Dues may be paid at the master's option at such sub-office or at the station specified on the pass.\n\n(e) On the return voyage from such ports launches with their passengers and cargo must proceed to the Chinese Maritime Customs sub-office agreed upon by the Government of Hongkong for examination and payment of the necessary dues, if any, to such sub-office.\n\n(f) Omission to report at the specified Customs station on the outward or inward voyage will entail confiscation of launch and cargo.\n\n## ARTICLE VI.\n\nJunks and lighters registered by the Chinese Maritime Customs may be towed between Hongkong and non-open ports in the Kuangtung province by steam launches duly registered by the Chinese Maritime Customs under the Inland Waters Steam Navigation regulations; and in that case such junks, lighters, and launches will be treated as junks under sail and will be required to conform to the rules governing junk traffic, and the procedure prescribed in Article V of this Agreement.\n\n## ARTICLE VII.\n\nLighters towed by launches to treaty ports in the Liang Kuang Provinces may have their hatches sealed by the Chinese Maritime Customs prior to departure and such vessels may then proceed direct to their destination. The Chinese Maritime Customs reserve the right to require the launch to call at a Customs station en route for search.\n\n## ARTICLE VIII.\n\nForeign goods carried by junks or launches registered as in Articles V and VI clearing from Hongkong, Victoria Harbour, for non-open ports in the Kuangtung Province may acquit themselves of import and transit duties before departure and may be granted transit passes. Report for Customs purposes must be made at the Chinese Maritime Customs sub-office agreed upon by the Hongkong Government. Junks and launches carrying transit pass cargo will be subject to the usual rules as to call at the Customs stations specified on the pass.\n\n## ARTICLE IX.\n\nGoods passing through the Colony under Customs documents from one treaty port in China to another shall maintain their original status and shall receive the benefit of their original Customs documents at the port of destination, subject to the following conditions:\n\n(a) The Customs Authorities shall be given full facilities for supervising goods in transit without landing or transhipment during such period as such goods remain within the waters of the Colony.\n\n(b) Goods landed pending transmission by sea or by railway and goods brought by railway for transmission by sea shall be placed in such bonded warehouses as may be agreed upon between the Government of Hongkong and the Customs Authorities. Full facilities to supervise goods in such warehouses shall be given to the Customs Authorities and those Authorities may require goods to be forwarded within a reasonable specified time.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 465775, "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": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916", "content_text": "VOL. 2\n\nFROM Foreign Track Dept.\n\nDATE : \n\nSUBJECT\n\nFROM\n\n30 men. Registered Companies with Preponderant Enemy Interest Foreign Trade Dept.\n\n3/ Tuess Oppermann & Co, Havana.\n\nMinistry of Munitions & April. Antimony Regulus to New York.\n\nColonial Office\n\nForeign Trade Dept. 8\n\n14\n\n1\n\n15\n\n14 A\n\nWar Trade Dept.\n\n18\n\nBd. of Trade. (Currency Dept.) General Post Office\n\n\"Foreign Trade Dept. 19-\n\nParliamentary Counsel. Rubber + Tin Export Committee\n\nForeign Trade Dept.\n\nCustom House\n\n29\n\nA\n\nThay.\n\nk\n\n· 10\n\nForeign Trade Dept.. 12 a\n\n+\n\n154\n\nWar Trade Dept. 18 General Post Office 19- Ministry of Munitions\n\nWar Trade Dept.\n\n10\n\nA\n\n23\n\nLondon Chamber of Commerce 26\n\nQuail Service via Siberia.\n\nGuess Arkell & Douglas, New York.\n\nCorrespondence with Enemy Subject in Japan. Querors B. Rigold & Bergmann. German Trading after the war.\n\nHongkong Tallow.\n\nTallows, Peanut Oil & Wood Oil.\n\nBd. of Trade Certificate Regulations.\n\nQuail Service via Siberia.\n\nIncos Erdmann & Sielcken, Batavia.\n\nImportation of Unset Diamonds from U.K. Direction der Disconto-Gesellschaft. Export of Tin.\n\nDetention of Cabled Corres. of Sulzer Freres.\n\nPfister\n\nRe-exported Consignments of Tea.\n\nDetention of Correspondence.\n\nShipment of Feathers.\n\nHemp to Switzerland.\n\nAgencies.\n\nFinancial Responsibility for Brit. P.O.)\n\nGroundnut Oil to Siam.\n\n\"Export of Oils to Shanghai, Tahiti & San Francisco\n\nPeanut Oil to San Francisco.\n\nProhibition (Form of Exports of Silk. Foreign Trade Dept. 29 @ Importation & Exportation Laws (2) Black List? @ Importation & Exportation Laws Black List\n\nShipment of Feathers.\n\nWar Trade Dept. Foreign Trade Dept.\n\n30.\n\nA\n\nSilk from Canton to U.S., France & Russia. Payment of Dividends to Enemy Subjects.\n\nDATE 5-\n\nSUBJECT\n\nCanton - Kowloon Railway.\n\nForeign Trade Dept. June licence to Tnt Reif to Trade. Hongkong & Shanghai Bank.\n\nWar Trade Dept. Hongkong & Shanghai Bank 6\n\nCol. Nursing Assocn. Foreign Trade Dept. War Trade Dept.\n\nJ\n\n9\n\n10\n\n12\n\n&\n\n17\n\nf\n\nGeneral Post Office Foreign Trade Dept. 19\n\nWar Trade Dept.\n\n4\n\nMinistry of Munitions, 22 -\n\nCustom House\n\nForeign Trade Dept.\n\nWar Trade Dept.\n\nColonial Office Foreign Trade Dept. Church Missionary Society. Foreign Trade Dept.\n\n14 \"\n\n30 *\n\nCoconut Oil from British Possessions ! Export of Raw & Waste Silk.\n\nMiss L. T. Jacobs.\n\nZurich.\n\nQuesore Liebermann & Walckli, Rotterdam\n\nEucas W. Heijblom, H.K. & Eucas M. Van Swyndragt,\n\nChina Beans & Sesamum to San Francisco.\n\nProhibition of Silk.\n\nTranshipment of Silk.\n\nBritish Postal Agencies in China.\n\nShipment of Feathers.\n\nChinese mica to Japan. Export of Lead.\n\nOpium Smuggling.\n\nImportation of Set Diamonds.\n\n1 July Shipment of Feathers.\n\nTranshipment of Silk to Netherlands India. Inter-Deptl. Conference\n\nConsignment of Opium Traffic.\n\nDiamonds.\n\nProperty of the Rhenish Mission.\n\nShipment of Porcelain & Embroideries.\n\nShipment of Feathers.\n\n10 H\n\n// \"\n\n12\n\nmunitions\n\n13\n\n4\n\nOpium Conference.\n\nMin. of Munitions\n\n£2\n\nA\n\nMin.\n\nof Custom House\n\nForeign Trade Dept. 27\n\nA\n\nWar Trade Dept.\n\n284\n\n×\n\nJull. Banking Corpn. 29\n\nDynamite & Detonators.\n\nExport of Lead.\n\n© N.S. Toves & Co. © Carmichaels Clarke.\n\nH\n\n\"Sourabaya.\n\nOil. Cocoa Oil & Linseed Oil to Bangkok\n\ngoods\n\non 5.5. \"Sigmaringen\".\n\n[47612A] Wt 12218/2108 2000 10/28 H & J, Ld Gp 113", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-439 - Others - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466136, "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": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916", "page_number": 366, "title": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916", "content_text": "Page 361\n\n6\n\n13.\n\n1916\n\nHONG KONG\n\n33259\n\n33259 RECO REG 14 JUL\n\nDynamite & Detonators\n\ne\n\nUS States Considers shipment of Explosives\n\nEast previous Paper should be discontinued for reasons stated.\n\nRobinson Cowell:\n\nJohor shows\n\nAustralia (copy tel.) 19th above tel. and 27% above tel. MA and\n\nM.\n\nSee also 33/68\n\nwe can\n\nno\n\nfor\n\nI think\n\nwish\n\nthat\n\nand\n\nof M.\n\ndynamite\n\nfrom British\n\nthat\n\ndetonators\n\nshould\n\nbe obtained\n\nI do not\n\ninterfere with\n\nfrom foreign sources\n\nwh.\n\nComm.\n\nhave already\n\nwith\n\nEmbassy explained\n\nin correction\n\nlead\n\nimportance of not interfering\n\nthe transhipping\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n4. Ke= (90092) W1. 35800-6. 45,000. 12/18. BM & S.\n\nab\n\nregards\n\nt\n\ndistributing\n\nr of M\n\nwith\n\ntrade of\n\ngoods from foreign\n\nmatter of fact it", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-439 - Others - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466137, "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": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916", "page_number": 367, "title": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916", "content_text": "THE SECRETARY,\n\nAnd the following letter and number should be quoted:-\n\n95/G/58.\n\nGraphic Address: Manisupply, London.\n\nPhone Number: Victoria, 8860-5. Treasury, 221-2,\n\nMINISTRY OF MUNITIONS OF WAR,\n\n362 WHITEHALL GARDENS,\n\nLONDON, S.W.\n\n12th July, 1916.\n\nI am directed by the Minister of Munitions\n\nto acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th May,\n\nReference No.30371/18, with copy of dispatch from the\n\nGovernor of Hong Kong relating to the shipment of\n\nDynamite and Detonators. In reply, I have to state,\n\nfor the information of Mr. Secretary Bonar Law, that,\n\nwith a view of meeting the present shortage of Glycerine,\n\nthe Minister has arranged to reduce as far as possible\n\nthe percentage of Glycerine used in Blasting Explosives,\n\nand to restrict the shipment of those explosives to\n\nBritish Possessions and their employment in British\n\nPossessions to such directions that will serve national\n\npurposes at the present time. He considers therefore\n\nthat the continued shipment of explosives from Hong Kong\n\nis undesirable, and would suggest that, if Mr. Secretary\n\nBonar Law sees no objection, arrangements should be made\n\nfor the discontinuance of these shipments.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nLlewellyn Smith\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office,\n\nS.W.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-439 - Others - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466139, "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": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916", "page_number": 369, "title": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916", "content_text": "annoyous\n\nregards dynamite detonators\n\nfrom foreign\n\nmi squirede\n\nYou may\n\na boll tax\n\naccordamer\n\nstile\n\nact\n\nDla\n\nunderlaid\n\nTat\n\n24 June 1915\n\nBonarlar\n\nмонкогу 33257\n\n364 (29183/15)\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe Seer\n\nмам MINUTE.\n\nMr. o 25/7/16 Mr. Cowell 26\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Read.\n\nSir H. Just.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nMr. Steel-Maitland.\n\nMr. Bonar Law.\n\nᄏ 4 June 15-\n\nEn let zwar (26.7\n\nlet for 24 June 157\n\n25895+/15 29185/15\n\ntel to for. 19 July:6 33257\n\nLin\n\nleat July 1915\n\nI am directed to acknowledge receipt of your 95/9/58 of\n\nand letter\n\nThe 18th July\n\ntransmit for the information of the Minister\n\nacc.\n\nV city of\n\n6 Munitions The\n\nAlso correct you regarding the exportation of dynamite and detonators\n\nD from Hong Kong.\n\n2. The minutes were\n\nThe Bonar Law's till off\n\nThe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-439 - Others - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466140, "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": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916", "page_number": 370, "title": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916", "content_text": "19th July\n\nArt...\n\nconfined to...\n\ndynamite and detonator flawed from British sources...\n\nbecause of interference tampered with from foreign...\n\nThose from Son Co would probably result in depriving...\n\nmerely result in depriving the Colony of its transhipment and distributing trade, and secure a corresponding advantage\n\n(Signed) H. J. READ,\n\n1916\n\nHONG KONG\n\n33262\n\nREC'd 14 JUL\n\nOpen in Conference.\n\nby Francon. Copy\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\na stet.\n\n365\n\nletter which the Board sent to the Home Office respinging the proposals outlined in...\n\nMr. Pruner...\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n(90092) Wl, 15800-8. 45,000. 13/15. BM £6.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-439 - Others - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467623, "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": "CO129-441 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [1-3]", "page_number": 393, "title": "CO129-441 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [1-3]", "content_text": "(6) Every vessel bringing salt into the waters of the Colony shall declare to the Harbour Authority the quantity, port of origin, and destination of such salt.\n\n(e) The import into China of foreign salt, including salt manufactured in the New Territories (Hongkong), is and remains prohibited.\n\n(d) If any junk or launch imports salt into the waters of the Colony which is not covered by a pass in the prescribed form issued by the proper authority in the Chinese Salt Department, the Harbour Authority shall forthwith report the matter to the Commissioner of Customs, and he shall detain such junk or launch as security for the payment to the Chinese Maritime Customs of such dues as would be payable to the Chinese Maritime Customs if such junk or launch had been detained in similar circumstances in Chinese waters.\n\n(e) All salt imported into the Colony, other than salt in transit without transhipment, shall be deposited in a licensed warehouse. Salt shall not be removed from a licensed warehouse except under a removal permit, which permit, in the case of salt destined for export to Kuangtung, shall be granted only upon payment of duty; and the salt covered by a permit for removal as above shall not be transported to Kuangtung until a Transportation Pass in the prescribed form, issued by the proper authority in the Salt Department and countersigned by the Commissioner of Customs, has been obtained by the merchant.\n\n(f) Every licensee of a licensed warehouse for salt shall keep such books as may be prescribed, showing imports, exports, and local sales. The books shall at all times be open to inspection by the Hongkong Government.\n\nEvery manufacturer of salt in the New Territories leased under the Convention of the 19th June, 1898, shall deposit the salt manufactured by him in a licensed warehouse, and the licensee of such warehouse shall keep a register in the prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times open to inspection by the Hongkong Government.\n\n(h) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special licence.\n\n(7) Salt in excess of a prescribed amount shall not be removed from a licensed warehouse or shop, or from place to place in the Colony, except under permit from the proper British authority.\n\nAs the provisions of this Article are designed to safeguard the salt revenue of the Chinese Government, that Government agrees to permit the duty on salt transported from Hongkong to Kuangtung under the above regulations to be collected by the Chinese Maritime Customs Office in Hongkong, and to allow to continue without restriction assignments of salt to Kuangtung through the waters of the Colony from the salt works on the Kuangtung and Fukien littoral.\n\nARTICLE III.\n\nNo person shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law, and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used daily. All such books shall be open to inspection by the Hongkong Government.\n\nARTICLE IV.\n\nDuring the period of this Agreement, the Government of Hongkong will allow the Chinese Maritime Customs to maintain for Customs purposes a sub-office at Shamsip or at such other place as may be approved by the Hongkong Government.\n\nARTICLE V.\n\nSteam launches duly registered by the Chinese Maritime Customs under the Inland Waters Steam Navigation regulations may trade between Hongkong and non-open ports in the Kuangtung Province subject to the following conditions:\n\n(a) The term \"non-open port\" shall mean any non-treaty port upon the inland waterways of the Kuangtung Province, and it shall include such non-treaty ports upon the sea coast of the Kuangtung Province as may from time to time be agreed upon between the Government of Hongkong and the Chinese Authorities at Canton.\n\n(b) On each occasion of arrival at and departure from Hongkong, the launch master shall deposit his manifest in duplicate with the Harbour Authority, who shall send one copy to the Commissioner of Customs.\n\n(c) Upon application by the launch master, the Chinese Maritime Customs shall grant a special pass for each trip, which special pass shall specify the destination of the launch, the places at which it is proposed to call, and the Customs stations to be called at on both the outward and the return voyages. The launch must proceed direct to the first Customs station specified on the pass.\n\n(d) All launches proceeding to non-treaty ports in the Kuangtung Province under this article must call at the Chinese Maritime Customs sub-office agreed upon by the Government of Hongkong, where cargo and baggage will be examined and hatches may be sealed after loading. Dues may be paid at the master's option at such sub-office or at the station specified on the pass.\n\n(e) On the return voyage from such ports, launches with their cargo and passengers must proceed to the Chinese Maritime Customs sub-office agreed upon by the Government of Hongkong for examination and payment of the necessary dues, if any, to such sub-office.\n\nOmission to report at the specified Customs station on the outward or inward voyage will entail confiscation of launch and cargo.\n\nARTICLE VI.\n\nJunks and lighters registered by the Chinese Maritime Customs may be towed between Hongkong and non-open ports in the Kuangtung province by steam launches duly registered by the Chinese Maritime Customs under the Inland Waters Steam Navigation regulations; and in that case, such junks, lighters, and launches will be treated as junks under sail and will be required to conform to the rules governing junk traffic, and the procedure prescribed in Article V of this Agreement.\n\nARTICLE VII.\n\nLighters towed by launches to treaty ports in the Liang Kuang Provinces may have their hatches sealed by the Chinese Maritime Customs prior to departure, and such vessels may then proceed direct to their destination. The Chinese Maritime Customs reserve the right to require the launch to call at a Customs station en route for search.\n\nARTICLE VIII.\n\nForeign goods carried by junks or launches registered as in Articles V and VI clearing from Hongkong, Victoria Harbour, for non-open ports in the Kuangtung Province may acquit themselves of import and transit duties before departure and may be granted transit passes. Report for Customs purposes must be made at the Chinese Maritime Customs sub-office agreed upon by the Hongkong Government. Junks and launches carrying transit pass cargo will be subject to the usual rules as to call at the Customs stations specified on the pass.\n\nARTICLE IX.\n\nGoods passing through the Colony under Customs documents from one treaty port in China to another shall maintain their original status and shall receive the benefit of their original Customs documents at the port of destination, subject to the following conditions:\n\n(a) The Customs Authorities shall be given full facilities for supervising goods in transit without landing or transhipment during such period as such goods remain within the waters of the Colony.\n\n(b) Goods landed pending transmission by sea or by railway and goods brought by railway for transmission by sea shall be placed in such bonded warehouses as may be agreed upon between the Government of Hongkong and the Customs Authorities. Full facilities to supervise goods in such warehouses shall be given to the Customs Authorities, and those Authorities may require goods to be forwarded within a reasonable specified time.\n\nPage 387", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-441 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469714, "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": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 588, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "120\n\nSafety car.\n\nTridiges and detonators.\n\nWeight of packages.\n\nGovernment not responsible for damage.\n\nOther explosives.\n\nWeight of packages.\n\nGovernment not responsible for damage.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nand so on, increasing by 8 cents per package for each 25 lbs. of gunpowder, up to and in excess of 100 lbs. according as the gunpowder may be loose or in tins.\n\nPackages containing safety cartridges to be charged per 25 lbs. weight, 6 cents a month or fraction of a month. Packages of detonators 9 cents for 25 lbs. weight.\n\nThe weight of the various packages will be determined at the time of storing, and no alteration will be allowed after they have been received into the magazine.\n\nThe Government will not be responsible for damage by explosion, or by insufficient or improper packing; and, as wooden packages are liable to the attacks of white ants, they should be tin-lined, and the lining should be intact.\n\nSCALE OF CHARGES FOR THE STORAGE OF OTHER EXPLOSIVES.\n\nNitro-glycerine, or gloroine oil, gun cotton, fulminating mercury, dynamite, lithofracteur, Horsley's patent blasting powder, &c., &c.\n\nCases of the above containing 25 lbs. or less, ...... 16 cents\n\nCases containing more than 25 lbs. and less than 50 lbs., 28 cents\n\nCases containing 50 lbs. and less than 75 lbs., .......... 40 cents\n\nCases containing 75 lbs. and less than 100 lbs., ..... 52 cents\n\nand so on, increasing by 12 cents per package for each 25 lbs. weight.\n\nThe weight of the various packages will be determined at the time of storing, and no alteration will be allowed after they have been received into the magazine.\n\nThe Government will not be responsible for damage by explosion, or by insufficient or improper packing; and as wooden packages are liable to the attacks of white ants, they should be tin-lined, and the lining should be intact.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n121\n\n\"Northern Boundary - An imaginary straight line between the White Rock at Tai-kok-tsai and the southernmost point of Stonecutters Island.\n\n\"Southern Boundary - An imaginary straight line between Yau-mati Police Station and the southernmost point of Stonecutters Island.\n\nWestern Boundary - An imaginary straight line between the Custom House at Lai Chi Kok and the Kowloon Godown flag-staff intersected by the Northern and Southern Boundaries.\n\nBetween 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. a clear passage of 60 yards from the shore shall be kept.\n\nIII. - Sam Shui Po.\n\n**Southern Boundary\". — An imaginary straight line between the Harbour Master's Station at Sam Shui Po and the High Rock at north east point of Stonecutters Island intersected by the Western Boundary.\n\n**Western Boundary\". — An imaginary straight line between the Custom House at Lai Chi Kok and the Kowloon Godown flag-staff.\n\nIV. Other Harbour Master's Stations.\n\nAs the Harbour Master may direct.\n\n[8.89.]\n\nTable T.\n\n \n Trading Licences\n One year\n One voyage\n Fishing Extension\n \n \n Under 100 piculs\n $6.00\n $1.00\n $1.00\n \n \n From 100 to 200\n 8.00\n 1.25\n 1.00\n \n \n 200 to 300\n 10.00\n 1.50\n 2.00\n \n \n 300 to 400\n 12.00\n 1.75\n 2.00\n \n \n 400 to 500\n 14.00\n 2.00\n 3.00\n \n \n 500 to 600\n 16.00\n 2.25\n 3.00\n \n \n 600 to 700\n 18.00\n 2.50\n 4.00\n \n \n 700 to 800\n 20.00\n 2.75\n 4.00\n \n \n 800 to 900\n 22.00\n 3.00\n 5.00\n \n \n 900 to 1,000\n 24.00\n 3.25\n 5.00\n \n \n 1,000 to 2,000\n 26.00\n 3.50\n 6.00\n \n \n 2,000 to 3,000\n 28.00\n 3.75\n 6.00\n \n \n 3,000 to 4,000\n 30.00\n 4.00\n 7.00\n \n \n 4,000 to 5,000\n 32.00\n 4.25\n 7.00\n \n \n 5,000 to 6,000\n 34.00\n 4.50\n 8.00\n \n \n 6,000 to 7,000\n 36.00\n 4.75\n 8.00\n \n \n 7,000 to 8,000\n 38.00\n 5.00\n 9.00\n \n \n 8,000 to 9,000\n 40.00\n 5.00\n 9.00\n \n \n 9,000 to 10,000\n 42.00\n 5.00\n 10.00\n \n \n Over 10,000 piculs\n 44.00\n 5.00\n 10.00\n \n\nI. - Victoria.\n\n\"Northern Boundary\". The south line of the Central Fairway.\n\n\"Southern Boundary\". — An imaginary straight line 250 yards from a parallel to the Praya Wall.\n\n\"Eastern Boundary\". — An imaginary straight line in continuation of Pasig Wharf.\n\n\"Western Boundary\". — As far as the Harbour Master shall think fit.\n\n* As amended by G. N. 109 of 1908 and No. 17 of 1912.\n\n* As amended by G. N. 122 of 1919 and No. 6 of 1912.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 476250, "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": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "content_text": "## Classifier of Quantity | Heading | Value\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 404 | To include SUNDRIES. | 11 |\n| 405 | E. Earthenware. | |\n| 406 | Electrical Accessories. Electric Machinery. Electric Lamps. Fittings, Fans, X-ray Apparatus, Batteries. Dry Cells, Fan Accessories, Meters, Insulated and Porcelain Cleats, Radiators, Switches, Cookers, Toasters, and Irons. Generators, Motors, Transformers, and Lifts. Are Lamps. | 51 |\n| 407 | Electric Wire and Cables. Telephone and Telephone Cables. | |\n| 408 | Embroidery. | 32 |\n| 409 | Emery and similar Abra-sives. Powder, Wheels, Cloth, and Paper, Quartz Powder, Red Sand, Sand and Glasspaper, and Sika. | |\n| 410 | All articles of Enamelled Metal. | |\n| 411 | H Enamel Ware. | ! |\n| 412 | Value. Explosives. | |\n| 413 | Blasting Powder, Dynamite. Gelignite, and similar Explosives, and Detonators and Fuses. | |\n| 414 | Firecrackers, Gunpowder, Fireworks, of all kinds. | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 479283, "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": "CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3]", "page_number": 260, "title": "CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3]", "content_text": "## INDEX \n### E-Continued.\nvii\n\n| Serial No. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 485 | Electric Fan- and accessories |\n| 485 | Fittings Generators |\n| 244 | Freas |\n| 485 | Lamps |\n| 177 | Lifts... |\n| 485 | Magnetos. |\n| 177 | Motors..... |\n| 485 | Rulators |\n| 485 | Switches |\n| 48 | Toastere |\n| 177 | Tingsformers |\n| 495 | Accessories, not specially mentioned....... |\n| 177 | Machinery |\n| 34 | |\n\n### Continued.\n\n| Serial No. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 478 | Electroplate Ware.. |\n| 546 | Elephant's Teeth and Tosks |\n| 488 | Embroidery |\n| 489 | Emery |\n| 489 | Cloth |\n| 489 | Paper |\n| 489 | Powder |\n| 489 | Wheels |\n| 243 | Enamel Sand.... |\n| 473 | Dentifrice |\n| 490 | Ware.. |\n| 624 | Despatch Boxe8...... |\n| 178 | Englues, Internal Combustion and Plants |\n| 491 | Detonators |\n| 1:4 | Steam, other than Locomotives |\n| 481 | Diamonds, Cut and Uncut |\n| 465 | Engravings... |\n| 622 | Glazier's |\n| 613 | Erasers, Ink and Pencil |\n| 613 | Diaries .... |\n| 3 | Expanded Metal |\n\n## INDEX \n### Continued.\n\n| Serial No. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 314 | Dimities |\n| 482 | Disinfectants, not specially mentioned |\n| 491 | Explosives, not specially mentioned |\n| 605 | Eyelers for Shoes, etc. |\n| 284 | Distempers.. |\n| 519 | Dragon's Blood |\n| 523 | Dress Shields. |\n| 283 | Driere |\n| 320 | Drills, Dyed |\n| 294 | Grey |\n| 304 | White |\n| 37 | Imitation Satin |\n| 304 | \" |\n| 295 | Duck, Grey |\n| 304 | White |\n| 304 | Imitation Satin... |\n| 97 | Ducks, Wild |\n| 633 | Donnage. Woodi.. |\n| 53 | Dy, Aniline.... |\n| 66 | Dyeing Materials, not specially mentioned......... |\n| 491 | Dynamite |\n\n### F.\n\n| Serial No. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 316 | Fancies, Light Cotton, not specially mentioned... |\n| 315 | Woven.. |\n| 498 | Fans, Feather |\n| 497 | Palm Leaf |\n| 498 | Paper |\n| 498 | Silk |\n| 498 | not specially mentioned |\n| 499 | Feathers, Dick |\n| 499 | Fowl |\n| 500 | not specially mentioned |\n| 501 | Felt.. |\n| 7 | Roofing |\n| 501 | Sheathings |\n| 604 | Fenders, Ship's |\n| 527 | Fertilizers (8 Manure) |\n| 527 | Fibre, not specially mentioned. |\n| 622 | Files, Metal.... |\n\n### Continued.\n\n| Serial No. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 388 | Earthenware |\n| 984 | Webbing |\n| 116 | Earth, Red |\n| 487 | Ebony |\n| 435 | Eggs, Fresh and Preserved |\n| 487 | Egg Products |\n| 523 | Elastic |\n| 485 | Electric Cables |\n| 485 | Wire. |\n| 485 | Electrical Batteries |\n| 485 | Dry Cells |\n| 485 | Cookers.. |\n| 583 | Phorographic.. |\n| 508 | Filters... |\n| 116 | Filter Sheaths (Hemp). |\n| 502 | Fire Bricks |\n| 503 | Chy |\n| 504 | Extinguishers |\n| 147 | Firewood |\n| 492 | Fireworks |\n| 79 | Fish, Dried |\n| 485 | th |\n| 123 | Fresh |\n| 79 | Mawes |\n| 79 | Puste |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 479306, "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": "CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3]", "page_number": 283, "title": "CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Sundries C\n| Serial No. | Chinese | Classifier of Heading | Quantity | Value |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 460 | | Candles. All kinds. | | Value |\n| 461 | | Canes. | | |\n| 462 | 大桶 | Casks. Barrels, Canisters, Kegs, cases. | | |\n| 463 | 化學膠 | Celluloid. Rods, Sheets, Sticks, and all articles made from celluloid. | 2 | |\n\n## Sundries D\n| Serial No. | Chinese | Classifier of Heading | Quantity | Value |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 481 | 鑽石 | Diamonds, Cat and Uncut. | | Value |\n| 482 | 牌痩料 | Disinfectants. To include, Chloride of Lime, Creosote, Cresol, (for Carbolic Acid see Chemicals and Drugs). | 267 | * |\n\n## Sundries E\n| Serial No. | Chinese | Classifier of Heading | Quantity | Value |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 464 | 火石粉 | Chalk. | 担數 Piends. | |\n| 465 | 海路及地理圖 | Charts and Map. Pictures, engraved or painted, Photographs, etc. | 1 | Value |\n| 466 | | Not listed | | |\n| 467 | 粗細花器 | China Ware, (Coarse and Porcelain, (other than Curios Five). | | * |\n| 468 | 棺材板 | Coffin Planks. | | + |\n| 469 | 椰肉亁 | Copra. | #Piculs. | |\n| 470 | 幼縦 | Cordage, other than Rope. Spon Yarn, String of all kinds, Twine, etc. | 4 | |\n| 471 | | Corks, Corkwood, Lifebelts. | # | 14 Value |\n| 472 | BUK | | 仝 | |\n| 473 | 裝飾品及香水 | Cosmetics & Perfumery. Dentifrice, Face Creams, Florida Water, Fullers Earth, Hair Dye, Pomade, Rouge, Talcum Powder. | | |\n| 474 | | Cotton, (Raw). | # Picals. | Value |\n| 475 | | Cotton Thread (Sewing). | | 早 |\n| 476 | 鋪床布及檯布 | Covers, (Bed and Table). Down Quilts. | | |\n| 477 | | Cotton and Linen Thread. Crochet Thread, Crof | | < |\n\n## Sundries Continued\n| Serial No. | Chinese | Classifier of Heading | Quantity | Value |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 484 | 器 | Earthenware. | | Value |\n| 485 | 電機事件 | Electrical Accessories. Batteries, Cookers, Dry Cells, Fan Accessories, Fans, Fittings, Insulated and Porcelain Cleats, Irons, Meters, Radiators, Spark Plugs, Switches, Toasters, X-ray Apparatus. | 4 | + |\n| 486 | 電氣燈 | Electric Lamps. Arc Lamps, Searchlights. | | |\n| 487 | 電線及電瓶 | Electric Wire and Cables. Telegraph and Telephone Cables. | | |\n| 488 | 厰繡物 | Embroidery. | 189 | |\n| 489 | 金鋼砂及鋼石類 | Emery and similar Abrasives. Emery Cloth, Paper, Powder and Wheels. Corundum Sand, Glasspaper, Quartz Powder, Red Sand, Sandpaper, Sika. | **** | |\n| 490 | 燒器 | Enamel Ware. All articles of Enamelled Metal. | +79 | |\n| 480 | 利器及電度器 | Cutlery and Electroplated Clippers (Hair), Forks, Knife, Razors, Safety Razors, Scissors, Spoons, etc. | << | |\n| 491 | 炸藥粉 | Explosives. Detonators, Fuses, Dynamite, Gelignite, and similar Explosives. | 4 | |\n| 492 | 炮竹 | Firecrackers. | 2 | |\n| 493 | 火藥粉 | Gunpowder. | | |\n| 494 | | Fireworks, of all kinds, | | |\n| 495 | | Not listed | 51 | |\n\n**Note**: Value in Hongkong currency must be stated in ALL cases whether the goods are classified by value or not. Other currencies are to be converted into local currency at the demand rate of the day on which the application is made.\n\n**Note**: Value in Hongkong currency must be stated in ALL cases whether the goods are classified by value or not. Other currencies are to be converted into local currency at the demand rate of the day on which the application is made.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489890, "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": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 381, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "## Mining Operations\n\nThe coal is at present being worked in three ways: (a) From pits, (b) inclines, and (c) open working. Of these the last will be dealt with separately.\n\nThere are at present four pits and four inclines in operation, the names of the pits being Chienchinchai (or “C” pit), Oyama, Toge, and Laobutai (or \"L\" pit). Of these the deepest is the Oyama pit, which strikes the seam at a depth of 1,160 feet and has a depth of 1,234 feet. The Toge pit is 930 feet in depth, while the other two are each about 320 feet deep.\n\nThe names of the four slopes now in use are Yangpai (worked in conjunction with the Toge pit), Wantawu (worked in conjunction with the \"L\" pit), Lungpukan, and Heintun. A new shaft, to be known as the Lungpu pit, is now being sunk at the extreme eastern end of the concession, and has already reached a depth of 400 feet. The total depth of this shaft, which it is expected will be completed in about two years, will be approximately 2,500 feet.\n\n## Method of Working\n\nAt the outset the coal was worked by the pillar and stall system, but about 1912 the sand-flushing system, by which a very much larger percentage of the coal can be extracted, was introduced. The results obtained were highly satisfactory, and the system is now in use throughout the mine, the plant connected therewith being of the most up-to-date type. Sand is procurable in plenty from the bed of the River Hun, whence it is transported by electric railway to the pits, into which it is flushed by high water pressure. By these means about 80 per cent. of the coal can be extracted, and considerable saving of expense is effected in labour and the cost of mine timbers.\n\nThe coal is blasted at the working face, the powder used being dynamite with 50 per cent. of non-explosive matter mixed with it. The mines are comparatively free from fire-damp, and explosions are of rare occurrence, though there have been disastrous fires at the mines, e.g., in 1918, when there was a big explosion in the Oyama pit involving the loss of a large number of lives.\n\nThe underground haulage is mainly mechanical and where mechanical means are not available coolies are used. There are no pit ponies.\n\n## Open Workings\n\nThere are two open-cut mines in operation at Fushun and these form one of the principal features of the colliery. As stated above, the seam now being worked comes to the surface at the foot of the hills forming the valley of the Hun River, and in April 1914 operations were commenced with a view to mining the coal at the western end of the concession from the surface on a scale hitherto attempted. The work has progressed satisfactorily and some four years ago another open-cut mine was commenced nearer the hills and on the other side of the existing railway line. These two open workings are eventually to be joined, and the work of mining the coal from the surface will be continued in an easterly and northerly direction right under the existing town. It will therefore be necessary to move the present station and to build a new town, which will be situated at a spot much nearer to the river. The scheme has in fact already been taken in hand, as no new buildings of any kind are being erected in the present town. It is anticipated that the two open cuts will be linked up in from two to three years' time.\n\nCoal from the open workings can naturally be obtained with a much smaller outlay than in the case of pits, and this is especially the case at present, when the workings are comparatively shallow. All that requires to be done at present is to clear away the upper layer of soil and stone until the coal is reached, though as the seam dips from south to north a layer of shale which overlies the coal and increases in thickness with the depth of the seam has also to be removed. And it is here that the principal obstacle to the further development of the open workings will be met with, as the problem of the disposal of the shale presents considerable difficulty. Hitherto the shale has been piled up round the lip of the workings, but this has not proved altogether satisfactory as, owing to the existence of a comparatively high percentage of oil in the shale, spontaneous combustion occurs when it is exposed to the heat of the sun, while the fumes from the burning shale make the town anything but a pleasant place in which to live when the wind is in a certain quarter. To avoid this difficulty water has been thrown on the shale; but there is a limit to the extent to which this can be done, and the problem of the removal of the shale is now engaging the serious attention of the authorities. How serious the problem is will be realised when it is stated that the management of the colliery are planning to work the coal by means of this system to a depth of 1,000 feet. The shale, however, is said to contain about 8 gallons of heavy oil to the ton, and there is a possibility that plant may be installed with a view to the extraction of the oil as a by-product.\n\nBut, however this may be, it is certain that in the course of a few years, provided the open-cut system is further developed, large hauling plants will be required. At present the depth reached is only from 100 to 120 feet and comparatively little plant is required as coolie labour is abundant and cheap.\n\nThe present daily output of the open workings is about 1,000 tons.\n\n## Plant\n\nThe winding, pumping, ventilating, and hauling plant in use at the various pits and inclines is of various makes—British, German, and American predominating.\n\nThere are two power plants from which current is supplied to all the pits and workings. The first was installed when the colliery was first taken over by the railway company, and is equipped with two Parsons turbo-generators of 1,000 kilowatts each, while one Curtis turbo-generator of 5,000 kilowatts was added later. There are ten Babcock and Wilcox water-tube boilers. This plant is situated near the Oyama pit, to which it supplies power as well as to the other workings in that part of the concession.\n\nThe second power plant, the Mond gas plant, was first installed in 1914, and originally had a gasifying capacity of 240 tons of coal per day. Since then the plant has been doubled in size, and there are now thirty-six producers, the generating plant consisting of two sets of 1,500- and three sets of 3,000-kilowatt turbo-generators. Refuse coal is used for the plant, and the proportion of nitrogen in the coal being comparatively high, fair results have been obtained. The quantity of coal required, however, to produce 1 kilowatt of power is somewhat excessive, being as much as 7 lb.\n\n| By-products | Use |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sulphate of ammonia | Principally exported to foreign countries |\n| Tar | Used by the railway company for preparing railway sleepers and other purposes |\n\nOf the by-products, the sulphate of ammonia is principally exported to foreign countries, while the tar is used by the railway company for preparing railway sleepers and other purposes. During the war large quantities of sulphate of ammonia were sent to the Dutch East Indies for use in the sugar plantations, and owing to the high prices prevailing considerable profits were made out of this branch of the mining business. There are two sets of sulphuric acid producers with a daily capacity of 50 tons.\n\nA third power plant is now in course of erection near the river.\n\n## Coke\n\nThere are thirty coking ovens at the mines, but they are not at present in use. The railway company's principal need for coke is in connection with the blast furnaces at the Anshan Iron Works, but it is found more profitable to manufacture the coke on the spot, and the coal for this purpose is therefore first conveyed to Anshan. The coal from the eastern end of the concession is the most suitable for the manufacture of coke, and it is for this reason that the South Manchuria Railway Company have acquired the rights over the Talien Mine, which adjoins the Fushun concession, and which produces coal suitable for the production of coke. It is proposed to mine the coal on the Talien concession from the new pit mentioned above, as being in course of construction at the extreme end of the Fushun area.\n\n## Nature of Coal\n\nFushun coal is of fairly uniform quality, though, as stated above, that found at the eastern end is better suited for coking. In colour it is a lustrous black; it burns readily, is rich in volatile matter, and has a heating power of about 7,000 calories, is very suitable for consumption in locomotive and marine engines and also for gas making. The quantity of sulphur found in the coal is small, as is also the proportion of ash.\n\nPage 380", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494866, "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": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "page_number": 411, "title": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "content_text": "(387578) WE 20112.36\n\n60,000 11-22 W & 8 Ltd\n\nJ&°10'' opOUR ANT JOU? couvenpf Booq Cenfly)\n\ne. wfpa* H*T* 350 LONuq@*\n\n198\n\nJS IT'S NO SLLeaf\n\n1010*55* KMOK ¡a г?\n\n} {BAO] AGL' So Lonʊge\"\n\n8520 berg\n\n] Fence ?#f]\n\n] 727\n\nCp 20\n\nIC 10 2. 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Seyo Maru\n\n$50 paid\n\n1 Winchester Rifle, 298\n\n16248\n\nrounds.\n\n14.11.22 Tang Yem\n\n25.11.22. Wong Yee Sai S.S. President Wilson\n\n4.11.22. Pak Hing Lun S.S.President Madison on\n\narrival from United States. S.S. President Jackson\n\n31.10.22. No arrest\n\n$200 paid\n\n] Revolver.\n\n16743\n\nS.S. Jade\n\n12 mths. 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H.L.\n\n1 Mauser Pistol\n\n31.11.22\n\nNo arrest\n\nS.S. President Madison on arrival from United States.\n\nS.S. President Jackson\n\n$500 paid\n\n50 rounds.\n\n16743\n\n16097\n\n1 5668\n\n2 Winchester Rifles, 1000 rounds ammunition.\n\n421\n\nHowever, upon closer inspection, the text appears to be a table. Here is the reformatted text in Markdown table syntax:\n\n| REMARKS | ARRESTS | PLACE OF SEIZURE | DATE | FINE | AMOUNT CONFISCATED | CASE NO. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | 1 man | Tsa Kwo An Village | 15.10.32 | | | |\n| | Li Chen | | 20.11.22 | $250 or 6 mths | 3 Mauser Pistols, 135 rounds, 288 Charges Dynamite. | 14444/48 |\n| | Leung Son Yee | Sampan 1627 Wanchai | 26.11.22 | & 12 mths H.L. | 65 Revolvers, 6450 rounds. | 16 471 |\n| | Cheng Wai | S.S. Tai Lee | 12.11.22 | 1 year H.L. | | |\n| | | | | $150 paid | 1 Revolver, 150 rounds. | 16741 |\n| | | | | 6 mths. 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President McKinly on arrival from United States.\n 18.11.22\n \n 2 Revolvers, 246 rounds.\n \n \n \n \n No arrest\n S.S. President McKinly on arrival from United States\n 18.11.22\n \n 4 Revolvers, 988 rounds.\n \n \n \n \n Ko Yun Wo\n \n 8.11.22\n $250 Bail Est.\n \n \n \n \n \n Lo Sze\n S.S. Sayo Maru\n 19.11.22\n $50 paid\n 120 rounds, Revolvers. 32 S & W\n 15832\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1 Winchester Rifle, rounds.\n 298\n \n \n \n Wong Yee Sai\n \n 25.11.22\n \n \n 16248\n \n \n \n Tang Yam\n S.S. President Wilson\n 14.11.22\n $200 paid\n 1 Revolver.\n \n \n \n \n Pak Hing Lun\n S.S. Jade\n 4.11.22\n 12 mths. H.L.\n 1 Mauser Pistol\n \n \n \n \n No arrest\n S.S. President Madison on arrival from United States.\n 31.11.22\n \n \n 16743\n \n \n \n \n S.S. President Jackson\n \n $500 paid\n 50 rounds.\n 16097\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2 Winchester Rifles, 1000 rounds ammunition.\n 1 5668\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 421\n \n\nThe final HTML output is:\n\n \n REMARKS\n ARRESTS\n PLACE OF SEIZURE\n DATE\n FINE\n AMOUNT CONFISCATED\n CASE NO.\n \n \n \n 1 man\n Tsa Kwo An Village\n 15.10.32\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Li Chen\n \n 20.11.22\n $250 or 6 mths\n 3 Mauser Pistols, 135 rounds, 288 Charges Dynamite.\n 14444/48\n \n \n \n Leung Son Yee\n Sampan 1627 Wanchai\n 26.11.22\n & 12 mths H.L.\n 65 Revolvers, 6450 rounds.\n 16471\n \n \n \n Cheng Wai\n S.S. Tai Lee\n 12.11.22\n 1 year H.L.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n $150 paid\n 1 Revolver, 150 rounds.\n 16741\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6 mths. H.L.\n 100 rounds, 1 S&W long Revolver (.38)\n 16013\n \n \n \n \n \n \n $50 paid\n 1 St # .38 Revolver, 292 rounds.\n (?)\n \n \n \n Ku Ka Fong\n 1-22 W & S Ltd.\n 14.11.22\n \n 60,000\n \n \n \n \n No arrest\n S.S. President McKinly on arrival from United States.\n 18.11.22\n \n 2 Revolvers, 246 rounds.\n \n \n \n \n No arrest\n S.S. President McKinly on arrival from United States\n 18.11.22\n \n 4 Revolvers, 988 rounds.\n \n \n \n \n Ko Yun Wo\n \n 8.11.22\n $250 Bail Est.\n \n \n \n \n \n Lo Sze\n S.S. Sayo Maru\n 19.11.22\n $50 paid\n 120 rounds, Revolvers. 32 S & W\n 15832\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1 Winchester Rifle, rounds.\n 298\n \n \n \n Wong Yee Sai\n \n 25.11.22\n \n \n 16248\n \n \n \n Tang Yam\n S.S. President Wilson\n 14.11.22\n $200 paid\n 1 Revolver.\n \n \n \n \n Pak Hing Lun\n S.S. Jade\n 4.11.22\n 12 mths. H.L.\n 1 Mauser Pistol\n \n \n \n \n No arrest\n S.S. President Madison on arrival from United States.\n 31.11.22\n \n \n 16743\n \n \n \n \n S.S. President Jackson\n \n $500 paid\n 50 rounds.\n 16097\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2 Winchester Rifles, 1000 rounds ammunition.\n 15668\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 421", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499003, "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": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "page_number": 111, "title": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "content_text": "## Pilotage Fees\n\nFor each time a Steamship is moved inside the Harbour... $10.00\n\n| Type of Ship | Description | Fee |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Sailing ship | Pilotage not under towage inside the water of the Colony, in or out of the Harbour | $20.00 |\n| Sailing ship | Pilotage not under towage from or to outside the waters of the Colony, in or out of the Harbour | $25.00 |\n| Sailing ship | Moved inside the Harbour not under towage | $15.00 |\n\nNote—Sailing ships under towage the same scale as for Steamships.\n\nCOUNCIL CHAMBER, \n7th June, 1904.\n\n**S. B. C. Ross** \nClerk of Councils.\n\n## EXTRACTS FROM THE DANGEROUS GOODS ORDINANCE, 1873\n\n### Definition of Petroleum\n\n4. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the term Petroleum includes Kerosine oil, Rock oil, Rangoon oil, Burmah oil, oil made from Petroleum, coal, schist, shale, peat, or other bituminous substance, and any products of petroleum, or any other of the above mentioned oils.\n\n### Notice by Owner or Master of Ship Carrying Dangerous Goods\n\n8. The owner or master of every ship carrying a cargo any part of which consists of dangerous goods to which this Ordinance applies, shall on entering any harbour give notice of the nature of such cargo to the Harbour Master, and shall furnish him with a true copy of the manifest of such dangerous goods.\n\n(2.) If such notice is not given, and manifest furnished, the owner and the master of such ship shall each incur a penalty not exceeding the sum of two thousand dollars, unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Court before which the case is tried that neither the owner nor the master knew the nature of the goods to which the proceedings relate, and could not with reasonable diligence have obtained such knowledge.\n\n## List of DANGEROUS GOODS\n\n| Dangerous Goods |\n| --- |\n| Petroleum |\n| Nitro-glycerine or glonoine oil |\n| Gum cotton |\n| Fulminate of mercury or of other metals |\n| Dynamite |\n| Blasting powders |\n| Gunpowder |\n| Fuses (other than safety fuses) |\n| Rockets |\n| Detonators |\n| Cartridges |\n| Ammunition of all descriptions (other than percussion caps or priming caps or empty sporting cases) |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499004, "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": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "page_number": 112, "title": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "content_text": "# \n12th October, 1906.\n\n**Phosphorus.**\n**Aqua fortis.**\n**Vitriol.**\n**Naphtha.**\n**Benzene.**\n**Gelatine dynamite.**\n**Cheddite.**\n**Gelignite.**\n**Blasting gelatine.**\n**Bobbinite.**\n**Compressed gunpowder.**\n**Rackarock.**\n**Chlorate of potash mixture for rackarock.**\n**Nitrobenzene or Oil of Mirhane** (exceeding one pound in weight).\n**Picric Explosive** (including Picric Acid exceeding one pound in weight, Picrates, Picric and Picrate Mixtures), unless such Picric Explosive is mixed with not less than half its own weight of water.\n**Carbide of Calcium.**\n\n1. The words \"Carbide of Calcium\" substituted for the whole of the second paragraph, under the sub-heading \"List of Dangerous Goods\", on page 217 of the Regulations of Hongkong, which paragraph begins with the words \"Calcium Carbide\" and ends with the words \"likely to be endangered\".\n\n2. The label on the vessel containing carbide of calcium shall bear in conspicuous characters in English and Chinese the words \"Carbide of Calcium\", \"Dangerous if not kept dry,\" and the following caution, in English and Chinese: \"The contents of this package are liable if brought into contact with moisture to give off a highly inflammable gas\".\n\n3. The quantity of carbide of calcium that may be kept without a licence shall be as follows:-\n \n| Condition | Quantity |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) Where the carbide is kept in separate hermetically-closed metal vessels containing not more than 1 lb. each | 5 lbs. |\n| (2) Where the following conditions are observed | 28 lbs. |\n\n(a) The carbide shall be kept only in a metal vessel or vessels hermetically-closed at all times when the carbide is not actually being placed in or withdrawn from such vessel or vessels.\n(b) The vessels containing carbide shall be kept in a dry and well-ventilated place.\n(c) Due precautions shall be taken to prevent unauthorized persons from having access to the carbide.\n(d) Notice shall be given of such keeping to the Captain Superintendent of Police, and free access shall be afforded to his duly authorized Inspector to inspect the portion of the premises where the carbide is kept and the generator is situated. Where a fixed generator is used on the premises:-\n(e) Full and detailed instructions to be supplied by the maker as to the care and use of the generator shall be kept constantly posted up in such place as to be conveniently referred to by the generator attendant.\n\n**Ether** (exceeding one pound in weight).\n**Sprit of Wine** (exceeding two gallons).\n**Methylated Spirit** (exceeding two gallons).\n**Alcoholic liquid** of a greater strength than 70 parts per cent. by weight of alcohol (exceeding two gallons if kept for private use or exceeding 50 gallons if kept for sale by retail).\n**Benzene** (exceeding one pound in weight).\n\n[30th April, 1910.]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499005, "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": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "page_number": 113, "title": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "content_text": "# Extracts from Rules and Regulations made by the Governor-in-Council on the 15th day of March, 1906, under the provisions of Section 6 of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, (Ordinance No. 1 of 1873)\n\nThe following shall be deemed to be dangerous goods within the meaning of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873 namely:-\n\n- Any preparation or adaptation of any substance similar or not to the following used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion :- \n - Nitro-glycerine, gun-cotton, fulminate of mercury or of other metals, dynamite, blasting powders, gun-powder, gelatine dynamite, cheddite, gelignite, blasting gelatine, bobbinite, compressed gunpowder, rackarock, chlorate of potash mixture for rackarock and picric acid.\n- Compressed Oxygen.\n- Compressed Acetylene.\n- Dissolved Acetylene.\n- Chlorate of Potassium (in quantities exceeding 1 lb.).\n- Any other chlorate.\n- Acetone.\n- Any inflammable liquid, not already, with or without excepted quantities, declared to be dangerous, which, when tested in manner for the time being prescribed under the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, shows a flash point below 150° F.\n- Compressed carbonic acid.\n- Compressed ammonia gas.\n\nNothing in this regulation contained shall be deemed to declare or imply that any substance heretofore declared to be dangerous goods within the meaning of the said Ordinance shall not be deemed to be dangerous goods.\n\n## DANGEROUS GOODS IN GENERAL\n\n1. Every Vessel arriving at any Port in the Colony having on board any Dangerous Goods within the meaning of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, or to which the said Ordinance applies, and every Vessel about to take on board any such goods for exportation, shall hoist a **RED FLAG** at her Fore-truck and shall keep it flying so long as any of such Goods are on board.\n\n2. Every Ship, Vessel, Lighter or Boat of any description whatever, having on board any Dangerous Goods as aforesaid, shall whilst in the waters of the Colony hoist a **RED FLAG** at the Fore-truck or, where there is no mast, on a pole at her bow.\n\n3. Every ship, Vessel, Lighter or Boat as aforesaid having on board or being about to take on board any Dangerous Goods as aforesaid, shall anchor at one of the Dangerous Goods Anchorages, or at such place in the Harbour as shall be pointed out by the Harbour Master, or his Deputy, and the said Vessel shall not be removed therefrom without the permission of the Harbour Master.\n\n Provided that the Harbour Master or his Deputy shall not require any Ship or Vessel to anchor at a Dangerous Goods Anchorage when she has a certificate from an officer of His Majesty's Navy or from one of His Majesty's Inspectors of Explosives to the effect that she has a properly constructed Magazine, and the Master of such Ship or vessel further certifies in writing that all explosives are carried in such Magazine, that all detonators have been removed and that no other Dangerous Cargo is carried by the Ship or Vessel.\n\n Provided also that, should any vessel, having on board any Dangerous Goods as aforesaid, not be provided with such magazine certificate, it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master or Assistant Harbour Master, if a Naval Officer, at the request of the master, owner or agent of such vessel, to inspect her magazine, and if satisfied that it complies with all requirements, to issue a certificate to that effect and to charge a fee of $25 for such certificate.\n\n78\n109", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500418, "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": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 129, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL(3)\n\nSir,\n\nHONGKONG,\n\n..0.\n42959\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE.**\n21st August, 1925.\n\n126\n\nWith reference to my confidential despatch of `40885` the 8th August I have the honour to report the further course of events in connection with the local situation.\n\n2. Considerable numbers of the workers including many of the domestic servants, have not yet returned, but, apart from shipping, the strike is practically at an end, and the ordinary machinery of the Colony is working more or less normally. In spite of the most determined efforts on the part of the Canton Authorities a fairly ample supply of cattle, pigs, fish, and vegetables is being maintained, and prices are little, if anything, above normal. Firewood is being purchased by the Government from Singapore and Saigon, and it is retailed at a rate which has checked a tendency on the part of the dealers to profiteer.\n\n3. Spasmodic attempts continue to be made to create disorder and frighten the Chinese: on the 11th August a small quantity of dynamite was exploded in a tram-car, and two days later detonators were placed on the tram-line. On the 14th August there was a dynamite explosion at the gate of the Taikoo Dockyard, as the men were coming out, and on the following day there was an explosion of fairly considerable ...\n\n4 \n\nThe Right Honourable \nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P., \n&c. \n&c. \n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500444, "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": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 155, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "# CONFIDENTIAL\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 4th September, 1925\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to my confidential despatch No. 742459 of the 21st August, 1925, I have the honour to report the further course of events in connection with the local situation.\n\n2. In so far as the maintenance of law and order within the Colony is concerned, the position is entirely normal. In fact, the number of prisoners in gaol is well below the average, and, though this is no doubt largely accounted for by the considerable reduction in the population, a contributory cause is undoubtedly to be found in the weeding out of undesirables which has been systematically carried on. The street searches, referred to in my previous despatches, have been suspended. There has been no further dynamite incident or other case of violence or intimidation.\n\n3. There have been two further incidents on the frontier since the date of my last despatch. I enclose a copy of a police report regarding an occurrence on the 27th August. On the 29th August, the Punjabi picket was again fired upon by a group of ten Chinese soldiers and the fire was returned. Five shots were fired on each side at a range of ...\n\n## Enclosure No. 1\n\nThe Right Honourable \nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P., \n&c. &c. &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502112, "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": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "page_number": 359, "title": "CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "Times. Friday 10th July\n\nDRASTIC MEASURES AT HONG-KONG.\n\nDECLARATION BY THE\n\nGOVERNOR.\n\n(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT,)\n\nHONG-KONG, JULY 9.\n\nAt a meeting of the Legislative Council to-day Sir Reginald Stubbs, the Governor, made an excellent fighting speech. He thoroughly reassured the loyal population, promising more drastic measures for dealing with the situation if necessary, even the deportation of every unemployed adult. He announced that arrangements had been almost completed for making the capture of those engaged in intimidation certain. These would in future be flogged, while those already in gaol would be employed in scavenging work in the city, a course which would possibly make them regret the results of their activities.\n\nThe Governor heartily thanked the hundreds of loyal Chinese who were volunteering for the essential services, and he emphasized the fact that the present was not a true strike, or even a movement arising out of genuine sympathy with the supposed wrongs of the strikers, but a deliberate attempt, in the interests of anarchy, to destroy the prospects and the very existence of the Hong-kong community.\n\nThe Governor stated that the reports of crimes committed by intimidators were much exaggerated. The bodies found in the streets included many dead from natural causes, which in the usual Chinese way were dumped in order to save funeral expenses.\n\nTo-night two sticks of dynamite were thrown at the shop of a compradore who supplies the Canadian Pacific Company. He had received several notices threatening him with violence. The shop front was damaged, but no one was injured. There were no arrests.\n\nThe police continue actively their search for Bolshevist agents and intimidators, pedestrians and motor-cars being frequently stopped and examined. The Indian constable who was shot yesterday is seriously wounded. He had attempted to arrest some timber thieves who fired at him.\n\nApparently in retaliation for the deportation from Hong-kong of suspected loiterers numbering about a hundred, the Seamen's Union at Canton have now ordered the crews of the Chinese river steamers to leave their vessels, which means the complete cutting off of Hong-kong from Canton.\n\nEighty coastal and river vessels are now laid up, but lascar crews are en route to man some of them. A few ocean-going vessels continue to call at Hong-kong. The Empress of Canada, which had been deserted by its Chinese crew, expects to sail to-morrow with a crew of White Russians and volunteers, the clerks, both male and female, being students and missionaries, whose applications exceeded the demand.\n\nNews from Canton is very scanty. The 75 civilians who remain at Shameen with the Indian troops and naval details are chafing at their inactivity, though they are subjected to frequent false alarms. It is difficult to sift the truth from the Canton reports, which, owing to the isolation of Shameen, are mostly from Chinese sources, but the rift in the Kuomintang party appears definite. It is now stated that it was not Wu Han-min who was wounded by the Yunnanese officer, but a subordinate official. A Russian ship is reported to have brought to Canton a large consignment of rifles, and Russian military instructors are drilling the new battalions of the Canton Red Army, which is being recruited from the ranks of the strikers. These reports are not regarded seriously, for signs are not wanting that Canton and other ports are facing a food scarcity. Canton seriously lacks coal and oil, but the authorities there are actively arranging for direct shipments. Hong-kong could effectively blockade Canton and force a quick decision, but no suggestion of such action has hitherto been made.\n\nPage 346", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 509136, "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": "CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927", "page_number": 61, "title": "CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927", "content_text": "# General Remarks on the Effect of Economic Pressure against China as a whole\n\n42. The conditions of trade in the three principal areas of China and the effect of economic pressure on South China have already been discussed. The same considerations largely apply in the case of a blockade of China as a whole. Broadly speaking, the immediate effect on the Chinese from a material and physical point of view would be as follows:- \n\nStoppage of:-\n(1.) Import and movement coastwise of foodstuffs\n(2.) Import and movement coastwise of raw materials\n(3.) Import of textiles and movement coastwise of Shanghai textile products\n(4.) Import of machinery, &c.\n(5.) Import and movement coastwise of semi-luxuries, e.g., cigarettes, some foodstuffs, &c.\n(6.) Exports\n\nCurtailment would affect :-\n| Category | Affected Classes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Manufactures, particularly in the Shanghai area, resulting in unemployment and distress amongst the labouring classes. | The lower classes. |\n| | All classes. |\n| | Middle and upper classes and to a less extent the labouring classes. |\n| Curtailment would cause congestion in China, reduced prices and confusion in the trade. | All classes, the middle class most severely. |\n\n43. Apart from the physical effects enumerated above, the merchant and middle classes who are at present well disposed towards the British would, from a trading and financial point of view, be more severely injured by a blockade than any other class. A further effect would be increased activity and employment on inland trade routes.\n\n## Explosives\n\n44. The question of munitions generally has been dealt with in paragraphs 35 and 40, but there are certain considerations affecting the manufacture of explosives which deserve attention. Sulphur.-It would appear that China is short of sulphur for the manufacture of explosives. Statistics show that at least 3,000 tons were imported in 1925. At the same time she possesses a pyritiferous shale which, with suitable plant, could be utilised for the manufacture of sulphuric acid. Information is not available as to whether or not such plant is in existence in China. The same consideration applies to the process of converting zinc concentrates into zinc. With suitable plant, the freed sulphur can be converted into sulphuric acid.\n\n45. Nitrates. It is doubtful whether China has an industry for extracting potassium nitrate from soil, and, failing the possession of synthetic plant, it would appear that she would be dependent on the importation of nitrates for the production of nitric acid, which is a prime essential for the manufacture of explosives. Little is known as to the plant which may be available for this purpose, but it may be assumed with some confidence that the stoppage of imports of sodium nitrate, which in 1925 amounted to over 2,000 tons in addition to over 1,000 tons of saltpetre would cause considerable embarrassment so far as the manufacture of explosives is concerned.\n\n46. Glycerine and Cellulose. There is a large number of soap and candle works in China, but so far as can be ascertained these soap works are small and do not have the special plant which is necessary for purifying crude glycerine to dynamite or nitro-glycerine quality. On the other hand, a satisfactory propellant can be provided from cellulose in the form of nitro-cellulose which would eliminate the necessity for glycerine, the imports of which in 1925 amounted to about 800 tons, as compared with about 1,600 tons in 1924. This may indicate that the Chinese use a nitro-cellulose powder as a propellant, and their requirements of cellulose could be met in the form of cotton, independently of imports.\n\n47. Toluol and Phenol. These products are found in coal gas, coke oven gas, and coal tar. China, therefore, has a potential source of supply of toluol and phenol. Although special plant is necessary for the recovery of these products, it is possible that such plants exist. In any case, under Russian guidance, new plants could be erected.\n\n48. **Summary**-Sulphuric and nitric acids are essential individually for the manufacture of explosives. The effect of cutting off the supply of sulphur and nitrates depends very largely on what plant already exists in the country for the production of these acids from raw materials available in China. Subject to these considerations, nitrates and sulphur appear to be the commodities, a stoppage of which would cause the maximum effect. The subject, however, is a very intricate one and is greatly affected by the industrial conditions throughout this vast country. We have not considered it advisable to delay our report whilst further enquiries are being made.\n\n49. ## The Effect on British Interests of a Blockade of China\n\nWe have set forth in paragraph 15 the general effects of a Pacific Blockade, and these observations apply equally to a blockade enforced in a state of war. Although it may be said with some truth that the effect on British interests of a blockade would be practically indistinguishable from the inevitable consequences of a state of war, there are certain aspects of this question which merit attention. Restrictive measures would certainly bear hardest on British subjects over whom our control is greatest, even upon the hypothesis of international co-operation. Leakage would in any event take place, and goods would reach the Chinese through indirect channels, e.g., vià French Indo-China or Corea; and this process, continued for a lengthy period and conducted by other nations, would, if and when China became tranquil, permanently injure our commercial \"goodwill.\" Indeed, it even seems worth consideration-taking the longest view-whether it may not be to our ultimate interest to permit a trade, limited both in area and in regard to the nature of the articles concerned, especially if these were of little importance and could be easily procured in China itself.\n\n50. **Hong Kong**. As regards Hong Kong, we have already referred (paragraph 31) to the lack of co-operation which may be expected from the Chinese inhabitants of Hong Kong in the event of a blockade being instituted against South China. Should North China also be included in the blockade, the embarrassment which Hong Kong must suffer would be greatly intensified.\n\n51. It will be observed that we have given a more or less detailed description of the three trade areas of China, viz., the Yangtse Valley, the Canton Delta, and Tientsin and the North, without attempting to follow up in detail the effects of the stoppage of individual items of commerce. Our reasons for this course are twofold. Firstly, the subject is one of great magnitude and at this juncture we feel that what is required is a more or less well-defined picture of the trade situation, together with the conclusions we have arrived at after examining the various figures which have been before us. In the second place, since the Chinese are self-supporting in vital essentials, it appears to be unnecessary now to attempt to indicate the degree of embarrassment which might be caused by a shortage of individual commodities.\n\n## The Position of H.M. Ships on the Upper Yangtse\n\n52. Although the matter is not strictly within our province, it may be desirable to conclude this Report with a reference to the position of H.M. Ships on the Upper Yangtse. A Memorandum by the Naval Staff on this subject is attached as `Appendix No. 3`. It will be seen that nine vessels are immobilised above Wuhu until various dates which range between the middle of February and the end of April, unless a sufficiently large \"freshet\" raises the level of the river over shallows for long enough to enable them to move. Even in this event, they might have to jettison their guns, &c., and to do without pilots.\n\n53. While these ships remain up river, we are informed that they can be fed and fuelled to an extent which would depend on the measure of success of the craft taking up supplies in running the gauntlet of attack from the banks. The gunboats and destroyers themselves are vulnerable to attack by field guns. As soon as the Yangtse was blockaded, supplies of food and oil from the shore would undoubtedly be cut off, and it is probable that fire would sooner or later be opened on the ships.\n\nPage 69\nPage 70", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515134, "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": "CO129-510-19 Proclamation prohibiting the exportation to China of arms- etc. 22-4-1928 - 22-4-1928", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-510-19 Proclamation prohibiting the exportation to China of arms- etc. 22-4-1928 - 22-4-1928", "content_text": "(3) Aircraft of all kinds and their component parts, together with accessories and articles suitable for use in connection with aircraft.\n\nGiven at Singapore, this 14th day of April, 1928.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nH. MARRIOTT,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nStraits Settlements.\n\nNote:- For the purpose of the above Proclamation-\n\n\"Arms\" includes firearms, air-guns, air-pistols, automatic guns, automatic pistols and guns, or any other kind of gun from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged or noxious fumes can be emitted, and bayonets, swords, daggers, spears and spear-heads. \"Gun\" includes howitzers, mortars, quick-firing and machine-guns, and other guns of a similar nature.\n\n\"Explosive\"\n\n(i) means gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, blasting powder, fulminate of mercury or of other metals, coloured fires and every other substance, whether similar to those above-mentioned or not, used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect; and\n\n(ii) includes fog-signals, fireworks, fuzes, rockets, percussion caps, detonators, cartridges and ammunition of all descriptions, and every adaptation or preparation of an explosive as above defined; and\n\n(iii) includes sand crackers and any substance declared to be deemed an explosive by a Notification under section 51(a) of Ordinance No. 136 (Arms and Explosives).\n\nGOD SAVE THE KING!\n\n[No. 3206/28.]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-510-19 Proclamation prohibiting the exportation to China of arms- etc. 22-4-1928 - 22-4-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515140, "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": "CO129-510-19 Proclamation prohibiting the exportation to China of arms- etc. 22-4-1928 - 22-4-1928", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-510-19 Proclamation prohibiting the exportation to China of arms- etc. 22-4-1928 - 22-4-1928", "content_text": "\"Explosive\" \n\n1 2 END \n\n(1) means gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun cotton, blasting powders, fulminate of mercury or of other metals, coloured fires and every other substance whether similar to those above-mentioned or not used or manufactured with a view to produce a practical effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect; and \n\n(ii) includes fog-signals, fireworks, fuzes, rockets, percussion caps, detonators, cartridges, ammunition of all descriptions, and every adaptation or preparation of an explosive as above defined; and \n\n(iii) includes any substance declared to be deemed an explosive by a Notification under section 4. - 1. (a) of Ordinance No.136 (Arms and Explosives).\n\nGOD SAVE THE KING!", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-510-19 Proclamation prohibiting the exportation to China of arms- etc. 22-4-1928 - 22-4-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519280, "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": "CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929", "content_text": "## ARTICLE I\n\n(g) If any junk fails to produce its Chinese Maritime Customs pass book and proof of payment of Customs dues, the Harbour Authority shall forthwith report the matter to the Commissioner of Customs; and the Harbour Authority shall detain such junk as security for the payment to the Chinese Maritime Customs of such dues and penalties as would be payable under the regulations of the Chinese Maritime Customs if the junk had been detained in similar circumstances in Chinese waters.\n\n(h) Every trading junk on entering or clearing at a port in the Colony shall deposit with the Harbour Authority a manifest in duplicate of all cargo carried. The Harbour Authority shall forthwith forward one copy of such manifest to the Commissioner of Customs.\n\n(5) The existing scale of arms that may be carried by junks shall remain in force, subject to such modification as may from time to time be agreed upon between the Authorities of Hongkong and Canton. The proper Authorities shall continue to exercise supervision over arms and arms certificates.\n\n## ARTICLE II\n\n(a) The Government of Hongkong agrees to tax all salt, other than salt in transit with or without transhipment under bond, that is imported into or produced in the Colony. The tax shall be at the rate of $2.50 a picul, except that in the case of salt used for salting fish, the Government of Hongkong may impose such lower rate of tax as it may deem expedient.\n\n(b) Every vessel bringing salt into the waters of the Colony shall declare to the Harbour Authority the quantity, port of origin, and destination of such salt.\n\n(c) The import into China of foreign salt, including salt manufactured in the New Territories (Hongkong), is and remains prohibited.\n\n(d) If any junk or launch imports salt into the waters of the Colony which is not covered by a pass in the prescribed form issued by the proper authority in the Chinese Salt Department, the Harbour Authority shall forthwith report the matter to the Commissioner of Customs, and he shall detain such junk or launch as security for the payment to the Chinese Maritime Customs of such dues as would be payable to the Chinese Maritime Customs if such junk or launch had been detained in similar circumstances in Chinese waters.\n\n(e) All salt imported into the Colony, other than salt in transit without transhipment, shall be deposited in a licensed warehouse. Salt shall not be removed from a licensed warehouse except under a removal permit, which permit, in the case of salt destined for export to Kuangtung, shall be granted only upon payment of duty; and the salt covered by a permit for removal as above shall not be transported to Kuangtung until a Transportation Pass in the prescribed form, issued by the proper authority in the Salt Department and countersigned by the Commissioner of Customs, has been obtained by the merchant.\n\n(f) Every licensee of a licensed warehouse for salt shall keep such books as may be prescribed, showing imports, exports, and local sales. The books shall at all times be open to inspection by the Hongkong Government.\n\n(g) Every manufacturer of salt in the New Territories leased under the Convention of the 19th June, 1898, shall deposit the salt manufactured by him in a licensed warehouse, and the licensee of such warehouse shall keep a register in prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times open to inspection by the Hongkong Government.\n\n(h) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special licence.\n\n(7) Salt in excess of a prescribed amount shall not be removed from a licensed warehouse or shop, or from place to place in the Colony, except under permit from the proper British authority.\n\nAs the provisions of this Article are designed to safeguard the salt revenue of the Chinese Government, that Government agrees to permit the duty on salt transported from Hongkong to Kuangtung under the above regulations to be collected by the Chinese Maritime Customs Office in Hongkong, and to allow to continue without restriction consignments of salt to Kuangtung through the waters of the Colony from the salt works on the Kuangtung and Fukien littoral.\n\n## ARTICLE III\n\nNo person shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law, and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used daily. All such books shall be open to inspection by the Hongkong Government.\n\n## ARTICLE IV\n\nDuring the period of this Agreement, the Government of Hongkong will allow the Chinese Maritime Customs to maintain for Customs purposes a sub-office at Shamshuipo or at such other place as may be approved by the Hongkong Government.\n\n## ARTICLE V\n\nSteam launches duly registered by the Chinese Maritime Customs under the Inland Waters Steam Navigation regulations may trade between Hongkong and non-open ports in the Kuangtung Province subject to the following conditions: - \n\nPage 72", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519322, "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": "CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929", "content_text": "- 21 - \n117 \n\nHis Excellency: II (i) is what I cannot agree to. That means we should have to control movements of salt within the Colony and I cannot do it.\n\nMr. Southorn: Do you think that every shop will require a special licence?\n\nHis Excellency: If only they go above the prescribed amount.\n\nMr. Southorn: You would have to have legislation to make it an offence.\n\nHis Excellency: Yes, there is no doubt about that.\n\nThe explanatory clause at the end of Article II seems alright.\n\nArticle III - That is our law is it not?\n\nMr. Southorn: Dynamite, but it does not affect sulphur or saltpetre do you know Mr. Lloyd?\n\nMr. Lloyd: Sulphur and saltpetre I think are dangerous goods and they have to get removal permit from the Police.\n\nMr. Southorn: Is there any supervision or license required to store them?\n\nMr. Lloyd: Yes, they have to be stored.\n\nHis Excellency: Are sulphur and saltpetre dealt with as dangerous goods?\n\nMr. Lloyd:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519340, "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": "CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929", "page_number": 132, "title": "CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929", "content_text": "## ARTICLE I\n\n(9) If any trading junk fails to produce its Chinese Maritime Customs pass book and proof of payment of Customs dues, the proper Hong Kong authorities shall forthwith report the matter to the Commissioner of Customs; and the proper Hong Kong authorities shall seize such junk as security for the payment to the Chinese Maritime Customs of such dues as would be payable under the regulations of the Chinese Maritime Customs if the junk had been detained in similar circumstances in Chinese waters. Failing payment of such dues, the Hong Kong Government shall be entitled to recover them on behalf of the Chinese Maritime Customs by legal proceedings against the master or owner, or against the junk. The master of any such junk shall also be liable upon conviction at the prosecution of the Hong Kong Government to a fine for failure to produce the Chinese Maritime Customs pass book of the junk or for failure to produce proof of payment of customs dues.\n\n(4) Every trading junk on entering or clearing at an anchorage in the Colony shall deposit with the proper Hong Kong authorities a manifest in duplicate of all cargo carried. The proper Hong Kong authorities shall forthwith forward one copy of such manifest to the Commissioner of Customs. Any person depositing a false manifest shall be liable to a fine and imprisonment at the prosecution of the Hong Kong Government.\n\n(3) The existing scale of arms that may be carried by junks shall remain in force, subject to such modification as may from time to time be agreed upon between the authorities of Hong Kong and China. The proper authorities shall continue to exercise supervision over arms and arms certificates.\n\n## ARTICLE II\n\n(a) The Hong Kong Government agrees to control the movements of all salt upon import into, or production in, or export from, the Colony.\n\n(b) Every vessel bringing salt into the waters of the Colony shall declare to the proper Hong Kong authorities the quantity, port of origin, and destination of such salt.\n\n(c) The import into China of foreign salt, including salt manufactured in the New Territories (Hong Kong), is and remains prohibited.\n\n(d) If any vessel imports salt from China into the waters of the Colony which is not covered by a pass in the prescribed form issued by the proper authority in the Chinese Salt Department, the proper Hong Kong authorities shall forthwith report the matter to the Commissioner of Customs, and shall seize such vessel as security for the payment to the Chinese Maritime Customs of such dues as would be payable to the Chinese Maritime Vessel Customs if such junk or launch had been detained in similar circumstances in Chinese waters. Failing payment of such dues, the Hong Kong Government shall be entitled to recover them on behalf of the Chinese Maritime Customs by legal proceedings against the master or owner, or against the vessel. The master of any such vessel shall also be liable upon conviction on the prosecution of the Hong Kong Government to a fine in respect of such importation, and the salt in question shall be liable to be confiscated by the magistrate. Any salt so confiscated shall be placed at the disposal of the Chinese Salt Department.\n\n(e) All salt imported into the Colony, other than salt in transit without transhipment, shall be deposited in a licensed warehouse. Salt shall not be removed from a licensed warehouse except under a removal permit, which permit, in the case of Chinese salt destined for export to China, shall be granted only upon payment of duty to the Chinese Maritime Customs; and the salt covered by a permit for removal as above shall not be transported to China until a Transportation Pass in the prescribed form, issued by the proper authority in the Salt Department and countersigned by the Commissioner of Customs, has been obtained by the merchant.\n\n(f) Every licensee of a licensed warehouse for salt shall keep such books as may be prescribed, showing imports, exports, and local sales. The books shall at all times be open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.\n\n(g) Every manufacturer of salt in the New Territories shall deposit the salt manufactured by him in a licensed warehouse, and the licensee of such warehouse shall keep a register in prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.\n\n(h) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special licence.\n\n(i) As the provisions of this Article are designed to safeguard the salt revenue of the Chinese Government, that Government agrees to permit the duty on salt transported from Hong Kong to China under the above regulations to be collected by the Chinese Maritime Customs Office in Hong Kong, and to allow to continue without restriction consignments of salt to Kuangtung through the waters of the Colony from the salt works on the Kuangtung and Fukien littoral.\n\n## ARTICLE III\n\nNo person in Hong Kong shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law, and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used daily. All such books shall be open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.\n\n## ARTICLE IV\n\nDuring the period of this Agreement, the Hong Kong Government will allow the Chinese Maritime Customs to maintain for Customs purposes a head office and a sub-office or sub-offices at such place or places as may be approved by the Hong Kong Government, and will allow Chinese Maritime Customs revenue vessels to patrol in the waters of the Colony as may be necessary for the carrying out of the terms of this Agreement.\n\nPage 136", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-1 Administration and function of Chinese Maritime customs- prevention of smuggling across Chinese frontiers 7-2-1929 - 15-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519514, "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": "CO129-517-2 Correspondence on proposed Chinese and Hong Kong agreements over Customs 13-11-1929 - 28-12-1929", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-517-2 Correspondence on proposed Chinese and Hong Kong agreements over Customs 13-11-1929 - 28-12-1929", "content_text": "## ARTICLE I\n\n(f) Every trading junk on entering and on clearing at an anchorage in the Colony of Hong Kong shall have its licence book and also its Chinese Maritime Customs pass book endorsed and dated by the proper Hong Kong authorities. The proper Hong Kong authorities shall satisfy themselves, on each occasion when a trading junk enters an anchorage in the Colony, that such junk has reported at the proper Chinese Maritime Customs station both on its voyage to the Colony and on its last voyage from the Colony.\n\nor \n\n(g) If any trading junk fails to produce its Chinese Maritime Customs pass book and proof of payment of Customs dues the proper Hong Kong authorities shall forthwith report the matter to the Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs; and the proper Hong Kong authorities may seize such junk as security for the payment to the Chinese Maritime Customs of such dues as would be payable under the regulations of the Chinese Maritime Customs if the junk had been detained in similar circumstances in Chinese waters. Failing payment of such dues the Hong Kong Government shall be entitled to recover them on behalf of the Chinese Maritime Customs by legal proceedings against the master, owner, or against the junk. The master of any such junk shall also be liable upon conviction at the prosecution of the Hong Kong Government to a fine for failure to produce the Chinese Maritime Customs pass book of the junk or for failure to produce proof of payment of customs dues.\n\n(h) Every trading junk on entering or clearing at an anchorage in the Colony shall deposit with the proper Hong Kong authorities a manifest in duplicate, in English or Chinese, of all cargo carried. The proper Hong Kong authorities shall forthwith forward one copy of such manifest to the Commissioner of Customs. Any person depositing a false manifest shall be liable to a fine and imprisonment at the prosecution of the Hong Kong Government.\n\n(i) The existing scale of arms that may be carried by junks shall remain in force, subject to such modification as may from time to time be agreed upon between the Hong Kong Government and the Chinese Authorities. The proper authorities shall continue to exercise supervision over arms and certificates.\n\n## ARTICLE II\n\nFor the better prevention of smuggling across the land frontier of the Colony the Hong Kong Government will select in consultation with the Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs certain places of entry for goods or livestock. Whenever it is found that any goods or livestock have been brought across the land frontier of the Colony from China unaccompanied by proper Customs documents the Hong Kong Government may seize such goods or livestock as security for the payment of such dues as may be mutually agreed upon. If such dues are not paid the Hong Kong Government shall be entitled to recover them on behalf of the Chinese Maritime Customs by proceedings against the owner or by sale of the goods or livestock.\n\n3\n\n## ARTICLE III\n\nNo person in Hong Kong shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used. All such books shall be open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.\n\n## ARTICLE IV\n\nDuring the period of this Agreement the Hong Kong Government will allow the Chinese Maritime Customs to maintain for Customs purposes a head office and a sub-office or sub-offices at such place or places, and subject to such conditions, as may be approved by the Hong Kong Government, and will allow Chinese Maritime Customs revenue vessels to patrol in the waters of the Colony in accordance with arrangements mutually agreed upon between the Hong Kong Government and the Chinese Maritime Customs.\n\n## ARTICLE V\n\nSteam or motor vessels of any description, provided that they are registered for the purpose with the Chinese Maritime Customs, may trade between Hong Kong and non-open ports and vice versa, whether via a treaty port or not, subject to the following conditions:\n\n| Condition | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | The term \"non-open port\" shall include the places specified in the Schedule to this Agreement and any other places in Kwang Tung or Kwang Si which may be agreed upon between the Hong Kong Government and the Chinese Authorities. |\n| (b) | On each occasion of arrival at and departure from Hong Kong the master shall deposit his manifest in duplicate with the proper Hong Kong authorities who shall send one copy to the Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs. |\n| (c) | Upon application by the master the Chinese Maritime Customs shall grant a special pass for each trip, which special pass shall specify the destination of the vessel, the places at which it is proposed to call, and the Customs stations to be called at on both the outward and the return voyages. The vessel must proceed direct to the first Customs station specified on the pass. |\n| (d) | All vessels proceeding to non-open ports under this Article must call at the Chinese Maritime Customs sub-office agreed upon by the Government of Hong Kong where cargo and baggage will be examined and hatches may be sealed after loading. Dues may be paid at the master's option at such sub-office or at the station specified on the pass.\n\n42", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-2 Correspondence on proposed Chinese and Hong Kong agreements over Customs 13-11-1929 - 28-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519522, "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": "CO129-517-2 Correspondence on proposed Chinese and Hong Kong agreements over Customs 13-11-1929 - 28-12-1929", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-517-2 Correspondence on proposed Chinese and Hong Kong agreements over Customs 13-11-1929 - 28-12-1929", "content_text": "54 \n\n## ARTICLE II.\n\nFor the better prevention of smuggling across the land frontier of the Colony, the Hong Kong Government will select, in consultation with the Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs, certain places of entry for goods or livestock. Whenever it is found that any goods or livestock have been brought across the land frontier of the Colony from China unaccompanied by proper Customs documents, the Hong Kong Government may seize such goods or livestock as security for the payment of such dues as may be mutually agreed upon. If such dues are not paid, the Hong Kong Government shall be entitled to recover them on behalf of the Chinese Maritime Customs by proceedings against the owner or by sale of the goods or livestock.\n\nAll salt imported into the Colony, other than salt in transit without transhipment, shall be deposited in a licensed warehouse. Salt shall not be removed from a licensed warehouse except under a removal permit, which permit, in the case of Chinese salt destined for export to China, shall be granted only upon payment of duty to the Chinese Maritime Customs, and the salt covered by a permit for removal as above shall not be transported to China until a Transportation Pass in the prescribed form, issued by the proper authority in the Salt Department and countersigned by the Commissioner of Customs, has been obtained by the merchant.\n\n**(f)** Every licensee of a licensed warehouse for salt shall keep such books as may be prescribed, showing imports, exports, and local sales. The books shall at all times be open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.\n\n**(g)** Every manufacturer of salt in the New Territories shall deposit the salt manufactured by him in a licensed warehouse, and the licensee of such warehouse shall keep a register in prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.\n\n**(h)** No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special licence.\n\n**(i)** As the provisions of this Article are designed to safeguard the salt revenue of the Chinese Government, that Government agrees to permit the duty on salt transported from Hong Kong to China under the above regulations to be collected by the Chinese Maritime Customs Office in Hong Kong, and to allow to continue without restriction consignments of salt to Kuangtung through the waters of the Colony from the salt works on the Kuangtung and Fukien littoral.\n\n## ARTICLE III.\n\nNo person in Hong Kong shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law, and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used daily. All such books shall be open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.\n\n## ARTICLE IV.\n\nDuring the period of this Agreement, the Hong Kong Government will allow the Chinese Maritime Customs to maintain, for Customs purposes, a head office and a sub-office or sub-offices at such place or places as may be approved by the Hong Kong Government, and will allow Chinese Maritime Customs revenue vessels to patrol in the waters of the Colony as may be necessary for the carrying out of the terms of this Agreement.\n\n**IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARRANGEMENTS MUTUALLY AGREED UPON BETWEEN THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT AND THE CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS.**\n\n55", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-517-2 Correspondence on proposed Chinese and Hong Kong agreements over Customs 13-11-1929 - 28-12-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 521209, "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": "CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930", "content_text": "Copies to\n\nSecretary of State No. 3.\n\nPeking No. 5.\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHong Kong,\n\n2nd January, 1930.\n\nReceived\n\nalocade in\n\nin (2)\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to refer you to my letter of\n\n6th November, 1929, to His Britannic Majesty's Minister,\n\nPeking, a copy of which was sent to you on the same date, on\n\nthe subject of outstanding claims against the Chinese section\n\nof the Kowloon-Canton Railway, and to request that you will,\n\nin view of the events subsequent to that date, direct the\n\nserious attention of the Canton Government to the constantly\n\nrecurring acts of deliberate damage to the Chinese section of\n\nthe Kowloon-Canton Railway, which cause serious loss of revenue\n\nto this Government by suspending through traffic as well\n\nas by general interference with the normal and legitimate\n\ntrade between Hong Kong and Canton.\n\n2.\n\nOn the 9th May this year, the big bridge at Shek T'an (石滩) was blown up by Canton Government troops and\n\ntraffic was consequently suspended until the 26th May.\n\nOn the 10th of December a 20-lbs. charge of dynamite connected with a battery was found on the line\n\nbetween Sha Taun (沙田) and Sun Tong (新塘).\n\nOn the 13th December a big bridge at Shek Ha (石下) (No. 85) was blown up, causing serious damage and\n\nthe suspension of the train service again for an indefinite\n\nperiod. In this case the ends of two of the three 60-ft.\n\nsteel spans were practically destroyed where bearing on the\n\nsecond pier.\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Consul-General,\n\nCANTON.\n\nPage 110\n\nPage 111", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 521253, "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": "CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930", "page_number": 154, "title": "CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930", "content_text": "No. 4.\n\nCopy.\n\nI\n\nCopies to\n\nSecretary of State\n\nNo.3. Peking No.5.\n\nSir,\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHong Kong, 2nd January, 1930\n\nin (3)\n\n166\n\nI have the honour to refer you to my letter of 6th November, 1929, to His Britannic Majesty's Minister,\n\nPeking, a copy of which was sent to you on the same date, on\n\nthe subject of outstanding claims against the Chinese section\n\nof the Kowloon-Canton Railway, and to request that you will,\n\nin view of the events subsequent to that date, direct the\n\nserious attention of the Canton Government to the constantly\n\nrecurring acts of deliberate damage to the Chinese section of\n\nthe Kowloon-Canton Railway, which cause serious loss of revenue\n\nto this Government by suspending through traffic as well as\n\nby general interference with the normal and legitimate trade\n\nbetween Hong Kong and Canton.\n\n2.\n\nOn the 9th May this year, the big bridge at Shek\n\nT'an (11) was blown up by Canton Government troops and\n\ntraffic was consequently suspended until the 26th May.\n\nOn the 10th of December a 20-lbs. charge of\n\ndynamite connected with a battery was found on the line between Tai Tsun (4) and Loen Tong (±).\n\nOn the 13th December a big bridge at Shek Kaa\n\n(Z) (No.35) was blown up, causing serious damage and the\n\nsuspension of the train service again for an indefinite\n\nperiod. In this case the ends of two of the three 40-ft.\n\nsteel spans were practically destroyed where bearing on the\n\nsecond pier.\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Consul-General,\n\nCANTON.\n\nOn", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-520-6 Railway development- Canton-Kowloon Railway 5-11-1929 - 5-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 521978, "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": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 139, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "138\n\n51.\n\nentry into China, and hand over the amount, minus the expenses of collection, to China, and that as compensation for this service, the Chinese Customs should remove itself completely from Hongkong. But apparently nothing came of this proposal either.\n\n53.\n\nThe main features of the 1918 draft are as follows :-\n\nArt. 1\n\nFor the better regulation of Junks Including licensing, not leaving at night, distinction between fishing and trading junks, places of arrival and departure for trading junks, reporting to Chinese Customs station, scale of arms to be carried etc.\n\nArt. 2\n\nTaxation and control of salt, all Imports to be declared, import into China of foreign or Hongkong salt forbidden, imported salt to have pass issued by Chinese salt authorities, salt to be deposited in licensed warehouses and only transported to Kwangtung on proper permit, salt manufactured in New Territories also to be deposited in licensed warehouses, retail dealers to have special licenses covering salt in excess of a prescribed amount, duty on salt from Hongkong to Kwangtung to be collected by Chinese Customs office at Hongkong.\n\nArt. 3.\n\nPetre, Dynamite, explosives, sulphur and saltpetre, not allowed except as provided by law or specially licensed.\n\nArt. 4.\n\nCustoms to maintain office at Shamshuipo or some other place designated by Hongkong authorities.\n\nArt. 5.\n\nSteam launches duly registered by Chinese Customs under Inland Water Regulations to be allowed to trade between Hongkong and non-open ports in Kwangtung subject to certain conditions, viz., deposit of manifests with harbour authority to be sent to Customs, Customs to give passes for each trip, launches to call at Customs sub-office outwards and inwards under penalty of confiscation, to carry mail free between Hongkong and non-open ports in Kwangtung.\n\nArt. 6.\n\nTowage of junks and lighters under preceding Clause.\n\nArt. 7.\n\nLighters towed by launches to treaty ports in the two Kwang provinces to ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522000, "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": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "As the provisions of this Article are designed \nto safeguard the salt revenue of the Chinese \nGovernment, that Government agrees to permit the \nduty on salt transported from Hongkong to Kuangtung \nunder the above regulations to be collected by the \nChinese Maritime Customs Office in Hongkong, and \nto allow to continue without restriction consignments \nof salt to Kuangtung through the waters of \nthe Colony from the salt works on the Kuangtung \nand Fukien littoral.\n\nARTICLE III.\n\nNo person shall have dynamite or other \nexplosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession \nexcept as provided by law and no person shall store \nsuch articles except under licence. Every licensee \nshall keep books in a prescribed form showing the \nquantity received under permit, and the amount used \ndaily. All such books shall be open to inspection \nby the Hongkong Government.\n\nARTICLE IV.\n\nDuring the period of this Agreement the \nGovernment of Hongkong will allow the Chinese \nMaritime Customs to maintain for Customs purposes a \nsub-office at Shamshuipo or at such other place as \nmay be approved by the Hongkong Government.\n\nARTICLE V.\n\nSteam launches duly registered by the Chinese \nMaritime Customs under the Inland Waters Steam \nNavigation regulations may trade between Hongkong \nand", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522015, "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": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 176, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "88\n\n175\n\n(h) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special licence.\n\n(1) As the provisions of this Article are designed to safeguard the salt revenue of the Chinese Government, that Government agrees to permit the duty on salt transported from Hong Kong to China under the above regulations to be collected by the Chinese Maritime Customs Office in Hong Kong, and to allow to continue without restriction consignments of salt to Kuangtung through the waters of the Colony from the salt works on the Kuangtung and Fukien littoral.\n\nARTICLE III.\n\nNo person in Hong Kong shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used daily. All such books shall be open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.\n\nARTICLE IV.\n\nDuring the period of this Agreement the Hong Kong Government will allow the Chinese Maritime Customs to maintain for Customs purposes a head office and a sub-office or sub-offices at such place or places as may be approved by the Hong Kong Government, and will allow Chinese Maritime Customs revenue vessels to patrol in the waters of the Colony as may be necessary for the carrying out of the terms of this Agreement.\n\n/ARTICLE V.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522030, "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": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 191, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "190\n\n103.\n\n(1) The existing scale of arms that may be carried by junka shall remain in force, subject to such modifications as may from time to time be agreed upon between the Hong Kong Government and the Chinese Authorities. The proper authorities shall continue to exercise supervision over arms and certificates.\n\nARTICLE II.\n\nFor the better prevention of smuggling across the land frontier of the Colony the Hong Kong Government will select in consultation with the Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs certain places of entry for goods or livestock. Whenever it is found that any goods or livestock have been brought across the land frontier of the Colony from China unaccompanied by proper Customs documents the Hong Kong Government may seize such goods or livestock as security for the payment of such dues as may be mutually agreed upon. If such dues are not paid the Hong Kong Government shall be entitled to recover them on behalf of the Chinese Maritime Customs by proceedings against the owner or by sale of the goods or livestock.\n\nARTICLE III.\n\nNo person in Hong Kong shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used. All such books", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522100, "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": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 261, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "260\n\n51.\n\nentry into China, and hand over the amount,\n\nminus the expenses of collection, to China,\n\nand that as compensation for this service,\n\nthe Chinese Customs should remove itself\n\ncompletely from Hongkong. But apparently\n\nnothing came of this proposal either.\n\n53.\n\nThe main features of the 1918\n\ndraft are as follows:\n\nArt. 1.\n\nFor the better regulation of junks, including licensing, not leaving at night, distinction between fishing and trading junks, places of arrival and departure for trading junks, reporting to Chinese Customs station, scale of arms to be carried etc.\n\nArt. 2. Taxation and control of salt, all Imports to be declared, import into China of foreign or Hongkong salt forbidden, imported salt to have pass issued by Chinese salt authorities, salt to be deposited in licensed warehouses and only transported to Kuangtung on proper permit, salt manufactured in New Territories also to be deposited in licensed warehouses, retail dealers to have special licenses covering salt in excess of a prescribed amount, duty on salt from Hongkong to Kuang tung to be collected by Chinese Customs office at Hongkong.\n\nArt. 3.\n\nDynamite, explosives, sulphur and saltpetre, not allowed except as provided by law or specially licensed.\n\nArt. 4.\n\nCustoms to maintain office at Shamshuipo or some other place designated by Hongkong authorities.\n\nArt. 5\n\nSteam launches duly registered by Chinese Customs under Inland Water Regulations to be allowed to trade between Hongkong and non-open ports in Kwangtung subject to certain conditions, viz., deposit of manifests with harbour authority to be sent to Customs, Customs to give passes for each trip, launches to call at Customs sub-office outwards and inwards under penalty of confiscation, to carry mail free between Hongkong and non-open ports in Kwangtung.\n\nArt. 6.\n\nTowage of junks and lighters as\n\nunder preceding clause.\n\nArt. 7.\n\nLighters towed by launches to treaty ports in the two Kwang provinces to", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522122, "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": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 283, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "73\n\nAs the provisions of this Article are designed\n\nto safeguard the salt revenue of the Chinese\n\nGovernment, that Government agrees to permit the\n\nduty on salt transported from Hongkong to Kuangtung\n\nunder the above regulations to be collected by the\n\nChinese Maritime Customs Office in Hongkong, and\n\nto allow to continue without restriction consign-\n\nments of salt to Kuangtung through the waters of\n\nthe Colony from the salt works on the Kuangtung\n\nand Fukien littoral.\n\nARTICLE III.\n\nNo person shall have dynamite or other\n\nexplosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession\n\nexcept as provided by law and no person shall store\n\nsuch articles except under licence. Every licensee\n\nshall keep books in a prescribed form showing the\n\nquantity received under permit, and the amount used\n\ndaily. All such books shall be open to inspection\n\nby the Hongkong Government.\n\nARTICLE IV.\n\nDuring the period of this Agreement the\n\nGovernment of Hongkong will allow the Chinese\n\nMaritime Customs to maintain for Customs purposes\n\na sub-office at Shamshuipo or at such other place as\n\nmay be approved by the Hongkong Government.\n\nARTICLE V.\n\nSteam launches duly registered by the Chinese\n\nMaritime Customs under the Inland Waters Steam\n\nNavigation regulations may trade between Hongkong\n\nand\n\n282", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522137, "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": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 298, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "88\n\n296\n\n(h) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special licence.\n\n(i) As the provisions of this Article are designed to safeguard the salt revenue of the Chinese Government, that Government agrees to permit the duty on salt transported from Hong Kong to China under the above regulations to be collected by the Chinese Maritime Customs office in Hong Kong, and to allow to continue without restriction consignments of salt to Kuangtung through the waters of the Colony from the salt works on the Kuangtung and Fukien littoral.\n\nARTICLE III.\n\nNo person in Hong Kong shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used daily. All such books shall be open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.\n\nARTICLE IV.\n\nDuring the period of this Agreement the Hong Kong Government will allow the Chinese Maritime Customs to maintain for Customs purposes a head office and a sub-office or sub-offices at such place or places as may be approved by the Hong Kong Government, and will allow Chinese Maritime Customs revenue vessels to patrol in the waters of the Colony as may be necessary for the carrying out of the terms of this Agreement.\n\n/ARTICLE V.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522152, "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": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "103.\n\n310\n\n(1) The existing scale of arms that may be carried by junks shall remain in force, subject to such modifications as may from time to time be agreed upon between the Hong Kong Government and the Chinese Authorities. The proper authorities shall continue to exercise supervision over arms and certificates.\n\nARTICLE II.\n\nFor the better prevention of smuggling across the land frontier of the Colony the Hong Kong Government will select in consultation with the Commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs certain places of entry for goods or livestock. Whenever it is found that any goods or livestock have been brought across the land frontier of the Colony from China unaccompanied by proper Customs documents the Hong Kong Government may seize such goods or livestock as security for the payment of such dues as may be mutually agreed upon. If such dues are not paid the Hong Kong Government shall be entitled to recover them on behalf of the Chinese Maritime Customs by proceedings against the owner or by sale of the goods or livestock.\n\nARTICLE III.\n\nNo person in Hong Kong shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used. All such books", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522291, "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": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 452, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "(49)\n\n(9) That any junk failing to produce her Imperial Maritime Customs pass book and proof of payment of Customs dues shall be detained by the Harbour Authority while the junk master proceeds to the nearest Imperial Maritime Customs station to secure the required documents.\n\n(h) That if the Harbour Authority is satisfied that a junk has evaded payment of proper Customs dues, he shall notify the fact to the Imperial Maritime Customs Commissioner.\n\n(i) That every trading junk, arriving or departing, shall deposit a manifest of inward and outward cargo with the Harbour Authority, who shall inform the Commissioner of Customs of the contents thereof.\n\nARTICLE II.\n\n(a) Every vessel bringing salt, sulphur, or saltpetre into the waters of the Colony shall declare the quantity, port of origin, and destination to the Harbour Authority. If the salt, sulphur, or saltpetre is to be landed or transhipped, it shall be deposited in a licensed warehouse.\n\n(b) Any junk or launch importing salt, sulphur, or saltpetre into the waters of the Colony without the usual documents required by the Chinese Authorities shall be detained by the Harbour Authority until the master of the junk or launch has proceeded to the nearest Imperial Maritime Customs station to procure the required documents.\n\n(c) No salt, sulphur, or saltpetre may be withdrawn from a licensed warehouse except under a removal permit, which, if the salt, sulphur, or saltpetre is declared for export to China, shall be granted only on production of the usual import certificates properly authenticated by the Commissioner of the Imperial Maritime Customs.\n\n(d) Every licensee of a licensed warehouse for salt, sulphur, or saltpetre shall keep such books as may be prescribed, showing imports, exports, and local sales. The books shall at all times be open to inspection by Government.\n\n(e) Every manufacturer of salt in the New Territories, leased under the Convention of June 19th 1898, shall deposit the salt manufactured by him in a licensed warehouse, and the licensee thereof shall keep a register in a prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times open to inspection by Government.\n\n(f) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special licence.\n\n(g) Salt in excess of the prescribed quantity shall not be removed from a licensed warehouse or shop, or from place to place in the Colony, except under permit from the proper British authority.\n\nARTICLE III.\n\nNo person shall have dynamite or other explosives in his possession except as provided by law, and no person shall store dynamite except by licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used daily. All such books shall be open to inspection by Government.\n\n4\n\n475", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522295, "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": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 456, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "482\n\n56)\n\n(f) Every licensee of a licensed warehouse for prescribed salt shall keep such books as may be required, showing imports, exports, and local sales. The books shall at all times be open to inspection by the Hongkong Government.\n\n(g) Every manufacturer of salt in the New Territories leased under the Convention of the 19th June 1898 shall deposit the salt manufactured by him in a licensed warehouse, and the licensee of such warehouse shall keep a register in prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times open to inspection by the Hongkong Government.\n\n(h) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special licence.\n\n(i) Salt in excess of a prescribed amount shall not be removed from a licensed warehouse or shop, or from place to place in the Colony, except under permit from the proper British authority.\n\nAs the provisions of this Article are designed to safeguard the salt revenue of the Chinese Government, that Government agrees to permit the duty on salt transported from Hongkong to Kuangtung under the above regulations to be collected by the Chinese Maritime Customs Office in Hongkong, and to allow to continue without restriction consignments of salt to Kuangtung through the waters of the Colony from the salt works on the Kuangtung and Fukien littoral.\n\nARTICLE III.\n\nNo person shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used daily. All such books shall be open to inspection by the Hongkong Government.\n\nARTICLE IV.\n\nDuring the period of this Agreement the Government of Hongkong will allow the Chinese Maritime Customs to maintain for Customs purposes a sub-office at Shamshuipo or at such other place as may be approved by the Hongkong Government.\n\nARTICLE V.\n\nSteam-launches duly registered by the Chinese Maritime Customs under the Inland Waters Steam Navigation regulations may trade between Hongkong and non-open ports in the Kuangtung Province subject to the following conditions:-\n\n(a) The term 'non-open port' shall mean any non-treaty port upon the inland waterways of the Kuangtung Province and it shall include such non-treaty ports upon the sea coast of the Kuangtung Province as may from time to time be agreed upon between the Government of Hongkong and the Chinese Authorities at Canton.\n\n(57)\n\n(b) On each occasion of arrival at and departure from Hongkong the launch master shall deposit his manifest in duplicate with the Harbour Authority who shall send one copy to the Commissioner of Customs.\n\n(c) Upon application by the launch master the Chinese Maritime Customs shall grant a special pass for each trip, which special pass shall specify the destination of the launch, the places at which it is proposed to call, and the Customs stations to be called at on both the outward and the return voyages. The launch must proceed direct to the first Customs station specified on the pass.\n\n(d) All launches proceeding to non-treaty ports in the Kuangtung Province under this article must call at the Chinese Maritime Customs sub-office agreed upon by the Government of Hongkong where cargo and baggage will be examined and hatches may be sealed after loading. Dues may be paid at the master's option at such sub-office or at the station specified on the pass.\n\n(e) On the return voyage from such ports launches with their passengers and cargo must proceed to the Chinese Maritime Customs sub-office agreed upon by the Government of Hongkong for examination and payment of the necessary dues, if any, to such sub-office.\n\n(f) Omission to report at the specified Customs station on the outward or inward voyage will entail confiscation of launch and cargo.\n\n(g) Steam-launches plying between Hongkong and various ports in the Kuangtung Province not open to trade shall receive and convey free of charge matter issued by or addressed to Chinese Post Offices. Other mail matter shall not be conveyed by them.\n\nBritish vessels accorded the privilege of plying in inland waters (in the Canton Delta) shall accept and carry all mails either originating at Chinese Post Offices or consigned to them, and shall carry no other mails to or from places in such waters.\n\nARTICLE VI.\n\nJunks and lighters registered by the Chinese Maritime Customs may be towed between Hongkong and non-open ports in the Kuangtung Province by steam-launches duly registered by the Chinese Maritime Customs under the Inland Waters Steam Navigation Regulations; and in that case such junks, lighters, and launches will be treated as junks under sail and will be required to conform to the rules governing junk traffic, and the procedure prescribed in Article V of this Agreement.\n\nARTICLE VII.\n\nLighters towed by launches to treaty ports in the Liang Kuang Provinces may have their hatches sealed by the Chinese Maritime Customs prior to departure and such vessels may then proceed direct to their destination. The Chinese Maritime Customs reserve the right to require the launch to call at a Customs station en route for search.\n\n483", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522298, "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": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 459, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "(g) If any trading junk fails to produce its Chinese Maritime Customs pass book and proof of payment of Customs dues the proper Hong Kong authorities shall forthwith report the matter to the Commissioner of Customs; and the proper Hong Kong authorities shall seize such junk as security for the payment to the Chinese Maritime Customs of such dues as would be payable under the regulations of the Chinese Maritime Customs if the junk had been detained in similar circumstances in Chinese waters. Failing payment of such dues the Hong Kong Government shall be entitled to recover them on behalf of the Chinese Maritime Customs by legal proceedings against the master or owner, or against the junk. The master of any such junk shall also be liable upon conviction at the prosecution of the Hong Kong Government to a fine for failure to produce the Chinese Maritime Customs pass book of the junk or for failure to produce proof of payment of Customs dues.\n\n(h) Every trading junk on entering or clearing at an anchorage in the Colony shall deposit with the proper Hong Kong authorities a manifest in duplicate of all cargo carried. The proper Hong Kong authorities shall forthwith forward one copy of such manifest to the Commissioner of Customs. Any person depositing a false manifest shall be liable to a fine and imprisonment at the prosecution of the Hong Kong Government.\n\n(1) The existing scale of arms that may be carried by junks shall remain in force, subject to such modification as may from time to time be agreed upon between the authorities of Hong Kong and China. The proper authorities shall continue to exercise supervision over arms and arms certificates.\n\nARTICLE II.\n\n(a) The Hong Kong Government agrees to control the movements of all salt upon import into, or production in, or export from, the Colony.\n\n(b) Every vessel bringing salt into the waters of the Colony shall declare to the proper Hong Kong authorities the quantity, port of origin, and destination of such salt.\n\n(c) The import into China of foreign salt including salt manufactured in the New Territories (Hong Kong) is and remains prohibited.\n\n(d) If any vessel imports salt from China into the waters of the Colony which is not covered by a pass in the prescribed form issued by the proper authority in the Chinese Salt Department, the proper Hong Kong authorities shall forthwith report the matter to the Commissioner of Customs, and shall seize such vessel as security for the payment to the Chinese Maritime Customs of such dues as would be payable to the Chinese Maritime Customs if such vessel had been detained in similar circumstances in Chinese waters. Failing payment of such dues the Hong Kong Government shall be entitled to recover them on behalf of the Chinese Maritime Customs by legal proceedings against the master or owner, or against the vessel. The master of any such vessel shall also be liable upon conviction on the prosecution of the Hong Kong Government to a fine in respect of such importation, and the salt in question shall be liable to be confiscated by the magistrate. Any salt so confiscated shall be placed at the disposal of the Chinese Salt Department.\n\n(e) All salt imported into the Colony, other than salt in transit without transhipment, shall be deposited in a licensed warehouse. Salt shall not be removed from a licensed warehouse except under a removal permit, which permit, in the case of Chinese salt destined for export to China, shall be granted only upon payment of duty to the Chinese Maritime Customs; and the salt covered by a permit for removal as above shall not be transported to China until a Transportation Pass in the prescribed form, issued by the proper authority in the Salt Department and countersigned by the Commissioner of Customs, has been obtained by the merchant.\n\n(f) Every licensee of a licensed warehouse for salt shall keep such books as may be prescribed, showing imports, exports, and local sales. The books shall at all times be open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.\n\n(g) Every manufacturer of salt in the New Territories shall deposit the salt manufactured by him in a licensed warehouse, and the licensee of such warehouse shall keep a register in prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times be open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.\n\n(h) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special licence.\n\n(2) As the provisions of this Article are designed to safeguard the salt revenue of the Chinese Government, that Government agrees to permit the duty on salt transported from Hong Kong to China under the above regulations to be collected by the Chinese Maritime Customs Office in Hong Kong, and to allow to continue without restriction consignments of salt to Kuangtung through the waters of the Colony from the salt works on the Kuangtung and Fukien littoral.\n\nARTICLE III.\n\nNo person in Hong Kong shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit, and the amount used daily. All such books shall be open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.\n\nARTICLE IV.\n\nDuring the period of this Agreement the Hong Kong Government will allow the Chinese Maritime Customs to maintain for Customs purposes a head office and a sub-office or sub-offices at such place or places as may be approved by the Hong Kong Government, and will allow Chinese Maritime Customs revenue vessels to patrol in the waters of the Colony as may be necessary for the carrying out of the terms of this Agreement.\n\nPage 489", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522363, "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": "CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931", "content_text": "6\n\n# ARTICLE XIII.\n\nNo person in Hong Kong shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law, and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit and the amount used. All such books shall be open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.\n\n# ARTICLE XIV.\n\nDuring the currency of this Agreement the Hong Kong Government will allow the Chinese Maritime Customs to maintain in the city of Victoria an office for the use of the Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner of the Chinese Customs Service appointed as aforesaid to reside in Hong Kong; but the Chinese Maritime Customs shall not maintain any sub-office or any Customs station in the territory of the Colony of Hong Kong.\n\n# ARTICLE XV.\n\nExcept in special cases where, after consultation between the Commissioner of Chinese Customs and the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, joint operations are decided upon, Revenue vessels of the Chinese Maritime Customs functioning in Chinese waters and Revenue vessels of the Colony of Hong Kong functioning in Colonial waters shall not use each other's waters in the exercise of preventive duties.\n\n# ARTICLE XVI.\n\nTheir goods, whether Chinese or foreign, passing through the Colony of Hong Kong, under Chinese Customs documents from one treaty port in China to another, shall maintain their original status and shall receive the benefit of their original Chinese documents at the port of destination, subject to the following conditions:\n\n(a) The Hong Kong Superintendent of Imports and Exports shall supervise goods in transit without landing or transshipment during such period as the goods remain within the waters of the Colony.\n\n(b) Goods landed pending transmission by sea or by railway and goods brought by railway for transmission by sea shall be placed in bonded warehouses appointed by the Hong Kong Superintendent of Imports and Exports. In cases, however, where the goods are securely packed so as to be capable of being suitably sealed if necessary, are marked with a distinctive mark for each consignment and are numbered in such a way as to be easily identifiable, the Superintendent may, with the concurrence of the Commissioner of Chinese Customs, waive the obligation to place such goods in a bonded warehouse.\n\n(c) Chinese goods, under Chinese Customs documents from a treaty port in China, which are landed for bonding or sealed in ...\n\n26", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522400, "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": "CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931", "content_text": "of the Republic China\n\n(6)\n\nas security for the payment to the Chinese Maritime Customs of such dues as would be payable if such vessel had been detained in similar circumstances in Chinese waters. Failing payment of such dues, the Hongkong Government shall be entitled to recover them on behalf of the Chinese Maritime Customs by legal proceedings against the master or owner, or against the vessel. The master of any such vessel shall also be liable upon conviction on the prosecution of the Hongkong Government to a fine in respect of such importation, and the salt in question shall be liable to be confiscated by the magistrate. Any salt so confiscated shall be placed at the disposal of the Chinese Salt Department.\n\n(e) All salt imported into the Colony, other than salt in transit without transhipment, shall be deposited in a licensed warehouse. Salt shall not be removed from a licensed warehouse except under a removal permit, which permit in the case of Chinese salt destined for export to China shall be granted only upon payment of duty to the Chinese Maritime Customs; and the salt covered by a permit for removal as above shall not be transported to China until a Transportation Pass in the prescribed form, issued by the proper authority in the Salt Department and countersigned by the Commissioner of Customs, has been obtained by the merchant.\n\n(f) Every licensee of a licensed warehouse for salt shall keep such books as may be prescribed, showing imports and local sales. The books shall at all times be open to inspection by the Hongkong Government. Authorisation\n\n(g) Every manufacturer of salt in the New Territories shall deposit the salt manufactured by him in a licensed warehouse, and the licensee of such warehouse shall keep a register in prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times open to inspection by the Hongkong Government. Authorisation\n\n(h) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special licence.\n\n(i) As the provisions of this Article are designed to safeguard the salt revenue of the Chinese Government, that Government agrees to permit the duty on salt transported from Hongkong to China under the above regulations to be collected by the Chinese Maritime Customs Office in Hongkong, and to allow to continue without restriction consignments of salt to Kwangtung through the waters of the Colony from the salt works on the Kwangtung and Fukien littoral.\n\nThe Colony of\n\nARTICLE XIII.\n\nNo person in Hongkong shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law, and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit and the amount used. All such books shall be open to inspection by the Hongkong Government. Authorisation\n\n64", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522412, "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": "CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931", "content_text": "73\n\ntransported to China until a Transportation Pass in the prescribed form, issued by the proper authority in the Bal Department and countersigned by the Commissioner of Customs, has been obtained by the merchant.\n\n(f) Every licensee of a licensed warehouse for salt shall keep such books as may be prescribed, showing imports, exports, and local sales. The books shall at all times be open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.\n\n(g) Every manufacturer of salt in the New Territories, shall deposit the salt manufactured by him in a licensed warehouse, and the licensee of such warehouse shall keep a register in prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.\n\n(h) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without special licence.\n\n(i) As the provisions of this Article are designed to safeguard the salt revenue of the Chinese Government, that Government agrees to permit the duty on salt transported from Hong Kong to China under the above regulations to be collected by the Chinese Maritime Customs office in Hong Kong, and to allow to continue without restriction consignments of salt to Kuangtung through the waters of the Colony from the salt works on the Kuangtung and Fukien littoral.\n\nARTICLE III.\n\nNo person in Hong Kong shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522461, "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": "CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931", "page_number": 124, "title": "CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931", "content_text": "116\n\npermit in the case of Chinese salt destined for export to China, shall be granted only upon payment of duty to the Chinese Maritime Customs: and the salt covered by a permit for removal as above shall not be transported to China until a Transportation Pass in the prescribed form, issued by the proper authority in the Salt Department and counter-signed by the Commissioner of Customs, has been obtained by the merchant.\n\n(f) Every licensee of a licensed warehouse for salt shall keep such books as may be prescribed, showing imports, and local sales. The books shall at all times be open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.\n\n(g) Every manufacturer of salt in the New Territories, shall deposit the salt manufactured by him in a licensed warehouse, and the licensee of such warehouse shall keep a register in prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times open to inspection by the Hong Kong Government.\n\n(h) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special licence.\n\n(1) As the provisions of this Article are designed to safeguard the salt revenue of the Chinese Government, that Government agrees to permit the duty on salt transported from Hong Kong to China under the above regulations to be collected by the Chinese Maritime Customs office in Hong Kong, and to allow to continue without restriction consignments of salt to Kuangtung through the waters of the Colony from the salt works on the Kuangtung and Fukien littoral.\n\nARTICLE XIII.\n\nNo person in Hong Kong shall have dynamite or other", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522474, "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": "CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931", "page_number": 137, "title": "CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931", "content_text": "(9)\n\nI\n\nas security for the payment to the Chinese Maritime Customs of such dues as would be payable if such vessel had been detained in similar circumstances in Chinese waters. Failing payment of such dues, the Hongkong Government shall be entitled to recover them on behalf of the Chinese Maritime Customs by legal proceedings against the master or owner, or against the vessel. The master of any such vessel shall also be liable upon conviction on the prosecution of the Hongkong Government to a fine in respect of such importation, and the salt in question shall be liable to be confiscated by the magistrate. Any salt so confiscated shall be placed at the disposal of the Chinese Salt Department.\n\n(e) All salt imported into the Colony, other than salt in transit without transhipment, shall be deposited in a licensed warehouse. Salt shall not be removed from a licensed warehouse except under a removal permit, which permit in the case of Chinese salt destined for export to China shall be granted only upon payment of duty to the Chinese Maritime Customs; and the salt covered by a permit for removal as above shall not be transported to China until a Transportation Pass in the prescribed form, issued by the proper authority in the Salt Department and countersigned by the Commissioner of Customs, has been obtained by the merchant.\n\n(f) Every licensee of a licensed warehouse for salt shall keep such books as may be prescribed, showing imports and local sales. The books shall at all times be open to inspection by the Hongkong Government.\n\n(g) Every manufacturer of salt in the New Territories shall deposit the salt manufactured by him in a licensed warehouse, and the licensee of such warehouse shall keep a register in prescribed form showing the amount made and sold. Such register shall be at all times be open to inspection by the Hongkong Government.\n\n(h) No retail dealer in the New Territories shall keep salt on his premises in excess of a prescribed amount without a special licence.\n\n(i) As the provisions of this Article are designed to safeguard the salt revenue of the Chinese Government, that Government agrees to permit the duty on salt transported from Hongkong to China under the above regulations to be collected by the Chinese Maritime Customs Office in Hongkong, and to allow to continue without restriction consignments of salt to Kwangtung through the waters of the Colony from the salt works on the Kwangtung and Fukien littoral.\n\nARTICLE XIII.\n\nNo person in Hongkong shall have dynamite or other explosives or sulphur or saltpetre in his possession except as provided by law, and no person shall store such articles except under licence. Every licensee shall keep books in a prescribed form showing the quantity received under permit and the amount used. All such books shall be open to inspection by the Hongkong Government.\n\n129", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-14 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 31-10-1930 - 10-1-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530044, "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": "CO129-533-13 Salaries- conversion rate of sterling 30-1-1931 - 21-1-1932", "page_number": 251, "title": "CO129-533-13 Salaries- conversion rate of sterling 30-1-1931 - 21-1-1932", "content_text": "# INDEX\n\n369\n\n## C.--Continued.\n\n| Serial No. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| .402 | Crape Dyed and Printed |\n| .383 | Crash |\n| .592 | Cream, Concentrated, Evaporated |\n| .548A | Cream, Face |\n| .555 | Creosote |\n| .383 | Crepe de Chine, Cotton |\n| .401 | Cretonnes, Printed |\n| .30 | Cresylic Acid |\n| .388 | Crimp, White |\n| .402 | Crimps, Dyed and Printed |\n| .75 | Crocodile Scales |\n| .388 | Crossovers |\n| .550 | Crystals |\n| .80 | Cresylic Acid |\n| .183 | Crucibles |\n| .218 | Crushers, Ore |\n| .549 | Curios |\n| .388 | Curtain Netting |\n| .580 | Curtains, Window |\n| .580 | Cushions |\n| .80 | Cutch |\n| .184 | Cutlery |\n| .100 | Cuttlefish |\n| .196 | Cyder |\n| .278 | Cylinders & Drums Empty |\n| .218 | Cylinder Heads |\n\n## D.--Continued.\n\n| Serial No. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| .194A | Diving Apparatus |\n| .383 | Douglas Fir |\n| .21 | Douglas Fir |\n| .19 | Dragon's Blood |\n| .17 | Drainpipes |\n| .595 | Dress Shields |\n| .562 | Dress Trimmings |\n| .368 | Ducks, Grey |\n| .375 | Ducks, White |\n| .278 | Drums & Cylinders Empty |\n| .357 | Driers |\n| .386 | Drills, Dyed |\n| .566 | Dynamite |\n| .206 | Dynamos |\n\n## E.-Continued.\n\n| Serial No. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| .206 | Electric Generators |\n| .206B | Hoists |\n| .561A | Insulators |\n| .558 | Lamps (Bulbs), for Domestic Use |\n| .558A | Lamps (Bulbs) miniature, for use in torches |\n| .558B | Lamps (all others) |\n| .206B | Lifts |\n| .206 | Magnetos |\n| .206 | Motors |\n| .561A | Radiators |\n| .561A | Switches |\n| .206 | Transformers |\n| .559 | Electric Cables |\n| .561A | Electrical Batteries other than for motor cars or wireless |\n| .561A | Cookers |\n| .208 | Engines, Steam, other than Locomotives |\n| .207 | Engines, Internal Combustion and Plants |\n| .219 | Manure |\n| .506 | Engravings |\n| .684 | Erasers, Ink and Pencil |\n| .557 | Earthenware |\n| .557 | Filters (Earthenware) |\n| .17 | Earth, Red |\n| .704 | Earth Garden |\n| .616 | Elephant's Teeth and Tusks |\n| .562 | Embroidery |\n\n## F.--Continued.\n\n| Serial No. | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| .561 | Fans, Electric |\n| .388 | Fancies, Light Cotton, not otherwise enumerated |\n| .572 | Feathers, Duck |\n| .572 | Goose Feathers |\n| .574 | Feathers not otherwise enumerated |\n| .575 | Felt |\n| .575 | Roofing Felt |\n| .664 | Fenders, Boat, Rattan |\n| .583 | Fibres: Hemp Manila |\n| .585 | Ramie |\n| .584 | Kapok |\n| .586 | Fibre, not otherwise enumerated |\n| .586 | Sheaths (Hemp) |\n| .192 | Files, Metal |\n| .551 | Films, Cinematograph (Used) |\n| .552 | Films, Cinematograph (Unused) |\n| .654 | Photographic Films |\n| .210 | Filter Cloth |\n| .194A | Filters (Metal) |\n| .563 | Emery Cloth |\n| .563 | Emery Paper |\n| .563 | Emery Powder |\n| .563 | Emery Wheels |\n| .178 | Firewood |\n| .582 | Fireworks |\n| .11 | Fire Bricks |\n| .186 | Extinguishers |\n| .101 | Fish, Fresh |\n| .103 | Fish, Dried |\n| .103 | Fish, Smoked |\n| .103 | Fish, Skins |\n| .103 | Fish, Stock |\n| .158 | Fish, Tinned and Potted |\n| .158 | Fish Paste, Tinned & Potted |\n\n370", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-533-13 Salaries- conversion rate of sterling 30-1-1931 - 21-1-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544922, "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": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 228, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## Table XI.\n**(1) Opium.**\n\n| Seizures | Prepared Opium | Raw Opium | Opium dross |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | 15,722 taels | 1,490 | 41,039 |\n| | 326 | 2501 | 14 |\n| | 109 | 5 | |\n\n## Table XII.\n**PROSECUTIONS BY IMPORTS AND EXPORTS DEPARTMENT.**\n\n### (1) Opium\n| Arrests | Convictions | Bail Estreated |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 2,025 | 1,807 | 117 |\n| Possession | Boiling | Importing | Dealing |\n| 28 | 27 | 2 | 1 |\n\n### (2) Arms.\n| Revolvers | Ammunition |\n| --- | --- |\n| 5 | 20,000 rounds |\n| Illegal Possession | |\n| 5 | 1 |\n\n### (3) Tobacco.\n| Possession Cigars | Cigarettes | Chinese Tobacco |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 5 | 4 | ... |\n| 15.3* gallons | | |\n| Possession Cigarettes | 17 | 14 | 1 |\n| Possession Chinese Tobacco | 203 | 173 | 28 |\n| Unlicensed Selling | 146 | 27 | |\n| | 5 | 1 | |\n\n### (4) Liquor.\n| European Spirit | Spirit of Wine | Chinese Spirit |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 4. lbs. | 1 | 169. grains |\n| European Wine | ૫ | 2 |\n| 75.6 ounces | | |\n| Spirit of Wine | 1 | |\n| 56 | | |\n| Chinese Spirit | 120 | 95 |\n| 86,968 | | |\n\n### (5) Dangerous Drugs.\n| Heroin | Morphine | Cocaine | Heroin Pills |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 3 | 2-18 0 | 12 | 3 |\n| 31 | 31 | | |\n| 66 | Dynamite, pieces | | |\n| 3 | 1 | | |\n| Small Craft confiscated | 21 | 16 | |\n| Morphine | | | |\n\n*Includes 3 galls. of spirits faked to resemble Whisky, prepared locally.\n\n## Table XIA.\n**CONTRABAND SEIZED BY THE POLICE.**\n\n| Seizures | Quantity |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chinese Tobacco | 2,484.5 pounds |\n| Cigarettes | 17,789 |\n| Tobacco Leaf | 33 pounds |\n| Chinese Spirits | 832.53 gallons |\n| Raw Opium (Chinese & Persian) | 12,781.84 taels |\n| Prepared Opium, 2nd grade | 3,170.2 |\n| Prepared Opium, 3rd grade | 451.1 |\n| Cocaine | 11 |\n| Heroin Pills | 115 |\n| Lottery Tickets | 71 |\n| Dynamite | 29 |\n\n### (6) Miscellaneous.\n| Unmanifested cargo | Old Wine Labels | |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 10 | 9 | |\n| 1 | 1 | 1 |\n\n**Total**\n| Arrests | Convictions | Bail Estreated |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 2,564 | 2,229 | 190 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 547423, "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": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "content_text": "7 do.\n\n5\n\n23.2.35\n\nJuds\n\nsupply of dynamite\n\n18-day\n\n10\n\nMw. Chaplin rang, so by capy Peking tels 176 0177\n\nla Cantar firm, el\n\n1.0.\n\nwere writing\n\nAndaba is us sbut in his\n\n0 should await their letter suggested we weiter before making sition.\n\n? Wait.\n\n25/2/55 8 2.0. Ref 7\n\n> further\n\nThe N.K. Ans\n\nV Immunction Ordinance (1433\n\n27.2.35\n\nNow & obscus dnes ammunition in Sect. 2 (V) to inclose \"\n\nan expensive when enclosed in any contrivance as to joam a on siterwise adapted or prepared small cartridge shange in complete round other wearch, & asus cannon, on any on to loom any inde for sining 2xxploswes on B -oau a detonator { a profctive linework on sther connivance than a which can be used Etter singly سلامي ј in suitable combinations, as on in connection\n\nHere is the revised version with corrections and formatting:\n\n7 do.\n\n5\n\n23.2.35\n\nJudges\n\nsupply of dynamite\n\n18-day\n\n10\n\nMr. Chaplin rang, so by copy Peking tels 176 0177\n\na Cantor firm, el\n\n1.0.\n\nwere writing\n\nAndaba is us but in his\n\n0 should await their letter suggested we wait before making a decision.\n\n? Wait.\n\n25/2/35 8 2.0. Ref 7\n\n> further\n\nThe N.K. Arms\n\nV Immunity Ordinance (1433\n\n27.2.35\n\nNow & obscure dnes ammunition in Sect. 2 (V) to include \"\n\nan explosive when enclosed in any contrivance so as to form a on otherwise adapted or prepared small cartridge change in complete round other warhead, & as used cannon, on any on to form any device for firing explosives on B -or a detonator { a protective device or other contrivance than a which can be used either singly or in suitable combinations, as or in connection\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format requested:\n\n7 do.\n\n5\n\n23.2.35\n\nJuds\n\nsupply of dynamite\n\n18-day\n\n10\n\nMw. Chaplin rang, so by capy Peking tels 176 0177 la Cantar firm, el 1.0. were writing Andaba is us sbut inhis 0 should await their letter suggested we weiter before making sition.\n\n? Wait.\n\n25/2/55 8 2.0. Ref 7 > fruther The N.K: Ans V Immunction Ordinance (1433\n\n27.2.35 Now & obscus dnes ammunition in Sect. 2 (V) to inclose \" an expensive when enclosed in any contrivance as to joam a on siterwise adapted or prepared small cartridge shange in complete round other wearch, & asus cannon, on any on to loom any inde for sining 2xxploswes on B -oau a detonator { a profctive linework on sther connivance than a which can be used Etter singly سلامي ј in suitable combinations, as on in connection\n\nLet me reformat it according to the exact instruction.\n\n7 do.\n\n5\n\n23.2.35\n\nJudges\n\nsupply of dynamite\n\n18-day\n\n10\n\nMr. Chaplin rang, so by copy Peking tels 176 0177 la Cantor firm, el 1.0. were writing Andaba is us but in his 0 should await their letter suggested we wait before making a decision.\n\n? Wait.\n\n25/2/35 8 2.0. Ref 7 > further The N.K. Arms V Immunity Ordinance (1433\n\n27.2.35 Now & obscure dnes ammunition in Sect. 2 (V) to include \" an explosive when enclosed in any contrivance as to form a on otherwise adapted or prepared small cartridge change in complete round other warhead, & as used cannon, on any on to form any device for firing explosives on B -or a detonator { a protective device or other contrivance than a which can be used either singly or in suitable combinations, as or in connection", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 547424, "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": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "content_text": "It is not clean whether all \n\nwith \n\nse missile. \n\nIt \n\nthe \n\nFast \n\nThe \n\ndynamite, \n\no detonation would come under \n\ntrus definition. \n\nIt not \n\nhen \n\nThe \n\nN.K. Yout's control \n\nwunited is the \n\nne langennes Boxs \n\npowers \n\nThe \n\nIvonnance \n\nSee Sava 11 of \n\nRegulatins \n\nAnder dated 10m ilaush 1900 issued \n\nSestun 5 of the Inchnance (pe ass in \n\nN.K. Regulations 18th-1425 attached). I \n\nis prima acil unthely nat wo NK- \n\nwould use \n\nhise owers \n\nwhich \n\nme coniert \n\nExplosives \n\nsure the safing of \n\nNik. safety \n\nranching & \n\na means of \n\nof southething \n\nTelegraph to N.K. \n\nny Lust inclosure \n\nto (1) to sear \n\nThere possit, as \n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nНакит в/3/35\n\n \n\nHere is the revised HTML output with proper paragraph handling and page numbering:\n\nto (1) whether all \n\nwith \n\nse missile.\n\nIt \n\nthe \n\nFast \n\nThe \n\ndynamite,\n\no detonation would come under \n\nthis definition.\n\nIt is not \n\nthen \n\nThe \n\nN.K. Yout's control \n\nunited is the \n\nnew langennes Boxs \n\npowers \n\nThe \n\nOrdinance \n\nSee Section 11 of \n\nRegulations \n\nAnder dated 10th March 1900 issued \n\nSection 5 of the Explosives (pe ass in \n\nN.K. Regulations 18th-1425 attached).\n\nIt is prima facie unlikely that wo NK- \n\nwould use \n\nhis own powers \n\nwhich \n\nmight contravene \n\nExplosives \n\nto ensure the safing of \n\nNik. safety \n\nrelating & \n\na means of \n\nof soothing \n\nTelegraph to N.K. \n\nmy last inclosure \n\nto (1) to search \n\nThere possit, as \n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nНакит в/3/35", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 547508, "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": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "content_text": "ANNEX D.\n\nNO. G.L.111.\n\nOPEN GENERAL SA PORT LICENCE.\n\n89\n\nIn pursuance of the powers conferred upon them by the\n\nArms Export Prohibition Order, 1931, the Board of Trade do\n\nhereby authorise and permit the exportation from any port\n\nin Great Britain or Northern Ireland to all destinations\n\nother than the destinations included in the special zones\n\nset out in the Schedule hereto, of the following goods,\n\nnamely:-\n\n(a) Smooth-bore shotguns and ammunition for use therewith;\n\n(b) The following brands of smokeless gun-powder\n\nused in the manufacture of shotgun cartridges, namely:-\n\nAmberite; E.C.No.3;\n\nEmpire;\n\nIdeal;\n\nK.G.G;\n\nNobel No.43;\n\nSchultze;\n\nShotgun Neonite;\n\nSmokeless Diamond\n\n(c) The following explosives, namely:-\n\n-1-\n\nAmazonite;\n\nAmorces; Barwick;\n\nBlasting Gelatine;\n\nBonbons;\n\nBrocalite Gelatine;\n\nDetonators;\n\nDynamite;\n\nDynobel;\n\nElectric Detonators;\n\nFireworks;\n\nFog Signals;\n\nForcite;\n\nGelatine Dynamite;\n\nGelignite;\n\nGlycerita;\n\nHertford;\n\nL.G.Gelatine;\n\nMonobel;\n\nNobel Gelatine;\n\nRex Powder;\n\nRockite;\n\nSabulite, No.1;\n\nSafety Fuses;\n\nSamsonite;\n\nStonobel;\n\nSuper-Cliffite, No.1;\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 547725, "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": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "page_number": 307, "title": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "content_text": "303\n\ninstructed to permit the shipment without a Central Government \"huchao\", provided that the exporters can satisfy him that the explosives are not obviously destined for military use.\n\n3.\n\nIn support of this course, Sir John Simon would observe that the desirability of permitting His Majesty's Minister at Peking to support applications for \"huchaos\" is under consideration, and that in consequence any action in the sense of paragraph 3 of Colonial Office letter under reference must be delayed, with possible prejudice to this particular transaction. Further, as was explained in Foreign Office letter No. F1195/60/10 of the 27th February, export of the goods in question from this country could take place without a Central Government \"huchao\"; and it is prima facie undesirable that there should be disparity of practice in this matter between the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.\n\n4. Sir John Simon would add that, while the Governor is correct in stating that the Chinese Government's regulations specifically include dynamite, gelignite and detonators, they also include articles, the export of which from Hong Kong is presumably not subject to control, such as, for example, wooden swords and military music.\n\n5. Sir John Simon would be glad to learn if Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister is prepared to instruct the Governor in the sense of paragraph 2 of this letter. He would also ask that the Governor be requested to repeat any instructions which may be sent to him for the information of His Majesty's Minister at Peking.\n\n6.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 547743, "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": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "page_number": 325, "title": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "content_text": "COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\nCC-MA.\n\nC. O. REGY\n\n22\n\nTelegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary\n\nof State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 8th March, 1935. Received 4-10 am 8th March,\n\n1935.\n\nNo. 58.\n\nYour telegram No. 31 No permit is required for\n\nthe export of industrial explosives from Hong Kong to\n\nany destination but permit from the Police Department\n\nis required for removal from storage to ship or train\n\nunder Dangerous Goods Ordinance No.1 of 1873.\n\nOn the other hand, explosives other than\n\nindustrial explosives cannot be exported from the Colony\n\nwithout export permit under Importation and Exportation\n\nOrdinance No. 32 of 1915. See Gazette notification\n\nNo. 291 of 1922. It is obvious that any modern explosive\n\ncan be employed for military purposes and in view of\n\ntenour of South Test Huchaos produced by Jardines\n\nGovernment of Hong Kong could not regard shipment in\n\nquestion as industrial. Moreover Nanking regulations\n\nspecifically include dynamite gelignite and\n\ndetonators. Repeated to H.M. Minister at Peking No.12.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 547772, "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": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "page_number": 354, "title": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "content_text": "No. F 1195/60/10\n\nand address-\n\nnot to any person by name.\n\nbut to-\n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\"\n\nForeign Office,\n\nLondon, S.W.1.\n\nIMMEDIATE\n\nFOREIGN OFFICE.\n\nS.W.1.\n\n27th February, 1935.\n\n349\n\n8\n\nSir,\n\nRECEIVED\n\n28 FEB 1935\n\nC. O. REGY\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir John Simon to\n\nrefer to Peking telegrams Nos. 176 and 177, on the subject\n\nof the export of explosives from Hong Kong to China,\n\ncopies of which were forwarded to you under cover of\n\nForeign Office printed letter No.F1195/60/10 of the 23rd\n\nFebruary.\n\n2.\n\nIf the goods in question were being exported\n\nfrom the United Kingdom it is presumed that no difficulty\n\nwould arise, since under the Arms Export Prohibition Order\n\nof 1931 an Open General Licence (G.L.111) was issued on the\n\n1st June 1931, permitting the export of industrial\n\nexplosives - including dynamite and gelignite to all\n\ndestinations outside a special zone, in which China is not\n\nincluded.\n\nSir John Simon is, however, unaware whether a\n\nsimilar procedure is in force at Hong Kong. He understands\n\nthat the regulations which specifically govern the export of\n\nwar material to China do not make mention of explosives, but\n\nthat the Governor has power to regulate the movement of these\n\nunder the \"Dangerous Goods Act\" of 1873. If use is not\n\nnormally made of the powers conferred by this Act to control\n\nthe export of explosives, there would appear to Sir John Simon\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 547775, "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": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "page_number": 357, "title": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. F1195 60/10\n\nand address—not to any person by name, but to—\n\n\"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.\n\n352\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copies of the under-mentioned paper for such observations as may desire to offer.\n\nForeign Office.\n\n23. July, 1935.\n\nReference to previous correspondence:\n\nDescription of Enclosure.\n\nName and Date.\n\nSubject.\n\n176 of 20 Jan 1735\n\n177\n\nProposed supply from Hong Kong of dynamite and detonators for mines in Canton and Kuangsi,\n\n15-7983\n\nSimilar letter sent to Belof (For information)\n\nPage 352\n\n \nRECEIVED\n\nSir. P. Curly\n\n25 JUL 1935\n\nC.O.RE.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 547776, "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": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "page_number": 358, "title": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "content_text": "Decypher. Sir A. Cadogan (Peking/\n\nNo.176.\n\nDo\n\nWireless,\n\nR. 4.35 p.m.\n\nAAAA\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION.\n\nFebruary 20th 1935,\n\nFebruary 20th 1935.\n\nFebruary 20th 1935,\n\nPage 353\n\nFollowing received from Hongkong:\n\nAddressed to Peking No.8 of February 16th, repeated to Mission and Canton by safe opportunity.\n\nJardine Matheson and Company as agents for Nobel's Glasgow have booked considerable orders for dynamite, gelignite and detonators for use (1) by firm of building contractors in Canton. (2) By Hop Shan Coal Mining Company of Kuangsi. It is believed that genuine commercial use is intended but goods will be supplied from Hongkong and can obviously be used for military purposes. Moreover Huchaos issued by South West political council describe consignment as ordered by (1) first group army corps to be used for building purposes (2) fourth group army corps for military use though reason for this is almost certain to secure exemption from customs duties. Do you see any objection to allowing goods to go forward from Hongkong without authorisation from Central government.\n\nIf permission is refused similar goods can be obtained from Germany as through shipments.\n\nPage 353", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 547777, "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": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "page_number": 359, "title": "CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935", "content_text": "354\n\nNO DISTRIBUTION.\n\nDecypher. Sir A. Cadogan (Peking).\n\n20th February, 1955.\n\nD. By wireless\n\n20th February, 1935.\n\nR. 4.35 p.m.\n\n20th February, 1935.\n\nNo. 177.\n\nAddressed to Hongkong No. 12 February 20th.\n\nYour telegram No. 8.\n\nAccording to Nanking Government regulations dynamite, gelignite and detonators can only be imported into China under cover of a Central Government huan. To allow goods referred to in your Excellency's telegram to go forward from Hongkong without authorisation from Central Government would therefore be a violation of verbal assurances we have always given to Waichiaopu that Hongkong Government, except in so far as it is restricted by stipulation of Barcelona convention, lend their full co-operation to securing strict observance of regulations issued by Chinese Government regarding importation of munitions of war into China. It would also make it difficult to reply to Waichiaopu memorandum of December 27th, see my despatch No. 5.\n\n2. If Foreign Office authorises such action (see my telegram No. 178 to the Foreign Office) and firm concerned desires me to do so, I should be prepared to take up matter with Waichiaopu and request them to issue necessary huan for goods in question.\n\nRepeated to Mission, Canton, Foreign Office, Commercial Counsellor, Air Attaché, Commander-in-Chief, Trade Commissioner.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-552-6 Traffic of arms to China 2-1-1935 - 27-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 550561, "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": "CO129-556-3 Theft of detonators from Green Island Dangerous Good Depot 16-6-1936 - 16-6-1936", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-556-3 Theft of detonators from Green Island Dangerous Good Depot 16-6-1936 - 16-6-1936", "content_text": "Divisional Superintendent of Police (Kowloon), \n\nSir, \n\nI forward herewith a preliminary report of the larceny of 40,000 detonators the contents of four cases from No.5 Magazine, Green Island Dangerous Goods Depot between 12.40 hours on 3.8.35 and 18.00 hours on 4.8.35. \n\nNo.5 Magazine is styled the detonator magazine and only detonators are stored therein. It is situated at the North West corner of the depot. In this magazine were stored 136 cases of detonators the property of Messrs. Jardine Matheson, Messrs. Shewan Tomes and the Public Works Department, respectively. At the moment I am not sure of the exact number of cases held on behalf of the two aforementioned firms; but the Public Works Department had in the magazine 6 cases each containing 10,000 detonators and one broken box containing 2,620. These cases are what are left of a consignment of 15 cases which were stored there by the Public Works Department on 28.11.34. It is four cases from this consignment which were stolen. The selling price is quoted by the Accounts and Stores Department, Public Works Department, as being $2.42 per hundred, $242.00 per case and $968.00 for the four cases. I am waiting to confirm this before circulating. \n\nEach of the cases contained 10,000 detonators done up in 20 packets of 5 tins, each tin containing 100 each, i.e. 500 in a packet or 400 tins in all. The case itself is made of wood and is very well made. It consists of an outside case fitted with a lid screwed down by 10 brass screws, an inside case also fitted with a lid screwed down by four screws. The packets themselves are packed between a plentiful supply of sawdust to allay any risk of jars or jolts likely to cause an explosion. The tins are black in colour, size 3\" x 3\" x 11\" and are marked in white lettering NOBEL No.3 100 dynamite detonators, Thistle Brand, Glasgow. \n\nPage 9\nPage 9\n- 2 -\n\nNo.5 Magazine has only one door, this is fitted as are the other four magazines, with four locks, two on the grille doors and two in the wooden door. From examination the locks nor doors showed no signs of having been tampered with. The back of No.5 Magazine which is one yard from the abrupt rocky hillside has two windows which are fitted with double iron bars * in diameter. There are 7 bars on the inside and 8 on the outside and are built so that the outside bars come between the inside ones. The space between the bars of both rows is 31\" but with there being two rows as mentioned above the actual space between them is 13\". The rows are approximately 2\" apart. \n\nThe third bars of the inside and outside rows of the south east window at the back of No.5 Magazine had been cut through with a hack saw close to the bottom and the bar on the outside forced outwards and upwards and that on the inside, inwards and upwards. Inside the bars is a window which opens inwards in two halves and which is fastened with an iron bolt top and bottom centre. Each half of the window has five panes of glazed glass. The second pane up on the right half of the window from the outside was broken, and by inserting an arm from the outside both top and bottom bolts could be drawn, although they were rather stiff. The gap made by removing the bars is 72\n\nMr. W.H. Bailey the European in charge of the depot was issuing from No.5 Magazine at 12.45 hours on 3.8.35. and he himself locked the magazine after issuing. At 13.00 hours on 3.8.35 he finished duty for the week-end. The remainder of that day he was in his quarters on the Island. The following day 4.8.35 he went off the Island and returned at 20.40 hours the same night. \n\nPage 10\nPage 10\n- 3 -\n\nThe larceny was discovered at 18.00 hours on 4.8.35 by two Harbour Office Department seamen attached to the depot for duty. Every evening at about 18.00 hours these same two seamen water the vegetable garden at the back of the magazines and it was while drawing water from the south east back corner of No.5 Magazine that they noticed the bar of the window sticking out and saw on investigating that the magazine had been entered. The names of the two seamen are LAM CHU, 33 years, and LEUNG YING, 33 years. They reported to the Special Guard on duty No.35 Abdul Rahman who in turn reported to A.L.S.B. 324 FAZAL MOHAMED, Mr. Bailey was expected back at 18.30 hours so no immediate report was made to the Police. When Mr. Bailey did not return a/L.S.B. 324 rang up the Water Police Station and made a report, this was at about 19.30 hours. Det. L.S.A.183 Davies went out to Green Island and made enquiries soon after the report was made and on his return to station a message was circulated to harbour and cruising launches to be on the look out. \n\nOn 5.8.35 I went to Green Island at 09.15 hours and carried out a close examination of the premises, searched Chinese seamen and Indians quarters, huts on Little Green Island and several sampans. It was discovered that five workmen employed by the KIN LEE Building Contractors had been working on a water channel near the South East corner of the back of No.5 magazine. I found these workmen still working on the Island at the European Officers quarters. I took them back to the Water Police Station for interrogation. On the way back the sampan which conveyed these men ashore from Green Island on Sunday afternoon 4.8.35 at about 16.15 hours, was located and searched without result. Master of the sampan was brought to the Water Police Station at 09.00 on 6.8.35 and closely questioned without result. \n\nThere are two very peculiar features of this case which are very puzzling. One is why only Public Works Department detonators were taken and the other is that, out of the 136 cases in the magazine, 7 were open with the lids placed on top, issues \n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-556-3 Theft of detonators from Green Island Dangerous Good Depot 16-6-1936 - 16-6-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551468, "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": "CO129-558-10 Hong Kong University- engineering faculty 3-1-1936 - 11-2-1936", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-558-10 Hong Kong University- engineering faculty 3-1-1936 - 11-2-1936", "content_text": "## Empire Cotton Growing Corporation\n**TELEPHONE:** Victoria 2811 \n**TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:** \"EMCOTTON, SOWEST, LONDON.\" \n**CABLES:** \"EMCOTTON, LONDON.\" \n**INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER**\n\nKing's Buildings, \nDean Stanley Street, \nMillbank, \nLondon, S.W.1. \n9th January 1936\n\nMy dear Mayhew,\n\nI have your letter of January 6th and Strickland's enclosure. \nI think the latter constitutes a serious criticism of the University, and I believe modification of their courses and the injection of a greater practical element into them might induce a change of view on the part of the young Chinaman. But I have expressed my views, for what they are worth, on that place before. If the Committee could be induced to refer the matter to a Sub-Committee composed, say, of McLean, Schofield, the Principal of Loughborough, introduced as an extra member, and myself, to draw up a note, something might happen, but I rather think the place wants an application of dynamite.\n\nYours very sincerely, \nL. Jamu", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-558-10 Hong Kong University- engineering faculty 3-1-1936 - 11-2-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552838, "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": "CO129-560-15 Traffic of arms to China 18-2-1937 - 15-11-1937", "page_number": 159, "title": "CO129-560-15 Traffic of arms to China 18-2-1937 - 15-11-1937", "content_text": "# COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\nCYMATLARA from the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 11th October, 1937.\n\nReceived 9.9.a.m., 11th October.\n\nNo. 229.\n\n`(991)`\n\nYour telegram No.200.\n\nFollowing are statistics required, figures in all cases tons, descriptions as declared at Kowloon. First half of September: gun parts 98 safety cartridges 40 gunpowder 10 detonators 10 rifles 20 ammunition unspecified 46 total 224 tons.\n\nSecond half of September: gun parts and accessories 828 safety cartridges 116 trinitrotoluol 226 dynamite 10 total 1,180 tons.\n\nOctober figures will follow.\n\nCertain munitions are now reported being landed at Singapore owing to difficulty of finding ready cash demanded by suppliers.\n\nF.O. \n\"7 \nadmy \n811 \nw.o. \n119 \nA. M. \n071 \nB. T \n12/", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-560-15 Traffic of arms to China 18-2-1937 - 15-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552967, "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": "CO129-560-16 Traffic of arms to China 11-11-1937 - 1-1-1938", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-560-16 Traffic of arms to China 11-11-1937 - 1-1-1938", "content_text": "# CYPHER TELEGRAM\n## from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nDated 29th December, 1937.\n\nReceived 8.55 a.m. 29th December, 1937.\n\n**No.333**\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies telegram No.335 of 29th December repeated to (255) Tokyo telegram No.58. My telegram No.326. Figures for week ending 25th December.\n\nArms and ammunition 50 tons, aircraft spare parts 192 tons, smokeless powder and cartridges 80 tons, smokeless powder and T.N.T. 405 tons, detonator 150 kilogrammes, dynamite 10 tons, steel caps 4 tons, aeroplanes 15 tons, bombs 210 tons, T.N.T. 352 tons.\n\nTotal 1,298 tons 150 kilogrammes.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-560-16 Traffic of arms to China 11-11-1937 - 1-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 552995, "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": "CO129-560-16 Traffic of arms to China 11-11-1937 - 1-1-1938", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-560-16 Traffic of arms to China 11-11-1937 - 1-1-1938", "content_text": "# COPY FOR REGISTRATION:\n\n## CYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\n242. \n49 \n\n### Dated 7th December, 1937.\n\nReceived 5.36 p.m. 7th December. \n4 \n\n**No.305.** \n**(232)** \n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies telegram No. 305 of 7th December repeated to Tokyo telegram No.50.\n\nMy telegram No.298. Figures for the week ending 4th December.\n\n- Machine guns ten tons.\n- Aeroplane spare parts ten tons.\n- Aeroplanes 290 tons.\n- Cartridges 320 tons.\n- Dynamite ten tons.\n- Total 640 tons.\n\nT.N.T., revolvers and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-560-16 Traffic of arms to China 11-11-1937 - 1-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553011, "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": "CO129-560-16 Traffic of arms to China 11-11-1937 - 1-1-1938", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-560-16 Traffic of arms to China 11-11-1937 - 1-1-1938", "content_text": "# COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n## REGISTRATION 32.\n\n**CYPHER TELEGRAM** from the Governor of Hong Kong to \nthe Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 30th November, 1937.\n\nReceived 3.50 p.m., 30th Nov.\n\nNo.298.\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, No.298 repeated to Tokyo No.49 of 30th November.\n\nMy telegram No.288. 27th November.\n\nFigures week ending \n| Item | Quantity |\n| --- | --- |\n| T.N.T. | 330 tons |\n| Phosphorus | 10 tons |\n| Aeroplane spare parts | 30 tons |\n| Pistol and safety cartridges | 11 tons |\n| Revolver and safety cartridges | 33 tons |\n| Smokeless powder | 46½ tons |\n| Dynamite | 10 tons |\n| **Total** | **470 tons** |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-560-16 Traffic of arms to China 11-11-1937 - 1-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557896, "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": "CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938", "content_text": "Return No.35.\n\nFirms\n\n(1)\n\nConsignments of Arms, Ammunition, Aeroplanes & Explosives etc transhipped at Hong Kong and gone forward to Canton from 10.4.38 to 16.4.38.\n\n \n Ship & date importing\n Description of goods\n Ship & date Forward – ed to export.\n Country of origin & consignor.\n Consignee\n File\n \n \n South West Transportation (2)\n 68 c/s light machine guns ≈ 400 pcs\n23 c/s Kauser rifles ≈ 5,000 pcs cal.7.9\n Touraine 13.4.38.\nK.C.R. Canton 16.4.38\n Czechoslovakia\nCzechoslovakische wilbe schiffahrts.\n Military Coune 14,\nNational Govt. of China.\n A.0.64 in 174\n \n \n South West Transportation\n \n Pot adam 7.4.38\nK.C.R. Canton 16.4.38\n Germany\nshipped at Bremen, consignor unknown.\n \n 1.0.28 in 174\n \n \n South West Transportation Co. (5)\n 87 c/s heavy machine guns Cal. 7.62\n307 c/s machine gun tripods\n305 c/s machine gun spare parts\n201 c/s light machine guns cal.7.62\n724 c/s light machine gun spare Parts.\n28 c/s materials for howitzers\n360 c/s Væser rifles ≈ 9,000 pcs.\n B. B. Tower Field. 9.4.38\nK.C.R. Canton 16.4.38\n Russia\n South West Transportation Co.\n A.0.56 in 174\n \n \n South West Transportation Co. (6)\n \n Mon 1 Rickmers 15.3.38\nK.C.R. Canton 13.4.38\n Germany (see foot-note below)\n -do-\n A.0.54 in 174\n \n \n South West Transportation Co.\n \n Pot d 7.4.38\nK.C.R. Canton 13.4.38\n Belgium\n -do-\n A.0.28 in 174\n \n \n South West Transportation Co. (7)\n 65 c/s = 18 machine guns & accessories cal. 2 cm,\n75 c/s - 1.500 rifles cal.7.92\n13 Bombers & accessories Model H.3.123.\n31 c/s = 8 (15 cm) howitzers & 8 limbers.\n Smale 8.3.38\nK.C.R. Canton 13.4.38\n Denmark\n -do-\n A.0.53 in 174\n \n \n South West Transportation Co. (8)\n \n 8.8.\nK.G.R. Canton 13.4.38\n Belgium\n -do-\n J. Vulhopp, Antwerp\n4.0.60 in 174\n \n \n South West Transportation Co. (9)\n \n Isar 7.4.38\nB. S.\nK.C.R.Canton 13.4.38\n Germany\n -do-\n A.0.54 in 174 (see foot-note below)\n \n \n South West Transportation Co. (10)\n \n Rickmers 25.3.38\nEthe Rickmers\nK.C.R. Canton 12.4.38\n Germany (see foot-note below)\n -do-\n A.0.57 in 174\n \n \n \n 178 c/s carriages & accessories for guns.\n6,977 c/s 1165 mm. shells, shrapnel\n stanthorpe, 8.4.38\nK.C.R. Canton 12.4.38\n Russia\n -do-\n A.0,58 in 174\n \n \n Jardine Matheson & Co.\n(11)\n 132 c/s 11.5 mm. guns\n3,000 c/s shells\n82 c/s carriages & accessories for guns.\n K.C.R. 11.4.38\n Britain\nNobels & Kwangtung Pac-ficatim Commisim.\n Kanyang Arsenal\n A.0,160\n \n \n Jardine Matheson & Co.\n(12)\n 3,000 c/s 11.5 mm. shells\n100 c/s No.1 dynamite, 5,000 lbs.\n30 casks chlorate of potash 1,140 kg.\n40 c/s No.30 special white waterproof fuse.\n K.C.R. 10.4.38\nex stock\nK.C.R. Canton 14.4.38\n Germany\nex stock\nBritain - Nobels &\n \n \n \n \n Rafeek & Co.\n 100 c/s No.1 dynamite, 5,000 lbs.\n K.C.R. 14.4.38\nex local stock Ex Jard- ine's stock.\n Germany, consignor unknown.\nHany ang trucks via Germany.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canton, by high-Way. (Road export)\n \n \n \n \n\nItems above marked Fi\n\nDeclared by South West Transportation Co. to be of German origin although they were shipped from Sweden by Dahlberg & Hilbert 0/Y Helsinki.\n\n3\n37", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557916, "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": "CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938", "page_number": 57, "title": "CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938", "content_text": "Return No.24.\n\nDescription of goods\n\nConsignments of Arms, Ammunition, Aeroplanes & Explosives etc transhipped at Hong Kong and forwarded to Canton from 27.3.38 to 2.4.38.\n\n \n 59 c/s containing 15,000 pcs blasting Packets & 6,675 pcs blasting cartridges\n 1 c/s = 2,000 pcs. detonators\n 5 c/s = 5,000 detonating fuse.\n \n\n \n Ship & date importing\n Ship & date Forwarded\n Country of origin exporting & consignor.\n Consignee\n File.\n \n \n Rickmers 30.3.38.\n K.C.R. Canton 30.3.38.\n Germany Block Patzak & Co. Hamburg\n Kwangsi Pacification Commission.A.0.45 in 25.\n \n \n \n \n \n Feld & Co.\n (2) Hong Kong Sporting Arms Store.\n \n \n \n \n K.C.R. 30.3.38.\n \n Canton\n \n \n \n 18 revolvers ex stock\n \n # (Winchester)\n \n \n \n \n 3,200 rds revolver cartridges\n \n \n \n \n \n \n (3) South West Transportation Co.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1,600 c/s dynamite (44.9 tons)\n K.C.R. 29.3.38.\n U.S.A.(S.S.)\n \n \n \n \n 12 c/s machine guns & accessories 24 guns\n \n \n \n \n \n \n s.s.Deike Rickmers 7.3.38.\n Canton\n \n \n \n \n \n 1,000 casks T.N.T. (106.8 tons)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 500 casks T.N.T. (53 tons)\n K.C.R. 2.4.38.\n \n \n \n \n \n (4) South West Transportation Co.\n 28.3.38.\n \n \n \n \n \n 98 boxes projectile parts\n \n Sweden\n \n \n \n \n 14 c/s primer detonators (546 lbs)\n \n Dahlberg & Hilbert 0/Y, Helsinki (declared to be of Germany origin)\n \n \n \n \n 2,000 c/s explosive bombs (3,500 pcs)\n K.C.R. 27.3.38.\n Germany\n Military Council, National Govt. of China.\n A.0.22 in 1.\n \n \n 3,087 c/s cartridges (2,307,000 rds)\n Canton\n Transmarina Gesellschaft fur Ueberseedienst, m.b.h. Hamburg.\n \n \n \n \n 350 c/s cartridges (350,000 rds)\n \n \n \n 4.0.47 in 174\n \n \n 6,986 c/s T.N.T. = 181 tons.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n s.s.Michigan 12.2.38\n K.C.R. 27.3.38.\n U.S.A.\n Jah Chang Trading Co.\n A.0.41 in 18\n \n \n \n Canton\n \n \n \n \n \n s.s.Naldera 3.3.38\n K.C.R. 28.3.38.\n U.S.A.\n \n \n \n \n \n Canton\n American Union Transport Corp. New York.\n \n \n \n \n (5) South West Transportation Co.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2,315 c/s cartridges = 2,315,000 rds\n K.C.R. 30.3.38.\n \n \n \n \n \n Cartridges 309,380 rds.\n Canton\n \n \n \n \n \n 5.20 c/s cartridges 520,000 rds cal.7.92.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n (6) South West Transportation Co.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 60 c/s smokeless powder (4 tons)\n \n Germany\n Transmarina Gesellschaft fur Ueberseedienst, m.b.h.\n A.0.50 in 174\n \n \n 300 c/s (20.1 tons)\n K.C.R. 2.4.38.\n \n \n \n \n \n 2,000 c/s blasting powder (56.2 tons)\n Canton\n \n \n \n \n \n 160 c/s Tetryl (5.7 tons)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n s.s.Etha (b) Rickmers. 30.3.38.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 700 drums T.N.T. (74.2 tons)\n \n Sweden\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dahlberg & Hilbert, 0/Y Helsinki.\n \n A.0.57 in 174\n \n \n \n \n (c) Germany\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Transmarina Gesellschaft fur Ueberseedienst, m.b.h.\n \n \n \n\nNote.\n\nItems above marked §, although consigned by Dahlberg & Hilbert in Sweden are believed to be of German origin.\n\n19/4/38", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557925, "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": "CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938", "content_text": "COPY FOR REGISTRATION.\n\nCYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 21st April, 1938. Received 5.35 a.m. 21st April, 1938.\n\nNo.96.\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies telegram No.96 of the 21st April repeated to Tokyo telegram No.44. My telegram No. 90 figures for the week ending the 16th April.\n\nGun carriages, safety cartridges, guns and carriages, guns and accessories, gas masks, aeroplane spare parts.\n\nPhosphorus 2,090 tons\n\nDynamite 7 tons\n\nMachine guns 40\n\nTotal 2,147 tons.\n\nPage 101", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558109, "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": "CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938", "page_number": 250, "title": "CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938", "content_text": "COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\nCYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 10th January, 1938. Received 3.45 p.m., 10th January\n\nD\n\nNo. 13.\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nNo. 13 of the 10th January repeated to Tokyo No.4.\n\n(1)\n\nMy telegram No.1. Figures for week-ending 8th January. Bombs and bomb fittings 470 tons empty shells 364 tons safety cartridges 151 dynamite 10 tons War Department spare parts 4 tons bombs and machine-guns 50 tons. Total 1,049 tons.\n\nPage 250\n\nPage 251", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558115, "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": "CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938", "page_number": 256, "title": "CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938", "content_text": "Inward telegram from\n\nWahchang, New York,\n\nAugust 7th 1937.\n\n258\n\nMr. David Kung,\n\nRefer to your telegram of 7th inst, refer to 17th inst, refer to 17th word (planes) of the same telegram,\n\nhas telegraphed Dr. H. H. Kung August 2nd as follows:\n\nEarliest possible delivery\n\nduring\n\nOctober Seversky and Ballanca, during November United\n\nCraft and Northrop Corp.; during December Martin, early\n\nJanuary Douglas during February no good planes available\n\nexcept those ordered by Dr. H.H. Kung. There are some\n\nsecondhand planes but do not recommend to buy, they are\n\nuseless. Refer to 18th word (ammunition) of same telegram,\n\ncan secure F.O.B. Factory 1,000 dynamite thirty pound\n\nfragmentation bombs U.S.G. $32.00, fifty pound demolition\n\nbomb U.S.G. $64.50, sixty-one pound demolition U.S.G. $99.50,\n\n2,000 two hundred pound demolition U.S.G. $160.25,\n\ndelivery in five weeks after receipt of orders 200 bombs\n\neach week. Suggest that you make them in China.\n\nCan secure machine gun cartridges per 1,000 pieces\n\nc.i.f. Shanghai, 50,000 50 caliber U.S.G. $200.00;\n\n100,000 30 caliber U.S.G. $32.00; 25,000 50 caliber armor\n\npiercing U.S.G.$250.00; delivery in two weeks.\n\n5,000 Thompson guns U.S.G. $135.00.\n\nDynamite\n\nimmediate delivery.\n\nRefer to 33rd word (code) of same telegram, will\n\ncomply with.\n\n---K.C. Li (end)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-4 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 3-1-1938 - 3-5-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558207, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "85\n\nMEMORANDUM.\n\nImports of Arms into China from Great Britain, Germany and Italy.\n\n1. Up to the end of May we have the Shanghai figures, consisting of the item, originally in the published Chinese Customs return, but lately obtained confidentially from the Customs, showing the Government supplies admitted duty free. This item is in fact understood to mean munitions.\n\nFrom these figures it appears that from January to May, inclusive, 4% came from the United Kingdom, 10.35% from Italy and 55% from Germany. A fuller statement of the position will be found in the attached Table, the calculations in which have been done by Mr. Mears.\n\n2. For the period later than May 1938, we have no such satisfactory guide as the Shanghai Customs figures. Our only basis for calculation is the Hongkong material and this only gives values of consignments in so far as they are known. In many cases they are inevitably not known, so that one is reduced to adding rounds of anti-aircraft ammunition to cases of dynamite and producing a result in Hongkong dollars.\n\nThe best I have been able to do is:\n\na. to add together the values which are given.\n\nb. in cases where the value of a given consignment is not known, but the value of another consignment of the same article is known, to work out the value of the unknown consignment by arbitrarily giving it the value of the known one. (This is fair enough, as for our purpose an assumed uniformity of price gives the most nearly correct result).\n\nc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558227, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 104, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "CYPHER telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the \n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies. \n\nDated 4th October, 1938. \n\nNo. 283. \n\nReceived 6.57 a.m., \n\n4th October. \n\n(248) My telegram No. 278. Figures for week \n\nending 1st October. \n\nAeroplanes and spare parts \n\n125 tons \n\nGuns dynamite fuses and \n\ncartridges \n\n190 tons \n\nAeroplanes and phosphorus \n\nGuns and gas masks \n\n31 tons \n\n60 tons \n\nTotal \n\n2 tons", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558236, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 113, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "# Description\n\nBritain\n\nMilitary (XXX)\n\n \n \n 26\n 61\n 12\n 27\n \n \n Aeroplanes\n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n Engines\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Aeroplane parts\n 7\n 905\n 16\n \n \n \n Speed boats (XXX)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tanks, fitted with\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n 4.5in guns (Nos)\n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n Guns, Tank (Nos)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Guns, anti-aircraft (Nos)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Guns, Howitzer (Nos)\n 54\n \n \n \n \n\nDestined for China (XXX)\n\nShipped via Hong Kong between XXX and XXX\n\nItaly\n\n \n \n 34\n 101\n 1\n \n \n \n Guns, AA (Nos)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 290\n 2,304\n 2,566\n 5,663\n \n \n Guns, 7.6mm (Nos)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gun Tripods\n 11\n \n \n \n \n \n Rifles\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pistols & revolvers (Nos)\n 800\n 5,000\n 1,684\n 20,110\n \n \n Bombs (Various)\n 20,564\n 47,550\n 25,500\n 98,040\n \n \n \n 8,000\n \n 76,000\n \n \n \n Ammunition (rounds)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Shells, mortar\n 13,000\n \n 17,120\n \n \n \n Shells, anti-tank (rounds)\n \n \n \n 2,953,666\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Empty cases (machine gun)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fuses for guns\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cartridges (machine gun) (rounds)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cartridges (pistol) (rounds)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Empty cartridge cases (unloaded)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Links for howitzers (Nos)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Projectiles (Nos)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Links for machine guns (Nos)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gun spare parts\n 57,900\n 16,008,900\n \n \n \n \n \n 62,452\n 20,691\n 100\n \n \n \n \n 614,300\n 40,000\n 505\n \n \n \n \n 36\n \n \n \n \n \n Tile parts\n 98\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dynamite & Gelignite (tons)\n 23.8\n \n \n \n \n \n Blasting Powder (tons)\n 62.9\n 15,000\n \n \n \n \n Blasting Cartridges (Nos)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Detonators (tons)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n ...\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gun directing devices (Nos)\n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n ...\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Potassium chlorate (tons)\n 1.1\n \n \n \n \n \n Ammunition boxes (empty)\n \n 120\n 23\n \n \n \n \n 49,500\n 8\n 1,760\n 54,100\n \n \n \n 1,500\n \n 300,000\n \n \n \n \n 18\n \n 50\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 360\n \n \n \n \n 600\n \n 290\n \n \n \n Total\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 106 Tons\n 17 Tons\n 983 cases\n 101 Nos\n \n \n \n 50 Nos\n 4 Nos\n 4 Tons\n 100\n \n \n \n 100 Nos\n 78 Nos\n \n 54 Nos\n \n \n \n 16,000\n 30,537\n 39,980\n \n \n \n \n \n 216,998\n 7,000\n 4,800\n \n \n \n 4,000\n 381,227\n 30,000\n 465\n \n \n \n 17,488,000\n 26,000,000\n \n 1,508\n \n \n \n 2,124\n 2\n \n 19.5\n \n \n \n 479.8\n 151.2\n 17.2\n 12\n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 101\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 5,160 Nos\n 86,106 Nos\n 23,344 Nos\n 124,171 Nos\n \n \n \n 238,030\n 254,118 rounds\n 2,953,446 rounds\n \n \n \n \n 67,263\n 403,958 rounds\n \n 30,000\n \n \n \n 4,635 cases\n 748 Nos\n 1,508 cases\n \n \n \n \n 363,440,300 rounds\n \n 2,053,300 rounds\n 40,000 rounds\n \n \n \n 49,500 Nos\n 596 cases\n 2,186 cases\n 443 Nos\n \n \n \n 105 cases\n 80 Tons\n 1,560.1 tons\n 361.34 tons\n \n \n \n 15.1 tons\n 277.2 tons\n 39.6 tons\n 17.2 tons\n \n \n \n \n 77.6 tons\n 0\n 97.4 tons\n \n \n \n 15,000 Nos\n 6,675 Nos\n 42.34 tons\n \n \n \n \n 34 cases\n 15 cases\n \n \n \n \n \n 1 ton\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 114", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558240, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 117, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "Date\n\norted\n\nCountry\n\nof origin\n\n3,872 cases = 806,500 rounds de many\n\nsafew cartridges, sal.7.jp\n\n4,806 tapes - 7,209,000 roundi\n\nsafety cartridges\n\n30.1.3\n\n10\n\ns 400 barrels for\n\nching zum\n\n2 cases machine gun gecessor- 1,156 eames » 964,000 rounds\n\ncartridges, Cal.7.62.\n\n2 case mummunition boxes\n\n1 case - 1 bomb sight\n\ncases aeroplane spare partaj\n\nDate export ed\n\nNaot of dealer\n\n29.1.38\n\nsixported te\n\nAnthroity\n\nIntercontinent China\n\nLtd.\n\nGovt\n\nMilitax\n\nNations China.\n\nA.D.21/194\n\n30.1.38\n\nValford Trading Co.\n\n-d0-\n\n2.2.33\n\n500 #ame = 780,000 round m\n\n182 cartridges da\n\nBritain\n\n20.1.38\n\n554 cases ■ 500,000\n\n£3, 826. £8,550. 0.0.\n\n2.2.38\n\nIntement in ent\n\nLtd.\n\ncartridges\n\n19.1.30\n\n36 Games\n\nraft\n\nSweden\n\n2 cases synce parts for anti\n\nmize raït gmsə\n\n3.2.38\n\nInteresujnent China\n\nAoû sh2/384\n\nA«0 +36/274\n\nA.0.30/274\n\nAs0 • 31/174\n\n3+2+38\n\n800\n\n750\n\nbound a\n\nBritain\n\n85,820.\n\nIntercontinent China\n\nLtd.\n\n4.2.39\n\n381 cases = 87\n\n700_round «\n\nBelgium\n\n| 27,807.10.0de\n\nThomsam\n\nCast on\n\nA.0.37/174\n\nAs0.13/141\n\nCartridges\n\n189 cases « 47,250 rounds Cartridges Galalõežums.\n\n189 camo s 47,250 round s\n\nartridges, Cal. 23. 2mm canes z 6,000 rounds Cartridges cal.25 aims a\n\ntamen a 700 revolvers\n\n28 ### = 180,000 rounds\n\n20volver cartridges\n\n24\n\n£5,760.\n\n46,635.\n\n2660.\n\nW ser\n\ndo\n\nIntercontinent Okina\n\nled.\n\nOmten - Military\n\nCouncil. Hatimal\n\nA«Ü.38/174\n\nA.0.34/194\n\n75\n\n# 30,000, pouzdr\n\nnechine guns\n\n1,554 camna\n\nCartzigen, \"tala1000 rounds Germany\n\n1,068 cams = 1,599,000 rounds\n\nCartridges, #a3.7.92\n\n1.800 nake Tal.I. 159 tene 230\n\nses tetryl, 20\n\n480 cases dynamite,12 toma 2 tares detonators 1 tan 3,601 canon makelesu poudar 6 rinchester rifles\n\n105 ten)\n\nHK$400\n\nHong Kong iporting\n\nCanton - Peate Pacific a«\n\n$10 1900 adi qa urtereo\n\n6,000 rounds rifle cartridges\n\nHK$400\n\n1 case containing 1 Gladiator| Britain\n\n14.2.38\n\nWalford Trading Co.\n\n0\n\n27,500\n\nonton Military Gourde 11 National Govtsof Chim as\n\nAo0.176\n\naeroplane\n\nEx stock | 100 revolvers\n\nU. S. A.\n\n50,000 rounds revolver\n\n@artridges\n\n9.2.38\n\n40 cases containing 40 ammoured Italy\n\nCare fitted with 2 machine\n\nHK$8,500 XX$4,000.\n\nunknown\n\n15.2.\n\nHongkong Sporting\n\nArms Store.\n\nA.0.79/8\n\nIntercontinent China\n\nLtd.\n\nA.0.39/174\n\n(guns are of Belgim origin)\n\n2.2.73\n\n7 cases containing 7 0ladiator Britain\n\naeroplanes\n\n16.2.38\n\nValford Trading Co.\n\nA.0.176\n\n252,500.\n\n26.1.38 | 189 cases detonators 13 tons Germany\n\nanchor\n\n17.2.38\n\nIntercontinent China\n\nLtd.\n\nAv0.34/274\n\nPage 118", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558243, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 120, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "Date imported\n\nDescription\n\nValue\n\nDate exported\n\nName of dealer\n\nExported to\n\nAuthority\n\nOrigin\n\n \n 10. 3. 38\n 123 cases = 35 liyåsen machine gums à nữ cessories\n \n 22.3.38\n ntion Ce.\n South West Transport-en rutteg.gure\n A.0.51/174\n Denmark\n \n \n 11.4.38\n 63 cases – 1,000 tripods for machine guam e\n \n \n \n Belgium\n \n Belgium\n \n \n 7.3.38\n 2,400 Canes – $,600,000 rounds safety cartridge #y al .7.92\n \n 24.3.38\n 7. Feld &\n South West Transport» (Canton- Military Council,\n A .41/174\n Belgium\n \n \n \n 24 cases a 48 machine gun a d |cessories, −3+7CMa KARS = 81,750 rounds Cartridges, cal.13.2\n \n \n \n \n A0.47/174\n \n \n \n \n Bx 60 revolvers 12,000 rounds revolver cartridges\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12.2.33\n 5,200 cases T. X. T. 135 tons 5,000 @ect ris bridge low tension fuse Cases = 5,000 m. safety timm fù se\n \n 22.3.3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15.3.28\n 28 danes » 3 Bombers â në ce amorita Model H, Se125\n \n \n \n \n A60.22/1\n \n \n \n 12.2.3\n 2,315 case | 937,000 rounds Cartridges tale7562 à 307,000 ruands Cal.lâ.7 520 Canes a 590,000 rounds Cartridges #al,7.9m\n \n \n \n Canton- Kwongsi Pacifi. cation Commission.\n A40.11/141\n Belgium\n \n \n \n 98 boxes projectile part a 14 cases primi ist istonators 2,000 fames = 5,500 exple såve bomb a\n \n \n \n \n A0.183\n \n \n \n \n 3,087 capen « 2,307,000 rounds Cartridges enl.7.62 à 12.7 350 cases = 350,000 rounds cartridges, tal,7.98 -do-\n MX$5,500 [XX$1,000\n 23.3.38\n Ying Took Kee\n U.B.A.\n \n \n \n \n \n -do-\n \n \n đọ\n -do❤\n \n \n \n \n 24.3.38\n 6,986 cants T.N.T. 181 tons 1,000 casks Tall.T. 106.8 tens\n \n \n \n Germany\n \n Germany\n \n \n 7.3.38\n 800 enake T.X.T. 53 tens\n \n unknown\n 22.3.38\n Sou\n \n \n \n \n \n 12 cases e si machine\n \n 30.3.38\n \n \n A.0.41/174\n \n \n \n \n 59 cases a 15,000 blasting Packets & 6,675 blasting Cartridge s 1 emne - 2,000 detonatore 641mb) § tame z 5,000 detonating fuse\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3x stock 18 revolvers 7.3.38 3,800 rounds revolver cartridges\n \n 30.3.38\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 29.3.38\n 1,600 cases dynamite 44.9 tons 60 cases smokeless powder 4 300 carts 20.1 2,000 cases blasting ponder # 56.2 ten\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 160 cases tetryl 5.7 tons 200 cases tetryl 7.2 700 drums T.N.T. 74.2 tons\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 417 Cauen s 25,060 incendiary bombs 276 capes fulminate, 17.2 tons\n KK$1,440.\n \n \n \n A«0.47/174\n \n \n \n \n \n KK$250.\n \n Hong Kong Sporting Arms Store.\n Canton. Military Councils\n 10.79/8\n \n \n \n 30.3.38\n \n \n \n South West Transport- Canton Eme cation\n wingsi P„cifi» A«0.45/26 Omnis ni chì.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n -do-\n \n U.S.A.\n \n \n 2.4.38\n \n \n \n South West Transport- atim Co.\n National Govt. of China\n A«0.57/174\n Germany\n \n \n 3.4.38\n \n \n \n ati south \"gut Transport-\n -do-\n 3.0.57/174\n \n \n\nPage 120\n\nPage 121\n\n \n 13.3.38\n 320 Cases » 8,000 Xakner rifles\n \n \n \n \n \n Belgium\n \n \n 7.3.23\n 1,500 Cases = 5,000,000 pungg safety cartridge as 12 Cases » 24 mạchine guns à at œtuse rio s\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 200 cases a 10,000 rounds explosive sells 40 Bases shell fuse - 2,000, rounds xplosive selis", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558245, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 122, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "Date imported\n\n[ 15.3.28\n\n7.4.38\n\n13.3.3\n\nDescription\n\n13 Cases containing Bombers\n\nMod of Ho\n\nH. C.123\n\n23 cases materials for howitzers\n\nCountry\n\nof origin\n\n36) Casts a 9,000 Ngüser rifled Belgåtem\n\nlases z 13 machine guns,Dene Denmark\n\nat ce svo rie s\n\nValue\n\nDate exported\n\nHome of dealer\n\nsxported to\n\nauthority.\n\nTANIĆ DIO WIS\n\n13.4.38\n\natim\n\nsouth west Transport- Papton top & WELL\n\nKil\n\n-do-\n\n«do.\n\n-dom\n\n-do-\n\nA+0 +28/174\n\n{A+0.58/174\n\näx stock\n\n100 cases dynamite, 5,000 lbs\n\nBritain HKD6, 040\n\n14.4.2\n\nJardine Mathe son\n\nKwangtung ¥g@i£«\n\nmety\n\nA=0.160\n\n100 cases dynamite, 5,000 lbs\n\n40 cases waterproof fuse\n\nBritain\n\nGermany {IK@6,040\n\nHK$7,761.\n\nShewan Tones & Co.\n\nJardine Matheson & Co. Canton. Kany ang\n\nArsenga\n\n20 easke chlorate of\n\nhlerate of potash,\n\nGermany\n\nRafeek & Co.\n\n-do-\n\n(Forwarded\n\nby rond 》transport.\n\n13.4.39\n\n68 cases = 400 light machine\n\nCzeche\n\nunknown 16.4.3 slovakia\n\nouth West Transport- | Canton Military Cound11, A.0.64/\n\natim Co.\n\nNational Govt,of Ching.\n\n174\n\n7.4.38\n\n23 tunes m 5,000 Kgümer rifles, cal.7.2\n\nGeranny\n\n-dom\n\n9.4.38\n\n87 cases beavy machine guns,\n\ncal.7.62 z 87 guma\n\nRussia\n\n- do -\n\nd0❤\n\nA«0.28/174\n\nA.0.56/174\n\n307 camen machine gun trípods\n\n(800_Hons)\n\n305 cases machine gun spare\n\npart se\n\n201 cases light mạchine gun\n\nBal.7.63\n\n# 600 gunm\n\n724 cases light machine\n\nspare parts.\n\n4.2.38\n\n \n\n15.3.38\n\n11,468 #ases a 30,537 bozba\n\nas es são rie s'\n\n1,388 cases bomb fuse\n\n66 cases bomb fuse\n\n1,438 cases = 22,500 bombs 9 Cases Containing Bœbers\n\nModel H. S.123 à geces sorás s\n\n# 1 machine\n\n12,725 cases cartridge a,\n\nCal.7.62 z 19,000,000 round a\n\n \n\n體\n\n-do=\n\nFABIÁN\n\n23.4.38\n\nmuth West Transport-\n\nation Co.\n\n-d0❤\n\n#\n\n-do-\n\nGermany\n\n.do❤\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\nA+0.35/174\n\n-do=\n\nA.0.54/174\n\n-do-\n\nUnion OWN\n\n17.4.3\n\nSuth west Tremsport-\n\nation Co.\n\n- do «\n\nA.0.56/174\n\n29.3.28\n\n5,745 cases = 8,000 round s howitzer shells, löem.\n\n18.4.38\n\nouth West Transport-\n\natim Co.\n\nA.0.59/174\n\n14.4.33\n\n478 cases a 10,000 rifle no\n\n@al. 7.9fma ●\n\n18.4.38\n\n160 cases ● 4,000 rifles,.\n\nGgecho, Slovakia\n\nBelgium\n\nunjen o was 25.4.38\n\nsouth west_Transport-\n\nation Co.\n\n-do.\n\nA=0 .64/174\n\n \n\n-do-\n\nModel 30, Galé7.9\n\nAoW.65/174\n\n23.4.38\n\n1,852 Cares = 4,000,000 roudaj Germany\n\nCartridgese\n\n-do-\n\nA.0 .68/174\n\n1,500 casks TaN,T. 159 tons 333 Cases Tetryl, 9.5 tona\n\nSweden\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\nBelg lam\n\n-d 0-\n\n-do-\n\n2913.38\n\n3, 408 camén a 5,225 rounds\n\nnim raft shells\n\nGe many\n\nunknown | 27.4.3\n\nCouth West Transport-\n\natim Co.\n\n-do❤\n\nA.0.57/174\n\n67 Cauta = 400 light mechins\n\ngun s\n\n5,854 Cams ≈ 7,000,000 rounds\n\nmachine gun cartridges\n\n* ₫ Qu\n\nA.0.66/174\n\n-do-\n\n13.3.38\n\n60 Cases » 300 machine guns\n\n15.4.38\n\n330 cases # 330,000 rounda\n\nCartridges\n\nBelgium\n\nU.S.A.\n\n-do-\n\n-do-\n\nA.0.53/174\n\n- do -\n\n-do-\n\nA.0 .4/174\n\n1,493 Cases • 1,106,000 rounds'\n\nCartridges,tol.12.7 & 7.62\n\n-do-\n\n123", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558248, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 125, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "- 12 - \n\nDescription\n\nCountry of origin\n\nValue\n\nDate exported\n\nName of dealer\n\nExported Authority\n\n \n 9.5.38\n 500 cases = 750,000 cartridges, S.A.\n Cases aeroplane accessories\n Britain\n £3,828.\n \n A»0 »75/194\n \n \n 12.5.38\n Gantom- South West Transports- Military Councils, bim Cao\n \n National Govt. of China\n \n U.S.A.\n A»0 »75/194\n \n \n 13.5.38\n south west Transportar\n \n \n \n \n A+0 +63/174\n \n \n 21.4.38\n 196 cases cartridges, 20mm.\n E 34,000 rounds\n Britain\n 210,500.\n \n As0 .67/274\n \n \n \n 100 cases = 760,000 rounds Cartridges, Gal. 7.92mm,\n \n Germany\n unknown\n \n A 0.54/174\n \n \n \n 43 cases Bombers Model H, 8.125\n accessories (2 machines)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 8,118 cases = 4,236,000 rounds cartridges.\n \n \n 23,825.\n -do-\n -do-\n \n \n \n 8, 334 Guns - 18,000,000 rounds cartridges,¤ ál. 7. 92\n \n \n \n \n A.0.72/174\n \n \n 21.4.38\n 196 Cases = 9,900 rounds cartridges, čal. 30m.\n [Britain\n \n 23,000.\n \n A0.67/174\n \n \n 14.5.38\n South West Transportation Ge.\n \n \n $1\n \n A0.67/174\n \n \n \n 67 cases = 400 light machine\n 35 cases = 200 light machine (Germany)\n \n \n Czecho-Slovakia\n A.0.72/174\n \n \n \n 52 cases = 50 heavy machine\n gun sä Cal. 7.92:zi.\n \n \n Danmark\n \n \n \n \n 51 camera có licht menh lao\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 750 cases = 1,500,000 rounds Cartridges, Gals?.92%\n Osech@-\n Belgium\n unknown\n -do-\n A.0.72/174\n \n \n 30. 4. 28\n -do-\n \n Czecho-Slovakia\n «do❤\n -đo\n A.0.70/174\n \n \n \n # .do.\n \n -do.\n \n \n \n \n \n 2. 5. 28\n 233 cases s Madsen machine\n Denma ri\n \n \n -do-\n A.0.3/174\n \n \n \n # -do-\n \n -do-\n \n \n \n \n \n 18.4.38\n 80 casts = 4,000 rounds cartridges, Mem,\n \n 1,750 Cams = 3,500,000 rounds\n Belgium\n A.0.65/174\n \n \n \n 2.4.23\n \n \n Den mark\n -do-\n \n A®© «2/174\n \n \n 7.3.38\n mortar\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 23.4.33\n 796 open 1000 rounds\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2.4.3\n 8,000 cases howitzer she 13 s\n 15am. (7,100 rounds)\n \n \n Britai\n 3,750.\n \n \n 14.4.2\n 500 cases = 750,000 rounds cartridges,\n \n mustria\n unknown\n \n \n \n \n \n 200 @4838 = 50.000 rounds #artridges, Gal. 13.2mm W\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 500 canta = 780,000 rounDİ (\n Cartridges, cal. 7.92\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 148 cases = 37,000 rounds @artridges, dai 6?\n ■ Ukmar ●\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16.5.38\n South West Transport-tion Co.\n \n \n 23,700.\n \n Av0.47/174\n \n \n \n -do...\n \n \n £3,750.\n \n A⚫0 .68/174\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Asü »65/174\n \n \n \n \n \n \n £175.\n -do-\n A.0.2/174\n \n \n \n Ex steek\n \n \n \n \n AO +8/174\n \n \n \n 400 pisses electris deten ators\n \n \n *$60.00\n \n A@0 +160\n \n \n \n 180 cases = 9,000 lba dynamite\n \n Demmy\n *K$10,878\n Jardine Matheson & 00.\n \n \n \n \n -do-\n \n \n \n -do-\n \n \n \n 2.4.38\n 180 cases = 9,000 lbs dynamite\n \n \n HK$10,872\n *\n \n \n \n 3. 3. 38\n 500 cases « 750,000 munds\n Britain\n £3,750.\n \n South West Transporta-tion Co.\n A.0.2/174\n \n \n \n cartridges, Cal. 7.92mm e\n \n \n \n -do-\n \n \n \n \n 667 cases = 1,000,000 rounds\n (Bri₺ gân\n \n c5,000.\n \n \n \n \n 17.5.38\n South West Transporta-tion\n \n \n \n \n AeŬ .46/174\n \n \n \n -do-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 29.3.20\n 2,000 cames S\n 900.000 mounds\n Germany\n unknown\n -do-\n A.0.57/174\n \n \n \n -do-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 10.3.3\n 5 cases spare parts for\n \n unknown\n \n ❤d0«\n A.0.51/174\n \n \n \n bombs\n \n \n \n -do-\n \n \n \n 3 capes = 4 trench mortars\n \n Austria\n \n ➡d Om\n \n \n \n \n 6.5. 38\n 1,750 cases - 3,500,000\n \n Belgium\n \n - do❤\n As0 »71/174\n \n \n \n rounds Cartridges,©al. 7. Vime\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n-10-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558250, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 127, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "Date imported\n\nDesoriptiem\n\nCountry of origin\n\nValue\n\nDate exported\n\nName of dealer\n\nExported to\n\nAuthority\n\n16.5.38\n\n236 cases = 225,000 rounds\n\ncartridges\n\nU.S.A.\n\n24.5.38\n\nSouth West Transportation Co.\n\nCanton Military Council, National Govt. of China.\n\nA.O.79/174\n\n26.3.38\n\n444 cases = 444,000 rounds\n\nCartridges\n\n1 case optical instruments (consisting of 5 stereotele-scopes & 5 Invert-telemeters)\n\nGermany\n\nA.O.§/132\n\nVarious dates\n\nCases aeroplane parts & accessories\n\nU.S.A.\n\n18.5.38\n\n3,400 cases rifle powder\n\n161.1 tons\n\n1,100 cases T.X.T.\n\n116.6 tons\n\n200 cases Tetryl\n\n7.2 tons\n\n23.4.38\n\n200 cases smokeless powder = 13.4 tons\n\nGermany\n\n25.5.38\n\nSouth West Transportation Co.\n\nA.O.78/174, 80/174, 62/174\n\nGermany\n\n26.5.38\n\nSouth West Transportation Co.\n\nA.O.5/174\n\n40 cases = 300,000 rounds\n\nCartridges, cal.6.35mm\n\n23.4.38\n\n82 cases = 410,000 rounds\n\nCartridges, cal.6.35mm.\n\n14 cases = 700 pistols, cal. 6.35mm\n\n9.5.38\n\n1 case = 100 revolvers\n\n10 cases = 5,000 rounds\n\ncartridges for revolver\n\n1,320 cases = 2,880,880 rounds\n\ncartridges, Cal.7.92mm.\n\n20 cases = 100 Browning machine rifles.\n\nBelgium\n\n30.4.38\n\n320 cases smokeless powder = 19.4 tons\n\n7.3.38\n\n300 cases smokeless powder = 19.8 tons\n\n339 cases blasting powder = 21 tons\n\nGermany\n\nA.O.75/174\n\nA.O.70/174\n\nA.O.68/174\n\nEx stock 25 cases detonators, 1,600\n\nBritain\n\nHK$15,500\n\n28.5.38\n\nJardine Matheson & Co.\n\nA.O.87/174\n\nEx stock 384 cases gelignite, 16,200 lbs\n\nBritain\n\nHK$22,680\n\nof Jardine\n\n300 cases dynamite 15,000 lbs\n\nHK$22,500\n\nA.O.87/174\n\n209 cases fume\n\nHK$23,671\n\n2 boxes detonators\n\n$18.\n\nEx stock 300 cases dynamite, 15,000 lbs\n\nGermany\n\nHK$22,500\n\nof Showami Tomo\n\nCases detonators (128 lbs)\n\nHK$1,200.\n\n30 cases fuse\n\nHK$2,100.\n\n80 cases gelignite\n\nHK$5,600.\n\n27.4.38\n\n7 cases aeroplane accessories\n\nU.S.A.\n\nA.O.26/174\n\n31.5.38\n\nSouth West Transportation\n\nA.O.5/174\n\n15.5.38\n\n200 cases T.X.T.\n\n13.2 tons\n\n200 cases T.X.T.\n\n13.4 tons\n\n400 cases smokeless powder = 26.4 tons\n\n298 cases T.X.T.\n\n13.6 tons\n\n667 cases T.H.T.\n\n19.5 tons\n\n2,000 cases rifle powder, = 126.1 tons\n\n16 cases containing 10 aero-planes & parts (Basic Trainers)\n\nBelgium\n\nGermany\n\nU.S.A.\n\n11.5.38\n\n3 cases aeroplane parts\n\nU.S.A.\n\n1.6.38\n\nSouth West Transportation Co.\n\nA.O.88/174, A.O.81/174\n\n128\n\n \n Date imported\n Description\n Country of origin\n Value\n Date exported\n Name of dealer\n Exported to\n Authority\n \n \n 16.5.38\n 236 cases = 225,000 rounds cartridges\n U.S.A.\n \n 24.5.38\n \n \n A.O.79/174\n \n \n 26.3.38\n 444 cases = 444,000 rounds Cartridges, 1 case optical instruments\n Germany\n \n \n \n \n A.O.§/132\n \n \n Various dates\n Cases aeroplane parts & accessories\n U.S.A.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 18.5.38\n 3,400 cases rifle powder 161.1 tons, 1,100 cases T.X.T. 116.6 tons, 200 cases Tetryl 7.2 tons\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 23.4.38\n 200 cases smokeless powder = 13.4 tons\n Germany\n \n 25.5.38\n South West Transportation Co.\n \n A.O.78/174, 80/174, 62/174\n \n \n 26.5.38\n 40 cases = 300,000 rounds Cartridges, cal.6.35mm\n \n \n \n South West Transportation Co.\n \n A.O.5/174\n \n \n 23.4.38\n 82 cases = 410,000 rounds Cartridges, cal.6.35mm, 14 cases = 700 pistols, cal. 6.35mm\n \n \n 9.5.38\n \n \n \n \n \n 9.5.38\n 1 case = 100 revolvers, 10 cases = 5,000 rounds cartridges for revolver\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 30.4.38\n 1,320 cases = 2,880,880 rounds cartridges, Cal.7.92mm, 20 cases = 100 Browning machine rifles.\n Belgium\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 23.4.38\n 320 cases smokeless powder = 19.4 tons\n \n \n 7.3.38\n \n \n A.O.75/174\n \n \n 7.3.38\n 300 cases smokeless powder = 19.8 tons, 339 cases blasting powder = 21 tons\n Germany\n \n \n \n \n A.O.70/174, A.O.68/174\n \n \n Ex stock\n 25 cases detonators, 1,600\n Britain\n HK$15,500\n 28.5.38\n Jardine Matheson & Co.\n \n A.O.87/174\n \n \n Ex stock\n 384 cases gelignite, 16,200 lbs\n Britain\n HK$22,680\n of Jardine\n \n \n A.O.87/174\n \n \n Ex stock\n 300 cases dynamite 15,000 lbs\n \n HK$22,500\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ex stock\n 209 cases fume\n \n HK$23,671\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ex stock\n 2 boxes detonators\n \n $18.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ex stock\n 300 cases dynamite, 15,000 lbs\n Germany\n HK$22,500\n of Showami Tomo\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cases detonators (128 lbs)\n \n HK$1,200.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 30 cases fuse\n \n HK$2,100.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 80 cases gelignite\n \n HK$5,600.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 27.4.38\n 7 cases aeroplane accessories\n U.S.A.\n \n \n \n \n A.O.26/174\n \n \n 31.5.38\n \n \n \n \n South West Transportation\n \n A.O.5/174\n \n \n 15.5.38\n 200 cases T.X.T. 13.2 tons, 200 cases T.X.T. 13.4 tons, 400 cases smokeless powder = 26.4 tons\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 298 cases T.X.T. 13.6 tons, 667 cases T.H.T. 19.5 tons, 2,000 cases rifle powder, = 126.1 tons\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16 cases containing 10 aero-planes & parts (Basic Trainers)\n Belgium, Germany, U.S.A.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 11.5.38\n 3 cases aeroplane parts\n U.S.A.\n \n 1.6.38\n South West Transportation Co.\n \n A.O.88/174, A.O.81/174\n \n\n128", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558251, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 128, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "Date imported\n\nDe striçtim of war materials\n\nMAN t xy\n\nof\n\nValue\n\nDate Exported\n\nName of dealer\n\nExported\n\nAuthority\n\norigin\n\nix stock\n\n \n 150 automatic pistols\n Germany\n HK$10,050.\n 2.6.38\n Hong Kong Sporting Arms Store.\n \n \n 60 revolvers\n Belgium\n HK$2,750.\n \n \n \n \n 80 rounds revolver\n P. So A.\n HK$4,000.\n 5.5.38\n \n \n \n 14 boxes » 80 gun synchronizer solenoids.\n Umair Owna\n \n 15.5.38\n \n \n \n 10 cases containing 10 aeroplanes & parts (Fleet machines)\n Intercontinent Corporation (China) Ltd\n \n Fanton- Military Council, National Govt. of China.\n A.0.13/30\n \n \n 1 case = 2 stereotelemeters with accessories, 3.dem\n \n \n 3.6.38\n South West Transportation Co.\n \n \n 134 revolvers\n Ex stock\n HK$11,390\n 4.6.39\n Hong Kong Sporting Arms Store.\n \n \n 22,000 rounds revolver cartridges\n U. S. A.\n HK$1,760.\n \n \n \n \n 50,000 rounds pistol cartridges\n \n HK$3,000.\n 18.5.38\n \n \n \n 5,000 cases » 7,500,000 rounds Mauser cartridges, cal. 7.93mm.\n Hungary\n \n 5.6.38\n South West Transportation Co.\n \n \n 200 cases = 50,000 rounds cartridges, cal.13.2mm.\n Britain\n £25,700.\n 6.6.38\n \n \n \n 4,999 cases = 7,498,500 rounds Mauser cartridges, cal. 7.9mm.\n Hungary\n \n 18.5.38\n \n \n \n 150 cases » 7,500 lbs dynamite\n Britain\n HK$9,060.\n \n \n \n \n 29,000 pieces detonators.\n \n HK$468.\n \n \n \n \n 150 cases » 7,500 lbs dynamite\n Germany\n HK$9,060.\n 8.6.38\n Jardine Matheson & Co.\n \n \n 2,990 cases » 4,485,000 rounds safety cartridges.\n Germany\n \n 9.6.38\n South West Transportation Co.\n \n \n Cases aeroplane parts\n Italy\n unknown\n 12.6.38\n \n \n \n 275 cases = 275,000 rounds cartridges, Cal.7.62mm.\n U.S.A.\n unknown\n 14.6.38\n South West Transportation Co.\n \n \n 8 Cases » 8 guns, cal.\n \n \n 2.4.38\n \n \n \n 3,750 cases = 7,500,000 rounds Mauser cartridges, cal. 7.92mm\n Belgium\n unknown\n 15.6.38\n South West Transportation Co.\n \n \n 10 cases parts for Douglas aeroplanes\n \n \n 10.5.38\n \n \n \n 34 Cases » 500,000 rounds Cartridges, cal.7.92mm\n Britain\n £2,500.\n 22.5.38\n \n \n \n 27.4.38\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 9 cases aeroplane and 8 engines\n U.S.A.\n Unknown\n 16.6.38\n South West Transportation Co.\n \n \n 2,644 Cases » 3,697,500 rounds Cartridges, Cal.7.5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 104 cases » 26,000 rounds Cartridges, cal.303.\n Che\n \n \n \n \n \n 8 cases aeroplane accessories\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6 cases containing 6 machine guns\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6 cases containing 3 aeroplanes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2 cases containing 1 aeroplane\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 8 cases aeroplane parts and accessories", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558284, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "Return for February 1938 showing War Materials for China brought to the Colony.\n\nJa\n\n162\n\nTPercentage\n\n \n \n Origin of materials\n Carried by British ships\n Carried by Foreign ships\n Total materials\n \n \n \n \n Materials\n British materials\n Foreign materials\n British materials\n Foreign materials\n \n \n \n \n Military aeroplanes\n 16 planes\n \n 16 aeroplanes\n \n 16 planes\n 100%\n \n \n Aeroplane spares\n 6 cases\n 8 cases\n \n \n 14 cases\n 43%\n \n \n Torpedoes\n 6 Nos.\n 6 cases\n 6 Nos\n 8 cases\n \n 100%\n \n \n Mountain guns\n 4 Nos\n \n 4 Nos\n Nil\n \n \n \n \n Spare parts for mountain guns\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Shells for mountain guns\n 18 cases\n \n 18 cases\n Nil\n 120 rounds\n Nil\n \n \n Armoured cars\n \n \n 40 cars\n Nil\n 40 cars\n \n \n \n Tanks\n \n \n \n \n 50 tanks\n 100%\n \n \n Bombs\n 50 Nos.\n 30,537 Nos.\n 50 Nos\n 3,500 Nos.\n 34,037 Nos.\n 89%\n \n \n Machine guns\n \n 3,199 pieces\n \n 148 pieces\n 3,199 pieces\n 4.6%\n \n \n Cartridges for rifles & machine guns\n 2,250,000 rounds\n 11,782,050 rounds\n 2,250,000 rounds\n 29,657,000 rounds\n 43,689,050 rounds\n 32.1%\n \n \n Tripods\n 200 pieces\n \n 200 pieces\n Nil\n \n \n \n \n Spare parts for machine guns\n 330 cases\n \n 330 cases\n \n \n 100%\n \n \n Anti aircraft guns\n 20 pieces\n \n 20 pieces\n \n 20 pieces\n 100%\n \n \n Shells for anti aircraft guns\n 52,620 rounds\n \n 52,620 rounds\n \n 52,620 rounds\n 100%\n \n \n Barrels for anti aircraft guns\n 40 pieces\n \n 40 pieces\n \n 40 pieces\n 100%\n \n \n Fuses for shells\n 39,960 pieces\n \n 39,960 pieces\n \n 39,960 pieces\n 100%\n \n \n Shells for anti tank guns\n 19,980 rounds\n \n 19,980 rounds\n \n 19,980 rounds\n 100%\n \n \n Shells for howitzers\n 2,028 rounds\n \n 2,028 rounds\n \n 2,028 rounds\n 100%\n \n \n Spare parts for projectiles\n 98 cases\n 198 cases\n \n Nil\n \n \n \n \n Rifles\n \n 7,000 pieces\n \n \n 7,000 pieces\n Nil\n \n \n Pistols & revolvers\n 700 pieces\n 925 pieces\n 1,625 pieces\n \n \n 43%\n \n \n Cartridges for pistols & revolvers\n 552,000 rounds\n 285,000 rounds\n 267,000 rounds\n \n 552,000 rounds\n 52%\n \n \n T. N. T.\n 13,686 cases\n \n 13,686 cases\n Nil\n \n \n \n \n Smokeless powder\n 1,602 cases\n \n 1,602 cases\n \n 1,602 cases\n \n \n \n Tetryl\n 280 cases\n \n 280 cases\n Nil\n \n \n \n \n Detonators\n 223 cases\n \n 223 cases\n \n 223 cases\n Nil\n \n \n Dynamite\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fuses for bombs\n 400 cases\n \n 400 cases\n \n 400 cases\n 100%\n \n \n \n 24,848 pieces\n \n 24,848 pieces\n \n 24,848 pieces\n \n \n \n\n(a) British ships carrying war materials\n\nGlenaffric Comorin Benalder\n\nIndira Boxhill\n\nBenlawers Teiresias Bangalore\n\nAverage percentage by ships: 50\n\n(b) Foreign ships carrying war materials\n\nFranken\n\nGneisenau Michigan\n\nTonking\n\nVogtland\n\nSiam\n\nSikiang\n\nVogesen.\n\n162-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558299, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 176, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "CYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 16th August, 1938.\n\nReceived 6.35 a.m., 16th August.\n\nNo. 252.\n\n(204)\n\nMy telegram No.223 figures for week ending August 13th.\n\nAeroplanes 150 tons.\n\nSafety cartridges and shells 375 tons.\n\nTorpedo accessories 3 tons.\n\nGas masks and shells 225 tons.\n\nDynamite gelignite detonators and fuses 10 tons.\n\nSafety cartridges and bombs 370 tons.\n\nGas masks safety cartridges bombing aircraft Phosphorus 32 tons.\n\nTotal 1165 tons.\n\nJJPY FOR REGISTRATIO..\n\n177\n\n206.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558303, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 180, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "Page 181\n\nShells Cartridge a Machine guh Pistol & revolver Empty howitzer & rifles gun Total known value\n\nSummary of exports of arms and ammunition, aeroplanes and explosives etc through Hong Kong to China during the period, 3.7.38 to 16.7.38.\n\n \n Aeroplanes\n ac ce a so rie s\n Speed boats\n accessories\n Trench Mortare\n Aeroplane Mines\n Accessories for Mines\n 2 Pounder guns & accessories\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Machine guns\n Machine rifles\n Fragmentation bombs of 30 lbs.each\n Bomb Racks\n Pistols & revolvers\n T. N. T.\n Smokeless Powder\n Dynamite\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DetonatorS\n Fu se\n Great Britain\n No s.\n C/B Nos.\n No s.\n U. S. A.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2.2\n \n 217\n \n \n \n \n Germany\n 2\n £29,280\n 1\n 1\n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n 96\n \n 240\n \n 269\n માત્ર\n \n \n \n Nos.\n No s.\n Nos\n Mos.\n Nos.\n Ins\n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n 20\n \n 20\n \n 10,000\n 101,25 $10250\n \n \n HK\n 1\n \n Tins\n Tons\n Heoes /s\n Rounds\n Rounds\n \n \n \n 4.5\n \n 400000\n 20\n \n HK\n \n \n \n $1200\n $18,720\n 45760||\n \n 2,300,000\n £14,950\n \n Rounds\n \n \n £44,230. 0.0d.\n &\n HK$39,560.00\n \n 261,000\n \n 75,000\n \n \n \n HK$6,025\n \n HK$16,275.00\n \n 125\n 24.5\n \n \n \n \n -\n \n 4.5\n \n 610,000\n HK\n \n \n \n \n 12,208\n \n 28,440\n \n 50,000\n \n (a)\n \n \n \n $12080\n (b)\n HK$42,035.00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Note\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) value of 25 pieces\n \n ((b) 6$18875.00\n =\n \n 000 pieces\n HK$28,080.00\n \n \n \n Country of origin\n Canada\n 23\n Belgium\n \n Denmark\n \n Sweden\n \n \n \n 1\n \n Hungary\n \n Italy\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n 19\n \n 3\n \n 1\n \n \n \n 1\n \n 250\n \n 355\n \n 1\n \n \n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n \n \n t\n \n t\n \n -\n \n -\n \n \n \n 1\n \n 1\n \n +\n \n 26.4\n -\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 8,000,000\n \n 22,999,500\n \n\nPage 180\nPage 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558321, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 198, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "Country\n\nAeroplanes\n\nof\n\norigin\n\nGreat Britain\n\nsummary of exports of arms and ammunition, aeroplanes and explosives etc through Hong Kong to Chine during the period, 5.6.38 to 18.6.38.\n\n199\n\n \n Aeroplane engines\n \n 18\n \n $8.\n \n \n Aeroplane spare parts (fragmentation & accessories)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bombs\n \n 8\n \n \n \n \n Shells (Piercing)\n 2,431,900 rounds\n \n £17,612.0.9d.\n \n \n \n Parachute flares\n \n 3.3 tons\n HK$9,060.00\n \n \n \n Machine gun B Cartridges\n \n 10,000 pieces\n HK$468.00.\n \n \n \n Bomb (for machine hoists)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dynamite Detonators & demolition tracers\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total known Value\n \n \n £17,612.0.9d. & HK$9,528.00.\n \n \n\nU. S. A.\n\n \n Aeroplanes\n \n 16\n \n \n \n \n Engines\n \n 9\n \n \n \n \n Cases\n \n 2'7\n \n \n \n\nGermany\n\n \n Aeroplanes\n \n Ụ.\n \n \n \n \n Engines\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cases\n 6,200 pieces\n \n \n \n \n\nItaly\n\n \n Cases\n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 8,000 rounds\n \n \n HK$9,060.00\n \n\nBelgium\n\n \n Case\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 20 pieces\n \n \n \n \n\nSweden\n\n \n \n 275,000 rounds\n \n \n \n \n\nHungary\n\n \n \n 4,485,000 rounds\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 7,650,000 rounds\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3,697,500 rounds\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14,998,500 rounds\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3.3 tons\n \n HK$9,060.00\n \n \n\n2004.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558326, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 203, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\n168\n\nCYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 12th July, 1938.\n\n204\n\nReceived 6.30 a.m., 12th July, 1938.\n\nNo.197.\n\nMy telegram No.191. Figures for week ending\n\n9th July.\n\nMachine guns safety cartridges and shells\n\n321 tons\n\nAeroplane spare parts safety cartridges and bombs\n\n626 tons\n\nGun accessories dynamite and safety cartridges\n\n414 tons\n\nGun accessories and gas masks\n\n50 tons\n\nAeroplane spare parts and\n\nsearchlight\n\n440 tons\n\nAeroplane spare parts and torpedoes\n\n610 tons\n\nSafety cartridges and torpedoes\n\n552 tons\n\nTotal\n\n2,640 tons", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558362, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 239, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\nPARAPHRASE TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 14th June, 1938.\n\nReceived 5.20 a.m. 14th June, 1938.\n\nNo.170.\n\n(123)\n\nMy telegram 10,165. For week ending 11th June figures are:-\n\nTons\n\nGas Masks and safety cartridges 715\n\nDynamite and Detonators 10.05\n\nAeroplane spare parts 6\n\n731.05", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558385, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 262, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "COPY FOR DEREGISTRATION\n\nCYPHER TELEGRAM from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 25th May, 1938.\n\n263\n\nReceived 7.43 a.m., 25th May, 1938.\n\nNo. 136 of the 25th May.\n\nAddressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies telegram No. 136 of the 25th May repeated to Tokyo telegram No. 55. My telegram No. 117.\n\nFigures for week ending the 21st May.\n\nGas masks, aeroplane spare parts, and safety cartridges\n\nDynamite and phosphorus\n\nAeroplane spare parts, safety cartridges, guns, machine guns, and gun accessories\n\n1,679 tons\n\n171 tons\n\n675 tons\n\nTotal\n\n2,525 tons.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558405, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 282, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "Description\n\nMilitary Aeroplanes.\n\nEngines, parts & accessories for Military Aeroplanes.\n\nMines.\n\nAccessories for Mines.\n\nArmoured Cars.\n\nMountain Guns.\n\nBatteries of 4 guns each 12.75 S.M.B.\n\nMortars.\n\nSummary of Arms and Ammunition destined for China which was exported from or transhipped at Hong Kong between 1st July and 31st December 1937.\n\nBritain\nAmerica\nGermany\nFrance\nItaly\nBelgium\nSwitzerland\nTotal\n\nMilitary Aeroplanes\n20 Nos.\n2 Nos.\n\n22 Nos.\n\nEngines, parts & accessories for Military Aeroplanes\n29 c/s\n279 c/s\n8 c/s\n150 c/s\n\n50 Nos.\n\n466 c/s, 50 Nos.\n\nArmoured Cars\n\n4+1 c/s\n\n4+1 c/s\n\nMountain Guns\n14 Nos.\n\n14 Nos.\n\nBatteries of 4 guns each 12.75 S.M.B.\n28 Nos.\n\n28 Nos.\n\nMortars\n12 guns\n\n12 guns\n\nDepth Charges\n170 Nos.\n\n170 Nos.\n\nAnti tank guns\n2 Nos.\n\n2 Nos.\n\nAnti Aircraft guns\n95 Nos.\n\n95 Nos.\n\nTorpedo Heads\n20 Nos.\n\n20 Nos.\n\nGuns & Accessories\n14 Nos.\n\n14 Nos.\n\nMachine Guns\n2 Nos.\n\n2 Nos.\n\nAccessories & parts for machine guns\n584 tons\n\n584 tons\n\nRifles\n\n12 Nos.\n\n12 Nos.\n\nPistols & Revolvers\n472 Nos.\n\n472 Nos.\n\nTear Gas Gun\n1 No.\n\n1 No.\n\nCartridges for tear gas guns\n6,868 Nos.\n\n6,868 Nos.\n\nVerey light pistols\n12 rds.\n\n12 rds.\n\nTear Gas bombs\n650 Nos.\n\n650 Nos.\n\nBombs & accessories\n1,700 Nos.\n\n1,700 Nos.\n\nShells for mortars & mountain guns\n360 Nos\n\n360 Nos\n\nFuses & Relais for mortar shells\n\n3 c/s\n\n3 c/s\n\nShells for anti-aircraft guns\n22 Nos.\n\n22 Nos.\n\nShells for anti-tank guns\n24 Nos.\n\n24 Nos.\n\nCartridges for 3.7 cm & cm. guns\n38 Nos.\n\n38 Nos.\n\nCartridges for machine guns & rifles\n42 Nos.\n\n42 Nos.\n\nCartridges for pistols & revolvers\n80 Nos.\n4 c/s\n\n80 Nos., 4 c/s\n\nEmpty shotgun cartridge cases\n2,510 Nos.\n\n2,510 Nos.\n\nBRASS\n2,150 Nos.\n\n2,150 Nos.\n\nBlasting cartridges & packets\n8,000 Nos.\n\n8,000 Nos.\n\nBomb Racks\n110,000 Nos.\n\n110,000 Nos.\n\nBomb hoist parts\n152 tons\n\n152 tons\n\nLinks for guns\n36,500 Nos.\n\n36,500 Nos.\n\nAircraft\n060 Nos. & 550.5 tons\n\n060 Nos. & 550.5 tons\n\nBarrels & magazines for mountain & machine guns\n215,480 Nos.\n10.1 tons\n\n215,480 Nos., 10.1 tons\n\nPancratic Loop-hole sight\n4,593,000 rds.\n\n4,593,000 rds.\n\nData Computing Plants\n\n222,000 rds.\n\n222,000 rds.\n\nTripods for machine guns\n93,400 rds.\n\n93,400 rds.\n\nTrinitrotoluol\n24,240,000 rds.\n\n24,240,000 rds.\n\nBallistite\n114,000\n\n114,000\n\nCelluloid\n2,067,000 rds.\n\n2,067,000 rds.\n\nSmokeless Powder\n500,000 Nos.\n\n500,000 Nos.\n\nQuick Matches\n10,000 Nos.\n\n10,000 Nos.\n\nBlasting Powder\n\nGunpowder\n\nCelignite & Dynamite\n120 tons\n\n120 tons\n\nDetonators\n441.0/5\n\n441 c/s\n\nFuse\n8,000 Nos.\n\n8,000 Nos.\n\nBalled filling, petards & blasting parts. (Detonating materials.)\n76 Nos.\n\n76 Nos.\n\n1 c/s\n\n696 c/s\n\n1 c/s, 696 c/s\n\n1 c/s\n\n1 c/s\n\n20 Nos.\n\n20 Nos.\n\n1 No.\n\n1 No.\n\n25 c/s\n\n25 c/s\n\n4\n\n4\n\n140 tons\n1,379.6 tons\n\n1,639.6 tons\n\n1 ton\n\n1 ton\n\n3 tons\n\n3 tons\n\n455.1 tons\n\n455.1 tons\n\n14.4 tons\n\n14.4 tons\n\n42.5 tons\n\n42.5 tons\n\n200 c/s\n\n200 c/s\n\n1,650 lbs.\n\n1,650 lbs.\n\n508 c/s\n\n515 c/s\n\n695 c/s & 7,400 coils\n\n695 c/s & 7,400 coils\n\n11 c/s\n\n11 c/s\n\n10 Nos.\n\n10 Nos.\n\n1,550,000 ras\n\n376,000 ras\n\n1,926,000 rds\n\n52,000 Nos;\n\n52,000 Nos.\n\n24 Nos.\n\n24 Nos.\n\n283", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558412, "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": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 289, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "Date imported.\n\nDescription.\n\nEx stock.\n\n250 pistols\n\nEx Stock.\n\n25,000 rds pistol cartridges 6,000 coils safety fuses.\n\n500 Mauser pistols\n\n125,000 rds pistol cartridges) 111 revolvers\n\n28,000 rds revolver cartridges, 1 tear gas gun & 12 rds ammntn)\n\nCountry of origin.\n\n-7-\n\n290\n\nValue.\n\nDate exported\n\nName of Exported to.\n\ndealer.\n\nAuthority.\n\n \n 31.12.37\n Hong Kong Sport-Canton(4th Rte\n 1 c/s\n Germany.\n HK$17,500.00\n HK$1,500.00\n HK$750.00\n \n \n \n Army)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28.12.37\n Hong Kong Sport Canton (Military)\n \n Germany\n HK$35,000.00\n \n HK$7,500.00\n \n \n \n A.0.79 in 8.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 28.12.37\n ing Arms Store.\n 3 c/s\n U.S.A.\n HK$9,990.00\n \n \n \n \n 19.12.37\n Walford Trading (Canton(Aeronautic\n 1 c/s\n U.S.A.\n HK$2,240.00\n HK$440.00\n \n \n \n \n al Commission)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A.0.182.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 22.12.37\n Co.\n 4 c/s\n \n \n \n unknown\n \n \n 19.12.37\n \n = 95 machine guns\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 76\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n — bomb racks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n =\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n —\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 23.12.37\n \n 2 c/s = 8 pistols\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2 c/s = 2 rifles\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1 c/s flying instruments.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 c/s = 5,000 fuses for 91mm\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brandt projectiles\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2 c/s = 9,000 relais for proj-\n France\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ectiles.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1 c/s = 1,000 relais -do-\n \n £2,312.10.0\n \n 23.12.37\n \n \n \n Thomson & Co.\n \n \n \n \n Canton(4th Rte\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n £437.10.0\n 19.12.37\n \n \n \n \n 60 c/s\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 534 c/s =\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12 c/s = 600 verey light pistols\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3,000 Mauser pistols\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 801,000 rds cartridges\n Germany\n \n \n unknown\n \n \n \n Intercontinent China Ltd.\n \n \n \n \n 22.12.37\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canton (Military\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A.0.16 in 17\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Council)\n \n \n 23.12.37\n \n 7 c/s detonators (for mines)\n Italy\n \n \n unknown\n \n \n 31.12.37\n Arnhold & Co.\n Ex stock\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 8 c/s = 400 lbs dynamite\n Germany\n \n HK$604.00\n 19.12.37\n \n \n \n \n 13,224 c/s T.N.T. (352 tons)\n \n \n \n 31.12.37\n \n \n \n Jardine, Mathe son & Co.\n \n \n \n \n Canton(4th Rte\n \n \n 24.12.37\n Intercontinent China Ltd.\n \n \n \n \n A.0.14 in\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 416/32.\n \n \n 19.12.37\n \n 1,240 c/s smokeless powder (82tn)\n Germany\n \n \n unknown\n \n \n \n \n 41 c/s Celluloid (3 tons)\n \n \n \n 22.12.37\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A.0.16 in 174\n \n \n \n \n 165 c/s quick matches (6 tons)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 224 c/s detonators (14 tons)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 14.12.37\n \n 3 c/s aeroplane propellers &\n U.S.A.\n \n \n unknown\n \n \n \n \n apare parts.\n \n \n \n 16.10.37\n \n \n \n \n 2 c/s aeroplane engine tools\n \n \n \n 8.12.37\n \n \n 18.11.37\n \n 29 c/s aeroplane engines & spares\n Britain\n \n \n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 20.12.37\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6.12.37\n \n \n \n \n 4,678 c/s T.N.T. (147 tons)\n \n \n \n 8.12.37\n \n \n \n \n 1,250 casks T.N.T. (133 tons)\n Germany\n \n \n unknown\n \n \n \n Intercontinent China Ltd.\n \n \n \n \n 2.12.37\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Walford Trading\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canton(Aeronaut-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ical Commission)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A.0.3 in 168\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n JA.0.176.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canton (Military\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A.0.5 in 174.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Council)\n \n \n \n \n Ex stock\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 5 c/s = 20,000 pcs detonators\n Germany\n \n HK$3,100.00\n 10.12.37\n \n \n \n Shewan Tomes & Co.\n \n \n \n \n Canton (Shanşi\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A.0.1 in 161.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Government.)\n \n \n 18.11.37\n \n GLD\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 50 casks T.N.T. (5 tons)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 160 c/s T.N.T. 6 tons)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 80 c/s blasting powder (5 tons)\n Germany\n \n \n unknown\n \n \n \n \n 56 c/s black powder quicknatches\n \n \n \n 6.12.37\n \n \n \n Intercontinent China Ltd.\n (3 tons)\n \n \n \n Canton (Military\n \n \n \n \n 25 c/s quick matches (1 ton)\n \n \n \n A.0.5 in 174.\n \n \n \n \n 195 c/s fuses (5 tons)\n \n \n \n Council)\n \n \n 3.12.37\n \n 5,465 c/s T.N.T. (140 tons)\n U.S.A.\n \n \n unknown\n \n \n \n Intercontinent China Ltd.\n \n \n \n \n 7.12.37\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n -do-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n A.0.7 in 30.\n \n \n \n Alpha\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n290", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562396, "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": "CO129-572-14 Proposed reorganisation of water services 7-4-1938 - 3-4-1939", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-572-14 Proposed reorganisation of water services 7-4-1938 - 3-4-1939", "content_text": "## 17. DRAWING WATER FROM PUBLIC STANDPIPES\n\nWater shall be taken from public standpipes only in buckets or other suitable receptacles, and in such a manner as to prevent waste.\n\nNo hose-pipe, pipe, tube, chute or other contrivance of any nature whatever shall be attached either temporarily or permanently to any public standpipe.\n\nNo automatic self-closing valve or other automatic appliance attached to or forming part of any public standpipe shall be interfered with so as to prevent either temporarily or permanently its automatic action.\n\nWater from public standpipes is intended for domestic purposes only and water to be used for trade purposes shall not be taken from a public standpipe.\n\n## 18. USE OF WATER FROM THE WATERWORKS FOR FLUSHING\n\nWater from the waterworks shall not be used for flushing water closets, latrines and urinals without the written consent of the water authority.\n\nFees as laid down in **Appendix I** shall be payable annually in advance for permission to retain the use of main water for flushing water closets, latrines and urinals.\n\n## 19. USE OF WATER FROM THE WATERWORKS FOR AIR CONDITIONING PLANTS AND SWIMMING POOLS\n\nWater from the waterworks shall not be used for air conditioning plants and swimming pools without the written consent of the water authority.\n\nThe water authority shall have the right to stipulate the conditions under which such consent may be given.\n\n## 20. TAKING FISH IN THE RESERVOIRS\n\nThe use of nets or other appliances, including rods and lines, and the use of dynamite or other explosive substance or any poisonous, stupefying or noxious substance to catch or destroy fish in the reservoirs is strictly prohibited: Provided always that permission to fish with rod and line may be granted by licence by the water authority on `Form P`; such licence must be produced when demanded by any police officer or constable or by any officer or servant of the water authority.\n\nNo fishing will be permitted between 1st April and 31st August.\n\nA seasonal fee as set out in **Appendix I** shall be paid in advance before such permit will be granted.\n\n### Appendix I\n\n**PRICE OF WATER**\n\nIn this Table — \n(Regulation 5)\n\n| Term | Definition |\n| --- | --- |\n| \"construction purposes\" | includes any purpose connected with the construction, alteration or repair of any premises; |\n| \"trade purposes\" | includes any purpose connected with any trade, manufacture or business other than shipping or construction purposes; |\n| \"domestic purposes\" | means purposes connected solely with the occupation of a dwelling house. |\n\n\"any water supplied to piers, wharves or sea-walls, or to any vessel including any water boat lying at or near any pier, wharf or sea-wall, shall be deemed to have been supplied for shipping purposes:\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-572-14 Proposed reorganisation of water services 7-4-1938 - 3-4-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 563856, "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": 147, "title": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "content_text": "## Summary of exports of Arms and Ammunition, Aeroplanes & Explosives etc through Hong Kong to China via Haiphong during the period, 30.7.39 to 12.8.39.\n\n| Country of origin | Empty Hunting Cartridges with Cardboard tubes | Dynamite | Detonators | Percussion Caps | Fuse | Ge my | Bllok |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | 108,000 rounds | 82.8 tons | 0.38 ton | 4.1 tons | 80 cases | | 144 |\n \n19.8.39", "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": 563865, "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": 156, "title": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "content_text": "## Summary of Arms and Ammunition destined for China which was exported from or transshipped at Hong Kong between 1st January and 30th June, 1939.\n\n| Country | Aeroplanes | Aeroplane parts (cases) | Machine Guns (pieces) | Rifles (pieces) | Pistols & revolvers (pieces) | Shotguns (pieces) | Shells, 20mm, 81mm, 75mm (rounds) | Cartridges for machine guns & rifles (rounds) | Cartridges for pistols & revolvers (rounds) | Cartridges for shotguns (rounds) | Empty hunting cartridges (rounds) | Percussion Caps (ton) | Shell Cases (Cases) | Forgings (cases) | Electrical Fuse, Exploders & accessories (Nos.) | Hydrogen steel bottles (empty) (Nos.) | Dynamite (tons) | Detonators (tons) | Fuses (cases) | Spare parts for tanks (cases) | Spare parts for machine guns (cases) | Magazines (cases) | Gun charging handles (packages) | Pistol Grips (packages) |\n|----------------|-------------|-------------------------|------------------------|------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------------------|-------------------|--------------------|----------------|-------------------------------|--------------------------------|------------------|---------------|----------------|------------------------|---------------------------|------------------|------------------------|--------------------|\n| Britain | | | | 502 | 1,207 | 5 | 206,000 | 1,081,000 | 281,500 | 1,742,600 | 5,000 | 99,900 | 0.6 | 21 | 20 | 100 | 17 | | | 338 | ? | 1 | | |\n| America | | | 17 | 233 | +,270 | | 75 8... | 88,586,500 | 1,742,600 | | | | | 50 | | | | 82.3 | 3.8 | 10 | | | 22 | 8 | 1 |\n| Germany | | 32 | 8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | |\n| Austria (Germany) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Moravia (Germany) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Canada | | | | 20 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| France | | | | | | | | 2,108,000 | | | | | | 9 | | | | | | 340 | | | | | |\n| Belgium | | | | | 350 | | | | 231,980 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Denmark | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| **Total** | 17 | 32 | 25 | 755 | 6,827 | 5 | 281,000 | 91,775,500 | 2,257,080 | 1,742,600 | 5,000 | 99,900 | 0.6 | 80 | 20 | 100 | 17 | 82.3 | 3.8 | 350 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 1 |\n\nPage 363", "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": 563870, "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": 161, "title": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "content_text": "# \n| Date exported | Description | Country of origin | Value | Name of dealer | Exported to | Authority |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 24.10.38 | 1,200 cases dynamite, 32.8 tons | Germany | unknown | Siemssen & Co. | Haiphong en-route to China (for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China) | |\n| | 100 cases electrical fuse | \" | | | | |\n| | 20 cases safety fuse | \" | | | | |\n| | 20 cases safety fuse | \" | | | | |\n| 30.11.38 | 1,800 cases dynamite, 49.5 tons | \" | | | | A.0. 26 in 174 |\n| | 100 cases electrical fuse | \" | | | | |\n| | 20 cases percussion caps 0.6 ton 40 cases safety fuse | \" | | | | |\n| | 40 cases safety fuse | \" | | | | |\n| 12.5.38 | 50 cases forgings | | $240 | | | |\n| 20.12.38 | 17 cases containing 99,900 rounds empty hunting cartridges & 100,000 cardboard tubes capped | | | | | |\n| 9.1.39 | cases aeroplane spare parts | | | | | |\n| 17.3.39 | 1 case tank spare parts | | | | South West Transportation Co. | |\n| 29.10.38 | 8 cases containing 8 'Fleet' Aeroplanes, & parts | | | | | A.0. 14 in 174 A.0.417 in 25 |\n| 10.10.38 | 2 cases containing 2 'Fleet' Aeroplanes & parts | | | | | |\n| | | U.S.A. | unknown | | | A.0.152 in 174 |\n| | | \" | | | | \" |\n| 31.3.39 | | Britain | | Jardine Engineering Corporation | | A.0. 61 in 4 |\n| | | Canada | | | | |\n| 6.11.39 | | | | South West Transportation Co. | Rangoon- en-route to China (for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China) | c.d.c.1/22 A.0. 95 in 174 |\n| 14.10.38 | 7 cases containing 7 'Fleet' Aeroplanes & parts | | | | | A.C. 137 in 174 |\n| 9.7.38 | 1 case aeroplane parts | | | | | |\n| | 8 cases aeroplane parts | | | | | |\n| 27.1.38 | 5 cases aeroplane parts | | | | | |\n| 10.7.38 | 6 cases containing 3 machine guns cal.50. Ex Siemssen's stock | U.S.A. | HK$8,075 | | | |\n| | 8 cases containing 400 Mauser pistols. Ex stock at Hongkong Sporting Arms Store | Germany | HK$4,200 | | | |\n| | 40 cases containing 200,000 rounds pistol cartridges | \" | HK$600 | | | |\n| | 95 pieces revolvers | Germany | HK$320 | | | |\n| | 52,500 rounds revolver cartridges | \" | | | | |\n| 21.4.39 | 6 pieces auto. pistols. Ex local stock | U.S.A. | HK$1,700 | | South West Transportation Co. | |\n| | 4,000 rounds pistol cartridges | \" | | | | |\n| | 20 pieces revolvers | \" | | | | |\n| 8.2.39 | 2,000 rounds revolver cartridges, 2 cases aeroplane parts | | HK$160 | | | |\n| 20.5.39 | 1 case tank spare parts | Britain | | Intercontinent Corporation | | |\n| 11.11.38 | 1 case containing 1 light machine guns & parts | Moravia (Germany) | | | Swatow for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China | A.0. 90 in 8 |\n| | | | | Jardine Engineering Corporation | | A.0. 18 in 30 |\n| 2.6.39 | | | | | Rangoon en-route to China (for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China) | |\n| 15.6.39 | | | | Intercontinent Corporation | | A.0. 19 in 30 |\n| | | | | | Haiphong en-route to China (for Military Council, National Govt. of Republic of China) | A.0. 61 in 158 |", "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": 563945, "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": 236, "title": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "content_text": "## Summary of exports of Arms and Ammunition, Aeroplanes explosives etc through Hong Kong to China \n### Country of origin\n\n| Country | Machine Guns | Rifles | Pistols & Revolvers | Shotguns | Electrical mine exploder & accessories |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Great Britain | 8 | (4) | | | |\n| S. A. | 1 | 1 | (A) 1,070 | 5 | (A) |\n| Germany | 839 | 50 | 2 | 3,867 | (A) |\n| France | + | | (A) | | |\n| Belgium | | | | | |\n| Denmark | 5.36 | 6,000 | 350 | (A) (A) | 3898383 |\n| Czecho-slovakia | 2.99 | 20 | 83 | (A) | |\n| Austria | 1 | 100 | 930 | (A) | |\n\n### CARTRIDGE\n\n| Type | rounds | cases | tons |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| tank | 75 | | |\n| perfor-ating ectile | 20 | | |\n| Machine gun & rifle | 81 | | |\n| pistol & revolver | | 206,000 | |\n| shot gun | | | |\n| | 4,081,000 (A) | | |\n| | 33,578,500 (A) | | |\n| | 1,538,600 (A) | | |\n\n| Spare parts for guns | Magazine S | Dynamite | Detonators | Percussion cap |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | 3 | 34 (A) | 2.20 1000 | |\n| | | 5,000 | 5,000 (A) | |\n| | | 132,000 (A) | | |\n\n### Summary \nvia kangoon (B) via Haiphong (C) via Swatow during the period, 26.2.39 to 11.3.39.\n\n- (A) via kangoon \n- (B) via Haiphong \n- (C) via Swatow \n\n**Note:** Nil return for period, 12.2.39 to 25.2.39.", "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": 563954, "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": 245, "title": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "content_text": "## Summary of Arms and Ammunition destined for China which were transhipped at Hong Kong between 1st July and 31st August 1938.\n\n| Description | Britain | America | Germany | France | Italy | Canada | Belgium | Czecho-slovakia | Sweden | Denmark | Hungary | Finland | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Aeroplanes (Nos.) | 75 | 56 | | | | | | | | | | | 131 machines |\n| Aeroplane parts (cases) | 8 | 3 | 493 | | | | 6 | | | | | | 510 cases |\n| Speed Boats (Nos.) | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 Boats |\n| Smoke Floats (Cases) | 15 | | | | | | | | | | | | 15 Cases |\n| Lifting gears for speed boats (Nos.) | 8 | | | | | | | | | | | | 8 To |\n| Depth charge accessories (cases) | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 Cages |\n| Aeroplane Engines (Nos.) | 33 | 8 | | | | | | | | | | | 41 Engines |\n| Mines (Nos.) | 240 | | | | | | | | | | | | 240 Mines |\n| Mine accessories (packages) | 269 | | | | | | | | | | | | 269 packages |\n| Trench Mortars (Nos.) | 81 | | | | | | | | 250 | | | | 250 Guns (96 Mortars) |\n| Guns, 2-pounder (Nos.) | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 |\n| Guns, 40 mm. (Nos.) | | 32 | | | | | | | | | | | 32 |\n| Machine Guns (Nos.) | | 54 | 1,230 | 300 | | | | | | | | | 1,584 |\n| Rifles (pieces) | 24 | 45,350 | | | | | | | | | | | 45,374 rifles (96,454 total rifles) |\n| Pistols & revolvers (pieces) | 390 | 5,687 | 2,500 | 18,100 | 5,301 | 8,096 | | 34,980 | | 421 | 700 | | 76,175 pieces (11,378 total pieces) |\n| Bombs (Nos.) | 43,191 | 1,000 | | | | | | | | | | | 44,191 Bombs |\n| Bomb Racks (Nos.) | | 10 | | | | | | | | | | | 10 Racks |\n| Grenades (Nos.) | | + | 288 | | | | | | | | | | 288 Grenades |\n| Grenade Throwers (Nos.) | | 12 | | | | | | | | | | | 12 Throwers |\n| Shells, howitzer (rounds) | 177,084 | | | | | | | | | | | | 177,084 rounds |\n| Shells, 2 inch (rounds) | 9,660 | | | | | | | | | | | | 9,660 rounds |\n| Shells, aircraft (rounds) | 36,000 | | 32,208 | | | | | | | | | | 68,208 rounds |\n| Shells, anti-tank (rounds) | | | 8,000 | | | | | | | | | | 8,000 rounds |\n| Shells, dummy (rounds) | | 38,000 | | | | | | | | | | | 38,000 rounds |\n| Shells, empty (rounds) | 900 | | | | | | | | | | | | 900 rounds |\n| Shells, fumes (Cases) | | 28,440 | | | | | | | | | | | 28,440 rounds |\n| Cartridges, machine gun & rifle (rounds) | 7,593,590 | 411,000 | 10,088,500 | 217,300 | 1,041,000 | | 2,355,000 | 25,001,500 | | 2,580,000 | | | 22,999,500 rounds (89,249,080 total rounds) |\n| Cartridges (pistol & revolver) (rounds) | | 3,838,300 | | | | | | | | | | | 3,838,300 rounds (TOLEG B) |\n| Tank spare parts (Cases) | | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | 2 cases |\n| Gun Barrels (Nos.) | | 5 | | | | | | | | | | | 5 Nos. |\n| Machine gun accessories (cases) | | 104 | | | | | | | | | | | 104 Cases |\n| Cartridges (coils) | 1,467 | | | | | | | | | 1,487 | | | 2,954 coils |\n| Steel cups (tons) | 11.6 | | | | | | | | | | | | 11.6 tons |\n| T.I.F. (tons) | 501.4 | | | | | | | | | | | | 501.4 tons |\n| Smokeless Powder (tons) | 79.6 | 554.4 | | | | | | | 159.2 | | | | 793.2 tons |\n| Tetryl (tons) | 37.1 | *79.6 | | | | | | | 24.9 | | | | 141.6 tons |\n| Dynamite (tons) | 13.4 | | | | | | | | 91.1 | | | | 104.5 tons |\n| Gunpowder (tons) | 0.09 | | | | | | | | 26.8 | | | 1.49 | 28.46 tons |\n| Rifle powder (tons) | | 2.4 | | | | | | | | | | | 2.4 tons |\n| Detonators (tons) | 1.2 | | | | | | | | 11.75 | | | | 12.95 tons |\n| Electric Igniters (cases) | | 4.75 | | | | | | | | | | | 4.75 tons (100 cases) |\n| Fuses (Cases) | 46 | 100 | | | | | | | 120 | | | | 266 cases (166 cases) |\n\n14/2/59", "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": 563955, "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": 246, "title": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "content_text": "## Statements of Arms & Ammunition, destined for China exported from or transhipped at Hong Kong between 1st July & 31st December 1938.\n\n| Country of origin | Value | Date exported | Name of dealer | Exported to | Authority |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Germany | unknown | 1.7.38 | South West Transportation Co. | National Govt. of Republic of China | A.0.5 in 174 |\n| U.S.A. | | 21.6.38 | | Canton-Military Council | |\n| Denmark | unknown | 2.7.38 | South West Transportation Co. | National Govt. of Republic of China | A.0.100 in 174 |\n| Czecho-slovakia | | 24.6.38 | | | A.0.23 in 174 |\n| Finland | | 20.6.38 | | | |\n| Denmark | | 1.7.38 | | | A.0.33 in 174 |\n| U.S.A. | unknown | 3.7.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council | A.0.5 |\n| Britain | £2,500.0.0 | 4.7.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council | A.0.101 |\n| | | | | National Govt. of Republic of China | in 174 |\n| France | £3,700.0.0 | | | Canton-Military Council | |\n| Denmark | unknown | 17.6.38 | | National Govt. of Republic of China | A.0.100 in 174 |\n| U.S.A. | | 20.6.38 | | | A.0.98 in 174 |\n| Britain | £5,000.0.0 | 24.6.38 | | | |\n| Belgium | unknown | 27.6.38 | | | A.0.33 in 174 A.0.99 in 174 |\n| Germany | unknown | 5.7.38 | South West Transportation Co. | National Govt. of Republic of China | |\n| Britain | | 29.6.38 | South West Transportation Co. | Canton-Military Council | A.0.96 in 174 A.0.102 in 174 A.0.90 in 174 A.0.160 |\n| Britain | | 8.6.38 | Ex Jardine Matheson stock | | |\n| Japan | | 24.6.38 | Ex Shewa Tsusho Kaisha stock | | |\n| Germany | HK$12,080 | 15.6.38 | | | |\n\n### Details of Exports\n\n1,436 cases containing 2,000 howitzer shells, 15cm.\n\n* 266 cases containing 216 fragmentation bombs & parts of 500 lbs each\n* 102 cases containing 100 Madsen machine guns 7.92mm.\n* 3,556 cases containing 8,000,000 rounds cal. 7.92mm cartridges\n* 29 cases containing 200 light machine guns\n* 852 cases containing 36,000 rounds Madsen cartridges, 20mm.\n* 5,261 cases containing 10,000 fragmentation bombs & parts of 30 lbs each\n* 334 Cases Containing 500,000 rounds 7.92mm cartridges\n* 200 cases containing 50,000 rounds Hotchkiss cartridges cal. 13.2mm.\n* 123 cases containing 35 Madsen machine guns 2cm.\n* 261 cases containing 261,000 rounds cal. 7.92mm cartridges\n* 667 cases containing 1,000,000 rounds cal. 7.92mm Cartridges\n* 4,000 cases containing 8,000,000 rounds cal. 7.92mm Cartridges\n* 10 cases containing 50,000 rounds cartridges cal. 38\n* 24 cases containing 6 pieces 40mm. 2-pounder guns & accessories.\n* 1 case containing 100 revolvers, Cal. 38.\n* 200 cases containing 10,000 lbs. No.1 dynamite\n* 200 cases containing 10,000 lbs. No.1 dynamite\n* 72 cases containing 96 trench mortars\n* 12 cases containing 12 Fleet aeroplanes & parts\n* 4 cases containing 2 Curtiss Hawk III Pursuit Aeroplanes\n* 2 cases containing 2 North American Aeroplanes (Basic Trainers)", "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": 563977, "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": 268, "title": "CO129-575-15 Traffic of arms to China 24-1-1939 - 4-12-1939", "content_text": "## Different Countries as Suppliers of Arms to China\n\nAfter a brief study (without making detailed calculations), I decided that Britain came seventh on the list of countries supplying arms to China. They clear Italy. They show what parts were played by small countries like Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Sweden. They reveal the United States of America providing the aeroplanes and the aerial equipment, Russia providing the big guns and ammunition for them, and Germany providing almost everything except speed-boats and solenoids.\n\n### Categories of Arms Supplied\n\n1. **Aeroplanes** - Out of 106 aeroplanes, nearly half, fifty-one, came from the United States of America and twenty-seven from Canada (? American factories in Canada). The United Kingdom supplied sixteen and the Germans twelve.\n\n2. **Aeroplane-engines** - Out of seventeen, all came from the United States of America.\n\n3. **Aeroplane Spares and Accessories** - Over 92 per cent. from the United States of America.\n\n4. **Armoured Cars and Tanks** - The Italians supplied 101 armoured cars and the Russians fifty tanks.\n\n5. **Machine Guns** - Out of 11,829, nearly half came from Czechoslovakia, while Germany and Belgium account for the rest.\n\n6. **Rifles** - Out of 86,000, Belgium supplied 54,000, Czechoslovakia and Germany 5,000.\n\n7. **The Larger Projectiles** - At a rough estimate Germany supplied over 70 per cent.\n\n8. **Ammunition for Rifles and Machine Guns** - From the point of view of Chinese resistance, this is the most important category:\n | Country | Rounds |\n | --- | --- |\n | Sweden | 117,670,000 |\n | Germany | 113,250,000 |\n | Belgium | 38,670,000 |\n | Czechoslovakia | 26,000,000 |\n | Russia | 24,000,000 |\n | Great Britain | 16,670,000 |\n | Hungary | 15,000,000 |\n | United States of America | 12,050,000 |\n\n9. **Explosives** - Practically all came from Germany, with a little from Sweden.\n\n### Analysis by Country\n\n#### Germany\nGermany has entries in thirty-seven out of the fifty-seven categories. (Compare this with the United States of America sixteen, Russia fourteen, Great Britain ten, Belgium nine, Czechoslovakia four). She was China's main source of supply for anti-tank guns, howitzers, pistols, and revolvers, bombs (various), anti-aircraft shells, anti-tank shells, howitzer shells, pistol and revolver cartridges, empty cartridges, howitzer limbers. She heads nearly all the lists of explosives. She supplied 25 per cent. of the machine guns and 30 per cent. of the rifle and machine-gun ammunition.\n\n#### Italy\nThe record of Japan's other ally is surprisingly clean. Italy supplied only three items: 3-5 of the aeroplane spare parts, 20 per cent. of the bombs (various), and 101 armoured cars.\n\n#### United States of America\nSpecialised in aeroplanes and aerial equipment.\n\n#### France\nOne large consignment of anti-aircraft shells (but Germany's is even bigger).\n\n#### Belgium\n- 25% of machine guns.\n- 75% of rifles.\n- 12% of ammunition for these.\nHeads the following important categories:\n- Anti-aircraft guns\n- Shells for mortars\n- Ammunition for rifles and machine guns...\n\n#### Czechoslovakia\n- 48% of the machine guns.\n- 33% of the rifles.\n\n#### Russia\nHer column has more entries than any other country except Germany. She seems to have specialised in heavy artillery. She sent large consignments of tanks, anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, 7.6 and 11.5 guns, bombs (various), anti-aircraft shells, shells for guns, fuses, and spare parts for bombs and shells. It does not say how these supplies came from Russia, but I imagine that they came on Scandinavian vessels. She is said to have supplied most of the aeroplanes for the Chinese air force. These, of course, would have been flown to China direct. The Military Intelligence in Hong Kong told me on the 20th September that there is a fairly steady trickle of arms into China by lorry along the road that runs from the Turk-Sib Railway across Sinkiang to Lanchow.\n\n#### Various\nSmall consignments came from Switzerland, Denmark, Hungary, and Austria.\n\n#### Great Britain\nIt is quite extraordinary how little Great Britain has supplied.\n- 15% of the aeroplanes.\n- 1% of the spare parts.\n- 2.66% of the anti-aircraft shells.\n- 14.2% of the shells for various guns.\n- 25% of the dynamite and gelignite.\nGreat Britain is China's sixth source of supply for rifle and machine-gun ammunition. The only categories she heads are those for, firstly, fuses; secondly, speed-boats.\n\n### China's Sources of Supply\nWithout making detailed calculations, I should say that the order should be as follows:\n1. (by a long, long way): Germany.\n2. Russia\n3. Czechoslovakia.\n4. Sweden.\n5. Belgium.\n6. United States.\n7. Great Britain.\n8. Italy.\n9. France.\n\n### Some Other Points\n1. All these munitions were consigned to the Canton Military Council of the National Government of China.\n\nPage 266", "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": 564241, "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": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "page_number": 204, "title": "CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939", "content_text": "## 239\n\n2 \n\nThe following events relate to the Hankow Safety Zone, the assumption by the Zone Committee of the City Government's administrative rights in the area. The minutes of the Refugee Zone Committee meeting form enclosure No. 2 to this despatch.\n\n3. The Generalissimo left Hankow by China National Aviation Corporation plane for Hengyang on the night of 24th October, and General Lo Cho-ying completed the withdrawal of his troops from the Wuhan area, an operation which had lasted about ten days, during the night of the 25th October. The retreat was ably and speedily carried out, and so sudden was the disappearance of the Chinese front that the Japanese troops advancing along the southern bank of the Yangtze were unable to keep pace with or even to locate the Chinese army. Wuchang was found to be deserted by military and civilians alike on occupation, and the Japanese thrust in the Hsienning sector was successfully avoided by the Chinese troops in their retreat to Changsha. Members of the consular staff who witnessed the withdrawal through the western suburbs of Hankow can testify to the cheerfulness and orderly behaviour of the Chinese troops.\n\n4. On the 24th October, the British Naval Relief Force was transferred from the ships to headquarters in two of the consulate houses and thereupon undertook, in co-operation with some forty civilian volunteers and the Chinese police force of S.A.D. 3, the policing of S.A.D's 2 and 3. A small force of foreign volunteers took over the policing of the ex-German Concession area where two British gunboats were stationed. An electrical expert from the British naval forces contrived, at the admiral's instructions, to disconnect certain suspicious-looking wires in Japanese buildings in S.A.D. 3, and the naval landing party and volunteers accomplished useful work in transferring to the bed of the Yangtze some 4 tons of dynamite deposited by the Chinese army in the `Nisshin Kisen Kaisha` and `Nippon Yusen Kaisha` buildings, the `Yokohama Specie Bank`, the `Bank of Taiwan`, and other Japanese buildings.\n\nIt had been no secret for some time that the Chinese had placed explosives in many buildings. This had formed the subject of repeated representations to the garrison commander and many other Chinese officials, including the Generalissimo himself, but the only information that could be elicited was that it had not yet been decided whether the buildings would be blown up, and assurances that we should be given at least twelve hours' notice before it was done. Chinese nerves, however, were strained, and the possibility that some reckless extremist might let his feelings run away with his judgment or discipline was sufficiently present to cause a good deal of apprehension among residents.\n\n5. A party of some half-dozen Japanese marines landed at the Japanese Concession from a motor launch at 8 AM on the 26th October and shortly left again after submitting to the necessary attentions of a group of foreign journalists. At 3 PM, the roar of Japanese sampans was heard from down river, and by 4 o'clock, a fleet of five destroyers, sloops, and smaller craft with transport vessels in their rear was drawn up along the entire ex-concession front. The military had made their entrance one hour previously when they perpetrated the first invasion of the refugee area by marching a detachment of infantry through a section of S.A.D. 1 en route for the Chinese city. Before nightfall, the Japanese gendarmerie had assumed control of the entire S.A.D. 1 area, following an intimation to Rear-Admiral Holt. Foreign volunteers continued to police S.A.D. 2 during the night of the 26th-27th October but were withdrawn on the morning of the 27th, when the policing of the area was taken over by Japanese marines. The invaders can hardly have been surprised on reaching their concession to find that it had been thoroughly destroyed, and it is worth noting that the explosions which made the night of the 26th so memorable (see enclosure No. 3) were mostly confined to that area, though several military and police headquarters in the Chinese city and at Wuchang were dynamited. Japanese buildings in the concession areas, partly owing to consular representations and partly to action by His Majesty's navy (see paragraph 4), were finally left intact, while it is said that the general immunity accorded to Chinese properties throughout the three cities was obtained by the judicious expenditure of several million dollars which were passed by the native chamber of commerce to the military authorities.\n\n6. On the morning of the 27th, the Rear-Admiral, at a meeting held at his residence attended by the Acting Consul-General, the Japanese head of gendarmerie, and a major representing the military command, intimated his willingness to withdraw naval forces from S.A.D. 2 and S.A.D. 3 (see my telegram No. 102 to Shanghai). At the request of the Japanese representative, the British naval landing party continued to patrol the area and man the gates, with the exception of the Bund entrances, where Japanese police were stationed. On the morning of the 28th, a contingent of some 800 Japanese infantry demanded access to S.A.D. 3 at the Tientsin Road gate and, on being admitted by the British sentries, were escorted by special police through S.A.D. 3 to the customs-house. Meanwhile, the question of policing the area had again formed the subject of a conversation between the Rear-Admiral and representatives of the Japanese special police and naval forces, at which the Director of S.A.D. 3 happened to be present. At this meeting, the minutes of which have already been communicated in my telegram No. 105 of the 28th October, the Japanese officials lost no time in signifying their acceptance of the offer which Rear-Admiral Holt had made on the previous day regarding the withdrawal of his men in S.A.D. 3 in favour of the Japanese gendarmerie. The outcome of these deliberations, though no formal agreement was made or was possible, given the nature of the contracting parties, was the ceremonial handing over of control of the S.A.D. 3 police to the Japanese gendarmerie at a parade held outside the Rear-Admiral's residence at 11 AM on the 29th October. As stated in my despatch, I immediately wrote, on learning the nature of the assurance given at this meeting, to the head of the Japanese police, pointing out that the assumption by the Japanese authorities of policing duties in S.A.D. 3 was not in accordance with the administrative rights enjoyed by British subjects.\n\nAfter receiving the call of the newly appointed Japanese Consul-General, Mr. Y. Hanawa, I wrote, enclosing a copy of my letter to the head of gendarmerie, and stated that His Majesty's Government reserved full rights in the S.A.D. 3 area according to the provisions of the Chen-O'Malley Agreement, which I considered had not been affected by the agreement entered into by the Rear-Admiral. At a meeting of the British Chamber of Commerce on the 1st November, the question of the policing of S.A.D.3 was discussed, and the agreement, which entailed the virtual suppression of the S.A.D. 3 Chinese police in favour of Japanese gendarmerie, came in for widespread criticism. A motion was carried to urge the British authorities in Shanghai, by means of the British Chamber of Commerce, to do their utmost to prevent further concessions to the Japanese in defiance of the British Government's treaty rights in S.A.D. 3.\n\n7. The days intervening since the occupation have not been in any way remarkable. The Japanese military police responsible for the welfare of S.A.D. 3 have carried out their duties conscientiously on the whole. Property marked with British consular notices has been, with one exception, scrupulously respected, and misunderstandings have in most cases been cleared up. There has been no disorder or insulting behaviour, but British subjects are naturally chafing under curfew regulations which confine them to the area, owing to the closing of gates, which were erected for very different purposes, between the hours of 6 PM to 6 AM. The Japanese Consul-General has, however, promised to use his good offices to obtain an abatement of the latter nuisance. During the day-time, there has been accorded an absolute freedom of movement, and were any trade, or any prospects of such, restored, the situation would not be without hope.\n\n8. To return to the fortunes of the safety zone, events have proved that the invading forces had received no instructions to avoid entering the designated area, and that the Japanese command only considered itself bound to refrain from armed attack on the zone. The Hankow Safety Zone project has consequently not met with the success which the painstaking efforts of its organisers deserved. The behaviour of the Japanese soldiery has not, however, given rise to much adverse criticism by the foreigners in charge of the refugees, though their actions, had the Chinese made any attempt to defend the city, might well have been very different. The refugees, who had, the day after the Japanese entry, mostly congregated in the streets of S.A.D.3, have now been transported to a zone designated by the Japanese on the banks of the Han River at Wu Sheng Miao, the boundaries of which are policed by Japanese gendarmerie. The Safety Zone Committee has set up its headquarters in this new area and is now preparing the organisation of a police force recruited from refugees for the interior administration and sanitation of the zone. The inhabitants have been free from molestation (with the exception, which has just been reported, of the brutal murder of a Chinese by a drunken Japanese soldier who contrived to elude the sentries and has now been handed over to the Japanese authorities).\n\n## 240", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-575-3 Japanese affairs 2-1-1939 - 21-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 567970, "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": "CO129-581-10 Control measures to be adopted for local mines- report by senior Inspector of Mines 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1939", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-581-10 Control measures to be adopted for local mines- report by senior Inspector of Mines 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1939", "content_text": "20\n\n21\n\nLicensee to\n\n14\n\n18. Every prospecting licence shall be in the form in Schedule II and shall work subject convey to the licensee the right to undertake and continue such work only as may, in to Govern- ment direc- tion.\n\nApplication How made.\n\nRights and conditions of a pros- pecting licence.\n\nthe opinion of Government, be reasonably necessary to enable him to test the qualities of the land in respect of the metal or mineral specified in the licence, and in accordance with the mining regulations where applicable.\n\n19.-(i) Any person wishing to apply for a prospecting licence shall lodge in the land office of the district an application together with the prescribed fee and plan setting out the position, approximate area and boundaries of the land in respect of which the application is made and stating the metal or mineral for which it is proposed to prospect.\n\n(ii) The Land Officer shall thereupon mark such application with a distinctive number and shall file the same in the land office according to the order in which they are received, but so that priority of application shall give no claim or priority of claim to a prospecting licence.\n\n20.—(i) In the absence of an express provision therein to the contrary every prospecting licence shall convey to the licensee the exclusive right to prospect within the area specified within the prospecting licence for metals or minerals specified therein and the prior right to apply for a mining lease over any area specified therein upon proof that the licensee has done a sufficient amount of prospecting work.\n\n(ii) No other application, whether for a prospecting licence or mining lease, in respect of any land specified in a prospecting licence shall be considered, and no portion of such land shall be leased for any purpose until all rights of the licensee in respect of such land shall have been satisfied.\n\n(iii) If before the expiration of any prospecting licence the licensee shall prove to the satisfaction of Government that he has good and sufficient reason for not having completed prospecting, the period of such licence may be extended by Government in respect of the whole or any part of the area comprised therein. Such extension shall be effected by endorsement on the licence for such period and fee as Government shall determine.\n\n(iv) A prospecting licence may at any time after the expiration of three months from date of issue thereof be cancelled by Government if the licensee shall have failed to make a bona fide commencement to prospect the land under licence, or if he shall have altogether abandoned prospecting for a period to be fixed by Government and set forth in the prospecting licence.\n\n(v) Upon completion of prospecting under any prospecting licence the licensee shall fill in all pits, shafts or excavations, unless the licensee obtains authority in writing from Government exempting him from this obligation, and Government may call upon the licensee to provide security not exceeding one thousand dollars for the due fulfilment of such conditions.\n\n(vi) It shall be lawful for the licensee to remove from the land and dispose of all samples of metals and minerals raised in the course of prospecting operations without payment of royalty, provided the amount shall be such as may, in the opinion of Government, be reasonably necessary to enable him to test the qualities of the land.\n\n(vii) The licensee shall compensate any occupiers of the land under licence for any damage sustained by them as the result of prospecting operations.\n\n(viii) Every licensee shall\n\n(a) permit any person duly authorized by Government in that behalf at all reasonable times to inspect any prospecting operations,\n\n(b) render to the Land Officer, within one month of the expiry of the licence or completion of the prospecting work, whichever event may first occur, a full, true, particular and just report and plan of the result of his prospecting operations.\n\n(ix) Every prospecting licence shall be liable to be cancelled by Government upon proof of the breach of any of the conditions of this part of the regulations or otherwise where applicable.\n\n15\n\nPart IV.\n\nPROVISIONS REGARDING WATER.\n\n21.-(i) It shall not be lawful for the lessee of any mining land or holder of a prospecting licence to make or permit any other person to make, without sanction of in water supply Government, any such alteration in the water supply as may prejudicially affect the prohibited. water supply enjoyed by Government or any other persons or land.\n\n(ii) Whenever any such alteration shall have been so made, the lessee or licensee of the lands benefited thereby shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be presumed to have made it.\n\n(iii) Any person who shall in the course of mining or prospecting operations interfere with the bank of any river, stream or water course may, by written order of Government be required to restore the same to the condition in which it was immediately prior to such interference or to re-make the same in such manner as may be specified in the order.\n\nof water.\n\n22.-(1) Every lessee or holder of a prospecting licence who shall use water in Purification connexion with his mining or prospecting operations in whatever way shall make such provision as will ensure that all water so used shall, before it leaves the area on which it has been so used, be freed from all chemicals deleterious to animal or vegetable life.\n\n(ii) No lessee of mining land or holder of a prospecting licence shall allow effluent water from any area under his control containing solid matter in excess of 500 grains per gallon to discharge into any river or natural water course or otherwise pass beyond his control.\n\n(iii) The Government shall on complaint of failure on the part of any lessee or holder of a prospecting licence to comply with the requirements of sub-sections (i) and (ii) hold an inquiry into the matter of such complaint, and may, with or without such complaint at any time order any such person to provide such fixed masonry spillways, dams, settling pits and other mechanical appliances or devices and to use such chemical methods as may be necessary for effectual compliance with the said subsections, and may also order such person to suspend his mining or prospecting operations until such provision has been made and such methods adopted.\n\n(iv) Compliance with an order of Government made under sub-section (iii) shall not affect the liability incurred by any such person through breach of the provisions of sub-sections (i) and (ii).\n\nPart V.\n\nTHE REGULATION OF MINING OPERATIONS.\n\nstored or\n\n23.-(i) No gunpowder, dynamite, petroleum or other inflammable oil in bulk, Explosives or other substance of an explosive or dangerous nature, shall be brought onto, stored, not to be placed or used upon any land held under mining lease or prospecting licence except used in in such places, in such quantities, in such manner and on such conditions as shall be mine or approved by Government; and no detonator, match or other highly inflammable substance or liquid shall be stored together with any explosive substance or liquid,\n\n(ii) Only wooden tamping rods in charging holes for blasting and only regulation pliers for fixing the detonator to the fuse may be used and only clay or other suitable material shall be used for tamping.\n\n(iii) Sufficient warning shall be given to enable all persons in the vicinity of the workings to reach a place of safety before any fuse is ignited. The number of shots exploding shall be counted and if all the shots have not exploded no one shall be allowed to enter the working place for a period of thirty minutes after the fuses were lighted.\n\n(iv) A charge that has misfired shall not be withdrawn and only such tamping as can be easily removed may be withdrawn to enable the missed charge to be reprimed and fired; alternatively a new hole shall be bored by hand parallel to but not below and not nearer than 18 inches to the misfire and shall be charged with one and a half times the amount of explosive in the misfired hole.\n\nbuilding\n\nprescribed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-581-10 Control measures to be adopted for local mines- report by senior Inspector of Mines 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568823, "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": "CO129-582-6 Salvage operations on the wreck of the Japanese S.S. JIN KAI MARU 22-5-1939 - 27-10-1939", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-582-6 Salvage operations on the wreck of the Japanese S.S. JIN KAI MARU 22-5-1939 - 27-10-1939", "content_text": "END\n\nhowever, more doubtful whether the terms quoted above of the Treaty would entitle the owners to conduct the salvage through foreign instrumentality rather than through local British salvage agencies,\n\n5. It is true that in 1937, at a time when the local British firms were all very busy as a consequence of the disastrous typhoon in September of that year, a Japanese salvage company was permitted to salve the Asama Maru, but in view of the deterioration in the international situation since that time, the local Naval and Military Authorities are most strongly of the opinion that the present is not the time to allow the Japanese facilities to establish a salvage undertaking in a position so strategical as that held by the island of Waglan. I am not aware that the Japanese would be willing to allow British salvage companies to operate in similar strategical regions in Japanese waters and it is well known that they refused permission for foreign salvage companies to operate on the United States of America S.S. \"President Hoover\", when she stranded off the coast of Formosa at the end of 1937.\n\n6. I should accordingly be glad if I might be authorised by telegraph to refuse the application. The local Japanese Consulate has also made a request in this behalf and is suggesting that next month would be a favourable time to undertake the work. Refusal could be made effective by denying any permission for the anchoring or mooring of vessels in the waters of the Colony, landing of gear, or import and storage of dynamite for this purpose.\n\n7. I am sending a copy of this despatch to the British Ambassador at Tokyo.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nLAWRENCE KENTYNG Governor.\n\nThe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-6 Salvage operations on the wreck of the Japanese S.S. JIN KAI MARU 22-5-1939 - 27-10-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569104, "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": 43, "title": "CO129-583-13 Traffic of arms to China 31-1-1940 - 21-1-1941", "content_text": "Summary of exports of arms and ammunition, aeroplane parts & explosives etc. through Burma into China during the period 1-3-40 to 15-3-40.\n\n42\n\n \n No. of pkgs.\n Description of material.\n Quantity\n Country of origin\n Value.\n \n \n 514 cases\n Safety shells & .12 bore cartridges shells empty\n 1028000\n490\n361\n2\n U.S.A.\n Rs.33572/-\n \n \n \n Cartridges\n81 mm. Mortar shells\nExploders (Elc. Apparatus)\n7.92 cartridges\n 5017\n5430 rds\n11\n5070\n Hongkong\n\n Rs.216879/-\nRs.165021/-\nSabang Rs.3600/-\n \n \n \n .12 bore cartridges\n 10000000\n500000\n Belgium\nU.S.A.\n Rs.502500/-\nRs.17887/-\n \n \n \n Dynamite\nDynamite\n 250\n4000\n2000\n #1\n#1\n \n \n \n \n Machine guns & accessories\n7.92 mm. Madsen Machine guns & accessories\n 608\n100\n \n \n \n \n 1 case\n Mortar gun arms\nGun parts (parts of arms)\nArms accessories\nFiring caps\n 20\n1\n1\n1000000\n \n \n \n \n \n Detonators & Fuses\nDetonators\nFuses\nDetonators\nFuses\n 15\n38\n11\n205\n11\n102\n11\n U.S.A.\nSabang\n\n Part of Rs.170560/-\nSabang Rs.49734/-\nDenmark Rs.133210/-\nFrance Rs.61640/-\nHongkong Rs. 189/-\nU.S.A. Rs.3850/-\nRs.3804/-\nXXXX Rs.16073/-\n \n \n 1 case\n Signal Pistol\nSignal Pistols\nCartridges for the above\n 5\n300 rds\n Hongkong\n Rs.231/-\nRs.150/-\n \n \n 297 pkgs.\n Aircraft parts\n 7777\n U.S.A.\nHongkong\n Rs.1471402/-\nRs.220919/-\n \n\nCustoms Department No.P-1-C1. Rangoon, dated the 19th March 1940.\n\n(2)\n\nForwarded to the Secretary to the Financial Commissioner, Burma, Rangoon for information with reference to the Department of Lands & Revenue endorsement No.393XC38 Part II dated the 14th February 1939.\n\nH.F. Oxbury\nCollector of Customs, Rangoon.", "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": 569132, "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": 71, "title": "CO129-583-13 Traffic of arms to China 31-1-1940 - 21-1-1941", "content_text": "F1522/431-\n\nSummary of Arms and Ammunition destined for China which was exported from or transhipped at Hong Kong between 1st July and 31st December 1939.\n\n \n \n Britain\n U.S.A.\n Germany\n Belgium\n Total\n \n \n Aeroplane parts (cases)\n \n 30\n \n \n 30\n \n \n Link Aviation Trainer (for indoor training) (Nos.)\n \n 70\n \n \n 70\n \n \n Aeroplane parts (cases)\n \n 18\n \n \n 18\n \n \n Spare parts for Tanks (cases)\n \n 275 cases\n \n \n 275 cases\n \n \n Rifles (pieces)\n 1\n 18\n 2\n \n 21 pieces\n \n \n Pistols & Revolvers (pieces)\n 202\n 360\n \n \n 562 pieces\n \n \n Verey Light pistols (pieces)\n \n 900\n 4\n \n 904 pieces\n \n \n Shotguns (pieces)\n \n 2\n \n \n 2\n \n \n Cartridges for machine guns & rifles (rounds)\n 304,480\n 49,323,000\n 132,000\n \n 49,759,420 rounds\n \n \n Cartridges for pistols & revolvers (rounds)\n \n 258,400\n \n \n 258,400 rounds\n \n \n Empty hunting cartridges with cardboard tubes (rounds)\n 72,400\n 180,000\n 108,000\n \n \n \n \n Cartridges for Verey light pistols (rounds)\n \n 300\n \n \n 300 rounds\n \n \n Cartridges for shotguns (rounds)\n \n 10,000\n \n \n 10,000 rounds\n \n \n T.N.T. (tons)\n \n 748.3\n \n \n 748.3 tons\n \n \n Smokeless Powder (tons)\n \n 452\n \n \n 452 tons\n \n \n \n \n 54.3\n \n \n 54.3 tons\n \n \n Tetryl (tons)\n \n 82.8\n \n \n 82.8 tons\n \n \n Dynamite (tons)\n \n 32.8\n \n \n 32.8\n \n \n Detonators (tons)\n \n 1.7\n \n \n 1.7 tons\n \n \n Percussion Caps (tens)\n \n 4.1\n \n \n 4.1 tens\n \n \n Safety fuse (cases)\n \n 12\n \n 87", "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": 569133, "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": 72, "title": "CO129-583-13 Traffic of arms to China 31-1-1940 - 21-1-1941", "content_text": "Date imported\n\nDescription\n\n- 1 -\n\nStatements of Arms & Ammunition, destined for China, exported from or transhipped at Hong Kong between 1st July & 31st December 1939.\n\n \n Name of dealer\n Country origin\n Value\n Date exported\n Description\n Authority\n \n \n Jardine Engineering Corporation.\n Britain\n £1,300\n 5.7.39\n 1 case spare parts for Tanks\n A.0.61 in 174\n \n \n Hong Kong Sporting Arms Co.\n Ex stock\n \n 18.6.39\n 1 Savage Rifle with bayonet, 18 Rifles cal.7.9, 5,000 rounds rifle cartridges\n A.0.19 in 30.\n \n \n Intercontinent Corporation.\n U.S.A.\n HK$60.00\n 15.7.39\n 20 Revolvers\n A.0.90 in 8\n \n \n South West Transportation Co.\n Germany\n HK$1,350.\n 28.7.39\n 7 cases aeroplane motors, 5 cases aeroplane motor parts, 10 cases aeroplane propellers.\n A.0.76 in 174\n \n \n Hong Kong Sporting Arms Co.\n U.S.A.\n HK$1,700\n 29.7.39\n \n A.0.116 in 174\n \n \n F. Feld & Co.\n Germany\n £378.\n 10.8.39\n 13 cases containing 13 aeroplane Engines.\n A.0.148 in 174\n \n \n South West Transportation Co.\n \n \n 16.11.38\n 19 cases containing 108,000 rounds empty hunting cartridges with cardboard tubes.\n A.0.48 in 25\n \n \n \n \n \n 23.1.39\n 3,000 cases dynamite 82.8 tons, 12 cases detonators 0.38 ton, 210 cases Percussion Caps (4.1 tons)\n \n \n \n \n unknown\n \n 24.4.39\n 80 cases fuse\n \n \n \n Siemssen & Co.\n U.S.A.\n \n 3.9.38, 11.12.38, 17.5.38\n 1 case aeroplane parts, 2 cases aeroplane parts, 1 case internal combustion engine accessories.\n A.0.24 in 1\n \n \n South West Transportation Co.\n \n \n 28 cases aeroplane parts accessories, 3 cases aeroplane engine spare parts.\n 30.5.39\n 4.0.13 in #\n \n \n \n \n \n 15 cases aeroplane tools\n 29.11.38\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1.9.38, 22.7.39, 17.4.39, 9.8.39\n 27 cases aeroplane parts, tools & spares, 1 case aeroplane propeller parts, 1 case aeroplane accessories, 1 case aeroplane engine parts, 2 cases aeroplane engine parts, 4 cases aeroplane engine parts, 2 cases aeroplane parts, 17 cases aeroplane propeller blades, 1 case aeroplane propeller, 1 case aeroplane propeller parts, 4 boxes aeroplane parts\n A.0.127 in 174, A.0.149 in 174, A.0.84 in 174, A.0.158 in 174, A.0.103 in 174, A.0.128 in 174, A.0.160 in 174, A.0.94 in 174, A.0.161 in 174\n \n\nExported to Haiphong en-route to China for Military Council, National Government of Republic of China\n\nRangoon en-route to China (for Military Council, National Government of Republic of China)", "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": 569427, "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": "CO129-583-7 Authority to write off arrears of expenditure 6-2-1940 - 22-6-1940", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-583-7 Authority to write off arrears of expenditure 6-2-1940 - 22-6-1940", "content_text": "My Lord,\n\nRECEIVED 29 MAY 1940\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n20th May, 1940.\n\nI have the honour to request, in accordance with Colonial Regulation No.345, Your Lordship's authority to write off the sum of $448 which is the stock book value of 3,200 detonators which were stolen from a Fire Brigade magazine near the Public Works Department quarry at Tsat Tze Mui district on the Island of Hong Kong between 3.30 p.m. on 16th January and 3.30 p.m. on 17th January, 1940.\n\n2. This Fire Brigade magazine was erected at the end of 1939 for the storage of explosives intended for use in demolition operations in connection with Air Raid Precautions in the event of an emergency. Another smaller magazine already existed at the quarry for the storage of explosives used in quarrying and a site near the quarry was chosen for the Fire Brigade magazine with the idea that the watchmen at the quarry could supervise this magazine in addition to their other duties. The new magazine was first brought into use on 12th January, 1940, when eight fifty-pound boxes of dynamite, 3,200 coils of fuse and 3,200 detonators were transferred to it from the Government Gunpowder Magazine on Green Island. The transfer was authorized by a requisition signed by the Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade and countersigned by the Director of Air Raid Precautions and delivery was effected by the Controller of Stores through the Government transport contractor, who was given a delivery order and issue voucher.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLORD LLOYD OF DOLOBRAN,\n\n&C.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-583-7 Authority to write off arrears of expenditure 6-2-1940 - 22-6-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569428, "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": "CO129-583-7 Authority to write off arrears of expenditure 6-2-1940 - 22-6-1940", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-583-7 Authority to write off arrears of expenditure 6-2-1940 - 22-6-1940", "content_text": "15\n\n·\n\n16\n\nAlthough for the sake of convenience one set of keys to the padlocks on the Fire Brigade magazine had been left in the care of Mr. H. Hall, Public Works Department Inspector of Works in charge of the Quarry, no formal inter-departmental arrangements had been made for him to assume charge of the magazine. Mr. Hall, however, saw the explosives delivered into the magazine and receipted the issue voucher, but took no further steps to inform the Fire Brigade of their receipt or to arrange for the watchmen at the quarry to include the magazine in their patrols beyond casually instructing them to \"keep an eye on it\". The Fire Brigade was unaware that the explosives had been delivered to the magazine until they were notified that the theft had been discovered by the Quarry store-keeper on his daily routine visit to the magazine at 3:30 p.m. on 17th January. The two padlocks, which were not of a very strong type, had been burst open, the 3,200 detonators were missing and one of the eight boxes of dynamite was found hidden but intact in the undergrowth near the magazine.\n\n3. In this curious concatenation of circumstances it does not appear possible that any individual can be held responsible for the loss. In the first place, there was no necessity, in the absence of an emergency, to transfer the explosives to the magazine from Green Island, and the responsibility for so doing must be shared by the Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade and the Director of Air Raid Precautions. The custody of the explosives when in the magazine was the responsibility of the Fire Brigade and, though he was not in a position to give direct instructions to Mr. Hall, who is an officer of the Public Works Department, the Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade should have satisfied himself that arrangements had been made, through the Director of Public Works, for Mr. Hall to be responsible for the supervision of the magazine and its contents. I do not consider that Mr. Hall himself, in the absence of any instructions, can be held responsible for the loss.\n\n4. I regret the general laxity and lack of co-ordination between the departments concerned, to which the loss, in my opinion, must be attributed. The magazine is not at present in use as the remaining contents were returned to the Gunpowder Magazine on Green Island, but stronger locks have been fitted and proper arrangements made for custody and control should circumstances necessitate it being again brought into use.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,\n\nN.L. Smith\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-583-7 Authority to write off arrears of expenditure 6-2-1940 - 22-6-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575428, "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": 70, "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "# CONFIDENTIAL\n1. Report by Mr. P. BIAU, Technical Councillor of the Government of French Equitorial Africa, on leave in Hong Kong.\n\nI arrived in Hong Kong by C.N.A.C. aircraft from Fort Lamy on December 2nd at 2 o'clock in the morning on three months leave (for personal reasons). I was still in Hong Kong when it was attacked by the Japanese and during the siege I served, at my own request, at No. 1 Depot, Rescue and Demolition Squad. I was thus able to observe how the Civil Passive Defence Organisation of Hong Kong worked and the effectiveness of the different Branches belonging to it. I am bound to say that of the 6 essential services only three were efficient. These were: \n| Service | |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | Fire Service |\n| (b) | The Ambulance Service (St. John's Ambulance Brigade) |\n| (c) | the Rescue and Demolition Squad |\n\nThree others, \n| Service | |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | Police and Police Reserve |\n| (b) | A.R.P. |\n| (c) | Food Control |\n\nwere inefficient beyond description.\n\n2. Police\n\nMany of the European police officials, officers included, were frequently drunk, showed no sign of initiative or co-ordination, repeated rumours and took no action to enforce discipline. For example, during the day of December 13th I was sent with a squad of coolies to rescue some Chinese who were buried under the ruins of a house which a 50 kilogram bomb had completely destroyed. From under a pile of bodies of men and women I was able to pull out a male child of about 15 months who was suffering from no external wounds; an officer of the Police Reserve (a Russian) took the child out of my hands and shot it dead with a revolver. I protested and he replied that there were already too many Chinese and that at least would make one less. I made a report to Sub-Inspector Tylor attached to our Depot who replied that the child was already mutilated.\n\n3. Another example. A launch manned by police volunteers and by engineers and architects of the P.W.D. coming across from Stonecutter loaded with 12 tons of dynamite was fired upon and caught fire and blew up with terrific force on the night of December 13th. The sentries who fired on the launch had not been advised by the police authorities and as a result 14 British lives were lost.\n\n4. A.R.P.\n\nThe A.R.P. whose Central District Headquarters were at Dina House, also worked very badly. The head wardens never came near the place and allowed the Chinese wardens to send in their reports which 9 times out of 10 were exaggerated. These wardens went to shelters immediately the bombardment started and telephoned their reports from the shelters without ever examining the damage. No wardens were ever seen during the whole of the bombardment, both European and Chinese remaining in shelters.\n\n5. Food Control\n\nThe Food Control Bureau was run by youths and young girls, the sons and daughters of a few Government officials, looked after their families and relatives and the distribution was extremely badly organised. There was no control and complete disorder.\n\n6. On the contrary, the Fire Services, both European and Chinese were very brave and energetic, working calmly under bombardment which, however, I should say was never very heavy.\n\nPage 70 \nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575551, "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": 193, "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "## 192\n\nAm not at all in agreement with C.P.'s idea of a 100% safe battle H.Q.; three sides appear to be O.K., but the 4th side opens directly on to the street and is only protected by a blast wall. Large windows heavily wire netted. Four very solid shower places seem to make good shelters if really bad.\n\nWent home about 4.0 to collect some clean clothes, in case I can't get through for a day or two. I am far too busy. So far, have nothing and have been sleeping in my clothes. Decided we shall sleep in the basement tonight. Shelling was bad last night and nobody got any sleep; one fell just behind the station at about 2.0 am. Kowloon has been evacuated today and all personnel brought across safely. I believe it has been carried out too early, but C.P. seems satisfied.\n\nSomething is radically wrong with the organisation. Complaints are coming in that men from the territories have had no food for over 48 hours. A conference was held regarding food supplies to Chinese and foreign staff. Chinese office staff walked out due to lack of supplies; messengers are threatening to follow them.\n\n### 11th December 1941\n\nYesterday was dreadful. It was 5.30 this morning before the telephones stopped ringing. The Chungking representatives are certainly doing their stuff. S.K. Yee has never stopped for the last 48 hours. They were ordered to contact all leaders of the Triad Societies and to persuade them to come over to us on the idea that they are now fighting for their own country and not merely helping us. Propaganda has been put out by the Japs to kill all Europeans, as they are responsible for the war, and once they are out of the way, the fighting will stop. We are afraid to shell Kowloon for fear of frightening the Chinese into riots and saying we are killing their own people, relatives, and friends in that area. The situation is impossible. Reports are coming in of looting and holdups now that the police have been taken away. The situation is almost out of hand on that side; there is no control. S.K. was told to try to stop looting and to see if he can get the situation in hand.\n\nTelephone reports from Boundary Street and Prince Edward Road state that Japs are coming up through the big nullah and are already in Laichikok and that area.\n\nReports also state that parachutists landed on the island last night.\n\nDecided after the last two days we should turn in early. This is the first time I have undressed.\n\nMrs. Jenner, an Australian newspaper woman, has joined the staff as a typist; she has missed the Clipper to Manila.\n\nTurned in at about 9.30 pm. Towards 10.30, there were sounds of shots around the station. C.P. asked me to go and find out what it was all about, as it sounded to be on Hollywood Road, just outside the station. Before I could get the question asked, a terrific explosion took place and threw me back against the wall with several men on top of me. Bolted back to cover, but before I could say anything, another explosion happened, and it seemed as though all hell was let loose. Shots continued. Crawled across the floor to get into my clothes. C.P. dressed and ordered the emergency bell to be rung and all station gates manned. From that time on, there was a complete state of chaos and panic. Nobody knew what had happened, and the suggestion was that the station was being attacked. Telephone reports poured in saying shops had had bombs thrown at them, and the glass was smashed. Armed parties were sent out in reply.\n\nStation gates were eventually closed, and the remainder of the staff were ordered to positions. E. paced about like a caged lion; did not bother to dress for quite a long time, marched about complete in sarong, bull's eye striped dressing gown, two guns, one on each hip, and his tin hat perched on his head. Even the Chinese laughed at him. Confusion continued until 2.30 am, when C.P. returned after having toured the city and broke the news that there had been an accident, and two launches containing 19 tons of dynamite had been blown up in the harbour. Several casualties and most of the downtown shops and offices had had their windows blown in. Went back to bed about 3.0, feeling very shaken and tired out. Telephoned C., but he reported all quiet at his end of the town.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575993, "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": "CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943", "page_number": 146, "title": "CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943", "content_text": "174\n\n-5-\n\nspecial patrol in Junk Bay to deal with the possibility of Japanese crossing Junk Bay to Lyemun while British troops were evacuating at Lyemun.\n\nI understand that a party of volunteers proceeded this night to Stonecutters to remove a dynamite lighter and bring it to buoy off the Harbour Office, and all military posts except one on the Hong-Kong side had been specially warned to hold fire. The one post opened fire and all the rest followed suit and the lighter which had been brought to the Harbour Office blew up. I infer that this may have had considerable influence on the fact that MTB's were infrequently ordered to operate at night in the Hongkong Harbour.\n\nDecember 13th On Saturday, 13th December, at 0500 the Extended Defence Officer withdrew MTB's 07, 09, 11, and 12 from Putoi and Hamiwan and sent them to the northwest of Lyemun to evacuate troops from a rough pier in Bay west of Devil's Peak. MTB 11 investigated pier and ran aground on rock in bay when turning away from pier, damaging propellers. MTB 12 commenced to tow MTB 11 back to Aberdeen, being later escorted and towed by 07 and 09. MTB 07 and 09 remained near pier after daylight until soldiers appeared and with unexpected lack of opposition evacuated 260 Rajputs from north Lyemun to Thracian. Military War Dept. launches had been told off for this work, but the Chinese crews had refused, so MTB's were called upon. The following message was later received from the Commodore: (Begins) Well done excellent work done in early hours today Saturday V2 for MTB's concerned (Ends)\n\nThis day all MTB's with the exception of 07 and 12 (the option being left to Commanding Officers) were changed from light grey to camouflage colours, grey, brown, green, yellow. I understand \"Tern\" from Aberdeen Harbour shot down a Jap seaplane which crashed on Lamma.\n\nAt 1600 MTB 08 and 27 were sent from Aberdeen to Green Island Magazine to evacuate R.E. demolition personnel, but nobody was found there, so MTB's returned. The same MTB's were sent out again; there was some shelling off Mt. Davis and Green Island vicinity at the time to search for R.E. personnel, but they were again not there, and MTB 08 damaged propeller on rock when coming off from pier.\n\nThere were no night patrols this night, the following being the operational positions. MTB 12 and 27 ready as striking force; MTB 10 just off slip and squaring off; MTB 11 on slip for propeller damage; MTB 08 afloat with damaged propeller; MTB's 07 and 09 torpedo out-rigger rails damaged while evacuating troops; MTB 26 resting after previous all-night patrol which had been strenuous for a Thorneycroft MTB with little crew accommodation.\n\nThe Japanese sent a flag of truce with a negotiation party across from Kowloon to Hongkong on this forenoon, but Japanese terms were refused.\n\nDecember 14th. On Sunday, 14th December, it was quiet at Aberdeen, but there was considerable shelling of Hongkong, the Army stores camp at Wong Nei Cheong Gap receiving a full quota. I proceeded to Headquarters in lorry for challenges and orders, returning to Aberdeen at 1630 just as bombs dropped from clear sky on small power station roof and oil storage drums at Aberdeen Dock, causing superficial damage to power station machinery and starting a fire near oil drums. This was put out by trailer pump got going by the Flotilla Engineer Officer, crew of NTB 10, and two R.N.R. Lieutenants, the Dock Police having taken cover.\n\nFor this...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577806, "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": "CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945", "content_text": "22\n\nTHE FISHING METHODS.\n\nOne of the most notable features of Hong Kong fisheries is the entire absence of power-driven vessels. It might seem at first sight that the Chinese fishermen are too conservative and reluctant to adapt machinery to their methods of fishing. But the causes for this prejudice are not so simple. There is more behind the problem than appears on the surface. The inefficient administration of the Chinese Government certainly is one reason and the policy of the Colony may perhaps be another. Sometime before 1927 the Japanese, evidently taking advantage of the prevailing conditions, began to organize a fishing company in Hong Kong, equipped with modern power-driven vessels and employing improved fishing methods to fish in the South China Sea with the obvious object of securing a monopoly and controlling the entire industry in the Colony and in South China. The company had its highest development in 1935-1936 but since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war in 1937 its business has been in suspension. The present is a great opportunity for the Chinese Government and the Colony to come to the rescue and inaugurate their own fishery Board.\n\nThe next point of interest bearing on the question is that the Chinese fishermen belong to a special class of people known as tan ka or boat family (population). For generations and generations they have confined their entire life to their boats, regarding the vessels not only as means of support, but also as their only home. In this connection they have acquired a habit of crowding themselves into the limited space of a single boat or junk. The fact that there are 77,000 persons living in 2,800 boats, the largest of which does not exceed 85 feet in length, and the majority of which are less than 60 feet long shows the extent of overcrowding. In the case of long liners, a boat of about 70 feet long would provide space for accommodation of 40 to 45 persons including men, women and children besides space for fish, salt, gear, food and miscellaneous holds. As a consequence of this habit of overcrowding and of the inferiority of the boat and the gear employed, one fisherman on an average earning only about 80 dollars per annum, poverty is inevitable and he has no money to spend on modern scientific improvements as affecting his traditional calling.\n\nIn spite of the clumsy sail-driven fishing junks and overcrowding in the boats the fishing gear and methods of Hong Kong, however, are universal in general principle. We have in China the same kinds of fisheries as those practiced all over the world, which may be classified into the so-called deep-sea fisheries and the inshore fisheries, although there is no definite line which can be drawn to separate them in several cases. The big trawling junks, of course, can easily be distinguished from the beach seining sampans. Under the class of deep-sea fishing four main methods can be recognized, trawling, seining, gill-netting and lining. Although in the present report space does not allow for detailed discussion of the different gear and methods, yet the following brief description of each kind may help the reader to understand the general condition of the local fisheries.\n\n8\n\nTRAWLING.--In Hong Kong all the trawls are operated by a pair of two or three-masted sail-driven junks. The trawl is in the form of a long, more or less conical bag with the two wings equal in length, varying in total length from 24 to 55 fathoms. It is a contrivance slowly dragged along the bottom of the sea specially for such demersal fishes as groupers, sea-breams, golden threads, flat fishes, sharks, rays, etc. The trawling junks are the most important units in local fisheries. It is estimated that over 80% of the local fishery products come from the trawling junks.\n\nSEINING. Any fishing carried out according to that basic principle upon which the fish are caught in a complete or semi-circular wall of netting laid out by one or more small boats can be classified under the method of seining, and the net is called the seine. Local seines varying up to 800 fathoms in length are of several kinds, namely, purse seine, drag seine, haul seine, large yellow croaker seine, beach seine, etc. The seine is designed to catch both pelagic and demersal fishes. Bright light and dynamite are usually employed to help the operation.\n\nIn\n\nGILL-NETTING.-There are two main types of gill-netting developed in local fisheries, the drift gill-netting and the set gill-netting. In both cases the net is laid as a long wall of netting which shoals of such fishes as white herring, mackerels, thread fins, groupers, sea-breams, yellow croakers, flat fish, crabs and sea snails encounter.\n\nLINING.--Lining is one of the most interesting and extensively practiced methods for catching fish and squids. Lines may be divided into two main classes, the hand lines and the long lines. To the first category belong those that vary from the simplest form of a line on which one hook is attached to such comparatively complicated types provided with 7 to 12 hooks as the railing lines. Whatever the case may be, hand lines must be continuously attended by one or more fishermen who on feeling the bite of the fish must immediately haul in the line. Under the second category two kinds may be recognized, namely, the deep-sea long lines and the inshore long lines. As the names imply deep-sea long lines and inshore long lines are distinguished on the basis of the grounds on which lining is practiced. Since a long line is a collection of a large number of snooded hooks attached to the main line it is useless to attend the line with the hooks continuously. The line must be hauled up at definite intervals regardless of the presence or absence of fish. Commercially, the hand lines are not so important as the long lines, but as sport and recreation the former means a great deal to the residents of the Colony.\n\nsampans\n\nThere are 107 sea-going long liners provided with 4 to 8 registered in Hong Kong, which fish from 30 to more than 100 miles off Hong Kong, Pinghoi, Swabue, Toishan, etc., where the depth of water varies from 20 to 60 fathoms. Within territorial waters of the Colony there are at least 60 small long liners fishing for sea-breams, croakers, head grunts, groupers, black and false halibuts and bringing them alive to the local\n\n9\n\n23\n\n1Page 21\n\n24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579346, "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": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date: District. Time. 9.12.41\n\nEmergency Unit, Kowloon.\n\n10. Tsim Sha Tsui.\n\n11. Kowloon Police H.Q.\n\n12. Shaukiwan. a.m.\n\n13. Shaukiwan.\n\n14. Yaumati.\n\n15. Water Police.\n\n16. Water Police.\n\n17. Central. a.m.\n\n18. Kowloon City.\n\n19. Tsun Wan.\n\n20. K.13, Shing Mun Reservoir.\n\n10.00\n\n10.30\n\n10.30\n\n9.12.41\n\n25\n\nfollowing days until the evacuation of Kowloon took place, to cope with crowds at rice shops. Agitators were at work trying to encourage the crowd to loot rice shops in Yaumati. To deal with this, men were placed on duty outside the shops, and in addition, mobile picquets visited as frequently as possible. (Mong Kok actually had some trouble with crowds at rice shops on the first day of the war, 8th.).\n\nUnit was called out to several districts in Kowloon to deal with rice riots during the day.\n\nPicquets had to be sent to the Star Ferry to maintain order amongst the big crowd trying to cross over to Hong Kong in spite of not possessing the necessary pass.\n\nMr. Calthrop, Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, finally managed to arrange with Major Manners of the Kowloon Godowns for him to supply labour for the erection of the Star Ferry barricades. The Public Works Department were able to put up the barriers at the Yaumati Vehicular Ferry. Work began and continued the following day.\n\nA bomb dropped in Ah Kun Nam Village, inflicting a number of casualties and damaging buildings.\n\nDynamite from stores on both sides of Kowloon Bay was collected to avoid improper use.\n\nTrouble broke out at K.9, The King's Park Service Reservoir Vital Post, amongst Police Reservists there. It was finally settled, but as the men appeared nervy, they were relieved the following day.\n\nTwo Harbour launches were engaged continually day and night guarding the north and south entrances of the Yaumati Typhoon shelter, stopping native craft from leaving. All steam launches were made to proceed over to the Hong Kong praya. Native craft fitted with engines were made to place the latter out of commission. Officers in charge of Police launches were given lists of private launches to be requisitioned if met, and if not already on duty with the Military or Naval Authorities.\n\nNo.3 Launch proceeded to Lan Tau and distinguished the Adamaster Rock Light.\n\nOn this day, and also on the 10th and 11th, several calls were made on police to provide assistance at the Food depots and A.R.P. shelters, as well as the rice shops. A bomb concealed in a parcel exploded in a factory in Lo Lung Mei Village, killing one and wounding one civilian. Officer in charge Tsun Wan contacted a patrol of Royal Scots in ambush in the station compound and was informed that the patrol was the most forward one of the defence. The station was then under rifle fire. The Officer in charge reported to Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon, who told him to evacuate.\n\nHe did so after warning K.13, Shing Mun Reservoir Vital Post, and personally seeing to the evacuation of K.13A, Shing Mun Conduit, and K.15, the Texas Oil Company, the latter under fire. Police reported to Sham Shui Po and remained there for duty.\n\nOfficer in charge Tsun Wan telephoned the Vital Post, instructing personnel to evacuate. An Indian Police Constable took the message to the Officer in charge, L.S.E.35 Karpovitch, out on duty at the main dam, who returned and rang up Mr. Book, No.3 Sub Area Commander, for confirmation of the order. The latter confirmed it at 11.00 hours, and evacuation was then carried out. Personnel from the Vital Post reported at Sham Shui Po.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579348, "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": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "L.S.A107 Willison\n\nL.S.A188 Summers. L.S.A98 Michie\n\nA.S.I. Hudson.\n\nL.S.A191 Donohue.\n\nP.C. B607 Santa Singh\n\nP.C. B727 Waryan Singh\n\nNo particular act of gallantry involved.\n\nVolunteers were not called for.\n\n12\n\nEXTRACT FROM RECOMMENDING OFFICER'S REPORT, AND/OR DIARY REFERENCES.\n\n• For conspicuous gallantry & devotion to duty displayed in rescuing some 460 Chinese of various New Territory North villages from the Sha Tin Walled Village between the British & Japanese lines on the morning of the 10th December 1941 (Please see Diary Entry No. 3 of the 10th. See also Diary Entry No. 33 of the 9th, which relates a similar attempt made by Sergt. McPherson & Sub-Inspector Wong to rescue villagers which was unsuccessful owing to a sudden enemy advance but which led up to the second & successful expedition.)\n\n• For courage and devotion to duty displayed in volunteering and guarding, at the G.S.O.1's request the Kowloon Locks, Ma Tau Kok Government Pier & Kowloon City Ferry Pier, & keeping the approaches clear to assist the Military in carrying out their successful evacuation from Kowloon on the afternoon and evening of 11th December, 1941 Please see Diary Entry No. 50 of the 11th December.\n\n• For courage & devotion to duty displayed in forming one of a volunteer party which proceeded to Green Island on the S.L. \"Jeanette\" on the night of December 12th, 1941, in order to obtain dynamite and bring it back to the Island for use during the War. Please see Diary Entries Nos. 19-30 & Bath of December.\n\n\"Though strictly this lies in the province of the Harbour Master, who arranged the expedition, it appears to me that these officers are worthy of some recognition in volunteering and carrying out an extremely dangerous mission which in fact resulted in their loss of life when the S.L. \"Jeanette\" blew up.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579363, "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": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date \n\nDistrict \n\nTime. \n\n27. \n\n12.12. \n\n41 \n\n42 \n\n16. \n\nPolice H. Q \n\n17. \n\nWater Police. \n\n18. \n\nGreen Island \n\n19. \n\nWestern. \n\nEmergency \n\n20. \n\nUnit, Hong Kong. \n\n21. \n\n22. reported to the Senior Superintendent of Police, Kowloon that all Kowloon Police, except Green Island, had been checked as safely over. \n\n10.30 A Police party under Mr. Calthrop, Senior Superintendent of Police, and Mr. Heath, Assistant Superintendent of Police with the Chief Inspector Kowloon was formed with the intention of proceeding over to Kowloon to acquire food from the Kowloon Godowns but the project was abandoned on instructions from the Defence Secretary. \n\n10.30 After waiting without result for guards to arrive for the Star Ferries to prevent crews deserting Inspector Whant, Divisional Inspector Water Police, P.S.A. 216 Wheeler and Mr. MacKenzie of the Star Ferry Company decided to proceed over to Kowloon to reconnoitre. Five European civilians insisted on accompanying them over to Kowloon, two were women - Mrs. Hollands and Mrs. Sando in A.N.S. uniform, and in spite of Inspector Whant's protest refused to leave the ferry. Approaching Kowloon about 50 Indians and a few British troops were observed firing with machine guns under Lieut Forsyte. These were taken on board and the launch left using the machine guns to cover the withdrawal. In spite of the two European ladies being made to lie flat on the deck Mrs. Hollands received a bullet wound in the abdomen. Mr. Pontig was superficially wounded in the head. \n\nOn arrival in Hong Kong orders were given by the Defence Secretary and the Harbour Master that no further trips were to be made over to Kowloon without special instructions. \n\n12.00 As a result of a warning by the Military given at about 09.00 hours the same day that a Pill Box at Aberdeen had been blown up by hand grenades thrown from two sampans special watch was maintained and at 12.00 hours Police and Military opened fire with effect on the two sampans observed proceeding towards Kennedy Town. Batteries joined in and one sampan was destroyed 12.45 L. S.A.191 Donahue, I. P. C. 607 Santa Singh and I. P. C. B. 727 Waryan Singh were detailed from 76 Belchers Street Dispersal Point, at the request of Mr. Buchanan of Messrs Marsman & Co., to clear No.9 Air Raid Tunnel at Smithfield of members of the public in order to make room for dynamite which was to be transported from Green Island. The party failed to return after carrying out this duty and it was subsequently ascertained that they had been blown up in the S.L. \"Jeannette\". (See report, entry No.30). Neither Inspector Nolloth, Divisional Inspector Western, or P. S. A. 88 Cordeaux, Officer in Charge Belchers Street Dispersal Point, had given any instructions to Sergeant Donahue to board the launch or take any part in the transport of the dynamite. It is not known definitely for what purpose the dynamite was required but it is surmised that it was to be used to create fire breaks. \n\na.m. Several calls were received during the morning for assistance to control crowds at the rice shops in the Morrison Street area. \n\nHong Kong. 14.00 Green Island. 14.00 \n\n23. \n\nEastern. \n\nHeavy shelling of the Island commenced. \n\nPolice assisted Mr. Bailey, Custodian of the Green Island Magazine to carry 400 boxes of dynamite down to the enclosure near the pier ready for removal to Hong Kong by the S. L. \"Jeannette\". \n\np.m. Mr. Heath, Assistant Superintendent of Police, transferred to No.2 Station to be in charge of Sub Area No.2 with Mr. Fay, Assistant Superintendent of Police, to continue duty as Assistant Sub Area Commander.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579364, "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": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date. \n\n24. \n\nDistrict. \n\nTime. \n\nEmergency Unit 19.00 Hong Kong.\n\n \n\n28 \n\n13.12.41 \n\n43 \n\nCalled out on report that looters were breaking into an Ironmongers shop in Queen Victoria Street. No looters were found but the shop was deserted so the stock was removed to Central Police Station. Night. Indians were observed to be unsettled and moody so Europeans had to act as Station Guards.\n\n \n\n25. \n\nShaukiwan. \n\n \n\n26. \n\nGough Hill. \n\n21.00 \n\n \n\n27. \n\nGough Hill. \n\n21.30 \n\n \n\n28. \n\nWestern. \n\n \n\n29. \n\nGreen Island. \n\n22.00 \n\nComplaints were received from the Military of unshaded lights showing on Mount Kellett Road. The house servants responsible were arrested.\n\nA fire at No.10 The Peak was reported by Military Police turned out. It was caused by demolition of the premises previously hit by our own guns which had caused casualties including one fatality.\n\nNos.19 and 20 Godowns in Connaught Road West were set alight by incendiary shells. In spite of Fire Brigade and Police efforts and fire breaks being made by Military the fire spread to other godowns and lasted several days. Police action had to be taken on this and succeeding days to prevent looting which immediately began and continued spasmodically up to the 25th, though it was never allowed to assume very serious proportions. Police evacuated from Belchers Street Dispersal Road to the Tai Ping Theatre due to the Military carrying out demolition work in Belchers Street to prevent further spread of fire.\n\n22.00 The S.L. \"Jeannette\" which had arrived earlier in the evening left at 22.00 hours with 312 cases of dynamite, fuses and detonators on board. The original time fixed for the launch's departure was 23.59 hours but this was later altered.\n\n \n\n30. \n\nWater Police. 22.58 \n\n \n\n31. \n\nPolice H.Q. \n\n23.00 \n\nto \n\n02.00 \n\nThe S.L. \"Jeannette\" blew up off the Vehicular Ferry Wharf when transporting dynamite from Green Island to Blake Pier with a big loss of life including Acting Sub Inspector Hudson, L.S.A. 191 Donahue, I.P.C.B. 607 Santa Singh and I.P.C.B.727 Waryan Singh, and a number of European Harbour Office officers. All the party were volunteers for the dangerous enterprise. The launch was originally due to leave Green Island at 23.59 hours and arrive at Blake Pier at 01.00, but the time of leaving was put forward by two hours, viz 22.00 hours, because loading had been completed by 21.00 hours earlier than it was expected, and it was considered dangerous for the launch to remain at Green Island with the explosives on board for a further three hours. As a result of hearing a loud explosion (caused by the S.L. \"Jeannette\" blowing up, but then unknown) the General Alarm was sounded on Commissioner of Police's instructions and all posts manned. Many reports of Fifth Columnist activities were received and patrols sent out. Senior Superintendent of Police, Defence, took a party down to the Central Fire Station on report that it was being attacked. Mr. Calthrop, Senior Superintendent of Police, went with a similar party to China Building on report that Mr. North, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and Sir R.H. Kotewall, were being held prisoners there by a threatening gang. A further report was received that there was a disturbance at the Golden City Restaurant. All these alleged incidents were found to be without foundation. Police stood to until 02.00 hours.\n\n \n\n13.12.41. \n\n1. \n\nCentral. \n\n02.00 L.S.A. 450 Savitsky of the Police Reserve slightly wounded by a splinter from the S.L. \"Jeannette\" explosion was sent to hospital.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579506, "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": "CO129-592-6 Reports on current situation- including weekly intelligence reports 18-9-1945 - 20-12-1945", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-592-6 Reports on current situation- including weekly intelligence reports 18-9-1945 - 20-12-1945", "content_text": "SECRET.\n\n3\n\n48\n\nOn 3rd November a Chinese-language newspaper in the Colony carried an item from its special correspondent at CANTON, stating that the people of PING SHAN had sent two representatives to ask the Chinese Government (\"our Government\") for help. The two emissaries were stated to have gone to CANTON on 29th October and to have seen General CHAN FA KWAI, who promised to submit the matter to the Chinese Central Government. At the same time, General OS SAI LAI was requested to negotiate with the HONG KONG Government. It is noted that on 4th November KUMMING radio commented that the prices being offered the land-owners as compensation for the loss of their land were based on the cost of land in 1890, and also reported the despatch of the two emissaries to CANTON.\n\nThe area affected by the building scheme is 690 acres of paddy, and the population to be evicted from their houses approximately 1,400. The experimental air strip will be 100 feet by 900 feet.\n\n(iii) Successor to Mr. SHAM CHIT SON as head of the HONG KONG branch of the KUOMINTANG, Mr. CHAN SU has reported to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer and will be accepted at Government House as the officially accredited representative of the Chinese Central Government. Matters which it was previously anticipated would be referred to emissaries from CANTON will now be handled instead by Mr. CHAN SU, who is empowered to deal with them. His official position should help to a great extent to clarify and put on a satisfactory basis the affairs of the KUOMINTANG in the Colony.\n\n(iv) In the belief that the Commando guards at TAI HO SHAN had already been removed, a party of 30 looters paid a visit to that place on 31st October, only to find that they had arrived 24 hours too soon. As a result, 15 of them were arrested after a brush with the Commandos.\n\n(v) An advance party of Commandos have established themselves at PAK-A on LUNG SHUN WAN CHAU (HIGH Island). They report all houses to be in a filthy condition and the water supply poor.\n\n(vi) Two Chinese constables have been convicted and sentenced for accepting bribes from two Chinese women who attempted to enter WITFIELD Barracks to give food and clothing to Japanese internees. No political motive appears to have been involved in the case.\n\n(vii) Another case has occurred of a Japanese male being harboured by two Chinese females in the Colony. The story behind the headlines in this instance is that the two women were acting on the instructions of a Chinese named HUNG YUN, formerly employed by the Japanese as a detective, and whose whereabouts are known to the Civil Police. The latter are taking appropriate action in regard to HUNG YUN. Meanwhile, NISHI KORA (the harboured Japanese) reposes safely behind bars.\n\n4.\n\nPIRACY.\n\nOn 31st October it was reported that a junk manned by 15 pirates had been seen in the area of TAP NUN (GRASS Island) robbing passenger boats running between TAI PO and Chinese territories. On 28th October the pirates had captured some civilians and nailed them in the hold of a junk, afterwards throwing dynamite into the hold and thus killing the occupants.\n\nAt the same time, information was received that a further attack by the same band of pirates might be made on the village of LAI CHEE CHONG and other inadequately-garrisoned villages. A Commando patrol was accordingly despatched to LAI CHEE CHONG and no incidents have so far been reported.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-6 Reports on current situation- including weekly intelligence reports 18-9-1945 - 20-12-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 591143, "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": "CO129-611-4 Development Committee- reports on various aspects 11-12-1945 - 14-7-1947", "page_number": 99, "title": "CO129-611-4 Development Committee- reports on various aspects 11-12-1945 - 14-7-1947", "content_text": "## Afforestation is desirable in the Colony for\n\n* To increase the beauty of the terrain.\n* To check soil erosion.\n* To lower the temperature (compare Hong Kong and other islands pre-war).\n* To increase the precipitation of rain and mist.\n* To step up run off of water and thus increase the period of water supply to the reservoirs.\n* To provide wide cover for birds, etc.\n* To provide useful materials, firewood, bamboos, etc.\n\nThe supply, started by the Department to Government of firewood in 1937, would be maintained, possibly after an interval of a few years.\n\n## Difficulties of afforestation\n\n1. Lack of soil and poverty of soil.\n2. Erodability of exposed disintegrated granite (e.g., Kowloon).\n3. High growth of grass tending to smother young trees.\n4. Savage cutters and fire.\n5. Long drought in winter.\n6. Drying N.E. winter winds. (The thickest woodland is in the northern, cooler, wetter slopes, e.g., Tai Mo Shan, Pat Sin, etc.) All these difficulties can be overcome.\n\n1. Broadcast sowing of pine seeds in March - wasteful.\n2. Pine seedlings will not grow in soil that does not contain a particular fungus; this fact apparently unknown to the ... Dept!\n3. Sowing (5 seeds on top of a cubic foot of loosened earth) better but danger of seedlings swamped by grasses.\n4. Pit planting with seedlings two years old - widely practised throughout the world.\n5. Contour planting of bamboos, etc., will result in terracing and soil collection which will facilitate the establishment of tree seedlings.\n6. Lianes and other plants can be sown in gullies to check soil erosion.\n7. Dynamite can be used to loosen laterite prior to planting.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-611-4 Development Committee- reports on various aspects 11-12-1945 - 14-7-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 591168, "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": "CO129-611-4 Development Committee- reports on various aspects 11-12-1945 - 14-7-1947", "page_number": 124, "title": "CO129-611-4 Development Committee- reports on various aspects 11-12-1945 - 14-7-1947", "content_text": "## Grass cutters and fire.\n\n## Long drought in winter.\n\n123\n\n+\n\n## Drying N. E. winter winds.\n(The thickest woodland is on the northern, cooler, wetter slopes, e.g., Ma-on-shan, Pat Sin, etc.) All these difficulties can be overcome.\n\n## Methods\n\n1. Broadcast sowing of pine seeds in March. - wasteful.\n\n(N.B. Pine seedlings will not grow in soil that does not contain a particular fungus; this fact apparently unknown to the B. & F. Dept!)\n\n2. Pit-sowing (5 seeds on top of a cubic foot of loosened earth) better but danger of seedlings swamped by grasses.\n\n3. Pit planting with seedlings two years old - widely practised throughout the world.\n\n4. Contour planting of bamboos etc. will result in terrace formation and soil collection which will facilitate the establishment of tree seedlings.\n\n5. Lianes and other plants can be sown in gullies to check soil erosion as in U.S.A. and elsewhere.\n\n6. Dynamite can be used to loosen laterite prior to planting.\n\n## SPECIES to plant\n\nfrom memory\n\nPlants should be selected from similar latitudes N. and S. of the equator preferably where long dry winter prevails. Also from mountains nearer the equator, (200-250 N. and S.) e.g., Formosa, Kwangtung, Burma (Mts.), India (Mts.), Bahamas, Cuba, Florida, Mexico, S. California, Queensland to W. Australia, Madagascar, Transvaal, S. Africa, S. Brazil, N. Argentine and Chile.\n\nPINES - soil must be inoculated with fungus hence nurseries essential. (Some of the land in the Territories is already infected with the fungus but not all).\n\n| Species | Location |\n| --- | --- |\n| Pinus Massoniana | H.A. |\n| P. Philippensis | P.L. |\n| P. taeda | Florida |\n| P. caribaea | Cuba |\n| P. patula | Honduras |\n| P. Merkusu | Java |\n| P. Halepensis | Aleppo |\n| P. Canariensis | Canary Islands |\n| P. longifdia | Himalayas |\n| P. radiata | S. Cal. |\n\nWell watered valleys.\n\n| Species |\n| --- |\n| Cupressus macrocarpa |\n| C. Lusitanica |\n| Cedrella mexicana |\n| C. odorata |\n| Eucalyptus saligna |\n| E. maideni |\n| Grevillea robusta |\n| Schizolobium excelsa |\n| Gmelina arborea |\n| Leucaena glauca |\n| Accacia decurrens |\n\nDry and sandy places.\n\n| Species |\n| --- |\n| Casuarina |\n| Callitris sp. |\n| Cedrella Toona |\n| Cupressus torulosa |\n| Eucalyptus rostrata |\n| E. robusta |\n\n## Firewood Trees\n\n| Species |\n| --- |\n| Casuarina equisetifolia |\n| Bischofia javanica |\n| Cratoxylon polyant hum |\n| Leucaena glauca |\n| Acacia decurrens |\n| Eucalyptus globosus |\n| E. saligna |\n| Pinus sp |\n| Melia azedarach |\n| Gmelina arborea |\n\n## Ornamental\nvery many e.g., \n- Cassia sp.\n- Delonix\n- Erythrin\n- Bombax\n- Native Pinus Massoniana\n- Bischofia\n- Cratoxylon\n- Camphor\n- Ficus\n- Schima Noronhae\n- Liquidambar\n- Adenanthera\n- Machilus\n\n## Trees exhibiting autumn colour effects\n- Liquidambar\n- Rhus sp.\n- Sapium sp.\n- Lagerstroemia sp.\n\n## Trees with conspicuous spring foliage\n- Camellia sp.\n- Ficus sp.\n- Celtis chinensis", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-611-4 Development Committee- reports on various aspects 11-12-1945 - 14-7-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]